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McCook Tribune F M K I MM ELL Publisher MCOOK - jtaAar L NEBRASKA News in Brief Herbert Simmons a negro was lynched at Neal Ga for the killing of J A Park a white man The Japanese government has agreed to negotiate an arbitration treaty with the United States The Chicago Subway company pre pares to expend 15000000 in local improvements in the near future The retirement of Rear Admiral Si lar Terry resulted in the promotion of Captain Joseph B Craig to be rear ad miral Announcement was made at the White house of the names for batter ies on the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coasts If the duty Is acceptable to him Rear Admiral Lambert will probably be ap pointed president of the lighthouse board Santiago Simonet of Utuado Porto Rico a deputy collector of internal revenue for the district of Arecibo is missing East Boston has celebrated the official opening of the new tunnel under Bos ton harbor uniting the city proper and East Boston Two men and two horses were drowned and frozen at a deep pool at the old crossing of Piney Fork creek near Dillonvale O Advices received at Esquimalt from the British admiralty state that the proposed abandonment of Esquimalt by the navy will be reconsidered The Neue Freie Presse says Pre mier von Koerber at an audience of Emperor Francis Joseph tendered his resignation on the ground of ill health At Mobile James Robinson was sent to jail for thirty days for an assault The offense for which he was con victed was kissing a young lady against her will The Echo do Paris learns that Ad miral Kaznakoff received a cipher dis patch from Grand Duke Alexis inform ing him that the emperor wishes to confer with him concerning the North sea affair Attorney General Moody filed a pe tition in St Paul Minn alleging il legal combination of twenty five con cerns with the general Paper com pany as sales agent and asks for an injunction Joseph S Frelinghuysen who has been selected as personal aide to Governor-elect Stokes of New Jersey is an insurance broker and a cousin of the late Secretary of State and Sena tor Frelinghuysen In Chicago Judge Walker decided that the city is not liable for dam ages growing out of the loss in con nection with the loss of life in the Iroquois theatre fire At a conference in London of Brit ish continental and Atlantic steam ship line managers a satisfactory agreement was reached with regard to Scandinavian traffic The Connecticut Tobacco Growers association has sent to each senator and representative from Connecticut in congress a circular letter protest ing against the removal of the tariff from Philippine tobaqco Secretary Wilson has promulgated a circular giving the results of tests made in accordance with an act of the last congress directing him to ob tain in the open market samples of seeds of grass clover or alfalfa Representatives of the banking house of Mandelssohn Co at Berlin have gone to St Petersburg to take part in negotiating the new Russian loan It is now assured here that the loan will amount to 240000000 Seven more indictments in the land fraud cases were returned by the grand ury in Portland Ore Two of the bills were returned under fictitious names which fact is the basis of re ports tnat men of prominence are among the accused Russian officials have demanded of the Chinese foreign office the resti tution of the ammunition apparently destined for Port Arthur seized by the Chinese authorities at Fengtai near here four davs ago W R Jones manager of the Chi cago office of the Washburn Crosby company of Minneapolis Minn died In Chicago from injuries sustained in a fall over a banister in his home His skull and neck were broken by the fall The State bank of Dedham la was placed in the hands of a receiver on the order of State Auditor Carroll and an effort will be made to liquidate its affairs which are badly involved through an alleged 15000 shortage of Cashier J A Caton It is announced that the war office placed orders with the Vickers Sons Maxim company Armstrong White worth Co and other large ordi nance manufacturers for a number of twelve pounder field guns to rearm the -whole British army Justice Olmsted of New York hand ed down an opinion holding that the law against the selling or giving away of street railway transfers is consti tutional A charter was granted to the North western Railroad company of Elk City Old capital 1S75000 to build from Elk City through Day Woodward and Beaver counties in Oklahoma Laden with the largest cargo ever shipped out of San Francisco on a vessel the steamer Mongolia depart ed for Chinese and Japanese ports Her freight amounts to 18000 tans ft NEBRASKA STATE NEWS BHBbBHHKBHBBHBHMHBBHHHBHHHBHPHBBBHHKDSHIIH9BBHKBHlBBEBBSliBiHBEHBBSBBMBBSHBE999BBiBBHiBBnp NEBRASKA SCHOOL MATTERS County Superintendents Addressed by Mr Fcwler At the state teachers meeting In Omaha State Superintendent Fowler spoke to county superintendents in part as follows iNebraska occupies an unrivaled posi tion in having the lowest per cent of illiteracy of all the states in the union Nowhere has the value of a common Bchool education been more generally and universally acknowledged than here nor has the free secondary and higher education in the state been al together neglected The constitution of Nebraska adopt ed in 1875 declared that all moneys arising from the sale or leasing of sections No 16 to 36 in each township in this state should be perpetual funds for common school purposes of which the annual interest or income only can be appropriated andfche interest on these school lands sold and leased to gether with that or warrants county bonds and school district bonds cer tain fees and licenses and the state school tax of l1 mills or less upon the dollar of assessed valuation of all taxable property in the state provides a snm in excess of 700000 appor tioned annually to all the common school districts of the state This amount will increase from year to year rather than diminish Local school districts may tax themselves not to exceed 25 mills on the dollar of assessed valuation All fines pen alties and license moneys are appro priated exclusively to the use and sup port of the common schools in the re spective subdivisions where they may accrue The constitution also states that the legislature shall provide for the free instruction in the common schools of all persons between the ages of 5 and 21 years Free education including free textbooks and supplies is fur nished in all school districts in the state School government organiza tion and management in Nebraska is amost purely local each one of the C6G7 districts being responsible for its own school Each district pro vides a full course of instruction in till of the eight grades or years of work below the ordinary high school and many of them furnish graduate certificates upon the completion of this work The course includes read ing writing spelling arithmetic grammar geography history physi ology etc In some of the larger cities of the state kindergartens have been established When a school district has a popu lation of 150 or more children of school age it may organize as a high school district and furnish free high school privileges to all its pupils who com plete the eighth grades of work below the high school We have in Nebraska eighty five vil lages maintaining a Hieh school course of one year or a total of nine grades of work there are 175 villages with High school courses of two years 101 villages or cities with High school courses three years in leneth and eighty four cities in the state maintaining a full four years High school course sometimes differentiated commercial courses above the eighth grades of common scnool work Above these we have as a superstructure the magnificent University of Nebraska with its faculty of 200 and an attend ance of more than 2500 The univers ity has a heavy endowment from lands donated to the state by the United States and is supported by the proceeds of investment of a perma nent fund by other Incomes and by a tax of 1 mill upon the dollar of as sessed valuation of the state During the last school year 1903 1904 there were enrolled in the schools of Nebraska 280000 children the state had 6767 school houses of which thirty five were stone 339 brick 105 log 273 sod and the rest wood or frame buildings The number of sod school houses in the state in 1890 was nearly 800 but it has steadily de creased since that time while the number of brick buildings rapidly in creases The value of school district property in the state is estimated at 11000000 the total indebtedness of all districts at 3285000 and the total annual expenditures at 4900000 Ne braska employs annually 9700 teach ers Including 3250 in graded schools Krens Gives Bond LINCOLN William Krens of Cus ter county gave bond for 1500 and was released pending the final decis ion upon his case In the Custer county district court he was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary for burning a stack of grain ANSLEY More prairie chickens were killed in October and November this year in the neighborhood of Ans ley than ever before but the pot hunt er who kills birds in the summer has been stopped and the result is that the birds are both plentiful and tame Depositors Get 39 Per Cent LINCOLN Receiver William C May has filed with Secretary Royse of the state banking board his final report of the affairs of the defunct Peoples State bank off Gothenburg which failed in 1901 The depositors have received a paj ment of 39 per cent and the receiver has been dis charged The Institute for the Feeble Minded at Beatrice fittingly observed Christ mas NEBRASKA BRIEFS Mr and Mrs S N Peterson of Polk county last week celebrated their gol den wedding At a regular meeting of the Fre mont Turnverein it was voted to send a team to compete at the national turn fest which meets next year at In dianapolis The home of P B Neff an imple ment dealer in Broomfield was enter ed by burglars a few nights ago and robbed of 20 several rings and other pieces of jewelry While oiling an engine at the elec tric power house at Beatrice Engineer Peter Drouland got his hand too near the machine and the index finger of his lefthand was torn off Invitations have been Issued at Plattsmouth announcing the forthcom ing marriage of F C Kingsbury of Arizona and Miss Para Love of Fre mont which will occur January 4 Roscoe Pound will resign his posi tion as dean of the law school at the State University to enter practice having formed a law partnership with Frank M Hall and Frank H Woods The body of Howard Penn who killed himself at York in a fit of despondency arrived in Broken Bow from that place and was taken to tne residence in Former Sheriff Arm r strong About 11 oclock in the forenoon one of the inmates in the open ward at the asylum at Hastings escaped coming toward Hastings He is de scribed as being about 28 years old weight 150 dark mustache The city council o Grand Island has passed on its first reading an or dinance regulating the running of au tomobiles limiting the speed to five miles an hour in the business district of the city and twelve miles an hour in all other distriots The other night young George Coil of Dawes county walked from the peni tentiary to the trolley car station at Lancaster a free man beneficiary of i one of Governor Mickeys Christmas commutations Coil was convicted five years ago of murdering a sheer man named Ryan with whom he and his father a cattleman had had trouble over the range Governor Mickey has assured Su perintendent Greene of the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane that there is absolutely no need for any investiga tion into the affairs of that institu tion The official called at the exeWl tive department for a conference and was assured that the governor had perfect confidence in him and the in tegrity of his management Phoenix Ariz dispatch Sheriff Hall of Holt county Neb arrived wah a requisition for Bernard W Mc Greevy absconding president of the Elkhorn Valley bank of ONeill Neb The sheriff id he would not leave before Monday and perhaps not then He is impressed with the story that Cashier Patrick Hagerty is in hiding here and hopes to capture him The committee that has begged the Burlington Railroad company for a new depot at York in the place of the barn like structure now used by the company there hope that York will have a New Years present in the way of a notice from the company that they will build a much needed depot at York that will be in keeping with the rapid growth and the size of the place Each prisoner in the penitentiary was given a Christmas present The gift was of modest proportions con sisting of a large bag of candy made in the prison kitchen but each man was remembered Many of them re ceived little trinkets from friends and relatives at home Little mementoes of home life and jars of jam and jelly with other delicacies were received by many of the men The annual meeting of the Gage county poultry and pet stock show will be held in the opera house at Blue Springs January 3 and 4 December will be a good month from the standpoint of the state peni tentiary in that the census will b in creased there by twenty nine A circular letter will be sent out to county treasurers by State Treasured Mortensen asking them to begin the year properly by promptly remitting state taxes to the treasury on Monday or Tuesday Many county treasurers are taking advantage of the renewed offer of the Burlington and the Union Pacific to pay a part of their taxes pending the decision on the applica tion for injunction After having been mourned as a dead man for the past seventeen years John Marquardt has turned up at Harrisburg Ore alive and a busy man Almost a score of years ago he left Norfolk and two years later his mother and brothers gave him up as dead Even the date of his death had been fixed services held and each an niversary help apart because of the funeral tone it bore A letter received last week came as a joyful greeting In the case of the Missouri Pacific Railway company against Cass county Judge Jessen found for the plaintiff fixing the amount of damage in the sum of 1 cent The company sued for 1000 damage Gust Jones a stranger in Cuming county was comitted to jail on a charge of stealing a team of horses tin property of James Tighe living near Bancroft The prisoner was caught with the team in his posses sion and was brought before Justice McDermott and was bound over to the district court In default of balL THE NEW STATES ADMISSION OF FOUR TERRITOR IES NOT CERTAIN SOWE DEMOCRATS ARE OPPOSED it Is Likely That There Will Be Con siderable Fillibustering Republi cans Not Anxious asjthe Matter Can Go Oyer to Next Session WASHINGTON In all probability there will not be two stars added to the flag at this session of congress While there are some democrats who are disposed to allow the republicans to legislate as they please on all ex cept great fundamental questions there are others who will not consent to the admission of states doubled up as proposed in the bill passed last ses sion -by the house and now pending In the senate Of course it is well understood that it will be an easy thing to defeat the statehood bill Only a slight filibuster is necessary or perhaps a notice to the republican majority that the bill is unsatisfac tory would be sufficient The repub licans are not at all anxious They are willing the present bill should pass but if the democrats want to defeat it they will not complain Senator Du Bois of Idaho is a lead er of the opposition to the bill in Its present form He recalls that when -he was struggling to have the terri tory of Idaho admitted as a state there was a great deal of opposition to the anti Mormon test oath which he insisted should be incorporated in the constitution Du Bois took the ground then that congress had no right to bring a territory into the union against the will of the people of the territory He said then that Idaho would prefer to remain out rather than be deprived of the test oath Now said Mr Du Bois the people of Arizona with few excep tions and a majority of the people of New Mexico prefer to remain as territories rather than to be admitted as one state I thinli their wishes should be re spected What ought to be done now Is to admit Oklahoma not coupled Indian territory but according to the present boundaries There would be nothing favoring the democrats in that for Oklahoma is as likely to be republican as democratic and in fact It is the one territory where the re publicans are strongest But aside from all political consideration the rights of the people of the territories should be respected Speaking of the statehood bill -Senator Beveridge chairman of the com mittee on territories remarked the other day that had Senator Quay liv ed the measure would have been put n his charge while being considered In the senate Perhaps no one knew whether Senator Quay would have ac cepted the doubling up of the terri tories Four years ago he fought for nearly three months to secure separ ate statehood for three territories leaving out Indian territory When the republicans doubled up the terri tories in the last session with a view of making two states of the four there was no sign from the silent Pennsyl vania senator as to whether that kind of a proposition suited him or not He was intensely interested when the fight was on before He devoted more time to senatorial work than he iad ever given before in a winter 3ut after the bill was defeated and when a new scheme was tried he nev er seemed to show the same interest No one knows what he would have done if he had lived ADAMS WANTS INVESTIGATION Governor Elect of Colorado Files Pe tition in Supreme Court DENVER Attorneys Charles S Thomas and Samuel W Helford filed a petition in the supreme Court Wednesday on behalf of Alva Adams the democratic governor elect asking that either the court or a commission to be appointed by the court shall open all of the 201 ballot boxes used in Denver at the late election and make a thorough examination of their contents The court decided to hear arguments on the petition later in the day I have no question about my elec tion by substantially the majority rep resented on the face of the returns said Governor Adams I believe if the frauds in outside counties could ne unearthed my honest majority would amount to 20000 But I want no tainted seat It is of far greater Importance that the extensive election frauds should be unearthed and pun ished tnan that I or any other particu lar individual should be sworn in as governor I dont know who com mitted the alleged frauds in Denver I know nearly thirty men are in jail ostensibly for contempt of court but really charged with election crimes If they are of the character represent ed I feel assured that there are men at liberty far more deserving of jail than those who are incarcerated Has Not Resinned But Will LONDON While numerous semi official statements have been heard that Ambassador Choate is about to retire from diplomatic life it can be stated that Mr Choate has not sent his resignation nor any communica tion on the subject to President Roosevelt or the state department nor has he received any inquiry either from the president or Secretary Hay concerning his future plans It can be said however that it is Choates intention to tender his resignation soon after Inauguration MAJORITY IS DIVIDED Colorado Republicans Not Agreed Upon Plan to Reseat Peabody DENVER Very few members of the legislature have yet arrived in the city and whether the plans of William C Evans and other republican lead ers to reseat Governor James Pea body will be advised by a majority of the republican members Is still in doubt The republicans can carry any measure on which they are agreed There are at least half a dozen candidates for the speakership Some republican members known as followers of former United States Senator Edward O Wolcott have de cided that while they do not contemp late a union with the democrats under any consideration they will oppose vigorously any plan for counting out Adams The Wolcott republicans say they will go into a party caucus and will agree to abide by the decision of the caucus up to a point where it con flicts with their conscience They In sist that they have always strictly ob served party regularity but when a course is commended that Is morally wrong they will not follow it and they will not consider their decision in that regard as irregular The plan to seat Governor Peabody some of them declared is wrong and no cau cus action will bring them to support such action The canvass of the votes for state officers is made by the legislature and is not subject to review in the courts LEGISLATION FOR CANAL Members of Congressional Committee Consider Question WASHINGTON Members of the congressional committee which will formulate the isthmian canal legisla tion have been considering the various questions relating to the regulation of the canal zone A bill for the pur pose passed the senate last session but was rejected by the house and a measure finally was agreed upon placing the whole government of the zone in the power of the president un til the end of the present session of congress Before the close of this congress it will be necessary to renew that power for a term of years or to enact a new law Opinion differs as to the best method of handling the subject although it is believed that a strong government will be necessary in order to provide for the care and health of the men engaged in canal work It is expected that Representa tive Mann 111 will introduce a bill relating to canal work soon after con gress reconvenes REPORT FROM OKUS ARMY Soldiers on Both Sides Still Lying In the Trenches General Okus Headquarters via Fusan No change has taken place at the front of the Second army The Russians continue a daily bombard ment firing at random and resulting in few casualties The Japanese sol diers picked up fifteen centimetre shrapnel cases and with them made charcoal burners to heat the bomb proofs Occasional collisions take place between patrols the Russians always retiring Both sides seem sat isfied to remain in the trenches Lieutenant General Sir William Nicholason director general of mili tary intelligence of the British was office who was attached to the Jap anese army left here yesterday on his way to England Steal Court House Also ST PAUL Minn A special to the Dispatch from Aberdeen S D says The crowd of men who went from Selby to Bangor and carried off by force the county records in the court house and then left word that they would return for the court house it self kept their promise The build ing has been torn down and piled on wagons and is being hauled to Selby to be rebuilt there Although the ac tion of the Selby men has aroused much bitter feeling Bangor residents made no resistance WARSHIPS UNDER ORDERS China Will Try to Hold Russian War Vessels in Port SHANGHAI The tatotal has Issued strict orders to the commanders of the Chinese warships In the harbors of Woosung and Shanghai to prevent any attempt to escape by the Rus sian war vessels the cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Groz ovoi More Chinese cruisers are on the way to Shanghai The Askold and the Grozoxol suc ceeded in reaching Shanghai after the battle between the Russian and Jap anese fleets off Port Arthur August 10 and since that time their officers and crew have been interned at Shanghai A rumor from Shanghai reached London December 9 that the Askold was coaling and replacing its machin ery preparatory to an effort to escape and join the Russian second Pacific squadron American Girl WeJs Title WASHINGTON Miss Marguerite Hyde Daisy Leiter the youngest daughter of the late Levi Z Leiter and Mrs Mary T Carver Leiter of Chicago was married at noon on Christmas day to Henry Molyneaux Paget Howard the nineteenth earl of Suffolk and Berkshire The ceremony occurred in the Leiter residence in this city the Rev Roland Cotton Smith rector of St Johns Episcopal church afficlating Only a family party witnessed the service The bride was escorted by her brother CAN HOLD ARTHUR RUSSIAN ARMY HAS OVER TWO MONTHS PROVISIONS THE JAPS MOUNTMORE CANNOH Confirmation of the Report That Gen Kondrs iienko Has Been Killed The Work of Dynamiting and Paral leling Continues TOKIO The Japaneso occupied tho entiro fort on Rihlung mountain at 730 oclock Wednesday Trustworthy advices from Port Ar thur confirm the report that General Kondrachenko has been killed and that General Stoessel has been Injured by falling from his horse General Smilioff is also reported wounded The advices further say that tho stern of the battleship Sevastapol has sunk in shallow water Its bow 13 damaged in two places and the steer ing room gear is also damaged The garrison is reported to be con fident in the belief that relief will ar rive before March 1 Despite its heavy losses November 2G and subse quently the garrison Is said to be cheerful and resolved to continue tho struggle as long as a single soldier remains The army claims to have sufficient provisions to last until Feb ruary The navy possesses about on months stores The price of food In the beleagured fortress is high Beef is l1 roubles per pound horse meat G copeks turkeys 150 roubles each eggs 1G0 roubles per hundred But a few junks bearing supplies reached the garrison the past month It is expected that the capture of the heights of Pigeon bay wijl fur ther curtail the landing of supplies The emperor today received in an dience and decorated Captain Zurbon zon of the steamer Willehad which had brought home the Japanese ref ugees from Russia The Japanese dynamiting and papj leling against the eastern section of the main circle of forts around Port Arthur is progressing favorably Tho right wing of the besiegers continues a heavy and effective shelling of tho new town preparatory to operations which are nearing completion It is probable that the next attack will bo simultaneously directed against tho east and west forces of the fortress in an endeavor to divide and weaken the resistance of the defenders The New Year season has begun and all Japan is enjoying a holiday consequently Togos journey from Kure to Tokio will be a continuous popular ovation WRIGHT TELLS OF UPRISING Governor of Philippines Reports on Fighting by Palajanes WASHINGTON Secretary Taft re ceived a cablegram message from Governor Wright at Manila in re sponse to his inquiry in regard to tho recent uprising of the Palajanes Dol ores Samar Governor Wrights mes sage is as follows MANILA Dec 2G 1904 Secretary of War Washington D C With ref erence to your telegram of 21st laot I regret to say that General Corbins report of attack on and loss of de tachments of scouts at Oras and Dol ores is correct Palajanes have of late left west and north sides of Sa mar and became active on east coas which is practically without harbor and very difficult of access during pre valence of the existing monsoon Orders were given some time since to strengthen all detachments on the east coast but unfortunately this was delayed by wreck and loss of coast guard boat carrying a hundred or more of the constabulary The mf n were saved but the delay in sending another coast guard boat to the res cue resulted in leaving the small de tachments at Oras and Dolores iso later and the consequent loss All east coast stations have been heav ily reinforced and we are still send ing men in by my direction General Allen chief of the constabulary lefc here Manila two weeks since to take personal charge of affairs in Sa mar I am still reinforcing him with constabulary and am consulting with General Corbin who if necessarj will aid us with troops WRIGHT THEY MUST NEVER RETREAT Kuropatkin Doesnt Want H13 Men on the Run Again MUKDEN General Kuropatkin ad dressing his troops said You must never allow yourselves to retreat Even In the case or the smallest de tachment having once formed a plan it must be carried out to the end A Japanese battery opened fire De cember 24 in Shanlinpu and two men were wounded by shells A Japaneso column advanced but was soon driven back by the Russian fire The general situation is qniet though Chinese report that the Japan ese are strengthening their left flank as though in contemplation of a turn ing movement On the other hand the Japanese in many places are building winter quarter s To Spend 30000000 CHICAGO 111 The Record Herald says The Pennsylvania Ralroad company is prepared to spend 30 -000000 in the construction of a new railroad station in Chicago 20000 -000 of this sum to be spent in ac quiring land adjoining the present Union depot and 10000000 to be spent in buildings Plans and specifi cations for a most elaborate group of structures devoted to railway pur poses have already been completed The site of the new terminal will occupy seven square blocks - v 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