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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1907)
satswaeSts dfttjJgflV'g4aw.ig:ffwgtT.,A.ft I if I m U. 1 Ghe CHIEF Q3U CLOUD. NEB. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. Entered In the rostofflcc M lied Cloud, Neb . m Second Clin. Matter. PAUL C. PlIARBS GEonaK Newiiousb Editor Manager CUPID WINS RAGE GlftL, PARENTS AND INJUNCTION FAIL TO DAUNT SUITOR. Marriage of Katherlne Homan and James Peyton at Manitou, Colo., Climax to Law Bound Courtship in' Iowa, Stirs Mother to New Suit. Dcs Moines, Aug. 23. News of the marriage of Miss Kathcrlno lloman nml James Peyton at Manitou, Colo., which has Just renched the family of the gill here, furnishes the sequel to the most exciting courtship those who know the story ever heard or read About. Peyton, who Is a jeweler here, first met Miss Homan about two years ago. und be made up his mind on the spot that he would mnlce the girl his wife lie has done It despite the opposition of the girl, her parents, and the ef fort3 or hair a dozen judges, who have been kept busy for more than a year issuing injunctions in a vain attempt to prevent Peyton fiom making love to the girl. For a long time arter he first met Miss lloman. Peyton, loved her In silence and discreetly. Just about a year ago he first told her or his inten tion to make her his wife and Miss lloman promptly swore out a wanant lor Ills arrest, alleging his attentions annoyed her. That was the ollicial beginning of Peyton's courtship. He was biought before Judge Mathais in police court and tried, but the charge against him was dismissed because the judge did not feel at liberty to Interfere in his courtship so long at It was conducted iiuietly. Arrested for Insanity Once. Encouraged by this, Peyton returned to the attack, and it was not a week until he was arrested again, thl.-i time on charges filed before the cornmis tioners in lunacy. The commissioners lookeil him over and decided thai lie was insanely in love with Miss Homan but otherwise sane, and dismissed the charge. As soon as he was at liberty Fey ton's first act was to propose again to Miss Homan. This time the girl Mjiielil the motection of the civil courts and secured an injunction from J Judge McVey prohibiting the jeweler from making love to her. Peyton de fied the injunction, proposed again, and was piomptly arrested lor con tempt. He was released on a promise to (iilt pioposlng to the girl, but inside of two days forgot Ins promise and was arrested again. This lime he was cbaiged with stopping the girl on the htreet and asking her to be his wife. Then another injunction was Issued poblbiting Peyton from talking to the girl on the street and he was released again Peyton wasn't discouraged. Within a week he had proposed to the girl three times over the tele phone. Another Injunction was Issued, this time by Judge Howe, preventing him from doing that. Court Demands Explanation. The next time Peyion met Miss Ho man she was walking in the. stteet with William Clement, another suitor tor her hand. Peyton promptly knocked Clement down. He was lined for that, and another injunction was ibfatieu prohibiting him from Interfer ing witli Miss I Ionian's friends Pey ion got reckless then and broke irijuuc-, tions rlKht aud left, making loe to' - - - . Miss Homan every time ne got a .... . . .... . he not "- h1" cnance. personally ny i-uer ami oer the telephone. Finally Judge Howe em tiled of issuiiiL- Injunctions and f,ol tnui 01 issuing iiijuiicuonb ami oniereu a tiiri imiuiry nit" rejtuits love aflulr Peyton was put on the bland and declared Miss lloman and he were engaged, but thai her biother objected to the marriage. He admit ted the- girl had filed the vaiious charges against him. but said it had been at the solicitation of her motbci uiai hii ifauj iwc-.i u,ixi. Then Miss Homan look the stand. First shi insisted that Peyion leave the coiirtioom. Then she said she didn't love him aud didn't want htm around. She said lie annoyed her by his unwelcome wooing and she loved some one else. The judge was as much mystified as fiver until Peyton teturned to the eland 1 ptoduced a bundle of letters written to liini by Miss Homan. Thes-j told him not to despair and .that all woirhl come out all riht. Judge Howe finally ordered Peyton placed undei J50' bonds to keep the tnus of the injunction, and threat fttied him with a Jail sentence if he ever molested the girl again. Since then Peyton had no been heard fiom until the mesas' an nouncing that finally he had succeed ed In marrying the girl. Proceedings ior contempt of court and for annul- ment of the marriage are threatened liy the mother now QUEEN INVITES BLIND IOWAN. Carmen Sylva Bids Samuel Bowman to Join Colony of Sightless. Wdora. la.. Aug 27. Queen Kllza bcth of Iloumania, who wr!ie3 undo: the n om de plume of Carmen Sylva, end who has just established a new charity In Hucharest for the blind known as "The City of Light." ha in vltcd an Eldora man, Samuel Bow man. to come to her palace and enter the new home. Bowman Is a blind mv. rician and is much pleased over the Invitation, which comes personally tc him. Her majesty writes that she has al ready 100 in the institution, that they tome fiom all parts of the world, that, l UNI. I va si w. ..-. .. v. ., . j nier are ten languages spoken, sev en reliplous creeds observed and th;r teen trades represented. Mr. Bowman I i, considering the invitation and prob ably will be the first American to en- tor the new "City of Light." VTmra fU VPni)AOTM ; iNJliHO UE, Ji!iJLliAoAA. Taft a Straddler, Says Bryan. i.ini-nin. auk. 27. Willlniii J. Hrv- an's reply to the speech of Secretary ' Taft at Columbus, 0., was given out. Secictary Tart is condemned as a "straddler" on nearly all the important issues, and criticised for not taking ad- vaneorf ground In reform. Mr. Bryan complains also that his own position has been misrepresented by the secrc- tarv ' WOMAN KILLS HER ATTENDANT, irn HlcUH inJaT Threw Acid In Irene Hickel, Insane, Threw Acid in Face of Jay Gallogly at Lincoln. Lincoln, Aug. 27. Jay Gallogly, at- tendant at the Bailey sanitarium, died fiom the effects of carbolic acid ....... . ....- -. - - --- thrown in his face in the night while ho slept by a patient, Irene Hickel. . She has been kept handcuffed because of her trenzies, but secured her free- dom in some way and took tliv acid from the medinne chest, warning en- trance to the man's room, she threw a , large quantity in his eyes, nostrils and mouth. He died in great agony. The ( woman has an ihpane delusion that he bad been trying to kill her relatives., ROCK ISLAND ENGINEER KILLED.' - , . Train Hurled Into Ditch and Tower- man, at Fault, Disappears. Falrbury, Neb , Aug. 20. Harry Smith, it Hork Island engineer, was ( killed ill a wreck at the B. and M crossing, a few miles west of this elty. His engine was pulling No. S. the eastbound. limited, and at the crossing he reeeived a ilear signal, I tions were adopted without discussion which was changed too late for h'.m to J or change. The fifth paragraph ttop. The engine remained on the 1 brought out a spirited contest and was track, lho tender and three cars, mail ' defeated. txpp-hs and one eoaeh. going Into the! Dean Pound Delivers Address, ditch Smith put on the air brakes! The meeting of the section of lega'. and reversed his engine and then , education was presided over by Ro3 either jumped or was thrown into the. eoe Pound, dean of the college of law ditch. wh-re the derailed eras erusheil of the University of Nebraska, who de nim. A new man was in charge of the llvered an address on the need of a semaphore at the crossing, and it i. . sociological jurisprudence. He said: supposed lie thought the train was on "The appeals or the so-called unwrit the B. and M. line. He disappeared ten law are appeals rrom the clear as soon as the train was wrecked and and settled law to the individual reel has not be'ii seen since. ings or citizens. Much or this Individ- - I ual seir assertion against the law is TELEPHONES GO BACK AGAIN.! due no doubt to the lack or a settled ... M ' social standard or Justice during a Nebraska Railway Commission May perod of tranB,tIon. But a ,arge art Permit Their Use by Railroads. milst be attributed to a widespread Lincoln, Aug. 2C. As a result or a' disrespect Tor law and to a general conlerence between officials of the Ne- J sentiment thnt unless the Individual hraska Telephone company and mem-' does so assert himself he or those in hers of the Nebraska railway commls-' whom he feels an Interest will not be slon. held In executive session, it is , dealt with as justice requires." likely that loom will be round again In the stations or the various rallioads fjQ SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT or the state and that the telephone company will install there its tele phones. When the commission took charge or the regulation of business in Ne- braska under the new law. free tele I'ho-iei were being furnished at the ...ilr....I ..tnttnni! TVito U'Hfi 1111(114 RWflv! n a rairoai stations. 1 nis was none away "... . . . . . rm . .. . iwui si. . I -itli t.v- .nli.r if thA erimiiiKcInn , "' "''"V.;' ";," H. Nance Lane, vice piesident and general manager or the Nebraska Tel- ,,.. n,i w w Atr.r- -i ' - "--- man. general attorney, consulted tue commissioners and It is underwood that the result will be the return of tehlioncs " STATE BOARD HEARS OIL CASE, 1 independent Dealers Complain That Rates Hep standard Oil. v Lincoln. Aug. 27. The state railway ( congress to act," said President Small board look up the hearing on the qties-' of the telegraphers' union. "We will Hon of oil rates. Complaint is made be able to hold on until the next ses by the National Refining company of slon or congress. I do not believe the Omaha, the National Petroleum as&o-' telegraph companies can 'hold out ciation ot Cle eland, and the Marshall much longer." Oil company of Lincoln that the A proposnl to call out all the tele Standard Oil enjovs almost a complete graph operators employed by broker- monopoly on the oil business in Ne- age firms, regardless of whether these mistreated the thirteen-year-old daugh hraska because of the present rates, firms have signed the union scnle or j ter of Mr. and Mrs. Copple after tho Tbe allege that the rates on canoaei lots is too low and the rate on less than carload lots is too high ThJ Standaid, by reason of its numerous distributing' points throughout the ttatc, get. whole carload ra'e. while its competitors employ largely the less than carload lots I'Vw, ...mmlcclnn D ncLo.l In i-nmnnl "'..r"T .-.. ;"".u ":..; I:" inr rni riiHiic 111 inn 111 iiitr aiiiiitr mica ... . - as now rxisi in nnnsas, which u;u uu uaiujh mw jj.m..-., ..,,,1,, ..uiu . much lower on less than carload lots overtime and Sunday work. The pack than they are in Nebraska. I era offered an additional, advance In IIISIKII BRECKENRIDGE PRESENTS RE PORT TO BAR ASSOCIATION. i CONTROL1 DISCUSS FEDERAL Paragraph In Report Relating to ''Wild, cat" Companies Draws Out a Very Warm Debate and Is Defeated. Dean Pound's Address. Portland, Me., Aug. 2S. The pro gram for the meetings of the Amer- jean Bar association was devoted e- clusively to the rending of revolts of standing and special connnltteus. XJl 0 11 ill! Ml f, UllU niv,iui .utHllJUiv.-ii. The most Important of these was the report on insurance law, which was! prepared b special order of the last annual convention and which already has been published and widely com-1 mented upon throughout the country, About forty European delegates have arrived to attend the convention of the International Law association, , which opens Thursday. ) Rn'h W. Urcckcnrldge of Omaha, i ehairman or the standing committee on insurance of the American Bar as- r.oclr.tion, presented the committee's , recommendations as follows: "T,,at l,1's association disapproves n"d condemns the prevailing citstom , w"'ch makes stnte insurance cotnmis- sionershlps political, prizes, to be dls-1 tributed as such without regard to fit- ncsis or knowledge of the Insurance business. "T,mt aU commnles creatc'(l uu,ler the ,nws of forelRa contries be re-' quired to make deposits al least in , one of the states before writing busi-' ness anywhere In the United States. ' "The repeal of the valued policy .. .. . ..... laws. , "The creation in each state of the ollico of fire marshal, "The enactment of a federal stat- ute forbidding the use of the mails to, persons, associations, co-parinersmps 1 or corporations conducting any kind of ! Insurance business in tho United ) States who are not licensed to trans-1 act such business by the state wherein such persons, associations, co-partner-1 , ships or corporations are domiciled, or l under whose laws any such corpora. tions are created. ..Tho npnortlonmcnt and contlnsent distribution of the preferred dividend surplus on existing life policies of all companies as a condition precedent toj the transaction of business outside oi the home states of the several com panies." The first four articles of the rcsolu. Operators Prepared to Prolong Strike Until Congress Convenes. New York, Aug. l'8. Prospects of a mutually satlstactory settlement or the telegraph strike appear to be no ,v ..wn !( tw t ri llwit rti ft k 1I1III I IlllllllinillU lllilll 111F- 1 t I - U , "" . , "" ,,,., u-iiui.- nin Oftlolnls nf flip western reiterated the statement that U10 NUU "0l l;tul wu" uie ,,I"or u' sanlzntlons under any circumstances. 'i h(. trike lenders deebired thnt none -",""", , , " . ... , ' of their hopes are based upon arbttra-, ' tion- T,,ev lmve accepted as final the J expressions of the company officials, they say, and are prepared to prolong, the strike until the next session of I r-rm -! If nerSKfi rv. "Wo nr lrnlni? . tQ keep 'np tho 8trilKR,e untU the bust - ne8S interests or the country torce not, is the latest ueveiopmeni. DANGER OF STRIKE IS PAST. Packers Give Teamsters portion Money Demanded, ChlcnRO. Aug. 28. Danger of of strike In the stock yards was removed VL'hpn tho IinrklML' llOUSe tClllllSters BC '"S:,,'a"trnm , nL. .,.,,, ,, , lcihcu as stv.i sswais au iiuvuvim w ' wages to that prev.o.i! ly presented 1 and also changed working conditions Two Killed by Train. Marshalltown. la.. Aug. 28 Clifford Atwood, the three-year-old boh of the proprietor of a hotel at Montour, four- tton miles east of here, wus instantly killed by n Northwestern freight train at the Mam street crossing. Paiquadl Zella, an Italian track laborer, who at tempted to rescue the child, was also instantly killed. HI (J GINS IS LYNCHED MURDERER SWUNG FROM BRIDGE AT BANCROFT, NEB. Masked Men Overpower Sheriff and Pilsoner Is Taken From Train and Scarcely Given Time to Make State- mcnt Be,orc D"'" Allowed t0 ry Bancroft, Neb., Aug. 27. Loris Hig- gSt alias' Fred Buike, wlio shot aud um'Ja Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Copple, ru,mers 0f Rosalie, May 12, was lynched one mile trom the town by a ;m,ij of twenty masked men. hjbki,is reached Bancrolt on the " Northwestern train in custody or Slier- lft S)ri young 0f Thurston country and a d,..,,uly ul &,37 a. m. rrom Omaha, whtie he had been confined in ihe rjougas county jail since his arrest 00ri nfl,jr lhL. nulnjer. The masked . niet lht train, brushed the sheriff 1 and njs ,1(.I)Uly l0 one side, threw a IO,(, ar0UIltl ulfc murderer a neck and ied ,lUn ,orth. He was plated in a llra ai, hauled to the Logan bridge. a mile out of town, where the lynch- in was rlorill,.(i Thfe ro,,; wa& Utd t0 the highest beam of lho bridge and ater the vie- llm made a statement he was thrown .... thej SQl. tnlo th0 alr ,..,,1 reathed the end of the rope with a terrible bound, snapping lfrs neck and produc ing Instant death. Forty bullets were then shot into his body, which was jCill (aTlg;ng m tne ar ror the olficers l(J CItie )or wlll0 the i.Xetiitie.n-i3 unniftf,ted themselves and 'ta'tered jn all ,rL.ctions In the timber wL.ch &.rts lhP BC(ine 0r KW lynthing. -rnt. wliole affair was perfoimed wlll liulo ,.,;Citenient and was over b(,lore most of tnt. ,)(,op,H of n-in(.roft knew it was contemplated. Sheriff Young, finding himself con fronted by a resolute mob of masked men offered no forcible resistance to the taking of the prisoner. The slier-1 lfr wa Vislljly affected by the demon stration, far more so than was Hig gins. Higgins appeared little con cerned, and when the rope which was to send him to his death in a few mln-1 utes was slipped over his head, he did 1 , not even flush or move, but stepped lightly from the train to the platform, sunounded by the masked eiowd. He praed as he alighted, and continued his praper until the train had gone and lie was loaded into a dray which wa- standing conveniently by. Deputy Sheriff Knocked Down. The sheriff's deputy pulled his""re voher when the mob appeared. The men told him to put up Ills gun and when lie lefused they knocked it out of his hand and knocked the deputy down and told him "not to be fool- mh" None of the mob had much to say to the victim and he was not assault ed until the bridge was reached. At the bridge, after the ropo was tied and just before he was thrown Into tho air lie was given permission to make a statement. He availed himself ot the opportunity, faying he had long ago repented for his terrible deed, that he had made his peace with his God and was now ready to go and face Him. feeling thai all would bo well hereafter. He said he had tried to atone for his wanton murder, but had no excuse to offer as he had no cause for committing it. He reavowed his talth in the religion he had found through the help of the "good wom en" in Omaha who came to his cell and prayed with him. Hard to Fix Responsibility. He asked Cod to bless the llttlo rl.11,1.- -i,nm i, im.i loft wifi,m, ..... parents by his deed and then to tho masked men about him he requested that a note be sent his mother asking her to write to his father at Nanta, Ida Tho nncullillOv nf ttiwllm. .M.t !.-. , names of those who formed the mob is exceedingly remote. No one is standing on street corners condemn ing them? nor professing Hint ho knows n single man who engaged in ' the affair. So far as Sheriff Young Is concerned, he does not appear to know them. Thurston county authorities declare that they have proof that Hlgslns murder. PEACE IN CENTRAL AMERICA Efforts of United States and Mexico Have Proved Successful In South. xinvinn rMtv a.... .ic it i .. ,,., ,,.'.,. .... 1 ' . j & 1 j. ilk.. n w iiiia - I ... " v',"lr"1 Amcncn now assured ... .. .. micrvi-nuon 01 uio united states aud Mexico. Formal statements giving do - tails will be issued within a few days. GROOMING COUNTS But It cannot make a Fair Skin urn uiuasy bum. t 41 "Women with gooul complexions cannot I bo homely. Creams, lotions, washes and powders cannot ronko a fair skin. Fvcrv horseman knows that J tho satin coat of Lm thoroughbred comen from the animal's "ail-right" condition. Let tho horse get "off his feed "nml his coat turns dull. Cur rying, brushing and rubbing will give him a clean coat, but cannot produco tho coveted smoothness autl gloss of tho horse's Bl;in, which is his coin, plexiou. The ladies will see the poinL Lane's Family Medicine Is tho best preparation for ladies who desire- a gentlo lnxative mediciuo that will givo the body perfect cleanliness internally and tho wholcnomcnes that produces such skins as paintcnj lovo to copy. Canadian Government FREE FARMS OVER 200,000 American farmers who haveyettk-d in Can ada during the past few years, testify to the fact tha: Canada is, beyond question, the great est farming land la the world. Over Ninety Million Bushels of Wheat from the harvest of 10i)5 means good money to th; farmers of Western'Canada, when the world has to be fed. Cattle Raising, Dairy ing and Mixed Farming nru also profitable callings. Coal, wood and water in abundance; churches and schools convenient; markets easy of access; taxes low. rorlltoraturttnllnfomMlcoifdmittit Huptrlntjmlrnt orinimtcrallon Oilairn, Cmmila. ct th follclr-.f kathorurd Cicilna Gotcn.CDt A(ttit IV. V. IIKXVTTT 801 New lort 1.1ft. 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