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News in Brief
T P Shonts was elected president
of the Toledo St Louis Western
railroad
It Is officially announced that peace
has been declared In Damaraiand
German Southwest Africa and that the
hostile Hottentots have surrendered
The state department has been in
formed of the recognition of the re
public of Panama by Guatemala
The Episcopal bishops of the Sixth
district now In session at Kansas City
voted to hold the next missionary con
vocation at Omaha in January 1905
it vas announced at Baltimore
Ohio headquarters that George F Ran
dolph has been elected first vice presi
dent and traffic manager of the sys
tem
Mrs Lelaud Stanford issald to carry
a larger amount of insurance than any
other woman in the- world Her poli
cies amount to more than a minion
dollars
Chicago day at the St Louis ex
position will be October 9 1904 and
Mayor Harrison1 has been directed to
notify the exposition authorities to
that effect
A charter was granted at Topeka
to the Denver Kansas Northern
Railway company capital 100000000
which purposes to build six short lines
in Northwest Kansas
News has been received at Manila
that the United States gunboat Quiros
which recently went ashore on the
coast of Borneo has been floated with
little damage to he vessel
Proof of the padding of registration
lists of Denver county previous to
the late charter convention was un
earthed at a joint meeting of the
supervisors and the aldermen
The directors of the American Sugar
and Refining company re elected the
officers with the one exception that
VV R Thomas was chosen to succeed
C H Senff as vice president
John Hazeltine known throughout
Central New York as a philanthropist
has anounced plans to take a colony
of 1000 Syracuse people to Montana
for the purpose of establishing a
town
The paper mills about Mexico City
have formed a combine with an aggre
gate capital of 5000000 The or
ganization now effected is for the pur
pose of still further controlling the
market
The National Business league began
a movement at Chicago to amend the
constitution of the United States so
as to fix the presidential terra at six
years and make the president ineligi
ble for re election
The Eastern Ship Building company
iflounced that the launching of the
steamship Dakota for the Great North
ern railways Pacific carrying trade
will take place at New London Conn
Saturday February 6
The senate committee on Indian af
fairs reported favorably on the bill
to provide for the opening to settle
ment under the homestead law of the
remaining portion of the Colville In
dian reservation in the state of Wash
ington
After having been friends and part
ners in business for over thirty five
years William Smith and George
Tinker two pioneer brewers of St
Louis are dead Mr Smith died Fri
day and Mr Tinker was buried the
day before
Delegate Wilson of Arizona sppear
ed before the house committee on ter
ritories and made an argument for the
Arizona statehood bill His argument
was devoted to the legal and statisti
cal rights of Arizona to be admitted
as a state
The house committee en foreign af
fairs heard a delegation including B
F Trueblood and Robert Teat Paine
in favor of the establishment of an
international congress where ques
tions of common interest to the nation
wcwld be discussed
Tk French government has present
ed the Vatican with a note in the na
ture of an ultimatum regarding the
appointments of bishops to five vacant
French sees subsequently saying that
either the pope must approve the se
lections of the French government or
they will be announced without the
approbation of the holy see
The closed Windham county na
tional bank of Danielson Conn has
been ordered to resume It is solvent
Orders have been issued at the war
department for the manufacture of
forty 9 inch rapid fire guns 1903 model
Dr Henry L Tolman who had a na
tional reputation as a microscopist is
dead at Chicago aged 55 years
Dr W J Holland director of the
Carnegie museums is making ex
tensive preparations to send out an
expedition next spring composed of
prominent ethnologists for the pur
pose of making a collection of the
work of the early Indians of the
plains
The senate committee on foreign re
lations authorized a favorable report
on an amendment to the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill pro
viding for the appointment of a con
sul general at Mukden and a consul at
Ontung at 4000 also a consul at
Dalney at 3500 a year
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READY TO FIGHT
PANAMA WILL MEET PROPOSED
COLOMBIAN INVASION
TROOPS ARE JEIHC PREPARED
Conscription Has Been Completed and
12000 Fighting Men Can Be Placed
in the Field Fever Among U S
Marines
NEW YORK Authentic informa
tion from the frontier is anxiously
awaited here as the belief is wide
spread cables the Heralds Panama
correspondent that the Colombians
have already started to march upon
the isthmus
The Panamaian troops are ready to
leave on a moments notice The con
scription has been completed and 12
000 fighting men can be placed in the
field
There is great bustle in the armory
in prepaartion for the shipment of
rifles and ammunition to the Indians
of the interior who have agreed to
join against the Colombian forces
Colonel Parette of the Panamaian
army said
We who were Columbians until
yesterday cannot be deceived by any
tactics the Colombians may employ
We are deeply grateful for the aid the
Americans have given us especially
as we are now prepared to fight our
own battles on land with the utmost
confidence of victory
Four to five hundred men station
ed in the only three passes available
can defeat an army We have all the
men we actually need for the fighting
will be done in the mountains
We expect to repel the invasion
without calling out all the available
troops The Indians will certainly
fight on our side The San Bias In
dians who are Colombian allies will
not fight at all
Many light cases of fever are report
ed to already exist in the camps of
the United States marines especially
among those who have been scouting
along the trails There is some yellow
fever in Panama now but none has
appeared in the army
WASHINGTON The navy depart
ment has received the following cable
gram from Rear Admiral Glass dated
Panama
Collier Nero at Panoma has been
Injured by the Concord going along
side Damage is not serious and tem
porary repairs will be made at Pan
ama Grounding the Nero at high
water so as to be able to work below
the water line
TOURING THE WORLD ON FOOT
Roumanian Has Eight Years in Which
to Make Trip
WASHINGTON Baron Sternberg
the German ambassador presented to
the president Dr Oskar Radvaner a
Roumanian who is making a tour of
the world on foot He is a represent
ative of athletic societies of Buchar
est having been selected to make the
trip from 200 candidates He has
been on the road four years visiting
in that time all of Europe and Asia
He will visit all of the countries of
North and South America and then
will go to the Transvaal and Austra
lia He is obliged to complete his
trip in an aggregate time of eight
years President Roosevelt chatted
with him briefly and inscribed his
name in the autograph book of Dr
Radvaner
Tell Cause of the Advance
CHICAGO Ill-T-Representatives of
large companies testifying before the
interstate commerce commission Tues
day in regard to an advance in freight
rates on grain from Missouri river
points to Chicago by western rail
roads contradicted statements made
before the commission by railway
traffic managers The railroad men
decided that the reason for the ad
vance in rates was on account of the
heavy advance in the price of railroad
material
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GOVERNOR HUNTS MESSAGE
Says American Occupation Lifts Up
Patriotism
SAN JUAN Governor Hunts men
sage which will be read to the legisla
ture Tuesday opens with words of
encouragement The- message will
urge that the future be looked for
ward to with courage and will point
out that Porto Rico leads in demon
strating to the peoples of West
Indies that American occupation lift
up the patriotism of people The gov
ernor will advise strict economy and
that only the liquor and tobacco taxes
be increased
The message- recommends the adop
tion of the American code of civil pro
cedure a special appropriation for
tho eradication of tropical anaemia
the creation of election inspectors a
trial of the contract system for the
building of roads the immediate cre
ation of a s ecial tribunal for the
prompt settlement of all questions be
tween the Catholic church and the
government leases and not sales of
government lands the repeal of meas
ures by which roads are built by con
victs and an increased appropriation
for Porto Kican representation at the
St Louis Worlds exposition
The message urges surveys of lands
and the advancement of education by
industrial schools
SPENCERS CUKIOUS WILL
Wants Loose Lid on His Coffin and
No Religious Ceremony
LONDON Herbert Spencers will
is a curious document It directs
that his body shall be placed in a
coffin with a loose lid and cremated
and the ashes buried all without any
species of religious ceremony All
the rights in his book and investments
are given to the trustees Hon Auburn
Herbert Dr Henry Charlton Bastian
and David Duncan with instructions
to employ the yearly revenue in re
suming and continuing during such
period as may be needed for fulfilling
my express wishes but not exceeding
the life time of all descendants of
Queen Victoria who shall be living
at my decease and of the survivors of
them and for twenty one years after
the death of such survivor the pub
lication of the existing parts of my
Descriptive Sociology and the com
pilation and publication of the fresh
parts thereof followed in the parts al
ready published
WORD COMES FROM COGHLAN
Reported Colombians a Eand of Un
organized Marauders
WASHINGTON Admiral Coghlan
cabled the navy department from Co
lon as follows
Report of the appearance of a Co
lombian force between Colon and
Chiriqui lagoon was due to men now
in that vicinity who belonged to to
Colombian forces who would not join
Panama men but took to the moun
tains behind David and are now un
organized marauders There were or
iginally about 1200 men Some unarm
ed have been seen about Santa Fc and
Cooiet river committing depreda
tions
South Dakota Gold Production
WASHINGTON Owing to a cleri
cal error in the figures furnished the
Associated Press on January 2 the
amount representing the gold produc
tion of South Dakota for the calendar
year 1903 was given as 2SS9137 in
stead of 6S89137 the actual estimate
Japan Considers Response
TOKIO The final conference be
fore the throne to decide inon the
response to Russia began at 2 oclock
Tuesday afternoon It was attended
by all the members of the cabinet
five of the elder statesmen Admirals
Ito and Ijuin and General Kodama
Previous to the conference Admiral
Yamamoto representing Premier Kat
sura who is indisposed had a private
audience with the emperor Foreign
Minister Komura and Marquis Ito
also conferred privately
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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
BIG PRICE FOR BEETS
Great Encouragement for Farmers to
Grow Them
NORFOLK Fanners who raise
beets in and about the territory of
Norfolk during the season of 1904 will
receive for their crops the highest
price per ton that has ever been paid
by the American Beet Sugar company
It is the highest price ever offered
with the exception of the year during
which a bounty was offered and that
was never paid by the stale of Ne
braska Contracts were issued for the
new year and offer 450 per ton fiat
Last year the guaranteed price was 4
per ton and more was paid in accord
ance with the amount of sugar in the
beet This year regardless of the
sugar percentage the farmers will re
ceive 450 per ton The factory pays
the freight from all shipping points
according to the new contract and ex
tra money is allowed local farmers
for hauling and siloing
SAYS HE MADE GOLD COINS
Officer Arrests Farmer on Counterfeit
ing Charge
CAMBRIDGE A United States dep
uty marshal arrived here and upon
investigation a warrant was issued
for the arrest of Enoch Perkins a
well-to-do former of the vicinity of
about fifteen
Earl a country postoffice
teen miles north of Cambridge Per
kins is charged with having counter
felted 10 gold coins and with passing
the same Mr Perkins was taken
to Holdrege by the deputy United
States marshal to await a hearing
Wants a Complete List
LINCOLN S Finley of Beaver
Crossing wants to know what legis
lators are responsible for certain pro
visions of the revenue law He has
sent the following letter to the secre
tary of state
BEAVER CROSSING Seward
County Neb Secretary of State Lin
coln Neb Dear Sir Please -give me
full names and full addresses of those
persons that presented the applica
tion and got the law changed to make
personal taxes come due November 1
and delinquent December 1 of the same
year Yours truly S FINLEY
Co operative Concern Profitable
EDGAR The Farmers Commercial
association composed of 100 farmers
held its first annual meeting The as
sociation was incorporated nearly a
year ago but did not get into opera
tion for buying grain until after the
past summers harvest The affairs
of the association proved to be in a
very satisfactory condition About
125000 bushels of wheat had been
bought and 50000 bushels of corn be
sides some other grain and in addi
tion the association had enjoyed a
liberal coal trade
Creditors Close Store
WISNER It was learned that the
general merchandise store of Thomas
Dugher had been closed by his cred
itors Mr Dugher has been in Wisner
a little over five years and was con
sidered in fine financial condition and
has been doing a fine business
Fire Escapes on Oakland Schools
OAKLAND The school board at
its meeting decided to put in a fire
escape at the High school building
Prof W II Meyers was instructed to
prepare a new catalogue and course
of instruction as many changes have
been made in the course since the last
one was issued
Farmer Hangs Himself
GRAND ISLAND Morris C Black
a farmer residing one mile east of
Doniphan was found dead hanging to
a rafter in his barn Coroner Suther
land investigated and found an in
quest unnecessary as it was plainly
a case of suicide Black was 54 years
old a bachelor and had been renting
the farm his sister keeping house
for him He has been despondent for
the past few weeks
Bank Robbers Get Scared
PLATSMOUTH From Wabash in
this county comes the report of an un
successful attempt to rob the Farm
ers State bank of that place The tool
chest at the railroad section house was
broken open and a spike maul and
pinch bar was taken and at the black
smith shop a sledge hammer and a
shoeing hammer were stolen Soon
after the burglars went to the bank
and pried open the windows and then
for some unknown cause hurriedly
took their departure Some one rais
ing a window in a house nearby
frightened the robbers who hurriedly
left the place
Expensive Lawsuit Over Dog
YORK One of the most noted cases
being tried in the county and district
courts of this county is what is known
as the Brigham dog case which start
ed first before Justice of the Peace
Snodgrass and was bitterly contest
ed Now the plaintiffs ask for a new
trial Mr J Brigham is agent for
patent medicines and made a house to
house canvas in the country At E
F Grass farm he was met by a dog
belonging to Grass who took a bite
out of Mr Brlghams ankle
THE STTE AT LARGE
A good deal of scarlet fever Is pre
valent in Nebraska City and a number
of families arc quarantined
Dr J W Youngman of Elm Creek
slipped on an icy sidewalk and fell
dislocating his loft arm at the elbow
York contractors claim that more
new residences for the coming months
arc being contemplated than at any
previous time in the history of the
city
The Omaha Paraphernalia house has
filed articles of incorporation The
firm will manufacture and sell badges
flags and decorations The capital
stock is 10000
Roberts Bros of South Omaha have
filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state The firm has
a capital stock of 50000 and will do
a live stock commission business
Oscar Smith suspected of being in
sane was brought to Lincoln from his
home in Firth and placed in the city
hospital During tho day he escaped
and no trace of him can be found
William Henderson was arraigned
in county court at Chappelle on a
complaint sworn out by II I Babcock
cashier of the Commercial bank
charging him with selling mortgaged
property He waived preliminary ex
amination and was bound over to the
district court under 500 bonds
The contest instituted by Joseph
Spickler against William McCray for
the office of supervisor of the second
trict was tried before Judge Wllhite in
Richardson county A recount of the
votes gave McCray four majority the
same as originally returned Spickler
thereupon dismissed his contest
At a regular meeting of the Cass
county commissioners the salary of C
S Wortman county superintendent of
education was raised from 1200 to
1500 per year The appointment of
assistant assessors for the county
was also made giving one for each
precinct and village and three for
Plattsmouth
The city council of Plattsmouth has
instructed Attorney Travis to take an
appeal to the supreme court in the
case of Hugh Murray against the city
of Plattsmouth This is a suit in
which the plaintiff secured judgment in
the district court for 500 which he
claimed was due him for paving work
done for the city
Mike Mostek who escaped from the
Platte county jail last August was re
captured by Sheriff Carrig and is again
in jail He was found at his home
at Tarnoy a small Polish village
about twenty miles north of Colum
bus Since his escape he has not
been far away but has been working
on farms in Boone and Antelope coun
ties
Frank Dickson a prominent busi
ness man of Weeping Water died very
suddenly at his home at that place
He got up in the morning and did his
chores and at his breakfast but as
he was not feeling very well sent
for a physician While talking with
the doctor he drew a short breath and
said I feel faint and fell back in
his chair dead His brother died on
the same day at Elmwoou
The Nebraska Mutual Life Insur
ance company which has headquarters
in Stromsburg held its annual policy
holders meeting last week J B
Steward H C Graves and J A
Frawley were elected to succeed them
selves as directors of the company
A number of amendments designed to
benefit the policy holders were passed
The company has made a rapid ad
vance during the past year and now
has close to 1000000 of insurance in
force
The board of county commissioners
of Dakota county accepted the prop
osition of T C Cannon an expert ac
countant of Sioux City to make an
examination of the clerks and treas
urers offices of this county for the
past eight years which covers the
period of George C Bille as county
clerk and J F Learner and John Boler
as treasurers
An accident which will probably re
sult in death occurred near Clay Cen
ter A man by the name of Secora
living near Deweese Avas driving out
of town on his way home with a
spirited team Another team coming
up behind and attempting to pass at
a short turn in the road caused a run
away throwing Mr Secora out and
striking hi hcl against a pest
From Omaha comes the news that
Miss Ollie Holbrook the young lady
who had her scalp torn from her head
in Nebraska City on Christmas by a
fast revolving shaft against which
she put her head while trying to reach
a loaf of bread is getting along nice
ly and the physicians have been able
to graft skin over a greater portion of
the head The skin being used in tho
grafting is taken from the young
ladys back and shoulders
The counts commissioners of Lan
caster refused to allow County Treas
urer Knight to have seven assistants
Mart Howe was recently hired to look
after work caused by the new rev
enue law provisions but the county
board declined to make any appropria
tion for his salary
The furniture for the new court
house at Grand Island has arrived and
is being put in place It is all of quar
tered sawed oak The railings jurors
and witness boxes ancKcreen and
rostrum for the court room are par
ticularly fine pieces of furniture
ALL DONE OUT
Veteran Joshua
Heller of 70C S
Walnut HtrestUr
bana 111 says
In the fall of
1899 after taking
Dou ns Kidney
Pills I told the
readers of thi3
paper that they
had relieved mo
of kidney troublo
disposed of a
lame back with
pain across my
loins and beneath
the shoulder
blades During the Interval which
lias elapsed I have had occasion to
resort to Doans Kidney Pills when I
noticed warnings of an attack On
each and every occasion the results
obtained were just as satisfactory as
when the pills were first brought to
my notice I just as emphatically en
dorse the preparation today as I did
over two years ago
Foster Milburn Co 3uffalo N Y
proprietors For sale by all druggists
price 50 cents per box
General Milea Savings Deposit
In his speech at an Evacuation day
dinner in Boston the other evening
General Miles mentioned that while
working in that city before the civil
war he saved up a dollar and depos
ited it in a savings bank He had
not thought of it formany years but
his visit to Boston recalled the mat
ter The officials of the bank looked
over their books and sure enough
found that the dollar was there In
the name of Nelson A Miles Unfor
tunately for him howver no deposit
of less tahn 3 draws interest so he
might as well have had his treasure
hidden in a stocking
Cruelty in the German Army
Cases of cruelty to privates In the
German army multiply daily The
most recent arc that of Frauszki a
non commissioned officer in the Eighty
fifth infantry who was tried on 1520
counts of cruelty anil convicted on 100
of them He got ten years The in
teresting point of the case was that
Franszki had left the army and was
serving as a policeman in Hamburg
when the accusations were made An
other interesting case is that of a pri
vate who was tried for desertion in
Koenigsburg and sentenced to nine
months imprisonment After he had
begun to serve his sentence the rase
was reopened It was learned then
that he had deserted through fear of
his life Once a non commissioned of
ficer had threatened to run him
through with his sword The original
sentence was quashed and the soldier
restored to duty No less than ten
non coms of his regiment are being
tried for cruelty
Words of Algonquin Origin
Alexander F Chamberlain has dis
covered that there are 131 words of
Algonquin derivation in the English
language The Algonquins occupied
a considerable section of this country
before they were asked to move on
and some of the verbal heirlooms
they left are Chipmunk hickory
hominy menhaden moccasin moose
mugwump musquash pemmican per
simmon pappoose pone porgy pos
sum powwow raccoon samp skunk
squash squaw succotash Tammany
tautog terrapin toboggan tomahawk
totem wigwam woodchuch
Let us hone the winter will be a
failure instead of the coal crop
Some men would be witty if they
knew how to be brief
Looking for a Home
Then why not keep in view the
fact that tiie farming lands of
flPPt Western
mM Canada
are sufficient to support a population of 0000 ono
or oer The iniiiiiKration for the pjst sx jeus
has been phenomenal
FREE Homestead Lands
easily accessible while other Ian Is ma be pur
chased fioni Railway and Land Companies The
urain and giaini la ds of Western Canada are the
best on the continent produrini the best cram
and cattle fed on giass alone read for marVet
Markets SrhooN Italhriiys mid all otlicr
condition make Weitorn Cuadi an -ml-able
spot for the settler
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