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The Valentine Pemocrat "vtf * , . VAfcENTfNE , NEB. I.AM.1'RICE , % tr < < - - Publisher. SAN-SALVADOR IS SHAKEN BY EARTH AND ENGULFED BY OCEAN. NEWS OF DISASTER MEAGER Reports at New York Place Scene of Destruction on a Small Isle in Do- pongo Lagoon , Named llopango Ser ies of Shocks Occured. New Orleans , La. A dispatch from Port Limon , Costa Rica , says that a small island off -the coast of San Salvador vader disappeared last Thursday , fol lowing a series of earthquake shocks , and it is believed seventeen families or about ninety persons lost their lives. The dispatch adds that San Salvador was repeatedly shaken by earthquakes 'last week and the series of Thursday night was especially severe. "The people on the little island of llopango were observed giving signs of distress late Thursday afternoon , " says the dispatch , 'but it was out of the question at that hour , because of the excitable condition of the people on the San Salvador shore , to send them aid. The shocks continued until past midnight Thursday , and Friday morning the island had entirely disap peared. " * Reports in New York place the scene of the disaster on a small island In the Dopongo lagoon , southeast of San Salvador. It is asserted that about 170 of the inhabitants , about seventy families , were killed. The Island is said to have sunk following a series of earthquake shocks last Sat urday. There is no confirmation of the rumor. GREEK HELD IN IRONS. Authorities Demand His Release , but Captain Refuses Request. New York. A cabin passenger on the Themisfocies , which arrived Sun day is in irons on order of the Greek minister to the United States. The captain has twice refused to deliver him to the immigration authorities. The man is said to be an officer in the Greek army implicated in the defalca- cation of $4,000,000. He made no at tempt to resist , and did not deny he was the man wanted. He was ordered held for examina tion by the immigration officers as likely to become a public charge , but the captain would not surrender him. "This government , " said one of the officers , "will not tolerate such ac tion. Neither will it refuse the man a hearing. If he is undesirable , he will be deported , but the case against him must be proved. The Ellis Island authorities are \vroth over his detention. Guests of the French. i Brest. The municipality Sunday en tertained the bluejackets of the Ameri can battle ships on a great scale. Del egations of French sailors , soldiers and dockyard employes were invited to meet the Americans , and the guests JL were distributed around the different restaurants of the city , no one res taurant being large enough to accom modnte all. Lost Barge Fund. Highland Light , Mass. The barge da Blnghamton , of the Erie Railroad com tlo pany , which was lost with two other Be barges off Nauset in 'Thursday night's th blizzard , was found off Cape Cod Sun thi day by the tug Underwriter , of Bos thto ton. Capt. J. B. Nickerson and his toUr toi crew of three men who were on the Binghamton are safe. Ur UrWi Wi Chinese Church in Gotham. Jw New York. The first Chinese Ger church in the east and the only Chi nese church in the country save that at CoI San Francisco was organized here Sun day , with Rev. Hule Kin as pastor. the It wi.i be known as the First Chinese for " Presbyterian church of New York , am . now has seventeen members. Stz dis yez Soldiers Burns to Death. Beaufort , S. C. Private Chas. Carroll the roll , 24 years old , a marine at the me Paris Island naval station , was burned the to death , when the town lockup and yes hose reel house was destroyed at Fort yesJ Royal. He had been arrested on a dis kota orderly charge. kolJ api Sioux City Live Stock Market. Illi 1 Sioux City. Saturday's quotations on the local live stock market follow : con Wii Top beeves , $0.75. Top hogs , $7.60. Kei Stork to Visit Buckingham. CY London. Queen Mary's accouch- CYK men is expected in March. This wjll son be the first birth at Buckingham palace 210 tin fifty-four years. The last child lett born to King George and Queen Mary by was Prince John Charles , July 12 , sailed 1905. Merger hi Contemplation. G London. It Is announced that ii" is , gotiations have been completed for the Bal amalgamation of the Western Union qull Telegraph company and the Angl a fi iAmerican Cable company. xalB SENATOR IS CLEARED OF BRI BERY BY U. S. SENATE PROBERS. m rfjji REPORT IS MADE UNANIMOUS It Now Goes to Full Committee and Later to Upper House for Ratifica tion Allegations Are Unsustained by Testimony. Washington. The subcommittee of lie congressional committee on elec tion which investigated charges of bri bery in the election of Senator William Lorimer Monday unanimously voted to report to the committee on elec tions that the charges were without proof. The committee took up the evi dence in Its entirety at an executive session. It canvassed the testimony , weighed the evidence and the argu ments and took into consideration all of the facts , that have been advanced In connection with the /charges con cerning Lorimer's election and decid ed there had been shown no founda tion for the charges that bribery had entered into the case , ln connection with Vlr. Lorimer s election. The motion finally was offered to report to the full committee of the senate thaUthe charges had not been proved. On this motion there was no dissenting vote in the subcommittee. Following this action the subcommit tee's report will be prepared for the full committee at once , and the re port will be sent to the senate .within a short time. The charge that Senator Lorimer had purchased his seat in the United States senate was first made publicly when the confession of Charles A. White , a member of the Illinois legis lature from O'Fallon , was published on April 30 , 1910. The names of Rob ert E. Wilson , Lee O'Neil Browne , H. J. C. Beckemeyer and Michael Link were mentioned as having been , in volved in the purchase of the sena torial toga. White confessed that he had been paid $1,000 for his Lorimer vote by Lee O'Neil Browne , the mi nority leader In Springfield. White himself was a Democrat , and Sena tor Lorimer had been elected by a combination of Democrats and Re publicans. Immediately after the publication of the story all the legislators in volved were summoned to the state's attorney's office in Chicago. Under a grilling examination lasting several days and under the threats of prosecu : tion on perjury charges , confessions of the trufch of White's charges were gotten from Link and Beckemeyer. An Indictment was returned at once In Cook county charging Lee O'Nell Browne with bribery , and another in dictment was returned in Sangamon county carrying a similar charge against State Senator John Broderick. Robert E. Wilson was also indicted co for bribery and Joseph Clark of Van- of dalia was Indicted on a charge of per jury , he having denied receiving any co portion of the money alleged to have be been paid him for the Lorimer vote. en The indictments against Broderick , tlo ; Wilson and Clark are still pending esl In Cook and Sangamon counties. att Lee O'Nell Browne was tried twice In the criminal court of Cook county. lEt The first time the jury disagreed and the second jury returned a verdict of wl not guilty resr by JUSTICE WHITE NOW CHIEF as Louisiana Man Is Confirmed as Head of the United States Supreme Court. re\ ter Washington President Taft Mon of day sent to the senate the nomination up tion of Associate Justice Edward no Douglass White to be chief justlc * of tur the < United States Supreme court and the the < senate immediately confirmed it. ott The president also sent In the fol wil lowing nominations : tha To be associate justices of the the United States Supreme court , Judge wa Willis Van Devanter of Wyoming and in Judge Joseph Rucker Lamar of str Georgia. ref To be judges of the new Court of ver Commerce : not Martin A. Knapp , now chairman of Interstate commerce commission , theme a term , of five years. ge .RobertW. , Archbald , now United me States District Judge for the middle anc district of Pennsylvania , term pf four this years. William H. Hunt , now a judge of cep Court of Customs Appeals , for api merly United States District judge of gra district of Montana , term of three years. John Emmett Garland of South Da , term of two years. S Julian W. Mack , now judge of the Ma [ appellate circuit court of the First wei Illinois : district , term of one year. ' To be members of the interstate tur 3ommerce commission : B.H.Meyer of eon Wisconsin and C. C. McChord of to Kentucky. apt Christmas Mail Misses Steamship. New York. Christmas mail for per S In Europe may be late because mei mall bags filled with Christmas the etters and presents were left behind cell the steamer Adriatic when she urb for Liverpool Wednesday. con peri Glavls Acquitted by Jury. Golden Gate , Wash. LpuIs'R. Glav principal : witness 'IiT the 'Pinchot N 3alllnger hearing , was'Wedi/esdayac- Bar lultted of the charge of havlng smarted' heri forest fire. The jnry 'tfSs otit * "r20 ' alnutes. wr LET THE PHANTOM DO IT ! Don't Worry About the Conduct of Your Children Nowaaays. Thai Everpresent and Watchful Phantom of Santa daus Will Vouch for Their Behavior. F CARNEGIE GIVES $10,000,000 TO ES TABLISH WORLD PEACE AND ATTACK EXISTING EVILS. TRUSTEES 1 PUT IN CONTROL Perpetual Fund Formed by Ironmaster With Taft as Honorary Head and Prominent Men as Trustees Lat ter Choose Elihu RooJ as Chief. Washington. Surrounded by 27 trustees of his own choosing compris- ng * former cabinet members , ex-ambas sadors , college president , lawyers and ( sducators , Andrew Carnegie Wednes- da transferred $10,000,000 of five per ce : . first-mortgage bonds , value $11- 300,000 , to be devoted primarily to the sstablishment of universal peace by the ' abolition of war between the na tions of the earth. The trustees organized by choosing as president United States Senator Elihu Root , permanent representa tive of the United States at .1 The UHi Hague tribunal. President Taft has Jonsented : to be honorary president f the foundation. The method by which the annual in come : of half a million dollars shall 3e expended is left by Mr. Carnegie mtirely to the trustees. The founda- Ion is to be perpetual and when the establishment of universal peace Is ittained the donor provides that the evenue shall be devoted to the ban- shment of the "next most degrading jvil or evils" the suppression of vhlch would "most advance the prog- ess. elevation and happiness of men. " The informal trust deed presented y Mr. Carnegie to the trustees reads follows : "Gentlemen : I have transferred to fou as trustees of the Carnegie peace und $10.000,000 five per cent , tirst- aortgage bonds , value $ ll.r uu 000 , the evenue ot which is to be adminis- ered by you to hasten the abolition international war , the foulest blot ipon < our civilization. Although , we longer eat our fellow men or tor- ure prisoners , or sack cities , killing heir inhabitants , we still kill each ther in war like barbarians. Only did beasts are excusable for doing hat in this , the twentieth century of Christian era ; for the crime of rar Is inherent , since it decides not favor : of the right but always of the trong. < The nation is criminal which efuses arbitration' and drives Its ad- ersary to a tribunal which knows othing of righteous judgment. "Let my trustees , therefore , ask hemselves from time to time , from to age , how they can best help n in his glorious ascent onward upward and to this end devote fund. "Thanking you for your cordial ac- eptance of the trust and your hearty pproval of its object , I am , very ratefully , yours , "ANDREW CARNEGIE. " Siv Drowned Rocking Boat. Seattle , Wash. A special from arysville : says that six men ere drowned in the Snohomlsh river 'hen a closed cabin launch turned irtle. ! There were seventeen per- aboard. All but six were able break windows and climb to the pturned keel or reach shore. Pugilist Burns Injured. Seattle , Wash. Tommy Burns , for- heavyweight champion pugilist of world , was severely Injured In a jllision on the &eattle-Tacoma Inter- rban ; railroad Wednesday and will be mfined to his bed for an indefinite sriod. Goes to Help Raise Maine. Mobile , Ala. The sea-going dredge arnard ? .fter undergoing repairs 5re'left" Wednesday for < HaVani 'to iga'ge rihe or ! ? of * raising reek of the battleship Maine . ft * CUSTOMS CRUSADE KEPT UP SMUGGLERS AND UNDERVALUERS OF IMPORTS MUST SUFFER. WIckersham Tells Congress What th Government's Legal Department - ment Has Been Doing. Washington. In his annual report sent to congress Monday , Attorney General Wickersham shows that more than $6,000,000 either has been collected by the government or is Involved - volved In judgment cases against firms and Individuals for smuggling and under-valuation of Imports. He promises a continuance of the Investigation - tigation now in progress and believes more indictments for customs frauds will follow. There have alrpady been fifty-eight convictions In the southern part of New York , says he , and at least a score more indictments will be found.C In this same connection the attorneym general asks congress topass a law forbidding revenue men from accept , ing perquisites from importers and another law granting imniunity to ac cused persons who turn state's evi dence and assist the government in the prosecution of others. It Is also demanded that a heavier penalty be placed upon the statute books for im porting firms which refuse to show S their books upon the request of the collector of any port in the United States. The present penalty is a $100 fine. b The attorney-general briefly rev'ews three of the most Important cases ever brought before the United States Supreme Court , all of which are now pending. They are the suits to dis solve the Standard Oil Trust and the American Tobacco comnany the "to- bacco trust" and the suit to deterat mine ; : " ' --i'lutionality of the corth porr.-i T-V 'rex All these argush moms will be presented in January. \Yickershnni wauts the salaries jo of the fpdcrul judges raised and in- is timates that the government could tlo better work iu the prosecution ot trusts if higher fees were paid its at torneys. He points out that corporations - tions are noted for the big sums they pay their counsel. ROUT FOR MEXICAN REBELS Diaz' Troops Inflict Decisive Defeat on Insurrectos In Chihuahua of 74 Are Killed. ye yeN Washington. The Mexican federal N troops have completely routed the on revolutionists In Chihuahua and cap te tured the" city of Guerre , according br to a telegram received Wednesday by th the state department from Ambassa ar dor Wilson at Mexico City. "This cleared the state of Chihuahua and other parts of the country , " said Mr. Wilson , "of all organized resist ov ance to the government. " in El Paso , Tex. Dispatches from the Os front Wednesday said that after their lo leOs drawn batttle of Sunday the rebel Os forces and the government troops un tin der General Navarro camped in close toi proximity to eath other. Neither side showed any signs of renewing the conflict , but it is expected by leaders in both camps that serious fighting will take place soon. - tiv The two forces clashed at the vil dn lage of Cerro Prieto , 100 miles west H. of Chihuahua. Though Inferior In leg numbers the revolutionists fought tie General Navarro to a standstill. All stc told 74 persons were killed. Boy Who Killed Cruel Sire-Freed. Omaha , Neb. Following a verdict of iam justifiable Wiling by a coroner's jury in District Attorney English Wednesday frc ordered the release of Henry Walther , a Jr. , eighteen years old , who last week shot and killed his father while the latter was attacking the boy's mother and sister. clpj the Lynch Is Re-Elected League President. ( bej New York. Thomas J. ' Lynch jwas Wednesday -re-elected "president .of Jai the Natl6nal-"baseball league'for a term foi f one year. j . . . .S T-JT. ft J " 5 ALL OVER NEBRASKA The Midwest Life. + , On December Jst ot this year The- Midwest Life had written as much insurance * as it did in the year l'JC'9. The gain over last year , therefore , will' be the amount placed in Decem ber. The Midwest Life now has over two and one-half millions of insurance in force on the lives of Nebraska men and women and an income amounting to one hundred thousand dollars a year. This has been accomplished in less than five years. When solicited by an agent of an eastern company for life insurance stop and think the situation over. Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the transaction. See if it does not appeal to you as a rational business proposition to pat ronize a Nebraska company. You know the reason why. The money stays in Nebraska not only in good times , but in panics and financial de pressions as well. The Midwest Life issues all the standard forms of life insurance policies at reasonable rates. Call or write the home office , 119 South Tenth street , Lincoln , for an agency , or a sample policy. A Mountain of Beets. Adams County. George M. Drolhe linger , of Hastings , is home from r. trip to the northwest part of the state. While at Mitchell he said he saw more sugar beets piled on the ground that he thought there was in the world. Farmers receive $5 a ton for the beets and they are piled on the ground to await shipment to the factory at Scottsbluff. Mr. Drolling- er said this particular pile of beets covered an area of seven acres and was as high as a man could scoop them from a wagon and contained about 786,000 tons of beets , which at $5 per ton represents about $4,000,000. Poultry Show at Hastings. Adams County. Secretary A. H Smith of the Nebraska Poultry asso ciation has announced that a num ber of chickens valued at from $250 to $500 each will be exhibited in Hastings at the state poultry show , January 16 to 20. Last January the state show was held in Hastings for the first time in many years , and the attendance broke all former records. A large number of entries are ex pected for the forthcoming event , which is expected to bring chicken fanciers from Iowa , Kansas and other states. th Disappointed Over Census. Jefferson County. A number of be Jefferson county people are disap pointed at the fact that Jefferson county failed to reach the 18,000 mark in the last census. In that tin case it wpuld have been necessary to divide the county clerks , into two of the fice's that of clerk and recorder. has The returns show Jefferson county Ion now has a population of 15,196 , and the in the ten years the county has made kn a gain of over 1,500. The car In Sight of Friends. wh Custer County. Within view ol in several of his neighbors and only two blocks from his own home , W. H. McCowan , a well-to-do resident of Curtis , , shot and killed himself , dying o before those who saw the deed could . a . reach him. Ill health had weakened , his intellect. He leaves a widow , four sons and a daughter. . Highly Flourishing Church. gov Gage County. At the annual meet and ing of the Christian church of Be wai atrice the report of ftev. j. E. Davis , got the pastor , showed that the member he ship had reached the 1,502 mark. The hot church has raised $3 0,000 from var by ious sources during the last year and his in a very flourishing condition. Big Price for Farm Land. ann Pierce County. A record-breaking offic price was paid for Pierce county lanu seci when George Senift sold his piece of and land adjoining Osmond , consisting of em twenty-six acres , for $5,800. ed ; thoi York Corn lave County Exhibit. York County. The best ten ears yea corn raised in York county this year are the property of the Farmers National bank of York and are now > rai exhibition. The bank will loan the sha ten : ears to be exhibited at the Ne M.Maj braska Corn Improvers' state show Maj that ; will be held in Lincoln in Janu ary. ; T port 'raw Fifteen Years in Pen. Dodge County. Judge Mollenbeck overruled the motion for a new trial en' the case of the state against Geo. 5 hat Osborne and sentenced the defendant fifteen years in the penitentiary. he Osborne was charged with murder in first degree by killing John Hoc- ° f tor. a peddler , last August. Mofl Wanted in Kansas. , Gage County. The sheriff from . . ity Marysville , Kan. , and seven detectives - peak tives from various points in the west . . dropped into Wymore and arrested Scie . K. Hoerr , with whom , it is alleged olis leged , the men who robbed the Beat- , Kan. , bank recently , have been on t Tea stopping. A An Engineer Seriously Hurt. repr bras Red Willow County Engineer Willbras Deere of McCook lies at his home expc Tl l Q serious condition caused by falling as [ from his engine , near Perry station. few miles west of McCook. ittle ° J I tiT Fifteen Years Each. Douglas County. Fifteen years T le apiece in the Nebraska penitentiary , rings maximum for the crime of robcnar bery. was the .sentence passed upon ages James Evans and Charles . .2tfprleyror found .guilty of .holding ujthe Walnut Jier paarinacy.jin > Oina.harJj6ctrii2J.tfie LINCOLN II rrfTWtft No Politics at Peru Normal. State Superintendent-elect Crabtree has named the following appointees , anne declares that partisan feeling -will not hereafter be tolerated at that In stitution : etii G. i A. Gregory , re-appointed inspector toi of normal training in high schools. Miss Anna V. Day , Beatrice , assist ant. Superintendent A. H. Waterhouse , Fremont , member board of inspectors. Superintendent Fred M. Hunter , Norfolk , member board of inspectors. Superintendent E. J. Bodwell , Bea trice , re-appointed member of board of inspectors. Superintendent James E. Lexington , inspector of schools. . , Superintendent Clifford Af. Penney- Blair , examiner and rural school su pervisor. Miss Jennie B. Adams , re-appointed head secretary. Miss Elizabeth I. Pollock , reappointed pointed stenographer. Miss Dora M. Goethe , re-appointed stenographer. Effle ] A. Denham , re-appointed re corder. ! Helen ] C. Mathewspn , re-appointed secretary < on certification. Minnie Morrell , re-appointed stenc grapher. Findings Are Approved. Governor Shallenberger has ap proved the findings of the court mar tial which sat on the delinquencies ol about forty members ot the national guard , and these findings will be em bodied in an order from the depart- ment. They will not be found to be ha . It is the first court to sit on th ( members of the guard and to hold them accountable for their deeds and misdeeds , and the adjutant gen eral and the members of the court did not feel like dealing too harshly in the first lesson. Indeed , the adjutant gen eral , under whose inspiration the in quiry was instituted , has reduced the / sentences in some instances. ' NothIng - / Ing but fines have been imposed and , these usually not more than $10-per man. In some cases the fines have \ been ( remitted. > " " Jefferson's Fat Catle. " ; Fairbury. This county had the dis tinction of topping the H.ve stock market ke1 in South St. Joseph with one ol largest shipments of cattle that been received at that point in a long time. These fat cattle were from feed lots of James Hughes , a well- known < farmer living west of Fairbury. ' shipment was made up of three cars , or sixty-one'head offat steersj , which averaged 1,413 pounds apiece ind sold straight for $6 per hundred Come Near Catching Him. Governor-elect C. H. Aldrich -was Inv state of siege at the Lindell for , a time after he arrived in Lincoln from David City to get some pointers from Governor Shallenberger on official decorum , things which the outgoing governor has learned by experience which the" incoming governor tvants to learn by an easier route. He ot no farther than the Lindell when was compelled to take refuge , the lotel people coming loyally to his aid refusing to know anything abouf presence there. Secretary of State-elect Wait hat innounced the appointments In his ffice. George W. Marsh , who was iccretary of state from 1900 to 1904 , under whom Mr. Walt was once jmployed as a bookkeeper , Is appoint- deputy. The other appointees are hose now in the office. All of them been employed at least , two 'ears. The appointments are : T 'W. Smith , bookkeeper , four years inthe - iffice ; Walker Smith , corporation and i ; rand clerk , four years ; Adair Galu- . , voucher clerk , six years ; Nellie Leach , recorder , three years , and ! r E. Holland , two years. The position of president pro tern- of the state senate has begun to out the aspirations of several enators who want to preside over the enate when the lieutenant governor not on the job. It is understood , G. W. Tibbetts of Adams county , resident pro tempore in 1909 , wants place again ; that J. A. Ollis , Jr. , Ord is a candidate , and that J. H. loorehead of Falls City also wants it. Dr. Charles E. Bes&ey , head of the epartment of botany < at the univer- , has accepted an invitation to at a meeting of the American , .ssociation for the Advancement of cience , which will meet in Minneap- during the holidays. He wJH talk the subject of "The Results of Our eaching < of Botany. " portion of the prize cattle exhibit presenting the University of Xe- raska at the International live slock position held In Chicago last -week reached Lincoln , accompanied by erdsman Charles Shumate and As- istant Bert Cozad. All of the older were sold for beef at ttie close the show , for holiday display's. Of younger cattle returned , ; one the distinction of being the lampion Angus steer of America ; ( all ) , and the other a like distinction. the " Galloway breed. These-with ' "prize winners , will ba iise < l to judgins classe ?