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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1909)
Only Ki rorititim Wanted. George Gould spoke of railway diffi culties at a recent board meeting. "A railway finds It impossible , by toeing just , to please all hands , " Mr. < Jorld concluded. "There Is truth in the story of the commuter who enter ed a railway superintendent's office with n black frown. " 'Well , what next ? ' the superintend ent said to the man impatiently. 'By Dur new time table don't three addi tional trains stop at your station now ? ' " 'Yes , but , ' growled the commuter , "they stop at all the other little sta tions , too. ' " Wrath. "What were those two boys Gghtinc about ? " "Johnny was trying lo show Dicky how to make a noiseless popgun. " SORE EYES , weak , inflamed , red , watery and swollen eyes , use PETTIT'S EYE SALVE. All druggists or Howard Bros. , Buffalo , N. Y. Information. Uncle Zeb ( looking over bill of fare ) Henry , how do you order hog and hominy iny at a fust class rest'rant ? City Nephew You don't , uncle. PILE CUBE FBEE : Wonderful Pile Remedy sent free to sufferers by ad- i-dressing Rea Company , Dept B3 , Min neapolis , Minn. THE TUBTLE'S HEAD. .Chopped Off , It Retains Life for s Xainhcr of Honrs. 1 On the counter , in a porcelain dish , rstood the severed head of a large tur tle. "That is rather grewsome , " said a man who was buying oysters. The oyster opener glanced at the head carelessly. "It is a bet , " said he. "I bet Gus Schmidt that the head would keep alive twenty-four hours. It's nearly [ twenty-five now since I chopped it off. Gus is late. But I win anyhow , " he added. "Where's my money ? Pay me my knoneyl" a deep voice shouted at this , and a short man swaggered in. roment lost , Gus , " said the oyster opener. "There is still life in her. " ' "There is nit , " said Gus Schmidt i"2sTix on the life. " i And he extended a stumpy finger fearlessly toward the turtle's mouth. "Gee ! " Startled , amazed , Gus Schmidt leap cd back. For in the turtle's open eyes a fierce light had flashed , the ugly "mouth had opened and shut with a sharp snap , and the head in some etrange way had advanced an inch or two toward the tempting finger , much as a piece of steel advances toward a jnaguet. I "This may surprise you , Gus , " said /the / oyster opener , wiping hiswet bands in order to pocket his winnings. ABut it don't surprise me none. I've * een turtle heads keep life in 'em long- rn * this here. " New Orleans Times- Democrat Fame. Uncle Hiram So you play base ball , jto you , Dickey ? Has your ball club got jl name ? ' Five-Year-Old Has it got a name ! IGee ! You've heard of the Rag Alley Itannigans , haven't you , uncle ? Well , I'm their reg'lar shortstop. We're goin' to Inhale the everlastin' stufiin out o' the jBumtown Billygoats next Saturday I tOhicago Tribune. FOOD FACTS. "What nn 31. D. Learned. 'A prominent Georgia physician -went through a food experience which he [ makes public : It was my own experience that first jled me to advocate Grape-Nuts food ( and I also know , from having pre scribed it to convalescents and other { weak patients that the food is a won- jderful rcbuildcr and restorer of nerve and hrain tissue , as well as muscle. It mprove > the digestion and sick pa tients always gain just as I did in strength and weight very rapidly. ' "I was in such a low state that I fcad to give up my work entirely , and Iwent to the mountains of this state , jbut two months there did not improve me ; in fac-t , I was not quite as well as ( when I left home. "My foid did not sustain me and it became plain that I must change. JThen I bt-gan to use Grape-Nuts food , and in two weeks I could walk a mile /without fatigue , and in five weeks returne < l to my home and practice , /taking / up hard work again. Since that .time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life. "As a physician who seeks to help /all / " Tcrers , I consider it a duty to piakc these facts public. " Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts , when ( the regular food does not seem to sustain - tain the body , will work miracles. "There's a Reason. " Look in pkgs. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville. " Ever read the above letter ? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine , true , and full of human interest. Managers for Minneapolis Concerns See No Relief in Sight at Present. WHEAT SCARCITY IS GENEBA1 Argentina's Crop Short Mexico Ha Famine Flour $1.30 Higher than Last Year. Rise in the price of flour until the mills In America are selling spring wheat flour at $7 a barrel , or $1.30 more than a year ago , is brought to light as one of the effects of the pres ent condition of the wheat market and the country's supply of the cereal. Ac cording to the Chicago Daily News , managers of the Washburn-Crosby Company , the Pillsbury-Washburn Com pany and the Northwestern Consoli dated Milling Company , which operate what are declared the largest mills in the United States , and practically fix the price of flour , say there is no re lief in sight from present conditions , and every indication is that the price of flour will continue to soar and may go to $10 a barrel. The rise in the wholesale millers' price is being fol lowed by a rise in the price to brokers and consumers and will result in ma terially affecting the price of bread and bakery goods. The price of rye flour and other breadstuffs has also been in creased , the rise in the price of rye flour per barrel being about 30 cents in less than a month. ' The managers of the milling compa nies deny that there is any combination to increase prices or to control the business. They insist that the rise in the price of flour is due to the scarcity of wheat and breadstuffs in Europe and other countries , to the insufficient supply in the United States in the light of the demands which are now being made and to tlie general wheat situa tion. tion.The The price for wheat will be stiff all through the summer , the millers de clare. The United States has grown a larger crop than a year ago , but the world's supply is short. There is a wheat , flour and bread famine in Mexi co. The price of Argentine wheat is $1,25 per bushel and of Winnipeg or Canadian wheat about $1.27. The ship ments from Argentina are short and Argentina has been shipping principal ly to Liverpool. This increased the Liv erpool demand for American ship ments. It requires five bushels of wheat to make a barrel. Taken at $1.20 per bushel the wheat in each barrel of flour costs $0.45. Add to that 40 cents for sacks or wood basins , 20 cents for freight , 15 cents for delivery , 5 cents for storage and 25 cents for selling and carrying accounts. That will make the cost price of flour $7.50 , from which deduct 40 cents for "off-alls" or the bran and other products saved from the wheat , which makes the price $7.10. And in some instances the freight , de livery , storage and other expenses are higher than those given. It would not be surprising in the light of present existing conditions and in the face of the outlook for the future that flour would go to $10 per barrel. FAREWELL NOTE HINTS AT PLOT Bainb ridge Leaves Message Saying lie "Was Victim of Machinations. "I am the victim of the most diabolical plot ever devised to ruin an innocent man. " This was the message contained in a farewell letter found in the effects of William E. Bainbridge , confidential agent of the United States treasury de partment in charge of its Paris customs bureau , who committed suicide. Mr. Bainbridge's colleagues at the American consulate in Paris are not able to throw any light on these tragic words. They say that they kno\v nothing of the exist ence of a plot involving the agent. The American consul general continues to be lieve that Mr. Bainbridge had become in sane. Mrs. Bainbridge , however , without hesitation , expresses belief in her hus band's word . She says her husband was possessed by the idea that a formes1 treas ury agent had been plotting his ruin. It is understood that an investigation will be made into the statements communi cated to Mrs. Bainbridge by her husband. ICE FLOE SINXS LAKE STEAMER. Five Men Drowned at Entrance to the Straits of Macinac. Five members of the crew of the steam er Eber Ward , grain-laden , from Milwau kee for Port Huron , were drowned Tues day when the steamer sank in Lake Michigan after striking a heavy ice floe which floated deep in the water about six miles west of Mackinaw City , Mich. Nine members of the crew were saved , The Ward was owned by D. M. Perry & Co. of Detroit. She left Milwaukee seveial days ago on her first trip of thi season. Shortly before entering the straits the steamer crashed into the ica floe and stayed afloat but three minutes , just long enough to enable another steanj barge to steam alongside and take o9 part of the crew. The victims are sup * posed to have been asleep below when the collision occurred. Dies to Escape Prison. Shortly after being sentenced to servi two years in the federal penitentiary foi sending an obscene letter through tin mails , Mrs. Rosa Freudenthal Monnish , the leading woman physician of Atlanta , Ga. , and proprietor of a sanitarium , committed suicide by drinking prussic acid , which she had concealed about he/ person PUTS TRACK GAMBLER ABOVE PIT SPECULATOR. "I have more respect fo/ the man who bets on horse races than I have for the man who gambles in the wheat market or other futures , " said Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana , who attended the Gridiron Club dinner In Washington. "There is some sport about the one , and not a redeeming feature about the othed. If I had uay way , I should do away with all gambling , but I know that it is not in human nature to pre vent speculation. I like racing , and , after all. there is no sport in racing unless there is betting , but that does not mean that I approve of gambling. I may have a peculiar idea of affair , but I have always believed that if the state would make fewer attempts to make laws regulating the morals of the people in. general and the people would give more attention to individu als the world would be better off. "If Congress would regulate the manipulation of the markets , which causes high prices , such as is the case in Chicago to-day , let it pass a law placing a tax on all contracts in fu tures. " ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA. Ex-President and His Party Arrive at Mombasa. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt ar rived at Mombasa , British East Africa , Wednesday evening on board the. steamer Admiral. Mr. Roosevelt was in the best of health , as were all the members of his parly. The Admiral' entered Killindini harbor flying the American flag at her fore and main masts. She dipped the German ensign while passing the British cruiser Pan dora , whose rails and masts were manned by cheering sailors. The Pan dora saluted the ex-President , who was on the bridge watching with in terest the coming into port. The people of Mombasa were in a great state of expectancy throughout the < lay , and the first word of the sight ing of the ship brought them in crowds to vantage points where they might catch a glimpse of the distinguished visitor. The Admiral , however , came slowly up to the harbor , and it was dark when the ex-President , accompan ied by his son , Kermit , and the cap tain , made a landing. They were brought ashore in the commandant's surfboat and carried to a place of shelter in chairs on natives' shoulders. There was a perfect deluge of rain , but in reply to the expression of regret at tue weather Mr. Roosevelt said he was glad to get ashore in any weather. He added that he was in splendid health , and that the start for the hunt ing grounds could not come a minute too soon. The governor's aid' boarded the Admiral and extended a welcome to Mr. Roosevelt , who received another cordial greeting on shore from the pro vincial commissioner , who conducted him to the government house. S. F. Cunningham , the hunter and field natu- , rallst , who is. in charge of the expedi tion , was also on hand at. the pier. FIGHT FOR THE PENNANTS. Standing : of Clubs in the Principal Base II all NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Boston . 4 1 Chicago . 2 3 Cincinnati . .5 2 Brooklyn . . . .2 3 New York . .2 2 Pittsburg _ 2 8 St. Louis . .3 4 Phil'd'lphia . .1 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. I Detroit . o 1 St. Louis . . .2 8 New York . .4 2 Phil'd'lphia . .2 4 Boston . 4 2 Washington . .2 4 Cleveland . . .3 3 Chicago . 1 4 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. w. L. Indianapolis .6 1 Toledo . 3 4 Milwaukee . .4 1 St. Paul _ 2 3 Louisville . . .5 2 Kan. City . .1 5 Minneapolis .4 2 Columbus . . .0 7 MAN KILLED BY FOLDING BED. Conch Shuts in Right , Crushing Husband and "Wife. A folding bed caused the death of James F. Maher , a feather curler , in Williamsburg , N. Y. During the night the bed began to rise as if pushed by an unseen hand , pinning both Maher and his wife , despite their struggles and ef forts to relieve themselves. A son , who was sleeping on the floor above , heard his parents' cries and ran to their assist ance , but before he could extricate them Maher expired. Mrs. Maher was taken out unconscious , but she waa socn re vived. frozen Mass Is Piled Eighty Feet High Beneath Big Lewiston Structure. SLICES OFF THE ENBANZMENT Mouth of River Is Clogged by Great "White Fields Which Imperil Buildings Along Shore. Thousands of tons of broken ice , piled in a confused mass in the mouth of the Niagara River , threatened the Lewiston suspension bridge , which is eighty-five feet above the normal level of the river. Moving ponderously before a tremendous pressurp' water , the mass of ice is slicing off the river embankment as it passes and threatens serious damage to some sf the hotels on the river bank , or- dinra-ly high above the water. Great field ? of ice are pouring over Niajare. Fall ; ; , constantly adding to the accumiP laticn which clogs the exit of the river into Lake Ontario. This increases th heif.-ht of the mound of ice at Lewiston , " - * \ * * l - \ ' / , , \trJxfv \ i fM > 1& &vP XIAQABA FALLS. which already is nearly eighty feet above the normal stage of the river. Appeals for help have been mfide to the War De partment and Gov. Hughes and the Gov ernor has sent an expert in the use of explosives. Col. .Tames B. Price , in charge of the Buffalo office of the United States engineer corps , declares that the department is absolutely helpless to ren der any assistance at Lewiston and Youngstown. He inspected the condi tions on Sunday and found the ice at the mouth of the river at least seventy- five inches in thickness and that a boat would be powerless. Dynamite , he said , would make about as much impression as Jf ezploded in soft dirt. He saw abso lutely no way to relieve the condition. 81,000,000 IS LOST IN FLUE. Cotton CompresH and ? SoO,000 Wortli of Product Destroyed. St. Louis compress No. 2 , one of the largest in Little Rock , Ark. , was prac tically destroyed by fire Tuesday , caus ing a loss , it is roughly estimated , of about $1,000,000. General Superintend ent Wilbur F. Black places the value of the cotton stored in the building at $ SoO- 000 , while the plant is valued at $100- 000. The loss is almost wholly covered by insurance. A party oC California turf magnates has gone to the City of Mexico to open negotiations for the operation of a- race track at Tia Juann , Lower California , which is Mexican territory. Senator Agnew's bill designed to pre vent the publication of race tips and bet ting odds in newspapers was favorably reported by the Senate codes committee of the New York Legislature. One of the prettiest finishes of the Santa Anita season at Los Angeles came in the Canopus handicap , when Czar and Glorio finished so close together that no one but the judges could determine which was the winner. Billy Delaney , manager of Al Kauf man , has covered the $3,000 posted by Jack Johnson. Delaney states that he had decided to let Kaufman meet the negro cbampion , providing Johnson would make a side hot of $10,000. With a splendid spurt of fast billiards , making an unfinished run of 1G7 points , George F. Slosson. the New York veter an , won a game of 18-2 in the world's championship series from Calvin Demar- est , of Chicago , by a score of 500 to 207. The final run was made mostly by cen ter space nursing and was completed in thirteen minutes. SOTHERN DIVORCE IS LOST. Nevada Court Denies Decree Asked for by Actress Against Spouse. One of the most important legal de- cesions ever written in a District Court of the State of Nevada was handed down and iiled Monday in the second judicial District Court in Reno by Judge W. H. A. Pike , when , in an elab orate opinion on the marriage and di vorce law of Nevada , he announced hia refusal to entertain jurisdiction of the celebrated proceeding begun last July by Virginia Ilarned Sothern for di vorce from E. II. Sothern. Judge Pike's decision , it Is conceded , settles beyond question the fact that Mrs. Sothern cannot secure a divorce from her husband unless either she or her husband comes to the State and takes up such a residence there as proves conclusively a bona fide inten tion to remain there. The particular point settled is that on complaint filed by a non-resident plaintiff with proo ess served on a non-resident defendant , who happens to be temporarily in the State , no jurisdiction is secured for the purposes of allowing a divorce decree. The effect of the decision will be revolutionary. There are at least twen ty-five actions which are withheld awaiting the outcome of this investiga tion , and it is probable that the seek ers will either return to the East or settle down to the former custom of waiting six months , which custom was religiously followed until the original ity of Mrs. Sothern's counsel devised a plan that up to now promised hope. NINE KILLED IN OHIO STORM. Six Patally Injured and Property Loss Is Over $1,000,000. Nine persons were killed , six fatally hurt , and at least fifty sustained in juries and property valued at more than $1,000,000 was destroyed in a gale which swept through Cleveland and northern Ohio Wednesday. Fred Gru- gel committed suicide during the height of the storm because he was afraid he was about to be killed. He rushed into a barn out of the rain and drank car bolic acid. He left a note explaining his action. Roofs were lifted off houses , walls hurled down , strongly braced smoke stacks picked up and chimneys demolished. Porches were stripped off residences and small build ings were carried away. The largest single injury that was done will be to St. Stanislaus' Church , East Sixty- fifth street and Forman avenue , in Cleveland. The wind practically demol ished the structure. The loss Is esti mated at $125,000. LIES IN WAIT ; KILLS FATHER. Brooklyn "Woman Says Deed "XVns in Revenge for Brother'a Death. After lying in wait for him for more than an hour , Agnes Wallace , a seam stress , 35 years old , shot and instantly killed her father , John W. Wallace , G5 years old , at Van Btiren street and Stnyvesant avenue , Brooklyn , N. Y. , while he was on his way to his home. With unerring aim and with the utmost deliberation she sent two bullets into her father's body , one entering his chest and the other the left temple. Then she sub mitted to arrest , declaring to her captors in calm tones : "lie is my father and I killed him because he killed my brother. " She further asserted that she had been driven from her home by the ill-treat ment of her father and that one of her brothers had died from the same cause. DECREASE IN RAIL CASUALTIES. Interstate Commission Gives . Com parative Fisrnres for 19O7-190S. Danger of railroad accidents is de creasing , as shown > by official statistics made public by the interstate commerce commission. The total number of cas ualties during the last three months of 190S was 17,644 , cr 2,814 less than dur ing the same months of 1907. The total number of persons killed in train acci dents during October. November and De cember , 190S , was 184 , and the injured in train accidents numbered 2,924. Cas ualties other than those due to collisions and derailments bring the total number of killed to 798 and of injured to 16- 846. Two Millions in Real Money. Nearly $2,000,000 of \Vaters-Pierce Oil Company's money passed through Dallas , Texas , over the Santa Fe in tran sit from St. Louis to Austin to pay the oil company's fine to the State of Texas for violation of the anti-trust laws. The Well-Fargo express car containing the treasure had six special guards , all fully armed. Awful Carnage of Moslems in Asia Minor and Whole Regions Are Burned. ABDUL TO HOLD HIS THRONE Report Agreement Is Concluded with Rebels Panic in Constantinople and Thousands Plee , A special dispatch recelrcd in Lon don from Athens says that telegrams that have come In there from Merslna set forth that fully 10,000 persons were killed in the anti-Christian rioting of the last few days in the Adana and Tarsus districts , and other thousands fled for safety. Entire villages were razed , and the country is a. smoking : wilderness. A special dispatch from Constantinople says that a definite agreement between the Government and the committee of union and progress has been concluded. Abdul Ilamid is to remain as Sultan of Turkey , but the present cabinet will resign. Religious and anti-European out breaks from end to end of the em pire overshadowed the fight for consti tutional freedom with the Byzantine capital as its vortex. Mussulman piety in all its fanaticism has been let loose and cries of "Death to the Franks I * ' have drowned the speeches of the con stitutional leaders of the army sur rounding Constantinople who are seek' ing to insure- the peaceful abdication of Sultan Abdul Ilamid and the estab lishment of parliamentary rule. From Beilan pass , Alexaudretta , Hadjin , Marash , Aintab , Mersina , Adana and Tarsus come shocking re ports of fresh outrages in which Chris tians and Armenians have paid the toll by thousands of lives. In Monastic 1,500 Albanians revolted , terrorizing the district and killing their colonel and a large number of Young Turk of ficers , as well as the mayor. Advices from Uskup , 100 miles from" Saloiiicn , say that the rising has spread through out the whole of Northern Macedonia. Eight thousand armed Albanians havn overawed the small bodies of troops rr-- maining in the country , and Christian families are lleciug. Crowds are tak ing refuge in the Greek and Servian consulates. The adjustment of the Sultan's status with the Constitutionalists is now a matter of secondary importance. Work ing in scores , fanatics of a new party , the party of religious zealots , have cir culated among the troops and the sail ors of the fleet and poisoned their minds both against their leaders ami the Sultan. DEATH TAKES GOV. ULLEY. Peaceful End of Executive Is in Con trast with. Career. Surrounded by his family of wife and three children and by his brother and sister , Governor George L. Lilley , after a day of sinking spells , died at 7:26 o'clock Wednesday night in the executive mansion on Farmington ave nue , Hartford , Conn. Following his fight in Congress in the submarine boat exposures a year ago and his guberna torial campaign of last summer and fall , Mr. Lilley returned to , his home in TVaterbury , Conn. , in a state of nerv ous collapse , which -was not benefited by the criticism which greeted his first message as Governor. A trip to a New- Jersey sanitarium failed to benefit Mr. Lilley , and following his return to Hartford he gradually failed , the final dissolution being due to kidney troube , which affected his heart and tended to intestinal poisoning. Lieutenant Gov ernor Weeks will at once assume office. DEMAND 86,000 OB WILL Members of n Gan Terrorize Minne- Hota. Farmer with Grave Threats. Sis young men have been arrested in Preston , Minn. , on suspicion of threaten ing murder and kidnaping. Their names are kept secret until others believed to belong to the same gang are gathered in. Emil Dreckman , a farmer , is the com plainant. He says he recently received a letter demanding § 6.000 in cash and whea he ignored it a second note warned him to hurry with the payment. Later his house was surrounded one night by a crowd of fifteen men and boys who fired shots and shouted threats. Promising to kill any who invaded his home , he held the gang at bay until daylight , when all left. A box of dynamite was found on his porch and a note saying if he did not pay , his little boy would be stolen or himself killed. The investigation and ar rests followed. PITTSBTJBG FACEffG CAE STBEKE Employes Decide to "Walk Ont TJnle Company Grants Conce.s.slonn. By a vote of 2,288 to 123 , the em ployes of the Pittsburg Railways Com pany have decided to strike unless the company makes concessions. The com pany's offer to renew the last year's jEcale was rejected. The company refused to grant the advance in wages demanded- by the men and the vote to strike was taken. The company says it will put on new men if the old men quit work. Thousands of applications- employ ment have been received. President W. D. Mahon of Detroit , head of the nation al railway employes' organization , is re ported to be on his way to advise wiU tba men
