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PROMOTER HAS
APEALED CASE
Say* He Wa* Railroaded Be
cause Public Demanded
Some One Pay Penalty
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. (Special)—
H. W. Kenyon’s appeal irom a sen
tence of one to seven years in prison
has been arguc-d ar,d submitted to the
supreme court today. Kenyon came
from Chicago a few years ago to
organize the Bakers’ Fire and Bank
ers’ automobile insurance companies,
and is accused of having taken 1600
shares of stock owned by Otto H.
Bruckman, a Cuming county farmer,
and used them as collateral to a
$50,000 note that he signed at a local
bank. He denies having any know
ledge of such use of the stock and
says he signed only as surety for C.
E. Maixner, the secretary of the com
pany, now serving time in prison.
Kenyon’s attorney says that he was
tried at a time when the public mind
was Inflamed over disclosures of what
happened to companies in which stock
by the million to farmers, and that he
was a victim of the demand that
somebody be sacrificed.
MUST PAY RENTAL
ON 8CHOOL LAND8
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. * (Special)—
Notices are being sent out from the
land commissioner's office to all
school land leaseholders notifying
them that delinquent payments must
be in his hands by January 1st. The
law requires this ninety day notice.
The land commissioner has delay
ed giving the notice because other
wise it would have caused hardship
on many holders of leases. In the
beet sugar and potato growing sec
tions the lessees were without any
funds upon which to draw, but they
are now selling their crops, which
are abundant and well-priced.
MAYOR PARDONS GIRL
WHO IS TO WED
Omaha, Neb., Oct. '<—Rose White,
22 years old, who was given a day’s
stay of execution on her sentence of
two days for speeding by Municipal
Judge Dineen to enable her to spend
a day with her sweetheart, who
came from Los Angeles to visit her,
has filed notice in the county court
of her Intention to obtain a mar
riage license.
George h. Berger, whom Miss
White was permitted to visit before
starting to serve her jail sentence,
which was cut short by a mayor’s
pardtn, and Miss White are to be
married October 14.
NORFOLK BREEDER OWNS
WORLD’S CHAMP HOG.
Norfolk, Nebr. Oct. (Special)—
Telegrams received here are to the
effect that Nebraska owns the world's
gfand champion Duroo Jersey Hog.
This honeor was won at the National
Swine Shodr,, at Peoria, 111. by W. H.
Rasmussen of Norfolk.
WANT NORBECK
FOR GOVERNOR
Movement On to Have Him
Resign From U. S. Senate
To Make Race
Huron, S. D., Oct. .—There seems
to be no further question about the
report that several well known re
publicans of the state want Peter
Norbeck to resign his seat In the
United States senate to become a
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for governor of South Dakota
It was plainly evident here at the
state .republican meeting and at
Informal sessions that strong ef
forts were being put forth to In
fluence the Junior senator to make
such a move.
yA. W. Ewert of Pierre, treasurer
£>t the rural credits board and well
/known banker, worked industriously
trying to arouse Interest In the re
quest that Senator Norbeck resign
and become a candidate for gover
nor. He communicated his wishes
to several groups, saying that he
believed Norbeck might be induced
to make the move provided he feltV
that there was a widespread demand
for such action.
It is said that Norbeck had told
one state official that he would
rather be governor of South Dakota
and compete tbe road and park
program, as well as carry out some
of his original plans, than remain in
Washington.
Current reports here are that Nor
beck was in Huron the night before
the republican meeting and that W.
H. King of Mitchell, former republi
can state chairman, and Andrew
Marviok of the highway commission,
also were here.
Senator Norbeck, it is indicated,
has not expressed any groat enthus
iasm over the resignation idea but
has admitted that the proposition
has been put before him.
8AY8 GYPSY WOMAN
ROBBED OIL STATION
Omaha, Neb., Oct. -Clad in a
gorgeous costume, a gypsy woman,
used a pistol to hold at bay Peter
Edgar, 20 years old, attendant at an
oil station while she robbed the sta
tion’s cash register of $10, accord
ing to Edgar’s report to the police.
The woman fled in an automobile.
Shortly afterward police caught
two families of gypsies in a suburb,
traveling in two automobiles at a
high rate of speed. Edgar said he
recognized a woman in one of the
cars as the one who committed the
robbery.
MOTHER DETERMINED TO
CLAIM HER CHILD
IJncoln, Neb., Oct. (Special)—
Defeated in the district court of
Douglas county in an effort to regain
I possession of her 12 year old daughter
I Doris, Mrs. Iva Oannoway has appeal
! ed to the supreme court for aid. She
gave the girl to Mrs. Mary Kerrigan
to adopt three years ago, and claimed
that the girl is not properly reared
and is being prepared for the movie
stage because of peculiar talents she
possesses. Mrs. Kerrigan came
right back and said thai the mother
had not paid much attention to the
child until she heard about her
musical talents; that the mother leads
a transitory life, has been married
four times and divorced three times,
and figured in 1918 in a sensational
escapade at Norfolk, when an ad
mirer shot her. The court found Mrs.
Kerrigan was the proper person to
have the child’s^ custody.
GRAIN DEALERS DEMAND
ACTION BY CONGRESS
Des Moines, la., Oct. •—Doing
away with the United States trad*
commission repeal of the Capper
Tincher act regulating grain ex
changes and cancellation of the feder
al tax imposed on grain transactions
were demands made of congress U
resolutions adopted at the closing
session of the convention of the Grain
Dealers’ National association hern
Wednesday. Removal of the federal
tax on telephone and telegraph
charges and reduced freight rates
when such action is possible without
injuring the roads or impairing their
service also was recommended.
EASTERN BANKERS HAVE
CONFIDENCE IN WEST
Des Moines, la., Oct. * —Statements
of "calamity howlers” that the middle
western farmers are "broke” are not
being given serious thought by eas
tern bankers and business men, John
H. Hogan, president of the Des
Moines National bank, declared here
following his return-from the Ameri-/
can Bankers’ asociation convention aF
Atlantic City. “Western bankers ap’d
busless men have entire confindeAce
in the financial stability and the vast
productive resources of Iowa and the
other states in the corn belt,” Hegon
said. "It was conceded by all eas
tern bankers that Iowa ljas ‘come
back’ and that the outlook for the
present and the future is/good.”
PUT ON CAMPAIGN /
TO SELL BRtDGE BONDS.
Yankton. S. D., 0(4. -The banks
of Yankton have s> ascribed for Mer
idian Highway bridge bonds to their
full loan limit of about $60,000, and
an Intensive campaign for the sale of
the remainder of $200,000 in bonds
will be undertaken early week after
next, said President D. B. Guerney
of the bridge company.
The ppint has practically been
reached/where the sale of the bond
issue 4-ill complete the bridge, Mr.
Gurivfey said, with the company’s
book's now showing $709,000 collected
up- to date. This month's payment
o£ $76,000 on the steel for the bridge
is the largest remaining, andi later
smaller payments will complete the
Job. There are certain collections
continuing on stock already sub
scribed and subscriptions continue.
The $160,000 remaining unsold bon
The $160,000 remaining unsold
bonds will be offered in a campaign
of three days to a week on the basis
that the $200,000 worth necessary to
complete the bridge must be sub
scribed for before any of the sub
scriptions will be binding, Mr. Gur
ney said. Exact plans for the cam
paign have not been completed, he
said, but it will probably be carried
on by ward committees or by com
mittees sent out bythe various banks.
The banks have agreed to hold the
$60,000 they purchased, and not resell
them until the $200,000 is sold.
CURIOUS ACTION OF
DOGS IS INVESTIGATED.
Council Bluffs, la., Oct. ~ -(Spe
cial)—Sheriff Percy Lanson and his
deputies are trying to unravel a pos
sible mystery of the recent flood in
this city.
For three days and night two dogs,
an Alrdale and a mongrel, have kept
constant vigil near the street car line
to the Iowa school for the deaf, at a
spot which at one time was covered
with water to a depth of several feet
and now covered with mud to a
depth of about two feet
People passing the place reported
the matter to the sheriff and yester
day he and his deputies visited the
place. They found a pair of women’s
tan shoes near the spot where the
dogs have so long remained and
which'they refuse to leave. At times
the dogs set up long, loud wails and
wherever anyone approaches they
express delight but no one can induce
them to leave. At times they will ac
company visitors for a short distance,
always returning to the spot and
resuming their wails as if for some
lost one.
The finding of the shoes has led
to the theory that some woman, try
ing to escape from the storm and
flood, removed them and It is also
thought possible the owner may have
become exhausted and that the mud
was swept over and conceals her
body. Members from the sheriffs
office and also city police have ex
amined the ground closely for a long
distance from where the dogs have
taken up their stand without finding
any further trace of evidence of any
one having been there.
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
WITH HIS OWN GUN
Lead, S. D., Oct. -=_Vbe Aladalo,
one time shift boss of the Homestake
Mining Co. shot himself Tuesday
while cleaning a shotgun at his home.
The shot entered the left brest above
the heart, death coming Instantly.
The magazine of the gun was loaded
and It is beleived that he allowed the
stock to hit against the floor, dis
charging the weapon. He was pre
paring to go on a chicken hunt.
FARM TRAGEDY
HAS ATTENTION
Killing Near Milford, Neb.,
Not Made Clear to
Authorities
Milford, Neb., Oct. ' ^Special)—
Antone Lana, 35 years old, was shot
and killed on the farm of Adolph
Vajgrt, six miles southeast of here
Monday while scuffling with Vajgrt’s
13 year old daughter who in her
testimony to the coroner’s Jury to
day said Lana had forced her into
improper relations, according to
County Attorney L. H. McKillep of
Seward. The dead man was a farm
hand.
Officials were not notified of the
shooting until late Monday afternoon
when Dr. Alexander Conrad, sum
moned to the farm home by Vajgrt.
The body, covered with straw was
found in a shed near the house, ac
cording to the county attorney.
In her story to the coroner’s jury,
Miss Vajgrt said that the fatal
wounds wore inflicted while; a revol
ver was in Lana’s hands. She told
the jury that she went to the shed
where he slept. About f o’clock Mon
day morniig to inquire if he was go
ing to leave. She says he made pre
parations to take his departure and
when he was questioned, began
shooting, whereupon she grabbed the
weapon. In the scuffle which fol
lowed, Lana kept his finger on tlhe
trigger and fired several shots, the
•girl’s testimony shows.
OPERATOR GAVE
WRONGNUMBER
But Court Holds Error is
Not Ground For
Damage Suit
Fremont, Neb., Oct. 'f—Because a
telephone operator gives an incorrect
number is no cause for a damage
suit, County Judge Wintersteen held
here in the suit brought by Paul
Colson against the William M. Stone
Insurance agency for damages to the
amount of commissions which the
latter company made by a mistake by
a telephone operator. IT was alleged
that the operator In conecting an
Oakland bank, which wanted some
insurance for an Oakland company,
mistook the number 215 for 251. The
former is Colson’s number while the
latter is that of the Stone agency.
BUILDING MATERIAL
MOVEMENT IS HEAVY.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. '.—Railroads
moved more tons of building mat
erials and other supplies last month
than they ever had in any one month
in their history according to a re
port made public here by the Central
Western Shippers association.
The railroads, the report also
stated moved 1,092,000 cars of freight
during the first week of October,
which was 22,000 cars more than
had ever been moved in a single
week, and still had 66,000 empty cars.
According to the association’s re
port there is no such thing at this
time as a car shortage. Elimination
of the car shortage, was brought a
bout by the co-opetntlon of the car
riers, public and shippers, in the last
year, it was said. The shippers’ as
sociation which made public the re
port is composed of organizations in
the following states: South Dakota
Nebraska, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and
part of Montana and Council Bluffs
la. A meeting of the association will
be held at Pocatello, Idaho, the first
week in December.
FORMER DRY AGENT
PL*CFD UNDisR ARRk£ST
OmiOif, ?*eb., Oct. —Earl C.
Hanintf, a federal prohibition agent,
T’lio was suspended Monday, was ar
rested Tuesday on a farm seven miles
west of here on a charge of con
spiracy to violate the federal promoi
tion laws. Frank Close, who prohibi
tion officers said, was attending three
stills which were in operation at the
farm house, also was arrested as
was Sebastino Vinciquerra. Close,
was the only man in the house when
the officers arrived, and they were
forced to wait an hour for the two
other men. About C5 gallons of liquor
were confiscated. Vincinquerra, of
ficers declared, attempted to draw
his revolver, but was knocked un
conscious with the butt of one of the
officers revolvers. All are held under
|3,000 bond.
ON TRAIL OF YEGGS
WHO TRIED TO ROB BANK.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. \ (Special)—
A iwarm of detectives has been let
loose by the insurance companies
and bankers’ association on the
trail of the five yeggs who tried to
loot a bank at Bameston last Sat
urday morning, and were forced to
abandon it because of the tear gas
bomb placed In the safe to pro
tect It and which was discharged
by the explosion. State Sheriff
Carroll says a trail has been dis
covered that he thinks will lead to
the capture of the gang, which is
suspected of systematically robbing
country banks.
CORN HUSKING IS
ALREADY WELL STARTED
Plalnview, Neb., Oct- (Special)
—A tour through northeast Nebraska
shows that In almost every Instance
the corn is thoroughly ripe, even the
very latest which it was feared would
be caught by the frost before matur
ity. and already the farmers are be
ginning to husk what they say is one
of the largest yields they have had
for several years.
ORGANIZE CLUB
FOR COOLIDGE
Nebraskans Divided Be
tween President and Sen
ator From California
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. ““—(Special.)—
Republican leaders are of the opinion
that but two names will be entered
in the Nebraska presidential primary
those of President Ooolidge and Sen
ator Hiram Johnson. Ooolidge clubs
are being organized in trie state, with
the parent club already In operation
at Fremont. The reports it lias re
ceived indicate a friendly feelirg but
a watchful waiting attitude towards
the president. Col. John G. Maher is
in charge of the Johnson organiza
tion. Johnson won so handily throe
years ago that bis managers think
they can repeat without much
trouble, but the opponents of tire
senator think he is much weaker from
a variety of causes.
In democratic circles interest Is
divided between the movement in
augurated by Congressman Shalien
berger to get a delegation for Henry
Ford and thu work being done to
secure & delegation '.hat will bo
friendly to Governor Bryan as a
presidential candidate. The governor
is' expected to pass the gubernatorial
mantle over to either W. II. Thomp
son of Grand Island or J. N. Norton of
Polk, and enter the senatorial pri
mary. He is suspected of a desire to
erect a presidential lighting rod and
wants friends on Ills homo state dele
gation to the better influencing of the
direction of the current.
COLUMBUS SENDS ONE
GIRL CADET TO FRISCO
Columbus, Neb., Oct. **' -(Special)
—Miss Lydia Ackerman, one of the
20 young women members of the
Hastings cadet corps has been elect
ed as “Miss Columbus” by the local
Post of the American Legion which
voted $76 toward defraying her ex
penses to advertise the local post at
the national convention at San Fran
cisco.
Columbus Is the smallest of Ne
braska cities to have a legion post to
select one of the 20 girls of the cadet
corps as their representative. Paying
the expenses of the Hastings girls
by having 20 different posts to adopt
one enables the Nebraska delegates
to take a special feature to the con
vention with them. Peter Phillips
and Henry J. Kotlar, Columbus are
the two local delegates to the meeting.
THEIR WEDDING OCCURRED
2,500 FEET ip. THE AIR ,
Alliance, Neb., Oct. -A wedding
which was strictly private took place
here Saturday afternoon when Miss
Naoma Moxon, daughter of an Al
liance jeweler, and YV. C. “Billy”
Brooks, stunt aviator of the Alliance
Aviation Co., were married 2,500
600 feet in the air. Judgo Tasli shout
ed the marriage service to he heard
by the parties of the first and sec
ond part above the roar of the air
plane engine as they circled above
the streets of the city.
Brooks is the aviator who was ar
rested in Omaha some time ago when
he performed daring stunts at low
altitude over the business district.
Later, accompanied by U. R. Zeidi
ger, his associate at Alliance, he flew
Into Yellowstone park and made a
forced landing In the park lake.
NEW TRAIN SERVICE
MEETS WITH FAVOR
Plainview, Neb., Oct. —(Special.)
—The new passenger train schedule
which went into effect on the North
western railroad the first of the week
has been received with much favor In
northeast Nebraska as the connec
tions are such that a great deal of
mail is received in the morning which
otherwise would not arrive until late
In the afternoon.
NEBRASKA COMPANY TO
LIGHT TOWN OF PIERCE
J Pierce, Neb., Oct. ' (Special)—
The Nebraska Gas ana Electric com
pany of Norfolk, has purchased the
electric lighting plant of the Pierce
Milling company. In a short time a
line will be built from Norfolk to
Pierce. This company Is now fur
nishing light for Stanton. Battle
Creek, Pierce and other towns.
ACCEPTS POSITION IN
REINBECK, IA., BANKS.
Plainview, Neb., Oct. (Special)
—Miss Fern Fisher of this place,
who formerly held a position in the
Security State bank here, has ac
cepted a position as assistant cash
ier In the First Savings bank of
Reinbeck, Iowa.
WOMEN'S DISTRICT MEET
GOES TO CLEARWATER.
Norfolk. Neb., Oct. ' (Special)—
Mrs. Estalla Cugar, of Ewing, Nebr.,
was elected president of the sixth
district womens relief corps at the
twelfth annual convention held here.
Clearwater gets next years ewen
tion.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOY
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
Grand Island, Neb, Oct -Des
mond Bright, IS years olu, Grand
Island school student and football
j player, accidentally killed himself
: with a rifle while out hunting with
p. party of his school mates.
FIND INFANT HIDDEN
NEAR BABY FOLD
Dubuque, la., Oct. An Intense
search was started by the police to
day for the mother of an Infant which
was left under a bush near the Hill
Crest baby fold.
The child's cries attracted the at
tention of a nurse.
The baby fold authorities think the
child ws deserted by a woman who
attempted to turn it over to them a
few days ago. Her 'hard luck”
story was scouted at that time.
SUPREME COURT
HAS BIG GRIST
Sessions Beginning Next
Week to Hear Walter
Simmons’ Appeal
IJncolon, Neb., Oct. ' (Special)—
Thirty-five cases are down for arfu
ment before trie Nebraska supreme
court the week of October 15. One
is the case of the state against Wal
ter Simmons, convicted in Boyd
county of murdering a compaion
with whom ihe had started on an
death. It is claimed that newly dis
story of Simmons that the man was
Idlve when they parted.
The authority of the state of Ne
braska to reserve minerals in the
state land) sold under contracts i»
attacked in a suit of a school land
lease holder in the case of th( suit,
of the state ex rel Jefoorek against
McKelvie. The plantlff contends
that he holds a contract made with*
the state prior to the passage of a.
special clause in the statutes reserv
ing all mineral rights to the state
The list of cases follows:
Monday, October 15—State ex ret
Arterburn vs. Cruise, Chase; Col
burn vs. Davis, Dir. Gen., Douglas;
Johnson vs. Union P. R. Co., Doug
las; Thompson vs. Evangelical Hos
pital Assn., Lancaster; Wallich vs
Sandlovitch, Lancaster; Crooks vs,
State, Lancaster.
Tuesday, October 16—Weidman vs
Barnes, Antelope; Hughes vs. Lang
don. Cass; Harris vs. City of Genoa,
Nance; Sower vs. Wells, Merrick;
Wriglht vs. Negus. Dodge; Crocker
vs. Raitt, Dodge.
Wednesday, October 17—Beem vs
Davis, Cherry; Peckham, Pawnee;
Quesner vs. Stratmann, Cuming;
Peterson & Howe vs. Davis, agent.
Rock; Mudge vs. Mudge, Douglas;
Cardon vs. McGuirk, Dixon.
Thursday, October 18—Household
er vs. Nispel, Webster; Central Ne
braska Millwork Co. vs. Olson &
Johnson Co., Adams; Kivet vs. Kivet,
Webster; Edgington vs. Howland,
Douglas; Welter vs. State, Johnson;
Powell vs. State, Scotts Bluff.
Friday, October 19—State ex rel
Jehcaek vs. McKelvie, original; A. P,
Tukey & Son vs. Wyland, Douglas;
Simmons vs. State, Boyd; Century
Oil Co. vs. Department of agricul
ture, Douglas; Kepler vs. Chicago,
St. P., M. & O. R. Co., Washington.
RUSE FAILS TO
CONCEAL GUILT
Driver of Car That Hit Taxi
“Staged” Accident
to No Avail
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. ~ (Special)—
The fact that telephone poles are
not covered with auto paint was re
sponsible for tihe arrest of Henry
Branch, jr., on a charge of hitting a
taxicab with his father's big car and
then running away. In order to con
vince his father that he had met witht
an accident and also to throw the
police off his trail, he took his ma
chine out to the suburbs, rammed it.
twice against a telephone pole and.
then called the garageman for help.
A suspicious detective found black
paint on the Branch bumpers, and
they corresponded with marks on
the taxicab where it had been hit.
The Branch car was loaded with un
iversity students, and they claim
they did not know they had damaged
the other car. They went on to a.
dance, but later returned and found,
the wrecked cab. Then they con
ceived the idea of bumping the tele
phone pole in order to make up are
alibi.
ROADS WITHDRAW REQUEST
FOR INCREASED WEIGHT.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. (Special)—
The Nebraska railroads nave joined
in withdrawing a request for an in
crease of 6,000 pounds for the mini
mum car weights for loading pota
toes. The present schedule allow*
carload rates to apply when 24,000
pounds are on board, during the early
shipping weeks and 30,000 the re
mainder of tihe year. So many pro
tests were made by shippers against
any increase during the first weeks,
when potatoes are tender and easily
bruised and the state commission was
arranging for hearings at Kearney,
Scottsbluff and CrawforJ, that the*
roads declined the gauge of battle.
COLONEL MAJORS IS
GIVEN CIEAR BILL.
Fremont, Neb., Oct. ^Special)—
Members of the state normal board*
In session here today, passed reso
lutions submitted by Dan Morris, of
Kearney exonerateing Col. T. J. Ma
jors of Peru, of charges filed witH
Governor Bryan in connection with*
application for his removal. The
board holds that there is no grouncL
for complaint, and that the charge*
are unwarranted. Confidence is ex
pressed in his integrity and appre
ciation of his services to the state.
Members entered protest against are
attack such as has been made against
teh board president. Leaders of the?
attack are accused of being actuated
by personal and political motives.
Norris Refuses To
Again Be Candidate
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. ' (Special)
In a letter to Colonel Maher, manager*
of the Johnson Presidentail candi
dacy, Senator Norris, has reiterated
his absolute refusal to again run for
the position he now holds. Great pre
ssure has been brought on him by
republicans who see in him the one
republican certain to defeat Go' *- -nor
Bryan for the senate.