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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1901)
Tm I ilKMBWilWIUjllipilll MIIIIIWWHTWWi mmmM IWMlllllllilllill I X McCook Tribune If F M MCOOK I - i - L m ff r v y 2r - V S m x ton 3V KIMMELX Publisher NEBRASKA BRIEf TELEGRAMS f Courtenay Walter Bennett -who has been BritlBh consul general at Bilboa since 1900 has been gazetted consul general of Great Britain at San Fran cisco It has been proposed in Washington to invite ex President Cleveland to ad dress congress on the occasion of thu memorial services for President Mc Kinley The appeal of Joseph Hinkard who murdered his wife for a new trial has ibeen refused by the Indiana supreme court He has been given the death sentence Immigration Agent E R Werkman i of the Great Nortbern expects that the spring movement of settlers to the Pacific northwest will be the heaviest ever known Mme Nordicas claim of 3000000 against the United States government for the losses at sea of her ancestor Ichabod Norton aDnears to have been j filed about ten years too late xn ueorgia legislature passes tno act granting certain lands lying in the northeast part of tho state to the Na tional Appalachian park which is to be named after President McKinley The marriage of Miss Helen Hay daughter of the secretary of state and Mr Payne Whitney -of New York will occur Thursday February 6 at the Church of the Covenant in Washing- Secretary Long acknowledged in an infprmal letter the receipt of a re- l quest from Admiral Schley for per- mission to file a bill of objections to 41n An4 1 - i ouirv Senator Daniel of Virginia lives in gtr caj iiiuucau bib iu vvcisiiiugLuu ituu sf has for thirty years spent nearly all g - of Tii3 money in paying off debts in- jy curjed br a relative in the panic of W 1873 gff Cecil Khodes in a long letter to the 3 - yvr ment of large number of suitable Brit- subjects on land among the Boers fe as the only safe means of eradicating jv race hatred in South Africa Wfi The Amsterdam corresnondent of 28V - T rTll Ti Tri rroncn n rr m 11 r -Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry - of tne Netnerlands her husband drove in an open carriage through Apple- dorn yesterday The correspondent adds the royal pair will return to The 7 Hague tomorrow The most recent investigation intc ff I thnr citnntinn n ho ptviwtip xirnrtso r7 - s Tne Aroeits MarKt a iienm newspa 5per says there were 224 applicants H for 100 vacancies in November against 200 applicants for the same number of ir vacancies in October W A rumor is current that Count the Austro Hungarian min fSj ister of foreign affairs is about tc fr resign owing to the refusal of the Emperor Francis Josef to sanction his arbitrary proposal to satisfy German Ul complaints arising from the Lc jman demonstrations in Galicia r - Alexander Kirk while delirious jfrom small pox escaped from his home in Amhert Wis and wandered about - in the snow storm His wife who is vVjjust recovering from the same disease -followed him for about a mile but V the cold compelled her to turn back - kirks frozen body was found three j miles from his home The Boer ballad is popular in Paris vv Publishers in this country has filed hurry up orders William H Walker once employed jpUas a painter on the Pan American 1- buildings at Buffalo was found frozen f rtn rlpnth Tifiar Tvons N Y Y Tbird Clerk Mark Amerberg of the isteamer Spread Eagle one of the RLeyhe fleet of St Iouis in winter fe quarters at Paducah Ky was drown- Vi ed yesterday by- breaking through the ice The remains were shipped to his home at Grafton 111 An Italian psychologist has aiered that Christopher Columbus was HAn s mnyct AnTA Vlc QQ1l V 1UMUC 1U1 jrto oii uo xi -- - oeLll XiUW IUU1L luc uaiu ui unite oo mayor of New York in the supreme Hi court of New York Mr Low will as- Vsume oface at noon on January 1 Finance Minister Limantour of 2 jco has sent his budget for the next fiscal year to congress He says that the depression which existed at this ftlme last year is disappearing except fNf in regard to the cotton manufacturing Pc industry -The Bulgarian minister has resign ed owing to the hostility of the so branje to the proposal for a new loan Lady Barnett recently presented to - Queen Aleandra a Pomeranian dog which weighs only a pound and a half and is valued at 5000 John Murphy superintendent of the - 1 1- et84 i n ntA TZtt IjOUiS DrauCU UL owui oc yu uicu suddenly at the home of his wifes Sbarents at Muncie Ind Murphy had isiT - gone there with his family ror the iholidays He was apparently in good iealth In the morning ii WIPED OFF THE SLATE Secretary Long Writes that the Schley Case is at an End APPROVES THE COURTS FINDINGS A Eehearlng is Denied the Admiral Therefore tho Mntters Bests Tho Ap peal of Attorneys for Sampson Like wise Baled Oat WASHINGTON Dec 23 Secretary Long has disposed finally of the Schley case so far as the navy de partment is concerned by acting upon the findings and conclusLis of the court of inquiry He approves the findings of facts and the opinion of the full court he approves the majority opinion where there is a difference in the court he holds that the court could not have entered in to the question of com mand at the battle of Santiago and finally he accepts the recommendation i that no further proceedings shall be had The secretary also has declined the application of Admiral Sampsons counsel to enter upon an inquiry into the question of command and hos no tified Admiral Schleys counsel of that fact as a reason for declining to hear them on that point Secretary Longs approval of the majority report was as follows WASHINGTON Dec 21 1901 The department has read the testi mony in the case the arguments of counsel at the trial the courts find ings of fact opinion and recommen dation the individual memorandum of the presiding member the statement of exceptions to the said findings and the opinion by the applicant the re ply to said statement by the judge advocate of the court and his assist ant and the briefs this day submitted by counsel for Rear Admiral Samp son traversing presiding members view as to who was in command at the battle of Santiago And after careful consideration the findings of fact and the opinion of the full court are approved As to the points on which the presiding member differs from the majority of the court the opinion of the majority isapproved As to the further expression of his views by the same member with regard to the questions of com mand on the morning of July 3 1898 and of the title to credit for the en suing victory the conduct of the court in making no finding and ren dering no opinion on those questions yis approved indeed it could with pro priety take no other course evidence on these questions during the inquiry having been excluded by the court The department records its appre ommendation ofthe court that no fur ther proceedings be had in the prem ises The department records is appre ciation of the arduous labors of the whole court JOHN D LONG Secretary of the Navy The text of the secretarys letter to Admiral Sampsons attorneys is as fol lows Navy Department Washington D C Dec 20 1901 Gentlemen In view of the departments approval this day of the recommendation of the court of inquiry in the case of Rear Admiral Schley that no further pro ceedings be had and of the fact that this Question of command was ex eluded from consideration by the court the department will take no ac tion upon the brief filed by you in behalf of Rear Admiral William T Sampson Very respectfully JOHN D LONG Secretary Messrs Staton Campbell and Thiell New York DIFFICULT TO MAKE TERMS Federal Authorities Are Still Negotiating With Hldmipers CONSTANTINOPLE Dec 23 W W Peet treatsurer of the Turkisa mis sion in Constantinople and M Gar guilo dragoman of the United States legation here are still at Salonica en deavoring to open negotiations with the brigands who hold captive Miss Ellen M Stone and to fix a rendezvous with them LONDON Dec 23 According to a Sofia dispatch to the Express an ar rangement has been made with the brigands holding Miss Stone captive and the American legation at Constan tinople under the terms of which the brigands are to accept 70000 for the release of Miss Stone It is said the ransom is to be paid on Bulgarian soil and that Miss Stone is to be liberated in Turkish territory Ohon Asrrostrnlosist WASHINGTON D C Dec 23 W 3 Spillman of Pullman Wash has been selected to succeed Prof F Lat son Scribner as the agrostologist of the department of agriculture Protectorate Over Tripoli VIENNA Dec 23 The Allgemeine Zeitung asserts that France and Italy have concluded a formal treaty which enables Italy to declare a formal pro tectorate oer Tripoli - 1 SOD HOUSE PAYS BIG MONEY Mrs Bowser Tells of Her Big Triumph tot Buffalo Exposition pMAHA Dec 23 Mrs L Bowser of sod house fame the Nebraska wo man who made such a success of sell ing Nebraska cooking in a Nebraska prairie home at the Pan American ex position is back to her native heath In an interview with the Bee she said This fall I had an opportunity to find out how valuable sod houses and the 160 acres of Nebraska land that surround them are When my hus band and I first settled in Nebraska with our two children we took a claim near Newport in Rock county and erected a lfttle sod home It was a comfortable home too and some of the happiest days of my life were spent there We planted and improved the place but were not contented and sold the little claim for 300 My son has always wanted to own the place This fall he tried to buy and the price is now 6000 That shows the increase there has been in the value of Ne braska land during the last twelve years for it was just a dozen years ago that we left the little sod house - I have been at a loss frequently tq explain why eastern people are so much interested in sod houses I know why I have such a love for a home of Nebraska turf but the hundreds of thousands of people who visited the Buffalo exposition seemed to be inter ested in my little house tucked away in a space so small that it could hardly be seen The size of my entire space was thirty seven feet by seventy five 4 feet and the building covered almost every inch of it It was all the room I could get In that little house thirty seven Nebraska men and women were ployed during the entire summer and at times my employes numbered as high as eighty six Some idea of the great amount of Nebraska creamed chicken we sold can be gained from the fact that I paid nearly 20000 lor the chickens we used Some days we used forty dozens of chickens Coffee was bought by us at the rate of 1000 pounds a week It was nothing un common to use 150 pounds of coffee per day Two Omaha men were kept busy making coffee all the time during the exposition and sometimes there were as many as fourteen people draw ing and serving coffee There was nothing to be had in my house but the plain cooking that might be found in any Nebraska home Creamed chicken ginger bread baked beans brown bread and coffee were all that we served At times the crowds were so dense in our little sod house that it seemed as though people must be trampled under foot When I went to Buffalo I told Mr Buchanan that it was my ambition to serve the best coffee on the grounds and to run my receipts up to 1000 a day I accom plished both and have only pleasant recollections of the Pan American A REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Letters Sent Out Suggesting Such an Organization LINCOLN Dec 23 Deputy Labor Commissioner C E Watson has sent out letters suggesting the organization of a state association by real estate dealers From many responses receiv ed it is apparent that the dealers in the slate are ready to take up such an enterprise the object in view be ing to encourage immigration to Ne braska It is believed that a majority would prefer not to admit real estate dealers in the cities of Lincoln or Omaha as such dealers are supposed to be interested more particularly in city property Farm property is rep resented more generally by agents liv ing outside the large cities The towns of York Hastings Grand Island and Columbus all have been mentioned as the probable place of the first meeting If a meeting is called it will be held early in the new year The object is to organize a state as sociation to promote immigration dis cuss papers dealing with land values acreage and the yield of crops and s kindred topics A dealer in York county writes that he has secured good results by adver tising Nebraska in reputable newspa pers and farm journals in Iowa and Illinois Several farmers from Aledo 111 have already bought land in York county and it is reported that a party of fifty farmers from the same place will buy tickets for York county on March 1- He says the Illinois farm ers who have been in Nebraska now realize that they can secure as much profit from Nebraska land as they can from Illinois land valued at 90 and 100 an acre County School Superintendents LINCOLN Dec 23 Superintendent Fowler has issued a call for a busl ness meeting of county superintend ents and superintendents elect to be held in the senate chamber beginning Tuesday afternoon December 31 Mr Fowler says We hope to have a very interesting and profitable meet ing Superintendents now in office should meet with us and give us the benefit of their experience whether they remain in office or go out r - - - s 7 V A i - S w AJi i uiMUMmniiiuMmtW - wfi v B0NNESS MUST GO BACK Governor Grants Requisition bat goan Still Battles OMAHA Dec 21 Governor Savage granted the requisition of the gover nor of Illinois for the return to that state of Frederic Bonness who was arrested in Omaha December 10 and was later released on bond Bonness is charged with deserting in Chicago his wife and four small children Policeman Joseph T Barry left the Windy City immediately upon bia arrest bringing with him the necessarsy papers Bonness through ills attorneys claims that he is not married to the woman The officer who is after him says that the wo man is the legal wife of the man and that when Bonness left Chicago he had in his possession 1400 leaving his wife penniless with a- child but three weeks old and the three other children too small to care for them selves The fight made before the governor by Bonness attorneys lasted for some time and upon its conclusion the papers were signed for his return Immediately upon the receipt of the information in Omaha Bonness was re arrested and his lawyers began habeas corpus proceedings and the argument will be heard before Judge Baker Bonness is a meat cutter By trade and was employed while in Omaha by the Omaha Tea company ADULTERATION MUST STOP Stats Proposes to Enforce Pure Cider Vinegar Act LINCOLN Dec 21 Deputy Food Commissioner S C Bassett is prepar ing to prosecute manufacturers and dealers who sell vinegar that does not come up to the test required by the law or sold under a false name The department has already analyzed many samples of alleged cider vinegar and found it to be a base imiftition A distilled product colored to re semble apple cider vinegar is the most common of the adulterated ar ticle on the market One of the sur prises is that the state has bought cider vinegar for 3 cents a gallon and upon investigation it proved to be below the test required by law and bore no evidence of having been in the vicinity of an apple Vinegar of this character has been shipped into Nebraska for 3 cents a gallon anil re tailed for from 25 to forty cents a gal lon as pure cider vinegar One sam ple taken from a Lincoln store con tained salicylic acid This acid is used as preservative and according to law its use is made an offense pun ishable by a fine of not less than 50 0E INTEREST TO TEACHERS Teachers Attending Association Sleeting Will Get Low Bates LINCOLN Dec 21 For the -information of teachers and others who wish to attend the forthcoming meet ing of the Nebraska State Teachers association Superintendent Fowler publishes the following rate bulletin which was received from the Western Passenger association Rate of one fare for the round trip from points in Nebraska and the Black Hills district of South Dakota excursion tickets to be sold ffom points in the territory mentioned from which the local one way rate to Lincoln is more than 3 on De cember 30 31 and January 1 and from points within the radius men tioned on December 31 and January 1 good to return until and including January 4 1902 Tickets limited for going passage commencing date of sale and for continuous passage in each direction Shortage Made Good LINCOLN Dec 21 The shortage of former Oil Inspector J N Gaffin was made good by the payment of 52203 to the state by the Fidelity and Deposit company of Baltimore The settlement was brought about by the state board of compromise of which the attorney general state treasurer and state auditor are the members A check for the amount was given to the auditor Live Stock Stands It HARRISON Neb Dec 21 A bliz zard set in Sunday evening and con tinued until Monday evening piling up a foot of snow on the level and great heaps in railroad cuts and over the range Cattle are in good condi tion and it is thought will be able to tide over all right Sirs Nation at Beatrice BEATRICE Neb Dec 21 Mrs Carrie Nation lectured here but Her audience was quite small owing to the inclemency of the weather Missouri Against Nebraska LINCOLN Dec 21 Attorney Gen eral Prout has returned from Wash ington where he appeared before tile supreme court and asked that com missioners be appointed to take evi dence in the suit of Missouri against Nebraska The controversy arises over several acres of land cut off from Nebraska by a sudden freak of the Missouri river The land and citi zens are still considered Nebraskas taxes being paid in Nehama county FOR EP10URES TO READ Add to Your Knowiego of the Tempting Oyster This being the oyster season all In formation concerning that sea animal known to the illiterate as the luscious bivalve Js in order We know tlp t oysters sometimes give peorle typhoid fever taste strongly of oil if scooped up in the Staten Island Kills are whitened and fattened for the New York market by being kept in fresh water and fed on corn meal that their flavor is spoiled by the process and in short a lot of things about them which were perhaps just as well that we did not know- At present a discussion Is going on as to how long an oyster lives provided he is let live Prof Mobius a German authority on the subject says that the Schlcswig oysters -which they eat in North Germany are from seven to ten years old when they come into the market and he has seen some which were between twenty five and thirty years old though he acknowl edges that oysters even twenty five years old are rare Bertram in his Harvest of the Sea says that an oyster is in its prime when it is five years old Prof S- P Woodward as serts that an oyster -on artificial ground does not arrive at maturity un til it is between five and seven years old but those grown in natural beds mature at the age of four It is be lieved that an oyster left to its nat ural chances would be likely to arrive at an extreme old age Fossil oyster shells have been found which were nine inches thick from which it is computed that the oyster must have been more than a hundred years old at the time of its death The age of an oyster is determined by the outside of its shell the successive layers or plates overlapping each other mark ing a years growth each Up to the time of the oysters maturity these shoots as they technically are called are regular but after that period they become irregular and are piled one over the other so that the shell be comes more thickened and bulky and the age marks more confused New York Press SCENT THAT CLINGS Smoke or Cigars Worries tho Bachelor Girl Oulto a Lot Talk about a grain of musk scent ing a room for twenty five years said the bachelor girl thats nothing to the way a whiff of tobacco smoke will make its presence known for ages without apparently diminishing in strength My brother calls on me sometimes in the afternoons and when he does he is of course accompanied by the inevitable cigar He smokes during the interview and I talk a very acceptable division of labor to both of us and then he goes away and I air my sitting room thoroughly as I suppose That night if purchance I have a visitor Dear me he says or whatever is the masculine equivalent for that expression dear me find the man I smell tobacco smoke so there must be one about here somewhere When I mention my brother he looks first incredulous and then suspicious Ive caught more than one of my call ers furtively looking at my fingers to see if they showed any trace of nico tine I suppose and once or twice my opinion as to the relative merits of the different brands of cigarettes has been asked suddenly when I was off my guard apparently to see whether I would commit myself Evidently my kind friends suspect me of doing the smoking myself Theres plenty of it done among women and what are known as nice women too but its a habit that I abhor I never had a cigarette in my mouth and still when someone notices the fragrance of to bacco about my rooms or my clothes for both are impregnated they seem convinced that I am a fiend Last week when I took my winter hangings out of the cedar closet I could smell last winters tobacco smoke still lin gering in their folds I cant get it out Air is of no avail This winter my brother is going to be denied his cigars said the bachelor girl I cant get the reputation of being a cigarette fiend just to make him com fortable now can I I hate to sacri fice him but no doubt for the good of the family hell be willing even to give up his perfecto Baltimore News Prairie Dogs Flourishing There is one North American ani mal that does not share the fate of becoming extinct which appears to threaten all the other beasts on this hemisphere The exception is the prairie dog Man has been so busy and successful in exterminating this little ground squirrels natiiral enemies the coyotes badgers ferrets hawks owls and eagles that the prairie dog has multiplied marvelously and on certain vast grazing lands its mound3 are so many and its consumption and ruin of herbage are so great that only half as many cattle can be pastured on them as formerly when the beasts were kept down by other animals that fed on them The federal government and the state governments of Dakota Nebras ka Kansas and Texas are spending lots of money now to find some means for exterminating the pest Blch Mans Idea of Kevenge J M Longyear of Marquette Mich who built himself a palatial home at a cost of 500000 in that city has be come so embittered against the city for allowing a railroad to run so near his property that he will move the house stone by stone to Boston which project will almost reach the original cost of the structure Chicago Chron icle - r s - - x J vi v - igggi - r ji immn ijjBUhHWdHfrtatt I 7 Y I X v Y T Y Y Y X Y Y Y Y Y X ogam u IwnwM Everybody Who suffers from Bodily X Aches and Pains such as X Rheumatism Gout X bago Headache Purb A Sciatica Sprains and Bruise X ShouicI Use St Jacobs Oil I It Conquers Pain Price 35c and 50c lflMrn7 1 IsliMli QmaMmM Y SOLI BY ALL PEALER3 IN MEDICINE XKXXJXXXMXMWKH pmiummnt MSM GAPSIGUM VASELINE PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLB TUBES A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster and will not blister the most delicate skin The pain allaylner and curative qualities of this article are wonder ful It will stop the toothache at once and relieve headache and sciatica We recom mend it as the best and safest external counter irritant known also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic neuralgic and gouty com plaints A trial will prove what we claim for it and it will be found to be invaluablo In the household Many people say it is the best of all of your preparations Price 1C cents at aUdruKgists or other dealers or by sending this amount to us in postago stamps we win scna you a tuDC Dy mail ino article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label as otherwise i t Is not genuine CHESEBROUQH MFQ CO giTuaiuco 17 state street new tobk uitt Salters Rann green jr iooaac j uuu toa FARM SEEDS I 8PELTZ Wl Jlt 1H Itl r aWTwtft fl7JT0 WTT P t TttTTf wide awRke fanner or gardener to- cotnerwita many i nnHBtjuKwuiJw i5juwi vfXf h Catalog DAlUtJUB0 OXJJO JfJ 1 TOGflfiftll Customers and yet wo aro reachlnpr out for more we I desire by Jnly let 200000 more and henco lais unpixrccuciiKTu uuvw o mmn vm m Tl in nul A we win man upon receipt u w 4 d ra cuwiumuc i J tcus k suirii wjm tw wvf - JBJr to 1U in JfJimnt i3 Dtt13 - - v rrr r v k cnriimt leucLuuin nr PIPfiJtO TfcKTiM AAsa SI OA iK send HTtfyyTTm titWV Catalog adv with gJJ J Ji H iittB aioneoc 10c to Salzer Hllii iP ITJmH Send at once WESTERN CANADAS Wonderful wneat crop for 10dl now the talk of tne commercial worm is Dy no means enal The province or Manitoba and districts of Assiniboio Saskat chewan 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