The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal from Norfolk, Nebraska • Page 2

TI1H NOKKObK KltllXAY. AIAUCI1 1. l)1t TY Pleasure of the Week. The jiniloi i Inns of the high heel were hosts at a fanrv die-sH paity Sal unlay evening at the Malmd homo on South Elcvpiitli stioe-t. This jolly nffalr was glveui In honor of the ImHkctlmll team anil iiipinhpis of the fin lilt.anil most cnjoyalilc In oveiy way.

Each guest caine dressed In Hdiiie Imicy costume and after a little piognim spent the lout of the evening a genet al good time The KioniH woio prettily depot tiled with hearts and HOVVOIH and dellcloim to- freHhmontH wcio sorvoel late In the ove'tiing. Mr. anil woio hosts at a voiy attractive 7 oMock dlnnor paity on Monday evening Cberric'H and small lialliots were or rectlvoly used for deroiatlon tlnough- out tliu pmloiH. whip the quests were ttontod. In the name of bildgp which served as a dhoislon foi the rest of the evening.

wore awaidod to Mis. Reynolds Mr. Par- lull Mis. 1) Mathewson Mr. Hoi May- ei and Mis.

G. 11. Sailor. Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs.

I Hanni entertained a coterie of fi lends at an Informal hut voi.v pleasant dinner paity. The guests Included the membois of the Tnosday Bildgo club with tliolr hnshands and a lew others liulted In for the evening After the dinner four tables of bridge weio formed and at the conclusion of the names prize1weie awaidcd to Mrs. Sailor and Mr Bridge. Mrs Cox enteitallied the La dies' Aid of the Clnistlan lunch at her homo I'rldax afternoon. Thirl- six ladles weie present.

The afternoon was spent in pleasant limiting and at the close of the afternoon a dainty two com so himheon was served by the hostess Mr. and Mis. Epplor were Mirprised by a nnmber of fi lends and relatives Tuesday evening. They hiuo bought the Rudolph Dice-son homo heio find expect to IHe in Not- tolk. Mr.

Epplei looked at a good many cities befoie selecting Norfolk Miss Mattic Momoo of Moinoe Wis. is visiting in the city as the guest of Mis. Elsie Desmond Miss Moinoe nas not been in Noifolk for thirty yo.xis and consequently finds many Mr and Mis As.i K. Leonard left Tuesday meniing tor Omaha for a fewdays' Msit and Incidentally to take in the automobile show. Miss Mellie Biidge entcitained a few frleids Thuisday evening at a small infoimal dinnoi in honor of Mr and Mrs.

Sam Eiskine. Miss Maggie Smith entoitallied the Thimble club Wednesday night. Personal. Mr. and Mis I Keeiio of Pie mont aie guests of Mrs Kcene's parents and Mrs I McClarj.

Mis. Mount of Fiomont visited in Norfolk dining the past week a guest of Mis. Uniland. Miss Edith M. Unclothing of Stanton ton is a week end guesl of Mr.

and Mrs. P. II. Scott. Coming Events.

Mr. and Mis. S. F. Eiskino will en tei tain at a laigo leceptlon next Friday evening in honor of Mr.

and Mis. Sam Erskinc. Mis. G. H.

Christoph and Mrs. G. II. Burton issued imitations for a luncheon and bridge the afternoon of Feb. 20.

HURLS ACID AT HUSBAND. Chicago Woman Finding Him Dining With Affinity Creates Scene. Chicago Feb. 24. Appiised by mi- detectives that her husband Alexander Erieksonas dining with alleged affinity at the Hotel De France 530 Fedeial stieet the wife burst into the place at 9 o'clock p.

m. and abruptly ended the supper. Another iran and woman whose identity is unknown to the police were guests of Erickson. Erickson who isico president of the Eytingc-Erickson Forwaidlng com- pany. fled from the dining loom with bis wife In hot pursuit.

The others also ran from the place tables and chairs being overtmned in the wilt scramble to reach the street. Mrs. Eiickson had a small bottle of carbolic acid which she flung at her husband. The fluid struck him on the back ruining bis overcoat. She overtook him a block away and belt him until the arrival of Detecthes Havetn and Fitzpatrick of the Soutl Clark street station.

Both arrested on a charge disorderly conduct. They were released on bonds signed by Ike Rod rick and left the station one walking about four paces ahead of the other Mrs. Erlckson Is 27 years old. She wore a heavy set of ermine furs ieK black broadcloth tailor made suit Her husband Is three years older They have two children aged 7 ant 2 years. Diamond in Slice of Bread.

Pierre S. Feb. 24 Airs. Russell 11.rs one of the "suffering" homesteaders near Eagle Butte a few days ago missed a $150 diamond setting out of ono of her rings and searched the house with a dustbrush and a tray but litU could not find the sparkler. The next day Mr.

Russell set his teeth against something hard In a slice of fresh shd bread hlch his wife had just baked He begtti to search for the cause and wan pleased to find that It wits the mlHBlng sparkler. More Pncklng Detnlls. Chicago 1'eb 21 Fnither details of the manner In which IMwaid Tlldon piesldent of the National Packing companv obtained contiol of tliu New Yoik lIuttheiH1 DIPBHOI Heef ompmo In 1107 were to IK 'old today by Fied- crick at the tilal of the ton Chicago packet hinged with maintaining a combine In lestralnt of tiade Joseph will bo followed on the stand bv his son Moses II Joseph Iwho assisted Ills father in the negotiations which resulted In the purchase of the New Yoik concern Knox Changes Route. Key West Fin Feb 21 Just be- 010 sailing fiom heio on his dlplo- natlc mission to the Contial and South American republics Secietaiv of State Knox announced that ho had jhanged the plans for his itinoiar.v mil would proceed direct to Colon instead ot stopping at Poit Antonio and vlngston Jamaica. BURKE BILL PASSED.

Measure Provides for Appraisement on Dakota Reservations. Washington Feb 2) The house has msjpil the lluike bill which provides for the classification and appraisal iroposed to be made with aiovv to he sale of the land affected SHOOTING THE THIEVES. Stringent Measures Being Taken to Repress Chinese Disorders. Hong Kong Feb. 21 Stringent measuies foi suppiesslon of dlsoiders In the bouth aio being taken by the new govcinment and the general sit nation is more quiet than heretofore Thieves au being shot dally in Canton and the government is building motor boats to act as patiols in sup piesslng liver pliates.

The boats aio equipped with quick firing guns and theii ciows will Manseis. Tlieie is damor In Canton for the appointment of a brother of Premie Sun Yatsen as goveinor general then but it is Known that this demand i legaided unfavoiably in the north. The wife of a Canton officer who died at Ills death that sh would fill bis place When she was i ejected beci.iibo of her sex- soldiers who had seived under her husband stinted fighting the authoiities. Tor of thorn weie shot. N.

A. RAINBOLT LAID TO REST Simple Funeral Services Are Held a the Family Home. Funeial seivices over the remain of N. A. Rambolt weie held from In- borne on Koenlgsteln yesterday day afteinoon at 2 o'clock Rev.

Edwi Booth jr ot the Fiist Congiogatlona chinch ofliciating. The services wer simple but Impressive There was funeial scinion and no music. Intel ment was in Piospect Hill cemeteiy. Flow PIS in magnificent profusio almost filled ono loom in the Haiti bolt home. There woie a number outof-tovvn fi lends and lelativos her for the uncial intlulling Mr an Iis.

.1. Johnston of St. Paul Minn It Johnson a nephew Walter an ioinaid Rambolt of Gilbert la. hot pphevvs M. Cameion of Omaha iooige A.

Biooks ol Mill Mr. and Mis C. Johnston aie guest it the E. A Bullock home until 1101 tow. Mis.

W. M. Rainbolt tetuiii- od to Omaha last night her son being 11. Mr. and Mis.

W. H. Bucholz will etui to Omaha tomonow. W. M.

talnbolt ex'pects to remain feveial lays. Dining the moining members of Mathewson post G. A. marched to he Rainbolt home to pay their tribute if respect to the memory of their lepaited comrade. Plans Business Congress.

New York Feb. 24. Charles Nagel secretary of commerce and labor told nembers of the Manufacturers Association of New York in a banquet at Brooklyn that he was thinking of in- vlting representatives of business interests all over the country to Wash- Ington for a convention on business matters. ITniform legislation affecting business and the ultimate establishment ment of a largo national board of trade were objects in lew be sought. FALLS INTO FEED MILL.

Peter Mouw Is Accidentally Killed on Farm Near Orange City. Orange City la Feb. 24. Peter Mouw jr was almost Instantly killed on his father's stock farm one mile north of Orange City. He had been giinding feed for the hogs in one of the stables In some manner he was thrown into the wheel of the grinder being lifted into the air and striking head foiemost on the cement floor.

Secretary of Commerce Commission. Washington Feb. 24. John II. Marble ble formerly of San Francisco chief of the dhision of prosecutions of the Interstate commerce commission has been appointed secretary of the commission to succeed Edward A.

Mose- ley who died last April. Mr. Marble has been detached from the commission for several months acting as one of the attorneys for the special senate committee which has been Investigating the election of Senator Lorlmer. Madison Wins the Game. Madison Neb Feb.

24. Special teal The News Madison high school basketball team defeated Wayne normal school team last night 30 to 11. 60 DEAD AT BEIRUT. Italians Mowed Down Three Score In Turkish Town. Beirut.

Feb. 24. A flotilla of Italian warships today bombarded this city killed tixty peaceful Inhabitants nud wounded many olheis. They also mink Hovoial small Tntklnh gunboats miclmied in the poit. i AppomIng sudden off the poit the ommandeis of Hie Italian gunboat boat Voltuino and the mmoicd emitter iiilseppo Ginlbaldl se-nt to the au I thoiltlps a demand for HIM lender of the Tinklsh gunboats.

llofoio the piovlnelal govpinor oiild ilellvci his ply to the Italian coinmandois or ask for limo to negotiate the ciuls- PIS opened Hie. In a shent lime the Tinkluli gunboats boats In Hie binbor woio dlsablod and hi a sinking condition. The custom house w-is gieatly damaged and othoi buildings also suffeiod sevoiely. Many people- who pinne within the of flio while passing along the stn-ets vvenRlauKhtoied. A panic set In and pe-oplo fk-cl In diovos to winds the Lebanon hills SATURDAY SIFTINGS.

Mrs. David Hodson of Madison is heio visiting with fi lends Ma 01 John Friday is expected to letuin from Galveston toda.v. Miss Eva Wllloy letuined from Omaha whole she spent a day with friends. Mr. and Mrs.

Frank King of Stanton ton were heieisltlng with friends. Mis. John Robinson wont to Omaha to attend the wedding of her sistei. Mis T. Shilllngton of Omaha is here visiting with her sister Mrs.

Joseph Pliant. Mis. Charles Beioisdoif has ietu.ru- ed fiom a lew das' visit witli nelsons at Eimrson. Miss Filtei has loft for sev- eial weeks' with hoi sister Mrs Pied Karo ol Syi.uuse. B.

A Palm is suffeiing tiom an attack of the grip Miss Emma Sclmlis back at work after a four days' attack ot ttie grip R. T. Biuco. who has been confined to his home with a sovete attack of illness is now able to be about again. A wet snow fell in Notlolk all day Saturday.

The Norfo'k high school basketball team went to Wajne to play the Wayne high school team. A manuscript of the aenioi class play has reached the high school building. The rehcaising will begin immediately. George W. Evans of Noifolk has filed for the it-publican nomination foi county connnissionei Mi.

Evans has lived in the counl twout-eight jeais and has never asked for a poli tlcal office. Effoits arc to bo made next May to add anothei saloon to the number al toady in the city. The proposed saloon accoiduig to leports might be located in the building now occupied by Chailes Rice. The week-end dinner of Y. M.

C. A. solicitous was held in the Commercial club rooms at noon. So enthusiastic are the solicitois over thcii le suits that it was decided to hold the dinner eveiy day until March 2. Captains Rome Keleher and Guy Parish of last ear's football team re poit that ev 01 thing is aiianged by the high school to a baseball team.

While these students prefer a legular city team they declaie theli team will be a last one. Sheriff C. S. Smith was busy here Friday tacking up pi unary electioi pioclamatioiiK. The piimaiy electioi takes place on April 9 and is for the purpose of placing in nomination can dldates to booted tor at the genpia election Nox In the pioclamatloi all officers from piesident ot the United Stales to county commissioner are mentioned.

Miss Ilairiet Wood of St. Anthony Ida will be a guest ovei Sunday at the home of H. C. Matrau. Miss Wood is county snpeiintondent of Fremont county Ida and is emoute to the National Educational association meeting at St.

Louis which convenes next week. Miss Wood for sev- eial years was a teacher in the Norfolk schools and was one of the most pppular insUuctors the city ever had. Carl Blacksmith a one-legged Battle Creek fanner claims ho has been "touched" for $10. Blacksmith was arrested Friday night by Patrolman O'Brien for being drunk and disorderly He was able to pay a $3 fine and Chief of Police Maiquardt found it necessaiy to stand responsible tor a livery bill owed by Blacksmith befoie the latter could secure his team. Blacksmith declared he brought the $10 to Norfolk to pay a debt.

AH the result of much woik Secretary Haw Kins of the Commercial club repoits that a large ciowd of farmers are expected in Noifolk next Wednesday nesday moiring to take advantage of the knowledge of testing seed corn the many exhiibts contained in the five special cars which arrive at the city depot of the Northwestern road at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning and leave at 11:15. A number of experts on seed corn and corn seed testing will be aboard the train to tell the tanners what should be done to save the 1012 corn crop. Carlson Will Lecture March 8. The lecture to be delivered by G. Carlson on "The Value of a Child will be delivered in the Auditorium on Friday night March 8 instead of March 1.

The tickets are now in the hands of the school children and are to be placed on sale immediately. The receipts of this lecture go toward benefit of the Norfolk Corn Growing club. Mr. Carlson declares there are many interesting phases of the child life which will be discussed by him. In fact Mr.

Carlson admitted recently that some of his lectures would be similar to the lecture ho is scheduled to deliver on Chnutauqua platforms next summer. Among the subjects to bo talked of during his lecture hero will be "A Comparative Study of the Animals and Men "The Development of the Child's Mind "The Mother Teacher "Tho Influence of SchoolWork on the Life of the Child "So- olnl and Civic Responsibility "The Causio of AHUM lean Inefficiency and the Child as a 1'iodiict of the Homo nil "The Oilgln of Giuft. MAY GO INTO MEXICO. U. S.

Traops Given Orders to Enter If It Becomes Necessary. Washington Fob 21. Ameilcan Hoops will ctoss the bolder line into Mcxli-o whenever It shall become nee- OSMII.V to step filing into the Amoil- can lonltoi.s In ouleili additional loops to El I'aso today to cope with the situation theie In the event ot an attack of i evolutionists on the Mexican city of the Washington uoveminent determined that theie should be no lopotltion of tin1 Incidents of the Madpio i evolution when AHUM leans In El Paso nml Douglas Allweie killed bH iiiK bullets liom the opposIng fences acioss the bender. First Homestead In South Dakota. A te-vv weeks ago The News pi luted a little- item stating thai a pencil skoteh of ho Hist homestead shunt In South Dakota diawi by the man who held the chili.

was in OHSosslor. of W. Hoffman a llnotpo opeia tor on The News 'I ho piotino was made by Mphlon Goto. Mr. Goio now livlngal Otlaiido Fla hoanl ot it am wrote to sath.it ho was not dead as believed And IIP has just litter a little stoiv ol bis eaily d.is In Da kola at the ic-qiiest ot Ibis paper.

Ik tolls how he filed claim No 1 how bis ctops woio lestrood by glass hoppois. how ho published" the Sioii City lournal and latei sold il to the pie-sent e-dilor GeoigeP Poikins how ho. founded the Sioux City Tiib une and lutoi wont south. Following Is Mr Goio's intoiestliih lettoi "I soil led on my claim In the Illj Sioux valle in Inly 1SC2 having come in company with my brother or Rev Aiboit Goio fiom Batik Cieek. Mich Aflei selecting ou claims.

brother leluined to Miclii Ran tor our wives and his two cbil diPii I ion allied to elect a housefo the accommodation of the two fami lies. My nearest neighbor ipslded ii Hie Biule Creek piecinct throe mile away To got help lo put up a hous was almost impossible. I was a pi int The Verniillion Republican was being published by John B. They needed help. By dofeiring my building am going to the Republican office to help out 1 ananged to secuie a man from that place foi a week's work in leturn.

We cut logs on a school section splitling them so as to make two of ono. Wo managed to get a pen i oiled up. I obtained lumber nun Elk Point about eight miles away for fleior and ioof and for casings for a door and two windows. of house 12xlS feet outside. Files Claim No.

1. "On the 1st of Januaiy following (18fiP I filed homestead application No 1 land district Dakota Territoiy. I lived on the claim and hi ought under cultivation about sev- only-live The acies. Hist season's tops weie peed and the yoai's piog- loss was encouiaging Bui the following oc-ason was disastious I had about seventy acios in coin and fho moio in vegelablos But on Aug. 11 just as evorlhing was big with piom- isp.

the grasshoppois came down onus in a cloud that daikenecl the sun and in one day eveiything except the log cabin was swept from the face of the eaith "I had staked all on a bumper ciop and all was lost. My neighbors weie equally unfoitunalo so I could not hope lor any income through employment with H.em. Published Sioux City Journal. "In October following a gentleman from Sioux City came to see me bringing a proposal lo go to Sioux- City and undertake the publication of the Sioux City Journal. The outfit was ow ned by a stock company.

Four is-siies of the paper had been gotten out and then the publication had been suspended. I looked over the situation terms wore agreed upon and I went to woik. At Hie end of two years I bought out the stockholder and became owner continuing to publish that paper until I sold out to George Poikins. His Claim Is Jumped. 'Meantime ni claim was jumped by a man named Fisher on the giound of abandonment although I had been paying him for work on the place for two years.

This was my expel pel ienco as a homesteader. Founded Sioux City Tribune. "I continued to lesido in Sioux Cltj and in 1875 in company with Hon. II L. Wai nor I founded the Sioux Cit Tribune which I conducted until ni health failed and I was forced out of business finally coining to Florida early in 1880 where I have continued to live until the present time.

And hero I will probably continue to live until my fina" migration. Homesteaders Start Slowly. At least one car occupied by a South Dakota homesteader and his "outfit" passes through Norfolk dail over the Northwestern road. In another month there will be specla freight trains taking the homesteaders to their claims where they wll spend the required ttaio in which It Is necessary by order of Uncle Sam to get possession of the land. The association of Rosebud homesteaders living In Omaha and vicinity held another meeting last week In the Omaha council chamber and perfected their organization.

About 100 members were present A small membership fee Is being paid by each. The organisation is now known as the Nebraska-Iowa Rosebud Homesteaders' association. These members are arranging to make the trip to the new country together. From a view of a homesteader's car passing through Norfolk today It became known that the homesteaders IP using a "system" in tholr posses- ions which they take with them to he now countiy. In all cms thoio 10 lioisos.

The majority of the cms. IOWOVPI- contain two to three cows omellnieH fieie are that many calves i few pigs a few c-oops of lilckens lft.v to sovony-t'lvo bushels of coin mil oats w'd. the same number of mshels of grain for feed and in HOIIIP uses the cms contain enough lumber for a homestead "shack. The test if the cm contains enough household goods for a two 01 thioo-room "shack lilt the hoi'sohold goods proposition scorns mlnoi pint of the homestead- M'S wcniy. Notwithstanding the fact that the lalltoad officials lepoit the stint of Ibe homesteader as "veiv slow the fact that Hlty empty merchandise cais aie timisfoiied fiom the new countiv i om the Noithwestein to the load dally shows that a Kip.it supply of necessities Is being laid in for the homesteader.

Most all of these cats ate shipped to the1 now countiy loaded House Owners to Make Rules. Because man questions have aiisen in the1 past logmdlng what is expected of tenant and landloid by renteis of house in Norfolk owneis aio pie paiing to hold a mass mooting at which the questions raised aie to be settled. It was lepoitod that a combine ol these house owners was lie made to maintain high tents One ownoi declined yostoiclay that till1 was not the case. "We hold .1 mooting lecontlv bu the question as to an agreement W.T not discussed length he said "I was talKed ol only slight and i was decided that a meeting should hi held at a latei date when this question could oe taken up Owneis houses nave much tumble with lent CMS who do not midoistand just wh.i Is leqiiiied of them and just wha should ho loquiiod of the landloid" Another owner doc hues sonio lent PIS believe it the- duty ol the land loicl to reclecoiato the house oacl eai lie believes that if some sv tematic auangeinojit should agieed upon by owners all ciios lions could bo easily settled It was pointed out that theie arc hundiods of questions which shonlc be undei stood by both the landlon and ten nit Many landlords make i a iulp to t.ike down the stoim wir clews in the spiing and put up th scieens while others expect HIP PI nut to look alter this. When a tenant moves into a house whoio th ancllord does not do this a contic eisy ansos which takes much aign nent to settle.

Othei similar quo ions aie to bo sifted down and genera tennnt and landloid mle i be made it is said. Work On Depot Is Delayed. Because of the inability of the fad oiy to finnish lundwaie which i leedod to finish the inteiior of til lew Union Pacific pashongei clopo ill woikmen except the plumbers who have a little mole woik to do ire idle. The depot with the excel tion ot the plumbing a little ban waio installation and the const uclio of the platform is completed. Local Agent Landeis and his 01 co will not move into the new depot until it is eiitiiely finished and when this work is completed it is hoped by local Union Pacificem ployes and Noifolk business men that the oflicials of the lailioacl will come heio tor the general public opening which is unofficially scheduled to take place.

Seniors Wear Colored Hose. Not satisfied with their futile attempts at keeping their class colois on the top of the high school building membois of the senioi and junior classes tiio making othei extiaor- dinaiyittempts to keep their colors before the fes of the faculty. The latest scheme by the juniois was to paint the cement sidewalks leading to the high school building in glaiing orange mil black colois. As was the case in their attempts at hanging their oiois to a tempoiaiy flag pole. the facultv loiind ways and means by which the juniors could pin chase tur- I cntine and wash the colors from the walks.

Not satisfied with this second defeat some of the students dabbed their faces and clothing with the orange and black colois in defiance of the turpentine rule. Follow ing the juniors' attempts the seniors sent a "feeler" into the schoolroom esteiJay in the foi in of ono of the piett senior girls who shocked the faculty with her becoming gown of pink and green This was the senior class color. Then the teachers were thiown into a npar-panic when every member of the senior class appeared at the afternoon session of school garbed in pink and green. There were pink neckties and green handkerchiefs. Some wore a pink stocking on one foot and a green one on the other.

Everything was pink and green and the class was sent out on a forty-five minute recess to change stockings. They clubbed together and many came back with freshly purchased hose of the old-fashioned gray cotton material. Tims the class color fight goes on Mrs. Ulricke C. A.

Lindstedt. Mrs. Ulricke. Linstedt a Norfolk pioneer died at her home on South First street at 2.45 Thursday afternoon after a siege of dropsy from which she suffered since Nov. 30 last.

Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock afternoon from the family home and at T30 at Christ Lutheran church. Rev J. P. Mueller ler will have charge of the services. Interment will bo made in Lutheran cemetery Three sons Julius.

Otto and William remain to mourn the loss of good mother. Mrs. Ulricke C. A. Linstedt was oborn at Hasbeck Pomeranla Ger- many on May 30 1841.

In 1SC7 she amp to Wntoitovvu WIs. with her auMits Mr. and Mis. C'lnlg Dpgiior nd In ISO In Watoitovvn sho. was lilted In wrdlock to Mr Llnsledt Ir and Mis Llnslcdt canio to No.

iniHka in ISM spttllng for a few ems near Plow In 1S7I the fainilv loved to the Llimtedl lioiuestpad luce miles southeast of town that ilace now being fat mod bv Julius The father died in ISS nd after sovoial ycam of haul woik in the fin in Mis Linstedt moved to the city. William A. Wagner. Uunpral siivicos over the William Wagner will take- place it .0 afteinoon fiom the A'agner faun and at o'clock llev lolnt Witt will hold set vices In SI 'mil Liithouni chinch niter which In- cimont will he made In St Paul oinolPi The pallboaicis will be- 'ml Voks William Lehman. Ken ad.

E. W. MFipd Itiaaseh. A. Hill William A Wagner wan one of Not folk's oldest ploneeis.

He was born at Lebanon Dodge count WIs in July 10. IS4ti Until ISiiS IIP vvoiK at Lebanon'at his It ado as a cai- pouter when ho. in company with Ernest Heilman made the tedious tri fiom Wisconsin to N'obiaska In pi nit IP schooner He took up a homestead thiee and one half milps south past of town whpre he madp his homo until his death. On DPP. 20 IS70.

lip was united In wedlock wltl Augusta Sophia Wagner. Ills flisi wife di on Inly 2. ISO and he was mauled again on Dec IS. 1S07 to Mis llPinletta Wllhelinlna Emlla Bnior. Annual U.

C. T. Ball. Noifolk council No 120 I nlted Common lul Tiavpleis held Its annual ball al Maiqtiaidt hall Fild.iy light. A huge ciowd ot dam PIS PII jo.vecl the occasion Vogot's on IIPS- lia was .1 featuie cil the evening's pleasuie The commit too in cliaigo woie A Cliambeis Chile Tlmnip son and Sai.i Eiksine The ball was a complete success in OVPI.V way Mr.

Toiisoli i cofloo salesman and Miss May Schwpiic took the "i gold piece lot the best clanceis Kloslerman Is Gone. Wei nor Klostoimanko piesldent ol the Rundschau Publishing com- pan a recently local company disappoaiecl fiom Noifolk a tew das ano and Ahlmaii oil- itoi of tile local imhlication was sin- piiscd esUiclay to IPCPIVP a loltei liom Klosteiman salng that lie had ipcoived such a flatlet Ing otfoi witli si Rock Island III publication thai would impossible tor him to lotinn to Noifolk. "I had thought that Klos- toman wa.i in Omaha making at- langeniPiits witli a hi other lei some financial aid which would connect Wet tier with the Rundschau says Ahlmaii. Commission Plan Up to Court. Lincoln Feb 24 The fate of the commission lonn of gov eminent in Nebraska cities is soon to be decided by the supieme couit A mandamus soil to test the acl of the last legislalino pel milling cities to adopt tlie commission term was filed I esterdav extended argument made and the case submitted last evening with the understanding that the couit would endeavor to lender its decision i in time for the filing andidates under Hie old law five weeks pilotto the Hist Tiiesdav in Ma in case the law is held illegal The suit was tiled in Hie form ot an original at lion by Wilmot Baughn jr of Omaha who asks that County Treasurer G.

Uie be compelled polled to accept a filing fee of which Mr Bauglin tendeied as a can diclate for city cleik. The fee was ie- fused on the giound that the city of Omaha had adopted the commission form of government and that the office of clt leik of Omaha is no longer an elective otfice. Omaha and Bead ice are under the commission form of government and other cities aie piopariii to adopt it the law is upheld FRIDAY FACTS. M. J.

Sandeis went to Fulleiton. A. B. Lang of Madison was in the city. Sherift C.

S. Smith and Deputy Shciiff Smith are heie on business. Mrs. Bcsbie D. Peton of Creighton is heie.

Ransom and Fiank Melcher went to Oiuaiia. E. Scostag of Nlobrma was a city visitor over night. George Schaeffer of Omaha Is here transacting business. George of Bazile Mills was here tiansacting business.

Mrs. August Paul and her daughters were heie visiting with Mrs. Albert Veirgutz. Dr. C.

W. Marquardt returned from Hastings wheie ho attended the convention of the Nebraska State Optical society. Miss Alice Holt returned from a week's vacation which she spent in Minnesota. Spurgeon Hull of Alberta Can is here spending a few weeks with his uncle Rees. Mrs.

R. F. Schiller went to Central City to spend a few days with the George Schiller family. Misses Vcrana Nenow and Lizzie Podahl went to Omaha to spend a few days with friends Miss Clark and Miss Sagelman are taking care of Mrs Woodruff who Is quite 111. Another enthusiastic meeting of the Y.

M. C. A. solicitors was held In the Commercial club rooms at noon. The progress made thus far Is repoitcd to 'So very satisfactory The city jail is beginning to be known as a good place for a "bunk" by man of the nuedy who prm tlnoiigh the city Minlhor lodged i aceomiiiodaldd In a cell last night It llali.ko lepoils a good HPiifon of tiapiiliig noin thin city llatbke i apt in Ing fiom MX to GOO anlm.iN dallv Ho has about 'JllO daps at woik over day llathko Is Ing In the supplv of skunk oil wblcli he Ha.vn theio Is a gloat ele- maud.

It II McKltmoy lucompanled bv Hr II Sailor wont to Omaha la-t night to consult specialists with re- mini lo his condition. Mi McKlnne niideivve-nl an opeiallon last sunnm-i fin tilt ei ol Hie Htomach but ban nof been impiovlng as laphll.v as had hi'c-n hoped. now gioceiv Hleiie Is to ho established In Noifolk Mr. Pilc-o an Iowa man has tented a Htoie room and huHPiuenl In the Kim-ley building and oxpootH lo open a nloio soon Ltili-i. it Is Mild Mr Pilcp pxppctH in i instinct a ston- building and undue a business In the ipsldi-nci pu- llou of Hie clt Sam Oslrom Hie N'oiHivvpsti-in fi eight handli-r who was mn-sted twle-o foi being dilink and snddenlv ellsappeaied when he pnmilKed Juclu'e Eiselev to n-tiiin with money to pay his fine wan found hiding nndei HIP lohn Uihlav hanlwaie stoic last eve-- nlng bv c.

hicf ol Police Maiquanlt Ostiom war di link again Among ih lavs out ol town M-II ois in Noilolk VVC-IP Fie-d Guoiitliii. Ciotton. Mi and Mis IVtor Engel Pone a A Mann Lmnel Vein Pe-n- doison Spe-lic ei II Cotoy Linitt Pule 11 I Hill Ilie-m I Ilieliu. Gn-goiv Mi and Mis II Giuclimv It lohnstonlnini I Low I- ji W.ivno Mrs I Mllsoii. Dallas.

I Malone Eneil i I Tininbiill n-liiiiii'd to Noifolk fiom f'oloiai'o afle-i a six months' ah- sene cWith him liebioiight a West Viiglnia hiido Mr Tiinubiill and Miss Salllo Hiiielotl wen1 mauled at Pueblo. C'olo on Oc I 10 last after a month's ae epiiilntancc Mi. Tinni bull Is now engage-el In the nuiserv business aflei a Iniel visit with NoifolU relatives he expects to bac to Colouido to live- A. Kuhl loluniPil fiom Maiiriee la whenhis mot her aged SO was 111 She is elolllg eultc well poits Mi Kuhl Miss IllnlleKuhl. who aec-oiiipiniipel he-i fathe-r to ice- lemain with hoi gianelmolhi'i- ten a lew wee-ks A he-avy tell in Hievuinitv ol Hawanlon and M.nir Ice- last wee-k Mi.

Kuhl says The snowdillts rie so deep that manv he- fences .11 not visible Considerable oxe'ltPiiiPtu was cans- -d on Nolle Ik avenue and Third itioet al o'clock josloniay after- loon when an attempt at a fight wax nado by tv.c men. The excltoinent A.IS wholly ponfinocl to the big cieivvd lint g.illieipd No blows wpro stniek mu HIP near fight ended In a iaee- which losnlted vie toilouslv for the- iinalloi ol Hie would ho Hghteis One the nic-n vas chin god with drawing klllfp Tire police we-io late In ar iving and no arn-sts woio made Noifolk base-ball e-nthiisiasts an getting intoiosted in the c-omlng sf.i Tlie fans point out that if a earn is to lie the oiuarn should take place voiy soon They also claim that a paid oulel do well e-noiigb in Noifolk it a good base.hall nianagei would tak such a team in eh.iigeand manage theoiganiation HIP wasimllai teams aio managed in eithe-r towns in tills vic'nity Nothing has IKPII lone up to this time In thewav of At the legulai mpeting of emmer eial club direttins held today the Winnipeg-to Hip-Gulf load question was tallied ol' at some length A roni- mlttpp is to be appointed by HIP dub This Ommlttpp will have- full ehaigp of the mailer of keeping in touch with other towns on the Meildlan icad The commitlc-r- will make its leaturo woik that of looking to all in foi mation rfganling the road furiilsh- Ing maps mil see that the toad is pioppilv nin keel oto. Ilanv Blown 'In Ismail the I'l veai old boy ain-steel by Chief of Police liceMaiquaidt tor attacking HIP old son of Mrs Effip Gallan IP reived a IPC'UIP at the hands of IuclR' Elspley No fine was Imposed because Judge Eisolev declaipcl be hail no jut Isdli tion in HIP ease TliP oasr was called to the attention of the school boanl when Mrs Gallan reported that over since she moved to Norfolk It was Impossible for her son togo out of the house without gottltm a beating al HIP hands of school bos Vernon Gill the 18 year old Noifolk boy who admitted that he passed bad chpiks on at least two saloonkeepe-rs hero loci-nllv was given a ebanco in Judge Elseky's court Thursday. Attorney acting for County Attoiney Nichols was willing that Gill be given bis freedom on certain conditions which will keep the bo's case pending in couit Gill will bo arroste-d on Hie first offense and Hie case can be renewed at any time. No formal complaint was filed against him but be has promised to pay HIP saloonlsts their money Sixteen members of the Norfolk mllltla company received honorable discharges veuterday.

Among them were Sergeants F. C. Asmus B. Lymlo William Leu Gerhard Paso- walk Corporals Anton Wilde. Erd- man Seiferl Charles Hulac and Private Harry Morgan all for oxplra- 'Ion of their enlistments and Prl- vates Grauel Richard Grand William R.

Strong. Fred IngllP. Frank Spcoco. George Bridge Charles Larkln. Donald Hardy.

The yoldlPis have now boon dropped from the Norfolk company's rolls The regimental officers' election. which has bc golinc on. Is taking up much Ink-rest. The votes will bo countfd In Lincoln Monday. Capf Johnson of Stanton Is senior caplaln and Is on aspirant for major..