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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1924)
MILITARY DRILL BEING OPPOSED Pacifist Students at Nebraska University Put Up For mal Protest Lincoln, Neb., Dec. (Special)— Pacifist students at the state uni versity are preparing to cuter a for mal protest against being forced to take drill at that Institution. This row' is almost nn annual one, and this time was started by I'anl Blancherd, field secretary of the league for In dustrial democracy, who spent some time campaigning for La Follette in the state. Blancherd has furnished the pro testing students with an opinion of the attorney general of Wisconsin that while the net of congress re quires land grant colleges to main tain instruction in military work It does not require that each student be required to take It If physically able to do so. APPEAL DOND IS COSTING TOO MUCH Lincoln, Nob, Dec. (Special)— Levi Keister, aged resident of Ash land, who figured In a sensational trial six or eight months ago, when his son tried to have a guardian ap pointed for him on the ground that he was lavishing his hard-earned for tune on a woman 30 years his Junior, was a central figure In su preme court this week, where he ap peared to ask that the appeal bond in the guardianship case be reduced from $55,000 to $3,000. His son succeeded in having a guardian named, hut this order was superseded when the old man took alt his securities, $51,500, to a surety company and had It sign his appeal bond. He says that the company is charging him $500 a year premium, and he wants the court to relieve him of Ibis expense by letting some trustee hold the securities, as the only claim being fought out is that if he lias them he will give them to the woman, who is now his wife. LA FOLLETTE LEADER BACK IN THE FOLD Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. Special)—C. A. Forcnsen, one of the La Follette leaders In the recent campaign, has formally recanted his connection with the third party, and declares in a letter to Frank A. Harrison, who managed Ihe La Follette campaign In this state, that hereafter he will use hts energies to assist progres sives In gaining control of the re publican party. Mr. Sorensen says that nearly halt the members of the republican party vote for the party ticket regardless of who named it, and says that this Is the explanation of why Norris who has fought Cooiidge ever since the latter became president, was elected at the same time ns was Cooiidge, so far as the Nebraska vote Is concerned. He says that the best strategy Is to organize to con trol the primaries and in that way take advantage of this inertia of party members. Sorensen says that in his opinion the third party movement would never have been successful in elect ing senators like Norris, Capper Howell and Brookhart, who owe their places to progressive control of the republican organization and primar ies. DECISION SOON IN CONTESTED WILL CASE Randolph, Neb., Dee. .—Decision In an Important case which was tried In county court at Kartlngton over which Judge Wilbur F. Bryant pre sided, and which has aroused a great deal of Interest in Cedar county be cause of large sums vequeathed to churches, will be rendered sometime this week, it Is believed. Judge Bry ant announced that he wished to read the testimony twice and consider the case carefully before giving the de cision. The case involved the question of the settlement of the estate of the late John Eason, a bachelor, of Ran dolph, who died in September In the Salter hospital at Norfolk, leaving a will bequeathing his property to sev eral beneficiaries among them the Methodist church of Randolph to which he bequeathed $1,500; the Ran dolph Catholic church, $1,000; the Catholic parochial school, $500, and several Individuals to whom he loft various sums of money. The suit to break the will was brought by Howard Houston, a nephew of Mr. Eason, living in Wisconsin, alleging that his uncle, who was 78 years old was In a state of senility and incap able of making a will. Mr. Eason made Dr. Q. A. Kerley, residuary legate and executor of the estate and the will was witnessed hj William Cain, a banker, and Dee Brenner, an undertaker, of Randolph Twenty-four witnesses were exam ined and the evidence produced brought out much conflicting testi mony, somo testifying that the old man was perfectly clear In mind and quite capable of taking care of his own affairs and others stating that he was incapable. OMAHA TO FIGHT SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC Omaha, Neb , Dec. -Health Com missioner Pinto has formally re quested City Attorney Van Dusea to draft an ordinance declaring a health emergency so that the council may appropriate $5,500 to cope with an outbreak of smallpox which ha? spread to various parts of the city. Two cases of the disease were re ported yesterday, making a total of more than 20 In the city. TAKE PIG CASE TO HIGH COURT Dakota County Men Dis agreed as to Ownership of Sow and Progeny I,incoln, Neb., Dec. ' (Special)—• George R. Rockwell and E. H. Paugh of Dakota county are in supreme court disputing over a legal point that would greatly Interest Ellis Parker Butler, author of "Pigs Is Pigs." Jesse Bliven was a tenant last year on the Paugh farm. He needed some money and borrowed $(>00 from Rock well. He gave back a mortgage on some stuff including four brood sows. Bliven had to give up and aband oned the place and Paugh took the bows and the 29 pigs that time had added to the Bty population of the farm, and sold them. Rockwell sued hini for conversion, the value of the property sold. He won below. Paugh and Bliven say that the 29 pigs were born after the mortgage was executed, and they deny that Rockwell has any claim upon them, for that reason. Paugh says that anyway he gave Bliven the money to buy the brood stock, and they were his even though Included in the mort* gage. HEIRS WIN IN NEBRASKA CASE High Court Awards Property To Children of the Late Barney Mahon ronrn, Neb., Dec. (Special)— The attorneys, C. A. Kingsbury and C. H. Hendrickson, for the Mahon heirs, have received word that the supreme court has reversed the de cision in favor of the heirs In a land case against A. L. White involving ICO acres of improved farm land near Waterbury In Dakota county, worth at least $20,000. This case was tried In the district court at Dakota City and decided against the heirs of Barney Mahon in tho spring of 1922. The attorneys for the heirs appealed to the supreme court and that court reversed the case, giving the land to tho Mahon heirs. Barney Mahon homesteaded this land in 1877. He died In August 1903, while living on the farm, leaving six minor children from 3 to 12 years old. Upon investigation by C. A. Kings bury and C. H. Hendrickson, attor neys for the heirs, of the title to the lands and court records, at Dakota City, It was decided to bring suit for the land, which was done In 1921. The <yiso involved intricate ques tions of law and in money value and other ways Is an unusual and im portant case. NELIGH MAN WANTS GAME W * 'IDEN JOB. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. (Special)— Former Representative W. W. Cole of Neligh has joined the ranks of those who want to take George Koster’s place as state game warden. Koster has held through several administra Uans, but half a dozen men are now after the position. Including W. J. O’Brien, who resigned ns state hatch cry superintendent because he re fused to take orders from Koster. Koster Is accused by members of the Izaak Walton league, organized for the preservation and protection of game and fish, of having told his hatchery men to ignore the league. Koster is also criticized for his use of part of tho appropriation for buy ing land containing lakes suitable for fishing resorts to add a trout hatch ery to the state plant at Benklemnn. Thej-e are no trout streams within a few hundred miles, and it is claimed the trout for the north Nebraska I streams should bo hatched in the Valentine plant, so many miles near er. MASONIC BODIES ARE TO MEET IN OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Dec. —More than 150 members of the Masonic frater nity in Nebraska will come here December 10 to attend the fifty eight annunl convocation of the grand chapter. Royal Arch Masons of Nebraska, and the fourty-fifth annual assembly of the grand council Royal and Select Masters, in the state. The convocation and assembly will be held in the Masonic Temple. All councils in the jurisdiction are expected to be represented at the .convocation and the assembly, ac cording to Frances F. White, grand recorder of the council and grand secretary of the chapter. A prelim inary session December 9, will be held by the council to confer degrees of royal and selcet masters. All mas ters, Mr. White announced, may re ceive the super-excellent master’s degree at this meeting. The “order of high priesthood" will be conferred in full form at a grand convention to be laid December 10. Following will be a banquet, which officers, past grand high priest, past deputy grand high priest, and the one representative from each chartered chapter, according to official rank, will be present at the December 10 sessions, Mr. White said. SISTERS ARE OPERATED ON FOR APPENDICITIS. Wlnside, Neb., Dec. . (Special)— Two daughters of Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Neely were operated on for appendi citis at a hospital in Wayne, last week, one on Monday and the other on Friday. Both are said to be doing nicely ARM IS BROKEN WHILF AT PLAY Wlnside, Neb., Dec. (Special)— While playing on a teeter-totter on the school grounds one day last week the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs Herman Frees fell and sustained a broken arm. STATE’S JURY LAW ATTACKED Attorneys for Convicted Omaha Man Say Women Should Be Eligible Lincoln, Neb., Dec. (Special.!— | Attorney for Steve Boras, Omaha : Greek, who emptied most of the I contents of a revolver into the per son of W. L. Tindell, who owed him $100 and wouldn’t pay, raised the question In supreme court Wednes day whether he had a fair trial because the Jury that tried him was taken entirely from the males of the county. His attorney said that the right to vote carries with it the right and obligation to do Jury service, and that no panel is prop erly drawn that does not Include women chosen In the same way as are men. He contended that the word "males” as used in the law defining who shall be called as Jurors was descriptive at the time It was passed of the electors of that day, and that it meant to base qualification on the fact of being allowed to vote. The state’s attorney said that there Is no relation whatever be tween the right to vote and the right or duty to serve as a juror, fhe power to deftine the qualifica tions of Jurors rests with the legis lature, and It having said “males" and not having amended the law since the 19th amendment has been In force, that stands as the law o 1 the state. GOVERNOR BRYAN TO NEW CAf*TOL FIRST Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. (Special.)— There will be no war between (lov ernor Bryan and the republican state officers over the former's de sire to be the first state officer Into the new capltol. A recent voyage through the law books resulted in the republican state officers being denuded of their arms. It was found that the old law that made the board they dominate boss of the statehouse had been repealed with out their knowing It four years ago, and that as the other law gives the governor control of all otherwise assigned property he Is boss of both of them. RAILWAY COMMISSION RE FUSES FARM BUREAU DEMAND Lincoln, Neb., Dec. (Special.)— The stain railway commission has d< nied the request of Secretary Steward of the Farm Bureau fed eration to include in the recent calf rate order a provision than any bovine animal weiging less than 425 pounds ahxll be considered a calf. The commission says that such a definition is no part of a traffic schedule, and that market rules and not the dictum of a commission should determine when an animal Is a cow or a calf. It also declined to modify the order by providing that-the charges for straight carloads of calves should never exceed that for cattle, ns illogical, and covering a situation that will never happen. It did, however, amend the order to permit the feeding in transit of calves and their handling on the same basis of rates and minimum weights as cattle, when that is done, SAYS SONINLAW DEMANDED A FARM Omaha, Neb., Dec. —Less than a year after his marriage, Joseph A. Kelly, a mining promoter of Du buque, la., asked a 160-acre farm of his fatherlnlaw, Frank H. Stander, Omaha, as the price of returning to the family circle after difficulties with his wife, according to asser tions Stander made in his petition answering Kelly's $50,000 suit for alienation of his wife’s affections. The farm the soninlaw wanted before he would consent to return to live with his estranged wife, Ber tha Standqr Kelly, was considered one of the best tracts In Nebraska, according to D. M. Murphy, counsel for Stnnder. Kelly filed the alienation suit af ter bis wife had sued him for sep arate maintenance. FORDYCE COMING TO FRONT IN IMPROVEMENTS Fordyce, Neb., Dec. -Several Improvements are being made here which will make Fordyce one of the progressive towns of northeast Ne braska, The community hall Is being re paired and painted, the old hospital is being converted into a modern banking building, the hotel has been sold and under the present man agement a first class place will be opened to the traveling public, and a 24-hour electric light service is being installed, the material already having arrived and the bonds hav ing been issued to make the project possible. EMERSON SOON WILL HAVE LIGHT SYSTEM Emerson, Neb., Dec. -Following a \ote of 3 to 1 In favor of install ing an electric system here, contract for furnishing the material for same has been given by the village board J'/:.Rihanek of ^nder. whose bid of $3,983 was the lowest len1t,r? cos< of the system, which Includes engineering fees and meters, will be approximately $7,000. Bonds for the electric transmission line and distribution system have ceen sold at an Interest rate of 3 tier cent. According to the contract the work Is to be completed by December 31. YOUNG RAILROADER 18 MISSING FROM HOME Falrbury, Neb., Dec. ' -j. N. Howard, 21 yearn old, employe of the Rock Inland shops here, han been missing since Friday morning. He told his wife he was going hunting, and after buying so!-= new hunting clothes, he left in ms Ford coupe. When he did not return by Sat urday night, a pom of 2$ persons conducted a search for him. not could not locate him. Bealdes his wife, Howard has a year old baby. CHARGE WOMAN WITH MURDER Still Denies Having Part in Death of Mrs. Frank Bruner Broken Bow, Neb., Dec. (I. N. S.) •—The preliminary hearing of Mrs. Arvesta Northy, 47 years old, accused by Frank Bruner, her acknowledged soul mate, of giving him the bichlor ide of merclury tablets with which he poisoned his wife, will probably be held Wednesday, county officials announced. Bruner waived preliminary hear ing and will be bound over to the district court on a charge of first degree murder. In a statement today he reiterated his story of the poison lng of his wife through tablets placed in her tea and repeated his accusa tion that Mrs. Northy had given him the poison. Mrs. Northy, separated from her husband who is 30 years her senior, sioutiy denied any part in the pois oning despite lengthy questioning. She is the mother of four grown children. County Attorney Schaper declared, however, that he intends to charge her with first degree murder at the arraignment Wednesday. NOVEL COMPENSATION CLAIM IS DENIED Lincoln, Neb., Dec. (Special.i— Compensation Commissioner Frye has denied the claim made by Harry Haverly of Omaha, against 'his wife, Julia, and an accident insurance company. When Mrs. Haverly nuilt her garage she took out compensa tion insurance to cover accidents to workers, .^he had her husband paint the barn, and he fell off a ladder and sustained serious hurts To sustain the claim that they were employer and workmen tbey said they had an agreement of years standing by which he was to pay his wife $40 a month for room and board and she was to pay him 50 cents and hour for all work he did about the place. They said the two accounts Just about balanced each other in all the years of their wedded life*. The commissioner said that Mrs. Haverly does not have the legal status of a contractor or employe", and as a housewifo she cannot be held under the law. If her husband be classed as a domestic servant he can’t recover because these are ex empted from the benefits of the law. The commissioner says anyway hav ing an interest in the home he can’t hire himself out to himself STATE OF NEBRASKA HAS NICE BANK ACCOUNT Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 1 (Special.! — According to a statement prepared by State Auditor Marsh the state of Nebraska owes nobody and has more than $66,000,000 worth of property. The total is made up of free cash and permanent trust funds of $4,012,000; taxes receivable for the next six months, $2,398,000; other taxes due, $422 ,000; university grounds And I campus, $3,253,000; other lands, buildings and furnishings and equip ment, $43,400,000, and trust funds in the permanent school fund in ex cess of $13,000,000. The total la $1, 000,000 more than a year ago. WAYNE MAN DIES FROM HEATT DISEASE Wayne, Neb., Dec. —Berton J. Johnson, a citizen of Wayne since 1884, fell dead, heart disease being given as the cause. Mr. Johnson was 60 years old, and is survived by a widow and one son. He had been in poor health for the past fiv<j years. CHICKEN THIEF IN BIG HAULS Poultry Raisers at Fremont, Neb., Lose Whole Flocks Fremont, Neb., Dec. ' —Thefts of chickens continue and the police seem baffled In attempts to stop the raids on hen houses. A flock of 100 Plymouth Rock hens disappeared at the home of Mrs. Wil liam Bishop. Henry Faghorn's hen house wag robbed of three dozen pullets. Andrew Johnson’s coops were raided for the second time, and twenty-five hens were taken. Chief of police Nagel has asked chicken raisers to equip their hen neries with burglar alarms. WANDERED AWAY AND IS ADJUDGED INSANE Tecumseh, Neb., Dec. ' -Laboring under the hallucination that he was being sought by enemies who Intend ed to murder him, Carl Wisser, resi dent of DuBols, wandered away from hts home early in the evening, and was found about midnight by citizens of the town after a search of several hours. Sheriff Avery took WUser to Paw nee City, where he was judged insane by the insanity board. He will be taken to Lincoln. TO GIVE THEM A 8AMPLE OF HIS WARES Hawarden. Ia., Dec. (Special)— Rev. Edwin Booth, jr., of Manltou, Colo., will preach at the Associated church next Sunday, both morning and evening. He comes as a can didate for the pastorate. FALL RESULTS IN PAINFUL FRACTURE Hawarden, la., Dec- ’ (Special)— Mrs. H. W. Kellogg, 72 years old, tripped and fell In such a way as to break her right wrist, Saturday night. The fracture was so bad the bones protruded through the flesh. “Nine Men Against One” Is Foreign Estimate of U. S. National Game From the Chicago Joura.nl of Commerce The king and queen of England have witnessed a game of baseball in that benighted (so far as America’s national sport i» concerned) land, between the Giants and White Sox. The con test between the two clubs was the subject of much comment ia the English press. What royalty thought of the game has not been fully dis closed. Doubtless it does not compare with cricket in their esti mation. But a serious criticism of baseball has found wide ap proval in England. It is that the batter does not have a fair sporting chance. Poor fellow, he has to stand up before a ball hurled in his direction at great speed, sufficient to knock hi» block off if it should catch him behind the ear. It does not coma straight at him so that it may be quickly and surely dodged, but by an infernal twist given it by the pitcher is likely to swerve to one side or the other or up or downi, just before it reaches the bat ter. This is very disconcerting, and reduces his chances of hitting it with his bat to a minimum, in case he is able to keep it from hitting himself, which is of first importance. Under all these hard conditions the batter is “out” if he misses that ball three times I Not only these preliminary hazards, face him, but after a happy shance he succeeds in keeping the ball from hitting him, and at the same time accomplishes the ex traordinary feat of hitting it with his bat, there are eight men in front of him and one behind all intent on getting the ball to first base before he himself can arrive there, and so retire him from play. He must run ninety feet after undergoing all these ob stacles, in order to win the first of four desperate races with th» ball before his efforts count in the game; and all the while nine men are picking on him and seeking with all their strength and agility to thwart his purpose. Surely, think the English critic?, this is piling up things too thick with nine men against one. It does look that way, doesn’t it ? But that is not all. While all these arts and strategems are in operation, the mind of the batter who miraculously becomes a base runner, must avoid perturbation in the midst of discourte-oua shouts, criticisms and reflections cast upon him by those on the opposite side, all of which give expression to a miraculous desire to confuse, mislead or trap him. These unkind things happen to him not only on his way to first base, but clear around until he arrives safely at the home plate! After reading English reflections on the game one wonders how any player ever scores against such overwhelming odds, or how spectators can enjoy such struggles of one man against nine I' It might enlighten the English critics to say that baseball faith fully reflects the American spirit which gladly undertakes suc cess regardless of the hazards which must be met to win it_not only in business and everyday life, but in sport and in war. Every man must learn to face and avoid not only nine dangers, but ninety and nine, from enemies, competitors and habits which sneak upon him. But we all meet them, and if we are good stuff, vvercome them. TODAY BY ART iUR BRISBANE Three news headings on the front page. One tells of Lord Northcliffe sending a spirit message from Heaven to Lord Beaverbrook, an other newspaper owner, through the late Bonar Law. You read that, smile and turn away. That sort of miracle doesn't interest yp’i. The next heading, "Pictures by Radio Sent From London to New York in Twenty Minutes." You see pictures of the British premier Bald win and Calvin Coolidge accurately sent through the ether without wires. That MIRACLE does interest you. No fake about that, no medum hav ing a convulsion and turning down the lights. No "ectoplasm.” Just science and truth. The third news heading tells you that science travels faster than re ligion, according to John D. Rocke feller, Jr. Talking to his Bible class he says: “The development of mind and mat ter has so far outstripped the de velopment of the spiritual values in human life.” And Mr. Rockefeller asks “has civilization outgrown re ligion?” The answer is "no, and the Wool worth building hasn’t outgrown the Rocky mountains.” Men in a few years will take the radio, the trip around the world in 24 hours and all the rest of science for granted. But they will never take the Sermon on the Mount for granted. In the wo^ds “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of heaven,” there is power greater than the much-discussed power locked up in the atom, greater than all the power that cculd be produced by har nessing all the waterfalls, all the tides or the sun itself. The only real, eternal power is in ideas. How things have changed In "mighty Egypt” since Antony, great Homan, married the ugly Cleopatra (hat he might use her power and especially her gold, in his fight against Caesar and how little Cleo patra, daughter of the Ptolemies, vjuld have imagined that within a few centuries her country would bo submitting to bitterly humiliating orders from a little foggy island on the northwest coast of Europe, the lhnd from which they used to bring the slaves with yellow hair and blue eyes to the shores of the Mediter ranean. But so it is. The British lion roars. Egypt says “all right, I will pay what you wish, I will do what you please, and I will get out of Sudan. We live In queer, dangerous days. In Seattle the government wants to dismantle an innocent looking broad casting station. Every evening, a lady, wife of the proprietor, sent through the air a beautiful bedtime story. What could be purer, more Innocent? The government says rnaivy things could be more Innocent, for the ioed time story sent out contained code information for bootleggers. That s queer. In Chicago a respectable bank cashier, Hugh Stewart, driving in an Warranted. From Forbes Magazine (N. Y.). As a Presbyterian elder was shaving Just before going to church he made a slight cut on the tip of his nose. Call ing his wife he asked her if she had any court-plaster. "You will find some in my sewing basket,” she said. The el der soon had the cut covered. At church, in assisting with the collec tion, he noticed that every one smiled as he passed the plate. Very much ;tn noved, he asked one of his assistants If there was anything wrong with hie appearance. "I should say there was,” answered his assistant. “What is that upon your nose?" “Court-piaster.” “No," said his friend, "it is the label from a reel of cotton. It says, ‘Warranted 200 yards.' ’’ automobile with his wife, se«£ some* men following him. He’s not the kind that "stickup” men get away with. With his automatic he opened fire, killing Detective William Perrin and wounding two other policemen mem bers of a detective squad. That’s the dangerous part. ---• 1 If in these days Satan spends his time, as in the past, going up and down in the earth, it would be in teresting to know how often people try to hold him up or shoot through him. Dr. Stanton Cole, British, leader of the Ethical Church in London, says emancipation of woman means the downfall of civilization. Many will say if such a civilization as this must fall, let it fall. It will come up again. The hero of the "Persian Letters” would have told you that opening the harem, letting women take the veils off, each one getting a husband for herself, would mean the downfall of civilization. He had a limited view of civilization. So has Dr. Colt, from London. John J. Slattery is sentenced to the electric chair, says, "thank you, judge.” Reporters call his tone sarcastic and wonder at his audacity. The man may have been sincere, A spirit locked up in a deformed ■ brain should be grateful to a Judge for setting it free. -■ f As for audacity, men with nothing to lose, can’t lose anything. The real audacity and fearless courage* according to Dante, was shown by the gentleman in his “Inferno” whcv as he sank back into the boiling pitch, looked up toward heaven with an insulting jesture, saying, "that for you." But he also, being sentenced for ali eternity, had nothing to lose. — I The president, to discuss public af fairs, invites senators to breakfast, talks public business over strong cof fee and some “flapjacks,” which is all right In these days of prohibition. But there was a time when sena tors leaving "Chamberlain’s” at 2 or 8 fn the morning would have dreaded the New England early morning start. The Heaviest Stuff Known. From The Los Angeles Tlir.ey. A teaspoonful of osmium, the heav iest known earth metal, weighs about three ounces. But Prof. Ed dington, an English astronomer, has located a star which Is composed of a condensed form of matter weighing 391 pounds per teaspoonful. This is about 60,000 times the weight of wat er. Prof. Eddington accounts fyr the great weight upon the theory that the atoms composing the star have been smashed together. The elect rons, Instead of revolving around the nuclei of the atomic systems at distances relatively as great as the distances between tho planets, have been compressed—just as If the* eight planets of the solar system had beer* compressed Into the sun. Taking the Joy Out of Life. From the Atlanta Constitution Mr. Ford says "the horse must go* and he would also "can” the cow in favor of the chemist. There are numerous other joys that ho wishes to take out of life, but he couldn’t crowd all Into one interview. A Bird Lore Skeptic. From the Mentor. A sight-seeing bus was riding through Yellowstone National Park when It passed a lone pine tree by the side of the road. At the very top was an osprey’s nest built of loosely woven sticks. The driver called above the grind of the motor: ’’Osprey’* nest.” The travelers on the second seat shouted It back to the traveler* on the third seat. Finally a crotchety old man on the rear seat shouted back to the driver: "Do you mean to tell me that an ostrich built bis nest way up in the top of that tree?"
