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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1901)
U m r UA id i S I M I MCOOK TRIBUNE W M KIMMELL Publisher MoOOOK NEBRASKA KMMKJIK BRIEF TELEGRAMS HHHKKW A sale has been made of 20000 acres of coal lands in Wayne county W Va to a Pittsburg syndicate which it is said will oppose the present coal trust p By a decision handed down by Jus tice Mervin one half of the estate of Mrs M H Davis of Rome N Y val ued at 50000 will eo to the Christian Scientists An official Servian statement de clares there is absolutely no founda tion in the reports that Queen Draga has been shot at or that she has com mitted suicide John Morgan a convict at the fed eral prison at Leavenworth made a successful escape while working in the quarry his absence not being discover ed until 5 p m Louis Grannotti an accomplice of Bresci the assassin of King Humbert was sentenced to life imprisonment at the assizes Grannotti has not yet been captured Conductor Higgins the eighth vic tim of the Santa Fe wreck in Arizona died The Injured are progressing fa vorably and no more fatalities among them are probable It is stated that Senator Hanna im mediately after the opening of con gress will introduce a bill providing for a 5000 annual pension to Mrs McKinley during her lifetime The Southern Athletic club was or ganized at Charleston S C the ob ject of the association being to hold a series of sparring exhibitions in Charleston during the exposition period Mrs May Agnew wife of Captain Agnew formerly of Company M Twentieth Kansas died at Manila where she went recently with her hus band who is an officer in the regular army It was learned at Baltimore that Mr Isidor Rayner chief counsel for Rear Admiral TV S Schley in the recent hearing before the court of inquiry has refused to accept a fee for his services There has been an alarming spread of the plague in South Russia ac cording to dispatches from Leinberg hundreds of fatal cases being reported in Moscow Odessa Kieff Kherson and other towns According to the World heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt must pay 36180343 into the coffers of Uncle Sam This is the total of the inheritance tax found by the federal government against the estate The Vienna papers assert that Tur key is addressing an arrogant circular note to the powers protesting against their perpetual interference in Turkish affairs and demanding to know their intention regarding Crete The municipal council of Guines forty five miles southwest of Havana has voted to award the contract for supplying water and electric light to the town to Hugh J Reilly of New York The contracts are for 250000 The secretary of war has directed that the order granting free admission of Christmas presents to the Philip pines and Cuba shal extend only to the officers and men and civilian em ployes of the army and navy and not to the civilian employes of the civil government The governor secretary of state and attorney general at Alabama opened and counted the vote on the new con stitution The result shows a major ity of 28429 for the constitution The governor will issue his proclamation within a few days and ten days there after the new law will go into effect The city of Los Angeles has sold water bonds to the amount of two mil lions The industrial commission has issued a report on railway labor in the United States It shows that rail way employes in this country consti tute an army of nearly 1000000 peo ple with probably nearly 5000000 de pendent upon the wages paid by the railroads The report says that for years to come the railroads will abA sorb an increasing number of em ployes C R Breckinridge a member of the Dawes commission discussed with the interior department officials the pro posed supplementary Creek treaty The secretary decided to take no ac tion in the matter until congress con- venea Fire destroyed the Crawfordsville Ind wire and nail plant entailing a less of 150000 At Kansas City the dead bodies of Inez Gordon and Harry Grisard col ored were found on the floor of a room at 1412 Grand avenue The Pan American exposition build ings were sold to the Chicago House Wrecking company for 92000 The disorders are increasing in Spain and the government is stopping telegrams and taking military meas ures to maintain order SLdfeJWSfTTVV FIRST WORK j MATE Shortly After Convening Senate Will Listen to McKinley Memorial THE MESSAGE DELAYED ONE DAY Senator Foraker or Hanna Will Int odace Resolution In Honor of Lato Chief Magistrate In Upper House Miscella neous Washlucton Mutters WASHINGTON Dec 2 One of the first measures of natural interest which will be introduced in the senate at the session which begins today will bo a resolution looking to public action concerning the death of Presi dent McKinley This will be present ed on Tuesday either by Senator For aker or by Senator Hanna probably the former and after its introduction the senate will adjourn as a mark of respect to the memory ot the dead president The annual message of President Roosevelt will not be received until Tuesday and on this account the ses sion today will -be exceedingly brief It i3 not now expected that anything will be done beyond the announce ment of the death of Senator Kyle following which the senate in accord ance with custom will adjourn for the day On Tuesday the presidents message will be read and after its reading the announcement of the death of President McKinley will fol low at once whereupon under the precedent established when Presidents Lincoln and Garfield died resolutions providing for the appointment of a committee to act with a similar com mittee of the house of representatives to take appropriate action relative to the matter and then calling for im mediate adjournment for the day will be adopted Heretofore committees have been appointed to arrange the details of public exercises and it is understood that plan will be pursued in this instance and that later in the session some public man of distinction will be invited to deliver a eulogy in the capitol Wednesday and Thursday will be devoted to the introduction of new bills and as usual there will be a flood of them Among the first bills of importance to be presented will be the ship subsidy bill which will be introduced by Senator Frye and the Nicaraguan canal bill which Senator Morgan will present Senator Frye has not entirely completed his bill but he said it would be different in many details from the old bill of last session That measure was framed by former Senator Edmunds Senator Frye himself is the author of the new bill Senator Morgans canal bill will be a duplicate of Representative Hep burns bill on the canal question Other early bills of importance will be one looking to the construction of a sub marine cable from the western coast to Hawaii and another provid ing for the establishment of a new executive department to be known as the department of commerce On Tuesday the senate will adjourn until the following Monday The general opinion among senators is that very little real work will be done before the Christmas holidays The first subject demanding atten tion is reciprocity Various treaties are now pending in the senate look ing to commercial agreements between the United States and other countries Senator Aldrich will renew his efforts to have these treaties which have al ready been reported from the commit tee on foreign affairs committed to the committee on finance on the ground that they deal with tariff questions NO OPINION ON ANNEXATION Gen Wood Denied Having Expressed View on tlic Question NEW YORK Dec 2 Among the passengers who arrived from Havana were General Leonard Wood governor of Cuba Mrs Wood Michael J Dady the contractor Sir William Van Home Lieutenant W Barden and Lieutenant Frank McCoy General Wood said that he would proceed directly to report to Presi dent Roosevelt and expressed an in tention to return by December 7 lie said he had expressed no opinion on the question of annexation of Cuba and that to do so would be impolitic The story he added was probably put out to effect the election in Cuba but nothing would come of it Matters were quiet in Cuba and prep arations were being made for the com ing election in February Chinese Becoming Good P3KIN Dec 2 Chinese officials have severely punished all offenses against foreigners This has had a salutary effect upon the demeanor of the people The higher Chinese offi cials now manifest an increased de sire to cultivate personal relations i with thte diplomatic corps The set tlement of claims between the local officials and the missionaries not in cdluded in the general indemnity has been arranged Kwyii PROGRAM IN THE HOUSE Work of First Day Will Rlsldly Follow Precedents WASHINGTON Dec 2 The pro gram for the opening day in the house although it will rigidly follow prece dents will be interesting and to a cer tain extent picturesque Admission to the galleries will be by card of which two have been issued to each member and they will be crowded to their full capacity The desks of the popular members will be laden with flowers The clerk of the house will call the members to order at noon and after prayer by the chaplain the roll will be called by states The speaker will be formally elected and escorted to the chair by a committee General Henderson whose re-election as speaker is assured will then address the house after which Mr Bingham of Pennsylvania The Father of the House a titular honor bestowed upon the oldest member in point of continuous service will ad minister the oath to him The speaker in turn will administer the oath to the members elect The old officers of the house who were re chosen by the republican caucus then will be re elected and sworn in Following this resolutions will be adopted to inform the president and the senate that the house has elected General Henderson speaker and Mr McDowell clerk By resolution Speaker Henderson then will appoint a committee of three to join a similar committee from tlie senate to inform the president that a quorum of the two houses has as sembled and that congress is ready to receive any communication he may have to make Resolutions to adopt temporarily the rules of the last house and to fix the daily hour of meeting also will precede the event of the opening day the annual seat drawing PROVES NO GENUINE COMET Director Campbell of Lick Observatory Explains Phenomenon SAN FRANCISCO Dec 2 Director Campbell of the Lick observatory has made a thorough search of the heav ens for the phenomenon witnessed at Chicago a few nights since Prof Campbell failed to find the slightest trace of a comet He explains the phenomenon witnessed in Chicago in two ways saying What the people saw may have been the bright trail left by a me teor I myself have watched such trails for as much as twenty minutes before they wholly disappeared It is more probable though that what they saw was the constellation known as the Pleiades It so happens that the Pleiades are now in exactly the loca tion in the heavens described in the dispatches and when obscured by a thin mist the constellation looks so much like a comet that it has been mistaken for it before DEPARTMENTS MERGED General Wade Xow Commands Northern and Southern Luzon MANILA Dec 2 The military de partments of northern and southern Luzon have ceased to exist Major General James F Wade formerly in command of the southern depart ment will leave Manilla tomorrow to assume command of the American forces on Cebu island and Major Gen eral Lloyd Wheaton formerly com mander of the northern department vill take command of the North Phil ippines Several small engagements have oc curred in Batangas province in the last few days The forces of the in surgent leader Caballos have become badly demoralized His followers are broken into several small bands Ca ballos holds two American prisoners German Ilens for -Boers INDIANAPOLIS Ind Dec 2 Jacob W Loeper secretary of the United German societies announced that the societies forty in number and with a membership of over 2000 will interest themselves in the cause of the Boers American library ROME Dec 2 The establishment in Rome of an American library has been ordered by royal decree The library will contain all publications relating to the new world since its discovery Illness of Wilhelmina AMSTERDAM Dec 2 The state ment that Queen Wilhelminas aide-de-camp Major Van Tot is suffering from peritonitis and not from the ef fects of a duel fought with the con sort Prince Henry is confirmed Stabs Wiffe and Himself ST LOUIS Dec 2 While in a drunked frenzy tonight Joseph Flory a clerk in the employ of the Graubner Ice company stabbed his wife Lena three times in the breast with a huge hunting knife and then cut his own throat both dying instantly Flory and his wife had a quarrel earlier in the day about money matters and this led to the tragedy Willie a 10-year-old son of the couple was a horrified witness of the affair t r STIRS UP NATIONAL GUARD Adjutant General Authorizes Additional Companies LINCOLN Neb Dec 2 Adjutant General Colby turned loose his order machine and ground out some orders for the Nebraska National guard He authorized the organization of two new independent companies one at West Point and the other at Stanton James C Elliott was given authority to organize a company at West Point and G A Eberly of Stanton was giv en permission to recruit another at his home town Both companies will be equipped by the state and after organization may be admitted to the guard Orders were also issued for the for mation of a signal corps and en gineers corps at Fremont and two ad ditional sections of artillery the latter probably at Plattsmouth and Grand Island though the location is still un determined This activity in the Nebraska Na tional guard has caused many to be lieve that a third regiment is to be organized but General Colby says there is no ground for that belief as the independent companies do not in dicate a new regiment He says the matter of organizing a third regiment is undetermined The formation of two additional sec tions of artillery will necessitate more guns as each section is supposed to have two guns General Colby has taken steps to secure four new model breech loading cannon together with harness and equipment MANY WANT BOOKS TO READ Applications Are Received Daily by State Library Commission LINCOLN Neb Dec 2 Applica tions for sets of books are being re ceived by the State Library commis sion at the state house Secretary Bullock who will have immediate charge of the distribution is making the preliminary arrangements for the circulation and expects to have the system in full operation within tho next few weeks The applications so far received are from Blair German town Harvard Talmage Syracuse Loup City Alexandria Douglas Par dum Kenesaw Fairmont Oak pre cinct and Osceola The commission has aprpoximately 1200 available for the purchase of books This money it is estimated will buy over 1400 books About one third of the books in each set will be of the juvenile class and a ma jority of the balance will come under the general classification of fiction It is the desire of the commission to have each large town or city which is a beneficiary of the traveling li brary system make a small donation for the purchase of new books It is believed that in this way the pur chase fund will be greatly increased GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER The Jnry at Fremont Convicts Joseph Dusseldorf FREMONT Neb Dec 2 Joseph T Dusseldorf was convicted of the kill ing of Arthur C Payne at North Bend on June 20 1901 The jury went out at 250 and returned at 405 with a verdict of manslaughter This will let Dusseldorf off with a penitentiary sentence of anywhere from one to teri years It is understood that the de fendants attorneys may move for a new trial The general opinion here is that Dusseldorf was fortunate in escaping conviction on the charge of murder though it cannot be denied that the evidence showed some exten uating circumstances Sentence has not yet been pronounced New Rand Toward Omaha FORT DODGE la Dec 2 McAr thur Bros contractors on the Great Western road have started a large force of men and teams on the Omaha main line of their new road from thi city to Omaha Work on the Clarion Hampton branch of the Great West- em line will not be completed as ex pected this year Work on the Omaha main line will be pushed with all speed as there is much heavy wortf to be done Paper HTill to Bo Operated LINCOLN Neb Dec 2 A- new company has been organized in Lin coln capitalized at 50000 which pro poses to operate the old paper mil plant south of town The president of the company is S H Burnham The proposition of the new enterprise is to undertake the manufacture of the heavier grades of wrapping papei from straw and corn husks Woman Adjudged Insane FALLS CITY Neb Dec 2 On complaint of C F Reavis Mrs Geo E Dorrington has been adjudged in sane and will be taken to Lincoln foi treatment soon Strychnine Kills Landlord GRETNA Neb Dec 2 Alexandei Simon who conducts a hotel at thi place took an overdose of strychnine and died a few minutes later De spondency was the cause - NEBRASKAS NEW MILITIA Authority la Given for Two Companion of Infantry LINCOLN Neb Nov 30 The first formal steps in the reorganization of tho Nebraska National guard were taken by Adjutant General Colby Authority was given for the organiza tion of two Independent companies of infantry a company of signal and engineer corps and two additional sections for the battery of artillery and recuisition was made on the War department at Washington for enough of the latest pattern Krag Jorgenson rifles to equip one regiment also enough artillery equipment for one complete battery The company of engineer and signal corps will be organized as infantry by Lieutenant Hull captain of the Pershing Rifles University battalion and formerly of the First Nebraska volunteers and W R Brooks who was also a member of the First regi ment of volunteers It will be sta tioned at Fremont and after the pre- liminary organization is completed can De brought under cultivation al will be divided into two sections one to be known as the signal corps and the other as the engineer corps Each section will be under command of a lieutenant and both will be subordin ate to the captain there being only three commissioned officers The independent companies of in fantry will be stationed at West Point and Stanton and will be or ganized by James C Elliott and G A Eberly respectively WRECKED CATTLE ARE WILD Attack the Men Who Kescne Them From Overturned Cars MCOOK Neb Nov 30 As B M special stock train No 76 was pulling into the yards here from the west it ran into a broken switch which caused two cars to leave the track turning one car completely over and leaving the other on its side The cattle in one car were able to get out but the roof of the other had to be removed before they could be lib erated Three of them were killed and a number crippled After being liberated the cattle were crazed for the time and attempted to attack the persons present The slow speed at which the train was going was all that saved a serious wreck The stock was being shipped from Denver to South Omaha Officials Inspect Sidney SIDNEY Neb Nov 30 A special train passed through here over the Burlington railway carrying a party consisting of President George B Harris Director B F Perkins Gen eral Manager G W Holdrege Gener al Charles F Manderson Superintend ent J R P Sellan and a number of clerks and employes of the Burlington system The train remained here half an hour to permit the party to in spect the site for a roundhouse and machine shops Returns to Winter Quarters FAIRBURY Neb Nov 30 Camp bell Bros shows which has made its season a month later this year than usual traveling in the south ar rived in winter quarters here They report an unusually successful busi ness this season and next year they will materially increase their attrac tions Campbell Bros show is a Fairbury enterprise that has grown from a school house medicine show to a railroad circus and menagerie in seven years Death of Junge Selah ONEILL Neb Nov 30 Judge Clarence Selah died at his home in ONeill of typhoid fever after an ill ness of six weeks Judge Selah was a well known editor and publisher in the early days in northern Nebraska having published papers in both ONeill and Ewing He was elected county judge of Holt county in 1897 and has a record of a model officer John G Gloaskel Fonnd Dead NEBRASKA CITY Neb Nov 30 John G Gloaskel a well-to-do farmer reidlng near here went into his Kitchen about midnight to shake up the fire and failing to return when it was thought that he should his son went in quest of his and found him lying on the noor cold in death He was 60 years of age and leaves a large family of grown children Duel in the Asylum TABLE ROCK Neb Nov 30 News arrived here of the death of William Brown at the asylum at Hastings His age was 86 years Contest Papers Filed BEATRICE Neb Nov 30 Papers in contest proceedings were filed by W S Tilton chairman of the county republican central committee against the giving of a certificate of election to W A Waddington to the office ol sheriff The petition relates among other things that J T Moore repub lican candidate for sheriff by reason of irregularities in a half dozen or more election precincts is entitled to a certificate of election WHAT A LEADING AGRICULTURIST SAYS OF WESTERN GANAU Prof Thomas Shaw of Minnesota verslty Gives an Unbiased Opinion In a letter to The Farmer St Paul dated Sept 1st 1901 Prof Thomas Univer Minnesota State Shaw of the sity has tho following to say after having made a trip through Western Canada The capabilities of the immense Canada are but area known as Western little understood on this sldo of the line Our people are apt to look upon it as a region of frost and snow a country in which but a small portion of the land relatively will over bo till able because of tho rigors of the cli mate True the climate is cold in win ter but Western Canada has neverthe less just that sort of climate which makes it tho most reliable wheat pro ducing country in all the continent An Immense Area Western Canada is not only an Im mense area but the samo description will apply to those portions of the country that are capable of being suc cessfully tilled or grazed Nearly all of the prairie Province of Manitoba though probably not one third of Its surface has been laid open by the plow Assinibola to the west is a grain and stock country Saskatchewan to the north of Assiniboia has high adapta tion for the same This also may be said of Alberta to the west Here lies what may be termed a grain growing and stock producing empire the re sources of which have been but little drawn upon comparatively viewed from the standpoint of the agricultur alist When it is called to mind that even In the Peace River country in Athabasca and several hundreds of miles north of the Canadian boundary wheat was grown which won a pre mium at the Worlds Fair in 18S3 tho capabilities of this country In wheat production loom up more brightly than even the brilliant northern lights of the land that lies toward the pole Adapted to Stock and Grain Production The region under consideration Is however mainly adapted to growing grain and grazing stock Much of it is adapted to growing both grain and stock but certain areas especially to wards the mountains are only adapted to ranching except where Irrigation will yet be introduced This of course can be done successfully along the many streams that flow down from the Rockies and water the country towards the east and north The adaptation of the country for wheat production Is of a high character The cool nights that usually characterize the ripening season are eminently favorable to the filling of the grain and to the secur ing of a plump berry and consequently large yields The crop this year Is a magnificent one In Manitoba and the territories it should certainly give an average of more than 20 bushels per acre But should the yield be not more than 20 bushels the crop will be a most handsome one owing to the large area sown to wheat Many farmers only grow grain But those who do succeed as well in growing oats and barley as In growing wheat hence these foods for stock should always be abundant Some grow cattle mainly and others combine the two The last named of course is doubtless the saf est of the three during a long course of years that is to say where much farming is practicable Quality of tho live Stock It was a peasurable surprise to note the high quality of the stock The average of quality in cattle is higher than the average of cattle in our state unless in the dairy classes This opinion Is not reached rashly or with out ample opportunity for investiga tion I spent three long days in the show ring at Winnipeg making the awards in the beef classes I question if any of our states single handed could make such a showing In cattle It was my privilege to make the awards at several shows and at all of their fairs were evidences that much attention Is given to the improvement oi tne stocK I noted carefully the character of the herds that grazed along the railroad and everywhere the high average of the quality of the stock was in evidence Reasons for Quality in Stock The quality of the grass Is good Many of the settlers came from On tario and had been schooled as to the value of good stock before going west The railroads and the government have taken a deep interest in making it less difficult and costly to the farm ers to secure good males Those who are anxious of changing their residence should bear in mind that the lands in Western Canada are many of them free and others reason ably cheap Information will gladly be given by any agent of the Canadian government whose advertisement appears else where Rub a little butter on the fingers and on mo mfe when seeding raisins to avoid the stickiness Cloches Get Sick And cannot be ironed into shape again without the introduction of a starch with medicinal properties Defi ance starch contains the solution that brings all washable goods back to health or newness It makes any wash able arcticle of apparel look like new Any grocer will sell you a 16 oz pack age for 10 cents Use it once and you will never buy any other Made by Magnetic Starch Co Omaha Neb A wise man enjoys the litlf h while the fool is lookinVfor55 MORE FLEXIBLE AND tASTlXG SncaVouS bUetieby than possible with inv oi tt5 results one third more fS seneyf ud -- - - u Y s K 2 - 1 S v