NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
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West Point banks have deposits
amounting to $600,000.
Six persons escaped from the Lan
caster county jail by boring.
Pat Crowe of kidnaping fame is
thought to be in hiding in Omaha.
From every standpoint the Hamil
ton county fair was a great success.
Louis Alvis of Adams county has
been adjudged insane and ordered to
the asylum.
The large barn of John Broady, east
of Tekamah, was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground.
Arlie Rittenhouse of Custer county
■was accidentally shot while hunting.
His wounds are not necessarily fatal.
The receipts of the Beatrice post
office so far this year show a net gain
of $1,757.82 over the corresponding pe
riod last year.
Only $4,399 remains to be raised to
complete the $20,000 fund to begin the
erection of a new Young Men’s Chris
tian association building.
John Stengel, living seven mile3
east of Kimball, was run over by fast
mail train No. 2. He was picking up
coal along the track at the time of the
accident.
The residence of John Tessar, in
North Crete, was burned to the
ground. The property and furniture
were a total loss, and were worth
about $1,500.
Unknown persons burned a thresh
ing machine on the farm of Fred Hil
gert, north of Norfolk, in Pierce coun
ty. The loss is about $3,000. There
is no clew to the incendiaries.
John Peters of Gage county turned
seven head of cattle into a field of
sweet corn after he had gathered the
/crop. Two have died from overeating
and it is thought he will lose the bal
ance.
A horse was stolen from the barn of
August Zilmer, who resides about two
■miles west of Stanton. The animal
was a black, “chunky” horse about
nine years old and weighed about 1,200
-pounds.
A Chicago dispatch says: Joseph
-Holdobler and wife were sent to an
asylum for the insane. They came
from a farm near Wakefield, Neb.,
and were found wandering about the
streets here with two children.
Mae C. Wood has filed a civil suit
in the district court of Douglas coun
ty against United States Senator
Thomas C. Platt and the United
States Express company for $25,000
for alleged services rendered to the
defendants.
News has been received in Platts
mouth from Phoenix, Arizona, report
ing the death of Peter Ellingson, a
former resident of that city. The de
ceased was a native of Norway and
came to Nebraska about fifteen years
ago. Four children survive him.
Vice President Mohler of the Union
Pacific has announced that the road is
to double track the line between Gil
more and Valley, a distance of thirty
miles. He further said that the main
line would be double tracked in Wy
oming a distance of seventy miles.
Frank Chambers, a musician and
member of the York Euphony band,
now playing in Denver, left a few days
ago, telling his wife that he was go
ing to play in a band in Kansas City.
Later his wife received a letter from
him stating he left and that he was
not going to return.
Harry Jensen of Gordan aged 16
years, was fonnd drowned in the
,White river. He left the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Jen
sen, Monday morning to go to a neigh
bor’s house, and search was not insti
tuted until Tuesday, as no alarm was
felt until it was known he never reach
ed the neighbor’s house.
The admission of students to the
dental department of the University
of Omaha is being investigated by the
state board of dental secretaries. Re
cently it was brought to the attention
of the board that students were being
admitted to the Omaha school who
had been rejected by the dental de
partment of the state university.
Fred Cole, rural carrier on Route
No. 2, out of Peru, had a very narrow
escape from death. He drives an or
dinary carrier’s wagon, except that it
is a two-wheeled affair. The tongue
broke, letting the box tip forward on
his horses, frightening them and
causing them to run away. Mr. Cole
was kicked by his horse and badly
hurt.
The hospital fund of the Union Pa
cific railroad will be re-established No
vember 1. The scheme will be prac
tically the same as it was before it
was abandoned under the receiver
ship. Employes of the road, no mat
ter in what capacity, will be taxed 50
cents per month of their wages, and
this will go to establish a hospital
’ {fund.
According to the published bank
statements there is on deposit in the
banks of York county $2,200,000. It
is estimated that $1,500,000 of the de
posits belong to farmers. This amount
of deposits makes York county, ac
cording to area, the richest county in
the state, excepting Lancaster and
three counties in which are larger cit
ies along the Missouri river.
Mr. and Mrs. Onias of Beatrice cele
brated their golden wedding anniver
sary last week in the presence of a
large company of guests. Their com
fortable home was very tastefully
dressed with golden rod.
An unidentified man, who gave his
name as Henry Bowman, paksed a
forged check of $14.50 on Haubensack
& stergard at Fremont. Haubensack
gave him $2 worth of meat and $12.50
cash. The rascal has flown.
Appropriations made by the legisla
ture fo# state building purposes do not
lapse under the constitutional provi
sion providing for the lapsing of ap
propriations made for expenses of ad
ministration August 31 of the second
year following the. making of the ap
propriation by the legislature. The
district court of Lancaster county so
decided .
MORTENSEN COUNTS UP CASH
Little Less Money on Hand Than at
First of Previous Month.
LINCOLN—The report of State
Treasurer Mortensen showing the re
ceipts and expenditures of his office
for the month of August was filed with
the state auditor. The treasurer had
on hand in all lunds August 1, $533^
784.04. He received during the month
in all funds $189,012.10, and paid out
balance on hand of $430,709.87. 0»
balance on hand of $430,709.87. Ol
this sum there is in the permanent
school fund waiting investment $157,
369.59, and in the temporary school
fund $163,373.09.
On hand On hand
Aug. 1. Aug. 31.
Permanent school 248.213.43 157,369.5!
Temporary school 138.802.87 163,873.0!
Permanent univ.. 21.596.47 22,594.35
Agri. Col. endow. 29.479.25 .
Temporary univ. 17.238.50 7,947.54
University cash.. 17,736.65 17,661.11
Hosp. for insane. 472.53 . 98.04
Normal interest . 1 255.26 1,405.24
State library ... 2.057.89 1,936.54
Normal endow. .. 1.739.03 .
Normal library.. 1.891.65 1.858.6E
Penitentiary fd.. 10.527.00 22,719.54
Agr. & mech. arts 25,000.00 24,861.57
[T. S. Exp. sta_ 3.648.42 3,128.63
Int. tax. 9,914.08 1.378.8E
Totals .$533,783.04 $430,709.87
3eneral .$ 4.209.80 $ 4,377.08
Negro’s Body Given to Medical College
The body of the unknown negro who
was murdered at Norfolk when he ask
ed for a drink, was sent to Lincoln,
where it was given, according to the
state law, to a medical college for
iissection. No friends claimed the
body and this action was required. No
trace of the murderer has been found
and chances are fast diminishing for
ever catching him.
Organization of Realty Company.
The John A. Creighton Real Estate
company of Omaha was incorporated
at Lincoln by John A. Creighton, J.
M. Daugherty and Alfred Thomas,
with a capital stock of $800,000. The
purpose of the company is to facilitate
methods for caring for Count Creigh
ton’s real estate interests in Douglas
county.
Opens Canning Season.
The factories of the St. Paul Can
ning company opened the season’s
:orn canning campaign last week and
ire canning sweet corn at the rate of
16,000 cans per day. The factory had
i satisfactory run last year and ex
pects to exceed it this year, with
tdded experience and all machinery
being in first-class trim.
No Firemen’s Tournament.
NORFOLK—There will be no state
tournament this year by the Ne
braska fire departments. This has
been definitely determined by -the
board of directors, following the de
stining of the offer of the tournament
to Norfolk.
Cuming’s Big Bank Deposits.
WEST POINT—The deposits in the
three banks of West Point, as shown
by the reports at the close of business
an August 25, are a trifle over $600,
)00. This maagniflcent showing is the
greatest ever made in the history of
the city.
Oakdale Man Commits Suicide.
OAKDALE—J. S. Dewey, one of the
pioneer settlers of Antelope county,
and for many years engaged in the
hardware business at this place, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head with a revolver.
RUSH AT NORTH PLATTE.
Nearly One Hundred Thousand Acres
of Land Taken in August.
NORTH PLATTE—The officials of
the United States land office located
in this city have completed their
monthly report, showing the number
of entries and the acreage embraced
within the same, made by parties who
took advantage of the Kinkaid act or
one-section homestead law during the
month of August, 1905. The showing
is good and most of the entrymen
seemed to have bona fide intentions.
In fact quite a few have gone to their
lands, and have begun to improve the
same and build homes. Some who
filed during the month have already
taken their families to the land, al
though under the law they have full
six months after entry for filing in
which to establish their residence on
the land. The report shows that dur
ing the month 172 entries or filings
were made and that these embrace
99,936.52 acres.
The report of the North Platte
United States land office for July 1,
1905, showed that there were still va
cant and subject to entry at that time
within the district of the North Platte
office, which embraces all of Keith,
Perkins and Lincoln counties and the
south half of McPherson and the
southwest quarter of Logan counties,
261,759 acres. Since that date 110,872
acres have been homesteaded, which
would leave 150,867 still vacant and
subject to homestead entries of one
section.
Boy Made of Corn from York.
YORK—York county’s exhibit at the
state fair gives an idea of the won
derful productiveness, wealth and
prosperity of the county. Last year
the wonuerful ear of corn on exhibit
from York county was the wonder of
the farmers who saw it and this year
there is on exhibit a corn boy made
out of York county corn by Miss Mary
Harris of York. The boy occupies the
place of a pupil in the model rural
school presided over by a teacher
made of grass. The teacher was made
by a Rock county woman.
August Bills Allowed.
The state board of public lands and
buildings allowed all claims for main
tenance for the month of August and
thus saved the remainder of the 1903
appropriaiton from lapsing. The board
discussed buying some land near the
penitientiary, but the matter went over
for the present. The board has aboul
$23,000 with which to buy this lane
and it has an option on about 225 acres
for $22,000. As the railroads have run
through the land since the board se
cured its option the secretary of state
objected to paying the pric®
ROBERT BACON OF NEW YORK
CHOSEN TO SUCCEED LOOMIS
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Robert Bacon of New York, who succeeds Loomis as assistant secre
tary of state, formerly was a memberof the firm of J. P. Morgan ,& Co.
He is a Harvard man and an athlete.
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KNOWN AS GOOD BUSINESS MAN.
New Assistant Secretary Junior Part
ner of J. P. Morgan &. Co.
Robert Bacon of New York, an in
timate friend of President Roosevelt
and his classmate at Harvard, has
been appointed assistant secretary of
state to succeed Francis B. Loomis,
resigned.
Mr. Bacon for many years had been
an important factor of business life in
New York city, having been until
within a year or so a junior partner
in the banking house of J. P. Morgan
& Co. He will assume his duties in
the state department as soon as he
can arrange his private affairs, which
will be some time in October.
Adept in High Finance.
Robert Bacon is recognized in the
east as beng more than usually well
versed in matters of high finance. It
was Bacon who was in charge of the
interests of J. Pierpon Morgan in the
famous Northern Pacific corner of
1901. He arranged the British end
of the great steamship merger, his
diplomacy being directed to removing
the obstacles raised by the British
government. During the settlement
of the anthracite coal strike in 190^
he took an active part in arranging
the details of the arbitration scheme
with President Roosevelt.
Famed as an Athlete.
Personally Mr. Bacon is more than
six feet tall, and unusually broad
shouldered even for a man of extreme
height. In Harvard he was famous
for his skill in all branches of ath
letics. As half back on the varsity
eleven he was regarded twenty years
ago as pre-eminent.
He is fond of hunting and all out
door sports, and takes a keen interest
in yachting, particularly the inter
national contests. He was ..lr. Mor
gan’s personal representative in the
direction of the Columbia, which on
two occasions successfully defended
the America cup against the challeng
ers sent here by Sir Thomas Lipton.
Mrs. Potter Palmer Changes Style.
At the first dinner she gave in
Hampden house, London, Mrs. Potter
Palmer- staggered everybody by lead
ing the way into the dining room. At
first her guests thought Mrs. Palmer
had acted absent-mindedly, but she
continued the practice so inaugurated.
In England the hostess invariably
goes into the dining room last, but
several of Mrs. Palmer’s friends hope
that her example will become the
fashion in London, holding that it is
obviously more sensible for the host
ess to enter the room first in order to
correct any mistakes in the “order of
sitting” before the guests begin to
flounder around the table in search of
their names.
Model Dairy Farm Pays Well.
Two Brothers, Albert and Harry
Fahnestock, have a model dairy farm
at Quaker Bottom Valley, in Baltimore
county, and the other day they had
the members of the Baltimore Stock
Exchange out to look at it. The vis
itors were driven over the 650 acres in
wagons drawn by teams of eight nice
ly matched gray Percheron horses,
and they found the dairymen and the
stablemen all neatly uniformed. It is
also reported that they found a scene
of “unusual pastoral beauty/ There
are hills, valleys and tumbling, splash
ing waters on the big farm, and the
keynote of the management is organ
ization and system. The result is suc
cess.
Mark Hanna's Parable.
A late story of Mark Hanna tells
how some friends were urging the
burly Ohioan to try for presidential
nomination. It was when McKinley
was at the height of his popularity.
Senator Hanna reflected for a moment
and then answered! “Two skunks
were sitting in the shade of a fence
one day when an automobile went
whizzing by, leaving behind a particu
larly emphatic odor of gasoline. The
SKunks sniffed in disgust for a while
and finally one said to the other,
“What’s the use?”
Election in Japan.
Japan has 27,138 public schools, in
which 5,084,099 children (about one
ninth of Japan’s entire population)
are taught by 108,360 teachers, says
the Japanese official “White Book.”
This is 93.23 per cent of all children
of school age in the empire. In 1872
Ihe school enrollment was 29 per cent;
in 1883 it was 51 per cent, and in
1893, 59 per cent. The chief growth
has been since the Chino-Japanese war,
1894-95, about 33 per cent in omy ten
years.
GREAT CORN CROPS OF KANSAS.
Have Added Immense Sums to the
Wealth of the Nation.
The value of the Kansas corn crop
of 1902 from only 13 per cent of her
area, was sufficient to more than five
times cover the cost of the entire
I Louisiana purchase and nearly eleven
times as much as the United States
paid for Alaska. Uncle Sam’s reports
point out that in the five-year period
ending with the year 1900 the com
bined value of Kansas’ corn and
wheat exceeded that of the same crops
of any other state in the union. Illi
nois came next, but fell behind Kan
sas by a little less than $19,000,000.
The value of corn grown in Kansas
the last twenty years is $100,000,000
more than that of all the wheat crops
grown by Kansas since her beginning.
In the last ten years the value of
Kansas’ corn crops has been $106,000,
000 more than that of the wheat- pro*
duced In the same period, which in
cluded three of the state’s largest
wheat crops and one of the smallest
of corn. In the preceding ten years
the corn crop was worth nearly $200,
000,000 more than the wheat.
The Kansas corn crop was worth
over $6,000,000 more than all her other
products of the soil in 1902, and in
two preceding seasons corn outvalued
all the other field products, wheat in
cluded.
The fact that Kansas produces more
wheat than any other state of country
in the world always causes much ear
nest watchfulness and discussion of
its acreage, condition, prospects, yield,
and quality, at home and throughout
the grain, milling, transportation,
breadstuff, banking, and commercial
centers of civilization. This would
naturally persuade those without
knowledge of the facts to suppose that
wheat is by far the state’s main and
foremost crop; yet compared in im
portance and value with her corn,
wheat Is a side issue, and but one of
various secondary items the worth of
wmcn must t>e aggregated to even ap
proach the value of corn.
Great as the wheat crops have been,
for twenty-five of the forty-three years
of which there is record, statistics re
veal that the aggregate value of the
corn crop was more than double that
of the combined yields of winter and
spring wheat, and in but few years has
the value of the wheat crop approach
ed or surpassed that of the same
year’s corn. The value of the corn
alone in each of fifteen years of the
last twenty has been greater than that
of all other field crops together, wheat
omitted, and in only one year (1901) of
the last decade did corn fail to out
value the same crops.
Vanity a Trap for Criminals.
“What is our greatest help in cap
turing criminals? Why, their vanity,
of course,” said the detective. “Men
and women who make crime a busi
ness are always proud of their work
when it is well done, according to
criminal standards, and sooner or la
ter they brag of it and it gets to our
ears. Even men who commit unpre
meditated crimes seem unable to keep
their doings to themselves, and if they
do not openly boast they give out mys
terious hints that rouse suspicion and
bring about surveillance. Then, again,
no matter how well a crime is plan
ned, there is nearly always an unfore
seen contingency to be met, and it’s
the failure to take precautions against
the one contingency that gives many a
clew.”—New York Sun.
Flrat View of a Turtle at Andover.
The late J. P. White, of Andover,
, hired a coachman named Dennis. Den
nis had but recently arrived in this
country. One day he went to the
brook for a pail of water and there
saw his first mud-turtle. He ran back
to the house, grabbed his master by
the arm and began to haul him
toward the brook, saying: Mr. White!
Mr. White! Come and look at this
animal down there. It has a foot loike
that” (making his hand like a claw).
“It has a trapollion on its back and,
begorra, it swallers its own head.”
Vast Cost of Forest Fires.
A million dollar fire in a lumber
yard excites public attention ana com
ment from Maine to California. Few
pay any attention to the $25,000,000
worth of lumber annually destroyed
in the United States by forest fires.
The price of beef, gas and railway
rates is a permanent topic of active
discussion and controversy. Few give
any heed to the recent enormous in
crease in the cost of lumber or to
the danger of an early exhaustion of
our forest resources.—Ne® York Sun.
JUDGE TO HEAR PACKERS’ CASE.
Prominent Business Men Will Plead
Before Illinois Jurist.
Judge J. Otis Humphrey of Spring
field, 111., before whom the officials
and employes of large packing firms
under indictment upon the charge of
conspiracy in violation of the federal
anti-trust and interstate commerce
laws were cited to appear to enter
their pleas; has been a prominent fig
ure in the packing industries investi
gation from the time the last federal
grand Jury began its work until it
completed. His charge to the last fed
eral grand jury, which conducted the
inquiry and which voted the indict
ments against the packing officials, is
claimed to have given an impetus to
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the inquiry that had much to do with
securing the indictments. It was
Judge Humphrey who heard the tes
timony in connection with placing
witnesses needed by the prosecution
under bonds, and it was he who fixed
the amount.
Claims Office-Holding Record.
E. W. Sweeley, a justice of the
peace in Loyalsock, Lycoming county,
Pa., claims the record for offce-holding
in that state. Altogether he has held
various township and county offices
whose terms aggregate 109 years dur
ing his life of sixty-eight years, and he
is still adding to his record. Mr.
Sweeley is a democrat and that he is
popular is shown by his record as fol
lows: Justice of the peace, thirty-five
years; assessor, twenty-six years;
supervisor, eight years; school direct
or, fifteen years; overseer of thfe poor,
six years; township auditor, twelve
years; county auditor, four years;
jury commissioner, three years.
CHINAMAN MARKED FOR DEATH.
Secret Society Has Set Price on
Head of Rich Celestial.
Tom Lee, mayor of New York’s
Chinatown, is marked for death. As
leader of the On Leong Tong society
a price of $3,000 has ben set upon his
head by a rival organization, the Hip
Sing Tong society. I^ee is guarded
by a band of armed men day and
Tom Lee.
night. He is a millionaire and has
great power in Mongolian affairs in
America.
Joseph Choate Taking a Rest.
Although Joseph Choate, the former
ambassador to England, has been
home only seven months he has had
occasion to refuse flattering offers for
legal services which would have net
ted him many thousands of dollars.
He declined to mix in the Philadelphia
affair a few months ago and recently
he wrote a positive letter saying that
he could not possibly be persuaded to
go into the Equitable business. Choate
is in demand from many quarters, but
he has steadfastly refused to entertain
proposals. His excuse is “pressure of
personal business.” For a man worth
less than a million this seems strange
to many New Yorkers.
For Broadening the Shoulders.
A good exercise for broadening the
shoulders requires the person to place
in his hands straight bdtore him
against a door or wall, which he must
face. Straighten out the arms and let
the palms of both hands be spread
out upon the surface of the door.
Then slowly press the chest forward
toward the door. This will cause the
arms to bend at the elbows, but at the
same time will throw back the shoul
ders. Rowing will broaden the shoul
ders very perceptibly. Exercises with
dumb-bells are also good.
A Sleep Inducer.
A writer in a medical journal sug
gests a new way of juggling with in
somnia. His sleep inducer is a chain
of words, so associated in sound or
meaning that each suggests the next
subsequent—for instance: Ice, slip
pery; smooth, rough; ruffian, tramp,
etc. When sleep is coy, recite the list
mentally. This is said to be a sure
cure. It keeps the mind from ram
bling from subject to subject, as the
mind tends to do in sleeplessness.—
Chicago News. (
SENT BY CALIFORNIA TO
SENATE OF UNITED STATES
l tFCtoaew 1
Frank Flint of California, recently en state. He missed It by two years,
elected to the seat of Thomas R. Bard having been born in Massachusetts
in the United States senate, came before his parents moved. He has
very near being a native of the Gold- lived in Los Angeles twenty years.
SUMMARY OF TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH
The Russo-Japanese treaty of peace opens *1,.. a preamble reciting
that his majesty the emperor, the autocrat of If the Russias, and his
majesty, the emperor of Japan, desiring to close ihe war between them,
and, having appointed their respective plenipotentiaries and furnished them
with full powers, which were found to be in due form, have come to an
agreement on a treaty of peace, the details of which are as follows:
Article 1—General Peace.—Stipulates for
the re-establishment of peace and friend
ship between the sovereigns of the two
empires and between the subjects of Rus
sia and Japan, respectively.
Article 2—Corea n Protectorate.—His
majesty the emperor of Russia recognizes
the preponderant interest, from political.
fulitarv, and economical points of view of
apan in the empire of Corea, and stipu
lates that Russia will not oppose any
measures for its government, protection,
or control that Japan will deem necessary
to take in Corea In conjunction with the
Corean government, but Russian subjects
and Russian enterprises are to enjoy the
same status as the subjects and enter
prises of other countries.
Article 3—Evacuation of Manchuria.—
It is mutually agreed that the territory
of Manchuria be simultaneously evacuated
by both Russian and Japanese troops,
both countries being concerned in this
evacuation, their situations being abso
lutely identical. All rights acquired by
private persons and companies shall re
main intact.
Article 4—Port Arthur and Dalny.—
The rights possessed by Russia in con
formity with the lease of Port Arthur and
Dalny, together with the lands and wa
ters adjacent, shall pass over in their en
tirety to Japan, but the properties and
rights of Russian subjects are to be safe
guarded and respected.
Article 5—Open Door In Manchuria.—
The governments of Russia and Japan
engage themselves reciprocally not to put
any obstacles to the general measures
(which shall be alike for all nations) that
China may take for the development of
the commerce and industry of Manchuria.
Article 6—Manchurian Railroad.—The
Manchurian railway shall be operated
jointly by Russia and Japan at Kourangt
chengtse. The two branch lines shall be
employed only for commercial and indus
trial purposes. In view of Russia's keep
ing her branch line with all rights ac
quired by her convention with China for
the construction of that railway. Japan
acquires the mines in connection with
such branch line, which falls to her. How
ever. the rights of private parties or pri
vate enterprises are to be respected. Both
parties to this treaty remain absolutely
free to undertake what they deem fit on
expropriated ground.
Article 7—Conjunction of Railroad In
terests.—Russia and Japan engage them
selves to make a conjunction of the two
branch railroad lines which they own and
operate at Kourangtchengtse.
Article 8—Protection of Railroad Traf
fic.—It is agreed that the branch lines
of the Manchurian railway shall be work
ed with a view to assuring commercial
traffic between them without obstruction.
Article 9—Division of Sakhalin.—Rus
I sia cedes to Japan the southern part of
I Sakhalin island as far north as the fif
tieth degree north latitude, together with
the islands depending thereon. The right
of free navigation is assured in the bays
of La Perouse and Tartare.
Article 10—Citizenship of Sahkalln.—
This article recites the situation of Rus
sian subjects on the southern part of.
Sakhalin Island and stipulates that Rus
sian colonists there shall be free ani.
shall have the right to remain without
changing their nationality. Per contra,
the Japanese government shall have the
right to force Russian convicts to leave
the territory which is ceded to her.
Article 11—Fishing Rights.—Russia en
fages herself to make an agreement with
apan giving to Japanese subjects the
right to fish in Russian territorial waters
of the sea of Japan, the sea of Okhotsk,
and Bering sea.
Article 12—Commercial Treaty.—The
two high contracting parties engage them
selves to renew the commercial treaty
existing between the two governments
prior to the war in all its vigor, with
slight modifications in details and with
a most favored nation clause.
—Article 13—Exchange of Prisoners.—
Russia and Japan reciprocally engage to
restore their prisoner's of war on pavment
of the real cost of keeping the same, such
claim for cost to be supported by docu
ments.
Article 14—Language of Treaty.—This
peace treay shall be drawn up in two
languages, French and English, the
French text being evidence for the Rus
sians and the English text for the Jap
anese. In case of difficulty of interpreta
tion the French document is to be accept
ed as final evidence.
Article 15—Ratification of Treaty.—
The ratification of this treaty shall be
countersigned by the sovereigns of the
two states within fifty days after its sig
nature. The French and American em
bassies shall be Intermediaries between
the Japanese and Russian governments to
announce by telegraph the ratification of
the treaty.
Two additional articles are agreed to, as
follows:
Article A—Method of Manchurian Evac
uation.—The evacuation of Manchuria bv
both armies shall be completed within
eighteen months from the signing of the
treaty, beginning with the retirement of
troops of the first line. At the expiration
of the eighteen months the two parties
mutually agree to leave as guards for the
railway not more than fifteen soldiers per
kilometer.
Article B—Sakhalin Boundary Line.—
The boundary which limits the parts own
ed respectively by Russia and Japan in
Sakhalin island shall be definitely marked
off on the spot by a special commission.
AUTO MEANT FOR FARM WORK.
New Type Recently Put on the Market
in Scotland.
A new and special type of automo
bile has recently been put on the mar
ket in Scotland which is designed es
pecially for farm work, and which is
not only suitable for plowing, but may
be equipped as a cultivator or reaper.
It will prepare the ground and sow the
seed at one operation, and can be op
erated at a better speed than a horse.
Thus when plowing it can cover from
six to seven acres a day, and goes
over the field so as to leave it in final
shape for cultivation. When not in
use in the field, the motor can be used
to drive all farming machinery, and
when plowing, the cost of fuel, labor
and depreciation has been computed
at $1 per acre, or less than one-half
the expense of plowing by horse. It
is interesting to note that the cost of
the machine is about $1,500, an
amount that does not seem prohibitive
for a large farm, where a thorough
test of the new machine could readily
be made. The automobile, unlike the
farm animal, does not have to be fed
when it is not working, and it is here
that a substantial element of economy
can probably be secured.—Harper’s
Weekly.
Retires on Well-Earned Pens cn.
Miss Annie A. Baldwin of Newark,
N. J., who for forty-seven consecutive
years has been a teacher in the New
ark schools, was retired on half sal
ary for life at a meeting of the board
of education last week. This step was
taken at the request of Miss Baldwin,
the commisisoners acting in accord
ance with the New Jersey state law.
which allows a local school board to
retire on half salary teachers who
have taught in the same school dis
trict for forty or more consecutive
years.
Would Adopt Wealthy Youth.
Princess Anne Karenga Esterhazy,
a connection by marriage of the Car
rols of Virginia, offers to adopt a
bright young American or Englishman
and be a real mother to him for $750,
000, the interest cn which is to be hers
for life and tLe principal, at her death,
to revert to the adopted one's family.
The princess offers to do this in order
to keep the wolf from her royal door.
She is 56 years old. The young man
will have the right to call himself
Prince Esterhazy.
WITTE IN SECURE POSITION.
Should Long Remain the Foremost of
Russian Statesmen.
Sergius Witte will return home with
a greater international reputation
than any other contemporary Euro
pean statesman. In the opinion of the
outside world no one else in Russia
can be compared with him. For, in
addition to his past achievements in
domestic affairs, he now counts among
his laurels a diplomatic reputation
which comes to but few men who
make diplomacy the business of a life
time. Witte throughout this brilliant
chapter of his life—for he brought to
an end on the best possible terms a
war which he had opposed and con
demned at the outset—has reminded
one more of Bismarck, by his heavy
but powerful personality and the firm
ness with which he has met every cri
sis in the negotiations, than any other
modern European statesmen. The
Czar apparently has no other servant
so capable as this man of building up
Russia in the next twenty years, and *
it is to be hoped, for Russia’s sake,
that Witte’s performance in America
will give him an ascendency with the
Czar which no rivalry and no intrigue
can undermine.—Springfield, Mass.,
Republican.
Amoa Rusie Works for Small Wages.
Amos Rusie. once a famous pitcher
of the New York club of the National
baseball league, is a lumber hand and
has been engaged in this business in
the southern part of Indiana for some
time at $1.50 a day. It Is now an
nounced that he has obtained a bet
ter position in Cairo, 111., where he
will receive $4 a day. Rusie received
$5,000 a year while with the New
York club, but for the last two years
he has drawn only $1.50 a day. It is
not likely he will ever re-enter the
baseball field.
Mrs. Chaffee to Champion Canteen?
It is said that Mrs. Chaffee, wife of
Gen. Chaffee, chief of staff in the
United States army, will appear before
congress next session as a champion
of the canteen at army posts. Mrs
Chaffee is a member of the Woman’s
Army and Navy league, on behalf of '
which organization she will plead for
restoration of the canteen, it was
abolished in accordance with an act
of congress introduced as a bill bv
Congressman Littlefield, who is now
in Europe studying army life there.