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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1906)
THE WAGEWORKER By W. M. MAUPIN LIXCOLN, JiEURASKA tWebraska notes. A .new telephony company Is being organized, at Scotia.... ... Lexington is agitating the proposi tion of sewerage for the city. The- Bradshaw 'electric light' plant was badly damaged by fire recently. The Burlington depot at Thedford burned to the ground with all its con tents. " The Deshler Telephone company now has Its Little Blue branch com pleted. Shultz & Cc. have started the erec tion of their new implement house at Prosser. The Northwestern railroad will erect a gong east of Bale at a very danger, ous crossing. , '- A second prairie fire within two weeks has swept the range near Suth erland. One ranchman lost all his hay.'- . The electric battery for the railway block system has arrived at Arlington and a force of men are employed put ting the blocks In. The Lewlston Lumber company has incorporated with a capital stock of $15,000. The incorporators are O. Van ter and W. S. Perrin. The First National bank of Gresham Is being organized and has received authority from the comptroller of the currency to commence business. The Commercial State bank of Pax ton, Keith county, was granted a char ter by the state banking board. The bank has $5,000 paid up capital. The members of the Leigh Congrega tional church have Issued a call to Rev. G. L. Shull of Crawford, to be come the permanent pastor of the church. :The St. Edward school board and village board bought 300 trees of the Albion nursery and are having them planted on the school grounds and in the park. . . Twenty wolf scalps were left at the office of the county clerk at Beatrice rebently by farmers in that vicinity. Wolves seem, more plentiful, this year than usual. , , ; , The new village bbard for the ensu-. rng year was organized at Ravenna. The new board stands for high license but a strict enforcement of the Slo cumb law and 11 o'clock closing. The newly organized corporation which has-taken over the property of : the Milling association at West Point Is: actively engaged in preparing che plant for a resumption of business. By the start made this spring there promises to be more, permanent walks put in at Schuyler than in any year be fore. There are two gangs at work and indications are that both will have work till frost time. The removal of the buildings occu pying the site upon which will be erected the large mercantile building of the Stlern-Jenman-Bauman company at .West Point has commenced and active operations are under way with a view of completing .the structure as quickly as possible. - When finished this building will be the largest mer cantile establishment In the Elkhorn valley. The regular quarterly meeting of the Pickrell Farmer's Elevator company was held at Pickrell and the business of the past three months was found to be entirely satisfactory. It was de cided to make extensive improvements on the plant to accommodate the in creasing business. The Albion National bank is now on the roll of honor of banks having a surplus fund equal to their capital stock. This bank has a surplus and undivided profits of $57,503.51, on a capital stock of $50,000. v Robbers blew the safe In the gen eral store of H. G. Day at Rockford, In which is located the postoffice, and escaped with a suiall amount of cash and stamps. Bloodhounds from Beat rice were put on the trail of the rob bers, but failed to locate tnem. . Ainsworth is on the boom. There has been over $45,000 Improvements since the last assessment and when the buildings are completed that are now commenced ' it will reach over $100,000. As to this being a fruit country it has been thoroughly tested and the farmers are laying in a large supply of all kinds of fruit trees. The Blair Hospital association has a plan to clear up the $900 debt on the hospital. The merchants are being asked to give a certain percentage of tbelr sales during one week. Others will be asked for cash subscriptions. Joseph Lane shipped eighteen cars of sheep to Chicago from Schuyler. The shipment required a special train. This was the Becond large shipment from Schuyler this winter, the first one going to California. The sheep were tad at the Fold a ranch. NEBRASKA NEWS ATTY.-GEN. BROWN AFTER NE . ' . BRASKA LUMBERMEN. . DECLARES ASSOCIATION IS A TRUST Nearly Four Hundred Firms Listed . as Defendants Attorney General Will Endeavor to Convict As sociation of Pooling. The supreme court of Nebraska, on application of Attorney General Brown, has isaued a temporary restraining order against the Nebraska Lumber men's association. Conspiracy in re straint of trade, pooling on prices and the charging of exorbitant prices for lumber and building material is alleged by the attorney general. Nearly 400 ot the principal lumber firms of the state, comprising members of the state asso ciation, are made defendants. The restraining order was issued by Judge C. B. Letton, after consultation with other judges oli the court. Under the rules of the court May 15 is return day and May 28 is the day set for an swer by the defendants. Secretary Bird Critchfield of Lincoln and the other officers of the association are enjoined from concealing or de stroying the records of the organiza tion and all the members are restrained from agreeing upon prices at which lumber and building material will be sold to purchasers. The association was declared by the supreme court of Nebraska several years ago to be an unlawful organization. This decision was given in a suit involving damages alleged to have been sustained , by. a retail dealer who asserted that the as sociation had injured his business. Later the association reorganized and adopted articles of association in which any intent to restrain trade was specifically denied. Notwithstanding this denial, the attorney general as serts that the Interpretation of the new articles of the association and their enforcement by the members of the as sociation has resulted in a monopoly which controls prices to the great In Jury of the public. HIT BY FALLING BUCKET. Rulo Citizen Badly Hurt While Down In a Shaft James McFarland, while employed In sinking a shaft about five miles east of Falls City, was seriously and prob ably fatally injured. He was struck on the right temple by a falling bucket, which was used in removing the exca vations from the shaft, and which ren dered him unconscious immediately. The alarm was given by a bystander, and McFarland was removed from the shaft and Drs. Houston and Rinaker cf Falls City summoned. Upon examina tion McFarland's right temple was found to be badly fractured and sev eral fragments of the skull were re moved. No one knows how the accident hap pened. All that is known is that the hook upon the end of the cable came unhooked from the bale of the bucket, causing It to fall upon the unfortunate Victim. Inheritance Tax Is Valid. The supreme court has denied a re hearing in the inheritance tax law which It recently held valid. This law provides a certain per cent of estates shall be paid into the county treasures where the estate is located to be used in the road funds. In Douglas county the county judge refused to appoint appraisers to pass upon the estates and action was begun by the county attor ney to compel him .to act. He was successful in the supreme court and a rehearing was asked for by some of the interested parties. The appoint ment was first resisted by the attor neys for the estate of Frank Murphy, deceased, who left an estate valued at several millions of which the county's share would be many thousands. Starts Fire in City Jail. The Humboldt fire department was called out to extinguish a small blaze at the city hall. A drunken tramp, who had been "placed in the' holdover, had in some manner set the bedding in his cell afire, and the first arrivals who were attracted by the smoke found him at the front bars gasping for breath. Fortunately the structure 'S built of stone and the blaze was ex tinguished without damage except to the bed clothing. To Aid the Fruit Growers. The department of agriculture has completed its plans to give practical demonstrations to the fruit growers in the First Nebraska congressional dis trict for the riddance and prevention of fruit scab fungus. Profs. W. W. Scott and James Roer, fruit experts, have been detailed to Nebraska by the department and are now arrang ing the preliminaries of the work. There will be one demonstration car ried on for several days in each coun ty of the district. FOUR NEBRASKA VICTIMS.. News Received "Tat Dakota City of ' " Death In Disaster., c I From news so far obtainable Dakota county furnished four victims for the great California disaster in the person of Albert H.. Bliveni , wlj and two daughters, Mrs. Ed. Nason and Miss Dolly Bliven. , Edwin E. Bliven, manager-of the Akron Milling company at Dakota City, and son of Mr, Bliven, received the following telegram this afternoon from San Francisco: "Albert H. Bliven, wife and! two daughters killed at Palace hotel.". The telegram is signed Palace Hotel. A telegram was at once sent to another son, Theodore E. Bliven, who but: re cently removed from this place to Santa Roaa, Cal., to at' once go to San Francisco to further investigate the telegraphic news. Mr. Bliven was one of the pioneer residents of this county,, leaving Da kota City about five years ago aDd locating in Eureka, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Bliven left here about two months ago for their home in - California, after an extended visit with relatives, Mrs. Bliv en being the mother of Mesdames S. A. Bridenbaugh and Luther L. Heikes and Russell Owens, while Mr. Bliven has the following sons in Dakota City: Ed. C, Guy and Jay, besides a hrother, Norris, at South Sioux City, and an other brother, Curtis B. Bliven, of Sioux City, and another brother, Cur tis B. Bliven, of Sioux City. Fruit Prospects in Richardson. O'pinions seem to be changing as re gards the fruit prospect in the vicinity of Humboldt, and the latest report comes from Ol Little, who is a recog nized expert in horticultural matters. He says that after a careful investi gation among the small orchards of the city he finds a certain portion, ranging from twenty to forty per cent of the buds are yet in a healthy con dition, and he therefore predicts a fair sized yield with the quality under con tinued favorable conditions much bet ter than could be expected if the crop were full. Other fruit buds iare all in good shape and indications point to an unusually large yield. Boy Hurt by Horses. .,, Jess Domingo aged twenty-three,, son of John Domingo, living two and a half miles northeast of Weeping Water, Neb., met with a very serious accident. He was disking on a farm, too far away to Come home to dinner and tooK his dinner and horse feed with him. It is not certainly known how the accident happened, but as near as can, be, judged from the marks left on(.the ground by the horse, he undertook, to lead the horses to a little creek, bat as it was muddy the horses refused to go into it, in someway, got him down. The horses went home about 7 o'clock p. m. Then was commenced a search for the boy, who was found about 9 o'clock lying near the creek? with a hitchstrap wrapped around his hand and the bridle attached to it The young man was unconscious and still remains so, and Is paralyzed from the chest dWrn. The only bruises seem to be on'' the right hip, about as big as a horse's foot, and the nose and upper lip are cut and . bruised. - . Wayne Woman Badly Hurt.. Mrs. D. Meyer, who resides four miles southeast of Wayne, Neb., met with a frightful accident while on her way to Wayne, just south of the city, in cross ing a bridge over Logan -creek,;, the team became frightened at iron and steel material nearby for a nw bridge, turned around suddenly and fan away throwing Mrs. Meyers from the buggy with the result that she sustained a fracture of the right arm and a severe cut in the face. Her feet caught in the lines and she was also dragged some distance. Doctors Blair and Wightman were at once summoned. It is thought she may recover. Has Arm Badly Crushed. While E. E. Day was taking in corn at Weeping Water, Neb., the team in the elevator became frightened and backed the wagon, and caught Mr. Day's right arm between the wagon wheel and the dump door, crushing the arm' from the elbow to wrist badly. No bones are broken, but the flesh is badly bruised. Suit for Possession. Suit was commenced in district court at Papillion for possession of an island in the Platte river near Forest City, Sarpy county, by the Langdon brothers against John R. McCarty. The island contains 160 acres and is valu able for timber and pasture. McCarty claims rights by adverse possession, having lived on the island seven years. Suffers Loss of Foot. Ed. J. Wilson, engineer in charge of the Burlington switch engine in : the yards at Beatrice, had the misfortupe of losing his right foot. He was alone with his engine in the yards, and got off to make some repairs and was partly under the' side at work when it suddenly started, and before ha could extricate himself his right foot was ctu off at the ankle. Dr. Walden, the company surgeon, was hastily called, and amputated! the limb six inches above the ankle. Mr. Wilson is married man with a small family. SEVEN YEARS OF SUFFERING Elided at Last Through; Using- loan's Kidney Pills. -:- ' Mrs. Selina Jones, of 200 Main St., Ansonla, Conn., says: "If it had no t been for Doan's Kid ney Pills I. .would not be alive to-day. Seven . years ago I was-.-, so .- bad w:th pain In : the . back, and .so weak that I had to keep to my room, and was-, in bed sometimes six weeks at a . spell. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pills, the kidney weak ness was soon corrected, and inside a week all the pain was gone. I was also relieved of all headaches, dizzy spells, soreness and feelings of lan guor. : I strongly recommend Doan's Kidney Pills." Sold by all dealera. 50 cents a box.' Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. : I "So our engagement is all over." He spoke moodily. "Yes," she replied, not without a triumphant note in her voice; "I told it to my deafest girl friend as a great secret, and now it is all over." I mportant to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOBtA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bean the Signature of In T7aa For Over 30 Years. The Kind Ton Bare Always Bought. A man always talks louder when he knows he is wrong than when he real izes he is right. AWFUL SUFFERING. From Dreadful Pains from Wound on . Foot System All Run Down Miraculous Cure by Cuticura. "Words cannot speak highly enough for the Cuticura Remedies. I am now seventy-two years of age. My system had been all run down. My blood was so bad that blood poisoning had set in. I had several doctors attending me, so finally I went to the hospital where I was laid up for two months. My foot and ankle were almost be yond -recognition. Dark blood flowed out. of wounds in many places and I was so disheartened that I thought surely my last chance was slowly leaving me.. As the foot did not improve, you can readily imagine how I felt. I was simply disgusted and tired of life. I stood this pain, which was dreadful, for six months, and during this time I was not able to wear a shoe and not able to work. Some one spoke to me about Cuticura. The consequences were I bought a set of the Cuticura Remedies of one of my friends who was a druggist, and the praise that I gave after the second application is beyond description; it seemed a mir acle for the Cuticura Remedies took effect Immediately. I washed the foot with the Cuticura Soap before apply ing the Ointment and I took the Re solvent at the same time. After two weeks' treatment my foot was healed completely. People who had seen my foot during my illness and who have seen it since the cure, can hardly be lieve their own eyes. Robert Schoen hauer, Newburg, N. Y. August 21, 1905." - A man who has made good doesn't have to blow hi3 own horn. Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, ia mild, effective, health-giving a faultless prep aration. ' It cures constipation. There are numerous sure-thing con fidence game3, but matrimony is the surest Good Wages for Expert Painters and Paper Hangers In Omaha. Owing to a scarcity . of first-class workmen the master painters of Oma ha are paying up to 50 cents per hour for skilled workmen. Open shops and plenty of work. Any man who Is completely wrapped' up in himself is a bundle of conceit. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures p'.infuL smart ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the ase. Makes n2W shoes easy. A certain cure for gweatin? feet. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Trial package, FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y. ' Wouldn't Give Him Time. Brokeleigh I did think of. ordering a suit from Cutts, but I couldn't get him to promise to give it up to me on time. Newitt Why. he's usually very prompt. Brokeleigh Oh, yes; but he wanted me to be equally prompt . A Versatile Y. M. C. A. Secretary, The secretary of one of the army Y. M. C. A.'s in an Eastern fort acts as adviser and friend of soldiers on all sorts of questions from ethics to the best kind of tooth powder and proper forms of polite correspondence with ladies. He is the best runner in the fort and no man can outbox him. He teaches a Bible class and a big one at that. The secretary has a wiry yellow dog named Rags who isn't afraid of anything. One night a soldier intro duced a fighting bulldog and started a scrap with Rags. The secretary walk ed up to the owner of the bull and re marked, "There'll be something more than a dog fight if you don't call your dog off," with a decided ring of earn estness which the soldier understood. They admired the secretary better the next day when he went to that soldier and said, "I was hot-headed last night, but you were in the wrong and ought to apologize." The soldier did and they were the best of friends and the influence of that secretary was greatly increased wit hevery enlisted man who recognizes a man when he nees him. STUDY OF THEATER-FIRES. Experiments in Vieana Indicate That ; f '; f'S'ireproof " Curtains Are Ho 1 Protection ' Whoever imagines . that' 'the famous Iron curtains in theaters, which are lowered and raised with such -Solemnity at stated times and are made the subject of all kinds of municipal regulations, are any real ... protection against fire, would do well, says the Grand Magazine, to; study the . ac- count of certain experiments recent ly carried out in Vienna.' ' ' ' ' A. theater was constructed Jin, , the. inust approved modern fashion, the au ditorium furnished with the usual gal leries and pit and the stage with., scenery. Lamps of every systerriTrelec-; trie, gas and oil were placed in great numbers and in the walls certain spy holes were provided through which the commission of engineers and architects who were conducting the experiments might see what went on , within the building. In the first experiment a fire was lighted on the stage and the ordinary curtain dropped, the ventilators in the auditorium being open and ...those on' the stage closed. "' After the lape cf a minute or two the observers aw the curtain bulge out toward the audito rium, allowing the flames and smoke to rush forth at the bottom with such volume that the entire theater was en veloped in an instant. " ' The gas lamps were extinguished immediately and were soon followed by the disappearance of the oil lights.: As for the electric, lamps, though they-did not go out at once, they became quite invisible by reason of the dense smoke. In a quarter of an hour a temperature of 720 degrees Fahrenheit was regis tered in the theater. Next time the same experiment was repeated under identical conditions ex cept that on this occasion the iron curtain was lowered. Its protective powers, however, proved quite illu sory. The flames burst forth Into the au ditorium with greater violence, if pos sible, than before; the thermometer registered a temperature -. bordering upon that of the electric oven, and an analysis of the air disclosed the fact that it contained more than eight per cent, of the deadly carbonic oxide gas that is to say, far more than suffi cient to asphyxiate whoever had not been burned to death. A third experiment showed that the audience can only hope to escape if the actors consent to sacrifice : them selves, which they can hardly be ex pected to do. It was found that if the stage was set on fire and both curtains kept up the ventilators on the stage being open and those in the au ditorium quite closed, the stage be came transformed into a chimney as it were, while the auditorium remained intact, as the flames and smoke were carried away from it. MONEY PILES UP RAPIDLY. Bequest of Benjamin Franklin the Nucleus of an Immense Fund. A great popular industrial school, the Franklin Union, has been estab lished in Boston, and a New York man, Mr. Bouillon, called upon to ' take charge of it on the foundation of $5,000 bequeathed by Benjamin more than 100 years ago. Franklin, as is well known, had the amount put out at interest tor a century for the bene fit of the working youth of his native city, states the New York' Mail. What is the result? The managers of the Franklin Union now have on hand, for actual use, a round million dollars in cash, and, in addition to that ?200,000 in good securities, which will accumulate interest for another hun dred years, when it is expected to have produced a new capital of $8,000,000 or $9,000,000. ' To be sure, not all the millions now on hand is the increment of Franklin's original gift, for Mr. Carnegie made a generous addition to that; but the bulk of it is from that source, and all the $200,000 now set aside in securities is derived from Franklin's original gift. In 200 years (which is the length of time that has now elapsed since Franklin was born) his gift of $5,000 will have rolled up to about $10, 000,000! Where will all this have come from? It is a puzzling old problem,' the an swer to which may seem simple enough to those who put money out at interest, but which is something of a mystery. Money is the measure of vaiue. "Value, in the last analysis, consists of things to eat and wear and use. Had $5,000 worth of these things, existing when Franklin died in 1790, actually increased to $1,000,000 worth of them in 1890 or 1906? Had all fne rest of the good things that were in existence in 1790 fructified in. the. same proportion?" And-if $200,-; 000 of Franklin's money in 1906 will be $9,000,000 of things to eat and wear in 2006, what will Mr. Rockefeller's $500,000,000 pile up to in that year? To $100,000,000,000, which iswhatthe w.iOIe wealth of the United - States now amounts to. But at the same rate of increment the present entire wealth of the' United States will have piled up, by '2006, to $20,000,000,000,000 an im possible figure. The world Itself would not hold. that amount of wealth. Money earns money, but it cannot earn more than there is the equivalent of value for. Plenty of Language. "Did you have much trouble speak ing English when you were in Kng land?" "No. The trouble I had was 1c mak ing people understand me." Detroit Free Press. , cur --s e'AI&BETi . is the only ' j inGil GRADE POWDER i r f offered to the consumer at a Podorafe Prico HAKES PURE FOOD Free from Rochelle Salts, Alum or any injurious. substance. Calumet Baking Powder is recommended by leading phy sicians and chemists. Just a Hint. "Does your girl like poetry, Dick?" "Yes, but she is too insinuating." "In what way?" "Well, she won't agree that anything rhymes with 'springtime' but 'ring time.'" Smokers appreciate tne quality value of ' Lewis' Single Binder cigar. - Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. Happiness is less apt to be a matter of luck than of pluck. Mrs. Wlnslows Soothing: Syrup, For children teething, softens the gums, reduces ta I amm atlon, allay b pain, cures wind eollu. 25c a bottle. . Dyspeptics who love to eat love not wisely but too well. Garfield Tea purifies the blood. Gar field Tea cures sick headaches. - On the Evidence. Murray F. Tuley. who died on Christ mas, after twenty-five years of contin uous service as judge of the circuit! court in Chicago, was noted for the strict impartiality with 'which; .he renV derect decisions, even when his personal; bias was strongly the other way, .; '. On one occasion, having heard; a cer-J tain famous suit, he found himself im pelled to hand down a decision .repug nant to his own inclination. "Do you mean you think the de-' fendant was not at heart a swindler?"' demanded an intimate friend, who dared complain of the finding. "Billy," said Judge Tuley, solemnly, "I took that evidence to Arkansas with; mo and studied it two weeks. Then I brought it home and spent ten days more on it. Then I said in my deci sion: '. " 'So far as the evidence shows, the defendant is an upright and honorable Christian gentleman.' " 'So far as the evidence showB,' re peated the Jurist, slowly and with em phasis." Then he leaned forward in his chair, placed a hand on the other's knee, and exclaimed, with an air of vindication: "But, Billy, I didn't say I believed it!" ' He Knew. The first witness called In a recent petty lawsuit in Cincinnati was an Irishman, of whose competence as a witness opposing counsel entertained doubt. At their instance there was put to him, before being sworn, the usual interogatory, "Do you know the nature of an oath?" A broad grin spread over the face of the Irishman, as he replied: "Indade, Your Honor, I may say that it is second nature with me." .,. Wlgg "Pou say you , traveled . all. through France, o you speak French'" Wagg "No, I got so I could say 'How much?' in French, but it didn't help me any. They took all I had, any how' ' ' v: History in the Hair. .;. 1 By their hair ye shall know them. It seems that our histories are written In pur hair. .The Japanese scientist, Mat sura, has been studying the variations in the thickness of the hair. It is known that in certain diseases, among other differences in growth, are found marked variations in the length "and thickness of the finger nails. Now it ap pears that the hair also is influenced, and all the affections' which act upon the general health bring about a diminu tion in the thickness of the hair. The medullary layer may even be interrupt ed, and the hard layer which it contains may disappear. Observations made upon a hair will therefore show ; tn"o variations in thickness according to .certain maladies, and the length of the affected part of the thinner portion of the hair gives an idea of the duration of the malady, and even of slighter af fections. The variations are naturally more strongly ..marked in the case of coarse-haired races than others. Pro vided the hair had never been cut, the man would have his pathological his tory written in capillary terms. Love will find a .way, even in the dark. , If powder won't remove freckles why not try dynamite?