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RED CLOUD NEBRASKA
ILL FORJB. TUFT
CONTESTS DECIDED IN FAVOR OF
THE PRESIDENT.
FEAR RACIAL WAR AT HAVANA
Colonel Protests Action of Committee
Many Lives Lost In Submarine
Alaskan Volcanoes Active
Honor Columbus.
Chicago. Forty-eight was the total
number of delegates to the republican
natloiiiil convention turned Into thn
Tnft column Saturday by tlio national
comnilttoo'ti decisions on contests
from Arkansas Florida and Ocorgla.
Tlio Hoosevelt contestants loHt every
case, nH they did Fiiilny. Ten of the
Georgia districts twenty delegates
went to Tuft In one blanket declHlon,
both Hlden agreeing to tlielr being
decided upon the samo arguments an
had nerved In tlio caHo of the four
delegates at-lurgc, which had been
given to Tnft. Tlio two remaining
Ocorgla dlHtrlctH, with tlyilr two
nplcco, Boon wont tho Hamo way.
Racial War Imminent.
Havana. Tho aspect of racial war
In tho city of Havana tranHcendH In
importnnco any iiowh received from
tho field of opcrntionu. KuniorH cur
rent of the Intention of n mob to
mnko an onslaught upon the negroes
In tho capital Induced President Ho
mos to issue a proclamation urging
mutual moderation and threatening
all disturbers of tho peace with tho
most severe chastisement. At tho mo
mont tho proclamation was Issued
from tho presidential palace, a mob
composed of many thousand young
men of tho better classes, and Includ
ing many students, had gathered In
Central park and were shouting,
"Down with tho negroes."
Colonel Roosevelt Protests.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. Tho republicans
of the country are called upon by Col
onel Hooscvelt to protest against tho
action of tho republican national com
mittee In ruling on tho contests for
seats In tho national convention from
tho Ninth Alabama district. The
colonel served notice on bis opponents
that, In his opinion, tho party as n
wholo would repudiate n nomination If
Jt wero obtained "In defiance of Jus
tlco." Ho declared that every man
who wishes to see tho party continue
to exist should protest at once
"against thoso who are deliberately
trying to wreck It."
"Grandfather Clause" Loses Out.
Llttlo Hock. -By n voto or Dili to
241! tlio Arkansas stato democratic
convention refused to embody in Its
platform an Indorsement of tlio so
called "grandfather clause" as a qual
ification for suffrage Klght delegates
nt large, with half a oto each, who,
as well as the" district delegates, were
instructed for Speaker Clark, wero
. elected.
Volcanoes at Work In Alaska.
Seattle, Wash. Three slumbering
rolcanoes In the Illmina mountain
range of Alaska suddenly have come
to llfo nnd are throwing out great
quantities of smoke and hot ashes.
Tho uwakened peakB aro Illmina and
Redoubt, In the Cook Inlet country,
and Katmal, which overlooks Shellkof
Btralt. It Is likely that Uogoslof, Shi
shaldln nnd Pavlof. which nro nctlvo
volcanoes, and much further west, are
nlso spouting names.
Many Witness Practice Drills.
Dubuque, In. Fifty thousand per
boiib witnessed the practice drills of
tho provisional or experimental icgl
ment of the United States army which
has been nioboltzcil here, The troops
are from Forts Suelllng, Slieridnn.
Croop and llrady, ami aro all thor
oughly seasoned nnd equipped with
the most model n guns, ammunition
und trappings known in tho mlllturv
vorld.
Many Lost In Submarine.
Cherbouig, The Fiench submarine
Vendlmlare was sunk Saturday in a
collision with the battleship St. Iuis.
Twenty-four mon went down with her
and It is believed impossible that they
escaped drowning. The diver was par
ticipating In naval muneuvers and
disappeared in ISO feet or water. A
rescue ship immediately was rushed
from Cherbourg, and the probable loss
of tho entire crow was confirmed by
the secretary of tho navy.
Lancaster. A contract for the em
ployment of fifty convicts In the Ne
braska penitentiary at making rattan
reed and liber chairs has been signed
up by Governor Aldrlch and the mem
bers of tho board of public lands and
buildings on ono Bide, and Duncan Me
Ewan qf Chicago on the other. It
provides that Jho stato shall recolvo
60 centB per day for earh convict's
BorvlroB. This Is the snmo prlco tho
Leo Broom & Duster company pays
tho atate. That company will bo re
Hevod of fifty men on its contract, re
ducing the maximum number to 275.
WHERE
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This Is the Coliseum, In Chicago, the
Ill 1 TAFTS FAVOR
TWENTY.FOUfl DELEGATES ADD
ED TO TAFT COLUMN.
WOULD IMPEACH FEDERAL JUDGE
8eattle Judge Subject of Investiga
tionAppeal for Police Protection
Alaska Volcano Gets
Active." C
Chicago. Twenty-four delegates
from Alabama and Arkunsas uuvo
been added to the Tart column by the
action of tho republican national com
mittee upon the so called ltoosevolt
contests from those states. All of tho
contests presented before the commit
tee Friday were decided In Tart's
favor, und in all but two tho decision
of the committee was unanimous, al
though ono roll cnll test apparently
had shown fifteen unti-Tnft votes. Tho
cases decided wero those of tho six
dolegutesat-largo and the two each in
tho First, Second, Firth and Sixth and
Ninth congressional districts in Ala
bama, und the rour delegutes-at-largc
and tho two In tho First und Second,
districts or Arkansas.
Will Carry Fight to People.
New York. Colonel Hoosevelt will
go to. Chicago and will bolt If his del
egates are not seated In tho conven
tion, according to the positive state
ment of one of the colonel's closest
political advisers. Ho said that all ar
rangements had been completed; that
plans wero under way for a Hoosevelt
convention, and that there was no
further doubt as to the Hoosevelt pro
gram. Ho said Hoosevelt would make
tho light personally and to the last
ditch; that he would not accept the
tactics of the national committee and
that he stood ready to carry his tight
directly to tho people.
Wants Him Investigated,
Washington. Representative Ber
ger, socialist or Wisconsin, has begun
Impeachment pioceedlugs against
Fcdeial .lodge llanford of Seattle, who
lecently deprived Leonnid Oleson of
his cltlenshlp, because ho was a so
cialist. Itopioscntatlvo Merger charged
Judge llanfoid with "high crimes and
misdemeanors, a long seiles of corrupt
nnd unlawful decisions and being an
habitual drunkard." lie naked that
the judiciary committee Investigate.
Tho department or Justice Is already
assisting Oleson's attempt to have
Judge Hnnfoid's devlslon reopened.
Asks for Police Protection.
Chicago. Colonol William F. Stone,
scrgeanl-at-aims of the republican na
tional committee, lias appealed to
Major Harrison for police protection
at sessions or the national committee,
which is conducting content hearings
at to Coliseum.
Socialists Resent Government Victory.
Brussels. King Albert nnd Queen
Elizabeth abahdoncd their plan' to
leave for Ostend for a stay at tho
royal villa on the seacoast because of
the political situation resulting from
tho socialist rei-entment of tho cler
ical victory In the elections, Twenty
thousand workmen nt La Lovlore, a
commune of Halnaut. whore thero are
mines und otonslvo manufactories,
hissed socialist orntors who urged the
strikers to roturu to work.
Sprlnglleld. 111. Governor Doneen
nas restored to citizenship Newton C.
Dougherty, who was sentenced to the
penitentiary for npproprlntlng the
school runds or Peoria while superin
tendent or schools' nnd trcusurer or
tho hchool board of Peoria and who
was paroled November 9, 1911,
Dos Moines. In. Fnru,votto Young
defeated candldato for United States
honator In Mondny'B primaries, lias
emphatically stated that under no clr
cumstances would ho seek a scut In
tho United Statos senate.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
building In which the Republican National convention will meet on June 18.
! POWER IN HANDS OF FIVE MEN
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE TO
HOLD OPEN MEETINGS.
Clearing House a Law Unto Itself
Effort to Defeat Right of Way Bill
Mr. Howell Will Not
Contest.
Chicago. Publicity will govern the
republican national committee's delib
erations upon the contests for seats in
tho natlouul convention. This wus de
cided without opposition at the open
ing session of tho committee, In ac
cordance with the expressed wishes of
President Tart and Colonel Hoosevelt.
Tho press and newspapers will be rep
resented by tho live press associations
recognized by admission or their re
porters to the national house or rep
resentatives ut Washington. Two men
from each press association will bo
permitted to be present during nil de
liberations und decisions of the com
mittee. Thero will be no executive
sessions,
Investigating Money Trust.
New York. Tho immense power
wielded by the New York clearing
house association over the bunks of
tho country's financial center and ar
bitrarlly lodged In the hands of five
men should bo placed under judicial
regulation, it was conceded by Wil
liam Sherr. mnnager of the ussoclu
tlon. on tlio witness stand Thursday.
Mr. Sherr was tho chler witnesB at the
llrst hearing held by the house com
mltteo on banking and currency which
Is Investigating tho so-called "money
trust."
To Be Executed at Night.
Lincoln, Neb. The old daylight
hanging, which has been the order of
things at the stato penitentiary since
such pnnshment has been meted out
there, is shortly to bo abolished. Of
ficials having in charge the matter of
imposing tho death penalty unon Al-
Lbert Prince, tho Omaha negro who
murdered Deputy Wurdeu Davis, aro
considering hanging the condemned
man between midnight and sunilse,
August HO. tho date sot by Judgo Cor
nish for the execution.
Degrees for Blind Youths.
Now York. Among the graduates
who received degrees at the Columbia
university commencement Wednesday
weie threo oung men who are totally
blind. The three not only succeeded
In completing the college course with
us high standing as their more fortu
nate classmates, but each or the three
was obliged during his college career
to eke out a slender income by doing
private tutoring and other woik.
Plague In China.
Tlen Tsln. Two deaths from plaguo
have occurred at Tlen Tsln, but no
alarm is felt, although the symptoms
of the disease show the pulmonary
character which played such lunoc In
patta of Manchuria last ear
Fremont. Neb A little tike locked
in n store hero at the close of Inihlne'ij
caused considerable alaim for a short
time, Someone noticed a hhadow mov
lug In the store ami called the nvui
r.ger. He made preparations to bat
tle with a burglar. Instead of finding
u despeindo, he was met with:
"Please, mister, I want to buy Homo
candy." nnd a smudgy hand holding
nloft u five-Cent piece.
Tlufi an anxious mother was noti
fied and she took the "burglar" home.
Bni8sels. The force or public opin
ion has been exerted to arrest tho
wnvo or sanguinary rintlng, de.struc.
tlon or property and sacking or
churches which tspread ovei tho coun
try ub an expression "or sot.'ullst re
sentment or tho government victory
nt the polls Sunday. The press united
In urging the peoplo to abstain Horn
violence and M, Vandorvolde and M,
T)onnls. the socialist leaders, appealed
to tholr followers to refrain fiom riot
ing. If no gonernl strike is crlled it
ts bolleved that tho disorders will
gradually die out
MEETS
WANTS I0WAN FOR PRESIDED
PRESIDENT GOMEZ UNABLE TO
MEET ITS DEMANDS.
Senator Cummins of Iowa Suggested
as Available Getting Ready for
Trouble In Mexico O'Gorman
May Be Chairman.
Washington. The confession ol
President Come, that he was unable
to meet the demands of the large
plantation owners in eastern Cuba for
adequate guards ugalnst tho maraud
ers and Insurrectos was the factor
that led Captain Kline, commanding
the United States naval station ut
(iuuutauamo, to set In motion the body
of United Stutes murines gathered
there for Just jtich a purpose. Cap
tain Kline's action In dispatching'
nearly half or his avalluble rorco of
marines Into the Interior of Cubn gave
tho signal for the departure from Key
West to Ciututuuamo or hair or the
second hquadron or the Atlantic fleet
which has been lying at anchor at
Key 'West for the last week.
Trying to Defeat Nori-is Bill.
Washington. A determined effort
is being made by tho Union Pacific
railway to defeat the passage in tho
senate of the Norrls bill limiting the
width of right of wny to two hundred
feet. N. II. I-oomlB of Omaha, attor
ney ror the road, has appealed berore
the subcommittee of the judiciary
committee and presented n form of
bill that would be satisfactory to bis
road.
Will Not Protest.
Chicago. It. B. Howell of Nebraska,
chosen for national committeeman at
the state primaries, bus isbUPiI n
statement after conferring with Sena
tor Dixon, ns follows: "Mr.Hosewater
will letaln his seat In tlio national
committee for the present without
protest, as I have been requested by
Senator Dixon to defer the presenta
tions of my credentials."
Postmasters on Leave of Absence.
Lincoln. Neb. Five hundred post
mastorH of the stato are expected
here this week at the three days' set
sion of tlie Nebraska Stato Postmas
tors' association. All of these ofilclnli
have been granted leave of absence
for the eent and nearly CO per cent
of the 1,000 postmasters In tho stato
have Indicated that they would make
an attempt to attend.
Dcs Moines, la. Larayette Young's
newspaper Wednesday appears with u
leading editoilal under the caption.
"Cummins for President." The Capi
tal comes out for Cummins In tho con
tingent that Taft's nomination is
round to bo Impossible. '
Chicago. Victor Hosewater or Ne
braska has been elected chairman or
tho republican national committee to
serve through the convention. Mr.
Hosewater will succeed tho lato Rep
ro3ontutlve Hill of .Maine.
Lincoln. J. O. I.udlam of Lincoln
was re-elected president of the Ne
braska Association or Assistant Post
masters heie Wednesday. Other of
ficers choson'nro II. R. Newton of Au
rora, vicc-preiident; .1. N. C-aardo of
McCook, secretary, and J, fi. Uiw
rence or Beatrice, treasurer, Wlioro
the noxt unnunl meeting la to be held
wna left to tho executive committee,
but tho probability Is that tho con
vention will again be hold in Lincoln
some time next Juno.
Wireless Conference.
London. The loading nations of
tho world nro ofllclnlly represented ut
the- International radio-telegraphic
conferenco which has assembled In
London to discuss the international
Btatus or wireless telegraphy and uni
form laws for Its regulation nnd con
trol. Tho lnrgo nttondnncev und the
xvldcBpread Interest mauirested In tho
conrcrenco are attributed in a mens
uro to the recent Titanic disaster nnd
tho vital part that wireless played in
tho rescuo of tho GOO persons who
were saved.
PECULIAR
BEATRICE RAISES OVER $10,000
FOR IMPROVING CITY.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Hers and There
That Is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Auburn. An ucldent of a very un
usual nature and one that resulted
seriously occurred at the home ol
Dick Morton, Jr.. near here, Sunday
night. As the result of tho accident
two horses were killed by falling Into
nn old well und the occupants of tho
buggy to which they were hitched had
a narrow escape.
Has Received Patent to the Land.
Wiilthlll The Thurston County
Fair und Speed association has re
ceived n patent from the United States
to the association Tor thirty acres or
land aJjacent to the town of Walthlll.
This laud was purchased In .lanuary,
this cur. the sale finally being com
pleted after a lapse of nearly five
months.
New Library Building at Alnsworth.
Alnsworth Work on the new Alder
library building Is being pushed rap
idly. Tills building iu the gift to tho
city by I. K. Alder and wife und Is to
bo tho home of the city libtary. found
ed by the Woman's club of this city
last October, and which now contains
ubout 1,200 volumes.
For Promoting Interests of Beatrice.
Beatrice Under the uusplces of tho
commercial club the business men of
Beatrice have subscribed to the
budget fund of over $10,000, tho
amount to be placed ut the disposal
or the commercial club tor expendi
ture ns they see fit in promoting the
Interests of Beatrice.
Drowned While Bathing.
CurtlB. Frank Hngans. n boy of,
eight years, wob drowned in Curtis
lake while playing on a little raft the
boys had made to use while in bath
ing. f4 f
STATE BASE I
BALL NEWS
No game was played Sunday in the
Mink league.
Several releases nre being made nt
Grand Island.
Hustings lost 2 to 0 in Snturday'e
game at York.
Speer, who tried out with York, has
returned to Chicago.
Allen is lu grcnt form, allowing but
four hits und striking out eleven men
In u recent game.
Beatrice team in the Mink league,
( i rand Island took another step to
wards the hend in tho State league,
Bhuttlng out Fremont Wednesday.
In a ten-inning pitchers' battle Ne
braska City won from Beatrico by n
ecore of C to 3 ut Beatrice Thursday.
In a hotly contested und spirited ten
Inning game "Wednesday nt Humboldt,
the home team lost by a score of
1 to 0.
Just now every team in the league,
barring Superior, is within striking
distance of first place on tho result of
two days' playing.
Brilliant fielding nnd the batting of
LaFlambolso won Wednesday's gamo
nt York for Seward. 7 to 4. Seward's
Indian knocked two home runs.
Ten i tins In the ninth Inning is a
pretty good lally whon the score wna
7 to 2 up to that time. That's whnt
Hastings did nt Seward Saturday.
O'llcam pitched great ball Wednes
day for Kearney, winning the gamo
from Columbus, If! to 3. At no time
was there any sign of his weakening.
The double plays by both tennis
plensed the spectators nt the Seward
York , game Thursday nt Seward.
Seward took tho long end or the score
nt the end or the gnmc by a tally or
6 to 1.
According to reports rrom rellablo
Bources, pays one or thn Stnte league
sporting editors, tho rule of tho state
league prohibiting the hiring of ball
players who aro controlled by nny club
or u higher class league In ijolng vio
late 1 by several clubs or the Sta,to
league.
Tho games nt Hastings nro to be
called nt -1 o'clock horopter
In twenty innings Wednesday, tho
Norrolk baseball team wu3 scored
ugniiiBt for only one run. Norfolk
bt Laurel G to 0, nnd then beat Os
mond in an eleven Inning gamo 2 to L
"Bob" Unglaub, one tinio a member
of tho Washington American lenguo
team and lust year manager of the
Lincoln team of the Western lengue,
has been .signed by tho management
of tho Minneapolis team of tho Ather
lean association ns utility inlleldor,
High windB wero responsible for big
scoi es In many of last weeks' games.
Mnnager Shaner of Hastings directs
nearly every stunt that Is pulled off by
his team.
After Falla City had an apparently
safe lend nt Beatrico Monday, Beatrico
tied tho score. In the eighth tand tho
gnmo l wont fourteen Innings Falla
City winning, 0 to 7.
Humboldt crossed bnts with Nebras
ka City for tho first tlmo this season
Monday and shut out tho Foresters do
Bplto a high wind In as pretty a game
as could be l?;cd at to the tunt of
3 to 0
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I had taken other medicines but did not
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No, Cordelia, a man isn't necessa
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A large percentngH of all sickness start
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oriptOH. tiurtlcld Ten will set them right.
Some people awuy up in the social
scale urc really too light to bring the
scale down.
She Wasn't.
"Come into tho garden, Maud."
"What do you think I am a far-'
tner?"
Destined for Many Trips.
"I have written a short story," nal(t
tho amnteur literary person. "What
Is the first step to tako in Belling It?"
"Buy ten dollars' worth of stamps,'
advised the old hand at the business.
Heard on the Waterfront.
Somo ancient mariners were sitting:
In a aenport tavern relating their ex
periences of fogs.
"Ah!" said ono old salt. "I've Been
tomo pretty thick fogs in my time.
Why, off the coast of Newfoundland the
fog was sometimes bo thick that we
used to sit on tho deck rail and lean
against it! We wero sitting ono night
ns usunl, with our backs to tho fog,
when suddenly tho fog lirted, and we
all went flop into tho sea. A1 bit thick,
wasn't it?" San FranclsVo Chronicle.
Law of Life,
Two men wero outwalking one day
In sun-kissed California. Suddenly, kiss
ing time being over, it began to ralo
In torrents and they we're miles
from the car line. One man laughed,
long and loud. The other wept bit
terly. 'Why do you laugh?" ho asked
his chuckling comiKiuion. "Because
1 am paying meter rates on water.
But why do you weep?" "Because I
um paying $10 a day for climate," re
plied tho tourist. "Ono man's meat
Is another man's ment bill.
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there's a period when the
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"milk" hardens, and finally
becomes almost flinty. '
Post
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Are made from this hard part
of choice selected corn.
It is carefully cooked; treat
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an appetizing brown with
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