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Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
-PRUYN'S FATHER SAYS
HE SHOT IN SELF-DEFENSE

NORTH BEND. Neb., Dec. 2s.-Foliow-
Ing the death OF Michael Corey. the
saloon keeper. who was shot In a brawi
at his place OF business on Christmas
day. an inquest was held last night. After
hearing extended evidence the jury re-
turned the verdict that Corey came to
his death from gunshot wounds received
at The hands OF Al Pruyn. An important
witness for the defense was the father
OF Pruyn. who witnessed the brawl The
elder Pruyn testified that his son fired
In self-dsfense after he had been shot at
twice He asserted that his son took
refuge behind Il stove az the first shot
and only returned the fire in seif-defense.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
GUOCERS' ASSOCIATION FINED
Admits Violating Rattle Law and is
Punished.
SEEK TO REVOKE ITS CHARTER
lows Teachers Association Chooses
Des MOiRes for Meeting Place
Next NOvember--IteDubII
Committee 60 Meet.

- ~fN ~ tVAAAA SbiANNRNHANAiAsN
DES MONIES. Ia, Dec 29.-(special
Teiegram.) .)-Representing the Des Molnes
Retail Grocers' association, Attorney W.
A. Graham pleaded guilty TO the charge
OF gambling made against the association
In an indictment returned by the Polk
county grand jury Judge Bradshaw Of
the criminal court imposed a fine OF 800
The indictment against the alleged
trust grew out Of its conducting candy
raffllng machine at the recent pure food
show In the Coliseum. According to the
county attorney he will now take the case
up 10 Attorney. General George Cosson.
with the request that the charter OF tho
association be revoked and that articles
OF incorporation be set aside.
Teachers Meet In Des MoInes.
Des Moines was selected again today
as the place for the annual meeting OF
the Iowa State Teachers association for
1912. the date to be November Z, two days
after the election
Republican Committee 90 Meet.
The republican state committee Is
called TO meet here January II to fix a
date for the republican state convention
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS TO
FORM BASE BALL LEAGUE

IOWA CITY. Ia. Dec 2s-Cspecial.)- -
Plans are under way among the Knights
OF Columbus lodges OF this section Of
the state for the organization OF a six
club Knights Of Columbus base bah cir
cult. The league is TO be known as the
*. c, League" and will be composed
OF teams from the towns I'm this district
of the lodge. Tho cities in this district
arc Cedar Rapids, Iowa City. Marshall
town and Victor. and TO make the or
ganisation a six-circuit affair. promoters
would add Davenport and Muscatinc.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
InMn Nerra Nntea.

BANTER-George Deal, aged Al, the
manager OF 0he Baxter Implement com.
pany, committed suicide this morning by
hanging himself In the company's ware
house. No cause for the act Is known.
A widow and small son survive him.
MARSHALLTOWN- W. s. Ken
yon OF Fort Dodge. the Junior senator
from Iowa, Is TO speak before the mem-
bers OF the Marshalltown club on Tues
day, January .. Arrangements are being
made to have him also address an after,
noon meeting.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
Taft writes to Engineer.

FORT DODGE, Ia, Dec. 2s,--(special,)--
Homer Rhodes. a veteran nlionois Cen
tral engineer, is proudly displaying to
his friends n letter from President Taft
wishing him and his family a Merry
Christmas. The occasion OF the letter
was Tafts desire 10 thank the engineer
for his part In carrying the Taft special
throughout the entire recent trip with
out mishap. Engineer Rhodes carried
the train from Omaha 10 Fort Dodge.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
rive Thouaaud-DoIInr FIrc.

FORT ilQDGE, Ia, Dec, 90 Especially }
Fire was discovered at 4 a. M IN three
ipams4 building at clare which were all
blazing merrily by the time the ais
covery was made. The volunteer brigade
composed OF every man In town fought
valiantly and saves a large implement
house next door and confined the losses
to 5000 A blacksmith shop. a barber
shop and a butcher shop were burned.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30

oaiy One "bROslO aUENINE"
That 4 Laxative BrOmO 0uinlna L.oos foF
the signature of Il. W. drove Used the
soFld over 70 cure cold Ia one day. s5c-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30

The key TO success in business Is the
judlcious and persistent use OF newspaper
advertising
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
4 Life Prohlem soIrcd

BY that great health tonic. Electric Bit
ters, Is the enrichment Of poor, thin
blood, and strengthening the weak. soc.
For sale. by Beaton Drug co,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
CAFETERIA IN The TEMPLE
University Students Are to Have
New Place to Eat.
CHIEF HUNGER EXPERT WITNESS
Lincoln Police Head Tests Brew on
witness stand and Man IL Con-
vIeted ON Ills Declaration
that IL Was Beer.
CFrom a staff Correspondent


LINCOLN, Neb.. Dec 29.--lHpecial Tele-
gram.)-The proposed cafeteria at the
university Is TO be go and In a few
days work will be commenced remodei-
ing the basement OF the Temple az the
university for that purpose. The purpose
Is 20 give students the noon meal Rt a
reasonable price. II probably will be run
by the university YoAlng Mems christIan
association
Hunger Tests Beer.
Chief Hunger Of the police department.
who Is OF German extraction. was
brought into police. court today as an ex-
pert witness TO testify whether some bev-
erage sold by William sharp. colored.
was beer or not. The chief tapped the
bottle and testified that the beverage was
beer. The verdict OF the court was guilty,
as charged
Rowetl Held for PerJury.
John Y. Roweil. the Lincoln mining pro-
moter arrested in Milwaukee In connee-
ton with the sudden death Of Mrs. Nell
son, is being held at ahst place on the
charge Of perjury. et present. He is al
legged 10 have testified at the inquest that
tho dead woman was his wife. which Is
not the fact. Arthur Nelson, the woman's $
son. left today Tor milwaukee,.
IA. y. Mast Mako Report.
w. y. McHueh OF Omaha, attorney for
the Missouri Pacific Railroad company.
was before the state Railway commission
today and attempted TO convince the
members that Il should not enforce an
order made last June. but was unsuccess-
ful. In June the comnisslon permitted
the road 70 iksue N0.o00o00 worth OF new
securities under condition the company
should report what the securities we're
sold for and what was done with the
money. The company had not made such
report but az the conclusion OF the con-
ference Mr.. McHugh informed the mem
bers the report would he forthcoming
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30

sraphlcal division OF the country used by
The packers as follows
Territory A-Ails cast OF the Misslsslpp,
river and north OF the Ohio river. exee ~
Illinois and West Virginia
territory BAH south OF the Ohio ana
Potomac rivers and east of the Missss-
hlppl fifef. except West Virginia
Territory C-Chieago.
territory DIST. Louis and al OF Iuinois
except Cook county. and ali OF iowa exs
territory E-Colorado
other sections Of the country wers moi
included In the alphabetical lat
In reply 10 questions as 10 the meetings
of the old packers pool. the witness said
Representatives. OF Armour 4 Co
swift Co., Morris q Co, @. Han,mond
a Co, Cudahy & Co.. and others met ln
the CounSelnan building about every
week between 1880 and 1895.
ihe companies az these meetings were
Identified BY letters. Armour A Co wa.
Known as A, Armour Packing company u
- Cudahy CO, as c. @. IA. Hammond
a Co. as y. 81 Louis Dressed Beef COM
iany as e. Morris as f. ana swift q Co.
as q.
In 1885 schwarzschiId A. sulyh.ry.,
Joined the meeting and we're desiena,ed
by the letter O. and swift & co. became
known under the letter N.
The meetings were he'd on the sixth
tloer ot the counselman building. There
were nine or ten rooms used for these
meetings There were no signs on the
aoor' These meetings were not held be-
tween May 1855 and May lsss, but were
then resumed.
leased the meeting rooms under the
direction u either Ousatavus swif, n
bartweii Of Swift a Co, or r. D. Mar-
IN of Armour a Co." continued Mr..
feeder. IAN the firms who attended The
meeting paid their DrOportionate amount
q rent and other expenses. which ~.
determined BY the volume OF bushes
done IN fresh beef IN territory A."
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30

E'''l'71-V EI"II TUbN Ia1CV
on their hands" the witness said, and
were at loss what 10 do with them.
Three plans were considered In regard
TO disposing Of the recently acquired
properties
One was 60 divide them among the
promoters-Armour Swift and Morris.
fhe second was 90 operste them under a
partnership agreement. and the third was
TO put the concerns Into a new organ.
ization. The hast plan was adopted and
mo National Packing company was ef-
feqed March is, isoe, with a capital OF
ylS2000O0"
The percentage Of stock Of the National
paeking company was divided as follows,
swift q Co, $50; Armour & Co. 4O.ii;
Morris 4 Co. t3.ls.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30
MEAT BUSINESS
RULED BY POOL

Ccontinued from First Pase.) )
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-30

lsy q lhe sIlaall0a-Bes AdysrlI.Iag.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
The Editors Table

There's little box of pills, there's
heap of lengthy bills, there's caustic
letter from a country reader. There's
ticket for stall, there's another for
ball, there's circular for patent feeder.
There's a pack of cigarettes, there are
letters of regret, there's proof on highly
colored lithogrsphing; there's solitary
ace, there's photo OF her face, there's an
article to start the angels laughing.
There's pretty charming clock, there's
some western mining stock, there are
stacks of verses in every sort OF meter;
there's cotton Office hat, there's badly
ragged mat, there's pipe-boWl than
which nothing could be sweeter. There's
gaiIy ribboned cork, there's map Of all
New York, there's guide to Palestine and
one Russia. There's the latest opera score,
there's a lump OF iron ORC, there reiiiOs off
Harvard football rusheE. There are
pots of ink and glue, there are letter sold
and new, there are piles of old exchanges
and of paper; there's narrow pair OF
shears, there's double back and pointed
paper sclaper. There's a partly smoked
cigar, there's an ornanented jar, there's
the circuIation-sweaTer's weekly. table.
Oh the sight will tickle you, if You ever
catch view of the editor while writing
at his table.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Report on Winter Wheat

The average condition of winter wheat
on May l was s6.1, compared with 1873
on April l; 1921 on May l, 1910, and $50
the May l ten.year average according to
the May crop report of the Department
of Agriculture:
The average condition of rye was 900
compared with 803 on April l; 9l.3 on
May /, 1910, and s9.7 the May l ten-year
average.
The area of winter wheat to be harvest.
ed was about 81 1851, 200 acres, or 1,94o,-
600 acres (6.6 per cent. more than the
area harvested in 1910, and 3,11s, 600 acres
70 per cent. less than the area sown last
fall ga, ,4S5, 900 acrss).
The condition of the wheat crop on
May l of the past five years averaged S5.7
per cent; the fnal yield per acre, aver.
aged 1916 bushels. If the above ratio
should prevail this year the condition OF
S6.1 per cent. would indicate yield OF
15.6 bushels per acre, which compares
with 15.8 bushels, the final estimate OF
yield per acre in 2910. On the esti-
mated area to be harvested 15.6 bushels
per acre would produce 5.5 per cent.
more than the final estimate of produc.
ton last year, 9.6 per cent, more than
the final estimate of production last year,
9.6 per cent. more than the production Of
1909.
The average condition ofmeadow (hay)
lands was 84.8 compared with 1913 in
1910, and ten year average Of 1914.
Stocks Of hay on farms are estimated at
at 7,546, 900 tons (l2.2) on May l, 1910.
The average condition of pastures was
s1.3, compared with 1913 in 1910, and
ten year average of S7.4.
Of spring ploWiDg, 71.0 per cent. was
completed up to May /, compared with
80.3 per cent. in 1910, and ten year aver.
age Of 67.2; of spring planting 600 per
cent. compared with $50 per cent. in
1910.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Your Town

More towns die for want of confidencs
on the part of business men and lack OF
public spirit than any other cause. When
a man in search of home or a business
location goes into town and finds every
thing brim full of hope and enthusiasm Of
the prospects of the place, and all earnest
ly at work to build itup, he BOON becomes
imbued with the same spirit, and as q
result he drives down stakes and goes to
work with the same interest. When, how.
ever he goes to town where every one
expresses doubt and apprehension for the
future prosperity Of the place, moping
about and indulging in mournful COM
plants he naturally feels that it is no
place for him, and he naturally feels that
it is no place for him, and he at once
shakes the dust off his feet while be pulls
out with all possible speed for some other
place. Consequently try and make
live, enterprising town out of the town in
which you live. When you are working
for or saying good thing for your town
you are accomplishing all the more for
yourself.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
To Stop Auto Speeding

Governor Crothers has determined to
wage relentless warfare on all violators
of the anti-speed laws and notified all
sheriffs, constables and other officials in
the counties vested with authority to
make arrests, to take into custody all
chauffeurs and drivers of automobiles
and Of other vehicles who exceed the
speed limits. He will also urge all JUS
tices of the peace to impose the severest
penalties authorized by law upon all of.
tenders, these penalties to be maximum
fines and Jail sentences, the latter being
preferred to fines in aggravating and re-
peated cases. Governor Crothers said:
"No man has right to run his automo.
bile over the highways of the state in
reckless manner. Not only do reckless
drivers make it dangerous for others but
also for themselves. In my judgment
'scorching' is one of the worst evils with
which the present generation has to con-
tend"
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Railroad Trespassinu

The Board ofSchool Directors of Cecil
county, meeting at Elkton last week, de.
cided to take up the question of trespass.
ing on railroad tracks and the 5000 child
rem in the schools will be instructed a.
gainst trespassing on railroad property.
The suiect of boys throwing stones at
railroad trains will also be considered,
and an educational campaign about the
dangers of trespassing will be conducted.
The counties of Delaware, Pa, New Cas-
tie DEL, and Cecil, Nd, have considered
this matter, and 44,00O children will be
reachsdin this educational campaign. This
does not include the good the churches
are doing. 1t is expected that the cam.
paign will reach hundreds of thousands Of
children as ths Pennsylvania Railroad
Company intends to carry outfits campain
all along the lines of the main divis-
ion. The School Board of this county
will be doing public service by taking
similar action.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Horse Thieves Busy

DOVER, DEL, May 19.-Horse thieves
last night made haul of the best they
could find in the vicinity of Dover. They
entered the stable OF John Hilyard, on
the Frank Maloney farm, and stole there.
from Hilyard's years-old driving mare,
a beautiful bay with star in forehead,
black points and shod with long fiat heel
calks. They took Hilyard's blackboard,
which was the only vehicle they could
quickly seize, but this did not suit them.
at the farm of A. W. Warrington they
traded the blackboard for a new York
carriage.
The authorities to-day traced the thieves
southwark as far as Little Heaven, below
Magnolia, but there lost the track of the
peculiar shod mare because the rain had
only extended as far south as Little Hea-
ven.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
MEMORIAL DAY

Memorial Day in the North and Me-
mortal Day in the South fall upon diff.
ferent dates, but their object is the same,
even though in one section it is the men
who wore the grey.
1t is holy day, day of peculiar pa
thos and reminiscence. Everything CON-
bines to make itso It is seen in the fast
thinning ranks Of the men who fought so
valiantly nearly fifty yeaEsfaeO, and in
the rapidly increasing number of green
mounds in the cemeteries in the north
and south. It is also seen in the me-
mortal character of Che day, in the utter
ances of speakers who extol the heroism
and virtues of both the dead and the liv-
ing, and in the reverent and religious
character Of the exercises.
Such day should be suitably observed.
No self-respecting family would think Of
celebrating with boisterous mirth and
sports day formally set apart as a me-
mortal of deceased members of the family.
This nation is a vast and united family
which has set apart a day in each year in
order that it may do honor to its dead
sons, It should be reyerently observed.
Yet in toomany places the whole spirit
of the daY4is- violated and but little
thought is given to its real purposes, be-
cause it is devoted to sports, amusements,
and oftentimes drinking. In an increas-
ing number OF places, where the spirit Of
reverence asserts itself and the design of
the day is kept in view, such dOings are
forbidden. No one wants to curtail the
pleasures and sport loving instincts Of
people, but Memorial Day is not the time
for their expression.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
An Elk County Mystery

One Of the most notorius murderers
known to the United States lived in Elk
county, Pennsylvania, about the middle
Of the last century. His crimes we're in.
Vulnerable, and were not all committed
within the bounds of Pennsylvania.
So picturesque, however, is the mans
character that the fact that be lived in
Elk county entities his record to place
in The North America's series of Pennsyl-
vsnia's greatest criminal mysteries. II is
one Of the greatest stories Of its kind ever
printed, and will appear next Sunday,
May 2S.
One of this series is published in Tas
North american every Sunday. They are
attracting wide attention among lawyers
and criminologisss, and on the part of the
general public.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Doctors Surprised

New YoRK, May 19.-Dr. Rufus Jack
son, house sergeant of st. Marks Hospit.
al, with the staff Of that institution wit.
messed an experiment in hypnotism this
afternoon about which they declined to
express an opinion tonight. They saw a
man who was helpless from paralysis,
they had been told, step from the operat-
ing table and walk across the room at the
command of the hypnosist, DR.. Alfred L.
Fox.
The subject was Melchoir Luystar-
borgh, who lives in Hoboken. Luystar-
borgh, the hospital people were told, had
been the victim of paralysis for three
years and was unable to stand without as
sistance. To-day, under the hypnotic in.
auence of Fox, he walked across the
room.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
THE STEAMBOAT CALLIoPE

One mournful note was heard in the
circus parade yesterday. It was the
voice of the calliope. II wasn't its motif
which disturbed. It was the reminis-
csnces it recalled when reaching high G
in response to an encore it Wheezed in the
upper register and sobbed q sob for auld
lang syne.
For the calliope is survival Of good
old days when great steamboats, plying
all the way from New Orleans up to St.
Louis on the Mississippi and to Cincinnati
on the Ohio announced their arrival off
every important port between the termi-
nal points by lifting the lid from the cal.
liope and letting nature take its course.
"Oft in the Silly night" the first notes Of
the caIliope could be heard anywhere in
st. Louis as the Thompson Deane or the
Robert E. Lee or any of the great boats of
the Anchor Line, most of which we're
equipped with the calliope, began round.
ing the aouth curve of the great bend
which begins near point opposite Jeffer-
son barracks. Once started the noise al.
ways continued until the boat was at the
wharf and then died in a gasp to assure
tha furthest listener that anchor had been
cast.
Distance lends enchantment to the cal.
liope's voice. Heard at night floating
across quiet city from a steamboat COM
ing up stream there used to be in it sug-
gestion of beauty which we cannot by
any force of Imagination detect in it
circus parade. And why should the cal.
liope be with Us still and the steamboat
gomez Or why should the calliope have
been taken over by the circus as lite pecu-
liar property after the steamboats, were no
more2
The circus and the steamboat we're
comtemporaneous and flourished together
in days and nights when the calliope was
travelling with the steamboat and not with
the circus. The steamboat is gone and
the circus remains and strange fate, the
calliope, refusing to give up the ghost,
has taken to the circus as protector and
friend.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Delaware Fruit Prospects

President Newton of the State Board of
Agriculture, to correct any misapprehen-
sion concerning the Delaware fruit pros.
poets, states that only peaches have fallen
off and promise only half crop, but that
ali other fruit ID looking particularly well.
Strawberries will be held back until May
25 before ready for delivery TO the mar.
kets OF the country, bat Mr.. Newton be-
Iieves the crop will be the largest ever
known in Delaware with any kind of fag.
orable weather and not too much rain.
This win make 1911 the banner year for
strawberries.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
Marriage Licences

I am now prepared to issue
Licences in accordance
with the new law.
Also all other kinds of licences,
procured by me. Automobile,
Merchants and Manufacturers.
ALFRED G. COX,
Justice of the Peace
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27

FOR SALE. Potatoe Plants.
On the farm known ss WILLOW Bridge"
farm. Between Armstrong aud Mt.
Pleasant, Del. A. BREDEMErRR.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Of
st. Georges Hundred f!

The taxable residents of st. Georges
Hundred, and all persons liable to pay
tax in said Hundred, are hereby notified
that the Taxes for the year 1910 are now
due, and the undersigned Tax Collector
for said Hundred. will be at
A. G. cox's OFFICE, MIDDLETowN
SATURDAY, MAY 9th, 1911,
From l to 8 P. NJ.
MAssEY's HOTEL, IN ODESSA,
WEDNESDAY, MAY Oath, 1911
From to P. NJ.
AT R. g. CARPENTERS IN PORT PENN, STORE,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3lth, 1911
From to 8 P. M.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAWS OF DELAWARE,
GOVERNING THE COLLECTION OF TAXES OF
NBw CASTLE COUNTY, SECTION 8, CHAPTER
30, VOLUME 21, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS
AlDENDED:
Section 3-That on all taxes paid before
the first day Of October there shall be an
abatement of five per centum. On all
taxes paid before the first day of Decem-
Der there shall be an abatement of three
per centum. On all taxes paid during the
month of December there shall be no
abatement whatever. And on all taxes
unpaid on the first day of January five
per centum thereof shall be added
thereto.
JOHN Z. DENNY,
Collector Of Taxes for st. Georges Hun
dred.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27

WANTED.-ssVeral carpentersat at once.
Apply to johns & WILSON,
WARWICK, Md.
Middletown transcript., 1911-05-27
NO TIcE TO TAXPAYERS
OF
HUNDRED

The taxable residents of Appoquini-
mink Hundred, and all persons liable to
pay tax in said Hundred, are hereby
notified that the Taxes for the year 1910
are now due, and the undersigned Tax
Collector for said Hundred, will be
AT THE OFFICE OF GEORGE M. D. HART,
IN TOWNSEND, DEL,
EVERY SATURDAY,
During MAY, 1911,
From to 5 o'clock, P. M.
An abatement of per centum will be
allowed on all taxes paid during the
month of August.
Tax bills can be obtained by making
personal application to the Collector, or
bY sending written communication en-
closing stamps.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAWS OF DELAWARE,
GOVERNING THE COLLECTION OF TAXES OF
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, SECTION 3, CHAPTER
3O, VOLUME 2l, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS
AMENDED!
Section 3-That on all taxes paid before
the first day OF October there shall be an
abatement of five per centum. On ell
taxes paid before the first day OF Decem.
Der there shall be an abatement OF three
per centum. On all taxes paid during the
month OF December there shall be no
abatement whatever. And on all taxes
unpaid on the first day of January five
per centum thereof shall be added
thereto.
WILLIAM G. MONEY,
COlIaetOr 0f Tawne Fnr anv,n.,,,t,. s,..rx xys.s