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THE OMAHA DAILY BEK: TUESDAY, MARCH 20, lPOfi. V r ,4 NO CLEMENCY FOR O'HEARN GoTernor Indicate! He Will Not Interfere with Verdict of the Jury. POLLARD COMING TO SURVEY FENCES Intimation rnnirnilonil Convention Mar Be Called to Meet F.lther In Mar or June Before State ' Convention. iFroni !i Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. March 19. (Special.) An ap peal to Governor Mickey 1n the ense of Jay o'Heurn, condemned to hang for the mur der of the DmaliK saloon keeper, will fall In all probability upon deaf earn. Gov ernor Mickey is strictly opponent to execu tive interference with the verdict of a court or Jury where the. evidence Id con clusive of guilt. Thin morning he reiterated his oft-repeated Idea of audi matter. "Where the evidence shows conclusively the defendant is utility of murder I be lieve It, l the duty of the governor to re fuse to Interfere with the verdict of the Jury. Such interference nerves to weaken man's reaped for the law and breeds crime. There are a lot of people who imagine they are religious who always try to aavo n munlcrer from being hanged, when a a matter of fact they should be the flret to stand for the strict enforcement of the law. Maudlin sympathy Is a bad t lilnat and should he discouraged. "I am opposed to delay In enforcing the Mdlet of a Jury by technicalities which are nu often resorted to by attorneys in order to save time and to create sympathy for the defendant. Delays In the carrying out of the orders of a cnurt breeds con tempt for the law and the court. Thc only way to treat murderers .and robbers Is to enforce the law against them, and if the 'line Is punishable by death, Hnd a Jury decrees the death penalty, the officers should carry out tho decisions of the Jury wllh us little delay as possible. Such a courxe would prevent hiolis and would pre vent many murders and holdups." Pollard I.ooklnar After Fences. Congressman Pollard Is expected to re turn to his home district within a short time to look after his candidacy for the republican nomination to succeed himself. This news mas received In Lincoln today and It is taken to mean the congressional committee will shortly be called together to name the date and select a place for the congressional convention. Inasmuch as Pollard's' friends constitute a majority of the committee It Is presumed he will have considerable weight In deciding the date of the convention, and further that it will be early. It la understood some of .the friends of the congressman have suggested a con vention either In June or the latter part of May, before the stato convention. Lincoln Men Ho to Cuba. C. J. Gucnzel. A. W. Field and L. C. Burr will leave tomorrow for a visit to Cuba, in which place they will remain from two to seven weeks. The parly will return by way of Washington and New York. While the men are taking the trip as a mcariH) of recreation, they wil) keep their eyes open for business openings' and Investments. Wilson Commends Plan. James Wilson, secretary of agrlcuturc, lias written a letter to State Superintend ent Mcllrlen highly commending him for hid efforts to Secure the teaching of agri culture in the normal schools so the gradu ates may be prepared to teach this branch of education in the various schools of the country. Mr. Wilson's letter follows: I have your letter of March t, with regard to preparing teachers in the common schools to. Iimotiuce the elements of agricultural sclene. I congratulate- you on sending mc the Ih st outline of work along that line that has ever come to my attention. You comprehend the position exactly. We must Instruct the teachers of the high school along these lines, and as most of tho students who attend the common schools in Nebraska will devote their lives to working in the fields, it is 11 noble thought that they should be prepared to give Instruction that will turn the attention of pupils to their lite work. We will take the matter up here earnestly' and give you our opinion at the earliest possible date. The letter from Mr. ' McBrien, which brought forth the above statement from the secretary of agriculture, was as follows: ' A new school law in Nebraska provides for recognition by this department, of high Schools in the state which maintain ap proved normal courses that provide at feast the minimum professional training re quired for county teachers' certificates. A committee has been appointed to outline a normal course of study for such high clionls. A sub-committee Is preparing an (ut line for the work in agriculture. For The the published statements of a number of coffee Importers and roasters Indicate a "waspy" feeling toward us, for daring to say that coffee Is harmful to a percent age of the people. ' A frank public discussion of the sub ject Is quite .agreeable to us and can cer tainly do no harm; on the contrary when all the facta on both sides of any question are ! spread before the people they can thereupon decide and act Intelligently. Give the people plain facts and they will take care of themselves. We demand facts In this coffee discus sion and propose to see that the facts are brought clearly before the. people. A number of coffee Importers and roasters have Joined a movement to boom coffee and stop the use of Postum Food Coffee and In their newspaper statements undertake to deceive by false assertion. Their first Is that coffee is not harmful. Wa assert that one In every three coffee users has some form of incipient or chronic disease; realize for one moment what a terrible menace to a nation of civilised people, when one kind of beverage cripples the energies and health of one-third of the people who use It. We make the assertion advisedly and suggest thst the reader secure his own proof by personal Inquiry among coffee users. Ask your .coffee drinking friends If they keep free from any sort of aches and ails. You will be startled at the per centage and will very naturally seek to place the cause ol disorder on something aside from coffee, whether food. Inherited tendencies or komelhimf else. Go deeper in your search fur tacts. If your friend admits occasional neural gia, rheumatism, heart weakness, stomach or bowel trouble, kidney complaint, wean eyes, or approaching nervous proslallon induce him or ber to make the experi ment of leaving off coffee for 10 days and using ' Posium Food Coffee, and observe I lie result. It will startle you and give four friend something to think of. Of course. If the person Is one of the weak ones and says ". can't quit" you will bate discovered one of the slaves of the coffee Importer. Treat such kindly, for lUc Sveot absolutely powerless to stop GENERAL THAYER'S EIGHTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. On January 21, 14. General Thayer parsed his eighty-fifth birthday at his home east of Lincoln. A staff correspondent of The Bca visited him on that occasion, and mrote the following story', which is reproduced as Indicating how the gallant old statesman and soldier entered the shadows of his clos ing days: "No. It did not occur to me until 9 or 9:30 this morning that I was 85 years old today." remarked the general to a correspondent for The Bee, who. had called on him. "I thought of It yesterday, but did not when I first awoke this morning." One of the first settlers of the state and Its metropolis, a leading factor in re pressing Indian ravages, a distinguished officer In the war of the rebellion, the first I'nlted States senator from Nebraska, twice Its governor and the honored occupant of various official positions leading up to those which crowned his eventful career. John M. Thayer occupies -a place In the history of Nebraska and In the affections of Its people which no other man ever did or ever can claim. , One would almost forget, though. In the benign presence of this old man that he had done so much of enduring benefit for posterity forget only because of the bene factor's Innate and unaffected modesty. "Why," he laughingly said In that sweet sincerity of the soul which comes to one of his kind In the evening of life, "1 am pro foundly honored to know that any one of my fellow cltiiens has thought of me on my birthday." And in childish Innocence he added: "Horn- came you to think of it?" Like most men who have rounded out and retired, from the activities of a busy, eventful career and come, with the burden of great deeds resting upon them, triumph antly to face the golden sunset of life. General Thayer Is reminiscent In mood. But he also Is progressive still. He will talk of the dear old past, but he loves to converse of the present and future. As vividly as though It waa yesterday, he re called what people cherish as the greatest deed of his great life the organizing and leading to the front of the First Nebraska volunteers at the outbreak of the civil war. He will tell Interesting things which oc curred during his term as United States senator, or governor, or even as territorial governor of Wyoming, member of the Ne braska legislature, pioneer or Indian fighter all this he recalls mlnut,ely, mentioning dates and speaking names as though the events had Just transpired and he was in the full vigor snd bloom of young man hood. Just standing upon the threshold of his life. Instead of Just completing It. the guidance of this committee we should be pleased to be favored with your opinion on the following named points: 1. The, nature and the scope of the work that should be given. 2. The minimum required as to (a) hours of study and recitation; (b) experimental or laboratory work. , 3. Apparatus required. ' This course of study Is to be arranged for high schools which maintain a four yenrR' high school ,oou!e. Royal Ilia-blander Appeal. The Royal Highlanders today appealed tt)o case from Hamilton county, wherein 't was held legal to assess the reserve fund. The court advanced the case for hearing at the next sitting. GATHRIGHT CHANGES HIS STORY Sow Say Ho Waa InwIllInK Par tlrlpant In Holdup. FREMONT, Neb., March 19. (Special.) Clarence Gathrlght, one of the three ar rested for the murder of Conductor Flury, who is now In the county Jail, tells a. some what different story of the mXirder than he gave to the South Omaha officials, his Intention evidently being to try and get off with a life sentence. Ho now asserts that he met Clark and Wain In South Omaha only a short time before the three started In holding up the saloons and that they held him up. "I didn't have no gun," he said, "and told them that I didn't want to get Into any trouble. One of them then gave me the gun I had that night. It wasn't any good and would not work. I couldn't have shot It oft If I had tried to," The rest of his story about getting the masks and hoods and the trips to the sa loons and out to the Y and what after wards happened Is the same as he told the South Omaha officers. He Insists that he waa forced Into the whole affair against his will and that he went with the pair because he was afraid to do otherwise. Coffee Debate. the gradual but sure destruction of body and health. Nature has a way of destroying a part of the people to make room for the stronger. It Is the old law of "the sur vival of the fittest" at work, and the victims are many. We repeat the assertion that coffee does harm many people, not all, but an army largo enough ta appul the investi gator and searcher for facts. The next prevarication of the coffee importers and roasters Is their statement that Postum Food Coffee Is made of roasted peas, beans or corn, and mixed with a low grade of coffee and that it contains no nourishment. We have previously offered to wager HuO.ttiO with them that their statements are ubsolutely false. They have not accepted our wager and tliev will not. We will gladly make a present of fi'i it mi to any roaster or Importer of old fashioned coffee who will accept ttmt rYee Inspection ot our factories and methods Is made by thousands of people each month and the coffee Importers themselves ura cordially Invited. Both I'ostum and Grape-Nuts are absolutely pure and made exactly as stated. The formula of Postum and the an alysis made by one of the foremost chemists of Boston has been printed on every package for many years and is ab solutely accurate. Now as to the food value of Postum. It contains the part of the wheat berry which carry the elemental salts such as lime. Iron, potash, silica, etc., etc., used by the life forces to rebuild the cellular tissue, and this Is particularly true of the phosphate of potash, also found In Grape Nuts, which combines in the human budy wlth albumen and this combination, to gether with water, rebuilds the worn out gray matter In the delicate nerve centres all over the body, and throughout the brain and solar plexus. Ordinary coffee stimulates in an un natural way, but with many people It slowly and surely destroys and d.i not rebuild this gray substance so vitally Im portant to the well-being of every hum in being. These are eternal facts, proven. Well authenticated and knowu to every prop erly educated physician, chemist and food expert. Please remember we never say ordinary toffee hurts everyone. "When President Lincoln Issued his first call for Surt.OfO troops to defend the nation against slavery, then a young man already trained In Indian warfare. 1 wrote to Sec retary of War Simon Cameron and asked that one of the first regiments be assigned to Nebraska, that as Nebraska had 28,fO population It be allowed to form a regi ment to send to the front. My request was granted." said the general, his face flushed with the proud thought, "and we went to the front." It would be useless to recall the dis tinguished servic s General Thayer ren dered his country during those four years. But he loves to recall at least one event of the war. "It Is brought back to my mind Just at . this time," he said, with pathos In his voice, "because of the press reports 1 have read iff the approaching death of my dear old friend and comrade, General Lew Wal lace, lie and 1 were together at Shlloh under General Grant. History records that General Wallace made a mistake In giving a certain order there. 1 never thought so. But Wallace was suspended for a while, and it was a crushing blow to his friends and admirers, who thought he was right." Then, moving over the chasm of years Intervening, General Thayer, with molst etied eyes and unsteady vo'ce, recaled this Incident : "When I w in the United States senate General Wallace made s. request of me that 1 secure for him the honors of congress and one day he, led me over to the desk of Senator Morton of Indiana and we talked over the matter. I wanted to do It. 1 loved Wallace. I honored his distin guished services as a soldier and officer and I bellved It was nocnlng but Just that congress should do him this honor. But I did not offer the resolution. I did not. chiefly out of consideration for my old friend and comrade. 1 feared It would serve to reopen the unpleasant discussion Incident to the misfortune arising from his action at Shlloh. The resolution never was offered. But. oh, how I have wished I had done it. How many, many times have I wished I might be a senator again nnd I would do this for my old friend. I tell you I would. In the last few days, since reading that General Wallace la near death's door, this thing hus been con stantly on my mind and I have thought how glad I'd be If, before he goes and before I am called hence, t might go to him and tell him how sorry I am that I did not do this and how gladly I would do It If I were a Renator today." General Thayer lives a quiet, simple life, as he says. He ha made his home for years with Mr. and Mrs. Lamb and they He Is kept closely confined In his cell away from the other prisoners and seems t realize that his chance of a long life Is pretty small. PREACHER. IS FATALLY BIH!SF. Rev. II. K. Matter of Cralsc Attempts to Start a, Fire with Gasoline. CRAIG. Neb.. March 19. (Special Tele gram.) Rev. II. E. Motter, pastor of tho Christian church at this place, was fatally burned this morning. He attempted to start a fire with gasoline, pouring the ex plosive fluid out of a five-gallon can. The force of the explosion blew hint clear across the room, setting his clothing on fire and practically wrecking the house, which was Bet on fire, and his little child, sleeping In an adjoining room, was saved by being taken out through the window. Mr. Motter was rescued from the building, but was so badly burned that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. OXE OK CHARIVARI PARTY SHOT Muscles of Arm Between Elbow snd Shoulder Lacerated. LOUP CITY, Neb.. March 19. (Special Telegram.) While a charivari party was making life burdensome for a newly mar ried couple named Johnson, early Sunady morning, about seven miles west of Loup City, Felix Kowelewoskl was Bhot In the arm with a shotgun at close range, the muscles between the elbow and shoulder being badly torn. While the wound Is se rious, no danger to his life Is apprehended. Farmer Found Dead In Bed. NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., March 19. (Spe cial Telegram.) Oliver Baker, a farmer re siding six miles south of this city, was found dead In his bed this morning. Coro ner Karstens was notified and will hold Some people use It regularly and seem strong enough to withstand its attacks, but there is misery 'and disease In store for the man . or woman who persists in It use when nature protests, by heart weakness, stomach and bowel troubles, kidney disease, weak eyes, or general nervous prostration. Tho remedy la ob vious. The drug caffeine, contained In all ordinary coffee, must be discontinued absolutely or the disease will continue in spite of any medicine and will grow worse. It Is easy to leave off the old fashioned coffee by adopting Postum Food Coffee, for In It one rinds a pleasing hot break fast or dinner beverage that has the deep seal brown color, changing to a rich golden brown when good cream is added. When boiled long enough (IS minutes) the flavor Is nut that of rank Rio coffee, but very like the milder, smooth and high grade Java, but entirely lucking the drug effect ot ordinary coffee. Anyone suffering from disorders set up by coffee drinking (and there Is an ex tensive variety) can absolutely depend upon some measure of relief by quitting coffee and using Postuin Food Coffee. If the disease has not become too strongly rooted, one can with good reason expect It to disappear entirely in a rea sonable time after the active cause ot the trouble is removed and the cellular tis sue has time to naturally rebuild with the elements furnished by Postum and good food. It's only Just plain old common sense. Now, with the exact facta before the reader, he or she can decide the wisa course, looking to health and the power to do things. ' If you have any doubt as to the cause of any ache or ail you may have, remem ber the far reaching telegrams of a hurt nervous system travel fron heel to head, and It may be well worth your while to make the experiment of leaving off coffee entirely for 10 days and using Postuin In its place. You will probably gather some good soll.l facts, worth more than a gold mine, for health can make gold and Blckuess lose It. Besides there's all the fun, for It's like a contnuoua Internal frolic to be pe--fectly well. There's a reason, tor POSTUM Tostum Cereal Co., Ltd, Pat tie Creek, Mich. are devoted In their attention to him. He arises at ": and generally retires at :S0 or 1 at night. His time Is spent aeadlng. chiefly. He reads two dully papers and some other matter. He keeps Informed on current events, but objects to the glare and glamor with which the yellow press pre sents Its news to the people. He wants everything as condensed and simply writ, ten as possible. "I have been Interested In keeping up with the situation In Russia." snld the general. "I cannot , help but believe that the present crisis In Russia at St. Peters burg" may lead to the overthrow of the ruling powers and what will follow that, whether a reign of anarchy and lawless ness, I cannot tell. At any rate It seem to me It will mean tlie termination of the WRr In the far east, leaving Japan the master of the orient. 1 nnt convinced the course of the eiar or his advisers bs been unwise. They could and should have averted the crisis. I regret to see Russia In such a dilemma, for ever since Russia aided our nation In the time of Its great trouble T have felt a debt of gratitude for the czar' kingdom and even In Its present trials, though I think It has not acted altogether right. I sympathize with It." General Thayer say he still enjoy good health. He attributes his longevity to tem perate living. "I never engnped In dissipation," he says, "nnd even now am very cautions and reg ular In my mode of living. I know I shall have to go soon, but -I enjoy life, and while ready when the summons comes, I am not brooding over the thought at all." The general, being short of stature and thick-set. with a round face covered with gray beard and n head still covered with hair, docs not really look, so far as actual appearances go, like 85 years old. Ho Is a delightful conversationalist, with his un fathomable fund of knowledge. His voice Is fairly strong, his grasp upon event good and his diction superb. The old gentleman enjoys friendships. "One of the very first men I met when I came out here from Boston In ISM." said he, "was Dr. George L. Miller of Omaha. We met at Council Bluffs and have been staunch friends ever since. . We helped lay out and build Omaha, where he still lives and where I lived until some years ago. I wish you woifld tell the good doctor that I am going to call on him In the spring. If I live. We have Been Nebraska grow from an empty prairie to a great commonwealth, filled with prosperity, and I want to talk over with him once more the events of the memorable; past." an Inquest tomorrow to determine the cause of death. Baker was about 4n years old. Mrs. Ada J. Baker, wife of the de ceased, filed a suit in the district court last Saturday asking $10,000 damages from H. F. Schaden, whom she alleges sold her husband Intoxicating liquors until he be came an habitual drunkard. EXPLODING SHELLS GIVE ALARM Farm House Near Grand Island De stroyed by Fire. GRAND ISLAND." Neb., March 19. (Spe cial Telegram.) The farm home of Jacob Pahl was completely destroyed by fire yes terday. The flames evidently originated on the second floor front a emmney, as the first knowledge of anything wrong the family had was the discharge of some gun shells upstairs. When' Mr. Fnhl rushed up he found the whole room aflarne. Part of the household goods on the first floor only were saved. Mrs. Pahl was con signed to her bed with sickness and had to be removed to the 'Bam for shelter and thence to neighbors. The house was a new one. The loss is about 12,000; Insur ance 11,000. New Church for Fremont. FREMONT. Neb., March 19. (Special.) The Presbyterian church has decided to erect a new building this season to cost $20,000. A good portion of the money has already been subscribed and work will be begun this spring. It will be built on the site of the old church. The present build ing is in need of repair and Is not large enough to accommodate the congregation. New Postmaster at Beatrice.- BEATRICE. Neb.. March 19. (Special Telegram.) W. H. Edgar today turned over the postofflce to Captain A. H. Hollings worth, the new postmaster, who received his commission this morning. News of Nebraska. COOK A. A. Robertson will soon com mence the erection of a nice ten-room house on his property in East Cook. BEATRICE! Farmers In the vicinity of Rockford are talking of organizing a com pany for the purpose of prospecting for coal and oil. WEST POINT Another heavy snow visited this entire section yesterday. Snow fell all day Sunday, but without any atmo spheric disturbance. COOK James 1. Davis, who for the past ten years has run a Jewelry store in this place, will leave next week for Lincoln, where he will put In a Jewelry stock. HUMBOLDT The citizens' caucus of Dawson has named as candidates for trus tees at the coming village election: M. V. Riley, William Albright und De Loss Gra ham. WEST, POINT News has been received In the cliy of the death of Mrs. Philip Becker, nee Wortman, a native of this county, which occurred at Randolph yes terday. CRETE The funeral of Jamie Dawes, Ron of Chester Dawes of this place, was held yesterday. Mr. Dawes died in Omaha March lt, a here he held a responsible posi tion In the employ of the B. & M. BEATRICE Flank Salts has been har vesting Ice about six Inches in thickness from his artificial lake near this city the past few days. He will continue the wurl: as long as the weather Is favorable. BEATRICE Dawsons & McKeevers held a sale of thoroughbred Poland-China hogt here Saturday, forty-four head were sold at good prices, some of tiie animals bring ing as high as $M). The sale was largely ut tended. WEST POINT Prof August Steinkrause ot Tucoma, Wash., has been engaged as principal of the German Lutheran pa rochial schools at West Point, taking the place of Prof. Rudolph Peters, wno has moved to Cleveland, O. WEST POINT-It D. KelUy, a news paper man of Fremont, has purchased a printing outrll and will commence the pub lication ot a newspaper at I'ehling, the new town on the Gieat Northern exten sion, southwest of West Point. BEATRICE Dr. Gilbert Robertson, a Vet erinarian of this city, reports that a large number uf horses in this county are afflicted with the distemper. He has alsiul ntty cases at the present time and says that few horses have died from the disease. BEATRICE In adjourning court to next Wednesday Judge Ketligar set a large number of civil cases for trial and Issued an order to the effect that when he linds there is no business ready tor trial to the Jury the Jury will be discharged for the term. YORK The oldekt inhabitant of York does not rememlier of any March ever hav ing so much snow and the nice part is that tiie snow M not accompanied by wind and ail Ilea on the level. This Dlankel of snow mtans a great deal to the fanners of York county. LEIGH The Moriny weather still con tinues and this morning is atuut the most disagreeable day of the season. There, has not been a day during I lie month of March that snow has not fallen. There is now about eight Inches or. the ground and the thermometer stood 5 degiees taiuw zero this morning. NKLIGII The citizens caucus tonight nominated J. C. Jenkins for mayor; J. M. Mac Alllnler. clerk; W. B. l-anilcrt. treas urer; Robert Wilson, Iolice Judge: William Staple, city engineer; ". L. Wattles, coun cilman First ward: George H. Romlg, coun cilman Second ward. The high licence ticket prevailed. CRETE A ureck on the B. M. three miles east of Crete resulted In the sus pension of traffic for aeveial hours. Owing to the sbpperluess ot the rails twenty cars cf a special freight train were derailed and some of them overturned. There was no loss of life and the loss of property was comparatively slight. NORFVLK Herman Rranilehurg and Ausrust Marquardt two young farmers, were both injured more or less severely In a runaway accident at 1 a. m. Their car-rlnn-e was overturned and they were drairned over the munli roads. Marquardt sustained a gash in the forehead so deep that the skull Imnes were visible. Hrande bora; was merely badly bruised. HUMBOLDT The most largely attended municipal caucus In recent years took place st the new city hall last night, when the anti-license forces placed their ticket In the field, as follows: Mayor. W. J. Bean; coiincllnien. First word, E. S. Cope; Sec ond ward. N. C. Campbell; treasurer. A. A. Tanmr; cleik. Art Smith; police Judae, A. W. Thompson; engineer, Al Hales. AINSWOKTH on St. Patrick' day Alnsworth celebrated In fine shape. At t p. m. In the Alnsworth bouse hall there was a wrestling match between John Hoke and Rlnker Runolfson for the champion ship of Brown county. The match was best two in Jhree, ontch-ns-catch-can. Hoke was the winner. The hall was tilled with spectators at ir cents admittance. WEST It)INT-The forty-sixth anniver sary of the inarrlnRe of Mrs John D. Ne liRh, one of the oldest of t lie early West Pointers, was celebrated last week at the tamlly home by a birce number of rela tives and friends. Mrs. Nellgh. together with her late husbnnd. occupied the home stead upon which the present city of West Point now stands, in the early iwts. and has resided In the some house ever since. CtiOK There was considerable excite ment In the Osage- community, north of Cook, recently. A dog showing slpns of hydrophobia made Its appearance in that neighborhood and bit several dogs .before k could be killed. The dog also Jumped into a hog pen and bit off tho ears of several hogs. The dogs which were bitten nre being ioscly watched, but no siisns of hydrophobia have been noticed so far. AINS WORTH Saturday night the two parties, license and no license, held ther meeting as follows: No license In Gerlng's hall and nominated T. J. Murphy and Ben Fast for coiincllmen and appointed a cam paign committee of five and voted $ for campaign purposes. The high license ticket was nominated In Warrick a hall, as fol lows: Will Hanua and Roy Atkinson, all good hien, and the (lav was wound up by a grand ball at the Auditorium. NORFOLK Northern Nebraska is cov ered with a pretty thick robo of snow which has fallen during fie imst two days. The storm was quite severe In the extreme northern portion last nli.iit, ami in the Rosebud country of South Dnkota. The temperature is low and as a result of the drop In the mercury, rivers are frozen over in many pluses. At Niobrara, the Missouri has frozen completely over so that people run cross on the Ice. The Niobrara river is . also covered. BEATRICE Beatrice council No. 79, United Commercial Travelers, elected these officers at their annual meeting: F. K. Morrison, past senior counsellor: C. G. Eakln. past counsellor;, E. E. Abbott, senior counsellor; C. 8. Bradley, Junior coun sellor; Frank D. Owen, conductor; J. E. Wallen. page; Arthur Tart, sentinel; F. E. Morrison, J. A. Dohner and C R. Hlte, executive commlttei F. E. Morrison Is n delegate and C. O. Eakln an alternate to the grand council to be held In lincoln in May. WEST POINT Ordinances have lieen passed by the city council vacating certain portion of the streets of West Point. In one case the streets vacated will form part of the high sr-hool grounds and will lie used' for recreation purposes, a very much needed improvement. In the other ease the vacated portions of the streets will become a part of the grounds of the contemplated home for the ard. the erection of which will be commenced this spring. Both of these matters are valuable public improve ments. HUMBOLDT The golden wedding anni versary of Jacob G. Heim and wife, a well known Richardson county couple, was celebrated by the gathering of a largo crowd of relatives at their homo several miles east of this place. This puir came to Nebraska in 1x74, both being natives of Pennsylvania, and have made their homo here continuously since. They are the parents of eleven children, seven of whom reside in this section, and also possess twenty-seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The guests at this im portant event spent the day in recount ing early experiences and feasting, at the same lime leaving several useful and hand some gifts. GENERAL THAYER IS DEAD (Continued from First Page.) night, but was notified to take charge of the body tomorrow. John M. Thayer, Jr., is expected to reach the city from Alton, 111., at i o'clock in the morning, but It is, not known at whnt time Dana Thayer will get here, as he had to travel forty miles in a stage before get ting to a railroad. He lives at Meeker, Colo. Biographical Sketch. John Milton Thayer was born nt Belling ham, Mass., January 24, 1XJ, of good old colonial stock, both his grandfathers hav ing held commissions in Washington' army. He waa the youngest son of Captain Ellas and Ruth (Staples) Thayer, and, with eight older brothers and sisters, was farm-bred. He entered Brown college In September, 1S37. On graduating in li41 he entered the law office of the Hon. Isaac Davis of Worcester, of the class of 122, and for forty years a member of the corporation, and on finishing his law studies he spent some years in Washington as a practitioner In land claims, pensions and the like. Meantime he had formed the partnership ot his life. During his second year in col lege he had taken three months off to teach a rural school in What was then Beekonk, and thus met his fate in the person of Miss Mary Torrey Allen, whose father. Rev. John Allen, was pastor of a church In the neighborhood. They were married two years after young Thayer's graduation to . walk together happily through his whole public life, until he brought her back In broken health to look once more on the dear familiar elms anil breathe her last breath In the old home at Belllngham. Of six children borp to them, two sons, John M. Thayer, Jr., and Dana Thayer, alone survive, y fumes to Nebraska. Mr. Thayer removed to Nebraska In 1SS4 the same year that saw his classmate, Friexe, take up his life-work in Michigan; and though at once admitted to the Ne braska bar, It was with no Intent to prac tice. Rather his heart waa set on the call ing to which he was born, and with a world of virgin soil about him, where to choose, he promptly set his stakes and went to farm ing. But the sword was more In demand than the plowshare Just then and there; und the first territorial legislature 11864, lsii) made young Thayer brigadier general In command of the forces levied against the redklns, who were as usual on the war path. For the following six years he hud rnougli to do in protecting the scattered pioneers and keeping the Indians within bounds a task that feqjlred all his cour age and diplomacy. Twice at least he had to deal with a general outbreak, and once with less than J") men he rounded up the. whole , Pawnee nation 5,0at) strong, in cluding .t) fighting men when they had raided the Elkhorn valley and left behind them 'one wide swath of destruc tion.' It was on this expedition that young Thuyer first found use for that decision of character that has marked his career. . Guard for m Governor. At the end of two das' march he wus overtaken by the governor with a demijohn of whiskey in his traveling ambulance-u class of baggage much affected by the gen tlemen whom Pierce and Buchanan used to tend out to govern the territories. Now, governor was already mellow and get ting more so, and Thayer foresaw trouble if In that state he should assert his au thority as ex-olliciu commander-in-chief Accordingly, he emptied the demijohn and put tiie governor under guard till he should Sober off. - But, watching his chance, the governor got the ear of Thayer's second in command and gave Ills first mllitary order: "Colonel," quoth the gallant gov ernor, "you will take seventy-five men and proceed to Columbus and bring four le;s of flour and twenty barrels ot whiskey!" When this older was reported to the oung Pneumonia and Consumption Cured Mr. B. C. Oblinger, a noted inventor of Independence, Mo., has been cured of pneumonia three times by his judicious use of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. Duffy's also warded off a threat ened attack of consumption. MR. B. C. OBLINGER makes digestion perfect and enables you to act from the food you "' thn nourish ment it contains It is Invaluable for overworked men. delicate women and sickly children. It strengthens and sustains the system. Is a promoter Of good health and longevity, makes the old young and keeps the young strong. Duffy's Is the only whiskey that has been rerngnlxed as a medicine. This is a guarantee. IIKWAHK of ilnnarerou Imitation and anhatllnte. I nscrnpnlous deal ers, mindful of the excellence of this preparation, will try to aell you rhmu imitation and malt whiskey anhstl tnte, whlrh are pnt nn the market for profit only, nnd are positively harmful. Look for the trade-mark, the "Old Chemist." on the label and he certain the seal over the rork I unbroken. All drnastlat and arrneer. or direct. I.K a bottle. Medical booklet free. IHifiy Malt Whiskey Co., Rorheater, . V. brigadier, that officer simply said: "Colonel, you will take no orders from any one, but myself." .Then he placed the governor in hi ambulance between two trusty soldiers and resumed his midnight marrh upon the enemy' trail. So the redklns were rounded up and reconcent rated for good and all It wa the last Pawnee outbreak: and the general was never court-martialed for putting the commander-in-chief under arrest. In the Civil War. At this Juncture the civil war came on, nnd the young Indian fighter found a larger field for his talents an experience, t'nder Abraham Lincoln's first call for 3oft. 000 men, he raised a full regiment, l.floO strong. In the new territory whose total population was barely 28,oon; and of this First Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers he was commissioner colonel. Reporting with his regiment to General Fremont, then commanding at St. Louis, he. was ut once sent to re-lnforce Grant who, with three regiments, was holding Pilot Knob, then threatened by Hardee, at the head of 7,000 Confederates. From his first meeting with Grant, whom he found simply clad and smoking a clay pipe In his farm house headquarters, they were warm frlonds. For two years Thayer served under Grant's Immediate command and he was among the first to recognize the real greatness of the man. Their close relations were re newed when the one waa In the White House and the other In the senate, and were broken only by the great commander's death. Win Ills Star. For gallant services at Fort Donelson and Shlloh, Thayer was made a brigadier general, and later brevet ted major general; he led a storming column against the Vicksburg bluffs at Chlckusaw Bayou, In Sherman's expedition up tho Yazoo; had his horse shot from under him at the taking of Arkansas post; and served through the siege of Vicksburg under Grant. After Vicksburg, he was transferred to the De partment of Arkansas and presently as signed to the command of the District and Army of the Frontier; successfully de fended Fort Smith, and commanded a di vision in the battle of Jenkins Ferry. General Thayer was a good soldier, and he knew well enough what the war meant; Indeed, he anticipated the emancipation proclamation. "In the winter of 1861, while, still a colonel, I received an order from a general officer to have my camp searched for a runaway slave and to return him If found to his master who brought the order. There was an Issue for me. I said to the slave-hunter: 'You shall not take this man back to bondage, and I give you five minutes to get outside my lines.' He did not hesitate about going. I kept the slave at headquarters that night, and .next morning I loaded him with supplies and sent him rejoicing on his way to free dom." And that was not the first nor the last time he took the bull by t,he horns. After the War. At the close of the war he returned to Nebruska and became a member in" the lirst constitutional convention In 1M66. He took a leading part In securing the admis sion of the new state, and was chosen one of Its first senators in congress. In this high office he served four years MWT-Tll. On the Square r r rn y j HovaUi7 Uxu 4 vm m 6w 7 I Lock ctreJuUr . AllcocKs Plaster and take no other. The choicest and purest gums arc used in this remarkable external remedy CORN PLASTERS. I For Relief and Cure Oiva Immodiata Maiiaf. 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It bring into ncttnn all the vital forces, it Including tho stormy session of Andrew Johnson' impeachment and the earlier port of Grant's first term. After leaving tho senuto ho" W-as appointed by his old commander to be governor of Wyoming territory, and held that office sonio four years (1X75-9). In" 1SS he was elected gov ernor of Nebraska, and in 1S88 was re elected, and. although not a candidate at the following election, he liepame. In fact, tho first and only third-term governor In the history of the state. It came about in this wise: James B. Boyd, who car ried tho stale in 1890, was not only a demo crat, but a born Irishman. He hnd come to Nebraska an a minor with his father, and neither of them hnd ever taken out natural ization papers, though the son had always been an active politician and was at tho time mayor of Omaha. . , Leaves Uovernor'a Chair. Governor Thayer declined to turn over the office to him, and claimed to be gov ernor de facto and do Jure until a succes sor should be elected and duly qualified. The issue was tried on a writ of ouster before the state supreme court, and the governor's contenton waa sustained, but, on appeal to th federal supreme court, that tribunal, by a majority of one, re versed the declsldrt and treated Mr. Boyd some of the Justices claiming that the en abling act made all residents citizens of tho new state, while Chief Justice Fuller held that Boyd was de facto a citizen, in asmuch as ho hud been voting and occa sionally holding office ever since the admis sion of the sfate into the union. In ac cordance with this decision Governor Thayer turned the office over to Mr. Boyd shortly before the expiration of his un sought third term, in 1892, Sterling Silver Frenzer, 10th and Dodge. WALSH HEARING GOES OVER Inability of Attorneys to Be Present Causes Postponement of Pre liminary Examination.' CHICAGO. March 19.-The preliminary hearing of John R. Walsh, who was ar rested some time ago on charges connected with the failure of the Chicago National bank: of this city, was today continued to March 27. The postponement was made at the request of the attorneys for Mr. Walsl and the attorneys for the government offered no objection. Inability of one of the attorneys for Mr. Walsh to be present was the reason given for the postponement. v A Miraculous Kseape from bleeding to death, had A.' Plnske, Nashotah, Wis., who healed . his wound with Bucklen's Arnica Salva. ' 25c. For sale by Sherman & McConnell Drug; Co. ; French Miners Demonstrative. LENS, Department of the Pas de Calais, France, March 19. Many detachments of troops, including artillery and dragoons, have arrived here In oider to be ready for any eventuality which may arlBe as a result of the miners' strike. About 46,000 men are now on strike and are parading the towns, carrying red flags. 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