Nebraska Newspapers

    The Democrat
1. M. RICE , Publisher
ORDER RUSSIANS OFF
CHINESE CRUISERS AT SHANG
HAI CLEARED FOR ACTION.
St. Petersburg Not Disturbed Pro-
1'eHHCH to Believe that ItojestvenHky
Has IV'ot Divided or Weakened
His Main Squadron.
It is rumored at Tokio that the Japan-
t'Ke and Russian fleets under Vice Ad-
.miral Rojcstxvi'-'kv have eiiage ; i it : the
Korean strai - - .
The Shanghai correspondent of tin
London Daily Express says :
"All the Chinese cruisers iu these wa-
.ters cleared for acn-Mi Friday , and tin
laoati went to the Russian consulate am.
demanded that 1'ie ' Russiaships : se.ivi
within twenty-four hour.-- . "
Cabling from Sh-tngh.ii the correspond
( Out of the London Daiiy Mail says h <
jlelievcs ) the vessels of the Russian Hal-
hie squadron off the Saddle islands havi
, proceeded on their voyage , and gives a
jrumor that the Kus.-iiu il.-t is in im
{ neighborhood of Fuchan , province o :
Shantung.
The correspondent says that Presides'
"Roosevelt has wired the viceroy and tao
* lai commending their steps to present
( Chinese neutrality.
i The Russian warships that were oE
ft he Saddle islands left Friday night.
1 The Chinese authorities ordered tin
( Vessels of the Russian volunteer fleet
which were anchored off Woosung. tc
Heave within twenty-four hours. Tin
Russians thus far have ; entirely ignored
the order.
t While a flying raid of one or two tor
pedo destroyers in the eastern sea is ad
mitted as a possibility by the naval au
thorities at St. Petersburg , these author
ities are loath to believe that any divi
sion of Rojet-tvcnsky's squadron in an
important sense has taken place as re-
Jported from Shanghai. They prefer to
.assume that the specified Russian ships
( reported to be outside Shanghai , like the
itiix which entered the port of Woosung.
were units of the fleet without special
{ lighting value , and perhaps they have
Jbeen sent thither to confuse the scent for
Togo.
MORE RIOTING.
A Fresh Outbreak Occurs in the
Windy City.
t AVith the fiftieth day of the Chicago
teamsters' strike Friday came increasing
ly serious apprehensions of a huge spread
of industrial disorder.
Vigorous enforcement of the police or
der to clear out saloons in the lumber
district and the movement of considera
ble lumber under guard Friday brought
out several riotous disturbances. Shots
were fired and many arrests made.
Mayor Dunne , however , after a review
of the situation , said the condition did
Slot warrant a call for soldiers ,
j Strike riots have been begun in the
neighborhood of the lumber district at
phirty-fifth and Morgan Streets. Twen
ty lumber and shaving wagons , guarded
Iby forty police , were attacked by 400
fitrike sympathizers with bricks and
stones. The police drew revolvers and
jcharged the crowd , which fired. No ar ]
tests werT'made.
! H.EADED FOR
oVver California Sfffge Robber
Ldkely to be Caught.
A dispatch from Enseiiada , Lower Cal
ifornia , Friday says that Rurale Estrada ,
who shot the driver of the San Quentiii
.ptage Tuesday night and escaped with
over 9700 government money , stole a
Jiorse near Ensenada and is heading for
the United States. Reports from tho
posse on his trail were to the effect that
{ Estrada would be probably overtaken be
fore reaching the boundary line. Th < ?
.border is being patroled to prevent his
escape into this country.
I Arans , the driver who was shot and
badly beaten , may recover.
Dies in Railway Station.
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5 Mrs. Cecilia Altage , aged 02 years , ol
St. Louis , Mo. , died suddenly at the
( Union station at Columbus. O. , while
{ waiting to board a train on her returi :
come. She had been visiting relatives ir.
jColumbus and was taking leave of them
? at the station , when she was stricken anc
expired within half an hour.
Johnson Must Hang.
The jury in the case of J. H. Johnson
who on April 8 shot and killed John II I
iFox in the lobby of the postotflce at Trin-
5dad , Colo. , Friday returned a verdict
jof murder in the first degree. The dealt
'penalty ' applies.
One Killed and Fifty Hurt.
AVilliam Stomler was killed and fifty
men and women injured , several of them
seriously , in a collision between two trol-
jley cars returning to Baltimore. Md. ,
from AVestport. a suburb , soon after mid
night Thursday night.
Sioux City Stock Market.
Friday's quotations on the Sioux City
stock market follow : Butcher steers ,
Jjy.OO&S.I. * . Top hogs. $ .1 > .
Died of His Injuries.
J. O. Pat tee , for several years master
mechanic of the Great Northern and Mil ;
waukee roads , is dead from the effects of (
cellar of his resi
si fall down .the steps
dence at St. Paul , Minn. Pattee recent-
Oy came to St. Paul from St. Louis.
Ohio Bank Goes Under.
The First National Bank of Barberton ,
O. , has been ordered closed by the comp
troller of the currency at Washington
Ion the ground that it is insolvent. The
stock is $50,000.
RICH MAN'S SUICIDE.
Pnlford , Suspected Savanna , 111. ,
Assassin , Shoots Himself.
Another sensational chapter was add
ed Thursday to the mysterious assassina
tion at Savanna , III. , of Attorney Dan
iel Berry , a former leading Illinois law
maker , who was murdered on Monday.
Bothwell Pulford , reputed to be the
wealthiest citizen of Savanna , commit
ted suicide Thursday , a few moments af
ter being questioned by a newspaper
man regarding the whereabouts of a re
volver with which he was suspected of
having slain Attorney Daniel S. Berry.
Pulford had denied any knowledge of
the killing of Berry , but became agitated
when questioned concerning the revolver.
Pulfoid on arriving at his store Thurs
day found a reporter waiting for him
with queries as to the revolvei. As soon
as the interviewer had left Pulford hur
ried home , and , going to the hay loft of
his barn , shot himself dead.
For two months Pulford has shown
signs of mental strain. When Berry was
killed in Pulford's opera house last Mon
day and the authorities began to ques
tion Pulford. it was evident to those who
knew him best that Pulford's mind w.is
giving awjay.
Pulfords death ends the life of a man
who rose from a poor boy to the position
of one of the wealthiest men in that sec
tion of Illinois. Besides owning much
valuable real estate in Savanna , he was
president of the Commercial Bank and
owner of the electric light system.
The reason assigned for believing that
Pulford killed Berry is that gossip has
had it for several years that the relations
between Berry and the wife of the drug
gist were not what they should be.
There have been strollings together , car
riage rides , and clandestine meetings , all
of which were properly embellished by
the interpretations of the village gossips.
Mrs. Pulford is a woman of about10
years of age , and is said to be such a
woman as would naturally attract a man
like Berry. At the same time the rela
tions between Berry anl his own wife
have been harmonious and their home
life happy. On the contrary , it is said
that Pulford and his wife have not had
pleasant domestic sailing for the last five
years and that their relations seemed at
times to be strained to the breaking
point. Then the town gossip grows more
definite in its insinuations , aud says that
for time time Berry had gone armed , and
that the reason for this precaution was
a warning received from Pulford. AA'hat
the warning was can be surmised from
the nature of the precaution.
MAYOR WEAVER SCORES.
Supreme Court Upholds His Action
in Removing Oflicials
A writ of special supersedeas was
granted Thursday by the supreme court
to Judge Gordon , counsel for Mayor
AVeaver , of Philalelphia.
The writ removes the injunction grant
ed by Judge Ralston AVednesday and
allows the mayor's new appointees to as
sume their duties as director of public
safety and director of public works.
In the meantime the supreme court will
investigate the matter.
Mayor AVeaver Thursday took forcible
possession of the offices of thedirector
of public safety and director of public-
works. Neither Smyth nor Costello of
fered serious resistance. Four detectives
now guard the offices.
It AV.IS rumored that the Republican
"organization" leaders intend to impeach
Mayor AVeaver on the ground of malfea-
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sance in office1.
HEAVY RAINS IN KANSAS.
Considerable Damage Done to Rail-
I I roads. Benefit to Wheat.
Advices from Topeka , Kan. , say that
heavy rains throughout Kansas hav < ?
done much damage on railroads. At
Broughton , the first station east of Clay
Center , on the Rock Island , more than a
mile and a half of track has been wash
ed out. The Denver main line of tlie
Rock Island is tied up. The Concordia
branch of the Union Pacific was put out
of business by several small washouts.
The Santa Fe reported heavy rains east
and north of Toneka. No serious damage
was done to the tracks of the road. All
to * . . "
streams are full. $ -
AA'heat in central Kansas needed rain
and will be greatly helped by the down
pour.
Pope Approves Decision.
Advices from Rome say that Pope
Pius X. has approved the decision of the
congregation of the propaganda to annul
the marriage of Marie Jenning Reid , of
New Orleans and Washington , D. * C. ,
who is now Princess Jus Rospiglioxe. to
Col. F. H. Parkhurfit. of Bangor. Me.
The decision of the pope will now permit
the prince and princess to contract a re
ligious marriage.
Trolley Cars Collide.
AA'm. Stembler is dead and fifty per
sons are injured as a result of the colli
sion of two trolley cars returning from
AVestport , a suburb resort center near
Baltimore , Md. . early Thursday morn
ing. Others of the victims of the acci
dent are expected to die.
Black Hills Mill Burns.
The Horseshoe mill at Deadwool , S.
D. . was completely destroyed by a lire
which started in the lime bins , Thursday
morning. The mill was the largest wet
crushing cyanide plant in the world. It
L-ost SUfiO.OOO. The loss is covered by
insurance. It will be rebuilt immediately.
Floods in New Mexico.
An Albuquerque. N. M. . dispatch of
he 2th says : The Rio Gramh is almost
i mile wide and is flowing through the
rillage of Tomo. twenty miles south of
Albuquerque , while < > 00 inhabitants are
i-amping on the hills watching their
homes being swept away. The entire
property of the villages was destroyed.
A Big Boston Bank Fails.
Burnett , Cummins & Co. , bankers , of
Boston , failed Thursday. Their liabili
ties are § 1,700,000.
CHICAGO.S DISTRESS.
Lumber Trade Almost Completely
Tied Up.
Final rejection of union demands , espe
cially those of the express drivers , w.is
officially announced at Chicago AVednos-
day by the Employers' Association. They
demanded practic&lly unconditional sur
render. Neither sitfe in the strike made a
direct step towards peace and each was
apparently waiting the next move of its
opponent. The employers sent their goods
all over the city under police protection
without encountering violence. There
was one peace effort Wednesday and it
was enveloped i. * mystery. It was that
a "prominent business man" was making
efforts to induce the managers of the ex
press companies to. make terms satisfac
tory to the striking drivers and that he
had promised them "good news. " Noth
ing came of the attempt , however , and
there was no good news at night for eith
er side.
The strike in the lumber district
spread AVednesday with great rapidity
and practically all business of that kind
was at a standstill. Some few lumber
yards are still in operation , but their vol
ume of business is so small as to amount
to practically nothing. A number of
planing mills and sash and door factories
were compelled to shorten operations
AVednesdny and soon will be compelled
to close entirely if the supply of lumber
is not largely increased. The lumber
yards made little effort to transact busi
ness and were waiting for drivers to he
sent them by the Employers' Teaming
Company.
United States deputy marshals AA'ed
nesday began serving notices on the sixty
teamsters who have beeen cited for
contempt of court in violating the injunc
tions of Judge Kohlsaat prohibiting them
from interfering with the wagons of tiie
seven express companies and of the Em
ployers' Teaming Company. The men
are cited to show on May .51 at 10 o'clock-
why they should not be punished for con
tempt.
Mayor Dunne has issued a call foi
1.000 extra police , to be sworn in as
needed.
MUSIC GREATLY ENJOYED.
Grand May Festival at Sioux City
Comes to a Successful Close.
The music lovers of Moux City. Iowa ,
and surrounding country were given a
rare musical treat during the big two
days' festival which closed there on
Tuesday evening with the presentation
of Handel's sublime oratorio , "The Mes
siah , " at the New Grand theater. The
festival consisted of three divisions , the
first evening being taken up with the
singing of Rossini's masterpiece "Sta-
bat Mater. " followed the next afternoon
by a splendid program of entrancing mu
sical numbers rendered in masterly fash
ion by the celebrated Chicago Symphony
orchestra. "The Messiah" was given
Tuesday evening. Assisting in the festi
val were seven renowned soloists from
Chicago and Cincinnati , and a splendid
chorus of 200 trained voices. Prof. J.
AV. Mather , of Morningside College was
the director , and the great artistic suc
cess of the festival was largely due to
his efforts.
The Sioux City Commercial Club ,
which financed the enterprise , was so
well pleased with its success that it has
been decided to make the festival a per-
manent institution , so that not only the
music lovers of Sioux City but those
of this part of tho northwest can look
forward to a grand musical treat each
year.
BLOWN UP WITH A BOMB.
tSovernor of Kuseian Province is
Assassinated.
Advices from Baku. Caucasia , state
that Prince Nakachidza. was assassinat
ed AVednesday afternoon by a bomb
thrown at his carriage.
A lieutenant accompanying the gov
ernor aud a bystander were also killed
and the coachman is believed to be fatally
injured.
The chief of police of Siedlee. Russia ,
and three other men were injured by the
explosion of a bomb at midnight Tues-
day night. The ; men who threw the
bomb escaped.
DENIES HE IS A MURDERER.
Bothwell Pulford Says He Did Not
Kill "Dan" Berry.
Bothwell Pulford , the wealthiest man
of Savanna. 111. , denied AVednesday that
he is the slayer of Attorney Daniel S.
Berry , a former leading member of the :
Illinois legislature.
Attorney Berry was mysteriously mur
dered at the door of his office , and it is
saixl he was killed by the husband of a
woman to whom Berry is reported to
have paid attention.
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Four Instantly Killed. '
Mr. and Mrs. Gust Miller , of Louis
ville. O. , and Mrs. Ilowell and daughter
Anna , of South Bend , Ind. , were struck
by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad while out riding at Canton. ( ) . .
late Thursday night , and all were in
stantly killed.
Arctic Explorer Dead.
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AVilliam Zeigler. a capitalist and pro
moter of arctic explorations , uied Wed
nesday morning at his country home near
Noroton , Conn.
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Prohibits Convict Lmbor.
A AVashington special says that the
president has issued an order prohibiting
the employment of convict labor on gov (
ernment works.
Drowns Self and Tfiree Children
A special from Sulphur Springs. Tex. .
says : Mrs. Tip Sanders drowned her-
self and three children in a creek near
her home , two miles south of town , AVed-
nesday. The tragedy , it is said , was the
result of domestic troubles.
Killed by Fall from Train.
J. AV. Ilitt , a well known P.urlington
Railway conductor , was killed in South
St. Joseph. Mo. , by falling from a mov a
ing train. His home in recent years has
been in Chnncothe. Mo.
STATE OP NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON-
DENSED FORM.
New Sensation at O'Neill An Al
leged Defalcation P. Haudley ,
Township Treasurer , Said to be
Indebted to Township $5,4OO.
T. C. Cannon , expert accountant , of
Sioux City , has been in O'Neill ihe past
week checking up the affairs of Grattan
Township for the past eight years , and
has unearthed a very rotten mess in the
conduct of the office of the township
treasurer while that position was filled
by P. Haudley during the years 1000 to
Jt)03 , inclusive. Mr. Cannon , it is alleg
ed , has found Haudley to be a defaulter
to the amount of about $ i400. . He says
nearly all the money was secured by
raising warrants and charging the town
ship with the amount of the raised war
rants. It is also charged that many
warrants paid by other treasurers two
and three years prior to his term of of
fice were raised from the original
amounts , the date of payment erased , j
and credit taken for them during the
years 1000 to 15)03. )
AA'hile Mr. Cannon has completed his
Investigation , his report will not be j
ready until some time next week , but he
says the shortage will be about . * . " .400.
The taxpayers at the regular town
meeting in April appointed a committee
to employ an expert to go over the otlice
books of the township , which resulted
in the finding as above stated.
For the past two years Haudley has
been in the grocery business at Spencer ,
and it is reported that one of his bonds
men has gone after him.
The annual town meeting adjourned in
April until July , when the report of the
export will be read.
During his residence at O'Neill Haud
ley was one of the leaders of the young
er element in the populist party.
BOYS SERIOUSLY HURT.
Tney Tried an Experiment with
a Gas Pipe Cannon.
Morris Laudenberger and Roy Killian.
> f Morse Bluffs , were seriously injured by
experimenting with a piece of gas pipe
filled with powder Tuesday afternoon
and are now in the Fremont hospital.
The boys found the gas pipe , which had
been charged with powder , and decided
[ o see if it would explode. Morris took
it out into the middle of the street , while
Roy observed the situation from the side
af a building across the way. He proved
beyond a reasonable doubt that the con
tents of the pipe were of an explosive j
nature , for as soon as he dropped a light-1
ed match into it there was a terrific con- !
cussion. throwing him to the ground and
almost severing his left foot and leg be
low the knee. A piece of the pipe took
off two fingers from Roy's hand and an
other went through the wall of a nearby
house. The boys were taken to Fremont I
on the afternoon train and young Laud- ]
eubergor's leg amputated. Both are do
ing well.
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE. j
Men Under Sentence to Penitentiary I
Make Their Getaway.
Guy Applegate and AVilliam Roberts
escaped from thecounty jail at Ne
braska City some time Saturday night
and no trace of them has yet been found.
They are both young men. mere boys , in
fact. They were under two years' sen
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tence to the penitentiary , having pleaded
guilty jto robbing a store in Wyoming
pTeciuct. j
They dug a hole in the brick wall of i
the jail with a piece of pipe taken from i
a steam radiator. i
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Banker Held for Assault.
In a hearing Saturday morning before
County Judge Rogers. William N. Skin- <
tier , president of the Citizens' State 1
Bank of Springview. was bound over to i
the district court in the sum of SUOO. I <
charged with assault with intent to com- j
nut great bodily injury on tlie person of j
Charles E. Lear , a prominent attorney , i s
Big Strawberry Crop.
' The crop of strawberries from the Mo-
Jony fruit farm near Ilumboldt promises
to be large and of good quality this seaa
son. The harvest has already begun , t
the first picking having been placed on
the local market Saturday. A great t
many of the school children will spend i 1
their vacation in picking berries on thei ;
Jar in. j v
Kimball Has Telephones. j
Kimball now boasts of an excellent tel-1 *
ephone system , just completed by the i
Independent Telephone Company. The i j1
automatic system is used and gives excel- j '
lent satisfaction. Kimball now has long j l
distance connection with points on the i "
l'nion Pacific east and in the Platte val-j *
ley north. j :
State Examinations. j
State teachers' examinations will be i
held June 1 and - at Lincoln. Fremont j
iund Grand Island. The usual time , o
schedule will be observed. Applicants v
taking the examinations will learn of u
their markings in about one month , at.- ' 11
cording to the state superintendent's an- ' i
jiouncement. ; r
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Suicide nt Clearwater.
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AA'ednesday morning a young woman
jiamed Julia Sullivan , from O'Neill , went '
to Clearwater and took a room at the !
Ihotel there. She kept her room all the
afternoon and the people became alarmed . \
about her and broke into the room and i '
found her dead. She had shot herself I *
through the head. : l
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Cattle Thief Goes to Penitentiary
James R. Rhodes , sentenced at Broken
Bow with J. E. Chandler , to three years
in the penitentiary for cattle stealing
last November , was taken to Lincoln : *
AVednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff
Robinson to serve his term.
Packers Stop Meat. Supply.
Proprietors of hotels and restaurants
in Beatrice who have had their supplies , ' '
of meat shipped direct from Omaha for i °
years received notification Saturday from ! v
the packing houses that they could not j v
ship them any more supplies of this
kind. a
Severe Storm Near Norfolk.
A strong wind , accompanied by hail
stones as large as hens'eggs' , blew down
barn eight miles south of Norfolk Wed
nesday. No one was hurt , but it is
fhouyht some live stock was killed. uf
MARKED WITH A MONUMENT
General Thnyer Tells of Council
with Pawnoe Indians.
An event of great historical interest to
nil citizens of the Elkhorn valley and
eastern Nebraska was commemorated
Thursday by the placing of a monument
on the bluffs overlooking the Platte
southeast of Fremont to mark the site
of the council held by ( Jen..John M.Thay-
er. the sole survivor of the known partici
pants in the council , assisted by W. E.
Lee. who came to Fremont the following
year : .1. J. Hawthorne , a pioneer of T(5. (
who has devoted much time and research
to the history of the Indians of this sec
tion , and Itobert .McLean , who lives on
the site of the "Big Village" the Paw
nees , traces of which were plainly visi
ble when he came there more than n
quarter of a century ago. had little diffi
culty in locating the site of Chief Pita-le-
shur-ifs lodge , where the council waH
held.
held.The
The monument is a block of granite
aobut three feet in height and bearing j
upon a polished face the legend "Pawnee
Council. May ± . . 1ST > ; V
lien. Tliayer made the principal ad
dress of the occasion.
WILL BE HIS OWN HANGMAN
Nebraska Boy Murderer to Spring
the Trap Himself.
Frank P.arker. a boy murderer , con
fined in the penitentiary at Lincoln un-
der sentence of death , will touch the but
ton which will spring his own denth
trap. Because Warden Beemer. the otli-
cial hangman for the state , whose duty
ir is to spring the trap at all legal
deaths in Nebraska , is too tender heart
ed to perform the "operation" the
boy , young Barker has volunteered to be
his own hangman.
"I'd just as soon do it as not. " said
Barker , when asked about the report.
"I might just as well touch the button as
anybody else. I've got to die anyway ,
and if Warden Beemer. who has been
good to me sL'ice 1 have been here ,
doesn't want to hang me I will save
him the trouble and do it myself. "
Barker is not yet HO years old. and
was found guilty of one of the worst
crimes ever recorded in the state. For
the sake of the few dollars they possess
ed he deliberately killed his own brother
and his brother's wife.
YOUNG WOMAN KILLS HERSELF
Disappointed in Failing to Secure
Government Position.
Word was received at O'Neill Thurs
day that Miss .Julia Sullivan , of O'Neill ,
had committed suicide at ( 'learwater by
shooting herself in her room at a hotel
there. Her mother and family are griev
ed beyond expression , her mother break
ing cb > wn entirely when the news of her
daughter's death was taken to her.
She was an exceptionally bright and an
ambitious girl , had beeir teaching school
and some lime aso took the civil service
examination for a position as teacher in
the Piiilippines. It appears that about
a year ago she got word that she had
passed j examination and was encouraged
to , think she would soon be appointed
and that she then began a study of the
Spanish hinguago and had worked hard
to master the language she expected
would be of benefit to her in her work.
She lately received word to the effect
that only a few teachers had been select
ed and that it would be useless for her to
depend on a future selection.
BILKED THE BUTCHER.
Fremont Meat Market Man IB
"Touched" by a Stranger.
Fred Wislicen , a Fremont meat
market man. is out $12.50 on a
swindle perpetrated by a smooth individ
ual , who claimed to be the foreman of a
construction gang on the Union Pacific.
He came into Wislicen's market in the
evening and ordered $ ! ! ( > worth of meat ,
to be delivered "atthe car"near the de
pot j and to be paid for on delivery. After
being 1 out of the shop a few minutes he
came back and borrowed $1li. . " 0 to pay a
bill , telling Wislicen that he would give
him 1 a check for the full amount at the
ca r.
r.When
When he went to deliver the meat he
found that there had been no car or con
struction gang of the company in the vi
cinity.
ElectricIine Strikes Ashland.
All doubt about the Omaha. Lincoln
and Beatrice Kail way Company's going
through Ashland vanished this week.
Agents for the company iiave closed up
transfers for the right of way to the
Platle Kiver throntrh town on the orig
inal survey , with but six exceptions ,
which they will acquire by condemna
tion proceedings.
Police Judge Formally Removed
At Nebraska City the city council heM
special meeting .Monday night and
heard ' the charges preferred against Clin
ton P. Lu trait , removing him from the
otlice of police judge. Logan is charged
with refusing to turn over to the city
about l J1.UMI ( in fines and costs collected
by him.
Corn is Hotting.
Many of the farmers in the vicinity
of Papillion are complaining that corn
which was planted the fore part of the
month is rotting in the ground and that
many of the lower fields will have to be
planted over. This is accounted for as a
result of the cold weather , together with
an. overabundance of rain and the rav
ages of the wire worm.
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Bankers Hold Convention.
The members of group six. of the State
Bankers' A > sociation he-Id a very success
ful and pleasant convention at Grand
Island. Tuesday with a larger attend
ance than at any previous session. Otil-
ccrs were elected for the ensuing year.
Fowler is Chosen.
At Lincoln the Mate board of educa
tion Mondav evening by a vote ogi to
. elected W. K. Fowler principal of the
Kearney normal . cmml on the first for
mal ballot.
li.jiirMl by Bursting Wheel.
Theodore Klein , a blacksmith at Ne-
braska City , was fatally injured while
operating a 12-inch emery wheel , which
was revolving at terrific speed. The
wheel broke in three pieces , one piece
strikinir him in therighl breast , making
terrible wound. Another piece shat
tered his left lei : . His physician says he
cannot recover.
Campbell to H-.ve Waterworks.
The village of Campbell on the Kith
voted $7.000 hom'is for the construction
a system of water works.
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It is conservatively estimated that
about 85 per cent of the corn crop of ?
South Dakota is now in tho ground , ami
that a continuance of favorable weather
until tlie middle of this week will see the
remainder of the crop planted by that
time. Farmers generally , owing to the
lateness of the season , have , during tho
past few days , vigorously pushed the
work of corn planting. I many in
stances the women of the households
have Koue to the aid of the men and as
sisted them in corn planting during such
time as the work was not made impossi
ble by the frequent rains. While corn
is being put into the ground somewhat
late , the excellent condition of the soil ,
due to the unusually heavy and soaking
rains of the past few weeks , will make
this and other crops grow very fast with
warmer weather. Because of this there
is every reason to believe that corn , n3
well as other crops , will be as far ad
vanced by the middle of June as they
usually are. *
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At a meeting of the state board of * k
charities and correction , held in Sioux
Falls , the contract was awarded for the
machinery needed in the operation of a
shirt factory at the Sioux Falls peniten
tiary , for which the last legislature pro
vided. It is expected the factory will
be placed in operation within the next
six weeks. The factory will employ about
100 convicts , and the state has entered
into a contract to furnish this number
for five years. It is estimated that40
dozen shirts will be manufactured daily , ,
and that the factory will mean an addi
tion of from $ r > .000 to $ t , OW Ji year to
freight payments to the railroads. It is
figured that the state will make a proflt
of about liO.u < ! 0 per year from the oper
ation of the factory. ( > . S. Swenson , .
who last week retired from the position
of warden of the penitentiary , has beeii
appointed manager of the shirt factory
by the Chicago concern which has enter
ed into a contract to take tlie product of"
the factory.
* * *
Because about 1.000 men of all ages-
from every state in the union want to
marry the 120 women wh ; are eligible-
for matrimony and drew homesteads on
the Rosebud Indian reservation , the
women have formed a mutual protective
society. The man wiio marries into the-
family must show he is able'to work a
farm and must put in a whole season at
plowing , sowing and harvesting. After
he does all this work , for which the ob
ject of his affections receives the re
ward , the applicant may be rejected ir
he does not please the owner of the
homestead. But if his work lias been
well done , if there has been no grum
bling , if the furrows habeen straight
and even , then the man may possibly be
come the possessor of a wife and a quar
ter section of good Kosebud land. Miss-
Ruth Pyrtle , formerly of Lincoln , Neb. , ,
is president of the society , and .Miss Es-
telle Salle , furmerly of MexicoIo. . , is-
vice president. .
* * *
T. E. Blanebud and G. C. Hartley , of
the state land department , have returned
from Rapid City , where they went with
Atorney ( General Hall to push cases in
regard to the department in that section
of the state. Two classes were consid
ered , on which hinges a larire amount of
state lands in the Black Hills. One was-
in regard to squatters' tilingson school
land in the forest reserve and the other
was in relation to mineral lands on the-
state tracts.
* *
The following appointments have been
made as colonels and
aids-de-camp on-
the staff of Gov. Elrod : rapt. Geo. D ,
Gtioyer , of U. S. army. Brookings ; A. T ,
Abbott. Vermillion : C. M. Daley , Hu
ron ; Christopher .Mentor , Faulkton : Mau
rice A. Hockman ; Howard Case. Water-
town ; AV. II. Stokes. Jr. , Watertown-
T. -AIcNamce. . Brooking : Carl D.
Johnson. AVatertown ; Charles Carpenter ,
AVatertown.
* o *
Insurance Commissioner Perkins has
ordered the South Dakota grand lodge-
A. O. U. W. to cease payments of the
guarantee fund to the supreme lodge on
the grounds that the S nh Dakota order
is a domestic corporation and cannot be
assessed to assist in payment of losses of
the order in other stato = . The order was-
issued on complaint of members of the
Sioux Falls lodge of that order.
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The number of old warrants for wolf
bounty which are unclaimed in the i-flico
of the state auditor iti'-luJe a large part
of the state , the greatest number beingr
in the western portion of the statev
Eighty-three such warrants aggregating
several hundred dollars are in the offlcer
and an attempt will be made to find thff
owners.
* * *
State Superintendent Nash has pre
pared a li > t of institute dates with names-
of the conductors for all the counties-
which have made the proper reports ,
No arrangements have been made for the-
counties of Brookings. Butte. Hans-en or
Stanley on account of the failure of the-
county superintendents t.j make the re
quired reports.
* * *
The interior department has tendered :
to Superintendent Pierce , of the Indian
school at Flandreau. the position of"
traveling supervisor of Indian schools. It
is said that Mr. Pierce will decline the-
appointment f. > r the reason that he is-
well located at Flandivau aud does not
care to leave that locality.
Solicitors of the Woodmen Accident'-
Association have been ordered to cease-
soliciting business in the state for the-
reason that the as.-ueiatiou is debarred
for its refusal to pay taxes in the state. . '
* * *
Chamberlain during th < ? past severaK
days has had
an opportunity
to experi
ence the efiVct of the recent decision of
the supreme court of the L'nited States'-
to the effect that Indians who have tak - u
en lands in severally may purchase intox
icating liquors without violation of law , .
Hundreds of Indians who have ju-t re
ceived their clsh : annuity have been in
town to invest their money , and natural
ly there were many wi.st desire took
the direction of liquid refreshments. Al .
lotment certificates were conveniently atr
hand to convince d-aUn-s-that ihu holder-
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