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'it' .. . m almribm $mtrtrcl. t. - &.. 4- - : - S I .-. -:. VOLUME XXXJV.-NUMBER 41. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 13. 1904. WHOLE NUMBER 1.712. a - t?s fjW,.,,!,. r- v.- L -"-. t ' ' fi v .-t f.-yj j . !. .- -. r &, Mtittttttttttttimtttw f The Old s s Reliable... 5 ABSOLUTE SAfCTYg is the best thing we ? have to offer. Other Z Inducements are of 5 e secondary import- once. Upon this ba- ml mi I t i mt mi mi mt mi mi mi mi mt m sis only, do we solicit 2 your bUsTriess: 5 f mi mi mi mi mi ef V H6e g e Columbus : State Bank. f c mi mt mt mi mt mt mt i m?,i?rmvi?Yiirt?r i A Veekly Recul Newspaper Derotei to the Bct Interests of Jv X Columbus, THE County of Platte, The Stale cl -Nebraska.- THE United States, fid (be Rest If MiikM rr Tl Unit of MeaBufB with Us i $1.50 bct Year, If Paid in Airanc f UMfalaaM Is mjDmMmn art Ceata. Sampfe Copies Sent Tret U any Address. HENRY GASS. ...UNDERTAKER... Coffins and Metallic ialssaesei Columbua, Nb ee M. i1Cm Columbus Journal. b Furnish Any ttaf Required of s CLUBS WITH THE ' COLRSTRY. 15he Columbus JournaJ, I JffKlt u V i "t TRIAL SOON OVER DIETRICH AND FISHER NOT GUILTY. FOUND THE INDICTMENTS ARE QUASHED Court Decides That the Senator Was Not a Member of Congress When Contracts Were Made He is There fore Net Guilty as 'Charged. OMAHA. The Dietrich trial in the ! same obstruction, a projecting plank federal circuit court is a thing of the J placed for a lantern stand, that pre past. The senator has been found not j vented its operation last Wednesday, guilty of accepting a bribe, had the the fatal afternoon, indictments of conspiracy against him J The curtain manager declares that quashed because the court held he i he protested at that tim but. that v.... u. u v.u0u .... .c -uu mi. same offense and was relieved from defending himself in the charge of en joying a lease with the government upon the motion of the district attor ney. - - - Summers refused to make any state ment after the trial was over. He said- "I have no further statement to make nothing more to say, I think." "I have nothing to say." said Sen ator Dietrich, "beyond the fact that r was willing to waive any technical ity in order to secure a full trial. My attorneys advised me and. I believe, correctly, that the court would not al low the case to go to the jury, for the reason that Summers would not and could not prove that I was a sen ator when i he l-ase was made. The lease was made before I was even elected senator and while I was still governor. Summers knew this and knew that his case would not be al lowed to go to the jury, hut he per sisted in his effort solely to besmirch my name" At the same time in the court room Senator Dietrich was surrounded by a group of friends ?cxio'is to shake his Vnl n M J j. ln m .m lstial T .- I uauu auu l" a-v lllUL c,r uu"u l" prosecution Jo?f out because it bad not been shaped in conformity to law. Thy were satisfied that the senator was guiltless literaily a well as tech nically. His daughter. Miss Gertrude Dietrich, was the center of a throng of women, smiling and Talking freely lor the first time since the trial be an. Postmaster Jacob Fisher of Hastings, who alto was freed of the cnarges pending against him. was ex pressing his satistaction and saying that he did not care so much about the indictment, but that it was "his girls" that wpre the most concerned i over the matter A most notable assemblage of law yers heard the delivering of Judge Van Dvanter of the two decisions, both of which settled points never be tore raised in American jurisprudence, the first as to whether a senator is a member of congress when and after he is elected or upon taking the oath of office, and the second being on the contention that a lease with the gov ernment made by a member of con gress before he becomes such an offi cer does not operate to cause him to fracture the law because its provis ions are adhered to after the leasor becomes a public officer. The point as to the exact time a person becomes a member of congress was raised by General Cowin and argued by both sides. It had been anticipated as a vital feature cf the bribery case and the judges had pre pared for it. They were ready, there fore, with the derision, although, as Judge Devanter said, th reasoning had not been reduced to the form in which it will stand upon the court rec ords. "From the conclusions." he said at the end. "we must instruct the jury to find this defendant not guilty. "Gentlemen of the jury, it results from that which has been just said in your presence that, if all the evi dence which the prosecution has in hand and which was described were cow introduced and before you, it would aDpear that the defendant had not attained that official relation with the United States which was neces- ! sary he should have attained in order to come within the inhibition of tVis statute, and hence we must instruct j-ou to find the defendant not guilty. The evidence has been rendered nee- cssary and it is your duty to find the defendant not guilty." PORTO R1CANS NOT ALIENS. United States Supreme Court so De-' tiTe Burkett introduced a bill provid cides in Old Gcnzales Case. j "? 'or tae payment of losses suf- WASHINGTON. In an opinion by ' tained by union soldiers in having Chief Justice Fuller the supreme court j their arms, accouterments and cloth of the United States decided that the j ing taken from them by the rebels citizens of Porto Rico are not aliens during the civil war. The bill placed cf the United States and that they ara ' the amount of $300 as the limitation entitled to enter tnis country withe;: to be paid in any one individual case, obstruction. Representative McCarty recom- The opinion was delivered in the mended Marion E. Richardson to be ccse of the Porto Rican woman Gon- appointed postmaster at Clarks. Mer zales who. in 1902. was refused admis- ' rick county. Nebraska, sion to the port of New York on the Representative Martin introduced a -. J r chu tivij HL-oItt rn hooTim, I hil! fr St anarT. a nnrfinn nf rrmrarn. a public charge. The decision was j based entirely on the immigration act to be used as a public park and in of 1S91 and took the ground that the connection with the Soldiers' home at Porto Ricans owe allegiance to the Hot Springs. S. D. This oirk is to United States and to no other govern- j be known as the Battle Mountain San nent. ' itarium park. France Will net Interfere. LONDON. Daeschner. first secre tary of the French embassy, in an in terview Friday said that the present arrangement between France and Great Britain were such that it would be impossible to disturb them. The secretary said that even if Korea and China joined JaiJan they would not be considered as powers within the meaning of the Franco-Frussian treaty and that, therefore, it wL- not be like-1 ly that France will be called en to interfere. Special Assistant Attorney. WASHINGTON. D. C Colonel W. H. Leaken. an attorney of Savannah. Ga., was appointed special assistant attorney general. Colonel Leaken will have charge of important cases for the government In the guif states. Militia Arms and Equipment. WASHINGTON. Secretary Shaw transmitted to the house a request of Secretary Root fcr an appropriation cf $583;0O0 for new arms and eqcip cent for crsTaizsa cilitia. CURTAIN WAS BAD. Said to Have Failed to Work at Pre-! vious Fire. CHICAGO. Evidence showing grosser criminal negligence than any previously developed was given under ! "b e d wr" invest 1 Cation of th lmnnni linirnr I t , ,, . . . . . jusepa uaugnerty, wno naa cnarge of the cirtain. swore that two weeks ago during a matinee performance there was a fire on th? stage and that when he attempted to lower the I asbestos curtain it was stopped by the uu atienuon way paia to liis warn ing. In his opinion, if the curtain had been run down during the fatal matinee, the lives of many, if not all the victims of the disaster, might have been saved; It-was only by the merest chance that a panic was avert ed as the result of the first fire. The skylight at that time, he said, was se curely closed. After the interview with Daugherty Attorney Fulkerson said the rumor of a previous fire at the theater had been investigated several days ago. but as it had been denied by most of the authorities, including Will J. Davis, he had been compelled to be lieve that the report had no proper basis. "So far as I can larn," said At torney Fulkerson, "the fire two weeks ago was in a pile of combustible ma terial back of the stage and was ex tinguished without alarming the audi ence. The fire curtain failed to work. and why this warning was disregard ed is a matter that somebody wiil have to explain." Daugherty's statement was made under oarh. Speaking of the skylight on the day of the first fire, Daugherty declared that the skylights above the stage were closed, as were the ven tilators between the skylights. The latter were designed to create an up ward draught in case of fire. The ventilators were ooerated by a lever, hur Daugherty declared no attempt was made to open them during the tragic fire which came a few days later, me ventilators were in per- I feet condition, he said, and had been operated a number of times during the engagement of the Blue Beard com pany. He could give no explanation as to why the vents were not opened . when the lire broke out. j Recurr'.ns to tho curtain. Dauglierty ' insisted that it was not a light on the proscenium arch, bur the five-foot plank which was used as a platform to sustain his "spot" light which oi structed the asbestos curtain. CLASSIFICATION Or MAIL. Bill Introduced Providing for Sweep ing Changes. WASHINGTON Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania introduced a bill providing for the consolidation of third and fourth class mail matter, to be admitted at the rate of 1 cent for each two ounces. The bill enumer ates in detail each article to be ad mitted in this class, included in which is "queen bees, when properly packed." He also introduced a bill authoriz ing the postmaster general to accept all regularly issued publications for transmission in the mails at a bulk rat" of cents a pound, when not less than 500 pounds arc presented at one time, and that the publication shall have no Iss than four issues a yiir. and each copy shall weigh at least one ami one-half ounces. Section 2 of this bill states: "That regularly is sued publications, as herein described as second-class matter, shall hereaf ter be designated fifth-class matter with admission to the mails as herein stated." He also introduced a bill providing that at least 2.000 identical pieces of third and fourth class matter may be accepted for transmission through th5 mails without postage stamps affixed, provided the postage shall be paid in j full thereon. WESTERN MEASURES ARE UP. ;The Nebraska Reoresentatsves Are Heard From. ! WASHINGTON. D. C Renresenra- ment land in the Black Hills district Free Admission of Ccal. WASHINGTON Representative Williams fMiss. introduced a bill providing: "That from the time and after the passage cf this act no duty shall be levied or collected upon coal of any fc-m or description imported into the United States from foreign countries." Also a bill requiring the secretary of the treasury to make full rebate of duties paid on all coal of every description imported into the United States from foreign countries for the period of one year. Ruth Cleveland is Dead. PRINCETON. X. J. Ruth Cleve land, eldest child of former President Grover Cleveland, died of diphtheria . al of the torpedo beat, destroyers Pre here Thursday. j ble and Paul Jone. under cover of The immediate cause- of death was the gunboat Bennington, at Acapulco a weakening of the heart action, ow-' on their way to Panama, ing to a mild attack of diphtheria. I Dr. Wickotf the sttendinz nnysi- Japan Buying Provisicns. cian. said that Miss Cleveland had MANILA The Japanese govern been ill with a mild form ot aiphtne- meat, through its local agent, has just ria for four days and that the heart called for bids for an enormous ansa- affection wa3 not anticipated, sae was ' 15 years of age. LOOKS LIKE WAR OPINION PREVAILS THAT IT CAN NOT BE AVERTED. RUSSIA MAKES NEW DEMANDS American Plans Subject of Interest Diplomats Wonder What Course this Country Will Pursue in Asia Japan Pleased With Marines' Landing. LONDON. The Daily Mail's Tokio correspondent learns that Russia has made new demands which it will be impossible for Japan to entertain and practically removes all hopes of pa cific settlement. The correspondent says that all the powers are landing troops in Corea and that the British blue jackets landed at Chemulpo are expected to go to Seoul immediately. Constant telegrams are passing be tween M. Pavloff, the Russian sinister to Corea, Baron De Roseib-tae Russian minister to Japan, and Viceroy Al- exieff. PEKIN. General Yaun Shai Kai. commander-in-chief of the Chinese army and navy, sent his foreign ad viser, Charles Denby. jr.. to Pekin to investigate the report as to the proba bility of war. Mr. Denby has reported that according to the best opinions ob tainable, based on diplomatic informa tion, war cannot be averted. PARIS. Official and diplomatic re presentatives here claim to be with out information regarding the contents of the Russian reply to Japan, but the tone is distinctly pessimistic and there are but slight hopes of a peaceful exit irom the position in which Russia and Japan find themselves. The diplomats are making inquiries as to the attitude of the powera in case of war, that to lie adopted by the United States being regarded as particularly important. To the Associated Press the Japanese minister said: "The attitude of the United States -will mean much. It has negotiated a treaty with China for the opening of three ports in Manchuria to the com merce of the world. These ports have been occupied by Russia and thus the treaty rights have been violated. Japan is not guided by selfish mo tives, but is acting in the interest of all nations. I hope the United States will clearly understand our petition and will favor us with their support." The correspondent asked the minis ter if he had lost all hope of peace. "I never lose that hope." he replied. I The Chinese legation claims to be "without :i:brmat.oii .a regard to the attitude oi China in the event of war. It was said that at the outset it was certain that neutrality would be pro claimed, but in cao of Japanese vic tories it would not surprise the lega tion if the Chinese should cast their f lot with Japan. This would seriously -embarrass Russia, not because of the importance of the Chinese as a fight ing force, but because of the danger of the interruption of the Russian com- i anumcations. The action of the United States in sending marines to Seoul. Corea. "is re garded here as being a "significant in dication of the trend of its sympathy." and it is known to be gratifying to Japn. because it establishes a prece dent which the Japanese can follow if necessary in debarking a strong force on the peninsula. LETTER FROM GENERAL WOOD. One Received by Magazine Writer to Be Used Against Its Author. WASHINGTON The senate com-! I mittee on military affairs has receiv ed from Rav Stannard Baker, the magazine writer, a copy of a letter which General Wood wrote to hin: just prior to the latter's appearance as a witness in the Wood investiga tfon. Mr. Baker told the committee of the letter when he was on the stand and was then asked to send for a copy. The letter discusses the Run cie incident and by inference sug gests that Mr. Baker refresh his mind along certain lines indicated by Gen eral Wood. The letter has been or dered printed as an addenda to the proceedings before the committee. The minority members of the com mittee who have voted against the nomination will argue to the senate that the purpose of General Wood's letter was to prejudice the witness. Contested Election Cases. WASHINGTON House elections committee No. 3 fixed February 13 for hearing arguments in the contest ed election case of Reynolds against Butler, from the Twelfth district of Missouri. Th committee took up the Colorado case of Bonynge against Shafroth. Chairman Olmstead ap pointed Messrs. Miller. Currier and Sullivan as a sub-committee to inves tigate the ballots. She is Victim Nc. 591. CHICAGO The Iroquois theater fire cairned another victim Tuesday, mak ing the total number of death 5911 Mis3 Josephine Spence was one of those severely burned at the fire. She was found by relatives and taken to her home, where she died Tuesday. Acquits Customs Officers. MANILA Ballantine and Miller, charged with conspiracy to defraud the customs by furthering the illegal entry of an exempt class of Chinese. have both been acquitted in the cus-1 toms court of appeals before Judges Crossfield and Rosas. W. D. Ballan tine was an inspector of customs at the time of his arrest for the issuance of alleged fraudulent Chinese certifi cates, and Johh T. Miller, implicated with him. was a former inspector of immigration. More Ships Going to Panama. WASHINGTON The nary depart- meai us ueta miormea ot tne arriv- tity of subsistence stores, all bids to he in by Jaaaary 30 THE NEW CANAL TREATY. President Sends ts Congress a Special WASHINGTON. President Roose velt sent to the senate and house on Monday a special message in regard to the new Panama canal treaty. He treats the topic in every- respec at J seat lensth.-eciting a history of the isssithlan commerce in support of re- support cent action The Un:ed States, he says, most control the canal. An ob ligation rests upon this nation to se cure unrestricted use of the same. He details at much length our dealings with Columbia, and says that the nego tiations in which the United States was just and generous were rejected by the South American government In the course of his message Pres ident Roosevelt says the fact is brought home that if a canal is built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans the United States is the only country that can build it. The act of congress providing for the waterway. he maintains, favors the Panama route, with Niacaragua secondary, at least, if not a last resort. He pre sents a mass of documentary evidence bearing on the revolution going to prove that this government in no way instigated ... but acted the part of defender of life and property, and car ried out its treaty pledge to the world to preserve free transit across the isthmus. Colombia, the president says, brought about the rising by her own bad faith toward the United States, and disregard for the pleas of the seceding people of Panama. Fi nally, says the president to congress, the question resolves itself into the plain proposition: Shall the new treaty with Panama be ratified; shall the canal be built? FAILURES OF LAST YEAR. Bradstreet's Reports 9,56- with Lia bilities of $154,277,093. NEW YORK There were 9.568 failures reported to Bradstreet's in the calendar year 1903. with liabili ties of Slo4.277.093 and assets of $84, 060,475. This marked a decrease in number of just 2 per cent from 1902 and of 8 per cent from 1601. With the exception of 1899. the in crease over which is 1.4 per cent, the year 1d13 shows the smallest number m iuiure casualties reported since 18S7. Liabilities, however, owing pri - marily to the increase in suspensions oi nnanciai institutions, out aiso oe- i cause of the heavy number of manu- facvrlng coacerus UwpeiTtimg. WCrC 1902 and the heaviest in tact since 1897. There were 956 failures involv- ing IS.328,362 of liabilities and $3,852.- 197 of assets in the Dominion of Can-' ada in 1903 a decrease of 12 per cent in number and a practically identical total of liabilities. WHERE DIFFERENCE ARISES. Korea is the Bone of Contention in the Far East. PARIS. It developed Tuesday that the greatest difference between Rus sia and Japan arises from the prop osition made by Russia that neutral ity shall be established, extending from Ping Yan in Korea on the south to the Russian frontier on the north. The Russian government has express ed a willingness to recognize the pre pondering influence of Japan in the remainder of Korea, and the principle of the integrity of China and of Korea. Japan, however, saw no reason why the proposed neutral zone should be ( established, holding that the entire j peninsula should be subject to her preponderance of influence. The at- j tiude of Russia is believed to be due to the fact that if Japan controls Korea she will thereby be able to more easily menace Port Arthur as well as Vladivostok FRANCE IS NOW DIPPING IN. Would Prevent the Transfer of the Canal Property. ' WASHINGTON A dispatch to Dr. Hcrran. Colombian charge d'affaires, received from Paris, said that a French tribunal had been appealed to , . by an agent of Colombia with a view to preventing the transfer of the Pan- ama Canal mnnnnrV .otto n.. t.n 7m : Z"Z "I" "' :-".Z ! .u.uAuuo iw LUt .-HUCIH.4U UtCIUlUCUl I without the consent of Colombia. Counsel for the Colombian govern ment arrni.flmv tn tha 4iumfrnh snrerf th 97m h i,.i, ,h ' - ! . B-t.H. MV. .MV&A&. IUT1C Va I good ground for believing the effort to prevent the transfer would be suc cessful. The step, it is said, is with the full cognizance of the Colombian au thorities and was instituted by an agent cf the government, wno lert the United States after consultation with General Reyes and Dr. Herran. J The end sought to be attained is to frustrate the sale of concessions, franchises and property of the canal company to the United States, prep arations for which already have been under way. the amount to be paid by this government being $40,000,000. Navy Estimates Reduced. WASHINGTON. D. C Secretary of the Navy Moody, with the view of asking congress for such sums only as are required for the navy for the coming year for construction and ma chinery by $4,000,000. and has elim inated the $400,000 for equipment of vessels under the same head. The ap plication for construction and machin ery is a continuing one and the original estimates called for $23 -000,000. House Holds Brief Session. WASHINGTON The house was in session but twelve minutes Thursday. Mr. Hemenway. chairman ot tne com mittee on appropriations, obtained unanimous consent that one hour be devoted at the opening ot rTiaays session for consideration of a bill j amesding the act appropriating 5300.- wv iur me eraaicauon ot root and- mouth disease smesg cattle so as to make $250,000 of that amount avail- fasla to at the emergencj: caused by the Mexicsa boll weeriL NO SAFE DEVICES MANAGERS-OF THE IROQUOIS THEATER ARE EXAMINED. MTHIKMrE TO PROTECT LIFE j Tertim of company Officers i -, Jli.. , -:.. ,..,. Shows that Eleven Exits Were Locked and Bolted When the Fire Occurred. CHICAGO By their own evidence given before Monroe Fulkerson, who is conducting the fire department in vestigation into the Iroquois theater horror, the proprietors of the theater showed that a worse condition of af fairs existed than had heretofore been thought possible. Will J. Davis. Harry Powera and Thomas J. Noocan. active managers of the Iroquois theater, were examin ed by .Mr. Fulkerson Wednesday. AH of them pleaded ignorance of any pre cautions taken to prevent loss of life by fire at their theater. They admit ted failure to instruct employes in fighting fire and failure even to pro vide suitable appliances for use against flames. Their statements were corroborated by the testimony of twenty employes of the theater, none of whom had ever been told his duty in case of fire. Noonan. who is working manager of the theater, under direction of Da vis and Powers, admitted that eleven of the theater exits were locked and bolted. Two of these exits leading to the front of the theater on the ground floor were locked, three addi tional exits on the north side were bolted, three exits en the north side of the theater in the first balcony were bolted and three exits on the north side of the second balcony were bolted. The greatest loss of life in the fire was in the first and second balconies, where hundreds of people were suf focated through their inability to get out. or were trampled to death while trying to do so. Had these three exits m each balcony been available, ac cording to Mr. Fulkerson. the loss of life must have been greatly dimin ished. Noonan declared that no person had been named by the theater manage- menr to superintend the operation of 1 ventilators of the theater in cases j of fire and that; m ccnsequence. the flames had been permitted to sweep he nil?, irstord of cicinic a lratu- t p.l nntlar H.oi,t1. , .o r, rrmr I' M I was said by Noonan that George Dusenberry. the head usher: Archi bald Bernard. rhif olpr-rrifian nnri the theater engineer Unew how t0 a,Ta rua 0:i,,, r, , ,. by the evidence of these men. how- ever, that two of them never went j upon the stage and that the other had never been told to assume charge of the ventilators in case of fire. Dusenberry declared that his duty as usher kept him in the front of the house. The engineer was always be low the stage attending to his engine, and Bernard, the only one of the three knowing how to operate the ventil ators who was upon the stage during the performance, testified that h.? had never been told to assume charge of( them. ' Mr. Noonan declared that the two balconies, including seats and people standing, held 8S9 people. The total nuiber of fatalities in the fire is to date 591. of whom three were killed on the first floor. This would make, according to Manager Noonan's state- ment. 588 deaths out of S89 people in the two balconies, Will J. Davis testified that he had given no orders to plac a fire alarm box in the theater; that he had givpn no direction to place a pump on the stage beyond the fact that any appar- atus the firemen wanted should be provided as soon as possible. He de clared he could not say as to whether the building had been finally accept" ed from the Fuller company or not. HARRIMAN NOW THE HEAD. Takes the Place of Burt as President cf the Union Pacific. NEW YORK Directors of the Un- i ion PaciPc railway met Thursday, ac cepted the resignation of Horace G. Burt as president of the system, and elected T. H. Harriman as his sue- cessor. The office of chairman of the board of directors which Mr. Harriman has he,fl for e Pst three years was abolished. Mr. Burt will continue to serve as a director There is a vacancy in the position of general manager of the Union Pa cific, which President Harriman is ex pected to fill within the next few days. No intimation has been given a3 to who will be appointed. He will hardly appoint himself. Sustain Hammcnd Suspension. ST. LOUIS. Mo. The action of the California Methodist Episcopal confer ence in suspending the Rev. J. D. Hammond in San Francisco for one year was, by a vote of ten to nine, ad- , judged proper by the committee. Depcrtz Miners' Leaders. TELLURIDE. Colo. Twenty men arrested here by the military author ities, including former Attorney Gen eral Eugene Engley. counsel for the Telluride Miners' union: Guy E. Mil ler, president of the union, and J. C. Williams, vice piesident of the West ern Federation of Miners, were placed on board a northbound train and taken beyond the boundaries of San Miguel county under military guard. They will not be allowed to return while martial law is in effect. Opposes Purchase cf Park. WASHINGTON Secretary Roor has made a reverse report on tne om introduced recently by Senator 3Iar tin, providing for the purcnase ot the McLean property at Appomattox. Va in commemoration of the surrender ot the c-my of northern Virginia to oen- eral Grant. -The necessary expendi tures for the battlefield parsa aireaay authorized." says Secretary Host, "are and will ccntiT!t! m )m great that I do not think tats am i ougkt to peas." NEBRASKA NEWSY STATE BRIEFS. All of the county officials of Hall rounty are now in its new court house. Seventy-five thousand plum trees have been shipped to Iowa points by ane nursery of Fremont during the month of December. While attempting to so between the cars of a freight train, which was blockading a crossing. Fred Bernstein of Grand Island, was caught and three '.oes were mashed. A series of temperance meetings were held In Tecumseh with Hon. Thomas Darnell of Lincoln as the speaker. Mr. Darnell is the attorney for the State Anti-Saloon league. Mayor Wolz of Fremont has issued an edict against boys who throw mis siles at passenger trains. Youths caught in the act will be prosecuted without regard to who they may be. Steathily and cunningly. Joseph Boucher of Keya Paha county and Os car Smalley of Cherry county sawed through the bars and escaped from the asylum of Lincoln. Their escape was not discovered until morning. In a short time Miss Edna Bullock, secretary of the state library commis sion, will install ten new traveling li braries in Nebraska. The citizens of Gordon. Neb., have raised $40 and will be alloted one of the libraries. Dean, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Buff urn of Tecumseh. kindled a fire on the parlor floor at the Buffum house, and before it was discovered the carpet and some of the furniture of the room was considerably damaged. Roy Mason of Long Pine has a charge from a shotgun in his knee. The gun went off outside the house and the full load was lodged in the lad's knee cap. Tearing a hole through the door the load carried a portion of the wood into the wound. Peter Nelson and daughter of Osceo la were out driving Sunday and on the way home the team ran away. Both Mr. Nelson and daughter were thrown out and the result was that Miss Nel son had her collar bone badly broken and her father was badly bniised. Robbers blew the safe in the post office in Cheney but fortunately for the postmaster, secured but litCe booty. The postoffice is located in a I store operated by A. L. Huston, who t rlso rstnn-r . The safe was lit erally wre-k"d by the force cf the ex plosion, which is supposed to have been effected with nitro-glycerme. County Treasurer W. D. Wheeler of Cast county had a close call from death a fev- iuyj ago. He was riding a horse along the road when the animal stum bled, and in attempting to get up it fell backward upon the rider. A short time afterwards a mail carrier came along and noticed Mr. Wheeler was badly bruised and injured internally, bi't no bones ware broken. Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county went to Omaha after John Smith, who was arrested there with a quantity of knives in his possession, which were supposed to be a part of the goods stol en from the Ames. .Mercantile com pany's store at Leavitt Sunday night. The total amount of goods stolen will reach $30". The theives took a gen eral assortment, including a little of everything. The village board of Sprinzfield opened bids on the waterworks again. There were eight bids, all lower than at the first opening, and .1. P Connolly was the successful bidder, his bid be ine $t.757.85. or over $100 less than any of the others. Thrc were four bids less than 37.000. and the board has taken the matter under advisement for one week, after which the contract will be awarded. D. P. Ellis, an old man of Johnson county, who ha. been mentally unbal anced for some time, has been return ed to the Lincoln asylum, from which he was released some months ago. Dur ing the past summer and fall Mr. Ellis had been making his home with hi3 children in this county, but of late he has ben laboring under strange hal lucinations, being desireus of setting buildings afire. While Mr. and Mrs. 0;car Burns worth, residing about nine miles south west of Callaway, were returning home after taking Christmas dinner with the family of a neighbor, Mrs. Bumsworth was suddenly seized with a fainting spell. She was taken into the house of Peter Pearce and a doctor summoned, but when he arrived life had passed out. She had been enjoying the best of health, and had not complained of feeling ill during the day. Dakota City is being slowly swallow ed up by the Missouri river, and al ready over a third of the original town site has disappeared into the rapacious maw of the stream. This state of af fairs is vividly shown by a map of that section just completed by Harvey A. Hart of this city. The map will be in troduced at the next meeting of the Missouri River Improvement associa tion by Senator Warner, who is a mem ber. An operation was performed on Cas per Kessebaum of Fremont, whose bowels were stopped np by a cancer ous growth. Owing to the patient's advanced age, the cancer could not be removed, but an artificial opening and passage were made and he is getting along nicely. Ollie Holbrook. the young girl of Nebraska City who had her scalp torn from her head on Christmas day and who was placed in a hospital at Omaha, is reported 33 getting along nicely. Skin will be grafted on the head to take the place of the scalp. Dr. C. A. Lutgean. assisted by Dr. Neville of Nebraska City, performed a very delicate and critical operation on Mrs. William Watson of Auburn. They removed a sarcoma or canceerous growth of the neck. It was necessary to separate and the both the jugal v-as and external corotid artery. The operation was apparently successful, and the patient is resting nicely. Killpatrick Bros, are feeding- 2.0OO head of cattle' on their ranch twelve miles west of Beatrice. They buy most if their corn for f eediag from fanasrs a that section. STATE NEWS SORRY LOOKING WARRANTS. Issued by SchMl Directors far Seeks That Cams Net. HARTINGTON. A stranger re cently made the rounds of the school directors in Cedar county pretending to take orders for text hooks. He gave a big discount for warrants la advance. These he secured to the amount of nearly $1,000 sad sold them to local banks at a discount. Not a book was delivered and the banks are after the duped school of ficers, the latter claiming the warrants null and void on account of the non delivery of the books, while the bank ers claim the warrants valid heesase regularly issued. Several lawssita. it is thought, will ensue. COZAD WATCHMAN IS SHOT. Unidentified Enemy Peppers 1 swims! Burfeas with Buckkahet. COZAD. Samuel Burgess, night man at the Pendee hotel, was shot I while stannding in the office. The shot was fired through the window by someone unidentified. Tho wesson used was evidently a shotgun loaded with buckshot. The charge struck Burgess in the face, four of the heavy buckshot passing through the lower part of the face. The wound is serious, but not necessarily fatal. There Is no clue as yet ss to the identity of the would-be asssssia. The wounded man has been rasrshsl snd night watchman for the last six weeks. Store Robbed at Leavitt. The store of ihe Ames Mercantile company at Leavitt was robbed of be tween $200 and $300 worth of goods. When the clerk opened up in the morning he found goods scattered about the store and the back, door broken open. Some shirts, under wear, dress goods, shoes snd other goods were taken. From the quantity of goods missing the burglars evident ly had a team. The high wind- had blown away ail traces of tracks. The same store was broken open and sev eral hundred dollars worth of goods taken about two months ago. No Leprosy Cases There. A report circulsted in Lincoln that cases of leprosy had been discovered in thi Russian colony cf the city is de"Iared by the authorities to b without foundation. Healrn Oficer Rhode said that an investigation made by the city physician and himself disproved the report. Estimate ef Lincoln Papulation. In response to a request of Post master Slier, who recently received a communicstion from th census bu reau asking for an estimate of the population of Lincoln. City Cleric Pratt sent to the postmaster an esti mate which places the populstion at 46.S17. Drops Oead While st Work. HASTINGS. R. W. 9haw, an oM resident of Hastings, a wstch repairer by trade, dropped dead in front of his residence. He had eaten a hearty din ner and was repairing his front walk, which obliged him to do some chop ping to gt through the frost. The physician pronounced is apoplexy. Goes to Princeton. PERU. Dr. W A. Clark has hen called to Princeton. X. J., to take part in a discussion at a meeting of the American philosophical society of which he is a member. Dr. Joslah Royc of Harvard university is presi dent of the society. Amputates Both Legs. FREMONT. rjr. HaIam amputat ed both legs of Martin Enright. th man who fell under the cars at the west end of the Union Pacific yards, one at the ankle and the other just below the knee. Enright was also hurt internally, but will recover. Nebraska Man in Wreck. NORFOLK. H. C. Sutter, who was among the Injured in the Pennsylvan ia limited wreck at Lsrwill. Ind.. is a prominent implement desler snd pro perty owner of Norfolk. He wss re turning from a visit in Baltimore. Hia injuries are not fatal. Poultry Show for Papillien. PAPILLION. An organization to be known as the Sarpy County Poultry Association was formed in Papilllon. The first exhibit will be heid Febru ary 4, 5 and 6. Locate Missing Man. FREMONT. George Vsscslds. the man who has been missing from this city since July last, has been located at Carthage. S. D.. and professes- to be much surprised thst his friends should be alarmed at his disappearance- Admits Being a Forger. KEARNEY Jack Ottis was brought here from Elm Creek charged with forgery. He got two pay checks from the Standard Bridge company for his companions and endorsing their names on them had them cashed. Lat er he was arrested and gave up the money. When arranged here he a! mitted his guilt and will probably be arranged in district court, when it is said be will plead guilty. Ottis is a young man and says drink is what caused him to commit the crime. Clerks Secure Esrly Closing. NEBRASKA CITY. The local' mer chants have signed on agreement and from now on will close their places of business st 6:30 p. m. Nearly all the merchants save signed the agree ment. Prison Association Branches Out. LINCOLN. At a meeting; cX the Ne braska. 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