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F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
Secretary Hay Is a grandfather and
its a boy Bring on the little
breeches
Evidently the great need of the day
Is some man that can stand before
Prof Jim Jeffries
When a Japanese wrestler loses the
championship he can always qualify
as a fat man at a dime museum
The sultan of Turkey like one or
two illustrious Americans hates to
give up money and never takes a va
cation
Why cannoUTJruguay and Paraguay
unite thus consolidating the revolu
tion business and saving costs of pro
duction
More than 2000000 in Uncle Sams
gold is to sail on a transport for Ma
nila What a chance for a good enter
prising pirate
A Louisville judge has decided that
a man may beat his wife He doesnt
say however whether with a club or
at bridge or poker
Another elopement in high society is
proof that Love is still laughing at
everybody and everything that seeks
to thwart his plans
Canada is moving for the protection
of its musk oxen North Africa should
fall in line and prevent the further de
struction of its civet cats
Get out of the way you ordinary
Carnegie heroes You never played
third and after breaking your ieg
put out a runner and won the game
As to the story that Patti will tour
this country in an automobile it
should be said that the lady is much
too humane to seek revenge in that
way
Really it isnt necessary for you to
save your bands A well known band
master estimates that there are at
least 20000 of them in the United
States
If the Standard Oil monopoly is
gotiating for the purchase of a bank
in London as the Times says why
does it not offer to buy the Bank of
England
Munroes share of the gate receipts
at that prize fight amounted to over
6000 This may account partially for
the vigor with which Prof Jeffries
thumped him
A woman has just died in Indiana
who knew Aaron Burr when she was
a child which is another reminder
what a youngster the United States
is in the family of nations
A dispatch from Newport mentions
that one of the prominent society lead
ers there expects to sue for divorce in
the fall The number of invitations
she intends to issue is not given
When one of the visiting milliners
speaks of a stunning creation she
alludes to the effect of the hat on the
public not to the effect of the bill on
the husband as might be inferred
It is interesting to observe that the
people who are willing to inform you
that they dont consider this country
fit to live in are not rushing to take
advantage of the reduced rates to
Europe
The secret service men who drown
ed a goose believing they were soak
ing danger out of a bomb must have
folt a brotherly sympathy when they
discovered the identity of the abject
of their effort
Heres hoping that the clergyman
who both in 1895 and in 1904 has cap
tured the biggest cod caught in those
years off Provincetown is equally
successful in his working season as
a fisher of men
The young woman who objects to
paying C7 cents for the privilege of
saying two swear words hardly has
the masculine appreciation of ex
pletive And 67 cents looks like a bar
gain price at that
From London now comes the news
of the successful initial trip of a fly
ing machine the invention of Sir
Hiram Maxim Flying machines are
so numerous now in various parts of
the world that it is not easy to keep
track of them And still we cannot
fly
A business man who is on the verge
of nervous prostration has been or
dered by his physician to go into the
country for a month and do absolute
ly nothing with his mind As a part
of the regime the doctor has pre
scribed the reading of a dozen popu
lar novels
Just as we expected The report
that a Norwegian whaler had found
north of Spitzbergen a bottle contain
ing a letter from Prof Andree dated
in 1898 proves to be a hoax iow
arent you glad that you didnt get ex
cited
The beginning of active work on
the Panama canal is signalized by
large requisitions for dynamite and
powder from the isthmus How much
better Is it to have these explosives
used in thia great work of peace than
- tie atrocities of war
THE FLEET SAILS
GOES ON ITS LONG VOYAGE
THE FAR EAST
TO
THE SHIPS Hi THE SQUADRON
Four Cruisers and Several Torpedo
Boats and Destroyers To Be Join
ed Later at Liban by Twelve Trans
ports
CRONSTADT The Baltic fleet sail
ed Sunday for the far east The ves
sels of the fleet are the battleships
Souvaroff Vice Admiral Rojesvenskys
flagship the Navarin Sissoi Valiky
Borodino Alexander III Orel Oleg
and the Osliabia Rear Admiral
mfenwr flnvnUIni 11 2 a
jiwoomo iiuaiuij mu cruisers
miral Nakhimoff Dmitri Donskoi Au 1
rora and the Almaz Rear Admiral En
quists flagship and several torpedo
boats and torpedo boat destroyers
The fleet will merelv touch at Li
ban where it will be joined by twelve
transports colliers and supply ships
already waiting there and will then
proceed direct to the orient
The scene on the departure of the
fleet was an imposing one At dawn
the first anchor was hoisted on the
swift cruiser Aurora which accompa
nied by two torpedo boats slipped out
of the harbor The town was awak
ened by the booming of the guns of
the forts as the Aurora sped towards
Libau In advance of the main squad
ron
At 2 oclock in the afternoon the
time set for the departure of the re
mainder of the fleeet the imperial
yacht with the emperor Grand Duke
Alexis the high admiral and other
naval officers on board put out from
Peterhof on the other side of the
bay with an escort of three torpedo
boats Admirals Rojestvensky Voel
kersam and Enquist went on board the
imperial yacht and personally said
farewell to the emperor
Then with the destroyers ahead
and abeam the Souvaroff led the
squadron down the Finnish gulf The
water front and the piers and forts
were crowded with spectators The
ensigns on the forts and yachts were
dipped and the guns of each chain
of forts across the bay joined in an
admirals salute while from the sig
nal masts aoove tne lorts nuttered a
string of colored flags reading Good
luck to the Baltic fleet on its long
voyage
IN SPITE OF THE FLAMES
Japs Get Vast Stores and Ammunition
at Liao Yang
TOKIO The general staff has not
yet made public the details of the
battle of Liao Yang The people are
still celebrating the victory but there
is considerable speculation over the
official silence respecting General Ku
rokis movements since Sunday
It is reported that the Japanese
notwithstanding the ravages of fire
captured vast accumulations of Rus
sian stores and ammunition at Liao
Yang
The report that Lieutenant Tera
ouchi son of Lieutenant General Ter
aouchi minister of war was killed in
the fighting before Liao Yang is de
nied
TWO ARMIES ARE AFTER HIM
Kuroki and Oku Are in Pursuit of
Kuropatkin
ST PETERSBURG A dispatch
from General Kuropatkin timed 630
oclock Wednesday evening was re
ceived later in the day
He reported that General Kurokis
army was about twenty seven miles
eastward of the railroad and that Gen
eral Okus army was twenty miles
west of the railroad
The general staff expects that a big
battle will be fought
At 628 p m General Kuropatkin
reported that he did not lose a gun
during the retreat
The best information of the war of
fice indicates that General Kuropatkin
lost about 17000 men during the ten
days battle at Liao Yang
Teamsters Return to Work
CHICAGO All probability of com
plications at the stock yards was re
moved when the packing house team
sters voted to return to work on Mon
day morning The offer of the packers
to take back now as many teamsters
as are needed an dto hire the others
as necessity demands was made
known through a committee that had
visited the packers and the proposi
tion was accepted without opposition
The packers were at once notified that
the men would report for work at 9
oclock
Attendance at the Worlds Fair
ST LOUIS The attendance at the
Worlds Fair for the week ending Sep
tember 10 was 875947 Total since the
opening of the exposition 9994510
Tragedy in New York Hote
NEW YORK Warren J Ferguson
38 years old a theatrical advance
agent is dying in a New York hos
pital from a bullet wound received
during a quarrel in the Metropolitan
hotel in Broadway and a young wo
man who gave her name as Mrs
Gertrude Roberts though acknowledg
ing it to be fictitious admits that she
did the shooting She alleges that
Ferguson attempted to assault her
that she pointed the revolver at him
to frighten him and that during a
scuffle the revolver was discharged
AGAIN HEAD OF IRISH LEAGUE
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Tho United Irish League of Ameri
ca at its session in Now York con
ferred an honor on John F Finerty of
Chicago by re electing him to the
office of president Patrick Egan who
was elected first vice president re
sides in New York He was formerly
minister to Chili Both Mr Finerty
and Mr Egan are among the leagues
most earnest workers
FINDS A VOLUNTEER FLEET
Orders of Russian Government Com
municated
ZANZIBAR Island of Zanzibar
The British cruiser Forte early this
morning lound the British volunteer
fleet steamers St Ptersburg and
Smolensk within the three mile limit
and communicated to them the orders
of the Russian government to desist
from interference with neutral ship
ping The commanders of the Rus
sian Vessels said they would forthwith
proceed to Europe
A report was brought in yesterday
by the German steamer Krinprinz that
the St Petersburg and Smolensk were
coaling in territorial waters The
Forte immediately proceeded to
search for them and eventually
found the Russian vessels They
were not coaling lut after the orders
of the Russian government had been
delivered to them the Sholensk and
St Petersburg joined a German collier
and proceeded to on
the African coast twenty five miles
south of Zanzibar
AMERICAN COLONY IS SAFE
Consul Reports Many Victims of the
Massacre
WASHINGTON The American
consul at Harput has reported to the
state department that he has visited
Bitlis and is now in Moush
The consul states that the district
of Sassun is tranquil and pacified and
the strategic points are garrisoned by
infantry detachments and permanent
barracks erected The survivors of
the massacre are in a destitute condi
tion but are attempting to rebuild
their ruined villages with a little gov
ernment aid The consular corps at
Bitlis estimates the number massa
cred and dead from exposure and hun
ger etc as 3500 The American col
ony at Bitlis appears to be in no pres
ent or prospective danger
Sues Secretary of War
WASHINGTON Major Peter R
Egan surgeon in the United States
army brought suit against W H
Taft secretary of war to compel him
to remove from the record of court
martial proceedings adjudging him
Major Egan not guilty on charges
of neglect of duty the indorsement on
the courts finding of Colonel Sanno
the reviewing officer then command
ing the department of Colorado which
indorsement the complainant says is
in effect punishment for alleged of
fenses of which he was found not
guilty at Fort Douglas Utah in De
cember 1901
Emperor Issues Some Orders
LONDON The Daily Mails Sin
mintan correspondent cabling under
date of September 11 says General
Kouropatkin has returned to Mukden
after inspecting the fortifications at
Tiepass work on which was not well
advanced but which is being hurried
along At the same time costly efforts
to delay the Japanese advance are be
ing made I learn from Russian
sources that this is the outcome of the
emperors orders and that the emperor
even peremptorily commanded Kouro
patkn to retake Liao Yang
Conditions in the Balkans
ST PETERSBURG Prince George
of Greece high commissioner of the
protective powers in the island of
Crete wll arrive here Monday 4t is
understood he Avill report to the em
peror on the conditions prevailing in
the Balkans
Offers Prire for Automobile Boat
PARIS The Auto announces that
C L Charley the automobilist has
offered a prize of S10000 for the first
automoble boat which successfully ac
comniishes a voyage from New York
to Havre
Seriois Anti Semitic Riots
ST PETERSBURG Anti Semitic
rioting took place at Rovno in the
government of Volhynia September 4
during which it is said many per
sons were injured and shops pillaged
A similar outbreak occurred at Smela
in the government of Kieff where
the troops were called Ninety eight
houses and 145 shops were pillaged
and several persons seriously and
many slightly wounded by the troops
Many of the rioters were arrested
The affair lasted for two days Sep
tember i and 5
AFE AT MUKDEN
RUSSIAN
ARMY DODGES
JAPANESE
THE
RETREAT WITHOUT FIGHTING
Terrible Experience While on the
Forced March Floundering Through
the Mud Along the Mandarin Road
Hospitals Taxed by the Wounded
ST PETERSBURG It seems to be
definitely established that Field
Mashal Oyamas tired troops aban
doned on Wednesday tho attempt to
head off General Kuropatkin whoso
army has arrived safely at Mukden
after frightful experiences in flound
ering through mud and mire over the
Mandarin road
Some descriptions of the scones
along the line of retreat are almost
incredible They tell how the men
lay down in the mud and slept in a
drenching rain
It Is evident that the last deter
mined effort of the Japanose to bring
Kuropatkin to bay was made on Tues
day but the Russian commander-in-chief
faced about and two corps with
artilllery beat off tho Japanese while
the remainder of the troops continued
the march to Mukden After that the
Japanese could only hang on to the
flanks and try to shell the retreating
columns from the hill3
Th outposts are still In contact but
they are not even exchanging shots
A late Associated Press dispatch
from Mukden describes the horrible
plight of the tentless and shelterless
soldiers
The detailed statement of the Rus
sian losses which it is promised will
be issued on Saturday is awaited
with intense interest The general
expectation is that the losses will ap
proximate 20000 as against 30000
for the Japanese
The work of burying the dead was
left for the Japanese who were forced
to attempt the task as a matter of
self preservation but it was an im
possible undertaking The awful
rains have handicapped the work of
cremation on which the Japanese re
lied and only shallow trench burials
were possible in most cases Not
only is such burial one of great dif
ficulty but it is almost valuelers from
a sanitary point of view the storms
undermining soon after it is accom
plished
The care of the wounded has taxed
the hospitals to the utmost One cor
respondent says that 12000 wounded
have passed through the Mukden hos
pitals up ro Sunday and only the most
severe cases could be attended by the
nurses and surgeons Many there
fore had to be left to the rough but
well meant care of their comrades
Now that the battle- of Liao Yang
is history officers of the general staff
are more disposed to discuss some
of the phases of the fight but they
still lark specific information mak
ing it impossible to speak on many
points
General Kuropatkins army at Liao
Yang consisted of twenty battalions
or infantry 147 squadrons of cavalry
and 700 guns approximately 10S000
bayonets 15000 sabers and 10000
gunners Portions of two European
corps and one Siberian corps had
ben loft at Mukden and a number of
these were brought into the fight
The size of the Japanese army has
not been definitely established but
its actual fighting force is supposed to
have had a superiority in numbers of
from 50000 to 60000 men and a con
siderable superiority in artillery
One of the chief advantages pos
sessed by Field Marshal Oyama ac
cording to Russian experts consisted
in the greater elasticity in move
ments
JAPANESE INSPECT THE NOVIK
Find Russian Vessel Sunk Within
Six Hundred Yrds of the Shore
TOKIO The officers commanding
th Japanese expedition sent in to ex
amine the wreck of the Russian
cruiser Novik report that it is beach
ed 900 yards southwst of Korsakovsk
lighthouse It has a 30 degree list to
starboard and with the exception of
a small portion of its bow it is en
tirely submerged Even on its upper
deck the water is knee deep in the
most shallow places Its conning
tower and upper works were heavily
damaged by the Japanese shell fire
It is impossible to ascertain definitely
the extent of the damage under the
water but evidently it is consider
able
Russian land forces fired on the
Japanese expedition while the ex
amination was being made but the
expedition retired without sustaining
cny casualties
Big Fire at Juarez Mexicoo
EL PASO Tex The city of Jaurez
Mex across the river from El Paso
is threatened with destruction by fire
Already one block of the best business
houses has burned and all efforts of
the fire department have thus far been
futile The loss is heavy
Confesses His Complicity
TOPEKA Kan B F Slagel alias
Robert Romaine a deported Colorado
miner under arrest here for burglary
has confessed to the county attorney
to complicity in the Independence de
pot and the Vindicator mine explo
sions in the Cripple Creek district
last June by which fifteen non union
miners were killed outright and oth
ers injured Romaine says he helped
to place the dynamite and wires run
ning beneath the depot and by which
the charge was set off with such
J astrous results
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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
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THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA REPORT OF STATE TREASURER
Fire destroyed the roller flouring
mills at Brainerd
A harvest festival is to held at
Shelton September 20 21 and 22
Improvements amounting to several
thousands of dollars have been made
by the Union Pacific about the local
depot and yards in Sutherland during
the past week or two
Henry Toler a merchant of Anoka
was burned to death trying to save
his wife after kerosene exploded cov
ering her in flames She may die
Tho building is partially burned
At a special election in Osceola
the bonding of the town for a sys
tem of water works to cost 25000
was voted upon The result was a
majority in favor of the bonds of over
four to one
The Kearney Construction com
pany of which T E Parmele of
Plattsmouth is president and W J
Stadelman of Kearney is vice presi
dent has been granted a franchise
for an independent telephone system
at Minden A first class exchange
will be installed in the near future
The articles of incorporation filed
by the Bank of Benson have been ap
proved by the state banking board
The capital stock is 50000 divided
into shares valued at 100 each and
the incorporators are James A How
ard B H Post C A Tracy Peter
Gravant F D Paraur H O Wulff
and B F Thomas
The members of the National
Guard who are alleged to have in
sulted women in David City during
the recent encampment there are to
be punished if proven guilty and the
investigation that has been started
by Adjutant General Culver will be
pushed with vigor until the name of
every guilty man is known
The state board of public lands and
buildings and the state board of irri
gation held their regular meetings
last week The former board passed
on a number of claims including the
one for the construction of tho hos
pital at Milford and the latter board
merely approved the work done by
Secretary Dobson during the last six
months
Rev James Mark Darby pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church of
Wahoo among the announcements
Sunday morning made one of unusu
al interest to his congregation that
of a donation of a fine new piano by
a friend of the church Albert C Kil
lian The congregation showed its
high appreciation of the costly gift by
a rising vote of thanks
A young German apparently about
21 years of age who has been con
fined in the county jail at Wahoo for
some time was adjudged insane by
the examining board and taken to the
asylum at Lincoln The young man
was first discovered at Ashland run
ning about in a half nude condition
and when parties tried to approach
him he jumped into a creek
A little waif was left just outside
the door of the residence of Richard
Sampson a prominent farmer resid
ing about a mile north of Seward
Cries from the child were heard in
the house and Mr Sampson went out
and found it lying in a basket The
baby was a male child and well dress
ed and a card pinned upon its cloth
ing told of the date of its birth
A horse and buggy belonging to
Henry Nast a farmer living four
miles south of Scribner were stolen
Next morning the buggy was found
beside the road on Somers avenue
just outside Fremont and later the
horse was taken up near Leavitt It
is supposed that the thief stole the
rig to come to Fremont with and
turned the horse loose just before
reaching the citr
Deputy Game Warden Smith went
out into Hooker county and arrested
James Cleary and A O Crawford
charging them with killing seven prai
rie chickens The men were taken
before a justice and fined 35 and
costs each which they paid
The house of Dr T C Sexton at
Fremont was visited by burglars A
marauder secured entrance to it by
placing a chair under an unfastened
window and climbing in He went
through everything in two rooms se
cured some small articles and 15 in
money and then climbed out taking
Dr Sextons clothing with him From
the pockets he took a fine gold watch
but he left the garments on the lawn
Governor Mickey and party will
leave for Seattle to witness the
launching of the battleship Nebraska
about October 3 It has not yet been
decided over what road the party will
go but it has been decided that no
free transportation will be secured
The trip cannot consume more than
ten days as October 18 has been set
apart as Nebraska day at the St
Louis exposition and the governor and
staff will leave for that place Octo
ber 1G
Old settlers of Otoe county last
week held their thirty sixth annual
picnic
Judge Paul of St Paul was in Grand
Island the other day and stated that
he would have a bill introduced in
the next legislature providing for the
requirement of bonds from court re
porters It is found that the recent
departure of Reporter Kendall of that
district necessitates the retrial of two
cases in Hall county one in Greeley
oae la Loup two in Boone and one
Expenditures of the Month in Excess
of Receipts of Office
LINCOLN Expenditures have ex
ceeded receipts in the state treasur
ers department both during tho
quarter ending August 31 and tho
month of August according to tho
quarterly and monthly reports of
Treasurer Mortensen The total re
ceipts for the quarter were 81528687
and the expenditures 106586401 an
excess of 25057714 The receipts
for the month of August were 168-
38272 and the expenditures 209
78285 or an excess of 4142013
Cash on hand in all funds amounts to
363826 and cash on deposit to
33177S20 or a total cash fund of
33541646 The cash on hand in tho
permanent school fund is 6931pS5
against 29623636 on June 1
The decrease is owing to the in
vestment of the funds in state and
county securities of which the state
board of educational lands and funds
has purchased heavily during the
quarter No securities are being pur
chased at present the treasurer con
fining himself to the purchase of stat
warrants as an investment
tions have been slack during July and
August but are expected to revive
during September and October be
cause of personal taxes becoming de
linquent on November 1 Following
are the balances for the quarter and
month with the statement of bank
balances at tho close of business Au
gust 31
Balances Balances
Funds
General
Permanent
Temporary
June 1 04 Aug SI 04
1024402 920807
school 29623536
school 17000695
Perm university
Ag col endow
Temp university
Hospital insane
State library
University cash
Normal library
Normal endow
Normal interest
Inheritance tax
Pen sj labor
Pen land
Act and mech arts
V S exp station
Totals
221240
1316C23
4695331
313777
440735
1746266
17645
170000
214429
4C9736
234615
358500
504001
247329
69312S5
15162586
36732t
291C934
601 CO
376500
3S0423
116912S
68233
170000
253531
4D5G21
234615
5S50U
2500001
344500
S58599360 33541646
NURSE CAUGHT UNDER TRAIN
Alice
Maine of Cozad Loses
Both
Legs Below the Knees
LEXINGTON Miss Alice Maline
a professional nurse whose home is
twelve miles northwest of Cozad and
who has been nursing two typhoid fe
ver patients in this city concluded
she would go home for a short rest
Train No 5 which stops at Cozad is
due here at 3 215 oclock a in When
Miss Maline arrived at tho depot yards
a freight train was on the side track
between her and the depot Train
No 3 which does not stop at Cozad
was at the depot Mistaking this for
her train Miss Maline crawled under
the freight train Just as she did so
the train pulled up to open the cross
ing She was caught under tb L
wheels and terribly mangled
ing the amputation of both limbs be
low the knees The local surgpons
here deemed it best to have her re
moved to a hospital in Omaha Vorv
little hopes are entertained for her
recovery
Drops Dead at Telephone
BEATRICE John P Anderson for
the past eighteen years a grocer
man of this city dropped dead in his
store He had stepped back to tho
rear of the room to use the telephone
when he suddenly dropped to tho
flocr and expired One of the clerks
heard the body fall and rushed to An
dersons assistance but life was ex
tinct The receiver of the telephono
was swinging below the transmitter
when the clerk reached his side show
ing that he had been talking to some
one when stricken down
Arranging for the Launching
At their request Governor Miokoy
has sent to Moran rothers builders
of the battleship Nebraska the names
of the state officers congressmen
judges and others who will be invited
to attend the launching of the ship
October 7 Governor Mickey will be
accompanied by his daughter Miss
Mary Nain Mickey who will christen
the ship Mrs Mickey will be unable
to attend The arrangements for the
trip will be made by Adjutant General
Culver but so far nothing definite has
been decdea upon and it is not known
whether a special train will be se
cured General Culver is in Omaha
and upon his return it is expected he
will soon complete the details of the
arrangements
Pulled Crepe from Door
GRAND ISLAND Dodd Gilmore a
stranger was arrested for drunken
ness and fined ten dollars and enst -
Gilmore in passing the law office of ft
Hon W H Thompson pulled the
crepe hung there during the death and
ounai oi air Thompsons daughter
from the door
Collections Are Slow
LINCOLN There probably will be
no call for the retirement of state
warrants issue by the state treasurer
this month unless receipts pick up
Collections are very slow at present
and there is on hand in the general
fund available for
retirement of
war
rants only about 15000 Warrants
usually are retired in blocks of 50
000 and at the most ot more than
75000 can be retired this mnn
The cash on hand in the permanent
la Graat because the records were school fund also is low owine ro tte
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