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McCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
Content is something you think
other people have when they havent
A negro recently fell seventy feet In
New York and lost neither his life nor
bis religion
Some men find if more difficult to
get divorced from their illusions than
from their wives
Georgia has a town called Shako
Rag whose citizens however are said
to be no great shakes
Viewed through the smoke of his
hookah all battleships look much
alike to Sultan Abdul Hamid
Krupps gun works are now working
overtime and peace Is still looking
in vain for the proverbial balm
Hollands new airship may cost but
10 but it is likely to cost somebody
his life before wo hear the last of it
A man drank nine quarts of whisky
and died Even the temperance folks
must admit that rum has some value
A New York society man has been
fined for swearing Still the tailor
may have given him great provoca
tion
That Boston society leader who has
taken up the blacksmiths trade is gc
ing to get on the black list if he isnt
careful
A western expert on alcoholism
claims that the reason so many men
fail to walk straight is that they cant
see straight
The czars edict abolishing whip
ping in his domains will interest the
heir apparent when he arrives at the
spanking age
In Georgia the catfish have taken
to swallowing rattlesnakes The water
must be almost as bad up there as it
is in Kentucky
Squabs have advanced to 5 a dozen
in New York but the old familiar
political squabble may still be had
uyop most any terms
Russia claims that flour is contra
band of war and will do all in her
power to discourage the hot biscuif
habit within her borders
The reappearance of the kissing bug
at the seaside resorts is taken to
mean that the sea serpent story is
not good form this year
In Philadelphia an actress killed
herself sooner than marry Death lasts
a great deal longer though than the
average theatrical marriage
If King Edward were to meet the
emperor of the Hottentots would he
wear the uniform of a Hottentot adJ
miral as a mark of courtesy
Love is the greatest thing in the
world but it has its drawbacks when
the loved one pawns your jewels
without notifying you in advance
Marie Dressier the actress has
adopted one of those incubator ba
bies and her press agent will now
have something substantial to work
OIK
The new Holland flying machine
costs but 10 Glad to see these littld
modern conveniences gradually geP
ting down to within 999 of their
actual value
Asuit against Armour for 1200
000 is said to be a friendly action The
average man would take it as un
friendly to say the least to be sued
lor a million
An irreverent contemporary de
scribes society as moving along to
ward Saratoga Those poker chips
and Saratoga chips will soon be
moving along also
The birth of the czars son is expect
ed to weaken the influence of Pobyed
onostseff That will mean something
worth while if the boy never does any
thing else of importance
Croesus the multi millionaire of an
tiquity is said by scholars never to
have laughed Probably made the
pie laugh out of the other side oi
their mouths though
The young Russian Alexis has al
ready been made an honorary colonel
but this will naturally cause his royal
mother less anxiety about him than
if he were serving in the navy
News that a citizen of Rochestei
has died at the age of 101 lacks com
nleteess The public does riot know
whether his length of years was due
to tobacco and alcohol or to absti
nence
Once a boyhood friend visited Ros
coe Conkling when a law student
Meeting a supercilious reception when
he asked Studying to be a lawyer
Roscoe he retorted You ought tc
study to be a supreme court justice
He meant it for a sneer but thats the
way every law student ought to study
No one can blame Europeans for
believing that all Americans are rich
A Boston woman left a quart of dia
monds in a London hotel and wired
back to the proprietor to keep them
until I come over againjext summer
- JKi1 Ji
THE EASTERN WAR
THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR
SEEMS NOW IMMINENT
REPORTS OF CORRESPONDENTS
Japs Are Now Within Main Defenses
and Their Guns Command Town
Capture All Outlying Fortifications
LONDON The Chronicles1 corre
spondent with General Kuroki cab
ling under date of August 24 via Fu
san August 25 says The fall of
Port Arthur is imminent The Japan
ese are now within the main defenses
and their guns command the town
Desperate fighting occurs night and
day and the losses on both sides are
enormous
The Russians are making curious
counter attacks but the Japanese are
clinging to the positions they have
won at so great a cost
LONDON The Daily Mails Kobe
correspondent in a dispatch dated
Saturday last says Following is
the position of Port Arthur The
Japanese have captured all the out
lying fortifications but the Russians
still hold the citadel on Ahteshan
Golden Hill forts and the forts on
Tigers Tail and Liaoti mountains
The Japanese are in possession of
the parade ground and barracks un
der the Anteshan fort on the out
skirts
The fall of Port Arthur is believed
to be imminent It Is believed that
the garrison will make a desperate
sortie before the end comes
LIAO YANG The Russians retired
from Anshanshan yesterday after a
fight which began on the morning of
August 2G and continued In a desult
ory manner all day and night
Arrangements for a battle had been
completed by night time when the
order to retire was given on account
of the situation to the east
The order was received with dis
appointment by the troops The re
tirement was made in an orderly man
ner
The plain between Anshanshan
and Hai Cheng was covered with Ja
panese troops who burned the bridge
and shelled the railway station after
the Russian retirement The Russian
losses amount to 300
The Japanese are advancing with
great rapidity
The position at Kaofengshilr at 2
oclock this morning was unchanged
CHRISTENS HEIR OF RUSSIA
Elaborate Ceremonies Mark Services
at Church of Peterhof Palace
ST PETERSBURG A wave of re
joicing and festivity swept over Rus
sia with the rising of the sun on the
christening day of the heir to the
Russianthrone culminating when the
te deum softly chanted in the beau
tiful little church of Peterhof palace
announced the ceremony was accom
plished and the news was heralded to
the world without by the crash of can
non and the chiming of innumerable
church bells Notwithstanding the
momentous events pasing at the front
the whole population turned gladly
for the time being from the more seri
ous considerations to participate in
the day of glittering ceremonial and
pageantry at Peterhof where the tiny
successor of the great white czar re
ceived at the hands of the church the
name of Alexis Nicholaevitch from
which he is destined to pass in course
of time to the dignity and responsibil
ity of autocrat of all the Russias
THE MOON BECOMES SPOTTED
Observations of Prof Pickering
of
Lowe Observatory
CAMBRIDGE Mass A telegram
has been received here from Prof W
H Pickering who is at the Lowe ob
servatory California tending to con
firm an observation of a snot on the
moon made by him last month He
saw a hazy patch in the large lunar
crater Plato which had not been de
tected before It was again seen on
August 2 and 3 It had then grown
dark measured about two inches in
diameter and resembled a smalll cra
ter The object is said to coincide
in position with a previously record
ed cratorlet but is apparently larger
Renewed scrutiny in the last few days
reveals the continued existence of the
feature which now measures three
miles across Two other tiny crater
lets and a dark spot on the floor of
Plato not previously reported also
are announced by Prof Pickering
Money to Aid Irish Cause
NEW YORK John E Redmond
the Irish leader and those who came
to America with him Captain A J
C Donelan Patrick OBrien Connor
OKelly and Mrs Redmond were
tendered a reception Sunday night in
Carnegie hall by the New York Muni
cipal Council of the United Irish
League of America Mr Redmond
Captain Donelan Mr OBrien Mr
OKelly and W Bourke Cockran
spoke Ten thousand dollars was
either subscribed or paid in cash to
ward the Irish fund
Cable to Alaska Completed
SEATTLE Wash Amid the cheer
ing of 300 men and women the
shrieking of whistles and the play
ing of the national anthem the final
splicing of the Sitka Alaska govern
ment cable was made Sunday in the
harbor ten miles out of Seattle Ten
minutes later Mjiyor Ballinger of Se
attle cut the rope holding the joined
ends of the wires aboard the United
Spates shjp Burnside and with a
splash the completed wire connecting
the United States and Alaska fell to
the bottom of Pugent Sound
S
THE CROP
REPORT
Abundant Rains Have Fallen in Corn
Belt
WASHINGTON The weekly crop
report Issued by the weather bureau
is as follows
The drouth prevailing in portions
of the central valleys in the previ
ous week has been relieved by abun
dant rains but drouth continues In
central and western Tennessee and
is beginning to be felt in the middle
gulf states and over a considerable
part of Texas The central and north
ern Rocky mountain districts and the
north Pacific coast region are also
suffering from drouth the prevalence
of forest fires being reported from
Idaho and Montana The latter part
of the week was too cool In the lake
region and unseasonably low temper
atures occurred in the northern
Rocky mountain districts and upper
Mississippi valley on the 21st and
22d but elsewhere east of the Rocky
mountain district the temperature
has been favorable
The principal states have expert
enced a week of good conditions
abundant rains having fallen through
out the corn belt except in portions
of Ohio and Nebraska Corn has
made satisfactory progress in most
of the Missouri valley and is gener
ally improved in the central Missis
sippi and Ohio valleys although a
considerable part of the crop in the
Ohio valley has been injured beyond
recover- In the middle Atlantic
states and lower Missouri valley
early corn is now partly matured
Spring wheat harvest Is generally
finished except in North Dakota and
northern Minnesota where rust is
continuing to cause great injury
Rains in North Dakota in the latter
part of the week interrupted harvest
ing Harvesting is also nearly fin
ished on the north Pacific coast
Reports indicate a general scarcity
of apples in the greater part of the
middle Atlantic states and central
valleys but in New England New
York and the lake region the outlook
is more favorable a good crop being
promised in the two last mentioned
sections
The reports respecting potatoes in
dicate a good crop is generally prom
ised in the more prominent potato
producing states Drouth has im
paired the outlook in portions of the
Ohio valley however and rot and
blight are increasing in Pennsylvania
Throughout the central valleys and
middle Atlantic states the soil is in
fine condition for fall plowing which
work is in general progress and well
advanced in some places
JAPS GETTING VERY CLOSE
Chinese Say Assailants Have Reached
the Home of General Stoesscl
CHE to Chinese ad
vies brought here from Port Arthur
by a junk the Japanese were hotly
pressing the Russian center along the
railway and the Russian right in the
vicinity of Golden Hill The Chinese
declare that the Japanese occupied
Taipingtse and penetrated along the
railway to General Stoessels resi
dence on August 21
As this report would indicate that
Port Arthur had all but fallen the
Japanese expert attached to the local
consulate received the information
with great reserve The information
is accepted however as a confirma
tion of previous reports that the Rus
sians have been driven from Itshan
and that the Japanese are very close
to the southern forts and the eastern
defenses
The local Japanese under the lead
ership of their consul are subscribing
money and preparing to celebrate the
expected fall of the fortress
LETTER NEARLY FINISHED
President Roosevelt Putting on Fin
ishing Touches
OYSTER BAY L I During the
next three or four days President
Roosevelt will put the finishing
touches on his letter of acceptance
It probably will be placed in the
hands of a printer on September 10
The letter will contain approximately
12000 words The date of its publi
cation has not been determined de
finitely but very likely it will be on
Monday September 12
The president has not received the
representations said to have been for
warded to him by the attorneys for
the western federation of miners urg
ing action by the national government
in the matter of deportation of citi
zens from the disturbed district in
Colorado The department of com
merce and labor through Carroll D
Wright commissioner of labor and
his agent has made an exhaustive
inquiry into the Colorado labor situa
tion and is keeping in constant touch
with it The president is thus en
abled to have practically first hand
information on the subject As the
matter stands now it is understood
to be entirely improbable that any
action will be taken by the national
government
Officeholders
WASHINGTON In view of the
approaching election the civil service
cemmission has addressed a letter to
the heads of all government depart-
ments and bureaus calling their at
tention to viointions of the civil ser
vice law which have occurred in the
last political campaigns and inclosing
a circular containing a warning
against the demanding or paying of
political assessments and partisan
activity of officeholders Prosecu
tion and punishment will follow vio
lations of the law
SIRSKE TO GO ON
THE CONFERENCE TO SETTLE
MATTERS AVAILS NOTHING
NO CONCESSIONS FORTHCOMING
Strikers Have Not Changed Their Po
sition and the Packers Prepared to
Offer Only Such Terms as They
Have Offered Before
CHICAGO Conferences of the
committee appointed earlier in the
week to attempt a settlement of the
stock yards strike with the parties
to the dispute resulted in nothing
There is no present prospect that they
will result in anything in the future
and the chances of an agreement be
tween the packers and strikers appear
very meager
The strike leaders appeared before
the committee and stated their side
of the case They did not suggest to
the aldenmanic committee that it
make any overtures to the packers
but simply gave their view of the sit
uation
Representatives of the packers
then appeared before the committee
After a session that lasted three
hours Mayor Harrison said
The packers have said just what
they have said before that they are
running their plants and have nothing
to arbitrate and that there is no rea
son why they should confer with the
men
We heard a review of the entire
strike trouble and the packers say
that in every city except Chicago and
Omaha the strike is over and they as
sert that with 70 per cent as many
men as they employed in Chicago be
fore the strike they are now turning
out 82 per cent of the normal output
Labor leaders tonight announced
that in all probability the butchers
strike would be settled peaceably be
fore next Wednesday They declined
to explain the cause of their belief
but were positive in their statements
that the strike would not be called
off
President Donnelly of the butchers
has called all the members of the
butchers executive board to meet in
Chicago next Wednesday
Union leaders and packers con
ferred with the committee appointed
by the city council to seek terms of
settlement of the stock yards strike
Separate sessions were arranged
President Donnelly of the butcher
workmen Matthew Carr of the allied
trades conference board and Organ
izer John J Fitzpatrick of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor were se
lected to represent the unions Presi
dent Donnelly was hopeful
It is a game of checkers said
Mayor Harrison at the end of an
hours conference with President Don
nellys committee
The strikers have not changed
their position said the mayor and
the meeting resulted only in the al
dermen being given a full explanation
of what that position is President
Donnelly told of the history of the
original strike the agreement to re
sume work and the strikers side of
the renewal of the strike
WANTS AMERICA TO LEAD WAY
London Newspaper Thinks United
States Should Act at Shanghai
LONDON The afternoon papers
here take it for granted that if in
tervention is necessary at Shanghai
the powers will act together in up
holding the neutrality of China equal
ly against both belligerents
The Westminster Gazette says If
the American government will lead
the way in this matter it will be doing
a service to all the governments for
it is high time that the neutral powers
come to an understanding about the
meaning and limits of Chinas neutral
ity so as to be able to act together
and arrive at a solution of the com
plicated situation
The Pall Mall Gazette considers
that the powers should follow at
Shanghai the correct precedent be set
by Germany at Kiao Chou and insist
on the obedience of the Russians to
the order to leave or disarm without
delay and thus settle the whole ques
tion of neutral Chinese ports for the
remainder of ie war
MICKEY WILL GO TO SEATTLE
Nebraska Executive Will See New
Battleship Christened
LINCOLN Neb Governor Mickey
and twenty five invited guests will go
to Seattle to witness the christening
and launching of the battleship Ne
braska A Nebraska girl probably
Miss Maria Mickey will toss the bot
tle of champagne against the hull of
the vessel However the governor
may object to any member of his fam
ily handling intoxicating liquor and
in that event the honor will fall to
some one else The governor has no
tified the shipbuilding authorities that
he will be present
Those who will accumpany him will
be state officials and politicians
Japanese Minister Visits Adee
WASHINGTON Mr Takahira the
Japanese minister called upon Act
ing Secretary of State Adee to talk
of the settlement of the questions
connected with the presence of the
two Russian warships in the harbor
of Shanghai The minister expressed
gratification at the outcome of the ne
gotiations in the agreement to dis
arm the vessels and lay them up dur
ing the war but regarded it as es
sential that the completeness of dis
armament of the ships be established
I to Japans satisfaction
NdMEWS IN NEBRASKA
MUST BE GOOD PAPER
The Public Intends to Be Protected
by the State Printing Board
LINCOLN Hereafter all paper pub
lished by the atate printing board will
have to come up to specifications or
it will be rejected Secretary Frazier
of the board has just received from
the manufacturers a paper scale a
Mullln tester and a caliper by the
aid of which any paper can be ac
curately tested The Mullin tester is
an involved contrivance operated by
compressed air for the purpose of de
termining the breaking strength of
paper while with the calipers the
gauge of the paper is easily deter
mined and the weight completes the
test
It is the purpose of the printing
board to make it impossible for bid
ders to offer inferior substitutes in
stead of the papers called for in the
contracts let The practice has pre
vailed to a considerable extent and
often to the loss of the state The
eventual result of the adoption of the
testing apparatus will be to do away
with the purchase of paper according
to the name in the water mark and
the selection of standard grades ac
cording to the grade weight per ream
and the breaking strength That will
greatly simplify the business of pur
chasing paper for the use of the
many departments of the state gov
ernment
When all paper is bought according
to the quality and weight the compe
tition in furnishing such supplies to
the state will be open to the world
tinder the present system where the
state officers make requisition for dif
ferent brands the Nebraska dealers
who have the sale or such brands en
joy a practical monopoly of the bid
ding for the supply of that depart
ment
PLUCKY GIRL SAVES LIFE
Does Not Lose Presence of Mind
When Gasoline Explodes
LINCOLN Cool and alert Miss
Lena Miller saved her life and the
farm of her father near Denton A
gasoline can exploded her clothing
caught fire and the flames spread
throughout the house Beating out
the flames on her clothing she smoth
ered the fire with blankets and saved
the building
She was painfully burned but her
face will not be disfigured She is the
19-year-old daughter of County As
sessor Miller
The cries of Miss Miller alarmed
her brother He hastened upstairs
and found her battling with the
flames Seizing a pail of water he
came to her assistance but found that
the moisture had caused the fire to
spread so he seized blankets and as
sisted her
To Improve Platte River
FREMONT A plan to improve ihe
Platte river by turning the current
which now washes against the earth
bank west of this city over into the
channel running south of the islands
is being considered and will likely
be brought before the county board
Bind Over Alleged Horse Thief
COLUMBUS Wj F Carter who is
charged with stealing a horse and
buggy from George Winslow a livery
man here had his preliminary ex
amination before Judge OBrien and
was bound over to the district court
Killed by Kick of a Horse
LEIGH Miss Maud Fry the 17-year-old
daughter of Jonas Fry a
prominent and well-to-do farmer liv
ing eleven miles southeast of this
city vas kicked- by a horse and was
almost instantly killed
WOMAN BLOWS HER HEAD OFF
Mrs Cole of Hardy Suicides by the
Shotgun
HARDY Mrs Wallie Cole who had
been in poor health for some time
committed suicide at the family home
three and a half miles northwest of
this place She loaded and cocked
both barrels of a shotgun put the
muzzle under her chin and discharged
one barrel The right side of her
face and the top of her head were
blown off It is thought she Avas de
ranged The corpse was discovered
lying on the kitchen floor by two little
girls who notified the men in the field
Mrs Cole was the mother of a daugh
ter 3 years old and of a baby 2 months
old
Accident at the Races
BEATRICE Isaac Haddan an old
resident of Southern Gage county
was run over by a horse and probably
fatally injured at Barneston A horse
race was in progress when one of
the animals jumped the track and
landed among the spectators
Look for Big Attendance
State Superintendent Fowler has
received a letter from Principal Crab
tree of the Peru normal stating that
there are prospects of an increased
attendance as compared with last
year He states that he is receiving
more inquiries from high school
graduates and experienced teachers
than usual Some of the teachers are
already coming in The work on the
new chapel building is making good
progress according to Mr Crabtree
The walls are up to the first or chapel
floor while the iron work is in place
THE STATE AT LARGE
The Burt county reunion has been
called off
The elevator of the Albion Milling
company was destroyed by fire
Fremonts new cannery is now in
operation with one hundred men em
ployed -
Arrangements are about completed
for the holding of a harvest jubilee
and agricultural exhibit in Holdrege
from September 5 to 10
Reuben Nance and Henry Frerlchs
two farmers fought on the streets at
Beatrice and the latter was badly cut
about the face and head
William Gumm of Julian went to
sleep in the depot at Nebraska City
and when he awoke found that fivo
dollars had been taken from his
pocket
The grain stacks on the farm of
John Hickey west of West Point
caught lire from causes unknown and
caused a loss of 300 partly covered
by insurance
August Bauman an aged farmer
living three miles northeast of Sny
der was gored to death by a vicious
bull His dead body was found by a
member of his family who went in
search of him
Burglars entered the Nebraska
State bank at Milford and blew the
outer door off the safe but got no
money They were evidently fright
ened away because the inner doors
were not disturbed
Word reached Leigh of the killing
of Miss Maude Fry a young woman
living with her parents twelve miles
southeast of town She was kicked
by a horse the blow striking her in
the region of the heart
Katherine Gamble of Kewanee 111
who is visiting with the family of
Superintendent E L Rouse in
Plattsmouth had the misfortune to
slip and fall sustaining a painful
fracture of her left arm
Claude Morton youngest son of H
H Morton lately deceased was
struck and instantly killed by light-
ning at the Spade ranch near Chad
ron He leaves a mother and brother
Harry who live in Chadron
The preliminary hearing of Dr D
L Meehan was concluded last week
in Seward The charge was statu
tory assault on the person of Bessie
Corcoran an inmate of his home The
accused was bound over to the No
vember term of district court in the
sum of 2000
Herman Nolte a farmer living near
Roseiand was brought before County
Judge Dungan in Hastings on the
charge of assault and battery The
charges were filed by his wife for
alleged cruelty and beating their 15-year-old
daughter He was given
three months in the county jail
Thomas Andrews and son owners
of a large herd of high grade thor
oughbred shorthorn cattle of their
own breeding on their ranch three
miles southeast of Cambridge left
with sixteen head of their prize win
ners to be on exhibition in Iowa Mis
souri and Nebraska After attend
ing the Iowa state fair at Des Moines
they will return to Lincoln to the Ne
braska state fair and from there their
fine stock will go to the worlds fair
at St Louis
A council of ministers and dele
gates from the several Baptist
churches of Custer county after a
long hearing has decided to recom
mend that the ministerial ordinance
of Rev S P Morris of this city be
revoked and that he be excluded
from the Baptist church This is the
outcome or a sensational case re
sulting in the divorce suit of Rev
Mr Morris from his wife and the al
leged alienation of the wifely affec
tions of Mrs Day one ofhis parish
oners
The corner stone of the new
Methodist church at McCook was
laid on the 25th
Frank Rhoades who was shot
while picking corn for Carl Engberg
west of Fremont died from his
wound Arthur Canaga aged 17 em
ployed by Vasholitz the butcher vol
untarily went to the county jail and
cleared the mystery of the shooting
of Rhoades He said he and another
lad were en route to the slaughter
house with a 44 caliber rifle to be
used in slaughtering He fired at a
sign on a telegraph pole using it
as a target He believes that it was
this shot that killed Rhoades
Last week Frank lams the well
known horseman and importer ar
rived in St Paul with his fifteenth
annual importation of stallions direct
from France The shipment contains
about eighty head of fine Belgians and
Percherons 2 and 3 years old and
ranging in weight from 1800 to 2400
pounds At the disembarkation in
New York the horses were placed on
a special express train chartered by
Mr lams from the Wells Fargo Ex
press company at a cost of 2500
and brought through in quick time
Miss Katie Bluechel a popular
young woman of West Point has be
come mentally unbalanced and was
taken before the insanity commission
ers for examination She was ad
judged insane and taken to the hos
pital at Lincoln
Land Commissioner Follmer and
Deputy Commissioner Eaton have
recommended that the public lands
not entered under the Kinkaid act
be leased at not less than 3 cents an
acre and as much more as the land
will bring on the open market by
competitive bidding
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