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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Minister Guilty of Arson.

Santa Cruz, CAL, Rev. James Laur
Ter Rogers, formerly well known
Baptist minister, who recently en-
braced Mohammedism, has confessed
himself guilty Of arson, and is now In
custody.
He set fire to several buildings at q
dairy, where he was working, for the
benefit Of his health, as he explained
His motive for the crime, he says, wal
revenge on those who had compelled
him to do mental service.
The fire destroyed his library, three
ministerial suits and gold watch pre-
sented to him by his former congrega
tion at Ocala, Fla. While In charge
of a church at Jacksonville he laugh,
English to many Cuban refugees. He
will be examined as to his sanity.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Runs into an Open Switch.

Redding, CAL, June 6.-The south
bound Oregon express on the South
ern Pacific, road. which left Redding
at 10:45 Wednesday, was wrecked
about fifteen minutes later near
Clear Creek, four miles from this
city.
The accident was caused by half
open switch, which had evidently
been left in that condition by some
unknown person. The train is a
"double header" and was running
down grade at great speed. Both
engines were thrown into the ditch
and completely wrecked.
Engineer j. M. White and Fireman
Fred Taffel of the forward engine,
we're thrown under the wreckage
aud crushed to death, their bodies
being fearfully mangled The mail
car was thrown across the track and
all of the passenger coaches were
ditched.
A number Of passengers were more
or less injured. but so far as can be
learned none was killed. The names
Of the injured passengers have not
yet been ascertained,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Chicago Girl Dies in Cab.

Chicago. overlook Mary
Love, aged twenty-five, daughter Of a
farmer OF Grant Park, H., Thursday
night, while she was being conveyed
in cab from the house of Mrs. Mary
Schuert, a midwife, to the home OF
her cousin, Mrs. Charles Rivers.
Samuel Conklin, driver of the cab,
was summoned to Mrs. Schuert's
house and received his instructions
from the midwife. After traversing
several blocks he heard the girl fall
from the seat and drove to a drug
store. She was dead when he opened
the cab door and he continued to a
police station, whence the body was
sent to an undertaker's.
Detectives arrested Mrs. Schuert
and her husband, Wilhelm, a member
OF the orchestra of downtown theat-
er. The woman attempted to take
car ole acid when arrested. At the
station she said She had not treated
the girl, stating that she had only
rented room to her week ago:
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Boy Dangerously Injured.

Plattsmouth, Neb.-W lille wading
in the river channel opposite this city
Wednes lay James Gilman, a twelve
year.old boy, met with peculiar &C
cident. In some manner he stumbled
and fell, striking a piece of glass or
barbed wire, which cut cash in his
abdomen four inches in length and
caused the intestincs to protrude.
The boy managed to reach the shore
and p occurred towel, which was tied
about his body in such way as to
cover the wound and check the flow of
blood. He then started for home in
his crippled condition. 1t was nearly
two hours after the accident before a
physician was summoned, as the boy
stopped at pump on the way to was
the blood from his clothing. The in
testines were replaced and the wound
Sewed up, but there is great danger
that blood poison will set in.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat
warns the people in that city against
raising rents in anticipation of the
Worlds Fair. Raising rents is an
operation that should be cautiously
indulged. " it says. "Otherwise it
will interfere with good times.
Ten ants have memory and builders
are numerous and energetic. A
conservative course in this matter
viii best serve the interests Of the
city and property owners.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
RIOTERS FULL OF DARING
CLUBS AND STONES USED WITH EN-
TIRE ABANDON.
A DOZEN BATTLES FOUGHT
Some of the Collisions Serious and Deaths
May Resuit-Conferenoe Looking to
Strike Settlement

Chicago June 6.-Driven by men
covered with dust and blood, many Of
them barely able from exhaustion to
hold the reins in their hands, thirty
six meat wagons entered the main
gate OF the Union stock yards
Wednesday amid shower Of stones,
bricks, BOTTLES and sticks
The wagons guarded by five police
wagons, filed with blue coats and
two omnibuses, crowded to the full
est capacity with policemen, we're on
the return from a delivery of sup
plies to down town provision houses,
after one of the fiercest days In the
strike Of the beef packers teamsters
Many of the drivers, who are offlc-
ials at the packing houses, were cut
and bruised from head to foot.
The police we're In even worse
condition.
The wagon drivers had been work.
ing from O'Clock in the morning,
and their progress from the stock
yards into the city business district
and back again had been contested
by mobs of strike sympathizers.
At the very entrance of the stock
yards Wednesday after all seeming
danger had passed, George June, an
employe of the Anglo American
Packing company was sruck by a
base ball bat and knocked from his
wagon seat.
He was picked up In an unconcious
condition and, it is believed, he
may die.
Many others were struck at the
same time by a shower of stones, but
the police we're to much worn out to
offer resistance.
More than dozen battles we're
fought during the day betw zen
rioters and the police and the hos
| pitfalls tonight are overcrowded with
| the injured. The fiercest battle of
the day took place this afternoon at
Sixteenth street and Michigan ave-
ME. The rioters stood on the via
duct and hurled rocks at the meat
wagons passing underneath.
The throng was the most formida-
BILE in numbers and in daring of any
of the crowds gathered during the
| dry. Before this mob could be dis
persed the police were compelled to
use revolvers. More than fifty
shots were fired, bullets pass ing
over the heads of the crowd,
which finally became frightened and
scattered, but not until many Of the
rioters and policemen had suffered
serious injuries.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
SCIENCE AvAnso HIM NOT.

when the Farmer Started for Him
There Was Something Lacking.
There was time In my life" said a
Detrolter the other evening, as the sub
iect of pugilisim was being discussed,
when l rather expected to take and
retain the heavyweight championship
against all Corners | was selling sew
ing machines in Indiana, having q
horse and wagon and calling at the diff
terent farmhouses, and on several oc-
easions had to take, sass from farm.
ers. After one of them had flung me
over the fence and a second had run
me out of his gate made up my mind
to learn thing or two about boxing.
1 was at the home office all winter and
took twenty-four lessons from pug
who knew his business. At the end Of
the term l could slam him all over the
shop and he assured me that could
dick three sturdy farmers rolled into
one and not half try.
when | started out in the spring
had my hat on my ear, and l made
Decline for the house of the farmer
who had run me out in the fall.
calmly calculated to pick another fuss
with him and knock his head off. He
happened to be working about the yard
as | drove up and as soon as he recog.
nized me he called out:
Didn't tell you never to come here
again? If you step foot on my land
you'll get the boot!
You can't give it to me- l said as
1 got down
Don't give me no sassv
"'And you come out here and gc;
your head bustcd!'
"He came" sighed the eX-agent. 81
had driven eleven miles to lick him, and
j felt sure | could put him to sleep IN
one round, but something happened
something had not counted on.
Ibid he have sons or hired man
who interferedT
mo, sir 1t was simply that sud.
denly discovered ! hadn't the grit of Il
grasshopper. The minute the man
started for me with pounded glass in
his eyes and his fists doubled up went
weak in the knees and began to chew on
my heart If he hadn't been in hurry
I should have tried to buy him off, but
he didn't wait for cash offers. He came
right out to me and let fly, and within
five minutes | was the worst licked
man Indiana ever saw. He gave me a
humping that laid me up for month,
and the o ~ blow l got in simply
knocked his hat Off 1 was taller and
heavier than he was, and with my sci
ence ought to have put him to sleep
with the first swing, but l came out as
have told you.
THAT ended my pugilistic career as
well as my agency. | don't say
wouldn't fight If n man spat on my
shoes or pulled my nose" concluded the
DetrOiter, according to the Detroit
Free Press, but you can take 1t that
dote on peace. and am not around look.
Ing for hornets nests"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
HANDS or oReAT pIANIsTa.
chey Need Muscular DeveIopsnea
All the Fingers.

All the Fingers.
The hands of celebrated pianlsts neA
lord n very interesting study TO most
people, but especially to those whe
tnow something about pianof0rte play
ing. Speaking in n general way, We
nay group the hands of pianists into
two classes. (a) the broad hand with
'hort fingers; (b) the narrow hand with
ong fingers. Won Bulow's and Tausig's
lands would come under the headinH
81 class A. In fact, Tausis's hands
we're so small that he was unable 10
play octaves correctly. The higher
aote usually followed the lower instead
IF both being struck simultaneously.
The hands OF Llszt and Mark Ham
bourg belong to class Il. Those who
are acquainted with Liszt's arrange
ments of Beethoven's and Beriioz's
symphonies know that he expanded the
chords TO dimensions which for the.
majority Of players are absolutely Inn
possible, yet Liszt could play them
with ease.
Mark Hamburg Is the possessor or
wonderful pinnoforte technique. Each
day he commences work with san
dow's exercises and then practices ON
the pianoforte for four or live hourw
He has never INDUCED In what ars
called finger gymnastics" neither has
he used digitorium or technicou4
How few people who listen to the
N. lat
viollnist realize the amount OF hard
work he has had to do In order to over
come all the technical difficulties OF his
instrument. Years Of daily grind are
absolutely necessary for getting tifs
fingers into condition of completes
obedience to the will. Schumann In
srying to improve his technique became
impatient and overworked his fingers.
with the result that he had to ahan-
don pianoforte playing
Won Bulow used to say that three
things are necessary for good p'nn-
list: THE first, technique; the second.
tehcnique, and the third, technique"
Possibly this was said so as TO Impress
upon the beginner that intellect and
emotion were OF no use unless he had
the means of expressing them I'm fiu-
ent way on the pianoforte.
In the present day considerable mus
cular power Is required In pianoforte
playing. To some extent this IL owing
to the fact that each note when struck
possesses u certain resistance, hut the
resistance Ia not equal throughout the
keyboard. The bass notes offer mora
resistance to the fingers than the treble
and consequently more attention
should be paid to the strengthening OF
the muscles of the left hand.
The pianist's hands can be developed
at the instrument or away from It. IL
away from the pianoforte then "hnger
gymnastics" may be used or an apparn-
tus called the "technlcon." Finger
gymnastics are exercises which can
be practiced evidently at any time or
In any place for you find people even
| In street cars and trains induiging IN
the exercise Of their finger joints and
looking anything but sane In their
efforts to rival Paderewski In feats o.
digital strength. ~
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Place Ida Lee In Custody.

Des Moines, June 4.-Local detec.
tectives captured Ida Lee here and
turned her over to Deputy Sheriff
Bartell OF Oklahoma City, Okl., last
night The woman's assumed name,
when masquerading as man, is Lee
Hale Sometime ago the detectives
received word to be on the lookout for
a woman who had been suspected OF
having secured $40O in cash, two dia-
mond rings and gold watch from a
man who had been intimate with her.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
She Explained the Meaning

one of the easiest ways for law.
yer to confuse IA witness is to make him
explain the meaning of word. Few
people can define word satisfactorily,
even If they know its meaning. A West
ern lawyer was cross-eXamining a
young woman who had very naughty
temper According to the Los Angeles
Herald, she had testified that she had
seen the defendant "shy" a book at the
plaintf'.
shy SHY book? What do you
mean by that? VIII you explain to the
court what the word shy means?"
The girl leaned over the desk beneath
the witness-boX, picked up u law book.
and threw it so accurately and so fore.
IDLY at the lawyer that he had hard
work TO dodge 1t.
II think the court now understands
the meaning of the word shy" said
the Judge, grayely. The girl was al
lowed to finish her testimony.
No one can read the Bible out loud
an the same voice in which he would
read q selection from a newspaper.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Boy Drowned Near Burwell,

Burwell, Neb., June 6-Chares,
son of W. S. Hahn, prominent
farmer living two miles west of
Burwell, was drowned Wednesday
afternoon while bathing in the Bur
well irrigation ditch. The boy was
nine years Of age.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Volcano in Mexico.

Albuquerque, N. NJ. June A.
Deputy United States Marshal Nc
Keehan, who has just arrived FROM
the west, reports the people OF
Gran { are greatly excited over the
appearance OF activity in volcano
few miles from that town.
Passenger trains observed smoke
in the direction of the volcano and
a man who was dispatched TO the
place says it was issuing from the
crater Of the largest volcano OF the
region.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Crown Jewel Is Missing.

New YOrk.-A sensation has been
caused in court circles, says the Stock
holm correspondent of the American
Journal, by the discovery that one OF
nIo crown jewels is missing from the
oval treasury. 1t is IL beautiful ruby
: 225 carats and is an historic gem
hat formed part of the royal regalia.
Ehe police OF all the European CAPT
ais have been warned to be on the
llert.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
Drowned In a Barrow Pit.

Gering, Neb., June 6. The seven
year old-son of Will Hale, section
foreman of the Burlington at Min.
atare, ten miles east OF Gerlng
was drowned in barrow pit beside
the railroad track Sunday evening
falling in by accident while playing
there with another lad OF his OWL
age.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12

ADULTERATiON OF FOOD.

Some Things that Are Used by Dis
honest Manufacturers.
The Senate Committee on Manufae-
lures recently caused an investigation
by the Department Of Agriculture ON
the subject Of adulteratiOn Of articles
of food and that report being made
has caused surprise to every one he
cause of the extent to which all arti-
cles of food are more or less tampered
with,
Adulteration does not necessarily
healthy. In many cases the adulterated
food Is as wholesome as would be the
pure article, but the fraud practiced ON
the consumer Is in selling ut the price
demanded for one food product sub
Btitute that Is cheaper and not desired
by the purchaser.
1t will be surprising to learn that
soap is frequently used as an adulteY-
ant for distilled liquors. 1t Is added i'm
very small amounts to produce q
dead" Glucose plays an important
part as an adulterant for many arti-
cles of food. 1t Is frequently used In
wine, for fruit sirups, in connections
with whole preserved fruits and with
jams and marmalade.
Lemon extract Is sold that has no oil
of lemon In II Mustard Is made OF
score OF things that never laid claim
TO the name Of mustard until they had
been boxed ready for sale. Clay has
been found in some samples of mus
tard, but not frequently, or 102 sam
pies of pepper examined by the Con-
necticut experiment station tbirty-two
contained no pepper at all. IT has
been shown, says the Washington
Star. that cottonseed oil is extensively
used for lard, olive oil and cheese.
The extensive substitution OF oieomar-
garinc for butter is well known. The
Pennsylvania department OF agrieuk
ture in 1,777 samples FOUND 1.033 to
contain oleOmargarlne.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12

People are so anxious to see some
thing for nothing that they will run a
couple OF miles to see little shed
burn down
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
No Room for Dearest Mamma.

No Room for Dearest Mamma
But there isn't spare bedroom in
the house"
"Oh, that's all right, my dear"
'Why do you say it's all rightT'
IL was thinking of your mother. my
dear. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12
A Promise with Limitations.

Charley, dear" said young Mrs.
TOrkins. Il want you to promise that
you will not lose any more money ON
horse races"
IL won't bet a cent"
Now, that's just sheer contrariness.
You know If you don't bet you can't
win. Washington Star
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-06-12

included in the eastern district.
Harry Wilson, one.legged man,
recently sentenced in Colfax county to
three years 10 the peitentiary, escaped
from the sheriff, who was bringing
him in. Wilson went TO the toilet
room of the chair car, near Havelock,
and from there escaped through the
window. He was later arrested Tor
beating his way on train and was
recognized as the missing man.
DR.. G. II. Mcdowell, young ply.
stefan of Pawnee City, was found dead
in his room at the hotel having re
tired in apparent good health. The
coroner's jury held an inquest
but the verdict will not be
made public until the relatives
of the dead man can be notified. His
relatives are supposed TO reside In
Omaha and Council Bluffs.
On the largest bell in the Mckinley
chimes for st. Paul's Methodist Epis-
copal church, in Lincoln, is the in
scripti0n, Presented by the citizens
of Lincoln and Vicinity in Memory of
Our Beloved President, William Nc
Kinley, March, 1902" Below this in
scription is the Scriptural quotation,
Know ye not that prince and a
good man has fallen this day In
Israel"
Omaha will build a $4,000 market
house.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-07-29

10 EvGkTTHrfica- new.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-07-29
TIME TABLE.

EAST HOUND.
No. 1872 Mail ........... *ll:43 am.
No. 1876 Way Fr't fr.Lawton 1l:30 am.
No. 134 Way Freight. ..... $3.50 a. m.
No. l30 Mail from Lawton. ~ 6:20p.m.
TRAINS WEST. -
No. l29 Mail from Lawton. ~ $40 am.
No. 1873 Way Freight. . 1l:43 am.
No. l3l Mail. $3.50 pm.
No. l35 Way Fr't fr. Lawton 3:45 pm.
*Daily Others daily except Sunday
G. B. Bartlev, Agnt.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-09-27

Well, yesl Robbed Of their right TO
vote. they are now denied the ordi nary
protection afforded to the brute crea-
ton. 1t viii teach us a lesson however.
When fiends like TBfBERLAKs are
caught committing criminal assaults, the
proper course to pursue is to empty the
contents Of 3 shotgun, loaded 20 the
muzzle into their polluted carcasses.
just as the white men teach us to do.
The tell Us to treat the rapist as a mad
dog.-Let us do il.
We have unanimously yielded mp de-
mented Negroes guilty of similar Of
fenses against white women and have
Joined in the chase that led to their I'M
doing. A crazy colored youth was sen.
fenced TO die in New Kent county, and
another crazy colored youth was SEN
fenced to die In Charles City county,
and HIGGINBoTHAM, a crazy colored
youth was hanged at Lynchburg for
criminally assaulting white woman at
Lynchburg, Va.
Like TIMBERLAKE, they were all crazy
at the time the crime was committed,
but they viii be in their good senses, it
is presumed, on the other shore. The
verdict in this TIMBERLAKE case is a
disgrace to the community and colored
people are not alone in this opinion.
They have Inundated, brow-beat
en- and made fun of this old Christian.
woman who was so scandalously treat
ed, but reckoning day is coming bye
and bye.
Let these 1ends keep on with their
atrocious crimes. They will yet awak-
en- in this section some citizen of color
who win see these outrages as white
men see them and who will take his
chances and defend woman. hood, re-
gardless of the cost to himself or those
around him.
Take this sane man on to the insane
asylum and once more demonstrate that
there is one law for white man and
another for a colored one. When white
men evince sympathy for rapist and
afford him protection, then the degen-
Grafton Of that element is complete. We
naturally wonder whether the sending
of TrMBERLAKE to the asylum is TO af-
ford him protection from an outraged
public or to emphasize the belief In his
mental alteration.
Take your human fiend on to the in.
stitutlon and if all of the other inmates
Of respectable connections do not leave
or demand his removal, it will only be
ar additional evidence of their complete
mental responsibility.
These are dark and gloomy times
down here. What shall the end be?
God save the commonwealth
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-09-27
A WORD ABOUT REGISTRATION.

THE registration now being conduct
ed in this state under the new consti-
tution is q bowling farce. Colored men
are being rejected under the under
standing clause in all of the black coun-
ties. The absurdity of the arrange
ment can be realized and appreciated
when it is known that the examination
to which an illiterate citizen is subject
ed is practically the same as the one
which is submitted to candidate APP
plying TO our Supreme Court for per,
mission TO be admitted to the bar Of this
state.
All white men are registered under
one clause or the other. The only re-
deerning feature is found In the fact
that property owning colored men are
registered without question. 1t is in
deed pathetic TO see the outrageous co n
ditions now prevailing here. The coll
ored citizen is admitted to the room,
from which all citizens are excluded
and then subjected to all kinds OF ques-
tions. He has no witness to HIS treat
ment save himself. and in case Of q con-
test, the word of the Registrar goes.
The remedy for this condition cannot
at this time be prescribed. It seems
that we are victims of hugh conspira-
cy, which does not end here, but finds a
resting place even in the Supreme Court
at Washington.
For our part, we have never been in
favor of defending a government that
will not defend us.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-09-27
YORK COUNTY ROBBED
Treasurer Thompson. Charged With
Observation-Disclosures SIG MIssIno.

Treasurer Thompson. Charged With
Embezzlement-@75, $40 MissInq.
York. Pa. Sept ga sensation
was created last night, when the re-
port OF H. E lands, the accountant
who had been examining into the
county's financial condition, was made
public Some months ago County
Commissioner jeremiah Hildebrand
accidentally discovered that there
were apparent stealings OF county
funds He had an expert accountant
appointed. and last nights report Is
the result. 1t is shown that the dis
crepancy for 1900 Is s9,Ss9.95; for
1901. $50. ST6.T7. and for 1909. So.
409.95, a total OF $7S.576.6T. This was
done by abstracting bills. by having
them repaid and by altering amounts
of bills. II was expected that there
would be wholesale arrests, but only
one was made. that OF County Treas
urer William o. Thompson. against
whom there are ten informations.
charging forgery. embezzIemen. and
keeping false accounts.