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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1901)
I Mt'tWT' HiisSSw wrw-W r 3 . PICS LIKE A STOK '' Henry Nolet, Negro Murderer, Dies Without a Murmur. - HE LAWHS IN THE FACE Of DEATH. TenneMee Mob lliirtm llliu at the NlnUe for the Outrage anil Murder of a Defence Woman-six Thouuiud Nee II. On August ','5, ut Winchester, Tei.n., . Henry Notes, 11 negro, who on l-Yldiiy, the 23d, criminally assaulted nml mur dered Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer, was burned t the stake by n mob of six thousand people, thu burning IkjIiiu; near the scene of the negro's crime. Notes was captured curly Sunday morning at Water Tank, nea'r rowan, Tcnn. Ho was taken to Winchester by Ills captors and placed in tin- county jail. Sheriff Stewart barricaded the r jail and did his lest to protect the prisoner A mob of several hundred men gathered, however, and despite all protests, the mob swept forward upon the jail, overpowered the sheriff and tils deputies, tonic the prisoner and started for the scene of the crime. it seemed thnt the whole population for miles around hail turned out to wit ness the execution. A procession 3 miles in length followed the. mob to the Williams home. Arriving at a lolnt in bight of the scene, of the crime thu negro was placed upon n stump and given u chance to make a state- incut. He mounted Ibc stnmp stolidly and laughed as he begun his statement. He said: "Tell all my sisters and brothers to meet me In glory. 1 am going to make that, my home. Tell my mob to meet where parting will be no more." He was then asked as to whether anyone else was implicated in the crime. Notes stated emphatically there was no one implicated but him self. "Why did you kill Mts. Williams?' was asked. - "I did It just because X had nothing else to do,1 lie. replied. Immediately after tinlshlnglus state ment Notes was taken to a tree near by, bound to the tree-by chains and burned to death. , , Notes, w1k was working for Charles William., assaulted Mrs. Williams while her husband wa's in town mark eting a load of wheat; After thu as sault he shot her dead, tried to' kill u five-year-old son. took S'20 that was in the house, and lied. A HELLO GIRL AGAIN. jj The Holder of Ktvrton No. it Iliu-k to the Telephone F.xrhange. Miss Mattic Heal, the" lucky winner of claim No. 2 in tho Lawton-lnnd dis trict has returned to Wichita, Kas., and resumed her old position as opera tor in the telephone office. Fortune did not turn her head in the least, ap parently, and she is the same "hello girl" that, she was before the drawing. Itis posslhlo that she is now the wealthiest telephone, girl in America, us her farm. It is said, is fully worth from 815.000 to 820.000. Miss Ileal will, work in the telephone, ollicu until Feb ruary 1, when she must move onto her frclalui and remain on it for eight months. DELAYINS1GNINGPROTOCOL Chlnee rienlnotrntlariea Ini-llned to P rot-rant in te. The delay of the Chinese plenipoten tiaries in signing the protocol is caus ing some uneasiness in thu foreign community at Pckln, but thu minis ters of thu powers do not think that the Chinese intend to defy the powers by ultimately refusing to sign. Indeed liey Ih'Hcvu China is anxious to wind up the negotiations speedily. Decrees reciting the punishments and suspend ing thu examinations will be issued be fore the Chinese signatures arc fixed. Fatal Domestic Tragedy. At llutte, Monk, as the result of a family quarrel John C. Kimball is dead, his wife Oussle, is in the hospital with a bullet wound in her chest, and Frank Yechout, the iiiilier of the wo mau, is in jail, charged with doing -jmrtof the shooting. Thu persons wero walking together when Kimball drew a revolver and began shooting at thu vvouiau. Yechout then shot Kimball. "The Kimballs had not been living hap pily together. NoTtionght of 1'rlvuteerlng. The (Inulols, Paris, publishes an in terview with Mr. Kruger at Hllvcrsum in thu course of which he declared the reports that he would have recourse to privateering to bu "inero fables." He said ha was aware the Hocrs could count upon only 10,000 men in the field, but that thu were determined to continue the struggle. ' Factory to ltrmaln Idle. T The-rrlant of the Illinois Sugar Re fining company, located at l'ekin, 111., will not bu started this fall for sugar manufacturing, ami, thu growing crop has been sold to Ohio and Michigan factories. Tfic plant will bo utilized for the manufacture of glucose and t the fight between thu trust mid the In dependent companies who control ttie plant ia on In the courts. The capital stock of the company wan 8350,000 and is one of the biggest plants in thu country. KANSAS TOWNS OF 2,000. Kauai Clly,lKHuStnl at tli Head of the 1,11. A Topekn, Kan., dispatch, dated Aug. vil, -uys: According to a compi lation o-. the assessors' and county clerks' official returns for HUH, just completed by the statu board of agri culture, there 111 towns in Kansas having 1,000 inhabitants or more.. Seventy-three, municipalities belonging to' the list have gained 10,313. Kaunas City distanced all others with with an increase of .",701. Thirty-seven others Tost S, 100 and one iniidu no return. Lyndon. Scrantou, Downs, I'hillpsburg Enterprise and (loodlaud have fallen below the 1,000 mark, and Lincoln with a gain of 312: Osknlnosc, 110; Ceil or Vale, 07: Stafford, 07: Hanover, 07: and Oberllu, l, ImvG been added to the list. The following table gives the cities ami towns having V, 000 or more Inhab itants, In thu order of their rank, and the population of each, together with Its gain or loss since one year ago: Hit. Name. Population, tJaln. Loss. I -Kansas City 53,tV.'5 .1,7111 .. 2Topokn 3H,0('.7 1 .V85 . . 3 Wichita- 2M72 tWii .. I- Leavenworth 22.302 SIIO .. ." Atchison 10.017 0 Pittsburg 12,7i 205 .. 7 Lawrence 11,358 .... 7S 8 -Fort Scott 10,751 .... 222 0 Hutchison 10,0011 871 .. 10 Hmporia 0,177 088 .. 11 Parsons 8,810 1 l.'l .. P. Oalcnii 8.017 ....2404 1.1 Ottawa 7,117 .... 12 ll-Arkanas City 7,045 .... :i7.'l l."- I ot a 0,787 o:u ,. 10-Sallna 0,057 154 .. 17 Wlnfleld 0,571 512 .. IS Newton 0.525 48 .. til Argentine 0.515 022 . . 20 Independence 5,VJ8 300 .. -M ColVeyvllle 5,250 211 .. 22 Chauute 1,053 53 . . 2.1 Junction City 4,880 .... .VJI 24 Wellington 4.40U 00 .. '15 Concordia -4,008 238 .. 20 Horton :,87l 307 .. 27grManhntt:iu 3,827 012 . . 28 Abilene ...'1,815 7(5 .. 2 J- Eldorado 3,505 .... 84 30 Olathe 3,420 14 .. 31 Paola 3,375 ,tU .. 32 Holton 3,305 .'... 75 '33 Cherry vale 3,278 . .-'. . 34 S 31 McPhcrsou'. 3,251 47 .. 35 Clay Center 3,121 .... 7Wi 30 Osawatomle 3,0'J8 .... 103 37 Wier City 3,007 0 . . 38 Hiawatha 2,874 .... 102 30 Osag'eClty 2,805 ... 91 40 RoBedalc... 2,784 54 .. 41-Oirard 2,070 .... 80 42 Columbus 2,003 180 .. 43 Council (4 rove 2,577 72 .. 44 Hurllngton 2,437 42 .. 45 Heloit 2,423 52 . . 40 treat Hend 2,258 .... 237 47 Oswego 2,240 43 .. 48 Chctopa 2,80ft 240 .. 10 Dodge City 2,100 254 50 Eureka 2,183 .... 10 51 tiarnett 2,125 7 .. 52 Sterling 2,082 22 .. 53 Marysvllle -.. 2,001 .... 10 51 Caldwell 2,014 183 .. GIVEN A FREE HAND. Franco Will llnrk Vp AutlmMudor lo Turkey. The French ambassador, M. Con- stuns, sent a letter to the sultan prac tically informing him that hu would leave Constantinople with the entire staff of the embassy if the rait tors in diputu wcru not settled immediately. The letter has the nature of an ultima tum. It accords the sultan the brief est delay, with which to, comply wltb ,t!tc demands.1 t Whr n 8Uter-ln-I.nw of "Jim" Lnae. "" Mrs. Louisa St. .CJalr McCall, a de scendent of thu Revolutionary general St. Clair, died ut Lawrence, Kan., re cently." Shu was an early settler of Kansas and was widely known. Shu was a sister of General, J. II. Lane's wife and her husband. Captain McCall, was with Lane at Leavenworth when hu shot himself. She whs about sev enty' live years old and was a mu tuber of Hetty Washington chapter "of v the Daughters of the American Revolution. Heat Ware a lu Kama. Topcka, Kan., was given another touch of summer heat Sunday. Aug. 25. after three weeks of very moderate weather, accompanied by very cool nights and occasional rains. The tem perature in some places was recorded at 100, and at Topcka thu mercury hol ered around the 105 mark. Wichita rucorded 101; Salina 105, and Atchison, 102. At Leavenworth there were several prostrations. A Ifl-Vcar-OWt Wichita lrl In MUliig. Nellie, thu 15-year-old daughter of John Sweeney, a contractor, has lieen missing from her home In Wichita, Kits., since Wednesday night. On that ovenlng she took the family buggy and went out for a drive. Since then she has not been heard from and her friends are apprehensive lest she may have met with foul play. Ho who would his peace dethrone only need his work postpone. The man who lives for no purpose lives to a bad purpose. LoU tiring a tlood 1'rloe. A dispatch received at the general laud office at Washington reports that the total receipts from the sale of lots lu thu new towns In Oklahoma to and lncudlng August 24 aggn.'gate8(53'J,427. The sales wcru distributed as follows: Lawton, 1,008 lots for 9351,805; Annie nrdo, 1,043 lots for 8170,245; Hobart, 1,123 lots for 5128,377. Assistant Commissioner Ilicharils. who has had general charge of the sales, estimates that thu disposition of thu remaining lots will bring the tjrund total up to 97O0,OQi). A HARD PROBLEM South African Riddle Difficult to Solve. CONSUL GEIKRAL.STOWE. AT LOrlDOrl, tUllevet the War In De-tlned In Urn Along Country a CIotri-MIn When ever I'eare I Itettnrneil Other N e . A London dispatch says: James (J. Stowe, United States consul general at Capetown, has arrived from South Af rica. Mr. Stowe said to a representa tive of the Associated press: "I find mysels marooned In Loudon. Apparently every berth on steamers bound for America is taken till the cud of Septcmlicr nml 1 ant anxious to get home, where I can do away with offi cial cares and talk as a private citizen. You know more lu London nlout the military conditions of South Africa than It is possible for anyone lo know at Capetown. "While I have, resigned from the consular service, my resignation docs not Uiko effect till 1 reach Washington, hence it Is impossible for mu to say anything. You can learn much more from returning officers thnn It is pos sible to Icnrn from anyone else coming from the cape. "The South African problem is un doubtedly difficult and .complicated. "The topography of the country and the mobility of the Hocrs, whom the Hnglisli columns arc unable to pursue individually, render operations most difficult. The Krltish are feeding many prisoners and'providing for thousands of Hour families, all of which Is very nice on the part of Kngland. Hut, in I he meanwhile, the, war drags on. There is a groat future for South Af rica when peace Is secured. The sur face of her mineral wealth is scarcely scratched. Undoubtedly England Is prepared to solve the problem of reuni fication, but when that will occur cer tainlyiio one at the capo is uble to say." BIRDS KILLED BY HUNDREDS Cloudlinmt at Carhondale, IIU Dnivni Scores fro It Ictrojed. A storm approaching a cloudburst passed over Crbondak, 111., doing much damage. Fruits wliich were rapid)' ripening, were hlr.wn from the trees and in many caws" the trees were uprooted or destroyed completely. In Carhondalu fully 0.000 birds were drowned by the downpour of rain. In the Illinois Central railroad parks over fifteen hundred dead birds were found, liodents and other auliuals were drowned by the hundreds. The storm was the most destructive that has oc curred for years. Fifteen thousand biibhels of peaches are lying on the ground near Ccntralla 111. In thu city the telephone and electric light systems were seriously damaged ami the streets are blocked by hundreds of fallen trees. Many re sidences were damaged by falling trees '! lie rain fall was one and one-fourth inches. COMMITS SUICIDE ON TRAIN " ' ' - v George Jlri1i of Colli-, Ran., Kill' lllm elf Near l'latttmouth. George 'III rich, thirtyfivo -years of age, committed suicide in a closet in one of $hc Missouri Pacific coaches of the north bound passenger train short ly before arrival in Plattsmouth Mon day. The deed waB committed with a .32 calibre revolver, the ball entering the right temple and causing almost instant death. Ulrich and son, ri .boy nine years of ago, were enroute to Plattsmouth from Colby, Kas. MuasHackiltolraa, m 4ipln . Shamrock II. with Sir Thomas Llp tou and Designer Watson on board, went outside Sandy' Hook for a trial sail. After a light-weather sail-stretch-Ing spin of six hours, Shamrock II. re turned to her mooring in Sandy Hook bay. During the day five jib topsails were tried. The last one n as a beauti ful ballooncr of light white linen and silk. The Shamrock, accompanied by the steam yacht Erin, sailed to a poiu't about two miles cast of the Sandy Hook lightship n id turned back. It was al most a flat calm for three hours when a ight brpcze from the southeast come long which gave 'the y.i"'ihi a chance to maneuver. 7,oiea Life to Win Wager. Lonls If. llogers, a clerk in a hard ware store at Diiluth, Minn., was drowned in the St Louis river while attempting to swim to shore from a steamer. Ho and a companion were discussing their respective merits as swimmers and each dared the other to jump in and swim ashore. Rogers finally jumped, and after swimming 100 yards, suddenly threw up his hands and sank. Engage In Fatal Fight. Justin Apple and Oeorgc Smclzcrot Geneva, N. Y., and James Col go n and Kdward Keif of Seneca Falls, became involved in a quarrel at Hull's grove and Apple was so lwully injured ho has since died, nnd Smelzcr is not expected to live, llelf and Colgon wero arrested. Mrs. S. N. Leo, thirty-two years old, a sister-in-law of Thomas Walsh, the Colorado millionaire, was killed in u runaway accident at Kansas City. Slid was the wife of a railway contractor uud prominent in society. NO.MORE CHECKS IN TEXAS Financial Mnthlnery of Slate .Set llnrk Thirty Yean. An Austin, Tex., dispatch says: The state treasurer has Issurd an order which sets I he financial machinery of the state back some thirty years, In that he gar official notice that hence forth he would not accept checks in payment for money due the state; that any pcrgn pwijg,0jc stntq money for land or other reason, no" matter how tor away he might live, would have to bring the money to tlin treasury be fore bn would Ik; receipted for the amount. This action Is due to the fact that the 835S.OOO for which the state was (might in the first National failure was In thu bank by reason of cheeks being deposited theru for collection. That only cash will be received will cause any amount of trouble and delay In transacting state land business, but it Is a strict compliance with the law of the state which has not been fol towed for some years past. ROBBED ON A CHICAGO CAR Strangers . Totlo a I'arinrr himI .Strut 1 1 In Ilt'loiiglngi. Nicholas Krnnr, a German fanner living near Aurora, 111., was robbed of over 85,000 lu notes, SI55 In checks, and 833 In currency on a Cottage Grovu avenue train in Chicago. He carried the money and notes in a large leath er poeketbook In an in-dde pocket of his coat. He believes his valuable were taken by two men who jostled him on the. car, and who alighted shortly befort he discovered his loss. The robbery was reported to thu po lice who arc now working on the case Hunger from Anthr.ix. Ant lirn.x has again appeared in tho northern part of Cuming county. Neb., this time among the cattle belonging to Fred Schmidt, who lives one mile and a half from Fred Glister, whose cattle were nfilictcd with the dlsensc two weeks ago. Hecently Schmidt's cattle Ix-gaii to die. The first animal he skinned, not knowing what ailed it, and allowed the hogs to eat ttie car cass. As n ivsultduring the past week he lost thirty-five valuable hogs which utu of the carrion, nnd also a fine dog. .The hogs' heads swelled up to enor mous sic and finally burst open, caus ing death, In skinning the animal one of Schmidt's fingers got poisoned front tho disease and he Is in danger of not only losing his hand, but his life from blood poison, and Is now under med ical care. General llooth In Coming. General Hooth, founder nnd head of the Salvation army, will visit Chicago in-Novcmber. Accompanying him will be twenty-five of the most prominent men and women in Salvation Army work in England. While in America tho party will make an extensive in spection of the Fulled States, covering a period of six months. A visit to all the principal army posts, especially in the West, will bu made. Wlndfnll for Munoin. Grand Master Charles F. Hitchcock of Illinois has Wen notified that the Masons of Illinois has come into pos session of 201 acres of land near Sulli van, III., by the death of thu widow of It. A. Miller, who left a will to tho effect that at the death of his wife the land should revert to the order, with the proviso that a home for widows and orphans of Masons should Is' es tablished thereon. This will be dono Ntnnlon Holler Mill Humeri. The Stanton, Neb., roller mill owned by ,1 L. Cook us, wns totally destroyed by fins Monday morning. -When -the fire, was discovered the whole interior of the mill was in Humes, and when the lire department arrived the roof was falling in. Tho firemen had to fight hard to save neighboring build ings. The mill building and inachin-. cry is a total loss. NEWS IN BRIEF. The Sand Valley bunk at Cleveland has suspended. Governor Savage of Nebraska has offered the customary reward of 3200 for thu murderers of John J. Glllilan. At a meeting of thu United Presby terian congregation held at Superior, Neb., it was decided to build a new church. . Miss Amy Hergstrom, a stenographer at the. state Institute at Heat rice, was robbed of a gold watch by a pickpock et while in attendance at thu fair. Talk of peace in the steel strike still continues In spite of denials that there is prospects of any. t It is alleged that outside influences arc. at work to effect a settlement. gW. II. Ward, an aged hermit, and alleged to bu the Pltiraa murderer, was arrested by Sheriff Dolan of Dead wood near Devil's tower, sixty miles north west of Dead wood. A pleasure resort, with a laleo of pure water, down at the Hlue Hirer, with an electric carline, is one of the latest schemes to bu talked up by some of tho enterprising citizens of Hast ings, Neb. Copenhagen, Denmark, dispatches say tho go'vernment'ls rcady'to dispose of the Danish West Indcs. At Peoria, 111., Wesley Laccr, a line mau, was electrocuted, Sherman llomur was ground to pieces by a Huti.ngton freight, and Hridge.t Drlscnll aged 70, was mortally hurt by being run down by a surrey. Tho preliminary hearing of Miss Mattlo Jauscu, arrested at West Point Neb., sometime ago on a charge of theft preferred by 0. Y. Thompson, war, held recently and she was bound over In the sum of 8500. SECURES COUNSEL Former Naval Officer to Act in Sampson's Interest. ADMIRAL SCHLEY NAMES WITNESSES Many of the Subordinate Officer on Hie ItronMjiiKiiiiiiiinntMl Albert O'llrlen of Philadelphia to Aid Kohle.r Other New of IninorlMtire. It Is understood that Admiral Samp son Is to be represented before the court of Inquiry by W. II. Stayton of the law firm of Stayton A. Chambers of New York, Mr. Stayton Is a graduate of thu naval academy, who, though coming out at the head of his class, elected to join the marine corps. Hu was detailed to duty lu the ollleo of the judge, advocate general, and later resigned to practice law. The list of witnesses prepared by Judge Advocate Leiitly and transmit ted to Admiral Schley will soon lie made public. Some time ago Admiral Schley, in sending his list of witnesses to the department, Included n request for all tho ofllccra of the Hrooklyn. The department replied that a num ber of the officers of thu Hrooklyn would be on the list prepared by thu department and askcil him to have specifically named the Hrooklyn offi cers hu desired. He gave thu names of the principal officers of tho Hrook lyn and also of several petty officers, including the quartermaster, who was at thu wheel during the action ut San tiago. Alber II. O'llrlen, a prominent, mem ber of the Philadelphia bar, has been called In as associate counsel for Hear Admiral Schley. He. was a jndgi' ad vocate lu thu navy, from which hu re signed In IH75. He is a warm personal friend of Admiral Schley. FIND FORGOTTEN TREASURE KiiRlUlt Itojrnl rnlare Will Ito (ilvrn mi Oterhnollng. A London dispatch says: The. over-hauling-to .which thu various royal palaces arc being subjected, by order of King Edward, is leading to extra ordinary discoveries. Garrets and cel lars closed over a century arc being cleared and thrown open, llccuntly a magnificent portrait of Queen Caroline, by Lawrence, wns found, along with some other paintings, in a garret at Windsor castle, nnd now tin old four gon, or velvet lined van, of great size, tilled with splcudid silver and silver gilt plate, has-been-found In, a cellar at St. James palace which has not liccn used for 150 years. Tho silver in question lielongcd to Queen Anne and was used by her when giving grand dinner parties at Kcwe, Hampton court and other suburban palaces to which the van was dispatched from St. James The silver was black, and undoubt edly had remained in the van since thu tlmu of the. death of Queen Anne. 1350 DOCTORS IN KANSAS Mcdlcnl llourd Complete Work and Adjourn. Thu state, medical board of Kansas has adjourned to meet again the first Tuesday in October. Tho now law goes Into effect ijcptembci' 1. Thu board will not have nil tho certificates issued, but the presence of the appli cation in the hands of the board will stay the penalty until tho work ean be completed. One thousand three hundred nnd, fifty certificates of license to practice have been issued. 300 wero on di plomas presented. Tho work of li censing the seven-year men goes lower, as there are more data to be gone through. SOWING MORE WHEAT I)li-klnon County Farmers Will Plant Corn Field. In Central Kansas farmers are pre paring to sow the largest wheat acre age in the history of tho whcutbclt. Nearly al the corn fields will be sown to wheat, as well as the old wheat fields. Much wheat will be put in without plowing. New Husslan seed whcat.has 1hcii distributed amounting to about 500 bushels to each county, Its high price 82.30 a bushel, prohibiting general purchase. However, thu need of new seed is generally realized, and many farmers nrc experimenting with imported gruin to find better varieties for this climate than tho old seed. Itojr FalU Twenty Peel. At Plattsmouth, Neb., Knnls Wltlt takcr, a sl.xtccn-ycar-old hoy, met with a painful accident recently. He had n wire stretched from it jMirch to a near by building, and while bearing down upon it to test its strength, the wire broke, causing young Whlttnker to fall headlong to the ground below, a distance of twenty feet. He suffered a fracture of the light arm and was otherwise badly lnjurec" I'roinerU for Football at K. U. I'oor, The prospects, for football at the Kansas University, says a Lawrcuec, Kan., special, is not as promising as the followers of thu gamu would de sire. General Manager Foster has definite information that few of ttie old players will return. Jcnklnson and Alphin are the only men sure to come back. Jcnklnson is a good man, but Alphin is new to the gume, having played last year for the first time. Algie'H resignation as captain, coupled with the luck of material on the team, will ueccssaiily result In tho election of a man new to thu game to the place. BREAKS THE SILENCE. Hoternor Satne Tetln of Reaanun tfin Marj.teja I'arote. A little before midnight. Tuesday, August 27, Governor Savage gave out the following statement: As more, or less controversy lion re sulted front my action In granting a limited parole to Joseph H. "Hartley, and as 1 deslic ttiat the pubyc may have nn Intelligent understanding of tho attending circumstances Prodi state briefly the substance of thn con ditions Uhjii which such notion in based. I was actuated in granting a pinole, limited to sixty days, because J had knowledge that after Mr. Hartley's iiv tlrement from office he maintained that, if given a year's lime in which to ii'iil Ire on his nrrnngrincntH ho would ho able to pny the state every dollar duo It. The fact In a space of about forty days after he surrendered the ollleo to his successor he had paid In over 8150,000.00, S'.'o.ooo of whluh was paid on the day of his arrest, strengthened both by his statements repeatedly made to me. that, he would pay buck every dollar of his shortage, andtiiiy belief If given nn opportunity at llu- time ho would undertake to mrryont his promises, 'with tho object in view of relieving the taxpayers and of ' moving this painful account from tho pages of the records after four yc.iiu of expensive litigation from which not one cent has ln-en recovered fiom either the principal or bondsmen. J granted the parole with the under standing on my part that he, Hartley, was to proceed to reimburse the htaUi ami in addition was to render an nc counting of the funds lost in bun lot from which he was unable to recover, which materially reduces thu amount published by tho nowspnpom us hav ing been misappropriated. ,l Hundreds of M'ople of various polit ical affiliations hod petitioned mo to grant, not a parole, but a full and un conditional pardon, and among tho 1 tltioticrs were many of our oldest nnd most respected citlrcns, but I wan un able to justify In my own mind such an at:, and granted a parole for sixty days only, conditioned, us above stated. I have given Mr. Hartley nn opsr tunlty to right the wrong, and my ac tion as regards tho extension of fui thcr clemency in the premises shall lm conditioned solely upon his compliniico 'wjth my requirement. a&.,he,rcjns)t forth (Signed) Ezua. P. Savaiik, (Joveriior. NEBRASKA CENSUS FIGURES Uutletln on Sohool, Mllltla and Votlnr f 1'opulatlon. , A bulletin has liecn Issued at Wash ington by the cenms bureau giving tin? tchool, mllltla. voting and f oreign-bo n .population of Jhcstate of Nebraska. There are 3RS.33 elillilrcn ofh-hool age In Nebraska, of which 10,000 two foreign Ihii-ii, 3,155 colored, 105,W': males nnd 100,71(1 females; '435,572 males of mllltla ago, of whom 53,820 arc Jor- cign born and 2,733 colored; 30i,l0fr males of voting ago of whom 01VU0 aiY foreign born and 2,'J74 colored. t Of the total number of males of Vot ing age, -.5 per cent are Illiterate There were III, 130 foreign born tualeti of voting age in 1000 nod of thls'Vunn ber 50.0 per cent nrc naturalise J. WANDERING IN THE WOODS Mr. Dr. Nrlllo I'oor unci Her Kan lira Located. Mrs. Dr. Nellie Poor, with her iwd sons of Chicago were found lu tho woods near Corning, N. Y. Mre. Poor is the woman who acted In an Insano manner on nn Eric train last Thurmluv night nnd then mysteriously disap peared. She nnd her sons hare been living in thc-'-woodn.. for jW'critfdajw and arc suffering from exposure. They are now cared for in tho home of "W. II. Chnmberlnln, of Kanona, N. Y , who is a relative of Mra-i Poor. U'lm woman Is laboring under the halluiii:' ntion thnt a price has been put iijkiii her head. J . I.erheroiift Tramp In Danger. Ah unknown tramp narrowly cMvipcd lynehlpg.at C(nrkson, in the northern part of Colfax county. -Ho "Is accmaftHt of having assaulted Mrs. La poor, ttio wife of n well known farmer living In that vlclnty. The people were enrol ed nnd threatened lynching. The lo cal officers took the vagabond into ens-, tody and saved the county from en gaging in a lynching lice. Strong: a Nebrnk Man. Sam Strong, whose murder by Grant Crumley at Cripple Creek is the sensa tion of the mining reglous of Colorado, wns formerly a Nebraska boy, being reared by relatives at Wood River. Jl still has relatives in Hall county, two of whom' hiuUhuU recently returned from a visit to Strong's homo in vcr. F.lenlrlo Light Plant Damaged The electric storm of the 27th at Ne braska City damaged thu electric light plant bo that there been no street lights since thnt time. The Btorto de stroyed thn regulator and a new one will have to come from New Jersey, In the meantime the streets will be In" thu darkness. Louisiana Town on Fire Telephone reports received by tho Times from at Hhreveport, La., arc "io thu effect that a fierce fire is burning lu the heart of Monroe, Several build ings hnvu been burned'nnd an entire Biruure of business buildings is -threat. ened.V Strike Cauiea Advance. 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