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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.
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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. :
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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
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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.
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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