REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
That Is What the City of St. Pet
ersburg Is Facing.
BLOOD FLOWING IN THE STREETS
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Workmen and Their Supporters Strive to See the
Czar and Are Slain by the Soldiery.—500
to 5,000 Reported Killed.
ST. PETERSBURG—This has been
a day of unspeakable horror in St.
Petersburg. The strikers of yester
day, goaded to desperation by a day
of violence, fury and bloodshed, are
in a state of open insurrection
against the government.
A condition almost bordering on
civil war exists in the terror-stricken
Russian capital. The city is under
martial law, with Prince Vasilehikoff
as commander of over 50,000 of the
emperor's crack guards. Troops are
bivouacking in the streets tonight and
at various places on the Nevsky
prospect, the main thoroughfare of
the city. On the island of Vassilli
Ostrov and in the industrial sections
infuriated men have thrown up bar
ricades, w'hich they are holding. The
empress dowager has hastily sought
safety at Tsarskoe Selo, where Em
peror Nicholas II is living.
minister oi me interior sviatopoik
Mirsky presented to his majesty last
night the invitation of the workmen
to appear at the Wnter palace this
afternoon and receive their petition,
but the emperor’s advisers already
had taken a decision to show a firm
and resolute front and the emperor’s
answer to 100,000 workmen trying to
make their way to the palace square
today was a solid aftay of troops,
who met them with rifle, bayonet and
saber.
The priest, Gopon, the leader and
Idol of the men, in his golden vest
ments. holding aloft the cross and
marching at the head of thousands of
workmen through the Narva gate,
miraculously escaped a volley which
laid low half a hundred persons. The
figures of the total number killed or
wounded here at the Moscow gate, at
various bridges and islands and at
the Winter palace, vary. The best
estimate is 500, although there are ex
aggerated figures placing the number
at 5,000. Many men were accompa
nied by their wives and children and
in. the confusion, which left no time
for discrimination, the latter shared
the fate of the men. The troops, with
the exception of a single regiment,
w’hich is reported to have thrown
down its arms, remained loyal and
obeyed orders. But the blood which
crimsoned the snow has fired the
brai&s and passions of the strikers
and turned women as well as men
into wild beasts, and the cry of the
infuriated populace is for vengeance.
The sympathy of the middle classes
is with the workmen.
If Father Gopon, the master mind
of the movement, aimed at open revo
lution, he managed the affair like a
genius to break the faith of the peo
ple in “The Little Father,” who, they'
were convinced and whom Father
Gopon had taught them to believe,
would right their wrongs. Gorky, the
Russian novelist, expresses the opin
ion that today's work will break this
faith of the people in the emperor.
He said this evening to the Associated
Press:
Today inaugurated revolution in
Russia.. The emperor’s prestige will
be irrevocably shattered forever by
the shedding of innocent blood. He
has alienated himself forever from
his people. Gopon taught the work
men to believe that an appeal direct
to ‘The Little Father’ would be heed
ed. They have been deceived. Gopon
is now convinced that peaceful means
have failed and that the only remedy
is force.”
Midnight Bulletin—Firing continues
on the Vassiliostrov. It is rumored
that the workmen there have seized
a dynamite factory and also that
30,000 or 40,000 armed strikers from
Kolpino, sixteen miles distant, are
marching on St. Petersburg. Barri
cades erected on the Island of Vas
sili Ostrov late tonight were destroy
ed by troops almost immediately,
with the loss of thirty workmen
killed.
RULES FOR SHIPPING STOCK
Department of Agriculture Prepares
Plans to Stop Spread of Disease.
WASHINGTON*—The Department of
Agriculture has issued regulations es
tablishing, on February 1 next, a fed
eral quarantine against a large part
of the south and parts of other states
to prevent the spread of splenetic or
southern fever among cattle. The
quarantine lines are largely the same
as last year. The quarantined terri
tory will embrace the eastern part
of North Carolina all of South Caro
linalina, Indian Territory, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana; that part
of Virginia belowr the James river
and running to the northeast corner
of Bedford county; all of Georgia but
Union, Towns and Rabun counties;
all of Arkansas, except the two north
ern tiers of counties, which are left
outside the quarantine lines during
February and March, but are placed
within the quarantine during the rest
of the quaratine period; part of Ten
nessee and Oklahoma, most of Texas
except the Panhandle, and the lower
part of California. The quarantine is
declared to be in force until Novem
ber 1, but this date i3 subject to
change.
The regulations allow cattle in the
quarantined area to be shipped north
in placarded cars, if shipped for
slaughter, and placed in quarantined
yards on arrival at destination. If the
stock is unloaded en route it must be
at yards reserved solely for southern
cattle, and after unloading cars must
be disinfected before being used for
native stock.
Rich Man Shoots Himself.
NEW YORK. — Jacob Ridgeway
Wright, who is said to be a w*ealthy
and socially prominent resident of
Wilkesbarre, Pa., was taken from his
apartments in the Hotel Imperial here
with a serious bullet wound in his
lert side.
He*died a few hours after being
taken to a hospital. He declared
that the shot which caused his injur
ies had been fired by himself by ac
cident. His physician. Dr. Howard A.
Pardee, who was with him at the
time of the shooting, was detained as
a witness.
The Cotton Situation.
WASHINGTON. — Reuresentative
Byrd of Mississippi introduced a res
olution reciting at length the deplor
able condition of the cotton-raising
industry of the country and conclud
ing with an instruction to the ways
and means committee to make a fa
vorable report to the house on a pend
ing bill discontinuing the tariff to fix
rates. He said it was a radical
change of government principles. He
said the record of the commission in
the courts was “twenty-two misses,
one bull's eye and two inside the ring.
Treaty Signed.
WASHINGTON. — Secretary Hay
and Minister Grip of Norway and
Sweden signed an arbitration treaty
between this country and Norway and
Sweden. It is patterned after the
arbitration treaties now before the
senate.
WASHINGTON. — The president
*ent to the senate the nomination of
Alexander O. Brodie of Ariona to be
assistant chief of the record and pen
sion office, with rank of Major. Mr.
Brodie is now governor of Arizona.
SENDS A MESSAGE.
President Wants Action on Export
Trade Scheme.
WASHINGTON—The president sent
ar message to the senate recommend
ing favorable action upon a sugges
tion made by Assistant Secretary
Loomis for co-operation by the De
partments of State and Commerce
and Labor in collecting information
concerning trade conditions in foreign
countries. The president recommends
that provision be made for the ap
pointment of six special agents to be
called commercial attaches, who shall
visit the different countries and make
a study of industrial conditions with
a view of suggesting modifications
and changes in the existing plans of
our foreign commerce.
Mr. Loomis, in explaining the plan,
said that this plan can be put into
execution at a very small cost, in
fact he places the cost of the test at
$50,000 per annum. Six commercial
attaches or special agents will be suf
ficient to inaugurate the movement..
They would be allowed salaries at
$5,000 per annum and traveling ex
penses and would be assigned, one to
j cover Austria, the Balkan states, Ger
many, Switzerland, Russia and other
countries of northern Europe; one for
France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and i
other countries bordering on the Medi
terranean; a third for Great Britain
and dependencies; the fourth for
Mexico, Central America, the West
Indies and South America; the fifth
for Asia, more particularly Asiatic
Russia, China and Japan, and the
sixth to be held in reserve for special
service in any part of the world. It
is not proposed that these attaches
should have a fixed residence at any
particular capital, but that they may
be transferred from point to point.
Homesteads in South Dakota.
WASHINGTON—The house com
mittee on public lands heard Sena
tors Kittedge and Gamble and Repre
sentatives Martin and Burke (S. D.)
in favor of a bill increasing from 160
acres to 640 acres the amount of land
that may be taken up under the
homestead act in that state. The argu
ment was made that without this in
crease the settlement of the state
would be materially retarded. The
committee took no action.
Two Mining Men Murdered.
RAPID CITY, S. D.—News has just
arrived by courier of the murder of
the Cain brothers, two bachelors who
lived at the Tamarack mine, fifteen
miles west of this city. The murder
is the greatest mystery. It is known
that the brothers had trouble with
some neighbors and they are suspect
ed of the crime. The courier states
that the bodies have the appearance
of having been clubbed to death. One
theory is that they were murdered for
a wagon Toad of merchandise recently
purchased.
Meet After Thirty Years.
ESC AN ABA, Mich.—After being
separated since thirty-three years ago,
when the older brother left home in
Belgium and emigrated to America.
Henry Dhooge of De Witt, Neb., and
Charles Dhooge of Escanaba met for
the first time here on Friday. The Es-1
canaba man knew nothing of the com
ing of his brother, and it was only
through frends that they were brought
together. Charles Dhooge has lived in
Escanaba since 1873, and his brother
in Nebraska, coming to the state ten
years later.
JAPS ENTER CITY. *>»*,
Victorious Army in Possession of
Port Arthur.
Headquarters Third Japanese Army
at Port Arthur—The victorious army
Sunday formally entered Port Arthur.
General Nogi, with his staff, entered
first through the old town and took
his stand in'the public square of the
new town. The army was represented
by one regiment from each brigade.
The processipn, which was five miles
long, was three hours passing the
saluting base, after which the troops
passed out of the city through the
new town. The correspondents t«en
visited the captured city for the first
time. The old town buildings were
badly smashed by shells, but in the
new town the damage was slight. All
the shipping in the harbor was badly
damaged by shell fire, the warships
being practically useless, owing to the
injuries they had sustained by shells.
Proposals for the surrender of Port
Arthur were first made December 29
at a council of war. General Stoessel
was in favor of surrender, but some
of his general officers were bitterly op
posed to it. The regimental officers
and the troops were not consulted.
The first news they had of the sur
render was January 1, after General
Stoessel had communicated with the
Japanese.
The scenes following the surrender
were disgraceful. Drunken soldiers
filled the streets and refused to obey
their officers. Many of them destroyed
the guns upon the positions they had
defended and came into the city with
out permission. The infantry loudly
protested that the fortress had been
given away. They threw their rifles
and ammunition into the harbor and
proceeded to break into warehouses
and loot and drink vodka until in a
helpless condition. It was evident that
the surrender was not necessary, as
there were 31.000 effective men in the
fortress. The suply of ammunition was
short, but it was not exhausted. Food
was scarce, but private stores were
not requisitioned by the military.
| There is no difficulty in getting good
meals in the city even without stores
in private warehouses.
It was the opiifion of the non-com
batants at Port Irthur that the sur
render was unnecessary, as the troops
were able and willing to fight to the
bitter end. General Stoessel was much
blamed for what was characterized as
a disgraceful conclusion of a splendid
defense which ended with the death
of Major General Kondratenko, who
was loved by the soldiers and was the
life of the defense.
Memorial services were held in
honor of the spirits of the Japanese
dead, upon the plain north of the vil
lage of Shuishi, a snort distance from
Port Arthur. Regiments representing
the entire Japanese army were pres
ent. A shrine was ejected on the crest
of a small hill and the troops formed
a circle around it. General Nogi and
his staff were present. Lunch wan
served afterwards in the open to all
the officers present. It was a splendid
spectacle.,
Cowboys Going to Washington.
DEADWOOD, S. D.—A party of
Black Hills cowboys, thirty to sixty
strong, is being organized to go to
Washington for the inauguration of
President Roosevelt March 4. The
men will take their own horses and
be dressed in cowboy costume. Cap
tain Seth Bullock, who has just re
turned from Washington, is organiz
ing the party.
Merchant Found Murdered.
LARAMIE, Wyo.—George Gerber, a
merchant, was found dead in his
store with his skull crushed and
throat cut. An iron bolt with which
he had been struck lay beside the
body and the knife with which he had
been stabbed was still sticking in the
wounu.
Burkett Tenders Resignation.
LINCOLN, Neb.—Congressman E. J.
Burkett of the First Nebraska district
tendered his resignation as member
of the lower house, to which he was
re-elected last November. He will
serve out his present term.
Hoppe Defeats Schaefer.
DENVER—Willie Hoppe won the
800-point 18-inch balk line billiard
contest with Jake Schaefer by mak
ing 585 during the second night’s
play.
LABORED AMONG THE INDIANS
Abbot Felix de Grasse Dies in Okla
homa.
GUTHRIE Okla.—Abbot Felix de
'"’••asse, - grand-nephew' of the distin
guis-.u French admiral, Count de
Grasse, whose fleet co-operated with
Washington’s army in the revolution
ary’ war, has died at the Benedictine
monastery of the Sacred Heart in
Pottawattamie county, aged 63 years,
according to advices just received.
Fatherj de Grasse was born at Ba
court, France. For thirty years he
lived among the Pottawattamie and
Osage Indians, at first sleeping in
their wigwams and eating at their
camp fires. He established numerous
churches and schools in Oklahoma and
Indian territory.
To Dispose Indian Affairs.
ASHINGTON — Senator Stewart
on Monday introduced a bill to pro
vide for the final disposition of the
affairs of five civilized tribes in In
dian Territory. Provision is made for
establishing public highways in the
Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole
nation; for the discontinuance of
townsite committees; for the payment
of all just indebtedness of the five
civilized y-ibes; for abolishing tribal
courts in the Choctaw, Chickasaw and
Seminole nations, and for the disposi
tion of lands remaining.
William J. Bryan at Capital.
WASHINGTON—William J. Bryan
called at the department of commerce
and labor Friday and had a long con
versation with Mr. Smith, acting com
missioner of the bureau of corpora
tions. Mr. Bryan had read with great
Interest the recent annual report of
the bureau and was particularly inter
ested in the suggestions regarding a
national license for corporations. The
talk was informal, Mr. Bryan present
ing to Mr. Smith some of his own
views regarding the control of corpor
i ationa
Alexander Hilton
Alexander Hilton, formerly general
passenger agent of the Frisco system,
and prior to that, assistant general
passenger agent of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Memphis railway (now
absorbed by the Trisco), has been ad
vanced to the position of passenger
traffic manager for both the Frisco
and the Eastern Illinois systems, with
headquarters in St. Louis. Mr. Hil
ton, besides being a broad, intellectual
and well-endowed gentleman, is also
widely known as a successful and mas
ter railroader, respected in business
for sagacity and fairness. As a pas
senger traffic man he has been widely
known and justly popular. During the
late world’s fair he made a most en
viable record, and is now president
of the St. Louis association of general
passenger agents. Mr. Hilton succeeds
Bryan Snyder.
HOMESTEAD BILL HEARING.
Fate of Martin Measure Depends on
Working of Kinkaid Bill.
WASHINGTON—The successful
working out of the so-called Kinkaid
bill giving homesteaders G40 acres of
land in the west section of Nebraska
will be a factor with the house com
mittee on public lands in determin
ing. whether the Martin bill, now be
fore it, giving 640 acres in a large
seciioz of South Dakota, should be
come a law. The committee has
been having hearings on this mea
sure, as well as similar ones intro
duced for Montana and Colorado.
Senators Gamble and Kittredge and
Congressman Burke of the South Da
kota delegation were before the com
mfttee. Senator Gamble made the
principal speech for the delegation,
urging the pasage of the Martin bill.
He stated that the lands included in
the great Sioux reservation had been
opened for settlement for fifteen
years, while the Black Hills cession
had been subject of entry for twenty
four years. These lands in all
amount to about 17,000,000 acres, lit
tle of which had ever been entered
upon. He contended that under the
bilb the land could be taken advan
tageously and this groat region set
tled and occupeid. He showed that
640 acres was not disportionate, as in
early days settlers had the right to
enter upon 480 acres under the home
stead, timber culture and pre-emp
tion clause the latter having since
been repealed.
RUMORS OF YELLOW FEVER.
Isthmian Canal Commission Wants
Official Report.
WASHINGTON.—The isthmian ca
nal commission has cabled to Gover
nor Davis of the canal zone calling
attention to reports of the preva
lence of yellow fever on the isthmus,
and asking for a report on the con
ditions. No answer has yet been re
ceived, owing to interruption of the
cable service. The commission ac
credits the cases that already have
occurrerd to carelessness of the pa
tients in going into the Chinese quar
ter or into other unsanitary sections,
and is anxious to secure an official
report showing the exact conditions
at this time. The commission Is ship
ping a large amount of medicinal sup
plies to the canal zone to aid in the
sanitation of that region.
HOLDING TWO POSITIONS.
Dismissal of Postmaster Pogue of
Texas Explained.
WASHINGTON.—Postmaster Gen
eral Wynne has advised Representa
tive Beall of Texas, who recently
asked for the department's reasons
for removing Oscar Pogue as post
master at Blum. Tex., that Pogue has
accepted the position of president of
the association of national fourth
class postmasters at a salary of $1,000
a year, and that he came to Wash
ington last November and remained
several weeks during a session of
congress, presumably in the interests
of the association. The department
felt it clear that he had not been at
tending to his duties as postmaster.
Mr. Pogue remains at'the head of the
fourth-class postmasters’ organiza
tion. although not himself a post
master.
Dinner in Honor of Lodge.
BOSTON.—United States Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge was the chief
speaker at a dinner given in his
honor by the Middlesex club. In a
forty-mintue speech Senator Lodge
declared against the supervision of
railroad rates by the interstate com
merce commission, and in favor of a
special court, this court to have
power only to revise rates, not to fix
them. He gave warning that unless
government, supervision of rates was
obtained the country would see a rad
ical movement for public ownership.
Chicago Fights For Grain.
CHICAGO—The Board of Trade has
won its first battle for what it con
siders more equitable grain rates for
Chicago. The Missouri Pacific and
other roads, which, it is alleged by the
Board of Trade, have been diverting
grain from Chicago, have agreed to
get rid of existing contracts by Janu
ary 31. In addition, assurances were
given that the eastern and western
roads will meet soon and agree to
abandon the Mississippi river as a
basing point and make all grain rates
base on Chicago
GENERAL STOESSEL TALKS.
Correspondent Has an Interview With
Him.
LONDON*—The correspondent at
Nagasaki of the Express has had an
interesting interview with General
Stoessel, in the course of which the
general says:
“The capitulation occurring on New
Year's day was merely an incident.
The loss of 203-Meter hill and the
subsequent capture of forts, combined
with the deadly marksmanship with
the terrible eleven-inch shells, the de- j
pressing effect of the death of Gener
al Kondratenko and the fearful in
crease of scurvy, really fixed the time
of capitulation. It is quite untrue that
I dissented from the unanimous deci
sion of the final council of war. Our
final urgent request for relief was
never answered.
“As regards parole, I distinctly dis
couraged any concerted action. Every
officer decided for himself. Generally
commanding officers stuck with their
men and chose imprisonment. Most of
the naval officers also chose captivity,
many probably being influenced by
the fear of impending court martial.”
The correspondent adds that con
versation with other Russian officers
reveals great bitterness against Ad
miral AlexiefT for his failure to prop
erly fortify Port Arthur and “his ;
cowardly flight” by the last train from
the fortress.
They say the torpedo boat destroy
ers that escaped before the surrender
carried all the regimental and naval
colors to Chee Foo. The junior officers
denounce the incapacity and folly of
the government in entering upon the
war and declare that all the men who
return to Russia from Port Arthur are
revolutionists in spirit. These opin
ions were openly expressed in the
presence of General Stoessel, who re
marked:
“Let them talk; they have earned
the right to think as they please by
braving untold deaths for our coun
try.”
CHICAGO GETTING SCARED.
Because Grain is Going Abroad by
Southern Route.
CHICAGO—The Chronicle today
says:
Diversion of grain shipments from
Omaha and Kansas City to European
ports via western lines, through New
Orleans, Galveston and other gulf
ports, is being inquired into by the
interstate commerce commission. The
commission will try to learn whether
secret rebates are responsible for the
diversion of western grain shipments
from Atlantic ports via Chicago to
the gulf ports.
It is claimed that the use of the
special rate, which is less than the
normal tarifT, has been directly re
sponsible for shipments of corn
amounting to over 4,000,000 bushels
from Omaha and Kansas City by local
and Omaha grain shippers by way of
New Orleans instead of Chicago and
the Atlantic ports.
Talks on Statehood.
WASHINGTON—Consideration of
the statehood bill was continued in
the senate Thursday, and Mr. Stone
spoke for two hours in opposition to
it. The bill for the remuneration of
American fur sealers who suffered
losses because of their suppression
also was debated at some length but
no action was taken.
Deny Violation of Neutrality.
ST. PETERSBURG—The govern
ment has not renewed the state of
siege in Manchurian Cities, at the
opening of the new year, civil law in
such places replacing military rule.
The Russian papers protest against
the imputation that General Mistehen
ko’s cavalry violated Chinese neutral
ity, even if. of which there is at pre
sent no evidence, they crossed the
Liao river above New Chwang. claim
ing that a small strip on the west
bank is distinctly reserved as includ
ed in the sphere of hostilities.
Destitute Indians Relieved.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.—The committee
in charge of the distribution of relief
supplies to the starving Indians on
the Campo reservation has concluded
its work. When the Indians had been
relieved on the five reservations to
which the public’s attention had been
called, the committee had on hand
supplies which were not needed there.
These have now been distributed
among the Conejos and El Capitans,
each numbering about fifty families,
who while not in a condition of desti
tution. are in want.
IS NOW SENATOR
3URKETT WILL SERVE NEBRAS
KA FOR SIX YEARS.
THE TWO HOUSES JOINTLY VOTE
Senator-Elect Delivers an Address—
Endorses President’s Railroad Pol
icy and Thanks Legislature for
High Honor Conferred.
LINCOLN—Elmer J. Burkett of
Lincoln was duly proclaimed United
States senator from Nebraska for the
full term of six years, beginning
March 4 next, in joint convention of
the two houses of the legislature at
noon Wednesday.
No ballot was taken, the result of
the separate votes in the two houses
Tuesday having determined the choice
of Mr. Burkett for the position. Rep
resentative hall, in which the joint
convention was held, was filled to its
capacity with state officers, distin
guished citizens and politicians and !
curious observers to witness the
event.
On the conclusion of the announce
ment of the election by Lieutenant
Governor McGilton, who presided, Mr.
Burkett was brought before the as
semblage and responded his thanks
with an address consuming nearly
half an hour.
His reference to his position on the
question of railroad rate regulation
stirred his audience. He interjected
the remark that it ought to be unnec
cessary for him to repeat how he j
stood, because he had appeared on
200 platforms throughout Nebraska
during the campaign and had public
ly pledged himself to stand shoulder
to shoulder with President Roosevelt
in the policies he should recommend
for the advancement of the nation.
He promised to be senator for the
entire state and all its people. He
was opposed, he said, to present tariff
revision. In his final farewell as con- ■
gressman for the First district he j
show'ed real feeling and his voice al- ;
most broke. He was accorded a round
of hearty applause at the conclusion ;
and held a impromptu handshaking |
reception in front of the speaker’s
desk, where most of those within ac
cess crowded around him to congratu
late him.
Mrs. Burkett was present to share
in her husband's elevation to new
honors. A number of telegrams were
received before the senator-elect left
the hall. The first was from W. E.
Andrews, who had alone been men
tioned as a possible competitor for
the place to which he had been
chosen. Mr. Andrews wired: “I con- |
gratulate you upon your election a3
senator.”
Mr. Burkett endorsed the decision
of the president to call no extra ses
sion of congress. He paid a tribute to
the First congressional district which
he had served so long, and announced
that he would at once place his re
signation as congressman in the I
hands of the governor.
Elmer J. Burkett was born Decem
ber 1, 1867, in Mills county, Iowa, on
a farm. He attended public school and
afterwards Tabor college, Iowa, where
he graduated in 1890. After teaching
school for two years in Nebraska, he
entered the State university of Ne
braska for a law course and received
from that institution the degree of
LL.B. in 1893 and in 1895 received
the degree of LL.M. He was admitted
to the bar in Lincoln in 1893 and has
practiced law here ever since.
In 1895 Mr. Burkett was elected a
trustee of his alma mater and ever
since he has exercised a constant
watchfulness over the interests of Ta
bor college. He was elected a member
of the Nebraska state legislature from
Lancaster county in 1896. He served
one term and afterwards secured the
nomination to congress from the First
congressional district, to which he was
elected with a large majority. In No
vember last he was elected to serve
a fourth term, which position he will
resign to assume the seat the sen
ate. He served in the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth con
gresses. His majorities have been
larger at each re-election.
Nebraska In the United States Senate
John M. Thayer. Omaha .1887-1871
Thomas W. Tipton, Peru.1807-1875
Phineas W. Hitchcock. Omaha... .1871-1817
Algernon S. Paddock. Beatrice_1875-1881
Alvin Saunders. Omaha .1877-1883
Chas. H. Van Wyck, Nebraska Cy.1881-1887
Ohas. F. Manderson. Omaha.1883-1896
Algernon S. Paddock. Beatrice.1887-1893
William V. Allen. Madison .1893-1899
John M. Thurston. Omaha .1895-1901
Monroe L Hayward. Neb. City_1899-1899
William V. Allen. Madison.1899-1901
Charles H. Dietrich. Hastings.1901-1906
Joseph H. Millard. Omaha .1901
Elmer J. Burkett, Lincoln .1905
Fad Advances Prices.
At present a fancy value attaches
to old peyter, to old fire dogs and fire
backs, snuffers, brass candlesticks and
the like. A “find” of this kind oc
curred recently at a farm at Kings
worthy, near Winchester, where an
“old tub” was found to be a standard
Winchester bushel of bell metal. The
object, which the farmer had sold for
a few shillings, was sold later for $300.
—London Country Gentleman.
Conferring Over Beef Trust.
WASHINGTON—Attorney General
Moody and Solomon H. Betha, United
States attorney for the northern dis
trict of Illinois, were in conference
with President Roosevelt for some
time. It is presumed that some phases
of the beef trust question were under
consideration, as Mr. Betha has fig
ured as the government’s representa
tive in the Chicago federal courts in
the steps heretofore taken in the beef
trust. He will remain for further con
sideration of the matter with the at
torney general.
La Follette for the Senate.
MADISON, Wis.—A republican cau
cfls has been called for the purpose of
nominating a candidate to succeed
United States Senator Quarles. Forty
six out of forty-eight administration,
or LaFollette supporters, members of
the assembly, have pledged them
selves to vote in the caucus until a
senator shall be nominated, and to
prevent an adjournment without a
nomination they will vote for Gover
nor La Follette. This action practical
ly assures the election of the gov*
ernor.
News in Nebraska
Osceola’s auditorium has been com
pleted at a cost of $12,000.
Special Pension Agent Rotr&mel
died in Grand Island last week.
In Madison county, Andrew Nelson,
a young Dane, killed Carrie Jacobson,
and then took his own life. The girl
had refused to marry the man.
Three horses and a barn went upi
in flames at Silver Creek. The barn
belonged to Mrs. Cahrlton and the
horses to Walter Adcock and Frank
Waterman.
The annual meeting of the State
Savings and Loan association waa
held in Beatrice. The business of tho
year showed a net increase of assets
amounting to $40,000.
Josef Shumar of Ellis, Gage county,
wants $20,000 for the pain of a frac
tured skull and the collapse of his
nervous system. His suit is against
the Rock Island company.
Eliza ]j. Hart has filed suit in the
district court of York county against
Alioe Haron, in the sum of $5,000
damages, alleging alienation of her
husband, J. R. Hart’s affections.
At O'Neill the jury in the case of
Joseph Nickdlizek, tried for criminal
assault on Lena Krinch, 13 years old,
disagree^ and was discharged. The
jurors stood 9 to 2 for conviction, one
man voting blank each time.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany, In a brief filed in the supremo
court, attacked the constitutionality
of that section of the new revenue
law which provides for the taxation
of Its franchise as an equal value to
the sum of the gross receipts.
An attempt to burn up the Norfolk
city jail, in which he was securely
locked and in which, if he had been
successful, he and all other prisoners
would have lost their lives, William
Zorge, serving a thirty-day sentence
for stealing, was foiled by the police.
A warrant was issued at West
Point for the arrest of Anton Englo
mann, a prominent jeweler of that
city, on a charge of insanity. Mr.
Englemann has been suffering for
some time with an acute nervous dis
order, which has finally affected the
brain.
i ne sugar ractory at i^eavitt has
just finished up its season’s work.
The factory was operated 115 days of
twenty-four hours each, so that on an
eight-hour basis it can be seen that
it amounted to more than a year of
regular working days. The amount of
sugar refined was 14,000,000 pounds.
Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county,
started out for Kansas City in search
of Elza Howard, aged 22. who was
married in that city a few days ago to
Miss Minnie Garrison of Fremont
Another young woman of Fremont.
Miss Minnie Kaasch, has sworn out a
complaint charging Howard with be
ing the father of her unborn child.
Bernard McGreevjr, president of the
failed Elkhorn Valley bank at O’Neill,
was bound over to the district court
on two complaints, one charging him
with receiving $500 for deposit after
he knew the bank was insolvent and
the other with embezzling $2,711
school money. District Judge West
over fixed the bond at $1,000 in each
case.
Miss May Powell, a graduate from
the State university in Lincoln, and a
similar school of education in In
diana, and one of the most success
ful teachers in the Plattsmouth High]
school, has tendered her resignationj
to the school board, and has accepted]
a similar position, that of teacher of.
mathematics, in the High school in
Lincoln.
By a decision of the supreme court
tTIe state of Nebraska is entitled to
2.200 acres of land in Boyd county,
and the settlers thereon must be
ejected. The principal contentions of
former Land Commissioner Follmer
regarding the rights of the state are
upheld by the court. The settlers who
claimed the right to hold the land ob
tained no satisfaction whatever.
State Treasurer Mortensen will re
tire $110,000 of general fund state
warrants this month. A call for $60,
000, and including No. 107,295, goes
into effect at once, and another has
been made for January 28, for $50,000,
which will include all warrants regis
tered on or before May 11, 1903, which
will make the state only nineteen
months behind in the payment of its
obligations.
Reports of the Union Pacific road
prepared by William Mahl. comptroll
er, show the gross earnings for No
vember, 1904, were $5,719,798 and the
expenses including taxes were $3,023.
846, leaving a surplus of $2,695,951.
The surplus in November. 1903, was
$2,404,351, showing an increase of
$291,000. The gross earnings for five
months ending November 30. 1904,
were $26,551,122, and the expenses
for the same time, including taxes
were $13,782,045, leaving a surplus of
$12,782,077.
The Nebraska Volunteer Firemen’s
association concluded its twenty-third
annual convention in Columbus last
week. The meeting was agreeably sur
prised vrhen Treasurer Graff of Sew
ard reported he had something over
$700 on hand.
The rural county delivery service
was put into effect in York county
last week, there being twenty-four
carriers for the county, with an aver
age of twenty-eight miles to the car
rier. This makes it so no farmer in
the county i3 over one-half mile from
a route.
Through arrangements made by
Sarpy county farmers with the agri
cultural department of the State uni
versity a farmers’ institute will bo
held in Papillion two days, February
3 and 4 .
The following special act pensions
for Nebraskans have passed the
house: James B. Croly, Beatrice, $24;
Edwin Ellis, $30; Albert Jones, $24;
Mr9. Caroline Vifquain. Lincoln, wid
ow of the late Colonel Vifquain. $40;
James Duffy, $24; Martin L. Pemble
ton. York, $30; Walron, Cheney Town
send, $30; Joseph W. Winger, $30.
Cass county's bridge contract was
awarded to Sheeley & Co., of Lincoln.
There were five other bidders for the
contract, but Sheeley’s bid was IK
cents lower per lineal foot than anj
of the others.