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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-19

welfare of the tow;
We are told from the outside word
that we ought to aoid our head in
shame; and Cairo is ashamed Of her
record, but our deepest shame is
crime. The world sees Thursday
night; brit we see Tuesday morning
and black list OF Toul crimes. And
only yesterday another; worthless
negro rounder shot down colored
man of industry and home. We are
ashamed Of our crime.
There are just two questions to
answer: First, What is the source Of
aur crime?; second whats is the
means of our protection?
Source Of Cairo Crime.
What Cairo permits continually,
that is she responsible for There are
some conditions r1a; are so public
and of such long Standing that they
may be called institutions Of the
town
/. We are breeding crime. We are
tESeulH@ CltlIie Wy tHc piC0NhHS iA'
our midst OF certain public institu,
tons.
There Is Thirteenth street, open
day and night as az educator of our
morals. There are negro dens of
vice, particularly where man lives
with woman who is not his wife.
There is the saloon dive both white
| and black and the negro honkey tonk.
Vice is played on the stage, and
the picture shows are sometimes vie.
The open Sunday IS . defiance OF
both the law of God and man, and
the gathering place of lawlessness.
The corrupt ballot In prostitution
OF the most sacred heritage of an
American citizen.
The continual line of murders keeps
before our youth the 1urid details OF
crime
2. We are protecting crime. BY
our failure to arrest lawbreakers, we
are protecting crime. 1t is generally
understood that man can violate
the law here with rmpunity without
lmuch risk of being jerked mp.
By our failure to punish criminals
we are bringing upon ourselves the
disgust of respectable people. The
loutbreak of feeling during the last
item days is terrible comment upor
1.-THE way Cairo deals with crime. II
has come to this, that no murderer
Is expected to be found guilty by the
due process of law.
There are two terrible words fol
Honorable men to hear banded about
with freedom concerning our Gus
Itodians of law and order, and these
words are graft" and "bribes.' The
worst of 1t is that the people believe
almost universally that too largely
the charge is true.
BY fear OF hurting orr business
our strongest citizens allow them
selves N neglect their public dut,
and thus shield the breakers of law
BY these and other failures, We
are protecting crime.
| 3. We are attracting crime Like
attracts like. A criminal atmosphere
in q community invariably attracts
the criminal elements from other
communities.
Cairo Is dark criminals cave
where the vicious from other places
lexpect to hide and be safe.
We are rapidly becoming paradise
for the corrupt politician, where he
may ply his game with impunity
Our crime is a gruesome advertise
lment that Is read by all the world
When a man is not wanted in a self
respecting community, he thinks he
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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-19

FRoF. cLENDENEN'c ADDRESS,
"Tis education forms the common
mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the trees
> inclined"
-Pope's Essay on Man
Pope was naturalist as well as 4
philosopher. He had gone through the
forests, groves and orchards with
open eyes observing the many inclin,
Cd or stopped and crooked trees along
with the straight and upright Reflec-
ton and reason told him that the
crooked ones got started bent in twie
life and that the straight trees had
Kept straight and upright from q
budding shoots.
Many of the human twigs that come
to the public schools are bent from
home neglect, from street or neigh
borhood association. 1t is easy to tie
the twig or brace it to an upright I'M
til IL ontgrows then bent on the con
traTy 1t is almost an impossibility &c
straighten the ha'fgrown OF full
grown crooked tree.
i've often taken consolation in that
the teachers task ii supplementins
that of well-governed homes IL idea
as to that of the ministers of tbs
gospel who have to deal with fixe(
habits in mature men and women
many of whom never can be reache'
because Of so far beyond the church
and its influences.
The formation of sturdy characte
is worth vastly more than feforma
ton; but there must be In Cairo from
the very nature Of Cairo much OF TIL
reforming to do.
The teachers have the children an
youth not more than six hours da
for some 1872 to lS5 days each veal
The parents have them is hours dali
of the 1856 days an, ali Of the hour
of the remaining days of the yea
But this is well, for 1t places the r.
sponsibility of child training where
belongs, viz: in the family
Since the opening Of the school
Sent 18th of the present year, mora
training has been given an impetu
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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-19

The open meeting Of the Cairo
Ministerial Association at Calvary
Baptist church last night was largely
attended, the church being crowded
and many standing in the rear of the
building. Rev Ohrum and t1rof.
Cfendenen were the speakers and
both delivered strong addresses. the
former on Crime and Protection
and the latter on citizenship as In
fluenced by Home and School. Ap.
plause was generous for both gentle
men in the course OF the delivery Of
their addresses.
Rev. Graham announced the Union
Thanksgiving service Which is TO be
held next Thursday morning at 1890
o'clock at the M. e. Church South,
Thirty-seventh and Elm streets. Rev.
Dee of the First Methodist church
will preach the sermon. The meeting
was dismissed with prayer by Rev.
Buchanan 81 the Presbyterian church,
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-19

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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
"we,s" Quote Or. perelvaI.

While Governor Shallenberger
aroused the ire of the liquor interests
of Nebraska in signing the daylight
saloon bill, one of his appointees, DR..
Joseph =. Pecival, superintendent of
the Norfolk insane hospital is sooth-
ing the wounds of those same interests
by a statement that he has issued
DR.. Peciyal is being quoted in litera-
ture sent out by the liquor interests,
with regard to the failure of prohibit
ton to prohibit in the state of Kan
sas. Following Is an extract from the
article in question:
Unsupported statements that prohi-
bition can or cannot be enforced are
of little value. The reader must have
the proof from those who know.
OR Joseph p. Pecival, a prominent
physician of Norfolk, Neb., in letter
dated September q, 1909, says: I
lived I'm Kansas for four and a half
years, and during that time | became
thoroughly disguised with the way the
liquor question was handled there. |
visited the old town two weeks ago
and in a town of about 1000 people
saw eight DRINKS in one day, which
is possible only in prohibition state.
Strict regulation and local license is
the only system for regulating the
traffic"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
LINCOLN STUDENTS ARRESTED
Military Academy Boys Create Distur-
bance at Neliqh.

Neigh, Neb, Nov. Special to
The News: Owing to the extra pre-
caution taken by Mayor Staple, the
usual destruction of property on the
night of Halloween in Neigh was
very limited,
The only arrests made was that OF
two young men of the Lincoln military
academy, who played on the football
team in the afternoon. They gave
the rope on the fire bell three sharp
pulls and started to make their es-
cape when they ran into the arms OF
OFFICER Nichols. He took them before
Justice McAllister, who administered
a sound lecture, calling attention to
the fact what might have happened
during the crowded condition of the
auditorium, while The Perrys were
holding the boards in kidnapped for
Million" They were released to
catch the early morning train for
Lincoln.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
SATURDAY SETTINGS.

C. S. Smith of Madison was in the
city.
f. G. Barnum of Dallas was in the
city.
John Troester of Pierce was in the
city.
Miss Erna Wilde returned from
Pierce.
w. A. Witzigman returned from
Omaha.
NJ. C. Hazen went to Gregory on
business.
Adelia Buchholz will spend Sunday
at Stanton.
w. j. Stadelman went to Columbus
on business.
Miss Alice Barrett went to Pilger
last evening.
Mrs. F. Haase of Hadar called on
friends here.
John Klug returned from business
trip to O'Neill.
G.. d. Butterfield returned from Chi
cago yesterday.
William Tate of Fremont was in the
city on business.
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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Saw THEY'LL Go On From Dallas.

Confirming recent statements In The
News that the Northwestern railroad
will early in the spring extend its line
from Dallas, thus giving Trip county
a railroad and adding still more terri
tory to the region now tributary to
Norfolk that railroad company has
filed official notice with the state gov
eminent of South Dakota, as is re.
quired by law, that the new extension
will be built in six months.
The state law of South Dakota pro.
vides that notice must be given six
months in advance when any railroad
building is to be done. And comply
ing with this law, the Chicago Il
Northwestern railroad company has
just filed official notice at Pierre that
it intends to build 1870 miles of eX.
tension from the Norfolk-Dallas line,
crossing Trip county,
Exact Route not Decided.
Just what route it will take across
Trip county, it is stated, is not de-
cided upon, and that this depends up
on development of the county. If it
goes straight across the county,
which is thirtyfour miles wide, it will
be heading for the Pine Ridge reserva.
ton, which the Northwestern is plan
ming to build across from Nebraska in
the belief that part at least of Pine
Ridge will be opened in a year. If 1t
goes northwest it will connect with
the road from Pierre to Rapid City.
If it crosses the Pierre-Rapid City road
it will connect with the line being
built twenty miles or so at present
southeast from Belle Fourche.
Will Help Norfolk.
But in any event the settlers of
Trip county will have a railroad to
market and Norfolk's great location
will be made still better one.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
THREE LIBEL SUITS.
Dakota Editor Must Defend Actions
for $4,000

Plankinton, S. D., Oct. 30.-Editor
Tom Taubman, of the Herald, has been
sued for libel in a county distant from
his home, he has been shot at through
the window of his office and escaped
injury by the bullet being imbedded in
the back of his chair, and now he is
made the defendant in three libel suits
of $4,000 each at one and the same
time.
J. d. Barlow, with whom Taubman
has been at enmity for years, is one
of the plaintiffs in the present series
of cases, while Henry Agnes and Will
lam Irwin are the others who will seek
to get some of Taubmans money. I'm
til a couple of years ago the plaintiffs
were in active business in Plankinton
and Taubman has long been the editor
of an aggressive democratic weekly
newspaper here. Something over
three years ago, while Taubman was
sitting in the front part of his office
attending to business during the even
ing, bullet crashed through his plate
glass window and lodged in the heavy
oak back of his Office chair and its
resistance saved his life. The mystery
surrounding the shooting aCcentuated
the enmity which had existed for years
between Tauhman and Barlow and
others, and the libel suits now filed
in Dawson county, where the papers
were served on Taubman yesterday
follow as sequence Of this long cher
ished enmity which has been as bitter
as was ever witnessed outside of the
Kentucky feuds.
The case may come up for trial al
the November term of court in Da.
vison county.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
SlaIinhter-Reach.

Carlock South Dakotan: Word was
received here today of the marriage
Of J. S. Slaughter and Miss Mildred
Beach. which occurred at the latter's
home in Trenton, Mo-, yesterday. Both
parties are well known and highly re-
lpeCted in this community Mr..
Slaughter was for long time cashier
1t the Bank of Carlock and Miss Beach
vas assistant postmisress at this place
'or many months. She resided with
her parents on farm six miles north
east of here until about a year ago,
when she removed to Trenton. Mo.
We are informed that after short
ojourn the young couple will return
to Herrick, where Mr.. Slaughter has
a lucrative position.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Fire In Trip Finally Checked.

Dallas, S. D.. Oct 30.-A prairie fire
which burned over an area estimated
at more than sixty square miles, which
started Thursday, was checked yes
terday afternoon after it had destroyed
farm and ranch property of value
of perhaps 100000 and resulted in
dangerous burns to two persons who
were caught by the flames,
Mr.. and Mrs. William McGrieve
living north of the village, attempted
to escape on a single horse, which be-
came exhausted and they were strand
ed in the middle of the prairie. BY
starting a back fire they escaped but
we're seriously burned. About twenty
ranchmen and homesteaders suffered
losses ranging from 500 to $4,000,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Butte,s New Opera House.

The people of Butte are jubilant
over the completion and formal &C.
eptance Of the new opera house,
which has just been completed. This
'uilding was built by stock company
opposed of nearly every business
ran and farmer of Butte, and is thor.
'ughly modern, and has cost the asso-
iatiOn a trifle over sll. 900 The first
attraction to appear in the house was
home talent play. which crowded
he house to its capacity and netted
he association an even 500. The
cenery was all painted in the house
md is fine At a meeting of the d.
ectors j. N. Fuller was elected secre-
airy of the association and o. R. Rob-
inson was elected manager of the
house.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
If It's a reasonable want, want ad.
vertising will supply it.
To Be Healthy, Drink at Meals.

Add at least quart of water to the
amount customarily taken at each
meal if you wish to derive the maxi
mum efficiency from your food.
The water drinking edict has gone
forth as the result of tests recently
conducted by C. C. Fowler and P. B.
Hawk, professor of physiological chem
istry at the University of Illinois
The unanimous opinion of the med
ical profession has been strongly an
tagonstc to the taking of water at
meal time. The argument of the ply
sicians is that water taken in this way
dilutes the digestive juices and there
fore lowers the efficiency of those flu
ids. The University of Illinois expert
ments, however, apparently overthrow
the deep rooted ideas of many doctors.
Young Man the Subject.
In detailed statement given out by
the university authorities yesterday it
was pointed out that the subject of the
experiment was a young man % years
of age, who was normal in all respects
and who weighed 1877 pounds when the
investigation was inaugurated The
statement continues:
"ln experiments of this sort, 1t is
customary to use a simple diet In or
der that the chemical analysis of the
foods may not entail any undue labor.
In this instance the daily diet consist
ed of three-quarters pound of crackers,
three ounces of corn flakes, two ounc-
es of peanut butter, one and one-half
ounces of sugar, three ounces of but
ter, one quart of milk, nine-tenths
quart of water, and, in addition during
the water period three quarts addition
of water was added to the daily menu
OF the nine-tenths quart of water TAX
en- daily during the preliminary and
final periods, three-quarters of it was
taken between meals"
Results Of Water Drinking.
After sitting and boiling down their
conclusions and translating them into
non-technical language, the Investigate
ors believe the influence of copious
water drinking with meals to be as
follows:
THE water, as it enters the mouth,
comes first into contact with the sa-
liva, diluting this fluid to a marked
degree and causing this digestive fluid
to assume greater digestive activity
than that possessed by the natural
saliva, which is secreted upon food
which Is ingested unaccompanied by
water.
Digestion is further accelerated and
the products of digestion are more
rapidly and completely absorbed
through the presence of the large
amount of water.
Finally, as a result Of the above
factors the body weight of the water
drinker was increased two pounds dur
ing the five days of water drinking, a
gain which was not subsequently lost"
DR., Hawk, in reporting the results Of
the investigation, was careful to call
attention to the fact that the expert
ments included tests upon but a single
subject. He adds;
However, the experiments up to
date indicate that the drinking of
large amounts of water with meals Is
most beneficial from the standpoint OF
health. Other Investigations along
similar lines are under way"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Wjnnetoon News,

Seth Jones went to Omaha Friday
afternoon.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Smith.
Friday, a girl.
Mrs. Ed Haley from Creighton was
in Winnetoon Friday forenoon.
Theodore Palmer. travelling sales.
nan, was in Winnetoon Friday fore
noon.
Geo. A. Myers new automobile is
here and MIR. Myers is well pleased
with the car.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Schleen re-
turned home from Norfolk and Pierce
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs, j. w. Gould and children re.
turned to their home at Plainview af.
ter visit with their sister, Mrs. NJ. A.
Jensen of this place.
Howard Miller expects to finish
husking his large corn crop Monday.
Mr.. Miller husks $50 bushels Of corn
\ day with his new corn husker. which
ertainly Is grand success.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Norfolk Man Draws Claim.

Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 30.-The draw
ne of the 10000 names for claims in
he Standing Rock and Cheyenne Riv-
ar reservations ended The task of
abulating the names will continue
ere for a month.
John w. McClary Of Norfolk was
one of the land winners in the Aber-
leen lottery. He drew No 4376.
r. Batt went to Aberdeen two
weeks ago and registered for himself
and for Mr.. McClary, who had the
soldiers right to register in that way.
Among the winners were:
46l2-John Bathwell, Ainsworth.
4796-Hans Ritter, Winside.
49S4-Arthur w. Knapp, Dallas.
565l-Dan NJ. Foley, Bristow
5729-Roy Jackson, Madison.
5762-John Wilson, Stanton.
6969-Edward Harris, Herrick.
Judge Witten Answers Hill,
Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 3O-Judge
James w Witten superintendent of
the government opening, speaking of
attack made on the method of these
openings by Louis w. Hill, president
of the Great Northern railway at the
Billings dry farming congress, remark
ed that Mr.. Hill was misquoted or mis-
informed as he would not have made
such grossly eXtravagant statements
had he known the facts.
Mr. Hill is reported as having call
ed the recent Flathead, Couer de Alene
and Spokane registration a "swindle,"
and said, lit is estimated that 100000
people went out there. We received
our portion of the money but we don't
want that kind of money"
"These figures are grossly mislead-
ing" said Judge Witten.
The combined registration for all
three was but 2S6,S4S and one-third of
that number, or 95,ol6, represents the
number of applicants if each register
ed three times"
Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 3O.-The
Christian family of Aberdeen, was
the uckiest one in the land drawing
Four brothers have drawn claims un-
der 10000. 1t may be possible for
them to file on adjoining quarters, Civ
ing the family a whole section.
Judge Witten will Immediately re-
turn to Washington to prepare for the
coming session of congress, but the
staff OF clerks will remain acre for
month OF more at work.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Black Hills Forest Fire.

Deadwood, S. D., Oct. 30.-No less
than six forest fires are now burning
in the Black Hills, The most serious
one, near pactoia, Is still unchecked,
but making less progress today since
the number of fire fighters has been
increased. The Deadwood office of
the forest service has been notified
of a fire burning north of Custer, an
other east Of Hill City and one at
Mystic and another near Merritt. This
latter threatens so much Homestake
mine timber that the Homestake force
at Pactola has been recalled to save
its own timber preserves. The dam
age done by the fires will be extreme
ly heavy, running into the hundreds
of thousands.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05

Cunning county aud graduate of
Creighton university has given up
his position as house physician at
St Joseph's hospital, Tacoma, and
located at Montesano, Wash.
The marrieg of j. j. Newell of Gar.
field township and Miss Dora Il. Brown
of Lincoln, took place at the latter
city on Thursday. The newly mar.
ried pair will reside at Utica, Nob
Efforts are being made by Father
Ruesing to form a local committee of
the Nebraska Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis.
Prospects are favorable for strong
adjunct to this society being estab-
lished at West Point.
Dinges Brothers have sold their
quarter section farm I'm Cleveland
township to j. w. Beckman of Seward
county for 1925 per acre, the record
price for farm land in that portion
of Cunning county.
William Wiese, boy of 13 years, liv-
ing three mneS southeast OF West
Point, has raised one acre of corn un-
der the direction of the state board of
agriculture and yield of which is lit
tie more than 113 bushels. This was
raised in a section of the county here
tofore considered of the poorest quail
ity of soil
The weather for the past few days
has been balmy and summerlike and
farmers are taking advantage of the
fact to husk their corn as rapidly as
possible, even though many of them
arc ShorthnndCd
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05

Deadwood, S. d., Oct. 30,-The fire
in the Black Hills forest reserve has
got beyond control and already 5000
acres of the finest pine timber in the
central hills has been destroyed. Five
hundred men from the Homestake
mines and 200 soldiers from Fort Mead
are fighting the flames. Miners from
the camps and ranchmen are focking
to the scene to help in the fight. The
loss will reach hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and unless rain comes soon,
it looks as if the entire reserve would
be DESTROYED.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-05
Roche Yarn a Pipe Dream.

That the Madison Ch onicle's story
in which Herman BoChe, the Norfolk
slayer of Frank farmer now serving a
term in the state penitcntiary, was
painted as refusing to do any sort of
work in the prison and as having been
hauled out of an alleged pumping
tank" to save him from drowning, was
based upon rumor and fiction. is the
declaration of Boche's Norfolk friends
after investigating the yarn.
William Kelsey of Norfolk took the
trouble to write to e. G. Heilman,
formerly Of Madison and Norfolk and
now an official at the state peniten-
tiary Mr.. Heilman, replying, states
that BoChe has never refused to work,
that he has not been punished for dis
obedience and that there is no such
water tank and pump as was de-
scribed in the Madison papers story.
Following is Mr. Heilman's letter:
Lincoln, Neb, OF 23,-Mr. William
Kelsey, Norfolk, Neb. Dear Sir: Re
plying to your letter of Goth inst. rela-
tive to the conduct of Herman Boche,
beg to say that the statement that
he has refused to work or that he has
been punished for disobodience is up.
true,
have been employed in the state
penitentiary for over five years and
have not seen a water tank and pump
said to be used for punishment, nor
anything to indicate that such an ap-
nnratuc hna ever hppn emnloyed in
this institution. Nearly every. day
go through the shops with visitors
from five to ten times a day and al
ways find him at his post paying strict
attention to his work
Yours sincerely,
E G. Heilman.