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NEBRASKA
bank at New Holland O has been
mysteriously missing since Saturday
and there is much excitement among
the depositors whose funds in the
bank approximate 5200000
Seven well known New York physi
cians have formed a company for the
publication of a daily medical journal
which will appear October 1 and will
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THE NEWS IN BRIEf 1
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The Nebraska state fair will bo
tield at Lincoln September l to 11
At the burial of a South London
man his six dogs draped in black lo-
lowed the cortege
Great Britain spends 112500000 a
rear on the support of the poor This
does not include private charities
The house of lords has agreed to
the Irish land bill in the form finally
approved by the house of commons
In a bulletin Issued by the state
board of agriculture the wheat yield
of Kansas is placed at 90270000 bush
els
Kilkenny Castle is one of the oldest
inhabited houses In the world many
of the rooms being much as they were
800 yeaps ago
Vaccination is now compulsory in
France during the first year of life
and re vaccination during the eleventh
and twenty firBt years
Cotton is the most valuable crop
we grow except corn -She 11000000
bales in this years production will
bring planters about 500000000
Emperor William recently crave 225
000 marks in aid of the fishermen of
Zersen on the German ocean who
had been ruined by a tidal wave
The area added to the British em
pire by the acquisition of the Boer
Republics and 100000 square miles
oa the Niger exceeds that of France
Statistics show that in fifty years
the average height of British men
has risen an inch The present aver
age height for a man of 30 is 5 feet 8
inches
Spanish newspapers claim that the
oldest general in the world is the
Count Cheste He is 95 and has
served in the army eighty one years
His health is still good
The English postoffice gives 20 per
cent better speed in delivering par
cels than the private carriers and at
a cost of 6 cents for one pound 8
cents for two pounds and 24 cents
for 11 pounds
Vice Admiral Cervera who sur
rendered to the American fleet off
Santiago de Cuba has resigned the
position of chief of staff jn the Span
ish army to which he was appointed
in December1 1902
Tho Chinese imperial troops have
been defeated by rebels atHwei Chow
Fu in the northern province of Kwan
Tung Imperial reinforcements con
sisting of 3000 German drilled troops
have arrived at Canton
J K Brown cashier of the Union
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world
The Rockefellers are interested in a
deal with Charles Sweeney of Spo
kane Wash to form the Federal Min
ing and Smelting company with 30
000000 stock to control the lead out
put of the Coeur DAIene mining re
gion
The Amalgamated Brotherhood of
Teamsters and Helpers newly formed
in Buffalo and representing 150000
teamsters in the United- States have
selected Indianapolis for permanent
headquarters and Cincinnati as their
meeting place next August
Second Lieutenant Ralph Miller
Company I Sixth cavalry died at the
army general hospital in San Fran
cisco after an operation Lieutenant
miller returned from the Philippines
with his squadron by the transport
Logan
John Schroers director of the St
Louis worlds exposition at a confer
ence with Secretary7 Shaw in Wash
ington assured the secretary that the
exposition would be open to all visit
ers in May 1904 all reports to the
contrary notwithstanding
At Salt Lake the supreme court af
firmed the verdict of guilty of murder
in tlfe first degree against Peter Mor
tensen and refused to grant him a
new trial Mortensen was found
guilty of murdering James R Hay
secretary of the Pacific Lumber com
pany and burying bis body in an open
field
Loran W Reynolds a aprominent
attorney of Boone Iowa and at one
time candidate for governor of Iowa
upon the republican ticket died in
Chicago of a complication of diseases
following a stroke of paralysis two
years ago
Representatives of a South African
railway syndicate -have been in- Vic
toria inquiring regarding the possibil
ity of securing 3000000 hemlock rail
road ties for South African railroads
of which 900 miles are tobe built at
once
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John Alexander Dowie feels confi
dent that his new design of the na
tional emblem is an artistic improve
ment oyer the Old Glory which the
forefathers fashioned While the de
sign which Dowie has patterned is to
prevail in ZIon City Illinois he has
no objection to its being used in other
sections of the country In the Dowie
design the field of blue has been dis
pensed with but the stars and stripes
have been retained as he says they
EXTRA CONGRES
MAY
BE CALLED TOGETHER
EARLY IN OCTOBER
HO FINANCE MEASURE FRAMED
Senate Subcommittee Seeks Further
Expert Advice Before Acting Bank
ers and Others to Be Consulted as
to a Bill
OYSTER BAY L I President
Roosevelts conference with asubcom
mittee of the senate finance commit
tee was not concluded until the small
hours of Friday morning The whole
subject of financial legislation at the
appropaehing session of congress was
discussed thoroughly
The committee consisting of Sena
tors Aldrich chairman Piatt Connec
ticut Allison and Spconer did not
present even a tentative draft of a cur
rency bill to the president although
some propositions which subsequent
ly may be embodied in the measure
were reduced to concrete form
No definite conclusions as to the
shape of the proposed legislation were
reached The conference related rath
er to methods of procedure in the
work at hand than to the form of the
legislation
At 730 Thursday morning the mem
bers of the committee left Sagamore
Hill boarded their yacht Vergena
and sailed for Providence on their
return to Senator Aldrichs home One
fact of distinct importance was de
veloped at the conference While an
extraordinary session of congress next
fall is assured it has not been deter
mined definitely whether it will be
called to meet in October or in No
vember
It has been supposed that the ex
traordinary session would convene on
Monday November 9 but the indica
tions now are that it will be called
for an earlier date perhaps several
weeks earlier
The primary purpose of the extraor
dinary session will be to enact legis
lation making operative the Cuban
reciprocity treaty but financial legis
lation wil lalso be pressed upon the
attention of congress soon after it con
venes
Andre Relic Discovered
VANCOUVER B C What is un
doubtedly a relic of the ill starred
Andre expedition was brought to Van
couver by a returning mining pros
pector who has spent four years in
the wilds of the Mackenzie basin
He arrived here on Monday brining
with him portion of the silk used in
the construction of Andres balloon
Sugar Trust Reaches Out
SAGINAW Mich A deal was con
sumed here whereby the American
Sugar Refining company of New York
has acquired a one half interest in
the Valley Sugar factory one of the
largest in the Saginaw valley The
company is capitalized at 500000
Aids Kansas City -Grain Men
KANSAS CITY The Santa Fe an
nounced that it will transport grain to
and through Kansas City thus afford
ing relief to the grain men who nave
been unable to ship grain The Santa
Fe will deliver cars to the Burlington
Wabash Missouri Pacific and Kansas
City Southern a recent crder against
these roads having been rescinded
The decision is conditional on the
prompt return of cars which other
roads have received
DOWIE FASHIONS NEW AMERICAN FLAG
are of national significance Instead
of being crowded into a narrow mar
gin the stars are extended in the
shape of a St Andrews cross across
the whole banner The stripes are
narrower than on the original emblem
and are not woven so close together
Some time ago Dowie says he became
convinced that the national emblem
was faulty and inartistic and he be
lieves his pattern is an improvement
WOULD SHOW RANGE CATTLE
Stockmen Anxious to Have World6
Fair Order Rescinded
DENVER Colo A meeting is be
ing held in this city for the purpose
of making an active fight to secure
the rescinding of the order prohibit
ing the exhibition of range cattle at
the St Louis Worlds fair The cam
paign was started in July by the Colo
rado Cattle and Horse Growers as
sociation when notices were mailed
to all the states within the boundaries
of the Louisiana purchase calling for
a conference of cattle raisers and at
tomorrows session it is said that rep
resentatives from all these states will
be in attendance
The plan is to appoint a committee
to meet with Chief Commissioner Cor
burn of St Louis to urge him to can
cel the order against range cattle If
the committee is unsuccessful in this
regard the members will wait upon
President Roosevelt and urge him to
give his aid to the proposition It is
announced that replies have been re
ceived from every state to which
notices of the meeting were mailed
and that the purpose of the meeting
has been unanimously endorsed
TAFT DENIES THE RUMOR
Says that He is Not to Succeed Secre
tarv Root
MANILA When the news arrived
here by cable- that Secretary Root of
the war department would be forced
to resign the portfolio by his duties
as a member of the Alaskan bound
ary commission about to meet in
London his resignation to take effect
under certain conditions in December
next if not sooner a reception was
taking place at the palace in honor
of Major General George W Davis
until recentlv in command of the divi
sion of the Philippines and now on
the retired list
Governor Taft who was present
when shown the statement contained
in this dispatch that he would suc
ceed Secretary Root upon his retire
ment laughingly replied that the re
port was untrue Later on when a
second message was received confirm
ing an alleged offerof an appointment
the governor denied the statement in
similar terms
SEEK A NEW CUSTOMS LAV
Importers Will Ask Congress to Make
Important Changes
NEW YORK In order to relieve
importers from onerous exactions by
the present customs administration
acts efforts will be made at the com
ing session of congress to amend tho
act in several important features
Plans to that end are being made
by importers and merchants The
matter is in charge of a general com
mission consisting of the representa
tives of about fifty leading lines of
trade
A bill embodying the changes desir
ed will be introduced in congress but
the commission probably will not be
able to make announcement of tho
contemplated changes until after con
ferences with Secretary Shaw
Herder Flogged to Death
DUPYER Mont Foureen masked
men supposed to be cattlemen took
a herder from Joe Sturgeons sheep
camp and carrying him ten miles
into the mountains tied him to a tree
and whipped him to death They also
shot mny of the herders sheep and
drove the remainder away Sheriff
Taylor and a posse are in pursuit of
the whitecaps and it is feared there
will bo trouble When the two forces
meet
PAY OF THE SCHOOL TEACHER
Does It Go On if School Is Closed by
Board of Health
The pojnt is raised in an appeal to
the supreme court from Sherman
county whether a school teachers pay
goes on when his school has been
closed by the lioard of health Henry
toward has won in his contention that
It does in both justice and district
courts but the board is stubborn in
its stand
Henry was employed to teach the
school for nine months in the village
of Asnton Sherman county begin
ning September S 1900 at 50 a
month He was employed by B Luka
szewski as acting director Able Sak
as acting treasurer and Andrew
Garstka as moderator After he had
taught for eiht months and for one
day on the ninth the board of health
and the village board passed resolu
tions prohibiting the holding of meet
ings in the town and asking that the
schools be closed because of an epi
demic of smallpox in the state some
cases having appeared in Ashton
Then it was that the hoard directed
that the schools be closed and paid off
the teacher for the eight months
taught He was not satisfied and
brought suit for the other 50 as well
as for 16 alleged to be due for jan
itor services Later on the board ask
ed him to go ahead and teach the
other month but his contract time had
expired and he declined The board
thereupon made a tender in court of
the S16 for janitor services but Hen
ry recovered judgment in both the
justices and district court for the en
tire amount claimed under contract
GAME LAWS OF NEBRASKA
Steps Being Taken for Rigidly Enforc
ing the Same
LINCOLN State Game Warden
Carter has just returned from a tour
of the counties in the extreme west
ern part of the state looking for of
fenders against the game laws and
appointing a number of deputies
whose duty it will be to keep a look
out fcr poachers Mr Carter during
his journey found that fhere was a
popular misconception among hunters
as to the open season this year when
quail and prairie chicken ma be kill
ed The legislature of two years ago
passed a law prohibiting the shooting
of quail until the fall of 1903 when
the open season on these birds be
gins on November 1 aifd continues
for one month only The chicken sea
son begins October 1 and continues
until the end of November whereas
the old law permitted the shooting of
chickens beginning with September 1
and lasting four months Many of the
hunters figured that because the law
permitted the killing of quail in the
fall of 1903 that the law- as to the
chicken season was also amended so
as to allow chicken shooting during
September but this notion states the
chief game warden is a serious mis
take Mr Carter has instructed his
corps ot deputies to rigidly enforce
the law against chicken shooting in
September and all offenders will en
counter a stiff prosecution if tney ven
ture into the fields until October 1
Birds are reported to be numerous in
the western counties and Game War
den Carter predicts some fine sport
for those who abide by the law
Struck Dead by Lightning
WYMORE Charley Clayton a
prominent young farmer living two
miles west of this city was instantly
killed by lightning He was unhitch
ing a span of mules under a tree in
the yard at home when the bolt de
scended killing him and one of the
mules
Inspect Normal Site
KEARNEY The state board of ed
ucation was in the city for the purpose
of inspecting the proposed site for
the new normal school A reception
and supper were tendered the visitors
by the citizens of the eitv
Appointments by the Governor
Governor Mickey has announced
the reappointment of Mrs H H
Wheeler of Lincoln as a member of
the visiting and examining board to
the home for the friendless
People who learn nothing from ex
perience seldom complete their edu
cation
Smuggling Morphine Into Prison
LINCOLN Roy Halm who was re
leased from the penitentiary lapt Sun
day morning was arrested upon be
ing caught in an attempt to smuggle
morphine to his former fellow pris
oners He was later released as
there is no statute covering his of
fense and he is out of the jurisdic
tion of the prison authorities Consid
erable trouble is given the warden and
his aids at the pen by people smug
gling drugs to the prisoners
THE STATE AT LARGE
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A move has been started at Exeter
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to build an auditorium
Ira D Brown a much respected
member of the Grand Island Soldiers
hohme died last week
The new 100 barrel capacity mill
erected at Hartington this summer is
about ready far business
Prof H C Roush has decided to es
tablish a business college at Ord and
will open up about September 1
A Harvard dispatch says that
threshing and stacking is greatly re
tarded by the frequent rains and much
of the wheat in the shock has sprout
ed
Harry Hickson of PJattsraouth 21
years of age was placed under arrest
charged with obtaining money on a
forged order The complaining wit
ness in the case is Mark White Hick
son has already served a one year
term in the penitentiary for a similar
offense committed in that city
Twice as much money has been paid
into the treasury of Loup county for
taxes the first six months of 1903 than
has ever been paid in a like period of
time since the organization of the
county This is considered substantial
evidence of the fact that the taxpay
ers of Loup county are prospering
Dodge county farmers do not ex
pect more than two thirds of a crop
of corn as conditions now stand The
cool weather and heavy rains have set
so much corn back that a part of the
cop will not mature before frost time
while some of the rest will not fertil
ise arid fill properly
A J Peterson a Burlington freight
brakeman had the two lower ribs on
his right side broken and his right
arm cut by falling to the bottom of a
cinder pit at Ashland The crew was
engaged in switching some cars at the
time and Peterson failed to notice the
proximity of the yawning pit
A severe lightning stom visited the
vicinity of Alda Both elevators of
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the village Avere struck though but
little damage Avas done these struc
tures The home of Mr Marshall
was struck the lightning bolt going
down the chimney and tearing a post
off the bed in Avhich a stranger was
sleeping
The farming section of Custer coun
ty adjoining Callaway on the south
east is very much worked up over
the appearance of an alleged ghost
Avhich has been seen on various occa
sions of late and which has caused
dire consternation to many of the in
habitants of the neighborhood in
Avhich its haunts are claimed to be
Eugene son of J D Hillman of
Weeping Water Avas crushed to death
in a stone quarry about a mile west
of that place He was helping his
father in the quarry and a rain came
up The boy got under an under
mined bank for shelter and the bank
j ana rock caved in on him and crush
eel his life out before he could be res
cued He was 12 years old
If the board of public lands and
buildings decides to accent the rec
ommendation vhich Avill he made by
the committee Avhich has just return
ed from a trip through Ulinnois In
diana and Ohio the proposed new in
sane asylum at Norfolk will bo built
either Avholly or partially on the cot
tage plan which seems to be grow
ing in favor throughout the country
The community at Hay Springs has
been worked up to a high pitch by
reason of a hunt for a horse thief b
the name of William Chase who is
wanted in Wyoming
State Veterinarian M V By
ers has been out on a tour of inspec
tion among diseased horses and cattle
in the western part of the state for a
couple of weeks mostly in Boyd and
adjoining counties He was ordered
there by the state veterinarian He
found bundles of horses that were dis
eased and among the rest he order
ed about twenty five or thirty horses
killed that Avere suffering with glan
ders
Attorney Herbert S Crane of Oma
ha is the author of a booklet just is
sued from the Mercury press on Ir
rigation and Water Rights as Tiiey
Obtain in the State of Nebraska It
comprises nearly 100 pages and is i
collection of all the authorities ap
plying to the Nebraska law on these
matters The lawyers are pleased
Avith the compilation as it treats on
a subject comparatively new in this
state
Ord and vicinity was visited by one
ot the heaviest rain and electrical
storms of the season A waterfall of
two inches is reported at Ord and
other points in the county are claim
ing that tt e Avaterfall is even greater
than that
From reports cc ning into the insur
ance auditors office the indications
are that some of the mutual hail in
surance companies recently organized
in the state will be unable to meet
the demands made upon them They
have met with heavy losses
Two English Speakers There
British as well as American Cath
ollcs will have but ono representative
at the papal conclave Cardinal Glix
bona the American representative la
already in Europe Of the two British
cardinals only one Cardinal Loguet
the Irish primate will be able to at
tend as cardinal Moran archbisbo
of Sydney has no chance of reachlnng
Rome in time for the conclave
Why It Is the 3est
fa becanso made by an entirely different
process Defiance Starch is unlike any
other bettor and one third more lor 10
otuti
A woman who loved but once and
madly loved on to the end ought to be
canonized
The man who admits that he is sen
timental made the mistake of his life
in not having been born a woman
Stops the Cough and
Works Off the Cold
Laxative Bronio Quin jbe Tablets Price 25c
Man likes to believe In eternal pun
ishmentfor the other fellow
A man who Is so good is real un
canny
PITQ cureii Ttoflts or norrouncM utter
ri fid Hnt day ue of Dr Klines OreatKerrencttop
er Bend for FKKK 8300 trial bottle and treatise
So R H Kline Ltd V31 Arch Street
It takes two banana skins to make
a pair of slippers
Those Who Have Tried Tt
will use no other Defiance Cold Water
Starch has no equal in Quantity or Qual
ity 16 oz for 10 cents Other brands can
lain onlv 12 nz
Man often feels that he is a sly dog
when in reality he is but a sorry cur
ALL HOUSEKEEPERS
Use Red Cross Boll Blue It mokes clothes
clean and sweet as whan new All grocers
If a poor girl has hair of the spun
gold variety folks say it looks like
streaked molasses candy
It takes a genius to be a financier
without being the possesor of any
finances
More Flexible and Lasting
wont shake out or blow out by using
Deflanco Starch you obtain better resnlta
than possible with any othor brand aid
one third more for same money
Love is like smallpox Sometimes
you escape but it often leaves awful
scars
A New Slot Machine
The slot machine has entered a
new field For a long time by drop-
ping a penny in its maAV the gum
cheAver the man Avho likes to know
AA hat his exact avoirdupois is the girl
Aho loves a lozenge and even the
quick lunch man hurriedly seeking a
sandwich have been accommodated
But the new field is a Avider one The
diner in some restaurants can now by
a neAV invention in the slot line
rest at ease while he takes his mealr
and reads complacently between bites
the religious mottoes on the wall for
before he sits down he can go to a
box drop a penny in the slot and out
jumps a key from another slot That
key opens a closet ample enough for
his hat and coat The very hooks on
which he hang3 his clothes lock also
so that even if the door of the closet
Avere opened the articles cannot he
hurried away with by anyone but the
owner
Our Eeef Croesuses
The bigest beef man in the United
States had very humble beginnings
Nelson Morris Avas a peddler in Con
necticut and started business in Chi-
caso with one hog The late Gustavej
F SAvift began his career with one
sheep in a small town in Massachu
setts Philip D Armour too poor to
buy transportation to California by
ship in the days of the gold fever
traveled overland from Oneida N Y
most of the vay on foot He made
a few dollars on the Pacific coast dig
ging ditches to supply water for
er mines These three men laid upr
nearly 100000000 between them
ABOUT COMPLEXIONS
Food Makes Them Gcod or Bad
Saturate the human body with
strong coffee and it will in time show
in the complexion of the coffee
drinker
Tills is caused by the action of
coffee on the liver thus throwing part
of the bile into the blood Coffee
complexions are sallow and muddy
and will stay that way until coffee Is
aiven up entirely
The sure way to recover rosy cheeka
and red lis Is to quit coffee and drink
Postum Fcod Coffee Avhich makes red
blood I had been for more than 20
years an inveterate coffee drinker
and it is absolutely true that I had
no completely saturated myself with
this drug that my complexion toward
the last became perfectly yellow and
every nerve and fibre in me was
affected by the drugs in coffee
For days at a time I had besn
compelled to keep to my bed on ac
count of nervous headache and stom
ache trouble and medicines did not
give me any relief I had never con
sulted a physician in regard to my
headaches and terrible complexion
and I only found out the cause of
them after I
commenced the use of
Postum which became known to me
through Grape Nuts We all liked the
food Grape Nuts and it helped us so
We thought Postum must certainly
have merit and we concluded to try
it We found it so delicious that wo
continued the use altogether although
I never expected it to help my health
After a few months my headaches
were all gone and my complexion had
cleared Avonderfully then I knew that
my troubles had heen caused by cof
fee and had been cured when I left
off coffee and drank Postum in its
place Name given by Postum Co
Battle Creek Mich
Postum will change the blood of
any coffee drinker and rosy cheeks
and health take the place of a yellow
Ekln and disease
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