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LJL-m mil HiwwwWIIWMWiWMiaiWMW < ilt < | iMWWMi i i M'COOK TRIBUNE. yf f : . AX. KIMMKIX , Publisher. \ : McCOOK , - : - - : - NEBRASKA i" ( NEBEASKA. I Heavy rain at Sidney washed out a thousand feet of Union Pacific railroad track. MimsxKRS of Grand Island are mov ing for "better observance of the Sab bath in that city. The different counties in the Blach Hills , South Dakota , will want big space at the Trans-Mississippi exposi tion. tion.The The Southern Montana Coal compa ny , with headquarters at Omaha , has incorporated with a capital stock of 550,000. The Modern Woodmen camp of Strorasburg is making elaborate ar I rangements for a fraternal picnic to be held July 28. Wn.T.iE Merced , the 8-year-old son of W. C. Mercer , chief of the Fremont fire department , was killed in a run away accident last week. Dax Fakrell , a prominent business man of Omaha , died last week of lock jaw , the result of injury by a , giant firecracker on the 4th of July. The Nebraska State Holiness camp meeting will meet in Bennett from Au gust 13 to 23. The grounds are said to be in fine condition this year. William James , a farmer nearly 60 years of age , living about four miles southeast of Elmwood , was severely kicked in the right side by a mule. Effie M. Jacobs has sued the Bur lington railroad company for § 50,000 , which she claims to be due her for damages for injuries received at Greenwood , Cass county , August 29 , 1S03. Gold mining was commenced in earnest at the Cyclone mine , near Falls City , last week. A shaft is being sunk I and in a short time it will be possible to tell whether there is any gold in the ground. A requisition was issued by Gover nor Ilolcomb for the return of Reuben Cabney of "West Point. Cabney is a lialf-brced Indian , who is charged with seduction , committed in April. He is ixow in South Dakota. The crop report received by a Lin coln Land company shows that a farmer - ! mer raised 807 bushels of wheat on 20 acres of land near Upland in Franklin county. This is considered a pretty good crop , being an average of over 31 "bushels to the acre. George McKee , a well known col ored man , was drowned in the slough opposite Nebraska City. He was in "bathing with a white man named Babbett , who claims he found McKee's body in about three feet of water. 1 The coroner will investigate. Word reached Sidney that Mrs. James Willis , living about twenty-six ! miles northwest , had fallen from a lumber wagon and striking on her head was so severely injured that she died soon after. She was about 65 .years old and mother of a large family. Eden Wiiat-ex of Luckenville was j arrested a few dajs ago on the charge ' of having attempted a criminal assault i npon a 7-year old girl , Winnie Griffith , I of Oak Creek , Custer county. Whalen ! is over 50 years of age , but has no family. He was bound over in the sum of S500 to appear in the district court. James Tracy and John Gibbons , two "boys living about four miles south of Exeter , got into an altercation , and Tracy stabbed Gibbons in the breast , i iniiicting an ugly though not supposed to be a dangerous wound. The trouble • "began at the annual school meeting and resulted in a fight in the livery "barn in Exeter. The state board of equalization met last week. The total assessment of the state was found to be about a mil lion and a half less than last year , the larger part of the falling off being in Douglas , Lancaster and Lincoln coun ties. There was an increase of § 50,000 in Burt county and SCO.OOO in Holt , and Tepresentatives of those counties were present asking to have their assess ment lowered. During the last year the farmers of Saunders county have taken great in terest in the sheep business. N. B. Berggren , of Wahoo , shipped 75,000 'from New Mexico to be fed in different | parts of the county. He is still feed- t ing and making preparations to ship a large number into the county. At Val paraiso , in the southwest part of the county , Denman & Hotchkiss have brought 12,000 from New Mexico since t the first of the year. The state board of educational lands | i and funds has cancelled school land | leases held on land in Antelope , Chey- j enne , Deuel , Garfield , Hayes , Dakota , i Jt Nemaha and Scott's Bluff counties to j [ { over 150,000 acres for the reason that jj the holders are in default on the pay- jv anent of their rental money. There III are in these counties 84,000 acres of if vacant school lands , and the total that 'I will be offered in these for lease will t amount to over 200,000 acres. v The state board of educational lands and funds last week authorized the investment - ' -vestment of § 95,000 in state warrants. j | The state will use § 20,000 of the agricultural - . ] cultural endowment fund and § 75,000 • of the permanent school fund in war rants that are not registered. This ' jnakes the state a competitor on the1 open market , but it cannot pay more , nor less than the par value of war rants. Warrants have been selling at ! a little less than par. Brokers de clare this investment by the state willet ot fix the market price at par. At Omaha , Police Judge Gordon held ; the three Kastners , Joseph- , the father , and August and Louis , the two sons , ' . to the district court without bail for ; the murder of Police Officer Tiedeman I on the morning of June 9th at the saloon - ( • loon of Henry Nelson , Thirtieth andj | Spanlding streets. j | I'koit.k around Osceola are com mencing to unload their corn to make room for the immense crop that is com ing. Last week B. T. Arnold , who is president of the Polk County bank , unloaded at 10M' cents per bushel 15,000 bushels. Quite a number of others sold from 1,000 to 5,000 bushels jbX the same price. - ] mm . . , . in iiriihmwWHBl > a Wia jamKatemtunt | Wy.W3Sfi iawri.ViTCTT w i ii i - ' * " " wmmmmmmma mmmmmammmmmmmmmmtmi TARIFF WORK ENDED SENATE ADOPTS THE CONFER ENCE REPORT. Final Vote Taken at tlio Hour Agreed Upon Sumo Warm Closing Speeches Senator Allen of Nebraska Attacks the Bill and Answers Senator Foraker. TarlJT Question in the Senate. Washington , July 20. When the Senate met at 10 o'clock this morning under tbe Unanimous agreement of last night that a vote be taken at 3 o'clock to-day , only eleven senators were on hand and several of these busied themselves with clearing out their desks and preparing for departr ure. There was no prayer , as this was a recess session. Immediately after the vice president had called the Senate to order , Mr. Chandler moved an executive session. He yielded , however , to Mr. Bate of Tennessee , who desired to have a day set for eulogies on his late colleague , Mr. Ilarris. January 13 next was agreed upon , and at 10:0S o'clock the Senate went into executive session , during which the following confirma tions were made : Postmasters in Mis souri , P. C. Van Matrc at Warrens- burg , F. S. Jones at Sarcoxic , H. H. Mitchell at Clinton , J. M. Cox at Ad rian and J. M. Wright at Richmond ; postmaster in Kansas , S. G. Wells at Erie. Erie.When When the doors were opened Mr. Allen of Nebraska resumed his speech in opposition to the tariff conference report and the bill in general. He criticised the effects of the bill on the farmers and instanced barbed wire , required by them for fences , on which they were placed by the bill at the mercy of the barbed wire trust. How different it was in the case of the moneyed aristocracy. It was all right , the senator said ironically , for the "sharks and money gamblers of Wall street" to make § H'J,000,000 out of the sugar schedule since the Dingley bill was first reported. It was all right for Pierpont Morgan to make § 27,000 , - 000 out of the government bonds ille gally issued under the administration of President Cleveland. Farmers ought to understand that the legisla tion of Russia was as beneficial to them as the legislation of Congress. As a sequel to Mr. Allen's heated personal colloquy with Mr. Foraker over the alleged fraud since the last election , the Nebraska senator pre sented tables comparing the vote cast for McKinley , Hryan , Harrison and Cleveland. One column showed "fraudulent excess" that of Ohio be ing stated at 94,500. In closing , Mr. Allen announced his purpose to with hold his vote on the question of agree ing to the report. Mr. Caffery of Louisiana followed in a criticism of the sugar schedule. He stated that ships from all parts of the world were hurrving in with cargoes of raw sugar to avoid the duties of the bill. Already eight months' supply had been brought in , thus cutting off government revenue to that extent and giving enormous profits to the trust. | Mr. Gear questioned these figures , saying only four mouths' supply of raw sugar had been brought in. Mr. Burrows of Michigan , a member of the finance committee , then took the floor for one of the few speeches from the opposition side. He said he wis induced to enter the debate be cause of ussaults made upon the lum ber schedule , an industry in twenty- two states , with an aggregate cap ital or S7. 0,00,000 ( ) , employing 000,000 people , and paying $1.10,00 ! ) , 000 in wages annually. The rates on lumber were the lowest of any in the bill , being about 15 to 18 per cent ad val orem , and onty 1 per cent , on white pine , lie referred to his visits to the Michigan lumber sections , where he said mills were idle and men out of work , when the Canadian mills and workmen were thriving. Sharp at . ' > o ' clock the final roll call on the passage of the bill as reported by the conference committee began , while the floor and galleries were crowded. The voting did not consume much time. Great applause followed the an nouncement by the Vice President that the report had been adopted by the vote of 10 to 30. FINAL VOTE IN DETAIL. The vote in detail was as follow1 ; : Yeas Aldrich , Allison. Baker. Bui- rows , Carter , Clark , Davis. Duboe , El- kins , Fairbanks , Foraker , Frye. Gal- linger , Gear , Hale , llansbrough. Haw- ley. Hoar. Jones of Nevada , Lodge , McBride , McKnery. McMillan. Mason , Merrill , Nelson , Penrose , Perkins Piatt of Connecticut. Piatt of New York. Pritchanl , Proctor. QuaSew - ell , Shoup. Spooner. Stewart , Thurs ton , Warren , Wetmor * • ! > Naj's Bacon. Bate , Berry , Cattery , C'laCockrell Daniel Faulkner Chilton , } , , , ner , Gorman , Harris , Jones ( Arkan sas ) , Lindsay. Mallory , Martin , Mills , Mitchell , Morgan , Murphy. Pasco , Pettus , Roach , Smith , Tillman. Tur- ley. Turner , Turpie , Vest , Walthall , White 30. The following pairs were announced , the first for and the last against the bill. Chandler with Cannon , Cullqm with Gray , Wolcott with George , Hanna with Rawlins , Wellington with McLaurinMantle with Kenny , Wilson with Heitfcld. Mr. Hanna voted at first under the impression that Mr. Rawlins , with whom he had paired , was preseut , ana learning of his absence , withdrew his vote. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. When the House met to-day Chair man Dingley of the ways aud means committee introduced a resolution for the final adjournment of Congress at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The House I * hmn took a recess ugtil 3:30 o'clock to , ii inallfllffimi Miii urn r ' * await the Senator 's action on the con * ferenco rcportonthe tariff bill. The Republican members of the ways and means committee met at 2:3U o'clock and decided to report a resolu tion for a sine die adjournment at 0 o'clock to-night HARRISON KELLY DEAD. The Kansas Ex-Congressman Passes Away His Public Career. Burlington , Kan. , July 20. Ex- Congressman Harrison Kelly died here this morning at 4:30 o'clock of Bright's disease , after a long sickness. He was a native of Ward county , Ohio , where ho wj s born , May 12 , 1836. He was reared on a farm , and received a com mon school education. In 1854 he came to Kansas , settling on govern ment land in Coffey county , near the tewn of Ottumwa. ne was improving his claim when the war broke out , and enlisted as a private in the Fifth Kansas cavalry , serving through all grades to captain. In 1805 Mr. Kelley returned to his claim in Kansas , where he made his home until a few years ago he bought a farm adjoining the townsite of Bur lington , where he lived until his death. In 1S05 ho was appointed a brigadier general of the Kansas mili tia In 1S6S he was appointed a di rector of the state penitentiary , serv ing five years. In 1868 Mr. Kelley was elected a ' member of the House of Representa tives. In 18d0 he was elected to the state senate. In addition to the of fices named he was prior to 1S80 re ceiver of the United States land ollice at Topeka , assistant assessor of inter nal revenue , chairman of the livestock sanitary commission and chairman of the state board of charities. In 1888 Mr. Kelley was elected to Congress as a Republican , succeeding Thomas Ryan. In 1890 he was de feated for re-election by Otis , Populist or Farmers' alliance. Soon after this defeat Kelley startled the state by renouncing his allegiance to the Republican party and confess ing the faith of the People's party. After that time he was a Populist ' " until his death. He declined all offices of profit from the new party , however , accepting only a regency of the State Agricultural college. A Kan nan Among the Lucky Ones. Wichita , Kan. , July 20. Frank Ware , a former merchant of this city , is among the returned miners from the Klondike and brought with him S177 , - 000 in gold. He now lives in Seattle. He had a big shoe store here m boom days , and afterwards was in business at Sedgwick. He was closed up by the sheriff and went west to seek his fortune. A Big St. Louis Fallnro. St. Louis , Mo. , July 20. The Brow- ncll Street Car company filed a deed of trust yesterda } ' conveying all its prop erty to Ford W. Thompson for the benefit of creditors. The property in cludes considerable real estate , a stock of street cars , lumber and other ma terials. $17(502.73 ( in accounts , S3S , - 701.SO in notes and 5137,000 in notes secured by deeds of trust. May Kan Him for Senator. Providence , R , I. , July 2t. The Democratic state central committee unanimously adopted a resolution to the effect that in case the resignation of President Andrews is accepted by Brown university , he should be se lected by the Democratic party of Rhode Island as its candidate for United States Senator. Hawkins and Dixon Draw. Sax Francisco , July 2G. Ten thou sand people saw Dal Hawkins of Cali fornia fight a twenty-round draw with George Dixon , champion bantam weight of the world , last night. It was a fast fight from start to finish , but was remarkable in that neither man struck his opponent a dangerous blow. Mnrtler Near Excelsior Springs. Excelsior Springs , Mo. , July 20. Last evening just before dusk A. D. Nance , living just north of here , was shot and killed by two men who were seen driving by in a buggy. He was a simple minded man and is not believed to have had any great amount of money. I.ewellinjr Will Not Resign. Wichita , Kan. , July 20. Ex-Gov ernor L. D. Lcwelling , now a member of the state railroad board , will not resign from the state senate. The Populists are unwilling to take the chances of a Republican's election to succeed him , and the senator submits to their judgment. Fort IlKimook Worrfruon Strike. Nkw York , July 20. All the masons and helpers at work at the barracks and ofiicers " quarters being built at Fort Hancock , Sandy Hook , struck yesterday for union wages. They had been receiving 40 cents an hour , but want r 0. They are still out. Carllms Stir Spain Up. Maiuii , July 20. In view of the universal unrest among classes and political parties in Spain , the Carlist leaders have decided to begin an act ive political propaganda throughout the whole country Indian Allotingr Agents. Washington , July 20. The Presi dent has appointed William E. Corson , of Wisconsin : D. A. Keepers , of Ohio ; John T. Wertz , of Nebraska ; James Jeffries of Tennessee , and Howell P. Wyton. of Indiana , to be special agents to make allotments of lands in severalty to Indians. Arkansas Hank Fails. Mammoth Si-kings , Ark. , July 20. The Bank of Mammoth Springs has closed its doors and named C. G. Bu- ford as asignee Assets , SIO0.O0O ; lia bilities 571,000 , of which S25,003 is in dividual deposits. One More Company Itarred. Topeka , Kan. , July 2G. State In surance Commissioner Webb McNall to-day barred the Mutual Protective League of Litchfield , III. , from doing business in Kansas ; • ' m gtsoii nmmmmmmmn 11" 1 an 1 1 mi 1111 ii ' NEW VOTING SYSTEM FEATURES OF THE BLANK ET BALLOT LAW. It 1V1II Be Kasy to Vote Straight Voters Required to Uce Indelible Pencils In stead of Ink New l'ouor Given to the Secretary of State. The blanket ballot law passd by the the recent legislature is now receiving attention , and voters will this fall hare an opportunity to practice some of its provisions. The law is a modification of the Australian ballot law passed by the 1891 legislature. 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It is the duty of each party at its first state convention to select a partj- emblem to be filed with the certificates of nomination , and the party first adopting an emblem shall have the exclusive use of it forever afterward. Its use by another party constitutes a fraud. The coat-of-arms of the United States , the national flag , nor the like ness of any person living or dead shall not be used. The secretary of state may pass on objections to use of party name or de vice in the same manner as objections to certificates , and his decision is final unless order shall be made by the courts , The names of candidates for each office , to be arranged according to par ties under the party name , and emblem in seperatecolumns on the ballot ; otherwise in presidential elections the party nominee for president , vice presi dent , together with the electors shall be arranged uuder their respective , party name and emblem. The party ] polling the highest number of votes at' ' the last general election for the head of the state ticket shall have the right to its ticket on the left side of the ba.1- 1 lot ; the party having the next highest' ' vote shall have second place on the ballot ; the party having the third highest vote shall have the third place for its ticket , and so on , leaving those candidates whose names appear upon , 1 the said ballot by petition , to appear to the right of said ballot and after all the other candidates on said ticlcet placed there by nomination. The form of the ballot shall , as near as possible , conform to schedule "A" hereof , which is given reduced in size. The appearance of the names of , presidential candidates is a new feature ' of the law. The dimensions of the ballot and scpiares are given In the bill 1 ( so that uniformity will be secured. I I The circle at the top shall be one-half , inch in diameter. Names of candidates • shall be not less than one-eight nor more than one-fonrtn of an inch in • height. The square at the end of each name shall not be less than one-fourth j 1 inch each side. of an across j If you wish to vote a straight ticket , make a mark in the circle.at the top of ' the ticket , and your ballot will then I be counted for every candidate on the ! ticket under the circle. If yon wish to ' vote otherwise tnan the straight ticket , you place a cross with an indelible j pencil , in the square on the right margin - ! gin of the ballot opposite the name of each person for whom .you wish to j Tote : if you wish to vote a straight ticket with the exception of certain 1 offices , place a cross in the circle at the head of the ticket you wish to vote I ia the main , and then place & cross op- ' - , w _ posite the names of the candidates you wish to vote for on other tickets. Or when two or moro candidates ere grouped on the ticket for the same office , us two or rnoro representatives , and the voter wishes to vote for one or more on another ticket or tickets in any group , the voter must make the cross after each candidate in the group on his own ticket that ho wishes to vote for , nnd also after the names of of each candidate on any other ticket or tickets grouped for the same office he wishes to vote for. Be careful that you do not mark the names of candi dates for whom you do not wish to vote. A FEW SMILES. ( Voice from above stairs , to supposed butler ) Thomas , what are you doing in the dining room at this time of night ? ThomaB Swlpsey , the burglar At your service , mum. Harper's Weekly. "You do not regret the money you expended on your boy's college educa tion , do you ? " "I rather guess I don't , " said the old farmer man , with glee and unction. "He learned me a lot of uppercuts * • -d things that cuts , short-arm jabsd have made me the l > * . -c man in the county. " IndIanapoIi3 Journal. SCRAPS. The agricultural department of a. Texas newspaper is conducted by Green Meadows Brown. The porch of a temple in the interior of Japan has this " inscription : "Neith- 1 er horses , cattle nor women admitted here. " Transportation of soft-shell craba alive from the east to Portland , Ore. , has just been successfully accomplished for the first time. The distance from St. Petersburg to the Pacific terminus of the Siberian railway is about twice as great as ' that from New York to San Francisco. Alexandria , Va. , has raised the ban which from the early days of the set tlement made it unlawful to bring in oysters between April and September. j The West Sullivan ( Me. ) base bail nine sawed a pile of wood for a resi dent of the place and put the money received for the work in the treasury. ! A Kansas City woman who tried in j vain to make an honest living gave it ' up recently and turned fortune teller. Now she has money to burn. Ex change. ! Already grasshoppers are hatching in such numbers in the region of Oakesdale , Wash. , that the inhabitants are alarmed over the threatened injury to cropE. Lightning struck two hoes that a negro was carrying over his shoulder near Millington , Md. . and passed through him from his shoulder to hi3 feet , killing him. Mrs. Dahlgren Ah , Mr. Phipps , I 1 saw you in church last Sunday. Mr. Phipps Yes ; it rained , you know. Was that the reason you were there , too ? Cleveland Leader. There is a family of twenty-six persons - sons in Strasburg. every one of whom rides a bicycle. The oldest is sixty- two , the youngest six months old. Foreign Letter New York Post. Sycamore trees which for several years have flourished where they were planted in various sections of Port land. Ore. , are dying of some disease which the citizens do not understand. The Heiress Papa , buy that Wat- teau for me. The Hundred Millionaire But , my dear , this is the Louvre. It belongs tq the government. The Heir ess Then buy the government , pop. The Hundred Millionaire But , my child , the government represents the whole of France. The Heiress I say , pop , I want that picture ; buy Franca ! New York Truth. - _ MORE GOLD FROM ALASKA , : 1 Steamer UmntUla IJrlnj ; Nearly 8300 , * M 000 Moro to Comn. / t | H Sax Fhancisco , July2J. The steam'J . ship Umatilla , which arrlvod yestcr- - * ' I * * " day from Puget Sound ports , brought , | down almost8200,000 worth of Alaskan * fa ' ' gold , of which SI 33,700 was in gold ( * 1 dust from Seattle , consigned to Wells , . r * Fargo & Co. There were several \ J other shipments of gold in sacks , some ; M of which was shipped dir "t from ? Juneau , and advices from tl place if ' arc to the effect that at least fcoO.OOO1 worth of dust was awaiting shipment . M at various Alaskan stations. k iW. Among the sensational advices received - < ' > / coived was one from St Michael's to t the effect that over $1,000,000 in gold which had not been included with the < * M fortunes brought hero by miners , will ' bo shipped through Wells , Fargo & 9 Co. , other lucky miners having reached M the island since the departure of the / ExcelsioKand Portland who have secured - \ cured greater fortunes individually"t than those whose stories have already been told. V Although the capacity of the steamer M Portland , which sails to-day for St fl Michael's , and the Excelsior , which. H sails on the l. 8th , is limited to about * 110 passengers , over 1,000 applications M have been made for berths. Most of j the disappointed ones are making arrangements - M rangements to travel hence to Tacoma- J by rail , and secure passage on the- J J0\ \ Mexico and Topeka , which sail thcn < : o ( 'f * J next week , but many must inevitably j A wait until next spring , and their disappointment - „ / . M appointment is sore. jH War oa > wlf ; • : " • S Washington , July 2U. The campaign - M paign for the removal of United States W Marshal Ncely has opened with a mild / cannonade , which will very probably ' j be followed by more heavy artillery in j the course of a short time. A series of J charges will bo preferred , the nature 1 of which is only partially disclosed by J the filing of a statement by eastern . 1 parties , reciting , among other offenses , that Neely , while acting in his official capacity and selecting jurors for the I United States court , accepted a retainer - tainer to appear as an expert witness M before the same jurors in the celebrated - brated Hillmon insurance swindling case. It is said that this charge is one M of the least serious preferred against fl Neely , evidence in support of others / , V being now accumulated by those in- ( ' U tercstcd in the early retirement of fl the inarshah V Striker * Sulzc a Train. M PnoniA , 111. , July 23. Fifty striking I miners at Farmington seized a Uur- lington freight train at 11 o'clock yesterday - terday morning , demanding that it I carry them to Dunfermline , where I they intended to call out the 250 miners - I ers at work , their wages having been I increased 3 per cent. They refused to I pay or get off and held the train till 3 I o'clock , when the conductor cut off the B engine and ran to Ganton , returning with the sheriff and the state ' s attor- M j ncy. They argued with the men and V the latter finally abandoned the train , fl after holding it five hours. The I'co- ; ria county miners are threatening to H march across the country to Dunferm- / * H line to-day to force the men out The r fl managers of the mines say the men * H want to keep at work and are prepar- fl ing for trouble. V IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT , M DesMoixes , July 10. Talmaugo E. m\ Brown , of Des Moines , has been granted M a convright tor a melodrama in four Wm acts , cntitlcd "The Thieves' Den. " A. F. Thompson , of Adel , has been H allowed a design patent adapted to be / H worn as a political badge. Patents / H have been allowed , but not yet issued , M as follows : To L. D. Hart , of Nora M Springs , for a corn cutter and shocker , M adapted to be advanced in the field to- M cut oil' stalks and gather them into afl shock to be bound together. To J. W. | Russell , of Newton , for an improved H grain thresher and separator in which | part of the novelty is a tortuous passage - * M sage way for straw and chaff and a M device for forcing air into said passageway - | sageway at each of its turns , and - M guide rods fixea to the walls of the | passageway and curved around the M corners. To L. D. and A. J. Hart , of M Nora Springs , for a clothes pounder * | adapted to be attached to a tub to bo M operated therein and also adapted to | be adjusted relative to an adjacent H tub for washing clothes therein by the . H pounding process without detaching it H from the other tub. H Valuable information about securing , H valuing and selling patents sent free * H to any address UM Thos. G. and J. 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