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lYIcCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA Brief Telegrams j The house passed the pension ap propriation bill after a warm debate The French mint turned out 13S316 medals of honor of various kinds last year The number of California state sen ators accused of boodling has reach ed thirteen President Roosevelt received a gift of the portrait of the empress dow ager of China William II Taft will bo the orator at the Yale law school commence ment next June Colombia reopens the question of Adjusting her relations with the re public of Panama Rear Admiral G F Wilde TJ S N retired from active duty after forty three years service Colorado working men will meet en masse to hear the decision in the contest over governorship The validity or the Kansas anti trust law was upheld by the supreme court in an opinion by Justice Brewer The attempted escape of a prison er at Baku led to serious disturbances Jn the course of which several per sons were killed or injured Geo B Cortelyou former secretary of commerce and labor was a pas senger on the steamer Republic which arrived from Naples He was accom panied by Mrs Cortelyou Homer Seybold Missouri Pacific agent at Hickman Neb committed suicide by shooting himself His act followed an examination of his books by the auditor of the road According to Professor W L How ard of the horticultural department of the University of Missouri the re cent cold snap has killed almost the entire peach crop of the state The reichstag approved by a vote of 192 to 53 the first article of the reciprocity treaty between Germany and Austria and accepted the remain ing paragraphs without debate Daniel Wwyer an election officer in Thirteenth ward Pittsburg drop ped dead while being taken to jali charged with ballot box stuffing in connection with the municipal election being held in this city Vespasian Warner the new com missioner of pensions got a letter the other day which was addressed To the Honorable the New Commissioner of Pensions whose name I have for gotten Washington D C The action of the United States su preme court in declaring the Kansas anti trust law consttiutional opens the way to the prosecution of the coal trust of that state which will be commenced at once The special committee appointed to investigate bribery changes against Senators Emmons Bunkers Wright and French of the California legisla ture recommends that they be ex pelled from the senate Frank Rimieri who murdered Jaco Pinto a Brooklyn junk dealer and Adolph Koneig who strangled Mrs Mary Kauman to death at her home in New York were put to death in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison New York Representative Baker of New York created a sensation in the house by introducing a resolution denouncing the action of President Roosevelt in sending a telegram of condolence over the death of Grand Duke Ser gius to the czar Two remarkable men have just died in Indiana One was Anthony Watt of Connersville aged 82 the oldest members of the Elks in the world The other is Henry Krueger of Boone county who served in the Ger man English and American armies After consultation by cable with Governor General Wright at Manila Secretary Tft has decided to avail immediately of the provision of the Cooper bill authorizing the issue of bonds to defray the cost of public works in the Philippines and a cir cular soon will be issued inviting subscriptions The steamer Teutonic which sails from Liverpool for New York Feb 22 will have among her passengers Rider Haggard the author who has been appointed a commissioner to in quire into the conditions and char acter of the agricultural and indus trial land settlement organized in America by the Salvation Army It is understood that Miss Alice Roosevelt will accompany Secretary and Mrs Taft on their visit to the Philippines next July unless other engagements prevent It is probable that the trip will be made on the army transport Sumner and will occupy about three months allowing one month each way and one month in the islands Archie Smith is conceded to be in the lead for appointment to collector ship of northern Iowa district form erly held by J U Sammis The New York supreme court has established a state record by grant ing seventeen divorce decrees at the rate of one every twelve minutes President Harper of the Chicago university expresses himself that he will never recover from an operation for cancer which he is to undergo W D Asire has been appointed postmaster at Bitter Creek Sweet Water county Wyo vice Samuel Nihart resigned TRAFFIC OF THREE ROADS D F Daly Selected for a Highly Re sponsible Position CHICAGO Since the reorganization af the Vanderbilt roads east of Chi cago a short time ago several changes have been made in the operating de partment The most important is the promotion of Mr C F Daly from the position of Assistant General Passen ger Agent of the Lake Shore to that of Passenger Traffic manager of the Lake Shore Michigan Central and Lake Erie and Western The general passenger agents of these lines retain their positions Mr Daly came to Chicago three years ago from the Lake Erie West ern where he had been general pas senger agent His promotion to so re sponsible a position is a deserved tri bute to Mr Dalys ability as a rail road operator Some further changes in the Vanderbilt lines are expected in the near future but have not yet been announced TERMS OF PEACE They Are Said to Be Under Consider ation LONDON A dispatch to Renters Telegram company from St Peters burg confirming the Associated Press advices of February 17 and IS from St Petersburg to the effect that peace was under consideration says The question of peace has not only been formally discussed but the conditions on which Russia is prepared to make peace have practically been agreed upon These are as follows Corea to be placed under Japanese suzerainty Port Arthur and the Liaotung pen insula to be ceded to Japan The Eastern Chinese railroad to be placed under neutral international administration Manchuria as far north as Harbin to be restored as an integral part of the Chinese empire The difficulty lies in settling the question of indemnity upon which it is known that Japan insists but it is thought that this difficulty is not in superable The most trustworthy opinion at St Petersburg is that in view of the in ternal situation and the enormous difficulty in carrying on the war peace on the terms outlined will be concluded within a comparatively short time if the indemnity question can be arranged but it is quite pos sible that Russia will risk another battle before a decision is reached MOSCOW The assassin of Grand Duke Sergius maintains an attitude of profound indifference When pressed to reply to questions he declared that all the efforts of the authorities would have no result Before his victim was laid under earth he said other victims would be found Regarding his motives the assassin said he only acted in the interests of an oppressed people He considered the deed was an act of duty The grand dukes had for years violated every canon of ordinary decency and ruined the country while exploiting the weak will of the emperor for their own end DIDNT CHANGE IT A DOLLAR House Passes River and Harbor Ap propriation Bill WASHINGTON Without a dollar being added or subtracted the river and harbor appropriation bill passed the house on Thursday after the ses sion had run well into the evening The total amount carried by the bill is 17234G57 Throughout the day the progress of the bill was impeded by the offering of amendments but only those presented by the commit tee were adopted although on a point of order the house Struck out the com mittee provision giving the supervisor of harbors at New York authority to make regulations regarding the towing of vessels The most important com mittee amendment agreed to was one giving the supervisor of harbors at New York increased police power and providing for the protection of oyster beds against deposits from dredgings The military academy appropriation bill was sent to conference after agreeing to the senate amendment au thorizing the president to appoint Sen ator Joseph Hawley Conn as briga dier general on the retired list of the army and with a further provision conferring similar authority in the case of General Peter J Osterhaus TAKE OF PENSIVE GENERAL KUROPATKIN REPORTS ON MOVEMENTS A SEVERE FIGHTJS REPORTED Japanese Occupy Coveted Position at Its Close It is However Said that They Did This With Loss of Many Men ST PETERSBURG General Kuro patkin has telegraphed to the em peror under date of February 25 as follows At 5 oclock this morning the en emy occupied Tsinkhetchen Exact reports of our yesterdays losses have not yet been received There are twelve officers and about 300 men wounded in hispital at Saniunyu The percentage of killed is very large The commander of the detachment re ports acts of bravery by many detach ed bodies of troops General Kuropatkin instances many cases of close fighting and bayonet charges and concludes This morn ing a battalion of the enemy advanced in the direction of Papin pass six miles southwest of San Lunyu and this evening the enemys outposts commenced to approach the passes occupied by us 135 a m An action of no mean proportions is in progress on the Rus sian left flank The advantage thus far is on the side of the Japanese though at heavy cost From advices from the front it is difficult to say how severe the losses have been or how decisive the reverse and whether the Japanese are likely to attempt to drive in the Russian left much further General Kuropatkin evidently has been trying to establish his left flank far in ad vance to command the crossings of the Taitse river the operation being a counterpart of General Grippen bergs movement on the right flank to secure the fords of the Hun river pre paratory to the breaking up of the ice in the spring The scene of the opera tions is fifty miles southeast of Muk den beyond Da pass an important de file commanding the road to Fushun Both armies occupying apparently im pregnable positions on the centers General Kuropatkin evidently planned to inaugurate widely sweeping opera tions on both flanks but the Japanese countered hard According to a Vladivostok dispatch to the Associated Press the entrance to that harbor is open and the squad ron which is seaworthy is apparent ly taking no risks but is saving its strength for co operation with Vice Admiral Rojestvenskys squadron STATEHOOD BILL MAY FAIL Opposition in the Senate Blocks All Progress WASHINGTON Efforts to harmon ize the differences over the statehood bill continued fruitlessly in the Sen ate on Friday There seemed to be no disposition on the part of the friends of the proposition for two states to be made of four territories to accept a compromise permitting Oklahoma and the Indian territory to come in at the present session and compelling the other territories to wait When this was proposed it was insisted that the house would not agree to such an arrangement while the appointment of conferees was prevented by Senator Morgan Several other senators who opposed the house bill were ready to agree to these ap pointments but evinced opposition to the adoption of a conference report which proposes to bring into statehood the territories of Arizona and New Mexico jointly A disposition to de bate at any length the adoption of such a report would be fatal to the passage of any statehood measure at this- session CALLS RUSSIAN ELECTION Rule Made for Selecting Commission ers of Labor and Capital ST PETERSBURG Senator Shid lovski president the commission appointed by Emperor Nicholas to as certain the causes of discontent among the working classes of St Pe tersburg in a note issued Monday in vites the employers and workmen to elect representatives to sit on the commission Factory owners and con tractors employing not less than 100 persons are entitled to elect fifteen representatives of the different indus tries while the workmen of the vari ous establishments can choose elec tors who who on March 3 will elect forty five delegates to serve on the commission Each establishment em ploying 100 to 500 persons is entitled to choose one elector and those em ploying 500 to 1000 persons are en titled to an elector for each 500 em ployes Both men and women are en titled to vote but delegates must be men who have worked at least a year in their respective factories and must be freely elected by tiie workers themselves without interference on the part of the employers Naval Aopropriation Bill WASHINGTON The naval appro priation bill as agreed upon by the senate committee carries 10033GSG9 an increase of -122520 over the house bill For increasing the number of petty officers and men of the marine corps 305000 is added The limit of cost of each of the colliers and scout cruisers authorized by the last naval appropriation bill are increased to 1450000 and 2000000 respectively The limit of cost of the sailing train ing vessels authorized by the act of 1903 is increased to 410000 each 7 HERES A NEW IDEA A Convenience for Farmers Who Have Telephone Connection WASHINGTON Senator Millard is In receipt of a communication from Hon C J Garlow of Columbus Neb enclosing copy of a resolution passed by the republican county convention of Platte county The resolution de clares in favor of a proposed law to provide for the sale by the govern ment of a special postage stamp which when placed upon a letter and sent through the mails would be au thority for the postmaster at the point of destination to open the let ter and to transmit its contents by means of telephone communication to the party for whom the message may be intended It is easy to see that this is intended for the convenience of farmers residing in the country whose homes are connected with towns by telephone wires Upon inquiry Senator Millard is advised that there is no legislation pending before either house of con gress on this subject Last year Sen ator Fairbanks introduced a proposed amendment appropriating 20000 for experimental telephone delivery of special rural mail matter under the direction of the postmaster general but the amendment was not acted upon by the senate In February 1903 the senate passed a resolution asking the postmaster general to in form that body to what extent and in what manner the telephone is used in the collection and delivery of special delivery mail matter and whether in the opinion of the postmaster gen eral special rural telephone delivery of mail matter is desirable and feas ible In response to that resolution the postmaster general under date of March 10 1903 made a brief report in which he stated that the experi ment had been tried at ten important postoflices in various states These experiments seem to have been con fined to the practice of telephoning the A D T offices to dispatch boys to the postoffice to get special deliv ery letters to be carried to the ad di esses DOLLIVER FOR QUICK WORK Iowa Senator Desires Rate Regulation Law at This Session WASHINGTON The senate com mittee on interstate commerce agreed to report a resolution asking that the committee be authorized by the senate to sit during the recess of congress and take testimony for the purpose of preparing some measure for the regu lation of railroad rates A subcommit tee consisting of Senators Foraker Kean and Carmack met immediately and drafted the resolution It provides that the full committee of a quorum of the committee immediately after the adjournment of the present session of congress and thereafter at the con venience of the committee and report to the next session Senator Dolliver proceeding under a motion in a former meeting that the committee should continue the hear ing and report a bill to the present session ascertained by inquiry that the sentiment was almost wholly in favor of sitting during the summer Therefore he did not press his motion The resolutou by Senator Newlands creating a commission to frame a na tional incorporation act for railroads engaged in interstate commerce was ordered referred to the Irterstate Commerce commission witii such suggestions and modifications as it may seem advisable APPEAL MADE FOR BOWLBY Dismissed Cadet May Yet Get Into the Army WASHINGTON Congressman Hin shaw colId on he president to inter cede in behalf of Cadet C E Bowlby son of the well known Crete Neb editor and to ask that he be appoint ed as second lieutenant of the army It will bo remembered that Cadet Bowlby was dismissed from the senioi clas at the West Point military aca demy May 21 1901 for an infraction of the rules but an examination of the facts indicate that there may have been an element of personal pique in the order of dismissal The president did not indicate what his decision would be but said he would take the matter up with the secretary of war Four other cadets were dismissed on the same offense NO DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS Bards Amendment to Indian Appro priation Bill WASHINGTON The Indian appro priation bill as agreed upon by the committee on Indian affairs and re ported to the senate contains the fol lowing amendment offered by Senator Bard Cal That no portion of tne funds ap propriated by this act nor the prin cipal nor the interest of any Indian trust or tribal funds held by the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe shall be available or be expended for the support of any sec tarian or denominational school Waste of Ammunition TOKIO The headquarters of the Japanese armies in the field reports that the Russians yesterday moved a division from the front of the Jap anese center to the front of the left and advanced from Ta mountain Several columns moved fifteen miles westward halting at Hangchiataitzu which is two miles northwest of Wan chiayuantzu The Russians continued to shell portions of the Japanese lines Saturday and the Japanese frequent ly failed to respond to the bombard ment which often was ineffective ARS OF REVOLT BEGINNING OF A DANGEROUS MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA TAKE POSSESSION OF THE LUND Peasants in Southern Provinces in a Restless Attitude Belief that Czar Will Issue Manifesto Dividing It March 4th ST PETERSBURG The beginnings of a dangerous movement have been observed among the peasantry of some of the southern provinces where revolutionary agitators are circulating reports that the emperor will on March 4 issue a manifesto providing for a general division of lands A new allot ment has been the dream of the mou jiks ever since emancipation and ac cording to private reports the stories have spread like wildfire and are im plicitly believed In the government of Tula a large proprietor went to his estate last week and found the peas ants at work measuring off and stak ing their shares In response to his demands for an explanation they told him of the coming manifesto Refus ing to listen to his declaration that the report was absurd they would only say We have heard the little father has decided When the proprietor asked what would become of him they replied Oh we will leave you the buildings and forty acres Once the peasantry becomes pos sessed of the idea that the emperor has willed a division of land it will be exceedingly difficult to disabuse their minds and agrarian troubles on a large scale are feared The moujiks are likely to turn on the proprietors as they did several years ago in the pro vinces of Saratoff and Polteva when anarchy reigned for some time Among the reservists agitators arc spreading the story that the war is over A case is cited which occurred a fortnight ago at Raizain where 200 reservists who had been called in flat ly told the officer they did not intend to serve The war is over said the leader We know you simply want to make money out of a contract for feeding us We will not serve and off they marched An instance was given of reservists who actually left a rail way train after they had been started for the front Private reports also leave no room for doubt that the strikes in the whole rgion below Moscow are almost entire ly political in character The situation generally in the south of Russia is be coming worse instead of better and contains many factors which are cans ing the authorities the greatest alarm The possibility of the necessity for the dispatch of additional troops to the Caucasus is already being con sidered GRAND OPERA At the Omaha Auditorium A season of Grand Opera will be given at the Omaha Auditorium under the management of Mr Ileinrich Con ried and by his entire- company or chestra and chorus from the Metro oolitan Opera house of New York City in two performances as follows Wednesday March 29th at 5 p m Richard Wagners Parsifal in Ger man with these great artists Mmes Fremstadt Jacoby Lemon Mm Burgstaller Von Rooy Blass Goritz Muhlman conductor Mr Alfred Hertz Thursday evening March 30th at S oclock Donizettis opera Lucia dl Lammermoor in Italian Mmes Sem brich Bauermeister Mm Caruso Parvis Journet Bars Giordani Con ductor Mr Arttiro Vigna The local management calls atten tion to the fact that Omaha has been granted the lowest scale of prices of any city on this trans continental tour as below Wednesday March 29 Parsifal in German Fremstadt and Burgstaller Seats in boxes 6 Main floor first twenty rows 5 second twenty rows i last twenty rows 3 raised seats behind boxes 250 Balcony first two rows i rows 3 4 5 and C 2 rows 7 and S 2 rows 9 and 10 150 Thursday March 30 Lucia di Lam mermoor in Italian Sembrich and Caruso Seats in boxes 5 Main floor first twenty rows 4 second twenty rows 3 last twenty rows 52 raised seats behind boxes 2 Bal cony first two rows 350 rows 3 4 5 and C S250 rows 7 and S 150 rows 9 and 10 100 Special rates will be arranged on all railroads Applications for seats may now be made Mail orders accom panied by checks will be given imme diate attention Address the local manager Clement Chase 1505 How ard street Omaha Neb Prof Goodspeed Dead CHICAGO Dr George Stephen Goodspeed professor of history at the University of Chicago died of pneumonia He graduated from Drown university in 1SS0 and took his doctors degree at Yale Russian Advance Posts Driven In ST PETERSBURG Official dis patches given out bore Friday dispose i of the rumor of General Kuropatkin retirement from the Shakhe but taken in connection with the Associated Press Tsinkhotr hen dispatches show that operations of an important na ture are in progress- in the mountain region to the eastward The movement was precipitated by the Russians who last week sent out two divisions and occupied well advanced positions Se- l vere fighting is looked for in near J coming days XOULDNT LIFT TEN POUNDS Doans Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer Ma king Him Feel Twenty five Years Younger X B Corton farmer and lumber if 5s 1 muBm J 1J COUTOt man of Doppo N C says r s u ff e r e d for years with my back It was bo bad that I could not walk any distance nor even ride In easy buggy I do not believe I could havo raised ten pounds of weight from the ground the pain was so severe This was my condition when I began using Doans Kidney Pills They quickly relieved me and now I am never troubled as I was My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long distance and feel just as strong as I did twenty five years ago I think so much of Doans Kidney Pills that I have given a supply of the remedy to some of my neighbors and they have also found good results It you can sift anything from this ram bling note that will he of any service to you or to anyone suffering from kidney trouble you are at liberty to do so A TRIAL FREE Address Fostor Milburn Co Buffalo N Y For sal by all dealers Price 50 cents To the receptive soul the river or life pauseth not nor is diminished George Eliot Itilllnn Dollnr Grn When the John A Saber Seed Co o La Crosse Wis introduced this remark able grass three years ago little did they dream it would lie the mot t diced of jt aa in America the highest quick hay pro ducer on earth but tins has come to pasj miMSmss Agricultural Iditors wrote about it Agr College Pn tenors lectured about it 2v Institute Oi it irs talked about it while in the farm home by the quiet fire side in the comer grocery in the vdlan post office at the en nniery at the depot in fact wherever farmers gathered Saler Billion Dollar that marvelous grr good for 5 to 1 1 tons hay per acre nut lots of pasture besides is always a thuuo worthy of the farmers voice Then comes Bnmius Inennis than winch there is no better grass or Iietter perma nent hay producer on earth Grows wher ever soil is found ThMi the farmer talk about Salers Teoiinte vhsch produces 100 stocks from one kinel of seed 11 lf high in 100 daw rich in nutrition niil greedily aten by cattle hogs ete and is good for 80 tons of green food per aere Victoria Rme the luxuriant food for hcs and shetp wliith can be grown it 25c a ton and Speltz at 2Jc a hu both great food for sheep hogs and cattle also come in for their share m the discussion JUST SEND 10C IN STAWS and this notice to John A Pilzer Sevl Co La Crose Wis for their big catalog and many farm seed samples W N LJ We are too apt to throw bouquets at the dead and mud at the living State or Onto Citt or Toledo Iirs CorsTt f Fbank J Cijeaft make oath that be la jenlor partner of tlie lirm of K J UEiev Co i lmsiuess In tlic City of Toledo Cowry awl SUo cforeaaM and that -aid firm wllpv lb -urn f ONE IIME1 DOLLAUS fr ea h and ew 7 cae of Iatahkii that cannot be cured by tbe ute of Halls Caiaubh Cuei FRANK A CIIEXtV Sworn to before me and miM itxd t my pres ence thisGtb day of December I - A W O Lfc ASOS i 1 f Xota t Prawr nallB Catarrh Core Is tafcMi Irterrally and directly on the blmd and niwoua biiriaceit of mo lystetn Send for teslnionUN frre F 1 Y CO Toledo O Sold by all DrnjrNt TV- Tcke Halls Famlty fills forcondtlpetm Honesty is the best policy providci you keep your premiums paid up Every housekeeper should 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