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The Greeley tribune., 1906-06-28
|0T IN DARK
|MPT TO MURDER AN
AULT FARMER
Out Driving with Young
man, Assajlant Sudden
! Confronts Him-Two
Arrests Made.

les Serbaugh, a young farmer
near Ault, was shot and prob.
tally injured while out driv.
III Miss Maud Dukes. late last
Eday evening.
young folks were returning
In entertainment at Ault,
leysswere suddenly confronted
Rn in the road who ordered
halt. The demand not be-
piled with he opened fire on
The first bullet struck Ser
IN the right side, between the
ID sixth ribs, and passed COM
through his body. AS the
ped past the highwayman he
yeral more shots at them, one
h passed through the back
of the seat and clipped a
of cloth from the young
Is dress. Another shot struck
lie of the buggy and glanced
wounded the horse in one
Fhe young man was losing
h so rapidly that Miss Dukes
e lines. and drove to the home
Wykert, where both of them
Psiding.
Friday Jay McGee, a livery
man of Ault, was arrested and
e of doing the shooting filed.
orning S. w. Cox, a black
bf the same place, was arrested
ccomplice. MCGEE was placed
Is, 900 and Cox under $1,000.
evidence against the two men
circumstantial and direct.
afternoon Serbaugh was al
10 talk for the first time and
rmed his physician, DIR. W.
IN of Eaton, that MCGEE was
an who did the shooting.
MCGEE was taken to the bed
the wounded man and fully
ed as the wouldbe SLAYER.
gh claims that lie plainly saw
by the light from the flash OF
olver as the shots were fired.
lid that the young woman with
gh also recognized MCGEE.
evidence against Cox is tina,
t out with MCGEE on his drive
Perry ranch on the night o,
oting. 1t is positively known
cGee was IL the near vicinity
he shooting occurred, having
to the Perry ranch in order tt
Hiss Perry and his own sister
cGee, out there for the night
otive for the shooting may b.
ID in a number of obscene ant
pous Letters that ditferen
in Ault have been receiving
past three or four months
package of these Is now il
(nds of the postal authoritie
be author of the missives !
This is said to be a membe
Perry family. whose member
Fpecially subject to tie violen
in the letters.
letters would show up at tn
Unexpected places. One even
Perry barn was set on fire
flame was extinguished be
uch damage was done. Mex
hg a letter was found in tn
b where the fire had started
g the people that still anothe
IT would soon be made to bur
ice. So great had the excite
n the Perry family become b
attacks that the men folks c
nily would patrol the plac
blight with rifles and shotgun
? oil the tirebugs.
2 of these letters we're also re
by McGee, who was payin
OH to one Of the Perry girls
are said to have hinted at
or her affections in the perso
hg serbaugh. 1t is believe
officers that while under tn
ICE of liquor last Wednesda
McGee's jealousy ran ava
MN to such an extent tina
he found Serbaugh on tn
country road, although az
MED by another young woman
tempted to fire the shot tina
et prove fatal to the youn
4 Ma
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST
Fair In West, showers and Cooler In
East Portion Friday. saturday Fair.
emperature at omnha Ye.tcrdari
PLANS FOR BRYAN RECEPTION
Nebraskan VIII Land Thursday mt
Four O'Clock in the
Afternoon.

NEW YORK, Aug 23-At a meeting to-
day of the executive committee which has
charge of the reception to William j.
Bryan It was announced that Harry w.
Walker, chairman of the press committee,
had received a letter from Mr.. Bryan,
mailed before he sailed from Gibraltar,
accepting an invitation to dine with the
newspaper men at the Waldorf-Astoria on
the evening of Saturday, September l. In
his letter MIR. Bryan said:
Shall be delighted to meet the boys of
newspaper men anywhere than our own"
Lewis Nixon gave the program as at
present arranged for the Both. Mr.. Bryan
is to land at p. m. at the battery, where
he will be met by a small subcommittee
and welcomed by Acting Mayor McGowan.
Headed by a small police escort, Mr.. Bryan
will be driven up Broadway to Fiftieth
street, thence to Fifth avenue and south
to the Victoria hotel. In the first carriage
with Mr.. Bryan will be Acting Mayor Nc
Gowan, Governor Folk of Missouri and
William Hoge, president of the Commercial
Travellers Antitrust league, which started
the movement for the reception.
At the hotel Mr. Bryan will be received
by delegation from the reception com
mittee consisting of five members from each
state. At 7;45 Mr. Bryan will be escorted
to the garden and the meeting will begin
at s. After the meeting inside. Mr.. Bryan
will address an overflow meeting in Mad
ison Square.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
LONG TUNNELS ARE PLANNED
Western Paeiae Expects 20 Enter
California without Going
over the Mountains.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. S.--The Western
Pacific IL perfecting plans TO enter Calf
fornia. and when the road Is completed it
will be one OF the greatest railroad en-
gineering feats in modern times.
The engineers In charge have instructions
TO keep one object in view. the stralghtest
line with the least grade To accomplish
this forty-fve tunnels Will be bored in
eastern California. between oriville and
Beckwtth Pass. Instead OF going around
mountains the Western Pacific is going
through them.
The longest of the tunnels is that at the
head OF the Spring Garden. twelve miles
east OF Quincy. This Is cut under tho
ridge dividing the north and middle forks
OF the Feather river. II will be over
1000 feet in length when completed. The
next longest tunnel on thu road will be
the one under Beckwith Pass. This will
be over 1000 feet in length. and It is being
bored at both ends. The third tunnel will
probably be the most dlffieult engineering
feat OF all. as Il viii cut through solid
rock for a distance OF 1.10o feet. This will
be north Of Quincy. on Spanish crsAk-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
TROOPS GUARD NEW TOWNSHIP
Wyoming Militia Ordered TO Fremont
County to Aid sheriff in Pre-
serving Order.

CHEYENNE, wyo., Aug. 3-Upon re-
quest Of Sheriff Slough of Fremont county
Governor Brooks last night ordered out
Company b, of the state national guard
stationed at Lander, to proceed to the
shoshone reservation to aid the sheriff in
preserving order on the new town site
on the reservation.
The difffcufty on the reservation began
on the night of August H. the day before
the reservation was opened. when about
800 sooners gathered on the border of the
reservation and on the morning
OF the 18th every town lot on the
new townsite was occupied by a sauatter.
Indian Agent Wadsworth held that the rule
restricting general settlement on the reser-
walton homesteads until October Is applied
to townsite settlements and drove the set
tiers off with federal troops. Commits
sioner Of the General Land ONCE Richards
secured a contrary ruling from the secre-
tary OF the interior and It is expected
Wadsworth will receive II today and with
draw the troops. as his authority on the
reservation is ended. Militia is expected
to arrive on the scene before the with
drawal of federal troops and will aid in
preserving order. Some bad feeling exists
among squatters who have already been
driven of and who may have difficuty in
regaining their claims. but no serious
trouble is exDected.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
LYNCHING IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Room Hanged TO Tree by
Mob.

COLUMBIA, 8. c., Aug. 23.-William
Spain, a negro, p year old was shot to
death by a mob near st, George, Dorches-
ter county, this afternoon. This is the
third lynching in South Carolina within
ten days.
8. L. Connor. manager of the Dorchester
Lumber companys store at Badham, was
notified by a negro that he saw another
negro attempting to enter a window of his
home and then run away into a nearby
cane patch. Connor Immediately started for
his home, going through the cane field, and
suddenly came upon Spain and grappled
with the negro, striking him severe
blow, breaking several bones in his hand
The negro finally freed himself and ran
into nearby woods. Connor notified his
neighbors and about two hours later Spain
was captured and locked UP in Jail
Shortly afterward a posse OF forty or fifty
men went to the sheriff and securing the
keys to the jail. took the negro to the
house of Connor. where his eleven-year-
old daughter positively identified the negro
as the one who had tried to climb through
the window
The mob then took the negro to nearby
oak tree. strung him up to a limb and
fred about 800 shots into his body.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
GEN. BELL SEES PRESIDENT
Chief of stan of Army Desires In
structfens Regarding Actions
mt BrownvtlIe.

OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Aug 23-Brigadier
General J. Franklin Bell, chief of stafr of
the army, and Clifford Pinchot. chief of the
forestry bureau of the Agricultural depart
ment, were In consultation with President
Roosevelt at Sycamore Hill today. Cen
eral Bell said he came at the suggestion Of
General Ainsworth, military secretary. In
order that the War department might know
exactly the presidents ideas and desires
regarding the difficulty at Brownsville,
Tex, between United States colored troops
and the residents OF that place.
General Bell said the colored troops at
Brownsville had been removed TO Fort
Reno and replaced by a company of white
soldiers. This action had been taken in
compliance with telegraphic request from
the state officials 1t was desirable, he
said, to discuss the whole situation with
the president before any further action
was taken. Mr.. Pinchot said he came to
Oyster Bay to discuss the forestry situa-
ton with the president. Both expect to
return to Washington today.
On leaving Sycamore Hill General Bell
said the army post at Brownsville, Tex,
would be temporarily abandoned as soon
as orders TO that effect. issued yesterday by
the War department, could be carried out
The company of white troops now stationed
there will remain only so long as is neces-
sary to guard government property.
Mr.. Pinchot said that the president would
address letter to the irrigation congress
TO be held shortly at Boise City, Idaho.
This letter which Mr.. Pinchot will take
TO the congress-, will be hearty endorse
mont Of the plans for irrigatins the arid
lands OF the west t-.
President Roosevelt consulted today with
Postmaster General Cortelyou, who Ia also
chairman OF the republican national com.
mittee. Mr.. Cortelyou has a summer lodge
at Huntington, l. l.. and drove to Saga
more hill this morning. 1t is believed that
the presidents keen interest in the con-
gressional campaign has prompted him &c
gather political information from every
source and that Mr.. Cortelyou's discussion
with him was mainly on the political situ-
alton.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
SONS OF VETERANS ADJOURN
Edward NJ. Amies of Altoona, Pa,
IL Elected Commander
tn-Chief.

PEORIA, H., Aug. 23.-The national con-
vention OF Sons of Veterans closed their
sessions today with the election Of officers
and the selection Of Dayton. Ohio. as the
next meeting place. Edward M. Amies, of
Altoona Pa. was elected commander-in-
chief. Other officers elected were:
Senior Vice Commander-F. M. johnson
Of Maryland.
Junior Vice Commander-J. r. Wolfram,
San Francisco.
Secretary-Horace K. Hammer. Reading.
Pa
Treasurer-James L. Rake, Reading, Pa
Council in Chief--Thomas Harmon, Bos-
ton; Ralph Sheldon. New York; Thomas
w. Blair, Reading. Pa.
The ladies' auxiliary elected these Of
fcers:
President Mrs. Julia Moynihan. New
York; vice president, Mrs. Ida Patterson,
Rockford. H.; secretary Mrs. Frances Fox
Rochester. N. Y; treasurer. Mrs. n. p
Herbst. Canton, o.; council. Mrs. Millie
Donnellson. Paterson. N. j.; Mrs. Stella
Richards, Mass Mrs. Katie Hardcastle
Philadelphia; Judge advocate general. vii.
liam b. Moynihan, New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
SPARROWS IN STANDPIPE
Health OnciaI Mt Three Oaks, Mich,
Finally Discovers Cause of
Typhoid Epidemfc.

THREE OAKS, Mich, Aug. 3-The cause
OF an epidemic of typhoid fever among the
1000 inhabitants of this place was discov-
cred today when a member of the Board of
Health climbed to the top of the water
works standpipe and found the dead bodies
OF several thousand young sparrows in va
rious stages Of decomposition covering the
surface OF the water. Immediately the
mayor gave instructions to empty the
standpipe, scrub and paint It. Hundreds
Of sparrows nests have been built on a
ledge that runs around the summit Of the
standpipe ana the young birds are sup
posed to have fallen into, the uncovered
standpipe while trying to learn TO fly. The
cover made for the standpipe when It was
constructed was never put on. There are
now twenty-one cases OF typhoid fever in
the town.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
DICK OUTLINES HIS POSITION
Ohio Senator FRvOPs Number of
Changes in Manner of Conduct
ing state Convention.

AKRON, O.. Aug. AIN an interview
given out tonight United States Senator
Charles Dick, who Is also chairman OF the
republican state executive committee OF
Ohio. outlined his position with reference
to the coming republican state convention.
Senator Dick declared In favor OF the max
ing OF a platform by the convention in
committee of the whole, In which all issues
are to be debated and without the inter-
vention OF a committee on resolutions.
AS to the issue OF the endorsement Of
the two Ohio senator's Senator Dick says
he Is willing that two resolutions shall DO
presented TO the convention. one endorsing
and the other censuring the senators and
the delegates choosing between them.
The administration Of President Roose-
welt and the work OF congress. he says. will
be heartily and strongly endorsed unani-
mously. Going further. the senator de-
olared in favor OF a change in the rules
OF the party organization and suggests
that the committee on rules bring in a
rule providing for the election OF the CHAIR
man OF the state executive committee by
the convention itself In the same manner
that candidates for Htata amAAzs are named.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
PRUsSIAN BAKERIES DIRTY
Government Medical Department Is
sues . Report After InvertiEa-
ting Houses at Berlin.

BERLIN. Aug. 2-The government
medical department has issued a report on
the sanitary condition of the Prussian
bakeries and slaughter houses to which the
newspapers are giving sensational prom
inence. one of them using the caption
America in Prussia.
The report sets forth that rnany of the
butchering establishments were found m a
very unclean condition. Some Of them
were located I'm dark cellars where cieani-
ness was impossible and others had no
facilities for the employees to wash them
selves. The government inspectors found
particularly Objectionable conditions in the
bakeries. In one town boys kneaded the
dough with their feet aad one BAKERY
was occupied by cats and hens. In another
town bakers oven ssrved, ad interim,
as goose pen. In n,many places bakeries
were found in close proximity to the un-
sanitary appurtcnances OF the house. One
baker admitted that his ioor and watts
were scrubbed only once a year.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
SOUTH DAKOTA TROOPS DRILL
Militia Given Work I'm Marching,
Guard work, Tent Pitching
and Cooking.

FORT RILEY. Kan. Aug. 23.-The Kan
sas and South Dakota national guard
had maneuver work in marching, advance.
flank and rear guard, tent pitching and IN
dividual cooking today and they worked
all day. The regular troops were divided
into brigades and worked on a different
problem, but the work Of the two forces
was conducted as II they were the armies
of two countries at war. The men were
out all day under marching order They
carried besides their arms. shelter tents
haversacks containing uncooked food, can
teens filled with water and fifty rounds
of blank ammunition The Kansas men
did especially good work and were fire.
quently credited by the umpire as hav-
ing caused the enemy (the regulars) heavy
loss. while the Kansans suffered very lit
tie loss.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
JEROME ON STATE ISSUES
wouId Bring Mckinley Assassination
Into Contest with Hearst I'm
New York.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-District Atto--
ney William 7. Jerome again talked OF
the political situation in this state. lie
said he believed the time was now ttpe
for the many leaders OF Tammsny Hall
to state their positions. He also declared
that Mr.. Hearst, as a man. did not igure
in the coming campaign.
'Tf Mr. Hearst was nominated by 'he
democratic convention, would you sup
port him7' Mr.. Jerome was asked.
you will never face this situation.
he replied. Let's discuss something
practical The democratic party has he'd
to swallow Some bitter draughts In tine
past, but II will never stand for thas
medicine. Hearst, the man, is OF no Inn
portance and of no ideas. He is like Muir
ply. The question about Hearst resolves
itself into the persons who are about
him. whose ideas, working on the added
brain of Czolgosz. armed his hand to slay
a president and, working rlong those lines,
is reflected in the conduct of the great
leader of the Independence league, Bor-
SfA President Bird coler, who went
n. the line of the Brooklyn Rapid
~ jnciting riot.
y 4. should not be severely criti-
c. N>1 is a Christian world and a
Cnl Wpie. lnlb 10 Chihpoieh
of IT, umandments. I am run
ming On T.. 'ommandments' platform,
Hearst f. Y r.. Is going to, and OjeIl
Is the grea ~ sent of us all Mr..
Hearst cam, y TO be the prophet
who came dow. .om the mount like the
Ten Commandments. He has habitually
been more like Moses, who on a certain
OCCASION. when irritated, broke them all
at once.
THE way to settle a fight is to fight.
The leaders might all lead Murphy has
led, now let some one else lead.
''The democratic convention voices the
will of the people and there is to be a
convention soon. l am for seating all
delegates, waving every technicality. II
the democratic party has not vitality
enough to fight out Its own battles, then
what's the use? / am against a convcn-
tion when three or four little ducks 80
in back room and talk of the availa-
bility OF a man. Availability always
means how much money can he raise for
the convention fund. This bunch then
report to the convention the name of the
man and there Is rah, rah, rah, and
II is all over. No votes follow such a
candidate"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
CENTRAL GIRLS GO ON STRIKE
Chicago Telephone Employes Object
to Going Through Alley to
Their Work.

CHICAGO. Aug. 2S-rwo hundred teIe-
phone girls employed in the central ex-
change OF the Chicago Telephone company
struck today. badly crippling the service.
The cause Of the strike was an order
issued by the company directing the girls
at central" to enter the building through
rear door, which, in order to reach they
were compelled to go through q passage
100 feet long. The girls declared that the
passage way is muddy even in the day
time and dark. shiny and slippery at night.
There are three saloon entrances on the
alley and the girls declared that they are
annoyed by the hangers-on Of those places.
One hundred and nifty other girls struck
within an hour OF the first strike, making
a total of $50 who went out Seven thou
sand telephones In the business district
were put out OF commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
HEAVY RAIN IN MISSOURI
Nearly SIX Inches of water Falls In
Three and One-Half
Hours.

KANSAS CITY. Aug. s3-A terrific rain
storm prevailed In Kansas City and vicin-
ity early today. causing more or less seri-
Gus damage. In Kansas City 5.Ss inches Of
water fell a record for the time, three
hours and a half. Low-lying lands were
flooded and the police and fire departments
were called upon to rescue persons from
Easements in LATHE Italy. in the north end
Of town, and in the east and west bottoms,
where the water entered many small
houses.
Several down town Easements were
flooded and goods damaged. Trees were
stripped of their foliage and hundreds Of
sparrows were killed.
At Elmwood cemetery. Ave miles east of
the business district serious damage was
done. Practically the entire cemetery
grounds were flooded and In the lower
ground a strong current was formed. This
resulted in the washine out OF dozens of
graves. At least 100 bodies were exposed.
Monuments were wrecked and other dam
age done. Two brick buildings IN the out
skirts of the city were undermined and col
lapsed. They were unoccupied and no one
was hurt. At Fifteenth and Indiana a lum-
Der yard containing several thousand feet
of finished lumber was washed away and
partially damaged.
At Kansas City, Kan. and at Armourdale
and Argentine, Kan, across the line from
here. much damage was suffered by rail-
roads, wholesale houses and packing
houses, and several families had to be
| taken from their homes by fremen.
At Kansas City, Kan, lightning wrecked
the front OF the 5Iavonic Catholic church.
| small structure, and a small commission
| house at-the city market was undermined
and collapsed. In Eorthrup avenue, seven
| blocks from the business center, three
families whose houses are ON low ground
were surrounded by water. The freight
| yards of the Missouri Pacific, the Rock
Island and the Union Pacific, in the west
bottoms, were flooded and trafhc tenn
porarily stopped. The shops OF these
roads also were flooded and work stopped
for an hour or 50. Water entered the
Easements OF the packing plants of Armour
& Co., Swift and Company and Schwarz-
berg & Sulzberger and II was necessary to
put men to work pumping out. The water
drained OF quickly. however, and the dam
age was comparatively light.
At Argentine forty families were forced
from their homes in the bottoms, but re-
turned to them soon.
Suburban street car trafic on the Kansas
/ sue was ueo lp Ior several nodrS
Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. 23.-The heaviest
rain in nine years fen here last night, the
total precipitation. being 2H inches in two
hours. Many Mexican houses collapsed
under last nights rain and the streets were
badly washed. The railroads are all
damaged.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. Aug. 3-Heavy rains
today broke drouth that was doing con.
siderable damage to corn and late fruit
Railroads and bridges were washed out ir
many places and buildings in process OF
erection were damaged. Part OF wall Of
the new Auditorium fell In. entailing much
damage.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-24
PANAMERICAN CONGRESS ENDS
Action Taken Looking Toward a
Universal Gold Basis for
Currency.

RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug. 3.-rhe inter-
national American congress today con-
cluded its actual work, finally disposlng OF
the projects OF sanitation, commercial rela-
tions, patents and copyrights. the Pan
american railway and the codincation of
international laws.
The Buchanan report was adopted recon-
mending that the several countries In the
conference prepare tables showing the huc-
tuations OF exchange during the last twenty
years and the effect thereof on commerce,
the idea being to facilitate the establish
ment Of a universal gold basis.
Two more sessions OF the conference will
be held Sunday and Monday, August 3 and
n, to perfect certain details.