Nebraska Newspapers

    The tap City Northwestern
J W. iit'Kl.Ki<iH. Publisher
LOUP CITY. - NEBRASKA
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLO IN ITEMIZED
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EVENTS HERE AND THERE
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Perusal of the Busy Man
Latest Personal Infer*
matton.
Washington
~ he battleship Maine tat blown
up m Hat ana taitwr by an explosion
rum the ou'; Ce This is the gist of
i» iburt statement issued by the navy
Aepartineat m Washing!on based on
-*» made by the joint artny and
navy board, ahirh spent several
in Hatana harbor Iniestigat
img the wreck
The Payee MU to establish a per
manent tariff board was brought up
is the house committee ou ways and
moors at Washington and postponed
indefinitely on a unanimous tote of
the Itemorrats This probably shuts
consideration of the measure at
this session
Thr »1J- and means committee cf
the American federation of Labor is
sued a tUieCii'Bt at Washington con
demning tbe McNamara brother* In
tbrtr inhumanity," and declaring that
'featured labor should not be held
legally or morally rttpouible
for thr enme of an individual mem
her." The statement brand* the Me
Vamaisa aa "recreant to the good
• ame add high ideal* of labor. *
• • •
Kibert H Cary, chief executive of
be I'nited State* Steel corporation,
tated before the aenate committee on
interstate <otum<*rie hi* belief that
■ he I'nited State* government must a*
sum* control of big corporation* to
protett the public and Insure tbe advan
(age at corporation economies and de
• eiopment
• • e
According to tbe annual report of
lime* Wilson, secretary of agricul
ture. Just rag-;. public, for the first
lme in many year* the total value
of farm product* ha* declined from
that of tbe preceding year. The eat!- I
mate fee 1911 i* baaed on the eneus
'em* and U >6.117.490.000. or >277.
#«*.«•• under the total far 1910
• • •
The Supreme court of th? I'nited
State* refused to grant a stay of the
beef packer* trial in Chicago until
tbe court should be able to pass on
the constitutional question raised by
tbe packet* m habea* corpus proceed
ings
• • •
Attorney General WUkershatn be
• ame ill while gtttnding he cabinet
session true tor lie luiney. President
Taft* physicist, wa* summoned from
'be war department lioc-tor De
i-aney ordered the attorney general
is be moved to his home It was said
that Mr Wirkersfcam wa* suffering
from a slight attack of indiges'ion
The per capita < treillation of money
in tbe I'nited States is accord
ing to a statement issued by the treas
ury department
Foreign
Kight foreigner-, half of them
Americans, were killed in Shensi,
several mission houses were de
stroyed and k.Ooti Main bus were stain
by Chinese, according to the first di
rect and ur- ensured news received ai
Peking from Sianfu since tbe recent
• -u'break there
That lb* American slat* depart
ment will sustain Shuster In ali bis
roaistttiitionai rtgbsa la bow a matter
■f tact, lor wltb 5.U0U Kussian Cos
a*k» advancing to occupy Teheran,
proclaim martial law arid our! him at
lb* bayoe«-( ai Persia* llnanriai agent,
be baa bt-eo advised by tb* govern
asent U» aland bla ground and defy the
:*ar.
Nearly fieo.004i.txw* worth of comes
lie men teadtee trom the L otted
Mate* »a» transported acroaa lb#
Isthmus of Panama id tbe fiscal year
of 1*11. via tb* two railway lines.
Print* Chun, tbe regent of China
baa abdicated, and thus la removed,
revolutionary leader* declare, tbe
thief stumbling block in tbe road to
ward a eoastitutloaal government of
Chian.
• • •
Tbe moat torgmScent spectacle In
ladla'a long biatory of brilliant event*
was wtlnceaed by more than ZuO.OOO
people when George V, king of Kng
laad and emperor of India, and tbe
bwawa rmpreaa made tbeir state entry
mto tbe city of Delhi.
After a severe battle, lb wbirh both
aide* lost heavily, tbe Italian forces.
tWN strong, occupied tbe Turkish
military camp on tbe oasis of Aln
Zara. near Tripoli Tbe victory is re
garded as decisive
see
Domestic
As • result of pleading guilty to
rbarges of roitoia* todies in a ceme
tery at Grand Corks N D.. J \V.
Kaaf p began serving a rr-oten<x- of
pace years ta tbe pt alien'ury
Lillian Graham sprung the greatest
sensation that has arisen in the case
of the shooting show girls when she
testified at New York that she shot
Millionaire W. E. D. Stokes because
"the feet flashed through my mind
about his having murdered AI Adams,
and I knew be would murder me.”
i Adams, the policy king, died at the
Anronia hotel, October 1, 1907.
• • •
Victor t\ Benner, an Illinois Cen
tral railroad guard, was killed and
Capt. G. W. Oillaway, deputy Cnited
Slates marshal, and Charles MeCal
tuan. a railway guard, were wounded
in a light which occurred in the Illi
nois Central yards near Memphis.
Tenn.. betwene the guards and a mar
' shal's force.
Abrogation of the treaty of friendly
relations between the United States
and Russia, made in 18o2. was urged
iu speeches delivered by a dozen or
more men of national prominence and
| in resolutions adopted at a large mass
meeting held in Carnegie hall. New
York city.
Mab-Een-Gance. a Chippewa witness
’ in a land fraud hearing at Fergus
Falls. Minr,.. startled the examining
board by admitting he told an un
truth for $7.(gJu and would do it again
for that amount.
Five bandits who descended on an
isolated farmbeuse near Croton Lake.
V Y., November 9. and murdered
Mrs. Mary Hall, were sentenced to
death in the electric chair during the
week of January 15
The American Tobacco company
fca.< purchased from the Burley Tobac
co society a; Lexington, Ky., at 16^
cents a pound all the tobacco remain
ing in the 1909 pool, about 8,000,000
pounds.
• • •
Local option as a political issue in
Georgia received another setback in
the gubernatorial primary in that
state in the defeat of Judge R. B.
Russell, the local option candidate. Re
turns show the election of ex-Gov. Jo
seph M. Brown over his next closest
opponent.
'Her Excellency, the Governor of
California,'' may soon become a famil
iar title if a bill swept through the low
er bouse of the legislature by unani
mous vote finds its way to the statute
books. The measure would open every
elective office of the state to feminine
citixens.
• • •
After many hours of violent discus
sion and wrangling the conference of
the national committee of the Prohibi
tion party at Chicago ended with the
breach between the two factions so
wide that even tLe most conservative
Prohibitionists say the party will be
split asunder between now and tbe
next national convention.
t • •
A Jury in the United Stales court
at Buffalo, X. Y, returned a verdict
of guilty In the case of the govern
ment against the Standard Oil com
pany for accepting rebates from the
New York Central and Pennsylvania
railroads. There were 1411 points in
the Indictment, each of which 19 pun
ishable by a fine of $20,000. a to
tal of I2.8CO.OOO.
• • •
Pour men were killed as <he result
of the sudden collapse of a three-story
concrete building in the rear of St.
Vincent s hospital at Indianapolis A
number of men. probably 25 or 30,
were buried in the ruins.
• • •
James B. McNamara, confessed mur
derer of twenty-one persons in the
dynamiting of the Times building, was
sentenced at Los Angeles to life im
prisonment in San Quentin. His bro
ther, John .1. McNamara, secretary of
the Internationa! Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, who con
fessed to the dynamiting of the
Llewellyn Iron works, was sentenced
to fifteen years in tbe same prison,
a • •
Detectives for the American Bank
ers' association have under ar
rest at New York James F. lxtng,
I twenty-three years old, said to be the
son of a prominent planter of Roberts
ville, Mo, tin the charge of having
forged a check for $'.,000 on the First
National hank of Chicago.
I'nited States District Judge Jacob
! Trieber at S; I am is quashed the in
! dlctment against E G. Lewis, charg
ing him with using the mails to de
fraud.
• • •
Job Harriman. Socialist candidate
I for mayor of lx>s Angeles, was defeat
, ed In the municipal election. Mayor
Alexander, good government” c-andi
; date, being reelected by a large ma
i jorlty.
• • •
Attorney General Major of Missouri
will file in the Supreme court of the
| United States a motion to dismiss the
appeal of the International Harvester
! company from the ouster decree of
i the supreme court of Missouri.
Personal
i
Frank A Vanderlip. president of
the National City bank of New York,
in an interview published in the Out
look. declared that "the hesitant and
disturbed state of utind now so uni
versal among business men and cap
italists Is due to the chaotic situation
resulting from the attempt to adjust
I business to a law"—the Sherman anti
trust law.
• • •
It was announced at Washington
that Attorney General Wickershatn
has been suffering from ptomaine poi
soning. He is now out of danger,
however.
• • •
Charles W. Penrose, a member of
the council of the twelve apostles of
the Mormon church at Salt Lake City,
was appointed to succeed the late
John Henry Smith as the second
counselor to Joseph F. Smith, preal
i d*a. of the church.
HENRY STEHR GETS INDETER
MINATE SENTENCE.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Madison—After motion for a new
trial was denied and notice of appeal
tiled. Judge Welch sentenced llenry
Stehr, who was found guilty of man
slaughter in connection with the death
of his three-year-old stepson, to an in
determinate sentence of from one to
ten years.
Flege Gets New Trial.
*\Yilliatn Fiege. sentenced to life im
prisonment for the murder of his sis
ter. is to be given a new trial. The
supreme court has ordered the suit re
versed and remanded. The defendant
has been at liberty for several months
on a $25,000 bail bond. It was signed
by his brothers, *ho are wealthy
farmers, and is the largest bail bond
ever given in the supreme court of
Nebraska.
Result of Disappointment.
Lincoln—Despondent over the fu
tility of his wish to make a trip to
f'alifornia. Arvid A. Erickson. the
twenty-year-old son of A. Erickson, a
farmer living six miles east of Davey,
in I^ancaster county, went into a field
near the residence of his father Wed
nesday morning and fired a charge of
shot from a 12-gauge pump gun into
his breast, instant death resulting.
Weekly Lived at Fremont.
Fremont—Ernest Weekly, the young
Nebraskan who lost his life at a sub
urban station near Chicago while sav
ing a girl from death under the wheels
of a train, formerly resided with his
parents in Fremont. Weekly was
born here.
Cetebrated Fiftieth Anniversary.
Wilber—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cha
loupka celebrated the fiftieth anni
versary of their wedding at the opera
bouse Saturday night. Ten of their
twelve living children were present,
besides a large number of guests.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE.
The fees of the office of the secre
tary of state for the month of Novem
ber aggregated $2.918.9.r>, of which
$1,110 was derived from the annual
occupation tax upon corporations and
$f>00 penalties.
W. H. Thompson of Grand Island
has filed for the democratic nomina
tion for Fnited States senator at the
primaries which are to be held April
19 next year. His is the first filing
for the place, but. according to state
ments made some time ago. ex-Gov
ernor Shallenberger and Willis E.
Reed of Madison are to get into the
race within the near future.
Edwin Jearv has filed as a candi
date for the republican nomination for
the legislature in I.ancaster county.
He has already had considerable law
making experience. He served in the
house from Cass county and was a
member during the memorable cam
paign of 1886-1887. when Senator Pad
dock defeated Senator Van Wyck in
his race for a second term.
W. J. Furse, w ho lias served as rail
wav commissioner since the death of
William Cowgill. has severed his con
nections with that body. ThomaB L.
Hal!, chosen at the late election, tak
ing his place. Hall had intended to
defer the action until January 1, but,
acting upon the advice of attorneys,
he assumed his official role immedi
ately upon receipt of his certificate of
election.
According to .Manager Eager of state
university athletics, the total receipts
of the Michigan game were about $10,
300, of which the Wolverines received
a total of $5,092. The original ot
tract with that team called for 50 per
cent of the total receipts at the gate,
with the guarantee of $4,000. The
past season at the university has been
very profitable and although no figures
are yet obtainable, it is thought that
the net profits will be well up with
those of the best former year.
Many departments of state have
paid fees to the state treasurer under
the Gerdes law, a law which requires
nearly all departments to pay fees in
and which appropriates such fees for
the use of the departments. The ef
fect of the law is to compel all de
partments to make a full accounting
of all fees taken in and expended.
Some departments formerly received
large fees and expended them without
having their accounts audited by any
of the state auditing officers.
The attorney general is preparing
1 to resist the efforts of G. K De Lacy.
! administrator of the Theodore Stani
‘ sics, deceased, to revive the appeal of
Stanisics in a criminal case. The ad
ministrator alleges that if the sen
tence of seven years against Stanisics
is affirmed, the estate will have to pay
the costs. The attorney general will
contend that the administrator can
not serve the sentence if the judg
ment is affirmed. The court dismissed
the case when notice of the death of
the plaintiff in error was brought to
Its attention.
Charles E. Sert has been appointed
by the governor a delegate to the na
tional irrigation congress to be held
in Chicago.
There is a well-defined rumor
abroad to the effect that Congressman
Norris has decided not to file, but
there are none of his supporters who
have been here in the past week who
have \olced a guess as to whether or
not that is correct. Norris has not
been in the city for some time past
and has not had an opportunity to
confer with any of those who are
locally close to the plan of bis cam
paign
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
The Christian church at Beatrice
will install a $3,000 pipe organ.
Fremont sports are making efforts
to hold a dog show there after the
holidays.
The month of November, just closed,
is said to have been the coldest on
record in Nebraska.
The Platte County Corn Growers*
association will hold its meeting at
Columbus. December 15 and 16.
Naponee will have a newspaper,
J. A. Barker having moved the Wood
ruff. Kas., Sentinel to that place.
Mrs. Fannie Freeman, an old resi
dent of Fremont, who located at that
place in 1874. is dead from heart
; failure.
An association of the alumni of the
state university is to be organized in
Otoe county. There will be about
forty members to join.
Miss Grace Moore, a York news
1 paper woman, has bought the Teller
i from Frank & Son and will take up
I its management at once.
A fire at Decatur almost wiped out
! the business portion of the town, eaus
J ing a loss of $75,000. Only two busi
1 ness houses escaped destruction.
A year old baby escaped unhurt.
! but its mother was seriously injured
j when she leaped with it in her arms
: from a burning building at Omaha.
Congressman Maguire of Lincoln
j looks forward to the coming session
of congress as one of the busiest and
most important of recent congresses.
Charles Clems has been acquitted
of the murder of Frank Smith at
Franklin on the night of September
11. The jury was out eighteen hours.
Miss May Wyatt, a teacher in dis
trict No. 32. near Tekamah. had a
record-breaking basket social recent
ly, forty-three baskets having sold for
$161.
Henry Albin. living near Shubert.
has lost neatly seventy-five hogs, val
ued at $500. from cholera. Others are
reporting minor losses from the same
disease.
i N. C. Prince of Surprise was struck
; in the eye by a small piece of wire
■ and may lose liis sight. He was help
i ing unpack goods in a store when the
! accident occurred.
The nine-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Reedy of Blue Springs
was seriously injured by being tram
pled by a cow which he attempted to
lead into the lot.
Rev. W. T. Gatley of the First Meth
odist Episcopal church of Cambridge
will go to Steamboat Springs. C'olo..
as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church of that city.
The unusually large sum of $142.
000 will be distributed this month by
the Modern Woodmen and the Ancient
Order of United Workmen to the heirs
: of deceased members,
j Mrs. Angela Roach, who sued T-ong
■ Pine saloonkeepers for $25,000 for be
! ing instrumental in the death of her
husband, who was rim over by a train,
was awarded $5,000 damages.
Andrew S. Gardner has brought suit
against the city of Blue Springs for
$15,000 damages alleged to have been
sustained by hint by reason of a de
fective sidewalk in that place.
Rodney McQuary, a student at Cot
ner university, has received a unani
mous call to the pastorate of the Te
ctimseh Christian church, and will be
gin bis new duties the first of the
year.
Rev. C. Sparks of Canon City. Coio.,
and president of the Rocky Mountain
synod of the English Lutheran church,
has accepted the call extended to him
by the church of his denomination at
Auburn.
An automobile in which were rid
ing I^ee Derry, Charles Chaney and
Misses Edna and Edith Krohier of
Havelock was wrecked Sunday night
near Louisville when the machine
crashed into a bridge. None of the
party was hurt.
The retail merchants of Hastings
nro contemplating the organization of
a credit-rating bureau in the near fu
ture. The plan is to establish a secret
service and employ a central manager
who will have a record of all residents
j of the city and the telephone will be
called into use for ascertaining the
: standing of prospective customers
when credit is asked.
Lincoln—The I^ancaster County Bar
association has indorsed Roscoe B.
Pound, formerly dean of the univer
sity law school, for a place on the su
preme bench of the United States.
H. H. Wilson, F. M. Hail and J. B.
Strode were appointed a committee to
submit Dean Vound's name to Presi
dent Taft.
I he husking of corn in Hamilton
j county is proving an agreeable sur
| prise to farmers. A large pari of the
j acreage is averaging from twenty-five
; to thirty bushels to the acre. The
; September estimate was ten bushels
! per acre.
A seventy-five yard run made by
j Howard Spurrier in the last half min
I ute of the game netted the only score
' made in the Cotner academy vs. Wes
! levan academy Thanksgiving day con
: test at Wesleyan. Cotner won by a
I score of f> to 0.
The river at Nebraska City Is
j blocked with ice and dealers in that
j article are already staking out their
! fields.
Grandma Riley, who is probably the
oldest woman Mn the state, celebrated
her 111th birthday recently. She is a
colored woman and resides in Hast
ings. She enjoys good health for one
of her age and can see well.
The Presbyterian churches of Au
rora have united under the leadership
of the Aurora Sunday School associa
tion to take a religious census of the
city and country district lying within
two miles of the city limits.
The city of Teeumseh is advertising
for bids for proposed public improve
ments amounting to $29,500. ihe bonds
hating been recently voted. The im
provements will consist of an im
lroved water service with a new con
crete reservoir and sewer mains.
: Jefferson county claims the distinc
| non of naving one of the largest
sorghum factories in the United
States. This factory is located at the
little town of Kndicott and is owned
and managed by Fairchild Brothers.
It has been running for a number of
; years and the business of 1911 «x
i ceeds that of any other year.
WESTERN CANADA
FARMER SECURES
WORLD’S PRIZE
FOR WHEAT
| A ROSTHERN, SASK., FARMER
THE LUCKY WINNER.
j Sir Thomas Shaughncssy of the Ca
nadian Pacific Railway offered $1,000
In gold as a prize for the best 100 ibs.
Df wheat, grown on the American con
. ticent, to be competed for at the re
: cent Land Show in New York. In
making the competition open, the
donor of this handsome prize showed
| his belief in the superiority of Ca
nadian wheat lands, by throwing the
'-•cntest open to farmers of all Amer
ica. both United States and Canada.
I The United States railways were by
no means anxious to have the Ca
! nadian railways represented at the
: show and a New York paper comment
ing on the results of the competitions
: says that they were not to be blamed,
as the Canadians captured the most
important prize cf the show.
The winner of this big wheat prize
was Mr. Seager Wheeler of Rosthern.
! Saskatchewan, and its winning has
brought a great deal of credit on the
district. The winning wheat was the
Marquis variety, and received no more
attention from Mr. Wheeler than his
other grain, but he is a very particu
lar farmer. His farm is one of the
cleanest and best kept in the Ros
thern district, and this year he won
first prize in a good farm competition
whicli included every feature of farm
ing and every part of the farm. Last
winter Wheeler was a prize winner
at the provincial seed fair in Regina.
Wheeler is a firm believer in sow
ing clean seed of the best quality pro
curable. consequently his grain is
much sought after by the best far
mers for seed purposes.
wneeier is an Englishman. He is a
pioneer of Rosthern. coming here fif
teen years ago. In the last six years
he has done much experimenting, par
ticularly in wheat varieties. His farm
resembles an experimental farm. A
long driveway, lined on both sides
with trees, leads to a modest house,
the home of Wheeler, a modest, unas
suming man with the appearance of a
student rather than a man engaged in
commercial pursuits.
There are now no free homesteads
I to be had in this district, and farm
lands are worth from $20 to $40 per
j acre, which a few years ago were se
| cured by their present owners, either
ns a free gift or purchased at from $3
to $8 per acre.
It is not many miles from Rosthern.
I where the farmer lives, who secured
the first prize for wheat last year at
1 the National Corn Exposition at Co
i lumbus and West of Rosthern, about
i 150 miles, lives Messrs. Hill and Son.
, who won the Colorado Silver Trophy,
| valued at $1,500. for the best peck of
! oats, also awarded at the National
i Corn Show at Columbus in 1910.
Not contented with the high honors
: obtained in its wheat. Canada again
! stepped forward into the show ring.
' and carried off the Stillwell trophy
and $1,000 for the best potatoes on
; the continent. This time the winner
was a British Columbia man, Mr.
J Asahel Smith, the “Potato King," of
that province. The exhibit consisted
of ot:e hundred and one varieties
diawn from all parts of the province
aggregating in weight one and a half
tons.
At the recent Dry Farming Con
' gress. held at Colorado Springs, and
' at which time it was decided to hold
{ the next Congress at Ijethbridge. in
| 1912, the Province of Alberta made a
wonderful showing of grains, grasses
1 and vegetables.
“At the Congress. Alberta got more
prizes and trophies, ten to one, than
any state of the T’nion." said Mr.
1 Hotchkiss to the Edmonton Bulletin.
“We brought back all but the build
ing with us, and they offered us that,
saying we might as well take all that
was going. We would have brought
it along, too, if we had had a fiat car
to put it on. Alberta captured nearly
I 50 first prizes, 20 seconds. 3 thirds, 9
cups, -1C medals, 50 ribbons and 2
sweepstakes. The grand sweepstake
prize, for the best exhibit by state or
province, a magnificent silver cup.
was presented to us with much cere
mony at a reception to the Canadians
in the Empress hotel. The presenta
. tion was made by Prof. Olin. chair
man of the judging committee, and
the cup was received on behalf of the
province by the Hon. Duncan Mar
shall.
Particular Wcman.
i “She insisted on having a woman
lawjer secure her divorce.”
j "Why was she so particular?"
"She did not want to go contrary to
that portion of the marriage ceremony
that reads. ‘Let no man. put asun
der.’ ”—.ludge.
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Important to Mothers
Examine caretuiiy every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Children C’rv for Fletchers Castoria
An Acrobat He Was.
Hobby—This sailor must have been
a bit of an acrobat.
Mamina—Why. dear?
Bobby—Because the book says: 1
"Having lit bis pipe, he sat down on
his chest.”
Florida Land for sale or will trade |
for improved farm or income property.
Give complete description. J. Si. Wi -
liams, SOI City National Bank Bld g.
Omaha. Neb.
When yon bear two men talking so
loudly that they can be heard in the
next block, they are talking about
something they know nothing about.
Many people have receding gums. Rub
Hamlins Wizard Oil on gums and stop the
decay; chase tbe disease germs with a
mouth wash of a few drops to a spoonful
•f water.
Our idea of nothing to beat Is tha
fellow who brags that he begins
where we leave off!
Too many "eye opepers" will close
I a man's eyes.
SAFELY IN QUENTIN
McNamara dynamiters reach
CALIFORNIA PRISON.
trip is without incident
The Brothers. Pale and Cheerless,
Are Whisked Out cf Los Angeles
in an Automobile.
San Quentin. Cal. Tr.c McNamara
brothers on Sunday entered Sfau
Quentin penitentiary, where Janies B.
is condemned to spend the remainder
of his life for his confessed crime or
murder and where John .1.. secretary
of the International Association of
Bridge and Structural l.ron Workers,
is sentenced to fifteen years' impris
onment tor dynamiting.
It was James B. who blew up the
I .os Angeles Times building October
1, 1910, with the loss of twenty-one
lives, and John J. who abetted in
wrecking part of the Llewellyn Iren
Works in Los Angeles the fallowing
Christmas day.
i ne men entered vne prison, u it
fairly authenticated, believing that
they had achieved much for the cause
of union labor and had been cruelly
misunderstood in their effort and the
results they obtained. John J. Mc
Namara, those who have talked with
him many hours say. donned bis con
vict garb a devoted admirer of life's
little simple kindly deeds and a firm
believer in t he pyscfcological efficiency
of dynamite. James B. habitually be
lieves a good deal as his brother be
lieves. For themselves, the men
would say nothing at all.
Whirled from Los Angeles on a
fast night train, the men were taken
from it at Port Costa at sunrise Sun
day, put on a little river steamer and
landed two hours ar.d a half later at
San Quentin prison wharf on the
shores of San Pablo bay. The shac
kles which bound them together on
the boat trip were slipped off and
they toiled up the prison hill beside
Sheriff William A. Hammill of Los
Angeles county.
As the prison clock struck 10. John
J. McNamara, preceded by Warden
John Hoyle, stepped over the thres
hold of The jail door, with his brother
directly behind him.
In five minutes James B. McNamara
had become convict 25,314 and John
J. McNamara was number 25,313.
They were measured for jail clothing,
photographed in two positions, given
a carbolic tinctured bath, put into
stripes, shaved and cropped and re
photographed within a:i hour and
turned over to John Murray, lieuten
ant of the ; ard. who took them to
cell No. IS in a stone tier looking out
over the prisoners "upper yard," a
great flower garden.
Cell No. IS adjoins the tier of cells
where condemned murderers are kept
and the balcony outside is cut off by
a little gate.
Further down the row, toward the
other end, is the cell of Abraham
Ruef, who is serving a fourteen-year
sentence far bribery in connection
with the so-called San Francisco graft
cases. Reef is in cell No. 3. Cell No.
11 of the tier is Henry Dalton, for
seventeen years assessor of Alameda
county and recently convicted of ac
cepting a bribe offered, according to
the evidence, by a public service cor
poration at Dalton's solicitation.
Republicans Will Protect.
Washington.—A conference of about
twenty-five members of the republican
national committee will be held here
Monday to pretest against the old
threat to reduce soutnern representa
tion in republican national conven
tions.
Wipe Out Government Forces.
Merida, Yucatan, Mex.—Of a force
of about 150 state guards, mostly Ya
qais Indians, which engaged a band
of Rcyistas, estimated at between 400 ,
and Sunday less than a dozen escaped,
according to meager information.
Irrigation Congress.
Chicago.—Salt Lake City named
as next year’s place of meeting of the
National Irrigation congress, and Unit
ed States Senator Newlands of Neva
da wa3 elected president.
Throws Self From Skyscraper.
New York.—The man who somer
saulted from the dome of the World
buildins to death on the sidewaik Wed
nesday was identified Sunday as
Price Lewis, said to be the first feder
al spy of the civil war.
Alton Train is Derailed.
Higgins burg. Mo.—Chicago & Alton i
railway passenger No. 21, known as ;
the “red flyer,'' was derailed near
Alma, ten miles from here. Several
passengers were injured.
Conscience Contribution.
Washington.—For the first time in
months the treasury department re
ceived a ‘'conscience'' contribution
when a one-dollar note, enclosed in
an envelope postmarked Springfield
Mo., was returned to the national
fund without explanation.
Semi-Annual Tobacco Census.
Washington.—The Cantrii! bill, au-j
tborizing the taking of a semi-annual ;
tobacco census under the direction of
the census bureau passed the house
on the Sth.
Plunged Into Volga River.
St. Petersburg.—Between 150 and
200 workmen were plunged into the
Volga river through the collapse of a
railroad bridge near Kazan. The
bridge, which was in course or con
struction, was carried away by the
pressure of ice.
Fourteen of Crew Drowned.
London.—Fourteen members of the
crew of the Belgian steamer Vandyke
were drowned when she was wrecked
off the British coast on the Sth oi
December.
SOME CRUEL i\Ud UNUSUAL
Double Penalty Threatened for Those
Who Dared to Interfere With
the Wires.
Rotorua has been laughing over the
wording of a notice that has been
placed by the public works department
on some of the electric v.irc posts on
the road to Okere. in New Zealand.
Some time ago a Maori youth, win:
seemed to have n misguided taste for
experimenting, threw a long piece of
cable over the electric wires that run
to Rotorua from the power station at
the Okere falls.
The town was at once plunged in
darkness for two or three hours until
the mischief had been located
The- dusky and youthful experiment
er was carpeted in the court and fined
for his scientific enthusiasm, and the
department put up this notice:
"Any persons climbing the electric
light poles or damaging the insulators
are liable to a fatal shock and a penal
ty of i: 10."—Tit-Bits.
Not for Earthly Ears.
Doctor Reed, a minister, was open
ing the Sunday morning service at
his church with the usual prayer.
While he was in the midst of it a
stranger entered the church and took
a seat far back.
Doctor Reed was praying in a -low
note, and the man in the rear, after
straining his ears for a while, called
out: "Pray louder. Doctor Reed. I
can't hear you.”
Doctor Reed paused, opened his
eyes and turned them around until
they rested on the man in the rear.
Then he said: "I was not addressing
you, sir; i was speaking to God.”—
I-oiidon Watchdog.
New View of It.
“I envy the man who believes that
superstition about Friday,” said Mr.
Groweher.
“I consider it depressing."
"Xot at all. A man ought to be
mighty comfortable who can feel sure
there's only one unlucky day in the
week.”
Decidedly Novel.
Ella—It was a novel proposal.
Stella—What did he say?
Ella—That he begged the proud
privilege of getting up mornings to
build the tire for me.
A Sticker.
“Say, pa?”
“What is it?”
"Does it take sixty minute men to
make one man of the hour?”
Judging from her passion for hats,
how can a woman expect to be happy
in heaven and make one halo last her
through eternity?
After a woman living in a smalt
towyn has visited in the city for a cou
ple of weeks she calls her hired girl
a maid.
"It isn't until a man reaches the age
of discretion that he discovers be can
have a good time without suffering for
it the next morning.
A man arrested for vagrancy nat
urally has a pinched look.
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