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Nebraska Advertiser
W. W. SANDERS, Prop.
NEMAHA, - - - 'NEBRASKA
TJio Hocrot of ImppInesH and buccos
is cotiBtnnt work.
There Is no trouble getting along
with n woman If you let her have her
own way
Japan says 11 IsTTor peace, and to
prove It launchcn the blggeBt warship
ever.
Come to think of It, almost every
body has a cat, a dog, a bird, or a
baby nnmcd Teddy.
Do your, tank with cheerfulness nnd
tho master mechanic or proprietor
will see to your promotion.
It Is said that Lake Erlo produces
moro flHh to the squaro mile than any
other body of water In the world.
Thero is an old saying that in Eng
land tho wlfo 1b tho queen, In Franco
the companion, In Gormany tho house
keeper, In Italy tho slave.
Already six Carnoglo hero medals
have beon found In tho pawn shops.
Which meroly goes to show that oven
heroes at times suffer from thirst and
hunger.
There aro moro fences to a farm in
Ireland than in any other country In
the world. So many of them nro wide
turf affairs that much go5d land Is
wasted.
Here Is a woman who has actually
given up $10,000,000 for a husband,
and yet there are husbands who
grudge giving up ten dollars occa
sionally to their wives.
The hiss of the snake, the laugh of
tho hyena, tho bray of the ass, the
growl of the bear, the grunt of tho
hog, tho bark of the "wolf and tho roar
of tho Hon aro duplicated In tho so
called lordly man.
Maybo Wellman will find wator at
the north pole, in accordance with his
expectations, when he gets thero, but
we venture to say that it will bo in
solid blocks that ho will have to melt,
'if he wants to utilize It for navigating
purposes.
f Hawaiians are talking of tapping
a volcano there and using ttto lava to
build a needed breakwater. Nature
may do things from the grandeur
standpoint, but man is beginning to
seo tho business end in her awo-in
"spiring sublimity.
For many years now the people of
Putney, near London, have been ac
customed to see Mr. Swinburno leave
his home, The Pines, at the same hour
every day for his "constitutional."
Ho returns from his walk the same
time every day. So punctual Is ho in
leaving his residenco and returning to,
It .that watches might be set by him.
The poet's walk is always to the samo
spot on tho heath.
The editor of the Museum Gazette
of London has made an attempt to
'estimate the Jength of time man has
Inhabited Great Britain. He allows
250,000 years. The period seems
long, but .the tendency of late has
been to extend it, so that the historic
period of Borne 2,000 years in Britain
is a small fraction of man's existence
here, as the whole human epoch is a
small fraction of the world's history.
Two German aeronauts have accom
plished the feat of traveling from Ber
lin to Leicestershire in England by
balloon, a distance of 812 miles, in
Just 19 hours. This recalls the world's
balloon long-dlBtance record of 1250
- miles achieved by Count do la Vaulx
In 1900 in a journey from Paris to
Kieff, in Russia, but it doesn't make
It sure that Walter Wolman will reach
the pole.
A good many housekeepers will bo
interested in the fact that Franklin
Square house since it opened a little
Jess, than five years ago has accom
modated 11,462 young womon, to
whom have been served approximate
ly 1,680,000 meals; alBo in the state
ment that the meals to all permanent
.residents have cost a trifle moro than
14 cents each. To furnish good meals
at that price under present condi
tions, says Boston Globe, requires
good management.
Europe sometimes overwhelms her
American child with blessings. One
week's shower of English periodicals
contains the declarations that the
American army is tho most intelligent,
highly trained and best equipped in
the world, and that the American
woman is better read and more cul
tivated than the English woman of
corresponding class, These things are
pleasant to read, but it will be well
to offset them with the warning of a
'German critic who has lived among
us, that the prevailing culture of our
men is very low, that we leave the
iga and fine things of life too much
to ur women.
DEADLOCK BROKEN.
Wisconsin Republicans Select Stephen
son As Senator to Succeed Spooner
A Friend of LaFollette's.
Milwaukee, Wis. The WteconBln
senatorial deadlock wob broken Thurs
day night by tho nomination on tho
first ballot of the republican caucus
of Former Congressman Isaac Stoph
enson of Marinette. The result was
accompanied by tho breaking up of
tho opposition, which, when tho nntl
Stephenson men realized that they
wcro beaten, returned to their former
favorites, Esch and Hatten, and tho
final result was announced ob fol
lows: Stephenson 54; Esch 23; Hatten 19;
Scattering 3.
Tho ballot was the end of a dead
lock existing Blnce April 1C. Since
that time a dally ballot has been
taken In tho legislature In joint ses
sion and nearly 80 ballots have been
taken in the republican caucus. Thero
wero originally five candidates but
Congressman Goopor and Former
Speaker Lehroot withdrew a week
ago leaving Esch, Hatten and Steph
enson In the field.
The new senator has long been an
adherent of Senator La Folletto.
PIERCE MUST GO TO TEXAS.
Judge Adams Decides He 8hall Stand
Trial There On An Indictment
Charging Perjury.
St. Louis, Mo. In tho circuit
court of tho United States for the
castorn division of the Eastern dis
trict of Missouri Judge Adams Wed
nesday denied tho application of H.
Clny Pierce, chairman of the board
of tho Waters-Pierce Oil company,
for a writ of hnvcas corpus and or
dered that the petitioner be remanded
to the custody of the chief of police
to be delivered to Sheriff George S.
Mathews, of Travis county, Texas,
for extradition. Pierce Is wanted In
Texas In answer to an Indictment
charging perjury In an affidavit
made by him in May, 1900, to the ef
fect that the Waters-Pierce Oil com
pany was no a party to any pool,
trust, confederation or commission in
restraint of trade.
The Franco-Japanese Agreement.
St. Petersburg. Tho Paris corres
pondent of the Russ in a dispatch pub
lished Friday announced that he had
obtained information from authentic
sources to the effect that the Franco
Japanese agreement now in course of
negotiation will contain secret, condi
tions applying to the eventuality of
a European war and binding Japan to
place at the disposal of France 300,
000 men, while the British will land
a contingent of 100,000 to 150,000 men.
Great Britain and France, It Is added,
not only guarantee the inviolability
of Japanese territory but also engage
to float several loans.
That Russian Plot.
St. Petersburg. The failure of the
government to Isbuo a. statement of
tho facts in the matter of the plot
against the life of Emperor Nicholas,
which came to light at Tsarskoe Selo
two days ago, coupled with the am
biguous attitude of certain high offi
cials, has served to Increase the con
fusion of the public and given tIbo to
a persistent expression of the theory
that the government has to deal with
a reaotionary plot against the emper
or which contemplated the proclama
tion of a regency or dictatorship.
Saw the Shooting at Brownsville.
Waslngton. Direct testimony
connecting negro soldiers with the
Bhootlng affray nt Brownsville, Toxas,
on the night of August 13 last, was
given Wednesday before the senate
committee on military affairs. Three
witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Randall and Joso Martinez testified
to seeing or hearing spldlors leave
tho post during tho shooting and
Martinez testified thnt ho saw the
men shooting.
Bonaparte to Pass on Constitution.
Washington, D. G. Attornoy Gen
oral Bonaparte Friday received
from tho Oklahoma authorities an
official copy of the constitution re
cently adopted by tho statehood con
stitutional convention. It is under
stood that the president will ask the
attornoy general for his opinion upon
n number of legal questions involved
therein.
Abandons the Boat Line.
St. Louis, Captain T. B. Sims, who
had planned to reestablish Missouri
river trade by boats, Thursday an
nounced that he had abandoned his
efforts in that direction. He gave as
a reason the lack of support yfrom
St. Louis and Kansas City shippers.
Too Much Like a Trust:
St. Paul. Secretary of State
Schmall Friday formally denied to the
Minnesota Retail Lumber. Dealers'
association the right to . incorpora
te on the grounds that its articles of
incorporation are in conflict with th
state anti-trust laws.
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A SCENE IN THE
END OF THE GREEN BUGS
Agricultural Department Announces
Their Practical Extermination.
The Bureau of Entymology Has As
sisted in Sending Out Parasites
To Do the Work.
Washington. It was unnounced by
the-agricultural department Tuesdoy
that the green bugs, or spring grain
apis, which has done so much dam
age to wheat and other small grain
in Texas and Oklahoma and in a few
of the southern counties of Kansas,
already is practically exterminated by
Us natural parasite, a very minute
black fly. in Teaxs and Oklahoma
the bug has practically disappeared
through the action of the parasite and
a report from Southern Kansas re
ceived by the department Tuesday
states that at least fifty per cent of
the bugs now are parasitized in all
the Infested fields in that section.
The report adds that if the favor
able weather continues through the
present week the bug will have been
absolutely exterminated.
"Millions of parasites," continues
the report, "are coming out In every
wheat field and tho green bug has
been overtaken and controlled by Its
natural enemy and there seems to be
little If any fear of further damage."
Th bureau of entymology of the
agricultural department has aided the
work by sending hundreds of thous
ands of the parasites from Oklahoma
and Texas into Kansas. Three agents
of the bureau now are in the field di
recting the onslaught on the bug.
The weather conditions this spring
have been favorable to the multipli
cation of the bug, which becomes a
serious pest only unaer such condi
tions. The parasites, too, multiply
only under favorable weather condi
tions, but they soon exterminate their
enemy.
One San Francisco Road Yields.
San Francisco, Calif. The Geary
street road has granted the demands
of the striking carmen nnd will resume
operations Thursday morning on a ba
sis of $3 for an eight hour day. Tho
board of supervisors notified the offi
cials of this line" Monday that unless
the company starts its cars the city
would take over the road and operate
it. The line runs from the junction of
Geary, Kearney and Market streets to
Golden Gate Park.
Dr, Klopsch is Decorated.
New York. The decoration of tho
Odor of tho Morning Sun was Wed
nesday conferred upon Dr. Louis
Klopsch, editor of the Christian
Herald, by Baron Takewo Ozawa,
personal envoy of tho Emperor of
Japan, in recognition of the doctor's
.work In rolievlng famine Batterers
in Japan last year. More than a
quarter of a million dollar? was rais
ed by tho Christian .Herald for the
purpose.
Oklahoma Will Ask Bonaparte.
Washington, D. C, Oklahoma re
publicans will appeal to Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte to Interpret the elec
tion ordlnanco of the new state con-,
stitution as a last hope of finding
some legal way of calling an election
for August or September .With this
purpose u committee left Guthrie
Wednesday night for Washington, ac
cording to telegraphic advices.
Corey Dodyeg the Hoodoo.
New York. In order to escape
the unlucky thirteenth of the month
Monday, William Ellis Corey, presi
dent of the United 'States Steel Cor
poration and Mabelle Oilman, the for
mer actress were not married until
after midnight Tuesday morning.
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RUEF PLEADS GUILTY.
Dethroned Political Boss of San Fran
cisco Throws Himself on the
Mercy of the Court.
San Francisco, Calif. Abraham
Ruef, better known as Abe Ruef, the
asknowledged advisor of Mayor
Schmitz and once the recognized dicta
tor of municipal affairs In San Fran
cisco, pleaded guilty to the charge
of extortion In Judge Dunne's depart
ment of the superior court Wednes
day,. Sentence will be announced up
on him two weeks hence.
After .a private conference with hlB
four attorneys in Judge Dunne's pri
vate chambers Wednesday forenoon,
and after they had withdrawn from
his case because of the resolution he
had taken to change his plea nnd avoid
trial, Ruef, to the utter astonishment
of the prosecution, arose in court and
announced in a dramatic address,
that after long and earnest considera
tion he had determined to withdraw
his plea of not guilty nnd enter a plea
of guilty. He asked that the jury be
dismissed and the trial abandoned.
WHEAT KEEPS SOARING.
Options for July, September and De
cember all Pass the Dollar Mark
May Reach $1.25.
Chicago. Wheat options for July,
September and December all fled up
past the dollar mark Friday and stuck
there to the close, with the pit in a
condition which a local newspaper
describes as "brain storm." Erst
while mythical dollur wheat being a
reality prophesy took on new enthus
iasm nnd talked of $1.25 wheat. It
was this sort of talk, coupled with re
iterations of previous short crop pre
dictions that brought a flood of buy
ing orders Into the market Friday
and set a new record for the volume
of business done.
News from California was surpris
ing. Ordinarily that state is a good
wheat producer. Friday California
bought half a million of real wheat to
be delivered at her granaries aud
predictions from that state were that
California would need close to ten
millions of bushels ere long.
A Very Humble Preacher.
New York. Rev. John L. Clark,
pastor of the Bushwlck Avenue Con
gregational church, Brooklyn, who re
cently officiated at the marriage In
this city of W. E. Corey, president of
the United States Steel corporation
and Miss Mabolle Gllraan, submitted
to the credentials committee of the
church at a meeting Thursday night a
letter in which the minister begged
forgiveness for having performed tho
marriage ceremony in question. Inthe
letter Dr. Clark said he realized that
ho had done a great wrong to tho con
gregation of his church and to the
church conception of the marriage re
lation In marrying a divorced person,
and ho said he would humbly receive
whatever censure the committee
might impose. .
No Surrender for Them.
Dickson. Tenn. The seventy-seventh
session of tho general assembly
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church Friday elected Rev. A. N. Ess
man president of Radnor college,
Nashville, as moderator. General J.
F. Fussoll, of Tennessee, who pre
sented the now modorator wltf.i a
gavel made from wood of a tree which
stood in the old McAdow yard ex
pressed tho hope that tho new moder
ator would not be stopped in his duty
by Injunction nor threatened by im
prisonment. Dr. Essmnn In his reply
declared that it was weakness which
caused the leaders to make a
"coward" surrender of the church to
another denomination.
PAID FINE FOR REBATING
ChicagOf Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail
way Company Pleads Guilty
Court Assessed the Penalty at $20,000
Which Was At Once Paid by
Its Attorney.
New York. The Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul Railway company,
through its general counsel, Charles
B. Keoler, of Chicago, pleaded guilty
before Judge Holt In the United States
court Thursday on two indictments
recently returned against the road
for the granting of rebates In viola
tion of the Elklns antl-rebatlng law.
The court assessed a fine of $10,000
on each count pleaded to, or $20,000
In all, which Attorney Kcelor paid.
The grand Jury returned fifteen in
dictments against the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul, Charging the
granting of rebates on coffee ship
ments in favor of the Woolsou Spice
company, nn Ohio corporation, on
Western shipments from New York to
Toledo. After a consultation with Unit
ed Stntos Attorney Stimson and his as
sistants who have been prosecuting
the rebate cases, Mr. Keeler arranged
to plead guilty to two of the indict
ments with tho understanding that the
remaining counts-be dismissed.
It Is understood that the Northern
Pacific, the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, the New York, Ontario &
Western railroads, 'and tho Western
Transit company all named in the re
cently returned indictments for re
bating and which Have already enter
ed pleas of not guilty will go into
court and stand on the charges.
OUSTED AN ICE TRUST.
Charter of One Kansas City Co.r.pany
Revoked and Fines Aggregating
$32,500 Imposed...
Kansas City, Mo. The charter ot
the People's Ice, Storage and Fuel
company was revoked Tuesday morn
ing by Judge Walter A. Powell In In
dependence and the concern prohibit
ed from doing business in the state
of Missouri. In addition a fine of
$15,000 was imposed.
The Central Ice company was fined
$8,000, the Kansas City Brewers' com
pany $5,000 and the Vanderslice
Lynds Ice company $4,500.
These are the penalties for viola
tion of the Missouri anti-trust law in
the case of the Ice trust.
The costs of the case are to be as
sessed equally upon the four defend
ants. If the three other companies
do not pay their fines and otherwise
comply with the orders of the court
within 15 days their charters will also
be forfeited.
Judge Powell dismissed the cases
against the other four respondents in
the suit against the Ice trust.
Kuroki'? Tributs to Grant.
New York. General Grant and
staff paid an official call upon General
Kuroki Friday. Through an inter
preter, General Kuroki said to
General Grant: "In 1871, when your
illustrious father visited Tokio on his
tour of the world, I, as the colonel of
the Japanese regiment, was one of
his escort of honor. I am delighted
at the opportunity of conveying to his
son my belief that General U. S. Grant
was one of the finest military men
the world ever produced. Every .school
boy in Japan is taught something
about him aiyl his work in war and in
peace."
Oil Suits Go to Trial in Texas.
Austin, Texas. Judge Brooks,
of the state district court assembled
here Friday, overruled the motion for
a change of venue as made by the de
fence in the case of the state of Tex
as versus tho Waters-Pierce Oil com
pany on trial for violating the anti
trust laws ot the state. The entire
morning session was devoted to argu-,
ments. After the .motion for a change
of venue was overruled both sides an
nounced ready for , trial and pending
tho empaneling of a jury court was
adjourned until Monday.
Japanaese Inspect West Point.
West Point, N. Y. The method.,
of training an American army officer
were demonstrated to General Kuroki
of the Japanese army and the officers
of his staff Thursday. The Japanese
wore the guests of Colonel Hugh L.
Scott, commandant of the academy for
four years. They watched a cavalry
drill in the riding hall,' witnessed a
parade of cadets on the barracks
piazza and visited the academy build
ings. Telegraph Company Will Appeal.
Topeka, Kansas. The Western
Union Telegraph company will appeal
tho ouster suit decided against It by
the Kansas supremo court to the su
preme court of the United States. No
definlto announcement of the inten
tion of the Pullman company, which i
was also ousted by tho supreme court,
has been made, and nothing to indi'
cate its intention has appeared.