TOE NORTHWESTERN.
BKNM IKITDK * (IIIWOS, Miud I’hIm.
LOUP CITY, - _ SK»
NEBRASKA.
Columtusltcs have organiz <1 a sewer
Company.
A cow at Pender gave birth to threo
calves and then died.
That big Union Pacific mortgage has
Been filed all along the line.
Noith Platte people are hopeful that
the newly organized Union Pacific
company will build the proposed
Branch line through Keith, Deuel,
Cheyenne and Scott's BlufT counties.
Myrtle Young, the l(i-y<nr-o!d daugh
ter of Night watchman Bee, of David
City, made an attempt to commit sui
cide by taking a dose of laudanum.
The timely arrival of physicians saved
lier life.
Rev. T. W. C. Cheeseman of Seward,
T»'eb., who has been holding revival
meetings In the C< ngrcgatb nal church
In Ashland, has been called o ihe pas
torate to succeed Rev. Wilson Denney,
who moved to Chanes City, la, in
December, lie will take charge about
March 1.
The five men who were being held
In Wahoo on suspicion of the Rising
fjOBioinrH too wry v. »*i-• unm w
coin by the poet Office Inspector anil
Bherlff Karris. The pot-’mas er at Ris
ing Identified some of the money found
in the possession of the.men when a:
rested. The authorities are sure th y
tiave the right men.
Little Ruth, aged three years and
six months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Grablil of Shenandoah, la., the
latter of whom, with her two children,
■was visiting the family of Jos* ph R ed
ttf Ponca, fell into a boiler of hot suds
Thursday afternoon and was so bully
t>urnrd that she died the next morning
at 3:.'{<) o’clock.
There will be new houses an 1 turns
galore built by farmers of Wayne
county this year. Many of them have
paid off their old debts during the past
year, says the Republican, and have
unbounded confidence in the future
and money with which to Improve the
farms, and they will use it.
The dwelling house on th - farm of
It. Clark, a few miles north of York,
and occupied by Charles Johnson,
caught fire from a defective flue and
was entirely consumed, together with
nearly all the household goods belong
ing to Mr. Johnson. The loss was
about $1,000, with no Insurance.
The Union Pacific paid its Valley
county taxes last week, amounting to
$2,558.31. This was after deduo in?
$88.64 which they claim was illegally
assessed. The question of the latt( r
amount being due or not will be set
tled in court, and by stipulation the
amount is received so as not to preju
dice the case In any way.
Harry Randall, William Brown, Wil
liam Phillips and a man giving his
name as “I) itchy," all of Homer, were
placed under arrest by Deputy I ni ed
Btatcs Marshall Allan at Dakota City,
end taken before United States Com
missioner Sloan to answer to the
■charge of selling liquor to tho Indians.
Rasdall gave bonds and continu' d hia
case. Brown was adjudged not guilty
end Phillips and "Dutchy" were given
sixty days each in jail at Omaha.
A car arrived at Palmyra from New
York via the Pennsylvania and B &
M. railroads hilled to J. O. Moore,
commander of Mansfield post No. 54,
G. A. It., upon which was loaded one
100-pounder Rifled Parrott cannon,
length, twelve feet nine inches, cir
cumference at breech, six fee ten
inches, bore, six and one-half inches,
weight, 9,700. This cannon is to be
mounted on the G. A. R. lot in Rose
wood cemetery, as a monument to the
old soldiers.
Following is the record of mor g ig:
indebtedness for the month of Janu
ary, 1898, for Platte county: Thirty
two farm mortgages filed. $28,335;
name released, thirty-eight. $28.79870;
nine town and city mortgages filed, $0,
784.49, same released, twenty, $25,963 -
90, seventy-eight chattel mortgages
filed $31,268.12; same released, sixty
nine'. $17,755.56. The $14,000 difference
in the ehattel record is caused by the
large number of mortgages given on
stock to be fed, and is no indication
that the farmers arc tenewing their
paper.
Lincoln dispatch: Treasurer lleim
rod and Chairman Kleratead of the
w.luiurtl of 4 iinmiB-ilOM
ers came down this morning and
turned over the $100,000 of exposition
bonds «> tile State treasurer. They
were given checks on an Omaha hank
for $ tot,too in return therefor. Th*
money paid by the state treasurer
comes out of the permanent s< hool
fund The iuterest on the bond* >t
into the temporary school fund, and
the permanent fund l* therefore de.
pleted $t.6M, the atm unt of the prem
ium paid for the bonds.
The couuty rum nils.iiiteni of Xnni
ha county discovered ilia* last yeet
they levied *t» of a mill more Ilian Iti
utatus would allow the !« v v auo. ml
ml to #\ mill* for ordinal > county
revenue tm biding the support ot th
pour t he statute- are very pi tin that
» mill* 1* the limit an*l a* a it n r
apiett** «he H a M railroad, thioupti
it* agent Mr fbowa* l> ,d -r«d > ‘»*»n
ty T>ItUHIISf Kt*|l*s la*t we. . I* *t*
go, I be xmoubt o' tv tav * OB
I Hist* ol U Will* ft tile general tun-I
Thin amount M Kt- » • ->»• • »•* **• •
«*p». ** hi* bo- * - *d f “
A numb** «f • ' f *”•* 1 - ' ’
on the ltiirtlii«t‘'** truth" **• n *- *»
gay* a dt.pwt- n from the . .pic h«.
|HM*a reported !*'•»> i.n t*-. on* n*i
been *rr*»i*-l Ike otto ni«f * It
of jwltnr i «>»nty »»* «*t 1 i*
and hustled by • ping *•'' the »*
hound ttottt Jtwtt of the (!*»**
th (libber* did n ■’ *U-‘red Jn p
imn anvthtn* t » » .• >b*-» • • t. Mu.
and inn toward Mm dn r»-u*» »■*
y a I dew «l Kdgewoo* hot At* I** h
,.* poked .-a I he tfitW b*r th* itet
Hill*, ku.na two ratlouid tbh*ta am
wil.ea yaiuahkra a - nh »l*» )>*•’ «
th irata »*ft ** •*“
PITFALL OF MS LOUIS.
THE LETTER THAT BROUGHT
HIM TROUBLE.
—
He Cttrel**f»ly Left It I'pon HI* OHw l><**k
— It In Henri l»jr 11 legation ,
Who Nrnt Word to the .Innta and «
r<atofflrr Clerk at Havana Steal* ••»**
Communication,
.
He I,ome Wan Carole**.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 14.—The j
Press prints today what It asserts to j
lie the true version of the acquisition 1
anil publication of the letter from Mr. !
ill Ixtme to Senor Canalejas. The an- |
thorlty el ted for Its authenticity Is j
"A Cuban of the highest standing in '
the councils of his party." who re
ceives his Information "from headquar
ters in New York." The story pro
ceeds to say:
The letter was not stolen from the
United States malls, hut was secured
by an agent of the Cuban Juntu In the
postoffiee at Havana. Don Jose Canat
rjas, to whom the letter was ad
dressed, never saw the original. He
did not know until eight days after
the letter reached Havana that such a
letter from Spain's representative at
Washington had been written him.
"Dp Lome wrote the letter In his
private residence at Washington, In
stead of at the Spanish location. The
paper, however, was marked with the
official type an! read In the corner
'Legation Kspana.’ The same Inscrip
tion was upon the left hand upper
corner of the envelope.
"Senor tie Dime did not mall the j
letter from his house. In fact he had
not quite completed It upon the morn
ing it was written, and carried it to
the legation, where It was first seen
and noticed by a person who Is In the i
employ if the embassy, acting In a
sub-official rapacity. The letter lay
on the desk of the minister in his in
ner office, the outer office being his
lilncn nf tn visltnrfi DuHncr
i n absence of half an hour from the
Inner office of De Ixime the elerk In
question saw the open letter and read
some of It.
"The n»-xt day this name person sent
word to his Cuban associates in Wash- i
ingtnn to the effect that he had Been
a letter from De Lome to Canalejaa j
in which President McKinley was vil
ified and autonomy called a scheme.
Several of the Cuban leaders got to
gether and asked the employe of the
embassy to secure the letter, They
did not believe bis storv. although he
urged them to come Into the public j
print and make charges against De
Tsime. Because they did not have the 1
letter in their possession the leaders 1
refused to sav anything about if. The
employe of the legation was urged to
use all means in his power to secure
the letter, although it was considered i
probable that the letter was already
In the mails when the Cubans at the
Ifotpl Raleigh were informed of its ex
istence.
"The clerk in the employ of Minis
ter de l-omc saw no more of the letter. ’
Hi» memory-written abstracts . were
sent to New York, and if was urged
that could possession of the letter lie
obtained and his statements proven to
lie true the letter would he, of ineal- i
rulable value to the Cubans as sub
stantiating what. Cuban leaders had
maintained regarding autonomy and
the genera! Snanisli policy in official
circles to wart, this country and Its of
ficers. Immediately words of warning
ant! iirelnm: to lie on the alert u-ns Kent
to every Cuban who might be in a
position to obtain track of or inter
cept the much sought for missive.
"The letter reached Havana flvp
day* after its nostmak in Washington.
An agent of the Cuban narty who is an
emplove of the Spanish postofflee knew
that the letter was on the wav and
when it came into his hands it was
carried from the postofflee and a ropy
was made of it.
"Word to this effect was sent to the
Cuban leader in Jacksonville. Fla.,
who at onee asked the secret Cuban
junta In Havana to secure the original
letter—that a copy was not what he
desired.
"The Havana postofflee clerk was
not willing to do this, hut afterward
consented, as lm was otdiged to ac
count for a certain number of letters.
The original was then taken, several
blank sheets substituted In nlace of
the paper on which De Tome had writ
ten and the letter finally postmarked
in the Havana postofflee and gent on
its routine way.
"Fight days after its arrival In the
Havana office the sealed envelope,
properly addressed to Scnor Canalejas,
was delivered at the Hotel Inglatter. a.
Sen or Canalejas did not regard the
matter seriously at the time, although
the hotel lw>v who brought him the let
ter and the postoldre employe w ho had
c harge of It were arrested. So uls >
was the hotel employe who went sev
eral times dally to tie pMiofflie f ,r
the malls. The three were illsrhaiged
after an examination.
Senor (''inuMag communicated al
most Imtcendlately with Mo, ..... ...
Ixime. and for several week* letter*
alld eshleffams Posed lietwecu the
two lull nil trace of the letlei «ould he
I obtained. Cana cias shortly thereafter
! left llsvauii going to Madrid."
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LOST AT SEA.
The strainer Vendmm Wrecked mid Set
mi Fire.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—The steamer
St. IaOtiiK, Captain Randle, which ar
rived from Southampton, reports the
loss at sea of the Molland-Amerlcan
line steamer Veendam, Captain Sten
ger, from Rotterdam for New York.
The passengers and crew of the
Veendam were saved by the St. Louis.
At Quarantine Captain Strnger of
the Veendam reported as follows:
"The Veendam left Rotterdam Febru
ary 2. with a general rurgo, nine cabin
118 steerage passenfers and eighty-five
crew bound for New York. Had strong
northwest gales and high west and
northwest seas. February 6, at about
5:17 p. m. ship at the time bring In
latitude, 49.35 north, longitude, 20.1
west, the steamer struck a submerged
wreck or wreckage, which probably
tore a hole In the ship bottom and
broke Its propelior shaft. We found
that our ship was making considerable
water. We at once set all pumps to
work, but notwithstanding tills the
water gained on tic In the meantime
all our boats were made ready In or
der if necessary to leave the ship, as
it was now sinking rapidly at the
stern. At 1:30 a. m. we observed the
lights of a targe steamer bearing about
east by south from us. We made sig
nal of distress, on which the vessel
liore down on us. We then decided for
Ill* mill l > Ul IIK- || ’.V llh' n mill ' • ’ "
to abandon the ship.
"The vessel proved to he the fit.
I/juIh of the American line, bound
from Southampton for New York. We
hailed it and rrportod that our ship
was sinking and that we wished to be
taken off. At 1:43 a. m. we com
menced to transfer our passengers
and crew, u ing three boats of the St.
Louis end one of ours. Our men were
kept at the pumps.
"At 4:53 a. tn. Monday morning
everybody had hern transferred to the
St. I-ottls. When the last boat left
the Veehdam was laboring very heav
ily and sinking rapidly by the stern.
The transfer of the passengers and
ctew took, notwithstanding the great
difficulties and high seas running,
three hours and ten minutes and was
accomplished without the slightest ac
cident.
“As the wreck was a dangerous ob
struction to navigation we decided to
set it on fire, which was done. The
position of tile wreck was then lat
itude 49.19 north. longitude 19.47 west.
On board the St. lyauis we were warm
ly received and the captain and his
officers did everything possible for our
comfort. We take this opportunity to
expres sour utmost gratitude also in
the name of the passengers of the
Veendam.
H'lisat SIuiw'm mi I jnva ril Tendency.
CHICAGO. Feb. 14.--Substantial ad
vances took place in the leading fea
tures in wheat last week, May dosing
with a net gain of 2% cents, while
July advanced 1% cents. The market
was not without periods of wtaknes3,
but in the main was strong, the feeling
at times very active, especially toward
the latter part if the week. Saturday
and Monday there was a decided bear
ish disposition among traders. Weak
cables, favorable reports from ihe Ar
gentine. India and Australian crops
caused small declines. On Tuesday the
market was helped by th" beat de
mand for export that has bean re
ported in some time. Urgent demand
from many of the principal milling
centers was also reported and the con
tinued heavy northwest receipts gave
the market, i drooping tendency at
first, but the remarkable cash situa
tion started a general huving move
ment late in [he iny which ilnaU/ be
came a scramble to covpt and a sharp
advance resulted. There was a renc
IIUII * # 11 cuilt:nuu\ till I * ill 1 A I Ilf UilU
outside selling, but on Thursday the
market became very strong and re
mained so throughout Friday. Reports
that the l-eiter interests were making
contracts for the moving of all rail
of a large nart of their wheat to the
seaboard and that part of it was for
direct shipment to Liverpool ad
vanced prices rapidly, the market tak
ing on'at times some degree of excite
ment under the urgent demand. Strong
I-iverpool cables, small stocks at. that
market and the fact that Argentine
shipments fell short of expectations
added to the strength of the general
situation.
Tlu* hull .IOM» Srftlr.
BERLIN. Feb. 14.—The government
export Investigation to ascertain
whether the San Jose scale may exist
in dried fruit, continues. Thp expert
1 reports to the i nited Stales embassy
today that out of 4,000 packages of
fruit which arrived at Hamburg this
! week two small lots, shinned from In
fected California districts, were stop
ped. No northern fiuit l.as so far
been found In footed. The lots stopped
during the last few (lays were Sonoma
apples luiring the coming week !><hi
pm kages are expected. Afterward
there will be a few straggling lots.
The government tests are quite fair
Samples are nnlv taken for the pur
pose of examination, though the ex
i umination takes a long time
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SEARCHING IS RUINS.
me DEATH LIST MAY EXCEED
ESTIMATES.
Chief Humphreys of the lTtUtmrg Fire
I>e|mrtmerit Surr Other* are Coder the
IJrhrla— Danger of Further Explosion*
-The lleeorrl of Mortality Cp to the I’re
«ent Writing.
The ITtlsIiorg Fire.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 12.—The work of
searching for bodies In the ruins of
Wednesday night's fire was continued
through last night by 200 men, hut no
more bodies were found. The debris
Is still piled ten feet high, however,
and, as more than a score of people j
uii* still missing, the work will be
continued without cessation until It Is
positively known that no more dead
are buried beneath the debris. That
more people were killed Chief Humph
reys of the fire department sayB there
can be no doubt. He saw the walls
go down 111 the midst of a great mass
of humanity huddled together In a
small space, and. while he did not care
to estimate the number of people j
killed, he says it will be largefy In ex
cess of any estimate yet made. The
search for the bodies Is nttended by
great danger, not only from weakened
walls, but from 125 tanks of anlv
drsde known to be still In the smould
ering ruins. Anlvdrade Is ammonia
in Its most powerful state and Its ig
nition would result in an explos'on
which would cause Incalculable disas
ter. The firemen are keeping a num
ber of streams constantly plaving on
this part of the building. It Is thought
that precautionary methods will avert
further disaster.
Mis. MeFadden and her fumtlv of
eivht children, who were believed *o
liovo linon tmrloil itniloi* t lin tc f) 11U ft fA
safe. They were found living ft short
distance from the scene of the disaster,
having moved from Mulberry avenue
ontv a few days before. Michael
O'Hearn of Oil City and James Bever
ly of Grafton, were among the missing,
have also turned tin. OHearn wag
visiting friends In Allegheny and Bev
erly wag taken suddenly 111 and ig In
Mercy hospital.
As a result of the catastrophe a
movement to prevent the storage of
bonded liquor or ammonia within tlm
corporate limits of the eitv has been j
commenced. Safety Director J. O. :
Brown has promised the people to see ■
to It that the city councils will have
a chance to nnss on an intended piece
of legislation to this effect at Hie next
meeting held at Municipal hall.
The record of the fire at this time
Is: Known dead eleven: missing, j
twentv-glx: injured, eighteen: property 1
Ins • *1,000,000; insurance, about $1,- [
000,000. •- <
DE LOME INCIDENT.
The Stir at the Capital Has Quieted
IIOHT,
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12—The fol
lowing statement was given out for
publication at the state department:
General Woodford telegraphed that
the minister’s resignation had been
accepted before he presented the tplc
gram from the department. He adds
that the firs-t secretary a* Washington
will be placed in charge of the legation
end a new minister will he annotated
at once. Full reports to follow.
It is believed here that the incident
is practically closed. All sorts of
rumors were in circulation last night,
including one that a snecb.il cabinet
meeting was held at midnight. It can
he stated positively that no cabine*
meeting, formal or informal, was held
iav* night.
The formal notification to this gov
ernment by Spain that Senor Duptiv de
Lome has ceased to represent It as
minister will he made to the state de
partment about noon by Senor Bon
Juan du Boso. first secretary of lega
tion. who will act as charge d'affaires
until the arrival of Sopor de Lome's
successor. The notification will be
purely formal and will state that
Senor de Lome’s resignation as min
ister has been accepted and that the
Kovt-i inn* in win ur 1*1*1 *n1 11 *'ii llli*
present by Sopor ilu Boso, the first
secretary of the location.
The retiring minister is actively
eneacoil in preparing his personal ef
fects for shinment anil in leave taking
of Vos friends and diplomatic associates
in Washington. So"'e of his chatties
were sent to New York todav. It is
the present purpose of Senor de Home
to leave this country early next week.
He probably will sail by one. of the
French liners to Havre end thence
will proceed direct to Madrid. His
connection officially with this govern
ment has entirely censed and he is
henceforth ft private citizen.
Surprised hi 111 I nine.
Multi I,K, Ala . Feb. I.*. Ilunnis
Taylor, former minister to Spain, who
is residing in this div, when con
vinced of the au henticily of the I
I dime litter, expressed surprise at his
ungrateful and Indiscreet action. Mr.
Taylor auys that In- I onic is undoubt
edly the most brilliant and diet * riling
iUphiPi.it In the service of .4)1.1111, and
that hla nroMi’ Imprudence Is Itu-x
pltruhlc The letter be declares, U an
affront to every Anierh*U i Ulxen.
1 and that It I* remark thle how It roitlil
| hare emanated (tom l*< Home, In con -
i sldcraiion of the i udldt relations
| Which have bill, rlo I *I*|C|| between
j hint and the sttfdittisuatiou, Mr.
I Taylor thinks tli* affair wilt have the
! rgeit of tut r*»*‘ a V the rage or In t«nh
| (inntrle*. ss th sieanlaids tiBtcrly
■ d* pise \ln»ti* >, g ltd the so *t -1
I will u oh old tU ta*iM< action li* he
I lt<»*«, ho*ever, thti hla recall |« a
| calamity v*• the tu.<dtrt * unity
S* * »•**■'«*** t ■ > M,... ■Hi nt
rmr tun t ■. t ■ * i ,.««.
It*’n as In the |e***thttl!) of skttlslsi
’ a national lotlt of I .HU|tftoMtsc he -
j tween the ad tie i*. iif the gold aland
, ard and tbelr **t ;. *n * u t * Is being ad
t«a *4 t*» It g ilsitan i t thla city
I The plan 1* for a iiiiaWnsg e.sdtuat
j r*e sting |f| ( MtH 14M'ftl&r«At4Nk |f4> dbk
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GREAT INDUCEMENTS.
Mfin> SI ret* him In Al»ftktt Not Yet I'ron*
peeteil*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Puisuant
lo Instructions from the nr-.lng secre
tary of war a special supplementary
report has been prtpar«d by E Hazard
Wells, who acted as uge.:t for th° Wfg
department in bringing attentl n to
Captain Hay's dispatches. Mr. Wells
lias been In Alaska three times, has
traversed the Interior and has a prac
tical knowledge of the country that Is
inhabited by few persona, He says,
among other things: "There arc un
doubtedly large deposits of gold in
Alaska, rivaling these of the British
Northwest territory. I noticed excel
lent mineral indications upon the Ta
nana river and in other localities la
1K90. I discovered a true fbstiro ve n
of quartz eight feet in diameter with
well defined casing rocks upon the up
per Tanana. This quartz evidently
contained metal. Specimens which 1
secured to take out to San Francisco
for assay were subsequently lost in a
river catastrophe. Numerous creeks
entering the upper Tanana revealed
colors of gold in the r.and.
"All of the gold-bearing streams of
Alaska so far discovered, viz: Birch
creek. Miller creek, Forty Mile creek.
Sixty Mile creek and Seventy Mile
creek, head In the vicinity of the Tn
nana rlr. r and flow nwny to the north
east. On the southwestern side and
heading near the Tanana are the not
ed Copper and Sushltns. rivers, the
la'ter being the gold-bearing stream
which recently came into prominence
through tlie placer discoveries on
Cook's Inlet. The Copper river Is pop
ularly supposed to be located in the
ir ni i wi u hiiii' i hi i'll. ii u i*i*
sonable deduction that If all the
streams flowing away from the Ta
nana itself must cut through a gold
hearing country. This ooitilon is
stored by nearly all of the old-time
miners now located In Daw son. Re
cently excellent prospects were dis
covered upon an American creek, a
tributary of the Yukon In Alaska,
Just below Forty Mile crick. Miller
creek, Birch creek and other streams
within the boundaries of Alaska in
the Yukon valley still offers induce
ments to placer miners. I do not be
lieve that any better mining region
will be discovered in Alaska than will
be found in the Great Tanana valley.’*
Tim Indian (.‘oiigrcss Srlmmc.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. The Indi
an bill, In which the Trans-MIssiss
ippl exposition is v*tally interested by
reason of an amendment <t carries ap
propriating $45,000 for a congress of
the Indian tribes, passed the senate
yesterday afternoon. Senator Allen
withdrawing his appeal on Senator Al
lison's point of order against the
amendment providing for the settle
•nu nt of the Otoe and Missouri re
servat'on lands In Cage county rather
than Jeopardize measures In which the
whole s'ate of Nebraska is interested.
It was thought best to allow the
amendment to go over, in view of the
fact that that Senator Thurston had a
bill cn the Otoe and Missouri affairs
in Nebraska and Kansas. Senator Al
len having withdrawn li s appeal the
hill was put upon its passage, and,
carrying the appropriation, not onl>
for the Indian congress, hut for Indi
an tribes and Indian schools in Ne
braska, South Dakota and Iowa, it war
sent to the house. On Monday the hill
w'll he reported and the house will
nonconcur in the amendments as at
tached to the bill by the senate and
conferees will he appointed.
Should there he a disposition tofight
the measure in which Omaha, and the
whole country for that matter, i« in
terested, counter opposition will he
brought to hear aga nst other features
of the lilll and a general Rebate devel
oped. This, however, is not expected,
tlie importance of other provisions of
the bill being enough, it *s believed,
to carry it through, the free homes
foaturo uliioli u'ac altufliPil f»
r <lfT. being a shrewd game on the part
of the Eenate to force the house to
pass the same to meet the clamor of
many committees in which Indian re
servations are located. Later in the
day Senator Thurston called up and
passed his bill providing for revision
and adjustment of saleH of Otoe and
Missouri reservat'on lands, which pre
cipitated such a row yesterday. There
was no objections to the bill and wlth
I out amendment it slid .lirough the
| senate.
mtl|i|ilni; OdI l.clttr Wheat.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.— It is positively
stated that contracts for moving 1,500,
000 bushels of U it« r wheat to the sea
board have been made. Of this the
Grand Trunk is reported to have se
t tired oo.ooo bushels, the Nickel Plate
500.000 bushels and the Lehigh Valiev
500.000 bushels. The cereal will be
carried on a through rate from Chicago
to Liverpool, so it cannot be ascertain
ed what proportion v ill accrue to the
railroads for the haul to the seaboard
The Chronicle says: It is estimated
that tit/* Goiter holdings of wheat in
thG cltv and afloat will exceed 10,000,
000 bushels, and since u recent visit
to this city of the eastern «xporters
the suspicion has arisen that the en
tip' a mount lias b*»n disposed of to a
ftritUh syndicate Freight men do not
Otuv that negttibilious I >okitig to the
tdut lag of large l iKiirat ti have been
pending for ' oitirl»!tie, and It Is umoC
(•1 «>fi r<tntt>H»b- authority that every
nrotnlio nt eastern line <otkit*« ting with
Chicago hits tg#S Invited to bid oil the
traiia|*»fta»lo«| of an indefinitely lai*ie
.ttttmint til whe »t t«« the M*‘iii-»ard
fUmrlal dtxni ties from Was bln at *n
l«t Will oh ’»d»U sa> that Mtnts’er *|«
U>m «aided HU resign* th>a to tbs
npatiish (ttiorimml
Id ii HON m N»»=m Ii «i*ft
C'lltC AMI. |Vb i? Th ♦ Chb a 40
|Milbe arc |*Ui«b I nor the disappear*
of F i< l (*oaw »v, a taCtC#4 |M**th
welt hVMsnrn la m«G *| tiftM, and
||t«* CMlI* N\ lb M UugMtr «f a
tfdlll N«bra*aa *0*2*10*11 %t
though the pula la (bon
|«iri old#* than the lad who U hat
15 * rtf* «b| th* two e »*• uta* l
I ha n*'-1 t»*h| t«,i thr |***G * t>> a* I id *
j pair*!* afa deep' » a*la bed ***»*# n
wl sad I ha tad lie b<t«« b en Ih|
to mtpnt that they have g* a# tv#y
I * ge t to » •
Rheumatic Pains
Confined to Her Bed, but Hood’s
Sarsaparilla Cured Her.
“ I was taken with rheumatism and suf
fered a great deal of pain, and at timet
I was confined to my bed. I obtained
only temporary relief from medicines, and
a friend advised me to try Hood's Karwi
parilla, which I did, and it cured me.”
Mbs. 1*. P. Hay, Centralis, III.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is (lie best in fact the One True Wood Partner.
Hood’s Pills rare slik headache, kie.
Fit It*. M’KINI.KY V H, FKKK 811 VFIt.
A battle of giants is going to take
place this summer on 30,000 farms in
America, not In talk or votes, but in
yields. Salzer's two new potato mar
vels are named as above, and he if
fers a price fur the biggest potato yield,
also $100 In gold for suitable names for
his corn (17 Inches longi and oat pro
digies. Only seedsmen in America grow
ing grasses, clovers and farm Seeds
and soiling potatoes at $1.50 a barrel.
The editor urges you to try Salzor's
Northern Crown Seeds, and to
Send This Notice wllli It) Cot, liiStampa
to John A. Salzer Si oil Co., I.a Crosse,
Wis., for II new faint seed samples,
worth $10.00, to g<T a start, and their
big catalogue. w.n.e
Tommy: ’’A lighthouse u a sign or
rocks. Isn t It. pav. Mr. Klgg: ’’It.
depends on whether you are referring
dianapolifl Journal.
Mrs. Win* mv'i. Noolhln;; ryrup
Forrhii<li*'ii t#i*thi».v »l:• i/uiii rtvlti'-t * itiflarrr
uij tion,«May* palo.cun* w ir.J i > J Uj canto * Ixttio.
The upper ten is (imposed of tho
winning nine an<l the umpire.
Bloilier Crny'a ftwr.t I’otrtt.r. for Chllilran w
Successfully u-eil by Mother tiray, -
nurse in the Children's Home in New
York, Cure feverishness. llad Slornncli,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate
tiie Dowels and Destroy Worms. Over
10,000 testimonials. They uerrr /ad. At
nil druggists, 0.",e. Humph: I'HKli. Ad.
Allen S. Olmsted. Lelloy, N. Y.
What is said to some people seem:
to go in at one ear and out at the
other. Probably there ;» nothing be
tween to stop it.
Educate Your linucii VVItti fanrHn-m.
Candy < 'utliartIf. cuir <'oii*l ipatlon f< rover.
10c,25c. If C.C.t . fall, drugglgtarefund »noncy.
If a man Is happily married he la
transported for life.
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
Tl»e quest inn of spray r e Rail tre#« Io pre
vent tic depredation* of !uct pen: an t
fungus diseases Is no lox.t-'e; an «x pc *■!«}** at,,
but a necessity.
, hipiwim ■ in warn "
Our rcufer* w 11) do well to write Wm Sluhl
r>in ii st , Quincv III urn) tret his caiulnguc
cteki ribir.K tweiity-o.i< stylo of Kprayl/.y Out
fits and lull treatise on spraying the uit:e.eat
fil l arid vegetable ci-op. whleli teuy te had
for the asking atid ecMulua much valaut/le
Information.
The dance they sit out is the most
delightful to a pair of lovers.
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