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IS IS MCOOK TRIBUNE F M niMMELL Fblther McCOOK NEBRA8KA kXxXxXH I BRIEF TELEGRAMS The smoke from fonist leaves Is new heralded as a cure for consumption and experiments are being- made in Evansville Ind by members of the board of health The postofflce department has de cided to place the late President Mc Kinleys head on the new issue of pos tal cards which will appear shortly after December 1 next The engagement is announced of Charles L Mertens of Syracuse N Y and Miss Agnes York Hamlin daughter of Attorney General How land J Hamlin of Illinois The emigration from Bremen and Hamburg from January 1 to Septem ber 30 was 156649 which is an in crease of 3943 upon the emigration for the corresponding period last year At the Chicago Athletic club a ban quet was given in honor of Sir Thom as Lipton and he was made the re cipient of a massive silver loving cup presented by his friends in Chicago A general strike began in Seville Spain although the tobacco workers and some others have thus far de clined to join There has been some rioting compelling the cafes and shops to close The safe of the bank at Rudd Iowa was blown open by dynamite and the robbers secured 3000 in currency They escaped by a handcar and took to the woods just east of Nora Junc tion The last request of an old Kansas 6oldier who died the other day was that one of his army comrades should throw the last shovel full of earth upon his grave The comrade did as he was requested The Russian government has con firmed the plan to make a new har bor at Cronstadt by building an em bankment or dyke connecting Cron stadt with Cranienbaum The work twill involve an outlay of 3000000 The ninety second annual meeting of the American board at Hartford Conn has ended brilliantly from the financial standpoint Over 500 mem bers of the board and pastors and laymen have pledge not only the full amount to pay the debt of 102000 but 3110 in excess of ths debt Word comes from Boston that Mrs Stone mother of Miss Ellen M Stone is sinking under the strain of anxiety concerning her daughter Mrs Stone is more than 80 years old and she has been in feeble health for years Her condition now is such that her friends fear she will die from sus pense H C Henderson who has been in the Dallas Tex jail for a year and a half and who claims he assisted in the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy at Omaha was sent to the state peniten tiary Henderson was a year ago con victed of swindling in Several cases and now goes to serve thirteen years in the penitentiary Tne gross postal receipts for Sep tember at fifty of the largest post offices were 4225752 a net increase of 323822 or 82 per cent over last year Recepits at only two offices de creased viz Jersey City Ni J 3760 or a little over 17 per cent and Grand Rapids Mich 263 or over 1 per cent The receipts of New York were 681511 an increase of 82 per cent and Chicago 697160 an increase of 12 per cent Prof Thomas Shaw of Minnesota has been elected to the chair of ani mal husbandry in the state agricul tural college at Brookings S I which also carries with it the di rectorship of the United States ex periment station at that place Major McLaughlin has succeeded in securing a sufficient number of the signatures of the Rosebud Indians to ratify the agreement to throw that part of Gregory county now lying in the reservation open to settlement It is announced that certificates of Union Pacific stock estimated ai from 4000 to 5000 shares standing in the name of John Jacob Astor were sold a few days ago averaging 99 a share The stock bore the transfer date of May 21 last when it ranged from 100 to 107 a share Mark Thall a well known theatri cal man of San Francisco died from pneumonia The ex Empress Eugenie is now set tled in her English home and intends to build there a small convent in mem ory of her son and husband Owing to the fact that two bridges are yet to be finished and seven miles of track laid it will be about November 1 before regular train ser vice on the Toluca Cody line of the Burlington will bo established into the terminus of Cody The president is being urged to at tend the meeting of the Union Veter ans Union October 27 at Chicago The vault of the Farmers andCiti zens bank of Tiro Ohio was wrecked by six robbers who secured the con sents and escaped w gjrt55EBM -S E THE 1 1 m MIM Lf Admiral Bowles Oalls Attontion to Lack of Progress in Construction DELAY CAUSED BY STEEL STRIKE No Fireproof Wood Found Entirely Sat isfactory to the Bureau aioro Naval Construction Wanted Naval Yards Iiimitcd by Dry Docks WASHINGTON Oct 21 The an nual report of Admiral Bowles chief of the bureau of construction and re pairs calls attention to the slow progress in the construction of the ships made in the last year owing to strikes and delays of delivery of armor and steel forgings He points out that under the present system for the purchase of armour the responsi sibility for delays emanating from this sources rests with the government and renders it liable to suits for dam Angusta De Forest Dead NEW YORK Oct 21 Augusta de Forest the well known actress who played leading roles with Alexander Salvini John McCullough and Edwin Booth died at her home in this city Would Build Reservoir SALT LAKE CITY Utah Oct 21 President George J Gould of the Northern Pacific with officers of that road and the Denver Rio Grande left here by special train over the lat ter road for Denver tonight During the afternoon the Parker City branch was inspected and tonight the special tied up at Springville Tomorrow the Tintic mining district will be visited then the San Pete valley branch will be inspected thoroughly I WILL PLANT A MKINLEY OAK Special Ceremony for Occasion of yells Visit FARMINGTON Conn Oct 21 Ar rangements for the visit of Presidenl Roosevelt to this town next Tuesday include the dedication of a tree which is to be planted on the village green by the townspeople and named the McKinley oak There will be a recep tion in the afternoon to the young women of a boarding school and 100 other invited guests The purpose of the presidents coming is to visit his sister the wife of Commander W S Cowles U S N He is expected to arrive here at 115 p m Tuesday by a special train and will be accompan ied by Senators Hawley and Piatt Comamnder Cowles Secretary Cor telyou and Theodore Bingham Preparations for police protection have been made at the request of Washington officials twenty consta bles having been detailed for special dutv on that day On Wednesday morning at 810 oclock the president will leave for age by the ship contractors The con- New Haven to attend the Yale bi- struction bureau he says has made considerable progress toward the standardization of ship fittings which he says will reduce the original cost of ships of the navy and decrease the expense of their maintenance He touches upon the tests of fireproofed wood conducted by his bureau and says that while the products of the two processes submitted both possess desirable qualities neither wholly commends tiself to adoption by the navy Admiral Bowles strongly recom mends that the floating dry dock at Havana recently purchased from the Spanish government be sent to the site of the new naval station at Olon gapo Philippine islands as soon as the repairs on it are completed It is essential he says for the efficiency of the navy on the Asiatic station botn from a strategical and economical point that the government should be in possession of a dry dock in the Philippines at the earliest possible moment He says the dock just pur chased can be placed in condition for use of vessels up to 10000 tons dis placement within the limit of the sum appropriated by congress for its acquirement Admiral Bowles earnestly recom mends an increase in the number of naval constructors which is now lim ited by law to forty This number he says is entirely inadequate to the present needs of the service and he urges that the limit of the corps be increased by congress to sixty He says the efficiency of the navy yards throughout the country is largely lim ited by the lack of dry docks and mod ern buildings for the equipment of the yards The navy yards however continue to present a fruitful field for the application of modern engineer ing to their mechanical equipment as well as modern methods of organ ization to the scheme of administra tion which if properly applied should result in greater efficiency in the con duct of the work and greater econ omy in the expense which is now out of proportion to the work done Admiral Bowles says the construc tion bureau has been taxed to its ut most by the work of designing new vessels and supervising vessels now building and that these conditions have been aggravated by a lack of such navy department buildings avail able for the technical and clerical staffs of the bureau He reports a lack of draftsmen of the requisite qualifications and expresses a desire to obtain for the bureau more grad uates of technical schools Firo Consuming Hay Field LA CROSSE Wis Oct 21 Late this afternoon fire was discovered in the hay fields which surround this city The flames are now burning ev erything before them and the firemen are powerless owing to the fire being outside the city limits and beyond water service It is believed the fire was started by tramps Upon these lands are stacked thousands of tons of hay Although the loss cannot be estimated at presentit is thought it will be enormous Lcuderiiik Resigns SANTIAGO DE CHILE Oct 21 Via Galveston J Lenderink secre tary of the United States legation has resigned his position and will soon leave for the United States centennial exercises GRAND ARMY APPOINTMENTS Torrance Gives List of Officers to Serve Until Next Encampment MINNEAPOLIS Oct 21 Commander-in-Chief Eli Torrence of the Grand Army of the Republic gave out these appointments Judge advocate general Henry M Duffield Detroit chief of staff Major Noel Blakeman Mount Vernon N Y These persons have been named as members of the executive committee of the national council of administra tion and with the commander-in-chief his adjutant general and quartermas ter general will decide upon the time and place of holding the next national encampment William Armstrong In dianapolis Ind Edgar Allen Rich mond Va Thomas G Sample Alle ghany Pa S C Jones Centerville la Loren W Collins St Cloud Minn Thomas W Scott Fairfield 111 Frank M Skerrott St Louis DEATH SENTENCE APPROVED Private Wines is to Hans for His Crime in Philippines WASHINGTON Oct 21 President Roosevelt has approved the death sen tence imposed in the case of Private William Wines Company I Twenty fourth colored infantry found guilty of murder in Pangasinan P I and sentenced to be hanged The presi dent directs that the sentence be duly carried into execution at a time and place to be designated by the com manding general of the Department of Northern Luzon In the case of Pri vate Michael H Robinson Company F Twenty fifth colored infantry convicted of desertion and sentenced to be hanged the president has com muted the sentence to dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of all pay and confinement at hard labor for life Brigands Keep Out of Sight CONSTANTINOPLE Oct 21 The United States legation in Constanti nople is still without definite news from either the Rev Dr C H Has kell or the Rev J W Baird of the Congregational mission at Samkova Bulgaria who have been endeavoring to get in touch with the abductors of Miss Ellen M Stone the missionary and Mme Tsilka her companion with a view of arranging as to the ransom demanded by the brigands Mr Baird who was at Djumbalo has returned to Samakov indicating his failure to get in touch with the bri gands from the Turkish side On the Commerce of Cuba WASHINGTON Oct 21 A com parative statement of the commerce of the island of Cuba for the ten months ended April 30 1901 and 1900 has been prepared in the division of insular affairs of the war department tl shows that the total value of mer chandise imported during the ten months ended April 30 1901 was 54 412262 against 59925339 for the same period of 1900 Cape Colony In Rebellion LONDON Oct 21 Mr Kruger has received a message from General Schalk Burgher that the greater part of Cape Colony is in rebellion says a dispatch from Brussels to the Daily Mail and that the Boers have armed 15000 Afrikanders in the past three months Mrs Edwin H Conger wife of Min ter Conger passed through Omaha on her way to China She was ac companied by Mrs J R Drake Glad White is to Return BERLIN Oct 20 The news re ceived here that Andrew D White the United States ambassador returns to Berlin in November to stay has caused great satisfaction in Berlin Cnnndians Try Surprising PRETORIA Oct 21 A force of Canadian scouts surprised a Boer laager near Balmoral The B0ers lied after a short fight The Canadians had two killed and an officer and two men wounded TREE PLANTING IN NEBRASKA IV I Hall of Washington Gives So mo Suggestions on tho Subject OMAHA Oct 21 William L Hall assistant superintendent of tree plant ing division of forestry has made ex tensive investigation in Nebraska rel ative to tree planting He says there is no question but what the soil and climate are favorable for a certain amount of forest planting To what extent however is in a moasure a matter of experiment He has in course of preparation a report to the department making special recom mendations both as to extent of plant ing and methods He also says there can be no system applicable for the prairie district for general operations While there is a great interest man ifested in forestry yet there appears to be a very meager acquaintance with the subject of tree planting on an extended scale Mr Hall says Many trees have been planted more as a wind breaic than for timber cul ture Mr Hall found a number of catalpa plantations which have shown a thrifty growth but show a lack of maximum growth owing to lack of management or attention The ca talpa is an especial favorite with Mr Hall He believes that it does best on Nebraska soil which is porous Its durability has been overestimated by some but its value for various pur poses has been fully appreciated by the general public It is a rapid grower of good form lightness and possesses great strength and elasticity It requires from eight to twelve years to mature sufficiently for use In speaking of the species and sec tions for profitable tree planting Mr Hall said that the catalpa and red cedar grow readily along the Platte river the Russian mulberry in Cen tral Nebraska the black walnut in the eastern part of the state while the bur oak thrives best in the valleys of the Niobrara and Missouri rivers the green and white ash does well in Northern Nebraska There are many other trees valuable for planting such as the elm poplar maple and willow but in a system of forest operations instituted solely for profit and carried on under competition such trees are not to be considered WATER RIGHTS ON PLATTE State Board of Irrigation Hears Argu ment In Gothenburg Case LINCOLN Oct 21 The state board of irrigation and Engineer Dobson lis tened to testimony and argument in the case of the Farmers and Mer c ants Irrigation company The Gothenburg company asserts that it has a- prior right to water in the Platte river and was sustained in this position a year ago by Engineer Wil son It owns and operates one long canal of which one half was con struced after the original water right was taken out The water right grant ed by the board authorized the Goth enburg company to appropriate 200 cubic feet of water per second and it is now claimed that there is no law to prevent the company from turning the water so appropriated into the new section of the canal The board took the case under advisement and will render a decision within the next few days The Farmers and Merchants irriga tion works and property are valued at not less than 175000 while the works and property of the other company are said to be worth approx imately 300000 The former is cap italized for 3000000 Land Leasing Tour LINCOLN Oct 21 Land Commis sioned Follmer has planned to make a land leasing tour through northern Nebraska beginning at ONeill in Holt county on November 18 Subsequent auctions will be held as follows Bas sett November 19 Ainsworth No vember 28 Chadron November 29 Harrison and Alliance November 30 and Gering November 31 Cowboy Carnival at Hyannls LINCOLN Oct 18 Governor Sav age and several state officials will go to Hyannis this week to attend the cowboy carnival at that place The program includes an exhibition by Captain Hardy a shooting tournament and several other events Woman Suffragists Active BLAIR Neb Oct 21 The local or ganization of woman suffragists are making big preparations for the com ing conference of the woman suffrag ists Aspen Tunnel is Opened EVANSTON Wyo Oct 21 The great Aspen tunnel through Pisdmont hill east of here was turned over to President Burt of the Union Pacific by Contractors Kilpatrick Bros Col lins Tuesday The first train passed through the big bore Monday being a work train The first passenger train to pass through the big hole in he mountains was the one in which the president and other high officials of the Union Pacific were passengers STATES DIVORCE LAWS Allen Gives His Opinion Re garding tho Same LINCOLN Oct 19 Senator Wil liamliam V Allen has replied as fol lows to the request of Labor Com missioner Watson for an opinion re garding the divorce laws of the state I am inclined to believe that our statutes on the subject of divorce while crude and expressed in inartistic language doing no credit to the lit erary ability of their authors are suf ficient and outline a proper policy in divorce cases and will if conscien tiously enforced by the courts accom plish desirable results The purpose of a divorce is the destruction of the family sense It is true that in many cases it is to the interest of the parties the children and the public that the family rela tion which should be the most sacred relation in the world should be ut terly uprooted and destroyed and that its destruction is more productive of the true interests and real happiness of all concerned than would be a forced continuance of a relation which must be merely nominal Much very much indeed depends on education in fact the question is more one of education than legisla tion Legislation can regulate mar riages it can grant or refuse divorces but the refusal to grant a divorce for any cause in the present state of society would doubtless lead to wide spread immorality and to greater and public injury than our present divorce laws imperfect as they can be can produce While marriage under civil institutions of this country is and ever must remain a civil contract marriage is justly regarded by tjie churches and by Christian people as a holy ordinance If the churches shall take hold of the subject in earnest they can doubtless regulate the relation in such a way as to pro duce the least amount of friction and thus minimize divorces If they do not the whole question must be left to the slow but certain law of evolu tion I would say upon the whole that I do not know of any improve ment which can be made in our di vorce laws at the present time aside from those that are merely verbal AMENDMENT TO PENSION LAWS Congressman Burkett Will Introduce It in the Next Congress LINCOLN Oct 19 Congressman Burkett has prepared an amendment to the pension laws which he will in troduce at the opening of the next session of congress By ij the differ ent ratings on account of disabilities under the new law or the law of 1890 will be abolished The effect of Mr Burketts amendment will be to make a minimum rating of 12 The law of 1890 commonly called the new law pensions a soldier who is unable to perform manual labor in accordance with the degree of his disabilities and in proportion thereto from 6 to 12 a month This degree of disabil ity is determined by a rating board located at Washington who make up their decision from the evidence sent in and the ratings thus made are not always satisfactory to the soldiers Mr Burkett takes the position that the war is now removed almost forty years and that after the experiences the men went through it must be presumed that few of them are able to perform manual labor and he thinks the time has come when it is no longer necessary to have an inves tigating committee to cipher out just the degree of their disability Crashed by Falling Roof BEATRICE Neb Oct 19 Frank Koltenbach a young man 29 years of age was killed Avhile repairing an old cave on the Graff farm three miles west of here Koltenbach had been employed on the farm of Mrs Graff for the last twelve years He went into the cave to clean up and make some repairs He accidentally knock ed down one of the heavy timbers which suporied the four foot roof of soil and the roof fell smothering him Settles Big Damage Snlt DES MOINES Oct 19 An impor tant damage suit against the North western railroad which was before the supreme court at the last term has been settled rather than a second trial be had This was the suit of J J Mosnat administrator of the estate of Engineer Shaffer who was killed in the yards at Eagle Grove The first trial resulted in a verdict for 10000 against the company but it was reversed on appeal because of technical errors Professors Talk to Farmers SIDNEY Neb Oct 19 The court house was packed with farmers and stockmen who listened to addresses delivered by Dr Peters and Prof Smith of the experiment station at the state university They discussed the diseases of animals and the sim plest manner of curing them stock feeding and classes of food that were best adapted to the conditions here Many questions were asked and thor oughly discussed Blr How Eada Memorial Mrs Eliza A How widow of James v F How late president of tho Wabash 7 Railroad company has given 100000 to Washington university St Louis to be used for the erection of a memorial to her father Captain James B Eatis who built the Eads bridge across the Mississippi river at St Louis and jet ties below New Orleans Tho gift haa been accepted by the board of trustees of tho university wfto will confer with Mrs How as to the character of me morial which shall be constructed His Patriotic Cornice A patriotic citizen of Philadelphia has recently manifested his loyalty to the flag by painting the cornice of his house red white and blue In a row of houses in which the prevailing colors aro yellow or dark brown the effect is quite striking and nearly every passerby bestows a surprised glanco on the odly painted dwelling The owner of the house is a veteran of the civil war and possessing no flag he decided to paint the cornice of his homo in this way as a mark of pa triotism Half of the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and m a spirit of love 3Irs Dyers Heart McCarron Mich Oct 21 In April last the sensational case of Mrs Samuel G Dyer of this place was re ported in these columns Mrs Dyer has suffered for years with a very bad case of Heart Trouble and was cured in a few weeks by Dodds Kid ney Pills Since then Mrs Dyer has received hundreds of inquiries as to her con dition and many may be interested to hear that she is at present enjoying the best of health and has not had the slightest return of the Heart Trouble Formerly she had to sit up in bed for hours to get relief now she goes about as smartly as any lady of G2 years in the State Dodds Kidney Pills have made many friends in Chip pewa County through their cure of Mrs Dyers case and have proven be yond doubt that their cures are not only very complete but absolute and permanent Dewey Wasnt a Prisoner It has been said that Admiral Dewey was made prisoner during the civil war at the time the gunboat Mississ ippi was destroyed by the Confederates- The admiral says that is not true I was not captured said he when asked auout the matter when the Mississippi was run aground and burned About 150 of our men were captured but the captain and I man aged to pull away In a boat down the river and escaped capture I have seen the statement made several times late ly and am glad to say that it is en tirely incorrect I have never been a captive Highest Award on Cocoa and Chocolate Buffalo N Y Oct 10 1901 The judges at the Pan American exposi tion Buffalo have awarded three gold medals to Walter Baker Co Limit ed Dorchester Mass for the supe riority of their breakfast cocoa and all of their cocoa and chocolate prep arations and the excellence of their exhibit This is the 37th highest award received by them from the great expositions in Europe and America An Experienced Secretary Miss Hagner who is to be Mrs Roosevelts secretary was for a time clerk in the war department She jy a daughter of Dr Charles E Hagner of Washington She has acted as sec retary for Mrs Charles Emory Smith Mrs Elihu Root Miss Paulding Sen ator Depews niece and other women prominent in official life Awarded the Highest Prize Buffalo- N Y Oct The New Do mestic Sewing Machine Co has today been awarded at the Pan American Exposition the highest prize the cov eted gold medal for the best fami sewing machine Fire Escape Instructions A descriptive article on Norwav con tains some striking instructions for the use of fire escapes taken from i local hotel of which the following lines are part The plaited snotter should be found in every room To increase the hurry let down the bodv one by one until all shall be left The cord should be put out the ground from the shoulder thereunder A Church Marriage Bureau The Rev J F X Coleman pastor of St John s Catholic church at Fred erick Md announced to his congre gation one Sunday night that he was going to inaugurate a matrimonial bu reau in his church Think of it said Father Coleman a congregation like ours with over 1100 members and you seldom hear of a marriage There certainly is something wrong and this Is what I am going to endeavor to There is no reason for this state of affairs as there is plenty of mar nageble material right here and even much past that age and I am going to endeavor to utilize it to advantage or Know the reason why Catherine F McMahon a retired pub lic school teacher of New York cUy has received from the supreme cou the writ she asked for compelling the 5S L to pay the pels oa I r r lL ner salary which an nZ G This resuJt wins th case for - some forty other teachers t red previous to 1894 when re ioD public f0r thirt ears servketa schools was passed Donts for Women Dont keep the match box in a dos- Dont fold unlaundered curtains Don cool tomatoes In the Ice box Dont use a starch that win that han crackling e your grocer and order Defiant o5 1 16 ounce package for 5 cents Mat by Magnetic Starch Co 0maha y A H 1 Caj5 A f - t 1 I v