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LosAngQles claims to haveaagreat
er stretch of attractlveocean beach
in Its vicinity than any other
l can city
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The French chamber of deputies
9 UUO aUILCU LilV 1 CfUl I li lilt LUUillilL
tee validating the election of Count
Boni de Castellane
7 George Meredith the novelist who
7 has bdenill in London for some time
Z suffered a relapse and his condition
f is announced to be critical
Tj9 number of fleathB jaacpearJlftX
London was 150 years ago 51 per
1000 In 1820 it was 29 per 1000 and
S it now is about 18 per 1000
Two hundred machinists -employed
j in various machine shops -in -
more struck to enforce a dbmandTfor
4 a 10 per centincreasein payl -
The Inland Steel companys -mills at
Indiana Harbor were shut down in
definitely The machinists -went-on a
strike and 800 men are out of workk
v The railways of the United States
4 kill and injure each year more per-
sons than were killed and injured on
s both sides durjngtbeBpprwarwJufiIiJ
jusiea uiree years
s The post6ffice department hasjraadei
I an allowance of r21p00 forthepay
5 ment of salaries of additional carriers
t to be appointed in St Louis during
the next fiscal year
d Detective Dinan of San Francisco
left for Chicago with requisition pa
i pers for Charles Marco who is want-
i edr on a charge of robbing Mrs Julia-
flvlein of 51000 and valuable jewelry
The postmaster of New Yorkbas
Kbeen authorized to make 806 promo
tions in his office involving 85600
OTlfl rfc nnnninf1 1 tifi hAAii Innol
at 600 a year all tcTtake effect June
Secretary Cortelvou announced the
appointment of H O Weaver ofOhio
to be his private secretary Mr Wear
ver is 30 years of age and entered the
government service in 1894 as a
nographer
President Francis- of tthe
exposition with several other
sttion iofficialsrcalledIMrTon Sedretary
Moody to express the hope that some
naval vessels wouldl4be sent tor St
re if
Louis during the exposition lt v
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B C Price professor of horticulture
and jforestryfof the Iowa State Agri
cultural college bas tendered his
ignation He has beeh elected lhead ji
of the college of agriculture of -the
jOhio State univerity at ColumbusO
Circuit jAtjtorney Folk of St Louis
has informationrehica may lead to
the indictment of easternjcapitalists
for bribery in connection jwith the
transit fbillwhich was passed by the
JijspuriyeeistatUre inU899W J V
In the last twelve months Miss
Roosevelt has attended 408 dinners
680 teas flireceptionsTlTl dances
She has made 164 caUs and Snaken
hands wVh1 325of people1 This be
sides all her private engagements
colleciop wlltie tgfin up in all
the Caojic hurces if UI Colorado
next Sunday the proceeds of which
will beJdevoted to building51 cathoUc
ohurehes ndnstitntiol3SIcv9efe
tdestroyedjsby erfltradsnKalaMSF
alSfinBJBsqciaJIqsulias
Ibeen officially notified that at least
jseven teams representing the United
States Great Britain France Noi
way Canada Natal and Australia wfll
fcompete forthe Jalmjtrop Swft
fzerlandana Rhodesia are j possible
competitors B
ji The armytraiisportSfie1rnan sailed
from Sap Francisco Jor Manila via
XJuam witKaiSTsaTEfoliSpassehgers orie
Squadron of the Twelfth cavalry arid
ithrce pfn the Spvgnteesth infantity
NewJy coined Filipino pesos worth i
LC0OiO00and 80000ia -old was taken
ion the transport niI ii
H Postmaster Generate Payne1 awarded
the
roraef
contract for nriuting thejajaoney
blanks of the goyernmentto
PaulHerman oFRulFerf ord N J Mr
Herman wasiBWbst Of fourteen bid-
dBrs and be aafd of ilie contract x
-Which involves the navment bf be i
next fiscal year will- effecta having
iofveariy45000 on n the y ears con
tract
John Mitchell president of the Uni
ted Mine Workers of America is
about to enter the literary field- He
Admits that he has been writing a
book and that he expects to -have
it published within the next few
months
Charles Mathewsou of Nebraska has
been appointed superintendent of the
Omaha and Winnebagd agency in Ne
braska The appointment wias made
by the secretary of the interion -lit
Mathewson formerly was agent at that
agency
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J S GETS COALING STATION
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Palma Believes Senate Will Ratify
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All uutstanaing Agreements uerore
nujuui iiiiiij aitu wwniwiiii kiiw nw
ountries Solidly Together
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HAVANA aineic treatv covennK
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th6 naval anSfeoaling station bases
and the treaty placing the Isle aof
Pines wholly under Cuban sovereignty
were signed Thursday at noon
Thfi twn trsntiRS vhiph nrf theV
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last cne six Detween me unnea
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Sates and Cuba were subscribed in
dupircate at the secretary of states
office Minister Squires Senor Gar
cia Montes secretary of the treasury
and secreiaEyof -state in- enor
Zaldos absence signing for their re
spectfVebflmrlestTw2ass
The Isle of Pnes Treaty while turn
ing overJmthe island jto xtne absolute
sovereigntypf Puba safeguard the
rights and pfivilggesjlpttheJAmerican
Residents an thejisland as thougjiithey
wereror American errjtorj Proper-
lty judicial aideduca1tonal rights are
especially guaranegd It is poinded
put thatx tljeArnerica Jand holders
areL better off Jn respect tp taxation
thanvthey wfluldbe under v Unid
Statesusovereignty fl
TJie occupation jqf the naval and
coaling stations will be perpetual the
rental prpe befng purely nominal and
based on the cost oi acquiring the sta
tions and sites by the Cuban govern-
ment the United States advancing
n ii i5 jri a a ji v j i
any money necessary for the purchase
of private lands at Guantanamo and
Bahia Honda
The seriatSfcomimttee on foreign
VelatiqnVs delying ttie ratlficltion by
6stpdningSfction on the treaty
W February1l67 conceding thetwo
naval statiohs to ther United1TState3
1 The rerasbnthe corniriittee Jgleb -is
thafIfc is dejsirablevt6 await
poof the joint commission of tnited
States and Cuban engineers whiciris
n6 itfgrkIngfoutiihe
est statfon atuantdnamot ii
irpresidentiPalmd andthe leading ad-
ministration senators maintain that dll
the treaties will beatified -before the
adjournment of congress
WASHINGT recretary Moody
expressed great sajtjsfactioa on shear-
ing that thecoal stations treatythad
beea signed Jtisi earnestly hoped the
i Cuban sennte beforejats adjournment
will ratify ithe treatj as the inayy
departmentiiaitanxious to prooeednat
jpnciwith work on the statiousrvfr
Preliminary sunyeys of the land- al
ready jhave been made at Guantanamo
and 01ympiahasbeenretained in Car-
ribean wiitefsnto bb Yeadto land ma-
terial and begm work as soon af au
thorization comes from Washington
About 5100000 is immediately avail
able for beginning the work at
tanamo and will be used probably in
the construction of a wharf and- small
They Are Asked to Explain
1WASHINGTpNwD Cf The treas
uryh department -called upon the two
United fsfates customs officials who
are said to Tie connected with the
Columbia Gold Mining company for
a statement of their relations with
the company and a statement of
their cohducfm permitting their offi
cial positfons to be used to further
the interestsqf11 the fcompany An
answer7 1s1 expected ithri twp or
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GOV CUMMINS
Only One Contest for Place In Iowa
Republican Convention
Governor -A B CUMMINS of
Lieutenant Govprnor
VJOHjN IERRIOTT of Adair
Railroad Commissioner t
D J PALMER ofwashington
Jdage Slipreme Coiirt
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CHARLES A BISHOP of Polk
Supt of Public Instmvction
J F RIGGS of Sigourney
DES MOINES The republican state
convention nominated the foregoing
ticket and adopted the platform of
jprinciples All the candidates wero
renominated by acclamation withi the
exception of the state superintendent
for which office Mr Riggs was nomi
nated on the third ballot his oppo
nents being the present superintend
ent C Barrett ot Osage and H L
Adams of Tyest Union
Harmony marked the proceedings of
the convention all of its actions be
ing by unanimous vote wtn the ex
ception of hie nomination of statue su
perintendent but affer t6 ticket had
been completed and the platform
adopted speeches were made which in
dicated that the republican leaders of
lie state are not entirely agreed as
to thedetails of the tariff policy The
tariff plank adopted was one pre pared
tby Senaton Allison after conferences
Wiith representative oi the
state No objection was made to it in
thejj committee of resolutions nor in
its presentation to the convention
Governor Cummins in his speech ac
cepting denomination approved the
I platform in itsentirely but announced
that he would continue to hold to all
the views expressed in his speeches
within the past two years
DRAWS
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JAPAN TOWARD RUSSIA
Visit of Kropatkin to Japan Seems
ST Petersburg The visit
the Russian war minister
of
General
iRropatkin to JapdnJ has according
to the Japanese newspapers had a
Very satisfafctory effect W the rela
tions between Russia and3apanand
haspaved the way for a
ment T
The newspapers of Japan in ex-
hpf e3SiIgsa trgractIoiratTKis state of
affafrs Hllutfe tbv General Kropatkin
as the harbinger of vpeace and point
duf that he has been the mikados
guesfat thVshiba palace whereno
foreigneT Except princes of the royal
blood had ever before resided
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Government Sues for 2000000
BUTTE Mont The United States
covernment has Instituted suit in the
federal court againsi the Anaconda
Copper company the Bitter Root De-
yeloprxienjjegmpany and- the Llarcus
Pajy estate wUiam scajiop anu otn
ertfQr 20j000Q being the value of
finber alleged to hae been unjaw
fully cut from the public domain 4n
western Montana F A Mavnard
special United States attorney was
sent from Washington to bring this
suit and prosecute similar cases
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Russia Still Opposes Pact
PEKIN Prince Ching president of
thdrforefgn office returned from the
summer palace in order to hold a con
ference with Minister Conger on the
commercial treaty between China and
the -United States It is understood
the Russian opposition which the Chi
nese foreign office insists prevents its
signature- is unchanged though
friends of the treafrofess the be
lief Uhatthe protocol will remove op
position
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General Nebraska JNewsj I
Railway Trainmen a large delegation
of whom came in from Fremont The
citizens of the town his former home
joined with the trainmen in the serv
ices and turned out in large num
bers
Chief Deputy Game and Fish Com
missioner George L Carter assumed
the duties of his office July 1st He
has finished the appointment of 200
special deputies throughout the state
who will see to the enforcement of the
game and fish laws These men serve
without fixed compensation save for
the fees for arrests made Commis
sions are being sent to them by the
secietary of the commission
The B M crop reports says there
has been rains all along the lines and
in the eastern section where the rains
were heaviest the soil is In fine con
dition while it is not quite so fooa
THE STATE IN BRIEF
Judge B S Baker formerly of Om
aha has been elected president of the
Commerciar club of Albuquerque N
M This action was taken at the re-
FORFEITING SCHOOL LEASES
Interest Delinquent on About One
Hundred Thousand Acres
LINCOLN Two
of forfeiture of school
thousand notices
land leases
cent annual meeting of the clubliiaVe been sent out by Land Commis
which is one of the strongest organi
sations in the southwest with 20p
members and a 100000 club building
Rex the 4-year-old son of Ed Green
was killed at Hartington by being run
over by a lumber wagon The hirejl
mari had the team hitched to fchewS
on standing by the house when Re
climbed onto the wheel the team
started and the wheel passed over
hjm just above the heart He gasped
tvvice and died
The Lancaster county assessment
has just been finished and the assess
ment rolls closed for the year The
total valuation of property listed is
860307790 an increase of 306
90343 This sura was fattened by
10000 added to the Lincoln Gascom
panys valuatipn by the county board
of equalization
Mrs D S Guild and her son George
have returned to their home in Platts
mouth from West Point N Y where
the latter graduated from the United
States military academy George will
remain at home until the latter part
of September when he will go to San
Francisco Cay and report for duty in
the Philippines
Details of a tragedy which happen
ed near Lomax Custer county have
reached Broken Bow wherein Delia
the 3-year-old daughter of Mr and
Mrs Charles Brandt was shot and
instantly killed by Jacob the
son of D C Reynolds The shoot
ing was accidental the children being
allowed to play with firearms
John Hill who for several years
has been in the employ of the F E
M V railroad at Fremont died in
the hospital at Omaha and was buried
at Clay Center by the Brotherhood or
sioner Follmer Nearly 100000 acres
of land will be affected and the de
faulted interest will run up into the
thousands The exact amount is not
attainable now and will not be known
until the balancing of the books takes
place It is estimated that it will not
f all below 25000 This represents
been to wait until adtual delinquency
occurs before starting in on thor prep
aration of the notices - Deputy Eaton
has changed this and had the notices
prepared in advance so that the state
will lose no interest Mr Follmer has
been pushing collections vigorously
In the old days delinquents were giv
en all the time they desired and in
the end a good many fo them duped
the state In one case when Mr Foll
mer1 took hold the delinquency cov
ered a period of thirteen years His
practice has been to forfeitall leases
just as soon as the law will permit
where the holders do not comply with
the terms of their agreement
NOjRFOLK MAN KILLS HIMSELF
Goes to Room in Hotel at Wayne and
Suicides
WAYNFj A man registered at the
Boyd hotel by the name of George
E Weiseman Norfolk Neb He ask
ed for a oom and was at once shown
to one Shortly afterward a report
was heard but nothing was thought
of it as the reports of firecrackers
are heard frequently At 615 the
clerk went to his room and called
Weiseman but received no response
On pushing the door open he discover
ed the man lying on the bed with a
revolver in his hand
liams was summoned and it was fountLj
that the man had been dead some
time and that death must have been
instantaneous as there was no evi
dence of a struggle and his hand
grasped the revolver by his side as he
lay on the bed
York Wants a New Depot
YORK York business men are
fating the building of the Burlington
depot From time to time they
thought they received some encour
agement from the Burlington officials
further west There was plenty of rainjf there is any city in Nebraska-need-
uiuug uie anu ouenuan
branches and the range is in good
condition Corn is doing well and the
farmers have not been deterred from
cultivating it because of the rains
The June treasury statement just is
sued by Treasurer Mortensen shows
that the state has on hand in the vari
ous funds 29488299 of which 293
47515 is op deposit in several banks
of the state A substantial increase
has been made in the general fund
since the last statement which show-
j i
ed but a balance of 495 Nearly all
of the agricultural college endowment
fund amounting to over 22000 has
been invested during the past month in
state warrants
The chief of police of Omaha has
decreed that street preaching will not
be allowed This order does not in
terfere with Salvation army work
Lemuel Goldsberry Jr vfas drqwn
ed in the Nemaha river at Auburn He
and another lad by the name of Hays
were out for a swim They had be
gan to slide into shallow water The
bank was steep and slippery and just
beyond the shallow water the river
was twenty feet deep Goldsberry
slid into the deep water and not be
ing much of a swimmer failed to
rise
The work of tearing down and re
moving the false work under the new
massive steel Burlington railroad
bridge at Plattsmouth which spans
the Missouri river has been accom
plished The false work alone it is
said represented 300 carloads of tim
ber The work of removing the old
bridge and putting in its place a new
one strong enough to carry twice the
burden of the former one was accom
plished without the stopping of a sin
gle regular train on the road
Notice has just been received in the
office of the board of irrigation that
the government has withdrawn a large
tract of land in the extreme western
part of the state under the provisions
made by the reclamation act of the
last congress
Chief Deputy Oil Inspector Church
has received a telegram from the
Standard Oil company announcing the
shipment to Omaha of four cars of
oil fr6m the refineries of the com
pany at Noedesha Kan This is the
first Kansas oil shipped into Nebraska
trame structure is one of the oldest
depots in the state and is not Targe
enough to accommodate the business
and the public
Affirms the Sentence
The supreme court at -its-recent-sit-ting
affirmed the colrvlclfonJ6TTred
Reno found guilty in Sheridan coun
ty on a charge oi having sent threaten
ing letters through the mails Reno
had left the country and the action
6f the court was kept secret until he
could be located The man was found
in Montana and the documents were
therefore given to the public
Names a New Member
-E Ratnour of Weeping Water has
been named as a member of the board
of secretaries of the state board of
health which has charge of the issu
ance of -certificates to embalmers of
the dead The appointment was made
from three names suggested by the
state association
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j Considers Oil Prospect Good
LOUISVILLE John Joseph of Wa
hoo Neb was in town and after
looking oyer the prospects statesthat
indications for oil are excellent
Big Land Sale Near Sidney
SIDNEY One of the largest land
sales that has taken place in some
time occurred here Zadock H Clark
and Henry F Han ton of South Oma
h sold to Henry Armstrong of Glid
den la 4640 acres of land twelve
miles north of the city This land
will be highly improved and stocked
with the -finest grades- of 1 cattle air
horses obtainable in Iowa - SeveTal
other -large sales are now on tap and
many farmers are buying
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Crown Prince Comes of Agat
On jMBy 6 the Crown Princdj of
PruBBia jandr German emperor
Tecafne Hf ge The faecond son of
thwGermaaemperorPrInce ERcI
Frederick will celebrate hlslst
birthday on July 7 ls04 and the third
son Prince Adelbort on July 14 1905
The fourtu son Prince AugusteSWIl
llam wiii be 16 years old next Janu
ary Oscar is a year younger while
Cue sixth son will be 13 next Decem
ber The kaisers only daughter it
the youngest child being 11 years
old
Stops the Cough and 8
Works Off the Cold
Laxative Bronio Quinine Tublots PrfcjjSoc
Calvert Estate Changes Handsi
Mount Airy the famous Calverg es
tate near Washington founded b
first LortMBaltrmore and heldb
six months default and under thejaw Jarnilyfor moreJJjan 200 years fhas
the lessees have nfcetJW in which OlaLlnt ha 3
e esiaie Ot PVU ucojs iitts
toipay up u mey ao npt ap so tney t foxWR - PrnnpS oihunn of Ohio
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n oniy get jnejeaseenejvect oy bidders lor
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paying up ana in auuition a lease ieo
or 50 cerftff for each forty acresr
The usual practice heretofore has
he property was Secretary Hay
PJsos Cure cannot oe too highly apolccn of as
ft cough cure J W OUihkn 222 Third Ave
N Minneapolis Minn Jan 0 1000
1 Gargantuan Feast
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Ajmonster banquet Jhas -just been
fiven 6y Wealthy land owner at
jjuimporle in Nqrraandy to celebrate
he simultaneous wedding of his four
thildren two sons and two daughters
No fewer than 1606 guests sat down
o the feast which took place in the
Dpen air The bill of fare included
Sve cattle and sixteen Iambs So
lavish was the scale of ordering that
though the TUCTguests are reported
to Juave had magnificent appetites
there was mqre than enough for all
Nor was their thirst neglected for
the guests emptied ten large barrels
of wine and fifteen of cider besides
lisposing of much else of a liquid
charaqter
To the housewife whflu has notyot
bccocie acquaptedith the- now
XhUissiofveryday5 useiTthe market
of Defiance Water Starch be
made at once Not alone because it
is guaranteed by the manufacturers
to be superior Ato any other brand
but because aeaclu10c package con
tains 16 oz3vhileraH the other kinds
contain but 12 ozs It is safe to say
that iii ladyrtwhosonce uses Teflanco
Starch wIJJjJvep other - Quality
and quantity must win
A Dreaafdl Change
The New York Rialto is laughing
Coroner lover -a story told Moa Will Carelton
Members of Embalming Board
The state board of health met and
appointed as member of the embalm
ing board to serve three years E
Ratenour of Weeping Water The
other members of the board are Wil
liam Hill of Hebron and Brewer of
South Omaha The appointment is
made every years from a list of three
names recommended by the State Em
balmers association
Ith e jjoe t vh o i al sjcL a jubl i shpr Che
otner day ne appeareu at nis omfe
In now coat which he hung up It
fell to the dusty floor The office boy
picked the garmentup without brush
ing it and helped Mr Carleton put it
on Catching a glimpse of his own
disreputabfq appearanee in a mirror
the pofetthundered jfBpyl What do
you mean By this I come in here
looking like a publisher and you send
me out lopking like an author
Seventeen Cent Rations
It is pointed out that the cost of
feeding the militia which went to St
Louis was 60 cents per man per day
The cost of feeding the regulars was
17 cents Here is a typical program
for one day Breaktast Oatmeal and
milk pork sausage potatoes bread
and coffee Dinner Bread and coffee
baked beans pork catsup Supper
Bean soup cold corned beef potatoes
bread and coffee This was varied
from day to day in the way of bacon
ham fresh beefj canned beef peas
anions and other vegetables The
regulars were better fed at 17 cents
per day than the militia at 60 cents
- -The-Oldest Public Building
If we seek ithe oldest civic building
in the United States we shall find our
selves in the -quaint old adobe palace
Qtthegavernors -in Santa Fe N
This long low structure in the sec
ond oldest city of the United States
has been the seat of government un
der the Spanish Mexican and Ameri
can regimes- for nearly 300 years It
now contains the museum of the New
Mexico Historical society of which
L Bradford Prince a native New
xorker and former governor of New
Mexico is president Governor Prince
considers this the most historic
building in the United States
If a man has a poor memory it is
up to him to stick to the truth
For Aged People
Bellfiower Mo July 6th Mrr G V
Bohrer of this place has written an
open letter5tCTthe oldmen andwom
en of the country advising them to
use Dodds Kidrifey Pills asa remedy
for those forms of Kidney Trouble go
common among the aged Mr Bohr
er says r C C v
I suffered myself for years with
my Kidneys and urinary organs I
was obliged to get up as many as
seven or eight i times - during the
night r
1 tried raany thingswith no suc
cess till I saw one of Dodds Alma
nacs and read f what Dodas Kid
ney Pills were doing for old people
I bought two jboxes from our drug
gist arrdTegan to use them at once
In a very short time I was well This
Is overa year ago and my trouble
has notreturned so that I know my
cure was a good genuine permanent
one
I believe Dodds Kidney Pills are
a splendid medicine for old people or
anyone sufferingswithKidney and uri
nary troubles for although I am 84
years of age they bavemade ra
well
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There is something saaabout a
pipe dreamjwhen Piq goes out
- It -takes a woman to show a
how silly he can make himself
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