U "''." -r,-.,m.,m.m,m .,.,,.,. - ., .,,, i , ' AeJfeMg'JuMfcliauL'aeBaaa ir -''..? sa&iijMMt gM Bf-jPS. li- ''SSSSiKl TOWESSWOTtSWl uwsesar ttiotmfpp!js"t vwrssmmwiSFywiw .vr . r ? 1 -. T - i v - -rf -w ' - i , f -. ri" i wrx?rCTz'"CTi rjEs5!i,THW". """v"" iiwKt r " v'7mwrawwirw(www.'?o ft I I !li'. tj. at i't IH& rvHi The Chief C. D. HALE, Publisher RED CLOUD NEBRASKA DISPUTES POSTAL SHOWING OF HIS PREDECESSOR. DRINKING ON THE INCREASE Internal Revenue Tax Shows Great In crease Over Last Year's Figures Colonel Roosevelt Wins Libel Suit. Washington. Postmaster Ucnerul Durleson linn made public tho ruiort of u special Inwstlmitluii Into fiscal uffalrs of tho postul service, chnrKltiK that during former Postmaster Uuuurul Hltchcock'u ndmliilutrutluii tho uorvico did not become self supporting, m was often asserted, but that In 1011 there uctuully waH a deficiency of 'moro than 1750,000. The report charges thut "nn apparent uurplus wub attained by un Juatlfinblo methods of bookkeeping," and that tho efllclency and morals of tho postal service wcie sacrlllced to a "ruthlessly enforced policy of econ otny," that a showing of self main tcnance might bo made. ' Awarded Six Cents Carnages. Marquette. Mich. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt won his libel suit against Georgo A. Nowott, who charged tho colonel with drunkenness, nnd hnvln'g waived damages, after tho defendant had uttered n detraction, tho jury awarded the nominal damagt-H or (5 cents, provided In such caseH by the law of Michigan. Kadi party to the suit will have to pay his own expenses' Judge Flannlgan Instructed the Jury to bring In a verdict for tho plaintiff, which they did without leaving their scats, INCREASE IN RECEIPTS. Beer, Liquor and Jobacco Sales 8how Bio Lead Over Last Year. Washington. Deer and whisky drinking In the United States, not to mention cigarette smoking. 1b on tho Increase. Figures compiled on the In ternal revenue tax paid on thoHO articles, show that they have been made and used In far greater quanti ties than last year. Up to tho close of business on May 29, tho Intornnl revenue receipts for tho current year wero nearly $17,000,000 ahead of tho receipts for tho samo period of last year. Of this Incrense, beer and fer mented liquors manufactured In gront- er quantlttos nro responsible for two and a quarter millions of dollars. Re colptn from wines, whiskies nnd other spirituous UquorB arc seven millions in excess of last year, from cigarettes I3CO.00O In excess or last year, and from tobacco In all Its forms flvo and half millions In excess of last year. Nebraska Editors at Omaha. Omaha. Editors from nil over Ne braska began nrrlvlng in Omaha Sun day for tho annual meeting of tho stato editorial association In session this week. Instead of tho usunl services, the pulpits of twenty-two prominent churches wero open to tho 'editors and the congregations listened to ad dresses of tho visitors in place of tho regular sermons. Receiver Named for Service Co. Beatrice, Neb. Following tho at tachment bulls filed against tho Iowa Nebraska Public Servico Corporation here Georgo W. Johnson, president of of tho Midwest Electrical company of Omaha, has been appointed receiver by .the federal court at Omaha. The com pany owns electric plants at Norfolk, Blair, Beatrice, and Wymore, Neb, and Missouri Valley, la. Heat Record Broken. St. LouIb. Heat records for thirty years were broken for May here Fri day when Btreet level thermometers registered 102. This temperaturo was recorded at J o'clock. Pender, Neb. Mort Davis, a par oled convict who nltacked Mrs. Caddlo Welte near Homer, pleaded guilty to serve a term of eighteen years in tho penltentinry. On Pilgrimage to Rome. Lincoln. Bishop J. Henry Tlhen of this place has been nppointed as chap tlain to a pilgrimage to Homo that leaves this summer. The pilgrimages nro regulnrly conducted affairs, taking place annually. Somo distinguished ecclesiastic Is always choson as chap lain. This year Bishop Tlhen was tho nppointed one, Tho pllgrimngo Is made up by Catholics from all over tho country. The bishops themselves nro required to make visits to tho popo at 'Borne at certain Intervals, said to bo every five years. Washington.-Sugar remains on tho free list with tho three-year clauso Intact, according to Information from the Williams sub-committeo In chargo of that schedule of the tnrlff bill, at tho conclusion of its labors on sugar nnd other foods. LMeat Is likewise on the freo list nnd probably tho sennto will bo urged to place live cattle Inter ats In the samo class. When asked whether cattle would bo admitted dutv freo Senator Williams replied that "meats and all faun products of siml larlty aro likely to be recommende' for tho free list." I hot iEf rans THE NATIONAL CAPITAL CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS OF MORE OR LESS INTEREST. Summary of the Daily Transactions! of the National Law Makers at Washington. Thursday. The 8enate In session 2 p. m. Chairman Hoke Smith, of labor com mittee, culled to consider plans for In vestigation Into West Virginia coal strike. Suffrngotto parade upcclnl Investiga tion committee reported disorder ol .March ,1 was duo principally to unusu al crowds and praised work of tho po lice. Adjourned until Monday, 2 p. m. The House Met at noon and ad journed at 12: in p. m until noctt .Mon day out of respect to the memory of tho Into ItopYoHcntntlvo Forrest Good win, Third Maine district. Wednesday. Tho Senate Not in session. Moots at 2 p. m. Thursday. Nuval affairs conimltteo deferred action on armor plate factory resolu tion. Admiral Twining testified re garding proposed factory. FInnnco BUb-commltteca began work of revising various schedules of the tariff bill to report to full committee. Chairman l'ittman, of territories commlttco, called meeting of Satur day to act on bills for development of Alaska. Senntor Lewis was elected demo cratic floor manager and assistant to Majority .Leader Kern by democratic caucus, which also named committee to confer regarding organization of democratic congressional campaign committee, Education nnd labor committco con sidered plans for Investigation of West Virginia conl mlno strike. Tho House Not In session. Meets at noon Thursday. Minority Leader Mann announced ho would call republican cnucus for Saturday to determine committee ap pointments. Tuesday. The Senate Finance sub-commit tees continued hearing on tariff bill schedules; hearing closed Tuesday night Senator Cummins Introduced reso lution to Investigate charges of exist ence of lobby to Influence legislation. A number of nominations by Presi dent Wilson received. Senator Pomerane read letter from Governor Cox of Ohio criticising Sen ators Goft of West Virginia and Gal linger of New Hampshire for state ments In debate over West Virginia coal strike. Resolution for investiga tion of West Virginia coal strike adopted. Adjourned at, 7:15 p. m. until 2 p. m. ThursdaV. Tho House Leader Underwood ob tained consent to increaso Indlnn af fairs, Irrigation nnd public buildings committees nnd create n new commit tco on expenditures in labor depart ment. Representative Roland discussed Washington's so-called slums nnd recommended nbolltlon of nlleys. Ropresontatlvo Sims Introduced bill to abolish commerco court. Ropresontatlvo Tavenner Introduced resolution to Investigate activities ol tariff lobbyists. Adjourned at 1:55 p. m. until noon Thursday, Oldest Couple In Parade. New York Tho oldest New York vqteran of tho American army, par aded Friday with tho work horses In stead of with tho colors. Emmanuel Oppenhelmer, 103 yenrs old, possesses medals for distinguished service in the Mexican war, but he and his 101 year old wife are prouder of their example and service to the country through seventy-nine years of married life than through his service at arms. The Oppcnhelmers are believed to bo the oldest couple In New York. Clovls, N. M. The great array of grasshoppers In New Mexico Is twenty miles long and four miles deep and the grasshoppers aro literally strip ping the country In their path. They aro moving westward across the cen tral part of tho state at the rato of a mile a day. Wounded Man 8aved Payroll. La Sallo, 111. Four masked bandits bold up a party' carrying tho semi monthly pnyroll of tho Illinois Zinc company, five miles east of hero, kill ing one mnti and wounding three others. F. W. Richardson, a civil en gineer of tho zinc company, who was one of tho wounded, saved tho fi,000 payroll by a wild dash under fire. Tho robbers escaped. Monoy to meet tho payroll was being sent to tho Black" Hollow mlno In two buggies In chargo of four men. San FrancUco. Falluro of nnothor expedition sent In quest of n legendary $18,000,000 treasuro cacho, which, ac cording to a dying sailor, was burled on Cocos Island by oincials of the Pe ruvian church early in the last cen tury, was rocorded when tho British steamship Melmoro put Into port. Mrs. Barry 'Till and Miss Davis, English womon, wero told by tho sailor on his deathbed of his knowlcdgo of tho loca tion of tho cacho nnd supplied with charts. Tho womon succeeded In In teresttng British capitalists and tb I Molmere was purchased MAINE memorial unveiled in new york "" ,r ' rs:TTWHaiinmWrn Tho chief event of Memorial Day in Now York was tho unveiling of tho Maine Moicorlal monument at the entranco to Control Park. The Atlantlo squadron anchored In tho Hudson boomed a salute before the exercises, which wero attended by many notable persons. RECEIVED BY KING OF BRITAIN MOUNMENT TO VETERANS OF EX PLOSION AT HAVANA. Reception Tendered to New American Ambassador Eight Months War In the Balkans has Ended. New York. In memory of tho 267 officers and men who were lost with the battleship Maine In Havana harbor fifteen years ago, the national Maine monument was dedicated here Friday. From a dozen American warships, units of tho Atlantic fleet at anchor in the Hudson river, a salute of 252 guns echoed from the palisades as the veil was swept asido that rovealod tho country's tribute a pylon forty feot high that stands In Central park overlooking Columbus circle. Noted citizens Bpoko words or prnlso ror tho dead hcroeB of tho war with Spain. Former Prosldont Tnft, the secrotary of tho navy, tho gover nors of Maine and 'New York, represen tatives of tho Cuban republic and others took part In tho exercises. A military parade along Fifth avenue preceded the ceromony nt tho monu ment. Headed by Rear Admiral Win Blow, tho grand marshal, ln.OOO boI dlers nnd Bailors, Including tho veter ans of two warB, marched through n lane formed by many thousands of hol iday sightseers. American Infantry, artillery, bluejackets from tho battle shlpa, state militia, cavalry, civilian and Spanish war veterans, Cuban troopers and sailors from tho Cuba, tho Island republic's naval representa tive, theso and others were In lino of march. End of the Balkan War. London. The eight months' war be tween Turkey and the allied Balkan states Is ended. The "peace of Lon don" was signed Friday In the picture gallery of St. James palace. Sir Ed ward Grey, the British foreign secre tary, presided over the formalities. The following peace delegates signed tho preliminary 'treaty:' Osman Nlzaml Pasha for Turkey. Dr. Daneg for Bulgaria. Stojan Novakovltch for Servla. StephanoB Skoloudls for Greece. M. Popovltch for Montenegro. RECEIVED BY KING GEORGE. New American Ambassador Given a Reception. London. Walter Hlnes Pago, tho newly appointed United States ambas sador to tho court of St. James, was received Friday by King Georgo, to whom he presented his letters of cre dentials. Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secrotary, presumed tho now ambassador. Thon Mr. Pago went through tho formality of presenting to tho king and queen the membors of tho embassy staff, most of whom had attended many courts and ftvees In company with the lato Whitolaw Reld. Bad Fire at Ann Arbor Unl. Ann Arbor, Mich. Three thousands students of tho University of Michi gan failed In their efforts to save' the south wing of tho university hall, the oldest building on the campus, from destruction by fire. Tho appaiatus of tho niochanlcal and zoological depart ments or tho school was destroyed. While tho loss by tho destruction or tho building itself will not bo heavy, valuable libraries nnd notes were burned which will bo Impossible to repluco, ' 'swflLaaaaV tKaaaaHsiiaaaaaaaaV I MR. ROOSEVELT'8 INTIMATES TELL OF HIS HABIT8. Confederate Veterans to Fraternize With G. A. R. Men Legislative Appropriations Last Session Will Reach Nearly $9000,000. Marquette, Mich. Men who have been associated with Colonel Roose velt in public and in private life, who met him on the Nile when he returned from his African hunting trip, testi fied Wednesday in his libel suit against George H. Nowett that the former president was not a drunkard, but he was notably and extremely torn perato in the use of intoxicants. It would havo been Impossible, they say, for Colonol Roosevelt to be under tho lnfiuenco of liquor without the fact be coming known to bis associates. It would havo been equally Impossible for him to have drunk liquor with any regularity without tho smell of It ap pearing ou his breath to the friend who testified. Appropriations Amount to $8,952,723. Lincoln, Neb. Tho official appropri ations made at tho lato session of, the legislature aro announced by the state's auditing department as $8,952, 723. Aggregate appropriations or $G, 184,553 were made at tho 1911 session. Tho 1913 amount includes tho special university building fund, tho estimat ed proceeds from tho state normal levy and the $150,000 for a new Btate reformatory. Several cuts nro made In the departmental maintenance funds, howover, including a decrease of from $25,000 to $18,000 In the gover nor's office and $19,000 at the Hast ings asylum. FORMER FOE8 IN A REUNION. Confederate Veterans to Fraternize With G. A. R. Men. Chattanooga,' Tenn, After re-electing General Bennet H. Young of Lou isville as commander-in-chief and re electing bis three departmental com manders, the united confederate vet erans chose Jacksonville, Fla., as their next reunion city. A report of the con federate committee appointed to co operate with a similar committee from tho G. A. R. In regard to participation In the semi-centennial Joint celebra tion of the two organisations, July 1-4, 1913, was received, urging that at least a thousand confederate veterans at tend. Cheers greeted the announce meat in the report that the confeder ate veterans would be welcomed In their gray uniforms and with their battle-scarred flags. Klefer, Okla. Eight persons were Injured, four probably fatally, and six houses and a iumber yard were de stroyed by a Are that started when a tank of gasoline was overturned and 500 gallons ran down the streot Into a blacksmith shop and was' Ignited by, tho forge fire. Four persons at work In tho shop wero badly burned and have little chance of recovery. Dedicate New Synagogue. Lincoln, Neb. Tho congregation of Tlfereth Israel dedicated Its new syn agogue nt Eighteenth and L streets Sunday afternoon, about 800 people at tending tho opening exerclsos. Tho aftornoon program wns long and most of tho addresses in Yiddish. ' In the evening a banquet was held In the basement nnd tomo of those who have been nctlvo ln securing the building responded to the toasts. Rabbi Isidore Koplowltz of Des Moines was the principal speaker and bis address wat delivered In Yiddish. BRIEF NEW8 OF NEBRASKA. Cook has voted $5,000 lighting bonds. Corn planting is finished in York county. Tho next Btate poultry show will bo held at Grand Island. Hastings women havo organized an equal suffrage league. Beatrice Eagles are considering the erection of a new hall. North Loup has Invoked tho state law to nbato Its Blot machines. West Point will celebrate tho Fourth In tho good old fashioned wny. The Aurora Republican this week was edited by tho minsters of the city. Tho state convention of the Eagles will be held at Beatrice, Juno 10, 11 and 12. The town of Berlin, that was de stroyed by a tornado, Is being rapidly rebuilt. Secretary of State Bryan will speak nt tho Brownvlllo home-coming picnic In August. William Burns, tho' detective, Is on tho lecturo courso nt Hastings for next season. Twenty blocka of paving In the resi dence district of Beatrice Is now prac tically assured. Prof. Don R. Llnch of Ansley has been elected superintendent of Sar gent high school. Ernest Galloway of Auburn has bought tho Salem Index, and will take charge Immediately. Thoyor county commissioners havo purchased n piano tor tho court room for convention ure. At tho Kenrnoy-I Listings ball game at Bluo Hill Sunday 1,002 paid admis sions were registered. Daniel Sundy of Hansen was kicked on tho head by a mulo and seriously but not fatally Injured. Joseph Pacylc slipped when he wont to board a train nt Hastings nnd will loso a leg in consequence. A slight frost was reported at Gree ley Wednesday morning, but It Is thought no dnmngo wns done. Littlo Betsy Bcckman of Fremont suffered severo Injuries when nn auto struck her and knocked her down. Teddy Rummcll, a four-year-old boy near Beaver Crossing, started a blaze with some matches and was burned to death. The Utlca band boys gave an enter tainment for tho benefit of tornndo victims, at which quite a liberal sum was raised. The annual camp meeting of the Ne braska State Holiness association will ho held this year at Epworth park, June 20 to 29. Some farmer boys, near Dlller cap tured a porcupine, which Is said to be the only one of Its species In this part of the country. The Albion lco plant started last week and is now turning out Its pro duct. The plant has a capacity of six tons every twenty-four hours. Vanco Faught, a member of Cozad's ball team, was struck nt the base of tho ear by a pitched ball, resulting In Internal hemorrhngo and death. A tornado struck tho district near Winnebago, cutting a path 125 feet wide, and taking up everything In Its track for a dlstanco of over a mile. Farmers of Gage county aro nt pros cnt milking In tho neighborhood ol 10,000 cows, ench producing on an av erage 125 pounds of butter fat n year Rev. W. C. Wasser delivered the nddrcss to tho graduating class of the York high school Sunday evening, his theme being, "Tho Stewardship ol Life." Tho stnto association of runcral di rectors will hold their twenty-eighth annual session nt Lincoln, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdny, Juno 10, 11 and 12. Miss Anna Mario Hansen, who was for sevoral years Instructor In art In Franklin academy, has been elected to a llko position In Brldgewater col lego, Virginia. Frank H. Krenzberg, who lives nenr Odell, after voting for thirty years and conslderlns himself a citizen of tho United States, haB Just learned that he Is still a subject of the Ger man emperor. The baccalaureate services at Shu bert were held In charge of Rev. F. E. Day of Highland, Kan. Four-year-old Everett Johnson, at Burwell, had his right leg broken by the kick of a vicious cow. Ror. S. Johnson, aged 77, who dis appeared from Omaha, wa's located four days later at Mead, forty-six miles west. How he reached, the place Is unknown. A wedding Journey to Gothenburg, Sweden, Is the experience of Mr. and Mrs. Arvltl J. M. Barchlund, who left Hastings three hours after they had been wedded. When he caught hold of the exposed ends of a charged wire, Owen Howell, n lineman employed by tho Auburn Telephone company, was shocked into unconsciousness. Roy Hall of North Bend, who was Injured while braking on tho Union Pacific, railroad some time ago, has been awarded $5,000 'damages for be ing knocked from a car by a low beam. With a report resembling that of n pistol, a cigar which wns being smoked by ex-County Prosecutor Ga'dd, at Broken Bow, exploded, seri ously Injuring his eye. CltlzenB'of Burwell at a recent elec tion voted a bond Issue of $5,500 for tho purpose of building an addition to tho school house. George Vertrees, nn employe In tho Dempster factory at Beatrice, was se verely burned In the eye, ear and arms by the explosion of a gasoline torch which he was operating. Prospects for an apple crop wore never bettor than now, according to E. M. Pollard of Nehawka, who owns one of tho largest orchards In Ne braska. Some of tho apples are now as large as hazelnuts, and It would require a hard freeze to Injure them THE LURE OF THE WEST WE8TERN CANADA ATTRACTING THOUSANDS OF 8ETTLERS. Writing on tho Canadian West, an eastern exchango truthfully saya: "Tho West still calls with impera tive voice. To prairie and mountain, and for tho Pacific Coast, Ontarlo'a young men nnd women aro attracted by tens of thousands yearly. The great migration has put an end to the fear, freely expressed not many years ago by those who knew tho West from tho Inkes to the farther coast of Van couver Islnnd, that Canada .would somo day break In two becauso of the predominance of Continental Europenn and American settlers In tho West." This Is true. While tho immlgra tlon from tho United States Is large, running close to 150,000 a year, that of tho British Isles and Continental Europe nearly twlco thntnnmhnr mnk. ing a total of 400,000 per year, thero Is a Btrong Influx from Eastern Can ada. It Is not only into tho prairie provinces that theso people go, but many of tbem'coutlnuo westward, the glory of British Columbia's great trees nnd great mountains, tho excellent agricultural valleys, whore can be grown almost all kinds or ngrlculturo and whero fruit has already achieved prominence. Then tho vast expanse of the plains attract hundreds or thou sands, who at once set to work to cul tlvnto their vast holdings. Thero Is still room, and great opportunity In tho West. The work or man's hands, even In tho cities with their record breaking building rush, is tho Email est part of tho great panorama that Is spread before tho eyo on a Journey through tho country. Nature is still supreme, nnd man 13 etill tho divine pigmy audaciously seeking to impose his will nnd Btamp his mark upon an unconquered half continent Tho feature that most commends Itself In Western development today Is the "home-making spirit." Tho West will find hnpplness in planting trees nnd making .gardens and build ing schools and colleges and universi ties, and producing a home environ ment so that there will be no disposi tion to regard the country as a tem porary place of abode in which' every one is trying to make his pile prepar atory to going back East or becoming a lotus-eater beside the Pacific. The lure of the West 1b strong. It, will be still stronger when the crude' new towns and villages of the plains are embowered in trees and vocal with the song of birds. Advertlse uent. The Reason. "There Is a great deal of snap and go about Jlmson'B business methods." "How so?" -"He makes rat traps." HOW THIS WOMAN FOUND HEALTH Would not give Lydia EPink- ham'ft Vegetable Compound for All Rest of Medicine in the World. Utlca, Qhio. "I suffered everything? from a femalo weakness after baby came. I had numb spells and was dizzy, had black spots be fore my eyes, my back ached and I ' was so weak I could hardly stand up. My faco was yellow, even my fingernails) wero colorless and I had'displacement I took Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable) Compound and now I-am stout, well and healthy. I can do all my own work and can walk to town and back and not get tired. I would not give your Vegetable Compound for all the rest of the medi cines in the world. I tried doctor's med icines and they did me no good." Mrs, Mary Eablewine, R.F.D. No.8, Utlca, Ohio. Another Case. Nebo, Til."! was bothered for tab years with female troubles and the doc tors did not help me. I was so weak and nervous that I could not do my work and every month I had to spend a few days In bed. I read so many letters about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound curing female troubles that I got abottleofit It did me more good than anything else I ever took and now it has cured me. I feel better than I have for years and tell everybody what the Compound has done for me. I believe I would not be living to-day but for that" Mrs. HBTTIB Greenstreet. Nebo, Illinois. The Wretchedness of Constipation Can quickly be overcome by CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Purely vegetable s act surely and gently on the liver. Cure Biliousness. neaa ache, Dizzi. nets, and Indigestion. They do their duty, IMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL MICE. 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