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i NEBRASKA IN GENERAL ij 4 ► <> 4 ► « ► FIRES IN NEBRASKA CITIES. South Omaha and Beatrice Suffer Considerable Damage. The big sheep barns at the Union stock yards in South Omaha were tot ally destroyed by Are Thursday. It is estimated that the loss will be a little over $50,000, fully covered by insur ance. Just how the fire started has not been ascertained. One of the employes discovered the blaze and immediately sounded the alarm. Before any of the firemen arrived the entire main struc ture was In flames and great clouds of black smoked rolled lazily away to wards the south. The smoke attracted the attention of people all over the city and within half an hour after the flames broke out the yards and sur rounding fences were almost black with people. The main structure was 700 feet in length, 160 feet in width and thirty feet high. It was constructed of tim bers and was sheathed on the outside with corrugated iron. The flooring was of vitrified brick. This building was erected several years ago. Last year the stock yards company found a need of increased capacity and erect ed an addition 200 feet long by 200 feet in width, thirty feet high, south of the big barn. This building was similar in construction to the other and was also destroyed. At the time of the fire 993 head of Rheep were confined in pens in the big barn. When the alarm was given some of the men at hand hustled out 500 head into the alleys and these were saved, the balance were smothered to death. BEATRICE—Fire originating in the basement of Day’s drug store, in the Masonic temple block, totally de stroyed the entire block and contents. Conservative estimate places the loss at $150,000. The fire is supposed to have been of Incendiary origin. The flames spread from the basement to the floor above, and before the arrival of the fire de partment was beyond control. The Beatrice National bank, Trevitt. Mattis & Baker, private bankers. Day’s drug store and a number of lawyers, Insurance agents and real estate men occupied the building. The fire was discovered by Judge Callison, who roomed over the drug Btore. He was awakened by the smell of smoke and, although crippled by Rheumatism, managed to crawl to a window, break the glass and call for hel p. His cries were heard by the printers In a nearby printing office, who turned In the alarm and rescued him. UNITED AFTER MANY YEARS. R. G. Backus Finds Daughter After Long Separation. PL.ATTSMOUTH—There is connect ed with the life of Mrs. Agnes Lieber shal, formerly Miss Agnes Backus of this city, a story which reads like fic tion. Mrs. Llebershal’s mother died six months after the former was born, and her father, R. G. Backus, after placing his child in the keeping of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McCarthy of this city, drifted out into the world to seek his fortune, and not from that day until recently did he hear anything directly from his daughter. Then he recived a letter from her addressed to Cincinnati, O. He im meditely answered it, expressing his great pleasure at hearing from her and stating that he had written many let ters to relatives and others in Platts mouth inquiring about her, but for some unknown cause these letters were unanswered and he had been kept in Ignorance as to whether or not the child was still alive. Mr. Backus arrived the day before ChriBtmas and is spending the holi days with his daughter. He is a rep resentative of the Cincinnati Times Star and from general appearance is a very happy man. His daughter was married about six months ago to An tone Liebershal, a ctgarmaker. Ten-Year-Old Boy Suicides. Adelbert I<emon, the ten-year-old son of Rev. H. A. Lemon, of Bethany, state evangelist of the Christian church, with self-destruction in his childish mind, on the day before Ohrtstmas placed a rifle against his body and flred. The bullet passed en tirely through his abdomen, severing the internal organs in many places. After telling Ills sorrowing parents that lie did the deed on purpose he submitted to a surgical operation with out sign of faltering and died from hemorrhage and the shock. He was a bright, intelligent boy. a model son. whose life had a short time before been bubbling over with Christmas joy. On his death bed ho said he had been considering the deed for several weeks. He gave no partic ular reason why he had thought of such hn act. A row of seven frame buildings in the business center of Culbertson was destroyed by Are. The annual meeting of the state bar association will be held in Omaha January 8 and 9. The state bank at Surprise was en tered Tuesday night, the safe blowm open and $2,200 stolen. The first train on the new Union Pa cific extension from Cedar Rapids to SpaMling was run Tuesday. Mrs. Bernard Dolan, an elderly Lin coln woman, was found in the ice of Salt creek, frozen to death. William Zeplin, a prominent young man of West Point, slipped on the ice and fell, dislocating his neck. He died a few hours later. Livestock Agent Upton of the Bur lington says the recent storms in the range country of Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota have caused no great losses to stock. Adams county has paid off $25,000 of the bonds held by the state, leav ing $100,000 in bonds still in the hands of the state treasurer. Another block will soon be taken up. Mrs. Lena Lillie has been arrested, charged with the murder of her hus band, Harvey Lillie, who was mys teriously killed, while asleep in his home at David City two months ago. The papers in Mexico City all com ment on the arrival of W. J. Bryan, but it is understood that his visit is merely one of pleasure and recreation, he being accompanied by his family. It Is authoritatively stated that Governor Mickey will make no ap pointments to the jKisitions of adju tant general of the Nebraska National guard and state oil inspector until next spring. Several candidates are making a lively scramble for these positions. Charles S. Young, formerly assist ant general advertising agent of the Burlington, has been appointed gen eral advertising agent of the Mil waukee with headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Young was formerly a reporter in Omaha. His advancement in the railway world has been rapid. ' Two unusual marriages occurred at Ainsworth Christmas week. The con tracting parties in one were Levi Lind [ quist and Miss Grace Hagerman, the groom weighing a little over 100 pounds, while the bride weighs 320 pounds. In the second marriage Ca leb Hiveley, aged 72 years, was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna E. Bopher, aged 67 years. An interesting suit will soon be started in Lancaster county, wherein the county commissioners will seek to compel County Judge Waters to pay into the county treasury fees which he has collected for performing marriage ceremonies. Judge Waters insists that he is just as much entitled to the fees for performing the marriage ceremony as are the ministers of the gospel who perform them. J. H. Hadkinson of Omaha has been appointed head gardener for the de partment, of horticulture in connection with the world's fair. Mr. Hadkinson is a native of England and studied gardening in that, country. He hau charge of the gardening at the Omaha exposition and of Nebraska's horticul tural exhibit at the Pan-American. For two years he was secretary of the State Horticultural society of Ne braska. NEBRASKA CATTLE ALL RIGHT. State Official Makes Investigation and Reports Favorably. L.INCOLN.—State Veterinarian Thomas, who has just returned from Seotts Bluff county, reports that after a critical examination into the condi tions prevailing in the western end of the state he finds the cattle industry in excellent condition. This tends to relieve the alarm that has been cre ated by the reports sent out to the press concerning the condition of the ranges in Wyoming and Colorado. The snow injures the grass for forage pur poses to a certain extent, but the Ne braska ranchmen are awakening to the need for exercise of more foresight and lese dependence on providence to safe guard their herds and keep them through the winter. He saw much stacked hay that had been put up in preparation for the winter. He did not see any herds that appeared to be suffering from the stress of the weath er and heard no stories of distress among the ranchmen on the Nebraska side of the line. Much interest is being stirred up in the state university at Lincoln in an ticipation of the preliminary debates next month. The university will hold debates with Colorado at Denver, Kansas at Lawrence, Kan., and Mis souri at Lincoln early in May. John Gotte, a well-to-do Kimball county ranchman, is believed to have perished in the recent storm. He left his ranch to look up stray cattle. Noth ing has been seen of him since. Three days after his departure his horse re turned alone. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. i Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City. * -• 801TII OMAHA. _ CATTLE—Receipts of cattle were very light so that it only took a compara tively abort time for practically every thing in the varils to change hands. Buyers took hold quite freely and the market was active from start to fin ish. About the usual proportion of the re ceipts consisted of corn fed steers and some of the cattle showed considerable quality. As high as $5.30 was paid, which is the highest price in some little time. They were western cattle, but were good and fat. As a general thing the market did not show much change from 'Wednesday, but sellers were call ing It all the way from barely steady to strong, ft was evident that packers did not like the idea of paying the prices asked, but. as they had to have a few cattle, the kinds that suited them sold to good advantage, while the kinds that did not strike them as favorably were hord to dispose of at steady prices. The cow market was active and strong er from start to finish. Buyers were all out early and bought up everything that was offered In good season. The prices paid looked all the way from strong to a dime higher. Hulls, veal calves, and stags also sold at fully as good prices as wrere In force last Wed nesday. There were very few stookers and feeders In the yards and not many were wanted. Speculators were not looking) tor much of a demand the remainder of this week and as a result they did not went any cattle unless they could buyi them lower. The market could probably best be described by calling It slow and weak. HOGS—There was a light run of hogs here and besides that about 18 cars were consigned direct to local packers and rot offered on the market. Packers all needed fresh supplies and the market advanced right close to 10c. Packers started out bidding only about a nickel h.gher and a few hogs sold that way, so that the general market was 5®10c higher. The bulk of the sales went from *6 32‘/4 to *6.3714. SHEEP—Owing to the destruction of the sheep barn by fire Christmas morn ing the sheep that arrived were yarded In the new hog division. The pens are well covered, ro that the sheep are given ns good protection from the weather as though they were housed In the regular barn. The capacity is sufficiently large to handle all the sheep that will arrive for the next several months, so that patrons of the market will be given the same service that they have always re ceived. There were only six cars of sheep and lambs on sale and the Quality of the most of them was rather Inferior. Three cars of Mexican ewes that were In Just fair condition brought *1.65 and some western ewes sold at *3.00 and western wethers at $4.00. Considering the quality the market was pronounced steady to strong and everything sold In good sea son. There were not enough feeders on sale to tell anything about the market, but being so near the end of the week, there were not many buyers in sight. Quotations for fed stock: Choice lambs, *5.00®5.25; fair to good lambs. *4.50®f>.00; choice yearlings, *4.00®4.50; fair to good yearlings. *3.75®4.00: choice wethers, *3.60 HM.OO; fair to good, *3.25®3.60; choice ewes, *3.50®4.00; fair to good, *3.00®3.50; feeder lambs, *3.00®4.00; feeder yearlings, $3.00®3.50; feeder wethers, *2.75®3.2o; feed er ewea, *1.50®2.25. KANSAS t ill. CATTLE-Receipts, 2,000 head. Includ ing 400 head Texans; stronger; native steers, J3.25ft6.00; Texans and Indian steers, J3.004i4.23; Texas cows, J2.50Gi3.00; native cows and heifers, J1.50@4.00; stockers and feeders, J2.OOfj4.25; bulls, J2.26®4.00; calves, J2.75faG.25. HOGS—Receipts. 5,0»i) head; strong to 5c higher; bulk of sales, JG.30ffG.45; heavy, JG.25ftG.50; packers, $6.10®6.37tt; medium, jG.25fi6.45; light, J6.17%@6.35; Yorkers, Jf.30ftG.35; pigs, J5.50ftG.05. SHEEP—Receipts, 1,000 head; stronger; muttons, J3.00ft4.10; lambs. J3.G0@5.45; range wethers, J3,OOft4.GO; ewes, J3.00® 4.20. MORE MONEY FOR MITCHELL. Leader of the Miners Will Have His Salary Increased. INDIANAPOLIS—A motion will be submitted to the convention of the United Mine Workers increasing the salaries paid the president and secre tary. At present Mr. Mitchell re ceives $1,800 and Mr. W’JIson $1,500. The miners are looking torward to securing increased pay for themselves and want their executive officers to share their profits. It is said the convention will be the largest ever held by the miners, as over 1,200 delegates will be present, as ugainst 1,000 last year. Railroad Building in 1902. CHICAGO—According to the Rail toad Gazette, railroad building in the United States for 1902 aggregated' 0,026 miles, a total not exceeded in any year since 1888. Second track, sidings and electric lines are not in cluded. Oklahoma leads with 570, Texas comes second with 496, Arkan sas is third with 371 and Indian Ter ritory is fourth with 363 miles. Twenty thousand coal miners in the Connellsville coke regions, Pennsyl vania, will have their wages increased 8 per cent January 1. ' Simple Funeral for Bishop. LONDON—The remains of the ,. . ch bishop of Canterbury were rented from the archepiscopal palace at 1 am beth to Canterbury for intern at. There was no display. The body . as taken to the railroad station in a sam ple hearse, followed by carriages < ,:n taining relatives of the deceaseu \ I surpliced choir sang an anthem at tho station as the coffin was placed board the train. [ I THE NEWS IN BRIEF. f <*>$>■$ v * ^ ’>r'?*e4<£ Gea. Reyes, Mexican. minister of war, has resigned. An anonymons admirer or ABrauam, Lincoln Is going to plat e busts of the great war president in every public school in New York city indications are that the convention ot the National Live Stock association to be held in Kansas City in January will be very largely attended. After General Miles, General Young will be lieutenant general five months and then General Chaffee will serve about two years at the head of the army. Every employe in the clerical depart ment of the Chiiago & Alton railway has been, granted an increase of 10 per cent in wages, dating from De cember I. Charles E. Osborne, formerly a coun try newspaper man in Wisconsin, has been offered $2,000,000 for an iron mine in Ontario, of which he is the princi pal owner. Winnie O'Connor, a young jockey, will get $25,000 a year for the next three years. He will ride on foreign tracks for Baron de Rothschild and M. De Bloch. Mrs. George A. Graves of Ogden, Utah, has just received a check from the United States government for $250 in settlement of a claim that has been pending for 105 years. Societies of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians in the^cjlfferent countries have been amalgamatef^U*1*0 one boily’ whereby all will be broute* untler same governing board. A pool room in Hot Spring^v^^*' tyi '1 C was wrecked the day before Christa^ by an explosion of gasoline, resulting iu the death of two men and serious accident to several others. Newton Thorp is designing thf ■on ument in Union square, San Francisco, which will be erected to commemorate Admiral Dewey’s victory of Manila bay. It will cost about $4r,000. When the Missouri Savings bank balanced its public schools account last week, the books showed that the 1,239 children who have accounts there had $12,159.64 to their credit. This is just about $10 apiece. For the second time in fifteen years President Roosevelt did not act as Kris Kringle in person at the Cove school. Oyster Bay, where his chil dren were taught prior to his eleva tion to the head of the nation. Emperor William spent Christmas hi his usual way. His majesty took a walk in the afternoon in the Sans Souci park, Berlin, and distributed bright gold pieces fresh from the mint among the gardeners and watchmen. The Missouri supreme court has de nied the Wiltmer school of magnetic he/iing of Nevada, Mo., a rehearing in the suit against C. M. Bishop for libel. The court holds that the busi ness is not legitimate and that the ompany is not entitled to the pro jection of the libel laws. The cabmen of St. l^ouis went on a strike Christmas eve. As a result, the street cars have been providing transportation to many people who us ually patronize the cabbies. Seventeen funerals on Christmas day were de prived of carriages and the mourners went to the cemeteries in the street cars. Ex-Chief Isparhecher, of the Creek Indians, died suddenly tonight at Ok mulgee, I. T., at the age of 90 years. He had been prominent in Creek af fairs for three score years and has been connected with every treaty of importance between the United States government and the Indians during that time. J. Pierpont Morgan has been sum moned to appear in the district munic ipal court to answer in a suit brought against him for $250 damages. The claimant, a tenant in a house owned by Mr. Morgan, asks these damages on the ground that he caught a severe cold through the house not being heated, owing to the lack of coal. It is stated on good authority that Grant G. Gillett, the fugitive Kansas cattle king, who has been in Mexico for more than three years, has gone to New York to perfect a mining deal. Since taking refuge in Mexico Gillett has not recrossed the border into the United States, but has turned his at tention to mining. His recent rich strike near Chihuahua has made him a millionaire again. The members of the Studebaker fam ily of South Bend, Ind., have decided to mark the anniversary of the death of Clem Studebaker by giving to the Epworth hospital in their city 150,000 in addition to former gifts for a hos pital building. The great gandfather of Mrs. Mary Jane Pairo, who has just died in Balti more, was a member of the Boston tea party, and in her home hangs the mirror which hung in the hall of the house from which the Boston tea party started on its expedition. Robert S. McCormick, retiring Unit ed States ambassador to Austria, will have his farewell audience with Em peror Francis Joseph on December 29. He will then leave Vienna for St. Petersburg to assume the duties of American ambassador to Russia. I “ BEN HUR” COMINGlo OMAHAl p^ss? Mrirjp; w..r«?« The production Is a notable one In °'er^ w , ti.„, 0t,nrloi race and ;«taV\Tfie& are carried complete. The c«mpun> trav l <arsP and altogether tt isTo^eredVhrrmPosrpreCtenMous and massive undertaking ever attempted ln K^r 'the convenience of out-of-town patrons, special reduced rates anil ?l,udr” wteklanS Sr^fr^U rSlly" flVd la the order they are received when accompanied with remittances. _ I— -----— Arabian Coffee. The Arabian coffee-maker, having prepared his fire of charcoal, and placed it near a huge pot containing water, takes a few handfuls of green coffee berries, carefully culls out all Imperfect berries and foreign sub stances, and then places the best of the berries in an iron ladle held over the Are. The berries are permitted to roast until they begin to smoke and are then, while still uncharred, placed In a small mortar and carefully brayed with a pestle closely Attlng the cup of the mortar. The berries are not, however, reduced to a dust. While this process has been going on a small pot has been half filled with tepid ne frrtm thp lflTPP not and placed - eugar. Fisherman’* Strange Catch. While trolling for bass the other afternoon, near San Francisco, J. Brunz felt a tug at his line and squar ed himself for a battle with his finny prisoner. The struggle was a royal one, and Brunz sighed with relief when he was finally able to haul in the line and bring the fish alongside the boat. As it came to the surface, however, the start which he expert enced nearly caused him to let go the line and snatch at an oar in self defense. In weight the fish tipped the scale at five pounds. The body fins and tail were those of a striped bass, but the head resembled that of a seat, with an under jaw projecting in front at least, an inch beyond the upper. Brunz has been an enthusiastic fisher man fcr years and has seen all forms of denizens of water, both fresh and salt. He and his associates assert that it has never been their misfor tune to hook such a monstrosity hith erto. - Remarkable Monolith in Chili. A remarkable monolith, more than 5,000 feet in height, was recently dis covered in Chill. The base of thie stupendous undersea needle is barely 240 feet in circumference, yet it rears itself, solitary and alone, to the height of nearly a mile, its culminating point a flat, circular surface no bigger than a cartwheel, reaching to within less than 600 feet of the surface. No such natural phenomenon, on any such stu pendous scale, could possibly stand alone on dry land freed from its sup porting and protecting envelope of perfectly still water. But even sup posing that it were possible to lift it bodily from the depths of the ocean, and set it up on land, storm, beat and frost would cause it to crumble to pieces in a very few years. A IiOndon newspaper man, said to be capable, was suddenly called upon to write an obituary of Bret Harte. With a mind full of something else— we are not told what—he wrote a column and a half and sent it to the printer. When it came back in proof he was horrified to find that he had written a lengthy article about Mark Twain. It was too late to re-write the obituary and he was obliged to change the name and the titles of the books and let the article go In. The Champion Liar Turn* Up. Such a long time has elapsed since anything has been heard heard from Joe Mulhauon, "the world's champion liar," that he is generally supposed to have been dead for years. There fore when he suddenly turned up in New Orleans a few days ago hie friends greeted him as one returned from the dead. He has been mining tn Arizona for eight years, and in all that time has been practically lost to the world. “A number of new liars have appeared during my absence,” says Joe, “but they had better look to their laurels. 1 am tired of mining and will now take to lying again." Wax from Trees. The wax palm of the Andes Is a vegetable 'wonder. It grows to a height of nearly 200 feet and thrives not only on the plains but the moun tains. The wood is tough and durable and Is employed in carpentry. The wax comes from the pits between the trunk and fronds. It is yellow or grayish white, is as pure as beeswax, and is used for making candles. A "peon” climbing the tree can gather from 20 pounds to 30 pounds from each. A Heathen Rito in Russia. A curious account is given in a Ka zan (Russia) paper of a heathen sac rifice recently offered up to idols in a Chuvash village in the Province of Kazan. Contributions of butter, milk, salt and meal were requisitioned oy the priests from th< villagers, a%d on a propitious day the whole people turned out to the river bank where prayers were offered up to the gods for rain, and a swallow, having been caught and smeared with butter, was released to “fly upwards to carry our prayers to the ears of the gods.” Tha proceedings closed with a feast, after which the priests began pusnlng one another Into the water, and then flinging water over the assembled crowd. The story is baldly told, with out the least Interest In what appeirs to be some relic of old-age ceremonial which may be worthy of the atten of the learned in such matters.—' don Standard An Insectivorous llluminantl Here is an insect that carries i Wr at night, It is called the “Ian1 t‘P South America. fly," ami is’Io.^.. < . Its huge head is ho and papery tissue, I pairted red and yellow, like M At night—the fly is nocturnal imt—the head Is Illuminated like®tern, affording quite a brilliant®, Frenchman Mr Hia Tomb. An eccentric plntleman named Chapelain has jifl at Monhoudou, in the Depart tjpf the Sarthe,' France. He \vjp. rich, and had' caused a montunC omb to be built on a piece of laqrining the ceme tery. In this tomb h^for twenty years past spent serinrinrs a day, often sleeping thenfiller, as he said, to get used to future dwelling place. t" At this ho ept the coffin in which he wa buried, and used It as a bed. r- invariably had his winding shroud laid on the table in ng room in Jteu. of a table* ^don Express. known that in clay is eaten for butter., butter,” and is of Germany, rn earth ia is Bold in on the Italian the Island of and other trop •• aays this its origin in the earths have some take the place of Ingredient h» *n ■ens meat re shown. whiefclxHiAr turned the joint to the Fop:the ;l|ime in the his*01,hat Yalaj unveiM a president jnto institution H entered aft • idpnt athletics. Mv days ag0'nli>(r of Arthur T. Ky, a» ® " d against the ffttttlty His team. P‘: jde lost ■e rn!hree but Mr. Ms to t^ee antag M h>« >ont'‘nVen,ional ■attiretf >" t0 be an H and pr° • 1 ight sets. ■ pa8l1y '“kps secretary wa||Jmdl>^Bdod at the