Nebraska Newspapers

    The O’Neil Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher.
O'NEILL,NEBRASKA
One of the largest and richest de
posits of sulphur In tho world Is near
Cerritos, In the state of San Luis Po
tosl, Mexico, and some 60 miles east
•t V-'iat city, Tho mine produces about
100 tons of refined sulphur a month.
The sulphur la found at about 20 feet
below the surface and so far the work
ings have gone down about 200 feet,
and the engineers In charge report that
the sulphur extends downward Indefin
itely In chimney form. As the ore runs
from 40 to 90 per cent pure the value
*f the mines cannot be estimated.
Apparently, the foreign type sailing
•hip has practically disappeared for
good from International trade in the
Pacific ocean. The Hong-Kong harbor
statistics for 1912 return Just one sail
ing ship entered for that year—the sole
survivor of the great clipper ship trade
of half a century and more ago. This
lone ship, the large four master Com
et, of the Standard OU company, was
the last of a considerable fleet employed
in the oil trade between the east coast
of the United States and this port.
A dally hydroaeroplane service has
been begun between Nice and Monte
Carlo. The price of the trip Is $60,
and the greater part of the Journey Is
made Just off the Medlterrean shore.
For the greater assurance of the pas
sengers the machine Is at present fol
lowed by a motor boat but this Is not
Intended as a permanent feature, and
It is thought that Its presence will not
be required after the comfort and safe
ty of the trip has become recognized.
Renovo, a railroad town In Pennsyl
vania, has adopted the very convenient
■cheme of placing electric meters on
the back porches of the houses. This
Arrangement permits the meter reader
to read a great many meters In a day.
It Is a common matter to read 800
meters. Another advantage Is that the
meter Is placed In a conspicuous place,
where the consumer may read It from
time to time and get better acquaint
ed with It_ _ _
An English girl has adopted the
Srofesslon of visiting cook, and will
evote herself to teaching the Indis
pensable art 8he believes that "If
kitchens were beautiful, and not the
Stuffy, stodgy dungeons that they so
often are, and that If women dressed
for their work In them with the care
that they dress for a ball, cooking
would no longer be regarded as drug
ery and a montonous business."
Wild race, according to a consular re
port la "the most nutritious cereal In
America." The plant has a long black
grain, and hence Is sometimes called
black rice. It has been used from tfme
immemorial by certain Indian tribes as
their principal food. In recent years It
has come Into the white man's markets
Selling tor considerably more than ordi
nary white rice.
Girl pupils In Cleveland public
schools will learn home making and
house keeping In a model home next
fall, If the school board aproves the
plans of Miss Ada Williams, super
visor of domestic science, and Assist
ant. Superintendent Harris. The model
home Is Intended to supplement the
domestic science course now given in
the schools.
The net earnings of corporations In
the calendar year 1912 were }3,000.000,
000, an increase of 1250,000,000 over the
•arntngs of 1911. This sum will yield
the government $30,000,000 In corpora
tion taxes alone, or 8 per cent more
than the tax amounted to a year ago.
A stock of handkerchiefs has been
bought for the use of French deputies.
Whenever a member has forgotten his
handkerchief he will only have to ask
an usher for one. There will be no
fee, and If the deputy forgets to return
the handkerchief nothing will be said.
Punch observes with Its wonted hu
mor ever so slightly touched with
pungency that "the prince of Wales
made a lightning tour of Frankfort the
other day, exploring the cathedral In
five minutes, and* there Is some talk of
making him an honorary American."
A wild boar’s tusk, on which the
Iiord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed
had been cut with a krls, or Malayan
dagger, was presented as a wedding
gift to his American teacher by a
young Igorrote Filipino at Dugupan,
Isuson.
Arrangements are being made be
tween this government and that of
Russia to maintain u wireless tele
graph service across the Herlng sea.
This will complete the girdle of radio
telegraphic communication around the
world. *.
The English government Is plan
ning to provide scholarships and oth
>r aids which will make possible a
aniverslty education for every boy or
girl who makes a certain standard.
To prevent the drain on its popula
tion by the emigration of 200,000 per
sons a year the Spanish government is
planning extensive railroad and high
way building schemes.
Italian engineers In Barbary have
found great quantities of good water
by digging modern wells through the
•ands of the desert to the hard stone
that lies beneath.
Lala Karim Dut, a Hindoo barber,
who died recently at Meerut, had. for
the last three years, slept every night
with two pet pythons colled up beside
blm in his bed.
Roumania’s royal crown Is perhaps
the grimmest In the world. It was
made, by command of King Charles,
from the steel of a Turkish gun cap
tured at Plevna. —
Six blind men and one blind boy op
erate a broom factory In St. Louis. It
U the only Institution of Its kind In
Missouri and one of the very few In
the world.
A student looked up the word "tango"
ID a Latin dictionary. This is what he
found: "To take in hand, carry off, to
be contiguous to, to strike, beat,
•mear."
According to an Italian scientist, a
square mile of the earth, in six hours
•f sunshine, receives heat equivalent to
the combustion of more than 2,600 tons
Of coal.
Although the greater part of the
World’s coffee now comes from South
America, there are some states In that
country where It ls_ scarcely used.
The Portland cement output In this
s country between 1*70 and 1S79 was only
■2,000 barrels. In 1912 the output was
■>,000,000 barrels. _
After two years of experiments an
English manufacturer has turned out
a successful steamdriven motorcycle.
Gas heating In Japan has become pop
ular because of the scarcity of wood In
the densely populated districts.
All motion pictures In Bavaria must
be shown before a board of censors be
fore they can be put on a screen in the
•bow*
PETITION RULED TO
SUSPEND OPERATION
LIABILITY MEASURE
Friends of Bill Charge Result to
Work of “Ambulance Chas
ing Attorneys.”
Lincoln, Neb.. July 21,—The petition
to refer the workmen's compensation
and employers’ liability law, has been
decreed by Secretary Wait to
contain the necessary number of sig
natures. The law is, therefore, sus
pended until after the voters of the
state have\ passed upon it at the 1914
election. \
Tho law required something over
26,000 signatures. The count showed
there were over 32,000, and that these
were distributed properly among the
necessary number of counties. Friends
of the bill will not attempt the costly
and time-taking job of trying to dis
prove the authenticity of signatures.
Instead they will devote their atten
tion to gathering facts about the way
tho signatures were secured and use
tho ammunition for the fight at the
election. They contend that the "am
bulance chasing lawyers” raised a fund
of 11,000 to pay tho men who peddled
the petitions and aver this was Just
ahout the amount of one average fee
in a damage suit.
INSURANCE CODE FAtE
NOW RESTS WITH COURT
Lincoln, Neb., .luly 21.—The fate of
the new insurance code now rests in
the hands of Judge Cornish of the dis
trict court. The principal ground of
attack developed about the question
of whether the bill that the governor
signed was the same as that which
passed both houses. Certain amend
ments that were agreed to by the con
ference committee did not appear in
the enrolled bill. For the state it was
replied that the courts have held that
the journal of each house must show
afllrmatlvely that this difference ex
ists and that As It does not this can
not be urged against Its validity. Tho
attorney general also made the point
that the parties asking the injunction
cannot Invoke the aid of the court
for the reason that they are not ma
terially Interested In the transfer of
control of the department from one state
officer to a board of three, and must
wait until after the board organizes
before going Into court and then they
can enjoin only that part of the law
which they think directly Injures
them.
The attorneyf for the Insurance
companies charged during the hearing
that T. J. Doyle, who appeared as
an assistant to the attorney general,
was really the private counsel of L.
G. Brian, former state treasurer, who
expects to be the head of the new
Insurance department.
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RELEASED FROM JAIL.
DOCTOR WEDS NURSE
Hastings, Neb., July 2ly-Wheri his
flnaneee. Miss Genevieve Simmons, of
Cherokee, la., a nurse, was dismissed
from lngleslde asylum here, Dr. H. G.
Morgan, who recently came from Now
Martinsville, W. Va., resigned from the
lngleslde medical staff and accompan
ied her down town.
Too many mint Juleps resulted in the
arrest of Dr. Morgan. He had money
In a bank here, but as the bank was
closed he had to remain in jail until
tho next day. On being arraigned In
police court, Judge Benson and Chief
of Police Harm agreed to dismiss the
charge If he would marry the young
woman at once. He consented and tho
police judge and the police chief acted
as groomsmen while the nuptial knot
was being tied by County Judge But
ton. Dr. Morgan Is a graduate of one
of the leading eastern medical colleges.
The couple has gone to Denver, where
Dr, Morgan will enter private prac
tice.
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LATE EXCHANGE PRESIDENT
STILL MISSING FROM HOME
South Omaha, Neb., July 21.—David
S. Farkhurst, 806 North Twenty-first
street, who, has been missing from the
home of his daughter, Mrs. John Pol
lard, Mandari, 8. D., for 10 days, has
not yet been located. Until about four
years ago Mr. Parkhurst was presi
dent of the South Omaha Live Stock
exchange for the nine previous years
and until about a month ago was a
member of the Farmers’ Live Stock
Commission company of South Omaha.
He then retired from active occupa
tion. Since then his mind became
flighty and he was obsessed with a
hallucination that he had lost all of
his property and that he needed to
work.
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DUEL WITH PITCHFORKS
STAGED BY FARMERS
Plattsmouth, Neb., July 21.—Bert
Stewart and Fred Drumm, two men
who live near Eagle, engaged In a
pitchfork duel on a neighbor's farm and
both were cut and bruised. Drumm
was the most seriously Injured and Is
confined to his bed. Stewart was ar
rested and placed In the county jail
to await the outcome of Drumm's in
juries. There had been 111 feeling be
tween the men since last spring, over
a settlement of their accounts. t
UNTHANK EXONERATED
AT CORONER’S INQUEST
Blair, Neb., July 21.—The coroner’s
Jury that heard the evidence Tbncesn
lng the death of George Carson fully
exonerated Allen N. Unthank, the Ar
lington hotel keeper, and found that
the causo of Operator Carson's death
was hemorrhage of the brain induced
by an artery trouble. It Is said that
the complaint filed against Unthank
charging murder, will be dismissed by
County Attorney Mencke of Washing
ton county, who was present at the
Inquest.
TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF
AFTER ATTACKING RELATIVE
Hastings, Neb. July 21—John Hughes,
a farmer living near Paulin*, Neb,,
fired six wild shots at his sontnlaw. A1
Whitmore, then attempted suicide by
swallowing carbolic acid. The attack
was made during a family quarrel.
Hughes' wound Is not serious but phys
icians say the poison may cause his
death.
FORTUNE TO MISSIONS AND
$1C0 TO HIS ONLY CHILD
Kearney. Neb., July 19.—Roswald D.
Gould, a retired farmer, who died here
the first of the week, left a will giv
ing to his only ^hlld and daughter.
Miss Mable Gould, *100 out of his for
tune of about *40,000. About *25,000
of his wealth was left to the board of
foreign missions of t.he Presbyterian
church to be used In the work In the
United Staten. About *5,000 In all was
left to his rel»lives,_
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NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
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WEST POINT—Peter Heyn, of Bee
mer, an old and highly esteemed set
tler, became suddenly demented and
wandered away from home. After a
search had been made for him he sud
denly returned home. He will be cared
for at a private sanatorium. Mr. Heyn
was a former assistant warden at tho
state penitentiary under the late A.
D. Beemer, and later was appointed
warden of the Wyoming state peniten
tiary, which position he filled with
credit up to a short time ago.
LINCOLN—Representative O. A. Cor
bin has filed his application for a hear
ing on a reduction of freight rates on
fruit with the railway commission. The
complaint is made against all railroads
in the state and sets out that there
are very large amounts of fruit which
go to waste In Nebraska every year
while other portions of the state are
unable to get Nebraska fruit at all on
account of the,,high shipping rates.
AUBTJRN—Threshing of wheat is
now in full swing. The yield is excep
tionally good. John Burger threshed
12 acres that averaged 61 bushels per
acre. This is the best yield reported,
although several farmers report 40
bushels and better. The dry weather Is
affecting the corn and unless rain Is
received soon It will be badly hurt.
Right in this part we have not had any
rain sufficient to more than lay the
dust since May.
HUMBOLDT—Frank Poroak, aged
about 60 years, took his own life Mon
day evening about 6 o’clock. Mr.
Poroak has been a sufferer from dia
betes, which together with the extreme
heat of the last few days, no doubt led
to committing the act. He had pre
pared a steel bladed table knife to al
most a razor keeness and with it sev
ered the Jugular vein in the right side
of his neck.
WY MORE—Ed Yost killed a large
rattlesnake In the back yard of his
home here. A cemmotlon among his
chickens called Mr. Yost’s attention to
the snake and he lost no time In kill
ing It with a club. The snake had seven
rattles and a button. It Is the first
rattler killed In this vicinity in a num
ber of years.
BEjAVER CITY—Andrew Llnnaberry
and Johnnie Wallace, of Oxford, aged
16 and 15 years, charged with cutting
an electric cable, breaking Into freight
cars and carrying concealed weapons,
were sentenced to the state reform
school. The Llnnaberry boy Is a son
of W. F. Llnnaberry, recently caught
at Oxford and sentenced for counter
feiting paper money.
BRADSHAW—Clem Thompson, a
farm hand, and Miss Hilda Tyre, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Tyre,
who live north of here, eloped by go
ing to York In a motbr car and then
taking an early morning train for
Grand Island. The girl’s parents ob
jected to the match.
DAVID CITY—Edwin Gilmore was
seriously hurt In a threshing machine
accident, west dt Rising City. The
covers over the cylinder were open
while the machine was running and
Mr. Gilmore In passing over it caught
his foot in the cylinder. His legj was
ground Into fragments up to. the knee.
GRAND ISLAND—J. A. Kelley, trav
eling from Salt Lake City to New York
according to his ticket, was removed
from Union Pacific train No. 8 here and
taken to the St. Francis hospital, where
he died of asthma. He boarded the
train at Salt Lake City.
PAWNEE CITY—The body of Will
dam Hearn, who was drowned in the
Missouri river near Rulo, was brought
to this city and buried In the ceme
tery here yesterday evening. Hearn
was the 16-year-old son of D. Hearn
and wife, former residents of this city,
both of whom are dead.
HEMINGFORD—The eighth annual
meeting of Seventh Day Adventists
will be held here beginning tomorrow
and will continue for 10 days. The
Jurisdiction of this conference em
braces 11 counties In western Nebras
ka, western South Dakota and all of
Wyoming.
HEBRON—John Crowe, aged 26,
one of a party of young men who went
from Huntley to the pond In the Blue
river near here for a swim, stepped
into a deep hole and was drowned
before his friends could render as
sistance. Crowe leaves a wife at Hunt
ley.
DAVID CITY—The city council of
David City has let the contract of 14
blocks of street paving. This will be
the first paving In the town. The dis
trict includes the public square, a block
each way and two blocks west of the
Burlington depot.
LINCOLN—Governor Morehead ap
pointed Henry AUCn, of Central City,
to be judge advocate general of the
Nebraska National guard. He will take
the place vacated by the resignation of
Fred Mack, of Albion, who Is soon to
move to Florida.
ROYAL—The Citizens’ State bank of
Royal is a new banking institution
started last Saturday. The capital is
$15,000 and the officers are as follows:
O. L. Putney, president; C. B. Putney,
vice president; A. H. Rundquait, cash
ier.
PAWNEE CITY—As a special attrac
tion for the Pawnee City Chautauqua
it was announced here that William
Jennings Bryan has been secured to
give a lecture and will appear here on
the evening of August 14.
WYMOUE-Wymore will bid for the
nutional dog races this year. One thou
sand dollars was pledged toward mak
ing a guarantee. Another $1,000 will
be raised.
TEKAMAH—The annual reunion of
the pioneers and old settlers of Burt
county will be held here in Folsom
park on Friday, August 22. A fine
program Is being arranged.
BUTTE—Triplets born to Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Gunderson have been
christened Margaret, Jessie and
Eleanor, in honor of President Wilson's
three daughters.
Some curious photographs, recently
exhibited at the Academy of Sciences
In Paris, show the effects of exploding
moss into a block of polished steel.
The effect on the steel surface is sim
ilar to the lines of very tine engraving,
the moss being imbedded in the track
tt took and leaving the most Intricate
tracery.
Bank notes that speak have been
patented by an English inventor, to
baffle forgers. The edge of the note
is perforated so that, when placed on
a phonograph, the rough edge gener
ates sound waves that form words. A
disputed note placed in the machine
would say, for instance, "I am a gen
uine five pound note,".
A prize of $1,000 has been waiting in
Philadelphia since 1S39 for the first
resident of North America who shall
determine by experiment whether or
not infra-red rays are transmitted with
the same speed as other light rays.
WIFE COMPLAINS AND
PAROLED CONVICT, IS
RETURNED TO PRISON
Man Had Been Twice Convicted
of Attempts to Do Violence
to His Family.
Omaha, Neb., July 19.—A mysterious
anonymous letter asking Mrs. William
Hanger to come to a given location on
South Fifteenth street, led to the ar
rest of her former husband, William
Hanger, Just a few clays after he had
been released frost the state peniten
tiary on parole by the pardoning board.
William Haiiger was arrested at the
Rex hotel, following information fur
nished by Mrs. Hanger. Whether
Hanger wrote her the letter or not is
not known, but the letter reached her
soon after he came to Omaha.
Hanger was twice convicted of at
tempted murder and was twice com
mitted to the -state penitentiary. Both
attempts at murder were made on his
wife.
Mrs. Hanger received the anonymous
letter purporting to come from some
wonsfh who was an old acquaintance.
The letter requested Mrs. Hanger to
come to a given place on lower Fif
teenth street to meet the old acquain
tance. Mrs. Hanger showed it to her
attorney, Mr. Maclhrland, who cau
tioned her that it might be a decoy
letter. That evening the 16-year-old
daughter received a letter from Hanger
at the Rex hotel, saying that he was in
town and that he would call at the
home to see the daughter. The girl
was frightened almost into hysterics,
remembering the former Incidents that
occurred at the home when he called.
She showed her mother the letter, and
the mother had the paroled man placed
underarrest.
HOWARD NOT UNFRIENDLY
TO FIGHT AGAINST CODE
Lincoln, Neb., July 19.—State Audi
tor Howard, who lost direct control
of the insurance department of the
state when the new code was enacted,
has refused to join with the governor
and attorney general, who, with him,
constitute a governing board, in de
fense of the new law. It is now under
attack in the courts. The auditor re
fuses to openly join the other side, but
he has been covertly aiding it, and
practically all of the ammunition that
Is being used against it was prepared
by clerks in his department while un
der pay from the state. By the evi
dence thus secured the attacking forces
hope to prove that as a matter of fact
the bill as passed bv both houses is not
the one which received the signature
of the governor, due to the fact of au
thorized changes being made in the en
grossing and enrolling room.
STATE MILLERS NOTIFIED
OF NEW WEIGHT RULING
Lincoln, Neb., July 19.—In a bulle
tin just issued Food Commissionet
Harman calls the attention of all mill
ers to the new law which requires that
each barrel of flour must contain 198
pounds of flour, each half barrel 98
pounds, each quarter barrel sack 48,
each eighth 24 and each 16th 12 pounds.
The container must also have branded
thereon the name of the manufacture!
and the place of manufacture. If two,
or more kinds of wheat have been
blended in the making, this must also
be stated. If the flour is bleached H
must be so branded. The law also
provides for minutely branding all
animal foods and chicken feed, which
must also give percentages of fats
protein and flber.^ ^ .fsr**
MANY PAPERS ENROLL
FOR BOOSTER EDITIONS
Omaha, Neb., July *9.—There are 91
Nebraska newspapers so far enrolled
for special booster editions the third
week in September. It is expected that
the list will reach 200 in the final
roundup. The following 24 papers have
been added to the volunteer list of 67,
previously announced:
The Dakota County Herald, Dakota
Cityv Independent, O’Neill; Journal,
Long Pine; Enterprise, Hay Springs;
Star-Journal, Ainsworth; Independent,
Brunswicb; Democrat, Valentine;
Courier, 1 Curtis; Enterprise, Curtis;
Times, Axtell; Republican, Imperial;
Courier, Gering; Echo, Firth; Locomo
tive, Lawrence; Morning Times, Kear
ney; Herald, Alliance; Enterprise, Ran
dolph; Cedar County Wachter, Hart
ington; Herald, Fremont; News, Craig;
Sun, Edgar; Rustler, Deshler; Herald,
Overton; Gazette, Butte.
RESIDENT OF WHITING, IA„
KILLED AT CLAY CENTER
Clay Center Neb., July 19.—John
Hopkins, a resident of Whiting, la.,
■was killed between Fairfield and Ed
gar In a runaway. Mr. Hopkins was
pitching bundles in a field where a
threshing crew was at work, when the
St. Joseph & Grand Island passenger
train came by, frightening the team.
He attempted to stop the team, was
thrown under the wagon, and the
wheels passed over his head, killing
him almost instantly.
RAILROAD HAS TROUBLE
KEEPING TRACK WORKERS
Wymore, Neb., July 19.—Twenty-five
men employed on the Burlington extra
gang quit yesterday. The Burlington
has been having considerable trouble
with men on the extra gang, w'hich is
employed in laying new steel between
here and Odell. Men are shipped here
from St. Joseph and Kansas City. They
work a tow days, draw their pay and
quit, going west or north to the har
vest field*. Some of them quit and
go on after a few days, without stop
ping to get their pay.
O’NEILL MEN CHARGED
WITH ENTICING GIRL
O'Neill, Neb., July 19.—Annie M.
Englehaupt haB filed a complaint in
the county court against William
Bodewig and Chris Bodewig, brothers,
alleging that on July 13 they enticed
and took away from the custody of
her parents, Barbara Englehaupt, un
der 18 years of age. The complaining
witness is the mother of the girl. Chris
Bodewig was arrested by Sheriff
Grady and is now out on bond await
ing preliminary hearing. The sheriff
has been unable to locate the other
brother or the girl.
HEAT ILLNESS FATAL
TO TRAVELING MAN
Pawnee City, Neb.. July i8.—George
W. Swanstrom, traveling agent for a
Fremont nursery company, dropped
dead in his room at the Exchange
hotel here yesterday afternoon as the
result of illness caused by the heat.
While talking to a farmer in a field
Wednesday, Mr. Swanstrom was near
ly overcome, and as he felt the effects
of the heat he decided not to go out
yesterday. He complained of not feel
ing well and retired to his room. Fif
teen minutes later he w»s found dead
on the floor.
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NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
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LINCOLN—Sixteen counties of the
date where the horse disease raged a
/ear ago and where enormous losses
vere reported, unofficially, to tl*“ state
veterinarian, show, according to the
1913 assessment abstracts, a total loss
of only 4,655 animals. The total num
ber of horses in the counties was 170,
137 on the 1912 abstracts and 165,482 on
the present year records. The compari
son indicates that either there was
gross exaggeration of the death loss
last year or that the farmers imme
diately stocked up with animals im
ported from other states and counties.
NEBRASKA CITY—John J. Teten,
the pioneer druggist of this city,
against whom so many judgments
have been rendered of late, and whose
stock of goods is in the hands of the
sheriff for $50,666 for delinquent taxes,
filed a petition in bankruptcy yester
day showing that his indebtedness is
something over $7,000 and his assets
less than $3,000, which are exempt un
der the law. Mr. Teten has been in the
drug business in this city since 1878
and at one time was considered one
of the moneyed men of this county.
BEATRICE—Friday evening for the
second time within a week, Mrs. Olive
Mason, of Filley, was brought before
Judge Walden to answer to the
charge of practicing medicine, surgery
and obstetrics without a registered
certificate from the state board of
health. Mrs. Mason is a graduate of
the national school of chiropractors.
The national association has taken up
the case and will send an attorney
here to assist in their defense.
BEATRICE—aMace Goble, of this
city, and Alex Pickens, of Hastings,
were badly bruised when the buggy
in which they were riding was struck
by a gasoline handcar at the Burling
ton crossing just north of the driving
park. Goble sustained a sprained
wrist and was badly bruised by being
thrown from the vehicle and Pickens’
back was sprained. The car had just
rounded a curve and struck the rear
of the buggy, which was demolished.
LINCOLN—Lincoln bankers are tak
ing much interest in the meeting called
for Omaha on July 17 when financiers
from the Mississippi river to Salt Lake
and from north and south are to dis
cus currency problems with a view to
solving some of them at once if pos
sible. The affair was said to have been
arranged with much secrecy, but it is
expected that there will be a large at
tendance of bankers present at the
gathering.
NEBRASKA CITY—The county
commissioners are preparing adver
tisements for getting contracts for a
number of cement bridges to be built
in this county between now and cold
weather. They have built several so
far this season and expect to build
double the number next year and are
making a levy that will enable them
to do it.
OMAHA—A bunch of excitement of
considerable dimensions for such a hot
day turned loose yesterday when a
young man strolled into the Rome ho
tel and quietly added the name, “Theo
dore Roosevelt, jr.,” to the register.
The son of the strenuous ex-president
stopped in Omaha on his way to Col
orado Springs, to attend to business for
his firm of New York bankers.
PAWNEE CITY—During a storm
here lightning struck the barn on the
farm of A. B. Edee, northeast of this
city and completely destroyed the
structure and contents. The tenant,
J. J. Powell, lost a fine team of mules,
several sets of harness and some ma
chinery and grain, none of which were
insured. There was $500 insurance on
the barn.
ALLIANCE—An engine on an east
bound freight train was derailed and
overturned at Northport, injuring two
men. Engineer C. F. Clark had his
hips and back sprained and Brakeman
C. Milholin suffered a bruised foot and
sprained back. The accident was caused
by a brake rod dropping under the en
gine.
NEBRASKA CITY—Judge Travis or
dered the city council to call a city
election within 10 days for the purpose
of determining whether the present
mayor, Dr. J. D. Houston, shall be re
called. Paul S. Topping, a young at
torney and a recent graduate of the
state university, is his opponent. The
court refused to fix supersedeas bond,
which shuts oft the right of appeal.
BEATRICE—At a meeting of the
board of supervisors here the members
voted unanimously against granting
permission for the playing of Sunday
baseball in Gage county. Rev. L. D.
Young, representing the Beatrice Min
isterial association, was present and
made an address against the playing
of Sunday games.
M’COOK—J. S. Hulbert and B. Lo
gan, two young men claiming to be
subscription representatives of an east
ern magazine, are spending 10 days in
the Red Willow jail here, for jumping
their hotel bill at the Commercial hotel
of this city. They were apprehended
at Trenton and brought here for trial.
LYONS—C. Vincent, of Omaha, gen
eral manager of the Farmers’ Grain
company, organized a local company
here with a membership of 76. The of
ficers are: John W. Frey, local presi
dent; Charles Peterson, secretary;
Thomas McKenzie, Frank Porter and
Everett Preston, trustees.
PLATTSMOUTH—At the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Virginia McVicker,
Mrs. Anna M. Shannon, aged over ,34
years, and for more than 30 years a
resident of this city, died from the ef
fects of a stroke of paralysis, which
she sustained on June 6.
UNION—The Farmers State bank is
now open for business. The share
holders met in the new building and
elected the following as directors for
the balance of the current year: M. H.
Shoemaker, John B. Roddy, John N.
Larsh, John R. Pierson, D. R. Frans
and Charles I. Jones.
AUBURN—The coroner’s Inquest
over the body of Mike Mahonejs and
Elmer Hammon. killed in a collision
with the Crete train resulted in a ver
dict that the collision was caused by
negligence of the train crew and care
iessnes of the handcar men. The train
was running without a headlight.
LINDSAY—The Lindsay jail was
used this week for the first time in a
year, when someone broke the padlocks
of the outer door and inner cell and con
fined the hotel cow in it for about 36
hours. The cow was somewhat the
worse from the heat, but is recovering.
The guilty parties left no clews.
FAIRBURY—Ira James, chief of the
Fairbury fire department, caught a yel
low catfish in the Little Blue river that
weighed 52 pounds. Mr. James was
bathing when he noticed the flsh'among
the rocks. He caught it by the gills
and carried it out of the river.
HARTINGTON—While plowing a
furrow in the road about three miles
south of town some men turned up
three human skeletons which were in
an excellent state of preservation.
BEATRICE—While cranking an au
tomobile W. W. Duncan, traveling rep
resentative of the Blue Valley Mercan
tile company, broke his right errn at
the wrist.
NEMAHA AUTHORITIES
IOW INVESTIGATING
MURDER CONFESSION
Other Arrests Probable If Pacts
in Research Confirm Account
of Shellenberger.
Auburn, Neb., July 18.—It is said to
be more than merely probable that the
confession made by Puller Shellen
berger, in a Jail at Coffeyvllle, Kan.,
may lead to unraveling the mysterious
murder here of Julian Bahuaud. Two
other persons are implicated in the con
fession, but the authorities are conceal
ing the names. It is stated that the
arrests will toe made if the research of
officers gives credit to the confession.
Julian Bahuaud, an old man who
owned much land and was supposed to
horde large sums of money In or about
his house, was murdered June 16, 1899,
and his place ransacked and robbed.
Bahuaud’s body was not found until
several days after he was killed. When
found he was lying on his bed with his
clothing on and also a pair of rubber
boots. It was evident from the blood
stains that he had been struck at or
near his kitchen door and the body car
ried to the bed. No clue to who com
mitted the murder was obtainable.
Last week Sheriff W. H. Jones got
word from Coffeyville, Kan., that a
party In Jail there claimed to know
something about the murder, and that
he admitted that he was connected with
it. This party is Puller Shellenburger,
commonly known as Joe Shellenburger,
who formerly lived at Nebraska City,
rhe sheriff went to Kansas and had
a talk with this party, and wired E.
Femeau, who was county/attorney at
the time of the murder, who went to
Kansas.
To these parties it is reported he
made a full confession. He claims to
be one of three parties that did the
act; that Bahuaud was struck with a
®mg tied up in a handkerchief by one
of the parties while he was talking with
another one. with whom he was ac
quainted, Just outside of his kitchen
door about dusk; the body was carried
to the bed and the house searched for
money. Among other things taken
were two time certificates of deposit
amounting to $10,000.
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UNION PACIFIC ANNOUNCES
COMPLETION OF CUT-OFF
Omaha Neb.. July 18.—President
Mohler, of the Union Pacific railroad,
today made official announcement of
the completion of the cutoff between
Topeka, Kan., and Gibbon, Neb., which
will furnish a second route between
Kansas City and Denver and the Pa
cific coast, nearly 1,000 miles of which
will be double track.
The announcement comes as a ser
quel to the recent completion of thb
dissolution of the Union Pacific-South
ern Pacific lines, and it is stated at
Union Pacific headquarters that work
now under way and projected will prac
tically complete"the double tracking
of the main lines of the road west
from Kansas City and .Omaha to the
Ogden terminus.
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COURT ACTION PROBABLE
TO PASS ON PETITIONS
Lincoln, Neb., July 18.—Whether
there are enough legal signers to the
two petitions that have automatically
suspended the workmen’s compensa
tion and employers’ liability law and
the appropriation of $20,000 for an
armory at Nebraska City are ques
tions that will have to be settled by
the * courts. This is the decision of
Secretary of State Wait. He has em
ployed a man to count the names on ’
the various petitions and to see if the
various counties are represented- by
•the legal percentages, but he will not
inquire into the genuineness thereof
and will not pass on the right of any
who have signed to affix their names.
The backers of the workmen’s com
pensation law say that many of the
signatures to the petitions were ob
tained by fraud and misrepresenta
tion.
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HOT WEATHER DELAYS
STARTING SUFFRAGE CRUSADE
Lincoln, Neb., July J8.—One hun
dred women did not begin a house tc
house canvass this morning for sig
natures to petitions submitting a suf
frage amendment to the voters of Ne
braska in 1914. Neither did a Iargs
number of women in other parts of
the state begin the campaign. They
had planned to do so, but the weathef
man had different arrangements. With
the thermometer apparently perma
nently attached to more than 100 tem
peratures, it was decided to call off
the commencement of the work until
cooler weather could be had. The
women must get 46,000 signatures to
have the amendment submitted and
have nearly a year’s time in which to
secure them.
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FURTHER RECRUITS TO FIGHT
AGAINST INSURANCE CODE
Lincoln, Neb., July lS.—Four life
insurance companies, the German
American, the Prairie, the National
Fidelity and Casualty company and
the Commonwealth have joined the
three fraternal orders that have en
joined the newly enacted life insur
ance code from going into effect today.
In district court today Judge Cornish
is hearing the application for a per
manent injunction against the state
board charged with the duties of en
forcing the new law. One of the three
members, Auditor Howard, is openly
in sympathy with the attack, because
the new law takes the insurance busi
ness from under his control and' places
it in the hands of another department
HISTORIC DETAILS FOR
COLD STORAGE EGG8
Lincoln, Neb., July 18.—On and after
today all cold storage eggs will have
to bear a brand showing date at which
they went into storage. The same
thing is true of all food products and
in addition they must be branded tc
indicate to the purchaser at retail
just when they left the storage ware
houses. This is intended to prevent
the sale of storage goods as fresh food
products and also to give a line on
how long they have been stored away.
The food commissioner has received
applications from 12 different con
cerns Vhtf desire license as cold stor
age houses.
WAYNE YOUTH MISSING
AND PARENTS ALARMED
Wayne, Neb., July 17.—Lyle Martin,
the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred H. Martin, who moved to Wayne
from Sidney, la., last March, has been
missing since Sunday, when he left
home for parts unknown. Mr. Martin
is making every effort to locate hi3
son, offering a reward for information
leading to his return. The young man
is large for his age, light complexion,
light hair and blue eyes.