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
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