Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1902, Page 8

! o ————— e s iy 8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 _— BLUFFS. NEW NOVE IN CUPPY CASE Motion Filed in District Conrt to Dissolve Temporary Injunction, NSANITY BOARD ASSERTS JURISDICTION Claim s Ment Also Made That Coppy i of Bringing 1y Incopable the Injunction Proceeding of His Gwn Motion, A motion to dissolve the temporary in- Junction restraining the Board of Insanity Commissioners and others interested in the case of the alleged insanity of W. B. Cuppy of Avcea from taking any action in the matter has boen filed in the d'strist court and will be heard by Judge Green, or such judge as may pre on January 6 In answer to the allegaticn that the ecommissioners for the Insane have no jur- fediction cast of the west line of range 40, the itne which djvides Pottawattamle county into two divisions, it is claimed on behalf of the board that it has jurisdiction over the entire county. Further, it is claimed that while the suit in the district court in Avoca, which Is pending, is simply | an action for the purpose of obtaining a guardian for the property and person of W. B. Cuppy, the question which the | Board of Insanity Commissioners is called upon to determine s that whether the plaintiff, W. B. Cuppy, Is a fit subject for commitment to the State Insane asylum and has no reference to the civil action now existing In the district court and in | mo way finterferes with the jurisdiction or finding of the district court, and conse- quently there can be no conflict of juris- diction On the other hand, Mrs. Susan A. Cuppy, wite of W. B. Cuppy, In support of the mo- tlon asserts that her husband is of un- sound mind and therefore in the eyes of the law incapable of making suit in his | name. On behalf of the other defendants | named in the injunction proceedings It is claimed that they have done the best they | knew how for the Interests of Cuppy and | his wife and allege that Cuppy's attorneys | brought the injunction euit with the sole | purpose of making fecs, as they have | knowledge of the fact that W. B. Cuppy was not of sound mind and incapable of | bringing any such action in his own name. The sult is attracting more than ordinary Interest owing to the prominence of the Cuppy family in the east part of the eounty. | William T. Cochran filed suit for divorce fn the district court yesterday from Gretchen Cochran, whom he married July | 11, 1890. Ho bascs his suit on charges of eruel and Inhuman treatment and alleges that his wife is of ungovernable temper, and that not only on one occasion did ehe stab him with a table fork, but that on another she tried to decapitate him with an | axe. Trying to live with her, he claimed, made life too strenuous, and for this and other reasons he would prefer that the court grant him a divorce. Pottawattamie county s made defendant ! in a sult for damages brought in the dis- trict court yesterday by Edward Holden, E. Zimmerman, J. L. Milner and Henry Dohse, all residents of Lewls township. The plaintiffs, who are farmers, allege that the construction of certain bridges, known as bridges Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, over Indian creek east of Lake Manawa, is such that in times of high water the bridges act as dams and cause the water to overflow on their lands. Holden and Zimmerman each ask $1,100 damages, Milner $1,000, while Dohse would be content with §400. Fine line of box statlonery at Morgan & Dicke; 142 Broadway. Plumbing and heating. Bixby & Son. RUN DOWN BY SWITCH ENGINE Unidentified Man Instantly Killed in the Wabash Frelght Yards. A man whose identity was not disclosed was run down and instantly killed last evening shortly before 8 o'clock at Elgh- teenth avenue and Eleventh street by a switch engine on the Wabash tracks. Tho engine, which was pulling four freight cars, was proceeding west when it overtook the man, who was walking be- tween the tracks. James Mathews, then engineer, failed to notice the man until the engine was right on him. The man's head was severed from the body and the trunk was horribly mangled, not a single bone apparently being left unbroken. James McSorley, yardmaster for the Wab: in charge of the switching crew There was nothing on the body of the man, who was evidently a working man, to fdentity it. The remalns were removed by | order of Coroner Treynor to Cutler's under- | taking rooms, where an inquest will be held Monday morning. N. Y Plumbing Oo., telephona 256, Al the new books at Bushnell’ Ping pong and all kind of games at Mor- gan & Dickey's, 142 Broadway. Back to Old Home for Barial The remalns of John L. Howe, the ex- press messenger who was killed Thursday evening at the Unfon Pacific transfer depot | by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a fellow messenger, will be taken this evening to bis old home In Topsfield, M Funeral services will be held at the First Congregational church at 3 o'clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. James Thom- son, following which the body will be taken | to the train. Mombers of Excelsior Ma- sonic lodge, to which deceased belonged, will act as pallbearers, and the sir knights of Ivanhoe commandery will turnish an e cort. Coroner Treynor decided yesterday that an inquest would be unnecessary as the shooting was purely accidental. | A Free Henuin ve. i Before you buy your coal see Wm. Welch at 16 North Main street and he will ex- plain to you how you can get a fine Round Oak heating stove - without costing you a penny. ‘Phone, 128 | Chicken Thicves Make Good Haul, | Chicken thieves did a wholesale business Friday night at the residence of Fred Gelse on East Washington avenue. They not only depopulated the henroost, but uceeeded in carrying away about three | dozen ducks and twenty-five ftull grown geese. Trucks In the snow indicated that| they carried away their plunder in a wagon | and it is suppesed they drove over to| Omaha and disposed of the fowls in the | market there. | A. H. Reld, 126 Main St. | Gravel roofing. Photos Enlarged for dSec. Bring this ad to 304 Broadway, before | January 1, and I will make an enlarged por- | tralt from good small plcture for 98c. Faded or scratched phoios cost more. Oak trames, $1.50 up. Carveth, Artist. With the Chure At St. Paul's Episcopal church today there will be holy communion st § a. m. and morning prayer and ltany at 10:30 o'clock. This will be the program at the vesper enrvice at 4:20 p. m. Salome Organ Pre'ude—Offertolre........... Procesional—Hark the Volice Eternal... T bIR Oy . Hopking Glorla Patrl ‘Woodward Magnificat Tours Nune Dimittis. ... Vesper Hymn—Tarry With Me Introft—Lord, in This, Thy Merecy Bermon by the rector. Sequence Solo—The V fce of the Father Miss Ethel Cook Offertory Sentence s Recessional—Lo, He Comes......8t Shepard Thomas At the First Congregational church the pastor, Rev, James Thomson, will take as the subject of his sermon at-10:30 a. m., “Following the Star.” In the evening the cholr will render a sacred concert and | cantata in place of the regular servico. The cholr, under the direct/sn of Mr. Ned Mitchell, will render Ashford’s “Light of Life,” and will be assisted by Miss Leona Brownrigg of Omaha, soprano, and others. Preliminary to the cantata Miss Lillle Norene will render two seclections on the organ. Elder D.*R. Chambers will preach this morning at the Latter Day Saints' church and in the evening the pulpit will be occu- pied by Blder Charles E. Butterworth of Omaha. Sunday school will be at noen. Rev. 8. Alexander will preach this even- ing at 7:30 o'clock in the church at Sev- enth street and Seventeenth avenue. Second Church of Christ (Sclentist) will hold services in Modern Wodmen of Amer- fca hall, in Merriam block, at 10:45 a. m. Subject: “Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?" Sunday school immediately after the service. Wednesday evening meeting at 7:45. The First Church of Christ (Sclentist) will hold services at 11 a. m. in the Sapp building. Sunday school will immediately follow the services. The regular testimo- nial meeting will be Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. Harvey Hostetler, pastor of the Sec- ond Presbyterian church, will preach at the Edgewood church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Hand mirrors, nicest in town, at Morgan & Dickey's, 142 Broadway. Bealtitul calendars at Bushnell's, Buy your ping pong at Bushneil's. Licenses to wed have been issued to the tollowing: Name and Residence. A Charles Keast, Macedonia, Ia.. Emma May Summers, Macedonia, Ta. J. A. Carse, Carson, Ta Grace L. Snapp, Carson, 2 | 2| 5 2 All Photos Taken, At Schmidt's before December 23 will be finished before Christmas, sure. MINOR MENTION, Davis sells drugs. Stockert sells carpets and rugs. KExpert watch repairing, Leffert, 409 Bway. Skates for boys and girls are cheap at Petersen & Schoening C Burnt wood and leather goods. C. K. Alexander & Co., %3 Broadway. K. and L of §. card party, Marcus hall, December 2. Admission 10 cents. James Holman returned vesterday from Detroit, where he has been Visiting rela- ver We are headquarters for glass of all Kinds. Seg us before you buy. C. B. Paint, Ol ‘and Glass Co. Mrs. . Durgan obtained a bullding per. mit yesterday for the erection of a $1,000 frame cottage on South Eighth street near Seventeenth avenue. A motion for & new trial on behalf of the defendant was filed yesterday In the dis- trict_court In the sult of K. A. Brown agalnst Rev. §. Alexander. A warrant was issued yesterday from Justice Bryant's court for the arrest of ienry Stevenson on a charge of assaulting Gus Burke In a Broadway saloon. A handsome plece of furniture ! 1 acceptable as a GI{L—{t not only pleases the | recipient, but stande as a lasting remem. brance. 'Petersen & Schoening Co. The case against Frank Deeds, charged with obtaining $2 under alleged false pre- tenses from A. B. Payton, was dismissed in Justice Bryant's courl yesterday. Your chiidren should have a sled: it prompts them to go outdoors: nothing Is better than fresh air, It saves doctor’'s bills, Our line of sleds is complete and cheap. Petersen & Schoening Co. Eminent Commander H. W. Binder has tasued a call for all Sir Knights of Tvanhoe commandery to appear in full uniform this afternoon at 2 o'clock, to attend the funeral of Sir Knight John L. Howe. Solomon B, Ayers of Cass county has fled @ voluntary petition In_benkruptcy in the federal court here. His liabilities amount to $1,322.0, while his assets only aggregate $160, all of which he clalms as exempt. & Richard H. Gittins, aged 4 years, died yesterday morning af his home in Boomer township from consumption. His wite, two daughters and one son survive him. The funeral will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock from the Grange church and inter- ment will be in Grange cemetery. We can't folly you up and pat you on the back and make you think you are all right as well as some of our competitors, but 1 you want £00d, honest shoes, one price, and get what you pay for, Sargent can skin them all. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rall- way company has completed the purchase of & number of lots on the north elde of Twelfth avenue, between Ninth and Thir- teenth streets, which it contemplates using | for the extension of Its yards. Buy now Is our advice to those who want the cholcest, most desirable gift goods— early buyers get best cholce. Don't know what to glve—nothing will help you dectds quicker than aeeing the thousand and one | things ofterca here. Petersen & Schoening Co Rellable, the same old shoe store. in the same 0ld place Shoe stores have come and Shoe stores have gone, but Sargent, the | shoe man, still continuies. The reason— | ¥ood, honest shoes and one price. Look for the bear if that's the way you want to do business. No job lots at Sargent's. The will of the late C. E. H. Campbell, the bridge contractor, was fled vesterday in the district court. The will is & joint one on the part of Campbell and his wife, dated February 12, 1901. It makes the sur- Vivor the sole bereficliry. and, as 1t hap- pens. the Widow administratiix without ond. The furniture store isn't half big enough to ghow Oft all its pretty things. These dainty little dr ing tables wouldn't be here now if it ere. All new patterns, mostly with shaped mirrors and atandards and French legs—just the sort of Christmas present a girl would like for her room. ctersen & Schoening Co. Harmony chapter, Order of the B Siar, has elected fhese officers: W matron, Mrs. Jennle Wilkins; worthy patron,” M. Maynard; assistant matron, rs. Anna Maynard; secretary, Miss Emma Potier; treasurer, Mre. J Mrs; H. F. Andrews; Tess. Miss Branch Arkwright. Minard Shoemaker, who secured an over- coat and pair of gloves from Smith & Bradley on' Friday under false pretens admitted his guilt In police court yester: morning and was held to the grand jury In default of ball, placed at ), _he was committed to the county jail. The $15 over- coat was recovered from n second-hand dealer on Broadway. where Shoemaker had disposed of it for §250. The gloves were fourd on Shoemaker when he was arrested in Omaha Friday evening. John Reeves and Frank Boyi arrested Friday night for the theft of several shirts from a second-hand clothing store on . were each sentenced to twenty days on bread and water in police court yesterday morning. ves s a member of Company E, Twenty-second United States infantry, ‘at Fort Crook, and ad- mitted_he had been absent from the fort since Friday of last week without leave. The authorities at Fort Crook have been notified and Reeves will probably be turned over to them. Sell 01l Lands in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 3.—The Crown Oll company of this ety sold 500 of its 3,000 | cut down that tree. NOTICES NOT NECESSARY Oolorel Mosby Deolares the Law Oontains No 8ixty Days Provisien. FENCES REMOVABLE ON DEMAND Notice s Merely a Department Rewu- lation, May He Oral or Written, with No Prescribed Form, and Not Binding on a Court. (From a S ft Correspondent.) i WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—(Spectal.)— | Colonel John S. Mosby, special agent of | the Interior department has sent the fol- | lowing letter to District Attorney Summers | regarding the fencing of public lands by cattlemen: ALLIANCE, Neb., Dec. Summers, District Attorney, Omaha serve a dispatch from Omaha in coln Journal of today saying will result from Colonel Mosby's attack | becaise the colonel has not served legal | notices. The cattlemen who have recelved his orders are ignoring them. The sixty days given them to take down their fences have expired, or will expire by the end of | next week.” ' Per contra, you told me that you understood that the cattlemen who had | received such notices had complied with them. The law requires no such notice. | The notice to remove a fence fn sixty days is a mere department regulation. But such a notice |s not binding on the judicial de- partment, 1. e, a speclal agent ‘might give notice to remove a fence in sixty days and & grand jury might indict the party who has the fence the next day, and he might be tried and convicted before the sixty days expired; or the district attorney might | fle a bill in’equity based on the afdavit | of a citizen, get a decree and have the fence removed before the sixty da glven by the special agent has expired Reasonable Notice Required. The instructions of February 6, 1802, d rect speclal agents to give such notlc efther orally or in writing. No form s 8—Mr. W, 8. 1 ob- e Lin- “Nothing prescribed. It may be oral or written. All that it requires s for the pa to have reasonable notice as to the fonee he Is ex- ected to remove. 1 send to the Tmn-rnll and office coples of the notices I have given and they are considered sufficient. No such notice 1s required by the statute; they are a mere Indulgence glven to cattle- men by the Jand office, but are noi binding on the Department of Justice. Neither the president nor any executive department can control the judgments of the courts, or make any regilations inconsistent with a positive law. If he could the president would have the despotic power of the Rus- slan czar. The executive can only make regulations to carry the laws into effect. There are three methods of procedure for removirg a fence prescribed by the stat- ute: 1. Bectlon 5 authorizes the president, with- out the Intervention of a court, to employ the civil or military force of the country to do it. In Wyoming Mr. Cleveland sent a company of cavalry to cut down a fence, He did not give the party sixty days In which tc remove his fence; he ordered it to come down immediately, just as he or- dered Coxey's army to keep off the grass on the public grounds. Not Binding on Courts. The sixty days now given by the land office is simply a promise that the presi- dent will not use force if the fence comes down In sixty days. But the president has no authority to say that the courts will walt until the time he has allowed expires. 2. One gection of the act makes it the duty of the district attorney, when an affi- davit has been filed “‘showing a description of the land enclosed with reasonable cer- tainty, not necessarlly by metes and bounds, but only so that the enclosure may be identified,”” ‘etc., to Institute a suit to remove the fence. The statute is manda- tory. The defendant in such a case could not plead that he recelved no notice pre- vious to the sult to pull down his fenc or that a speclal agent had given him nc tice that he must pull it down in sixty days, and that the sixty days had not ex- pired. The law requires no such notice, 3, Section 4 makes the fencing of pubiic land a misdemeanor and prescribes a fine of $1,000 aid twelve months' imprisonment. A party Indicted could not plead In court in defense that he had not recefved notice from the Interfor department to pull down his fence. The only legal notice to which he iIs entitled Is a summons served by a marshal to answer a charge in a civil sult, or an indictment for a breach of the law. A man indicted for stealing a cow might as well plead that he had not received no- tice to bring back the cow. A sult to re- move a ferce and an Indictment for erect- g it can proceed at the same time. Nefther is a bar to the other. I infer from uestions asked me by the grand jury that they were under the impression that the law prescribes some notice to be given by & special agent before a partv can be in- dicted for the unlawful fence. Respect- tully, JOHN 8. MOSBY, Speclal Agent. BURGLARS ROB DRUG STORE Blow Open Safe in Des Moines and Secure Booty to Value of $3,000. DES MOINES, Ia., Dec. 20.—Burglars | dynamited the safe ot Carl Miller's drug| store In Valley Junction, & suburb of this | city, early this morning, securing. $80 in cash, three dlamonds worth $200 and papers representing an aggregate value of $3,000. Residents on the upper floors of the bullding in which the safe was cracked were not awakened, the sound of the explosion having been muffied by carpets and the use of putty in a manner indicating the crime was that of experts. No clue. DEAF MAN'S SUBTERFUGE. Serles of Questions and Answers that Did Not Work, The late Thomas B. Reed used to tell a story about a farmer who lived in Fal- mouth, Me. Next the highway in one of his cultivated fields grew an enormous rock | maple tree. One winter day he decided to As he was very deat and also desired to hide his misfortune, he fell to considering what passersby would y to him, finally making up a set of questions and answers for the emergency. The travcler was to begin the conversation, which was to run like this: “8o you're cutting down the old tree at ! “What are you golng to do with 1t? “Sell 1t for cordwood “How much do you expect to get for it?" “Six dollars.” “Isn't that a pretty good price? more than I would glve for it “Well, maybe you won't but somebody else will." He had gotten well at the job when along came a stranger with a stylish slefgh and a spirited horse. Pulling up opposite the chopper, he sent a question across the ditch and fence which resulted in the fol- | lowing Interchange of words: “Good morning, my friend. Can you tell me the way to North Yarmouth?” Chop! chop! ‘Well, that's good; what is it, please “Sell it for cordwood.” Chop! chop! “I'm afrald he didn't cateh my question.” It's | (Louder): “Will you tell me the way to| North Yarmouth?" ) “Six dollars.” Chop! chop! ‘Say, you impudent cur! If I had a chance to hitch my horse, I would get out of this sleigh and thrash you within an inch of your lif “Well, maybe you won't, else will." Chop! chop! QuITE but somebody | BIG INCOME "OMMON, Protessional Men Who Make from $60,000 to $100,000 u Year. The lawsult of a Philadelphia physiclan, who seeks to recover a fabulous sum for \medical attention to the late Senator Ma- gee of Pittsburg has attracted attention In this city, s the Philadelphia Inquirer, and causes considerable speculation regard- iog the Income of professional men gener- ally. An inquiry into the subject develops acres of oll leases in Grant county toda: to the National Oll company of St. Loul On_the 500 acres are twenty-one product wells. which have been running ove: m‘; d“. ation wi surprising results and proves that Phila- delphians are in the front rank of money earners. There are many professional men in the Quaker city whose incomes amoumt to more than $100,000 a year, and more than a score who make a larger amount of money in twelve months iman is pald to the president of the United States during the same perlod for governing a nation with a population of more than 76,000,000 of people—not to mention the many more millions in our new possessions. Corporations, as a matter of course, pay immense salaries. It has not always been possible to obtain the exact figures, but those glven approximate the amount patd Alexander Johnson Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, receives $50,000 a year for his services as the chief ex- ecutive of that great corporation. Inel- dentally it s sald that he recelves smaller salaries from many of the branch railroads which are part and parcel of the great system over which he has charge, Presidents of the big distinctly Philadel- phia insurance companies get all the way from $20,000 to $40,000 a year. The presi- dents of the varfous trust companies re- ceive not less than $10,000 a year, and in some few cases a much larger amount than that. The prominent lawyers of the city are big money makers. John G. Johnson, for in- stance, who is regarded as one of the best corporation lawyers In the Urited States, has not for many years made less than $100,000 per year from his law practice. He s kept &0 busy that he scarcely has time to eat a noonday luncheon, and those who know him best frequently find him trying to satisfy his appetite with a hurried funcheon of pie and milk. Samuel Dick- son, Thomas Hart and George Tucker Bis- pham are lawyers who have an extensive practice among the corporations. Some of these men, and others as well, are retained by corporations, receiving as high as $25, 000 & year and being pald for their serv fces besides. Many of the great corpora- tions regard it as a matter of prudence and economy to secure the services of big lawyers by paying them handsome retain- Ing fees by the year. In this way it is not possible for the other side of the case to obtain the services of these lawyers. Physicians, as well as lawyers and other professional men, sometimes make enor- mous sums of money from their practice. In Phliadelphia a doctor's fees run all the way from nothing a year to $150,000 for the same period of time. The charges of the best physiclans are always guided by the slze of the pocketbooks of their patients. Some individual fees are tremendous. It has been said, but never admitted or denied, that P. A. B. Widener once paid his attending physician $100,000. When Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, an eminent surgeon, was suramoned to attend President Garfield, after the chief executive had been laid low by the bullet of the assassin, he gave no | thought to the question of money, but summoned all his skill in a supreme effort to save the life of the stricken ruler. When the bilis came up to be settled his fee amounted to the modest sum of $15,000. Among the surgeons and physicians of Philadelphia who enjoy an especlally lu- crative practice may be mentioned Drs. La Place, DeCosta, Deaver, Van Lennep, Hare and Tyson. Some of these men, it can be confidently asserted, receive more in fees in the course of a year than President Roosevelt will recelve as salary for twelve months' work in the White House, A TOUCH OF REALISM. Scetching an Interesting Ep! Dramatic Color. “Dearest,” he began, but she held up her hand warningly. “Walt!" she sald, and vanished into the next room. ‘Thoughtful girl,” he muttered. tears someone i listenin; Presently she returned and resumed her seat, relates the Brooklyn Eagle. “You may proceed,” she sald. But somehow he had lost his cue. He had prepared himself for a real warm pro- posal, but this deliberateness put a chill on it. Still, there was nothing for it but to do his best. “Dearest,” he sald again. “You said that before,” she commented. ‘Can’t you do a little better?" “Darling!" he cried. “Very commonplace, “Sweetest pet “A little better. Go on.” He had primed himself for a passionate declaration about eight yards long, but the circumstances were such that he was un- able to find about seven-and-a-half feat of it. “I have come here this evening,” he sald and paused. “Yes,” she conceded, “you have com here this evening. I have evidence of that." “I hve come here this evening with my life, my future—"" “I am satisfled you have brought your life along,” she returned. “What are you going to do with 1t?" “Offer it to you,” he “Will you be my wite?" She sighed, “Annabel!” she called. de for “8he she remarked. sald desperately. “Yes,” came a reply from behind the curtains. ““You may go now. I think he has run down."” “Who 18 Annabel?’ he demanded anx- fously. she answered. “I “My stenographer, went for her when I left the room. “Breach of promise evidence!" he cried angrily. “Oh, doubting one! “How foolish of you!" she protested. “Can’t you understand that I am engaged on an emotional drama and want to get a little reallsm into the love scene? T thought you would furnish it, but you dldn't “I didn't!" “Well, hardiy. But never mind; the time 1en’'t wasted anyway, for I use Annabel's notes in my next farce-comedy all right enough.” A Gustatory Gem. Chicago Tribune: The chef was ignorant of the presence of the cannibal king, who eyed him critically, while a sunny smile | danced gayly over his dimpled features. Suddenly the chef became aware of his presence and sald, as he most artistically salaamed: " “I would have your majesty know that 1 have just created a formula for & soup that shall win an Instant immaqrtality.” “And what may it be?" asked the mon- arch, impatiently. "I never was an expert in the art of guessing and I would know the name of your new decoction.” And the chef, appreciating the king's in- terest and his own importance, salaamed again and replied: “Mock missonary What & Question. Brooklyn Life: *“But what will you do when all the vermiform appendices shall have been removed?" The surgeon smiled. “I was reading only “that the stomach may be taken out.” Without killing the patient How funny you are!” exclalmed the great surgeon, ‘and laughed outright.” Mob De: s Coal. ST. PAUL, Dec. 20.—A crowd of several hundred people broke through the door of the Northwestern Fuel company, Rob- ert street office today, after a remarkable three hours’ rush for coal, savagely beat- ing & clerk who had acted as doorkeeper and admitted only one customer at & time. The company had received a few bundred tons of coal which were disposed of in single ton cash ordérs at $5.75. After breaking into the office police assistance had to be called and order was restored with diffculty, CUSTER COUNTY TO THE FOR Real Estate Organization to Advertise Oen- tral Nebraska, IS TO ATTRACT AIM IMMIGRATION er Agric 1 County of Ne- braska, as Shown by State Fair Awards—La; Gradually Ad- n Price. BROKEN BOW, Neb, Dec. 20.—~To the Editor of The Bee: A real estate organi- zation has been formed in Broken Bow, having for ite purpose the development and promotion of the real estate interests of central Nebraska. It is in keeping with the purpose of this organization that its headquarters should be in the center of the state and in a city which, from the point of population and business enterprise, is one of the foremost In central Nebraska The membership of the organization is se- lected from among our most substantial jeitizens, many of them well known and prominent over the state. Reallzing that local organizations have in the past been formed fn various parts of the state for the purpose or advertising a fow real estate dealers, this organization at the outset takes a broad view of its purpose. In the far-reaching advertising it will give to central Nebraska, individ- ual real estate men and firms are strenu- ously prohibited from imposing upon the assoclation by mention of their names as land agents. In other words, this associa tion fs just what it purports to be—an or- ganization having for its purpose the widest publicity of the resources of cen- tral Nebraska as an agricultural and stock- raising country, with a view to attracting | immigration, which has been pouring into other states, to central Nebraska, which, at the present time, offers to the home- seeker the greatest finducements of any portion of the unlon. Natural Gi es and Well Watered. When it is known to the homeseeker that the finest land that lies out of doors can be bought in this region at from $10 to $20 per acre it is hardly probable that he will go to an adjoining state and pay three times much for the same character of soll that, owing to climatic conditions, will not produce as much as the central Ne- braska farm. When it is known to the man | desirous of engaging In stock-raising that he can come to this part of Nebraska and invest in grazing land resplendent with natural grasses and well watered and ac- quire a tract embracing from 1,000 to 10, 000 acres at from $5 to $10 per acre he will certainly {nvestigate before he buys in an adjoining state at a price several times higher. Land here is not as cheap it was one, two or three years ago, but the advance has been gradual. It is changing hands rapidly, and the fact that our home peo- | ple are doing most of the buying to fin- crease their holdings, is an endorsement | for this part of the state, which is greater and more substantial than a pen picture of | ite vast resources could produce. This, however, is because there has been no ef- fort to induce immigrants to this fmmedi- ate section of the state. Eastern people | have been flocking to other parts of the | country, attracted by glowing accounts when they do not know of the far greater advantages to be found in central Ne- braska. Plenty of Land Availab Take, for example, the county fn which | Broken Bow is located—a county 48x54 miles In extent—with its 2,600 square miles, its ninety-five miles of railroad and its dozen raflroad towus. There are probably 300,000 acres of desirable, unoccupled land that can be bought at a very low figure, and this s only a sample of what other counties in this section of the state have. Its agricultural advantages are best set forth by what has actually been done by its own people. For three successive years Custer county has taken first prize at the Nobraska state fair for the best exhibit of agricultural products, these prizes win- ning for it the gold medal award. It has within its borders 125,000 head of cattle aggregating over $4,000,000 in value, making it the second county in the state in live stock industry. The Middle Loup river, in the northern part of the county, and the South Loup, In the southern part, to- gether with numerous smaller streams, fur~ nish ample water for its large herds, while | the rough grazing lands lying back from | these streams are particularly adapted for grazing purposes. There are today 140 va~ prairies, 119 of which have actually been exhibited from this county at the state fair. Many of the wealthiest stockmen in this county started a few years ago with only & few head of cattle, and their success is due to the adaptability of the climate and the land to stock ralsing, together with their own push and energy. Yield of Wheat and Corn. Farming is carried on very extensively in this county. Winter wheat this year ylelded twenty-two to forty bushels per acre, with some flelds reaching as high as fifty and Aitty-five bushels. The acreage of corn 1s very large and yleld heavy, there belng this year over 200,000 acres planted, | running from thirty to sixty bushels per acre, the entire county averaging thirty- five bushels. It is with the greatest difi- culty that help can be secured to get it out of the flelds, as high as 4 cents per bushel | for husking being pald. Oats, rye, barley, | flax, and In fact all kinds of emall grain are extensively grown here with the same success that the $60 and $75 land in lowa, Illinois and Missourl produces, yet many thousands of acres in central Nebraska are awaiting purchasers at $8 to $10 per acre, simply because the tide of immigration has | not yet turned this way. Alfalta in this section of the state Is meeting with re- markable success and is a most valuable product for the stock raiser. The theory that it can be grown only on bottom lands has long since been exploded. It can now be found in all localities where mixed farming is followed, the yleld running as high as elght tons per acre for the four cuttings secured each season. While central Nebraska has not yet at- talied much notoriety a fruit country, apples, peaches, pears, cherries and small fruits of all kinds are grown with great success in this county and a very large percentage of the farmers are acquiring orchards. The exhibit of Custer county fruit at the recent fair in Broken Bow was a grand showing and & great surprise to many eastern people, who thought that apples did not grow west of the Missourt river. Dairying & New Industry. An industry that is proving a great suc- cess Is that of dairyin Cream separators are scattered over this entire section and hundreds of farmers over the county have individual separators of their own. Five companies are now competing for this busi- ness here and they distribute $20,000 each month among the farmers of the county in payment for butter fat. Many farmers are drawing from $15 to $50 per month from this industry and this with no additional outlay except that of caring for the cream. organization bas been formed and to secure for this part of the state a share of home- seekers from other parts of the country who desire to Invest in homes for them- selves. No other part of this vast domain offers such inducements to the man with a little ready money. A boom in real estate is not looked for, mor fs it desired, but steady settlement of the idle land Is sure to come; in fact It is already on, and the man who locates mow will have an ad- vantage over the one who waits a year or two, for these very low prices cannot last. Land is gradually advancing and with the settlement of the {dle land it {s bound to become valuable. There fs no reason why 1and in this vicinity should not be worth as much as that in eastern Nebraska, Towa or South Dakota within the mext few years. The man who goes up against $5,000 farms in adjoining states should Investigate our $1,600 farms and convince himself that the soil, the crops and the climate in Custer county are equal or superior to anything in the central west. BROKEN BOWITE. SOCIETY PRAISED. It is Hospitable, Sincere and Free From Snobbishness. “Soctety in the Middle West is almost wholly without snobbishness,'” eays Booth Tarkington in Harper's Magazine. ‘‘Now and then there becomes apparent a struggle to enter it on the part of someone outside of it; but, because access is so simple, the fact that a struggle is necessary nearly al- ways creates in itself a perpetual disqual- ification. It is & society exceedingly friendly to the newcomer; very ready to receive him on his own merits; it has no feeling of fta own Insecurity to make it snub him because it does not know who he was be- fore he came. And while the vieitor will be asked many questions about his ac- quaintances in other cities, he will not be asked if he has met ‘the Rockmores of Germantown,” in order to discover If he ‘knows the right people.’ The questions are put In a hopeful way, with the hos- pitable wish to find mutual triends of whom to talk, and to bring the visitor and native into closer touch. “There is a natural drawing together and interdependence, of course, among the people who form the nucleus of this mo- clety; whose fathers and grandfathers have been friends, watching the town grow trom & village in the '40s to a eity of importance in the Twentieth century, and althoug! there s a small complacence among the tamilies that were here ‘from the first,’ it amounts mainly to greater familiarity with each other, as among relatives. Con- ditions are all the happler for the absence of the pond turtle who condescends to the newcomer because his relatives have been a long time in the same pond. Here and there there may be an individual who takes to himself some credit that his famlily have achieved distinction or continued in re- spectabllity through several generationa but he does not push the claim, because he Iives among people who would laugh lees t ‘the arrogant strut of new wealth’ than at a claim of privilege for ‘high birth;’ be- cause (the people would feel) to be tainted with the former means at least that you are proud of something you yourself have accomplished; to possess the latter means that you are in the ludicrous attitude of | being proud of yourself because of some- thing that somebddy else dia. “The members of this soclety live on terms of singular intimacy with one an- other, almost as in a village, meeting often, and rarely passing each other on the street without pausing for more than a greeting. When the warm weather begins one h only to stroll or drive about certain plea ant_portions of the city during the early evening to see nearly all his friends, who will be lounging each on his lawn, or comfortably taking the afr on the broad porches, and the older inhabitant easily re- members the day when he was acquainted with every person of respectable appear- him and he began to roam around the country. He was never a very poor man except on the occasion which I have fin mind, and the wheel of fortune turned the right way for him at a critical moment in his history. 1 heard him tell the story fellows had been telling all sorts of mai velous storfes about winnings and losings very much like you boys are doing nows A8 I remember the story John King told it thie way: 1 was down In my luck.’ he said. ‘and had gone to the cloth on an old “skate.' 1 was racing around at the different tracks. I couldn’t win anything. Luck was dead against me. But I kept entering my horse just the same. Well, to drop some of the uninteresting detalls which lead up to the event, I went to Ireland and entered my old horse for the last time. Of course, 1 stood no chance to win against some of the hotses entered, buf I just wanted to #0e one more run for old times’ sake. There were 167 horses in the race. My skate was marked up on the boards at 1,000,000 to 1. I had three between me and the cloth. I put It up knowing that I would lose it, but just as A matter of sentiment, and to be game, which is every sportsman's am- bition, T put up my money just the same. Then 1 went about my business. I pald no attention to the race. ‘1 had gone down to a littla ferry to cross the river and was standing thers meditating on the uncertainty of things earthly when a fellow came rushing up to me. He said it was the funniest thing he had ever seen. I asked him to wake up and reminded him that the situation was anything but funny. “Drop the pipe and wake up.” I sald, but he kept laughing. Finally he managed to tell me the stor “Funnfest thing I ever saw,” he sald, “156 of those horses got wedged In between the fence and the railing and couldn't move a Boof. They were jammed like sardines in a box. Behind there was an old skate gal- loping along at a snail's pace. Well, sir when he got to that crowd of horses, he Just Jumped over ‘em, kept right on around the track, galloped in under the wire and won the money. And think of ft—he was selling at 1,000,00 to 1" I ruined the seat of my pants kicking myself, but it just shows you how a man's luck will run There I was with my horse winning at last and 1 only had $3 up an him. Hordest luck I ever had.” ‘Once more for a night- cap,’ sald a cadaverous looking chap as he rolled two kings out of the box, and in a thort while the veracity club had closed the on." ——— PEOPLE DRINK LESS NOW. Rural Free Delivery System Has Et- fected mn Unexpected Reform. James L. Spink, one of the best known traveling men of the northweet, has just returned from a long trip through the country districts of Minnesota, says the Minneapolis Times, and reports the suc- cess of rural free delivery along a line that can hardly have been anticipated by those Instrumental in establishing the system. In one of the towns where Mr. Spink s0ld goods he overheard a saloon-keeper discussing rural delivery and advancing arguments why the plan should be dono away with. The main point he made was that it rufned business. ‘'Why,” sald Mr. Saloon-Keeper, “when men came into town every day for their mall they were sure to drop into my place while they walted; everybody drank, every- body treated everybody else and it made trade lively. Now the farmers come Into town but two or three times a week and more often but once, and the worst of it is they don’t happen to come in togéther, for they only come In for grocerles or somo other supplies and no two men's supplies are apt to glve out at exactly the same ance in town. Such Intimacy, of course, entalls an amusingly large quantity of amazingly small gossip. BLUSH THAT ALMOST CAME. An Exclamation Shocking to a Truly Good Professor. Chicago is the real and only genuine city of light and Paris is but a feeble imi- tation, reports the New York Sun, We speak of intellectual {llumination, of soul- light, not of mere and plectricity. The University ot Chicago irradiates the world Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur- days; the Northwestern university is the irradlator Wednesdays and Fridays. Re- cently Prof. J. Scott Clark of Northwestern spoke grave words to the class in English literature. His hollest sensibilities had been wounded by some of those fascinating modern products, the ‘“‘co-eds.” Hear his rieties of wild grasses to be found on its fsolemn remonstrance: “I want to warn the young women of this class especially, because I know they are In the habit of using the expression more than the young men. When you say ‘Great heavens!' you are taking a sacred name in vain. I hear girls using the word every day, and would feel almost like blushing if I were not aware that they did not mean it for anything bad.” Doubtless these young women will take pity on the professor. Otherwise he might be brought to the actual blushing point, a state of professorial pudency horrible to think of. Yet “Great heavens” is a mild enough phrase and innocent of sacrilegious intention. It means no more than “Great Jupiter,” “Great Zeus," “Great Indra." It misuses no sacred name. It Is preferable to sulphur-suggesting oaths such as “Great sheol,” “Thunder and guns, “Tartarus and turpentine” or the strange half-Indian colonial afirmation “Hell and Hobbamock The primitive heathen objection to taking the name of a divinity in vain was that by uttering the name you put him finto the power of your ememies. The wizard and the conjurer can call him then. But “Great heavens” is only & general phrase. Bven its natural meaning has dropped out and 1t is about equal to “Is that s0?" ““You Aon't say so?" “Well. I never.”" ‘‘Really.” or the antique diaconal “I viow" or “I snum.” Still, the “co-eds” will be good to the almost erubescent professor. Private fin- formation tells us that they are now using the formula “Jay Scott!" But “Jay” or “Great Scott” is much more forcible than “Great heavens." Originally “Great Gott or God, s the dictionary of profanity; and “Jey Scott,” which the “‘co-eds” hu- morously derive from their pudent pro- tessor, 1s still more profane. Away with strong words on sweet lips, mels!” 1s & gentle feminine which ean be recommended. It is Interesting to kmow that in Dr. Harper's instltution “Great Triggs!" is the fashionable expletive at present, whereas that former favorite, “O, Pants time. This, you see, does away with the matter of treating and reduces trade tra- mendously. It's ruining business, I tell you " Mr. Spink {s an observing man, and the saloon-keeper's point of view interested him. He took pains to fnquire of the busi- ness men he traded “with as to the correct- ness of the saloon-keeper's judgment, find- ing to his surprise that it was generally conceded that rural free delivery has ma- terlally affected the liquor traMc in the small towns and gives promise of belng a most eftective means of increasing tem- perance among the farmers, “Uncle Sam's method of work and its ef- fect, although they were not primarily in- tended, must give the temperance workers pause when contrasted with those of the Carrie Nation {1k and the canteen howl- ers,’ was the observation of the leading merchant of one of the largest of the towns visited. Seasonable Fashions. 4307 Beven Gored Biiry, 22 10 30 walsh, Woman's Seven-Gored Skirt 4307—With inverted plaits stitched to form ‘“elot seams" and strap trimming. Slot seams and strap trimmings make two azotable and important features of the scason's fash- fons and are to be found in the smartest models. This very stylish skirt combines them most effectlvely and is eminently gracetul at the same time that it {s in the height of style. The original is made of black canvas, with straps of peau de sole stitched with silk, but all the season's materials are appropriate, silk, velvet or contrasting cloth for the straps. The skirt is shaped with seven gores with plaits at the edges which meet and ars stitched to form a slot seams to flounce depth, trom which polnt they fall free and provide ample flare. The back fits snugly, without fulness at the top, in habit style, flaring at the lower edge. The straps are stitched to position over the seam in back 18 all but obsolete. WON AT A MILLION TO ONE. A S Ha ng When His Owner Was Backing Him for #3. They had been speaking of rather ma velous things in a betting way, blg win- nings and big losses at the various race courses of the country—how they had won and lost fortunes and all that sort of thing *That reminds me of John King's story of the bet he made in Ireland,” sald a member of the group, quoted by the New Orleans Times, “and for the benefit of In dairying Custer county stands near the head of the list of the counties of tho state. It 18 to bring before the world the vast resources of central Nebraska that this those who are not acquainted with King I want to say that he is no myth. Jobn King 1s & real, live, pulsing ma d his home is in west Tennessce. He is & native of Jackson, but Jackson was too siow for and at the center of the other gores, but can be omitted when a plain effect is pre- terred Th quantity of material required for the medium size s 10 yards 21 inches wide, 9% yards 27 inches wide, 6% yards 44 inches wide or 6% yards 52 inches wide, when material has figure or nap; 6% yards 44 inches wide, 4% yards 52 inches wide when material has neither figure nor pap, with 1% yards of silk for straps. The pattern 4307 is cut In sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30-inch walst measure For the accommodation of The Bee read. ers, theso patterns, which usually retail at trom 25 to 50 cents, will be furnished at g nominal price, 18 cents, which covers all expense. In order to get a pattern encloss 10 cents, give number and name of patters wanted and bust measure. one night fn Memphis, when a crowd ntk <