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Semi- Weekly mmoutb Semi - Weekly EIGHT PAGES outn -- EIGHT PAGt VOLUMK XX VI II PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, IDOS. NUMIWilt l.'i 5 Watts ran ire "ml- " Bryan and Harmon the Guesls of Honor and Principal Orators-Nebraslcan Booms Sen ator LaFollette of Wisconsin Kims.is Ciiy, Mo., Man . 31. Demo crrits from :ill paits of Missouri to tin? number of '.mh attended a banquet in Coiivnt:on hall in this ity under thn auspices of the Young Mcu'n loino eratie Club of Missouri, at which Wil liam J. Ilrynn and Judson Uarnton were the guest m of honor and princi pal speakers, :inl the recipients of re peated ovations from the I.'i.umi per sons -who thronged t he hall. Kaeh lan queter paid $1 for the privilege of at tending, even the distinguished quests Insisting upon the democratic prerng-i-tlve of paying for their plates. Peino cratic c!uls In St. Ixnils, St. .loscpli and other cities of the state sent rep resentative delegations to the dinner. It Was a Bryan fathering. Among the guests were four ex gov ernors of Missouri T. T. Crittemlea. David I!. Francis, Senator Stone and Alex. M. Iiockery. together with the present governor, Joseph W. Folk. All of the candidates for state olliees were present. The meeting was essentially a ISryan affair, spontaneous enthusi asm marking every mention of his can didacy for the presidency. The recep tion accorded Harmon was no less cor 1 in I. ami suggestions promising him high, honors from his party were enthu siastically received. ;ood Word for Ial'ollette. Itryan s opening statement that "We hnve met tohegiu the campaign of lltOS and to present those principles and pol icies which ought to appeal to jn-cgre- unknown GRAVES Former Citizen of Piatt smouth Pays Tribute to Kis Par ents Who Sleep in An Unknown Grave. John C. Boone, who for a number of years was a citizen of this place, and who is well known by the majority of our citizens, has paid tribute to his parents, who sleep in the sunny south, their last resting place marked only by a solitary beech nree, which has long since gone to decay, and left the graves unmarked. Mr. Boone, it will be re membered often dropped into verse,and many a good piece of poetry has come from his pen. This is especially good, as breathing the longings to know the last resting place, of the mortal re mains of his parents. Father and mother silently sleep! Lost in unknown graves. Which seemeth as sad, as if they were. Beneath the briney waves. There are no mounds or marble slabs. To designate the spot: The sacred mounds where they were laid. Are lonff atro forgot. They passed away when I was younc , They were laid beneath the teech: Their spirits dwell far. far away; Where no mortal eye can reach. Though their cares and trials are over. They dwell in boundless space: It would lie to me consoling, To know e a rtli's resting place. The beech has fallen long ago. No land mark can be found: I sadly ponder and only know. They sleep leneath the ground. Though could I only designate. Whore father and mother lie: I would wreath their graves with garlands Then pause and give a sigh. To the Pleasure Loving Public. The management of the moving pic ture entertainment who has for the past week been playing to crowded houses wishes to announce that on ac count of the small seating capacity of the Alcazar, we will locate in the Far mele opera house, where you may set in perfect comfort with surroundings be fitting a play house. The pictures will be more plainer and flickerless than heretofore seen in the Alcazar. It will be a comfort rather than a dread to look upon the best pictures ever pro duced in Plattsmouth. We run our own machine which will prove to you the difference in the pictures. Again we thank you for your attendance and hope you will patronize our present show more than ever. See our add for Wed nesday night's show. sive lU-puM caiiS as weii ..s t.i tivd'. tloiial In iiiociats.' was the keynote of his speech, and showed the impoi'ant Bignitiaiicc he and his tollower attached to the meeting. A fe.it ure of r.ryan's speech was 1.1 approval of Senator I.al-Vllette a the Republican candidate fur presi dent. He said: "If the president had picked out Smator LaFollette. a real reformer; if the Kcpuldican party had rallied to Senator I-siFolIette's siipp rt. It could have eompcllcd the eontiden.-e of reform Republicans. Sen itor l.al'ol lette has a record as a ref inner: he has fought corpora ted domination iu his own state for a decade." Not an Admirer of Taft. The speaker said that without the support of th.n administration Secre tary Taft would scarcely have a state In the convention, and that Taft was the best man the president could find among his cabinet otlicers. but that Iho secretary's superiority over his col leagues is due not to his positive vir tues, but to the fact that none of th rest of them has any reform tendencies whatever, r.ryan's speech was largely a criticism of Taft as a presidential candidate. He also said that the "IJoosevelt sentiment" was nit for a man. but for an idea, and that Me.i was a Democrat ie one. for which rea son the Democrats should have t lie votes of those holding the "Roosevelt" Idea. Harmon's speech was a general re v'ew of polities and policies, and a criticism of those held and acted upon Uuncalled For Letters Remaining uncalled for letters at the ' Plattsmouth Post office on Monday, March 30th, was the following list and which when called for please say "ad vertised." Ladies, Mrs. Hettie Baley, Gentle men, C. Barkus, John Bignall, Henry Snoke, C. I. Smith, S.Smith and Harry Tigner. EN THE GRASP OF THE LAW A Nebrska City Couple Appre hended for Desertion of Children and Wife Will Have an Accounting A special to the Lincoln Evening News of Tuesday says: Mrs. Emery D. Tibbetts and Ulysses Shelby, both of Nebraska City, Neb., were arrested Rockfordlll on request of Sheriff Fisher of Nebraska City. Shelby, who has a feather renovating business is charged with having abandoned his wife and several children. Mrs. Tibetts was ac companied by her two young daughters and her brother, Earl Tuttle. The woman left Nebraska City ostensibly for a visit to Kansas with relatives. She met Shelby at Payne Junction and the two have been stopping at Illinois points. Shelby is a painter and paper hanger. A few years ago he came into a fortune of $30,000. Most of this has been spent. A small piece of property was sold recently for $250, and with this money Mrs Tibbetts and Shelby eloped. The Tuttle boy, Mrs. Tibbetts brother was sent back to Nebraska City. Wife desertion is charged against Shelby. Both were taken back to Nebraska City, by Sheriff Fisher. Expect To Stop The Burlington Phillip Neuman of Chicago, the great and windy city, was in city of Flatts mouth for the past three or four days, representing a house for the sale of dress goods and while here left his bag gage at the Burlington station. The trunks came in Friday morning and re mained until yesterday when he had them taken to the hotel where he dis played them. When he got the trunks the baggageman was not at the station and the storage which the road requires was neglected to be paid. This morn ing where he departed from the city, for Omaha the baggage man Frank Barcus, taxed the gentleman 25 cents. This incensed the Chicagoan, who storm ed and said that he would see that the baggage man would be discharge, but which did not turn a hair of his head, for as he was in the performances of his duty and had nothing to fear. HORSES HAVE HYDROPHOBIA Have Puzzled Doctor's For Sometime Causes Much Loss of Stock The following from Elm wood says: Friends here have just learned that Dr. W. L. Cameron of Palmyra, is in Chicago to take treatments for hydro phobia. The past two weeks, the doc tor has lost three of his fine horses, the last one Cameron's Rest, a fine stalliun valued at $2,000, from dumb rabies. A veterinary from Lincoln and one of the state farms were called, but could do nothing to save the animal. In injecting medicine into one of the horses the doctor scratched one of his hands with the needle thus causing him to be apprehensive. The horses were very vicious, one of them biting Lent Henderson on the leg, but fortunately not breaking the skin. It is thought the horses were bitten by skunks or rats. A short time ago the barn was over run with rats, but recently skunks have appeared in the barn and the rats have fied. Three dead skunks have been found in the barn, and it is surmised that rats and skunks in fighting may have become innoculated and bitten the horses. A Good Word for the Press A farmer in speaking before an inst itute of his profession, recently said: "As a rule a farmer knows no better friend than the country press. The home paper is distinctly the farmer's own paper. It is supported directly or indirectly by the farmers, who compose the backbone of the printer's subscrip tion list and largely for him the merch ants advertise. Now brother let us not forget our friends. Let us see that our subscription is paid before the first of April and a year in advance. Another thing, the merchants who advertise are the ones who make it possible for us to get a gooUpcal paper and the men or firms who are too penurious to advert ise and help support the local press have no right to the farmers' patronage. I propose hereafter to go to a good, live advertiser instead of to those who pro pose to take all and give nothing in re turn. If the farmers, as a class, would support their friends, the other fellows would soon be out of business." Look Out for the Picture Faker He is the same man, same old game, and it looks like he finds the same old sucker every time. He comes around now giving an enlarged picture for no thing, secures a photo and goes away. Then he or another man gets you to give an order for a frame ($3.) After i a while he shows up with a poor picture in a cheap frame. Well, you know the rest he bulldozes you into taking it. Now for some advice cut out the picture habit, unless through a repu table photographer. The editor helped extricate one of the Countryman boys from a shark of this kind. He sent notices that has been sued, and that he would get judgment, etc, etc., and if it had not been for us he would have paid him to get out of trouble. Don't he bluffed, but better still, don't bite. If you do you ought to be buncoed. Nehawka Register. Andy Taylor Very Sick Will Hull is a visitor in the city from Hendley in the western portion of the state, called here by the very danger ous sickness of his uncle, A. B. Taylor, who has been sick for some time, and who has not been able to get out of house since last fall. Mr. Taylor i3 well advanced in years being 77 years of age, and the sickness which had been his lot to be affllicted with for the past two years, makes it more difficult for him to rally from on that account. His many friends would be greatly pleased to know of him improving, and trust that he may be get out again though the advanced age make it less probable that his recovery will be very rapid. To Be Tried In Kangaroo Court A question is being discussed among the switchman and others in the train service as to whether one not born in the state one not at the coming municipal election; and especially when one had been born in Missouri, without first taking out naturalization papers. The matter had been tried before, Judge P. M, Linsey, and the case has been ap pealed to the court presided over by Judge Thrall, arguments will have to be submitted by or before the time John Snead pulls out for Sioux City tomorrow in order to get a dicision in time to settle the matter. Improved Economy Separator Printed announcement has been re ceived in this city which gives the in formation that the Court has decided that the socalled "Improved Economy Separator," marketed by the Sears Roebuck Company is an infringement on another patent and that the company is enjoined from further sale of this particular make. The winner of the suit warns even the user of this make as it is stated that he is liable also if use is persisted in; and states that on January 6th the Sears Roebuck Co., was ordered to produce the addresses of all purchasers, dates and prices. Nebraska City Press. COULD NOT AF FORD TO MARRY Young McDonald of New London, Iowa, Could Not See His Way Clear to Marry With Only A Dollar and a Half The" following telegram from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, bearing date March 30th, says. On March 12 a marriage license was issued Parrott McDonald and Miss Ora Cressup of near New London, but as yet they have not been joined in the holy bonds of matrimony, and the question is, will they ever be. They have been going together for about five years, and it is reported that Miss Cressup had been wanting to get married-for the past two years, but that McDonald has put her off with one ex cuse and another. Finally the young woman got so per sistent that McDonald bantered her to get a license if she could and he would get married. She bet him $25 that she could get a license, and he took her up. She came here and got a license over two weeks ago, but went back and found that he had back shaden. The hour of the marriage was set and the pastor come to perform the ceremony, but no groom appeared. After several hours' delay a searching party started out after the groom, and he was found at the club rooms. He was brought to tbe house where the marriage was to be performed, but he balked and would go no further. Entreatly was used, but of no avail. He said he had only $1.50 in his pocket and the old clothes on his back and that he did not want to get married, and since that time the two have been on friendly terms, but have had no occasion to use the license. The whole community is await ing the development with interest. DROWNED IN AN OPEN CISTERN Father Saves Little Son But Pays His Life as the Price Monday a man at Omaha, whose child fell into a cistern, jumped into the water after the child, and while the water was only seven feet deep, was able to hold the little one above the water and out of danger until help came and the little one was saved. In order to do this the man stood on the bottom of the cistern and held the child above his head, and in doing so was drowned, the rescuers saving the child just as the father could stand it no longer and be came unconscious. Many such places as this trap which took toll of the life of one of the citizens of Omaha, exist in every town with a fair possibility of the same kind of an accident being en acted, cisterns and wells should not be allowed to remain open and unc cvcie and in an unsafe condition. The Greatest "Free Pass" Sinner The Kearney Democrats puts it right in the nutahell, when it says: "Victor Rosewater has been elected to head the reform forces as delegate at large to the republican reform convention to nominate a republican reform candidate for president. In spite of this promin ent condition, Victor Rosewater, accord ing to the expressed opinion of Attor ney General Thompson, is the greatest "free" pass sinner in the state, and up to the present time the attorney gener al has made no attempt to purge his re form party of either Victor Rosewater or the "free" pass sin which he carries to the amount of $500. Why does not Attorney General Thompson act against Victor and purify his national con vention? Why should the attorney gen eral be afraid of the Omaha Bee or of Douglas county? If a $50 advertising contract is a crime, is not a $500 con tract ten times as great a crime? Does the attorney general find it convenient to only annoy the little sinner and give Victor an immunity bath? Or does the law only apply to those who are not re publican national delegates? E MUTUAL in- UfiAHCIE DfflBPflHV The Insurance Examiner Hakes A Very Favor able Report of the Condition of the Above Named Company, And Shows a Good Business and Lower Rates The inaugeration of the Platte Mut ual in the insurance business some time since was the death knell to the ex orbitant rates charged by many of the old line fire and lightning insurance com panies, as they nearly funish the in surance at cost, while they are keeping their reserve fund well protected and readiness for any contingency which may arise that would deplete or wipe out the general fund from which they pay the current losses or current ex penses. The careful management of the company has gained a enviable reputation for this company and brought them lots of business, and of a character which stays and pays. The company are to be congratulated on the condition of their finances which the report of the insurance examiner shows which is appended herewith. Lincoln, Neb., March 30, '08. E. M. Searle, jr. Auditor of Public Accounts, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir: In pursuance of your instructions, I have made an examination of the ac counts and business of the Platte Mut ual Insurance company of Plattsmouth, Neb., and beg leave to report. This is a city and village mutual in surance company organized under sec tions 3968 to 3988 of the compiled statutes. The company was organized and commenced business April 4th, 1898. - .- I carefully varified the financial re port of the company, of the business for 1907, filed with the insurance de partment and find the same corres FINE FARM HOMES IN GASS COUNTY Many of our Farmer Friends are Starting Spring Build ing Early. We do not believe there is a county in the state of Nebraska that can beat old Cass, when it comes to fine farms, well improved in every particular, fine residences and out buildings, fenced and cross-fenced, but at that it is not what our up-to-date and prosperous old Cass can boast of within a few more years. Our excellent friend Ed Tritsch, resid ing three miles west of town, has now under course of construction a fine new home, Amil Walters having just com pleted the foundation and brick work. It will be a modern two-story struc ture 28x28, and is now ready for the carpenters, Smith & Toeketter, who will start the at once. We mnderstand that Henry Born, residing west of town, is the next on their list for a fine home, to be erected by the same gen tlemen, and he sure can rest easy that it will be done right. The new home of Mr. Born will be one of the finest in Cass county, strictly modern in every particular. Another one of fine ones that will be erected before many days, will be on the farm of Peter Meisinger, out near Cedar Creek. Mr. Meisinger is one of the prosperous farmers of this ceunty, and in his own language he says he wants to live in a good house before he dies, and he is sure going to have one when the new structure is j completed. The last time Mr. Meisinger I was in Plattsmouth he informed us that a portion of the lumber was on the i ground, and work would be started as ' soon as the weather settled. Let the i good work go on, for we are glad to see j our farmers in their present prosperous ! condition, and to see them build fine j new homes. Will Live In Plattsmouth A. P. Campbell and wife returned last evening from Hoardsville, this state and will make this their home again. They have rented and will occupy the rooms over Wescclis cloth ing store as soon as their household p-oods arrive which was shirjoed a few 'days since. ponds with the hooks of the secretary. I find the secretary of the company keeps correct accounts of all transac tions of the company and the books show fully and in detail all the affairs of the company and this fact was of great assistance to me in making the examination. The company provides for a reserve fund by taking 10 per cent of the .ross receipts which is in accordance with the law. The company charges one half the board rate and a 50 cent policy fee which goes to the secretary. The rates charged have been sufficient to meet all fire losses. The company has on hand $1,510.70 reserve fund and $2, 071.95 general fund, $2,000 of the same is invested in a real estate morgage and the balance is deposited in the bank to the credit of the company. The officers of the company are managing the affairs of the company in a compe tent business like way. The secretary was very courteous to me and furnished me every assistance in making the examination. The secre tary and treasurer are under bonds for the faithful performance of their du ties. The following are the officers of the company: W. J. White, president. II. M. Soennichsen, vice-president. II. J. Helps, treasurer. Henry Gering, Secretary. W. J. White, H. J. Helps, H. M. Soennichsen, D. O. Dwyer, T. E. Par mele, C. A. Marshall, Henry R Gering, directors. Respectfully submitted, A. L. Si:akik, Examiner. WORKED OVER QUARTER CENTURY A Faithful Employe of the Bur lington at This Place For Over Twenty Six Years With the blowing of the whistle at the Burlington shops last evening com pleted the work at that place of Fred Heinrich, who has faithfully worked day after day, day in day out, at the shops at this place. Since 1882 has he been ever at his post and has made a good and faithful workman. During the first years he was employed in the blacksmith shops, where he put in a number of years of good hard work. From that place he was placed at the coal chutes, where he worked for a number of years, and was afterwards to work around the shop yards at any point, where their services are re quires here he continued until in 1892, or ten years from the time when he first entered the shops. At this time he was given a position which he has occupied until the present, that of watchman he has been a very trust worthy gentleman in whom the com pany could place the utmost relaiance, and it is due to this fact they have re tained him in this responsible posi tion for so long. With the present he has been in the latter position for six teen years making in all his term at the local shops something over a quarter of a century. Mr. Heinrich Las a home south of the city, which he has made from from his savings which could not be very great as his earning were never very large, and expenses r.ecessariiy considerable. He will look after his home place and do much work as he shall to offer in the city. Hunted Ducks Yesterday. Banker T. M. Patterson, was at Rock Bluffs yesterday hunting ducks and we haven't heard whether he got anything more than got back or not, but Fred Patterson tells us that he had a fine shot at a Mallard duck, as large as a horse and missed the beast. Well those Mallards are ornery critters to hit anyway.