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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1908)
I? M fjjM 'VT'W v,,vvV-vvw' 'C " v 'WN NEWS OK !;iUUSKA. ', V, V It i TKI dK Hl , 1 "Hl.a VwjB Do Victor 10 TO Records $r oo ': TO 1 3c NB WHO USB S Jewelers and Optometrists. NEW YOItK TO PARIS .AUTOI3TS READY FOR 20,000-MILE " ENDURANCE CONTEST. Six Team Will Make the Start From Times Square Wednesday When the Word to Go Is Given by Mayor Mc Clcllan. New Yorlt, Feb. 10. The start of thu Now York-to-Parls automobile race Wednesday has been arranged. Six teams aro to be sent away lu this ex--tr.'iordlnary motor contest. Four na tions will bo represented among the 'contestants and this fact, in additioii to the territory to bo traversed, will .glvu a, world-wide interest to the race. Throe French crews, ono German, one Italian and ono American will make tho start wheu the word to go is given by Mayor IfcClellnn of Now York city. The place of tiie rtart is ni Times squaro, in Uio heart of tho dly, and the first slago of the Ipng journey leads up Droadway and River side drive to the city limits Two bun dled or moro automobiles aro. expect ed to accompany tho racing cars as Jar ad Yonkers. Three or tho drivers contested in Hie famous PoUing-to-Paris race, tho success of which caused the present unusual contest to bo projocted. A part of the journey la to bo made over tho same route traversed by the win iiini; car in the Peking-to-Paris race, ' iroiti Irkutsk to Paris. All of tho men are confident of their ability to take their machines safely Mi tough tho difficult tasks before thorn Tho winter jouruQy across tho -western plains and plateaus of the 1'nlfc'd States, including tho crossing f Lite Rocky mountains In Wyoming at an nltltudo of moro than eight thousand feet, Is regarded by tho rac ing enthusiasts as the easiest part of "" tlilr work and they expect to be In Sim Francisco insldo of thirty days. Am to the remainder of the Journey, including as It does tho first exper ience with an automobllo in the polar regions, tho estimates of tho time re quired to get through to Paris vary from six to nino monthB. I'Uch enr will iro equippod with ovory contrivance Hie drivers bollevr Iho exigencies of tho journey will rc- ' Squire. Spiked tires for travel over the 1 frozen rivers or uswku uu aiuuna 10 II If you do (and the man who does not, according to Shakespeare, is "fit for stratagems, treasons and spoils"), you will find no music maker so easy to buy, so easy to play and so easy to listen to as the Phonograph. The Phonograph plays everybody's music. You can hear upon it just what you like the old ballads, songs that your mother sang when you were a boy, and the latest pop ular sketch from comic opera. They are all sung equally well and are reproduced perfectly in your home by the Phonograph. CALL AND HEAR THEM vtq a pan or the equipmop.-, ana r: qus devices for retaining heat In tno engines and radiators have been made. The route leads through many miles of heretofore untraveled wastes, but so far as it has been possible the com mitteo in charge of the contest has mado arrangements for supply sta tions. Tho drivers, it is believed, will elect to keep together through tho moro difllcult stages of tho trip, leav ing the sped feature to tho last. Read lug San Francisco by way of (southern Calilornia, tho uutnmobilists will take !) steamer to Seattle ar 1 thor trnn.ifcr to another steamer to Vald 7. laska. A journey of 1,100 milo hv snow packed roads and froz en r'-. irs will bring the racers to Nome. Tho arrangements for crossing Tier ing straits aro not yet perfected. Un less there Is solid ice, a steamer wi'l bo taken to East cape, Siberia, a tint ter of Homo sixty miles. Then the autolsts wOl skirt tho frozen shore of the Arctic sea to the mouth of the Lena river. Up this frozen stream they will make their way to Irkutsk, from which point the roads to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rerlln and' Paris are well defined. DRIFT 752 MILES IN CANYON Two Miners Tell of Experience In Rapids of Colorado River. Tho Needles, Cal., Fob. 10. Charles S. Russell, and K. R. Monett, who camo all tho way through Grand Can yon of the Colorado In a sixteen-foot rowboat, reached here. Not since 1889, when Robert B. Stanton landed hero after a successful fight of 752 miles in tho river, has any one made tho perilous voyage. In tolling of the trip, Russoll said: "Tho river below Blight Angel for 1G0 miles was so rough that I never expected to get through alive. If Niag ara is worso than Diamond Creek rapids it must bo more than rocks and water. After tho damage to tho boat in Hermit Creek rapids, wo did not daro try to lower a boat through this fall. Monett managed to climb down the sido of the long rapids, but I shot them. Tho boat capsized half way through, aud I was unablo to crawl out from underneath until we had shot down Into the big eddy nt the bottom. Monett helped mo get tho boat ashore and wo found it was all right." Russell refused to tell what success Love Music? -rr -mi'iih in, -i,,,,," , , ,i," .S$f OR SEND FOR CATALOGUE BROTHERS i C, B. & Q. Watch Repairers ntT"iiun icund in ttts way ot nr k-i.u In the second granite gorge where it is generally supposed the rlohcht ore in all the length of the canyon exists. Starting at Green River, Utah, the men have covered 752 miles in 141 days. Raisuli Releases MacLean. Tangier, Feb. 8. Caid Sir Henry MacLean, who has been held In bond- nge for the past B.oven months by the 1 bandit Raisuli, hns been officially turned over to tho British charge , d'affaires. MacLean Is in good health, but he seems to bo weaker and older than befoic his capture. He says he will rejoin Abdel Aziz at Rabat. Two Killed by City Marshal. Morion, 111., Feb. 10. City Marshal William Abnoy shot and killed Am brose Grogan and Frank Ulako on the street hero at midnight In a fight fol lowing tho marshal's nttempts to send the men homo. Tho coroner's jury justified the officer's act. Iater u warrant was Issued and Abuey was held on $5,000 bond. ' BURNS WINS IN FOURTH ROUND American Champion Quickly Knocks Out Jack Palmer at London. London, Feb. 11. Tommy Burns, the American heavyweight pugilist, knocked out Jack Palmer of New castle, tho English champion, in the fourth round" of what was scheduled to bo a twenty round contest for tho heavyweight championship. Some 2, 000 persons saw tho light, which took place at Wonderland, a big music hall, but it was a one-sided affair from the sound of tho first gong until the mid dle of tho fourth round, when Palmer, on his knees, waa finally counted out. The refereo might have given a de cision in the first minute of tho con test as Palmer was ,a beaten man from the moment ho ontered the ring. Burns climbed under tho ropes smil ingly and showing his customary con fidence, while Palmor displayed great nervousness. Without any prelimin ary sparring Burns went after him and tho first round had hardly begun be fore tho Englishman was on his kueos. Ho took tho count twlco and during tho rest of tho round was busily en gaged In covering himself. This ,vaa repeated in each of tho other rounds, Palmor being hopelessly outclassed and apparently without ability either to dollvor-a tolllnu blow or to defend Edi ison $12.i0TO 55 Records S r s 35 and75g UWA-.'I hTmseir In thu Hunt round no waa sent to the floor several times, and at last was barely able to drag him self to his knees, where ho remained with his elbows to tho floor until after tho count of ten had been tolled off. Jem Rocho, who has boen backed by n syndicate bonded by Richard Crokcr, the former Tanim.iny leader, to fight Burns in Dublin on St. Pat rick's day, was a spectator at the ringside. His only comment was: "Palmer fights like an old woman, while Burns is u master of the art and, besides, was lu splendid Condi tion " C. W. MORSE INLICTED. New York Grand Jury Returns True Bills Against Banker. New orix, Feb. 11. Tho grand jury for Now York county, which lias been Investigating certain business transac turns involving some of tho banks with which Chaiies w. Morso, tho organizer of tho American Ico company and of the Consolidated Steamship company, until recently was identified' with, re turned five indictments. Tho indict ments wcro not mado public, but in asking that a $20,000 ball bond bo re quired, District Attorney Jerome stat ed to the court that two charges or grand larceny wero laid against "a man now on his way over here" from Europe. Following the court proceed ings, it was suited authoritatively thut tho man referred to by Mr. Je romo waB Charles W. Morso, who sailed for Liverpool a week ago Sat urday ou the Campania, but Is now re turning upon tho advice of his coun sel. Mr. Morse is a passenger on the Cunarder Etrurlu, due bore late next Saturday. Tho grand jury, It is learned, has ordered other indict inonts, in connection with its invest! cation into banking affairs. House Passes War Claims Bill. Washington, Fob. 8. The session ot the hoiiso was devoted almost entirely to tho consideration of the omnibus war claims bill, which was passed after considerable discussion. It car ries a total appropriation of $315,000. A tlppio of excitement wii3 caused by Macon (Ark.), who in tho course of tho debate defended the sonato against what he said wero nfeperslous cost upon that body by Payno (N. Y.), when ho predicted that tho sonato would load tho hill down with a num ber of mimerltorious claims. w DISTANCE TAulFF DEMANDED P. A. Caldwell Asks Railroad Commis sioners to Put It In Force. Lincoln, Fob. 8. P. A. Cuidwull of Edgar, who was donated at the Re publican pntnur.es for tlio nomination of railroad commissioner by Commis sioner II. T. Clnrko, Jr., has Mod a re quest with thu board that It establish a distance tariff in Nebraska. Ho Btatos In Ills complaint that tno people of Nebraska aro not securing tho ex pected relief from the Aldrlch bill and the railroad commission and he thinks tho distance tariff, placing each city on on equality aB to distance, tho solution of the rote problem. Tho complaint Is signed by about one hun dred men from Clay county. Mr. Caldwell says the roads aro re trenching and this may bo but an ex cuse on their purt to prove that carry ing charges aro too low. Mr. Caldwell wants tho whole question looked Into with care. The commission will grant tho re quest for a hearing. Tho Nebraska compulsory education law was su&tnlncd in tho co.uiiy court hero. Indirectly the conslltut.onallty of the now child labor law was up hold. Frank Knuffmun was arrested, charged with keeping hla lirtccn-yenr-old daughter from school and requir ing her to work. Ho waB convicted and II nod a nominal sum and costs by Judge Stafford. State Uibor Commis sioner Kyder, who attended the trial In the interest of the child labor low, paid he was pleased with tho outcomo and was satisfied' the law would stand the test in any court. , HORSE CARCASS SHELTERS MAN Nebraska Farmer Crawls Into Skin of Dead Animal During Blizzard. Omaha, Feb. 11. Insldo tho carcass of a dead horso, protected by sun dried hide, which stretched tight ucross the bare bones, Clifton Prouty, a Xaneo county (armor, found shelter from n blizzard which swept Nebraska a few days ago. Losing ills way In a blinding snow storm he fell and bpiulncd his ankle, which rendered lilm helpless In his predicament ho stumbled across the carcass of the horho and tho thought struck him that this would give him tho shelter he needed. In this strange haven he spent the entire night and a greater part of tho following day. Prouty had been to Wolbach, eight miles from his home, and when his horso fell sick he left the animal at a livery stablo and decided to walk home. Ho had a bottle of brandy with him, with which he sustained llfo until ho was discovered by ono of his own dogs ufter the storm had abated. The dog's harking brought Prouty 's son to the rescue. Prouty's legs, which he was unable' to pull under tho cover of the horses hide, wore badly fioen and may havo to be amputated. TEST OF PASS LAW LIKELY Nebraska Railway Commission Refers Question to Attorney General. Lincoln, Feb. 11. Tho state railway commission rofened to tho attorney general the question of vlolution of the anti-pass law charged' against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. Repot ts filed by the roads with tno commission for tho mouth of .umiury Include the list of passes is sued and it Is alleged they are in di rect violation with the law. The list of passholders reported include in tho main surgeons and attorneys of tho roads, but it is claimed these men do not devote tho major portion ot their timo to the fccrvlce of tho roads, ob required by law, but aro, In fact, only occasionally employed and In some in stances the annual pass Is the only remuneration they receive for their services. It is posslblo the present al leged violation will be mado the basis of a test suit on the constitutionality of tho anti-pass law. Such a sugges tion wus recently mado to the state commission by Attorney Edson Rich of tho Union Pacific. DOOMING HOUSE FIRE FATAL Two Persons Burned to Death and Five Injured. 8outh Sioux City, Neb., Feb. 8. In a flro of unknown origin early this morn ing tho rooming house of Edward Strcator was burned to tho ground. Two lives were lost and five persons were injured. The dead: Edward Strcator and' Morltz Albertson. Tho injured: Dolly Hart, unknown Indian, William Tukecost, Edward Skinner and August Pasoyladt. Tho Injured wero compelled to jump ,'rom tho second story windows. Omahas Want a Constitution. Walthlll, Neb., Fob. 10. Tho Omaha trlbo has held several meetings re cently for the purposo of organizing a more permanent council. Hiram Chase, who Is a prominent member of the tribe and also an attorney at Pon der,, has prepared a constitution and bylaws for the tribe which ho la on doavorlug to havo adopted. Ho ex pects if his now regulations go into effect conditions on tho reservation will bo much improved. Kr ? .. - i mr'