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.
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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.
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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.
