6 McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK N UBaSBBBBB NEBRASKA News in Brief Stock losses in Keith county Neb during the recent cold snap were very sraall Ranchmen say this is the hard est winter ever experienced in tho locality According to -the correspondent at Shainghai of the Daily Telegraph General Kuropatkin apparently is changing his base from Mukden to Fushun A conductor on the Louisville and Nashville railroad testifying before tho senate In the impeachment pro ceedings says Judge Swayne traveled on a pass Minister Thompson has cabled the state department from Petropolis Brazil that the decree establishing martial law has been extended for thirty days Francis Kossuth son of the famous revolutionist and head of powerful Hungarian independence party cusses the political situation with Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Senator Bacon introduced resolu tions asking for an inquiry into the nations rights in San Domingo and the relations between the senate and president are forced nearer to the breaking point Governor La Follette ordered Sher iff Simpson to stop the fight between Thomas Mowatt and Edward Hanlon at Oshkosh and the contest was pre vented A large audience had gather ed to see the fight On the petition of creditors a re ceiver was appointed by the federal court for the A Haas Sons Pants company of St Louis The liabilities of the firm are placed at 95000 and the assets at 00000 The president has approved the sen tence of dismissal from the service of Captain David BMulliken Twenty seventh infantry who was recently tried at Fort Sheridan 111 for dupli cation of pay accounts Representatives Hearst and Sulli van of Massachusetts both democrats bare their political hatred in the house in such a manner that the other members protest and the speak er cuts short the debate The navy department has decided to forego the usual winter maneuvers of the combined fleets in the Caribbean this year in order to allow the ships companies to perfect themselves in the use of the signal code Amedee Jouillin a prominent artist of San Francisco has been made an officer of public instruction in the French republic and honored with a decoration from J Chaumie minister of instructions and fine arts The house committee on claims au thorized a favorable report on a bill to pay William Radcliffe a British sub ject 25000 in settlement for his fish hatchery in Delta county Colorado which was destroyed by a mob The man who annoyed Miss Helen Gould with proposals of marriage was arrested in New York City He is believed to be a maniac and had pa pers claiming 5000000000 for covering a mountain United States Senator Mitchell Congressmen John N Williamson and Binger Hermann and others again are indicted by the federal grand jury in Portland Oregon on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of land The London Daily Mail publishes a story to the effect that a Russian non commissioned officer has confessed that he was bribed to put a loaded shell in a saluting gun on the occasion of the blessing of the waters of the Neva President Roosevelt in an address at a Lincoln banquet in New York declares the square deal to be the key to the solution of the race prob lem and says all good citizens should work together for the moral and in dustrial uplifting of the negro s Colonel William S Patton Major Carl Devol and George P Whitte all of the quartermasters department have been ordered to meet at San Francisco to investigate and report upon an alleged shortage of funds for which Captain Lafitte is accountable The house committee on military affairs has ordered a favorable report on Representative Kinkaids bill grant ing Charles H Cornell the right to erect a dam across the Niobrara river on the Fort Niobrara military reser vation Representative Townsend author of the Townsend rate bill after a con ference with the president expressed the belief that a fair prospect existed to get the bill reported from the sen ate committee on interstate com merce The senate has passed the joint re solution of Senator Gamble providing lor the donation of condemned cannon to the University of South Dakota to be placed on the campus of the uni versity to commemorate the vaior of those who fell in the service of their country during the Spanish Americari war An order was issued by the United States court of appeals at St Louis commanding Ira C Young convicted of using the mails with intent to de fraud to surrender to the United States marshal by February 18 tc begin his term of eighteen months In the Missouri penitentiary IEAUT1FUL 1M HOW THEY MAINTAIN THE 0HAEMS OF THEIE SEX TIio Importnnco thnt Attache to tho Cnro of tho IHood If One Wants Bright Eyes and a Clear Complexion Every sensible woman naturally wishes to appear attractive She knows the value of bright eyes delicate complexion and lively spirits She knows also that good health is at the basis of her charms and that good blood is the source of good health Miss Mamie Conway has a complexion which is the admiration of all who know her Asked if she could mako any sug gestions that would be helpful to others less fortunate she said My complexion would not have pleased you if you had seen it two years ago It was then about as bad as it could be and it gave me a great deal of dissatisfaction If yon want a good complexion 3ou must take care of your health especially of the condition of your blood My health was at that time completely broken down I was nervous had frequent headaches a torpid liver and a great deal of pain in that region I suffered also from indigestion It was clear that my blood was in bad condition for pimples broke out all over my face It is hard to realize that for there isnt the slightest trace of such blem ishes now It was unfortunately quite other wise then and along time passed before I found anything that gave me any re lief I became very weak and listless Tho doctors medicine did mo no good and I took a number of highly recom mended tonics with no better result As soon however as I began to tise Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People my complexion cleared up and after I had taken two boxes there was not a sign of a pimple left on my face My cheeks became rosy I gained flesh aJd have had perfect health ever since Rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes are merely signs of healthy blood They have come not only in the case of Miss Conway whose home is at 1241 East Eighth street Canton Ohio but to thousands of women for whom Dr Williams Pink Pills have made new blood There is no surer way for you to obtain them than to buy a box of these pills from any drug gist and try them for yourself They cor rect irregularities and banish weakness Children Sodden With Liquor The cantonal school board of Ticino in Switzerland complains in a circu lar to parents that owing to children being allowed at home to partake too freely of the strong native liquor boys and girls often go to school in a hope lessly intoxicated condition First Use of Piano There are 10700 pieces of wood cloth and felt and 1185 feet of wire in a concert grand piano The earliest recorded public performance on the piano forte took place at Covent Gar den England on May ICth 1767 Made III by Unfiltered Water After a club dinner at a hotel in Stockholm says the Frandfurter Zei tung several hundred persons fell ill of typhoid due to unfiltered river water being used for washing the vegetables Canada an Anglers Paradise Canada is the paradise of the angler Within easy range of Quebec are hun dreds of lakes sometimes mile in ex tent which swarm with fish and near ly all of which are free to all comers Great Britains Herring Fisheries The quantity of herrings landed on the coasts of the United Kingdom is equal to that of all other fish THE NEIGHBORS ALL USE THEM NOW Quick Cure of Rheumatism by Dodds Kidney Pills Hor They Saved the Shop of a Kansas Blacksmith Cure was Permanent too Goodland Kan Feb 20th Spe cial So quick and complete Avas the cure of N E Albertson a local black smith that it almost seems like a miracle He had Rheumatism so bad he feared he would have to give up his shop One box of Dodds Kidney jriiis arove away au uie pains anu they have never returned Speaking of his cure Mr Albertson says I had Rheumatism in my shoulders and arms for years Part of the time it was so bad I could not sleep at night My arm hurt so that it seem ed I would have to give up my black smith shop I went to the drug store and bought one box of Dodds Kidney Pills and took them I have not had the Rheumatism since A great many of the neighbors are- using Dodds Kid ney Pills since they saw how they cured me Lamest Deposits of Nickel The largest deposits of nickel are on the island of New Caledonia a French possession in the South Pacific SALT RHEUM ON HANDS Suffered Agony and Had to Wear Bandages Ail the Time Another Cure by Cuticura Another cure by Cuticura is told of by Mrs Caroline Cable of Waupaca Wis in the following grateful let ter My husband suffered agony salt rheum on his hands and I had to keep them bandaged all the time We tried everything we could get but nothing helped him until he used Cuti cura One set of Cuticura Soap Oint ment and Pills cured him entirely and his hands have been as smooth as possible ever since I do hope this letter will be the means of helping some other sufferer Braggards are always laggards GALLS A COUNCIL CZARS ADVISERS WILL CONSID ER THE SITUATION UHBESTIHTHE RUSSIAN EMPIRE Oppression Like the Shadow of Doom Hanging Over the Capital Every one Seems to Shrink From What May Next Happen ST PETERSBURG An extra ordinary sitting of the council of the empire has been summoned to con sider the situation resulting from the assassination of Grand Duke Sergius Tho emperor of Russia by a ukase issued Saturday restored to favor in the imperial family the Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch who some years ago was degraded of rank and honors because in opposition to the will of the emperor and the wishes of the imperial family he contracted a mor ganatic marriage with Madame Olga Pistolkoos In accordance with the de cree Grand Duke Paul is reinvested with his title and military standing and as general aide-de-camp to his majesty will attend the funeral of Grand Duke Sergius his brother The body of the Grand Duke Ser gius lies in the Choudoff monastery at Moscow where an honory guard keeps vigil and priests intone prayers for the repose of his soul That unrest is yet prevalent within the empire is evidenced by the fact that a district official at Igdyr was assassinated by Armenians for poli tical reasons yesterday and that at Vagarshapad the mayor was shot and killed whije at Kichinef an attack was made by an unknown man on the prefect of police of that city Oppression like the shadow of doom seems io be hanging over the Russian capital Bells are tolling and the people in the streets are awe struck at yesterdays bloody crime Everyone seems to shrink beforo the contemplation of what may happen next The tragedy struck deep in the heart of the perplexed and tried em peror and many who were unsparing in their criticism yesterday have only expressions of sympathy for his unhappy lot The bitter cup which during the last year has been pressed again and again to his lips is once more filled to the brim and in almost pathetic words this morning he im plores his subjects to pray for the repose of the soul of his murdered uncle Death is in the air and no one knows where the next blow may fall although precautions have been doubled in every direction for the preservation of the lives of the mem bers of the imperial family and the ministers and secret police are seek ing out and arresting those known to be associated with the fighting or ganizations The authorities realize their impotency to ward off the swift acts of terrorism murder in the streets being possible at any inslant The only safety seems to lie in seek ing safety behind palace walls and all the imperial family have been warned not to venture out SAYS STOESSEL IS A COWARD Naval Lieutenant Denounces the General VICTORIA B C Aboard the steamer Tartar whch arrived here were Lieutenants Below and Bondy officers of the Russian cruiser Sevas topol captured at the fall of Port Arthur They were released by the Japanese after giving their parole The captain of the Sevastopol and a number of other prisoners recently released are expected to reach San Francisco shortly Lieutenant Below charaetei izes General Stoessel as a coward The world will know Stoessel as he is said Below He is a coward Stoessel was burrowed a great deal of the time in a cave The real heroine was Mme Zouhonell who when her hus band was killed took command of a battery of three eleven inch guns at a- point commanding the water sup ply and held them until she was also killed The garrison was deceived by false reports of the approach of Kuro patkins army and the Baltic fleet METCALF ASKS FOR FUNDS Needs Money to Prosecute Standard Oil Inquiry WASHINGTON Funds with which to prosecute the inquiry into the methods of the Standard Oil company in Kansas were asked of the house hy Secretary Metcalf of the depart ment of commerce and labor In his communication the secretary says that this inquiry cannot be completed before July 1 His suggestion is that the unexpended balance of an item of 146000 and another of 15000 carried in the current legislative executive and judicial appropriation act be made available for this as well as all other wdrk of the investigation which his department is prosecuting These items were appropriated to carry on the beef trust and other inquiries EMPEROR IS PROSTRATED And All Festivities in Prince Leo polds Honor Canceled ST PETERSBURG The news of the assassination of the grand duke reached Tsarskoe Selo while the im perial family was entertaining Erince Frederick Leopold of Prussia It created the greatest consternation The emperor is reported to have been completely prostrated All festivities in honor of the Prussian guest were at once abandoned JAPS DEPLORE THE CRIME But Express Sympathy for the People of Russia TOKIO Commenting on the assas sination of Grand Duke Sergius at Moscow the Jiji Shimpo expresses high handed manner of the Russian government in repressing the recent labor demonstrations The paper says that oppressive measures against ex pression of national wishes invite such outrages from the oppressed The war in the far east resulted from the aggressive action of the Rus sian government with which the Rus sian people have little sympathy tho Jiji Shimpo adds In one sense Japan is waging a war against the Russian nation arising from oppres sion by the autocracy but Japan is fighting the government and not tho people of Russia The paper predicts a better under standing with increased sympathy be tween the two peoples after the war has ended and after again lementing the crime which resulted in the death of Grand Duke Sergius expresses the hope that it will be fruitful of good re sults Other newspapers comment in a similar strain on the assassination of the grand duke SHORTAGE IN CASH ACCOUNT Army Officer to Be Investigated at Hs Ow Reauest SAN FRANCISCO Orders have been issued from the war department appointing a board to investigate and report on an alleged shortage of the accounts of Cant Jacques de ILafitte quartermaster of the transport Lo gan now in this port This board it is stated by Captain lLafittes friends is appointed at his own re quest as he is held responsible for the funds and he asserts that there is a shortage in funds which were be yond his control It is necessary that the quartermaster of each transport take 5000 or G00O in his safe on each trip as all payments of em ployes must be made in specie On the return trip from Manila Captain ILafitte was ill and confined to his bed most of the way across While he was ill the money was in the charge of subordinates and the in vestigation demanded is to fix tho re sponsibility if possible for the al leged shortage SIGN PARCELS POST TREATY Agreement Entered Into With Great Britain WASHINGTON A parcels post treaty between this government and Great Britain has been signed by President Roosevelt Secretary Hay and Postmaster General Wynne It has already been signed by tfee Brit ish officials and will take effect The final conclusion of the British treaty is a source of considerable gratification to officials here and a substantial increase in the volume of postal business is expected to follow The movement for a parcels post ar rangement between the two countries began many years ago The treaty follows the general provisions of existing parcels post treaties with other governments A parcels post treaty with France is expected to be concluded shortly POUNDING RUSSIAN CENTER Japanese Continue Active Against the Enemy MUKDEN The Japanese fired Tuesday and Wednesday on Poutiloff hill with eight inch guns carrying 250 pound projectiles indicating that they are siege guns used at Port Ar thur and the first to be mounted in position before the Russian lines be low Mukden A new situation therefore con fronts the Russian center and the general situation appears to have been rendered more uncertain and complicated by the battle of Sandepas and the arrival of open weather in dicating an early spring At some parts of the lines there is unusual familiarity Russian and Jap anese officers in parties entertain each other At Sinchinpu the Japa nese cheer the Russian band LOOKS LIKE EXTRA SESSION There Must Be Legislation on the Rate Question WASHINGTON D C Representa tive Townsend of Michigan one or the authors of the Esch Townsend freight rate bill had a talk with the president regarding the prospects for the enactment of the measure into law Mr Townsend who has canvassed the situation pretty thoroughly ex pressed the opinion that there was a chance for the passage of the bill by the senate at the present session After his talk with the president Mr Townsend said that in the event no legislation on the rate question was enacted at this session an extra ordinary session of congress would be called by President Roosevelt for next autumn perhaps in October Great Fire in Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS For four hours Sunday night the wholesale district bounded by Georgia and Meridian streets and Jackson Place and the Un ion depot sheds was menaced by a fire which started in the wholesale warerooms of the Rahnley McCrea Millinery company At 930 oclock three general alarms brought into ac tion every department in the city and suburbs When the fire Avas brought under control the loss was estimated to be not less than 1500000 One fireman was hurt by falling walls AD BLOWN OFF j si bomb beneath the carriage UVV JUIUA Lilt CVrfl 1l Ulli 1UULUU1W LU illU UNCLE OF CZAR ASSASSINATED WHILE DRIVING Vehicle is Blown to Pieces by Force of the Explosion The Assassin a member of the Noted Fighting Group Under Arrest MOSCOW Within the walls of the far famed Kremlin palace and almost underneath the historic tower from which Ivan the Terrible watched the heads of his enemies falling beneath the axe on the Red square and within a stones throw of the great bell of Moscow Grand Duke Serguis uncle and brother-in-law of Emperor Nicho las and the chief of the reactionaries met a terrible death shortly before 3 oclock The deed was committed by a single terrorist who threw beneath the carriage of the grand duke a bomb charged with the same high power explosive which wrought Min ister von Plehves death The missile was packed with nails and fragments of iron and its explosion tore the im perial victims body to ghastly frag ments which strewed the snow for yards around The assassin belongs to the noted fighting group of the socialist re volutionary party which has removed other prominent officials and long since passed sentence of death upon Grand Duke Sergius The grand duke knew that he stood in the shadow of death He was the recipient of numerous warnings and elaborate preparations were taken to insure his safety but all the re sources of the gendarmerie secret po lice and soldiers proved unavailing against an attempt almost exactly duplicating the procedure that caused the death of Minister of the Interior von Plehve last July It was the irony of fate that Sergius after taking re fuge in his country villa during the strike troubles of a month ago and later seeking even more secure -shelter in the palace within the Kremlin walls should be killed while proceed ing to the governor generals palace beyond the walls and which he had abandoned to enable the police to better protect him Grand Duchess Elizabeth who was daily engaged in preparing comforts for the sick and wounded in Man churia was about to drive to the palace to join her husband When she heard of what had befallen the grand duke she was driven in haste to the scene of the tragedy and knelt hat less and coatless on the bloodstained snow and murmured prayers for the welfare of her slain consort The scene of the crime was the great open triangle within the Krem lin bounded by the arsenal treasury and courts of justice in one angle of which is the Nicholas or little palace where the grand duke dwelt On the snow lay fragments of the body of Grand Duke Sergius mingled with the wreck of the carriage The grand dukes head had been torn from his body and reduced to a shapeless pulp and tne trunk and limbs were fright fully mangled A finger bearing a rich seal ring was found lying several yards away The crimson tint and smell of blood were everywhere Only a few fragments of cloth indicated that the body had been clothed The coachman lay moaning with pain be side a deep hole in the pavement The horses dragging the front wheels of the carriage had dashed off madden ed witn pain to sink dying before they reached the gate LONG MARKED FOR DEATH And Grand Duke Had Lately Acted Like a Hunted Man PARIS Tho Grand Duke Sergius uncle of the Russian emperor and for merly governor general of Moscow is understood to have been condemned to death by the revolutionary party in December last The governor generalship of Mos cow was abolished early in the vear and the grand duke according to dis patches from Moscow January 4 kept closely to the well guarded Nickouski palace on the outskirts of Moscow retaining his position of commander-in-chief of the military district Later in January however it was announced that the grand duke had sought refuge in one of the palaces of the Kremlin He has been classed as the most reactionary member of the imperial family as the head of which he has been stigmatized by the liber als as Russias evil genius Grand Duke Sergius was born in 1857 and was married in 1S84 to Princess Elizabeth of They have no children Prof Goodspeed Dead CHICAGO Dr George Stephen Goodspeed professor of history at the University of Chicago died of pneumonia He graduated from Brown university in 1SS0 and took his doctors degree at Yale President Wants Big Navy WASHINGTON Several members of both the senate and house of repre sentatives Friday discussed with the president the pending naval appro priation bill The president told all his callers that he hoped congress would provide in the bill for three battleships instead of two as the measure now stands saying he thought it unfortunate not to carry out the program for the building up of a new navy and that retrenchments might be better made on other depart ments than on the naval TORTURING PAIN Half This Mans Sufferings Would Have Killed Many a Person but Doans Cured Him A C Sprague stock dealer of Nor mal 111 writes For two whole years I was doing nothing but buying medi i SL iSKJ cines to euro my kidneys I do not think that any man ever suffered as I did and lived The pain in my back was so bad that I could not sleep at night I could a c sprague not riue a norse and sometimes was unable even to ride In a car My condition was critical when I sent for Doans Kidney Pills I used three boxes and they cured me Now I can go anywhere and do as much as anybody I sleep well and feel no discomfort at all A TRIAL FREE Address Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y For salt by all dealers Price 50 cts A man likes to feel that his ways are free from selfish motives Million In Onti Salzers New National Oats yielded in Mich 240 bu in Mo 255 bu in N D 310 bu and in 30 other states from 150 to 300 bu per acre Now this Oat if gen erally grown in 1905 will add millions of bushels to the yield and millions of dol lars to the farmers purse rawTOi Homebuilder Yellow Dent Corn grows like a weed and yields from 157 to 2G0 bushels and more per acre Its the big gest yielder on earth Salzers Speltz Beardless Barley Maca roni Wheat Pea Oat Billion Dollar Grass and Earliest Cane are money makers for you Mr Farmer JUST SEND TIIIS NOTICE ANU 10c in stamps to John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis and receive their bfe catalog and lots of farm seed samples JW N U Use of Astbestos Increasing The use of asbestos by electricians is daily increasing for it meets the most exacting requirements for pur poses of insulation Its latest applica tion is to the electrotherm the new device which is already talking the place of hot water bottles in hospitals and sick rooms Fancy Prices for Relics For a love letter written by Robert Burns the Scottish poet 50 was paid not long ago Yet a brass collar which was worn by Boatswain the dog to whose memory Lord Byron erected a monument at Newstead abbey fetched 21 guineas while the collar of Thun derer another of Lord Byrons dogs realized 4 guineas only Boyish Indiscretion A Pittsburg boy who left home to oose as a man Avas discovered wear ing trousers much too large for him rhis was easy for the police If he nad been a real man he would have worn trousers entirely too tight for aim such as so many fashion plates oist on buyers Buffalo Express Lives of Different Meaning It is noble to be alive to the little less of earth but it is nobler to be come impressed with its greatness to he animal life it is only a picture ground to ordinary men it is the com monplace world but to him who lives ibove it it becomes a shining moon Trade Guilds in Canton Canton boasts of over seventy trades guilds The guilds have fine halls md spacious courtyards where their nembers meet daily and discuss the iffairs of their respective trades and jther matters READS THE BOOK The Road to Wellville Pointed the Way Down at Hot Springs Ark the vis itors have all sorts of complaints but it is a subject of remark that the great majority of them have some trouble with stomach and bowels This may be partly attributed to the heavy med icines Naturally under the conditions the question of food is very prominent A young man states that he had suf fered for nine years from stomach and bowel trouble had two operations which did not cure and was at last threatened with appendicitis He went to Hot Springs for rheu matism and his stomach trouble got worse One day at breakfast the waiter knowing his condition sug gested he try Grape Nuts and cream which he did and found the food agreed with him perfectly After the second day he began to sleep peacefully at night different than he had tor years The perfect di gestion of the food quieted his nerv ous system and made sleep possible He says The next morning I was astonished to find my condition of con stipation had disappeared I could not believe it true after suffering for so many years then I took more interest in the food read the little book The Road to Wellville and started follow ing the simple directions I have met with such results that in the last five weeks I have gained eight pounds in spite of hot baths Which take away the flesh from any one A friend of mine has bees entirely cured of a bad case of indigestion aud stomach trouble by using Grape Nuts Food and cream alone for breakfast There is one thing in particular I have noticed a great change in mv mental condition Formerly I could hardly remember anything and now the mind seems unusually acute and retentive I can memorize practicallv anything I desire Name given by Postum Co Battle Creek Mich it S L - 1 HTM I J it- t i Ei rwy i M k 7 I r t itf ii u r t m i i r V i hi VI I i I f t fi