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The Lonp City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
VOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA
FOR THE BUS! MAN
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NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign Intelligence Con*
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
CONGRESS.
President Wilson has sent a num
ber of nominations for confirmation.
Suffrage sub-committee continues
its hearing on suffrage parade police
protection.
Senator Penrose gave notice that a
very vigorous request for hearings on
the tariff bill would be made.
James Hamilton Lewis has been
sworn in as senator from Illinois and
appointed to privileges and elections
and District of Columbia committee.
Senator Hughes introduced a bill to
admit Dr. F. F. Friedmann to practice
medicine in the District of Columbia
without the usual examination.
Senator Works, speaking on his bill
to prevent District of Columbia news
papers from printing details of crime,
vigorously attacked present-day jour
nalism and newspapers.
GENERAL.
Two sailors of the United States
truiser California were killed and
three others wounded in a street fight
at Mazatlan. a Pacific coast port in
Mexico.
Two of the silk mills now idle be
cause of the strike of 25,000 workers
for more pay and shorter hours are
leaving Paterson. N. J. One, belong
ing to the firm of Aronson & Bloom.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad at a meetin in Philadelphia !
passed a resolution authorizing a 10
per cent stock issue amounting to
about $43,000,000.
Mary Webb, 19 years old, sister of
Robert Webb, the most daring of the
automobile bandits who terrorized
Chicago last winter, will enter a con
vent as atonement for the crimes of
her brother.
An earthquake lasting several sec
onds was experienced at Salt Lake
City recently. Telephone operators
on the fifth floor of the Telephone
building reported that their transmit
ters were rocked by the force of the
shock.
Prosecution under the Mann white
slave act is threatened for a young
married man of Kearney, Neb., follow
ing the confession at Sioux City, la.,
by his cousin, a 15-year-old girl, that
she had accepted money from him
with which she was to pay her ex
penses to join him.
For the third time in his reign,
King Alfonso of Spain narrowly es
caped being the victim of an an
archistic attempt against his life.
Three shots were fired at the king in
the streets of the capital by a native
of Barcelona, Rafael Sanchez Allegro,
who was immediately overpowered.
The king was not injured.
Hundreds of corporations will be
relieved from paying the federal cor
poration tax by a decision of the su
preme court to the effect that corpo
rations leasing all their property
and having no income except that
yielded by the lease, are not “doing
business” and therefore are not sub
ject to the tax.
Mrs. William Cuming Story of New
York, head of the conservative party,
failed by six votes of the necessary
majority to elect her president general
of the Daughters of the American Re
volution on the second ballot, which
began Friday. The vote stood: Mrs.
William Cumming Story, 574; Mrs.
John Miller Horton (administration
candidate), 642; Mrs. Charles B.
Bryan, 42.
Three congressional investigations
have been proposed. Representative
Lobeck asked for an investigation of
the “extortionate prices the govern
ment is compelled to pay for eleva
tors in the various government build
ings. Representative Clark of Flor
ida asked for the appointment of a
special committee to probe various
Special commissions and make recom
mendations to abolish them. Repre
sentative Austin proposed an investi
gation of the stemming district to
bacco associations with headquarters
at Henderson, “as alleged combina
tion in restraint of trade.”
Higher prices for cold storage
products have been the rule ever
since the industry became commer
cially importrant as shown by data
for more than thirty years back col
lected by the Department of Agricul
ture. t
Immigration officials at Philadel
phia were startled when Rudolph
Gertzen, a German farmer, in reply to
the question as to whether or not he
had $25, which is necessary before im
migrants can land, carelessly pulled ou
of his pocket $14,000.
Fire that destroyed four large
buildings and caused a loss estimated
at $300,000 in the Kansas state peni
tentiary at Lansing, Kan., was spread
by convicts who scattered burning
papers in buildings not in the path
of the frames, according to a state
ment by Fire Chief Michael Bahler of
Leavenworth.
Brooks Henderson, former United
States senator from Missouri and au
thor of the thirteenth amendment to
the United States qonstitution, died
at a hospital in Washington from a
complication of disorders. He was 86
years old.
John E. W. Wayman, former state’s
attorney of Cook county. Illinois, and
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for governor at the last primary,
who shot himself in his home in Chi
cago, died. Death was caused by
hemorrhage of the lungs. Mr. Wayman
had been sinking steadily since the
ahcoting.
The Citizens State tank at Priest,
Idaho, was robbed of $2,000.
The National Council of Women,
which includes sixteen independent
women’s organizations and many sep
arate branches, held a three-day ses
sion in Washington recently.
Uncle Joe Cannon, wearing a new
grey felt hat, is in Washington on his
first visit as a private citizen in near
ly forty years.
There is as yet no conclusive evi
dence that the Friedmann treatment
is worth a penny to any pulmonary
consumptive who is seeking an abso
lute and positive cure.
The Scotland Yard authorities,
London, are convinced that Joseph
Wilberforce Martin, the millionaire
cotton king of Memphis. Tenn., was
murdered and his body thrown in the
Thames.
The low'er house of the New York
legislature passed a bill to pay $1 a
day for each day’s imprisonment to
persons who are pardoned by the gov
ernor and who in the opinion of the
executive are innocent.
Militant suffragists who destroy
property shculd be placed in insane
asylums instead of jails, as their ac
tions indicate nervous derangement.
This statement is made in the current
issue of the Journal of the American
Medical association, Chicago.
The Minnesota house passed the
workmen's compensation bill already
passed by the senate, providing $10 a
week benefit for workmen disabled
while performing their duty. The bill
now gees to the governor for his sig
nature.
Fefinite plans for the construction
of one of the biggest and most expen
sive hotels in the world are said to
have been completed for Chicago’s
down town district. The new hos
telry is to cost $9,000,000, and will be
built at the southeast corner of Clark
and Madison streets.
An air oiast generated oy me iau
of 3,000,000 tens of capping at the
Miami mine at Globe, Arizona, killed
three miners and injured 100 others,
four probably fatally. The blast was
so terrific that ore cars were blown
from twenty-five to 100 feet along tun
nels 500 feet below the surface.
Twine binders that sold at $225
w’hen introduced thirty years ago de
creased $100 in price down to the for
mation of the International Harvester
company in 1902 and since that time
have increased slightly in price, ac
cording to testimony cf witnesses on
cross-examination at a session of the
hearing in the government’s dissolu
tion suit in Kansas City.
A new policy in filing vacancies in
the position of irrigation manager and
assistant has been adopted by Secre
tary Lane of the interior department
by w’hich these positions hereafter
will be filled through civil service
commission examinations, instead of
by advancement of men connected
with the construction of irrigation
works.
Albert C. Frost, former president
and promoter of the Alaska Central
railroad, and his four co-defendants,
George M. Seward, Pierre G. Beach,
Frank Watson and George C. Ball, all
interested in the development of the
road, were found not gpilty in the fed
eral court in Chicago of conspiracy
to obtain illegally millions of dollars’
worth of coal lands in the Matanuska
Valley, Alaska.
Miss Belle Sams of Pasadena, Cal.,
was the victim of a peculiar series
of accidents, all occurring within the
space of a couple of seconds. While
washing dishes Miss Sams dropped a
soup tureen on her foot, breaking one
of the bones. She put out an arm to
save herself from falling and struck
the edge of the kitchen sink so vio
lently that the arm was broken. Col
lapsing in a faint, the young woman
fell to the floor in such manner that
one of her legs was twisted under her
and broken.
The Presbyterian parsonage at To
ledo, 111., was dynamited recently. The
Rev. W. H. Wilson and his wife, who
were in the house at the time, escap
ed with slight bruises. Wilson has
been a vigorous foe of saloons.
orUnT.
All of the classic events of former
horse racing days, the Suburban,
Metropolitan and Brooklyn handicaps,
the Lawrence realization and other
fatures, are to be renewed during the
eighteen days racing, which will be
tried at Belmont park, New York, be
ginning on Decoration day.
Luther McCarty, the heavyweight
champion claimant, and Frank Moran
of Pittsburg, have been matched for
a ten-round bout in New York.
Bud Anderson of Oregon won from
“Knockout” Brown of New York by a
clean knockout, in the fifteenth round
of their scheduled twenty-round light
weight bout in Los Angeles.
The Montana state athletic commis
sion, appointed under the state boxing
law, organized and adopted rules for
the elimination of brutality, betting at
the ringside and the sale of liquor.
Atlanta police commissioners stop
ped the scheduled ten-round bout be
tween Abe Attell, former feather
weight champion, and Benny Kauff
man of Philadelphia in the seventh
round.
Henry Ordemann and Jess Wester
gaard made short work of a wrest
ling match in Des Moines. Ia., Wester
gaard winning the first fall in 13
minutes and Ordemann the second
and third in 17 and 18 minutes.
Jack Britton of Chicago outpointed
Matty Baldwin, the Boston light
weight, on a one-sided ten-round bout
in Chicago.
George (Knockout) Brown, the Chi
cago middleweight, outfought Billy
Grupp of St. Louis in a ten-round pre
liminary, while Wilie Beecher of New
York outpointed “One-Round” Hogan,
the California lightweight, in another.
Johnny Summers, lightweight of
England, defeated Alfred Goodwin in
Sydney, Australia, in the ninth round
of a scheduled 20 round go. Goodwin
was out-classed from start to finish.
The match was stopped because of the
poor showing Goodwin made.
Senator Norris favors a reduction
in the duty on wheat, but opposes
free flour as proposed by the Under
wood bill.
Bert Fagin, the California middle
weight, knocked out Bid Daley of Co
lumbus, O., in the sixth round of a
scheduled tsn- round bout in Los
Angeles.
PRESIDENT IS
WATCHING JAPAN
MR. WILSON READS WITH INTER
EST DISPATCH FROM TOKIO.
RETALIATION IS DEMANDED
The Bill by California Legislature
Becomes Increasingly
Serious.
Washington.—President Wilson is
keeping in touch with the situation
in Japan and California. He read
with interest the dispatches from
Tokio expressing the popular feeling
against the bill, and studies the text
of the pending measures as well as a
synopsis of similar laws in New' York
and Texas. The president told his
callers that the federal government,
of necesssity, must refrain from inter
ference with California, while in the
process of legislating and could not
make its attitude known to inquirinf
nations until the bills were passed.
He added, however, that if any im
pression had been circulated in Japan
that the administration here had be
come indifferent to the developments
in California, such a view was unjus
tified and that judgment as to the
measures should be withheld until
they are finally framed and passed.
In the meantime the president de
clared that every effort was being
made to keep in communication in
formally with the California legisla
ture. It is unlikely that the presi
dent will communicate his views di
rectly or take any step that will in
terfere with the legislative process,
but he hopes through members of
congress here to do his utmost to
prevent any obvious violation of
treaty obligations. Should treaty
rights be violated, he is hopeful that
Japan will withhold judgment until
the American courts have dealt with
the question.
Outbursts unwarranted.
Government officials appear to look
upon the popular outburst in Tokio
as unwarranted at this time. The
federal government fully intends to
give Japanese protection and privi
lege accorded foreigners under the
favored nation principle of its treat
ies. Diplomatic circles here are
alive to the situation and some of the
more prominent embassies and lega
tions have been ordered to keep
their embassies advised of every ac
tion.
Japan Talking cf War.
Tokio.—The situation brought
about by the California bill has be
come increasingly serious. A mass
meeting composed for the most part
of irresponsible people, demanded
the most extreme measures of retal
iation by Japan. During the gather
ing the singing of war songs aroused
the feelings of many of the lower
classes who were present.
Anonymous writers in the newspa
pers give an outline of plans for the
seizure of the Philippines and Ha
waii, and at the same time denounce
the Japanese government’s submiss
ive attitude. It is said that the
changed conditions in Japan make it
impossible for the government to re
strain the newspapers and the lower
classes.
On the other hand, government cir
cles are showing a friendly spirit.
Hamilton Wright Mabie of New York,
Dr. Peabody and John L. Mott, secre
tary of the international committee
of the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation, were the guests of a lunch
eon given by Baron Noboaki Makono,
the foreign minister, at which some
of the most prominent Japanese and
Americans were present. A very cor
dial feeling prevailed.
Mrs. Story Chosen Leader.
Washington, D. C.—Mrs. William
Cumming Story of New York, head of
the conservative faction, has been
elected president general of the so
ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, defeating Mrs John
Miller Horton of Buffalo, the ad
ministration candidate, on the third
ballot. The vote stood: Mrs. Story
600, Mrs. Horton 449.
Scott, Negro, Gets Appointment
Springfield, 111.—Wiliam T. Scott,
the only negro ever nominated for
president of the United States by a
regularly constituted delegation, rep
resenting ‘ thirty-seven states, has
been placed upon the house pay roll
as a janitor.
Wilson Heads Boy Scouts.
Washington.—President Wilson has
accepted the honorary presidency of
the Boy Scouts of America. He ex
pressed interest in the work and
promised his active support.
Nebraska Postmasters Appointed.
Washington.—Nebraska postmasters
appointed: Linscott, Blaine county,
Hattie L. Boggs, vice G. L,. Dean, re
signed; Pepper Creek, Dawes county,
David H. Berg, new office; Schill,
Sheridan county, C. E. Bensckoter,
vice G. E. Bensckoter, resigned.
Georgetown and Harvard Tie.
Washington.—Harvard and George
town played twelve fast innings to a
4-4 tie in Washington, the game being
called by agreement to let the visit
ors catch a train.
Pope’s Condition Better.
Rome.—Medical skill and strong vi
tality have combined to bring about
a change for the better in the condi
tion of Pope Pius. The official bul
letins issued relieved present anxiety,
but there are softie who are skeptical
and fear a third relapse.
Fly Across Sahara.
Biskra, Algeria.—Four military
aeroplanes piloted by lieutenants ol
the French army have arrived here
after a 500-mile trip over the Sahara
desert. ,
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Coming Events In Nebraska.
May 8 to 10—Annual Convention
Mississippi Valley Historical Associa
tion, Omaha.
May 20, 21 and 22.—Thirty-seventh
Encampment G. A. R., Fremont
Smallpox has developed in the
county jail at Omaha.
A fire in Bloomfield recently did
damage to the amount of $14,000.
Patrick Murray, an old pioneer of
Washington county, died recently at
Blair.
A new telephone exchange is being
built in Holdrege.
The city council of Wymore in reg
ular session swore in the newly elect
ed city officials.
Charles Blank, son of Jacob Blank
pf Lyons, was killed by gas at Arlee,
Mont., April 5.
Roscoe Fuller of Fremont is in jail
there, charged with passing a check
drawn for GO cents for $60.
The University of Omaha opened
Its baseball season by defeating the
Deaf and Dumb institute 10 to 0.
Charles Boldt, a young farmer aged
36, of Grand Island, killed himself
with a 22-rifle. It is believed his mind
was temporarily deranged.
The Burlington is contemplating
building a line from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
to Banner county. Nebraska.
The bill authorizing the issuance
pf bonds of $1,000,000 for the resto
ration of tornado-wrecked homes in
Omaha was passed by the house.
Rev. -N. P. Swanberg, pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran church of Holdrege
and president of the Nebraska confer
ence, died at his home in that city.
The Nebraska Peace Oratorical as
sociation will hold its annual meeting
on Friday evening, April 18, in
Omaha.
The appointment of Frank Cox as
postmaster at Sutherland is the first
federal plum given Nebraska by Presi
dent Wilson.
The women of Nebraska City have
shipped to the Dundee relief station
three barrels of canned fruit for
distribution.
ueorge A. Losev, representative
rrom Dodge county in the state legis
lature, will move from Fremont to Ha
german, N. M.
The Rev. James A. Duff}*, rector of ;
3t. Mary’s cathedral at Kearney since j
1904, has been consecrated bishop of t
the newly created Catholic diocese at ;
Kearney.
Although snow has predominated at
Broken Bow for the last few days, !
spring is starting this year under fa- '
vorable auspices so far as the condi- i
tion of the ground is concerned.
At least fifteen families living in the '
lower river bottoms near the foot cf i
Burt street, Omaha, are homeless, ;
made so by the steady rise of the \
Missouri waters.
Tne Cnion Pacific is to make a
vast experimental dry-farming terri
tory of its 400-foot right-of-way from
Denver to the Kansas line in Colo
rado.
The baseball season opened at Ash- i
land with a game between the Ashland |
High school and Benson High school
teams. Score, 10 to 0 in favor of
Ashland.
Palmer’s bill permitting 20,000 or
more members of a fraternal insur
ance association to secede and form
an independent organization passed
the house today on third reading,
67 to 20.
In order to break up a practice of
loitering on the streets and making in
sulting remarks to women and girls
who pass, Policeman Charley Pipkin
in Omaha sent ten young men to po
lice headquarters.
Since the tornado, 2.000 changes in
address have been filed at the post
office in Omaha, showing that more
than 5,000 people have been com
pelled to abandon their homes on ac
count of the storm.
The per capita value of Nebraska
farm property is 56.5 per cent more
than the average valuation of the ten
states of the corn-belt. These states
are: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri
and Kansas.
* Mayor W. D. Haller of Blair was
taken to St. Joseph’s hospital in
Omaha, suffering from a severe case
of hemorrhage of the bladder. Mr
Haller had been ailing for several
days, but was not taken seriously ili
until Friday.
Fielding a perfect game, outhitting
the Grizzlies more than two to one
playing inside ball and stealing bases
successfully, Omaha closed its pro
season schedule in a blaze of glory,
winning the third victory over the
western league champions. 6 to 1.
Nebraska stands second in the pei
capita value of the corn crop; Ne
braska’s com crop brings an annual
per capita value to her farmers of 45.5
per cent more than the average ol
these ten states.
Nebraska stands second in per cap
ita value of the wheat crop; in yield
per acre, Nebraska leads Kansas, hei
chief competitor, 25 per cent annually
in bushels per acre. The per capita
value of the Nebraska wheat crop is
94.7 per cent more than the average
of the corn-belt states.
The April edition of the Railway
Journal, published in Chicago, contain
ed a picture of engine No. 906 and the
Rock Island shop force at Fairbury
standing on a large turntable in the
Fairbury yards.
Km ploy es of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company who
raised about $1,500 among themselves
; for relief from the tornado's effect,
1 were given $1,500 more by officials of
the company. Since that the com
pany has given $4,500, and President
Wattles has sent $500 from Califor
nia. This makes a grand total of
about $8,000.
Having passed the century mark
by nine days, Mrs. Mariah Riddle,
mother of J. A. Ramsey of Beatrice,
died recently.
An aged man was found frozen
under a large snow drift in the yards
west of the new’ round house grounds
at North Platte.
Roy Wolfe, who broke into Gus
Cocke’s store at York and stole a
motorcycle, and who was captured a
couple of miles east of York after a
running fight with the officers, has
been taken to the reform school at
Kearney, he being only fourteen years
of age.
WOULD SUE FORMED
SUPERINTENDENT
"MANUEL SHOULD PAY FOR LIVE
STOCK”—COMMITTEE.
RECKLESS WASTE IS CHARGED
Business Methods In Vogue at Kear
ney Industrial School Said
to Be Poor.
Lincoln.—Characterizing the busi
ness methods at the Kearney Indus
trial school under the Manuel admin
istration of the past four years as
worse than those in vogue at the most
slovenly-kept and antique "corner
grocery,” and averring that it would
have been cheaper foT the state to
have quartered its bad boys at the
most expensive Lincoln hotel, mem
bers of the special senate investigat
ing committee brought in a report in
which severe criticism is passed upon
C. B. Manuel.
The report was adopted following
perfunctory discussion. In part the
castigation offered much information
on the conduct of the boys’ school dur
ing the years 1909, 1910, 1911 and
1912. The members. Senators Placek,
Wink and Spirk, recommended that
further facts be gained by the state
board of public lands and buildings,
and that such action be taken as is
deemed proper by those state officials.
It is recommended that the attorney
general start immediate action for
the recovery of $1,300, which the com,
mittee believes should be paid back
to the state by Mr. Manuel. The report
in part, says:
"No method was used to keep sepa
rate the money expended for different
items, and no way to determine daily
the amount of supplies on hand, for
the reason that the steward delivers
such articles to the cook and heads of
different departments without making
a requisition therefor.
Reckless waste ot runus.
“The items of expenditure disclose
a reckless waste of public funds and
gross incompetency in every respect.
“The institution cash fund fails in
nearly every instance to disclose to
whom, or at what price, stock or grain
was sold. No receipts are given for
money received, which should be done.
“The amount paid for coal during
the first six months of 1912 shows an.
expenditure of $0,102.10.
“The institution has at all times
from sixty-five to eighty-five head of
cattle, of which thirty head are milch
cows, and yet the butter and egg ac
count for the first nine months of 1912
shows an expenditure of $951.
“Mr. Manuel appears to have en
joyed traveling at state expense, and
the account for traveling expenses
during his four years of tenure
amounts to $2,244.92. and in addition
to the above item the state paid for
the return of runaway boys during the
same period the sum of $2,318.87.
“The law provides that each head
of an institution shall make a requi
sition for supplies each month, but
Mr. Manuel did not trust the state
board and found it necessary to ex
pend $1,079.18 for trips to Lincoln for
buying purposes.
Sold Calves at Half Value.
“Mr. Manuel was a believer in re
ducing the high cost of living and
hence sold everything cheap. On Sep
tember 27, 1910, he sold thirty-two
calves, 6 to 7 months old, and eight
cows, for $415, or $10.90 a head, being
about 2 per cent per pound or one-half
of their value. This sale was made
to a son of one of the employes.
“The testimony before the commit
tee shows that in addition to the thir
ty-two calves and eight cows, there
were six heifers, and the bill of lad
ing of the Union Pacific railroad at
Kearney shows that forty-six head
were shipped out. Mr. Manuel has
failed to account to the state for the
six heifers. On October 1, 1912, he
sold twenty-five calves, twenty of
which were 6 to 7 months old, for the
sum of $250, being about one-half of
their real value. On December 30,
1910, Mr. Griffen, an employe, bought
and crated a three-months'-old calf,
which has never been accounted for.
In September, 1910, a cow was sold to
Mr. Fairchild, an employe, for $30,
which sum has not been accounted for.
There are twenty-three horses at the
institution, many more than necessary,
and Mr. Manuel sold two work horses
for $170 and purchased a riding
horse for $225, used exclusively by his
daughter.
“The state had a typewriter on
hand, but Mr. Manuel conceived the
idea of renting his own machine to the
stenographer and drawing vouchers
from the state for $45 each month and
compelling the stenographer to pay
him $5 a month, thereby getting $240
for the use of his machine during his
te rm."
Crushed by Heavy Weight.
Hastings.—A. R. Harkins, aged 50,
was instantly killed when a tank con
taining about 000 pounds dropped
on him. Harkins, who was employed
at a Hastings dairy, was engaged in
washing bottles directly beneath the
large water tank when the support
holding the tank broke, letting the
entire load fall on him. L. J. Mcore,
proprietor, hearing the noise, rushed
in from another room only to find
the man dead. Coroner .1. V. Begh
tol was called and decided that an
inquest was unnecessary.
Bills Passed.
H. R. 752—By Potts: Corporation
tax bill, one-tenth of 1 per cent of
capital stock per annum. Passed 60
to 12.
H. R. 380—By Bartels and others:
Appropriates cash funds and other re
ceipts of four state normals to theii
respective current expenses. Passed
84 to 0.
H. 321—By Morris: To create a
state live stock sanitary board and to
increase the salary of the deputy state
veterinarian, a salary of $2,400.
KUKUHUHUS LITTLE KNOWN
Mysterious Race Who Live In New
Guinea, Refuse to Meet Europe
ans In Their Camps.
London.—Dr. Bruno Beheim gives
the following description of the mys
terious and little known race of the
Kukuhuhus of New Guinea: The Ku
kuhuhus live in a part of English ter
ritory through which runs the River
Qukheamu and which is situated near
the German boundary. This territory
is looked upon by the said race as
their inalienable birthright, and ev
ery usurper is regarded with hostile
eyes. No European has been able to
meet the Kukuhuhus in their dwelling
places. Prospectors and English of
ficials have made repeated attempts
to approach them, but their camps
were invariably found empty, often
with the camp fires still burning.
Many a time have Europeans left
presents highly prized by other na
tives, such as corals, red cloth, look
ing glasses, axes, etc.. In the deserted
camps, in the hope of establishing
friendly relations with these people.
But on returning to the same places
i few day or a few w'eeks later, al
though the camp showed recent traces
Df occupation, such as live cinders
icd fresh footprints, the goods intend
i .-. 1 i
Wild Scenery In New Guinea.
ed for presents remained untouched
where they had beer, placed.
Other races of New fluinea fear tha
Kukuhuhus as poison. They have
learned to their cost what it means
to cross the boundary. Some disap
pear for all time, while others are
found dead, thrust through with spear
wounds. The Kukuhuhus, however,
do a bartering trade with other na
tives in the following way: The lat
ter bring salt, earthenware, dried
fish, etc., and deposit them in a cer
tain indicated place. They then re
tire for a few hours, being notified to
do so by a curious cry from the dis
tance. The timid mountain dwellers
then descend to view the goods offered
for sale. If they want them they put
down other goods, such as skins,
feathers and other jungle produce
next to those articles wanted by them.
Then they retire in turn, and when
the way seems clear the coast dwell
ers approach again. If the latter are
satisfied with what Is offered in ex
change they take the goods put down
by the mountain people and go away:
If not satisfied they retire again as
before with empty hands. These
business transactions between wild
races show a sense of honor that re
sembles careful thought.
Doctor Beheim regards the Kuku
tiuhus as the most remarkable of the
ethnological wonders of New Guinea,
and he was not successful in discov
ering the secret of their origin.
LIFE FOR THEFT OF BACON
An Ohio Convict Went Insane Before
Pardon Came—May Spend Days
in Asylum.
Columbus. O.—William Welch, thir
ty-five years old. the man who re
ceived a life sentence in the peniten
tiary for stealing a piece of bacon, is
no longer a convict. Governor Cox
announced his pardon. But the gover
nor could not restore Welch’s reason,
which has fled after five years In
prison. It is likely that the unfortu
nate man will have to spend the re
mainder of his days in the asylum.
Six years ago Welch, a New York
City waif, was caught with a piece of
bacon, valued at one dollar, which he
had stolen from a farmer at Green
ville. because, he said, he was hungry
and unable to obtain work.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of
burglary, believing that leniency
would be shown him. Instead, Judge
Allread sentenced him to a life term.
Application for his pardon was signed
by Judge Allread and the prosecuting
attorney.
DENTIST WEDS APPLE EATER
Dr. Thomas Allen, Who Lived Twc
Months on Peanuts. Bride
groom in Missouri.
Dr. Allen, former president of Aurora
college, who lived 60 days on pea
nuts, and Miss Lillian Suehr of Ot
tawa. who is said to have existed 92
days on apples, were married in Eu
reka Springs, Mo., where Dr. Allen is
proprietor of a sanitarium.
The bridegroom is fifty years old.
his bride is twenty years his junior.
The bride was a stenographer for
years for Lee O’Neil Browne, Ottawa
legislator. She went to Eureka Springs
last fall for the benefit of her health,
and while there met Dr. Allen.
Dr. Allen four years ago read that
a boy In the central part of the state
had died from eating peanuts.
"Why, that must be wrong; I could
live 60 days on raw peanuts,” he
said.
His statement was challenged, and
he went on the exclusive goober diet
to prove his contention.
Plan to Aid Midget Mascot.
Baltimore. — Anxious that little
Hughie Golden, the sixteen-year-old
midget of Old Nassau's baseball team
shall have a chance to develop phys
ically like other boys of his age, the
students of Princeton university are
preparing to have the lad undergo
treatment. Golden is but two and s
half feet in height, having been in
Jared when a child.
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Her Weapon Gone.
Hewitt—I hear that your wife has
lost her voice.
Jewett—Yes; she is a non-combat
ant now.
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Take advantage of this liberal offer
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Most Intensive.
“Do you believe in intensive gar
dening, Mrs. Hoehake?” asked the vis
itor.
“Well, rather,” said Mrs. Hoerake.
"I spent all last winter raising one
genanium in a soap box.”—Harper’s
Weekly.
The Right of the Strong.
Three-year-old George and his sis
ter, slightly older, were having a tete
a-tete luncheon. "Why,” she demand
ed, ’’do you take the last ginger-snap,
when you've had two and I haven’t
had any?" The young philosopher
pondered for a moment, then conde
scended to elucidate.
"Because,” he said, kindly, "I’m a
boy and you’re a girl."
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