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. 'v? i: 3 8, .1 ; $5 a Ion is what the Farmer in the Arkansas Valley of Eastern Colorado gets for Sugar Beets and he can raise 20 to 40 tons per acre. If Interested, ask Wm. Nicholson, Gen. Colonization Acont. A. T U S. P. Ry., 1117 Railway Exchange, Chicago. DDEN GOLD in a watch chain that adds nothing to the chain's looks or the quality of Its workmanship ? T:e outer sur face of pure gold and all the details of workmanship and finish are Identically the same In s iC. 3k) .gy Watii C&ains and in the costly gold ones. For Sale by Newhoiise Brs, Jewelers & Opticians, Red Cloud, - Nebraska m INSURANCE against Fire, Lightning, Cy clones and Windstorms, see JNO. B, STANSER, agent for tho Farmers Union Insur ance Co., Lincoln, Neb., tho best in suranco company in tho sto. HOtLISTER'a Rooky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medioino for Bny People. Brings Goldea Health nnd Eonowei Vigor. Hpecinc for Constipation, Indigestion, Llvo ami Kidney Troubles, Pimples, Eczemn, Impure Bloou, Uail Breath, flWsrish TiowoU, Ueadaclw ml UiKtftnohc. It's Rocky Mountain Ten in mn let form, Xi rents n box. Onuiiirt miulo by Douu3Tcn Dnri Company, Mrnliton, Is. tOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE PARKER'S HA!R DALSAWI Clratiiri nnj tcnutlt'iOi the lilr. I'mniiitn o luxurium Rniwth. Never Failn to ncitoro Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Curt tc!p Olfxaioi U hair falling. iCe.and SUat Drugcl't HOLLISTER & ROSS All kinds of DRAYING Piano Moving, Furniture Moving and other Heavy Work our Specialty j jt No. 52. ...PHONES. ...No. 75 H. B. ASHBR, VETERINARIAN Of tho Kansas City Veter inary College Office at E. lohnston's, tho Ilrick Dnm. ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED Telephone 82. RED CLOUD, - NED. At Bluo Hill first Tuesday in each month. &5srM mrgpr "JJiVH!g,wii NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Young Man Killed by Lightning. Tccumseh, Neb.. Aug. 22. William Kockler, son at Mrs. Susan Keckloi of Smartsvllle, web killed bjr llgkt nine at Watheea, Kan. Old Soldiers Meat at Franklin. Franklin, Nab., Aug. 23. Tho Q. A. R. Interstate reunion, which com prises sixteen counties, in Kansnuand Nebraska, opened hero with a good crowd in attendance. A sham battlo given by Company L, Nebraska Na tional guards, was exciting. Fire Loss at Omaha $30,000. Omaha, Aug. 23. The plant of tho ( Woodman Unseed Oil works, Seven , tecnth nnd Nicholas streets, con trolled by the Aherican Linseed com pany, was damaged 530,000 by fire. , Tho brick storage plant was gutted, , but good work or tho firemen saved the elevator adjoining. Tho origin of tho fire is unknown. Tornado Near Wcllfleet. WellHeet, Neb., Aug. 10. A destruc tive tornado passed north of this place, destroying bams, cropn, stock and stacks of hay. At the farm of Votaw brothers, twenty-six head of horses were crushed to death. Next In tho path was McRoynold's ranch, where it killed fifty-six cattlo nnd crippled many more. So far as reported, no lives were lost. Horses Dying of Fever. Norfolk, Nob., Aug. 19. Horses in tho vicinity of O'Neill, Neb., aro rap idly dying off, as the result of a plague of swamp fevor, which has been spreading through the county, accord ing to Stato Veterinarian C. A. Mc Kim, who arrived in Norfolk from O'Neill. Dr. McKIm was called to O'Neill to attempt to stamp out the disease, but has as yet boon unsuc cessful. Storm Strikes Lincoln. Lincoln, Aug. IS. A day of lntonso heat, causing two prostrations, one fa tal, was followed by a violent storm of wind nnd rain. The fall of rain was the heaviest seen here this sum mer, estimated nt nearly two inches, In a trillo over an hour. Paved streets , in places wore filled from curb to . curb, wooden crosswalks washed out, and in one nlace stotinimr street cars, Advices say the rain was general all . over the corn belt. A laborer, who -- ,w was prostrated by tho heat, died in tho hospital. Insane Boy Defies Capture. Omaha. Aug- lS.-Bccauso a Jewish iieiiuiur iwim.u iu b "-;iM me.on i-reu ireeua, ugeu i uivu the couventIon assembled. The reso years, attacked the peddler with an lllf,nnc ,,ntl,n,, rn,n,m,n,in,i n ,nvt. nv nml n larL'o ltnlfo. nnd tho man was I compeueu to uee lor ihl-. it uu- veloped that tho boy had gone insane. Brandishing the ax above his head ho 11... i i t.l lt Tl .! I chased several companions, yelling that ho would kill the first ho caught. Unable to control the youngster, the ' a,inoIntod by tho rosItlent. Th0 neighbors fled in terror, nnd when tho princlpal speakcr wn8 Governor Cum police arrived they found young nilns of , wh ,n a jceeh fuH Trecka in undisputed possession of of flre an1 eIoquence hurle(1 lleflanco tho street. Ho was finally captured at the enemIes of reciprocity. Gov- and disarmed. j ernor cummins brought tho audience Bought Groceries of Abraham Lincoln under his spell, nnd except when in Grand Island, Aug. 20. On the out- terrupted with furious applause, ho cklrts of the village of Doniphan, held full sway for three-quarters of twelve miles south of this city, there lives a most interesting family. Not only could the family be featured from the standpoint that it contains, perhaps, tho oldest male and femalo twins in tho United States, but direct members of it have a most interest ing family history. Here reside Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gideon and Mnrcellus Stump. Mrs. Gideon and Mr. Stump are twins and wero born in Ohio eighty-six years ago. Mr. Gideon, hus band of the twin girl baby of 1S20, formerly lived in Sangamon county, Illinois, near Abraham Lincoln, and remembers having purchased his first groceries of the martyred president. New System In Crop Reports. Lincoln, Aug. 21. Deputy Labor Commissioner Bush has about com pleted the establishment of a system of gathering crop statistics which he thinks will make the reports of the bureau of statistics as accurate as It is possiblo for such statistics to be. He has secured the names of ten re sponsible men in every county in tho Btate and a majority of them to whom be has written hnvo consented to be come correspondents of the bureau nnd send in estimates of crops. A few have already sent in their esti mates and theso are suprlsingly sim ilar when It Is considered the men nre In different parts of the various counties. Tho average of these esti mates will bo tho estimate for tho county. RUSH FOR LAND IS OVER. Many Tracts Entered at tho North Platto Office Laet Week. Korth Platto. Nob.. An. 2iTi. . ........ .nv.-, -. ., . - rush for one-section land at the land olllco hero Is practically now over, rlnv Al.nnt 1 KO RPPtlnnn rvnro fllr.,1 lay nil together. There Is loft yet for filing about 100 sections, most of which ls located through the south half of McPherson countybut the en- tryinen seemed universally to want to stay close to tho railroad as possi ble, and bonco allowed tho land far- thcr north in MePherson county to Ho vacant, although it is considered to . bo hotter land. For a time tho land to bo entored was filled with home seukers, who scoured the country for miles making their choices, and then roturned to file. Tho land is best suited for grazing purposes, and this was the object In mind with most of th settlers. FRANC43 HEADS CONGRESS. &t LouTa Man Elected President of Transmlssltslppl Association. ' T-Tttttu 1tat vtfwt titfirtllfitit 1rviwk1 IT ...0 .nw ....v (..vo.uvui, v-u.iuv. n. D. Lovclaud ot San ttmnelsco; second vico president, ex-Governor 1.. B. Prince ot Now Mexico; third vlco president, M. 11. Larymorc of North Dakota; fourth vico president, H. A. FoIIowh of Kansas; secretary, Arthur , 11. Francis of Colorado; treasurer, II.. B. Topping of Missouri. j Tho resolution ou tho subject of , Chinese exclusion as It. will en to con-, rmau. ure., ahb. iu. ino-irans- into the pit to repair tho IciBC. mlsHlsslppl congress elected the fol- According to his story he lit a uch lowing officers for tho ensuing year: nml (ho explosion followed, lining President, Darlil It. Francis of St. hla ,,,,.. ,.,, Mnwln , ,i.n ,,.. gross, petitions the president to make , rather better than expected. Potato Russln'B reply Is a negative can bo necessary investigations into tho , are not yielding ns well as cxpecte' "''tnliK'd, "! it must be accepted cause of tho present boycott, and , Corn has grown well and has boew',u ft" reserve. to then recommend to the federal con-, much benefited by the rain In th u ls Hinted Hint Hnron Komura hns gross such recommendations for a eastern counties. In somo northeast100"' ,) ofr-'r at tho Besslon today comprehensive immigration law, , era counties a high wind accompnthu I'fcnlclent's compromise proposl frnmed to removo all unreasonable nlcd the rain and damaged com tclon- A high nuthorlty bolioves It lm restrictlons, but to exclude nil unde-, somo extent by breaking and blowlng,(Sfiln, ,,lnt n n,ml rupturo enn com slrable porsons of every nation. j It down. As a whole corn Is now inmlay- no matter what the character One other Important resolution was , excellent condition, with every prom-f tno emperor's final instructions to adopted In commltteo endorsing the establishment of a department of mines and mining. Among tho resolutions Introduced In tho congress wero ono favoring tho isBuanco by congress of $100,000,000 in bonds to form a permanent fund for tho improvement of rivers apd harbors, and one recommending sep arate statehood for Oklahoma. Tho next congress will meet In Kansas City. DEMAND DUAL TARIFF. Reciprocity Men Favor Minimum and Maximum Schedules. Chicago. Aug. IS. The reciprocity conference called to devise means of bettering tho trndo relations between the United States nnd foreign conn- tries finished tho work for which the meotlnir was called, arranged for a .... - ..-- committee to prosecute the plans of tho convention aud formed a perma nent organization, siyicu as tuo Amer ican Reciprocal Tariff league. The coniniltteo. whinh will pniisist. nt fir- t momlierH. to lin nnnolnteil bv tho chaJrf WM g,ven fuU IJ0W(Jp Q ()r,an. and promoto tho work for which I mum nnd minimum tariff as a moans of rcllcving UlQ 8tuaton wjth which (,lls countr. ,s confrontodt nnil urgeii thut such rociprocal regUiations be ar- ranged by a permanent tariff coinmls- , sion, to be created by congress and an hour. Ho said, in part: Russia's Attitude Unchanged. St. Petersburg, Aug. 21. Russia's official attitude regarding the final re ply to be made to Japan tomorrow is unchanged. The impression prevails, as heretofore, that only a very great concession on the part of Japan on tho question of indemnity and the cession of Sakhalin will make peace possible. The questions pertaining to the limita tion of Russia's naval power nnd tho surrender of her Interned warships aro considered here to be quite suscepti ble of satisfactory arrangement and not liable to cause serious trouble. Rioting in Milan. Milan, Aug. 21. Socialists and anarchists to tho number of several thousand paraded the street, creating disorder and rioting. The police wero powerless and the troops were called out. The cavalry dispersed the mobs, many persons being wounded and many arrests being made. Truth Stranger Than Fiction. X?rtvfs11r XT.1 a .. oi A.,. !... Ing been kidnaped and lost from hei parents for eighteen years evei since she aa a little tot of 2 Mrs Herman Wippern of St. Louis has arrived at Gross Neb., and todaj iouna ner lamer ana motner, Mr. anu mrs. wiKe scneinost or mat place Section Hand's Quick Rise. Lincoln, Aug. 17. Hugh Wilson formerly of this city, has been ap pointed division superintendent of tho Missouri Pacific railroad, with head I q,mrt.era at Carthage, Mo. Six yean nrrn no wna n cnntlnn hnml nn tnn o- - ..- u bw.u,, . ... wn w... Burlington in Nebraska. lio is I mCIU l iNLUra8"a UnierSlty. Nebraska Day at Portland. Portland, Ore., Aug. 22.-Hundreda of Nebraskans. including Governor Mickey, were present to celebrate Nebraska day at (lie 1CWiBnd Clark exposition- A fenturo of be exer cises wns the singing by th Nobrns- ka aclut' qwirtctto of (luuational h'm ' which tho audience tok pnrt standing. At tho coucluslo of tho sot program, a reception waihold in the Nebraska pavilion. Fireman Finds Leak In GatPp0. Syracuse, Neb., Aug. 23-J. k. Reed, tlremau nt the water ai light plant at this place, was s(ously burned and tho lighting stain al most completely wrecked by ex plosion of Kas here shortly aftojoon. Mr. Reed had discovered a lugo of gas in one of tho pipes nnoVcnt ... ........ norm end or the brick bulldlngnd toarliiR the roof almost entirely m he structure Nebraska Crop Conditions. Lincoln, Aug. 113. Haying ii threshing progressed rapidly oxct in eastern counties, where tho heir rain Thursday night retarded we of this character. Some spring win has been threshed nnd tho vlehl , Ise of a large crop. Fall plowing hns' progressed nicely, with the soil in ex cellent condition. SIXTEEN DEAD, SEVEN MISSING Two More Bodies Recovered From Virginia Excursion Wreck. Norfolk, Va.. Aug. 21. Tho bodies of two more victims of the Klnston and Greenville negro excursion rail way wreck of Thursday were found In the Klizaheth river near tho scene of the accident. One of these was Thomas Ferguson, the drawbrldgo keeper, who was knocked off tho bridge and drowned when the train , plunged tluough the open draw. I'll Is manes lourteen homes m an mat navo ! recovered I rem the river, with two cail In St. Vincent's hospital . hcro- making sixteen known dead up to this time. It ls believed that seven more bodies arc In the river. Fatal Street Car Accident. Lansing, Mich., Aug. 21. Georgo Burton was killed nnd ten porsons in jured in a street car accident at Do wltt. A car and trnllcr left this city heavily loaded with St. Johns people, who were returning home from a ball game. Near Dowitt the trniler was derailed by an obstruction on tho track and thrown Into a ditch. Many of the passengers were caught under tho heavy car and crushed. Car Goes Over Embankment. Milwaukee, Aug. 21. A Kox Point lnterurban car, with forty passengers, returning to the city after a day in tho country, went over an embank ment four miles north of here nnd one unknown man wns killed, while twen ty or thirty persons wero taken to a local hospital. The car turned com pletely over after leaving the track at a forty-mile rate of speed. Government to Breed Horses. Washington, Aug. 22. Tho depart ment of agriculture has decided to es tablish other breeding stations be sides that at Fort Collins, Colo., and will send mares of n selected typo to Indian City farm, Pontine, 111., to bo bred to Axford, tho greatest sou of Axtell and regarded ns ono or tho best types In tho country to beget harness horses. Four Caceo of Fever In Mexico. Mexico City, Aug. 21. The superior board of health officials report only four cases of yellow fever in tho re public, all being at Vera Cruz, and completely Isolated. There Is not be lieved to bo tho slightest danger of the disease spreading. Tho Mexican J health officials believe wholly in tho mosquito theory. Combine Against Beef Trust. Chicago, Aug. 22. Chicago hotel men, wholesale butchers and restau rant keepers have formed a combina tion against the beef trust Two ntnntu nnn nnqtlnr. iiXftfi Cl(( ntwl tllA other $300,000, are in course of crcc - tion and a third to cost $500,000 la contemplated. Two Deaths From Heat In Chicago, Chicago, Aug. 22. Two deaths and a nun,ber of prostrations wero report ed as the result of the heat. Tho temperaturo did not exceed 89 do- grees, but tho humidity made the day exceedingly oppressive. General Miner Testifies. Wooster. O.. Auc. 23. General Charles W. Miner's testimony was . . , t, TaBKart trla, Genera, it ., ,ln.ln, nvn n II.. ...,., .. i.- m ti , l ... a ,i-nir, ,, r.in cm..nnn ntin..n.. iiui.iiib iiunt uuufju uiujavi, uiiuiuuj whatever With Mrs. Taccart. as charged In the amended petition of Major Taggart. and any conspiracy with others to falsely Imprison the l Nt Leavenworth. Uy Statement That It Is Refusal to Pa Japan an Indemnity or Give Up Sakhalin Position of Russian Gov ernment Is Reiterated. , Portsmouth, Aug. 23. A long cablo mPBHitgo from 9t. Petersburg, which Is believed to bo (ho Russian reply, arrived and M. Wltto's secretaries Nnhukoff and Plaucon, Immediately, begun deciphering It. Considerable excitement wns apparent in tho an nex, where the Russian headquarters aro located. Sheet by sheet the trans lation was taken to M. Wltto's room. The rumor Is that It Is a refusal a non posHlmus a reiteration of tho Russian position that she hns given nmple proof of her desires for pence In the nvtlcles already accepted, anil more she could not accept with dig nity and honor. No confirmation of the rumor that " lllu mnv ,,e- If tho negotiations can bo pro- iged Into next week," ho said, "so ch pressuro will bo brought to hear In the emperor that ho will not bo ' to resist." President Roosevelt's Plan. o Associated Press Is now in a f'lon to roveai substantially tho B,,stIon of President Roosevelt for unng the existing deadlock In tho l,eu negotiations and rescuing tho conneo from failure. Ills solution wo" nguniously permit tho satlsfac Jlon the Japanese demnnds for re lmbiiQ)0nt for tj10 cogt or tll0 wnr m 'he same timo enable Russia to nu'1P W()ri(i with the declaration, that Kjm( ot c(mj0(j n rO0t, of ter ritory t))ilj(j n .0p(,c of war trlbuto to tho or Tersely stated, It con sists In, agreement by Uussln to rimrchi possession of either all or half or iBlauil or Sakhalin, now In tho narj. occupation of Jnpan, Tor a sumf, amount or which. If tho lwo c,()"" cannot agree, shall bo decided b,mo niotiKi 0f arbitra tion boreal to ,, (it.tonnne,i. Tho purchuso ieyf together with tho sum Japan ,,, 0i,taln from the ces sion of tho ncsc Eagtorn milroad and tho matjanco ()f (ho UuMlan .iium.i .. )a( wo,,,, u i8 esti mated, nboiem,al th0 nmoimt claimed by Jt, hcr ,,, f tl cost of the w Possibly, therefore, he solution o1(, , U0 preillont "Volvos recess by Japan upon ar ticle 5 (the cos of Sal.halln) and recession by Rft arllde , (Indemnity). It 8 practically cei- give M. Wltte 8anta, n88uranco that Japan would vll t0 nc t such a compromise Meeting lJ0nctf J th,et i,rcs,Is messago to M Wltte which cat th0 B0n8aU.n or the day. Early iu morn, na(1 come the official aillceInent Uat the meeting of the fJ was postponed until 9:30Jn To tno public the reason asfl(l-was tha(. he protocols for the n , been completed. Butew hour3 later the true reason J,(1 QUl j L. McGrew, one of the ;her3 attached to the cxecut ffl at Oyster Bay, hnd arrived a com. munlcation from tho pres . .. Russian plenipotentiaries' wito and Baron do Rosen had h" i10tei ostensibly for a rldo in n,. to York Beach, but Instead ntet. ly slipped over to tho v,!enco building at the navy yard ,celyo tho message from Assistant B.arv Pelrce. All those present u t make any statements regardi . t transpired at tho navy yard' Mr. McGrew took tho 3:25 ' t Boston. Ho carried a dresB su which probably contained the, ' to tho president. This reply, ' hnllnvnrl tvnu nrnnnrn.1 hv XT 1 and Baron de Rosen after Mr. F had dollvered to them the proBiu message. Says Peace Is In Sight. London, Aug. 23. The Mornl CZAR'S REPLY IS "NO" RUMOR THAT RUSSIA DECLINE9 TO YIELD FURTHER. post' wh,ch throughout tho war h strongly Identified Itself with tl Japanese side, In a dispatch from it , correspondent at Portsmouth, declare; I tnat tho "peace of Portsmouth is with ,n measurable distance." Tho corre-i spondent assorts that both sldeB will j make substantial concessions for tho BUttU Ul UL'ilUU. ItUHMIIl. I1R KnVR Will nay Jannn a sum In tho cuisn nf ov. - - - penses ior tno maintenance or prison ers, etc., nnd that Sakhalin will bo mv.cieu, uubsia retaining tno northern iT"?"' a"d ? pan 11 abandon her claims as to ho of Sa'rnavolVrco Itrtho Pacific u 1 '! t 'it I i . LB ; ! I i i I'