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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1910)
I M e F tl ! , F I" C I f' , ' ' 'I'The 1 The Valentine Democrat - ! VALENTINE , NEB. i ! I. M. RICE , - - - Publisher. - Nice ana COOl to'nght niesi 1 Weather jokes are bound to be dry d ! Do you think the weather man Is playing to the' galleries ? . i 1 , , Meanwhile , remember that there Is I always some hotter place. t t . Do not argue with the contagion- spreading house fly. Swat him ! t 11tI ; ! 61 "Doing nothing" has been defined to bo a looker-on at a game of checkers. t , Drownings are increasing in direct proportion to the carelessness of hu- 1 . ' manity. ' " . { ; . iI , It does not necessarily help any to get cold feet during this sort of i weather. ! I You will enjoy your own outing bet- I I ter if you help others who are less , 'I ' I able to get one. II : ! i A man has reached the : : limit of , , ! boredom when he ceases to laugh at , his own witty remarks. I I , I An airship that goes only 33 miles I an hour will not make much of an appeal to the joy rider. i And after the confounded potatoes t get up , every blessed cutworm turns j : into a blooming potato bug ! A St. Louis man claims that he I never had to swing on a car strap. . . A circus has an armless wonder , too. J I f I Anyway , that baseball player who t' while eating , stabbed himself in the " arm with a table fork had a wretched ' I . I delivery. I ; The Cincinnati woman vho says I she will not rest until kissing has I been abandoned has a weary time be. fore her. Anyway , the aeroplane has put an end to the plaint of the mollycoddle who was always sighing for the wings of a dove. I I ' ' We've known amateur gardeners who saved an unbelievable amount of I money by buying their truck at the , ! , grocery store. A 15-ton shark has been captured near Seattle. The people are in luck that it did not scramble ashore and , proceed to run for office. I ' . i It costs $50 to ride 300 miles in the i i I Zeppelin airship. It is hoped , how- ever , that competition may eventually bring about a lowering of , he rates. I 1. Following recent experiments at Hammondsport , N. Y. , it is gravely an nounced that the aeroplane is not very good as a man killer in war. Who cares ? It was not until the inventor of the 1 hoop skirt was eighty-three years old , that he died. How long must we - wait for news from the inventor of the hobble skirt ? i Cities that are disappointed because ( of the census 'returns should reflect that Uncle Sam is as much interested In making a good showing as any par- t ticular community possibly can be. \ ' English nobleman announces that he i Is willing to marry a beautiful and wealthy American girl. For once , the big : : unmarried male American major- ity can sympathize with the British peerage. If American heiresses who marry poor Englishmen of title are to be given the cold shoulder by the Court ' of St. James , the circle of mourners , In this country and Great Britain will be very small. Mulone , notorious Sicilian brigand- ' c ' that name sounds queer-has been I sentenced In Perugia to 144 years' im * prisonment. It may be mentioned that 11 Signor Mulone was tried in his ab- sence , not having been seen since he s escaped from his captors in 1906. Thus the exemplary sentence , while proba bly pleasing the authorities , does not hurt the signor. , \ The unsinkable ship may be ' a long way off , but she will appear some-day , and then such Items as that which chronicled the drowning of a captain I and eight men by the sinking of the steamer La Rocbelle in the English channel as a result of collision by q which she was almost cut in two. The modern passenger steamer can be cut in two and floated as two pieces , and it ought to be possible to so con- J struct ships that they will stay afloat even when severed in twain by the surgery of accident. More earthquakes have been record , ed at Washington , but they attract I little t attention now that Halley's I : omet has proved an alibi. Germany is to have indestructible aerial warships. From earth modern fI progress moved the locality of battles 1 to the sea and now it is to be moved i ' . thence to the air. It is characteristic f ' of the perversity of human nature that ' 1' ' the first thought of the practical : adap ' tation of man's victory over the re- , I i sources of nature should be to use this ! ' .victory : for the destruction of man. I - f I : , , . . - - . . - , - I ' i. : . - \ , I / . ' 1 ' \ . . , .q : . . - . . . . -r - - " - - - , - . ' y \ I DEW FINDS HIS PREY DR. CRIPPEN AND ETHEL LENEVE APE ARRESTED ABOARD . THE MONTROSE. BOTH LOCKED IN STATEROOMS Scene Surrounding Pursuit and Cap ture of Fugitives a. ' Dramatic Af- * 'fair-Girl ' is Garbed in Boy's Attire. Father Point , Que.-Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel Clara Le- neve , his stenographer , who fled from London after the disappearance of Belle Elmore , the doctor's wife , were arrested here Sunday aboard the Can- adian Pacific liner Montrose , at the command of Inspector Dew of Scot- land Yard. The identification of the long sought fugitives on board the fog-shrouded steamer by the English detective , who had raced across the Atlantic ahead of the Montrose , marked the culmina- tion of one of the most sensational flights in recent criminal annals. Ac- companied by two Canadian officers he boarded the vessel at 8:30 : o'clock Sunday morning , and fifteen minutes later both man and girl were locked in their staterooms , Crippen broken in spirit but mentally relieved by the re- laxed tension ; the girl , garbed in boy's clothing , sobbing hysterically. They ; were no longer "Rev. John Rob- inson and son , " as booked at Ant- werp July 20. After a brief delay the Montrose continued her 160-mile jour- ney up the river towards Quebec , where jail awaits the prisoners. Crippen is charged with the murder of an unknown woman , believed to have been his actress wife. The girl is held as an accessory. SCORES OF NEGROS KILLED Texas Sheriff Gives Details of Race Riots-Wanton Murder of Blacks. Palestine , Tex.-At least fifteen , and it may be twenty , negroes , all of them probably unarmed , were hunted down and killed by a mob of from 200 to 300 men in Denison Springs neigh- borhood of Palestine Saturday night , according to the opinion of Sheriff Black , expressed Sunday. - The sheriff returned early Sunday morning after 24 hours in that district and described in some detail the con- ditions which he found to exist there. He told of a fierce man hunt in the woods , of riddled bodies found on lonely roads and of terror almost in- describable among the inhabitants inI I the southeastern part of Anderson county. "I found the greatest excitement prevailing there throughout that sec tion of the country , " said the sheriff. "Men were going about killing negroe ' as fast as they could find them , and so far as I have been able to ascertain without any real causes. These ne groes have done no wrong that I could i discover. There was just a hot-headed gang hunting them down and killing them. "I believe the trouble was due to a controversy over a promissory note. " Gen. Lee's Figure to Stay. Beverly , Mass. - President Taft has approved without comment an opinion by Attorney General Wickersham to the effect that there is no provf , ! ; ion of law by which that statute of Gen. Rob- ert E. Lee , in confederate uniform , can be removed from Statuary hall in the capitol at Washington. Trouble in Kentucky. Kuttawa , Ky. - While attending a barbecue near Lamasco , Lyon county , Saturday , Axeltree Cooper , chief 'wit ness for the state against the night riders , was shot and fatally wounded. Steamer Sinks a Barge. Detroit , Mich.-Two lives were lost early Sunday , when the barge Grace Whitney was run down by the steam- er Ogdensburg , three miles below Bar Point light , in Lake Erie. The barge sank almost instantly. Gen. Mena at Ccoyapa. Bluefields , Nicaragua.-Gen. Vas- ques , commander in chief of the Nica- raguan forces , has abandoned Acoya- pa to Gen. Mena , provisionale com mander. Big Fire Loss in Maryland. Cambridge , Md.-Fire that started in a stable swept through the business section , destroying or damaging two score of buildings , caused a loss of from $100,000 ao 150000. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Sioux City. - Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Beeves , $7.00@7.75. Top hogs , $8.00. Train Lands in Ditch. Schenectady , N. . - A Delaware and Hudson passenger train , containing between 200 and 300 people , was itched : [ twelve miles north of this city by wreckers. _ : - * Battle In Honduras. New Orleans , La.-Between fifteen nd twenty men ' were killed in an en- agement at Peru , Spanish Honduras , \ Vednesday \ in an insurrenctionary lavement. - I . ' " - - " , . , - : ' - \ . - - . 4 . ' . . ! ARMY IN COMMAND OFFICERS OF OHIO MILITIA VIB TUALLY GOVERN STATE CAPITAL. GOV. , HARMON HASTENS HOME Riots Brought on by Car Strike Re suits In Mayor Yielding Authority to Brig. Gen. McMaken-Street Traffic Stops. Columbus , O. - Officers of the Ohio National Guard Thursday virtually took over the government of this city and the streets bristle with armed men marshaled to prevent any out- break. Governor Harmon is hurrying to the city to take , charge of the menacing situation in the street car ' strike. 1 The call for troops was made by Mayor Marshall and Sheriff Sartain as the result of continuous rioting throughout the city for the last few days , following the walkout of union motormen and conductors on the Co- lumbus Street railway , who demand recognition , of their union. Governor Harmon is hastening here from his summer home in Michigan and the state arsenal is guarded by a detail 'from battery D , armed with riot guns. Orders have been sent to fifty of the best sharpshooters in the Na- tional Guard , now at Camp Perry to rush to this city. The entire first brigade of 2,000 men , including the Second , Third and Sixth regiments , is either here or on the road. Brig. Gen. William V. McMaken of Toledo is in command. Mayor Marshall has issued a formal proclamation placing } General McMa ken In full charge of the situation and has authorized him to make arrests or to take any other action he thinks best. best.Until Until the governor's arrival here no attempt will be made to oper- ate street cars , which were withdrawn following attempts to operate with im ported strike breakers. That no cars be run was the demand of the military authorities , who refused to put the city under martial law and who de- clared the troops were " here only to be prepared to ' cope with any situation which may arise. They refuse to - guard cars now. Two score men have been hurt in the week. All saloons are closed by order of the mayor. : . SAYS CHIEFS SPLIT LOOT Former Car Inspector of Illinois Cen- tral Road Testifies In $1,500- 000 Fraud Case. Chicago.-"High officials of the Illi- nois Central railroad , who were in- terested in car-repairing plants , en- tered into an agreement among them- selves to divide profits grafted from the railroad. These profits amounted to as high as 40 per cent of the total amount paid by the railroad com- pany. " . That is the charge made on the witness stand Thursday by Harold A. Sims , in his testimony concerning the grafting from the Illinois Central rail- road. His testimony was given be- fore Master in Chancery Mason , in the suit of the railroad to recover $300,000 from the Memphis Car company. Al- though he was on the "inside" and knew in detail the method used to rob the railroad , Sims says that he real- ized only $750 for his share in the work. Illinois Central lumber was used to repair Illinois Central cars , and then the road was charged for the lumber , was another of his charges. Cars loaded with material were shipped to the Memphis Car Repair company and it was the practise to charge for repairs made on the cars 'whether ' they were made or not , the witness said , and more often they were not. CRIPPEN IS ON MONTROSE Wireless Message Says Alleged Wife Slayer Is Aboard Steamer- Arrest Probable. Montreal , Que.-According to a wireless message received here Thurs day from Montrose , Dr. Hawley H. Crippen , the London suspect , is on board the steamship. This is the first word received from the Montrose since it left European waters. Throughout the night the Montrose was supposed to be rapidly nearing the zone of wireless communication with the station at Belle Isle. Owing to the steamer's type of apparatus this would be within 150 miles of the coast. At Father Point , Que. , an officer of the : Dominion police , Chief Constable Guavreau , will go on board the Mont- rose when she pauses for a pilot and arrest Doctor Crippen and his typist If they are found. Thte attorney general's department it Quebec also is represented. Rescued From Sinking Ship. Belfast.-The Holland liner Aga- memnon , with 150 passengers , ran ashore in a fog near Gloughey Thurs- day , and her forehold is flooded , ac- cording : to advices received here. The ship will probably be a total loss. The passengers are safe. Eugene Debs Is Recovering. Rochester , Minn.-Eugene Debs who was operated on for abdominal rouble : at St. Mary's hospital here , was Thursday reported out of danger. rhe ? operation . . was entirely successful. . . _ _ ; . . .i . a . a THOSE LACE. CURTAIN VEILS - Y l . . . - - a s I' - .t < U ' ' . , r-'ht.4p t I I . L Ev'IiNfNG POST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . - BRY1 LOSES OPTION FIGHT - - - - - NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS , REFUSE TO ADOPT LEADER'S PLANK. fiommoner's Battle Against Liquor Vain , Despite Great Speech on the Convention Floor. Grand Island , Neb.-Nebraska Dem- ocrats Tuesday night delivered a blow to William 'J. Bryan when by a de cisive vote they registered their un- belief ) n his county local option plan. Mr. Bryan had labored hard in the committee in " an effort to have his ideas written into the platform , and after being defeated In the committee , he' appealed to the convention and in this appeal made the speech of his life to a convention already instructed against him. He pleaded to his old friends , begged them not to repudiate him un less they found him untrue to Demo- cratic principles ; he threatened state wide prohibition if county option was defeated ; he denounced those Demo- crats whom he charged with being subservient to the liquor interests ; and he cajoled the uninstructed dele- gates to vote for him and his plans. And then standing aside he listened to the most bitter words directed at him that he has ever heard. No attack made against Bryan by Republicans or others , in any of his campaigns , was ever so bitter as were the attacks made by Bryan's old friends against their old leader. As a member of the committee on resolu- tions , Mr. Bryan returned a minority report on the county option plank. This minority report , signed only by Bryan himself , was short and to the point , saying simply : "We favor coun- ty option as the best method of deal- ing with the liquor question. " It was in defense of this report that Mr. Bryan made the speech which will be called the greatest effort of his life. i life.The i The sentiment towards Bryan was I shown when , for more than an hour , the convention called upon different leaders to address it , but not a single one was made for Mr. Bryan. When the final vote was taken , Bryan's plank was turned down 645 to 195 and a direct anti-county option plank inserted. REPORTS AMERICANS SAFE Commander HInes Sent to Nicaragua to Protect U. S. Citizens , Sees No Danger. Washington.-American lives and property in northeastern Nicaragua were asserted to be in no danger according to the state department's version of a dispatch from Comman- der Hines of the gunboat Dubuque. The dispatch was sent after the re turn to Bluefields of the gunboat Ta- coma from a trip along the coast north of that port , where danger was rb - ported to Americans. The state department claims to be entirely ignorant officially of the pres- ence In New York of Dr. Modeste Bar- rios and Dr. Sebastina Salinas , com- missioners from Madriz , to restore friendly relations with the United States. MAYOR KILLED WITH BOMB Virginia Village Executive Is Slain Lying In Hammook by Assassin Who Throws Dynamite. Ridgeway , Va.-Former Mayor A. H. Bousman was assassinated Monday by a dynamite bomb which was thrown from the street under a hammock in which he was lying. He died an hour after the explosion. No clue to the Identity of the murderer or the cause of the crime has been found. Ice Conditions Are Bad. Seattle , Wash. - The ) .steamer Macki ! naw , with $200,000 in gold bullion picked up at Kotzebue sound ports , arrived from Nome Thursday. Offi cers of the Mackinaw report the worst ice conditions in Bering strait in 17 years. . Russians to Visit Western Cities. New York. - A party of Russian rail- road men arrived here for a tour of American cities to study rail and wa- ter terminals. Chicago and St. Louis will be visited- I - - - " . - - - z i ? - a . - - i- ii i . i .4. 1 - 1 - - - - - i , -----sv _ w , _ _ _ _ STRIKE AFFECTS 28,000 MEN Chicago Trades Council Calls Out All ! Building Workmen Except Car- penters-37 Structures Affected. Chicago.-A general strike of build- ing trades was decided upon at a con- ference of thirty-seven unions Thurs- day , which met in a final effort to ob- tain a settlement with the Otis Ele- vator company. It is said the strike order will af- fect 28,000 men. The only union not affected by the order is that of the carpenters. The cause 01 t'i t I ) strike is the re fusal of the Otis Elevator company to remove machinists from elevator con- struction work , the American Federa- tion of Labor having held this line of work to belong strictly to elevator constructors. It is said the company has contracts on thirty-seven buildings , now in the course of construction here , and that , work will be stopped on all of them. Following the strike order , business agents representing their respective unions hurried to buildings in which the Otis company has contracts for elevator construction , for the purpose of notifying the men of the decision taken at the conference. ADOPT LOCAL OPTION PLANK Iowa Democratic Convention De nounces Tariff Bill as "Master- pieceof Injustice. " Ottumwa , Ia.-After a bitter wran- gle in the resolutions committee , the Democratic state convention Thurs- day adopted a local option plank , thereby putting the liquor question which has been a thorn In the flesh of both parties' for years , squarely up to the people. Jerry B. Sullivan of Des Moines , former candidate for governor , acted as temporary chairman , . and scored Theodore Roosevelt unmercifully in his speech. The platform adopted denounces the tariff bill as a "masterpiece of in- justice involving remorseless exac- tions from the many to enrich the few. " The nomination of Claude R. Porter for governor was ratified. : GUTHRIE IS THE CAPITAL State Officers of Oklahoma Must Re. turn , But Governor May Go Where He Pleases. Guthrie , Okla.-The state supreme court handed down a decision In the capitol removal case. It Is to the effect. that Oklahoma's capital shall remain at Guthrie until the le gality of the election recently held is determined. In obedience to the decision all state offlicals other than the governor , who have removed their offices to Okla homa City must return to Guthrie and stay there until the courts have finally decided the capital controversy. The governor may go where he pleases , but legally his official acts must appear as having been performed in Guthrie. TROOPS FIGHT FOREST FIRE Company of Montana National Guard Are Dispatched to Aid of Stricken Town. Helena , Mont.-In response to an urgent request from LIbby , Governor Norris had Company L , Montana National Guard , detailed to assist In fighting forest fires at that place. For- est fires of serious proportions have broken out in the Big Snowies forest reserve. At Kalispell there is little change In the fire situation. Rain Is being prayed for all over this region. Prisoner Liberated to Get Money. Kansas City , Mo. - Edward Stafford of Cleveland , 0. , under a two-year sentence for burglary , was paroled Thursday to go to his Ohio home to participate in the division of an es tate of several thousand dollars left . - by a relative. Woman and Girl Cremated. La Grande , Ore. The destruction by fire of a homestead house six miles from Union Wednesday resulted in the cremation of Mrs. J. C. Dean and an adopted daughter. - ' - - - - t I . PRESIDENT B.4GUT BEVERLY' ' _ - - - " HARDINQ ; TAFT CONGRATULATES J' ON HIS NOMINATION. Sends Message to Ohio's Nominee and Expresses Satisfaction With Platform Adopted. Beverly , Mass. - President TaCt sen the following dispatch to Warren GJ Harding. Republican nominee for gov- ernor of Ohio- "I sincerely congratulate you on ( your nomination and earnestly hope that you will be elected. "WILLIAM H. TAFT. " The president is fully satisfied with , ' . He applied him - the Ohio platform. him-j self tr a reading of it as soon as ha t , got back to Beverly. The dispatch of $ the telegram to Harding followed. With a couple of days now in which ! to rest up from his vacation the pres ident will be ready to buckle down to a heap of work which Secretary . Nor ton says is stacked up for hjm. That there is to be plenty doing here at the r summer capitol from now on is evi denced : by the fact that another re ? cruit to the clerical force has arrive from Washington. Two came in , in fact , while the president was absent in Maine. : I Columbus , O. - By a fusion of the Garfield and administration delegates , the Republican convention Thursda nominated Warren G. Harding , forme lieutenant governor , for governor on the third ballot , after James R. Gar field and Carmi A. Thompson had withdrawn. 4 j ; ; F. W. Treadway of Cleveland wa3 renominated for lieutenant governor } Granville W. Mooney : for secretary o4 state. Despite the efforts of Senator Bur ] ton's Cuyahoga county delegation tcj ; stampede the convention for Nicholaa Longworth , and George B. Cox's eveI'Yj effort in behalf , of Judge O. B. Brown , the Dayton' ' man , the combination ; o the "progressives" with the nation . administration men brole up the figh on the third ballot. Then Cox , yield- ! \ ing to the inevitable , cast the 91 Ham-j ilton votes for Harding , and that fin- | ished it. The platform which it is expected ! will be a model for future Republica conventions , was adopted almost unanimously , there . being but a few : scattered " noes. " . KEYSTONE PARTY IS FORME0 Ticket Will Oppose Nominees of Both- , Democrats and Republicans in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia.-The Keystone partyj was formed here to oppose the nomi-- nees : of both the Republican and Dem ocratic parties in Pennsyl\"ania.t The convention , composed of 117 } delegates from 52 counties. de - nounced both the old parties as beingr under the domination of the liquor in- ! dustries , but refused to incorporate- I in its platform any reference to for- ; mer President Roosevelt who was | proclaimed by some of the delegate , . ' "the greatest American citizen. " William H. Berry , the nominee forf - = governor , was formerly state treas- | / urer , to which office he was elected / / by the combined Democratic , Prohibi-j ' tion and independent votes in the po a litical upheaval of 1905. While in of } fice he uncovered the state capitot scandal. , ALDRICH SAYS BRISTOW LIES : . Rhode Island Senator for First Tims- Hits Back at the In - surgents. Providence R. I. For , - the first tima- since he has been under bombardment ! ! by Bristow of Kansas and other in- surgent , senators Nelson W. Aldrich ! bit back. "That man Bristow Is telling a packr ! of lies on me , " , he said. "He has told ? ! I' so many lies - he manufactured then so rapidly - tl\at I wouldn't know where/ / ! to begin should I take notice of him ! } and enter denials. " . "If the charges had been made uponj ; , the floor of the senate the case might ! be different , " was suggested. I With a sardonic smile that ran intCr a chuckle the 'Rhode'Island senator } responded' : ; . . " dyes : : ' ; . - - "Yes yes , you notice they don't : talk about me that way on the floor ofi the senate. " TRAIN HITS AUTO ; THREE DIEj. - - . Two Women Instantly Killed , Hus- bands Hurt , One Fatally Near Etna Green , Ind. Warsaw , Ind. - Mrs. : : : Melville Brooks . and Mrs. C. H. Thoring were killedL Instantly and Mr. Brooks fatally ; I hurt , a mile east of Etna Green , , when a fast Pennsylvania freight } train , east-bound , struck the automo- bile in which they were riding. Mr. : ! Brooks died later in the day. MrJ Thoring was severely , but not danger = ously hurt. The Brooks resided In ' Lima , 0. , and the Thorings in St. Mary's , O. They had been making an automobile tour and were on their way ; home. Jailed for Fatal Runaway. _ Streator , 111. - Mrs. : : Mary Fosdick 19 dead following injuries received in ai ! runaway Wednesday. Her companion } on the ride Joseph Wolferman , is be- ; : ing held pending investigation. He ! , . was injured in the accident. _ \ Kaiser Denies Aid to Madriz. \ Berlin. Germany has declined to- + . I\ . . entertain the request of President , Madriz that this government use its friendly offices to put a stop to what Is. i termed : the interference of the United ! States in the affairs : of Nicaragua j - - - . " I - . -
