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D, H. CRONIN, Publisher.
O'NEILL,NEBRASKA
Lord Melbourne, who was yueen
[Victoria's prime minister, was so
Strongly addicted to swearing that he
bad difficulty in pruning his language
•Then he first became the adviser or
(he young queen. On one memorable
•ccaslon he forgot himself. He was
Bitting in his accustomed place at
{Queen Victoria's left hand at dinner,
■when the conversation turned upon the
(•cent conversion of Sir Robert Peel
to free trade. "Ma’am,” said Mel
bourne excitedly to the girl queen, "it
Is a damned dishonest act" The
ladies in waiting were in great con
sternation, but the queen, with the ad
mirable tact which distinguished her
pven in these early years of her reign,
pmlllngly told Lord Melbourne that he
anight discuss the corn laws with her
In private. _
In the Ragged mountains of Virginia
Wve the lost Hessians, a queer and in
teresting people. They are the descend
ants of the Hessian prisoners who were
confined at Charlottesville during the
revolutionary war. At the close of the
revolution the Hessians were released
In a body. They determined to march
pack into the Ragged mountains and
Establish a new home in those hills,
lere they and their descendants have
ved ever since. They put up their
Kde cabins made of logs and mud, and
ey have had no other kind of dwell
ing from that time to this.
Constantinople’s scheme for a metro
politan electric line is well under way.
It includes the formation of what is
known as the Ottoman Metropolitan
pompany, capitalized at 15,000,000, for
Ihe purpose of building and operating
the line. Work is to be finished as fur
as Pancaldi in four and a half years
from October 1, 1912, according to the
terms of the contract, and the rest will
follow within a 10-year period. A new
bridge over the Golden Horn will be
part of the work.
English rowing men a century ago
Wore costumes far different from what
they wear now. In 1805 It was the
correct thing for them to wear a green
leather catskln cap with a Jacket and
trousers of nankeen. In the first uni
versity race at Henley In 1829 Oxford
Won wearing blue checks, while Cam
bridge was In white with pink waist
coats. Broad brimmed, heavy straw
feats came in a little later.
The manufacture of cement in the
Philippines, whose supply now comes
almost entirely from Hong Kong, will
probably be commenced toward the
•nd of 1913. The Klzal Cement com
pany, the Philippine corporation
which has acquired large property and
limestone and silica deposits In
Blnangona, Rlzal province, about 30
miles from Manila, Is commencing the
•rection of Its large factory.
The Norwegian government has just
Issued regulations for the censorship
of cinematograph films Intended for
public exhibition. Under these regula
tions all films must be registered and
numbered, end will then be examined
in private by number by two officials
appolned for that purpose. These two
* may call In a third person to help them
|n their decisions, if necessary.
Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest moun
tain, may be commercialized to meet
the demands of tourists. A project la
under way looking to the erection of
n hotel on the peak to occupy the site
of the former metorological observa
tory. The plans embrace a railway
nearly five miles long. In an ordinary
, season it Is estimated that fully 15,000
people climb Ben Nevis.
Stock raising Is the basic Industry of
northern Paraguay. The amount of
capital invested and the application of
modern methods of administration on
a large scale are destined to give this
part of the republic a momentum here
tofore lacking In the country's affairs
nnd bring it Into definite relations with
Ithe outside world.
Guthrie, King county, Texas, one of
the few remaining stands of the cattle
kings and real cowboys, has a 316,000
Jail which has not contained a King
county prisoner In three years. The
Oherlff and his family live In the lower
part of the Jail building. Guthrie has
no county attorney und there Is not a
practicing attorney in the county.
The Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette edi
tor wrote a pleasing editorial on "A
Need to Be Careful," and then the
printer sent the editorial page through
the press upside down. At last re
ports the editor was reading the edi
torial, or something Just us good, to
bis printer.
Salt making by the evaporation of
oea water Is the principal industry of
the Tuko and Caicos Islands colony,
and Is carried on at Grand Turk. Salt
Cay, and Cockburn Harbor, the latter
being the principal settlement in the
Norway, according to the American -
Scandinavian Review, within the lust
five years, has become the fourth sea
faring nation In the world, counting by
■hip tonnage alone; In proportion to
Its population it ranks first.
Thn British consul at Bogota reports
that a boot and shoe factory, equipped
With American machinery, is soon to
t>e erected in Bogota. The output is
expected to bo about 250 pairs of boots
or shoes daily.
Scientists have found 56 areas tv the
' ocean where the water is more than
three miles deep, 10 where It exceeds
four miles and four where the bottom
ta farther than live miles down.
A French bicycle rider is the inven
tor of a man power street sweeper,
consisting of a tricycle with a revolv
ing brush mounted between the reur
Wheels.
Dr. Beatrice M. Victory, of Philadel
phia, is the iirst woman to win the de
«ree of doctor of philosophy in Ger
manic at the University of Pennsyi
Tania.
In Holland many milk men deliver
their wares in bottles wrapped in red
paper, the keeping quality of the fluid
being greatly Increased thereby.
. That wireless telephoning to and
from automobiles is possible has been
proven by a Los Angeles experimenter.
Bread may be kept fresh for several
days at temperatures below freezing
•r exceeding 104 degrees, according to
* Dutch scientist.
OH of the Hawaiian kukul nut has
♦een found to be better than linseed
•tl in the manlfacture of paint.
A motor driven reciprocating saw
has been patented, by a California in
ventor for slicing meats evenly.
An English insurance company Is
sues a policy covering damage dune by
militant s**v igeta.
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INDIAN BOYS FOLLOW
GIRLS FROM SCHOOL
Norfolk. Neb., Dec. 8.—Indian boys
•tin awry from the Genoa Indian
ichool because they cannot endure
ichool life unless the girl students are
'.here too. When the Indian maidens
lake a vacation or have graduated
there are always two or three escapes
>n the part of the young male
itudents.
Four of the Indian boys ran away
(rom school a few days ago. Two of
'.hem have gone to Kansas and the
jther two were captured by the con
Suctor of a Union Pacific work train
Between Norfolk and Columbus. The
two boys, about 17 years old, were
walking along the tracks, bound for
Norfolk.
It developed that two Indian girls
had passed through Norfolk a few
Says ago, enroute to their home near
Niobrara. The two boys were follow
ing the girls.
PRIMROSE BANK ROBBER
STILL ELUDES PURSUERS
Albion, Neb., Dec. 8.—The search for
the Primrose bank robber ended last
night with but meager results. The
robber has not been caught. He had a
good start, from half an hour to 45
minutes, after leaving the bank, when
he leisurely walked down the road to
the west, disappearing in the dark
ness and fog. The robber got $4,000 in
currency. He warned the cashier and
a clerk In the bank not to give the
alarm for an hour, and it was half
an hour before they ventured from
the building. The robber is believed
to have had a horse concealed outside
the town of Primrose.
FARMER’S WIFE ASKS
FOR $8,000 IN ALIMONY
Madison, Neb., Dec. 8.—Mrs. Althea
Louise Kchlnkus has brought action In
the district court for divorce and ali
mony against her husband, Henry
Robert Schlnkus, a well to do farmer,
residing north of Hattie Creek. She
alleges in her petition that her hus
band owns 380 acres of land, valued at
$40,000 and personal property of the
value of $8,000.
RATE PROTEST IS FILED
BY MOTORCYCLE CONCERNS
Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—The
Omaha Bicycle company, and various
cycle concerns In western Iowa and
Nebraska, today filed a complaint
against the Northwestern and other
roads, before tho Interstate Commerce
commission. They allege excessive
charges west of the Mississippi, and
from Chicago, Milwaukee, Malvern and
Walnut, la., and Smith Center, Kan.,
to various destinations. These charges
were two and on-half times first class
and alleged to be "grossly excessive.'*
OBJECTIONABLE ARMY
CORPS QUITS ZABERN
Every Soldier of Offending
Regiment Is Removed
From Barracks.
Zabern, Germany, Dec. 8.—Headed
by Its energetic commander, Colonel
Von Reuter, tho Ninety-ninth Infantry
regiment, whose officers have caused
bo much strife between the military
and civil authorities In Alsace,
marched out of Zabern today on the
way to uncomfortable camp quarters
Half of tho men go to Hagenau, II
miles northeast of Strassburg, In the
forest, and the other half to Bitseh, u
small fortified town at the foot of the
Vosges mountains, in the north ol
Alsace.
Not even the customary detachment
was left In charge of the barracks and
army property, a guard being detailed
for this service from tho garrison ol
Strassburg.
The viceroy of Alsace-Dorratne,
Count Charles Von Wedel, returned to
day from his conference with the em
peror, and the Alsatian papers gladly
Interpret tho fact that he has not re
tired from office as an Indication that
he received from tho emperor the nec
essary guarantees that the military
will not Interfere with civil rule In Al
sa*e-Lorraine.
GOVERNMENT AID FOR
MINING INTERESTS
Washington, Dec. 8.—The House
committee on mines and mining today
made a favorable report on the Austin
bill which would give federal aid to
schools of Instruction In mines and
mining.
The bill Is Important to states like
Iowa and South Dakota, having large
mining Interests.
In Iowa, according to this bill $10,000
would be given by the federal govern
ment the first year and $20,000 each
year thereafter for instruction In
mines and mining in connection with
tho experiment station at Ames. Tho
Hinnn nliin would ht> fnlluwod in
Dakota.
HUNDREDS WOULD JOIN
REVOLUTIONIST CAUSE
llermoslllo, Sonora, Mexico. Dec. 8.—
A secretary was occupied today In
translating an accumulation of several
hundred letters from foreigners offer
ing their services to the revolutionary
army. They include proffers from ma
chine gun operators and brass band
musicians, surgeons and sharp shooters.
The letters are from veteran 1111
busterers and boys In their ’teens, who
seek a life of adventure, hut none of
the offers will he accepted, according
to the uncompromising stand of Gen
eral Carranza that the present revolu
tion is a "Mexican affair” and that for
eign soldiers are not wanted.
MOTHER WOULD SEE MAN
WHO KILLED SON HANG
Buffalo, N. Y.. Dec. 8.—Mis. Frank
Martin, of Warren, Pa., mother of
George Gillespie, who was murdered
lust September by Gusippe 1)1 Glola,
wants to attend the execution of Di
Gtota. In a letter to District Attorney
Dudley she wrote that she Intends to
attend If permission can be obtained.
D1 Glola is now In a death cell In Au
burn prison under sentence to be ex
ecuted the week of January 4.
PRICE OF EGGS TAKES
SLUMP IN NEW YORK
New York, Dec. 6.—Fresh eggs took
a drop of 4 cents a dozen in the local
markets yesterday, making a total de
cline of 6 cents in two days.
Wholesales prices for some high
grades are under 40 cents and denlers
predict 30-eent eggs next weok. The
reductions are attributed by officials
of the National Housewives' league to
the organization’s egg boycott. Kgg
men say the chief reason Is the Increase
In the supply of the new laid product.
FREMONT JUNK MAN
MURDERED AND BODY
: BURIED IN CELLAR
Son Held for Investigation on
Account of Suspicious
Circumstances.
FYeinont Neb., Dec. 6.—The body of
James A. Butler, a junk dealer, was
found buried in the basement of his
home in the south part of the city yes
terday afternoon by his soninlaw, Wil
liam Bales, and Deputy Sheriff W. A.
Lowery, who made a search of the
premises for the man, who had been
missing for the past two days. The
skull was frightfully crushed and the
skin had been peeled from his fore
head. A rope was about his neck and
his head was wrapped in gunny
sacks.
Bales went to the home of the aged
Junk buyer at the request of his wife,
who had been ill and was worrying be
cause her father had not been to visit
her for two days. On arrival at Butler's
home he found the house bare of all its
furnishings. He became suspicious
and made a closer investigation. He
discovered some spots of blood near
the entrance to the cellar and notified
the officers.
When Sheriff Lowery and Mr. Bales
reached the cellar floor they stumbled
on a mound of dirt. Then the feet of
the man wore found projecting from
the dirt that had been carelessly
thrown over the body, which was lying
face down. It is supposed that the
rope was used by the murderer to
drag the body to the cellar. The
murdered man was 78 years of age and
a veteran of the civil war. He made
a living by buying junk, which he
gathered in the surrounding country.
William Butler, son of the murdered
man, was arrested last evening at
Cedar Bluff and brought back here for
Investigation. He had been drinking
heavily. In a suitcase found in his
possession was a hammer smeared
with blood and hair.
The young man under arrest, who
Is 24 years of age, had been living
with his father and it Is known that
they often quarreled. It is alleged
that the son sold all the furniture in
the house to a neighbor for $4 and
stated that his father had gone to
Columbus to reside for a time. He
drove away with his father's horse and
wagon.
BANDIT ROBS BANK AT
PRIMROSE OF $4,000 ROLL
Primrose, Neb., Dec. 6.—The Prim
rose bank was robbed yesterday af
ternoon of $4,000 in currency by a
highwayman, who single handed ter
rorized the clerk in the bank, com
pelled him to hand over all the avail
able cash and made his escape. The
robber was not masked, but an ac
curate description of him is lacking.
Primrose is a place of between 100 and
200 inhabitants in Boone county.
The robber, who was roughly dressed
entered the bank while two customers
were there. When they had left the
Btepped to the cage and handed
Cashier Wicks a note, covering him at
the same time with a revolver. He de
manded all the cash on the counter,
and was handed the $4,000 in currency
and $000 in coin, but declined to take
the latter. As soon as the cashier
could give the alarm a posse took up
pursuit of the robber, who left in a
westerly direction on foot.
LICENSE IN RUSHVILLE
IS DECLARED INVALID
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 6.—The supreme
court today laid down as the law of
the state that whenever a city or vil
lage, by a vote of the people, decides
that no saloons shall be given license,
it does not He within the power of the
council or village trustees to grant any
such licenses. Conversely, when the
vote is in favor of saloons, the board,
no matter if the dry sentiment pre
vails there, cannot refuse to issue such
permits. Last spring the town of
Rushvllle, in Sheridan county, voted
dry The council, notwithstanding this,
granted a license to Perry Thompson.
The district court upheld the action of
the board, but the supreme court re
verses this decree and orders the li
cense cancelled. It holds that under
tha law, the town having voted dry,
the board was without legal authority
to grant a license.
HAD INSANE DESIRE TO
KILL WIFE AND CHILDREN
Fairbury, Neb., Dec. 6.—As a result
of loading a shotgun, setting it in a
corner and asserting that his wife and
five children would be dead before
morning, F. Gordon, a young farmer
living near Harbino has been com
mlted to the state hospital for the in
sane. He was charged with being a
dipsomaniac and Inebriate and being
addicted to the excessive use of liquors.
A short time ago, it is alleged, he
tried to drive his carriage containing
his wife, on to the railroad track and
awralt the arrival of a fast approach
ing train. It is alleged that his wife
managed to get the rig in the clear.
SUPREME COURT TEST
OF "LOAN SHARK" LAW
Lincoln. Nob.. Dec.. 6.—The con
stitutionality of the "loan shark” law
passed by the last legislature was
argued before the supreme court today
In the appeal of Jule Althaus from a
conviction thereunder in Douglas coun
ty. Athaus pleaded guilty, but moved
for arrest of judgment on various
grounds that bring into dispute the
question of constitutionality.
The law legalizes a rate of Interest
not exceeding 1 per cent a month on
loans not exceeding $250 made for a
period of one year or less where such
loans are secured by chattel mortage
on household goods, musical instru
ments, wearing apparel, jewelry,
diamonds or by a deposit of personal
property or by an assignment of wages,
credits or choses in action. The col
lection of a commission or fee in ex
cess of $1 is also forbidden where loans
are for more than 10 per cent a year.
WANYE PAYS A
TRIBUTE TO PIONEER
Wayne, Neb., Dee, 5.—Yesterday the
public schools were closed on account
of the funeral of J. W. Tombs, for
a long time a resident of this place.
His daughter, Mrs. A. W. Phillips, Is,
and has been for many years, the prin
cipal of the Wayne high school.
JUDGE MOSS. OF WAYNE.
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Wayne, Neb.. Dec. 5.—Word has beer
received here of the deuth of Judge H.
H. Moses, a prominent and wealthy
citizen of this place, in California,
where he had gone for the winter.
He was past 83 yeas >of age and had
suffered from heart trouble for some
months. He was the author of a book
on mandamus. He was a life-long
democrat and was once a candidate for
congress from the old Ashtabula dis
trict in Ohio, his sucessful opponent
being former President Car field.
SUPREME COURT NOW
HEARING LAND CASE
FROM DAKOTA COUNTY
Omaha Wholesalers Allege
Fraud in Transfer of Title
to 80-Acre Tract.
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 5.-—A Dakota
county case, In which the Raapke Gro
cery company and the Paxton-Gal
lagher company are seeking to subject
land claimed by John P. Beacom to
Judgments they hold againBt James E.
Beacom was before the supreme court
today. The plaintiffs assert that James
E. secured credit and goods from them
on the representation to the mercantile
agencies that he owned 80 acres of
more.
Mrs. Mason, who formerly resided at
Marseilles, 111., was possessed of some
850,000, 830,000 of which was willed her
by her late husband after his death.
She made her will devising about
820,000 to her husband’s relatives and
charitable institutions; of the balance,
one-half to her sister, Florencq L.
Moore; one-fourth to Louisa Tryon,
and one-fourth to W. D. Waite, being
her brother and sisters. Mrs. Mason
committed suicide by drowning in the
Missouri river this summer near Bel
land, but when they came to collect on
their Judgments they found that John
P. Beacom in possession under a deed
executed months before by his brother.
The plaintiffs claim there was fraud
In the transaction. As one item in the
list they cite that the note given by
John in part payment does not become
due until 1920.
Beacom won in the lower court. His
attorneys told the court that the sale
was made in good faith and at a time
when James E. Beacom was admittedly
solvent and that full value was paid
therefor in cash and notes. It was
claimed that he could not possibly have
known James was lnsol"ent, and that
in fact he was not. as one of the notes
executed, for 31,600, ran to James.
WHAT! LINCOLN POLICE
ACTUALLY CATCH BURGLAR
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 6.—The Lincoln
nflliPA hpllAVA thov hftVA ft.ntllA.llV
caught a burglar. He Is only 18 years
old, but among the plunder found In
hls possession loot from four different
houses has been identified by him and
by the owners. Pure luck led to hls
capture. The boy claims to have come
from Omaha, and has been here two
weeks. He made his headquarters at a
rooming house. The proprietor hap
pened to drop into the room during the
youth’s absence, and saw some silver
ware that was evidently wrapped for
shipping. He tipped it off to the police,
watch was kept on the chap, and he
was arrested with the grip full of
stolen stuff in his possession. He gave
the name of Henry Miller.
DISAPPEARING TEACHERS
ANNOY SUPERINTENDENT
Falrbury, Neb., Dec. 5.—Dale Bugbee,
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Bugbee of
Steele City, while employed as a school
teacher in District No. B8, disappeared.
He closed school as usual last Friday
night, and was last seen in Fairbury,
Sunday, November 30. He had a short
talk with County Superintendent R. H.
Harris and he gave no intimation of
giving up his school. He failed to re
turn home and did not open up his
school Monday. He was 20 years of
age.
County Superintendent R. C. Harris
has experienced considerable trouble in
the last few weeks with Jefferson
county teachers. Five teachers have
left their schools on short notice.
CONVINCED OF DANGER
OF ATTENDING CHURCH
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 5.—Sam F. Hays,
janitor of the Methodist church at Uni
versity Place, is a living example of
the dangers attached to church going.
Three times within the last year has
Hays been assaulted and robbed while
on hls way home from the building
after services had been concluded.
After the second holdup he moved to a
house within a half block of the church.
Tuesday night, when he did not show
up at home, his son went to hunt him.
He found him unconscious on the
church steps. Hays has no recollection
beyond being struck down as he came
out of the back door. He lost several
dollars in change, and had to stay in
bed for 36 hours.
GOVERNOR WILL OPPOSE
STATE SCHOOL REMOVAL
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 5.—Governor
Morehead is strongly opposed to the
removal of the state university to the
state farm and he indicated that he
might take the stump next fall and
talk against the removal proposition,
He also thinks that the present cam
pus is large enough without paying
out a lot of money for extending its
boundaries.
“I don't care what others think
about it,’’ said the governor, ’’but it
dents of rich parents can take care
of themselves, but the poor students
will lose the chance of earning theii
way through the institution if it is
taken to the suburbs. I have a kindly
feeling for the poor student who must
earn his living to get through school,
because I was a poor student myself,
I recall when I picked wild blackber
ries and sold them to enable me to
go through an institution of learning
at Shenandoah, la. It will be a thing
to be deplored if the buildings now on
the campus are torn down or left va
cant or are turned over to institutions
that do not need the room. Let the
campus stay where it is.”
B. S. LEEDOM AND SON
BUY GORDON JOURNAL
Osmond, Neb., 5.—B. S. Leedom,
who for 21 years managed the Osmond
Republican, has purchased the Journal
at Gordon, Neb., and will take posses
sion January 1. For 38 years Mr.
Leedom has been engaged in newspaper
work in Nebraska, locating first at
Ponca, in 1875. In 1882 he established
the Republican at Wakefield, later
started the Republican at Bartlett, then
coming to Osmond 21 years ago. With
him is associated his son, J. W. Leedonr,
who formerly was a student at Morn
lngside college. The son will have ac
tive charge of the Gordon Journal.
BERTHA MASON WILL IS
UPHELD AGAINST ATTACK
Paplllion, Neb., Dec. 4.—Probate
Judge Wheat handed down his decision
sustaining the Bertha E. Mason will,
holding with proponents on every point
at issue. This case has occupied the at
tention of the court for six weeks or
levue.
Mrs. Moore submitted the will -or
probate, to which W. D. Waite, her
brother, protested op the ground of in
sanity and undue influence, also claim
ing Mrs. Moore an unfit person to
handle the estate.
KELLEY NOW IN PEN
TO RESUME SERVICE
INTERRUPTED TERM
While Working in Boiler Room
He Made Escape on Ladder
Built From Gas Pipe.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4.—James Kelley,
formerly of Dakota county, who also
uses the name of Gus Wright, is back
In the state penitentiary, where he will
serve out the remainder of his sen
tence for the theft of a horse in Da
kota county. Kelley had served all but
five months of his term when he evap
orated from the prison in October, 1912.
Kelley’s escape from the prison was
most Ingenious. He is a steam fitter
and was employed in the boiler room.
He screwed together two pieces of
pipe and when the guards were not
looking stood this up against the wall
and utilized it as a ladder. When he
got to the top of the wall he drew up
the pipe and slid down it. He says
that he made his way to St. Joseph,
and there worked for a few days. He
located in an Oklahoma town for the
next six months, but fearing the of
ficers were on his trail, he bought a
horse and began riding through the
country. He finally landed at the home
of a brother in Kirksville, Mo. Here
the officers had been looking for him
to show up. and he was nabbed.
ALIEN LAND LAW AGAIN
SUPREME COURT ISSUE
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4.—Whether a
non-resident alien can inherit land in
Nebraska is the question again put up
to the supreme court in a case from
Phelps couhty. Carl Peterson, a pros
perous Swedish farmer of that county,
died six years ago, leaving no will. The
heirs are two brothers in Sweden and
a sister in Chicago. The latter was
given all of the estate by the probate
court, which held that the relatives in
Sweden cannot inherit land under Ne
braska laws. The district court, how
ever, ordered the land equally divided.
The defense of the Swedish heirs is
that their right to inherit is guaranteed
them by the provisions of a treaty en
tered into between their native coun
try and the United States in 1827, un
der the terms of which the subjects of
the respective countries might freely
dispose of their goods and effects other
wise than by will and that their heirs,
wherever located might receive in suc
cession property left. The Nebraska
law prohibiting aliens from inheriting,
they contend, cannot override this spe
cific treaty right.
RULES COMPANY MUST PAY
FOR TELEPHONE IN OFFICE
Linfeoln, Neb., Dec. 4.—The state rail
way commission has issued an order
directing the Burlington railroad com
pany that it must pay the telephone
company for the instrument maintained
in its depot at Stella. The company
agent had a different idea about it.
Not only had he declined to pay .the
monthly rental, but he had presented a
bill of $15, specifying that it was for
rental space in the depot and for the
time of employes in answering calls
thereon. The commission directs the
phone company not to pay the bill, but
to Insist upon the railroad company
paying for the use of the phone. Un
der the law the railroads of the state
'are required to maintain telephones in
depots for the convenience of patrons,
but the Stella agent had never heard
of it.
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FORMER STATE SENATOR
READS HIS OBITUARY
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4.—Joseph Burns,
ex-state senator and irrigation expert,
now knows what a fine fellow he is.
Mr. Burns has been ill for several
weeks, but is again able to be about.
At his office he found waiting for him
a newspaper published at Downey,
la., where he has been pushing sev
eral irrigation projects, in which his
death was announced and his obituary
written. In this Mr. Burns read that
"he was a character of the highest
type” and in "life and in purpose a
citizen of the west who was sworn to
the real man’s work of overcoming na
ture for the good of all humanity.”
Mr. Burns has wired the editor that,
borrowing from Mark Twain, “the re
ports of my death are greatly exag
gerated.”
TEAMSTERS HOPE TO
SETTLE DIFFERENCES
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 4—Officials of
the teamsters’ union, which has been on
strike here since Sunday, began a con
certed effort today to get employers to
Btgn a tentative agreement. It is bind
ing for only 10 days and the only de
mands are that the employers pay the
minimum union scale and not discrim
inate against union men. The Central
Labor union yesterday requested the
teamsters’ officials to send the drivers
Tor employers who had signed con
tracts back to work, but Thomas J.
Farrell, general organizer of the union,
then declared that no one should re
turn to work until 1,500 men were in
jured union conditions and wages.
RAILWAY CLERKS PLAN
UNION ORGANIZATION
Pittsburgh, Pa,. Dec, 4.—Abrogation
jf the pass privilege by the Pennsyl
vania railroad for its employes has re
sulted in a movement here to organ
ize all clerks in railroad offices into a
labor union. It becamo known today
that representatives of the freight and
passenger offices in Pittsburgh last
night conferred with a view to prelim
inary organization, the plans to be pre
sented to the chiefs of the railroad
brotherhoods for their approval. Funds
tor the preliminary work have been
collected at a number of railroad cen
ters, indicating that the union is not
to be local.
RECALL CRIPPEN CASE.
New York. Dec. 4.—The famous
Crippen murder In England four years
ago was recalled here today by the an
nouncement of a firm of lawyers that
a countrywide search had been begun
for Mrs. Theresa Hunn. of Brooklyn,
sister of Mrs. Hawley Crippen. Mrs.
Hunn Is a beneficiary of her murdered
sister’s estate, and the lawyers want
to pay her her share. She formerly
lived in Brooklyn.
BANDITS SHOOT BANKER.
Blythe, Cal.. Dec. 3.—Two robbers
entered the Palo Verde Valley bank
here late yesterday, shot and killed
Cashier A. W. Boles and got away with
about $5,000 in gold and currency. The
men rode south into the mesquite
jungles bordering the Colorado river.
POSTAL STRIKE DUE.
London, Dec. 3.—The dissatisfac
tion among the staff of the British
postoffice, nearly 100,000 of whom re
cently threatened to strike at Christ
mas for an increase of pay, is finding
expression in acts of wilful destruction
I of government property.
MURPHY GIRL TRIES -
TO OBTAIN FREEDOM
FOR YOUNG BROTHER
Girl, Who Figured in Sellers'
Trial, Seeks Clemency of
Nebraska Governor.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 3.—Eunice
Murphy, the Cherry county young
woman whose wrongs at the hands of
a ranchman named Sellers were
avenged by four young cowboys, In
cluding her 19-year-old brother, will
not cease her efforts to have them re
leased upon parole. Governor More
head has told her that the quartet,
each of whom received a life sentence
for murdering Sellers, have not served
long enough time to Justify him in In
terfering. Miss Murphy is particularly
anxious to get her youthful brother
out, and will bend her efforts to that
end.
For the first time since her arrest
she has made a statement to the news
papers. She says that it is untrue, as
published at the time of the arrest of
herself and the four young men, that
she Inquired at the Cody bank as to
whether Sellers’ life insurance Wa3
made payable to her or whether he had
willed her his property. She says that
Sellers had told her that if she re
fused to marry him he would kill her
and that he had settled up his affairs
so as to be ready to carry out his in
tention at any time. She says that her
Inquiries at the bank were merely for
the purpose of finding out how he had
left his affairs, as if they had been
settled up It would be a circumstance
to prove the making of the threats.
Miss Murphy says that Sellers had
pursued her with his unwelcome at
tentions for weeks, had terrorized her
by his conduct and had told her that
If she repulsed him he would wipe her
and h,er whole family out. She says
she never voluntarily kept company
with him, and relates a number of
Instances of his brutality towards her.
She says that one time he drove her
cattle far away so that he might catch
her, knowing she had been rounding
them up each night, far from any per
son. Out on the prairie he had made
her an insulting proposal and when she
repulsed him, he had terrorized her for
several hours, and only desisted when
cattlemen came that way.
All of these indignities and threats
she had told her relatives, nothwith
standing Sellers’ warning not to say
anything. They had discussed several
things to do. Sellers heard that she
had threatened to put him under bonds
to keep the peace, and told her that if
she did he would give bonds and come
down and wipe the family out. In
desperation the four boys, her brother,
her cousin and two chums, went down
to Sellers’ ranch and strung him to a
telephone pole, intending, however,
merely to frighten him into leaving the
country, but under his taunts and
threats they held him up too long.
NEBRASKA RAILROADS I
ARE MAKING MONEY
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 3.—Seven rail
roads doing business in this state
gathered in nearly $2,000,000 more
from Nebraska operations during the
past fiscal year than during the fiscal
year of 1912, according to a resume
made of the reports filed with the state
railway commission. The total busi
ness for the fiscal year of 1913 equaled
$52,545,584, while for 1912 it aggre
gated $50,606,696.
In tne safhe period the operating
expenses of the road’s advanced from
$33,047,972 to $33,595,806. Four roads—
the Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific,
Chicago. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma
ha and the Burlington—report in
creases in their operating revenues for
the year while the balance show a fall
ing off in their 1913 operating in
comes. In the same time the same
four roads report a higher operating
expense than during the previous fiscal
year.
POLICE HOLD NEGRO
PENDING INVESTIGATION
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 3.—Mathew Rob
erts, a 22-year-old negro, is held at the
city jail following his arrest at 9 o’clock
yesterday in connection with the police
investigation of the murder a week ago
Saturday night of James Short, express
driver. Short's body was found last
Sunday morning, the skull crushed, in
the old fair grounds near Twenty-sec
ond and Seward streets.
Roberts was closely questioned,
among other negroes, by Detectives
Ring and Van Deusen following the
murder, but at that time his story of
his whereabouts appeared to satisfy
them of his innocence of any connec
tion with the affair. Questioned, how
ever, following his arrest, Roberts gave
quick response to many inquiries as to
where he was at various times in the
24 hours preceding and following the
murder. His replies, bordering almost
on the tone of a recitation, were con
HIUCICU SUUlUCUl ivy i ma uc
tention. Several phases of his “alibi”
were investigated yesterday and, ac
cording to Captain Maloney, proved
false.
Maloney asserts that as yet his de
partment is in possession of no evi
dence connecting Roberts directly with
the crime.
PLAN ADVANCED CLASS
FOR RURAL STUDENTS
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 3.—State Super
intendent Dclzell favors the establish
ment of a 10th grade rural school in
each township in the thickly settled
portions of Nebraska that the boys and
girls of rural communities may have an
opportunity to be under home environ
ments at least two years beyond the
eighth grade. The superintendent says
that this course will enable them to en
joy the pleasures and the profits of till
ing the soil, caring for domestic ani
mals and the care of the home. He
holds that this work will create a
greater and more abiding love of home
environment and they will be prepared
to perform the duties of life in an in
telligent, honest and happy way be
coming real builders of a better and a
grander commonwealth. He strongly
favors the free high school law which
he declares is doing a grand work for
many young men and girls in the state.
NEBRASKA BANK MEN
LOSE FREE TYPEWRITERS
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 2.—State bank
examiners will not be furnished here
after with typewriters to be used in
their homes. The state banking board
at its last meeting learned that some
pf the former examiners had failed to
return their machines when they quit
their jobs. At least two machines were
not returned till special messengers
were sent to the homes of former bank
examiners. The money to buy type
writers has been taken from an ap
propriation made for the traveling ex
penses of examiners.