Valentine Democrat
GEORGE M. GASKILL , Editor.
VALENTINE , - - NEBRASKA.
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN OVER
POPE'S SELECTION OF AMER
ICAN CARDINALS.
WARM MESSAGES POURING IN
Vatican Flooded with Congratulatory
Epistles as Result of Elevation of
Archbishops Farley and O'Connell
and Mgr. Falconio.
Rome. The creation of three Amer
ican cardinals has aroused intense in
terest in Rome. The fixing of the
date for holding the consistory and
the naming of fourteen other cardinals
has been overshadowed by the an
nouncement of the honers which are
to go to the United States. Secrecy
regarding the appointment was so
well maintained that the great major
ity of the people of Rome have only
just learned of the selection. The
warmest congratulations have been
pouring into the Vatican , many
of them directed practically to Car
dinal Merry Del Val , tne papal secre
tary of state.
The distinction conferred upon
American is the highest in the his
tory of the church , considering that
country until 1908 was still a mission
ary country in the eyes of the vatl-
can and under the jurisdiction of the
propaganda.
FIND MRS. KREITER GUILTY.
Verdict of Manslaughter In Second
Degree for Killing Her Husband.
Aberdeen , S. D. The jury in the
case of Mrrs. Eva May Kreiter return
ed a verdict of manslaughter in the
second degree for killing her hus-
"band , Philip Kreiter on the night of
February 19 , 1906. Sentence will be
imposed later. The penalty is from
to to four years in the state peniten
tiary.
Actor Wounds Wife , Kills Self.
Wichita , Kan. Bert Rodney , an ac
tor , fired two shots at his wife and
then shot himself through the heart
dying instantly. Mrs. Rodney is dan
gerously wounded , but will probably
recover. Mrs. Rodney is leading lady
with the North stock company. Jeal
ousy is given as a probable cause of
the shooting.
Rear Admiral Lands Dead.
Washington , D. C. Rear Admiral
James H. Lands , U. S. N. , retired who
once commanded the navy yards at
New York , Boston , Philadelphia and
Washington and participated in the
evacuation of Charleston , died at his
home here of acute indigestion. He
was 60 years old.
Destructive Gotham Fire.
New York. Fire destroyed the
plant of H. Krantz & Co. , manufactur
ers of electrical supplies in South
Brooklyn. Loss $100,000. Thirty
automobile trucks were destroyed and
a total damage of § 50,000 caused in
another blaze in the New York auto
mobile garage here.
Zero Weather in Montana.
Dillon , Mont. Unusually cold
weather for this season of the year
is reported from Big Hole basin in the
1 li southwestern part of the state. Ther
mometers at Wisdom , Mont. , register
ed ten degrees below zero Saturday ,
according to reports received here.
Wrecked in Texas.
Fort Worth , Tex. , Fort Worth and '
Denver City Passenger train No. 5 ,
northbound , was wrecked at 10 o'clock
Saturday night one mile west of Bel-
levue. Engineer Gus Cunningham is
dead and his fireman and a score of
passengers are reported injured.
Three Children Burn to Death
Rhinelander , Wis. During the tem
porary absence from their home of
Mr. and Mrs. August Peters their
three chilrden were burned to death In
the farmhouse.
Live Stock Market.
Sioux City. Cattle Good to choice
corn fed steers , $6.50@S.OO ; medium
to good , $5.50@6.50 ; good to choice
grass steers , § 4.50@6.50 ; good to
choice fat cows , and heifers , $5.00@
6.60 ; grass cows , ? 3.25@4.50 ; canners
and cutters , § 2.50@3.25 ; bulls. $3.00@
4.25 ; veals , $3.00@6.50. Hogs Prices
ranged from $6.05@6.15 , with a bulk
of the sales at $6.10@6.12. Sheep-
Lambs , § 4.50@5.50 ; yearlings , $3.50@
" 111 4.25 ; wethers , $2.S5@5.50 ; ewes , § 2.25
@ 3.25.
Fola LaFollette Becomes Bride.
Washington , D. C. Miss Fola La
Follette , daughter of Senator La Fol-
lette , of Wisconsin , was married Sun
day at her parent's home to George
Middleton , of New York , a playwright.
Ingersoll's Memory Honored.
Peoria , 111. Former admirers from
all over the United States attended
the unveiling of a statue in honor of
Robert G. Ingersoll. Charles Freder
ick Adams , of Boston , was the chief
speaker.
M.
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BILL KILLED
BALLOT IN ILLINOIS HOUSE IS 59
FOR AND 65 AGAINST GOVER
NOR'S MEASURE.
77 NEEDED TO PASS ACT
Power and Conservation Plan Is Put
to Death After Fight of Several
Years , and Revival Is Hardly
Possible.
Springfield , 111. The administra
tion's deep waterway bill was defeat
ed in the Illinois house of representa
tives. There were 59 votes in Its fa
vor and andc 65 In opposition. The
bill needed 77 votes for passage.
Forty-two Republicans and 17 Dem
ocrats voted for tne bill. Twenty-
seven Republicans and 38 Democrats
voted against it
In the senate an effort may be
made to start the fight all over again
by introducing a straight out conserva
tion bill , providing for an appropria
tion from the state revenues and not
the § 20,000,000 fund , but it Is probable
that many of the administration men
will not approve of this plan and that
waterway , water power and conserva
tion legislation Is dead for tlie present
session.
The defeat administered the bill
ends a bitter fight that has engulfed
Illinois Republican leaders for the
past three years. Back of practically
every special session of the general
assembly held In the past five years
the waterway proposition has been
the principal consideration that re
sulted in the frequent reassemblings.
It caused two recent adjournments of
the general assembly elected In 1907 ,
and a recess adjournment of the as
semblies of 1909 and 1911 , with the
1911 body still In session. Disagree
ments between the two houses and In
conference committees have kept the
sessions recessing and reassembling
for these several years , but not until
now has the issue finally come to a di
rect vote on the administration meas
ure.
JAPAN WILL AID CHINESE
Force of 10,000 Nipponese Is Landed
In Manchuria Royalist Troops
Defeated by Rebels.
Shanghai. Japan has taken the
field against the Chinese rebels and in
support of the Manchu dynasty , now
tottering.
A force of 10,000 Japanese troops ,
veterans of the war with Russia , was
landed at Mukden , Manchuria , accordIng -
Ing to authentic reports received here.
A battle between rebels and Chi
nese federal soldiers resulted In the
defeat of the regulars.
The decisive rebel victory over the
main body of the Imperial army oc
curred on the mountain pass sepa
rating Hupeh and Hunan provinces.
General Lin Tchang , in command of
the 21,000 royalist troops and 160
guns , was driven back by General LI
Yuen Hung with 15,000 rebels.
The probable attitude of Yuan Shl-
kal , whose "lame foot" prevented ac
ceptance of the government's commis
sion to put down the rebellion , Is a
subject of lively interest here.
Yuan Is everywhere regarded as the
man of the hour In China. It Is hinted
that he may he induced soou to give
the rebel cause his active support
against the Manchu dynasty.
The rebel forces have advanced
farther down the Yarogtse river toward
Shanghai , which they expect to cap
ture In the near future.
Canton , O. Coming to take the
place of his predecessor , who was as
sassinated last spring , the Tartar
general , Feng Sen , was killed by a
bomb as he stepped ashore here.
The general was accompanied by
his wife and a large escort of soldiers
from Shanghai. He had reached shore
from his boat and was stepping on the
'dock when a bomb thrown from an ad-
joining building fell among the party ,
killing the general and a number of
his soldiers and setting fire to two
buildings. The general's wife was In-
jured.
GLIDDEN TOUR JUDGE SLAIN
Auto Overturns Near Tifton , Ga. , and
S. M. Butler Is Killed
Two Injured.
Tifton , Ga. Samuel M. Butler ,
chairman of the American Automobile
association and one of the best known
men in the United States , was Instantly -
stantly killed about three miles south
of Tifton , when the car In which he
was riding was overturned in a ditch.
At the same time P. J. Walker of San
t
Francisco and his wife were badly In
jured.
t s
The machine they were riding In c
was a Cunningham , driven by Charles
3
F. Kellman of Rochester , N. Y. , which
was acting as pacemaker for the Gild-
den tour , a caravan of seventy odd au
tomobiles which left New York city
on October 14 , bound for Jacksonville ,
Fla. E
Robert Mather Is Dead.
New York. Robert Mather , chairr
man of the board of directors of the -
Westlnghouse Electric and Manufacturing
I
turing company and director of many
railroads and banks , died at his resi-
j
dence here after a short illness.
Schwab's Mission Fails.
Peking. Unable to proceed with
his negotiations with the Chinese gov
ernment for the construction of warj
ships , owing to > the revolution , Charles
. Schwab left for the United Statea .I
:
way of Siberia.
THE HALFBACK
HELEN KNABE OF INDIANAPOLIS
IS MURDERED IN HER
BED.
WEAPON USED IS MISSING
Dormer State Bacteriologist Is Found
With Her Head Nearly Severed
From Body No Motive for Crime
Can Be Traced.
Indianapolis , Ind. Dr. Helen Knabe ,
former state bacteriologist , was found
in bed in her apartment with her head
almost severed by the slash of a
knife. How she came to her death is
a mystery.
No weapon was found in any of the
rooms , nor was it apparent a robbery
had been committed. The windows
were closed , though the physician , who
was devoted'to physical culture , habit
ually slept with the window open.
Doctor Knabe was last seen alive by
her assistant She lived and had her
office on the ground floor of an apart
ment house in a prosperous and quiet
neighborhood. No persons , so far as
has been learned , heard sounds of a
struggle in Doctor Knabe's apartment.
Augusta Knabe , the physician's cou
sin , and the latter's stepfather , Franc
Kropp , told the police that Doctor
Knabe had no enemy so far as they
knew. She was thirty-five years old
and a graduate of the Indiana College
of Medicine.
The physician recently resigned as
head of the state bacteriological de
partment because , it Is said , she
wished to devote her spare time to
the study of hygiene and physical cul
ture.
ture.The
The police put aside the theory of
suicide when they examined Doctor
Knabe's body and saw that , though
the throat had been slashed , there
was no blood on the dead woman's
hands , and when no knife was found
in the rooms. She was in her night
dress.
Reports of Doctor Knabe's death
were not made to the police for an
hour after her body was discovered
Miss McPherson first called the phy
sician's cousin from her home in a dis
tant part of the city. Then Dr. Ernest
C. Reyer , a friend of Doctor Knabe ,
was summoned. He called in the po
lice.
EDWARD NINES MAKES DENIAL
Lumberman Declares He Had Noth
ing to Do With Election of Sen
ator Stephenson.
Milwaukee. Edward HInes , the
,
Chicago lumberman , before the Steph
enson committee , denied any and all
sttories which connected him with
Stephenson's election , collectively and
in detail.
He bad never assisted In any way In
the election of Senator Stepbenson.
nor conferred with him in any way. He
said he had a quarrel with R , J-
Shields and never gave him money or
authorized him to pay money to help
elect Senator Stephenson.
Mr. Hines said that all he knew
about the election of Senator Stephenson -
son was what he had read in" the news
papers.
C. P. Bryan Sails for Japan.
San Francisco. Charles Page
Bryan , newly appointed minister to
,
Japan , who has been staying in San
Francisco for two weeks , sailed for
Yokohama on the steamer Chyo
Maru.
Southern Jurist Is Dead.
New Orleans. C. E. Fenner , former
president of the Tulane university di
rectors and former justice of the
Louisiana supreme court , is dead. He
was borr In 1834 In Jackson ,
Tenn
J. R.
DEATH TAKES CHICAGO EX-BANK-
ER AFTER GAINING FREEDOM.
Family Is at Bedside of Man Who Up
to End Fought to Recuperate ;
His Finances.
Chicago. Eight days after his pa
role from Leavenworth prison , John
R. Walsh , the former banker , died at
his residence in this city. The certifi
cate ascribes his death to heart fail
ure.
ure.Just
Just before he was attacked he had
been going over some of his papers ,
seking a way to regain his foothold
in the Chicago world of finance. Most
of the papers in his home were re
ceipts for the § 4,000,000 he had turned
over to his creditors in an effort to
pay their claims , and save himself the
disgrace of a prison sentence.
The new lease of life which was
given him on October 15. was broken
after a night of strenuous battle
in which his pulse at one time
beat only six times a minute , and
when the rally started arose to twelve
beats a minute and was finally brought
to normal.
Before the collapse of the Chicago
National bank , the Equitable Trust
company and the Home Savings bank.
John R. Walsh was interested in many
projects. The charges which < sent him
to prison were the result of his oper
ations in the bank mentioned , the
charges being the misappropriation of
funds.
Walsh's rise from a newsboy to a
factor in the railroad world , the finan
cial world and the newspaper world ,
was made by hard , tedious , industri
ous application to his work.
He was born near Macroon. County
Cork , Ireland. August 22. 1837. He was
thirteen years of age when he' arrived
in America.
4,000 SLAIN IN TRIPOLI
Bombardment of Benghazi Results in
Terrible Slaughter of Natives
British Consul Wounded.
Malta. Letters received here from
Benghazi , Tripoli , confirm the report
of the heavy bombardment of that
place and estimate the dead among
the natives as high as 4,000. A panic
prevailed for several hours.
Several Jews who were taking ref
uge in the British consulate were
killed and the consulate badly dam
aged. British Consul John F. Jones
was wounded. Among the killed were
eight Maltese. Many buildings , In
cluding a church , were demolished.
COOK'S HEARERS MOB HIM
"Explorer" Is Called Swindler When
He Visits the Scene of His
Triumph.
Copenhagen. Dr. Frederick A.
Cook's theatrical attempt to vindicate
his reputation by a lecture in the hall
where two years ago he addressed the
royal family and some of the most
prominent people of Denmark , under
the auspices of the Geographical so
ciety on the occasion of his triumphal
entrance into the capital , resulted in
riotous scenes and a call for the po
lice. Doctor Cook was compelled to
retire by the back door.
Fire Loss $250,000 at Butte.
Butte , Mont. Fire in the dryroom
of the Butte reduction works destroyed
the concentrator. The loss is esti
mated at from $250,000 to $300,000
The property is owned by former Sen
ator W. A. Clark.
Swamp Murder Victim Known.
Coleraine , Minn. The nude body of
a man found in the Crooked lake
country , was Identified as that of
James McArthur , known ail over the
range. The police held to the murder
tVeory.
BODY IS EXHUMED
REMAINS OF AVIS LINNELL BACK
IN BOSTON FOR EXAMINATION.
Love Letter Now Forms the Best De
fense for the Accused
Preacher.
Boston. Removed from the grave
in the cemetery at Hyannis , the
body of Miss Avis 'Linnell , for
whose death by poisoning Rev. C. V.
T. Richeson of Cambridge is being
held prisoner , was brought back to
Boston by order of District Attorney
Pelletier.
Uncertainty on the part of the
prosecution as to the exact manner in
which the young girl met her death is
reported unofficially to be the reason
for the sudden move , and the an
nouncement by the district atorney's
office that the government has enlist
ed five medico-legal experts gives
some strength to this report
-licheson in his cell received his sis
ter , Miss L. V. Richeson , and two
members of the Edmands family and
with the aid of his attorney prepared
a statement for the trustees of the
Cambridge church of which he is
pastor , which was a refusal volun
tarily to resign.
A love letter written by Avis Lin-
nell to Richeson forms the best de
fense yet developed for the minister.
The letter was found among Riche-
son's effects at his home. In it , ac
cording to one of the lawyers Inter
ested in the defense , Miss Linnell
asks the minister , as a friend in whom
she could * trust , to meet her and talk
with her about the serious trouble she
was in.
Mock marriage as a part of a care
fully planned scheme for the deceiv
ing of Miss Avis Linnell was a new
charge which developed against Rice-
son.
son.Avis
Avis is declared by a girl chum to
have been a victim of the delusion
that she was lawfully wedded to the
minister. In support of her conten
tion this girl points to the fact that
Miss Linnell wore a plain wedding
ring.
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ALL IS , QUIET AT COWETA
Twenty Negroes , Alleged Ringleaders
In Oklahoma Race War , Under
Arrest Militia Patrol Town.
Coweta , Okla. With 20 negroes
who are considered the ringleaders of
Sunday's outbreak under arrest and
militia patroling the town , Coweta Is
quiet , though still in a state of high
nervous tension , as the slightest fric
tion Is liable to create fresh trouble.
j
The negroes were awed by the I
prompt arrival of the troops , but ne
groes from out of town who came to
help the Coweta negroes are still In
town and more are coming , and it Is
from this" Influx of armed negroes
from the outside that trouble Is feared
at present.
TEN DEAD IN MINE BLAST
Coroner Orders Rigid Inquiry Into
Cause of Explosion in Harrlsburg
( III. ) Shaft.
Harrlsburg , 111. A rigid Investiga
tion was ordered by the coroner into
the cause of the explosion that re
sulted in the death of ten men and
the serious injury of ten others In the
O'Gara mine No. 9 , a mile south of
this city.
A keg of powder exploded and Ig
nited black damp. There was a heavy
blast and the roof of the mine fell in.
fifteen men caught by a cave-In some
distance from the entrance escaped by
an adjoining shaft.
That more lives were not lost was
due to the fact that the shift was
changing at the time of the explosion.
BIG LAND PRIZE TO WOMAN
Mary J. Kendall of Rapid City , S. D. ,
Gets No. 1 at Rosebud and Pine
Ridge Drawing.
Gregory , S. D. For the second time
a woman has won the prize in a gov
ernment land lottery. At the Initial
drawing here for the 4,000 prizes In
the Rosebud lottery , Mary A. Kendall
of Rapid City , S. D. , was winner of
No. 1 , valued at $10,000.
Mrs. Kendall's husband Is a paraly
tic and the family is poor. The woman
was overjoyed at her good fortune
and burst into tears when her name
was drawn first. Her hysterical outbreak -
break over , she declared she would
j
now be able to care for her invalid
husband and family after years of
struggle.
JUDGE GROSSCUP STEP : OUT t
I F
Federal Jurist Closes His Judicial Cai '
reer as His Resignation Be- I n
comes Effective.
Chicago. Peter S. Grosscup is no
longer a judge of the United States
circuit court , as his resignation which
he forwarded to President Taft be
came effective at once.
To Sell Cherokee Lands.
Muskogee , Okla. All unallotted
lands of the Cherokee Indian nation
will be sold at auction on various
dates in December , according to an
announcement made by J. G. Wright.
a
Indian commissioner.
Bryn Mawr Is Given $730,000.
New York. A bequest of $750,000
was made to Bryn Mawr college by
Emma Carola Woerschofer of New
York , who died at Cannonsville. N. Y. .
September 11 , and whose will was ad
mitted to probate.
November 3 Is Fire Day.
Fire \\arden Randall has sent a :
letter to newspapers giving notice time
Friday November 3 , is fire day. .
Amongst other things he says :
"The legislature of 1911 passed a *
law designating the first Friday of No
vember as state fire day , and provided ,
that this department should publish
and furnish a text book to all of the
schools of the state , I am sending you
herewith a copy of the text book. You
will find the governor's proclamation ,
printed in full in this book.
"I desire that you call the attention ,
of your people to the establishment
of fire day and this text book , and re
quest them to appropriately observe
the day by cleaning up , removing all
rubbish from in and ground buildings ,
clean up the streets and alleys , repair
all buildings worth repairing so they
will not be liable to catch fire , and
tear down and remove all worthless-
shacks and fire-traps. "
Says Bonds are Legal.
The people of Auburn forgot that
the legislators passed a law designat
ing October 12 as Columbus day and
declaring it to be a legal holiday. The
members of the school board called a
special election for that day and voted
$40,000 of bonds to build a high school , ,
giving no thought to the fact that it
was the anniversary of the discovery
of America by Christopher Columbus.
Deputy Attorney General George W.
Ayres has a high regard for Christo
pher Columbus and fully appreciates
what he did and admits but for him.
Auburn and Nebraska might not now
be on the map , yet he gives it as his
opinion that the bonds voted by a ma
jority of two to one in the city of
Auburn were legally voted and valid
and binding bonds upon the people ot"
Auburn.
Fail to Get Title. K
"Forty per cent of the persons thai
file on homesteads fail to secure titles
to the -land. " says Charles F. Shedd ,
register at the local federal land office.
"Some of the cancellations are caused
by the disappointed homesteaders giv
ing up their land before ihe five years-
have expired. They have gone on the.
land with the expectation of finding a-
gold mine and are unwilling to under-
go the hardships that a homesteader-
has j to experience. Others file on the
land simply as a speculation. These-
people often sell their relinquishments
within six months after they have filed
on the land. Homesteaders are not.
required to make their residence OIL
the land for six months after tliey
have filed. "
General Fund Nearly Exhausted.
State Treasurer George is of the-
opinion that the state of Nebraska
must soon go in debt unless receipts
of the treasury pick up. The general
fund is about exhausted and when all
of the money in that fund is gone
he must buy state warrants with
school funds and register them and
draw the interest for the state instead
of paying it to brokers. As regis
tered warrants are deemed to be a
floating debt , this transaction will be
called putting the state in debt. There-
has been no state bonded debt for
many years and no state warrants
,
have been registered for two or three
years.
Secretary Perkins Resigns.
Clark Perkins , secretary of the Ne
braska railway commission , has re
signed to re-enter the newspaper bus
iness. Mr. Perkins has bought the Au
rora Republican from James Schoon-
over and will take possession Novem
ber 1. If the commission desires him
to remain a short time to complete
some unfinished business of the office ,
he will do so , but his resignation is at
the disposal of that body.
Increase in Bank Deposits.
During the three months preceding :
September 1 , deposits in national
banks in Nebraska increased 83,250-
000 according to a report compiled by
Secretary Royse of the state bank
ing board. The total deposits in national
.
tional . banks were $12G,98G,538 under-
date of September , currency issued by
the same banks amounting to § 12-
001,452.
Auditor Barton In No Haste.
State Auditor Barton has been asked'
to issue warrants on the $100,000 ap
propriation for a medical college buld-
ing in Omaha , but he has not yer an
nounced his decision. The district
court of Lancaster county , in a test
case , declared the appropriation act.
to be valid , but if the persons v.-ho
instituted the suit desire to appeal to.
the supreme court , ilr. Barton does ;
not care to issue warrants on the ap
propriation.
Who Slaughtered the Deer ?
As there is no open season for deer *
in Nebraska , Game V , arden Miller ia
looking fort some one on whom he can
tack a fine of $100 to $300 for killing- f
full grown doe near V/ahco. In ' [
order to keep the matter quiet the
men carefully had thr Delves photo IV I
graphed with the dead carcass of the V
deer in front of them. According to
the information received by Miller ,
Ive , men chased the dem. although , the-
vardea docs not knou which of tli&
nea fic-'J the shot kiU'ng it