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MYSTERY 41" II V d OULWLO The B2dy of the Omaha Attorney Found in the Platfe River Yesterday Eienlng. AN INQUEST WAS HELD TODAY The Verdict of the Jury is That Mr. Andrews Met Death Accidently. FURTHER INVESTIGATION TO BE PERSUED Thej o ly of I. It. Andres, the Oma ha attorney, who has been missing since Friday, was found Tuesday even ing about s o'clock in the I'latte river. John Davis, who lives on the Par 'i.d' farm, had been out repairing a hue-. lie lei urning along the river hank not expecting to tind the dv. Kut Mr. I : :s sas something old him t o top w here the re -is of a .1 j. t l ee pp I i-cl ed i nt o t he liver. 1 led id ' .u:d w as .-t a 1 1 led I ' s,-e t body of l '1 :.i i: lodged in tin" I 01 ' s f if t I :e t ree. Seeing that it was wedded last, and :."t hkcly to l!oat awa. he hastened to his home near by ;t::d dispatched his hired man to watch the body while he himself hastened to the home of W. II. eihert, w here the nearest telephone was located. Mr. Seibert at once tele pin tied to Coroner Henry Hoeck in I'lattsmouth and County Attorney Raw Is. Tbecounty attorney instruct ed Mr. Seibert to take the Ixidy out of the water and watch it during the night until the authorities could ar rive ami hold the inquest. M r. Seibert and Mr. Iavis returned ;o the river, accompanied by Andrew Seibert. .. II. Hedges, (Jeorge Dick and John McNellaux. They decided to leave the body in the river believing it would be letter preserved if not re moved. Accordingly they lashed it fast with a rope and remained on the spot all flight. The coroner and county attorney and an undertaker left this morning at five o'clock for the place where the body was. II. C. Hrome, Capt. II. E. I'almer and several other members of the. Masonic fraternity had arrived from Omaha sm-.timi during the flight. Tiie following jury was empanelled: V. II. Seibert. Andy Seibert, J no. McNellaux, Jas. Ilessenilow, Henry F.aker. Philip Trietsch. The lxdy was removed from the river. Its appearance indicated that it had been in the water several days. There was no marks uponitexcedt a small mark on the back of the neck u hich was probably caused after death. The jury rendered a verdict of acci dental death. It is reported that the verdict ren dered does not agree with the general belief or Mr. Andrews' friends in Omaha They believe the man met with foul play and will investigate further. Mr. Andrews has a host of friends and he is a prominent member (if the masonic fraternity. Mr. A. J. Funkhouser, Fitch, assist ant county attorney of Douglas county, and Mr. Jeffries, all Masons, came down on the noon train to render what services they could. The body was taken to the vacant room opposite Fassbender's furniture store. There it was embalmed and it will be taken to Omaha on the 10:13 train tonight. The funeral will prob ably occur tomorrow. Sells Business College. Prof. A. L. Lesseman has sold the Nebraska City Business College, of which he has been president and owner, to two gentlemen from Stan berry, Mo. The new proprietors will arrive in the city the latter part of this week to select a location for the college. The present location will probably not be occupied again by the college by its new management. Prof. Lesseman leaves tonight for central Kansas, where he will take charge of a large business college. I'nder his management the Nebraska City Husi-i ness College has prospered and a large attendance was present at each term of the college, the pupils being draw n from surrounding tow ns and country. Nebraska City Tribune. Winter Wheat. The Nebraska Agricultural Experi ment Station has just issued Rulletin No. ", which gives variety tests of w inter wheat, the cause and treatment of many w heat troubles, the effect of good and poor seed and good and poor tillage. The bulletin is sent free to residents of Nebraska upon request addressed to the Agricultural Experi ment Station, Lincoln, Neb. ANOTHER OREGON LETTER Cterles Y. Shermam, Sr., Writes infaresf ingly of the Country. ;i irii:iru kno.j l .iie-st a'l. m ar iuiry, K !;n,.il ii ( t . n- . .)i:iv 'n.". Mi '"iiial Mlilalii. I'iattsmouth. Mv r fii'ii'l: Your good J 1 1 i ol le.er.t date leached 11. r while I was at work harvesting - hel Ii out a neighbor, ami 1 have been too husv ever since till now, manipulating the "festive" hayrork, mower and hay rake to even think much about what 1 should say in reply. I was glad to hear that you and yours were enjoying good health, the basic Ingredient to all comfort or happiness in life. Your assurance that, not only yourself but many others are anxious to hear from me. is very flattering to my bump of self-esteem, and consoles me with the thought that, with all my faults, I am not forgotten. "Tis sweet to be re meml)ered," some one said, and I re alize the truth of the phases. In the mad rush for place and power man kind is cold andseltish, unsympathetic and cynical, but touched by the magic wand of friendship and comradeship and the kindly elements of man's nature are instantly around in re sponsive harmony to the heart-heats of his bellows. of course 1 am interested in the doings of ( 'ass county people and read Tin: .h i ' l: n a i. every bit of it. in cluding the ads. every week. 1 1 is a I hue paper, ami you will please con- latulate.Mr. Hates for me on his en ergy, enterprise and good taste in its conduit. lie is ues'-rving of succeess. You arc anxious to hear the news tro:n this pari o! iod'.scount r ? W ell, that's a problem how to tell it. The fanners here are just now harvesting a bumper crop of rye and w heal, and living on new potatoes, peas, radishes and other irarden t ruck, notwithstand ing the fact that we have had no rain since early in June, and the sun is hot. In Nebraska such weather would have burned everything up, but not so here: true the oats crop, which is late, will be sensibly shortened by the hot, dry weather, but that is all the damage visible thus far. Hut everybody is in a good humor and bouyant with hope for the future. You may wonder how this can be, but there are several good reasons for it. chiefly among which is the fact that the government irriga tion project, embracing all the valley regions around about, is an assured fact of the early future. There is no longer any doubt about it. True its consummation has been delayed some what, and for a time made doubtful because members of the large land holders delayed or refused to "sign up'' their lands to the Water-Csers' association for irrigation purposes, and until they do so the governmental otbcials in charge of the project re fused to go ahead with the work: but the most of ttiese have changed their minds, and the final surveys are in progress Another reason why the people are so hopeful is the fact that two railroads from the south are being constructed into this county as rapidly as men, teams and machinery can build them each striving to beat the other, with every prospect of the com pletion of at least one of them to Klamath Falls, our county town, be fore winter. This improvement will create a new era or condition for the farmers of this county. Cp to the present no crop, however large, could be marketed outside the county, and the farmer who had a surplus beyond his own needs had to depend on local demand for the price of bis grain, hay or potatoes: hence, whenever there were large crops the price was sure to be very low, while a partial failure found everybody short alike, and once or twice in the county's history large numbers of stock perished fr w ant of winter feed, while the prices of grain and hay were abnormally high. With railroads to carry off to the world's markets our surplus, or bring to our doors the world's products incase of need, all this will be changed. Every farmer will be encouraged to raise as much as he can, an'd with water to put on his land when it's needed, there is no telling where the limit will be; for soil which, without rain, turns off 20 to GO bushels of the cereals, annually, will surely double the quantity when supplied with water when most needed. The history of the irrigated regions of western Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming proves that. The secretary of the interior department at Wash ington lias set apart -S4..00.iXo for the construction of the Klamath irriga tion system, embracing some iI.jO.000 i :wres nnrl the loenl ntTieinls in elifin'n have announced that the contracts for the ditch work will probably be let and the work begun by September 1st. This ditch work will be so extensive that it is certain to consume the large surplus raised this year, and as the ditches, dams, tlumes and gates are likely to be completed early next year we are pleasurably anticipating the use of some water for next summer's crop. So, you see. there is ground for the hope that is within us for the future of this country. In the early part of this letter I spoke of the hot weather we are hav ing, but there is another phase of this climate to which I forgot to allude: i and that is the cool nights we have. No matter if the mercury rises to !" ii L'ri'o in the heat of the dav we always have cooi evenings, and at night one always needs a bianke' tor i covering. Theie is no need of fanning or sweltering, or making one's b-d out i t doors to si'cure a comfoi table s!'-t p at night h'-re. As soon as the sun disappears behind the western mountains the air becomes relicsh ingly cool, and sleep soon coir.es as a boon to the tired worker in the hot harvest tields. It is an every-day. or night, wonder to me. Hut the fact that these valleys are at an altitude of 4.mh) to 4.2oo feet above sea level is probably the secret of the matter. I sent you a few days ago a copy of the Klamath Falls Express, which contains a sketch in dialogue form descriptive of this country and its "resources." which I wrote for that paper for distributisn in the east. It may give you some facts which I have not incorporated in my letters to you. Do me the favor to show it to some of your friends who might wish to better their condition by coming here to secure cheap homes. Say to them that to get the best at the lowest price they cannot come too soon, for all signs indicate that there will be a rush in here as soon as the work on the government ditches is let. The ex penditure of such a vast sum of money on that work is of itself certain to create a great boon i and gives work for large numbers of men for a year or two. Men of moderate means can secure good farms at sp to 2fl an acre, and the irrigation of the land will not cost over the acre, (and it may be less) with ten years to pay it in. without interest. Hut one person cannot take over h',n acres. The plan is for the poor men to get homes and not for the rich to spe culate on. Trusting that this letter if long enough to suit your taste, I remain in all friendship, yours truly, ClIMM.Ks W. SlIKIlMAN.Sli. Crop Prospects. A Washington special of yesterday summeri.es tiie crop prospects throughout the county as follows, which is copied from the weather bureau report for the week: "During the week ending July :il,the Ohio valley and northern portions of the middle Atlantic states and New England experienced temperatures too low for best results, but elsew here the temperature conditions were favor able. Rains interfered w ith farm work in the Missouri valley, northern Texas and in portions of the lower Ohio val leys and east gulf coast districts.while rain is needed in Georgia, portions of Florida, northern Mississippi, northern Illinois. Ohio and northern New Jer sey. In the Ohio valley the growth of corn has been somewhat checked by cool weathej- but elsewhere in the principal corn states the crop has made excellent progress. Throughout the Atlantic coast districts a tine crop is indicated. In Tennessee, Arkansas, Indian Territory and northern Texas the condition of corn is not so promis ing. "Threshing of winter wheat has been interrupted by wet weather in southern Illinois and portions of the Missouri valley and middle Atlantic states.but elsewhere this work has ad vanced satisfactorily. Winter wheat harvest is finished, except a small par;t of the crop in Michigan and New York. "Spring wheat harvest is in progress in Nebraska, Iowa and the southern portions of South Dakota and Minne sota. This crop has made favorable progress, no damage reported from rust. Late spring wheat was materi ally damaged in Washington by hot winds of the preceding week, but the early crop escaped injury. Harvest is general in Oregon, with about the average yield and quality. "Oat harvest has progressed favor ably and is now becoming general in the more northern states. With the exception of some damage to harvested oats in Missouri, Oklahoma,Texas and Virginia, the reports respecting this crop are highly favorable." Hits the Nail on the Head. More towns die for want of confi dence and lack of public spirit than from rivalry of neighboring towns and adverse surroundings. When a man in search of a home or a business loca tion goes to a town and finds every body brimful of hope and enthusiasm over the prospects of the place, he soon becomes imbued with the spirit, drives down his stakes and goes to work with equal interest. On the other hand when he finds one in doubt and apprehensive as to the future considers it no place for him and im mediately shakes its dust from his feet. Nebraska Citv News. Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold. A. J. Nusbaum, Ratesville, Indiana, writes: "Last year I suffered for three months with a summer cold so dis tressing that it interfered with my business. I had many of the symptoms of hay fever, and a doctor's prescrip tion did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which seemed to only aggravate my case. Fortunately I insisted upon having Foley's Honey and Tar and it quickly cured me. My wife has since used Foley's Honey and Tar with the same success.'' F. G. Fricke & Co. EVERYONE DISAPPOINTED Rain Interferes ad the Woodmen Picnic for Today Was Declared Off. A CROWD IN TOWN TODAY The Rain Even Could Not Stay the Tide of Comers Quite a Crowd from Omaha. BUT THEY CAN COME SOME OTHER DAY l.'iiin. rain, go away. Come a '-'a in another clay. All the Woodmen want to play At the pionie all the day. And at the last moment the unex pected happened. The weather bureau had not been consulted. Why was this overlooked? Mayor (lering and his committee have been constantly indefatigably at work for the past four weeks. The Woodman picnic had been advertised far and wide. Omaha was posted and placarded in every window. Hills were scattered broadcast throughout the surrounding counties. The newspapers were full of it. Here in I'lattsmouth tiie pre parations were no less extensive. The beautiful g rounds had been made more beautiful, merry-go-rounds, dancing pavillions and concessions of all kinds were upon the grounds. The streets had been scrubbed, the store w indows decorated and all sorts of minor ar rangements made for the comfort arid the greatest enjoyment of the city's guests. And then came the rain. It began to fall in the silent watches of the night and those who had the big atTair on their minds lay awake and hovered between hope and despair. As the hours passed and the dawn came and still the rain fell hope lied, despair took full possession. Oh fudge: and Oh fury! were, no doubt, frequent ex pressions upon the lips of the people who were to have participated. The public demands to know why the weather bureau was overlooked. In these days cf graft it is a suspicious circumstance. Was the weather bu reau bribed? If so, by whom? Who profited by the calumny of the w eather man? Whose tainted dollars are now resting in the pockets of the man who is hired to give us weather and to pro tect us from tloods? Let it be hoped that those in charge of this affair will hereafter placate the weather man Lefore attempting a picnic. Let it be done in an honorable manner but let him be placated. If it is deemed necessary he should be persuaded to sign a paper pledging his sacred honor that fair weather shall be furnished on the great day. The rain began to fall at about : o'clock in the morning. Itcamedown with that quiet unostentatious steadi ness that marks the long rain. There was no wind, just the heavy Jailing of the rain. It continued through the night, the dawn, the daylight, with out intermission. At 7 o'clock it was very apparent that there would be no picnic. Mayor Cering 'phoned the Omaha committee and then called up all the towns from which delegations were to come and notified them that it was postponed. In Omaha he reached Hon. A. R. Talbot w ho was to be the principal speaker. The special trains which were to have run on the Bur lington and the Missouri Pacific were taken off. Last evening several beautifully trimmed windows were unveiled. Doveys had two very handsome win dows. The east window contained a Woodman designing a large log with an axe sticking in it. The background is a large mirror bordered with flow ers. The rest of the window is trimmed in white. Gering & Co. had in one window two large logs an axe sticking in one and the other split with the sledge and the wedge lying near to tell the story. On the plate glass window was painted the Wood man emblem, two crossed sledges over a wedge upon a green maple leaf. On the emblem was the legend, "Wel come"'. There were several other win dows that were trimmed tocompetefor the prize offered for the best window. A delegation of Omaha and South Omaha Woodmen arrived on the morning Missouri Pacific train. They came from the several camps of those cities. Rain or no rain they intended to have a day's outing. They were in full uniform. They reported that two big coaches of Woodmen had come over from Council HI u lis this morning enroute to I'lattsmouth but had re luctantly turned back when informed that the picnic was not to be. In fact, the depots at Omaha were filled with people in spite of the unpleasant weather. The streets of the city were well filled with people all day. The Mis souri Pacific special came through on schedule time but news of the post ponment had been telphoned to the jt'iwns along the line and therefore ! there were few who came on the spec : ial. I A number of t he visiting woodii.cn organized a party and danced most of t he day in Coat es' hall, others played billiards in the Klks' lodge rooms. They all made the day pass pleasantly in spite of t he "eat hel .1. W. Harnett and II, P. I.-avit t f t he Omaha commit t ee came down on the iini'ii t ram. They consult ed with' the local committee and it was de cided to postpone the big event till Thursday. August 2t. New advertise ments have already been printed and the committee expect to have just as big a crowd then as would have at tended today. LOOKING BACKWARD TWENTY-TWO YEARS Laying Corner Stone of the Waterman Block Noted Events of the Past. About twenty-five years ago IIerlert M. Piiishnell, now of Lincoln, and for merly post master at that place, was a citizen of I'lattsmouth and founded a paper called "The Enterprise." From .Judge Kanisey's '"scrap hook" a Journal reporter is permit ed to copy the following: Tiik Kvi i:i:ri:i-i:. o!!i,-iii I'.i pir i ( tin- lily of ". H ml h. 1 II i: I. A I No I I II i: ( o;i;i; rli N K. l)n Wednesday. 1 he 24th. t he corner stone of the new opera house was laid with impressive ceremonies by t he Ma sonic fraternity, with P. M. Lun ger of ( maha. in command. In the evening a banquet was held at the Central Kestaurant, at which (Irand Commander, F. H. White, of ficiated as toastmaster, and the toasts and responses were many and all lis tened to with much attention. The programme entire was a success in every particular. List of articles deposiited in corner stone: Photographs of the Waterman family: graduating essay of Ida C. Waterman, ",2nd class, .Jacksonville Female Academy, Jacksonville, 111., com., of 1SS2; business care? of Crites & Ramsey: proceedings of (Irand Lodge of Nebraska, A. F. & A. M., held at Lincoln, June 21st and 'S.UI, lss2: busi ness card of J. P. Young: businesscard of V. V. Leonard; annual of the Ne braska Herald: copy Nebraska Herald of May 11, 182: card of Prof. W. W. Drummond, city superintendent: roll of membership of Mt. Zion Comman dery, No. K. T.: roll of membership of I'lattsmouth Lodge, No. 0 A. F.t A. M : card of John J. Monell, jr., Mt. Cavalry Commandery No. 1: card of j I). II. Wheeler, Mt. Zion Commandery No. .": business card of Livingston -Metcalf Co.; proceedings of (Irand Commandery K. T. of Neb. 11: list of aflicers of (Irand Commandery K.T. of Nebraska 12. I'lattsmouth Daily Journal, May 24, 182: The I'latts mouth Enterprise: specimen of marble from the quary of King Solomon at Jerusalum by P. G. M., (I. W. Lini ger; two new pennies by O. M. An stead: card of Alva I)rew& Sons: New Year's poem by Rev. II. 13. Rurgess; one 2." cent piece by II. R. Rurgess. District Court. Temporary alimony of $10 per month was granted to Karolina Kolacek in district court Tuesday. In the case of Edwards and Rrad ford Lumber Co. vs. Homer Robison a motion for a new trial was sustained and the former decision set aside upon payment by plaintiff of costs of the former trial. Dear Gus: I havesclved the mother-in-law problem, just give her regu larly Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It will make her healthy, happy and docile as a lamb. 35 cents, Tea or Tab lets, (lering & Co. 50c BABIES? No; We would not put sueh :i ch-iip hii1 (iepr-i-i:itinir price on th little (htrlins for They ;tre about the best frit-wls h.ive. 'tis the Slippers rid Shoes to u hi'-h we rt-ft r Children Slippers, black. -J to 5 ..Vi Shoes ' ' ro slippers, tan ' " W Patent Slippers " " ;-j Ked " " ) Patent 4-strap. 5 to s k'j Tan 4-strap. " 1 s to 11 1.40 Patent Wine Top. 2to 5 si Advertising Hrushes 10 We Dye Old Tans, Black. Sherwood & Son, ADRIFT IN THE PLATTE Nord Brothers' Ferry Breaks its Catile and Drifts with the Current. I'.v t he slipping of a connect loi. in ;i Cable used by the N'olil Illothels, who run the I'latte nu r feiry at neapo lis the other d:n . a rather exciting episode occuired. Wall red and I're dolph N'oid wen- crossing the liver 'and weie aUnit midst team when t he cable paited falling into the water 1 with the pullies. and h tting the I. oat i go with the current . I The sailors ( ferry men ) each grubbed a plank from the deck of the boat and using them as oars succeeded in land ing their craft on a sand bar some dis tance below from where they adopted the canal boat practice tow'ng the ship back to the old crossing. They did some quick work then and within an hour after the accident they were transporting the team of J. W. Thomas, the blackberry grower, to the other side of the river. The old saying that if there were no storms there would be no sailors, is well proven in this instance, as the wily Platte is making seamen of our erstwhile lands people. A Benefit to the City. It is very seldom now days that I'lattsmouth has an entertainment that, will draw people here, that peo- p!e living twenty miles away lose s!j.:M i of it-, importance. Notwithstanding the fact that e v ei y vet ion of I he conn -ty w as not i lied early .yesterday loorn i i lig of the post pone met it of the Wood ; men picnic, there was a large crowd J in town. Plat ! smoul h." rcmaikcd a j farmer tro:n near I'nion yesterday, ! "used to draw crowds from tar and near. I remember when it was a pleasure to come here toa celehral ion, and I want, to tell you they used to have some big crowds. It was not only one big crowd during the summer sea son, but. it was three or four - and they were hummers. When I'lattsmouth adveitised the fact they were going to have a big time the people depended upon having one, and they had it. too. Hut now they have only about one each season, and we about lose sight of I'lat tsmouth unless we have busi ness in court or come to pay our taxes." There is not hing truer. I'lattsmouth should have at least four big entertain ments each season entertainments that would draw the farmers to our city. (let them in the habit of com ing here and they will visit oftener, and finally get in the habit of doing most of their trading here. Let us get a move on us, and when we have an opportunity of securing anything that is calculated to interest and amuse the farmers, let's have it. All enter prising and up-to-date towns do this, and we cannot afford to he behind the times. It will wash and not rub off This complexion all envy me, It's no secret so I'll tell Take thou Rocky Mountain Tea. F. (I. f ! kim sa S: Co. Mail Order House Business. One of the most concise and convinc ing statements respecting mail order business is put in the form of an ad vertisement in the papers of Marshall town, Iowa. The facts are put in the following language: When you buy goods from mail order houses you 1. Deal with strangers. 2. Huy from printed descriptions. .'. Send money in advance. 4. Wait for goods and fret. Pay freight and charges. Always pay full regular price. 7. Support some city millionaire. H. Must always have the cash. The above eight tacts are indispu table when put to the patron of the mail order houses. ( n the other hand the farmer, the laborer, the merchant and the manufacturer are each more or less interested in the welfare of their neighbors. What is to the ad vantage of one is also to the advantage of the other. Now, the other side is stated like this: When you buy goods of the home merchant and home man ufactured products you I. Deal with your neighbors. 2. Huy with the goods before you. J'ay when you get the goods. Work and make money. (Jet goods delivered free. Return goods when not right. 4. n. 7. (Jet frequent special bargains. x. Ruild up home enterprise. 9. Are given credit when necessary. Matous-Trility. Charles Matous and Mary Triiity were married in ( maha Wednesday. Mr. Matous is an employee of the Hur lington in tho Ilavelock shops. Miss Triiity was one of PJattsmouth's school teachers and is a daughter of Lawrence Triiity. The couple left for Denver on a wedding trip. They will reside in Ilavelock. Another Good Man Gone Wrong. He neglected to take Foley's Kidney Cure at the first signs of kidney trouble hoping it would wear away, and he was soon a victim of HrighCsdisea.se. There is danger in delay, but if Foley's Kidney Cure is taken at once the symptoms will disappear, the kidneys are strengthened and you are soon soupdjind well. A. R. Hass of Mor gantown, Ind.. had to get up ten or twelve times in the night, and bad a severe backache and pains in the kid neys, and was cured by Foley's Kidney Cure. F. T. Fricke & Co.