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DOINGS IN DISTRICT COURT
Matthew Serins Secures I Judgment for
$252.88 Against School District
No. 28.
OMAHA, NEB,
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PLATTSMOUTH,
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First House West B. 6c M. Depot
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Three Large Stocks of Musical Iustriv
ments Go on Sale this Week
We have just purchased three large stocks of
Musical Instruments at 50c on the dollar. The stocks
are being mored into our large Music Room, will go on
sale this week. Now is the greatest opportunity you will
tret hare to buy a Piano, Organ, or Piano Player, in fact
anything in the way of Musical Merchandise. We only
mention a few of the different pianos that go in this salei
Chickering Bros., Fischer, Vose, Kimball, Estey.Schaeffer,
Price & Teeple, Bchr Bros. Story & Clarke, Wegman,
Ives & Pond, Davenport & Tracy, Chickering & Son,
New England, Smith & Barnes, Franklin and many
other well known makes. Upright Pianos will be sold
from $58.00 up. Square Pianos from $5.00 up, Organs
$3.00 up. Talking Machines at just onchalf price.
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Up to the present time the case that
has occupied the greatest amount of
time and attention of the district
court, Is that of Matthew Gerlng vs.
School District No. 28, In which Mr.
Gerlng was given a verdict for l.'.'i.ss.
As all attorneys assert, this case has
become a portion of the Judicial his
tory of the state of Nebraska. It was
started in 11)03, when the school dis
trict refused to pay a warrant for the
amount sued upon by the plaintiff,
Issued In favor of Lawrence Stull, but
was assigned to Mr. Gerlng. The war
rant was Issued after a settlement
was reached In a controversary be
tween Mr. Stull and district No. 23,
but afterward some of the school
Officers claimed the resolutions passed
at the meeting was Illegal and It there
by refused to honor the warrant for
payment, and the long fought suit
followed.
In H03 the suit first appeared In
county court, where Mr. Gcrlng re
covered for the full amount claimed,
but was appealed to the district court,
which resulted In hung Jury, and the
second trial In this court a verdict was
held for the defendant, which In an
appeal to the supreme court was set
aside, and a new trial ordered, with
the present outcome.
Nearly two days of the court's at
tention wa9 occupied In the despo
sition of this case, and the final result
gives Mr. Gerlng a verdict for $2j2.8S.
At the present time It is undecided
whether or not the case will again gc
to the supreme court.
Attorneys Hoot and Sullivan ap
peared for the plaintiff and Clark and
Kawls for the defendant.
Today the case of the Sandwich
Mf'gCo. vs. Robert Shraderand Wm
Crosser is being heard. In this con
troversy suit Is brought to recover on
a note given to the plaintiff In pay
ment for a corn shelling outfit. The
Sandwich Company, it seems, levied
upon the property contracted by the
defendants for payment of their
claims, which was sold, and only
brought a small amount the note called
for, and at the time of the disposition
of the property, the note was not re
leased; now the company sue on the
note to recover the deficiency. Shortly
after the sheller was broi'ght, Mr.
Shrader sold his interest to Mr.
Crosser, and his contention Is that he
should not be made one of the defend
ants in the case. The Jury was select
ed as follows: II. D. Held, James
Hoover, James Sperry, John Balrd,
Wm. Atchison, J. F. Frolich, J. M.
Vonderan, R. I). Dalton.S. V. Glrard,
Joe Mullen, A. N. McCrory and F. S.
Brinkman. C. S. Tolk appears for the
plaintiff and Matthew Gerlng for the
defendant.
It required but a few moments for
the jury to return with a verdict in
favor of the defendants in the case of
the Sandwich Mfg. Co. vs. Robt.
Shrader et. al.
At the close of the above mentioned
case district court adjourned until
next Mondoy, and the Jury was excus
ed until Monday evening. Judge
Jessen returned to bis home in Nebras
ka City this evening, but will return
early monday morning, and devote the
entire day to granting naturalization
papers. It might be well to again in
form all partiescontemplatlng making
application, to be on hand Monday, as
after that date a great deal more ex
pense is attached to the same under
the new law. Court will not open un
til Tuesday morning.
HON. A. C. SHALLENBERGER
Tdf Career of the Democratic Candidate for
Goiernor While a Member of Congress.
During Mr. Shallenberger's career
in congress he took a prominent part
inniuch important legislation. His
anti-trust bill commanded the atten
tion of the eastern press and won the
warmest praise from Mr. Bryan.
His workon the oleomargalne and the
experimental station bills were direct
ly In the Interest of the farmers of this
state. But his magnificent fight to
pass the Irrigation bill and In It to
protect the direct Interests of the peo
ple of Nebraska propably won him the
greatest reputation for good states
manship. He was the first to fight for
the principal that the national gov
ernment should control rather than
state governments, and the clause
most important to Nebraska, that
one-halt the money paid In by the sev
eral states should be spent In the state
that paid It. Both these features were
finally made a part of the law as en
acted. His speech upon the bill when
It was before the house was generally
admitted the strongest delivered upon
the subject and one of tlio best expo-
ftltlonsof the achievements and the
posslbilitlcsof the western states both j
as a market for eastern goods ami a
foundation (or continued prosperity
ever delivered In the house. In re
porting it to the Nebraska Independ
ent this Washington correspondent
said:
"The house has had several meas
ures under consideration and has pass
ed one of great Interest to the good
people of Nebraska: that Is the senate
Irrigation bill and its passage was
cheered and cheered by the western
members. Debate was started on
Wednesday and concluded on Friday
when the bill was passed by a great
majority. Old Joe Cannon a republi
can from Illinois, blustered and brag
ged about his ability to beat the bill,
but he signally failed to even align a
back, and, though at times bowed
dowu by weight of woe because of
panics or disasters which others bring
upon the country, yet after the storms
have rolled by If we' will but let the
farmer get his broad shoulder under
neath our commercial structure once
more anil give him but a moiety of
profit In Ills business, a little of tho
legislative justice to which he Is en
titled, he will stand again erect, and
In his rising he will lift us all."
Mr. Shallenberger hashing been an
admirer of Mrs. H. W. Campbell and
his good work In behalf of Improved
soli culture and Introduced a bill In
the 57th congress to establish four ex
perimental stations, two In Kansas
and two in western Nebraska to for
ward this now acknowledged scientific
system. It would have been of incal
cuable benefit to Nebraska If it could
have been enacted Into law, hut jeal
ousy of agricultural appropriations by
other interests defeated the considera
tion of tho bill. It Is safe to say that
Nebraska never had a representative
In congress who so fully understood
tho needs and possibilities nf her agri
cultural population, or who could so
8lotucntly and effectively champion
them as A. C. Shallenberger.
PROF. H. I. PHILLIPS DEAD
A Cowardly Maneuver.
Thursday evening about 9 o'clock.as
Miss Annetta Woods was returning
home from a visit with ber friend,
Mrs. Farley, some unscrupulous whelp
followed her from the time she ap
proached Main street. Miss Woods is
a teacher in the Columbian building,
and boards' at the home of Attorney
Byron Clark, and the fellow followed
her so closely that she was compelled
to enter the home of a neighbor and
telephone to her boarding place for
company home. She docs not know
who the whelp was, but the authori
ties should make an effort to not only
detect this scoundrel, but all others
who arc caught In such acts. They
arc becoming too numerous in this
town for the safety of our daughters.
"To Cure a Felon."
says Sam. Kendall, of I'hilllpsburg,
Kan., "Just cover It over with Buck-
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uarantced. ,
Ladles, read this catalogue of
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red II ps,a smooth skin without a blem
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with every package of Holllster's
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large part of his party against It. It
was doubted by many that It would
pass, but I have heard It said that the
speech delivered by that young Dem
osthenes of Nebraska, Mr. Shallen
berger, did more to secure It the need
ed majority than any one other thing
Already he had gotten the reputation
of being a very good speaker and of al
ways giving light when he does speak.
So the galleries were tilled when he be
gan and before he had half finished
his speech his time had expired. The
hour then at that late hour, a thing
almost unprecedented, extended his
time once again as long as he had been
previously granted and this without a
dissenting voice. When lie had con
cluded his speech, many republicans
as well as democrats came over to him
and personally congratulated him.
Representative Dalzall, a republican,
rushed over to him and shouted: "Its
the best speech on Irrigation I ever
heard and one of the best speeches de
livered during my long service as a
member of this house."
It was a masterpiece, not only of
English, but an accumulation of facts
that show an extensive search.
Hon. Champ Clark, the distinguished
Missouri lecturer, orator and writer,
who, fur a number of years, has bril
liantly represented his district In con
gress, writes of the speech and it's au
thor, thusly:
"A BRILLIANT YOl'NO KEtlttASKAN."
"One of the most promising young
men in the house of representatives is
Hon. A. C. Shallenberger. In addi
tion to being a very able man, he Is a
very handsome man, in the (lower of
bis years. His style of delivery and
the modulation of his voice remind
one somewhat of the Hon. W. J. Bryan.
Shallenberger has a great career
before him it he stays In congress long
enough. There never was a more sys
tematic or successful tight made in
the congress of. the United States
than that made by the advocates of
that great Irrigation scheme, and no
one among the advocates of that great
enterprise conducted himself to better
advantage than did Shallenberger. He
had evidently studied the subject from
every conceivable standpoint and took
the bouse by storm."
I wish I had room for all of bis
speech, which was a good one 'from A
to Izzard," tut I have orfly space for
his peroration which is as follows and
contains a great amount of truth:
Mr. Chairman, this question Is
greater than the Philippine question,
greater than the Cuban question, be
cause of Its great benefits and the
magnificent opportunities that shall
now from it. It means the best mar
kets and the best homes for the best
nation on earth, and all the happiness
and the prosperity which shall follow
In Its train shall bo the common heri
tage of the American people.and nottv
Ing can take it from them.
This legislation appeals to me espec
tally because it is In tho interest of
our great agricultural population a
class of people who receive little
enough consideration from the Amcrl
can congress. No matter how much
we may boast of our manufacturing
and mining wealth, the growth of our
cities and financial greatness, ret, in
the finality, the farmer is the founda
tlon of us all.
Like Atlas of old, he bears tho very
business fabric of the nation upon his
Why They Refuse
In speaking of the refusal of the re
publican state candidates to meet
tlio.se upon the democrat ic ticket.
from Shallenberger ami Thompson
down, a special from Lincoln gives
this as the possible reason for the
backdown: "It Is said that the re
publicans at the head of the ticket
feel keenly the uncert ainties and plat
itudes of the republican platform. It
tikes no advanced grounds on the rato
question, the 2-ccnt faro proposition
or the anti-pass question. The demo
cratic platform had some of Its most
positive planks advocating 2 cent pas
senger fare, lower freight rates and
forfeiture of otlico for using passes, put
there by candidate Shallenberger, and
he is their enthusiastic champion.
Tlio Brown and Sheldon republicans
won their victory by using radical de
mands In their battle cry and then
permitted their railroad friends to
write the platform. The result Is a
meaningless Jumble of words on some
of the Important planks."
Particulars of the Sudden Demise of One
Well Known to Our Young People.
In a letter to Mrs. Joseph McMaken,
of this city. Miss Ilewett, sister of tho
the deceased's wife, conveys the sad in
telllgence of the sudden death of Prof.
Harry L. Phillips, which occurred in
Oskaloosa, Iowa, on last Sunday morn
ing at 12:15, and was laid to his lxst
resting place at his old homo In Eddy
vllle, Iowa, Monday afternoon, at 3:30.
Mr. Phillips left Plattsmouth a few
months ao with the Hewett Family
Band and Concert Company, which
was playing in various towns In Iowa.
About two weeks before his death Mr,
Mr. Phillips took sick with intlama
tlon of the brain, and was immediate
ly taken to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where his
wife was then making her home, and
where he arrived In an unconscious
condition, and remained so up to tho
time of his death.
Mr. Phillips leaves a wife and two
children, the youngest of which was
born but a few days before the sudden
death or the father, and Mr. l'hllllps
never saw his youngest child.
It Is Indeed a sad affair, and Mrs.
Phillips has the deepest sympathy of
the many Plattsmouth frK'!i(ls, where,
they are quite well and favorably
known.
Mr. Phillips was quite well known
over tho entire county, and adjoining
onniies, as he held dancing schools
hero and at various other points last
nter.
REPUBLICANS IN A QUARREL
How a
State Employe Devotes His Time
to the State Ticket.
Governor Mickey heard again yestcr
day that DonC. Despain, chief clerk
of the state labor bureau, was acting as
head of the republican state commit
tee's bureau of speakers. The gover
nor walked down the east corridor of
the state house during the afternoon
to sec Mr. Despain. The latter was
out but arrived Immediately after the
governor stepped into the onlce. La
bor Commissioner Hurt Hush was
deeply engaged at the time In estl
mating the corn crop from a car win
dow when tho governor called. He
wiped great drops of sweat from his
brow and appeared Impatient at being
bothered when he was in the midst of
his arduous labors.
"I came to see if you were Id the ci
flee," said the governor. "As yod
have not come to consult me I thought
I would come to consult you. I be
lieve It would have been courteous for
you to have consulted me about tak
ing up outside work, Inasmuch as you
are the appointee of the governor."
Mr. Despain then explained his side
of the case. No ref rence was made to
the fact that Mr. Allen, private sec
retary to Governor Mickey, had spent
several years with the republican state
committee in the capacityof secretary
and that he assisted in conducting one
campaign from headquarters In Omaha
while serving as the governor's private
secretary.
Chairman W. B. Rose of the attor
ney general's onlce, resigned his place
on the payroll of the state when he
took charge of the present campaign.
It is admitted that Mr. Despain Is act
ing as chief of the bureau of speakers,
but not to the detriment of the ser
vice of the state. Lincoln Journal.
Goes Into Effect Next Month.
The pure food law goes into effect
the first of next month, and after that
packers will be compelled to label their
cans with tncir exact contents, u
will seem a trllle strange to go Into a
store and buy a can labeled ' Potted
Chicken made from chicken," or
'Potted Ham made from a pig." or
"Strawberry Jam Jammed from
strawberries," but It will be more re
assuring than at present, when you
don't know whether your tomato
catchup Is colored with aniline dyes,
or your "Finest (julnce Preserves
made only frotu specially selected
quinces, hand-picked, "Is made from
apple pumice.
To Be Married September 23.
Cards are out announcing tho forth
coming nuptials of Miss Maud Mcsser
smith and G. W. Matthiason, to be
solemnized at the home of the latter'
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Messcrsmlth
In Havelock, September 25 at 2 p. m.
The young couple will perhaps make
their future home in Havelock. '
Fifty-second Anniversary.
August Anderson was lifty-two
years of age Thursday, and In honor
of the event a number of his Immedi
ate neighbors and friends dropped In
to assist him and his family In cele
brating tho event. And the pleasure
of the occasion, was enough to make
Mr. Anderson wish he could repeat
such happy events oftcner than once
a year. Tho evening was spent In
social games and other plcasantles,
and at the proper time the Invaders,
who had brought witli them baskets
well filled with seasonable delicacies,
spread the viands upon tho dining
room table, where all partook of the
same. At a late hour those present
repaired to their homes, leaving Mr.
Anderson very happy In the thought
that It was good to thus be remem
bered by one's friends.
A Beautiful Store Room.
Without a single exception, wo be
lieve that the finest store Mom that
has ever been opened for public patron
age In the city of Plattsmouth, Is the
millinery store of H. E. Weidman &
Co., at the upper portion of Main street
Today and tomorrow are the opening
days of the fall millinery department,
and wc believe that such enterprise as
the proprietors of this establishment
have displayed In preparing for these
two days deserve a great deal more
than a mere passing notice. Very few
stores In cities of many, many times as
largo as Plattsmouth can boast of
millinery establishments that present
the handsome appearance as that of
II. E. Weidman & Co.'s store this sea
son. The front windows are handsomely
decorated with autumn leaves of oak,
and bears the appearance of a deco
rator of very artistic taste, the Inter
ior of the entire room Is as pretty as
it Is possible to make it, artistically
decorated with crepe paper and flow
ers. It Is hardly necessary for us to
mention the grand display of millinery
as we believe that everybody in our
city or visiting here, will call and see
what they have In this department.
Being entirely out of our line, we are
hardly able to judge, but from the
many pretty fall hats on display, we
can say that we believe the line to be
the finest ever brought to Cass county.
Above all things, ladles, do not fall to
see this beautiful store room tomorrow.
Burned His Hands.
Thursday while scouring a water
tank in his barber shop, Mr. Jesse
nelllg received very severe burns on
both of his hands. It seems that the
cloth with which he was working was
saturated with gasoline, and in some
manner became Ignited, burning his
bands very badly before the fire could
be extinguished.
Mr. Hellig will be compelled to take
a layoff for a few days, and being a
stranger here, it is quite discouraging
for him. He has secured the services
of M. S. Brlggs for tomorrow, and It is
expected ho will be able to take care
of his business himself Monday.
An Interesting Convention.
Elder A. L. .Ink and wife returned
Thursday from Glcnwood, Iowa, where
they attended the Southwest Iowa
district convention of tho Christian
church In session there from the ISth
to the 2oth. There were sixty minis
ters and delegates present, and he re
ports a most interesting as well as
profitable session. He met many of
his old friends, including Elder Hen
dricks, with whom the Journal editor
is well acquainted.
As a dressing for sores, bruises and
burns, Chamberlain's Salve is all that
can bo desired. It Is soothing and
healing in Its effect. Price 23 cents.
For sale by F. 0. Frlcke & Co. and A.
T. Fried.