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. *
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From Day to Day Condensed M
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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.