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; ? !. I: f 11 Red Cloud Chief. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. i:nn cloud. NEBRASKA Follod ngnln a robber. And by tho usual Chicago girl. Sir Thomas Upton Is again after tho cup. Ho lias tho tea. Is tho prolongation of human life to bo in tho hands of tho salt trust here after? Fato couldn't conceal San Francis co's labor mayor by naming him Schrultz. TJs better to bo stingy and have money in the bank than to bo broko and liavo to borrow. Truo, It costs more to llvo thnn It used to, but It is worth something to bo allro these days. Mr. Tlnlfmir tvnnla tn utfinit.irillrn . ....-... ......... . . . English education, but ho Is opposed ' to standardizing his golf. i Tho fewer brains n man has tho ' mnrn tnmiHi hn hna nriil thn i?rnntir bis propensity for using it. Marconi snjs that his experiments nro giving complete satisfaction. Then why Is ho bo reticent' Along comes the ax trust. It will do followed by tho hammer trust Then what will tho knockers do? With a crop of more than 2,500,000, 000 bushels, It ought to bo Impossiblo this year for any one to comer corn. The automobile owner who doesn't bolleva in running over peoplo finds it hard to bo a hero 'to his chauffeur. Mario Corclll appears to bo troubled by an abnormal development of the personal pronoun, first person singu lar. It is reported thnt King Leopold is going to got married ngaln. The uamo of tho lucky music hall artist Is not given. A Chicago woman asks for $30,000 damages for a broken heart It must havo been smashed Into a good many pieces. About tho only man in this world who always gets Just what's coming to him Is tho villain n tho modern melodrama. A treat battle is said to bo going uplo of men m la Veneroela, a wui aoneumea set togy thcr and put op a atlK light. A sew Mexican no has begun of Tobasco. operations In the As If tobaaco not hot enough vritBTSuVtrimmln: A Kentucky woman recently secur ed divorcee from two different men In ono day. Let ua hope that sho now feels free and equal. Mark Twain says Joyfully that his Wife is getting better dally and he has often remarked that sho was the beet wifo in the world. It Is tho Irony of fate that after pin ing so long for n life of freedom Jim Younger should so quickly find It In tolerable whon obtained. Another Frenchman has been ' scratched in a duel. The French duel may yet become deadly. Thero is always tho possibility of blood poi soning. The decision to hold tho Olympic games In St. Louis instead of In Chi cago, which has tulked so much about them, must be a hard blow to tho Windy City. Morocco should havo senso enough to keep quiet. If sho makes noiso enough to attract tho attention of tho European powers ono of Uiom Is likely to gobble her. Mascagni declares that ho despises this country. The man Is rash. Has be never heard of that beautiful axiom, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"? Tho Baron Muenchhauscn, who went Into tho marrlago syndicate with a viow to capturing a $7,500,000 Ameri can widow, appears to havo got a now way of spelling his name. A New York man who woh out hunt fng the other day mistook his brother for a deer and shot and killed him. It (s wonderful how many dlfforent things tho human form looks Hko to a man with a gun. Auto Runs Into a Ditch Auto Strikes Elevated Post Auto Turns a Somersault. Judging by theso head lines from ono column of a Now York paper, tho Ufa of tho rich Is not en tirely without excitement. The spcctaclo of an automoblllst doing a term of six months in Jail will doubtless bo a welcome ono to tho farmers of New'York who havo been dodging theso vehicles all summer. A young man in New York has won ft wife by his good cooking. Now, If le Is only a first class sweeper nnd luster that will bo a happy household. How long will it bo beforo tho peo plo will flock In droves to tho great comic opera hit, entitled "Tho Mad Mullah?" This Idoa is copyrighted. ct TOlcl ataae weraf (AN BOY BONDS Court Approves Purchase cF Massachusetts Securities DECISION IS VERY SHORT Will Crrnto ICcroititlon In Methml--Ilonnl of Kd u ratio im I I.nndu nml I'unil Wrlrnmet tho Decision Will Iin cut In Sicurltlr With the sanction of the supremo court the Nebraska board of education al lands nnd funds will revolutionize Investment methods by buying 5300,000 state of .Massachusetts bonds. De partment No. 1 of tho court, compris ing Commissioners Hnstlngs, Kirkpat rick nnd Loblngler, Wednesday Ia3t gave a decision granting a writ of mandamus requiring State Treasurer Steufcr to pay out not to exceed $300. 000 for Massachusetts bonds In accord ance with an order of the board. Tho remarkable thing about this tranractlon Is that Nebraska will bo the only far western Mate to hold se curities of ono of the old and rich states of tho far oast. The board docs not disguise tho rnct that thry do not tare to buy the bonds of any and every state in tho union. An opportunity re cently offered for tho purchased f Ten nessee bonds but It wis permitted to pans unnoticed. If the board uses good Judgment In tho future It la believed tho decision of tho court will result in nothing btu good for Nebraska. Tho decision came as the result of a test enso filed by the board, comprising I-and Commissioner Follmcr, Seerctnry Prout and Stnto Treasurer Steufer. Tho board at a meeting held No ember 11 agreed to buy the bonds which were of fered by a firm of brokers of Topckn. Kelly & Kelly. Attorney General Prout gave tho board an opinion in which ho said tho right of the board to buy the bonds of any other state could not bo successfully denied under tho constitu tion. In order to Becurc a decision of the court Treasurer Steufer declined to pay out tho money for such n pur poso and a mandamus suit was filed by tho attorney general. The petition of tho attorney general states that on November 11 the board accepted tho following proposition sub mitted by Kelly & Kelly. "We here with offer you $300,000 state of Massa chusetts bonds bearing 3& per cent Interest to net you 3 per cent. If thero should not bo sufficient funds on hand to tnko up all at onco wo will carry them nt a bank In Lincoln whero they can bo delivered and taken up as tho funds como In. All bonds offered will run from thlry to forty years without option, making a very desirable Invest ment." Tho decision of tho court is very brief. In substanco it holds that tho wording of tho constitution regarding Investments In United States bonds nnd stato securities and registered county bonds or this stato menns that not only United States "bonds mny be purchased, but that the securities of any state may bo bought. As a result the uninvested educa tional funds of Nebraska will bo In vested Immediately. The sources of In vestment nro growing scarcer all the time and are so limited by the consti tution that money Is constantly ac cumulating. The decision of the court will glvo much relief but It may be only temporary. About $200,000 of edu cational funds nro now on hand and by tho first of tho year thero will be enough moro to take up the $300,000 bondB offered. The Btate already holds many county bonds but these aro be ing paid off rapidly with money which Is accumulating In county treasuries. Maturing land contracts nre also bring ing In a great deal of money. Treas urer Stuefer already feels for his suc cessor Who in tn tin thn rlistntllnn nt this Increasing fund. He believes tho board will be called upon to invest $12,000,000 during the next five years. All attempts have failed to amend the constitution so as to permit Invest ment In school district bonds. Muni cipal securlUea will also be favored by some when tho time comes to amend tho constitution. Terrorize tho Town Seven masked men. heavily nrmed. held up tho town of Edluboro, In Erie county. New York. Tho postolllce safe was robbed of $700. A Jury deliberat ing in an aldermnn's oitlco near nt hand, heard the explosion and sur rounded the building, but were stam peded by a volley of Bhots. George S. Goodell, watching tho affair from a window In his house, was shot In the arm. Tho gang escaped In stolen rigs, nfter breaking Into several shops. dump l'roin Train Fred L. Donay. of Minneapolis, an ex-convict from tho Nebraska peniten tiary, escaped from Sheriff Klutn. of Hamilton county, at 2 o'clock Wednes day morning by Jumping from a mov ing Ilurllngton passenger train nt Al bla, la., whllo being brought back from his Minnesota homo to answer to a charge of burglary. firhley nt Knuia City Admiral Schley arrived at Kansas City Wednesday morning as tho guest of the Commercial club at Its John Jay treaty anniversary banquet. Escorted by a regiment of militia, the admiral was tho chief figure In the parade and great crowds cheered an enthusiastic welcome. A general reception was held at noon and later tho admiral was tho guest of honor nt a select lunch eon. niir Smelter riant An Immense Iron nnd copper smelt ing plant to employ 1,500 men, Is re ported to bo tho next Industrial pro ject of magnitude to be launched on on tho Almeda shoro of the canal or estuary, nearly facing the two big Bteel plants upon which work Is now under way, says a San Francisco dis patch. It Is rumored that mineral lands containing copper and iron, lo cated In this state havo been secured by tho promoters of the enterprise. Oil fuel will bo used so aa to success fully compete with eastern rivals. BEETS PROFITABLE Lots of .".loner Made In Itulnlnc Heo In Xf'hrntkit Tho state of growth to which tho sugar beet industry has attained In Nebraska Is, perhaps, receiving Its best c2mfllllcatlon at tho big factory at Leavltt, owned by the Standard Sugar company. Already 2S.O0O tons of tho saccharine vegetables havo been worked Mils ceason and their sugary content jiado Into an excellent quality of tho granulated article. The factory has had to suspend operations onco or tv.ico owing to wet weather, but Its great capacity has made this record possible. Two hundred acres of sugar beets In the vicinity of teavltt and Amis nre still to harvest. Tho factory generally runs up to tho firot of tho year. Profits of sugar beet growers aro raid to be larger in somo Instances than ever before, whllo In all cases tho crop hn3 paid well. Tho Fremont Sugar licet company, n local syndicate, had one hundred Mid fifty acres under cultivation this 2ason, and a state ment from tho mnungcr n short tlmo ngo was that the profits would justify declaring a dividend of not less than 2.1 per cent on the Investments. Indi viduals havo not found their returns quite so lucrativv because their fields nro smaller and havo not been so sys tematically worked, but tho rovenuo from tho crop Is In nil cases satisfac tory. Ono of tho things now Interesting beet growers and sugar men In tho vicinity of Fremont Is the reported in vention of a TccuniEch man, H. M. Holllg. for tho pulling nnd topping of beets and loading them Into a wagon. A letter received from Mr. Helllg says that his machine works perfectly, and an officer of the Standard Sugar com pany will go to Tccumsch to witness its operation. Such an invention would undoubtedly lessen the cost of harvesting beets by from $3 to $C per acre. The Standard Cattle company, which operates In conjunction with the sugar corporation, is now selling off its 5,000 aero ranch near Ames. Its officers be llovo that better results can be secured nil around whero Individuals own tho beet crop and sell It to the factory, and their plan Is to havo tho largo tract split up into a great many smaller ones to carry out this Idea. Ahlo to Maintain Trnnult Tho navy department has received tho following cablegram from Admiral Casey, dated Panama, November 10: "Colombian government has today about five thousand men of line of rail road. Moro ar expected dally. Gen eral Perdamo expressed to me his abil ity to malntntn free transit. I have ordered withdrawal frmo Isthmus of Pamana and embarkation of marines Tuesday next." To Share In Profit Deputy Ernest Itochc, who calls hlM self a nationalist-socialist, has Intro duced In the French chamber of depu ties a bill to compel thoso companies holding mining concessions from tho government to admit their employes to a share of tho profits within six months of the passago of this bill. Tho houso voted urgent consideration for the bill, which was referred to tho committee on mines. Necrne Fight Duel In the suburbs of KIrkwood, near St. Louis, Hev. Samuel Tyler, pastor of tho African Baptist church and Logan Flemory, ono of his partshoncrs, fought a duel with pistols Tuesday. Doth were wounded and It Is believed Flemroy will die. Rev. Mr. Tyler 1b In Jnil. The two negroes fought over domestic difficulty. I.atlr Slnnatcern Meet Tho board of lady managers of the St. Louis exposition held a business meeting at New York. No definite ac tion was taken on tho adoption of a set of rules nnd regulations for con ducting tho meetings of the board, which have been under consideration since the organization on September 30 at St Louis. Annul the Marring Tho courts of Vienna declared that tho marriage of Leopold Welnenger, an Austrian Jew, nnd Ellse Shekely, a Hungarian Protestant. In Now York in 1892 was null becauso of tho Austrian law prohibiting tho marrlago of per sons of different religious beliefs. An Inheritance of a million dollars waa Involved. BRIEF DISPATCHES Nearly three million gnllons of pe troleum stored In reservoirs on tho outskirts of Odessa, Russia, havo been destoyed by fire. Tho clgarmakers at all tho factories at Havana went out Wednesday nnd It Is estimated that a total of 30,000 em ployes aro now on strike. Oberlln college Thursday elected Dr. Henry Churchill King to tho presi dency, vlco Dr. John Henry Harrows, deceased. Dr. King was born In Hills dale. Mich., in 1S5S. The railway strike on tho Bloomlng ton street railway was resumed No vemler 19. The dlschargo of two rao tormen started tho trouble. Two men chosen by tho cmples for nribltratora were rejected and this Intensified the feeling. Tho statuary groups of the Sieges Allee at Berlin wero subjected to fur ther vandalism Wednesday night. Flvo of tho groups wero damaged, the crosses forming part of tho designs bcln? knocked off. Tho porpetrator of tho outrage has not been apprehended. Two hundred and fifty men employed In tho coal mines at Washington, Ind., struck Wednesday becauso they claimed the operators had failed to havo tho bank mules properly fed and curried. Tho Danish government has selected all the members of tho commission which Is to go to tho Danish West In dies in December to investigate an report on the necessary steps to be taken for tho improvement of ths economic condition of tho island. M. Nordlien, chief of tho department of railroads a-d telegraphs In tho minis try of public works Is head of the com missi oa. Tragic 'Romance in the Life of Jim younger. Declared to 2te Leg ally Dead, He Could JWot Marry the Wo man He Lotted, and in His Despair Com mitted Sutctdc. Strange and terrible wero the last days of Jim Youngor. The man who for twenty years was an outlaw and .. - wiyo .4X03 JVUX n 1 m BPp!!.. .iwii4iBy J4JBBBBBav7'4j2 flUEZZEgjtf l&QZlf1 " a king of outlaws, sharing the leader ship of the greatest gang of bandits this country hns ever known, the man who pnssed a quarter of a century tn prison, enduring in tho last few months of his life greater misery thau he had ever known beforo. And all becauso of his worship for a good woman who returned his lovo. Ho had endured without a com plnlnt the quarter of a century which ho passed in convict stripes In tho Minnesota penitentiary, but when his releaso camo his whole being throbbed with Joy, becauso he believed that ho was at last freo to marry tho devoted woman who had opened the doors of the prison for him. But ho found that tho freedom granted him was an empty thing. Tho Inexorable law still held him In chains. Justice, personified in tho attorney general of Minnesota, stornly declared that Jim Younger was legally dead and that he could not marry. Ho left the woman who had dono so much for him to fight on alone. Miss Allx Mueller bore the sentenco moro bravely than did tho man. Sho was in Bolso City, Idaho, when the news reached her that her lover had killed himself. She bad gono there In tho hopo that the climate would check tho ravages of consumption which had fas tened Its grip upon her. She seemed to bo not surprised. He bad given her a hint of his desporato state of mind. When tho telogram announcing Youug er's suicide was placed In her band she said: "Jim wrote me on Oct. 10 saying that he had given up all hope. Ho was out of work and utterly despondent On Saturday ho telegraphed mo two words: 'Don't write' "He was driven to this act by perse cution. "I nm his wife, spiritually. "Before God ho Is mlno and mine alone. "My life work will be to place him right before tho world." While she spoko sho was preparing to return to St. Paul to carry out the last wishes of the man for whom she had made such tromondous nscrlficos. And this wns the end of the ro- vxx jizfj' manco which began six years before when Miss Allx Mueller visited Still water prison and was permitted to gratify a curiosity common to all visi tors to that Institution, to seo tho Younger brothers, tho only survivors of tho James and Younger gang of train robbers, outlaws and bandits. Miss Mueller was born of Germnn parents, from whom she Inherited a sufficient fortuno to enablo her to live comfortably. Sho was ambitions and a life of ease and Inactivity did not please her. Newspaper work proved an attraction nnd she entered upon It In St. Paul. Sho has also worked as a reporter In Denver and Salt I.ako City. For a time sho edited a weekly nows paper In a small Minnesota town. When Miss Mueller first visited Still water penltontlnry sho had no greater Interest In tho Youngers than had thousands of other visitors. But tho personality of Jim Younger interested her, as, indeed, it has most peoplo with whom ho has como In contact. Ho was then 50 years old. Sho was Just 24. Neither had over had a love affair. Almost from tho very start these two recognized tho affection oach boro tho other, and it was not long before thoy spoko of It. Others suspected It becauso of tho frequency of her visits to tho penitentiary. Miss Mueller determined to secure the release of her convict sweethoart, and that, of course, meant tho rolease also of Colo, his older brothor. Sho planned a campaign worthy of an ex porloncod politician. So long as it was possible to do so sho worked quietly, enlisting tho aid of thoso hav ing Influence and power. SiMKH JBKWWfW aWvaTlrC yzUf gr "fc For two years Miss Mueller man; ngod to keep her plans saoret, and when thoy were divulged me storm broko forth. Tl:o relatlvesuf thoBo, who had been killed by tho outlaws in their raid on tho Northfleld bank,' and some of thoso who had been In tho fight, protested bitterly against releasing tho murderers. And thero were others who wero Just as bitter. Since 1889 at least threo efforts were made to secure tho release of tho Youngers beforo Miss Mueller dis closed tho results of hor long plan ning and working. The sentiment ngalnst the brothers wns'stlll power ful, but Miss Mueller was tho strong er and she secured from tho legislature the passage of a special act which re sulted In tho release of tho Younger brothers on parole. Tho lovers thought that their trou bles wore over and their happiness knew no bounds. But tho attorney general decided that tho Youngers wero still locally dead. They had not been restored to citizenship. In tho eyes of tho law they were as much prisoners as If they were still In the penitentiary. Then Jim Younger realized how great was his capacity for suffering. He was racked and torn by emotions so terrible thut his mind became un balanced. To marry Miss Mueller meant moro to him than anything else In tho world. It was worth all tho years ho had spent In prison. And she was fighting the whlto death thou sands of miles away. Ho could not go to her, for tho law said ho could not leave the state. Ho could only hope that the ban against him would be removed, that the board of pardons would grant his prayer. But It decided against him. YearB before, aftor tho Northflold raid, one of the many bullets that found a resting place In Jim Younger's body pierced his brain and lodged there. It had given him no troublo until he was released from prison. Then It manifested Itself. Tho men tal struggles, the bitter disappoint ment whon he found that ho could not marry Miss Mueller, still further weakened him. There Is no doubt that Jim Younger was fast becoming Insane when ho shot himself. He sent a telogram to Miss Mueller telling her not to write on Saturday, Oct. 18. That night ho shot himself In his room In St Paul. When the door wns broken open thore was found the love letters he had received from Miss Mueller, on which was a note that read: "Oh, lassie, good-by. All realatlves Just stay away from me. No crocodile tears wanted. Reporters, bo my friends. Burn mo up. "Jim Younger." They did not cremate Jim Young er's body as ho requested. Instead It was taken to Missouri and placed be side that of his brother Bob In Lee's Summit cemetery, from which ono enn aee the grove of oaks on tho banks of the Little Blue whero William Clark Quantrell organized his band of guer illas In which rode Colo and Jim Youngor, Frank nnd Jesse James, Jim Cummlngs and others who drifted from war Into brigandage and could scarce distinguish between them. And for years there waa llttlo difference. A vooden board elghteon inches high and nine Inches wide, on which a boy ha rudely carved with a Jack knife tho name of Bob Younger in two linei, marks whero tho youngest of the brothers lies. And another board, with "Jim Younger" written in lead pencil, is nt the head of the sec ond brother. In tho courso of time Cole Younger will rest there, too. New York World. His Hands Divining Rods. Henry Zachnry, a Texas plowboy, fifteen years old, who has been visit ing In Pueblo for tho last week, says the Denver Dully News, Is possessed of a magic power in his hands by which he can locato minerals, water or oil at a great depth with a certain ty never beforo known. Whllo hold ing tho plow In ono of his fnther'B fields ho felt a peculiar tingling sen sation in his hands, which, as often ns ho returned to that part of the lot, was repeated, and at ono spot with such force thut ho cried out for his father. Tho elder Zachnry ridiculed tho boy and told him to go on with his work. But so surely was the strango tingling repeated that well diggers wero put at work and came upon a good depth of excellent wuter. Slnco then young Zachary has done llttlo plowing. From every part of Caldwell county, whero tho family lived, came constant calls for tho ser vices of tho boy from peoplo who wero anxious for a suro thing In well sink lng. Not once did ho fall. Rain Water Good, If You Like It "When n man gets uaed to drinking rain water," said Mr. N. I). McDonald of Now Orleans, to tho Washington Post, "thero Is no othor wnter In tho world that tastes so good. Most of tho peoplo In Now Orleans havo els tornB In thete yards which hold an abundant suppp of wnter caught from tho clouds the purest and best In tho world, according to my notion. Tho winter rainfall nlono Is used, tho summer catch not boing deslrnble, It It somewhat curious that In northern latitudes the cistern water docs not keep wholesome and sweet as it docs in our country." Blood in the Human Body. Tho amount of blood In the human body is 1-13 of tho body weight. 1' , ...,.; !tf iNr s V ,- (gw w i PMMMHivm&Mmw-KrviawimBi-rm m,vtmmnmuv "3 Sl