LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. LIST OPEN TO PATRONS AT ALL TIMES. Loup City Northwestern i THANKS YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ALL ITEMS OF NEWS YOU" MAY'CONTRIBUTE VOLUME XXXII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. January 15 1914. NUMBER 10 KICKED TO DEATH BY A HORSE i L V. leatiy of Baa#-, Fonoedy of ttwuo County, Fatally Injurod Hot Year's Bay by the Kick of a Horse. LEAVES WIFE All LITTLE BADfilTER. Word was rrenvfd here' last week of the terrible death of I. W. Huadlev near Doniphan. this stale, on the 3rd instant, following the iiK-k of a horse on New Year's morning. From K. L. Walker, a brother in-law of the unfortunate nan. ve learn the following particulars: On New Years morning Mr. Huadlej. who vas employed on the farm of Alfred Cleal. near Doniphan, went to the stable as usual to feed the horses. As he attempted to drive a usually gen tie family horse into its stai!. the animal Lurried to <*»e side instead. Mr Hoad ley. at this slapped the animal gently with a glove along the fore-quarters, wlien it sudden ly turned and kicked him with all force in the stomach. The injured mas was tak~fi to the In-use and a physician summoned but after lin gering in agony till the 3rd instant, g «ngr*-ne set in and he died that afternoon. Ills funeral occurred the '•th instant. Dece ssl left a young wife and 3-year-old daugh ter. who are at present making their home with the wife's sister, Mrs. R. L. Walker, four miles •ast of this city. Deceased was aged 2o years, 10 months and 10 days. Deceased formerly lived in •Sherman county, farming in the north part of the county. Last spring he left here and went to Doniphan. He was well and favor ably known by a large number of people living in this and Valley county. He leaves a father and notlier at Julesburg, Colo., be 'i le> rive brothers and two sisters in Sherman county and distant points. ANOTHER CHAPTER IN WESTSIDE TROUBLES Today is the date set for another chapter in the cases arising out of the Litchfield troubles. It will be rcmeinlier-d that a few weeks ago comp’aints were filed against Jos. Cording and Clias. A. Potter, charging them with sales of intox icating liquors, being the first one against Mr. Cording and the sec ond complaint against Mr. Potter. As in the preliminary hearings heretofore on the Litchfield cases, we opine defendants will refuse to plead and lie bound over-to the coming term of district court, which is set for February 24th next, but we go to press to early to give facts of today's hearing. BITCHES FALLS INTO SCALDING VAT J«r Falta. butcher for the Frank Gnm :nrti market, was badly scalded Last evening at tbe slaugh ter house along the nr» r. when he accidentally fell into tlie scalding rat which contained a large aaount of water heated to a tem perature of 140 degrees. It is probable that F-tlta would hare been scalded to death had Ire not had on a pair of hip hoots and bearr clothing. These protected him coasidenng and even at that Fait* is in q tile a serious condition. Thr accident hspjened quite Late in the evening. Falta was dressing a killing of large hogs. Tuejr were a little bit larger than he co ild handle easily. Mr. Gross ha I been out to tbe slaughter bous - a short tune Itefore and had come to town to send out another man to must Fait*. However. Fait* w ut on wording and was attemp ting to pull a large carcass into the vat. which is a bricked up pit. a Ml be was standing on tbe edge *ucn the book, with which be was handling th* animal, pulled out and b uest over backwards inn. the scalding water. Spurred lii immediate action Falta scramb led o it of the water an 1 tearing off his clothes rushed out onto the ice ta the nver and laying down robed over several time-. Almost every place on tbe -nan's boiy where the skin is thin is quite badir burned and b* suffer ed ialeti-.-iy. He was immediate ly brought to town and taken to a doctor a here it was found that his barns were of the first degree. It is believed that be will get along splendid} r without serious cum pi i cations. Li is e.ansidrrod a wonder that be was act burned worse than he TO tlKKO IPEIA noi FN HEIIIA We aedenuod Jot. Curding, who n bw with bis family from Litchfield today, will leave U> —irmr ounuf for Omaha where he will undergo an Jfir ration for hernia, which is of lung standing. He will leave his wife and little tews with her parents. Mr. sod Mrs. A- M. Bennett, till he re tana from the hospital. We sin trust Mr. Cording will pass safely thnrrg^ the ordeal and it bo must DRUGS WIFE BURNS HOME Arnold Mm Arrested on Grnvo Charge -Wife doroformed Nearly Loses Life in Burning Hone. INSURED FOR $25,DNJ0 Kearney, Neb., Jan. 8—Deputy Fire Commissioner H. T. Raquart te arrested T. J. Cahill at Arnold this noon and brought his prison er to Kearne.v this afternoon. On Monday the home of Cahill was burned and his wife, whc had been drugged and chloroformed, nearly lost her life in the tire. The blaze was discovered by neighbors, who rushed to the Ca hill home and rescued Mrs. Cahill just before the fire reached where she lay unconscious. Mrs. Cahill was worked over for hours before she revived and since that time has been hysterical. The home was undoubtedly set on fire and Cahill is now charged with the firing in order to obtain the insurance. The’ home was worth 825,000 and was insured to full value. A rigid investigation is being made to find how far Ca hill may be involved in the at tempted murder. The home was fired in several places, the smell of kerosene and of the drug being very strong when discovered and such evidence against Cahill is held by the commissioner to hold him until an investigation can be made. Raquartte is reticent regarding evidence against Ca fill, but stated that he thought *‘lt was a plain case of attempted murder and ar son.” _ . . _ ___ _ Cahill will held be at Lincoln, to which place he was taken, until Mrs. Cahill is able to tell herstory about the fire and drugging. Undefeated Wrestler To Meet Miller Saturday evening of this week, at the opera house in this city there will be a finish wrestle be tween Warren Miller of this city and George Mullen of Alda, this state. Mr. Mullen comes to us an undefeated wrestler, as we under stand, being winner in every con test he has been in. Our people know Warren Miller, and the event Is likely to prove a mighty pretty contest from start to finish. Mullen weighs 186 pounds and has been up against some of the best mat artists in the state. Miller weighs 188 pounds, and Mullen will have to go some to down him, with chances that the latter will witness his first defeat and at the hands of »ur loca man. If you are interested in the game be out Saturday night and witness the sport. WHO WOO LOUT BE 0 MAIL CARRIER The rural rout*- carriers of Saline count* mav think that they 'ared pretty well at the hands of the pat rons hat there is a carrier on oute two of of Loup City. Sherman coun >>, Uiis state. James W. Conner n> name, slio beat tlietn all t< r Cliri-t maa presents Mr Conger Ls wed j tn-'*n t>» the editor of the Senlin* I and il though he is a freckled faced, mI lie'deat he entertained all the patrons on hU route Of cours- they furnished Uie eatables. but Jim fumislied the entertainment. Said park is quite an amusement place and man* events in the line of sports were pulled off on this occasion One of the principal features was the parade through the •own in the morning. Jim is a won derfully versa: lie fellow anci the peo ple all like him.—Friend Sentinel. QBESTIOflS RIGHTS OF CHIROPRACTICS Right of ti>e chiropractics to prac tice in the state lias again been as sailed in the surpreme court, this time on sppeal from Thayer county, where ! Earle A Harvey was found guilty in nine counts and a tine of $450 was levied against him. The question has never been ssuind in this state. SUCCESSFUL OPERA TION PREFORMEO Something over a year ago, Miss Lucille Decamp of St. Paul, suffered a broken hip, from the effects of which she has suffered severely since. Just after last Christmas, Miss Lucille, accom panied by her mother, Mrs. Flora A. DeCamp, who have been here with their sister and daughter, Mrs. S. A. Allen, went to Chi cago to consult a specialist with the hopes that an operation might be had that would result in plac ing the young lady physically as well as before the unfortunate ac cident. Upon examination of the case, the physicians in charge found that an operation could be had which would result most sat isfactorily, and on Tuesday after noon of this week the operation was performed, Dr. Allen receiv ing a telegram from Mrs. De Camp Wednesday morning that it was most successful, a happy re sult which will be hailed with pleasure by all the friends of the young lady and those near and dear to her, It is to be hoped that the most sanguine hopes may be fully realized and that Miss De Camp may return home perfectly cured of her trouble and suffering she has undergone in the past year and more. ASYLUM A HELL? Former Attendant Tells Startling Story of AHeged Cruelty at the Hast ings Asyhua WILL SWEAR TO HIS STATEMENTS During the past several years stories, of more or less the appear ance of authenticity, have floated out from the walls of the asylum at Hastings and gained currency in certain quarters. While many of these stories have perhaps never been investigated and most of them forgotten except by those most directly concerned, yet there has remained a lingering doubt in the minds of many as to whether the unfortunate wards of the state at Ingleside were receiving the humanitarian treatment which is their due and which the citizen ship of Nebraska believes it is pro viding. The following letter, dated December 4, and written at San Francisco, bears the signature of a man who claims to be an ex attendant of the institution. The letter is of importance because if true it tells a story that is a dis grace to the fair name of the state that annually expends hundreds of thousands of dollars in the effort to adequately care for its unfor tunate wards. The letter is copied from a Nebraska exchange and is as follows; “I have worked in the asylums in 8 different states since I landed in the United States from Old England and I'll go on the witness stand and swear that Ingleside is by far the worst place I evf r worked in. I saw more patients pounded, kicked and abused on wards 32 and 18 during the few months I worked at Ingleside than during all my experience in other asylums. It used to make my blood boil on Ward 18 to see John Burnett beat and knock the pa tients around and I wished some times that some of them would kill him. Why Dr, Baxter kept such a beast in his employ was a puzzle to me. I heard that when Dr. Kern succeeded Dr. Baxter, he let Burnett and several others out and I hope to God the report is true. “Another fact I would like to tell the people who have relatives at Ingleside is that Baxter hushed up the murder of a poor epileptic patient on Ward 30 by one of his wardens in 1909 and allowed the warden to go unpunished even af ter warden Pipkin had reported the case to him over the ward phone. A superintendent so cold blooded as to cover such a crime and who would employ for ward en such devils as John Burnett ought to be ousted from that posi tion. “I am glad to see you give an Ingieside patient space in your paper to show up tl»e iniquities of that hell on earth, for you were there long enough and saw enough to prove to the public that it is a place to shun as one would a den of wild beasts. Instead of recom mending it as a good place to send an insane person the Omaha World i Herald and all other Nebraska ! papers would be doing their read ers a good turn by investigating or taking the word of patients in stead of Baxter or Xoriss, and publishing the facts as you have in thie letter. I never expect to work in an asylum again, and I may never get back to Nebraska, but I can’t forget Ingieside and the poor helpless human beings who have to live and died there. I enclose $1 and every time you give that place hell (which I hope will be often) send your paper to Dr. Baxter, to John Burnett and : one to me in care Pacific hotel. S. R. Riley, Ttr^Manikiit || InfllTfcilll COMMERCIAL CLUB MEET _ One of tho Most Interesting Sessions Since Organization. New Time Mon I P Discussed WOO Vi • llOONOiOi BANQUET FRIBAY JANUARY 21 Last week Wednesday evening the Commercial Club held one of the most interesting sessions dur ing its existence. A number of matters were taken up. First up for consideration was the annual banquet. At first it had been de cided to hold said banquet on the fourth Friday evening in January, at which time also is slated the annual election of officers. Upon a discussion of the question, it was unanimously decided not to have the banquet on the same evening with the annual e'ection of officers, leaving the committee on banquet to decide upon some other evening, earlier or latter. The banquet is to be held in the opera house, at which the club pays for the enter tainment of each member and his wife and for the opera house. Should members, however, invite guests outside of the club, they7 will have to pay $1 per plate for such invited guests. The Union Pacific's new time card for this branch which gives us a freight every other day, was taken up for discussion, and the Club appointed a committee to take the matter of better train ser vice up with the officials of that road, not only to get a daily ser vice, but to see if the time of the outgoing freight could not be changed from so very early morn ings to a latter hour, perferably about 9 o'clock a. m. The question of a reformatory prison for convicts who are guilty MASKED MEN DEMAND MONEY Mm Refused Lewis Whittaker is Dragged From His Hone With a Rope CERTAIN PARTIES SUSPICtOIIEO. — Lewis Whittaker, an old bach* elor living by himself in a lonely cabin, which has been his home for the last twenty-five years, | was set upon by thugs last Sunday 1 night and beaten into insensibility and robbed of $92. It was in the dead of the night while he was quietly sleeping in his little home, | which is located some fourteen miles north of Sargent, across the river in Loup county, that three masked men appeared and de manded his money. This he re of lesser crimes, to be placed some where within the state, was taken up and a committee was selected to look into the possibility of se curing the proposed state reforma tory for Loup City. It would not seem like a session of the Commercial Club, were not the good roads question up for : discussion. As elsewhere over : Uncle Sam’s domain, our people i are getting thoroughly aroused I over it, and we may confidently j expect the Club to take stronger action along the line of better roads in the future than in the past. The fourth Friday evening of the present month will be the an ual election of officers, and it is hoped every member of the Com mercial Club will make it a point to be present on that occasion. Boys Who Shot At Children Give Bonds Broken Bow, Neb., Jan. 8_ Alfred and Dale Smith and John Simpson, the three boys charged with disturbing the peace of school district No. 9 two weeks ago, by maliciously discharging loaded firearms among the children, had a bearing Tuesday before Justice Warrington of Mason. The youth ful defendants pleaded guilty of the charge and were fined. The justice then placed each boy under a bond of $100 and required that the same should report to him personally each month as to good behavior. Should the defendants show an inclination to again be come “bad men’’ the bonds will be forfeited and they become sub ject to rearrest The parents of the boys paid the fines and signed the bonds. GRAND JIRY ID SES SION AT THE ISLAND Last week S. E. Gal la way and Vic Swanson were drawn on the grand jury of the United States District Court in session this week at Grand Island. Mr. Swanson went down to the Island last Sat urday, where he is this week we suppose sitting with all dignity in that irksome place, yet undoubt edly wishing some other man might have been the unlucky drawer of the place he has and he be left at home to attend to his business. As to Mr. Gallaway, he was especially fortunate in that he wrote to Judge Munger such a persuasive letter, picturing the facts of detriment to his busi ness and the almost absolute ne cessity of his being at home to at tend to it or closing his place of business during his enforced ab sence that the judge wrote him he was excused, nor would he even have to appear before court, hence Sam has a blessing to bestow on the head of the judge, while Vic— well, nuff sed. Flour Sack*. To remove letters from floor parts: Cover letters with lard, tightly roll op for half hour or more, then soap well and rah. Too will be surprised at the result. I have passed hoars sod hoars boiling and bleaching without satis faction, bat this way the letters disap pHT —|^vf«l>a»i|fl $600.00 0AM AGES For the coming session of the District Court has been filed a damage suit arising out of an ac cident to an automobile party en route to Broken |ow last fall to register in the land drawing. The accident was that which occurred to Jos. Blaschke and a party of Loup Ciy men last October a few miles west of Arcadia, mentioned at the time by this paper, in which the Blaschke auto overturned and spilled its occupants promiscuous ly along the road. Among them was Walter G. McNulty who files suit against said Joseph Blaschke in the sum of $600, in which it is alleged McNulty suffered a broken rib when the auto overturned, for which damages in the sum of $500 is asked, and for the further sum of $100 to cover kiss of six weeks of labor by reason of said McNul ty being incapacitated for labor during that period of time on ac count of said injury. Russia Bans the Poppy. Russia's department of agriculture has prepared a law prohibiting the culture of the poppy in the trans Baikal. Amur and Maritime provinces. The cultivation of the plant is to ho a criminal offense, as will be also the smoking of opicm or the storing or purchasing it, and the purchase of ■wUa for smoking opium. fused to part with. They then placed a rope around his neck and dragged him around ove* the pre mises in an attempt to force him into disclosing the place where his money was hidden. Failing in this they then beat him into in* sensibility and ransacked the house, seekilg in every place where they could imagine that money might be secreted. Mr. Whittaker had quite a sum of money hidden away in various places but the thieves only secured the £92. After his midnight visitors had departed and he had regained con sciousness, he called the home of Zack Harris and made known to Mrs. Harris what had happened. Mr. Whittaker has been stopping at the home of Mr. Harris since | Sunday night, and while he was severely man-handled no serious consequences are expected to fol low. The neighbors and friends have made up a purse of $100 to assist in prosecuting the perpetrators of this distardly act. Blood hounds have been sent for and no pains will be spared to apprehend the guilty parties. Suspicion seems to point to certain parties, but no evidence has yet been secured that would implicate any one_Sar gent News. NEW GAME LAW GOES INTO EFFECT ._ The new game law went into effect last week and it is now unlawf ul to shoot water fowl of any description. Under this new regulation birds that may be shot are divided into four classes and the open season allowed on them as follows: 1, Water fowl, Sept ember 1 to December 15. 2. Rail, September 1 to December 1st. 3. Woodcock, October 1 to December 15. 4. Shore birds, September 1 to Dec ember 15. No shooting whatever is allowed on cranes, or the columbidae doves pigeons, etc. A closed season until September 1,1918, is established for band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill and whooping cranes, swans, curlew, all shore birds except black breasted and golden plover, Wilson or Jacksnlpes, Wood duck, greater and lesser yellow legs. Wood duck in ad dition are given a closed season to September 1, 1918. All spring shooting is absolutely prohibited. EXCURSION FROM HERE TO TEXAS On Tuesday morning January 20th, the Jackson and Vreland Land Co. of KanscsCitv will hare one of tyieir Pullman Tourist cars leave Loup City on the regular morning Burlington train, en route to Brownville, Texas and joints above Brownsville, Sau Jaun and Edenberg. This excursion will be for the benefit of those that want to inspect the irrigated lands of thk Lower Bio Grande valley, in and around Edenburg. The rate for this trip including side trips Matimoras, Mexico, Corpus Crista and a trip out on the Gulf at Galveston, will be 345. from Kansas City, including berth and meals. The Pullman with berth from Loup City and Arcadia to Kan sas City witl be furnished by the Jackscn and Verland Land Co. as a special accomodation to Loup City and Arcadia excursionists and no charges made for the same. Begular fares to Kansas City, 345 for the en tire trip to Edenberg, Brownsville and ruturn, including berth and meals, and all side trips given by the the Ja:kson and Vreland people will be the amount charged for this trip. Where a man is accompanied by his wife, only one and a half fares will be charged, see, Joe Rieman at Loup Cit) or Tockey & Bulger of Arcadia I for pai-Uculars.