McCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
THE NEWS N BRJEf
William F Congdon a wealthy lum
ber dealer committed suicide at bis
borne in Chicago
French imports for the past four
months increased 311045000 and the
exports increased 2059G00
Official reports place the number of
Christian victims at Monasitr and in
the surrounding countr at 72
Benito Legard a Filipino member of
the Filipino commission has donated
a site in Manila for a general hospi
tal
Mayor Low of New York and sev
eral citizens have stopped the preach
ing of Mormonism in the streets of
that city
Advices from Morocco say the
ican missionary has practically aban
doned Mequinez owing to the critical
situation
Henry Bery a rancher at North Ya
kima Wash shot and killed his C
year old foster son Charles and com
mitted suicide
The reports of a great Jewish
sacre at Tirrospot Russia are pro
nounced in St Petersburg to be with
out toundation
The health board is preparing to
inoculate the Chinese population of
Manila with bubonic serum to prevent
the spread of that disease
The contract for placing 15G new
steel cells in the Nebraska peniten
tiary has been awarded to the Van
Dorn works of Cleveland O
St Johns cathedral the most pre
tentious church building belonging to
the Protestant Episcopal church in
Denver was destroyed by fire believ
ed to be of incendiary origin
The memorial arch erected to the
memory of the thirteen missionaries
of the American board of foreign mis
sions who suffered martyrdom in Chi
na in 1900 wns dedicated at Oberlin O
The Bulgarian cabinet resigned
Prince Ferdinand accepted its resig
nation and summoned M Petuoff lead
er of the Stambuloff party It is pos
sible that a coalition may be ordered
General Davis commanding in the
Philippines has disapproved the find
ings in the court marital clase which
acquitted Lieutenant Joel R Lee
Tenth infantry tried for manslaugh
ter
Assistant Secretary Armstrong and
Mrs Armstrong left Washington for
Chicago where they will attend the
Vanderlip Cox wedding and then go
to Iowa to visit Mrs Armstrongs par
ents
The Southern Cotton Spinners as
sociation in annual convention chang
ed its name to the American Cotton
Manufacturers association and decid
ed to urge a general curtailment of
production
About 9000 emigrants arrived at
Hamburg last week for transportation
to the United States Owing to the
phenomenal number extra steamers
have been put on for the accommoda
tion of the emigrants
Application was made before Judge
Hallett in the United States court at
Denver for the appointment of Harry
P Gamble an attorney of Boulder as
faster in chancery to manage the Colo
rado Northwestern railroad pending
an application for a receivership
The twentieth annual convention ot
the Womens General Missionary so
ciety of the United Presbyterian
church closed at Pittsburg after adopt
ing a resolution pledging themselves
to contribute sufficient funds to pro
vide for a woman missionary for every
man missionary in the field
The -state department has given no
tice of the appointment of General H
M Duffield of Detroit Mich as um
pire in the arbitration at Caracas be
tween Germany and Venezuela Gen
eral Duffield led one of the volunteer
regiments in the Spanish war and is
a prominent lawyer in Detroit
Executive officers of the western
railroads discussed in an informal man
ner the question of equalizing rates
on import sugar and the rates fros
the fields where sugar beets are rais
ed No action was taken and no de
cision was reached which promises ac
tion of any kind in the near future
The Cleveland Chicago Cincinnati
St Louis railroad filed with the in
terstate commerce commission an an
swer to the complaint of William Rig
ley Jr Co of Chicago involving
the legality of its increased freight
rates and amendment to the southern
classification schedule The road de
nies that it has imposed unjust or dis
criminative charges
The conductors and motormen em
ployed by the Connecticut Railway and
Lighting company at Bridgeport went
on strike tying up all the lines la
Ihe city The company offered a
slight increase but refused recognition
of the union
Henry C Everdell representing the
reorganization committee purchased
the entire assets of the Asphalt Com
pany of America and the National As
phalt company paying therefor 6
OObCOO The sale took place in Jer
sey City
A THREATENED DELUGE
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WAHT y3T CZASS CWBfilAf SAyiSA
A BIG SLAUGHTER
BRITISH OPERATIONS IN NORTH
ERN NIGERIA
MOHAMADONS MOWED DOWN
Rapid Fire Guns of British Do Fearful
Execution Conquest Nets Great
Britain a Vast Amount of Terri
tory
LONDON Colonial Secretary Cham
berlain announced in the house of
commons Tuesday that as a result of
the British military operations in the
Sokoto and Kanao districts ending
with the capture of the emir of Kaho
00000 square miles of territory had
jbeen added to Northern Nigeria and
would he administered by the govern
ment of that territory
Interesting details have been re
ceived here of the capture of Sokoto
March 14 by the British column com
manded by Colonel Morland The en
gagement lasted two and a half hours
iThe British numbered about 500 men
Nvith four quick firing guns and four
Maxims The enemys horse and foot
Soldiers were estimated to number
6000 men their riflemen being armed
with modern rifles and using smoke
less powder The British camped dur
ing the night of March 13 one and a
half miles from Sokoto after a hard
march of 100 miles from Kaura with
but litle water and having passed
through a difficult country
At daybreak March 14 the British
moved out in which Sokoto lies Im
mediately after the British appeared
over a ridge the Fulahs charged with
a fanatical bravery undeterred by a
withering Maxim and rifle fire They
had no proper leadership but the iso
lated bands continued to advance owr
heaps of dead and dyinjj often only
individuals reaching within a yard of
the square where refusing quarter
they were shot down while shouting
Allah with their last breath
The main body of the natives was
finally routed leaving a remnant of
about thirty chiefs around the emirs
great white flag These chiefs were
tiefiant to the last and their corpses
were found hedging the standard when
the British entered the city which
consisted mostly of thatched houses
its semi ruined walls extending seven
miles around the place and were
pierced by eight gates
EXECUTES THE INDIAN CHIEF
Was a Leader of Guerrillas During the
Revolution
PANAMA Victoriano Lorenzo the
Indian chief who was a leader of guer
rillas during the recent revolution and
who was sentenced to death by a court
martial Friday on various charges of
having committed serious crimes while
in the field was executed by shooting
here Governor Mutis and the consu
lar representatives petitioned General
Briceno the military commander of
the isthmus to postpone the execution
until the government at Bogota had
time to answer a cablegram sent it
asking that the Indians sentence be
changed to life imprisonment Gen
eral Briceno refused this petition say
ing an exemplary punishment was nec
essary The shooting of Lorenzo has
created a profound impression here
as it isthe first execution for a
ical crime in Panama
Lorenzo died bravely Before he
was shot he said he had only been an
accomplice and not the principal in
the crimes of which he was accused
Land Grabber Sentenced
ST LOUIS Frederick W Fcut Jr
an attorney was on Friday sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary by
Judge Amidon of South Dakota sitting
for Judge Adams in the United States
district court for violation of tnei
homestead laws Fout filed motions
for a new trial and arrest of judgment
hut they were overruled and he de
cided to appeal
Forty One Years on Same Farm
SIOUX FALLS S D Foster T
Wheeler a pioneer settler of Charles
Mix county has made a remarkable
record residing on the same farm for
forty one years -
Jealousy Is cause of Crime
ST LOUIS Leon Saunders a bil
liard hall employe shot and fatally
wounded Mary Burke with whom he
had been living and then blew out his
own brains
U P UNDER FIRE
Called to Account Regarding Grain
Rates
WASHINGTON The Interstate
Commerce commission has begun an
investigation to determine whether the
payment or allowances made by the
Union Pacific to Peavey Co of Kan
sas City and Council Bluffs for grain
elevator facilities and the grain rates
made to that concern are in violation
of the interstate commerce law
The Union Pacific is made respond
ent in the proceedings and has been
ordered to file a full answer to the
charges by May 25 and to satisfactorily
explain the alleged rebates at a hear
ing to be called hereafter
The commission in ordering the in
vestigation says it appears that the
Peavey company is purchasing grain
at western points of origin and ship
ping over the Union Pacific to Council
Bluffs and Kansas City and through
those points to eastern destinations
that the Union Pacific uses the ele
vators of Peavey Co for handling
and transferring grain for which fa
cilities it pays certain stipulated rates
generally amounting to 1 cents per
100 pounds These rates it is charged
result in large payments or allowances
by the Union Pacific to Peavey Co
and apaprently are excessivend grett
er than charges generally imposed or
allowed at Kansas City Council Bluffs
and other elevator points
The commission says it appears that
the rebates are not only on the grain
of Pavey Co but on grain of all
other shippers passing through the
Peavey elevators and that the allow
ances may subject other grain shippers
to unjust discrimination and unjust
transportation charges and that they
enable Peavey Co to obtain net rates
less than the regular drafts
The International Great Northern
and the St Louis Southwestern rail
ways have filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission answers to the
order calling for information regard
ing class and commodity rates from
St Louis to Texas common points
Both lines admit making certain ad
vances but deny that the advances
were material or that they were made
to earn unreasonable revenue The In
ternational Great Northern says that
its cost of operation has been in
creased that to reconstruct the bridge
equipment will cost upwards of 100
000 and avers that its net earnings for
the three months ending March 31
1903 were largely decreased The other
road makes similar allegation
WOULD COMPEL ARBITRATION
Movement That Is Being Inaugurated
by Chicago Roads
CHICAGO A movement has begun
by the management of Chicago rail
roads to compel labor organizations to
agree to submit differences to arbitra
tion whenever negotiations between
roads and employes fail The leading
movement is apparently being taken
by the Rock Island the Burlington and
one or two other strong western lines
Thus far however the proposition
regarding ultimate arbitration has
been either refused or dodged by the
labor organizations
The arbitration clause is being pro
posed with a view of insuring results
and increasing the probability of both
sides beginning negotiations with a
case which they are not afraid to sub
mit to the nublic
MABINI ENDS A BUSY LIFE
Cholera Catches Former Filipino Sec
retary of Foreign Affairs
MANILA Mabinl the former minis
ter of loreign affairs of the Filipino
government died of cholera at mid
night Thursday He was attacked
with the disease on Tuesday last
Since his return from Guam Ma
binia had lived in seclusion Captur
ed correspondence of the Rizal prov
ince insurgents showed that he had
been in communication with them but
the letters were not of a seditious
nature
Shuts Out Automobilists
BUFFALO N Y As a result of an
order just issued by the Canadian cus
toms officials no more American auto
mobilists will be permitted to go into
Canada with their automobiles without
paying all duties The duty is 25 per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
machine and the duty will be collect
ed each time a machine is taken
into Canada The duty is plac
ed not on machines of American
make
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GAME WARDEN AFTER SEINERS
Consternation Created Among Sports
men at Humboldt
HUMBOLT Game Warden George
B Sirapkins of Lincoln was in the
city creating quite a disturbance
among the local sportsmen The sec
tion foreman and three or four mem
bers of the force took a vacation Sun
day and the game warden alleges re
paired to a pond west of the city part
of which is on the right of way of the
road and part on the land of A E
Stalder and with a seine took from
the water a number of fiish in viola
tion of the law There were six in
the party and some of them protested
vigorously when a message from the
warden reached them instructing them
to call at the Park hotel and fix the
matter up The number of nsh charg
ed is ten and under the law the fine
would he 550 which the warden as
serts the men have agreed to pay On
the other hand the accused men claim
that the warden is not empowered to
fix and collect a fine without giving
them a trial in some court of compe
tent jurisdiction So the matter is at
present unsettled
ORDER IN THE LILLIE CASE
The Mandate of Chief Justice Sullivan
Received
The order of Chief Justice Sullivan
suspending the sentence of Mrs Lil
lie the Butler county woman who is
under life sentence in the penitentiary
for the murder of her husband has
been received at the office of the
clerk of the supreme court A copy
of the order has been made and for
warded to the sheriff of Butler coun
ty This will leave the woman in But
ler county until the supreme court
can review the case It will probably
be six months before the case can
be disposed of since the supreme
court will take a vacation before the
case can be reached in the regular or
der for such cases This means that
Mrs Lillie will enjoy the comforts of
her private apartments at the Butler
county court house until fall
Stock Drowned at Taylor
TAYLOR The heaviest rain storm
of the season in fact for years visit
ed this section The canyons were
all filled by raging torrents of water
which carried everything before it
washing away numerous bridges and
drowning several head of young cattle
The waters when they reached the
Loup river valley spread out over the
level country between the hills and
river to a depth of several feet
Osceola Has Two Attorneys
OSCEOLA This village now has
two village attorneys The board of
village trustees had an adjourned
meeting and elected ex Senator M A
Mills for the ensuing municipal year
The board of officers now stands F
D Mills city clerk J C Arnold treas
urer William Vanhoosen marshal N
B Nelson poundmaster and ex-Senator
M A Mills village attorney
Inspector for Nebraska Militia
FORT LEAVENWORTH Kan
Lieutenant Colonel M B Hughes
Tenth cavalry has arranged with the
adjutant general of the state of Ne
braska to begin the inspection of state
troops on the 25th inst but his mem
bership on the court martial trying a
number of student officers at the post
may prevent this It is understood he
will ask to be relieved from the court
so as to enable him to carry out his
arrangements with the Nebraska adju
tant general
Soldiers Talk to Children
YORK Soldiers of the civil war
and citizens will speak to York county
school children on May 22 A part
of the afternoon of May 22 in all the
schools will be devoted to speeches
of experience of the great civil con
flict and to teaching practical lessons
of the war
Injuries Prove Fatal
NEBRASKA CITY Herbert Mayer
a 7-year-old son of Henry Meyer tried
to cross the track of the Missouri Pa
cific aheaa of the passenger train
from Omaha and was caught on the
pilot of the engine and thrown some
distance His body was so badly
bruised that he died three hours aft
erwards
Johnson County Mortgage Record
TECUMSEH During the month of
April there were twenty farm mort
gages filed in the county records of
Johnson county They aggregated
37255
Remains Brought Back
WAHOO The remains of Alfred T
Davis who died last September while
serving as a soldier in the Philippine
islands arrived here for burial De
ceased enlisted from this county two
years ago
Corn Damiged by Rain
OAKLAND Neb Considerable
corn was washed out by the recent
hard rains and the fields will have
to he replanted on account of poor
seed
THE STATE IN BRIEF
B Meyers Co Norfolk sustained
a fire loss of 2000
The G A R encampment in 1901
will be held at Kearney
The Wymore board of education re
elected most of its old teachers
W J Bryan Is billed to speak at
the commencement exercises at Beat
rice June 5
The next state reunion of old sol
diers will be held at Omaha The date
has not yet been fixed
The appje crop in Cass county it is
said will be a normal one notwith
standing the cold weather
Cedar Creek Cass county must get
along this year without a saloon li
cense having been refused
The Grand Army encampment at
Fremont elected Judge Lee Ssteele of
Omaha department commander
A farm of 1C0 acres one mile south
of Geneva sold a year ago for 8000
and was sold last week for 10250
A three-year-old child living near
Elmwood died from eating tablets
used as a preventive for chicken chol
era
The saloon fight at McCool Junction
has resulted in a withdrawal of both
the remonstrance and the petition and
McCool will go dry
A special freight train on the Rock
Island went into the ditch nine miles
west of Fairbury near Thompson No
one was seriously injured
Thomas Masur a popular young far
mer who lives five and one half miles
northwest of Tecumseh shot and kill
ed himself The shooting is thought
to be accidental
Sheriff McBride of Cass county was
notified that a team carriage and har
ness were stolen from M S Peterson
a farmer who resides in the western
part of the county
There is much push toward getting
the new building for the Young Mens
Christian association at Beatrice
Twelve thousand dollars has been
raised 8000 more is nepded
At Omaha Judge Dickinson issued
a temporary restraining order against
the mayor and city council restraining
them from passing or approving the
ordinance having for its purpose the
redisricting of the city
An insane man giving his name as
Clancy was brought to Beatrice from
Liberty by Deputy Sheriff McGier and
lodged in jail He is badly deranged
and has been sleeping in hay stacks
and roaming about from farm to farm
in that vicinity for some time
Believing a collision to be imminent
William Batten of Wymore conductor
of Burlington passenger train No 90
jumped from his train near Lincoln
and received injuries which a few
hours later resulted in his death
Charles F Brundage engineer was so
severely injured that he may die
The Forepaugh Sells circus was
stuck in the mud at Nebraska City
and was unable to give a performance
Thousands of people from surround
ing towns and the country packed the
streets all day and were sorely disap
pointed by the failure of the circus
people to provide entertainment
Louise Moore an 18-year-old mall
carrier for the rural service was
struck by No 4 Great Western train
near Bondurant while driving across
the track and sustained serious inju
ries Miss Moore was coming in from
her daily trip and did not see the train
until it was too late to avoid the dan
ger
Dr Gandy of Humboldt last week
made a shipment of a carload of bees
to the Watson ranch near Kearney
which shipment makes the people at
the ranch the second largest bee keep
ers of the state
Rev W L Porter of Salem presi
dent of the Richardson County Sunday
School association has issued a pro
gram for the coming meeting which
will be held in Falls City June 1 3
The Beveridges have a place on the
list as do also Field Secretary Steid
ley and Miss Mamie Haines of St
Andrew Nelson a Norwegian farm
er living near Ewing Holt county is
in the county jail at ONeill having
confessed to a criminal assault upon
his daughter Mary 16 years of age
A complaint charging him with the
crime was filed by two other daugh
ters of the accused Nelson is said
to have made a clean breast of the
crime to County Attorney Mullen who
filed a complaint against the man
charging incest
The board of regents of the State
Louis
university met and denied the request
of the interurban railroad for a right
of way through the state farm It
accepted the resignation of C S Lob
ingier as professor of law granted
certificates to thirty eight members of
the medical school provided for a
three years course for the law school
and located the new administration
building
The Plattsmouth city council has
passed an ordinance protecting all
1 vegetation within its jurisdiction
Laconic Lord Rucscll
Lord Russell of Killowen used to re
late this story I remember a caao in
which a very innocent remark of my
own elicited the fact of a previous
conviction A prisoner was addressing
the jury very effectively in his own be
half but he spoke in a low voice and
not hearing some of his observations
I said What did you Bay What wub
your last sentence Six months my
lord he replied It was Lord Russell
whp in reply to the question What Ib
the extreme penalty for bigamy ut
tered this classic Two
HALF HATES
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WABASH RAILROAD
TJic Wabash offers many rates to tho
East from ChleaKo
Bellefontalne O and return Sold
May 29th to June 3rd 735
Boston Mass and return Sold July
1st to 5th 2100
Saratoga N Y and return Sold
July 5th and Cth 1745
Detroit Mich and return Sold July
15th and lGth G7fi
All tickets rending over the Wabash
R R between Chicago and Buffalo aro
Kood In either direction via steamer be
tween Detroit and Buffalo without
extra charge except meals and berth
Ftopovers allowed Remember thiu It
The Cool Northern Route and all
Airents can sell tickets from Chicago
East via the Wabash
For folders and all Information ad
dress HARRY E MOORES
G A P D
Omaha Nob
Respect is the featherweight cham
pion of love
Iowa Farms S4 Per Acre Conn
balnnce Jt crop till paid IIIIMIATJ Slotir City la
Sweet things are usually sticky
Thats why so many young men got
stuck on pretty girls
GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS
Cko tho best Thats why thoy buy Red
Cross Ball Blue At leadiuggrcjors 5 contu
A missionary in the nand is worth
two in the bush
To Cure a Cold in One day
Take Laxative Broiuo Quinine Tablets All
druggifati refund money if itails to euro 20c
If there is anything I hate it Is
for people to try to make me over on
their last Drake Watson
All creameries ue butler
Why not do as they do use
TINT BUTTER COLOR
color
JUNK
There are two varieties of the smart
woman One has a high forehead and
the other hasnt
PIsoa Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds N 7 Sauukl
Ocean Grove N J Feb 17 1000
A Particular Would be Groom
Charles Thenert a fairly well-to-do
Long Island farmer wants a wife but
imposes certain conditions on candi
dates for a corner in his affections
For instance the lady must be a good
housekeeper over 30 years of age Ho
is willing to buy his wife two gowns
every year to cost not more than 20
each with shoes hats etc to corre
spond The future Mrs Thenert must
agree to forego high heeled slippers
open work stockings cigarettes and
poodle dogs the would be bridgegroom
tninking such frivolities are not suited
to a farmers wife
Only One Lance
At a dinner Chancellor Vo Euleow
gave before his recent departure for
Italy Emperor William met Professor
Delitszch for the first time since his
majesty criticised the professors lec
ture on the Babylonian origin of tho
Bible The professor is hard of hear
ing and the emperors part of the dia
logue was consequently in a rather
high voice His majesty greeted him
with Well professor we have broken
a lance together since I saw you
Only one lance your majesty re
sponded the professor to the fact that
he had never replied to the emperor
An Old Ladys Discovery
Garnett Ark May 18th For 18
years Mrs Mary Dunlop of this placo
has suffered with Kidney trouble
which was so bad at times that it
made her life a burden She tried
much medicine and many treatments
but got no better
At last however Mrs Dunlop
claims to have found a perfect rem
edy and she is so pleased at the won
derful cure she herself has received
that she is telling all her friends and
praising the medicine to everyono
she meets
The name of this medicine is
Dodds Kidney Pills and it has done
wonderful work for Mrs Dunlop
Everybody is talking about it and
some people are claiming to have
been cured of Rheumatism by it
A Mrs Garrett who lives in Brazils
this state was at the point of death
with some Cerebro Spinal trouble
and was saved by Dodds Kidney
Pills
It is certain that no other medicine
ever introduced here has done so
much good in such a short time
Gossip isnt real bad unless the tell
ing of it saakes an hour seem like two
minutes
Mirvfrlilrflr
liomeseekers
ExcarslQns
April 21st
TUESDA YS May 5th 19th
June 2nd 16th
To certain points in Southwest Mis
souri Kansas Oklahoma Texa3 Ar
kansas etc at very low rates Tick
ets limited to 21 day3 for the round
trip Stop overs allowed on the go
ing journey withia transit limit of 15
days For further information call on
or address any agent of the company
or Thomas F Godfrey Pass Ticket
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CITY TICKET OFFICE
Souilicaot Corner 1 1 th and Douslan Sty
Omaha Xb
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