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' . Detachment of nunawa ' .
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I Brig. Gen. Harry H. Bandholtz ,
! 'chief of the Philippine constabulary ,
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tion on the Island of Jolo , will at once
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1 i I th& scene of the mutiny of the Second
company of constabulary on June G ,
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0 sonal command of the constabulary
forces sent in pursuit of the mutineers.
The insular government is determined
I to make an example of the mutinous
. Vfsayans who fled to the mountain
fastnesses in the interior with their
rifles and equipments , and the pursuit
, will be pressed with the utmost vigor
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until the last of the mutineers have
. been captured. Several columns of
troops , both regular and constabulary ,
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already are in the field. .
Acting Gov. Gen. Forbes , who re -
1 tuurned Monday from the province of
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Pampanga and was soon in confer .
I ence with Maj. Gen. William J. Du- I
! vall. commanding the division of the
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I Philippines , said : .
"This affair , deplorable as it seems
to have been , has not changed my
opinion of the native constabulary nor
my belief in the general excellency and
loyalty of the force. Judgment must
be reserved until we receive further
details of the mutiny and the causes
that brought it about. " . :
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No additnonal details of the mutiny
and of the three hours' fight made by . '
Gov. Walker and the Americans in the
K' ' . church at Davao have been received
; here. No telegraph connects with
, Davao. The only communication is i
, by steamer from Zambango , a naval
, , ' station on the extreme southwestern
point of Mindanao , or from Malabang.
There is no indications of any ex
tensive military plans aside from the
-ordering of several detachments to
, follow the mutineers.
75 TO 100 ARE DEAD.
Injured List Is As Large In French
Earthquake. :
From 75 to 100 dead and 100 in-
jured is Saturday's estimated total
casualities as the result of the earth
i quake which devasted ! several small
towns and villages in the southermost
part of France , particularly in the de-
partments of Herault and Brouches d u
1 , Rhone.
Great suffering is reported from the
i remoter places , owing to a lack of
1 bread and the necessities of life before
the arrival of aid. The causualities
may be greatly increased , as , the ruins
have not yet been entirely searched.
The village of St. Cannat and Rognez
yere completely demolished by the
earthquake , and Lambesc , which is
twelve miles from Aix , suffered heavi
ly. According to advices received here
a number of wounded are still rs
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oned in the ruins
and soldiers are
working desperately to rescue them.
Survivors are sleeping in tents and
the streets are impassable. In many
places they have been torn up and are
Incumbered by masses of rock. Houses ,
public office buildings and churches
were crumbled to pieces. Among other
villages seriously damaged are Varne-
ques , Venilles , Palissanne Puy Ste. '
Reparde and Arguilles.
. The victims at St. Cannat and Rog
nez were sorribly mutilated. There
were evidences that several of the vi c -
tims had lived for hours Imprisoned
I by the derbis before they died. The
. people rushed into the streets when
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first shock
occurred , crying out In
terror. Many of them returned
to the
-rescue of their families.
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ii I Porto Rican Bakers Striks.
The bakers' union of Mayaguez ,
\ which is affiliated with the American
( Federation of Labor nn
has
, gone out on
a strike. The men demand
an increase
I of wages and that Sunday be a day of
rest. The
bakeries have
suspended
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organized
a co
j . operative shop in order to supply the
j - trade with bread.
LI IiUiing n Iliis a Steeple.
I Lightning struck the steeple of the
i , Holy Cross Catholic church at Bay
4 settlement , north of Green Bay , Wis. ,
Sunday , killing one man 'and shocking
i - and injuring sixteen others , two of .
j whom may not survive , while mass
j was being sung.
Sioux City : Xilvc Stock 3Iarket.
i . Saturday's quotations on the Sioux
j City live stock market follow : Beeves , ,
{ . J5.75@7.00. Top hogs , $7.55. t
I Rowboat Overturns.
Three . men were drowned Sunday
/ . by the overturning of n
' of a rowboat on
; ! Creve Coeur. lake , a resort twenty- v
i five miles west of 'St. ' Louis. The 11
! coprses have not been identified. :
: Excited Over a Gas - Flow.
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1 Wayne county , 0. , is excited over a
1I I flow of natural gas running 3,000,000
! feet per day by gauge , which has been P
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HONOR FOR : WRIGHTS.
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Brothers Center of Interest at Whlto
House.
The appreciation , goqd will and con-
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gratulations ofthe American people
were extended to Wilbur and Orville
Wright , the American aviators , by the
president of the United States Friday.
The ' occasion was the presentation of
the gold medals awarded to the Wright
brothers by the Aero Club of America
to commemorate the conquest of the
air. In the presence of distinguished
statesmen , foreign diplomats , mem-
bers of the cabinet , noted scientists
and prominent aeronauts and aviators
the two inventors of the ' first success-
ful flying machine heavier than air re-
ceived the public recognition of their
achievements from their fellow coun-
trymen. President Taft in handing the
medals to the brothers expressed keen
admiration for their work and ven
tured the belief that their flying ma-
chine will be the basis of the future
aerial craft and made the prophecy
that the dawn of the age of flight is
here.
The Wrights were introduced to the
president . by Representative Herbert
Parsons , of New York , who paid a
glowing tribute to their personal quali
fications. A. Holland Forbes , winner .
of the national balloon race and acting
president of the Aero Club of Ameri
ca , turned the medals over to the
president on behalf of the Aero club.
Miss Katherine Wright , sister of the
aeroplanists , accompanied them here
and was quite as much lionized. After
President Taft had congratulated the
brothers individually he turned to Miss
Wright and said : ,
"And I want to congratulate , the
most important member of the fam
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ily. "
Preceding the meeting at the White
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House a luncheon was ' given at the
Cosmos club to the Wrights and the
visiting members of the Aero Club of
America by the Aero club of Washing
ton.
The day was one celebration ' in
honor ' of the Wrights from the time
the arrived early in the morning until 1
7 o'clock Friday night , when they lef/ /
' for Dayton.
HUNDREDS IX GREAT PERIL.C
Steamer Meets with Accident'ca r
New York.
The Spanish steamer Antonio Lopez ,
with 526 passengers and a crew of
135 men , grounded on Fire Island near
New York City Wednesday night and
lay on the beach all night , pounded
by heavy seas. Rockets sent up for
assistance warned the summer life
saving crew at Point o'Woods life sav-
ing station , but they could do nothing
until daylight. Early Thursday wreckw
ing tugs reached the stranded steamer ,
a lifeboat was launched through the
surf and the work of transferring the
women and children passengers to the
wrecking tugs was begun. The sea
Avas still too high to permit the pas
sengers to be landed. The steamer
appeared to be undamaged and in no
immediate danger , as the sea was sub :
siding. Most of the passengers were
from Italian and Spanish ports. in-
cluding Naples Genoa and Cadiz , and
they were bound for Vera Cruz , Mex
ico , to which port the steamer intend
ed to" proceed after touching at NeAV
York.
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3LVIL CAR IS ROBBED.
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Believed Pouch Stolen Contained Five
Thousand Dollars.
A discarded
and empty reg
istered .mail
pouch , the con
tents of which it is believed were
valued at more than $5,000 in jewelry
and currency , was found Thursday by
officers and United States agents
searching for the thieves who stole it
Wednesday night from an Illinois Cen
tral train as it stood at the station at
Champaign , I1 . } . The . ( loss was not di s -
covered until the train had departed.
The sack taken was a through pouch
from Chicago to St. Louis.
Races with AVaterspout.
Union Pacific westbound , train No.
31 , the China and Japan fast mail I ! ,
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raced for four miles with a water
spout near Paxton , Neb. , and narrow
ly escaped being wrecked. The train
barely missed the course of the del '
uge , .which tore out a section of track
a few seconds after the train had
passed over it.
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Fears Whip ; Dies in Agony.
After accidentally shooting himself
in the hands with a toy blank pistol
In an ante-Fourth of July celebration
two weeks before and not telling his ,
parents because he feared a g.first
Sidney N. Neeland , 12 years old , died
at Joplin , Mo. , Thursday night from
tetanus after suffering intense agony .
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Yokohama to Celebratth :
The celebration of the fiftieth ann i -
versary of the opening of the port of a
Yokohama , Japan
to foreign
com
merce will be held July 1 and 2 this -
year. The foreign squadrons in the
Pacific and the far east will be in -
vited to the harbor during the celebraV
tion. ci
Quiet Life for Castro.
Ex-President I Castro , of Venezuela ,
and , his wife are living quietly in a g
ill
villa near Santander , Spain. There is i
no evidence that he is planning to as a
sist financially a rumored filibustering : / n
expedition. ,
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John D. Ryan was Thursday elected
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per company to succeed the late Hen
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3If RDER OX A RAXCII.
Two Men Found in } a AVell Near Ka
. doka , S. D.
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The bodies of two men were found
In a well on the Artie McNally ranch ,
tAA-o miles north of Kadoka , , S- : D. , Fri.-
day morning. McNally had occa-
sion to visit the well for water and
made the discovery. The bodies proved
to be those of two men who had been
running a breaking outfit , J. Golder ,
of Rock Valley , Ia. , or Rock Rapids ,
'Ia. , and W. D. Toney 1G17 Hamilton
street , Sioux City. They and a man
who Avent by the name of Mike Ma-
loney shipped a car of horses and ma-
cinery from' Chamberlain on May 18
and started breaking a few days later
for Artie McNally : on his claim north
of town. Gooder and Toney seem to
be partners , and Malone : was working
for them. Malone came to 'town on
Thursday , May 27 , and said he had
bought Gooder and Toney out for $980
and the night before had taken them
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to Philip.
After this time Malone seemed to
have plenty of money , while before
this he had been broke. After this Ma-
lone tried to sell several of the horses ,
and did dispose of three or four head.
Last Monday morning Malone left for
the west , taking seven head of horses
with him. The discovery of the bod-
ies in the Veil Friday morning places
the crime on Malone.
The well is located about ten rods
from where Malone was camped. The
circumstances all point to Malone as
the perpetrator of the foul deed. In-
stead of taking : the men to Philip , he
murdered them in cold blood and
dumped the bodies into the Avell to
cover up the crime , and after that
had camped for oYer a week at the
scene of the deed.
Robbery was the motive for the
crime. Gooder Avas knoAvn to have
considerable money on his person , and
AA-hen found his pockets had been ri -
fled , leaving nothing whateA'er to iden-
tify him. J. T. Doty , of Kadoka , iden-
tified him as a party who did breaking
for him near Kimball last year. A let-
ter and a sale ticket from a Sioux City
feed store identified '
the 'other , man
as W. D. Toney , 1617 Hamilton street.
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Marshal Wiltfang started on the
trail of the suspected murderer and
captured him Friday evening at Cot
ton wood.
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GUARDED BY OFFICERS.
Man Held for Murder of Father of Girl
Ho Betrayed in Danger.
Charged with the murder of the
father of the girl he is alleged to have
betrayed , Clay Smith , aged 25 years ,
married , is held in the Muhlenberg ,
Ky. , jail , guarded by a score of offi
cers , as citizens have declared they
will lynch him. In an adjoining cell ,
named as accessory to the murder , is
Bessie Kimble , aged 15 years , whom
Smith is said to have ill treated.
. On the night of May 16 M. J. Kim
ble Avas shot and killed when in his
bed. Later his daughter Bessie was
seen to throw '
several packages into a
pond. Officers recovered the packages
and say they contain letters demon-
strating Smith's guilt. The letters had
been written by Smith , it is said , and
told of the intimacy between Smith
and the girl , of hercondition and of his
demand that she kill her father , as
the latter would kill him Avhen he
learned the truth. The girl lacked the
courage and SmithVrote , it is charged.
that he would kill the father himself ,
Smith's wife is the girl's sister.
ELEVEN PERSOXS DEAD.
Several Others Injured in Central
Texas Storm.
Special-dispatches show that eleven
persons are dead and several injured
as ' a result of the storm in central
Texas Friday , including one man who
was killed when a wind storm blew a
Kansas City , Mexico and Orient rail-
way passenger train from the Brazos
river ; bridge , north of Sweet Water
Thursday night. Haskell and Lueders
were places also damaged by the
storm , which
was accompanied by a (
fall - - of hail , destroying thousands of
dollars worth crops and orchards. (
In the wreck of the Kansas City. 1
Mexico and Orient train J. E. Stam- 1
ford , a traveling salesman of Crowell , ;
Tex. , was killed and eleven person. r
'vere badly injured.
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.Michael Soboleski. : Toledo , Found
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Guilty of Murclcr.
Michael Soboleski , of TolQdo , 0. , a
ailor , who was charged ' Avith the murl'
der of Ludwig and Augusta Krueger , C
AA-as convicted Friday of murder in the t
first degree with 11
a recommendation of
mercy. The penalty is life imprison
ment.
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Soboleski , was negotiating with the c
aged couple for the purchase of their tJ
farm and was alleged to have stabbed a
them to death. l ueger'G signature to .P
L land contract was pronounced a a
forgery. h
Soboleski
was tried on the
indictment of the murder of Ludwig
Krueger. . The bodies of the Kruegers
were found April 2 under
the cellar pa ,
floor of their home , which had been t\
destroyed ( by fire. na :
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Bjornson is Improving. .
Bjornsterne Bjornson the TI
, Norwe-
gian novelist , who has been seriously
I at Laurvik , is improving. He had E
paralytic seizure on June 8 , but
/neither his mind nor his speech '
was
waS'ei
affected.
his .
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Collapse of a Bridge. th
Three men were perhaps fatally In - GI
jured Friday by the collapse of a the
bridge being erected ' ' de
over the Cimar-
ron rivAr noar ' Guthrie.
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AFTER SPECIAL ) HATES.
Reduced Fares1'ill ; be Made for Big
v Meetings In Omaha.
Ak-Sar-Ben and the National Corn
exposition : at Omaha probably will se-
cure reduced rates this fall. The rail-
roads already have decided to grant
reduced rates for state fairs and now
thedirectors of these large institutions
are at work to secure them to the
two < largest gatherings in the west.
The Rock Island has announced
rates of one and one-half fares to the
Iowa and Nebraska state fairs and be-
cause of these concessions the board
of governors of Ak-Sar-Ben and the
directors of the Corn show hope to se- '
cure the same rates this fall. The
dates : : of the Iowa state fair is August
26 to September 3 and the date of the
Nebraska state fair is September G to I
September 10.
A year ago the railroads made an
agreement not to give any more re -
duced rates ; ! in the west. Some roads
first broke the agreement in regard to
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state fairs and then all finally gave
rates to the fall attractions in Omaha. I .
When some time ago the roads an-
nounced that they would postpone the
withholding ' of reduced rates for a year
and would grant rates to state fairs the
Omaha interests busied themselves and
say they will be satisfied AVith nothing
less than the rates other large attrac .
tions secure.
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FARMERS KICK OX RAXCHERS.
Merrill : ] County Settlers Say Crops Are
Being Destroyed. :
Homesteaders of Morrill county
have appealed to Gov. Shallenberger I
to save the'm from the ranchers whose
cattle are destroying their crops. The
governor received a letter signed by
M. E. Honeycutt and twenty-three oth
ers , telling him that the cattle' of one
J. W. Boyle , of Mitchell had been run-
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ning at large and had destroyed the
crops or were destroying the crops of
the homesteaders.
The letters stated that Mr. Boyle
had been notified by the homesteaders
of the damage his cattle were doing
and that he had merely laughed at the
petition sent him by the aggrieved
farmers.
Some of the cattle are branded O.
P. and some of them P.O. , said the
letter , and they were very vicious , so
much so that a man was not safe on
foot ( away from the house , and it was
dangerous for women and children to
go out at all. .
The homesteaders are trying to hold
down their claims until the
govern-
ment finishes the irrigation ditch out
in that country , the letter said , but this
\ \ ould be impossible unless the state
interfered and enforced the herd law.
IIASTIXG IS AFTER PRO. TEAM.r
Baseball Fans Raise Funds to Finance ; I
Xcw Eenterprise. I
The movement for the organization
of an independent professional base-
ba ll. team for Hastings has proceeded
far enough to make certain that a
team will be formed to begin. playing
not later than the end of this month.
George Harms , formerly of the Fond
du Las team in the Wisconsin-Illinois
league ; , has been engaged as manager ,
and he will at once begin the signing
of players. At a meeting of fans in the
city hall
recently Charles Jacobs was
elected president of the association in
the place of J. D. Mines , who asked to
be relieved. The appointme.nt of : 1r. .
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Harms was ratified and a committee I :
composed of Charles Vastine , Charles :
Jacobs -and John Uerling was instruct- I
ed to proceed , at once with the raising
of the necessary fund A fund of I
1,200 will be raised to safeguard the I j
financial ! side of the . undertaking. i
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.JURY HITS XORTIRVESTERX.
Returns Verdict of $20.000 for Widow
of Dead Brake-man.
. The jury in the case of Frank Hoff-
man , administrator of the estate of
George V. Glover returned a verdict (
against the Chicago and Northwestern
KaHroad company for $20.000 in a
suit brought again the railroad
com
pany [ for $30,000 for the death of Glo .i
ver , just tried in district court at
O' Nei 11.
This case came from Dawes county. (
Glover was a brakeman working for I
the : company , and about 2 o'clock on I I f
the : morning November 11 1907
, , so : J
the : plaintiffs allege , started for his r
home from the railroad in Chadr n
and was struck by a train Avhile cross-
in g a railroad track , sustaining injuries
from whic he died the next : day.
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Death ' May End Pain of Section Hand
Run Over by Train. c
John Kukla : , a section hand. was
run over by a string of four cars at
Columbus , Wednesday evening be-
tween 5 and 6 o'clock , and had both ]
legs cut off below I
egs the knees and a
portion of one hand cut off , besides
other bruises. di
He was working near
the roundhouse and did not notice the.L I
cars the switch engine had kicked on
the track on which he was standing ,
and he - f O
knocked
was down and the cars
passed over him. Kukla is 60 years old i
and his injnuries are such that little e
hope for his recovery is entertained.
Tanner Sells Fullerton Paper.
"Jim" Tanner , who 'has run a news- D
paper at Fullerton for more than ged
twenty years , has sold the News-Jour bE
nal to Henry Kellogg and Millard Binh
ney , two residents of that town. re :
TIME TO GET OVER HIS WRATH.
Eighteen Montlis for the Man Who co
Burncd His House. trip
Frank Crowell , of Seward , will have m
eighteen months in which to get over te.
.s , mad spell and feel sorry that he be
tore up his wife's furniture and burned of
their , house. This is the sentence Judge
Good imposed upon him. Crowell is
.e man who in a fit of rage at his wife st !
'destroyed their furniture and set the near
house on fire. The couple had been grl
separated an
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Xebraskans " " Deplore Action of Mr. Bal-
linger.
At a meeting at Scott's Bluffs Tues-
day of the North Platte Valley Water
Users' association resolutions Avere
were adopted deploring what was de
clared to be the unwise policy adopted
by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
in his attitude toward the co-opera-
tive irrigation and reclamation prp-
jects , and calling upon President Taft
to interfere in behalf of the settlers of
irrigation lands. The resolutions say
in part :
"We express confidence in the gen
eral pol > < ly ; laid down by President
RooseA-elt and -Secretary Garfield for
the conduct of reclamation work. We
believe the service to be generally free
I from serious errors , and we regard
the attitude of the present : adminis-
tration by Secretary Ballinger as a se-
rious menace to the welfare of this
community , particularly with refer-
ence to those sections which are as yet
unirrigated.
" 'Ve call upon all good citizens , and
particularly upon our senators , repre-
sentatives and public officials , to call
the attention of President Taft to the
mischievous interference with the
reclamation work noAv going on , and to
demand of him that the well consid-
ered service be given due considera-
tion , and that the people of these pro-
j"ects concerned be consulted before
material changes are made at the dic
tation of promoters and others who
probably < have neither knowledge of i
the requirements of the work nor con-
ern for the public , - welfare. . "
TRAINED BOYS ' ' O STEAL. I
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Youths Arrested for Brass Theft Im
plicate Two Junk Dealers.
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. Fines of $100 and costs each AA'ere '
imposed upon two junk dealers , Rubin
Finklestine ] and M. MeadoAV , in the
Omaha police court Monday morning
for unlawfully buying railroad brass.
The . metal consisted of parts of brass
journal boxes which had been removed
from NortliAA-estern freight cars after
they were jacked up.
Rolf Hansen , 20 years of age , and
Mangus Jensen , 1 i , were arrested a
week ago Sunday for the theft of the
brass and when the circumstances in
the , . ' case were discovered the prosecu
tion , was turned against the dealers
, who bought the stolen property , the
boys being used as Avitnesses.
Finkelstine has a junk shop at 921
North Sixteenth street. Finkelstine
, is known to have been in similar trou-
ble twice in Kansas City in 1906 , being
fined . $100 the first time and settling
the case out of court the second time.
When his Kansas City record AA-as
produced with a rouge's gallery photo
graph and Bertillon measurements he
denied that he was the man in ques
tion , although the likness , measure
ments < and description fitted him.
, The boys testified that the junk ]
dealers told them to steal the metal
and sell it to them.
They did so ev-
ery night for a Aveek before being
caught by the railway detectives.
Prominent 3Ias9n Hurt.
Jacob Sherer , master of the Mason
ic lodge at Curtis , while on his way tc
South . Omaha with stock was painfully
injured . at Greenwood. He AA-as stand
ing . ' on the platform of the caboose
when the emergency brakes were sud
denly set , throwing him over the guard
railing between the cars. A AA-ound
fully six inches - long was cut in his
head . - and he was badly bruised. His
Avounds are not considered dangerous.
Drowns Despite Boy Hero.
In spite of the efforts of a compan .
ion ] to save him Jacob
Rayles , Jr. , AA-as
droAAned : in Salt Creek near Green-
Avood , making the fourth fatality at
that place in few
a days. Rayles AA-as
AVith \ } a number of boys who were bath
ng. He waded out beyond his
depth
and went doAvn. Carl
Stradley
, a much
younger boy than Rayles , almost lost
his life in a heroic effort to
save his
companion.
Electric Plant for Ainsworth.
For some time prominent citizens
of
AinsAvorth have figured on installing
an electric light plant , and they haA'e
now completed arrangements and in-
corporated : a company for this pur
pose. The final survey' was made a
feAv days ago on the site for the dam
across Plum creek , fourteen miles
northAA-est of $ ins vorth.
Express Companies Except.
The express companies doing busi-
ness in Nebraska , through their attor .
neys. C. J. ' Greene and Ralph Breck-
inridge , have filed exceptions to the
findings of Referee Sullivan in the
case wherein the state secured an in -
junction to prevent the corporations
from violating the Sibley law.
Union Pacific Company ; Fined S100. J
The Union Pacific
railroad
company ; ,
AA-as found guilty in Judge Stewart's :
diA-ision of district court of having vio
lated the state anti-pass law by issu . (
ing and giving to Dr. Frank A. Gra ,
ham a free annual pass over its lines J
for ! the year 1908 and was fined 3100 (
and costs. The jury was out but a f
few minutes. , .
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Dragged to Death.
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Bryan Doyle , aged 14 years , son of Ic
Daniel Doyle , of Box Elder , was drag .
tc
d and kicked to death after having tcsi
been thrown from his horse , his : oo t siU ;
having caught in the . U ]
stirrup. He AA-as
returning home from church. Si
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Judge Reese Going Abroad. to
Chief Justice Reese , of the supreme tcm
court , left Wednesday for a European m
ip , to be gone for at least three tt
months. The court met Tuesday af
ternoon and selected Judge Barnes to ti
: the chief justice during the absence tlw
Judge Reese. w
Struck by Lightning. sr
During an electric storm lightning t
struck the barn of the Shepherd farm eJ
ar Greenwood , and it burned to the II
ground. The loss is covered by insur- t1
ance.
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The achievement of man-flight . for : , ' . : : .
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which men have striven for more than
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4,000 years , was celebrated in 'Va h- ' .
ington Thursday. After receiving ho
mage from the rulers of Europe , Wil
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bur and Orville Wright , of Dayton , , : - ' "
Ohio , on that day' received their first - - . :
public recognition by their fellow .
cou trymen. In the east room of the
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White House President Taft presented
to the inventors the gold medals
awarded to them by the Aero Club of i
America to commemorate the inven x ,
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The eA'ent was one of'national ' inter-
est. The governors of the various
States sent. laudatory messages con- . ' .
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gratulating the Wrights on their sue- .
cess. These , together with the resolu
tions adopted by the numerous scien-
tific organizations and letter \ written
'by prominent scientists , have'been put . '
in book form and will be presented to
the Wrights. '
The Wright brothers , aftef being en-
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tertained at luncheon by the Aero
Club of Washington , proceeded to the
White House. They were presented to
the President by Representative Her-
bert Parsons of New York , who told . . .
of their great achievements. In pre
senting the medals , President Taft
spoke briefly. More : : than 1,000 invita
tions had been sent out for the White ,
House ceremony. , ,
At its annual meeting last year the
Aero Club of America , the pioneer avi-
ation club in the United States , elect- ,
ed the Wrights to honorary member- ' 1
ship and decided to award to each a ,
gold medal. These were procured at a ' - ,
cost of 2,300 , obtained through the ' , '
subscriptions of its members. The . !
medals bear the likenesses of the two '
brothers on one side and an inscrip
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tion on the reverse side.
Wilbur and Orville Wright , accom-
panied by their sister , Miss Katherine - .
Wright were met at the station by a
delegation from the Aero Club of
America. The Wright brothers were
taken to the Cosmos Club where they .
were entertained. : "
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SOO CANAL IS WBECZED. ' i
Three Ships and Many Lives Are 7'
Endangered by Accident.
With all the weight of Lake Supe-
rior behind it , an ungoverned torrent
of water now rushes through the $4-
000,000 ( Canadian canal built to carry ,
vessels around the impassable rapids
of the Saint Mary's : \ River at Sault Ste.
Marie , Mich. The entire fall of ap
proximately twenty feet is concentrat-
ed in the lock which was wrecked
Wednesday when the steamer Perry G.
Walker of the Gilchrist fleet rammed
her bow through the lower gate.
The upper gates were open when r
the Walker crushed open the lower
gates and the tremendous power of
the rapids was given instant play. The _
steamer Assiniboia , a big Canadian Pa- -
cific liner I
passenger , moored within ,
the lock chamber , was torn away from
her moorings. Riding on the crest of
the flood , she jammed the Walker . .
from her path , the Assiniboia's port an- ! '
chor ripping a hole ; in the Walker's , : 1 :
side. The liner's engine crew put on : 'f + , ? ' ,
full steam ahead in a desperate en- , '
deavor < to give the big vessel steerage-
way , and , with her wheelsmen battling
to . overcome the swirling currents. the . . . . - -
Assiniboia swept into the ope'n reaches 0 "
of the river below. The Assiniboia's
cargo shifted and this gave her a con j. .
siderable list , and several plates on 1
her port side forward of amidships
were loosened. The Walker was whirl . .
ed < around several times and finally
landed on a shoal out of the channel. :
It is said she is undamaged below the.
water line.
The ore-laden steamer Crescent City
.01 the Pittsburg Steamship ,
.01w Company : , .
which was just entering the locks from !
Lake :
Superior when the accident oc , 'f !
curred : , was swept downstream
ctfe like a
feather. She overtook the
Assiniboia .
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and struck
the latter two glancing
blows ] after having a great hole torn in i '
her side as she swept past the broken . ,
lower gate. Tugs caught her and -
towed her to the American side .
, where < i
she settled to the bottom. Both thg , '
upper ] gates of the lock and one lower . -
gate : were wrenched from
their moor
ings. The other lower gate "
still
hangsj !
o its fastenings , twisted and broken
The loss to the Canadian govern' : '
ment wjll probably : reach $250,000 and 1
the damage to the
Crescent
City is
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timated : at $100,000. The damage to \ C
the steamers
. Walker and Assiniboia d
was comparatively
light. Captain Mo : :
sher of the steamer
Walker
declares .
that the
accident
was caused by hia . . 1
engineer making :
a mistake and throw- ' '
ing his lever ] "
ever to "full speed " :
ahead"
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"back "
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