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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1904)
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Ue t for SUoep allmetitM. ahvayn given Hatlnfaclloiu driven out all liillaiiiinallun. PASSING NORFOLK TWENTY-FIVE EVERY DAY. THE JAIL IS FILLED EACH NIGHT Curious Type of Humanity , WanderIng - Ing up the Line nnd Back Again. What They Do With the Old Pa pers They Come After. The police In Norfolk arc just now jumping sideways trying to keep oven with the tramps anil hoboes who light In Norfolk , the gateway , onrotito to the Kosobud country. Chief Kane os tinnitus the number who have passed through the city ( hiring the past ten days , at twenty-live per day. During the hot parts of the afternoon , the bums llo around In groves and play cards , or make themselves scarce In other parts of the city. Every morn ing early , after the jallful of them lias boon turned out of the steel cag es , a procession Is started out of 'town , and the tramp , tramp , tramp be- gl s. s.One One of the rough follows dropped Into The News yesterday. "Could yocs please glmmo some old polporsV" said his highness. It Is queer how many tramps drop Into a newspaper olllce for "a few ex changes. " Ho was given a pack big enough to load a thirteen-lnch gun with , and started away , the papers under his arm. "What do you do with those old papers ? " asked the tramp editor. "What docs wo do wld'em ? " says he , with the toughest , heartiest laugh that any actor over uttered. "What does we do wld 'em , broth er ? " says ho. "Why wet d'ye sup pose we does wid 'om ? What did ye suppose wo does wld 'em , brother ? " The tramp shifted from one foot to the other and shifted his little eyes , too , from one corner of the celling to the lloor. "Why , we reads 'em , brother. Wo reads 'em , y'know. Ye see that's what we does wld "em. We reads 'em. " "Fess up , " says the tramp editor. "Now Isn't It a fact that you use those papers to deceive the cops ? " "Well , pard , " ventured his tramp- fffi tlom , "If ye come right down it , we I y' does use 'em for several tings , ye see. Now some uses 'em for some tings , ye know , an" some uses "em for other tings. In do foist place , we reads 'em , pard , and dat's straight goods , too. If wo git a car to ride in , we reads 'em on do troin. And den we likes tor have suthln to make an up holstered seat of , ye see. "Cut do real reason , pard and dis Is on do q. t. do real reason why wo get old polpers , Is tor fool de cops , ye see. Nof if a copper comes along an' sees a feller readin' a polper , ho don't chuck de feller so quick as when do feller is lookin" in at de win ders. An' we uses 'em ter wrap up tings in different tings we gets along de road , ye see. Dat's right , too. Oh , some uses polpers fer some tings , an' some uses 'em fer others , but I like to get up alongside de woi- ter wagon now and den , ye see , and tor get deyar news. Like to read about how meny of de poor cholldren got hlowed in Hell Gate dis week. Used to own de General Sloc'm , my self. " "Where are you going ? " was asked. "Boncsteel , " says he. "What will you do when you get there ? " "Turn around and come back , " says ho. This morning there came a hurry- up call from the residence portion of North Tenth street , announcing to the police that a beggar who was making the rounds had caused a good deal of disturbance and requesting assistance. Chief Kane went out to the place and after ho had been elud ed for a long time , finally succeeded in capturing the tough and landing him in jail. Wanted In this vicinity at once , reliable man to act as our representa- tlve. Wo can furnish bank refer- encos. A pleasant , well paying sltua * tlon and sure money. Address at once , HIdgway Remedy Co. , 20 Fren- zor block , Omaha , Neb. Dr. L. C. nielck , X-Ray and Thurra- peutic Laharatory. Robertson , block , Norfolk , Nob. 'Phono Black 250. Wabash Railroad. Now world's fair trains dally. Leave Omaha at 7:13 : a. m. , 0:30 : p. m. ; leave Council Bluffs at 8:00 : a. m. , 0:45 : p. m. ; arrive world's fair station at 7:35 : p. m. , 7:00 : a. m. ; ar rive St. Louis at 7:50 : p. m. , 7:15 : a. m. ; leave St. Louis at 7:30 : p. m. , 9:00 : a , m. ; leave world's fair station at 7:45 : p. m. , 9:15 : a. m. ; arrive Coun cil muff * at S or , a m . S : IT. p in . urrhr Oinalui ui SUM a m . ' . ' on p in. Compare tills time \\lih other lines. .lune M. new train service will be established between St. Louis and Plttshurg , Pa. , and Chicago and Pitts- burg over the Wabaah II. ' II. The Wabnsh lands all passengers at and checks baggage to its own stn- tlon at main entrance of world's fair grounds. Think what this means : quick time , extra car fare saved , and a delightful trip and you are not all tired out before entering the exposi tion grounds. All agents can route you via the Wabasb H. ] { . For beau tiful world's fair ( older and all Information mation address , Hiiro 1C Moore * . G A P. H Wab U U . Om.ilm HAVE NORFOLK BUSINESS MEN BEEN RATED TOO HIGH ? REASON FOR INVESTIGATION Meeting of Business Men Is Called at the City Hall Wednesday Evening to Reorganize Commercial Club and Look Into Assessment. Norfolk needs a commercial club. The need is greater today than It has been before for years. Norfolk Is up against a proposition right now that requires the careful and business-like consideration of such an organization , and that Is the assessment that has Just been completed. The need is Imperative whatever is to bo done must be done within the next two or three days or the time will have passed when any effort will prove ef fective. It has boon suggested that a meeting of business men be held at the city hall tomorrow evening and that an attempt be made to reorga nize the club. The assessment of Norfolk precinct just completed gives some startling figures , which , while they may be all right , should be carefully investigated by a committee representing the busi ness interests of the city. The as sessed vauations in Norfolk this year and last are as follows : Inside city limits : 1903 1901 Personal $75,183 $193,591 Lands 11,193 12,533 Lots 231,205 251,801 Total inside city limits 317,043 401,108 Outside city limits : Personal 42,577 57,157 Lands 113,700 172,188 Lots 13,394 15,082 Total outside city limits 109,737 21C.C27 Total in the precinct 4S7.3SO 707,735 Tills gives an increase of 45 per cent in the valuation of all property in the precinct , apportioned as follows : Inside city limits : Heal estate 10 per cent : personal 100 per cent. Out side city limits : Real estate 40 pot- cent ; personal 33 per cent. The figures prove that Norfolk busi ness men will pay very much more than their just share of the taxes or else there was a lot of tax shirkers here last year. It was expected that the valuations would Increase under the now law and that there would be considerable property uncovered that had heretofore escaped taxation , but it is hardly reasonable to supKse | that there Is the difference in actual val ues shown by the returns. The board of equalization Is now in session at Madison and if an in justice has been done Norfolk busi ness men now is the time to have it righted. After the board of equali zation adjourns , which will be within a few days , there is no power to open the matter up and it will have to stand. Business men as a class are willing to pay their fair proportion of taxes but It certainly appears that there is something wrong somewhere. This Is where the necessity of a commercial club comes in. Coming as it does , It Is not a matter where any Individual can do anything of consequence. It should be investigat ed by a committee authorized to dose so , and in the present sleeping condi tion of the commercial club there is no one to appoint such a committee. The committee should be sent to Mad ison to meet with the board of equal ization not later than Thursday. It is therefore necessary if any thing is to be done that It bo done at onco. A meeting of business men Is called to meet at the city hall Wednesday evening , Juno 22 , for the purpose of reorganizing the commercial club and to appoint a committee to inves tlgato the assessment , If it is deemed advisable. Bngrared calling and weddlne In citations at The Nawa office. WILLIE STAHL LOSES LIFE IN EIKHORN RIVER. SEARCHING YET FOR THE BODY Sanl < In Deep Hole Which Is Filled With Brush and Twigs , Which Make It Perilous to Attempt to Dive. Hooks and Boats Fall to Rescue. Fourteen-year old Willie Stnlil , son of Mrs. Katherlne Siahl. who lives al 13" South Fourth street , went In lilt ili-nth In the Hlkhorn rher yetertlu > itternoon , near the Fred Knmt/ larni southwest < lf this rlty. In cum pany with fl\e other boys > oung Stahl who had gone to the Kraut/ farm for he Sunday afternoon , went Into the river for a swim , unbeknown to people ple at the Kraulz home. It was nil hour and a half after the drowning iccuiTe.d , before word of the acci dent could bo obtained from the boys who saw the lad go down. Search all Night. Search was begun a little after ( i o'clock yesterday afternoon and con tinued from then until today , without locating the drowned boy. Until sun set a large crowd pressed upon the bank , eager to locate the lost son of the stricken widow in this city , but all efforts proved unavailing. And then a search was set up that lasted all through the moonlit night. A brother of the boy who swam to his death , together with Gus Werner , M , Huntlngton and others , worked con tinuously and unceasingly from dark ness until dawn and when the sun came up today It looked down upon a river's channel which still hold the little body and refused to give up Its dead. At S o'clock this morning , without a wink of sleep , that party together with other aid , wont back to the fatal spot , with more ropes and more grap pling hKks and more boats , to work again for the recovery. River is High. The spot where the lad met death s deep just now. The Elkhorn river ms been rising rapidly since yestcr- lay noon and on this account the vork grew more anil more difficult. The searchers do not believe that the jody has been carried ten feet away from the place of drowning. Although the current Is Intensely swift at this > oint , the water swirls against the innk and digs out an immense hole , nto which no' man can safely go. The searching party dived for the emains , but so perilous Is the work liat in catching in the underbrush , ) tie might more easily lose his life than not. Into the Elkhorn river about a mile above the Union Pacific railroad > ridge. the little crowd of boys went swimming. At the farm it was not jnown that they had gone. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krantz drove by the place uid could see the merry makers splashing and diving and tossing about In the foaming current of the rising river. An hour later Mr. and Mrs. Krantz returned to the bend In the river the swimming hole , was silent. No noise rose up from the waters' edge : no laughing boys batted water into each other's faces , for the whole crowd had left the place ap parently and all , In fact , except the 11-year-old lad whose cold , lifeless form lay at the bottom of the stream. Boys at First Deny. Mr. Krantz was alarmed at the sud den silence. Inquiry from the com rades , who had crawled into the woods near the bank , gave no clew at iir&t. "Where is Willie ? " asked the broth er of the boy , who had gone also to the "arm for a visit , but who had not gone swimming. "Wo don't know , " replied the boys "Ho must have gone homo. " And they turned heel and left the place The Indefinite answer and their pe culiar actions was not enough to sat isfy the wondering brother. "What's the matter ? " ho demanded. And then It was that the little fel lows , half frightened to death thorn solves at what they had seen , admit ted that while swimming together Willie had dived Into the current come up once and then sunk for the last time. After that they had never seen him again. So frightened were they over the affair that when they saw persons ap preaching , they had taken Wllllo'B clothing from the river bank and hid den the trousers and shirt and coa Inside of a nearby barn. And not un til the older brother , who is nineteen years old , had hunted around and lo cated the clothing , could they be made to admit the truth of the mat tor. When they had pointed out th spot , they ran away , still scared eve the death that had occurred befor their eyes. The little mother , when word wa ' inii"l I 1,1 her nl tindiniMi'im ' of hi-i I' ' > \ u is pmsiiiiloil eoniplclcU The i \ ice- * nl a p'lxslclun ' were nece- . , ii \ in i t'More her. and nil night lour lie suffered Intensely from being no iiiliU-nly stricken. She Is In qulto a fiIons condition. Besides the mother there tire two ii'other.s and n sister of the drowned io > carl , lllnehart and Agnes. The > was n grandson of 1'r. ( Irueii- ' .ild. who has a shoe repnlrltiK shop n the Heels blork. A number of men went nut this uornlng lo aid In the search. I.line explosions and ihnnmlte lm\e ' n resorted to. The lather of the drowned lies W.lii ' MI Hut linuinn. In . In MM ( leva ! ! .11 I III STRENUOUS WORK OF GETTING THAT BOAT STORY. LICKING WIRES GIVE FLASH. nper Had Been Started , Was Taken From the Press , Remade With the New Telegram in Place , and Read a Half Hour Later. It \\iis just a week ago today that i big excursion steamer General Sloeum sailed out along ISast river. n New Vork City with nearly J.oon Sunday schoi 1 excursionists aboard , aunht lire , burned to Ibo walor't ) due and had killed , either In llame r wave- , before assistance could be secured , practically 1.000 of HIOHO wsseti-jorH. Today , a full week af- orward , there are silll approximate- y : ; un persons missing from the list if those who went out on the trip , uul moie than 700 bodies have been ecovered from the bull of the inraed vessel or from the swlltly mining waters of the treacherous Iver. Occurring as that terrible and hor- ible disaster did occur , shortly be- 'ore noon of last Wednesday , a great many people have wondered and in iuire'1 ' within the week how it was 'losHlhle far The News , which went o press In tlmo to catch 1 o'clock rains out of the city , to toll of the atastmplie. That was the case how- ? ver , and perhaps the manner of landllng so remarkable a news story within so short a space of time , and he tale of the strenuous work that was required , may be of no little In- eresl to the public In general. Heloro noon the General Slueiim < alled fiom the pier In Now Vork city , bound for an all day's trip. When die had got to the point known as Hell Gate , some tlmo later , the boat suddenly caught lire and the captain began steering toward a lumber yard. telephone message was sent to the police headquarters and very quickly there wore olllcers and newspaper re porters on band. But oven after the discovery of the burning boat was made , It was no oa.sy matter to get news to the Associated Press olllco and to news paper olllces without taking a little tlmo. Details were hard to get and the excitement of It all was horrible. As that boat burned , the noon edi tion of The News was being prepared for the press. At the usual hour the forms wore locked and sent to the press room for printing. A rumble from below announced the fact that the work was started , and that with no word of a Now York lire. Suddenly a Flash. The press had rolled but a moment , scarcely , when a telegraph Instriimen1 clicked. It was suddenly a Hash of an electric spark which came from New York. "A catastrophe occurred on East river today , " it said , "when the excursion steamer General Slo- cum , hearing about a thousand wo men and children , caught fire near Hell Gate and burned. Many per ished. " Something Doing Then. There was something doing then. Instantly for the minute that the story caught the eye of the tele graph editor , It was realized that a great bit of news was at hand an electric button was pushed which sounded in the ear of the pressman two floors below , and gave him a sig nal to stop the wheels. Then , while one man prepared the copy for the linotype machine , another wrote the headlines and still a third drew back the form of the first page and tore a hole In the first column. The fourth man was the typesetter operator , who played his fingers witli Intense speed over the keyboard and cast the pen picture of that awful tragedy Into very hot metal typo. The work was done with a rush. There was not a mlnuto to lose. To the last Instant the forms had been hold in the lirst place and this later was delaying the game. One minute or two wight bo the cause of missing a train. Every second , every Instant mill i > l li < l I he ill ' I | | i , illi'i Moic Dftciil-j. \ ' . \ Hie ( line Ilie III I . ' . UII- , I'll'I lulu I \ | ie ulilell \\n > - ) I U n mltiilles htin' rloeU Hie Icleuniph wires lieiMtl to pour Illnl'e details Illln the nlllce. Word b > word I hi' terrible story oinno eliciting mi > r the Anno- ' elated wire every letter Unit Hound ed seemed to Hike HUOH nnd every vi bration meant a newly added detail to the horror of u century. Sentence by sentence the liiessngeH were transferred from wlro to type writer , from that to linotype and from that Into the lend letter * Hint were in be printed. When a half column had been sent In ( he win. ' WHS silent. The repnrler III New York , who stood \\aichliiK the boat burn , bad written Hint much , one word al a Hme , and lind sent his luoHNongi'rs limn hi" hack to the telegraph nlllces. And hell ll \\lls Hint within Ill'leeil mlllllles III' ler ( be words had It-fl New Vork clly they had reached Norfolk , lind within live mure minutes were being printed in a dally newspaper. A half hour later those papers were liolun rushed out to Hie easl and the uesi and the north ami ( he northwest ) hearing the llrst news of the accident to thousands ol persons , and covering hundreds of miles. Kvcry man In Hie press room department had lo hurry. When the page WHH Hhoved Into place on the bed of the press and securely locked , I here was a lever pressed , a bu//liiK of bellH , a rumbling of the heavy cylinder and I he deed was done. Mailers Fairly Flew. The people who do the mailing fair ly Hew \\llh the rapid iniicliliies Hint Ihoy MM' lor clipping oil' the liny Inns Ilia ! lell Hie poslmaslei s whore to send Hie papers. Alld then , when Hie ' ' I -li' i i I. . 'I ' I" > n nippe I till for ' Im M . Hie im\ I \\ork that ' I.in llni i Mm K- In ( be piislolllco with Hie helM \ suck 1 Ml lulling llOWIl the mull \\MKoii lluil lie drew , IHld , illlle | evImiMed. he fell Into tliO iliinr Just In the nick of Htne to raloh the IrillllM. A hnlf hour iiftcrwnrdM people who rode on tin. pitsseiiKor IraltiH hail boimln lhiim < | iaiern | of the tieWHhoyH ; two liunI-M Inter people within a radlim of lll'ly tulloH of Norfolk know what bud happened ; nnd bofnre sntiHet thai night the cltl/eiiM of the lowns nearly I"iii m'los ' nway were reinllng of the neclilelll. BOARD ELECTS TWO TEACHERS K. W. Darned and Miss Frances Vlole Enrolled on the List of Instruct or ! ) for Ntixt Year. Al a Illeellnr , of the lioind of eilit- eilHoli held Sntnrcln\ nlilil tun new leacliers were elected In positions III the public school : ! to IIII the vacan cies caused by I bo resignation ot MHH | Itei'se and Miss Mi-Clary. K. W. HnrnoM was appointed to the poslilnn of teacher of the Sixth Grade In I he Lincoln iichool , Hut place for merly assigned In MIsH Iteeso. Miss I'Vances ' Vlolo WIIM elected and assigned to the second , third ami fourth grades In Iho Washington school , taking the place of .Miss Nollo DlnKtiiaii who will lake the Hccond urado In the Lincoln school and Mlml VVIdaiiiaii will have the preliminary In Iho Lincoln school , formerly taught by Mlsn McClary. Interest Hie people of north No- bniMKa In your wants through a News want ad. YOU MUST NOT FORGET That wo iiro coiistiiiilly rowiiif * in Hit1 iirl of making Kino I'hotos , and our products will ; il- \\its 1)0 ) found to ombnico the ; uid Nowcsl Sl\losin Ciirds iind Kinish Wo also carry a line line of Moldings snitulilo for all kinds of framing. i. The Practice of Medicine Becoming Specialized The Physicians of the Large Cities the First to Adopt it and There are Now Many Throughout the Country. Specialism is the Idea of the day. Not that every physician can bo a specialist , nor would it bo justifiable in every doctor becoming one , but there arc advantages that can bo de rived only by a special practice which Is applicable to certain communities oven though the physician himself Is not a bona fide resident of that 1m- modite vicinity. Small towns and the country arc the principal communities In which a specialist could scarcely prosper , but as practiced by some specialists , that of going from one city to another , making his visits and seeing his patients at regular ap pointed Intervals , one can derive ad vantages far superior to those re ceived In many instances by a visit to the cities. Wo clto , for Instance , that of Dr. Caldwell , a specialist of Chicago , who Is and has boon making regular visIts - Its to our community for the last two years. Dr. Caldwell came well rec ommended and has succeeded in es tablishing a practice far beyond her expectations. She has made many cures and has succeeded In building up a reputation and practice among thoBo whom she has cured that would bo hard to got away from her. Dr. Caldwell is a lady from the new school. Her experience and training have been gained by many years of practice and the treatment of a vast number of cases. She confines her self to the treatment of chronic , lin gering and deep seated ailments. She pretends to euro only such diseases as she has had sufficient experience in handling , and does not go Into that class of Incurable diseases which In many cases are useless to bother with As a result of long experience , Dr. Caldwell Is thoroughly familiar with her specialties. In the treatment of cancer , consumption , heart disease , nervousness and female diseases , there are very few specialists better qualified than Dr. Caldwoll. Some of her cures seem almost llko miracles. People from far and near consult her as she makes these regular visits and she Is always busy from the time she arrives until the time of her depar ture. It is claimed by Dr. Caldwell's friends that she can diagnose a dis ease without a question. This being the case , she Is not likely to doctor her patient for the wrong ailment , which Is many times done by physi cians of Inexperience. Dr. Caldwell does not treat typhoid fever , whoop ing cough , measles , and those acute diseases which the local homo physi cian Is called upon to treat. It Is nether her desire to antagonize nor to take from the homo physician that part of the business which really belongs to him. Many times Dr. Caldwell Is In consultation with the home physician and the kindest of feelings should exist between them. Dr. Caldwell Is charitable. In many Instances where people are devoid of funds to pay for their services she charges In such cases for the medi cine only and no person , no matter how bumble , has she over turned away without seeking to give them relief. Ily permission wo are pleased to publish a few of the cures she has made throughout the state of Nebras ka : Mrs. Oscar Lange , Tckamah , Neb , , cured of stomach trouble and female trouble of long standing. Mrs. Maloney , West Humphrey , Neb. , cured of nervous trouble , kid ney and liver trouble , and female weakness. Mrs. John Connelly , Akron , Neb. , cured of cancer , had been healed by a number of doctors , without any benefit , cured with five injections. Mr. Pete Hlblo , Columbus. Neb , , cured of kidney and bowel trouble. Mrs. John Swain , Clarks , Neb , , cured of female trouble , catarrh and nervous trouble. Mrs. Henry Hart , Kearney , Neb , , cured of tumor. Mrs. Henry Caskoll , Cozad , Neb , , cured of nervous and stomach trou ble. ble.Mrs. Mrs. H. Sloan , Akron , Neb. , cured of consumption. Mrs. Jacob Puff , Cozad. Neb. , cured of nervous disease , female weakness and tumor. Miss Eva Cole , Sutherland , Neb , , cured of catarrh. Richard Underwood , Bancroft , Nob. , cured of stomach trouble and nervous trouble of long standing. I will be In Fender at the Palace hotel , on Tuesday , May 17.