AUGUST 16, 1906
15
The Nebraska Independent
SHERIFFS SALE
Notice is hereby given, that by yir
tue of an order of sale issued by the
clerk of the District Court of the
Third Judicial District of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster County, in
an action wherein J. L. Kellogg and
M. L. Williams are plaintiffs and
the unknown heirs and O. M. Colby,
wHow of O. P. Colby, d ceased, now
Intermarried with Henry Holt et al,
defendants, I will at 2 o'clock p. m.,
on the 21st day of August, A. D., 1906,
at the east door of the court house,
In the city of Lincoln, Lancaster
Comity, Nebraska, offer for sale at
public auction the following described
lands and tenements, to wit:
Lots 3, 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25 and
26 in block five (5) and lots 5, 6, 7
and 8 in block eight (8), al in Lin
coln View subdivision of the north
east quarter of the southwest quarter
of section 11, town 10, range 6 east,
In Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Given under my hand this 18th day
of July, A. D., 1906.
! NICHOLAS RESS, Sheriff.
SHERIFF'S SALE
Notice is hereby given, that by vir
tue of an order of sale issued by the
clerk of the District Court of the
Third Judicial District of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster County, in
an action wherein J. L. Kellogg and
M. L. Williams are plaintiffs and
George W. Young et al, defendants,
I will at 2 o'clock p. m., on the 21st
day of August, A. D., 1906, at the east
door of the court house in the city
of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Ne
braska, offer for sale at public auction
the following described lands and
tenements, towit:
Lots 1, 2, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22 in
block five (5) in Lincoln View Sub
division of northeast quarter of south
west quarter of section 11, town 10,
range 6, east, Lancaster County, Ne
braska. - Given under my hand this 18th day
of July, A, D., 1906. ;
NICHOLAS RESS, Sheriff.
LEGAL NOTICE
MEIER & METER, Call Auto 1794.
William A. Kuehn, and any and all
other persons who claim or may claim
any right, title, or interest in and to
lot numbered Ten (10) in block num
bered Five (5), Trester's Addition to
the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, you
and each of you are hereby notified
that I, the undersigned, purchased the
above described lot on the 22nd day
of November, 1904, for the delinquent
taxes for the years 1897, 1898, 1899,
1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903, and side
walk August 25, 1902, for the sum of
$74.16; and subsequent to said pur
chase and by virtue of the same I
have paid taxes upon said lot on cer
tificate for the year 1904 city $2.45,
1905, $2.07, for the year 1904 county
$1.33, 1905, $1.18; said lot is assessed
in the name of William A. Kuehn,
and said lot appears of record in the
register of deeds office of Lancaster
County, Nebraska, in the name of
William A. Kuehn.
After the expiration of three
months from the date of the service
of this notice deed for said I A will
be applied for under and by virtue of
said purchase and subsequent pay
ments, unless said lot is redeemed
from said tax purchase.
CHARLES S. HESSER.
July 28, 1906.
LEGAL NOTICE
R. II. HAGELIN, Attorney at Law
To Bowen, first name un
known, widow of Arthur II. Bowen,
deceased, non-resident defendant; and
the unknown heirs and devisees of
Arthur II. Bowen deceased; you and
each of you are hereby notified that
on the 31st day of July, 190G, the
Star Van & Storage Company, a cor
poration, filed its petition in the Dis
trict Court of Lancaster County, Ne
braska, against each and all of you.
That said plaintiff alleges in its peti
tion that it is the owner of Lot Nine
(9), Block Thirty (30), in Lincoln,
Lancaster County, Nebraska, and that
the mortgage executed by Emmeline
Farrow to Arthur H. Bowen on Lot
Nine (9), Block Thirty (30), Lincoln,
Lancaster County, Nebraska, on the
18th day of August, 1888, for Fifteen
Hundred Dollars ($1500) has been
fully paid and satisfied, but that said
mortgage has never been cancelled
of record and that said mortgage con
stitutes a cloud upon plaintiff's title
to said lot above described. Plaintiff
prays in its petition that said mort
gage be held null and void and of no
effect and that said mortgage be can
celled of record and that plaintiff
have such other and further relief as
the equity of its case may require.
That this publication is made pursu
ant to an order made July 31, 1906 by
the Honorable Lincoln Frost, one of
the judges of the District Court of
Lancaster County, Nebraska.
You are required to answer said
petition on or before Monday, Octo
ber 8, 1906.
Star Van & Storage Company,
R. H. HAGELIN,.
Its Attorney.
LEGAL NOTICE
MEIER & MEIER, Attorneys,
Lincoln, Neb.
To Sadie Propeck, Appellee:
You are hereby notified that Walter
p Propeck has filed in the supreme
court of the state of Nebraska, a
transcript of the record and a com
plete bill of exceptions embodying
all of the evidence in a certain case
which was instituted in the district
court of Otoe county, Nebraska,
wherein Walter r. rropec, we f
pellant herein, was plaintiff, and
Sadie Propeck, the appellee herem,
jnnt cniri rase having been
heard in said district court on the
20th day of Marcn, iuo, at wmv.
x- iv. nut rpfRrt a decree of
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divorce as prayed for in the petition
of said Walter r. nuy,
which final action of said district
court said Walter P. Propeck has
prosecuted appeal to said supreme
r .- it. wiV. J n -rr nt Alienist
court and on me itn uj "i
mne n ; A Walter p. ProDeck. appel
lant filed in said supreme court of
the state cf NeDrasna, m iub
of Lancaster, in tne cny oi uuwu,
e Mraska his netition in ap
peal and ten copies of his brief in
the above named case, ui wj"
prayer of which is to obtain a trial
t mcd n said supreme
anew hi oaiu - -
court and to obtain an absolute di
vorce upon the grounds vi uun
treatment and utter desertion and
willful abandonment ior muic uiu
a TrAoro lact nnst..
You are hereby required to appear
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before said supreme court iu
t innnin Annnt.v nf Lancaster, and
state of Nebraska, on the 1st day of
October, 1906, and give ui auuvs
mentioned proceedings your atten
tion. Walter P. Propeck, Appellant.
By MEIER & MEIER,
His Attorneys.
Dated at Lincoln, Nebraska, August
16, 1906.
SHERIFF'S SALE
Notice is hereby given, that by vir
tue of an order of sale issued by the
clerk of the District Court of the
Third Judicial District of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in
an action wherein Ellis P. Hamer is
Plaintiff and Louis Ilelmer et al, de
fendant. I will, at 2 o'clock, p. m.,
on the 18th day of September, A. D..
1906. at the east door of the court
house, in the city of Lincoln, Lan
caster county. Nebraska, offer for
sale at public auction the following
described lands and tenements, to
wit: Lot number One (1) of E. T. Huff's
Subdivision of lot Twentv-one (2) in
the Northwest Quarter (N. W. ) of
section number Thirty-six (36) in
township number Ten (10) north of
range number Six (6) east of the
sixth P. M. in Lancaster county, Ne
braska.
. Given under my hand this 14th day
of August, A. D., 1906.
NICHOLAS RESS,
Sheriff,
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Divorce Among the Burmese
The marriage customs of the Bur
mese are simple in the extreme. A
man and woman are married or are
not married, according to whether
they live as husband and wife or not.
A man may have several wives, though
in practice he rarely has more than
one.
A woman may have only one hus
band. Divorce is a matter for the vil
lage elders. No court is necessary,
no decree or appeal to legal or ec
clesiastical authority. Divorce Is but
the breaking of a status. A wife re
tains control of all her property when
married; she has a half share in all
property acquired during marriage
If she is divorced she takes her own
property and half that jointly ac
quired. There is no blending of her
authority with that of her husband.
She may do what she will with her
own.
There is no rule of primogeniture
j and no power of bequeathing property
by testament. All the children in
herit equally. No Buddhist makes a
will. Whatever a man or a woman
dies possessed of must be divided,
according to the rules of consang-
unity. There is no preference of eith
er sex. All children are equal in this
matter. The eldest son shares alike
with the youngest daughter. Lahore
Tribune.
Explosive Gowns
"Science which lately furnished a
mechanical substitute for the horse,
has now set about putting the lowly
silk worm out of business," writes
Clarence Hutton, in Technical World
Magazine.
Almost unknown in the United
States, the manufacture of artificial
silk has been on a commercial basis
in France for several years, the daily
production being now about seven
tons.
In forming a chemical compound
corresponding to the viscous fluid out
of which the silkworm spins his deli
cate thread, the French chemists
strangely enough, that the best sub
stitute was a solution of gun-cotton,
which also serves as the basis for the
most powerful and deadly of modern
explosives. To what extent this gun
cotton silk is relieved of its explo
sive qualities before being woven in
to laces and dress fabrics, seems to
be somewhat questionable. Certain
ly a young woman gowned in gun
cotton and wearing a dainty fitro
glycerine .wrap about her, white shoul
ders, would be a most formidable, not
to say dangerous object. If the new
fabric ever becomes popular in this
country it will plainly be necessary
to warn young men not to approach
its wearers with lighted cigarettes or
other combustible in their hands. And
sparking will become a most hazard
our occupation.
PUZZLES OF DAME NATURE
Problems So Deep and Mysterious
Science Failed to Solve Them
A scientist who has been travel
ing in Africa in search of an answer
to some questions concerning rain
fall gives as his opinion that the ex
pression of imperturable calm on the
face of the Sphinx arises from the
fact that it has never tried to find the
answers to the riddles of the nature,
which have sent many men to their
graves. What is gravity? is one of
them. Hundreds of men have gone so
far as to try to disprove the theory
entirely. An English naval captain
wrote a book on this subject and sent
it to all the learned societies in Eu
rope. Why cannot force be created by
human power? Trying to accomplish
this has hastened , the. end of many'
a worthy man. Perpetual motion will
be an accomplished fact, if we can
discover how force is made. Keely,
with his motor, who claimed to have
discovered perpetual motion, was a
swindler, "whose death ( revealed his
ingenious counterfeit of perpetual mo
tion. If this discovery could be made
it would revolutionize the world.
What source of heat supply has
the planet Mars? That; is another
riddle. Our earth gets much more
heat from the sun than does Mars, yet
that planet has a beautifully mild cli
mate. Astronomers have watched the
ice cap thawing on Mars, and they
have proved that water ' flows and
clouds rise. This shows' that Mars
has heat. But If it is not supplied
by the sun, from what source does
it come?
Where the tide is born is another
of nature's secrets. On the island of
Papete, in the southern Pacific, there
is every day at 12 midday and 2
o'clock in the afternoon high tide.
Why, no one is able to explain. A
scientist has been able to turn gold
into silver, but no one so far has
been able to make a magnet which
will attract gold. Could this be ac
complished its enormous value could
scarcely be realized, for it would
make it possible to work rock from
which no known process has been
able to extract gold in paying quan
tities. Why it rains is a question to which
no definite answer has been given.
Blue sky does not necessarily mean
fine weather, for there may be just
as much rain overhead when the sky
i- opfr q wen oio-13 hMc, the
eun. When rain falls from a cloud
less sky it is generally believed that
the moisture has been brought by the
wind at a great elevation. In the
south Atlantic it has been known to
rain for more than an hour while
the sky was entirely free from
clouds. In the island of Mauritius
it is not at all uncommon for rain
to come from a cloudless heaven.
Slight showers fall during the even
ing when the stars are shining
brightly.
It Is thought by some that these
showers are the result of particles of
ice formed in the higher region of the
atmosphere melting and falling. Oth
ers attribute it to currents of warm
and cold air traveling in opposite di
rections, with the result that the lat
ter condenses some of the moisture
in the former and causes it to fall in
the form of rain. New York Herald.
READING MADE EASY
In a study of the physiological as
pect of reading the curious fact has
been brought out that the character
istic features of letters are found for
the most part in the upper halves, so
that as the reader's attention is here
directed he is often able to read a
line with the lower half of the letters
covered. It has, accordingly, occurred
to some French scientists that some
considerable improvements could be
made in typography, working along
these lines, and that Increased legi
bility and rapidity of reading would i
result. Some of these suggestions
have received a practical application
in some European advertising signs,
where legibility is a prime essential,
and the results have been most satis
factory. Harper's Weekly.