IVlcCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
Isnt It time for that expected news
from the palace of the czar
Chicago is said to have six -women
who are earning 10000 a year
Apiece
What I want is the pole modestly
says Capt Peary Most men are
after the persimmons
Chicago has a policeman whose
name is Lyonnalse but Its only an
other form of Murphy
Speak well of your town advises
the Syracuse Post Standard Of course
We cant do anything else
With an automobile case going to
the Supreme court it looks as if a
few precedents might be run over
Lord Curzons new job carries a
big salary and requires no great exer
tion Its a sort of cinquch as it
were
However and in spite of Great Brit
ains success in squeezing promises
out of the porte we should hate to be
an Armenian
There are still a few septuagena
rian senators who are not married
off but this is leap year and no one
can read the future
A noted German physician now in
forms us that appendicitis is catch
ing The only safe course seems to be
to keep out of high society
All the airship inventors are per
fectly confident theyve got the prob
lem solved if only enough people will
come forward and buy the stock
The Alpha Omega fraternity finds
theres another of the same name
Thats strange One Avould natural
ly think it was the first and the last
Anti Christian riots have broken
out in China but it is said that for
eigners are not in danger Evidently
the Christianity or foreigners is in
doubt
A supposed crook has been arrested
in St Louis because he offered a 20
note every time he bought a cigar
We must be careful when webuy our
stogies
The postoffice at Bokescreek has
been discontinued because the post
master has resigned and no one else
will take the job And Bokescreek is
in Ohio
The old fashioned farm dinner is
disappearing laments the Chicago
Tribune Maybe but it is the disap
pearance of the old fashioned farm
appetite that hurts
With Jersey cows lunching on dyna
mite and a Passaic cat sent through
the mails we are doing our share
toward relieving the tedium of these
long summer days
The fashion editor sees danger that
the collarless styles in gowns will
be run to the ground We agree that
this would be much too low even in
the hottest weather
After a severe fight Gen MacDon
ald has defeated the Thibetans at the
Naini monastery and has entered
It begins to look as if civ
ilization were inevitable over there
The president of Brown University
said in his baccalaureate sermon
The American people are bound
nowhere under full sail
well this is the vacation season
isnt it
The people of Kansas have 103
000000 deposited in their savings
banks This looks as if they are get
ting into pretty good trim to lift their
mortgages without asking outsiders tc
give them a boost
The Bigerian potentate the Alake
of Abeokuta capital of the kingdom
of Yerrike in the sunbaked bight
of Benin seems to be decidedly on
the strenuous order Nothing Lhas
satudinous about him
Seven thousand Thibetans fought
for a whole day against about 200
English troops and killed one man
Going through Thibet seems to be
less dangerous than penetrating the
New Jersey mosquito district
The man in St Louis who has cured
himself of dyspepsia by adopting a
diet of fruit nuts and whole wheat
bread and incidentally reduced his
living expenses to 15 cents a day is
going to get married now Thats
always the way As soon as a man
finds that he is saving money by
economy he rushes headlong into
some new extravagance
The fashion editor describing the
new styles one after another ob
serves that the third and last sleeve
is a simple drooping puff Now
who needs a third and last sleeve
even if it is simple- droopy and puf
fiferous
The Columbus young man who for
got his own name and the girls when
ft came to getting the marriage II
cense must have been intoxicated
with the outlook for a useful and
happy life At least thats the chari
table view
LABOR 8TRUGGL
PACKING PLANTS PREPARING
FOR A FINISHED FIGHT
A GENERAL GALLTO GOME OUT
Teamsters as Well as Butchers Will
Make Another Effort to Bring About
Adjustment They Also Having
Voted in Favor of a Strike
CHICAGO Determined on a fight
to a finish to enforce the demands of
the striking butchers a sympathetic
strike of all the union workmen em
ployed in the meat packing industry
throughout the country with the ex
ception of the teamsters will be de
clared Monday morning at 7 oclock
Instead of joining in the sympathet N
ic strike the teamsters will make an
other effort to bring about an adjust
ment of the controversy by arbitra
tion This decision was reached late
Sunday night at a meeting of the joint
council of the teamsters unions
throughout Chicago who met to give
their endorsement this afternoon to
quit work with the other men The
decision of the stock yards teamsters
was almost unanimous in favor of
striking but as it is necessary accord
ing to the rules for the joint council
to sanction any strike movement all
the union teamsters in the employ of
the packers will remain at work dur
ing the struggle or until the joint
council gives their permission to a
strike should their efforts to settle the
matter by conciliation today prove fu
tile The committee appointed at last
nights meeting was notified to get
into communication Monday morning
early with the packers
Whether the teamsters efforts for
peace will prove successful none of
the packers representatives who were
communicated with Sunday will say
The decision to make another effort
was reached at such a late hour last
night that it was impossible for the
packers to get together to decide
what answer will be given to the in
termediary committee
The reason given by the teamsters
council for their action is that they
never before have been consulted in
the present trouble and that therefore
before they would sanction a strike
of the stock yards teamsters they
wished to make an official investiga
tion of the trouble before asking the
international officers to order the men
on strike
No conferences were held Sunday
either by the packers or the labor
leaders or jointly in an effort to
reach an adjustment of the controver
sy Both sides rested apparently
waiting for developments
Whether or not the packers would
make any concessions to the demands
of the labor leaders in order to pre
vent a general walkout of the stock
yards would not be discussed by any
of the packing house representatives
But for the preparations going on at
the different plants during the day it
was plainly evident that the packers
intended to fight for thei independ
ence All the labor leaders claimed
they would await Monday before doing
any further and the packers would
have to make the propositions for the
peace negotiations as the unions had
no intention at the present time of
doing so
BATTLE HAS BEGUN
Engagement in Progress Between
Forces of Keller and Kuroki
LIAO YANG A general engage
ment it is reported here began Mon
day morning to the east between the
forcesof Lieutenant General Count
Keller and General Kuroki It is re
ported also that an engagement began
simultaneously at Ta Tche Kiao from
which the Japanese for some days had
been only six miles distant
The Associated Press correspondent
lately traversed the Feng Wang
Cheng road which was in the height
of militar y activity and offensive
with the odor of dead animals
The Red Cross hospital at Ta Tche
Kiao was removed to Mukden in an
ticipation of the fighting Consequent
ly there was a large call for Red
Cross trains to proceed to Ta Tche
Kiao
The activity of the Japanese in the
northeast caused a wide dispersion of
troops and the consequent improve
ment of the center of the strength a
little further north
A Cossacck report of an expedition
to the Japanese camp shows that the
Japanese troops are suffering from
dysentery which is now at its worst
stage
Carries Sixty Thousand
CHICAGO The movement west
ward on account of the opening of the
Rosebud Indian reservation in South
Dakota exceeded all expectations
The Chicago Northwestern alone
took 60000 people to Bonesteel Fair
fax and Yankton The unprecedented
movement was largely due to the fact
that a long overland journey was not
necessary to reach the land
Cruisers Near Yin Kow
LIAO YANG Saturday eight Japan
ese cruisers accompanied by trans
ports with troops were seen approach
ing in Kow South of Ta Tche Kiao
the Japanese are busily moving for
ward The Russians are expecting a
big advance from the south General
Kuropatkin inspected troops arriving
from Russia The Russian companies
on the left flank are constantly en
gaged in skimishes with the Japan
ese forces who have suffered heavily
The Russians thus fat have destroyed
four guns
GERMAN PROTEST
Objects to Seizure of Mails by the
v Russians
BERLIN The German government
has taken a prompt and firm stand in
regard to the seizure of the mails of
the North German Lloyd steamer
Prlnz Heinrich which arrived at Aden
July 1G from Hamburg and Southamp
ton for Yokohama by the Russian vol
unteer fleet steamer Smolensk July
15 haying entered a protest against
the carrying off of the mails and ask
ing for a disavowal of the Smolensks
action and the return of the captured
mail sacks The German government
the foreign office says recognizes the
right to search mails when on board
the vessel itself but claims the Smo
lensk had no right to take off mails
in bulk from the vessel The further
argument is advanced that the right
of search can only be exercised by a
warship whereas the Smolensk tra
versed the Dardanelles only recently
flying the Russian commercial flag
not assuming the character of a war
ship The German government has
not taken a positive stand on this last
verdict but leaves the question for
future discussion and settlement No
answer has yet been received from
Russia
The recent publication by the Russ
of St Petersburg of a statement that
Great Britain is about to transfer Wei
Hai Wei to Germany in exchange for
a free hand in the Yang Tse valley is
scouted at the foreign office where it
is classed as a revival of an old story
and as having no foundation
Diplomatic circles believe Russia
will speedily disavow the seizure
since a refusal to do so will certainly
raise the status of the Smolensk Dis
cussions of the incident among the
foreign diplomats show there is a be
lief that the raising of the question
will be extreineljr awkward for Rus
sia since the Smolensk passed the
Dardanelles as a merchantman and
assumed the role of a warship in the
Red sea In determining its status
only two alternatives are permissible
it is either a warrior or a pirate
and Russia having every reason to
prevent Germany from pressing for a
decision on this point will it is be
lieved gracefully disavow the rash act
of the Smolensk
The newspapers strike a sharper
note in discussing the seizure of mails
Xrom the Prinz Heinrich and raise a
unanimous demand for a speedy apol
ogy
RUSSIA IS FIRM
Stands Pat on the Matter of Stopped
Ships
ST PETERSBURG In addition to
the claims for the ships stopped by
the Smolensk and St Petersburg it is
not improbable that claims may also
be presented for ships detained at
Port Arthur at the opening of the war
andd for those held up in the Red sea
by Admiral Wirenius squadron be
fore the latter returned to the Baltic
The passage of the Dardanelles by
the Smolensk and the St Petersburg
and their conversion into cruisers be
ing an accomplished fact Great Brit
ain does not expect to make a point
of their cases except to justify rais
ing the question of the status of the
volunteer fleet vessels still in the
Black sea Moreover it is considered
possible Japan may have already ap
pealed to her ally as one of the signa
tories of the treaty cf Paris on the
grounds that to allow more Russian
ships to go out of the Dardanelles for
conversion into warships without a
protest would constitute a violation
of neutrality
The report that the British Medi
terranean squadron is going to Alex
andria is not believed to have special
significance in this case Neither
France nor Germany is excited over
the question but if presented by Great
Britain it would compel the other sig
natory powers to declare their atti
tude
The Russian authorities apparently
are tranquil on the subject of the ves
sels of the volunteer fleet passing
through the Dardanelles They main
tain that they are perfectly within
their right as there is absolutely noth
ing in the treaty of Paris to prevent
their passage as merchantment and
their subsequent conversion into
cruisers There is no question of a
false declaration having been made at
Constantinople It was pointed out
before the war that vessels of the vol
unteer fleet carrying arms munitions
and soldiers passed without the
shadow of a question being raised
The war office has no further details
of the Russian repulse at Motion
Pass
The loss of men which it is freely
admitted will probably be consider
ably in excess of General Kuropatkins
figures given out last night is great
ly deplored But evidently the en
gagement at least served the purpose
of demonstrating that General Kuro
kis army has been heavily reinforced
north and the general staff is now in
clined to believe that the Japanese
commander may have decided that a
frontal attack from the south is inad
visable and is concentrating his forces
for a direct attack on Liao Yang
Skirmishes Near Kai Chau
ST PETERSBURG Lieutenant
General Sakhaoff in a dispatch to the
general staff dated July 23 reports
skirimshes in the vicinity of Kai
Shauon July 22 Lieutenant General
Count Kellers reconnoissances on the
same showed that the Japanese had
only weak detachments at the Siao
Kao and Wafankau passes There
was no change in the situation on the
high road to Mukden according to
the report but strong Jajanese col
umns were advancing along the Fai
Tse
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STRIKE J AGAIN
PACKING HOUSE EMPLOYES ARE
OUT A SECOND TIME
A JOINT CONFERENCE IS HELD
Strikers Assert that Discrimination is
Shown When Application is Made
for Work Packers Pick Out Cer
tain Employes and Let Others Go
CHICAGO The stock yards strike
which was renewed Friday morning
in Chicago and all the other points
where the hog packing companies
have branches because the strikers
were dissatisfied with the manner in
which the employers proposed to re
instate their former employes pend
ing a settlement by arbitration will
continue for another day at least
A joint conference between repre
resentatives of both sides to the con-
WANTS BRYAN AND PARKER
Mayor Harrison Would Open the Dem
ocratic Campaign in Chicago v
ESOPUS N Y Esopus took on a
new atmosphere Tuesday with the ar
rival of the first train bringing New
York newspapers The conference of
New York democrats held last night
at the Hoffman house was the subject
of the keenest interest eren to the
villages who hitherto have been con
tent in- the knowledge of Judge Par
kers nomination without bothering
about any of the details or gossip con
nected with his campaign The judge
himself showed an Interest beyond his
usual calm and at breakfast read the
newspaper accounts of the conference
with close attention but as usual
without any comment which could
reach newspaper men
A report is current that there will be
an effort to get the judge to begin his
active campaign in the middle west
with a speech at Chicago soon after
the notification ceremonies It is un
derstood that Mayor Carter H
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SHIPS ARE HEARING YOKOHAMA
Ships Sighted in Jap Waters and Bom
bardment May Be Expected Jap
anese Torpedo Boats Retire Under
Heavy Fire From Forts
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PORTLAND Ore According to ad
vices received at the local offices of
the Portland Asiatic Steamship
company from New York the steam
ship Aragonia which is ownec by the
Hamburg American company will be
allowed to carry a cargo of flour from
here to Japan providing the Portland
Asiatic company first file an indem
nity bond to protect the owners in
case the steamship is seized by the
Russians The amount of the bond
was not made public but is believed
son of Chicago is anxious not only to
have the first gun of the campaign
fired in Chicago but to have Judge
Parker and William J Bryan on the
platform together upon that occasion
Of course nothing definite on that
subject can be learned here for Judge
Parker absolutely refused to discuss
his plans previous to his notification
So far as the notification is concern
ed it will be held at Rosement Judge
Parker intends to remain here
throughout the campaign save per
haps for two or three absences to
make speeches in large cities such as
Chicago Philadelphia and New York
and possibly Boston
HIGH HONOR FOR AN AMERICAN
Secretary Hay Will Be Given Grand
Cross of Legion of Honor
PARIS The most important an
nouncement of the forthcoming list of
decorations following the French na
tional holiday will be that of President
Loubet conferring the grand cress of
the Legion of Honor upon Secretarv
Hay
The grand cross is the higest grade
and is given only to personages the
government desires to signally honor
An official said it vas evidence of
Foreign Minister Delcasses high re
gard for Mr Hays conduct of foreign
affairs during the last five years This
has constantly strengthened Franco-
American relations the latest being
American recognition of French para
mount authority in Morocco under the
Franco British arrangement
Mrs Msybrick is Free
TRURO Cornwall Eng Mrs Flor
ence Maybrick is free She left here
at 1143 am Wednesday on her way
to France
Mrs Ma yb ricks imprisonment was
not terminated with the clang oi
doors the last sound which remains
in the ears of so many of her fellow
prisoners who had preceded her to
liberty from Aylesbury prison where
she spent more than fourteen years of
her life It closed before the arched
doorway of the white convent of the
Sisterhood of the Epiphany in this lit
tle town with the black robed sisters
softly uttering their blessings and
good wishes for her future
Jews Are Heloinq the Russians
ST PETERSBURG Rabbi Drab
kin in an interview with the Asso
ciated Press correspondent asserted
that there were 15000 Jews fighting
in the Russian army in Manchuria
The rabbi called attention to the fact
that when Jews fall in battle their
burial is different from that which oc
curs when death results in other
ways The Talmudic law requires
that those who fall in battle shall be
buried in their blood Therefore the
bodies of such are not placed in
shoruds but are interred in o s
TOKIO A fisherman reports that
the Vladivostok squadron was off My
ako yesterday going in a southeaster
ly direction at a speed of 10 knots
If this course and speed is maintained
the squadron will be off Yokohoma
late today The eastern coast of
Japan is shrouded in fog Shipping
has been suspended awaiting the lo
cation of the Russian fleet
CHEE FOO Copies of the Novo
Krai a newspaper published at Port
Arthur Including the issue of July 11
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The picture shows a method of attacking a fcrt if high angle fire fails to reduce it The irregular
trenches leading to the parallels are dug so that they cannot be swept by the enemys fire The men dig the
trenches under the protection of their own artillery The parallels are for the protection of the storming
parties as they approach nearer and nearer the walis
troversy and representatives of the al
lied trades in an attempt to Ling
about a peaceable adjustment of this
second strike was unsuccessful and
the neeting was adjourned with the
understanding that another conference
would be held Saturday morning at
8 oclock
At the conference which lasted
five hours a committee consisting of
five representatives of the packers ana
five representatives of the butchers
union was appointed to go over the
whole situation but the committee
was unable to reach a working ba
sis with which both sides would be
satisfied Whether the difficulty can
be satisfactorily settled at Saturdays
meeting is problematical
After adjournment a publication
committee announced that the peace
negotiations had failed but still has
hopes that an agreement could be
reached in the near future No
written statement of what occurred
in the meeting was given as has
been customary at the former confer
ences and the committee declined to
give any further information except
that another meeting would ae held
Saturday
In the following statement given
out by President Donnelly of the
butchers union the reason why the
strikers refused to return to work is
given
The packers signed an agreement
that there would be no discrimination
in tbe re hiring of the men This
was accepted by the officers of the
organization in good faith On the
return of the men this morning they
were lined up like cattle The fore
men and superintendents wouJ walk
through the line and pick out a man
and say You come up The next
man would be pushed out of line and
told that he could not be active It
was always the active men
whom they could not use Ye un
derstood the agreement perfectly and
the strike was only called aier the
packers had violated the sait This
has been their system in the past and
that was our main reason for itsisting
on the time limit in the agreement
but in spite of this the packers in
tentions were to hire only suci men
as were favorites They aso hired
men in some of the departments who
had not been employed prior to the
strike
reached here this afternoon Accord
ing to this papor the Japanese fleet
composed of six cruisers live gun
boats and twenty torpedo boats was
seen early in the morning of July 10
to the southeast
At 0 oclock in the morning part of
the Russian fleet moved to tho en
trance of the inner harbor The Jap
anese torpedo boats then approached
and at 10 HO they were fired upon by
the gunboat Kiiiak and the cruiser
Diana The Japanese vessels retired
At 5 oclock in the afternoon several
torpedo noats again approached Port
Arthur The cruiser Novik witli an
escort of torpedo boats advanced
and the enemy retired the second
time
During the night of the 10th six
teen Japanese torpedo boats formed
for attack They were however dis
covered by the searchlights and re
tired under a heavy fire from tho
forts At a later hour that same
night a single torpedo boat made for
the entrance of the harbor at full
speed but also retired under fire The
whitehead torpedoes which had failed
to reach the cruisers at which they
had been discharged by the Japanese
were found at the entrance of the har
bor
On July 11 the Japanese lire from
the ea stopped and the Japanese as
cended Kinsan heights from the sum
mit of which rapid fire guns were
used against the Russians During
the evening of the 11th the Russian
batteries sent many shells from three
posititons against the Japanese on
these heights Later the Russian re
serve accompanied by bands of mu
sic began to move toward Ludsigdao
The fire on the heights was very ef
fective
News was received from Ta Tohe
Kiao yesterday that the Japanese had
broken through the Russian left flank
between Lieutenant General Count
Kellers position and that of General
Rennenkampff and that they were
marching on Mukden The rumors to
this effect are persistent but there
is no official confirmation of them
Sambia Is Not Captured
HAMBURG The Hamburg-American
line steamer Sambia passed Perim
at the southern entrance of the Red
sea thus disproving the reporr of its
capture by a vessel of the Russian
volunteer fleet
Doings of the Maccaber
DETROIT Mich The specal com
mittee appointed to consider the reso
lutions submitted by the 224 Macca
bees tents who objected to -e pro
posed readjustment of rates and
asked for a more liberal representa
tion in the supreme tent submitted
its report on Friday The report rec
ommends that consideration -e given
those protests that were worded re
spectfully and that the boarc of trus
tees take up the matter of punishing
those tents that submitted protests
couffcad in disrespectful languaga
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