Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXIX. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , AUGUST 10, 1911.
NUMBER 40.
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
_A'rES'r HtPP£MM6S THE AORLO
OVER TCUJ H TEM.ZEO
FORM.
EYEfcTS HERE AJ1D THERE
we**«: l-tc a L - e* for- tr«
?n<a ef fa 9j<> M«n—
UttM Pt-K'ai Ifrfar
ataiiM.
Washington
P McCabe MUr.lor of the
pjifto nt of agrii ultar*. t*ftib*4 tat
.n< : g imj^it
•w tia! it • a* u>0B ill* Trcaacrcfl
Lam MlAi use Dortur V. a '.Lit all 1
pr«~* a* itmas !ar tjo.auoa* of tbe ; ure
toad -am »rf» rder: 1 or fro;:; cd by
Ur t«»rt»rj of agris-situr*
K
uikt
tali
A Vtia'a tes-tii-d before
L* r.t. -t cciamattr* that William
it IJami labor U-aa-r.
i :» it 111* tba: he m*» reliably
►at Ed Hull vai seat a
. * to tana* ’.o Spring
>U tLat oar mbere the tortj
trots. that cat «**d a it* Lori
tdacctam' White said be ora* not
it ted to tell til* at tie fir*t Lori
beams.
Precio*;,'
bn* ret' to tie ses
•t* t*e traocttiartoo 4 Cap:. -VI: red
KeytiLuv-a. L a N . a* a rear adtu-ral.
•CftreoaieMl i* ipfMTt 1'JBtheBt
the Faded State* senate
by at und) tided »ot*. but tie treas
are. a* it came from tie boose, mas
so *m tided a* to safe# is.ro again*:
*»rrj ttataertt* of eonsrrcsionai fit
tnets try *le state. Tie measure
gf*es the lo-ja* 4S3 tt.ecibers. an in
reus* <f if c**r tie present repre
ssmtatKim
Is tb* presence of President Taft
aStf a sot able oaf-ary of government
-45- .ai* t tie president'* library .a
tfc* Wilt* House tM it* manor a!
crbiitatK* treaties, designed u> end
tbe possibility of mar betmeen tie
('sited *at*c and Great Bntatt and
-. .ted Stmte* and France a ere
>ICt*d.
Tu* Democratic ' b.l! .tting
aa timer af ft per rest from tbe
present duty passed tb* bouse, ail
tbe i e-mo. rat* sad thirty insurgent*
vuuag for it Tt* total tote mas
I'-C to ft
Tbe sharpest kind of »rocteitir.:r.i
? *•» by < mrsaf for Senator Lortmer
before i be -ommittee mbicb is in
* cat:n* Mr lonaeri elect.on at
Washington. failed to shake is any
dear** tb* story of Charles A Whit*
of tbe Illinois iegisla
adtmlssloa that ba mas
tombed to cot* for Lortmer bro^sbt
tb* mguiry.
landing upon chair* matins band
kerrfci**- and yettrg at tbe tops o;
tbetr tacres Democratic represents
Cite* an. .aimed fcepresestatie* Oscai
m l adermood of Alabama Democrat
tr leader of t> .our of represent*
Otes at Washington mben be Bred f
terbai broadside at William .'enningi
ffry as for -rmcisteg bis position oi
ntenckm ad the tariff Tension pro
gram.
Ekjmestic
Robert G Valentine. ram
ml—imi«-T at Indian aS*tr», made
barge* again*: Ua that resulted la
■a* rrojta; Iron the got eminent serv
•**•. Joiria Parr uau: recently gen
arai » atomic cadent at .egging io tbe
Indian Kfrte. tut* Sled a *>.wo auit
-or libel and »land«r
A decree *aa Landed dawn by tbe
Catted Stale* -ireult court In New
Vara < :ty 'lie mandate of tbe
Tatted State* Supreme court, enjoin
a* tbe defenoant* :c tbe American
Tad at r j raae tbeir agents
aad servant*. from dotes any act
***** may further enlarge nnd extend
tbe po*«r at tbe combination by any
moans or detire whatsoever.
• • •
Owing t® great aitdea of earth and
ear*, tbe famous TtUebra cut baa
pawed t* be the moat annoying and
rxpenatt* port at the engineering
•*»% on tbe Panama canal Tbe com
"i—*>“ runsogaenriy been obliged
<® revise U* estimates and to add
••B* -*1 nbb yards to the excava
tion work
Tbomas E.mungham of Robinson.
* *«*ltby Ml operater. was killed,
amd R L VVj land. an ad contrmcior.
was bnrt wnea an automobile, driven
by Birmingham, plunged over an
Mgbt-CewK embankment at Martina
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• • •
Sween persona, ihres at them little
gsrla were victims at an aeroplane ac
cadent at tbe Chicago School of Avia
(Ann's field, when Frank Bella] lost
euntrM of a big Curtiss biplane and
swooped down from a height of 100
teat into a crowd of lSd spectators
• mm
Rev Ur U lUard Francis MaUalleu.
«* tbe Methodist Episcopal
cbnrcb. aad probably the oldest mini®
ter la poent at years at service in tbe
denomination, died at Aubwmdale.
Mam eft*- a month s filnesa He wan
» years old.
j - ph Vacek. Jr., aged seventeei
j* or*, confessed to the Chicago police
that he murdered his lather. His con
ictsion furnished a quick solution of
a crime that was discovered when
Mr- Joseph Vacek, returning to her
r«Miiecce, found her husband dead
w".h a bullet through his temple '
Vacek was a contractor and well to do
• • •
The proct ss of "legal kidnaping." |
as :r the la. t cases of Moyer. Hay
wood and M* N&mara. was condemned
in a report presented by the senate
eeiect committee appointed to inves- ,
t:cate the third degree methods of
th- jilice authorities of the United
Mates Senator Borah presented the
report on behalf of 'he committee.
‘ harks H. Moyer was re-elected
pr - :• n» of the Western Federation i
of Miners at Butte, Mont., by a vote ’
?f z T to bo.
• • a
Afti r sating her niece from drown
ing at Coney Island. N. Y.. ftftwia year •
Md Finale Westennan lost a Sght i
with f under ow fer her own life.
lair- lied to suicide through Illness
■ c: r. Li tit Claries Edgar Brill
tt f 'he t vy department was'
-hd dead in i. - room in the Hotel j
As- r in Xew .York city.
* * *
A !:i..ra: '■ ant T co. the conqueror
'■{ tne llussiun fioet in the battle of
• - a of Japan, arrived in America
jr - ’>'sit of IT days and was re
• ted b; re; resen tames of the gov
emm<nt. whose guest he is.
A •: of rain has fallen in the
L‘)g valley. Kansas, causing
;rea: property damage, the interrup
:cn of railroad traffic and the trans
n u: an.aU sir . urns into raging
torrents.
i : - lent Taf' ..as signed a procia
®*tl r. reducing the area of the na
•:c:.ai yetrnied forts: of Arizona from ,
-five to forty square mile?. This
made upon the recoin*
er.a ' ! i r George P. Merrill.
• -.u curator o. geology of the nation
al museum.
H rt Cole, the iegro song writer,
aiti.or ot The Girl With the Dreamy
» an i other popular melodies.1
omn !!td s jtude at Catskill, 11. V.
• • •
T::e population of New York city
r.ssed th- •)•> mark on August 1,
• -rctng to figures prepared by the
. eaith department.
• • •
Sporting
T:.e merchants and manufacturers'
II" s’ake. :.«r 23 years the trotting
cla.--: of Detroit's blue ribbon meet,
was won in straight heats by Anvil.
P'; G* rs driving. It was Geers'!
mth M and M victory. Anvil is a
bay stallion, owned by Frank Jones
of Memphis. Teca.
M ss Stokes, owned by tV. E D.
m-s of New York, won the honors
n the 3-year-old futurity trot at De
»r< it. She lost the first heat but took
the : ext "vo, and nder the conditions
pulled down $3.4**o To Jusice Brooke
w- nt | 10# and to Main Lear f#00.
Personcl
Miss Laura G. Smith of Republican
• ity. Neb . and Alfred D. Adson, a
-enior in the medical school at the
University of Nebraska, were married
>n Castle rock. 350 feet above the
ground, in Boulder canyon. Colorado.
• • •
Rear Admiral Nicholson, chief of
the navigation bureau, has had the
curious and disagreeable experience
af reading cablegrams addressed to
his family expressing sympathy and
condolence over his death.
• • •
Foreign
Fifty persons are dead In Nicaragua
as a result of the recent floods on the
gulf coast and in the interior. The
town of Rema was submerged and-the
gunboat Omatepe sunk In the Rema
river.
Thousands of deaths have been
caused by the heat throughout Ger- j
many One thousand persons have
died from sunstroke, 500 have sue- j
cumbed to gastritis and typhus and
scores have been stricken fatally with
heart failure while bathing.
The end of the Moroccan trouble
between Germany and France is in
sight. Jules Cam bon, the French am
bassador at Berlin, and Maj. von
Kiderlen-Waeehter. the German for
eign secretary, have found a common
ground of settlement on general lines,
though the details remain to be
worked out.
At the centennial jubilee of Bres
lau university. Germany, honorary de- 1
grees were conferred on President i
Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, Rev. B. j
\V Bacon of Yale, President Butler of I
Columbia and Prof. Theobald Smith
of Harvard.
• • •
Prolonged hot weather has caused
an ice famine in London, and the de
mands of the city and the provincial
centers for Ice cannot be satisfied un
til the arrival of cargoes from Nor
way.
...
A girl was bom to Mrs. Angelino
N a politico at the General hospital at
Sault Ste. Marie. Ont. Mrs. Napol
itano was sentenced to be hanged for
killing her husband. Owing to a wide
spread interest manifested in her case
the sentence was commuted to life
Imprisonment.
SOME “AGE” THERE
OLD FOLKS GUESTS OF “PRISCIL
LAS’* AT BEAVER CITY.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What It Going on Hero and Thoro
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
B; aver City.—With their combined
totaling 5.70S years, and an aver
se o: TO, the guests of the Priscillas,
who met on the lawn of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Gaddis of this place, have covered
inure years together than nave elapsed
since the beginning of historic time.
The olies; man present was St*; the
youngest, To. The eldest woman was
M?; the youngest, 70, ana one, true to
her sex. retused to give her exact
age. The invited guests numbered
seventy-five, which included every per
son 7c> ye-rs cid or above in a town o£
1,000.
Attempt to Burn County Records.
In;; trial.—An unsuccessful attempt
to destroy the Chase county records by
fire was made by boring a hoie
through the vail cf the stone vault
and paper or some combustible mate
rial inserted and set <jn fire. Appear
ances indicate that the fire was start
ed some time Saturday night and
sa'.ou.dercd until 6 o'clock Sunday
morning, when discovered by passers
by, wco gave the alarm.
Will Lay Cornerstone.
Dunbar.—The cornerstone of the
new* modern Presbyterian church at
th:s place, which is now under process
cf construction, will be la;d in a few
tiays. This is a magnificent church
edifice for a town the size of Dunbar,
and wiil cost between $ld,i>£)o and $15,
oi. when completed.
Coming Grosvenor’s Way.
Aurora—When J. H. Grosvenor re
turned home from the populist con
vention at Lincoln he was welcomed
by a baby bey. which had arrived cur
ing his absence. At Lincoln he was
elected chairman of the populist state
central committee
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BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Exeter trill have an M. W. A. picnic
August -4.
The Rock Island depot at Fairbury
burned Monday night.
Mrs. George Cooper teas seriously
injured in a runaway at Wymore.
The elevator of the Schaaf Grain
company at Ord was destroyed by
fire.
The Fidelity Trust company, cap
italized at $100,000. has been organized
at Fremont.
Johnson county’s loss in bridges
and culverts from the recent rains is
about 510,000.
Massed ourgiars chloroformed ana
robbed Mrs. Mary Powell at Kearney
of money and valuables.
Lester Howell, a 3-year-old Howe
boy lost several fingers by getting
them caught in a gasoline engine.
Robert G. Lynch has been appoint*
ed postmaster at Roseland, Adams
county, vice C. M- Caton. resigned.
A case of infantile paralysis is re
ported in Nemaha county, the sutVrer
being Loven Jones, a 14-> cac-o'd boy.
Charles Sullivan fell from the brake
rods of a train on which he was riding
neat Benkleman and sustained serious
hut not fatal injuries.
Edward Thomas, who lives nine
miles west of Broken Bow. was
kicked by a horse while plowing com
and the accident may result fatally.
Leo Morris of Preston was struck
by a Northern Pacific passenger train
at Huntley, Mont.. Tuesday night, sus
taining injuries which proved fatal.
While wading in the still water el
the Nemaha near Glen Rock, August
Bourlier cf Auburn was drowned. Ks
was with three companions and the*
did not know of his misfortune unti.
they noticed that he had disappeared
The race meet follows the chautau
qua at Nebraska City and will be i
three days' meet from August 22 tc
-4. Already over 100 fast horses hav=
been entered and Secretary L. F. Jack
son says he expects not less than lot
entries of the best horses in this part
cf the country.
The federal act prohibiting the tiss
of the red cross except as permitted
by the American National Red Cross
society has been brought to the atten
lion of Adjutant General Phelps, and
be expects to take measures to see
that the act is enforced.
The banking boar I will soon insti
tute suit against a dozen or man
state banks that nationalized before
Jane 1. Banks that did this must pay
Hoxey Making a Flight at the 1910 State Fair
Aviators at the State Fair.
Secretary Mellor of the State Fair
Board has closed contracts with the
Wright company for two aviators and
two aeroplanes for the coming state
fair. September 4 to S. The contract
calls for four flights each day, each
flight to consist of raising 200 feet in
the air and remaining up for a period
of ten minutes. The accident whict
befell Hoxey on Tuesday morning oi
the last fair determined the board tc
secure two complete outfits so that
patrons who come from a distance will
have reasonable assurance that they
will not again be deprived of the op
portunitv to witness modem "bird
men” in action.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE
FV W. Taylor of Denver, who once
occupied the chair of horticulture in
the state university, has been calfed
to take the place of director of agri
culture in the Philippines, and has
given his acceptance
Stare Land Commissioner Cowles
has received word that Dr. Thomas,
superintendent of the state institute
for feeble minded at Beatrice, is very
low with typhoid fever. His condi
tion is considered serious, but he him
6elf contends that he will recover and
that the disease has about run its
course. One new case of fever and
one death is reported from the institu
tion.
Joel Piper, secretary of the state
board of charities and corrections, has
been appointed a member of the na
tional committee on the supervision
of administration of public penal in
stitutions.
The thirteen-inch bored well which
the sta.e ordered dug when twenty
four cases of fever were discovered
at the institute for feeble minded at
Beatrice is about completed. It will
furnish enough water for the entire
institution and the old well which was
used until recently and water from
the creek for domestic purposes will
be abandoned.
C. C. Husted, formerly editor of the
Daily Pioneer of Omaha, a Danish
paper, and recording clerk in the ex
ecutive office during the administra
tions of Sheldon, Shallenberger and
a part of that of Governor Aldrich,
died at bis home in Lincoln Sunday.
The board of public lands and build
ings has let a contract of $800 for a
burglar alarm for the vault in the
aud. or’s office and referred the bids
for furniture in the auditor's office to
the department heads. A contract for
the erection of a laundry at the
Hastings asylum was also let for
$16,187.
four semi-annual assessments, or one
per cent, of their average daily de
posits, whereas banks that did not na
tionalize are required to pay one as
sessment of one-fourth of one pet
cent for the benefit of the guarantee
fund.
Two discolored papers, final proofs
on homestead entries of Oreila Blake
and Samuel L. Yant. have been re
ceived at the United States land
office. The papers had been water
soaked and were blackened by smoke
from the incendiary fire in the Chase
county court house at Imperial. The
ink on the papers is blurred, but the
records will be accepted.
Water and sewer bonds carried at
a special election at Tecumseh.
Cedar Bluffs Wednesday celebrated
its twenty-fifth anniversary. Twenty
five years ago the town lot sale was
held and scores of enthusiastic pio
neers commenced the erection ot
buildings in the cornfields, which at
that time furnished the site fcr the
village. Cedar Biuffs has since then
grown to a population of 400.
A fire which started in the ware
house of the Omaha Implement tynd
Transfer company caused a loss to
implement and accessory dealers esti
mated at $200,000. The building was
tenanted by sixteen firms and the indi
vidual losses run as high as $50,000.
Aboard two special cars, the Lin
coin Ad club delegates to the national
convention of the associated adver
tising clubs of America left Thursday
for Boston.
A coroner’s jury in the Inquest intc
the death of David McFry, who died
at Lincoln Wednesday, brought in the
following verdict: "Said David McFry
came to his death Wednesday. July
26, caused by a fall at 1:30 p. m. Mon
day near Eighth and M streets. The
fall was caused by a blow struck by
John P. Harris.” A complaint charg
ing first degree murder was filed in
Judge Stevens’ court against Harris.
ram j cudii
A WARM RECIPROCITY CAM
PAIGN TO BE STARTED.
—
LAURIER’S ACT A SURPRISE
—
Sudden Dissolution of Parliament ty
the Opposition Was Entirely
Unlocked for.
Ottawa. Ontario.—Readjustment of j
j political plans and preparau. a for j
; the campaign throughout the doinia
' ion over reciprocity with the United
] States have characterized the last ;
! week when the Laurier gcverr.net: ;
I dazed most of its own followers and j
I the opposition by the sudden disso- j
iutiou oi parliament.
The extent of the suprise is indi- j
. cated by tie fact that lew members
were ready to leave for their con
stituencies to seek re-election, and j
| the last groups are now l.aving Ot
! tawa. Meanwhile tons of printed mat
' ter have been mailed, the franking
privilege having been extended one
week.
Little election machinery is in run
ning order, the contest having been
precipitated a year before its normal
; time a general election being re
quired every five years. Nominating !
; conventions, however, are scheduled j
and the naming of candidates will be j
j completed in a month.
It is the evident purpose of the o> i
' ponents of reciprocity to divert at
j tention from it as much as possible. ■
! But the government and its sup
; porters will insist that on the elec
tion six weeks from now every ballot
! shall be morally a decision whether
| there suall be reciprocity with the
: United States. On deciding the peo
i pie will determine whether Sir Wil
frid Laurier shall continue to be
‘ prime minister or whether he shall
be replaced by R. L. Boraen, the op
position leader.
Prominent members of the govern
ment express increased confidence j
I that the new parliament to be
; opened in October by the new gov
i ernor-general, the duke of Cob
nanght, will make Its initial act the
ratification of the reciprocity agree
ment. The opposition asserts that the '
| crest of a tidal wave of anti-recip
roclty sentiment has been sighted
and that the conservative and French j
nationalist majority in the new par
j liament will kill the pact.
President Taft is almost as great a
personality as Sir'Vvilfrid Laurier in
the present campaign, and it is safe
to say that his utterances on recip
rocity will be more often quoted,
throughout the provinces the coming
weeks than those of Sir Wilfrid or
Finance Minister Fielding.
Defeat Street Car Bandit.
Salt Lake City, Utah.—The at
tempt of a bandit to hold up an elec- •
trie car filled with pleasure seekers
returning from Salt Air pavilion re
sulted in slight injury to several pas
sengers and the defeat of the robber,
who escaped with little booty.
Big Battle in Colombia.
Guayaquil.—According to advices
received here a battle was fought be
tween Colombian and Peruvian
troops in Caqueta. a large unorgan
ized territory in Colombia, and the
Colombians were defeated with great
losses.
House Accepts Amendments.
Washington.—The house concurred
in the senate amendments to the con
gressional reapportionment bill to
prevent gerrymandering and passed
the measure as amended. The bill
now goes to the president for ap
proval.
WREATH ON WASHINGTON GRAVE
It is Reverently Placed There by
Admiral Togo.
Washington.—Reverently and with
a brief invocation in Japanese. Ad
miral Count Togo placed a wreath of
roses on the tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon Sunday. A group of a
dozen, among whom were the Japan
ese ambassador. Acting Secretary of
the Navy Winthrop, five rear admirals
of the United States navy and Chand
ler Hale, third assistant secretary of
state, watched the diminutive oriental
enter the mausoleum and stand silent
ly at salute. He spoke softly, but
audibly, for a moment and then set
down the wreath.
Liner Hits an Iseberg.
New York—The Anchor Line steam
er Columbia, which collided with an
iceberg on August 2. reached New
York Sunday from Glasgow under her
own steam. Many yards of canvass
covered the hole made in its bow by
the iceberg, but its officers said the
damage was entirely above the water
line. The accident occurred aboqt 120
miles off New Fbundland. The Colum
bia’s 598 passengers had Just sat down
to dinner, and because of the heavy
fog the vessel's engines had been
stopped.
SHOES AHD CLOTHES
OF BATHERS SWIPED
GIRLS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
THIEF WHO STOLE APPAREL
SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
Newark. X. J.—If the dozen young
women guests of the Sunrise Moun
tain house at Pine Brook lay hands on
the man who stole their shoes end
stockings when they were in swim
ming. Xew Jersey's meanest thief will
yell for the police to save him. Think
of having to tramp barefooted and
bare legged over a quarter mile oi
stubble.
Many of the young women guests
bathe in the Passaic river and to get
to the bath houses have to wade
though water ankie deep. So they
take off their shoes and stockings
before stepping from the shore.
Twelve young women went to the
river l-efore breakfast to take a dip
and left their shoes and stockings be
Minus Her Ciothes.
hind a fence. A half hour afterward
cries of distress brought other hotel
guests. Miss Kate Eernstein. the first
to dress, waded ashore to the spot
where she had left her shoes. Not a
pair was in sight, nor a stocking ei:h
er. Shrilly she shouted the alarm and
the other girls splashed to her. Th6
hubbub actually drowned the buzz oi
the mosquitos. The clothing of some
of the young woman was stolen from
the bathhouse.
TIE THEMSELVES TO THE BED
Epidemic of Somnambulism in the
Town of Milan, O., Makes
People Cautious.
Milan, O.—The village of Milan, al
taost as famous for its numerous
widows of wealth and attractiveness
as for its notable men—Thomas A.
Edison, inventor, and Hal Reid, play
right, among others—is threatened
with an epidemic of somnambulism.
Already the sleep disease has claimed
two victims.
Milan hardware dealers report thai
the demand for rope among the vil
lagers bids fair to exhaust the supply
Asked what the rope was wanted foi
the customers said they wanted it sc
when they go to bed they tie one end
of a strand to a leg or an arm and the
other to a door knob or a bed post
Some tie their doors shut, they as
1
r
Tied to the Bed.
6ert. Of course, if the rope supply
runs oat a stray fish cord attacked to
the big toe and serenely fastened to
the bed post oaght to work well.
Step* on Dynamite Cap.
Freeland, Pa.—Stepping on a dyna
mite cap on the street, Ida McClel
land, aged sixteen, sustained a badly
shattered foot and other Injuries
along with the shock in the resulting
explosion.
22 Children in 26 Years.
London, England.—A woman at Ac
ton police court stated that she had
been married twenty-six years and
had twenty-two children.
PORT OF SEW YORK
3APTAINS OF INDUSTRY AND A
METROPOLITAN EANKER IN
VOLVED IN SCANDAL.
WOMAN HAS AMAZING CAREER
Diamond Smuggling Case Shows How
Helen Dwelie Jenkins “Trimmed”
a Millionaire for 5500.000—Uncle
Sam After Several Rich Men.
New York.—Tbe developments in
ike vast smuggling plot whick was
iiselcstd when Collector Loeb.
through Detective Rickard Parr, acted
.n the cases of Nathan Allen and John
Ft. Collins, the millionaires charged
with failing to declare 5300,000 worth
of jewels belonging to Mrs. Helen
Dwells Jenkins, indicate that the hall
has not been told.
A couple of years ago there was a
robbery in a New York hotel and fol
lowing it a young woman, Mrs. J. \V.
Jenkins, reported to the police that
$300,000 worth of jewelry had been
stolen. A little later she said that the
valuables had been recovered through
a private detective agency. The cus
toms authorities, who endeavor to keep
posted concerning every large dia
mond collection in the country had
never heard of the Jenkins collection
and suspicious that some of the valu
ables might have been imported with
out having paid duty to Uncle Sam
started an investigation. The result
is that information incriminating Na
than Allen, a wealthy leather manu
facturer of Kenosha, Wis., and John
R. Collins, a millionaire coal man of
Nashville. Tenn., has been placed in
the hands of United States District
Attorney Henry S. YOise and will be
brought to the attention of the next
federal grand jury. Allen was inti
mate with Mrs. Jenkins and while in
Europe with her and accompanied by
Collins bought her many thousand dol
lars’ worth of valuables which paid
no duty. It was while investigating
this case that Richard Parr unearthed
the other conspiracy and the jewel
smuggling affair that was first known
as the Jenkins case, then as the Jen
kins-Alien case, and as the Jenkins
Allen-Coliins case, is now said to have
been really inspired by a New York
Helen Dwelie Jenkins.
banker, who had perfected an "under
ground” route for smuggling in jew
els and other valuables.
The more that is known of the ac
tivities of Helen Dwelie Jenkins, ths
fascinating East side girl for whom
two financiers of wide reputation ran
the risk of jail by smuggling intc
the country, it is alleged, 5300.00C
worth of gems, the more remarkable
does the woman appear. That she
was able to twine men of affairs, and
even officers of the law, around hei
slender fingers and obtain for the ask
ing vast sums, which she spent with
a lavish hand, is becoming more and
more apparent.
That Helen Dwelie has been able
through some strange gift, to play
upon ehe hearts of men as a musiciar
plays a harp. Is not only proved by
her own statements but by the police
and private detectives with whom shs
has come in contact. Once under hei
spell they gave with a freedom that
Suggested hypnotic influence, and not
once until the game was played a bit
too far with Nathan Allen, the multi
millionaire leather merchant of Keno
sha, Wis., did one of the "angels'
rebel. Mrs. Jenkins admits Allen spent
5500,000 on her inside of 18 months.
Mrs. Jenkins' maiden name was
Helen Fuld and at the age of fourteen
she married a man named Dwelie and
for some time they lived happily in
Detroit. Then her husband went to
New Orleans and she obtained a di
vorce. It was Collins of Memphis
Tenn., who is mixed up in her case
who gave her the name of Mrs. Jen
kins. He was a friend of her family
and about the time she bad obtained
her divorce was reading a book telling
of the adventures of the Widow Jen
kins. In a facetious way he began
calling her Mrs. Jenkins and it was
under that name that she was intro
duced to Allen, who himself assumed
the name Jenkins. He installed hei
in a palatial residence in Chicago and
in 1909 made an European tour with
her. Collins was with them most ol
the time and it was while they were
in London that the New Yorker im
parted the information how the cus
toms service a* >ew York might be
evaded.