The-
Platfsmouth - Journal
Published Semt-Weeklj it Plattsxouth, Nebraski
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the roatoflice. at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as Becond-clasg
matter.
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luC days are on now, and a
dog-killing time may be expected.
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An exchange says that old
maids and telephone girls usually
flick to the switch. So do some
frhool teachers.
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Say, are you coining to Plalls
rnouth on the Fourth of July? Of
course you are, if you want to
have a good time.
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The enterprising passenger
agents ought to announce ex
cursions to Nevada, where a base-
ball umpire is under sentence of
death.
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A young man 25 years old, was
killed the cither day while trying
fo collect 20 cents due him for le-
Hverinn a local paper. That's
awful.
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neither one knew any more about
it than we did. But, then, a good,
big rain would help out some just
the same.
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County candidates in both
parties are looming up. Some
for the third, fourth and six
teenth time. From the voice of
the people they aro getting awful
tired of those fellows who insist
upon a life tenure in ofllce, and
those fellows who insist on hold
ing on to office will get it in the
neck this year. The people are
ready to cry, "Hold, enough!" And
they mean just what they say, too.
There are plenty ot qualified and
good men in this county.
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David A. Hall, a prominent
lawyer and several lime a can-
Chicago Tribune- favors using
Ihe roller towel to swat the fly
with. We prefer an old newspaper
as an illustration of the power
of the. press.
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The days for Fniled States sen
ator who voles against the elec
tion of members of that body by
a direct vote of the people are
numbered. Mark that I
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Auto wrecks are becoming more
perious than railroad wrecks. The
papers every day chronicle nu
merous causalities. And still peo
ple go on and buy aulos.
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Colonel (ioethals says, the
Panama canal is to be done July
i, 1913. If so, we have no doubt
lie will let oil" one or two fire
crackers " three days after that
late.
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A Missouri judge lias held that
a man has a right to spank his
wife. It may be all right some
times, but we would like to see
mime fellows in I'lattsmouth
undertake the job more than once.
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I'laltsmoiilh is one of Hi pret
tiest and most healthy cities in
the Mate of Nebraska. If you are
looking for a location visit
I'lattsmouth before you make a
didate for the nomination of gov
ernor of Missouri on the demo
cratic ticket, was stricken with
apoplexy at his home in Louisi
ana, Missouri, Sunday night. His
condition is serious, say physi
cians who are attending him. Mr.
Hall has never fully recovered bis
health since the close of the
democratic primary three years
ago, when he was a candidate lor
the nomination for governor. The
writer has known Mr. Hall for
many years, and never attended a
democratic gathering of any kind
in Ihe state of Misosuri but that
Dave Hall could be found in the
front working for Ihe best In
terests of the party. He is an able
man, and we hope his illness will
not prove so serious as represent
ed. Mr. Hall has visited Plalls
tnouth on numerous occasions
and is well known to a number of
our people.
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hires of the victory is that repub
lican newspapers and politicians,
that sneered and scolded Con
gressman Hitchcock when he in
troduced his resolution for a con
gresisoual investigation of the
Alaska scandal, are now falling
over themselves to take time by
the forelock and congratulate
Secretary Fisher on his decision
even before it is announced. They
have discovered thai it was no
empty niuckracking in which Mr.
Hitchcock was indulging, and, as
rats desert a sinking ship, so now
they desert the discredited Hal
linger, whose cause they were a
little while ago so warm to cham
pion.
It is now apparent that the ulti
mate effect of the little resolution
which Congressman Hitchock in
troduced will be to save to the
American people hundreds of
millions of valuable public prop
erty in Alaska which otherwise
would have gone down the red
maws of greedy and dishonest
syndicates. World-Herald.
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Congress will soon take a vaca
tion until after the Fourth of
July.
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The weather for the past few
days has not become so much of
a burning issue.
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decision,
poods.
and we wi
show the
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When a person dies from
worn, it is cheaper and much
pleasanter than commitliue sui
ride. Worry is said to have killed
a lady in Chicago the other day
A trfling husband worried her to
dealh.
"I'lattsmouth first, last and all
the lime," should be the motto of
every citizen who has a home in
the city. He with us or against
us, and if you are against us, your
room is better than your com
pany, so move out.
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They are still fighting in
Mexico, although when Diaz step
ped down and out it was thought
hostilities would cease. It will
take an army of 200,000 soldiers,
l'ke we had during the civil war,
to settle the Mexican desperadoes.
This many American soldiers
would settle difficulties down there
in quicker time than it takes to
tell it.
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It is bard to tell vhat kind of
weather we need for the growing
corn. You will meet one person
and be will tell you that the severe
hot weal her is bad for it, while
nnother one will tell you lhal hot
weather never hurts the corn. So
we just take it for granted that
END OF THE BALLINGER CASE.
The report comes from Wash
ington that the new secretary of
the interior, after only a few
months of investigation, has de
rided that the Cunningham claims
are fraudulent and invalid ami
must be rejected, and that his de
cision will be announced within a
week.
This is the logical end of the
Hallinger case. It was Hallinger
who was the attorney of the
Cunningham claimants before!
Taft appointed him secretary of
the interior appointed him, it
has been said, at the solicitation
of the Guggenheim interests, to
whom Frank Hitchcock, as na
tional chairman, bartered the
position in return for valuable
support in the campaign of 1908.
II was Hallinger who, as sec
retary, blocked and defeated every
effort to have the truth about the
Cunningham claims brought to
light, and who for three years
succeeded in protecting his
friends though it cost such faith
ful servants as Pinchot and Glavls
their discharge from the govern
ment service. It was Hallinger
who succeeded in eliciting the
support, at every slep of the way,
of President Taft himself, with a
whitewashing letter thrown in for
good measure. It was Hallinger
who was championed and ex
onerated by the republican ma
jority of the investigating com
mittee appointed by congress to
inquire into the unsavory scandal.
Hut Hallinger has gone. I.awler
and bis other truckling subordin
ates, lickspittles and willing tools
of the big interests, have bad to
go with them. A new order pre
vails in the interior department
an order compelled and brought
about by the force of public
opinion. It needs only Ihe report
rejecting Ihe Cunningham claims
to make the victory complete.
One of the most gratifying fea-
llemember the day and date
July 4 and bring your families
lo Plattsmouth to celebrate.
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If you want lo attend a grand,!
old-fashioned Fourth of July j
celebration, come to Plattsmouth.
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We need a street sweeper in
Plattsmouth as bad as any of the
towns of much smaller popula
tion that are getting them.
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It will be observed by the roll
call that the plan to elect senators
by direct vote is opposed almost
entirely by senators who could
under no circumstances be elect
ed by direct vote.
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The senate expects to vote on
reciprocity July 10 or 17. The
dreary live weeks of speeehmak
ing wili not change a solitary
vote, but Ihe senators love to
think I hey are "deliberalinn."
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don't hear so much abuse of
Omaha from the western editors
since they were so highly and de
lightfully entertained by the good
people of that city last week.
Omaha is really the only me
tropolitan city in Nebraska, and
is up and doing things, and there
is no city on the globe that knows
better how to entertain guests.
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Reports from the home of Hon
Dave Hall of Missouri are to the
effect that he is improving from
the stroke of apoplexy he received
Sunday. Mr. Hall has been a fre
quent visitor to Plattsmouth and
his numerous friends here
will be pleased to learn of his fin
proved condition. None more so,
however, than the editor of the
Journal, who has known him so
long.
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There are residents in Platts
mouth who do not pay any atten
lion whatever to the cutting of
the weeds in front of their homes,
while others in eolse proximity
put in considerable time keeping
them down. Weeds breed disease
and what is the use of one resi
dent working so hard to prevent
disease when his next-door neigh
bor lets the weeds grow as high
as his head? 'None whatever. The
man who refuse to cut the weeds
around his home does not show-
good citizenship.
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cause, if such a leader stiouiu
appear it will be just as ea-y to
line this state up for La Follette
as it was to dislodge Senator Rur
kett from his high position. The
same impulse that supplanted
Hurkett would repudiate Taft.
Nebraska does not belong to
Taft. It is a battle ground, and
the chance of success, in case a
battle should be waged, would lie
most with Senator La Follette. It
is a progressive state, however
much its republican leaders may
seek to obstruct its progressive-
ness, and its republican voters
have not disclosed any inclination
to look upon President Taft as
one in fellowship with them.
Lincoln Star. -
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MISSOURI PACIFIC WILL
SPEND LOTS OF MONET
Fixing Up Lines In Nebraska 800
Trackmen Now at Work Be
tween Union and Omaha.
The crop news from some parts
of Nebraska is so discouraging
lhal il is feared many farmers
will be able to buy only one new
louring car this year, and will
have to send their families to the
Great lakes instead of F.urope.
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The democrats and insurgents
should not wnver in their de
liberations where the people's in
terests are al stake. The country
is watching their every move in
congress, and if I hey slick to the
text, and slay united, there is no
need lo fear Ihe results so far as
Ihe common people are concerned.
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It will seem like a waste of
money to expend millions in im
provements of Ihe Missouri Pa
cific if n goodly portion of it is
not expended in this slate, for it
is in this slate that a railway
commission once found it advis
able to order the Missouri Pacific
to better its Irack. Lincoln Star.
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H. F. Hush, the new president
of the Missouri Pacific, is spend
ing considerable time in Ne
braska, which would indicalo that
the lines in this slate, which have
been neglected so long, would be
put in first-class condition. The
people in the towns along the
road are at lensl hoping so.
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President Taft and Mrs. Taft
have invited 2,000 guests to help
Ihem celebrate their silver wed
ding June 19. The president's
advisers believe it is safe for him
to do this, since silver has ceased
to be n vexatious issue. For some
cause or another we have failed to
receive our invitation.
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It is marbles lo chalk that you
ASHI.AM) lKl1ir.K DISTRICT.
XII'IIE OK FHni'OSKU ISSIK OS"
HO MIS.
Notice in hereby Kiven that the A
land Drainage District needs the rom
of seventeen thousand five hundred
Hlxtv-elKht and 60.100 017.568.60) dol
lars, and the Hoard of Directors there
of Is about to issue seventeen thousand
Ave hundred sixty-eight and 60.190
S17.56S.60) dollars of negotiable bond
of said disilrct, drawing six per cent
Interest per annum, payable in ten
equal annual Installments, with Interest
coupons attached, said bonds to be sold
at not less than par. At any time with
in sixty days alter the date of the first
publication of this notice, to-wlt: June
8, 1911, any owner of any tract of real
estate In said district, or of any ease
ment therein, may pay to C. Keetle,
treasurer of said district, at the Karm
cers and Merchants Bank, Ashland, Ne
braska, the proportionate share of the
principal amount of said bonds charge
able against said tract, and the amount
of bonds issued will be reduced in the
aggregate amount of said advance
payment so made, and any tract upon
which such advance payment Is made
wil lnot be chargeable with payment
of any of said bonds or the interest
thereon; provided, that if a deficit In
caused by .an appeal from the assess
ment of benefits and a change thereon,
or by reason of any assessment being
uncollectible, or In any other manner
whatsoever, then said deficit shall be
a charge upon all the lands assessed
according to the apportionment of
benefits, the same as any other liability
of the district.
The proportionate share of the prin
cipal amount of said bonds chargeable
against eacli tract of land In said dis
trict hag been determined, levied and
assessed by the board of directors
thereof in dollars and cetns against and
upon each tract thereof on the basis of
the apportionment of units of benefit
and assessment hitherto made at the
rate of four and fottv-flve hundredths
dollars ($1.45) per unit; reference being
hereby mnde, for specific Information
as to particular tracts, to the Resolu
tion of said Hoard of Directors relat
ing thereto on tile in the ofllce of A. B.
Fuller, Ashland, Nebraska, secretary of
t laid district.
Witness the signature of said Ash
land Drainage District, by the Presi
dent and Secretary thereof, and the
corporate seal of said district, this 3d
day of June, 1911.
Ashland Drainage District.
(SEAL)
By Nelson ShefTer, President.
A. B. Fuller, Secretary.
NEBRASKA AND TAFT.
Perhaps the success of Judge
Green in the Ninth Iowa district
has given courage to progressive
republicans in the west, and has
strengthened the conviction
among them that Taft and those
who cleave lo him are not in
vulnerable.
It is a blow to the prestige of
the president that in the Ninth
Iowa district, which three years
ago had a republican majority of
t,000, in which the normal repub
lican majority is about 4,000, and
in which Judge Waller I. Smith
a year ago received a majority o
over 1,800, was able in the specia
election recently to give the. re
publican candidate only about
1,200 plurality.
It is a si ill greater slap at the
prestige of the president t tint the
republican elected by even that
small plurality is pledged to op
pose the pet policies of the ad
ministration. The condition in
that district is interesting chiefly
in that it is an indication of what
may be expected to develop else
where, and it will occur, doubt
less, to the political ready reckon
er that if it takes a normal repub
lican majority of 0,000 in a dis
trict to elect a republican to con
gress by 1,200 votes, the adminis
tration is not going to have a
walk-away by any means.
Meantime the medieiners of the
party" are beginning to beat the
tom-toms and chant the incanta
tions. Here in Lincoln Hie or
gans of the parly are declaring
that La Follette cannot hope to
carry this stale, and that it will
surely go for Taft. We will hear
more of that sort of stuff from
day to day now. It is not based
upon any calculation ol any sort.
It is simply Ihe band wagon chal
lenge. Those who declare that
the stale is bound to go for Taft
are those who want it to go for
Taft. They said a few months ago
that the slate would surely go for
Hurkett. They could see no pos
sibility of it going any other way.
They did not want to see any such
possibility. They would not have
seen it if it was the only visible
thing.
The fact is that it is about an
even break in Nebraska between
La Follellee and Taft. If we ac
cept Senator Hrowu as the
especial champion of the presi
dent, and fieorpe Norrls as the
chief fugleman of Senator La
Follette one is intuitively disposed
to commiserate both candidates
for Ihe weakness of their faction
al leadership. Undoubtedly, how
ever, some stronger leader will
appear to lead the La Follette
President Hush and party of
the Missouri Pacific returned yes
tenlay afternoon to the south,
making their stop last night at
Topeka, where they will appear
xlay with a request similar to
that made to the Nebraska railway
commission yesterday, says the
ineoln Journal. While Mr
Hush did not talk a great deal
about work now being done in Ne
braska to make the lines capable
of handling more business with
less delay, these facts are related
by a Missouri Pacific man follow
ing his call:
The Missouri Pacific now has
800 trackmen working between
Union and Omaha, putting in new
ties, surfacing and ballasting ami
getting ready for other improve
ments.
Workmen are now busy be
tween Union and Lincoln, putting
in new ties and ballastingg pre
paratory to putting in new seven
ty-flve-pound steel.
President Hush told Missouri
Pacific men while here that by fall
the Nebraska lines will be in as
good shape to accomodate busi
ness as Ihe company's Kansas
City-St. Louis line.
Terminal work at Falls City is
imw nearing completion and the
company's plant there will soon
be in shape to handle any amount
of business from the Nebraska
lines.
Probate Notice.
Plate of Nebraska, County of
Cass, ss.
IN COUNTY COURT.
In the matter of the estate of
Abel Bevan, Deceased. ,
To All Persons Interested:
You are hereby notified that
there has been filed in this court,
report of the administratrix of
above estate, together with her
petition for final settlement of her
accounts as set forth in said re-.
port, and for her discharge as
uch administratrix, in all things-
except Ihe payment of claims..'
That a hearing will be had up
on said report and petition before
this court in the County Court
Rooms at Plattsmouth, in said
County, on the 27th day of June,
4911, at 10 o'clock A. M.
That all objections, if any, must
be filed on or before said day and
hour of hearing.
. Witness my hand and the seal
of j the County - Court' of said
County this 5th day of June, 1911.
Allen J. Heeson.
. County Judge.
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See the Sights.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Juror Dan Lynn and Juror
Cieorpe W. Leach, on advice of
their best friend, Juror Jesse
Davis of Weeping Water, went to
Omaha this afternoon to lake In
the moving picture show, as well
as to drop in on the courts and
see how justice is administered
in the metropolis. Mr. Leach
stated that wo could look for him
in time to open court in the
morning, while Juror Lynn would
make no promises.
Probate Notice.
IN COUNTY COURT.
State of Nebraska, County
Cass, ss.
In the matter of the estate of
Albert Eugene Lewis, deceased.
To All Persons Interested:
You are hereby notified that
there has been filed in this court
a report of the administrator of
said estate, together with his peti
tion for final settlement thereof.
That a hearing will be had up
on said report and petition before
this court in the County Court
Rooms at Plattsmouth, in said
County, on the 3rd day of July,
1911, at 9 o'clock a. m. That all
objections thereto, if any, must ba
filed on or before said day and
hour of hearing.
Witness my hand and seal of
the County Court of said County
this 81 h day of June, 1911.
(SEAL) Allen J. Heeson,
County Judge.
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Witnesses Rose Carnival.
From Wednesday' Dally.
Mr. A. L. Anderson received a
letter from Mrs. Anderson yes
terday, who is now in Portland,
Oregon, having gone to that city
from Denver. Mrs. Anderson ar
rived in Portland in time to see
;.the Rose carnival, which is" being
held in that city. A feature which
was particularly admired by Mrs.
Anderson was the parade of 5,000
little girls, extending many
blocks, all gorgeously appareled.
The electrical parade also occur
red after Mrs. Anderson arrived
and was a brilliant affair. Mrs.
Anderson goes from Portland to
Seattle lor a visit.
State Vs. McCautey Dismissed.
From Wednesday's Dally.
The case of the State vs.
Charles McCauley, charged with
larceny from the person, was call
ed in the district court this morn
ing, and dismissed by the county
attorney, as (he evidence was con
sidered insufficient to warrant the
expense of a trial in Ihe district
court.
Mr. Cieorge II. Hecker of camp
No. 70, V. O. ' was a passeng
er to the metropolis on the morn
ins: train today, where he was
called on business for the camp.