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A*r the World *R e'Vol'Oes Slighted in Funston "Report. Lieutenant J. I). Taylor of the Twenty-fourth infantry, whose friends are claiming for him some of the honor given General Funston for the capture of Aguinaldo. is 2.r> years old. aud has been in the army since I8»8, when he was appointed Second Lieu tenant on the recommendations of Senators Mallory and Pasco of Flor ida. Lieutenant Taylor was assigned to the Twentieth infantry at Fort Leav enworth and aicompanied the regi ;im~ cJ.-p.TAiioa. ment to the Philippines. In April, 1899, he was promoted to First Lieu tenant and attached to the Twenty fourth infantry. Hij father is a lead ing citizen of 1-ake City. Fla. Lieutenant Taylor's friends point out that his name does not appear in the official report of Aguinaldo's cap ture. Although it was he who secured the first information as to the insur gent leader’s whereabouts. It was .while acting Captain at Pomtabangan that he intercepted the four Filipino messengers carrying orders that re vealed their chief’s hiding place. He received a letter of thanks from Gen eral Funston at the timp, but his friends are not satisfied with this par tial recognition, and believe he should have received credit in the official re port for his work in connection with the capture. A Charming "COoman. The wife of Kentucky’s young Gov ernor is one of the most charming women of a state noted for the at tractiveness of its fairer inhabitants. Mrs. Beckham, who, since hsr mar riage has become known throughout the country, was Miss Jean Fuqua of Owensboro, the eldest daughter of Colonel Joseph Fuqua. She is 2“ years old. and has all the charms that have made her state's women famous. She met Governor Beckham while he was speaker of the house of representa tives. He was visiting his sister in Owensboro, and at a reception givpn in his honor was introduced to Miss MRS. BECKHAM Fuqua. They were married on Novem ber 12 last. Hfter the election of Mr Beckham as Governor. A Startling Proposition. A startling proposition is made by •the author of a work called the "Boxer Book.” just published in Chicago. The writer believes that there is a yellow peril and a black peril and a red peril aud after showing that the dark races increase much more rapidly than the white laces, urges the gradual ex tinction of the former by the whites. He thinks the blacks should be con fined to certain zones placed under white rule under international law and then exterminated by gradual process of humane laws applied by "the fittest race,” as the author puts it. A secret organization having its origin in the universities is said to be urging the propaganda. Shirt XOaists in Church. A St. Louis minister broke the chains of custom last Sunday and ap peared in his pulpit, in a white shirt waist instead of the usual frock coal of the Evangelical preacher. Most of the women w ho listened to him were hatless. Of the men some wore shirt waists and some took off their coats and sat in their shirt sleeves. All were as cool as one can he in St. Louis in summer, and were no less devout be cause they were comfortable. SAYIINiS and DOIlidS Edits "Lunatic Herald." The only paper of Us kind in the world is the Lunatic Herald, which is published at Jacksonville. 111. It is owned, edited and controlled by Gen eral A. R. Leeper, who freely admits that he is a legal lunatic, but dec’ares that for that rea son he will be able to do better work for the large class of people to which he belongs. In the Lunatic Herald General Lee per will deal with the abuses which pre vail in some insane asylums. He will can tor tne repeal or certain state laws which seem un fair to lunatics, whom they chiefly af fect. Nothing will lie printed which is inclined to produce irritation or irra tional excitement. It will not be the business of the paper to stir up dis content among the Inmates of insane I asylums, but to furnish them with food 1 for serious and healthful thought. General Leeper says that the number ; of legal lunatics in the I'nited States j is now so large that there is a great field as well as a great demand for I his paper, while if every person who is more or less crazy would subscribe for it. he declares, it would have eas ily the largest circulation in the world. Head of Sbveden'j f’atJy. Sir Adolf Arnold Louis Philander, the new minister of marine for Sweden and Norway, has had a distinguished career as a naval officer. He won his knighthood from King Oscar in 1880 on his return from the famous expedi tion in the Vega, of which ship he was commander and which bore the celebrated scientist and explorer. Baron Nordenskjold, on his voyage of discovery to the northeast passage. Owing to the name of the ship and in MINISTER PHILANDER. memory of his services the naval offi cer was given the title of “Philander j of Vega." Since that time his promo- I tion in the navy has been rapid, and at the same time well deserved. He is chief aid to the king and one of his tayol patron's most intimate and cher ished friends. The new minister Is de rived from an ancient family of Kin iand, noted in history for upward of three centuries. He entered the navy as a boy and was early associated with the great Nordenskjold. whom he a!“o accompanied in 18t>8 on the famoiu journey to Spitsbergen. A Ghundcr MaKjer. Even on the clearest, calmest day l thunder, artificial, it is true, yei ' str angel y like natural thunder, can be manufac tured by any one who will try the fol lowing slm p 1 e, newly devised ex periment: Get a piece o r d i n a ry twine two or rnree ice! in length, and place it around the back of your head, accord ing to the manner shown in the oc eompanytng picture. Next bring the two ends forward past the ears, or. rather, past the auricles. The ears must then lie closed by keeping th fingers pressed (irmly over them, and at the same time the fingers or hand must be pressed firmly over the twine at the point where it lies directly out side earh auricle. Now ask some one to pull the two ends, of the twine with his thumb and index finger, and then, a firm pressure being meanwhile main tained, to let them slip slowly through the fingers. At once an illusion of thunder will lie produced. You will hear peal after peal, and the firmer the pressure on the twine the louder will be the sound. If a few knots are tied in the twine a still more startling illusion will be produced. Shorter College Coarse. Professor Norton of Harvard recent ly expressed the opinion that college men studying for the degree of A. it. should be allowed a free choice to ob tain it in three years if they so desire. He says many students (ran do the w-ork of the whole course in tlire>> years as easily and as well as others can in four, and he believes the ma jority would be th< gainers if they did it in the shorter time. The growing length of the courses in post-grad nut and professional schools makes thi saving of time increasingly desii - able. Idealism and Realism. "What strikes mo most about your country is its realism, founded as the nation is upon an ideal. There is no more realistic country than Am erica, and there is no more idealistic one."—Professor Van 't Hoff of Hol land. j\ Forgotten Chapter in Hutory "The sale of Texas to Spain: Its Bearing on Our Present Problems," is the title of an article in the July Forum by the Hon. Henry S. Boutell. There are few who know that the United States held title to Texas prior to the admission of the Texas republic to the union, but such was the case, and the transfer of that title to Spain by the treaty of 1819 in exchange for Florida has a distinct bearing on the question recently passed on by the Supreme Court. That question is: "Have the President and the Sen ate, by treaty, or Congress and the President, by legislation the consti tutional power to control and deal with territory which is not a part of one of the states of the union in a manner different from that in which they are hound by the constitution to control and deal with the territory embraced in the several states?" At the time when Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States the Rio Grande was the dividing line between French and Spanish pos sessions on the Gulf of Mexico. There fore that river was the western boun dary cf the Louisiana purchase. But Spain, secretly encouraged by Napo leon. insisted that Mexico extended farther east than the Rio Grande. In the opinion of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, the right of the United States to all of Texas was incontrovertible, but the south, for natural and justifiable rea sons. was anxious to get hold of east and we?t Florida, which were not in cluded in the Louisiana purchase. Hence that treaty whereby the Flori das were ceded to the United State* and the Sabine River was made the dividing line between American and Spanish possessions. On this subject the Chicago Tribune says: “During the last two yee.rs it has often been asserted that all territory acquired by the i'nited States becomes at once ‘an integral part' thereof, and it ; inhabitants become American cit izens. There is nowhere in the con stitution. says Mr. Boutell. authority, direct or implied, for the sale of ‘an integral part' of the I'nited States and the expatriation of American citi zens. Therefore President Monro? and the statesmen of his day, when they bartered off Texas to Spain, did not consider that territory an integral part.' of the United States. The view they took of the matter was that ‘ter ritory ouside the limits of th? States belonging to the I'nited States could lie regulated and disposed of by the federal government regardless of the limitations and nstiictions of the constitution.' These men. if living, would hold that the United States can lawfully sell Philippines or Alaska.” The Whiskey Famine in Guam. There comes a tale of woe from dis tant Guam. This is the remote island in the Pacific where for some lime Captain Leary of the navy was a be nevolent despot, forcing lazy Guamites to work and unmarried ones to wed. He appealed to the, department for a brass band to aid in the civilizing of the inhabitants, but was unable to get it. It is not a lack of music, however, which causes unhappiness in Guam, it is a scarcity of whisky. The last barrel of "commissary" has been stolen and drunk up by bad marines on duty in the island. This sad news is given in an order issued by Commander Seaton Schroe der, U. S. N„ Governor of Guam. In it he calls the attention of the com mand to the “hoodiumism and law lessness which are rampant in it." Per haps this language is not too strong when the dastardly character of the crime which has been committed Is taken into consideration. The Com mander says excitedly: "There is reason for alluding to the 'heft a few Weeks ago of a barrel of whisk.r from (he naval hospital that was 11" last ami sole supply of the medical department for medlra! purposes. An of lleer on duly here has since then been su reduced b> climatic fever that a cer tain amount of whisky was considered Meet-sar\ to keep him from utter pros tration. Fortunately, a small supply was ditalned from a passing vessel, llad that accidental supply not been forthcoming, iml bad that officer succumbed, his death would have rested upon the heads of thi s' ouhdrels who committed the theft." Volunteers Mustered Out. Promptly on the last day of Juno, in i a c trdancc with the emergency act of ISOS, the last of the 35,000 volunteers enlisted for service in the Philippines have been mustered out at San Fran t isco. Thus closes one of the most' creditable chapters in our military his tory. j Orders Issued Containing Information Rel ative to the Sani6. THE RATE ON THE RAILROADS Special Train for Transportation of De partment Officials- Meeting of Socialists nt Lincolu—Other Matters Here and There In Nebraska. LINCOLN, July 8.—Orders contain ing information relative to transporta tion to and from the thirty-fifth na tional encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Cleveland, Ohio, September 9 t? 14, were issued from tiro Nebraska department headquar ters. A rate of $21.80 will prevail over all railroad lines from Omaha and tickets will be on sale from Septem ber 7 to 10, good for final extension to October 8. The department commander has ar ranged for a special tarin for the transportation of department officer.-', delegates, members of the department and kindred organizations. The route will be over the Northwestern road to Chicago and from there to Cleveland by the Lake Shore. The train will leave Omaha September 7 at 5 p. m. and arrive in Chicago at 7:45 a. m. the following day. Departure from Chicago will be at 10:30 and the train will arrive at the destination at 7:30 p. m. of the same day. It is announced that the train will be decorated with bunting and grain products of the state. The depart ment of Colorado. Utah, Idaho, Mon tana and Wyoming has been invited to join the Nebraska contingent. Meeting of Sodalltt*. LINCOLN, Neb., July 8.—As the laws of Nebraska require the attend ance of 200 delegates and the repre sentation of two-thirds of the counties to give a nomination convention a legal standing the attempt of the so cialists to put a state ticket in the field w'as a failure. Less than fifty delegates responded to the call for a mass convention of the socialists at Washington hall, and there were only two counties repre sented. It was necessary therefore to forego the formality of nominating for supreme judge and State univer sity regents. The small attendance, however, did not prevent election of convention of ficers, the adoption of a platform and the delivery of several speeches. Geo. E. Beard was elected chairman and A. W. Adair was made secretary. Drpa rtlnent. Invltnl. OMAHA. July 8.—Major R. S. Wil cox. department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Ne braska, has invited the departments o! Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to join the Nebraska dele gation in its trip to the national en campment at Cleveland, O.. September 11 to 14. A special train will leave Omaha September 3 at 5 p. m. It will arrive in Chicago at 7:10 the next morning and will reach Cleveland at 7:30 the evening of September 6. Arthur Sullivan Drown*. FLORENCE, Neb., July 8.—Arthur Sulivan, 13 years of age, the oldest son of James Sullivan, was drowned in the Missouri half a mile north of th‘> pumping station. He and three other boys were bathing, when it is suppos ed that, young Sullivan became ex hausted from being in the water so long and sank before lie could reach the shore, the water being fourteen feet, deep. The body has not yet been re covered. W’lient Surprint** Fur flier*. SUPERIOR, Neb., July 8.—The first wheat of the new crop to be marketed in Nuckolls county was sold to a deal er in Mount Clare. Threshing is bring ing a surprise to the farmers. The straw was so short and the fields look ed so insignificant that none of them figured on more than a ten-bushel crop. It is threshing out sixteen to eighteen bushels to the acre and weighs sixty to sixty-one pounds. Six Cow. Klllol >>y Fogiii* STUART, Net)., July 8.—Saturday night the passenger train going west ran over six head of cows belonging to Owen Huffstott, a farmer half way between this place and Newport, and killed them. Forty-Four Join Church. WYMORE, Neb.. July 8.—As a re sult of the union gospel meetings in this city recently there were forty four accessions to the church Sun day. The State Reunion. HASTINGS, July 8.—The state re union of Nebraska Grand Army men will be held at Hastings, August 26 to 31. The Spanish-American war sol diers. Women's Relief corps and Sons and Daughters of Veterans will also hold their annual reunion at Hastings the same days. Major R. S. Wilcox has named Ju lius Neubaruer of Sidney chief muster ing officer of the Grand Army of the Republic in Nebraska. GOMfZ TALKS WITH PALMA. Conference 8u|ipo»ml to Bax Rearing Upon Cuban Republic. NEW YORK, July 2.—General Max imo Gomez bas been spending much of his time in conference with Tomas Es trada Palma at the Waldorf-Astoria. Neither would divulge the exact nature of their talk. It is thought Genera) Gomez is here to sound the head of the Cuban junta on the question of his can didacy for the presidency of Cuba. Gen eral Gomez, who is himself a presiden tial possibility, declared recently in fa vor of Senor Palma. When this subject was mentioned to Estrada Palma last night he said: ‘‘I would rather not discuss the mat ter. It is too early anyway and the Cu bans have not yet made up their minds whom they desire for president.” General Gomez will leave the city this morning with Senor Palma for the latter’s home at Central Valley, N. Y. lie expects to go to Washington tomor row and call upon President McKinley. Before going to the capital it is possi ble he will issue a statement covering the object of his trip north and setting forth bis views on Cuban affairs. AMERICA INVADING CANADA. Capital from the United States Is lluyiug Up the Dominion. LONDON, July 2.—J. Henry Bour assi, member of the Dominion parlia ment and some years director of La Review Canadienne, has arrived in London for a holiday. Interviewed by a reporter for the Daily News he re fered among others matters to the way American capital is invading Canada. “American capital,” he said, ‘‘is spreading around the lakes, up the riv ers and along the railroad systems. It is breaking down the harrier between Canada and the United States. The Americans are not conquering us, but they are buying us. When this is ac complished it will only need a slight political difference with the home gov ernment and the annexation move ment, now dead, will revive. ‘‘Then you will have to look not to the half Americanized business men of Canada, but to us French Canadians, who have saved Canada for you more than once and may have to save it again, unless you hopelessly alienate us.” HfHiiiUli ( ImIibi) Considered. WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 3.— The Spanish treaty claims commission held a session today and heard argu ment on the question of taking testi many in Cuba or other foreign terri tories. Several attorneys presented arguments on the subject, but no de cision was reached. The motion filed by the attorney for the government to dismiss the case growing out »f the sinking of the Maine for want of jurisdiction was called up, but in the absence of Mr. Fuller, who prepared the motion on behalf of the government, the case went over, subject to call. Ituylnjr MUftonri Lead Fields. NEW YORK, July 3.—The Herald says: With the passage of a check for almost $1,000,000 from the Morton Trust company of this city to the Union Trust company of St. Louis, the first definite step on the part of the Union Lead and Oil company to ward the acquirement of title of all purchasable Missouri lead fields has been taken. More changes of titles for large amounts are expected soon. Dnmuee »t Fort Crook. FORT CROOK. Neb.. July 3—A windstorm verging close upon a cy clone passed over this section yester day about 4 o’clock doing consider able damage. The depot building was unroofed, a section of which was car ried fully 300 feet distant. It was scattered In fragments for an entire block. Lightning struck a telegraph pole near which a soldier was pass ing, riddling the pole into splinters. The soldier was not hurt. Wrecked at Knrk Sprl*''-a. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 3.— A special to the News from Chey enne, Wyo., says: Eastbound Atlantic express No. C on the Union Pacific ran into the rear end of a freight train at Rock Springs last night. Between fifteen and twenty persons, all but two of the passengers on the east bound train, were slightly injured. Traffic was delayed for nearly fourteen hours. New ICevenu* DUtrlct. WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 3.—The new revenue collection district em bracing North and South Dakota was established with Herman Ellermand as collector. The office is located at Aberdeen, S. D. Flglit on Flan of Settlement. GUTHRIE, 0. T„ July S.—The gov (•fitment's proposed lottery plan of settlement of the Kiowa and Com manche country is to be contested by settlers who expect to take claims when the country is opened. The plan of contest is the legality of the drawing scheme. Among those who will be leading plaintiffs is Lewis N. Hornbeck of Minco, I. T., who baa been a government surveyor. He has retained counsel to make his case. Colossal Undertaking Proposed for Scotts Bluffs and Cheyenne. THE BIGGEST YET FOR NEBRASKA. Projected Canal Would Add Slaty Thoumnd Acre* to the Irrigated Strip North of the Platte—Sllicellaneoue Nelirueka Mutter*. LINCOLN. July 6.—A plan for ir rigating on a colossal scale a long strip of land north of the Platte rive: in Scotts Bluffs and Cheyenne coun ties has been brought to the attention of State Engineer Dobson and a com mittee of citizens residing in Scotts Bluff county is searching anxiously for capital with which to back the scheme. The territory through which it is proposed to run the principal canal has been organized into an irri gation district and $400,000 of bonds have been voted for the purpose of raising funds to complete the work already begun. "It is undoubtedly the biggest irri gating scheme ever attempted in the state,” said Mr. Dobson. “The people who are pushing it started their work quite a while ago and they have con structed already a canal of upwards of twenty miles in length, extending from a point on the Platte river, verv near the Colorado line, eastward and about parallel with the river. They say they have invested approximately $100,000 in this canal and it is esti mated that $100,000 will be required to complete it.” The district included in the plan would be the owner of the canal. The residents of the territory have voted the bonds, and if these t an bo disposed of for cash the work will he pushed. Completed, the canal would be about fifty or sixty miles in length. It would follow closely the banks of the river for a mile or so and then east for the remainder of the distance. THE NEW GAME IAW. Deputy W»r<len Doe* Not Anticipate Trouble In Kuforcliis Sumo. LINCOLN. July 6.—George B. Simp kins. deputy game warden, said that lie did not anticipate any serious diffi culty in enforcing the game law which was passed by the last legislature. The law went into effect July 2 and the deputy and under deputies are al ready on the lookout for violations, but do not expect to find many. "The railroad, express and trans portation companies have assured ma that they will abide by the provisions of the act, and this is a long step in the right direction,” said Mr. Siinp- * kins. "Everywhere people seem to think that the law is a good one, and I don't think there will be many efforts made to break it.” The office of the game warden was opened at the state house. Mr. Simp kins will have full charge of the de partment and will probably devote considerable of his time to directing the movements of the under deputies from the office at the state house, but he will he in the field a good share of the time. Hill«il While* Drinking liver. ELK CREEK, Neb., July fi.—Otto Mueler, a farmer 23 years of age, near this place, was trying to open a bot tle of beer and, being unable to pull the cork out, he pushed it in. It caus ed the bottle to explode, driving a three-cornered piece of glass into on' of his limbs and cutting an artery. He hied to dcatli in thirty minutes and be fore Dr. Roll, who was summoned from this place, could get thcie. Among Stork, DEWITT, Neb., July 6.—A peculiar disease which the veterinary surgeons find difficult to understand and which is proving fatal in a number of cases, is attacking horses and cattle in this vicinity. The animals attacked ap pear in almost their usual health up to within twenty or thirty m/nutea of their death, when symptoms appear and soon after the animals fall to the ground where they die in a short time after hard struggles. Condition of the Trcumiry. WASHINGTON. July 5.—Hollowing is a statement of the treasury balance in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the divis ion of redemption: Available cash balance, $172,605,541; gold, $08 314 002. Choice Cuttle for Fxtitldtinn LINCOLN, Neb., July 6.—Nebraska will be represented in the National Stock show in Kansas City in October by a selected lot of the finest Duroc Jersey hogs that tan be found in the state. This was decided at a special state meeting of swine breeders. The object is to have the exhibit consist of the best Duroc hogs umt can be found among the cattle exhibited at the state fuir. Twenty-five stock own ers attended the meeting.