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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1904)
Al '5TA. nSw. JyATjj' .-, .w-,,-?Sw; .wgM ni)' i p-U' wW"' , It R jm M I1 rr " L 1 x tr Redtloud Chief. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA Ducks are reported from Fremont along the Platte In considerable num ber. A few hunters have made pretty fair bags. Tho Greek and the Indian arrested on the charge of conspiring to take tho life of a fellow employe at Grand Island, have had their preliminary hearing and have been released from custody, the evidence not being deemed sufficient to hold them. Rome people are born lucky. Tako Ptinrloa HMvilnrf nt Atnnln Pronh nrn- cinct, for cxampic. Fifteen swarms of Item have rorao to hla place In about half an many years and all he had to do waa to hlvo them and they proceed cd to commence work for him aa only bees can. A farm hand. 22 years of ago, by the name of II. II. Potcl, who has been working for Chris Zimmerman at Pa pillion, Iiub disappeared and bis where abouts are unknown. It Is thought that ho 1b mentally deranged. A reward has been offered for any Information regarding him. The members of the Ucatrlco bnll team, which linn disbanded, hnvn gone lo Lincoln. From there they vlBltcd nt their homes In various partfl of tho Mate, and most of them will enter tho btate university. Captain Townsend went to Omaha, where he has secured a position In the Burlington offices. Mre. O. W. Bcckwlth of Beatrice re ceived a telegram from her brother, N. 8. Spencer, at Champaign, III., and a former resident of Beatrice, stating that his son, Clifford, had been In stantly killed. No particulars of the accident were contained in the ills patch. The young man was 19 years of ago. A stranger who gave his namo as Lewis Manning applied at pollco head quarters at O rand Island for atten dance, being In a badly crippled con dition. He was suffering from an in jury to the upper portion of tho spine which ho claimed to have received by being thrown off a moving train by employes near Cozad. Judge Kelllgar held a short session of court nt Beatrice. He granted three divorces and sentenced Bront K. Neal, nllas Olncy D. Smith, to one year In the penitentiary, nfter which ho ad journed court until November 14. as far as Jury cases aro concerned. Civil cases aro to be tried when both parties Interested agrco as to the date. 'Burglars entered the store of Henry Baker In Cedar Creek and stole $110 from tho safe. Mr. Baker Is post master and runB tho office In connec tion with the store. The Beatrice blood hounds wore put upon tho trail and fol lowed it a few miles south of town. The officers aro of the opinion that the thieves had somo horses tied there, which they rode. F. Z. Grandt, Joe Blrdsong and Joe Bailey have been bound over to the district court at Grand Island to await trial on tho charge, of burglary. They were caught red-handed coming out of the grocery store of Ed. L. Brown by Officer Jensen, night watchman. They had taken somo foodstuffs, a lit tle clothing belonging to attaches ol the store and some tobacco. Dr. A. Johnson, superintendent ot the Institution for Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice, finished threshing at the state farm, and reports a yield of thirteen bushels of wheat, twenty two and a half bushels ot rye nnd thirty buBhels of oats to the acre. The crop was grown by the Inmates, with the help of a farmer, who superin tended the cultivation. The corn crop, which also promises a big yield, was taken care of by the Inmates. William Holfaker was acquitted In the district court at Nebraska City of the charge of shooting with intent to kill. The Jury was out about four hours. Halfoker was charged with shooting at John Miller, a cook, who was employed in a restaurant owned by the defendant. Chief Vizzard of the Union Pacific secret service, and another special of ficer are making matters very lively for coal thieves at Columbus. Fourteen were caught recently, and three co plaints wera filed In the count;' .ourt against the offenders. Th? 'entered a plea of gulltv rn&,efe fined $6 nnd costs fne,h't)y"Judge Ratterman. The nuisance of petty thieving has be come almost unbearable of late and there is a strong effort being made to break It up If possible. The Burlington road intends to make some Improvements on its line in the vicinity of Wymore before cold weather sets In. A. E, Wlggenhorn. aged 74 years. died In Omaha. He leaves eight chil dren, his wife having passed on before bout twenty-two years ago. He was president of the Farmers' and Mer chants' bank of Ashland. The augar factory at Loavltt has commenced operations. Beets com menced to come In a week ago and are arriving rapidly at present. The opening this year is thirteen" days earlier than last owing to the crop ma turing satisfactorily with the favor able weather. The quality of beets tested up to the present time Is very good, the augar content running about IS per cent. Labor Is plentiful. The -wife of Anderson Rouse, super intendent of the Cass county farm, died fn the Immanuel hospital In Ossaha, aged 50 years. , The State bank of Decatur has been organised with a capital Btock of $10, 000, half of which has been paid up. Several stacks 'of wheat, rye and oats were burned on the farm of John WIM near Grand Island, Charles Larklhs, sentenced to the penitentiary from Thayer county for one year, and Joseph Sparks, sentenced from Douglas county for life, were adjudged Insane and wH be removed to the asylum. Hebraska Uoks HIGH AND LOW WAGES HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER COUN. TRY. Mechanics and Laborers In the Unit ed States Receive Two to Five Timet More Pay Than Those of England, Germany, France and Bel glum. Very Instructive is tho tablo which Col. Wright gives us to show tho comparative rate of wages in tho largo cltlos of thlB and four European countries. It BhowB the wages on an hour in cents: .. 2. d g s nil, . u o t. ca Bricklayer .... r.4.7 20.fi 13.2 13.2 7.r. Cpmpoxltorii ... 44.fi 17.9 14.1 13.8 P.r. Plumber 43.7 20.2 11.4 15.0 7.H Stone cutter,.. 42.2 19.9 11.7 14.4 fi.8 Cnrpentcia 3f..! 20.2 13.0 1C.4 7.1 I'aliitiirn 34.S 17.7 11.9 12.6 6.fi Iron rnoltlcM .. 30.3 17.R .... 13.1 C.9 ltoil eurrlciH .. jH.fi 12, r. K.fi !. ... IIiiIIit wnrkers.. 2R.4 17.2 11.2 14. r. 7.5 MitcllltllxtH .... 27.1 1C.7 13.1 13.2 ... Common l.ibmcrn 1C.7 10.2 7.9 9.0 5.B Tho frco traders nslc our attention to tho fact that most of theso Indus tries nro Independent of protection, so that tho higher rates commanded by American labor cannot bo traced to tho tariff. If men were born with somo conformation ot tho hands which destined them for a specified trade, there would bo force In thlB argument. But as every man Is free to chnoBo whether ho will enter upon an employment directly affected by tho tariff or 0110 that Is not, It Is to bo presumed that employers In tho latter have to compete for workmen with somo reference to tho fact that other channels of employment arc open. The free traders among our farmerH complain that since the fur torlcB became so numerous they can not get a barn painted at the rates they used to enjoy. Yet barn paint Ing Is not protected. Wo aro also Invited to observe that wages are higher In Great Britain than In Franco or Germany, both countries which have protective tar iffs, while Great Britain lias none. WITH ALL HIO FAULTS This argument would have some forco If protectionists argued that the mere existence of a protective tariff would suffice to rai60 wages, apart from its effects In diversifying Industries. England has relatively high wages be cause she Is still enjoying the results of five full centuries of protection to home Industry, in the possession of an abundance of manufactures. Ger many and France aro still struggling with tho harm inflicted on their In dustries by experiments In free trade, and their wnges will not reach even tho tho English level until they at tain that varied Industry which Is the Qrst condition of general prosperity. Even free traders admit that the wages earned by German laborers aro very much higher than beforo Bis marck Allowed our example in estab lishing a protective tariff. We aro also asked to Infer from this table that "higher wages mean lower cost of production, Instead ot n proportionally higher coBt, which Is tho assumption on which the whole wnges side of tho tariff argument is built." Then the compositor, who gets 44.C cents an hour In America, Is cheaper to his employer than he who gets 17.9 cents an hour In Great Brit ain, or he who gets 9.6 cents an hour In Belgium. Why, then, do English publishers employ Belgian printers to manufacture cheap editions of Ten nyson and other English authors, when tho Belgian compositor, at 9.C cents nn hour, Ib dearer than the Eng lish compositor at 17.9 cents? And why do they not have their books manufactured In America, In other casoss than those In which our copy right law compels them? Or Is free trade economy altogether Independ ent of tho multiplication table? There aro somo other comparative figures with regard to the condition of labor, which would be still more suggestive If we had them. Tho cen sus of 1900 shows us that only G per cent of tho married women of this country aro engaged In gainful occu pations, ang only 31 per cent of tho sluglo women. What other country has nny such record as that? Cer tainly not Great Britain. Tho Eng lish workman, as n rule, worki no border or steadier than doea hJs tfr "Wwj, ',,5' and his grown-up daughters. They have no such home life as Is possible to tho family of tho American work man under our usual conditions. Again, tho number of men nt work in Amorlca amounts to 22,489,425, whllo that of women so employed Is but 4,833,030, nnd of children, 1,760, 178. Hero ngnln we sco a Btate of things Biipcrlor to what nny other country has to show. The American workman ..urns wages which enablo him to keep his wlfo at homo and his children at Bchool. In whnt other country Is this tho case? Not In Great Britain. Again, America furnishes employ ment to 11,100,411 persons of foreign parentage, about half of them Immi grants, and tho other half children of Immigrants. What other country of fers such attractionB to tho labor of tho rest of tho world as we do7 Well did President Harrison boast that the gates of our land swing nlwayB In ward to admit labor, never otuwnru 10 have it depart. Robert Ellis Thomp son In Irish World. Nuts for Democratic Crackers. Sifted to the bottom, these chnrgca of Republican extravagance merely show that national expenditures aro steadily growing, nnd that they will contlnuo to grow, no mntter what ad ministration comes Into power. Dem ocratic "keynoters" clamor vaguely for "economy." But they are much too cautious to specify the economies they will miikc. Arc they willing to abandon our programme of naval de velopment, to reduco tho army, to abandon tho Pannm.i cannl, to cut down pension expenditure"?, to for swear river nnd harbor Improve ments, or to abolish the rural free de livery service? Tho Democratic plat form squirms and doubles on all these subjects, nnd finally finds courage enough to say that army expenditure should be cut to "a point historically demonstrated to be safe and suffi cient." That Is the single dubious economy the Democratic party Is can did enough to promise. When Mr. Davla and tho World again asFall Re publican "extravagance" they would do well to tell us what specific re forms the Democratic programme of SHE LOVES HIM STILL. "economy" Tribune. has in view. New York Judge Parker's Answer. At every sign of Democratic weak ness his supporters have turned to him in Impatience for a rallying cry and a bugle call. And this is his an swer: "The trouble here is not with me, bit with you. If we aro in dnn gcr, it is because there Is too much insistence among you for positive ut terances that will only drlvo Demo crnts out of the party. What we need Is a policy of all things to all men, so that nobody can take offense. You tell me that the Vermont election shows wo must be more outspoken and straightforward, and I tell you that it shows, on tho contrary, that wo must be even more careful then we have been along tho lines of In nocuous ambiguity," The President and the People. Roosevelt himself is the paramount issue in 1904. He is stronger with hit countrymen now than he was In 1902 Ho has honesty, and courage and ex altcd patriotism. Ho has dono manj things since which have endeared him to tho masscB. Among these notably wero hlB halting of Germany, England and Italy In their contemplated raid on Venezuela, and his prompt settle ment of tho Panama canal treaty. Theso two brilliant nvhleveraents, at well as the otber splendid results ol his government, will gain him tho en thusiastic approval of a sweeping ma jority of tho American people on Nov. 8. Leslie's Weekly. Any Issue Will Do. Ono Democratic newspaper sayi that the pararcout issue this year if the "robber tariff." Another Demo crntlo nowspajer says it Is constltn tionallBm vs. Jlmper'allsm. Still an other declares that tptBts are tho U sue. And so it goes. The crgnnB of tho Democracy agree tint there Is S psramount Isiuo, but they cannot de cide among themselves, for public purposes, which it Is. Privately the agree that anything which will got tho Vrarty into power Is "u good enough Morfan till after election." Kingston (N. Y. Freeman. AS THE WORLD REVOLVER PHYSICIAN TO SHAH OF PERSIA. I Dr. W. L. Smith of Worcester, Mass., Has Unique Honor. Dr. William Lord Smith of Worces ter, Mass., gra-Juate of Harvard, sports man nnd hunter of big nme, Is head ed for home, loaded down with decora tions from tho grateful Muzaffer-ed-Din, shah of Persia, whom he cured of a malarial disease which had baf fled native and foreign physIclnnB. Dr. Smith hns also now the tltlo of physician In ordinary to tho throno of Persia, but it Is not certain that ho will return to the land of the shah nnd fill the position. Dr. Smith is ending a two-years' tour of the world. Early in the summer ho arrived In Persia nnd, as the plague was raging there, was quarantined. But Just then the shah wbb taken 111 nt Teheran and Dr. Smith was summoned. A Journey of 210 miles to the palace on camel back across the desert followed. After the shah was cured ho and his doctor went hunting together nnd UjIb ce mented their friendship. CHIEF OF POSTAL CLERKS. Arthur Donoghue of Chicago, Chosen for the Position, ,. Arthur lionoghue, iho newly elected president of the National Association of Postal Clerks, has been lor four teen years connected with the regis try department of tho Chicago cen tral office. Mr. Donoghuo graduated from high school In 1887. Ten yenrs Inter he took his degree from the Chi cago College of Law. Ho nau never held office In tho local organization ol postal clerks and tho action of tho convention at St. Louis was a pleas ant surprise to his fellow clerks in tho Chicago office. Marveled at Time's Changes. When Henry James, tho novelist, returned to the United States, after an absence of twenty years, ho was overwhelmed by tho changes wrought In New York during that time. As he stepped out upon that part of the pier which affords something ot a view of Manhattan ho stood silent several moments, deaf to the question of his friends, and gazed at tho outline of his native city In true Rip Van Win kle wonderment. At the same time Mrs. Mary King Waddlngton, widow ot tho famous French diplomat, arriv ed in New York after an absence of thirty-nine years. As ono nfter an other ot the huge shapes that scrape tho clouds over the city camo into view she turned to her son and ex claimed: "Ugh, how hideous!" Mme. Waddlngton also Is a native Ameri can, the granddaughter of Rufus King of New York. Joke on Edmund Rostand. Edmund Rostand was the other day the hero of a little episode which might furnish him with the materlnl for a scene In a future play. During a visit to n friend In the country M. Rostand was requested to accompany him to a mnlre, In order to register the friend's new-born infant. The adjunct of tho malre, a conscientious little man, booked the Infant and then turned to ''M. Rostand as tho first witness. "Your name, sir?" "Edraond Rostand." "Your vacation?" "Man of letters and mem ber" of the French academy." "Very well," replied the official, "you have to sign your name. Can you write? If not, you may mako a cross." Czar's Numerous Relatives. Tho list of tha czar's relatives In cludes a brother, an uncle, four cou sins of the first degree, ten of tho sec ond, thirteen of the third and a great uncle. All of these except the thir teen cousins of the third degree must bo addressed as "imperial highness." Theso thirty-three male relatives of ,tho czar aro a great financial burden o tho- empire, as each of them re ceives an annual inconio of $460,000. They moreover own in tho aggregate 6,000 square miles of land and 326 jmlaces, employing an army of 20,000 servants. Anti-Cigarette Law Not Popular. Tho agitation over tho decline of (bo English physique, to which atten tion was bo forcibly called during tho Boer war, has led to a crusade against Juvenile smoking and an "anti-cigarette bill" Ib now beforo the houso of commons, though it Is not believed that there is any probability of its passing. Tho objection Is made that tho tine of $2.60 which Is Imposed upon every boy or girl under 16 who Is convicted ot smoking must bo paid by tho parent and that the offense Is one that parents cannot prevent. S WEEKLY PANORAMA STRANGERS WERE NOT WANTED Too Much Commercialism InChurchei of New York. Tho charge that strangers aro not mado to feel at home In some of tho big churches in New York Is well founded, according to tho observation made by a Pcnnsylvanlan who has lived there for ten years. "A few years ago I rented a pew In ono of tho big churches In Fifth avenue and kept It for n year. My family was not numerically largo enough to fill tho pew, nnd I notified the usher that I could usually accommodato from two to tin eo strangers. I learned Indirect ly that the soxton, who had tho rent ing of tho pews, objected to too much liberty on my part. Ho said that II every pewholder In tho .church made tho same sort of offer he could not come up to tho expectation of tho gov erning board of tho church, which ex pected hlhi to rent every pew. The logic of this was that If strangers do- .sired to nttend that particular church very often they would bo expected to pay for their sittings. To put It a lit tle plainer, strangers wero not wel come, although a sign In the vestlbulo said they were." . T i'.; STATUE OF GEN. MEAGHER. On &Jmpletlon vVllf Be Placed In Capitol Grounds at Helena, Mont. The Illustration depicts a statuo of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher which tho Thomas Francis Mengher Assd elation of Montana purposes to erect In the cnnitol grounds nt Helena. Many well-known persons nave con tributed to the work, but n large sum Is still needed. The president of the association Ib James H. Lynch of Butte. Gen. Meagher will be remem bered as the chief of the Irish brlgadi in the civil war, and he also was famous as an orator. EXPENSES OF WEALTHY WOMEN. New York Leaders of Fashion Spend Much Money on Dress. Mrs. Safford Barstow, the New York woman who spends her entire tlmo simply designing on paper new crea tions In the garb of American woman hood, was asked If the statement made in the dressmakers' convention that some women spend as much as $25,- 000 on their clothes In a year was an exaggeration. "That Is merely a fair average," she Bald. "Far from being distorted, the figure named is very conservative. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1 think, is admitted to be the best dressed woman in New York. I am certain that she spends all of $60,000 a year on her dresses. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Is a close second. Her dressmaking bill certainly runs over $40,000, while Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. Joseph Wldener, for Instance, are In a big class that easily part tbelr husbands from upward of $36,000 each year for the benefit of the dress makers, shoemakers, glovers, etc." Single Men Best Soldiers. It Is well known that Lord Kitchen er prefers single men In the army. He was twitted once on being a woman hater. He answered smilingly that ho was Just the reverse. Then he be came serious 'and said that experi ence had taught him that single men, as a rule, make better soldiers than married men. The latter, he declared, are bound to koep in mind the welfare of their wives and children, and on this account are apt to draw back from dangers that would not causo them an Instant's hesitation if they had only themselves to think of. Therefore, a wife, though she may be very ambitious for her husband's sue cess, Impairs his efficiency as a ol dier in action. Dutch Statesman In America. Herr Dudok De Wit, minister of sports in the government of Holland, has reached California on a tour of the world. Minister De Wit, who Is 63 years old but looks much younger, is an expert horseman, golf player and oarsman. Ho Is also very fond ot horse-racing, and in the course ot bis official career has acted as Judgo or timekeeper at some of tho most notable tracks in Europe. Ho has visited every foreign country of noto and now will spend about two taontbs In the United States. 1HEODP t Bob White Days. The smell of frost Is In Hie air. The coin has tut tied to Rold; Bob White sends forth his lusty cry Acrod tho mrnerrd wold, "Hob White. Uob White," he loudly cries "Uob White!" with nil his mlshf. hlle from the distance faintly oundi "Hob White, Uob White, Uob White I" Oh, welcome nro the Hob White days, And welcome is Hob White: lily cheery mil nound o'er the land , Irom morning till the nlRht. J?..'!")'" nre never melancholy. 1 , With Uob White's Jovnus call: ' "Uob White, Uob White!" I hear him now, From meadow, wood nnd wall, Joe Cone. Five Hours in a Well. "Freddlo" McDonald, two and 1 halt years old, spent five hours In a well at Marlboro, Mass., tho other day while several hundred persons scour ed tho wood on tho outskirts of the city nnd dragged ponds for his body. No onc'hnd seen him since Id. o'clock In the morning. His parents and the neighbors became alarmed as hour after hour sped by and tjje miff ing youngster could not bc"fountl. It wns near 3 o'clock In tho after yoon when Edward Murphy determin ed to examine the well on tho Con nors cstnte. He procured a long polo and dropped It Into the well. What twis hfs Mirprisc when lie heard the cries of the boy. Hastily withdraw ing the polo he made his way slowly down. When about twenty-two feet from the surface he came upon tho youngster sitting upon a board which stretched across the well mil kept him from falling Into the eight feel of water which was beneath. "Fred" appeared none the worse for his llvo hours' sojourn In the well. Boy Had Nerve. Master Henry Hall, the llttlo son of Matthew Hall, who lives near here, took heroic measures to prevent dis aster from the bite of a big rattle snake which had crawled Into his bed nnd bit him on the finger Just after ho had retired. The fangs ot the reptile were sunk Into the boy's Index fin ger of the right hand. As soon as he realized what had happened the lad jumped from tho bed and, grabbing a chop ne, cut tho finger off just nbovo the bite. Ho lost some blood from tho crude opera tion, but has suffered no injury as a result of the snake bite. It Is sup posed tho snnko camo In through tho door in the afternoon while tho fam ily wero busy In the fields. It crawled under tho top cover of tho bed, nnd was not seen when the fnmlly went to retire. Young Hall tumbled Into bed In much the same way as nil youngsters do, and threw his hand over on the snake, making It mad and causing it to strike at once. The fangs wero burled In the flesh of tho finger. Annlston Correspondence of Nashville Banner. Nest Made of Steel. A curious gift has been made to tho Natural .History Museum of Soletta. This gift consists of a bird's nest con structed entirely of steel. There nro a great many watchmakers at Soletta and In the vicinity of tho workshops there nre always tho remains of tho old springs of watches which havo been cast aside. Iast summer a watchmaker discovered this curious hlid's nest, which had been built in a tree In his courtyard by a pair of water-wagtails. It measures ten centimetres in circumference, and Is made solely of watch springs. Before Lucifer Matches. Beforo the discovery of luclfer matches a largo hoof-shaped fungus polyporus fomentnrius growing on the trunks of trees, was used through out northern Europe, for making ama dou or tinder. Tho thick, brown woody flesh of the fungus, cut into slices nnd beaten until It assumed tho appearance of felt, is used nt tho present day In Germany for the manu facture of chest protectors, caps, purses, bedroom slippers and varloun other articles. Ears of Lobsters. Most cutlous are the ears of lob sters. Each Is u sac or bag, contain ing fluid and "car stones," these last being particles of mineral matter, or, In some cases, particles of sand. They Increase the vibrations set up by sound waves, which in due season Im pinge on the delicate cells of the ear, which contain the ends ot the nerve ot hearing. These last, In turn, convey tho Impressions to what serves tho lobster by way of a brain, nnd a very respectable nervous mass It Is. Interesting Military DocumenL Herbert E. Guy of Brockton has an Interesting document, it being the original regimental orders Issued by MaJ.-Gon. Elijah Crano to the First division of Massachusetts militia to prepare for parade and Inspection in Dedham In September, 1819; also n roll-call of the division Is given. The parade and inspection was hold Oct. 7, 1819, on Pond plain, which Is now a part of Westwood. Rubber Plant In Colorado. F. E. Marsh, an Invalid, went In search of health to n ranch near Buena Vista, Colo., whero ho found tho cowboyB chewing the roots of a weed they called rabbit bush. After being thoroughly masticated tho root left a gummy substance Mr. Marsh Wb curious about this nnd sent sjiSjnos of tho weed to a botanist, who quick ly pronounced tho rabbit bush to bo rubber plant nnd tho gummy mass; India rubber. (!) in fV,