McCook Tribune
F M K1MMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
A Parjs doctor says that kissing
Is healthful but how can anything so
pleasant be so
A noted sporting writer says the
race ot fighters Is disappearing Still
the fit survive so to speak
Next we shall be hearing that the
bargain counter fiends are taking les
sons in the noble art of jiu jitsu
Helen Mathers the English writer
who is over here says that she likes
American women immensely So do
we
The tax list shows that Mrs As
tors diamond stomaclier is not one
of the permanent institutions of New
York
But perhaps that St Paul paper that
spoke 9i the enormity of a dead mil-
lionakes estate meant precisely what
it said
The biggest sea lobster weighs
eighteen pounds The species that
travels on land usually weighs about
300 pounds
Perfnmed gasoline for automobiles
is the latest innovation in Paris The
world will wait with bated breath to
learn how it works
Two Frenchmen fought a duel the
other day in which both were severe
ly wounded Accidents will happen
even in French duels
The Connecticut candidate who
courteously vqted for his opponent
and thereby elected him has experi
enced a change of manners
Tom Lawson says he once kept Ad
dlcks from committing suicide The
strange thing about it is that he
makes the statement hoastfully
A Chicago man says wood alcohol
has an agreeable taste It is noticed
that when once a man drinks it he
never goes back to the other kind
A Boston scientist has discovered a
new kind of grip germ One unsatis
factory thing about the new germ is
that it is no improvement on the old
kind
Woodman Spare That Tree is
not enough Somebody ought to write
a new song Farmer Plant a Tree
and teach all the country school chil
dren to sing it
Who are most beautiful large
blondes or small blondes large bru
nettes or small brunettes Well it
depends more or less on which you
hapnen to be with
Dr R Heber Newton not only ex
presses his faith that the spirits greet
the living but he declares also that
men possess halos We all know men
who think they do
The valued St Paul Globe dis
courses pessimistically on Christmas
horrors Nothing but neckties match
safes pen wipers and smoking sets in
its stocking this year
That movement to eliminate the
ragtime song may be worthy but it is
somewhat late The world has passed
the Bedelia stage and is now in the
deadly embrace of Teasing
Tfee economical New York editor
wh addressed a New Years cable to
the Emperor of Japan Mikado To
kio alight have saved four bits more
if he had cut Mikado down to
Mike
Ninety years ago the first great bat
tle New Orleans was fought Every
body will recall the fact that the sec
ond great battle of New Orleans was
between Sullivan and Corbett many
years later
v Prof Perrlne of the Lick observa
tory has discovered a sixth satellite
of Jupiter but as a telescope of 10 to
12 inches in diameter is needed to
observe it comparatively few of us
will ever see it
Objection to the marriage of King
Alfonso of Spain and Princess Victo
ria ot England has been raised in
soaevhlgh places This being the
caseiaiis pretty sure to marry her
if She will have him
Geerge Meredith comes out now
with the discouraging declaration that
America has never produced a great
writer And still America doesnt es
pecially regret that George Meredith
wasnt born over here
Uncle Sams experiments in the
matter of worlds fair postage stamps
have convinced him that a busy peo
ple does not take kindly to the idea of
licking an unnecessary area of mucil
age when about to mail a letter
It appears that Mrs Chadwick
smuggled over 50000 through the
gates of the custom house at New
York- This fact is likely to cause
certain ladies who occupy high social
positions to regard her with admira
tion rather than contempt
Gor Pennypacker says the Pitts
lurg Post will now show whether ho
is a man or a mouse It must be
gratifying to Mr Pennypacker to
Icnow that there is after the record he
has made afc doubt on -the
question as It relates to him
REVOLUTION IN
RULES FOR SHIPPING STOCK
Department of Agriculture Prepares
Plans to Stop Spread of Disease
WASHINGTON The Department of
Agriculture has issued regulations es
tablishing on February 1 next a fed
eral quarantine against a large part
of the south and parts of other states
to prevent the spread of splenetic or
southern fever among cattle The
quarantine lines are largely the same
as last year The quarantined terri
tory will embrace the eastern part
of North Carolina all of South Caro
linalina Indian Territory Alabama
Mississippi and Louisiana that part
of Virginia below the James river
and running to the northeast corner
of Bedford county all of Georgia but
Union Towns and Rabun counties
all of Arkansas except the two north
ern tiers of counties which are left
outside the quarantine lines during
February and March but are placed
within the quarantine during the rest
of the quaratine period part of Ten
nessee and Oklahoma most of Texas
except the Panhandle and the lower
part of California The quarantine is
declared to be in force until Novem
ber 1 but this date is subject to
change
The regulations allow cattle in the
quarantined area to be shipped north
in placarded cars If shipped for
slaughter and placed in quarantined
yards on arrival at destination If the
stock is unloaded en route it must be
at yards reserved solely for southern
cattle and after unloading cars must
be disinfected before being used for
native stock
Rich Man Shoots Himself
NEW YORK Jacob Ridgeway
Wrightr who is said to be a wealthy
and socially prominent resident of
Wilkesbarre Pa was taken from his
apartments in the Hotel Imperial here
with a serious bullet wound in his
left side
He died a few hours after being
taken to a hospital He declared
that the shot which caused his injur
ies had been fired by himself by ac
cident His physician Dr Howard A
Pardee who was with him at the
time of the shooting was detained as
a witness
The Cotton Situation
WASHINGTON Reuresentative
Byrd of Mississippi introduced a res
olution reciting at length the deplor
able condition of the cotton raising
industry ot the country and conclud
ing with an instruction to the ways
and means committee to make a fa
vorable report to the bouse on a- pend
ing bill discontinuing the tariff sto fix
rates He said it was a radical
change of government principles He
said the record of the commission in
the courts was twenty two misses
one bulls eye apd two Inside the ring
RUSSIA
That Is What the City of St Pet
ersburg Is Facing
BLOOD FLOWING IN THE STREET
Workmen and Their Supporters Strive to See the
Czar and Are Slain by the Soldiery 500
to 5000 Reported Killed -
ST PETERSBURG This has been
a day of unspeakable horror in St
Petersburg The strikers of yester
day goaded to desperation by a day
of violence fury and bloodshed are
in a state of open insurrection
agaiustthe government
A condition almost bordering on
civil war exists in the terror stricken
Russian capital The city is under
martial law with Prince Vasilchikoff
as commander of over 50000 of the
emperors crack guards Troops are
bivouacking in the streets tonight and
at various places on the Nevsky
prospect the main thoroughfare of
the city On the inland of Vassilli
Ostrov and in the industrial sections
infuriated men have thrown up bar
ricades which they are holding The
empress dowager has hastily sought
safety at Tsarskoe Selo where Em
peror Nicholas II is living
Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk
Mirsky presented to his majesty last
night the invitation of the workmen
to appear at the Wnter palace this
afternoon and receive their petition
but the emperors advisers already
had taken a decision to shoW a firm
and resolute front and the emperors
answer to 100000 workmen trying to
make their way to the palace square
today was a solid array of troops
who met them with rifle bayonet and
saber
The priest Gopon the leader and
idol of the men in his golden vest
ments holding aloft the cross and
marching at the head of thousands of
workmen through the Narva gate
miraculously escaped a volley which
laid low half a hundred persons The
figures of the total number killed or
wounded here at the Moscow gate at
various bridges and islands and at
the Winter palace vary The best
estimate is 500 although there are ex
aggerated figures placing the number
at 5000 Many men were accompa
nied by their wives and children and
in the confusion which left no time
for discrimination the latter shared
the fate of the men The troops with
the exception of a single regiment
yhich is reported to have thrown
down its arms remained loyal and
obeyed orders But the blood which
crimsoned the snow has fired the
brains and passions of the strikers
and turned women as well as men
into wild beasts and the cry of the
infuriated populace is for vengeance
The sympathy of the middle classes
is with the workmen
If Father Gopon the master mind
of the movement aimed at open revo
lution he managed the affair like a
genius to break the faith of the peo
ple in The Little Father who they
were convinced and whom Fatner
Gopon had taught them to believe
I would right their wrongs Gorky the
Russian novelist expresses the opin
ion that todays work will break this
faith of the people in the emperor
He said this evening to the Associated
Press
Today inaugurated revolution in
Russia The emperors prestige will
be irrevocably shattered forever by
the shedding of innocent blood He
has alienated himself forever from
his people Gopon taught the work
men to believe that an appeal direct
to The Little Father would be heed
ed They have been deceived Gopon
is now convinced that peaceful means
have failed and that the only remedy
is force
Midnight Bulletin Firing continues
on the Vassiliostrov It is rumored
that the workmen there have seized
a dynamite factory and also that
30000 or 40000 armed strikers from
Kolpino sixteen miles distant are
marching on St Petersburg Barri
cades erected on the Island of Vas
sili Ostrov late tonight were destroy
ed by troops almost immediately
with the loss of thirty workmen
killed
SENDS A MESSAGE
President Wants Action on Export
Trade Scheme
WASHINGTON The president sent
a message to the senate recommend
ing favorable action upon a sugges
tion made by Assistant Secretary
Loomis for co operation by the De
partments of State and Commerce
and Labor in collecting information
concerning trade conditions in foreign
countries The president recommends
that provision be made for the ap
pointment of six special agents to be
called commercial attaches who shall
visit the different countries and make
a study of industrial conditions with
a view of suggesting modifications
and changes in the existing plans of
our foreign commerce
Mr Loomis in explaining the plan
said that this plan can be put into
execution at a very small cost in
fact he places the cost of the test at
50000 per annum Six commercial
attaches or special agents will be suf
ficient to inaugurate the movement
They would be allowed salaries at
5000 per annum and traveling ex
penses and would be assigned one to
cover Austria the Balkan states Ger
many Switzerland Russia and other
countries of northern Europe one for
France Italy Portugal Spain and
other countries bordering on the Medi
terranean a third for Great Britain
and dependencies the fourth for
Mexico Central America the West
Indies and South America the fifth
for Asia more particularly Asiatic
Russia China and Japan and the
sixth to be held in reserve for special
service in any part of the world It
is not proposed that these attaches
should have a fixed residence at any
particular capital but that they may
be transferred from point to point
Homesteads in South Dakota
WASHINGTON The house com
mittee on public lands heard Sena
tors Kittedge and Gamble and Repre
sentatives Martin and Burke S D
in favor of a bill increasing from 160
acres to 640 acres the amount of and
that may be taken up under the
homestead act in that state The argu
ment was made that without this in
crease the settlement of the state
would be materially retarded -The
committee took no action
Two Mining Men Murdered
RAPID CITY S D News has just
arrived by courier of the murder of
the Cain brothers two bachelors who
lived at the Tamarack mine fifteen
miles west of this city The murder
is the greatest mystery It Is known
that the brothers had trouble with
some neighbors and they are suspect
ed of the crime The courier states
that the bodies have the appearance
of having been clubbed to death One
theory is that they were murdered for
a wagon load of merchandise recently
purchased
JAPS ENTER CITY
Victorious Army In Possession of
Port Arthur
Headquarters Third Japanese Army
at Port Arthur The victorious army
Sunday formally entered Port Arthur
General NogI with his staff entered
first through the old town and took
his stand in the public square of the
new town The army was represented
by one regiment from each brigade
The procession which was five miles
long was three hours passing the
saluting base after which the troops
passed out of the city through the
new town The correspondents then
visited the captured city for the first
time The old town buildings were
badly smashed by shells but in the
new town the damage was slight All
the shipping in the harbor was badly
damaged by shell fire the warships
being practically useless owing to the
injuries they had sustained by shells
Proposals for the surrender of Port
Arthur were first made December 29
at a council of war General Stoessol
was in favor of surrender but some
of his general officers were bitterly op
posed to it The regimental officers
and the troops were not consulted
The first news they had of the sur
render was January 1 after General
Stoessel had communicated with the
Japanese
The scenes following the surrender
were disgraceful Drunken soldiers
filled the streets and refused to obey l
their officers Many of them destroyed
the guns upon the positions they had
defended and came into the city with
out permission The infantry loudly
protested that the fortress had been
given away They threw their rifles
and ammunition into the harbor and
proceeded to break into warehouses
and loot and drink vodka until in a
helpless condition It was evident that
the surrender was not necessary as
there were 31000 effective men in the
fortress The suply of ammunition was
short but it was not exhausted Food
was scarce but private stores were
not requisitioned by the military
There is no difficulty in getting good
meals in the city even without stores
in private warehouses
It was the opinion of the non-combatants
at Port Arthur that the sur
render was unnecessary as the troops
were able and willing to fight to the
bitter end General Stoessel was much
blamed for what was characterized as
a disgraceful conclusion of a splendid
defense which ended with the death
of Major General Kondratenko who
was loved by the soldiers and was the
life of the defense
Memorial services were held in
honor of the spirits of the Japanese
dead upon the plain north of the vil
lage of Shuishi a snort distance from
Port Arthur Regiments representing
the entire Japanese army were pres
ent A shrine was erected on the crest
of a small hill and the troops formed
a circle around it General Nogi and
his staff were present Lunch wau
served afterwards in the open to all
the officers present It was a splendid
spectacle
Cowboys Going to Washington
DEADWOOD S D A party of
Black Hills cowboys thirty to sixty
strong is being organized to go to
Washington for the inauguration of
President Roosevelt March 4 The
men will take their own horses and
be dressed in cowboy costume Cap
tain Seth Bullock who has just re
turned from Washington is organiz
ing the party
Merchant Found Murdered
LARAMIE Wyo George Gerber a
merchant was found dead in his
store with his skull crushed and
throat cut An iron bolt with which
he had been struck lay beside the
body and the knife with wbich he had
been stabbed was still sticking in the
wounu
Burkett Tenders Resignation
LINCOLN Neb Congressman E J
Burkett of the First Nebraska district
tendered his resignation as member
of the lower house to which he was
re elected last November He will
serve out his present term
Hoppe Defeats Schaefer
DENVER Willie Hoppe won the
800 point 18 inch balk line billiard
contest with Jake Schaefer by mak
ing 585 during the second nights
play
LABORED AMONG THE INDIANS
Abbot Felix de Grasse Dies in Okla
homa
GUTHRIE Okla Abbot Felix de
Grasse a grand nephew of the distin
guished French admiral Count de
Grasse whose fleet co operated with
Washingtons army in the revolution
ary war has died at the Benedictine
monastery of the Sacred Heart in
Pottawattamie county aged 63 years
according to advices just received
Fatherj de Grasse was born at Ba
court France For thirty years he
lived among the Pottawattamie and
Osage Indians at fhst sleeping in
their wigwams and eating at theh
camp fires He established numerous
churches and schools in Oklahoma ano
Indian territory
To Dispose Indian Affairs
WASHINGTON Senator Stewarl
on Monday introduced a bill to pro
vide for the final disposition of the
affairs of five civilized tribes in In
dian Territory Provision is made foi
establishing public highways in the
Choctaw Chickasaw and SeminoW
nation for the discontinuance oi
townsite committees for the paymenl
of all just indebtedness of the flv
civilized tribes for abolishing trlba
courts in the Choctaw Chickasaw and
Seminole nations and for the dlsposi
tion of lands remaining
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Alexander Hilton
Alexander Hilton formerly general
passenger agent of the Frisco system
and prior to that assistant general
passenger agent of the Kansas City
Fort Scott and Memphis railway now
absorbed by the Frisco has been ad
vanced to the position of passenger
traffic manager for both the Frisco
and the Eastern Illinois systems with
headquarters in St Louis Mr Hil
ton besides being a broad intellectual
HOMESTEAD BILL HEARING
Fate of Martin Measure Depends on
Working of Kinkaid Bill
WASHINGTON The successful
working out of the so called Kinkaid
bill giving homesteaders 640 acres of
land in the west section of Nebraska
will be a factor with the house com
mittee on public lands in determin
ing whether the Martin bill now be
fore it giving 640 acres in a large
section of South Dakota should be
come a law The committee has
been having hearings on this mea
sure as well as similar ones intro
duced for Montana and Colorado
Senators Gamble and Klttredge and
Congressman Burke of the South Da
kota delegation were before the com
mittee Senator Gamble made the
principal speech for the delegation
urging the pasage of the Martin bill
He stated that the lands included in
the great Sioux reservation had been
opened for settlement for fifteen
years while the Black Hills cession
had been subject of entry for twenty
four years These lands in all
amount to about 17000000 acres lit
tle of which had ever been entered
upon He contended that under the
bill the land could be taken advan
tageously and this great region set
tled and occupeid He showed that
640 acres was not disportionate as in
early days settlers had the right to
enter upon 480 acres under the home
stead timber culture and
clause the latter having since
been repealed
RUMORS OF YELLOW FEVER
Isthmian Canal Commission Wants
Official Report
WASHINGTON The isthmian ca
nal commission has cabled to Gover
nor Davis of the canal zone calling
attention to reports of the preva
lence of yellow fever on the isthmus
and asking for a report on the con
ditions No answer has yet been re
ceived owing to interruption of the
cable service The commission ac
credits the cases that already have
occurrerd to carelessness of the pa
tients in going jnto the Chinese quar
ter or into other unsanitary sections
and is anxious to secure an official
report showing the exact conditions
at this time The commission is ship
ping a large amount of medicinal sup
plies to the canal zone to aid in the
sanitation of that region
HOLDING TWO POSITIONS
Dismissal of Postmaster Pogue
of
Texas Explained
WASHINGTON Postmaster Gen
eral Wynne has advised Representa
tive Beall of Texas who recently
asked for the departments reasons
for removing Oscar Pogue as post
master at Blum Tex that Pogue has
accepted the position of president of
the association of national fourth
class postmasters at a salary of 1000
a year and that he came to Wash
ington last November and remained
several weeks during a session of
congress presumably in the interests
of the association The department
felt it clear that he had not been at
tending to his duties as postmaster
Mr Pogue remains at the head of the
fourth class postmasters organiza
tion although not himself a post
master
Dinner in Honor of Lodge
BOSTON United States Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge was the chief
speaker at a dinner given in his
honor by the Middlesex club In a
forty mintue speech Senator Lodge
declared against the supervision of
railroad rates by the interstate com
merce commission and in favor of a
special court this court to have
power only to revise rates not to fix
them He gave warning that unless
government supervision of rates was
obtained the country would see a rad
ical movement for public ownership
and well endowed gentleman Is also
widely known as a successful and mas
ter railroader respected in business
for sagacity and fairness As a pas
senger traffic man he has been widely
known and justly popular During the
late worlds fair he made a most en
viable record and is now president
of the St Louis association of general
passenger agents Mr Hilton succeeds
Bryan Snyder
GENERAL STOESSEL TALKS
Correspondent Has an Interview With
Him
LONDON The correspondent at
Nagasaki of the Express has hatf an
interesting interview with General
Stoessel in the course of which the
general says
The capitulation occurring o New
Years day was merely an incident
The loss of 203 Meter hill and ne
subsequent capture of forts combinedl
with the deadly marksmanship with1
the terrible eleven inch shells the de
pressing effect of the death of Gener
al Kondratenko and the fearful in
crease of scurvy really fixed the time
of capitulation It is quite untrue that
I dissented from the unanimous deci
sion of the final council of war Our
final urgent request for relief was
never answered
As regards parole I aistinctly dis
couraged any concerted action Every
officer decided for himself Generally
commanding officers stuck with their
men and chose imprisonment Most of
the naval officers also chose captivity
many probably being influenced by
the fear of impending court martial
The correspondent adds that con
versation with other Russian officers
reveals great bitterness against Ad
miral Alexieff for his failure to gvop
erly fortify Port Arthur and his
cowardly flight by the last traia from
the fortress
They say the torpedo boat destroy
ers that escaped before the surrender
carried all the regimental and naval
colors to Chee Foo The junior officers
denounce the incapacity and folly of
the government in entering upon the
war and declare that all the mea who
return to Russia from Port Arthnr are
revolutionists in spirit These opin
ions were openly expressed is the
presence of General Stoessel who re
marked
Let them talk they have earned
the right to think as they please by
braving untold deaths for our coun
try
CHICAGO GETTING SCARED
Because Grain is Going Abroad by
Southern Route
CHICAGO The Chronicle today
says
Diversion of grain shipments front
Omaha and Kansas City to European
ports via western lines through New
Orleans Galveston and other gulf
ports is being inquired into by the
interstate commerce commission The
commission will try to learn whether
secret rebates are responsible for the
diversion of western grain shipments
from Atlantic ports via Chicago to
the gulf ports
It is claimed that the use of the
special rate which is less than the
normal tariff has been directly re
sponsible for shipments of com
amounting to over 4000000 bashels
from Omaha and Kansas City by local
and Omaha grain shippers by way of
New Orleans instead of Chicag and
the Atlantic ports
Talks on Statehood
WASHINGTON Consideration t
the statehood bill was continued in
the senate Thursday and Mr Stone
spoke for two hours in opposition to
it The bill for the remuneration or
American fur sealers who suffered
losses because of their suppression
also was debated at some length buc
no action was taken
Deny Violation of Neutrality
ST PETERSBURG
The
govern
ment has not renewed the state of
siege in Manchurian cities at the
opening of the new yearr civil law in
such places replacing military rule
The Russian papers protest against
the imputation that General Mlstchen
kos cavalry violated Chinese neutral
ity even if of which there Is at pre
sent no evidence they crossed the
Liao river above New Chwang claim
ing that a small strip on the west
bank is distinctly reserved as incltnT
ed In the sphere of hostilities
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