Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1894, Page 5

e RAAR g B ol | DAILY BEE: THE OMAHA INQUEST OVER THE vmfmsl Oorcnor's Jury Furnished Damaging Evi- donco Against George W, Davis, INDICATIONS THAT HE IS GUILTY Was Sent to the Penitentiary Several Vears Ago for Burglary Committed In Douglas County—Disposing of the Dead. LINCOLN, Aug. 11.—(Special to The Bee.) ~—Link by link the fatal chain of evidence which shall convict orge Washington Davis of the murder of ele nt men is being forged. Detective Malone, who made the arreat, and the officers of the police station who 1 talked to him are thor- oughly convinced of his guilt and it is only necessary to change the suspicions of the people to certainties to kindle into a flame the smouldering indignation of the crowds which still flock to the scene of the wreck or talk It over on the street corners. Thres of lynching are freely made, especially by those who lave scen the horrible sight in the cellar of Robert's undertaking rooms The eleven bodivs, twisted and distorted by the flames, with legs, arms and heads sep- arated from the trunks, are lnid out on the tables. Shreds of clothing cling to some of them and blackened bones protrude from the charred flesh. Phe first clue en I oc hered by Detective Ma- lone and which arrest of Davi was given by eman Foot. He stated that the first man he saw when he cmerged #rom the train was a negro with a lantern walking rapidly away from the train. He shouted to him and the negro turned around and came back. Foot thought nothing of th matter until Wil Saxton found the fish plates and then when he went to look for the negro he was unable to find him. He told his suspicions to the detective, however, and he went to work. Charlie Riymond, a dri for Bd Holmes, had a story to tell, He had been approached by a col man, Who proves to be the same, while tig wreck was burning, who suid that he wanted to be driven to town. He had no coat on and his pants were torn. In explanation of this he had told a man med Weems that he had been on the wrecked train and was the first man off. He was badly shaken up and had lost his coat, which contained $: , belonging to County Treasurer Maxey Cobb, 5o he explained. The driver brought him up town and received $1 for the service, WAS LOOKING FOR DAVIS, Detective Malone had been on the lookout for Davis for some tim the perpetrator of a series of petty burglaries in the neigh- borhood where the wreck occurred and sus pected that this might be the man wanted. He had learned that this man was working for a farmer named Lonsdale and went out there for him, but Davis failed to show up. About 9 o'clock last night he was more suc cesstul and bagged his game at the Lonsdale farm. On the way in he toi¢ the dectective a new story altogether and if possible a more wildly improbable one than ever. He said that he had been at the Colored Men's club house In town and when he heard the crash e and a crowd of men, white and black, had started for the dircction of the sound on fool, reaching there before any one else had arrived. The club house is about six miles away from the scene of the wreck and the road is 5o rough that in the dark it tool the reporter over an hour to get there with a hack. A farmer living near the trestlo heard the engine bumping along the tles, but did not hear a sound when the train fell into the ravine and the idea that the nolse could have been heard six miles away i ridiculous. While in the buggy coming in the prisoner was taken off his guard by the question as to whether the train made much noise when it fell and responded that the engine made a terrible racket and described the blowing off of the steam as only an eye witness could do it. He also unguardedly admitted that the brakeman called to him to come and help when the train fell over and to have both stories true he would have to make the six miles trip in almost the speed After coming to the city in the s been learned that he went to the club room he spoke of and left there his Jantern and revolver. Subsequently he went back and got the revolver, but the lantern is in the possession of the police. two boys named Ryan were heard of. ¥ had been timing themselyes while walking on the track and passed Davis going in the direction of the trestle a litt while before the wreck occurred, and on thelr return had met him still going toward the bridge. He had a crowbar over his shoulder and carried a satchel in his hand. This was about 8:30 in the evening, and the train was due in something over an hour. At Rokeby station, a little beyond the bridge, it is said that he was again recognized. Mr. Lonsdale, who was instrumental In his capture, and at whose house he was arrested, thinks that the proofs are complete. He says that the man has been loafing about the neighborhood all surmer, with nothing to do, and that the burglary of a number of the farm houses in the neighborhood has been laid at his door. CONFUSED THE PRISONER. ‘When asked who accompaniel him to the wreck from the club, Davis was unable to glve a single nam and when the officers of the club and some of the members called at the station this morning he could not identify any of them. Maxey Cobb also is convinced that the authorities have the right man. He work:d for Cobb until last March, but he has not since scen him. The story of the lost coat and the §200 is a pure fab- rication. He says that h was born at ‘Washington, D. C., and until three years ago lived there. He is a well built, muscular a negro, as black as a stovepips and weal woolly mustache, Some of the injured p sengers lost their pocketbooks and jowelry, and as Davis on the next night appeared to have plenty of money, It is thought that he may have done a little in the way of rob- Dery before leaving the scene. He has been at the police station all day, where a crowd of the curious has been congregated, anxious to get a look at him, but the police have allowed him to see no one, not even the hungry lawyers, of whom there Is a horde hanging about' the pre- cincts, waiting for a chance to take the case and the rakeoff. W. H. Dorgan, the contractor at the penitentiary, saw the suspected man in his cell this afternoon. It is suspected (hat he got some sort of a confession, It has developed that Davis has served a term in the penitentiary. He was liberated June 4, 180 ter having served a four-year term for burglary, committed in Douglas county. During his incarceration he was a walter on the private table of William Dorgan. Frod Lonsdale, at whose hcuse the man was arrested, and who detained him until the police had arrived, has put in his claim for the reward of §1,000 offered. THE INQUEST Just before the inquest this morning a heartrending scene was witnessed at the undertaking rooms, where the bodies are belng cared for. Mrs. Zerueke, the wife of one of the victims, appeared at the station and asked to see the bodies. She was shown some trinkets and the coroner tried to dissuade her from looking at the charred remalins, but she persisted and was convinced that If the thing on the table was all that was left of her husband, there was noth- {ng left by which to identify him The members of the jury are: W. B. Wol- cott, Dr. H. K. Kennan, A. C. Leming, C. E. Van Dusen, A. C. Langdon and T, A, Hayes. Colonel Billingsley represented the Rock Island and W. 8. Hamilton Mrs. Poters and Mrs. Zerneke. Colonel Bills, the first witness, testified substantially as has been printed. He had seen a man at the wreck, but did not know whether ho was white or black. At the cc clusion of his testimony the inquest ad- Journed to 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Harry Foot, the brakeman, was the first witness examined. He testifled as to the makeup of the train and its spe:d, forty-five miles an hour. He said that from’ the direc- tion away from Lincoln two white men and a colored man came towards him. He gave the negro a lantern and sent him out to op the Rock Island freight. The negro said had come from the Lonsdule farm. He then described the condition of the rail which had been removed, and of the work in re- moving the bodics. WUl Sexton and his father were the next (ithesses called. They testified In sub- T. Woodward, sop of a banker at Lewls, Ia., and Miss Hannah.of this city, and Oder of Cripple ( widow of Castle Ri stance concerning at the scene of seomod to have reached it in vory good se They sald ho acted in a sort of disin- his actions were not attention or excite An adjournment was taken at b | NORECAPITAL FOR NEBRASK Brown, Rock and Hall Counties Invited to Constract Irrigation Ditches. the wreck, ek and Mrs. ck, were married yester- day in the shadow §f the balanced rock in the Garden of the Gods, BAD MAN such as to attract much FROM CHICAGO. Now e Tarries in Durance Vile Awalting the Coming of an OM throe of the bodies at BG MASS MEETING AT LONG PINE ral of thers have been turned over to thelr friends The body of Dr. woman elaiming Pinney ot Council of Voting Wonds to pterprise-Guaranty of Two Hundred and Fifty The Inrs Required. arrested Friday night ou information rece Chiet of Detectiyes Pinney wns nd one of the urgeon of the Rock Island road and d a prominent during the public enterprises LONG PINE egram to The Bee.) meeting was held here today to discuss the question of irrigation and a proposition made representative (Special Tel- was 44 years i , Interesting mass thousand doilars worth of jewelry, ver the state and had consid putation as an with several news was re leading citizens widely known ¢ erable of a r bacn connected dollars worth a delogation of t place came up to Lincoln to investi ey iy city detectives arrested him, and Chief bonds toward the enterprise, besides a cer- of water privileges. The meeting was addressed by L. V. Gol- den of O'Nell, and others. of the meeting a resolution that it sense of the meeting that the proy the fireman, penitentiary, tain guaranty for interment. was Identified by from him. His arrest was a_smooth piece of part of Savage, Demp- Chicago officer started for Omaba yesterday with the proper papers for the return of the prisoner. the conductor, Before the close detective work on th: and lived fn Council were taken to Council r, also lived ars of age and His remains or Robbing a Fruiter. Thomas Robinson was sentenced to thirty d to proceed to 1 to vote on the bond question. he sentiment here s unanimous in favor assemblage posed of the business men and farmers, prop- erty owners of Brown and Rock counties. Council Bluffs were taken home Hansen of McPherson county was flimflamming fruit stand, at Eleventh and Farnam streel identified by Knights of Pythias and Masonic No disposition has been cards found on him. of his body. STEALING MANY BICYCL similar charges Farmington, It Has Become a Lucratl Mutibit i/l Sblit; Robinson’s scheme s to go to one found on him. ids by article pecial to The Bee.) | small purcha: Then when big bill in payment. the other traveling man, was is ready for has grown alarming proportions of late and is furnish- ing the police with one of the most serious problems with which they have had to grap- During the past week been ten thefts of bicycles re- will come for the remains tomorro It is about certain that the three unidenti- Henry Peters can't find the amount, and after substituting the original bill for a smaller one, he rolls it up and receives the change. bill with a $1. e Pleased. He usually substitutes a traveling man who the home of was in the smoker, Dumped Where was fined $1 John Nelson Judge Berka yesterday for st calculation $1,000, for the thieves particular about the kind of wheel they re of no avail dumping cess- dinner at the hotel and left tog this summer the vicinity was reported this morning, when the owner, | mott G0 FEEERR o CE e thelr lth in front of the postoffice, as gone about and when he returned his ma- A lady who was stand- ing near had seen a man ride oft with wheel and was able to give the direction UE CITIZENS. leaving his wheel tin to mail a letter. Jpox inthat Viclnity e Some Tro cesspool stuft thrown into the storm sewers. also suspect that in several instances hous holders have connected their ces in order to save a lawful connection. uch a stench at e people who live two minutes, BELLEVUE, This village was thrown into a fever of excitement yesterday afternoon by the re- Detective Malone following the thiet out | p¢" e “srorm times as to nearly suffoca near the openings. sewers emit fields and made his ¢ The officers are confident that there is an organized gang at work and hope to soon have some of them behind the bars. belief is that from a bicycle store which was robbed there were taken a couple of pumps, a lot of tires and other repairs, with which the stolen wheels could be fixed up for some The sheriff has been asked 10 offer a reward, but there is no law which st of this villag three miles southe A meeting of the Board of Trustees wi tely called and resolutions passed look- oward the immediate establishment of a Notes from the Chiet Armstrong of Duluth wants to learn something about D. H. Saunders, a colored to be working Saunders’ family is in a destitute condition and is being kept by the county authorities It was stated in positive terms by a member of the physician had been called to tend the cases | gther market. of smallpox. was found to be false in The paticnts who were vit ited by the doctor in that vicinity are suf- intermitting nounced them genuine c morning the story every particula Peter Heller was fined $2 and costs yester- day for selling canned beans the Jones street garba without a license. Powell boys, charged with the same offense, was continued until Monday. Lewis Brown, a colored man, who was ar- rested at Sheeley Friday night for throwing stones at passing trains and who was sup- posed to have been one of the South Omaha was found to day and was turned over to the commission- ers of insanity. Hartshorn of Loulsville, is offering $50 reward for the apprehension of a couple of horse thieves who are sup- be headed for Omaha. Dickey of Cedar Bluffs offers §20 reward for the return of a sorrel filly stolen from thut place a few nights ago. Ex-Officer Sam Hoff and Charles Simpson had a scrap Friday night, during which Simp- son was badly beaten up. takea from dump and peddling The case against is stolen a reward is offered, and if the thief is cither sent to the peniten- One of these bi- is caught he tiary or shot or lynched. cycles in these days would pay for a span members of the It now develops that two dates for office; Doard of Trustee that the republic be held tonight, would be attended by a large n voters from the Island to be opposed state board of agriculture will meet Monday evening. Governor Furnas, who was in the city yes- terday, says that there are no grounds for the rumor that there w thinks the prospects for a good one are very at the Lincoln number of republic be no fair and he to the renomination these gentle- Chancellor James H. Canfleld will address to savor very strongly of rank the Lincoln Labor club on August 17 on some subject of interest to laboring men. mated that the whole scheme was concocted by these scheming politicians for the purpose of depriving the citizens of the island of a Lincoln October 12, 13 voice in the primaries deavorers expect to entertain the largest and Nebraska convention yet held and are making live preparations toward that end. Lincoln En- Ord Notes and 1 ORD, Neb., Aug. 11.—(Special to The Bee.) Young of Omaha with friends in the city. John G. Sharpe left Tuesday morn- Del., on a visit Both men were ar- HEAVY RAIN AT HARRISON. Hoff_is at present acting as spec Central Portion of Sioux County Treated to a Fine Shower. HARRISON, Neb., Aug. 11 gram to The Bee.)—A heavy rain visited the of Sioux county yesterday, Hail accompanicd and completely de- acre field of wheat which would twenty bushels Hailstones ‘were found in the road eighteen hours after they Friday night Simpson met hi_and twitting Hofl (Sp:cial Tele- alisbury of Ogalalla is visiting th her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. trial will oceur August 18. has succeeded the release from an unexpired sentence of the barber whose matrimonial bark which will help late corn. in securing of the rain rd and daughter morning on a and Mrs. David for Omaha stroyed a 130- have ylelded Effie Mitchell, and A. Leach, the B. & M. agent, leaves in a few days for Sutton, domestic contention. _Robinson's wife, who was taken out of a Ninth street resort, re- fuses to reform and says that she will con- tinue leading a life of shame. the soldier who was cut with a razor the other night, appeared at the police station yesterday tify a couple of men suspected ‘of doing the men were Fred He will bo much missed by a large circle of T 33 Y 8 Dixon County Fair Postponed. cb., Aug. 11.—(Special to Dixon County Agricultural soclety has decided not to hold the county fair this year on account of the scarcity of NEWCASTLE, The Bee)—The Company B, reorganized The following Captain, S. A. Stacy; first lieuten- officers were Haying and harvesting are about over in In some instances the farm- ers mowed their oats before they were quite ripe and gathered them Some_fields this vicinity., 0 sure about Fisher, who, he alleges, looks somewhat like one of his assailants. rges of vagrancy against both of the men and had them arraigned on mp Washington | TECUMSEH, )—Bverything shington for the reunion which be- The camp presents a beautiful is in a handsome Nemaha river. Shade fs abundant and at the same time there is a clearing on the ground sufficient commodato the drills and sham battles. new steamer is doing service and boating and Numerous booths have bee > fakir is on deck. in as they would made a fair 11.—(Special police then filed c readiness at twine than less stacking, and prob- first ~supposed. an eight-inch gash cut in the left side below and is suffering a great deal gins Monday. situated &3 it _—— KILLED RBY LIGHTNING. e.)—The Bartley gnards, whu were under arms all day yesterday, upon an order from Colonel Bills to take the f gram to The B Took Refuge Under a Troe as a Protection fishing is good. erected and the festi commodious speaker and a dance pavilion is in course of construc- to hold themselves st train for South aha, were dismissed last night upon an o The boys were all ready and anxious to go to obtain their first lesson in warfare. S, Tex., Aug. 11.—A DeKalb spe- says about 3 o'clock this cial to the the colonel. in a small prairie nine miles and were playing base ball. A shower came id they all ran to a truck the tree outh of town is scheduled The Cook team, which is acknowledged to be one of the strongest A series of good ball games during the reunion. up during the game Quorum I'resent. 11.—(Special HASTINGS, the following licen club was called for last night, to clect a successor to Secretary Test, who has re- moved from the city. understood that there was to be a meeting of the club, and so a quorum did not at- teams, all of which are also strong aggrega- hurt and It is thought some of tk It was not generally Dodge County Affairs. 1.—(Special to The Bee.) aples of tall corn stalks are on exhibition around town, but they are mostly vernor of th FREMONT, Aug. 1 Mosely Elected ¢ ARDMORE, L T., Aug. 1L reports from Chickasaws “ull election Clan Gordon Plenle at Blalr. 11.—(Speclal BLAIR, Neb., been received and show the result on the For governor: chulter, an old and well known resident of Dodge county, died at his home on Maple Creek yesterday, aged 60 years. His attack of cholera to have been: mer, §; Mosely, 2 and’ Robert 1 Wwas & success nice class of people and themselves as well as the the city and country who watched them in thelr many exciting games. They were secmed to enjoy spectators from giving ‘Mose caused by an L. D. Vose of Chicago is in the city visit- and @ probable s old friends and former neighbors. The crop failure of western Nebraska is driving stock into Dodge and other eastern counties for feed. which is the cou; elections must take. considered to have brought out a vote and shows o total of 436 as the v strength of the natjon. that contested Clifc dry Was Insured. HASTINGS, = tings iron foundry, owned Grafton Brevities. & 4 GRAFTON, Neb., Aug. 1. by Willlam night, was insured for $1,000 in each of tho tollowing compi (Special to The facturing € rns Combine, e of Omaha, work on the water works. Rockford of Illinois Slemens-Ha There was a pienic given on the Blue north by the Grand Among the speak- were County Attorney Sloan, B and London Assurance, Wite Beator 11.—(Special Mary Lyon toni of Lincoln H. Lyon, her husband, for Lyon was found guiity the Rep tlic of this place HASTINGS, to The Bee.) it caused the tockhaliomm, will recelve 50 pe manufactur all sorts of electri ult of the dentru ti go crowd was in attendance. About a dozen attending the institute at Geneva rs are all at work cutting thelr corn be plentiful locom )i 7 13, ult and battery. allrond cars aod rom Grafton county jail for wife beating. mallpox at MoCook. in the lum- 11.—(Special to The e recgnt i fire Water Works, M'COOK, Neb., ber distriot. 11.—(Special To Construct Fullerto Mareled an Athin Ofticor. CLEVELAND, Aug: 'M/—A letter has been recolved in this city from a Europe’ 'who friend of Ella Russe authorities, have taken great palns to isolate the patients and it is hoped that no more cases will de- city water bonds to E. D. Gould, president of the Citizens bank of this place, , N songstress, stat- Severe Heat at Nebraska City, l' A NEBRASKA but Gould's bid was the best » opened for the construction of was awarded to Wind Engine and Pump company of ir bid belng $8 bid by $1,100. ther bidders, Her husband Is sald to be a young Italian army and Miss Russell is a native of this y successful thermometer marked 106 wind spoiled all chances for late Everything 00, and the is absolutely burned up. name for stage purpose: il B s Been Senator " Owens Man Passed Bogus Checks. HASTINGS, Bee.)—Adolph vard was arrested on & warrant Goehring of Har- | Bght took place here between Judge George correspondent at W as follows: cepted as true among t not seek anothe Champ Clark announ igton wires his paper Tom Pepper, known throughout the country for his whisky man and insulted Judge Kinkead during an o Missourians that s himself a candidate Goehring was over to Sul the old grudge was renewed and Goehring was knotked down and kicked was arrested. Hull Dayid- twice, but was taken away by J son, ex-mayor of Lexington, who was drink- livan's sal-on, that ex-Congressman Clary by Sullivan them at the tim ———— Refreshing, exhilerating—a bath at Court land beachs Marrled 1n 8 Romantio COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., The lions and leo formance on Sunday, pards give their last per- They are worth seeing SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1894. ° HE HAS LIBELED THE STATE Farmer McCarten is Not a Representative Nebraska Farmer, CULTIVATED T ACRES IN 12 YEARS fa Poor Farm and a Poor ont the Tru perism and a Top Mortgage. Combination Farmer of ¥ Elements Toavy NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—(Correspondence of The Bee)—Notwithstanding the high price of corn now ruling, there seems to be other things more attractive to the braska farmer than the tickling of the vir- gin soil. The Man from Nebraska Is loose in New York City, seeking whom he may de- vour, that is If the one to be devoured isa fe- male woman, “stont and good looking, me- dium height, from 16 to 28 years of age.” The man wants this kind of prey, but he does not want it bad unless it can show up $100 in cold cash. Eastern people have had many samples of western pluck and nerve. Many's the time their good money has been sunk out of sight under a sand ridge in some ill favored cor ner of the west; usually the westerner has been satisfied to get the money without an appendage in the shape of the owner of the money. But this man s a new species en- tirely. He wants the money, and he also wants the owner of the money. Yet it is possible that if he can secure the $100 without a girl, he may be induced to return to his lair without further prey, and there re- main until the $100 s absorbed in the busy west. Nebraska fs the alleged domicile of this peculiar specimen. Nebraska, the home of The Bee, with a governor like Crounse, with financiers like the Kountzes and Millards; with brainy men like Thurston and Man- derson. Nebraska, the state which holds such land as there is to be found in Doug- las, Sarpy, Richardson and many other coun- ties. This state, with all its many com- mendable attributes, will soon be looked upon as the home of fmbeciles if such char- acters as this man from Nebraska are al- lowed to roam at will in the east. HIS MAGNIFICENT DEMESNE. Gracious! What fools there must be here it the attractions advertised by this man are sufficient to catch the innocent thing he is looking for. He is 63 years old, and twelve years ago he broke a claim in Box Butte county and broke a fire guard around it. Al told, this alluring spot of 160 acres has seven acres broken an evidence of the man’s twelve years efforts. It also has a hut, not, alas, a palace like Robinson Crusoe’s, but on of those miserab) bug- ridden, mosquito-plagued, one-roomed apolo- gles which pass for sod houses in the newer portions of the state. It has another house, namely a chicken house. It has no dog house, no cow house, no horse house, no tool house. But the fact that it has a woman house or carthly cage in which the man hopes to bury alive a woman who has $100, is perhaps more than sufficient to counter- balance the lack of all other kinds of houses. Oh, yes, and this beautiful summer resort has a well; and such a lovely well it is. No need for ice so long as that well is there. Nor will the amber fluid known as lager be missed while the well remains wet. The man says his well is the finest in the land. Well, well, well, as the well remembered Crook used to sing on the Twenticth street ball .ground. But it might be pertinent to ask in this case, the old question, somewhat adapted, as fo how many wells it takes to make up for the loss of $100, to say nothing of every other missing element And ‘what will the get for her $100 with hersclf thrown in to clinch the bar- gain? Mr. Man offers her a home in his gorgeons sod-hut with its one room and its lime plastering on the inside. He promises her that the place is fit for tho residence of a president. Surely he must mean the presi- dent of a rat colony. And this girl will have the additional advantages of being privil- eged to take care of the pigs. “Maybe there'll be a few hogs,” says this man, “but what's a few hogs to a healthy young girl."” And indeed so long as the girl consents to go with the man himself, a few hogs more will make little or no difference. Is not this a most tempting picture to draw for the girl in New York who has $100. And con- sider the exhilarating manner in which the trip to Box Butte county is to be made. The girl will pay her own way out, but the railway part of it is to only extend a little way west- ward. Then the man will buy a wagon and team and drive home to the tune of the— the, well, say “The Return of Spring,” for nothing more springy has been heard of re- cently than this man with the wonderful well. PRETTY PICTURE OF THE FUTURE. The prospective view of life on the farm is too much for the maidens of the cast to contemplate unresistingly. The man will “break more land and make money.” There is, however, a lack of detail in this picture fiich fatilly mers its beauty and truthfulness, For instance, there ought to be, in the fore- ground, a lifelike photograph’ of a man working twelve years to break seven acres. The crop he has raised, namely, tobacco, watermelons, potatoes, cabbage and gall, should be piled up in one corner as evi: dence of the money making capacity as de- veloped in twelve years. Then a sort of panoramic view of years that are to come, in which appears the tale of an uphill strug- gle with drouth, bad crops, low prices and comparative poverty, should be given. For thus has the lifo of hundreds of farmers who attempted to work a raw farm in a new and unsettled country, with no capital to help them through the first ycars of trail, been developed In the past, and thus will the development, under like conditions, con- tinuo in the future. The chances for mak- ing money out of a new farm in a sparsely settled region where irrigation is not in op- eration are altogether too “slim to warrant the airy predicticn of the man who says he will “break more land and make more money." One of the things which has hurt Nebraska and held the state back has been the im- pression created in the minds of eastern people by the desertion of farms in such counties as Holt, Custer and a dozen others. Land that was utterly unfitted for farming was seized upon by men who were as ut- terly unfitted for prosecuting the business of farming, and the result b been a strug- gle for bread aud butter long enough to en- able the counterfeit farmer to get a loan on his so-called farm. With the money in his pocket the borrower has stald as much longer on the plice as suited h con. venience, and finally “skipped out.” There are today hundreds of these deserted farms, with . their broken down sod huts and their fow acres of cnce broken land, which are all the investor has for the money which he loaned on what was represented to him in such glowing terms as this man from Ne. braska describes his place as a Nebraska farm. The taint of this kind of work at- tached to the whole state, and it was only by the hard work of men with the highest reputation that the eastern part of Ne braska was saved from this bid reputation, and stands today as favorable in the eyes of easterners as any locality in older states. It is, then, for the benefit of the whole state that these deceptive attempts to popu late unproductive lands should be discounte- nanced. There are enough good s but not enough goed farmers In Nebraska, and there are too many poor famers there. But make & combination of a poor farm and a poor farmer and you have the elements of pauperism A farmer has no business to try and turn grazing land into a farm, but still less business has a man who is not a farmer to try and turn land that is not even good for grazing into a farm and then palm it off as a Nebraska farm. Fill up the good lands, but keep people off the poor ones should be the motto. J. H. W. Marriage Liconses. The following licenses to wed were granted v the county judge yesterday: e and address. A iward Ralhorn, South Omaha Luella A. Mott, South Omahi Byron J. Kuhn, Omaha A 24 Fannie M. Wedge, Omaiia 19 Water Scar E Mk High, The dry weather has had a telling effect on tho price of milk. During the early spring and thelr customers With the lacgeal fluid at the rate of twenty quarts for § n apace the price was were given A unanimous voto th association has agreed to foree the price o As the dry Milk Dealers’ dealers argue their cows has o the scarcity of feed for 1sed the advan making the mone did when they sold the milk at the lowest VS FOR THE Dotalls for Duty and Chunges of Station three months on surgeon's certificate of dis- s granted Captain Douglas M. Scoit, of subsistence. Tlhomas Woodruff, Fifth encampment battalion, Florida state 1., commencing of him during the encampni following changes cers of the medical department are ordered Major Curtis upon expira letter to comni ment of Missourd, ing general to commanding Department as attending surgeon, and of recruiting service, to superintenden as examiner of recruit- n Shannon, upon being relieved by Cap- Colonel Cha office of surgeon city, at such time as the board for examination for promotic bo required by department sistant surgeo with commissic Captain Edgar A. Mearns will be relieved from duty appointed for location and marking of bou Mexico and the United commanding for duty at that post, Phillips, assistant dary between to relieve Captain John L. surgeon, and by letter to commanding gen- Department of the East. Captain Ph ing thus relicved will report to commanding officer, Fort. MeKinn, Department on being thus son_to commanding by letter to commandir of the Platte. Captain Bushneil relieved, will report in pe istant surgeon superintendent of recrulting serylce. thus relieved, ceed to and take station at Philadelphia, for duty as attending surge of recruits in commanding general of the Bast. Department infantry, will proc encampment 20 to August 29, 1894, inclusive. will report by letter to governor of Missis- sippi for such duty as may be required of encampment, of will return to his proper station. nt Lucius L. from duty at Greeley sport, Pa., to take effect Sep- proceed to after close First Lieute college, Mck Join_his comapny. With the approval of the sccretary of war the extension of leave of absence, on account tillery, Is still further ex- twenty-three army retiring board 1s appointed to 11 of the president thercof at Denver, Colo., for the examination of such officers as may be for the board: meet at the ¢ ordered before it. Brigadier G neral Alexander or David L. surgeon; Major Edwin B. Atwood, quarter- ter; Captain Huntington, sary of subsistence; First I Jchn B. McMahon, Second artillery, aide-de- p, recorder. ie following named officers will report in person to Brigadier Gerenal Alexa r, at such time as he may desig- examination ames T. Anderson, Twenty-fifth ond Licutenant Henry A. Pipes, nclusion of his Licutenant Pipes will return to his proper station. venth infantry. is appointed to Leavenworth, o'clock a. m. on August 14, 1894, or as soon practicable for United States Detail for the court: Twenty-fourth infantr; Brown, Twelfth infantr; Captain Samuel M. Swigert, Second cavalr; John M. Banister, assistant surgeor Charles Richards, assistant surgeon; Pope, assistant d A. Goodwin, aptain Edw cavalry; Captain Abiel L. of subsistence; Smith, commis Eleventh infantry; Captain Enoch H. Crow- acting judge d with the busi- urt is empowered to proce ness before it with any number of members ent not less than the minimum prescribed Upon final adjournment of court the ibers thereof Fort Leavenworth will return to their proper Frederick M. will be relieved . by commanding of- t on receipt by him of this fourth infantry, at Fort Huachu ficer of that po order and will and report to commanding of- ficer for assignment to duty at that post. TERN PENSIONS. Veterans of tho Late War Kem WASHINGTON, Au .)—Pensions granted, of July 31, iginal widows, etc Wapello; Emma Original widow Michael Walsh Bow, Custer Sheridan, Sherid Speaks for LOVEVILLE, Mary's Co., Chamberlain’s Remedy for the past year. faction to my customers, last week for four bottles of the sixteen miles from my place, a letler from him, stating 1 received an ¢ Today I receive bers of his family. who has suffered two years was permanently cured by this remedy. work as any man of his remarkable cures, but the Remedy will show for Itstelt 25 and b0-cent bottles for An old gentlemun here with diarrhoea, can now do as mue salo by druggists, Frank Murray colored, at the ball grounds yesterday after was arrested and locked up. His ball was fixed at $50. Grand concert, hoth afternoon and evening, today at Courtland beach, [VICTIM OF A PRIZE FICHT Peritonitis is Rapidly Takiug Off the Van« quished Nobraska Gladiator, SAID TO BE NEARING DEATH'S DOOR or Flo bbing, Who Lindsey at Platts Warrants for the Arcest of Soveral Unrtlos. Fletcher Robbins, the man who fo the prize ring at Plattsmouth last Thurse day night, is dying He is at a hotel in Plattsmouth suffering from inflammation of used from the poundiug which the bowels, o he received. Yesterday a warrant was issued In county authorizing the Lindsey, the man who fought Robbins. warrant charges an assault with intent kill, the purpose being to hold Lindsey nutit it is known whether Robbins will live or die. If he dies other parties will be are rested on the charge of murder, A search has been made for Lindsey. was not found, it being reported that he had been given a tip of what was coming and that he had skipped The & from the results of the inj other participant, the aide promot shall be charged with slaughter and pon conviction be sentenced to terms of not less th and not more than three years in the tentia backers of the fight. The guilty and subject to th that fight s prineip This fight was attended b, parties, nearly the terms of the state law viduals can be arrested and held on )0 going from Omaha. charge of participating in a prize fight, Itobbins dies it is stated that the Cass county (s and cause authorities will swear out warr the arrest of every party whom they prove was in attendance. The be charged as parti to Plattsmouth for trial. PLATTSMOUTH, Telegram to The Be bins is lying at the point of death. physicians say his case is hopeless. is expected before morning. No wa have been issued for Lindsey. IN A SUBTERK Hundreds of Polish Miners In Barning Mine, WARSAW, Aug. 11.—The great coal mines near Dombrowa, government of Gradno, have been burning since yesterday after- noon. The fire started by an explosion of gas the full force of men were under- whil ground. The main shaft was wrecked and com- paratively few miners have been rescued. The latest rcport is that several hundred men are entombed in the mines and that all hope of saving them has been abandone The mines are owned by the Franco- Italian bank ——————— HT AND PR. INNER LIG YER. Two Subjocts Under Discussion by the Con= renco of Friendy. CHAPPAQUA, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Robert 8. arly Meeting, addressed the national conference of Friends today, taking “The Inner Light” for his topie. Lydia H. Price of Philadelphla dis- cussed Mr. Haviand's paper. “Prayer” was the subject of a_paper by J. W. H. Lummer which_Serena kard of the Genessee Yearly Meeting lance at the morning zo. The afternoon session Havland of the New York Y of the Iilinois Yearly Mectin Ma discussed. The att session was lar began at 3 o'clock. hicagoan Jailod tn 3 CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 11.—C. Lathrop of Chicago was arrest instigation of the Me Mexic the 1 parties. ATl o e Confiseared His Hoor. Last night Chief Detective Haze and Li- cense Inspector Hurst raided M. Wallenz's saloons at 1315 Leavenworth street and at Fourteenth and Pierce strects and confis- cated several kegs of beer and some bottled goods. Wallenz was ‘arrested and locked up for selling liquor without a license. This is the second time in two months that the Wal en raided and the wet goods destroyed. The license board refused llenz a license, but he tries to have b lenz place to grant W run without one. . WEATHER FORECAST. Cooler In Eastorn Nebraska for Sunday, with North Winds, WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The indications Sunday ar r Nebr: eastern portion; north winds, For lowa and Mis-ouri—Falr becoming northwest. variabl Loeal Record. Orrion or Tie WeATIER BUREAU, OMATIA, Aug. 11,—Omaha record of tomperature snd rainfailcompared with corresponding- day of past four years: 1804, 1899, 1892, Maximum tomperature 955 B0 875 Mintnum temperature, 722° 592 673 Averago tomporature. #62 703 712 Precipitation ... 00~ .00 00 Statemeut showing the condition of tems peratureand pracipitation at Omuha for the day and since March 1, 1804: Normal temperature. ... Excess for the diuy coss sineo March 1 snitation y 108 tho duv ... Deficioncy since Maren 1 CEOKGE E. HUNT, Loeal Fore 27 I BATHING This w 98 White = Duch 0 .Kficoru—:m CLOAKS SUITS. FURS.. s COR. I6TH AND FARNAM STS.OMAHA. Paxton Block. ught with Jimmy outh, 18 Dylog— arrest of Jimmy o law defines prize fighting and pro= vides that in case one of the vietims dies flicted t referces and all This includes the promoters and are mad> equally sume penalty s the principal. The same law also provides rtors and all others who attend the I be deemed guilty, and upon con= viction shall be punished the same as the several hundred 11 of these Indi- o parties will pants and will be taken Neb., Aug. 11.—(Speclal )—At 1:30 Fletcher Rob= EAN FURNACE, prisoned In & 1 yesterday and is now lodged in Belem prison at the an District Mes- senger company. The arrest is the out- growth of a war between the American and n stockholders, who are fighting over nagement of the company. Manager Commagera has been shut out of the offica Treasurer Webb has resigned, and the gen- eral state of affairs is an interesting one. The American stock is held by Chicago < and Kansas—Cooler in the coolor south outh Dakota—Iair; winds becoming "1 Inch A1 inch st Offelil SUITS Nuvy Flunnel trhmmed with white brald, Suits Usod to be 86, Only o fow— you'll have to lurry o gos