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) B 'VtfJ? Jrar AND FEAR NOT." VOL. U, NO. 1. IMATTNUOUTIi. VEIM1SKA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 181)5 81. 00 1 lilt v t : V 1 1 . IF r.vti IN advax.i: PLA'LTSMUUIH WEEKLY on .1 AJyc 14 i 1 (4 V A PENITENT PRISONER Murderer Harry Hill Is Resigned To His Awful Fate. COUNTY CONTRACTS AWARDED. County Cutumiion-r Let outrnrt I 'or County I'nnttnc And VI vdlral Wr ice tm UM Hnldrr A rhenotntil f't llun. Iltll I tlint. Sheriff F.ikenbary reports that Harry Hill. hm tie will l called upon to execute on March 1st. is extremely penitent and a model prisoner in every way. II. passes most of the time within ins cell in pray iug, and is ap parently resigned to his fate. Hp has ivn up all hope of looking to the governor to c mmute his sentence, and according to hi words, has "already received all earthlv asistance wfcich can fall to his 1 t " The man evidt tit 1 ha a dread that his body, if turned over to the coroner for burial, will b subjected to an autopsy at the hands of a physician, and he has expressed a desire tht hi remains. Immediately after the execution, will be transported to Omaha and turned over to a human society in tht citv for burial. Coud'j Contraru Ardd. The county commissioners wert i session Wednesday and in addition to auditing and" allowing claims, were busied in considering bids for county printing and physician!' services. The printing was awarded to the Fdmwood Echo, its bid being . 1? cents per ca-f "U court dockets. 2 cmti ir Fqutte on notices, i for treas urer's semi-annual statements, and c ram;ssi ners prK-eeaings free. S'.reiirht & Sattler. the lcal fur niture firm wh awarded th contract for burying paupers. For medical services the following pby MCiHTi- were chMn for the coming yer in th-different districts: F rst d;rri:- Dr. 11 D Cummins FUttsm-oith. HZ. S-cnd d:-i?rict Dr. F J. Champ ney, M urray. -4. Third disrri-t Ir. W. A. Burfce, w. f pine 'Vhi r, Sm. Fourth ditricl Ir. Bichard Iord Iy.'uisvi!!-, 1-tS. Fsft h rimr Dj O. G. Hatr ilton. South llei-I. i 13 MXth dis'net Dr. N It. Hobbs. Elm -d. 175 V tlmrlt t' cut. 1 he Iur!inirt'n broke all of it a pre vious recrds Mondav afternoon. This rod h n enviable reputation foi speed, and n.w tha: there is so much rivalry t-iween it and he Northwes? ern, the Uarlingtop otlicials decided to give new record t the western rail way world and the woildat large. The distances from the depot inCreston t the transfer in Council Uiuffs is 104 miles, and this distance was cov ered Mnnda by ttte fast mail in 10-j minutes. There is smie eight htops which the train makvs from Creston to the IIlufTs Allowing fifteen min utes tor tin? same it will be seen that the averaje running time for this re- markable trip was almost peventy mils an hour This is the fastest long distance run road by a iegular train in th west. The engine was one of the big Holers make and the crew say that it was not overworking the machine to make the remarkable ran. A Kirk on I-jxt riinir. William Ashby of Clay county has died a complaint with tho state board of transportation against the Kansas City and Omaha railway company and Its receivers This road was built from Fairfield west to Alma, and precinct bonds were voted. Spring Kock pre cinct voted 87,000 in bonds, the road agreeing to maintain a depot in that precinct. The road did keep a depot open until last October, v.-hen it was closed on the ground that there was no- business sufficient To justify main tenance. The complainant nays the maintenance of a depot was u part of tli" C'ntrrt itb the people, and in t !, 'mi ?he b'n V pnid rirularh and lh- dept Khoild b kepi open wh'ther hr- is an '-ugirnvn -r n -t. Mk-- -V ,m. a t o;hr in a LHnc.ot r O'irity district i'l-!, atretupted t- ; fit- di a titteen-year old pupil named JJ .? iw i r disobedience when ttie boy picked up a pail an'! ruck 1 h tearhei over the hend cirting a Ioim gash in her freli.'at Mt Watts, tirwever. ':ame out on top. and pluclcily con irued o each in fteif hr tnjnries iiirrow w -M extte'ieu. imii was rno Otherwise punished. I'lalt-iuuuth Hoy llMiIly Il'Jurrtl. Saturday's Lincoln News say: 'John Mockeuhaupt. u bell-boy at the Lincoln hotel, was this uiorningcaught leriiniy c mshed by the i-ubM iir elevator wtdie attempting to board the lift after it had started upward. 'Clerk liallard gives the following account of the accident: The eleva tor boy usually gets here at 0:45 and the bell-boys come at f o'clock. It so happened that some gusts on an upper door arose earliei than usual, aud rung for the elevator Mocken haupt heard the ring and knowing the elevator boy tiad not arrived, entered the cage and turned the valve, but the e'evator did not move, as the pressure had not yet been turned on. He donn to wait for the pressure, for getting to turn off ttie valve, and as soon as it was supplied the elevator began tomove upward. Mockenhaupl made a jump for the cg and tried to scramble into it, his body resting on floor of the elevator and his legs hang ing outside. For some reason he could not draw himself into the cage ami whrn it reached the nxt floor above the elevator was slopped by his tod while the pressure continued to give it an upward impetus, thus Ivddiug the boy in a vice. He may have bren in that position for live or ten minutes before he coul i be taken out. and was unconscious for an hour or two aftei ward. Dr. Grim was called and pro nounced his injuries serious, but as they are necessarily of au interna! na ture, time alone can disclose the nii ture and extent of the boy's hurts.'' "He is being cared for at the hotel, and a brother of the injured boy ss with him. His parents are believed to reside at I'iattsmouth." The injared bov referred to above is well-known in 1'iattnmout h, where he formerly resided, and will he leiuem beied an the ton of Mr. ir-J Mr. Chris Mockenbaupt. uth of whuuj lived in i'iattMr.outh for many years, but are now deceased. Now Y.'u I Anil on Yoa Itau'l. The city uuth rities of I'Ultsta outti successfully emulated th example ot the anrieut king of Fiance, rr.aJo famous in soag uud story by ma:chiit; his Bolditl s iip tt.e !;ill an I ir.archlDi: them down gatn. Some three week Til t ! i ! r i- m r 1 1 jiinn tMi a r- t: t . . . . . , playing in the slon The j dice cat rird the order tnto fltcl witti u vt n reauce .niJ the .tl on nu n tr:npt.T put in d mtUie io l! u oj carils. -1 (uruish amutturnt tvr their cu.te !cers. t lie pnidic, totwever. til. lamoreJ for cards and at !at vseekV reeling ot the council an eff.rt was made to rrje4l the obuoxious order, but it fare J tcirry The oppotttion, nevertheless, was sUd dis U!ied sind the chairmm of itte council comrniitee n police instituted a movement to make the order a dead-letter by set ui-' iugthe verbal con sen "of a majority' of ihe council to allow card playing. The mve worked nicely for a lime, and Chief Dunu was uotified Saturday that a majority of the council had agreed to a resumption of card play ing in saloons, aud in a very few hours penuchle and pitch reigned supreme tn almost every saloou in town. The chief, however, was not yet satisfied and he proceeded without delay to the mayor The latter official was quite willing that card playing should be resumed in the saloons, providing the council gave its consent, but the con sent mentioned should be given in open meeting, and the chief was so in structed. Asa consequence the chief journeyed to the various saloons Saturday evening and put the ob noxious order again into effect. The chairman of the police committee, hav ing secured the consent of a majority of the council, was somewhat incensed at .he turn affairs had taken, but the mayor and chief were obdurate and card playing was forced to go.. The sentiment is universal that the ori ginal order is the acme of fanaticism and does not deserve to stand, but no relief is expected until the next meet ing of the council, when the penuchle cranks trust that common-sense will prevail. 9fof-kmn Is Three Flngi. A Klocfcman, named Summers, in attempting to board a car on the Kan sas City freight train No. 17, at Ne hrasVa City Junction Friday morn log, slipped and fell, his hand resting upon the rail. The train had just started, and the wheels caught three fingers of the left band at the first joints, cutting them off. Summers bandaged ttie wounded members and took the Kansas City passenger No. D, from Pacific Junction for Council Bluffs, intending to go to his home in Madison, Iowa. on-i: rinvi wo AvtiriiKic. For genuine wit the little tot who goes to school, deserves its share of praice. In a oTtain anartment in the city ai-hools, the teacher tiad been talk ing with the p.ipilii in regard to foreign countries. The name of Get many was mentioned and up tl.tshed the lnind of a little gill and tihe accompanied the movement by sa)iug: "My papa came from Germany, and mamma from Cedar Creek. I'm fiom America; we all came from America, except my little brother John, and lie came from Omaha." Some controvery having arisen over the question of what became of the coal contributed to the poor of the city last winter, Tlic Jouunal has been shown by Mr. Henry I temple, of the firm of II . C Hemple. who gave the roal, the original bill for the cai load of coal. This bill fhows that the coal cost the hrm $17 OS at the mines, nnd was delivered fiee of freight at the depot tieie. The cost to the tirm for distribution was U3c per ton. Mr. H. ys hi tirm delivered about sixteen twns to the powr on the order of the Associated Charities, and the balance of the car load they delivered to poor people w ho came to them personally or they weie informed uhere it was needed. The names uf all tLt-ee they have on their books, and any one c n see the names and investigate for themselves. Representative Cooley's little bill, which provided for a division of agri cultural societv iunds in all counties of the slate where there existed more thau one fair association, has been In deiinitely postponed. It's fate ws ell deserved. If anything is wronc vt ith the jrei nt sj tt m it ousht to be entire'y wiped -ut. This thing of in troducing tu'l fi-r the bet-tiit of one section ol oneCJ-uTitv i- deculeuly l.ar ro w-ri; jaded. "My tfy." rv:u irked thtMM philos. phf r, ' wS.'fi you gr ' up to be a y oung ri; i'i a will aojuite bad bald'. It is la- ri rural fte of a r.HH t;d'. ''.but let iv. j warn y u that tlirre ale uoise hab:ls t!;an iio) of chewirii, drink ing an 1 c.iri t One tf thi-ci Is i o:r,c-n ddirg. I have known rnanv a v uini t:i to to In- inveiclf 1 into arreps- jit th- hn hi of hi f liotv-cji!-n nie p i-t:ti(.a of honor aud trust ami nrtihi- Urgelv proiit. I have ai!o kn ii m n a young auti to be ruined thereby. The h bit crows upon a man 4titt rn re (ireJy sap- hi life-blood 'd ener' and ambition ihn oj iim r cocoaine. sooner is tie out of one j -b than tie joins in the chafe- after an other. If he c'ts Jt. his career is --id-d. If h- do"nt. nine tiroes out ftenh- is unfitted for anything re quiring manual labor, and devotes his time frying to get in someplace where i he pay is good and ttie work '..It T f .til t . i n I l.inttnnf Inn. it; 14 ii r"u itvr uatuiai iiiviiiiai iwii for ttie biMiness of leg-pulling adopt surgery, where that ts a legitimate function." Lincoln News. The department commander of the Nebraska Grand Army of the Bepub- lic lias made arrangements to receive sealed proposals at department head quarters at Lincoln uutil Feb ltth, at 12 o'clock, from cities and towns in the state that desire to necure the location of the seventeen h annual reunion of soldiers and Bailors to b held this vear. The editor was dying, nnd the doctor placed his ear to the patient's h;.rt and muttered sadly: "Boor fel low, circulation almost gone!'" The editor raised himself up and gasped Tis fals. We have the largest in the county! Then he sank back upon his pillow with a triumphant smile upon his features lie was consistent to the end lying about his circulation. The state of New York has found the taxing of the estates of deceased persons a fruitful source of revenue. The suggestion is here made that New York has set u good example for Ne braska to follow. It has alwavs been a mooted question, and probably always will be. whether property that is left by one generation was of any benefit to the next one, on an average, and while, this question Is being discussed, and relations of deceased persons are quarreling over tho estates, there can be no question that ttie state ought to secure a share of the property thus left as a payment for the unearned Increment which the community in general has contributed to the wealth of the deceased. The levy in New York amounts to on per cent., but tnte would hp a very sllcht tax consid ering the benefits distributed to the , heirs. MYSTIFIED PARENTS. Details Of a Quiet Wedding la the Town of Greenwood. THE OLD FOLKS NICELY FOOLED. Thuuctit Thrlr Iuclilr tVm Sti.1y Jo in C To Church, Hut It W lie ally to Her Weiaiuic A iavry niKD'nTroulilr Note. Mr. Arthur Stradley aud Miss Ger trude Mick, two of the oest known young peo le in Salt Creek precinct, were ttie parties to a quiet marriage in the town of Greenwood on Sunday evening last, which furnished a com plete surprise to their many friends and especially to the parents of the bride Tin two had kept company for sometime, but ttie girl's parents ob jected and for the past several months another suitor for the girl's band, on whom the parents looked with more favor than Stradley. has Uen a regu lar visitor at the Mick household. Young S'.radley. however, went about his business, feigning to have given up hopes of winning the girl, but sub sequent eveuts have proven that his actions constituted the veriest kind of ruse. Stradley managed to com municate with the young lady, and upon finding that Kb was quite willing to becctue .Mrs. Stradley, he came lo PJattrUioutb last Saturday and procured a marriage license at the efficeof theeounty judge, returnirgto Greenwood that evening. On Sunday ever ing the "oil er fellow" wan booked to drive the young lady into town to attend church. Ttie trip was made ns per arrangements, and llu-y were nearer !y seated in the house of wt;hip wheu ttie young lady cx cu.ed heiM If for a "brief timif"and passed out of doors, leaving the "other fellow " t" await her return. On the ou:i!oL' ait joined l a friiecd of Stradley . who p.loted l.rrtothe home of Mr?. Uethel. nn Hunt of Stradley. I he latter young man was in wailing, arid si a preacher, and in ttie presence of the .aunt arid the confed erate. Mini ?.Iick ! made Mrs. Str;id W in a dicidrllv brief time. The urwlv-w-dded couple then entered a carriage and drove lo Ah!nd, whtre they awatied the arrival of IJurlwgton No. - and next came to riatt smouth t enjoy a -hort visit as guests of the er.H'in's uncle. I K. Ilarr. They will remain here until Thursday eveuing, when they return to take up their abode witti Siradley'a parents out in the country. At the present writing no information has leen received as to how the affair is viewed by Use girl's parents or the "other fellow." A I Jrr j nn tirir. Lincoln News: 'Col. Milton Broad water of Haveloek is having tnoie trouble. A few days a?o a man givinsr his name as Wells called at Broad water's tivery stable in Haveloek and represented that he was looking for a good livery stable. He was informed he had found it, and a baigain was soon made whereby lie w as to purchase the horses nnd rigs and lease the barn. He said a rich uncle up in York county was to furnish the cash, and he gave such an admirable song and dance that he was allowed to take a team and drive up there, lie gave his residence number in Lincoln, and had such a glib tongue that he completely jerked the sheepskin over Col, Broad water's optics. That was the last heard of him, and after wailing a reasonable time Broadwater made in quiries, lie lotinti the numner given in Lincoln as his residence was a va cant house, and then ho hunted forthe trail. The chap was traced to Seward, where lie had secured another horse, and to another town where he had se cured til) on the same racket. Broad water's rig was found abandoned near Hamilton. When last heard of the fellow was headed for Iowa." Drttlh In th Monti. A dispatch in today World Herald from Grand Island, says: "A report was circulated here tonight as coming from Litchfield, a town on the Dead wood bianch of the Burlington, that a stage driver, in charge of the mail be tween Litchfield and an lular.d town, and three passengers together with the horses, hud been found frozen to deatii on the prairie some distance out from Litchfield. On account of the severity of the storm and the vague information obtainable, it being con sidered extremely hazardous to under take to make a search.' AltOTM) lilt; COt'KT ItOOMl. CCwNTY t'OL'UT. License to wed was issued in county cour Monday for Mr. Fd win I. Hunter and Miss Kmma C. Stoner, both of Weeping Water. Judge llarasey officiated Wednesday afternoon in his office at the tnairiage of Mr. Faul Uurkhardt and Miss Anna Stout. The groom is a resident of made her borne in Kock Bluffs precinct. John Ferguson, who was in county court Thursday as a witness in the IIungate-Deckermatter, was a witness to the murder of Mr. and Mrs. .Hun gate by the Icdlans thirty year ago near Denver. He was asked to say which one was killed first, but as both were killed at the same time he could not do so. JUSTICE COL'KT. Lawrence Stull appeared before Jus tice Archer Tuesday and filed a com plaint against three or four residents of the west end charging them with helping themselves to two cords of his wood. The justice gave the warrants calling for the arrest of the parties to Stull with directions to hand them to Sheriff Kikenbary. but a call at the sheriff's office this afternooa disclosed that the warrants had not yet put in an appearance. It Is the supposition about sheriff headquarters that Stull either "handed them to the city mar shal" or else will serve them himself. COUUT liOOM NOTES. Cass county generally has its share of district court cases, but in the num ber of cases it cannot hold the candle to Gage county. The district court for the latter county was convened at Be atrice yesterday and the docket con tains almost five hundred C2ses. Here in Cass two hundred cases is a, good sired docket. Evidently down in Col. W. L Knotta territory every mothers son has a legal battle on foot with his neighbors. It isn't the fault of August Gorder that he is so a'.l-fired lleshy August admits that he was born that w ay and that his diposiiiou to carry about such an unusual amount of avoirdupois is purely the work of nature. The fact remains, however, that Ausust often wishes that lie ws in possession of less flesh, and instead was inclined to be more spry. Tuesday night was one of the times when he entertained a wish as above mentioned. August is the owner of a fast trotter and a hand some cutter, aud he had volunteered to conduct a certain young lady to her home out in the country. Th? trip was made iu good fashion until thev were some seven miles out in the countrv. when they crashed into a drift, and in a twinkle ttiree hundred pounds of humanity went fiounderine into the deep snow. August worked like a beaver to extricate himself, but it was all to no purpose, and be was finally forced to beseech the young lady to pull him out of the snow, which h did. August is now said to be seriously thinking of undergoing a diet on anti-fat. It OmiTTrt to I. Sheriff Hitchcock of Johnson county has introduced a bill in the legislature to prevent the undervaluation of prop erty by assessors and the state board of equalization. His remedy is of the old reliable brand which Las been be fore many legislatures. It consists in attaching a penalty to the present law, something which was overlooked by the legislature which passed it. It is conceded that something should be done in this matter, but every session goes by without action. At present it is commonly charged that candidates for assessor run for office on only one platform, the undervaluation of prop erty, and the fellow who promises to go lowest gets the job. The average valuation is about one-tenth the actual value. Lincoln Journal. Wllion't Nam Withdrawn. Friday's Lincoln News savs Gov. Holcomb today sent a message-to the senate, withdrawing the name John W. Wilson appointed earlier in the session to the position of command- tiant ol the soldiers home at Grand is- land. The appointment was made to take effect Feb. 1st, but for some rea- son has been huug up in the senate, nnd th dafi tnrititnr' with tmtnr tlifi executive recalled the appointment without suggesting the name of any other man for this place. The senate has the matter under consideration but its action i3 matter for conjecture. Lost ou Stolen A red Irish setter puppy, aged six months. The under signed will pay a liberal reward for the dog's return. Wm. Neville. WORK OF FIRE BUGS. Two Homes Destroyed By Fire Down 0a the Island. AN INFANT'S AWFUL INJURY. It rll IH m Kio k-t f Hotline Wter AimI Im tellel t. Irath I"rJii U CurlU' Iilnfnl i:perleure Varlou Cither Sit. Iturnetl Down Their ltotie. Report has reached. the city ot the burning of the homes of Tim McCarthy and Charles Conaut on the bic island in the Missouri river, some four miles south of town. The two fires occitred Wednesday night, and according to all accounts were the work of the loein bersof the lawless gang which inhabit the island and ttie surrounding country , f McCarthy and Conant having incurred j their ill-will. Various deeds of vk-v- lence and deviltry are said to be chargeable to the gang mentioned and the authorities w ill do a just act should they ferret out the lawless merabers and cause their p-tuis-hment. TjIUcU to lleuth. A dispatch from Greenwood, this county, dated Thursday, ays: "Mr. Bowers" little boy, aged two years, was scalded to death by falling into a bucket of hot water today. He lived about twelve hours. His mother ha I noured out a b'tefcet of hot water to scrub with and stepped out a minute. The little fellow in playing fell back ward Into the water." JL 1'Alnfol lturuitc. Frank Curtis, the young mau v. h operates the delivery wagon J'or Iove , & Son. rushed in upon Dr. knecht at ab ut II o'c'.c ck Thais. la: night with a baJJy burned It .': bar.1 and forearm. The Iove c eii. v.t-r: invoicing that tight and C:.:us v. at assisting in the work. Si: r;l be-: -: ; closing their labors Curtis h the coals cti. ot the stove Iv.'.o scuttle and started for tLe rearoi th. store. In doing s) he stumtjo i nv seme nneiT. object and he fei to t!. floor, thrusting his left arui ir.lo t! hot coals ;.nd ashes almost to tl elbow. Ti e ll sh was b'.istt t J a:. burned in a manr.- to cause t!. youngrnanintef.se pain, and right gi.i;! when the physician ha dressed Ids wounds and given hi: some relief. Curtis will be of: duty f some time. A llrnLrn WrUt. Tommy KeppTe. the thirtcen-jea old son of Jacob Epp'f. the Fift street wagon-maker, is nursing broken wrist. Tommy started b choot Friday, and while cn h way slipped on ttie ice and fell to tl ground. He put cut his left hand save himself and instead the bones the wrist were fractured. IT. Co was called and reduced the fractu and the little fellow will doubtless able to return to his studies in a f davs. It. Jt 31. nnd V. V. I'.nfUf follldr. A Union Pacific switch ergice a a Burlington freight engine col I it at the crossing of the two roads Grand Island Tuesday. The lni Pacific fireman claims he whistled crossing and that the call was answered. The Burlington liren claims the engine was standing cc pletely still just before the cress and when their encine started track was clear. The I . r. fast o and the Burlington's passenger tr No. G were delayed considerably fore they could pass around the wr NTeither engine was badly dama but both were off the rails and track was torn up. No person was jured. Secretary Morton has decided to ply the system of meat inspectiot the Lincoln Backing company. J some time past that company has I of verv urgent that a government spectorand tagcer w ho could cei to the healthf ulness of their m should te stationeu ;u t e house. Tuesday Secretary Mo notified the company that meat spection would begin nt their pat i hniNA within a feV Wfl'SS. Ihir putthB Lincoln Backing cotnr a! the same basis with the Ornah: Nebraska City paefcirg l.au.-vO will enable the owners to t xj it meat with a government c-rii! that they have been fully ii -pi and found absolutely free frotudis Tbe"FlanSifter'i!our ts the poj brand. Ask for it from vo:ir croc Ii
