Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
CARELESSNESS HELPS GIRL
Case Involving Much Property Thrown Ont
on Account Of Poor Services.
ELECTRIC LINE SURVEYORS ARE BUSY
Mysterious Shooting Array Near lin
coIn-POIice DO Not Believe story
Told by Participants
I'm the AFFAIR.
tFrom a star correspondent

LINCOLN, Nov. 22.-(Special)-Because
. deputy sheriff served a summons upon
Ser uncle's attorneys stenographer in
stead Of upon the attorney himself, little
Mira Parker Of Beatrice is several thou
sand dollars richer than she would other
wise have been. The little girl is a name
sake Of her dead grandmother, the late
Almira T. Parker, who made provision for
her in her will. An uncle Of the little
girl contested the will on the ground that
his mother was insane, but in the dis
trict court the decision went against him.
r. o. Kretsingey Of Beatrice was attorney
for Mira's father, Frank c. Parker, whose
brother, Lewis c. Parker, was the con-
testant. The latter determined to appeal
his contest from the decision of the lower
court, and the papers we're duly filed in
the supreme court, summons having first
presumably been made by the sheriff upon
Mr.. Kretsinger. After the record had been
filed in the supreme court, however, coun-
sci for Mira Parker and her father served
notice upon the attorneys for Lewis C
Parker that they would appear specially
In the supreme court for the purpose OF
Directing to its jurisdiction, and Herewith
filed an AFFIDAVIT showing that service Of
summons was neither made personally upon
the attorney OF record for the girl and
neT IAlneTt NOT D1 itdNlHk II AZ hb piaNt
Of residence. II appeared instead that the
deputy sherin had gone to the office OF
Attorney Kretsinger with 1t and had waited
for some time for him to come in, and
when tired Of waiting had left a copy Of the
summons with his stenographer and gone
about his business.
The supreme court sustained the mo-
tion to quash the service, holding In doing
80 that service upon the stenographer In
an attorneys ONCE is not service upon the
attorney or his clients. 1t was too late for
Lewis @. Parker to mend the detect in
his petition in error, and as a consequence
the title of the young legatee TO the estate
of her grandmother will remain undis>
turbed.
Surveying Electric Lines.
z. c.. Hurd, the electric line promoter,
who is here representing Ohio capitalists
has a surveying party at work mapping out
a line Of electric railway between this city
and Omaha. 1t has covered the territory
between here and Ashland, which point II
reached last night. Today another survey
ing gang began work on Vine street in this
city an. started toward Omaha. 1t was pu
to work by w. d. Ball, whose address IL
the Rookery building, Chicago, and 1t is ir
charge of a man named Baldwin. This party
is supposed to represent the Michigan par
ties, NJ. A. Boynton and others, who are
presumed to represent the Westinghouse
Construction company.
Father Threatens Trouble.
Mrs. sechrest,' the woman whose disap.
pearance from Kansas City just as she
was expected to appear as a witness in tbs
murder case against the slayer Of hel
husband, is still at the home Of her par
ents in this city. She has not heard from
the prosecuting attorney at Kansas City
whom she notified on Thursday OF her in
tention to come TO Lincoln.
John w. Strine, her father. threatens Il
make trouble for members of the Lincoli
police force who yesterday accompanied Il
his residence a representative of a Kan
sas City paper and literally forced thei
way without any sort of process into tn,
strine residence.
Mysterious Shooting.
The police have been baked today Il
their endeavors to uncover a shooting at
fray out near the penitentisry. Charlie
Hartwick, a prison guard. is in the hos
pital with a load Of shot In and about hi
neck, and his condition is rather serious
He declines to say how he got shot othe
than he was going along the road by tn,
house OF Mrs. John Francis when he wa
shot. Fred Valentine. a paroled convict
cordially admitted that he did the shoot
Ing. He says that Hartwick was mistaken
by him for a burglar. He lives at or nea
the Francis home. where Hartwick hai
visited during the evening. About /
o'clock at night he heard somebody prowl
Ing about the Francis home. and. leaninu
out of his window. saw somebody appar
entity trying to get in. He called to hir
to know what he was doing there and In
man started to run. Then Valentine emp
tied his gun IN his direction. Hartwic
fell and Valentine went out and got hin
When he discovered who he was h
brought him into the house and dresse
his wounds as best he could. The polio
are inclined TO think that there is NOR
behind 1t, but neither man nor Mrs
Francis will admit this.
They Are Doubtful.
The local detectives are not taking yer
much stock In the story OF the oklahom
prisoner Who claims he was a participant
In the Burlington Eoldup here last month
rhey think that no criminal cool enougI
to make such a haul would be FOOLS
enough to want TO exchange his prospec
OF a small sentence for the lighter offens
ne is charged with in Oklahoma for tn
purpose OF facing a more serious one here
OF course. they eoncede that maybe the fel