The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, March 19, 1925, Image 2
SIGHT END OF LONG SESSION Speaker of Nebraska House Hopes to Close Work !* By April 1 Lincoln, Nob., Marcii ; ^Special)— It Is the belief of Speaker Burk® that the business of legislation Is now far enough along to make safe tbs prediction that tt will be possible to close the session by the first of April. But hie optimism Is not shared by many of the leaders. The house Committees have got rid of practi cally all of the house bills. A count made shows that only about 50 are in the committees, and most of these are duplicates or ore covered by bills that have made some progress In the senate. The house calendar, however, Is cluttered up with more than 100 bills, most of them house measures, which would take several weeks to wade through If there were no distractions. The house, aa usual, Is developing i number of men who wish to talk on most questions that come up and this has a tendency to drag and delay proceedings. The gasoline tax nnd the division of the auto license money are likely to take up most of the time of the house In committee of the whole for several days. These may be reached during th ecurrent week, as the senate is insisting It cannot trfke up Its appropration bill until It knows whether the state will get all or only half of the new money. The senate has several fewer days to 11s credit, but Its work Is almost as well along. WOMEN WILL STAY IN THE PENITENTIARY Lincoln, Neb., March ' (Special)— The biennial battles over the effort to remove women prisoners at the etate penitentiary to the woman’s re formatory at York was pulled off by the house late Saturday afternoon. The proposal was lost. The object was to make room for male prisoners. There are 17 women In the peniten tiary. and they occupy quarters that Would accommodate about 60 men. There Is room for them at the York reformatory but the house members decided It was not for the benefit of the women who are at the latter place that hardened women criminals te Incarcerated there with them. Meanwhile, It was pointed out, tho Btnte Is paying heavy board and keep bills at the various county Jails for prisoners who must regain there until room can he made for them at the state prison. NEBRASKA FARMERS TO GROW CUCUMBERS Crawford, eh., March (Special) —A new industry will soon be added to Nebraska's enterprises. A pick ling factory will probably be estab lished here. A soliciting committee has canvassed the territory to de termine the acreage to he planted to cucumbers and reports that an OVer-suhscriptton of acreage has been promised. SAVED FROM DEATH ALMOST MIRACULOUSLY Wausa. Nab., March ‘ (Special)— A sack of corn, falling so as to hold the wagon off his body, saved the bfe of August Nrlckson, farmer, whose horses became frightened and backed his wagon off (he driveway «| a local elevator. The wagon and Mr. Kriekson fell several feet to the ground below, but one sack of corn protected the man. A pitchfork In the wagon was driven into the frozen ground several inches, a short dis tance from him. CAR DEMOLISHED, BOY BUT SLIGHTLY HURT Neiigh, Neb.. March *. (Special)— Walter Carpenter. 16 years old, son of Charles Carpenter, had a close tall on his life here, Saturday after noon, when a west bound freight train lilt the car in which he was rid ing, and carried the machine, and its occupant over 200 feet. The car, a six-cylinder, was demolished. The boy said he saw the oncomln train and that the brakes failed to func tion. He escaped with a few bruises cn one leg. COUNTY WILL GET MORE ROAD MONEY Mitchell. S. Lb, March (Special) —Davisoif county will got somewhere in the neighborhood $16,000 more road money a year in the future as tiie result of the new division of the motor license fees, ordered by the legit-la t me. Woman in Role oir Modern Enoch Arden Lincoln, Neb.. March —A modern version of Enoch Arden was witness td in district court here when Jen nie S. Wilson filed a petition for n divorce from John H. Wilson, wbo, not having seen his first wife tor 17 years and believing her dead, married the second time in 1919. Jennie Wilson is the second wife. Wilson learned only recently that lie bad two wives, the petition recites, and previous to that had every ren te.-n to believe his first wife dead. BEET TOPS ARE GOOD FEED FOR CATTLE 8|>eneer, la., March t Special)— Two CJuy county farmers, Hoy Kenny and I*. M. Thomson, who grew sugar lrefs for the first tin e last year, find that the beet tops make excellent sil age which they have been feeding with good results. Mr. Kenny fe i the licet silage with corn and factory feed to 38 steers and is well satisfied w.th the results. Mr. Thomsen has been feeding it for three months to bis milch cows, also the yearlings and calves. He put ail the tops from XI acice of I eels into his silo. AGED MAN TOOK HIS OWN LIFE Disappeared After Quarrel Over Money—Body Is Found in Field Osceola, Neb., March *—Renjamin H. Keller, 84 years old, who disap peared last Thursday amt for whom a wide search has been made, was found dead in a field three miles west of Osceola by his grandson who was on his way to school. Keller’s body lay across a shotgun, and the side of his head was blown off. A' verdict of suicide was given. Trouble with his family over finan cial matters Is said to have been the cause of his act. He Is survived by Tits widow, three sons and a daughter. RED TAPE TOO MUCH FOR THEM Members of Telephone Com pany Would Disband Rather Than Report <-■ .. Lincoln, Neb., March (Special) —Too much red tape has proved the undoing Of the Holbrook-Hendley Telephone company. This Is an or ganization of 26 farmers who operate an exchange, principally for their own use and benefit. The reports re quired by the state railway commis sion are too much for their Inex perience, and they have notified the commission that rather than try to work their way out of the red tape each month they have decided to dis solve, and asking If the commission has any objections. BLACKMAILER THREATENS WINSIDE, NEB-, FARMER Wlnslde, Neb., March —An at tempt has been made *,o olackmall Frank* Dengberg, wealthy farmer liv ing near here. A letter, postmarked Wlnslde, has been received, com manding the farmer to take $5,000 In $100 bills to a place south of town at a broken telephone pole, or he would be shot. If he divulged the fact he had received the letter he would be shot. Little attention was paid to the let ter and nothing happened but a sec ond letter was received telling him that the writer had driven 50 miles to get the money and that he would come again on March 9 and would expect $7,000 this time and It he did not do as directed not only his life but the lives of his family would be taken. The letters have been made public and there Is much stir over the mat ter. Tlie place was guarded but the blackmailers did not appear. The writer of the letters seems to have taken no pain' In h'de his Iden tity as the letter In neither typewrit en nor printed. Tlie spelling and writing Is poor. The second letter told Mr, Dengberg that If he did not meet tlie requirement, ransom of $10, 000 would be required, "'he family Is unnerved and tin* children have been taken from school. Tlie second letter was turned over to the federal authorities. SUES FORMEH BOARDER FOR ALIENATION DAMAGES Omaha, Neb., March 1 —Christen Svendsen, Is seeking damages for al leged alienation of the affections of his wife. Kirs tine, In a sutt against Chris Jorgensen, street car motor man before a Jury In Judge Sutton’s court, Svendsen testified that he and hts wife were happy until they took Jorgensen Into their home as a hoarder several years ugo. Since then, ally alienated hts wife’s affections, Svenden says. Jorgensen has gradu until February 26, she obtained a divorce from him. "The first l noticed was when my wife broke her arm," Svendsen said. "She needed assistance In dressing herself but she wouldn’t let me help. She said I was too rough, so she asked for Jorgensen. Ho helped her dress her hair. NORFOLK MAN GIVEN HONOR BY MASONS Norfolk. Neb., March '-—Masons In north Nebraska honored Andrew H. Vlele Tuesday night with a sur prise banquet, the affair being in celebration of Mr. Vlele's annivers ary as a member of the Masonic lodge. The past grand master’s Jewel was presented to him by A. It. Car penter of the Norfolk lodge who was master of ceremonies. The meeting of the lodge was ori ginally called to receive a set of Masonic history which K. O. Good man of Omaha presented to the Nor folk lodge. Robert K. Dickson, grand master of Masons in Nebraska, past Grand Master Harry K. Cheney and a large delegation of Masons from over the state were present. The Atlanta. Ga.. city council has adopted a resolution deploring the ac tion of Gutson Rarglum. deposed sculp tor of Stone Mountain memorial, In destroying the models for the Immense memorial being carved In solid granite on the sheer side of the mountain. 8AYS RAIL BOARD DEMAND UNREASONABLE Lincoln, Neb., March - -The Northwestern railroad attorneys have filed a brief in supreme court, ask ing that tribunal to overturn the order of the state railway commis sion that It retain a helper It de sires to discharge at the station of Newman Grove, which is the home town of Commissioner Randall. The company says that this Is an un warranted Interference with the man agement of the road. BADLY INJURED IN AUTO WRECK Former Congressman Reavis’ Wife Said to Be in Seri ous Condition Lincoln, Neb., March '— (I. N. S.) •—Former congressman C. F. Reavis, of Nebraska, and his wife were severely cut and bruised Friday when their car was wrecked In a collision with an automobile driven by EV A. Bailey, of Lincoln. Bailey’s car struck the Reavis sedan from the side, turn ing It over and demolishing it. The former congressman and his wife were badly cut by flying glass and Mrs. Reavis Is under treatment for possible internal Injuries. NO CONFERENCE ON GAS PRICES Attorney General of Ne braska Waits for Amer ican Bar Meeting Lincoln, Neb., March ■ (Special) —Attorney General Spillman will not call another meeting of tlie executive committee of the national association of law officers of the various states to consider the gas price situation. Mr. Spillman says that be has been asked by several members to have another conference, but that none will be held until the annual conference of the American Bar association. All of the evidence that the attorneys general were able to secure last sum mer has been submitted to tne trade commission and tlie federal attorney general. “In Nebraska." says Mr. Spillman, “the situation can be hand ed locally If the legislature will pass tho bill which permits (lie governing authori ties of any municipality, when th-sy are convinced that coa! or gasoline prices are being artificially Increased through monopoly, to go into the business for tlie publ.c and sell at cost. When this is supplemented by national legislation insuring sources of supply, the price situation can be bandied readily. At present if a man desires to enter the retail gasoline business be cannot get any supply unless his application is approved by a Nebraska man, to whom ail orders from newcomers are submitted. If he reports that he Is a ‘regular’ he can get gasoline; if not, he gets none. That Is a condition we are trying 1o reach through a suit In supremo court.” LEGION MEMBERSHIP DRIVE WAS SUCESSFUL Kearney, Neb., March -One of the most successful American Legion drives ever held In the state ended last Saturday night wllh the mem bership of the Nebraska department more than 17,000 men, it Is an nounced. In the sectional contest for mem ber:’, the "Army of the K ist" won with a total of 8,1-10 members, the Omaha and South Omaha posts get ting a majority of the members. The "Army cf the West," under the lead ership of W. L. Stcbblns of Gothen burg, signed up 5,740 members. A membership trophy will be awarded the highest scoring post in the near future. More than -00 posts In the state took part In the drive. PREVALENCE OF GRIP CAUSES SCHOOLS TO CLOSE Fremont, Neb., March —Owing to the prevalence of the grip among school children, the board of educa tion decided to close the schools for the spring vacation next week. Re ports showed over seventy absentees In the high school yesterday on ac count of tlie grip. DL/V Vr\ mnl L CU ll VIC I I Um SHOULD BE AFFIRMED IJncoln. Nel>., March (Special)— Harvey McKenzie, Gosper county farmer, convicted of blackmail, was given a fair trial and his sentence of $500 fine ought to be affirmed. Tills Is the recommendation of Attorney General Spillman to the supreme court, where McKenzie recently lodged an appeal. McKenzie claims to have lost $500 from a hiding place In the little farm home where ho lived alone. He told .1. M. Miles, dis trict court clerk, that his son, Dick Miles, was one of the group of hoys that took it and that lie proposed to prosecute him. The attorney gen eral says that the fright and terror tills tossed into Miles led him to pay $"00 in monthly Installments and to make more payments until the entire sum was made up. Mr Spillman says licit the evidence does not sii <vv that young Miles had anything to do with a theft, and lie expresses the private opinion that McKenzie never did have that mucti nor did lie lose it. WOMAN HELD FOR SHOOTING AT HUBBY Chadron. Neb., March —Charged with shoo' lug her husband with in tent to kill, Mrs. Kd Phillips, di vorced, was bound over to the dis trict court, to be tried before Judge \Yestover in Chadron early In April erin atlgment. KEPT MARRIAGE SECRET FOR SEVEN MONTHS Waterbary. Neb., March (Spe cial)—After keeping it secret for seven months, it is announced that Albert Herrick, of Waterbury, and Miss Virginia ltossiter, of York, Neb., were married at Concordia, Kan., August 1 J, 11*24. They became acquainted while they were students In the high school at O'Neill. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Horrlck, and the bride Is a daughter ot Mr. ami Mrs. W. I., Kossiter, of York. They will make their home on a farm near here. TO CONFER WITH IOWA ON BRIDGE Nebraska House Passes Bill For Commission on S. C. Crossing Lincoln, Neb., March (Special) —The house of the Nebraska legisla ture tills morning passed the Heffer nan bill authorizing a commission of three men to confer with an Iowa commission relative to an interstate bridge across the Missouri river at Sioux City. The vote was 68 to 26. The bill now goes to the senate. Both houses are grinding away rather steadily on the bill passing task, but as yet have been more In tent on passing the bills originating in their own house. This is usual and natural. The house passed one sen ate bill Tueday, which withdraws from the federal government the of fer made two years afo of the state soldiers' home at Grand Island for hospitalization purpises. The gov ernment turned it down. The house passed several bills of Its own, fixing up the election laws. It passed one repealing the provision that where a party convention en dorses a constitutional amendment all straight party votes shall oe counted for the amendment. This was adopted in the old days when it was practi cally impossible for any amendment to get a majority of the votes cast at an election because many did not vote at all on the proposition. With the new constitution in force an amend ment is carried if a majority voting thereon votes affirmatively. Tiie senate passed a half dozen bills of its own. One prohibits public boards from discriminating against different schools of the healing art in denying patients under their care the choice of systems of healing, ex empting the state or city hospitals and state board of health. Another bill passed allows Custer county to try out its cherished plan of having a local board classify farm lands for taxation purposes. Another bill pro hibits the investment of state funds in Irrigation district warrants, and another denies a place on the ballot to candidates of parties that did not poll 5 per cent, of the total vote at the last election. The distribution of the gasoline tax fund was the bone of contention again in the house Wednesday morn ing. The advocates of letting the state highway department handle It won a few more adherents and, after * debate, voted down 63 to 35 a pro posal to give one third to the coun ties for secondary roads. The bill was ordered to .a third reading with the state getting 100 per cent. The senate passed a bill ordering the board of control to stop furnish ing Imitation butter to Inmates of state institutions and to use only Ne braska made butter hereafter. It also passed the house co-operative mar keting bill, and the house profession al bootlegger bill which provides a Jail sentence as well as fine for first offenders .and makes nil subsequent offenses felonies with fines up to $5,000 and imprisonment up to two years. It also passed the house bill making counties pay 10 cents bounty on crows, magpies, pocket gophers and ground squirrels. PARDON BOARD HEARS REQUESTS FOR PAROLES Lincoln, Neb., March (Special) —Lee Huston of Nemana county, serving a term in prison for heav ing a brickbat with deadly aim at the head of his father-in-law, was before the pardon board seeking a parole. He has been in prison two years. Since his incarceration his wife has spent a term in the wom en's reformatory, a son has been sent to the reform sehooi \ nd four children are with tlie statt aome. Another applicant was Charles Jones, 44 years old, who was ac cused of criminal relations with a step-daughter. He has served five out of an eight year sentence. A letter from the girl, now married, makes the statement that she was probably about as much to blame as was Jones. ALLEN BUSINESS HOUSE LOOTED BY ROBBERS Allen, Neb., March —Robbers who entered the Gaughrnn Bros, cafe here Monday night got away with cash and loot estimated at $125. Entrance to the place was effected through the rear door. It ts believed, nnd the cash register was rifled. Among the merchandise taken were large quantities of tobacco and candy. The only clew is a hammer which was left in (he cafe by the thieves. Officers are working on the case. LEGION POST HAS INCREASED MEMBERSHIP O'Neill. Neb.. Marct .—A strength of SO members was reported by Sim onson post of tlu» American Legion, of thts city, at the -'oncluslon of a membership /rive. The high mem bership last year was 64. A new membership drive Is to be started at once in an effort to raise the list to 100 members before the national con vention at Omaha. At one time the membership of the post was 127, but tilts was reduced by the forming of posts at Inman. Page and Chambers, and the present number. SO. is the record for the territory immediately around O'Neill. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER GETS LINE ON WORK Pierre, S. u., March - tSpecial)— Gus Helgerson of Mitchell, former state treasurer and recently appoint ed and confirmed by the senate as connu ssloner of insurance, is in the city conferring with W. N. Van Cainji. the retiring commissioner, and getting acquainted with the work. Mr. Helgerson will assume hts du ties on Apr»l 1 when Mr. Van Camp retires as a result of the compromise teache.l between himself and Gov. Carl Gunderson. Pungent Paragraphs One reason there are so man; divorces is that many people ge married to such tunes as “Oog; Woogy Woo.”—Toledo Blade. Wisdom will not die with th< people, and it Is evident that it ob Jects to living with lots of ’em.—At lanta Constitution. Tom Edison and Henry Ford wen' fishing. Bet Tom caught a few blf ones and Henry a million litth ones.—Wichita Daily Times. A good citizen seems to be one wh< blames congress because his radlatoi freezes.—Kalamazoo Gazette. If you are not a reformer and hav< no influence, the only way to get i satchel full of money is to use a bl' of lead pipe.—Vancouver Sun. Connecticut proposes a tax on cat3 despite the evidence that most Oi them have too much license as It Is —Oakland Tribune. Ancestors seem greatest to thos« who haven’t kept the pace the old boys set.—Rochester Times Union. There must be something In royaj blood. Wales didn’t look this funny in a blue shirt.—Lexington Dally Leader. “Jobless Stenographers Hunt Em ployment”—Canned peaches?—Glen dale Evening News. North Carolina has enacted an anti-flirting law. Only dirty looks are tolerated in that stale now, it la said.—Rock Tsiand Argus. Canal Zone Silent Diplomat. By Stephen Bonsai, in The Mentor Magazine. There Is a special field of use fulness which the Zone occupies in a quiet but most effective way. To Latin America, or to most of it, the Zone is the most accessible and get at-able section of our land, and, as it is a perfect miniature of American life and activities, it can be most aonveniently studied. Hardly a week passes without the arrival of a dele gation; medical men to view the hospitals, or Boy Scouts on a “rodeo” bent. Committees come from the venerable San Marcos university in Lima to check up on some educa tional innovation, and architects from far-away Paraguay to examine the construction of our model schools. Traders and buyers come in droves, and, as you can buy what you want on the Isthmus almost, if not quite, as well as you can in the more populous markets of the north, many tarry here where their language is understood by all and make pur chases which spell an advance in the cultural equipment in the localities from which the buyers come. Second only to the transit »of merchant ships is the passage of ideafe and the ex change. of thought made possible and direct by the great "ditch.” The "cut” that separated the land ha* brought together the two great races that have peopled America, not in slavish imitation but in beneficial co-operation. Prisoners By Choice. From the New Orleans Item. An Iowa prisoner, after 30 years In the penitentiary, refuses a pardon. He has no desire to enter the outside world. He is afraid to do so. The confinement that was first a punish ment has become a solace and a pro tection. He kpf»*vs that outside he would be homeless, destitute. Incap able of competing with those who are familiar with its ways. So wisely, he refuses a pardon and remains at home in jail. He is a pathetic figure. And on the "outside” there are thousands like him. There is a pathos, too, about them. These are the prisoner* of restricted minds, beliefs and ini tiative. Once they could not accept new visions, new theories. Now they are afraid to.. They cling to -the limitations against which they once rebelled, seeking In them comfort and protection. The old man “in a rut” loves the rut that kept him from advancing. It al^o offers him shelter. City Governments Spend Most. From the Nation’s Business. Of the $10,045,000,000 spent In 1923, for the running of the govern ment $3,459,000,000 were spent by the federal authorities. The state governments spent $1,450,000,000 and .oral governments disbursed $5,163, 000,000. These figures ware compiled by the National Industrial Conference board, which recently made a study of government expenditure and the tax burden. An idea of the magnitude of these figures may be gleaned from the fact that the combined disburse ments of all governmental units in this country in 1923 was equivalent to 93 per cent, of the total amount paid out in wages and nalaries in 1921 by all manufacturing plants In the country covered by the census of manufacturers. In a statement to stockholders on the progress of the Company's affairs dur ing the past ten years, Kail D. Babst, president of the American Sugar Re fining Company, points out that the Income of the company has been suf ficient to meet all charges, losses, de preciation, preferred dividends and to have maintained the ordinary 7% com mon dividend for the entiro period. Comun dividends have been omitted since July, 1921, however, as a matter of conservative policy owing to a vital rehabilitation and construction program and the necessity of carrying custo mers for nearly $25,000,000 under their contract commitments after the col lapse of sugar prices In 1920. Income during the period has averaged $11, 000,000 annually as against $8,150,000 dur ing the previous ten year period. Fur thermore, it has yielded about $10,000,000 Increase in surplus during the last ten years against $17,000,000 decrease In the previous ten year period. State revenue from all sources In France last year totalled nearly 26 bil lion francs, thus showing an increase of roughly 4'^ billion francs over rev enue collected during 1923. Direct taxes alone yielded 8,631 million francs last year as compared with 6.599 million francs during 1923, and 3,260 million trancs during 1922, while Important pro gress was also shown in the yield from government monopolies. Sales of to bacco last year totalled 1.755.700,000 francs, showing an Increase of 220 mil lion francs over 1923 and sales of matches also rose from 116,916,100 francs to 120,445,100 francs. Demonstrated. From American Region Weekly. The motorcycle cop at lrat pulled up beside the speeder. "I've chased you for a mile,” he bel lowed, “to tell yeu that you wera going sixty miles an hour.” "Gee!” remarked the offender mildly. "Bad news sure travels fast, don't It?" Ambassador Kellogg has mads bis first selection of stats departmsnt offi cials to assist him as sscretary pf state. 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