iYIcCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCQOK
NEBRASKA
News in Brief
The estate of the late William C
Whitney of New York is estimated at
21234101
Rear Admiral Philip H Cooper commander-in-chief
of the Asiatic station
will be retired on August 4
Western members of the republican
executive committee are soon to con
fir in Chicago with Chairman Cortel
you
The congressional merchant marine
commission completed its work in Se
attle and departed for Tacoma last
night
Albert F Dawson private secretary
for United States Senator Allison has
been nominated for congress by re
publicans of the Second Iowa district
William Preston Harrison brother
of Mayor Harrison is named as a co
respondent in a counter suit for di
vorce brought by Andrew P Carter in
New York
A court at Naples which has been
judging a contested will case has de
cided that the pope is capable of in
heriting in Italy which hitherto had
been disputed
One man was killed and another
gainfully injured by the explosion of a
fifty gallon siphon which they were
testing in a New York soda water ap
paratus factory
Capt Gross an instructor of the
German army balloon corps has left
Berlin for St Louis where he will ob
serve the dirigible balloon contests in
behalf of the war office
Tolstoi in acknowledging the re
ceipt of a copy of Herbert Spencers
autobiography confessed that he did
not like the English philosopher be
cause he had little heart
It is reported that the general
freight offices of the Chicago East
ern Illinois railroad are to be removed
to St Louis at an early date and that
dUier departments will follow
Erie earnings for the fiscal year
tded June 30 are figured at 12130
390 which would allow a 4 per cent
dividend on the first preferred stock
and leave a balance of 2743300
William E Curtis declares that the
extension of the United States ship
ping laws to the Philippines imperils
the coasting trade because of the ab
sence of sufficient American ships
Until the advent of the Americans
no systematic efforts ever had been
made to vaccinate Filipinos The is
lands now are declared to be prac
tically free from plague as a result
Major Kirkpatrick of the Third regi
ment Ohio National Guard has been
acnuitted by courtmartial of the
charge of disobedience of orders
growing out of the Springfield riots in
March
The first annual reunion of the
United Spanish War Veterans will be
held in St Louis instead of Indianapo
lis on account of the failure to get
stop over privileges from the rail
roads
The will of Mrs Mary F Scanlan of
St Louis disposing of an estate val
ed at 1000000 has been filed for
probate The bulk of the property is
divided among the children and grand
children
Two young women of Rochester
Inch have declared their intention to
walk to the Worlds fair on a wager
They are to leave home without a pen
ny and earn their expenses by working
along the road
A letter from Elihu Root declining
a nomination for governor is consid
ered at a conference of republican
leaders in New York and other candi
dates were discussed but no conclu
sion was reached
Eight large sticks of dynamite and
two dozen percussion caps were found
under the Santa Fe station at El Paso
Tex The explosives were so arranged
that it is thought any heavy jar would
have set them off
Judge Lacombe in New York has
dismissed the indictment against John
A Benson of California who was
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
United States in the acquisition of
school lands in Oregon and California
Lee Shubert the New York theat
rical manager is held by the authori
ties at Germany for
having military plans in his posses
sion but which he claims are photo
graphic plates for use in a new play
Secretary Hay after a hard struggle
o leam the Russian language has
finally given it up He says he has
a most profound respect for anyone
who has ever succeeded in acquaint
ing himself with this linquial abnor
mity
An ingenious method employed in
the Philippines to secure an adequate
gas supply is to slowly feed cocoanut
oil a native product into strong cast
iron retorts after the latter are
brought to a red heat in furnaces This
produces a very high quality of illu
minating gas free from smoke and
tar
Prof O F Cook who discovered the
Guatemalan ants said to be an enemy
to the cotton boll weevil has arrived
in Washington with several colonies
of the ants A report of the experi
ments with the ants has been made to
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
The question of a reduction to 25
cents for night admission that has
been agitated since the opening of the1
St Louis exposition has been finally
disposed of by the board of directors
voting almost unanimously against the
proposition
NOW IN THE TOM
FUNERAL OF VON PLEHVE HELD
AT ST PETERSBURG
EVERYWHERE JHE BELLS TOLL
Impressive and Imposing Services
Notable Characters of Russia Stand
with Bowed Heads About the Flow
ered and Caparisoned Bier
ST PETERSBURG M von
Plehve the minister of the interior
who was assassinated Thursday morn
ing last was buried Sunday and In
every city of this vast empire church
bells were tolled and masses and
prayers said for the repose of the soul
of the murdered minister
The services here which were ac
cording to the rites of the orthodox
church were of an impressive and im
posing character At 11 oclock high
mass was said in the stately chapel
adjoining the ministry of the interior
Emperor Nicholas and the dowager
empress stood with the broken hearted
widow and the children at a great
mound of flowers on which rested the
casket To the right on gold-embroidered
cushions before a mass of
wreaths banked to the ceiling were
ranged the decorations which had been
won by the statesman during his not
able career
To the left were the metropolitan
of St Petersburg and the officiatag
bishops and priests in their gold-emblazoned
vestments A screen of flow
ers concealed the famous imperial
boys choir
Among those present were other
members of the imperial family the
foreign representatives including
Spencer Eddy charge daffaires of the
American embassy ministers of the
empire generals admirals nobles
governors of distant provinces like
those of Astrakhan and Irkutsk in
fact all high officialdom not even
omitting Genghis Khan a lineral de
scendant of Napoleon of Ahia who is
now a major general in the Russian
service
The entire assemblage was in full
uniform and on the arm of each one
present was a badge of mourning All
hell lighted tapers throughout the ser
vice and the air was heavy with the
perfume of flowers and incense from
the censers
At the most solemn moment when
all knelt and many were affected by
tears the widow was overcome and
fainted The emperor came to her as
sistance and she was carried out by
gentle hands The emperor was vis
ioly moved and upon the conclusion
of the mass he followed the casket
which was taken upon the shoulders
of ministers and borne down the
broad marble stairway to the street
The funeral procession was formed
and the body was placed in a great
white open hearse drawn by six coal
black horses which were blanketed
from their ears to their tails in som
ber trappings A black garbed groom
stood at each bridle and in advance
went sixteen similarly clad lantern
bearers Behind the hearse walked
the members of the ministers family
and then came a long and distin
guished body of mourners it being the
Russian custom to follow the dead to
the grave on foott
The emperor himself walked a short
distance but as the Novodevicky
monastery where the burial took
place was over five miles away and
because of the condition of the em
press his majesty soon entered his
carriage and returned to the Peterhof
palace
At the end of the procession came
four white chariots filled with the
floral offerings The cortege proceed
ed slowly through the avenues and
streets preceded by a squad of mount
ed police and passed within sight of
theplace where the tragedy occurred
TIGHTENING UP THE LINES
Strikers and Packers Preparing for
Another Week of Struggle
CHICAGO Both the packers and
the strikers spent Sunday in strength
ening any weak spots that could be
found in their defenses preparatory
to terms Nothwithstanding that it
was Sunday all the plants were oper
ated uring the forenon in order to
get rid of the live stock that had been
left over from last week The re
mainder of the day was spent by the
employers in installing new men in
the strikers places and arranging
many of the small details which had
been overlooked last week during the
heat of the conflict
Over one thousand new men were
added to those at work in the various
plants Among the arrivals were
many skilled laborers something the
packers have been sadly in need of
ever since the strike started The
employers have experienced little dif
ficulty in procuring all the unskilled
men necessary to operate the plants
to their full capacity but there has
been a decided scarcity of skilled
workmen and for this reason the by
products of all animals killed have
been let go to waste
Successor to Van Plehve
ST PETERSBURG The far-reaching
character of the machinery of the
ministry of the interior and the urgent
necessity for dealing with many pend
ing matters of importance render it
Imperative that the emperor select a
successor to M Von Plehve immedi
ately and it is considered certain that
he will do so in a few days Influ
ences hostile to M Witte in spite of
his acknowledged great ability and the
general belief that he is the man for
the position seem to render his ap
polntment increasingly impossible
NOTIFIED OF HIS NOMINATION
National Committee Calls Upon the
Republican Nominee
OYSTER BAY N Y President
Roosevelt was notified formally on
Wednesday of his nomination for the
presidency by the national republican
convention The ceremony took place
at his country home at Sagamore Hill
three miles from this village In ac
cordance with the presidents wish
the ceremony was made as simple as
possible
The formal notification of the action
of the convention was made on behalf
of a committee representing every
state and territory in the United
States by Joseph G Cannon speaker
of the house of representatives
The day opened with ideal weather
and arrangements for the ceremony
were completed early The wide ver
anda of the house at Sagamore Hill
extending almost entirely around tha
house was decorated with American
flags hung from pillar to pillar
In addition many houses in the
neighborhood of the Roosevelt home
and in Oyster Bay were draped with
the national colors Across the
main street of the village there hung
a large Roosevelt and Fairbanks ban
ner Only three of the members of
the committee were absent Included
among the invited guests were men
prominent in all walks of life Those
present numbered about 125
Speaker Cannon delivered the
speech of notification to which the
president responded at considerable
length
ALLIED TRADESMEN TO GO OUT
Packing House Mechanics at South
Omaha Join the Strikers
SOUTH OMAHA In response to
orders received from Chicago all the
members of the allied trades employ
ed at the packing houses in South
Omaha walked out at noon Tuesday
By this iwalkout the ranks of the
strikers were increased by between
1000 and 1100 men making nearly
G000 in all These craftsmen quit
work Steamfitters firemen engi
neers machinists car repairers box
factory workers electricians carpen
ters and coopers
Orders for the walkout were re
ceived by President George Sterrett
late Monday night and the word was
passed around among the men at the
plants When the night force of men
quit Tuesday morning they took their
working clothes with them The day
shift men did the same when they
quit at noon Good order prevailed
during the walkout the men leaving
the plants quitely Many went di
rectly to their homes while others
drifted towards labor headquartres to
hear the latest news
In speaking of the mcehanical
workers walkout General Manager
Murphy said We are glad the mat
ter is settled For a time the men
kept telling us they would not go out
and led us to believe they were sat
isfied to remain while negotiations for
the new wage scale were pending
Now that these men have gone out
we know just exactly where we are
As I have stated before we are fully
prepared to fill the places of the men
who went out and smoke will con
tinue to pour from the Cudahy
stacks
POLICE KNEW OF THE PLOT
The Assassination of Von Plehve Was
Matured Long Ago
ST PETERSBURG The police
have not yet established the identity
of the assassin of M von Plehve or of
his accomplices though it has been as
certained that the former is little Rus
sian which accounts for his notice
able accent The accomplice is a
Jew
It has developed that the police for
some time past have been aware that
a plot was maturing against the czar
and had advised one of the ministers
that a party of fifteen anarchists had
arrived in St Petersburg Several ar
rests were actually made several days
before the assassination
The bomb which the accomplice
dropped in the canal after the assas
sination was recovered by the police
It is of foreign make though it is be
lieved to have been loaded in St Pe
tersburg It is small and melon
shaped and is believed to be fully as
powerful as the one that killed von
Plehve
FLEET NEARS JAPAN
Vladivostock Squadron Seen to East
ward of Kazusa Bay
TOKIO The Russian Vladivostok
squadron was seen to the eastward of
Kazusa province at 2 oclock Monday
afternoon It was seen steaming to
the east Kazusa province is on the
east side of Tokio bay
The British steamer Chinan has ar
rived at Yokohama with the crew of
the British steamer Knight Command
er that was sunk by Russias Vladi
vostok squadron off Izu The Knight
Commanders cargo was a general one
Its European passengers were detain
ed by the Russians and its crew of
twenty one was transferred to the Chi
nan which also reports that the Rus
sians sunk two Japanese schooners
Packers Get Better Service
CHICAGO As a matter for protec
tion of office employes and non union
workers who instead of taking up
their abode in the barracks provided
by the packers desire to go home at
night and come to the stock yards in
the morning the packers have ar
ranged with the Lake Shore Michi
gan Southern railroad for a large in
creased number of trains to the stock
yards The new schedule provides for
trains running directly to the various
packing houses inside the yards thus
A avoiding the pickets
RUMORS 0
F FIGHT
ONE IS THAT PORT ARTHUR HAS
BEEN CAPTURED
THE NEWS IS HOT CONFIRMED
Associated Press Dispatches and
Other Reliable Sources Deny the
Rumors A General Assault How
ever Seems to Have Been Begun
LONDON A Shanghai correpsond
ent in a cabregram says Various
telegrams received here from Che Foo
announce that the Japanese have cap
tured Port Arthur This report is re
garded as confirmed by news just re
ceived from Wei Hai Wei that the
British fleet returns there It is also
stated that the Japanese casualties
numbered 11000
CHE FOO Refugees who have just
arrived from Port Arthur confirm pre
vious reports that a general assault
has been begun by the Japanese on
that fortress and they declare that
the Russians are sanguine that Jap
anese could not succeed in capturing
the place even though they had twice
as many troops The Russians ac
cording to the refugees story are still
hoping for succor from General Kou
ropattkin They are unwilling to be
lieve the reports of his defeat at Ta
Tche Kiao The refugees further con
firm the reports that the Russian fleet
is in a state of repair but say that the
fleet is unwilling to attack that of Ad
miral Togo on account of the mines
which the Japanese place nightlyjat
the entrance to the harbor It was be
lieved at Port Arthur that if the Vladi
vostok squadron or reinforcements
from General Kuropatkin should arrive
the Russian fleet would take the risk
of going out
Ammunition is said to be growing
scarce and the large fort guns are not
often discharged Attempts to manu
facture ammunition in Port Arthur are
reported to have been failures
All public buildings are being used
for hospittals The sick and wounded
are being well cared for by volunteer
nurses The wounds made by the Jap
anese rifles are not dangerous except
when vital spots arc reached Hun
dreds of badly wounded have quickly
recovered from their wounds
An American named Holt reports
that Lieut Newton A McCully the
American naval attache now at Port
Arthur is well
The Russian have erected a new
wireless telegraph station at Che Foo
but they are unable to obtain any re
sults owing to the fact that Japanese
auxiliary cruisers fitted with wireless
telegraph outfits are constantly cruis
ing in the zone of communication and
interrupting the currents
LONDON No further news of the
reported fall of Port Arthur or war
news of any kind has reached the Lon
don morning newspapers
NEWS OF THE ASSASSINATION
Does Not Cause Much Surprise in
Washington Circles
WASHINGTON The first official
information received here of the trag
edy at St Petersburg came in a short
cablegram to the state department
from Spencer Eddy the charge
daffaires of the American embassy
in the absence from that capital of
Ambassador McCormick The mess
ago read
Secretary of Interior Plehve and
several others killed and some
wounded by explosion of a bomb
The cablegram was promptly for
warded by Acting Secretary Adoo to
Secretary Hay at Newbury N H and
a proper expression of condolence will
be directed through Mr Eddy
Although the assassination is deep
ly deplored here it cannot be said
that it has caused much surprise in
the circles here best informed as to
the conditions in St Petersburg M
Plehve was regarded as a reactionist
and was particularly severe in his
treatment of the radical element in
Russian politics He was able to en
force his policies through his absolute
control of the secret service and ro
lice
TAGGART CHOSEN CHAIRMAN
He Is to Be at Head of Democratic
National Committee
NEW YORK Expectations were
fulfilled Tuesday when Thomas Tag
fart of Indiana was elected chairman
of the democratic national committee
Indorsed by nearly every member of
the committee the day after the con
vention adjourned at St Louis it has
been known that only the decree if
Judge Parker in favor of another or
the consent of Senator Gorman to ac
cept the place could prevent the se
lection of Mr Taggart Neither of
these contingencies arose and the In
diana man was unanimously chosen to
a place for which he has long aspired
Although the vote was unanimous it
was not until after it was actually in
progress that opposition to Mr Tag
garts selection was withdrawn
Winner Is in Washington
LINCOLN William McCormack
who was first in the Rosebud drawing
is not now a resident of Lancaster
county as telegrams first reported He
is employed in the treasury depart
ment at Washington and until recent
ly his people lived in Clay Center
Neb They now live in Missouri Mc
Cormack formerly attended business
college here It was reported that he
was a barber employed in the Pioneer
shop but this report grew out of the
fact that a soldier who registered
works there
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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
The Foster Grain company has just
completed a new 10000 bushel ele
vator at Germantown
The Y M C A secretaries of the
state will meet in Fremont October 1
to 4 The local directoral board held
a meeting to plan for their recep
tion
Robert Mehaffey found the body of
a well dressed stranger in the Platte
river two miles east of North Bend
The body at this writing has not been
identified
Articles of incorporation for a new
bank at Farnam have been filed
tion to her work as secretary She is
a graduate of the state university in
the class of 1900
The farmers near Lincoln need more
help They are offering from 125 to
2 per day or from 25 to C0 per
month but the demand for harvest
hands is decidedly greater than the
supply
During a thunder storm at Monroe
last week a telephone girl received a
shock while answering a call that
nearly cost her her life Her face
was seriously burned and she was par
tially paralyzed
Reports from reliable threshers in
Platte county place the yield of
wheat at from twelve to fifteen bush
els per acre and the quality is said
to be somewhat poorer than was gen
erally expected
James Carr who killed Charles Best
at Sarpy Mills on the Fourth of July
had his hearing at Papillion and was
held to the district court without
bonds He was charged with murder
in the first degree
Gilalmous McCarty a carpenter has
sued the Lincoln Traction company
for damages amounting to 20000
McCarty was injured by a fall from
a street car on May 25 and since then
has been unable to walk
President J W Crabtree of the
Peru State Normal school has begun
making his appointments and has se
lected Miss Katherine Woods as his
secretary Miss Woods will teach one
of the advanced Latin classes in
Edith Adams a young woman of
19 years living one mile north of
Eiba shot herself with a 32 calibre
revolver The ball entered her abdo
men from the left side ranging in
ward and passing out near the back
bone She cannot live She says the
shooting was accidental
County Clerk W G Hirons has giv
en to the public the valuation of
Pierce county for this year as com
pared with the year previous This
year real property was valued at 1
70S0S090 last year it was valued at
1040420 Personal property this
year 52G04001 last year 237971
Chester Weeks a farmer living
near the Merrick county line has a
curiosity on his farm in the shape of
a peach tree The tree is eighteen
years old and has never before bore
any fruit nor even blossomed but
this year it is fairly loaded down
with peaches Mr Weeks set out
four other peach trees near this one
last fall but whether that gave any
impetus to the old tree or not remains j
for some scientist to explain
County Superintendent Charles O
Stewart of York county has just com
pleted his annual report of the schools
of York county This shows that the
total indebtedness of the district has
been reduced by more than 2000
during the year that the value of
district property has increased by
about 1500 that there is a total of
6130 school children in the county
3101 boys and 3029 girls that the
total enrollment for the past year was
4587 that the lowest wages paid was
25 while the highest was 50 in the
country schools
Captain W W Lyons and Ella C
Button two early settlers of Adams
county died last week
County Judge Basler of Burt county
thinks it is a mistake for courts to
allow one man to pound another to
a jelly and then by pleading guilty of
assault and battery to escape with
a small fine He fined his last pris
oner on this charge fifty dollars and
costs
Two young sons of Henry Ebke of
DeWitt narrowly escaped death when
a buggy in which they were riding
was struck by a northbound passenger
train and was demolished They were
thrown out and severely injured al
though it is thought they both will
recover
At Weeping Water thieves stole a
team of mules from an oil dealer by
the name of Wallace and a light wag
on from L E Davis They then drove
one mile north to the farm of E F
Marshall put the mules in his barn
and took a team of horses and it is
supposed a harness They then set
the barn on fire leaving the mules
in it evidently hoping to cover up
the second theft thinking that the re
mains of the mules would be taken
for those of the horses
The Payne Investment company of
Omaha has ordered its local repre
sentatives in Grand Island to proceed
with the matter of putting up the
buildings necessary for the manufac
ture of a new stock food from alfalfa
meal salt and syrup and it is stated
that 25000 worth of machinery will
be put in
The fifth annual session of the Ful
lerton Chautauqua assembly will be
held at Fullers park August 5 to 15
The park has already been put in
splendid condition and wired for elec
tric lights
MEASURING NEBRASKA TREES
I Government Men from Washington at
Work in the State
NEBRASKA CITY F G Miller in
charge of a party of government men
from the department of forestry at
Washington D C has been here for
the past four or five days inspecting
and measuring the timber here
abouts The party is composed of F
G Miller L N Godding L L White
W I Hutchinson J D Warner and G
W Peavy All are graduates of for
estry in the universities of the coun
try and are considered experts In that
line The party secured considerable
data from trees in Arbor Lodge
where trees from nearly every por
tion of the United States are grow
ing and have been for years The
company separated and took various
routes from here and will drive to the
Kansas state line when they will
travel north again to Lincoln and from
there go into the northern part of the
state They expect to be at work in
this state for the next two months
They were joined while here by
Cooper Dunn of the Nebraska state
university
LEGISLATURES BAD GUESS
Assessable Property Will Not Total
More Than 289000000
LINCOLN When the final compu
tations have been made the state
board of equalization will find that the
total valuation of the property in Ne
braska will amount to about 2S9
000000
The last legislature based the ap
propriations on the assessment of
500000000 The allowances have
been made and in most cases the
money has been spent so the levy
must cover the defect or the state
must go into debt
With the counties of Nance Holt
Cherry and Cedar missing the assess
ment of state property amounts to
279840402 The assessable property
last year amounted to 1S0299CG5
Pay cf Assessors
FALLS CITY Pnder the old reve
nue law assessors for the different pre
cincts were paid 3 a day for the
time necessarily spent and last year
the cost of making the assessments
was 214330 for the entire county
Under the new law the deputy as
sessors get a per diem of 3 for n6t
more than sixty days The bills filed
for making the assessment this year
under the new law amount to 23S2
being nearly 150 more than under the
old law And when to that is added
the salary of the county assessor
which is C00 per year it makes the
new law cost the county about 750
more a year than the old one did
Will Test Inheritance Law
PLATTSMOUTH In the adminis
tration of the estate of Barton W
Harmer now pending in the county
court an interesting point has been
brought out by J E Douglas attor
ney for the heirs involving the con
stitutionality of the inheritance tax
law of Nebraska The heirs in sup
port of their application to have the
tax against the estate set aside allege
that the inheritance tax law which
was passed in 1901 was repealed by
the legislature of 1903 when a new
revenue law was enacted which pur
ported to cover the entire system of
revenue for this state but did not men
tion the inheritance tax
Killing Prairie Chickens
LINCOLN According to advices re
ceived from the western section of
the state pot hunters are remorse
lessly slaughtering prairie chickens
The birds are too young to be ex
ceptionally wary The hunters are
killing them to supply the eastern
markets Game Warden Carter will
investigate the complaints
ARGO PLANT CLOSES
Wage Scale Said to Be Too High in
Nebraska
NEBRASKA CITY Superintendent
G C Powers of the Argo starch plant
has been transferred to Pekin 111
where he will have charge of the
large sugar plant at that place The
Argo plant is to be closed down as
soon as the starch on hand can be
shipped out and it is not known when
it will open The plant is in charge
of one of the other managers until it
closes down The officials of the
trust say that the cause for the clos
ing of this plant is that the unions
demand too high wages and that the
cost of making starch is too high be
cause of the wage scale as compared
to their other plants It is thought
that the plant will be opened this
fall if the wage scale can be adjust
ed to their liking
Bought Tract of Land
LINCOLN The state board of pub
lic lands and buildings purchased 20
acres of land from William Curr of
Hastings for 1000 This is for the
asylum grounds
Getting Ready for the Fair
LINCOLN An office has been open
ed by Superintendent Bassett of the
concession department of the state
fair at the state house with Food
Commissioner Thompson He will be
at this office Saturday of this week
Thursday Friday and Saturday of
next week and from then on all the
time until the fair opens Mr Bas
sett wishes Lincoln merchants to no
tify the concession department at
once if they want the same places in
Mercantile hall that they have had in
nrevioiu year
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