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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVIII LOl'P CITY, NEBRASKA. THU RSDAY . FEBRUARY 24. 1910. NUMBER 10 TALK ON IRRIGATION » u TO ISSUE THIRTY MILLIONS IS DISCUSSED. WESTERNERS FAVOR MEASURE ''N * ntfMrithil is Bad y Neeoed tc E • *tisfi Projects That Are Now Quite Well Under Way. Washington—For more titan two '.our> Thursday the senate listened u. - at* u.-skij. of 11m- sittate bill author -ung the issuance of Jiiu.ics* duo worth jf certificates of indebtedness for the -***.; .rut* of irrigation projects ai «adj Leg us.. The asehaure ear championed by a : »u.!e r of senators, especially Messrs. Wrier and Borah. Mr Carter said in a number of cases dams had been jtnjtietec aL.i* th* ditches had not <•*** a*:’■orlei. thus providing for the st •.-„** but not lor the dlatribu . <t at wait r. The effecl was to with jid the aater from se ttlers. It a as .-taxed that the money would all be re ;aud 1/j t> tilers and that in reality the treasury would not in any way be affects* Th* I ear was voiced by Senators :'i.xt and Crawford that the depart s*e* i: .» r . b* leu,; • d to enter uj*in . : , before the * omplt-tHin . enter* rts* s and thus soon - • rlo.--mi.' i;* in lurcher ub -a’. ■a I w_- int- nded on behali " in*- Be- .s _re that the danger bad —. * * ted by the iaucuag* of the .-tcauir i • -jrbura charged the li,* r» iamaUoc fund to ie d..'- to he withdrawal of the pule .she Inn sate Thus tt»e fund *tari*~J ! ■ th* c > rnnieni nit W-*s had heedlessly jm rmitted a*- j i-st be said He declared it * - -d hot la- ask.r.g too much to ask * . . , * "..ititiB .if th* Hi'*ney neces . _■ * ei- B>aa< rood the wrung done. !»• urged txa: the relief should not !* r p*d The bill was uc*‘er con ic'ml ion when the senate adjourned. Ax *-•■:.» **■ tempurarj withdrawal <*f land- from the public domain was aad» !■» — retary Ballinger today in i'' ■ i.. 1 **.* ivt a* ret- •*- r-.ej from *:.:*. and frT ir. a*-res with draw* all form* of disposition F.*m thousand four and thirty it>* *t* r»-* >rsi in settlement ■ *.t!y mi!;, --ted by the r*ie r c*.• * iuu.ised that the ywb \t *- iming and Men tana •*t* . : -d valuable ‘eoosts of coal, tii'ii to e - ■■ e'ji:iei. i gu- tion the sec * th* * * rv*r today withdrew entry acres in the umt*: * .at* and *>•'. <•.;#§ in the latter ;--td.x. a (n U. ed *i*»3d esc initiation • »eot>e ae thousand, eight hundred - fl in i.'f- .ci:t a-re* located along Ked !.' k lake* .e Montana have ■ - s. t- ai-”.r*rt!y withdrawn from all entry :t t'd of proposed legislation af • • * r.» th* disposal of water power te* >■*; tie* put*!.! domain A field ln -<-***;gat.; l having shown the exist •!.'» .id .able rw! depo*:t* on 61, JT- a* r- in Colorado the land has been '• *a ai! eairv until they have ~-en '.u-..bed and appraised by geol letf «nc acres in that state • L t are now exempt from all forms ■ d -.-.*- •» *n pending their classify at>oe .lad appraisement, Vourj Rocrevett to Marry. \>» v ri- Tj*- -djre Roosevelt. Jr.. - »t Pre? den’ Roosevelt, aat aateouarod l < engagement to Mis* CtaMtr lMlcr UrnM 4 Hi « York T • tew* of the event was cabled to • .■( K-.rr-eveit >a Africa, and al though Oh aaaounreir *-nt was a sur prise it i» not feared that there will •— »j i -.irental displeasure. Mrs. already approved of the * ngagement Seng Vk'-ter Weds in Bluffs. art. Mr* (le >ree Rerchamm-r. - . i> - an'! >r of the flippant song •a popular la it Min.Bier. "My Wife's u* the Country.' has secured a divorce here They were married in . il'Lffi in IP to" left her ‘or a tew charmer in she at - ted and she gave him nu excuse. ®OSTAL bill will pass Assonance of Tivs ts Given President Taft V. loliErit, — Assurances of the -as&atf’ ft.Court the s. nale of the pos •*l sav.ngi- hank h.ll practically were u: eh President Taft at a conference . tie U t. t» House The house was •ep-t-nt< d at the conier-nee hy Rep rewentniiw Weeks of Massachusetts. •Airman of the committee of post »r • • The others w ho took pan in •a» conference were Senators Pen cph tairman of the committee or poemffices and post roads; Aldrich, (toot, Crane and Carter, the last nan ed te ng in charge of the savings uask mea.vure It i* anderst'»od on good authority •cat tin amendments offered and , reseed by Senators Root and Smoot will he withdrawn. MR BRYAN ON THE STUMP. Will Speak in Nebraska in May on County Option. Lincoln.—An authorltiatve announce umu was Biadr that William J. Hrraxi .*> coming borne about the 1st of May. and will for a month following t:m arrival Pevote himself to Nebraska politics. speaking. it is declared by tut intimates. in the interest of county opnoB, and t olio wing up the statement i3irii out ir- his behalf last Saturday luring for a complete divorcement ui poatics and the 1'iuor tralic. RESCUERS LEAVE 88 TO DIE ON STRANDED SHIP Steamer Takes 206 Oft Wrecked Liner Lima in Straits of Magel lan—Fifty-One Drowned. Santiago. Chile, Feb. 3 4.—The Pa cific Navigation Company's steamer Lima is ashore on ot#e of the islands ( of the Hiiauihhn Passage of the Straits of Magellan, and will probably be a total loss. The chief piiol and .">0 passengers were drowned. The British steamer Strathurst, which has arr t ed at Ancud. has on taiard lik men and women and 17 of the crew of the Lima She reports that the steamer went ashore In a storm on February i,. The steamer’s 'l’n sals report having left 88 persons nhoard ‘he Lima, their rescue being impossible Taey had no drinking I water, the tanks having burst. The stranded steamer Lima is a British vessel, owned in Liverpool and j plying bet we* n that port and the I ports of South America RELIEF FOR AUTOMOBILISTS National Consent on in Washington SeeKs Legtslation in Interests of Motorists. Washington. Feb 1” —A federal registration law for automobilists is be main object of the national legis lat ve convention which open'd here to-day under the auspices of the \n eri- n Automobile association. Oth • r sessions will be held nest week. The interest in the enactment of a m< as ere of this kind is so great that delegates are present, not only from | the various automobile clubs through our the country, but from a number of different s’ates at least 20 governors having s< nt official representatives. The proposed measure is now before 'he interstate and foreign commerce ommu’ee. having been introduced > congress in March, 1909. by Rep rosen’iitiv* W. W. Cooke of New V s If passed the bill will enable :. i.'omobile owner, after conform ' - t tbe motor regulations of his ■ ' set -ire a national registra ii for hi:- machine at a nominal fee, ml then be at liberty to tour in any part o', the union without fear of be ar halted at various state borders tcid that he cannot enter unless regi -ers his machine and pays •• ■ li-en • tax under the laws of that state. i AULD AND ROB NETT GUILTY Of' :ers S?-tenced to Lose Five Num bers—Penalties Are Mitigated by Assistant Secretary Winthrop. _ Was b inert oc Feb. 12—Paymaster fleers* Pereira! Auld and Passed As r.stam Surgeon Ansey H. Robnett. 1 V. S X . were found guilty by the naval court at Hoston of conduct un ite* oming officers and gentlemen and sentenced to lese five numbers in rat k ach The court-martial finding wap set aside by Assistant Secretary Winthrop. While arguing with the court that th< conduct of the officers was undig t ti-'d he exonerated Auld on the ground that the motives which actua ted him were commendable and th>* assault occurred after considerable provocation. In the case of Surgeon Robnett. Mr Winthrop said bis conduct deserved some notice, but he modified the sen tence* of the court so it read a loss of • wo numbers instead of five. Ilotn ffic-ers were restored to duty. DRIVERS BEATEN IN RIOT _ Fr et on Betw-ien Teamsters Unions Starts Troube—Several Ricter* Sustain Injuries from Missiles. Ohcac Feb 12—A riot caused by friction between the two teamsters' i onions started ai the plant of the Chi cago Union Lime works. West Nine teenth and Lincoln streets. Drivers were pulled from their seats, trucks were overturned, brieks and ones wer- hurled and property was damag d by horses which became frantic from the confusion. Several of the rioters sustained in ; ries from Tying missiles and from eiubs in the hands of their opponents. Thf police were hurriedly sum moned hut before they arrived the at ' tacking party had fled. -- Husband Was Worth $75,CC0. New York. Feb 12—Dr Charles Hendrick will cost Laura Biggar, the ‘urmer actress. 173,000- That was the verdict rendered by a jury in the f ijireme court in Brooklyn, where the ise of Mrs Hendrick against the ''■tress for alienation of her husband's :iSections was heard. This is one of : • larges* amounts ever given by a 1 - try in such a case in New York | Mrs. Hendrick had asked for $100,000 IAged Couple Dies of Poison. Hamilton. O.. Feb. 12.—A suicide pact between octogenarians was re vealed bere when the bodies of Henry Stubernack and his wife Mathilda \ re found by a son-in law. Stuber r.a. k was 80 years old and his wife but four years younger. They had swallowed morphine. Steal 1.000,000 Lire. Rome, Feb. 12.—The Messagero fays 1.000.000 lire have been stolen from the Florence office of the Cred ite ltaliat o. Several officers of the content have been arrested. Famous Dancer Dies. New York. Feb. 11.—Amelia Glover, lancer, who was famous 20 years ago ior her beauty and grace, is dead at the home of her sister, Mrs. H. A. j Ludiam, i:i this city. McGINTY AND McGINNB THT'l* •**© TU^T m mrt DM n •i m«i TWO NAMES THAT MARK A GREAT ADVANCE IN SCIENCE. FRENCH STEAMER GEN. CHAN ZY GOES ON ROCKS DUR ING STORM. ONLY ONE PERSON IS SAVED Owners State Vessel Carried 87 Pas sengers ard Crew of 70 Officers and Men—Scene Far Removed from Wire Communication. Paris, Feb. 12.—The loss of the French Atlantic steamship General Chanzy on the north coast of the Island of Minorca is confirmed by a dfspatch received here. The liner cacrted 87 passengers. Only one per son on board was saved. The owners state that the steamer carried besides the passengers a crew of 70 officers and men. Driven on Rocky Coast. The vessel was driven on the rocky coast of the Island of Minorca in a fierce storm, where it was soon pounded to pieces. Boats were launched and speedily filled with passengers and members of the crew, but they were all swamped by the raging surf. One Man Swims Ashore. One man, a powerful swimmer, managed to get to the shore, battered and bruised and half dead. The storm is still raging and the scene of the wreck is difficult of ac cess and tar removed from all wire or cable communication. There is a slender chance that some of the passengers and crew may have escaped in the lifeboats and the life rafts, but this is a vef-v faint hope, owing to the severity of the storm. STOLE $15,000 FROM STATE Partner of Former Ohio Printer Con fesses to Legislative Committee —Many Goods Not Delivered. Columbus, O.. Feb. 15.—The Beatty probe committee wrung from .T. E. Brelsford of Dayton. O.. the statement that he and former State Printer Mark Slater had stolen close to fifteen thousand dollars from the state of Ohio. Brelsford said that he padded his bill and that Slater then allowed it to go through, passed it himself, got the money and divided with him (Brelsford). The Dayton man told the committee that he personally secured about two thousand dollars by these fraudulent means and that Slater got the rest, which was close to thirteen thousand dollars. Slater is now in Michigan, it is supposed, and two detectives will be sent there by the committee to secure his return. When last heard from. Slater wrote that he was very busy and that he could not come to Ohio. This letter was dated in Dowagiac, Mich. The committee say he must report here. Beats Nurse with Iron Bar. v York. Feb. 15.—Miss Mary Don nell; a trained nurse in Dr. D. A. Harr; s exclusive sanitarium at Whitest ’.Long Island, is dying from a fractu: ' skull and a dozen other wounds s; received when a man broke into her room and beat her with an iron bar. Czarina's Condition Reported Grave. Berlin, Feb. 12.—The Vienna corre spondent of the Tageblatt professes to have information that the condition of the czarina is so grave that she is un able to recognize t£e czar or her chil dren. New Record in Hog Prices. Omaha. Neb.. Feb. 12.—The hog market at South Omaha established a new high record when several car loads of heavy hogs sold at J&.75 a hundred pounds. EiGHT ARE KILLED AND 24 HURT IN COLLISION Passenger Trains on Georgia South ern & Florida Come Together on a Curve. Macon, Ga„ Feb. 15.—In a collision between southbound passenger train No. 5, known as the ' Shoo Fly" on the Georgia Southern and Florida and northbound train No. 2. about nineteen miles north of here, eight passengers are reported to have been killed; four fatally hurt, their deaths being ex pected at any moment, and 20 others seriously injured. The passenger northbound left Ron air an hour late and was making the curve beyond Sandy Run creek at high speed. Agent Walton at Ronair had j expected the two trains to meet at j that point, but for some reason the | passenger went on. Engineer iais’j and his fireman of the Shoo Fly, jumped and were saved from instant death, but the engineer was badly injured. What became of Engineer Yates and his fireman, on No. 2 could not be learned. The known dead are a man named Johnson and Woodward Dupree, a conductor riding as a passenger. Six others, whose names were not learned. ; were killed outright. Conductor Goldwire and Baggage- I master Stevgar of the northbound train escaped injury. Their train stayed well on the track but the cars were ' telescoped. The lighter Shoofly south- i bound, was torn to pieces and death j followed there. RAISULI DEAD OF POISON _ Mjroccars Ex-Bandit Succumbs While Engaged in Peaceful Pursuits— Was Terror to Caravans. Tangier. Morocco. Feb. 14.—It Is re ported here that Raisuli, governor of Pjebala province and former Moorish bandit chief, is dead as the result of being poisoned. Mulai Ahmed Ben Mohammed Raisuli was an ordinary farmer in | his early life, but several years ago took to brigandage. He became the leader of a band of experts in cattle stealing and was a terror to caravans, from which tribute was exacted. Receiver Has Corporation. New York. Feb. 14.—The Central Foundry Company, a corporation cap- j italized at $14,000,000, which manufac tures cast iron soil pipes and fittings, went into the hands of a receiver, i Judge Hough of the United States dis trict court appointed Waddell Catch ings receiver, to continue the business at his discretion. Blind Ten Years; Finds Sight. Streator, 111., Feb. 14.—Miss Amelia Verbig of Germanville township. Liv- | ingston county, who had been blind for 1 ten years, awoke from a night's sleep to find her sight fully restored. She attributes the restoration to Christian Scinece. Hogs $S.10; Boycott Blamed. Cleveland. O.. Feb. 14.—The live stock quotations on all grades of hogs ! advanced to $9.10 a hundred pounds, the highest price paid here since the civil war. Dealers attribute the cause to the meal strike. Icwa School After Pinchot. Pes Moines. Ia„ Feb. 14.—Gifford Pinchot is being considered by the state board of education control as successor to Dr. A. B. Storms, who has resigned as president of the state agricultural college at Ames. Falls Dead in Church. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 14.—Hugh J. Flynn of this city dropped dead from apoplexy in the Holy Saviour church here while listening to a sermon on 'The Uncertainty of Life." Report Cook Is in Chile. Corral, Chile. Feb. 14.—Dr. Freder ick A. Cook has been found here, it is reported. He has been living under the name of Craig, the informant says. BALLINGER FLAYED GLAVIS SAYS HE 16 CONVINCED SECRETARY UNFIT FOR OFFICE. DECLARES HE IS COWARDLY Witness Is Subjected to Cross-Exam ination by Attorney for Cabinet Officer—Outlines His Charges for First Time. Washington. Feb. 15.—Louis R. Glavis, at the session of the Balliuger Pinchot inquiry, under cross-examina tion by Attorney John J. Vertress, summed up at some length the facts which he declared convinced him Mr. Ballinger was "unfit for his office and unfaithful to his trust.” One of his acts. Glavis said, was “far more cowardly than if a man had actually stolen something for which he could have been convicted." Says Act Was Criminal. "The first action I would cite is the appearance of Mr. Ballinger in the Wilson coal cases." said Mr. Glavis. "While that was a long time ago and people may have looked at things dif ferently. his action or participation in the drawing up of an escrow agree ment to turn over claims that should not have been proved up and have not been proved up. as a matter of fact, was criminal. But the statute of limi tations has run and the evidence is not quite clear. The record speaks for Itself. "Another thing was Mr. Ballinger's expressions in the summer of 1S07 to Special Agent Jones, when he knew that there had been violations of the coal land laws; his statement that he was coming to Washington to see what congress could do to help the claim ants get patents. Conv.nced Ballinger Is Not Loyal. “His next action—one of the most important, going to show that he is not loyal to his trust and not faithful to the people—was this one: After giv ing me the full right and instructions to make a full and complete investi gation of all the coal cases, he person ally took up an old report by Special Agent Love a few days after and de liberately ordered the Cunningham claims to proceed to patent,. The Love report, to my mind, and 1 have acted on a thousand or more reports, did not in itself warrant a favorable rec ommendation. It showed there had been'an unuerstanding among the claimants and suggested fraud rather than a compliance with the law. “Another evidence that Mr. Ballin ger was not trying to protect the peo ple's rights with his appearance before the public lands committee of the house in favor of the Cale bill, which carried out the statement Ballinger made to Jones that he would do what he could to secure legislation which would have enabled those fradulent claimants to secure patents. If the Cale law had passed it would have val idated the claims. Charges Unprofessional Conduct. “The next step Mr. Ballinger took was his unprofessional action—at least, members of the bar regard it so, and I know of no attorney of my acquaintance who would have done it —in deliberately going around and representing the other side after hav ing been commissioner of the land of fice and having full knowledge of the character of the investigation we had made. He did not act alone in the Cunningham group, but in the Green group as well, in which he took six affidavits. He also acted as arbitrator between H. R. Harriman and John Hartline, relative to the purchase of some coal claims. “His next action consisted in his asking me in the fall of 1908, when h« w as in politics and arranging for cam paign contributions, to hold off any investigation of the coal cases. This showed he did not have the interests of the government at heart.” EXPLOSION SCALDS SEVEN Boiler Tube of Torpedo Boat Destroy er Blows Out—Two Men Probably Fatally Injured. San Diego. Cal., Feb. 15.—As the re sult of the explosion of a boiler tube in the forward fireroom of the tor pedo boat destroyer Hopkins, seven men were badly scalded, two of them being probably fatally burned. The Hopkins was under command of Lieut. E. Fredericks. Fatally injured: R. E. Taylor, first-class fireman. B. Carletillo, second-class fireman. The explosion occurred while the crew of the Hopkins was getting up steam preparatory to sailing with the other vessels of the fiotilla for San Pedro. Boy Is Hurled to Death. Laporte, Feb. 12.—Two boys, riding from Toledo toward Chicago, were thrown off a eoal car by a brakeman while the Fake Shore freight train was running 20 miles an hour, accord ing to the dying statement made to Coroner Osborn by one of them, H. E. Capps, Atlanta, Ga. The other boy. either Edward Tarnaski of Willow River, Minn., or O. W. Hanson. Minne apolis, Minn., was killed outright. Adds $50,000 to Ohio Y. M. C. A. Cleveland, O., Feb. 15.—Louis H. Severance, retired capitalist, donated $50,000 toward the $500,000 Y. M. C A. building fund, which was started with a $100,000 gift from John D Rockefeller. The total gifts nov amcunt to $230,000. NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY Items of Interest Around the State House Call for Farm Help. “We have more calls for farm help than we can supply," said Deputy l^ar bor Commissioner Maupin Thursday. “Especially is this true of The calls for unmarried men. although we have plenty of applications from farmers who want married men. But right now we have on file a hundred or more ap plications from farmers who want help. If there are any unemployed in the cities who want farm work, this bureau can find them the jobs in short order. Every mail brings us ap plications from farmers, but we are unable to supply the demand. “We have numerous requests from married men for farm positions, in fact, too many to supply. But farm ers who want unmarried help are too numerous for the supply on hand And we can't strike an average With the near approach of spring the demand for farm help grows stronger. “Farm wages have shown a much greater increase in the last ten years than wages in the trades. For un married men there are farm jobs awaiting with a $30 a month wage at tached. including board, lodging and washing. For married men the wages run from $33 to $33 with house, cow, garden patch and fuel supplied in ad dition. This is an increase of from 23 to 40 per cent over the wage that prevailed a few years ago. and is much greater than the wage increase in the cities. “Unemployed men who want farm situations are invited to write to the bureau of labor and they will be fur nished with a list of farmers who are asking for help. That is as far as the department can go. Applications from i outside of Nebraska will receive last | consideration as this department ; seeks first to take care of Nebraskans. “In the meantime the bureau of la bor requests all farmers who want help to correspond with it. We want to make this department a clearing house for labor." Laymen’s Missionary Movement. March 15-17. a convention of the Laymen from seventy-five cities and towns in south Nebraska, will be held in Lincoln. This convention is part of a jrreat nationwide movement start some three years age. in New York City, contemplating the evangelization of the world in this generation. That the movement has gripped the minds of the men of all evangelical churches, is evidenced by the great interest in . the conventions already held. Those j wli<? attend Has convention will be richly repaid. The auditorium has been secured for the opening banquet on the evening of March 15. and it is expected that 1.200 delegates will be present at this time. The addresses at the dinner—the opening session—• are very strong and are worth the whole time and money expended. The ablest speakers on the missionary plat form in America will be present and participate. Delegates should be pres ent at the opening session and remain until the convention is adjourned. Railroads Resist State Laws The introduction of testimony by 'he state in the suits in federal court involving the validity of the Aldrich commodity rate law and the 2-cent passenger fare law was continued Wednesday at the state house before Commissioner Pearsall. The state, througn Attorney General Thompson is endeavoring to see that the freight and passenger rate laws are reason able. that the railroads are charging to interstate business more than its just share of the expenses of opera tion. The railroads charge nearly 14 per cent of the expense of operation to interstate business while the inter state tonnage is only 4.04 per cent, or naire tnan three times as much ou a tonnage basis and twice as much as the state admits is just. General Grant Declines. General Frederick D. Grant has written that he must decline an invi tation to speak on politics at the Ep worth assembly at Lincoln. Neb., dur ing next August, because of the army maneuvers at Pine Camp, which he is to command. Deputy Secretary of State Addison Wait a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, joined in the invitation and received in re ply a regretful declination. General Grant said in his letter: "I am deeply touched that you should have thought of me and beg to accept my grateful thanks with many repeated regrets that it will be impossible for me to have the honor and happiness of accepting your kind invitation." Credit is given the Lincoln hositpal corps of the Nebraska national guard in the final report of Capta:n Heavey. the regular army officer who inspected the guard for the war department. He states in his final report that he found the hospital corps a most splendidly drilled organization, so much so that he was surprised that the national guard of Nebraska has such an organi iation. He said if there was any wav of comparing this company in dr'll with infantry companies it might be a question as to whether or not it is as well or better drilled than any infantry comnany in the Nebraska national guard. State Railway Regulation. The difference in state and inter state rates on the Rock Island was shown by U. G. Powell of the railway commission, who has been on the witness stand for two days in the railroad rate cases pending: in the •hat a car of oil shipped from Frank 'in. Pa., to San Francisco was carried at a rate of 6.7 mills per ton per mile and a shipment from Omaha to Fair bury was carried at a rate of 24 rni'ls per ton per mile. Asrhalt was shin ned as an interstate shipment for 4.13 mills and an intrastate shipment from Omaha to Fairbury at 26 mills. KILLED MOL 111 ARTHUR NEWELL OF HASTINGS HIT WITH CUE. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read er* Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Hastings. Neb.— Arthur Newell eighteen years of use. was struck on the head with a hillard cue and al most instantly killed at 3:ISO p. m. Wednesday. Arthur Anderson, col ored, twenty years of age. is in Jail here charged with (he crime. The young men became involved in an al tercation over a game of pool in a billiard hall run bv Arthur Hughes, also colored, during which harsh words and threats were freely passed. Almost before the spectators knew what had happened voting Newell was lying on the floor bleeding profusely from a long gash in his head. A phy sician was hastily suniomned, hut the injured man died -before he arrived. Although there were many player and spectators in tile hail at th' time of the crime no one can be found who saw the blow struct;. Anderson immediately rati from the room and started tov d the country running along the tracks of the St. Joseph A Grand Islam! railroad, hop ing to elude the officers and citizens who were in pursuit. He was not cap tured until after 8 o'clock, five hours after he had han from the billiard hall. Newell was an employe at the Pevis cafe and was popular with the patrons of the place. Anderson was employed at Hughes’ billiard hall. An examina tion showed that the blow lias been struck across the righi temple cutting a deep gash. Whether or not the skuM was fractured is not known Accident to Auto Riders. Grand Island, Neb.—An evening of auto riding in which, according to the statement of eye-witnesses, there wa. considerable scorching, some of it in the more crowded portions of the city ended sadly for a party of six high school scholars. Miss Ixirraine Ttir.iei the only daucbi of Mr. rd Mrs Charles Turn*1, being batef cut and bruised about the face, and Hubert Modesitt receiving a scalp wound, not serious. Three high school hoys and three girls, the Misses Turner. Gear ing and Dempsey, and Masters Herald Sink. Hubert Modesitt and Fred Scl: ff, had been out on a trip to Chapman. When they returned the? drove a bit about town and when jusi about to turn a corner the car, driven by Sink, a son of Representative John Sink, skidded into a hack approaching at a trot from the opposite direction The hack driver. George Jacobs, was behind another hack and kept even pace with the vehicle ahead of hint both conveying passengers from the northwest hound Burlington train to the westbound Union Pacific, which make close connections. When the car skidded into the hack the tongue or some portion of a horse's bridle must have caught the girl in the face and lacerati-S it. She was immediate ly carried to a physician's office near by and the best attention possible given the wounds, to avoid, if possible permanent disfiguration. Bystanders indicate that the had: driver was in no manner to blame. Sons of Veterans’ Encampment. Columbus. Neh.—The twenty-sixth annual encampment of the Nebraska division Sons of Veterans, which wa held in this city Tuesday and Wednes day, February 15 and 16, closed its sessions Thursday, electing the fol lowing officers: H. B. Reed, division commander. Columbus; H. W. Rogers senior vice-commander, Fremont; C A. Eberly, junior vice-commander. Stanton; C. E. Devlin, division secre tary. Columbus; E. P. Dussell. division treasurer, Columbus; A. H. Rawitzer. division counsellor. Omaha; Rev. 1. R. DeWolf, division chaplain. Fair mont; Henry Westbrook, division in spector. Columbus; D. Burr Jones, pa triotic instructor Columbus; division council. B. J. Gailev. Columbus; James McBeth. Loup City; Geo. F. Wolz. Fremont. The location of the next division encampment was not decided on. but left for the division council to select, and also the date of the en campment. Hanley Coming to Nebraska. Crawford. Neb.—Ex-Governor Han ley of Indiana will be in western N< braska about the middle of March. He is scheduled for Alliance. March 12 and Crawford March 13. He may also speak at Chadron. Hanley is comma a long distance, making a big jump in engagements, to respond to a call from these western Nebraska towns By the time Mr. Hanley reaches Ne braska the anti-saloon forces will be in line for the coming spring cam paign. Broken Leg Causes Death. Kearney. Neb.—Henry Klusmier. an employe of the Nebraska Tele phone company at this place, diet’ on Monday night as the result of a broken leg sustained while unloading telephore poles. His case was a very unusual one and one that is not often met with by the ordinary physician. When his leg was fractured the fat. or marrow in the bons, protruded through the flesh. This fat came in contact with the blcod vessels and seme cf the fat globules were carrie 1 to the brain, causing fat embolus and arterial paralysis