Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-09

zona or New Mexico II he Is to live. In
addition there was a certificate OF good
behavior from Samuel Parker Of Pawnee
county, 20 whom the man had been pa
rolled. Wade was convicted Of securing
money under false pretenses.
illegal Hunting.
Today Game Warden Carter stated that
Tom Tournik, living in the neighborhood
Of Silver Creek, has been arrested for
shooting fifteen young ducks Sunday The
birds we're very young. had no wing
feathers and could not fy. The depart
ment will press the prosecution.
J. A Kershaw and G. A. Gray OF Silver
Creek were each fined S and costs for
shooting young prairie chickens. Carter
says that the lagoons around Genoa and
Silver Creek are alive with young ducks
The open season begins September / for
both species.
BiE Irrigation Project.
Plans for a new irrigation project which
will involve the expenditure of $4,000 have
been filed in the office Of the State Board
Of Irrigation by persons residing in Chey-
enne and Kimball counties 1t is planned
to construct reservoirs along the Lodge
pole creek TO catch the winter and food
waters with which, it is claimed, 10000
acres OF land can be irrigated without
interfering with the existing water rights
Attempt at kidnapping.
James NJ Gray, who was recently di-
vorced from his wife, was arrested this aft
ernoon after an exciting chase by Police
man Boegh and landed in the station on
the charge of having attempted to kdnap
his 6-year-old daughter, Ruth. call came
to the station about 2 o'clock stating that
man was attempting to steal a child. The
iptb
with the screaming girl in his arms pur-
sued by the mother and a mob of men and
women crying vengeance The policeman
captured the man and lodged him in the
city Jail, while the child was returned to
the mother who had, by the end Of the
chase, become hysterical.
MiIitiamen Under Arrest.
When the Lincoln Light infantry started
for the camp of instruction at Kearney
today Private Roy Davey, a plumber, was
taken along under guard, charged with vio-
lation of his military duties by refusing
to go with the company. Yesterday, ac-
cor1ing to Plumber F. c. Phillips, for whom
the man works, a detail Of six men under
sergeant, sent by order of the adjutant
general, went to Twenty-second and Wash
| ington streets, where the man was work
ing and placed him under arrest.
Phillips said that he had three other
men in his employ who are members of the
guard. Recently he told them that they
could not remain in his employ and go
to camp, their absence would seriously
interfere with his business. Because he
did not want to lose his place, Davey re-
fused to obey the command of the first
lieutenant to attend the muster of Company
F for the trip to the instruction camp at
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question as to the right of the command
ing officer of a company to order the arrest
of any member OF the command who fails
to respond to call for active duty,
whether In the field for active service or
merely for the purpose of instruction.
When called out into service for instruc-
ton the National Guard is regarded as a
part Of the regular army and subject to
the same regulations. Recently Adjutant
General Culver addressed several letters to
employers OF militiamen asking them to al
low them to attend the camp
Politics and Religion.
II am talking politics now" said Rev.
Stephen ]. Herben to the Epworth leaguers
this morning. This country needs a re-
vival Of righteousness, more than it does a
revival OF religion" p..I u--I
The speaker was talking about the mag
nihcent opportunities that were offered to
the league for work in different lines, re-
ligious and moral.
He digressed after telling of the oppor-
tunities for carrying the work of Christ
into the slums of the big cities and to the
heather in far OF lands and gave the youni,
people a strong talk along the paths OF
civic purity and business integrity.
He eulogized President Roosevelt for his
stand for a square deal and also COM
mended the work of Governor Hoch in
Kansas, La Toilette in Wisconsin. Folk in
Missouri and Mickey in Nebraska.
He declared that members of the Ep-
worth league must get in politics. The sa.
looms were in politics and they were fou
blot on the country. He declared that the
saloon existed in all it's hideousness be-
cause Christian people let It live. He re-
ferred to Nebraska and pleaded with his
audience to clean out the saloons through
the ballot.
''Our beloved county never Will be purge6
OF corruption until every Christian man
backed by the glorious womanhood OF tho
nation. deposits his ballot against the sa
LOOM" he insisted with passionate earnest
ness.
Lets Contract for MuIfOFd.
Today the State Board OF Public Lands
and Buildings let s. contract for a neN
boiler at the Milford Industrial home iol
s.. .4s7.50 to Howard Burns and company
Governor Mickey and the members Of tn,
board authorized the creation OF de
ficiency owing to the fact that the legisla
tive appropriation had been insufficient L
. provide for a new boiler to take the plac'
; OF the one now in use, which has beeI
| condemned. The members of the Board o
Public Lands and Buildings say that Their
, was nothing else to do. Treasurer Morten
! sen had demanded OF his colleagues. how
/ ever that the institution. which now ha
E sixteen inmates, be closed up. In addition
TO women there are fifteen infants. Tn
treasurer proposes to remove the inmate
to some other institution.
University student Mt Panama.
Linn Huntington. a former State uni
versity student who left less than a yea
ago 20 accept position as civil enginee
on the Panama canal, writes that tn
work is progressing fast. He says ths
he never felt in better health in his life
and does not appear to think that he
I'm much danger from yellow jack.
| aaoIarag that tho nuunhar nf deaths frOf