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THE ALLIANCE HERALD
T. J. O'Kecfo, Publisher.
ALLIANCE,
NEBRASKA.
News in Brief
Two now bridges nro to bo built
over tho Neva river nt St. Petersburg.
Tho last year of (ho sugar bountls
coBt Franco alono no loss than twonty
millions dollars.
In 1881 tho London birth rnto av
eraged 32.2 per i.OOO. It steadily de
clined to 28.5 In 1902.
Korean commerco nmotmta to about
fifteen million per annum, tho lmporta
being doublo tho exports.
Typhoid fever has broken out
among all tho detachments of marlneB
In German Southwest Africa.
Exportation of JG.GOO.OOO gold from
New York last week broke tho record
for outgo In one day hIiico 1901.
John D. Daly, an old-tlmo newspa
per man, well known In Chicago and
other cities, died nt Elkhart, liid.
Tho Chicago Great Western Railroad
company filed with tho secretary of
Btnto a certlflcoto Increasing Its capi
tal stock from $30,000,000 to $50,000,
000. Tommy Love of Philadelphia was
given tho decision over Tommy Foltz
of Brooklyn in their fifteen-round
bout beforo tho Eutaw Athletic club
of Baltimore, Md.
Tho Wabash railroad shops at De
catur, 111., wcro ordered closed by
President Ramsay. Tho order is sup
posed to bo on nccount of tho Btriko
order by tho Carmcn'B brotherhood.
At Syracuse, N. Y., tho Lyceum
theater, a vaudeville house, was de
stroyed by fire. It had closed during
the season until last week, when n
Now York company played b!x nights.
While no official announcement of
a. WabaBh loan wus made, It was
learned from a trustworthy source
that n loan for fC.000,000, bearing 5
per eent interest, has been negotiated.
Senator Halo and othors counsel de
lay In building more battleships until
tho IiusBo-Japaneso conflict shall have
demonstrated tho comparative utility
of tho big fighters and tho torpedo
boats.
Frank MeNamara, employed for fif
teen years In Chicago, plead guilty of
murdering Cnptaln Jennings in Brook
lyn in tho hopo of covering up hia
theft of $5,000 from bis western em
ployer. Colonel Loutwein, governor of Gor
man Southwest Africa, cables that
typhus has broken out in Major Von
GlaBcnapp'B column. Seven deaths
from the disease wero recorded up to
April 22.
W. A. P. DavlB of Philadelphia, sec
retary of tho Gregory-Buell Mining
company, was seriously injured In tho
tunnel of tho mlno near Central City,
Colo., by tho unexpected explosion of
dynamite.
Tho president sent tho following
nominations of postmasters to tho
senate: Nebraska Thomas A. Boyd,
Beaver City. Iowa William G. Ross,
Fairfield; E. M. Smith, Winterset;
Samuel H. Hall, Lime Springs.
At Deadwood, S. D., flro destroyed
the largo pressed brick plant owned
by Thomas Whlttnker of that city and
Sioux Falls capitalists. Losb, $15,000,
partly covered by Insurance. Tho
plar will bo rebuilt.
In a lecture In Now Orleans Dr. Isa
dora Dyer, physician at tho lopers'
homo in Louisiana, after saying there
wero 3,000,000 lepers In existence, an
nounced that In the last two years, tho
problem of curing tho disease has been
solved.
Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson
last of tho adjutants general of tho
Army of tho Potomac and chief of
staffs under Generals Hooker and
Meade, during the civil war, died in
Washington, after an illnecs of thrco
months. Ho was 72 years old.
Tho Supremo Court of Colorado re
fused to admit to ball Charles II.
Moyer, president of tho striking min
ers of Colorado, pending tho hearing
of his habeas corpus case May 5, and
tho prisoner will remain in the hands
of tho military in tho bull pen.
That tho prayer meeting, "with Its
cut and dried programme," has out
lived Its usefulness, that tho Christian
Endeavor Society Is exercising too
much Influence on tho church, and
that radical changes nro needed wero
tho declarations of Rev. Georgo Tay
lor at the meeting of Congregational
ministers in Boston.
After receiving ono current of 45,
000 volts and another of 25,000 and
falling forty feet to tho ground, Henry
Elsey of Gaiesburg, Mich., an electric
lineman, is alive, with the loss of two
toes the only permanent tnjury. El
sey has returned from Kalamazoo,
where ho has been six weeks In a hos
pital recovering. His recovery Is con
sidered ono of tho most remarkable
on record.
Tho Swiss Alpine club has within
tho last four years spent $21,000 In
building reiuge huts on various moun
tains. Charles F. McKcnna of Pennsylvan
ia has been nominated by tho presi
dent United States district Judge for
Porto Rico.
Tho Pennsylvania railroad union
station at Harrisburg, Pa., was dam
aged by fire to tho extent of $75,000
to $100,000.
Tho London Crystal Palaco accom
modates more people than any other
building la tho world. It will hold
100.000 people.
A GREAT BATTLE
IN WHICH JAPANE8E TROOPS ARE
VICTORIOUS.
CROSS RIVER AND TAKE HEIGHTS
After Five Days of Preliminary Fight
Ing Mikado'o Men Begin Decisive
BattleTurn Left Flank of Russians
Near WIJu and Capture Position.
TOKIO Advices received hero
state that thp twelfth division of tho
Japanese army forced a crossing of
tho Yalti Just above WIJu, Just beforo
dawn Sunday morning. Tho second
pontoon bridge across tho river near
WIJu was completed at 8 o'clock Sat
urday night and tho imperial guard of
tho Becond division eroascd during tho
night.
Tho Russians' left flank has been
turned nnd n general attack began at
dawn today (Sunday) nearly all tho
Japanese batteries on the south bank
of tho river and a tlotllla of gunboats
cooperating with tho army.
Tho Japanese have tho advantago of
positions nnd numbers nnd nro confi
dent of routing tho enemy.
Advices from tho front say that
Japanoso forces began an attack on
tho Russians on tho Yalu river last
Tuesday, The battlo was continued
Wednesday Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday. On Thursday the Japaneso effected
a crossing of tho Yalu and secured a
lodgment on the right bank of tho
river. Tho fighting on Saturday was
at long range and thoro was a duel
with heavy gunB ncross tho river.
Fighting waB resumed at daylight to
day (Sunday).
Tho Russian force is estimated at
30,000. Tho Japanoso loss Is reported
to havo been small thus far.
TOKIO Supplemental reports from
General Kurokl covering Sunday's
fighting say:
"Tho Russians made two stauds.
Tho enemy's strength included all of
tho third division two regiments of
the sixth division ono cavalry brigade,
about torty quick-firing guns nnd
eight machine guns. We have taken
twenty-eight quick-firing guns, many
rifles, much ammunition, moro than
twenty ofilceis and many non-commissioned
officers and men as prisoners.
"I am Informed that Major Kashtal
Inskl, commander of tho Third East
Siberian rlflo brigade, and Lieutenant
General Sasulitch, commander of tho
Second Siberian army corps, wero
wounded. Our casualties ' number
about 700 and tho Russian loss is
moro than 800 men."
JAPANESE NOW ON RUSSIAN SOIL
Minister McCormlck Learns Number
of Those He Is Caring For.
ST. PETERSBURG As n result of
IiIb investigations Ambassador Mc
Cormlck finds that exclusive of tho
570 Japanoso in tho Islands of Sagha
lin tho total number of Japaneso in
Bllsslan Is 351, of whom (13 nro In tho
province of Amur, chiefly nt Port
Zoya, 280 In tho province of Prim
orvsk, chiefly nt NIkolalcvsk, and a
major and his ofllcers with flvo sol
diers, two merchants nnd an interpre
ter, under arrest as spies. They aro
all being concentrated at Stretnsk,
whenco as Boon as navigation is
opened thoy will bo forwarded to Irk
utsk; from there thoy will go to Ber
lin, via tho Black Sea, tho Russian
authorities desiring to transport them
bo far as posslblo by water.
HAVE CLAIM AGAINST COLON.
Sufferers From Colon Fire Confer
With Secretary Hay.
WASHINGTON. -- Secretary Hay
heard argument by attorneys repre
senting tho American Interests in
volved in tho Colon flro claims. These
attorneys havo formally requested
tho secretary to deduct tho amount of
their clairaa from tho fund of $10,
000,000 which ia to bo paid by the
United States to Panama on the
ground that tho luhabltanta of tho
present now republic of Panama,
while hi Insurrection against tho Col
ombian government, wcro rosponslblo
for tho destruction of Colon by flro
about twenty years ago, with tho re
sulting loss to American property
owners.
Those claims havo been presented
soveral times in recent years to tho
Colombian government, which has re
pudiated thorn as growing out of tho
acts of insurgents, so that tho present
method of briuging them forward is
now. Secretary Hay promised to glvo
careful consideration to tho claims,
but has decided that they must bo con
sidered entirely apart from tho canal
negotiations and as congress has mado
a specific appropriation of $10,000,000
for Panama no deductions can bo
mado from that appropriation by tho
executive on account of any other
claims.
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Act of an Insane Mother.
CLEVELAND, O., Mrs. Caroline
Volkman, who Is believed to bo In-
sane, threw her throe chlldron, Annie,
aged 11, Wlllio aged 5, and Otto, aged
2, Into Lake Erie Sunday afternoon
and then jumped In herself. Fortun
ately, boatment woro nearby nnd tho
whole party wero rescued without any
ill effects. Tho children woro sont to
their homo and the mother is locked
up, pending examination regarding her
sanity. Domestic troubles is said to ' and a member of the asociation. The
have made her temporarily mentally organization is capitalized at $1,000,
irresponsiblc. , 000.
OPENING OF THE FAIR.
St. Louis Welcomes the World to the
Great Exhibition.
ST. LOUIS. Roprosontlng a largor
oxpontllturcthan any similar enterprise
herctoforo attempted on this conti
nent, greater in its ambition and wider
In lis scopo than nny previous effort
of its kind, tho Louisiana Purchase
exposition was formally opened Satur
day afternoon. Tho Inaugural exor
cises could hardly have been improved
upon. Thoy wore simple!, woro car
ried through without delay and with
out a halt or delay of any descrip
tion. Tho weather was without flaw. No
falror day from dawn to sunset could
havo been hoped for. Tho handling
of tho crowds, tho guarding of en
closures sacred to tho participants
In tho exercises and tho police work
generally could not havo been better
ed. This work was In the hands of
ofllcers of tho regular army. It was
arranged that President Roosevelt
should press tho button at exactly 12
o'clock, but when that hour arrived
soveral of tho addresses had not been
completed.
At approximately 12:15, St. Louis
time, In order that his time might not
bo encroached upon, tho signal was
given to President Roosevelt that all
things wero ready. His responso was
quick and In n few seconds carao tho
niiBwerlng touch over tho wlro from
tho Whlto house. This officially
opened tho exposition, but it was de
termined to conclude tho program, rtnd
tho signal for the actual opening, for
tho unfurling of tho Hags, tho ringing
of bells and the operation of tho great
cascades was not given by Director
of Works Taylor until 1:04.
COUNTRY NEW3PAPERS GOT IT.
S. F. Smith, President Central News
paper Union, Daveport, la., Short
$50,000 Trust Funds.
DAVENPORT, la. Statements and
old papers filed for record with tho
recorder of Scott county Bhow Samuel
F. Smith, ex-mayor of Davenport, trus
tee of Davenport Carnegie library,
publisher of the Dally Republican, and
son of tho auth r of "America," shorj:
in his accounts with trust funds of
$50,000. Smith signed over to W. C.
Putnam and A. W. Vandorvcer all of
his property in Davenport, including
Btocks in local companies and real es
tate. Mr. Smith has long held tho confi
dence of the people. His residence is
the finest In the city.
It Is rumored that the greater part
of tho shortage was caused by the at
tempt of Mr. Smith to ostabllsh a
house to furnish ready-printed sheets
for country newspapers. Tho Central
Nowspaper Union was started about
thrco years ago by J. X. Brands as
manager and Mr. Smith as financier.
Tho business was run for three years
at a loss. It Is stated that the total
loss up to tho time he sold his Inter
ests was in tho neighborhood of $30,
000. Smith Is 111, his daughter Is in a hos
pital and his wife nearly heart-broken.
Smith has mado a full confession.
SHAW CALLS FOR THE CASH.
Banks Requested to Put Up Money to
Pay for Panama Canal.
WASHINGTON. Tho secretary of
tho treasury has isued a call direct
ing national hank depositaVles to
transfer to the assistant treasurer at
Now York City on or before May 10,
1904, an aggregate amount of $12,
000,000. Tho call on each bank is for
10 per cent of tho public deposit of
such bank as it stood beforo the recent
20 per cent call, thus making a total
withdrawal of 30 per cent of public
deposits. Today's call, however, ex
empts all depositaries whoso author
ized balance beforo tho recent call
was loss than $100,000. It also ex
empts a few bankB having active ac
counts wero their authorized balance
Is not greater than tho convenience
of tho treasury department in trans
acting public business required. With
theso exceptions, the call applies to all
depositaries, permanent and tempo
rary. In view pf tho plethora of money
In all tho central reservo cities, it is
probable that an additional call of
tho same character will be issued,
payable about Juno 1. This would
supply tho amount of tho draft upon
tho treasury mado by tho payment
for tho isthmian canal right-of-way,
and would afford a working balance
of $50,000,000 actually In tho treasury
and sub-trcasurles, as at present.
Complaint Against Paper Trust.
WASHINGTON Condo Hamlin of
tho St. Paul Pioneer Press, Don C.
Seltz of the New York World and John
NorrlB of tho Philadelphia Ledger and
the New York Times, representing tho
American Newspaper Publishers as
sociation, called on the attorney gen
eral today and laid before him a com
plaint against tho paper manufactur
ers' trust, alleging violation of tho
Shorman anti-trust act. The attorney
gonoral stated that ho would havo an
investigation mado into the matter.
Furnish Free Fireworks.
CHICAGO. In order to protect chll-
dren from Injury and property from
damage, tho Chicago Amusement as
sociation is planning to furnish free
flrocrackors and torpedoes in unlimit
ed quantities to every child In Chi
cago on Indopondenco day. Tho am
munition for patriotic celebration,
however, must be oxplodod In tho
parks and public playgrounds, under
I supervision ot a fireman, a physician
WORK ON GANAL
THOUSANDS OF APPLICATIONS
ARE RECEIVED.
ANTHRACITE COAL RATE INQUIRY
Venezuela Cattle for United States
Will Be Used Exlusively for Food
and Have to Pass a Rigid Inspection
Besides Paying Duty.
WASHINGTON Slnco tho return
of Admiral Walker and General Davit
of the Isthmian conal commission to
Washington from Pnnnma they have
been engnged in work preliminary io
tho meeting of the commission next
v. ok. During tho abaenco of tho com
mission, cppllcatlon for positions on
tho canal force wcro received by tho
thousand. Thus far it has not been
determined how tho canal work will
bo done, hence tho commission itself
does not know y.ct Just what positions
It will have at Its disposal.
Tho probability now Is that tho
great bulk of the work will bo done
oy contrnct. It has been suggested
that a construction company bo organ
ized to undertake tho work under the
supervision of the commission. Tho
organization of soveral companies,
each to do a specified portion of tho
work, also has been suggested.
In the anthrncite coal rate inquiry
against the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway company tho interstate com
merco commission Friday entered an
order reopening tho proceeding for fur
ther Investigation. The commission
has set tho case for hearing at New
York on Mny 4.
The cornmlttee directed by congress
to investigate and report on the best
methods of restoring the merchant ma
rine of tho United States Friday choso
Senator Galllnger for tho chairman
ship. 1
At Friday's cabinet meeting Secre
tary Wilson reported that tho depart
ment of agriculture had granted per
mission to the Venezuelan government
to Import Into the United States 1,000
head of Venezuelan cattle. Of course
the customs duties will havo to bo
paid on the cattle. They will bo ship
ped to New York, consigned to an ah
battolr. No breeding cattle are to be
among the number imported, the idea
being to use them exclusively for food.
Tho depurtment Is exceedingly careful
about all importations of live stock
und each head of cattle Imported from
Venezuela will bo rigidly Inspected.
Postmaster General Payne returned
Friday from Charleston, S. C, nfter an
absence of soveral weeks spent in
cruising along tho Atlantic coast and
in West Indian waters. Ho is im
proved in health, though still complain
ing of a slight attack of gout in one
foot.
Tho treasury department forwarded
to tho secretaiy of state for trans
mission to J. P. Morgan & Co. of New
York, financial agents of the Repub
lic of Panama, a warrant for $1,000,000
on nccount of tho Panama canal pur
chase. OPEN HEAVY FIRE.
Russians Repulse Japanese Charge on
Manchurian Side of Yalu River.
LIAO YANG. Tho Japaneso troops
which crossed the Yalu north of Fult
Jlou (TchangdJIou) charged', during
the night of April 20-27, tho Russian
position near Llazevana, a vilago on.
tho Manchurian bank of tho Yalu.
They were repulsed, but their loss is
not known.
Two gunboats steamed up tho river
to tho support of the Japanese when
a Russian battery at Amizan open
ed on them, resulting In a duel which
lasted for-twenty minutes. The Rus
Bian fire was so hot tho gunboats were
forced to steam out of range. The
Japanese wero facilitated in crossing
by their occupation of tho island of
Samallnda.
Suit to Divide Estate.
ST JOSEPH, Mo. The suit of Mrs.
Frances B. Burnes and daughter, Mar.
Jorle, of Chicago, and Kenneth Burnes
of St. Louis, for a division of the
Burnes estate, worth $5,000,000, and
which has been kept Intact for a quar
ter of a century, was called for trial
In tho federal court Tuesday. Tho
defendants are L. C. Burnes, James N.
Burnes and Virginia Burnes of St.
Joseph and Kate B. Gatch of St.
Louis. Tho plaintiffs charge L. C.
Burnes with securing wrongfully a
largo number of shares In the estate,
it being incorporated.
Japs Publish Their Side of It.
WASHINGTON The Japanese lega
tlon has published the correspondence
that took placo between Baron Kom
ura, Japaneso minister of foreign af
fairs and Mr. Kurlno, Japaneso min
ister Co St. Petersburg, preceding the
beginning of tho Russo-Japancso wnr.
Tho purposo of tho publication is to
disclose officially tho Japanese attltudo
and especially to point out tho efforts
to force Russia to an early and con
clusive answer to tho Japaneso pro
posals relatlvo to tho evacuation of
Manchuria.
Prince Pu Lun Presents Letter.
WASHINGTON Prince Pu Lun, a
nephew of tho emperor of China and
his personal representative at tho St.
Louis exposition, was officially receiv
ed by President Roosevelt at the
Whlto House on Monday. Prince Pu
Lun brought to this country a letter
to Prosldent Roosevelt from his royal
uncle, Emperor Kwang Su, which was
written on a strip of beautifully woven
silk four feet long and two feet wide.
It was folded In three folds, with tho
upper part of the document handsome-
J ly embroidered.
MEDIATION REFUSED BY CZAR.
Suggested by Both King Edward and
King Christian.
ST. PETERSBURG Tho Associated
Press Is enabled to announce authori
tatively that tho talk of mediation in
tho Russian-Japanese war was found
ed Upon the personal desires of King
Edward and King Christian of Don
mark, to avoid further bloodshed and
end the conflict, but that steps ini
tiated havo utterly failed.
Tho czar, with the full concurrence
of the Imperial fally and his ndvls
ers, has firmly decided not only to re
ject all proposals looking to interven
tion, but to prosecute the wnr with all
tho sources of the empire until vic
tory crowns tho Russian arms, and
then, when tho time comes for peace,
to muko terms directly with tho en
emy. Tho Interference of outside
powers will not bo tolerated. There
Is to be no repetition of the Berlin
congress. Furthermore, tho Associat
ed Press is authorized to state that
Russia will in no wise consider her
self bound by the propositions mado
to Japan prior to the war. The hos
tilities have wiped out the engage
ments Russia offered to make with
Japan regarding Korea and Manchu
ria. Russia will consider herself free
to impose such terms as she desires.
FRENCH SYNDICATE PAYS IT.
Advance the $40,000,000 to the Pana
ma Canal Company.
WASHINGTON The attorney gen
eral has received cablegrams from
Messrs. Day and Russell, who went to
Paris ns his representatives to con
duct tho closing negotiations for the
Panama Canal property, to tho effect
that tho deeds of the property, nrch
Ives and all other papers and docu
ments which will belong to the United
States under the transfer, havo al
ready been turned over to them and
that the purchase price of $40,000,000
has been advanced to tho canal com
pany by a Paris syndicnte of bankers.
This syndicate, It Is understood, of
fered to pay over tho money, with a
view to expediting the consummation
of tho sale, on the assurance of tho
attorney general that the draft of tho
syndicate on the United States for
the" $40,000,000 would be honored on
presentation at tho treasury at Wash
ington. JAPS MAY HAVE SET TRAP.
Strong Squadron of Armored Cruisers
on the Move
CHICAGO A Bpeclal cable to the
Dally News from Kobe says:
Under full steam a strong squadron
of Japanese armored cruisers was ob
served this morning making Its way
northward In the Japan sea. It Is be
lieved that the vessels aro on their
way to attempt to cut off the Russian
squadron that nppeared at Won San,
on the cast coast of Korea, yester
day It is feared, however, that as the
czar's cruisers are superior in speed
to those of the mlkndo, they may es
cape In safety to the shelter of Vladi
vostok. It is also stnted that tho Japan-,
esc havo succeeded in luring the Rus
sians from protection of the Vladlvo
stock guns and that there is anothei
Japanese squadron between them
and their retreat, but these are mere
rumors.
BECAUSE SHE VOTED FOR SMOOT
Mrs. Coulter of Ogden Will Not Be
Allowed to Address Federation.
SALT LAKE CITY. Mrs. Marry G.
Coulter of Ogden, a prominent Utah
club woman, will not bo allowed to
make an address at tho biennial con
ference of tho Federation of Women's
clubs on May 17 next because she
voted for Smoot while a member of
the last legislature. Mrs. Anna D.
Nash of Boston, chairman of tho do
mestic sclenco department of tho
federation, tho subject on which, it is
asserted, Mrs. Coulter was to apeak,
says repeated requests havo been
mado by Mrs. Coulter's friends ask
ing that sho bo Invited io mako an
address, but on account of general
opposition of club members of Utah,
based on Mrs. Coulter's support of(
Smoot, the requests had been refused.
Mrs. Coulter Is a gentile.
Bills Pass In House.
WASHINGTON. When tho house
met at 10 o'clock It was still tho leg
islative day of Wednesday, a recesB
having been taken Tuesday until that
hour. Bills wero passed.
To regulate the disposal of public
lands released and excluded from pub
lic forest reservations.
To establish a lifo saving stntion
at or near tho entrance to Tillamook
bay, Oregon.
Ratifying and confirming tho pres
ent right of way of the Oahu Railway
& Land company through tho military
reservation of Kahauik, Hawaii.
Mr. Hemenway called up tho con
ference report on tho general defi
ciency bill. Tho report was unani
mously adopted and the house then
proceeded to tho consideration of tho
conferenco report on tho sundry civil
appropriation bill.
Brave Man Surrenders to Cupid.
CHICAGO In recognition of his
heroic conduct at the time of the' ex
plosion on tho battleship Missouri,
Chief Engineer Studdard of that vessel
was given a furlough of several
months, ire came to this city to visit
his brother, Gus Studdard, and at onco
fell in love with Miss Catherine Hur
ley, the sister of his brother's wife.
He procured a marriage license and
tomorrow the wedding will tako place.
Engineer Studdard will leave with his
wife for a visit to his former homo
in Ireland.
ONE DOLLAR WHEAT.
Western Canada's Wheat Fields Pro
duce It Magnificent Yields Freo
Grants of Land to Settlers.
The roturna of tho Interior Depart
ment show, that tho movement of
American farmers northward to Can
ada ts each month affecting larger
areas of the United States. Tlruo was,
says tho Winnipeg Freo Press, when
the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa fur
nished the Dominion with the main
bulk of its American contingent. Last
year, however, forty-four states atid
districts were rcpYesented in the of
ficial statement as to the former resi
dence of Americans who had homo
steaded in Canada. Tho Dakotas still
head tho list, with 4,006 entries, Min
nesota being a close second with 3,887,
but with tho exception of Alabama
and Mississippi and Delawaro every
state in tho Union supplied settlers,
who, In order to secure faims in tho
fertile prairie country of Canada, be
came citizens of and took tho oath o
alleglauco to, tho Dominion. Last
year no less than 11,841 Americans
entered for homestead lands in Can
ada. From tho Gulf to tho Boundary,
and from ocean to ocean, the trek to
tho Dominion goes on. Not only the?
whentgrowers of tho central Missis
sippi valley, but tho ranchers of Texas,
and New Mexico, and the cultivators
of tho comparatively virgin soil of
Oklahoma, are pouring towards the
productivo vacant lands of the Cana
dian Northwest. It Is no tentative,
half-hearted departure for an alien
country that is manifested in this
exodus; it has become almost a rush
to secure possession of land which it
is feared by those imperfectly ac
quainted with tho vast area of Can
ada's vacant lands, may all be acquir
ed beforo they arrive. There Is no
element of speculation or experiment
In the migration. Tho settlers havo
full information respecting tho soil,
wealth, tho farming methods, tho
laws, taxation and system of govern
ment of tho country to which they
aro moving, and they realize that tho
opportunities offered in Canada aro in
every respect bettor and greater, than
thoso they havo enjoyed in tho land
they pre leaving.
Canada can well afford to welcomo
cordially every American farmer com
ing to the Dominion. Thero is no
question but that these immigrants
make the most desirable settlers ob
tainable for tho development of the
prairie portion or the Dominion. Full
information can bo had from any au
thorized Canadian government agent
whoso address will bo found else
where in .this paper.
Not David the Psalmist.
David Bclasco and Henry do Miller
collaborated once on a play in which,
they used tho line from the Psalm of
David, "Lord how long shall the
wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph?" Tho actor to whom this
lino fell expressed his dissatisfaction
over it, and confided his feelings to
Do Millo. "Are you stuck on it?" the
actor asked him. "Yes,' said De
Mille, "I must confess I am. You see,
tho lino isn't mine; it'sDavld's." "I
thought so" said tho actor; "anyone
could tell that was some of Dave Be
lasco's bad English."
Electricity Prevents Collision.
The Baltic is equipped with rt
electrical device for preventing col
lisions with other vessels. Tho mo
ment another ship enters the "mag
netic field" of tho Baltic the needle
of tho indicating instrument points
In tho direction of the vesFel ap
proaching of being overtaken, and tho
steersman knows at once what course
to take. Even tho rhythmic beats of
an unseen steamer's screws are reg
istered by means of this delicate ap
paratus. Another safeguard Is am
electrical contrivance to show if the
ship's lights ore burning properly.
Rheumatism In Utah.
Frisco, Utah, May 2nd. There Is a.
great deal of Rheumatism in this and
neighboring states, and this painful
disease has crippled many a strong,
man and woman among an otherwise
healthy people.
Recently, however, thero has been
introduced Into Utah a remedy for
Rheumatism which bids fair to stamp
out this awfully painful complaint.
Tho name of this new remedy is
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and It has al
ready wrought some wonderful cures.
Right hero in Frisco there is a case
of a Mr. Grace who had Rheumatism,
so bad in his feet that ho could hardly
walk. Ho tried many remedies In
vain, but Dodd's Kidney Pills cured
him.
HIb wife says: "Wo both had Kid
ney Trouble, and my husband had the
Rheumatism so bad that ho could
hardly walk. Wo used Dodd's Kid
ney Pills with much benefit. We have
tried many remedies, but none have
done us so much good as Dodd's Kid
ney Pills."
Similar reports come from all over
the state, and it would seem as It
Rheumatism had at last been con
quered. Little Willie Papa, what is meant
by forging the fetters? Willie's Papa.
Signing another man's nnmo jo a
check, my boy.
Ailc Yonr Dealer For Allen's root-Caie,
A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns,
Bunions.SwolIen.Sore.Hot.Callous, Aching
Sweating Feet and IngrowingNails. Allen's
Foot-Ease makes newor tight shoes easy. At
all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. 'Ac
cept no substitute. Sample mailed Frek.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Now there are rumors oi a boarding
Iioubo trust abroad In tho land. Board
ing houses that will trust would fill
a long-felt twant.
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