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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1897)
i IS he Wnlmtim fllmwtmi SUCCESSOR TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - JSijitoii Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA THE TARIFF DEBATES CONGRESS SETTLES DOWN TO WORK IN EARNEST Dingley and Bailey the Opposing Leaders the First to Be Heard on the Tariff Measure No Light as Yet on the Fort Wayno Mystery Debating the Tariff What will go down in history as the tariff debate of 1897 began in the national house of representatives at 10 oclock Mon day morning There was a large attendance on the floor and in the galleries Dingley and Bailey the opposing leaders were early in their places By the terras of the rule under which the house is operating during the consideration of the bill it immediately went into committee of the whole with Mr Sherman Republican of New Jorkin the chair The first thing in order was the reading of the long bill in full It covered 168 pages The reading of the bill con sumed over two hours Then Mr Dingley was recognized and opened the debate in behalf of the bill Mr Dingley was fol lowed by Mr Wheeler of Alabama who opposed for the minority UNDER A VEIL OF MYSTERY No Light Yet on the Strange Tragedy at Fort Wayne The sensational tragedy of a week ago at Fort Wayne Ind is still veiled in tery The final chapter was commenced when a week ago Will E Colerick was found dead in the parlor of the homo of his promised bride separated by less than a dozen feet from the room where the girl herself Miss Mae Hall lay at the point of death By their own hands by acoident or how No man knows Mae Hall after regaining consciousness related her story but it throws no light on the mystery She said she had no knowl edge of Will Colericks presence in her apartments a week ago Thursday night At 6 oclock in the evening she says she en tered her home to lock up the flat before returning to Mrs Peter Platingers to spend the night After arriving she found a note from Will Colerick stating that he would call and says she sat down to wait for Mr Oolericks arrival and picked up an evening paper to read She says she did not finish reading the paper but became suddenly sick and faint At this time Will Colerick had uot arrived When told that she was found in bed in an unconscious condition thirty hours later she could offer no explanation whatever The informa tion that Colericks body was found on a couch in the frontToom appalled her She claimsthat she knows nothing more The affair sho insists is a mystery she caunot explain SAYS AMERICA NEEDS A WAR - Major Wagner Declare that the Only Remedy for Evils of Peace Major Arthur L Wagner U S A of Kansas City in an interview said The Cretan imbroglio seems fully war It is high time that Europe had a blood letting Whatdo you think of war for America the major was asked America has needed war for some time replied Major Wagner A foreign war a few years ago would have prevented the so called hard times and the dis content of this rocent period And a war now queried the reporter An act of war by Spain would be a Godsend War added the soldier not only clears up the political and national atmos phere but it purges the moral atmosphere The American people are for war right now These peculiar outbreaks are the symptoms of a demand for war The in evitable result of unbroken peace is what we see in China today Fast Anglo Canadian Steamers Mr W Peterson of Newcastle-on-Tine England who is connected with large shipping interests has signed a provisional contract with tho Canadian government for a fast transatlantic steamship service of four boats of 1000 tons each to be ready in two years and to steam over twenty knots per hour The subsidy to bo paid by Can ady is said to bo 500000 per year and the British government it is understood is ready to contribute 250000 per year in ad dition Boat Swamped One Man Drowns Louis Schultz of Alton 111 and Albert Flick of St Louis two itinerant traders were caught in a swift current in the Forked Deer River at Jackson Tenn Monday their boat swamped and Schultz was drowned Flick escaped after drifting fo some distance Supposed Murderer Suicides The man recently arrested at Valley Mills Texas as Joseph Blanther the San Francisco murderer for whom a reward of 1000 is offered committed suicide by tak ing morphine in the county jail He was teaching school at the time of his arrest rand stood well in the community Seasons First Tornado JBufala Ala was swept by a cyclone Monday morning and eight school children Trere killed and a large number of persons seriously injured Ceylon III Caputured by Hoboes Ceylon a small town six miles west of Decatur Ind was captured by a nng of sixty xhoboes vecently The residents driven from their homes and the houses looted of everything of value The thieves marched in a body to the general store there drove the proprietor out and took all edibles fruit and tobacco in stock Nice Job ij Henry of Orleans It is reported inParis that Prince Henry of Orleans will be offered tho position of governor of Crete m BOILER BLOWS UP Engineer and Fireman Instantly Killed at Chicago The boiler of the locomotive which was hauling the Chicago and Boston special on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad blew up Sunday morning in Chicago instantlly killing the engineer and fireman and completely demolishing the engine The dead are Alexander Franks engineer of Chicago Edward J3 Smith fireman of Chicago The engineer was hurled twenty feet into the air through a network of telegraph wires that were stretched along the tracks and had his right leg torn off The fireman was thrown against a cattle car with such force that al most every bone in his body was broken None of the remainder of the crew nor any of the passengers were injured The train to which the engine was attached is one of the fastest on the Lake Shore road and leaves the Van Buren Street nepot at 1030 in the morning The accident occurred at 11 oclock as the train had just pulled out from the Englewood depot and was running at the rate of twenty miles an hour A peculiar feature of the explosion was the fact that although the report was so loud it was heard by residents a half mile away and the force so great that the engine was literally blown to atoms none of the passengers in the rear part of the train heard the report and were not aware that anything unusual had happened until they looked out after the train had come to a sudden slop CANADA WILL RETALIATE Discriminative Duties to Be Imposed on American Products Since the provisions of the Dingley tariff bill were announced it has been consider ably canvassed at Montreal Canada and tlfc concensus of opinion seems to be that it is hostile to the interests of Canada The lumber trade has been mostly to the front and there has been a general demand for an export duty on sawlogs and all kinds of wood pulp The indications are that the government will accede to this demand and that the forthcoming revision of the tariff will not be so much in the line of lower duties as was promised before the elections Alderman Prefontaine M P who has just recently returned from a conference with the ministers at Ottawa has hinted very plainly that this is the case and that retaliatory duties will be imposed against the United States all along the line BEATEN BY THE WOMEN Love Affair Defeats a Kansas City Candidate for Mayor R L Short city clerk of Kansas City who was a candidate before tlie Republican primaries for mayor of that city has been defeated Although Short was the favorite the nomination went to his opponent After a courtship of twelve years Short be came engaged to Miss Sadie Parsons Shortly before the wedding he married another woman Miss Parsons and her friends made campaign material of the affair so effectually that120 women teach ers of the city alone voted solidly against Short The whole feminine population was aroused and many women went in hacks and literally hauled other women to the polls and urged them to vote against Short Kansas City is a Republican city and a nomination would have been equiv alent to an election FOREST RESERVE MATTER Petition to Have Clevelands Order Set Aside A formal application for rescinding part of President Clevelands forestry order of February 22 last has been filed at the in terior department by Senator Wilson of Washingon supported by Representative Jones of the same state ft gives reasons why the signers believe the reservations made in Washington are prejudicial to public interests but asks for immediate restoration of only one of the reserves the Washington forest reserve the largest in the state and embraces 259f2f0 acres All the others in Washington are pointed out as object lessons The petition con tends that many millions of acres of the best lands are thus reserved from settle ment and the terms of the proclamation controlling miners are such that the mines will have to be abandoned Long Given Up as Lost The long overdue American clipper ship T F Oakes which left Hong Kong July 4 with a general cargo for New Tork and which had been given up as lost was towed into port Sunday morning by the British tank steamer Kas bek Capt Muir which picked her up last Thursday in latitude 3810 longitude 6844 The crew were sick with scurvy and six had died The Kasbek was bound from Philadephia for Fiume Austria with a cargo of oil and left the former port on Saturday March 18 Deny Reports About Willielm The New York World cabled to Prince von Hohenlohe the imperial chancellor of Germany and to Barou Marchall von Bieberstein the imperial secretary of state for foreign affairs that dispatches sent to the United States from Europe repre sent that Emperor Wilhelms condition is gravej and that his malady is assuming the form of insanity in response the World received this official message Beblijt March 21 The condition of the emperor is excellent Cannot Be Governor and Mayor Governor nazen S Phigree is ousted from the office of mayor of Detroit Mich Such is the mandate of the Michigan su preme court which orders a special elec tion for mayor on April 5 The decision which was unanimous was hauded down Saturday The court in substance states that the holding of two such offices is in conflictwith the state constitution and that the offices are incompatible under the com mon law Noted Catholic Priest Dead Rev Father Maraschi S J a noted nriest of the Pacific coast is dead at St Ig natius College San Francisco He had been connected witn tne cnurcn anu He erected a wooden building in 1854 which wasf he original t Ignatius Church of that city He was 77 years old DUNS WEEKLY REVIEW Demand for Commercial Loans Has Sharply Increased R G Dun Cos Weekly Review or Trade says Though steadily increasing business is still much below its volume in former years of prosperity and many ex press disappointment Yet there is some gain evory week with more hands at work and more mills in operation There is larger distribution of finished products and the demand for commercial loans has sharp ly increased especially in dry goods and the iron and steel branches The progress of the iron and steel industry is hindered by uncertainty regarding the cost of lake ore for the coming year though the repeated adjournment of producers meetings is in terpreted as evidence that an agreement will be ultimately reached It is reported that Norrie ore at 275 will be taken as the basis which should imply about 235 for Mesabic ores but until tho question has been settled many important transac tions are deferred While there is nogreat activity in finished products the demand steadily increases Failures for the week have been 210 in the United States against 2G1 last year and 50 in Canana against 49 last year BLOW TO SINGLE TAXERS Delaware Constitutional Convention Bars the System The constitutional convention at Dover Del as a committee of the whole adopted by a vote of 20 to 5 a section which pre vents the legislature from adopting the single tax system even if it should be so inclined The section adopted is as fol lows In all assessments of real estate for taxation the value of the land and the value of the buildings and improvements thereon shall be indued and in all assess ments of the rental value of real estate for taxation the value of tho land and the value of the buildings and improvements thereon shall be included and in all assessments of the rental value of real estate for taxation rental value of the land rental value of the buildings and the im provements thereon shall be included The provisions of this section shall apply to all assessments of real estate or the rental value thereof for state county school municipal or other public purposes SCOVEL WILL REMAIN IR CUBA Change of Heart Toward the Man They Wanted to Shoot Sylvester Scovel the American corre spondent who has recently been released from Sancti Spiritus prison in Cuba where he had been confined on the charge of en tering an insurgent camp without permis sion called upon the Marquis Palmerola a day or two ago The purpose of Mr Scovels visit was to thank the government for all courtesies which had been extended to him while under arrest and for his re lease from captivity Mr Scovel had a long conference with the marquis The marquis expressed great satisfaction with the cable message from Mr Scovels parents thanking him for asking clemency for Mr Scovel and told the latter that he could return to Cuba as a correspondent May Rival Mammoth Cave The discovery of a large cave east of Brazil Ind is creating considerable ex citement in the neighborhood where it was found Numerous parties have ventured into its rocky haunts and discovered many curiosities in the way of peculiarly shaped stones The skeleton of a human being the head of a deer and the skull of a bear are among the finds which were brought from the cave and placed on exhibition Fourteen rooms have already been discov ered and it is claimed many of them are handsomely decorated by large stones of various shapes and so systematically ar ranged that they resemble the work of an artist Kiss a Bashful Teacher George Willard 20 years old was en gaged as teacher in a district school near Delphos Putnam County Ohio Willard is a handsome young man but retiring in manner A bevy of farmers daughters at tended the school and after finding that their charms had no effect on the teacher and each one having a desire to kiss him they waylaid the young man and held him while in turn each satisfied her oscillatory desires Willard fled panicstricken when released and left the neighborhood MARKET QUOTATIONS Chicago Cattle common to prime 350 to 550 hogs shipping grades 300 to 425 sheep fair to choice 200 to 450 wheat No 2 red 73c to 74c corn No 2 23c to 2oc oats No 2 10c to 17c rye No 2 32c to 34c butter choice creamery 17c to 19c eggs fresh 9c to lie potatoes per bushel 20c to 30c broom corn common growth to choice green hurl 20 to S0 per ton Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 525 hogs choice light 300 to 425 sheep common to choice 300 to 425 wheat No 2 SOc to 82c corn No 2 white 22c to 24c oats No 2 white 20c to 22c St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs 300 to 425 sheep 300 to 450 wheat No 2 96c to 9Sc corn No 2 yel low 20c to 22c oats No 2 white 17c to 18c rye No 2 34c to 3Gc Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 500 hogs 300 to 425 sheep 250 to 500 wheat No 2 90c to 92c corn No 2 mixed 23c to 25c oats No 2 mixed ISc to 20c rye No 2 37c to 39c Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 200 to 425 wheat No 2 red 90c to 92c corn No 2 yellow 22c to 23c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c rye 35c to 37c Toledo Wheat No 2 red 92c to 94c corn No 2 mixed 23c to 25c oats No 2 white 17c to 18c rye No 2 37c to 3Sc clover seed 525 to 535 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 73c to 75c corn No 3 20c to 22c oats No 2 white ISc to 20e barley No 2 2Sc to 32c rye lo 34c Jo 35c pork mess 850 to 900 Buffalo Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 425 sheep 300 to 475 wheat No 2 red 90c to 91c corn No 2 yellow 26c to 28c oats No 2 white 21c to 22c New York Cattle 300 to 525 hogs 350 to 450 sheep 300 to 500 wheat No 2 red SOc to S2c corn No 2 29c to SOc oats No 2 white 21c to 23c butter creamery 15c to 20c eggs West ern 10c to lie NEBRASKA CONGRESS daily report of what is be ingdone Many Measures of More or Less Im portance Being Introduced at the Present Session of the Golden Rod Legislature Wednesday The senate lias commenced the inevit able rush of business incident to the clos ing days of the session There is a nian ifesfcdisposilion as proven by the votes of alarge majority of the senators Wednes day forenoon to place bills which may be of the most vital importance to the people of the state on their final passage with no opportunity for discussion or amendment For almost the first time in the legislative history of Nebraska the senate has dele gated to a sifting committee the authority to order bills engrossed for third reading Usually the practice is for the sifting com mittee to merely recommend bills for either indefinite postponement or passage The bills recommended for passgge are then placed at the head of the general file and taken up in committee of the whole in the order in which they are reported by the sifting committee This session how ever the sifting committee goes further and selects the bills it favors and recom mends that they be engrossed for third reading Of course after a bill is engrossed for third reading it must be placed on its final passage No opportunity is offered for amendment The bill will stand or fall without explanation or debate When the senate was ready for work Wednesday morning the sifting committee made a voluminous report Fifteen bills were recommended for indefinite postponment and twenty one with the recommendation that they be engrossed for third reading No bills were passed during the session Directly after convening Wednesday morning the house went into committee of the whole with Sheldon in the chair for the purpose of considering house roll 515 the salary appropriation bill which was recommitted Tuesday A motion to reduce the salary of the superintendent of the In stitute for tho Blind at Nebraska City from 2000 to 1800 was adopted Robertson of IIol t put in two amendments the first of which cut out the pay of the supreme court commissioners and the second providing for tho pay of two additional judges of the supreme court That part of the motion striking out the pay for the commission was adopted Then Clark of Lancaster moved that the bill as amended be recom mended for passage which carried on a vote of 42 to 35 and the committee arose Tho report of the committee was adopted House roll No 201 Sheldons bill to provide for the building of a wing of a building on tho State University grounds as a part of the permanent improvements of tho Col lege of Agriculture of Nebraska and ap propriating 80000 therefor Avas taken up on its final passage Roll call showed forty nine votes for the bill and forty one against A call of the house was had and Wiebe Rouse and Jenkins the unexcused absentees were sent for Rouse and Wiebe soon came in and several efforts were made to raise the call Jenkins had been excused for a short time and the majority seemed determined to wait for him Jen kins finally appeared and the call was raised The biUjwas passed by a vote of 51 to 42 House roll 1 appropriating 20 000 to rebuild the dormitory of the State Normal at Peru was read the third time and put upon its passage The vote stood 57 to 33 Thursday The anti trust bill and the tribulations f the recount commission occupied most of the time of the senate on the 18th In cidentally the senate agreed to pass Hallers anti compact insurance bill having for its object the prevention of the practice of in surance companies agreeing to maintain rates The senate refused to advance to third reading without reference to a com mittee or consideration in committee of the whole the house bill approprating 20000 for the purpose of rebuilding the dormitory at the Peru Normal School The senate went into committee of the whole im mediately after the preliminary work of the morning session had been cleared away to consider the anti trust bill Mr Murphy of Gage being called to the chair The bill was recommended for passage The governor sent a special message to the legislature on the recount of the amendments The special commit tee appointed Wednesday to confer witli a similar committee with reference to a re count of the amendment ballots presented the following report which was adopted no further action being taken in the matter Tour committee appointed to confer with alike committee of the house relative to counting the ballots cast for the constitu tional amendments at the last general elec tion begs leave to report that it has met said committee of the house and as a result the ballots poll books and tally sheets and abstracts placed in the custody of the sec retary of stale by an act of the present legislature are now in the custody of the secretary of state and a committee of the house which has been empowered to act in conjunction with the secretary of state to hold said ballots poll books tally sheets and abstracts until otherwise ordered by the legislature House roll No 614 providing for an ap propriation to pay current expenses of the state government was read the third time and put upon its passage in the house on the 18th The vote stood 76 to 5 The house resolved itself into committee of the whole and took up house roll No 630 the claims appropriation bill The only change of importance made was in regard to mile age of sheriffs in conveying prisoners to the penitentiary and to the industrial homes The committee had drawn the bill allow ing 5 cents per mile The present law pro vides for 10 cents per mile and after discus sion the full mileage was allowed The bill as amended was recommended for pas sage The next considered was house roll No 103 committee substitute for Richs real estate foreclosure law The principal feature of the bill is that it gives the mort gagor one year for redemption after the nine months stay has been exhausted The section as prepared by the committee was adopted Section 3 contained the clause giving the mortgagee a lien of- one third on all crops raised on the premises during the time allowed for redemption for the paAment of interest On motion of Clark of Richardson the crop lien clause was stricken out Hull of Harlan offered an amendment proving that when the creditor elected io bring an action on the note and attempt to collect he would thus lose the right to foreclose on tho mortgage Clark of Lancaster said that to attach such a plnnw unnlrf onflnnrror f ho Ifiliditv of tllfi bill and Hull withdrew the amendment Clark of Richardson said that at the re quest of friends of the bill he would move the reconsideration of the vote striking out the nip lien clause The motion to recon sider carried and the bill was recommended for passage without any amendments The report was adopted by the house without division Friday Friday afternoon the houso bill appro priating 20010 for a new dormitory for the State Normal School at Peru was read the third time and passed by a vote of 23 to 5 in the senate Later in the day the vote on the bill was reconsidered and the measure placed on the general file The bill providing that all moneys belonging to the state shall be kept in a burglar proof vault and also repeals the state depository -law was passed by a vote of 20 to 8 The bill to abolish deficiency judgments- was the second bill taken up It was passed by a vote of 21 to 12 a call of the house being made in order to put every senator on record The bill to reimburse Rebecca Sharp for school moneys illegally paid to the state was passed with but one dissent ing vote The bill to reimburse Boyd County for the expenses of the trial of the men accused of murdering Barrett Scott was passed without objection only three votes being recorded against it Mr Ransom one of the members of the committee appointed to confer with a house committee relative to the disagree ment over the house amendments to the Trans Mississippi Exposition bill reported that the conference had been unable to reach an agreement Mr McGann of Boone then moved that the senate recede from its amendments Carried by a vote of 21 to 10 Senate file No 256 authoriz ing the commissioners of Hitchcock County to apply 20u0 in sheir hands to the liquida tion of the bonded indebtedness of an irri gation district in that county was passed Senate file No 142 by Mr Dundas of Ne maha was passed It repeals a dead letter statute relating to marks and brands- j Senate file No 127 limiting the number of wards in cities of the second class having less than 5000 inhabitants was passed Senate file No 157 by Ransom of Douglas to prohibit city officials and councilmen from receiving free gas electric lights tel ephones or street railway transportatior was passed The most of the day in the house was passed in committee of the whole with one bill under consideration the Lincoln charter bill Considerable discussion was had and amendments made and voted down The committee recommended the bill for passage A motion was made to adopt the report Clark of Lancaster moved to amend by not adopting and re committing the bill to committee of the whole for the purpose of amending such amendment to make the charter a law when so decided by a vote of the people Roll was called on this amendment and it was lost by a vote of 62 to 30 The report of the committee of the whole was then adopted At 5 oclock the Lincoln charter was taken up on final passage and during the long and tedious reading by the clerk most of the members rambled away to sup per At 715 the reading of the charter was completed and the roll was called The bill received 60 votes A call of the house brought in a number of absentees and the bill was passed with tho emergency clause receiving 67 votes Saturday Saturday was the fifty seventh day or the senates part of the session and it was hurried through with few words Most of the members were anxious to get home on the trains which leave the capital city early in the afternoon and the proceedings were of the most perfunctory character Taking up bills on third reading immedi ately after the reading of the journal had been dispensed with the following were disposed of in the order named Senate file No Ill introduced by Mr Talbot of Lancaster was passed without the emergency clause Senate file No 94 by Mr Beal of Custer was passed without the emergency clause It authorizes county treasurers to invest an amount not to exceed 75 per cenacf the sinking lund ot their respectne counties in registered warrants of the count- at their face value Senate file No- S3 by Mr Gondring of Platte was passed It amends the criminal code section 205 referring to indecent exposure of person Senate file No 267 by Mr Dundas of Nemaha was passed It is a bill to amend section 1 of article ii of chapter iv of the compiled statutes of 1895 This completed the bills on third reading A great many more were ready but most of them carried the emergency clause and as the fusionists had less than a two thirds majority present it was not deemed safe to take them up for final passage The house of representatives on Satin -day afternoon by a strict party vote de clined to adopt a resolution providing for a public recount of the ballots on the consti tutional amendment in the counties of Hall York Wayne and Keya Paha Early in the forenoon session Pollard Republic an of Cass called tho attention of the house to the fact that P O Hcdlund one of the members of the recount commission had made serious charges affecting the integ rity of the work of the commission in a number of counties He explained that Hedlunds charges were either true or false and that the linuse had tho proof of either alternative in its possession Tf the charges were false a recount of the ballots from the counties indicated by Iledlund would easily establish the fact The debate continued until the noon hour and was not concluded until after oclock in the afternoon The Populists with the exception of Sheldon of Dawes and Soder man of Phelps voted against the resolution Besides the consideration of the resolution a large number of bills were acted upon in committee of the whole No bills were passed Rope A cork core floating rope has been de signed The inventor claims that his floating rope of one inch in thickness will stand a strain of more than 1000 pounds The rope consists of a core of small round corks about three-quarters of an inch long placed end to end round which is a braided network of cotton twine This is surrounded by another layer of strong cotton twine braided in heavy strands which is about a quarter of an inch thick One pr the Other Bishop Julius of New Zealand is much troubled by the number of spuri ous coins found in the church offer tories of the diocese In a -recent ser mon he said I never saw so much bad coin in all my life To offer to the church the cause of God money thac the baker or the butcher would not ac cept shocks me The man that would do that wants the grace of God badly or three months The Protestant Episcopal schools of theology have an attendance of 444 stu dents STATE 0E NEBRASKA NEWSOF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Grand Army Veterans Will Have Regujar Drill iti the Manipulation of Arms Until They Rqgain Thcii Old Time Skill V Want to Regain Skill at Arms The old boys of the Grand Army of the Republic of North Loup have decided that it would add much more interest to their post meetings if they were provided with a full equipment of arms and accoutre ments and have appointed a committee to provide the same If they succeed in ob taining them they propose to have regular drill in their hall until they regain their old time skill in their manipulation and be able on reunion and encampment occasions to go through the several movements pn culiar to military bodies and thus add greatly to the entertainment of visitors who in this age of peace and tranquility are total strangers to the pomp and cir cumstance of glorious war Rides Off Employers Horse M G Lee cashier of Meisners bank ab Shelton told Joseph Ilauser one of the hired men on his farm he would not need his services any longer Ilauser dis appeared and with him a fine large work horse belonging to Mr Lee About three weeks ago Jacob Ilauser a German boy from St Michael applied to Mr Lee for work on his farm and was employed He V was not a man who would make himself useful around the farm and Mr Lee gave him some cash on the 16th and told him that he was not needed any more nauser returned to the farm about three miles from own and was seen to go to his room Thats the last seen of him He is 20 years old very freckled and has red hair and a loose carriage The horse which he took is a large dapple gray weight about 1150 pounds holds his head very high and has some scars of wire cuts on his legs A good saddle and briddle were also taken Serious Charge Against Sawyer George O Sawyer was arrested at Dun ning for statutory assault the other day His victim is Judge Bartons daughter Barton is county judge of Blaine County George O Sawyer is at present county treasurer of that county The matter has been known to the general public for the past five months but the girl bitterly denied it and Judge Bartons family believed her Nothing could shake thq truth of the girls story in their eyes until her baby was born The grrl was 15 years old last August and always bore the best of reputations What complicates the matter is that the county attorney is in partnership with Sawyer in the mercantile business and refuses positively to prosecute Sawyer There is a movement on foot among citizens to raise money to employ an attorney for thegirl The feeling among the citizens is running high Two Accidents Near Fairmont A young farmer named Beardsley living four miles northeastof Fairmont was haul ing straw and had a loaded shotgun on the load with him He struck a rough place in the road when the gun began to slip off the load He caught it and in pulling it back it was discharged taking effect in his hand He will lose three fingers William Armstrong a farmer living- northeast of the same town was hauling corn and walking beside the load when in some manner he fell under the load which consisted of about sixty bushels Both wheels passed over the full length of his body No bones were broken but he is unable to leave his bed being very ouslv bruised Fight Over a Dish of Oysters Charley Rhodes and John Hormet of Kearney got into a fight over a dish of oysters In the course of the fight Hormet drew a knife and used it on Rhodes with such terrible effect that his life is now despaired of After the fight Hormet re mained around town for a while and got into a farmers wagon and went northeast Ho is a young unmarried man and has been posing as a tin horn gambler around the city for some time Rhodes is a married man and has a famliy of young children Wild Animal Kills Hogs Some time airo some wild animal attacked and killed several hogs belonging to A W Loomis at Fremont and it made its pres ence known again this week at the hog yard of Wright Spahr where it killed three fine hogs and crippled live more It seemed to satisfy its hunger by eating about eight pounds from the shoulder of one of its victims All were attacked at the back of the neck and people are puz zled to know the character of the beast Creamery Company at Craig The Craig Creamery Company was organ ized a day or two ago The following officers were elected President W S Craig secretary and Treasurer J A Mc Laughlin business manager G A Black stone The company has decided to rent the creamery to J M Schwab of Clear field Pa who is an experienced butter maker The creamery will be in operation about April 1 Mayor Stahlhut Is Sustained The supreme court has rendered a decis ion sustaining Stahlhut as mayor and C W Seymour as city attorney of Nebraska City The decision is a reversal of the de cision of the city council which recently impeached Mayor Stahlhut after a long contest arising from a dispute over the ap pointment of an attorney The mayor i3 thus entirely vindicated Drowned in the Elkhorn Harry Faville was drowned in the north fork of the Elkhorn River about twomiles west of the Elkhorn ranch in Knox County while crossing the stream in company with W H Beckenhouse and Harry Blackmore of Randolph and Harry Raymond and Eobert Nett of Creighton on the 18 Xorlc Wants the Normal An effort is being made by York citizens to obtain the State Normal School which the legislators Lincoln are contempla ting Strong inducements are offered Monuments for Old Soldiers McConihie post Grand Army of the Re public at Plattsmouth has received eleven marble monuments from the government to be placed upon the graves of their gal- lant departed comrades in Oak Hill Cem ptery of that city THI Probably Iose an Eye While intoxicated atf Niobrara TJKarle3 Zimmerman a half breed Indian had an encounter with a young man named Charles Loveless who cut his face and one ej e severely probably resulting in the loss of the eye A ft