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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1911)
' f. TALENTINE DEMOCRAT I. M. RICE , Publisher. VALENTINE , NEBRASKA. CATTLE EVIDENCE FOUND OF AN ATRO CIOUS CRIME IN NE VADA. UNARMED AT TIME OF DEATH Men Bent on a Peaceful Mission to Sheep Camps When Fired on from Ambush by Rustlers Big Reward is Offered for Slayers. Alturas , Cal. Details received here of the murder of Harry Cambron , J. S. Lexague , Peter Eramuspe and B. Indiano , wealthy stockmen of this county , whose bodies have been found near Denio , Nev. , show the tragedy to fcave been one of the most atrocious crimes in the history of this region. The men were all unarmed and in tent upon a peacful mission at sheep camps near Denio , when they were shot and stripped of clothing and val uables. Their bodies were concealed in a nidden cave. Indiano left home three weeks ago to meet the other three ranchers at Denio and accompany them to the camps. The road to Denio and from there to the sheep leads leads through Little High Rock canyon , four miles from the town. When he arrived in Denio Indiano told of seeing several freshly slaughtered beeves lying on the hides in the canyon , also of seeing two horsemen near the place. It is the theory of the dead men's friends that Indiano surprised cattle , thieves at their work and that the rustlers , seeing him returning with others , thought he had gone for help to give battle and fired on the party from am bush. The bodies of the murdered men were taken to Engleville. The sheriff of Washoe county came Here to recruit a posse and take up the man hunt. The party set out im- Tnediately , taking besides a company of mounted men several Indian trail ers and a pack of bloodhounds. TO SURPASS FORMER EVENTS. Coronation Services of George V. to Be Held June 22. London. Since the beginning of the winter the chief functionaries of the British court have been busily ab sorbed with preparations for the coronation nation of George V. , which will sur pass in pageantry and in historical in terest all former ceremonials of the character. While the ceremony of crowning the king and queen in Westminster abbey on June 22 will be almost iden tical in form with that which has been followed in the investiture of British sovereigns since William. IV. and Queen Adelaide , the auxiliary func tions are expected to exceed in page antry and magnilicence anything that the nation has witnessed in the past. These will include the progress of the court through London the day after the coronation and a visit tothe guild tall , with a reception of the king and queen by the city authorities there , a naval review , a gala performance at the opera , with minor celebrations and pageants among which will be a "festival of empire" at the crystal pal ace. Thrown from Cab in a Collision. 1 New York. John M. Carrer , an emi nent New York architect , was perhaps fatally injured by being thrown from a taxicab in a collision with a street car. He struck the pavement on his Lead and received six scalp wounds and suffered concussion of the brain. Posse Strings Up a Negro. Eufaula , Ala. Iver Peterson , an 18- year-old negro , was lynched by a posse of citizens of this place eight miles from here. He was accused of an b attempted assault on a lady here as Ci she was crossing a dimly lighted Cin street. f ] SP Mrs. Samuel Buried. P Kearney , Mo. Mrs. Zerelda Samuel , mother of Jesse and Frank James , the tl ex-bandits , was buried here. Inter isbi ment was in a local cemetery where bi the body of Jesse James lies. m bid < Clergymen Back of It. Chicago. Several hundred clergy men in Chicago have started a move ment , further by the Chicago Chris- thM tion Endeavor union , to relieve mail thOl clerks and carriers of Sunday work. Ol in Sioux City Live Stock Market. Sioux City , la Saturday's quota to tions on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Top beeves , $6.50. an Top hogs , $7.25. ca Edison 64 Years Old. Orange , N. J. Thomas A. Edison celebrated his 64th birthday Friday. m < He spent the day at work in his labor ca atory. To his wife , who tried to get th < iim to take a little outing , he said thi "too . " toi le was busy. he ' Whites and Blacks Clash. . Gunnison , Miss. One negro Is dy ing , several others are wounded and racial clashes seem imminent as a re tal sult of a shotgun and pistol battle between - inme tween a posse of white men and a me crowd'of negraes. cei LS ST L TOMB OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM L. SCOTT 18 RAIDED AT ERIE , PA. WOMAN'S BODY IS STOLEN Coffin of Mre. Anna M. M'Coilom , Relative of Family , Found Empty Police flay They Are Hampered in Effort ! to Fathom Myetery. Brie , Pa. Ghouls have broke Into and violated the mausoleum of the late William L Scott , who was a con gressman from tola district , a million aire coal and railroad magnate and an intimate personal friend of former .President Grover Cleveland. Much mystery surrounds the case , which first became'known publicly Thursday morning. The mausoleum , in the Erie ceme tery ( a magnificent affair which cost at least 160,000) , was found shattered by some women who chanced to be walking through the burying place. Soon after this 'discovery'it was whis pered about the city that the body of' Mrs. Anna M. McCollom , a slater of the late Mr. Scott's wife , had been taken away. Mrs. McCollom was the wife of a prominent naval officer and was well known in Philadelphia so ciety. It was also said by some that Mr. Scott's body was removed from Its vault. Whether it was' stolen or not is a question which has not been satisfactorily answered. The police admit , officially , that Mrs. McCollom's body was removed from the mausoleum by the vandals. They ilso declare officially that Mr. Scott's body as not stolen , although prob- ibly an attempt was made to steal it. Unofficially the same police say that the family of Mr. Scott has hampered : hein in their endeavors to get at the Dottom of the mystery and that they -eally are not fully conversant with ill the circumstances of the body stealing. "There is more behind this than a ) lain case of corpse snatching from a : emetery , " they declare , "and if we lad our way about it a very sensa- ional story will quickly develop. " They really do not know whether flrs. McCollom's body was the only me taken , or whether that of the late Congressman Scott likewise was car- ied off. But they say that they know L motive for the stealing of one or oth , and that they will reveal it rhen the proper time comes. BILLIONS IN BIG LAND GRAB Ilinols Investigating Body Reveals Vast Alleged Inroads on Waters- Fix Loss at $250,000,000. Chicago. The state of Illinois has een Illegally deprived of thousands f acres of land along the shores of iake Michigan and other waterways t a value of at least $250,000,000 by irge corporations and private , inter- sts of the state. Chicago has been ie largest sufferer. The Illinois Central railroad alone as grabbed 400 acres in the city's ont yard and the attorney general aould sue to recover its value and erhaps revoke the company's charter , he Chicago river has been camped a illegally from end to end by great jrporations and business houses. These are a few of the" conclusions jached by .the Chiperfield committee , hich was appointed by the Forty- xth general assembly to investigate ibmerged lands in the state. After most two years of exhaustive labor ie committee has compiled its report , hich consists of 16 large typewritten ) lumes and which is accompanied by , 'o massive chests filled with maps , lotographs , documents and records iting back to Indian days. Bald statements and verbose targes are not relied on by the com- ittee to support the truth of their idings. With all the .care of expert wyers preparing a case for court the J ? al questions involved have been > ne Into and hundreds of pages In e report consist of supreme court de- jions , legislative enactments and lat amounts practically to complete ? al briefs. And with no beating around the sh or technical equivocation , the tnmittee makes the unqualified state- mt that the reclaimed empire stolen > m the people can be recovered , rong recommendation is made that Dceedings be started immediately. So comprehensive Is the report In 3 belief of lawyers who have seen that any ordinary members of the r could walk Into court with it un- : his arm and turn the state of Illi- ris upside down. q Blast Kills Two ; Hurts 20. p Slgin , 111. In a gas explosion at i ] Wilburn house at Carpentersvills nday Howard Mann and Adam h hd srst were killed and twenty others d ired , four fatally. 'ras fr m a leaku main Is supposed have caught fire from a stove. The ists fled in panic from the hotel . there were many narrow es- es. Mother of Steele Mackaye Dies. os Angeles , Cal Within four iths of her centenary , Mrs. Rebec- tl Spring , mother of Steele Mackaye , tlB "dramatist , and friend of most of B literary celebrities of mid-Vic- b : an days , passed away at her home 3 Thursday. ote Favors Larger Membership. Washington. A test standing vote vc jn in the house Thursday resulted ti < tiT i victory for the advocates for a T ] abershlp of 433 under the new th sus , by 158 to 126. a , ' ENVY - Kansas Farmers Are Putting Oil He aters In Their Pig Pens to Enable the Hogs to Make Weight More Rapidly. THREE DIE IN STREET CAR PLUNGES INTO ICY STREAM AT SHEYBOYGAN , WIS. HAD NO CHANCE FOR ESCAPE /Vomen Are Trapped Inside Coach With No Hope of Life Slippery Rails and Failure of Breaks Given as Cause. Sheboygan , Wis. Imprisoned help lessly In a speeding trolley car , three women were drowned when the car plunged into the Sheboygan river through the open draw of the Eighth street bridge here. The dead : Miss Anna Mather , aged fifty-three , Sheboygan Falls , a music teacher ; Miss Tannie VanOuwekerk , aged sixteen , a kindergarten teacher ; Miss Olga Willimite , Sheboygan , a waitress. Motorman George Thiene and Con ductor Frank Weber were saved , as were two other passengers , one of whom was Paul O. Etzold , a traveling salesman from Milwaukee. They es caped death by jumping just before ihe car plunged into the river. The death of the three women is probably due to a stumble by Etzold. is he rushed out of the car he fell md the three women fell over him. rle regained his feet and leaped from he car , but the women behind him vere trapped. The rails were slippery and the notorman was unable to set his > rakes. He made an attempt to es- : ape as the car plunged from the > ridge into the river. , JOUSE CHANGES ITS NUMBER .ower Branch of Congress Will Have Total of 433 After March 3 , 1913. Washington. The house of repre- entatives Thursday passed the cen- us reapportionment bill , fixing the aembership at 433 after March 3 , 913. 913.This This bill , which is a substitute for tie original one , gives Illinois'two ad- itlonal members in the house. The following states gain by the ew bill as follows : Arizona , 1 ; Ala- ama , 1 ; California , 3 ; Colorado , 1 ; 'lorida , 1 ; Georgia , 1 ; Idaho , 1 ; Illi- ois , 2 ; Louisiana , 1 ; Massachusetts , ; Michigan , 1 ; Minnesota , 1 ; Mon- ma , 1 ; New Jersey , 2 ; New Mexico , ; New York , 6 ; North Dakota , 1 ; ihio , 1 ; Oklahoma , 3 ; Oregon , 1 ; ennsylvania , 4 ; Rhode Island , 1 ; outh Dakota , 1 ; Texas , 2 ; Utah , 1 ; Washington , 2 ; West Virginia , 1. The Democrats , aided by a few Re- nblicans , who declined to be bound r the party caucus , won the fight for te increased representation. NOCKOUT BROWN HA3 SHADE I hampion Wolgast Meets Defeat at the Hands of New York Lightweight. Philadelphia. Ad Wolgast , con- leror of Battling Nelson , received obably the most inartistic wallop- g of his career in a six-round bout ith "Knockout" Brown of New York Jack O'Brien's new arena Wednes- y. Brown battered the Michigan chap etty much as he pleased for the en- e six rounds. He hit Wolgast as he 3ased and when he pleased , suffer- 5 only in the clinches , where he was ide to appear the novice he really is. Asks $240,000 for Bowdoin. Boston. An appeal for $140,000 for 3 use of the medical department and 30,000 for a new gymnasium for a wdoin college was issued Thursday \v President William D. Hyde to the wdoin Alumni association. Si Siai Favors Tariff Board Bill. iVashington. By a strictly party : e , all of the Democrats in opposl- Q , the senate committee on finance y < ursday voted to report favorably i bill passed by the house to create , di icrmanent tariff board. ' T DEFEATED BY WOMEN MAYOR OF SEATTLE OUSTED B\ ' THEIR BALLOTS. Hiram C. Gill Loses in First Recall Election Was Charged With Misuse of Power. Seattle , Wash. Women had for the first time the privilege of cast ing their ballots at the initial re call election ever held in Seattle and they ruled the day. The recall election was brought about In an attempt to oust Mayor Hiram C. Gill and to elect George VV. Billing. Returns from one-third ol the city indicate Gill has been ousted and Billing elected by a majority of 4,000 votes. The leaders of the suffragists in this state refused to intervene In the mayoralty fight because of the fact that the agitation arose because Mayor Gill and his chief of police , C. W. Wappensteln , refused to yield to those who sought the establishment of a district for confining vice. Many picturesque scenes were en acted In the day's voting. Women , richly dressed and riding in their own automobiles , drove to the polling places to vote , and stood in line , while others with shawls over their heads , who had been to market and brought eggs and meat and garden truck In their arms , took their turns in the booths and marked their choice for mayor. Contrary to expectations , the women did not make many mistakes in balloting. The election was the first test of the recall in Washington politics and i deep interest was taken in the cam paign. The civic question was that 3f the so-called vice segregation. It Evas charged against Mayor Gill that ais segregation policy was in reality Dne of vice aggregation and that the gambling and red light district was : he source of police graft. FAFT GIVES AN ULTIMATUM [ "here Must Be a Vote on-Canadian Agreement or an Extra Session. Washington. President Taft has erved notice on congress through Senators Crane and Carter that there aust be a vote on the reciprocity greement with Canada or he would all congress back in extra session al most immediately after March 1. Mr. Taft summoned Senator Crane f Massachusetts and Carter of Mon- ana to the White House to urge upon hem the necessity of expediting legis- ition in the senate , so there would he o necessity for an extra session of ongress. Vice-President Sherman nd Senator Smoot also were In con- jrence with the president. Senators Crane and Carter con- jrred with other senators who are es- ecially friendly to the administration ad sought to enlist their services in movement to obviate the , necessity t an extra session. ARMER PARDONED BY TAFT akes Compassion on Man Who Pleads for Mercy Live Stock Is Freezing. Washington. Taking compassion pen Guy Livingston , a fanner of unkirk , Mont. , whose plea for mercy lat while he was in Jail his live : ock was freezing to death and s home being pillaged , President aft within an hour after the case had lached him from the department of stice telegraphed his pardon. Liv- gston was convicted on a technical targe of having taken whisky on the ackfoot Indian reservation. Texas to Have "Daylight" Saloons. Austin , Tex. The daylight saloon 11 was passed Thursday by the sen- 2 and now goes to Governor Colquitt , 10 already has announced that he 11 veto it The bill provides that loons must not open before 6 a. m. d must close by 7 p. m. Noted Tenor Is Dead. Davenport , la , Adolph Bruns , fort > ars ago one of the most brilliant rman tenors of the middle west , id at the Scott county poor farm ursday. d-f SB. KNOX SAYS CAN AM END SECRETARY CONSTRUES PROVL 3IONS OF AGREEMENT. Wood Pulp and Paper Sections of Reciprocity Pact May Be Amended - 4 ed Ecfore Ratification. Washington. That the wood pulp and paper sections of the Cana dian trade agreement can be amended without causing unnecessary delay In Its ratification is the construction placed upon that pact by Secretary of State Knox In a letter to Sejeno Payne , chairman of the house way * and neana committee. This fact was brought out at a hear ing given by the committee to oppo nent * of the paper and wood pulp pro- vitions. The statement last week of Chair man Payne that the agreement must stand or fall as a whole , and that amendments could not be made , was interpreted by Mr. Fordney as indica ting that no change could be made in the paper or pulp wood schedules. Mr. McCall , speaking for Chairman Payne , who was absent , said that this pro hibition against amendments would not extend to the sections Indicated. Secretary Knox explained In his let ter to the committee that the United States and Canadian commissioners had reached no unalterable agreement on the paper and pulp wood sections , and that the final construction of that schedule is left to the committee which has the bill. TESTING COUNTRY'S COINS Assay Commission Begins Its Annual Task of Examining the Work of the Four Mints. Philadelphia. Following the cus tom inaugurated In 1823 , the assay commission , which tests and ex amines coins of the United States , met in Philadelphia Tuesday to per form its annual task. The commission ers are required k > see that the coins made by the four mints of the nation are in conformity with the standards of fineness and weight. The coins are selected from the various mints and sent to Philadelphia. The members of the commission are appointed for one year , but in reality perform about one week's work. The commission consists of the Judge of the United States dis trict court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania , the comptroller of the currency , the assayer of the New York assay office and such other per sons as are appointed by the presi dent TEN ARE BLOWN TO ATOMS M. K. & T. Engine Explodes and Shop men Are Killed Roundhouse Partly Demolished. Smithville , Tex. Ten shop em ployees of the Missouri , Kansas & Texas railroad were torn to fragments and seven others were injured when an engine under repair exploded in the Smithville yards. Besides the loss of life , railroad property valued at $20,000 was destroyed. ' The engine was blown to atoms , ( Lwo other locomotives standing on ( iearby tracks were wrecked and the oundhouse was partially demolished. ! With the bursting of the boiler a * ain of fragments of the engine and jortions of human bodies fell for sev- jral hundred yards. What remained of the roundhouse vas improvised as a temporary norgue and portions of the bodies vere mated. In several instances dentification was not possible. 30VERNOR NEAR FIST FIGHT c Vilson of New Jersey Threatens to e Whip Chairman of State Demo cratic Committee. Trenton , N. J. Governor Wil son threatened to thrash James R , Jugent , chairman of the state Demo- xatic committee , and son-in-law of ormer United States Senator James Smith , Jr. Nugent was called into the gover- n .or's private office and in a warm de- which lasted ten minutes the c overnor declared that he would use J is fists on the committeeman if the a itter attempted to block the gover- or's special bills. Governor Wilson is about five feet Ix inches in height , while Nugent is trifle over six feet tall. ; AIL SAFETY BILL PASSED c ; louse Acts Favorably on the Senate tlfc tlP Measure to Regulate Boiler fcy Inspection. fcp < p < Washington. The house passed SI ie senate bill providing for the ispection of locomotive boilers i interstate railroads , under rules ) proved by the interstate commerce c ; immission. The bill was approved n < 7 the railway labor organizations nb id the railroads. b ] Mrs. Schenk in Divorce Suit. Wheeling , W. Va. According to At- rney Frank O'Brien , representing W ! rs. Laura Scttenk , counsel have la jeed on alimony of $100 a month for se rs. Schenk. The bill of particulars the divorce suit of Schenk against COle 3 wife was filed Wednesday , but the ntents not disclosed. Senate Vote for Frisco. lo Washington. The senate commit- loPC 3 on expositions Wednesday voted PC report the resolution favoring San th ancisco for the Panama canal fair. sit ALL OVEB NEBRASKA. Engineer Blown From Cab. Dawes County. A dispatch fromu Crawford says the Burlington Flyer- No. 43 between Billings and Lincoln- had a miraculous escape from a wreck : near Provo , S. D. , about 30 miles west of here. Running at a speed of 35- miles an hour , a steam pipe in the en gine burst , blowing Engineer Wilson through the cab window. On account of escaping steam and scalding water- the fireman was unable to get into- the engineer's side of the cab and remained ignorant of the fact that the engineer was not there , while the train thundered on. As the train passed the spot where the engineer had fallen , Superintend ent Bobbins of the Sheridan division , , who was in a private car attached to- the rear of the train , heard loud cries- and , thinking someone had been run over , pulled the air and brought the * train to a stop. It was then discovered that the train was running without an engi neer. Engineer Wilson was picked , up and found to be badly , but not fa tally , injured. Tramp Delays Express Train. Hall County. For twenty minutes a tramp held an express train , eastbound - bound at Grand Island from moving further. The train was carrying an empty palace stock car east. A lone * tramp had locked himself in the car at Cheyenne and was making time across the country. Union Pacific officials at Grand Island were advised , that the car was in the possession of a gang and officers were detailed to- rid the car of its illicit passenger traffic. The occupant refused to open the car and a window and door had. first to be broken in. Hence the 'de lay. Killed at the Crossing. Dodge County. Henry Ahlymer , a. 'armer , three miles southeast of Ar- ington , was killed , and Henry Krohl- uan , a farm hand in his employ , ser ously injured in a crossing accident. > n the Chicago & Northwestern rail- oad just east of Arlington. They V vere in , a top buggy , with the sides , ip , both wearing caps pulled over heir ears , and did not see the train- The engine hit the buggy just in rent of the seat , cutting the horse in. wo , smashing the vehicle and throw- ng Krohlman , who was sitting on the ight side and driving , some distance. Alleged Bank Robber Arrested. Gage County. D. F. Wheeler , of Vymore , was arrested by Sheriff Sul- ivan and taken to Marysville , Kans. , nd lodged in jail on the charge o eing implicated in the Beattie , Kans. , ank robbery , which occurred a short ime ago. Wheeler was formerly em loyed as a conductor on the Burling ) n road , but was discharged a year- go. Since that time he has been out E employment. The officers say they ave a good case against him' . With le arrest of Wheeler , three Wymore- jsidents are now in jail at Marys- ille. Death of Bishop Bonacum. Lancaster County. The Right Rev. homas Bonacum , for 23 years bish ? of Lincoln , died at his home in that ty. He was G4 years of age. Bish- J Bonacum was plaintiff in the fa- ous suit to oust Father Murphy from ie parish at Seward. The factional fference between the two men at- acted much attention among Cath- ics. He had the See of Lincoln oce it was founded over 20 years jo , embracing the territory south of" e Platte river in Nebraska. Suicide of a Farmer. Gage County. R. B. Smith , a well- lown farmer , residing near Filley mmitted suicide by drinking a quan- y of carbolic acid. Just what caus- him to take his life seems to be a ystery , as he was well off financial- Farmers' Grain Co. Report. Cass County The directors' month- meeting of the Farmers' Grain and ock company was held at Green- > od. The monthly report of the inager showed 4,500 bushels o ieat ; 15,000 bushels of corn and a rload of oats were handled during nuary. Exclusive of this there were out S,000 bushels of wheat and 5,000- shels of corn in store. Peddlers Must Pay Tax. Lancaster Count y. Aristocraticr idlers who have risen to the dig- y of using automobiles or motor- lies in hawking their wares about i country will probably have to. y the same tax as those who use o or more horses , namely , $75 a ir in each , country m which they Idle. The house recommended : h a bill to pass. Hogs Bring Big Price , fork County. At a sale of Poland- ina hogs on the Cedar Bank farm ir York , the average price paid was i. Most of the animals were bought farmers living in York county. Will Get New Trial. Jherry County. Tom Brown , who- 3 convicted for cattle stealing in t spring's term of court is now ving his time in the penitentiary , ; been remanded by the supreme- rt for a new trial. Farmers Fight Fencing , tuffalo County. Farmers in Buffa- county are circulating and singing" ompact agreeing to fight the Union : ilic railroad for the possession of * ir 200 feet of right of way on each * j of their track through the county
