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VOLUME XXXII
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. January 15 1914.
NUMBER 10
KICKED TO DEATH
BY A HORSE
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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'de<l Kmrr el h but one let;
h*- is Um* stall alien it comes t-i keep
ing in touch with tiie patrons on hi
route. How d<j«*s he please them?
He writes from one to three columns
of l«-a news items, gathered along
liis route, for tlie weekly newspapers
of Loup City. Tills fall lie rented th
city park of his town and on Labor
I>at 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
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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.