The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, October 03, 1910, Image 3

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TROOPS NOW IN
CAMP AT OMAHA
AUtiYPr TO hUB BANK FAILS;
Trip Around llu Vor!i!.
i There vas some little excitement
RjLbtrg B'"' Vault, but Are Unsuc- .hnrf V(ls.pr.-v at .
cessful in Opening strong Box. jjiaii; Enj Seventh street landing yes
Oakdale, Neb.. Oct. 3. An attempt terday n.orning, wheu the boiis
was made to rob the Antelope County sounded for the big sh;,,s t0 puu 0X
bank. Burglar, gained entrance to the (or thelr tweutynve tusand mile
Thousands of Hide Sam's Men
Throng
ALL ARMS ARE REPRESENTED,
,Army Tournament Eeglns at Fort
Omaha Tomorrow Witn Competitive
Drills Ample Accommodations pro
vided at Grounds for Sightseers.
Military Parade Thursday.
Omaha, Oct. 3. Beginning this aft
ernoon, the military man will have the
attention of the people of Omaha and
the visitors who. are here to make
merry with Ak Sar-Ben.
General Fred Smith and those mem
bers of his staff who accompanied him
to Des Moines arrived home Sunday,
and the affairs of the big encampment
at Fort Omaha at once engaged their
attention. Most of the troops arrived
today and the making of camp by the
new arrivals did not take much time.
Today was given over to preparation
for the exhibitions on Uie program.
Arrangements have been made at
Fort Omaha for comfortably taking
care of the thousands who will go
there to witness the drills, beginning
tomorrow. The drills will be the
same as are presented at all army
tournaments.
On Thursday afternoon the great
military street parade will occur. For
this day a general holiday will be
proclaimed.
WOMEN END CONVENTION
New Rules Governing the Affairs of
the W. C. T. U.
Fairbury, Neb., Oct. 3. The sta
"Women's Christian Temperance union
has closed. The next state convention
will be held at McCook the last week
la September or the first week in Oc-
tober next year. The principal changes
made in the constitution were the
elimination of the time limit of offl
cers, the organization of the young
people's branch, the entire responsi
bility placed upon the superintend
ents of departments, -a member can
not be considered a delegate to a con
ventlon without credentials and a re
ceipt from the state treasurer show
ing that county dues have been paid
where counties are not organized and
from county treasurers where counties
are. organized.
GIRL DROWNS IN PLATTE
While en Bridge She U Frightened by
Man Into Jumping Into Water,
Schuyler, Neb., Oct. 3. Miss Edna
Kavan of Butler county, a girl of nine
teen years, was drowned in the Platte
river, two miles south of Schuyler
Miss Kavan was crossing the bridge
and there she was met by a section
hand, who by his gestulatlons and
talk is said to have frightened her
While she was attempting to escape
from him she fell into the river. The
man who frightened her was' later ap-
phehended and Is being held In the
county Jail awaiting the coroner's Jury
verdict.
BOYS IN FIGHT WITH POSSE
bank through a rear door by breaking
a heavy plate glass In the door. Tiie
vault was blown open, but the sale,
one of the new type and evidently tea
difficult to crack, was cot disturbed.
Parties living near the bank say the
dynamiting occurred about 3 a. m. The
attempted robbtvy was not discovered,
however, until morning. It Is reported
that nothing of value is missing.
Sheriff Miller was quickly on the
ground and everything possible is bn
ing done to get a trace of the robbers.
journey. In the bustle trying to get
luggage on board in time for the
start, two little' chaps were pushed
off of the gang plank into the swirl
ing pool below, but were heroically
fished out by the bystanders and put
aboard the vessel. The clerks were
kept busy for some time before the
gongs sounded, and could not nearly
keep up with the work of registering
the passengers, a long line of whom
stretched from the gang plank to the
residence of Superintendent Balrd,
BOMB NEAR
PALMER HOME
Athletics Youths'
Greatest Benefactor.
Nora Bi'nk Robbers Escape.
Nora, Neb., Oct. 3. Nuckolls coun: y i some distance away.
officers are still trying to obt.iin a
clue to the men who robbed the State
bank of $3,200. Three explosions wore
required to open the safe. The rob
bers escaped by holding the citizens at
bay while they decamped.
NEBRASKA COUNTIES
dot nun
JthU
There were just one hundred and
eighteen of the two hundred and
thirty-one passengers who had log
books (bibles) of their own.
On the long journey commenced,
the redi traveled 10U miles while
the blues made 913 mils. The largest
attendance of the year was recorded
yesterday.
Fake Attempt to Blow Up Resi
dence of Chicago Woman.
F. C. WAHLENMEYER HRRESTE9
Pavnae and Nemaha Exhibits
Capture Prizes at Kansas City.
Armed Men Are Now Patroling Streets
of Wisconsin Town,
Winter, Wis., Oct. 3. The village of
Winter is under martial law as the re
sult of a pitched battle between
posse headed by Sheriff Mike E. Mad
den of Sawyer county and two sons
of John F. Dietz, in which both of the
Dletz boys and their sister were
wounded, the latter seriously.
Leslie, aged twenty-one; Myra, aged
twenty-two, and Clarence, aged twenty-three,
were driving into Winter
from their home at Cameron Dam,
when the posBe, looking for their
father, ordered them to stop. The
Dietz boys, it is claimed, opened fire
and the battle ensued. Leslie escaped
to his father's house, but Myra was
shot through the back and Is now un
der guard at a hotel, where It Is said
she Is seriously wounded. Clarence
is under arrest here. Both men are
charged with attempted murder.
It was reported that John Dletz
would visit Winter and "shoot up"
the village. Sheriff Madden Immedi
ately swore In fifty men, who are pa
trolling the streets, armed with re
peating rifles. All women have been
ordered to remain within doors.
Kansas City, Oct. 3. Nebraska car
ried off the agricultural honors in the
Missouri Valley Fair and Exposition
at Electric park for county exhibits.
Nebraska took both first and second
prizes.
To Arnold Martin, who has been
called the best small farmer In Amer
ica, is due the credit for Nebraska's
success. Mr. Martin has cnarge or
the exhibit for pawnee county. It was
given first prize. The same county
won first prize at the fair last year.
The county exhibit prize Is the largest
cash prize offered for one exhibit in
the agricultural section.
The prizes were awarded in this or
der: Pawnee county, Nebraska, first
prize, $325; Nemaha county, Nebras
ka, second prize, $300; Franklin coun
ty, Kansas, third prize, $250.
More than half of the products In
the Pawnee county exhibit were ralsrt
on the twenty-acre farm Mr. Martin
owns and were cultivated by him.
Wyandotte county, which won the fifth
prize, took first place In the county
exhibits at the Kansas state fair in
Topeka two weeks ago. Five states
were represented in the county com
petition inElectrIc park.
AEROPLANES MEET IN MIDAIR
Aviators Seriously Injured and Ma
chines Completely Wrecked.
Milan. Italy. Oct. 3. The first col
lision on record between aeroplanes
In midair occurred here at the avia
tion meet when the machines of Cap
tain Dickson, an. English army flyer,
and a French aviator named Thomas
met In a head-on collision while speed
ing through the air fifty feet above
the ground. Both machines were
dashed to the ground with great force
and the two aviators seriously Injured.
Captain Dickson Is not expected to
live. The machines were completely
wrecked.
An immense crowd witnessed the
accident and for a time a panic was
Imminent. The accident was caused
by Thomas losing control of his bi
plane and, although he shouted fran
tlcally to Dickson of the danger, the
machines were too close together to
allow the English driver a chance to
get out of the way.
IVaM in t!u Country.
Ed. Eger.berger, James Johns,
Henry Iss and Charles Kunsman,
chartered a rig and drove to the
country residence of Fred Guenther,
Jr., yesterday afternoon, and partook
of a banquet prepared by their hands,
which they know was about the best
cooked meal they ever enjoyed. Fred
Guenther is keeping bachelor's hall
on his farm west of the city, and
when his guests arrived yesterday he
allowed them to show him their skill
In preparing a good square meal. Jim
cleaned and fried th$ chicken,
Charles peeled the potatoes, while
Henry made the apple pies, and Ed.
looked after feeding the team. The
dinner was soon ready and greatly
enjoyed by the visitors. In the after
noon the party was visited by Anton
Koubk and his party of Plattsmouth
gentlemen, on their return from
Philip Meisinger's residence. A few
games were Indulged In and the boys
returned to the city, having had a
pleasant outing.
Vermin After County Olliclals.
A large muskrat was slaughtered
in the corridor of the second story of
the court house this morning. The
animal was first on the basement
floor, whisking past the county attor
ney and county superintendent's
office doors. Not finding what It was
seeking, It transferred its base of
operations to the third floor, and
made a dive for the clerk's office, but
being interecepted by the law officers,
climbed into the west window where
It bra'ely met its death from a blow
inflicted on Its head by a dry goods
box then and there in the right hand
and In both hands of the said law
officer then and there held, the blow
thereby administered causing certain
contusions, wounds-and bruises from
which the vermin died. The speci
men will be mounted and added to
the Roosevelt collection of African
trophies.
Police Believe He Expected to Get
Reward for Exposing Alleged Plot.
Suspect Was Former Residsnt oi
Cer Moines, Where He Entered Au
tomobile Business.
Chicago. Oct. 1. Alter ilac'iii' n
bomb beside the resilience Oi Mm
Potter rahuer and cutting his tout
Into shreds with a butcher kr.it.-,
piercing his skin. Fred C. Wuh'.vii
meer twenty-six years old, nttinu; t. i
to gait, entrance to tlio mansion. h
Was Hi tested.
Vahlenmeyer demanded a'i i'.t'.i"l
ence with Mrs. Palmer, but the wuici.
man, the first person cnco'int.Tee
summoned the police. V ahlcnnK'yi r
told a story of having seen another
mnn placing the bomb at the side oi
the house and of struggling with him.
Later the prisoner confessed to having
put the explosive there himself and
having cut his clothes to bear out Ills
first narrative.
Mrs. Palmer was at home nt the
time, and the whole household was
thrown Into excitement by the prov
Imltv of death or Injury from the
bomb.
Wnhlennieyer was questioned by the
police, but refused to explain his mo
tive, hiding behind the expression:
"Why did I do it? Oh, just for In
stance."
The police announced they would
question Mrs. Palmer In regard to r-
ports that she had received threaten
Ing letters, In the effort to discover
the man's reason for the act.
The police are proceeding on the
theory that he thought to gain a re
ward for having "saved the house and
Its occupants from some mysterious
bomb thrower," and that his mutlla
tlon of his clothes was to substantiate
this claim.
WRhlenmeyer Is said to have been
connected with a garage at Des
Mclne3, la., recently.
Wahlenmeyer's Des Moines Career,
Des Moines, Oct. 1. Fred C. Wah
lenmeyer, arrested In Chicago In con
nectlon with the case of Mrs. Potter
Palmer, was in ,Des Moines for sev
eral weeks, but left here about one
month ago. He represented to th
fowa Automobile Supply company that
h was traveling for an automobile
manufacturer and upon that claim was
nermitted to use the company's ma
rhinos until he became destructive
"nd the company refused him further
favors. Wahlonmeyer stayed at lead
'r hotels and, according to reports
efl failed to pay his bill at one of
them.
POSTAL SAVINGS F0S CANAL
No More Panama Bonds Will Be Is
sued If Banks Prove Success.
Washington, Oct. 3. If the postal
savings banks prove In any measure
to be the success which President Taft
and Secretary MacVeagh believe they
will, no more Panama bonds will be Is
sued and the big ditch will be dug
with money loaned to the government
by depositors in the postal banks.
After conferences with the president.
Secretary MacVeagh has decided that
the treasury will take advantage of
the portion of the postal bank law
which allows the Issue oK postal bonds
for replenishing the treasury. Under
the law ll'i per cent of all the postnl
savings bnnks deposlst may be Invest
ed by the president In bonds or other
securities of the United States when
In his judgment the getvrnl welfare
nnd Interests of the United Stat?s so
require.
PILOT KILLED IN SPRINGFIELD
Young Race Driver Thrown Into Fence
at Side of Track.
Springfield, 111., Oct. 3. Laru
Vredenburgh, aged twenty-six, was in
stantly killed in the twenty-mile auto
mobile race at the state fair grounds
track when the car he was driving
plunged through the fence and he was
almost decapitated.
Sitting in the amphitheater was his
bride of but a few months. She faint
ed and was ta',:en away in an am
bulance. The accident happened when the
cars, with Carney Oldfield leading,
were on the eighth lap. As they
swept around the west turn Vreden
burgh's car skidded and plunged
through the fence, turning over. Vre
denburgh's body hit the top rail and
was thrown several feet' from where
the car struck. The fair officials called
off the rest of the races. .
Gotham Air Race Has Nine Entrants
Chicago Oct. 3. The culmination of
a year's remarkable progress In avia
tion began in Chicago when entrants
for the $30,000 Chicago-New York air
race gave exhibitions at Hawthorne
track. The race to New York will start
next Saturday. Nine aviators cava
entered the event.
Vaccination Kills Boy.
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 3 Compul
sory vaccination Is held to have caused
the death of James Little, five years
old, of lockjaw. The Irritation result
ing from the vncclnatlon prompted the
child to rub or scratch the wound,
which became Infected with tetanus
germs.
Argentine Eliows Fricdshlp.
r.uenos Ayr'?, Sept. --Tho city
has bfen made gay with decoration?
and lights !n Ion or of the centenary
of Chile, wli' ii Is row oelng cc-lelirrtcd.
Mstlic t Court in Section.
The attorneys from the county and
from the surrounding towns inter
ested in the litigation pending In the
district court, were. present at the call
of the docket in the district court this
morning.
The Jury will arrive tomorrow
morning and it is probable that the
case of the State vs. Clarence Stull
will be first to be tried. At the hour
of going to press the dispositions of
cases for the first place on the docket
wa3 awaiting the arrival of Mr.
Stull's attorneys, Genung & Genung,
of Glenwood.
The case of Vesta Clark against the
Bankers' Accident Association is set
down for Thursday morning. It Is
thought that the case of the State
against Izadore SItzman and Louis
Keezer, for murder, will be set for
trial about the 24th of October.
riea-sant Cullers.
Mr. J. G. Oldham, brother of Lee
Oldham, of Murray, and George Old-
bam and Mrs. Dora Moore, of this
city, came in Sunday morning from
Beaver City, for a brief visit. Lee
came up from Murray last evening
and spent the night with his brothers
and sister, and it goes without saying
that they had a most enjoyable meet
ing. Mr. J. G. Oldham departed for
his home on the early morning Bur
lington train, and Lee returned home
on the 10:07 M. P. train. Lee and
his brother, J. G., were callers at the
Journal office, and we were pleased
to meet them.
$500 000 FIRE IN CHICAGO
Grain Elevator of Gottfried Brewing
Company Destroyed.
Clilcago, Oct. 1 More than half
million dollars' damage was done by
fire which attacked the Gottfried
Brewing company's grain elevator. I
the course of the fire several hose
companies narrowly escaped death In
falling debris, while all buildings I
the neighborhood were endangered by
firebrands, which flew far on the
strong' wind.
When the wall crumbled In, the fly
Ing embers set flre to nearly a dozen
adjacent buildings, but firemen were
stationed In the lee of the blaze, and
no damage was done.
Several rnllroad lines found their
service cut off for half an hour by
hose across the track. The firemen
foiiKht eight hours before controlling
the flames.
Special Traill Wednesday Fve.
Do not forget the special train over
the Burlington Wednesday evening
for Omaha, on acocunt of the elec
trical parade. The train will depart
from the Burlington station at 7 p.
m. and returning leave the Omaha
station at 11 o'cloc k.
William Dallesdlnler, the Elmwood
attorney, was In the city this morning
looking after business In the district
court.
SIX HURT IN AUTO ACC1DEN
Car Driven at High Rate of Speed
Crashes Into Pillar at Viaduct
New YorK, Oct. 1. six persons
were Injured, three of them so serf
ously they can hardly recover, when
an automobile owned and driven
Thomas J. McLaughlin, a real estate
dealer, traveling at high speed
crashed into a pillar of the subway
viaduct on upper Broadway.
The seriously Injured are: Thomas
J. McLaughlin, Paul O'Brien and Her
bert C. Burnham, the latter two attor
neys. The three other passengers in
the car were less seriously hurt
Bursting of one of the tires Is believed
to have caused the car to swervo lti
the olistnirtlon.
Select
Form
Which Suits
You Best
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Preserves
Health
By HARRY t HILLM AN. Athlete. Director of the Dartmouth College Track Tesra
VERY now utul then wo hear of Bonio prominent
medical authority conJemning athletics in general.
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lie will attempt to snow now ine American youm
ioi
is gradually UNDERMINING HIS HEALTH and
will endeavor to traco tho early fatalities of heart
f;i nn, I tiil.i.iriil.Yii vietinw to the, strenuous com-
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petition in the various tonus ot nliuetiesi. a mi ms long taiK gener
ally couvinces quite a few persons to lira way of thinking. lut u
this authority would take the right fellow as an example ho would
change ins ideas.
EVERY YOUNG MAN SHOULD TAKE UP SOME FORM OF ATH
LETICS. FIRST OF ALL, UNDERGO A THOROUGH PHYSICAL t.
AMINATION AND IF PRONOUNCED FIT GET MIXED Ur IN some
ONE OF THE VARIOUS SPORTS. TRY THEM ALL. THEN SELECT
THE ONE BEST FITTED FOR YOUR PHYSICAL MAKEUP, BUT DO
NOT GO IN FOR THE HARD COMPETITIONS UNTIL YOU FEEL
YOU CAN STAND THE STRAIN.
LIVE CLEAN AND GET TLENTY OF SLEEF. Smoko, if
you must, in moderation, but cut it out entirely if possible Keep
on tho water wagon altogether, with tho exception of a littlo ale or
stout occasionally, nnd do not hit tho high places. TAKE GOOD
CARE OF THE STOMACH.
Unless a healthy young fellow can uso up somo of his surplu
energies in athletics and GET ACQUAINTED WITII TIIE LIFE
OF TIIE ATHLETE ho may possiblo get mixed up with a lot of
uncongenial companions. As athletics takes up most of a persona
sparo time, ho generally avoids all this.
IF NOT OVERDONE AND THE YOUNG MAN 13 PHYSICALLY
FIT, ATHLETICS IS THE GREATEST DEVELOPER FOR THE GROW.
ING YOUTH AND SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED AND NOT DISCOUR
AGED.
Conservation of Com
mon Sense Is Really
What the Country Needs
Business Men's Lack of Confidence Is
Foolish.
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By JAMES J. HILL
a senseless LACK OF CONFIDENCE
PAUL.
IN 8T.
TYPHC0N IN LUZON
Four Towns Practically Destroyed and
Thousand Pirsong Are Homeless.
Manila, Oct. 1. A typhoon of an
UBiinl sevorlty swept over the valley
of Cayiignn river In tho provinces o
Cnyngnn nnd Isabella, northern Luzon.
Four towns wero practically destroyed.
A thousand persons are homeless anil
destitute, hut dispatches so far re
ceived Indicate that there were no
casualties. The Koverunent I.) niak
Ins relic f Hies.
Son FUej ?200n.r.OO Suit.
New York. Sert. 'V S;ilt to P"t
aside the will of .Iiilm Wnlli'.co, a form
er stock exchange ineinlier, who lel't
an estate viilm d nt S2,0H0,0f 0, was lie
1,1 ti e v.-V'S tOtt.
T is only
that causes the present fear of business men of th
United States to engago in new enterprises..
Somo ono somewhere has grown timid some tim
over something and has CRIED "BOOl" at hi
neighbor. His neighbor probably jumped, and the
next fellow took fright WITHOUT KNOWING WnY nE WAS
FRIGHTENED.
THE RECENT CONSERVATION CONGRESS HELD
TALKED ABOUT CONSERVING WATER AND CON
SERVING LAND, CONSERVING COAL AND CON
SERVING IRON. ITS TOO BAD 80ME ONE DIDN'T
8AY A WORD ABOUT CONSERVING COMMON
8ENSE.
That's what this country needs right now to
CONSERVE COIBION SENSE. An article in
a September magazine deals with tho "conservation
rf common sense" and cives as tho panacea for the N.
paralysis that prevails the uso of old fashioned COMMON SENSE.
Biuiness men everywhere should take that advice.
I can Bee no reason for the fears which seem to possess onr
business men. I have preached a "return to the farm" policy for
years, and I expect to continue to do so. But that is NO REASON
FOR FEARS ON TIIE PART OF BUSINESS.
Women Must Do Their Share-
By JULIA WARD HOWE, Author. Who I Ovr Nincty-on Years Old.
HE well being of society cannot be attained without th
CO-OPERATION OF WOMEN who have it at heart
Some women find their chief delight in tho study of publi
business, but far too many are INDIFFERENT. Co:i
we acquiesce in this indifference?
NO, WE CANNOT. WOMEN MUST MARCH WITH THE ARM! Y
THAT GOES EVER ON AND DISCOVER NEW OPPORTUNITIES. SO
CIETY NEEDS TO EXERT ALL THE POWER IT POSSESSES TO
ATTAIN THE HIGHEST RESULTS. WE CANNOT ALLOW OUR EF
FORTS TO BE WASTED.
I remember once being aroused from a deep
slumber in which I had a vision. I seemed to see
in a rather confused way a number of men and
women working at desks nnd tables, all workin;
hard and being evidently in a hurry.
A voice said to me: "Look at theso men and
women. They are WORKING FOR TIIE GOOD
OF HUMANITY. They are working liko ants,
like bees -yr, they are working liko engines for tho WELFARE
OF THE HUMAN HACK. Ilnvo a good look nt them and don't
let it pass out of your iiieiiiiirv. Tho word is victory."
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