Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-28
GOVERNOR TO PUT on A SUB
Called 70 burlington, I5va, to Attend the
Funeral Of an Uncle.
ACCEPTS EXPOSITION INVITATION
letter written by Miss Thomas to
Her Neither Before shooting OF
BrOdersOn Given - the
omeers.

Fron stan Corre1 hdentl
LINCOLN FEB. 27.-tsb aID-lIeuten-
ant Governor McGiiton prohahly will Be
governor Of Nebraska tonorfeu and sunday D..
This afternoon Governor Mtnkey received
Telegram that his uncle IL A. Barnes Of
Burlington. Ia. had died. Is the inten-
uon Of the governor TO ~, tonight for
Burlington 10 attend the 9intrsl though
he has not yet decided. ha3iuf received no
Intelligence as TO when ta3Ffunerai will
Be hsid. Lieutenant Gov por MeGilton
viii remain In Lincoln ttlght in order
70 be ready to take the exfeutive chsir
Governor Mickey has accepted an Envits-
tion for himself and staff TO attend DE- ded-
ieatoTy exercises Of the Louisiana Pbrehase
exposition to be held in St LOUIS April 80
and May and ?. In view q the fact that
the governor has not yet announted the
members Of his star and will not until after
the legislature Adiourns. It is not known
who VIII take the iunket-
Enquest on Broder.oE.
An inquest vas held this norn.u4 over
the remains of Fred Broderson, skot 10
death By Jennie Thomas. and the Jury
brought in a verdict that deceased had
come to his death from the snesta Of a
gunshot wound inflicted by Jennie fThomss.
Miss Thomas is improving al 50 Elira-
beth's hospital and the physicianS believe
there Is no doubt Of her recovery. Another
claimant has appeared in the person Of
Thomas Holman. for tine dizmondf ring
which Miss Thomas claimed Broderson had
given her and shen offered to Miss Myrtle
Way. Holman said the ring belOngedto his
wife and II had been pavned and rfteened
-
she vas net engaged TO marry Broderson
and never had been BrOderson. sEe said.
had frequently called on her and asked her
TO marry him. but she had never accept d
him.
letter written BY Miss Thomas to her
mother before the tragedy has been re-
eeived BY Mrs Thomas and will be sent to
the ofneers here. The father os the girl re-
fused TO give out the contents Of the let
ter until he had given 1t TO fhe ofncers-
Chris Broderson. a brother Of the dead
man has been appointed zdministrator OF
his estate. He said the estate consisted oi
probably $500 in personal propsrty and an
unknown amount Of real estate
Philippine Veterans OfkanIse.
Local camp No. /. known as Camp John
n stotzenburg. Philippine veterans. was
organized at the LindeIl hoteI last night
with severty-two members. The organiza-
tion viii Immediately begin preparations tc
send a delegation TO the national eneamp-
ment Of Philippine veterans 81 St Paul
next September. The folio ng eaieers
were elected: President. Cap IN r. James
COsgroye. vice president. ,aptain NJ
Herpolsbeimer; secretary. seE eznt Lee H
Steiner; treasurer. Corporal A. d. Colwell;
ehEplafa Rev. James Mailleys sergeant-at-
arms. George s Higginbotham; bugler. z
d. Lindernan.
The followinr is list Of t&e members
Arthur p -shepherd. Frank wslfe. Oscar Z
Gibbs. Albert l. Kemmerer. Albert z
Francis George A. Van Over. Fred l. Fas-
sett. clyds vosburg. Iohn wesfover. James
Barnes. Perry ". Jswett. Howard L An
drews. Georgs .Batsf Charles E. GufIlion
Leo II. Stouer. leonard c. Fsss. Henry "
Hickman. p James Cosgrovs. Arthur B
colweli. Bert E White. Harry A. Sehu
man. Martin Herpolsheimer. Edward J
Myer. william Pfisterer. Ernest W. Day
H. NJ Hitchcock. s. T. Hickman. Georg'
R Ray. Harry C. Reddiek. Richard C
James Harry E. Armstrong. George S
Higginbotham. David MeFry. Eugene Z
Lindermann. Anthony F. Pacal. W.
Tucker. T. W. HRwksworth Wilson Lin
coin. J. Wood Breretor, A. c. Smith, o. W
Meier. Dexter 7 Jcvett. Leonard Sherman
Frank II. Johnson. w. W. MiIligan, Waite
z Barrett. R. s shoaf p. C. simmerman
l. A. Stone. Charles A. Lewis. Prank D
Eager. Jerome Devriendt. Marion H. Wood
ward. c. c. TelIesen. Ralph C. Fields. job
J. Carlisle. r. r Sehuman. William Mar
tin, Charles J. Mec1endon. George c
Barnes. Joseph A Storeh, Arthur y. Storcl
Oscar Z. storeh N. o. EurdhOlm. H {
Klinkert. James MalIley. Charles 7. KNAPP