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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1902)
SCIENCE AVAILED HIM NOT. tVhcn the Farmer Started for Him , There Was Something Inckinir. "There wns a time in my life , " said a Delroiter the other evening , as the sub ject of pugilisim was being discussed , "when I rather.expected to take and retain the heavy-weight championship nguinst all coiners. I was selling sow ing machines in Indiana , having a horse and wagon and calling at the dif ferent farmhouses , and on several oc casions I had to take ' .sass' from farm ers. After one of them had Hung me over the fence and a second bad run me out of his gate I made up uiy mind to learn a thing or two about boxing. I was at the home office all winter and I took twenty-four lessons from a 'pug * who knew bis business. At the end of the term I could slam him all over the fihop and he assured me that I could lick three sturdy farmers rolled into one and not half try. "When I started out in the spring i had my hat on my ear , and I made : i liee-line for the house of the fanuei who had run me out in the fall. 1 calmly calculated to pick another fuss with him and knock his head oft' . He happened to be workini ? ab.mt tlu yard s I drove up and as soon as he recog nized me be called out : " 'Didn't I tell you never to come 1'oro again ? If you step foot on my land you'll get tbe boot ! ' " 'You can't give it to me , ' I said as I got down. " 'Don't give me no sass ! ' " 'And you conn * out here and go. your bead busted ! ' "Ho came , " sighed the ex-agent. "I had driven eleven iiles to lick him. ami J felt sure I could put him to sleep * : one round , but something happened- something I had not counted on. " 'Did he have sons or a hired mar. who interfered ? ' "No. sir. It was simply that I sml xlenly discovered I hadn't the grit of a grasshopper. Tbe minute the nia'n started for me with pounded glass in Ills eyes and bis lists doubled up I went weak in the knees and began to chew on my heart. If he hadn't been in a hurry I should have tri < > d to buy him off , but he didn't wait for cash offers. He came right out to me and let lly , and within five minutes I was the worst licked man Indiana ever saw. He gave me a thumping that laid me up for a month , and the only blow I got in simply knocked his bat off. I was taller and heavier than he was. and with 1113sci - ouce I ought to have put him to slee'j "with the first swing , but I came out as I have told you. "That ended my pugilistic career as well as my agency. I don't say I wouldn't liirht if a man spat on my shoes or pulled my nose , " concluded the Detrditer. according to the Detroit Free Press , "but you can take it tbat I dote on peace , and am uot around look ing for hornets' nests. " SHE LEFT HER BABY. What Happened to a Forgetful Wom an on a Street Car. "Things have been rather dull of late in the way of experiences that set one thinking , " remarked the conductor of the Georgetown and Tennalytown rail way who finds himself up against the real thing at frequent intervals. "I haven't had more than half a dozen k fool questions put to me in as many days , and they were all of the inoffeu- eive type , such as a woman asking me to please let her off when we reached her house , I not knowing her house * my more than I knew her , as I never fremeinbered having seen her before. "I recall a funny incident back in the old days when I was running a horse car on the F street line , " the c-onductor went on. "A woman carry- Ing several bundles boarded my car uptown somewhere , but I didn't pay finy special attention to her. She got : off at 9th street to transfer. We jogged along and bad almost reached 7th street when I heard a great commotion behind. I looked back and saw the bundle-laden woman , followed by a dozen other persons , coining toward me at a brisk run. She was noticeably excited. I signaled the driver to stop jind waited for the pursuers , wonder ing what tbe trouble could be. As the woman came near she shook her fist and shouted to me : 'You've got my baby : " "I replied that I did not want her child , especially as I had three of my own at home. She jumped aboard the car and recovered possession of an in fant that I had been in the act of un consciously kidnaping. She again alighted. " concluded the conductor , ac cording to the Washington Star , "and I rang two bells to go ahead , glad that I was not called upon to turn in a hu man being as lost property when the end of the route was reached. " She Explained the Meaning. One of the easiest ways for a law yer to confuse a witness is to make him explain the meaning of a word. Few people can define a word satisfactorily , even if they know its meaning. A West ern lawyer was cross-examining a young woman who bad a very haughty temper. According to tbe l-ros Angeles Herald , she had testified that she had seen the defendant "shy" a book at the plaintiff. " 'Shy ? ' 'Shy' book ? What do you mean by that ? Will you explain to the court what the word 'shy' means ? " The girl leaned over the desk beneath tbe witness-box , picked up a law book , and threw it so accurately and so forc ibly at the lawyer that he had hard work to dodge it. "I think the court now understands the meaning of the word 'shj- , ' " said the Judge , gravely. The girl was al lowed to finish her testimony. No one can read the Bible out loud , an the same voice in which be would read a selection from a newspaper. HARD TO CONTROL CHICAGO POLICE HAVE ANOTHER STIRRING DAY. RIOTERS FULL OF' DARING CLUBS AND STONES USED WITH EN- T1UK ABANDON. A DOZEN BATTLES FOUGHT Some of the Collision * Serious and Deaths May Result Conference LooKiug to Strike Settlement. Chicago June 6. Driven by men covered with dust and blood , many of them barely able from exhaustion to hold the reins in their hands , thirty- six meat wagons entered the main gate of the Union stock yards Wednesday nmid a shower of stones , 'bricks , bottles and sticks The wagons guarded by five police wagons , tilled with blue coats and two omnibuses , crowded to the full est capacity with policemen , were on the return from a delivery of sup plies to down town provision houses , after one of the fiercest days in the strike of the beef packers teamsters Many of the drivers , who are offic ials at the packing houses , were cut and bruised from head to foot. The police were in even worse con'liton. The wagon drivers had been work ing from 5 o'clock in the morning , and their progress from the stock yards into the city s business district and back again had been contested by mobs of strike sympathizers. At the very entrance of the stock yards Wednesday after all seeming danger had passed , George June , an employe of the Anglo-American Packing company was sruck by a base-ball bat and knocked from his wagon seat. He was picked up in an imcon-nous condition and , it is believed , he may die. Many others were struck at the same time by a shower of stones , but the police were to much worn out to offer resistence. More than a dozen battles were fought during the day between rioters and the police and the hos pitals tonight are overcrowded with the injured. The fiercest battle of tbe day took place this afternoon at Sixteenth street and Michigan ave- n ic. The rioters stood on the via duct and hurled rocks at the meat wagons passing underneath. The throng was the most formida ble in numbers and in daring of any of the crowds gathered during the d iy. Before this mo'b could be dis persed the police were compelled to use revolvers. More than 'fifty shots were fired , bullets passing over the heads of the crowd , which finally became frightened and scattered , but not until many of the rioters and policemen had suffered serious injuries. Runs into an Open Switch. Redding , Cal. , June 6. The south bound Oregon express on the South ern Pacific , road , which left Redding at 10:45 Wednesday , was wrecked ibout fifteen minutes later near Olear Creek , four miles from this sity. sity.The The accident was caused by a half- jpen switch , which had evdiently aeen left in that condition by some mknown person. The train is a 'double header" and was running town grade at great speed. Both engines were thrown into the ditch md completely wrecked. Engineer J. M. White and Fireman ? red Taffel of the rorward engine , vere thrown under tbe wreckage md crushed to death , their bodies jeing fearfully mangled. The mail ; ar was thrown across the track and 11 of the passenger coaches were litched. A number of pssengers were more ir less injured , but so far as can be earned none was killed. The names' f the injured passengers have not et been ascertained. Boy Drowned Near Burwell , Burwell , Neb. , June 6 Charles , an of W. S. Hahn , a prominent irmer living two miles west of lurwell , was drowned Wednesday fternoon while bathing in the Bur- ell irrigation ditch. The boy was ine years of age. Drowned in a Barrow Pit. Gering , Neb. , June 6. The seven jar old-son of Will Hale , section .1 > reman of the Burlington at Min- : are , ten miles east of Gering as drowned in a barrow pit besidr ) e railroad track Sunday evenine llluir in by accident while playinp lere with another lad of his owt ISLAND FLOATING ON OCEAN. CAPTAIN OF NORWEGIAN STEAM ER VOUCHES FOR IT. New York. The Norwegian steam er Donald , from Banes , with fruit , haf arrived here. A Philadelphia special to the World says tbat Captain Wsrni ecke told this remarkable tale : "We were two days out from Banea and about thirty miles from Wattlins island , in the Caribbean sea , when we came upon a floating island. I , with the mate and several of the crew , rowed toward it. Thousands of little monkeys scampered all about th ? shore , and when we were in range they began a bombardment by shying co- coanuts at us. We captured two mon keys , "Tne following day we discovered another floating island and landed. This time we were greeted by a covey of parrots of most brilliant plumage. " Captain Warnecke declared that the erruption in Martinique had shaken up the entire district and the small pieces of land had become separated from some uninhabited islands. Minister Guilty of Arson , Santa Cruz , Cal. , Eev. James Laur ier Rogers , formerly a well knowq Baptist minister , who recently em braced Mohammedism , has confessed himself guilty of arson , and is now ir custody. He set fira to several buildings at a dairy , where he was working , for the benefit of his health , as he explained , His motive for the crime , he says , was revenge on those who had compelled him to do menial service. The rire destroyed his library , three ministerial suits and a gold watch pre sented to him by his former congrega tion at Ocala , Fla. While in charge of a church at Jacksonville he taught English to many Cuban refugees. He will be examined as to his sanity. Place Ida Lee in Custody. Des Moines , June 4. Local detec- tectives captured Ida Lee here and turned her over to Deputy Sheriff Bartell of Oklahoma City , Okl. , last night The woman's assumed name , when masquerading as a man , is Lee Hale Sometime ago the detectives received word to be on the lookout for a woman who had been suspected of having secured $400 in cash , fewo dia mond rings and a gold watch from a man who had been intimate with her. Chicago Girl Dies in Cab. Chicago. Death overtook Marj Love , aged twenty-two , daughter of a farmer of Grant Park , 111. , Thursday night , while she was being conveyed in a cab from the house of Mrs. Mary Schuert , a midwife , to the home of her cousin , Mrs. Charles Rivers. Samuel Conklin , driver of the cab , was summoned to Mrs. Schuert's house and received his instructions from the midwife. After traversing several blocks he heard the girl fall from the seat and drove to a drug store. She was dead when be opened bhe cab door and he continued to a police station , whence the body was sent to an undertaker's. Detectives arrested Mrs. Schuert md her husbuid , Wilhelm , a member > f the orchestra of a downtown theat- jr. The woman attempted to take jaroolic acid when arrested. At the station she said she had not treated ; he girl , stating that she had only ented a room to her a week ago : Boy Dangerously Injured * Plattsmouth , Neb. While wading n the river channel opposite this city iVednes'iay James Gillman , a twelve- reur-old boy , met with a peculiar ac- ; ident. In some manner he stumbled .nd ff 11 , striking a piece of glass or > arbed wire , which cut a gash in his .bdomeu four inches in length and aused the intestines to protrude. ? he boy managed to reach the shore , nd p ocured a towel , which was tied bout his body in such a way as to over the wound and check the flow of lood. He then started for home in .is crippled condition. It was nearly wo hours after the accident before a hysician was summoned , as the boy bopped at a pump on the way to wash he blood from his clothinsr. The in- 2Stines were replaced and the wound iwed up , but there is great danger baC blood poison will set in. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat -arns the people in that city against using rents in anticipation of the rorlci's Fair. ' 'Raising rents is an peration that should be cautiously idulged. " it says. "Otherwise it ill interfere with good times , en ants have a memory and builders re numerous and energetic. A aoservative course in this matter ill best serve the interests of the and . 5 > ity property owners. Crown Jewel is Missinz. New York. A sensation has been , used in court circles , says the Stock- ) lm correspondent of the American turnal , by the discovery that une of cruvvu jewels is missing rrmn the y.il treasury. It is a beautiful ruby 225 carats and is an historic gem lat formed part of the royal regalia. lie police o ? all the European capi- 1s have been .warned to be on tiia ert. MOB SPIRIT HIGH RIOTOUS DEMONSTRATIONS CON TINUE AT CHICAGO. STRENUOUS DAY FOR POLICE STRIKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS KEEP THEM ACTIVE. SOME SERIOUS COLLISIONS Entire Reserve Force of Officers on Hand fur DutyI > at Djliverea ia dplte ot Obstacles. Chicago , June 4. Chicago's police were given a strenuous life today by the striking packing house team sters. From daylight Tuesday morn ing until long after dark' tonigtit the blue coats were kept busy dispersing trouble-makers , who congregated along the streets and in every con ceivable manner placed obstacles in the way of the meat dealers who en deavored to move their supply wag ons with non-union drivers. In spite of the striking teamsters and their friends , thirty-three wagon loads of meat were delivered from the stock yards to down town stations. Before the task was accomplished , however , a score of police and rioters had been injured and fully fifty persons had been placed under arrest. Several of the injuied were in such serious condtiou that they were taken to hospitals. Two of the injured may die. When the procession of wagons left the packing district they were guarded by a heavy detail of police. As soon as tbe wagons emerged at the entrance of the yards fully 500 enraged strikers' sympathizers made a rush to overturn the convey ances. The policemen drew clubs and after a hard struggle succeeded in scatttering the mob. A fresh start was made but before the wag ons reached the down town district the mob , augumented * by hundreds of sympathizers , made another at tack. In the tight that followed revolv ers were drawn. No person was shot , the police instead using their clubs indiscriminately and a dozen or more people were hurt before the march could be resumed. When the central portion of the city was reached clashes between the police and tbe crowd became numerous. Street car traffic was an impossi- bilty and it was necessary for sever al squads of polite to charge the crowds with batons before the wag ons had reached I he various down town houses. To add to the burdens of the police department 1,300 drivers and their helpers employed by the state street general retail merchandise depart ment stores went on a strike today. An attempt was made to deliver "department stores" goods in the down town district this afternoon with non-union drivers under police protection but so much disorder de veloped tbat the attempt proved fu tile. Before the project was aband oned several rioters were hurt and many arrests had been'made. . Chicago's entire police force was on active "or reserve duty today as a re sult of the serious aspect assumed by the stockyards teamsters' strike. Every patroleman on a furlough reported for duty today and many ol the police on crossing duty in the down town district were held in readiness for riot calls. Hundreds of officers assembled early in the morning at headquarters and were given definite orders to prevent disturbances such as marked yesterday's deliveries of meat by bbe packers The strikers have doubled their picket force to try and dissuade non-union men from carrying meat from railroad branch houses either Lo hotels and restaurants or distrib uting points of the ' 'big eight" packingestablishments. All the buildings of tbe packers ire under guard , the police assist- ng in many instances. The strik ers depreciated yesterday's Inwless- pess and disclaim responsibilit } foi it. They say in all instances the , vork of the mob was the work ol sympathizers only. Delivery drivers of the big depart- , nent stores have become dissatisfied vith their positions and threaten ; o make the teamsters' strike still nore serious by tying up all deliv ery. Today the"teamster employes > f the Boston stores struck. The Tair teamsters already ar ? outand ither men who were"pressed into ervice on the wagons today met vith constant blokades formed by ympathizing teamsters in other wag- ins along their routes. Vo'cano ' in Mexico. Albuquerque , N. * M. June 4. ) eputy United States Marshal Me veehao. who has just arrived from he west , reports the people ol Jran t are greatly excited over the ppearance of activity in a volcanc few miles from tbat town. Passenger trains observed smoke n the direction of the volcano and man who was dispatched to the j ilace says it was issuing from the rater of the largest volcano of the j egion. _ . _ _ NEBRASKA NOTES. The state will , distribute nearly ! M8,000 among the schools of the commonwealth. The Class County Press association was organized at Plattsmouth. All but two papers were represented. The Kansas negro regiment , the 23d infantry , will hold its annual reunion' it Leavenworth , August 2 to 4. International congress on work men's dwellings will be held June 15 to 19 in Dusseldorf. The Conservative , the paper con ducted by the late Secretary Morton , at Nebraska City , has been discon tinued and is succeeded by the Ne braska City Weekly. The Nebraska City Pally Tribune has changed its name and will here after be known as the Nebraska City Daily. It will be run by the same management as before. The Farmer's Elevator company at Benedict met and made their tempor ary organization permanent. They have about $3.000 subscribed and are pushing ahead and expect to be ready for business with the coming crop. One of the Burlington's bridges , be tween Pacific Junction and Platts mouth was damaged by fire last night. Three spans of the bridge were burned , and traffic over the line was blocked for five hours. Miss Addie M. Swan , aged 22 , and living eight miles southwest of Syra cuse , died from an overdose of carbolic acid , taken with suicidal intent. Tem porary insanity is given as the reason for the act. The citizens of Wisner have decided to have a Fourth of July celebration and will seek to make it the best ever held. The committee on finance re ports that it has already $800 in sight for amusements. A new financial institution , at Lin coln to be called the Bank of Com merce , has been organized by M. Weil and M. I. Aitkin. It will do a general banking business under the state laws , and will be the sixth bank in Lincoln , "Winter wheat has made favorable progress in the states of the Missouri and upper Missippi valleys and in por tions of the lower Ohio valley. The crop has made splendid growth in Ne * braska and again improvement is re ported from the upper lake region. In the case of the State of Nebraska against J. C. Johnson for alleged fraud in the sale of mining stock to J , J. Gallentine of Kearney , the examin ation in progress before Justice Reilly was concluded and the defendant was bound over to the district court in the sum of $500. The following mortgage record ot Dodge county for the month of May. Farm mortgages recorded 12 , amount $35,700 : released 18 , amount $22,174.34 Town and city mortgages rec > rded 13 , amount $5,686.42 ; chattle mortgages re corded 74 , amount , $13,289.08 ; released 37 , amount , $10,956.30. The Fremont Mutual Fire Insurance company of Fremont , has consolidated with the Nebraska Mutual of Lincoln , which assumes all its risks and will pay all lusses as they may occur. The Fremont company did a paying busi ness , but following the general ten dency of the times decided to consoli date. Gr. Treat , the weather observer ab Weeping Water , has made the follow ing report for the month of May : Max imum temperature , 82 , 18th ; mini mum , 27 , 7th : total precipitation , 3.93 inchea ; precipitation fell on fifteen different days , light frosts the 7th and 27th : hail the 22d. The precipitation for May , 1901 , was 1.79 inchas. At a meeting of the citizens and Grrand Army veterans it was decided Lo hold the reunion of the G. A. R. for bhe eastern district of Nebraska in Weeping Water August 19 to 22 , in clusive ? This is the fourth time Weeping Water has been honored with the eastern reunion. Gfcoe , Lancaster Sarpy , Saumlers and Ca s counties are included in the eastern district. Harry ilson , a one-legged man , recently sentenced in Col fax county to three years in the peitentiary , escaped irom the sheriff , who was bringing him in. Wilson went to the toilet room of the chair car , near Havelock , ind from theresescaped through the window. He was later arrested for aeating his way on a train and . was recognized as the missing man. Dr. C. H. McDowell , a young phy sician of Pawnee City , was found dead n his room at the hotel having re j : ired in apparent good health. The ; oroner's jury held an inquest but the verdict will not be made public until the relatives1 ) f the dead man can be notified. His' ' elatives are supposed to reside in Dmaha and Council Blufls. On the largest bell in the McKinlev ihimes for St. Paul's Methodist Epis- iopal church , in Lincoln , is the in- icription , ' 'Presented by the citizens ) f Lincoln and Vicinity in Memory of Jur Beloved President , William Me Ivinley , March , ] 902. " Below this in scription is the Scriptural quotation , 'Know ye not that a prince and a jood man has fallen this day in Israel. " Omaha wijl build a $15,000 market lou-e. HANDS OF GREAT PIANIST8L Chcy Need Muscular Development All the FinjjerH. The bands of celebrated pianists af- 'ord a very Interesting study to moeb people , but especially to those wte tnow something about pianoforte play ing. Speaking in a general way , we nay group the hands of pianists into Jwo classes , ( a ) the broad band with short lingers ; ( b ) the narrow band with Jong fingers. Von Billow's and lands would come under the jf class A. In fact , Tausig's hand * Jvere so small that he was unable ta play octaves correctly. Tbe higher aote usually followed tbe lower instead , if both being struck simultaneously. The bauds of Liszt and Mark Ham- bo urg belong to class B. Tuos * vrho = ire acquainted with Liszt's arrange ments of Beethoven's and BeriJoz ? jymphonles know tbat be expanded the chords to dimensions which foe th * majority of players are absolutely Im possible , yet Liszt could play them with ease. Mark Ilambourg Is tbe possessor oJ wonderful pianoforte technique. Bach day be commences work with San- flow's exercises and then practices on. tbe pianoforte for four or live hours , lie has never indulged in what ar called "finger gymnastics , " neither has lie used a digitorium or teclmlcon. How few people who listen to th performances of a celebrated planiat or violinist realize tbe amount of hard work be lias bad to do In order to over come all tbe technical difficulties of his instrument. Years of daily grind are absolutely necessary for getting tb lingers Into a condition of complete obedience to tbe will. Schumann In ; rylug to improve bis technique became impatient and overworked bis fingers , with tbe result tbat be bad to abas- don pianoforte playing. Von Bulow used to su } ' that three tilings are necessary for a good pian ist : "Tbe first , technique ; tbe second , tebcnique , and tbe third , technique. " Possibly tbls was said so as to impress upon tbe beginner tbat intellect and. emotion were of no use unless he bad tbe means of expressing them in a flu ent way on tbe pianoforte * tf In tbe present day considerable nms- culnr power is required in pianoforte playing. To some extent this is owinjj to tbe fact tbat each nole when struck- possesses a certain resistance , but th * resistance is not equal throughout the keyboard. Tbe bass notes offer more- resistance to tbe fingers tbau tbe treble and consequently more attention should be paid to tbe strengthening of tbe muscles of tbe left band. Tbe pianist's bands can be developed at tbe instrument or away from It. It away from the pianoforte then "finger gymnastics" may be used or an appara tus called tbe "tecbnicon. " "Finger gymnastics" are exercises which can be practiced evidently at any time or in any place , for you find people even in street cars and trains indulging in the exorcise of their finger joints and looking anything but sane In their efforts to rival Paderewski in feats of digital strength. ADULTERATION OF FOOD. Borne Thinus that Are Used by lilac honest Manufacturers. The Senate Committee on Manufac- Lures recently caused an investigation t > y the Department of Agriculture < ra the subject of adulteration of articles sf food and that report being made lias caused surprise to every one be cause of the extent to which all arti cles of food are more or less tampered : ivith. } . Adulteration does not necessarily mean that food is rendered less icalthy. In many cases the adulterated 'ood is as wholesome as would be the- Mire article , but the fraud practiced on. he consumer is In selling at the price lernanded for one food product a sub stitute that is cheaper and not desired jy the purchaser. It will be surprising to learn that ; oap is frequently used as an adulter- mt for distilled liquors. It is added in , -ery small amounts to produce a , "bead. " Glucose plays an important ) art as an adulterant for many arti cles of food. It is frequently used in .vine . , for fruit sirups , in connection vith whole preserved fruits and with anis and marmalade. Lemon extract is sold that has no oil ) t lemon in it Mustard is made of a icore of things that never laid claim o the name of mustard until they had > eeii boxed ready for sale. Clay has > een found in some samples of mus- ard , but not frequently. Of 102 sam- > les of pepper examined by the Con necticut experiment station thirty-two lontained no pepper at all. It has > een shown , says the Washington star , that cottonseed oil is extensively isi'd for lard , olive oil and cheese , flip extensive substitution of oieomar- rarine for buttqr is well known. The 'ennsylvania department of agricnl- ure in 1,777 samples found 1.033 to ontain oleomargarine. A Promise with Liiuiitutions. "Charley , dear , " said young lira. [ 'orkins , "I want you to promise that on will not lose any more money on lorse races. " " 1 won't liot a cent. " "Now , that's just sheer contrariness. iTou know if you don't bet you canJt vin. " Washington Star. No Room Tor Dearest Mamrna. "But there isn't a spare bedroom in he bouse. " "Ob , that's all right my dear. " "Why do you say it's all right ? " "I was thinking of your mother , my lear. " Cleveland Plain Dealer. People are so anxious to see some- , hiiig for nothing that they will run a ouple of miles to see a little shed1 , down.
