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The Valentine Democral GEORGE M. GASKILL , Editor. VALENTINE. . - NEBRASKA POSTAL CHIEF WOULD ANNE TEhEGRAPH LINES SUBMITS PLAN TO CONGRESS VIEWS GIVEN TO THE PUBL1 Postmaster General Proposes the Wire System and Postal Service b Fused Under One Head and Handle by Uncle Sam. Washington , D. C. Acquisition c the telegraph lines of the Unite States by the government and the ! operation as a part of the postal sei TVico will be recommended to congres in a short time by Postmaster Genera Hitchcock. FQT a year or more Mr. Hitchcoc ] has had this recommendation unde consideration. After a thorough stud ; of the operation of government con trolled lines and postal telegraph ays tema ol foreign countries he has de cided to urge the matter upon con gress. "Should this recommendation b < adopted , " Mr. Hitchcock said in statement of his intention , "I am con vlnped it would result in importan ecorwmics and in materially lowei telegraph rates than now are exacted In approximately fifty countries of the -world notably in Great Britian France , Germany , Austria , Italy.Spain Russia and Japan government con trolled telegraphs now are in opera tion. In many of the countries thej are operated in connection with the postal service. These telegraphs serve an aggregate population of 950 , ' 000,000 , and in every instance they have been found to be of immense practical benefit to the people , in both promptitude and cost of the service , NEARLY FROZEN TO DEATH. Boy Hides Seventy-Five Miles on Pilot of a Locomotive. Chicago. With the Thermometer registering 38 degrees below zero , Carl Paulkenburg , a 17-year-old fugitive from the Minnesota state industrial school at Red Wing , rode seventy-five miles on the pilot of a locomotive and was nearly frozen to death. Both of the youth's hands were froz en to the woodwork of the pilot. When liberated he was taken into one of the coaches and taken into Chicago. F. A. Wittier , superintendent of the school found Faulkenburg in a Chica go hospital. Faulkenberg's hands , feet and face were frozen and he is in a serious condition. Fatalities in Oklahoma. QKfahoma City , Okla. There have been twenty-five cases of meningitis , fourteen of which resulted fatally , in Oklahoma since the disease appeared , according to a report made by Dr. J. C. Mahr , state commissioner of health. The disease is at present confined to south Oklahoma , nea rthe Texas bor der. Gov. Lee Cruce said the matter of a quarantine against Texas would be left to Dr. Mahr. Dr. Mahr does not view the situation with alarm. All Escape Injury. Tutea , Okla St. Louis and San Francisco railway train No. 407 , run ning from St. Louis to Oklahoma City , went into the ditch while running at thirty-five miles an hour near Alton. The engine and seven coaches turned over , the sleeping cars stopping fifty feet from the track. No one in the crowded cars received a scratch. Fire in Army Quarters. SL Louis , Mo. Although 500 sol diers led by Col. William P. Wood fought flames for two hours , fire de stroyed a double residence at Jeffer son barracks. The loss was $9,000. Six Lose Lives. Philadelphia. Five women and a man were killed when an express train on the Pennsylvania railroad crashed into a light wagon at a grade crossing in Torresdale , a suburb. Live Stock Market. Sioux City. Cattle Good to choice cornfed steers , § 7.00 © 8.50 ; medium to good , $5.50 < 8 > 7.00 ; good to choice grass steers , ? 4.50 < g)6.50 ) ; good to choice fat cows and heifers , $5.00@6.00 ; grass cows , ? o.50@5.00 ; canners and cut ters , $2.75@3.50 ; bulls , ? 3.50@4.75 ; veals , | 3.50@7.00. Hogs Prices range from ? 5.60@6.15 , with a bulk of the sales at $5.90@G.30. Sheep Lambs , § 5.25@5.50 ; yearlings , ? 4.25 < g > 4.50 ; wethers , ? 3.25@3.S5 ; ewes , $2.250 $3.35. Fifty Injured in Wreck. Kenton , O. About fifty persons were injured when Big Four passenger train No. 1 from Detroit was wrecked near Carey , Ohio , a short distance from this city. None of the injured Spreading rails , due to the intense cold , Spreading rails , due tothe intense cold , caused two of the day coaches to leave the track and go into the ditch. The train was running at high speed , about forty miles an hour. Many of the passengers suffered from cuts and bruises but were able to emerge from the overturned coaches. FIRE DESTROYS EQUITABLE LIF BUILDING AT NEW YORK SIX LIVES ARE LOST. FIFTEEN PERSONS ARE HUF Wall Street Suspends Busines * Banker In Vault Sawed Out Be talion Chief a Victim $300,000,0 Securities Menaced. New York. Fire destroyed the ma niflcent marble and granite building < the Equitable Life Assurance societ one of the first skyscrapers to 1 erected in New York and one of tl city's most important financial ce ters. Six men lost their lives ar a dozen of others' were injured. Tt property loss will reach $6,000,00 The structure covered an entire bloc in lower Broadway. Valuable records , including the bioi raphy of E. H. Harriman , and t\v priceless libraries which cannot be n placed , went up in flames. The fate of hundreds of millions < dollars' worth of securities , stored i safe deposit vaults , is in question , a though it was believed that fireproc construction saved them from dan age. Fought in the heart of the financis iistrict , the fire upset the financia machinery of Wall street and busines was practically suspended throughou .he day. Among the injured is William ; jiblin , president of the Mercantil Safe Deposit company , whose rescu ! rom the basement vaults , where h vas imprisoned , after two hours' worl > y firemen , was one of the most sensa ional episodes of the fire. He had gone into a vault to sav < iecurities and accidentally locked him elf in with an employe who accom lanied him. Their cries were hean > y the firemen , who had to sav hrough the steel bars of a door lead ng to the street before they coulc escue the imprisoned men. One man in another vault of th < lercantile Safe Deposit company , be ieved to be a watchman , could be een from the street with his legs inned down by a mass of debris , but ould not be rescued because heavy teel doors barred the way of the fire- len. Through the smashed windows ol le door he was given the last rites by haplain McGean of the fire depart- lent , just as he was swallowed from lew by the dense smoke. The great structure , which , besides ontaining the main offices of the quitable Life Assurance society , was le home of the Mercantile Trust corn- any , the Equitable Trust company , le banking house of Kountze Brothers , ugust Belmont & Co. , the Harriman tilroad lines , the Mercantile Safe De- jsit company , the Lawyers' club and any of the city's most prominent w firms , is completely burned out. Besides involving heavy financial ss and serious disturbance to large isiness interests , the fire was one the most spectacular ever wit- ; ssed in the far downtown section. Its progress was replete with har- wing incidents , narrow escapes and ave rescues. NE LEAVES GIRL OBDURATE azel Hogan Must Pay $1,700 , Stay in Jail or Prosecute Four Men. Chicago. Miss Hazel Hogan's refu- l to help the state send Dr. Irvine singer and three accomplices to the nitentiary will cost her $1,700 , just 56 less than the amount the'four are id to have robbed her of on July 1911. rhe $1,700 fine , imposed upon the man by Judge Honore for contempt court , was the result of a repeti- n of her refusal to testify against > accused men. The judge ordered it an Indeterminate sentence to the mty jail stand until she is willing prosecute. tfips Hogan said she would stay in I the rest of her life before she uld testify against the men. MER WELCOMES" A CELL * ed Michigan Man Says : "Leaven- worth for Me The Sooner the Better" Confesses Forgery. Jattle Creek , Mich. "It's JL-eaven- rth prison for me , and the sooner > better , " said H. M. Dearlng. the : d Albion banker , as he left for De- it with his son , Palmer M. Dearing. custody of United States Marshal 0 M. Campbell. Father and son 1 confessed forgeries amounting to 5,000 that resulted In the closing .he Albion National bank. Is there any hope for the depos- s ? " the elder prisoner was asked , 'or an instant the man appeared on verge of breaking down ; then he ked back the tears with a great irt and replied : No , none at all. " Man Uses Hatpin ; Fined , sllefontaine , Ohio. Judge Layton Uiglaise county put his disapproval he use of a hatpin , by a man as a pen when he fined Charles Saw- er $25 for attacking Elsea Drake i a hatpin and lacerating his Hips on Ice and Crushes Skull , ixington , Ky. J. W. Hambrlck. e , aged twenty-one , a butcher , fell : he icy pavement here , crushing skull and dying a few minutes ' in a hosoital. THEIR STEEDS News Note A New Riding Club Has Been Established in Washington , Suggesting a Similar Organization Among Certain Statesmen. COMMONER IS BEATEN IN EF FORT TO OUST GUFFEY OF PENNSYLVANIA. "HARSH" WORD IS PASSEI Harmony Reigns Supreme at Jacksoi Day Democratic Feast All Lead ers Are Given Enthusiastic Recep tion as They Enter Banquet Hall. Washington. William Jennings Bryan was defeated in the Democrat ic national committee by a vote o 30 to 13 in his fight to prevent Col James M. Guffey of PennsylvanU from being seated as committee mem ber from the Keystone state. Mr Bryan openly accused the colonel ol a betrayal of his party. Most of the contention over the seating of Guffey was conducted in executive session. Mr. Bryan , whc succeeded four years ago in keeping Guffey off the committee , got into ac tion a few minutes after the commit tee began its labors in the assembly room at the Shoreham. In the course of the argument over Guffey , A. Mitchell Palmer , his op ponent for the seat to which Guffey was elected , charged him with having deliberately defeated the choice of the Democrats for governor and sup porting a man of his own choice. "That's a lie ! " shouted Guffey , "and you know it's a He. " "I demand an apology , " said Pal mer , growing red in the face. Guffey supplied the apology reluctantly , whereupon Senator Tillman. who had been sitting quietly in his seat , arose and said : "I think he ought to apolo gize to the whole committee. " Mr. Guffey furnished this apology also , and good humor was fully re stored. Fully one thousand of the leading Democrats of the country honored An- 3rew Jackson at a banquet at the Raleigh hotel and at the same time congratulated each other on the : oming victory of the party , as they sat about the table. Never before in the history of the party has there been so brilliant a jathering. Democrats from every sec tion of the land , from every great : ity , even from the distant insular possessions , were there , all happy , all mthusiastic , all inspired with a com- non purpose. Every state was represented among he guests and ably represented Senators , representatives , governors , aembers of the bench elbowed each ither in the press at the tables. > EEKS DRASTIC TRUST LAW rowler Asks for Big Increase In Pun ishment for Violators of the Sherman Statute. Washington. Representative Fowl- r of Illinois introduced in the house n amendment to the Sherman anti- ust law the purpose of which is to trengthen the provisions of the pun- ihment of offenders. Instead of the ne year imprisonment Mr. Fowler reposes five years , and instead of a ne a forfeiture of a percentage of the ross income of the illegal combine. Dies In Chair for Murder. Ossining , N. Y. Philip Mangano , irmerly interpreter In the marriage sense bureau in New York , was it to death by electricity in Sing ing prison here for the murder of s daughter about three years ago. Italians Defeat Arab Force. Tripoli. Two battalions , covering detachment/ of engineers , were at- cked by at large force of Arabs. 't6r three'hours , ' of fierce and con- luous fighting the Arabs withdrew th hc-avy losses. i CURRENCY PLAN IS OUT BILL CHANGING BANK SYSTEM TC PREVENT PANICS DRAFTED. ' Differs in Several Important Provis ions From Original Measure. Washington. The national mon etary commission , after four years ol study and labor , have dratted a bill to revise the currency system of the United States designed to prevent a recurrence of such unfortunate finan cial conditions as prevailed during the money panic of 1907. The bill consists of fifty-nine sec tions and in general follows the lines of the so-called Aldrlch plan. But the commission's bill shows some impor tant changes from the original or even from the revised draft of Mr. Aldrlch's plan. The bill Incorporates the National Reserve association or the United States , with an original capital ol $200,000,000 instead of the $300,000- 000 as first proposed by Mr. Aldrich. Through an elaborate machinery In volving fifteen branches of the associ ation , each branch being the center of a group of local associations of banks , the National Reserve association is authorized to Issue notes against prop erly indorsed commercial paper. The bill provides for the admission to the reserve association of state banks and trust companies that subscribe to Its conditions as well as of the nation al banks already In existence. The circulating notes of the associa tion shall be received at par in pay ment for all dues to the United States and salaries and debts owed by the United States , unless gold is specifi cally set forth in the contract , and all dues or debts to any bank or trust company shall be payable In the notes. The notes shall constitute a Brst lien upon all the assets of the issoclation and no Interest shall be said by the association upon its de posits. The bill attempts to prevent the : entralization of the control of the system in any one locality. In the dls- xicting of the country for the fifteen ) ranches , division Is made largely by feographical and not financial stand- irds. The sections which will attract videst public interest and arouse the cost debate are those relating to the ssuance of currency by the associa- ion. The sections follow bjoadly the Lldrich plan. IICHARD T. CRANE EXPIRES ! nd Comes to Millionaire Foe of Col leges After Attack on Univer sity of Illinois. Chicago. RichardT. Crane , arch ene- ly of "higher education , " head of the rane company and a philanthropist n broad lines whose name is known iroughout the country , died at his ome in this city within a few hours Fter his final broadside had been red at the University of Illinois The words of his last caustic at- ick upon the institution that dis- jminated the higher learning were jing set in type when physicians at s bedside announced that he had issed away. A seemingly trivial > ld had proved too much for his ad- inced years and weakened constitu- Gun Explosion Kills Eight. Ruell-Sur-Touvre , Prance. Eight jrkmen were burned to death by a ass of molten metal here and , 11 oth- s terribly injured by the explosion a gun mounted at the government val arsenal near Angelmout. Gases used the explosion. Dies to Fulfill Promise. Crossville , Tenn. Standing at the ge of his wife's grave. Z. M. Smith narked that he would follow her thin twenty-four hours. In the irnlng he vas found dead in bed. RICHESON ! S DOQMEI PASTOR WHO CONFESSED POJSO ! ING OF GIRL SENTENCED. Will Die in Electric Chair Some Tlrr During Week of May 9 Is Calm Under Ordeal. Boston. With the appearanc of a man who had abandoned a hope of life , Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcl eson stood at the bar of justice an declared his guilt of the premeditate murder of his former sweetheart , Av ! Linnell. Then Judge Sanderson sei tenced him to death in the electri chair during the week beginning Ma 19. Richeson's counsel declared afte the proceedings that an appeal for e : ecutive clemency would follow see and that every effort would be mad to obtain life imprisonment instea of death as the punishment. Upo what ground the petition will be base has not yet been decided. Richeson made no statement H was in court for only about six mix utes. His face was pale , but he wa perfectly composed. He heard th death sentence with little apparen emotion. When brought into court h walked with slight assistance fror the officers who escorted him. Judge Sanderson read the statute bearing on the case and asked th prisoner if he realized the gravity o his action in pleading guilty , If he hai consulted counsel , and If he had actci voluntarily. To each question RIche eon said : "Yes , sir. " DRAKE FORTUNE PURE MYTt Persons Who Advanced Money to Ge Share of a Large Estate Are Losers. Bloomington , 111. Through the co aperation of the London Times , loca interests have made an investigatior 3f all the records obtainable in Greal Britain regarding the alleged estate ol 31r Francis Drake and the resull shows that numerous persons in the Jnited States who advanred money in in effort to get a share of a large for une might as well have invested in he South sea bubble. The results of the investigation , ; ummarized show : That the estate iresumably passed to the heirs under he will 315 years ago , and its present ralue is not known and cannot be istimated , but probably is not large. ? here is no litigation pending for set- lement and distribution of the estate , here are no heirs known to be in the Jnited States. IYNAMITE PLOT IS BARED rtie McManigal , State's Star Wit ness , Tells His Story to Indian apolis Grand Jury. Indianapolis. Whatever Ortie E. [ cManigal , confessed dynamiter , news about the complicity of others esides the McNamara brothers in the lowing up of more than 100 "open lop" structures in various sections : the country , in the last five or six jars , is believed to have been related f him in his preliminary story before ie federal grand jury. McManigal went before the jurors ter his written confession had been esented in detail. His testimony is to be taken espe- ally to show the guilt of others , if ere are any , who gave financial sup- irt to or participated in the crimes rected by J. J. McNamara. 3RIMER ON WITNESS STAND nator Makes Sweeping Denial of Any Use of Money in His Election. Washington. On the witness stand the first time since the senate com- ttee began its investigation of his iction , United States Senator Wil- m Loriraer of Illinois made a sweep- j denial of any knowledge that his iction was purchased. Lorimer testified that on November 1908 , he received a check for $500 mi F M. Blount , manager for Sena- Hopkins , who was a candidate for election , to assist Lorimer in his npaign for congress. Lorimer said returned the check. iLTSMORE GETS BIG MEET mocrats Select Maryland City 'for National Convention Which Will Assemble on June 25. Vashington. A certified check for i 0,000 and a promise of $150,000 t re secured for Baltimore the Demotic - . tic national convention. The date id is June 25. ) n the first ballot for the conven- i city the vote stood : Baltimore , St. Louis , 19 ; Chicago , 7 ; Denver , ind New York , 1. in the second ballot Baltimore re- red 29 votes ; St. Louis , 22. and Chi- o , 1. Only 26 votes were neces- y to a choice. Kentucky Bars Lobbyists , rankfort , Ky. The Kentucky legis- ire aimed a blow at lobbyists here adopting a rule excluding them n the floor. The operations of the rd house" at the former leglsla- ; s have been a scandal. French Minister Resigns , arls. Long-standing discussion in cabinet resulted in the resignation U. de Selves , minister of foreign irs. The minister and the premier 2 been openly hostile for several ks past ) , BAKING POWDER SCC ho-w mncli "better it mokes the baking SEE bow much more form in quality SEiii Iiotv pore horw good SEE ho-w economical smd.i SEE that you get Calumet > At youe * FQWR \ CHICAGO RECOGNIZED THE ACTION. . * , Little Nell I didn't know that they played "I Spy" in church , mamma. Mamma What do you mean , my child ? Little Nell Why , the preacher said ; "Let's Play , " and everybody held their hands up to their faces. Eager to See. "I have a poem here entitled 'Alone * with Nature , ' " said the sallow young- man with the long hair and the frayed , trousers. "It is a personal impres sion. " "Is it ? " replied the editor of the Chicago Record-Herald , as he hastily glanced at the opening lines. "Have- you ever been alone with nature ? " "I have , and , oh , it is glorious glo rious ! " "Here's a dime. Get on a tro'ley car and ride as far as you can. Go- back to nature and spend another- lour or two alone with her. You say you plucked the hazel blossoms by L.he stream. If you are able to lincL my place where you can do that let. ne know. I want to watch you \vhile- ou do it. " Swallowing Glory. The litle daughter of a well-known. Baltimore clergyman recently startled * : he family while at breakfast by sud- lenly exclaiming : "I'm full of glory ! " "What on earth do you mean , thild ? " the father hastened to ask. "Why , " exclaimed the youngster , "a * unbeam just got on my spoon , and 've swallowed it. " Wretchedness- * ' - 5 tion an quickly be overcome by ARTER'S LITTLE IYER PiLLS. Purely vegetable -act surely and CARTER'S sntly on the er. Cure JTTLE iliousness ! VER ead- PILLS. che , izzi- : cs , and Indigestion. They do their duty- > L\LL PILL , SMALL DOSE , SMALL PRICE , genuine must bear Signature * REMEMBER 'i for COUGHS L COLDS