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IS NOW TOO LATE THE TIME IS UP FOR SELECTION OF DELEGATES. LAST WEEK OF CONVENTIONS Rules and Regulations for Sale of Part ot tne Granae Ronde Indian Reservation in Oregon—outer Mat ters from the National Capital. WASHINGTON—Under the call of the republican national committee this is tue last week in which the conven tions for the selection oi delegates to the Chicago convention may be held. The call requires that all delegates shall be elected at least thirty days prior to the meeting of the conven tion. Fourteen state convention have been held or are holding this week. This is the largest number of con ventions held in any one week since the call of the committee was issued. All of the conventions, state and dis trict. for the election of national del egates, will Tiave been held by Sat urday night. Returns received thus far at the W hite House would indicate that, of j the 988 delegates to the Chicago con vention 926 were elected tip to Thurs day evening, sixtv-two yet remaining either to be elected or reported on. Some of the sixty-two have been elected, but the returns have not as yet been received. Of the number elected, 708 have been instructed ab solutely for President Roosevelt. A majority of the remainder have indi cated tneir intention to support the president. Rules for Land Sales. The commissioner of the general A SIGNAL SCHOOL. ^ Preparation for Its Opening at Fort Omaha. W ASHINGTON—The establishment of a school of instruction for the sig nal corps of the army at Fort Omaha, which has been decided upon by the general staff, must necessarily be slotv, as there is no considerable amount of money available at this time to erect the necessary buildings for officers and men, but bort Omaha will be made an important adjunct to the signal corps and already Quartermaster Gen eral Humphrey has commenced in quiries to to what may be done with the brick buildings at the fort, so as to put them in habitable condition. While the matter is still in the air, sufficent is known, however, of the plans of the war department. So far a3 the establishment of the signal corps at Fort Omaha is concerned nothing w'ill be done until after July 1, when the new appropriation for the army be comes available.. Immediately after that date the brick administration building will be put in condition for occupancy by a eompan# of the sig nal corps, with mess hall ana a hos pital fitted probably with a dozen beds. The commandants house, w hich v as built by Generar Crook, will also be put in repair for the occupancy of the commandant, while the other brick buildings will be used for stor age purposes. It is probable General Chaffee will set aside for the rehabilitation of Fort Omaha $20,000, to be spent during the summer, so that a company of the | signal corps may occupy the fort in the fall. Then the war department will look to the Nebraska delegation and its friends on the military com mittee of the two houses to secure a direct ppropriation ox $200,000 or up ward for the consruction of additional COMBiNED ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR. Japanese transports landed troops at Pitsewo and Kinchou, while the Japanese fleet lay behind the Liao-tieshan promontory. land office bas pr ''•red rules and regulations for the sale of u part of the Grande Ronde Indian reservation in Oregon which have been approved ! by the secretary of the interior. The lands amount to 26.300 acres and are situated in the western part of Ore gon, wtihin fifteen or twenty miles of the P cifie coast. A portion of the land is covered with timber of a fairly good quality and the remainder is of an agricultural character. The whole tract is well watered. This land is to be sold npon sealed bids to be filed in the Oregon City (Ore.) land office, beginning Monday, Au gust 1, at 9 a. m., and ending at 11 a. m., August 8. The land will be sold in tracts of 160 acres according to a schedule, which, together with instructions governing the sale, will J be furoi* -ed upon application to the United States land office at Oregon City or to the general land office in Washington. Each tract must be biC. upon separately, and each bid must be accompanied by a certified check, payable to the secretary of the ; interior, for 20 per cent of the amount of the bid. Each bidder mav present bids for anv number of tracts, but with each bid must make and trans mit the required deposit. No bid will be accepted at a less rate than $1.25 per acre. No bid can be accepted unless the aggregate of all bids shall I equal or exceed $28,500. Upon the acceptance of a bid and the payment of the blance due. the patent will be issued by. the government no resi dence or improvement being required. The right is reserved to reject any or a bids. Irrigation in Montana. A census bureau irrigation bulletin Just issued is devoted to Montana and shows in 1902 there were 1,140 094 acres under irrigation in the state, covering 9,496 farms and costing $51! 57o,975. England’s Great Navy.. LONDON.—The chancellor of the j exchequer, August Chamberlain, de-| fending in the House of Commons on Tuesday the expenditure for the navy, said the necessity for the mainte nance of a two-power standard had not changed. He trusted the country would not be involved in another great war, but if it occurred he hoped thf house would not be unwilling to pay what was necessary to defend its honor. The chancellor pointed out that Great Britain now had sixty three battleships. . . Two Great Armies to Meet. PARIS.—The Journal's Mukden cor respondent says: “Important devel-, opments are imminent. The outposts of the two armies are in contact north of Feng Wang Cheng. The Japanese army advancing on Lain Yang is esti mated at 100,000. A persistent ru mor. which is not confirmed officially, has it that another Japanese corps is executing a flanking movement di rected on some point between Laio Yang and Mukden. There are now no less than 160,000 Japanese in Manchu-i ria.” ' J buildings and whatever may be needed to make the post habitable. Officials of the general land office are now engaged in preparing details 10 carry out the proclamation of the president which opens to settlement some 2 400 homesteads in Gregory county. South Dakota. Commissioner Richards is not giving the least atten tion to the objections of Chamberlain against the proposed action of the de partment in removing temporarily the land office irom Chamberlain to Bone e.teel. In reality, Commissioner Rich ards said Tuesday that he had receiv ed no formal protest against his ac tion, but he has had called to his at tention through marked copies of newspapers published in the vicinity of Chamberlain hints that the tempo rary transfer of the land office from Chamberlain to Bonesteel would be ex tremely distasteful to residents of that city. “However,’ said Commissioner Rich ards. “I will proceed upon the lines I have mapped out as to the opening of the Rosebud country. “During the early rush the land of fices will be located at Bonesteel. After the rush is over the land of fices will be returned to Chamberlain, but,It is my confident belief that the best interests of all concerned will be best conserved by establishing a tem porary land office at Bonesteel. and I shall adhere to this .program.” Seventeen Villages Destroyed. CONSTANTINOPLE—According to a dispatch from «~e vali of Bitlis. Asi atic Turkey, seventeen villages have been destro-cd by armed insurgents in t»ie district ot Sassoun. More than j 600 Armenian families have taken ref- | uge in Mush, a town in Bitlis. Famous Artist Dying. MUNICH, Bavaria.—Franz von Len bach, the famous historical and por trait painter, and president of the Munich Artists’ association, is dying. Stanley Laid to Rest. LONDON.—The remains of Sir Henry M. Stanley were buried in the churchyard of the old Surrey village of Pirbright. Prior to the burial the nation and the United States, in the persons of Ambassador Choate and Consul General Evans, paid honor to the departed African explorer with an impressive funeral service held in Westminster abbey. The pall bear ers included a grandson of Living stone, Arthur Mountenay Jepson Stanley’s former lieutenant, and the Efafk'e of Acorn. Engineer Held far Wreck. DENVER—Police Captain Frank W Lee of this city h"s received a letter from h;a brother. Timothy \v. Lee, formerly a resident of Denver, stating that he was a prisoner at Zacatecas, ex., and calling upon him to make r.n effort to effect his release. This condition was breugh. about through the wrecking of a Mexican. Central passenger train of which Lee was the engineer. Captain Lee has requested Governor Peabod^ to bring the mat ter to the attention cf the state depart* ment at Washington. THE KINKAID BILL INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUSY WITH PREPARATIONS. TWO AGENTS ARE IN NEBRASKA """ They Will Decide Upon Lands Sus ceptible of Irrigation, and Their In structions Are to Make a Report as Early as Possible. WASHINGTON—Secretary Hitch cock, appreciating the necessity of passing upon certain features of the Kinkaid bill throwing 9pen the north west section of Nebraska for setle ! ment under the amended homestead i laws, has turned over to the geologi cal survey for report that portion of the provisions of the t ill wherein cer tain lands which, in the opinion of the secretary of the interior, may be rea sonably practicable of irrigation, are : exempt from its provisions. The di rector of the survey, Prof. Wolcott, ; has commissioned two of his corps to | look over the ground prior to the date when tne bill goes into effect, June 28. The Kinkaid bill provides that the secretary of the interior shall, after examination, exempt from the provisions of the law those lands that may be reasonably practicable to irrigate by moans of water conducted from natural streams by gravity, and the secretary shall, prior to the date when the law- goes into effect, desig nate afld exclude from entry lands, particularly along the North Platte river, which, in his opinion, it may be possible to irrigate through op erations under the national irrigation law' or by private enterprise. The law further states that the secretary thereafter shall from time to time open to entry under the act any of the lands so excluded, which upon further investigation he may conclude cannot be practically irrigrated in the manner as above set forth. Two j members of the engineer corps of the geological survey are now in the sec tion included within tie limits of the f Kinkaid bill looking over the terri tory for the purpose of deciding upon ! the lands susceptible of irrigation, and their instructions are to make as i early report as posslole in order that the sections reserved may be posted conspicuously in the territory and at the land office which will have charge of this business, for the benefit of in i tending settlers. SAYS THE STRIKE IS ENDED. Peabody Says Law and Order has Been Restored. P1TTSBI RG, Pa.—Governor Pea body of Colorado, replying to a tele gram irom the National Association ; °f Manufacturers in session here this week, comending him for his stand during the recent troubles in his state, says: “The labor strikes in Colorado are : ended, save for a slight rebellion led by professional agitators. Law and order has been re-established and obe dience to our constitution and its laws must and shall be maintained. ! The principle of guaranteeing to eve ry citizen of Colorado the right to labor in a lawful manner without fear of intimidation or violence will here after be maintained by the people of the state.” RISK ASSUMED BY EMPLOYE. — Federal Supreme Court Broadly In terprets the Fellow Servant Law. WASHINGTON. — The supreme court of the I'nited States laid down the principle that a telegraph opera- j j tor for a railroad company and a fireman on a railroad engine are “fel low servants,” and that the negli ! gence of the former, causing the death of the latter in the operation ! of trains, was a risk the fireman as sumed and was not a ground for dam ages against the railroad company. The case was that of Alline A. Dixon against the Northern Pacific Railroad company for damages for the death of her husband, C. A. Dix on, a fireman on the road, killed in a collision caused by the negligence of a telegraph operator. Great Britain Will Fight It Out. LONDON.—Lord Hardwicke, under secretary for war, replying to Lord Spencer (the liberal leader) in the House of Lords said Great Britain was now at war with Thibet and until it had by force of arms vindicated its position, he did not think the gov ernment ought to be called on to give a definite pledge as to what form of settlement would follow the conclu sion of hostilities. Lord Tweedmouth (liberal) charged the government with willfully sending out a mission and knowing th? consequences. _< . Krupp Works Busy. BERLIN.—A special dispatch from Essen says the Japanese-Russian war causes great activity in the Krupp works in the construction of both cannon and shipbuilding materials. Large orders for field guns have been received. Senator Quay Recovering. MORGANZA, Pa.—For the first time this week Senator M. S. Quay left his room at his brother’s home at Morganza and went down stairs. His condition wa3 believed to be greatly stairs and remained in the lower por improved. The senator spent an un usually restful night and told his phy sician that he wanted to get out of his room. He was assisted down •stairs and remained in the lower por tion of the house an hour or more. , Six Cases of Yellow Fever. MEXICO CITY. — The superior board of health reported that up to Friday evening there were in the re public, outside of Yucatan, six cases of yellow fever, two at. Very Cruz and four on the isthmus' of Tehaunte pec. Great efforts will be made to stamp out the disease. Bull Fighters for the Fair. MEXICO CITY.—The bull fighters who were engaged to give fights at the St. Louis exposition have lef£ for their destination. * • THE IOWA REPUBLICANS. — Stand Patters Have Things Come Their Way. DES MOINES—Iowa’s long fight be tween stand pat republicans and liber als on the issue of tariff revision and reciprocity ended in complete victory for the former in the state convention for selecting delegates to the national convention. Of twenty-six delegates chosen, twenty are stand patters and six are liberals. The resolutions adopted declare that the protective principle “found its high fulfillment” in the Dingley law. As to reciprocity the platform declares that “it is un- < wise to seek markets abroad by sacri ficing some parts of the markets at home.” In the choice for delegates there was no opposition to Senator W. B. Allison, Senator J. P. Dolliver, J. W. Blythe and Governor A B. Cummins for dele gates-at-iarge. Frank R. Crocker, Chariton; Frank Simmons, Ottumwa; D. H. Bowe, Wau kon; C. W. Crimrn Esthe: ville, were elected alternates. The following district delegates to the national convention were chosen in the caucuses at 10 o’clock: First, Marsh W. Bailey, Washing ton; c. A. Carpenter, Louisa. Second—G. W. French, Davenport; George W. Curtis, Clinton. Third—O. M. Gillett, Independence; E. S. Ellsworth Iowa Falls. Fourth—A. H. Gale, Mason City; Harry Green, Decorah. Fifth—J. w. Doxsee, Jones; E. L. Clarke, Linn. Sixth—H. L. Watermen, Ottumwa; John A. Dc Muth Aybia. Seventh—Judge J. H. Henderson, In dianola; Dr. J. J Hostetter, Colorado. Eighth—W. P. Peatman, Appanoose; H. R. Jaqua, Taylor. Ninth—George Wright, Pottawatta mie; W. S. Ellis, Montgomery. Tenth—Mahlon Head Green; E. K. Wmne, Humboldt. Eleventh—R. L. Cleaves. Cherokee; E. R. Yande: :aid Orange City. _ I Resolutions as presented and adopt ed congratulate the country upon the great prosperity in evidence; triumph of home and foreign policies of the republican party; congraulate the country on adjustment of Alaskan ! boundary dispute; pride in able and ! wide influence of Iowas delegation in congress; commend the record of Gov ernor Cummins; endorse administra tion of President Roosevelt; express unchangeable belief in protective tar iff; favor reciprocity; opposition to trusts and combines; favor pensions to soldiers and sailors, and express re great on the death of Senator Hanna. The eighth resolution reads; “We are opposed to trusts and combines, of vvhatever nature, organized to extoft undue and exorbitant profits from the people. We rejoice in the success of President Roosevelt in his efforts to enforce in the courts the laws of Con gress made to curb the improper ex ercise of power by these great organi zations.” WARSHIPS ARE LOST. Two of Togo’s Fleet Are Destroyed Off Mukden. TOKIO—Vice Admiral Togo has re ported as follows: “A report from Rear Admiral Dewa says that the cruisers Kasuga and Yo shino collided in a fog off Port Arthur on May 15. "The Yoshino sank, only ninety of her crew being saved. “On the same day the battleship Hatsuse struck a Russian mine and sank.” Giving the details of the disaster, Vice Admiral Togo says: "The same morning the Hatsuse, while cruising off Port Arthur, cov ering the landing of the soldiers, struck a mine ten knots southeast of the harbor entrance. She signaled for help and instantly struck another mine. She sank in half an hour. Three hundred of her crew were saved by torpedo boats.” People just arrived at Che Foo from Dalny have reported to the Russian consul that the Japanese first-class battleship Shikishima sank in two minutes after contact with the sub marine mine, and that there was no time to save the crew. The accident happened, it is said, within sight of Port Arthur. The first-class battleship Fuji, not the cruiser Asama, which struck the mine on the port bow, had a heavy list and was also down by the bow, but was righted and went off in tow of the other cruisers. It is thought impossible, however, that she could reach port. ST. PETERSBURG—The loss of ht least two Japanese warships is offi cially confirmed. A message dated Port Arthur, received by carrier pig eon at Mukden, was transmitted to the emperor early Thursday morning, say ing that the Japanese warships had been lost off that port. The message followed the emperor to Koursk and no one here knew of Its contents un til late Thursday night, ■when foreign telegrams brought full details of the Japanese loss. German Royalty at Denver. DENVER, Colo.—A German royal party, headed by Prince Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst. arrived in Denver Sunday and will remain in Colorado several days. In the party, besides Prince Hohenlohe, are his sister, the Princess Elizabeth Pass Hohenlohe, Mrs. Borgins and her daughter, and Count Graft Rumerskirch of Vienna. Prince and Princess Ratifcors are ex pected to arriver here Monday. They have been with the party during its tour of this country until leaving for San Francisco. The Quick and the Dead. NEW YORK.—The United States transport Kilpatrick arrived from Ma nila via the Suez Canal with ninety eight cabin passengers and ninety three government employes, discharg ed soldiers, civilian employes and en listed men. She also brought the bod ies of sixty-four soldiers who died in the Philippines. Among the passen gers were Major D. C. Poole, retired; Major H. B. Orwig of the Philippine constabulary, Captain H. S. Stone of the transport service and Dr. Lepeere. TICKET IS CHOSEN REPUBLICANS OF NEBRASKA MAKE NOMINATIONS. FOUR COME BY ACCLAMATION Only O e Ballot Necercary on Each of the Other Candidates—Platform Adopted Without Discussion or Dis sent. Choice of State Convention. Vice President_JOHN L. WEBSTER 1 United States Senator. .ELMER J. BURKETT Delegates-at-Large— JOHN A. PIPER. Burt H. C. BROME. Douglas E. M. LRF1ANG. Dawson C. B. DEMPSTER, Gage Alternates-at-I>arge— 1. M. RAYMOND. Lancaster SHELBY HASTINGS. Butler C. E. ADAMS, Nuckolls E. K. VALENTINE, Cuming National Committeeman— CHARLES H. MORRILL, Lancaster Presidential Electors— F. A. BARTON, Pawnee A. C. SMITH, Douglas A. C. ABBOTT, Dodge T. L. NOKVAL. Seward W. P. HALL. Phelps M. A. BROWN. Buffalo H. H WILSON, Lancaster J. C. ROBINSON, Douglas Governor .J. H. MICKEY ! Lieutenant Governor.. E. G. M’GlLTON j Secretary of State .Y. GALUSHA ' Auditor.E. M. SEARLE, JR. | Treasurer .PETER MORTENSEN Superintendent .J. L. M'BRIEN Attorney General.NORRIS BROWN ! Land Commissioner..?.. .11. M. EATON The republican state convention in Lincoln on the 18th pot the foregoing ; ticket in nomiaation. Four of the i candidates were nominated by aocla mation and the remainder on the first ballot. When the convention was called to order McKesson of Lancaster moved that Judge W. H. Robertson be elected permanent chairman. The motion was carried. When preliminaries had been ar ranged anu nominations begun, on re quest of Harrison of Hal! the motion to nominate Governor Mickey by ac clamation was expanded to include the nomination of E. G. McGiitoa for lieu tenant governor, Peter Mortensen for state treasurer, and Norris Brown for I attorney general. They were all so nominated. A. Galusha was nominated for sec retary of state, after which the ticket was completed as above indicated. The platform, in part, follows: “We, Nebraska republican delegates ' _in convention assembled, declare anew our faith in the principles enunciated in the last national platform. We con- i gratulate the party upon it3 harmoni- | ous condition, that is a guaranty of its continued control in state and na tion. Its record of great achievement is its pledge of future service. “We have abiding confidence in our great president. His viriie American ism appeals to our admiration. His ideals of civic duty are an inspiration. | iiis exaction from public officials of strict compliance with law and honor j commands our highest respect. His punishment of public delinquents has our unqualified approval. His fearleds enforcement of the statutes against legal combinations fn restraint 01 trade and commerce without unneces sary alarm t« capital has femonstrat ed the efficiency of republican law and the honest purpose of the republican party. "We declare our belief in a protec tive tariff, a fundamental party doc trine that has largely contributed to the nation's growth and greatness. We aahere to the principle, and we refuse to become frightened at the schedules of a law the practical application of which, during the past seven years, has brought to the country such mar velous development and phenomenal prosperity. "The efficacy of a gold standard es tablished by the party is proved by the unquestioned soundness of all our currency and its sufficient abundance to meet all the demands of a vastly increased trade. “We commend congress, and espe cially the Nebraska members who ren dered such valuable service, (or the passage of laws for a great system of irrigation for the reclamation of a large area in this state of fertile but unwatered soil, and for the better set tlement of a vast section by means of more liberal homestead privileges. “In the language of President Roose velt, we believe that the door of hope and of opportunity should be open to every worthy and deserving American citizen without distinction of race, color or religion. “In response to a public necessity and the party’s pledge, the legislature has enacted a new revenue law. It was framed to distribute the public burden with exact and even justice. We pledge the party to a correction of such inequalities as may be dis closed and to the assessment of all property, corporate and private, at its full value according to law. sb that all property shall have its equal share of taxation. We favor the raising only of such revenue as is needed to meet current expenses of the state government under the most rigid econ omy and for a gradual extinguishment of the public debt. “Upon this record and these prinei pies we invite the support of persons of all partes in the coming campaign.’ Fraudulent Offers of Work. WASHINGTON—United States Con sul Dudley at Vancouver, B. C., in forms the state department that about 180 laborers arrived at Vancouver re cently from Kansas City, Mo., having been Induced to go there by fraudu lent offers of high wages on the Alas ka Central railway. Not half of them had sufficient money to pay tneir fare to Sattle and the rest are ?tr*nded in Vancouver. Reports from Seattle are to Seattle and the rest are stranded in aico have arrived there. Case of Alleged Blackmail. NEW YORK.—The preliminary ex amination into the charges against General Samuel Pearson of Scranton. ! Pa., and Cornelius W. Vanderhocdt of Baltimore and "Washington, who are charged witn having sent anonymous letters to Webster Davis, former as-, sistant secretary of the department of the interior, on Friday was com menced by the Jefferson Market court before Justice Magistrate Moss, and after a short examination was ad journed until next Tuesday. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS SCHOOL MONEY OF NEBRASKA. How It Is Divided Amonn the Several Counties. No. c? Ain’t County. scholars. due. Adams . 7.930 S 9.341.25 Antelope . 4.722 5,562 55 Banner . 253 298.03 Blaine . 171 201.43 Boone . 4.434 5,223.10 Box Butte . 1,662 1,957.18 Boyd . 3.350 3.946.18 Brown . 1,253 1,475.99 Buffalo . 7.923 9.333.01 Burt . 4.527 5.332.65 Butler . 5.629 6,630.76 j Cass . 7.478 S,808.82 1 i’ed:ir . 5,0.78 . 5.958.14 Chase . 927 3.091.9S i Cherry . 1.815 2.138.01 Cheyenne . 1.603 1.888.28 1 Clay . 5.310 -6.490.58 j Colfax . 4.334 5.105.30 Cuming . 5.609 6.607.20 Custer . 7>49 9.245.84 Dakota . 2.529 2.743.48 , Dawes . 1.835 2.161.57 Dawson .. 4.477 5.278.75 i I >euel . 696 819.87 \ Dixon . 4.079 4,804.92 Dodge . 7,686 9.05 3.83 I Douglas . 42.002 49.476.85 Dundy . 869 1.023.65 1 Fillmore . 5,467 6.439.93 Franklin . :’.4i»0 4,099.32 Frontier . 2.919 3.438.48 I-'urnas . 4.003 4.715.39 Gage . 10,542 12.418.10 Garfield . 873 1.028.37 Gosper . 1,805 2.126.23 Grant . 209 246.20 Greeley . 2.t580 3,039.15 Hall . 5.938 6,994.75 Hamilton . 4.945 5.'■•25.03 Harlan . 3,195 3,763.60 Hayes . S99 1.058.99 Hitchcock . 1.594 1.877.68 Holt ............... 4.797 5,650.7© Hooker. 15S 186.12. Howard . 4.233 4.986.32 ! Jefferson . 5,333 6.282.09 j Johnson . 4.086 4.813.1C : Kearney . 3,581 4.218.29 Keith . 660 777.46 j Keytf'Paha. 1.158 1,364.09 Kimball . 287 338.08 Knox . 5.862 6.905.23 Lancaster . 22.072 26.000.02 Lincoln . 3.933 4,632.94 j Logan . 345 406.40 Loup . 582 685.58 Madison . 6.290 7.409.40 McPherson . 112 131.93 j Merrick . 3.127 3.683.50 Nance . 2 914 3 132.59 j Nemaha . 5.049 5.947.54 I Nuckolls .. 4.362 5,139.46 ' Otoe . 7.188 8,467.21 : Pawnee . 4.221 4.972.19 j Perkins . 507 597.2d /•helps . 2.545 4 ; 75.8!) Pierce . 3.414 4.056.91 Platte . 6 538 7.701.53 Polk . 4.027 4.743.66 I Red Willow . 3.414 4."21.5, Richaedkon . 6 689 7.-7: »c Ri*. k .. .. 1.1G 1.54A9'. Saline .. 6.879 7. 67.62 Sarpy .. 3.127 3.683.59 Saunders . 8.077 9.514.42 Scott’s Bluff. 1.141 1.34-1.06 Seward . 5.643 6.647.25 Sheridan . 1,853 2.182.77 Sherman . 2,681 3.15,-.12, Sioux . 5. 7 703.25 Stanton . 2.734 3.220.56 I Thayer . 5.291 6,232.61 I Thomas . 207 243.84 j Thurston . 2,106 2.480.80 j Valley . 2 156 3.411.39 Washington . 4.702 5 420.99 Wayne . 3.772 4.443.28 Webster . 4.025 4.741.31 Wheeler . 4 83 568.96 j York . 6.283 7.401.15 j Total .376.317 S443.288.14 Railroad Man Commits Suicide. LINCOLN.—D. W. Sisson. a Bur lington fireman, shot fcimself in • the j head am! died at St. Elizabeth’s bos-, pital. Before the tragedy Sisson had a talk with his landlady, Mrs. J. Y. Burnum, at 1221 P street, the import of which she refused to teil. and then I t alked out onto the back porch, drew t his revolver and firod. the ball ente--1 ing ihe right temole. When the no-, i lice arrived Mrs. Barnura was on the point of hysterics, and refused to gi^e a reason for the man’s act. though it was intimated by roomers at the house that Sisson was in love with Mrs. Barnum. who is a widow. Sisson was about 25 years old. unmarried and has been in Lincoln about three years. He had a good reputation. Demand for Horses. NORTH PLATTE.—This city is be coming quite a stopping place for j horse buyers from Chicago. St. Louis and other large cities of the east, and so carefully has the horse stock been culled over that a first-class horse is hard to find. The horse crop of j late years has not been very prolific, i but now that horses are a paying product, the ranchers of this section ftr* getting small bands. Frost Did Little Damage. NORTH PLATTE.—The frost which has visited this section two or three | nights lately did but slight damage. Fortunately the night of the heaviest freeze there was a slight wind blow ing. which prevented “Old Jack” from nipping so seriously as he would have done under other conditions. Confess to Murdock Robbery. PLATTSMOUTH.—Sheriff McBride returned from Missouri Valley, la., bringing with him two prisoners who have confessed to robbing the store of A. J. Tool of Murdock. They gave their names as Frank Labori and Frank Smith. Calls State Warrants. State Treasurer Mortegsen has Is sued a call for rda1 warrants to ’he amount of $60 f' c for May 27. This will include warraub tip to No. 101, *20. Young’s Victim is Dead. NEBRASKA CITY.—James Botts. the colored man who was shot by 1 Jesse Young, another colored man. died from the effects of his wounds. The assailant is in jail. — Fire at Normal School. \ FREMONT.—Fire at the normal school caused considerable excitement in the northern part of the city. An electric wire in the attic set a blaze to some material and when one of the! boys went up to ring the bell he found ‘ the rooms filled with smoke. An alarm was turned in and the Fremont * fire department responded, but before, its arrival President Clemmons of the school and some cf the rtn Tents had extinguished the fiamto by carrying; water from the laboratory. He Was cn the Train. NORTH PLATTE.—Hugh Gaunt t and J. A. Peters, two T'nicn Pacific firemen, just returned from a trip to the metropolis looking as though they j had been run through a threshing ma chine. While en route to Omaha they 1 undertook to keep in subjugation a gang of drunken rowdies who were maltreating and assaulting the pas sengers on the train, and, while they succeeded in saving the passengers, they received terrible punishment, The company gives them credit for, their manly conduct. NEWS IN BRIEF. Rz?v. Haskins will preach the memo ! rial sermon at Falls Citv. The Round Grove Telephone com pany, to operate in Sherman and Cus* j ter counties, has been organized at Litchfield. The remains of Brakeman George R. Suyder, who was killed in the McCook yards, were taken to Lincoln for interment. 1 State Fish Commissioner O'Brien has placed 500,000 pike. 2,000 channel j cat and 500 crappies in Crystal lake, Dakota county. Amos E. Gantt of Falls City says he heard Sir Henry M. Stanley pro pose marriage to an Omaha actress while a resident cf that city. Contrary to first expectations. Jack Monroe, who attempted suicide a I North Platte, is improving and th® physicians now express the opinion that he will recover. When G. Franzen of Plattsmouth visited his tailoring establishment the other morning he discovered that four suit patterns, two pants patterns and a newr sujt of clothes had been taken. At Columbus the jury in the case of the state against Carl Smith re turned a verdict cf guilty after being out less than an nour. Smith was convicted of stealing a team and bug gy belonging to F. J. Seines. March 16. He was arrested about a month later at Freter. Neb. Robert Davis of F-eatriee has re turned from Oregon, bringing with him two bear cubs about seven wreeks old, which he captured thirty-five miles west of Albany. He wras at tacked by the mother bear and after a desperate encounter with the ani mal he succeeded in killing it with an ax. Frank Rowe, a man of 35 years of ag *. was arraigned before County Judge Louis Deward at West Point on the charge of statutory assault on the person of the 13-year-old daughter of Fred Eggert, a farmer living three miles east of that city. The defend ant offered no defense and was bound over to the district court. Judge .lessen has issued a peremp tory writ of mandamus against the members of the board c? trustees of the village of Greenwood, requiring them to convene in special session and forthwith revoke the saloon ]i eonse granted to Peter A. Smit-:. The order also requires them to close the saloon until the matter can be de cided at the next term of court. St. Patrick’s Catholic church of Mc Cook was formally dedicated. Rt. Rev. Thomas Bonacum of Lincoln officiat ing. asissted by Rev. D. Fitzgerald of Grafton. Rev. L. W. Winzell of Hern don, Kas.; Rev. J. W. Glenn of At wood. Kas.. a’ul Rev. J. .1. Loughran, the local castor. Bishop Bonacum also preached the sermon on the oc casion and Father Fitzgerald conduct ed high mass. John King and George Svears pleaded guilty to the charge of grand j larceny in district court at Beatrice and will be sentenced scon. They have been in the county jail for eight months awaiting trial on the charge of robbing W. T. B. Simpson, a trav eling salesman for the Morton-Gregg son Packing company of Nebraska City, at the Burlington denot in Beat rice on September 18. 1902. Dr. E. W. Bullard, an old settler in Pawnee county, was buried last week, the services being conducted by the Masons, of which he was an honored member. He was an arror surgeon during the rebellion, and soon after being discharged he located in the southeast part of Pawnee county, and has spent most of his subsecuent life in that vicinity, living, however, a part of the time in Des Moines. Ia., and Topeka. Kas. Falls City now has a pavilion for stock sales. Crist Thomas, a resident of Satin* ders county across the river from Fremont, was made the victim of aa assault by two tramps. He was doing some work in a field and left his lunch end water jug under a tree. When he returned he saw the two strangers eating and dring from his bottle. Ia response to a demand to know what they were doing on his farm, one of the tramps made an insulting remark, A fight resulted and Thomas was bad ly worsted. j Expert T. C. Cannon, who has been employed by the county board of su-i perwisort of Washington county to] check up the county officers, has< handed in bis report on the county treasurer covering the past four years. He finds that the ex-treasurer stiH owes the county $2P.95. and also finds* a number of alleged irregularities for the attention of the county board, among them being a case where the! C., St. P., M. & O. railroad r**id in nearly *7.000 of the taxes on the 29th 1 of January, 1902. and on the books the money was credited as coming in daring the fiscal year 1901. , J. D. Hansen of John Hall won in the academy preliminary debate and they will represent the Crete academy *at Franklin in a debate with Franklin academy. The judges were Profess ors Brown. Bennett and Jlllson. Two populist conventions were de cided on by the populist central com mittee. The delegate convention will be held in Fremont on the second Tuesday in June and national dele gates will oe chosen for the Spring field convention on. July 4. The nom inating convention will be held In Lincoln Je.lv 17. DeFcrest Austin, evangelist, and his colored singer, Frank McVey, con tinue to draw people to the Christian church in Geneva. Persons are bap tized almost every night and in'the past three weeks ,thr? membership of the church has been doubled. Hattie Harkins of Plattsmouth, who was recently arrested for retailing liquor without a license, was fined $30 and costs by Judge Weber. The arrest of the woman grew out of a case in which three small boys be came intoxicated from liquor pur chased at her resort.