Nebraska Newspapers

    The Valentine Democrat
VALENTINE , NEB.
. M. RICE , . . . . Publisher.
JTSH IN WAR PAINT
IIARAHAX HEAD NARROWLY ESCAPES -
CAPES AXOTHESL PUNCH.
Bip : Railroad Magnate Starts Forward
Menacingly When Friends Stop His
Progress Wins Point to Have Rce-
ords Show Cause .of Adjoiirmiicnt.
A warm verbal encounter took place
nt the annual meeting in Chicago Friday -
day of the Illinois Central railroad between -
tween President Harahan and Stuve-
sant Fish. In the end the latter sei
cured his object and the meeting adjourned -
journed in the manner in which Mr.
Fish desired and in accordance with
the order of Judge Ball until March
2 , 100S.
It was understood that when the
meeting was called to order that the
only matter to be called before it was
the adjournment until March 2. Mr.
Fish , however , desired it to appear
on the record that the adjournment
was taken for the purpose of awaiting
the decision of Judge Ball on the right
of the Union Pacific and the Rail
roads Securities company to vote the
stock now standing in their names
nnd which were temporarily enjoined
prior to the meeting in October. He
therefore introduced a resolution
worded as follows :
"Whereas , By an order entered on
Dec. 19 , 1907 , in the case of George F.
Edmunds et al. versus the Illinois
Central Railroad company et al. in the
superior court of Cook county it wa.i
ordered and decided that the present
adjourned meeting of the stockholders
for the year 1907 should be further-
adjourned until Monday , March 2.
190S , at 12 o'clock noon to await the
decision of the court on the right of
certain stockholders to vote at said
meeting.
"Resolved , That this meetine do
now adjourn until Monday , March 2.
at 12 o'clock noon. "
The argument in the hearing before
Judge Ball was continued Friday ,
Judge Farrar continuing all day with
his argument. A decision is not now
expected before the latter part of Feb
ruary , 19 OS.
FINALi CHOI * ESTIMATE.
Federal Bureau Puts This Year's Corn
Yield at 2.592,320.000 Bushels.
The department of agriculture has
Issued a report giving final estimates
of acreage , production and value of
farm crops , showing winter wheat
acreage to be 28,132,000 ; production ,
409,442,000 bushels ; value , per bushel ,
SS.2 cents. Spring wheat acreage ,
17,079,000 ; production. 224 645,000
bushels ; value , per- bushel , 86 cents.
Corn acreage , 99,931,000 ; produc
tion , 2,592,320.000 bushels ; value , per
bushel , 51.7.
Oats acreage , 31.837,000 ; produc
tion , 754,443,000 bushels ; value , per
bushel , 44.3 cents.
The average weight per bushel is
shown by reports received by the de
partment to be 56.9 pounds for sphing
wheat , 58.9 pounds for winter wheat ,
and 29.4 pounds for oats.
GUILTY OF LAND FRAUDS.
H. C. Wyatt Convicted of Conspiracy
in Kansas City Federal Court.
H. Clay Wyatt , of Lawton , Okla. ,
was found guilty of conspiracy to de
fraud the government of land in the
Rosebud reservation in South Dakota
by a jury in the federal court in Kan-
pas City , Mo. , Friday. The extreme
penalty is two years in prison or a fine
of $10,000 , or both. Sentence was de
ferred. Wyatt was charged with in
ducing old soldiers to enter home
steads on the reservation land and
then sell relinquishments for about
550. Wyatt and his confederates then
sold the relinquishments for from
$100 to SGOO.
Several quarter sections of land
were disposed of before the govern-
men agents made the arrests.
Xo Diamond Dividend. I
The deferred dividend of the De
Beers Consolidated Mines , limited , the
diamond mines , was passed Friday
owing to the unfavorable outlook in
the diamond trade , which was an out
come of the restriction of purchases
in America since the financial disturb'
an cos.
Ambassador llcin Returns.
Whitelaw Reid , the American ambassador -
bassador to Great Britain , arrived in .
Xew York Friday on the steamer
Mauretania. The Mauretania made the
passage from Queenstown in 5 days
and 55 minutes. Her average speed |
was 23 knots.
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Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Friday's quotations on the Sioux
City live stock market follow : Top
'beeves ' , $4.00. Top hogs , $4.35.
More Gold Coming1.
Heifelbach , Ickelheimer & Co. , of
.New York , have engaged $800,000 in
gold for import. This makes the total
, of $107,350,000 gold engaged abroad
since the present movement began.
Pacific Squadron for England.
According to the Standard the ad
miralty has decided to establish next /
May .a Pacific and North American [
squadron , the base of which probably _
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MINE A DEATH TRAP.
More Than 200 Men Killed in Pennsyl
vania Shaft.
An explosion of gas in the Darr
mine of the Pittsburg Coal company ,
located at Jacob's Creek , Pa. , Thurs
day entombed between 200 and 250
miners , and there is scarcely a ray of
hope that a single one of them will
be taken from the mine alive. Par
tially wrecked buildings in the vicin
ity of the mine and the condition c
the few bodies found early in the res
cue work indicate that it seems im
possible that anyone could have sur
vived it. All of the thirteen bodies
taken out are terribly mutilated , and
three of them arc headless.
This is the third mine disaster since
the first of the month in the veins ot
the bituminous coal underlying west
ern Pennsylvania and West Virginia ,
for the Naomi mine.near Fayette City
and the two mines at Mononguh , W.
Va. , in which the earlier explosions
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happened ; , arc in the same belt as the
| local j workings. Thursday's catastro
phe swells the number of victims oi
i deadly ( mine gas for the nineteen dayr
| to , between 550 and COO.
That Thursday's disaster does not
.surpass in loss of life and attendant
horrors the one in West Virginia is
due to the devotion to church duties
of a considerable number of miners.
In observance of the church festival
many of the 400 or more men regu
larly employed at tlie mine did not
go to work Thursday morning. Those
who escaped through tin's reason arc-
members of the Greek Catholic
church , and they suspended work to
celebrate St. Nicholas day.
SLAUGHTER JX MIXES.
Appalling- Death Roll in tlic United
States.
The Coal mines of the United States
are killing three times as many men
per 1,000 employes as those of most
European countries. In the last sev
enteen years 22.S-10 men have given
up their lives in tlie mines of this
countrj' . As many violent deaths have
occurred in the mines during the last
six years as during the preceding elev
en years. The number of fatal acci
dents each year is now double that
of the year 1S95. In I'lOfi 6.SCI men
were killed or injured in the mines ,
the dead numbering 2OI > 1 and the in
jured 4,800.
These terrible facts have boon
gleaned by government experts acting
under orders of Secretary Garfield , of
the interior department , to investigate
the nature and extent of mine acci
dents , particularly those resulting
from explosions , and to make sugges
tions as to how mining conditions may
be improved and accidents prevented.
SWINDLED RICH RUSSIANS.
St. PetersburgWoman. . Who Was on
Trial , Jumped Hail ami Fled.
Ciga Stein , a Russian woman , who
has successfully conducted a series of
swindles in St. Petersburg on a large
s cale , has fled. She was being tried
on charges of fraud and swindling ,
and she jumped l er bail when she saw
the trial going aginst her. She was
charged with having defrauded certain
persons of $300,000. and her opera
tions extended over a long period.
Mrs. Stein moved in high social cir
cles , and was reputed to be a million
aire. She obtained large loans on the
strength of a pretended French inher
itance. The heavy losers by her op
erations are silent because of the fear
of ridicule.
TRIES TO STEAL $60,000.
Bold Attempt Made to Rob Express
Car.
Charged with making a daring at-
iempt to rob a car on the Buffalo ex
press containing $60.000 in gold bullIon -
Ion while the train was standing in
the Reading. Pa. , terminal. Wm. A.
Hewett , of New York , was held in
heavy bail for further hearing.
A yardman while at work discov
ered Hewett under the bullion car at
work with a saw on the gas pipe. The
yardman give the alarm and Hewett
was caught.
The police Hewett
say probable ex
pected to enter the car after he had
extinguished the lights and loot it un
observed.
Farmer Attack GirJ Teacher.
Miss Maud McCrumb , of James
town I , Pa. , a school teacher. 23 years
old < , is in a serious condition from an
attack i alleged to have been made by
Charles Summers , a wealthy farmer.
Summers was captured and taken to
Greenville to prevent threatened vie
lence.
Must Remove Dog's Carcass.
The court of
appeals Thursday
re
versed the case of Henry Hertie
against Alice Riddle et al. of Louis
ville.'Ky. , and the latter will be com
pelled , to remove from a lot in Cave
-
Hill . cemetery the body of a dog buried
there several months ago. The Rid
dle plot adjoins Hertie's.
Funeral of Kin Oscar.
The body of the late King Oscar ,
who died on Dec. 8. was interred at
noon Thursday in the Riddarholm
church at Stockholm , the burial place
of Swedish kings and heroes , with sim
ple ceremony , the impressiveness of
which was accentuated by the wide
spread evidences of popular sorrow.
Capt. HcrresliofT Injured.
Capt. John B. Herreshoff. of New
port , R. I. , the blind designer , was
painfully injured by
falling down a
hatchway on the government ferry
boat Wave during- her trials Thurs
day.
Bank Fails.
The' Green River State bank , of
Green River. Utah , was taken in
charge by the state eaminer. It car-
jried about ? 50QOO m deposits.
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IVALKER IS PRISONER.
Connecticut Banker is Caught in
Mexico.
The Pinkerton detective agency in
New York confirmed Wednesday night
the report that William W. Walker ,
the absconding treasurer of the N * * .v
Britain , Conn. , Savings bank , ha.J
been captured in lower CalSfor : a.
Positive identification has been in.3
and Walker has consented 15 retarn
to Connecticut without resort to extra
dition papers.
Walker was arrested at a mining
camp 150 miles from Ensenada , lower
California , which is Mexican territory.
He was taken by a representative of
the detective agency at Los Angeles ,
assisted by a party of Mexicans. The
prisoner was taken to Ensenada ,
where his identity was confirmed.
Walker when confronted by the of
ficers admitted his identity and agreed
to return east without raising legal ob
stacles. Further than this he had lit
tle to say.
"What I have to say I will say when
am back in New Britain , " was his
i' j reply ' to inquiries concerning his theft
and flight. Walker is in fairly good
health and does not seem to have suf
fered so much from his soujcurn as
might have been expected.
A reward of $5,000 had been offered
for Walker if taken alive and $1,000
for his dead body if found.
Walker is 61 years old , and had
long held an enviable position in the
business , social and church circles of
New Britain. On Feb. 10 he disap-
1 pcared and soon afterwards it Avas
discovered that $665,000 worth of se
curities had been stolen from the
bank.
FS ISA It LESS. YET HEARS.
Jersey Youth Receives Sound Waves
Through Mouth.
Ten-year-old John Hetzei. of Jer
sey City , is puzzling the faculty of ths
state school for deaf mutes at Tren
ton. X. J. The lad's hearing is reason
ably acute , although he was born with
out ears.
Tests made by the teachers seem to
show that he hears through his mouth.
When his lips are closedhe is unable
to understand questions addressed to
him. There are no cavities in the side
of his head through which sound
might enter. Where his ears should
be smalt lobes of skin have grown.
Yung Iletzel was for a time a pupii
in the public schools of his home city ,
hut other children made fun of his
appearance and his parents sent him
to Trenton. There is some question as
to the right to keep him there , inas
much as he is not a genuine deaf
mute.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Former Lincoln I Soy Under Arrest in
Los Angeles.
Daniel Meskil. in jail at Los An
geles. Cal. . charged with the murder
of Policeman Lyons , came from Ne
braska , where he has a residence. A
letter just received from County Attor
ney Tyrrel , of Lincoln , says in part :
"I have prosecuted Meskil at differ
ent times and am thoroughly familiar
with his youthful criminal record. He
learned the printers' trade in the re
form school at Kearney , Neb. He
was in the county jail at Lincoln
many times for assaults of various
kinds upon his mother , sisters and
brother. For example , a sister did not
wait upon him quite so quickly as he
thought she should , and he stuck a
table fork in her back until it pene
trated the body for considerable more
than an inch. "
Xotet ! Circus Man Dead.
Gus Ringling , head of the circus
combination , died in New Orleans
Wednesday at a sanitarium of a com
plication of diseases. Ringling went
to New Orleans two weeks ago with
the hope that the southern climate
would benefit him.
Back to Full Time Work.
Five thousand Pennsylvania railroad
shopmen at Altoona , Pa. , whose work
ing time was reduced from ton to
eight hours a day three weeks ago on
account of the financial stringency
have been ordered back to the ten-
hour system.
Lnngford Gets Decision.
Samuel Langford , of Boston , and
Jim Barry , of Chicago , fought ten fast
rounds before the Pacific Athletic club
in Los Angeles. Cal. , Wednesday.
Langford was awarded the decision.
Roth men were severely punished.
Langford outgaming' Barry.
Student Hangs Himself.
Frank W. Miller , aged 20 years , of
Kansas City , Mo. , a student at the
University of Pennsylvania , was found
hanging in his room late Wednesday
afternoon. Life was extinct when the
body was cut down.
Jews Ordered to Depart.
A dispatch from Vladivostok de
clares the Jews have been ordered to
depart within four days. Jewish
property holders have been given eigh
teen days in which to liquidate.
Wireless Phone Feat.
It was announced in Copenhagen
that a wireless telephonic message had
been transmitted successfully between
the Weissen Zee wireless station at
Berlin and Lyngby station , near Co
penhagen , a distance of 200 miles.
Insured Just in Time.
The Alhambra hotel at Richmond ,
Va. . 'was destroyed by fire Tuesday
evening just after an insurance pol.-
had been signed. Loss , $7nOUO . i
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WALLACE OX TRIAL FOR LIFE.
Hal ! County Murder Case Taken Up.
\viih Jiig- Array of Attorneys.
In the district court at Grand Isl
and , Judge J. R. Hanna presiding ,
the case of the state against Frank
Wallace was taken up. and all of one
day was taken up in securing a jury ,
It was at once apparent that a jury
could not be secured from the regular
panel and a special panel of fifty was
summoned.
The charge is the murder in the
first degree of William J. Hillis , in the
basement of the Bock temperance pool
hall , Nov. 9 , 1906. Hillis was a gami
bier. He and two others were having
a game , when , as the testimony at the
time of the coroner's inquest seemed
to agree , Wallace , a local liveryman ,
who came some years ago from the
vicinity of Chapman , entered the
place for the first time in two years ,
went to the basement and took a sith
ting in the game. There had been
bad blood between Wallace and Hillis ,
it is alleged , and a cutting remark
asserted to have been made by Waiti
lace , is alleged to have caused Hillis to
attack Wallace. There was a scrimb
mage. A beer bottle was swung. The
men grappled and Wallace was thrown
down. Drawing his gun he reached
around the body of Hillis and shot ,
Hillis Is said to have expired as he
was pulled off Wallace. ,
It is asserted that Wai Sice had been
familiar with Hillis' wife and that he
had broken up Hillis' home , or had
alienated Mrs. Hillis' affections. The
remark referred to is said to have
had a bearing upon the matter. Mrs.
Hillis being at the time employed
in a restaurant or bakery. So far as
the public is concerned , there was at
the time a division of sentiment. The
appearance being that the shot was
fired at self-defense gave Wallace
some sympathy at first. This appeared
to undergo a slight change and doubt
was created as to whether such a situ
ation had been planned or not.
E. S. RUMERY LEGALLY DEAD.ti
Such is Verdict in Case of Seven"t
Years' Absence.
Ernest S. Rumery was declared le-
gaily dead recently by a jury in Judgti
Day's court at Omaha , a little more j
than seven years after he disappeared
from his Wisconsin home. The jury
returned a verdict for $2.099.17 in faj j
vor of Mrs. Cora Rumery and against j
the Equitable Life Assurance society |
to cover Rumery policy in the society j
and interest from the time when the I
suit was instituted. The suit was
based on the rule of law that when
a. man disappears and has not been
heard from for seven years tlie law
presumes him dead , unless his absence i
can be explained. !
Rumery disappeared from his home '
in Chippewa Falls , Wis. , more than
seven years ago and has not been j
heard from by his wife since. She < s
now suing for the face of his policy j '
on the grounds that where a man has i
not been heard from for seven years j
the law presumes him dead. The in- j
surance company objects to paying i
the claim on the grounds Mrs. Rumery j
expended only 12 cents in postage in j
a search for her husband. It asserts j
she should have been more diligent in
trying to find where he is.
BOY SHOOTS HIS SISTER.
Bullet Lodges in Neck , and Girl Can- j
not Recover. j
In an accidental shooting which occurred - :
curred at 10 o'clock Monday night Co- j
celia Teidge , the IG-year-old daughter ; }
of a prominent farmer , eight miles j -
from Winside , received what will j
probably be a fatal injury , a bullet |
from her brother's 32-caIiber rille j a.
striking her in the back of the neck.
The accident occurred while tlui i
brother was cleaning his gun. The boy j
and girl seated * -
were opposite each j
other in a room and were conversing $
while the former was polishing up the j ra
metal work of the fire arm. Suddenly i
the rifle and the ec
exploded girl fell over j
as if dead. Medical assistance Avas j
summoned at once and the injury proj j j
nounced very serious. The bullet j
struck the vertebra and 'paralyzed the J p
whole body. jI I j
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FIRE AT CHURCH SUPPER. ' Si
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Gasoline Explosion Causes Damage at j C
Randolph. ; P
A fire in the vc
old Boughn store build- j
ing at Randolph caused considerable I w
excitement and some damage. The i
Lutheran women wore holding a bazaar - j
zaar and supper and were in the midst |
of serving oysters and doing a brisk ; nc
business , when one of the women attempted - j
tempted to fill a gasoline stove without
first turning off the flame. An explo- j JC
sion resulted , the can of gasoline was j
overturned and ignited and a good
sized blaze started. The damage to !
the building is in broken glass and j ai
ruined fixtures , and the women lost he
many articles on exhibition , dishes , taas ;
ble silver , wraps , etc. [ W'
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Drainage Work to Go Ahead. , j-j
The Nebraska supreme court holds ?
that the drainage law is good and the
preliminary work was well done aivl
the work on the $375,000 ditch to
straighten the crooked Nemaha will
soon begin. Over two years ago the ion
Richardson county drainage district j tu
No. 1 was organized for the purpose | ni
of reclaiming 33.00 acres of the most j has
fertile soil in that county from over st
flows. LI
Mrs. Sawyer Buried in Gniaha.
Mrs. C. L. Currier , of Beatrice , who
went to St. Louis Thursday after the
body of her sister , Mrs. Pearl Sawyer , seth
who committed suicide in Forest park th
Thursday morning , and interre'l the yo
body in Forest Lawn cemeteiy , Oma se'
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Section Man Hard to Kill.
Daniel Straycr. a Union Pacific sec
tion hand , was struck by No. C. a fast ly.
passenger train , at Sanberg sidetrack. ing
and. though hurled a cifaii"e ! of lO [ '
feet , has a c-cd chance of recovering j
O HOYS SAVE FAST TIIAIX.
Find Broken Hall In Track Near
Omaha.
Two boy. , v.-alkinp : on the Burling-
ton ' track between Oraaha and South
Omaha early Thursday rnornJng , dis
covered a bad break in a rail and by
quick , heroic action saved the big
Denver-Chicago limited from what
would probably have been one of the
worst wrecks in the history of the
road. The heroes' names are David
Leahy and ID mil Swanson. The rail
was broken off for a distance of eighE
teen inches. Ft was about 7 o'clock
In the morning , and the boys well
knew that the limited from the west
was just due. They knew also that
the train -Is usual'y heavily laden with
passengers and that if it struck that
broken rail there could be but one re-
suit. Running at top speed to two
switch lamps some distance away Lea-
hy and Swanson grabbed the lamps ,
one of them starting east and the other -
er west , swinging the lamps as they
ran. ; Leahy had run scarcely a quar
ter of a Jiie ! when he heard the long ,
hoarpe whistle of the limited. The
big train was thundering down the
grade at high speed. Even now it was
doubtful if h < i was in time. The head
light swung round the curve. The en
gineer : ; a-7 % ' the red lantern swung
frantico'fty across the track and the
boy'a heart leaped to his mouth as he
her rd the wheels sliding on the track
and realized that the airbrakes had
been set and the train was gradually
coming < to a standstill. The cow
catcher was within ten feet of the
broken rail when the train stopped. It
was an hour and a half before the
track could be repaired sufficiently
to permit the train to run into Omaha.
WAXTED'AT FREMOXT. !
TAVO Boys Arrested at Home of Parents - '
rents in Indiana.
John Partonheimer , aged IS , and
Edward Harvey , aged 19 , were arrest- ,
ed at Fort Branch , Ind. , on informa
tion received from Fremont , Neb.
The lads are wanted at Fremont on
the ] charges of burglary and grand
larceny. Under close examination
Harvey admitted taking $25 from his
employer at Fremont and dividing it >
with his partner , but both deny the
charge of burglary. The boys live at
Fort Branch and come from among
the ] best families there. They recent
ly ] returned from the west. They arc
being held until the arrival of the Fre
mont officials. '
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HOY KILLS HIS BROTHER.
Munkct Ls Accidentally Discharged at
Laurel.
Walter , the G-year-old son of Daniel
Mason , of Laurel , was accidentally
killed by his brother , only two j-ears
his senior , by the accidental discharge
of an old army musket. Two older
boys had been huntingand. . expecting
tc go out again , left the weapon load
ed. Just after dinner Edmund , the 8-
year-old. ' dragged the gun from one
room to the other , and in passing the
cook stove caught the lock against it ,
firing the charge , which struck the
younger ( boy in the side of the head ,
literally tearing it to pieces. tThe bos
lived only about an hour.
NEBRASKA 3IURDERER CAUGHT. |
Identified by Wife of Victim as the
Man Who Shot. Her Husband.
Fred Casey , whose arrest has been
sought by federal authorities for
shooting to death Jesse Murray , Feb.
24. last , near Scott's Bluff , where both
were engaged in work on a govern
ment irrigation plant , is under arrest
at . * St. Joseph. Mo. , and has been iden
tified . by Mrs. Murray as the man who
killed ' her husband. Casey admitted
the shooting. The trouble started over
Casey accusing Murray of stealing a
$40 ' check from him. Casey shot Mur
ray while the latter was seated in a
buggy. He said Murray had threatened -
ed to kill him.
ELLIXGTOX GUILTY OF MURDER.
Falls , City Colored Man Due for a j
Term in Penitentiary. !
Clyde Ellington , colored , was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
for the kiHirtsr of Charles Wilson , also
colored ( , at Falls City. Ellington's
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plea was self-defense , but he became
very much tangled up in his testimony
when he was on the stand. Great in
terest is being manifested in the case.
the court room being- crowded all the
time. One peculiar thing has been
noticed whereas the prisoner on trial
for his life is a colored man there has
been only one negro in the court room
besides the prs , ner. ,
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Iuin ! Hc.ys on LongWaik. .
Two Indian bCryr. scantily clothed
and neither ever It' , stopped at a farm
house south' of From out a few days
aso and a-ke-'l for a chance to do some i a
work ' in pay for food , which was given
them. Th * boys said they were going
the homes of their parents in Idaho.
They Jy.d been aitending school in
enn.vanta. . but were homesick.
Trains on ? crth River Branch.
The North River branch of the Un-
Pacific as far as Llewellen was
turned over to the operating depart
ment Friday , and weekly train service
been i7ictalled. This train will
start ; from North Piattc and go to 4s
Llewellen and return the same day.
Brothers in Srarcii of Sisters.
Two brothers named Ellis arrived in
Beatrice recently from Orleans In
p
search of their two sisters , who left I
that place en the night of Dec. 3. The '
young wonei stopped in Beatrice for .
several days last week and purchased | C
tickets Friday afternoon for Omaha. I' '
Revival Ends. ' p
Evangelist C. H. Window , of Waver-
. la. , has just closed a series of meet-
< 5 in the Methodist church at Ran- j
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Considerable interest is being taken-
meeting of the State-
In the coming
Teachers' association , ' to be held in.
Lincoln December 25 , 26 and 27.
Among the active candidates for pres
ident of the association , it Is reported , ,
is James E. Delzell , superintendent
! of schools at Lexington. His candidacy
been reported in Lincoln ,
dacy , it has
Is being boomed by A. O. Thomas vf
the Kearney Normal school and E. A.
Garrett of the American Book com
the place -is-
desires
pany. Air. Delzell
a stepping-stone to the office of state-
superintendent. The report has a.lso-
reached Lincoln that many of the-
school teachers desire the position to
be tendered to Chancellor Andrews or
the State university. Should this be-
done the teachers would only be fol
lowing precedent , as both Chancellor-
Canfield and Chancellor McLean were-
made president of the association
while holding the position of chancel
lor of the State university. Many off
the teachers , it is said , will come to-
Lincoln urging the chancellor for the
position.
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A. E. Cobbey , the author of Cobbey'sr-
Statutes , has evidently started a cam
paign among the members of the late'
1 legislature 1 to get them to influence-
Secretary of State Junkin to reconsid
er his decision not to buy 400 copies
of Cobbey's Statutes for 53.GOO. Let
ters from the members of the legisla
ture have begun to reach the secre
tary , most of them telling him that it
was the intention of the legislature to-
make an appropriation for Cobbey'ff-
Statutes , no matter what the bill
reads. One senator , however , evident
ly got mixed up , for he wrote that
he knew the legislature wanted Cob-
bey's Statutes , the single volume-
cheaper statutes. The single volume-
statute is Wheeler's. Mr. Junkin has1-
left the courts to say which statute-
to purchase , though so far neither-
Cobbey nor Wheeler has shown a dis
position to go into the court.
* * *
George D. Bennett , secretary of the-
state board of assessment , has receiv
ed . numerous letters from county-
clerks for a copy of the form to be us
ed in the assessment of railroad prop
erty in cities and villages under the-
provislons of the law enacted by the-
recent legislature. Some of the coun
ty clerks have asked for the schedules.
'The law does not provide that the-
state shall furnish these forms , but in
order to assist the state board in
equalizing a form will be prepared
and a copy sent to the various county
clerks as soon as possible. Mr. Ben
nett had a consultation ! with railway
commissioner Henry T. Clarke regarding -
M ing the makeup of the schedules.
* * * *
Chairman T. S. Allen of the demc ?
cratic state central committee has an
nounced that the dollar dinner in
honor of William J. Bryan will be held
on the evening of January 15. The-
event will be held in the Auditorium
and will be one of the most largely
attended banquets ever held in the-
state. Distinguished guests from a-
great many states are expected. The-
list of speakers has not yet been an
nounced. It is expected that Mr. Bryan
will deliver an address outlining his- :
position on a number of issues.
* * #
The new machinery at the state-
penitentiary by which power will be
transmitted to the Home for the-
Friendless and the state house , is al
most in place and will shortly be-
ready for the wires , which are now be
ing strung. The common labor for
this job was furnished by the state ,
. the convicts being taken out of th&
broom factory for this purpose. The-
state received a rebate of $1,100 on
the job for the use of the convicts.
* * *
. The board of managers of the state-
board of agriculture met recently in
the office of Secretary Miller at the-
state house. A number of small bills-
"were audited and routine matters at
tended to. Secretary Miller reported
that 11,000 cubic yards of earth had"
been hauled into the low ground north
of the swine barns. It is on this "made-
ground" that the board expects to see-
e. magnificent stock pavillion erected
some day.
* * *
H. C. Lindsay has been spending
most of his time during the last week :
moving books around in the state li
brary in an effort to make more room
for the constant additions to the num
ber of volumes. He has erected a-
number of new shelves and before he-
completes the work expects to be able-
to get all the books on the shelves and
clear the floor of the many costly vol
umes which have been stored there so-
long owing to the lack of room.
* * *
Horace E. Flack of the department
of legislative reference of Baltimore , ,
has written to Secretary of State Jur.-
kin asking for a copy of the 2-cent
fare law , as well as information con
cerning its operation in Nebraska. Mr.
Flack asked also if the railroads are-
contesting the law. The legislature or
Maryland is considering passing such *
an act
* * *
Labor Commissioner Ryder says he-
has received a number of applications--
for positions and while his office is ?
not an employment bureau , he will'
seek to accommodate all
persons in
sofar as his power will permit. If per
sons with positions vacant will list
them with him , he will refer appli
cants who may be fitted.
* * *
Insurance Deputy Pierce is confined"
to his bed with nervous trouble. He
not in serious condition but is very-
411 *
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In answer to the mandamus suit
brought by the
attorney general to-
compel the Union Stock Yards
com
pany of South Omaha to make a re
port to the railroad commission an
answer has been filed in the supreme-
court by the company denying that
the company is in any way a trans
ports ? tion organization. It says that it
has a few tracks but has never sought
( exercise the right of eminent do- '
mam and has no interest in the-
charges preferred by the railroad com
panies for hauling cars
over these-
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