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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
INDIAN POLICE ARRESTED.
Constable Takes Indian Police into
Custody in Gregory.

Bonesteel Herald; The Indian police
of the Bull Creek region have had a
little clash with the Gregory county
authorities and have been given to
understand that the authorities of this
county can look after the affairs here
without their assistance.
Several weeks ago Chasing Crane
living north OF Dixon in Gregory
county was arrested by the Indian
police of Lyman county and given ten
days on the wood pile for holding
dances at his place Crane complained
to the county authorities of his treat
ment and upon the temperance of
the Indian police in this county they
were arrested by Constable Daniels
of Dixon and lodged in the city jail
at Gregory. They gave appearance
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Anzeiaer Goes to Columbus.

The Norfolk Anzeiger is now a
thing of the past, the paper having
been moved to Columbus and consol-
idated with the Nebraska Biene.
Messrs. Wilckens and Kinder of the
Biene were in the city today and COM
pleted negotiations for the transfer
of the publication. The new publish.
ers had expected the Anzeiger would
be issued from the Norfolk Office this
week, but when they reached here
they found this had not been done,
SO that some of the subscribers will
miss an issue, as the Biene mad been
sent from Columbus before the new
up the deal.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08

giving him trouble but the specialist
could not say that cataract was
forming. The improved condition OF
the left eye will probably benefit the
right Mr.. Matrau came back from
Omaha by way of Lincoln, arriving
in the city last evening. The sue
cession outcome of the operation will
be a matter of considerable relief to
Mr. Matrau's many friends in this
section Of the state. The operation
was not painful one although
anaesthetics were not administered.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
DOWN 70 Fl ABOVE ZERO
ELEVEN DEGREES BELOW FREez.
ING IN NORFOLK.
FEARS FOR THE FRUIT NOW

II is Feared That What Fruit Sur.
vived the Frosts OF Earlier in tho
Week, Have Been Damaged Serious
ly by This Last Nip.
tFrom Saturdays Dnily.l
Twcnty-one degrees above zero!
That was the record in Norfolk ear
~ Saturday morning, 1t brought
frost
The center of the area of high pres
sure, which had been delayed week
by very extraordinary weather condt'
tons, arrived during the night and
brought with 1t the coolest point OF
the weck-cleven below freezing
The climax of the high pressure
area having passed, the wind shifted
from north to south, after having
blown from the north more than u
solid week.
II is feared that this frigid wave
has seriously affected what fruit sur
vived the frosts of a few nights ago.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
STATE CONTEST COMING
NEBRASKA DEcLAMAToRY CON.
TEST WILL BE HELD HERE.
ON FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 8

Word Was Received Friday From
President Doremus Of Madison, An.
nouncine That Norfolk Had Been
Selected For the Event.
The Nebraska state declamatory
contest will be held in Norfolk Fri
day, May s.
This word was received definitely
from President Doremus of Madison
Friday There will be contestants in
all three classes-dramatic, oratorical
and humorous-from all parts of the
state. In all, about forty people are
expected.
The contest will be held in the Au-
ditorium. Although this will be cir
Gus night, it was decided that that
fact would help the contest so far as
the size of audience is concerned,
rather than diminish.
This will be the first time the state
contest has ever been held in Norfolk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Veterans Of the German Army.

The organization of Norfolk
Landwehr verein, an organization Of
former soldiers of the German army,
will be completed at meeting Satur-
day evening. The ex-soldiers will
meet at Marquardt's place of business.
A. F. Mertens of Omaha, president
of the "Westliche Kriegerbund," will
be in Norfolk for the gathering and
will assist in the organization.
There are number of organiza-
tons of former German soldiers in
this section. West Point has very
successful organization of this kind.
Any man who has served in the Ger
man army is eligible.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Old COUNCIL CLEANS Up
FINAL MEETING OF THE DUR.
LAND CITY ADMINISTRATION.
ADJOURN TO TUESDAY MORNING

At That Time the Affairs Of the City
win be Formally Turned over to
the Sturgeon Admnistration-Pum
ing Proposition Ratified.
The business affairs of the Durland
administration were cleaned up at
final meeting Of the old council last
evening II was a three hour session
and lively meeting. When council
men voted an adjournment along near
midnight there was a clean slate. The
adjournment was taken until 9
O'Clock Tuesday morning, when the
gormal transfer of authority from the
outgoing to the incoming adminstra
tion takes place.
The meeting last night was a fare
well meeting for three members of the
council, Mcssrs Haasc, Buchholz and
.Spelman Mayor Durland presided
at his last regular meeting. City
CLERK HUFF held the city clerks pen
ell for the last time.
The most important action taken
was the formal ratification of the CON
tract entered into with the electric
light company providing for the oper-
alton Of the city pumping station by
electricity by the company at a cost
of Sl75 month Councilmen Buch-
holz, Dolan, Kaufman, Garvin, Haase
aud Spellman voted to ratify the con
tract Councilman Degner voted in
opposition.
The contract had received favor
able vote at previous meeting. A
remonstrance against the contemplate
ed action signed by eighteen citizens
was presented. Herman Gerecke and
John Friday, both former mayors of
Norfolk, also spoke in opposition.
Against arguments that the councils
course was not along proper lines the
councilmen urged the city attorneys
opinion that the matter was entirely
legal and presented figures to show
that the arrangement was good bust,
ness proposition in saving money for
the city.
Other routine business was handled
with more dispatch Some of the dis
cussions were lively, the old council
coming down the home stretch in a
vigorous fashion The new council
will inherit, it appears, little grief
from its predecessors in office.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
FREE RANGE QUESTION.
Lyman County Homesteaders Will Get
Chance to Vote.

Chance to vote.
Pierre, S. D., May 2.-The Lyman
county homesteaders, after a long
fight, will be given an opportunity to
vote on the question Of free range
without waiting until fall. For time
It looked as if the action Of the coun-
ty commissioners in rejecting the
homesteaders' petition presented last
fall would allow the cattlemen to hold
full sway for another year. After the
question had been carried into court
some of the most prominent business
men of the county met with the COM
missioners and presented additional
names to the petition and the COM
missioners agreed to act without car.
rying the fight any farther. An at
tempt to fix the date Of the election
on the question the same as for the
primaries was opposed on the ground
that it would be used as a club in that
election, and the 10Th OF May was
fixed as a date of special election for
the purpose of deciding the range
question.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
FRIDAY FACTS.

ID. Mathewson is in Gregory, S. d.
Harvey Lee went to Sioux City yes
terday
DR.. P. H. Salter was in Fairfax
yesterday.
]. d. Sturgeon was in Randolph
yesterday.
Miss Gretchen Schwartz was in
Omaha yesterday.
]. S. Smith arrived home from Lin
coin last evening.
Miss Anna Fair OF Sholes is in Nor
folk visiting friends.
j. H, Conley is home from a bust
ness trip 10 Beemer.
County Clerk p. II. Davis of Bias
sett spent the day in Norfolk return
ing from Plainview to his home,
w. c. Williams of Lincoln. mem
Der Of the real estate firm of Foster
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
AN Old RESIDENT GONE.
DEATH OF JOHN HENRY PllLER
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.
THlRTY.NINE YEARS IN NORFOLK
Seventy-seven Years Old, He Had
Seen Norfolk Grow From a Farm
ing Community to city Came
Here Before Mill Was Built.


Thirty-nine years a resident of Nor
folk, John Henry Piller died early Fri
day morning at his home on Braasch
avenue and Third street. Death re-
suited from heart disease. Mr.. Piller
was seventy-seven years old He was
born in Germany in Alt-Lietzegoricke
1t was in 1869 that Mr. Piller came
to Norfolk. Norfolk even as a village
did not exist at that time and the
farming community was only three
years old. The mill was built shortly
afterwards.
In 1852 Mr.. Piller married Miss
Wagner, who died in 1870. In 1871
he married Miss Louise Boche, who
still survives him. He leaves eight
children.
Mr.. Piller was a cabinet maker by
trade and was fine workman. He
ran one of the first furniture stores
ever opened in Norfolk.
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon at l o'clock from the home
and at 1;40 from Christ Lutheran
church.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
SECTION MEN LAY DOWN TOOLS
M. G. o. Employees Reduced From $1.4o
to SIPS Per Day.

There was a walk-out among sec
ton men working for the NJ. & o..
railroad company in Norfolk Friday
noon. August Schultz and julius Kehl
laid down their tools and quit. Also
Dan and Jack McCarrigan, on the
Hoskins section. Word came that
their wages were cut from $1.40 to
$1.25 per day. So they quit.
Assistant Roadmaster Louis JGuerre
of Emerson came over and announced
the reduction. He said foremen would
be cut. They now get $3.50 per
month. Foreman August Fisher said
he'd quit if they cut his wages.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Mater commissioners Report.

Norfolk Neb, April so, 190S.-To|
the honorable mayor and city council
of the city of Norfolk Neb.: | here
with submit to you my annual report
AS water commissioner, from May |,
1907 to May |, 1908.
My last semi-annual report of Nov.
/, 1907:
From fiat rates. ............ S S73.S7
From meter rates. ....... :. l12S.5I
Meters and Miscellaneous. 1850
Total .............. $3O9S "a
Paid to city treasurer ..... 3O3S.94
audited Nov. 10, 1900
Receipts from Nov. /. 1907 to May
1, 1908:
From fiat rates ........,... 5 554.49
From meter rates. .......... 14271O
Meters and miscellaneous. 25675
Total. ............. s223s.S4
Contra
Treasurer Receipt, No. 1911. 5 10000
Treasurer Receipt, No. 1922. 1884
Total. $223S.34
Recapitulation:
Total receipts during last
fiscal year .............. S52ll.2S
Paid to treasurer during last
fiscal year ............... $52IIIS
1t is impossible for me to furnish
"A detailed report of expenditures as
the city council bought the supplies
for the water works, but there is
s2.33l02 in the water fund at present
November report shows 296 meter,
and 1874 fiat rate consumers, of the
TIA fiat rate consumers - have
changed to the meter system in the
last six months. s new taps have
been made, making a total of BIG
meter rate and 1862 fiat rate consumers
none shut off and 2 old one turned on
again.
In the last report there were
meters on hand, bought 20. sold 2C
and money turned into treasury.
on hand. From these meters the city
ownes and receives rent for the
same
The city at present Ownes the fol
lowing water mains:
31435 feet of 4-inch mains.
1892 feet of 6-inch mains.
1862 feet of S-inch mains.
l746 feet of l0-inch mains.
S37 feet of Pinch mains.
120 feet of l4-inch mains.
A total of 1892 feet, making trifi'
over S2s miles of mains, with SO fir'
hydrantS and % gate valves.
Outside the pumping station every
thing is in perfect condition, except
ing the tapping machine, which Il
badly worn and makes considerable
trouble. The Muller Mfg. Co. offer
Tn take the old machine and give tn
city $3.50 credit on new one.
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted
August Brummund,
Water Commissioner.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
HIS EYE IMPROVING.
r.. c. Matrau Underwent a Successful
Operation for Cataract.

II. C. Matrau is home from Omaha
with every indication that the opera
tion on his left eye for a cataract has
been entirely successful Mr. Matrau
returns to Norfolk very much encour-
aged. The cataract which had form
ed on his left eye was removed by
DR.. Clifford, the Omaha eye specialist
Before leaving Omaha Mr., Matrau
was told by DR.. Clifford that the oper
alton seemed to be entirely success
full and that the indications were that
normal sight would be restored to the
eye Mr. Matrau's right eye has been
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
TWO KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD.
Two Travelling Men Save South
Dakota Farm House From Fire.

The travelling man is noted for his
kindness of heart and readiness to
help his fellow men who deserve it
whenever opportunity offers. Beadle
county has suffered terribly from
prairie fires this spring and an Incl
dent of one Of the scourges sweeping
across the fields is related by the
Huronite, of Huron, S. D. "F E. AL
bright and G.. A. Keller on Wednesday
last were driving from Huron to
Virgil and while enroute noticed in
the distance a prairie fire rapidly ad-
vancing toward farmers home.
Whipping up their horses they hasten
ed to the scene of destruction and up
on arriving they discovered a help
less woman almost CraZed with grief
wringing her hands in despair and a
little boy about twelve years old man
fully trying to stop the fire with a
pitchfork. The travelling men soon
got busy and began fighting the fire
and after heroic efforts succeeded in
saving the farmers house and barn
but only did so just in the nick of
time. The fire had burned everything
in its path and was only stopped with
in very few feet of the house and
barn. Five minutes later those men
would have witnessed the destruction
of a South Dakota home by prairie
fire. After they succeeded in stop
! ping the fire they asked where the
men Of the house were and were told
that they were over in a field blowing
and they Immediately Informed them
of the narrow escape which their
home had from destruction.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08

bonds and we're liberated with the
instr rtiyn that Gregory county OFF,
cials would take care of the AFFAIRS
OF this county in the future.
II Is said that the Indian police
from Lyman county have caused con.
siderable trouble in the neighborhood
Of "iX.l and the officers of this coun.
ty would much rather they would stay
ON their own side of the line.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
HOSPITAL WINS VICTORY
GUTzMER's CUBS sWATTED OUT
EIGHT FULL RUNS.
WHILE MAPEs' OWN GOT SEVEN
Until the Last Inning the Town Com.
bination Had the Game Won, But
in That Awful Last Inning Events
Happened Very Rapidly.

in That Awful Last Inning Events
Happened Very Rapidly.
Norfolk state hospital, s; Mapes'
own" T.
The first base ball game of the sea
son in Norfolk is over. Sometime
the latter part OF next week it will be
made into history. Then it will be
recorded that Mapes' "own" did well
in winning the game early In the af
ternoon but erred in not keeping 1t
won in the last two innings.
Just who is to blame on the over.
sight Of the Representatives, COM
bination in nCglecting to put the vic
| tory In cold storage when It had been
properly caught and Tabled is now
matter of dispute. Anyway Hoen-
stein from the hospital came along in
the last inning and knocked a three
| Dagger. Then Gutzmer ups and
brings Hoensten in to tie the score.
1t was just another run to win the
game.
1t was a great game from an am
| dJtul SldHuDOlul, Which was play tu
Friday afternoon. 1t was a close
game although victory seemed to be
with the town nine until the last inn
ing. The hospital nine was re-enforc-
ed by a Norfolk battery, Haak and
Glissman. With a good battery in
hand GutZmer's cubs did things to the
Mapes- Mathewson champions that had
not been placed on the official pro
gram.
So the Y. NJ. C. A. fund wasn't
boosted in the game. The proceeds
went into the hospitals entertain
ment fund.
Mapes' battery, Nicola and Koenig
stein, showed up well and the whole
of the aggregation swatted dutifully
at the ball and waved their arms ener
getically when ever the ball was pop
ped out in their particular sphere OF
influence, a sphere not always clearly
defined. w. p. Logan on second and
Burt Mapes on shortstop were the
stars"
The ball played was remarkably
good in view of the chilly day and the
high wind that was sweeping over the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
BASE BALL AT PLAiNvIEW.
Athletic Association is Preparing tc
Have Crackerjack Team.

Plainview, Neb., May Especial to
The News: The Plainvew Athletic
association is preparing to put ball
team in the field this season that will
be crackerjack. Shares In the ath.
letic association are being sold and
il is believed fund of $1,000 will be
on hand to back the team when II is
organized and ready to start out to
swat neighboring bali teams.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Business Changes in the Northwest

Gilbert Nygren is the new manager
of the Trans-Mississippi elevator at
Bristow. j. F. Larson, the former
manager, resigned to go to farming.
B. A. Roberts of Albion has sold
the Fairfax nursery at Fairfax, S. D.,
to S. r. Turney of Lucas, Phelps
Harvey of Fairfax and Henry Ras-
mussen Of near Herrick
w. T. Berry will open a new hard.
ware store at Stuart.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Match, Child, Barn Gone.

Valentine, Neb., May Especial to
The News: A barn belonging to
James Steadman was burned to the
ground Saturday afternoon, slightly
scorching a pig and calf, which were
in the barn. The fire was evidently
started by some children.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08
Iowa Seed Corn

Robbins pure Golden Dent seed We this
world j percent
n LIS
with the best
seeds should
Department NJ, f. O. GRAVES SEED Del Moines, Ia
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08

Try a News want ad.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-28
ATTEMPTS TO BLACKMAH
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Extraordinary Story Told at
French Court Martial of AM
buIance Corps Man

BORDEAUX, Aug. 27.-An extraor-
dinary story was told IN the court mar
tial today Of a member OF the military
ambulance corps, Camille Marquet, who
was charged with attempting to black
mail President Roosevelt. According
20 the evidence before the court, Mar
Quet wrote TO the president on January
demanding on behalf Of my society"
without other specification. $4,000, "on
account Of services rendered during the
% presidential election" and promising
further Immense help
Receiving no reply to this demand,
Marouet wrote again March 3. threat
eninR a scandal which will cast dis
honor upon the whole family unless the
money Is forthcoming at a fixed date /"
IN conclusion the writer says:
The highest heads are no longer
safe on their shoulders; look at Portu-
gal"
the French consul general, who COM
ynunicated with the French police.
Marquet was brought UP for court mar
fiai but the court. in consideration Of
the good character Of the youth, SEN
fenced him to six days Imprisonment.
giving him the benefit of the first Of
lenders Of the law
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-28
Wife's Attorneys File Complaint
and Steal March on Hus-
bands Counsel
Unprintable Charges Are Made
in Addition to Stories of
Blows and Drunkenness
Sensational Developments Are
Promised When Defendant
FOrmulates Grievances

The surprising but not totally un-
expected happened in the Goats i'm
broglio yesterday, Mrs. Eulah M.
Goats filing suit for divorce against
Lee B. Coats, and making charges of
the grossest kind of cruelty. While
Coats attorney, Walter H. Linforth,
had been preparing divorce COM
plant in behalf of the husband, Hiram
w. Johnson and James G. Quinn,
counsel for Mrs. Coats, stole march
Son him and filed the wife's bill just
before the county clerks Office closed
yesterday.
Accusations that Coats struck, beat,
strangled and choked her are among
the mildest Of the charges preferred by
Mrs. Coats against her husband. Others
are positively unprintable. Detailing
the circumstances which she asserts
made it impossible for her to continue
TO live with HIN. Mrs. Coats alleges that
on the night of August IL last, at the
Fairmont hotel. while she was sleeping
her husband seized her and choked her
into insesnsibiIity, blackened her eye.
bruised her severely, and grievously in
jured her physically. When she re-
gained her senses, she AYERS, she sum-
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-28
MONEY IN|T,' .
WRITTEN LURE
OF PAUDUVERIS
Letters to Peter Claudianes Re-
veal Ramifications of
Dynamiting Plot
Assassin's Friend Urged to
Hurry to This City for
Important Work
Grand Jury Reviews Corre-
spOndence That Preceded
Attacks on Gallagher

Additional light was thrown yester-
day on the relations between Felix
Pauduveris and Peter Claudianes,
which early in March had assumed
the proportions of gigantic criminal
conspiracy to do away with James L.
Gallagher, the chief reliance of the
graft prosecution. Letters written by
Felix to Peter were made public, in
which he urged the latter to come to
San Francisco on important business.
Felix enjoined the utmost secrecy
upon Peter, with especial stress laid
upon the request to keep Brother John
in ignorance.
Felix had already learned that John
was unable to keep a closed mouth and
the crafty padrone dreaded any bun
CLING with the commission to do away
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-28

moned a doctor and the hotel detective
to protect her from further attacks.
Coats is alleged to have almost killed
her.
wOMAN's ARM CUT
Another accusation made against
Coats by his wife is that at road
house in San Francisco he forced an en-
trance into the ladies' dressing room
and attacked a young woman friend of
the plaintiff. A small vein in the young
woman's arm was cut. from which she
bled profusely, becoming covered with
blood, and the attaches of the road
house became aware of the struggle
When upbraided by his wife, Coats is
said to have made the response that
he was drunk and did not know what
he was doing.
In other charges preferred against
Coats it is averred that he made in
sulting suggestions to his wife; that
he drank to excess; that on one occa-
sion he choked and strangled her and
then chewed her cheek; that in public
places he behaved disgustingly when
drunk, attempting to caress her and
making 1t necessary for her to support
him from falling.
ALIMoNY Is DEMANDED
Coats income is said to total 50. 600
a month. His wife says he has large
sums on deposit in Los Angeles and
San Francisco banks and owns a half
interest with William j. Bricker in
mules, wagons and harness worth $3.50.
600. Mrs. Coats says her separate
property consists of a promissory note
for $4,000 executed to her by her hus-
band, $1,000 in a safe deposit hoy and
$4,000 in the Crocker national bank
which latter sums Coats says belong
to him--two ranches in Kings county.
worth $4,000 and $4,000, and a Peerless
automobile. She is absolutely without
income, she asserts. and asks that the