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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1931)
ANOTHER BANK HAS REOPENED Institution at Creighto.., Neb., Reorganized Un der New Law Lincoln, Neb. — (Special)— The Bank of Creighton has reopened for business with W. L. Turner, presi dent; William Hengstler. vice presi dent; J. O. Peck, cashier, and these three with D. A. Van Deveer and Roscoe C. Rice as the board of di rectors. Depositors allow 50 per cent of deposits to be used for buying slow and undesirable assets and the re maining 50 per cent, which totals $316,841.50, is available Jo the depos itors. There is an equal amount of cash and good quality notes as well as $25,000 capital and *10,000 sur plus to pay the deposits. This is the 43rd state bank to be reorganized and opened under the new banking law providing for de positor co-operation and in this in stance the former stockholders, di rectors, depositors committee and many citizens of Creighton co-op erated. TOWNSEND TAKES POST COUNTY FARM AGENT Fremont, Neb. —(Special) —Merle C. Townsend, farmer near Tecum seh, has been chosen Dodge county farm agent. The office Is to be opened at the courthouse February 1. Townsend formerly was the agent in Dixon county, but has been engaged In farming for several years. He was graduated from the Nebraska agricultural college in 1918. Mrs. Charles Peterson, who has been serving as stenographer In the office of Dodge county sher iff, will be stenographer in the county agent’s office. KTEBBINS TO PAY ALL BILLS BEFORE JAN. 8 Lincoln, Neb.- —All bids of the state of Nebraska will be paid before January 8, according to the plans of State Treasurer Stebbins, who is planning to settle all ac counts before leaving office. A total of $4,900,000 belonging to the state is on deposit in depository banks, of which $1,500,000 is in the form of certificates of deposits. The balance forms an active bank ac count drawing 2 per cent interest. Banks having state deposits are now renewing their bonds or de positing new securities which are required annually. All the depos itory bonds and securities will be ready to be presented to the incom ing treasurer, T. W. Bass. CUSTODIAN FOR MASKELL RAILROAD STATION Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — The ■tate railway commission has granted authority to the Minneap olis and Omaha Railroad company to substitute a custodian ;->r the agent at Masked, this station to be connected with those at Obc a«d Newcastle so the agents there can transact business promptly. Masked citizens objected to the change when the application was filed a year ago on the ground that the railroad company had taken the lean months for its showing. After postponement of a year Commis sioner Randall finds that business has been steadily decreasing, rev enues having fallen to little more than $540 a month. The commis sioner says the 26 per cent over head cost is excessive. The order contains a number of conditions attached to the cus todian's duties. The principal change is that freight must be pre paid on goods shipped and passeng ers pay fares on trains. BOUNDARY QUESTIONS STILL IN DISPUTE Omaha, Neb. — (UP) — Negoti ations between Iowa and Nebraska boundary commissioners are at a standstill because of the limitations placed on its commission by the Iowa legislature, John W. Cooper, secretary of the Nebraska boundary commission says. Under terms of instructions from its lawmaking body the Iowa com mission is forbidden to revise boun daries affecting Pottuwatainie coun ty In which East Omaha is situated Inasmuch as East Omaha, or Car ter Lake, as it is now called is the territory Nebraska most desires to annex, further negotiations would be useless, Cooper said. Carter Lake recently was divorced from Council Bluffs and now has its own mu nicipal government. DEATH CAR DRIVER TO BE PROSECUTED Omaha, Neb. — tUP) — Deputy County Attorney Ray McGrath, who investigated the death of Mrs. Edith Glade early Friday morning has recommended that charges of caus ing death while exceeding the speed limit and of reckless driving while under the influence of liquor be placed against Leonard Doxey, who was driving the automobile when it overturned. Doxey is said to have admitted he was driving 50 to 55 miles an hour and in endeavoring to nego tiate a turn the car struck loose gravel and overturned in a ditch. Carl Glade, the woman’s husband, and Mr. and Mrs. Eunasch Doxey also were in the machine. The par ty was returning lrom a Christmas party which had lasted all night. APPLE TREE (10 YEARS OLD STILL BEARING Fremont, Neb. — <Special' —Scott Thompson at Arlington chopped down an apple tree that he helped his father plant more than 60 years ago. The tree ceased bearing fruit last year. Another tree that Thomp son planted at the same time is still bearing and was not disturbed by the axeman. Thompson set out the trees soon after his fathei bought the land, adjoining Arling ton. for 93 an acre. BAR MAKES CHOICE FOR PLACE ON BENCH Grand Island, Neb.— —Ralph R. Horth was the unanimous choice of members of the bar of the Four teenth judicial district at a meet ing here Monday night for district judge to suceed Judge Bayard H. Paine, who has been elected to the state supreme court bench. After deciding to organize a dis trict bar association, the assembly took an informal ballot which re sulted in 31 votes for Horth and about 16 scattered among other persons, O. A. Abbott being second with six votes. By resolution, the informal ballot was made formal and a committee consisting of all other candidates Joined in the vote for Horth. TAUGHT LINDY TO FLY PLANE Man Who Claims That Distinction Now Billiard Parlor Owner Omaha, Neb.—<Up7—I. O. BiTfle, the man who taught Col. Charles Linbcrgh how to fly has temporar ily abandoned aviation and has bought a half interest in a billiard parlor here. Biffle's suspension of aerial ac tivities is Just for the winter months, when the game is rather dull, hi said. He has had 10,000 hours in the air and for 16 years has been an in structor or airmail pilot. Lindbergh waa his favorite stu dent, he says. MUCH CORN STILL IN NEBRASKA FIELDS McCook, Neb—(UP)—High mois ture content of this year’s corn crop, the largest produced in this secton of the state any year, has prevented shipment of a consider able portion of the crop to market. Farmers and railroad men believe much of it may not move for sev eral months. Sixty per cent of the corn In the territory west of here, grain ele vators report, cannot be picked un less there is a freeze of sufficient intensity to harden the ground and permit wagons to go into the fields. The heavy snow of several weeks ago, followed by thawing tempera tures, has made a bag of a majority of the fields. Railway men are mourning the loss of revenue occasioned by the moisture and the wet ground. As a general rule the McCook division of the Burlington handles approxi mately $20,000 worth of corn per month during this season of the year. UNEMPLOYED PUT TO CHOPPING WOOD Grand Island, Neb.— (UP)—Hall county’s program for aiding the un employed is resulting in great ricks of chopped wood. Production is out running distribution, county officers report. 1 The wood chopping crew employed by the county has averaged 15 men a day, County Commissioner A. H. Rehder reports. All men who apply to the county for financial assist ance have been placed on the wood chopping force. The county retails the firewood at $5 a load, the county getting $2, the farmer who offers the wood to be cut $2, and the hauler the re mainder. The plan of operating a wood chopping crew has really saved the county money, the commissioner points out. Men out of work, com ing to the county for aid, yet who like to remain idle, stay away for fear of being given a Job sawing logs or splitting blocks. BRAVERY MEDAL TO TWO OMAHA GIRLS Omaha, Neb.—(UP)—In recogni tion of their heroism in attempting to save the life of a man who was drowned in a lake near Little Sioux, Ia„ last summer, Dorothy Metcalfe and Ruth Schellberg, Campfire girls, have been awarded the Emil Nygaard bravery medal. Miss Schellberg is a student at University of Nebraska. MLss Met calfe attends a high school here. The incident occurred while the girls were camping at Campfire girls’ summer outing headquarters. Both are good swimmers but they were unable to bring the man to shore in time to save his life. IOWA BANDITS MAKE ESCAPE INTO OMAHA Omaha. Neb.—Three bandits who early Thursday morning held up and robbed passengers in three automobiles they stopped by ran dom firing of revolvers, escaped a Council Bluffs pillbox squad after a pursuit across the Douglas street bridge into Omaha. The bandit cat eluoed the officers in the traffic and darkness. The officers, notified by sheriff’.* deputies, had lain in wait for the bandits. As the bandit car ap pioachcd the bridge the policemer recognized it and gave pursuit. The «ar sped across the bridge. Aftei one shot, the police were forced tc stop firing for fear of hitting pass ersby. Those robbed were C. W. Roberts, Omaha, held up near Atlantic, la.: Orlo Kiltgore, Griswold, la., robbed near Oakland, and R. H. Cheney, Stuart, and B. E. Binger, Omaha, held up near Oakland. Roberts lost $58, Kilgore $26, Cheney $34, and Binger $47. FORMER S. DAKOTA BOY WOUNDED WHILE HUNTING Omaha, Neb.- —Roy Gcs sard, 18 years old, of Omaha, for merly of Dallas, S. D.| was prob ably fatally wounded Thursday morning while hunting rabbits with three companions. Gossard was walking ahead of the other three when a rabbit jumped into view and they began shooting, one charge penetrating his rght shoulder and lung. Gossard was a graduate of the Dallas high school. The Mystery of the New Year h legendary Roman king, J Numa, it is said, established the first of January as the beginning of the year and made the day sacred to Janus, ; a mythological deity who was represented with two faces, one that of an cld man peering Into the past, the other that of a youth facing gleamingly the future. Whether this leg end be historically true or not, the double-faced symbol is a Titting one for the twin mys teries that confront us with ever recurring challenge as an old year passes and a new one dawns. It is a time for looking before and after—before with courage and after without re grets—for either way we look the mystery of life remains. The mystery of the past year, with its achievements, Its failures, its pleasures, its pains, its insoluble question ings, its dreams v/hose reali zation seemed always so im minent, its hopes that too oft en crumbled, its triumphs that seemed so great in the mo ments of their attainment— what is this to us now but a memory which we can choose to hold or loose in vision, but whose realities need n longer haunt us—they are of yester day and the ages. A greater mystery now allures us—a mystery that lies hidden in the sealed caskets of the coming months. With the bells that rang out the old and rang in the new, the shadows that seemed so real to'us in the past 12 months took their ir recoverable flight down the corridor of years and in their place come the radiant angels of the new months, with smiles upon their lips and with fingers pointing to glittering paths thronged with new-born hopes and vocal with songs of promise. It is one of life’s greatest compensations that the future is hidden from us. It is, there fore, full of every happy pos sibility. The wealth of dream land lies before us. Ships from every port of hope are sailing toward us. The unborn months are fruitful with love, fortune, happiness and wisdom. Three hundred and sixty five days of treasure trove are luring us to the seeking. However dark the shadows that haunted us the past year, however hard and futile the struggles through which we passed, however poignant the griefs we suf fered—those things belong now to a dead past. The new year’s challenge is to the pur suit of the glorious game that makes life worth living—the lure of the mystery of the un born days and months. “Every man,” said Charles Lamb, “has two birthdays, the one he calls his own, and the birthday of the new year, which is the nativity of our common Adam.” To every man old Father Time, with the new year, brings a new birth, with life opening freshly be fore us, every moment pre cious with new promise. It is for us to face the new year and all that it hides from us with the spirit of Ulysses of old, determined to “pluck out the heart of its mystery,” and to make every day and every month of it yield to us some thing tiiat will make life more beautiful and profitable to ourselves and to humanity. NEW YEAR S EVE. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky. The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring In the new; Ring, happy bells, across the snow; Tire year Is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more: Ring out the feud of rich and poor. Ring in the redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party Ring in the noble modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love or truth and right. Ring in the common love of good. Ring out the shapes of foul disease. Ring out the narrowing lust o* gold: Ring out the thousands wars, or old, * Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindliet hand; Ring out the darkness of the land. Ring in the Christ that is to be. —Tennyson. -■ -— »» “GOOD BYE. OLD YEAR.” Good bye, Old Year! It's hard to say These simple words of parting— But on the New Year’s path today, At last I must be starting. I love you for the days you brought The sunshine and the rain— I love you for the lessons taught; The laughter and the pain— And yet the New Year beckons on. Beneath a radiant sky; So on its highway I'll be gone; Good bye, Old Year! Good bye! —Nom de Plume. -- ---- When “Ins” Get Bumped. From Vanity Fan. t Last August, in Canada, the con servatives turned out the liberals on the issue of the tariff, hard times and unemployment. The next move was In South America, where three administrations were overthrown. Argentina broke her proud record of orderly self-government when 3eneral Uriburu's coup d’etat forced out the personal rule of President Irigoyen. In Peru, a military junta overthrew President Leguia and the same abrupt process truncated the Siles regime in Bolivia. For the first time in decades, the liberals in Co lombia elected their candidate to the presidency. In Chile President Ibanez nipped an attempted mili tary coup d’etat In the bud. In Cuba, the Machado regime declared martial law. In Brazil, there was revolt. In Venezuela, Panama, and in Uurguay there were painful po litical regurgitations after swallow- j mg low prices. The epidemic spread in other fields. Throughout the British do- i ,minions prime ministers wire care ful to conciliate the opposition on the eve of the imperial conference. Unemployment and business depres sion poured oil on the flickering se dition of the Indian Empire, while ihe Chinese nationalists and the northern leaders locked in battle , with the inland “communists” for Proving That All lowans Bo Not Belong to Yokel Class An Iowa man named Robert Ord vay Foote, tired of hearing his state •ailed a land of illiterate clod-hop iers comes to bat in the Baltimore Evening Sun with the names of nu merous Iowa writers who are not mknown. Among them are Thomas 3eer, Carl Van Vechten, Sinclair >wis, Ruth Suckow. Charles Ed vard Russel, Albert Bigelow Paine, ! Herbert Quick, Ellis Parker Butler, ftupert Hughes, Hamlin Garland, Emerson Hough. Newell Dwight rtillis, Edna Ferber. Names like hese are household words every where, but the average reader, tmow.ng the bocks are printed in the control of a distracted country. In Europe, the Schober ministry in Austria resigned and there was open talk in Madrid of overthrowing the monarchy. Matters reached a cli max when the German elections re vealed startling gains for the fas cists and the communists. What wonder that our own politi cos were driven to fearful and won derful activities in order to antici pate and to control the coming del uge. There was only one real issue before the American people this au tumn—the economic situation. Oui system of rationing and producing goods had broken down appreciably, and the parties in power, both in state and national politics, expected to be punished for it. This was entirely unjust and absolutely hu man. Neither the administration nor any other political agency in this country was responsible for the depression or was equipped to rem edy it. Nevertheless, the politicians in power have to pay, and pay, and pay, irrdipectlve of their responsi bility; some of them had already paid before the November returns were counted. “Dumping” Canadian Wheat. From the Toronto Globe. Mr. A. W. Haycock, a native ot Ontario and now a member of the British Labor government, contri buted a new phase to the discus sion of the wheat situation when he told the house of commons Can ada was the greatest offender in the world in the matter of dumping w'heat in Britain. His chief pur pose, of course, was to defend Rus sia against the charges made by another Canadian in the British house of commons, Lieut. Col Ham ilton Gault, an object which speaks more lucidly for Mr. Haycock’s po litical affiliations than for his na tive upbringing. But when governments are dis cussing: the question of “dumping” so vigorously, and when schemes to bolster up the agricultural status by subsidies are being put forth, there is a possibility that Mr. Hay cock’s point as against the dominion may some day possess virtue. “Dumping” Is usually defined as selling abroad at prices below those normally asked in the domestic market. If the proposal of Premier Anderson to stabilize wheat by making a minimum price of $1 a bushel for Canadian consumption were put into operation, countries in which Canadian wheat was sold for less than $1 would not have difficulty in proving that Canada was violating dumping regulations It is ridiculous, of course, to com pare Canadian sales methods up to this time with those of the soviet government. The object of the wheat pool has been to sell at a profit, and assured the product it handles is not raised under a sys tem approaching economic slavery. Being a co-operative organization of grows, it could have no motive in selling below cost of production, but has to submit to the influence of world prices including those of Russia. Mr. Haycock's argument has no bearing on conditions to date. Its importance is in connection with what is now proposed and in this regard should not be minimized. MULES SET PULLING RECORD Canton, Pa.—tAP)—Pennsylvania has perhaps the only mule team in the country which has pulled more than its own weight on the draw bar of a dynamometer. It is owned by Raymond Hilfinger of Canton, weighs 2,225 pounds, and made a tractive pull of 2,300 pounds at the Forksville fair. New York or some other eastern city, assumes that all writers are born east of Buffalo.—Ackley rla.) Journal. REUNION DF 80 CLASS Olivet, Mich. — lUP) — The 1880 class of Olivet college assembled here recently for alumni day. Five in number, this is the first year the college has had a full class return to the campus after gradua tion, and the fact that it was their golden anniversary, they were given special recognition at all as semblages throughout the entire three days of commencement. NVRjEl ARE LICENSED IN NEBRASKA Lincoln. Neb. —(Special) —Among the list of 170 women’s names added to the list of licensed nurses in Ne braska as a result of the examina tion held October 29, 30 and 31 are: Mrs Genevieve Vieth, Oakland; Winifred Wmyer, Sioux City, la.; Stella Brj>^ Kennard; Marjorie Thompson, West Point; Ruth Sim onson, Council Bluffs, la.; Mar garet Rex, Neligh; Sarah Peters, Peru, la.; Margaret Oxwang, High more, S. D.; Genevieve Layland, Audobon, la.; Goldie Jensen, Ca iome, S. D.; Amy Lou Haloren, Al ta, la.; Lois Bridwell, Herman, Alice Kvols, Belden; Helen Carter, Nor folk; Mrs. Hazel Drefahl, Albion; Freda Windhusen, Hooper. HE SHOT NIECE MUST DO TIME Winside, Neb,, Man Sen tenced to Three Years in Penitentiary Norfolk, Neb.—For shooting his niece, Milton Jones, 50 years old, of Winside, was sentenced here Satur day to three years in the peniten tiary at Lincoln. He pleaded guilty late Saturday afternoon before District Judge C. H. Stewart to charges of shooting to kill and shooting to wound as a result of the gun play November 9, last. He received two three-year sentences, which were to run con currently. Jones, a painter, from Winside, Neb., confessed to Judge Stewart what he previously had denied— shooting Myrtle Granfield, 24 years old, at her home three miles north east of Hadar, Neb. She was wound ed in the legs by buckshot. Her younger sister, Iola Granfield, was wounded slightly. Before that Jones had been placed under a $1,000 peace bond for re peatedly trying to force his atten tions on Myrtle Granfield. Two companions of Jones on the night he fired the shot through the window of the girl’s home yere sen tenced to jail in Pierce county, some time ago on liquor charges. They are Matt Madsen, 34 years old, and Joe Carvell, both of Winside. NO FINDING OF FAULT IN BUS DRIVER CASE Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — Rail way Commissioner Drake has filed an opinion in a complaint of R. W. Wrght, bus operator of Wayne, that Fred Nuttleman, who owns a com peting line, was guilty of careless and reckless operation of a bus. The opinion states that while there seems to be some cause for the com plaint there is not sufficient evi dence to justify a finding. The law requires an operator of a car about to be passed to turn promptly to the right of the center of the road and the operator of the passing car to turn to the left and not return until he is 30 feet ahead of the car he is passing. Four pas sengers as well as Wright testified that the Nuttleman bus passed theirs about four miles southeast of Ponca, September 13, without warn ing; that it passed very close and pulled into the other bus’ path very quickly, the rear end striking the Wright bus, calling for quick maneu vering to avoid going into the ditch. These charges were denied by Nuttleman and his passengers. Wright and Nuttleman have had several previous controversies when Wright claimed that sideswiping was purposely done. The opinion says Wright’s witnesses are disin terested and of mature judgment and that one of the Nuttleman wit nesses had a personal interest and the testimony given by the others was weak. MONUMENT TO HONOR BURT COUNTY PIONEERS Tekamah, Neb.—(UP)—To honor pioneers and old settlers of Burt county, a large, mahogany granite monument has been placed on the courthouse square by the county pioneers and old settlers associa tion. Historic data of the county, of Burt's part in the World war, his tories of the various towns in the county, newspapers—all were placed in a copper box buried at the foot of the monument. A Burt county pioneer daughter, Mrs. Metta Sutherland, planted the historic documents. Mrs. Sutherland was the only child born in the Old Block House erected by the govern ment in 1856 to protect the white settlers from Indian uprisings. The Burt county courthouse is erected on the exact site where the old block house once stood guard over the frontier. Official dedication ceremonies will be held in the spring. J WIFE OF OMAHA DOCTOR ENDS HER OWN LIFE Omaha, Neb.—A few minutes aft er she had nearly killed her hus band, their son and herself by turn ing on a gas jet in their bedroom, Mrs. Donald Wilson, 26 years old, wife of an Omaha physician, ended her own life with poison early Sun day morning. Cries of the baby awakened Dr. Wilson, who turned off the gas. While he was working over the child, his wife went to the bathroom, there presumably taking the poison which resulted in her death. Mrs. Wilson had returned home from a psychopathic hospital Sat urday, less than 24 hours before. ACQUITTED OF CHARGE IIE KILLED WIFE Bridgeport, Neb. —Rex Wilcox, 24 years old, was freed here Saturday night of the charge that he slew his wife, Jean Hunter Wilcox, 22 years old, at their home last March. Both were former University of Missouri students. County Judge Harry M Marquis' decision to dismiss the complaint on the grounds that evidence was insuf ficient drew applause from the spec tators. Wilcox did not testify during the two-day hearing CARRES CASE TO HIGH COURT Madison County Estate Matter Appealed by the Plaintiff Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — An appeal has been filed with the su preme court by Anna L. Smith from an action in Madison county dis trict court giving her $6,500 from the estate of Adoph Svoboda. Mrs. Smith, a widow, lived near Svoboda. She claims to have en tered a contract with him that if she took care of him in his old age she was to receive half of his per sonal property and his home. She is in possession of certificates of de posit totaling $13,772 and contends that in his last illness, Svoboda was unable to assign them to her and to affix his signature to a will which gave her the house. It is claimed by Sovboda’s heirs that Mrs. Smith wheedled him into making the contract while he was mentally incapacitated. The district court held that a contract had been entered into and that the value of her services was $6,500. SAYS PIERRE TELEPHONE PLAN LIKE LOTTERY Lincoln, Neb — Pronouncing a collection scheme of a telephone company at Pierce a flagrant vio lation of the law and nothing but a lottery, and believing that it would call down the wrath of the attorney general upon the owner and manager of the company, tha state railway commission has de nied R. E. Dutcher the right of putting into operation his plan each month to place in a box number* corresponding to those held by sub scribers and then pick out one of them. The person who held this number would get free telephone service for a month but could not participate in another drawing for a year. It was the belief of Mr. Dutcher that this would tend to save him money as well as worry and would bring in the collections better. The commission says free ser vice is forbidden by law and that application of the gross and net rule penalizing subscribers 25 cents for delinquency results in good col lections. It also holds that this method would be discriminatory, giving one subscriber a lower rate than others. OLD AUTOMOBILES TO BE BURNED AT LINCOLN Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—More than 100 abandoned wrecked and de crepit automobiles will be piled in a huge heap saturated in oil and burned New Year’s night as a means of ridding the city of un sightly motor vehicles that have outlived their day of service. When the fire has died down, the tangled mass of scrap iron, brass, tin and sue hother metals as went to make up the antiquated cars will be sold to junkmen and the pro ceeds handed over to the Commu nity chest and Salvation Army, lor relief purposes. TASTOR CUTS WOOD TO KEEP CHURCH WARM Brock, Neb. —(UP)— The ring of a broad axe during the week makes possible the ring of the pastor's voice in the local Methodist church on cold Sunday mornings this win ter. The question of providing fuel for the church during the strained fi nancial period, when not enough money can be found to go all the way has been met by Rev. Arthur L. Embree and his congregation in a unique manner. E. N. Butterfield member of the congregation, owns a tract of land which he wished to have cleared of its heavy timber. He offered the wood for the work of clearing the land and piling the brush. Pastor Embre and his congrega tion are clearing the land and sawing the wood to fit the church furnace. They expect to, secure enough wood for this winter and next winter as well. FIREMEN GET RABBITS FOR SALVATION ARMY Meadow Grove, Neb.—Almost 3'a tons of rabbits were turned in to the Meadow Grove volunteer fire department at the end of a crow and rabbit hunt. The bunnies were all shot in Madison and Pierce counties for the Salvation Army in various cities in Nebraska. The winning team in the hunt was captained by O. W. Storey, which side turned in 498 rabbits and 615 crows. The losing side captained by Gray McCarroi, shot 518 rabbits and 33 ciows. The grand total was 1,016 rabbits and 648 crows. The contest lasted for eight days. The losing side gave the winner an oyster supper. SOLTI! DAKOTA PIONEER DIES AT OMAHA Omaha, Neb - — A pioneer of the Black Hills in South Dakota, Janies A. Howard, 65 years old, is dead at his home here. Death came Sunday after a paraletlc stroke. When 18 years old, Howard rode a stage line from Pierre, S. D„ to Fort Meade, He later founded the town of Tilford, S. D., and in 1893 moved to Omaha, where he op erated a bank until his retirement 15 years ago MARSHAL BELIEVES IIE WOUNDED KOBBEIl Norfolk, Neb.—Night Marshal Henry Hittner of Humphrey ex changed several shots with two burglars he saw leaving a store. The officer believed he wounded one of the two. The men ran to a car parked half a block from the store but had difficulty starting it. They opened fire on the policeman who already had emptied his revolver and had no more ammunition. He was held at bay until they go' the machine started and escaped.