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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09
City Improvement.

Many of the meetings Of the City
improvement Association have been
devoted to deplOring the condition Of
a city that was dirty and unimproved
because neither the council nor the
association possessed the money to
improve it. The recent entertain
ment has furnished the association
with a small capital to accomplish
some few of the many projects Of i'm
prOvement. Members Of a society
composed of several hundred men and
women decide upon spending funds
collected by common effort, with
some difficulty. 1t is proposed to put
up sign boards in this checker-board
town where each street and each cor.
ner resembles all the other streets and
corners. The difficulty a stranger
has of finding his way about is pitiable
and il the city council will not put
the sign-boards up, the City Improve.
ment Society would succeed to a
shower of blessings by erecting them.
Then the city has no ambulance.
Does a woman faint on the streets or
a man fall, overcome by the heat, he
is bundled into the patrol wagon and
must take the ignominiOus ride OF a
prisoner to the police. A modern
ambulance with comfortable. springy
couch and whose wheels are cushioned
bv rubber would be a worthy Gift
from the association to the citv
Money must be spent on the city park
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09
THE COURIER.

younger sons and incompetents who
can not find anything else to do. A
military genius. il without influence.
has little opportunity of demonstrat.
ing ability in the British army. The
small army Of the Beers is differed by
men selected, not on account Of their
grandfathers or eldest brothers but
exclusively on account OF military
ability previously demonstrated.
One of the arguments urged to help
pass the ship subsidy bill was the i'm
perative clause requiring the employ
ment CT American sailors for two
thirds of the crew. American men
of the fibre that make good sailors
disdain to enter service, where what
ever their gallantry and ability, they
can not be promoted. Admiral Samp.
sons letter to Secretary Long an.
nouncing the improperly Of promot-
ing gunner Morgan because Of his
lack Of social opportunities, expressed
as a matter of course the opinion held
by all Annapolis graduates. The ten
dency OF all military bodies is towards
the more exclusive and rigid estab-
lishment Of caste. Its complete
establishment is fatal to the army
and navy. When the basis of promo
tiOn becomes previous education or
influence, men without the military
inspiration, and lacking the Napol-
comic capacity to win battles by unit
ing the soldiery into one cohesive
body of devotion to country and to
great commander. lead their armies
to defeat and great countries are con-
quered. Unless the way is open for
man of genius from the bottom to the
top of the naval system America will
lose battles she might have won, and
foreign seaman will continue to man
American vessels. SnObbery has all
the symptoms of a mild disease, but
when it is chronic it kills everything
in a man that makes him useful to
his country and an ornament to So
ciety. The Beers have killed thous-
ands of Englishmen because the
basis Of selection in the Beer army is
intellectual keenness. The English,
though matched against the enemy
in the proportion Of one hundred to
one. have been out-genera.ed because
their officers are selected with ref
erence to social graces. genealogical
traditions and the price Of commits
sions. Before modern America. there
are two military models: the English
and the Boer. The English cause is
just. England is the defendent in a
dispute which might have been
amicably settled. But the English
soldiery are fighting men on their
own familiar ground led by the best
fighters in the world; crude, single.
minded. experts, who have won their
leadership by virilitv and the kind Of
unerring instinct, and cunning exhib.
tied by all new. strong races Of men
before convention and caste have in
trCduced artificial classifications.
GLIB Colors.
Massachusetts, presidents of wo-
mems clubs are called together at
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09


protest against the present policy OF
the board of the General Federation
in requiring every club. which applies
for admission to the CIVIC. to
show that all its members are white.
The resolutions also request the board
to ratify the election Of the WOman's
New Era Club without waiting for
the settlement OF the question by
vote OF the delegates to the sixth
Biennial.
There is no use in ignoring this SUBJ
ject. The sixth Biennial must dis
cuss it in open meeting. Massachu-
sets will get her way 10 this partic-
ular. Since the defeat of the Massa-
chusetts candidate for president at
Denver and the establishment Of the
ten cents per capita tax the Massa-
chusetts clubs have been uneasy and
jealous of southern and western ideas.
The vote against reorganization at
Milwaukee and the refusal to recog-
nize Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
of the New Era club aroused what
certain delegates are pleased to call
"ethical indignation" Politicians
call it sore.headedness. and children
call it "getting mad" Mrs. Helen A.
Whittier, one Of the vice presidents
of the Massachusetts, Federation says
in speaking Of the consequences to
the General Federation, if. Massachu-
sets is not allowed to send negro
delegates to the Biennial conferences:
"It is futile to estimate the relative
degree Of loss to the Federation should
one or another section withdraw.
Financially and numerically the loss
of Massachusetts would outweigh
probably three to one, the loss Of the
solid south, for one-fourth of the
direct membership lives in Massachu.
sets and therefore pays one-fOurth Of
the Federation revenue. But this
point OF view is hardly worth cOnsid.
Grafton, beside the greater loss b its
representative character which the
Federation would suffer from the
withdrawal of the clubs Of any Sec
tion. 1t can not afford 70 lose the
South, it cannot afford to lose New
England, il it is to continue .he name,
the General Federation Of Women's
Clubs" -.
The other set of resolutions ad.
dressed by Massachusetts, women to
the General board advises a settle.
ment of the question by reOrganiz-
alton, that is by electing delegates to
the General Federation ia the state
declarations and not in the individual
clubs.
The question before the next Ben
NAL then will be one OF expediency
and preference, for it is certain that
unless Massachusetts can dictate Mas.
sachusetts will withdraw. The negro
problem belongs to the south and the
south has begun to solve it. Whether
northern women's clubs admit negro
women or not will make but little
difference, in consequence Of the very
small number of negro women in the
north who would present themselves
for membership. In the south, were
negro women admitted, their votes
would far out-number the present
membership. The representative char
acter of the Federation is truly the
element OF largest consequence. Mrs.
Whittier seems to be sure that II Mas
sachusetts withdraws, Maine, YER
mont. New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island will also Withdraw.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09

zon and deepen their sympathies.
= =
Murder Is Murder.
Ruth NOllard, eighteen years old.
was shot and killed on Kansas City
street last Saturday afternoon by Bud
Taylor, twenty-three years old, a
baseball player, formerly her sweet
heart, with whom she had quarreled.
The girl and her sister were walking
along Ninth street. near Broadway, in
q crowded business district of the
city. Taylor, sitting in the window
ola second story room in lodging
house opposite, fred three shots from
. repeating rife. Two bullets struck
Mis- NOllard, one passing entirely
through her chest. and the other en-
tering just below the heart. She
died In less than an hour. Miss Mol
lard lay bleeding on the sidewalk ten
minutes In the center OF q great
crowd. The police arrested Taylor in
the lodging house room and had diff
iculty in getting him through the
mob, many members OF which clam
Ored for the lynching OF the murderer.
Miss N0llard aud TAYLOR we're be-
tF0thed. but. they disagreed month
ago. aod the girl forbade Taylor to
come to her home. About two weeks
ago Taylor chOked her almost into in
sensibilitY. and threatened to kill her
at the first opportunity. He was ar
rested On complaint OF Miss Nollard
for assault with intent TO kill and
was released on bond. Taylor rented
= room Ia the lodging house three
days before the murder. The landlord
says he stayed 10 the room during the
daytime and it is supposed he sat in
the window for many hours. rifle ia
hand. awaiting an opportunity to
pick OF the girl without striking
Others in the crowded street. She
was 10 the habit OF passing the house
every day. Last year Taylor played
with an eastern team and the year be.
fore he played With the Nebraska In
dams. Miss Nollard was a dry-goods
clerk.
A few weeks ago another murder as
cOld-blOoded and revolving as this one
occurred 10 Kansas-City. Only, the
murderess was q woman. Mrs. Ken
nedy shot her husband who had been
forced to marry her, because, being
thoroughly obnoxious to him he would
not live with her. Firearms place
men and women on a level. The
weakest woman can kill the strongest
man, IL she be armed with a loaded
pistol. Mrs. Kennedy shot q man, not
because she loved him and he had
ceased to love her, but because she
loved notoriety and she wanted re.
venge. The crowd who surrounded
the poor little saleswoman last Satur-
-dav were ready t. lynch the murderer.
But no one offered or threatened viO-
lence to Mrs. Kennedy who killed a
man for partly the same reason Bud
Taylor shot Ruth Nollard for injured
vanity. Justice demands that the
same punishment be awarded both.
Military Caste.
~nco~olc baya oufpooaro lod tho
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09

ing India will develope in Chicago a
set OF opinions about India child
widOws that will obtain among. or be
disputed by the hOusemaids in their
set and the discussion will educate
the housemaids. broaden their hori-
zon and deepen their sympathies.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09
GLIB Coloo.

Massachusetts, presidents of wo-
mems clubs are called together at
irregular intervals by the state execu.
tive board for conference on club and
federation topics. The conference
of Massachusetts, presidents gener-
ally meets twice year. At the last
meeting 10 December more than one
hundred presidents were present,
fairly representing the different parts
OF the state. 1t had been announced
to the clubs that the meeting was
called to discuss the question: "Wbat
the small club can do ip the country
town." But after the meeting was
called to order the audience proceed
ed to discuss the color line in the Gen.
eral Federation and the missions and
opportunities Of small clubs ia coun-
try towns was not discussed at all.
The meeting adopted set Of resolu-
tions addressed to the board Of direct
ors of the General Federation, which
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09
Murder Is Murder.
Military Caste.

Beer generals have outgeneraled the
British officers since the Transvaal
var began. There is no better soldier
than Tommy Atkins. He obeys or
ders. without question or fear and
grumbies like an Englishman only be-
tween engagements. If ordered to
storm q kopje covered with Beers
hidden behind 0oulders. he runs up
with cheer. The officers Of the army
OF Great Britain are just as brave,
but commissions are sold and the
army like the church has been re.
Rartied rs . refuge and vocation for
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-03-09

ing with race settled in the state
and of superior numerical strength.
Massachusetts, is. according to histor.
ical habit attempting to settle the
question of negro equality for the
Georgians, who prefer to work away
at it themselves. Southern women
have added great impulsive force to
the club movement. Without their
presence and interest the movement
would lose Significance, raisOn d'etre.
Massachusetts, women indicate that
they should miss the General Fedora
tion, but that the Federation would
be sadly crippled. numerically and
financially without the spiritual and
mental uplift contributed by our sis.
tiers of Massachusetts. There is no
doubt that the Massachusetts, woman
will be missed. She is fluent talker
and absolutely devoted to the REFORM
alton Of other people, but when she
asks the General Federation to run
the risk OF losing sixteen or seventeen
other states, she is straining her pop
ularity. The resolutions offered to
the consideration of the General Fed
Grafton by the board of the Massachu.
sets state federation are printed in
the club columns of this weeks issue.
The Peb6le.
Published at Omaha by Mary D.
Learned and Louise Mcpherson. The
Pebble is an interesting and present.
able magazine. Although incited to
their first number by Eliot Hubbard
of East Orange the editors are not i'm.
itators. The preciousness Of The
Philistine clogs upon the too constant
reader. At last the consciousness of
q pose "for art only" must grow weari.
some. Done into print" is as weari-
some as all archaic limitations are.
The Pebble is printed on deckel edge
paper with handsome red covers,
without affectation of butchers pa
per or any of the eccentricities which
disfgure Mr.Hubbards magazine. Be.
sides, the illustrations in The Pebble
by Langouste. which is the pen name
of an Omaha elizabeth" are charm
ing and worth much more than the
modest price Of the little magazine.
Hereafter Nebraska people who wish
~ LecOme familiar with the best
works of the best Nebraska authors
can subscribe for The Pebble and The
Courier at club rate Of one dollar
and half year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
HAMILTON CASE IS NOW IN THE
HANDS OF THE
JURY ~
COUNSEL MADE ABLE SPEECHES
Messrs. BOardman and Nye Reviewed
the Case From Different Stand
points, and Judge Brooks
Charged ImpartialIy.

Frank Hamilton's fate is now in the
nands OF the twelve men who are to
decide whether he is guilty or innocent
OF killing Leonard Day. Counsel for
both the state and the defense made
their final arguments yesterday, finish
ing IN time to enable Judge Brooks 10
charge the jury before the hour f5l adj.
1ournment arrived
The prosecuting attorneys argument
was along the lines of exclusion. He
reviewed the circumstances attending
the fatal ARRAY, and sought to show
that no one in the room but the ac-
cused could have possibly committed the
crime. He asserted that Hamilton stood
convicted out of his own lips, inasmuch
as he did not on the stand absolutely
deny that he confessed to Rooney. whose
testimony, Mr. Boardman declared, was
unimpeachable
Mr.. Nye, on behalf of the prisoner,
argued that there was a drunken brawl
in which many of those in the room had
participated, and that more than one
knife had been used. He contended thai
the defense had shown more than the
reasonable doubt, required to acquit his
client
The attendance was far greater than
on any previous day of the trial. The
crush was tremendous, but, awed by the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
WON BY SULLIVAN.
Got the Decision In Tvyenty-ROund
Go with Tim Kearns.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 18.-spike Sui
liVan, or New York, was tonight given
the decision over Tim Kearns, of Brook
lyn, on points, after twenty rounds of
rough fighting before the Southern Ath-
letic club.
The men weighed in at 1873 pounds. For
the tlrst six rounds there was nothing
but feeling out, neither of the fighters
Forcing matters. Then, for four rounds
Kearns took the aggressive and appeared
to be Furnishing Sullivan with kidney
Bows and jabs over the wind There
was little behind the blows, however, for
when sullivan got ready for business at
the end of the eleventh round he landed
on Kearns at will, Furnishing him severe
ly over the heart and kidneys and in
the face. Twice Sullivan fell and both
times Referee Tim Hurst cautioned
Kearns against what looked like fouls
kearns striking Sullivan when he was
on his knees. In the seventeenth round
Kearns was all but out, taking the
count to nine, when the gong saved him
However, from the thirteenth round, the
result was never in doubt, SulliVan's gen
eralship and science far SURPRISING that
of kearns. From beginning to eng the
hght Was of the rough and tumble order
hover, and the referee was continually
cautioning the men against the tactics
they used. Time and again each man
claimed a foul, but Hurst refused to
allow it, as one fighter was as bad as
the other in this respect. The winner
of tonights contest was challenged by
both Jack OBriep and Eugene BeZenah.
and Sullivan probably will next take on
BeZeuah.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
PUEBLO Is OUT OF III HIS FATE IN THE BALANCE
CHOICE NOW LIES BETwEFrN s1oUx
CITY AND COLORADO
SPRINGS
MAILMAN MAY COME WEST
Scrap Between the Different Leagues
Likely to Result in Better
Accommodation for
the Pubic.


The Omaha Bee is authority for the
statement that Pueblo will certainly be
dropped from the Western league circuit
this season. President Hickey spent a
day there last week on his return from
the West, and while there announced
positively that Pueblo isYou Of the race
The baseball contingent in the smelter
city refused to come to the front with a
suitable ball field adjacent to the bust
ness portion of the CITY, and as that was
condition precedent to recognition of
the citys claims for place in the league
everything has been declared off as far
as Pueblo is concerned
Another city, however, has entered the
lists against Sioux City for the eighth
place in the league. Colorado Springs is
candidate for a franchise and stands
about an even break with Sioux Citv for
the place. There is a great deal of base
ball enthusiasm in the Colorado summer
resort" said President Hickey. land in
huential business men have pressed me
to consider the claims of that city. It is
a fact that Colorado Springs during the
summer time has population plenty
large enough to justify the belief that
baseball would be a success there. IN
ducements have been offered in the wav
of grounds and a bonus and I have taxi
en- the matter under advisement. 7 have
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
claims, that this assassination of Day
was done with elaboration.
NYE FOR THE DEFENSE.

i
In the afternoon Frank NJ Nye deliv-
cred his address to the jury. He de-
clared that every one in the room was in
liquor. He gave officer Rooney and his
''ready-made confession a terrible ar
raignment.
Before I am through" he declared
with fierce earnestness, II will show you
that Rooney is as false a man as ever
quit the witness box" The states learn
ed attorney would have the jury believe
that Rooney's testimony was true; that
the testimony of Murray, Garfield and
Francis was false. He said he would
stake his life on Barbe. His action in
trying to succor Day indicated that his
mind was clearer than that of any other
man in the case. The testimony of Barbe
was that there was a general melee, and
that he pulled his friend Bennett out Of
the crowd by the leg. On that statement
he was almost willing to 'hang the life
Of this boy who had never done any
wrong that the state could prove" There
was nothing clearer in the world than
that drunken men will gather and grav-
uate around a row."
Every eye in the jury box was closely
riveted on Mr.. Nye. as, in a wonderfully
modulated voice, now low now ringing
clear above the buzz of the court room
he painted them vivid word-picture of
what happened in the billiard room.
George Force and the others were
shrinking from the fact that they were
more or less mixed up in the fight.
He declared there was more than one
knife mixed up in the trouble.
II want these other fellows" he said,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
A POINTER.

Say,
The next time you fellows
Want to pull off
A prize fight,
Or a sparring match,
Or boxing contest,
Or any other old
Contention
You'd better come and show me
First.
Don't wait until
You've spent your money +
Getting ready
And then spring 1t on me.
It's too sudden -
And might give me
Heart disease
And then what would
Minnesota do,
I'd like to know!
Maybe you think
This glorious commonwealth
Is capable of running itself;
But if you do
You've got another guess
Coming.
1t needs firm and steady hand,
Like mine,
To grasp the helm
And steer it through
These trying times.
Why don't you tell the people
What you're doing
Through the medium
Of the public
Prints?
Do you think you can pull
Off an event of this kind
Without
Advertising it?
You're lot of
HOLSTERS
And your clothes
Don't fit you.
What made you wait
Until those good young men
Down at Mankato
Called my attention
TO what was going
On?
1t made me feel
Like thirty cents
To be informed that such a thing
AS prize fights
Were ever even contem-
Plated
1t looked as though
I,
Samuel r. Van
SAINT, was in cahoots with you,
And that I hoped you'd
Give your little show
Without my attention
Being called to the matter.
And, then, Of course,
I'd say,
AS I did yesterday,
That they could search me.
If I had conducted
The last campaign
AS Unskillfully as you have managed
This affair,
1 would not now have been
Sitting here
And Fred Schiffmann
Would not have been oil
= Inspector.
And now you're up
Against it.
You can't fight,
You can't wrestIe,
You can't even run
Foot race
Willie I am governor.
Conspuez all sports,
Conspuez all contests,
Conspuez all contentious"
Conspuez everything.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19

mony, not by circumstantial evidence.
1t is not necessary for US to show what
was the weapon with which Hamilton
assassinated Day, or how Hamilton kill
ed him, there were a hundred ways for
him to get the instrument of death out
of the way, but it is a strong circum-
stance that the bloody knife was found
beside Days body. The state has not
been able to show the ownership of the
knife, nor to prove that it belonged to
Hamilton. You can understand the diff
Guilty Of that; all men carry knives;
Hamilton has been a traveller in the
Southwest, in Colorado, and through
those wild countries. He is just the man
to carry such knife as that. On that
night he may have carried it for a spe-
cifc purpose, and that is what the state
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
WON BY MoRNfNGsTAR.
First Game in I,SOO-POint Billiard
Match With Hevison.

NEW. YORK, Feb 1S.-Ora c. Morning
game of his six nights match from
Leonard Hewison, of Ottawa, Canada.
at Daly's billiard room, by a score of
16-inch balk line rules Hewison. in his
fourteenth inning, made Al and in his
twenty-seventh inning gathered in g.
Morningstar outshone the visitor, MAX
backed up by breaks of 81, 81, "a and Il
His break of q was the finale of the
match as it finished, as they made up
the necessary 800. Every night this week
the same two players will meet at the
same table to finish out match of 1 500
points, playing 800 a night for a stake of
S3O0
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19
Winners at New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1S.-Weather
cloudy: track slow
Kenova and Mordelmo were the only
good, the starting of the first race being
delayed to accommodate the carnival vis-
First race, one mile Eda Riley won
Time LA.
Second race, six furlongs, selling-Sir
christopher won, Weidemann second
GOodale third. Time, 1:15%.
Third race one mileNEva Rica wo,
Sir Florian second. Cogswell third. Time
Fourth race, one mile and an eighth.
hand1cap-kenova won, Egyptian Prince
Fifth race. seven furlongs. Selling
Tasker won, Juanette second, Censor
third. Time, 1:30.
delmo won, King Elkwood second. Digs
third. Time, 1:16