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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1908)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRA1 VAUDXTIXE , NEB. J. M. RICE , - - - - Publisher , MUftDJtllliDATALrAJ } DKXVKK IMSIKST SHOT BY AN ITA LI AX AXA HCI11ST. Ostensibly Participating in Holy Com munion. Anarchist. Kills Man Whom lie Had Xever Seen Before , and ( lories in the Deed. Father Leo Heinrichs was shot and . killed when administering the sacra- inent at early mass in St. .Elizabeth's Catholic church , Eleventh and Curtis streets' , Denver , Colo. , at G o'clock Sunday - day morning. Kneeling at the altar rail between two women Guiseppi Ouaranccio pressed the muzzle of a revolver- against the body of the priest , after- receiving from him the. consecrated wafer , and shot the priest through the heart. "Explaiming , "My God I My God I" Father Leo fell prone in front of the altar and died without uttering another word. With an inarticulate scream , the assassin sprang into the aisle , and waving the smoking weapon about his bead , dashed to the church door. For a , moment the hundred or more people in the church were dazed. Then a woman shrieked and the congrega tion became panic stricken. Some women fainted , and many became hys terical. Several men rushed to the aid of the priest and others started in pursuit of the murderer. Among the latter was Patrolman Daniel Cronin. who over took the lleeing Italian on the church steps. Guiseppi attempted to shoot the policeman and was foiled and overpowered only after a desperate light in which several men had come to the assistance of the olllcer. The murderer was hurriedly remov ed to the city jail , and as threats of summary justice were made by men in the crowd , which quickly gathered in front of the church. Chief of Police Michael Dehiny called out the reserve force of patrolmen , who were kept on guard day and night. Guiseppi Guaranaccio was placed in solitary confinement at the city jail. He admitted to a policeman who inter viewed him that the priest whom he had killed was a. stranger to him , and in explanation of his crime made the following statement : "I just went over them because [ have a grudge against all priests in general. They are all against the Avorkingman. I went to the commun ion rail because 1 could get a better shot. T did not give u. damn whether he was a German priest or any other kind of a priest. They are all in the same class. " ACCUSED I1USBAXD OF MURDER. Wife Tolls Police Her Brother Was Slain in Pistol Fight. As a result of an accusation mare : > y Mrs. Paul L. Roy. known in operat ic circles at Glacia Cella. that her brother , George A. Carkins , was killed by her husband at her home in New- ington , N. II. , January 2. the county officials decided to hold an autopsy f Carkin's body. When Corkins died the medical ex- : i min or decided that his death was due to suicide by shooting. After the tragedy Mrs. Roy left for Xew York with her husband , but last week re turned to Portsmouth where she told the authorities that following a family dispute her husband and brother be- name engaged in a pistol duel , during which Carkins received a fatd wound in the head. In order to protect her husband she said nothing about the matter at the time. Since her statement officers have ex amined the .kitchen where the shoot ing occurred and have found several bullet marks on the walls. In addi- lion two bullet holes have been dis covered on the back of the coat Car- kins wore. An officer who went to New York to locate Roy learned that the man had started for France about a weelf ago. * One Hundred in Peril. A dastardly attempt was made to r burn the Scales hotel at ' ATuskogee. ' ' Okla. , Saturday morning , whije about f 300 delegates to the Democratic con vention were asleep in the building Oil was poured over the floor of two vacant rooms and set on fire , but tht /lames were extinguished before any damage was done. Liberal Orders for Steel. Orders for -1,500 tons of structural Bteel have been placed at Pittsburg by the Chicago and Northwestern and Baltimore and Ohio railroads and the city of Cleveland. Scolding Causes Tragedy. Insane with rage because she ob jected to him scolding one of their children , H. U. Stoncburner , aged 41 , living near Hotchkiss , Colo. , .shot and perhaps fatally wounded his wife , then placed a revolver against his own heart and committed suicide. Sioux City Lii'e Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux iCity live stock market follow : Beeves , j$4.75@5.50. Top hogs.1.15. . GRABBING THE UNEMPLOYED. State of Louisiana Seeks Men to Till the Soil. A Pittsburg , Pa.- special syiys : Six teen unemployed Pittsburgers having families left here Friday night for Munroe , La. , where they will be given a farm , home , tools and seed and an opportunity to buy the land they cul tivate. These same inducements are being offered to forty other families. Their transportation is paid. All ar rangements are under the direction of J. L. Knoepfler , secretary of the Lou isiana "tate board of immigration , who is now in Pittsburg. Speaking of the plan , Mr. Knoepller said Friday night : "I am here to give men opportunity to better their condition. I represent the state , and no land company.Ve have in Louisiana 27,000,000 acres of land , and only 0,000,000 acres are be ing cultivated. "We want families to till the soil and study our methods. The legisla ture of Louisiana is promoting the resent plan , and in order to enlarge our scope of usefulness we must get men who are willing to work. We want men who are progressive and planters with large tracts of land stand ready and willing to aid every man who is willing to help himself and sell him small tracts on ten years * credit. "But in the meantime we are caus ing immigration to our state by se curing men who are willing to farm on shares , and houses are provided for families who go. We furnish each family with a horse or mule , seed to plant crops , ground and garden truckIng - Ing implements. " HELD FOR IXCITIXG IUOT. The Leaders of the Philadelphia Mob Are Arraigned in Court. As a sequel to the remarkable scene enacted in Broad street , Philadelphia , late Thursday , when several hundred policemen gave battle to more than 1,000 unemployed foreigners who were parching to the city hall for the pur pose of making a demonstration , four teen Italians were held in bail. Four leaders were held on the charge of assault and battery and inciting citing- riot , and nine other members of the crowd were held for inciting to riot. riot.A A witness testified that at a mass meeting which preceded the march a woman speaker had incited the men by declaring : "It is better to be in jail where you get plenty to eat than to be out of work and hungry. " During -the march a number of red flags were carried. FOR POISOXIXG LJTTLE GIKL. Another Arrest Made in the Kansas Murder Case. Mrs. Sarah Morasch , a sister-in-law nf Charles Miller , father of Ruth Mil ler , a 4-year-old child , who died in Kansas City , Kan. , on Feb. 12 , from the effects of eating poisoned candy which was intended for her half sister. Ella Van Meter , was placed under ar rest at Harrisonville , Mo. , Thursday night , charged with complicity in the girl's death. Mrs. Morasch's 17-year-old daugh ter , Blanche , -was arrested Thursday on the same charge. Miss Van Meter , for whom the can dy was intended , ate a portion of it but recovered. TROOPS HELD IX READIXESS. Rome Authorities Ready to Quell Rioters. Rome advices state : The lively dis cussion which has been going on in the chamber of deputies regarding re ligious teachings in the primary schools is beginning to excite the people ple , and it was found necessary Friday to adopt measures against a possible disturbance of the peace. The mem bers of the extreme parties decided to make a demonstration before the chamber Friday urging the abolition of all religious instructions. Troops are held in readiness and the buildings surrounding the chamber of deputies are occupied by soldiers. DUAL MAIXE TRAGEDY. Man Kills Woman with Ax and Com mits Suicide. James A. Dcane broke into the home r > f Charles McKay , at West Forks , 23 miles north of Bingham , Me. , short ly before midnight , and killed Mrs. McKay with an ax , after chasing her .o the yard of a neighboring house.- md then committed suicide by cutting iis throat. Deane , who was , ,0 years > ld , was employed in a lumbering : amp. Mrs. McKay was 20 years old ind had been married three years. It is believed Deane's act was prompted by jealousy. Three- Miners Are Killed. While ten miners were being lo\v- ; red into the Stanton mine of the Le- ligh and Wilkesbarre Coal company it Wilkesbarre , Pa. , Friday , a large > ody of ice in the shaft fell , striking he hood of the cage , demolishing Jt. ? hree men were killed and three oth- ; rs will die of their injuries. Lodge Ottieer to Prison. At Dubuque , la. , Friday , Victor P. lerny , record keeper of the local laccabees , was sentenced to six nonths in the Fort Madison peniten- iary for embezzling $000 of the funds f the order. Emigration Takes Slump. Emigration from Antwerp to the Jnited States has practically ceased ecause of the belief it is now very ifficult to get employment there. ARMED AS FOR WAR. Mob of Foreigners Fight Police in Philadelphia. The marching of nearly 1,000 for eigners upon city hall , where they said they intended to make demands upon Mayor Reyburn for work , precipitated a riot in Broad street , Philadelphia , Thursday , in which twenty pirns were injured before the police dis persed the marchers and arrestci ! four teen of them. The men , most of whom were Ital ians and Poles , marched from the for. eign settlement in the lower section eJ the city. The leaders and a score - > f others carried red flags having a black border. When they reached Broad street , a few blocks below the city hall , several wagons attempted to pass through the line. The drivers were dragged from their seats by the marchers and beaten. Policemen ran to the rescue and a riot call was sent in. The motor bi cycle police were sent through the center of the city and rounded up the * entire mounted police squad , the big reserve street squad and all patrolmen , who were hurried to the scene in wag ons and automobiles. Private carriages were even pressed into service. A number of persons who were watching the paraders got into the first disturb ance , and when the big reserves hur ried down upon the marchers a general riot was in progress. Some of the marchers drew revolv ers and began firing at the police , and the mounted officers , riding into the center of the fight , used their ba tons right and left upon the heads of the leaders. MAY GET DEATH PEXALTY. Gen. Stoessel is Found Guilty by Rus sian Court. St. Petersburg advices state that Gen. Stoessel has been condemned u death. Gen. Feck has been reprimand ed and Gens. Smirnoff and Reiss ha\e been acquitted. The court recommends that the death sentence upon Stoessel be com muted to ten years' imprisonment in a fortress v and that he be excluded from the service. Perhaps the only Russian reputa tion which stood the test of the war with the Japanese , in the estimation of the outside world , is that of Gen. Stoessel , the defender of Port Arthur. The whole world acclaimed Gen. Stoessel a hero during the seige of Port Arthur , and believed that he would be crowned with all the laurels his country had to bestow , even after he was compelled to surrender. It is said that the general was not popular in the Russian army. AUTOS I5ATTLE IX SXOW. Farmers Shovel Way 1'oV the American Machine. Montague Roberts , driving the American cajin the New York to Par is automobile race , drove into Kendall- ville , Ind. , at 8:35 : Thursday morning , having spent the entire night battling Avith snow drifts. He left Corunna at 7:30 Wednesday night and farmers along the road practically shoveled the way for him the entire distance of sev en miles to Kendallville. Roberts was greatly exhausted by his night'-- work and retired to bed in a hotel with the intention of not resuming his jour ney until 4 in the afternoon. St. Chaffery , with the French car. i.s stuck in the snowdrifts five miles east of Kendallville. Adedoin , in a French machine , ar rived at 1 p. m. "Woman in Brown" ' to Prison. Miss Aimee Lloyd , aged U4 , the fa mous "woman in brown" who is eharg- ? d with swindling business men of Washington. Baltimore and other east- ? rn cities by means of forged checks , pleaded guilty at Rochester. Minn. , Thursday and was sentenced to the state reformatory until released by the Uate board of control. Disaster in Powder Mill. An explosion occurred in the nitro glycerine mixing house of the Hercules ° owdor works at Pinola , Cal. . Thurs- lay afternoon. The building was com- iletely. destroyed and it is reported hat between twenty-live and twenty- ieven Chinamen and four white men vere killed. t Both Will Die of P.urns. .Mrs. E. L. Dodder , wife of a prom- nent undertaker at Omaha , and her ister , Mrs. Hamilton , were so serious-- y burned by an explosion of gasoline t the Dodder home Thursday morning hat both will die. The women were leaning lace curtains and five gal- ons of fluid exploded. Xe\v York Has a Mystery. A dismembered body of a man , be- ieved to be an Italian , was discovered 1T n a dump in the Flat Bush section of irooklyn , N. Y. , Thursday. The trunk ad been cut in two and portions of lie arms and legs were missing , while I lie face was so slashed as to make the a eatures almost unrecognizable. d Bryan Speaks at Indianapolis. William J. Bryan addressed more tian 4,000 men at Indianapolis , Ind. , n afternoon. His n unday subject was t ! The Prince of Peace. " His address tl 'as given under the auspices of the t ( "oung Men's Christian association. Banker Tisdell Surrenders. A. C. Tisdell , the Chicago banker vice arrested on the charge of receiv- ig deposits after he knew his bank C as insolvent , was Thursday surren- Ce < ercd to the court by his bondsmen. ' I Nebraska ewsi i OX TKIAL FOR | Ernest Frank Charged \\ith Being sixmsiblc for Death of Wife. District court i.s now in session at Pawnee City , with Judge Kaper pre siding' . The most important case to be heard Is the Frjnk murder , in which Ernest Frank is accused of the murder of his wife. Edith. In April. 1907. Ernest Frank , a young1 farmer living near the extreme northeast corner of the county on a farm , left his house t. ) go to the farm of his father.V. . A. Frank , about a mile away , to assist him in building some fence , and claims he left his wife engaged with her housework and that she was to follow him soon and take dinner with him at his father's. The mornong proving too stormy for the work , Frank soon re turned home aiu found his wife lying on the floor dead , with a gun by her hide and a shot wound in her temple. The coroner's jury returned a ver dict of suicide , which did not meet with the approval of the family and some of the neighbors of the dead woman. A grand jury was called at the May term and young Frank was indicted for the murder of his wife and held under bonds. GIRLS SIMJKAI ) SMALLPOX. Twenty-Four 3Ien Contaminated at a North Bend Dance. The popularity of two young- wom en of North Bend is responsible , ac cording to the state health inspecto-- . for the prevalence of an epidemic > t" smallpox in that vicinity. There are now 24 cases , and each one of tlie "J4 is declared to have been contracted at one of two dances which were re cently held in that vicinity. And all of the 24 vicitims are young men who danced with the two girls. The young women had been visiting In Omaha , and when they returned home they were attacked with what the physician said was a skin trouble. When they recovered in a few days , they went to two dances. Each had a full card , and now. says Dr. Wilson , the smallpox has been spread in eleven different directions. STOKE AT LKXIXGTOX HUIJXS. May Departmnet KMablbhmem is De stroyed. Fire was discovered about " > o'clock Tuesday morning in the large dry goods store of John L. May. A portion of the building upstairs is occupied by Clyde Mann as a pantorium. where a large amount of gasoline is used , and It is supposed the lire originated there by a gasoline explosion. A high wind was blowing at the time , but the lire department managed to save the grent- er portion of the building itself. From | appearances the lire had been burning j the greater part of the night. ! The loss to the stock is estimated at Sl.nOOO and to the building S2.000. : The insurance will not cover the loss. ; This was one of the finest stores in Dawson county and the lire will be a serious loss to the city of Lexington. Hard Fijiht to Control Fliver. i The Burlington is making a hard . 'ight ' with the Platte river to turn the | r.orthern current of that stream into | the channel which the company is i dredging and blasting for it near the i-oiith end of its bridge at Fremont. The fill at the north side has all been finished except one strip. For the last three days a big force of men has been j it work day and night putting in carloads - j loads of rock , brush and earth to fill j Lho gap. On Sunday a big mat was lowered into the place and for a time j it held , but the water backed up and i carried it out from below , deeping its jhannel. BOTH AVILL DTK OF BUKXS. r\vo Omaha Women Fatally Injured liy Explosion of Gasoline. Mrs. E. L. Dodder , wife of a promi- ient Omaha undertaker , and her sis- er , Mrs. Hamilton , were so seriously | > urned by an explosion of gasoline , in | he Dodder home , Thursday morning j hat both will die. I Both women were found unconj j cious. The women were cleaning lace : urtains and five gallons of fluid ex- > loded , wrecking the interior of the iouse. Xc\v Trial for Kennison. The supreme court at Lincoln 'hursday evening reversed the sen- ence of E. P. Xennison to the peniten- iary for twenty-four years on con- iction of murder , and ordered a new rial. Kennison a year ago killed Sam ) . Cox at Minatare. Scotts Bluff conn- y. The supreme court pays the trial i ( * idge erred in his instructions to the j nry. Schoohna'Miii is si Pede trienie. Wayne county has n pretty school- la'am. Miss Ol < rn J > hnson , of Win- de , who has established a record as a ederstri < nne t'Vid deserves a Carnegie icdal. For four years she has taught i the rural schools and during that me has walked to and from her ; hool. averaging two to four miles. : egardless of weather she has hardly ilssed a day in four years. Nouro Alurderer Dies. Bill Jones , the negro murderer of etective Drum my , of Omaha , died . the penitentiary at Lincoln Thurs- ly afternoon. also Quarantine at Industrial School. The quarantine that was placed gainst the industrial school at Kear- ? y for the last several weeks has been ken off and all liberty allowed to lose who have the privilege of coming the city. Funds for Norfolk Y. M. C. A. W. P. ButteiTield & Son Thursday mounced their willingness to contrib- e $2.500 for a Norfolk Young Men's \v iristian association building , provicl- vfi 1 it is located on the same lot as the ir opected Carnegie library. irT I SIIOVY is IleavSc's : in Twenty Years in I Kustcrn Nebraska. j Following a continuous fall "f snow I lasting twenty hours , accompanied by . a wind which heaped it into drifts and almost tied up all kinds of street traf fic the mercury began a downward course at Omaha Tuesday evening. All > railroad trains were late and in some ! instances the morning overland trains I did not roach Omaha until evening. I Nearly fourteen inches of snow fell , ! the heaviest in twenty years. There i was a hea\y run of live stock at the yards Tuesday and much suffering ( from the utorm was the result. Sever- j al stock trains which have been on the road since Monday have not reach ed the yards. Live stock is being hastily unloaded as it arrives and i I rushed to feeding pens. j A Lincoln special says : The storm i which broke over southeastern Ne- I braska early Tuesday morning and ! prevailed furiously during the day , ( Continued Tuesday night with but slightly decreased intensity. In Lin coln snow fell to the depth of nine inches , drifting badly in places and ail but bringing street traffic to a standstill. Southeast of Lincoln as far as the Missouri river the storm was worse. At Beatrice and Nebraska City the snowfall amounted to ten inches , and the \vind blew a gale. Westward the st rm was severe as far as Hastings , and northwest to Aurora. While snow had been predicted , the high wind and low temperature was unex pected , and farmers were caught un prepared. The stock range country , however , is outside the storm area , and there will be no losses of consequence. HL.Ufl COXTKST IS 1.VTHIIKSTIXG. j I I'Sans Under \\isy to Have More Corn Contestants Xct Year. I The Washington county farmers * in stitute and boys' corn contest closed a most succe.ful meeting at Blair Sat urday. Superintendent Rhodes was elected general manager to conduct a local contest and prepare a county exhibit for the National Corn Exhibi tion. Mr. Rhodes expects to have 300 boys and men in his class. Herald Tlu-rkelsen. who won first prize in the Washington county boys' contest , brought back his prize corn to use as seed for his exhibit at the National Corn Exposition. The fact that the first prize at Chicago netted the winner over § 7,000 sounds well to the boys. The election of officers resulted as follows : Eph. Lippincott , president ; John Broderson. C. c. Van Dusen and Olan Athan. vice presidents. John Rhodes , county superintendent , wa3 elected as manager of the corn exhibit to be given at the next session of the institute. KANT-P.K-E5F.AT HOC. CH1CUIT. Ilecords of Sales in Nebraska Broken for Duroc-.Jerseys. The "Kant-Be-Heat" circuit of Du- roc-.Iersey bred sows , the last sale of which was made at tioldregc Saturday , broke several records and is no doubt the greatest circuit of the season. On Wednesday Air. Gilbert Van Patten sold at Sutton thirty bead at tine good average of $14 .25. the top price being $7 0. On Thursday George Briggs < fc Son , at Clay Center broke all previous world's records for bred sows , selling thirty head at an average of $2:50.05 per head. The top price uas $1,508 for the great sweepstakes sow , Clay Center Belle. K. OF C. INITIATED. Xc\v Council of Sc-vcnty Members Or. anizetl in Ha > tin < rs. Knights of Columbus from through- nut Nebraska and a number from Kansas City , Denver. Cheyenne and Dther places outside of the state , as sembled at Hastings Sunday for the institution of the local council. The gathering ' .vas probably the largest ev- LM % held by the order in Nebraska , ijeing about 400 persons present. There were over seventy candidates "or initiation , and while a majority ivere citizens of Hastings , there were a lumber from Sutton. Harvard , Law- : -ence. Blue Hill and other nearby ) laces. Sudden Death at Seward. John Harvey , a prominent citizen > f Seward. died suddenly at his homo > f heart trouble. Air. Harvey , who vas formerly mayor of the city , had > een traveling for several years for an Jmaha rubber firm. He was an active nember of the Commercial club and he Alasonic fraternity. He was 5 ! ) ears old and leaves a widow and foui ons. t -iiis\\er * to Ur.cJo Sam. Charles Barrett and William R. lei-rick , of Kearney , against whom omplaints were filed by the county ttorney a few days ago , have now he United States government to fight , s the internal revenue department ias taken up the charges. They are harmed with the selling of liquor rithout a license and to minors. Heal Kstafo te Fliirh. High prices still continue for Saun- ers county rral estate. At public auc- ! on this week the Jacob Olsun farm , eai Ashland , was purchased by Bar- ey K. 1 nrry for $127 an acre. Anoth- r : ? arm of120 acres , near the town f Memphis , recently sold for $115 an Lillie Ileturned for Trial. James Lillie , wanted at Beatrice for vaulting and robbing Thomas Alar- n of $7n on the highway near Air. lartin's home in Sherman township i ore than a year ago. was brought ick Tuesday from Seattle , Wash. , by n neriff Trude. Lillie is regarded as a t iugh citizen. S' ' Newport Saloon Keepers Leave. S't Complaint was filed a few days ago justice court in Newport , charging t < dward Gardner and William Purdy , loonkeepers in Newport , with sell- c g liquor to minors. These men got , ? ws of the intended prosecutions and osed their saloons and left town in e night. Former Seward AIsn Killed. At Los Angeles. Cal. , the Rev. Ed- in Bodi. aged 78. a retired minister om Seward. was struck and almost . stantly killed by a car on the West JI > mple ? treot .ine ° ; ; n-Tay. Briefs have been filed in the supreme rourt by the state and the attorneys- for. the express companies , in the eases- asked for general where the attorney a mandamus to compel the \iirious express companies to obey th : "iblejr act and reduce their rates 25 r-fr fent. The law , which was enacted by the re cent legislature , was signed by tho- governor April 5. but it did i > . ' > t carry the emergency clause. It pnivideciv should file' companies that the express their schedules in accordance- with the- law within thirty days after passage- - and approval. The attorneys fur thcr express companies held that .this gava- them until AuguM G to file the- sched ules , and therefore the suits filed by the attorney general were i-reir.Jiturel } filed. In their brief Attorney < 'has. J. Greene and Ralph E-fn.-ckonridge- for the express companion ini and argue four points , as follows : T ? ie state of Nebraska lias no power < > r authority- under the constitution and laws < f the- state to maintain thee sut- ! . They hold that the constitution out how the state may sue. and be sued. I nder the constitution the supreme f " . : rt has no jurisdiction to hear and deteriiiine- these suits. The petitions do not Munv uhether the defendants are 'persons. . or associations , or corporation ; ' ; or whether or not there are real parties defendant ; the suits are prematurely brought. * * * Patent targets for use in the arnories- of thi- Nebraska National Guar.i have- been sent to many companies , together with other target supplies te.uible - the guardsmen to practiceiirinjr i't a. distance of fifty feet with a 22-caliber rifle. With a windage and elevation * chart that accompanies the target , and adjustable slips of paper contain ing bull'seyes. the marksman is en abled to shoot at a mark supposed tc- be 1.000 yards away. lie may set his- sights for any given distance and. al lowing for wind of a certain speed andA from a given direction , aim at a bull's- eye at the bottom of the target , and , . if his aim is correct , the bullet will hit the proper mark above and either at the right or left of the center. A wind ! gauge similar to the kind used on a.- rifle range is a part of the equipment for use in an armory. With these ap pliances the guardsmen are supposed to get all the training they would get on a range , so far as sighting and fir ! ng is concerned. Dr. James Woods , of Schuyler. is- likely to be the first defendant n a : suit brought under the anti-po' s law on the charge of accepting a free pass- from the Union Pacific railroad. Boun ty Attorney B. F. Farrell. of Colfax county visited thee state railroad com mission Tuesday morning t > secure evidence upon which to base hN case , in the shape of the Union Pacific- statement of its passholdr-rs. The at torney general sent out notices last Saturday informing county attorneys of their duties and he is likely soon to receive in formation that additional' suits will be filed. Numerous newspa per men are sending word that if their action in accepting mileage in return for advertising is in violation of the- law , they will give up the transporta tion. This is likely to be accomplish ed in many cases. * * All arrangements have been made- for the thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Nebraska Press association at Lin coln on Feb. 24. 25 and 2C. Th * * espe cially big features of the meeting are- the lecture by Ed Howe , "The Atchison - son Globe Man , " on Monday evening , the banquet by the Lincoln Commer cial club on Tuesday evening and the- address by William Jennings Bryan on. Wednesday afternoon and the recep tion by the Lincoln Typographical un ion on Wednesday evening. At the- Commercial club banquet W. E. liar- ily , president of the club , will preside- as toastmaster and short addresses- will be made by Allen W. Field , Victor- Rosewater , of the Bee , William R. . VVatson , of the World-Herald , Presi dent II. C. Richmond , of the Press as < ociaton , and others. * * * The Missouri Pacific free pass- list ; . .vhereby it permits twenty doctors and seventeen lawyers jn Nebraska to ricle- 'ree in return for their services to the oad has been withdrawn , and tVe at- orney general will not prosecute either he road or the pass holders. Notifi- : ation was received through long dis- ance telephone by the railroad com- nission from P. Bailey Waggoner , gen- ral counsel for the road , that this. ourse will be pursued. The rai'road- ommissioners feel this is a virtual cceptance of the provisions of tha- nti-pass law. and will not push prose- ution of the pass holders or thedo - ; ating road. ' * * * Auditor E. M. Searle. Jr. . has jrtp- roved the consolidation of the'Pra- ? rnal Life association of Hastings ith the Western Life Indemnity " corn- any of Chicago. Two-thirds "of the [ astings company voted to reinsure i the Chicago company , . the mimber- ecessary to permit the consolidation. nder the Nebraska law. The regents of "the University of [ qnday Member Anderson con.suIteT ith Secretary of State Junkin and' is probable that the board will de- de to meet oftener. and in the matter r large contracts attend to the m.-tter self. The board expects to adopt -w methods and generally overhaul ie present financial system of hool. Governor Sheldon has. been request- i to name delegates- the national 'oinan's Christian Temperance Union invention , which will be in session" om June 14 to 30. at Saratoga , .rings. All those who desire too as " legates are requested to file "their- ime with the govrnor. * * Deputy Oil Inspector Chamberlain- is rejected ten barrels of oil at Weep- Z Water that had been sent ir ansiis
