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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1904
Page
2
Fremont reports more youths smoking cigars while Omaha pushes civic improvements. Beatrice plans a May race, and a large Beatrice Hastings Beatrice banking move forward. Norfolk seeks a Nebraska National Bank and Broken Bow funds a 3000 foot well for oil or minerals. Davis City merchant fails, surveyors map a railroad route, and state officials urge Arbor Day observances.
A St Petersburg dispatch notes heightened vigilance to prevent war news leaking abroad as land operations near. An Associated press correspondent reports troops flooding Harbin area, with rail stations turned into barracks and cities swelling as soldiers crowd in.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the anthracite coal case against Baird, reversing the New York Southern District ruling. Hearst of New York had alleged railroad discrimination affecting Pennsylvania coal mines. Some witnesses refused to produce contracts, a stance upheld by the New York circuit, but the high court ordered these contracts to be supplied by Justice Day.
During rapid questioning, opponents of the Desert Land laws reveal that George H. Maxwell says railroads including Great Northern Northern Pacific Southern Pacific Santa Fe Union Pacific contribute about 6000 dollars annually each to a fund for the National Irrigation Association. The Rock Island gives 3000 dollars yearly. total contributions may reach 50000 dollars yearly. Funds disbursed by Maxwell support irrigation education and act passage.
Johansen family mourns after 20 year old Johansen is accidentally shot and killed while unloading a gun in a wagon near Osceola Nebraska. The shotgun fired as he attempted to remove it, tearing through his mouth and destroying the top of his head.
A blaze consumed the Blackburn Merchandise Co stock worth 18 000 dollars and the Mitchell Neb building, with insurance totaling 12 000 dollars. The loss includes about 2 490 dollars for the building. A few items, including an automobile used on a stage route and several vehicles, were saved from the back of the structure.
In Nebraska City county stockmen organize the Otoe County Stockmen's Association with C J Mullis as president H S Baker treasurer and George Easley secretary. They plan county canvassing to form similar groups across the state to boost cattle feeders and improve cattle shipping transport. A state association is hoped to emerge from county groups and data on shipment volumes will aid large feeders.
Teachers from across southwestern Nebraska gathered in McCook for a district meeting of the Nebraska Teachers' Association. About 260 educators heard speeches by Miss Caldwis Lincoln High School Inspector Crabtree State Superintendent McBrien and others.
The Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling in People's Gas Co. of Chicago v City of Chicago. The dispute challenged Chicago's ordinance setting a rate of 95 cents per thousand cubic feet of gas. The U.S. Circuit Court dismissal was upheld, sustaining the ordinance validity.
The Nebraska Oxford examinations for the 1904 Rhodes Scholarship will be held at the University of Nebraska on April 13 and 14 in University Hall. Candidates must report to the registrar and bring no text beyond the necessary stationery. The committee members include E Ben Andrews, COOK, FLOW COX, LPO Bush, and others from Cotner University.
Candidates for the Kearney Normal School superintendent post include Professor Clark M. Young of South Dakota University Vermilion who has applied and forwarded credentials. President Rogers, Professor Young, and Superintendent Fowler are the only officially announced candidates. Professor J W Crabtree is alleged to be a candidate.
The country home of the late Senator Charles Ho Van Wyck eight miles northwest of Nebraska City burned to the ground with contents. Built at nearly 16000 with only 2200 insured. Loss on the contents 2000 with no insurance. property owned by the senator's daughter who now lives in New York City.
United States minister Herbert G. Squiers says Cuba enjoys peace and stability as war hardships fade. Since the reciprocity treaty with the United States, commercial and trade conditions have advanced rapidly, with bond sales boosting ready money for Cuban planters to improve plantations and buy livestock.
Kan ss City Mexico Orient Railroad president A Stilwell reports securing large stock subscriptions in New York. E Dickinson and Stilwell travel to New York to coordinate. Track laying restarts south of Fairview Oklahoma Territory and grading between Wichita and Emporia Kansas. Construction expands east to Chihuahua and El Fuerte in Mexico with Kansas City terminal facilities to begin this summer and aims for Wichita to Osage City line by October 1.
Captain Scott of the British Antarctic steamer Discovery has reached Hyttleton New Zealand within five hundred miles of the South Pole and completed a two and a half year expedition with only one life lost. The News reports his narrative to the London Daily Mail whetting scientific interest as officials await fuller results from the Royal Geographical Society briefing.
The case of William J. Bryan appeals a superior court verdict in Philo S. Bennett will matter. A sealed letter directed Mrs. Bennett to transfer 50 000 from the estate to Bryan. Henry G. Newton says the appeal will be pursued to the last court and asserts the matter is not Bryan's personal interest.
Governor Mickey tightens cattle dip rules to lime and sulfur for diseased stock while allowing other dips with state approval. Officials urge lime sulfur standard. concerns over proprietary remedies rise as federal order enforces dipping before shipment to public yards. Penalties include fines up to 1090 dollars and possible imprisonment.
Department of Commerce inspectors, sent by Secretary Cortelyou, probe alleged beef trust and price margins between beef cattle and fresh beef. From St Louis they will visit Chicago Kansas City St Joseph and likely Omaha to assess corporate structure capitalization management and profits behind any cartel.
Emma Watson of Portland is arrested by federal agents in Chicago on land swindle charges. She is linked to a gang defrauding the government of large sums of lands, with accomplices including S. A. Puter, Marc Ware, and Horace S. McKinley who were named in an April 1903 Portland indictment.
The Pawnee county commissioners Messrs Hurd Harrist and Laird with county attorney J B Raper inspected the Johnson county courthouse at Tecumseh to gather cost and voting bond information. They toured to inform constituents about plans for a new Pawnee county courthouse.
Iowa miners organize a secret co operative coal company with $20,000 capital to open coal yards at Des Moines and beyond. They aim to lower coal prices they allege operators raised hikes by claiming scarcity to shut production.
A Minot, North Dakota report to the St Paul Pioneer Press notes heavy cattle losses from a recent blizzard. Several owners report entire herds lost as hundreds die daily from starvation. Melting snow brought some relief, but cattle remain too weak to graze and about a quarter of ranges’ cattle may perish.
J W Abrahams a 38 year old brakeman for James Sullivan on the Union Pacific railway was instantly killed at Kimball Nebraska. He was on a fast freight east when the train broke in two. He attempted to shut off air from a car and was crushed by the back slack, his abdomen and left side severely damaged. The body was taken to Sidney and embalmed then brought to his Cheyenne home.
A Philadelphia area note recounts Chas Bierbach of 2625 Chestnut St, Eric, Pa, praising Dean's Kidney Pills for curing prolonged kidney trouble and back pain after doctors failed. The ad promises a free trial by mail and lists Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo NY, as supplier, with price 50 cents per box.
A collage of old ad copy and quips praising tonics and tonics like Laxative Bromo Quinine, Piso’s Cure, Defiance Starch, and Putnam dyes. It includes anecdotes about etiquette, education as escape, teething syrups, and social observations from era era marketing and daily life.
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