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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Local Football Prospects.

Neigh won the first football game
of the season from Norfolk at Neigh
Saturday afternoon, 6 to 0. They won
the game on punt, falling on the ball
over the goal line. Norfolk made a
good showing for the first game. More
training is needed by Norfolk in the
punting. Here Neigh made their star
plays. Norfolk was better trained in
carrying the ball. and once had it on
the half yard line, with only a foot
to GO Captain Weaver featured in
line bucking and other players, both
Neigh and Norfolk, promise good ac-
ton
Norfolk's lineup: Weaver, full back
Captain; Warren Beeler, right half
back Ben Wiley, left half back Nor
rison, quarter back; Rome Kelleher,
right end; Charles Durland, left end;
Kiesau, center; McWharter, left
guard Peters, right guard; r. Wiley,
right tackle; John Rice, left tackle;
subs.--Odiorne, end; Rex Beeler, half
back.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
The First Postage Stamp,

The black penny postage stamp OF
1910, the first stamp ever issued was
distinctly unpopular and gave place
TO red one after years existence
Great Britain was the first country
in the world to use postage stamps
and the English schoolboy of the
period seems 10 have regarded them as
nuisance rather than national
benefit Have You tried the stamps
YETI wrote one of them to his sister
In the year 1910 II think they are
very absurd and troublesome | don't
fancy making my mouth glue pot. al
though, to br sure, YOU have the salts
faction Of kissing he back of her grd.
cious majesty the queen. This is, how
ever should say, the greatest insult
the present ministry could have of
ferrd the quecn."-London Il. p.'s
Weekly
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01

At late hour last night as the re-
suit of a meeting between the mayors
OF Omaha and suburbs and the officers
OF the street car company, a PROPOSE
tion was made public in which the
company gives 80 per cent of its old
employees until noon Tuesday an OPP
portunity to return TO their positions;
comedies an increase in wages II &C.
cepted Immediately and will readjust
schedules as far as possible.
The old men are to be given Sc
uiority over the present employees and
all new men are to be employed as
non.unionists only. The proposition
goes before strikers as a body today.
Strikers declined to make state
ment last night
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
FATAL O'NElLL ACCIDENT.
Train Strikes a Wagon, Killing a
Driver and the Horses.

O'Neill, Neb., Sept 27.-As a spec
iat stock train was passing here it
ran into team and wagon driven
by William McDermot, killing the
horses, demolishing the wagon and
rendering him unconscious. The
train was brought to a stop and the
young man taken to a hospital but
at about 2 o'clock yesterday morning
he died without regaining conscious.
ness.
The man was returning home from
the city, where he had been deliver
ing baled hay, and going towards the
south it was hardly possible to see
the train approaching from the west
side. 1t is supposed that he was on
the track before he saw the train.
The engine struck the wagon at the
front wheels and threw it and the
horses about forty feet, and the man
about ten feet farther. He was struck
on the head, where a great cash told
the tale of the awful blow. He was
a young man and unmarried and was
living with his parents one mile south
of where the fatal accident occurred.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
DAKOTA PROPERTY VALUES.
Total State Assessment This Year
viii Reach $32o,087, 1853.

Pierre, S. d., Sept. 25.-The total
assessed valuation of all property in
the state for this year, as shown by
the forthcoming report of the state
auditor, will be $320,0S7 1853, an in
crease of little over $36,000,0 over
the assessment of last year. OF this
increase, about $2,500,000 has been
placed against corporate property and
the balance against real estate and
personal property. The corporate
property valuation this year is over
$32 100000 and that of farm lands
alone is $199, 199.O77. While the state
shows up well in the way of farm
property, the assessors could find but
$4,000 worth of watches, diamonds
and jewelry, or about a dollar in that
line for each resident of the state, and
while the banks show individual de-
posits of nearly $6,000,000, the as
sessable amount of money is less than
81 100000. The matter of household
goods does not make any great show
ing, with only a little over million
dollars in the whole state, while the
pianos come up to very near the mil
lion dollar mark, but, with the organs
added, the musical instruments in the
state just about equal the household
furniture in valuation. The banks are
assessed at $3,969,617, while there is
but about four thousand dollars of the
capital stock of insurance companies
held in the state. if the figures of the
assessor are to be considered as cor
rect The horses of the state are
valued at about fifteen million dollars,
while the cattle come in at a little
less, about twelve million dollars, with
sheep at a little less than a million,
and swine at just a little over that
figure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Medical Men of Four North Nebraska
Counties Assemble.

Emerson, Neb., Sept. 27.-Physi.
clans of Dixon, Dakota, Cedar and
Thurston counties met here today. OF.
ticers are: w. H. Elliott, president;
B. F. Evans, vice president; J. A. Ma
ronde, secretary and treasurer; j. r.
Graham, censor; A. E. Engzelus, cen
sOr.
Following was the program:
"The Diagnosis of Valvular Heart
Lesions'-C. C. Sackett, Laurel Neb.
Discussion-T. P. Dorcey, Harting-
ton, Neb.; A. E, Cook, Randolph, Neb. !;
F. J. Murphy, Sioux City, la.
"ArteriosclerOsis"- Nj. O'Connell,
Ponca, Neb.
Discussion--J. b. Leahy, Jackson,
Neb.; a. d. Dunn, Omaha, Neb. r. C.
Mcdonald, Fremont, Neb.
Chronic Interstitial Nephritis 81.
II. Robbins, Sioux City, la.
Discussion-C. II. Maxwell, Dakota
City, Neb.; NJ. GrOte, Ponca, Neb.
physiology of the Blood"-E. w.
Meis, Sioux City, Ia.
Discussion-C. T. Ingham, Coleridge,
Neb.; w. II. Elliott, Newcastle, Neb. !;
Morris Nelson, Sioux City, la.
blood Pressure and It's Signifi-
cance"-A. d. Dunn, Omaha. Neb.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Gregory County Corn is Best.

Bonesteel S. D., Sept 27.-Special
to The News: The Gregory county
fair has closed. The fair was we'll at
tended and on Thursday one of the
largest crowds attended the fair that
ever passed the gates. The agricul.
tural and fruit exhibits were large and
the individual exhibits were some of
the best that was ever seen in the
county. The corn exhibit was consid-
cred the best held in the state of South
Dakota this year. One of the expert
judges of the state fair was present
and judged the corn and stock. He
was frank and admitted that the corn
exhibit at the Gregory county fair was
far better than any corn exhibited at
the state fair of this year at Huron,
S. ID. The stock exhibit on Shorthorn
old time stockmen in this part of the
state. They unanimously pronounced
it the best they ever attended.
The ball games between Gregory and
Dallas, umpired by Amanda E. Glenn
ents of Hudson, S. D., the lady umpire,
were BODu eAnlDlJlOlS Ol Jle national
game and resulted in a victory for
Gregory, two out of the three games
Sisters Marry Brothers.
The double wedding of the Powell
sisters and the Willoughby brothers
that was held on the grounds on
Thursday was an entertaining feature
of attraction, likewise the hewitt
Sukles wedding, with a ring ceremony,
held on Friday afternoon from the
judges stand, was novel affair.
The baby show created considerable
excitement, for there were over twen-
ty-Gye Gregory county mothers pres
ent with their babies. The first prize
for the prettiest baby boy under one
year of age was awarded to Edmund
DOnohue, and the first prize for the
prettiest baby girl under one year of
age was awarded to Dorothy Har-
baugh.
The association considers the fair a
complete success.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Madam Has Narrow Escape.

Pierce, Neb., Sept. 27.-Special to
The News To be caught in thresh.
ing machine belt and whirled three or
four times around a shaft without be-
ing killed outright, was the remark.
able experience of H. f. Magdanz, a
prominent Pierce county farmer Mag
danz was picked up unconscious and
was believed to be dead, but he was
revived and is recovering. He sus-
tanned only few gashes and bruises
, about the face.
Mr.. Madam left arm and shoulder
were caught by the flying belt and he
was drawn up to the cylinder. Three
or four times he was whirled around
and then dropped to the ground, I'M
conscious.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Meadow Grove Man Was Mo. =.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept Especial
To The News: Edmond Oring, Lat
Ger Day Saint who formerly lived at
Meadow Grove, Neb, near Norfolk,
was loved by Mrs. Grace Evelyn Rit.
ser-Chaney-Oring Wheeler. Hout Chap.
nnnn more than any of the other of
ahe five husbands whom she married
and abandoned without getting a sin.
gfe divorce.
This Is what she told the prosecut.
ing attorney. IL IL said here that Oring
mas married another woman since.
AS she sat In the office OF Edwin
Curtin, assistant prosecuting attorney
Mrs. Chapman-her latest name
wore broad smile as she boastingly
related how many men she haid mar
Efed and "ditched" as she said.
II had enough Of them when quit
them" she told Mr. Curtin. THAT is
all want to know about them.
'Frederick Chapman, my most re-
cent husband, Is the cause of all this
trouble" she said. looking scornfully
;at husband No. 6, as he stood near
hooking at her In an Indifferent way.
1--WE were married here in Kansas City
sSeptember l, just three weeks ago,
;nfter he had been begging me for
months to marry him. He gave me
drinks and while | was in that fix
Me married me. didn't know any
dining about it until he showed me the
marriage certificate
But 1t didn't matter I'd married
other men. | was raised on a farm
Nm Cass county, Missouri, and have
lived on farms in Cass, Bates and Jack
son counties. When | was Is years
aid l made up my mind | wanted a
Nome of my own. Frank Ritter came
counting and | married him right on
Ahe spot That was in Paola, Kan,
ten years ago lived with him year.
That was all | could stand. Yes, left
min without notice.
ut wasn't long before | decided
wanted to wei again To wait to OBJ
tain a divorce was too expensive and
troublesome. James CLANCY of Butler,
MO, fell in love with me and we were
married in 1902. l lived with him
Just one day.
CLANCY told me he was well man
che morning | married him, but he
wasn't" she continued. Il left him
because | am not going to be nursing
any invalids in this world. | wanted
IN home and not an invalid.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Fields and Orchards of France.

From Avignon to Lyons the rail-
road runs through rich country thu
fruit trees covered with blossoms and
the forests assuming their robes OF
green, altogether making picture
beautiful To took upon. From Lyons t.
Paris the orchards, the vineyards and
the growing grain delight the eye OF
the traveller from oriental deserts and
remind him of Macaulay's poem:
Now let there be the merry sound OF
music and of dance
Through thy cornhelds green and sunny
vines, Oh pleasant land OF Frances
For truly II + a pleasant land.-PariS
Letter IN Ilruvpr Post
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01

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York
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01

Rock County Leader: Last Sunday
while the family were plumming near
earns the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Grammer, residing on the
old Jake Thompson place, near earns,
was bitten on the heel by a rattle.
snake. The child was taken to Frank
Oamek's, and DR.. Root called, who ad-
ministered the necessary antidotes.
The child recovered rapidly from the
effects of the poison and is now as well
as ever.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
OMAHA lNOIAN PROBLEM
Government Commission Starts Work
On Redskln Problem.

Washington, Sept. q. - Declaring
braska has reached its critical period,
when the action has to be transferred
from a dependent ward of the govern
ment to an independent citizen of the
state, officials of the bureau of Indian
affairs announced that steps would be
taken Immediately to place all the
competent Omahas in complete pos
session of their lands and money to
which they are entitled. To place all
the non.competent Omahas in such a
condition, II is declared, would leave
Nebraska with an Indian pauper prob
lem on its hands and would simply
transfer the whole Indian problem
from the nation to the state.
A commission had been approved
by Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Valentine to make an investigation
into the questions involved. This COM
mission began it's work today. This
action Is in conformity with the rec.
ommendation of Secretary of the In
terror Ballinger approved by Presi-
dent Taft recently.
Calling attention to the many diff
culties which will confront the COM
mittee of the division growing out of
the bad practices against the Indians,
the officials state that they believe
that the earnest cooperation of the
local and state authorities will result
in improving conditions. The working
out of the problem in Nebraska will
very likely form a basis for the solu-
ton of similar problems in other
states.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
VALENTINE SHOOTING S RAPE
Dave George, Former Mail Carrier,
Shoots Johnson's Eye Out.


His right eye shot out and other por-
tons of shotgun charge lodged in
his head, man named Johnson who
was murderously fired uron in a Val
entine resort by Dave George, a for
mer mail carrier there, passed through
Norfolk on the morning train enroute
to Omaha for surgical attention.
George, the man who did the shooting,
escaped and is still at large Johnson
thinks George has fled to the Rosebud
reservation. Officers are attempting
to find him.
Johnson, who is said to be a gam
bier and who formerly lived at Creigh.
ton, seemed to be suffering intense
pain from his wounds. One shot
pierced his eyelid and punctured the
eyeball destroying the sight.
George is a married man, his wife
being a Quarter-breed Sioux Indian.
He was drinking at the bar of the re-
sort when Johnson stepped up and the
barmaid handed a drink to Johnson,
declaring that George was buying the
drinks. This enraged George, who
gave Johnson a tongue-lashing. Later
Johnson went to Valentine, secured a
shotgun and two shells, returned to
the place and just as Johnson came
out of the door, fired upon him. A
woman was also struck by quantity
of shot. Johnson fed and George fired
another shot through the windows.
George told the marshal that he
would be on hand for his preliminary
hearing, but he fled.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
SEE END OF OMAHA STRIKE
About 100 Old Men Return to Work.
Union to Act on Proposition.

Omaha, Sept. 27.-While the propo-
sition of the street car company to its
striking employees, which was made
public last night, had not been con-
sidered by the union it is said that
nearly hundred of the old men re-
ported for work this morning and
were put on their old runs. This is
about 20 per cent of the total number
on strike, The proposition is to be
taken up at a meeting of the union
today.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Excursion Rates,

Ak-Sar-Ben Fall Festival Omaha, Neb.
via The Northwestern Line.
Tickets on sale daily October to
s. return limit October II. Witness
the grand carnival and parade. Great
military demonstration, all branches
of the service participating. Larger
and better than ever before. Don't
fail to attend. For full particulars ap-
ply to any ticket agent of The North
Western Line.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
But Orinu Left Her.

"Two months afterward l came to
Kansas City and met Edmond Oring.
Ht was love at first sight. | told him
nothing about former romances, and
lowed him, so that neglected this mat
Der of obtaining divorces from the 9th
GERS. lived with Oring two years
and loved him better every day. But
enne day he told me he had done some
thing wrong and must leave me. He
did, and | haven't seen him since.
Things didn't matter much after
dhat In a few months | was engaged
no be married to Martin Wheeler, a
Jasper county farmer boy. He was
,Awfully good at love making and |
Just couldn't resist him. We were
married in 1901 think-but don't
ask me the dates. There are too
many dates and | get them mixed.
well. lived with Wheeler just six
months. That was enough of him,
and left him. telling him never to dis
1urb me again. And he hasn't, either.
Neither have any of the others except
Chapman.
- was getting awfully tired of mar
ried life by this time" she went on,
sand | decided never to get married
sagain. In fact, | decided after | left
my first husband that / never would
get married again, and each time |
Aeft man | declared it would be my
Hast time But | just felt that in the
world somewhere was a man who was
some good and who would provide
good home for me, so after a few
weeks OF months of single life or
widowhood-gras widow, if you want
80 cali it that just decided to try
again. and | just kept trying. But as
certain as | AIN sitting here it is my
Hast time to get married"
After she had left Wheeler she met
w. C. Aout in Kansas City. She just
knew that Hout was the man she had
been looking for all the long years
and she engaged herself to him, she
said She married him in 1906 and
lived with him just two days She
said that MI lIout didn't kick a bit
when she left him.
"None of my husbands kicked when
Il left them except this man Chapman
she said,
mo, / shall not send out invitations
Co my different husbands to attend a
grand reunion. | am glad enough to
get rid of them and | expect they feel
Ghe same way about it. Chapman is
abe only man who has baked on me. 30
Thought She was a Country Rosebud.
MIR. Chapman said he met Grace
ENUal,.n Eittar tlppn plnuthG and
feIl desperately in love with her.
81 didn't get suspicious until a week
ago Chapman said in the county
prosecutors office. She told me lit
tile of her past life. A relative of hers
cold me she had been married before
She denied it, Then l searched her
trunk There | found four different
marriage certificates. When | mar
ried her | thought she was an innocent
country girl, unacquainted with the
ways of the world | thought | was
plucking real, pure country rosebud,
but instead she has been grass
widow five times and now is in the
sixth row. 1t is too much. l investi-
gated further and found she had never
been divorced from any of her hus-
bands. She says she hasn't herself.
cold the officers about 1t then"
Mrs. Chapman was arraigned before
Justice Shoemaker She pleaded not
guilty and was sent to Jail in default
of 81 500 bond. Her hearing was set
for September 30,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Blood Travels Fast.

The speed nj which the blood clrcu-
ates in the veins ana arteries of
healthy man Is something surprising.
All day long. year In and year out,
the round trips continue from the
heart TO the eXtremities and back
again. The red blood corpuScles travel
like boats in stream, going TO this
or that station for such service as they
have to perform, and the white cor
puScles. the phagOcytes, dart hither
and thither like patrol boats, ready to
arrest any cOntraband cargo of disease
germs. The mileage of the blood cir
culation reveals some astounding facts
in our personal history. Thus it has
been calculated that, assuming the
heart to beat siXty-nine times II min
ute at ordinary heart pressure, the
blood goes ut the rate of POI yards in
the minute, or seven miles per hour
lGS miles per day and $500 miles per
year. If man of eighty-four years
of age could have one single blood
corpuScle floating in his blood all his
life it would have Travelled in that
same time 5.l50.S0S mIes.-EXchange.
One Comfort.
Dick was n very clean little boy. and
dirt diSguStcd him. One day he found
a poor little starved kitten crouching
in Il ditch mt the roadside and he
carried the wet. muddy little waif
home with him. He took ii to the
hydrant and carefully rnsed off all
the mud. but the shock was too great
for the sick kitty. and the breath of
life departed. Dick went with her to
his mother, who exclaimed at the sight
Of the wet. dropping kitten. why.
Dick. what nave YOU dOmp:'
"She was alI mud, and ! washed
her" Di.E r"plipd
"Oh I'ci," his mother said sorrow
fully. I'm afraid she's dead
Dick looEod shocked mud gricved for
a moment: then his face lighted up
with II CLEAN of comfort as he ex-
claimed "Weli she died clean. any
Way."- nc'""Nirr
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Notice to Property Owners in Sewer
Districts 10, ID and is,

Notice is hereby given that there
will be special meeting of the mayor
and council held at the council cham
Der in the city hall October 4, 1909,
at 7:45 p. M. for the purpose of sit
ting as a board of equalization to levy
assessments against the property ben
Gifted in sewer districts 10, IA and Is,
district No. 13 comprising the follow
ing described property, to-wit: the
south half of blocks 4, and of the
original town of Norfolk, the north
half of blocks 1, and of Mathew
sons addition. all of Bears school lots,
the south half of blocks 1, 2 and of
Koenigstein's addition, lots 1 to 6 in
elusive of Pilger's addition, all of Bur-
rows and Egbert's additions, all that
part of the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of section %, town
ship "a, range 1 lying between the eX.
IRENE southwest corner of block 2,
Bears addition to Norfolk, and Sew
enth street along the north side Of
Norfolk avenue; district No. ID COM
prising the following property, to-wit:
the east 60 feet of F. Verges' unplatted
3.3 acres, the east half of block 1, Ded-
erman's addition, the west half of
block 2, Dederman's addition, lots /,
2, 3 and 4, blocks Is and IS, block 2,
Koenigstein's Second addition; dis
trict No. Is comprising the following
described property, to-wit: lots 1,
2, 8, 4, and of R. G. Fleming's sub
division lots, 1, 2 and 8 of c. S. Hayes
choice lots lots l and % of Wards
suburban lots.
Any property owner may appear and
show cause why such levy should not
be made.
Ed. Harter City Clerk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01

Meadow Grove, Neb,, Sept. q, -
Special to The News Oring former
Iy lived here. His brother is Latter
Day Saint preacher, Oring is said to
have moved west He left here about
two years ago
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
GREGORY COUNTY DEPOSITS.
Total Bank Deposits in That County
Over Million and Half.

Total deposits in Gregory county
banks amount to $3.50, 255,S9, accord
ing to the Gregory Advocate, which
gives the following figures:
Available
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01

Citizens bank. 17,405.03 46,523.76
CT. Chas. st. Blk. S,O25.62 12,900.S5
Bank of Herrick 20,719.53 60,120.14
Farmers st. Blk.
Herrick .... 11,5SO.69 45,215.55
Burke st. Bank. 1S,953.S4 74,9O953
Ger-Amer. Burke 20,4S2.53 50,27451
Gregory Nationl 136,414.19 2S2.1S719
list Natl Gregory 57,9SS.53 156,57662
Bank of Dallas. S5,66743 161,92552
M.& FB'k Dallas 47,79S.67 III, 1850
Dallas st. bank. 30,721.S0 62,S139S
Lucas ST. bank. 2,241.52 6,491.S7
Peoples bank.
Dixon ..... 1S,S9S.47 34,44S2S
Bank of Carlock 6,651.49 24,324. 20