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The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31

William A. Marsh today trans
ferred to W. j. Bender a tract of
land for $3.50.
j. b. Masser today transferred to
F. w. and Albert Clark 10 acres of
fine orchard for $4,000
w. f. Scott, who today retired
from the Majestic Cafeterion com
pany, will leave. in few days for his
old home in Peru. Ind, where his
aged mother is very i'll.
The Daily Sentinel wishes its read
ers, one and all. the happiest kind of
New Year. 1iay tomorrow and all
the 364 days that follow bring only
prosperity and happiness.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
PEOPLE ARE lNCENSED

Montrose, Dec 31.-Therc is a
wave of Indignation sweeping over
the Hotchkiss country owing to the
alleged failure of Ballentine X Beggs
and John Hutchinson, of Salida. TO
protect 5000 cattle that are starving
and freezing near Hitchkiss. The
Humane society has been appealed to.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
Election Y. M. C. A. Directors

There will he a meeting of all the
active members of the Y. NJ. C. A. on
Monday evening. January 10, for the
annual election of directors. The
terms of seven of the directors ex-
pire at that time and there are two
vacancies to be filed. All active
members are urged to attend.
r. NJ. McCLINTOCK,
Recording Secretary of the Board.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
POLITICIAN LEAVES WEALTH.
Especial to The Sentinel.1

New York. Dec. 31.-"Little Tim"
Sullivan, alderman and Bowery poll
tical leader, who died recently, left
an estate valued at approximately
100000. according to the estimates
of his friends, but continued search
has failed to reveal any will. During
his ill-health several months ago,
Little Tim" started to make a will,
but never signed it
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
COLD WEATHER BROKEN
[By Associated Press. 1

+ Washington. Dec. 3I.-The !
j. extremely cold weather which 4
l. has prevailed in many states i
+ for the past several weeks is on !.
= the verge of being broken, ac- /.
+ oording to today's government :
J. forecast. =
+ The continued absence of ex- +
= tremely cold weather for the +
i west and middle west is pre- +
!. dicted. 3.
4. + + 4. + 4. i !. j. !. .. :. 4 L =. l. . :,
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BOY HANGS HIMSELF.

Toledo, o.. Dec. 31.-Sent to the
cellar to get his mother a pail of
water, Herman Miller. aged IA, son
Of John c. Miller, hanged himself
yesterday.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
She KILLED HERSELF

Especial to The Sentinel
PUEBLO. DEC. 31.-NRS. MYR-
TIE CRANE. \ YOUNG WOMAN,
DESPONDENT OVER DOMESTIC
TROUBLES. KILLED HERSELF
THIS MORNING BY INHALING
GAS.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
CRUEL THIRD DEGREE
Especial to The Sentinel. |

Denver. Dec. 31.-Ernest Ruppc,
husband of the woman found murd-
cred on the bank of the Platte river,
has four times been submitted To the
fearful ordeal of the third degree"
but still maintains his innocence.
Chief Armstrong declared to the man
that he would convict him yet"
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31

Try pair of the new skates at the
Auditorium on New Years.
A. b. orme today transferred to
j. A. Camel tract of land for
$4,000.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31
A MONTH OF BIG SHOWS.

+ January will be a month of
big shows in Denver-the Ma
; tional Apple exposition during
+ the first week. and later the
= great Live. Stock show which
: has acquired national reputa-
; tion and is recognized as one of
, the greatest live stock exposi-
+ tions in the country.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31

Eleven dollars is the round trip
rate to Denver January 4th on the
Midland.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31

Your clothes will keep their shape
and look nice longer IL you have
them cleaned and pressed by us. The
Suitorium. Phone Black 662.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31

Let us make your old clothes look
new again.-The Suitorium. Phone
Black 662; 125 South Fifth-st.
The daily sentinel., 1909-12-31

seftn's chilli has reputation back
VI II. Sold by the bowl or for use
In the home.
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DRS. ELDRIDGE AND GRAY.
Physicians and Surgeons.

: All medicines furnished from
!. our own laboratory and put up
: by ourselves thus avoiding
: mistakes
: Offices. Sis Capitol block,
!. Main street.
: DR.. Eldridge's residence, No.
: 53S Chipeta avenue. Phone
!. No. 10f Junction.
: DR.. Gray's residence, 1l6 8.
|. Seventh st. Phone junction
!. 321.
I Once phone. No. l3b juno
: tion.
Z Once hoars from $40 to II
!. an; from l to 8 p,m.: from
:. 2 to pm. aHd from . to {
: I'm. SundAys.-
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05
"reminiscences of a Wayfarer
of Richardson County and Southeast Nebraska. as
remembered by the writer. who has spent fifty
one years here.

in its sinuosities, which was the
only way a sensible and fair
surveyor could execute the calls
of the treaty. When thus made
the western initial point on the
Great Nemaha. was locate d
about the mouth of the Muddy;
and a line drawn from tina
point to a like point ten miles
west of the mouth OF the Little
Nemaha, left Archer about a
mile and a half west of It.
The new survey was made on
an entirely different basis Of
operation. Instead OF follow
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

ing the meanderings Of the river,
the surveyor, whoever he was.
started at the mouth (Or some
where thereabouts) and ran q
straight line up the valley, 10 a
point ten miles west, which
moved the initial point on the
Great Nemaha for the line 10 4
corresponding point northwest
on the Little Nemaha. about
four miles further west; and
when that line was run i 10
Gated Archer on the Hall Breed
tract. That gave the Half
Breeds a slice out Of the public
domain four sections wide and
some thirty miles long. Not a
bad land grab.
OF course, that survey was q
fraud and a wicked one, and
though it failed of success in the
end, it nevertheless ruined Ar
cher, and wrecked the hopes and
plans, as well as the fortunes of
many worthy people.
This occurred sometime in the
latter part of the year 1856, and
at the session of the Legislature
that convened shortly thereaf-
ter in 1857, the final death blow
was given Archer by the re
moval of the county seat, To-
Gated there by an act of the first
territorial Legislature in 1855, to
Salem. seven or eight miles
further west.
Charles Mcdonald, a citizen
of Salem, and a member of the
legislature, introduced a bill
providing with apparent delic-
acy, that if the commissioners
of the county should ascertain
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that Archer was in fact located
on the Half Breed tract, they
would at once move the county
offices to the town of Salem;
and Immediately afterwards,
without waiting developments
under the first bill, he intro
duced another, removing the
county seat bodily and at once,
from Archer to Salem. Both
bills were probably passed the
same day, as the record shows
that they were both approved on
the same day. That was ''the
most. the unkindest cut of all
as those people of Archer were
largely instrumental in eleCting
Mcdonald to the office, the pow
ers of which he used for the de
strnCtion of their town. From
that hour Archer was lost.
The most prominent of the
men living there at the time
were John c. Miller, Ambrose
Shelly, William Level, w. NJ.
Maddox, John Welty, A. D.
Kirk, Frank Goldsberry, Will
liam p. Loan, and d greater
number OF other persons than |
have space to name here. They
were all involved in the wreck
and injured correspondingly.
Kirk and Goldsberry went to
RulO, which had been started
the year before, Loan went to
st. Stephens, another town on
the Missouri, some miles above
RulQ, but as | recol lie c t, lie
passed most of his time at the
house Of William K. Cain, his
brother-in-law, who was then
engaged in opening a farm in
the near vicinity.
William Il. Cain was long a
leading citizen in this part of
the country.
The others wandered off in
one direction or another and to
one place and another, but most
Of them to that land starward.
1t was a cruel thing to de-
stroy that young community,
and especially when no substan-
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

constantly in their relations
with each other, upon the the
Dry of equivalents and compen-
sations? It appears SO to me.
But take the case in hand.
Three years afterwards, that
same legislature, by the same
arbitrary power passed another
act to take effect in the same
month of the year and almost
on the same. day of the month,
removing the county seat from
Salem, and locating it at Falls
City. The reader can make any
application of this philosophy
pertinent in his Judgment.
Judge Miller was probably
the hardest hit of them all. He
was among the first settlers,
had invested his all in the town,
and expected to reap the reward
of a frugal and economic life in
the anticipated prosperity of
the town and country.
He had all his family about
him; was the first probate Judge
of the county, with every pros
pect of holding the Office as long
as he desired it. But in an evil
hour everything was SWEEP
away, and he was a ruined man
in his Did age. 1t broke his
spirit and in all probability
shortened his life. He died in
1860, and is buried with others
of his family in the cemetery
near where the old town stood.
One of his daughters, Mrs. w.
NJ. Maddox, is a citizen of this
city. she was married 10 zap
tain Maddox from her fathers
house in Archer in the year 1855.
They came here about forty
years ago, and helped to build
the town. Captain Maddox was
one of the first settlers of Ne
braska. was twice a repre-
sentative in the legislature, was
sheriff Of the county and held
other Offices of trust and conf
dence. He died several years
ago. Nearly all of his children
live with and near their mother.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

over the ravine to the north, in
which many of its early settlers
lie buried. There is nothing in
the prospect suggestive of the
fact that a town of three hun
dred people or more, ever stood
there, or that it had ever been
anything but the corntield it
now is.
The cemetery mentioned, is
now Archer: the once living vii
lage has vanished, and is but Il
memory.
Most people have an uneX-
plainable desire to visit agrave-
yard, and the party that went
over that beautiful Sunday af-
ternoon we're no. exception to
the rule.
[ had i'm mind the fear that the
place might have been neglected
and become overgrOWn with
weeds and underbruSh. Such
things happen sometimes o
these places, especially where
they are isolated from a town
and left for whoever may be
willing, to give them attention
and care. In this case | was
agreeably disappointed in my
expectations.
We found the cemetery in good
presentable order, finely located
on ground gently sloping to the
west and south, with Il thick
covering Of grass over which
the lawn.moWer had recently
passed. There was no sign of
neglect anywhere, but just the
reverse.
What interested me most was
the community of the dead who
lie buried there. Some have
been there-two to my knowl
edge-for more than half a cen
tury. DR.. b. X. Hutchins was
one. McMullen the other. DR..
HutchinS died in the summer or
fall of 1858. | never met him
but once, and then | knew he
was going slowly down to his
grave, with that fell disease,
consumption. He left a little
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

build. The old vanished life
and surroundings. came back To
me like ghostly Yisitations; and
so with all the others.
a little to the west on the
south side Of the creek, is the
old camp meeting ground. where
the pious Methodists of Archer
and surrounding country, used
to repair every year to worship
God in one Of his first temples,
according to the poet, "A beautiful
grove of young timber, but that
too was gone. Without the
grove the camping ground could
not be located, or at least We
could not do it, and so that,
with the sbadowy congregations
that worshipped there in tie
long ago, have become mere
misty and confused memories.
We finally stood on the spot
where the town once was. The
pillow share had passed over it,
and in all the wide eXpanse
about US, there was nothing that
even whispered Of the time when
a busting and energetic people
lived there, except the graves
of some of their dead.
But what of the others of the
three hundred or more land that
was a considerable population
for a town in those days., who
inhabited, hoped, and wrought
here? Gone, in their several
and restless wanderings about
the world and out of it, with
only the two ladies' Ihave men
toned above, remaining. The
story of Archer is both pathetic
and tragic.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

was like Il revival of old ac-
quaintance, going among those
silent heralds, each announcing
the resting place of some one |
had known in days of yore.
Each one of them, as | read the
names on the grave stones, was
present to my mental vision, as
| last saw him or her in life, and
the times in which they lived.
With Judge Miller and DIR. Hut.
chins, | saw the spreading. Va
cant prairie again, and til
crumbling town they helped to
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

daughter, ten or eleven years
old, who grew TO womanhood in
the county, and is with us yet,
the wife of our respected towns
man, r. NJ. Harlow,
Passing from one grave stone
to another | found that | had
known all those people when in
life, and [ regret to say though
I have lived in the near vicinity
of this out. of the-w ay-G d S
acre, for more than fifty years,
that was my first visit to it. 1t
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

tial benefit accrued to anybody
or any locality.
[ heard a great preacher say
once-he was since elevated to
the Episcopacy Of the Methodist
church, but is now deceased
that in his Judgment, whoever
does another a grievous injury,
sometime some other man will
do him a like injury. Itsounded
a little like fatalism but are we
not all to a greater or lesser eX-
tent fatalists? Do men not act
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05

On a bright Sunday afternoon
last summer while John w. Dor
rington, Of Yuma, Arizona, an
old timer in Falls City. was here
on a visit, he proposed that we
go out to Archer, that is to say,
where it once stood, and take a
look at the old place. 1t was
agreed and we went. There
were four of us; three had seen
the town in its decadence, the
other had seen only its aban-
doned site, and the cemetery
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05
Magnetic Healing.

Miss Lizzie neitland, a gradu.
ate Of the Weltuler School of
Magnetic Healing, of Nevada,
Mo. | am prepared to treat dis
eases of all kinds. Phone 279,
Located at Mrs. Burris residence
south of the convent. At
The Falls City tribune., 1909-02-05
The DEATH OF ARCHER.

THE DEATH OF ARCHER.
Falls City was made a posi-
bility by the death of old Archer,
not perhaps by the process the
Greeks called metempsychosis,
by which it was believed by
them, and by the Brahman phil
osophers in an older age, that
the soul of one dying would pass
into the body of one about to be
born, in other words and in
plain United States, the trans
migration of souls, but from the
fact, that Archer had become
untenable as a site for a town
and the Falls City location af-
forded better facilities for the
purpose.
Certain it is, there was a pref
ty large transmigration of souls
on foot or otherwise, from the
wreck beyond the Muddy to the
new town to the South.
Archer was laid out as a town
by d man of that name on what
he supposed to be public lands
of the United States, shortly
after the erection of the terri
torial government, in the fall of
1854.
The western line of the Half
Breed tract, a body of land be-
tween the two Nemahas, that
had been reserved for the half
breeds and mixed bloods of GER
tain Indian tribes, as then To-
Gated, was about one and a half
miles east of the site of the pro
posed town. That line had been
surveyed and established sever.
al years before, and was known
as the Mccoy line"
After the Congress had Gre
ated the territory of Nebraska,
a move was made to have the
treaty of PTairle du chen, made
in 1880, under the provisions of
which, among others, the reser-
walton was made, executed by
allotting the land in severalty
among the benefciaries named
in the treaty. To that end the
Indian officer caused a census to
be taken of the half and mixed
bloods of the tribes n a e d,
which were, as | now recollect
without consulting the record
the Yankton and Sante Bands
of Sioux, the Omahas, Otoes and
Iowas.
While this was going on, some
enterprising land grabber, or
may be several ofthem, induced
the authorities at Washington,
to cause a resurvey of the boun-
daries of the Reservation, and
the mischief was done. BY the
provisions of the treaty, the
boundaries of the reserved tract
we're to be ascertained by sur
veyiag ten miles up each river,
from its confluence with the Mis-
souri,, to points thereon, and
then by a straight line between
those points, which would mark
the western boundary, while
the Missouri would form the
eastern. The Mccoy survey
was made nv following he river
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-14
Items Gathered in
From Far and Near
The Insurrection.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
With entire and well justified con-
fidence the hosts Of protection have
for q generation relied on the skill.
the valor and the ha-dihood OF their
commanders and their legionaries in
the senate and the house. The op-
position of tlc democrats to high pro-
tective duties has been for the most
AS matter of party policy, the demo
Gratis had to stand for something not
in the republican creed. Rarely has
a voice been lifted in disinterested
advocacy of the interests OF the con-
sumner. Now there appears to be sew
eral such voices. II Deliver. Bever-
idge, Cummins. Borah and the other
republican insurgents" do not rep
resent the consumer. we fail to see
what client or interest they do rep
resent. Certainly they do not speak
for the republican party or its poll
cies. Senator Aldrich is the official
spokeman and representative of that.
interest. The insurgents are waging
their warfare on the Aldrtch SEIZED
ules not as politicians. not for party,
but manifestly because they have
heard and felt the demand Of the peo-
pie. The pledges of the republican
party and OF the republican candidate
been given in good faith. The insur-
gents are simply demanding that
those pledges shall be kept
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-14
RUSHVILLE ON THE TRAIL

So Rushville is following in the
footsteps of Richmond in forming a
Boosters Club. 1t is understood that
the Young Mems Business Club Of this
city has been taken as a model.
It is a step in advance for the small
er towns of Indiana to wake up to the
fact that if they do not want to be-
come sleepy villages they will have to
bestir themselves. All over the coun-
try no matter what the size OF the
town there is a movement going on to
branch out after trade and to incul-
cate a spirit OF doing things.
In this particular instance 1t should
be a matter of congratulation to Rich.
mond that the reputation OF the Rich
mond Young Mems Business Club has
had enough effect to be taken as a
model by surrounding towns. Rich
mond is the largest town in the Sixth
Congressional district and should be
the leader in movements and enter
prises. Every time that she does
things her actions are carefully scru-
tinized. There is a growing belief all
over the district that Richmond Is do
ing things. Such a reputation Is worth
acquiring. 1t is not enough for Rich
mond to have q mere numerical su-
is by taking the lead and
the initiative that she can best make
herself effective in all branches of
trade and business.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-14
Comet Near Earth Is Likely
To Bring Quokes and Storms

been due to same baIeful influence.
In swimming around the Arctic re-
gions it has driven polar air south.
ward. causing periods of abnormal
cold. As these air pulsations slow
down heat returns. That process
may be expected to continue In mani.
festations of streaked weather until
the comet shall pass by. Earth trem-
ors In the Middle West and In Europe
and forest fires will come along for
the same period as they have been
doing Of late.
Mr.. Naulty says that in respect TO
this continent the danger zone may
be covered by a foot rule on an or
binary map, one end at Galveston and
the other at st. Johns. n. b. A tor
nado reported Friday at Dallas. which
killed eleven and injured many and
which blew = Mexican 4 Orient train
off the track. shows what the comet
has already done in the South: II
has destroyed by fire timber stretches
In New Brunswick. where there has
been no rain In more than q month.
So far the comet head has kept out
of sight. There 10 . chance that on
Thursday next. when the body Of the
moon will thrust itself between the
sun and the earth ut nightfall. the
sky may be % suddenly darkened q
to reveal the head of the comet In the
northwest. Should that not then oc
cur the head will probably apepar In
natural course In July. Il will then
have proceeded far beyond the earth
and from then on 1t will trouble other
epheres than this. After passing the
earth the light 1t will throw back this
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-14
Heroes Of the Coast.

From the New York Tribune.
The fine performance yesterday
morning at Fire Island should and
doubtless will more strongly incline
those who are we'll informed and ap-
preciative to sympathize with Mr.. Hill
liz. the assistant secretary Of the trea-
sury, In his plea for more generous or
perhaps we should say. more just
treatment of the members Of the life
saving service or of their dependents.
The work OF these hardy watchers of
our coast is not often performed be-
fore the public eye. Most Of 1t Is
done In gloomy and remote solitudes.
and mention of it appears in print on.
ly when it reaches some tragic or all
but tragic climax. When there is a
gallant rescue Of lives from a strand
ed ship. words OF praise are freely
given to the life savers. But 1t
should not be forgotten that for ev-
cry such achievement there are many
long nights of patient and vigilant
watchfulness and of incessant tramp
ing along the beach in storm and
darkness.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-14

New York, June 14.-All the freaks
of nature which people have been re-
marking lately are due, according to
Edwin F. Naulty to the comet which
he and DR.. Brook OF Hobart college
to the world three weeks
ago. This behavior threatens to be-
come worse until such time as the
comet shall pass the earth and its
light reaches us by recession instead
of DETECTION as now. That means
that June will continue to be - little
like its old self as were the earlier
months of the year. BY July the
transit ought to be made and let the
weather swing back to normal.
Meanwhile. says Mr.. Naulty. watch
out for more marine disasters. The
two that furnished startling news last
week are only the beginning Of Q SER
les. Ship compasses have gone wrong
from this evil influence. Mr.. Naulty
says, and mariners find guides that
have always been their main reliance
running to all sorts Of errors. Since
Wednesday last. while the morning
skies have warned people to carry
and fog and mists have
often justified the warning, the local
barometers have held steadily fair.
The fault has not been with the bar
ometers. but with the comet which
has 50 suffused the atmosphere az to
make people think It cloudy when the
overhead appearance was due merely
to shafts Of comet light.
The doubt that beset the masses
of late and kept winter clothing and
camphor balls apart beyond their Pc
riod of habitual conjunction has also