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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
BED CLOSD,
NEBRASKA
Portugal won't let Britain have
Mozambique, unless Britain tnkes It.
The Rhah of Persia still refuses to
look pleasant In any of his portraits.
Lovo IcttrrH are writs of attach
ment, and there Is no dodging the scr
vice.
Why should there he nny flurry In
financial circles? Plerp. Is still able to
be up and around.
Speaking or an army, King Wheat
calls for 10,000 harvester rcerultH In
Kansas anil Nebraska.
A season of protracted drought Ifl
reminding the Texas p(ople of (It'll.
Sherman's opinion of war.
The lirenldng of college ties Is pad,
but not naif so melancholy as the
minting of subsequent ties.
What, asks the college boy, Is the
good of coeducation If the girls are
going to take It over In the next
bloci:?
One of the latest and most sensible
fads In New York thlH season Is the
throwing of stones at automobile
tacers.
It Is fenred that one result of the
Uuhlln-Shnrkey light will be to bring
the Hon. Jim Corbett before the pub
lie again.
Brooklyn advertlseit n "reliable bup
exterminator," which may be of use t
nny one who wnnts to exterminate re
liable bugs.
Mr. Bull understands himself to br
the victor, but he will have to put lilt
South African farm in order at hit
uwn expense.
King Alfonso needs a gunrdlan
worse than ever, for ho will probably
Tall in love with some nice lady aged
ibout 45 years.
After facing the perils of a mob
Itudynrd Kipling no doubt wonders
How Poet Laureate Austin has mun
igcd to escape so long.
By the time man has the foresti
thoroughly subdued he will havt
found, doubtless, some way of getting
long without wood.
Kansas farmers are dragging tramps
from freight trains and compelling
them to work in the harvest Holds. It
Is such acts as this that make freedom
Bhrlek.
Bicycling Is said to bo a craze again
In the East. It must be unsatisfactory
sport, though, for enthusiasts who
have been running their automobile
over people.
Hcrr Most hns sounded tho death
knell of a free press In Amerlcn. II
Is certain that ho will not take an
more liberties with it for tho next
twelve months.
Joseph Chamberlain and the colonln
premiers aro having some trouble Ir
whittling out a zollvereln for Klnf
Kdward'B empire. They might try get
ting up a turnvereln.
Tho woman who has petitioned for i
divorce on the ground that her bus
band expected her to embrace tin
"new thought" nnd see ghosts ouglr,
to havo her freedom.
A Pueblo Indian whipped his wife
was promptly castigated by his moth
er-ln-law nnd In his mortlllcatlon com
mlttod suicide. There li no use li
trying to civilize an ludinu.
A theater treasurer has nearly dice
from eryslpelns contracted In hand
ling money. There are probably, how
ever, more cases of grip than ery
slpelos In handling money.
King Alfonso of Spain Is hunting foi
a wife. Any good-looking princess wlu
begins to get boxes of ehocolnte and
cut flowers from Madrid should mi
derstaud what they mean.
It Is reported thnt William Waldorl
Astor Is going to give his daughtei
$20,000,000 when she gets married
William Waldorf must think that It
about the price of a good, serviceable
duke.
"As girls grow older they think lesi
of lovo and more of money," says the
"Pointed Paragrapher" of the Chtcagc
News. Good sign. Perhaps this "high
cr education" is doing something foi
the girls, after all.
A French army oflleer hns perfectec
a device which suppresses tho flash
sound and smoke of a rltle or cannon
Now If ho will go a step farther nnd
suppress the bullet and shell liu will
do the world a real Bervlco.
Tho fact that Mr. Schwab has glvei
a $26,000 academy building as pay
ment for tho green apples ho stoic
when ho was a boy leadB to the nat
oral conclusion that his Ideal of Hadei
is reminiscent of bis youthful stomach
aches.
Emperor William saya that when t
German can look Into tho eyes of the
empress he ought to havo Inspiration
enough to last him a lifetime. How
nice It must be for her If the emperor
talks like that when company is not
present.
YOCUM ASUICIDE
Former Nebraskan Kills Himself
on Wife's Grave.
WAS EARLY SEIIUR IN ADAMS COUNTY
llm W At Onr Tlmr Mnjiir of Hafttlng!
nnl lilt llnnril Mildler Wna a
llrllllHDt One Other Nut of a
C.rnrrul Nature.
News lias Just reached Hastings,
Kcb of the tragic and pathetic death
3f dipt. A. I). Yocum, who shot nnd
killed himself last Thursday while
kneeling on his wife's grave at Pasa
dena, Cat.
Captain Yoctun was one of the early
settlers of Adams county, and was a
very piomlncnt man in Hastings for a
number of years. He was mayor of
the city for seve nil jenrs and wan quite
active until In got into trouble with
Myron Van Fleet, whom he shot and
killed for slandering his adopted
daughter, Miss Alice Yoctiiii. The
killing of Van Fleet occurred eleven
years ago and Mr. Yocum was sen
tenced to one year In the state peni
tentiary, but he was pardoned without
leaving tne city.
Captain Yocum's record as a soldier
was of a most brilliant character. He
went into the army from Hellmont
county. Ohio, at the beizlnnlni: of the
civil wnr and won the rank of captain
by meritorious conduct.
MUST DELIVER MAIL
New I'oftlitl KcRtiliitlnii .Miilte Slur Itnntei
1'ree- IIHIwry Itoutr-.
A nev provision wll be plnced In
the contracts about to be made with
star route mall carriers which will
piactlcally convert these loutea Into
rural delivery routes. All star route
carriers will heieafter Ik required to
deliver mall to patrons living on or
near the route who will provide sult
ible boxes for the reception of the
matter. The territory in which the
new provision applies comprises prac
tically all of th i states west of the
Missouri river, Hawaii and Alnska.
According to the new orders pa
trons may provide boxes, huncl-bngs or
satchels to the postal authorities.
These will be used to protect the mall
matter while It Is being delivered. In
case the hand-bags are used a post on
which to hang them must be furnished
nnd put n position by the patron. The
service Is limited to those persons liv
ing outside the corporate limits of n
town and not within eighty rods of a
postoftlce. All this must be done with
out expense to the government further
than the Increased pay given to the
carrier. The receptacles for receiving
the mall must be on the road trav
eled by the carrier.
It was formerly the custom In many
communities to hire the carrier to per
form this service for those who were
willing to pny for It. The new order
will furnish the same service with
practically no expense to the patron.
DOLLAR CORN POSSIBLE
.Toll n W. Cnte In Volition to Force 1'rlrr
Up Very High.
A Chicago dispatch says: If John
W. (Sates wants dollar corn that price
will soon prevail, according to board
of trade gossip July 2. dates' con
trol of the market was clearly de
monstrated a. the opening, when July
option mounted from seventy-four nnd
one-half to seventy-six and one-half.
The bullish tendency remains uncheck
ed and Is given material assistance by
the continued wet weather In the corn
belt.
Armour Is credited with loading a
Jiugli lino of September and July wheat,
which closed at seventy-live and
seven-elRhtH last night . opened at
beven-slx and one-fourth to one-half
and advanced to seveny-seven and one
half. Trade in Ixith pits was light
and there was an air of suppressed
excitement.
PAYS MONEY LOST IN BANK
Loop I'll; Mun Nettle up hii Outlawed
Ilelit.
W. H. Mellor, who was treasurer of
the school district at Ivoup City, Neb.,
thirteen years ngo, last Wednesday
paid Into the school treasury $1,33.1.29,
representing the amount In his enre
which was lost by the failure of the
Sherman County liank. He was a poor
man when the bank failed,' but bos
prospered during the last few years In
the real estate business. He gave
notes as security at the time, but the
notes had long been outlawed.
Urcnrlty for One Cent.
A security for the smallest amount
ever Issued In the United Stnres was
delivered last week by the Farmers'
Ioan Trust company to a denier
who Is widely known as a script man
says a New York City paper. The
Texas & Pacific absorbed various lines
In 1888. giving the various securities
scrip of the present second mortgage
bondR. The scrip man accumulated
$1,000 and one cent of script and re
ceived n $1,000 bond and a fine engrav
ed certificate for one cent. The se
curity was sold as a rellck to a promi
nent bnnklng house for fifty thousand
per cent (500) of the par value and will
be framed.
Child Aroiunl of Murder.
Intense public Interest has been
aroused In the case of twelve-year-old
Anna Curtis, whose examination on
the charge of murder wns begun Wed
nesday at Clare, Mich., before Justice
Maynard. The girl is charged with
administering carbolic acid to the In
fant son of George Pardee at the
CurtlB home, in which the PardeeB
boarded. The tittle girl was In n room
alone with the babe and nothing waa
known of the affair until the mother
keutl the child screaming and Invest!
gatfon e'nowed it to have been poisoned.
MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY
Cfiiiim IXulIot In IkmiciI on thr Work lu
Vir I (Mill.
The (MisiiB btirenu, n a report on
the slaughtering and meat-packing In
dustry of the United States for the cen
sus year 1000. Just Issued, shows a
capital of $li9.19S.2ii4 Invested In land,
buildings, machinery, tools nnd Imple
ments and the live capital utilized.
The value of products Is given at
$785,502,433. which Involved an outlay
of $10,123,217 for salaries of officials,
clerks, etc.. $33,457,013 for wages. $24,
0f.0,412 for miscellaneous expenses. In
eluding rent, taxes, etc., and $GS3.f&3.57
for mnterlal used, mill supplies, freight
nnd fuel.
There were 921 establishments with
fn avernge capital of $205,420, against
1,118 establishments In 1890 with an
average of $101,551 Invested per estab
lishment. The figures show this decale to be
the most rapid In Its tendency toward
concentration In this Industry of all
the periods by census statistics, Illi
nois led tho states In the vnluc of pro
ducts In both 1890 and 1900.
MAGNATES MAY SETTLE
Humor Thnt foul Opei-nliim Offer Solu
tion of .strike.
It Is reporteil In Wall street that a
proposition lias bein made to the min
ers, looking to a settlement of tho
anthracite strike.
A rumor was circulated widely In
Wllkcsbnrre. Pa., thnt the anthracite
magnates had presented a proposition
for the settlement of the strike to the
president of the three uuge anthinclte
districts.
Miikr I'iiIih Wrntliy.
'titous demonstrations have oc
cuired at l.embrerg, Austria, against
the attack on the Poles made by the
kaiser in a recent address at Mnrlen
berg. Six thousand demonstrators, led
by students, attempted to storm the
German consulate, but failed in the
attempt. Tins ciowd then turned
against the homes of the Polish
leaders in the relchstnth because the
latter failed to publicly protest against
the speech. Several serious collisions
occurred between the crowd und the
pf lice.
It Ilulnril Money.
Wednesday's session of the conven
tion of the Illinois prohibitionists was
a most exciting affair. When the call
was innde for voluntary contributions
the 1,200 delegntes went wild with en
thimlimni. iitnl. rmwdlnir to the static.
they showered their contributions uKin
ttie stage, it was a ram oi weaun, anu
the chairman and secretary of the con
vention were compelled to retreat from
the stnge until it had ended. Almost
$5,000 In cash was heaped upon tho
platform.
Mulii Ity Hundred.
The steamer Tacoma, Just arrived
at Tacomn, Wash., reports that on
June 5th, the date of the slaughter of
Taichu, In tho central district of For
mosa, the rebels agreed to surrender
In three places, but secretely con
spired to fall on the Japanese troops
and annihilate them. The troops were
warned nnd turned the tables, killing
600 rebels, and wiping out the Cho
Band entirely. The lender, Liu, waa
among the slain.
Clutlimun Hull-idea.
Slgmiind Guthmann.vlce president of
the wholesale shoe firm of Guthmann.
Carpenter & Telling, Chicago, one of
the most widely known houses In the
west, committed suicide Wednesday at
his residence by shooting himself
through tho head. He was fifty years
old and a millionaire. Ill health Is as
signed as the cause.
I'urrlmur of Frlr I.untti.
Governor's Toft's note to the Vatican
regarding the Philippines Is now ready
but hnR not yet been delivered. It is
learned that the note proposes pay
ment for friar lnnds In three install
ments. Thirteen Are Killed.
A cyclone blew a train from the
nnd turned it over at New Itampur
hat. India. Thirteen persons wero
killed and fifteen Injured.
HERE AND THERE
Serious lnbor riots disturb the au
thorities In southern Russia.
The Federal Sugar company, recent
ly Incorporated In New Jersey, has a
capital of $50,000,000.
Two hundred feet of the Burlington
track at Broken Bow waB washed out
by floods from heavy rains.
Albort C. Latimer, a wealthy Brook
lyn, N. Y., stationer, was fatally shot
by a burglar with whom he grappled.
King Edward's condition continues
to improve. The wound Is much less
troublesome and Is beginning to heal.
Spain, through the minister of for
eign affaire, the Duke of Almodover,
will sign a treaty of commerce with
the United States.
Carlos Pagglnl was found dead in a
street of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Re
public. Tho police were investigating
the caBo when they received a com
munication saying that Pagglnl wbb
the chief conspirator against the life
of President Cuestns. Tho communi
cation further said that the police
would find In Pagglni's dwelling twenty-four
kilos of dynamite. This state
ment proved true.
Prof. Henry B. Ward, of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, was elected general
secretary of the American association
for tho advancement of science, which
was In recent session at Pittsburg, Pa.
In trying to Imitate an Egyptian fire
eater, Harold Ixmghren, a 12-yenr-oId
Chicago lad. poured burning gasoline
over himself and six others, and an a
result tho boy and another child will
probably die.
The steamship Canada arrived tn
Capetown Wednesday with 400 Boers
who were formerly prisoners on the
Island of St Helena. Tho Canada is
the first transport bringing prisoners
back to South Africa to reach there.
SAVAGE STRIKES
Delivers First Blow on Rivett in
Nebraska's Keel.
CEREMONIES IN HONOR Of BATTLESHIP
Ills Crowd I'renent to Wltiien KierrUei
of Keel I.HyliiR (iotrrnom .Sntage
nml Mrllrlde Dellter Ailclresiei
Other Ne Not.
A Seattle, Wash, July 4, dispatch
says: 'Jhe battleship Nebraska Is no
longer a thing or drawings, but has
siilManiinllty of Its own. Notwith
standing rival attractions of other pa
rades and daylight fireworks, all vle
Ing with the exciting chase of the es
caping desperado Tracey. 15.000 per
sons witnessed the riveting of the first
section of the keel today ushering in
the advent of the Nebraska m 9 o'clock
this morning. A salute was tired from
cannon planted for the purpose on the
whnrves of the shipyard. Shortly af
ter 10 o'clock the cscoits formed at
the hotel occupied by the distinguished
iN'chraskatiH.
Inclement as was the weather, the
trip to the shipyards formed this
morning a spectacle. A big detach
ment of marines swung sturdily down
the street ns the advance guard for
the carriages. Drilling rain prevent
ed the formation of a very large crowd
on the driveway leading to the mnm
inonth structure where the battleship
Is to be built. Inside, however, were
fully 15.000 tpcitators.
The preliminary addresses of Intro
duction were brief. Judge Burke, rep
usentlrig the Seattle chamber of com
merce, Introduced Governor Mi Bride.
After greeting the guests, extending
to them the already evident hospitality
of the state, he referred to the growth
of Washington, and said:
"Nebrnskn. as you have doubtless
learned, since your arrival here and
the greetings given you by the large
number of men from your state, has
contributed to the upbuilding of Wash
ington most materially. We are un
der obligations for so many good citi
zens. We now find ourselves under
double obligations for this ofllclal visit
which I am sure will tend to bind even
more closely the bonds of friendship
between us."
Governor Savage In rcsiionse touched
largely upon national affairs connect
ed with nibltratlon and the advisabili
ty of continuing as large n navv as
necessary for emergency protection.
He said:
"If this vessel shall render unto our
government as valuable and efficient
service as that rendered by the citi
zens of the state whose honored name
It Is to bear, then the day will never
come when its constiuctlon and naval
commission will give occasion for ro
gret on the part of any one.
"For, if you would know more of the
loyalty, valor and patriotism of the
citizens of Nebraska, examine the mus
ter roll, examine our military history,
and look at the graves of the known
and unknown in our national ceme
teries. "Look anywhere where there is a
record of patriotic sacrifices aud mili
tary achievements and you will con
clude. I am sure, thnt so far as up
holding the strong nrra of the republic
Is concerned, Nebraska has clone her
share.
"No state has done more to main
tain the honor of the flag, no state has
done more to stimulate public morals.
no state hns contributed more gener
ously to manhood and statesmanship
or welfare of the American people, and
no state Is more willing to perform
whatever task the government may
assign it in the future than denr old
Nebraska always true, always loyal,
always patriotic."
At the conclusion of Governor Sav
nge's speech came an Interesting in
cident. The seven-year-old son of
Uobert Moran. president of the ship
building company, stepped forward
and presented n smnll piece of steel,
being the first mnterlal punched from
the keel plates. The governor made
tho small donor a short speech of
thanks. At a signal tho men running
the huge electric cranes sent them fly
ing from the west end of the battle
i hip to where an enormous piece of
steel four feet square and seventy feet
long was lying. Quickly the tentacles
dropped downline! seized It; as quick
ly it swung high into the air and wns
carried over the heads of the specta
tors to Its position over the ways. It
dropped Into place as gently as though
It were a fragile piece of glass rather
than one of the sustaining pieces of
a floating fortress. Two workmen clad
In immaculate garments of white
placed in position the white hot rivet.
The governors of two states doffed
their coats, rolled up their sleeves,
struck alternate blows with their ham
mers, thus fastening the first section of
the keel. As the first blow was struck
the marine band swung forth in tre
mendous boom, nnd strains of "Amer
ica" for an Instant orriy were heard.
Then enthuslnsm reached fjver heat
and the big shed became a seething,
flags waved, bats were thrown In the
air. Pandemonium reigned. So great
was the noise that the cannon salute
on the outside was unnoticed. Un
noticed also were the screaming whis
tles which nt the signal showed that
every craft In the harbor was alive to
the occasion. Surprise was sprung on
tne two governors when they were
donning their coats by Robert Moran.
To each he gave a check for 3 cents,
being the amount due them for wnges.
They signed the pay rolls as workmen.
Much excitement was caused at
Sprlngvlew, Neb., Thursday night by
tho report of tho loss of a two-year-old
child of Mrs. Clem Painter, who lives
with her parentH a few miles south of
town in the canyons.
The child strayrd away about noon.
The business men and a large party
were out searching, but returned late
Friday night, having fulled to find any
trace of the child.
A great many wild rata have been
seen in that vicinity lately and ft Is
feared thnt the child has been killed
by them.
GREAT TRAGEDIENNE WHO IS NOW APPEARING
IN MAETERLINCK'S PlAY, "MONNA VANNA"
Mm p. Leblnnc, who Is regarded as
one of the coming great tragediennes
of France, was to have appeared In
the title rede of Maeterlinck's "Monna
Vanna," which the British censor
would not allow to be played In pub
lie. In the picture Mine. Leblnnc Is
seen In the costume she wears In the
play, which was first produced in Par
Is on May IT last.
Tho story of the play turns upon
poignant situations. Tho town of PIbu
Is being besieged by the Florentine
army, led by the brilliant Condottlerc
Prlnzlvnlle. It is at the last stage of
famine nnd despair; food and ammu
nition aro alike at an end. At this
point the conqueror states his terms,
lie will spare the town, he will Indeed
levlctunl and rearm It, if tho beautiful
Monna Vanna, the wife of Guldo, one
of the princes of Pita, Is sent out to
Appendicitis is Not New.
"Why is it," asked a man of a
physician, "that so many people are
suffering these days with appendicitis
nnd have to be operated upon, when
there was formerly nothing of the
kind In existence?"
"My young friend," tho doctor an
swered, "this disease has been in the
world ever since Adnm was perhaps
that story of his losing a rib may
have arisen because ho was operated
on for appendicitis. When your grand
father was a boy his neighbors had It
all around him, and so they did when
you were n boy. But they called It
inflammation of the bowels, stomnch
ache, acute Indigestion, liver trouble
or something of the sort. Tne patient
got well or be died, but no one ever
opened him when living to see what
the matter was. Perhaps It is as well
that they did not, for much of the
surgery of those days wns more dan
uerous than any disease."
World's Largest Goat Ranch.
Tho largest goat ranch in the world
Is owned by Charles S. Onderdonk, of
Lamy. N. M He has 20,000 goats
and they have 28,000 acres in which
to roam.
Leader Who Has the Confidence
of the United Mine Workers
John Mitchell, president of tho Unit
ed Mlno Workers of Amorica, 1b a
leader who has tho confidence of every
member of tho organization. Active
efforts are being put forward to end
the present costly strike, and It In be
lieved a plan of arbitration will bo
agreed to soon and that a million men,
his camp. When Monna Vanna hems
of the conditions she decides, In spite
of the horror of her husband, thnt It
Is her duty to save her city. She goes
only to find herself treated with re
spect Instead of Insult. PrlnzlvnlU
has seen and loved her years ago, and
he asks to bo allowed to kiss her uujjW -ft
the forehead. They return togethlT
to Pisa for It Is no longer snfe for
Prlnzivalle to remain with the army
whose victory he has robbed and
Monna Vanna declares her Innocence
and her companion's mercy. But she
is nowhere believed. Her husband,
Guldo, is so Infuriated by her state
ment that he threatens to put I'rliul
valle to the torture unless slits con
fesses. Finally, In the attempt to save
him whom she now finds she loves,
she confesses to what is not true. Tho
play Is exceedingly powerful.
Can Keep Her Wages.
The governor of New York has
signed a bill which provides that a
married woman may work for and re
ceive wages In that state. About a
year ago a woman sued a street rail
way company on account of injuries
received. The courts decided that she
could not recover In such a case, be
cause, according to an old law still on
the statute books, a woman was the
servant of her husband and was not
entitled to her own wages. Mrs. Lllllo
Bevereux Blake thereupon got a judge
of the state supreme court to draw up
a bill reforming this condition of
things. That is the measure which
has now become a law.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward's Work.
Mrs. Humphrey Wnrd, the w-lter of
at least half a dozen hooks, each of
which would have rondercd her fam
ous, was born nt Hobart, Tasmania,
on June 11. 1851. She Is a grand
daughter of Dr. Arnold, the great
headmaster of Rugby, and a niece of
the late Matthew Arnold. She began
work by writing magazine articles
nnd a series of essays on "Spanish
Biography." Her first book was pub
lished in 1SS1.
women and children will KioJ-ci
from tho Imminent danger crWrffrva
tlon which they now face. Tho pro
posals for peace havo been Inspired by
business sentiment, and tho appoint
ment of a board of conciliation 1b Im
minent. All parties aro tired of tha
costly strufgle.
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