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! i NEBRASKA IN GENERAL ! ! > A A AAAAAA^A N A ft. fry Suftyi^y i y &wfi*twS2 - i’ ♦ - & SHOOTING IS A MYSTERY. Victim Refuses to Tell How the Injury Was Received. SILVER CREEK—Monday after noon a man was found at the coal house west of town yelling for dear life. He was taken in charge and on examination was found to have been shot directly under the left shoulder blade. The man is about 30 years of age, gives his name as James J. Fran cis, says he is from Baltimore, but refuses to talk further. Three hours after the shooting a man boarded an eastbound freight west of town and persons seeing him say he answers the description of the man who was with Francis. The doc tor gives little hopes of the wounded man’s recovery. COLUMBUS.—Chief of Police Shack received a description of a man wanted at Silver Creek and within twenty minutes had his man in jail. He was afterwards sweated by Sheriff Burnes. but absolutely refused to say a word. When searched he had a new Smith & Wesson 38-caliber revolver and a bottle of some kind of acid. Sheriff Byrnes says he is confident that this man and the one who was shot are both wanted for postoffice robbery at Belgrade. The descriptions tally ex actly. The Merrick county officers will be after the man. He stands per fectly dumb before all questioners and it he has a voice the officers have had no evidence of it. LARGE IRRIGATION PROJECT. Propose to Build a Ditch One Hun dred and Fifty Miles Long. LINCOLN—One of the largest Irri gation projects conceived in Nebraska is involved in a hearing begun be fore State Engineer Adna Dobson, be ing the matter of a protest filed by the Farmers' Canal company and the Farmers' Irrigation District against the application of William Frank. Mr. Frank's application for water from the North Platte river in Scotts Bluff county was filed last April and the Irrigation district filed one subsequent to that date, but the real contest dates back five or ten years. Bonds to the amount of $400,000 were once voted by the irrigation district, but they have never been disposed of. The Farmers’ Canal company built twenty one miles of what was intended to be an extensive line of ditches and then stopped work. Now two contend ing companies desire to complete the original plan. Mr. Frank proposes to build a ditch 150 miles long, at an estimated cost of $580,000. The dis trict expected to build eighty miles with the $400,000 bonds voted. Rob ert Walker succeeded to the rights of the Farmers’ Bond company. He has sold his rights to William Frank, who has associated with him H. G. Leav itt of the Ames Sugar company. They are admitted to have a prior claim, dating from 1887, but the other side alleges that these rights have been abandoned. LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER. Anton Christenson Must Pay Heavy Penalty for Killing His Wife. OMAHA.—The solemn hush that at tended the sentencing on Monday aft ernoon of Anton Christenson to spend all the rest of his days behind prison walls was broken by the quick, ve hement clapping of the sister of the wife whom he had murdered. Never was applause less expected and never has it been more startling to those who heard it. The little group about the condemned man had been breath less as the judge pronounced his blast ing words, and shuddered to hear that sound of exultation which is so rare in court rooms, even when the pro nouncement is one of hope Instead of withering doom. The prisoner ut tered not a sound, but bowed beneath the blow, meekly and with all hope gone. Christenson shot and killed his wlfs last August. Wolves Attack Hogs. TECUMSEH.—For many years Johnson county farmers have been troubled but little with wolves, but this is not the experience of W. P. McCoy, who lives northeast of this city. His herd of hogs has been pest ered with the animals considerably ol late. One evening recently Mr. McCoy heard a disturbance at his hog pen, and upon going out found two big wolves attacking an old porker. Be fore Mr. McCoy succeeded in driving them off they had wounded the hog to the extent that be died soon after. Sneak Thief Robs York Store. YORK—Some sneak thief entered the store of VV. G. Boyer some time in the night and took ?35 from a drawer behind the prescription case. it is supposed he crawled in through a cel lar window. dog but holdfast is a better one,” could hardly be improved jn at this day. BRIEF NOTES. The first automobile has made its ap pearance in Fremont. A movement is on foot at Grand Isl and for starting a canning factory. The soldiers’ monument on the court house square at Beatrice has been com pleted. Rev. Hess of Beatrice last Sunday preached his farewell sermon. He will locate at Tipton, Iowa. Nebraska produced in 1902 the fol lowing: Wheat, 60,216.670 bushels; oats. 58,503,007; rye, 11,797,123; barley, 2,152,522. Fifteen houses have been built in Yutan during the last few months. One $5,000 church has been erected and two more churches were renovated. P. W. Birkhouser of Sarpy county has been showing his friends a second growth of strawberries that he picked from his farm south of Papillion. While threshing near Ellis, Gage county, Chris Knoche, a prominent German farmer, had the misfortune to run the tine of a pitchfork in his right eye. Nebraska’s corn crop for the past five years shows the following: 1902, 224,201,950 bushels; 1900, 241.935,527; 1899 244,125,093; 1S98, 180,611,944; 1897, 229,907.853. Alfred J. Anderson, a farmer living east of Oakland, had a valuable riding pony stolen. The animal was taken while its owner was attending an en tertainment in town. From some unknown cause the High school building at Arrapahoe was burned and is an entire loss, not even the brick walls remaining intact. The aggregate loss is $20,000, with $8,000 in surance. One of the largest stones ever quar ried in the state was cut at the Blue Springs quarry, recently. The stone is forty-five feet long, four feet wide and eighteen inches thick, and made a good carload. A horse driven by E. B. Cowles, for mer county superintendent of JefTerson county, ran away and, while crossing the railroad tracks, overturned the buggy, throwing Mr. Cowles to the ground, severely injuring him. Capt. A. H. Hollingsworth, who pi loted company C while the First Ne braska regiment was on duty during the Philippine war, and Miss Myrtle Ross, a leading society girl of Wilber, were married at the bride’s home last week. At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Luther Academy at Wahoo it was decided to erect a new school building at a cost of $18,000. P. L. Plym, an architect from Lincoln was appointed to draw up the plans and specifications. At a dance given at the home of Da vid Kluck, a farmer living two miles north of Richland, a man named Young, about 25 years old, was serious ly stabbed during an altercation with a fellow from Schuyler. Young’s con dition is said to be serious. I Charles Ogoma committed suicide at 1 nis home eight miles northwest of uib bon. He was a farmer in good circum stances, owning a farm of 1G0 acres* with stock and a good crop. He leaves a wife and five children. His home re lations were oleasant and comfortable: Land in Boone county is changing hands rapidly. Within the past two weeks 8,000 acres of the ranch and farm lands recently purchased by a New York syndicate, has been sold by McKillip & Swallow, their agents. This land has all gone to individual land owners. A peculiar freak of nature occurred on Martin Klim’s farm, near Adams, a few days ago. About twenty-two days ago one of his cows gave birth to a calf which was dead when it was born. | Sixteen days later fhe same cow gave j birth to another calf which is alive and i doing well. The verdict of the Jury in the Lillie murder case at David City before Dr. Sample, the coroner, was rendered af ter being locked in a room three days and three night3, and is as follows: That Harvey Lillie came to his death by a gunshot wound, feloniously in flicted by a party unknown. The senior class of the State uni versity has received a report from the committee to select a list from which the class orator shall be picked. The names submitted embrace Henry Wat terson. Senator Beceridge of Indiana, Mark Twain, Thomas B. Reed and Hamilton Mabie, editor of Outlook. The list was presented to Chancellor Andrews. Coroner McCabe of Lincoln county was called on to examine into the cause of the death of two men. Word was received from Wallace that a man. name not given, was found dead under a wagon box. All evidence indicated an accident. R. A. Brown, mail driver between North Platte and Gandy, was found dead In his wagon. The team pulled up to the Myrtle postoffice with the dead body. The mail was undis turbed and all indications were that he had simply dropped dead. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. — Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City. SOUTH OMAHA. CATTT-E—There was only a light run of cattle Saturday and for the week rej celpts show a decrease as compared with last week, but an Increase over the same week of last year. There were a few* cornfed steers on sale and there did not seem to he much of any change In the prices paid. The cow market did not hare the life to It today that was noticed yesterday. As compared with a week ago the market may be quoted 15025c higher, the greatest advance having taken place on the better grades. Hulls, veal calves and stags did not show much change, but for the week bulls are a little lower If they are not good. There were only a few stockers and feeders on sale and not much change In the market took place. There were only a few western steers In sight and the market showed but little change. There has been a good active demand all the week and prices have advanced 10015c. Range cows wore a lit tle slow, but 15025c higher for the week. HOGS—The market opened fairly aetivei and 2H©3c higher. Along toward the close, however, the feeling grew weaker and the last sales were not much more than steady with yesterday's average. The bulk of the sales went from $6.60 to $6.65. with prime loads selling mostly from $6.63 to $6.70. Heavy packing grades went largely from $6.55 to $6.60. SHEEP—Quotations: Good to choice yearlings. $3.7504.00; fair to good, $3.25® 3.65; good to choice wethers. $3.5003.65; fair to good wethers, $3.1003.35: choice ewes. $3.000 3.25: fair to good ewes, $2.65® 2.90; good to choice lambs. $4.6504.75; fair to good lambs, $4.0004.50; choice native lambs, $5.0005.50: feeder ethers, $2.7503.00; feeder yearlings, $2.9003.25: feeder lambs. $3.0004.00: cull lambs. $1.5002.50; feeder ewes, $1.2502.00; cull ewes, 75c® $1.25; stock ewes, $2.5003.25. KANSAS CITY CATTLE—Native and western beeves steady; quarantine stuff active, tirm; stockers and feeders dull, weaker; stock calves broke 25® 75c during the week; choice export and dressed beef steers, $6.50 07.45; fair to good. $3.30®6.45; stockers and feeders. $3.007(4.00; western fed steers. $3.15 ■05.75; Texas and Indian steers. $3.00® 4.25; Texas cows, $2.400 3.00; native cows, $1.5004.00; native heifers. $3.1003.75; can ners, $1.00®2.25; bulls, $2.25@3.65; calves, $3.0005.60. HOGS—Opened 5®10c higher; closed wouk; top, $6.65: bulk of sales. $6.6506.60; heavy, $6.5506.65: mixed packers, $6.50® 6.00; light, $6,404/6.574; yorkers, $6.55® 6.574; pigs, $6.8506.35. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market steady; native lambs. $3.6005.20; western lambs, $3.0005.15; fed ewes, $3.1003.90; native ethers. $3.0504.00; western wethers, $2.95® 4.00; stockers and feeders, $1.9503.25. GENERAL MILES AT MANILA. Takes Up His Abode at Palace While in the City. MANILA—General Miles reached here on the United States transport Thomas from San Francisco Friday morning. A salute in his honor was fired from Fort Santiago. General Davis and a squadron of cavalry met General Miles at the land ing place in Manila and escorted him to the palace, where Governor Taft and the other members of the civil commission awaited the visitor. Gen eral Miles has accepted Governor Taft’s invitation to live at the palace while here. The garrison in Manila will be reviewed by General Miles on Saturday. The general will then pro ceed to Dagupan, where he will visit Colonel Charles L. Davis of the Fifth infantry, General Miles’ old regiment. The general's plan for a tour of the archipelago has not yet been complet ed. Rid of a Horse Thief. GUTHRIE, O. T.—Residents of Cad do county, in the vicinity of Swan lake, discovered the body of an un known man swinging to the limb of a tree, and it has developed that he was a member of a gang of horse thieves that terrorized that portion of Oklahoma for several months past. It is supposed he was eaptured by en raged farmers who hal lost stock and lynched. Indian Would Cheat the Gallows. SIOUX FALLS, S. D.—James Rob bins and ex-Sheriff Joseph M. Dickson, who were death watch over Walking Shield, the Indian hanged here last week, have been appointed to a sim ilar capacity in connection with George Bear, the Sioux Indian con victed a few days ago of the murder of his stepson and a white employe on the Rosebud reservation and sen tenced to be hanged December 5, next. Thanks the Workmen. WASHINGTON—After breakfasting at the White House Friday, President Roosevelt informally received 191 of the mechanics and laborers who have been engaged upon the repairs of the mansion. The president thanked them as a body for having facilitated by their work the completion of the repairs to the mansion, thereby en abling him to once more occupy it. No Prize Fighting There. WATERBURY, Conn.—In response to complaints from clergymen and other citizens regarding the proposed match between Young Corbett and Austin Rice on November 6, John P. Kellogg, assistant state attorney, on Friday sent a letter to the manager of the match, warning him that any violation of the law against prize( fighting will be Immediately met with; the arrest and punishment of any. one concerned. : ***» ♦ » *“VTVT 11; BRIEF TELEGRAMS. $ VWVT'* **W *“ ♦ V . % r/TTT Attorney General Knox, who investi gated tlie Panama canal title, will probably hold that the companry can give a perfect title. Secretary Root approves the prelim inary plan for the establishment of clubs at military posts, to take the place of the army canteen. Generals Botha, DeWet and Delarey have returned to London. DeWet ex pects to sail for South Africa, on ac count of family matters, November 1. At the meeting of the government secretaries of Havana, Cuba, the sum of $7,600 was appropriated to repair the Cabana fortress and make it sani tary. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to be present at the annual banquet of the chamber of commerce o'f New York. December 11. He will make an address. Kentucky’s building at the world’s fair will probably be permanent. There is now a prospect of raising considerably more than $100,000 for the state exhibit. The United States consul at Shang hai reports to the state department the death of Sheng, father of the Chi nese member of the treaty commis sion now in session. Archie Woodin, who murdered Mr. hnd Mrs. Joseph Guliek, his wife’s par ents, and then shot his own baby, Oc tober 16, was sentenced to the Jack son, Mich., prison for life. The general order for the reduction of the army to its minimum strength applies to the Porto Rico provisional regiment of infantry as well as to other organizations of the army. Wellington R. Burt offered the city schools of Saginaw, Mich., a donation of $150,000 for the establishment of a manual training school, $100,000 for a building and $50,000 for equipment Leading Macedonians at Sofia as sert that the insurgents inflicted se vere losses on the Turkish troops dur ing the recent fighting in the Presna Pass by the use of a dynamite mine. Rear Admiral Merrill Miller, at pres ent commandant of the Mare Island navy yard, is to be relieved at the end of his tour of shore duty some time this winter by Captain Bowman H. Mc Calla. W. A. Avery and C. H. Green, Michi gan lumbermen, have just completed a deal for the purchase of 22,000 acres of timber land in Lane county, Ore gon. The purchase price is said to be $300,000. Chicago & Alton officials have noti fied the shop employes of the system that the request for a general advance in wages had been granted and that commencing November 1 the increase will be paid. David Charles Bell, a well known author and educator and a noted Shakesperean scholar, and a nephew of Alexander Graham Bell, died at the Bell homestead in Washington, D. C., of heart failure. Prof. Sidney Howe Short, a widely known inventor of electrical appliances and one of the pioneers in the con struction of electric railways, is dead in London from appendicitis. He was a native of Ohio. Mrs. William Donovan, 37 years old, who traveled with a circus as “the Bearded Lady,” is dead at her home in Brooklyn. She was born in Virginia and had visited every civilized coun try in the world. Joe Rogel, Dan Carnahan and Hugh Morrow, 13-year-old newsboys of Ok lahoma City, were killed near Noble, O. T., by a Santa Fe train. The boys had been hunting and, returning home, walked down the track. The executive committee of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial associa tion called upon Admiral Dewey at Washington Monday and formally no tified him of his election to the pres idency of the association. Pursuant to a promise that if Ot tumwa won in the Iowa supreme court its fight for the right to construct water works, Mayor Huston of Cedar Rapids invited every Ottumwa city of ficial to a banquet at the former place. An official circular issued by the American Window Glass company shows that the net profits of this con cern, which owns more than half the window glass factories in Indiana, for the year ending August 31, amounted to $747,701 on a capitalization of $17, 000,000. The postmaster general has signed the contracts for the pneumatic tube service in Boston and St. Louis. Chief Engineer Melville of the navy in his annual report suggests the use of oil for fuel on the torpedo boats and destroyers. Chicago banks show remarkably good earnings for the last year, prof its ranging up to 34 per cent. A general order has been issued pro viding for the reduction of the enlist ed strength of the army to 66,989, the minimum authorized by law. Dr. F. B. Tubbs, who about eighteen months ago was refused a position on the faculty of the Kansas Wesleyan university at Sallna, Kan., on account of alleged heretical teachings, has been elected to the chair of science in the high school at Marion, O. WOODROW WILSON NOW PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON tlSOQDQOV/ PRESIDENT OF PWNCETON UNIVCPSfTY Woodrow Wilson, LL. D.( Lit. D.. Princeton, ’79. was installed a3 presi dent of Princeton university October 25, with impressive, yet simple, cere monies, eminent scholars from more than 150 institutions of learning, men of letters, dignitaries of the church and state, and men high in the profes slonal ami business world Joined witb the alumni in congratulating the new president on the honor he had receiv ed, and also congratulating the uni versity on the choice it had made. Grover Cleveland delivered the ad dress at the inauguration of Woodrow 'Wilson. Where Woman Is Boss. There is a remarkable community in Abyssinia where the women, with out holding meetings or agitations of any kind, have emancipated them selves, says Golden Penny. All the women work hard, while the men are idle; but by way of compensation the house and all it contains belongs to the wife. At the least unkind word she turns the husband out at night, in storm or rain, and he cannot come tack until he makes amends by the gift of a cow. The wife considers it a duty to abuse the husband, and if she were weak enough to show any love for him in life or grief at his death she would be scorned by her tribe. The wife, without any reason, may strike her tent and go, taking with her one-third of the joint pos sessions. The husband, unless he is traveling, may not live out of his tent. Corns Not a Disability. A veteran of the Spanish war re cently appealed to the secretary of the interior a case in which he claimed a pension on account of corns that he had contracted by wearing army shoes. The department, after an exhaustive course of reasoning, comes to the con clusion that corns are not a pension able disability. The decision says: “Corns are ‘nconvenient, but are sel dom incapacitating, and when they are the remedy is simple and within the reach of any one. The soldier’s pa triotism ought not to terminate with his military service. It should prompt him to go to a chiropodist rather than to the pension bureau.” French Wine Consumption. The average French person con sumes in a year 63 times as much wine as the English subject. French people drink 21 gallons a head yearly. Queer Horse Friendships. “Some of the famous trotters and pacers out this year have queer mas cots,” said a man interested in such things the other day. “Joe Pointer, the unbeaten stallion, 2:0934, has a goat for a chum. “Searchlight, 2:03*4, is Infatuated with a pony stable companion. With the pony near him he is the most tractable horse in the world. When the pony is taken away, Searchlight will do nothing but kick and bite. "But the queerest of all stable friendships I ever saw is one that Hal B., 2:04*4, has made. He scraped an acquaintance with a Plymouth Rock pullet a month or two ago. Now she roosts on his back and rides around there for hours when the fast pacer is being cooled off after a race.” The Schoolgirls’ Favorites. Dramatist Bronson Howard declares that the theater was not intended for schoolgirls, which Is perhaps true. If it were not for schoolgirls, however, quite a bunch of matinee idols would shortly be directing the movements of a pair of mules or presiding over bargain counters instead of drawing large salaries for exemplifying the high Ideals of the modern drama. Amusement Casualties. When the number of fighters en gaged respectively ir. the game of war and the game of football is con sidered the list of casualties shows that football is the mo'e dangerous oi the two forms of amusement.—Phila delphia Record. Deaths Due to Weather. There are about 200 deaths yearly in England due to weather; 140 o! these are due to cold, and the rest to sunstroke and lightning. ' ■ ' .. —Ml I , BRIBERY SENSATION HAS CAUSED STIR IN MONTANA j KAuuvsrur fianzEJi A sensation has been created in Montana by a public statement Issued by Charles W. Clark, son of Senator Clark, accusing F. Augustus Heinze of attempting to bribe him with $2,500, 000 to secretly work against his father, the senator, and secure the election of a legislature and judiciary favorable to Hcinze’s interests. Heinze has litigation in the courts In volving millions of copper mines, and the Clarks accuse him of trying to pack the bench. This charge of attempted bribery will doubtless lead to a renewal of the bitter fight which was waged so long in the Montana political field when Senator Clark and bis great rival, Daly, fought for the control of the legislature and the conseauent nation for United states ... ' Helnze ha. met the accusation , Clrk with th. mow “o™ w