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Jesse James Frequently Visited Nebraska City But Never Raided In State Altho He Had a HideoutJESSE JAMESHOME OF JESSF. JAMES AT ST. JOSEPH, MO. —taken in 1926 by A. E. Sheldon, state historical society supe rintendent.After seeing th-» movie, “Jesse'James, Jo Frances James, a Los Angeles bank employe, was asked how the screen version portrayed the life of her grandfather who has gone down in history as the United State’s greatest outlaw.She replied that the only resemblance to fact was that once there was a man named James and he rode a horse.”Everyone agrees that the film, shown last week at the Stuart, was great entertainment but it is apparent that the year’s research ordered by Darryl Zanuck was thrown overboard.However, the glamorous movie served to revive a thousand and one anecdotes concerning the daring bandit who began his career at 16, the son of a convent reared mother and Baptist minister father, as a member of Quan-trill's raiders. And in one locality,Northlicld, Minn., the residents are so hopping mad that they are talking about suing the movie firm because it is implied that the Northfield residents were tipped off in advance about the James gang plan to raid the bank there,Sept. 7, 1876.Weren't Warned in Advance.According to the Northfield News the gang’s so called efficiency “failed in Northfield and the bandits got what they weren't expecting. They met defeat at the hands of quiet, ordinary citizens of the little college town, quite unprepared for their coming, except in courage and resourceful-; in defense of their rights and possessions.”According to the best records Jesse James never invaded Nebraska to pull any holdups altho s known that he was a frequent visitor at Nebraska City. In fact, the portrait of the desperado used in a recent issue of Life was taken in a studio there.Never Raided Nebraska.‘I don’t think Jesse James ever operated in Nebraska,” said A.Sheldon,, superintendent of 1 Nebraska Historical society.There are two places in I braska, in Thurston and Cedar counties, where the James and Younger gangs were supposed to have hideouts. Thoro investigation is needed to establish that as fact because it is mostly only a matter of strong local tradition. I am inclined to believe that he had one hideout place in Nebraska.”The Devils Nest section in northern Nebraska is popularly supposed to have been the James hideout. Just recently a half breed Sioux Indian, Joe Jesse Chase, declared that he is a son of the famous outlaw. It is ported that Indians in that locality ' ave long maintained that James . the father of Chase.The legend runs that in Jesse and Frank James robbed a South Dakota bank '• and fled to;ory grasshoppers. is many as in Octobe: Phelps—-Shows rcduciAppro1937.itcly.bout 35%Pierce—Shows increase. Nearly twice as any eggs as a year ago.Platte-Little of any change from areduction of 20% in eggeduction of 20%Polk—Show counts.Red WiHo'egg lt;:nse. Less than a third as many eggsRock—Marked increase over counts ofof about 20% in eggof slightly over 50%.Saunders—Very slight decrease from :ounts of a year ago.Scotts Bluff—Moderate increase in num-sers of eggs in ^irrigated lands. Also eggs of migratory grasshoppers instubble fields.Seward—Shows :ounts of about 30%. Sheridan—Slight incrcasi nights of migratoireduction In egg Only halfcontrol campaign tTan ton—15% to 20% increase ove counts of a year ago.Thayer—About 15% increase from cThomas—Moderate increase InThurstor.Lgl[ght Increase in egg iWebster—Shows lt;red with fall : than half a$the Devils Nest country on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river.Married Indian Girl.The mother of the desperados is supposed to have' made frequent visits to Nebraska and is reported to have met them at Obert. U. S. marshals on three occasions are said to have searched the treacherous hills in vain for the bandits. The two brothers are supposed to have married beautiful Indian girls. But trouble followed afterward when the James men killed a trader. They fled and never returned. They are supposed to have urged their Indian wives to join them but the Indian mothers are believed to have forbidden the girls to see the outlaws again.Biographers declare that Jesse and Frank were married in 1874 and were true to their wives. No mention is made in histories Of the Devils Nest marriages.Often Seen in Nebraska City.In the Nebraska City News Press the following comment made concerning the visits there of the famous bandit.Nebraska City got a ‘plug’ in Life magazine last week when the picture publication printed a picture of Jesse James made, in Nebraska City. Judge M. W. Nei-hart, who later operated the studio in which Jesse was photographed, believes the Nebraska City daguerreotype Was the only picture ever posed for by famous outlaw whose story isn’t told by the current movie. Judge Neihart, who spent ten years ‘mugging* criminals for the federal government, didn’t take the photo of Jesse. That was taken the Walbaum studio in Nebraska City about 1875. A year or so later J. H. Madison took over the studio, near 6th ond Central in the building west of the old News office. Judge Neihart came here in 1876, looking about at the studios because he was a photographer. Madison asked him to mind his place while he visited in Iowa. The judge did, .but Madison never came back. Mr. Neihart was in the picture business here for 30 years.Jesse James frequently came to Nebraska City to see the late Cap Enyart. Both were Missourians and this probably accounted for their friendship, it was on one of these trips that James is believed to have been enticed Into a studio by Enyart. Once Enyart took Jesse into the postoffice in Nebraska City, introduced him to Paul Schminke under a different name. A few days later he went back arid informed Mr. Schminke the true identity of the man. One story is that Enyart, who. lived on a farm in those days, bought ground to make another lane leading up to his house so that if Jesse had to leave in a hurry there would be several ways for him to go and pursuers, if any, would have a hard time blockading the farm. Frank James, .Tease’s brother, often came here. He started races at the old Driving park.”Jesse James with a price on his head used to ride boldly down Central ave. in Nebraska City with his arms folded,” wrote Victor A. Sturm, Nehawka, in the Nebraska, History magazine, June, 1934.| John N. Edwards in his book,Matthew Woll Complains of Trade With Reich.11IAM1, I'la. (.T*. Matthew Woll. a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, charged the treasury department was permitting Germany to obtain such war materials as cotton, copper and scrap iron from this country by dumping unneeded harmonicas, bird cages and canaries.” He said the procedure violated the president’s foreign policy and that “undoubtedly President Roosevelt is unaware of this procedure of the secretary of the treasury which has reacted to the great advantage of Hitlerism.”As president of America’s wage earners’ protective conference, composed of A. F. of L. unions, Woll reiterated in a statement previous complaints by the group that in permitting the import of German goods, the treasury evaded imposition of contervailing duties and penalties provided by the 1930 tariff act and the 1921 anti-dumping act.Woll declared “many millions of dollars” worth of cotton, copper, scrap iron, fats and oils have been delivered to Germany by American business interests since Dec. 25, 1936, at one-third above world prices.Permitting Germany to pay for the American goods by dumping its exports in this country, Woll charged, “has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars in revenue to our government as well as the loss of job opportunities to many thousands of American workers.TO ASK RQADJMPROVEMENTHarting-ton Group to Call on Cochran.HARTINGTON, Neb. (JP). John Thiel en of the Harrington Lions club said 25 members will seek better highway facilities for Cedar county and Harrington at a conference with Gov. Cochran in Lincoln next Thursday. Proposed route changes on highways No. 15 .and 20, the latter a federal route, will be discussed, Thielen said.MAY CUT RELIEF.YORK, Neb. (UP). The county and state may be forced to restrict relief and assistance facilities of all kinds to lower levels during the next four or five months to make available funds extend over the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, Mrs. Camilla Kremer, York county sistance director, said in a gloomy report to the board of supervisors. Mrs. Kremer reported the case load increased from 371 to 200 families during January. From July 5, 1938 until Jan. 31, only three assignments were made to WPA projects. Since completion of the report, however, four WPA assignments have been made. During January the state and county spent $14,012.36 for assistance. York county’s share was $5,463.37.MEMBER YORK BOARD.YORK Neb. (UP). William F. McCormick, York business man, was named to the board of supervisors to represent the third ward of the city of York at the board's meeting Friday. He succeeds C. A. Keefe, democrat, who collapsed while attending a party caucus at the reorganization meeting January and died a few hours later. McCormick’s name was submitted to the board by petition. He was confirmed unanimously by th-other 19 members..
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
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Sun, Feb 05, 1939
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