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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1910)
BURGLARS GET BUSY Broke Into the Dovey Store on Main Street Last Night. REMOVED TWENTY DOLLARS FROM THE CASH DRAWER Pried Open Window at Rear ol Store and Escaped With out Being Noticed. (From Tuesday's Dally) The sticky fingered men of the light handed tribe are again at work in the city, thi time having done their work in the business section of town. Last night, Dovey's store was broken in to and the money drawers robbed of all they contained, which did not a mount to but $20 in change. Entrance to the building was gained through one of the rear windows in the east part of the store. The window was locked and covered with a heavy metal fire shutter, rather insecurely bolted into the frame of the window. The bolt did not fit into a metal casing, but was held by an inch and a half strip of wood, consequently it was not an overly difficult job to pry a crow bar between the window and frame, break the sasli from its foundation and open the metal shutter. The win dow on the inside was .locked by a common bolt at the sash, and the win dows fitted rather loosely, it was a simple stunt to force a chisel between them, breaking the cast iron lock. Immediately in front of the window stands the office of the concern, in which is a large desk containing three drawers used for change, books etc. The cash drawer containing 815 was broken into with a chisel, the mone ey removed and the one adjoining it was opened and the So which had been left for the use of the clerks in the morn ing was sacked. The safe was not tampered with and the stock of goods so far as can be told, was not molested. The robbery was first noticed this morning when the store was opened by one of the clerks. The small cash drawer was laying on top of the desk, and a few cf the contents of the other drawer were scattered on the floor and in a conspicuous place lay the chisel which had been used for the work. The tool may serve as a slight clue for the authorities, for it does not belong to the store, probably be ing the personal property of the thief the police have not any very promis ing clues to work on, but have a few slight suspicions. The Dovey store was the only one broken into. $100 Fine at Greenwood. A drunk Irom ureenwoou, giving his name as llogers, was brought up by Marshall Andrus yesterday and landed in the county jail where he has a S1U0 fine to serve out. He was arrest ed in Greenwood while in a badly in toxicated condition, it requiring more than half a dozen men to force him into jail after making up his mind not to nter the place. l or being drunk am disorderly and for resisting an officer the justice of the peace at Grcenwooe imposed upon him a fine of $11)0 and costs, the, later amounting to about $11. He is a husky fellow and gave the officers a bunch ot excitement in landing him behind the bars. When brought hire yesterday, he was wel locked in the irons. Post Master Salary Boosted. The post offkc department at Wash ington yesterday sent out notices, giving the increases and decreased in post masters salaries in the towns of Nebraska. Plattsmouth being given a substantial raise of $100 a year, making the salary now $2,200. The Louisville sidary was given a boost to $1,100 from $1,000 the Elmwood office receiving the same raise. Of the long list of towns, numbering perhaps 200, there are but three which suffer any decrease, these being Alma, O'Neill and Shickley. The increase in the wages of Post Master Schneider again shows that the local office, the mail business and the town are grow ing. , Plank Dropped on Him. Frank Koubek, a repairman at the shops, was given a bad scar wound yesterday afternoon by a falling board which struck him ion the head inflicting a deep gash on the top of his thought parlor. He was at work on a car, when a plank fell from the top of the car doing the above men tioned damage to the gentleman, who finds it necessary to wear a bandage today like a Hindu's turban, It was quite a narrow escape for the young man, for such a blow might have been much more serious. SHINGLES IN POSITION FOR THIRTY NINE YEARS Were Made Across the River In 1869 From Cotton Wood Timber. M. S. Briggs is remodeling the house which he recently purchased from T. J. Hickson and converting it into quite a comfortable little residence which he expects to occupy when he has the alterations completed. When finished, the former house of four rooms will be an eight room residence and it will look more respectable than it has in its thirty four years of existence. While tearing off part of the roofing Mr. Briggs found some vtty peculiar and ancient shingles that have been in position on the roof since 1S71. They were made of cottonwood, being sawed out in 1869 at a little cottonwood lumber camp across the river. After the heavy shingles had nearly served their time, they happen ed to be covered over by the addition of a roof on one part of the building and here they have remained in po sition for the remainder of the thirty nine years. The old house has seen many events and witnessed many changes in the city, being built by Miles Morgan, father of B. C. Morgan, many years ago for a man by the name of Cooper. The old cottonwood shingles, when removed from their roof boards, appeared to be in fine condition and would shed rain for many years more if necessary. The old house lias had a long life, considering the fact that it was but an unimposing, frame structure to begin with. Mean to Hetty Green. Hetty Green, decrying the injustice accorded her by a jury which awarded a trust company judgment against her for $54S, due since 1905 for the rent of a number of safety deposit boxes.thinks she is a much abused woman. Because she has the repu tation of being the richest woman in the world, she fancies all the world is conspiring to separate her from her niomy. Fearing that the success of the trust company's suit against her will prompt others to sue her, she fled from New York on Wednesday to one of the number of obscure lodg ings outside the city to which she re- eats when she wants to hide herself from those who would annoy her. Everybody expected that she would take an adverse verdict to heart. The incident is still fresh in the minds of many when she laid down on the floor and bellowed like a baby after losing a case in which slic was finan ciallv interested. Two Hurt at Shops. Ralph Lorenzen, a Burlington env ployee who works in the brass foun dry, was slightly burned by hot metal while at work in the shops this morning. Lorenzen was wheeling metal with a wheelbarrow and stopping to pick up a piece of hot metal, his right hand was painfully burned, the second and third fincers being the most badly affected. He had the hand bandage up bv the company physician and wil probably be off duty for a short while. Joseph Kaoukal, a laborer at the IBurlington cinder pit, suffered a ba bruise on the right leg this morning about ten thirty o'clock when he was driving a stake in the door of a car Tie crow-bar. with which he was working, slipped, striking him a heavy blow a1 little above the shin, which put him off his job for the rest of the day. To Take Up Land. James Archer, one of Plattsmouth's old residentsstart(d this morning for Omaha, enroute to South Dakota where he will visit his son James II Archer who is now located at Aber deen. From that place, Mr. Archer will proceed to the Standing Iloek reservation which was recently opened to home seekers. Both he and his son drew claims on the land on which they will file this spring. The reservation is in the northern part of the state, ex tending into North Dakota. Mr Archer thinks he has a chance of get ring a very good piece of land out of the deal as some of the land in the reservation is of very good quality He will be gone on his trip until the first of next week. . Loyal Mystic Legion Convention District convention was held in this city today of the Loyal Mystic Legion, the principal business of the meeting being the election of a dele gate to attend the Supreme Council which will meet in August. The meet ing today was in charge of Worthy Coiieillor Dr. Townsend of Lincoln Several minor matters of business was talked over, but the showers kept the audience down to a very limited num ber. Dr. Townsend was elected Su preme delegate to visit thestate council in the fall. J. P. Rouse, an Alvo resident, was a caller at the county seat yesterday. RAILROADS BACK HIGH RATES Chief Executive Agrees to Injunction Suit. AWAIT OPERATION Increased Schedules Railroad Men After Talk With President Taft. WASHINGTON, I). C, June 10. A complete agreement between the government and the recently enjoined railroads of the Western Trunk Line association was reached at a White House conference which lasted more than four hours this afternoon. The railroads represented agreed to with draw all rate increases filed to be ef fective on or aftei June 1, and agreed to file no more increases until the bill in congress which gives the Interstate Commerce commission power to in vestigate and suspend increases that are not justified becomes a law and goods into effect. President Taft thereupon stated that the administration purpose in bringing the injunction suit had been accomplished and would be discon tinued. The discontinuance will not be entered, however, until the new railroad law is signed. The belief was experssed tonight that all of the other railroads of the country which have filed increased rates or have such a plan under consideration, will abide by the agreement reached today with the twenty-four railroads named as defendants in the Hannibal suit. There will be a conference at the White House today in which Presi dent Brown of the New York Central railway, President McCrca of the Pen- sylvania and other officials repre senting railroads in the eastern and central teriitory, will participate. That they will acquiesce in President Taft s proposition and hold up the proposed increusses until after the new laws be come effective is practically taken for granted here tonight. Every one con nected with this conference seems grat ified over the out come. All that Presi dent Taft has desired is that the In terstate Commerce commission should have authority to investigate to de termine whether or not they are justi fied by conditions and are just to the shippers. This power is being conferred under the new law. The railroads, on the other hand, it is pointed out, arc to be relieved of embarrassing litigation, arc assured of a "square deal" when their case is presented to the Interstate Com merce commission and arc free to resume the contracts of improvements and extensions which they threatened to cancel had the court proceedings continued. The new railroad bill contains a clause which gives its effect sixty days after being signed by the president. It will be necessary to make provi sion as to the supervision of rates by the Interstate Commerce commission immediately effective, and for this reason, as President Taft indicated tonight, it will be necessary to send the bill to conference. President Taft summoned three members of his cabinet to sit with him in conference with the four railroad officials. Attorney General Wickers ham was included. There was sone Fill Out Coupon Fill in your own name or the name of a friend whom you think would be an earnest contestant and mail to "Contest Editor," News-Herald: You ought to send in a subcription so that the name would appear in the first standing we publish, that the contestant's friends will know that he or she arc in the race to win. Remember an To THE NEWS-HERALD, Plattsmouth, Neb. hereby enter the name of whose residence is. at a contestant in your Great Subcription contest. Signed PULL Cancel OF NEW LAW Withdrawn By surprise, however when the president sent for Secretary of State Knox and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel. Later Chairman Knapp and Mr. Lane of the Interstate Commerce commission were summoned. It was 7:05 p. m. when the conference ad journed. Then the followingstatement was prepared and given out : "K. P. Ripley, president of the Atchi son, Topeka & Santa F.e Railroad company; Walker D. Hines, acting chairman executive committee, At chison, Topeka fc Santa Fe Railroad company; Frederick A Delano, presi president of the Wabash Railroad company, and S. M. Felton, president of the Chicago Great Western Rail road company, a committee repre senting the twenty-four rail road companies defendant in a suit brought by the government in Missouri in which Judge Dyer granted an in junction restraining increases in rates, met the president and the atttorney general today, pursuant to a request sent to the president a few days ago. The president stated to these gentle men at the outset that the purpose of the suit was to prevent the proposed rate increases which, under the existing law, could not be investigated at all until after they had become ef fective.) so as to preservee the status until the new statute could be passed and the commission should have the power to investigate rate advances as soon as announced and before becoming effective. "He stated further that he thought the railroad companies must withdraw the tariffs enjoined and all other tar iffs filed by them effective on or after June 1, 1910, and that none of them ought to file any new tariffs involving rate advances until the new law should be passed, assuming that it would be passed at the present session of con gress. "After conference, the railroad com panies announced that they would adopt the view expressed by the presi dent and thereupon the president stated that if they did so his purpose in bringing the suit would be aceoin plished and, such result being acconi plished, he saw no occasion for press ing the suit and the same would be withdrawn." The rate increases specified in the injunction suit against the railroads in the Western Association did not cover all the increases filed with the commission. The railroads today, however, agreed to withdraw all the increases planned for June 1, or after Tom Svoboda, custodian at the court house, got busy on the court house lawn this morning and nfter playing a tune on the lawn mower, cut away the sod that was protruing over the side walks, geratly improving the looks of the grounds of the county headquarters. and Mall Today. early start may mean victory. RED MEN PUSHING THE CELEBRATION OF FOURTH Have Subscription Paper Out To day That Is Getting Big Bunch ol Signers. The committee of Red Men appoint ed at the last meeting of the lodge to rustle up things for a Fourth of J7ly celebration was busy today soli citing subscriptions among the busi ness men for subscriptions to help de fray the expenses of the big time and they report this afternoon to have met with very good success in their work. The business men seem to take to the proposition very well and the boys are confident they will have no trouble in raising the money needed to put the celebration on a firm foundation The committee in charge of the matter will meet tomorrow evening and all plans for the celebration will be formulated. Different carnival companies are being coresponded with but none have yet been given the concession of the day. The Red Men arc in high spirits over the out look for a big time, having received many do nations from merchants from whom they had hardly expected any support. It shows you can't keep a good man down, and when you get a tribe of good men and a good cause, its a com bination that is hard to beat. Court House Proceedings. Final settlement was made today in the estate of Conrad Heineman, Henry Heineman of Murray son of the deceased was in the city in connection with the hearing. Mrs. R. C. Kendall filed a petition in county court this morning for the appointment of her father, Benjamin Davis, as administrator in the estate of her deceased husband. Petition to foreclose mortgage on eighty acres of land, the mortgage amounting to $3,315 was entered in district coUrt this morning, the plain tiff being George Sheldon, the defen dants D. C. Rhoden. Anna V. Rhoden and Hallie M. Kiser. In the case of the State of Nebraska versus William Noxon and G. K. Do vey, a motion was filed in district court this afternoon by G. E. Dovey moving court to strike from the pe tition in said case, paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 for the reasons that each is irrclevnt. Kitchen Cabinets. Before you buy a cabinet come in and see the latest model made. It is the most complete kitchen cabinet on the market, and its advan tage over other cabinets is that every compart men t is enclosed making it dust proof. The niekle plated table is so arranged that it may be with drawn from the interior, giving twice the service of others. The (lour bin is also arranged in a new way, being of glass, with the sifter at the botom easily aecesible. Equipped with glass receptieles for coffees, teas, spices etc., and is in every way superior to anything now on the market. My line of gocarts is large and varied Ranging in price from $5 to $10. Most anything you want in this line can lie uau here. 202-0t. D. P. Jackson. Deserter Arrested. Oklahoma Vandevert, the man want cd for wife and child desertion, who's family was in the city at the Man speaker residence a snort time ago. was located at Pender, Nebraska and Sheriff Quinton left yesterday morning for that city, returning later with man charged with the penitentiary of fense. lie was formerluy a resident of South Bend where he and his family had lived until about four months ago, when he suddenly left, failing to pro vide for his wife and four little chil dren. They were in a destitute con dition and finally found it necessary to consult the county for advice, She is now living at the home of her parents. Yandevcrt's hearing has not been arranged for and it may be sev eral days before he is brought up. Grader Works In Mud. The dirt elevator at work on the Ferry road at the bar is showing today that it is a sturdy machine and always on the job. Only the short time that the heavy rain was falling, was the big machine forced to cease its operation. It was ready for business as soon as the noon hour was over and the dirt started piling out of its big throat at as lively a rate as ever. The light showers are serving to pack the dirt which is already thrown up, which will add much to the road's subtautiality Extra teams have been hitched to the rear of the machine and now that is below the rough surface of the soil the grader is giving better satisfaction to tlie Commercial Club men who are watching with interest every move it makes. Bon Davis of Union, an old time friend of John Cory is in tho city today visiting the Corv's. Mr. Davis is accompanied by his daughter R. C. Kendall of Union. Mis. GOOD NEWS TO PATRONS Continuation of Harmony at Plattsmouth High School. SUPERINTENDENT GAMBLE WILL REMAIN IN THE CITY Induced to Retain Position of Su perintendent of City Schools (From Tuesday's Dally) At the regular monthly meeting - of the school board held last evening, Superintendent J. W. Gamble was in duced to withdraw his resignation on the condition that he be granted a two months leave of absence to re cuperate hb health. This unexpected action of Mr. Gamble meets with tho most hearty approval of the people for it was generally feared they wero to lose one of the best men that ever graced the city faculty and the resig nation that was presented the board of education a few weeks ago was the cause of considerable regret among the members of the board. Mr. Gamble nid made no definite plans for the future, but intended to refrain from active work until he was in a better state of health, for the confinement of his work had greatly impaired his hysical condition. The Count Came Back. With what the small boy whould say, "borne ol the starch taken out of his sails," Count Rudolph Festica de Telua, who left New York Sunday on his schooner yacht Tetona on a three-year cruise with his American wife, daughter of Gardiner Wetherbee, nosed his way back into port, Tuesday. The yacht, which was formerly the Thistle, flagship of Commodore Tod of the New York Yacht club, encount ered terrific seas after she got outside of Sandy Hook, and the Count, who undertook to navigate her himself became alarmed for her safety. Festics, who claims to be an experienced seaman, has enrolled the boat in the Austrian. navy. The precipitous re turn of the craft to the harbor, encour aged the relatives and friends of his wife to renew there efforts to dissuade her from making the trip abroad with the count. Society still recalls with interest the frantic efforts made by the late Mrs. Wetherbee, mother of the Countess, to prevent her daugh ter's marriage to the Count, for whom she conceived a violent dislike. So strong was dier antipathy to him that it was carried with her to the grave her will containing a very bitter refer ence to him. Hunting Hares, Not Heirs. Disclaiming any niatiimonial ambi tions 11. R. II. Ferdinand, Due de Montpensicr brother of the queen of Portugal, cousin of King Alfonso of Spain, grandson of Louis Phillipc, King of France and brother of the Due d'Orleans, pretender to the French throne, arrived in New York this week, westward bound on a hunting trip. He is accompanied by Compte G. de Poutac, and expects to spend several months hunting in the Rockies and in Mexico. That the world may know of his prowrcss as a marksman, he has made a contract with a moving picture concern to snap him and his suite in action. The noble visitor is extremely handsome and is only 2li years of age. His announcement that his time here will be so preoccu pied with hunting that he will have no opportunity to devote to society, will doubtless bring dissapointniont to a number of ambitious mothers with eligible daughters to whom his presence in this country would be likely to sug gest interesting possibilities. From the United States the Due will sail for China and Japan in the summer. Walter Byers, the Rock Bluff man who was (piite seriously hurt while intoxicated Saturday night, presum ably by a fall from a wagon, seems to be holding his own today. The physicians have heard nothing from the bedside of the injured man and from this it is thought his condition cannot be any worse. He is in quite a serious condition, his head and chest being badly cut and bruised. Mrs. G. E. Dovey and little son George left yesterday for Chicago and Winetka. At the later place they will witness the events of graduation week at the Gorton, which Miss Kath oiino Dovey is attending. They will return the latter part of the week accompanied by Miss Dovey who has finished her school work for this year. V