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The Valentine Bemocri VALENTINE , NEB. I. M. RICE , ' - Publish ) FOLT PERSONS KILLED AND FOU SERIOUSLY HURT AT NIO- BRARA , NEB. BLAST DUE TO IGNITED GA Among the Dead Are the Proprleto One of His Sons and a Travellr Salesman Three of Injured Victln Are in a Critical Condition. Niobrara , Neb. Four persons wei killed and four injured in an explosic which occurred here at 7.30 o'cloc Sunday evening and the fire whic resulted from the explosion burne to the ground the three-story hot < owned by Michael Kendall. The expl sion was caused by a leak in the gc plant , which was located in the celh of the hotel. Mr. Kendall noticed thz gas was escaping and went to the ce lar to Investigate , and it is suppose that he struck a match and ignite the gas in the cellar. It is thougl that all of the injured will recove though the injuries of three are se ious. ious.The The dead are : Michael Kendal proprietor of the hotel ; Kennet Kendall , son of the proprietor ; Ann Duseka , a cook ; Roy P. Crosby , tra ? eling salesman. Mrs. Crosby , wife of Roy F. Crosby had both legs broken , and was bun ed about the face and arms. Mrs. Kendall , wife of the hotel pn prietor , had one leg broken and wa burned about the face , arms and bed ] Pearl Kendall , son of the proprietoi had one foot blown off and was badl burned on the legs and about th arms and across the back. Mrs. Kurpicka was burned , but he injuries are not considered serious. There is no hospital in Niobrara ani all of the injured are being cared feat at the homes of friends. HOGREFE FO Jury Ac in the Hog being out since Sat urday night at 10:30 o'clock , returnei a verdict of acquittal at 11 a. m. Sun day. When the foreman of jury report ed that an agreement had been reach ed , the judge and opposing counse were hastily summoned. The news o an agreement had not spread , and fev were in the courtroom at tiie time. When apprised of his freedom th ( prisoner thanked each juryman , anc , then burst into tears. It is said he was confident of acquital. The first ballot taken by the juron stood five for conviction and seven foi acquittal. Subsequent ballots reduced this to two for conviction and ten foi acquittal. Two Men Are Killed. St. Joseph , Mo. The boiler in the electric light plant at Rushville , Mo. , 'a small town about fifteen miles south of St. Joseph blew up , demolishing the plant and killing the engineer , Elijah Merrit , aged 60 years , and his son Guy , aged 19. Starts an Inquiry. Mexico , City. Alleged inhuman treatment by the authorities at Zac- ate.cas of J. A. Farrell , an American iminihg engineer , is being investigated 'by the American embassy , following a protest signed by eighty foreign res idents of El Rio. Three Kentucky Negroes Lynched. . ' Shelbyville , Ky. Fifty masked men stormed the Shelby county jail here , .seized and lynched three negroes , two of .whom were charged with insulting white women and the third sentenced to hang for the murder of a negro woman and held awaiting execution. Land Office Fight. ' Washington , D. C. Hearings will be held before Land Commissioner Ben- Inet pn January 25 for the benefit of representatives of South Dakota cities Iwhich are seeking the location of the 'land offlce which is to be removed from Aberdeen. Wabe Raise for Mutineers. Paris. Advices from Badajosa , .Spain , five miles from the Portuguese 'frontier , say the Portuguese govern ment has acceded to the demands of the garrison at Elvas , which mutinied recently and demanded increased pay. Sioux City Live Stock Market . Sioux City , la. Saturday's quota tions on the local live stock market were as follows : Top beeves , $6.00. Top hogs , $7.80. Crypt for John Paul Jones. Washington , D. C. At a cost of $135,000 the senate proposes to provide a permanent resting place for the body of John Paul Jones in a crypt in the naval academy at Annapolis , Md. A bill to this effect -was passed by the senate and it now goes to the house. Student's Skull Crushed. Kearney , Neb. Milton Benner , 14 years old , a student at the Kearney Military academy , was killed , when he fell from a toboggan slide. His skull crushed. Sy BATTLE IS DISPATCH FROM MEXICAN BOI DER TELLS OF RESUMPTION - TION OF WARFARE. , MORE THAN 40 ARE SLA ! Inaurrectoa Reported to Have Hel Federal Troops at Bay for Thrc Hours When Latter Withdrew an Went Into Camp. San Antonio , -Tex. According t advices received in this city Thuri days more than forty participant were killed in a serious battle tha took place between the Mexican fe ( eral troops and the revolutionists jus across the border. The news came from Ed. O'Reilly , newspaper correspondent who ha been at the front in Mexico near th international line , and was receive here in a dispatch dated Comstocl Tex. It reads : "Big fight ; more than forty killed hit myself. " The insurrectos , it is reported , hel the federals at bay for three hours after which the * latter withdrew twi miles and went into camp. This telegram indicates a reopenini of hostilities after a lull of about i month , or since the insurgents fough a draw battle with the forces of Ger eral Navarro at Cerro Prieto and sooi afterward caught the federal com mander's men in an ambuscade nea Mai Paso and inflicted on them heav ; losses. SAYS TRUST WAR A "SHAW Samuel Untermyer Declares Llttli Corporations Are Pursued Whlla Large Ones Let Go. New York. In an address befoix the annual meeting of the Nationa Civic federation Thursday Samue TJntermyer attacked the government' ! attitude toward the trusts as a "mon strous sham. " According to him tht large and "vicious" corporations gc unmolested while "the little fellows are being pursued with a brass band and the greatest press bureau evei put in action. " Mr. TJntermyer first blamed the courts and the government , sinc the enactment of the Sherman anti-trust law in 1890 , for failing to suppress the crimes it was passed to prevent and thus permitting the growth ol "vicious" corporations. He then charged the present administration with prosecuting only the smal com binations , such as the window-glass and bath-tub associations , which he claimed were innocent of criminal in tent. tent.As As a solution for the trust problem , the speaker advocated rigid federal regulation , asserting that state con trol was confusing and inadequate. He also maintained that the expres sion "guilt is personal" was merely "a political catch-phrase" and really had no bearing on the question. Fed eral regulation , he believed , would perserve all the benefits of combina tion , such as the elimination of de structive competition , while avoiding Its evils. FIVE DEAD IN GAS BLAST Fen-Cent Store Is Blown Up at Con- nellsville , Pa. Twelve Per sons Injured. Connellsville , Pa. Five persons vere killed and twelve injured in a jas explosion that wrecked a well- illed five and ten-cent store here rhursday. The fire that followed : ompletely destroyed the building. Clerks and customers were buried n the collapse of the walls. One roung woman went mad in anticipa- ion of her horrible fate , fought off a escuer and burned to death. The leat and smoke was so Intense that .11 attempts at rescue were futile. ) nly three of the victims , all girl lerks , have been identified. The failure of workmen to cap be supply pipe after removing a nat- ral gas meter caused the blaze. ; TORM STALLS TWO TRAINS rear Is Felt for Safety of Passengers and Crew Snow-Bound Near Fielding , Mont. Spokane , Warh. Alarm was felt y railroad officials Thursday for the afety of the passengers and crew of reat Northern passenger train No. . "The Oregonian , " and the crew of ist mail No. 27 , stalled in the snow ear Fielding , Mont. It is estimated that' there are more aan fifty persons all told on the two ains. There is no diner on either ain. The trains have been stalled [ nee Monday ! A blinding snow- : orm has raged for.four days. The last heard from the trains was message sent by a train operator arly Tuesday morning. Held for Slaying Husband. Portland , Ind. Sallle Karney , widow : David Karney , a storekeeper at Drnwall , this county , who was killed i Hallowe'en night , was arrested dursday following a grand jury in- ctment charging her with first de- ee murder. New York Banker Indicted. . j New York. The grand jury re- .rned an indictment Thursday charg- g perjury against William L.Brower , ' rmer vice-president of the Norther * ink of New York. I J. J } f REMOVING THE DOUGHRITIS THE PRINCIPAL SURGICAL OPERATION OF TODAY , ACCORDING TO A CHICAGO PHYSICIAN. ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ASSER STEPHENSON OF WISCONSIN KNEW OF USE OF MONEY. ASK UPPER HOUSE TO AC Report of Investigators Cites Numei ous Violations of the Law and DC Glares Senator Spent $50,000 t Win Seat in United States Senate Madison , Wis. The charges of coi 1 ruption made in connection with th election of United States Senate Stephenson two years ago , were re newed Wednesday when a length ; statement was filed with Gov. P. E McGovern by the 1909 state senat < committee In "which the senator ii charged with violating a number o the laws of the state , i The committee recommends that i copy of the report be submitted t < the United States senate and tha body Investigate Mr. Stephenson's election. A summary of the charges againsl the senator follows : That he premedltatedly violated the statute which requires the filing under oath of an account of campalgr expenditures. That he violated the law which pro hibits any one from contributing money to assist a candidate for th legsilature residing outside of the dis trict in which the contributor re sides. That the civil service law of this state was violated when he caused to be paid money , which the evidence shows was paid to State Game War den Stone and L. B. Dresser , presi dent of the board of control. That he gave a sum of money to a supporter of McGovern for United States senator , such supporter after ward switching to Stephenson , and that he paid large sums to others which afterward were used by them to induce other persons to assist in procuring his election. "On the whole record therefore , " the report states , "Stephenson is charged with knowledge of the man ner in which his campaign was being conducted and the purposes for which money was being disbursed. FIVE DEAD IN OHIO CITY FIRE Believed More Bodies Are In Ruins of Cincinnati Chamber of Com merce Building. Cincinnati. Five men are known to have been killed and there is a pos sibility of several more being dead as : he result of the fire that destroyed : he chamber of commerce building ruesday night. At the annual meeting of the cham ber of commerce Wednesday steps ; vere taken to build an entirely new suilding where the other one stood. 3OWDER BLAST KILLS MANY fwelve Bodies Are Taken From Ruins After an Accident in Powder Factory. Buenos Ayres , Argentina , Many 'atalities ' were caused by an ex- ) lesion in a gunpowder factory at 3an Martin. Twelve bodies were ta- cen from the ruins of the plant soon ifter it was blown to pieces. The learch for other dead continued. Impaled on Ski Stick ; Dies. Houghton , Mich. Robert , Williams , eventeen years old , died Wednesday Q Hancock hospital as a result of be- ng impaled on a ski stick which pene- rated his bowels. The stick is used a propelling a ski rider. New York Wars on Long Hatpin. New York. New York city will join he list of cities which have legislated gainst the long hatpin evil. An or- inance was introduced in the board f aldermen Wednesday. It provides , $50 fine. H9LSTUW HO LONGER SENftTOF ESCAPES DISMISSAL FROM SEN ATE BY RESIGNATION. Committee Reports Sufficient Evidence Is Found to Warrant His Removal From Illinois Senate. Springfield , 111. D. W. Holstlaw oi luka , confessed bribe taker , has es caped dismissal from the senate by his resignation , sent in a few days ago. ago.The The senate Investigating committee which has been hearing testimony in regard to bribery in connection with the election of Senator William Lori- mer reported Wednesday that , al though it had found sufficient evidence to warrant the removal of Holstlaw , it was not in its power to recommend such action in view of his official resignation , directed to the gov ernor. Prior to tin reading of the commit tee's report a communication from Governor Deneen was presented to the senate which stated that the executive had received the resignation of Hoist- law dated January 4 , and that the of fice of senator from the Forty-second district was , therefore , vacated. Lieutenant Governor Oglesby then declared Holstlaw's seat vacant. WANTS TARIFF COMMISSION National Association Formed to Push That Plan Meets In Convention In Washington. Washington , D. C. Th © move ment , looking to the erection of a permanent commission that will have charge of all future revisions of the tariff , was given a decided Impetus when the annual convention of the National Tariff Commission Assoc- tlon opened in this city Wednesday. This organization , which is composed of delegates from the strongest and most Important commercial bodies in the country , has for its sole purpose- "the creation of a permanent nonpartisan tisan tariff commission , " and it Is be lieved that the assembly at this time of-such a body will have a powerful effect on congress. Delegates appointed by the govern ors of every state In the union , ac cording to the number of congressional districts , are present , as well as a number of governors themselves , and the mayors or their representatives of a number of the largest cities. In all there are between six and seven hundred present. STRIKE IN ALL PORTUGAL Rail Empl'oyes Walk Out ; Business Houses Idle Spanish Minister Saye Paralysis Is General. Lisbon. A majority of the railroad employees in Portugal have gone on a strike. The government had long been warned of the movement and took active measures to maintain the service , with partial success. Following the example of the rail way men the employes of the commer cial houses quit work on the ground that the government had failed to is sue a decree fixing the limit of a day's work at 12 hours and providing one lay of rest in seven. As a consequence of this action many business places In this city are closed. The strikers are making an attempt to extend the movement ta Lhe provinces. Postpone Rail Rate Raise. Washington. Announcement was nade by the interstate commerce commission Thursday that the pro- ) osed advances in rates in classifica tion territory voluntarily had been sus pended by the carriers until March 15. Message Urges "Zone" Forts. Washington. President Taft sent L special message to congress Thurs- lay urging the Immediate appropri- ition of 15,000,000 for use in building l fense and fortifications for the canal cone. HOUSE PISSES FEhSIOK Bl ! ADDS NEARLY $45,000,000 A YEA TO THE ROLL. Bulloway Measure Based on Nlnet Day Service Requirement Grants $12 to $36 Monthly. Washington. By a vote of 2 ; to 62 , the house of represent ttves passed the Sulloway general pe sion bill. The measure grants from $12 to f ! a month to all soldiers who serv < ninety'days in the United States am In the Civil war or sixty days in tl Mexican war , and who have reach * the age of sixty-two years. The bi adds about $45,000,000 a year to tl pension roll. Many members availed themselvt of the opportunity to pay oratorio tributes to the veterans , Speaker Ca non being among those who took tl floor in behalf of the measure. Tl speaker addressed the house for t minutes , declaring that the time wi fast nearing when the last defender < the Union will have passed from tl aeods of a grateful nation. Those who spoke in opposition coi fined themselves to objections to tl large burden that the annual appropr atlon would entail. It was declared by the advocates < the bill that 100 veterans arc dyin svery 24 hours. KANSAS LAWYERS IN SESSIQ Bar Association Opens Its Annui Meeting in Ottawa and Hears Ad dress by President Smart. Ottawa , Kan. Many reform in legislation and court practic were urged by President C. A. Smai Wednesday in his annual address bf fore the Bar Asaociation of Kansas a : sembled for its twenty-eighth mee Ing. Judge Smart advocated emplo : ers' liability to employees for all li juries while in the line of their en ployment , including the state and a municipalities in so far as they b ( come employers of labor ; a trlbuns for the trial and adjustment of all di ; ficultles between employers and en ployees ; old age pensions ; a limltt tion upon inheritances ; giving to al convicts and their families the ne profits of convict labor compensaUo : for all citizens wrongfully accused o crime ; the establishment of a commit sion for the determination of a ] questions involving the mental sound ness or unsoundness of a citizec whether that question is raised i ] criminal or civil procedure , thi ject being the elimination fron the trials of lawsuits either crimlna or civil the question of mental sound ness ; and the general charge tha most of the objectionable featurai connected with our present judlcia system are matters thrust upon that system by legislation. TARIFF BOARD WON. Beveridge Declares Before Business Men's Convention Commission Is Assured. Washington. The convention oi the national tariff commission was stirred to great enthusiasm by Sen ator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana , when he declared that although the permanent tariff commission was prac tically assured , a still greater victory the triumph of organized public apinlon would be marked by the creation of the commission itself. Ke said that the American people tiad a right to demand of congress the Bstablishment of a commission that ivould command the "same dignity and lave the same adequacy of powers as : he interstate commerce commission. " He predicted that the present ses sion of congress would see the ehact- nent of tariff commission legislation , jut he advised the convention to In sist , through its representatives In : ongress , on a non-partisan , all-power- : ul commission. WIFE SUES N. Y. FIRE CHIEF flrs. Edward F. Croker Files Papers for Separation Alleges Abandon ment and Incompatibility. New York. Despite all efforts to : eep the fact a secret , it has lecome known that on last Monday he wife of Fire Chief Edward F. broker filed papers in a suit for sep- .ration. The causes she assigns are .bandonment , insufficient support and ncompatibility. Counsel for Chief Jroker said that his client would file lis bill inside of thirty days. He dded that Mrs. Croker's extrava- ; ances have left her husband with nly his monthly salary. Mother Is Slain by Boy. Joliet , 111. Matthew Wilson , aged ifteen , shot and killed his mother , Irs. Lillian Wilson , while playing rith a toy air rifle in the itchen of their home. Believing the reapon was unloaded the boy In a pirit of jest pointed it at his mother , ulled the trigger , the bullet pene- rated her brain and she sank to th oor dead. Child SIsin by Thieves. Albany , N. Y. Aid of the police iroughout the country has been Dught in an effort to learn the identi- r of a chubby , five-year-old boy whose ozen body with acid stains about the louth , was found in a swamp on th chenectady road. The child , it la lougnt , was poisoned by kidnapers. House Passes $35,000,000 Bill. Washington. The house Thursday issed the legislative , executive and idiclal bill , carrying approximately 15,000,000. THE GROWTH OF TOWNS IN WESTERN CANADA A BAROMETER OF THE GROWTH OF THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. The traveler passing through a country la impressed favorably or oth erwise by the appearance of the towns along the line of railways. As they appear prosperous and of healthy growth he at once assures himself that there is either a local industrial factor to cause it , or a splendidly developed agricultural area from which is drawn the resources that contribute or make for the growth that is so readily apparent. On the other hand , if evidence of impover ished streets , badly appearing resi dences and business places and leth argic citizens , there Is an absence of local industry and surrounding agri cultural prosperity. There is no Una of railway , whether main or branch , throughout western Canada , that through the towns or cities that are * built along the ribs of steel do not convey the most favorable impression. The cause is not always apparent , but the facts are there and easily seep. In most cases the growth and the sta bility of these towns are caused by the excellent agricultural district * that .are tributary ; in some case * , manufacturing - enterprises have sprung up , caused by the agricultural demands and needs. The Winnipeg ; Free Press and the Edmonton Bulle tin have recently sent corps of cor respondents through the provinces to secure data concerning the growth of the two or three hundred towns that have come into existence during the past two or three years. The partic ulars make interesting reading , and as one reads of the station house , the blacksmith shop , the boarding house and the store of April , being dwarfed In August by a hundred or more dwell ings , by large hotels , by splendid stores , and a half dozen implement warehouses , not forgetting the two or three churches and the excellent pub lic school buildings , it causes one to \ stop and think if they ever heard of such marvelous changes. Certainly not often. These are facts , though , as < related of western Canada. Then , too , there are now cities yes , cities of from ten to fifteen thousand people where five or six years ago there was but the bare prairie and the lone section post. The changes in the Ca nadian West during the past eight or ten years have been marvelous , and it is no idle tale to say that the development In number and growth of the cities , towns and villages there in the past decade has eclipsed anything j thing in the history of the building of ' ' a new country. Agriculture has been the basis , and it Is agriculture of the kind that Is lasting. The ease with which an excellent productive farm , capable of yielding a splendid living ' . and large profit to the operator , is such that it has encouraged thousands j to follow that pursuit , and also other ' thousands on the limited and expen sive farms throughout the Central Western States as well as some of the CJoast States , to enlarge their field of , mterprise. The climate is excellent , ind just the climate that is desirable ! ' ! or the healthy growth of man and the prod'ucts of the field. All varie- Jes of the smaller and better paying grains are raised , and generally with jvery assurance of good fields. With jovernment supervision of railway ates , splendid markets are contain , ind the highest prices realized. The Dominion Government , that has been sarrying on a propaganda of securing lettlers for the vacant lands , Issues iterature descriptive of those avail- ible In the provinces , and on request if your nearest Canadian government igent , copies will be forwarded free A Deadly Error. Dr. W. B. Cannon of Harvard , dis- ussing anti-vivisection literature at a inner In New York , said with a mile : "This literature , in part at least , is s flagrantly erroneous as the medical epartment conducted by a young col- } ge girl in a weekly paper. A sarn ie reply in this department ran : ' "Bereaved. The reply given last reek was a mistake. It should have een ten drops of laudanum , not ten aps of laudanum. Yes , we .advocate remation rather than the old-fash- med burial. " Terrified Hero. "Did you have any narrow escapes i the surf last summer ? " "Yes , " replied the life-saver. "One idy whom I rescued was so grateful lat she nearly married me. " iioux City Directory XGELLENT BAR- 1UO In rebuilt and slightly nsed type- rlters of all makes , 'rite for list of twenty- re special bargains. .F.SwansonGo > i Sioux City , Iowa 3af Flowers For All Occasion * Wholesale and Retail . R. Elder , Sioux City , Iowa tabllshed 30 Years FLORISTS oral emblems and cat flowers for all SIOUX CITY , IOWA