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TILIi ) NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL , FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 22 , 1911. Cincinnati Dank Clotei. \ Cincinnati , O. , Sept. 18. The Metro , polltnn Dank niul Trust company closed Itfl doors today on order of tlio Htnto bunking department of Ohio. .Sinto Imttk examiners will mmnln In charge of tlio linnlc until a deputy IB npolntod. The bank , which wns or * gantzcd nix yearn ago , hns a , capital .stock amounting to $110,000. , M'JSHITI ' QACKS KERMIT. Young Roossveli Will Hunt Canadian Wild * For H.iro Mammal * . It W.IH | iiin : > uii' ' idat Ilic National tmiipii'ti tliiil : 'ii i"i-r Roosevelt collcc- ( Ion U in ) > ( Ii > | io4i | ( < i | ( here. Mil * out liy Keniilt. so.i of tlii > former pro.Ml dent , \\lin iircompaiilcd liU dither on the . \frlriiu hunting lunkol Mini who lins started for tlio ( ! imi\dlun \ wilds Hi' will IH > gone HOUR' months mid will collect Hpeclnu'UH of mnminnlfl Hint In habit the great northwest , especially of tlio rapidly disappearing moose. It IB Bald most of the expenses of hlw trip will lie defraynd by tlio Na tional museum on a basis Hlmlliir to that which enabled thn former presi dent to muko the African trip. Ward has Mishap. Corning , N. Y. , Sopt. 18. Ward ar rived hero at 11:31 : thin morning , landIng - Ing gracefully In n fluid north of this oily. Ho remained for luncheon. "Ward's landing nt Corning was duo to the blowing out of an old feed connec tion while ho was directly over the o.lty , which allowed all of his lubricat ing oil to escape and badly burned his engine. Ho may resume his Might lat er this afternoon. Ho left OSWCEO at 10:18 : , landing hero at 1:31 : , fifty-six miles In forty-three minutes. FOWLER FIGHTS FIRE. Colfax , Gal. , Sept. 18. Ono man IB dead another hovers between llfo and dentil , with both legs broken , as a consequence of his heroism , and a third Is missing as the result of n lire probably of Incendiary origin , which broke out hero on the third floor of the Mountain Vlow hotel and consumed n considerable part of the town before It finally burned itself out. The financial loss is $20,000. The blaze was finally conquered by volunteer companies of practically the entire population. In the front ranks was Aviator Robert G. Fowler , pre paring to scale the Sierras today on the third leg of hjs trans-continental aeroplane trip. John Wesly Dougger , a guest of the hotel , failed to awak and was burned to death. Henry Hurst may bo fa tally injured. An unidentified man Is missing. BIG SHOW IN CHICAGO. Inspection of City Exhibits and Manu facturing Products. Chicago , Sept. IS. Informal inspec tion of the exhibits of cities'and man ufacturers marked the opening of the International exposition In the coli seum hero today. Mayor Carter II. Harrison of Chicago cage and John M. Ewen , chairman of the exposition , were scheduled to of ficially open the event nt 2 o'clock this afternoon with addresses of wel come. Today's program Included addresses by Darius A. Drown , mayor of Kansas City and president of the league of American Municipalities ; John B. Roy- burn , mayor of Philadelphia , and John F. Fitzgerald , mayor of Boston. MONDAY MENTIONS. J. S. Helgren spent Sunday with his mother at Omaha. R. S. Lackey returned from a busi ness trip at Stnnton. Harry II Hartford returned from a visit at Wood Lake. Fred Schiller has gene to Ida Grove , la. , to spend several months with his parents. Miss Katherine Boehnke , who has been 111 with typhoid feevr at Lincoln , has returned home. W. A. Wltzigman , C. E. Burnham , L. P. Pasewnlk and J. E. Haase went to Omaha to attend the bankers' con vention. L , E. Pugco , former ! a Norfolk trav eling salesman , spent Sunday here with friends. Mr. Pugeo is now lo cated at Lincoln. Selmer N. Kolbo , private stenogra pher to S. M. Brnden , has returned from a two weeks' vacation which he spent with his parents at Lodi , Neb. Earl Krautz and Charles Durland left here Saturday for the west. Mr. Krnntz goes to the Oregon agriculture college and Mr. Durland to the Wash ington state university. Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Said of Ttalston , Neb. , and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Said of Emerson , la. , are here visit ing with their sister , Mrs. Fred Theim. Jlr. and Mrs. Said and their two sons jire enroute to Wyoming where they so to look after their .ranch interests. Charles Dudley has purchased an other five passenger automobile. Louis Dudley has ordered a seven passenger automobile for taxlcab work. A cement block warehouse is being constructed In the rear of the Chris- toph drugs store. Miss May Johnson has severed her connection vith the Norfolk National bank force and leaves soon for Cali fornia , where she will make her future home. T. J. Vail of Rock Rapids , la. , who has purchased the Esterbrook butter and egg business , has moved to 20 $ South Fifth street. Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Bates , who have recently returned from a two weeks' visit In Colorado , have movec to 1402 Norfolk avenue. Norfolk Council No. 120 U. C. T. has voted to buy a typewriter for Sec George H. Spear , whoso work in con nectlon with the lodge has greatly In creased. Four hours after one Norfolk man announced that he was about to move from the cottage he has been renting for the past year , the owner of the cottage was besieged with applications from llio many liomoHookerB now here. "I had Ihliieen application * ! within a few hours , " he suld. A committee of the Norfolk board of charities met with Mayor Friday with a view of coming to some harmonious terms with the administration toward the charity work of the season. A. J. Mosley , whoso wife died In Denver a week ago and wns burled In Norfolk Wednesday , will make his homo In this city. Ho and his three little children will live nt the homo of his father-in-law , H. II. Luke , for the time being. L. C. Hopperly lias returned elated from the Madison county fair , where ho won five first prizes on Percheron horses and thirteen prizes on vege tables , nine firsts and four seconds. Ho took the first premium on the best flvo stalks of corn. Many farmers north and west of the city are building now barns and rest- dances. R. J. Filter , three miles north and three miles cast. Is having a barn 54x70 constructed on his farm. Ed ward Fuhrmnn , living near this place , Is having a now restdenco constructed. Capt. Kelohor of the Norfolk high school football team , reports that so hard Is the struggle among many of the players trying out for a place on the first team that ho will not bo able to announce u full llnc-up until three days before the first game , which will bo played hero Saturday , Sept. 30 , with Wayne. Rumors that County Commissioner Durr Taft purchased the Verges brick yard for the Western Bridge and Con struction company , for a branch ofllco hero , are denied by him. Records at Madison also deny these rumors. There has been persistent talk that the property was purchased for this bridge company but an investigation proves otherwise. Sylvester Cokeley , who was sen tenced to thirty days in the county jail Is at liberty as the result of ha beas corpus procedlngs filed In the county couit by his attorney , J. C. En- gelmnn. The police will now probably take Cokeley In on the warrant held by Chief of Police Mnrqnardt , which charges Cokeley with being drunk and disorderly. Chief of Police Mnrquardt Is In pos session of a box containing about 1,000 loaded shotgun shells which were found hidden away In a hole in the Jnlon Pacific railroad yards Saturday ) y a sou of Edward Fairbanks , who urned the property over to the police , t is believed that these shells were stolen from a box car in the yards. Ono cnso of shells was stolen only re- ently. A. W. Hawkins , secretary of the Commercial club , loaves Tuesday uornlug for Chicago , where ho will at- end the convention of commercial < lub secretaries. Mr. Hawkins has shipped many circulars of Norfolk to he convention city to advertise tills city. The Commercial club has also shipped many circulars of Norfolk to York , Neb. , where Frank Tnnnehill goes to represent Norfolk at the Ne- jraska Farmers' association. John Decker. Robert Schmidt and nembers of Engineer Stanley's gang of the Union Pacitlc played a feature ) art In putting out a fire which in a short time would have proved serious. V passing engine in the Union Pacific yards blowing up a volume of sparks was the cause of igniting a box car Hied with merchandise Including nnny empty gasoline cans. The rail road employes after turning the lire alarm put out the fair sized blaze with a few buckets of water. Among the day's out-of-town visit ors in Norfolk were : W. Stanton , Meadow Grove ; W. E. Stone , Platte enter ; E. F. Lynn , Winner ; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Melsha and son , Lynch ; William Moldaner , Tilden ; Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Olunstead , Winner ; F. H. Noonan , Yankton ; E. Herman , Albion ; E. V. Chore , Columbus ; J. B. Orange , r. , Chadron ; E. Dlefenderfer , Enola ; E. C. Sweet , Madison ; Wildn Chace , Stanton ; George Bayha , Niobrara ; J. W. Rice , Nellgh. Dashes Baby's Brains Out. Huron , S. D. , Sept. 18. Walter O'Brien , formerly of Dawson , Neb. , Is in jail hero charged with the murder of his month-old baby boy. While In a fit of delirium ho grabbed the Infant from Us mother's arms and dashed Its brains out against the wall. United States Court Convenes. Two new cases which have been transferred from the Holt county dis trict court to the United States cir cuit court have been taken out of their files In the olllce of Deputy United States Clerk Olga Grauel at the request of attorneys and these may be tried before Judge W. H. Munger of Omaha , who arrived here at noon to hold court In both the cir cuit and district courts of the United States. The two new cases brought to light are of some Interest and probabilities are that they may be decided at this term of court. One case wherein At torney M. F. Harrington of O'Neill Is plaintiff prays a temporary injunc tion against the Northwestern rail road , restraining that corporation L from discontinuing the operation of [ train No. 8 from Long Pine eastward I until such time as he and other people in the communities between Long Pine and Norfolk can have a hearing before the state railway commission. Mr. Harrington is quite a figure in this term of court and Is connected I with almost case on the dockets. In i the other new case , Romeo E. Rodgers , a hrakemau on the M. & O. road , asks for $30,000 damages because ho claims to have been permanently Injured as the result of a box car being shoved against a caboose on which he wns standing. He claims he is permanent ly sick , crippled , nervous and diseased. This case was also transferred from the Holt county district court. Two Criminal Cases. Because the penalty for selling gov ernment issue cattle is six months Im prisonment and $500 fine , interest is JI being manifested eve the cases of the 3' ' United States versus George W. Cooues and J. C. Peters who are charged with this offense. Many wit- nouses 'lave ' buen called by both the ptosocutlon and tlio defense In these cases. Among these witnesses are : F. E. Mclntyte , Cupt. B. J. Young , Mrs. Ed Denny , Henry Denny , James Him- merman , Ulysses Zimmerman , Charles Zimmerman , Sam Lone Wolf , Daniel Stone , William Chapman , Louis Mitch ell , Snnteo ; H. P. Haze , Omaha ; Thos. Mnekoy , John Mnckoy , J. W. Rock , Ernest Conklln , Niobrara ; Frank Pe ters , Frank Barnes , jr. , Frank Barnes , si' . , Niobrara. Among the other minor cases Is the land law null of Anna A. Brooks and others versus Mabel H. Tomllnson and the United States versus Connlo Funk of Atkinson , who Is charged by Ellis Standing Bear with holding two colts valued at $300 , which are said to be long to the Indian. For these two latter cases the fol lowing witnesses were subpoenaed : M. H. McCarthy , Charles M. Daly , Joseph M. Hunter , James C. Hurnlsh , Charles Morgan , J. B. Anderson , F. W. Phil lips , O'Neill ; Fred Hitchcock , Atkin son ; John Robertson , Stuart ; E. L. Rosecrans , stock detective , Rosebud ; Ellis Standing Bear , Rosebud , and John Doe , an Interpreter. All of these witnesses are scheduled to bo In Nor folk Tuesday. Attorney Harrington has retained Walter R. McFarland , n local stenographer , to take shorthand records for him during the proceed ings of the court. Among Judge Monger's staff who arivcd with him are : George H. Thum- mel , clerk of the United States circuit court ; R. C. Hoyt , clerk United States district court ; Willnm P. Warner , United States marshal ; J. F. Sldus , deputy United States marshal ; United States Attorney F. S. Howell and As sistant United States Attorney A. W. Lane wore expected in the city to day. day.The The signing of a few bankruptcy papers took up the judge's time and the dockets will bo cleared for action Tuesday morning. Sledge May Knock It Down. Notwithstanding the fact that he had been notified that the now cluster light post he was placing In position In front of the Singer Sowing machine of fice Saturday noon , would be knocked down with a sledge hammer , Aden Sheriff , a local electrician who per sistently declares that he has sold nine cluster light poles to business men on Noifolk avenue , finished his work and Saturday night the new lamp was burning brightly. Sheriff declares that Mayor Friday told him he would be well satisfied with the style of lamp ho was putting on the street if ho had a petition from most of the business men along Nor folk avenue endorsing his lamp. The required petition , ho says , was pre sented to the city council at the last meeting and was placed on file. He has been given permission to install the lamps , he declares , and expects to Install the other eight poles within a few weeks. "I called on Mayor Friday after I had installed the post Saturday night and he told me that Norfolk avenue belonged to the city and that I was not running it. He said he was running that street and that he would send a man to knock the new cluster light pole down Monday morning with a sledge hummer. I told Mr. Friday that would be the easiest way I could sell a pole , " says Sheriff. When asked what reasons he was given by the mayor for his opposition to his style of polo Sheriff said : "Mr. Friday told me that I should bo satisfied to put up one of my poles on the street as a sample , but said that he did not want any more in stalled at this time. " Ocean to Ocean Flyer Gets Fall. Middletown , N. Y. , Sept. 18. In at tempting to resume his flight to the Pacific coast this morning , C. P. Rodgers - ers crashed into a tree and fell with his aeroplane thlrty-five feet to the ground. The airman received scalp younds , not serious , but his machine was wrecked so badly that ho probably wll be unable to fly until tomorrow. Rodgers stuck to bis seat during the plunge but was thrown out when the machine hit the ground and caught under one of the wings , Just escaping being crushed to death by the heavy engine. At first It was thought he was badly hurt but after a physician had dressed his wounds ho went back to the scene of the accident and worked with his helpers , ascertaining the amount of the damage. After the first inspection he said that If the engine could bo repaired the other broken parts could be supplied from dupli cates In his special train. If obliged to send back to New York for another engine he did not know how long be might bo delayed. In any event he had not expectation of getting away again before tomor row morning. The trans-continental racer rose be fore daylight today Intending If pos sible to crecto a new distance record for ono day's flight. He loft the ground at 0:15. : Although there was little wind he failed to get a good start and nearly struck the four foot stone wall surrounding the pleasure grounds from where he took off. Then at a height of twenty feet one of his planes struck the limb of a willow tree. This threw him out of his course and he crashed full spead into a big hickory Just be yond. The branches of the tree partly broke the force of his fall , but the machine came down so hard head-on that the engine was partly burled In the soft ground. Rodgers wns pulled out from under his plane still smoking a cigar he lighted Just before the start. Ho was assisted to his special train which stood waiting nearby with steam up ready to accompany him on today's Journey , over the Erie rail road. road.Rodgers Rodgers landed hero at 6:18 : o'clock yesterday evening after making his first day's flight from Sheepshead Bay , about eighty miles , In ono hour and fifty-three minutes. If all went well today he had hoped by Tuesday to pass bb competitor , James J. Ward , who Is delayed at Oswego , N. Y. , by an iccldcnt last Saturday. THOUSANDS ARE COMING. Gregory Commercial Club Receives Many Queries Regarding Lands , Gregory , S. D. . Sopt. 18. Special to The News : Those who assume that ho very light registration for home steads In the Fort Berthold , N. D. , res ervation Is an Indication that the reg- strntlon for Rosebud lands In October will also bo light , are evidently going o meet with a surprise. Seventy-eight nail sacks full of letters addressed to fudge James W. Wlttcn , snpcrlnten * lent of the opening , are now stacked up In the U. S. land oillco in this city iwaltlng the judge's approval , and the stack is still being added to every day. The force of six already over-worked nailing clerks In the olllce of the sec- otary of the Commercial club Is view- ng tills stack of sacks askance , as It s presumed that most of the letters will prove to bo Inquiries regarding he lands and the rules of the opening , and that the judge will simply turn hem over to the Commercial club to 10 answered , tlio club having prepared a booklet which answers almost any liiestlon which can bo asked regarding ho opening. This booklet has rccelv- d Judge Wilton's "O. K. , " ho having stated that it Is the best and most complete thing of the kind which ho ins seen issued at any homestead t tlio close of the Fore Berthold open- ng Judge Wltten stated that ho had already received more Inquiries re- ; ardlng the Rosebud opening than ho md regarding tlio Fort Derthold open- ng , although the latter was even then n progress. This Is presumed to be lue to the fact that the North Dakota ands are not In the corn belt , while , ho Rosebud Is famous for Its prolific crops of that staple cereal. Inasmuch as most of the settlers on these now lomcstead lands como from the great . orn raising states of the Mississippi valley it is perfectly natural that they should prefer corn land on which to establish their new homes. The Commercial club has already answered Inquiries from over 10,000 > rospectlvo homesteaders , and the lumber of inquiries is now Increasing very fast. They began coming by the lozen a month ago , and at present ibout 500 a day are being received. i\t the present rate of Increase oven this number will be doubled before ho registration begins. W. J. Durand , special agent of the Western Union Telegraph Co. , was icre on Wednesday and successfully legotluted with the Notarial associa tion for space In the registration build- ng for a telegraph office. Mr. Durand was armed with a message from Judge Wltten Intimating that ho would llko : o have the telegraph ofllco located near his headquarters in Gregory , and nusmuch as he has reserved a build ing directly across the street from the registration building for his use , it is : houglit that placing the telegraph of- lice in the registration building will licet with his approval. Mr. Durand stated that the "quad" system would > e jnstalled here. The quad Is a sys tem' whereby several telegraph operat ors can send separate and distinct nessages over the same wire nt tlio same instant and each message will arrive safely at its destination with out getting tangled up with the others. Mr. Durand reserved sufficient space for six telegraph instruments and Is lopeful that that number will bo able : o handle the news for the various daily papers and press associations which will have representatives here. One of the busiest crews of work men In the city at present Is the elec- , rlc light gang. The town has become inbued with the carnival spirit and the entire registration period will be made a gala occasion for the thou sands who will be here. For this pur pose an immense amount of special wiring Is being done , and the night Humiliations will be something mag- ilflcent. An Innovation which is expected to win the respectful admiration of easterners - erners who are prone to be pessimistic regarding the agricultural possibilities of the west , will be the big corn pal ace , active work on the embellishment of which Is now being taken In hand. The building lias a frontage of seventy- live feet on Main street In the same jlack as the United States land ofllce. It will be ornate with battlements and domes In the usual carnival building style , and the expert from Mitchell who has designed and embellished the real annual corn palace at that place for the last twenty years will be In charge of the work. Over 500 letters were sent to farmers In Gregory and Tripp counties inviting them to bring In exhibits , and over half of them have already replied signifying their intetv tlon to do so. An especially gratify ing feature is that over half of these replies are from Tripp county farmers , and as Tripp county joins the lands to be opened to settlement the exhibit may be safely considered by the new- settlers as a fair sample of what they may expect to be able to accomplish In their new homes. The opening as a whole promises to be an exhibition of the pioneer spirit at Its best. The spirit of lawlessness and sordid desire for gain which has been a more or less prominent feature of all openings In the past , seems to have entirely disappeared and In Its place remains nothing but typical [ western hustle and the fraternal In stinct which demands a square deal for every worthy man especially the easterner who comes here Ignorant of the country and Its ways. It will be a hospitable welcome by the pioneers of the past to those of the present , who In their turn may be privileged [ to welcome still later generations to other lands of promise. A special train carrying President W. A. Gardner and other high offi cials of the Northwestern railroad sys tem , passed through Norfolk Monday morning enroute to Winner , S. D. , to look over the preparations that are being made to take care of the land 1 rush. The train was met at Missouri I Valley by Gen. Supt. S. M. Braden and \ Division Supt. C. H. Reynolds of Nor folk. Thn Northwestern has receiv ed more Inquiries regarding the com ing rush than It did on Tripp county threw years ago. A Convention Should Do Held. Although A. W. Jefferls of Omaha declares candidates to succeed the late Congressman Latta In the Third No- braskn district must bo nominated by the state or congressional central com mittees , The News believes the law very clearly provides that the nomin ations may bo made either by n con. vontlon or a central committee , and should bo made by convention. As The News Interprets the law the convention Is given the preference and this paper believes that a convention would prove eminently more satisfac tory to the members of both parties In the Third congressional district than nominations by the handful of commlttcemen. Where Jefferla Is Wrong. Mr. Jofforls of Omaha , who is quoted In the Sunday Omoha Bee , cites sec tion 5888 Cobbey's statute for 1911 as follows : "Section 5888 , Cobbey's Statutes for 1911 Is as follows : Vacancies occur ring upon any party ticket after the holding of any primary shall bo filled by majoilty of the party committee of llio city , district , county or state , as the case may be , and a certificate of such nomination shall bo fllod ns re quired by section 5770 of Cobbey's An notated Statutes , 1903. " The News believes that the above statute refers only to vacancies oc curring after a ticket has been nomin ated and contends that no ticket has been nominated In the Third congres sional district of Nebraska this year and therefore no vacancy could pos sibly occur on such ticket and that therefore the above paragraph has nothing to do with the situation. The Law In This Case. The election laws of Nebraska , 1911 , states : "Section 1 ISM. All nominations for candidates of any political party for ofllce to be filled at a special election shall bo nominated by a convention or committee of their political party * * * , such certificate of nomination of candidates for ofllco to bo filled by the voters of the entire state or any division or district greater than a county , Including candidates for con gress , * * * shall be filed with the secretary of state except as in this act otherwise provided. " Section 107 Election laws of Nebras ka says : "Vacancies occurring in any state judicial district , county , precinct , township or public elective olllce thir ty days prior to any general election shall bo filled thereat. " The very fact that there is more than one candidate for the nomination should make the convention plan pre eminently more satisfactory than the committee scheme. HALE FOR CONGRESS ? Former State Senator's Friends Are Urging Him to Run. Friends of ex-State Senator F. J. Hale of Norfolk are bringing pressure to bear to induce him to become a can didate for the democratic nomination to succeed Mr. Latta. They argue that he is well known over the district and rather resent what they term an at tempt to "railroad" Dan Stephens into the nomination without giving the par- j ( ty a chance to choose Its own candi date. Senator Hale was at one time prominently mentioned for governor , and was an active representative In the state senate from Madison , Wayne , Pierce and Stanton counties. MCCARTHY A CANDIDATE. Former Congressman and Head of La Follette League , in Race. J. J. McCarthy of Ponca , formerly congressman In the Third district and president of the new La Follette lea gue In Nebraska , is a candidate for ] ! the republican nomination for con gress to succeed Mr. Latta , according to a Lincoln dispatch to the Sioux City Tribune. Ends His Life on Norfolk Ave. While drivng up Norfolk avenue , in the residence portion y > f tlie cjty , ] i ' Ernest Fenske , a well known farmer living three miles west and one mile ( south of town , about 40 years old , committed suicide by shooting him- 1 self with a revolver In the right tem ple at 12-40 o'clock Monday after noon. I I He leaves a wife and four children , the oldest 13 and the youngest 0 years old. Famllv trouble and resultant despondency are snld by his brother , Robert Fenske , to be the cause. Two People See Shooting. I | J. S. McClary and 11-year-old Frank Odlorne , son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. | Odlorne , were eye witnesses to the tragedy , but not until Fenske was taken from the buggy in which he ended his life did these two witnesses know he had killed himself. Fenske purchased a new 32-calibre revolver In a local hardware store during the morning and also a box of cartridges. Later he met his brother , Robert Fenske , and told him of his trouble at home. He did a little bus iness at a bunk and then entered his buggy at about 12:30 : for the homeward - ward trip. When ho reached Twelfth street and Norfolk avenue he cocked the trigger of the new revolver and , placing the muzzle against his temple , fired the gun. His head fell on his breast. Thought it a Joke. The two witnesses saw this but when his body suddenly fell from the seat of the buggy against the front shield they thought ho was repairing something on the harness and that he had fired the gun as a joke. Young Odlorne , who was driving home from the city , suddenly brought his horse close to the Fenske rig and saw blood on the man's head. He gave the alarm and soon many residents of j West Norfolk avenue were In the street 1' ' Alec Snyder stopped the Fenske horse JntU ns It crossed the bridge between Twelfth and Thirteenth Mi-eots and with the assNtiuiro of F. (1. ( Coryoll. Frank Warbler and a few other mon , the body was taken from the buggy and placed on the ground. The revolver lay In the bottom of the buggy with the hammer against the cap of the solitary bullet which ended the /armer'a life. There were three other loaded shells In the chamber and the newly opened box of cart ridges lay upon the blood bespattered wrapping paper , In the position he had placed them. Had Trouble With Wife A close examination of the wound showed a large round powder mark and the small bullet hole In the right temple. Fenske had evidently held the miizzlo of the revolver very close to his head when he pulled the trig ger. ger.Tho The remains ) were taken from the scene a few moments after dentil by the undertakers and a coroner's In quest might not be necessary , It was thought. "Ernest has had trouble with his wife for some tlmo , " said Robert Fen- sko , who was brought to the scene by Chief of Pullco Mnrquardt. " 1 was with him all morning and ho told mo ho was feeling bad. I tried to get him to como Into a restaurant and have some dllnnor with mo , but ho told me ho had no appetite and could not eat. Ho has often threatened to shoot himself and I have often tried to cheer him up , but It seemed use less. " Reports that Fenake was drunk are untrue. Ho came to the elf > ' and tit- tended to his regular business. He was Keen talking to a number of friends and at the bank where ho transacted business It was denied that ho was Intoxicated. Ho left the bank for his home. Fenske owned tlio farm on which ho was living and Is said to have on deposit a considerable sum of money. Ho was a member of the A. O. U. W. , in which fraternity his life Is Insured for about $2,000. Taft Shocked at News. Pontlac , Mich. , Sept. 18. President Taft was shocked to learn the death of Representative Madison. Ho waste to have been n guest of the congress man during his visit to Kansas next week. The president had promised Judge Madison more than a year ago to visit Kansas during the semi-centennial of the state and attend the celebration at Hutchlnson. This was one of the fixed engagements made for this fall and around It grew up the six weeks tinerary on which the president has just fairly started. President Taft regarded Judge Mad- , son as one of the ablest men in the louse of representatives. Classed as an 'insurgent , " Mr. Madison never icsltated to support the president on my measure which he deemed a prop er one and was a freuqent caller at the white house. Golf Title to England. Rye , N. Y. , Sept. 18. The American imateur golf championship passed in- o foreign hands on the thirty-seventh ; reen at Apawamis , but only after iarold H. Hilton of England and Frederick Herresciioff of New York lad waged one of the greatest golfing jattles ever seen in this country. Herreschoff , although defeated , achieved a feat that by general con sent places him in the foremost ranks of American golfers and entitles him o a special niche In the hall of golfing 'a me. me.With With 4,000 spectators turning away disheartened , Herrschoff galvanized .hem into enthusiastic supporters by working up from six down and thir- .een to go to even terms with the British champion on the thirty-fourth reen. He did even more , for he compelled Hilton to play an extra lole final championship match , for the irst time in the history of the United States Golf association. Few of the ardent devotees of the game who tramped untiringly over the course thought Herreschoff had the strokes or the fighting ability to out play the Englishman and picked up lole after hole the crowd was swept off its feet by his masterful work and Iriven to applauding and shouting at every American stroke. Had a little flat stone on which Hil ton's badly sliced second shot for the thirty-seventh hole kicked tile ball nto the rough instead of onto the green the score might have been dlf- 'erent. Herresciioff was going like a race .torse when the players started on the extra hole. After squaring the con test on the thirty-fourth green he just failed to win on the thirty-sixth when his ball missed the cup by an Inch. As on many other occasions Herres choff drove the longer ball and Hilton [ ) laying the like , pitched for the shelf- like green that is hemmed in by crags on both sides. The ball headed for the boulders on the right and for a second or two English golfing supre macy In this country seemed to be disappearing. But the little flat stone was there to receive the ball and it bounded off onto th green. Herres ciioff was short and over-ran his approach preach putt , while Hilton missed the cup on the third by two feet. Her reschoff irade a gallant effort for a half and failed and then Hilton ran down his putt and found the American championship waiting in the cup. Norfolk Beats Burke Champs. Norfolk 14 , Burke 1. Probably handicapped by a heavy wind and dust storm which raked the driving park diamond all Sunday af ternoon , E. S. Sanderson's champions of southeast South Dakota with head quarters at Burke were easy pickings for "Sclimock" Fox who pitched a beautiful game and who received the support ot eight Norfolk bull players Fox only allowed three hits , walked two , hit one man , struck out seven ant was credited with two safe hits on his batting average. The nine errors recorded against Burke showed poor support for Ben ter , who pitched a fair game for five Innings when ho was replaced by Do- lair. Ili'titer walked ono lilt one , and allowed se\en hltn. Deln. Coltimbim leaguer , wns suiTeilng from an Injured linger and n newly lanced boll under hlH pltehlmc nrm which may have ox ciiMod llio four hits taken I'lom him In HO slioit a time , lie walked three men "Shorty" Krahn was retired In the fourth Inning with n dislocated ankle as the result of endeavoring to titont third when ho ran Into Si-tason. who put him out. The Injured ankle wait badly swollen and It Is doubtful that ho can piny the next few games. So heavy was the dust at Union that tlio players could not ee ouch other and waited at short Intervals for the wind to pick up the loo.so dirt on the diamond before starting again. Thompson , recently with the Fremont - mont league , took KrahnV plaeo and after some good coaching on first ho made one of the Hfiimitlonul catches of the season by taking In a high lly In far right field. J. 1C. Slaughter .seemed to have an off day and while he made HOIIIO feat ure plays on first for Burke ho alno wu credited some errors mid took In good grnoi' the rooting of the fans SclsMon on third for llurko played a good game and featured with Thomp son In good pick-ups. Among the Durko fans In attendance at the name were : E. S. Sanderson and family , J. E. Slaughter , E. Gra ham , E. Miller , E. Elston , A. Emery , L. Tonsdell , G. Mentor , G. Stolner. A M. Church , John Sclssons. Norfolk ill ) Jones 2d fi GlIsHinan cf 3 Ilrown ss fi Dove 1st fi Pnlmqulst 3d 3 Krahn rf 2 Tompson r f 3 0 Wagner If fi 2 Hoffman c 5 Fox p .fi Totals -11 M II 27 ID I Burke ah r h po a o TompHon ss . . . . Sctssons 'id . . . . 1 0 0 t 1 Emery 2d I I I It 1 Graham rf 4 0 1 2 1 0 Slaughter 1st ,4 , 0 0 005 Elision c . . . . 3 0 0 8 0 0 Trusdail If 3 0 0 I 0 1 Steiner cf 2 0 1 0 0 1 llt-tor p 2 0 0 0 C 0 Dolure p 1 0 0 0 1 0 Totals HO 1 3 21 I ! ) ! > Si-ore by Innings : II Hnrke 000100000 1 Norfolk 031202 340 x 14 Summary Three-base hits , Do\o , two-base hits , Steiner and Hoffman , base on balls , off Fox 1 , Mentor 1 Do- lare . " . ; struck out , by Fox 7 , Hentcr 2 , Deluru ; left on bases , Norfolk ! ) , Durko 1 ; double plays , Thompson to Emery to Slaughter ; hit by pitcher , Glissninn 2 , Steiner. Umpire , Hoclc , Norfolk. Time 2 hours. Nine Killed at Auto Race. Syracuse , N. Y. , Sept. 18. Nine per sons wore killed and fourteen Injured , some of them seriously , as the result of an accident during the closing miles of a fifty-mile automobile race at the state fair track Saturday after- 10011 when a Knox racing car , driven \y \ Lee Oldfleld , leaped from the truck , raslied through the fences surrouud- ng it and plunged into the throngs hat lined tlio other sldo of the speed- vay. Six of the nine people were cllled outright and three others were so badly Injured they died on the way o the hospital. The accident came as the fatal tor- nination of a day that was undoub- edly the biggest tiio state fair has ever held in point of attendance , as well as in the matter of attractions. The honored guest of the fair was resident Taft. It was a short tlmo ifter he had left the grounds that he tragedy occurred. Just before he eft , President Taft took a short ride n an automobile on the track which s wet to keep down the dust for the resident and his party. This wetting vas such as to cause drivers who vere to compete in the fifty-mile event o protest. When the race was called Ralph DePalma and Bob Burman , who had > een driving in previous races , refus ed to go on because of the condition of the track , saying the water had nade it too dangerous to take chances. There was some delay dur- ng which the track dried somewhat. The race was called and DePulmn and 3urman were both entrants along with Oldfleld and six others. The accident happened in the forty- third mile. DePalma was leading by lap , with Oldflold trailing him as they entered the first quarter of this nile. The big cars , traveling , It Is estimated , at seventy-five miles an lour , were running side by sldo as they swung around the turn , after passing the grandstand Car Leaps In the Air. As they took the turn there was a report. The car driven by Oldfleld leaped in the air. Then It swerved to the outer sldB and crashed through the fence. The crippled machine , be yond the control of the driver , plough ed through hundreds of persons lined along the fence. It was at first thought that no ono was hurt , and this announcement was made. Des pite this hundreds hurried to the point where the car left the track. The runaway car had left many per sons piled together on the ground , sev eral mangled beyond recognition. At once nearly a score of the dead and Injured were picked up. Hurry calls were sent to this city for ambulances and every one In the city responded Vehicles of all kinds on the fair grounds were also pressed Into ser vice. The dead and Injured were taken to the emergency hospital on the fair grounds , and at the same tlmo the woman's building was turned Into a hospital ward.Physicians on the grounds hurried to the hospitals. At the same time a general call was sent in to the city for help.