moutb VOL. XXXIII. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1914. NO. 82. plate e FIFTY HEAD OF CAT TLE MISSED FROM THE BORN RANCH Henry Born Misses Fifty Head of Cattle From Pasture Along Platte River, Supposed to be Stolen. For the first time in many years there has Leen reported to the authorities what seemed to be whole sale ease of cattle rustling and in this case He.nry Born, one of the leading farmers west of this city is the suf ferer to the extent of fifty head. The cattle were noticed for the last time Wednesday morning in the pasture of Mr. Born along the IMatte river near Oreapolis where they are being cared for and from here they had completely disappeared from all sight and there is not a sign as to where or how they were gotten away with. The loss of the cattle was not made until last night when Mr. Born decided to round them up and found that they were missing. The sheriff was at once notified of the loss and this morning made a trip out to the farm to look over the situation and endeavor if possible to try and get a lire on the parties who have com mitted the outrage. It is supposed that the cattle were driven away across the river to Sarpy county from where they were taken to South Om aha to be' disposed of on the stock market there. This is one of the big gest hauls of this kind made here in years and the parties carrying it out were certainly possessed of consider able nerve in driving away such a large number of cattle which might easily be traced. The outcome of the affair will be awaited with interest as there has not been anything of this kind pulled off here in years, and the authorities will make eery possible effort to get to the bottom of the af fair. Sheriff Quinton returned to Platts mouth about noon from visiting the scene of what was supposed to have been the spot visited by cattle rust lers and reports that the cattle were discovered on an island in the Platte river, but they were driven there or swam over to the island of their own acord is not known. The sheriff drove to LaPlatte, and there he followed along the north bank of the river looking for any signs of the missing cattle, and from here discovered them on the island. It is needless to say that the owner is greatly pleased to recover them as they were worth a considerable sum of money to him. THERE IS TALK OF FORMING A STATE BAS KET BALL LEAGUE Some of the leading followers of the basket ball game and players throughout the state have for some time past been agitating the ques tion of the formation of a state basket ball league that would em brace the leading towns of the state including Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, Fremont, Grand Island and Platts mouth. The matter of this city enter ing the league will depend greatly on the outlook for the support of the game from the citizens here as the team here will not have the advant age of the other cities in the support and co-operation of the Y. M. C. A. association which will greatly aid the other towns in the projected league. There is plenty of material here for a good fast team, if it is de veloped properly and the boys would be able to give a good account of themselves in the general results. It will be some time yet before v the organization of the league is made and those who are desirous of seeing Plattsmouth get into the game should do their utmost to boost the proposition. It is certainly a good op portunity to boost a good clean sport and by all means should be taken ad vantage of. The Journal advertisers are do ing the business. A Delightful Meeting. The Ladies Aid society of the M E. church held their regular meeting yesterday afternoon at the church parlors and the ladies and their friends were delightfully entertained by Mesdames T. W. Glenn, R. Peter son and Miss Hermia Windham, who were the hostesses on this occassion The ladies held their regular business session at the usual hour, after which the ladies devoted the few re maining hours in a most enjoyable social time and stitching on their fancy work. At the proper time the hostesses served a most delicious luncheon which was likewise most thoroughly enjoyed by the large num ber in attendance. DEATH OF MRS. ANNA J. MESSELER M'LEAN RAMGE AT OMAHA The death of a former resident of Plattsmouth is recorded in the pass ing of Mrs. Anna J. Messeler McLain Ramge, at her home in Omaha on Friday, October 2, 191 1, at the age of 55 years. Mrs. Ramge was for a long period of years a resident here in this city where she was quite well konwn to a large circle of friends whose regret at her death will be pro found. Mrs. Ramge was born Febru ary 17, 1859, at Knoxville, Illinois, where she resided for a number of years and was married to William McLain in Dow City, Iowa, October 27th, 1879. To this union there was born seven children, C. E. McLain, E. B. McLain, Mrs. J. M. Vance, Mrs. L. M. Kuhney, Mrs. J. II. Matson, Mrs. J. E. Rose, Mrs. E. A. Allman. On February 10, 1908, Mrs. McLain was married to Julius C. Ramge at Platts mouth, where they resided up until the family removed to Omaha to make their home. The funera? services were held Sunday in Omaha and the inter ment made in Forest Lawn cemetery. JACK PEARGE AND FAMILY OF LINGOLN VISITING PLATTSMOUTH FRIENDS From Friday's Dally. This morning Jack Pcarce, a former resident of Plattsmouth for many years accompanied by his son Doug lass Pearce, came down from Lincoln to visit here with their old friends for a few hours in this city. Mr. Pearce is at the head of the purchasing de partment of the firm cf Rudge & Gunzel, one of the leading business houses of Lincoln and looks after the buying for the firfim in Europe, but this year was unable to visit the markets of the old world owing to the war paralyzing the business in terests there and putting the man ufacturers out of business. Douglass is engaged in traveling for a large manufacturing concern of New York and has territory that demands his attention for seven months of the year in continuous traveling as he goes from New York to San Francisco on his trips in visiting the whole salers. While here both the Messers Pearce were callers at the Journal of fice and their visit was most heartly enjoyed in renewing old times when the Pearce family were residents of this city before their removal to Lin coln. M. G. Kime in City Today. This morning M. G. Kime came up from his home near Nehawka to visit here for the day interviewing the voters regarding his candidacy for the office of representative from this county on the democratic ticket. Mr. Kime has covered the county during his canvass and everywhere has met with the greatest encouragement in his candidacy. Mr. Kime is one of the best fellows in the world and a man who is esteemed very highly in the community where he has made his home for years, ar.d is one of the most progressive citizens in the southern part of the county. If the voters select Mr. Kime as their rep resentative in the legislature they can rest assurred that thei interests will be well looked after by this splendid gentleman. MOVEMENTS IN THE CITY AHE STILL GOING Oil New Rresidenres Under Contract, Others Being Completed and Additions Built to Others. A number of additions to the im provement program in the residence property of the city is now in active operation as well as contemplation by the property owners of the city. County Assessor W. R. Bryan is mak ing some changes in his residence property on High school hill that will add greatly to the appearance of the house as well as the comfort of the Bryan family. An additional half story will be placed o"er a portion of the house which will give several additional rooms as well as having a fine new porch placed around the building and a bay window placed on the lower floor that will furnish much additional light to the residence and be a pleasing feature to the general appearance of the building. August Cloidt who has in the past two years added greatly to the ad vantages of the city by building a number of modern cottages will again assist in the movement for additional homes by erecting a net cottage on the lots on west Main street between Tenth and Eleventh streets where the T. H. Pollock residence formerly stood. The work on this residence will be commenced as soon as possible to provide more room for the families moving into the city or the young people embarking on their matri monial career. WTilliam Barclay is another of the progressive citizens who are taking an interest in improving the city as he is just finishing up the work on a neat modern home on Pearl street and will commence Monday on putting up a second cottage on bis property of South Fifth street which will be modern in every respect. Taking these improvements as a sign of the times it can easily be seen that there is certainly a spirit of en terprise at work among our citizens to boost the town and add materially to its progress in the way of putting up new homes. CASS COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE IN A MOST PROS PEROUS CONDITION At the present time the conditions of the Cass county schools were never better and throughout the county the patrons of the schools are well pleased with the splendid manner in which the interests of the pupils are being looked after by the efficient corps of teachers which has been sup plied through the aid of County Superintendent Miss Mary E. Foster. he latest and most improved methods of education &re used in the schools of this county that can be found in any county in the state, and the result is shown in the improvement cf the schools and the advancement of the pupils in all lines. Miss Moster has devoted her entire time to study ing the methods of education through out the different sections of the county and applying the best of these to the conduct of the Cass county schools. Such deep interest in the schools alone has been responsible to a great extent in the upbuilding of the educational institutions of the county and the level headed patrons of the school can take the greatest of pleasure in their splendid school system under the leadership of the efficient county superintendent. Miss Mary McHugh of Falls CitjT is here making a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walling and family. J. H. Donnelly departed yester day afternoon for Lincoln to resume his duties on the road, after an over Sunday visit here with his family. Returns Home With Wife. From Friday's Dai!y. Last evening James ITigley return ed home from Stella, Neb., bring ing his wife back home from that place where she was taken very dangerously sick on Sunday with an attack of gall stones. a-.d Mr. Higley was summoned to her bedside Tues day to assist in caring for her. Mrs Higley left for Stella last week to care for her daughter, Mrs. Rhoda Cotner, who was very s ick there and while at her daughter's side was stricken down with r'ness and forcd to be brought home. Mrs. Cotner is showing some improvement and is feeling a little better but still very sick. THE ELKS TO GIVE SOCIAL DANCES TWICE A MONTH THIS WINTER The members of the Elks lodge of this city formed among themselves a new dancing club that will in the future give twice a month dances at the handsomely appointed dance hall in the Elk's club building. The dances will be for the benefit of the members of the lodge and their lady friends and the members of the order here who are lovers of the new dances are ooking forward with the greatest of pleasure to the first of these social events that will be given on Thursday evening, October 22nd. The Elks have a most beautiful hall in which to hold the dances and their new building with its splendid ar rangements will make the dances a source of the greatest of pleasure to every member of the order. The dances will be given on Thursday evenings throughout the winter ac cording to present arrangements and should be the sourca-of much pleasure during the winter evenings. THERE SHOULD BE A SHED ERECTED OVER THE PLAT FORM AT OUR STATION The rainy weather of the past fewr days has clearly demonstrated the need of better accomodations at the Missouri Pacific and Burlington pas senger stations for persons getting off and on train and chief among these is that of a covered platform that will save the women and children not to mention the men from getting wet when descending or getting on trains at these stations. The Bur lington has fitted up their depot here in fine shape for the comfort of the traveling public with the excep tion of this one thing, p.nd could they be induced to look favorably upon the proposition to cover at least a part of the platform it would prove a most acceptable move to the traveling public. Last Wednesday evening when the large crowd returning from Om aha arrived here it was raining and the ladies and children were compel led to get soaked in getting from the train to the depot. This is particul arly true at the Missouri Pacifific de pot where a large number of the residents here alighted to find it pouring down rain and a long march through the rain to 1heir homes or stand waiting for cabs for a con siderable length of time. Of course the railroad cannot provide vehicles enough to haul pas;cngers to their homes, but if a covered platform was placed there it would tend to make waiting an easier matter as a ordinary crowd soon fills the Missouri Pacific depot to its utmost .capacity. Here From Dakota on Visit. From Friday's Daily. John Hadraba came in this morn ing from Mandan, N. D., where he has been making his home for the past two years and will visit here with his mother, and brother, Joseph F. Hadraba, for a short time. John is looking as brown as a berry and the climate of Dakota seems to have agreed well with him as he is fat and sassy as ever. His friends here were very much pleased to see him looping so fine. Seats selling now at Weyrich & Hadraba's for The Famous Hawaiian Singers and Players. THE LATE C. H. WILKEN FORMERLY OF PLATTSMOUTH Who Passed Away at His Home Near Boehrs, S. I)., on Sunday, September 27, 1914. The Journal has just received a copy of the Chance (S. D.) Record, that gives a more complete account of the sickness and death of Charles II. Wilken, whose passing away was noted in Thursday evening's edition of the Journal. The article from the Record is as follows: "Charles Henry Wilken died at his home near Boehrs, ?unday, Septem ber 27, 1914, at 2 o'clock a. m., of tuberculosis. Charley was a model young man, and his friends were numbered by his acquaintances, all of whom deeply regret his being taken away, but inasmuch as 'lie who doeth all things well,' has chosen fit to take lim from our midst, we can but say, 'Thy will, not ours, be done.' The funeral services were held in Chance on Tuesday, September 29, being con ducted by D. R. Perkins, after which interment was made in the Chance cemetery. The Record joins with the ir.anv friends in extending sincere sympathy to the bereaved family." Charles Henry Wilken, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Wilken, was orn in Dennison, Iowa, November 2C, 1S94; passed away at his home near Boehrs, S. D., September 27, 1914. At an early age he moved with his parents to Plattsmouth, Ne- raska, where he grew to manhood. Ie was confirmed in the German Luthern church at the age of 12 years. For a number of years he was engaged in the manufacture of cigars in Plattsmouth in partner ship with B. G. Wurl, and after dis posing of his interest in the cigar making business he joined his father and brothers at Creighton, Ne braska, and engaged in farming there for a short time. At the end of the year 1909, Mr. Wilken, with his father and brothers, located at oehrs, taking up claims there, where they have since resided. He was married October 5, 1909, to Miss Mable Burch of Hopkins, Missouri. Ie contracted a cold in November of the same year, from wh'-jii developed tuberculosis. The day he passed way he seemed in his usual health, having been up ar.d aiound the house and took his meals as usual. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, father, mother, two brothers, John G. and Henry, and one sister, Clara. One brother and sister preceded him to the better world. Didn't See Street Car. George Ott, a farmer living at Mur- dock, Neb., narrowly escaped serious njury Thursday evening when he i was strucK rjy nn eastDouna car passing the corner of Twentieth and O streets. Ott came out of a store and headed north toward the !iock Island depot. He was apparently unaware of the street car and, ac cording to bystanders, he walked directly into the moving car. He was knocked to the brick pavement with considerable force. A long gash was cut in his forehead that, while painful was not thought to be serious. The njured man was taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital, where he was treated by City Physician Buchanan. The physician said he had to take a number of stitches to close the wound. Ie was surprised that the man's skull had not been fractured by the blow. The motorman on the car declared that he saw the man approaching and believed that he was going to get on the rear end. Instead, the man walk ed into the car. State Journal. Fred Nutzman in Town Today. Fred L. Nutzman, republican can didate for representative from Cass and Otoe counties, vv-as in the city today interviewing the voters in re gard to his candidacy. In 1910 Mr. Nutzman was elected to the legis lature and served one term, and his friends were very solicitious in bring ing him out agin this year. Files Petition for Probate. A petition asking for the probate of the last will and testament of Mrs Hannah Sechrist was filled this morning in county court. Mrs. Sech rist was possessed of some property in Colorado as well ar in this county and leaves no children to inherit the state. Under the will W. E. Rosen crans, a nephew of Mrs. Sechrist is nominated as the executor of the estate. SEVERAL CASES WERE DISPOSED OF IN DISTRICT COURT ON FRIDAY At the session of the district court yesterday Judge Begiey took up a number of motions and other minor matters to be brought to the attention of the court. In the case of Philip Stoehr vs. Lucy Boggs, et. al., the defendant was given leave to amend the answer in the case. This involves the settlement of an estate in which all the parties are interest ed. The case of the County of Cass vs. C. Lawrence Stull was dismissed on motion of the plaintiff. This is a case involving the construction of a bridge on the road near the propeity of the defendant, north of the city, which the defendant sought to stop construction on, but which has since been put in. In the case of Solomon C. Keckler vs. the Phoenix Fire Insaiance com pany, the motion of the defendant to rt;i.ire plaintiff to make election as 1 j cause for trial, rjsc.iined. Plain tiff expects and ele-J.s to take second count of petition for trial. Defend ant given ten days to file answer. In the matter cf Nathan P. Schulze vs. William Street, et al., a suit to quiet title, the default of all defendants was entered and the plain tiff granted decree quieting title to property. FUNERAL OF MRS. JAMES NOVAK, WHO DIED IN HAVELOGK, THURSDAY The funeral of Mrs. James Novak, who died at her home in Havelock on Thursday evening, was held this morning at 10 o'clock lrom the Holy Rosary Catholic church in the west part of the city and interment made in the Catholic cemetery west of the city. The body arrived last evening from Havelock and wis taken to the home of Mrs. Novak's daughter, Mrs. John Rotter, where it lay in state un til the hour for the funeral. The services at the church were conduct ed by Rev. Father Vlcek, rector of the church, with the celebration of the requiem mass for the dead. Mrs. Novak had been in very poor health for some time and at her advanced age of 81 years it was almost impos sible for her to rally and for some time her family has known that the days of the beloved mother were numbered in the land of the living. The funeral service was quite largely attended by many old friends of the family, who gathered to pay their last tribute of respect to this grand good lady called from their midst af ter a long and useful life. Rainfall Is Quite Heavy. The downpour of lain here last evening between 5 and 6 o'clock was about as lively as has been seen for some time and it required only a few minutes of the downfall to almost fifill the street with the surface water being carried to the river bottoms. The dowpour reached almost an inch and a half and was continuous without a letup until nearly 6 o'clock. A great deal of lightning and thunder accompanied the rain and made the more timid hunt shelter. The storm had a very decided effect on the atmosphere r.nd resulted in cooling it off a great deal. The old wiseacres on the weather proposition have it figured out that this will probably be about the last of the rains of any consequence during the fall season. Wedding stationery at the INSANE MAN ATTEMPTS TO DIG OUTJF JAIL He Was Making Pretty Fair Head way When Discovered by Other Prisoners in Adjoining Cells. This morning the county board of insanity had before them Ed Wilson, from the vicinity of Weeping Water, against whom a complaint had been filed several days ago on the charge that he was mentallv unfit to be at large. The case developed from ex cessive use of alcohol, and the man when broutrht before the board this morning displayed sirrn? of the most pronounced form of insanity. Wilson was brought in yesterday. but the board was unable to take up his case and he was placed in jail over night to await tne action of the board, and there occasioned a great deal of excitement by a daring at tempt to escape from the building by digging out through the walls. He tried to dig out the cement around the ventilator in th cell room in which he was confined. He was get ting along in great shape with the work of digging out when his actions were noticed by John Miller and Tony Hutchison, two men confined in the cells, and they at ence gave the alarm by calling for the sheriff. Mrs. Quinton heard their cries and dis covering the man at his work tele- phoned down for the police, as Sheriff Quinton was absent from the jail at the time, and Officer Fitzger ald responded and arrived at the same time as the sheriff, who had also been notified of the man's ef forts to escape, and he was confined in the steel cell, which was jerfectly safe from any attacks or attempts of the man to escape. The daring attempt was discovered about 9 o'clock in the evening, and had Wil son been allowed to go there is no telling what damage he might have done in his mad effort to get out of the confines of the prison. The insanity board, after hearing the evidence in the matter and the statement of the prisoner, decided that he was certainly a fit subject to be sent to the Lincoln hospital for treatment, and accord-ngly he was ordered sent to that institution to be cared for. SHOWER GIVEN AT THE M'CAULEY HOME IN HONOR OF MISS HELEN POLLOCK Yesterda'y afternoon a very charm ing shower was given at the home of Mrs. William McCauley, by Misses Katheryn Windham and Doris Pat terson in honor of Miss E11mi Pollock one of the forthcoming October brides. It was in the nature of a miscellaneous shower given to ti e O. A. G. Club for Miss Pollock, and was a most delightful event in every way, and the ladies taking part shower' ! the bride-to-be with numerous hand some and appropriate gifts that will be cherished in her life as remem brances of her friends. Those who were present were Misses Helen Pol lock, Lucille Gass, Caherine Dovey, Katheryn Windham, Doris Patterson, and Mesdames George O. Dovey and Mrs. Jack Patterson. Called by Daughter's Illness. John McNurlin departed this morning for Omaha, where he was called by the illness of his daughter, Mrs. Ed Spreick, of Stanton, Neb., who has been brought to Omaha for treatment in the general hospital Mr. McNurlin was not aware of the exact nature of the illness of Mrs. Spreick, but thinks it is caused from the effects of an opeiation which she underwent several months ago in Omaha for appendicitis, and which was not wholly successful, owing to her leaving the hospital before the proper time. Journal office. Try the Journal for stationery. --v- - i " y -3