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s THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT September 5, 1901 ) little diZjru.lt to see why be should need ooazAfcL Probably he want to taae ad vantage of every iirl quibble that can be invented to fortify the ur'jrtunate rxitk which he has built up lor him self ever since he wa unlucky enough to L twelve mile aw during the battle cf Santiago. Then it a r pears that Admiral Howisou, one of the board of inquiry, has rubbed into prist and made it clear that he is strictly prejudiced against Schley. To the latter rtjuet for acme verification cf the interview the naval department repii that it doe set care to go into the matter. 8 Schley starts knowing that at least one member of the board is against him end has Dot the tact to keep hi dislike est of the ccwipa peri. A GOOD AOVERTISEUENT It the Work the British Doctor are Doing at the Career cf 11th aad N Streets by Giving Their Services Free f Charge and Thus Demonstrating Their Ability to Cure Many Maladies That are CalWd Incurable. A staff of eminent physicians nd sura-eons from the British Medical In stitute hire, at the urgent solicitation of a larre camber cf patients under their care la this country, established a permanent branch of the Institute in this city is the Sheldon fclock. corner of 11th and N ftreeta. Tbes eminent gentlemen haT de cided to aire their aerrlce entirely free for three months (medicine ex cepted! to all Invalids who call upon them before September t. The ser Tices consist Rot only cf consultation, examination and adirlce. bet also of all minor svrrlcal operations. The ot ject in pursuing this course Is to beeorue ispiiiy aad personally ac quitted with the sick and afSicted. and under no conditions will any charjte whatever be made for any ser vices rendered for three months to all who call before September S. The doctors treat all forms of dieae and deformities ad guarantee a core la every caie they undertake. At the Interview a tiorouch examination i made. and. If iscsrble. you are frank- j rectly on the subject, was made by Wm ly and kindly told so; also ad led I Buchanan who was U.S. minister. The against spending your money for ue- ; report was dated Buenos Ayres, Sept. less treatment. a gold dollar, such as the farmer of Ne braska gets when he sella wheat. The farmer who knows arithmetic and most of them are expert figurers, will not have any trouble in arriving at the compara tive pro Eb of the Argentine farmer who pells bin wheat crop for twenly cents a bushel in gold. "This hort of argument was in fashion five years ago and cut a good deal of ice when Mr. Bryan returned from Mexico with such glowing accounts of the profits of doing business in that cduntry where the wages of a laboring man was an av erage cf eight cents a day. But they hare lost their grip and it is a tolerably senseless undertaking to enthuse people now with the prospect of a fifty cent dol lar or even with the eleven cent dollar of the Argentine The following la the second editorial which it supposed to correct the false statement in the first editorial, but as will be seen makes a bad matter worse: "A friend who takes an Argentine paper corrects our statement of the cur rent price of wheat in that repablie by the market report of July 8 wheat is quoted at the export price of twenty seven shillings, six pence per quarter, English money, which is a traction over one shilling a bushel, or in cents 51. The Journal's figures were a little old it seems. Gold is quoted in financial col li m at to $3.40. But wheat at 51 cents at a port is not making the Ar gentine farmer very wealthy. The false statement of part in the State Journal editorials are about as follows: l"a!e statement A. "The paper dollar of commerce is worth one-ninth of a gold dollar such as the farmer of Nebraska gets when he sells wheat." False state ment B. "Argentine farmers who sell their wheat crop for twenty cents a bushel in gold.' False statement C. "With a prospect of a fifty-cent dollar or even with the eleven-cent dollar of the Argentine." False statement D. Which is a fraction over one shilling a bushel or in cents 51." False statement . "Gold is quoted in financial columns at $3J2G to $3.40 but wheat at 51 cents at a port" Now what are the facts, I will first prove by olhcial reports that the state ment that tue Argentine farmers were receiving about 11.80 in silver for a bushel of wheat at tidewater was true when made on August 8, 1901. The last : official report that I find that bears di- ifale and female weakness, cattrrh and catarrhal deafness, also rupture, goitre, cancer, ail skin diseases and all diseases of the rectum, are positively enred fcy their rew treatment. The Chief Associate Surgeon cf the Jnstitcte is in personal charge. OSce hours, from S a. m. Uil 1 p. m. No Sunday hosrs. Special Notice If you cannot call, end taep for question blank for home treatment. THAT ARGENTINE WHEAT. The aM M4e AtaUelag- atmat la lb Reaatlicaa Defltea- Aauitltf l(Mrr Diaalayoe. While the editor of the Independent 10. I&jG. I presume that there are later report, but no one can take exception to j the ue of this report to prove that wheat j was falling at the ports of Argentine for i about tlJSO in silver per bushel or its equivalent in the paper money of that j country on August 8, 1901. According to the special report of Minister Buch anan at Buenos Ayres on Sept. 10, and for Sept. 10, 189C, the price of 60 pounds of wheat at the seaboard in gold was 67 and two-fifths cents, in silver 1 1.31 and in the paper currency of that country f 1.U3. Turning to the files of the Ne braska Bute Journal for Sept. 10, 1896, as weii as some official reports, we hnd that the export price of wheat was about Cl cents per bushel on that day or the same price as the export at Buenos Ayres The above shows and proves that the export price of wheat in gold is about the eame in Buenos Ayres as it is in New York. To further prove that the export price of wheat is about the same in Buenos Ayres as it is in New York I will compare the export price of wheat as given by thenews papers in Buenos Ayres and New York for July 8, 1901, as that date is named by the editor of the Ne braska State Journal and price given at 51 cents per bushel at Argentine ports. The market price for a bushel of wheat as given by a BuecosAyres paper for the week containing July 8, 1901, is 73 cents in gold that would make the export price on that date, July 8, about 75 cents was away on a short vacation, he noticed an editorial in the Bee to'which he made a short reply, writing from the farm where he was ojouming. and expecting when he retarne-d. to get the exact fig ere concerning tie difference in ex change between Argentina and the gold elandard eountrw which were so attainable there. It seems that the statements in the Bee attracted the at tention cf others, and a ritixen cf Lincoln has prepared an article in reply thereto giving the facta as follows: Burro ls3rtjrr: I read voar edi torial headed "Cheap Money and Dear I ID g'd- Turning to the daily papers of Wheat," which it in the Independent ! J"1 8. we find that the export price for of Aoguvt 8. The interesting fact stated ! wheat at New York was about 76 cents ia the editorial was that the Argentine f la gold, or about the same price as in f an&er wet getting about tLW per bushel I Buneos Ayres, which is the New York of in ailver for hi wheat. I investigated a j Argentine. littiw and found you had stated the truth ' 1 hare fully established by compari that the ArffctiL farmer a getting f on. one official and the other taken abost iLfeti ia silver deli rered at tide tram the newspapers, that the export water. 1 realized that it wa a lite price of wheat in gold is about the same question, and that the opposition papers i a Buenos Ayres as in New York. The would taite it up. Ho I watched the i eport price per bushel for wheat at Bute Joamal and the Omaba Bee. On New York on August 8, 1901, run from Aegtii-t IS the Be had an istereUcg I to 87 cents, making the export e-duial oa your fl0 wheat to the Ar- i price for that date about 82 cents in genua farturr. The day following. ! gold. As I have proved above that the August 17. th State Journal had an ixPrt price in Buenos Ayres was the editorial hich would have been ery I am as in New York, therefore the ex-Ictereatir-g if true. The text dav, j fort price of wheat in Buenos Ayres on Augut 1. the Jcurcai had a short edi-1 the 8th of August, 1901, was about 82 tonai makitg one corrections of it i ota per bushel in gold or $1.80 in silver editorial the day before, The Be edi- EJ ut f in the paper currency of tonal was printed ia fall in the Inde Kcdect of iat week, and a your readers ve had an opportunity to read it 1 will ocJy quote Iruax it the faie atateaenu of tact. Fain statement No. 1: "The rao&ey that the Argentine farcuers get for their wheat u currency worth about 40 cent measured ia the aiiver dollar." Fa!-e statement No. JL: -Gold in that country k at a premium of SMX" FaL states No. 3Ua tenble fU state stent: Mea-re4 by the doUar that th Nebraska farmer geta foe his wheat the Argtic farmer receive but 10 cents a buhh while the Nebraska farmer is selling his wheat at from 43 to Q cents a bushel ia gold, or $4X6 to $5.43 is Argentic currency." Falsa statement No. 4; "In other words the Argentine farmer geta no more for three buahela of wheat than th Nebraska armr for one, measured in honet caoney." False statement No. 5 Is a Amih statement, both of the same kind: -While it is trc that th Argentine farmer gel tlJsO in currency of that country for his wheat he pays about cine times a much as the Nebraska farmer does for his clothing, furniture and farm machinery." Fale statement No. 6: On th ether hand the Argentine workman who earns from $2 to tllti per day ia Argentine currenry is obliged to pay four cc five price for the ceceaaarie of life," A the readers of the Independent hate not seen the two editorials that were in th Nebnuk State Journal I place them ia here and will expo the faice stAtaments they contain below. TOO THIN AN ARGUMENT pop organ, vum independent, is britang cp again ca the silver question and endeavors to stir up the gall of the ancient pop farmers cf the state by pointing ta the Argentine republic, a free sirrrrcoastry.as a farmers paradise be Rja ther ar a-i;.'T thir mkmmt a $US0 per buaheh If th Nebraska farmer could only gt a collar evhty for his wheat he wcud sooa become, ncu beyond the creams of avarice, X itere ia no fwa ana littieuver in cirrulaUoa ia Argentine and thJpaper collar cf waarts fa worth cne-mxth of that country. I have proven bejond all question that the editor of the Inde pendent told the truth in his editorial in the isue of August 8, 1901, when he said that the Argentine farmers got$L80 in silver per bushel for their wheat at the ee board. In answering the false statements and commencing with No. 1, which was written by the editor of the Omaha Bee in which he states wheat "is worth about 40 cents, measured in silver, etc." The facts are, it takes about $1.94 in paper currency to buy a bushel of wheat and it takes $1.60 In silver to buy it, therefore the first statement is away off the truth to the extent of $L40 in silver on one bushel of wheat. The second false state ment in which the editor states that gold is at a premium of 900 is grossly untrue. The truth is that gold was at 1 4Wk, Aa m VI v a. ooontne ism or juiyana it was probably about that figure on the 16th of Aogust when the editor of the Bee jvn a . . saia ii was waj. oo ims statement is untrue to the extent of about 664 The third false statement having three such statements in one is the one in which the Bee says that the Argentine farmer received but 20 cents a bushel for his wheat measured in the dollar that the Nebraska farmer received. The facts are that he received at tidewater in Argentine 82 cents per bushel instead of the 20 cents stated above by the Bee mam Here again the trreat editor of the Omaha Bee gets 62 cents in gold out side the truth on one bushel of wheat The Be says that Nebraska farmers are getting from 45 to GO cents for their wheat. The Bee man knows very wel that there was no general market for wheat at CO cents per bushel when he wrote that editorial on the 16th o August. The Bee man states also in the last part of the three-ply false statement that it took from $4.05 to $5.40 in Argen tine currency to buy a bushel of wheat. The facts are that it takes about $1.94 in currency to buy a bushel of wheat when delivered ready to export. It can be seen at once that this statement is false to the extent of from about $2 to $3.40 on a bushel of wheat. False statement No. 4, that one in which the Bee editor re fers to home money. The editor says that the Nebraska farmers get more honest money for one bushel of wheat than the Argentine farmer does for three. The facts are that the farmer in Argentine receives about as much gold for his wheat at the seaboard as the Nebraska farmer does at the seaboard and on the 8th of August 1901, the farmers of both countries were j receiving about 82 cents per bushel in gold. In this statement the Omaha Bee man has told that which is not true to the extent of two bushels of wheat out of three. . False statement No. 5 has two sections. The editor says that the Argentine farmer gets $1.80 in currency for his wheat when in fact he has been getting $1.94. The Bee editor makes bold to state that the farmers of that country have to pay nine times as much for clothing, furniture and for machinery as the farmer of Nebraska does. This statement is so plainly false that I could pass it by, as it only takes about $2.35 of their paper currency to buy a Nebraska dollar anyone would know that it would not require more than three times as much of their currency to buy the above named articles as it would take to buy them in Nebraska. False statement No. 6. The Bee editor says that "the working man has to pay four orive prices for the necessities of life." I take from the official report of U. S. Minister Buchanan, the following items which were being sold in Septem ber, 1896, at the prices named in their currency, which at that time was only worth about one-third in gold: Bread Hi cents per lb., or a little less than 4 cents a lb. in our money or in other words, the same price it was selling for here. Good cuts of roast beef, 16c per lb. or about 5ic in our money, which is considerable less than we are buying it for at the time. Ordinary cuts of beef Hie per lb. or less than 4c in our money; this is much less than we were paying during September, 1896. Potatoes 3?c per lb. or ia our money about lc per lb., which is about the amount that we were paying here. Flour about 7ic per lb. or a little over 2c in our money, which is about the price that was being paid here at that time. Beans about 9c per lb. or 3c of our money; this is about the same price that we were paying. The above prices are all retail prices. It will be seen that the last part of No. 6 state ment is as devoid of truth as the Kansas hot winds have been devoid of moisture during the last three months. False statement i( A). The editor of the Nebraska State Journal states that the Argentine paper dollar was worth only one-ninth of a gold dollar when at the time, August It, which was the time that the editorial was written, it was probably taking about $2.40 to buy a gold dollar instead of nine dollars as stated by the State Journal editor. ' False statement (B), The editor of the Nebraska State Journal speaks of the Argentine farmers selling their wheat crop for 20 cents per bushel in gold. The facts are that the Argentine farmers are selling wheat delivered ready to export at the same price in gold that the Amer ican farmers are selling their wheat de livered ready to export for. Mr. Editor I am surprised to find out how little some editors know. Here are two of the editors, the Omaha Bee and the Nebraska State Journal, making statements that are absurd and are so easilyproven to be false they are ridicu lous. Every school boy knows or ought to know that the farmers in Argentine, the farmers in India and tne farmers in Russia get about as much per bushel in gold for their wheat delivered at the sea board in their various countries as the American farmer gets for his wheat so delivered. As a matter of fact the aver age wheat farmer .of Argentine should be getting more in gold per bushel than the Nebraska wheat farmer because the former is hundreds of miles nearer the water than the latter. False statement (B). The editor of the State Journal states in his last editorial that "wheat is quoted at the export price of twenty-seven snillings, six pence per quarter, English money, which is a raction over one shilling a bushel or in cents, 51." The editor made a bad botch of this statement. In the first place one hiUglisa. smiling is about 2d cents, not 51 cents as stated. Then in the second place the twenty-seven shillings, six pence, amounts to aoout vo.so in our money, and as the English quarter of wheat consists of eight bushels, the ex port price would be 8o cents by the figures of the above named editor. i alse statement (JD). The Journal ed itor states that "Gold is quoted in finan cial columns at 3.36 to 3.40, when the official figures given for July 8. 1901. were z.iH u-lUO. The reader should re memoer too, mat in is last editorial was written to correct the first one. C. G. Bullock. obtained a license from the game com missioner, the fee for the same being $1. No license is required when a person hunts in the county in which he is an actual bonafide resident The licenses mentioned expire on the 31st day of December next after they are issued. They allow a person to hunt during the open season only. The blank applications for these licenses can be procured at the office of the , county clerk. . " - '-; nate Judge Kritsinger as their standard- bearer in this campaign, we feel ruuch confidence that our next supreme judge will be a lawyer of great ability and a citizen of highest character. Yours for the good of the cause, E. E. ELLIS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF RECOGNIZED POWER NO EFFORTS OF THE ENEMIES OF HOME INDUSTRY AND HOME ENTERPRISE CAN DESTROY THE IN FLUENCE OF THE Warden Davis, of the Nebraska state penitentiary is sick wifh typhoid fever A dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela, says that war is imminent between, that power and Qolombia. The strike of the brewers at the Fremont Brewery, declared laat Fri day is off, the men having gone back to work. Articles of incorporation of the Val entine State bank have been filed. The new bank will have a capital stock of STRONG ADVISORY BOARDS 825,000 At Munson, Fa., THROUGHOUT NEBRASKA EN GAGED IN THE HONORABLE UNDERTAKING OF BU1XD ING UP NEBRASKA AS AN IMPORTANT LIFE INSURANCE CENTER. Emanuel Binns, a German miner, was blown to atoms by an explosion of powder which had Ignited from his pipe. Rev. J. W. Swan and wife of Wymore were tendered a reception by the mem bers of th M. E. church. Rev. Swan has accepted a call to Omaha, During a thunder storm ot Altoona, Pa., a party of golf players took refuge An insurer seeking insurance for pro- In a building. , Lightning struck it and . a a. i I n T -w i . . .A 49 , Lillys "CCC" on Every Tablet Every tablet of Cascarets Candy Cathartic bears the famous C. C. C. Never told in bulk. Look for it and accept no other. Beware cf fraud. All dxuggists, ioc tection or investment desires mforma tion. CI). As to the character of the con tract which is to be executed, (2) . As to the character of the busi ness undertaken by the company. (3) . As to the reliability and standing of the company with which he proposes to insure. (4) . As to the character and business reputation of the management of the company. (5) . As to the reputation of the com pany in the community where its man agement is best known. (6) . As to tne promptness with which its policy obligations are met STRONG ON THE SIX POINTS. Tried upon these six points the Bank ers' Reserve Life association stands at the head of the procession of life insur ance companies doing business in this state because: (1.) The policy is unexcelled, progres sive, liberal, scientific and free from am biguity. (2.) The risks written are carefully scrutinized by the best medical authori ties in Nebraska and they are critically passed upon by the advisory board of the community where the applicant re sides. (3.) The state authorities, the best known men in Nebraska and the best known disinterested insurance actuaries agree that the Bankers' Reserve Life as sociation is safe, solid, reliable, aggres sive and successful. (4.) The people of Nebraska know that B. H. Robison, president, is one of the strongest life insurance men in the west, with an experience in Nebraska of twenty-five years. They also know that James P. Latta, vice president and treas urer, is one of the oldest, wealthiest and best known bankers in the state where he has resided for a life time. (5) The Bankers' Reserve Association does not owe a dollar it cannot pay and no just bill is ever presented twice. Its reputation with mercantile agencies and business men in Nebraska is simply un questioned. Omaha and Nebraska know the company is all right in every sense of the term and that gives the company its reputation. (b) me Mansers' Reserve has never failed to pay a just loss promptly never in a single instance has the company failed to pay an approved claim before it was due under the terms of its policy Usually the check for the amount due goes back to the beneficiary on the very day nnai proofs are received. No com pany in America can be more prompt THESE FACTS GIVE STRENGTH A A I - to tne young and vigorous company which has successfully met and van quished every alien enemy whose ugly neaa nas veniurea into tne neid for a fight The young company asks no fa vors and fears no foes. It stands upon its merits and the results shows it is safe from malicious assaults for in the face of the most malevolent alien enemies this Nebraska institution has written a larger business than any alien competitor. It wants more active ground and special agents on most liberal terms. Address Bankers' Reserve Life Association. umana, XNeo, D. D. Marks; aged 23, was killed. Late reports from the wreck which occurred on the Great Northern forty miles east of Kalispell, Mont, indicate that the wreck was the worst in the history of the road. Thirty-four lives have bin n lost and ten were injured, at least three of whom will die. Through the efforts of Senator Mil lard, Guy Doane of Omaha has been transferred from a clerkship in the war department to one in the insular service. Thomas Harsh, of Nebraska City, whose wife departed some days ago while he was away, has found her in Council Bluffs. She will go back on probation. Bertha Philips, aged 18, of DeWitt, Mo., was shot and killed in an apart ment house in Kansas City. George Bitzenberger, with wv . jq she had been living is under arrest.. FIRST KILL AND THEN BURN Alabama Mob Shows More Than Usual Mercy. Bill Fourney, alias Bill Hilliard, of Troy, Ala., charged with assaulting Miss Wilson at Chesnut Grove, was 6hot and his body burned by a mob near the scene of his crime. Miss "Wilson, who is seventeen years of age, and the daughter of T-. Carroll, twelve years of age, were on their way to school at Chesnut Grove when they were overtaken by the negro. He seized Miss Wilson and the younger girl ran. As she did so the negro fired his pistol, but missed her. The girl raised the alarm and soon a posse was in pursuit When they reached the scene of the crime they found Miss Wilson uncon scious and terribly bruised in the face and about th head. The posse tracked the negro to his home, where he was found in bed, say ing he was sick. The Carrol girl iden tified him and he was then taken out and shot, and his body burned. Miss Wilson is in a precarious condition. HASTINGS BOILER BURSTS OR TEACHING TELEGRAPHY The New Game Law. L The open season for prairie chick en, sage cmcken ana grouse will begin October 1st and end November 30th. It is unlawful to kill or trap or in any way a . " narm any quail at any season oi the year prior to November l, lytw. '2. Wolves, coyotes, foxes, wild cats. skunks and rabbits may be killed at any time ot ine year. 3. The open season for wild ducks, geese, brants, swans, cranes and water fowl shall begin September 1, and end Anril 15th next ensuinor. . . . lhe open season on jack snipe, Wilson snipe ana yellow legs shall begin Sep tember 1 and end April 15 next ensuing. 4. The open season for wild piereons. doves and plover shall begin April 15 and end October ou next ensuing. o. uame can only be killed or taken for food purposee. Not more than ten wild geese or brants and twenty -five other game birds of any variety can be killed or taken by a person in one day. Nor shall any person have in his posses sion at any one time more than ten wild geese or brants, fifty ducks and fifty otner Diras. 6. It shall shall be unlawful for any person not a bonafide resident of this state to hunt or fish within this state unless said non-resident shall first pro cure from the game commissioner a license, the fee for said license being $10. It shall be unlawful for any bonafide resident of this state to fish or hunt in any other county except the one of hi actual residence, without having first Gage County Pops. Editor Independent: The fusion forces ot uage county met at the court house in the city of Beatrice September 3 and nominated candidates for the county offices, and Also full sets of , dele gates to the state convention. The populists and democrats of this county are probably more united now than they ever were since they com mencea woraing together. Xhey are also much encouraged at this time, feel ing quite confident that they will cap tare some of the county offices from the old court house ring that has dominated the pontics of the county for many years. The delegates nominated by the Pon- ulist convention will come up to our state convention hrintrinsr with them Gage county's candidate for supreme judge, in the person of our old friend E. u. Jtvntsmger, and as such will present nis name to tne state convention, unani mously endorsed by the Populists of our county, as well as' by the Democratic ddutcbuqu oi vaire county. we are quite confident that our state convention will be convinced, after listening to the resolution or our county convention and tue testimony oi our aeiegates, that we are presenting to the Fusion forces of our state as candidate for supreme judge, iuo name oi a genueman, quannea as such by his eminent qualifications as a first class, competent and most skillful lawyer a man of mature, conservative. ana ripe judgment, but also a man pos sessmg superior avauaDiu:y Dy reason of location, brightness of his personal character, and a past history showing his devotion to the principles of the Populist party. The passing away of Norval and the seating of Judge Kritsineer on the su pre me bench would be an event that not only the Populists and Democrats of Nebraska, but that all the good citizens' of our state could rejoice and be proud If our state conventions'on September x in win nave wisaom enough to nomi aehlna Csllad tha Omalfraph Imv to Aid Learners. When telegraphy was first Invented It was easy to learn it for the receiv ing instrument printed the dots and flashes on a paper tape so they could be easily read. Gradually the opera tors became so skillful that they ceased to bother with the tape and wrote the messages from the clicks of the sounders. Since then it has been harder to learn the business, and now adays a novice must practice a long time before the ticking of a sounder is Instantly understood by him. To sim plify the study of telegraphy, a ma chine' called the omnlgraph has just been invented. It consists of a small baseboard on which Is mounted an or dinary telegraph key and sounder, hav ing between them a disk with a toothed edge. When the disk is revolved by a small crank, a spring pressing against the teeth Is vibrated so that, as each tooth passes, an electric circuit la made and broken and the sounder gives a click. The teeth are so arranged that they spell, in the Morse code, the sen tence "John quiakly extemporised live tow bags, which contains all tha let ters of the alphabet The student be gins by rotating the disk slowly and listening to this queer swaienee as it ia ticked off. As he becosaes skillful in receiving, the disk is routed faster. One's first impression is that the stu dent would simply learn this sentence and would not derive much benefit But by turning the disk the other way the sentence can be clicked off backwards, and the disk can be rotated part way from any point ao that the letters to be sounded cannot be anticipated. The sounder can be operated at a speed that is surprising even to an old tele graph operator. After learning to re ceive messages at a fair rate, the stu dent acquires skill in sending tnem by practicing with the key which is part of the machine. The lnsiruwoui. is made by the Omnlgraph company i New York. Little Chronicle. Fairfield TTemari Burned. Mrs. Henry Hall was probably fatal ly burned at Fairfield, Neb., by the explosion of a gasoline lamp which she was filling in her husband's store. Mrs. Preston was also badly burned and a young man named N orris was tmrrwHi About the back and lees. J.ne a tore caught fire, but the blase was ex tinguished. . Exploelon in Machine Shop . Partially Wreeks Bmlldlng. A dispatch from Hastings, Neb., says: A two and one-h8X horse pow er boiler in Buneingren's machine shop exploded with a terrific report that was heard all over town. No lives were lost. Mr. Buneingren had' been using the boiler without a safety valve and at too high a pressure and It ex ploded. A portion of the boiler went through the west side of the building cutting the studding and springing the whole side of the building. Other portions went through the west tide and the plate glass front waa blown out and the engine left a wreck. Mr. Buneingren and another man who were standing in front of the ahop were lifted off their feet, but were un hurt. . The damage is 9300, with no in surance. ACCUSED OF, CAUfiNG RIOT Mrs. Natlom Jjrreete aft New York Bat A New York dispatch says: Mrs. Carrie Nation, who arrived in this city recently, was arrested at Twenty eigthth street and Eighth avenue, charged with "raising a crowd and creating a riot" She was released, however, upon the assurance of her escort that she would go directly to her hotel. Before being arrested Mrs. Nation entered three saloons and two concert halls, and in strong language lectured the bartenders aad the per sons gathered In the different resorts, A crowd followed her from place to place, constantly growing larger aad more boisterous, and finally the police interfered nd arreste- Mrs. Nation. PLAN EXTENSION TO OMAHA Cbleaa-o Great Western May Bonds for Building. It is reported, says a Chicago dis patch, that President Stickney of the Great Western has succeeded in form ing a syndicate to underwrite an issue of 96,000,000 Chicago Great Western de benture bonds,, to provide for the building of the proposed extension to Omaha and Sioux City. Work on these extensions is to be commenced next spring, but some pre liminary grading may be done this year. The surveys have all been com pleted. Barn to Death In Hotel. The destruction of the Hotel McKee at Pittsburg, Pa., a frame stmture. re sulted in the deavh of Harry McKee, a boy; injuries to four others, and the narrow escape of many more. McKee waa burned . to death. . The injured were: Delia Campbjell, John M. Gray Harry Mardis, Harry, McGouver, and Mary Wolochn. Miss Campbell will probably die. The fire waa caused by the explosion of 4 gasoline stove, which Miss Campbell attempted to light The injured were all employes. Surrey of the Niobrara. Engineer Koenlg has completed his survey of the Niobrara river at Nio brara, Neb., and reports that 1,500 electric horse power can be put in for a Sl5,000 and that the plant can be Op erated at a cost 914. 50 per horse pow er per year. If the horse-power is doubled it can be put in for 9185,000. The engineer reports that the topo graphy of the country .is favorable to inexpensive construction. O. V. P. Stout of Lincoln recently took meas urements of the river. It is said that capital can be secured to construct the plant. An Editor 'Badly Beaten. C Miller, editor of the Cuming County Democrat at West Point, Neb., was badly beaten by a young law stu dent, Charles Neeary. Miller's teeth were knocked out, his nose broken and both his eyes blackened. Miller was having a political discussion with Jim Conlin in the Green Tree hotel and Neeary took a hand with disastrous results to Miller. Neeary was arrest ed and released on bond. The encoun ter stirred up considerable excitement and there was talk of dealing harshly with the young man. Disapprove Boycott. Vacation At Omaha, Neb., the central labor anion recently declared a boycott up on the Ak-Sar Ben festivities because non-union labor as employed con structing the booths and pavilions that are to be used. The local typograph ical union held a meeting and resolved that while not liking it because . non union men were employed still it waa against policy to boycott a public en terprise of this character. If any boy cotting is done it should be against the persons directly responsible for the employment of non-union men. HacArthur at Washing-ton. A Washington . dispatch says: MaJ. General MacArthur, who formerly was in command of the American forces In the Philippines, has reached Washing ton. He was accompanied by Capt. T. Q. Ashbnrn, his aidde-de-catnp. Gen eral MacArthur's stay in Washington will be brief, as after formally report ing to the war department officials he will leave for a call on Secretary Root in New York and then will re'axrn west. Chlld'ttnn Over by Dray. A little son of Carl Spronse, just old enough to run out of doors, was run over by Bennett'a dray at Callaway, Neb. The child was playing outside when the dray passed by at a good speed, and the little one ran in front and was knocked down and one of the wheels passed over it, injuring it quite severely, if not fatally. The father of the child committed suicide two years ago. ' For your summer outing allow us to suggest Colorado and Utah, famous the world over for their cool and invigor ating climate, magnificent mountain scenery and picturesque summer re sorts, which are located along the line of the Denver & Rio Grande, "The Scenic Line of the World," and the Rio Grande Western, "The Great Salt Lake Route." Very low excursion rates and "Circle" tour tickets are on sale during the summer months via this line to all the principal points of interest. The Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western with their numerous branches penetrating the great states of Colorado and Utah has thirty-seven different "Circle" tours through the Rocky Mountains, one of which In particularly is the famous 1,000-mile tour for $28.00, which com prises more noted scenery than any similar trip in the world, passing the following points of interest: La Veta Pass, Pancha Pass, Toltec Gorge, Ind ian Reservations, Durango, Mancos Canon, Rico, Lizard Head Pass, or Las Animas Canon, Silverton, Ouray, Cim arron Canon, Black Camon of the Gun nison, Marshall Pass and the Royal Gorge. This trip can be comfortably made in five days, but at least ten days should be devoted to it, so that one may " view at leisure the principal sights. Tickets at very low rates are also on sale to Salt Lake City, Utah. If you contemplate a trip through Colo rado or Utah, let us send you some beautifully illustrated booklets, free. S. K. Hooper, G. P. & T. A., Denver, Colo. j easy' MONEY In J J MISSOURI. J ' w fa frt tf at aS av 0 Ot Ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot A good many enterprising Northerners have gone into the fruit belt of South Mis souri - and North Arkansas and made it pay. They have not done it raising corn and wheat, but by planting orch ards of selected trees and tak ing care of them. There's money in Missouri apples, peaches, grapes, berries easy money when you go at It ot ot ot ot ot ot 0 ot ot ot ot ot 01 ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot right, and the land can be bought for $2 to $10 per acre. Write for copy of "Fruit Farming Along the Frisco;" also dates of cheap homeseek ers' excursions. W. C. MILV1LLE, Northwestern Passenger Agt 205 So. 14th st, Omaha, Neb. Ot Ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot s$t aC it aC et M awt sjl et M at at tt at Ot WABASH Ot Ot EXCURSIONS Ot ototoiototoi otototototot at a4 aS av- ftj at at aJrC eS ot $13 Buffalo and re- o Ot turn. On sale daily. o at tt t$ tlf at at tt ajt at a pt epi aJ at at Ot $6.85 Cleveland & Ot Ot return. On sale o Ot- Sept. 8 to 12. ot st awi ajt tS at tt 8 4p4 apvt ajf ajt at tt ajC apt s a a M Ot $31 New York City 0 ot and return. On sale ot ot dally. ot ot otototototot otototot otototototot ot ot The above rates via the Wa- ot bash from Chicago. For the Ot G. A. R. encampment at Cleve- Ot land, O., have your tickets Ot read via the Wabash to De- ot troit and thence via the D. & Ot C. Nav. Co. to Cleveland, a Ot beautiful trip across Lake Ot Erie. . The Wabash runs on its ot own tracks from Kansas City 0t St Louis and Chicago to Buf- Ot falo. Many special rates will ot be given during the summer Ot months. Stop-overs allowed Ot on all tickets at Niagara O Falls. Be sure your tickets Ot read via the WABASH Ot ROUTE. For rates, folders Ot and any other Information, Ot call on your nearest Ticket ot Agent, or write Harry E. ot Moores, general agent, Pass. Ot Dept., Omaha, Neb., or C. S. Ot Crane, G. P. A., Wabash R. R., Ot St. Louis, Mo. Ot at aC al efc at at aC aC aC t aV aC Ot. ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot o ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot ot CLEVELAND, O., AND RETURN. At less than one fare for the round trip via THE ROCK ISLAND ROUTE September 7th to 10th. Special trains and Pullman Tourist Sleepers. Pas sengers hofding Rock Island tickets can use boat line from Toledo to Cleveland In either direction. The Rock Island is the only line that can send you through without bus trans fer in Chicago. For further informa tion address E. W. Thompson, A. G. P. A., Topeka, Kas., or F. H. Barnes, C. P. A., Lincoln, Neb. WABASH RAILROAD IS SHORTEST AND QUICKEST TO PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION AT BUFFALO, MAY 1 to NOV. 1. The WABASH runs on its own tracks from Kansas City, St. Louis and GMcto. Many special rates will be given during the summer, months. Stopovers allowed on all tickets at Niagara Falls. Be sure your tickets read via the WABASH ROUTE. For rttes, folders and other information, call on your nearest ticket agent, or write Jos. Teahon, T. P. A., Omaha, Neb., or C. S. Crane, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis. . J. W- Mitchell Co. 1338 O STREET. Wall Paper & Painting I Cj I corn-Write for prices. - Uood patterns here to choose from i 1 0 . s-: T