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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1903)
" 9 31 THE NORFOLK NEWS : FRIDAY , JULY 8 , 1U03. Don't nlwnya think it's yon. It IB pretty hard to move In a crowd without treading on someone's lots , There in always trouble of omo sort Tying around. If yon are willing to go far enough and look hard enough for it , you will make the find. Some people are actually * o thin skinned that they do not dare to go and hear a sermon , because eve y time a boo is handed ont they think it incum bent npon them to put it on whether it flUi or not. A week or two I RO Fourth of July weather scorned to bo a long ways olT Init Nebraska has very often proven adequate to Buoh emergencies and the weather man is getting as patriotic as could bo desired. Bantos-Dumont has again been sue oossfnl in Mooring through the air ever ParU , but his achievement has not yet shown all the elements of safety that would induce a party of pleasure Bookers to take the trip with him. Speaking of Judge Boyd'i candidacy for ro-olootiou , the Wayco Democrat , whioh.iB politically as its name indicates , Bftys : "Tho Democrat believes that Judge I3oyd has given general satiflfao tiou and ho will undoubtedly bo kept on the bench. " Editor llttso of Tint Nourouc NEWS is increasing the size of his print shop and adding some costly machinery. Brer Huso is ono Nebraska newspaper man who rnus his business on business prln oiplos and prosperity is the result. Fro- wont Tribune. In spite of the Commoner , Mr. Bryan appears to bo rapidly passing and will BOOH bo as little known and mentioned M "Coin" Hurvoy , Oharllo Towuo Toiler , Potttgrow , Teller and others The best indication of this is the manner the democrats have of dodging his name The Nebraska Irish potato appears to realize that there is trouble among the "ancestry" on the auld sod , and is put ting forth extra efforts to supply anj delinquency thnt the harvest may re veal in this year's crop. If the proson prospects indicate anything it is thai this state will have potatoes for tin world and part of Ireland. "With the city investing several then sand dollars on public improvement , in addition to what the national govern meiit is doing and the state is supposed to bo doing , former residents wil scarcely recoguizo in progressive , np to-dato Norfolk the town from which is emerging all. the requisites and the details of a city. In a year or two fron now all indications are that the city will bear little resemblance to what has boon for n number of years past. It is fortunate that when it is dis covered that any department of th government is permeated with fraui and crookedness the people have a rep rcsontativo at the liead of the govern mout in whom they have implicit con fldoiico one to whom the leas suspicion does not attach , and one wh may bo depended on to investigate an prosecute regardless of who may b caught in the not. President Roosovol ia such a man aud Inn a record fo cleaning ont rottenness in high places Nothing would please the friends o the Northwestern more than to have it become- ono of the trans-continental lines and the rumors that it is to build west from Oasper are received with the hope that they may be true. No great railway system has more and firmer .friends than the Northwestern , aud no .system has loss trouble with its em ployes. It is conducted on business principles and its patrons would be highly plQased to bo able to do their Business with the coast through and .over it. The democrats aud populists may fuse on the state ticket and have fused on the date for holding the conven tions , but failed to unite on loca tions. The democrats will meet at Oolnmbns and the populists at Grand Island. This is probably meant to get rid of that all night session in getting together which has distinguished former fusion conventions. Both parties have evidently had plenty of that long wait for the white winged dove of unity , with committees visiting back and forth jat intervals not very wide apart. Indications are that unless the negro learns to behave in a civilized manner ho will find the north as well as the south the enemy's country. Northern negroes as a rule are industrious and well-behaved , and it is the one fresh from the south who usually occasions trouble to his own detriment aud that of his race. There is opportunity for the negro if he will take it and many of the race are improving such opportunity advantageously , but it is useless for him to consider that his liberties are to be greater than that accorded the white man. There are a few populists in favor of continuing the fusion program , and one of these is T. If. Tibbies , who argues that inasmuch as Nebraska is the only state that maintains a populist organiza- tiou and is the only BtMo that hoi con tinued to fnflo with the democrats , fns- ion ia good for what ails the party and it should contlnnojto tnko it in liberal doHCB Imforo and after meals. Probably the republicans itand an good a thauco for an election M they do in any nlato where the populist party is plumb dead , and if they are fatlnftod , the people will be , without r doubt. Uncle Sam is ono of the best employ * irs. The mnn on his pay roll are never uown to go on a strike. Norfolk tfows. And ho IB ono of the firmest employ- r . Ilia employed don't dictate how ho hall run his buniiicflB. They are per * 'cctly ' free to strike or quit whenever hey choose , but they can't strike and old their jobs at the panic time. When hey strike they quit , and that is the ml of it. And , as the Nuws points ont , hey never "strike , " although thonimndB ijnlt when they can do hotter elsewhere. That's a pretty good rule for all cm- iloyes to follow. Lincoln Star. If thoHO who are exerting thomnolvfB o BIVVC the lifo of Murderer llhoa had tartod earlier they might have accom- ilUhed something. The tlmo for theme o have commenced was when Ilhca was accumulating criminal instincts that would load to murder. Their Influence hould have boon directed toward av- ug the lifo of Ilhea's victim and inci dentally his own. As it ( ! B they may 'all ' , but there nro thousands of others whoso bent is in the same direction that od to Ilhoa's conviction. Theno they might save by beginning in time , and by the Fame action they mijiht bo able o save the lives of their prospective in nocent victims , by directing them in mtliB that load to reform , rather thane o a murderer's coll. It is awful to bo compelled to hang a man for murder , but it is more awful to have men with murder in their hearts assume the terri ble responsibility of taking the lives of other and innocent persons. The calling of the county convention , while it will have nothing to do with the nominations for county offices , has started the county political pot to sim mering some v ith premise for au inter- eating campaign when the time actually arrives. Already candidates are de claring their intention of seeking the various offices at the hands of one party or the other , aud lu some instances there are two or more candidates in each party for ono office. When this is the case , the thing to do would bo for the candi dates to got together and not hamper their party with a fight in the ranks , leaving all the strength of the organiza tion to combat the mutual enemy , and clearing the way for a party victory. With the republicans the dominant party in the oounty.thoy may experience the most pronounced pro-convention contest - test and to keep their prestige it is par ticularly necessary for them to moot the opposition with a united front. Pavlnfi and 1'rogrsa. The protrrotsivo spirit is very apparent ont Norfolk this spring , and should bo encouraged and directed in the right channels. Business men aud property owners appear to bo ready to do any thing within reason for the advancement of the city aud if they are convinced that an advantage will accrue to the town from auy certain public improve meut they will not bo slow to favor it. One of the first things that should bo done is to pave the principal business streets. There are no up-to-dnto cities but have paved streets , and in almost every lustiuco the investment has prov en profitable to the town aud to the property. After a towu has expert encod the benefits of paving nothing could induce it to return to the old dirt roads and mudholes. It has been the experience of other cities that when pav ing is once started there is no difficulty at all in extending it , and the person who has lived in a city with paved streets finds scant inducement for investment or residence in towns whore paving is unknown. Norfolk should certainly pavo. It is not nocessarv to go to au extreme , but the business streets should thus be improved , by all moans , aud other streets could bo cared for as occasion demands , and after the paving in the business part baa boon given a fair trial as to benefits and results. It will be quite au expensive investment , but the value that will be added to the property will more than meet the ex pense and add eorne for good measure. Norfolk has as good location aud as good a start towards making a city as any town in the state , and with the sort of enterprise that paves streets and otherwise adds to the appearance and convenience of the city , it cannot help but develop and prosper. The improve ments already being made are attract ing state-wide attention , and the right sort of effort will bring it to the atten tion of the eutiro country with much accruing benefit. The time for Norfolk to begin improving is now. It is the jcar of growth , achievement aud pros perity for the city , aud the work of pav ing should not be delayed. CltUens in no Hurry. Architect James Tyler , jr. , is busily engaged on half a dozen or rnoro dif ferent jobs for the stato. The board of publio lauds and buildings has in structed him to first look after repairs that must be done to protect the build ings already standing before attempt ing plans for new buildings. The most important now structure is the hospital for the insane at Norfolk. This is to cost § 100,000. Recently it wns reported in the uowopaporB that tbo people of isorfolk voro importuning the state board to commence work , but a mom * bor of the board IB authority for the statement that the citizen * are not ready for It yet and nro in no haste. The board will probably not begin work on the building until next year. Re pairs nro badly needed at the institu tions at Grand Inland , HantlugB and Kearney. State Treasurer Mosorvo Bays ho considers the school for girls at Gouova one of the beat buildings owned by the tate State Journal , 20. The oar marks of the above indicate that there la some orndo reporter on the Journal staff who has volumes aud vol umes to learn before ho is entitled to pose OB a journalist. It indicates in the first place that the alleged interview with "a member of the board" was at eng range , for it would not bo possible n view of what the board knows of the itnation and the dorires of Norfolk , to ick ont n member so demo as to make inch an absurd statement and hope to mvo the people who have the Rlightcst knowledge of foots believe it. The board therefore evidently misrepresented. The general characteristics of the item wo further exposed by the foot that State Treasurer "Mosorvo" IB quoted. iVnyouo holding residence in Nebraska , T infinitely worse , in the capital city f the state , who would make such a ; laring error as this should not attempt o Bay what the members of the state board believe , or what the desires of ho people of Norfolk aro. Then , again , .ho Norfolk hospital for the insane is ipokou of as a "now structure" aud the doa is convoyed that there is no prop rty on the site to bo benefited by im mediate repairB , when the fact is there a state property worth thousands of dollars hero that needs immediate care o prevent loss of value. And the board is quoted as not con emplatiug the beginning of work here before next year , which is very absurd u view of the fact that late in May a delegation of Norfolk citizens , among whom was the writer , secured the prom so of members that the matter would bo taken up at once and that at the mooting of the board early in Juno there should bo action and the state architect started on the work. But by far the most absurd statement u the alleged interview is that "the citizens ( of Norfolk ) are not ready for t yet and are in no haste. " Immediately after the fire which destroyed stroyed the institution almost two years ago , the people of Norfolk attempted energetically to prevent oven the tem porary abandonment of the institution but wo "aro in no hasto. " The people hero offered to help care for the patients after the fire until re pairs to the hospital could bo made but wo "aro in no haste. " The city hired men to protect the state's property and assist the attend ants in looking after the patients but wo "aro in no hasto. " We protested long and loud against the removal of the patients and the fur niture and supplies but wo "are iu no haste. " The first objection to the Savage regime gimo originated in Norfolk on account of his vacillating and ovunivo attitude toward the hospital , TUB Nuws taking np the fight ngaluKt _ him later when it became apparent that ho was determined to remove the hospital as far as in his power lay. IIo was so effectually re tlrod that his uamo was hardly men tiouod iu the succeeding convention of the party but Norfolk is "in no haste. North Nebraska supported Norfolk on the rebuilding proposition to au extent that was very apparent in the republican can convention , aud that had a vital in fluence in uamiug the candidate for governor but they "nro in no hasto. " Goveruor Mickey was induced to in corporate a paragraph iu his message urging the rebuilding of the hospital but we "are in no haste. " Tno matter of the appropriation was so conducted iu the legislature that there was scarcely any opposition in that body but we "aro in no haste. " Committee after committee of Nor folk people visited the state house , spending their time and money to secure its passage , during the pendency of the bill bnt we "aro in no haste. " The efforts of the people resulted in the attaching of an emergency clause to the measure , so that it would not be necessary to wait until the first of July before work could commence , but tbe fact that up to the present moment not a thing has been done must indicate that we "are in no hasto. " Delegations and individuals have called on the state board to urge them to immediate action , informing them that the appropriation was available on tbe first of April bnt we "are in no has'o. " The question frequently asked by the , people of everyone from Lincoln is the status of the rebuilding plans bnt we "are in no haste. " No , we "aro in no haste. " The strenuous efforts of the people of Nor folk and the friends throughout north Nebraska were all made so that at the leaisuro of the board , when no other matters are occupying publio attention they could put in a little spare time figuring ou how to rebuild the hospita but auy old time will do us we "aro iu no hasto. " What Norfolk has to do to get ready for the building and what means may bo taken to indicate that wo are anxious to have work commenced wil bo taken up at the next meeting of the literary society but wo "are in no hasto. " The Bontlmrnt in fhv > r of paving Norfolk's streets is right and a way will bo found to nccompllsh this desirable improvement. No opposition to the inovcinont ) ms boon noted , which is n itrong argument for progresslvoncBS in , ho city. The democrats appear to hope thnt the poRtal investigations will extend ever into next year and afford thorn a pretext for naming a candidate in oppo sition to Preflldont Roosevelt , but with that gentleman in the executive chair they have scant hopes for such a realiz ation. Ho is abundantly capable of din * posing of the scandal effectually and at an early dato. The Iowa democrats mot a few days ago and disposed of the Bryan and free silver ideas , being ouo of the first Hear * vontlons of the year to tnko n step to * ward reorganization. Thin week the republicans will moot and dispose of the Iowa idea" of tariff reform. In the first named convention there was a breaking away from existing party con ditions ; in the latter the effort will bo made to get in closer tonch with exist ing party conditions a distinction and a difference. When Norfolk's census was taken in 1000 there were a largo number of vacant louses , Since then many have been built and ( till inquiries for rentable property are heard every day and there appears to bo no immediate hope that all the people who want to make this city their homo can bo comfortably housed. Now houses in desirable loca tions are routed almost before the foun dations are laid. It is an era of growth and progress , and tenant houses are proving to be good investments. What appears to strike the Germans at Kiel as the most peculiar thing abont the American jack tnrs who are visiting there is that they take carriages and cabs while viewing the city. It was probably supposed there that carriages and cabs wore the exclusive luxury of the rich until the American sailors proved to them that oven a poor man might spend his money in that manner. American sailors and others not born with silver spoons in their mouths might , if they would learn how to at tain a competence , taking note of the economy of the Germans who save their quarters and half-dollars and walk when the distances are nut long. An English writer fears that the Americans are destined to degenerate into a savage race resembling the In dians whom they have supplanted. The recent outrage at Wilmington , and the assertion that the young men of Amer ica are developing the "high cheek bones , piercing eyes , straight nose , hol low cheeks , long , active limbs" that were the characteristics of the Aborig inal Americans , leads the writer to as sume that the climate and other charac teristics of the American continent tend toward this result. The fact that he says nothing about the yoang women leads to the conclusion that American beauties and their dollars will continue to bo sought after by the Englishmen whoso only boast is an ancestry and an estate , which they lack the money and ability to care for. Tnn NOUTOLK NUWB predicts that Norfolk will add fully ouo thousand uion , women and children to her already swelling population before the first snow storm. Some one must have been put ting up a story and a half cottage over in Norfolk to call forth such a warm prophesy as the above. Nebraska City Tribune. Yes , Norfolk has put np n story and a half house , and ouo or two that were full two stories , but this does not tell the entire story. The News is confident that the improvements now under way and that will soon be started here will amount to more in money invested and actual good to the city than those of any town in the state , with the exception of Omaha , and perhaps Lincoln , Nebraska Oity not oxcepted. And the prophesy of a thousand additional inhabitants is more likely to be underestimated than overdrawn. Nebraska Oity need well fear for her laurels as one of the cities claiming to be third in the state , because Norfolk is after them and has the loca tion and country surrounding to some day get them , but.it will do no good for the Otoo town to merely grow jealous and sarcastic. The Yank ton , Norfolk and South western is to be heard from no more , forever , except In ojreoord way when the property of that road is transferred to the Yankton and Golf railway , articles of incorporation for which have been filed with the secretary of state of South Dakota. The dispatch gives it out that this road is to extend from the northern boundary of South Dakota to Port Ar thur , on the Gulf of Mexico , which un doubtedly contemplates the use of the grade between Norfolk and Yankton , and Mr. Miller of the Yankton , Norfolk and Southwestern , is one of the directors of the new corporation. Such a route would seem to be both feasible and practical and it would not be at all sur prising if ono should bo built to permit Port Arthur and Gulf points to com pete with the eastern markets for the products of one of the moat fertile sec tions of country in the world. Other roads for that destination have been planned , but they have seemed to lack the necessary force to push them through to completion. It is to bo hoped that the Yanktou and Gulf will develop the uccoRsary capital and force to bring it to a realization. It will have abundant obstacles to encounter in overcoming the opposition that is certain to develop from the roada that are feeders to the ooflt , as they will not bo expected to sit snpinoly by and permit competitive business to bo built np in their best ter ritory , but it has boon proven frequently that whore there's a will there's n wy , and such n line offers flattering induce ments to capitalists who are independent of eastern influences. The fusion press is early , loudly and continuously deploring the fact that Nebraska is in the grip of the railroads and that the corporations are monarchs of all they survey. Their grief for the clear people knows no assuaging , and some of them have given np all hopes that the commonwealth will ever be redeemed. They are almost ready to fold their bauds and allow this horrible condition of affairs to take the state and the people and the little children to the domuitiou bowwows. " The futnro looks gloomy to them and they fail to BOO oven a silver lining to the cloud of their despair. The pictures painted by them are done in pessimisto colors , and the frame work is of blood and tears and groans and sighs , ground out of the prostrate bodies of a subjugated and servile people. The warrant for this silly clap-trap and twaddle is not far to discover. There is an election for supreme jnge this fall and the fn- sinuists propose to have a candidate for the office. They at first proposed that the people should flock gaily to the sup port of said candidate by desiring that it should bo a non-partisan affair and his election nnanimons. There were too many however , who imagined that there might bo a taint of partisan ship in it even with a fusionist on the ticket alone. Failing in this they have started to wall and moan and tear their hair because of "corporate influence" and their lamentation is heard through out the state , but somehow it seems to bo unheeded and for a very peculiar reason. The fact is that the court they wish to redeem is and has been for two years a fusion court and it is proposed to renominate on the fusion ticket the fnsionist whose term expires this year , and some of the people fail to see how the state may be redeemed by reelecting - electing the same court. Some of the more exacting seem to believe that if the state is in the grip of the octopuses with a fusion court in office , that court comes in for a share of the arraignment , and if the arraignment holds good now , they are given to conjecture and sur- m'so ' as to how a re-election of the retir ing member wll operate to change it. Such people are undoubtedly too exact ing abont insisting that facts should justify with the arguments put forth , but nevertheless they will be found to be.stubborn in their position and will go right ahead voting the republican ticket and for the republican nominee. Later on will come exhibits to sustain the fusion position , and if they succeed in proving that the state is really under the thumb of the avoracious and soulless railroads , people will somehow continue to believe that a fusion supreme court Is sustaining a share of the blame. Nevertheless the frothing at the month of the fusion press will continue to be watched with > erne interest. So let the war go on , and when the proper time comes vote the republican ticket. Situation in Haytl Disquieting. Port au Prince , Hayti , Juno 30. Th situation here Is disquieting. The for eign minister and the minister of the interior have resigned and no suc cessor has yet been appointed to suc ceed the late minister of finance , who resigned because he was opposed to prosecuting the inquiry into the finan cial scandal. In an address to the sol- dlers of the guards. President Nerd vigorously denounced the attitude of the senate , the chamber and the national - tional bank as being opposed to his administration. The president shouted "down with the chambers. " Many Bodies Extricated. Madrid , June 30. By midnight 100 bodies had been extricated from the wreck of the Bilbao train , which was overturned Saturday night from a bridge into the Nejerllla river , and it s estimated that seventy corpses re main in tbo wreckage. The bodies are horribly mutilated. Differences be tween the civil end military authori ties rendered the work of rescue more difficult. That many prosperous per sons are among the victims is testi fied by the great quantity of money end jewelry collected by gendarmes. King Peter's Troubles Begin. London , Juno 30. The Times' corre spondent at Belgrade telegraphs that at yesterday's sitting the skupshtina demanded that the new government ahould present itself to the chamber , but the government declined to do so on the ground that the ministry was the same as that previously approved by the skupshtina. The Independent radicals demanded dissolution and an Immediate election. The situation , concludes the correspondent , Is not clear , and King Peter's troubles have begun. Colorado Mountain Totters. Ouray , Colo. , Juno 30. An immense landslide 1,000 feet wide came down from the main range into Silver creek basin , beyond and between the Revenue nuo and Camp Bird mines. The whole top of tbo mountain broke oft , and an other section of the mountain looks as if Itwould break off. The slides are caused by melting of the jleep snow. 'J w S I V f | W ° * tiu to HMA\OH 'SJJ.OOS ldum jj to ] puss auioipnui u jo I JUtf ) St UOtpB SJI 'S3AJ3U Otl | OJ Xupads3 | [ 'sanssp ' atp o ) ipSuajjs Avail 3utAj3 jo 'Djipcldu Sut t- JOJS3J jo j'antmi oqj ut joX puy uoputnu pajjod JGJ Xjicoijuqcl ma os sptrejs jt osnuoaq pooj v NOisinwa S.ILOOS jrcD o ) } soq 3Jjt | 3AV Independent Packing Company is Organized. CONCERN HAS $1,750,010 IN SIGHT- Many Wealthy Stockmen In the West Are Interested In the Venture East ern Retailers and Labor Unions Also * Among the Stockholders. Kansas City , June 30. Representa tives of the United States .Packing company , organized under tho' laws of Colorado In October , 1902 , to compete- with the beef trust , so-called , arrived in Kansas City to consider the ques tion of establishing a million dollar packing plant here. According to Charles F. Martin , secretary of thd company , ? 1,750,000 has already been subscribed. James H. Peabody , gov ernor of Colorado , Is president of the- United States company , which sprang from agitation started at the conven tion of the National Live Stock asso ciation In Kansas City last June , when. John W. Springer , president of the as sociation , stated that if the packing- , companies merged an independent company would be organized. John Dickey , the general manager of the new concern , said : "We have worked quietly In the organization of the new company and now wo have It on a firm basis. Much of the $1,750- 000 secured ia from small investors. Many of the wealthiest stockmen of the west and southwest are In the con cern. I have just returned from the- f east , where wo have interested many t- of the small retailers , and also labor unions. Ono labor union in the east subscribed for $26,000 worth of stock. Thus wo have with us the cattlemen , who produce the stock , and the re tailers and consumers. " Looks Dark for Barrlngton. St. Louis , June 30. Closely guarded in a cell of the St. Louis county Jail at Clayton. F. Seymour Barrlngton , charged with the murder of James P- McCann , believed to have been com mitted on the night of June 18 , spent the greater part of the day under closo- questioning. Conductor Bennett and Motorman Oelllan , street car men. Identified Barrlngton and McCann a the two men who left their car at Bon- fils station on the night of Juno 18.- It was near this point that the body of a dead man , identified as that of McCann , was found. According to the authorities , Barrlngton has made a damaging admission in that ho first dcclarod that ho and McCann had fought some men In the darkness and now ho says he and McCann were alone that night and mot no men. Street Car Service Resumed. Kansas City , Juno 29. Street cars crossed the Kansas river about noon , connecting the two cities , after an in terruption of exactly four weeks , caused by the great flood. Armourdale is now easy of access , but Argentine will bo cut off for weeks yet. Ther Is still no wagon bridge across the Kansas river , but two will bo com pleted this week. Cleveland Combats White Plague. Cleveland , June 29. What is said to bo the first municipal tuberculosis sanitarium in this country will bo opened here tomorrow. All patients In the city hospital under treatment for tuberculosis will be removed to the now institution and treated accordIng - Ing to the latest scientific methods. Double Tragedy at Lowell. Lowell , Mass. , Juno 29. Joseph Lament - mont , a railway clerk , shot and dan gerously wounded Georglanna Goddu fl of Winchester and Dr. Adelaide Pay- ette of this city and is .still at large. The shooting was the outcome of La ment's Infatuation for Miss Goddu. Dark Hair " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for a great many years , and al though I am past eighty years of age , yet I have not a gray hair in my head. " Geo. Yellott , Towson , Md. We mean all that rich , dark color your hair used to have. It it's gray now , no matter ; for Ayer's Hair Vigor always re stores color to gray hair. Sometimes it makes the hair grow very heavy and long ; and it stops falling of tne hair , too. $1.00 a fcotlle * Alt If yonr druggist cannot supply you , send ua ouo dollar aud wo ulll express you a bottle. Do mtro and give the immo of your nearest express olllco. Address , J. C. AVIIU CO. , Lowell , Maea.