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Loup City Northwestern i 9 ■ VOLUME XXVI _LOOT CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER12, WW NUMBER 1 SUMMARY OF NEWS CONDENSATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS. » BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD —. General, Political, Religious. Sporting, Foreign and Other Events Re corded Here and There. Political. That president Roosevelt may be the successor of Senator Platt in the senate is considered by many in Washington as not at all improbable. Those who regard this as possible de clare that they have assurance from the president hiinse*. that he would not be entirely averse to the accept ance of the senatorial office under conditions as luey will be after the 4th of March. Nebraska democrats, discussing the ^ future of Mr. Bryan, are still divided on about the same lines as before the election, his admirers still pinning their faith to him. Additional returns place Missouri in the Taft column. It is now' reported that the nest congress will have 217 republicans and 174 democrats. Speaker Cannon says he is grateful for the vigorous work that has been rendered. Though defeated in the nation Mr. Bryan finds much consolation in the Nebraska vote. Indiana democrats have gained the governor and seven congressmen. Uncle Joe Cannon will probably be re-elected speaker. Jamieson, elected to congress from Iowa, is an editor at Shenandoah. Mr. Bryan continues in good health and good spirit notwithstanding his defeat. Speaker Cannon is said to be wear ing a smile these days that won’t come off. In Roosevelt’s election district, Oy ster Bay, Taft got 233, Bryan 144, Hughes 200 and Chanler 127. General. Returns from the Nebraska election Indicate the republicans have certain ly elected Kinkaid to congress in the , Sixth district. Complete official returns from Mary land show that Taft gets two e'ectoral votes in that state and Bryan six. Gossip has it that Roosevelt is to succeed Platt as United States sena tor from New York. Judge Taft and wife left for Hot Springs, Va., where they will remain until after Thanksgiving. Chancellor Andrews tendered his resignation to the regents of the Uni versity of Nebraska on account of ill health and the resignation was ac cepted. Seven people were burned to death in a house near Swan Lake, Iowa. The circuit court of appeals at Chi cago granted a temporary order re straining Interstate Commerce com mission from putting reduced freight rate from Atlantic seaboard to Omaha and Kansas City into effect. Over 500,000 more men will be work ing in American factories by Decem ber 1. Taft will have over 300 in the elec toral college. One of the most important of in dustries developed in recent years is the production of sugar from sugar beets. More or less desultory work was done on sugar beets as far back as 1867. In 1892 only six factories were in operation in this country, the combined output of which was a little over 27,000,000 pounds of sugar. The seventy-fourth anniversary of the birth of the dowager empress of China was celebrated, and the event was made the greatest day of the fes tivities in honor of the visiliug Amer ican battleships under Rear Admiral Emory. Eugene W. Chafin, presidential can didate of the prohibitio nparty, after ^ scanning the election returns made a statement concluding as follows: “The demoeratic-Bryan party is dead. The fight from now on will be between the prohibition party and the whisky republican party and we will elect a prohibition president in 1912.” Democrats gain nine votes in the lower house of congress. The Times says: From an .excellent authority the New York Times learned yesterday that President Roosevelt plans to leave New York on March 13, nine days after the in auguration, by the North-German Lloyd liner, Koenig Albert for Naples, via Gibraltar, where the liner is due on March 25. A distinguished Frenchmen gave a dinner to Wilbur Wright, at which the American aviator was presented with two gold medals. The British colonial office, recently offered President Roosevelt the free dom of the government shooting pre serves. Judge Taft in an address to the Cin cinnati Commercial club sounded the keynote of his administration. Burlington crop reports from the Alliance and Sterling division, cover ing the northeast parts of Nebraska and Colorado, are that the corn yield is good. W. J. Bryan discussing the election, says Nebraska is the bright spot and expresses the hope that the incoming administration will redeem pledges of the platform. Over 1,000 teachers attended the an nual banquet of the state teaches’ as sociation at Lincoln. At Richmond, Va„ Winston Green, a negro youth, was electrocuted in the state penitentiary for attempted crim inal assault upon a young white girl of Chesterfield county. After his conviction he made a full confession. John D. Rockefeller had to stand in ine in a Sixth avenue tailor shop for forty minutes before he had a chance .o deposit his ballot. Fire in a Philadelphia lumber yard did damage amount ing to $750,000 and blocked railroad and traction . lines for several blocks. Mummy island, about eight miles from Cordova, has been selected as the site for the navy wireless station to be established on the Alaskan coast to close communication between the coastal wireless station of the navy and the military Alaskan tele graph system. Railroads are publishing booklets advertising the National Corn exposi tion to be held in Omaha December 9 to 19. Governin' Guild of Massachusetts was seized with a severe attack of gastritis. As this is the third dan gerous illness experienced by the gov ernor within a year there is consider able anxiety over his condition. John W. Hutchinson, the last of the famous Hutchinson family, whose temperance and abolition songs before the civil war and during that conflict, made their names known throughout the country, died at his home. High Rock, in Lynn, Mass. He W'as 87 years of age. Washington. A Halloween prank had a tragic ending in the death here at George town hospital of Frank Kretzmer, a young merchant of Rockville, Md., as the result of wounds said to have been inflicted by Nicholas Offut. also of Rockville. Offutt claimed, it is said, that Kretzmer had insulted his little sister by pulling her mask from her face when she entered his store with several youngsters in Halloween garb and played childish pranks. Of futt disappeared immediately after the shooting. An item of $2,606,119 for barracks and quarters at coast artillery posts will be included in the estimates of appropriations to he sent to congress this year by the war department. Much interest has been aroused over the report that Secretary Wilson has been offered the presidency of the Colorado State Agricultural college and would resign to accept it. Secre tary Wilson is now in Iowa. His son Jasper Wilson, said the report wai untrue. Beautiful memorial services, at* < tended by a brilliant assemblage of representatives of all branches of offi cial life in Washington, were held in memory of the late Freiher Speck von Sternburg, German ambassador to the United States, who died at Heidelberg Aug. 23. President and Mrs. Roosevelt, members of his cab inet, diplomatic representatives of al nations, members of the supreme court of the United States, high offi cials of the government and officers of the army, navy and marine corps, many of whom were accompanied by their wives, were present. Foreign. The Duke of the Abruzzi. annoyed by the discussion of his reported en gagement to Miss Katherine Elkins in both the American and Italian press, speaking to his aide said that facts soon would cut short the gossip. The duke’s valet has been ordered to make preparations for a journey. The agent of Bulgaria at St. Pe tersburg has been instructed to make representations to Russia that the terms proposed by Turkey for a set tlement of the differences growing out of the Bulgarian declaration of inde pendence. are entirely inacceptable and to request that Russia unite with the other powers in the use of in fluence at Constantinople toward se curing a modification of the action of the porte in the premises. At the commencement of the pres ent year the number of pensioners on the official insurance lists of the Ger man empire for invalidism, old age, and sickness amounted to 978,960, of whom 841,992 were invalid pensioners, 20,081 sick pensioners, and 116.887 old-age pensioners. The sum paid to pensioners in 1907 is estimated at 172.000,000 marks, and since the exist ence of the institution at 1,328,000,000 marks. Personal. General Solicitor W. R- Begg of the Great Northern railroad confirmed the shortage of S30.000 in the accounts of A J. Gordon of Spokane, Wash., for merly general counsel of the Great Northern at Spokane. Brigadier General Frederick Funs ton voted in his home precinct in Iola, Kas., for the first time in fourteen years. At Friedriehshafen. Count Zeppelin made a successful trip in his new airship around Lake Constance. He was accompanied by several women, including Duchess Vera of Wurtem bcrg and his own daughter. The air ship was aloft for one hour. At New York. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was sworn as a member of the November grand jury before Judge Mulqueen in the court of general ses sions. The court will consider 428 complaints. The general opinion is that Chan cellor von Buelow will be forced to retire. Apparently in good health, and in the act of making a medical exam ination, Dr. Edwin S. Hutch ns dropped dead of heart failure beside the operating table in his offica at Spokane, Wash. ELECTORS ARE TAFT OTHERWISE THE MISSOURI TIC- \ KET IS SPLIT. | AS TO ELECTORAL COLLEGE Indications that the Republicans Will Have Lower House by Forty Majority. St. Louis.—Complete returns to the republican state headquarters here fail to indicate exactly the outcome of Tuesday’s election regarding1 the minor state offices in Missouri. Ac cording to the figures four democrats and three republicans have been suc cessful. but Secretary Rush Lake of the committee refuses to concede the election of the democrats and says that the official canvass must de termine the results. The figures show the election of the following can didates by the pluralities indicated: Judge of the supreme court, w. W. Graves, democrat, 2,865. Railroad commissioner, John A. Knott, democrat. 1,800. State auditor, John P. Gordon, demo crat, 803. State treasurer, James Cowgill, democrat. 2,000. Lieutenant governor, Jacob F. Gme lich, republican. 581. Secretary of state, John E. Swanger. republican. 191. Attorney general, Frank P. Fulker son, republican, G55. THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. The Political Situation as Revealed by Returns. States. Taft. Bryan. Alabama . 11 Arkansas . 9 Califomi . 10 Colorado . 5 Connecticut . 7 Delaware .... 3 .. Florida .. 5 Georgia . .. 13 Idaho . 3 Illinois .. 27 Indiana .. 15 .. Iowa . 13 Kunsas . 10 Kentucky .. 13 Louisiana .... 9 Maine . 6 Maryland . 2 6 Massachusetts .. 16 .. Michigan . 14 Minnesota .. 11 Mississippi .. 10 Missouri ..........18 Montana . 3 Nebraska . 8 Nevada .... 3 { New Hampshire . 4 .. | New Jersey . 12 .. New York . 39 . . ! North Carolina . 12 North Dakota . 4 ... Ohio . 23 .. Oklahoma . 7 Oregon . 4 Pennsylvania . 34 Rhode Island . 4 South Carolina . ^. 9 South Dakota . .. . 4 Tennessee . 12 Texas . 18 Utah .'. 3 Vermont . 4 Virginia .%. 12 Washington . 5 West Virginia . 7 Wisconsin . 13 Wyoming . 3 THE NATIONAL HOUSE. According to Present Returns Repub licans Will Have Majority of 41. Chicago—The republican party -will, according to present returns from all congressional districts in the United States, control the next national house WZLLZAZZ ZZ. TAFT' FAME'S <J. The republicans probably will con trol the State Board of Equalization, which has supervision of $75,000,000 in property of public service corpora tions in the state. The constitutional amendments, including that proposing the installation of the mitiative and referendum, seem to have been re jected for lack of the necessary two thirds majority. Colorado Democratic. Denver, Colo.—On unofficial returns from the entire state, which are not likely to be materially changed. Bryan’s plurality in Colorado is 5,577, and for governor. Shafroth, democrat, leads McDonald, republican, by 9,382. HEARING ON TARIFF. House Committee Will Begin Taking Testimony Tuesday. Washington—With the first hearing on the proposed revision of the tariff, scheduled for Tuesday, the active work of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives will begin in Washington, although it has been progressing during the recess of congress, at Auburn, N. Y., the home of Representative Sereno Payne, chairman of the committee. The hear ings will be completed before the Six tieth congress convenes for its last session, but the program for the revi sion does not provide for the presen tation of the subject to congress un til the sixty-first congress is con vened next March in special session. Judge Taft in his speech accepting the republican nomination for presi dent outlined in these words the pol icy to be followed in revision: “The republican doctrine of protec tion, as definitely announced by the republican convention of this year and by previous conventions, is that a tariff shall be imposed on all import ed products, whether of the factory, farm or mine, sufficiently great to equal the difference between the cost of production abroad and at home, and that this difference should of course, include the difference between the higher -wages paid in this country and the wages paid abroad and em brace a reasonable profit to the Amer ican producer.” It is understood that President Taft will call together the new congress in special session immediately after his inauguration and in his proclamation will repeat his previously expressed i views on the tariff question. _ Iowa Lines up for Cannon. Des Moines—That most of the Iowa members of congress will line for the . re-election of Speaker Cannon is confi dently predicted here. Captain Hull, the Seventh district member and now I oldest of the Iowa members, is known j'to be committeed to the Cannon can didacy and while he declined to dis cuss the matter those who have been trying to make headway in the Iowa delegation against Cannon eav that Hull is firmly for Cannon. Another who Is committeed to Cannon is Con gressman Kennedy. of representatives by a majority of forty. The figures so far received show the election of 216 republicans and 176 democrats, a gain for the latter party of nine. The majorities in several districts are reported as extremely close, and it is possible that in a few instances the official count may change the fig ures given above. The following table shows the num ber of representatives elected from all the states: State. Dem. Rep. Alabama . Arkansas . 7 California ..’. .. 8 Colorado . 3 Connecticut . 5 Delaware . 1 Florida . 3 Georgia . 11 Idaho . 1 Illinois . 6 19 Indiana . 11 2 Iowa . 1 lo Kansas . 8 Kentucky . 8 3 Louisiana . 7 Maine . 4 Maryland . 3 3 Massachusetts . 4 31 Michigan . 12 Minnesota . 1 8 Mississippi .. 8 Missouri . 10 6 Montana . 1 Nebraska . 5 1 Nevada . 1 New Hampshire . 2 New Jersey . 3 7 New York . 11 26 North Carolina . 7 3 North Dakota . 2 Ohio . 9 12 Oklahoma . 2 3 Oregon . 2 Pennsylvania . 5 27 Rhode Island . 2 South Carolina . 7 South Dakota . 2 Tennessee . . 8 2. Texas .*. 16 Utah . 1 Vermont . 2 Virginia . 9 1 Washington . 3 West Virginia . 5 Wisconsin . 1 lo Wyoming . j Totals .'. !l76 216 Kern Would be Senator. Indianapolis. Ind.—John W. Kern, defeated democratic candidate for vice president, announced that he is a can didate for United States senator to succeed James A. Memeneway. The Indiana legislature is democratic on joint ballot by a majority of twelve. Mr. Sherman Spent $2,800. Utica. N. Y.—Vice Presidentelect Sherman forwarded to Albany for filing with the secretary of state a statement of his expenses in the cam paign just closed. It aggregates $2,800. Taft Has Quiet Sunday. Hot Springs, Va.—“I really did some great work at sleeping last night and am already beginning to feel the tired feeling disappear.” This was President-Elect Taft's comment Sun day as from the wide porch of his cottage among the trees he looked at the red sun slip behind the mountains over which lazily hung the blue smoke of many forest fires. The Sun day quiet which Mr. Taft enjoyed was in striking contrast to the days of tur moil he has gone though. He had a few callers. COMPLETE RETURNS ON EIGHTY FIVE COUNTIES. CONGRESSMEN TWO TG FOUR Cowgill, Democrat, for Railway Com missioner, Has 680 Lead, with Three Counties Missing. Omaha — Complete returns from eighty-five Nebraska counties indicate the; republicans will save five state officers and give the democrats three below governor. The republicans get two congressmen and the democrats four. ±±±e compilations show Cowles (rep.) for land commissioner has se cured a lead over Eastham (dem.) in these counties amounting to 1.772, which the five remaining counties that four years ago did not have a repub lican lead of over 500 together, are not likely to overcome. This would make the roll of state officers as follows: Governor, A. C. Shalleuberger idem.): lieutenant gov ernor, E. O. Garrett (dem.); secretary of state Dr. A. T. Gatewood (dem.j; treasurer, Lawson G. Brian (rep.); au ditor, Silas R. Barton (rep.I; superin tendent of schools. E. C. Bishop (rep.); attorney general. VViiliam T. Thompson (rep.) ; commissioner of I ublic lands and buildings, Edward B. Cowles (rep.); railway commissioner, William H. Cowgill (dem.). The figures from eighty-seven coun ties complete on state auditor show Barton to have a lead over Price of 3,841. Eighty-five counties on attor ney general give Thompson a plural ity of 4,285 over Fleharty. In eighty five counties Brian leads Mackey by 2.607. It is apparent that for secre tary of state George C. Junkin is de feated by Gatewood, eighty-five coun ties showing a plurality of 1.782 for Gatewood. Cowles in the same coun ties practically reverses the vote, se curing 1,772 majority over Eastham. who has been claiming election to the office of lanu commissioner. Computations on railway commis sioner were altered Sunday by the discovery of an error in computing the Douglas county returns, which give Cowgill now a plurality of 1,808 in the county and a plurality of (ISO in eighty-seven counties. The Doug las county vote stands; Williams, 13, fct'l; Cowgill. 15,699. Results cannot be greatly changed from these figures, which on railway commissioner are minus the vote of Blaine. McPherson and Keya Paha counties, which two years ago gave a majority of 260 for Sheldon. The total vote in these counties was 666. Figures on the various officers are as follows: Secretary of state, eighty-five coun ties, Junkin. 126,640; Gatewood, 128, 422: Gatewood's plurality, 1.782. State auditor, eighty-seven coun ties, Barton. 130.681; Price, 127,200; Barton’s plurality, 3.481. Treasurer, eighty-five counties, Bri an, 126,891; Mackey, 124,284; Brian's plurality, 2,607. Attorney general, eighty-five coun ties, Thompson. 128,082; Fleharty, 123,797; Thompson’s plurality, 4.285. Land commissioner, eighty-five counties, Cowles, 126,081; Eastham, 124.309; Cowles' plurality, 1,772. Railway commissioner, eighty-seven counties, William, 127.630; Cowgill, 128,310; Cowgill’s plurality, 680. rteaay ror i arm Hearings. Washington.—Chairman Payne of the house committee on ways and means arrived in Washington Sunday and immediately set to work to get ready for the committee’s hearing on the tariff, which will begin next Tues day and will continue almost until the opening of the congress. The first snbject to receive attention will be oils, paints and- chemicals, and Mr. Payne said that applications had al ready been received from a number of persons who desire to be heard on matters in which they are interested. LONG TRIP WITH THE RETURNS. Six Hundred Miles of Travel Neces sary to Reach County Seat. Pierre, S. D.—The election officers from three precincts in northeastern Butte county, including Lemmon, were in this city Sunday on their way to Belie Fourche with the returns from their precincts, making a trip of about 000 miles to get to their county seat. They were hoping that county divi sion had been carried in the late elec tion in that county. William D. Cornish Dead. Chicago—William D. Cornish of New York, second vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad company and a director in many other corpo rations, was found dead in his bed at the Auditorium Annex in this city Sat urday. Death apparently was due to heart disease. Earthquake Shakes Plauen. Plauen, Germany.—The most viol ent earthquake over experienced here terrified the inhabitants of the city at 15:40 o’clock Rriday morning. Houses were shaken and the people fled, panicstricken, into the streets. The shock, which lasted for several minutes, was accompanied by sharp explosions and thunderous rumblings in the earth. Sixty or seventy earth quake shocks have been felt here daily for the last week. Tffey are now becoming less frequent but more violent than those preceding. BRYAN FOR THE SENATE. Hie Friends Are Going to Push Him for the Place. Lincoln — “Bryan for the senate, 1910.” That is the flag already flown to the breezes by some of the demo crats in Lincoln. "The democrats will try to make the coming administration one of the best in the history of the state. Then we can go before the people two years from now with some hope of electing a democratic legislature. That legislature will send Mr. Bryan to the senate. That is the announcement made by a friend in discussing the future of Mr. Bryan, and he is not the only admirer of the late defeated presi dential candidate who is for the same program. One prominent Lincoln re publican who was for Bryan in the last fight expressed himself along the same lines. "You bet 1 helped to carry the state for Bryan.” he is quot ed as saying. "Now I shall help put him in the senate.” Shallenberger, Gov.-Elect of Neb. Late Figures from Indiana. Indianapolis.—The Indianapolis Star late totalled the official returns as re ceived from all the counties of the state by the secretary of state. These figures show the election of Thomas R. Marshall, democrat for governor; Frank J. Hall, democrat, for lieuten ant governor, and Walter J. Lobe (dent.), for attorney general. he rest of the republican ticket was success ful, according to the Star's figures. The vote on the national ticket has not been totaled, but shows 10,000 plurality for Taft. Taft's Religious Faith. Washington.—“Secretary Taft’s re ligious faith is purely his own private concern and not a matter for general discussion and political discrimina tion,” says President Roosevelt in a letter to J. C. Martin of Dayton, O., made public now but written before election, in which he answers numer ous correspondents. — Windup of the Campaign. Omaha.—Victor Rosewater returned Sunday morning from Chicago, where he spent most of the last three months in charge of western publicity for the national republican campaign. He waited in Chicago for the arrival of National Chairman Hitchcock Satur day for the closing of the campaign headquarters. Taft Landslide Done It. New York.—“The Taft landslide pulled Hughes through,” was the ex planation of Charles F. Murphy, Tam many hall leader, of the failure of the democrats to win the contest for gov ernor. The election is over,” con tinued Mr. Murphy, “and we are start ing to carry the city next fall in the local election.” Gompers Leaves for Denver. Washington—Ready to answer be fore the convention attacks which have been made on him for his course in the recent presidential campaign, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, left for Denver, where the convention of that organization begins Nov. 10. Pat Crowe Linder Arrest. Chicago—Pat Crowe, formerly of Omaha, was arrested here. Crowe, it is alleged, fired shots into the mir ror of a saloon and then caused ex citement which occasioned a riot call to the police. After three shots had been fired at him Crowe was cap tured. Taft Will Take a Rest. Cincinnati.—Judge Taft left Friday for Hot Springs, Va., for a fortnight of unbroken quiet. There will be no political conferences, no consideration of cabinet appointments. Some south ern point will likewise be the place of residence of the Tafts between now and inauguration. What Chairman Mack Says. New York—Declaring that the democratic party is more united today than it has been in many years; that Mr. Bryan was defeated by what he claims was misrepresentation to the effect that his election would hurt business interests. Chairman Mack of the democratic national committee issued a statement in which he an nounced extensive plans to advance the party’s interests during the next four years. He avers he has no apol ogies to make relative to the republi- j can victory. state news and notes in con densed FORM. THE PRESS, PULPIT AND PUBLIC What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to hte Read ers Throughout Nebraska. The ladies of the Christian church at Arapahoe cleared $40 on a Satur day dinner. :4| The five year old son of Ernest Lutz, of Eustis, fell and broke his leg while playing horse with a stick. Henry VaDderhuyden, of Crookston, fell down cellar and broke his collar bone and dislocated his elbow. A carload of new machinery for the new Trans-Mississippi elevator at Kearney has been received. Rev. F. G. Hamm has closed his pastorate of the Christian church at Exeter and will move to Oregon. Jim Bottoroff, an old resident of Dixon county, died in Alberta, Can ada. Leona Goucher of Wahoo, who has been in a Sioux City hospital for sev eral weeks, has been removed to her home. Henry Liekhus of Dodge, who was injured in an accident several days ago has been taken to Omaha for treatment. The foundation for the new Presby terian church at Elgin is about com' pieted and soon the superstructure will begin to go up. Many schools in Nebraska shut down a few days in order to allow teachers to attend the state associa tion meeting in Lincoln. Miss Tillie Blankenburg of North Platte has been offered a position as stenographer in the forest reserve de partment of the government. Rev. L. J. Powell has resigned the pastorate of the Lutheran church at Sutherland and will go to eWst Point to take charge of a church there. Verne Matteson, 21 years old, son of H. n. Matteson cf Omaha, who was visiting at Blair, accidentally shot himself seriously but not fatally. The Hubbard boys, formerly of Burt county, have purchased a newspaper in New Mexico and will assume charge of it about January 1. young fellow named Charles Campbell has been held in a bond of $800 at Butte Boyd county, on a charge of horse stealing. He could not give the bond and is in jail. TV__ 1. ^ U_M. ♦ ; MM MM «M 4 V. M. V V f-4 /> MM « For the first time in the history of Lancaster county a mixed delega tion, three democrats and four repub licans, will go to the legislature. complete returns from Douglas county show that Bryan carried the county by a majority of 1.522, and that Shallenberger for governor went him more than a thousand better. Andrew Lingle of Nebraska City was perhaps fatally stabbed by Mat Sroas, a butcher, in a Quarrel over some money which had been borrow ed. Both men had been drinking. Farmers should all have telephones. Write to us and learn how to get the best service for the least money. Ne braska Telephone Company, 18th and Douglas streets, Omaha. “Use the Bell.” Dr. Ludden of the state board was ir Kearney looking over the normal school, noting improvements and go ing over the records of the institii tion. He addressed the students at length. The boys’ and girls’ industrial clubs of Beaver City will hold the annua! meeting at Beaver City Saturday, No vember 14. Superintendent Munday has issned a premium list with over $100 for the winners. There is much interest manifested. The gross earnings of the Union Pa cific for the month of September touch a new high record and the net earnings for both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific arae the highest for any such month in the history of these roads. Sixty-four years ago Mr. and Mrs. William Weygint of McCook were made husband and wife in New York state. This fact was celebrated by a large company of friends and neigh bors. Both of the old folks are now 88 years of age. Great preparations are being made by those having charge of the Young Men’s Christian association for the great meeting to be held in Columbus on the 22d of this month. The prin cipal speaker is to be Bishop Nuelsen of the Methodist Episcopal church. “You were angry and I was not wanted. Emma was cross. 1 didn't ccme here to raise trouble. I am tired of suffering, but it will not last long.” These are sentences from a note which Mary Weisel of Omaha. 22 years old. wrote to Arthur Shaver just before she shot herself three times in the breast, dying a few min utes. afterward. The girl, it is said, had for some time been demented Odd Fellows of Bertrand are pur ting up a fine building. The ministers of the various churches of Ponca have just organiz ed a ministerial union in which they have departed from the customary rules. The wives of the ministers are invited to attend all the regular monthly meetings. Irvin Whitehead and S. Deffenbaugh are out with petitions for appoint ment as postmaster at Cairo, Hall county, it having been reported that Postmaster Shull has resigned and will go to South Dakota to go into the business oi contracting.