M'COOK TRIBUNE. V. M. KlfllMKLL , Publisher. McCOOK , NEBRASKA BRIEF TELEGRAMS. 4. Advices were received at Berlin an nouncing the opening of the railroad from Klao Chau to Tsin Tau , China , The Northwestern Iowa Odd Fel lews have announced their convention , for Dubuque , la. , April 29. It will be ( the eighty-second anniversary of the founding of the order. . The election of democrats as alder- imen In the Third , Fourth and Fifth wards of Denver is contested by the republican candidates on the ground of corruption and fraud. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $100,000 to Portland , Ore. , for a free public library , provided the city will guarantee a site and sufficient annual income for Its maintenance. The Amalgamated Association of Sheet Metal Workers will take the in itiative in having designers and archi tects sign contracts with builders to employ only union men on their con tracts. A great many carloads of young slock are being received at Webster , S. D. , for the settlers who have lo cated on the land formerly embraced within the Sisseton and Wahpeton In dian reservation. Mathilda Henderson , colored , died at Quincy , 111. , aged 105 years. She was recognized as 'the oldest person of her race in that vicinity , and her a-elatives have records showing that her age , 105 , was authentic. The navy department has awarded the contract for the building of the twenty-three knot protected cruiser Milwaukee to the Union Iron Works of San Frnn isco. The contract price is $2,825,000. Secretary of the Treasury Gage re ceived an offer for a million dollars short term bonds from New York. The price was higher than he was 'willing to pay and he , therefore , re jected the offer. About 400 union carpenters did not "report for work at Indianapolis , Ind. , owing to the failure of the contrac tors to sign the scale. Seme of the members of the union are at work for contractors who have signed. The old scale of 30 cants expired Mon day. day.The The Minnesota house passed Sena tor Chilton's bill prohibiting the mar riage of imbeciles feeble-minded , - epi leptics or insane persons , with an amendment striking out the require ment for a physician's certificate be fore any license to marry shall be is sued. Victor R. Schultz , the mail car rier who shot and killed his wife and a sent two bullets through the breast of W. H. Eikenberry , at Marion , Ind. , and then cut his own throat , is liv ing. His windpipe , which was sev ered , was sewed together by the phy sicians at the hospital. The board of trustees of the West ern Illinois Normal school at Macomb awarded the contract for building the school to the Tri-City contracting company of Davenport , la. , Moline and Rock Island. The building is to be of Berea stone and will cost in the neighborhood of $175,000. A crowd of about fifty Ponca , Neb. , men seized Alva Smith while he was on his way from the theater , and tar red and feathered him. He was giv en twenty-four hours to leave town. er Smith is accused of ruining Minnie Ellum , a girl of 18 , who died in an Omaha hospital two weeks ago. sik The Teheran correspondent of the Cologne Gazette , under date of Mon day , April 8 , telegraphs that the Per a sian government has ordered the im position of a duty of 5 per cent on all Russian goods imported instead of 3 to 4 per cent , as hitherto enforced. The Minnesota house reconsidered the vote which killed the bill to per mit the parole of the notorious Youn ger brothers , now serving life sen rie tences in the state prison , and sent the bill to the governor for approval the or rejection. The famous Okefenokee swamps in South Georgia have been sold to be Charles Hebard & Sons of Michigan. The consideration , it is understood , is $175,000. The swamp contains 354- 000 acres and its circumference Is 137 miles. ed the Samuel N. Ferris shot and killed himself at Baker City , Ore. He was and about 33 years of age , was secretary of a prominent mining company , and is said to have been worth more than $100,000 in mining property. The cause of the suicide is unknown. The latest statement of exports pub lished by the bureau of statistics shows that during the eight months ending with February the total ices amounted to $95,000,000 more than in the exports for the corresponding period and riod ending in February , 1900. D. B. Robinson , formerly first vies president of the Santa Fe , is reported The to be dying in a Chicago hospital. has The strike of the journeymen paint ers of East 'Liverpool , 0. , section , to which has lasted for the past ten days , has been settled. The Japanese Pormally Ask for Kwang Su's Eeturn to Pekin , CHING AND CHANG BOTH URGED Are Instructed to Have Tbelr Kulcr Promise Something Definite Had Bet ter Urine AH Soldiers so as to Quell Disorders in Bnsgla. PEKIN , April 15. Komurs Yutaro , the Japanese minister , accompanied by General Yamaguchi , the Japanese commander , recently called upon Prince Ching and notified him that the return of Emperor Kwang Su to Pekin was urgently des-ired. Prince Ching was infDrmed that the emper or's wishes would be respected by the foreign troops and that every courtesy would be shown him. It was pointed out to the Chinese plenipotentiary that the emperor's return was of the highest possible im portance , as affecting the maintenance of the integrity of the Chinese empire , and that he should come , accompanied by every available soldier by at least 20,000 men if possible. These troops , it was further contended by the Japanese minister , must be sent into Manchuria , as the Russians re ported great disturbances there and it was not right that the task of quelling the trouble should be thrown upon the shoulders of one nation. Finally Prince Ching was assured that if the 20,000 Chinese troops could not suppress the disorders in Manchu ria other powers would send an inter national force to co-operate with China , which the powers regarded as a friendly power. No reply having been received to this communication Li Hung Chang was today notified to the same effect and told that Emperor Kwang must give an immediate answer. The preparations which the Jap anese here are making for an early start indicate that they expect war between Russia and Japan. Vessels arriving at Taku from Nagasaki report the mobilization of the Japanese fleet and the continuance of preparations on board ship for the anticipated struggle. Prince Ching says all his reports go to show that the missionary state ments regarding a rebellion , in Mon golia are not supported by the facts. Neither does he believe that the re bellion of General Tung Fu Sian amounts to much. "It is. the object of certain ele ments , " he asserts , "to make it seem that China is in a condition of constant - stant broil , rendering it unsafe for the foreign troops to be withdrawn. Thosem' who have this in view will magnify village riot into a big rebellion. The in Chinese ministers , naturally timid , ° take these reports in good faith. " H BEHEAD HIM f OR TREASON. ag La Corean Government Disposes of Kim Chun. ea TACOMA , Wash. , April 15. A sen fel sational political crisis exists in Seoul , he capital of Corea. The news is brought tonight by the steamship Duke of Fife that the government has beheaded Kim Yang Chun for planning to make of the son of the. emperor's favorite mis pe tress , Lady Om , heir to the throne , dis SCI placing the prince imperial , son of the by murdered uqeen. va The decapitated official was the lead of the Kim faction , which has been engaged for months in deadly rivalry mj with the Min faction , led by Min Kong- Ph , for the domination of Corean poli lia tics. The Min faction learned of the Be plot against the prince imperial and ni street fight between the factions re sulted. MRS. NATION AGAIN ARrtESTED. te da Kaw Town Crowd Gathers About the Ba Hatchers. tic KANSAS CITY , April 15. Mrs. Car de Nation was arrested in this city ce tonight on the charge of obstructing da street and hauled to the police se' station in a patrol wagon. She was re leased on a cash bond of ? 6 , and will tried in the police court tomorrow morning. Mrs. Nation lectured in Kansas City Kan. , last night and came over to the Missouri side this morning. She start- is on a tour of investigation among downtown saloons this evening. A lir thousand men and boys followed her , at Twelfth and Walnut streets , where there are saloons on three cor ners , she was arrested because the do crowd following her blockaded the ler street. She roundly lectured the sa Gc loon men whom she visited. as Memorial Day In Fekin. PEKIN , April 15. Memorial serv will be held by order of the court vi honor of Ysu Chien Sing , Li Sien er Hsu Sung Y5 , the members of the & tsung li yamen who were executed because at atTL cause of their pro-foreign sentiment. The staff of the United States legation lei been invited to attend. Hsu Chien L. Sing held the post of Chinese minister toi Russia , director of the Russo-Chi- dent nese bank and president of the Chinese ern Eastern railway. H. ADMITS THE PLAGUE. Dr. Victor Vauglm Reports on Case of Charles 15. Uaro. CHICAGO , April 15. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Ann Arbor Mich. , says Dr. Victor Vaughn , dlrec tor of the medical department , ' ap peared before the state board o health yesterday and practically ac knowledged that the case of Student Charles Benjamin Hare of Pawnee City is one of bubonic plague. He assured - sured the board there would be no spread of the disease , as all precau tions had been taken to , prevent it , and that the student would recover. Dr. Novy , who attends Hare , wears a germproof rubber garment that cov ers him from head to foot , with two little eyeholes for sight , whenever he goes into the contagious -ward , and he also Injects preventative doses of se rum into himself. Dr. Vaughn told the board that Hare contracted the disease by an accident almost identical with that which oc curred in Vienna in 1898. Prof. Noth- najle and his assistant , Barisch , wers conducting bacteriological experiments on bubonic plague bacilli. Barisch caught the disease and died , as did also Dr. Muller , who attended him. ATTEMPTS LIFE Of KRUGER. Reported That Someone Tried to Stab the Aged President. . . PARIS , April 15. L'Estafette pub lishes a report that an attempt was made to stab Mr. Kruger. LONDON , April 15. According to a dispatch to the London Daily Express 'form Amsterdam , cabled to the Asso ciated Press Saturday last , the Dutch police recently got wind of contem plated attempts upon the life of Mr. Kruger. It is quite likely that the report to which L'Estafette gives cur rency is traceable to a similar source. Not Dangerously Insane. DENVER , April 15. Albert S. Cowan who was arrested on February 2t. last on a charge of murder , which was subsequently dismissed for lack of sufficient eivdence to justify his in dictment , has been released from cus tody , a jury before which he was tried on a charge of insanity having decided- that he was not so distracted in his mind as to endanger his own life and property or the lives and property of others. It was believed for a time that Cowan was the thug who knocked down many women on Capital hill dur ing the fall and winter. Several of the assailant's victims died. Border Kuffiau Slain. SILVER CITY , N. M. , April 15 c Red Weaver , a well known border charm acter and a reputed member of the faed mous ' "Black Jack" gang of bandits , has been killed at Alma , a little min ing camp seventy two miles northwest of here. Weaver had threatened to kill Ted Holliman , who had previously called him to account for certain remarks against a young woman's character. Later , they met again and fired at each other simultaneously. Weaver fell dead with a bullet through his . heart. Holliman was exonerated. - Farmers Fight the Combine. SALINA , Kan. , April 15. Farmers st Saline county have completed the perliminary organization of their as sociation to fight the grain combine building or leasing their own ele vators , and a charter will be applied for at once. L-l The board of directors chosen is made up of J. A. Reser , W. A. Mur phy , C. L. Stone , J. E. Runquist , Wil liam Muir , A. C. Hillman and John S. Bean , all of whom are prominent far of mers. Fourteen States Represented. CINCINNATI , 0. , April 15. Four teen states were represented here to day at the meeting of the Keaher Shel Barzel , a Jewish beneficiary organiza tion. The annual message of the presi dent and the reports of the other offi cers : were submitted and discussed to day. The society will be in session several days. St evil's Health Broken. BLOEMFONTEIN. April 15. It is' reported that the health of former President Steyn has broken down. It also said he has advised all the Boers on commandoes to surrender immediately. Emilia Kompln Dead. BERLIN , April 15. Emilia Kempin , tee doctor of laws , and one of the foremost leaders of the woman's movement in Germany , has just died in an insane gin asylum , at Basle , Switzerland. Chairman \ValUer' Funeral , NEW YORK , April 15 Funeral services - . vices < over the body of Aldace F. Walk- , president of the Atchison , Topeka Ttf Sante Fe railroad , were held today the West End Collegiate church. ing pallbearers were John G. McCulso lough of the Erie railroad ; General H.an Burnett , United States district attorney - ° torney ; General E. H. Ripley , presi- of ; Charles M. Hays of the South- Pacific , Victor Morawotz , George the Haven , and R. Summer Hays. DESTRUCTION OF GRASSHOPPERS. Prof. ISrtxnner Issues a Bulletin Bcgnrd- Inc tbo Matter. LINCOLN , Neb. , April 15. Prof. Lawrence Bruner , entomologist at the University of Nebraska , has issued a bulletin in which he discusses vari ous plans for destroying grasshoppers. It begins with a general description of the insects , this outline includes a statement of their life history , habitsft' and relations to other insect forms , as well as the effects of climate , latitude - tude , altitude and diseases in keeping them within certain limits. Much , stress is laid on the past carelessness in the efforts of farmers of the state for permitting native locusts to become - come sufficiently numerous to cause trouble. Among the artificial remedies which are suggested and described in this bulletin the most important is that of "discing" in early spring alfalfa fields and oth'er grounds containing the eggs of these insects. This disc- . ing . can be done at any time after the frost is out of the ground , but the best time seems to be early in April. Instead of injuring the alfalfa numerous experiments in Kansas and Nebraska have shown that by running the disc over the fields the yield is greatly increased. This stirring of the soil breaks up the egg masses and exposes them to the drying influences of the air and the keen eyes of the birds. NEW FISH AND GAME LAW. No Effort to Enforce It Until After the First of July. LINCOLN , Neb. , April 15. It is of ficially announced at the state house that no attempt will be made by state officers to enforce the new fish and game law before July 1 , that being the time when all laws passed without an emergency clause by the last legis lature will become effective. An emergency clause was attached to the enrolled copy of the bill through er ror and without authority , but , al though it was signed by the presiding officers of the legislature and by the governor , it canot be enforced , for the reason that it was defeated in the house of representatives. The official journal of the house shows that the bill was ordered for third reading on March 13 and that on roll call it fail ed to receive the constitutional two- thirds vote necessarjr for an emer gency clause thus leaving it subject to a motion to strike out the clause. Such a motion was made by Coppoc of Holt county and adopted , as the record shows. The roll was then call ed ] on the bill without the emergency clause ] . and as" it received the requisite number of votes it was declared pass a ed Scnntor Millurd's Private Secretary. „ OMAHA , Neb. , April 15. Senator Millard has selected James B. Haynes 3.S his private secretary and has sent the name to Washington. Mr. Haynes , the new secretary , has been a resident of Omaha for many years. In 1881 he did his first newspaper work in , gp this city , reporting the session of the legislature ' for the Bee. From 1882 to 10' an 1885 he was stenographer in the office i Of the general passenger agent of the Union Pacific railroad and in 1887 was stenographer in Judge Hopewell's court. is Will aiove For Acquittal. FRANKFORT , Ky. , April 13. The prosecution in the Ripley conspiracy case will conclude its testimony to morrow. The defense will move for instructions for a verdict of acquittal. Lawyers for the prosecution do not Relieve this will be sustained in view the ruling of the court permitting the introduction of evidence as to the conspiracy. They assert that the evi dence of ex-Governor Bradley and Judge Yost connects Ripley with the case. Kuril * Herself to Death. PLATTSMOUTH , Neb. , April lo. the Mrs. Kinkead , 82 years of age , who had been living with her son. went into the cow house of Mrs. Seiden- striker , a neighbor , and after partially son disrobing , set fire to her underclothing mi and started for the house. A phy his sician was called , but she died. She was said she was tired of living and beg ing ged the doctor to give her chloro bis form. She had been in poor health. rec pei Fixes Date of Reunion. his PLAINVIEW , Neb. , April 15. The fas Grand Army of the Republic commit a of northeast Nebraska met to lo set cate the next reunion. Neligh was cut chosen as the place , the reunion to be se\ the second week in July. A j" campfire was held at the opera house. be boi Llontcnant Mapes * Friend * Active. NEBRASKA CITY , Neb. , April 15. Lieutenant William Mapes of the Twenty-third ] United States infantry , \\'i who J has won such honors by captur set insurgent officers at Manila and coi some $40,000 of their funds , was born cai raised in this county. He was ca , formerly major of the Second regiment to the Nebraska National Guards. His off friends here will ask for his advance pai ment as a reward for his services in with Philippines. she shTh TO BE HANGED AUGUST 2. Jndge Grlmlson fasten Sentence Upon Herman Znhn'a Murderer. FREMONT , April IS. William Rhea , who was convicted of the murder - der of Herman Zahn , was sentenced by Judge Grimison to be hanged with in the walls of the penitentiary at Lin coln August 2. The defendant was brought into the court room hand cuffed , in charge of Sheriff Kreader. He wore the same dark suit as during the trial , starched white shirt , white high collar and small , black band neck tie. His face was white with the palh lor of close confinement , but looked a little fuller than during the trial. The , bold reckless look in his eyes has soft ened little. During the half hour which he spent in the room he showed no emotion whatever , but appeared a little restless. He fingered the band of his black slouch hat , changed his _ position frequently and looked around the room in a careless unconcerned way. way.Mr. Mr. Gray filed a motion for a new trial and stated to the court that the grounds were statutory and the same points were raised as were passed up on ] during the progress of the trial. "I haven't seen any reason to change the opinions formed during the trial of the case , " said the judge , "and the motion will be overruled. " In a slow , solemn voice the judge then read the sentence which , in the words of the statute , substantially was that the defendant be taken to the penitentiary at Lincoln , delivered into the custody of the warden , kept in solitary confinement and on the 2d day of Auugst , 1901 , between the hours of 9 and 11 a. m. , be taken to some place designated within the walls of the penitentiary and there hanged by the neck until dead. As the judge read the latter part of the sentence the tones of his voice grew lower and more impressive , and the word "dead" was spoken scarcely above a whisper. The defendant was wholly unmoved. He took hfs seat and looked around as unconcerned as before. Not a muscle of his face changed , and he scarcely moved an eye while the sentence was being read. NEBRASKA'S PLAGUE VICTIM. Father of C. B. Hnro Intends to Visit the Patient at Ann Arbor. PAWNEE CITY , Neb. , April 13. It has been definitely ascertained that the Ann Arbor bubonic plague patient is Charles Benjamin Hare , whose home is in this city. His parents and a number of other relatives reside here. The parents were informed of the son's sickness by a reporter for The Bee and telegram was immediately sent to Al Arbor for information in regard to the young man's condition. Dr. toN Novy ( answered that Mr. Hare was resting easily and would probably re cover. Hare is * 2G years old and a student hi the medical department of the Ann Arbor unversity. He is taking a spe cial course in bacteriology and is as sistant to Dr. Novy , the celebrated specialist , who has for several years been interested in an effort to develop effective serum for bubonic inocu- , to lation. an THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS it Less than the Estimate of the Senate It Committee. LINCOLN , April 13. A report com piled in the auditor's office shows that the total of legislative appropriations was $292.000 less than the estimate of the senate committee on finance , ways and means. Exclusive of the endowsh ment and trust money for the univer sity and the appropriation for the dis- of trict court , the amount is $2,045,433 , which , including all the extraordinary appropriations , is only $54,059.92 more than the total of two years ago. These figures are taken from an official com S'J pilation , but are substantially the 30 same as those printed at the close of 'a' t&t legislative session. no Ouit * Life III a Fearful Way. YORK , Neb. , April 13. Guy Ander for , a young man 26 years old , com fla mitted suicide in a horrible manner at home south of Waco. The body wa found lying beside a pile of burn ? rubbish in a field near the barn , blackened and burned almost beyond S7 10 recognition. In order to make his desperate tal perate work more certain he first tied tee : legs toegther with wire and then fastened the wire to a fence post near gel pile of rubbish. He then must have fire to this rubbish and thereafter for his throat with his pocket knife , O. severing both the windpipe and the jugular { vein. He was perhaps dead before ! the fire had any effect upon his body. _ leai T Man AVrltes Home. PLATTSMOUTH. ] Neb. , April 13. Cur AValter Grim , a young man who de serted his wife at Nehawka , in this men county , recently , without giving any f c f ° u cause therefor , has turned up at Avo- la. He sent money to his wife ass pay her expenses to go to him , but pov offered no explanation. Since his departure Tes any TesA parture his wife has been prostrated A grief , but it is not thought that .will leave Nebraska to join him. 1 They were married three months ago. las [ Practical OI lc In School * , Howell , of the qiirmrintendent T i aSSff L heels , has proposed the pupils as a plan for instructing to the manner In vrhich a president the United States is elected. The dam onstratlon is to be a Practical one Each school is to constitute f convention Is to wite an ea tion and each pupil say giving the history of a Presidential campaign from the beginning t. the inauguration. After these are completed committee win os pleted a platform appointed in each school to prepare resolutions or declarations of party principles after which the election will pupil voting for his be held , each candidate for president. The election is expected to take place in farcn. Many advantages are to be had irom f practice of this kind and there is no reason why It should be confined to presidential elections. Vegan as a Backstop. Congressman Wadsworth's hands are battered out of shape nearly as much as were those of the late Sil ver" Flint and from the same cause. The New York man was in his day a crack baseball player and at one time held down first base in the Yale nine. He has a.son who filled the same posi tion for Yale and was as good a player as his father. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. The TVlfo and Mothor-ln-ljiw of Mr. Charles Kays. 'W CLARISSA , Minn. , April 15 , ( Spe \ < 1 cial. ) No family in this vicinity is i better known or more universally re spected , than Mr. Charles Keys , the local School Teacher , and his estima ble wife mother-in-law. For , and - - a long time , Mrs. Keys has been in ill health. Recently , however , she has found a cure for har ailments in Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I cannot speak too highly of Dodd's Kidney Pills , or of what they have done for me , " said Mrs. Keys. "My life was miserable , my back always ached , also my head. I was troubled with Neuralgia In the head tia and face and suffered extreme pain , but thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills , all those aches and pains have vanished like the morning dew , and it now seems < that life is worth living. I con si sider Dodd's ' Kidney Pills a God-send - t ( suffering humanity. They may rightly be named the Elixir of Youth. "While speaking of my own case and : the wonderful benefit I have re ceived , I might also add , that my mother , who is now an old lady of 7'bi years and who lives with me , has been troubled more or less , with aches and pains , as is natural with one of aihi her advanced age. When she saw him Dodd's Kidney Pills had done for me , she commenced to use them her self , and she says that they have done her more good than any other medi cine she has ever tried. "This testimony is given in the hope that others who may be af flicted as we were , may see and read it. and be benefited by it. " What Mrs. Keys states in her letter can be verified by reference to any of her many friends in this neighbor hood. Dodd's Kidney Pills have al ready a wonderful reputation in Todd County. ( Nothing has ever cured Bright's Disease , Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd's Kidney Pills. 15ret Harte Comln Home. Bret Harte will probable return to America next year , but only for a visit , as he merely intends to make a tour of the West to brush up his mem ories of that section of the country and see its development. What To the Children DrinkT Don't ( jive them tea or coffee. Have yon tried tnp now food drink called GKAIN-O ? is delicious and nourishing , and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give- the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains , and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee , but costs about } cs uiach. All grocers teli it. 15c and 2oc. The world is like a piano full of sharps and flats. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle. The prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Solomon. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH , the only 16 oz. package for cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains ' only 12 02. Satisfaction guaran teed or money ' -efunded. Platonic love is a dinner atwhich nothing but soup is served. WInslow's Soothing Syrnp. children teething , noftens the sums , reduces In flammation : , allays paln.cures wind colic. 25cabottle- A perfect woman , nobly planned , to warn , to comfort and command. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE li STARCH , the only 16 oz. nackage for cents. All other 10-cont starch contains - tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. All I am or can be I owe to my an mother. Abraham Linc6ln. Ftao's Cure is the best medicine wo ever used all affections of the throat and lungs.-Wii E.NDSLEr , Vanburen , Ind. . Feb. 10 , 19oq drunk they S1OO Reward Gtioo. ! < , thereby co- Pills are the best. if Youth may stray afarTylt return at I'