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MONO-RAIL SYSTEM
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May Relegate Steam Locomotives
and leavy : Coaches to the .
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FINANCIAL GIANTS ARE . INTERESTED . .
Men of Millions Stand Ready to Test Practica.
bility of Schem of Howard Hansel runis-
Speed of 150 Mil . s an Hour Is AmoPlg
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Now York.-A younl ; meehnnlcal en.
'glneor , for a little more than three
years , hus been mystlf 'lnl ; and amusing -
ing persons living near his father's
homo at Windsor HllI just outside of
Baltimore , by his experiments with a
single rull railroad that he has con.
; atructell.
Hecontly all the newstlapers In the
city contained the authorltatlvo an.
nouncement that.John H. Starin , who
has malle millions In trans11Ortation
enterprises ; Charles St.owart Smith
-and Woodbury Langdon , all members
, of the Rapid Translt.oommlsslon , were
to back a compan : ; which will build
this young englneer'a slngld rail rail.
real from Jersey City to Newarl"
Formal announcement of the Incor-
voraUon of the now "mono-road" company -
pany Is expected soon to bo- made in
Trenton , and tl1is , It Is announced , Is
to bo followed in the next four or 11\0
weolS by' the announcement of a deal
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by which thy new company has ac.
quircd a franchise and terminal sites
in the two cities-rights presumably
owned by some existing compan . Iu-
side of a year , it is promised , mono.
rail trains will bo skimming across
the marshes from , lm'sey City to Newark -
ark , realizing the newest slogan in
modern rapid transit. :
"To Newark In ten minutes , "
Idea Is Revolutionary.
If what the young Baltimore en.
glneer confidentI ' claims for his
"mono-road" be ti'uc-and he has con.
'Vinced such hard-headed business men
as Starin , Langdon and Smith tha it
is true-modern raiJroading wUl be
revolutionized' by his invention , It
will relegate to the scrap heal the
two-track railroad , the ponderous , coal.
eating locomotive and the big , heavy
elght.whoeled care along with the
stage coach nnd the paddle-wheeled
steamboat , His new invention , if his
, claims arc well founded , is as far
ahead of the locomotive-drawn train ,
running on two tracks , as the fiylng
machine is ahead of the balloon.
That trains wlJ1 run easily at a
speOI ( of 150 miles an hour on a single
rail in perfect safety , without vibration -
tion and th swinging side-wise mo.
tion of the present day railroad trains ,
. and that tracks and cars can be built
amt operated at less than halt the cost
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mnkes p08slblo and because of the
I ' , 'fistly diminished cost of building and
operation.
Negotlatlonf\ under way to obtain -
tain the rights needed before building
of the tmck can be begun and , although -
though secrecy is maintnined on this
110lnt and the precise route selccted is
closely guarded , It is understood that
the hackers of the ComlH1UY are ne.
gotlatlng for fmnchlse rights and tor-
mlnal sites nlreadr possessed by 'an
existing corporation.
Easy to Lay Tracks. '
According to au int1'vlew printed
In the Newark newSllaperS , the lInlting
of the new "mono. rail" line with the !
McAdoo tunnel it ! a possibility. mon' '
L , Durrows sars ; that It would bo a
mntter of the greatest case to run the
trains from the "mono. rail" road right
Into and through the McAdoo tunnel
without interfering with the operation
of trains over the t.wo rail line , All
that would bo lleceHsar ' would be the
la'lng of a single rail between the two
rails , and the installation of the neces-
sarr overhead rails to preserve the
equilibrium of the "mono.rail" trains.
If this Is done , It Is asserted , passengers -
sengers can bo carried from Newark
to the heart of Manhattan in ten min-
utes. 1.'hat : ho is wi11lng to ent.er Into
an opemtlng agreement with the
"mono-ran" ornpany , 'Vi11lam Mc.
Adoo , head of the unnel company , is
quoted.as . saying.
'fhis now "mono-rail" srstem : , invented -
vented hy tI.le young Baltlmorian , is
fotally different from the various other
"mono.rilll" systems , some of which
are in practlcai operaUon in England ,
Ireland , Germany and Austria.Hun-
gar ' , and others of which 11.1'0 . seeking
a foothold. It Is enth'ely unlike the
s 'stem , for instance , for which F. B.
Behr , an Englishman. has been seeking -
ing a franchise between Atlantie
Ferry , Brooklyn and Coney island. On
Mr. Behr's road the cars "straddle" n
single trlnngular rail , In Germany
the "mono-rail" system which has
been successfuily opocated is ono from
which the cars hang suspended. In
l1'eland there is a system In operation
vbry slmllal' to the Behr s'stem.
' 1'he young Baltimore ongineer's
plan , hQwever , differs radically from
all of these , and is , according to his
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or the present cquhlll1ent-thls , in
bl'icf , Is the younJ ; engineer's claim.
I 'fhllt he can do what ho sars is not
only believed by a practical transllor-
tatlon man o [ 010 years' experience
, like John II. Starin hut b ' a big firm
In 'VaJI street which has agre dto - un.
derwrite all the honds required to Imt
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"mono.road , " nnd hy scores of others
who ha.ve h1\'estlgat.ed the 110W plant
and 11.1'0 anxious to become 11naneillJIy
Intel'este in It.
- First Practical Test. '
Starting on a short half-mile stretcher
or tl'uck inside the cxposltlon grounds
at , Jamestown , the first IlrI\ctlcal test
of the new road was made in public ,
, although for three 'enrs the young in.
ventoI' , Ho vard Hansel 'funis , has
been experimenting in tIlO suhurb or
Daltlmoro.
Moro than a doz'n noted engineers.
among them Chle [ Engineer Geurge S ,
, Rice , of the Uaphl Transit commission ,
, have Investlated , the now invention
nnd hl1.ve pronounced it practical.
1 Bomo of them Hssert that 1\ will rov-
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Construction Details.
1.'ho single tl'ack Is laid across tics
about three and a hulf feet in lenlth
-the l3am sort of tics used in the
construction of the Ilrcsent day. two.
rail tracks. except that they are shorter -
or , SlxtY'IIOUllIl mils instead of the
stullIlal'd 100.pound rails arc used.
O\'OI'hoal1 , :10 : Inches apart , ' are sus.
JlOIuletl two parallel rails , I..shalled
on the Inside , These overhead rails
are supportel1 b ' steel Ill1Iars placet1
at intervals along the side of the road
I\1Hl connected hy steel beams
stretched across the tracl"
On tOil of each car at both ends is
attached an inverted truck , This is
raised from the car by a strong steel
arm , corresl10ndlng to a trolley polo ,
and the Cour wheol8 attached to the
inverted truck fit into the "L".shapod
Inner surface o { the overheal ( tracls.
The trucks are in the form of an X ,
with II. wheel' at each of the four
points of the "X. " ' 1'he "X" Is flexible.
ol1Cnlng and closIng to ncc01mhodate
' , sel ! to t.ho curves.
It Is lhls overhead truck arrauJo ,
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ft'nt 1\1" \ ( ' of till' tm''nLioll DC U1l ) ' 0\111 ( ;
BalLimort' mall , anti marks It ! ! grt'atcst
dlfferellco fmlll tla > ollieI' "mono-rail"
lt1\'ontlons. 'l'ho uv\'hNu ) truck 11.1"
l'IIn cmeut , with the four wheels , horl-
zOlltall ' setl\nd worling on the Inshlo
of O\'l'heatl ' , steadies the
the \ ( ' t1'l\CIII ,
cur and glvos It Its 'equilibrium. Pow.
er Is also trllnsmitted [ rom these overhead -
head wires Cor ho ol1emtlon o [ the
cars.
cars.Ono oC the clnlms made Cor ; the
Tunis "mollo'rall" is that trains running -
ning on it will ho pM1ctlcally nolsele-s ,
One rel1son given for this is that the
( ; ulde wheels on top , which run In the
overhead rails , nro oC cast Iron , oak
und leather mHI are so constructed as
to mnke but lIttle noise. They also
1111\0' bl1ll.bearlnga m\d tIlls malOs tremendous -
mendous speM p08sible. 1.'ho guldo
wlll'els are onh' el ht Inches in
dlan1l101' and less than two Inches
thlcl , . Another Ceaturo of the car
which contributes to its noiselessness
Is the use or the dh'ect current motor.
Engineer 1.'unls claims that the enl ) '
prollel' s 'stem of railroad construc'
tion Is the l1inglo track , because the
double trl1cls 1\1:0 In oPllosltion to the
laws of grav1t - , and make necessary
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l1'emOlHlously heavy cars ,
In his Cat'S , ' 1'unls explains , thQ bot.
tom will bo but 20 Inches above the
ruil , and thus the conteI' oC gravlt .
will he ver ' low. The cars will have
un uh lOst perfect equilibrium , even
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! ! 'sl\m oC l'al1road cOllstructlon amI
establish the "mollo.rllll" S pre-om'
humt , still auothol' tremendous ntl.
\'antage Is claimed , and , this is the
most Important of all-tho matter ot
cost.
It Is the cheapness' the C09t or
the 8 'stom , which , It It Is what Is
claimed for il , thr(1l\ten9 to revolu.
tlonlzo railroad construction.
MetnB ; Immense Stvlng. ;
According to the ostimatCR mnde
for the Now York baclters oC tha
project , n tour-truck , elo\'ated lIuo ,
such as It Is pro1101l0l1 to build be.
twecn Jersey CIt ' I\tH ) Nowarl" CRn
bo coustructecl Cor ' 75,000 pOI' mile.
To tmlhl a [ o\ll..traclt novated ! 1'011.(1 . ,
similar to the f1resont ele\'aio(1 s 'stom
in this elt ) ' , would cost $ ! IOOOOO pOl'
mile , This docs not Incltlde th" cost
or IIOWCl' or equlpment-only the
structure 'and tracl,8.
The IIl'ojecto(1I of the neW ontol'-
prlso figure \1110n building the olght
miles oC elo\'ated tracl\ between .Jor.
se ' Clt ' I11Hl N wl1.rk for $3,000,000.
To build the ordinary t 'II of elevate ( )
road , with four trauls , would cost lJO-
tweon $7,000,000 and $8,000,000. It
Is this cheapness o [ cost which Inspires -
spires the bacl\Ors of the entorprlso
to hOllo that they will reap tremendous -
deus profits , and thut t.ho success oC
this inltlnl road bot.ween the two Jor-
80Y cltlos will be followed.quleltl ) ' b ) '
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without being steadied by the over.
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Cars Will Be Light.
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1.'hen , the cars are to be extremely
light as compared with modern railroad -
road curs-another element contrihut.
ing to high speed.tl'hey will not weIgh
o\'er seven tons.
Right hero , in the t.wo points just
referred to , Is the great. advaptago
clalmod by the backers of Engineer
Tunis's system. Mr. Burrows in describing -
scribing its advantages said that on-
glneers ht1d long recognized the fact
that the great sprawling cars of the
present , with their immense weIght ,
are theorotlcally wrong. .
" 'f 1Cse big heavy cars are in effect
houses set \1110n wheels , " " he said.
"These wheels arc placed fotlr Ceet
el ht and one-half inches alll\1't , with
the center of gravity bet.ween them ,
The 11rst and greatest essential to the
whole system is that the cars must bo
heavy in order to remain on the
tracls. Here , then , is the whole 1 , ( ; ' ) '
to railroad Ine 1eiencr' that in a system -
tem whose only oXClmo for heing Is
the ability to lUa'l , speed the principal -
cipal requisite should be great weight.
In short , ha\'lng to overcome gra\'ita-
.tlOIl , they statt out by lUakin it im-
posslhle. It requires no great mechanical -
ical ahllit ' to discover that a one-rail
tracl , is greatly sU)1erior ) to a t.wo-rall
track , if one goes no further than to
see "that ono wheel will only have half
the obstacles to o\'ercome that two
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Etonomy In Operation.
Still another claim for the nlOno.rall
trains is that they can be olloratpt ! I
very much cheallOr becmso : of the
economy in power it is ] Josslhle to .
roalize. According to railroad mon ,
from 15 to 30 ] Jel' cont. of the 110W'I' I
used to ollOrate trains is lost in the
sidewise , swinging motion of cars , i
The 1.'unis mono-mil 'tralna , It Is declared - I
clared , Imvo a stmight ahead motion ,
without an ' slde.swlng. '
Nothing which eVCl' , moved on
wheels can equal the speed claimed
for the 'funis "mono-rail" trains : One
hundred miles an hour is : m eaay matter -
ter , I1.nd the cars can be Ilushed to 1riO
miles without an ' dl 1culty. And.
while the cars are going at this slleod ,
It is claimed that the moUon is so. I .
gentle that passengers are bareh' I
aware of the fact that t1(0) ' are mov- !
Ing. ' 1'he jerk ) ' , swinging motion oC
two-rail trains is declared to bo entirely -
tirely absent ,
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the building of slml1ar roads 11.11 over
tIlO U lted States. The overhead
U'uck system used in the Tunis 'S'
tpm Is patented.
Much Interest Aroused.
How active intero t in "mono.ral1"
ral1roads is , is shown by the fact that
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following the .unnouncement . of the
plnns to build tho. New Jersey line ,
the promoters of the company have
been besieged with inquiries from persons -
sons who want to introduce the system -
tem In other places. Ono inqulrol'
was a capitalist who holds the concession -
cession for a 400-mllo railrond in
South America , much of the route of
which runs through inaccessible coun-
try. ' ) 'ho Tunis "mono-rail" is os.
peclally adapted ror use in a rough
country because of the fact that t.he
Jlghtness of the cars makes it 1108slblo
to operate the tl'l1lns up almost any
reasonable grade ,
To all those inquirers the promoters -
tors say they have replied that they
are not in the field for the OXllloltn-
tlon of the new system , or even for
money Jl1aklng. 1\11' . Starin , the leader
in the onterprlso , has announced that
his ohject Is not t.o make money so
much as to put into Ilractical use an
in\'ention wlHch he boJleves to be the
coming railroad system of the futuro.
No Stock to Be Sold.
1IIs hope to ha\'o a railroad which
w1l1 carry 11eople from this city to
Nowarl , In almost an Inappreciable
space of time , and to give an example
to ether railroad companies in the
good treatment of en1l110 'es. It Is announced -
nounced that no aleck or the now com-
pany Is , to bo Il\It Oil the m.urlwt , nd
that nIl the money that is wanted to
pU8h the entorpl'ise w1l1 lle I'ealizeu by
an issue of honds at the right timo.
A hig Wall street 11rm has already
agreed to undorwrlto . them ,
Expert System to Be Popular.
'l'hat they ultl1nately expect tholr
system to he whloly introduced the
promoters of the now road do not at.
tempt to conceal. 'rhis , they oxpoet ,
wilJ speedily follow a practical dem n.
stratlon of Its success ,
Howard Hansel 'rl1l1is , the young inventor -
ventor of the s'stem , is at Jamestown -
town , where ho is Iuperintendlng tl10
runulng of trains over the experimental -
mental haIr.mile track. 1.'LVlis wanted
11. , much longer track , but It is said
that the trolley companies of Norfolk -
folk were too influential with the exposition -
position management and ho was 1'0-
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NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
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Religious , Social , Agricultural , PolitIcal -
Ical and Other Matters Given .
Due Con lderatlon ,
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n'arvcrt bnnds In Gnge county are
sottlng $2,60 POI' day atHl 1Iol\rd.
JI\D1es Bl\xter uml Uobert Corby
have been 10dgCd ! In jail at Dloomlng.
Former Governor Mlclo ) ' has decld.
ed to return to Osceoll\ , which place
Was his hO\11O before ho was olocled
.governor.
Soollnor Bros' . Clothln and" Cur.
nlshlng store at Scotts mUff ! ! , WIlS 11.1.
most destroyed by fire , The stock
was valued at 0\01' $10,000.
The Carroll I.umber and Gmln com-
pan ' has filed Its articles oC Incorpora.
tlon with Seeret.ar ' oC State Jonltln.
The capltnl stocl , Is $00.000 ,
Seventeen new memhors were 1'0'
celvod into the Presh .torlan church
nt L 'ons on Sunday , three oC them
being received b ' 10Uer' lUlIl fourteen
tin contm3slon of fnlth.
Treasurer Drllm has I'ecelved word
trom eighteen hanlts whleh'rofuse to
pny the 3 per cent intet'ost on state
deposits nnd ho Is t10 \ ' withdrawln1 ;
the state mono ) ' from tlleHo hanls.
1.'ho Prlml'ORO Uecyrd scores farmers -
ers nnI ( otherR who drl\'o Into town
and hitch their horHoH In the scorchIng -
Ing hot 8nn , leaving the animals with ,
out shnde . or wnter for 110ur'3 at 1\
. time ,
Franlc Sohlegter , proprlotor of 1\
tl'ult stand at IInst Ings wus serlonHl '
ntHI perlmlls fatally Injured hr falling
lttn the elo\'ator HhnCl of u wholesal\
'louse ' , where ho hall gone to pIneo un
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ardor.
state SUllorintcndent Mcnrlon hm ;
one to Los Angeles to uUent ) the Na.
ilonnl Education nssoclallon mopthi , ,
at which he Is to al1Poar twice oiuil. ' . .
prornm. ! lIe expects to bo gOllo nt
least ton days.
Peace reigns again at the brlclc .
plant In 11l1mh01llt and the machlnl1ry i
In nrnln runnln at full hlast. Vrac
tlcally nll of the Rtrllors have been
tn'ken hnr.on \ apllllcaUon and 11.1'0 011.
In th"lr old placos.
Monday morning 'Vllllam VaI\lI -
berg' , of Nehraslm City , who was sl'nt
to the nsylum some time ago as a drl. !
_ Boman lac , was tnlwn to Ilncoln a a.in . ,
I\S hB hAd vlolntod his parole. HI ) i9
.a resident of Tnlmago. .
Alexander I\InrlJ \ , n Bohomlan farm.
er who lived near 1\Iorso BlUff , lost
his IrCe on the Superior IIno of the
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Northwestern \vhen CI'eight train No.
204 rnn over him , Marll was asleep
, on the track. lIe had been drinllng.
At n. mass meeting of the citizens
and business men of Deatrice Itvns
voted to hold three '
a days' celehrll-
tlon and trade carni\'al In commemo.
ration oC the fifteenth annl\'ersal' ) ' oC
the founding oC the cll ) ' of Beatrice.
ton , chnr ed with crimillally nssault.
ing I\Ilss \ 'Mary Koehn , The story oC
the alleged crime as related by a
younger brother of the victim , is that
one of the men held him while the
ether bound and guggod his sister und
then committed the crime with which
, they are charged.
A rO)1ort ) was received in BOlltr.lco
from Mar 'svlllo , Kan" to the uffeot
that the first new wheat t1\arlelel at
that pIneo tested sixt ' .fonr pounds to
Ute bushel , Farmers In Gage county
nro o [ the opinion that there III 0 a
numher of fieldH which w1l1 ylold as
high as thirty-five bushclf ! to t o : ure.
It Is said that the hlg cuI of the
Burlington near Milford Is nenrln
completion , and that hut allout 50Y :
ontr thousand yards of dirt 'et 1'0
main to be moved on that parl1cular
vnrt oC the worl , . ' 1'ho big steam sho\'o
ola have heen burrowing Into this h11l
for a year , with the rCsult that n great
gash has been cut.
All Nebraslm dairrmon have , hoon
asled by the StlltO railway commission
to attend a puhIlc hOJrinr : : on August
G when the now prol1osed 1'l1toS on
mille and cream will ho discuSSNI.
The commissioners 111'0 of the 01111110n .
that the new schedule Increasln the
rates on crenm will dlscrlmilll1.to
agnlnst the smaIl creamery.
I Herman Boche , awallln trial nt
, Mallison for m lII'dC\l'ing \ Ji''t'anl , , Jar.
mol' at. Norroll" tried to commit sili-
cide four times during the day , hilt
lived. Three effo.ts wore by 11I\to'inr.
one br hatterlng his head n ainst the
cement floor of the jail. Eh1ier , noche
nlso trl ( > d to run nway whllo wallting
about the jllil 'ard with Sheriff Clem.
ents , ;
I A traveling man who sIlent 'I'hurE ; .
: day ancl Frida ) ' along the line of the
Union Padllc in Nehraslm salt ! he sa ! I
n carload of hogB turned out of a
sto"l , car Into the 'afls at a IIttJo way
! ntion , ancl tllat haIr fJC the llO"I'fI ' (11I'd
from lieat floon aftor. When tlloy
wore unloaded some oC the animal ! !
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wpre almost exhausted , and they died
( ; eon after ,
I A , , J , Anderson , plIo driver foreman
Cor the nurlln ton rnilrond , lost his
lire by drowning , whiio at worl , 110111'
Ollison , four miles south ot Omnha.
Ho was working on tllo driver and'ln
somt : ' mnnner lost his footlns and fell
Into the ri\'er.
The State Doard ot gqunllznton !
" , ,111 meet this \\'e'l , to bc h\ work ot
equalizing between the yalnes of the ,
varIous countieR as fixed 1) ) ' the county -
ty assossors. So far onlr thlrty.fi " "
countlos out ot the ninety hnvo re.
ported , hut all 11.1'0 expected to be In'
I within the next tow da 'o.
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MUR EREn ON THE STAN
Sl lycr 01 Brother and Sinter-In-Law
Tello H 'S ' Story ,
I.lncolll-A solfconfosso\l murderer
on lho Rland oXlllnlnlng hili own emo-
lonl\l humility ' ' 'Ill ' rovlowlnc hla own
reollnls wlwn tOlJllltcd to murder was
the stronso situation in the dlstrlot
CO\\1't \ \ or 1.OnCI\8tl1 ( ' county. li'ranlt
Dnrltcr , who 1(1I1J(1 his lIrothor and
his brothor'H wlto two 'Ou1l' : go ill
Wohstor ( 'o\lIlty , wns coiled t.o thy
witness IItalHI Ilnd mudo to toll the
'Itorof his cI'imo. no did this Cl\lm.
ly IUHl without any hcsltntlon Or die.
play of Ceellng.
' 1'ho first ( IUostions ndtlrossetl lo
Dnrter { were Intended to Ahow that. a
tondencY' tOWl\1'1 insanity Is horedl.
tary In hlH family. 110 told or the
slcle , dizzy headaches with which hlA
molhol' uod ! ! to suffer ( \Jul o [ her
enrly ( hmth , The fact. that. his 1Irother
murdered his Aweethoart , her mother
I1IHI daughter I1.nll Ulon ItlIled I11m801 [
WI1.1 brought out. '
On the night of the murdOJ' Darker
said thnt ho nttended cl1\1fc1l , aCter
which ho tool , his Bweothol\rt home.
Thou ho went tn his Cathor'a homo ,
on the wa ' meeting his brother Dl1.n
and resisting a deslro to Idll him ,
I-n.ter ho dro\'o to his brother Dl1.u's
farm , put his team oWI\Y h\ the lIarn ,
cnterel ( the house nnd shot. hln brolh.
01' . llnrlccl' docltu''s that ho roment-
burR ( ) JII ' thl shooting oC hla brolher
IIHI'olnte(1 ( hlH surprlso when , on
I\wallng In hlH hml next. morning
with his clotlws on , ho wont. down
ItalrR und fO\llH1 \ hlH slslor-In.lnw also
Iyinj.t dead on the fIoor. 110 loft. the
hOllies there all dn ) ' , ho suhl , nnd
oceuiliod hlmsolf with the mllll\l choroR
alJout the Illnco , hut that night he dug
a 'holo ' In tllo cattle ohed carrlorl , . the
two hodlos out , throw thom in nnd
covered them Ull. When aslted why ho
donled all Itllowledgo oC the murder
lmtll the hodles were found , Barker
flnld that ho did not Imow. During
the ( 'l'OHS ( Jxaminlltlon Attorney nlacl-
ledltl'loll ! 10 show tItnb there was
Imfllclent motlvo for a aano man tel
l olJ1mlt the crIme , but , Judge Hnmer ,
Dal'lwl"s uttornoy , lI\et noarlr every
CIICHtlon ) with ohjoctlons , doclarlng
thllt the ' did nol ( Jm'o to try the old
( 'aso o\'er agnln. Ml\nr of the objec.
tlon ! ! WOI'O HlIstained. When nsled to
1011 of uny IlCclllhu oXllerienco , Darlwr
01t1 of ,111:1 : Inahlllt . to flnll his way
homo onCH whclI he was hunllng
IIheelJ a quarter of It mile 1rom th ( '
house , AnoUwl' time hu wan unublo
to lI1alto 11. IIAtm' worl. w\en ) llantln
CIrlI , but when \'elui'ned to it arlor
a Cew hours absence , ho could man.
( \ge \ It l1el'foetly.
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CHEA ' SUPPLIES.FOR STATE.
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Bo.ard of Purchase Adopts New Meth.
od of Doing BUGlness.
Llncoln-'rhe ) llan adopted by U\O
Slnto Doard of Purchase nnd Supplle8
to huy 8uPII1IeH for the state insUtu.
tlons tl'om dealers having the lowest
hid on the indivhlul1.l itema , ralher
than stlclclng to the old Illon of givIng -
Ing the bidder with the lowest total
the onth'o contract [ or un institution ,
has proven ontlroly satIllfactor ' to
the state hOl\l'd at least. At the 1'0-
cent letting moro than a few thou-
sl\l1l ( doUnrs was savod. While it is
imllosslblo at this tlmo to figure jUHt
what I1.II\0unt was sl1\'ed , rotorenco to
n few ItemfJ shows that the aavlng ,
was a largo sum , On one Item ulono
there was a difference ot $308 , and
the highest hid on the item was only
$ GOO. Thia was for IIllricots for a
state insttutlon ! , 'l'ho highest bid was
$ GOO and the lowest $2U2 , ' 1'ho totul
bids mnde h ' theBe two firms wore
vor ' close together. On twenty five
Hems the dlfferenco was from $ Z to
$3 , and on fifty Items , in 80mo In-
stanceH , the difference was $14 and
$11i.
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'Resort to U. S. Court.
I..incoln-'rho eXpl'eS8 compl1.nles
( m\'o sought refuge in the ederal
court rom the threatened state sue
premo court injunction , command ! ng
them to obey the Slblo ) ' rate reduc.
tlon law , The express companies'
cases are now on the same basis as
the railway cases and will bo talwn
Ul for argument In a few days. At-
torno ' 1 ! for the corporations 11111ge
that statu c ul'ts have no , jurisdiction.
Prize Boozer nt Taylor.
' 1'a 'lor-Emory . . . .uyd r got Intoxi.
cated July 3 , drifted into canyon
sout.hwest oC Ta 'lol' nnd omptled six
quart bottles oC whlslt ) ' hefOl'o ho
came out on the morning of the Gth.
Shorlfr Evaus has charg-o of him now ,
1\(1(1 ( will hold him for Sheriff Richard
son or 'CuSt"I' county , who will talre
him to Lincoln to be treated for dip.
somania.
Sail for Alleged Slayer.
Pawnee Clty-El'IJest It'ranl , , under
urrest here charged with the murdOl'
o [ his wife , was admitted to bl1.11 br
. /udl'O / Hnl10r in the sum of $15,000 to
alll1el\1' at the October term o [ the
dlstrect court. 'l'ho amount of hall
wus readily fUl'l1ish.ed y old neighbors
Jf the accused. . ,
Irrigation Case Argued.
Attorne 's Cor the Dolmont Canal
companY who Homo time ago made
application for niore water to he t.\Ien
from the North Platte ri\'er and who
argued their application before the
. .tato Board of Irrigation , have been
notifled to flle briefs with the honrd.
rhis complln ' ollorutef : the Cho'ell e
; : anl\l and irrigates 3G,000 acres of
land , It was tlwarlled 270 feet or
\'lmts 0100 cubic feet. Parllos down
the stream filed objections to the rQ4
-Iuest , as IUd partloli at North Platte.
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