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McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA iefl News in The next annual convention oMhe Travelers Protective association will be held In Buffalo N Y W R John son of Tennesree was elected presi dent Important resolutions including one looking to the immediate expulsion of members convicted of crime were in troduced at the session of the Royal Arcanum An effort to bring about the remov al of the national headquarters of the Switchmens Union of North America from Buffalo to Omaha failed at the convention Edward Doyle the blind poet of New York has just issued his third boolc of poems He is 50 years old and has been sightless for thirty-seven years old Within two weeks the actual work of construction of the McKinley mon ument for which the people of the nation have given about 50tT000 will be commenced King Edward has appointed King Alfonso of Spain a general in the British army The appointment dates from May 17 the birthday of the Spanish king Baron Burien Austrian minister of finance started for Budapest as a royal delegate for the renewed nego tiation with the united opposition par ties of Hungary At Newark Mrs Margaret C Orr and her two grandchildren Margaret Smith aged xl and Annie Smith aged 9 were asphyxiated by illumin ating gas in their home The Minnesota census bureau has ruled that its enumerators need not try to compel women to tell their ages Nor it might have added to try to square the circle Christiania marchioness of Water ford mother of Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford is dead in London She was a daughter of the late Colo nel Charles Powell Leslie M P Earl Gray the governor general of Canada accompanied by Sir Freder isk Borden the Canadian minister of militia is visiting the United States military academy at West Point Baron Alphonse Rothschild who has been suffering from bronchitis and whose illness has caused some de pression on the bourse in the securi ties held by the Rothschild house s reported to be improving For the first time in the history of Coney Island a censorship has been established over the exhibition of freaks and amusements there An employe of the Brooklyn license bu reau will exercise this function A link with the most brilliant pe riod of the second French empire has been removed by the death in Paris of the Vicomtesse DAquado at the age of 88 She was a lady in waiting at the court of Empress Eugenie A dispatch from Chihuahua Mex ico says it is more than probable that Enrique Creel governor of that state will be named as an ambassa dor to the United States from Mex ico succeeding the late Ambassador Aspiroz Representatives of the Chicago street railway companies declared their willingness to sell their traction properties to the municipalities The value to be placed upon the lines and the terms of sale were made matters for future consideration Joseph Jeffersons birthplace has been sold at auction for 8125 It is a three and a half story stone build ing at the southwest corner of Sixth and Spruce streets Philadelphia Some years ago a plan was formed to purchase the property and hold it as a Jefferson museum but the idea was dropped The Pacific coast record for long dis tance wireless telegraphing has been broken it is Claimed by a wireless message received from 315 miles out at sea The communication came from the government transport Sol ace which left San Francisco Mon day and was received over the mag netic detector Secretary Hitchcock has been noti fied by a development company that it has dropped the name of Governor Grady from its directorate This ac tion was taken because of the secre tarys notification to the governor that unless he retired from the com pany it would be necessary to relieve him from his office The San Francisco Examiner says A new 50000000 blanket mortgage is about to be issued by ihe Western Pacific railroad in place of an old one for that amount which has been canceled at the request of the bank ers who are to take the bonds there by incurred It is further said that these bonds have been disposed of at 90 cents on the dollar Baron Rosen says he will be glad to represent Russia at Washington The Cleveland Electric Railroad company has turned down Mayor Johnsons plan to turn over the street railroads to a holding company which was to issue bonds in payment for the properties The Danish bark Bertha from Rio Grande for New York went ashore The Spanish government has grant ed new credits amounting to 46000 for the relief of the distress in the province of Seville having the drouth The newspapers state that famine threatens Seville WORTH REMEMBERING There are three entirely different kinds of ingredients used in making the three different varieties of baking powders on the market viz 1 Mineral-Acid or Alum 2 Bone Acid or Phosphate and 3 Cream of Tartar made from grapes It is important from the standpoint of health to know something about these ingredi ents and which kind is used in your baking powder Mineral Acid or Alum Is made from a kind of clay This is mixed with diluted oil of vitriol and from this solution a product is obtained which is alum Alum is cheap costs about two cents a pound and baking powder made with this Mineral Acid sells from 10 to 25c a pound 2 Bone Acid or Phosphate is the basis of phosphate baking powders and the process is fully described in the patents issued to a large manufac turer of a phosphate powder The U S Patent Office Report gives a full and exact description but the follow ing extract is enough Burned bones after being ground are put into freshly diluted oil of vit riol and with continual stirring and In the following proportion etc From this Bone Acid phosphate bak ing powders are made such powders sell from 20 to 30 cents a pound 3 Cream of Tartar exists in all ripe grapes and flows with the juice from the press in the manufacture of wine After the wine is drawn off the tartar Is scraped fjom the cask boil ed with water and crystals of Cream of Tartar white and very pure sepa rate and are collected It differs in no respect from the form in which it originally existed in the grape Cream of Tartar then while the most expen sive is the only ingredient that should be used in a baking powder to act upon the soda as its wholesome ness is beyond question Cream of Tartar baking powders sell at about 40 to 50 cents a pound Such are the facts and every one careful of the health of the family should remember this rule Baking powders selling from 10 to 25 cents a pound are made of Mineral Acids those selling from 20 to 30 cents of Bone Acid and those from 40 to 50 cents of Cream of Tartar made from grapes DEPLORABLE POINTS Dont judge cigars and women by their wrappers Dont try to kill two birds with one stone Use a shotgun Dont run into debt as long as you can find a stone wall to run into Dont judge a man by things his next door neighbors say about him Dont sit with your back to a sight draft it may get too warm for you Dont request your- grocer to sup ply you with butter of the first rank Dont punish children by striking them on the head There are other places Dont waste your time disputing fig ures They seldom lie except in gas meters Dont think because life is short that one set of good resolutions will last a lifetime Dont forget that the money you intend to save is not drawing inter est at the present writing Dont worry about trifles Remem ber the hole that lets the water in your shoe will let it out again Dont imagine that every sad eyed woman you meet has loved and lost Its more than likely she loved and got him Dont censure a society woman for enterng the theater a little late She probably had to wash the dinner dishes before she started DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY Necessity knows a lot of lawyers Some men are born cynics and oth ers live in boarding houses It is always harder to patch up a quarrel than to make a new one Conscience is a still small voice that tells us when we are found out The only spilled- milk worth crying over is the milk of human kindness We are never too old to learn but lots of us are too young to realize it The trouble with tombstone inscrip tions is that they come too late to flatter us I know a man who occasionally -in a fit of absent mindedness tells the truth but he always tries to lie out of it afterward Sexes in Mutual Die trust The sexes just now take up towards each other an attitude of mutual dis trust we women dont trust men fur ther than we can see them nor they us It is all very bad and very sad and no one knows whp is to blame Exchange BABY CAME NEAR DYING From an Awful Skin Humor Scratched Till Blood Ran Wasted- to a Skeleton Speedily Cured by Cuticura When three months old my boy broke out with an itching watery rash all over his body and he would scratch till the blood ran We tried nearly everything but he grew worse wasting to a skeleton and we feared he would die He slept only when In our arms The first application of Cuticura socthed him so that he slept in his cradle for the first time In many weeks One set of Cuticura made a complete and permanent cure Sgned Mrs M C Maitland Jasper Ontario Cleanliness is said to be next to godliness yet one seldom sees a laun dry next door to a church I THE NEWS AS TO STOCKMENS PASSES The Court Adheres to Its Former Judgment The supreme court has adhered to Its former judgment in the case of the C B Q R R company against David C Troyer error from Hamilton county Judge Barnes dissenting Troyer while traveling on a stock shippers pass sustained personal in juries In the lower court judgment was given against the railroad The supreme court holds that under the evidence the question of the alleged negligence of the company was a mat ter for the court to determine and the evidence is sufficient to warrant a finding that the defendant company was guilty of actionable negligence which was the approximate cause of the injury complained of The court says that it cannot be said as a mat ter of law that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence so as to preclude a recovery The court holds that a person while traveling on a freight train on a stock shippers pass for the purpose of attending to the live stock being shipped sustains the relation of the carrier of passenger but in a restricted modified sense Such a person while so traveling as sumes such risks and inconveniences as necessarily attend upon caring for such stock and such as are incident to the means and methods employed by the company in the operation of its freight trains Judge Barnes dissenting says that the plaintiffs right to recover depend upon actionable negligence upon the part of the company and as he reads the record finds no such negligence is shown The plaintiff was walking in order to reach the caboose at the end of a freight train and was struck by a switch engine on an adjacent track Judge Barnes says the fact was clear ly established that the space between the railroad tracks where the plaintiff was walking was wide enough for his safe passage if he had exercised or dinary care BAKER MUST HANG Little Hope Remains for Man Con victed of a Double Murder LINCOLN The supreme court has overruled the motion for a rehearing filed by the attorneys for Frank Bar ker the Webster county double mur derer The forty day limit in which the motion could have been filed ex pired Tuesday Counsel for Barker submitted an application for leave to file a motion for rehearing The court allowed the application to be filed but overruled it as intending to delav the carrying out of the former decision Since being confined in an isolated cell Barker has become gloomy and is a trifle despondent June 16 is the date of the execution and the hanging will take place between the hours of 11 a m and 3 p m MAN AND WOMAN HAVE GONE Frank Hanscom and Mrs Ortman Create a Scandal BEATRICE Sheriff Trude and his deputies are scouring the country for Frank Hanscom and Mrs Etta Ort man who it is alleged have eloped Both are married and have families re siding north of this city Mrs Ortman came to the city and soon after Han scom arrived Neither returned home and no trace could be found of them The sheriff is sending out cards and offering a reward for their arrest This is the same couple that scandalized the neighborhood in a similar man ner about a year ago when they dis appeared finally coming back and re suming relations with their families Big Cattle Shipment STANTON A special train load of fat cattle consisting of twenty six cars owned by Louis Smithberger Ed Zilmer and Horton Chace left here for the Chicago market Given Three Year Sentence AINSWORTH Harvey Beloit pleaded guilty to grand larceny in district court and was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years Be loit is the party who several weeks ago entered the residence of Rev Mr Tainter at Long Pine and pur loined therefrom clothing and 27 in cash Large Catalpa Grove AUBURN Wallrich Ubben of this city has been highly complimented by the bureau of forestry department of the national government Last week he received a communication from Frank G Miller first assistant Wash ington asking for information con cerning the catalpa grove on Mr Ub bens farm south of town This is one of the largest artificial groves in the country and last year was inspect ed by a corps of government officials who measured the trees and collected information concerning their growth Gift to Doane College CRETE Doanes students and fac ulty members are rejoicing over the receipt of a 10000 gift to the college Public announcement of the gift of that sum by James Whitcomb of Wor cester Mass was made during the progress of the bnnl concert on the campus and was received with cheers college yells and a general jubilation The gift came as a result of the solic itation of President Perry who is at present in the east It is to be used in the erection and equipment of the mnsio conservatory IN NEBRASKA STATE NOTES A franchise has been granted at York for a gas plant Another new rural mail route has been started out from Palmyra A girls and boys club is to be or ganized at Glenover Gage county The deputy county clerk of Colfax had his collarbone broken by a horse of both feet The democrats of the First con gressional district will meet in Lin coln June 15 Mrs Mary Vincent of York died in Denver where she had been for about two months hoping to benefit her health William Neal a laborer at the Peru brickyard got his left hand in the rolls and lost the first two fingers The wound was dressed by Drs Fair child and Shelhorn The Commercial club of York is busy just now to secure attractions for a Chautauqua There seems to be a strong sentiment among the peo ple to hold one this summer Granville Smith of Beatrice has in stituted suit in the district court for damages in the sum of 5000 against Louis Walther a merchant of Wy more for false imprisonment The efforts of the respectable ele ment of Homer to rid themselves of the disgrace incident to drunken In dians and squaws has resulted in no saloon license being issued in that place for the cominir year Though the law is not operative for this year the Grand Island base ball club has decided not to have a game of ball on Memorial day it interfering with the hours during which memo rial services will be held at the opera house Members of the Southeastern Fruit Growers association are contemplat ing a big crop of small fruit The association has received a consign ment of 120000 strawberry boxes and 4000 crates for the berry supply this season Bob Moore the young colored man who had his right foot cut off above the ankle a few weeks ago surprised his friends by riding in the streets at Humboldt on his bicycle with as much ease as he did when possessed of both feeet A special train left Stanton recent ly for Chicago with twenty six cars of cattle The train load was made up of cattle that had been fed for a long time and will bring a good price It was estimated that there were 40 000 worth of cattle on the train The executive committee of the Be atrice volunteer fire department held a meeting to make arrangements for the proper observance of firemens memorial day which occurs on Sun day June 11 Committees were ap pointed to complete final arrange ments for the services which are to be held in fire department hall County Superintendent B E Dill of Johnson county has reason to feel proud of the report he has made lo the office of the state geologist He has received very complimentary let ters from both Prof E H Barbour and Dr G E Condra of that depart ment in which they say his record is by far the best that has reached them Memorial day will be celebrated in Stanton this year by the Grand Army of the Republic assisted by all the fraternal orders The memorial ser mon will be preached by Rev Dr Sisson Sunday May 28 and William V Allen will deliver the memorial ad dress at 2 p m There will be no sports of any kind indulged in on Me morial day at Stanton George Fahnstein formerly of Plattsmouth was one of the Snyder Okl storm victims He was killed by being crushed under the debris of a hotel building where he had been boarding Fahnstein who was about 25 years of age was one of the expert bridge builders sent to Plattsmouth rom Illinois at the time the Burling ton reconstructed its Missouri river bridge at that point Word has been received from Sa vannah Mo that William Jones the horse thief who was arrested in Otoe county and sent to Cass county for horse stealing and afterwards taken to Lancaster county on the same charge and in both cases was sen tenced to the Nebraska penitentiary for a term of one year each has just been sentenced to two years in the Missouri penitentiary for stealing a horse Land Commissioner Eaton who has returned from a land leasing trip to Taylor and Burwell says that the school land in that region is all in good demand at constantly improving rates He says that there are in quiries for all western land even that in the san1 hills With the spread of irrigation the introduction of new forage plants and better methods of cultivation the commissioner believes that the sand hill region will make great strides While plowing on his farm in Sar py county the team of Henry Fricke stepped into a hole Upon investiga tion Mr Fricke found it to be a coy otes den and in it were fourteen young ones He brought them to the county clerks office and received 14 At Grand Island Jacob Windnagel who is erecting a large residence walked into a room he supposed was floored stepped on a piece of tarred paper and fell through to the cellar the paper having been placed over an unfloored portion He sustained a broken rib and it is feared internal injuries WORK ON PANAMA CANAL Bristow Makes Statement Regarding Progress WASHINGTON It is estimated by the engineers that it will take sixty work trains a day six years to remove the earth and rock that must be tak en out of Culebra cut This state ment made by Joseph L Bristow gives some Idea of the vast amount of work to be done yet on the Panama canal Continuing he said I am most interested now in the ranama canal The task the govern ment has there is immense The en gineers estimate the work can be done in ten years and that means fast and hard work They are putting In an additional steam shovel outfit at the rate of one each month and using three of the old digging machines that the French had there The soil is loose and when there is a heavy rain at night part of the bank comes down and often buries part of the machin ery as well as cars There are about 5000 men working there now and there will be more as the work progresses There Is a gen eral misapprehension in this country as to the extent of yellow fever in that country There is something sen sational about dying with yellow fever that makes many people afraid of the Panama country We dont think anything about pneumonia Yet a man going from Panama to New York in winter time is much nore likely to contract pneumonia and die of it than a New York man is to catch yel low fever going to Panama The death rate from yellow feevr in Pan ama is much lower than the death rate from pneumonia in New York One man who came there to live was married on Saturday contracted yellow fever on Monday and died on Wednesday The conditions attracted special attention to his case and frightened a great many people about that country But really the health conditions there are not bad and the most serious trouble is that people get homesick Most of the laborers there are Jamaica negroes but the men who direct the work are mostly Americans The change in conditions of living makes them uneasy LETT IS COMMANDER OF G A R Spirited Contest Ends in Victory for the York Man GRAND ISLAND Neb The Grand Army decided a spirited contest for the commandership by the election of John Lett of York Other officers elected were J R- Maxin senior vice commander Minden junior vice com mander H H Dunham Clarks med ical director W H Johnson Minden chaplain J E Ingham Plainview Resolutions were adopted that en campments in the future be held at Lincoln and a committee was appoint ed to arrange for the holding of all re unions district or state in connection with the encampment As delegates to the national en campment at Denver the following were elected J S Hoagland North Platte at large Ferdinand Brother Beatrice W S Askwith Grand Is land J W Burwell Juniata H C McCain Plattsmouth J B Wam baugh Kearney J H Hobb Omaha and R R Randall WILL CARE FOR VETERANS Denver Arranges for 60000 at G A R Encampment DENVER Colo The executive committee of the Grand Army of the Republic met here Thursday night with Commander-in-Chief W W Blackmar and reported that arrange ments had already been perfected for accommodating GO000 visitors during the national encampment here next September It is estimated that 125000 persons will visit Denver on the occasion of the national encampment and a com mittee will continue working to se cure pledges for quartering that number It was announced that rates for hotel and other accommodations would remain at the usual standard during the encampment The com mittee is arranging a program of events for the entertainment of the old soldiers and their friends REFORMED CHURCH SYNOD Form of Government is Finally Settled ALLENTOWX Pa The lengthy discussion which has been indulged in by the general synod of the Re formed church on the point whether the church shall have the Presbyte rian or Congregational form of gov ernment was settled Friday Dr G W Richards for the com mittee on the new constitution re ported an article that classes shall rearrange charges only after counsel ing with the consistories of charges affected Dr Philip Vollmer who led the faction which held to the integrity of the congregation as opposed to the classes submitted an amendment making the action of classes final only by a two thirds vote This amendment was accepted by Dr Rich ards and carried almost unanimously Mr Bryan Asked to Appear NEW HAVEN Conn A request was made to Judge Cleaveland of the probate court by Judge Henry Stod dard counsel for Mrs Bennett that W J Bryan be asked to be present in court when the hearing is held on his application for approval of his ac count as administrator of the estate of the late Philo S Bannett of this city and New York There was no objection from Bryans counsel and it was agreed that the hearing should be held when Mr Bryan can come Galunrat Powte Health Economy Test of Good Breeding To find out how much genuine good breeding a man has just watch him when he is angry This is a sure test as any fool can be agreeable when everything comes his way RAILROADS AND PROGRESS In his testimony before the senato committee on interstate commerce at Washington on May 4 Prof Hugo R Meyer of the Chicago university an expert on railroad management mado this statement Let us look at what might have happened if Ave had heeded the pro tests of the farmers of New York and Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 70s when grain from the west began pour ing to the Atlantic seaboard and acted upon the doctrine which the in terstate commerce commission has enunciated time and again that no man may be deprived of the ad vantages accruing to him by virtue of his geographical position We could not have west of the Mississippi a population of millions of people who are prosperous and are great con sumers We never should have seen the years when we built 10000 and 12000 miles of railway for thero would have been no farmers west of the Mississippi river who could have used the land that would have been opened up by the building of those railways And if we had not seen the years when we could build 10000 and 12000 miles of railway a year we should not have today east of the Mississippi a steel and iron produc ing center which is at once the mar vel and the despair of Europe because we could not have built up a steel and iron industry if there had been no market for its product We could not have in New England a great boot and shoe industry wo could not have in New England a great cotton milling industry wo could not have spread throughout New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio man ufacturing industries of the most di versified kinds because those indus tries would have no market among the farmers west of the Mississippi rh er And while the progress of this country while the development of the agricultural west of this country did mean the impairment of the ag ricultural value east of the Mississippi river that ran tip into hundreds of millions of dollars it meant incident ally the building up of great manu facturing industries that added to tho value of this land by thousands of millions of dollars And gentlemen those things were not foreseen in the 70s The statesmen and the public men of this country did not see what part the agricultural development of the west was going to play in the in dustrial development of the east And you may read the decisions of the interstate commerce commission from the first to the last and what is one of the greatest characteristics of those decisions The continued inability to see the question in this large way The interstate commerce never can see anything more than that the farm land of some farm er is decreasing in value or that some man who has a flour mill with a pro duction of fifty barrels a day is be ing crowded out It never can see that the destruction or impairment of farm values in this place means the building up of farm values in that place and that that shifting of values is a necessary incident to the indus trial and manufacturing development of this country And if we shall give to the interstate commerce commis sion power to regulate rates we shall no longer have our rates regulated on the statesmanlike basis on which they have been regulated in the past by the railway men who really have been great statesmen who really have been great builders of empires who have had an imagination that rivals the imagination of the greatest poet and of the gieatest inventor and who have operated with a courage and dar ing that rivals the courage and dar ing of the greatest military general But we shall have our rates regulated by a body of civil servants bureau crats whose besetting sin the world over is that they never can grasp a situation in a large way and with the grasp of the statesman that they never can see the fact that they are confronted with a small evil that that evil is relatively small and that it cannot be corrected except by the creation of evils and abuses which are infinitely greater than the one that is to be corrected Wealth may not bring happiness but most of us think we could get next to it if we had the money More Flexible and Lasting wont shake out or blow out by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re sults than possible with any other brand and one third more for same money Many a man who thinks he is frank is considered impudent by others Its as cowardly to speak II of a man behind his back as it is danger ous to say it to his face i P 1 A 4 - f