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!?,M,wwWPiwiWd -, The Chief m i C. B. HALK, Publisher RED CLOUD NEBRASKA NEffi Of IE WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. A OF EVENTS National, Political, Pernonal and Other Matters In Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. Wnchlnoton. The vnlui of Imported manufactur ers" material of tlif I'nltcd Status lor the IIhciiI oar Just dosed. Includ ing emtio and partly manufactured goods, anioiil.tcd to $K5(;,000,000, an cfitnpfiiffl with $G"I.OH(i,000 last year. J llO.OOO.ono ton years ago and $2J7, r.00.000 twenty years ngo. according to statistics reported by the depart ment of commerce and labor. Just to fdiow tho doubting Thonulscs that they can withstand any physical test for army olllcors, General Robert S. Oliver, assistant Herniary of war, Is to spend most of his montliB' vacation In tho sad dle. General Oliver Is sixty-three yearn of age. His first task will bo a fifty mile horseback ride Miss Olhcr, hlH daughter, will accompany him. Lieutenant Ellory Farmer of tho Twenty-sixth United States Infantry, has been detailed as professor of mili tary science at tho University of .Alls Miurl. Ho will report at the uni versity about August 15. Major Fred erick S. Foltz of the Fifteenth cavalry has been detailed as as sistant commnndant of the mounted Hirvlce school at Fort Riley, Kas. He will relievo Major George 11. Cam eron, Fourteenth cavalry, who will join his regiment. Present Indications that the na tional regatta of tho American As nidation ol Amateur Oarsmen to be held this year on tho Potomao river under the auspices of the Potomac Hont Club, will bo ono of the great est gatherings of oarsmen ever held In America. Two days, Friday and Saturday, August 12 and 13, will bo devoted to the races. Crews and In dividual scullers from all parts of tho United States and lrom Canada will enter the contest. Foreign. 1-yoie l.opoukhova. her brother, Feodor, and Alexander Vollnlne, tho famous Russian dancers who havo been engaged by Charles Frohman for an American tour, sailed for New York on th Oceanic. Their tlrst per formances will be given at tho Em jdre theater In New York. France appears to be on the eve of one of the most colossal strikes that the country has witnessed In recent years. Tho engineers and firemen af filiated with the national railroaders' union are to meet to reach a final de cision .on the nctlon of tho central committee of tho union, which lins al ready decided on a general strike. The workers demand an increase in wnges. The, supremo court has decided that Governor General Forbes of the Phillpplno Islands has the power to deport obnoxious nllens lrom tho archipelago and ban granted a writ of prohibition against the lower court which assumed Juris diction In the cases of a do7.cn Chinese who were deported last August and returned to Manila in March and began suit against Gov ernor General Forbes and others con nected with their deportation. It Is possible now that the case will go to Washington. General. President Taft is pleased with the result of the Ohio convention. Thousands ot acres of unoccupied lands are soon to be thrown open to hottlement. Gilford Plnchot was suggested as a llkoly caudldato for the New York governorship. Mr. Rooseult Is looking into indus trial conditions In tho mine regions of Pennsylvania. Democrats of Minnesota nominated John Llnd for uovernor, but It Is huid be will not accept. Political leaders claim that Hal linger Is too heavy a load for the ad ministration to carry. The strike situation at rninmii.ia 0 Ohio, is bo serious that troops have been called to quell rioting. John G. Carlisle, secretary of treasury under the Cleveland ad ministration, died in New York. President Taft is hack at Beverly and will make no more Jaunts until bo goes to Panamn in November. Tho president has a busy week be fore him, engagements having been mado lor a largo number of callora. Thirty cotton mills at Fall Hlvor, owned by twelve corporations and employing S.oOO operators, wero shut down until August S, for tho purposo of curtailing production. More than $1,500,000 is being saved anually to tho citrus fruit growers' association of California as a rosult of experiments being conducted by tho department of agriculture. Wm. S. Slooro, slxty-'seven 'years old, a wealthy planter 'and brother-in-law of tho late Eckstein Norton, for mer president of the Louisville & Nashville railway, shot and killed himself" i , , ,-y - Theodore Roosevelt has no deslr to poso as a political dictator. Senator iinstow says Kunsas Is not taking Speaker Cannon seriously. Congressman Campbell of Kansna, standpatter, calls insurgents icouo clasts. A new party has been born In Penn sylvania and a state ticket nomlnntcd. Hoosevelt will address tho national conservation congress in St. Paul, September 0. The mayor of Columbus, O., made an appeal to tho governor for troops to cope with strikers. Tho Rusk patty or mountain climb ers failed to rencb tho summit of Mt. MeKlnley, in Alaska. A Chicago newspaper charges that a bribe fund was raised to return A. J. Hopkins to tho senate. The supreme court of i Oklahoma says the capital must remain for a time, at least, at Guthrie. Chairman Yoakum, of the Frisco railroad, discussed good roads at tho Niagara Falls convention. Twenty-live persons perished in a Hood that followed a cloudburst at the town of Pees, Hungary. Senator Crane will make a trip through tho west to slzo up tho poli tical situation for President Taft. The coroner's Jury found that Ira G. Kiiwn died by bis own hand, but does not aay he committed suicide. Secretaries Wlckersham and Nagol are keeping out of tho Alaska quarrel while visiting tho territory. The government Intends to break up the practice of railroads selling foodstuffs spoiled In transportation. There 1b noino hope of compromise In tho differences between tho British house of commons ami lords. Nonconformists were successful In the Ilrftish commons in liming ex punged an obnoxious clause In the pending king's accession bill. The French government has accept ed a bronzo copy of llouden's statue of George Washington, which was presented by the state of Virginia. That tho one-quarter mill tax levied on all property in Oklahoma for school taxes is valid In the opinion of District Judge Huston In a decision. Co-operation between tho federal and stnte governments In tho good roads movement was advocated by speakers at tho Niagara Falls conven tion. The report or tho national glnors' association at McmphlB, Indicates a condition or 72.7 per cent for cotton up to July 25. In a pitched battle between police officers and a band of negroes at Bradford, Ohio, one of tho negroes was fatally shot. Tho pope has appointed tho Itov. Joseph Chartrand as coadjutor bishop to Ilishop Chatnrd, or the dloceso of Indianapolis. Lionel Wnldron and Jules Pages, tho American artists and Alexander Garlleld, tho Americnn explorer of Africa were decorated with tho legion of honor. Governor Harmon of Ohio commu ted to life Imprisonment the sentence of death which was to havo been Im posed upon Joseph J. Macklcy, tho Toledo murderer. One of two new dreadnaughts au thorized by tho last congress will bo built in tho New York navy yard and It Is possible tho other ship also may bo built by tho government. For tho protection of deer and walrus in Alaska, the Department of Agriculture has Issued regulations limiting to eight the number of deer which mny be killed by one person. The Missouri supreme court re fused a writ or mandamus to compel Secretary of State Poach to place a constitutional amendment on tho offi cial ballot to redlstrlct tho state as proposed by the republican state cam mlttee. Eugene Chllds. n veteran of tho civil war. who as a child Hew n kite across Niagara falls which permitted tho engineers who built the suspen sion brldgo there to draw tho ca ble across, Is dead at his homo at Minneapolis. Lieutenant Commander Henry T. Haker, on duty at the Bremerton navy yard, Washington, was reduced ilfty-Ilve numbors and a public repri mand sent to him by tho Navy depart ment as the outcome of a "by court martial on a charge of uttering u falsehood." Tho famous Crocker's Iowa Hrlgadc will hold Its Fifteenth Biennial Re union at Washington, la.. Wednesday and Thursday, September 11 end 1T,, 1010. All soldiers who served In the brigade composed of tho 11th, l.'Sth, 15th and 10th regiments of Iowa volunteors aro entitled to membership and aro earnestly urged to attend. Personal. Dr. Ciippen nnd Miss Lenovo must remain In Quebec until August IS. Republicans and populists of Ne braska declare for county option. Oldficld says he is willing to meet Jack Johiihon In nn nutomohllo race. Progressives or Iowa largely con trolled the republican state couvetit tlon nt Des Moines. President Taft has decided that his public speeches henceforth will be few and far between. Artnur Gogol In, night marshal or Tclurlde, Col , was shot and killed by Jcsso Miuin, a miner. King Aironso has given Premier Conalo-Jas u Tree, hand in tho contro vorsy with tho Vatican. Congressman Charles Q. Tlrrell or tho Fourth Massachusetts district, died suddenly last weok. Dr. Crlppon and hlq companion wero-'Idontlfled nnd arrested ou -tho Btcnm'or Montroso at Father Point. Premier Canalejas dqscrlbcs.tho re call of Marquis do OJoda, tho Span Jsh nmbnssador to the Vatican,- as, ,"hd Indcflnjto Busponslon of negotiations." OVER THE OLD TRAIL EZRA MEEKER PLACING MARK ERS ALONG HISTORIC ROUTE. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraoka and Vicinity. Hantlngs. Ezra Meeker, tho fatuous pioneer of '52, arrived In tho city driv ing a team of oxen and. will camp near Chautauqua park for n brief rest. .Mr. Meeker Is retracing tho route he fol lowed to the Paclllc cor.st In 1S52, when this part of Nebraska was yet tho home of tho Indian. He Is going over the old California trail ami mark ing its numerous places preparatory to tho erection of permanent innrkers. for which a movement has been un der way for Boveral years. The trail passes through the bouthern part of Adams county and was the route fol lowed by John Fremont In 18 12 nnd later was the highway of the Mor mons when they emigrated to Utah; it waa the trail taken by the gold hunt ers of MO, tho Salt Lake express and Hen Halladay's overland stage from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacremento, Cal. ..Run Down by Freight Train. Fremont. A young man who says his home Is In New York city and that his name Is Tom .Moore, waa run down by a Darlington freight train at Fre mont. Unable to attract tho attention or anyone, Moore lay all night in a helpless, though conscious condition beside the track. Doth his legs wero severed, ono at the knee and the other below the hip. Pastor Resigns at McCook. McCook Hev. F. I). Ilobson, pastor of the Christian church In this place and at Trenton, has resigned his pas torales. He is at present visiting in Danville, HI., and upon his return to Nebraska will locato In Kearney, where, It is stated, he will engage In other work than the actlce ministry. Roller Mill Changes Hands. York. Tho York roller mills, owned by William Colton, has been sold to J. Teeter and M. Swanson of Central City, who has taken possession. The management will be In charge of Mr. Swanson. York Adda to Park Syatcm. York. The city has Just closed a deal which will add about eight acres to East Hill park, tho samo being a part or the original cer.ietery which was vacated several years ago. Farm Land at $175 an Acre. Weeping Water. E. F. Marshall has sold his rami or 100 acres to 1. A. Wiles ror $175 per acre. Mr. Marshall still has possession and the crops ror this year. Planning a Big Picnic. Hebron. Tho rourtecnth annual pic nic or tho Thayor county plcnlo asso ciation will be held Thursday, August 18th. Bicycle thieves aie getting in their work nt Beatrice. Tho Woodmen of Beatrice will hold a big picnic August Slat. Alliance is considering tho mun icipal ownership of her electric light plant. ' Fremont's school district faces the peculiar condition of having $20,000 surplus on Its bauds. Tho high school building at Ulysses wan struck by lightning and the build ing was entirely destroyed. Tho fourteenth annual picnic of tho Thayor county picnic association will bo held Thursdn, August I Nth. Preachers at Fremont complain to authorities that auto horns bother their services on Sunday evenings. Mrs. Celia Van Bosklrk, an old res ident of Gago county, died suddenly of Blight's disease and heart trouble 'Members of tho Lincoln commercial club will go to Hebron August IS ror tho Modern Woodmen picnic to bo held thero. Auburn Is to have a city hospital, tho physicians or the town having en tered into an agreement to hack tho enterprise. Henry Spahn, for the last eighteen years a member of tho Bcatrlco police force, died Sunday of blight's diseauo, after an Illness of a few months. Indications nro that tho usual short age of teachcr3 will not trouble the directors of York county schools this fall. Tho supply of teachers and sclwols is believed to bo about equal. A letter .ecolvcd from Hev. S. Mills Hayes, rector of Holy Trinity Kplscopal church at Lincoln, now In Europo on n vacation statos that ho has arrived in Paris and contem plates staying in that city for sev eral weeks. Eldorado will hold its third annual carnival August 11, 12 fc:td 111. Ar rangements aro being mado for somo good races and ball games. ' ,-.An employment bureau for tho pur rose or finding men for thp farmers around Fromont has been established nt thB Y. M. C. A. of that ulana. ' Tho rourteenth annual rratemal pic nic to bo hold at Dlller next month will eclipse all former efforts In that lino Judging by tho program now In preparation. lllg preparations nro being made at Liberty for tho carnival and full festi val August !U and September 1. An industrial and flower parade will be one of tho features. Because the management of the lo cal marble works at Fremont proposed to make a reduction In wnges during tho summer "dull" season, the em ployes of the plant walked out. George Newborn, for many years a resident at tho county poor farm, has fallen heir to an estatn of $20,000, which was left him by his father who resided in Logan county, Nebraska. While Mrs. Ungor of Indianola was polishing her ptove the liquid polish she was using caught tire. Before help arrived sho was burned so badly that there 13 little hope of her surviv ing. Karl Smith of DoWItt. threshed r.05 bushohi of oata from a seven-acre Held. This Is an average of eighty five bushels to the acre, which is sure ly "8onvj oats," for tills part of the country. '.Mr. and .Mrs. Paul S. Detiick. whr were connected with tho Hate Sun day school work of Nebraska at ono time, will take up a similar work In Minnesota about September 1st. Their hendquarters will bo at St. Paul. Kcv. Arthur II. Brooks of St. Luke's Hp'.scopo! church at Lincoln, who was operated on for appendicitis in Om aha several weeks ago has fully re covered from the operation and ex perts to take the pulpit again at once. An explosion of suspicious origin wrecked the homo or Hoy Wilscom in Lincoln Wednesday morning. The detonation was heard for blocks and the building was actually torn apart and sections strewn about the yard and near vieinit. While visiting at tho country home of her grandmother the live year old daughter or Walter Blake or Louis ville wus attacked by a pet wolf. But for tho timely appearance of one of tho farm hands it Is said the wolf would have soon killed tho little girl. Enough arms were stolen from a mercantllo store at Cordova, near Seward Tuesday night to equip n South American revolutionary party: The store was broken into and four shotguns, two rifles, four revolvers, four razors and two dozen knives were stolen. UNCO The Farmers' State bank of Sargent. Custer county, has received a charter from the state banking board. Tho new organization starts with a paid up capital stock of $25,000. Tho penitentiary warden's cash fund amounted to $105,115 at the llrst of tho month, which with receipts amounted to a total of $815.05. Thero was paid to the state treasurer $010.42, leaving a balance of $l(9.:i;: on hand. The gate receipts during July amounted lo $SI.00. The state prison population at the beginning of July wus 450 and at the closo of the month 412. Thirteen pris oners wero received, seven were dis charged by reason of expiration of sentence, II vo wore discharged on parole, ten were parole, three escaped and the sentence of one was suspend ed by the supremo court. During tho month of July ten pris oners were paroled from tho peniten tiary. Warden Smith says the parole Jaw is good so far as It goes, but it ought to bo strengthened by providing for a paid officer to Icok after pris oners out on parole. As It is, they tile a formal report each mouth, signed by an employer, and no ono knows tho true condition of tho pris oner or the truth as to his conduct. City Attorney W. J. Moss of Fair bury brought to tho state auditor $1.15,000 of municipal bonds for regis- trntiou. Tho bonds wero registered and taken back to Fnlrbury. The city or Falrbury Issued the bonds In pay iiicnt or light and water works. Ono hundred thousand dollars or iho Issue will ho turned over to tho owner.? of tho water works In payment of the plant bought by tho city. Tho city will place the balance of the bonds on sale. The civil service commission has called attention to the amended an nouncement of an examination at Lin coln for tariff clerk for tho Intorstnte conimurco commission, August 24, which change opens tho examination to persons who aro conversant with tho various passenger tariffs and divi sions, and circulars pertaining to rates charged ror transportation, etc., and as a result or the examination separate Hglsters will bo established for freight tariff clerks and for passenger tariff clerks. Governor ShaUonburgcr has b6en asked to assist In locating A. J. Mar cotto who left Suporior, Nob., July ll and has not been heard from since. Ho was manager or nn electric the ntor and leader of a Juvenile baud and left, it Is charged, debts which ho was unable to pay. Tho new head master of tho Ne braska Military academy, Dr. Krno3t A. Balch, has reported for duty. Ho comes from St. Louis, whoro ho has been in business iror somo limb'. Dr. Balch is a graduato of the university of Chlcato. . A MASS HE DENIALS NO TRUTH IN TALES OF GORE AND CREAGER, SAYS HAMON. THE ALLEGED BRIBER TESTIFIES Says Ho Was a Crony of Oklahoma Statesman and They Worked To gether Denial by Other Accused Men. Muskogee, Okl With United States Senator Thomas P. Goro reasserting his charge that ho had been offered a bribe of $25,000 or $50,000 to influence his uctlou in congress, and with Jake L. Hanion, accused by the nenator or having offered the bribe, denying he hud over done any such thing, the In vestigation of the Oklahoma Indian lands deal by a committee of the house of representatives simmered down to a mass or dentals. For four hours Humon, former chairman of the Oklahoma republican state committee, entered a continuous 1 series of denials relative to his al leged relation with what are known as the McMurray contracts, by which according to Senator Gore $:t.JOO,000. or 10 per cent of $I!0,000,000 to be real ized from the sale of Indian lauds to a New York syndicate, was to be di verted fiom tho Indiana In the shapo of "attomej fees." Asked to explain some or his busi ness dealings, H.imon said several oars ago. at Lawton, Okl.. when the governor decided to sell at public auc tion some lauds belonging to the In dians, lie, Senator Goro and others entered into a combination not to bid against each other so that the prop erty might bo obtained cheaply. All or them secured some of the land, ho said. In Memory of the Pllarlms. Provlncetown. Mass. "Where two hundred and ninety jears ago the Mayflower sailed Into tho wintry mists that overhung Provlncetown bay, hernainesake, the United States steamer Mayflower, with tho presiden tial blue streaming from her penk, steamed majestically through a lane of eight warships, under a haze of smoke from roaring cannon, that belched a twenty-one gun salute to the chief executive. Here two hundred and ninety yeara ago the pilgrims lauded, and Presi dent Taft dedicated to their memory an enduring massive memorial, A distinguished company Joined the president In celebrating the dedica tion of the memorial. Evidence of a Match Combine. New York. An investigation or the Diamond Match company and tho Standard Wood company by the de partment or Justice has resulted In tho discovery of a combination among bundle wood manuracturers similar to tho card board pool successfully pros ecuted by the government under the Sherman anti-trust act. The territory covered, according to the complain ants, embraced the New England states, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the methods used aro said to havo been effective in eliminating competition. Holding World Congress. Berlin. Many Americans aro In cluded among the delegates and vis itors who arrived In Berlin to take part In tho fifth world congress of free Christianity and religious prog press. The congress will begin Its session Saturday, continuing until next Thursday. More than a score ol religious bodies, ranging from Tllck site Quakers to Hindu thclsts, will be represented In the proceedings. Race Troubles In Georgia. Atlanta. Because of race riots at Gray, Jones county, Georgia, Gover nor Joseph E. Brown hau been re quested to immediately send -troops to that vicinity, the request coming from tho sheriff of the county. Adju tant General A. J. Scott is expected to dispatch troopa to the scene of troublo at an early hour. Peace Congress Adjourns. Stockholm Tho international peaco congress which has been In session hero since August 1, has closed. Among the (100 participants were a score of American representatives and for the llrst time In the history of the peace congresses tho Russian societies wore represented. 'Dcnvor. "Beforo God I nm inno cent. 1 know nothing of the death ol that Utile girl except what 1 read in tho paperB." Joseph Wendllng, captured In San Francisco on a cliurge or connection with tho murder of little Olma Kellner i In Loulsvlllo, Ky., made this state ment while sitting in a cell of tho Donvor jail. Think Incendiary at Work. 'Missoula, Mont. A new forest flro, tho sixth to break out fn tho samo dis trict tho last few days, Is reported on Nino Mllo creek. A force of thirty five men has been dispatched to fight it. Tho forestry officials belloVcan in-, condlary Is at work fn this district. A man who returneil hero 'from Flathead reservation reportB that In his judg-t ment tho Indians aro Betting many fires lu that section. It Is said the Indians aro dissatisfied with tho regu lations governing the use of timber. A BAD THING. TO NEGLECT. Don't neglect tho kidneys when you notice lack of control over the secre tions. Passages be come too frequent or scanty; urine Is dis colored and sedi ment appears. No mcdlclno for such troubles like Doan'a Kidney Pills. They quickly remove kid ney disorders. A. tDashem, 241 N. Grant St., Wooster, O., says: "The doc tors diagnosed my ense ns gravel, but my agony In creased under their treatment, and I soon became too weak to stand alone. 1 had given up all hope of living moro than a few weeks at the best. I was strongly urged to try Doan'w Kidney Pills, nnd after twelve dua use, I pasted two gravel stone. After that. I Improved rapidly until cured." Remember the nnme Doan's. For Bale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Footer-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Why She Brought It Up. "Do you remember," she asked, "that you said once that unless I promised to be yours the sun would cense to shine?" "I don't remember it now, but I suppose I may havo said something of tho kind." "And hnve you forgotten that you assured mo that unlcus I permitted you to claim mo as your own tho moon would fall from her place In tho heacns?" "Oh, well, what If I did say so? Why do you want to bring that up, now?" "I merely wished to assure you' that I'm sorry I didn't shut my eyes and let her fall." Casey at the Bat. This famous poem Is contained in tho Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910, together with records, schedules for both leagires and other valuably baseball information compiled by au thorities. This Interesting book sent by the Coca-Cola Co., of Atlanta, Ga., on receipt or 2c Btnmp for postage. Also copy or their booklet "The Truth About Coca-Cola" which tells all about this delicious beverage and why it Is so pure, wholesome and refreshing. Aro you ever hot tired thirsty? Drink Coca-Cola It Is cooling, re lieves fntiguo nnd quenches tho thirst. At soda fountains and car bonated in bottles 5c everywhere. Only One Cobb. Tho morning after Judge Andrew Cobb, a onc-tlmo justlco of the su prcmo court of Georgia, tendered his resignation, an Atlanta lawyer and a shoe drummer sat in the same seat in an outgoing train. Tho lawyer bought a fiewspnper and looked over tho headlines. Then ho turned to the drummer and said: "Well, I see Cobb hns resigned." "Gee!" snld the drummer. "What will Detroit do now?" Philadelphia Saturduy Evening Post. The Nurse's Opinion. A nurse had been called as a wit ness to prove the correctness of tho bill of a physician. "Let us got nt the facts In the case," said tho lawyer, who was do ing n cross-examination stunt. "Didn't tho doctor make several visits aftei the patient wns out of danger?" "No, sir," answered tho nurse. "1 considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued bis vis its." 119 Years Old When He Died. Paddy Blako, who wns born at Bal yglrecn, parish of KUnnsoolagh, Coun ty Clare, Ireland, 119 years ago, has died in the Corofln Union hospital. Paddy had a clear memory of events that happened a hundred years ago nnd was one of those who went to net Daniel O'Connell passing through Bun ratty Pike on his way to Enuis for tho great election of 1828. Reformation. "You say you aro a reformer?" "Yep," replied tho local boss; "ot tho deepest dye." "But you were not always so." "No. Tho rorormerB reformed our town last year and I want to reform it back ngain." Many a girl who refuses to stay single also relnses to stay married. - No Trouble A Saucer, A little Cream, and Post sti right from the box. Breakfast in a minute, nnd you have a meal as delightful as it is whole some. 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