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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1911
Page
7
Notice advertises three high quality Percheron stallions weighing 1800 to 2000 lbs. Claims they are superior breeders and will improve farm and draft horse stock. Notes strong demand for improved horses in the region.
Two jacks described as large well bred good performers and sure breeders are mentioned along with personal notes. The text lists characteristics and ownership context without specific dates places or organizations.
Three registered Jennets offered for sale. One carries a young jack sired by Jumbo the large Mammoth Jack. Prospective buyers are invited to inspect the stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Four men were overcome by gasoline fumes in a Burlington pump house at Benkelman while warming themselves near the exhaust. Two are dead Francis P. Amores and Oscar Schmidt. Edward Hogan and Charles Wright, railroad men from Council Bluffs, are seriously ill. Schmidt was a Spanish American War soldier honored in discharge at Santiago. Amores belonged to a wild west show.
At Crete a 400-strong mass meeting at the Presbyterian church urged full punishment for men blamed for ill treatment of young women. Rev Harry F. Huntington of the Methodist church led the gathering which adopted resolutions condemning alleged orgies on December 4.
Floyd Hays of Table Rock has been missing since Friday. A note addressed to his wife requests selling belongings to pay debts and warns she will never see or hear from him again, suggesting a possible voluntary disappearance.
Deputy Commissioner Guye reports Nebraska’s 1911 apple crop totals 9,925,889 bushels from 68,725 acres of orchards with 3,426,125 bearing trees. Cherries number 968,464 trees at 1268 quarts per tree valued at 860,058 dollars, mainly in the southeastern region, as part of a new fruit bulletin detailing growing progress.
Arthur Knapp nineteen was killed when a flax slide dragged him into an elevator bin while he tried to clear a clogged chute. His body was recovered after several hours.
Four men Frank Johnson Thomas Nash T E Hayes and Patrick Hogan were arrested at Fairbury Neb brought to Lincoln for a U S commissioner hearing on charges of cutting open a United States mail bag. They pleaded not guilty and were bound over in $1000 each to await trial. No significant loot was disclosed.
Commissioner Cowles of the board of public lands and buildings announced that Nebraska spends 63 cents per day for each of the 4,000 inmates in state institutions. The figure excludes permanent improvement costs.
John T. Boone Jr., a Daniel Boone descendant, obtained a divorce in Clayton Missouri from Ethel Edwards Boone, a great great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Boone testified his wife claimed her family tree was superior, rating Jefferson as a more distinguished ancestor.
Luther Burbank told the California Fruit Growers Association that spineless cactus leaves can produce paint and that he is negotiating with a major paint company to supply cactus leaves. He said the plant’s fiber could substitute rubber in tires and wood pulp in paper, with one leaf yielding ten gallons of paint. The cactus mucilage resists water but dissolves in alcohol and can remove colors.
A report tied to a bitter cold day at Boynton Oklahoma rail station reveals J. M. Jackson and his wife are parents to thirteen children born in three years. Their fourteenth child, a son, is now sixteen. Over five years the family expanded with twins five, then triplets, followed by five more children in one day. The last five survive though the family health suffered from the station’s lack of warmth.
The Washington Star urges letting a troublesome man be as it notes dispassion toward a figure who exacerbates daily discomfort. The verse praises enjoying outdoor games and dishes while avoiding confrontation, referencing the UT and general weariness with provocation.
Otto C. Swarts a Burlington switchman aged 34 was hunting rabbits with three companions near Emerald when his shotgun fell and discharged, destroying part of his head. He was unmarried and had worked for Burlington about three years.
In Berlin an outbreak of poisoning in the municipal shelter for the homeless killed eighteen inmates and left many more ill. The 4,414 men sheltered that night had brought scraps of extra food, including spoiled smoked herring, which caused the disaster. Authorities and physicians responded with emetics and hospital aid.
Imperial court members signal willingness to abdicate to Premier Yuan Shi Kai as a referendum on government form looms. Yuan heads a plan for a carefully elected assembly while republicans at Shanghai peace conference resist. He believes he could win battles with his modern army but lacks loans to reconquer lost provinces.
E G Lewis promoter and publisher reindicted by the federal grand jury in St. Louis on using the mails to defraud. New indictments in the twin Insurance cases relate to Continental Assurance and International Fire Insurance involving former congressman Harry M Coudrey and officers including Harry B Gardner. Indictments against Lewis and eight defendants were previously dismissed on a technical ground. witnesses have been reheard since.
Teheran December 28 W Morgan Shuster the American treasurer-general of Persia says he will hand over his accounts when a successor is named He expresses concern for the welfare of his fourteen American assistants and notes no action has been taken yet Protests were held in several mosques against the government’s move
Mexico City reports General Bernardo Reyes who surrendered to authorities will be placed in the political prisoners section of the federal district penitentiary. The interior minister notified General Geronimo Trevino in Monterey. A rurales escort and safe conduct to Mexico City are planned for Reyes.
Records at Ellis Island show nearly 300000 fewer immigrants landed there this year than in the same period of 1910 marking one of the worst slumps in immigration to New York.
St Petersburg dispatch reports the Russian consul general in Tabriz denying charges of murder and outrage leveled by Persian authorities against Russian troops. The cable to the Russian foreign office asserts the accusations are untrue.
Miss Janesta Clark spoke on The Kindergarten at the Lexington Teacher's Association meeting on December 11. She argued the kindergarten ties home and school, fosters a broad outlook, and builds a joyful, memory-rich early education that benefits future high school graduates and the community. The piece reflects on home-like classrooms, early discipline, and the lifelong quest toward educational ideals.
Joseph M. Huw ton, architect of the new state capitol, was released on parole after six months and twenty one days in the Philadelphia penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud in the project.
Doan's Kidney Pills claim relief for kidney weakness across ages from children to men and women. Mrs John Lipeka of Sidney Nebraska testifies the remedy aided her daughter with backache and spinal stiffness, praising its effectiveness and urging ease of access through local dealers. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo NY markets the product as the sole US agent under the Donn a name.
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