IVIcCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
News in Brief
Japan has more than two thousand
newspapers ten years ago not one
Jules Verne says the great bulk of
his worik has been done by writing for
three hours before breakfast
The Royal Canadian Yacht club will
jap challenge for the Canadian cup now
v held by the Rochester Yacht club
Two thousand cloakmakers em
ployed in seventeen shops in Cleve
land O have voted to go on strike
There are many log cabins in the
Adirondacks that cost their owners
over 100000 apiece Even interior
furnishings of some of them are of
logs
A portrait of Crown Prince Michael
Alexandrovich brother of Czar Nich
olas IL emperor of Russia is a fea
ture of the Russian exhibit at the St
Louis fair
v The coal chutes of the St Louis
Terminal association located near the
relay station at East St Louis were
damaged to the extent of about 50
000 by Are
Secretary of War Taft arrived at
Chautauqua N Y on the private
yacht of President Chase of the
Jamestown Lake Erie Railroad
company
Vincezo Mannino the Italian con
tractor of Brooklyn whose 6-year-old
son Antonio has been kidnaped of
fers a reward of 500 for the return
of the boy
A net increase of 4 per cent is
shown in the statement of gross
postal receipts for July as compared
with July 1903 at the fifty largest
postofflces
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
1 out in Zion City the home of Alex
ander Dowie the so called divine
healer There are said to be fifteen
persons ill with the disease
Mrs W W Tfnker mother of Joe
Tinker shortstop for the Chicago
tional league base ball team com
mitted suicide at their home in Kan
sas City She was in ill health
Ambassador McCormick has cabled
the state department the first official
report it has had of the results of the
work of the prize court at Vladivostok
in the case of the steamer Arabia
A public subscription has been
started in Holland toward repairing
the ruined cottage at Zaandam in
vhich the Czar Peter the Great lived
while he was working a navy in the
docks
Mr Jamezryce member of the En
glish house of commons has received
a telegram stating that the Kurds are
invading the province of Bayazid and
a massacre of the Armenians is
feared
A By the boiling over of a tank of
i vaipish in the varnishxworks of the
Travers Bailey company in Brooklyn
James W Travers his sister Annie
and William Slower were fatally
burned
Eugene V Bissell a former captain
of the United States army committed
suicide in his room in the Grand hotel
at San Francisco by inhaling illumi
nating gas Hs body was found by a
bell boy
The arrest of Alfred Burleigh Hart
was ordered on allegations filed with
the immigration authorities in Wash
ington that he had been convicted in
England of a crime involving moral
turpitude
Fire in the Printers Exchange at
Minneapolis caused a total loss of
S0000 and serious injury to six fire
men among whom was Assistant
Chief Kehoe One of the firemen will
probably die
No decision has been reached at
Rome regarding what nation will in
future protect Catholic interests in
the far east in view of the severance
of the diplomatic relations between
France and the Vatican
Alfred Burleigh Hart said to have
been recently the pastor of a church
in Brooklyn is a prisoner on Ellis
Island charged with having come to
this country from England in violation
of the immigration laws
The Security Trust and Safe De
posit company of Wilmington Del
was appointed receiver of the estate
of the United Button company a Dela
ware corporation which controls a
large part of the covered button in
dustry of the country having several
important plants and it is said its
assets amount to 3000000
Lewis Nixon of New York has clos
ed a large contract with the depart
ment of mercantile marine for build
ing ships for the Black sea The cor
respondent of the Associated Press is
unable to ascertain the number or
character of the ships to be built but
it can be stated that they will be con
structed in the yards at Sebastopol
Vice President Velado of the Re
public of Salvador has arrived in San
Francisco on a vacation trip of six
weeks
The Earl of Halsbury has completed
the ninth anniversary of his third ap
pointment as lord chancellor Ke is
nearly 80 years of age
Brigadier General Carpenter re
tlred is dead He was 67 years oid
W A Bnrns secretary of the Ca
nadian commission to the Worlds
iFair has been decorated by the em
perorof Japan with the order of the
Rising Sun
JAP FLEET WINS
ADMIRAL KAMIMURA REPORTS
SEVERE ENGAGEMENT
THE CRUISER RURIK IS SUNK
Two of the Russian War Vessels Es
cape to the Nortward Ships Be
lieved to Be Badly Crippled Re
ports That the Naval Battle is Sill
Raging
TOKIO Vice Admiral Kamimura
encountered the Russian Vladivostok
squadron at dawn today north of Tsu
island in the strait oflCorea and at
tacked the enemy at once The battle
lasted for five hours and resulted in a
complete Japanese victory The Rus
sian cruiser Rurik was sunk and the
cruisers Rossia and Gromoboi fled to
the northward after having sustained
serious damage
Vice Admiral Kamimura cables the
navy department that the injuries in
flicted upon his vessels were slight
The fate of the crew of the Rurik is
not known It is presumed that many
of them were killed or drowned
The strength of the fleet under Vice
Admiral Kamimura is not known but
it is presumed that he had the Ad
suma the Idsumo the Iwate the
Takashiko and other light cruisers
Tokio is joyous over the news as
It gives Japan mastery of the sea and
restores commerce
Japanese guns dominate the dock
yards at Port Arthur and in view of
this fact it would seem to be impos
sible again to make seaworthy or
fightable the Russian battleships
which have returned to Port Arthur
It is probable that the Russian battle
ship Czarevitch will disarm at Tsing
Chou
The best possible naval force that
Russia can now concentrate at Vladi
vostok is four cruisers
The imperial prince Hiroyasu
Kwacho was slightly wounded aboard
the battleship Mikasa in last Wednes
days engagement The Russian ar
mored cruiser Rurik was sunk in the
engagement in the Strait of Corea
The armored cruisers Rossia and
Gromoboi escaped to the northward
heavily damaged
WASHINGTON The Japanese le
gation has received a cablegram from
Tokio saying that Admiral Kamimura
reports that his squadron after five
hours severe fighting with the three
ships of the Vladivostok squadron on
the morning of the 14th in the mouth
of Tsushima island sank the Rurik
The other two ships which appeared
to have suffered heavily fled north
ward Our damages says the re
port are slight
NEBRASKANS FIRST TO FILE
Prize Winners at Rosebud Begin Lo
cating Claims
BONESTEEL S D The Rosebud
reservation was thrown open to civ
ilization at 9 oclock Monday morn
ing when William McCormick No 1
filed on a quarter section of land ly
ing lengthwise along the side of the
town of Roosevelt Three other
towns have sprung up Burke Gregory
and St Elmo i
Talus Rugge who drew No 2 filed
on a quarter section adjoining Me
shed prior to the opening as hundreds
Cormick There were fears or blood
of squatters had gone on lots in the
townsites and were defying newcom
ers to dislodge them at guns points
Governor Herded arrived to inves
tigate the situation with regard to
sending troops Probably troops will
not be sent
The county seat fight has already
begun among new towns Locating
agents claim knowledge of towns to
which the Northwestern railroad will
build though officials refuse to give
any information Among the first
hundred several did not or could not
tile The land office is protected by
armed guards while filing money re
mains inside
Treasury Balances
WASHINGTON Todays statement
of the treasury balances in the gen
eral fund exclusive of the 150000
000 gold reserve in the division of re
demption shows Available cash bal
ance 150425598
SENATOR VEST PASSES AWAY
Aged Statesman Succumbs After Pro
longed Fight for Life
SWEET SPRINGS Mo After lin
gering for weeks between life and
death former United States Senator
George Graham Vest passed peace
fully away Tuesday He had been
so near death for the last three days
that the end came without a struggle
He was conscious until about 2
oclock Sunday morning when he sank
Into a state of coma from which he
never aroused He lost the power of
speech Saturday morning but for
several days before that he talked
very imperfectly and during the last
thirty six hours of his life his breath
ing was barely perceptible The flut
ter of his pulse was all that showed
life still remained The remains will
be taken to St Louis for interment
Wanted for Murder in Nebraska
DENVER Colo George Van Hal
ter who is wanted by the Omaha po
lice for murder was arrested by De
tectives Saunders and Kenny In
formation as to the culprit was re
ceived at the police department yes
terday morning and every effort was
made to locate the alleged murderer
He was finally located at a house in
the neighborhood of Seventeenth
Btreet and Pennsylvania avenue and
was arrested Van Haller will be held
until some word has been received
from the authorities at Omaha
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DIE IN A WRECK
Llvc3 on One Hundred Passengers
Snuffed Out
PUEBLO Colo The wreck of the
Worlds Fair flyer on the Denver
Rio Grande rafiroad near Eden seven
miles north of Pueblo Sunday even
ing proves to have been one of the
greatest railroad disasters in the his
tory of the country Two crowded
passenger cars and a baggage car
were engulfed in the torrent that tore
out a trestle spanning Steeles Hol
low otherwise known as Dry Creek
and so far as is known only three of
the occupants of these cars escaped
death Fortunately two sleeping
cars and a diner completing the train
remained on the track at the edge of
the abyss and none of those on board
were killed or injured
How many perished probably will
never be definitely known for the
treacherous sands are drifting over
the bodies Searching for the dead
was begun about midnight on an ex
tensive scale and is still ia progress
tonight All bodies found were
brought to Pueblo and placed in four
morgues here
At 8 oclock Monday evening seventy-six
bodies had been recovered and
of these fifty had been identified Dur
ing the day bodies were recovered all
the day along Fountain river from
the scene of the wreck to this city
At 1 oclock Monday afternoon two
bodies were taken from the stream
at First street Pueblo more than
eight miles from the point where the
disaster occurred and it is probable
that soma may be recovered even fur
ther down stream None of the bod
ies are bady mutilated and all are in
such condition as to be recognizable
Many identifications have been made
by articles found on the bodies no
persons who viewed them recognizing
the features
Two carloads of human freight
plunged into the raging torrent that
destroyed the trestle over the usually
dry arroyo known as Steeles Hollow
near Eden about 8 oclock Monday
Two sleeping cars and the diner
stopped at the brink of the hungry
chasm filled with a boiling current
that quickly snuffed out probably 100
lives So quietly had the catastrophe
been enacted that the occupants of
the three cars remaining on the track
did not realize that an accident had
occurred until they alighted from the
train Then they were utterly power
less to render assistance to the vic
tims who had disappeared in the rush
ing waters
NO WORD FROM LEISHMAN YET
State Department Has Heard Nothing
From Minister
WASHINGTON The State depart
ment has heard nothing from Minister
Leishman at Constantinople since last
Monday when he cabled that the porte
had promised to see that he received
by today the sultans answer to his
representations touching the rights of
American citizens in Turkey If to
days enagagement is not kept the de
partment probably will send addition
al instructions to Minister Leishman
as soon as he officially reports the ad
ditional breach of faith In that event
he is expected to go to Smyrna to
communicate personally with Admiral
Jewell commanding the Europeon
squadron and perhaps to take up his
quarters aboard the flagship Olympia
thus marking a diplomatic crisis
READY FOR NOTIFICATION
Former Senator Davis Starts for
White Sulphur Springs
ELKINS W Va Everything is in
readiness for his formal notification
so far as Vice Presidential Candidate
H G Davis is concerned Shartly
after 12 oclock Monday accompanied
by a party of his family and friends
he will leave for White Sulphur
Springs in his private car Graceland
going by the regular trains of the Coal
Iron and the Chesapeake Ohio
railroads With the ex senator will
be his brother Colonel Tom Davis of
Keyser his son-in-law and daughter
Mr and Mrs Arthur Lee National
Committeeman John L McGraw and
sister of Grafton the Misses Sheri
dan of Mount Savage Md Mrs R C
Kerens and daughter Miss Gladys
and Secretary Charles S Robb
APPEAL FOR MRS MAYBRICK
English Paper Urges a Free Pardon
for American Woman
LONDON In the form of a letter
from a correspondent signed Heath
cote Hardinge the Daily Chronicle
Tuesday morning makes a strong ap
peal on behalf of Mrs Maybrick The
letter urges that Mrs Maybrick is in
nocent and that she ought to be grant
ed a free pardon and contends that
she never would have been convicted
had there been a court of criminal ap
peal in England The Chronicle also
prints an editorial which strongly sup
ports Heathcote Hardinges views
of the case A bill was introduced in
the house of commons Monday by two
prominent lawyers providing for the
retrial of criminal cases
Must Stop Shooting Birds
WASHINGTON A cablegram has
been received from Lieutenant C S
Owen commanding the detachment of
marines at Midway island the land
ing point of the Pacific cable stating
that the employes of the cable com
pany have threatened to leave the
island by the next steamer if the or
der of the navy department prohibit
ing them from carrying arms and
shooting the beautiful birds of the
island is enforced The department
however has replied that the order
must be rigidly enforced
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W0RK0GABINET
THE TURKISH SITUATION DI3
CUSSED AT LENGTH
OUR MimSTER IS HEARD FROM
After Several Days af Silence Sends
Message from Constantinople Ne
gotiations Understood to Have Tak
en a More Favorable Turn
WASHINGTON Foreign affairs to
the practical exclusion of everything
else was considered at Fridays meet
ing of the cabinet The Turkish sit
uation was discussed at length and a
line of action In case Minster Leish
mans efforts are unavailing was
agreed to but its nature was not dis
closed
Secretary Hay also presented to the
cabinet some important information
cabled the state department by Minis
ter Grlscom at Tokio confirming the
reports of a great naval engagement
off Port Arthur It is said the dis
cussion of the Japanese Russian war
was purely academic and not in any
sense relative to the attitude of Amer
ica toward either of the contending
powers
After several days silence Minis-
ter Leishman has been heard from
through a dispatch dated at Constanti
nople Thursday night recounting the
results of the exchanges between him
self and the foreign office officials
there The state department did not
see fit to make public the ministers
communication but did make the gen
eral statement that negotiations had
taken a more favorable turn and there
was an expectation of a speedy and
satisfactory adjustment
There is however a vagueness
about the Turkish statements and
promises that has caused the depart
ment having in mind past experi
ences in the way of promises to in
struct Mr Leishman to see to it that
these propositions are reduced to such
concrete form and are made in such
a binding manner that there cannot
be any question as to their fulfill
ment hereafter by the Turkish govern
ment
It is confidently expected that the
Turkish negotiators will accede to
such a demand on the part of Mr
Leishman and it is predicted that the
negotiations will be concluded success
fully by Monday next
CONSTANTINOPLE Naoum Pa
sha under secretary of foreign affairs
called on Minister Leishman at Thera
pia a town on the Bosphorus nine
miles northeast of Constantinople He
reiterated the assurances of the gov
ernment regarding a speedy and fa
vorable reply to the demands touch
ing the rights of American citizens
in Turkey
Subsequently Izzet Pasha secretary
of the palace and Minister of Mines
Selim Pasha had a long interview
with Minister Leishman for the pur
pose of determining upon the text of
a reply which may prove acceptable
to America
FOUGHT ENTIRE AFTERNOON
Togo Sends a Report of the Naval En
gagement
TOKIO Admiral Togo has reported
as follows
On August 10 our combined fleet
attacked the enemys fleet near Gugan
rock The Russians vessels were
emerging from Port Arthur trying to
go south We pursued the enemy to
the eastward Severe fighting lasted
from 1 oclock Wednesday afternoon
until sundown Toward the close the
enemys fire weakened remarkably
His formation became confused and
then ships scattered The Russfan
cruisers Askold and Novik and several
torpedo boat destroyers fled to the
southward Other of the enemys
ships retreated separately toward Port
Arthur We pursued them and it ap
pears that we inflicted considerable
damage We found life buoys and
other articles belonging to the Russian
battleship Czarevitch floating at sea
The Czarevitch probably was sunk
We have received no reports from the
torpedo boats and the torpedo boat
destroyers which were engaged in the
attack on the enemy The Russian
vessels with the exception of the No
vik the Askold the Czarevitch and
the Pallada appear to have returned
to Port Arthur Our damage was
slight Our fighting power has not
been impaired
FOREST FIRE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
St Johns is Threatened and Blue
Jackets Aid Citizens
ST JOHNS N F The ravages of
forest fires along the outskirts of St
Johns continue and threaten the sec
tion in which the asylum for the in
sane containing 200 patients is situ
ated A force of police with a detach
ment of blue jackets from the cruiser
Charybdis and the French warship
Troude have gone to the scene in an
endeavor to prevent the fire from de
stroying the asylum and other build
ings The conflagration is so exten
sive that railroad trains are unable to
penetrate the forest
Farmers Ask for Rates
SIOUX FALLS S D A petition
has been filed with the state board of
railroad commissioners bythe people
of Twin Brooks and vicinity protest
ing against the high freight rates
which the people of that place and
vicinity have to pay when compared
with the rates charged east of Mil
bank and other towns The farmers
in the neighborhood of Twin Brooks
are said to have discovered that the
rates on grain from Twin Brooks have
been too high and efforts will be
made for a reduction
nNEWS IN NEBRASKA
FOURCLOUD HAS A BAD RECORD
Former Wives Either Die or Run as
Result of His Brutality
PENDER George Fourcloud the
Winnebago woman killer who is under
arrest for the murder of Cora Elk is
a young man about 24 years old hav
ing a criminal record At the begin
ning of his career he first lived a
short time with the daughter of Mrs
John Hill This girl he Is accused of
I cutting with a knife kicking and oth
erwise mutilating until she died of
these Injuries
His next was Mary Ann Decora a
beautiful young Indian girl who soon
succumbed to his brutal treatment
His third was the daughter of White
boy
She was young and buxom evading
his brutal treatment when ho was in
toxicated but finally ran away from
him
His fourth was Dolly Bighead To
this girl he was legally married Af
ter he had pounded and bruised her
until she was almost killed she ran
away from him also
Only two months ago he assaulted
his mother while in a drunken brawl
breaking her arm and almost killing
her
His fifth victim Cor Elk who was
found dead near the agency a few
flays ago was also a young girl With
her he had lived but a short time In
a drunken rage he is supposed to have
kicked and bruised her until she died
from these injuries After he had i
killed her it is alleged that he dump
ed her body into a spring wagon and
hauled her some distance from the
place of the tragedy and dropped her
by the roadside where she was found
dead
John Fourcloud the father of the
accused was a prominent Winnebago
baving been a member of several coun
cils of the tribe going to Washington
with other mempers to plead their
cause to the Great Father
The career of George has been that
pf a vicious inebriate having a pe
culiar mania for women and these
tho brightest of the tribe He has
been bound over to the United States
court and taken to Omaha for safe
keeping
Small Boy Mangled
COLUMBUS Earl the little
son of Henry O Studley a farmer
living five miles west of town met
with a very peculiar and painful acci
dent He was riding on a sulky plow
with his father One of the horses
stopped very suddenly to kick at a
fly when the little fellow fell from
his seat The team started as sud
denly as they stopped and the rolling
cutter ahead of the plow ran over the
ack of the boys neck badly injur
ing him but it is thought that he will
recover
Get Pay for Cells
The Van Dorn iron works of Cleve
land secured 27610 from the state
treasury the balance due on its con
tract for the new cells at the peniten
tiary The warrant was bought by
the treasurer which together with
others bought during the day reduced
the amount of money in the permanent
school fund from 96000 to 610C0
The treasurer also cashed 2000J
worth of warrants for payments on tho
university buildings
Touched by a Pickpocket
OMAHA Although warned that
pickpockets were upon the train Wal
ter Fairbanks of 1435 Vine street
Denver Colo lost 1100 by the time
he had reached the Union station in
Omaha He was returning home from
the golf tournament in Minneapolis
when robbed
Paroled by the Governor
NORFOLK Max Spahr who was
sent to the penitentiary from Norfolk
for a three years term to pay the pen
alty for cutting the threoat of a negro
from ear to ear with intent to kill and
rob after having been paroled by
Governor Mickey escaped from his
parole and has been returned to the
penitentiary by Sheriff Clements of
Madion having been located in Penn
sylvania through the agency of a
sweetheart
Canning Factory Starts Up
NEBRASKA CITY Over 300 per
sons were given employment at the
Otoe Preserving company plant when
the company began operations canning
sweet corn and tomatoes
Farmer Loses Arm
PLATTSMOUTH While working
with a corn sheller Herman Smitfi a
farmer stumbled and fell and his left
arm was drawn into the gear of the
machine Amputation was necessary
Troop A Nebraska National Guard
has received new equipment and now
has Krag Jorgenson rifles instead of
its former ancient carbines
Hail Does Much Damage
NEBRASKA CITY The hail storm
that visited this county did a great
deal of damage One strip eight miles
long and a mile wide three and one
half miles west of this city was al
most swept clean and great damage
was done to the corn and fruit crops
Nearly all of the corn in that district
was stripped of blades and in many
instances the trees were stripped of
their leaves while the fruit was all in
jured or knocked off Nearly two
inches of rain fell in some portions
of the county
THE STATE AT LARGE
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Albion had a fire last week with an
estimated loss of 2000
The street fair in North Platte held
for one week was a very successful
affair
The Royal Highlanders organized a
castle at Geneva with fifty charter
members
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Extensive preparations are being
made for the Cass county old settlers
reunion to be held at Union August
19 and 20
Dates for the Ravenna harvest car
nival have been changed and the
events will not be held September
14 15 and 16
The wheat crop In the vicinity of
Oconee is not as good as anticipated
In an election at Oakland the light
ing bonds carried
According to word received by
Game Warden Carter prominent citi
zens of Norfolk havo been fined 10
and costs for killing prairie chickens
Mrs Rush O Fellows formerly a
resilient of Plattsmouth but now of
Belle Fourche S D has been nomi
nated by the democrats of that county
for superintendent of schools
Gus McDougall a well known young
man of Humboldt had a thumb torn
wrom his right hand while attempting
to clean the chaff from a separator
operated by himself and brotner
At a special term of the district
court held in Ogalalla Judge Grimes
presiding James L Mahaffa was tried
for horse stealing found guilty and
sentenced to three years in the peni
tentiary
Bravely tugging at the body of a
drowning companion Horace English
a 12-year-old boy of Lincoln saved
the life of Dewey Davis Tho two
were swimming in Salt creek and the
Davis boy was carried beyond his
depth
Morris the watch thief who broke
jail at North Platte was captured
again Castell who escaped with
him tried to board the night train
east but when he climbed the blind
baggage he was met by an officer
who ordered him off He however
escaped
Two men by the name of Gressman
aged thirty and fifty years were
struck by lightning and instantly
killed These men lived about eight
miles west of Cedar Rapids and came
from Missouri about eighteen months
ago They were engaged in shingling
a school house at the time of the
stroke
The Omaha Nebraska Central
Railway company has filed its articles
of incorporation with the county clerk
of Hamilton county giving Omaha as
the principal place of business ami re
citing that the company is incorpor
ated for the purpose of constructing
operating and the maintenance of a
railroad in the state of Nebraska
Fred M Shaughnessy of Platts
mouth Burlington brakeman has
brought suit against the company in
Mills county Iowa to recover dam
ages in the sum of 15000 Last No
vember he was struck by passenger
train No 13 in the yards at Pacific
Junction and sustained injuries from
which he remained in a serious condi
tion for six weeks
Herman Smith living five miles
west of Murray had his left arm
mangled in a corn sheller He was
passing the sheller when he stumbled
and fell and his arm was drawn into
the gear up to his body He was not
liberated until boxes and shafts were
removed He stood with his torn and
bleeding arm in the machinery for
twenty minutes Amputation will be
necessary
City Marshal Dargan of Cnadron
according to telephone orders from
Fort Robinson arrested Tom Katkin
of Company I Tenth cavalry as a
deserter He was taken back to the
fort
An inquest was held before Dr
Armstrong the coroner of Mr and
Mrs Michael Pellan of South Omaha
who were killed near Avery while
walking on the track The jury re
turned a verdict that they were killed
by the Lnion Pacific fast train No
11 and placed the blame on no one
A severe hail storm visited Custer
county extending from the middle
Loup near Walworth twenty miles
south and from two to three miles
in width Most of the small grain
was in shock and while it was badly
beaten out the loss will not be so
great as had it not been cut
Frank Wylis a young farmer living
near Ellis attempted to slide to the
ground fram a hay stack and struck
on the handle of a pitch fork and was
impaled until taken down by several
farm hands who
were working
near
by For a time it was thought he
could not recover but at last ac
counts was slowly recovering
While George Gudhardt or Sarpy
county was returning home from
South Omaha he was held up by
three men near Sarpy mills The
men forced Mr Gudhardt to take
them to the R street car line They
did not molest him in any other
man
ner
The story of the engagement and
the proposed wedding on the Rose
bud reservation of William McCor
mick the lucky man in the recent
land drawing is denied by his Lincoln
friends McCormitfc has gone to the
reservation to make his selection
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