The Nebraska Independent
JUNE 14, 1906
in the state convention it will not be
very hard for me to win in the legis
lature. In the convention it would be
much less certain.
"I believe that to nominate in con
vention would under all the circum
stances involved in the year's fight,
reduce considerably our assurance of
carrying the state. We are going to
hear from the democrats this fall.
They will be stronger than in a long
time, and while Bryan will not be a
candidate for senator, the big recep
tion that will be given him on his re
turn to the United States will have a
powerful effect in out state."
: Senator Millard's views of the out
come are echoed all over tin west.
Krvan is everywhere being acclaimed
as the real leader of the conservative
radicals of the party. The Pltimore
News, long the bitterest eastern an-
tagonist of Bryan, strongly, declares
for him in 1908. The New York World
does the same. All the elements that
fear Hearst are lining up for Bryan.
Hearst will not make - so strong a
showing as he did in 1904 against
Parker.
EDITORS ARE UP FOR CONTEMPT
Ohio Prosecutor Says They Blocked
Work Against Oil Company
Toledo, Ohio. Prosecuting Attor
ney David of Findlay, Ohio, who has
been scoffed and descried in editorials
of the two papers there, will come
back at the editors Monday when he
hales them into the grand jury room
for contempt. David has been pre
paring ouster proceedings against the
Standard ; Oil company and its sub
sidiaries and the papers r have been
writing editorials belittling his work.
He will charge before the jury that
these editorials have been written
with intention of biasing public minds
against the ouster proceedings with
the full knowledge that the matter
was being investigated and a jury
called. ' .. - - . ; " - -, . - :
HE PLEADED TO BE HANGED
Elias Kuntte, Convicted of Wife Mur
der, Made This Request
Joliet, 111. Elias Kunttee, convict
ed of attempted wife murder, pleaded
In the Will county court to be sent
to the gallows. , The court sentenced
him to serve one to fourteen years in
the penitentiary. Kunttee then became
greatly enraged and cursed the' court
and those about him. .Kuntee stabbed
his wife to whom he' had been mar
ried six months. She recovered, pros
ecuted him and is now suing for di
vorce. V
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STOCK YARDS INSPECTION
Changes Recommended by the Presr
ident's Investigating Com
. 2 mittee. :
Washington, D. C The recommen
dations of the president's commiUee
of experts, based on their investiga
tion into the conditions at the stock
yards, are as follows ; ,
1. That the federal inspectors shall
be empowered and required by law
to mark and otherwise render unfit
for food purposes in accordance with
'the, rules and regulations of the sec
retary; of agriculture the carcasses
and products of all cattle, sheep, and
swine which on post-mortem inspec
tion are found to be diseased, un
wholesome, unsound, and unfit for hu-.
njari "food. . While it is true that' in
legislation of this character it is im
portant , to bear in mind the line of
demarcation between commerce 'and
manufacturing, the limitations of federal-jurisdiction,
and the extent of
the police power of the state and the
municipality, it is thought the above
recommendation would be within the
powers of the United States.
2. That the carriers be prohibited
from transporting carcasses - slaught
ered at any establishment unless said
carcasses are marked in accordance
with the regulations of the secretary
of agriculture to show that they have
been inspected. Such a provision
would make federal inspection Com
pulsory upon air establishments doing
an interstate business and thus do
away with the killing of animals re
jected by inspectors on ante-mortem
inspection by. establishments not hav
ing federal inspection. Of course the
provision recommended would be
worse than useless without an ade
quate appropriation.
' 3. .That the secretary of agriculture
shall be directed to make rules and
regulations covering sanitary condi
tions of and the soundness and fitness
for , food of the product of all estab
lishments, and to refuse to , certify
the products unless the regulations
are complied with. , -
4. That legislation he asked ex
plicitely authorizing the inspection and
certification , of pork for export the
cost to be defrayed by the establish
ment. ' ; .
5. The number of federal employes
is wholly inadequate to supervise the
work properly.
6. All carcasses designated as "can
ners" shall be marked at time of
slaughter. .
7. That no government seal on ren
dering tanks shall be broken except
by a federal -employe.
8. That all offal, fertilizer, , and
grease tanks shall be located in sep
arated compartments isolated from
food products. '
9. Sufficient natural light be provid
ed for conducting all final post-mortem
inspection outside of the coolers.
10. That the bureau of animal in
dustry employes shall at all times
have access to all portions of the es
tablishment. 11. That the three post-mortem in
spections of swine be reported sep
arately by the three employes who
make them.
12. That all large rooms in which
the miscroscopic meat is stored be so
constructed that an alleyway with slat
partitions shall lead through, thus do
ing away with the necessity of man
hole or unlocked gates. Solid doors
could then be made to open into each
compartment, which would permit the
department to control more efficiently
the contained meats. .
. 13. That consideration be given the
following suggestion: An ideal way
of handling all animals tagged on ante
mortem inspection in the stockyards
would be to have them sent to one
official abattoir for slaughter.
14. That where water closets were
observed to. open into a room Where
meat is being handled such doors be
closed and other entrances be af
forded. 15. That more attention be given to
white-washing and painting rooms
where meat products are handled.
16. That rooms containing excessive
quantities of steam be supplied with
power exhaust fans.
WELLMAN TO START SOON
Successful Test Made of Balloon
Motors
. Paris The public test of the motors
of Walter Wellman's dirigible bal
loon, "America," with which he is
about to depart on his expedition to
the north pole was eminently, suc
cessful. The machines developed a
capacity of 100 horse power instead
of the contract power of 75. Mr.
Wellman intends to start northward
either Thursday or Friday of this :
week.
Breaks Arm in Queer Manner
St. LouisWhile dressing for a
party, Miss Amie Weisenborn, a prom
inent young society woman of Belle
ville, 111., broke her left arm while
trying to button a shirtwaist up in the
back.
Confesses to Criminal Assault
Lemars, la. Confronted by Miss
Wilmes in court, Ebenezer Davis, a
negro employe of Campbell Bros.' cir
cus, confessed that he assaulted the
girl on Thursday night. The towns
people are furious and trouble is ex
pected." Sheriff Arendt captured Da
vis at Luverne, Minn. ,
Miles on "Embalmed Beef."
An Associated Press dispatch from
Kansas City follows: General Nelson
A. Miles, who is here cn his way to
Colorado to address state university
students said;
. "The disclosures about beef and
other packing house products now being-
exploited are , no news to me. I
knew it seven years ago. I told what
I knew then. . Had tile matter been
taken : up at that time thousands of
lives would have been saved. The adul
teration of food products is the collos
sal crime of the times. I believe that
3,000 United States soldiers lost their
, lives because of adulterated, impure,
poisonous meat. Tliere is no way or
estimating the number of soldiers
whose health was injured. by eating
impure food. I know onlyof its har
vest among the soldiers and can only
guess how many lives it has cost the
republic. I have a barrel of testimony
on th,e subject in th'e way of affidavits
which I collected when I made my in
vestigation seven years ago. The in
vestigating committee closed the case
and refused to hear two hundred wit
nesses whom I had ready.
"At that time I could have secured
the testimony of one hundred thou
sand men that the canned beef sold to
the army was impure, adulterated and
unwholesome. In my investigation of
'embalmed beef during the Spanish
American war I found that poisons
were being used to preserve meats.
My first intimation of the practice
came to me in reports from command
ing officers to the effect that the ra
tions were not wholesome and were
making the soldiers sick. . I ordered
an, investigation and learned from the
reports brought to me that canned
meat had been sold to the army that
had been for months in the ware
houses of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road and at the docks in Liverpool.
"This meat had been relabelled and
sold to the United States for soldiers'
rations.
I turned the reports over to the war
department and a whitewashing in
vestigation was instituted and suc
cessfully carried out. The official re
port, -was that a colossal error had
been made. As a matter of fact it
was a . colossal fraud and the person3
who perpetrated it and were, interest
ed in It should have been sent to the
penitentiary"
CYCLONES KILL AND RUIN
Minnesota, Wisconsin, , Iowa and
Michigan Suffer Great Dam
age From Storms
Eight dead,, many seriously injured
and thousands of dollars worth of
property blown away, briefly sum
marizes the, effects of the storm which
on Wednesday devastated sections of
Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, , and
last night wrought havoc in Michigan
and Kansas. There were two separate
storms Wednesday, one in Southern
Minnesota . and Western Wisconsin
and another In the northern part of
Minnesota, which also swept over
into Wisconsin.
The Dead:
Near Stoddard, Wis. Halvor J.
Halvorson.
Near Caledonia, Minn. Mrs. Peter
Meyers and two children.
Near North Branch, Minn. Mr.
Engdahl, Sr., and Andrew H. Olson,
the latter killed by lightning.
Near Plalnville, Mich. Alexander
Ferguson, killed by lightning, und
William West- killed in wreckage of
barn. . .';- . .
Terrible Ruin Wrought
Fortunately the storms did not
strike and large towns, but the devas
tation wrought in the rich farming
country through which they passed
is said to be terrible. Crops are
ruined and substantial brick and frame
dwelling houses and barns were
literally blown into fragments and
scattered for hundreds of yards about
the country. .
Sunrise Escapes Disaster , ,
. Sunrise, Minn., a littl town of 800
inhabitants, about whose safety much
anxiety was felt last night, escaped
uninjured. The storm devastated
the country three miles from town but
did not hit the village itself. The
large new frame house of William
Stevens was blown to kindling wood
and Stevens and his wife seriously
hurt, but not fatally injured.
Every building on the farm of
M. W. Demming was destroyed, but
the family escaped injury by taking
refuge in the root cellar. Mr. Deming
was absent when the storm struck
the house. His wife and nine children
were in the house. Arthur, the oldest
boy, heard the roar of the storm and
went to the door to 'Investigate.
Horses in the Air
. .The first sight he saw was a team of
horses coming through the air. The
barn In which the horses were hitch
ed had been blown away and the
horses lifted, high in the air They
alighted on their feet and escaped
with trifling injuries. They were still
attached to a plank of the manger to
which they had been hitched.
After passing , Sunrise the tornado
took a northeasterly direction into
Wisconsin. It passed through a heav
ily timbered section, cutting a path
100 feet wide as far as the St. Croix
river. There was considerable damage
done to saw mill property near Nevers
Wis,, but no lives were lost
About Ham Lake, in Anoka county,
Minn., the tornado destroyed much
farm property, but no . loss of life is
reported.
Michigan Men Killed
' Sweeping a path one mile and a
quarter wide for a distance of three
miles early last night, a tornado that
struck the village of Martin and
Monteith, in Michigan, respectively
six miles and four miles north of
Plainwell, killed William West, a farm
laborer, aged fifty-four, seriously in
jured several others, and did much
damage to stock and farm buildings
and uprooted a number of large orch
ards. William West had taken refuge ia
