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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1916)
T' 4-j Chas C. Parmele, President Jacob Tritseh, Vice President The Bank of Cass County CAPITAL $50,000.00 SURPLUS $30,000.00 Plattsmouth, Neb. Deposits in this Bank are protected by the Depositor's Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska. We will appreciate Irrigated Lands are like GOVERNMENT BONDS SURE PAYERS I have the lands that will pay you better than any other investment you can make. W- E. KOSEWCIRAWS, THE LAND MAN. Welcome! Homecomers! -As usual SOME GREAT VALUES HIGH QUALITY first. LOW PRICES next. We are glad to see you! Come in and get acquainted! POPULAR VARIETY STORE. Make our store your headquarteers. Excelsior Meat Market! Dealers in FRESH AND SALT MEATS Fish and Oysters in Season. JOHNSON AND Everything in Reliable Hardware! New Stock, Right Prices and Prompt delivery. Agents for HOOSIER CABINETS, COPPER CLAD RANGES and AMERICAN FENCE, VOSS and WHITE WAY WASHERS Repair work quickly BESTOR & GROCERS Business founded in 1 866 by A. G. Hatt, Father and Grandfather of present members of the firm. The best of Everything in STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRESH AND CURED MEATS. a!i'iiniHw T. M. Patterson, Cashier F. F. Patterson, Asst. Cash. D your business. we have- IN MERCHANDISE. GARTELMANN done and guaranteed. SWATEK II. .. 1-ilUl' J l INNOCENT MAN IS SAVED FROM CHAIR Guilty Person at Last Con fesses to Authorities. ' ALL HOPE HAD BEEN LOST. Preparations Had Been Made For Ex ecution and the Final Goodby Had Been Said to Hie Family Convicted of Double Killing Robbery the Mo tive. The death house at Sing Sing prison was filled, with activity on the night of July 8, for there -was to be nu electrocution the folio wins morning. Charles Frederick Stielo had been sentenced to pay the death penalty on a charge of murder that morning. The prison ministers -were in his cell, the chair had been prepared, his death suit had been given him, -with the slits in it for the electrodes. His hair had been cut so as to make a clear space for the deadly instrument. The condemned man's family had said their last good by, and aJl hope had disappeared. Outside the prison, however, friends were at work on the case, convinced that a man was about to be seut to the great beyond for a crime he did not commit. Stlelow was popular. A good natured, Jolly German, he proved himself to be one of the most likable men in the prison, and other prisoners and guards were convinced that a man of his disposition was not guilty of the crime with which he was charged. Justice Guy of the New York su preme court then sent a stay of execu tion to the prison in order that the evidence might be reviewed. This re prieve put new life and new hope into Stielow and his friends. They went to work with renewed vigor q their en deavors to prove him innocent. Jfow Irving King, a junk dealer, has come forward with a confession that exonerates Stielow. King has admitted that on the night of March 21, 101.", he killed aged Charles Phelps and Miss Margaret Wolcott, the object being rob bery. The confession is also sit id to exonerate Nelson Green, who is serv ing a sentence in Elmira prison for complicity in the crime. King had been suspected of the double murder for some time. His arrest followed weeks of investigation. The story told by his confession is this: On the Sunday of the murder he went to the home of Mr. rhelps. He arrived in the afternoon, made himself agreeable to Mr. Phelps and Miss "Wol cott and got an invitation to take sup per with them. He accepted this invi tation. The meal over. King engaged thein in further conversation, and, the hour having grown late, he got an invita tion to spend the night. Meant to Rob His Host. lie accepted it, and some time before 11 o'clock he was escorted to the guest room, which Mr. Phelps in his hospi tality put at his disposal. In the room he waited until things grew quiet. He had determined to rob his aged host Shortly after 11 o'clock King left his room and stole out. His mission was to rob Mr. Phelps. He did so, but aroused the aged man. King confessed that he took his pis tol and shot and killed Mr. rhelps, that then he took the same pistol and shot and killed Miss Wolcott The conviction of Stielow was orig inally procured mainly through an al leged confession obtained by a private detective, George W. Newton. Stielow could not sign his name, but Newton had him make his mark at the end of the typewritten "confession." Badgered Into "Confessing." Affidavits were submitted in motions for a retrial asserting that a lawyer for Stielow had trapped this detective Into a description of the methods by which he obtained the alleged confes sion. Stielow has consistently told his lawyers that he made his mark to the confession without realizing what the paper was and simply to avoid con stant badgering by the detective. Charles Phelps, a wealthy farmer, soventy-one years old, and his house keeper, forty, were found shot to death in "West Shelby, Orleans county, N. Y., on the night of March 21, 1013. The man was In his own home. Miss Mar garet Wolcott was on the steps of the cottage across the road, where Stielow. a newly engaged farm hand, lived with his wife and children; Nelson Green, his brother-in-law, and the latter's wife. As Phelps was known to have had a large sum of money in the house, and as this was missing robbery was given as the motive. Rewards aggregating $6,000 were of fered, and before the month ended Stielow and Green were arrested. They got "the third degree" from pri vate detectives, who later produced an alleged confession. This was unsign ed, but at the trial in July, 1015, they swore it had been obtained from Stie low. lie was sentenced to death, and Green was sent to Elmira for life. Four dates were set for Stielow's ex ecution and a stay granted each time. Named After Thirty-six Years. After thirty-six years as a candidate for one office J. Worten Keys was nominated for sheriff by the Democrats of Saline county. Mo., in the primary, ne has been a candidate for sheriff at eachJelectlon slnco-lSSOIand failed to win until this year Keys Is a fartner and stock raiser. Some Queer Ones j Golf balls to be investigated by Bloomfield, N. J., to find out why it Is fatal to bite into one. Bolt of lightning discovered gas in abandoned well in Pennsylvania, and owner is now getting $50-worth a day. Fish nibbled at hook. Pennsylvania man pulled on line not knowing it had become tangled with trigger of rifle, and bullet killed him. Youngest aviator is narry Joline, four, of Philadelphia, who made a half hour flight over Atlantic City at 2,000 feet as a passenger. New York footpad victim laughed too soon to think he had no money. Robbers took every stitch of clothes he wore and beat hini besides. John D. laughed right out in Cleve land church and congregation joined him, when preacher said joke of 3-oung men who marry thinking "she is hisn, only to find that he's hern." NEW TYPE OF HERO IS DEVELOPED AT VERDUN. Couriers Carry Orders to Front at Great Risk of Life. The unexampled conditions of fight ing before Verdun have developed a new type of soldier called "the couriers of Verdun." They maintain communi cation between the troops in the midst of the melees and oflicers commanding from the rear. The battlefield into which they dart with orders or after Information is a desolate zone, where nothing but thick smoke, sometimes black, sometimes white, gives appear ance of life. Excepting during the brief time of an infantry attack it is to all appearances deserted; the sharpest eye discovers no movement of humanity. Occasionally a form is seen going over this desert land something after the manner of a rabbit, bounding into sight out of the herbs and above un even ground to disappear agaiu; leap ing from obstacle to obstacle, from ditch to ditch, from shell hole to shell hole as it approaches the front line, at times vaulting, at others crawling and sometimes kept motionless for consid erable periods by showers of projec tiles sent over from the other side of the line for his personal benefit. This is the messenger of modern battle; he was never more needed nor more use ful than at Verdun. Not a telephone line can resist the incessant bombardment Communica tions by carrier pigeons are uncertain, and optical signals are insufficient for various reasons. Nothing Ls certain ex cept the man himself, and to transmit Information and orders across that beaten field requires something extra ordinary in the way of man. The courier of Verdun is unable to use the communicating trenches, where he would be out of sight of the enemy, because that line is crowded always with soldiers going to or from the front line, with wounded being carried back, with men of the commis sary department carrying provisions to the men on guard. That is too slow a route for the courier. lie must take his chances of being sighted and hit above ground. The first formidable obstacle to pass Ls the zone that is beaten by "drum fire," where eiglit inch, six inch and four inch shells are bursting with formidable explosions, sending show ers of shrapnel over the whole zone. In going through this ordeal the courier sees everywhere the spectacle of death, stumbling over corpses, some times runs into a cloud of poison va por before he has crossed it Once through he is within range of the smaller guns and the deadly quick flrers. During the whole distance of a mile or two miles, according to the position, his nerves are at the highest tension, with his mind on the end of bis mis sion and at the same time on the ob stacles that are multiplied each instant in his path. PAPER FROM COTTON STALKS. German Testing Station Announces Important Discovery. The royal material testing office at Grosslichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin, announces paper can be manufactured from cotton stalks. The discovery was made, it is stated, by. a German institution while carry ing out a commission from an Egyp tian firm given before the war. A shipment of stalks which had arrived from Egypt before the opening of hos tilities was used for the experiment. The stalks wre out and ground, boil ed and bleachtd, and the paper mak ing then proceeded after tlio wsiial methods. The result moved tho test ing office to arriv at the decision cot ton stalks are a good material for male ing paper. Lincoln B. Palmer, manager of tho American Newspaper Publishers asso ciation, said that, although private and governmental laboratories had been seeking for years to find a suitable substitute for wood pulp in the manu facture of paper, nothing bad been pro duced that would stand the test. "if the Germans have solved the problem," he said, "they will have rendered the United States a valuable service, and it ought to bring millions to the inventor of the process. The discovery, if true, should prove a boon to the 'paper making -industry in this country." TELLS WILD TRIP FROM ANTARCTIC Stiacklelon Man Hss Little Hope For Those Lett Behind. 750 MILES IN OPEN BOAT Hardships of Polar Regions Described by Member of Crew Who Has Now Reached London Drifted Into South Georgia Just as Food and Supplies Were Exhausted. Harry McNish, a member of the Shackleton antarctic expedition, has arrived in London, bringing details of the terrible experiences undergone dur ing the escape from Elephant island. McNish told how Sir Ernest Shackle- ton led the little party in an open boat 750 miles through mountainous seas, driven by great gales and filled with floating ice. They were forced to jet tison most of their supplies and even lost their sea anchor. During the weeks of struggle they ran out of water and food, but finally reached South Georgia island. McNish has little hope of the rescue of the men left behind on Elephant island. "Perhaps the worst fact we have to reckon with regarding the men left on Elephant island." McNish said, "Is that they may think the small boat in which we reached South Georgia is land has foundered with all hands and that consequently the world is still Ig norant of their fate. "It was, I suppose, one chance in a hundred that the boat ever would get through, and time after time it was only by a miracle that we escaped drowning. It was only by an act of Providence that we were able to make Elephant island at all. Even then the wind blew everlastingly, and we had to crawl on our hands and knees to make headway against it. Had to Find Help. "The chief decided that a push must be made to the nearest land where help could be found, and I was set to work to fit our largest boat for the adventur ous voyage. It was a difficult job, but with the help of George Marston, the artist, ami McCarthy, a seaman, who made a great hand at sewing frozen canvas, the most difficult proposition In the way of sewing that there is, we managed to make good. "We decked the boat with sledge runners, box lids and canvas and made It as seaworthy as possible, but even then it seemed a crazy craft in which to sail 750 miles through ice- and gales. "The journey was almost worse than our expectations. Though we set out with n fair wind, that was the last de cent weather we had. and for a fort night there was a constant succession of storms and gftles. I do not think we saw tho sun half a dozen times, ajxd it was very difficult to get an observa tion. "Ice was constantly forming on the boat and was the worst handicap we had to face. "One man was employed all the time in cutting the Ico away with an ax, but we were never free from ice, and we had to jettison quite a lot of stuff, even the oars, to keep the boat afloat. "A week after we started, while hove to in a gale, we lost our sea anchor, the rope being cut by the ice. "This seemed to be almost the last straw, but Sir Ernest Shackleton roso to the occasion, and I never saw him in better form than he was that day. "'We are going to get there all right,' he said when things seemed perfectly hopeless. And, sure enough, we did. "We first sighted the west coast of South Georgia. It was during a great snowstorm, and, as we knew nothing about the tide or the Island, we had to hold off until daylight the next day. The wind was blowing a hurricane, and we had great difficulty In keeping the boat afloat on a dead lee shore and it was hopeless to try to land. "When we got to South Georgia on the wrong side of the island, as it hap Ined we were Just about at the end of our water. We were all frostbitten, too, but tho main thing wo troubled about was something to fill our stom achs, and that we found soon after landing." FRUIT BASKETS STANDARDIZED House Passes Bill to Stop Cheating by Small Containers. The bill of Itepresentatlvo Reavls of Nebraska prescribing dimensions for standard baskets for interstate ship ment of grapes, small fruits and ber ries hns been passed by tho house. Gnipe growers of New York and southern and western small fruit and berry misers advocated It to protect I hem 11 km Inst competitors using unnVr Hlr.cd containers. Patriotism In This Will. Tho Into Judge John D. Crabtree of Dixon, 111., had five sous. A part of hi will reads: "Enjoin upon my son John and all of 'my sons that should the occasion arise (which God forbid) when our country requires their serv ice that they be as ready to devote their lives to her defense as their fa ther was In the darkdays of 1SG1 and ISai It seems to me now that I could hardly rest quiet in my grave if a son of mine was so unpatriotic or so cow- nrdly-as to fail to respond to the call of. his country in Its hour of danger or peril." STATE STREET AND MAIN STRh-1 i j S TATE street and Main street aren 1 muni State street's a promenade, .Main street a pike. ?tate street has buildingH that are gray and tall; Main street has little ones, nothing big at all. Ptate street has pavements, glittering of glass. Alain street geraniums, nodding.as you pass. Main street and State street, homespun and style. State street'3 a spectacle. Main street a smile! 1 w Broadway and highway aren't much alike: Q Broadway's a boulevard, highway a hike. Broadv.ay is roaring all the summer long; . Highway has nothing but a robin's song. . headway has shadows that are. dark and chill; Highway has shade trees, maples on the hill. fd Uroadway and highway, roadway and street Hot stones to walk on, or grasses for your feet. New friend and old friends aren't much alike : ".Mister:' and "madam," ".Mary Ann" and "Ike." fi Old friends and new friends ev'ry where you ream New friends to wander with, old friends at hose. New irkads to join you in a song of cheer; Old irkmb, to love you when the night is here. New friends to borrow, and old friends to lend Old f;i.-.u:a the best friends when you need a friend. -ix)i;ui.as .M.u.i-nni. The Riley Hotel EUROPEAN PLAN Steam Heat The Best Cafe Open from 6:30 OMAHA STILL IS HOPEFUL IN HER LAND BANK FIGHT Des Moines, la., Aug. 29. The close of the farm loan bank hearing at Des Moines Monday night indicated that Omaha and Des Moines will be the principal rivals for the bank of the district in which these cities are located, and also that Iowa and Ne braska may be embraced in one dis trict. Omaha has the inside track on loca tion if the two states are joined. Iowans before the farm loan bank board attempted to show that Iowa alone should be considered one of the twelve districts entitled to a bank. Fibres presented show one-ninth of all the farm mortgages in the United States are held on Iowa land and that one-tenth of all United States farm values are contained in Iowa. Herbert Quick, board member, rela tive to this argument said: "It is not a question of value and amount of mortgages, but it is a ques Fan 11! -Home of the high quality beverage The Famous Old Saxon Beer on Draught. Yellowstone and all leading brands of double stamp whiskies for our trade. 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