Nebraska Newspapers

    THIS IN NEBRASKA
EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE
1 ' OR LESS IMPORTANCE.
Some Figures on the Corn Crop in
Nebraska—Custer County First
*■ in Production.
Nebraska Corn Crop Figures.
LINCOLN—According to statistics
issued by the state labor bureau, the
-total production of corn in Nebraska
the present year is 241,383.537 bushels,
as compared with 243,713,244 bushels
In 1905, or a decrease this year of 2,
329,707 bushels. There was an in
crease in the acreage of corn this year
of 368,418 acres over 1905, but in spite
of this the total production of the crop
was lessened by hail in various sec
tions, together with a period of dry
weather at a critical time-in the crop’s
growth. The average yield last year
-of 37.65 bushels per acre was ex
tremely high and the yield of 35.28
bushels is nearer normal, but a high
yield also. This decrease in the pro
duction decreases the total value $8,
173,388.92 from the value of the .1905
-crop, which reached a total of $79,
■485,297.60. The 1906 crop is valued
at $89,311,908.92.
l.ancaster county ranks first in
acreage with 243.475 acres, and an
average yield of 32.2 bushels per
acre.
Custer county ranks first in produc
tion. with 8,251,158 bushels, and Lan
caster county takes second place, with
a production of 7,839,895 ^Bushels.
Saunders county takes third place,
with 7,434,003 bushels produced.
Av. Yield Produc
per Acre, tion.
-v-uiiuj. nt-i AMISM. OIISII.
Adams . 80,764 31.7 2,560.218
Antelope _ 115.58S 31.1 3,594.786
Banner . 2,927 18.3 53.564
Blaine . 5.515 28.7 158.280
Boone . 102,487 35.5 3,638.288
Box Butte... 4.108 27.5 112.970
Boyd . 60,009 36.S 2,208,331
Brown . 23,535 30.7 722,524
Buffalo . 181,267 39.0 7,069,413
Burt . * 77,564 43.7 3,389.546
• Butler . 121.581 35.1 4.267,493
Cass . 123.059 37.5 4.6S9.712
Cedar . 123,851 39.6 4.904,499
Chase . 30.1S4 23.8 718,379
Cherry . 24.223 28.1 680.666
Cheyenne ... 7.900 28.1 221,990
Clay . 109.877 38.3 4.208.289
Colfax . 74.379 40.o 2.975.160
Cuming . 102,448 42.1 4.313.060
Custer . 232,427 35.5 8,251.158
Dakota . 44,175 45.1 1,992.292
Dawes . 4.282 2S.0 119.896
Dawson . 131.947 40.8 5,383.437
Deuel . 16.491 33.8 557,395
Dixon . 72,375 40.2 2.909,475
Dodge . 99.775 37.1 3.701.652
Douglas .... 68.191 38.2 2,604.896
Dundy . 42.110 24.2 J,019,062
Fillmore _ 121,726 37.6 4.576.897
Franklin - 85,492 29.6 2.530.563
Frontier - 122.757 35.4 4.345.597
Furnas . 106,757 37.1 3.960.684
Cage . 188.531 33.5 6,315,788
Carfield . 19.018 30.5 580,049
Cosper . 87.105 35.0 3,048.675
Crant . 42 25.0 1,030
Creeley . 58,382 28.8 1.687,161
Hall . 80.242 33.6 2.696.131
Hamilton ... 113.173 38.3 4.334,525
Harlan . 129,873 42.0 5,454.750
Hayes . 52.494 25.0 1.312.350
Hitchcock ... 28.246 28.5 ' 805.011
Holt . 93.223 26.3 2,451,764
Hooker . 2,205 23.0 50,715
Howard . 78,690 37.6 2.958.714
Jefferson .... 112,922 26.2 2,958.556
Johnson . 79.013 32.8 2,591.626
Kearney .... 84.554 35.3 2,984.756
Keith . 12,308 32.5 400,010
Keya Paha... 28,775 29.2 S40.230
Kimball .... 828 17.5 14.490
Knox . 224,393 31.5 7.068,379
Lancaster ... 243.475 32.2 7.839,893
Lincoln . 50,710 29.1 1,475.661
Logan . 10,494 29.5 309.573 I
lamp . 13,766 31.1 428,122
Madison . 96,580 31.0 2.993,980
McPherson. .
Merrick . 57.306 31.0 1.776.486
Nance . 67.068 36.7 2,461.395
Nemaha _ 70,752 3S.2 2.702.726
Nuckolls _ 116.205 35.6 4.136,898
Ctoe .J. 143,568 37.0 5,312,016
Pawnee . 71,374 32.1 2,291,105
Perkins . 17.393 25.8 448,739
Phelps . 85,805 42.2 4.042.971
Pierce . 81.636 30.0 2.440.080
Platte . 136.020 38.2 5.195,964
Polk . 86.122 38.8 3.341,533
Red Willow.. 73,297 2S.6 2.096,294
Richardson .. 98.747 38.0 3.752.386
Rock . 15.028 28.4 426,795
Saline . 118,699 35.1 4,166.334
Sarpy . 52.865 36.8 1.945,432
Saunders .... 180.876 11.1 7,434,003
Scott's Bluff. 2.196 30.0 65,880
Seward . 119,901 37.0 4.436,337
Sheridan . 14.949 30.0 448,470
Sherman _ 58.502 34.5 2,018.319
Sioux . 2.006 19.3 38,715
Stanton . 78,290 34.5 2,701.005
Thayer . 114.599 29.7 3.403.590
Thomas . 1,925 25.0 48.125
Thurston _ 6G.7S9 38.4 2.564,697
Valiev . 72.301 35.7 2.581.145
Washington.. 78.490 36.8 2.888.432
Wavne . 92,664 37.2 3,447.100
Webster. 109.945 34.3 3,771.113
Wheeler . 13,780 29.5 406.5,10
York . 120.792 37.6 4,541.779
Totals _6,840.905 35.28 241,383.537
Consolidating Two Homes.
An effort will be made this year
to consolidate the Girls’ Industrial
home at Milford with the Home for
the Friendless at Lincoln, the united
home to oe at Milford. This will
leave the entire building now used
for the Friendless and the Orthopedic
hospital for the use of the latter. The
Orthopedic hospital needs more
room, and Superintendent Lord will
recommend a large appropriation for
a new building, but as a lot of legis
lators will object to this expenditure,
the consolidation likely will be ef
fected.
Change in the State .Normal.
LINCOLN—A resolution will be of
fered at the next meeting of the State
Normal board which, if adopted, prob
ably will make unnecessary the ap
propriation asked for to increase the
capacity of the Kearney Normal
school. This resolution, which will be
offered by State Treasurer Mortensen.
will provide no students can be ad
mitted to the normal school who have
not passed the tenth grade.
Nebraska Insurance Companies.
Blanks asking for information in
regard to the business of the last
year are being sent out to all dur
ance companies by Insurance Auditor
John L. Pierce. Life companies re
ceive blanks containing thirty-six
pages. Minute explanations as to the
manner of conducting business may be
made by companies which have been
in the state only one year. They must
tell how their money is invested, give
an itemized account of their gains
and losses and show the exact cost
of obtaining new business.
The School (Jensus.
The school census, as shown by the
reports on file in the office of Super
intendent McBrien. gives the number
of children of school age In Nebraska
as 371,885, and on this basis will the
school apportionment be made. The
amount to be divided among the va
rious districts is $251,81)6.54, giving
each district 67.7 cents for each child
of school age. The census of this
year and of last December shows a
decrease of 5,013. This is because
enumerators have probably kept
closer to the rule than usyai.
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.
Geneva has purchased three trained
bloodhounds to chase criminals.
The series of religious meetings in
Harvard were disappointing as to re
sults.
Butler county sim volng in the
matter of organizing a county agricul
tural society. -
Della Clark, an employe of tbe Mor
ton hotel, Nebraska City, attempted to
commit suicide by taking laudanum.
Doctors saved her with a stomach
pump.
William H. Bush was arrested by
Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county on
the'charge of stealing a horse from
John Hebebrand, a farmer near
Hooper.
George Hill, who escaped from the
Dodge county ■ sheriff, while being
taken to jail to await trial on a charge
of attempt to murder, was arrested In
Council Bluffs, la.
At Rulo, Melvin and Bill Foster
were arrested and taken to the county
jail in Falls City, being charged with
burning the barn and corncrib on the
Alois Dannecker farm.
A man en route from New York to
San Francisco attempted to commit
suicide on train No. 5 east of Lexing
ton. and was taken off the train and
put in charge of a physician.
Arthur Crerner. who has been in
the vicinity of Ashland for several
months, and has attracted much at
tention by his queer actions, has re
cently been adjudged insane.
The Cass county mortgage record
for November is as follows: Mortgages
filed on farm property amounting to
$20,654; released, $17,610. Amount of
mortgages filed on city property,
$4,100; released. $3,228.
A Underwood, a Virginian, who had
been in Dead wood. S. D.. several
weeks, came to Alliance. He became
intoxicated and while In a rooming
house insulted Mrs. F. J. Dunn, who
shot him. He will not die.
Many contests on, land are being
filed at the United States land office
at North Platte. These contests are on
land in Cheyenne and other western
counties, where homesteads were
taken and later abandoned.
Miss Ella 5. Lawrence has started
suit in district court of Platte county
against the Monroe Independent Tel
ephone company for $20,000 damages.
She received a serious shack, and so
will the company if she wins her case.
Newspapers at Columbus have re
ceived notice from the Burlington rail
road that no more transportation will
bo issued in payment for advertising
and that whatever the papers print
for them on their order will be paid
for by the company in cash.
Reports of cattle dying in the north
east part of Antelope county from
cornstalk disease are current, in one
case a man losing five head. There
is seldom danger after the middle of
January and the presumption is that
continued freezing removes the cause.
A party of suveyors has recently
looked over the territory from Octavia
on west along the south side of the
Platte river. They carefully surveyed
the grounds, leaving stakes on several
points along a line west from Octavia.
Everybody is anxious to know the na
ture of this survey.
The case of Mrs. Sarah Young of
David City against R. L. Berndg and
the Metropolitan Mutual Bond and
Surety company or Omaha for the
sum of $5,000 damages for the exces
sive sale and giving away of liquor to
her husband. Lee Young, which caused
his death on February 22. resulted in a
verdict of $1,500 in her behalf.
The West Point. Farmers’ Institute
society has decided to hold a competi
tive corn exhibit during the institute,
which is to be held in West Point
February 7 and 8. Ten prizes will be
awarded, five on yellow and five on
white corn. Twenty ears of corn must
be shown by each exhibitor, the judg
ing and scoring to be done by state
experts.
The stockholders of the Webster
county fair association held their first
annual meeting at Bladen. The man
agement was highly pleased with the
reports of the different departments.
Premiums were all paid in full. Nearly
$4,000 has been expended for Improve
ments during the past season and the
treasurer still shows a nic? balance
on hand.
Capt. W. S. Noyes, aged sixty-five
years, a resident of Hastings for
twentv-five years, dropped dead shortly
after entering the Bostwick barber
shop. Mr. Noyes asked Lou Egelhoff.
a barber, to assist hirfi in removing
his coat, and as Egelhoff turned to
take the coat. Noyes said: “I might,
as well give it up. I’m going to die.”
He was caught in Egelhoff’s arms as
he fell and soon expired.
A draft for $7,067.25 was tendered
to the county treasurer of Lincoln
county, by the Burlington Railway
company through its attorney. J. J.
Halligan. iri payment of the company’s
taxes for the year 1906. This tender
was $3,815.43 less than the amount
due and was therefore refused by the
county treasurer until permission is
given by a court of competent jurisdic
tion to accept a partial payment with
out invalidating the collection of the
full amount.
Tony Prebyl. a farmer living near
Barneston, brought specimens to Beat
rice. which were taken from the craw
of a duck by Mrs. Prebyl while she
was engaged in dressing the fowl. The,
sample were pronounced a fine qual
ity of placed gold.
The new - government: road in Ne
maha county is completed. Two miles
of macadamized road now stretches
to the east, from the foot of Central
avenue in Auburn. This covers the
strip of ground that has always been
impassable in the spring when the
water is high.
Otoe county boast of the tallest and
smallest officials in the state. Sheriff
John Donovan stands six-feet and six
inches in his stocking feet. John El
rod, elected constable, is forty-,two
inches in height and weighs seventy
five pounds.
A warrant has been issued and is
now in the hands of the county sheriff
of Adams county, which will in all
probability result in the arrest and
return to the county of William J.
Ohlheiser, former county clerk of that
county on the charge of wife deser
tion
THE PftESIOENT It NOW "SPEAKING GENTLY."
PROOF OF BAILEY CHARGES!
j
DOCUMENTS IN CASE AGAINST
SENATOR MADE PUBLIC.
Attorney General of Texaa Show*
How Former Received Money
from Big Oil Magnate.
Austin, Tex. — Attorney General
Davidson issued a statement Fri
day night in which he gives the doc
umentary proof- of his charge that
Senator Bailey had received money
from the president of the Wateffe
Pierce Oil company.
The first voucher is dated at St.
.Louis. June 30, 1900. and is on the
Waters-Pierce Oil company to H. Clay
Pierce, debtor, for demand loan of
$3,000 to Joseph W. Bailey, and is' in
dorsed “account Texas cases.” .
Another is on Henry Stribbing. of
Waco, Tex., for account of expense in
trust civil case of the state of Texas
versus Waters-Pierce Oil company at
Waco. $1,500.”
In connection with this voucher is
the following:
“Lake Lebagamon, Wis., June 12.—
To Andrew, St. Louis: If Johnson ap
proves Bailey to loan Stribbing on his
note fifteen hundred. Bailey should
quiet all Texas parties Tell him I will
see him soon.
"H. C. PIERCE.”
The following notation was written
on the telegram:
“S.—Draft draw'n bv Bailey for
$1,600.”
Another voucher read:
“Waters-Pierce Oil company, to H.
C. Pierce, Dr. Amount paid J. W.
Bailey account Texas cases, $200.”
Among other documents made pub
lic in the statement is a note signed
by J. W. Dailey payable to the order
of H. C. Pierce for $8,000 dated Wash
ington,’ March 1, 1901, “for value re
ceived;” a letter signed by J. W.
Bailey addressed to H. C. Pierce ask
ing him to send New York exchange
for $1,700, and another addressed to
J. P. Gruet, secretary and signed by
H. C. Pierce, president.
The letter follows:
“Please send New York exchange
for $1,760 for .Joseph W. Bailey,
Gainesville. Tex., and. charge against
legal expense, account of Texas leg
islation.
“I sent this amount personally to
Mr. Bailey in response to his inclosed
letter of March 28. Since then Mr.
Bailey has returned the. amount to me,
and it is now proper for the company
to make this payment.
“Attach Mr. Bailey’s letter to vour
voucher and merely inclose the draft
to him without the voucher. His in
closed letter will be your voucher.”
SHAW’S PLAN TO CHECK PANICS.
Hi* Report Recommend* a Restricted
■«. Credit Currency.
Washington. — In his report .to
congress. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary
of the treasury, reiterates his recom
mendation of a restricted credit cur
rency and suggests that if more pow
er is granted the secretary panics can
be prevented or their evil effects
greatly reduced.
He points out the danger of the
“central bank" plan, and urges his
own methods to increase- circulation
when there is a stringency in the
money market, and to contract the
currency when money is redundant
A taxed credit currency he considers
the best method, supplemented by
power granted the secretary to handle
a $100,000,000 reserve fund, sending it
into the market when needed and
withdrawing it when not needed.
Respite for Aggie Meyers.
Jefferson City, Md.—Gov. Folk
Thursday announced that he had
granted a respite until January 10 for
Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frank Hott
man, of Kansas City, who were con
victed of having murdered the hus
band of Mrs. Myers, and were sen
tenced to be hanged.
Rear Admiral Asserson Dies.
New York.—Rear Admiral Peter ;
Asserson, U. S. N„ retired, died sud-'
denly at his home ill Brooklyn Thurs- 1
day. ,
Girls Burned in Explosion.
Indianapolis. Ind.—In a panic and
fire that started from an explosion of
thousands of paper matches at the fac
tory of F. A. Rathbun & Co., West In
dianapolis, Wednesday, eight young
women were seriously burned.
Elevator Fails; Three Killed.
Chambersburg, Pa.—Three men
were killed and one was fatally injured
and five others-wens seriously hurt at
Waynesboro Wednesday, by the fall of
an elevator in the Geiser Manufactur
ing company’s shops.
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GILLETTE IS CONVICTED.
Found Guilty of Murdering Hlo Sweet
heart, Grace Brown.
Herkimer, N. Y.—The jury In the
trial of Chester E. Gillette for the
murder of his sweetheart, Grace
Brown, at Big Moose lake, on July 11
last. Tuesday night returned a verdict
of guilty in the first degree.
The jury, which had deliberated for
five hours, sent word at 11 o’clock
that a verdict had been reached. A
moment later it filed into the court
room and at 11:15 o'clock an officer
who had been sent for Gillette, re
turned with the prisoner.
It was learned that the jury had
some difficulty in reaching an agree
ment and six ballots were taken be
fore the 12 men agreed. Up to that
time the jury had stood 11 for convic
tion and one for acquittal.
There are. and have been for some
time, all kinds of rumors that Gilette
has been overheard to make some
kind of a confession that he killed
Grace Brown. Some of these stories
are that jail officials heard him con
fess to his lawyers: others that he
told a visitor who called on him that
he had struck the girl and that the
visitor told the district attorney. No
body connected with the case in any
way will confirm any of these stories.
District Attorney Ward refused to
confirm or deny the report that Gil
lette was overheard to make a confes
sion to his attorney that he struck
Grace Brown at Big Moose lake.
COUNT BONI 18 SNUBBED.
Many French Deputies Leave Cham
ber When He Speaks.
Paris. — Count Boni de Castel
lane spoke in the chamber of depu- .
ties Thursday during the debate on
the Algeciras treaty. Half the mem
bers of the chamber of deputies ab
ruptly left the house when the count
ascended the tribune.
The snub was given deliberately in
the presence of the diplomatic corps
and the entire cabinet.
Count Boni stood, hands in trousers
pockets, with a flippant smile on his
face during the confusion occasioned
by the withdrawal of more than 2p0
deputies.
When quiet was restored Boni ad
dressed the chamber, apparently not
having been disconcerted by the re
buke. He was jauntily attired, wear
ing a lavender colored waistcoat, a
red necktie, and he spoke easily, al
most airily. He argued that France
was continuing the policy of ex-For
eign Minister Delcasse, which aimed
at the conquest of Morocco.
Then he took his seat, in the midst
of almost deathlike silence in the
chamber. No one applauded him or
replied to him. He was treated with
contemptuous indifference.
The chamber ratified the Algeciras
treaty by unanimous vote.
Oil Magnates Are Subpoenaed.
New York. — John D. Rockefel
ler anti six associates who control
the Standard Oil company, have been
served with subpoenas to appear be
fore the United States circuit court in
St. Louis on Monday, January 7.
United States Marshal William Hen
kel served the papers. Besides Mr.
Rockefeller subpoenas were served on
Henry H. Rogers, ftenry M. Flagler,
Charles M. Pratt, Oliver H. Payne,
William Rockefeller and John D.
Archbold. t
Preacher and Negro Hanged.
Valdosta, Ua.—Rev. J. O. Rawlins
and Alf Moore, a negro, were hanged
here Tuesday morning for the murder
of Willie and Carrie Carter in July,
1905.
Robbers Cremate Invalid.
Zanesville, O.—Robbers are be
lieved to have murdered Miss Sarah
Wiley, a life-long invalid, and th^n
set her home on fire to hide their
crime. The house was burned and
the woman’s body incinerated.
Suit to Break Lybrand Will.
Delaware, O.—Lucius Lybrand, of
Terre Haute, Ind., one of the heirs of
the late Edwin G. Lybrand, of this
city, filed suit Friday to break the i
will. The deceased left $25,000 to the
Ohio Wesleyan university here.
Seven Hurt in Railway Wreck.
Salt Lake City.—East-bound pas
senger train No. 4 (the Atlantic ex- 1
press on the Union Pacific railroad),
was derailed Wednesday near Church
Buttes, W'yo., 140 miles east of Ogden.
Seven persons are reported injured. I
Sent to Prison for Fraud.
Toledo, 0.-»-0n a plea of guilty to
the charge of using the United States I
mails to promote a scheme to defraud, i
Charles Whitney Norton was sen- .i
tenced to the Ohio pentttentiary for 18 1
months and to pay a fine of 9100. i
HORROR AT CORNELL
TOUR STUDENTS AND THREE
TOWNSMEN PERISH IN FIRE.
CHI PSI HOUSE BURNED
3reat Heroism Is Displayed by the
Boys and. Volunteer Firemen
in the Work of
? Rescue.
Ithaca, N. Y.—The $200,000 man
sion of the Chi Psi fraternity at Cor
lell university—the finest chapter
louse in the world—burned early Frl
lay, and seven persons perished in
he conflagration. Of these four were
students, and the others prominent
townsmen who had responded to the
ilarm in the capacity of volunteer
Bremen.
The bodies of the dead, with the
sxceution of those of W. H. Nichols,
if Chicago, and F. W. Greile, of East
Orange, N. J., were recovered. Friday
night it was decided to dynamite the
ruins to facilitate the search for the
missing bodies:
The dead are:
Attorney Alfred S. Robinson, hook
»nd leader company No. 3.
John C. Rumsey, hardware mer
chant, hose company No. 6.
E. J. Landon, salesman; hose com
pany No. 4.
F. W. Greile, of East Orange. N. J.,
10. ^
O. L. Sclimuck, of Hanover, Pa„
07.
W. H. Nichols, of Chicago. ’07.
James McCutcheon, Jr., of Pitts
burg, Pa;, ’09.
The injured are:
H. S. Decamp, of New York, ’09.
Henry M. Curry, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
09.
R. R. Powers, of Atlanta, Ga., ’10.
W. W. Goetz, of Milwaukee. '09.
H. A. Uihlein, of Milwaukee, ’07.
G. R. Sailor, of Pittsburg, Pa., '07.
C. J. Pope, of East Orange, N. J.,
10.
The heroism of the volunteer fire
men who died attacking the fire was
matched by the heroism of Schrauck,
who reentered the burning building
in a futile effort to save Nichols, his
room-mate, and who died later from
his injuries, and by the courage of
McCutcheon, who remained in the
flames until fatally burned, to assist
bis comrades to escape. Pope, the
freshman, received his injuries while
seeking to rescue other members of
the fraternity.
Among thhse earliest oa the scene,
and who contributed most of the
work of rescue from the flames which
had already converted the first floor
of the doomed dormitory into an in
ferno, were several Cornell football
men. All did effective work. It has
be^n declared that the work of Sam
Halliday, the old fullback, and of
Earle and Gibson, the halfbacks of
the season ended, united with that of
the Chi Psi men who risked their
lives that their brothers might live,
will be remembered long in the an
nals of Cornell.
The cause of the fire will proba.bly
never be discovered. The building is
an unsightly wreck, with no particle
of its inner furniture remaining. Cor
nell is deprived of one of its land
marks, for the lodge was built in 1881
by Jennie McGraw Fiske, at a cost
of $130,000. The daughter of the
lumber king, John McGraw, who was
one of Cornell’s early great benefac
tors, never enjoyed her palace ,and
entered it only after death.
Around the house have clustered
the memory of the great fight for the
Fiske millions waged between Prof.
Willard Fiske. the husband, and
Judge Boardman. as the representa
tive of Cornell, to which Mrs. Fiske
had left the bulk of her estate.
LYNN FACTORY BLOWN UP.
Eleven Persons Are Injured and Many
Buildings Burned.
Lynn, Mass.—The explosion of a
boiler Thursday in the four-story
factory building of the P. J. Harney
Shoe Manufacturing company on Alley
3treet and the fire which immediately
followed destroyed 14 buildings in the
West Lynn manufacturing district,
causing a total loss estimated at about
>520,000. Eleven persons were injured,
me. Miss Celia Tradenbtirg, an opera
tive in one of the burned factories, be
ng in a critical condition at a hospital.
In addition to the direct loss, the shoe
manufacturers will suffer severely
from the interruption to their Christ
mas business.
The fire swept over several acres,
burning three other factory buildings,
the Boston & Maine railroad station
md a number of small dwellings.
Kansas Grain Law Void.
Kansas City. Mo.—The Kansas
grain inspection and weighing law
was declared void Thtfrsday by Judge
3. R. Peters, special master appointed
by Judge Pollack of the United States
circuit court.
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Physician to Pope Dead.
Rome.—Dr. Lapponi, physician to
he pope, died at seven o’clock Fri
lay morning. He had been ill for
some time with cancer of the stom
ich and. pneumonia setting in, he
could not withstand its ravages.
Four Killed in Collision.
Lewiston, Me.—Four persons were
tilled and three others seriously in
ured in a head-on collision between a
special and a regular train on the
Uaine Central railroad near the small
station of Annabessacook.
Indians Near Starvation.
Grand Marais, Minn.—Many of the
Chippewa Indians at Grand Portage
•eservation 'are on the verge of star
vation. They expected the customary
illowance of flour and pork from the
jovernmerft, but did not get It.
Six Year Term fbr President.
Washington.—A term of six years
or the president and vice president of
he United States is proposed by Sen
ator Cullom in a Joint resolution in
roduced Thursday providing for an
intendment to the constitution.
INDICTED FORELAND FRAUDS
TRUE BILLS RETURNED BY
GRAND JURY IN UTAH.
Railroads and Officials Charged with
Discriminating Against Certain
Shippers.
Salt Lake City.—The federal grand
jury that is investigating coal land
frauds in Utah and charges that rail
road corporations have discriminated
against certain shippers made a par
tial report Friday afternoon. Indict*
ments were returned against the
Union Pacific Railroad company, the
Oregon Short Line Railroad company,
the IJnion Pacific Coal company, the
Utah Fuel Coal company and several
of the highest officials representing
the Harrlman and Gould corporation!
in Utah.
Bench warrants for the arrest of
persons accused in the two indict
ments were issued. Bonds in the case
of each individual accused was fixed
at $3,000.
Fred R. Maynard, of Washington,
assistant attorney general, who has
been conducting the investigation be
fore the grand jury, is authority for
the statement that two other indict
ments charging perjury before the
grand jury have been returned.
The lands were filed on in March,
inns
Assistant Attorney General Maynard
stated that when the grand Jury recon
venes after the holidays the inquisi
tion will be resumed. The indictments
returned Friday, he said, mark only
the beginning of the government's
probing operations in Utah and Wy
oming, and the violations of laws a!
leged in these indictments are only In,
cidents of a gigantic system of fraud
that has been in operation in the west
for many years.
The indictment against the Utah
Fuel company and the six agents of
that company is based on the methods
used in acquiring about 1,400 acres of
coal lands in Sevier county, Utah
The two men indicted for perjury
proved to be Theodore Schulte, ths
employe of an insurance Arm, and
Thomas A. Moore, abstractor in the
county recorder's office. Both were
arrested Friday night and released
on $2,500 bail.
The other defendants have not been
formally arrested, but have, it is gtv
en out, arranged to appear before Unit
ed States Commissioner Baldwin to
day.
GREAT DISTRESS IN CLIFTON.
Town Swept by Flood Is in a Most
Deplorable Condition.
Solomonville, Aria.—Late details of
the Clifton flood disaster indicate a
most deplorable condition among the
inhabitants and tremendous loss ol
property. Practically every building
in the town is damaged. Many wer6
swept entirely away. Numerous es
capes from death are reported. Twc
men were swept through the streets
and saved themselves by catching the
awnings of a store and breaking
through the plate glass front. Pa
tients in the hospital were placed in a
car and sent to higher ground before
the flood reached the building.
Monday night in Clifton was a night
of terror, as practically the entire pop
ulation stood upon the bills unshel
tered. It is believed that many per
sons in the Mexican quarter of whom
no one has any record were drowned
CONVICT-MADE GOODS HIT.
House Passes Law That Permits
States to Bar Them.
Washington.—By a practically
unanimous vote the house Friday
passed the bill limiting the regulation
of interstate commerce between the
several states in articles manufac
tured by convict labor or in any
prison or reformatory.
The law abrogates the interstate
commerce law as at present applied
to convict-made goods, thereby af
fording to the different states and
territories the right to inhibit ths
shipping of convict-made goods with
ing the confines of any state or terri
tory.
-Louisville Dairymen Plead Guilty.
Louisville, Ky. — Aaron Kohn,
representing 100 dairymen, againat
whom charges were brought under
the pure food law, of feeding swill
to cattle, pleaded guilty for hil
"lients Thursday, and accepted a sus
pended sentence of $100 fine and a
jail sentence of 50 days against each
defendant. The fine and jail sentence
will be annulled only on condition
that they clean up their dairies by
April 1 and quit feeding swill to cat
tle.
Six Miners Buried Alive.
Bakersfield, Cal. — Six miners
were entombed Friday morning
by the caving in of a shaft leading to
the big steel pipe conduit of the Edi
son Power company’s plant, 18 miles
from this city. Two weeks will be re
quired to reach the bodies.
Fifty Years in a Madhouae.
New York.—“Aunt Becky" is dead
at the age c.f 103, at the Long Island
state hospital for the insane. She
was Jeanette Rothschild. She was
committed from Manhattan when she
was 53 years old.
Two Indian Boys Executed.
Reno, Neb.—Johnny and Ibapah,
Indian boys convicted of the murder
of Fred Foie man, a white man, at
Montello, Nev., on December 27, 1005,
were executed Friday in the peniten
tiary at Carson.
Robber Beats a Qirl.
Kansas City, Mo.—A robber early
Thursday rendered Miss Zona Heck
ert, night operator at De Soto, Kan.,
on the Santa Fe, unconscious with a
blow from a wagon spoke and robbed
the station .money drawer.
Big Advance in Cost of Living.
New York.—Figures giving the
average cost of living on Dec.' 1, com
piled by R. C. Dun & Co., show that
there has l>een an advance in price
as compared with November 1, from
*106.68 to *108.17.
I SHOT BY A WOMAN
SHE ATTEMPTS TO KILL FORMER
SENATOR BROWN.
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THERE IS NO JjOPE FOR VICTIM
Woman Says Mr. Brown's Attentions
Caused Her Husband to Get Divorce
and that He 'Then Refused to Marry
Her.
WASHINGTON — Former United
States Senator Arthur Brown of
Utah tonight lies in a critical condi
tion in Emergency hospital from a pis
tol shot wound in the abdomen, in
flicted by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley of Salt
Lake City, who arrived here Saturday
from that city. The shooting occurred
In Senator Brown’s apartment, in the
Raleigh hotel, where Mrs. Bradley had
registered under the name of "A. B.
Brown.” She was arrested.
Senator Brown was conveyed to the
hospital, where he was immediately
put on the operating table. Two shots
were fired, one grazing his left hand
and the other entering the abdomen
and lodging in the pelvic cavity. After
working over him for nearly two hours
the surgeons decided that for the pres
ent at least they would make no fur
ther attempt Xo find the bullet. It waa
stated tonight that, while Senator
Brown’s condition is critical, there is
reason to believe that he may recover.
Mrs. Bradley arrived shortly after
soon. After being assigned to a room
she immediately went to Senator
Brown’s apartment. There were no
witnesses to the shooting, but a maid
heard the shots and at once notified the
management.
According to her statement tonight
at the police station, where she talked
freely with the newspaper men, Mrs.
Bradley came to Washington to de
mand that Senator Brown marry her.
She said that their relations were well
known in Salt Lake City.
"I asked him if he was going to do
the right thing by me,-’ she said, main
taining a remarkable composure. "In
reply he put on his overcoat and start
ed to leave the room and I shot him. I
abhor acts of this character, but in thia
ease it was fully justified."
While expressing no sorrow for her
act. she declared that she was glad to
know that Senator Brown might re
cover.
"I was practically penniless when I
got here today." she said, “having only
$1.25, and after paying the cabman, all
the money I had 1n the world was $1."
She said she urged Senator Brown
to marry, her that he had been instru
mental in the divorce between her hus
band and herself, and, that as his wife
was dead, he could “do the right thing”
by her. This, she said, he refused to
do.
BROWN IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
Former Utah Senator Has Little
Chance of Recovery.
WASHINGTON — f'ormer United
States Senator Arthur Brown of Utah,
who was shot by Mrs. Anna M. Brad
ley of Salt lAke City in his apartments
at the Hote' Raleigh. Saturday after
non, lies in a critical condition at the
Emergency hospital. The doctors an
nounced Sunday night that he has a
chance of recovery, but his friends ad
mit there has been a change for the
worse during the day and thought his
necovery is extremely doubtful. There
are symptoms of peritonitis, which
the physicians fear may lead to blood
poisoning.
Mrs. Bradley is held without bail on
the charge of assault with intent to
kill. She will not be given a prelimin
ary hearing until the extent of Mr.
Brown's injuries are known.
Ballooning Over the Alps.
MILAN—The aeronauts, Usuelli and
Crespi, who recently crossed the Alps
in a balloon for the first time on rec
ord, have just made public details con
cerning their voyage across the moun
tains. The distance from Milan to
Aix-les-Bains. measured in a straight
line. Is 160 miles, and this was covered
in four hours and five minutes. The
highest speed attained was sixty-two
miles an hour. Al a height of 5,000
meters the aeronauts were compelled
to have recourse to oxygen to enable
them to breath.
Peary Talks on Arctic Trip.
NEW YORK—Commander Robert E.
Peary gave a public lecture Sunday at
the Museum of Natural History upon
Ills latest attempt to reach the north
pole. He said in the course of it that
he was satisfied that there is a body of
land somewhere about a hundred miles
northwest of Orantland. His party, he
said, found driftwood a hundred miles
front Orantland in the open Polar sea,
which he was convinced could only
have come from rivers flowing through
land not yet placed on any map. He
believes the pole can be reached by
sledges.
Two-Cent Fare in Missouri.
KANSAS CITY—According to the
Star, Governor Polk, in his biennial
message to the legislature, will recom
mend that the railroads reduce their
passenger rate to 2 cents a mile, ex
cept on their branch lines.
Grover Cleveland Is III.
NEW YORK—Grover Cleveland Is
ill at his home in Princeton of acute
Indigestion. He has been sick a week
and still remains unimproved. His
physian said that he was not in a very
serious condition, but was in pain.
Sunday Closing Commended.
WASHINGTON—Senator Burkett Is
daily receiving letters from all sec
tions of the country commending his
suggestion that the postoffices should
remain closed duriifg the entire day of
Sunday.
Italian Builds Airship.
ROME—Count Armigho of Schio.
who since 1874 has been experimenting
with airships, believes he has found
the solution of aerial navigation. Hia
new machine, which is in the shape of
a ship, contanis a fifty-horse motor
and a rudder ten yards square.
Cornell Is in Mourninij.
ITHACA, N. Y.—Cornell university
went Into formal mourning Sunday for
the four students and three volunteer
firemen who lost their lives when the
Chi Psi fraternity house was burned.