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RAILROADS.
Baltimore and Ohio X. K.

Baltimore and Ohio X. r.
ROYAL BLUE LINE go.
TRAINS EVERY OTHER HOUR ON THE ODD
PIIIIAl EIPHIA AND NEW YORK.
1900 IN Buffet. Parlor. s Hr. Train.
tii:O0 am. Diner and Parior Car.
.I:oop.m. Diner and rarlo. Car;
taSS pm cD aSyal .o rsisdeipni na"an
800 pm Diner and Pullman Sleeper. ,,'"
$500 pm. Coaches to Philadelphia
300 m. Sleepers.
Atlantic City. t7:oo 1900. tii:oo am. ti:oo.
70 n EyEHS Bo WITH 9I pg The Hog snv,cr
s;ss; 900; o;so. 1000; LOO am 200 noon,
LOO, rs 800. $50 800 $50, $50. 500 1000:
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pITrsRURG end EvEI.ANp. 'i1:oo am.
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WHEELING. 1905 am. '7:3o pm.
CHE, tssS am ts;os 100 pm 90
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H n S tS;oS An. and 100 PM >,
LuRAY and ELKToN. :4:o5 pm
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TOYS s isaef so a ac y1s points, 1885,
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q ticket Offices. 6i0 Pennsylvania ave. n.w;. New
York isa nE D. ans = s..ssp Agent
ID. g. MARTIN. Manager Passenger Trafie.
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RAILROADS.
Atlantic Coast Lime.

Effective October TO- 1904.
4:3O am. daily Sleeping Cars New York to
Jacksonville. Fla.
3:45 pm. daily-Sleeping New York to Jack
sOnville Fla; New York to Port Tampa. Fla. via
jacksonville New York to Augusta. Ca; New York
to Charleston, S. c.; Washington. D. G.. to VIII
minston. N. C. Connects ut Petersburg for Nor
folk, via n & w. PULLMAN DINING OAR
SERVICE on this train.
Eel tickets and all information apply at the
OFFICE OF THE LINE. COL PENNSSLV AN1A
AVENUE NORTHWEST, and PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD STATION.
A. l.. REED,
District Passenger Agent, Washington, d. c.
". J. CRAIG H. NJ. EMERSON,
Gen. Pas. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Wilmington ~ c. Wilmington, ". q.
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c. is at sea bound to Alexandria. She 10
expected to arrive in the Potomac within
the next day two.
The William II. Mcguire left Alexandria
this morning for Nomini creek and will
there load a cargo of lumber and wood for
this CITY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-28

Edward Byrnes of the ora dominion line
steamer Jefferson was repoISed missing
when the stean9e arrived In Nkw York yes
In. the missing jinan's roam va q found a note
saying he was tired of lie and that he
was about 70 lnt an end to his TROUBLES
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Mr.. TYNER REPLIES
DECLARES HE rs WILLING TO
FACE TRIAL ON ANY CHARGE.
Asserts That He is Innocent Of Wrong.
doing and Protests Against
the Presidents Attitude.

Mr.. James N. Tyrer, formerly assistant
attorney general Cor the Post Office Depart
nent, who was removed from office by the
PRESIDENT and later tried and acquitted on
charges in connection with alleged postal
fiauds, has made public the following letter
sent by him to the President:
WASHINGTON. D. c., October s, 1904
Sir: Immediately after the publication of
your extraordinary proclamation last No
Vember declaring me guilty, without hear
ing or trial, of gross corruption" accept
aEce of brides and other misconduct in
office, l filed with you an emphatic denial
OF every charge in toto and asked for an
opportunity to prove my innocence. You
ignored this humble protest, and after
mad exhausted every means of establishing
my innocence and had been promptly ac-
quilted by jury upon the indictments
caused to be found against me, / again pc
t1t1oned you to withdraw your unwarranted
proclamation of guilt. In reply to this L
received Your sec:etary's letter of June b.
which was SO unfair and unjust, and SO
clearly owed its character to the exigencies
of your presidential campaign. that l con-
sidered it unworthy of notice. especially as
you withheld it from the public Even now
j should make no reply if there had not
recently appeared III popular magazine
an inspired" article, which uses the very
phraseology of your letter. and which is
such a deliberate tissue of falsehoods and
is circulated for such an evident purpose
that / cannot ignore it.
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MUSICAL INSTRUCTION.

MISS GEORGE O. MkssoS.' Of BALTIMORE
will resume vocal lessons at VIM. KNABE & Co,
1880 St. Saturday, October 8, from 10: 80
an. to 6 pm. oc3- 26t-4
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10

G. c. Demerer had narrow escape
from death by being caught in lathe in
the Burlington shops at Lincoln. As it
was he was only slightly bruised. though
nearly every stitch of his clothin" was
torn from him. Demerer was caught in
the machine while at work near it and
upon his yell for help his fellow worllalen
rushed to his assistance and succeeded
in dragging him out Of it. He was then
carried home and a physician summoned.
who found that he had not been injured.
The Continental Investment Company.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
ATTEMPTED HOLDUP
TWO FUTILE TRIALS ON THE
PENNSYLVANIA ROAD.
The Express Messenger Fires at a
Bandit When Told to Let Him
Into the Car-General News.

According te the crew of the Philadel-
phia and New York express train on the
Pennsylvania road, which left Washing
ton at $50 o'clock Sunday night. two un-
successful attempts were made to hold up
the train mt Hayre de Grace and Perry
vile, in Maryland, by two men, one of
whom was negro. The men escaped.
1t is believed the men boarded the train
ut baltimore. Just as the train approach
ed the long bridge at Havre de Grace, the
express messenger r. Herbert Carter
saw a white man prying at the front door
of the express car with an iron bar. \
moment after he discovered this the man
thrust a revolver through the crevice
which the bar made. He ordered the mes
Senger to let him in, but the messenger
replied by firing his revolver and pulling
the signal cord for the engineer to stop.
When the train came to q stop Conductor
Sibley ran forward to the engine and
there found a colored man standing on
the coal in the tender with a revolver in
his hand He ordered the man down.
At first lie refused, but after Il short ar
gument he left the tender.
Going hack to the express car he was
told by the messenger what had happen
ed, but the white man had disappeared.
The train resumed its journey. and
when it reached Perryyille, on the farther
side Of the bridge. the two men again ap-
peared. one on the tender and the other
OH the front platform of the express car,
which was Immediately behind the ten
der. The engine was again promptly stop
ped. but before the two men could be cap
tured they disappeared in the darkness.
The conductor says the engineer and
fireman OF the locomotive saw the negro
on the tender, but as they were not arm
ed they could do nothing
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
MAY GO ON A STRIKE.
Trainmen on the Pennsylvania Road
are Voting

Members of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen employed on the Pensyl-
vania system west of Pittsburg are yot
ing on the question Of strike in antici-
patton of an announcement from the Off
cials of the Pennsylvania that the de-
mand of the union for a working agree
ment had been refused.
1t was declared in Chicago that con-
ference between the executive committee
of the brotherhood and President a. J.
Cassett, of the Pennsylvania, which was
held last Wednesday in Fittsburg, was
unsatisfactory to the union officials ana
that referendum vote was already vot-
ing on the strike proposition and now the
employees on the western end, including
Chicago are asked to express their wish
es regarding the policy the organization
shall pursue if the final answer of the
Pennsylvania is against them.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
KILLED BY HIS SON
Edward Howard, of Detroit, is Shot
During q Quarrel.


Edward Howard, IA pattern maker liv-
ing at Detroit, Mich. was shot and in
stantly killed Sunday by lis son Arthur
aged p years. while the elder man had
his wife and daughter pinned to the floor
by their throats. He had been drinking
and had quarreled with Mrs. Howard be-
cause she would not give him more
money. The shooting. it is claimed by
the son and mother, was accidental. Last
Week Howard drank very heavily. and
sunday he demanded more money for IL
luor. Mrs. Howard refused him and he
ordered her out of the house As she
started to leave he attacked her The
laughter ran ~ her mothers rescue and
Howard threw both Of them to the floor
and was hOlGng them there by their
throats when Arthur came in the door
The young man rushed up stairs and Sc
cured a revolver. Fastening back he
caught his father by the shoulders as he
bent over the PROSTATE women. As the
father turned, the revolver was diScharg-
I'd. accidentally, Arthur and his mother
insist. The father lived but Il few mo-
ments.
Aoung Howard is under arrest.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
DlSGRACEFUL ACTS.
Raw in the French Chamber OF
B. Deputies-TroOps Called Out.

DeputleS-lrOOpS Salleu ouC.
Paris advices state that Fridays sit
ting of the chamber Of deputies was one
Of the stprmiest and most heated in re-
cent years, the excitement eliminating
tionalist deputy, stepped up to Gen An
DIRE, the minister Of war, and slapped
his face, After accomplishing this feat
Syveton retreated rapidly to the upper
most row Of seats, taking refuge behind
members of the opposition A tremend-
Jus tumult ensued, deputies of all parties
crowding upon the floor Of the house,
where free fight was soon in progress.
Speaker Brisson left the chair, thus sus-
pending the sitting. Eventually order
sumed Syyeton's temporary exclusion
was voted. The offender, however, re-
fused to quit his seat, and it became nee
essary to suspend the sitting while he
was removed by a military guard.
1t is probable that this misconduct,
which occurred just before the final di-
vision, materially contributed to strength
IN the position of the cabinet, which at
one time seemed very critical; for after
securing a majority of only two on Il
preliminary question the government fin
ally carried vote of confidence by over
100 majority.
At midnight the officials of the cham
Der of deputies, assembled in Speaker
Brisson's private cabinet, were still dis
GUESSING the course Of action to be taken
rpgading Deputy Syveton. Deputies who
witnessed the assault upon the minister
Of war say that Gen. Andre was wholly
taken by surprise and was struck with
such violence that he would have fallen
had not Premier Combes stepped for
ward and supported him.
Gen. Andres face was much swollen
and cut by ring worn by Syveton.
Speaker Brisson has notified the Judi
:ial authorities that an assault has been
committed within the precincts Of the
chamber
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
MURDER MYSTERY.
Body of Dakota Farmer Found
furied on His Farm.

The authorities of Hand County, S. D.,
are trying to solve sensational murder
mystery.
The victim of the unknown murderer
was a farmer named Todd. who lived
alone on his farm fifteen miles north of
Miller. Three weeks ago Todd suddenly
disappeared, and no trace was found Of
him until his body was discovered in a
grave OH his own farm Thursday.
The authorities are still completely at
sea. and no motive for the crime has yet
been discovered.
Jacob johnson, bachelor, disappeared
from the same township last summer and
has not been heard of since. 1t is now
believed he met with foul play, and that
his body will be found later.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
BANDITS ARE SURROUNDED.
Cody Bank Robbers in the Owl
Creek Foothills.

Advices from Cody. Wyo., state thai.
the different bands of men hunting the
men who killed the cashier Of the First
National Bank have the robbers prhcti-
cally surrounded in the foothills of the
Owl Creek Mountains, fifty miles from
Cody, and their death or capture is GER
tain within a short time. 1t is reported
that a large force of their friends are
coming to their assistance from the
''Hole-in-the-Wa country, and nun.
Der of men have left Cody to reinforce
the pursuers.
cowboys, has taken the trail, and ailiveiy
time may be anticipated Cody and his
force are heavily armed and are deter
mined to get the robbers.
The bandits have cut all the telephone
wires leading through the basin, and it is
almost impossible to get fvrtaer facts.
A telephone message frOnl Basin, the
county seat, says that Sheriff FentOn and
posse are in the Bad Lands, over near
ThermOpois, a long distance from tele,
phone. Thursday forenoon Fenton sent
a man back to the nearest telephone sta
ton to report to Basin that he and his
party had the outlaws located and eX-
pected to get them. The bandits are now
among friends, and it is believed that the
sheriff's party Will have some hard fight
ing on its hands.
A ThermOpolis, Wyo.. dispatch says:
Sheriff Fenton. of Big Horn County,
came in from the chase of the outlaws
who attempted to rob the bank of Cody
and killed Cashier Middaugh on Tuesday
last. He had Il conference with Sheriff
Slough, of Fremont County, and the two
officers Will leave for the Bad Lands in
the vicinity OF Tarby Creek, east of the
Big Horn River, where Fenton believes
he has the outlaws surrounded The Of
hcerS Will endeayOr to prevent the rob
bers from penetrating the interior Of the
Band Lands, for once inside their capture
would become an extremely hazardous
task
During the day posses patroled the
open country between Cottonwood, Grass,
Gooseberry and Owl Greeks.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
STATE OF NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON.
OeNSED FORM.
Novel Nebraska Courtship-WOman
Weds Man Who Tried TO Destroy
Her Beauty-Mary E. Spann and
William Graham were Married.

A Lincoln special says: \ unique
method of courtship has just made its
appearance in Lincoln. Some suitors
may be reluctant to try it, but there is at
least one case on record in which it has
proved successful.
Mary E. Spann and William Graham
have just been married in Council Bluffs
About the middle of last July Graham.
maddened at the persistent refusal of the
woman to consider his attentions, made
vicious attack upon her, stabbinS her
face several times with his pocket knife.
III fix you so that if you won't nave
me, no other man will want you!' he is
said to have declared. III spoil your
pretty face so no other man will look at
you. You'll marry me some day, you see
If you don't!'
At the time it did not look as if his
prophecy was to be fulfilled. One obsta-
Gle was that the woman was already mar
ried To be sure. her husband, George
Pebbles, wasa confirmed opium tiend with
scarcely Il trace of manhood left, but
nevertheless he was alive. Then the at
titude of the woman did not seem to be
encouraging. She had Graham arrested
on July 10. 1904. for assault with attempt
to kill. At the preliminary trial he was
found guilty and was bound over to the
district court under $1,000 bonds. On
securing his release on bond he again
made vigorous love to the young woman.
His success is shown by events. On
Oct. 20 Mrs. Pebbles secured Il divorce
from George Pebbles Oh the ground OF
descrtion and his addiction to the use of
opium. She was given her maiden name
Of Mary Spann, and Oh Wednesday she
married her impetuous lover. William
Graham. at Council Bluffs. The suit
againSt Erlham has hcnn discontinued
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Hundreds in Distress.

A letter dated Oct. 20, received at Mo
bile, Ala, on Thursday, from George
town, Grand Cayman, gives details of the
storm which swept over that island about
two weeks ago. The people are suffering
from the direst poverty. There is not a
pound of foodstuff in the whole island for
sale, and hundreds of inhabitants suffer
from lack of food
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
SPECIAL TRAIN WRECKED.
James Speyer, New York Banker,
Has n Narrow EScaDe

Has a Narrow Escape.
Word has just reached Laredo, Tex,
that the special which just left over the
Mexican National Railroad, bearing JAS
Speyer, of the banking firm of Speyer
& Co., Of New York, while going at a
high rate Of speed was ditched between
Sanchez and La Jarita, about twenty
five miles south Of Laredo.
A special train later reached Laredo,
bearing the members Of the party who
started out with Mr.. Speyer early in the
evening.
Mr.. Speyer is uninjured. One of the
party, j. Davis, of New York, received
painful cuts about the face but otherwise
is uninjured.
The wreck, it is stated, was the result
Of the condition Of the roadbed and the
speed-seventy-fye miles an hour-the
train was going at the time, it having
been the intention of the railroad officials
to endeavor to establish new record be-
tween Laredo and Mexico City.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
CINCINNATI MURDER MYSTERY

No Clew to the Slayer of Miss Alma
Steinway.
No clew has been found to the murderer
of Alma Steinway, a Cincinnati, O., tele-
phone operator, aged IS years. whose
body was found ia vacant lot near
the Spring Grove cemetery at Winton
Place, a suburb, Thursday.
There were male footprints in the trail
where the body was found. The girl left
the telephone Office at Cummingsville at
8 o'clock Wednesday night and her body
was found in the lot near the cemetery
the next morning. Her head and face
had been crushed in by blow from q
blunt instrument. The dead girl was a
member of the Episcopal church choir at
Winton Place and highly respected.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
BURN SCHOOL HOUSE.
HoOdlums at Geneva Thought to be
Incendiaries.

The other morning about 3 o'clock fire
was discovered at the east side of the
high school building at Geneva. Mrs.
II. II. Martin was up attending a sick
child and was the first to see it and give
the alarm. 1t was then found that the
fire bell was tied so it could not be rrng
and ten feet of water had been run out of
the pipe into the stock yards. 1t was
evident that an attempt had been made
to burn the old school building by some
one not yet discovered.
HoOdlums were out all night and it is
suspected some OF the nightbirds did it.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Will Prosecute "Nigger Bill".

An Ansley special states that the bust
ness men OF Mason have raised a fund of
$3.50 to assist i'll the prosecution of
Niger Bill of Broken Bow. who badly
cut Y. Tomma, Il Japanese railroad labor
er, in saloon at Mason, Monday night.
Accounts of the fight tend to show very
clearly that Niger Bill was the aggresS-
or. The japanese laborers have made Il
favorable impression among business men
of Mason. Ansley. Broken Bow and Ber-
wyn by their peaceablc and orderly CON
duct, which has been Il great contrast
with the average railroad gang.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
A Horse Funeral.

With funeral procession such as is
found wanting i'll the burial of hundreds
of human beings, the three thoroughbred
racers which lost their lives in Il fire at
Norfolk We're buried in a cemetery. amid
Il ceremony that was dirgeful and i'm
pressye. The three horses frames were
loaded carefully in vans and carried like
any corpse, excepting the casket, to the
tomb. They were placed i'll the same
crave.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
PROSPEROUS WEST NEBRASKA
Irrigation and Dairying Have Made
"a Change in Conditions.

1t is Il fact that many fasteners still
labor under the impression that the west
ern part of Nebraska is nothing but Il
drouth-Strickcn desert. The reasons for
this nisconccption of the real state OF
affairs We're tn edry years of the 90s. But
things have changed wonderfully since
the time when the first dry year was SO
much felt by the western NebraSkan
Along the valleys where it was posi-
BILE to do so irrigation bitches We're built
and sufficient moisture for the crops OBJ
tanned in this way This has been deyel
Oped until land that only Il few years
ago was considered little better than
worthless is now of good price.
The dry years are only a memory now.
for great changes take place in very
short time in a new country.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Find Farmer in Road.

August Anderson was found lying in
the roadway, unconscious. not far from
his home near Red Cloud, Saturday
evening by Eric Bergman. Anderson
had been to Campbell, where he has been
in the habit Of imbihinS too freely 1t is
supposed that he fell from his wagon
while returning to his home. He is still
alive, but with u broken or diSlocated
neck. He is man Of about 10 years OF
n
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Farmer Accidentally Shot.

Joseph Peipneier, a farmer living near
Dodge. accidentally shot himself in the
abdomen Tuesday afternoon and his re-
covery is doubtful. He loaded up his gun
to shoot Il skunk and while hurrying
nearer to the animal in order to get Il
good shot he stumbled and fell, in some
way striking the hammer of the gun.
The bullet entered about the center of the
abdomen and passed upwards.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
CONSERVATIVES ARE BARRED
No Person with Disease can Work
in POStOffice.

Hereafter 10 person suffering from
consumption will be employed in United
positions from which they are likely to
spread the disease.
This decision has been reached by the
United States civil service commission,
and Commissioner Cooley has just sent
out an order to this effect
The order reads that hereafter all per-
sons must submit to a physical eXamina-
ton, if the presence of the disease is sus-
pected, and that II the disease is found
the sufferer must not be employed.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
TEACHER WHIPPED HIM.
Bad YOungster at Beatrice Squeals
Over Sound Thrashing

Prof. Borlan, teacher of music in the
Beatrice public schools, had quite an
exciting time with IL boy named John
Whitcomb, a pupil in the fourth grade OF
the East school.
The boy persisted in making noise
with a bunch of keys against the wish
of the professor, while he was giving the
regular music lessons in the room. and
the professor went to the boy and at
tempted to take the keys away from him,
when the lad struck him in the face with
his fist. After quite Il tussle with young
Whitcomb Prof. Borlan succeeded in
chastising him thoroughly.
The lad went home and told his pa
rents of what had happened and Mr..
Whitcomb appeared before the county
attorney and threatened to have the
teacher arrested.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Organize Against Horse Thieves

a special meeting OF the Sarpy Coun
ty Farmers Protective Association has
been called to meet in Gretna Dec , and
in Papillion Dec. 10. New members are
being continually enrolled into this or
ganizatiOD, which is the elimination of
the vigilance committee organized Il few
years ago by the farmers. The associa-
ton has been incorporated under the
state laws, its object being to afford Il
protection in case of theft.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Russian Fleet Leaves Tanoier

The entire Russian feet of warships,
accompanied by ten Golfers and hos.
pital ship, sailed from Tangier Saturday
morning. When the squadron finally dis
appeared on the horizon the garships
were heading west-southwCSt.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Eamcr Still Filing Briefs.

Judge Hamer has filed his third brief
in the Lille murder case at Lincoln. and
has served notice that he has more com
ing. In concluding No. ; Judge Hamcr
states that the case had not been tried
Dn the evidence, but upon public opinion
manufactured i'll Butler County.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-10
Robbers in Wholesale Raid.

a Hammond, Ind, specials says that
II wholesale raid was made by robbers at
McCoysburg, south of that city, on the
Monon Railway. Five stores and the
postoffice were robbed. In the postoHice
rhe big safe was blown to pieces with nj
troglycerine. All the stamps and money.
including some church funds that had
been deposited there. were taken.