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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1907)
'v i i wvi. wot mss' L , ft SAt A Splendid Premium " - -- nl , r1r1r111M M, l , 1 111 -!! HIM BM 100 Eight-Day Clocks . To Be Given Awav. . Wo want, to add 1,(!0 now sulmeribors to fun Citli k's li-t before tlio first of February, HK", and to that end wo ninko the oHt b-low. There will bo no db-npp lintivl conotnnfs. 'Phis is n plain husino-s proposition and every school di-tt'Uat, every church society, every I "igo and every individual can -otMiro one ol' these splendid Regulators bv sending ill ten now yearly uhsoriptioiis. The retail price of this Clock is 7.00. Hrrtii-iCt i.J i IMS Address all communications to run ciuiF mr hushing co., Red Cloud, Nebraska. DECISION EXPECTED AT WHITE L HOUSE CONFERENCE TODAY. MAY ACREE ON COMPROMISE San Francisco Men Refuse to Readmit Orientals to the Schools Unless Pros dent Gives Assurances That Con gress Will Pacs Exclusion Law. Washington. Feb. 1.1 That the San Francisco school question will bo sot- tied today Is the general opinion In of iNial circles. Mayor Schtnltz and his asscMatcs received a mess-age from the president saying that he desired to confer with them at the white house again this afternoon. It was stated that President Koosc )lt, thiough Secretary Hoot, has proposed to Speaker Cannon and to the chairmen of the senate and house committees on immigration and other Republican leaders In congress that n clause he inserted In tho immigration bill now pending In congress which will bar Japanese coolie labor from the United States. Mayor Schmltz's delegation favors such a provision. Mnyor Schmit?. has notified the president of the San Francisco Japa nese and Korean Exclusion league that under no consideration will lie and his associates yield one point on tho miction of excluding .lanaueso laborers I'rom this country. In re sponse to telegrams tho mayor has telegraphed his friends that the re ports that he has "surrendered to tho president on tho school question aio false." M-iyor Schmltz and his associates I stand ready to rescind the school board's order establishing the Oriental schools and again to admit Japanese to tho white schools, providing the prd&leut can give assurances thnt in mho nenr future ho can secure congres- Yttial legislation or eueci a treaty Yi.t At Ml I.J ..n.inHlllllAlll illflf tt'111 ,1111 UK I OKlO Kuvurunii'ui. v""1 "'" exclude Japanese laborers, u an agreement be readied at the confer ence it will be on this basis. DISCUSS CHURCH MERGER Iowa Ministers Differ as to Plan of Oganizatlon. lies Moines Feb. 13. Members of tho Congregational, Methodist Protes tant mid United Brethren denomlna- xi i.. ti.ia iilit- fin- tlm iiiii-nnse UUIIS Hiri Hi hii.i - " - ! i - Jiof discussing the course of action to ! follow at the meeting In Chicago next week, when a basis of tho organization L . it... .1. ...... .i.iiki.itii(iHMnc Intn nno JOl I UU lllli-i- iiviiunii.il" -, ... .... M'l.,l nftimjlllllfl. Y'lll uo ucciueu upon. h """"' tion of tho three denominations bus been decided upon by tho national bod. les of the three denominations. Tho, fliiiim has vet to bo devised. At tne , e . .... ... t. mucvnff of (lie lowa niiiium-ia m uiu 'tJ - description of the Clock Height :7 inches. Width If.?., inches. Dial, dimneter 12 inches. U-i.su Golden Oak. Retail pi ice. . .. 7.1 K). Tin: Cim.r has tnade arrangements for piootiring 100 of tho above hand some eight-day Regulator.-, and they will bo given away nti olntely free, upon the following plan: Each person sending in 10 new year ly subscriptions to Tin: Ciitrr will bo entitled lu one of the clocks. Each person sending in l." renewals to .Innuiiry 1, l!K)S, will lie' entitled to one of the clocks. Nobody barred! School district cliurches, secret societies and individ uals are entitled to enter the race. thiee (renoiulnatlons it became appar ent that some renl perplexing prob lems are In the rond. One of these is the quest Ton of tho organization of the new denomination. The Methodist Protestant and United Brethren have tho bishop and presiding elder system, tho Congregntionnlists the pure con gregational form. Neither seems' ready to abandon Its: form of organiza tion. Tho discussions here further brought out the fact that the question I of the management and support of the educational Institutions and tho mis sionary activity of the vaiious denom inations Is a grave problem and one that It will ho dinicult to dispose of. APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES Rayner Contends This Privilege Should Not Be Given the Government. Washington, Feb. 13. Tho senate considered the bill allowing tho gov ernment the right to appeal to the su preme court of tho United States on points of lavy In criminal cases. Ray ner took the tloor in opposition to the measure. Ho said It would change the whole system of criminal procedure. Tho house went into committee of the whole for consideration of the naval appropriation bill by sections, under tho five-minute rule. Two Miners Killed. Ties Moines, Feb. 13. Andy F. Mc Cormlck was killed by a fall of slate in tho Enterprise Coal company's mine and Teddy Reese was killed In the Des Moines Coal company's mine. Mc Cormick was taken from the mino nllve, hut died soon nrter reaching Mercy hospital. Reese was killed In stantly by being run over by a wagon load of coal. telegramsTersely told Ry a vote of 70 to tho West Vir ginia liouso passed the senate 2-cent faro bill. President Alfred Wnlkor of the Sea-1 board Air Line died at his home in New York city. Vice President Fairbanks and Sec letary Shaw were the principal speak ers at the Union League club's Lincoln birthday banquet at Raltlmoro. The union telegraph operators em ployed by tho Western Union In Chi cago will take a vote next Sunday on tho question of going on a strike to enforce certain demands that have been made on the company. Miss Lilllnn Ogden Tootle and Georgo H. I.arko, one of the manag ing owners of the St. Joseph Gazette, wero married nt tho Homo of the briil e's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry McCord Tootle, nt St. Joseph, Mo. John Wooley and wife, Anna Wool ey, are in jnil at St. Joseph, Mo., charged with the murder of Annie Pearl Smith, tho tweiity-nionths-old daughter of Mrs. Wooley, and an extra guard was placed at the jail because of the threatened lynching of tho dead child's mother and stepfather. NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Register for Land Office. Wnshlngtot., Fob. 8. W. W. Wood of Uushvlllo was recommended by Senators Millard and Uurkett and Rep resentative Klnknid for register of the Alliance land olllcc. Insane Man Snoots City Marshal. Central City, Nob.. Fob. 12. Armed with n shotgun, fleorge Rodgers, an in Fane man, resisted arrest, twice shoot ing and wounding City Marshal Ernest Clark severely and Dennis Rarlholo mew slightly. Count Crclghton Is Dead. Omaha, Feb. 8. Sunounded by nti melons relatives, friends and clergy of tho Catholic church, Count John A. Crclghton, after a gallant struggle against tho Inevitable, died at his home, 104 North Twentieth street. Kills Bill to Abolish Hanging. Lincoln, Fob. 8. Tho house con curred in tho action of tho senate by Indefinitely postponing the bill to abol ish capital punishment. A bill requir ing the governor's sanction before an execution can take place (patterned after the Kansas law) Is still pending. Clark Looks Into Grain Switching. Omnha, Feb. 1L. Before Commis sioner Clark of tho Interstate com merce commission, In tho federal court room, a hearing opened In the case known as the Omaha Clraln exchange against the Union Pacific. The Investi gation is telntivo to the increased freight rate on gialn between Council Huffs and Omaha and South Omaha. Bill to Publish Pass Holders Killed. Lincoln. Feb. 12. Tho stale senate, following the recommendation of the Judiciary committee. Indefinitely post poned Senator Phillip's bill requiring tho listing with the county clerk of all railroad passes held In any county. Mr. Phillip's bill providing for a 2"', cent railroad faio was also killed. ItlllH providing that all railroad tickets ho unlimited and that no passenger cars shall be run on trains ahead of bag gage and express enrs were advanced. MOURNED ALL OVER THE WORLD Society of Jesus Offers Prayer for Late John A. Crcigbton. Omaha, Feb. 11. In his eulogy of the late Count John A. Cieighton, who was laid at rest Saturday beside his wife In Holy Sepulcher cemetery, Rev. M. P. Howling said that over lo.uno members of the Society of Jesus all over tho world wuttld hold mass and offer piayers for Count Cieighton. Wherever the Catholic lalth Is estab lished the name of Count John A. Crclghton is to be memorialized through the offices of the church. This is an honor seldom conferred on a communicant of the Roman Catholic church. i SUGAR PLANT MAY BE MOVED Manager Scllley Suggests Better Pros pects Nearer Beet Fields. North Platte, Neb. 11. Hugh Scll ley, resident manager of the Standard beet sugar fact-ory at Leavltt, has been visiting his brother, James Scllley, who is field ngent at this point for the company. Mr. Scilley says It Is doubtful whether or not the Standard factory will be operated next season. Mr. Ferguson's lease expires March 1, and as the beet growers are demand ing n flat rate of $5 per ton he docs not think it advisable to re-lease the factory. Mr. Scllley also says In his opinion the factory will be sold under foreclosure soon after March 1 and tho bondholders will probably buy it and remove It to a point neaier the beet growing district. RAILWAY COMMISSION CASE Constitutionality of Act Argued to Ne braska Supreme Court. I Lincoln, Feb. 8. Exhaustive argu- incuts were made in the supremo court on tho constitutionality of tho elective state railroad commission. ' The action was brought by Attornoy General Thompson under authority of a legislative resolution passed early, at the present session. At tho elec-! tion last November threo commission ers were elected, the power to exer cise their functions being contingent on tho supremo court sustaining tho legality of the act creating tho com mission. On Its constitutionality also hinges much of the railroad legis lation now pending. Tho action Is simply a tost case, the attornoy gen eral, as the relator, appearing In op position to the enactment. Leading lawyers of tho stato argued for the commission. The railroad companies made no appearance at the hearing. GIRL IS BOUND AND GAGGED. Town of Hlldreth All Worked Up Over a Mysterious Crime. Hlldrotli, Neb., Feb. 12. Tho citi zens of Hlldreth have been greatly worked up over tho fact that A. U Reck, a pi eminent resident of the city, upon going to his room, found his lirteen-year-old daughter, Freda, bound and gagged and In a BOtnl-con-sclous condition. Upon releasing her rhu told a story about as follows; liilo she was arranging her father's room, a stranger entered tho loom and, with revolver In hand, told the little girl If sho nindo any noise whatever he would shoot her. He then ptoceeded to bind her, hand and foot, and then ransacked tho room, It ap j.iaring as if ho was looking for let ters or documents of some kind, but nothing has been missed. Just In fore lealng the room ho cut orr some oi the girl's hair, but did not luirm Inr otherwise. So Hir thero la, Uo clew us to who It was. I Nebraska Supreme Court Hands Down Decision in Paypay Case. Lincoln. Fob. IK Tho supremo court rendered an opinion declaring that marriage Is valid under the customs of an Indian tribe and, when performed among members while the tribal rela tion existed, will he considered valid in the couits of this state and the children will be regarded as legitimate. This case caino up from Knox county and was Instituted for tho purpose of quieting title to an undivided hair in terest In a tract of land. Daniel Pay pay years ago married n squaw named Quadam, and a daughter, now Mrs. Ortley, was tho result of the union. Paypay later repudiated the Indian marriage. Mrs. Ortley, as the heir of Paypay, brought stilt for title to tho land, and the court sustained her. RIVERS ARE STILL SWELLING Platte and Loup Are Rising as Result of Gorges, . Lincoln, Feb. 12- The warm weath er of the past fivo days has caused the breaking up of the Ice in the Loup river, and the forming of gorges has caused Hoods along that stuatii. A repoit from Pleasiinton says a gotgu has lorined below there and tho great or jiait of the town Is under lour f t of water. Men are at work trying t.i cleni the channel, but are making lit tle progre&s. Near Loup City the Middle I.onp river Is badly swollen and bottom lands are Hooded. The big brlilgi' south of the town went out and anoth er bridge west of the town is weak ened and in danger. The river is ris ing rapidly. The Loup Is a tributary of the Platte, and towns along tho Intter river are preparing for a Hood. KRAUSES SERVE SENTENCE First Land Men Convicted Spend Day With United States Marshal. Omaha, Feb. 7. Pursuant to the de cree of the United States circuit court of appeals, in denying their motion lor a now trial, John and Herman Krause, cattlemen and lanchnien of Sheridan county, appcMed In the fed eral building and surrendered them Lelves to the custody of the raited Slates marshal to undergo the sen tence of "twenty-four hours' Imprison ment in tho custody of the United States marshal," as decreed against theni at the healing or their case nearly eighteen months ngo. The KratiFos were indicted for Ille gally fencing some 10,000 acres of pub lic lauds and for the intimidation uf settlers who .sought to make home stead entries within these Illegal en closures of the Krauses in Sheridan county. The trial was tho first land case before a jury and lasted several day.?. The trial lesulted in the conviction of the Krauses. They took the matter up on appeal to tho United States cir cuit of appeals, with the recent re sult ntllrmfng the Judgment of tiie low er court. The sentence involved a fine of $800 against John, and $.100 against Herman Krause and that they be each required to pay one-half of the costs and to be imprisoned in tho custody of the United States marshal for twenty-four hours. The total costs of the ease in the lower court amount ed to about $1,200. Tho Krauses paid the fine and costs into 'Jlo United fUatcs district cleric. iblfaiklfcUilfalikbVfcifcliUMlMbilUM'-'VtMbxfckblbtblb a SAY, rilSTER! 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