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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916.
No. 4",
COMMITTEE
MEETING OF
DEMOCRATS
The Selection of a Chairman and Vice
Chairman and Other Important
Business Transacted.
From Friday's Dally.
The political campaign in Cass
county was given a good start yes
terday when the democratic county
central committee met at Louisville to
arrange for their organization for
the coming year. There was quite a
p.codly number of the committeeman
.".d candidates in attendance r.t the
meeting and everyone felt filled with
he fieatest .i enthusiasm for the
c uok for th? ers-j::) campaign.
The meeting vas cr-lied to orlj
by Chairman L. F. Langhorst, who
has just been selected to preside over
the state central committee, and the
meeting at once got down to business
with securing an organization for the
ensuing campaign. The members of
the committee and the candidates
prevailed on Chairman Langhorst to
again take up the reins of leadership
in the county, by electing him chair
man and Hon. W. B. Banning of
Union, as vice chairman, and this
combination of Lou Langhorst and
Billy Banning certainly ought to be
a winner as both are strong, stead
fast democrats, and thoroughly in
terested in the success of the demo
cratic party in the coming battle. The
committee also decided that a special
organization will be put in charge of
the 6ampaign in Plattsmouth city and
a chairman will be selected for that
position.
The general feeling at the meeting
was that this is the year for demo
cracy as they have the very satisfac
tory administration of President Wil
son as an example to follow and the
increasing strength of the national
ticket will be of much benefit to the
party in the county. The splendid rec
ord of Senator G. M. Hitchcock in the
senate has brought the name of Ne
braska to the front in the halls of
congress and the ability and popu
larity of Keith Neville, the candidate
for governor makes him a strong fac
tor in the coming battle. The county
ticket selected at the primary is one
composed of good, able and well qual
ified gentlemen, everyone of whom is
capable of filling the position to
which he aspires.
With the wise selection made in the
personal of the county committee the
party should be in a good position
for the ensuing battle at the polls
and from now on the campaign will
be pushed with vigor by the demo
crats. CASE THAT SHOULD
HAVE BEEN SETTLED
OUTSIDE OF COURT
From Friday's Dally f
Yesterday aft'vioon the court of
Judge M. Archer was occupied in
hearing the charge filed by County
Attorney Cole on the complaint filed
by John Dueri against A. Zoz, a res
ident of the vicinity of Murdock. This
case is the outgrowth of the dispute
occasioned over the spilling or throw
ing of some water by Duerr over the
person of Mr. Zoz and for which Zoz
rapped the complaining witness over
the head kuite sharply. The case was
threshed out and the evidence of the
different parties taken, and the court
decided that it would cost Mr. Zoz,
$5 and costs, amounting to $10, which
he paid, and went on his way home
ward. The settlement of the cased
seemed satisfactory to all the parties
interested, and while the case was
really one that should have been
quietly settled by the parties out of
court without the necessity of bring
ing the matter to. the attention of the
county authorities.
TAKE NOTICE.
We hereby announce that No. 49
was the lucky number in our sideboard
contest, and Mr. J. D. Parker was
the holder of same, winning the prize.
LORENZ BROS.
ALBERT ROUSE, INJURED IN
EXPLOSION, IMPROVING FAS
From Friday's Dally.
The condition of Albert Rouse, the
young man who was injured so se
vereiy at uretna, a lew days ago in
the explosion of a boiler, is reported
as being just as well as could pos
sibly be expected unedr the circum
stances. Mr. Rouse is suffering great
ly from his injuries which are of
most severe nature ana nis recovery
is very doubttul as yet. His two sis
ters, Mrs. Warren Tulene and Mrs
Alvin Jones of this city were at his
bedside yesterday and found him rest
ing as easily as possible under the
trying circumstances. The splendid
physical condition of Mr. Rouse has
been the only thing that has sustain
ed him during his suffering and had
he not been of such a heavy build h
certainly would have been killed by
the explosion, which as it was almost
tore his right arm from its socket.
His friends here will anxiously await
word from his bedside.
PINCHED IN OMAHA
LAST NIGHT FOR
FAST JOY RIDE
From Friday's Dally.
If the rumors to that effect can be
believed, four young men of this city
had a most disagreeable experience in
Omaha last night, near the witching
midnight hour, when they, together,
with the ladies in their company,
were gathered in for trying to re
duce the, speed record and for travel
ing at a speed far in excess of that
perscribed by law. The auto party
was spinning along l wenty-tourth
street in the South Side when they
were overhauled and forced to put
up a cash bond of $25 for their ap
pearance in court, but it is needless
to say that the bond was forfeited
this morning. The amatuer ''white
ighters" were late in getting their
party together for the start from this
ity and it was close to 12 when they
were picked up wnne enroute
to the gay metropolis where there is
merriment and song to pass the time
away. Some of the party not able to
keep the matter a secret as to the
arrests, and it soon leaked out among
their friends.
Hereafter when the boys try speed-
ng they should patronize home in
stitution and save money as the bond
here is only $5 which is quite a sav
ing over the price charged in the
metropolis. After their experience
with the speed cop the party j,our-
neyed on into Omaha and enjoj-ed a
rive over that city before returning
home.
LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT THE BAND CON
CERT LAST NIGHT
From Friday's Dally.
The attendance at the weekly con
cert of the Burlington band, held at
Garfield park st evening was the
argest that has been held hereto
fore and the program given was ren
dered in the best of form by the boys.
One of the especially pleasing
selections was the waltz, "Fairy
Kissed' whose soft and pleasing
strains was enjoyed by everyone. The
high class number taken from the
ballet music of. "Faust" and "Cleo
patra" by Gunoud was given in a
most delightful manner and received
with much pleasure by all in the
audience. The stirring march, "The
Belle of New York," the opening se-
ection on the program was one of the
most enjoyable. The popular selec
tion from "The Time, the Place, the
Girl," by Howard, was sparkling and
tuneful and filled with the witching
tunes of this musical comedy. The
concert was closed by the playing of
the national anthem, "The Star
Spangled Banner" as the audience
filed out of the park bound homeward
and feeling well pleased with the
evening's entertainment. The park
was nice and cool last evening and
the breezes from the river made the
concert a most pleasant treat to those
who had suffered during the day
from the intense heat and found a
relief in the hour spent on the green
sward of the park.
DEATH OF UNCL
RUBEN FOSTER
AT RIPE OLD AGE
One of
One
the Itest Known Citizens and
Highly Respected by All
Who Knew Him.
From Saturday's Dallv.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
at Union, another of the old residents
of Cass countv passed to his final re
ward, when Uncle Ruben Foster, pas
sed away after a lingering illnesi
covering the great part ot the last
year. There was no one in Union and
surrounding territory that was held
in higher respect than this gronci,
good man whose long life of 83 years
had been filled with benefactions for
his fellow man and who had a kindly
word and helpfulness for everyone in
the community. As long as his health
permitted Mr. Foster continued at his
trade as a carpenter and wagon
maker at Union, where he has resided
for a great many years and where his
sole surviving brother, D. W. Foster
and family resides. The deceased has
made his home with his nephew R. E.
Foster, southeast of Union since his
severe illness and stroue ot paralysis,
and to the family his death comes as
severe blow. The funeral was held
this morning from the residence of
D. W. Foster in Union and attended
y a large number of the old friends.
Rueben Foster was born in Perry
county, Illinois, April 12, 1830, and in
that locality the greater part of his
boyhood and youth was passed and
lie continued to make his home in that
state until in the sixties when he
decided to follow the hardy and ad-
entrous life of a gold miner and de
parted for Montana where he engaged
in this line of work with varying suc
cess for some time. He located in Ne
braska in 1ST4, arriving at Nebraska
Cify and for several years he followed
his trade, that of a carpenter and
vheel wright through Otoe and south
ern Cass counties and here ne soon
took a deep interest in the wefare of
the community and become one of its
eading citizens, and in 1881 he re
moved to Nebraska City where he
mr.de his home and where for a time
ne occupied tne position or ponce
"i.i j f i
udge of the city, and his decisions
ere held in the very highest light
by the attorneys oi mat community.
le later removed to Arkansas where
he engaged in tne lumber business
ut in that state felt the longing for
is old home in Nebraska and twelve
years ago came bacK to cass county
and located at Union where he con-
inued to make his home until his
death. He has made his home for
the greater part of his life with his
brother, D. W. Foster and family,
and it was there that he passed away
riday afternoon, at the close of a
ong and uselul me.
The funeral services at the home
in Union this morning was in charge
of Rev. G. A. Randall of the Metho
dist church and at the grave in the
ast Union cemetery the Masonic
odge of Nebraska City had charge.
DR. COOK AGAIN CHAIRMAN
OF REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
From Friday's Dally.
Louisville, Neb., (Special to the
Journal.) The republican county
central committee met here this
morning to perfect the organization
of the committee. Dr. E. W. Cook, of
Plattsmouth was elected as chairman,
and A. L. Tidd of Plattsmouth as
secretary. An executive committee
composed of E. M. Pollard, Nehawka;
J. M. Teegarden, Weeping Water; Dr.
O. E. Liston, Elmwood; W. E. Hand,
Greenwood and John Adams of Eagle,
were also named to assist in the cam
paign work. The attendance was quite
large at the meeting.
PENSION GRANTED MRS. KURTZ
A pension has been granted at
Washington to Mrs. Mary C. Kurtz
of this city in the sum of $12 per
month, to become effective at once.
Mrs. Kurtz is quite well advanced in
years and the pension is a well de
served recognition of one of the
widows of the defenders of their
country.
DISGUSTING PRANK PLAYED
ON GARAGE MEN LAST NIGHT
From Friday's Dally.
Last night some practical joker
played a rather annoying joke on one
of the local automobile garages when
they called them up late at night aft
er the owners had retired for the
evening, and requested them to come
out to the south end of Lincoln ave
nue and assist in pulling in a disabled
car. The call was answered, and it
was then found that there was no
sign of a car, or anything that even
resembled one, in that locality. The
boys from the garage returned to
town, and it is safe to say that their
remarks would not sound well in print
and they have a good cause to feel
a little sore over the affair. To say
the least, it was a dirtv trick.
OPENING BIDS FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
From Friday's Dally.
The board of education yesterday
took up the task of opening the bids
or the construction of the new high
chool building in this city that is
to cost bo0,000 and to replace the
present inadequate structures that
iave served to house the schools for
the last forty years. The task of re
warding the contract is one that will
equire some time to determine as
there are a large number of bids and
the tabulation of the different bids
and the comparison of them will be
thoroughly taken up by the board of
education before the contract is let.
The new building will be erected
on the southeast portion of the school
grounds some hundred feet back from
the lot line, which is the most conven
ient spot for the building and will
allow of having the heating plant in
the northeast portion of the building
in the basement and where tne iur-
nace room may be reached on the
ground level and will be much more
convenient for the handling of coal
and rubbish from the building.
The board of education is devoting
a great deal of time to the work of
erecting the new building and will
see that the best interests of the citi
zens are guarded in the putting up
of the new structure that is to house
the high school and departmental
grades of the school.
PROMINENT YOUNG
COUPLE OF NEHAWKA
MATED IN WEDLOCK
From Friday's Dallv.
Tuesday of this week Miss Faye
Fulton and Harold Kimblom sur
prised every friend they had when they
were united in marriage.
They were with the crowd that left
on the morning train to attend the
circus in Nebraska City that day and
no one thought of them being mar
ried. A. A. Bischof, county judge of
Otoe county delivered the exercise
pronouncing them man and wife. This
rest. Nehawka News.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Bashford
were the only ones present. They re
turned to Nehawka that evening.
When Mr. and Mrs. Chester Bash
ford were united in marriage by Mr.
Bischof some time ago this couple
were the only ones present to their
wedding. When asked when they
would be back they replied "before
long" and the promise was fulfilled.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. T. E. Fulton of this place.
The groom has lived here the greater
portion of his life and is well known
to all. His father residing at Louis
ville. Both parties are highly respected
here and have a great many friends
who rejoice they are to remain among
us. At present they will make their
home with the bride's parents.
Our congratulations accompany the
rest. Nehawka News.
Miss Annie Lohnes departed mis
afternoon for Cedar Creek, where she
was called by the death of her grand
mother, Mrs. John Lohnes, sr., and
will remain there until after the
funeral services.
SERIOUS FIGHT
AND SHOOT
ING SCRAPE
Officer William Wilson Beaten Insen
sible and Jesse Marshall and
Will Owens Shot In Row.
A very serious shooting affair oc
curred in this city early Sunday
morning after 1 o'clock and as a re
suit of which William Uwen received
a very serious wounu in tne auuomen
and Jesse Marshall was shot in the
i . i i i
upper part oi tne leit leg. ine
men were shot after a struggle with
i it i . i . rr l.
Officer William Wilson in which this
brave officer had been knocked down
and badlv beaten by the party of
which Marshall and Owens were
members, and thev had then started
n to wreck their vengence on Fran
cis Whelan, with the result that Mr.
Whelan was compelled to defend him
self as well as the two ladies in his
company and snot mnicting tne
wounds on the person of the two men
as noted above.
The affair was the culmination of
an attempt throughout the evening
of the Marshalls and several others to
get an encounter with Whelan and
their desire was finally fulfilled only
with the most serious results.
Mr. Whelan had been playing dur
ing the evening as pianist with the
Plattsmouth orchestra at the dance
at Coates hall and as the dance was
drawing to a close at 1 o'clock, Jesse
and Will Mai-shall, William Owens,
together with a man named. Eugene
Richardson and Turk Burke, came up
to the door of the dance hall and pro
ceeded to make a disturbance by of
fering to fight and threatening several
persons. Officer William Wilson who
was called to the scene escorted the
men to the foot of the stairs and re
quested them to go home. This they
did not do but instead congregated at
the Hotel Riley corner and when
Whelan accompanied by two young
ladies came by on their way home the
men proceeded to stop him and try to
renew their quarrel. Officer Wilson
then came up and ordered them to
desist from their attempts to pick a
fuss with Whelan. If the trouble had
stopped at this stage all would have
been well, but instead the gang of
four men proceeded to follow Whelan
and the ladies and again stopped them
near the Methodist chui'ch and started
in to renew the trpuble. Mr. Wilson
ran up from the hotel corner and
again ordered the men to quit their
attempts to provoke a quarrel with
Whelan and the men began to push
Wilson around and to show contempt
for his orders and made it necessary
for him to draw his club and strike
Jesse Marshall over the head. Officer
Wilson was then struck by some
member of the gang and knocked to
the walk where he lay unconscious
and while in this position he was
struck several times and left in a
very serious shape on the walk where
he was later picked up by parties at
tracted by the noise and taken to the
hotel where he was conveyed to a
room in an almost unconscious con
dition. After Wilson had been dis
posed of by the gangsters they
started in pursuit of Whelan vowing
to "get" him and as they rushed the
. r 1 i 1 a.
young man, the shots were nrea mat
put the two men on the hummer.
Young Owens, bleeding profusely
from the wound in his abdomen was
also taken to the Hotel Riley and med
ical assistance summoned and later he
was hurried to Omaha for an examin
ation. Here it was found that the
bullet had cut two of the intestines in
its course and lay imbedded in the
back of the unfortunate man. His
condition was very serious and the
outcome of this case one that is hard
to judge of as his chances of recovery
are not of the best.
Officcer Wilson was suffering very
severely from his injuries when he
was taken to the Hotel Riley and it
was with difficulty that he was
brought too sufficiently to permit of
his being taken to a room where med
ical assistance was summoned to look
after him. He seemed to be suffering
greatly and a concussion of the
brain is feared as the result of the
effects of the fall on the side walk as
well as the blows which were admin
istered to him in the fighgt.
As soon as Owens had been taken
to Omaha Sheriff Quinton, County At
torney and Dr. T. P. Livingston were
taken out to the home of the Marshall
boys, north of the city and here the
second victim of the shooting scrape
was found, and it was decided that it
would be necessary to have him
brought back to the city to have the
injured leg dressed. Mr. Marshall
stated that he had been struck over
the head by the club in the hands of
Officer Wilson and was completely
1 1 - 1 X
Mioi-Keu out ior some time and re
membered of Whalen shooting at him
as he and his brothers and Owens
were going west on .Alain street after
w:i. u. ,i i i i i ,r
u.niii ndu uceii KiiocKeu uown. lie
did not remember who had hit Wilson
He also stated that he and his brother
were trying to get away from the
scene of the trouble when the shoot
ing took place. After Marshall had
his wound dressed he was taken to
the Hotel Riley and will remain there
until his leg is better. Whelan and
Will Marshall were also tplaced
under arrest and taken to jail where
Whelan remained until yesterday
noon when he was released. Uuik
was arrested yesterday morning by
1,1 1
Chief Barclay and will remain in jail
until the case is disposed of. If Officer
Wilson does not recover as now seems
quite probable the case will be a very
serious one for the parties concerned
but the general trend of the state
ments made by the eye witnesses of
the shooting seems to point to self-
defense on the part of Whelan.
STATE CHAIRMAN
L, F, LANGHORST IN
CITY LAST EVENING
From Friday' Dally.
L. F. Langhorst, the newlyr elected
hairman of the democratic state cen
tral committee, came over last even
ing from .Louisville where he was in
attendance of the county central com
mittee, and spent sometime here
with his friends before leaving for
Omaha where he was called on a few
matters of importance. Mr. Lang
horst is feeling well pleased with the
general sentiment throughout the
state where he has been able to get
in touch with the voters and he finds
that the peole of the state are awak
ening to the fact that the democratic
state and national ticket offers more
to the interests of the common people
than that of the republican ticket.
he popularity of Keith Neville
throughout the state is growing Mr.
anghorst states and this is true of
all localities in both the eastern por
tion and the district comprised in that
part of the state west of Hastings
which is for the first time having a
candidate for governor from their lo
cality. Senator Hitchcock is also be
ing supported with the greatest of
enthusiasm by the voters and a large
number of the republicans are getting
in line to support the distinguished
Nebraska senator. Mr. Langhorst,
while a very busy man from now on,
will find time to have a part in the
Cass county campaign and will assist
in the work of putting over the coun
ty ticket a winner this fall.
HOPE OF RECOVERY FOR
MRS. SPECK DESPAIRED OF
From Friday's Dally.
Reports from the bedside of Mrs.
lenry Speck at Columbus, Neb., give
but little hopes of the recovery of the
patient who has gradually grown
weaker and weaker with her suffer-
ng until her recovery has almost
been dispared of. It had been expect
ed to amputate one of the lower
imbs of Mrs. Speck to try and check
the spread of blood poison, but with
the weakened condition of the lady it
was impossible to perform the opera-
ion. The friends here will regret very
much to learn of the unfortunate con
dition of this estimable lady and will
anxiously await word from her bed
side in the hope that she may be able
to recover and be restored to her
family.
HENRY FORD AT FREMONT.
Henry Ford, the famous automobrte
manufacturer, is in Fremont this week
attending the Tractor Show and where
his new tractor is being introduced for
the first time. This tractor, it is
claimed, will work a radical change in
the prices of the tractors the country
over and make them within the reach
of every farmer.
RED SOX LOSE
CLOSE BALL
GAME SUNDAY
Murphys Did It to the Red
Sov Yes
Score terday Afternoon, By the
of 4 to
In a slow and uninteresting gane
the Murphy Did Its, cumpions of the
City league of Omaha, defeated the
Red Sox, by a score vf 4 to threv.
Tre Hose lost th game in the open
ing stanza, when a couple of hits
sandwiched with a pair of walks and
Herold's poor throw to third allowed
the visitors to score three runs. Huff,
who was on the mound for the home
team, pitched a good ball game, and
although a trifle wild at times, kept
the hits well scattered and nulled
himself out of several bad holes. The
Sox had several opovtunities to wil
the game, but the necessary hit was
not forthcoming.
The Murphys started the scoring in
the opening stanza. Ostonic singled
to center; the next two men wen-
easy outs, but Huff grew a little
wild and passed A. Moran and Felt-
man. Ostronic scored when Herold
threw wild to catch him at third.
Yost singled to left, scoring A. Moran
and Feltman counted when Mason
threw wild in an attempt to catch him
at home. There was nothing doing
for the Hose in their half of the first
but in the second stanza the tide
changed. Herold drew a walk; Mason
singled to left; Huff laid a neat sac
rifice down the third-base line, plac
ing Herold and Mason on second and
third, respectively. Herold and Ma
son scored when J. Moran threw
Craig's grounder into the bleachers.
Smith went in to run for Craig, and
scored on Beal's single to center. The
visitors scored the winning run in
the fourth. Hanson tripled to right
and came home on Maxwell's long
sacrifice fly to center. The home
team has been playing in hard luck
for the past few weeks, but instead
of crabbing them, lets all get behind
them and push. Encouragement
means a whole lot. Following is the
box score:
Murphy Did Its.
AB. R. H. PO.
A.
4
1
0
o
0
0
0
E.
0
0
Ostronic, ss...
3
1 i
3
3
0
2
11
4
1
1
NesleTiush, rf.
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
1
0
0
J. Moran, 3d.
A. Moran, 2d.
Feltman, 1st..
Yost, c
0
1
0
0
0
0
Hanson, cf. . .
Denny, p 4
Maxwell, p. . 3
Totals 33 4 7 27 10 3
Red Sox.
AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
Beal, cf 5 0 2 2 0 0
Pariott, 3d... 4 0 0 2 2 0
Smith, 2d ... 2 1 0 3 2 1
Rockwell, ss.. 4 0 0 0 4 2
Herold, c. . . . 3 1 1 7 1 1
Koop, rf 4 0 0 0 0 0
Mason, If..... 4 1 2 2 0 0
Huff, p 3 0 0 0 3 1
Craig, 1st.... 4 0 0 11 0 0
Totals 33 3 5 27 12 5
IS FINED FOR
ABUSING WIFE AND
DISTMRBING PEACE
County Attorney Cole, Sheriff Quin
ton and Chief of Police Barclay were
called out on Lincoln avenue yester
day afternoon to the old Burlington
House where a family quarrel was on
tap between Jesse Green and wife and
which had ggrown to such dimen
sions that it was easy to hear over the
entire neighborhood. The officers
were able to get into the house without
the knowledge of Green and were able
to hear the torrent of profanity and
wrath that he was pouring forth on
the wife. After a few minutes the
officers descended the stairs and the
sheriff requested Green to join them
in an automobile eride to the jail.
This morning County Attorney Cole
filed a charge of disturbing the
peace against Green before Judge M
Archer and the court decided that the
pleasure in the quarrel that had been
derived by Green was worth $25 and
I costs
