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SEE PLATTSMOUTH SUCCEED
NrWS. Established Nov. 5. 1R91 lrvn..,li.l.i.j l. i tone
HKKALD, Ktabli.hHl April 16. 1864 Consolid.tcd Jn. X, 1898
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, FKBRUAlf Y 7, 1901)
VOL. XLVI NO. 84
The
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HOME WAS
DESTROYED
Friday by Fire. Heroic
Efforts Upon the Part of
the Fire Department.
FURNITURE AND DWELLING
COMPLETE LOSS.
Wind High and Fire Brands Whirl
ed Over Dwellings Causing Dis
may Among the residents.
About midnight Friday
the citizens of Plattsmouth
were awakened by the fire
gong and whittle calling the
department to Mrs. Leary's
residence just across the
street south of the jail. The
lire was well under way when
it was discovered and the
alarm sent in, so that when
the hose cart maned by three
or four of the force went
dashing up to the burning
. jrulding, the hro demon had
Joined such hendwnv that
n.. - .
Mr i tiio lull Id irnr nnn 1. 1 Ha
1 . T 1
owns and occupied the build
ing, had barely time to get
out and did not save any of
the furniture. There was n
small amount of insurance on
the building, but not nearly
enough to cover the loss. The
wind was high and the llames
from the burning building,
and firebrands whirled high
in the air and covered the
residences on the hill above.
jiau . ine samples oi me
foighboring houses on the
j-Aith been dry, there is no
doubt but other fires would
have been started and prop
erty loss very great.
Mrs. Leary went to a neigh
bors and remained the rest of
the night. The loss will fall
very heavily on her, as she
is not financially able to bear
such a loss as the burning of
her home.
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A Question Fer Somebody to An
swer In "Seeing Platts
mouth Succeed."
Mr. Nash of Denver who has been
in the city for some weeks promoting
a land sain in Mexico, has been taking
note of the progress made by the
Booster committee of the city and while
he admires the push and enthusiasm
apparent in the movement, yet he
has a question to propound and one
that no doubt can lie answered. Mr.
Nash would like to know how it
that there is so much fuss and feathers
about patronizing home institutions
while the laundry of many members
of the boosters goes out of town by the
basket full, at the same time there is
a good laundry in town. More help
could be employed m the home lit
stitution and more work done there
and done just as well as elsewhere
'til... I c.i tt . . i i
u ine worn oi me nausmoum people
was kept at home I h f he homo foundry
Mr. Nash is preparing a list of the
names of those sending their laundry
away, and he says he will see if there
is anything to the cry of patrnnuin
Phutsmouth industries.
CLEMENCY PLEA
THAT SHOULD WIN
Inmate ol County Jatl Tells His
, Story.
In District Court.
There was filed today, in the dis
trict court, an application of Frances
Skoumal, as guardian of Ilosie, Charles
David and Lucile Skoumal, minors
an application for a license to sel
rcalestate. The lots in controversy
being numbered IS, 19, 20, 21 and 22
in Block 13, Duke's addition to Platts
mouth. The guardian is represented
by attorneys Jos. L. Padrnos.
County attorney . C. Ramsey,
rece.ve 1 a communication from an
inmate of the county jail, who re
cently pleaded guilty to petit lanwiy
before the Justice of the Peace at
Murdoek. The letter is directed to
executive clemency of the attorney
and expresses the prisoners penitence
in picturcsue lauguagc. He says that
that he knows he did wrong in stealing
the goods, but that he did it at a time
when he was intoxocatcd, and his
reason had fled. That he would have
made a better showing in the court,
but that he was "surrounded by a
a jcstiverous bunch of surging human
ity reminding bun of a flock ofuiative
pelicans hovering over a carcass.
The writer always stood for the grand
principals of Thomas Jefferson, ari:
if he could be released he would go
right to work repairing his wasted
fortune, as he was offered from ?!)0
to SI 10 working per month by the
master mechanic any day he sould go
to work. The appeal would melt
the heart of the most unsympathetic
prosecutor m any state.
It has become necessary to postpone
the first appearance of the Grew
Stock Company at the Parmelc and
instead of showing on next Friday
night they will be here on the follow
ing Wednesday night and will open
with "Hie Invader."
Fed. 9 the time.
OVERCOATS
FOR ALMOST NOTHING
Only a few left. We put them in
3 lots to close.
$5,
$8,
$10
if you have any notion of buying an
overcoat during the next year, snap this
chance. Cash only.
SEE OUR CORNER WINDOW
Co
iseous
The Home of Satisfaction.
Sods
MORRISON
TRAGEDY
Attempts to Kill His Wife
and Father-in-Law and
Then Kills Himself.
WAS A FORMER
PLATTSMOUTH CITIZEN
Well Known to Many Citizens of
This City and Around
the County.
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Daily
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Sandy Morrison, one time principi:
of the Eagle schools, later candidate
for County Superintendent, but failei
to receive the nomination, from tin
Republican parly, and afterwards
editor of the Louisville Courier shot
and killed himself at Fifteenth am
1'arnam streets after shooting
his wife and father-in-law
The wife and her father were ser
iously if not fatally wounded ant
were hurried away to a hospital in
an automobile. Alter shootimr his
wife and her father, Morrison turm
the gun on himself and shot himself
in the temple dying almost instantly
William Schmidtnian and 1). O,
Dwyer were on the scene soon after
the shooting, and saw Morrison lying
on the ground dead. At one time
Morrison was well known in this
county, having signed the muster
roll with the boys of the First Nebraska
he drilled in Plattsmouth for sometime
before the company was ordered to
the front. He failed to pass the neces
sary physical examination ft Omaha
so did not go out with the boys. For
the past five years he has been living
in Omaha, and served on the police
force, and later was letter carrier in
the city, and was occupying this posi
tion at the time of the tragsdy.
Sinco writing the above more facts
lave been learned relative to the cause
of Sandy Morrison's rash deed. After
caving Cass county about seven
years ago. Morrison was married to
Miss Hattic Summer of near Spring
field, and it seems that fits of jealousy
i j - n .i ..... t
ami ouen uesnonuencv came over
him. Shortly, after his marriaec
ic is said to have proposed a suicide
pact with his wife. Matters of dif
ference sparng up between them,
.1 l i n l i . i
ana iasi rriuay ne struck lier over
the head with a hatchet, causing
wound which required a doctor
to dress. His wife became afrah
of him and that lie would take her
ife, she left home and went to the
Monadnock hotel at Fifteenth and
capital Avenue, Wednesday to stay
with her fattier J. A. Sumner who
is a contractor. She was accompanied
to the hotel by her mother and brother
Morrison went to the hotel Thursday
morning and inquired for his wife.
Icr presence there was denied by the
propneter who feared trouble. Prior
to tliis time a divorce had been sug
gested. Not finding his wife at the
hotel, Morrison left, afterwards his
brother came and interviewed Mrs.
Morrison and her mother. The
rothcr said Sandy was willing to
grant the divorce and that he dc-
ircd Mrs. Morrison to go with him
to a lawyer's office and the papers
necessary to start proceedings would
ic procured. The father feared for
lis daughters safty and would not
MOW hul V : u:,d fhev nil
tree started on the. i.u.viun.
When they reached the pavement.
Morrison quickly drew a revolver
nd aimed it at his wife and fired.
le ball making a wound in' the head
and burning a hole in her scarf. The
insane man tried to shoot his wife
second time but her father sprang
etween her and Morrison receiving
the bullet in his left eye. Morrison
then ran to the middle of the street
turned the revolver on himself, and
afrer several attempt, fired a bullet
into his own brain, dying instantly.
Mrs. Morrison and her father were
first taken to the police station, but
as no surgeon was there they were
afterwards taken to a hospital for
treatment. It is not thought, tint
Mrs .Morrison is fatally nhot, and
Mr. Sumner has a chance to recover.
HE DIED AT
DENVER
Anselmo B. Smith, Pioneer
Resident has Passed to
his Reward.
LAID OUT TOWNSITE
CITY OF LINCOLN.
He Lelt Plattsmouth Some Time
In the Early Seventies.
Funeral Saturday.
Julius Fngelkemier and wife
near Murray, visited Omaha thi
morning boarding No l. at this place
Baxter Smith of this city received
a message from Denver this morning
informing him of the death of his
uncle Anselmo II. Smith at that city
ast night and requested him to make
arrangements for service at the grave,
the deceased before his death express
ing a desire to be interred here. The
message ftates no details, but that
Mrs. Smith was sick also, and a later
message stated that she was worse.
Ihc deceased leaves surviving to
mourn his death, his wife and four
children, two sons and two daughters
all married and residing in' Denver,
The children are Elmer E.. Warren
M., Lois Clara, Myrtie P. ! '.v
Anselmo B. Smith was born in
Eden, Vt., February 28, 1833. was
educated at a private school of Rev.
hdwm v heelock as a civil engineer
and surveyor and in 1840 began the
practice of surveying at Eden, Vt.,
continuing there until 1S52, when ho
removed to Macoupin county. He
came to Nebraska in July 18o0. and
located i-ju'ass comity and m. .18611
entered the employ of the Burlington
railway as townsite surveyor.
He was elected county surveyor of
Cass county in 1857, and held the po
sition lor six years, in jisoy Mr.
Smith laid out the town site of the
city of Lincoln for the state of Ne
braska, and f-ince that time he has
laid out all of the townsites for the
ISurlington railway in the states of
Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
In 1S64 Mr. Smith's parents followed
himto Nebraska and resided in
Plattsmouth until their death, his
father dying in lS(i8 and his mother
in 1S71 are buried here.
He was married in Plattsmouth
April 8th 1802 to Miss Sylvira E.Mul-
m, a native of Henry county, Iowa.
Mr. Smith and family have resided in
Denver since 1871,but all of the years
since he has been identified with Cass
county interests. He was a stock
holder in the Commercial Hank of
Weeping Water, and was the only ohe
among them who valued his honor and
to discharge his obligation to the de
positors, at one time he sent the re
ceiver a check for over SfiO(K). His
anded interests in the county have
been large, and his visits to this city
frequent. He was here for the last
time the latter part of November.
The remains will arrive in Platts
mouth Saturday morning on No. 0
and will be taken to the residence of
lis nephew, Baxter Smith on North
Third street, from which the funeral
procession will start at 10 a. m. There
will be a short service at the cemetery.
conducted by Canon Burgess.
The Proper Spirit
Several interested property owners
djacent to Third, Fourth and Fifth
streets south of Main, have indicated'
their willingness to have those streets
paved, for a bhck south of Maine.
his vula certninly be an improve
ment which would be iippreciutcl by
every one in the city, it wou'd do
away with much of the mud now carried
onto Main street
No doub'-- farni'-jra v.ouid apprcfc'ate
this impiovmerit also, as they have
great difficulty, during muddy season,
in hitching their teams and in getting
to their rigs with bundles or merchan
dise of any kind. The matter should
be acted upon at once, ?nd a petition
circulated for the interested lot owners
to sign, and while the work is being
done on ine, and the cross streets,
complete the job by taking in tie
streets on the .south side of Main
for a block. There vorh be no ex
pense to fie city in this as the inter
sections ne already pnud.
Pill IlendiiNMHi wan a passenger
to the metropolis on the early Irt.in
tod.iv.
THE BIG GOVERNMENT
DAM COMPLETED.
The Highest Masonry Dam la the
World.
On Sunday, January 16th, at 2;00
p. m. the united States Government
completed the highest masonry dam
ever built anywhere at any time.
This dam also lias the smallest spread,
from base to top, of any darn of a
considerable heigth ever built.
The dam is between Rattlesnake and
Cedar mountains in tho Northwestern
part of Wyoming, seven miles west of
Cody and about sixty miles east of
Yellowstone Park. The dam is 70 feet
across at the base of the fountation,
1(18 feet wide at tho river level and
70 feet wide at the top. It was start
ed in l!K)f and hns been five years
in building. Almost 100,000 barrels of
cement and 00,000 tons of eranito
were required to complete the masonry
work. It is built into the channel of
the Shoshone river for the purpose of
impounding the waters of that stream
to converse them for irrigating what
is known as the lands of the Shoshone
Irrigation project, comprising 150,000
acres of land lying along the banks
of the Shoshone River and along the
Burlington Railroad to the east of
Cody. When the waters are impound
ed, they will form a lake of ten square
miles with nn average depth of 70
feet and a enpicity of -18,588,512,000
gallons, or enough water to cover
450,000 acres with water one loot deep
enough water to irrigate more than
twice the acreage of the Government
Project. '
Upon this dam and other engineer
ing works of this project, which in
clude an outlet tunnel through the
solid rock, a diversion dam at Cor-
bett and a tunnel therefrom three and
one half miles long through the holid
rock, tho Government is spending
about $7,000,000, or almost one
seventh of the total amount $50,000,
000 thus far expended on the various
Government irrigation projects scat
tered throughout the country.
During the past year hundreds of
settlers have taken up lands under
this project and have done exception
ally well, even for a first year.
The lands of the project are reached
by the Burlington Route.whieh is
spending millions of dollars in the
construction of new lines through
this rich and fertile country known
as the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.
THEY WENT
TO THE LAV
Deputy Sheriff Manspeaker
Gets Busy and Puts in
Lively Time.
DEFENDANT HAD
LEFT THE COUNTRY.
Was Unkind Enough not to Leave
Creditors his Postolflce
Address. ,
Litigation which h.ia enmiired tho
attention of Justice of the Peace M.
Archer for a short time and kept
Deputy Sheriff E. Mansnei.
r
the jump for two days was brought
to a close this morning. The suit was
by Earnest Young of Nehawka,
who sued Albert Jones for work and
labor done at threshing and in running
a threshing machine to tho sum of
$-'7.04. Garnishment proceedings were
instituted nuaiiist Z. S'hrader and W.K.
Shcrlierdaon, two men livinir near
Nehawka. The niiswcr dav for th
garnishee was ' sot for today. Mr
Nirader answered that he had in his
possession property of the defendant
Jones consisting of corn in an amount
more than sufficient to pay the claim
and costs. Mr. Shepherdson answered
that he had 51.50 in his possession
belonging to the defentant. Judgment
wwJ 4-nteres by the court against the
defendant for the full amount of the
claim and costs and Mr. Shrader
ordcivd to' pcy iuts eAiit the pixicecda
of the corn as soon as the same could
be marketed.
The defendant is a single man and
had departed for other territory.with
out leaving his post office address,
which makes it very inconvenient for
creditors to present their claims.
II. C. McKiney, of Indianola,
who has Im n the guest of his cousin
Enock Mason for a few days, left
for his home this moraine. Mr.
McKiney was formerly a resident
of Plattsmouth and employed by the
Burlington. Ho is now engaged in
the confectionary business.
A "Friend Maw" Sale
One thing we like about a
"Clean Up" sale like ours; if we
don't make a lot of profit selling
clothes at less than they're
worth, we certainly make a M
of friends. Every time we get
a man into one of our
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
suits and overcoats, we know
we've made him a solid friend of
this store, And we know that
friends are worth a good ieal
more to a b isiness than a few
dollars of immediate profit.
"CLtiAN UP" PRICES
SuHa and overcoats up to now
$10
II. S. & M. suits ami overcoats up to $21, now
$14
II. S. & M. suits and overcoats up to $.'10, now
$18
The Homo of Hart SchafTncr & Marx clothes
Manh'itt.-iti Shirts Stetson Hat
Falter & Thierolf
In 'tc (lir'uif) Clothiers.