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Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-20
MINE EXPLOSION
DEAD MINERS ESQ
Third Big Coal Mine Disaster Adds
to Death List

JACOBS CREEK, Pa, Dec. 90
An explosion OF gas In the Darr mine
OF the Pittsburg Coal company. To-
Gated here. entOmbed between 200
and $50 miners. and there Is scarce
" ray OF hope that q single one Of
them will be taken from the mines
alive. Partially wrecked buildings
In the vicinity OF the mine and the
few bodies found early In the rescue
work Indicate an explosion OF such
terrific force that Il seems impossible
that any one could have survived Il.
All OF the 10 bodies taken out up to
this time are terribly mutilated. aud
three of them are headless.
This il the third mine disaster
since the first OF the month In the
veins OF bituminoHs coal underlying
western Pennsylvania and West VIr-
ginia, for the Naomi mine. near Fay
cite City. aud the two mines al Mon
ongah. w. Va. in which the earlier
explosions happened. ar In the same
belt as the local workings,
Awful Blast.
AS was the case at Monogah, the
explosion followed a brief shutdown.
the Darr mine having been closed
Tuesday and Wednesday. Il was
just 1890 O'Clock when the 10th
trip Of loaded cars had been brought
out to the tipple. and there came an
awful rumbling sound, followed Inn
mediately by loud report and a con-
cussion that shook nearby buildings
and was felt within q radius OF sew
eral miles. At the same time there
came out OF the mouth Of the mine
an immense cloud of dense smoke
and dust that floated across the
Youghiogheny river.
In a minute every one In the vi
entity knew what had happened. and
all started for the one place-the
mouth OF the mine. The river sep
arates the mine and the homes Of
many Of the miners, 50 that only a
portion of those who started for the
scene were able to reach IL. there
being scant facilities for crossing the
stream. To those who could not
cross the water the smoke and dust
pouring from the mines mouth told
the story OF seethIng flames back In
the workings, and from this source
came reports that were persistent
until late In the day that the mine
was burning.
The yentilating fans were kept In
operation almost without Interrupt
tion, however. the power plant hav-
ing withstood the force OF the explos-
ion, and up TO this time the rescuers
have found no fires al any place in
the mine. As far as known. only one
man who went to work this morning
escaped
Sole Survivor Talks.
Joseph Mapleton, a pumper. en-
erged from the side entrance shortly
after the explosion. He had left the
part OF the mine where the most OF
the men we're working and was on
his way TO the engine room for oil.
II was IN entry No. 81. said he.
when ! heard an awful rumbling.
! started toward the entry. but the
next instant ! was blinded and for a
little time ! did not know anything.
Then / got to the side entrance and
worked my way out
Mapleton was somewhat cut and
bruised. but after going home and
having his injuries dressed he re-
turned and Joined the rescuers.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-20

In spreading panic they also serve
who stand aud wait-for their money.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-20
WIRELESS PROM FLEET
Dne East OF Jupiter Inlet. FIorida-
All Well.

All Well.
ON BOARD U. s. s. MINNESOTA,
Dec. 2O.--At noon yesterday. the bat
tieship fleet Is due east OF Jupiter In
let. Fla The speed today vas in
creased 70 ii knots an hour. The
ships are still in double column for
nation. The weather is perfect. All
hands are dressed In white.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-20

Captain Ludwig Roper and family
viii spend tomorrow at Spokane.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
CUT OUT SLOW SCHEDULES.
Western Railroads to Restore Fast
Trains,

Omaha, Oct. u. - Slow schedules
one OF the necessary consequences
of 2.cent fares, as the railroads were
careful to explain at the time they
were put in effect four months ago,
are to be abandoned The roads which
took off trains at that time will re-
place them in service and other new
trains will be added to care for the
increase of travel which the railroads.
are now almost willing to admit has
come with the lower fares. In June
last two hours were added to the time
of fast trains between Chicago and
Omaha or Sioux City. Corresponding
frightening Of the schedules were
made between the Missouri river and
Denver. 1t was said there was a pop
uar clamor for greater safety and
more punctuality. With slow sched-
ules, however, the complaints of late
trains have been greater than ever,
and next month the former basis is
to be restored. A general change on
all roads will become effective on
November 10 and the following week.
Details have not been worked out in
full, but it is announced today that to
meet the demands of the public all
fast trains will be made faster be-
tween Chicago and Denver, and also
to and from other western points.
On the Burlington No. l, the prin-
cipal Denver train, will leave Chicago
four hours later. No. 10, the day
light train to Omaha, which was tax
en- off in June, will be replaced. Fast
schedules on the Billings line are also
being worked out. Other improve
ments in the service west of the
river include daily service instead of
daily except Sunday between Sioux
City and Lincoln. Corresponding re-
auctions in time will be made on the
Union Pacific, Northwestern, Milwau'
kee and Rock Island lines. The Hi
nos Central will also lop an hour or
more off the time of its fast trains to
the Missouri river, and it is said will
replace the locals which were taken
off when the schedules were slowed
down.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25

his Illness get the old hymn book his
mother used and read to him the
Psalms In German he had heard sung
when boy in church. One particular
psalm, the Twenty.third, which begins
"The Lord Is my Shepherd l shall not
want" he wanted read to him over
and over again. One day he said to
his faithful friend and attendant, For
all the wrong things have ever done
ask God to forgive me" Can any
one doubt that this cry OF repentance
was heard and answered by merci-
full God who knows our infirmities, and
whose property is always to have
mercy7"
The prayer OF the poor widow and
fatherless whose poor home was
warmed during the icy blasts of winter
by the unheralded aims OF our brother
will ascend to heaven In his behalf
And so we leave our departed broth
or to the tender mercies Of our heav.
emily Father whose forgiveness he I'M
plored.
At the hour OF II, dedicated by Elks
to the memory OF "our absent broth
ers," we will think Of him. reunited
as we hope and trust with his dear
ones who preceded him to the other
shore. May he rest In peace.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
IMPORTANCE OF SUNDAY SCHOOL
State Secretary in Norfolk oiseourses
on This Feature.

OIl ilo
The twentieth century Sunday
school, that represents the evolution
of the old-tme Sunday school formed
the basis Of the talk of Secretary Fl.
M. Steidley, of the state Sunday school
association, delivered Sunday to the
Norfolk district Sunday school con-
vention. The Sunday school, Mr..
Steidley said was once merely the
nursery of the church. Now he said
it was fast becoming regular church
service where the congregation meets
for bible study.
The county district convention, rep
resenting largely Norfolk Sunday
schools, met Sunday afternoon and
evening at the First Congregational
church.
Other speakers in addition to Sec
rotary Steidley were Mrs. o. R. Mere
dith, who was a delegate to the state
convention, DR.. C. :. Ray, pastor Of
the Methodist church, and Miss Minna
Stooker, secretary of the Otoe county
Sunday school association.
A quartet composed of Messrs. Solo
mon, Cow, Parker and Kiesau fur
nished special music at the meetings.
District conventions in Madison
county were announced at Meadow
Grove for Monday and for Newman
Grove on Tuesday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
West Point Briefs

West Point, Neb., Oct. 21.-Special
to The News: F. A. Kuester was mar
ried to Miss Louise Feyerherm at the
Emanuel German Lutheran church
yesterday, Rev. NJ. Leimer, pastor,
performing the wedding ceremony.
Over 300 invited guests were present
at the marriage. The couple are the
in Elkhorn township and were born
and brought up in Cunning county.
They will make their home at Crowell
where the groom is the resident agent
of the Nye-Schneider-F Fowler company
Robert o. Brandt, cashier of the
First National bank of Pilger, was
united in marriage yesterday at the
home of the brides parents to Miss
Florence Nellor, Rov. G. L. Goodell
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church, performing the ceremony
The bride is a well known school
teacher of Cunning county. The new
ly married pair will be at home tC
their friends at Pilger after Novem
Der /.
The session of the West Point Wo
mans club last week was devoted tc
ancient English history and was helC
at the home of Mrs. Louise Krause
The roll call was answered by quota
tions from John King. "A Mediaeva
Tournament" was the title of a paper
read by Mrs. P. NJ. Noodle; the sub
ject of THE Great Charter" was pre-
sented by Mrs. o. G. Anderson ant
Mrs William Gentrup discoursed or
"A Half Century With Edward Third.
The price of farm lands in Cumins
county is still soaring. Michael Nc
Namara has sold his farm of 4S0 acres
northwest of West Point, for $45,120
being 1874 per acre. This Is though
to be the largest real estate transac
ton ever made in Cunning county.
The new home of the West Poin
National bank is rapidly nearing com
pletion. The building is being equip
ped with the most modern burgla
alarm system, the alarm gongs sound
ing not only in the immediate vicinit!
of the bank building but in various
places throughout the city.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
LOCAL BALL SEASON ENDS
BROWNIES BEAT BATTLE CREEK
IN TEN INNINGS.
WAS SCORE OF NINE TO EIGHT

In a Ten Inning Game at the Driving
Park Sunday Afternoon, the Norfolk
Brownies Wound up Their Diamond
Season In Close Game.
A ten-inning game with Norfolk fl
nal victor over Battle Creek by the
score of nine to eight closed the
1907" baseball season in Norfolk Sun
day afternoon. The closing game was
witnessed fair-sized crowd at the
driving park diamond.
Sundays game left honors even be-
tween the Brownies and Battle Greek
Earlier in the season Battle Creek
won from Norfolk in a fourteen in
ming game and Sunday the tie was
smashed by the Brownies. A game
between the two mines will be one OF
the opening features Of next springs
baseball.
The seasons last diamond battle
was far from errorless but 1t was a
snappy game of ball and was filled
with intervals of real playing.
1t was in the seventh inning that
the Brownie hoodoo was rung on the
stage. The Norfolk boys had the
game we'll in hand when the balloon
pulled loose in that inning and when
the last man was out 1t was game
to fight for.
The ninth inning left the game
eight to eight.
Queener supplied the winning score.
At moment when the hostile pitcher
was intent on second base and the
Battle Creek catcher had a mind on
an unruly mask Queener, who has
gained something of north Nebraska
reputation, stole from third and made
in home for the last victory of the
season.
During the eighth and ninth innings
when Norfolk drew goose eggs the
Norfolk Junction supplied the battery
for Battle Creek with Mushon and
/ Burnett During the two innings that
! the substitute battery reigned five
Brownies were famed.
The baseball season in NorfolR
closed with Sundays game.
| The 1inp-uD.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
COST OF BEER IS GOING UP
INCREASED EXPENSE OF PRopUC-
TON GIVEN AS CAUSE.
ADVANCES A DOLLAR A BARREL

The Question is: when Beer Coos
up, viii Less Beer Go Downw
Smaller Glasses May Reflect the In
creased Wholesale Cost.
First 1t was thread then II was
milk, now it's going to be beer All
along the line prices are booming I'M
til a silver dollar Is getting ashamed
OF itself
But the price OF beer is going up.
Norfolk liquor men have the tip and
the information is authentic that the
price OF beer all over the United States
Is soon to be raised by the brewers.
The Wholesale price of beer 1t is said.
Is going up a dollar barrel, the raise
being due to the heavy increase to
brewers in the cost OF the ingredients
of beer
The man who has found in his beer
a constant comforter against the ris-
ing tide OF prices besetting him will
find that beer too is in the upward
swing High prices" like many an
overworked human, has taken to
drink.
Although the raise which is to be
announced is to be a decided increase
in the wholesale price, it will also of
necessity reflect itself in the retail
liquor trade because the saloon man
has a profit to protect. It's smaller
glasses, more foam and less weight
that the prospective announcement
will spell to the beer drinking public.
All beer is going up; will less go
down? That's question OF the mo-
ment
Brewers believe that the steady in
crease in the prices Of ell classes Of
food has prepared the public for the
raise. In their own business the brew
ers have seen the raise put squarely
before them by the upward flight Of
the cost OF every item that goes into
the expense account in beer making.
THE brewers have found the solu-
ton" said a representative of one Of
the big breweries in Norfolk, Now
beers beer as long as its good beer
and a glass OF beer is glass OF beer.
But there's a neat problem in psy-
chology in the story. Is beer drank
for quantity or is it the social glass?
If it's the former the brewers will
have greater income and the same ex-
pense, II it's the latter brewers will
have the same income and less ex-
pense. 1t depends on the consumer,
but either way the brewer wins.
But there won't be less money
spent for beer on account of the raise.
The smaller glass may make a man
take two but it won't make him go
without one.
you know it's only the brewery
that knows no season. Men drink in
the winter to get warm, in the summer
to keep cool. They drink to celebrate
success and to drown grief. Love
and hate, grief and sorrow, 1t runs the
list of the feelings. It's confusion Of
the enemy and luck to the cause.
And beer is going up just as sure
as thread did"
1t isn't only beer that is getting
more expensive. Three times within
the last three months the wholesale
cost of whiskey has jumped.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
AGAINST HORSE THIEVES
Association Has New Local Oraaniza-
ton at Meadow Grove.

A branch of the anti-horsethief asso-
citation was organized at Meadow
Grove on Saturday. An initial mem
bership of twenty-five was secured and
considerable enthusiasm was mani
tested. The organization OF the Mead
Ow Grove branch came as a direct re-
suit of the recent operation of a horse
thief at Meadow Grove which served
TO bring home the value OF the organi-
cation.
These officers We're chosen at Mead
ow Grove: c. ]. Hixon, president; S.
w. Deuel., ST.. vice-president; John
Warrick, secretary; Or. II. l.. Kindred,
treasurer, A local captain will be Sc
lected Saturday.
The Meadow Grove men have en-
tered into the organization with en-
thusiasm and expect to have a men,
bership of fifty in two weeks
A meeting to organize the country
adjacent to Battle Creek will be held
in Battle Creek Saturday.
Branches of the North Nebraska
Livestock Owners Protective assOcia-
ton have been established in these
towns: WinnetOon, Verdigre. Creigh-
ton, Wayne, Hoskins, Pilger, Madison,
Norfolk Warneryille and Monowi.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
LAND FRAUD CASES ARE UP
CRIMINAL TERM OF FEDERAL
COURT HAS BEGUN.
NORTH NEsRAskANs INVOLVED

G. n. T. Babcoek and John Aenew Are
Now on Trail and r. W. Mahaherty
and A. F. Hatch viii be Tried Later
on.
Omaha, Neb, Oct. 21.-Special to
The News: The criminal term Of fed
eral court began this morning in Oma-
ha.
G.. II. T. Babcock and John Agnew
are on trial today and II. w. Mahaffer-
ty and A. F. Hatch will be tried later.
All are charged with land frauds.
All of these men are from northern
Nebraska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
NEW CAR THAT WON'T BURN
ALL STEEL FIRE PROOF PAssEN.
GER COACH OUT.
DOESN'T RESEMBLE OLD COACH
Circular Windows Replace the Old
Square ones - Width OF Aisle In.
creased-Fresh Air Taken Into the
Coaches From Underneath.

Omaha, Neb., Oct. 19.-From the
Omaha shops of the Union Pacific,
the first of an entirely new type OF
all.steel flreproof passenger coach
went into service this week Its
round roof and ends, side doors, and
circular windows give the car an ap.
pearance entirely unlike that OF the
familiar wooden coach. On a founda-
ton of massive 12inch I-beams, the
ribs of the car of threeinch channel
iron extend continuously from side to
side in the form of an inverted letter
~"
The end stills of the underframe are
steel castings eleven feet long by nine
feet nine inches wide, weighing 300
pounds. In the total weight of $4,000
pounds, there are only 200 pounds of
wood. The cars weight of Las
pounds per passenger figures out over
200 pounds per passenger less than
any steel coach of modern type built.
In place of the usual square win
dows, the new Union Pacific coach has
24-inch circular windows in aluminium
sash that with their rubber casing
form an absolutely weather and dust
proof window. BY reducing the thick
ness of the walls an increase of seven
inches in the width of the aisle has
been made possible. constant sup
ply of fresh air is obtained from in
takes located at either end of the car.
The air is led through boxes under
meath the car containing double sets
Of dust screens which thoroughly
clean the air before any of it is ad-
mitted to the car.
The car represents the latest step
toward solving the problem of how to
construct a passenger coach that will
not burn, that Is collision proof, and
one that will have these advantages
while being more comfortable for the
passenger and not too heavy for econ
omical operation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25

Lincoln, Omaha, Kansas City, Topeka.
Oklahoma City and other large centers
on straight line. In Nebraska II
will pass through Norfolk, David City,
Seward and Fairbury, and In Kansas
II will reach Wichita. Passing
through Colfax, Butler and Seward
counties in this state, the road will
follow the same half.section line for
a distance of sixty miles or more with.
out a curve.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
CITY TAXES No BUGBEAR
WOULD PAY LESS FOR CITY THAN
NOW FOR SCHOOL.
ANNEXATION MEANS A BENEFIT

People Living in Outlying Districts, Az
ter Investigating the Matter, See
Where They Will Profit in Dollars
by Coming in.
Are city taxes such a bugbear after
all?
This question is being asked by peo-
pie who have stopped to figure out
what annexation would really mean in
the way of additional expense to the
citizens of Norfolk now residing in
outlying districts which it is proposed
to bring within the legal limits of Nor
folk.
Men who have done a little figuring
say that when the owners of suburban
lots get out their lead pencils they
will find nothing in the taxation propo-
siton to turn them against annexation.
Norfolk city taxes are not high.
Owners of property in the additions
which are expected to be annexed al
ready pay state and county taxes and
even taxes for the Norfolk school dis
trict to which nearly all this property
has been attached Now it is a fact
that this property would pay even less
in city taxes for the privileges Of be-
ing in the city than they now pay in
school district taxes for the privilege
of being in the Norfolk school district.
The city tax levy for the present
year is twenty-six and three-eighths
mills. But of this levy nine and three
eighths mills were voted for interest
and sinking fund purposes and under
the provision Of the Nebraska statute
the land annexed would not be liable
| for these taxes. The tax levy assess
able against the annexed territory
would accordingly be seventeen mills
on the dollar valuation.
AS Nebraska property by law is as
sessed at one-fifth its supposed real
value each citizen brought within the
city limits would pay only $S.40 for
each 81 900 worth of property that he
was credited with owning.
The Edgewater park resident, who
may be supposed to own a thousand
dollar home in annexed territory
would find that his $3.40 was spent as
follows: $1.60 into the general fund
to meet the general expenses of city
government, including the street and
police departments, 65 cents into the
street lighting fund from which al
| Norfolk obtains benefit and from which
the outlying districts may expect tc
obtain light service, so cents into the
water extension fund to extend the
water service beyond present water
lines, and 35 cents into the public Ii
brary fund to support public librar!
of which the people of the annexed
territory could become patrons i
brought within Norfolk.
The facts of the taxation side o
lanneXation are such that citizens wht
have looked up the matter believe tina
those who were at first inclined to op
pose annexation will find good reason
for a new opinion. In fact a humble
of men who at first demonstrated hav,
told members of the council that Of
consideration and after a friendly dis
cussion with councilmen they ha,
weakened in their objections and tina
what they now thought most essentia
n 81
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
TALK ABOUT YANKToN ROAD.
A. A. kearney Calls on Secretary OF
State at Lincoln.

Lincoln News: That the old Yank.
ton Southern railroad project has not
been dropped, but is still being pushed
with prospects of success, is the state
ment of A. A. Kearney, an attorney
of Stanton, who has charge of secur-
ing the right of way through Nebras-
ka and Kansas. Kearney was in Lin
coin yesterday and called at the sec
rotary of states Office where last
spring the company behind the scheme
filed articles of incorporation. He de-
clared that good progress Is being
made toward getting the right of way.
The road as laid out on paper will
follow the air line route from Yank-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
MINNESOTA 8, NEBRASKA S.
Cornhuskers Made a Good Showing
Against the Gophers.

The close game of football between
Nebraska university and Minnesota
Saturday afternoon at Minneapolis, re-
sulting in a victory for Minnesota by
score of eight to five. was a splendid
showing for the cornhuskers, 1t was
not expected that Nebraska would win
and the fact that the score was SO
close was eminently satisfactory to
Nebraska followers. Weller made the
Nebraska touchdown. Coach Cole is
apparently making good.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
AinsWorth Items,

Ainsworth, Neb., Oct 21.-Special
to The News: The Rev II. c. Van
Valkenburg of Nora Springs, Iowa,
was called to the Congregational
church in this city today.
Dan Reinert, jr, an old resident OF
this city, died last Wednesday morn
ing and was buried Thursday after
noon. He had long been a sufferer
from inflammatory rheumatism
A well-attended and enthusiastic re-
publican meeting was held in Johns.
town Saturday evening 1t was ad-
dressed by Hon. j. A. Douglas OF Bias
set, candidate for district Judge,
Judge Morris of Johnstown, John NJ.
Cotton, II. S. Jarvis and Mitchell e.
Hughes of Ainsworth.
Senator Norris Brown will speak
here on Oct, 30.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
DEMOCRAT APPOINTED.
State Superintendent Mc5rien Names
W. D. Redmond for Place.

Lincoln, Neb,, Oct. 21,-Special to
The News: w, D. Redmond, regis
trar at the Peru normal school, was
today appointed by State Superinten-
dent McBrien to succeed l. G. Harm
ley, assistant superintendent who died
last week.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25

Battle Creek % 90 90 6 0 2 O-s
Norfolk .......0 2 l 2 l o ID
Umpire, VIM. Wetzel.