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SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION FOUR PAGES
PLATTSMOUTTJ, NEBRASKA, MONDAiT DECEMBER 13, 1901
NO 93
VOLUME XXVI11
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DISCOVERS RELATIOtlSIIIP BY
UK OF LETTER OF PRAISE
John Brady of This City Read Story From Kansas City Times
, and Finds Distant Relative.
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AH CASS GOO TV P O EER
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The Last Sad Tribute of Respect
Paid to Edward White.
Tls strange how little the world
la after all. Last Sunday's Omaha
World-Herald contained a piece
taken from the Kansas City Times
touching the release from the Kan
sas penitentiary of John Rogers, for
twenty-seven years an Inmate of that
Institution. From this piece of news
paper work, a citizen of Platts
mouth was lead to make an Inquiry
Into one of the characters In the
story and discovered a relationship
distant, it Is true, but a relation
ship never the less.
The story of John Rogers made an
Interesting article. To start from
the beginning Rogers, during the
year 1880, shot and killed Littleton
Wallace, then stepfather to his
sweetheart, on the latter's farm near
Fort Scott, Kas. The cause of the
shooting arose from Rogers having
aided Mrs. Wallace and her daugh
ter, who had had trouble with Wal
lace, to leave him. Afterwards
Rogers went to Wallace farm and
the trouble took place when Wallace
advanced upon the young man with
an uplifhted cane as If to strike
him. Rogers, then 27 years of age,
promptly shot and killed Wallace.
He was duly trjed and convicted of
murder and sentenced to be hanged
but eventually the sentence was
commuted to life Imprisonment and
Sept. 22, 1882, entered the Kan
sas penitentiary, not to again emerge
into the world until Thanksgiving
of this year a long period of
twenty-seven years.
-'-That his freedam was d"e.to Jhe
energetic efforts of Mrs. Minnie
Brady-Artlip, the philanthropic wife
of a St. Joseph, Mo., shoeman, is the
only manner In which he was allow
ed to step forth again a free man.
Mrs. Artlip had a hard struggle to
get the state authorities interested
In Roger's case but she finally suc
ceeded and, aided by William Allen
White, the Emporia author, the mat
ter was finally laid before Governor
Stubbs who pardoned Rogers and set
him free on last Thanksgiving day.
Mr. and Mrs. Artlip .were at the
penitentiary to receive Rogers and
they took him out Into a new world,
to once more, at the age of 56 years,
commence life anew. The story of
his wonderment at the strange things
he saw when he was once more put
side the prlscn walls, the many
queer sights which greeted him,
would make a tale too long for
these columns
Reading' the tale as told In the
papers, John Brady of this city dis
covered that Mrs. Artlip's name be
fore her marriage was Drady and
that she was a sister of Governor
James H. Brady of Idaho. Surmis
ing that perhaps there might be
some relationship between this
broad-purposed and large-minded
woman and himself, Mr. Brady wrote
her to St. Joseph and paid her a tri
bute for her great action, in restor
ing this broken man to his freedom.
Yesterday morning he received a
letter from her which he reluctantly
allowed the Journal to see and which
Is presented to its readers. It car
ries its own tale with It. The letter
is as follows:
St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 6, 1900.
Mrs. John Brady,
Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
My Dear Kin:
From Thursday', Dally.
The funeral of the late Edward
White took place yesterday after-
name Is John Brady and kin too noon from the Methodist church,
from the fact that you are connect- tnere being a very large attendance
ed with the. Brady re-union John thdr ,agt
Brady was the name of my father. " ,
A grand old name of which I am mark of respect to the virtues of
Justly proud for it was a guarantee this excellent and worthy young man.
of dlginity and honor and never Tne Bervlces at the church were con-
Snrceedathatn,rm aadyE 25 cted by Rev. Austin who preached
sounds like one. eloquent and touching sermon
I thank vou for the kind letter which drew many useful lessons
you wrote me. I have received doz- from tne pure stainless and moral
T.JLII reES 'I,?' "22 Hfe of the departed and which car-
Thanksgiving day. For all. of these rled words of consolation to the sor-
I am duly thankful and did not feel rowing mother and sister and broth
that I merit them at all although ers 0f the departed. There was al-
John Rogers insists i no. u you appr0prlate music rendered. A
could see the Improvement in him " r
since that memorable day you would great many floral offerings were
scarcely know him to be the same spread over the bier, the last sad
man. The scene of his leaving the token of the great love which his
prison will bo remembered as long friends felt for him and a
as I live. He had not see outside of '
those grim, dark wails for 27 years, sorrowful expression of their deep
We were watching the 820 other regret at his untimely demise. A
convicts taking their holiday exer- iarge number of carriages formed a
cises when the warden slipped into cortege to 0alc mil wnere the body
Int. taMr. Row." I turned' and of the son was laid to rest beside
my gaze fell not cn a man but a that of his father who had only so
mere shadow of a man, weak, trembl- gnortly before preceded him Into the
Visiting la Omaha.
Mrs. Thomas Walling, sons Rob
ert, Thomas and Leonard, and Miss
Katie Mcllugh, were passengers this
morning for Omaha, where they will
visit with Mrs. Walling' brother,
Morris O'Rourke for the day. Mor
ris has never seen his nephews and
he la quite anxious to see them and
make their acquaintance and aa this
is a birthday for one of the young William T. Cole Passes Away Last Night at His Home in This
men, Mrs. Walling decided to treat City Afte Several Months Affliction of PamlvU.
lucui iu a niy. ifc is vu uo ;cfcivi-
tflrt thAt Mr. O'RnurlrA la not In trnnri
PrAtn Willow's Tlo 1 t
health but has been falling steadily DledCoK WIlllam T at hla home
for some time. During his residence jn plattsmouth. Nebraska, on De
ln this city Morris was one of the cember 9, 1909, aged 71 years
most popular of men and his many
friends trust that his Indisposition
will speedily be done away with and
that he will soon recover.
PREPARED FOR
BETTER SERVICE
MRS. W. A. WHITE
AND FAMILY.
In Justice Archer's Court. '
Justice Archer today listened to
ing from head to foot, pale vlth the Unknown Land. The pallbearers were
loathsome "prison pallor," scarcely iota m o
able to walk. I tried to smile. but a" schoolmate friends of his, be-
tears filled my eyes, also my hus- ing: George Hail, raui, morgan
band's and John Rogers, too. I tried Emll J. Weyrich, Clarence Deal
to speak cheerfully when I said: Arthur Troop and Fred Mann
Mr. uogers, i am giau iu nuuw juu
very glad indeed, it has taken us
a long time to get acquainted but I card of Thanks.
guess we will be friends anyway Fcr the many acts of Byrapnthy
TBh.n?.XTn?r He -Hewn us during the last illness and
replied. "I am happy td go, but I am death of our beloved son and brotn-
not a bit well this morning. I could er and for the many handsome
hardly get up those stairs. I could floral emblem8 from loving friends,
lClSXu -eslre to return our most sin
my eyes all night long." lie naa ex- cere manse.
pected us the night before ana we
had not come we knew why he
could not sleep. This' being over we
went to the warden s office and fin
ished the preliminaries necessary to
his release. Then we started for the
ia0rroWUTUwaarde"n' arguments in the case of White vs.
wife, a dear lovely woman, walked Scott et al, a garnishment case in
on one side and I on the other, my yoking the possession of some40
husband and a reporter In front. .,1.1.1. .v. HofonHnnts had in bank
exactly the expression and all. He garnishee. The plaintiff Is repre-
gave one wild look around sucn a Sented by Attorney A. in. buinvan
look as I never will forget caught wnlle A L Tld(j j00ked after the In-
.Vort. I could Vme pages''- terests of Mr. Scott. The court took
scribing the journey home and his the matter under advisement. One
pleasure at being here but do you 0f the novel points raised during
know, he could not eat wncn we the trlal 0j the ca80 wa8 by th
went to dinner. He said "HI eat fc , , tff who con
Amnrrnw" onH ha linfl TOO. 1 T1 fart. 1
I never saw such an improvement, tended that money was not property
He is a remarkably intelligent man, and consequently not exempt from
much above the average and can Bejzure
!eTeriL1eSVnf7gooanyMeX I- his capacity of police Judge
Rnon. He Is so well now. I do not Judge Archer this morning had
believe he could have lived another William Gardner before him charged
month where he was. wim being drunk and also being
J.1",?.'"' n , what I. popular know as a "vag.
ilk, him. I am also a sister of J. William had no visible means of sup-
L. Brady, senator and editor In p0rt save and excepting a large hand-
Lawrence, Kansas. He is editor or some, Juicy Jag which he had ac
the Lawrence mi y vona ana 1 am yesterday and which
very proud of him. He Is consld- u , . . ... ,, Mm
ro,i nno nf the brainiest men in caused Chief Amick to slough him,
Kansas. I can say this to you and go to Bpeak. After listening to Will-
not feel that I am boasting for no jara8 taie 0f WOe, Judge Archer ad
JeXs and"! have noUced" thai the HnIsted e !
nradv's always like to hear good him in tne sum or m anu lubio
things about each other. By the Later Chief Amick visited Mayor
way, the governor of Idaho, will be gatttr an(j got him" to suspend the
In Fairbury, Neb., sometime In . winlam couid 'hit
January or February to visit my or - - , ,
nr RlRter. Mrs. ... P. Dagger, who the grit" as the poet has well said
lives there. He is on his way to and get out of town. This the mayor
Washington to convene with the did an(j William ambled out into the
congress of governors in response 10 cheerles8 worid.
IDS requesi 01 ri I ... A.u0 ia nrnnrn.1 his
I hope to hear from you again ana juue .u.
would be glad to have you come to report for November for submission
see us. Very respectfuly yours, t0 tne council, Bhowlng him to have
(Mrs. C. T.) Minnie Bjady-Artllp. before h,m of whlch
From this romance has grown the "au
' . . . t.i one pa d h is fine and costs amount
connect on of a broken relation and , " ... ,. nm
. . . . . ... ing to $4, while another was com-
Mr. Brady hopes to be able In the ,UB , ' , . .
' . mltted to the donjon keep until his
near future to pay Air. ana .r0. uniAatA
and 21 days, of paralysis. Fun
eral Sunday, December 12, 1909,
at 2 o'clock p. m. from the resi
dence, Rev. J. T. Baird conduct
ing the services. Interment at Oak
Hill cemetery.
Late last evening the life of Will
lam T. Cole, a Nebraska pioneer
and one of Cass county's best known
citizens, came to a close after a short
illness from paralysis. The news of
the death of this esteemed citizen
came as a great shock to his many
friends who had been aware of the
The Missouri Pacific Keep an serious Illness which encompassed
Operator at Depot Now Day h,m- but who had not anticipated so
I DUUU" 11 a IIUDU i. iHMC ttl'IC Jl' UK'U
and INight. ln thIa community B0 wen nhed and
New arrangements have just been admired by those who knew him as
completed by the Missouri Pacific William T. Colo. He was kind
railway for handling their business hearted, generous to a fault, and a
In the city and the arrangment gives man whoso every act was as open
every promise of being a complete as the light of day. In his death
success. By it there will be at least the community loses one of Its
one man constantly on duty at the most exemplary citizens and one
station at all hours of the day and whose every thought and Impulse
night and the traveling and ship- was for the welfare of the citizens
ping public can always find someone among whom his lot had been cast
.there to accomodate them. Agent for so many years. He had lived in
Norton in addition to his agency this vicinity for many years and here
duties has complete charge of all I he had raised a family of the most
departments during the hours be- sterling character. To thon; who
tween 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., acting as are left behind, his loss comes as a
operator as well as agent and tran- great affliction and they are assured
acting all business of the station In of the warmest sympathy from the
those hours. At 3 p. m. he will be public, all of whom knew the de
relieved by W. H. McDanlel, form- ceased to .love and respect him
erly of Murray, who takes up the , William T. Cole was born on No-
work as operator und looks after vember 18, 1838, In Shelby county,
the business of the station until Ohio, where he lived until the shad-
midnight when he steps out and Is ow of the civil war darkened the
relieved by Arthur Whitlow of Lenox, land when., be shouldered his musket
la., who will act as agent and opera- and went forth to fight to preserve
tor from midnight until 9 a. m. The
station will not be closed during
meal hours and someone will always
be there so that business may be
done at any time. Heretofore con
siderable trouble has been expert
enced by the public who have want
ed to transact business with the
company owing to the office being
closed at times for meals and for
other causes. The new arrangement
will be hailed with delight and
doubtless will result In favorable re
turns for the company as the public
will appreciate the change.
the union. He enlisted in the 88th
Ohio Infantry, in Company B, and
for three years of the long and dis
astrous war of the union, he fought
the brave fight, and, few soldiers
ever wore the blue who were braver
and better fighters than William T.
Cole. When his term of enlistment
expired he returned to his native
state and In the year 1865, he en
tered Into wedlock, marrying Miss
Harriet Peters, an early sweetheart.
To this union there was born live
children, two sons, both of whom
have since joined the great major
ity, and three daughters, all of whom
survive him. The daughters are Mrs.
William T. Adams, living south of
this city, and Misses Verna and Lil
lian Cole of this city. In addition
his faithful wife Is left to mourn
his passing.
Two years after his marriage in
Ohio, or in 1867, the deceased with
his wife, canio' to Nebraska, settling
In this Immediate vicinity, where
ho has since- resided. The entire
period of forty-two years hns been
passed here, where his life went out
last evening and In that long period
he had formed a great circle of ac
quaintances and his memory was
filled with the recollections of the
day when Nebraska was an infant
state. 1
The funeral of the deceased will
be held on Sunday afternoon, De
cember 12th from his residence ln
the second ward, at 2 o'clock p. m.,
the services being conducted by
Rev. John T. Bnlrd, of the Presby
terian church, for so many years the
pastor of the deceased.
Interment will be at Oak Hill
cenieterx. beside . his sopsv who were
laid to rest there several years ago.
Bill
OF
ura w
Mrs. J. C- Coleman's Funeral Oc
curred at Kansas City Thurs
day, December 10.
Coleman Mrs. Leah, died, aged 69
years. Funeral Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock from residence
at 3349 Garfield. Interment For
est Hill cemetery. Service private.
The above brief announcement
lU'Kiilar Weekly Unveiling.
From Thursday's Dully.
Wescott's Sons yesterday after
noon held their regular weekly un
veiling of the clock ln their store taken from the Kansas City. Mo..
and there was the usual large crowd Tlmes of November 8th. will come as
present to see who would carry away a terrble Bhock to the many friends
the three green dollars. Despite tne . Leah Coieman in'thls city,
rough weather and vile roads there Th fl . announcement of her un-
was a largo number in from the timely death was conveyed to friends
country and the store was comtort- here by the re(.t.pt of a copy cf the
ably filled with visitors. notice yesterdny by Silas Long, a
The clock was discovered to nave,cloH0 frlend of tho famny As wIn
stopped at 8:35:06 and the nearest be geen no particuiar8 to tho
ticket In the house to that time p(luge of deatn are glven an(1 frien,i9
was 8:40:00, which was heia iy
Percy Wheeler, a son of former Ltand lt
treasurer Wheeler had the winning
number and carried oft the prize.
The neext drawing and the last will
tako place on next Wednesday, Dec.
15th. This will wind up tne un-
In this city are at a loss to under-
Mrs. Cliigcy I Set urns Holrtie.
Mrs. John F. Clugey, who was
taken to the hospital in Omaha sev
eral days since suffering from blood
poisoning, returned to this city this
morning, her husband accompanying
her. She was operated upon yes
terday by Drs. Allison of Omaha and
Cummins of this city, the operation
consisting of puncturing the gather
ings which the poison had made ln
her arms. She is pronounced to be
getting along nicely and there in
small doubt entertained now of her
early recovery. Mrs. Clugey some
time since scratched one of her fin
gers 011 a brass buckle. As tho
scratch was a very small one and
did not give her any great amount
of trouble she paid little attention
to it until inflamatlon set ln and
the hand and arm commenced to
swell up. She then visited a physi
cian who pronounced the case blood
poisoning and applied the usual rem
edies for such cases. These proving
Ineffective the operation was decided
upon as tho best thing to be done
and this was done yesterday as out
lined above.
Up to some threo months ago,
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman had made
their home ln this city, being among
the older residents of the city. They
You are
dear" because your I Artlip the desired visit
Wedded at the Court House.
From Thursday's Dally.
Judge Beeson yesterday afternoon
united in marriage at his office in
the court house George Elmer Wiley,
aged 20 years, and Miss Amanda
Campbell, aged 16 years. The
ceremony was performed ln the pre
sence of a few of the Intimate friends
and relatives of tho young couple.
The contracting parties are well
known throughout tho Murray neigh
borhood where they have lived all
their lives. The groom is a promi
nent and energetic young farmer,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wiley
for so many years good citizens of
the Murray locality while the bride
Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Campbell, a young lady with
very many excellent qualities and
and the remaining four being plain
; hobo drunks had their fines suspend-
one with a world of friends. Her ed and were chased to the all and
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are uncut. The report shows up well
among the best citizens of this sec- for a city of this size.
tlon and have been residents of Cass
county for many years. The young
couple will live near Muray.
,jiinrr Tihiih hAvfi been uniformly .
....(, . -- . w ... early eighties and from that time on
successiui anu wiucu uvo Binvi
a great deal of attention. To cele
brate the closing of the unvelllngs,
iwessrs. -v. - Uummer and denarted. thev took UD
. kUa fnw 1 na QArnnn
rer auow.r. v. i - . I", T their residence at Kansas City,
closest, inis prize wm uo . . ,t,a n a n,,n
lars and tho only condition annexed
Klect Officers.
The SonB of Herman last evening
held a largo meeting at their hall
on lower Main street and had
the annual election of officers. Af
ter the business session a social time
Adam Fornoff, the well know Ce
dar Creek citizen, yesterday, had the
misfortune to badly cut one of his L.nH nad( there being quite a good
hands while making preparations to attendance of members present de
do some butchering. While draw- Hpite the severe weather and the
Ing on a glove and holding a but- bad roads. The following are the
cher knife in one hand, he nccldent- new officers of the organization for
ally drew the blade across the palm the ensuing year:
of his hand wtlh the result that a President Frank Neuman.
deep gash wns slashed clear across Vice President Aug. Rnkow
the palm. The Injury was a very Secretary Adolph Glese.
painful one and will Incapacitate Treasurer Peter Goos.
him for work for sometime to come. Trustee William Starkjohn.
lived here where they had made
themselves many friends. When
they sold their property here last
to it is that the winning number
must be in the house and that lt
m
resided.
In addition to being survived by
... . hcM hv some one other than Mrs. Brown, tho deceased Is also
h. nn. hnMlni the first prlzo. In survive! Dy a nusuana. j. u. .oie
n,hor Wnr,i. the orize winners are man, another daughter, Miss Claire
limited to one prize for each peson Coleman, ana rour Bons, varies or
n,i wo Bonarate nersohs must take Clilcago, ill.; Annur 01 nicago,
tho two prizes. This bids fair to John of Kansas City and Mortimer
In tho c or ne 01 annco, ukiuuoiiiu,
make the interest
drawing more Intense than usual and
should bring ln a great crowd.
In this city where tho deceased
had lived for so long she was most
highly respected and esteemed aa a
fond and loving wife and mother and
a most wholesome friend. The
vV. ). W. Klect Officers.
Exergreen Camp No. 70, Wood
men of the World, held a largely
attended and highly enthusiastic
meeting at their hall. The session
was a busy one and the members
found plenty to keep them employ
ed. The annual election of officers
was held after which there was a
social session which all greatly en
Joyed. The officers for the coming
year are:
Consul Commander P. J. Vallery.
Adviser Lieut Ed. Kruger.
Clerk Robt. Moffett.
Banker Harry Kruger.
Physician Dr. E. W. Cook.
Watchman Geo. Becker.
Sentry O. O. Olson.
Escort Louis Rihn.
Member Board of Manngers V. M.
Mullls.
Tho many friends of J. W. Val
1 ..1nn,..w1 tn Dna film f H Til O
ery wc.p ..w-un..u - vmrinth nf . ,l)h th. nnRbftn,i
In last evening on tho flyer after ' ' , . ...,.. ,,
spending several months ln Mlnneso
tn. where he was working on a
and children ln their sudden and
unexpected bereavement. As will be
in, wa . - - 8(,en th funeral took ,)lBce ycBter
farm. Jake hus a lot of friends here npppm,1(;r 0.
nmt a lustly noDular man with them.
lie will remain during the winter
at least, living on his fine farm south-1 Stamp photon 2 dozen 23 cents.
wpst of the city. OLSON PHOTOGRAPH CO. . possible,
Paul Ottens and Carl Stroble, two
young men from Stove Creek pre
cinct ore ln the city today on a vis
It. Mr. Ottens was born In this city
but left many years ago and has
since mado his home near Elm
wood. The young men spent the
morning ln looking over the city
and ln meeting several old friends,
enjoying themselves as much aa
