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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27
(PENDING) FEDERAL COURT LAW

(PENDlNG) FEDERAL COURT LAW
The present bill which has been in.
troduced into congress by Senator Bur.
kett, providing that the state shall be
divided into two federal districts, with
court to be held for the northern half
in Omaha and Norfolk and court for
the southern half in Hastings and Lin
coin, is not a bill which would in any
way help Norfolk. Norfolk exists to-
day under just that sort of condi-
ton, this city having been made a
United States court town some score
of years ago. But with all of our own
ership of the title of being a court
town, Norfolk has never yet, though
we have today magnificent federal
court house, been the seat of a. real,
genuine session of the federal court.
No grand jury has been summoned
for Norfolk, and none will be under
the present conditions nor under the
measure which has been introduced in
congress by Senator Burkett.
1t is said that Judge Munger who
was in the city this week, to hold an
alleged court session, in discussing the
matter of Norfolk's ever becoming the
seat of a real court, stated that the
only way in which the matter can ever
be accomplished would be for congress
to pass law providing explicitly that
all federal cases from certain, definite
ly stated counties shall be tried in
federal court at Norfolk, all from Ger.
tain other counties at Omaha, ETC.
This would divide the state up into a
number of federal districts but it
would provide absolutely for terms of
court in each of the court towns, while
under the present law and that pend
ing, there is nothing to force court to
be held in any of the court cities out
side Omaha.
There are four court towns in the
state, Norfolk, Omaha, Lincoln and
Hastings. Yet Omaha gets all of the
important federal court sessions.
With law of this latter sort. pro.
viding several distinct districts and
designating the points at which all
cases from the districts were to be
tried, severally, Norfolk might get
genuine court term each year that
would bring in people and which would
mean business and added prestige to
the city, Under such measure some
other point in the western part of the
state could be designated as a court
town, say at Valentine or O'Nein, and
thus some other portions of the COM
monwealth outside of Omaha might
get little of the benefit.
And this is the only sort of a law,
1t is said, which will ever effectually
make Norfolk real court town.
The bill introduced by Senator Bur
kett has passed the senate and is now
in the house. Norfolk will not be ben
Gifted by the measure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

The two evangclIsts who recently
held series Of meetings in Norfolk,
and who went to Kearney from here.
have given Koarney up as n bad job
and declare that the town Is too deeply
in the grasp of Satan TO be redeemed,
All Of which viii come as good news
to some Of us in Norfolk who had been
told by evangolIsts before that this
was the worst town on earth for its
size.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27
"a MAN AMONG MEN d"

The Fremont Tribune is working
overtime to erase from the minds OF
the people of the Third district the eff
fects of some of the things that Con
gresham Mccarthy has done and said
The Tribune is anxious for some rea
son or other to send him back to
Washington for another two years and
is trying with all it's might to enlist
for third campaign the support OF
the damn fool newspaper men" who
did elect Mccarthy twice and some of
whom, as result of printing things
that were insisted upon by his central
committee, were sued for $4,000 libel
In its efforts to make Mccarthy a
hero in the Third district, and in try
ing to trot Mac. out on the track for
third heat with bands playing, the
Tribune either forgets or intentions
ally ignores the things that Mr. Nc
Carthy has done and said and which
he has been proven to have done and
said
Mr. Mccarthy is a man among
men," declares the Tribune, in warm
ing up to a description intended to do
full justice to the man from Ponca
who was willing enough to get news
paper men involved in libel cases but
who didn't have time to help get the
damn fools" out.
And he paid 5000 of the expense of
The Norfolk News trials" continues
the Tribune, "and would have stood
behind the defendant but that the case
was settled out of court"
When did Mccarthy pay that 5000
toward defraying the expenses of The
News libel suit? The Tribune seems
to forget that Mr.. Mccarthy, even in
his own open letter, admits that "the
chairman of the committee, after cleo
tion, told me that he paid you 5000"
Now if Mr. Mccarthy is such a man
among men" as the Tribune would
have us all believe, why was it that
he didn't get into that little matter
personally and pay it himself? Just
why was it that "the chairman" paid
that portion of the costs, and, If Mr..
Mccarthy was so intensely interested
in helping to stand behind The News,
why is it that he never knew anything
about the payment until long time
after it had been made?
And if he were such an honorable
man, why, as Mr.. Huse asked in his
letter to Mccarthy, why was it that
Mr.. Mccarthy never found time to
drop note to the editor who had been
dragged into the courts as a penalty
for fighting McCarthy's battles, and
why did he never take the time to
walk into The News office, like the
man that the Tribune claims he is,
and talk the thing over? Why was it |
that whenever he came to Norfolk,
and he came many times, he could al. |
ways chat for half days at a time
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

That young banker at Beemer, who
acknowledged that he embez2led some
$4,000 from a bank there and who is
now in the county jail at West Point,
will be the next man in this territory
to be tried for stealing the money of
the people of his community from the
bank vaults. Will he, too, be
allowed to go free because of the
attitude that his friends and townsmen
take? Are our courts to be swayed
by our prejudices to the extent that
we shall imprison a man when we are
wrought up and set him free when our
excited feelings die? "The more the
newspapers say about him, the worse
1t is" said a friend of the Beemer
banker-jailbrd to The News, evidently
assuming that it is the mission of
newspapers to hush up crimes against
the people of this country in order that
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Edgar Howard seems to be making
headway toward the democratic guber.
Material nomination. No wonder there
were denials from down around Ere
mont when it was announced that Pat
rick Emmett McKillup might run for
governor. But there's no denying that
Mr., McKillup did say that there are
many features to the governorship
preferable to a congressional job.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Perhaps the limit of savage human.
ity was reached by the thief in San
Francisco's streets who, pretending
to soldier that dead body in the
street was the corpse of his mother,
leaned over, sobbing, and was discov,
cred an instant later by a soldier in
the act of robbing the dead body of
diamond earrings. He was deservedly
shot.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

munity contributed toward the relief
Of the sufferers from earthquake and
fire at San Francisco. II is doubtful
II town Of Norfolk's size in the coun.
try came any more promptly or with
any greater contribution In answer to
the appeal that came from the coast.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Vandalism among youths between
the ages of twelve and sixteen has
seemed to be on the increase in Nor
folk during the past few weeks, and
the fact, especially since many of the
young boys and young men are from
families that stand we'll in the COM
munity, is deplorable one. The
other night, after the declamatory con-
test in the Methodist Episcopal
church, boys did damage amounting
to several dollars to the church edifice.
Last week at a social function in The
Heights, boys got into the rear porch
of the home at which the party was
given, and stole ice cream, Another
lad threw stone through the window
at the home of a. II. Leach and still
another destroyed glass in the con.
servatory of W. r. Hoffman. The boys
guilty of these misdemeanors ought.
for the most part to know better
They have been respectfully brought
up, and come from homes in which
there is a better moral tone than this
sort of recklessness. In many cases
it is merely a matter of misdirected
energy, which could be guided in the
right direction if parents could but
get control of the lads The police
force can not, of course, watch ali
streets of the city at night after the
curfew rings, but perhaps a few exam
pies might help some 1t is a problem
for ,Ae mothers and fathers to solve
and one which, for their own interests
and the future of the boys, they ought
to take hand in right away.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Richard p Ilobson, Of Morrimac
fame has been kissed into congress.
He was nominated in the sixth district
of Alabama,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

The newspapers all over this CON
tinent reflect through their columns
the sympathy which is felt by America
in the coast horror, and a magnificent
charity which does as much as any.
thing to make this one of the really
great nations of the world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

last mouth there was complaint
about the muddy roads in the coun.
try How are the roads," was asked
of visitor who had driven into Nor.
folk yesterday, "Oh, the roads are
fine" she replied, "but it's awfuuy
windy"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

The bouquets placed on Judge Mum
gers desk at the federal courthouse
yesterday were merely in return for
the bouquets which he pinned on Nor
folk, both by coming here and by tell
ing us how to have him come again
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

PmtarCh would turn over In his
grave If he knew that there Is already
n "history" of the san Francisco dis
aster on the market
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

1t Is a relief to receive the official
report from General Greeley stating
that the limit of the death list in San
Francisco is go From the early re.
ports there was every reason to fear
that the list of the dead might be much
larger.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

a Long Pine man tried to send a
skunk hide through the postoffice as
third class mail, The postmaster
wondered if the sender had chosen the
postotiice because it could be trans.
ported for few cents (scents) And
even allowing that theory to be true,
it is hard to figure out any sense in
having it sent that way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

The more trees YOU plant, the more
nearly do YOU approach the usefulness
of that much honored Nebraskan, j.
Sterling Morton.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Beautiful women can have the best
things in the world, for there is none
so inhuman as to refuse anything to
pretty woman. HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea makes beautiful women.
30 cents. The Kiesau Drug Co.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

The beauty of the great fraternal or
ganizations of America has been
brought out in striking fashion by the
test of the disaster on the coast.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Beggars are already beginning to
profit by the San Francisco calamity,
and are now plying their trade in Salt
Lake, pretending to be refugees from
the coast. There is nothing like being
up to date, even though a beggar.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Patrick Haggerty. as matter of
self interest, ought to come back to
O'Neill and be tried For now, an
outcast, he wanders the face of the
earth. Returning, he might easily
meet the fate of his mate, McGreevy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

There were, no doubt, some among
the crowd of Italians who quenched
fire in Frisco by means of wine, who
considered 1t shame to waste the
stuff.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Madison is today not only the county
seat but also the seat Of settlement
for many of the problems that confront
American women
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

These March winds are making April
unpleasant An old fashioned shower
might help some
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

At least one insurance company has
sent up distress signal as a result
of the earthquake. This is the Amer
lean Fire Insurance company of Bos,
ton, which has instructed its agents
to suspend business, pending a def.
mite report on its losses in the disaster.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

There was no rain ON Easter, nor
on the first Sunday following Easter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Bernard McGreevy, president of the
defunct Elkhorn Valley bank at
O'Neill has been set free, and the act
of Judge Westover in setting the man
free will be upheld by those who are
interested in having the law take its
course. For, peculiarly enough, the
persons prosecuting the case so Grip
pied their own prosecution by trying
to barter with McGreevy, paying him
liberty for their lost funds. that the
justice of the charges against him was
utterly forgotten and it would have
been out of the question to try to
convict before a jury of twelve men
The miscarriage of Justice in the case
Is to be deeply deplored, for the wreck
ing of the bank at O'Neill was dis
astrous loss to many poor persons who
had deposited their funds in its vaults
II was a crime against the state and
McGreevy should have been punished,
in case he was found guilty, because
1t was crime and not because of any
particular amount of money that he
stole. Our pententiaries have been
established in order to lock up the
guilty as warnings to other wrongly
inclined persons just as much as to
punish those who commit the first
crimes But there were only three de.
positors willing to prosecute the case
in the first place and they clearly got
outside the purpose of the courts when
they offered the prisoner his liberty if
he would but return their lost dollars.
And since the prosecution had lost IFS
good faith in this way, Judge West.
over had but one reasonable thing to
do-which he did in turning loose Nc
Greevy, 1t is to be regretted that the
depostors who lost in that bank crash
year and half ago, were unwilling
to start in with a vim toward prose
cutting the case in an honest and le-
gitimate manner for every travestv
upon justice has its bad effect on So
ciety at large. But that matter rest
ed with their individual minds, and
with them alone. Which fact makes
it appear that our laws might be of
more consequence If the state would
handle matters of crime and carry
them through, regardless of the per.
sons interested. The attorneys in the
case were held absolutely blameless
by the court in the proceedings at
Bassett on Saturday. They were
forced to admit, however, their knowl.
edge of what was being attempted by
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Norfolk surely has reason to feel
proud of herself for the liberal man.
ner in which the citizens of this COM
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Norfolk Is one of the cities of the
state which believes in not letting youi
left hand know what your right hant
does and It Is commendable trait
which determined the citizens com
mittee of this city not to give publicity
to the givers to the charity fund which
went TO San Francisco. While other
cities throughout the state and nation
We're using the front pages of their
newspapers to loudly declare to the
world just how much and how many
citizens had gone into their pockets
for the sufferers in the west, Norfolk
quietly contributed her full share and
more than some, toward the relief OF
the earthquake victims. sent on a car
load of good flour, and then began
gathering provisions for another car.
load to so later. And not until it was
determined by the committee, for the
reason that criticism had been offered
regarding the disbursement of such
funds, that a statement to the public
accounting for the moneys collected
and the expenditures was necessary,
did they conclude to publish the list
of donors. And it was done then
merely as bookkeeping proposition
and without any desire on the part of
the committee to give publicity to a
charity which, for its very quiet ma
ture, was all the more noble. There
Is something about giving publicity to
acts of kindness and generosity which
is resented by the American pride, and
he 1t said to the credit of Norfolk that
this spirit was probably more manifest
here than in most of the larger cities
OF the country Charity is a beautiful
thing in itself, and the more beautiful
without the trumpet's heralding But
the publication of the amounts collect
ed, showing where they came from
in order that each person might know
that he or she had been credited and
that the money had been rightly used,
and showing that the funds had been
expended in good faith, was consid-
cred a matter of business necessity as
protection to the committee who had
so tirelessly eXerted themselves here
in Norfolk for the good of the cause.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

the complainants in the case, just as
did the rest of the town know about
Il.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Men are not so crazy over kissing
as women think they are.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

What spot of frouzled finance Oak.
land must he todayi
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

A country that has fine climate is
liable to be bothered with earth
quakes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

1t has caused more laughs and dried
more tears, wiped away diseases and
driven away more fears than any 9th.
er medicine in the world. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. S5 cents, tea mr.
tablets. The Kiesau Drng 10
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

There is one thing worse than an
amateur lecture: a lot of amateurs
reading papers"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

There is something fine and nice in
daughter who takes pride in making
her mothers dress becoming.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

We do not like to have any child
coaXed to speak a piece for us or to
give us a kiss.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Care should be taken not to attach
too much importance to the Judgment
OF man who likes the singing of a
glee club.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

Don't let a little thing make you
mad When you get mad, you are liza
Die to be very unfair. In addition to
that, getting mad is worse for your
health than catching cold.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27
ATKINSON GLOBE SIGHTS.

Just after he is shaved, nearly any
man is little pretty.
1t is generally said of an elderly
man: "He is notional."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

A country woman regards a compli-
ment very much as the average woman
does husbands explanation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

You have probably met the bore,
who, no matter what the attraction,
always recalls a better one.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

If health is wealth and money talks,
For so the proverb runs,
A fortune you may plainly see,
In taking Rocky Mountain Tea.
The Kiesau Drug Co.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27

All hail to the street sprinkler.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-27


"history" of the san Francisco dis
astor on the market,
The beauty of the great fraternal or
gani2ations of America has been
brought out in striking fashion by the
test of the disaster on the coast.
There were, no doubt some among
the crowd of Italians who quenched
fire in Frisco by means of wine, who
considered it shame to waste the
stun.
Beggars are already beginning to
profit by the San Francisco calamity,
and are now plying their trade in Salt
Lake, pretending to he refugees from
the coast There is nothing like being
up to date even though beggar
The bouquets placed on Judge Mum
yesterday were merely in return for
the bouquets which he pinned on Nor
folk, both by coming here and by tell
ing us how to have him come again
Patrick Haggerty. as matter of
self interest, ought to come back to
ONeill and be tried. For now, an
outcast, he wanders the face of the
earth Returning, he might easily
meet the fate of his mate. McGreevy.
1t Is a relief to receive the official
report from General Greeley, stating
that the limit of the death list in San
Francisco Is 270. From the early re.
ports there was every reason to fear
that the list of the dead might be much
larger.
Last month there was complaint
about the muddy roads in the coun.
try How are the roads," was asked
of visitor who had driven into Nor
folk yesterday. "Oh, the roads are
fine" she replied, "but it's awfully
windy"
The newspapers all over this con
tinent reflect through their columns
the sympathy which is felt by America
in the coast horror and a magnificent
charity which does as much as any.
thing to make this one of the really
great nations of the world.
At least one insurance company has
sent up distress signal as a result
of the earthquake. This is the Amer.
lean Fire Insurance company of Bos.
ton, which has instructed its agents
to suspend business, pending def
mite report on its losses in the disaster.
a Long Pine man tried to send a
skunk hide through the postonice as
third class mail, The postmaster
wondered if the sender had chosen the
postoflice because it could be trans.
ported for a few cents (scents0 And
even allowing that theory to be true,
it is hard to figure out any sense in
having it sent that way.
Perhaps the limit of savage human.
ity was reached by the thief in San
Francisco's streets who pretending
to soldier that a dead body in the
street was the corpse of his mother,
leaned over, sobbing, and was discov,
cred an instant later by a soldier in
the act of robbing the dead body of
diamond earrings. He was deservedly
shot.
Edgar Howard seems to be making
headway toward the democratic guber.
Material nomination. No wonder there
were denials from down around Ere
mont when it was announced that Pat
rick Emmett McKillup might run for
governor. But there's no denying that
Mr.. McKillup did say that there are
many features to the governorship
preferable to a congressional job.
Norfolk surely has reason to feel
proud of herself for the liberal man.
,er in which the citizens of this COM
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-07-12
TREASURY MAKES GAINS
Secretary Shaw Finds surplus
Instead of a Deficit at the
End of Fiscal Year,
June 30.

Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw issued the following state
ment regarding the treasury
surplus at the close of the fiscal
year ending June 30;
In making comparisons be
tween this and the previous fiscal
year the following facts must be
taken into account. The deficit
last year was S24, 600, 600 in round
numbers, This included q. 1000,
coo extraordinary expenses on
the Panama canal The actual
deficit on ordinary expenses va
therefore. in round numbers,
SIS, 100000. This year the sur
plus is So, GOO, 600. aad in addi-
ton, there has been paid on the
Panama canal SIS, 700, 600. The
actual excess of revenue over or
binary expenses is, therefore.
S43, 500, 600.
THE difference between S43,.
100000 excess and 5000, GOO
deficit on ordinary expenses is,
therefore, SOL, 100000. The
treasury, or ordinary expenses,
is SOL 100000 better of at the
close of the fiscal year than at
the close of the fiscal sesF Of
1905"