f __ THE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. 5'NEILL, NEBRASKA The richest man in Mexico Is a miner, Pedro Alvurado, who owns a mine at ParraJ. In the state of Chihuahua. He is about llfty years old, and comes from the peon, or lowest laboring class. For years he was a mine laborer, working for 50 cents (Mexican silver) a day; Illiterate, unthinking. He was known to be hardworking, but he hud no more thrift or foresight than the other peons, and In consequence his taking up of a small piece of property three years ago with the Intention of sinking a shaft v as a standing Joke In the neighbor hood. He borrowed money to work his property in a small way, but his credit did not hold for very long, and It was on the last day before the mortgage would have been foreclosed that he made a strike that turned him In a day from a peon to a millionaire many times over. The wealth of his mine with its present development, is fabul ous, the average ore taken out assay ing In the neighborhood of $12,000 a ton, although one shipment of three carloads was made some time ago that brought him a profit of $600,000 a car, this ore being so rich that ihe native ■liver could be cut from it with a pock etknife. __ A new feature In Scotland this year that promises well for the future Au gust sport there Is (he breeding of wild ducks. A driven wild duck presents as difficult u shot to the crack gunner as a driven grouse, and the birds can Iw more certainly driven over the guns from a hill loch than from the low-ly ing Jukes In the Kngllsh counties, where that branch of sport has hither to been most successfully Introduced and followed. And one great recom mendation in its favor, which should lead to its wider adoption In grouse counties, Is that the sport can begin earlier in the holiday month of August than grouse shooting commences on the surrounding moors. Directly at variance with the practice of South and Oentral Americun natives, who huve destroyed enormous forests of Para rubber trees by their reckless methods, Is the statement inude lu the Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural so . clety that it Is possible to "tup Paru rubber trees every second day fortslx mouths In every yeur, without In th« least hurting or impairing the growth of ihe tree uud at the same time securt the greatest amount of latex," or milk Instead of the huge herring bone gushes usually made, this discerning plantei finds thut a scries of incisions not tnort than 1V4 Inches long and one-half Inch wide give the best results. John Philip Sousa, the conductor, has received notice of Ills promotion from Officer de I'Acadeinle Fruncnlse to "Of ficer de l’lnstructlon Publlque" oi France. The new distinction gives Mr. Sousa the golden palms und rosette of the French academy. He is the only American who has received this decora tion. He Is also u member of the Koynl Victorian order of Knghind. having been decorated by King Kdwurd VII. three years ago. Thirty-one thousand, three hundred and eighty-three homestead entries were mmle In the northwest provinces of Canada in 1903; 64,000 homestead en tiles have been received in the north west In the last three years, equal to 10,000.000 acres. The entries for 1909 were double the number for 1902 and as many us for three years previous. These entries mean an addition of 89,JOT to the population. A fund of 325,000 is to be raised In Colorado to enable the Colorado pro motion and publicity committee to ful fill its purpose of booming the state. Its urst effort will he to prepare a book called "Scenic Colorado," which Is promised to be among the l and aomest of the kind ever published, and to Include a description and Illustra tion of every famous Colorado scene. At the close of 1903 the grand duchy of Baden owned and operated about 1,035 miles of railway, which included all the Important lines In the province. Of these railways 908 miles were main and branch lines, while 127 miles were short local lines, generally of narrow gauge and cheap construction. The state railway debt at the close of 1902 was approximately 394.500.000. Ths Cotton Industry of Italy Increases In Importance and Is distributed among 730 factories and employes over 135,000 hands. More than half the factories are worked by steam, the remainder bv electricity and hydraulic power. Out of 50,000 looms employed, 60,000 are me chanical. The totul production Is now calculated at an annual value of over £12,000,000. A newspaper clipping bureau In Man hattan has collected 8,714 newspaper stories about the late Senator Hanna since his death. On an order from Elmer Dover. Mr, Burtelt, the propriet or. has arranged these clippings In an album, consisting of 3,312 pages. It will consist of eight volumes and It will contain matter equal to 16.321,536 words. Philip Hale, a Boston musical critic and annotator of the Symphony pro gram books, was talking not long ago with a woman who is strenuously pur suing musical culture. "Mr. Hale," she asked him, "what is the difference be tween the first and second violin In an orchestra?" About 310 a concert, mad am," he replied. In India only about 3 per cent. . 376,785 9.1 — Sioux Falls, S. D.. 237,214 7.2 — Fremont. Nib. 124.334 .... 29.1 Houston . 9,745,742 — 19.4 Galveston . 6,249.000 10.9 Cedar Rapk s. 392,935 . Total F S.$1,844,108,748 .... 10.3 Outside Nee York 727,520,746 _ 4.3 Totals Canada,. 50,807,136 12.4 Norw egian Whaler Found. Christiana, Aug. 1.—Dispatches re ceived here report that a Norwegian whaler has found, north of Spits bergen, a letter from Professor Andre, jjati'd 1898. The text of the letter is not disclosed. Andre left Spitsbergen in a balloon : July 11. 1897, with the Intention ol ; crossing the north pole. He has nol | been definitely heard from sines. 10BBERS HOLD UP : A CENTRAL TRAIN Daring Bandits Rob Passengers of Two Sleeping Cars and Escape. GOT MORE THAN $1,000 One Passenger Who Was Slow to Movi Was Struck on Head by a Hatchet and Severely Cut—Crew Unmolested. I'hirago, Aug. 3.—Four highwaymen, all heavily armed, rind two of them wearing masks, held up the passengers on the Illinois Central’s Chicago-St. Louis train known as the "Diamond Special,” as it neared Mattson, 111. The robbers secured all the money and valuables carried by the thirty passengers iri the two Pullman sleeping cars, stopped tlie train, and escaped iu tlie darkness. The forward sleeper was entered first, tlie occupants were aroused, and with nothing on but their night clothes were marched back to the Pullman car be hind. Two of tlie passengers who were slow in responding to the commands of the robbers were hit on the head with a hatchet and one was seriously in jured. it is Impossible to obtain the names of the injured passengers. When the passengers in the two cars had been lined up in the rear Pullman, two «f the robbers stood guard, one at each end of the car, with drawn re volvers. The third, who Is supposed to have been the leader, ordered the pas sengers, who had been compelled to bring along their clothes from the first car, to throw the garments on the floor of the car. The passengers in the rear car were made to return to their berths and deposit their clothes in the same heap. Then the leader, with the utmost coolness, begun to search the clothing for valuables. When he had finished this search he made a close examina tion of the passengers for any money that they might have secreted. Escape of the Robbers. When the search had been completer, all the booty was placed In a Hour sack, and the three robbers joined their com panions. who had stood guard in the vestibule of the train. Pulling the bell rope, the signal to the engineer to stop, was given, and when the speed of the train had slackened sufficiently the rob bers, after having locked the doors of the car, jumped off and lied . in the darkness. So systematic was (he work of the robbers and there was so little con fusion that iTic crew was unaware of what was going on. It was not until the engineer, in response to the signal, brought his train to a stop, and seeing nothing of the remainder of the crew walked back to the rear of the train to ascertain what was the matter, that he learned of the robbery. No attempt was made to rob the mail or express cars. The robbers secured more than $1,000 ill money and valuables. E. H. Groce, superintendent of tele graph of the Illinois Central railroad, who was one of the men robbed, left the train at Kankakee and notified the Illinois Central detectives in Chicago. The latter notified the central police, and detectives were went out on a train to begin the search for the robbers. Superintendent Groce’s Story. Superintendent Groce's story, as told nt Kankakee, was as follows: "The men must have boarded the train at Harvey, for we were but a few miles out when they appeared at the door of the last Pullman and, cursing the brakeman and porter, ordered them into the smoking compartment. They went through the car and ordered all the men out. At first the men seemed to think the affair a joke, and did not hasten. One of the bandits then fired into a berth whose occupant was slow er than the rest. He scrambled out in a hurry and the responses were more ready afterward. “One of the passengers, a boy about 18 years old, was partly awake, and the shot startled him. He, too, was slow, and when a bandit told him to get into the aisle the robber struck him with a hatchet. He was cut severely. "They drove all the men to the smoking compartment, and there two of them searched us while the others stood guard at the doors. They took ! $100 from me and $300 from a man near me I guess those were the larg est individual amounts they obtained. ! They searched the women who were yet awake, but did not bother those who were in the berths where the curj | tains were drawn. In the second Pull man thete were only five or six passen gers, and they had an experience like the rest of us.” The train, which loft Chicago at 9:27 o'clock, carried many passengers for the St. Louis fair, and all remained on the train despite their experiences. TWO SERIOUSLY HURT. A Score Hurt in Trolley Car Accident Near Westboro, Mass. , Westboro, Mass., Aug. 3.—A score of persons were injured, two of them fa i tally, in a head-on collision between j two trolley cars on the Boston and j Worcester street .railway, near the | Washington street crossing, three miles from Westboro. The fatally hurt are: Mrs. Caroline Stewart. Winthrop Beach, died at hospital. John Doc, mptorman, of Wellesley, internally; cannot recover. Miss Maud McGuire, an actress, whose stage name is Maud Thornton, and whose home is in Boston, had her right leg crushed so that it had to be amputated. She is in a serious con dition. The other injured are expected to recover. The accident occurred on a curve at a steep incline, and was due to the misunderstanding of orders relating to the passing of cars. One cur was run ning slowly and the other at the rate of twenty-five mites an hour when they met. The westbound car carried thirty one passengers and the other thirty five. The passengers on the front seats of both cars received the worst in 1 juries, and in addition to broken bones j sustained severe cuts from flying glass BAIL. IS GRANTED, Everybody Involved in the Slocum Ex cursion Disaster Enters Plea of Not Guilty. New York, Aug. 3.—-Ail officers and employes of the Knickerbocker Steam boat company, as well as the United States inspectors, indicted by the fed eral grand jury in connection with the Slocum disaster of June 15, were ad mitted to bail in the federal court. Ex cept in the case of President Barnaby; who was required to give bonds of $20, 000. the bail was fixed at $5,000. Each defendant entered a plea of not guilty. GENERAL KELLER KILLED One of the Russians Ablest Command ers Claimed as Victim of Battle. Mukden, Aug. 3.—Lieutenant General Count Keller Is reported killed east of Liao Yang. London, Aug. 3.—A St. Petersburg dispatch confirms the reported death of General Keller, he having been killed by a fragment of a Japanese shell while opposing the Japanese advance along the railroad near Haicheng. General Keller was 54 years old and resigned the governorship of Ekateri posiaff In order to go to the front. He took part in three campaigns of the Russo-Turklsh war. He was consid ered the possessor of cool Judgment, a fine strategist and a strict disciplinar 'an, but popular with liis men. BALTIC FLEET AGAIN. This Time It Is to Sail in Three Days, According to Reports, St. Petersburg, Aug. 3.—Preparations Jiave been completed for the departure, lunder command of Rear Admiral En ciuist, of the cruiser division of the second Russian Pacific squadron, now lying off Cronstadt. The warships will weigh anchor and put to sea under sealed orders within three days. This time the admiralty has resolved that there shall be no question of the char acter of the warships engaged in stop dug contraband. JAPS PRESSING HARD. Between Liao Yang and Hai Chen. They Are Taking Every Advantage. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3.—The emperor today received the following, dated July 31, from Kuropatkin: “The Japanese have renewed offen slve operations on our southern front. Our rear guard made an obstinate de fense until the appearance of consid erably superior forces of the enemy, and then gradually retired in the direc tion of Hai Cheng. The attack w-as di rected against our right flank, w-hich from its position at Kanhau pass in flicted great losses on the Japanese. "The efforts of the Takushan army and of Oku's army today are being mainly directed at cutting our com munications between Simoucheng and Hai Cheng, their operations starting from a line traversing Yan Shukan, Ta Puntese and Lia Chan Tse. On our eastern front the Japanese began the offensive this morning against our Ikhavuen position, the enemy's main concentration being against its right flank, which was turned. The enemy is also acting on the offensive between Liao Yang and Saimatzsa, almost due north of Feng Wang Cheng, against our troops posted at Houtsiatse, twen ty-live miles from Liao Yang, Intelli gence has been received of a consider able number of Japanese landing off Yin Kow under cover of several war ships.” _a_ JAPAN PURCHASES A NAVY. Said to Have Effected a Coup by Tak inc| Over Chilean Fleet. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3.—News to the effect that the Chilean navy had been purchased for Japan through a large American syndicate has been received here. Such a coup would Immediately change' the entire aspect of the war and is deemed impossible from an in ternational point of view, as it would bring forthwith the strongest protest from Russia. Failing to get satisfaction out of Rus sia, it is announced England has called upon the porte to prevent volunteer Meet ships passing the Dardanelles. This is seriously occupying public at tention here and is much resented as uncalled for interference. It is needless to say that the declaration which the Times and the rest of the English pa pers announced as about to be pub lished in the government of Viestnik concerning the status of the volunteer ships has not appeared. It never has been a secret that they would be turned into light cruisers in time of war just as the English and German subven-. tioned liners are intended to be. —4— Forecast of Russia’s Reply. Paris, Aug. 3.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris makes a forecast of Russia’s reply to the British protest against the seizure of the Malacca. The reply will be pub lished tomorrow. He says that Russia Will declare she is not willing to accept fhe objections raised by Great Britain. As to the British interpretation of Rus sia’s right arm at sea vessels which have passed the Dardanelles under a commercial flag, the reply will state that Russia by no means allows any one to contest her right to hoist any where, except in the reserved zone of Turkish waters, her war Mag on ships that had been hitherto flying the com mercial flag. —4— Port Arthur’e Bad Situation. Chicago, Aug. 3.—A Japanese liter chant has received word from Chi nese whom he trusts to the effect that the Japanese have occupied every posi tion surrounding the besieged fortress of Port Arthur with the exception of Golden hill. The Chinese state that jboth sides suffered terrific loss in the operations necessary to bring about this state of affairs. The members of the Russian intelli gence bureau here, while denying the report that Port Arthur had been cap tured, are Inclined to believe the report true to the extent that the Japanese have made progress in their approaches toward the besieged fortress. The body of Russian refugees ex pected here today has not as yet ar rived. Trouble Feared in Korea. Paris, Aug. 1.—According to trust worthy advices the Japanese seriously fear an uprising in Korea. The Japa nese garrison has been strengthened by thousands during the last few days. Japanese Boat Damaged. Tokio, Aug. 1.—Commander Hirose and ten men were wounded July 26 while destroying mines in the vicinity of Lung Wang Tiyig bay, on the east ern coast of the Kwan Tung peninsula, and not far from the entrance to Port Arthur. The clearing cable be came entangled with the screw of the gunboat, from, which Hirose was di recting the operations. The Russian batteries immediately opened fire and torpedo boat destroyers .attacked the gunboat, which was severely damaged, but finally escaped^ Port Arthur Behind the Times. London, Aug. 3.—The Tokio corre spondent of the Times sends a pub lished translation of the reply of the Port Arthur garrison to the Japanese summons to surrender. This reply shows that the garrison is under the impression that Field Marshal Oyama and all of his staff were sunk with the transports Hitachi and Sado, and that the Russians wholly disbelieve that General Kuropatkin has ever been de feated. Will Open Port of New Chwang. Tokio, Aug. 1.—The government to day decided to open the port of Yinkow to trade of neutral ships and indi viduals. I CHICAGO PACKERS SAY IT'S ALL OYER _ ♦ 3ut the Strikers Laugh at Their Attitude Toward the Lafeor Trouble. STOCK RECEIPTS LARGE All the Plants Said to Have Resumed Operations—Trouble in St. Joseph Eetween the Police and the Strikers. Chicago, Aug. 3.—Monday was a jusy day with the packers. With in areased forces of skilled workers and their operating department more < thoroughly equipped than at any time q fcince the beginning of the strike the If employers took a firm grip on the ma chinery of their affairs and as a re sult the stock yards took on the old hum of activity to a great extent. Over 78,000 head of live stock was re ceived here. This is an increase of 59.000 head over the receipts on the corresponding day last week. Such an amount of live stock would, under nor mal conditions, have had a depressing effect on the market, and, when the trainloads of animals began to pour into the yards stockmen and traders feared a panic, but it did not occur. The day was freer from violence than any since the strike began. There were several disturbances, hut the police experienced little difficulty in restoring order. The ('Towds usually seen at the entrances to the yards were no Jonger in evidence yesterday, and wagons carrying meat passed through the streets with their drivers unmolested. When the strike breakers left ihe plants trouble was expected by the police, but for the first time in the history of the strike they were disap- ' pointed, not a single attack upon non union men being made. Saloon fights between union and non union men were more frequent yester day. During these quarrels one man was shot and another stabbed. But neither was seriously injured. Prices were lowered sharply, but the fact that the market held so well as it did seemed to prove beyond argument that the packers are prepared to in crease their output. The big packers bought 8,000 cattle, 13.000 hogs and 10.000 sheep during the day. Before nightfall 80 per cent, of these ■purchases had been slaughtered. Fur ther proof of the claims of the packers that the difficulties of the strike are being overcome was furnished by the shipment of 500 carloads of fresh meats from the stock yards. Of this number 400 cars were loaded and shipped by the firms affected by the strike. As near as could be established last night 359 union men of trife various trades on strike returned to work dur ing the day. Of this number who abandoned the fight many were skilled workmen. The packers claim desertions make the to tal number of strikers who have re turned to work at least 2.000. Chief of Police O’Neil, who ha3 taken personal charge of the stock yards dur ing the trouble, declared his belief that peace in the strike is in sight, and by the end of the third week great chang es will be seen tending toward a peace ful end. Chicago, Ai»g. 3.—Declaring the strike broken and that the working forces have been recruited by more than 1,000 men and women, many of whom have deserted the union cause, the packers today began operations with the larg est receipts of live stock that have reached the stock yards since July 12, when the strike began. The assertion that the strike is broken is scouted by the strikers as absurd. Swift & Co. declared that nearly all their old millwrights and carworkers have returned to work. The firm asserts (hat they never intend to take back {he striking teamsters or barn men. the claim being made that the packers have learned to do without the wagons here. AH shipments to the Chicago branches will be made by railroads, retailers taking their wagons to the branches for their purchases. Delay Appeal to Roosevelt. The session of the allied trades to day resulted in the decision to delay appealing to President Roosevelt till after all other resources have been ex hausted. The decision was reached on the advice of Homer D. Call, who as a republican declared he was averse to embarrassing the president at the pres ent time, or till other means had failed. There was much discussion on the subject, several delegates declaring they did not care who was embarrassed so long as the strike was brought to a desirable termination. State Factory Inspector Davies' today procured eight warrants from Justice Severson for William B. Farris, super intendent for Nelson Morris & Co., charging Farris with working four children, all under 16, longer hours than the law permits. — MEN GO BACK TO WORK. At Kansas City Strikers Lose More Ground Than at Any Previous Time. Kansas City, Aug. 1.—Up to noon sev eral hundred strikers, by far the great est number that has yet applied for their old positions, had presented them selves at the different plants and asked to be put to work. Many were dis couraged because of the nonarrival of strike benefits expected from the head of the organization at Chicago. It is estimated between 200 and 300 appli cants were re-employed. Others will be taken back as fast as vacancies oc cur. Trouble With Strikers. St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. I.—The police have had a number of skirmishes to day with the strikers, who have stopped the packing house delivery Wagons, and there have been several arrests. There has been no rioting since Saturday night. A Sympathetic Strike, St. Louis. Aug. 1.—Nearly 200 meat cutters In the St. Louis union markets struck today In sympathy witii the employes of the packing houses. Deputy Sheriff Burke, who shot and killed Wm. ^ McLaughlin, a striker of East St. j Louis, was exonerated today by the coroner s jury. Strikers Are Enjoined. Kansas City, Aug. 1.—A temporary • injunction restraining the striking packing house men at St. Joseph from interfering in any way with the em ployes was granted here today by Fed eral Judge Phillips,_ Big Strike in Vienna. Vienna, Aug. 1.—Ten thousand team sters began a strike today, causing general demoralization in many branches of industry. The public is suffering great inconvenience.