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BALLINC3ER UNDER FIRE
'Hitchcock of Nebraska Mades Vigor
ous Attack In House.
Washington, Doc. 17. Chnrgtng
that "the real seat of. tho public land
t frauds Is In tho land office rather than
outside," Representative Hitchcock of
, Nebraska, addressing the house, de
clared the situation called fgr a con
Igresslonal luestlgntlon.
"My resolution to Investigate is be
fore the committee on rules," contin
ued Mr. Hitchcock, "hut there Is no
way to force tho committee to report."
Mr. Hitchcock attacked Secietary
Baltinger for his conduct In the Cun
ningham Alaska coal land cases and
held up as a martyr L. B. Glavis, who
was dismissed from the land office be
cause "he had shown too much zeal in
protecting the government against
frauds" Ho said he pitied the "help
less subordinate official who was
forced to choose between holding his
position in silence and cndangorlng It
by open protest against frauds en
trenched in power backed by lnflu
ence."
NEW BANK NOTE SWINDLE
Sleuths Discover Scheme by Which
Uncle Sam Is Defrauded.
St. Louis, Dec. 18. A scheme by
which $220 Is mado out of ten $20
bank notes has been called to the at
tention of local banks by tho St. Louis
officers of the federal scciet service.
The Scheme Is us follows: Ten
$20 bank notes are laid one on lop of
the other, with a quarter inch mar
gin of each note showing at one end.
All are then firmly held together and
by one stroke with scissors or a sharp
knife each note Is divided Into two
parts, one of which Is larger thnn the
other The pieces are then fitted to
gether to make a note n trifle less
than tho regulation size.
There remain nine complete bills,
and two portions of bills, each or
which Is moie than three-fifths of a
complete bill. The government re
deems at full value a mutilated bill
which Is three flftliB of Its proper size.
CLARK RAPS HOUSE MAJORITY
Says Important Resolutions Are Smoth
ered and Trivial Matters Pushed.
Washington, Dec. 17. When a house
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of the to make
an Investigation to ascertain what use
less papers were stored in the docu
ment rooms of tho house was reported
to the house, Representative Clark of
Missouri, the minority leader, demand
ed to know when action was to be
taken on Important resolutions.
"It seems easy enough," criticised
Mr. Clark, "to get a resolution report
ed for the disposal of worthless docu
ments, but when an effort Is made to
get action on sugar trust frauds to
see how much money has been stolen
from the government and who is mix
ed up In It, and for an inquiry Into
the general land office, some kind of a
smothering process goes on."
The worthless paper resolution va3
then adopted.
HUNT RUNS INTO OBSTACLE
Investigation Into Big Four Embez
zlement Checked.
Cincinnati, Dec. 18. Another ob
stacle has been encountered by Prose
cutor Hunt In his efforts to discoer
what became of the $G43,000 wltfch
was embezzled from the Big Fqur rail
road, for which embezzlement Charles
L. Warrlner, former local treasurer, is
at present in Jail under Indictment.
According to a statement given out
by the prosecutor, Henry Clews & Co.,
the New York brokers through whom
Warrlner claims to have lost vast
sums In speculation, hae refufaed to
allow their books to be examined by
him.
LODGEMEN IN MEETING
Representatives of A. O. U. W. Form
New Supreme Body.
Kansas City, Dae. 16. A meeting of
representatives of the Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Ar,lzona-New Mex
lea grand lodges of tho Ancient Order
of United Workmen at a meeting here
decided to form a new supremo lodge.
The meeting here la a culmination
of the division In the A. O. U. W
which resulted from tho effort of the
supreme lodge to control the benefit
funds of the various grand lodges.
WOOD TO BE ARMY CHIEF j
Secretary Dickinson Announces Choice
of Former Surgeon to Succeed Bell.
Washington, Dec. 1C Major Gon
eral Leonard Wood, now in command
of the Department of the East, will
be the next chief of staff of the army.
Secretary Dickinson made this an
nouncement. General Wood will suc
ceed General J. Franklin Bell, whose
term at the head of the general staff
will expire noxt spring
National League Fails to Elect.
New York, Dec, 17. No president of
the National I-eague of Baseball Clubs
was elected by the culb owners In
their Ave hour session In the Waldorf,
Only one ballot was taken. This re
sulted In four votes each for John M.
Ward and Robert W Brown
Hawaiian Judge Resigns.
Honolulu, Doc If! Arthur A. Wild
er, associate justice of the supreme
court of Hawaii, has cabled his resig
nation to President Taft and asked
for its immediate acceptance.
Cost of Chats is Thirty-four Lives.
Rolon. Doe 1C At Uiq close of
the big gome season it was found the
cost of the cluwo was thirty four H"os
Earthquake In Mexico.
Mexico Cltj. Doc. 17. Mexico was
sfcakra ky llJt earthquake.
COOK IKNMARK
Claim Mad3 Explorer is Visiting
at Ghristiansand.
DATA FAILS TO SATISFY DANES
Generally Believed In Copenhagen
That Report of University Commit
tee Will Be Against Cook's Claim,
on the Ground That Explorer's Polar
Records Do Not provide Basis for
Well Founded Scientific Judgment.
New York, Dec. 19. Intimate
friends of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who
aro on plus and ueedlos, as It wcro,
pending the decision on his data at
Copenhagen, said that in their boh t
Dr. Cook Is at the homo of friends jn
Christiansand, Norway, within easj
call of Copenhagen.
It is thought tl at Dr. Cc . left tt .
country -on tho steamer United SUU j, ,
which sailed on Thanksgiving t t (
Walter Lonsdalo, tho explorer's sent-1
tery, Is known to havo sailed on tho
essel.
Will Report Against Cook.
Copenhagen, Dec. 19. The genera)
belief Is held here that tho commis
sion having charge of tho Imestiga
tlon of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's polar
rocoids will report that Dr. Cooks
papeis do not provide a basis for any
well founded scientific judgment.
TO INDICT THREE SISTERS
Eccentric Relatives of Ocey Snead
Must Face Trial.
New York, Dec. 19. Three eccen
tric sisters Miss Virginia Wardlaw,
Mrs. Mary Snead arid Mrs. Cnrolino
W. Martin all charged with tire mur
der of Ocey Snead, whose emaciated
body was found In a bath tub at East
Orange, N. J., will bo Indicted by tho
Essex county (N. J.) grand Jury to
morrow, according to tho program
made out by the county authorities.
Immediately thereafter application
for tho extradition of Mrs. Snead and
Mrs Martin, now hold In the Tombs
here, will be made. It Js believed that
the two sisters In New York, on the
advice of counsel, will consent to go
to New Jersey for trial without a
legal battlo.
Prosecutor Mott of Essex county
says that he has positive evidence
that both Mrs. Snead and Mrs. Mar
tin were instrumental In. engaging the
house In which Ocey Snead died.
EAST ST. LOUIS CAR RUNS WILD
Negro Highwayman Shoots Motorman
and Conductor, Then Escapes.
East St. Louis, 111., Dec. 19. An un
controlled street car bearing a dead
motorman and n dying conductor ran
wild through four miles of city btreets
here. The men were shot by a rregro
highwayman, who escaped with a
small hum taken from tho conductor.
According to the few words spoken
by N. P. O'Brien, the conductor, who
Is desperately wounded, the negro
boarded tho car near Fireworks' hta
tlorr, in the southeastern part of tho
city. The conductor refused to obey
the highwayman's order to hold up
his hands and a struggle ensued.
E. V. Goody, the motorman, Is sup
posed to have started to O'Brien's as
sistance From the position of the
bodies In the rnr it Is Inferred that he
was shot dowrt while still some paces
from the negro.
WOULD LIFT BAN ON CATTLE
High Price of Meat Starts Cry for
American Beef In Germany.
Dresden, Dec. 17. Discussing the
Increased price of meat, a subject
raised in the second chamber by a
radical interpellation, Herr Koch, a
radical member, said that German ag
riculture, which was protected by high
tariffs, was unable to supply sufficient
beef to feed the population, which, as
a result, was underfed. Ho demanded
that the embargo on American and
Danish cattle be raised.
"CORPSE" HALTS FUNERAL
Wakes Up In Time to Tell Undertaker
He Is Feeling Better.
Terre Haute, lnd., Dec. 17. Ed
ward Murphy, 125 Park street, ap
parently Is on the road to recovory,
although his relatives had expected a
funeral. He had been seiio sly 111 for
some time and the nurse announced
he was dead. An undertaker was
called and was preparing the body for
burial when Murphy raised up and
announced that he felt much better.
Brokaw Divorce Case.
New York, Dec 19. This week may
see the Brokaw vs. Brokaw case com
pleted and It may not, was the In
definite statement of counsel Jn Mrs.
Mary Blair Brokaw's suit for a separa
tion from her husband, W, Gould Bro
kaw. If Mr. Brokaw takes the stand
the taso Is likely to be further drawn
out, as Attorney Baldwin has Indicat
ed that he will birbjoct the defendant
to a longth cross-oxarniiratlon If ho
gets the chance,
Mae Wood Gets Ball.
New York. Dec 17. Mae C. Wood
of Omaha, char god witlr perjury and
forgerj In connection with a su.lt for
divorce which she brought against
Thomas C PJatt. was released from
the Tombs tinder $1,000 ball
Manufactory of Explosives Explodes.
Naples. Dec 19. A manufactory of
explosive exploded near Cugortn, five
persons bng kilted ami five injured.
THOUSANDS AT LEOPOLDS BIEP
Remains of King of Belgians Lie Ir
Rtato In Palace.
Brussels, Dec. 19. Tho body ol
King Leopold lay in stnto iu tho roya.
palaco while thousands, who had pa
tlently waited their turn to be admit
ted, filed In boforo tho catafnlquo one
paid homago to their lato sovereign
In the presence of Prlnco Albert
and the officers and dignitaries of the
court and government, tho coftlu had
PRINCF ALBERT O FLANDERS
been bono to the mortuary chamber
while priests chanted the Mlsererr
and a proi esslorr of nuns, with bendec
heads, tolled the rosar for the ljug
Passing rrp tiro broad marble stair
case, embanked with ningntflcen
floral pieces and across tho vast re
ceptlon lrnll, those who had come tt
the palace found themselves In a room
of state, the draperies of which were
black with Bllver fringe.
Tire mahogany casket, In which tire
king lay, was half draped with the
colors of the Grenadier regiment nnd
surmounted by his daughters' flora1
wreaths. It waB guarded on either side
by three officers, Jn uniforms glitter
lrg with gold and swords brought up
to the royal salute. In front of the
coffin wero kneeling nuns and priests
For three hours the stream of people
passed through the palace, witnesses
of the Impresshe scene.
The Belgian episcopate issued a
pastoral letter eulogizing King Leo
pold as tho apostle of peace and Jus
tko, the glorifler of tho Catholic faith
and the promotor of Christian clvlllza
tlon, through the founding nnd dovel
opment of tho Congo Independent
stnte.
On Ihe other hand, the general so
clall8t organization has Issued a proc
lamatlon In fnvor of a republic and
condemning Leopold for Imposing up
on tko country the costly burden ol
the Congo. Tho proclamation adds
that the socialists decline to swear
allegiance to Albert, who as mon
arch is bound "to represent the op
presslon of those who labor by those
who fatten on the fruits of labor "
Princess Louise, who hns com
merrced an active legal battle for the
estates of King Leopold, nnd Baronena
Vaughan, havo not ot arrived hero.
FINAL CROP ESTIMATES
Year's Corn Yield Is 2,772,376,000
Bushels and Wheat 737,189,000.
Washington, Dec. 1G. The crop re
porting board of the department ol
agriculture estimates tho average
weight per measured bushel of varloui:
vrops to be as follows:
Spring wheat, 57.1 pounds; winter
wheat, o&.4 pounds, arrd oats, 32.7
pounds, against 57.3, 58.8 nnd 29 !s
pounds respectively last jear. The
quulity of corn Is 84.2 per cent,
against 8C.fi last year.
The iinal estimate Indlcateh the
acreage and production of important
farm crops or the United Slates In
1909 and 1908, to hno been as fol
lows: Acreag Production
acres bushels.
Corn 1909 108,771.000 2 772,376,000
Corn 1908
W'r wheat
W'r wheat
S'g wheat
S'g heat
All wheat
A'! wheat
Oats 1909.
i"J r 1908.
.:3hel6
101.788,000
09. 28,330,000
'08. 30,349,000
'09.. 18,393,000
'08.. 17,208,000
1909 4G.723.000
1908 47,557,000
32.204,000
.... 32,314,000
: of vclsht.
2,CC8,C51,OO0
44G.3GC.00l
437,108,000
290.823.00C
22G.694.00C
737,189,000
CG4,C02,00C
1,007,053,001
807.15G.OOC
ARBUCKLES PAY UP
Shortage of Nearly $700,000 In Duty
Payments on Sugar.
New Yorlc, Dec 1G. Assistant At
tomey General Stlmson announced afc
a result of a federal Investigation as
to weights on which duties were paid
on sugar landed here by the Arbuckle
Brothers, sugar refiners, It was ascer
talncd there had been a shortage Jn
duty payments by that firm amounting
to $095,573. Mr. Stlmson stated tlris
sum I 1 boon repaid in cash to the
United States treasury by the Ar
buckle Brothers.
STARTS ANTITRUST CASF
Topeka Fruit, Produce and Commis
sion Men Face Charge.
Topeka, Dec. 17. On complaint ol
Attorney General Jackson, all the
fruit, prodrrce and commission men ol
Topeka were arrested, charged with,
being members of the Topoka Produce
and Krult exchange, nnd violating the
anti-trust laws of tho slate t is al
loged that tho organization has for Its
purpose control of the price of food
Cardinal Satolll Is III.
Rome, Dc. 19 Cardinal Satolli
ua. suffered a rolapaa from nephritis
Extreme weakness lias bmtn marked
and he Is otten dbllHous. The 'doctors
far h fatal Issue.
BAYARD ITEMS.
J II. Jackson wns in Bridgeport
Tuesday.
Mr. anil Mrs. Couovcr spent Tries
da in Bridgeport.
Will Waitman of Morrill is spending
a few days In town.
Miss Lera Kcmctidcr spent tho week
in town visiting friends.
John Adams was visiting; friends in
town the last of tire week.
Tire new seats arc being placed in
tiro M. E. church this week.
W. F. Taylor of Minatarc wns down
ircre on a business trip Saturday.
Mrs. V. E. Covington is iu Laramie,
Wvo., tlris week visiting relatives.
Tire Ladies' Aid society Kavo ft ,nf
and oyster supper Saturday, the trtli.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lcytlrum left
Monday to visit nt points iu central
Nebraska and Iowa.
Mrs. E. F. Kclloy and little (laugh,
tcr, Helen, lenvo on Thursday to spend
Christmas with friends at Osceola.
Mrss Lena Relrrr was obliged to rivo
up Iter school on account of sickness
and return to her home iu eastern Ne
braska. Miss Grace Lipska of Alliauco and
Miss Lucll.1 Lipska of Sidney arc
spending the holiday vacation witlr
Mrs. Hcntou.
On Sunday, Dec. 12, at tho homo of
Mr. arrd Mrs. R. Flower, occurred tho
wedding of their daughter, Miss Mar
ion, to R. V. Wnllace. Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace left Tuesday for their homo in
Hflle Forques, S. D.
Mexican Hot Tamales
Finest that can be made, for sale by
George Muslii, itr Sweetwater Ave.
Delivered promptly to any part of tiro
city. Family trade a specialty. Phone
No. 458
Big Price for Cream
The Alliance Creamery is paying 30
cents for cream. 3t-tf
W. F. ROSENKRANZ
Practical Blacksmithing and Wagon
Work. Horseshoeing a Specialty
Shop on Dakota SI, between Box Butte and
Laramie Avenues, Alliance, Neb.
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The Old Reliable
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In order to make room for new goods will make special
prices on
Buggies, Spring and Farm Wagons
Agent for tho well known Dccring Hay Tools and Harvesters and J. I,
Case Thicshiug Machines.
In HARNESS My motto: "How Good; Not, How Cheap."
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Household goods
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