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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1898)
r i A a cr JwMBJWJilyJr3lvlM STATE OP NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM J2ns Bound Freight Standing on l he Main Track at Indianola Run Into bj West Bound Fast Stock Train Both Engines Demolished Railroad Wreck Two freight trains collided in the Bur lington yardb at indianola causing the loss of three lives slight injuries to foui others and damage to railroad property amounting to many thousands of dollars The dead Sol Brace engineer E J Walteis fireman Win McCall brake man The injured Engineer Anson Engineer Button Brakeman Lundberg a stockman name unknown An east bound freight standing on the main track was run into by a -west bound fast stock train Both engines were totally wrecked COMES BACK WITHOUT GOLD Chadron Man Makes a Vain Search Along the Copper River C ULutz an old lime business man of Chadron has just returned from Alaska wlieie he spent several mouths in a vain search for gold Mr Lutz left the state last January and went direct to Seattle Fiom -there he set sail with 4000 or 5000 men who were bound for the Copper River Biisin away up in the northern regions b lieving that the possibility of discover ing gold there was better than in the x Kim dike country They sailed from Se attle to Prince William Sound and put in at the port and settlement of Valdes From there the part started out to explore an unknown country a land where none but Indians had ever set foot but all these explorers were buoyant in thehope that gold might be found and that they would return as rich men The party was ac companied by a company of United States soldiers with forty tons of provisions and a corps of government geologists and guides The entire Copper River basin was explored but nothing was found be yond an occasional piece of float tinged with gold Not an ounce of gold was found and the men finally wearied of the search and retraced their steps to Valdes and thence sailed to Juneau Alaska Mr Lutz states that he is confident theie is no gold in the Copper River region even -though government reports state to the contrary Knocks Out Kennard Claim Among the opinions just handed down by the supreme court is one reversing and lernanding the case wherein T P Ken nard was allowed 1352199 for collecting ceitain inoney from the general govern ment The court holds that in the joint Ksolulion passed in 1873 which authorized the employment of a collector there was a special inhibition of the employment of an agent to collect the 5 per cent cash school fund accruing to the state and Ken nards claim being based on the col leclioifof this fund he could not recover New Iiife Insurance Company A new life insurance company has been organized at York It is tobe known as the York Mutual Benefit Association and will combine life with accident insurance There is also a sick benefit feature The organization embodies all the principles and benefits of the fraternal societies without the secret and ritualistic part of the plan The officers of the new associa tion are among the best known and most substantial business and professional men of the ciy Narrow Kseape from Death Congressman Sutherland and Mr Wenl worth while returning from the asylum a1 Hastings had a narrow escape from death A runaway team belonging to Charles Hill came down the road at a break neck tpeed Mr Sutherland tried to clear the road for the runaway team but before he could do it the two teams clashed together One of the horses driven by Mr Suther land was killed by having the wagon tongue penetrate its intestines Tandem Accident While riding in the country near Shelton on a tandem John Towne and Jess Lee ran into a rut and were thrown to the bird ground with such force as to break Lees collarbone and fearfully bruise and cut both mens faces and heads The Jjicvcle was wrecked Shooting Affray at Superior Ivan Simonton a teacher in the Superior public schools shot John Jones an ex inaishal through the arm Inflicting a bad wound It seems Simonton unmercifully beat Jones boy in the school room and Jones was attempting to squaro the ac count Simonton previously threatened to kill Jones Chicory Factory Opens The chicory factory at Fremont has commenced its seasons work The acre age this year is very small on account of the demand for the pioduct not being as was anticipated Within the past year 1lue has been unusual quantities ol chicory imported which has lessened tho -demand for the home product Killed by a Train Sheriff Ogg of Geneva was called to Fiirmont the other day to hold an inquest oj the remains of a strange man who was iljid there by the cars The man had driven into sown with a load of potatoes and while czos ing the railroad track win Vnuck by a passing engine Sugar Factoryto Open The Oxnard Beet Sugar Company at Grand Island expects to open the cam p ign at the iooal factory at once As the n ege hi the vicinity of Xorfollf is com paratively smaller than in the former city ijiiiue of the beets raked for the local fac tory are being shipped to Xoifolk Jail Breaker Captured Henry Thornhill sentenced to death in tii1 district court of Hamilton County in lo30 for the murder of William Barrett and who broke jail at Aurora on the night of September 29 has been found in Tennessee and returned to his slate State Dental Board The Hoard of Secretaries of the Slate ental Board Avas in session at Lincoln for he purpose of examining applicants for certificates Four were examined The board has gotten out a neat report of its vork during the last year The present secretaries who have held the position since the passage of the present law are CiPPLambcrtson of Lincoln W C Mc J lenry of Nelson and H C Miller of Grand Island Lamherison was elected a dele gate lo the national meeting of Dental Secretaries Avhich Avill be held at Wash ington on October 13 i J iwuvnw KINDNESS TO ANIMALS Theorists Sometimes Kndely Shocked in Sudden limercenciea Apropos of the question of cruelty to animals a correspondent sends this story Two men were walking along a shady path in the woods of Northern New Hampshire recently One of the men owned a beautiful dog and the animal was bounding along in ad vance of them sniffing here and there and looking frequently up into the brandies of the tall oaks which lined the way The men were conversing Mr Hotchkiss was talking about hi3 love for all animated nature His com panion agreed with him in that it was a downright shame to kill or abuse helpless animals of any description The barking of the dog interrupted them Mr Hotchkiss spoke in a vexed and angry tone and striding forward he seized a piece of dead wood lying near See that dog worrying thai poor squirrel said he It makes me so madI could kill the dog This somehow reminds the Listener of a speculation into which he was once plunged by the conduct of a favorite cat The cat which was a superb black one wore about his neck a col lar to which the children had attached a little tinkling bell One day in the garden the Listener saw the cat creep ing up on a bird in a bush Toxpre yent the tinkling of the bell from warning the bird the cat was creeping with such a slow and steady move ment that the bell was not shaken a bit and was perfects silent It was an admirable performance The bird must have seen the cait but acted as If charmed Then the Listener won- dered is it my duty as a humane per son to make a noise and scare away that bird so that it shall not be caught and eaten It occurred to him that ii might be inhumane to the cat after all the pains and skill involved in keeping that bell still to interfere with his per formance It might be a shock to the whole physical and moral system to scare away the bird at that moment One should beware of interference with the established economy of na ture And yet it could not be said that the cat needed the bird He had abund ance of food given him every day at the house His attack on the bird was mere wanton destruction a killing for the fun of it no more justifiable than mens hunting It would be right to warn the bird And yet who could blame -the cat for obeying his most essential instinct He had no moral responsibility his right to kill the bird was derived from the organic law of nature This was true as to the cat but did his natural right relieve the human observer from the obligation of humanity Clearly he was bound But at this juncture the cat sprang swiftly through the air the bird flut teredtoo late The cat had it in his jaws and made off with it Boston Transcript John Paul Jones Fight Henceforward says Capt Mahan in Scribner to use Nelsons words about his own most desperate action there was no maneuvering there was only lownright fighting and great as was Jones unquestionable merit as a han dler of ships it was downright fight ing endurance of the most extreme and individual character that won the battle When thus in contact the su periority of the British eighteeus over bhe American twelves though less thau at a distance was still great but a far heavier disparity lay in the fabrics Df the two enemies The Richard was i very old ship rotten never meant for naval use the Serapis was new on her first commission The fight hitherto having engaged the port guns of the latter the starboard lower gun ports were stiil closed and from the ships touching could not be opened They were therefore blown off and the fight went on Anovelty in naval combats Avas now presented to many witnesses but to few admirers quaintly wrote Lieut Dale who was in the midst of the scene below decks The rammers were run into the respective ships to enable the men to load that is - staves of the rammers of one ship tered the ports of the -other as the guns were being loaded We became so close fore and aft reported Pear jon that the muzzles of our guns touched each others sides and even so by the testimony of the lieutenant on the Ioav er gun deck of the Serapis her guns could not be fully run out oAving to the nearness of the Acssels Trees in America North American possesses a forest wealth Avhich is perhaps unequalled in any other region on the globe No fewer than 340 species of trees are knoAvn to be indigenous to the United States Of these 123 grow in Canada 94 occurring east of tlie -Rocky Moun tains and the remaining 29 on the Pa cific slope Sixty four of those east of the mountains are therefore tinrepre sented on the map but the greater number of them are confined tQ small areas in Southern Ontario In Canada and the United States the forests are more commonly called woods and bush The finest forests of North America both as to variety of species and luxuriance of growth were those of the Middle and Northern States of AAhich Ohio is about the center These Avoods which have been lai - destroyed in the progress of the tlement of the country extend into Pennsylvania Kentucky Tennessee Indiana Michigan and Southern On tario On any uncleared farm lot -in the last named region one might find fifty ol more kinds of native trees all mingled together Floating Island of the Danube An island of the Danube called En gel near Pichment began one day in May 1810 to float and moved a dis tance of eighty miles before it stopped L h - 3 -- v PINE ROYAL PALACES SPANIARDS CLAIM THE TWO HANDSOMEST ON EARTH Description of the Royal Palace of Madrid and the Gorgeous Escuria One Has 10000 Rooms and Both Cost the Enormous Sum of 50000000 The old proverb Rich king poor people has its Illustration in the Spain of to day for although the people of the nation are miserably poor and the state is bankrupt the king is rich The kings of Spain with few exceptions have all been rich their private for tunes abstracted squeezed or stolen outright from the people they governed making them rank among the wealth iest capitalists on the globe Queen Christina is enormously rich in her own right and when the young king comes to the throne he will be one of the rich est men on earth The wealth of its kings and the van ity of the Spanish people have prompt ed the building of many splendid royal residences so that while the people were sometimes starving the king was spending millions on his palaces In consequence of the desire to make a creditable appearance before outsiders Spain is therefore provided with roval palaces in abundance Under the name of villas country houses or hunt ing lodges they are to be found in al most every province and although for many years feAv of them have been oc cupied and some are in decay they still remain the property of the crown mon uments of Spanish pride The two finest palaces in the world are In Spain the royal palace in Madrid and the Escurial The former is of granite and marble a huge square structure and of a size so vast as to occasion astonishment simply at the ground it covers Four ordinary city blocks of 300 feet on oach side are re quired for the site and the arrange ment of the AAindows and of the col umns on the outside gives the impres sion of a size much greater It was commenced early in the last century when Spain was in her glory when the viceroys and captains general of Amer ica were still sending home to the king twice a year fleets or galleons laden with the wealth of the provinces The approaches to the palace are described by architectural authorities as the no blest stairs and terraces on the globe The hill is climbed by one flight of mar ble steps after another changing and turning In such a way as to convey to the eye of the observer an almost endless perspective croAvned by the I on August 10 1557 when his army was drawn up in array to fight the battle of St Quentin promised St Lawrence whose feast At was that if victory perched upon the Spanish banner he- would build in honor of the saint the noblest monastery In the world St Lawrence was gracious the Spaniards carried the day and Philip immediately proceeded to fulfill his vow The emblem of St Lawrence is the gridiron on which he suffered martyr dom and the ground plan of the build ing represents this domestic instru ment seventeen ranges of buildings forming the frame and crossbars whle a wing 400 feet long is the handle The edifice is gigantic in its proportions 740 feet from north to south do its walls extend and 580 from east to west the average height of the walls being about sixty feet while the four towers at the corners are each 200 feet in height It contains the royal palace and chapel 200 monastic cells three Churches two colleges three libraries besides halls throne rooms dormi tories hospitals refectories and in numerable apartments for attendants Some idea of its extent may be gained by the simple statement that it has r THE ESCURIAL eighty staircases 1110 outside wii doA s overlooking its courts fourteen gates and eighty six fountains The great church of the monastery is equal in its dimensions to some of the largest in Christendom It is a model of St Peters 3G4 feet long 230 wide with seven aisles forty chapels a dome 330 feet high an altar of costly marbles and alabaster rises ninety feet and is fifty feet in width Beneaththe high altar soplaced in order that the kings should rest under the most hallowed spot in Spain is the mausoleum of Spanish royalty a building within the crypt constructed on the plan of the Pantheon in Rome Here in niches one above another are the caskets of all the kings of Spain since Charles V It is said that only one niche remains vacant and the Spaniards have a su perstition that Avhen that niche is filled there will be no more kings in Spain The Escurial and the royal residence in Madrid while they are monuments of the former glory and wealth of Spain are also records of its misgov ernment Over 20000000 aams spent on the Madrid palace nearly 30000 000 on the Escurial millions more were annually squandered in keeping up these two gorgeous and useless estab lishments while the roads were neg lected and public works of every kind were absolutely ignored They are thoroughly in consonance with the Spanish character only in a land where the beggars proudly wrap about them their tattered cloaks and call each oth er senor could such edifices be built ROYAL PALACE AT MADRID great white palace at the summit At no point on the long stalnvay is one out of sight of the noble building to keep it constantly in view Avas the ob ject of the builders and so the tiers of steps Avith their marble balustrades serve no mean purpose in enhancing the impressions of the building Within the palace defies description It is said that there are over 10000 rooms and halls It Is a maze of pas sages its various quarters are entirely distinct one from another though communication is easy all over the building there are old attendants who have spent their lives under its roof and have not visited all its rooms The apartments for the royal family form only a small portion of the monstrous palace There are audience halls which rival In size the great public halls of other European capitals there are the aters with thousands of seats there are picture galleries there are private chapels which in size eclipse the city churchesbf America There are throne rooms and council chambers hundreds of rooms are given up to the attendants and guards for Spanish royalty is proud and though the reality of power has departed still clings to its shadow The other great royaL palace the Es curial Is so called from the name of the village in which It is located twenty miles from Madrid The Escurial was originally a monastery and had its foundation In a tow of Philip II who such collections of art history and re ligion be made A Thoug htful Little Girl All Boston children are thoughtful Itwas a dear thoughtful little Boston girl Avho Avhen told by her mother of the death of a grandmother she great ly loA ed sat silent a while and then looking up said Mamma what time did grandma die At 4 oclock in the afternoon was the answer Again the little girl lapsed Lito mournful silence until as though a ray of sunshine had broken through the gloomy cloud she devoutly ex claimed Then Im so thankful she had dinner first Buffalo Commer cial Trade of the Philippines The latest figures obtainable show that the Philippine Islands import 9 174093 worth of goods and export 19 702819 worth leaving in round num bers a balance in their favor of 10 500000 These figures are for 1897 and it i stated that the average value of the -trade of those islands is far in excess of the sums given Business has been much disturbed by the Insur rection Wliat a sensible woman doesnt knew never troubles her but it causes her in quisitive neighbors hours of untold agony Jig3atesiatoj3S CHILDRENS COLUMN DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Every Household Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings of Many Cute and Cunning Children A Tragic Tale of Tea The Beetle was blind and the Bat was blinder And they went to take tea with the Scissors-grinder The Scissors grinder had gone away Across the river to spend the day But hed tied his bell to the grapevine swing The Bat and the Beetle heard it ring And neither the Beetle nor Bat could see Why no one offered them any tea So polite and patient they are waiting yet For the cup of tea they expect to get St Nicholas A Boy Stronger than a Man A lad In Boston rather small for his age works in an office as errand boy for four gentlemen who do business there One day the gentlemen were chaffing him a little for being so small and said to him You will never amount to much you can never do much you are too small The little fellow looked at them Well said he as small as I am I can do something that neither of you can do Ah what is that said they I dont know as I ought to tell you he replied But they were anxious to know and urged him to tell what he could do that neither of them was able to do I can keep from swearing said the little fellow There were some blushes on four faces and there seemed to be no more anxiety for further information A Tin Can Locomotive The boiler of this cleverly constructed little engine is a quarter pound coffee tin the wheels quarter and half pound tin lids the chimney an umbrella top TIN CAN LOCOMOTIVE the steam pipe an india rubber tube and other parts consist of a knitting needle a bicycle spoke a piece of brass lamp some gas piping a cartridge end and the screw stopper out of an oil tin A German Stork Story A pretty story is told in Germany A stork that had taken up its summer quarters in a certain village became a great pet Avith the family to whose home he frequently came Loath to part with him Avhen the migratory sea son approached yet not wishing to make a prisoner of him it Avas deter mined to test the idea of whether the same birds came back in the spring to the same places So a small nickel ring was put around the storks neck Avith the word Germany sends greet ing to the birds distant friends and the bird flew aAvay Avith his compan ions When the spring returned the birds came back and among a flock of storks that settled doAvn on the roofs of the houses was one that wore a gold ring about its neck When the bird Avas caught on thering was found an inscription returning the friendly greet ing of the German family and send ing a message from far off India Success in Tennia Playing J Parmly Paret writes an article on Lawn Tennis for School Boys for the St Nicholas Mr Paret says Any form of ball playing Avill help the be ginner to judge the flight of a tennis ball through the air and to estimate the angle and distance of its rebound from the ground while merely skipping a rope will teach a girl to judge dis tance and speed One of the greatest elements of success in laAvn tennis is this ability to judge speed distance and angles and it is a quality that is not born in one but secured only through long training of the eye by con stant practice and close observation As the ball flies SAviftly toward you you have only a second or two in which to guess where itAvill strike the ground and how far and how high it Avill bound Before you can become an expert player you must be able to estimate to within a few inches the spot a ball will strike and to within a small frac tion of a second of the time it will take to reach an imaginary point in the air after it has bounded so that the racket may meet it at exactly the right time and place I remember hearing Good body the famous English expert who played in America several years ago say one day that he was feeling in per fect condition for a match I believe I could hit a sixpence at the far end of the court he said And I have seen Wrenn the American champion look at a falling ball and while it was still high above his head- call Outside and Avalk away toward the net with perfect confidence in his judgment When the ball had struck the ground the umpire declared it to be out but ot more than six or eight inches Remarks of the Little Folks A little boy was going past a liquor saloon the door of which vzas wide open with his dog Sport The dog went in but his little master was goon -X-- A f after him with the following good ad- vice Come out of there Sport uont be disgracing the family Mamma was teaching the children the Beatitudes What is a peace maker she asked I know said Winnie proudly its a dressmaker Mamma said a little miss my kit ty is sick and Ive been trying to give her some of my medicine but she wont take it Of course not replied her mother cats never take medicine when they are ill Well I declare exclaimed the small lady Why whod think a little kitten like that would trust to the faith cure Tommy aged 4 had discarded his shoes and stockings one warm after noon and while playing encountered a wasp He ran into the house crying and his mother asked what the trouble was I j just kicked a f fly sobbed the little fellow Well thats noth ing to cry for said his mother But t this one had a ss splinter in Its t tail was the rejoinder A little girl was just recovering from an attack of scarlet fever and the first day shewas able to sit up she said Mamma I guess Ill ask papa to buy me a baby carriage for my dollie Her brother a precocious youngster of 5 overhearing the remark exclaimed i Well youd better strike him for 11 right away for if you wait till you gel well youll never get it Johnny aged 5 was preparing to vls itthe menagerie and became very an gry with his aunt who wos assisting with his toilet Arriving at the menag erie his attention was attracted to a strange looking foreign animal What is that animal mamma he asked That is an anteater Johnny was the reply Oh dear said the little fel low with a sigh I wish wed brought Aunt Mary along Willie the little 5-year-old son of a minister had been playing in the yard and becoming thirsty he ran into the house and asked for some water His mother was engaged at some task and said Cant you wait aAvhile Willie Im busy just now Well I suppose Ill have to wait he replied but if I die remember I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink He got the drink STRIKING CONTRASTS Singing Bullets A soldier from Santiago -of saysi One- the first things I discovered about the Mauser bullet was its peculiar note as it fleAv through the air One could hear them sing over the picket lines Avith a high clear note that Avas totally different from the ping of a leaden ball of larger caliber The effect of a Man ser ball in striking a man is peculiar During the advance on El Caney I was nipped in the leg at a range of- about 1000 yards but I knew nothing of It until I found myself on the ground sprawling in the mud A slight burn ing sensation in the calf led me to in vestigate and there I found a smal hole not larger than a pea The bmV let had passed out the other side of W leg without tearing the flesh There was little hemorhage and scarcely an pain from the wound I saw One troop- s er who was shot through the tfcigh sit upright on the ground and examine the injury Avith as much nonchalance aslf it had been a pin prick Another had been shot through the shoulder blade and I believe the bone was not shat tered The wounds heal quickly where there is good antiseptic treatment African Fireflies In some parts of Central and SouK Africa a sing firefly gives so mb light that It Illuminates a whole room f The Britisli residents catch them- in or der tQ 2nd the matchbox q lamp T V Differences in the American Spanish and Cuban Soldiers The American soldier the private in the ranks is magnificent The percent age of men rejected to those accepted is unknown In any other service The very small standing army makes it pos sible for the men to be selected with the greatest care both as regards their physical moral and Intellectual require ments Of every hundred men who seek enlistment ninety of them are re A jected which Insures the accepted ten being Aery narroAviy picked over Even now when the emergency required the regiments to be recruited above the peace strength the general average has not been much reduced and the re cruit who kneAv nothing of soldiering until a few weeks ago has borne fa tigue as Avell as the seasoned veteran and stood unmoved while the bullets Avent whistling over his head The contrast between the American and Spanish soldier is as striking phy sically as it Is every other way The American private is broad shouldered and AA ell set up the Spaniard is small and lithe But the greatest contrast is in their intellectual status The American soldier not only follows the plan of campaign with intelligence but has his oaati plan which he frequently considers to be better than his officers The Spanish private knows nothing of AA hat goes on around him and has no poAver of comprehension He is simply a machine to obey because he has to and because he stands in very great fear of his officers And as interesting as both the Amer ican and Spanish soldier Is the Cuban Smaller even than the Spaniard liv ing on nothing ragged he has brought Spain to her knees The Cuban of course Is a fanatic solely I imagine that Aery few of the natives have any comprehension of the meaning of tneia word liberty although they know very AA ell that Spain has oppressed them and anything is better than a uance of Spanish rule As one sees the J Cubans their broAvn bodies visible through their rags their general air of neglect he may laugh at the Cuban Idea of soldiering but be must still respect them for what they have done Cuban Correspondent London Chronl cle fci r r
