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” ' —— 1 ■ — ■" ■ "■ »■' ■ ■ i . ^ 1 — ' ■ —.- —- ■' . - ■ ■ T. ■ ..- ■ » —" ■ m ■■ VOL. XVIII. LOCI’ CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1901. NUMBER 37. Disorder and Distress Are Feared After Oklahoma Opening. Tiff DROUTH CAUSING SUFFERING Tboaitndi of Campers Bait but Bounty Rations — More Than One Hundred Thousand I'eople Ara dura to Bt Dis appointed. FORT SILL. July 22.—Disorder and distress will, it is feared, follow the actual opening of the Klowa-Comanehe reservation Augut 6. It Is estimated that fully 150,000 person will have reg istered for a chance to secure one of a the 13,000 claims to be awarded by lottery when the registration booths close July 2fi. Thousand of perons now on the reservation, who are neither mechan ics nor artisans and who have little or no money, announce then intention of settling around Lawton if they fail to win a claim. Campers who came in prairie schooners by the thousands generally brought with them provis ions sufficient only to last from live to ten clays. Continued drouth has caused the water to be restricted and for days a hot wind has blown over the prairies and the temperature has averaged over the 100 mark AVith these conditions before them many are already beginning to grum ble and when this is followed by dis appointment over failure to draw a lucky number the hope that bore many up will doubtless give way to more serious conditions. KANSAS Cl IY SfFS NO HOPF. Normal Precipitation Would Not Save Parched Field*. KANSAS CITY, July 22.—The heat yesterday broke all records, the tem perature at 4 p. m. being 104. Ther mometers on the street at 11 o’clock at night recorded 93. This is the thirty second day of the hot spell and there Is no Indication of a change. In Kan sas City, Kan., four deaths due to heat were reported today. Prayers for rain were offered In nearly all churches In Kansas City and generally throughout Kansas. y So far as heard from no rain of any consequence has fallen In any portion of the drouth belt in the past twenty four hours, and conditions everywhere have been discouraging. In normal years the rainfall between July 21 and August 15 is light and a re turn to normal precipitation woud not save the parched fields. MINISTFRIALISTS SHOW GAINS Conuervatlve* And ItAdlcHl* Lose In French Flection* Council*. PARIS, July 22.—The election for the French councils general took place yesterday throughout the provinces, there being 1,455 of these department al legislators to be chosen in as many cantons. The importance of the elections lies in the fact that th^y serve as a weath ercock to show the drift of public opinion regarding the policy of the central government. Although the isues involved are purely local, the voting is invariably conducted on strict party lines. Moreover, many coun cillors are also members of the senate or of the chamber of deputies; and their re-election or defeat is indicative ^ of the view their constituents take of their parliamentary acts. — POWFRS MIST BF FIRM. Only Way to Prevent New Outburst of Trooble In China. TIEN TSIN. July 22.—Europeans here consider that the prevention of a speedy recrudescence of the trouble de pends entirely upon the firmness displayed by the powers. It is thought that this fact should be recognized In Europe and the United States. The general feeling in Tien Tsin is that Chira is in no wise overawed or re pentant. Li Hung Chang is reported to have adopted an offhand tone toward a member of the provisional govern ment and to have talked confidently of ousting the provisional government soon. The Chinese have recommended cut ting telegraph wires. I'im* .t T « n Tain TIFN TSIN. July 22.—Considerable uneasiness is felt here following the resumption by the Chinese of the par tial control of the city. The nativep ^ are cutting the telegraph lines outside of Tien Tsin and fears of further vio lence are entertained. DEATH Of KRUGIR’S WIPE. Former President of South Africa l oses a Worthy Helpmeet. PRETORIA, July 22,—Mrs, Kruger, wife of former Pres.dent Kruger of the South African republic, died yes terday afternoon of pneumonia, after an illness fo three days. She was 67 years old. Mrs. Kruger's long separation from her husband and combined with the death of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith, last week, had completely broken her spirit. Mrs. Eloff and many other members of the Kruger family were at her bed side when she passed away. LONDON, July 22.—"Owing to the Sunday telegraph hours in Holland,” says a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Hilversum, "Mr. Kruger was not in formed of his wife’s death until the evening. The news was broken to him by Dr. Heymans and Secretary Boes ehoten. Mr. Kruger, who had just re turned from Hilversum church, burst into tears and asked to be left alone. He exclaimed: 'She was a good wife. We quarrreled only once, and that was six months after we were married.’ He prayed for a long time and is now calmly sleeeping, his bible beside his ned. “The Transvaal and Orange Free State flags flying above the white villa were draped and half-masted. Shortly before the news came a crowd of coun try girls had been singing a folksong outside the villa." TfLLS THt SAW HARD STORY. Weather Bureau Reports Ileat Over En tire Country. WASHINGTON, P. C„ July 22.—The weather bureau last night issued the following bulletin: Practically the entire country was covered by the hot wave today, ex cept the immediate Pacific coast and in the states of Iowa, Missouri and .Il linois; nearly all high previous rec ords were exceeded. The maximum high temperature line of 100 degrees encircles the entire great corn belt. At Davenport and Duouque, la., and at Springfield, 111., the maximum of 106 degrees has been equalled but once be fore, on August 12, 1881. At Chicago the maximum of 102 degrees equals the previous high record of July 10 of the present year. In the states of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas the dura tion of the present heated term is without precedent, there having been practically no interruption to temper atures of 90 degrees or over since June 18, a period of thirty-four days. On eighteen days of this period the maxi mum temperature at Kansas City was 100 degrees or more. There are as yet no indications of any relief from the abnormal heat. No rain has fallen in the corn belt for the past three days and none Is in sight. It is of course probable that scattered local thunder storms, which are always accompanied by protracted periods of heat, may fall at times, but no hope can be entertained at this time of any general rains or permanent re lief. H. C. FRANKENFIELD. Forecast Official. PRAYERS RISE, PEOPLE EAST. All MUaourt Appeals to the Almighty for Kiln. ST. LOUIS, July 22-Yesterday, the day that Governor Dochery desig nated for fasting and prayer to God that the present drouth might he broken in Missouri, all records for hot weather in St. Louis were equalled, the weather bureau thermometer on the custom house registering 106 de grees in the shade. On the streets and in exposed places, the mercury went many degrees higher The rec ord broken was that of 10<‘ made in the early ’80s. As early as 7 a. m., the day gave promise of being un usually warm. At that time the ther mometer registered ninety degrees and from then on until 3:30 p. m., the mercury steadily climbed upward un der the impulse of a sun shining from a cloudless sky. (tenoral Cnnhing WASHINGTON, July 22.—Brigadier General Samuel T. Cushing, U. S. A., retired, formerly commissary general of subsistence, died here. Senator Clark in ItuKHta. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22.—United States Senator \V. A. Clark, accord ing to Novoe Vreraya has joined with Kieff capitalists in establishing a cop per company having a capital of 15.000. 000 roubles, Mr. Clark supplying 12.000. 000 roubles. With M. Gargelin, one of the directors, Mr. Clark is go ing to the government of Semlpala* tin3k to examine the mines there. Maolay’s History Not to Be Used at Annapolis Academy. AUTHOR WILL REVISE SOME PARTS Tie Admits thnt Ills Laiigunge Is Toe Abusive and Hays] Proof Nhects Were Not All Shown Too United States Offic ials as They Should Have Been. WASHINGTON. July 20.—The sec rotary of the navy has decided that the third volume of Maclay's history of the Spanish-American war shall not be used as a textbook at the naval academy unless the obnoxious lan guage it contains in characterizing the action of Hear Admiral Schley is eliminated. The secretary says thnt it would be manifestly improper to have a history containing such intem perate language us a textbook for the cadets. He will inform both Com mander Wainwright, who is in com mand of the naval academy, and Mr. Maclav, the author of the history, of his decision. In this connection the secretary says the proofs of the en tire volume were not submitted to him by the historian. He received only the proofs of the third chapter, that relating to the mobilisation of the fleets, which contained a summary of the orders which he, ns secretary of the navy, had issued in making the naval preparations for war. That chapter was satisfactory and he re turned it to Mr. Maclay with his ap proval. He says he never saw the accounts of the battle of Santiago and the criticism of Hear Admiral Schley until after the book was published. Mr. Maclay was appointed to his pres ent position in the New York navy yard August 23, 1900, having been transferred from the lighthouse ser vice. Arcanes Nitval Clique. BALTIMORE, July 20.—General Felix Agnus, publisher of the Balti more American, has telegraphed the following to President McKinley: William McKinley, President, Can ton, Ohio.—“Maclay’s History of the Navy” is the standard in use at the naval academy. In the third volume, just issued, the historian charges Rear Admiral Schley with being a coward, a liar, a caitiff, an incompetent and insubordinate. In an inter\iew in the American this morning, Maclay, the historian, who is a navy department clerk, classed aa a laborer, and at tached to the Brooklyn navy yard, says that proofs of this third volume, which should have told the most glori ous story in all our nava! annals, were submitted to Secretary Ix>ng and Admiral Sampson and approved by them in advance of publication, also that Long put him in his present po sition after he had read and approved this scurrilous attack upon Admiral Schley. These proofs were also sub mitted to Admiral Dewey, who refused to read them. If aught were needed to convince any fair-minded man that a clique in the navy department has conspired to traduce the hero of Santiago and that the conspiracy was carried into execution while this brave and gallant officer was suffering expatriation on the fever-infested coasts of South America, this should furnish it. Will you, Mr. President, in view of all this, sit quietly by and permit these con spirators to continue their diabolical work? Every justice-loving American appeals to you to intervene in the name and for the sake of fair play. Next to being right all the time, which no man ever was, the best thing is to find out as soon as possible that you are wrong and right yourself im mediately. FELIX AGNUS, Publisher Baltimore American. Grader* In Bloody Rattle. DENVER, Colo., July 20.—A special to the News from Sidney, Neb., says: Greek and Austrian graders met here in deadly combat. Six Greeks were wounded and one Austrian was killed. After a drunken row the Austrians at tacked the Geeks with knives, re volvers and clubs and completely rout ed them, aftrr severely wounding six of their number. Hade Gubovic, an Austrian, was killed. Kohhed and Drop* Dead. WICHITA, Kan., July 20.—After be ing robbed on a Choctaw train, return ing from El Reno, F. R Smith, an aged man from Bonham, Texas, dropped dead in a crowded coach. The body wras placed in a seat and taken to Oklahoma City. His wife and daughter were with him. WHEAT IN RUSSIA AND INDIA. flitted State* Conenl General* Report the Yield. WASHNGTON, July 19.—The state department Is in receipt, of interest ing reports concerning the wheat crops of Russia and India. According to a report from Consul General Hol loway at St. Petersburg there are good reasons to hope that the wheat harvest of 1901 will exceed that of 1900. The spring wheat is more promising than the wintei crop, the latter having suffered heavily from various causes. However, it is stated that the loss in the winter crop will be balanced by the amount of spring wheat sown. Consul General Patterson of Calcut ta states that the wheat yield of India, as a whole, Is estimated at 6,680,000 tone, 8^ per cent more than the de cennial average, and this under ad verse conditions, such as cold weath er, hail, insects and rust. The ex port of wheat from India this year, the consul general says, probably will be greatly increased. Consul Fee at Bombay estimates India's harvest for this year at 6.690, 000 tons, or 1,70,000 tons more than last year. The estimated area of growing wheat, for the year is 22, 600,000 acres, being about 5,000,000 more than the previous year. PROHIBITION OF LIVE STOCK. Argentine Active AgHhiMt I nt rodnrtlon of TliroHt and Mouth IHseane. WASHNGTON, D. C.» July 19.—The United States minister at Buenos Ayres has forwarded to the state de partment a degree, issued by the Ar gentine government, prohibiting the importation of live stock coming from foreign countries, of the ovine, bo vine or any other species that, in the opinion of technical authorities, might carry infection of foot and mouth disease. There is a provision in the decree, however, that such stock coming from foreign countries whose official representations certify that such disease does not exist in their country, and that the necessary precautions have been taken to avoid Infection, are excepted from the application of the decree The de cree says that all animals which are shipped before the decree was issued will be submitted to forty days quar antine after their arrival. SCRAMBLE FOR BROOM CORN. Drouth ('Hu.rn Shortage K* Miuuteil nt Fifteen Ttiouaand Ton*. MATTOON, 111., July 18—The scramble between the Union Supply company, or trust, and the agent of the big eastern manufacturers not in the combination for possession of the broom corn yet in growers' hands reached a climax today, when $125 a ton was offered. The Kansas crop is a failure and it is estimated that there will be a shortage of 15,000 tons. Fifteen thousand dollars worth of brush was bought in this vicinity Sun day at almost any price demanded. Broom corn men of experience say the brush will rise to $.o0 a ton. To Avenge Killing. DENVER, Colo., July 19.—Confirm ation was received of the report that the Radcliffe hotel, cabins and other buildings belonging to the proprietor of the Grand Mesa lakes were burned yesterday. A mot) of seventy-five men, all residents of Delta county, set fire to the property. The incendiar ism was intended to avenge the kill ing of W. A. Womack by Game Ward en McHaney last Monday. Kleotrlc:il Workers Strike. WASHNGTON, I). C., July 19—To enforce a demand for an increase of pay to $3.50 per day all the men em ployed by the electrical contractors in the city failed to report for work today. They number about 125. Two contractors, not members of the Con tractors’ union, signed th" agreement today, the Contractors’ union last night deciding to refuse the demand. Ituhonir IMugue Abroad. GIBRALTAR, July 19.—The orient liner Ormuz, Captain Coad, from Sid ney, N. S. W., for London, which left Colombo, June 28, arrived off Gibral tar with two cases of the bubonic plague on board. She was lefused ad mittance to the harbor and proceeded toward Plymouth, Minot Their Own Wounded. JOHANNESBURG, July 20.—In the i course of an inquiry conducted tinder oath here, various non-commissioned officers and men of the British army confirmed the statement that the I Boers shot the Boer wounded at | Vlakfontein. Generou* Rains Fall Over Major Portion of the Southwest. IATE CROPS m PASTURES REVIVE Good Cannot Ha K at limited, but Will Prove Immense—Insure* at I.east Half • Harvest—Poor Begins In Western Kansas and Nweeps to Missouri. KANSAS CITY, July 18.—Generous ruins fell this afternoon over the big ger part of the corn belt of the south west. They came Just iu the nick of time. The good that will result to late corn and to pastures cannot be estimated, but it wdll undoubtedly prove immense. Scattering showers fell over the southwest last uight and tl is morning, but in most places up to noon continued accounts of intense beat were reported. The rains began in western Kansas about 1 o’clock this afternoon and traveling east had reached the Misoursi line by 4 o'clock. Reports from many counties assert that today's rains, following what lit tle had fallen within the past forty eight hours, will insure at least half a crop of corn and make pasturage sure. The storm began in Kansas City shortly before 5 o'clock this evening. The fall continued for over half an hour and caused a decided drop in the temperature, the weather bureau re cording 83 at 5 o’clock, against 100 at 3 o'clock. TOPEKA, Kan., July 18.—The rains that have fallen in Kansas last night and today have practically assured a corn yield of at least 60,000,000 bush els, and the yield may be even better. The state is under the influence of a low barometric condition and more rain is expected tonight. Correspond ents from numerous Kansas towns In reporting rain say tho sky is overcast with clouds tonight and more rain within a few hours is certain. The drouth in Kansas has been broken and with it has gone the excessive hot spell. It is the opinion among those who'have been watching the weather conditions that the season will be more favorable to crops from now on. Good rains are reported tonight over portions of eastern and central Kan sas, and in each case is mentioned the fact that the rain is not through. Emporia, Hiawatha, Clay Center, Ells worth, Salina, Atchison, Sylvan Grove, Great Bend, Concordia, Quenemo, Ot tawa, Fredonia and Osage City are among the places favored with rains, which ranged from one-half to two inches. Secretary Coburn of the Kansas Board of Agriculture is enthusiastic over the result of the rain. He is sure that the corn yield will reach at least half a crop if the present very favor able weather conditions continue. The manner in which corn has held its own during the drouth was some thing remarkable am) is a source of wonder to the farmers. In some places it has had no moisture for over two months. It has made almost no giowth, hut tho leaves have been kept green and the tassel kept off. Weeds eould not flourish in the dry spell any more than the corn and they were easily eradicated. The fields are there lore clean and have a new lease of life since the rain. TRIUMPH Of SOCIALISM. That In What John IturiiH Kxpectd In A inertrii. NEW YORK, July 18.—The steel strike in America is attracting much attention in England generally, and while long articles are being printed in the newspapers on the subject, no comment is made in the editorial col umns, according to the Ixmdon corre spondent of the Tribune. John Burns has been less reticent, for he fore casts an American Armagedon with the revival of the old anti-slavery feel ing and the transformation of trusts into state organizations hy the politi cal power of the hordes of workmen. Financiers watch the quotations from Wall street, and are unmoved by socialistic trades. Combinations are felt to be on trial in America, and if they survive the great conflict with organized labor concentration of capi tal will be promoted in England. I-ast Furnace CIonhI. PITTSBURG, July 18.—The last fur nace in Llnsay & McCutcheon’s mill was closed down at noon. As soon as all the men had let the mill, sev en deputy sheriffs were stationed about the plant. The open hearth and billet mills of the Clark plant were running today. KANSAS GETS SOME SHOWERS. _ rrnktii Vegetation Evan TVliara Eat Enough to Do Permanent Good. KANSAS CITY, July 17.—Rain fell over an area of eighty miles around Kansas City early yesterday morning and reports from different parts of the southwest indicate thunder storms and lower temperatures during the day. At Lawrence, Kan., enough rain fell to effectively lay the dust, clear the atmosphere and freshen vegeta tion, but not enough to do any per manent good. It is the first fall in that vicinity for twenty-six days. At Ottawa and Wellsville, in the next county west from Lawrence, about half an inch of rain fell. At Wells ville there has been no rain for more than three months, and coming now it will do late corn great good if fol lowed by more, otherwise the corn crop in that county will prove an ut ter failure. Some fields are now too far gone to be revived by any amount of rain. Over one inch of rain is re ported at. Toronto, Kan., two counties further west. There was a fairly good shower in Kansas City in the morn ing. but at 11 o'clock the sky was cloudless and the weather bureau re ported a temperature of 93. A good rain fell at Camden Point, Mo., three counties east of Kansas City, and it will result in much good to corn, which in that vicinity is still a dark green. Miami county, Kansas, two counties south from Kansas City on the Mis souri line experienced a good rain, the first since April 1. It came too late and early crops in that county are reported a total failure. CONDITION Of NIBRASKA CORN. Weather (Tnfavornble and Karly Corn DanniKiMl to Momt* Kitrnt. United States Department of Agri culture, Nebraska Section, Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bu reau. University of Nebraska, Lin coln, July 17: The past week has been hot and dry. The daily mean temperature has aver aged 11 degrees above the normal. The rainfall of the past week has been very light, no amount sufficient to aid crops having been reported. The hot, dry weather has been very unfavorable for all growing crops. Threshing of winter wheat has made good progress, and the yield is good and the quality "flue. Spring wheat and oats have ripened too rapidly in northern counties, and the yield will be somewhat reduced. Early planted corn is beginning to tassel in south ern counties and has been considerably damaged by the drouth; later planted corn is “standing the drouth well, but corn generally has deteriorated in condition during the past week. Corn is small and late, and most of it has not tasseled, and with rain soon would recover largely from the effects of the dry weather. However, with the rain the crop would generally be decidedly below the average. Apples and fruit generally have been injured, and the hay crop will be less than expected earlier in the season. Potatoes are a very poor crop. G. A. LOVELAND, Station Director, Lincoln, Neb. HAVE EAITH IN SETTLEMENT. Nothing; Definite* lint tli* (ieneral Talk in All Along: tint Line. PITTSBURG, July 17.—There were no new developments in the strike dur ing the early hours of the second day. All the plants closed yesterday were shut down tight and matters about the Painter mill, Lindsay & McCutcheon, Clark’s Solar Iron works, the Monon gahela and Starling plants were quiet. It was stated that Painter's mill was in partial operation, but the only men at work were a few Hungarians who were cleaning up about the yards. Re plying to the report that the company had brought a strike breaker from Alabama. Assistant General Manager Parker said: “We can break our own strikes.” Superintendent Albrecht, encounter ed a few moments later, said the plant would be running in full within a few days. Speculation as to the probable settlement of the strike is general, and among business managers the consensus of opinion is that the com bine officials and Amalgamated offi cials will get together before long and adjust the differences. I.f^Ulatnrfl Every Fonr Tear*. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 17.—The constitutional convention today pro vided for quadrennial instead of bien nial sessions of the legislature and fix ed November instead of August for holding state elections.