Nebraska Newspapers

    Th« O’Neil Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher.
yNEIl-UNEBRASKA
The price of the 400-year-old Titian
Cirtralt of King Philip II of Spain,
hlch Mrs. T. J. Emery gave to Cln
Snnatl as a Christmas gift, was $335,
•0. The price was given on the In
voice which accompanied the picture
from England and Is so listed In th*
••cords of Customs Appraiser Butter
Worth. It was first reported that Mr*.
5Bmery paid $400,000 for the painting,
land later Sir Hugh Earie, from whom
was purchased, said he received
•150.000 for It. _
A woman, who wa* sitting In th*
Kallery at a pantomime, waa warned
by the attendant that unless she could
Keep her baby quiet, she and her hus
band would have to take their money
back and leave the theater. The baby
Waa silenced, but toward the end of
»cene vll the mother began to be bored.
;*T>on't think much of this show, after
[mil.” she said to her husband. “Wish
we'd gone somewhere else.” "All right.”
laald the husband, "pinch the babyl”
Pill nuts from the Philippine Island#
[were recently Introduced In the markets
•f the United States. They are tri
(Kngular In shape and contain a small
[kernel of line flavor. One shipment of
•00 tons Is reported from Manila to
Ijfew York. Two similar varieties of
these nuts are being Bliipped—Canar
jfuni ovatoum and Canarlum lusonloum.
IThey grew abundantly In the Philip
pines, but the trees are very much
pcattered.
At breakfast the drummer who hai$
put up at a hotel In southern Illinois,
l#rdered soft boiled eggs. The waitress
deposited before lilm two In the shell!
Booking up, the drummer said: "Pleasd
(break the eggs In a glass.” With a,
Withering look of scorn the buxom
rwaltress replied: "Well, good gracious!
BT you can't bre-ak two soft boiled eggs
in a glass you'd better go to a hos
pital 1” _ _
•roe cultivation or horse raaisn la a
Shriving Industry, a writer In the Coun
itry Gentleman says, and he describes a
(three-acre farm devoted to this Indus
try. which keeps two men busy, one
mt them making good money out of
m miniature farm. One advantage of
this crop Is thus described: “The horse
radish farmer can well lie back and
test In easy security, for he has a crop
that only Insects with suicidal motives
attack."
A horse displayed unusual Intelli
gence recently In New Haven, Conn.,
prhen it wandered away In the absence
mt Its driver. It came to a crossing
(where there was a traffic policeman,
Eid stopped and started again In obod
nce to the wave of the officer's hand.
flThe absence of the driver was not no
ticed until after it had passed the
■rosslpg.
Except for various government de
Cartments, police and fire stations, etc.,
o telephones exlBt in Constantinople
today, but an Anglo-American French
pompany is vigorously pushing work
cn Its franchise and will soon operate
P complete network on both sides of the
posphoruB and to the Princes Islands.
A local band was one dny playing at
Dumfernllne, when an old weaver came
up and asked the bandmaster what It
was they were playing. “That Is the
JDeath of Nelson,’ ” solemnly replied
the bandmaster. “Ay, man.” remarked
the weaver, “Ye ha’e given him an aw
ful death.' ’’
Edward Corton, of Everett, has at
tained a reputation In picking chickens,
in an exhibition given recently at
X)erry, N. H„ he killed and picked four
.chickens In two and three quarters
minutes. Eater he plucked a chicken
to 20 seconds, and a duck In two mln
U tw
in Schenectady, N. Y., a farmer
fecognlxcd In a leather shop the green
|hldo of a horse which had been stolen
from him but two weeks before. By
fneuns of the hide he traced the thief
Pnd eventually was paid for the horse.
The state of Colorado has Just re
ceived an Inheritance tux amounting
to 1140,498.40 from a man who, 61 years
•go, came to the state In an ox cart,
with a load of groceries, on the sale
mt which started his rise to wealth.
James Caudill, of Cornettsvlllo, was
up the flrst of the week visiting friends
here and otherwise looking around. He
Is close to 60, and Saturday evening
bad his flrst shave In a barber’s chair,
—Whlteburg (Ky.) Eagle.
Because London's fogs nt times seri
ously reduce the supply of gasoline In
that city by preventing the arrival ot
vessels carrying It, It Is probable that a
pipe will be built from the mouth of
the Thames Into the city.
Newly naturalized Immigrants In
l<os Angeles, Cal., are Instructed In the
responsibilities of American citizenship
through the social center. Recognition
day services are held at the close ol
each term of the school.
The railroads of Great Britain kill In
accidents for which the passenger is iq
fio way responsible one passenger for
•very 72,000,000 carried, while those of
the United States kill one for every 4,
•00,000 passengers carried.
Miss Lydia Pierson, a school teacher
tn Woodbury, L. I., received as a
Christmas present a huge pumpkin. A
Mole was found in It, however, and in
side was a chicken, a dozen eggs, but
ter and apples and nuts.
There are long stretches of land, cov
ering most of the Dominican coast line,
laot now under cultivation, and in some
cases hardly suitable for other crops,
which offer Ideal conditions for cocoa
nut cultivation.
Frlnce Edward island is virtually the
pioneer in rural mall delivery among
Vie Canadian provinces. Eighty-six
Prates have been established In the
■aland since the plan was undertaken
Ml 1008-10.
▲nne Morehead, age 12. won a prize
&• church contest In Galesburg, 111.,
memorizing and reciting accurately
I blble verses. The second prize w*a*
won by a girl whose record was 280
The government of Brazil has begun
work on extensive systems of reser
,voire to enable the residents of Its
fisrtheastern states to get water In long
dry seasons, which frequently occur.
Sawmill waste of Douglas flr, of
which an enormous quantity Is found
In the western forests. Is being used
-to make paper pulp by a mill at Marsh
field. Ore. _
Western Reserve university, Cleve
land. has received a $80,000 cash gift
'for lecture work.
In Australia the avcraje z»">wi wage
Is $431.
COMMISSIONERS HOLD
OFFICES ONLY THREE
YEARS, COURT RULES
Decision Rendered on Long
Drawn Contest From Cedar
County—Furley Loses.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 2.—County com
missioners elected In Nebraska hold of
fice for three years only, says the su
preme court. Charles F. Furley, who
was elected commissioner in Cedar
county In 1909, thought differently, and
when he was defeated for re-election
in 1912 by Edward H. Carroll, he de
clined to give up the office, claiming
that the legislature of 1905 made the
office a four-year one. Th,e lower court
ousted Furley, and now the supreme
court overrules his appeal. The case
was based on the fact that in 1905 the
legislature passed a law providing for
biennial elections, and in order to
straighten things out it was necessary
to make commissioners serve an even
number of years instead of odd. The
term was made four years. The su
prom court declared the biennial elec
tions invalid, and the court, in the Fur
ley case, says that the four-year term
law also went by the board through
subsequent action of the legislature.
[Carroll assumed the office after tho
decision of tho district court, but re
signed the position a few weeks ago.]
SUPREME COURT RULES ON
EVASION OF GIBSON LAW
Uncoln, Neb., Feb. 2.—The su
premo court says that brewers can
not evade the provisions of the Gib
son law which prohibits the running of
saloons In buildings owned by manu
facturers of liquor by organizing hold
ing companies for the real estate. The
matter was decided in a caso from
Stanton, where A. L. Hanff was given
a license to operate a saloon In a
building owned by the Independent
Realty company, th.e stock of which
was held by the Storz Brewing com
pany. of Omaha. The court orders the
license cancelled, saying in effect that
the trick cannot be worked.
The Gibson law wus passed In 1904.
It was intended to stop the monopoli
zation of the retail saloon business by
the brewers, who had steadily been
driving independent dealers to the wall
and taking over saloons, which they
turned over to agents whom they
financed. The Independent Realty
company was organized by the Storz
company Immediately after the law
went Into effect. The brewing com
pany had purchased a great number
of sites in different localities, and these
it turned over to the realty company.
The latter was organized by electing
Gottlieb Storz wife as its president,
Mrs. Storz' cousin ns vice president
and an office man in the brewery as
secretary and treasurer. The court
says that the question it had to de
termine was whether the building in
which the saloon was located is con
trolled by the manufacturer of beer.
The evidence being that he controlled
it through a holding company, the law
had been violated and the license must
be declared void.
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ROBBERS CAUGHT AFTER
AN EXCITING PURSUIT
Fremont. Neb.. Feb. 2.—A daylight
robbery at the Brunswick hotel, op
posite the union passenger station, was
followed by the capture of the rob
bers nt Yutan. Three men who en
tered the office during the absence of
the proprietors, F. G. Bierce and
Charles Hawley, found the safe un
locked, but bolted. They opened It,
grabbed $14fi in bills and small change
and ran. Police officers and Sheriff
Condlt followed. The men went afoot
south to the Burlington railroad bridge,
crossed and run across corn fields.
Meantime the officers, who rode in an
automobile, had to go round by the
wagon bridge, a half mile up the
stream.
The officers lost the trail, but found
It again at Leshara, from which place
the station wired that the men were
seen hurrying along the Burlington
track. Near Yutan the fugitives were
overtaken. They had thrown the
small change away and pinned the bills
in the lining of their coats. They gave
the names of George Martin, Jack
Barnes and Frank White. All are be
ing held ut the county Jail.
FARMER CHARGED WITH
ASSAULT ON YOUNG GIRL
Valentine, Neb., Feb. 2.—Sheriff
Itossiter arrested Van Lewis, a farmer,
who is charged with assault upon Ruth
Ayers, the little 12-year-old daughter
of William Ayers, a farmer about seven
miles southwest of here. According
to the girl's story, the crime was com
mitted Monday evening and when she
was going horseback after cattle. It
was dusk, when she was approached
by a man with his face masked and
wearing ills coat turned inside out. He
grabbed the child off the horse and
forcibly pulled her within an old
Isolated barn. There, Ik Is alleged, the
crime was committed.
The little girl returned home and told
her parents of the outrage. Sheriff
Rossiter and two physicians were sum
moned. The little girl's condition was
not serious. Van Lewis, who is a mar
ried man, with a family, was arrested
when he came to town with a kiad of
corn. The child told tho authorities
that she believed it was he, as site
recognized his voice.
——
YOUNG MURPHY GETS HIS
CHANCE FOR EDUCATION
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 2.—With Gov
ernor Morehead disinclined to give u
full pardon to him, young Kenneth
Murphy will take advantage of his re
lease from prison as a trusty by reg
istering for the university extension
course. He will take th.e career of
Abraham Lincoln as a part of the
American history course, and some
work In mathematics, literature and
languages. The boy is extremely
anxious to get an education, and at
first was Inclined to take up farm
work, but his new-found friends
thought he ought to do better than
that, and will finance him in his efforts
to finish the preparatory work, after
which he will choose his career.
TWO CONVICTS REMOVED
TO ASYLUM AT HASTINGS
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 31.—Louis J.
Hronlrh. who drank lye two weeks ago
and sought to end his career as a pen
itentiary convict, was taken today to
the Hastings asylum for the insane. He
as serving a six-year term for the of
fense of rape committed in Boyd
county. Hronish got it into his h.ead
that a brother had murdered his wife,
ind lie said lie desired to follow them
i'nto the next world. Morris Brassier,
serving an eight-year term for Incest,
ommitted in Boone county, was aaac
uki s to tho asylum.
SUPREME COURT
HAS CHECKED THE
CLAIM OF BOARD
Board Says the Ruling Will
Make School Work
Difficult.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 31.—The Lincoln
school board Is not at all pleased be
cause the supreme court found that It
had not the power to compel C. P. Kel
ley’s daughter Eunice to take a course
in domestic science. It has authorized
the superintendent to notify Kelley that
because the girl did not take domestic
science she would not be given a di
ploma from the eighth grade, which is
necessary to enable her to enter the
high school. The board expects that
this will mean another lawsuit, but it
has been advised by attorneys that the
question involved is not on all fours
with the one which the court decided
in favor of Kelley. Members of the
board said in the meeting called to dis
cuss the case that the decree of the su
preme court would disorganize every
grade school in the state if the court
should attempt to empower parents of
children to decide what their children
should study where courses were not
optional and the judges to assume to
decide whether such selection was rea
sonable or not. It was also suggested
that because domestic science was not
in the curriculum when the judges went
to school 40 years ago they decided as
they did, and that if the study had been
arithmetic or history they would have
held different.
PHYSICIAN INSISTS HE
CAN ESTABLISH ALIBI
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 31.—Dr. W. R.
Townsend is under arrest on the charge
of responsibility for the death of Lola
Sturms, a young woman whose home
was in Strausville, Richardson county,
following a coroner's inquest. It was
testified that the girl had died from
effects of a criminal operation. A
statement signed by her on her death
bed in which she stated that Townsend
had performed the operation on Janu
ary 20, 1914. She declined to give the
name of the man responsible for her
condition, and died refusing to tell who
it was. Townsend was held in $1,000
ball. He vehemently denied the charge,
and says that he can prove an alibi to
the effect that he was in Omaha at the
time the girl said in her statement the
operation was performed.
FLEGE HAS NEVER SEEN
INSIDE OF PENITENTIARY
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 31.—A $15,000 ball
bond, which will secure the release of
William Flege, thrice convicted of the
murder of his sister, pending the hear
ing of his third appeal to the supreme
court, has been filed with the clerk of
that tribunal. It is signed by William’s
two brothers, Fred and Henry, and his
brotherinlaw, Herman Freebert, who
signed the bond on each of the other
appeals, the first one being for $25,000.
Flege has never yet seen the inside of
the penitentiary, being held in the cus
tody of the sheriff while his attorneys
could hustle through the record neces
sary to lodge the appeal in the supreme
court.
NEBRASKA BOTTLERS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
Fremont, Neb., Jan. 31.—The Ne
braska Blotters' association convention
today voted for Hastings for the 1915
convention and elected the following
officers: President, George Koon, Hast
ings; vice president, Charles Marr,
Fremont; secretary-treasurer, K. M.
Silver, Superior; executive committee:
C. C. Porter, North Platte; J. E. Kee
nan. Kearney; W. Metz, Nebraska City.
The principal speakers Thursday
were H. G. Schranek, Milwaukee; W. A.
Brown, Kansas City, and W. H. Young,
Fremont. _ _ _
MISSOURIANS MAY
SUE, COURT HOLDS
Kansas City. Mo., Jan. 31.—Injunc
tions against John T. Barker, attorney
general of Missouri preventing him
from proceeding with suits to recover
$24,000,000 excess freight and passenger
charges made by railroads while the
Missouri rate cases were in litigation,
were dissolved in an opinion by Judge
Smith McPherson, filed in the federal
court today.
The original Injunction brought by
railroads to prevent enforcement of
Missouri's two-cent passenger and
maximum freight rate laws also was
dismissed, In accordance with the re
cent decision of the United States su
preme court upholding the laws.
In addition, the c< art held the $10,
000 bond put up by each railroad in
1005 when the state rate laws were en
joined has no reference to those per
sons who have paid excess rates or pas
senger fares and they can recover
whatever is -due them.
"The injunction bond,” declared
Judge McPherson, "does not limit any
person as to his claim for recovery of
overcharges.”
Judge McPherson appointed Wash
Adams, an attorey of this city as a
master to adjudicate all claims brought
in tlie federal court for excess charges,
declaring, however, that claimants
might sue for recovery of overcharges
In any court they chose—state or na
tional.
The court declared it would retain
jurisdiction over only such claims as
might be filed before the master for
adjudication.
Attorney vleneral Barker dad opposed
the court's right to appoint a master.
Ho contended that, under the decree ot
the higher court, Judge McPherson's
only duty lay in dismissing the cases
"without prejudice” taking no cogni
zance of how the excess charges were
collected.
COUNTERFEITING PLANT
FOUND ^PENITENTIARY
Joliet, 111 . Jan. 31.—Five convicts whe
have been making counterfeit 5-cent
pieces in the machine shop in the
prison here, were detected today. The
nickels were passed in the prison store.
The leaders were F. Collins, a tinsmith,
and Andrew Schock. a machinist, both
sentenced from Chicago last August for
robbery.
KANSAS PEACH TREES
ARE BLOSSOMING OUT
Topeka. Kan., Jan. 30.—Zero weather
means no peach crop in Kansas this
year. Prolonged warm weather now
and zero temperatures later mean no
apple crop.
This statement was made today by
Walter Welhouse. secretary of the
Kansas Horticultural society. The
peach buds have reached a stage of
development where they cannot with
stand cold. In sonn localities peach
• trace a. ra rcyortfcij lit 1 - -ill.
YOUNG MURDERER IS
PAROLED TO A1 NO
STATE UNI\ SITY
Governor Thinks Young Men
Only Intended to Frighten
Cherry County Rancher.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 30.—Kenneth
Murphy, one of the quartet of Cherry
county cowboys who hanged Charles
Sellers, of Cody, because he insisted on
annoying Murphy’s sister with his at
tentions, has been released by Govern
or Morehead as a trusty, in order that
the boy may attend the State univer
sity. Murphy has served two years
and three months in the state’s prison.
For the last year he has been taking
a correspondence course in th.e uni
versity, and already has several cred
its e. ned. J. M. Rosebrough, a pro
fessor of music, stands sponsor for
Murphy.
In a written statement the governor
says that h,e was urged to this course
by the belief that it was not the in
tension of the cowboys to hang Sellers,
but merely to scare him badly enough
to force him to leave the girl alone.
Murphy took no part in the hanging,
being an onlooker and companion of
the night riders. The governor says
that none of the boys ought to have
had a heavier sentence than man
slaughter. and this would entitle
Murphy to a parole at this time. Judge
westover, who tried the case, recom
mended an unconditional pardon for
th,e boy, who is but a little over 20
years of age.
Eunice Murphy, the sister whom
Sellers had threatened to kill if she
would not marry him, has been a resi
dent of Lincoln for months, and ha3
devoted every moment to bringing
about the release of the boys. She and
Kenneth are orphans. All four plead
ed guilty because they believed that
was the only way to save her from
prosecution. The Weed boys and
Harry Heath, a cousin, the other three,
are not affected by the order, but it is
believed they will soon be released
under similar conditions.
REMOVAL OPPONENTS ARE
SUSPICIOUS OF COMMISSION
Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 30.—But a single
opponent of university removal ap
peared before Regent Coupland's
specially selected commission of ad
visers from four other state univer
sities, In response to the invitation is
sued. To Insure some oppostion sev
eral leaders of the antl-removalists
were personally asked to appear. They
declined to come. Two reasons are
assigned. One Is that the antis believe
that when Regent Coupland, who is
the father of the removal agitation,
selected the men he knew what he was
doing and that it would be a compara
tive waste of time to argue the ques
tion before the commission. The other
is that as the invitations were confined
entirely to Lincoln opponents of re
moval for Lincoln men only to appear
would be seized upon by the removal
lsts as proof of their contention that
opposition is prompted purely by
selfish reasons.
The man who did appear was A. J.
Sawyer, who put forward several prop
ositions. One was that it would be a
hardship on the BO per cent of boys
who work their way through the uni
vagplty, as it would remove them from
opportunities of labor, and another was
that it would be an injustice to the
property interests that have been de
veloped around the university in the
way of accommodations for students.
HUSBAND LEFT HOME
BECAUSE BABY ANNOYED
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 30.—An unusual
charge of cruelty was that lodged by
Emma Pillar against her husband,
Fred, when her divorce case was tried
yesterday. Mrs. Pillar said that Pillar
left her because their baby annoyed
him. Later he came back and accom
panied her to Kansas City, where he
brought a woman to see her. He told
her that the woman would take the
baby and if she would consent they
would resume their marital relations.
He said he would give her just five
minutes in which to make up her
mind. She replied that he need not
wait that long, as her mind was al
ready made up, and that she would
keep the baby and let him go. Pillar
never came back. She was granted a
divorce.
“BACK TO BRYAN’S TOWN”
IN HOPE OF ASSISTANCE
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 30.—"We have
always been Bryan people and maybe
we will get another start In Bryan's
town,” said Carl Jensen, who, with his
wife, walked all the way from South
Omaha to Lincoln in search of work.
They left for Lincoln with only 73
cents in their pockets, and arrived here
with a nickel. They were cared for by
the charity organization. Both are
well along in years, and cheerful de
spite their hardships. They said they
were burned out by the drought in
western Nebraska, but Jensen got
some work in South Omaha. Losing his
Job there, they put their children in
the Juvenile home and started out for
Bryan’s town with a faith that a job
would certainly show up here.
CLIFTON GETS SENTENCE
TO STATE PENITENTIARY
Plattsmouth, Neb., Jan. 30.—George
E. Clifton. IS years old. was convicted
in district court here of attempted
blackmail and was given an indetermi
nate sentence of from one to three
years in the penitentiary. Clifton, a
week ago, was arrested on the charge
of writing a "black hand" letter to
Henry Knabe, a wealthy farmer, de
manding that J500 be left at a desig
nated place, and threatening vengeance
for failure to comply. He made no de
fense at the trial.
Clifton was once an inmate of the
state reformatory and was out on
parole.
WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST
OF FORMER SUPERIOR CASHIER
Superior, Neb.. Jan. 30.—County At,
tory Brubaker of Nuckolls county, has
tiled a warrunt for the arrest of Cashier
A. C. Felt of the closed First National
bank of Superior. Complaint was made
by ex-Governor Bailey of the Exchange
National bank of Atchison. Kan., for
obtaining money under false pretenses
by faking a chattel mortgage on W.
Eddy, living west of this city, and sell
ing said note to the bank named.
PASTOR SUES WIFE WHO
IS ADDICTED TO CIGARETS
Omaha, Neb.. Jan. 39.—Harold K. P.
Cornish, pastor of the Ralston Meth
odist church, has started suit for di
vorce, alleging that his wife is too fond
of the company of old men and that
she has learned to smoke cigarets.
According to Rev. Cornish, after his
wife left him last summer, she sang
and danced in cafes under the name oi
Miss Evelyn Lavelle. He informed the
district court that he was forced to
leave a former pastorate at Esmond. S.
I)., on account of her conduct. They
were married June 0, 1909, at Huron,
S. D
LINCOLNITES RESENT
OFFICIAL GUIDES ON
UNIVERSITY REMOVAL
Activity of Regent Copeland
With Committee Cited as
Violation of Agreement.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 29.—The commit
tee of educators whom the state farm
ers’ congress has employed to come to
Lincoln and look over the university
situation and report as to whether they
think the institution should be removed
to the state farm or enlarged on its
present site is at work. The commis
sion consists of President VanHise, of
the University of Wisconsin; President
Thompson, of the University of Ohio;
President Snyder, of the Michigan Ag
ricultural school, and George E. Vin
cent, of the University of Minnesota. It
organized by electing President Thomp
son as chairman. Yesterday afternoon
was spent in visiting the two sites, and
this morning an all-day hearing was
begun at which all persons interested
one way or the other were invited to
express their opinion. Regent Coup
land, of the State university, who be
gan the agitation for removal and who
secured the appointment of the com
mission by the farmers’ congress, was
the philosopher and guide of the mem
bers during their tours of the univer
sity campuses. Regent Whitmore, who
opposes removal, said in a speech the
other night that all members of the
board of regents had been put on their
honor not to take part in the contest.
Considerable resentment has been
stirred up over the fact that outsiders
have been called in to advise the voters,
who are to pass on the question next
fall, Just how they should vote.
. . A._
GOVERNOR DECLINES TO
PARDON JOHN HEEGEL
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 29.—Governor
Morehead has declined to issue a par
don to John Conrad Heegel, a young
married man of Lincoln, who inveigled
a University Place girl of 15 years into
a down town rooming house. Heegel
based his plea for clemency on the
ground that his aged parents needed
his help. His wife, who secured a
divorce from him and afterwards re
married, joined in the plea. Heegel was
sentenced to five years in 1911.
A pardon was also refused Henry A.
Rowe, of Lyons, serving a seven
year sentence for sustaining criminal
relations with the 15-year-old daugh
ter of his sister. Amasa Hall, of Lin
coln, serving an indeterminate sentence
for burglary, also failed to catch the
executive favor.
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INFERNAL MACHINE JOKE
GETS POLICE CHIEF’S GOAT
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 29.—Chief of
Police Jolly has just broken his silence
regrading a joke which was played on
him by railroad employes at Chadron,
assisted by a Norfolk girl. He admits
that the jokers had him frightened for
several months and that as a result his
wife left Norfolk for Milwaukee be
cause of nervousness.
On the 27th day of each month, Chief
Jolly received a leaf from a calendar
on which were drawn fanstastic repro
ductions of the blackhand signs. Dag
gers, black hands, and verses reading
“Make your peace with God,” and "Re
member the 27th,” came to him. At
one time he received an odd shaped
package. On it was written ”27.” When
the lid was opened, he found carbons,
resembling dynamite. There were clock
wheels and another figure ”27." A
string protruding from the box start
ed the wheels humming when it was
pulled. Jolly was about to take the
machine into a corn field when he
changed his mind and took it to the
office of Gen. Supt. S. M. Braden,
where he discovered the Joke.
FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE
FINE PICKING FOR MANY
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 29.—The office ot
Fire Commissioner Ridgell is In the
limelight on account of charges made
by a Lincoln democratic paper that the
office had been run extravagantly and
that Miss Mamie Muldoon. clerk to the
commissioner, had been paid extra time
for a book prepared by her at the ex
pense of the state for which the sta*e
paid in addition $225 for its use.
It was charged that Fire Commis
sioner Ridgell had, in addition to his
regular salary of $2,000, run up a bill
for expenses in traveling amounting to
$652. Mr. Requartte. a deputy, drew
$530 for expenses. In seven months
Paul Thompson, another deputy, drew
$700 salary and $338 for expenses. In
addition to these extra amounts $800
was paid out for mileage books. One
item in the expense of the office was
$25.for meal tickets at a Lincoln cafe.
COMMISSION MEN MUST
SECURE STATE LICENSES
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 29.—The fact that
out of the 145 commission merchants
doing business in the state, but 25 have
taken out licenses and paid $10 there
for, under the provisions of the law re
cently enacted, has stirred Food Com
missioner Harman to action. He an
nounced today that prosecutions would
be at once started against each of the
delinquents. The law requires all com
mission men who handle farm produce
to take out licenses and also to fur
nish $2,000 bonds in order to indemnify
persons who ship goods to them on'con
signment. The law was enacted at tile
behest of farmer, membes who claimed
that producers were being bilked by a
certain class of commission men, w ho
made inadequate returns or none at all.
leaving the shipper no redress.
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BOARD MEMBER BALKS
ON KEARNEY EGG ACCOUNT
Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 29.—Dr. J. Lee
Sutherland of Grand Island has filed
complaint with the state board of con
trol against the management of the
Kearney hospital for tubereulars. Dr.
Sutherland says that Mrs. Nellie Def
fenbaugh. the supeintendent. was real
ly appointed by her brother, Dr. E. A.
Carr of Lincoln, one of the secretaries
of the state board of health. What he
really objects to is that too many eggs
are’being used at the hospital. He
says that he has gone through the bills
and finds that during the month of No
vember 30,000 eggs were bought by the
institution. This would give 340 eggs
a day. or 110 eggs each meal, which, he
comments, is some eggs and some eat
ing.
DISTRICT JUDGE HOLDS
McKELVIE IS INELIGIBLE
Lincoln. Neb.. Jan. 28.—Judge Stew
art, of the district court, today declared
Lieutenant Governor McKelvie ineli
gible as a candidate for the republican
nomination for governor. The stale
constitution provides that no executive
official is eligible for any other state
office during the period for which he
was elected.
The court held that the status of the
candidate at the time of election and
not at the time of assuming office
governs, as held three times by the
supreme court. McKelvie will appeal. ,
THINKS NEWSPAPERS
SHOULD DECLINE TO
ACCEPT FAKIRS’ ADS
Federal Judge Munger Ex
presses Hope That Laws Will
Soon Reach Publishers,
Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 28.—Newspapers
that publish advertisements of clair
voyants received a raking from Federal
Judge Munger today when he sen
tenced to four months In jail Clar
ence W. Hester, an Omaha man con
victed of using the mails to defraud.
The judge said that he hoped the time
would come when the law would reach
out and nail the newspaper publish
ers who aid, by selling the use of their
columns, in the bilking of the inno
cent. District Attorney Howell said
that the newspapers could save the
government thousands of dollars a
year if they would refuse to receive
advertisements from fakers.
Hester is 34 years of age, and has a
wife and two small children. He was
charged with having defrauded C. S.
Merriam, of Long Fine, Neb., a girl
from Ohio, and a man from Texas.
He advertised in the newspapers of
the country that for five 2-cent stamps
he would answer three questions by
the use of his power to see into the
future and his acquaintance with the
occult deities. To those who answered
he sent follow-up letters intended to
draw more money from them, his lit
erature painting him as a wonderful
seer. He was unable, however, to for
see that he was destined to get into
prison. The Texas man asked the
Omaha seer to tell him how long he
would remain in Big Springs.
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FEDERAL JURY PROBES
NATIONAL BANK FAILURES
Linocln, Neb., Jan. 28.—A federal
grand jury began yesterday afternoon
an investigation of the failures of the
national banks at Superior and Sutton,
which closed their doors within the
last six months. A large number of
witnesses, including several officers of
each of the failed banks, has been sub
poenaed. The government has a mass
of documentary evidence tending to
show unusual practices in these insti
tutions, and it is understood expects
to secure several indictments.
The failure at Sutton is believed to
be a bad one, but the probe into the
Superior bank has not proceeded far
enough to indicate the extent of the
failure.
ALDRICH ASKS MOREHEAD
TO CORRECT PRISON RECORD
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 28.—Former
Governor Aldrich has asked his suc
cessor, Governor Morehead, to please
do something that he forgot while
he was chief executive of the state. He
wants the governor to deduct eight
months from the time that Willis Al
mack should serve in the state peni
tentiary. Almack, Charles Pumphrey
and Basil Mullen were sent up from
Omaha for murdering Ham Pak, a
Chinaman. Pumphrcy’s sentence was
reduced to seven years by Governor
Shallenberger and Governor Aldrcih
cut those of the other two men to 10
years each. Mr. Aldrich says that he
forgot to deduct from Almack’s sen
tence the eight months he spent in
the county jail, and cs this was done
in the case of the others, he asks that
Almack also be favored.
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SENATOR ALLEN WILL REFEREE
MADISON POSTOFFICE PRIMARY
Madison, Neb., Jan. 28.—Congress
man Dan V. Stephens has requested
former Senator W. V. Allen to form
a committee to take charge of the
postoffice situation here and to hold a
primary election for the purpose of
recommending a candidate for post
master at Madison. The rules pre
scribed are substantially the same as
heretofore promulgated by him.
Out of a number of names to be
furnished by the candidates, a com
mittee of seven representative demo
crats will be organized and wi’.i have
the full management and control of
the election.
The known candidates are Fred H.
Davis, mayor of Madison; A. K. Don
ovan, editor of the Star-Mail; William
Bates, ex-county judge; W. S. Tan
nery, police judge, and H. C. Haskins.
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JOCKEYING WITH PLANS
MAY AFFECT CONTRACT
Lincoln Neb., Jan. 28.—Land Com
missioner Beckmann has refused to
give his assent to the payment of a
final claim of $10,000 to the Assenma
cher company, of Lincoln, which built
the new agricultural hall on the state
fair grounds. The first bids received
showed that the lowest bidder wanted
$128,000, whereas the state appropria
tion was but $100,000. Members of the
governing board changed the contract
by cutting out the heavy steel and the
structure was erected. Mr. Beckmann
based his opposition on the ground
that other contractors ought to have
had a chance to bid on the work after
the changes had been made. It was
explained that there was not time for
a readvertisement. The contractor was
ordered paid finally.
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CONVICTS’ OPPORTUNITIES
WILL DETERMINE LOCATION
Lincoln, Nob.. Jan. 28.—The state
board of control announces that it is
ready to receive propositions from
towns desiring to secure the location of
the $150,000 reformatory that the state
legislature has authorized built. Tin
board will accept donations of land
and manufacturing plants, but the de
termining factor will be the availabil
ity of the town for the working of con
victs and that the location will he
picked in the interests of the state and
not based on the best bid. A half dozen
towns have already indicated a desire
to enter the competition.
PINDELL AND DENISON
FINALLY GET PLACES
Washington, Jan. 27—The nomina
tions of Henry M. Findell, of Peoria.
111., to be ambassador to Russia, and
Winfred Denison, of Portland, Me to
be member of the Philippine commis
sion and secretary of the interior of
the Philippines, were confirmed by the
Senate today.
COLONEL ROOSEVELT TO
STUMP STATE OF ILLINOIS
Springfield, 111., Jan. 27.—At a
“round up” of members of the pro
gressive party of this congressional
district today, Raymond Robins, of
Chicago, chairman of the state central
committee, said Theodore Roosevelt
some time ago authorize! him to an
nounce bis unalterable opposition to
any amalgamation with the republic
ans. He said Roosevelt would make
three speeches in Illinois in the coming
campaign.