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THE NORFOLK 'WEEKLY NKWS-JOURNAL : FRIDAY , A1 IM IM OS. MANY MILES OVERSWEPT BY WIND-DRIVEN FLAMES. ONE OLD MAN DADLY BURNED MAN NAMED DAVENPORT LAY IN GRASS THAT BURNED. PLOWING GUARD , TEAM RAN THREE CHILDREN IN A CAVE WERE NEARLY SUFFOCATED. ELKHORN RIVER CHECKED IT The Most Disastrous Fire of Years Swept Over a Large Stretch of Country Between Page and O'Neill , Burning South to Inman. O'Neill , Neb. , April 15. Special to The News : The most destructive prairie llro of many yenrs swept over H largo Htretch of country north from liumui , between O'Neill and Page , yes terday afternoon. The llro burned everything In Its path , destroying thou sands upon thousands of tons of hay. One old man , who was plowing nre guards , WHS seriously , and possibly fatally , burned. Old Man Burned. The old man's name IB Duvcnnort. Ho was out lu the field plowing lire guards. His horses became fright ened and ran away. The old man was thrown Into the grass and the lire tiwopt over him , burning him fright fully. Ho may die. He Is sixty-six years old. s Ono man eight miles nortu of here lost' everything house , barns , bogs , horses , grain. .Others are reported to have lost their buildings , but these rumors have not been continued. Wind Changed. The fire started yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock at a point eighteen miles northeast of here and eighteen miles northwest of Page. The wind at that time was from the south. This wind spread the lire over considerable territory. Later In the afternoon the wind shifted to the north and began blowing in a perfect gale. The flames turned and started south with a force that nothing could check. Over grades , over roads , over guards the llames went. The path of the storm was three to eight miles wide. The east branch was still burning near Page at 4 o'clock this morning. It Is reported that the fire started in a smouldering straw stack. Checked by Elkhorn River. Inman , Neb. , April 15. Special to The News : The prairie fire started near the Burlington railroad , several miles north of here. It swept down to the Elkhorn river , a half mile north l of hero , and there was checked at 8:30 : last night , failing to leap the river. Two farmers are reported to have lost all their buildings. Much hay burned. A mile of telephone poles belonging to the Nebraska Telephone company burned between O'Neill and Inman. Three Children Narrowly Escape. Page , Nob. , April 15. Special to The News : Three children at the farm of Mr. Ragau , north of here , were almost suffocated in a cave , where they bad gone for safety from the fire. When taken out they were almost dead. Five farmers in this vicinity were burned out , two south and three north. Among them were the Ragans , the Kays and the Gannons. The fire was thirteen miles long and six wide at G o'clock last night. FIRE IN KNOX COUNTY. Blaze Between Verdlgre and Niobrara Burned Hay. Creighton , Neb. , April 15. Special to The News : A prairie flre fifteen miles long and eight wide burned from a point west of Verdlgre up to the hill at the edge of Nlobrara. The tele phone line between the two towns was burned out. Many tons of hay were burned. WEDNESDAY WRINKLEb. The Misses Thompson of Creighton were in Norfolk Wednesday. D. Mathewson arrived home from Wakefield last evening. C. W. Lemont Is In Missouri Valley. Mrs. Thatch and Mrs. Brown of Bat tle Creek were In Norfolk Wednesday. Senator F. J. Hale of Atkinson ar rived in Norfolk at noon from the west. James Grant of Madison and S. H. Grant of Nellgh were in Norfolk Wednesday. Chris Anderson Is in Newcastle. C. F. Hansen of Pilger was In Nor folk yesterday. Miss Anna Fair of Sholes will spend Easter with Norfolk friends. H. C. Vail left yesterday for Wilmar , Minn. , to visit a brother and sister. Mrs. Samuel Johnson of Gregory , S. D. , was a city visitor yesterday and today. Among the day's out of town visit ors in Norfolk were : Hugh Galbraltb , Foster ; A. T. Jeffers , Burke , S. D.j , D. R. Southworth , I'llRcr ; V. M. Bart- It-It , I'lercu ; B. L. Brooks , Wlnnctoon ; M. J. Wagner , Creighton , A. D. Slglor , ColutnbtiB. Mrs , Nettie Unfrock of Omaha la In Norfolk solicit Ing funds for the old ladles homo In Omaha , which IH undqr the direction of llov , C. W Savldgo. Jutlgo A. A. Welch was In Norfolk Wednuaduy returning from Center , where hu held a short term of the dis trict court. District court will con vene at Nollgh on April 27. MlBH Helen Brown of Lynch , who has been visiting friends In Norfolk , returned homo today. G. G. Brown of Gregory , S. D. , vis ited with his daughter , Mrs. Lloyd Cooper , In Norfolk , the past two days. Wire Chief McFarland nml three inon went to Kwlng yesterday to move a mile of the telephone line for the Nebraska Telephone company. S. U. McFarlaiKl came up from Mad ison last night , and at noon accompa nied C. E. boughty to Tllden , "where they will attend a big meeting of Odd Follows this evening. A class Initia tion is among the fontures of the oven- ing's program. It Is said about the Junction depot that there has been a Killing off la the passenger business thinugh Nor folk during the last week. H. A. Senn , who ha been traveling out of Omaha for the A very Manufac turing company , has changed his head quarters to Norfolk and is moving Into Judge Powers' house on Ninth street and Koenlgsteln avenue. A sudden rush of llnmcs from the oven in the Pllger bakery burned Charles Carstensen. one of the bakery employes , quite badly on the left arm. The burns were immediately dressed and were not very painful. A. Low has lost in all about 200 sacks through the depredations of sack thieves who have broken into his grain and feed warehouse. The sacks arc believed to have boon taken by boys lu search of extra spending mon ey. The sacks bring about three cents apiece on the market. The assignment of Norfolk teachers to the various grades is not necessar ily final , It is said. The assignments are made at the time of the election to afford a working basis. They are , however , for the most part retained. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand .Schulz and Carl Fix have returned from Pierce , where they attended the "silver wed ding" celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schulz. Ferdinand Schulz and Frank Schulz are brothers , and Mr. Fix is a brother-in-law. There were eighty people at the celebration. The Nebraska Telephone company yesterday unloaded a carload of poles , 350 poles being in the shipment. Twenty teams lined up to haul the poles away. The poles were for use In the construction of two new farm lines , the Grand-Bell line and the Blue Grass-Bell line , both southeast of the city. After a lapse of two and a half months the Wiest Side Whist .chit met last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sol G. Mayer. At the close of the evening a token of esteem was presented to Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Boas , who are soon to leave Norfolk foi Sioux City , in the shape of silver spoons. Mr. Mayer made the preset tatlon on behalf of the club In a clevei little speech. County Superintendent F. S. Per due of this county has had his ability as a level-headed educator again rec ognized by an appointment to the state examining board , the appointment coming from the state department of education. The principal work of the examining board is to investigate pri vate and denominational colleges and normal schools that grant teachers' certificates. On the board Mr. Perdue succeeds Superintendent Fullmer of Beatrice who goes to Weslyan unlver- , ity as dean of the Methodist school and who resigned from the examining board as his own institution Is one of the schools that has to be Investigated by the board. Superintendent Bodwel ! of this city , who has beer elected to succeed Mr. Fullmer at Beatrice , has been one of the three members of the examining board since last summer. NEW TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT REDUCTION - , DUCTION EFFECTIVE. NORFOLK OFFICE IS BUSY The 25 Cent Minimum Charge Still Stands Clerks Are Compelled to Refigure - figure All Charges Made for Pack ages Shipped in. The twenty-five percent cut in ex press rates went into effect In Norfolk Wednesday morning , both the Amer ican and the Pacific companies notify ing their agent that the state law or dering a cut of twenty-five cents on the state merchandise rates in force the first of the year was effective at once The new order of things brought a lot of extra work to the express force who had to reflgure the charges on all Nebraska shipments sent to Norfolk collect. The twenty-five-cent minimum now remains. Death of Little Glri. The little four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wichman of near Hadar died at 0:30 : o'clock Tuesdaj morning. The little girl had been very sick since Saturday night. Summer Heat. The government thermometer regis tered 90 degrees in the shade Mondaj afternoon , the temperature the daj before being 85. This was remarkable heat for the time of the year. Tues day morning the thermometer dropped back to 51 , vUh prospect of cooler Curing the next tweaty-four hours. . AN EARLY MORNING. BLAZE IN WARD'S CIGAR STORE. NO SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE Stiff Wind Prevailing at the Time of the Fire Promised to Wipe Out the Building , But Prompt Action Re duced Loss to a Minimum. Ward's smoke house und news de pot had an early morning smoke \\Ydnosdfi } . The fire started in the north side of the building and burned upward between the boards of the wall without gaining access to the cigar i-tore. Mr. Ward's stock es caped Injury altogether and the build- ng , a frame building owned by C. B. Jurrows , was only slightly damaged. With a stiff wind prevailing there vas a chance for a serious lire on Nor- oik avenue Wednesday morning. The Ire , however , hardly got beyond the smouldering stage when It was discov ered at 7-15 : a. m. by Asa K. Leonard md Ralph Bevcrldge , whose buildings are on either side of the Ward smoke louse. An open space of about two 'eel between the smoke house and the building occupied by the Beverldge saloon enabled the firemen to get at the flames without difficulty. The fire , according to most of the iremen , probably started from spon taneous combustion in tin accumula- .lon of piain in the wall of the build- ng which had once been ubed as a feed store. This grain had attracted mice. mice.Mr. Mr. Ward escaped very fortunately is his stock could hardly have escaped serious damage If the fire had once jurned through the wall. ROSALIE TRAGEDY RECALLED Discovery of Little Girl's Dead Body Unravels Tangle. The following incidents In the Ros alie tragedy are recalled by the Fre mont Herald : Little Lillian Olson was lost Dec ember l > , last. She started to the fields with her brothers , who sent her back home. On the return trip she was seen to leave the path , but her brothers , knowIng - Ing that she knew the way so well paid no further attention to her. When the family gathered at suppertime - pertime , the baby was missing. A search was started for her at once. Wild rumors and crazy theories Hew thick and fast. After a fruitless search for a week , a popular theory was that the child had been kidnapped. Another was that an eagle had caught the little one up in its talons and successfully made way with her. Still another had its inspiration in a cheap newspaper fakir from Omaha who inveigled an officer Into giving it out that a piece of the child's tongue had been found , and this was exploit ed in an extra-extraordinary edition of a Fremont dally with the officer's picture prominent in the foreground. It was afterwards learned that the piece of flesh was cribbed from an Omaha butcher shon bv the Omaha fakir , and used as a bait for Home cheap advertising. Sheriff Bauman at one time brought Mr. Olson to Mils city and subjected him to a rijE d cross-examination and it was published at the time that the old man . 'was under strong suspicion of havjrfs killed his child. Mo'T every band of gypsies in Ne- brpw'sa has been held up at times , and al'.eged clues to the missing child have given many sheriffs free rides to all parts of the country. There has not however , ever been anything tangible until the discovery of yesterday. INDEPENDENT TELEPONE MEN. District Meeting to be Held Here Fri day and Saturday. A district meeting of independent telephone men will be held in Norfolk Friday afternoon and evening and Sat urday morning. The meetings will be held at the city hall. Thirty men representing indepen dent telephone interests in this sec tion of the state are expected here. The meeting will be one of the reg ular gatherings of what is known as the Fifth district of the Nebraska Independent Telephone association Among the towns included In this dis trict are Columbus , Fremont and Nor folk. folk.C. C. J. Garlow , of Columbus , who Is president of both the state association and the Fifth district , and R. E. Mattl- son of Lincoln , state secretary , will be among 'those in attendance. FRIDAY FACTS. Miss Grace Fowler isdll with ton- silitis. Good Friday will be observed by a number of Norfolk , churches. One business establishment be closed on account of the day Miss Melcher's school. Among the twenty-two students at the state university who won senior honors by being elected to the Phi Beta Kappa were Harriet C. Long of Madison and Alphena C. Peterson of West Point. Miss Peterson is one of the newly elected teachers who comes to Norfolk next year. She Is said to be exceptionally capable. . A complete grocery department has been added to the Bee Hive store by S. M. Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal was in Omaha the first of the week to place a rush order for a full line of groceries. The stock has arrived and the new department Is now open. George Tannehill will work for the Bee Hive in the grocery department. A car of lumber to be used in build ing additional horse pens by Smith , Brothers at the new stock yards just north of the city hue been received. The yards nru to be doubled lu size this Hprliig , preparatory to the big range sales to be held here this sum- tier and fall. The natlvo sale season s ovor. The next horse sale held by Smith Brothers In Norfolk will be the special range sale on May 25. Architect John Uvlensor of Omaha , who drew up the plans for the new ilgh school building , will be in Nor * I folk Saturday , when ho will Inspect the building. He will go over the' ' structure In detail with Contractor ! Valln. I'pon Mr. Latenser's report will depend the board's action In nci i ceptlng the building. Save for pos-1 tdbly a few minor details the high I school building has been completed | It will be occupied ns a school houve I Just as soon as It Is definitely nccepted iiy the board. .1. S. Smith , president of the Smith Itrothers Land and Live Stock com pany , Is now a honu fide resident of Norfolk , having moved to the city with his family this week from New port. Mr. Smith has rented a house at 1217 Phillip avenue which he will occupy until he can erect a substantial resilience of his own sometime this fall. 0. A. Smith of the Smith com pany has made his home hero since the company moved Its headquarters to Norfolk. W. T. Berry Is in charge of the Newport office. Superintendent Frank S. Perdue was In the city at noon Wednesday , on his way home from an official trip to .the western part of the county. He had just learned of his appointment as a member of the state examining board through the newspapers , a position he had not applied for , but he was not unmindful of the compliment which the appointment carried with it. He had no official notice of his appoint ment when In Norfolk , but he was satisfied that the duties of the place would not interfere with his work as county superintendent of Madison county. Charles Madsen reached home from Denver last evening , accompanied by his sister , Mrs. .1. G. Troutmon. They were met in Fremont by Mr. Trout- man , who went down in the morning for that purpose. It will be remem bered that some weeks ago Mr. Mad- sen was taken seriously ill in New Mexico , and Mrs. Troiitman went to him at once. From there she took him by easj stages to Denver , and after a rest In that place he was strong enough to continue the journey home. A number of lodge brothers were at the depot when his train ar rived last evening to welcome him home. TT'takes a bottle just two years to ride down the Klkhorn river from Norfolk to Wlsner , and to be found. At least that's the length of time it took 'this ' bottle to make the river journey. On May 1 , 1906 , the bottle was tossed Into the uncertain current of the Klkhorn. Inside the bottle were the names of Ray E. Musselman , Elmer C. Hills , Karl Lynde , John Leo Lynde. The bottle was found on a sandbar at Wlsner by L. C. Faubel and V. L. Hulnes. They were hunt ing when they came upon the bottle , well corked , and they opened it as a matter of curiosity. There they found a note from the Norfolk boys , asking that the senders of the bottle be no tified of the finding. In two weeks , so it Is definitely an nounced , the independent telephone company will be giving local service in Norfolk and its automatic switch board will be In active operation. Two car loads of telephone cable were re ceived yesterday. As the new system is , so far as is practicable , to be an all- cable exchange , the arrival of this shipment fills up the principal gap in the way of early service. The cable shipment received yesterday weighed 78,0-12 pounds. It was on the pur chase of this cable , made shortly af ter the slump In copper and copper wire , that the Norfolk company scor ed a saving of $3,500. The decline of copper it will be remembered in troduced the money flurry of last fall and winter. Ten days will be requir ed to string this cable. A story is told of one vote that was not cast for Randolph "wetness" in the recent village election in Ran dolph. A livery stable man was a vig orous booster for the "wet. " Early on the morning of election day a "dry" man appeared with an urgent piece of business that required attention in Norfolk , the filing of a "bond" with a Norfolk business firm. For $ G , it is said , the Randolph man was finally hired ns a "bond delivered. " The messenger hurried to Norfolk so as to arrive oa schedule time and get back to register his "wet" vote. He got to Norfolk but a message preced ed him. When he arrived the blank papers he bore were solemnly receiv ed. Then the man .who was to write the answer had a "call. " It was late in the afternoon when the Randolph man found him. When the livery man got back to Randolph he found that his friends , the "wets , " were on top but he had had no part in the victory. FUNERAL OF F. L. BREWSTER. County Clerk of Keya Paha County and a Prominent Mason. Spring view , Neb. , April 14. Special to The News : The remains of Frank L. BrewstPr. county clerk of Keya Paha county , who died Sunday evenIng - Ing at G o'clock of pneumonia , after an Illness of eight days , were laid to rest In Spriugview cemetery at 2 o'clock today. The funeral was under Masonic aus pices. Springvlew lodge No. 2CO , as sisted by Long Pine. Alnsworth and Bassett. John S. Davisson of Long Pine officiating. Mr. Brewster was one of the old residents of this county , a man of ster ling integrity and a friend of everyone - one he cisae in contact with. He leayes a wife and two children to mourn his loss. 3Yz % Alcohol Necessary ? c Human System The world's greatest scientists unanimously declare that the amount of alcohol ( about & ; < ) contained in beer is absolutely necessary to the majority of human beings and that it is a true temperance drink. When a pure brew like is taken into the system it mildly exhilarates , and the blood-making powers of the barley-malt stienRlhens the body and mind , while the tonic properties of the lioho- inian bops electrifies the whole human organism. "Peerless" beer should be your home beer on account of its hcalthfulncss. Telephone ua at once and have it deliv ered today. "Peerless" is bottled only at the brewery always on sale at first- class buffets , cafes , clubs and hotels. JOHN GUND BREWING CO. , - LA CROSSE , WIS. C. H. GROESBECK , Manager Norfolk Branch 1 Norfolk , Nebr. Phone 401 COMMERCIAL CLUB AUXILIARYTO BECOME A FACTOR. SPECIAL WORK IS ASSIGNED Development of Water Power and Base Ball on the Board at This Time Old Men to Furnish the Money - ey and Young Men to Do the Work. A hundred active members Is the aiui of the Commercial Club Auxiliary , the membership list at the first regu lar meeting of the auxiliary last even ing showing thirty-seven names. Nor folk baseball and the Commercial club's water power project were two subjects In which the auxiliary last evening thought its members should be interested. Correspondence between President Durland of the Commercial club and several Nebraska engineers relating to an examination Into the water pow er project was placed before the meet ing. A special committee consisting ofV. . J. Stadelman , P. II. Heels and B. P. Huse was appointed to continue this correspondence and give such service in preparing for an expert in vestigation as President Durland of the Commercial club might desire. Baseball was voted to be a good thing for Norfolk people to boost and every member of the auxiliary was requested to attend the baseball meet ing held in Mapes & Hazen's ofllce at S o'clock this evening. The temporary officers of the aux iliary , W. P. Logan chairman and J. S. Jackson clerk , were made perma nent officers to hold ofllce until the next regular election of officers in July. July.The The next meeting of the auxiliary will be held on April 28. TUESDAY TOPICS. Mrs. Roy Gleason is quite ill. Carl Austin has returned to Inman. Bmil and Fred Schulz , Stanton cit izens , were in Norfolk on business Monday. Mrs. H. L. Doughty returned yester day to Lincoln. S. M. Rosenthal was In Omaha on business yesterday. Adam Pilger and family of Stanton were in Norfolk yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. Campbell of Tllden spent Monday In Norfolk. A. E. Becker of Omaha was In Nor folk on business yesterday. A. J. Durland was called to Ewlng on business Tuesday morning. S. M. Rosenthal returned at noon { rein a business trip to Omaha. Elmer Right has been In Omaha on a short visit. John M. Dinneen of Madison visited Norfolk Tuesday. W. G. Merton. the Emerson con tractor who is putting up the new buildings at the Norfolk hospital , ar rived in Norfolk Tuesday. He was accompanied by his stenographer , Miss Ruth Scougal of Sioux City. Prank S. Perdue , county superinten dent , came up from Madison Tuesday morning. The Misses Craft of Stuart were the guests of Miss Minnie Schram In Nor folk yesterday. G. D. Butterfleld will arrive home Thursday evening from his trip ta Washington. He left Spokane Tues day morning. Among the day's out of town visit ors in Norfolk were : L. D , Smith , Spalding ; P. A. Berry , Wayuo ; C. R , Chlnn , Waheflold ; Charles Rapp , St Edward ; J. M. Carlson , Newman Grove ; Mists Jennie Brown , Blair ; Charles Harkoy , Wlnslde ; Mrs. Grll , Nlobrara. Queen Esther circle will meet this evening with Miss Pearl Reese. All Norfolk seema to bo busy , mort or less , in putting In the vegetable gar den. people are a-dlgging up the back yard in all parts of town , and' ' plant ing radishes and lettuce and other things. It is promised that there will be home grown radishes by next Sun day. Magnus Johnson lias completed the alterations In the banking rooms of the Norfolk National bank. The rug and glove factory which James Covert is to start here will be known as the Queen City Rug and Glove factory. Mrs. Bert Reed underwent a suc cessful operation yesterday afternoon. The operation was performed by Dr. Salter and Dr. Mnckny. Ernil Rrummuml is having a new cottage erected on South First street on the site where his home burned down a short time ago. The local commercial travelers will get a line on the coming U. C. T. con vention in Norfolk when the various committees report at the regular meeting of the Norfolk council next Saturday evening. Many a bonfire may be seen in Nor folk these nights , old rubbish being gathered up and burned in prepara tion for the springtime. The Armour poultry establishment has been moved from South Seventh street to a site north of the Union Pacific roundhouse. The building was moved yesterday. A new gasoline motor cycle recently purchased by C. W. Scofield was re ceived in Norfolk yesterday and was given a try-out by Mr. Scofield. The cycle is capable of almost any reason able speed and affords an excellent way of taking exercise and getting a whiff of life out of doors. v * The Western Passenger association has authorized a rate of one and one- half fare for the round trip to the re publican national ' convention in Chicago cage , June 1C. Tickets will be on sale from Missouri river points June 12 to 1C and will be accepted for return passage as late at June 30. The annual business meeting of the Norfolk high school alumni association will be held Wednesday evening at 8 o' clock at the home of Miss Ethel Doughty at CO-1 South Ninth street. Matters relating to the annual banquet and reception to the high school grad uating class will be passed on at the meeting. The Hastings delegation of travelers to the state convention of the U. C. T. in Norfolk next month will take no chances with hotel accomodations. The Hastings delegation has engaged a pullman car in which they will make the trip to and from Norfolk and which they will occupy for sleeping apartments while In the city. There seems to be more activity on the streets of Norfolk during these spring evenings than in some seasons past , and more than that , there seem to be a greater number of good lookIng - Ing horses and runabouts than have been seen in town for some years. With the horses and the score of auto mobiles whizzing hither and thither , the evening street Is a pretty busy scene. The last few months in north Ne braska has been marked by the ever increasing list of accidental shootIngs - Ings , many of them resulting fatally. The death of Bertha Tledje last week near Hosklns , mentioned in The News Saturday , was one of the saddest of these tragic accidents. The Tledje girl was accidentally shot by a broth er several months ago , the bullet lodging in the spinal column. Her body was paralyzed from the time of the accident to her death. Aboard Admiral Evans' great fleet of war ships sailing around DIP world are four north Nebraska boys. Rich ard G. Splering of Norfolk is aboard the Virginia. Ralph M. Adams of I'll- ger Is aboard the Kearsarge. Lloyd E , Shaffer of Plalnvlew is on the Geor gia. Forrest A. Nance of Randolph is with the New Jersey. The navy de partment at Washington has Issued a roster of the men aboard ships of , the Atlantic fleet now In the Pacific under the command of Admiral Evans. The ships given arc the ones to which the men were assigned when the Hod h'ft the Atlantic seaboard on its long cruise. On board the big lighting ma chines are 101 men from Nebraska. Twenty-eight of these hall from Oma ha and eleven from Lincoln. HaBe ball is ready please. If any gentleiiH'iily organization not too act ive in base sliding , ball slugging or umpire baiting wishes to lose what , laurels it has or to gain what laurels It didn't gain last season let that or ganization Klt-p forward and make It self known. While the regular Nor folk team has been a little Backward In making Its Initial bow or even In getting organized Norfolk uvenue am ateurism is ready. "Mapos * Own , " amateur champions of Norfolk by virtue of the drubbing they gave Sturgeon's "White Sox" last fall , are ; n the field. Manager Mathowson challenges anything In the local line of ball players. The team will have the same line-up It used last year. The amateur games this year will probably be played for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. fund and will likely draw big crowds. FARMER'S WIFE WHO DISAP PEARED FROM HER HOME. HUSBAND HAS GONE AFTER HER Was Found In Cincinnati by W. H. Hyland Children Are Also Waiting for the Father to Come and Bring Them Home. Mrs. Peter Korherg , the farmer's wife who disappeared from her homo south of this city with her four chil dren , on the evening of March 31 , while her husband was absent , has been located in Cincinnati. Mr. Kor- berg is now on bis way to that city to bring his wife and the children home with him. Mrs. Korberg was found by W. H. Hyland , the Stanton real estate man , who has been searching for a number of days for the wife and children. The children were first located in a children's home , but at the time it was not known where the mother was. Later she was found in that city , but the telegram did not say where. Mr. Korbertj immediately left for Cincinnati and as soon as he can get the members of his family together will return with them to the home south of Norfolk. Neighbors of the tamily say that Mr. Korberg has always treated bin family with utmost consideration , and that to outsiders at least there was no apparent reason why the wife should have taken advantage of Mr. Korberg's absence to leave with the little ones in the manner that she did , while the story told In Cincinnati that her husband has been cruel to her IK given no credence. Most of the nelghborti are of the opinion that the woman was mentally unbalanced at the time she left , and that she was fleeing from ills wholly imaginary. It Is said that members of her family have been insane and the hallucination from which she was undoubtedly suffering may be a fam ily trait. Kay Proves Citizenship. Ponca , Neb. , April 1-1. In spite of what any government Inspectors clafm , William Kay , county treasurer , enys that he is an American citizen and can prove It ; that his father did take out his naturalization papers. Kay has proved It to the satibfactlon of olflclals and constituents. The matter has been the talk of the coun ty for a week. "Want ads. " ought to "bo "the im portant business of the day" with the , owner of racant property , * < fctj m
