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VOLUME XXVI _LOOT CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER12, WW NUMBER 1
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CONDENSATION OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.
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BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD
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General, Political, Religious. Sporting,
Foreign and Other Events Re
corded Here and There.
Political.
That president Roosevelt may be
the successor of Senator Platt in the
senate is considered by many in
Washington as not at all improbable.
Those who regard this as possible de
clare that they have assurance from
the president hiinse*. that he would
not be entirely averse to the accept
ance of the senatorial office under
conditions as luey will be after the
4th of March.
Nebraska democrats, discussing the
^ future of Mr. Bryan, are still divided
on about the same lines as before the
election, his admirers still pinning
their faith to him.
Additional returns place Missouri
in the Taft column.
It is now' reported that the nest
congress will have 217 republicans
and 174 democrats.
Speaker Cannon says he is grateful
for the vigorous work that has been
rendered.
Though defeated in the nation
Mr. Bryan finds much consolation in
the Nebraska vote.
Indiana democrats have gained the
governor and seven congressmen.
Uncle Joe Cannon will probably be
re-elected speaker.
Jamieson, elected to congress from
Iowa, is an editor at Shenandoah.
Mr. Bryan continues in good health
and good spirit notwithstanding his
defeat.
Speaker Cannon is said to be wear
ing a smile these days that won’t come
off.
In Roosevelt’s election district, Oy
ster Bay, Taft got 233, Bryan 144,
Hughes 200 and Chanler 127.
General.
Returns from the Nebraska election
Indicate the republicans have certain
ly elected Kinkaid to congress in the
, Sixth district.
Complete official returns from Mary
land show that Taft gets two e'ectoral
votes in that state and Bryan six.
Gossip has it that Roosevelt is to
succeed Platt as United States sena
tor from New York.
Judge Taft and wife left for Hot
Springs, Va., where they will remain
until after Thanksgiving.
Chancellor Andrews tendered his
resignation to the regents of the Uni
versity of Nebraska on account of ill
health and the resignation was ac
cepted.
Seven people were burned to death
in a house near Swan Lake, Iowa.
The circuit court of appeals at Chi
cago granted a temporary order re
straining Interstate Commerce com
mission from putting reduced freight
rate from Atlantic seaboard to Omaha
and Kansas City into effect.
Over 500,000 more men will be work
ing in American factories by Decem
ber 1.
Taft will have over 300 in the elec
toral college.
One of the most important of in
dustries developed in recent years is
the production of sugar from sugar
beets. More or less desultory work
was done on sugar beets as far back
as 1867. In 1892 only six factories
were in operation in this country, the
combined output of which was a little
over 27,000,000 pounds of sugar.
The seventy-fourth anniversary of
the birth of the dowager empress of
China was celebrated, and the event
was made the greatest day of the fes
tivities in honor of the visiliug Amer
ican battleships under Rear Admiral
Emory.
Eugene W. Chafin, presidential can
didate of the prohibitio nparty, after
^ scanning the election returns made a
statement concluding as follows: “The
demoeratic-Bryan party is dead. The
fight from now on will be between
the prohibition party and the whisky
republican party and we will elect a
prohibition president in 1912.”
Democrats gain nine votes in the
lower house of congress.
The Times says: From an .excellent
authority the New York Times
learned yesterday that President
Roosevelt plans to leave New York
on March 13, nine days after the in
auguration, by the North-German
Lloyd liner, Koenig Albert for
Naples, via Gibraltar, where the liner
is due on March 25.
A distinguished Frenchmen gave a
dinner to Wilbur Wright, at which the
American aviator was presented with
two gold medals.
The British colonial office, recently
offered President Roosevelt the free
dom of the government shooting pre
serves.
Judge Taft in an address to the Cin
cinnati Commercial club sounded the
keynote of his administration.
Burlington crop reports from the
Alliance and Sterling division, cover
ing the northeast parts of Nebraska
and Colorado, are that the corn yield
is good.
W. J. Bryan discussing the election,
says Nebraska is the bright spot and
expresses the hope that the incoming
administration will redeem pledges of
the platform.
Over 1,000 teachers attended the an
nual banquet of the state teaches’ as
sociation at Lincoln.
At Richmond, Va„ Winston Green,
a negro youth, was electrocuted in the
state penitentiary for attempted crim
inal assault upon a young white girl
of Chesterfield county. After his
conviction he made a full confession.
John D. Rockefeller had to stand in
ine in a Sixth avenue tailor shop for
forty minutes before he had a chance
.o deposit his ballot.
Fire in a Philadelphia lumber yard
did damage amount ing to $750,000 and
blocked railroad and traction . lines
for several blocks.
Mummy island, about eight miles
from Cordova, has been selected as
the site for the navy wireless station
to be established on the Alaskan
coast to close communication between
the coastal wireless station of the
navy and the military Alaskan tele
graph system.
Railroads are publishing booklets
advertising the National Corn exposi
tion to be held in Omaha December
9 to 19.
Governin' Guild of Massachusetts
was seized with a severe attack of
gastritis. As this is the third dan
gerous illness experienced by the gov
ernor within a year there is consider
able anxiety over his condition.
John W. Hutchinson, the last of the
famous Hutchinson family, whose
temperance and abolition songs before
the civil war and during that conflict,
made their names known throughout
the country, died at his home. High
Rock, in Lynn, Mass. He W'as 87
years of age.
Washington.
A Halloween prank had a tragic
ending in the death here at George
town hospital of Frank Kretzmer, a
young merchant of Rockville, Md., as
the result of wounds said to have
been inflicted by Nicholas Offut. also
of Rockville. Offutt claimed, it is
said, that Kretzmer had insulted his
little sister by pulling her mask from
her face when she entered his store
with several youngsters in Halloween
garb and played childish pranks. Of
futt disappeared immediately after
the shooting.
An item of $2,606,119 for barracks
and quarters at coast artillery posts
will be included in the estimates of
appropriations to he sent to congress
this year by the war department.
Much interest has been aroused
over the report that Secretary Wilson
has been offered the presidency of the
Colorado State Agricultural college
and would resign to accept it. Secre
tary Wilson is now in Iowa. His son
Jasper Wilson, said the report wai
untrue.
Beautiful memorial services, at* <
tended by a brilliant assemblage of
representatives of all branches of offi
cial life in Washington, were held in
memory of the late Freiher Speck
von Sternburg, German ambassador
to the United States, who died at
Heidelberg Aug. 23. President and
Mrs. Roosevelt, members of his cab
inet, diplomatic representatives of
al nations, members of the supreme
court of the United States, high offi
cials of the government and officers
of the army, navy and marine corps,
many of whom were accompanied by
their wives, were present.
Foreign.
The Duke of the Abruzzi. annoyed
by the discussion of his reported en
gagement to Miss Katherine Elkins in
both the American and Italian press,
speaking to his aide said that facts
soon would cut short the gossip. The
duke’s valet has been ordered to make
preparations for a journey.
The agent of Bulgaria at St. Pe
tersburg has been instructed to make
representations to Russia that the
terms proposed by Turkey for a set
tlement of the differences growing out
of the Bulgarian declaration of inde
pendence. are entirely inacceptable
and to request that Russia unite with
the other powers in the use of in
fluence at Constantinople toward se
curing a modification of the action of
the porte in the premises.
At the commencement of the pres
ent year the number of pensioners on
the official insurance lists of the Ger
man empire for invalidism, old age,
and sickness amounted to 978,960, of
whom 841,992 were invalid pensioners,
20,081 sick pensioners, and 116.887
old-age pensioners. The sum paid to
pensioners in 1907 is estimated at
172.000,000 marks, and since the exist
ence of the institution at 1,328,000,000
marks.
Personal.
General Solicitor W. R- Begg of the
Great Northern railroad confirmed the
shortage of S30.000 in the accounts of
A J. Gordon of Spokane, Wash., for
merly general counsel of the Great
Northern at Spokane.
Brigadier General Frederick Funs
ton voted in his home precinct in Iola,
Kas., for the first time in fourteen
years.
At Friedriehshafen. Count Zeppelin
made a successful trip in his new
airship around Lake Constance. He
was accompanied by several women,
including Duchess Vera of Wurtem
bcrg and his own daughter. The air
ship was aloft for one hour.
At New York. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., was sworn as a member of the
November grand jury before Judge
Mulqueen in the court of general ses
sions. The court will consider 428
complaints.
The general opinion is that Chan
cellor von Buelow will be forced to
retire.
Apparently in good health, and in
the act of making a medical exam
ination, Dr. Edwin S. Hutch ns
dropped dead of heart failure beside
the operating table in his offica at
Spokane, Wash.
ELECTORS ARE TAFT
OTHERWISE THE MISSOURI TIC- \
KET IS SPLIT. |
AS TO ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Indications that the Republicans Will
Have Lower House by Forty
Majority.
St. Louis.—Complete returns to the
republican state headquarters here
fail to indicate exactly the outcome
of Tuesday’s election regarding1 the
minor state offices in Missouri. Ac
cording to the figures four democrats
and three republicans have been suc
cessful. but Secretary Rush Lake of
the committee refuses to concede the
election of the democrats and says
that the official canvass must de
termine the results. The figures
show the election of the following can
didates by the pluralities indicated:
Judge of the supreme court, w. W.
Graves, democrat, 2,865.
Railroad commissioner, John A.
Knott, democrat. 1,800.
State auditor, John P. Gordon, demo
crat, 803.
State treasurer, James Cowgill,
democrat. 2,000.
Lieutenant governor, Jacob F. Gme
lich, republican. 581.
Secretary of state, John E. Swanger.
republican. 191.
Attorney general, Frank P. Fulker
son, republican, G55.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
The Political Situation as Revealed
by Returns.
States. Taft. Bryan.
Alabama . 11
Arkansas . 9
Califomi . 10
Colorado . 5
Connecticut . 7
Delaware .... 3 ..
Florida .. 5
Georgia . .. 13
Idaho . 3
Illinois .. 27
Indiana .. 15 ..
Iowa . 13
Kunsas . 10
Kentucky .. 13
Louisiana .... 9
Maine . 6
Maryland . 2 6
Massachusetts .. 16 ..
Michigan . 14
Minnesota .. 11
Mississippi .. 10
Missouri ..........18
Montana . 3
Nebraska . 8
Nevada .... 3 {
New Hampshire . 4 .. |
New Jersey . 12 ..
New York . 39 . . !
North Carolina . 12
North Dakota . 4 ...
Ohio . 23 ..
Oklahoma . 7
Oregon . 4
Pennsylvania . 34
Rhode Island . 4
South Carolina . ^. 9
South Dakota . .. . 4
Tennessee . 12
Texas . 18
Utah .'. 3
Vermont . 4
Virginia .%. 12
Washington . 5
West Virginia . 7
Wisconsin . 13
Wyoming . 3
THE NATIONAL HOUSE.
According to Present Returns Repub
licans Will Have Majority of 41.
Chicago—The republican party -will,
according to present returns from all
congressional districts in the United
States, control the next national house
WZLLZAZZ ZZ. TAFT'
FAME'S <J.
The republicans probably will con
trol the State Board of Equalization,
which has supervision of $75,000,000
in property of public service corpora
tions in the state. The constitutional
amendments, including that proposing
the installation of the mitiative and
referendum, seem to have been re
jected for lack of the necessary two
thirds majority.
Colorado Democratic.
Denver, Colo.—On unofficial returns
from the entire state, which are not
likely to be materially changed.
Bryan’s plurality in Colorado is 5,577,
and for governor. Shafroth, democrat,
leads McDonald, republican, by 9,382.
HEARING ON TARIFF.
House Committee Will Begin Taking
Testimony Tuesday.
Washington—With the first hearing
on the proposed revision of the tariff,
scheduled for Tuesday, the active work
of the committee on ways and means
of the house of representatives will
begin in Washington, although it has
been progressing during the recess
of congress, at Auburn, N. Y., the
home of Representative Sereno Payne,
chairman of the committee. The hear
ings will be completed before the Six
tieth congress convenes for its last
session, but the program for the revi
sion does not provide for the presen
tation of the subject to congress un
til the sixty-first congress is con
vened next March in special session.
Judge Taft in his speech accepting
the republican nomination for presi
dent outlined in these words the pol
icy to be followed in revision:
“The republican doctrine of protec
tion, as definitely announced by the
republican convention of this year and
by previous conventions, is that a
tariff shall be imposed on all import
ed products, whether of the factory,
farm or mine, sufficiently great to
equal the difference between the cost
of production abroad and at home, and
that this difference should of
course, include the difference between
the higher -wages paid in this country
and the wages paid abroad and em
brace a reasonable profit to the Amer
ican producer.”
It is understood that President Taft
will call together the new congress in
special session immediately after his
inauguration and in his proclamation
will repeat his previously expressed
i views on the tariff question.
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Iowa Lines up for Cannon.
Des Moines—That most of the Iowa
members of congress will line for the
. re-election of Speaker Cannon is confi
dently predicted here. Captain Hull,
the Seventh district member and now
I oldest of the Iowa members, is known
j'to be committeed to the Cannon can
didacy and while he declined to dis
cuss the matter those who have been
trying to make headway in the Iowa
delegation against Cannon eav that
Hull is firmly for Cannon. Another
who Is committeed to Cannon is Con
gressman Kennedy.
of representatives by a majority of
forty. The figures so far received
show the election of 216 republicans
and 176 democrats, a gain for the
latter party of nine.
The majorities in several districts
are reported as extremely close, and
it is possible that in a few instances
the official count may change the fig
ures given above.
The following table shows the num
ber of representatives elected from
all the states:
State. Dem. Rep.
Alabama .
Arkansas . 7
California ..’. .. 8
Colorado . 3
Connecticut . 5
Delaware . 1
Florida . 3
Georgia . 11
Idaho . 1
Illinois . 6 19
Indiana . 11 2
Iowa . 1 lo
Kansas . 8
Kentucky . 8 3
Louisiana . 7
Maine . 4
Maryland . 3 3
Massachusetts . 4 31
Michigan . 12
Minnesota . 1 8
Mississippi .. 8
Missouri . 10 6
Montana . 1
Nebraska . 5 1
Nevada . 1
New Hampshire . 2
New Jersey . 3 7
New York . 11 26
North Carolina . 7 3
North Dakota . 2
Ohio . 9 12
Oklahoma . 2 3
Oregon . 2
Pennsylvania . 5 27
Rhode Island . 2
South Carolina . 7
South Dakota . 2
Tennessee . . 8 2.
Texas .*. 16
Utah . 1
Vermont . 2
Virginia . 9 1
Washington . 3
West Virginia . 5
Wisconsin . 1 lo
Wyoming . j
Totals .'. !l76 216
Kern Would be Senator.
Indianapolis. Ind.—John W. Kern,
defeated democratic candidate for vice
president, announced that he is a can
didate for United States senator to
succeed James A. Memeneway. The
Indiana legislature is democratic on
joint ballot by a majority of twelve.
Mr. Sherman Spent $2,800.
Utica. N. Y.—Vice Presidentelect
Sherman forwarded to Albany for
filing with the secretary of state a
statement of his expenses in the cam
paign just closed. It aggregates
$2,800.
Taft Has Quiet Sunday.
Hot Springs, Va.—“I really did
some great work at sleeping last night
and am already beginning to feel the
tired feeling disappear.” This was
President-Elect Taft's comment Sun
day as from the wide porch of his
cottage among the trees he looked at
the red sun slip behind the mountains
over which lazily hung the blue
smoke of many forest fires. The Sun
day quiet which Mr. Taft enjoyed was
in striking contrast to the days of tur
moil he has gone though. He had a
few callers.
COMPLETE RETURNS ON EIGHTY
FIVE COUNTIES.
CONGRESSMEN TWO TG FOUR
Cowgill, Democrat, for Railway Com
missioner, Has 680 Lead, with
Three Counties Missing.
Omaha — Complete returns from
eighty-five Nebraska counties indicate
the; republicans will save five state
officers and give the democrats three
below governor. The republicans get
two congressmen and the democrats
four.
±±±e compilations show Cowles
(rep.) for land commissioner has se
cured a lead over Eastham (dem.) in
these counties amounting to 1.772,
which the five remaining counties that
four years ago did not have a repub
lican lead of over 500 together, are
not likely to overcome.
This would make the roll of state
officers as follows: Governor, A. C.
Shalleuberger idem.): lieutenant gov
ernor, E. O. Garrett (dem.); secretary
of state Dr. A. T. Gatewood (dem.j;
treasurer, Lawson G. Brian (rep.); au
ditor, Silas R. Barton (rep.I; superin
tendent of schools. E. C. Bishop
(rep.); attorney general. VViiliam T.
Thompson (rep.) ; commissioner of
I ublic lands and buildings, Edward B.
Cowles (rep.); railway commissioner,
William H. Cowgill (dem.).
The figures from eighty-seven coun
ties complete on state auditor show
Barton to have a lead over Price of
3,841. Eighty-five counties on attor
ney general give Thompson a plural
ity of 4,285 over Fleharty. In eighty
five counties Brian leads Mackey by
2.607. It is apparent that for secre
tary of state George C. Junkin is de
feated by Gatewood, eighty-five coun
ties showing a plurality of 1.782 for
Gatewood. Cowles in the same coun
ties practically reverses the vote, se
curing 1,772 majority over Eastham.
who has been claiming election to
the office of lanu commissioner.
Computations on railway commis
sioner were altered Sunday by the
discovery of an error in computing
the Douglas county returns, which
give Cowgill now a plurality of 1,808
in the county and a plurality of (ISO
in eighty-seven counties. The Doug
las county vote stands; Williams, 13,
fct'l; Cowgill. 15,699.
Results cannot be greatly changed
from these figures, which on railway
commissioner are minus the vote of
Blaine. McPherson and Keya Paha
counties, which two years ago gave a
majority of 260 for Sheldon. The total
vote in these counties was 666.
Figures on the various officers are
as follows:
Secretary of state, eighty-five coun
ties, Junkin. 126,640; Gatewood, 128,
422: Gatewood's plurality, 1.782.
State auditor, eighty-seven coun
ties, Barton. 130.681; Price, 127,200;
Barton’s plurality, 3.481.
Treasurer, eighty-five counties, Bri
an, 126,891; Mackey, 124,284; Brian's
plurality, 2,607.
Attorney general, eighty-five coun
ties, Thompson. 128,082; Fleharty,
123,797; Thompson’s plurality, 4.285.
Land commissioner, eighty-five
counties, Cowles, 126,081; Eastham,
124.309; Cowles' plurality, 1,772.
Railway commissioner, eighty-seven
counties, William, 127.630; Cowgill,
128,310; Cowgill’s plurality, 680.
rteaay ror i arm Hearings.
Washington.—Chairman Payne of
the house committee on ways and
means arrived in Washington Sunday
and immediately set to work to get
ready for the committee’s hearing on
the tariff, which will begin next Tues
day and will continue almost until the
opening of the congress. The first
snbject to receive attention will be
oils, paints and- chemicals, and Mr.
Payne said that applications had al
ready been received from a number of
persons who desire to be heard on
matters in which they are interested.
LONG TRIP WITH THE RETURNS.
Six Hundred Miles of Travel Neces
sary to Reach County Seat.
Pierre, S. D.—The election officers
from three precincts in northeastern
Butte county, including Lemmon, were
in this city Sunday on their way to
Belie Fourche with the returns from
their precincts, making a trip of about
000 miles to get to their county seat.
They were hoping that county divi
sion had been carried in the late elec
tion in that county.
William D. Cornish Dead.
Chicago—William D. Cornish of
New York, second vice president of
the Union Pacific Railroad company
and a director in many other corpo
rations, was found dead in his bed at
the Auditorium Annex in this city Sat
urday. Death apparently was due to
heart disease.
Earthquake Shakes Plauen.
Plauen, Germany.—The most viol
ent earthquake over experienced here
terrified the inhabitants of the city at
15:40 o’clock Rriday morning. Houses
were shaken and the people fled,
panicstricken, into the streets. The
shock, which lasted for several
minutes, was accompanied by sharp
explosions and thunderous rumblings
in the earth. Sixty or seventy earth
quake shocks have been felt here
daily for the last week. Tffey are now
becoming less frequent but more
violent than those preceding.
BRYAN FOR THE SENATE.
Hie Friends Are Going to Push Him
for the Place.
Lincoln — “Bryan for the senate,
1910.” That is the flag already flown
to the breezes by some of the demo
crats in Lincoln.
"The democrats will try to make
the coming administration one of the
best in the history of the state. Then
we can go before the people two
years from now with some hope of
electing a democratic legislature. That
legislature will send Mr. Bryan to the
senate.
That is the announcement made by
a friend in discussing the future of
Mr. Bryan, and he is not the only
admirer of the late defeated presi
dential candidate who is for the same
program. One prominent Lincoln re
publican who was for Bryan in the
last fight expressed himself along the
same lines. "You bet 1 helped to
carry the state for Bryan.” he is quot
ed as saying. "Now I shall help put
him in the senate.”
Shallenberger, Gov.-Elect of Neb.
Late Figures from Indiana.
Indianapolis.—The Indianapolis Star
late totalled the official returns as re
ceived from all the counties of the
state by the secretary of state. These
figures show the election of Thomas
R. Marshall, democrat for governor;
Frank J. Hall, democrat, for lieuten
ant governor, and Walter J. Lobe
(dent.), for attorney general. he rest
of the republican ticket was success
ful, according to the Star's figures.
The vote on the national ticket has
not been totaled, but shows 10,000
plurality for Taft.
Taft's Religious Faith.
Washington.—“Secretary Taft’s re
ligious faith is purely his own private
concern and not a matter for general
discussion and political discrimina
tion,” says President Roosevelt in a
letter to J. C. Martin of Dayton, O.,
made public now but written before
election, in which he answers numer
ous correspondents.
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Windup of the Campaign.
Omaha.—Victor Rosewater returned
Sunday morning from Chicago, where
he spent most of the last three months
in charge of western publicity for the
national republican campaign. He
waited in Chicago for the arrival of
National Chairman Hitchcock Satur
day for the closing of the campaign
headquarters.
Taft Landslide Done It.
New York.—“The Taft landslide
pulled Hughes through,” was the ex
planation of Charles F. Murphy, Tam
many hall leader, of the failure of the
democrats to win the contest for gov
ernor. The election is over,” con
tinued Mr. Murphy, “and we are start
ing to carry the city next fall in the
local election.”
Gompers Leaves for Denver.
Washington—Ready to answer be
fore the convention attacks which
have been made on him for his course
in the recent presidential campaign,
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, left
for Denver, where the convention of
that organization begins Nov. 10.
Pat Crowe Linder Arrest.
Chicago—Pat Crowe, formerly of
Omaha, was arrested here. Crowe, it
is alleged, fired shots into the mir
ror of a saloon and then caused ex
citement which occasioned a riot call
to the police. After three shots had
been fired at him Crowe was cap
tured.
Taft Will Take a Rest.
Cincinnati.—Judge Taft left Friday
for Hot Springs, Va., for a fortnight of
unbroken quiet. There will be no
political conferences, no consideration
of cabinet appointments. Some south
ern point will likewise be the place of
residence of the Tafts between now
and inauguration.
What Chairman Mack Says.
New York—Declaring that the
democratic party is more united today
than it has been in many years; that
Mr. Bryan was defeated by what he
claims was misrepresentation to the
effect that his election would hurt
business interests. Chairman Mack
of the democratic national committee
issued a statement in which he an
nounced extensive plans to advance
the party’s interests during the next
four years. He avers he has no apol
ogies to make relative to the republi- j
can victory.
state news and notes in con
densed FORM.
THE PRESS, PULPIT AND PUBLIC
What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to hte Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.
The ladies of the Christian church
at Arapahoe cleared $40 on a Satur
day dinner. :4|
The five year old son of Ernest
Lutz, of Eustis, fell and broke his leg
while playing horse with a stick.
Henry VaDderhuyden, of Crookston,
fell down cellar and broke his collar
bone and dislocated his elbow.
A carload of new machinery for
the new Trans-Mississippi elevator at
Kearney has been received.
Rev. F. G. Hamm has closed his
pastorate of the Christian church at
Exeter and will move to Oregon.
Jim Bottoroff, an old resident of
Dixon county, died in Alberta, Can
ada.
Leona Goucher of Wahoo, who has
been in a Sioux City hospital for sev
eral weeks, has been removed to her
home.
Henry Liekhus of Dodge, who was
injured in an accident several days
ago has been taken to Omaha for
treatment.
The foundation for the new Presby
terian church at Elgin is about com'
pieted and soon the superstructure
will begin to go up.
Many schools in Nebraska shut
down a few days in order to allow
teachers to attend the state associa
tion meeting in Lincoln.
Miss Tillie Blankenburg of North
Platte has been offered a position as
stenographer in the forest reserve de
partment of the government.
Rev. L. J. Powell has resigned the
pastorate of the Lutheran church at
Sutherland and will go to eWst Point
to take charge of a church there.
Verne Matteson, 21 years old, son
of H. n. Matteson cf Omaha, who was
visiting at Blair, accidentally shot
himself seriously but not fatally.
The Hubbard boys, formerly of Burt
county, have purchased a newspaper
in New Mexico and will assume
charge of it about January 1.
young fellow named Charles
Campbell has been held in a bond of
$800 at Butte Boyd county, on a
charge of horse stealing. He could
not give the bond and is in jail.
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For the first time in the history
of Lancaster county a mixed delega
tion, three democrats and four repub
licans, will go to the legislature.
complete returns from Douglas
county show that Bryan carried the
county by a majority of 1.522, and
that Shallenberger for governor went
him more than a thousand better.
Andrew Lingle of Nebraska City
was perhaps fatally stabbed by Mat
Sroas, a butcher, in a Quarrel over
some money which had been borrow
ed. Both men had been drinking.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. “Use the
Bell.”
Dr. Ludden of the state board was
ir Kearney looking over the normal
school, noting improvements and go
ing over the records of the institii
tion. He addressed the students at
length.
The boys’ and girls’ industrial clubs
of Beaver City will hold the annua!
meeting at Beaver City Saturday, No
vember 14. Superintendent Munday
has issned a premium list with over
$100 for the winners. There is much
interest manifested.
The gross earnings of the Union Pa
cific for the month of September
touch a new high record and the net
earnings for both the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific arae the highest
for any such month in the history of
these roads.
Sixty-four years ago Mr. and Mrs.
William Weygint of McCook were
made husband and wife in New York
state. This fact was celebrated by a
large company of friends and neigh
bors. Both of the old folks are now
88 years of age.
Great preparations are being made
by those having charge of the Young
Men’s Christian association for the
great meeting to be held in Columbus
on the 22d of this month. The prin
cipal speaker is to be Bishop Nuelsen
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
“You were angry and I was not
wanted. Emma was cross. 1 didn't
ccme here to raise trouble. I am
tired of suffering, but it will not last
long.” These are sentences from a
note which Mary Weisel of Omaha.
22 years old. wrote to Arthur Shaver
just before she shot herself three
times in the breast, dying a few min
utes. afterward. The girl, it is said,
had for some time been demented
Odd Fellows of Bertrand are pur
ting up a fine building.
The ministers of the various
churches of Ponca have just organiz
ed a ministerial union in which they
have departed from the customary
rules. The wives of the ministers are
invited to attend all the regular
monthly meetings.
Irvin Whitehead and S. Deffenbaugh
are out with petitions for appoint
ment as postmaster at Cairo, Hall
county, it having been reported that
Postmaster Shull has resigned and
will go to South Dakota to go into
the business oi contracting.
