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NORFOLK NEWS : FRIDAY , FEBRUARY i'JOG. "ETHEL DECKWITH" SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS IN AFTERNOON. TOOK MANY THINGS WITH HER A Maid From Newport , Neb. , Giving Various Names , Who Had Worked for Mrs. Frank Cummins n Day and a Half , Is Doing Hunted by Police. A short , fnt , brown-eyed mid brown- haired domestic with a pimply face , gowned In it m\\ blue skirt , u bluett Jacket niul n \\t\\ \ \ lilnu'hiit trimmed with white , ha * disappeared fi'om the residence of Mr. nnil Mm. Frank Cum mins , 213 North Eleventh street , anil HO have n lot of vnlunhton Hint worn loft unlntchcil In the homo. The girl liml lllled the position of lionsotniilil for Mrs. Ctiniiitlnn Just u day nnil n half , nnil her strange illHnppoumnco ounio yesterday nftornoon whllo Mm. Cummins was nwny from homo. The nnnio Riven by the Klrl when fiho ap plloil for work was Ethel Ilookwllh hut It IH said Hint she IIHH given vn rloim names nhont town mid thnt at least three other fnmllloa In Norfolk uro looking for her mid tholr lout vnl unhloH. The pollco iiro hunting for I ho woinnn todny. The Articles Missing. Among the articles thnt hnvo boon mlHSoil nt the Cummins homo uro : A silver loothplrk holder , iv china cup nnd fliuiccr belonging to n chocolntci not , eighteen line handkerchiefs , throti of thorn with point Inco trimmings ; nnd n hand-worked linen centerpiece that Mm. Cummins hnd Just finished The Klrl came to work at the Cum mlnn homo day before yesterday nt noon. Slio wnn a suspicious looking ohnractnr nt host and Mm. Cummins took pains when she loft the house yesterday nttornoon to first lock her purao , watch and ether Jewelry , Two diamond rings that she occasion 0 ally loft nt homo wore carefully placet n her lingers when she wont uwny , so that she know they would bo safe When she went out of the house the maid asked , "How soon will you bo hack ? " She was told that her mis Irons would return nt 5 o'clock. Girl and Other Things Gone. 0 When Mrs. Cummins returned n 5 the girl nnd other things were gone None of the neighbors saw her go The pollco were notified nnd snld thn they know her and were nlrondy look ing for her for other parties , but they hnd not found her late todny. "Ethel" came originally from Newport - port , Nob. She said that she hnd boon here a month. For a tlmo she worked in the Krygor eafo. which Is now closed , and when she came to the Cummins homo she said ( bat she had boon working several placet * about town. The girl froiiuontly used the telephone - phone , always < calling for a certain man at the ether end. FRIDAY FACT8. August Tollo ofVlsner Is In the city. city.C. C. D. Sims has returned homo over Sunday. C. H. Vnll rotnrnod from Sioux City Thursday. Miss Ijiura Schultz wont to Plorco Friday afternoon. Miss Lulu Mather went to Tlldcn Friday on a visit. John Anderson of Burke , S. D. , Is In the city on business. Miss Snlllo Anderson of Plorco Is In the city visiting with friends. .1. A. Ballantyno returned from a trip to the north Friday morning. The Norfolk orchestra wont to Win- side Friday noon to play at a danco. .T. S. Mathowson will leave for Lin coln Saturday morning on business. Will Schmltt of Green Garden pre cinct is visiting at the Pllgcr home. Dr. .1. M. Davoy came down from Bonosteel Friday morning enrouto homo to Ponca. 13 G. Malone came up from Colum bus Friday evening on business. William Hntz has recovered from his spoil of sickness and is again at work. George Glshhcrt of Pierce was In Norfolk Friday morning on business. Dr. Parker has recovered from his attack of the grip sufficiently to re turn to his office. Don Wells of Madison Is In the city on his way homo from Clearwntor where ho has been buying some land , Mrs Fred Klentz , sr. , went to No- llgh last evening to bo gone for several days. days.W. W. Wlmlolph came down from Crelghton Thursday evening on busi ness. ness.O. O. C. Hasmusson and N. nuttorfleld of Oakland came over Thursday front Oakland. Myron Farley" loft this morning for Hot Springs , Ark. , for the benefit of his health. Jim James returned from Battle Creek yesterday In company with his brother Crockett , who will remain for several days. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Durland returned last evening from Omaha. Mr. Dur land had been on a two weeks' trip to eastern points. Miss Gladys Bouncy returned to her homo In Orchard Friday noon. Satur day she will return going to Whine- teen for a few days visit. Miss Fay Watts of Columbus was a guest of Mrs. C. A. Blakely over night and loft today for Tildon , where she goes to visit her friend , Mrs. Lutz. C. R. Taylor , who has been In the employ of W. 11. Vail , loaves today for his homo In Rochester , Minn. Mr. Taylor will seek a position nearer home. Invitations have been Issued for a dance at the homo of N. Rautberg outh of town this evening. lr nnd Mrs Hour will onterlnln this Mining A win was born yesterday to Mm. 'am ' UtiHi'tillml. Kubpoenns were served on former 'ollee ONU'orH IMlger and Uirhln to pponr as wltiii'HHos al the trlnl of Otto Johnson this afternoon. Yesterday afternoon the colder A'oatluir hnd coaled King's pond with i smooth layer of Ice , nnd mnny of the toys nnd girls spent the afternoon ikntlng on It. W. E. Kuitr. and family have Just omovod fiom Fremont to Oakdnle , ivhoro they will bo located for the grentor convonlont'O of Mr. Kurtas conductor on the Northwestern. Ernest llaasch has bought the fancy spotted saddle homo which has been Dwnod anil ridden for some years by Adrian Craig. The animal Is said to io one of the finest In the county. The missionary supper given Thurs- lay evening at the homo of Mrs. J. V Hansom by ( ho Ladles' Missionary loclely of the M. K. church was largo- y allendod and netted the society n lire piollt Conductor Collins of the Northwest irn had his right hand crushed In a wreck near Cordova on the Superior ( no. A box car and the way car left tbo rails nnd were humped along the track. Conductor Collins was In the alter and was given a hard fall. He \VI\H \ \ In Fremont yesterday afternoon , being off duty temporarily. There will bo a gay bunch at Mad Ison next Wednesday If nil of the Gobblers blors appear on deck who now show signs of a desire. From nil corners of nil trains and hotels can ho heard hut one word today "Gobbler. " It Is said that Smith , representative for Haley I > ang of this city. Is prominently mentioned for raider of the roost. A parly WIIH given at the homo of August Itaasch , west of the city , on Wednesday night for Paul Maas of Minnesota who Is visiting hero. There were about twenty-Ilvo present , Hugo Fry and Henry Kluge of Hadar being among the guests. Games were played and 1i good tlmo onjoyod. Mr. Fry Is the leader of both bands at Hadnr. It has not generally become knowi throughout Norfolk that the cost of sending a letter In the city Is two rents for which reason the four young ladles entertaining next Friday evenIng Ing have been paying out largo sums of pennies for postage due. Some have oven sent tliolr replies tin stamped , which adds greatly to the burden of entertaining. The writer had a short but very pleasant visit with Augustus Saltier whllo In the City of Mexico week be fore last. Mr. Saltier was making a lour of the southern republic am thought he would bo In the city toi days more. Ho looks as young as ho did ton years ago when ho conductor a law and real estate olllco at this place. Ho Is a brother of H. C. Sat Her. Her.A A few of the members of the Trinity Social Guild have planned a proihtc tlon of a recent piny as a surprise to the members at tholr meeting ncx Tuesday with Miss Malonoy. The full details of the plan and the names of those Interested In It have become thoroughly known to all the members of the guild and It Is belloved that It will bo more In the way of an enter tainment and part of an expected pro gram than a surprise when presented Tuesday. "Unless there Is a cold snap during the present month , " said George Sehwenck , the veteran Iceman , "there will bo no Ice made this year. Ice can not bo made In this climate after March. Occasionally It freezes for a day or two In March but It honey combs and Is not good. Wo must make Ice In January and February and this month , with but twenty-eight days , must do the work this month. There Is chance , however , for many cold days yet this month. " Another Iceman has started business In Norfolk. John Ortwlch , whoso fa ther bought the old Sehwenck proper ty southeast of town , has just now purchased six acres of land south of the C. P. Byorly place nnd will use It for an Ice farm , the same as is done at the Waldo & Dlllenbeek place east of town. Mr. Ortwlch this week bought and hauled lumber for the pur pose of building an Ice house and this will bo filled this year with Ice from the river. Next spring ho Intends to dig a big pond which will bo filled with water from windmills and later ho will use the Ice from this pool. The Nebraska Telephone company have been putting a cable in for one block west of the central otllco during the past few days. H Is expected that this will relieve the congestion In the downtown service and eventually do away with many of the separate wires downtown. An expert Is expected from Omaha very soon to make a com plete study of the local telephone sit uation nnd make plans for restrlnglng the town this year. While this will cost a largo sum of money the wires will bo taUen In cables way Into the residence sections and the present trouble from crossed wires , broken cir cuits and other troubles common after storms will bo done away with. The unslghtllnoss of the present poles with their web of wires will bo greatly de creased also. Letter List. List of letters remaining uncalled for at the postofllco at Norfolk , Neb. , January 30 , 1000 : Chas. Fox , Mr. J. L. Delong ( Opera Co. , M. J. Lovelace , Homer Smith. If not called for In fifteen days will bo sent to the dead letter ofllco. Parties calling for any of the above please say "advertised. " John R. Hays , P. M. HAD FLED TO TILDEN NOW A NERVOUS WRECK. THREATENS TO TAKE OWN LIFE Rather Than Go Dack to School , Where Trouble Caused Her to Run Away , She Says She Will Suicide Was Hunting Work Her Story. , DoHido McComb , the little girl who an away from homo Tuesday , has teen brought back homo and Is In bed nervous wreck. Tbo experiences of ler two days and a night away from mine have completely unstrung her nerves and she Is hysterical and tin- iblo to toll always just what she did and whore she spent all the lime since she loft homo. Yet through It all she ileads to ho allowed to go away again. She says she will never go back to school and that she must work. To work HMO wants to go away from homo , hit she must earn money. That Is ho compelling feature of all her talk nnd of her runaway experiences. She wants money to pay back for her little follies of a month ago , which caused ill the trouble at school and at home. How She Was Found. Wednesday nftormxin word came from two sources only a few minutes ipart that Dosslo was In Tildon. The llrst word was In a postal card from Lho girl herself at Tildon. It was hys lorlcal In Its wording and frightened the parents greatly. Then Mrs. Perry , who had Just road the story of the ( light In The News , sent word that Desslo had gene to Tllden. She had known It all along hut had just found out that It was without the knowledge of the McComb family. Officer Living stone Immediately boarded the train for Tildon to get the girl and bring her homo. Hated to Come Home. When ho found her at the homo of Mrs. Klcrstoad she broke down utter ly and begged not to bo taken back homo , but ho refused to hear her pleading. When ho returned with Dos slo In the morning there was great re lief In the McComb family and all day today the Invalid mother and the father thor have watched carefully over the daughter to make It easier for her to como back homo. Was Looking For Work. As nearly as can bo found out DCS slo loft homo Tuesday morning foi school and went over to Perry's cat Ing house , where she tried to secure employment. Falling in tills she wen to the Cottage Homo hotel where she tried to secure a room saying that she had secured employment at Perry's. However , she was unable to secure a room from Mrs. Bolknap and stayed h the sitting room of the hotel untl shortly before the train went wes when she loft and took the train fo Tllden. At Tlldcn It Is not knowi whether she made any further at tempts to secure employment , al though that seems to have been he greatest desire In leaving homo. Threatens Suicide. Tl.ie father and mother believe tha she will recover her normal mind ai tor a few days of rest nnd quiet. N attempt will ho made to have her re turn to school this year , as she thrcal ens to kill herself If forced to do so Instead they will try to keep her uj In her studies at homo for the rest o the school year nnd have her onto school again next fall. UNION PACIFIC STATION IS TO BE REPLACED THERE. WILL BE STATION AGENT ALSO The Petition of the People of Warner vllle , Who Asked for a New Static When Theirs Was Moved Away , I to be Granted , The railroad depot at Warnorvlll Is to bo replaced. A now station wll bo built there soon and an agent wl bo Installed. This Is the nssuranc g ven to the citizens of that thrlvln little Madison county village , elgh miles southwest of Norfolk on th Union Pacific , by officials of that ral road. Some time ago the depot which hat stood at Warnorvllle for years anc which had been for some time wlthou nn agent , was moved to the site of th now town Enola between Madison am Warnorvllle. At tbat tlmo the peopl of Warnervlllo resented the move an sent a petition to the Union Pacific o flclals asking them to place anotho station and an agent at that place. Appreciating the fact that Warne vlllo is growing all of the time an that the business there has alrcad reached proportions to Justify It , th railway olllcials have consented t grant the prayer. KIESAU BUYS ROBERTSON BLOCK Two Story Building Is Bought as a Investment No Tenant Change. The two story brick block know as the Robertson block and owned b W. M. Robertson has been bought b A. H. Kiesau. It was bought as an In vestment by the now owner and It I doubtful If there will bo any chang in the tenants for a whllo at leas The building has twenty-two fee frontage on Norfolk avenue and depth of 110 foot. BARGAIN STORE QUITS. ! VIII be Closed Today , and Goods Shipped Out of Town. After today the Bargain store on s'orfolk avenue will bo closed. Every- ilng that Is not sold by this evening III bo' boxed up and shipped away roni the city. The Offcnhausor Jew- Iry Htnro will occupy the entire store > r the time being at least. C. E. Irecn established the Bargain store coiipln of years ago and It Is still Is property. BALMY DAYS CONTINUED GREAT ER PORTION OF MONTH. WEDNESDAY WAS WARMEST DAY n Temperature of 63 the Last Day of the Month Broke the High Mark , People Ate Picnic Dinners Out of Doors Lack of Ice. January I'JOG has been one of the nest unusual months of many years. ractlcally the entire month was sun lilny and the days and nights showed in abnormally high temperature , the emporature reaching Its .highest pointer or the month on the last day when It vas 03 degrees by the government hormomoter. While the average teui lorature for the month according to ho local records has not been exactly iscertiilncd the month has como very close to breaking all records In Nor 'oik for n balmy atmosphere. During talf the month the days were so warm uid sunshiny that It was possible to valk about during the day without vraps and feel n $ discomfort. Icemen Worried. The pleasure of the weather has icon a worry to the Icemen and will 10 to the city If there Is not a snap ol johl weather that will bring Ice for long enough to fill the Ice houses. Nol julto one-fifth of the Ice generally pul ip In the city Is made yet and this would last but a little tlmo without urge shipments from outside and con sequent high prices. Waldo & Dillon : ieck took time by the forelock during the short spell of brisk weather In the middle of the month and put up almost mlf of their Ice , when It was onlj eight and nine Inches thick. That Is ill that Norfolk has now to meet the summer with. Generally 5,000 tons of Ice are stored during the winter to run through the next summer. Now there arc just 000 tons of Ice made anc ready for the summer. Without spell of cold weather during Fobruarj the Ice situation during the summei will reach a critical point. Government Records. The government records here show that this was the warmest January In tcit years. The highest point recorded by the thermometer was 03 , the lovves 10 below zero. The average temperature turo for the month was 28.9. The average erago maximum was 39.3 and the average erago minimum was 18.0. JAMES MANNON OF YORK IS WAY LAID IN THE DARK. BEATEN INTO INSENSIBILITY An Unknown Assailant Met Jame Mannon on the Stret at York am Beat Him Into Unconsciousness Had Had no Quarrel Is No Clue. York , Nob. , Feb. 2. James Mannon aged sixty years , was waylaid her last night and beaten into inscnsibillt. by an unknown assailant. He had ha no quarrel and was struck without any warning whatsoever. There is no clu to the assailant. PIERCE CHILD'S DEATH. Three-year-old Boy Chokes to Death o Pop-corn. Plorco Call : The little three-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Deln living west of town , met with an ace dent last Saturday evening betweer 8 and 9 o'clock , which cost the llttl follow his life. The child has always had an aston Ishing appetite for pop-corn and whenever over his parents would pop some h would clap his chubby hands and b perfectly contented and satisfied. Oi this particular evening the popper wa brought out and the work of poppln the corn begun much to the delight o the baby and other members of th family. But in a few short minutes different scene was enacted , that hap piness changed to sorrow. While eat Ing , the child had got some of the cor In his windpipe and was coughing v olently. The parents tried everythln they knew of to relieve the sufforln one but all proved of no use. Docto Prlnglo of this place was summone to save the choking babe but befor his medicine had time to take effec the child passed away and out of hi misery. The funeral services wer held Monday afternoon at the fain 11 residence by Rev. Gee E. Taylor , afto which the remains were conveyed t Prospect View cemetery south of tow : and Interment made therein. Market Repairs. The Interior of Louis Schenzel' meat market has been wholly redec orated and made over. In plannln the Interior the walls and the collln have been made waterproof so tha the entire place can bo washed In every nook and corner. THE KANSAS CITY , MEXICO AND ORIENT. SHORTEST LINE TO THE SEA 'raverses a Splendid Country and Reaches Deep Water Five Hundred Miles Shorter Than Any Transcon tinental Line In Existence. The Kansas City , Mexico and Orient allway , with whoso promoters the vrltor recently made a trip through ho republic of Mexico to the City of Mexico , Is a line projected from Kan- as City , Mo. , to Topolobampo bay , In bo state of Sinaloa , Mexico , on the iiilf of California. When completed he line will bo 1GOO miles long , 500 nllcs shorter than any other transcon- Inontal road connecting the middle vest with the Pacific seaboard. This > reject has been under way for the ast six years , and already practically mo half of the road has been built and s In operation , a section In Kansas uid Oklahoma , a section in Texas and wo section In Mexico. Unlike other nuisconthionta ! lines at the time of heir construction , which were obliged o cross great unprofitable deserts to reach their destination , the Orient oad Is passing through a country that s practically all In a good state of de velopment and only needs the oncoin- ng of the road to yield a rich local Misiness. From Kansas City to Wlchl- : a the dlstnnco by this road Is twenty- seven miles shorter than any other Ino , and It traverses the richest sec tion of Kansas , while south of Wichita to the Rio Grande it passes through the great cotton growing section of Oklahoma and northern Texas and the cattle and mineral country of the southern part of the latter state. From t'jl Ore , where the road crosses the Rio Grande , to Chihuahua , a distance of 150 miles , the road strikes mineral mil grazing districts of northern Me Ice , while west of Chihuahua over the mountains and down to the coast the road passes successively some of the richest silver and gold mines In the world , largo deposits of anthracite coal and a vast timber belt near the coast. In this section also are grown sugar , coffee , cotton , tobacco and fruits. With the amount of local traffic In sight , to gether with the fact that oriental busi ness can be handled on a haul 500 miles shorter than any other line , there is no doubt but that the road will do a large business from the time It is completed. Oklahoma. Oklahoma shows a wonderful state of development when It is considered that It has been open for settlement but a comparatively few years. The towns passed have a decidedly wide awake appearance , and some of them as Giithrie , Oklahoma City , El Reno and Enid have already become cities of 12,000 to 25,000 people , carrying 01 a good wholesale as well as retail bust ness. The statement Is made that the whole of Oklahoma averages three farmers to every section of land , am from the well settled appearance o the country , its fine farm houses , build ings and fences , the statement Is no difficult to believe. It has every appearance pearanco of a long-settled country with the possible exception that the Improvements shine with fresh pain and show that In reality they are now The Magnitude of Texas. While it is known that Texas Is the largest state In the union , yet to the average mind that statement does no convey an Intelligent meaning of the magnitude of that commonwealth From El Paso on the west to Texar kana on the east the distance Is prac tlcally 900 miles , while the distance from the extreme northern portion o the Panhandle to Brownsville on the southeast coast Is farther than it is from Chicago to New Orleans. The census of 1900 showed more landt farmed in Texas than in any other state , with only one-fifth of the area then under plow. A statistician says that Texas has more prairie land than Kansas , more pine timber than Mich igan , more oak than West Virginia more Iron than Alabama , more marble than Vermont , more granite than Nev Hampshire , more corn land than 1111 nols , more wheat land than the Da kotas , more rice land than the Caro- Hnas , more fruit land than California more tobacco land than Virginia , more sugar cane land than Louisiana , and It Is the first state In the union in the amount of railway mileage. The east ern part of the state is well settled but the western part of the state ha been given over practically to ranch men hitherto. In all the vast region of western Texas the Kansas City Mexico and Orient road Is the only railroad extending through the state north and south , one third of the stati lying west of the line of the road. I Is known that much of the land Is gooi for the raising of crops nnd the ranch es are being cut Into smaller tracts and sold to farmers and cotton plant ers. With this kind of a territory to traverse there can bo no question bu that the now railroad will do a grea business as soon as It Is completed and with this business in sight 1 would bo folly to doubt the completion of the lino. Stllwell's Inspiration. This project was inaugurated six years ago by Arthur E. Stllwell , who Is the ' president of the company. The Idea'of a short line to the sea from the middle west was suggested by newspaper Item reciting what the Pan ama canal was expected to do for the country , which closed with the state ment that for the middle west the freight quebtlon could not bo solved intll there was constructed a short Ine to the sea. The Idea looked feas- bio to Mr. Stllwell and ho started to 1ml what would make a short line to ho Pacific coast. Stretching a string vlth one end on the globe at Kansas Mty ho stretched the ether end along ho Pacific coast until the point of hortest distance was found to bo at 'opolobampo bay , Gulf of California , and straightway ho determined that i line should bo built between these wo points. The early dllllcultles of nterestlng capitalists In the project voro numerous , but with his splendid iblllty and convincing presentation of ho situation ho finally succeeded In getting enough capital Interested to nake n start. Ho determined at the mtsot that this road should not bo constructed along the lines usually Mirsucd with such enterprises , In that 10 would keep away from the inllu- nco of Wall street and no Wall street ' ' noney should go Into the construction if the line. Ho hnd had a little ox- lerlcnco with the gratitude of Wall street capitalists , who had frozen him nit of his labors in the construction of the Kansas City Southern road as soon as that line was completed , and 10 resolved If ho promoted another en- : erprlfie of this kind that he would leal with the people direct , soil stock n small amounts among small capital- sts. The result of this policy Is that it the present time there are 32,000 stockholders In the enterprise , among them being several hundred Ncbras- < ans. These stock-holders Invest be cause they have faith In the enterprise and confidence that Mr. Stllwell will be able to complete the road. The ibject of the recent excursion , which was the sixth of the kind that has been run , was to demonstrate the possibil ities for business over the now Una as soon as It Is completed. What They Said. At the City of Mexico the party called upon President Diaz , and ho as sured the members that ho Is very much Interested In the completion of the line which will unite the two coun tries and give an outlet to the Pacific coast from the Interior of Mexico , there being no railroad at the present time from the table lands of Mexico to the western coast. That what ho said Is true lias been demonstrated by the largo concessions granted to the road , payable as rapidly as It Is com pleted. At Chihuahua Governor Creel , governor of the state of Chihuahua and one of the richest men of Mexico , who is llrst vice president of the road , gave assurances of his Interest In the project , which assurances are backed by substantial state subsidies. The portions of the line that have been completed have been built in a most .substantial manner , the grading all being done solidly and the iron being heavy enough to stand great traflic. Edward "Dickinson , for years general manager of the Union Pacific and well known In Nebraska , occupies the position of general manager of the new road , and he is a practical rail road man who is looking after the de tails of construction , which Is an as surance that the line will be built right. The Sinaloa News in a recent Issue pays tne following well deserved tribute - buto to the way this road Is being built : An Honest Road. "The writer has traveled over prac tically every line of railway In the republic of Mexico , during the period of the past ten years , from the Rio Grande to the southernmost borders of the republic , and gives this entirely unsolicited testimonial that the Stll- well railroad from Topolobampo to * Fuorte Is an honestly built road , showing - ' ' " " ing progressive American methods and excellent technical construction throughout. Every tie and they are laid close together Is a redwood sawed tie , Imported from California. Practically all of the steel is specially made sixty-pound American rails. The rails are properly spiked down , the fishplates strong and properly bolted , all switches of modern construction , nnd carefully installed , and the rails well reinforced at curves and grades. The bridges , while not of masonry , are well piled , with safe approaches and abutments , and a substantial sup erstructure. The water tanks , etc. , are all modern construction , not a "streak of rust nnd a right of way. " By contrast with some of the ether railroads constructed In recent years in Mexico , under government subsi dies and subventions , It looms up as a very "Now York Central" in point of substantiality and honest construction , and the Kansas City , Mexico and Ori ent railway deserves unlimited credit and praise for the substantial and hon orable manner in which it has carried . out Its contract with the federal government - \ ernment of the republic of Mexico. N > 1 They deserve consideration at the / hands of the Mexican government , and / the stockholders of this railway may well he glad to know that they have a veritable railroad built and construct ed on modern lines , Instead of the miserable - orablo apologies for railroads which have been constructed In past years in Mexico. "Vive" the Kansas City MexIco - Ice nnd Orient railway , and Its em- dent and earnest president , Arthur E t Stilwoll. They reflect credit on Amorl < JL leans In Mexico. " -1 INSANE INMATE SUCCUMBS. John Presser , Who Had Been Here but Thlrty-four Days , Dies of Old Age. John Presser , nn Inmate of the Hos- pltal for the insane , Is dead after hav ing been there but thirty-four days. Ho was hrougbt down from Bloomfield - field near which place ho was a farm er. The cause of death was old ago , he having reached the age of eighty- eight years. The body was taken back t to Bloomfleld Monday noon. i if