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STROTHER & STOCKWELL, Pubs.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF ft WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man
Latest Personal Infor
mation. WASHINGTON NEWS.
Senator La Follette accused Senator
Aldrlch of legislative trickery and de
clared he is unlit to he the leader
of the Republicans in a senate speech.
Government engineers in a report to
congress declare a 14 -foot waterway
from St. Louis to the gulf, at a cost
of $128,000,000, undesirable.
J F. Harm, in a letter to Secretary
Wilson resigning as a government
meat inspector scored the service at
East St. Louis and told of filthy con
ditions in the packing plants.
Efforts of Senator Dolliver to get
through amendments to the wool
schedule of the tariff hill mot with
defeat.
Supporters of the income tax plan
have refused to accept a substitute
proposed by President Taft which
provides for a two per cent, assess
ment on corporations.
The battleship Michigan made 20.01
knots in her trial trip, the govern
ment's requirements being 18.5 knots.
It was reported from Washington
Jiat President Taft has not decided to
veto the tariff bill, as reported.
The senate voted to reduce the duty
on cotton stockings about twenty
cents a dozen pairs.
President Tail presented to Wilbur
and Orville Wright, the aeroplanfsts.
a gold medal awarded them by the
Aero Club of America.
PERSONAL.
Dr. Paul Rltter. the new minister
from Switzerland, was presented to
President Taft.
George Ade, the playwright, has
been chosen a trustee of his alma
water. Purdue university.
Andrew Carnegie's gifts for libra
ries amount to $51,C9G,9G3 while Mrs.
Russell Sage has donated $25,000,000
for public purposes and mankind.
Lieutenant Commander H. M. Cald
well, who was an aid to Admiral
George Dewey and stood by his side
on the bridge of tho flagship Olympia
during the battle of Manila, has re
signed from the navy.
Mrs. Mary Raker G. Eddy, founder
of Christian Science, gave out a
signed statement denying allegations
of Mrs. Delia Gilbert, one of her fol
lowers, that she "either was dead or
a helpless, mindless puppet."
E. H. Harriman arrived in London
from New York on his way to Paris.
He had been seasick.
Dr. Richard Cockburn MacLaurln
was formally Inducted into the office
of president of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology at Boston in the
presence of notable guests.
Daniol A. Sortwell, 25 years old. a
broker's clerk, has been elected presi
dent of the Barre railroad at Boston,
being the youngest head of a railway
in the world.
Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree. com
mander of the Pacific fleet, on his ar
rival in Portlaud, Ore., made a plea
for a large navy.
GENERAL NEWS.
Through the scent of a tlog the New
Yoik police discovered the dismem
bered body of Samuel Bersin who was
mysteriously slain.
Justice Dowling. who is hearing her
divorce suit, rebuked Mrs. Howard
Gould for her hazy memory which, he
said, gave her husband's counsel un
necessary trouble.
A train was blown from the track
and one person killed and several per
sons lost their lives in tornadoes
which swept Texas.
J. P. Harms' charges of filthy con
ditions in East St. Louis packing
houses are to be probed by govern
ment inspectors.
Fifty persons were rescued by a
special train from Hillman. Mo., when
forest fires destroyed the town.
Herbert Todd, a merchant of Des
Moines, la., was shot and seriously
wounded by Moses Rice, a fruit ven
dor, who committed suicide.
Two earthquake shocks were felt
in France and it was reported that
several persons had been killed.
R. M. Smith & Co.. lumber dealers,
with large holdings in Indiana. Louis
iana and West Virginia, were declared
bankrupt by Judge Dayton at Parkers
burg. W. Ya.
The general convention of the
New Jerusalem opened in Brockton.
Mass. Rev. Samuel S. Seward of De
troit presided.
Stanley Ketchell. middleweight
champion of the world, whipped Jack
O'Brien In the third round of a six
round battle in Philadelphia.
William Kane, in the St. Louis
criminal court building, avenged the
murder of Constable Sam Young, un
der whom he served as a deputy, by
slaying Fred Mohrle who was on trial
for the killing.
The strike that closed 22 hat fac
tories in Connecticut has been ended.
Frederick H. Brigham. head book
keeper of the Merchants National
bask of New Haven. Conn., was ar
rested charged with taking funds of
trie bank.
Fire destroyed 100 homes and
caused damage estimated at $300,000
is Presque Isle. Me.
The trial of Richard Pines, the sec
ond of four negroes charged with the
murder of Walter F. Schults of Chi
cago, began in Alexandria. Va.
Gen. Frederiok Funston, command
ant at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., had a
ytetol duel with a burglar, neither be
ing wounded.
John Hunt, a millionaire of Califor
nia, says be was deserted in Europe
by bis, wife, formerly Miss Henrietta
Babcock of Detroit.
Otis D. Smith was hanged at Jack
sonville, Fla., for slaying bis sister.
Rear Admiral John J. Hunker, re
tired, is seriously ill at his home in
Pasadena, Cal. He was for many
years in command of the naval col
lege at Newport, R. I.
A. H. Todd, a wholesale fruit dealer
of Des Moines, la., was shot and se
verely wounded by a peddler in a
quarrel over an account. Moses Ras
chio, who shot him, killed himself by
taking poison.
Nine mallard ducks 'have been
batched in New York city and in a
few days the birds will be ready to
swim. The eggs were brought from
England in an attempt to prove that
wild ducks may be propagated by far
mers. Juquin Sorollay Bastiday, Spanish
artist, sailed for France with $500,000
of American money. Just five months
ago he arrived In New York with 340
of his own paintings and a European
reputation.
The Carnegie Foundation has
awarded an annual pension of $SG5 to
Prof. Charles Edwin Loss of Transyl
vania university, who retires at the
age of 85.
Announcement was made that Wil
liam J. Bryan will be a candidate for
United States senator from Nebraska.
Mrs. Howard Gould began her testi
mony at the trial of her suit for sep
aration from her husband.
Tho Chicago police found that the
revolver .wltli which Dr. John T. Bink
lcy was killed was purchased in New
York and have dropped tho theory of
suicide.
William E. Corey, president of the
steol trust, and Mrs. Corey were
bruised and a companion fatally in
jured when they were thrown from an
automobile in France.
Tho Iowa State .Manufacturers as
sociation adopted resolutions indors
ing the course of Senators Dolliver
and Cummins in the tariff fight.
William Benkcr killed himself by
Jumping from a hospital window at
Mason City, la., after he had cut his
throat.
Chicago trnde expansionists who
visited Tacoma, Wash., learned in that
city that Mount Ranier has another
name. In that city it is Mount Ta
coma. Youngstown. O.. with S0.000 inhab
itants, and the rest of Mahoning coun
ty, voted to retain saloons. The vote
was "wet." 11.232; "dry." 9.263.
The Chinese foreign office has for
bidden missionaries to proceed among
tho people in frontier provinces, be
cause of their crude civilization and
the fear of trouble.
A hag containing registered mail
was stolen from an Illinois Central
train at Champaign. HI.
L. Gaban. a Cuban banker, has
reached New York on his way to Eu
rope and is traveling in a style sug
gestive of au Indian prince. The party
includes his wife, three daughters, one
son, four friends and two domestics.
They took 20 rooms at a New York
hotel.
The Burley Society of Tobacco
Growers, meeting in Winchester, Ky..
granted $24,000 hack salary and a $15.
000 bonus to President Clarence Lebus.
The federal court at Denver ruled
that it is a fraudulent use of the mails
for a person, in the Interest of strik
ers, to communicate by letter with
strike-breakers, offering them posi
tions in other towns when such posi
tions do not exist
A report of a $1,300,000,000 railroad
merger, credited to James J. Hill, was
denied in St. Paul by Louis W. Hill,
president of the Great Northern.
The twelfth annual convention of
the Federation of American Zionists
met in New York, chiefly to discuss
the movement for tho restoration of
Palestine to the Jews.
The Minnesota Bankers association
opened its yearly meeting at Lake
Minnetonka. President Joseph Chap
man. Jr.. of Minneapolis being in the
chair.
William F. McDermott of Chicago
has started action in court at Mercer.
Pa., to have Mrs. Helen Boyle, his sis
ter, who is serving a sentence of 25
years for kidnaping Willie Whitla, set
free.
Charles Brown, aged six, and Ed
ward Poe, a farmer, were killed by
lightning near Anderson. Mo.
Floods are beginning in the Gun
nison and Grand rivers In Colorado.
The pumping plant at Grand Junction
is menaced and hundreds of men are
guarding railroad tracks and other
property.
Damage to railroad property near
Rapid City. S. D.. as the result of a
cloudburst, is estimated at $50,000. A
Northwestern passenger train was
piloted into Rapid City by a handcar
after many hours' delay.
The auxiliary yacht Carnegie, built
for the Carnegie institution for ocean
surveys to correct compass data and
in whose construction no magnetic
metal is used, was launched at
Brooklyn. N. Y.
Charles Miller, who worked as a
waiter in the old Astor house in New
York at $34 a month, has resigned
and is going for a trip to Europe.
He has accumulated a fortune of
$200,000.
An earthquake destroyed Korinichi.
Sumatra, killing 200 persons and In
juring scores of others.
The Taft school at Watertown.
Conn., was closed on account of an
epidemic of diphtheria.
Mrs. Alice Newman of Des Moines
fell dead in a G. A. R. convention at
Fort Dodge, la.
Plans to prevent gambling on grain
were discussed at a meeting of the
American Society of Equity at Fargo,
N. D.
Forest fires in the vicinity of Kes
wick, N, 15.. periled many persons
who prepared to flee from the flames.
Suffragists make too much noise,
according to Bishop Doane in an ad
dress to girl graduates at Albany. N. Y.
Fire destroyed the mill and elevator
of the Decatur Cereal Company at
Decatur. 111., causing $650,000 loss.
Govan Smith, his brother, EUsha
Smith, and Levi Johnson, were ar
rested on a charge of shooting Edward
Callahan, the feudist leader of Crock
ettsville. Ky.
Miami university at Oxford. O., be
gan the celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of its founding in
tucaecuoc wn use annual - com I
mencemect exercises.
Ml OFFICER SHOT
CAPTAIN RAYMOND ATTACKED
Y CORPORAL CRABTREE.
A REPRIMAND OF THE UTTER
Bullet From Enraged Man Lodges Ir
Captain's Spine, Parallzing His
Entire Body.
Des Moines, la. Corporal Uslc
Crabtree Sunday afternoon fatallj
shot Captain John C. Raymond, com
mandlng officer of Troop" B, Seconc
United States cavalry at Fort Des
Moines, then shot and seriously in
jured First Sergeant James R. Wash
burn, and Corporal Elijah Such, whe
attempted to disarm him, and shot
himself.
'Crabtree's Injuries are not neces
snrily fatal, the bullet striking a ril
above the heart and crushing it.
Crabtree had been reprimanded bj
Captain Raymond because of his fail
ure to report when his leave ol
absence had expired in the morning
He had spent the night in Dei
Moines and was to have returned t
his barracks at 7 a. m. Crabtree wa
Summoned by Captain Raymond ir
the afternoon and questioned as to his
conduct, whereupon the corioral hot!
insisted he had leave of absence til.
7 o'clock Sunday night. Captain Ray
mond accepted this explanation and
the incident was considered closed
when Crabtree demanded that he be
transferred to another department oi
of the army, which Captain Raymono
refused to consider, telling the cor
po'ral he could not do that as long as
he was not a good soldier.
Immediately Crabtree pulled a re
volver from his pocket and begar
firing. Sergenat Washburn jumped
to his feet and grappled with the sol
dier. receiving a bullet in the hnnt
and one in the jaw which shatterec
the hone. Captain Raymond hac
seized tho man's arm and was ahoul
to disarm him when a bullet struct
him in the neck. lodging in the spine
and he dropped to the floor para
lyzed.
A bullet struck Corporal Such In
the left arm. Crabtree then fired s
bullet into his own body.
Captain Raymond is the son of Bri
gadier General Charles W. Raymond
retired, formerly of the engineers In
charge of rivers and harbors and sta
tioned at New York. His brother is
Major Robert Raymond of engineers,
stationed at New York. Captain Ray
mond is 3S years old and a memhei
of one of the most well known mili
tary families in the east. He was
commissioned from Pennsylvania.
Captain Raymond is resting fairly
well, though suffering some pain. Hos
pital physicians say that though his
condition is extremely critical slight
hopes are entertained for his re
cover-.
Leopold Talks About Congo.
Antwerp King Leopold made a re
markable speech here on the occasion
of the festivities in connection with
the annexation of the Congo independ
ent state. He said that the gift ol
Congo to Belgium was the greatest
astisfaction in his life.
He declared
that Congo would play a most import
ant part in the expansion of Belgium
The new tariff walls of her neighbors
had placed Belgium in a position
where a merchant marine and new out
lets for its products were imperative
Seventeen Are Dead.
Teheran A report received here
from Tabriz says that an altercation
between the British counsel at Salmas
and gendarimerie led to a conflict with
the Turkish troops, in which the Per
sians lost twelve killed and the Turks
seven killed and a large number
wounded.
Kill Five Thousand.
St. Petersburg. A dispatch to the
Novoe Vremya from Astara says that
the Shakhsevan tribesmen are ravag
ing the Ardabil district in Azerbiajan,
the most northwesterly province of
Persia. According to the dispatch
5,000 persons have been killed.
Taft Promises to Talk.
Washington. President Taft, after
conference with John Mitchell.
T " "H? "
mond. ProL J. . Jenks and R. M.
Easley, representing various interests,
accepted an invitation to address the
national conference to be held here
in January to aid uniform legislation.
Financing Chinese Railway.
Washington. Administration offi
cials view with much satisfaction the
steps taken by the great hanking in
terests in New York, whereby they
are to be represented in the financing
of the Hankow-Sze-Chuen railway in
China, for they see in that a start in
the direction which will be helpful to
the American government in the fat
eastern policy in more ways than
one.
Pa-is Lik-s White.
Paris The Figaro and Temps, apro
pos of the reports that Robert Bacon
ex-secretary of state, is coming to
Paris as American ambassador, print
highly eulogic editorials regarding the
present ambassador. Henry 'White, in
which they recall the particular grati
tude which France feels for him on
account of the role he played at Alge
ciras and the high esteem In which he
is held in official and social circles.
They bluntly express the hope that he
will not be replaced by the American
government.
Vetoed by Gov. Oeneen.
Springfield. 111. Gov. Deneen vetoed
the "business corporation act." . The
corporation act, radically changing the
corporation laws of the state, was
conceded to be one of the most impor
tant of the measures enacted by the
Forty-sixth general assembly.
Castro Living Quietly.
Santander. Spain. Ex-President:
Castro of Venezuela and his wife are
living quietly in the villa near here
There is no evidence that he is plan
ning to assist financially a rumored
filibustering expedition.
GETS BIG DAMAGES
j RETURNS VERDICT OF $20,000 FOR
I
ESTATE OF BRAKEMAN.
HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE
What Is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read-
ers
Throughout Ne
braska. O'Neill, Neb. A verdict for 120,000
against the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad for the death of a brakeman
on that railroad a year ago last fall
was returned by the jury.
The case was brought by Frank
Hauffman. as administrator the es
tate of George V. Glover and was
transferred to this county from Dawes
county and was a suit for damages for
the death of Glover who died at Chad
ron on November 12. 1907, his death
alleged to have been caused by in
juries sustained on the defendant com
pany's road. They asked for $30,000
damages.
Glover was a brakeman working fof
the company and about 2 o'clock on
thex-morning of November 11, 1907,
started for his heme from the railroad
yards in Chadron and was struck by
a train whiio crossing a railroad track,
sustaining injuries frcm which he
died the next day.
Clarence Found Guilty.
Plattsmouth. Neb A verdict cr mur
der in the second degree was returned
by the jury in the Thacker murder
case here Wednesday morning at S::.'0
o'clock. Sentence has not yet been
passed.
The attorneys finished their argu
ments late Tuesday afternoon. The
case went to the jury shortly after 6
o'clock. It is believed that the attor
neys for the defense will ask for a new
trial.
John P. Clarence, the defendant in
the case, killed John P. Thacker in a
fight last January. His defense was
that he believed that Thacker was
sjifc, iu uuu mm io ueatn witn a
board when he shot him. Clarence is
a farmer.
Will Erect Monument.
Kearney. Neb. At the meeting or
the city council held i.Monday evening
a petition was presented, signed by
ninety-two old soldiers, asking that
a special tax he levied for the purpose
of raising funds for the erection of
a suitable monument in memory of the
veterans of the civil war. The coun
cil then took action and an ordinance
was drawn up and read, and upon mo
tion, the rules were suspended and the
ordinance given a second and third
reading, after which it was voted on
and unanimously passed. The monu
ment is to be erected at the division
of Central avenue and Twentv-fifth
street.
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Officers of Grand Lodge.
Omaha, Neb. Election of officers
was the principal work of the Xebras-
j ka .Masonic grand lodge Wednesday,
tesulting as follows
M. Dowling, Omaha grand master;
Harry A. Cheney. Creighton. deputy
grand master; Henry Gibbon. Kear
ney, grand senior warden; James R.
Cain. Stella. Neb., grand junior war
den; J. B. Dinsmore. Sutton, grand
treasurer; Francis E. White, Omaha,
grand secretary; Robert W. French.
Kearney, grand custodian; Alpha Mor
gan. Broken Bow, grand marshal; T.
M. Davis, Beaver City, grand senior
deacon; Jacob King, Omaha, grand
tyler.
Blind Students Graduate.
Nebraska City, Neb The graduating
exercises at the institution for the
blind took place at that institution
Wednesday. There were exercises
In the chapel all day and the well ad
vanced scholars took part, as well as
the faculty. An interesting program
was carried out. There were several
graduates from each of the various de
partments. Paper Changes Hands.
P"ll1of-ir. Vol, I ! T.. t
el-ed a contVact with Mllla'rd s! Bin-
ney and Henry M. Kellog for the sale
of the News-Journal, the transfer to
take effect July 1. Mr. Tanner has been
in the newspaper business here, with
slight intermission, for over twenty
years. He expects to move with his
family to Idaho.
Killed By Lightning.
Geneva. Xeb.Mrs Thomas Edward,
living five miles east of here, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed in the heaviest rain storm that
has visited this place for twelve years.
A barn on a farm belonging to Charles
Warner, four miles southeast of town,
was struck and burned to the ground.
New Hotel for Hastings.
Hastings. Xeb. Plans have been
drawn and accepted for a $150,000 ho
tel to be bailt in Hastings by a" local
capitalist. There has been much talk
in the last few years of erecting a ho
tel here by a corporation of fraternal
orders and citizens, but this is a -venture
of an individual and auhority is
given for the statement that the build
ing is a certainty.
The building is to be foar stories
and have 1-3 outside rooms. Archi
tects are expected here early n.j.t.
week to look over the site preparatory
to excavation
Heavy Rains Continue.
Hebron. Xeb. The heavy rains of
this week continue to fall with almost
unabated- fury. The heavy floods up
near Carletoa have washed out every
bridge in Thayer county along the
Sandy river. Two bridges have been
temporarily replaced. These are the
only -mean? of getting north over that
stream. The wagon road in Hebron
running west has been closed as it is
unsafe, the Blue-river being out of its
banks. The bridge south of the city
was thrown out of line by the heavy
driftwood -that floated 'down against it.
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes in Condensed
Form.
C. M. Cunningham was appointed
postmaster at Empire. Sioux county,
vice H. B. Gunningham, resigned.
Burlington train No. 89 struck and
instantly killed Frank Praseck. one
mile and a half east of Crete Sunday.
Abram Eleston. a Harlan county pi
oneer, 76 years old, who has been
in rugged health, was the victim of a
paralytic stroke; Effecting all oneside
of his body.
Elizabeth A. Sears of Omaha was
elected by acclamation to the office of
supreme clerk of the Woodmen Circle
in session in-Detroit, Wednesday morn
ing. The postofuce department announces
that the offices at O'Neill, Seward. Su
perior and .Wahoo are raised from
third to second class. To become ef
fective July 1.
J. J. Skow has sold his farm of BJ0
acres south of Beatrice to W. S. Mc
Hugh of Clay Center, a former resi
dent cf Gage county. The considera
tion was $125 an acre, or $20,000.
The committee in charge of the
Fourth of x July celebration has just re
ceived notice that Charles B. Landis.
congressman from Indiana, has accept
ed the engagement to give the Fourth
of July speech in Fairbury on July 5.
Henry F W. Borcher. a prosperous
farmer and one of the well known men
of Srrihnor. lost his life late Saturday
aitornonu ny nutnsin into Cuntine
crook. It is presumed to be a case of
suicide.
Walter A. Williams a veteran hard
ware man at Hildreth. died Monday.
He was an old settler and homestead
er and had been in business for about
twenty years. He died after a long
illness.
The Hastings hoard of education met
Tuesday night and canvassed the bal
lots of the school bond election which
was hold a ,few weeks ago. It was
found that the bonds had been lost
by 2S2 votes.
Mr. Dysart. living Jive miles south
west of Peru, shipped seventy head of
cattle to Chicago last week, which
topped the market. The cattle aver
aged $116.S5 each after the freight and
other expenses were paid.
The Merrick County Farmers Co
operative association of Central City,
has awarded a contract for a large ele
vator to the Hampton Elevator com
pany. It will be located on the Union
Pacific right-of-way and will have a
capacity of 16,000 bushels. It is ex
pected that it will be completed in
about sixty days.
Ernest Spilker. the eight year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Spilker,
who reside northwest of Pickrell, was
bitten by a rattlesnake Tuesday after
noon as he was going through a pasture
on his way home. The snake hit the
boy on the toe of his right foot. He
was dangerously ill for a time, but
will recover.
The corn show committee of seven,
appointed by the Kearney commercial
club to investigate and make a com
plete preliminary report to the club,
will recommend that a show to be
called the Buffalo County Corn and
Agricultural exposition be held during
the second or third week in October,
the show to be open tq all counties of
western Nebraska, and that an initial
fund of $2,000 be raised for the pur
pose. A large number of persons at the
Electrical Show in the Auditorium
building. Omaha, recently witnessed
one of the most remarkable demon
strations of "wireless" energy hereto
fore made in any country in fact, a
feat not accomplished before in the
worlds history, so far as is known
When Dr. Frederick H. Millener. ex
perimental electrician. Union. Pacific
railroad company. Omaha, turned on
the lights in the building, the impulse
being sent from the Fort Omaha wire
less tower, six miles distant. This
demonstration was made possible
through the courtesy of Colonel Glass
ford. Signal Corps. U. S. A. The wire
less impulse operated on a specially
constructed coherer (which is very
delicate and will receive the faintest
impulse) similar in construction to
that used about a year ago on the
electrically controlled (by "wireless")
truck in the shop yards of the Union
Pacific at Omaha. By means of a large
solenoid switch, which is closed when
the impulse passes through the coher
er, seventy-five horse power were
turned on and the Auditorium lighted.
By means of a similar mechanism the
power was turned off and the opera-, Lee's contract as presented to the
tion repeated several times in other, board, now shows he will pay only ,"j
words, the local circuits of the Audi-1 cents and that in consideration of
torium were closed by wireless im-1 taking additional men he asks to have
pulse from Fort Omaha. The public is his old contract changed insofar as to
beginning to realize the immensity and ' give him the right to furnish overtime
importance of the work being done by work, but not to be compelled to fur
the Union Pacific railroad in its efforts nish it. He also wants free power
to safeguard the lives of its passen
gers and the property of shippers, via
its lines, and. by reason of the experi-'
mental work being done by it what an
important factor it is in this country's
progress.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
ordination cf Rev. Thomas Cullcn. pas-1
tor of St. Joseph's Catholic church of '
York, to the priesthood was celebrated
Tuesday. The congregation and many '
of the priests of the Lincoln diocese ,
gathered in York to help him observe
the event.
Mr. Tibbels,
eighty-two years old.
living fifteen miles northeast of Dick
ens was almost instantly killed at her
mime rrma nigni. aae as living in .
a sod house and the walls and roof I
tumbled in without warning. She was
blind anc had been an invalid for
about a year.
Determined that blindness rhonld
not prevent h!m from mastering a
profession. Roy Sandetson. a brother
of Rfcv. .Mr. Sanderson, of Marquetr.
has been devoting his time to master-
ing the art of piano tuning. Recemly
he graduated from an Iowa college for
the blind and will soon begin work in
this part of the state.
Unable to endure separation from
her baby. Mrs. Beulah May Ion. who is
having trouble with her husband over
a certificate of deposit, returned to
Silver Creek in quest of it. She de
parted, taking the child with her.
CAPITAL CITY NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST AROUND THE
STATE HOUSE.
NEWS OF THE STATE CAPITAL
Doings of the State Officials and
Other Happenings That Are
of State-Wide Im
portance. Governor's Appointments.
Governor Shallenberger has made
the official announcement of the ap
pointment of Sam Patterson or Arap
ahoe, secretary of the state banking
board, the appointment to take effect
July 2, if the new banking law giv
ing him the right to appoint is not
held up in the courts in the meantime.
The salary is $3,000 a year. .Air. Royse
the present secretary, has held the po
sition of secretary for more than eight
years.
The board of control appointed to
take charge of the home for the friend
less July 2. comprises Dr. P. L. Hall
of Lincoln. Rev. H. H. Harmon of Lin
coln and Rev. Arthur L. Weatherly
of Lincoln.
The governor has appointed A. V.
Johnson of Lincoln chief deputy fire
warden. The salary is $2,000 a year, the
pay to come from a tax to be paid
by fire insurance companies on or be
fore January 1 or eacli year. Another
deputy at a salary of $1,.")00 was ap
pointed by the governor some time
ago. Mr. Johnson is a wholesale cigar
dealer.
Trustees for the school for the blind
at Nebraska City and deaf at Omaha
are both prominent fusionists. The gov
ernor has appointed ex-Senator W. R.
Patrick of Papillion and II. H. Hanks
of Nebraska City.
Dr. B. F. Williams of Lincoln is ap
pointed pathologist at the Lincoln hos
pital for the insane.
J. M. Gilchrist of Omaha and H. S.
Wiggins of Lincoln are appointed as
an examining board to certify to the
ability of expert accountants who may
come before them for an examination.
Junior Normal Instructors.
The principals and instructors of the
junior normals have been chosen by
the new state normal board but alt
those chosen were recommended by
State Superintendent Bishop, who un
der the old law selected them. The
list is as follows:
Alliance D. W. Hayes, principal;
W. R. Pate. I. G. Wilson. C. W. Phil
pott. John A. Woodward. Mrs. Leora
S. Rustin, Susie R. Frazier. Ora Sn.
Phillips.
Alma C. W. McMichaei. principal;
Ed. M. Short. Gcorpe Crocker. Xeiiie
West Custer. S. L. Johnston, Elizabeth
Everson. P. P. Bentley.
Broken Bow Robert J. Elliott, prin
cipal: J. M. Mclr.doo. J. G. W. Lewis.
Loren Cornett, Emily Wood. Alice M.
Burley. H. M. Pinckney.
Geneva R. W. Eaton, principal; W.
T. Stocklale, Byron E. Dill, R. V.
Clark. C. X. Walton. Celia Chase.
Henry Vauck.
McCook Charles W. Taylor, prin
cipal; L. W. Colebank. H. M. Garrett.
W. T. Davis. C. F. White. Julia Badnar.
Mima Doyle. Claudia B. Hatcher.
Xorth Platte J. A. Beattie. princi
pal; Wilson Tout. J. O. Lyne. P. M.
Whitehead. Maude Mollyneaux. V. A.
Strickland. William Ebright.
O'Neill H. K. Wolfe, principal;
Celia A. Gorby. A. E. Fisher. T. X.
Fleming. C. A. Mohrman E. S. Cowan,
Elizabeth Sheehan. Florence Zink.
Valentine G. A. Gregory, principal;
O. B. Bowen. E. P. Wilson. E. P. Bat
tenga. Kate E. Driscoll. Lulu Kortz
Hudson.
The entertainers chosen are Frank
R. Rouerson. Adr.an M. Xw?ns a id
the Parland-XewhaU Concert company
Prison Contract Unsigned.
Although fifty additional men were
put to work by the prison contractor
Monday, no contract for the addition
al men has been signed by the state
officers and warden of the peniten
tiary. The Lee Broom and Duster Co. offered
to take fifty men at 60 cents a day.
but this order was changed after the
governor refused to accept the offer
of a St. Louis man who desired to
make clothing for working men. Mr.
for the fifty additional men and also
asks for most all of the available shop
room now used by the state. He asks
that the contract for the additional
men be made good for three years
from July 1.
Express Companies Object.
The express companies still resist
ing the reduction of rates fixed by the
Sibley bill. hae filed excencions to
the report of Rere?ee John T. SuUi.
van. The referee fcund that the Sib
lev act is "not confiscatory and rec-
ommecded judgment for the state and
against the express companies. This
recommendation, if adopted, will re
gllt in an order making perpetual the
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temporary restraining order enjoining
the companies from violating the pro
visions of the Sibley act.
State to Complete Building.
Th board of public lands and build
frrrs ha; decided to noiifv thp rnn-
tractor at work on the buildings at
lne Xcrfolk asylum that h. would not
wait longer on him. but would corn-
plete the structures. The state archi
tect will be instructed to hire men
and buy material to complete the
work.
Under direction of State Auditor
Barton an investigation of the ac
counts cf the state university is being
made by the state accountant. John
W. Tulleys.
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LOOKED A LITTLE UNSTABLE
Body Servant of Gen. Mahone Doubt
ful of the Qualities of Hi
Master's "Props."
Gen. Adalbert R. Buffinston. at a
dinner in Madison. X. J., told a num
ber of civil war stories.
"Gen. Mahone," he said, "was very
thin. One cold and windy December
morning in '64 he was taking a nap in
his tent when his old colored servant,
'Uncle Davy, tiptoed in. and. stum
bling in the darkness, knocked down
the general's folding cot and spilled
him out on the frozen ground.
"Gen. Mahone jumped up furiously,
seized a scabbard and made for Davy.
Davy ran. The general gave chase.
"Uncle Davy tore up hill and down
dale till he was pretty well out of
breath: then he looked back over his
shoulder at his master, who bounded
after him on slender limbs, blue and
thin, his long, while night shirt flut
tering in the chill morning.
" 'Fo de lan's sake. Mars William,'
the exhausted Davy yelled, desperate
ly, 'yo hain't trustin yo'se'f in dis
wind on dem legs, is you?" "
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Tired Tom (sadly) Ah. that patch
tells me that my old pa!, Plodding
Pete has been this way. Poor old
Pete!
Interrupted the Wedding.
The other day, at the Shawnee
county Court House, Probate Judge
Schoch was about to marry a young
couple. He pronounced the prelim
inary words and told them to join
hands, and started on the ceremony.
"Hey, there! Hold up a minute!
Wait. I say!" This series of startling
exclamations came from the dour.
The groom was horrified the brine
badly scared.
"Just a minute. I want to give you
each an apple before you are married."
said the man who had made the noise.
And in he calmly walked nnd handed
each of them a Grimes Goldn.
It was one man's idea of a joke.
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