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YOUNGEST VETERAN
TELLSJIS STORK
Brother of Omaha Man Furnishes
Proof He Enlisted When
. Twelve Years Old.
CHALLENGES OTHER CLAIMANTS
YOUNGEST CIVIL WAR VETERAN
HAS BROTHER HERE
Once more the youngest veteran of
the Civil War has been found.
George" W. Johnston, president of
the Mid-West Electric company of
Omaha, claims he has found him for
nvre. He says there can be no mis
take about it now and that he chal
lenges anyone on earth to produce
substantial evidence of a younger
veteran.
The soldier is Johnston's brother.
His name is William F. Johnston.
He is at present Sergeant of Company
IV, Michigan Soldier's home at Grand
Kapids.
Ilermtly Georpe W. Johnston of Omaha
writ Ills soldier brother a newspaper
" lipping concerning one W. 11. Van
Orman who claimed in he the youngest
soldier In the civil war. The old seraeant
at (irand Kapids etrnlnlitrned up like a
whip of whalebone and declared Van
Orman a long: way behind him In honors,
lie then wrote a letter tolling of his
own case and challeriKlnir anyone to
come forward with evidence of having
been younger In service of the t'nlon
in the great strife.
Knltatfri at Aae nf Twelve.
Johnston was twelve years, three
months and twenty-three dnys old when
he Joined the colors.
He was born June is, is.y, in Oetrolt.
He enlisted October 11, is2.
"Why, say pal, 1 was an old hand
at the business when Comrade Van
Orman was a raw recruit," PrrKeant
Johnston wrote his Omaha brother.
He has recently applied for his slxty-six-year
Increase, and In so doing had to
furnish documentary evidence of his age.
plare of birth, parentaise, and as he
puts It, "what his parents had for break
fast three months before he was born."
So there is no disputing his statement
of his age.
It was not Johnston's fault that he did
not enlist younger. Three tlmeB he ran'
away from school and pattered barefoot
Into the recruiting station flushed and
with a craving to get into the bit;
battles.
Illllden V filler Tar Seat.
Karh time he was rejected on account
of his youth. Finally he appeared again
just as a troop train was leaving. The
soldiers liked him and wanted him even
though the recruiting officers rejected
him. So the soldiers gave him more
whisky than his young lega would carry
and stuffed him under a seat In the
smoking car. Ones they got him out
to the front with them there was no
trouble in getting him enlisted, for his
parents were far away from there.
Here In part Is his own account of the
high lights In his war experiences:
"I was taken prisoner at Culpeper
Court house, Virginia, October 11, 1863,
and was a prisoner of war for thirteen
months and nine day. Was confined
In the following prisons, In . that time:
Lomberton building, Ltbby prison. Belle
tele, all in Richmond Va. I also was In
the second detachment of prisoners sent
to the "Hell Hole," Andersonvllle, in
March, 1864, and confined in that stock
ade until August, when we were sent to
Savannah, and paroled about November
19. IHtH.
.Not One Spun re Meal.
"And say. nut one square meal in all
that time, not one square meal, barely
enough to keep me alive, and me a
growing kid!
"However. 1'ncle Sam has certainly
tried to make up to us In our old age.
what we gave him In our youth. Of
course, the wrong start In life that our
army experiences gave some of us young
sters, who had the seeds of high living
from our forefathers, we never could
get over."
TAKES SMITH CASE
UNDER ADVISEMENT
Arguments in Suit by County Board
Apainst Robert Smith Finished
at Night Hearing.
HAFFKE SUMS UP THE FACTS
acquiesced when ilitks kept the fee, be
cause a claim for naturnllxal on fees had
been dismissed by the civility In a suit
KHiurt former t'lerk llroadwell, and be.
cause a federal law permitted cleiks to
retain one-half of iintui nlisntlon fees re
tained by them.
PETTY APPEAL DOCKET
CLEAR FOR FIRST TIME
wi'Hhless and a large percentage of per
son nnlited In police court escaped
punishment by laxness of procedure gov
rinlnn eppCHla.
W. F. JOHNSTON.
BRIEF CITY NEWS
Wsfldlnf Rings Xdholra, fwr.
LichtlDg- Fixtures Burgess-Oranden.
Riti Hoot Print It Now Reacon Presa
111 With Pnsnmonia Menard rhllbln,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. I'hl'tiin, l
very 111 with pneumonia.
"Today's XnTis PpoB-ram' classified
section today. It appears In The Bee
EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va
rious moving picture theaters offer.
Boof Beoital Miss Alice MncKensle
will give a song recital at theMetropoll
tan hall, Oecemhcr 15 at 8 o'clock, as
sisted by Madame A. M. Unrglum.
Adniltttd tJ Practice John P. Hyrne,
son of T. t". Hyrne of the Byrne & Ham
mer Ory Goods company, was admitted
to practice law In the federal court.
Pockata Picked Lee Burns of the Owl
ho-' reports to the pol ce that his pock
ets were picked of $.12 while he was stroll
ing on South Twelfth street Friday even
In?. Mowry Enlists Robert P. Mowry of
Lexl-igtou enlisted in the navy at the
locrl recruiting station and has been sent
Arguments in the suit brought by
the County board to recover more
than $6,000 naturalization fees re
tained by Kobcrt Smith, clerk of the
district court, were finished at a
night hearing before District Judge
; Sears and the Judge took the case
! tinder advisement.
The court continued in session
until 9 o'clock at night in order to
permit of bringing the hearing to a
It-lone this week without interfering
with Judge Sears' session of Juvenile
ccurt today.
Peputy County Attorney Haffke sum
nml up the the facts which, he asserted.
i be had proved. In support nf the applica
tion for a writ of mandamus compelling
Smith to make an accounting of fees, as
follows:
That Smith used offices, labor, sta
tionery, heat and lights provided and
paid for by Pouglns county, for the car
rying on of bis naturalization work.
That a Nebraska law fixes the com
pensation to be received by Smith at
4,O0 a year and provides that all excess
fees shall be. turned Into the county
treasury by him.
That a decision of the l'nlted States
supreme court holds that clerks should
pay excess naturalization fees into
county treasuries where local laws so
provide.
Attorney John P. Preen, retained by
Smith to resist the county a demand for
the K0H declared the clerk should not
be forced to give up the money, because
county officials in former years
AUTO UPSETS AND DAILEY
IS BADLY CUT AND BRUISED
V. !. lnllcy. Twenty-third and Fori
streets, sustained painful bruises nn.l
lacerations, is hen An automobile he was
driving overturned at Thirteenth Slid
Ivmlnion streets. in lc's mr was minus
a lire on one wheel, and the rim. catch
ing In the car trmks, upset the machine.
He was attended by I r. t n
taken to St. Joseph hospital.
For the first time In the hlst..r of Hie
'malm police court, so far n. nienvi
of tie oldest Inhabitant runs, the p,tt
npeala docket In district court I clc;ir
Twciilv cases, piosccuti'd by City I'rose
crtor Melinite before Ill-til, I .li., ;K
I Mi, were disposed of jesterd:iy.
.Iml'jc Kngtish sustained coin ( I iiw ,.f
nearly all defendants, who wi re dim o il
with keeping disorderly bouses Hoods of
those who failed to nivcir were for
fiTod. In the "old dtis" ami, in fnl, until
w ithin the hist few months, inoi o Item
LITTLF PASSAVOY GIRL
UNDERGOING TREATMENT
Word ftom Pltlslmrph Is to the effr t j
i ni little Sophie l'tiS'Sioy or 'omihn. j
who has a metal pencil cap In one of bet -j
I i vs. Is iiidcrgolnu treatment there and:
sei Ins to be bene Its d.
)'r performed later f
the foreign sulslanie. The child Is a
imighter of Mr. and Mrs. M. I'nssavoy
of lienson.
roll and ! Va) police court appeal cases were con.
ttnttnlly pending; most of the bonds wen
tlead Tl em Kvery Pav .: Will Tny'
The l:ee Want Ads in The Be
Marriage of Burbank
Annulled by Court
In district court Friday. Abraham Bur
bank, manager of the Fontcnepe hotel,
nn. awarded a decree annnllng his mar
il.Tte to Mrs. .Margaret Clarke Burbank.
She did not resist the suit.
The court f uind from the evidence that
Mr. tliii-hank was deceived when be con
s.'iilod to the marriage. He testified
An oieratlm will' Hint In l!'l I ho learned that Warren
the removal nf Clarke had secured a divorce from Mrs.
Clarke on statutory grounds and that
(he dei ree forbade her to msrry again
while clinke was living. Mrs. Clarke had
represented, he testified, that she had
secured the divorce anil that Aha was
free to marry him.
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After Kat-lt Mcul.
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Chicago
Boost for Omaha A booster story
about Omaha la printed In the current
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Don't suffor and try to wear out your
rheurratism. Sloan's Liniment goes right
to the spot, kills the pain. 25c. All drug
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LINCOLN HEIGHTS CLUB
ASKS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Seventy-five member attended the meet
ing of IJneoln Heights Improvement club
held Friday evening. The club Is advo
cating the grading of Fortieth street, the
extension of the Harney street car line
and sewer extensions. The meeting was
held in Clifton Hill school. 8. L. Laird
Is president and C. M. Wilson aecretary
of the club.
Issue of the lilnugas World. The article J
was prepared by E. V. Parrlsh of the
bureau of publicity.
Xetetura on Spirituality and Psyohism
Burd F. Miller will give a free public
lecture on "Spirituality and Psychlsm"
at Theosophlcal hall, suite 7U1 Dee build
ing, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
Tot Safety First In Life Insurance,
see W. II. Indoe, general agent. State
Mutual Life insurance company of
Worcester, Mass., one of the oldest
(seventy-one years) and beat companies
on earth.
Charred with Passing- Bad Chseka
M. M. Montgomery of JJes MoineB, la.,
charged with passing worthless checks
for email amounts on local merchants, la
being held at police headquarters. De
tectives Lahey and Brlnkman made the
arrest.
Map Bold Mada-in-Omaba Show Di
rectors of the Omaha' Manulacturers' as
sociation, at their regular meeting Fri
day noon at the Commercial club, heard
reports on various industrial expositions
held in other cities. Systems and results
of such exhibits of manufactured articles
are being given close attention by the
local factory men, as a "Made-In-Omaha
show' may be held here In the
future.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED MEMBERS
IN OMAHA COMMERCIAL CLUB
One hundred ano) seventy-three new
members of the Commercial club have
been secured so far this year by the
membership committee, according to a
report made at the meeting Friday noon.
This raises the club's enrollment to over
1,800, Chairman Stanley Itoaewater says,
and his committee has set a new rocord
for securing members since the club
moved to Its new quarters in the Wood
men building. The committee will hold
one more meeting Christmas and will
then take a vacation from Its work of
swelling the club's roster.
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