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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1901)
I i M i y ELD WO II GHS EXTRA DAYS f OR VOLUNTEERS Oliver Bricker Slaughters 0 D Guild and His Son Clarence RESULT OP A fEUD OF FAMILIES Many Shots Are Exchanged on Farm Near Dayton Iowa Victor Twice Hit Claims Ho Did Not Fire Until He Was Wounded DAYTON la June 29 As a result of a bitter neighborhood feud C D Guild and his 19-year-old son Clar ence lio dead riddled with charges fired from a shotgun The man who did tho fatal shooting is believed to be Oliver Bricker one o a family of neighbors to the Guilds The shooting was committed at 1 oclock this after noon Stories or how the shooting occur red vary Brickcrs story is that he met Guild and son Guild pulled a re volver and began firing Bricker was hit throe times on the lip on the forehead and in the arm All his wounds are slight The last shot Bricker claims was fired by the boy Bricker having knocked a revolver from Guild s hand When Bricker got k through the fence he says that his brother George met him and handed him a shotgun He fired one barrel at the boy who held the revolver The boy fell dead and as the father sprang to pick up ihe revolver Bricker shot and killed him A different story is told by Charlie Guild 16 years old son of the dead man who claims he was an eyewit ness of tho shooting The bey says - Oliver Bricker opened fire first with a revolver and that Geoige Bricker did the fatal shooting with a shotgun Both Brickers were arrested Oliver Bricker was placed under 10000 bonds and George Bricker under 5000 A jury impaneled by Coroner Youker went to the ground and took eveidence but has not returned a verdict Brick er openly admits the shooting and talks about it freely It was bad lie says but when a mans got to lie has to Both bodies lay in a lane only a few hundred yards from Guilds home Mrs Guild heard the shooting and rushed to the spot only to come upon the bodies of her son and husband She carefully took off he izpron which she wore and wrapped it about her dead husbands head She was later taken home in a dazen condition and now lies in a serious state from nerv ous shock Guild was a well-to-do farmer 60 years of age and leaves a wife and eight children the oldest 17 years and the youngest a baby in its mothers arms Both bodies showed wounds in the chest The fatal charges were heavy loads of No 6 shot and were fired from a twelve gauge double barreled shotgun The revolver used by Guild was a thirty eight calibei Smith Wesson Four or five chambers are empty It is believed that the snooting was caused by a quarrel this morning when George Bricker and Guild had words over a broken fence which let Brickers cattle in Guilds corn and Bricker claims Guild struck him with a hammer Regiments at San Francisco Cannot Be Clustered Ont Soon SAN FRANCISCO June 29 Al though four volunteer regiments in camp at the Presidio are working night and day to be within the law by leav ing the service on Sunday June 30 there are three others which will not get out before next week According to the present schedule tho Forty seventh infantry -will be mustered out on the 2d of July the Forty first on the 3d and the Forty third on the 5th These troops will thus be in the service two three and five days respectively longex than they are supposed to have a military ex istence A deficiency bill by congress will have to provide for their extra pay County Fairs in Nebraska LINCOLN Neb June 29 The fol lowing dates for county fairs in Ne braska have been announced by Sec retary Furnas JTefferson county Sep tember 17 to 20 at Fairbury Fron tier county September 24 to 27 at Stockville Kearney county September 18 to 21 at Minden Madison county September 10 to 12 at Madisnn Ce dar county September 17 to 20 at Hartington 5amnel Gompors May Die WASHINGTON June 29 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor is ly ng danger ously ill at his home in this city suf fering from concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull While his condition is critical his physicians say he probably will re cover He was injured last night as he alighted ijrom a car on which he had been taking his two children for an outing s V JESSIE MORRISON GUILTY Jury Returns Vlrdlct of Manslaughter la tho Second Degree ELDORADO Kan June 28 Jessie Morrison was found gulity of man slaughter in the second degree late this afternoon for the murder of Mrs Olin Castle The penalty Is net more than five years nor less than three years in the penitentiary One of Miss Morrisons lawyers im mediately filed a notice of appeal Jes sie Morrison was taken to her old cell and locked up There he father who had been with her left her The jury vrangled ior nearly thirty hours over the verdict It is said that one juror held out obstinately for ac quittal Last night while the jury was deliberating the Eldorado band gave a concert in the city park near the court house and Olin Castle and Hay ward Morrison Jessies brother played instruments side by side ENORMOUS GRAIN CROP Largest In History Is Predicted for This Region CHICAGO 111 June 2S After mak ing a careful canvass of the north west territory and preparing conserv ative estimates upon the conditions found throughout the grain belt traffic officials of the St Paul th Northwest ern the Great Northern and the Bur lington systems are agreed that the wheat crop of this region for 1901 will break all previous records According to the estimates of these officials it is claimed that the two Dakotas and Minnesota alone will harvest between 185000000 and 200 000000 bushels of wheat as against 100000000 last year- Th greatest previous yield of wheat in the three states named was in 1898 when 175 000000 bushels were harvested Prize Cases Are Decided WASHINGTON June 28 Justice Bradley in the equity court today de cided the Manila bay and Santiago bay prize cases The decision is in favor of the claimants as to vessels cap tured and as to property taken from vessels so captured but against them as to property captured ashore Tho decision holds that vessels sunk and afterward raised were captured and not destroyed that property captured ashore is not subject to prize Connty Treasurer Slugged MINDEN Neb June 28 At about 10 oclock tonight Alfred Norlin county treasurer ran out of his office m the court room crying fire Fire companies soon put out the fire which had been set in the treasurers books It develops that Norlin was working on his books and some one slugged him knocking him senseless and after rifling his pockets and the money drawer set fire to the building Mrs McKInley Takes a Drive WASHINGTON June 28 Mrs Mc Kinleys condition is so much improv ed that she was able to take a drive with the president this forenoon Mrs McKinley was taken down stairs in her rolling chair- The pres ident accompanied her to the side entrance where they entered the car riage The drive lasted about forty minutes Russia Not to Try A grain ST PETERSBURG June 28 The dispatch of the London Times from Pekin saying the Russian minister there M DeGiers had notified the Chinese authorities that the negotia tions regarding Manchuria are to be reopened is classed in official circles here as being entirely inaccurate Pope Reported Quito III PARIS June 28 A dispatch to the Petit Bleu from Rome announces the pope to be seriously ill an 1 says that Dr Lapponni his attending physi cian does not leave the pontiffs bed side The Vatican officials are anxious concerning the popes health State Work for Fivo Years NEW YORK June 28 Thomas G Barger convicted in the Hudson coun ty court of Jersey City last week of felonious assault upon Rev John Kel ler of Arlington was today sentenced to five years imprisonment in the state penitentiary Gomez Goes to New York HAVANA June 28 General Max imo Gomez sail for New York today by way of Tampa Fla accompanied by the private secretary of Governor General Wood After forty years of service in the Chicago fire department William H Munsham has become its chief St Joseph Elevators Empty ST JOSEPH Mo June 28 Rush orders from Chicago grain men today cleaned up every bushel of wheat corn and barley in the elevators in this city There have been more than 500000 bushels gone out of this city during the last week or export sold tft 76 cents a bushel About 400000 bushels stored in tho St Jo seph Grand Island companys ele vator at Elwood Kan was also ship ped to Chicago during the week 1 HER BRUISES HEALING Spain So Far Porgets Her Chastisement as to Encourage Trade COUNTRY IN GENERAL PROGRESSES Reawakening and Regeneration Seems to Be Aboat to Follow tho General Shak ing Up and Readjustment that the War Brought Aboat WASHINGTON June 27 In spite of the discriminating tariff the out look for United States trade in Spain is hopeful according to Consul Gen eral Lay at Barcelona in a report which makes up the greater part of the latest extract from Commercial Relations made public by the bureau of foreign relations State depart ment Since the old trade treaty was can celled with Spain no new compact has been effected to take its place and hence Spain is obliged to impose max imum tariff duties on American goods which amount to discriminatory rates However it is thought that the ef forts of Mr Storer as minister to Spain will soon bear fruit and that mutually satisfactory trade relations between the two countries will be es tablished In spite of tho drawbacks American goods at elevated prices find ready sale in Spain and any feeling against the United States as a nation engendered by the late war is fast disappearing Consul Brown at Carthagena states that he had hundreds of applications during the past year from young Spaa Jards who are desirouo of settling in Cuba He also says it is a positive fact that Spain with the burden of past reverses still partly upon it is advancing with slow but steady strides on the road to prosperity The poor er classes are getting higher wages all classes pay more taxes and have more money to pay them with and the entire regeneration of the country has begun with commendable vim CARS PILE IN HEAP Culvert Near Peru Ind Gives Way Under Wabash Limited PERU Ind June 27 Thirteen per sons were killed and about fifty were seriously injured in a wrrck of train No 3 the westbound Wabash limited nine miles west of this city at 1230 a m today The dead are mostly Italian emigrants en route to Colo rado Many of the injured undoubt edly will die Two sections of train No 3 one coming from Detroit and the other from Toledo were consolidated in this city into a train of eleven cars making up the flyer for its journey to St Louis It consisted of a com bination baggage and express com bination baggage and smoker day coach emigrant coach three chair cars three sleepers and the private car of General Superintendent William Cotter Iron Mountain railway Hav ing left this city one hour late the train was speeding westward at a high rate when at a point nine miles west the engine plunged through a tres tle which had been undermined by the recent heavy rain3 The embankment on both sides of the little stream dropped at a sharp degree a distance of fortv feet Ow ing to the momentum of the train the engine appeared to leap nearly across the abyss plunged into the soft earth on the opposite side and fell back to the bottom Engineer Butler and Fireman dams were thrown from the cab but not serious ly hurt The express car and the first chair car were telescoped The emi grant car followed by two chair cars went down on the left side -of the track and the -first sleeper pitched forward upon the mass of debris Its windows and trucks were broken but none of the occupants were injured The remaining cars also left their trucks but were not badly damaged It was in the emigrant and day coaches that most of the death and injuries occurred Heavy foliage lin ed the banks on both sides of the cul vert the approach to which was over a reverse curve Insane from Cigarettes OTTUMWA la June 27 Thomas Collingwood 19 years of age was ad judged insane today and ordered taken to Mount Pleasant Collingwood had been employed at the Dain Manufac turing companys plant and is said to have been forced to give up his work on account of the excessive use of cigarettes Henderson Chats With King LONDON June 27 David B Hen derson speaker of th United States house of representatives said to a representative of the Associated Press this afternoon I have never enjoyed a greater half hour interview than the one I had with King Edward yester day He was perfectly frank and able He looks forward t even more cordial relations than now exist be tween the English speaking nations America has a firm friend in him - - - i - IMPOSSIBLE TO f IX LOSSES Means of Communication too Meagre to Collect Facts Regarding Flood KEYSTONE W Va June 26 The following story is told by an eyewit ness of the great flood Keystone is the metropolis of the Elkhorn mining country It has but one narrow street and because of limited space many houses were built on piles or walls over the Elkhorn or close up against the mountains The town follows the meanderings of the stream for a mile On Friday night at 11 oclock the storm struck the mountain and for six hours rain fell in torrents By 9 a m the valley was a raging seething angry torrent Houses barns bridges fills live stock and human beings were swept by the mighty current and dashed on the rocks or trees below I was an eyewitness of the disas ter at Keystone stopping at a hotel At the first warning many of the in habitants took refuge on the mountain side overlooking the town and river More than a hundred people how ever remained in the town to look after the women and children who did not escape early The bridge leading to the depot was soon swept away then the angry waters rushed through the only street in the town and we found hundreds cut off from the mountain retreat and the hotel was made fast to the telephone poles by means of a line Hundreds of lives were saved But in attempting to cross the muddy surging waters which swept like an avalanche down the street many lost their hold and in plain sight of friends were carried pT xo the river and drowned RECALLS CUSTER MASSACRE Twenty Five Years Ago the Brave Gen eral Met His Deutli OMAHA Neb June 26 Yesterday was the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre of General George A Custer in the Little Big Horn country of Montana The slaughter of General Custer and 447 of his troopers took place on Sunday and it was several days before the news of the tragedy reached telegraph lines Many of the officers who were killed had been in the Department of the Platte and were well known in this city General Cus ter had many warm personal friends in Omaha and gloom was cast over the city by the announcement of the ter rible massacre General Custer was campaigning against the Sioux at the time of his death With less than 500 troopers he descended upon an Indian village which was supposed to contain but a limited number of warriors Custer and his men were surrounded and an nihilated and their bodies were discov ered a short time afterward by Gen eral Reno TOTAL LOSS ABOUT SIXTY This Is the Conservative Estimate by President Fink NEW YORK June 26 Word was received by Henry Fink president of the Norfolk Western railroad from General Manager L E Johnson of the system to the effect that the total loss of life by the West Virginia floods would amount to about sixty Con siderable damage had been done to a number of mines but some of the more important were only slightly damaged and will begin loading coal today The dispatch added that the flood of water was enormous in some places At the town of Ennis the rise had amounted to six feet in thirty min utes The rapidity of the approach of the flood the dispatch says was responsible for the fact that so many lives were lost Mr Johnson reported that the Nor folk branch of the Norfolk Western was nearly washed away and that it would take a considerable time to re pair it SECRETARY HAY RALLIES Arrangements For Sons Funeral Awaits Mrs Hays Advice NEW HAVEN Conn June 26 After passing a fairly restful night Secretary Hay who arriving late yes terday afternoon at the residence of Seth H Mosely where the body of his son lay was stricken with physical collapse was very much improved this morning It was stated at the house this morning that no definite plans for the funeral will be fixed upon until the arrival of Mrs Hay and her daughter who are expected this afternoon from Newbury N H their summer home Meanwhile however arrangements are being made for departure with the body later in the day Consolidation of Railroad Offices CHICAGO June 26 The Chronicle today will say It is reported here that the offices of railroads in the different combinations located in all principal cities throughdut the country will be consolidated The report is revived in connection with the Morgan-Hill syndicate operations It is said that wherever separate offices are now maintained by the Great Northern Northern Pacific and Bur lington joint offices wiD be instituted m s o mm All of Them Doing as Well as Gould Ee Expected SOME LOST ALL Of THEIR Ef f ECTS The Result of Years of Industry and Self Denial Utterly Wiped Out Mormona Looking Over an Old Barylng Gronnd Other Nebraska Notes STUART Neb June 26 The vic tims of the Naper disaster are doing welL Mrs Anderson and Theodore are being cared for by her father and brother Mrs Greening and idauighi ci1 the only ones surviving out of a family of seven are at Schoenfeldts kindly attended by friends Bertha Anderson will not die as reported Otto Mertz and Henry MerU will get well The Andersons lost everything poultry stock house barn and crops They had two 20 gold pieces in a trunk which was to defray expenses of furnishing their house The trunk was splintered and the money lost Mrs Anderson had been on the claim four years and had a good home stead Their new house the result of years of industry and self denial was almost ready for use the shingles be ing just on and the siding done No- a piece of the building remains and there is no trace of the frag ments Tho Mertz boys lost everything Mrs Greening had some stock and a homestead Her friends will pay the funeral expenses The unforunate people were industrious and worthy Naper has raised 150 for the suffer ers and Butte 200 for the Anderson family Stuart will raise a subscrip tion Nb help outside the vicinity has yet been offered HUNTING BURIAL GROUND Elder Kiddle and Brother Looking Over Old Mormon Fort NIOBRARA Neb June 26 In 1846 a settlement of Mormons at tempted to make a home on the oppo site side of the Niobrara river Traces of this short lived settlement of the saints still existed when the first white settlement was made in 1856 An old mill burr was found on the island and what was supposed to be a canal for power purposes existed An old Mormon elder named Isaac Riddle from Utah and his brother J H Riddle of Crete who were mem bers of the ancient settlement have been here for two days They are in search of the remains of relatives who are said to be here also to look over the ground where they had forts It is thought that they may be looking for treasures that were bur ied here but this is not credited They say that they never worked the mill burrs by water power but by horse power and that supposed canal was a freak of nature The history of this Morman settle ment has been very meager and until now no one has been able to tell anything about that part of- the early white population in this section DATE Of THE REUNS0N Q A E to Meet at Hastings the Hast Week in August LINCOLN Neb June 26 The date of the annual state G A R reunion at Hastings has been determined by the G A R council of administra tion The reunion will open August 26 and close August 31 It was deem ed best to select the last week in Au gust because a lull in farming occurs then which will enable farmers to at tend The old exposition grounds where the reunion was formerly held has been secured by the citizens of Hastings and will be at the service of the G A R department J J Bu chanan is manager and T J Creeth is secretary and quartermaster for the committee chosen by the citizens of Hastings Persons who desire to communicate with the citizens com mittee in regard to the reunion may address either of these gentlemen Has IiUnch With the President WASHINGTON June 25 For the first time since she was brought home from California in a feeble condition Mrs McKinley today was able to gc downstairs and join the president while the latter was at luncheon She remained at the table for some little time and then returned to her room Will Enter Auditors Office TECUMSEH Neb June 26 Muny Townsend son of Mr and Mrs Al Townsend of Tecumseh has accepted a cerkship in the office of State Auditor Weston and has gone to Lincoln to enter his new field of work Arranere for Rural Delivery TABLE ROCK Neb June 26 The mail boxes for the two new crural mail routes out of Table Rock have arrived and are being distributed A 5 y 4t V THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Tntpnt rtnntatlons from South Omha and Kansas City SOUTH OMAHA Cattle There was a liberal run of cat tle and as a result packers did not have to hurry In order to get all the supplies they wanted It was late before the mar ket opened and the tendency was to pound down prices all around Receipts Included close on to ninety cars of beef steers Buyers went the rounds and bid lower on nearly everything Sellers wero holding for steady prices so that It was late before much of anything was done Some of the better grades sold at a rea sonably early hour at just about yester days prices but all others were very slow and In most cases a little lower Packers did not seem to care much whether they got the cattle or not 30 that it was rather later before the bulk of tho offerings were out of first hands Cow stuff also sold lower unless in the case of some of the choicer grades of heavyweight cows and heifers They were not far from steady but the light stuff and the commoner kinds and par ticularly the grassers could be quote very slow and 5 JJlOc lower Choice bulla were about steady but others were lower The same was true of veal calves and stags The light receipts of feeders continued today and In fact there were not enough offered to make a test of the market The few that changed hands did so on a basis of just about steady prices Hogs There was a fairly liberal run of hogs and buyers went In from the start to get their hog3 for less money The opening market was weak to 2c lower and after the first round it was gener ally 2c lower The close was weak at the decline On the start some of tho packers went around and picked up the better loads at 592 and some at 595 and as high as 600 was paid The bulk of the hogs however sold at 590 and 592 Sheep There was not a heavy run of sheep and the market held just about steady Trading was not particularly act ive but still most everything was out o -first hands early in the morning A bunch of grass yearlings and wethers sold at 3o5 while a bunch of native fed weth ors brought 385 KANSAS CITY Cattle Best beef steers and heavy feed ers steady others 3015c lower cholca dressed beef steers 535fi5S0 fair to good iSooZ0 stockers and feeders 325 475 western fed steers 475550 Tex ans and Indians 420525 Texas grass steers 315g415 cows 275450 heifers 350515 canners 175265 bulls 300 450 calves 350500 Hogs Market 2c lower top 610 bulk of sales 390605 heavy 600610 mixed packers 590605 light 570 595 pigs 550565 Sheep and Lambs Sheep active and steady western lambs 450525 western wethers 350600 western yearlings 425475 ewes 325375 culls 250 300 Texas grass sheep 325390 BOERS ARRIVE AT BERMUDA Dutch and Enropean Prisoners Waiting to Be Landed HAMILTON Bermuda June 29 The British transport Armenian hav ing board the first shipload of Boers prisoners to be quartered on Darrels and Tuckers island near here arrived in these waters today The Armenian had a good passage of eleven days from the island of St Vincent The prisoners seem to be in good spirits though rather ragged in appearance There was no infectious diseases on board and the ship was allowed pratique The prisoners are a mixed lot of native Dutch and Euro peans The water supply of the new arrivals is scarce as the weather has been exceadingly dry and the condens ing apparatus of the camps has not been erected Krupp Wants Another Test WASHINGTON D C June 29 The Krupp works have applied to the navy department for the test of another group of their new armor plate for war ships a group of this plate hav ing failed to pass a test held at the Indian Head proving ground a short time ago Hih Praise for Our Army LONDON June 29 During the de bate on the army reorganization bill in the house of commons today Lord Wellesley declared that the United States army was the finest of its size in the world He said its superiority was due to good wages Omaha Bead Builder Dead HUDSON Wis June 29 H L Preston a master builder of the Om aha road was found dead in his room today having expired while dressing Mr Preston was one of the best known railway men in this part of the coun try Violation of Game Za crs MARSHALLTOWN la June 29 As the result of the watchfulness of the officers and members of tho Marshall town Fish Protective association three arrests were made for illegal fishing WOrldS Falr Site Approved ST LOUIS June 29 The Worlds Fair National commission at its ses sion tonight approved the Forest park site and adjourned Peytons First Wife Is tat SPOKANE Wash Juno 29 The suit of Mrs Helen M Peyton of Den ver against Colonel Isaac N Peyton a wealthy mining man of Spokane ended today in a decision by Judge Richardson finding for the defendant on all points The plaintiff who was the first wife of Colonel Peyton sued for 500000 or half his oroperty claiming the divorce he secured was not legal and asking that it be set aside h jii t1lzZs V 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