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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXIX._ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1911. NUMBER IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK! jsTtr happen kgs t*-e world O.EP. TOLD lb ITEMIZED ro*M. EVESTS HERE khd THERE -to a ffo L>«M *Of tM ft'.U of R« Busy Mjv. Utws P«-*Ofibl Infer bomestic Tb* ms..-’ of Jobs D Rockefeller. Jr e<(4 feu life »brt tbe rope by • a- * » bcnde of rBMtnxttoc steel ■■»e t* .14 licensed te tbe root at hi* stber • twauofeou sear Tary’owe. X t, beaks, setui tbe steel te drop Mr KarfccfrQcr leaped from under te tbe ■orkscs te jump foi Fit* »«r* bat quirk • -stained aenoufe injuries •a* «ill Cm, e e e ’ J *'crags cEferkae is i»ei>*-ted te here caused -be death of William ^srtsaifecr of Xeer Torfc and tbe lltbeai at t—'oeeb sixty abd seventy ’all*** eB board tbe battioakip Micbi Cat. (fens arrived ml boston Irons tbe eoutber* drtU grounds JUi of tbe sir* u« have recovered. • • • !«su' mated at Slkk.kdk »a* Ve* abd cake hfe loot :n a ‘ loudburst Obtrb feeep* Kxna. sitarpebur* and dtSul*. suburbs of Plratourgfc. Pa • e e taeorgsa er«I be tbe first southern to tegu tbe mobufert ure «l or bug botera Tbe serum m U! - . . -» .... • • • A wbtfetn -covered automobile re tununa Sroas tbe Coney island Mardi liras a as wrecked while roundtn* a narat in i.nxA!)*. IS. Y. A ’at.C-.on ably dt**sed woman, raid to be Airs uatpc n* Xokia. was killed Her e» "« r* Thomas -»alt p robtmrtor was pn'Sobi*1 fatally injured a a a Governors of twenty-five states. :a aotic'enee at Spna* Lake. X. J. de •iJed to protest to tbe Vaited Stales -».|rioi coon a fairs* wtni they coo sber on liiittdt af ’k- nr rt*t*ta by the eberal own The decision of Judfe Sanborn la the T atted Staten circuit o— in tbe Ifisnesota case la tbe par tcalnr ~lnvsaian" to which tbe p>T -mars object Judeos Harman, eov -nor at Ohio, will bead a committee 4 protest • V V President Taft started from Boston a hta usur of the country, the tttn *r*n of w t.-ch caters UMO miles a :« ■taion v v a *. hr- - armored cruisers and et*bt •rpedo hoot destroyers nailed from inn Fmaoac-c for Hawaii • • • The seed widow of James D. Fink. If. victim a the famous traded y that ttirrod New York shi Edward S stokes start aim an January «. ItTi. - repuc -^i be dytuf *a tbe humble tttke frame * -rttase ,c South Boston a here the has lived in poverty-ottick -* retirement for Zi yamr% • • • tiicjc*!!* J.OW -ullor shops In Xew liar*, where the better ciaaa of *»r neni* for women are made, were de sored by thesr workers Ten fboa <oa4 tailors. :.«W at them women acre **;>joyed la (he shops affected. a a • Lost la a res'- mass of railroad racka Artatar Jimmy Ward of Chi -a#a. lb* second at tbe contestants ar the Hamm SSd AM coast tocooat «enal pnae made only a miles actual asodwny durt&c his first day's work. Aard atoned from Governor# Island. >-*» York, and landed at Paterson. « J. -t round numbers the cost of tba *«asexett i kps lit film la to Africa un ier tb* sospue* of the Smithsonian oottratton ■ a» I'jaaa. The expenses d 'he actual fesnunc »«e dirided. be Smithsonian perm* abotr tbree if*n» sad Catomd Booserel; about two xftba • • • Jobs A < leucalda') Johnson. form *r ceanct and former Inmate of the ‘hate insane as* ions at Men dots. ••*«aded gnat* St Madison. Mo , to the -bar** of bonne bldnsped and ntur fcered Aans LemSer*er on September ( Me was immediately sentenced to he mate pnsoa for Et. harried Into aa aatomutdie and driven across the wastry to Maopna • • • Whs*—sir fnad* la the hrandine of tmamtar erodes at liquors with spurt a— trademark* at staple products •er* rer—ipd through fbe arrest of Marti* Aiborte to New York city, charged with infringement of trade • • • G—dea State Ua *— derailed jnet at Ainsworth. Is tajared aad up. bat 1 _ r_ _ _ • • • The trial by coort martial of Gunner Hear* MrEiert. C. 8 X, whose wife haeas at the Mare Island ICsLj as^ yard. McEeert it charged with drunk skta'^y 11 th*t *• - ■ - _ Three tornadoes, each of greater in leu ty than Its predecessor, and all acccmpaaied by terrific rain, swept Springfield. PL leveling trees, block ing Traffic, flooding the streets, wreck ng the copper dome of the state cap i'oL and cutting the city off entirely ■ tea communication with the nearest villages. No loss of life was reported. • • • Mounted police discovered alive Eleanor Gladys Brice, school teacher af Rlverdaie. flTe miles north of Snow Sake. Manitoba. She told of having pen attacked by a tramp and carried !rr-m her school to a lonely gully. • here she was kept a prisoner, while her captor regaled himself on a bottle sf whisky Miss Brice is a niece ot Premier Hoblis • • • Prom New York to St. Louis by iroliey in five days, traveling only In he daytime. Is the record made fcy Lieut William A. J. Koenig of the New York city police force sod his wife • • • Bending over a shotgun and pulling he trigger with fats toe. Dr. John C. Dree tan. forty-five years old. a promi ■ent physician and a member of the 1 enn<-r»ee senate, killed himselt at ais home. Woodbury. Tenn. • • • Oitober 9. the fortieth anniversary af the Chicago fire, has been set aside fcy Governor Deneen in a proclamation •sued from the executive office as Illinois Eire Prevention day. • • • There is asore suffering Irom pov -ny in New Y'ork this year than last, vr cord mg to the Association for He ieritg the Condition of the Poor • • * The Twenty-seventh company of coast artillery, practicing with the "f Inch guns at Batte-y Cranston, in -be Presidio military reservation, bit i moving target at 10.000 yards six ‘me* with six shots • • • Personal A report is current In Los Angeles. ~ai that Nat Goodwin, the actor, has ■named Marjo-ie Ram beau, who was laying :n the company with which ioodwic was associated until recently. • • • ' *®i iala of the New York state fair s’ Syracuse, who have given unusual recognition to the suffragists at this 'ear’s meetings, have voted to Dr Mary Walker the annaa! prize for be rig the best dressed woman on the grounds She appeared in masculine 'osturne • • • 5 S HPe. known from Canada to he gulf as an exjiert lisherman. and whose grandfather came frcm Ken .ucky with Twniel Boone. Is dead at Louisville. Kt.. rt the age of eighty hree years • • • Sporting Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, .ought a winning battle of ten terrific -ounds with Carl Morris, the gigantic aewvyw eight of Oklahoma, at Madison -><juare garden. New York city. At the nd the Oklahoma man's face was bat ered to a pulp, while Flynn was un marked save for a lump over the left 7* • • • Washington Ju*r before departing on his western np at Beverly. Mass.. President Taft .nnounced his decision in the Wiley ■aae. finding the food chemist guilt >eai of intentional wrong and declin ng ’c remove him from office. The eeomraendation that Doctor Wiley be red came from the personnel board of he department of agriculture and was ndorsed by Attorney General Wicker ibam • • • A saving to the government of fully 11.000.000 on the transmission of pe iodical mail by fast freight was es imat-d by Postmaster General Hitch ■ock after a two weeks' trial of this nethcd of shipment. • • • President Taft's visit to SL Louis rill embrace among other functions uacbeon at the City club, which has juarters in a downtown office bulld og. To insure the personal safety of the president in ascending to tne banquet room, new cables have been ordered for the elevators • • * Foretem Five burglars stole $315,000 from he branch of the Bank of Montreal in Vew Westminster. B. C. They entered he place by the front door, blew the safe with nitroglycerin and escaped without being seen except by a Chi 3esc caretaker, who they bound and tagged. There is no clue to the rob >cra • • • Latest advices received by the Cbt jese foreign board and the foreign le gations at Peking indicate that Cheng Tu. capital of Sze-Chuan province, is ■tnder siege, that most if not all the missionaries are Inside the walls, and hat the city Is garrisoned by 1.800 troops, who have had several engage -rents with the besieging forces. • • • The river of lava from Mount Etna j a still advancing, sweeping everything : aefore It. Thousands are being driven I tram their homes. The 20.000 inhabi tants of Castiglione and Francavilie save turned their backs on their aotnes. fleeing before the advancing Sow at lava. • • • Two thousand modern troops have refused to join In the siege of Cheng Tn. China, at the command of the viceroy. The authorities fear to force he relief of Cbeag-Tu lest the noa rembataau there join the rebels. f RIOTERS jID 01 SAVAGE STREET FIGHTING IN AUSTRIAN CAPITAL. A SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION High Food Prices Given as the CauM for This Most Serious Outbreak. — Vienna.—Traceable to the high priie of the necessaries of life riots i-roke out Sunday and many persons were killed or wounded. Troops fired on the mob. which had erected barri cades in the streets. There was a fierce exchange of bullets awd the sol diers were pelted with all sorts of mis- •' siles. Following a huge socialistic demon- j stration outside the Rathhaus. held j for the purpose of protesting against j the high price of food. it. became nec-1 essary to call out troops to dispense j the rioters, in the early clashes fifty | cf the rioters were wounded and 100 I arrested. Fifty thousand jtersons were present j at the demonstration and fiery speech-' es were made, demanding that the j government permit the importation of ; foreign meat and take other men.-urea j to remedy the conditions which haee | resulted from the prohibitory inci easel in the price of food products. After the meeting a large procession | marched to the parliament buildings, i cheering for revolution and Portugal, j Revolvers were fired in the air andj then the mob began stone throwing. The windows of many public and pri- j vate buildings, restaurants and train cars and street lamps were smashed, j Finally a squadron of dragons and a | ♦etaehment of infantry appeared on the scene. They charged the rioters ] and dispersed them. The mob reas- i sembled. however, in the suburbs j whi< h are occupied by the working! class, where they wrecked more prop-1 erty. The troops were retained throughout the day guarding the im perial palace and government build ings and holding all approaches to the inner city. The rioting was of a most deter min* d and savage charac ter. The mob was es|>ecially inflamed by the ap|>ear ance of »roops on the scene, and al though an official account states that only ore person was killed by a bay onet thrust, several wounded by a vol ley and about sixty seriously injured, it is believed that th" casualties were much higher. Former Senator Carter Dead. Washington.—Former 1'nited States Senator, Thomas Henry Carter of Montana, for many years a notable and picturesque character in national politics, once chairman of the repub lican national compnuee. and since last year chairman of the American section of the International commis sion. died at his home Sunday of in fection of the lungs. He was 57 years old. Mr. Carter had been under the! cars of a physician for months, but not closely confined. ___________________ Big Hail Stones. Osceola. Neb.—A heavy hail storm at 4 o'clock this afternoon damaged com in this vicinity and broke sev eral plate glass windows in Osceola. Some of the hail stones were nine inches in circumference. Neighboring towns suffered little. — Kills Man. Attacks Woman. Jacksonville. Fla.—Cicero Thomp son. a carpenter, aged 45. was killed and a woman com par ion. whom he was accompanying home, was at tacked by a negro at Ortego. a suburb of this city. Death-Dealing Automobile. Syracuse. N.—Nine persons were killed and fourteen injured, some of them seriously, as the result of an accident during the closing miles of a fifty-mile automobile race at the state fair track Saturday, when a Knox car. driven by Lee Oldfield, leaped front the track. crashed through the fence surrounding it and plunged into the throngs that lined the other side of the speedway. Presbyterian Report. Chicago. III.—The annual report of the general assembly of the Presby terian church, just issued, gives the ! following statistics on the Nebraska synod: Presbyteries. 6: ministers. 183: churches. 231; communicants, 20.279; baptisms. 859; Sunday school membership. 20.225. Milwaukee Girl Elopes. Milwaukee. Wis.—A Milwaukee girl played a jcke on her parents by elop ing to Chicago and then sending her email brother'to the newspaper offices »o let her father know through them that she is a wife. Train Kills Four. Milwaukee.—Four members of the family of Frank Klein, postmaster and notary public of Rockfleld. Wis. and a servant of the family, were killed when Soo road passenger train No. 202, due in Milwaukee at 0:50 p. m., struck their double buggy. Five Millin Dollar Fire. Rio Janeiro.—The national printing works were destroyed by fire Sunday. Other valuable property was burned and the damage is estimated at Ja.fcOO.OCO. NEW YORKER FOUND A TURTLE IN HIS BED FRIENDS GAVE HIM A JOLLY GOOD TIME WHILE ON A VACA TION TRIP. New York.—“Good time? Certain ly: always do." said a Times square trequenter who had ’-.‘turned from a vacation trip to a resort on the south shore of Long island. “Every body conspired to see that I was kept entertained: they always do with a ! bachelor. "One of the pleasant little attentions they paid me was to deposit one even ing a turtle in my bed. "There had been some hints that something was going to happen tc me. and so when I slipped between the sheets and felt some sand 1 knew it had come. I was too tired to re Turtle Explored the Room. make the bed. and so 1 slipped under ' the sheets and lay on a blanket. Then j I had a long tussle to compose my ! overwrought muscles and nerves. 1 Finally. 1 felt that sleep was coming. I and rolled over to get into just the j right position. As 1 stretched my teet , full out they touched something at the : toot of the bed. 1 kicked, and there j was a wild scramble and knocking along the footboard and vail. "There was nothing to do but get up and remove the visitor. When 1 caught it I thought of putting it out , into the hall and letting it wander around and put the joke on some one else. Tor the curtained doors were all open. Rut there were some Inoffen sive old ladies ihere, and 1 couldn't commit the crime of scaring them to death So 1 put the visitor on the floor to sleep while I slept. Ah. no! T got up. found the turtle under the dresser, forced out the window screen and dropped it on to the piazza. "WhaL I didn't know then was that that piazza had a rin roof and that there were drains on it about every ten fedt that would step any turtle. The sound of the shell on the metal was enough to make any scary wom an 'think a whole regiment of burg lars was comln§ np. 1 waited for a while for the tttrtle to go to sleep, hut he didn’t want to sleep that way. Bo. finally, I got out. hunted him down, and dropped him on to the lawn. 1 thought that the ahorit might be fatal, hat next moraine he w as gone ” AUTO 1ST “CRANKS” NORSE Then Animal llwule Off and Marts Both Feat on She C ranker’s aaaiZD J Decatur. Ind.—When OH Dobbin calked •‘while beidjt driven near this city and emitted several grpnta. re sembling the exhaust of an .engine. Frank Bogner. living here, absent i---1 1 * Gets Kick for "Cranking." mindedly leaned over the dashboard and proceeded to “crank" Dobbin's tail just ss he would sn automobile when it had “gone dead." Dobbin never having been an auto mobile, and disliking anything that savored of this enemy of the horse, hauled off and planted both feet on the cranker's person so hard that he landed in the rear end at the vehicle. His injuries are not so seri ous but what he win recover, hot K Is certain he will never a DIES FROpiSTAKE PUTS CARBOLIC ACID ON HER TOOTHBRUSH. - NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going cn Here and There j That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. 1 inecln—Florence Arnold, a 14-year old girl, died here Monday morning; within two hours of the time when she poisoned herself with carbolic ' acid used by mistake in brushing her ; teeth. The girl confused the bottles found in the semi-darkness ot the ‘ bathroom and put the acid on her j toothbrush. — An Omnivorous Bovine. Holdrege.—A Phelps county cow ; has done remarkably well in the mat-, ter of solving the high cost of living I Unfortunately it was not known ho* : well she was succeeding along this line until she was dead. In the stomach of a three-year-old heifer killed by local butchers was found a ' remarkable collection of rusty nails. ! old Iron, glass and similar articles cot generally placed on a cow's bill of fare. Indian Killed by Train. Valentine.—Turning Bear, an Indian, was struck and killed instantly Mon day by a westbound passenger train, j His family were on the station plat- i form and he was running trying to get j there also from the other side of the j track. Spectators say that he was not three feet from the engine when he ' tried to cross and he seemed to run right into the engine. Take a Long Canoe Trip. Valentine.—t’harles Belzer and Har vey Hornby, two young men of this city, took an unusual trip, going iron-, here to Sioux City in a canoe via the Niobrara and Missouri rivers. They left here in a canoe about fifteen feet i long and two feet wide. Buying Shubert's Apple Crop. Shubert.—Buyers are here pure has ing Shubert's big annual apple crop. It is estimated that over two hundred carioads will l>e sent out. Last year over three hundred cars were shipped. Nebraska City—Engineer William Lewis, in charge of the Burlington en gine that hauls the passenger train between this city and Red Oak. suf fered from heart failure and was found unconscious in his cab as the j engine entered the yards here. The fireman brought the train to a stop. His alertness alone averted trouble. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE The report of the state banking board shows building and loan associ ations growing rapidly in the past ten years. Plans for the two new buildings to be erected at the state asyinm for the insane at Lincoln, have been filed with the board of public lands and build ings. 1*" Rev. J. H. Presson. former com mandant or the Milford home, has as sumed his duties as recording clerk in the executive office, succeeding the governor's 6on. George Aldrich, who will enter the university. Governor Aldrich has directed Attor ney General Grant Martin to begin ouster proceedings against John J. Ryan and Joseph Povonka. fire and po lice commissioners of Omaha. The resignation of P. J. Harrison as state university registrar having be come effective. Assistant Registrar E. M. Rutledge assumed the duties of the office, in accordance with iiis promo tion by the board of regents. E. O. Stoehm. the new all-} ear ath letic director of the §tate university, will begin work on the formation of a football team at once. Coach Stoehm does not regard the latest changes in the rules as of great importance. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in his address at the state fair grounds, warmly commended the reciprocity treaty with Canada and dwelt at length on the beneficial results which he believed would accrue from the adoption of the treaty. The 6tate legal department will moTe for a judgment in the supreme court September 19 in the quo war ranto case against Chief of Police Donahue of Omaha. The motion trill include application for a decree for feiting Donahue’s right to hold office. Receipts at the office of the secre tary of state for the month of August were $10,843.15, obtained from the fol-> lowing sources: Articles of incorpor ation. $1,243.75; notarial commissions. $84; motor vehicle licenses. $77; brands. $46.55; certificates. $66.75; corporation taxes. $9,225.10; corpora tion tax penalties. $100. The board of pardons will hold a meeting September 11. at which time It will hear three applications for par don and about twenty applications for parole. The men seeking pardons are Phillip Mauve, convicted of larceny; Andrew Hawkins, who was sent from Frontier county for a life sentence for the murder of a. man named Jansen; Albert Jacobs, convicted in Sheridan county for burglary. The Nebraska banking board has Issued a call to the 664 state banks for statements showing conditions of their business on August 31. This is the fourth call made for 1911. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Kenesaw wants a new school build ing. Kearney s new federal building is practically completed. An agitation is on toot in Aurora tc organize a V. M. C. A. The harvest home festival at Hii dreth was a big success. The national convention of postmas ters is in session a: Omaha. Free delivery cf mail may be estab iished shortly at Broken Bow. The receipts of the state fair wil amount to more than $92,000. Rev. Francis Brown, pastor of the Baptist church at Surprise, has re signed. Fifty-one county fairs will afford amusement and instruction for Ne braskans this year. Groat preparations are being made for the com show and horse fair ai Deshler. September 19 and 2t>. Claud Floyd, a rural mail carrier out of Beatrice, has purchased an automo bile and will make his trips in it. Civil service examinations for mail carriers at Cedar Bluffs. Martell and Western. Neb., will be held October 7 Nebraska's com crop will probably be larger than that of last year, ac cording to the Burlington crop report. Rev. H. Danielson, pastor of the Danish church at Fremont for several years, has been transferred to Grant! Forks. N. D. Robert Sadler, a negro, who escaped from jail at Central City, hid in a trunk at his borne at Clarks, where he was found. Abel Shaffer, a young farmer neat ! Hooper, was mangled by a freight train at that place, while trying tc cross the tracks. Tne pioneer* and old se'tiers asso elation of Harlan county. Neb., will meet in annual reunion at Orleans September 20 and 21. The October term of the Cnitec States federal courts, districts of Ne braska. Lincoln division, begins on the first Monday in October. Edwin Overbeck, a farmer neai ! Pickrell. in chasing a cow to the bare j slipped and fell in such a way as tu break his left arm near the shoulder. Dr. Thomas R. Ward, a practicing physician in Omaha for twenty-si^ years, dropped over dead at the break fast table in his home Sunday morn ing. Miss Eunice Murphy, charged witl j inciting the hanging of Cha'les Seller* of Cody, was given a preliminary hear , ing and bound over to the distric! 1 cou-% t A rain storm almost equaling a , cloudburst visited Beatrice early Sun day morning, flooding the streets and 1 lowlands. The precipitation was thre* inches. While trying to board a freight it I the Burlington yards at Broken Bow Fred Forbes. 33 years of age. wa: ’ thrown under the wheels and badly mangled. While driving his car Sunday at thi J rate of forty miles an hour, near Pax j ton. Chris Tborning crashed into * barbed wire fence and received seri ous injuries. The decomposing body of Ed wart Graham, an old soldier, was found ir his bachelor home at Kearney by ar old comrade. He had evidently beet 1 dead several days. While left alone for a few moment: i in her room at St. Bernard’s hospica at Omaha Sunday morning. Abbie Fro : lik of Crete. Neb., committed suicid< 1 by hanging herself with a towel. Louis Hornkohl was shot by hi: j brother Charles on the farm of Me Donald Bennett, near Wilsonville which they had rented. The brothers quarreled over the division of hay. Rev. Thomas Bithell. pastor of tht Methodist Episcopal church of Fre mont, and at one time president o! the Methodist conference of that dis trict, has announced his retirement. Miss Jeanne Boyd, a Fremont youni lady, is developing a remarkable tal ent in a musical line, being the autho: of a number of popular airs, includini the score of a meritorious operetta Her friends predict a gTeat future foi her. An increase of over 200 in the tota ; enrollment of the Lincoln city schools j exclusive of the high school, is indi | cated by the reports of the various j principals to Superintendent W. L Stephens. Roland McQuiston was seriously in juned and John McQuiston suffered » broken ankle when an automobile ip which they and Jim Wheeler and Joht Blair, all of Pender, turned turtle » mile from Beemer. A flower parade will be one of the features of the big German celebra tion to be held in Lincoln in October The citizens of Gretna will hold t silver anniversary picnic Septembei 22 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the town. August Anderson, living near Jun i*ta, has two acres planted to turnips and it is estimated will harvest from 400 to 500 bushels from the plot. C. W. Cramer and his wife of Valen tine, celebrated tbeir golden wedding at the city park where, in the big pa viiion a banquet was spread for ovei 100 guests. The thirteen-year-old son of Mr. ant Mrs. Jim Robertson of Broken Bow was kicked by a mule and his skul crushed. It is thought he may recover Rt. Rev. 3. Henry Tihen, bishop ol Lincoln, will address the mass meet ing of the annual convention of the American Prison association in Omaha the afternoon of October 15. In an alfalfa field north of Aurora a Urge crack has appeared in the ground. The crack reaches cleat across the field of ten acres, and is two feet deep and eighteen inches wide at the top. No one can explain the phenomenon. WOK WIT WINS LETTERS OF UNCLE FORTUNE-TELLER GETS COMPRO MISING MISSIVES. BUT CLEVER NIECE REGAINS THEM. LAYS CLAIM TO $10,000 FEE Diplomacy of Mrs. Mae Briant of Ar kansas Enables Her to Get for $5C Documents for Which Wealthy Re cluse Offered a Fortune. Little Rock. Ark.—By exercising the diplomatic ability which twice made her postmistress of the House of Rep resentatives of Arkansas. Mrs. Mae Briant of Harrisburg, will, unless the supreme court decides otherwise, re ceive HO.rtOO from the estate of A. W. Shirey. the wealthy recluse who was assassinated in his store at Minturn last year. isnirey. during the iatter part ol his life, was a spiritualist. He wel comed all who pretended to know any thing of spiritualism and paid well for their teachings. In 1909 a woman from Little Rock, calling herself a spirit ualist. went to Minium and called up on the aged miser in his store. Shir ?y immediately made arrangements for readings in the attic room of the store at night. For several weeks the woman remained. Shirey holding lightly communion with the spirit world through the alleged medium Finally he was persuaded to write five letters and place them in custody of .he woman until a later date. After the woman had gone Shirey began to consider the consequences If the letters shonid be made public. His efforts to locate the woman were fatUe. so he sent for Mrs. Briant, his favorite grandniece. He offered her *10.000 if she would get possession of ' the papers, and Mrs. Briant undertook the task. Coming to Little Rock. Mrs. Briant nad little trouble in locating the al leged spiritualist and arranging for a series of readings. At one of these Mrs. Bryant confided to the spiritual ist that she had been jilted by a wealthy old merchant of I^awrene* county and was seeking to force his huiid. The spiritualist grabbed at the bait and informed Mrs. Briant she had A yr.&fsszy Recovers Coveted Letters. some tetters from such a person whlda if placed in the possession ot the Injured young woman, might ma terially assist her in her case. The letters were offered to Mrs. Briant for $500. Several days were spent in ne gotiating, and the letters finally went to Mrs. Briant for $50 and were then returned to ’ey. Mrs. Brla claim has been &1 lowed by the probate court of Law rence county, but an appeal has been taken to the supreme court by the In dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the chief beneficiary under the Shirey will. The assassination of Shirey was the most atrocious crime committed in Arkansas last year. The old man. who owned several hundred thousand dol lars worth of property In Lawrence county, had been married several times, the last to Falre Belle Hill, a girl of fourteen years, whom relatives claimed he had wronged. The couple did not liTe happily and both made ef forts to get a divorce. The supreme court of Arkansas de dined to permit either a divorce and required Shirey to pay the girl-wife alimony. He was abou‘ to bring a new suit for divorce when he was assassinated. Shirey was seated on a sack of pota toes near the door of his store, across the road from the Minturn depot when a lone horseman rode up to the porch and shot him dead. The assas sin escaped In the gathering darkness Shirey left all his property to the Odd Fellows’ lodge in Arkansas, but relatives filed suit to break the will, and the lodge compromised, giving the relatives a liberal portion, and agree ing to defend all other suits filed against the estate, any judgment to be taken from the lodge’s share. Mrs. Mae Briant Is one of the best known women in Arkansas. She first came to the Arkansas legislature a young widow and at the close of the session was married to a member. She again came to the session of 1911 as a widow and was easily re-elected postmistress. \ *