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I- 41 tfy MCOOK TRIBUNE 7 SC KIMXEIX PablUher MoCOOK E NEBRASKA BRIEF TELEGRAMS S W4KCMWH4HW A Shanghai dispatch says that Li Hung Chang is very ill The proposed McKinley arch in Washington will cost 1500 A postoffice has been established at Lost Springs Converse county Wyo with Leander B Blackwell as post master E H Wands of the New York Tri bune has been appointed worlds fair commissioner to Peru Ecuador Colom bia and Venezuela The estimates for the expenditures of the interior department during the fiscal year bsginning next July aggre gate 170000000 of which 142161200 is asked for pensions The Chicago Great Western depot and freight house at Waverly Iowa were destroyed by fire Agent Hine was severely burned in an unsuccessful effort to save his cash drawer Emperor William has issued an army order expressing the warmest appreciation of the work of the troops in China who have added fresh lau rels to the ancient glory of the German armc The navy department has ordered the gunboat Marietta at Portsmouth N H to Colon -to relieve the gunboat Machias which has been watching over affairs at that point for some months past The police order expelling from Prussia Joseph Herrings the Ameri can newspaper correspondent upon the ground of an alleged evasion of military service ten years ago has been cancelled Work has been begun on the con struction of the Santa Fe extension from Pawnee O T to Bartlesville I T joining there with the Santa Fe and giving Oklahoma direct Kansas City connection At an auction sale of a library in London an original copy of Blakes Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience was sold for 3500 It is understood that it was purchased for an American Captain Neitzke of the German cruiser Gazelle who was tried for not reporting the insubordination that oc curred on the cruiser while she was engaged in the maneuvers at Dantzic has been acquitted In the woods near Blue I- T Nich olas Caldwell and Gibson Columbia two fullblood Chickasaw Indians set tled a dispute over land matters by fighting a duel with Winchester rifles Both were mortally wounded The governors of the board of trade have decided to invite Admiral Schley to visit Indianapolis on any date he may name It is intended to have a public reception at the state house and lionize him in every way The London Lancet says it has offi cial authority to announce that the re cent rumors regarding the health of King Edward are entirely withouth truth or foundation The Lanset further-says the king is in good health and has undergone no operation what ever The report of the state auditor of Iowa for the past three months on the business done by the banks of Iowa show an- increase in the amount of deposits of 573503156 since June 30 At the close of business on September 30 the 189 state savings banks had total assets amounting to 145603 34697 To Representative Jones of Wash ington who called upon President Roosevelt to pay his respects the president expressed his great interest in the northwest and said he expected to make a tour of that part of the country next summer William H Richards of Liberty Neb has been admitted to practice before the interior department Lieutenant William C Hartlee U S M C who thrashed a Filipino boy on a wharf at Manila on slight provo cation has been severely disciplined The abstract of the condition of the national banks of South Dakota at the close of business on September 30 aa reported to the comptroller of the cur rency shows the average reserve to have been 2995 jer cent against 3067 per cent on July 15 At Salem O Lucien L Shoemaker the oldest business man died sud denly aged 85 Friday morning he stumbled over an obstruction placed at his door by Halloween mischief makers and it is believed injured him self internally A dispatch from Jerusalem ays the Church of the Holy Sepulcher sur mounting Christs tomb as tradition ally located was the scene of a san guinary affray between Franciscans and Greeks during which there were a number of casualties on both sides The academic board of the military academy has raised the standard of admission to that institution Edward Wedelver of Wheatland Paul Lavenents and John F J Crow ley both of Cheyenne Wyo have been appointed railway mail clerks TO KEEP NAVY MOVING Chief Equipment Bureau Gives Statistics of the Puel Department AMOUNT GROWS TO 95713 TONS exceeds by Hint Flcure the Total Tur ahuso of last Fiscal Year Secretive About Some Stations They Are Pro posed Places Not to Be Mentioned WASHINGTON Nov 11 A strik ing illustration of the growth of the American navy is presented in the single statement in the annual report of Rear Admiral R B Bradford chief of the equipment bureau of the navy that he spent 2273111 the last fiscal for 324108 tons of coal at an average cost of 701 per ton The report ss that this was nearly 95713 more tons of coal than was used during the pre ceding fiscal year Ten years ago the coal consumption was 73000 tons per annum The domestic coal costs 620 per ton and the foreign coal of which there were used 105066 tons cost 850 per ton Admiral Bradford has scat tered American coal all over the world wherever suitable storage could be found He has placed 12000 tons at Yokohama and 5000 tons at Plchllique Mex and he has sent large quantities to Guam and to the Philippines He carried 9000 tons by water from the Atlantic coast to Mare island Califor niaw here it came into competition with English Cardiff coal They have averaged the same in coast viz 929 per ton but at present owing to the scarcity of American freight vessels the best Cardiff coal is considerably cheaper at Mare island It is recom mended that two large steam 10000 ton colliers be built to keep depots supplied in time of peace and to ac company the fleets in time of war Summarizing the work accomplished at various coaling stations during the year the report takes up Cavite and says that the bureau Is about to open bids for a 45000 ton coaling station there Efforts have been made to ob tain a site for a coaling station at Cebu but thus far without success Coaling stations have been located at Port Isabella Basalin island and at Poloc Mindanao A complete station has been estab lished at Yokohama Japan and it is now fully stocked with coal The same statement is true at Pichilique Mex where through the courtesy of the Mexican government our coal and colliers have been admitted to the station without port duty or customs of any kind In the West Indies a lit tle work has been done at San Juan on the coaling scale but Admiral Bradford expresses regret that little progress has been made for securing other sites for coal depots in the West Indies It is particularly essen tial that some of the deep water ports of Cuba should be made available for this purpose as the entire waters sur rounding Cuba are most important in a strategic sense Estimates are sub mitted for improvements of coaling stations at most Atlantic ports includ ing a modern plant at Norfolk CAPE COLONISTS MIST EIGHT Tbey Must Assist in Driving Oat the Swarming Rebels LONDON Nov 11 In a letter dated October 23 the Capetown corre spondent of the Daily Mail says Lord Kitchener and Sir John Gordon Sprigg the Cape premier have ar ranged a scheme for the expulsion of the invaders from Cape Colony A joint commission of imperial and co lonial military chiefs have been sit ting here for some days past to draft a scheme It is understood that this provides for the coloney taking a large share in the future campaign and contribut ing largely toward its cost Appar ently a levy of loyalists en masse Is the idea involved Paul Kevere is Dead NEW YORK Nov 11 Paul Revere vice president general of the Sons of the Revolution died today at Morris town N Y aged 45 He was a son of General Joseph Warren Revere who fought in the Seminole and civil wars and a great grandson of Paul Revere of revolutionary fame Peculiar Accident Results Fatally FRANKLIN Neb Nov 41 Jack Smith who was injured by jumping from a load of hay and striking on a pitchfork the handle of which pen etrated his body for a distance of ten inches died of his injuries Banss Away ut Psissersbv DEVILS LAKE N D Nov 11 The 6-year-old son of William Barber secured a revolver and began shoot ing at persons passing his home Miles Miller a merchant was made a target by the boy but missed Burt Crary a 12-year-old boy was the next person to pass and young Barber shot him through the apex of the right lung probably fatally wounding him The Barber boy seemed to think he was having a good time 1t NINE MEN RUN DOWN Farmer Surprises Party of Convicts Who Are Biding in His Barn LEAVENWORTH Kan Nov 11 All the police deputy sheriffs and farmers In the country adjacent to Leavenworth were on the lookout to day for the twenty six federal con victs who escaped from the stockade yesterday As a result two convicts have been killed two wounded and five captured unhurt The casualties took place in a fight near Nortonville Kan that resulted in the death or capture of five men The dead James Hoffman aged 20 white J J Poffenholz aged 25 white a sol dier convict- John Green aged 21 white and Willard Drake aged 19 are wounded and recaptured and the fifth Fred Moore aged 16 a negro Is recaptured unhurt The five men were discovered in the barn of Fay Weishaar a quarter of a mile from Nortonville Kan about 3 p m today Weishaar went into the barn and was ordered out at the point of guns He rushed to Nortonville and gathered a wagonload of men who with revolvers shot guns and a few Winchester rifles has tened to the scene IN CON VIC IS GRASP Sheriff Cook and Deputy of Topeka Are Themselves Made Prisoners TOPEKA Kan Nov 11 Sheriff Cook of this county and Deputy Sheriff Williams were captured by two escaped convicts from the Fort Leav enworth military prison yesterday afternoon at Pauline Ave miles south of Topeka and held prisoners in the farm house of a man named Wooster for several hours The convicts finally escaped between a line of police sent from Topeka to reinforce the sheriff and are now at large Both were slightly wounded Wooster was badly wounded by one of the convicts when he tried to fire on them Mrs Wooster and Sheriff Cook were held before the convicts as a shield by the prisoners in making their escape A posse is in pursueit VOTE GREATLY REDUCED Nearly Quarter of a Million Loss In Ohio Thau in lOOO CINCINNATI O Nov 11 With almost half of the official returns from the eighty eight counties in Ohio re ceived it is estimated that the total vote may be 100000 less than for gov ernor two years ago when 920872 votes were cast and almost a quarter of a million less than for president last year when the total vote of Ohio was 1649121 Notwithstanding the increas in population during the past thirteen years the total vote will likely be much less than for president in 1888 when it was 841941 and probably less than has been cast for governor since that time with a single exception EIRST IN MOTLEYS MEMORY Minnesota Village Unveils at the Town of Tower TOWER Minn Nov 11 To this village belongs the honor of having erected the first monument in honor of William McKinley Representatives from the entire northwest were pres ent at the unveiling including Gov ernor Van Sant and other men of prominence When the monument was unveiled all the bands that Tower and the surrounding country could muster played the hymn Nearer My God to Thee The speakers were Governor Van Sant John Owens Thomas Mc Keeon and Rev Dr Forbes Anti Saloon League WASHINGTON Nov 11 Active preparations are making for the meet ing here in December of the sixth an nual convention of the American Anti Saloon league The sessions will be held in one of the commoaious build ings of the city and beginning Tues day December 3d will cotinue through Thursday A large attenaance is ex pected as the league expects to secure railroad excursion rates throughout the country The call for the conven tion is signed by Rev Luther B Wil son the acting president of the league and a request is made that all bodies hostile to the saloon send delegates together with a representative from each for the national board of direc tion Six Hundred Cases of Smallpox LINCOLN Nov 11 Dr Brash ol Beatrice one of the secretaries said that over 600 cases of smallpox hall been reported to him since October 15 Of this number 200 were in the Indian reservations The disease was found in over 100 localities Paymaster Loses Thousands PENSACOLA Fla Nov 11 Pay master Stevens of the United States army arrived here from Atlanta Sat urday and before leaving that city placed in a satchel 200 and 34800 in paper money for the purpose of pay ing the several hundred artillery men at Fort McRea their salaries for the past month When he reached the fort here he opeend the grip and found that all the paper money amounting to nearly 5000 liad been abstracted NEBRASKA EMIT AT BUFFALO The Display Was One of Which the State May Feel Proud t BUFFALO N Y Nov 11 The re sult of Nebraskas fruit display as Jo awards has been -telegraphed you says a dispatch to the World Herald Work done by Mr Hodkinson has been very gratifying The fruit which has attracted the attention of horticultur al scientists and which has been the life of the exhibit was plums the collection of seedlings and hybrids showing the evolution of the plum from the sand cherry to the present delicious victory For this Nebraska is largely indebted to Mr Theodore Williams whose valuable work in cross breeding plums has attracted much scientific attention Of these 140 varieties have been exhibited spreading over a period pf two months With the display of peaches follow ing of which Russells seedling com manded attention for its fair size and good quality and the apples in fall and winter varieties to the number of forty the tables have been well filled and the unique boots made of bark have overflowed McCormicks Duchess of Oldenburg was especially fine and Nebraskas Jonathans gain ed the admiring compliments of the horticulturists who have grown criti cal from much acquaintance with toothsome varieties A special display of commercial apples has recently been installed in new space and Ben jamin Davis esq and the Missouri pippin fairly shine in a successful ef fort to show that the drouth didnt dry out their juices Mr Hodkinsons work as a scientific horticulturist has reflected credit upon Nebraska in choosing him to represent her among so many representing widely separ ated sections If the popular choice could have given it Nebraska certainly would have had a gold medal for corn for all day long the people came and stood over the great ears and expressed astonishment and admiration It cannot be possible that such corn was raised when you had such a drouth they said and they quietly shelled off a few kernels and carried them off to plant until hardly an ear was left intact TO STAMP OUT SMALLPOX Senator Dietrich Urges the Need of Urg ent Measures WASHINGTON Nov 11 Senator Dietrich through his secretary brought to the attention of the commissioner of Indian affairs the possibility of an epidemic of smallpox among the citizens of Homer Thurston county a village just north of the Winnebago Indian reservation unless imperative action is taken by the authorities The senator urged immediate action on the part of the government in view of the seriousness of the case and asked that something be done to prevent the spread of disease As the Indians are citizens of Nebraska it was decided that the question of quarantine rests solely with the Thurston county authorities and ft devolves upon them to move in the matter Held for Horse Stealing DAVID CITY Neb Nov 11 Chas Miller Ihe man who was brought from Burt county by Sheriff Ben last week charged with stealing a val uable horse belonging to W A Wells was arranged before County Judge Skiles and bound over to the next term of the district court The horse was stolen in September and was recovered last week in Burt county Senalor Millard OMAHA Nov 11 Senator Millard has engaged a suite of three rooms at the New Millard hotel at Washington where he will make his headquarters during the coming session of congress which convenes December 2 The rooms are on the top floor of the hotel He will be accompanied at the capital by his daughter Miss Jennie Millard For State Normal School LINCOLN Nov 11 Gov Savage has appointed Stephen W L Stephens of Beatrice a member of the board of education of the state normal school to succeed James West of Benkelman who has resigned because of removal from the state Mr Stephens is city superintendent of the Beatrice schools Samuel I Kussell Insane LINCOLN Neb Nov 11 Samuel L Russell a dealer in the local stock exchange and formerly mayor oT Creston Iowa has been taken to the asylum for the insane uis mind hav ing given away recently Hunter Has Fined Himself LINCOLN Nov 11 William S Stein prominent in business and so cial life of Lincoln was fined 20 for violating the game law He had eighty nine ducks in his possession which was forty nine more than al lowed by law Stein is one of the men who assisted in inducing the leg islature to pass the game law His violation of the act was a thoughtless error which he acknowledged volun tarily A BLAZE AT THE CAPITOL tomo Believe There Was Attempt to Destroy the Structure LINCOLN Nov 9 The discovery of a small blaze in the tunnel leading from the engine house to the state apitol building has caused several of ficials to believe that a deliberate at tempt was made to destroy the latter structure The flames were confined to the asbestos covering of a large 3team pipe running through the tun nel Outside of the asbestos is a cov sring of four layers of heavy paper This paper was burned away in two spots each about a foot in diameter Belov the pipe was found a pile of excelsior and several burnt matches The place where the fire was found is about forty feet from the capltol building and with a good draft the flames would have spread the entire distance within a few minutes Secretary of State Marsh and Attor ney General Prout investigated the discovery but arrived at no definite conclusion It was reasoned that if an attempt was planned to destroy the building the fire would have been started nearer the building or in the woodwork The pipe is hot enough to acorch dry paper but it is said by en gineers that it could not produce any effect on the asbestos which is be tween the pipe and the outside paper covering State Fight on Standard Oil LINCOLN Nov 9 The supreme court made an order allowing the state ten days in which to file exceptions to the report of the referees in its case against the Standard Oil com pany If some showing is not made by the state within the time speified the report of the referees will be con firmed and the case dismissed as rec ommended Attorney General Prout said he had not determined what course he would pursue It is likely however that exceptions will be filed in which event the court will assign a day for a hearing Cannon Invests fit Ashland ASHLAND Neb Nov 9 Con gressman Joseph G Cannon of Dan ville 111 accompanied by Hon Sam uel Waugh of Plattsmouth was in Ashland Wednesday While here Congressman Cannon purchased the Thomas J Wilburn farm of 500 acres lying between this city and Greenwood paying an average price of 60 an acre for it Congressman Cannon who is a member of the ap propriations committee made the pur chase as an investment having great faith in the value of Nebraska lands Northwest Nebraska Teachers ALLIANCE Neb Nov 9 The Northwestern Nebraska Teachers as sociation which meets in this city on November 29 and 30 promises to be the most important educational gath ering ever occurring in western Ne braska Among the special features will be addresses by Deputy Superin tendent McBrien President W A Clark of the Peru Normal and a lec ture by Dr A L Bixby State Journal poet Death of Mrs W K Akers ALLIANCE Neb Nov 9 Mrs W A Akers wife of ex State Senator Akers of this place died after a pro tracted case of typhoid fever with com plications Captain and Mrs Akers have long been citizens of this part of the state coming here in the early 80s the former being at present a member of the state republican central commitUe and receiver of the United Statej land office here Farmer Found Dead YORK Neb Nov 9 Isaac Brown a well-to-do farmer who lives one mile west of Henderson started to that village with some eggs in a bas ket and was found lying dead near the elevator at that place It is supposed he died of heart failure Pitchfork Wound Proves Fatal FRANKLIN Neb Nov 9 Jack Smith who was badly hurt by jumping off a load of hay onto a pitchfork the handle of which entered his body ten inches died from the effects of the in jury Who Can Beat This PLATTSMOUTH Neb Nov 9 Thayer Propst a young farmer made a good record husking corn last week In ten hours he husked and cribbed 127 bushels Announcement of an increase rang ing from 250 to 10 per month in the wages of telegraph operators on the Hazelton Mahanoy division of the Lehigh Valley railroad has been made Bows Off Top of Boys Head TILDEN Neb Nov 9 Joseph and John Hopkins cousins aged 19 and 11 respectively were hunting when an accident happened which terminated fatally fhe former was explaining to the latter the mechanical working of his gun when in breaking it the cart ridge exploded the charge blowing away the top of- John Hopkins skull The injured boy lived for several hours but never regained conscious ness THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Tram Soatk Owah tatest Quotations and Kansas City SOUTH OMAHA werofa ir y cattle Cattle Kecclpta of liberal but tho market ruled strong and active on nil desirable grades There wcr about thirty live car of corn feu steers on sale and the quality- M jnole all had liberal Puckers good was very infos better grade rderS a result the Bold about as fast as they were un ond ed Tho market eoiild safely bo Q uoted and active The cow steady to strong und prices w ere market was ulso active fully as good as yesterday The bettet sold as much as luc grades in some cases higher as the demand was very active forthat class of stock The medium kinds and canners sold In Just about yes terdays notches Bulls veal calves and stags all changed hands freely at goqd steady prices The supply of feeders was not large and as the demand was fairly liberal the market took on con siderable life and stronger prices were paid for the more desirable bunches There were very few western steers In tho yards good enough for killers Good llrm prices were paid for such as did ar rive as packers all seemed anxious for good grass cattle Range cows were ais ready sellers at strong prices Hojts Owing to unfavorable reports from other points the hog market herd opened rather slow and 235c lower The first hogs sold mostly at JoCT and as sellers were generally asking more money tho market was dull Packers flimily raised their bids and the bulk of the sales went at 567 and J570 The closw of the market was good and strong I the most of the late sales being at 570 In spite of the slow opening everything was disposed of In good season Th choicer bunches sold largely from 572 to J585 Sheep Receipts of sheep were fairly liberal for this time of the week but the big bulk of what did arrive was feeders There were hardly enough of the mutton grades to make a test of the market Tho few bunches that packers did buy brought good strong prices as Is shown by the fact that a string of ewes sold at 323 which were far from being choice Other bunches of fat sheep and lambs sold proportionately high Tho feeder market on the other hand was slow and weak the same as It has been for the last several days KANSAS CITY Cattle Good cattle were steady to a shade lower common cattle were lower choice export and dressed beef steers f59ag650 fair to good 4755S5 stock srs and feeders J255fM23 western fed steers 500GSO western range steers f2S0tHG5 Texas and Indian steers 275 f450 Texas cows L75325 native iowh J230t4 i40 heifers 300523 bulls f25053S0 calves 3235510 Hogs Market was strong to 5c higher top SG05 bulk of sales J555159o heavy f395G05 mixed packers 370595 light f52505SO pigs -150533 Sheep and Lambs Market was strong native lambs 1005500 western lambs f4OO4G0 native wethers 3253S5 west ern wethers 310g360 ewes J275S3 iO culls J150ti32a f RANGE EEELS TRIUMPHANT Receives Advices Announcing- Turks Complete Capitulation PARIS Nov 9 France has secured a complete triumph in the Turkisn dispute The foreign office this morn ing received advices announcing that the sultan has yielded to the entire demands jrmulated by the French government and only the question of form regarding the execution of the engagements remains to be settled This may be done within the next twenty four hours or it is expected at the latest in two or three days Then Admiral Caillard will relinquish his occupation of the island of Mity lene An official note was issued at 1 p m yesterday to the effect that the porte had decided to yield to all thl demands of France and that as soon as the sultan has issued irade ratify ing the decision the French squardon will leave Mitylene President Loubet presided at the cabinet council The foreign minis ter M Delcasse announced that the porte had just advised him that it had decided to give satisfaction in the case of the various French demands to which M Delcasse replied that so scon as the sultans order regarding the portes decision was communicated to him Admiral Canards squadron would leave the island of Mitylene Death of Major Dinwiddle CEDAR FALLS Nov 9 Major W A Dinwiddle U S A second lieu tenant Second cavalry 1866 1874 first lieutenant 1874 1386 professor of mil itary tactics Illinois State university 1877 1881 professor of military science and tactics Iowa Western university at Mount Pleasant 1887 1891 and professor of military science and tactics at the state normal school for the past ten months died at Pal myra Wis Interment will take place here Britains Aid Not Sought CONSTANTINOPLE Nov 9 There is absolutely no foundation for the re port which originated with the Paris Echo de Paris that the port had de manded that Great Britain should protect Asiatic Turkey from French attack Jfot the Only Conners There SAN FRANCISCO Nov 9 Ac cording to the Chronicle a deal is about to be consummated bv which all the leading fruit canning estab lishments outside of the Canifornia Fruit Canners association will pas into the hands of an eastern syndicate The combined capacities included in the proposed deal will equal that o the existing combine The annual output will be not less than 1500000 cases or 36000j000 m r A A r