Nebraska Newspapers

    ™I WEEKLY
PANORAMA
ARE FAST DYING OUT.
Inhabitants of the Arctic Regions
Rapidly Disappearing.
All through the arctic regions the
Inhabitants are fast disappearing.
The Alaskan Eskimos have been
greatly reduced in numbers. When
explorers first went among them their
number was believed to be from
2,000 to 3,000. Now it is thought
that hardly more than 500 people can
be counted from Point Barrow to the
Aleutian islands. The lot of these un
fortunate natives has been made hard
er to bear by reason of the destruction
of sea life by the whalers who harried
the Alaskan coast. The extermina
tion of the seal, walrus and polar bear
has likewise done it share to embitter
the cup of the northern races. In
southwest Greenland a similar condi
tion of affairs exists. The 10,000
natives are barely holding their own,
although largely aided by the Danes.
Labrador natives are likewise de
creasing. Twenty years ago they
numbered 30,000; now they number
barely 15,000 souls. Two decades
ago the entire population of the north
was estimated at 30,000. It is prob
able to-day that the number has been
almost cut in two.
GOES TO STUDY CONDITIONS.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain
Leaves England for South Africa.
At a brilliant banquet given in his
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honor at Birmingham, England, Colo
nial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain,
who has left for South Africa to in
vestigate the 'situation there, ex
plained the plans of the British gov
ernment in regard to the Boers. He
took an entirely optimistic view of the
future of South Africa, expressing the
hope that the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony would ultimately be
come an integral part of the British
empire. He declared that he in
tended to try to reconcile those who
opposed the British government, and
that he expected to he met half way.
Get More Work From Chinamen.
The German Samoan company, with
the permission of Ihe government, de
signs to import Chinese laborers to
work on the plantations in Samoa, on
which cocoa is chiefly grown. The
company has engaged a former con
tractor of the New Guinea company
to proceed to southern China and en
gage agricultural workers. The proba
bilities are that, native labor will
later be wholly displaced by China
men. The German concessionaries
find they can get more work out of
Chinamen.
BISHOP H. M. THOMPSON DEAD.
Prominent Churchman Succumbs to
Cancer of the Throat.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson died
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last week at Jackson, Miss., of cancer
of the t.'iroat.
Born in Londonderry, Ireland, In
1830. Hugh Miller Thompson came to
America with his parentis when a
child. He was admitted to the min
istry when twenty two years old, and
filled several prominent pulpits in Chi
cago, New York, and elsewhere. He
•was appointed bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Mississippi in 1886.
A number of southern bishops at
tended the funeral and Bishop Gailor
of Tennessee, conducted the services.
The remains were interred under the
chancel of St. Columbia chapel, a
small stone edifice in the corner of
the yard of the bishop’s home.
Still Active at Ninety-one.
Mrs. Sallie Lamb Hayden of Hill
Mass , has just celebrated her ninety
first birthday. By way of showing
that even now she is not an old wom
an Mrs. Hayden mounted her horse
that morning and was photographed.
AH her life she has been very fond
of equestrian exercise and until a year
or so ag'j spent an hour daily in the
saddle.
Persons, Places
and Things
WILL SUE FOR DIVORCE.
Wife of Roland Molineux Takes
Steps to Secure Freedom.
Mrs. Molineux. the wife of the man
acquitted in the second trial of one
of New York’s most noted murder
cases, will endeavor to secure a
divorce. She is now in Sioux Falls,
S. D., where she will sue as soon as
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she establishes the necessary resi
dence in the state. The news of Mrs.
Molineux’s appearance in South Dako
ta was a surprise to her friends and
her husband’s friends in New York,
who believed family differences had
been settled. In the Molineux trial an
effctrt was made by the state to prove
jealousy of his wife's friendship for
Harry Cornish as a motive for Molin
eux sending to Cornish the bottle of
poisoned bromo seltzer, which, taken
by Mrs. Adams, resulted in her death.
SPECIMEN OF IRISH ART.
Celebrated “Cross of Cong’’ Believed
to be Many Centuries Old.
One of the finest specimens of
ancient Irish art is now to be seen
in the Dublin museum. This is the
“Cross of Cong,” which is said to
have been made for the Church of
Tuam, County Galway, by order of
King Turlough O’Conor. It is record
ed that this relic was carried from
Tuam to Cong either by Archbishop
O’Duffy, who died in the Augustinian
Abbey there in 1150, or by King Rod
eric O’Conor, the last monarch of Ire
land, who himself founded and en
dowed the Abbey at Cong. It was
concealed at the time of the Reforma
tion and found parly In the past cen
tury, when it passed into the posses
sion of Prof. Maecullagh. It meas
ures two feet six inches in height, and
one foot six inches broad. It is made
of oak, with copper plates laid on,
ornamented with elaborate Celtic de
signs.
Why Bishop Was Popular.
A popular bishop of the Episcopal
church in the far West staid a few
days with a ranchman. When the
bishop left his host shook him warmly
by the hand and said: “Bishop, we
all like you out here; you are hot
stuck up, and you are no blooming
aristocrat. We like you because you
are so darned common and no gentle
man. In fact, you are one of our
selves!”
SULTAN TO VISIT AMERICA.
Ruler of Johore Will Arrive in 1904
and Attend Fair.
The sultan of Johore, Malay penin
sula, will make a tour of American
in 1904 and will visit the St. Louis
exposition.
At a recent audience at Singapore,
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treme pleasure at the reception ac
corded the crown prince, Chowfa
Maha Vajiravudh, in the United
States.
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SEWER HUNTERS IN LONDON.
How They Prowl Through Foul
Places for a Living.
The London sewer hunter before
commencing operations provides him
self with a bull’s eye lantern, a can
vas apron and a pole some seven or
eight feet in length, having an iron
attachment at one end somewhat in
the shape of a hoe. For greater con
venience the lantern is invariably
fixed to the right shoulder, so that
when walking the light is thrown
ahead end when stopping its rays
shine directly at his feet.
Thus accoutered he walks slowly
through the mud, feeling with his
naked feet for anything unusual, at
the same time raking the accumula
tion from the walls and picking from
the crevices any article he sees.
Nothing is allowed to escape him, no
matter what its value, provided it is
not valueless, says Chambers’ Jour
nal. Old iron, pieces of rope, bones,
current coin of the realm and articles
of plate and Jewelry—all is good fish
which comes to the hunter's net.
OWNS TO CHECKERED CAREER.
Mr?. Kingscote, English Adventuress,
Now In New York.
Mrs. Kingscote, who secured big
sums of money from English peers,
clergymen, and others high In Eng
lish society, and then told in a book,
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"Some Fools and a Duchess,” how she
had done it, was the cause of the
bankruptcy of Ix>rd Byron, whose
check for $250,000 she cashed, and it
is said that she secured a sum nearly
as large from a millionaire brewer.
When the Byron transaction got into
the courts a letter from Mrs. Kings
cote was read in which she described
Lord Byron as “the biggest cad as well
as the biggest idiot in England.” She
is the daughter of Sir Henry Drum
mond Wolff, once British ambassador
to Spain, and is the wife of Col. How
ard Kingscote of the British army.
Her attitude toward the rest of the
world may be judged from the sketch
of herself which she wrote for “Who’s
Who?” In this brief autobiography
she says she was “educated in the
school for scandal,” and that she has
had “a checkered and varied career.”
She is now in New York.
PRINCE A SELLER CF RUGS.
Blue-Blooded Egyptian Prefers Lib
erty to Luxury.
Salem Mussaleam, an Egyptian
prince, who traces his lineage back
2,000 years, in whose veins flows the
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bluest blood of all the Ptolemies, re
sides in Lexington, Ky., a seller of
rugs. He became an oriental nomad
in the western country because of an
intense desire to see the world, and
has preferred to make his own way in
life to accepting a routine already
laid down for him. He has at last
become reconciled to his parents, who
were estranged from him by his run
ning away from home, and begins the
first of the year to study medicine at
the Kentucky School of Medicine in
Louisville. When his course is com
pleted he will return to Egypt and
there take a position as surgeon in
the army of the khedive.
Strongest Argument in Front.
Sound the loud trimbrel over the
ruling of the supreme court in New
Jersey which sustains the Hoboken or
dinance prohibiting saloon-keepers
from employing barmaids. It is be
lieved by persons who have traveled
in England that there is not in the
whole world a barmaid who knows
how to pit up a decent drink—at
least, one that an American would call
decent. There are, of course, moral
objections to the employment .of bar
maids, but the arguments against the
Innovation should be presented in their
orooer order.—Kansas City Star.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Latest Quotations from South Omaha
and Kansas City.
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SOUTH OMAHA
CATTLE—There was a fairly liberal
run of cattle and ns is apt to be the case
at the close of the week, the market
was slow and very uneven prices were
patd. The general tendency was to
pound the market on all kinds. There
were several cars of eornfed steers on
the market, but nothing that was choice.
The market could he quoted a shade low
er on the average, but at the same time
tho market was so uneven that, while
some sales looked ubout steady, others
were undoubtfdly a good deal lower.
The cow market was also slow and
weak. The better grades in particular
were hard to dispose of at satisfactory
prices. The market for the week Is
probably 10fi26c higher, but the class of
cattle that sell from $3.()0 up have im
proved the least, while the canners have
advanced the most. The market, for
Stockers and feeders was Just about In
the same condition that It generally Is
on a Friday. That Is, the demand was
very limited and the cattle that did
change hands brought a shade lower
prices. There were almost no desirable
western beef steers on sale and the kinds
that were offered were slow and weak.
Buyers did not seem to care whether
they got many cattle or not. Range cows
and also western Stockers and feeders
were slow and a shade lower.
SHEEP—Quotations for grassers: Good
to choice yearlings, $3.50$3.75; fair to
good. $3.2503.50; good to choice wethers,
$3.40®3.G0; fair to good wethers, $3,100
3.40; choice ewes, $3.00®3.2S; fair to good
ewes, $2,254/2.75; goo/1 to choice lambs,
$4.50®4.75; fair to good lambs, $4.0004.50;
feeder wethers, $2.750 3.15; feeder year
lings, $2,904/3.25: feeder lambs, $3.0004.00;
cull lams. $1.5002.00- feeder ewes, $1,250
2.25; cull ewes, 73c® 1.18; stock ewes, $2.5g
©3.25. Good fed stock sells about 25c
higher than choice grassers.
KANSAS CITY.
CATTLE—Cows weak and lower; corn
cattle weak; beat Stockers and feeders
steady, others lower; choice export and
dressed beef steers, $5.90®6.25; fair to
good, 13.00®5.85; stoekers and feeders. $2.
&yo 3.90: western fed steers, $2.65@o.50;
Texas and Indian steers, $2.65@3.95; Texas
cows, $2.00'u2.85; native cows, $1.30®4.90;
native heifers, tS.00@-4.10; canners, $1.00®
2.2T>; bulls, *1.90@3.25; calves, Jl.OO'fjO.OO.
HOGS—Market 10c lower, closing weak
at decline; top, $6.20; bulk of sales. Jfi.lOffi
6.20; heavy, $6.104(6.23; mixed pnc-kcra,
I6.OVu6.20; light. $6.004!6.15; yorkers, $6.10®
6.15: pigs. $5,651(6.00.
SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market 5c low
er; native lambs, $3.6006.20; western
lambs. $3.00*5.15; fed ewes, $3,004(3.70; na
tive wethers, $3,004(4.00: western wethers,
$3.0Q@3.S5; stockers und feeders, $1.9563.25.
VENEZUELA STILL PROTESTS.
Notifies Britain Orinoco is Not Intend
ed for Foreign Warships.
CARACAS—The Venezuelan govern
ment has energetically protested
against the entrance of the Orionoeo
river by the British sloop Fantome,
which action it is claimed was an in
fringement of the Venezuelan sover
eignty.
General Veluntini is conferring with
President Castro concerning the cam
paigns against Barcelona and Ciudad
Bolivar, which Senor Garrido stated
could be occupied in two davs without
opposition. He compares the present
condition with that existing in the
Philippines, claiming that the rebels
are brigands.
He says the revolutionary general
Rotando, with only seven men, passed
through Guanare, Zamora province, in
the direction of Barcelona.
According to private information re
ceived here Rolando and his staff are
preparing to gather men for the de
fense of Barcelona.
English Trades Delegates.
PITTSBURG, Pa.—The twenty-three
delegates of the British trades organ
izations who are on an inspection tour
of the United States for the purpose
of studying American conditions,
reached Pittsburg Friday. They were
met by a committee of labor leaders
and takan to Homestead, where they
were conducted through the great steel
plant of the Carnegie company. Dur
ing their stay here they will visit the
furnaces, foundries^ steel and iron
mills and glass factories.
Switchmen Get a Raise.
DETROIT. Mich.—General Superin
tendent L’Hommediu has announced
an Increase from 1 to 4 cents an hour
in the pay of switchmen on the Micn
igan Central railroad in the big yards
between Detroit and Chicago, and at
junction points in Michigan, from De
cember 1. The new scale affects
about 500 men, and means an increase
to the company’s pay roll of about
$G,000 a month.
Sub-Treasury Transfer.
NEW YORK—The sub-treasury on
Friday made a telegraphic transfer of
5250,000 to San Francisco.
Form Alleged Cigar Trust.
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—A charter
was issued on Friday to the United
States Cigar company, of Wilmington,
Del., with a capital of $6,500,000. The
United States Cigar company is the
concern against which the retail to
bacconists of Omaha and other cities
have combined under the name of the
Cigar Dealers’ Association of Ameri
ca. They allege that the new concern
is in reality an ofTshoot of the tobacco
trust.
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NEBRASKA IN GENERAL
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MAKES WESTON HIGH MAN.
Official Vote Gives Him Plurality of
17,470.
Auditor Charles Weston, the only
old member of the state hoard of equal
ization, who was a candidate on the
republican state ticket this fall, ap
pears to have received the highest
vote of any candidate on the ticket
and his majority is greater than that
of any other candidate. This was as
certained when the officials returns
in the office of secretary of state were
compared and verified. The unveri
fied tabulation on the previous day
gave Mr. Mortensen the lead, but er
rors were found when the work was
compared. Mr. Vv'eston’s total vote is
101,447. giving him a plurality of 17,
4S7 over Charles Q• lie France, the fu
sion candidate for auditor.
As regards pluralities the republi
can candidates now stand in the fol
lowing order: Auditor Weston, Super
intendent Fowler, Land Commissioner
Follcr, Secretary Marsh, Attorney
General Prout, Treasurer-elect Mor
tensen, Lieutenant Governor-elect Mc
Gilton, Governor-elect Mickey.
The official totals are as follows:
Mickey. R.96.471
Thompson, F.91.116
Mickey's plurality . 5,303
Davies, I*. 3.307
Bigelow, S. 3,137
MeGilton, R. 08.320
Gilbert, F.87,009
McGllton’s plurality . 11,311
Llghtncr. P. 4.129
Peugh. S. 3,4H
Marsh, R.P9.12S
Powers, F.86.044
Marsh's plurality . 13.0S4
Norton . 4.C89
Roe . 3,333
Mortensen .99,414
Lyman .. 88,166
Mortensen's plurality . 11,778
Maddox, I*. 4110
Stolley, S. 3,650
Weston, R.101,447
De Fra nee, F. 83,960
Weston's plurality . 17.4S7
Dale. P. 4,578
Lipplncott, S. 3.733
Prout. R. 98.581
Broady, F.83.512
Prout's plurality . 13,069
Clarke, P. 4.394
Burleigh, S. 3,668
Foil mer. R. 99.388
Brennan, F... 83,188
Follm; r's plurality . 16.2CO
Dillworth. P. 4,504
Adams, S... 3.857
Fowler, R.99.911
Smith. F.83,669
Fowler's plurality . 16,272
Howard, P. 4.328
Spencer, S. 3,739
Total vote .198,574
KNOCKS OUT HOME COMPANY.
Supreme Court Says It Cannot Legally
Transact Business in Nebraska.
In an extended opinion written by
Justice Sedgwick the supreme court
put the Nebraska Home company out
of business in this state by declaring
that it is a lottery and that its pro
moters promise impossible things.
The court finds that, the numbering of
certificates in the order in which ap
plications therefor are received gives
to the enterprise the element of
chance, which makes it a lottery. It
also finds that while the first twenty
two applicants out of 1,000 may re
ceive the benefits promised by the
company inside of the twenty-month
period after the filing of the applica
tions the 1,000th applicant- has little
to hope for in the way of benefit in
this world, as it will take him seventy
years to realize, and that the com
pany does not profess to do anything
for him in the next world.
The suit is In the nature of a quo
warranto proceeding and was institut
ed by Attorney General Prout on be
half of the state to prevent the com
pany from doing business in Nebraska.
Smith Leaves the State.
The case of the state of Nebraska
against William R. Smith was called in
county court at York and dismissed at
request of the complaining witness.
Smith was arrested and placed in ail
on the charge of threatening to do bod
ily injury to Miss Nora Hilton. A
thorough investigation of the case has
been made by the county attorney.
It was found that all that could be
done in the case was to fine him and
place him under bond to not molest
or in any way interfere with Miss
Hilton, and as he had neither money
nor friends the only thing that could
have been done would have been to
keep him in jail for a time and then
turn him loose. Smith agreed to leave
the county and stay away under pen
alty of arrest should he return.
Found Dead in Barnyard.
Tho dead body of John Krapp. a
prominent German farmer residing
three miles southeast of Cortland'.,
was found in the barnyard of his farm,
The coroner was notified and upon ex
amination pronounced the man’s death
due to apoplexy. No inquest was
held. Deceased was a bachelor, 67
years of age, and had resided in that
locality for thirty-five years.
G. W. Ware, living near Mullen, has
7,000 head of cattle.
Farmers generally are paying corn
buskers three cents a bushel.
Governor-elect Mickey Is making a
visit to all of the state institutions.
Recent rains are said to have put
winter wheat in excellent conaition.
A Gage county farm sold the other
day for $40,000, being over $C2 per
acre.
Burglars at^ Waveriy made an un
successful attempt to enter a number
of business places.
Two brother-in-law engaged in a
fight at St. Paul. One of the received
an ugly cut in the side.
Mrs. Anna Keppel is seeking to re
cover $2,500 damages from Platts
mouth for injuries sustained from a
defective sidewalk.
The remains of Joseph Fisher, who
died "at Clinton, la., November 15, ar
rived in Wahoo and the funeral ser
vices were held from the Catholic
church. Deceased was eighty years
old.
The Scott livery barn at Ord burn
ed. Three horses were killed and all
the harness and feed destroyed. Loss
on barn and contents about $2,000,
McMindes & Anderson owned the con
tents.
S. P. van Dyke of Gage county, has
returned from a six years’ residence
in the Klondike country. During his
absence he suffered many hardships,
and returns poorer than when he went
away.
The business men of York are agi
tating the building of a Burlington
depot. They urge that the present
structure is a disgrace and that York
should have a depot that is a credit
and in keeping with the city.
When D. C. Donaldson, a farmer liv
ing about three miles southwest of
Pawnee City came home from the field
to dinner he found his wife sitting in
a chair dead. The indications were
that she had died of heart disease.
Mrs. D. M. Ross, wife of a promi
nent farmer living south' of Ord, was
thrown from a load of brick and run
over and almost instantly killed, a
few miles from town. She had drop
ped a line and fell in trying to get it.
Edwin Moody has brought to Red
Cloud from his home in the north
eastern part of the county, suffering
from an advanced stage of insanity.
This is the third time he has been in
custody. He was taken to the asy
lum at Lincoln.
A bank has been organized at Nick
erson with a capital of $25,000, or
which $7,50 is paid up. H. J. Sidner
of Nickerson is the cashier and will
manage the business. The other offi
cers are W. J. Courtright and L. M.
Keene of Fremont, president and vice
president.
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O’Brien and James Hall, the two
men suspected of the attempted bank
robbery at Clatonia last week, was
held at Beatrice before Judge Walker,
which resulted in the defendants being
bound over to the district court in the
sum of $1,000 each.
The new library in York was for
mally opened to the public and a large
crowd was present to enjoy the mu
sical and literary program. This is
the building which was constructed
and furnished from the $10,000 which
Mrs. Woods bequeathed to the city of
York for that purpose.
A reindeer five years old was cap
tured in a pasture four miles east of
Beatrice. The animal fiercely fought
the four men who captured it, and
partly stripped the clothing off one of
them. It is supposed that it had es
caped from some show.
Through efforts of Postmaster
Spelts, Wood River has secured one
of the best rural delivery routes in
the state. The route as laid out cov
ers 175 miles and deliver mail at ev
ery house within a radius of seven
miles of Wood River. Five wagons
will be used to make the delivery.
Will G. Sullivan, the only Sterling
boy who served in the Spanish-Amer
ican wat and who lost a leg at Ma
nila, received word last week from the
the war department and also from Con
gressman Burkett that his claim had
been allowed and that he would re
ceive $36 per month, with back pay
from March 22, 1902.
Treasurer Stuefer estimates that in
the course of the next five years the
board of school lands and funds will
be called upon to invest $12,000,000.
From now on the returns on maturing
land contracts and leases will keep
the fund uninvested in a state of re
pletion that will tax the capacity of
the members to find Investment.
Under a ruling of the supreme court
the state treasurer is required to com
plete the contract made by the board
of educational lands and funds where
by $300,000 of school funds are to be
invested in 3% per cent gold bonds
of the state of Massachusetts. The ap
plication of the attorney general for
a writ of mandamus against the treas
urer in the test case was allowed.