McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK I NEBRASKA Brief Telegrams There are words In the Chinese lan guage which have as many as forty different meanings The Filipinos eat large quantities of dried grasshoppers and also pre pare them in confections J C Doyle was nominated for con gress by the republicans of the Twen tieth Illinois congressional district Flra at Montreal did damage of 3250000 to the carriage factory of B Ledoux Co on Osborne street The winnings of the bank at Monte Carlo are said to average nearly 25 a minute or about 6250000 a year Much of the country through which the Siberian railway passes had nev er been traversed by white men be fore the surveyors came The consistory of Lauterbrunnen Switzerland has made the announce ment that the old custom of smoking in church will no longer be tolerated The total cost of the German fed eral telephone system operated in connection with the German federal telegraph system is 60000000 up to date The St James Gazette informs its readers that a New York soap manu facturer is advertising a new soap called Parsifal Because it is so Pure The best after dinner speaker I ever heard says Senator Depew was Gladstone at 50 and next in or der in my opinion was Simon Cam eron at 90 Among the names for new streets in Berlin approved by the kaiser are Carmen Sylva Pasteur Turk Dane and Flotow Chief Master-at-Arms Timothy Mur ray and the only one of the 15000 par ticipants in the battle of Mobile Bay still in active service in the navy has applied for his retirement Simultaneous raids on twenty two alleged pool rooms and pool room ex changes were made by the police at New York acting under orders from Police Commissioner McAdoo Mrs Maybricks figure in wax which has been for many years in Mme Tussauds exhibition in London has been withdrawn Whitaker Wrights has taken Its place A census bureau irrigation bulletin is devoted to Montana and shows that in 1902 there were 1140694 acres un der irrigation in the state covering 9496 farms and costing 5576975 Miss Mary Gallagher who has made a bust of Edgar Allen Poe which has attracted some attention in Baltimore owns up that one of the implements - used by her in her work was a hair pin In the British museum Is an ad vertisement of a reward for a run away slave The ad is written on papyrus and is 3000 years old It was exhumed from the ruins of jebes Roulette and sale of lottery tickets within the canal zone have been sus pended since the issuance of Gover nor Davis proclamation Thursday This suspension does not apply to the cities of Colon and Panama The Canadian government will have an ice breaker built in England this summer for the purpose of trying to keep the St Lawrence open later during the fall and also to break up the ice earlier in the sring It is claimed that the shipping season at Montreal could be lengthened by at least a fortnight in the fall and about the same in the spring Judge Amos M Thayer in the cir cuit court of St Louis handed down a decision granting injunctions against the sale of non transferable tickets by the ticket brokers engaged in business in St Louis These in junctions which affect ten firms were granted on application of the Louis ville Nashville Railroad company and the Mobile Ohio Railroad com pany Colonel A A Pope lield a bicycle experience meeting at Chestnut Hill Reservoir Massachusetts on Sunday May 1 at which some five thousand cyclers put in an appears after the fashion of the good old days of the wheel General Nelson A Miles obliged his friend Pope by appearing in the colonels touring car and stand ing with the wheelmen for a group picture President Clowry of the Western Union Telegraph company said that the abolition of the companys racing department announced by him on Thursday is to be permanent He also said that the company will not lease wires to pool rooms The companys branch offices at the race tracks will be maintained for the transmission of such messages as may be offered in the ordinary course of business Female slavery still prevails in China Out of a population of about 400000000 nearly 10000000 girls or women are slaves The wholesale textile firms of Leip zig Germany have determined to have bargain sales on stated days of the year The Rev Byron Alden who on No vember 5 last celebrated his 97th birthday and was said at that time to be the oldest living minister in the world both in age and continu ous service has Just died at Streator Hi - - THE KINJUID BILL INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUSY WITH PREPARATIONS TWO AGENTS AREJN NEBRASKA They Will Decide Upon Lands Sus ceptible of Irrigation and Their In structions Are to Make a Report as EaJy as Possible WASHINGTON Secretary Hitch cock appreciuting the necessity of passing upon certain features of the Kinkaid bill throwing open the north west section of Nebraska for setle ment under the amerided homestead laws has turned over to the geologi cal survey for report that portion of the provisions of the bill wherein cer tain lands which in the opinion of the secretary of the interior may be rea sonably practicable of irrigation are exenpt from its provisions The di rector of the survey Prof Wolcott has commissioned two of his corps to look over the ground prior to the date when the bill goes into effect June 28 The Kinkaid bill provides that the secretary of the interior shall after examination exempt from the provisions of the law those lands that may be reasonably practicable to irrigate by means of water conducted from natural streams by gravity and the secretary shall prior to the date when the law goes into effect desig nate and exclude from entry lands particularly along the North Platte river which in his opinion it may be possible to irrigate through op erations under the national irrigation law or by private enterprise- The law further states that the secretary thereafter shall from time to time open to entry under the act any of the lands so excluded which upon further investigation he may conclude cannot be practically irrigrated in the manner as above set forth Two members of the engineer corps of the geological survey are now in the sec tion included within the limits of the Kinkaid bill looking over the terri tory for the purpose of deciding upon the lands susceptible of irrigation and their instructions are to make as early report as posslole in order that the sections reserved may be posted conspicuously in the territory and at the land office which will have charge of this business for the benefit of in tending settlers SAYS THE STRIKE IS ENDED Peabody Says Law and Order has Been Restored PITTSBURG Pa Governor Pea body of Colorado replying to a tele gram from the National Association of Manufacturers in session here this week comending him for his stand during the recent troubles in his state says The labor strikes in Colorado are ended save for a slight rebellion led by professional agitators Law and order has been re established and obe dience to our constitution and its laws must and shall be maintained The principle of guaranteeing to eve ry citizen of Colorado the right to labor in a lawful manner without fear of intimidation or violence will here after be maintained by the people of the state RISK ASSUMED BY EMPLOYE Federal Supreme Court Broadly In terprets the Fellow Servant Law WASHINGTON The supreme court of the United States laid down the principle that a telegraph opera tor for a railroad company and a fireman on a railroad engine are fel low servants and that the negli gence of the former causing the death of the latter in the operation of trains was a risk the fireman as sumed and was not a ground for dam ages against the railroad company The case was that of Alline A Dixon against the Northern Pacific Railroad company for damages for the death of her husband C A Dix on a fireman on the road killed in a collision caused by the negligence of a telegraph operator Great Britain Will Fight It Out LONDON Lord Hardwicke under secretary for war replying to Lord Spencer the liberal leader in the House of Lords said Great Britain was now at war with Thibet and until it had by force of arms vindicated its position he did not think the gov ernment ought to be called on to give a definite pledge as to what form of settlement would follow the conclu sion of hostilities Lord Tweedmouth liberal charged the government with willfully sending out a mission and knowing the consequences Krupp Works Busy BERLIN A special dispatch from Essen says the Japanese Russian war causes great activity in the Krupp wTorks in the construction of both cannon and shipbuilding materials Large orders for field guns have been received Senator Quay Recovering MORGANZA Pa For the first time this week Senator M S Quay left his rciom at his brothers home at Morganza and went down stairs His condition was believed to be greatly stairs and remained in the lower por Improved The senator spent an un usually restful night and told his phy sician that he wanted to get out of His room He was assisted down stairs and remained in the lower por tion of the house an hour or more THE IOWA REPUBLICANS Stand Patters Have Things Come Their Way DES MOINES Iowas long fight be tween stand pat republicans and liber als on the issue of tariff revision and reciprocity ended in complete Victory for the former in the state convention for selecting delegates to the national convention Of twenty six delegates chosen twenty are stind patters and six are liberals The resolutions adopted declare that the protective principle found its high fulfillment in the Dingley law As to reciprocity the platform declares that it is un wise to seek markets abroad by sacri ficing some parts of the markets at nomo In the choice for delegates there was no opposition to Senator W B Allison Senator J P Dolliver J W Blythe and Governor A B Cummins for dele-gates-at-large Frank R Crocker Chariton Frank Simmons Ottumwa D H Bowe Wau kon U W Crimm Esther ville were elected alternates The following district delegates to the national convention were chosen in the caucuses at 10 oclock First Marsh W Bailey Washing ton U A Carpenter Louisa Second G W French Davenport George W Curtis Clinton Third O M Gillett Independence E S Ellsworth Iowa Falls Fourth A HGale Mason City Harry Green Decorah Fifth J W Doxsee Jones E L Clarke Linn Sixth H L Watermen Ottumwa John A De Muth Aybia Seventh Judgo J II Henderson In disnola Dr J J Hostetter Colorado Eighth W P Peatman Appanoose II R Jaqua Taylor Ninth George Wright Pottawatta mie W S Ellis Montgomery Tenth Mahlon Head Green E K Wmne Humboldt Eleventh R L Cleaves Cherokee E R Vander aid Orange City Resolutions as presented and adopt ed congratulate the country upon the great prosperity in evidence triumph of home and foreign policies of the republican party congraulate the countri on adjustment of Alaskan boundary dispute pride in able and wide influence of Iowas delegation in congress commend the record of Gov ernor Cummins endorse administra tion of President Roosevelt express unchangeable belief in protective tar iff favor reciprocity opposition to trusts and combines favor pensions to soldiers and sailors and express re great on the death of Senator Hanna The eighth resolution reads We are opposed to trusts and combines of whatever nature organized to extort undue and exorbitant profits from the peovfie We rejoice in the success of President Roosevelt in his efforts to enforce in the courts the laws of con gress made to curb the Improper ex ercise of power by these great organi zations WARSHIPS ARE LOST Two of Togos Fleet Are Destroyed Off Mukden TOKIO Vice Admiral Togo has re ported as follows A report from Rear Admiral Dewa says that the cruisers Kasuga and Yo shino collided in a fog off Port Arthur on May 15 The Yoshino sank only ninety of her crew being saved On the same day the battleship Hatsuse struck a Russian mine and sank Giving the details of the disaster Vice Admiral Togo says The same morning the Hatsuse while cruising off Port Arthur cov ering the landing of the soldiers struck a mine ten knots southeast of the harbor entrance She signaled for help and instantly struck another mine She sank in half an hour Three hundred of her crew were saved by torpedo boats People just arrived at Che Foo from Dalny have reported to the Russirn consul that the Japanese first class battleship Shikishima sank in two minutes after contact with the sub marine mine and that there was no time to save the crew The accident happened it is said within sight of Port Arthur The first class battleship Fuji not the cruiser Asama which struck the mine on the port bow had a heavy list and was also down by the bow but was righted and went off in tow of the other cruisers It is thought impossible however that she could reach port ST PETERSBURG The loss of at least two Japanese warships Is offi cially confirmed A message dated Port Arthur received by carrier pig eon at Mukden was transmitted to the emperor early Thursday morning say ing that the Japanese warships had been lost off that port The message followed the emperor to Koursk and no one here knew of its contents un til late Thursday night when foreign telegrams brought full details of the Japanese loss German Royalty at Denver DENVER Colo A German royai party headed by Prince Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst arrived in Denver Sunday and will remain in Colorado several days In the party besides Prince Hohenlohe are his sister the Princess Elizabeth Pass Hohenlohe Mrs Borgins and her daughter and Count Graft Rumerskirch of Vienna Prince and Princess Ratibors are ex pected to arriver here Monday They have been with the party during its tour of this country until leaving for San Francisco f V fciMgF T - TICKES IS CHOSEN REPUBLICANS OF NEBRASKA MAKE NOMINATIONS FOUR GOME BY ACCLAMATION Only O c Ballot Necessary on Each of the Other Candidates Platform Adopted Without Discussion or Dis sent Choice of State Convention Vice President JOHN L WEBSTER United States Senator ELMER J BURKETT JOHN A PIPER Burt H C BROME Douglas E M LEFLANG Dawson C B DEMPSTER Gage Alternates-at-Large 1 M RAYMOND Lancaster SHELBY HASTINGS Butler C E ADAMS Nuckolls E K VALENTINE Cuming National Committeeman CHARLES H MORRILL Lancaster Presidential Electors F A BARTON Pawnee A C SMITH Douglas A C ABBOTT Dodge T L NORVAL Seward W P HALL Phelps M A BROWN Buffalo II H WILSON Lancaster J C ROBINSON Douglas Governor J II MICKEY Lieutenant Governor E G MGILTON Secretary of State A GALUSHA Auditor E M SEARLE JR Treasurer PETER MORTENSEN Superintendent J L MBRIEN Attorney General NORRIS BROWN Land Commissioner H M EATON The repuDlican state convention in Lincoln on the 18th put the foregoing ticket in nomination Four of the candidates were nominated by accla mation and the remainder on the first ballot When the convention was called to order Mcivesson of Lancaster moved that Judge W H Robertson be elected permanent chairman The motion was carried When preliminaries had been ar ranged and nominations begun on re quest of Harrison of Hall the motion to nominate Governor Mickey by ac clamation was expanded to include the nomination of E G McGilton for lieu tenant governor Peter Mdrtensen for state treasurer and Norris Brown for attorney general They were all so nominated A Galusha was nominated for sec retary of state after which the ticket was completed as above indicated The platform in part follows We Nebraska republican delegates in convention assembled declare anew our faith in the principles enunciated in the last national platform We con gratulate the party upon its harmoni ous condition that is a guaranty of its continued control in state and na tion Its record of great achievement is its pledge of future service We have abiding confidence in our great president His virile American ism appeals to our adtniration His ideals of civic duty are an inspiration iiis exaction from public officials of strict compliance with law and honor commands our highest respect His punishment of public delinquents has our unqualified approval His fearless enforcement of the statutes against -legal combinations In restraint oi trade and commerce without unneces sary alarm to capital has emonstrat ed the efficiency of republican law and the honest purpose of the republican party We declare our belief in a protec tive tariff a fundamental party doc trine that has largely contributed to the nations growth and greatness We aahere to the principle and we refuse to become frightened at the schedules of a law the practical application of which during the past seven years has brought to the country such mar velous development and phenomenal prosperity The efficacy of a gold standard es tablished by the party is proved by the unquestioned soundness of all our currency and its sufficient abundance to meet all the demands of a vastly increased trade We commend congress and espe cially the Nebraska members who ren dered such valuable service for the passage of laws for a great system of irrigation for the reclamation of a large area in this state of fertile but unwatered soil and for the better set tlement of a vast section by means of more liberal homestead privileges In the language of President Rocse velt we believe that the door of hope and of opportunity should be open to every worthy and deserving American citizen without distinction of race color or religion In response to a public necessity and the partys pledge the legislature has enacted a new revenue law It was framed to distribute the public byrden with exact and even justice We pledge the party to a correction of such inequalities as may be dis closed and to the assessment of all property corporate and private at its full value according to law so that all property shall have its equal share of taxation We favor the raising only of such revenue as is needed to meet current expenses of the state government under the most rigid econ omy and for a gradual extinguishment of the public debt Upon this record and these princi ples we invite the support of persons of all partes in the coming campaign Fraudulent Offers of Work WASHINGTON United States Con sul Dudley at Vancouver B C in forms the state department that about 180 laborers arrived at Vancouver re cently from Kansas City Mo having been induced to go there by fraudu lent offers of high wages on the Alas ka Central railway Not half of them had sufficient money to pay meir fare to Sattle and the rest are strsmded in Vancouver Reports from Seattle are to Seattle and the rest are stranded in aico heve arrived there riS JAP VESSEL SUNK Dispatch Boat Miyako Destroyed by Mine TOKIO The Japanese dispatch boat Miyako was destroyed in Kerr bay by striking a submerged mine Eight casualties are reported The Miyako was lost while assist ing in the operations of clearing the Russian mines from Kerr bay nortli east of Talienwan bay on which Port Dalny is situated Admiral Kataoka commander of the third squadron re turned there Sunday with a detach ment of his squadron protecting two flotllas of torpedo boats which had ben detailed to complete sweeping the bar or by the removal of the mines Five mines were discovered and ex ploded and the work was being sus pended fcr the day when the Miyako struck an undiscovered mine which exploded with tremendous force under its stern on the port side and inflicted immense aamage The Miyako sunk in twenty two minutes Two sailors were killed and twenty two men were wounded The rest of the crew were resetted The news of the loss of the Miyako has been sorrowfully received in To kio The dangerous character of the work in which the Miyako was en gaged is generally appreciated but it was thougnt that the loss of torpedo boat No 48 under similar circum stances last Thursday would serve as a warning to those engaged in the work to exercise the greatest care Admiral Kataoka reports that the Russians withdrew from Robinson Voint northeast of Kerr bay which adjoins Talienwan bay May 12 but they erected a temporary fort on a height northeast of Taku mountan where they mounted six guns and constructed protecting trenches The vessels of Admiral Kataokas squad ron shelled the Russians throughout Sunday but the latter stubbornly re tained their position The Japanese flotillas while sweep ing the bay were exposed to the Rus sian fire all day but continued their work uninjured When the Japanese torpedo boat No 48 was destroyed May 21 in Kerr bay while removing Russian mines seven men were killed and seven were wounded The No 48 was the first warship lost by Japan during the war with Russia The Miyako Avas one of the warships which took part in the op erations at Kerr bay Talinwan bay and Blackney or Deep bay the day No 48 was destroyed The Miyako was a steel cruiser of 1S00 tons displacement G3S0 indicat ed horse power completed in 1901 and having an estimated speed of twenty knots It was 314 feet long had thirty six feet beam and drew 13 feet of water Its armament consist ed of two 47 inch quick firing grns and ten lS inch guns and four torpedo tubes PORT ARTHUR TO BE STORMED Jfps Have Concluded They Must Take the Stronghold CHICAGO A special to the Daily News from Tokio savs Port Arthur is to be taken by storm the moment proper preparations have been completed Siege guns have yet to be placed in position and the land forces appointed for the assault have to be strengthened The unexpected loss of two fine vessels have empha sized the insecurity of sea power and the authorities feel that no chances must be taken that would encourage Russia to send out the Baltic sea fleet counting on finding a harbor of refuge in Port Arthur It is realized that the storming of the fortress will inevitably cost many lives but it is said that the waters where the Japanese ships are forced to maneuver are becoming so dan gerous because of floating mines that heroic measures are imDerative Un der these circumstances it is thought that life will be economized by storm ing the stronghold and eliminating it and the adjacent waters from the area of actual conflict NEBRASKA CROP BULLETIN Week Good One for Work but Not for Vegetation UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Lincoln Cold generally dry week good for work but not for the growth of vegetation The mean daily tem perature averaged 3 degrees below normal Frost occurred in nearly all parts of the state on either the 12th 13jh or 14th and generally on two of the dates On the 14th the mini mum temperature was generally near 32 degrees and in several central and western counties was between 28 degrees and 30 degrees The rainfall was confined to light showers on the 12th and the last days of the week The total weekly amount was less than one half inch except in the southeastern counties where the wet condition of the soil has caused continued delay In cen tral and northern counties many for mers have finished planting Early planted corn is coming up but low temperature has prevented quick ger mination and rapid growth Burglars Secure 75C0 ST PAUL Minn A special from Helena Mont says The safe in the office of the Billings Brewing company was dynamited today and papers money and diamonds valued at 7500 were taken Fred Stephens the watchman was shot and seriously wounded by the burglars who es avped Russia Sends Siege Guns ST PETERSBURG A larm num ber of siege gunsjsvas dispatched to the far east from here Saturday Vhe Highest Watenan longLe the highest know For a waterfall in the orld was Ceroso cascade in the Alps having ad w In tte waterfall of 2400 feet But a of in the state canyon San Cuayatan first Durance Mexico now claims place It was discovered by some j the great prospectors ten years ago m district which is i called the oarranca While search Tieras Inr for the famous lost mlne Naran of water was heard jaU a great roar With much difficulty the party pushed on and up the mighty chasm until they beheld the superb fall which is said to be not less than 3000 feet high The Original Rubberneck Giraffes are the most difficult of alL animals to take by surprise No mat ter from what direction you may ap proach the giraffe is sure to dscover u you It has been called the original q rubberneck It is not generally known that nature because of the height of its eyes from the ground has supplied it with a talent peculiarly its own for making observations Womans inhumanity to man makes countless millions mourn A Farmer Found It Mount Pleasant Utah May 23 To find a medicine that will cure every ailment due to diseased or disordered Kidneys has been the aim of many physicians and chemists Mr C E Peterson a farmer of this place says he has found such a rem edy and that he has tried it with suc cess in his own case Mr Peterson says the remedy is Dodds Kidney Pills a medicine introduced here Lbout seven months ago I am glad to be allowed to testify to what good things Dodds Kidney Pills have done for me I used this remedy for Kidney trouble and it cured me completely I can heartily recommend Dodds Kidney Pills to all who suffer with any kind of Kidney trouble Mr Petersons case is only one of many just as convincing that have been reported recently This new rem edy seems to have conquered Rheu matism completely not a single case having been reported where Dodds Kidney Pills have failed to cure per fectly and permanently Even the most angelic of women cant help wondering at times if she would look really swell with wings 1 am sure Pisos Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago Mrs Tnos RobbikSi Maple Street Norwich N Y Feb 17 1900 Why It Is tne Sest is because made by an entirely different process Defiance Starch is unlike any other better and one third more for lOjfc cents There was a rather fine bit of senti ment developed the other day when an actor named Maurice Pike was dragged before a New York magistrate charged with vagrancy The poor old fellow is 65 years of age and he told the judge that he had often appeared in the support of Edwin Booth It happened that the judge who Is him self an old man remembered the ac tor and he asked him if he did not play Cassio to Booths Othello in the year 1872 Poor old Maurice Pike sat isfied the court that he was the guilty party and the magistrate refused to pass a sentence In fact he told the old actor that he would see that he was provided for until the time when he could communicate with the Actors Fund Society Valuable Clay Deposit Found On the Peabody estate in North Tar rytown N i a clay deposit has been found worth it is declared millions of dollars The land was in the market for two years at 40000 with no pur chaser ie disc6very was made by a civil engineer who was surveying the land Borings have been made to a depth of seventy five feet and the bot tom of the deposit has not been reach ed Deeds and not distances make the milestones on the heavenly road Extravagant speeches are often very economical with the truth Only a fools tomorrow ruins today i WHAT THE KING EATS Whats Fit for Him A Mass lady who has been through the mill with the trials of the usual housekeeper and mother relates an interesting incident that occurred not long ago She says I can with all truthfulness say that Grape Nuts is the most beneficial of all cereal foods in my family young as well as old It is food and medi cine both to us A few mornings ago at breakfast my little boy said Mamma does the Kin- eat Grape Nuts every morning T smiled and told him I did not know but that I thought Grape Nuts certainly made a delicious dish fit for a King Its a fact that the Kin- or England and the German Emperor both eat Grape Nuts I find that by the constant u of Grape Nuts not only as a morning ce real but also in puddings saladsetc in the little book in each package ir is proving to be- a great nerve food for rne besides having completely cured a long standing case of indiges tion Name given by Postum Co Battle Creek Mich Thrre is no doubt Grape Nuts is lhe most scientific food in the world Ten days trial of this proper food id place of improper food will show in steady stronger nerves sharper brain and the power to go longer ar u more Theres a luiuu Look in each pkg for the fawn- littfe book The Road to WeUvSS C V i if w f Y r SJ 1 rJe tt J i J 4