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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1908)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT VALEXTIXE , XEI5. J. M. RICE. - - - - Publisher. VAST , LOSS IN PJEJJ -flJRST PART 01"IIKLSKA. . IIOSTOM- sriJCRIJ , IS DKSTHOYEl ) . 5Waiy Arc Severely corchcd in Flight Itefore Itiishiii"- Flames High Wind Spreads Fire Over Largo . . \rea Loss Placed at SI0.000.000 , J\n apparently insignificant lire1 , ivhich started among rags on a dump Jn the city of Chelsea , a suburb of . Sunday , was fanned by a "orthwest gale into a conflagration which obliterated about one-third of the city. Over T 00 dwelling houses were destroyed and many hundreds of fiun i lies were driven from their hab itations and 10.000 people are home less. Two lives are known to have been lost , and at a late hour Sunday niglu it was reported that two other persons had perished , one a woman , having shot herself in a freir/y over her in ability to save her property. From . > 0 to 100 were injured. Accurate esti mates of the loss is impossible. The city solicitor estimates it at nearly ? ] 0.000.000. The lire raged before a forty-five- mile gale for more than twelve hours , defying the utmost efforts of the com- "bined fire departments of Chelsea and seral nearby cities , and a large de tachment of Boston firemen and appa ratus. The lire area , which was in the form of an ellipse a mile and a half long and half a mile wide at its widest part , extended diagonally across the city from a point near the boundary be tween Everett and Chelsea to the wa ters of Chelsea creek. It was useless for the firemen to attempt to check the onrushing flames before the gale , and their main efforts were to prevent a spread of the fire on either side. Their last stand was taken at Chelsea -creek late in the afternoon , and for hours a doubtful battle was waged. -At 0 o'clock word was passed that the firemen were winning , and with re newed energy the contest was pressed. At lOiSO o'clock official announcement was made by Chief II. A. Spencer that the fire was under control. FOR WAR OX COXSr.MPTIOX. fa Deeply Interested in Coming CcMigres < in Washington. Great interest is being manifested hi medical and sociological circles in Itussia in the movement for the inter national struggle with consumption originating in America , this disea-e being one of the principal scourges of Russian life owing to the under-nutii- tion of the great masses of the popu lation and the unsanitary conditions in .the great cities. A branch of the in ternational society has been organixed 'In St. Petersburg , and efforts are being jnade to send a large delegation to the Washington congress this summer. Several government establishments are represented and the Russian steamship lines have established hal' rates for delegates. SAGAX'S FAREWELL MESSAGE. -We're ISiifiaged. " He Said , as Ik Sailed Away for France. Another chapter was added to the story of the affairs of Prince Helie de Sagan and Mme. Anna Gould , who sailed on different steamers for Europe Saturday , when G. G. Xeter , of Xew York , made public a statement given to him. as he explained , by the prince , jand intended for publication after the St. Paul , upon -which De Sagan took passage , was well out at sea. Mr. Xeter is a personal friend of the prince and was intrusted by the latter with the statement that he and Mine. Gould were betrothed. Held as Assassin Suspect. William McDonald , an old turn -miner and ranchman , was arrested at { Norwood. Colo. , Sunday on suspicion jof having been connected with the .attempted assissination of Gen. Buck- 'ely Wells , general manager of the Smuggler-Union mine , by an explosion , of dynamite under his bed March 28 ' . 3ast. Qnarrymcn to Keturn to Work. P.y a large vote the strike of tin E.OOO quarry workers in the vicinity of Barre , Vt. . came to an end Sunday. The quarrymen were getting 25 cents an hour and struck on March 1 for 28 cents. Concessions were made on both eidcs. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Beeves , "jG.OOCt'G.CO. ' Top hogs , $5.80. Kills Mother for Hurglar. Otis Wood , aged 4. > . killed his aged mother , Mrs. Lucretia Wood , at Raid 4Mount , Pa. , Saturday night. Wood claims he mistook his mother for a burglar as she was entering the house. IJc uas arrested. Smith Xot , Candidate in Kans-as. A. ( Farmer ) Smith , of McPherson , Kan. , stated positively Saturday that he would not be a candidate for gov ernor. STRIKIS imEAKKRS ROUTED. Fiercely Assailed by Mob at Pensacola , Florida. The bringing of a carload of strike breakers to Pensacola , Fla. , from St. Lauis Friday afternoon for the Pensa- I cola Electric company was the signal for rioting and disorder which resulted in the injuhy of fifteen of the imported men. men.Xo Xo sooner had the strikebreakers arrived and started for the car sheds than a fight occurred between them and the sympathizers of the union men. Bricks , hot ties .and shells were Hurled at the strikebreakers , and in turn the latter fired shots , used heavy sticks and bricks. Forever an hour the riot continued , the strike breakers gradually getting nearer to the car barns , but before they reached there fifteen had been wounded. When near the car barns so fierce was the onslaught on the imported men that they .separated and fled , thir ty running into a negro house , whi6 ! the remainder reached the car barn and barricaded the doors. The thirty men who gained the ne gro house barricaded the doors , and it took the police over an hour to dts- perse the mob and remove the men to places of safety. The mayor has issued a proclama tion closing all saloons , and the board of public safety has ordered the mar shal to swear in a sufficient number of deputies to quell the disturbances. Seventy of the strikebreakers were marched to the city jail , where they will be kept in safety. Benjamin Commons , vice president of the International Association of Street Railway Employes , made an ad dress urging the strikers to disperse and go to their homes quietly. CLAIMS LKAD IX SCHOOLS. Paris Statistics Show 20 Per Cent of Students Are Foreigners. France's claim to be the pioneer of higher education is well exemplified by the annual statistics of the Univer sity of Paris just published. Of a to tal number of 16,609 students admit ted to the five faculties of law. medi cine , science , arts and pharmacy , 2- 634 , or nearly 0 per cent , were for eigners. Of these 1.117 were women students and in this respect it is inter esting to note that the foreign women students far outnumber the French. Russians form the great majority. They specially favor the faculties of science and medicine , other nationali ties being almost entirely confined to that of arts. Although there is a very large number of American students in Paris they are almost entirely confined to art or music and do not therefore appear on these tables. FIUEIH'GS BUSY IX' PEKIX. Believed to Be the Work of Revolu tionists Government Aroused. Continued attempts at incendiarism at Pekin. many of which have been successful , have aioused the Chinese government to action. It is estimated property to the value of 5,000,000 taels has been wilfully burned down during the past three weeks. The fire bugs are believed to be revolution ists. The official Gazette , issued Friday , contains the names of a large number of revolutionists and no less than fif ty-seven Japanese , whom11 the author ities are ordered to arrest on sight. RUSTIIXG GUXS TO FROXTIER. Russia Preparing for Possible Attack by the Turks. Fifty-six heavy guns destined for the fortress of Kars on the Russo-Turkish frontier have passed through Tiflis by railroad from interior Russia. This strengthening of the fortress is due tea a memorandum of several officers of the garrison on its weakness against s possible attack by the Turks. It was pointed out that Kars , a stronghold of an obsolete system , was armed only with artillery mounted immediately after the Turkish war of 1S77 , and that it could easily be vanquished by modern Turkish guns. Urges Self Defenses. John H. Clarke , general counsel for the Xew York , Chicago and St. Ixmis Railroad company , addressed a large ly attended gathering of railroad em ployes at Bellevue , O. , Thursday night , taking for his subject the recent rail road legislation and its result. Mr. Clarke urged railroad men workers to organize for defense. "Receiver for Phone Company. Vice Chancellor Howell Thursday announced the appointment of Fred erick T. Johnson , of Xewark , N. J. . as receiver of the United States Inde pendent Telephone company , which was recently declared insolvent. The company is incorporated for $50,000- 900. Lumber Company Fined. Federal Judge Khappen Wednesday sentence the Stearns Salt .and Lumber company , of Ludington , Mich. , to pay a fine of $20.000 for accepting rebates from the Pere Marquette railroad shipments. Priest Commits Suicide. Rev. Father Joseph A. Graham , rec tor of the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Albany , X. Y. . shot himself twice in the heart Friday afternoon in his study. He died almost instantly. Banker Sent to . 'ail. William Worthman , assistant treas urer of the Oakland , Pa. . Savings and Trust company , was committed to jail Friday in default of $10,000 bail to an swer a chin gu of embezzlement. CJIILTJREX IX BOXDS. Germans Aroused Against Ancient Ln- bor Market. The annual recurrence of the cen tury old child labor market at Fried- richshafen , Germany , on "March 31 , which many local journals describe as only a slightly disguised selling into temporary slavery , has again aroused a storm of Indignation In the frontier provices of Austria , Switzerland and Germany. In the market place of Friedrich- shafen between 300 and 400 boys and girls of from 11 to 14 years of age whose homes are in the outlying dis tricts of the Tyrol and Vorarlborg are contracted out yearly for seven months , from Aupril 1 to the end of October , to farmers from southern Bavaria , Wurtemburg and Baden. Very little consideration is given to the wishes of the children themselves , most of them being sent into service against their will and in order to sat isfy the avarice of their parents. The children generally , in the charge of their parent ? , reach Fried- richshafen on labor market day. Here they are drawn up on the market place and then brought forward for inspection by a crowd of farmers , who look them over , feel and poke their limbs , meanwhile discussing their physical merits and demerits. The whole day is thus passed in the pro cess of selection. ' Gradually all are disposed of and those in charge of the children then sign with the farmers agreements for the seven ' ' and thev sums agreed upon are handed over. This usually amounts for the entire period of seven months to $12.50 , but sometimes it attains $20. LAXGDOX SMITH IS DEAD. Well Known Xcivspapcr Man Passes Arniy in Xe\v York. Langdon Smith , newspaper man , War correspondent , and one of the best known special writers in Xew York , is dead of malignant erysipelas at his home in Brooklyn , aged 50 years. During his journalistic career of more than twenty years in Xew York Mr. Smith had been connected with the Xew York World , the Herald and the American. He served as war corre spondent in Cuba during the Cuban in surrection and also through the Span ish-American war. being present : it the battles of Guantanamo , El Caney and San Juan. More than a score of years ago Mr. Smith was known as one of the expert telegraphers in the world. KYAXS TO GAIX SLOWLY. Complications Will Retard the Im provement of the Rear Admiral. Rear Admiral Evans was somewhat restless and did not sleep very well Thursday night. While his rheuma tism has almost disappeared as the re sult of the treatment at the springs and his normal condition has improv ed greatly and he has gained consid erable strength , Drs. McDonald and L , . E. Phillips admitted Friday morn ing that there were other complica tions which retard the patient's rapid recovery and will make permanent improvement very slow. They de clined , however , to give details or state the nature of the complications. Cut the Cotton Acreage. In a statement to the farmers of the south , issued Wednesday , Harve Jor dan , president of the Southern Cotton Growers' association , urges a reduc tion in cotton acreage of 33 per cent. Unless it is done , he says , prices will be low next fall. Jordan also urges the growers to hold what remnants of cotton they have. Sued for Thirty Million. The suit brought by the Pennsyl vania Sugar Refining company to re cover penalties of $30,000,000 from the American Sugar Refining company for alleged conspiracy to ruin the Penn sylvania company , was dismissed by Federal Judge Holt at Xew York Thursday. Kills Wife ; Shoots Self. Mrs. Emma Reis , of Pittsburgh , Pa. , aged 32 , was found shot to death and her husband , William F. Reis , aged 42 , proprietor of the old Economy hotel , at Economy station , fatally wounded Thursday at their home. Reis is said to have confessed he did the shooting as the result of a quarrel. G rover Cleveland III. Mrs. Grover Cleveland , when asked Thursday concerning a report that Mr. Cleveland was seriously ill , said : "Mr. Cleveland has been ill-during the past week , but is much better this week and hopes in a few days to be quite himself. " Deserting Soldiers Wrecked. A party of deserting soldiers from the barracks at Honolulu stole a schooner. The Lady , and started for the South sea.s , but were wrecked off Waimea. The schooner will be a total loss. The soldiers tvere arrested on the charge of piracy. For Operating- Lottery. Fines aggregating $32.200 were Thursday assessed against Morris Richmond and six others at Cincinnati , O. . arrested some weeks ate , charged with conducting a lottery contrary to law. Chicago Broker a Suicide. Lorenz D. Kneeland , of Chicago , aged 5. . . former senior member of the firm of Kneeland. Clement & Curtis , brokers , committed suicide Thursday by shooting. * , < J ! m * 18 * INTEREST HAPPENINGS From Day to Day Condensed M ISTATE I 48 15 FOR OUR HIY ) ] READERS jjjj XOHILITY IV RAGS. Relationship to Uoni and Prince Helie doesn't RelicM" Poverty. Once the possessor of : i fortune es timated at $3.000.000. tin- scion of French nobility , and his presence sought in the most exclusive circles of Paris. Baron Hemy Louis de Ginz- berg is at the county hospital at Oma ha , the object of charity and pity. It required but a few hoit years to , bring ; to the last ditch this Frenchman who at last has been forced to seek aid from citizens of this countiy. Le Gin/.berg. dignified and unassuming , has steadily icfused to admit his ical identity and it only became known by means of correspondence found in his possession when he uas sent to the sick ward. He hardly looks the . > o years that h < - K and still has a heavy headof black hair. De Ginzberg staked eveiy cent he 'had on the outcome of the JJoer war. making immense investments in the Boer country , which he expected to bring him rich returns uhen the l.oeis should break elf the English yoke. When the Uritishon lie uas left al most without a penny. lie is a cousin of Count I'oiii de Casteilane and Prince Helie de Sa.nan. former hus band and suitot tor the hand of Aline. ' Anna Clou Id. . The baron came to this country dui- ing the Hoer uar and otganized clubs among the Herman and French people to assist the war. When De Ginsberg's- fortune had finally disappeared he uas forced to earn a living by day labor and ha * * been connected for a year with a dye ing and cleaning establishment in South Omaha. RAILROADS AUK IXTERESTEI ) . The r.iirlm-iton Road Hasi Miles Without a Saloon. While prohibition uas beaten by a small majority in Lincoln , the tidal uave of no saloon seems to have en gulfed a considerable portion of tin- state that has heietofore been "wet. " Reports leceived at the headquarters of the Anti-Saloon league show that of SI touns and cities heard from. 41 have gone dry and : > 7 for license. The same towns last year were : Fifty-live wet and 2. > dry. A new force in the temperance cru sade is the Burlington railroad. Fol- louing Up a leeeiit order of Mr. Hill for the discharge of employes who loit er in saloons , came instructions to olli- cials to do what they could to wipe out saloons along the line of the rail- toad. As a i eF.nlt of this and the late election thenisn't a town along th P.urlinglon line ti > m Grand Island to Crawford , a distance of : ! 21 miles , in which theie will be a saloon the com ing year. There are but four towns between Lincoln and ( fraud Island with saloons , and at eveiy point where the Burlington has a considerable force of men the town went dry. T" ' is true of Wymore and Beatrice e.-i - cially. wheie every influence of the company was thrown in favor of no license. TWO WANT RELEASE r > ctition Gov. Sheldon for Pardon from Prison. Gov. Sheldon Thursday heard two applications for pardons , which he has taken under advisement. Dr. Cate. or Nelson , recently sentenced to IS months on a conviction for assaulting and stabbing a patient. Lee Griess. from whom he was trying to collect a bill , is very desirous of avoiding fur ther incarceration. His petition was hacked by a number of * influential friends who declare their belief that he has been punished enough , being a man of education and refinement , who has been greatly humiliated by his experience thus far. They insist that he is not a criminal by nature , but possessed of a violent temper. P. Coursey Richards , an old soldi- . serving a 12-year sentence for mis treating his stepdaughter , brought his wife forward to' state that false testi mony had been given to put him into prison , and that her sister and the daughter had done their best to put him behind the bars. At the time of his arrest Richards had sought to es cape arrest by walking overland to St. Joseph from Lincoln. ( 'ihhon Pioneer Celebrate. Thirty-seven years ago WeUnesday the colony landed where Gibbon now stands. Every year they congregate at Gibbons from their homes extending into seven states for an annual reun ion. Wednesday war. gloomy .and drizzly , but the old timers came just the same' : it takes mon than a stoi m to hold them back. SelectXev Teacher- . The Pender school board has elected Prof. S X. Cross , of Emerson , super intendent of the Pender schools. Miss es Bernice McHirron. Isabel Gower. . Carrie Kellner , and Clara Smith are the grade teachers elected. Saturday the board will fill four other places. Xe\\ Principal Tor GatesAcademy. . Rev. Charles A. Jaquith. of South Windsor. Conn. , has been elected pri cipal of Gates academy at Xeligh. Druggi-t Pn > s 3:500. : J. E. Kiggs. Lincoln's leading drug gist , was fined SI500 and cost.in the district court Wednesday afternoon , following a conviction on the charge of violating the law relating to th- keeping for sale of liquorr. Thh is the heaviest fine rver levied on a cYugsist . at Lincoln for such an effense. Tuo Mor : Wet Ones. Lr.ure ) end Pender voted in- favor .of license n'l'l ie latter city elected J A. Waiter. D. II. McXamara and II G. Heyne as c u 'ci i.un. XEHRASKA CITY SI ORCIIEI ) . Tuo Fires Coming Together Mieopi Firemen Hustling. Monday morning the saloon of I.'a- der Bros , at Xebraska City was dis covered to be on fire , and it was only after a hard fight that the fire boys saved the building and prevented the fire from spreading to the outside buildings. The saloon was almost gut ted and the loss is about $2.000. with a partial insurance The lire boys had just made ready to return borne when another alarm was sounded , and It was found that the warehouse of E. L. Overtoil , tilled with farm machinery. uas on fire The fire had a good head- \ay and the building with its con tents ueie destroyed. The building was a two-story iron-covered one and it was difficult to get at the fire. The loss is something over $ -1,000. with partial insurance. The cause of neither fire is known and many are inclined to the belief that one of them was the work of a. firebug. Moth fires were in * the busi ness district , but as no wind prevailed it gave the volniteer firemen a chance to mak - a good light. These are the liist tires this city has had so far this year of anv note SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC. Schools and All Public- Meetings Steppe - pe < T 'I v.o Weeks. For seveial weeks past the corps of physicians at Shelton have been baffled v. ith a disease which pai t of the doctors have been calling scarlet fever and otheis pronounced it Ger man measles- and the state board of health has been appealed to and Dr. Wilson , of the stale boa id of health , came. and. together with all the doc tors of the lown and the village board of health.i iited a laige number of iascs in town and surrounding coun tiy. and each and every one was found to'be that of scarlet fever , although of , i mild type , the patients in almost eveiy case being up and around. After leturning to town a consulta tion uas held and it was decided that in order to quickly stamp out the dis ease that every public meeting be stopped for two weeks and also the public schools and no gatherings of any kind will be allowed in the next fouiteen days. Thetv is much com plaint , as no one seems to fear the epi demic. Holtling Ifcbron Water. The Bine Valley Mineral Watei . - omp.iny. of Hebron , has incorporated with a capital stock of $1.000. The company has incorporated for a period of ninety-nine years tor the purpose of boitling and selling Blue Valley ' mineial'uater. . All the shares were readily sj | < i t , , jj , , , ejifxens of Hebron , who are convinced of the medicinal poweis of Ihe water l\- recent experi ments on ti eating local cases- . The company will begin business April 10 , IJio.S. Arrangements are being made to secuie the Willard mansion in the ity park and convert the same into a --anitarium. Search for Lost Child. The fire department and a hundred citizens searched Grand Island for live hours Monday night for Vance Cribbs. the 3-year-old son of IJ. W. Cribbs. foreman of the I'nion Pacific roundhouse. The child wandered away arly in the evening , and when his parents were unable to locate him the police were notified. The child was found at midnight in an outhouse , i mile from his home. He evidently wandered away and. becoming lost , took refuge in the building against the cold. He was dressed only in a blouse and trousers and was- waspartially oveicome by cold. Gasoline Causes Blaze. A fire was caused by the explosioi. of some gasoline which was being mixed in Horace Kuwiuky's shop at Nebraska City Tuesday evening. Three men had a narrow escape. .Ralph Ku- witzky was badly burned on both hands and face. John Kastner was -urned about the face and his clothes nearly burned from him. and Horace Kuwitzky lost part of his " hair and was burned about the neck" . The men were putting in cement by a blowpipe and gasoline was used in the mixture , and it ignited and caused the explo sion. Tiniest . A baby weighing 1 \ . , pounds is struggling foi existence in an "infant incubator" at Tekamah. in charge of Dr. Lukins. of that place. The child wasjjorn to Dr and Mrs. C. O. Swan- son. The father is a veterinary sur geon. Dr. Lukin. who was in attend ance at the birth of the child , g-ave it as his opinion that the baby would live. Iars Overlook 'Money. Burglars Tuesday night entered the iflice of the Iddings Lumber yards at Sutherland by piying open a window and ians-acked the building. The safe was opened , but no money was se cured , though the jobbers overlooked $100 in checks. It is thought the work was done by tiamps. Xe\\ Man lor Gates Academy. Rev Charles A. Jaquith has' reigned - -igned the pastorate of the First Con gregational church to become princi pal at Gates academy at Neligh. He vill enter upon his academic duties next fall. Peaches Xot Damaged. The peach tiees in the vicinity of Table Rock are almost ready to break into full' bloom. The recent cold weather seems not to have injured them , and if one-fourth of the buds ilnssoia ami nothing intervenes , the ,1'tiook f > , r peaches is "very promising. ! . : : r.-c IJnrn Himzcd. A l.ir o , J.irn belonging to Christ Christ sTiwer. . > ( ? linden , burned down ; - i ; w-'k ! i u-s \ ; . ! at $2.-nQ , t.-- . r. Tl.f origin of ui . . . Jurors \\lu convict an accused j.er- . for his -on and then sign a petition pardon may expect little c-nisideiation at the hands of Gov. Sheldon , unless. for their ac good reasons are given tion. This the governor plainly * et out in the hearing granted on the ap plication of Dr. W. A. Cate. of Xelson , months- sentenced to serve eighteen the penitei.tiaiy for cutting Lf Grosr. while the two were fighting Seven oC the petition for the jurors signed clemency and none refused to shjru While Mrs. Cate was addressing the- executive on the petition. Gov. Sheldon interrupted her to remark that she- was asking him to do what the jury- had refused to. "The Jurors who sign ed the petition , after they voted to convict Dr. Cate and send him to the penitentiary , certainly sh/mld explain their action. If they thought him in nocent they should have voted to free him. Their conduct needs explana tion. " "Well , governor. " said Mrs. Cate. "T do not understand much about such proceedings , but I thought it was cus-tomaiy to get the signatures : of the members of the juiy to the application for a pardon. Am I not right , may I tskV" The governor assured Mrs. Cate- that he did not mean t < > censure her or criticize II M- for getting the names of the jurors on the petition. What he wanted to know was why the jury did not acquit the man if he was innocent of the charge. The case attracted un usual attention and the oflice of the governor , wheie the hearing was held. was crowded , among those present to- speak a good word for thy convicted man being a member of the Jury. .To- < eph C. Ilart.-ough. who said he voted for a penitentiary sentence under & misapprehension. * * * "I was well pleased with the agri cultural bill as it passed the house , though I regretted the throwing out oi' the items for the establishment of a standard test for corn and the nation al demonstration at the cron show to be held in Omaha. " said Congressman Pollard , who is in Lincoln on business. "However. " he continued. "I believo- the senate will put both items back in the bill. Both were knocked out on- a point of order and neither was dis cussed on its merits. " Mr. Pollard has been at his home in NVhuwka for- a couple of days attending to private- business and will return to Washing ton in a few days. While at home and in Lincoln the congressman is looking' over liis political fences and he has found them in good shapno one HO far having et n intirn.-.ted that h will be a candidate for his piace next fall. By reason of the interest taken in the- matter by Mr. Pollard , the depart ment of agriculture has decided to send two experts to Xebraska this- - umnier. one to demojistiat0 the spray ing of orchards and the other to co operate with any farmer who desires in the matter of s. lectinged and tie culture of cereals. Mr. Pollard called on Gov. Sheldon at the executive of lice. Xotvvithstanding there are about a half hundred candidates for state su perintendent one has made a noise that sounds above the bunch. The noise was a letter written by Superin tendent Carriniiton. of Xemaha coun ty , one of the 'aspirants , to Superin tendent Thomas , of the lOarney nor mal school. The row is over perni cious activity on the part of the super intendent , or rather that is ivha't is1 charged in the letter. Mr. < 'a-ringtou charges in his letter that O. .M. Xealev an instructor in the school. spent three days at the Third district con vention boosting for .Iam.s E. Delzell. and to find time to do it he dismiss'ed his classes , though he hung onto thu pay roll. Of course. Mr. Carringtom charges it all up to Mr. Thomas. * * * P. Coursey Richards , aged and in firm , bearing the scars of many battles for the pJeservation of his country , stood before Gov. Sheldon Thursday- morning , a convict asking for a par don. The old soldier , who some year. ? ago occupied a prominent position in Xebraska. is serving a twelve-year sentence on a statutory charge pre ferred by hi stepdaughter. He denied" the charge and two physicians who ex- amfhed the complaining v.itness said" the charge could not have b > en true. . The man. it was said at the hearing , , was convicted on circumstantial evi dence , and the testimony of the girl ! and an effort was made to clear away- the circumstantial evidence. * * * Cattlemen are having trouble get ting their stock across thriv -r be tween Santee , Xeb. , and Springfield , . S. D. . by reason of the demand for- inspection and the absence of a suffi cient number of inspectors. The de partment of the interior has written the governor that immigrants are caused considerable delay at that point because they have to wait foi- the inspection of their eattl- . and the- suggestion is made for the appoint- on nt of an inspector for that place. The state railway commission has : set April 15 as the time when X. P _ Gadd. of Broken Bow , is to be hearu" on his complaint against the Western- Union Telegraph company for closing- its night office in the Custer county- town. Xumerous informal complaints of a like nature will be taken up at the same time. These informal com plaints against the Western Union have come from the following towns : Crete. Lorton. Gladstone. Friend. Wabash - bash and Rynard. * * Gov. Sheldon has received a letter * from the South Omaha Stock exchange ? In which the exchange thanked the executive - " ecutive for rfie work he did in the in terest of Xebraska cattlemen in goingr to Washington on the quarantine mat ter. The letter sets out that it is the sense of the members of the Stock exchange that hud it not been for * the interest taktm in the question by Gov. Sheldon , the * relief aske.-l for would not have been granted. The exehanp- passed n solutions thanking the rrov ci nor.
