Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1901, Page 3

( B I, DOUGLAS COUNTY'S REWARD STATE RULING ON TEACHERS' CONTRACTS nge Appoints More G Wardens=Lincoln Savinke Bank AffnirssCourt Declsion on & " ded Contract. (From a Btaft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, July 18.—(Special.)—A reduc- ton i the mill levy will t Douglas county for fte $460,000 increase in total essessed valuation. For several years the county has been taxed by the state at a rate of Ti mills—the full limit allowed by law—-and all the while its val- uation has kept gradually increasing Treasurer Stuefer will propose the reduce tou before the State Board of Equaliza- tion and it Is practically nssured that the rate will be cut one-eighth of one-quarter of a mill, which would still leave it higher than the rate of taxation for two-thirds of the countles in the state The Board of Equalization met today, but owing to the absence of the Wheeler county Teport no business was transacted mill levy for the gemeral and university funds—5 and 1 mills respectively—has been wade on all but the county whose report 1s missing and the following shows revenue which will be dorived neral Fund. Fund. Adams Antelope Banner Loons Box Butte Hoyd Hrown Buffalo Hurt Hitler Codar Chase Chegr Cheyenne Coltax Cuming Cunter 16.763.52 © 111,908.96 Eranklin Frontier Furnas Gage Gartleld Josper Grunt « oy Hall > . 2 Hamilton "..100000 o 1,860.9 Harlan L4l Hay Hitcheock Holt 2,327 6 Hooker 14,5 Howard Johnson Kearney Keith Kr Lancaster Lincoln Logan up Madlisor 1clherson e cmaha Nuckolls o Fawne Polk P 1Rl Wilow | Richardson Rock i ¥ Saunders Scotts Rluff . oeward .. Sherldan .. Sherman Sloux Stanton rhayer Thomas Thurston Valley f 1shington 18 Fi i t Sl g RO B.619.31 11,495.10 Contracts with Tenchers, In response to an inquiry Superintendent Fowler today made the following official rullng relative to contracts with teachers STATE OF NEBRASKA. DEPARTMENT PUBLICT INSTRUCTION, LINCOLN, 17, C. Boyd, 8t Deroin, Neb.—Dea( Yours of the '15th Inst. at hand and You state that your board’con- a teacher {n April for the this contract was given be. VINg It then: that you agreed to pay her per month: that You, fter the come tract was made, had several applfcatior s {rom good teachers, but turn:d them away, belleving you had ‘a good teacher: that few days ago you received a letter fr m the teacher with” whom you had contractel saving that she would not teach sour school; that afterward she contracted w!th another district to teach thelr xchool: that the good teachers whom you could have ured are employed elsewhere. You nsk not the contract just as binding «n s teacher as It Is_on the distriet?" I answer “Yea." Your board has a right of nctlon on the origina! contract and may malntain 1. A suit to obtaln damakes for the oss sustuined by the breach. 2. sult to obtain specific p>rf.rmancs of ‘the contract by the other party. Or, if the court were to find It diMcult to assess the damages or should fall to enforce a specific performance becaus: ft cannot supervise or insure its execut! n the court could, by injunction, enforc: the Promise not to ‘teach elsewhere. “Thus where a professional singer was by the proprictor of a theater for speclfic performance of a contract to sing At his theater upon tain ms and dur- ing a certaln period to sing nowhere else, th& court refused to enforce so much of | contract as related to the promise to s but enforced the promise not to sing elsa: where by granting _an injunction.” 8 Clark on contracts, 702, While the court might refuse to enforce specific performance on the part of the teacher who signed the contract to' tench your achool. 1 have no doubt the court would, at enforce the promise no: £a teach elsew durlng the time covered by sald contra Yours, very truly WILLIAM K. FOWLER State Superintendent Superintendent Fowler has recognized the goooooooooooodJooovl ©000C000C0000000 Quality Talks__ o [ 8 Honest quality Is emphatically ex. © Pressed in the sparkliag state of purity. 0 and delightful taste of these beers. The O © choicest hops and bariey malt are used © o In every brew. o — ° O BLATZ MALT-VIVINE o ° (Non-Intoxieant) o © Tonic for Weak Nerves and Weak Bodies (-3 Druggists or Direct. [ < [3 & Val-Blatz Brawing Co,, Milwaukse © ¢ OMANA WRANCH, ° 1444 Dongins St Tel. 1081.0 3000000000000001‘!0000 The | the | University | cher insisted on the bonrd's | . by gramging an injunction. | ©0000000000000000 bo the reward | | disappeared | #ome of his relatives | ot his whe D3| bis name and without knowledge | singular | November 12, 1+ W | which was er , L3 | house. H02 1 a mortguge of {and | parties came to an agreement 51 he | h | UM wecured a written 3 | defendant that there wa: a:nu balance, which was in unother part of | ment in fa | proper THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY T Fremont Normal school as au accredited in- | stitution and he annouucee that he will issue certificates to its graduates under the provisions of the uormal school law whjch was passed by the last legislature. | Deputy Game Wardens, 1 Governor Savage today appointou the fol- lowing ae deputy game wardeus to serve without compensation: Daniel D. Bray of Syracuse, for Otos county; Charles F. Wolte of Cleacwater, for Antelops county Spring Lake Ice Company. Articles of incorporation of the Spring Lake lco company of Humboldt were re- corded today in the secretary of state's office. The company Is capitalized for $10,- 000 and Incorporated by James B. Davis, H. Quackenbush, Fred R. Linn, J. F. Walsh, Chester Power, M. W. Truxaw and E. L Crane. Hefanen Minsnouri Requisition. Governor Savage this afternoon refused to honor a requisition from Missouri for Guy Goldsberry, who is wanted in that state to answer (o the charge of horse stealing. The defendant appearsd before the governor and proved that he was not in Missour! when the crime was committed Lincoln Savings Bank. What was begun as a tormal hearing, but later developed into something closely ap- proximating a mass meeting of creditors and stockholders of the Lincoln Savings bank is In progress before Judges Cor nish and Frost. This is a continuation of the hearing begun Monday, when the offer of a considerable number of the stock bolders to compromise their liability for $30,000 was submitted, together with th recommendation of the receiver that it be accepted. At that time wore made to a hearing and because proper and suflicient notice had not tesn glven to stockholders. The court ordered an adjournment until this morning Sparrow Flies (o Hilinols. Archibald Sparrow, the young man who | 80 suddenly last Saturday | night from his boarding house at Tenth and Q streets, has been located at the home of in Perry, Il Word eived this morn Ing by the Deciston on Blindfold Contract. An opinlon of unusual interest has been delivered by the supreme court in the case which was instituted by John T. Jo superintendent of publie against Willard E. Stewart this o The action resulted from a contract b tween the two gentlemen which was sigoed by Jones when blindfolded and unaware of Its contents. This contract was a check on the First National bank for approxi- mately $2,600, which was on deposit in , ex insiructi ot The opinion was written by Judge Day and in substance is ns follows Uhe facts in this case present n very dransaction. On_and prior 1) . Wihard k, wart was W T oand 8 of Coliege H 11 the of Lincoin, up dwe in the owner of an addition to The ‘p amount of accumulated Interest On said day the plaintiff, under of John T Jones, treasurer, had ¢ hix credit in the ' First’ Nu (o Lincoln $2600.35, and, incompr.- em, this fact attentio: Th d fendent this fact, mod proposition to the plaintift 1o deed him t Droperty above mentioned subject o the Incumbrance, for an assigamen f h plaintiff’'s Interest in to certain prop erty, the n tion of which the defendant de ) disciose. One of (he conditions of the propos d traode was thi plaintff should sizn his name to the pap without seeing, reading or knowng t e contents of the Instrument he siened. After | some modificotion of the projoston tie in pursuance | of which the defendunt, on November 1%, executed and delfvered o war.ant) deed conveying the premises abo m:n- tloned to a person named by the planift for plaintift's use, and also pafd to toe| plaimtift 3100 in In constderation of | this conveyance and the cash payme: t, the | plaintiff, fn pursuance of the asr ement signed two vithout reading ‘h m| or secing the ontents or knd hat they contained, except that they we-e fo | opérate as an assignment of certan n- | terests which he had, the nature of which | was {gnorant At the time of the ne bank of hensible ntirely otiatton the piatn- | atement from the | nothing containe in the papers which plaintiff signed whic would subject him to eriminal labllity « bring ll‘vnn him public fgnominy or i« | grace. Protected by this simple assurance, he blindly entered into the contrae signed the Instrument placed bef, One of the papers so slened was in favor of the defendant on the First N tional bank for $2,600.95 by means of w the defendant drew «ald sum from the and applied It to his own usc. Plaintife kept the real estate for wbout two vear., at which time he sold it, reallzing from the sale just sufficlent to pay the mort.a o Ien upon It In 1804 plaintiff dlec rd the nature and extent of the property he had assigned to the defendant and the full purport of the contract he had made dawned upon him This action was brought in the district court of Lancaster county to recover i f the defendant §2.600.85 and interest. and s | in the nature of an action for dec ft. As basta for his claim, the plaintiff {n ‘wib- stance nllegos that he was Induced to s the check without reading it or e its written and printed contents, bv the untruthful and fraudulent representaifons made to him by the defendant: that de- fendant told him he wished to procure from DIAINGM a power of atiorney ard an os- klgnment: that it would not put the platn- tft n & warse condition or position, lose him any money or deprive him of inv interest, hut would be of great vaus 1o the defendant. That plaintiff by overs'ght and error forgot the fact pf his denorit i1 the bank and relying on the reprezentations made by the defendant and believing them to be true, signed his name twice, but that | in doing so unknowingly signed the ch:ck | on which the defendant drew sald money from the bank. The answer denfed any false or fraudulent representations wiate ever to induce him t5 sign the papers and | alleged that the plaintiff signed the check | and papers voluntarily and knowingly and | in accordance with the agreement entered | into between the plaintiff nd defendant The trinl resulted tn a_verdict and judg- or of the ndant. to review which the case is brought to this court on error. The rule Is well established thnt persons are dealing with ch other equal terms and no confidential relation exists between them, nefther 1s bound to | Asclose superior Information he may havi respecting the transaction, and In the al sence of fraud or deception to induce the contract the court can afford no rellef. The law presumes every man capable of taking care of his own' intereste and his | poor fudgment or unfortunate trades ean | not form a basis of Interference by the court To recover. it wns necessary for pla‘ntl¥ to prove that the representations wers made: that they were false; that plaintift belleved the reprecentations to he tro. and relied unon them, A that he was injured therebv. ‘The question of faet % | to whether defendant 1 made any fa'se or fraudulent representations plaintiff relied in enter! actlon and signing the attorney was suhmitt to the jury under Instructions. pon evid which was slightly conflieting, and the fAnd'ng of | the jury is conclusive upon this court. BLOODHOUNDS TRACE MONEY Beatrice Fa Stolen from He Worked Afield. where upon upon” which | ® Into thie trans. | check and power of BEATRICE, Neb, July 18.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Cyrus Bell, a farmer three miles from this city, was robbed yesterday while working In the field. Bell is a bachelor and had over $100 secreted in a trunk at the Louse. The thief stole $37, but did not find he trunk. Bell drove to Heatrice about midnight, secured the Fulton bloodhounds and they traced the thlef to this city. whero he was located at 4 a. m. today. The person who took the cash had paid a bill with the money. Bell had a description of the money taken and was able (o tell the date upon a 320 gold plece which the thiaf used in paying a bill. A settlement has been effected and no arrest will be made. WAKEFIELD, Neb, July 18.—(Special) —~Wakefleld has raised 36,000 to bulld an auditorium on Main street to seat 1 people. It will be bullt early in the fall | and | derblades was shattered and her skull was | | etde | represeat | for county | posed of 176 members, based on the vote | terday promoted DRIVES T0 HER DEATH Mrs. Johnsen, Pestmistress of Rokeby, | Killed by Traia. COLOR GIVEN TO SUICIDE THEORY Warned by Walke n Whistle and Cries, er Horse Deliberately Frout of motive, She Loco- (From a Steft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, July 18.—(Special Telegram.) | ~Mrs. Annle M. Johnson, postmistress at Rokeby for several years past, was killed by a Rock Island freight train two miles south of Lincoln this morning. She was driving to the city when struck by the engine and died while buing taken to the hospital The accldent occurred at an open cross- ing, where tralns are visible tor several hundred feet in both directions. She was | driving at a walk and, according to the engineer, she pald no attention to loud whistling, which was begun when the train | was 300 feet away. A man who was mow- Ing wecds along the track called to her ot to attempt to cross ahead of the swiftly advancing train, but she Kept on her way without replying to the warning. The | carrlage was demolished, the horse was | Instantly killed and Mrs. Johnson, crushed | dying, was thrown to one side. Adl of her ribs were broken, one of her shoul- tractured Mrs. Johnson was a widow fng as postmistress she owned and operated | a grain elevator and a general store at | Rukeby. She tendered her resignation as postmistress several wecks ago, but had not been relleved by the department Reports from Rokeby say that the sul- theory has suggested by rest- dents of that place. The idea is based on the two facts that the woman was the sub- ject of some persccution by enemies and that she warned in due time to escape | the train | In a statement for the press today W. J. | Bryan gives his version of the story that | Aguinaldo promisc im financial assist- ance in his campalgn of a year ago. Mr. Bryan says while he was In New York two Filipinos sent a request to confer with him. He declined to meet them and sent a friend to explain that he did not think it proper to hold a conference, The Filipinos,”” he adds, *sald that | Aguinaldo was wiling to fssue a proclama- | tlon promising to lay down arms in case of Mr. Bryun's clection and also willing to contribute to the democratic campaign fund, but Mr. Bryan refused to conglder efther proposition and did not require them | to furnish any evidence of their right to | Aguinaldo.” | Besides act- | | | heen {COW DRAGS BOY TO DEATH| of Wahoo ng Rope His B Charles Mill Ties Foolishly Lend Around - July 18.—(Speclal.)— Charles Miller, 10-year-old son of Mr. and | Mrs Miller, was killed this morning whils leading a cow to the pasture. He | tled the rope around his body and the cow ran, dragging him four blocks, break- | ing his neck and greatly mutilating his head and face County Conve| WAHOO, Neb,, on nt Pawnee. TABLE ROCK, Neb., July 18.—(Special.) +~C. 1. Morris of Table Rock, candidate treasurer on the republican ticket at the coming election and repub- | lican committeeman of this precinct, at- tended the meeting,of the county central | committee at Pawnee City yesterday and reports that the Pawnee county republican convention was called yesterday to be held in Pawnee City, August 24. It will be com- of Nesbitt for presidential elector. York Whent Destroyed. YORK, Neb., July 18.—(Special.)—Sev- enty shocks of winter wheat, owned by Hoa. Andrew Sandall, were burned this | week, catching fire from B. & M. locomo- tives passing through his place. Forty acres of winter wheat was burned up by B. & M. locomotives on the place of Ora Pruett. Wheat stubble is very high and dry and easily catches fire. The farmers are plowing fire guards and the section | men along the rallroads are trying to pre- vent fires, ¥ Killed by Horse's Kick. STROMSBURG, Neb., July 18.—(Special.) —David Noselund, 15 years old, son of Olat Noseland, was kicked by a horse Wednesday night and died in one hour. He went to see about a noise in the barn and the horse kicked him. He started for the house, met his father, sald he was kicked aud would die, became unconscious and spoke no more. The funeral to- day from the Swede Plain church. Boy's Head ¢ STROMSBURG, Neb., July 18.—(Special.) —A 13-year-old son of John Nyberg was seriously injured about his head yesterday | by being caught between an cugine and separator. Dr. Anderson had to take twenty-nine stitches. It 1s thought he will recover. The Nyberg home is seven miles west of Stromsburg. Beatrice Man's Promotion. BEATRICE, Neb., July 18.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Homer Metzger, who for a sumber of years has been employed at the Demp- ster Mill Manufacturing company, was yes- to. be assistant manager of the company's office at Kansas City and left for that city today - Hurt by Truck of Iron. BEATRICE, Neb, July 18.—(Spectal Telegram.)—While at work in the black- ithing department of the empster mill here this evening Henry Spahn brulsed a leg by the capsizing of a truckload of iron. He will be laid up for two weeks. Arrested for Selling YORK, Neb., July 18.-~(Special.)—Charlie Green, a ploneer settler of this city, is in the county jail, charged with selling in- toxicating liguors. Mr. Green at one time was one of the wealthicst citizens of York and for several years bought grain auor, Recelve In the Courtroom, GENEVA, Neb., July 18.—(Special.)—The committee of the Modorn Woodmen of America has secured the courtroom and sherif’s office to,be used as a reception room for the visiting Royal Neighbors Au- gust § Wakefield Im WAKEFIELD, Neb., July 18.—(Special.) —Colling & Hypse have complated excava- tlon for the basement of a fifty by ninety- foot bullding for a furniture store to cost upwards of £ 000 ement, Wheat Fired by Tratu. STRANG, Neb., July 15.—(Special.) Sparks from a Burlington engine set fire to some wheat west of town Tuesday. Fifty shocks were burned Dies of Fall trom Wagon. { ST. PAUL, Neb, July 18.—(Speclal.)— Willlam Rundfeldt left Grand Tsland yes- | severely injured on the head JULY 19, 1901, thie county all probability He fell out overcome of the wagon, in by beat, and was He was found near the road six miles north of St. Paul and died soon afterward. Sheriff Haneen in the absence of the coroner, held an in- quest. The jury returned a verdict of death by accident TREE GROWERS' RESOLUTIONS Want Congreas to Ald Irrigation and Tree Planting in Arid Re- wlons of Nebrask: KEARNEY, Neb., July 18.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The State Horticultural soclety met last night at 8 o'clock. The first paper was by H. A “The Selection and Varieties of Fruit Adapted to Growers of Nebraska.” He said varfeties differed in localities and each section had Its own variety, owing to sofl, climate and raiofall. A paper of special interest and value was read by Prot. C. E. Bessey of the State university, “Twenty- five Native Forest Trees of Nebraska.' Ex vernor Furnas spoke on Nebraska as a fruit growing state, stating that here- tofore Nebraska took first prize at every exhibition, but of late its fruit growers had become careless and the tree and frult insects had possession of the best orchards. J. Sterling Morton sent a letter of re- gret, saying it was Impossible to attend, but he wrote a strong letter, urging the planting of trees, especially the pine which started a discussion that ended In favor of the pine tree “Alfalfa as an Ald to Fruit Growing" was read by H. D. Watson of Kearney who told what he had accomplished by using alfalfa as a fertilizer Wednesday morning the first by Prof. Lawrence Bruner, of the State university. His extensive and diversified knowledge of insect life makes him an interesting and pleasant talker For an hour he kept his audience ested and each questlon w satisfactorily answer He talked of in sects and parasites and told not only how to protect trees, but also how to save fruit Willlam L. Hall of Washington, assistant superintendent of tree planting, United States Department of Agriculture, read a paper. He sald the forestry department 1s making investigations covering twelve states, its work In Nebraska will cover 10,000,000 acres of gavernment land sisting largely of sandh and lands not now subject to cultivation, and it hopes when done to convince the government that it will be public policy build reservoirs, thus reclaifiing a large scope of country. Mr. Hall insisted that the people of Nnbraska must take earnest to obtain further government help. A stirring appeal for forestry reserves throughout the west and a national ap- propriation was made by €. S. Harrison. Ex-Governor Furnas sald the paper of Mr. Hail was pointed and full of truths worthy of a deep consideration and he moved that the paper as read by Mr, Hall be endorsed by the association and referred to the leglislative committee for action. These resolutions were adopted There exists arldity to an talk was in_cortain parts extent demand- upply of water than the rainfall to ‘make the lands within indicated useful for agricultural natural the area purposes; and, Whereds, To this end agents of the gen government are now n the field on investigation and express themseives sati fied that subt an and other modes water supplies can be made avallable to meet agricultural demands: therefore. be t Resolved, That we hold {t to be the duty of the general government to demonstrate to the people who have purchased and pai | for public lands that a sufeclenc supply can be provided by arte: and reservoirs to meet _ends indiea Resol That the Nebraska de egation In congress is hereby urged to lend fts votes and work in favor of an appropria- tion to secure ends that will warrant land owners in endeavoring to suppl tesolved, That the secretary of the soclety forward to each member of our congressional delegation and the secretary of agriculture a copy of these preambles and resolutions. ROBERT W. FURNAS. C. 8 "HARRISON Whereas, The United S burean ot forestry I8 now making a thorough survev of the forest conditions fn Nebraxka, wi'h a view to the determination of the question of_future planting Resolved That we look with favor upon the effort on the part of the forestry bureau and heartily urge that experim-nts be undertaken upon a large seale fo d- nwe ls termine the possibility of the forestation of | the sandhills and suggest the government hold proper reserve therefor. Resolution by J. L. Coppoc of Columbus Whereas, By the ruthless destruction of the birds of our :tate by those who hav no interest in the welfare of the common- wealth other than their own financial gain, the interest of horticulturists have heen and are greatly Injured and are being fur- ther endangered, therefore Resolved, That it Is the sense of th's soclety that the game law should be rigl 'y enforced and that we pledge our henriv support to our governor and his appo'n‘ees in the performance of their duties growing out of thelr ofce After the adoption of the resolutions a short talk was made by R. A. Emerson of Lincoln and the soclety adjourned at 6:30. Those who remained in the city were driven to Watson's ranch by the citizens, where altalfa and tree culture were disoussed and much buttermilk disposed of fresh from the refrigerator. Hart In a Ranaway. STRANG, Neb.,, July 18.—(Special.)—A mule team of [David Park, a farmer three miles mortheast of Strang, ran away yes- terday. Mr. Park had a leg broken. Chance for Rublin and Jeffries. BUTTE, Mont, July 15—-Billy Madlen manager of Gus Ruhiin, the heavyweight pugilist, now in Butte, announces that he has been offered a purse of $20,000 for a meeting between Ruhlin and Jeffries by the Olympie club of Butte. It {s proposed to have the fight take place at the bleyce saucer track. Prize fights are permiited in 1 the track, is an ideal spot, both ns regards seating ca ¢ and fa- cllities for taking moving p Longedort of Bellevue, | entomologist | inter- | as promptly and | con- | dlant trees and | hold in | of water | secure water | BEGUILES NEBRASKA FARMER Widew on Bionx City Train Captivates J. Q Adame. HE GIVES HER THE BASSETT HOMESTEAD Also Presenta Twenty-Seven Clty Lots Ving the Deeds, She Forsakes Him on Thelr Bridal Day. SIOUX CITY, Ia., July 13.—~(Special Tele- gram.)—John Quincy Adams, a wealthy farmer of Bassett, Neb., met a captivating widow while coming to Sioux City on the train Saturday and is mourning the loss of a Nebraska farm and twenty-seven Sioux City lots that he transferred to her on her agreement to marry him. Adams is 80 years old; the widow was She sat down in the train near the old farmer and he was smitten. When they arrived in joux City they stopped at the same hotel and in a little while the old man #u; sted that they be married The widow, who bad given her name as Mrs. Cora Smith, was agreeable, but first, at her sugkestion, the old man made deeds transferring all of his property to the woman. They Adams was were to be married this morning. at the ting place agreed upon, but his intended failed to appear. Thercupon his suspicions were aroused and he employed a lawyer to protect his interests and bring suit to set aside his deeds. It s belleved the woman disap- peared with a man who met her at the hotel Sunday. No trace of her bhas been | tound. FREMONT GETS BEST OF YORK Whole T Vietory me FREMONT, Neb,, ram.)—Fremont in the firemen’s race | everyone Is out July 18.—(Special the best of York today and tonight brating the victory Long betore the races began both grand- stands and the along the fence for | fifty yards on cach side were filled. It was a Fremont crowd and whenever the Fre- | mont teams appeared on the track they broke loose. In the state championship hose race York and Seward ran first and the red cart came {in two seconds ahead. Fremont had reck- oned on winning this race and the time chalked up on the board, thirty-four se | onds, made everyone uneasy. Fremont and Grand Island ran next. The Fremonters took the lead at the start and kept pulling ahead every foot of the way. |of the figures on the board, thirty-three | and four-fifths seconds, a new state record, | set the crowd wild. Everyone shouted and velled and cheered until the notse drowned the whistle of an Elkhorn engine at the foot of F street. eavney had the hook and ladder race all its own way, but Fre- | mont didn't let the men from the cotton clty rest any on the track The last race, the event of the day, was a chapter of misfortunes. 1In the first place it was gettlng late and the runners | & little nervous. Fremont and Grand Is- land ran first. They got off well and came | down the track with Fremont just a trifle | ahicad, but they missed the coupling. Grand | Island’s hose snappéd at the coupling and |80 neither got any time awarded. Fre- mont stock dropped to zero and York went up, but only for a few minutes. Hyder's boys got left at the post and clalmed that Kearney got a premature start. They then ran alone and the best they could do thirty-five and two-fifths seconds. Seward and Grand Island ran the closing heat of the tournament. Chlef Schultz got out on the track, waving his big leather medal to inspire his men, and he did it. Grand Island was a poor second, but away ahead of York. It was a surprise all around. Summary: State champlonship hose race, | $100, $50 and $25, and champion belt: Won {by Fremont. Time: 33 4-5; York sec- ond, 34; Grand Island third, 34 Seward tourth, State champlonship ladder climbing con- Won by Mitchell of Kearney. Time: King of Kearney second, time 7; Knechtel of Fremont third State champlonship hook-and-ladder race, prizes $75 and $50, and champlonship belt: Won by Kearney. Time: 40 2-5; Fremont second, 42 4-5 Hose coupling contest, prize gold medal: | Won by Read and Stafford of York. Time: 41-5, 415, 4 4-5; Henning and Ramsay of Fremont second. Time: 6, 5, 5. Free-for-all hose race, prizes 3125, $75 and $50: Won by Seward. 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For old people and d keeps the blood in good condition, thus 5. 8. 8., aremedy that has retained the s The sight | ‘lerduy worning to visit bis son, Henry, in don’t be persuaded to accept something else— there is no substitute for 5. 8. 8. Itis the only guaranteed purely vegetable blood purifier, and the satest and best for all blood and skin troubles. Do not let them force an inferior mineral remedy on you because there is a larger profit init. If you have any blood or skin dis- ease, don't hesitate to write us about it; our your case and advise you without charge. fhynin-n- will carefully consider on Blood and Skin Diseases free. Tool THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA | W W € W w (23 Good Old Times and old people live chiefly good old times” they talk of were the fi:dy live over again the days of sleigh rides, picnics, spelling bees and corin- huskings, and sigh for the good old day: They live in the past becatse the present {s not life, but merely existence. feel weak, feeble, incapable of exercise, and are {ndifferent to ought to be the days of the present, when a leisure well earned by years of work gives opportunity for mind and freedom of action answer itself. as she may be, notes her pale and pining grandchild, and tells the mother : " That child don't eat enough or else perhia, "*what the child needs is plenty of nour- ishing food.” She understands perfectly that slreuflh and health depend on nour- ishment, b of the fact to herself. feebleness ably due to imperfect nutrition. the old man and ol baby in arms or the achoolboy. no other way to get strength but from food. But the important fact is that food doesn't strengthen unless it is properly digested and assimilated. ing foods ever prepared won't be of any use unless the nutrition is assimilated by the body. Youcan't reckon the harvest by the seed you put into the ground, but onl make a crop. Sometimes owing to insect pests or adverse conditions of soil only a small part of the planting grows, and the crop as a result is small, as with sowing. strengthi by the amount of food put into the stomach, but only upon that part of it which is converted into nutrition and is assimilated. Just as the conditions of the soil or the work of pes's prevents the raising of half a crop, so a diseased condition of the stomach and its allied organs of digestion and nutrition will permit only part of the nutrition to be extracted from food, and the body, so to aruk, reaps half a crop of nutrition in- ste means half strong. The farmer meets the loss of crop in poor land by cuing it enriching it b fertif the same way—strengthen it, and cure the diseases that w 333 Golden Medical Discovery, It eases of the stomach and other digestion and rnutrition, It enables the perfect digestion of food aud assimilation of the nutrition extracted from it. Thus it gives strength to old and young alike, because all must come from the nutrition contained in food, and from that alone, * Three yvears ago miy husband was taken sick,” writes Mrs, C. S. Towle, of San Ardo, Monterey Co., Calif, "He had three carbuncles. Two on back of the neck and one was in region of kid« neys, which was six inches in diameter, We had the best doctor we could get. He attended him two months, and IW said he could do no more for him; fhat he had so Uittle vitality there was noth- ing o dbwild on ; that a change might do hin good. The children insisted on his oing away, but 1 said no, if he must die he should die here in our own home, but that if he could be raised from that bed of sickness I could do it with Doctor Pierce's medicines. We bLought one bottle of the ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ and Dr, Pierce's Pellels, My husband had not been able to sit up, even to have his bed made. When aken one bottle medicine he could sit up, and go out doors, and when seven had been taken he was in better health than for five years previously, He is now seventy years old and can do a good day's work.” Viien I wrote you for advice, T wan feeling very miserable with not smply one ailment but a general debility,” writes Mr Martha Jones, of Clare mont, Surry Co,, Va. *I urchased a bottle of Golden Medical Discov- ery,’ and also one of ‘Tavorite Prescription, and a bottle of * Pellets, 1 soon began to improve and continued taking them until I waa ‘esling so well I discontinued, That was last spring and 1 continued feeling as well as could be expected of an old lady seventy-three years of age. Lam so well I can help my daugh- ter about. the house. I have so much faith in your medicine; 1 feel that the number ‘of my days has been prolonged by taking it. I think no medicine equal to yours for old people. It makes their declining days easy and cheerful. I would say to the aged especially, take Dr. Pierce's medicines, they will Aelp and cure also.” Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is a reliable strength-giving medicine, It contains no alcohol and is entirely free from opium, cocaine and all other nar- cotica. The strength given by the " Dis- covery” is not the false strength pro- duced by stimulants but the real strength obtained only from nutrition. When the blood is impure “Golden Medical Dis- covery " will purify it; when it is im- poverished it will enrich it with the red corpuscles of health, Diseases of organs which seem remote from the stomach are often due to disease of the stomach and its allied organs. When the diseased stomach {8 cured by the “Discovery” diseases of heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc,, caused by disease of the stomach are cured also, Sometimes a dealer tempted by the little more profit paid on the sale of less meritorious medicines will offer the cus- tomer a substitute as being "just 00d " as the * Discovery.” It is better lor him because it pays better, but it 13 not as good for you, if you want the medicine that has cured others, and which you believe will cnre you. THIS BOOK IS FRER., Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, containing over 1000 large pages and 700 illuulrfl{onn. is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mail- ing only. Send 3t ome-cent stamps for the cloth-bound volume or only 2t stamps for the book in T covers, Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Es:lo. N. Y, How to Have Them. Itis a misfortune that a great many in the past. The streng yowng times they enjoyed in youth, They leasure. The real good old days for old people fiberty of WHY ARE OLD PEOPLE WEAR? It is singular that question does not The grandmother, feeble ut she makes 1o application And yet her like that of the child, is prob- HOW STRENTH 1S MADE. Food makes strength just as much for womap as for the There's All the nour- by so much of it as springs up to It's with eating You can't reckon on ad of a full crop. Half nourished rength- ers, He hts the pests and drives them out. hy not treat the “weak " stomach in lire\ven! nutrition ? That is the work done by Dr. Pierce's PAN-AMERICAN LIMITED CHICAGO CHEAP EXCURSION RATES ALL SEASON Leave Omabha,....6:00 a.m. Arrive | Des Moines I .. 10:05a.m. Davenport.2:31 p.m. Chicago....6:58 p.m._ Direct Connections with all Eastern Trains. . ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT TO BUFFALO, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. Great ‘ Rock Isiand Route CITY TICKET OFFICE: 1323 FARNAM STREET. 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