McCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
BRIEf TELEGRAMS
Senor Concha Uie newly appointed
Colombian minister presented his cre
dentials and was introduced to Presi
dent Roosevelt
A number of South Dakota land
cases have been settled by the sec
retary of the interior upon appeal
from the decision of the general land
office
Roberta Maria Wright daughter of
the mayor of Denrtr Colo is to act
as sponsor for the cruiser Denver
when 8he is launched about the middle
of April
Senator Fairbanks has introduced a
bill authorizing the construction of an
agricultural building on the site of
the present building at a cost of 2
600000
John Green of Petersburg Va a
person who has posed before the world
for thirty five years as a married man
and who died aged seventy five years
was a woman
John Morley who is writing a life
of Mr Gladstone has just discovered
among the late premiers effects a di
ary covering most of the interesting
period of his career
General Greeley has invited bids
for supplying a system of wireless
telegraphy between Nome City and
St Michael Alaska 104 miles distant
across Norton sound
The senate committee on judiciary
has reported a bill to allow persons
along the Mississippi to sue the gov
ernment for damages resulting from
the building of levees
At a conference of cotton experts
held at the colonial office at Berlin
it was resolved to dispatch a com
mission to the United States to study
the cultivation of cotton
Rear Admiral Endlcott chief of the
bureau of docks and yards will ask
congress for an appropriation of 1
000000 for the construction of a new
dry dock in the Philippines
While the prince and princess of
Wales were launching the battleship
Prince of Wales at Chatham a gunner
who was firing a salute was mortally
injured both his arms being blown
off
A bill has been introduced by Sen
ator Morgan giving the court of
claims jurisdiction In cases arising out
of the seizure of vessels engaged in
the sealing industry prior to April 1
1904
The department of encouragement
of Mexico has issued directions to ex
hibitors in the St Louis Worlds fair
and to various state governors asking
them to exercise great caro in prepar
ing state exhibits
May 22 and 23 has been decided
upon by the Nebraska department of
the Grand Army of the Republic for
holding its annual encampment and
Omaha is to be the city which will
entertain the veterans
Mr Martin of South Dakota has in
troduced in the house a joint resolu
tion providing for the publication of
1000 copies of preliminary descrip
tion of the geology and water reser
tion of the peology and water reser
voirs of the southern half of the Black
Hills
Major General E S Otis has closed
his active career in the army by rea
son of age and will go into retirement
He will be succeeded in command of
the Department of the Lakes at Chi
cago by Major General Arthur Mac
Arthur recently in command of the
Department of the Colorado at Den
ver
The senate has passed the Gamble
bill directing the secretary of the in
terior to investigate the claims of cer
tain members of the Lower Brule band
of Sioux Indians for damages sustain
ed by their forcible removal from
South of White river S D in 1893
and authorizing the treasury to pay
these claims
David Blaine of the Kansas and Ok
lahoma Implement Dealers associa
tion announced recently that the rail
roads would be asked for special rates
for 20000 harvesters and 15000 teams
for the wheat belt to take care of the
harvest The recent rains he says
indicate a heavier wheat crop than
that of last years
Governor Jordan of New Hampshire
has appointed Thursday April 17 as
Fast day in the Granite state
The German Cable company has ar
ranged to buy the JSmden Virga line
of the German Sea Telegraph com
pany
The tailors of Lincoln Neb are on
a strike for higher wages
At Helena Mont the entire police
force of the city resigned as a result
of orders which they say were issued
by Mayor Frank J Edwards who is
a candidate for re election
At Parsons Kan Lee Watson a
14-year-old boy was killed by taking
hold of a live wire
Edward E Fairweather auditor of
freight claims of the Chicago Bur
lington Quincy railway died at Day
tona Fla
ANGE MEN
BATTLE REPORTED IN UPPER
GREEN RIVER COUNTRY
STOGK - GROWERS LOGK HORNS
Two Men Seriously Wounded and
9Hundreds of Sheep Clubbed and
Shot to Death The Culmination of
a Long Existing Trouble
ROCK SPRINGS Wyo March 31
A telephone message was received from
Big PIney in the upper Green river
cuntry in Uinta and Sweetwater coun
ties stating that a bloody battle had
been fought near that place between
cattlemen and sheepmen the trouble
having grown out of a division of the
rane The report said that two sheep
men brothers named Hill had been
badly hurt and that it was feared other
participants in the fight had been
wounded
Before further details could be
learned tie telephone line broke down
and as Big Piney is twenty five miles
from the nearest point of communica
tion there is no way of confirming the
report or learning more about the trou
ble until tomorrow
Trouble has been brooding in the
upper Green river country for some
time Several years ago the cattlemen
of the region drew a dead line around
a certain tract of range which is said
to be the finest feeding ground in the
Rocky mountains and issued warnings
to sheepmen to stay away Local
flockmasters obeyed the mandate for
they knew that if they crossed the line
their sheep would be turned back or
slaughtered But nomadic herds were
frequently pushed into the forbidden
territory with the result that flocks
were driven out some sheep were
slaughtered herders Were shot at and
wounded and sheep wagons and out
fits were destroyed
Last spring John Butterfield and a
companion herder were attacked by
masked men Both were wounded and
one was crippled for life November 9
Tom Ryan and Chris Peterson herders
in the employ of a Salt Lake City out
fit were shot at and run out of the
country their sheep were slaughtered
and the camp outfit was destroyed
As feed is getting scarce and ranges
are overcrowded it is feared that the
sheepmen driven to desperation will
fight it out to the bitter end with the
cattlemen who it is claimed have no
more right to the range than the flock
masters for it is government domain
chiefly Further trouble of a serious
nature is expected
Further particulars of the battle on
the range in the upper Green river
country between cattlemen and sheep
men have been received
Roan and Abe Hill sheepmen were
seriously wounded but were not dead
when the courier came out Eleven
hundred of their sheep were clubbed
and shot to death The Hill brothers f
shot two cattlemen whose names have
not been learned but they were not
fatally wounded
Another report says that several
sheep herders were severely beaten and
a large number of sheep killed but
that no person was fatally hurt
JAMES R GARFIELD ACCEPTS
Son of Late President Will Be a Civil
Service Commissioner
WASHINGTON D C March 31
James R Garfield a son of the late
President Garfield has accepted the
position of civil service commissioner
tendered him about ten clays ago by
President Roosevelt Mr Garfield is
a comparatively young man and is en
gaged in the practice of law with his
brother Harry A Garfield in Cleve
land
He is a notable figure in Ohio politi
cal circles and has served as static sen
ator from his district He was author
of the law known as the Garfield elec
tion law of Ohio which required all
nominees for elective offices to file with
the secretary of state a sworn state
ment of expenses incurred by them
during the campaign The law how
ever was recently repealed Mr Gar
field is a resident of Mentor a suburb
of Cleveland
Aguinaldo is to Testify
MANILA March 31 Senor Yalez
editor of a local paper who has been
sued for libel by two of the Filipino
members of the United States Philip
pines commission will subpoena Ag
uinaldo to appear in court to testify
in the case General Chaffees per
mission to this step has been obtained
Unable tto Locate Steyn
PRETORIA March 31 The ef
forts of Acting President Schalbur
gher to open communication with Mr
Steyn former president of the Orange
Free State have thus far been unsuc
cessful Dewet and Steyn have cross
ed the main line of the railroad going
west They are escorted by Vannie
kirk and Vandemerwe and have been
traced to Paris about thirty miles
northwest of Heilbron road Orange
River colony
EXPECT A VOTE BY TUESDAY
Friends of Oleo Bill Lookto Its Im
mediate Passage
WASHINGTON 1 C March 31
The friends of the oleomargarine bill
hope to secure a vote on that measure
on Tuesday of the present week and
as son as it shall be disposed of the
Chinese exclusion bill will be called
up According to the present proposi
tion Senator Mitchell who was large
ly instrumental in framing the exclu
sion bill will make the first presenta
tion of its merits to the senate He
will be followed by other supporters of
the bill and it is the hope of Senator
Penrose who has carge of the meas
ure that the senate will be able to
conclude its consideration within ten
days after it is taken up
There is no pronounced opposition
to the bill as a whole but an effort will
be made to amend it in some particu
lars There are several speeches to be
made on the oleomargarine bill but it
is the general understanding that the
discussion will be concluded during
the first half of the week if not by
Tuesday in time to allow a vote on
that date
It is expected that the Indian ap
propriation and the river and harbor
bill will be reported Hiring the week
Both are subjected to immediate con
sideration even to the extent of dis
placing other bills but it is not be
lieved that either of them will be used
to deprive the Chinese bill of its chance
for consideration
The Philippine government bill will
also be reported probably today but
its consideration by the senate nec
essarily will be postponed for some
weeks
TEN THOUSAND HOMESTEADS
Will Be Taken Up When the Utah
Reservation is Opened
WASHINGTON D C March 31
The senate committee on Indian af
fairs adopted the amendment to the
Indian appropriation bill in accord
ance with an understanding with the
president and the interior department
to open the Uintah reservation in Utah
on October 1 1903
The reservation includes about 2
000000 acres There will be about
10000 homesteads exclusive of limber
and important mineral entries The
latter have long been matters of dis
pute and have caused muck irritation
and trouble One reason assigned for
the decision to open the reservation to
settlement is the fact that the govern
ment has never been able lo prevent a
monopoly of an output of the rich
asphalt lands in the reservation
The lands will probably be opened
through the medium of a drawing such
as was employed in opening the Kiowa
and Comanche reservations in Okla
homa
IOWA WOMAN KILLS A MAN
Mrs G B Walker of Miles Shoots J
S Judd of Chicago
KANSAS CITY March 31 A spe
cial to the Journal from Las Vegas
N M says
Mrs G B Walker yesterday shot
and killed J S Judd of Chicago in
her rooms in this city Judd had gone
to her rooms and tried she alleges to
assault her she being alone at the
time The bullet entered his head
just below the ear killing him in
stantly Judd was 55 years old and
was reputed to be wealthy He has
three sons who are physicians One
is city physician of Topeka Kan an
other medical director of the Monte
zuma hotel Las Vegas Mrs Walker
is a health seeker She is the wife
of an Iowa farmer and came here from
Miles that state She freely admits
killing Judd but says she Avas justi
fied in doing the deed It is expected
her husband will start for this city
tomorrow
Banker Jumpse Into River
ST LOUIS March 31 Everett C
Baker of Terre Haute Ind former
cashier of a bank at Harrisburg 111
attempted suicide by jumping into
the Mississippi river here but inter
ference of the police defeated his ef
forts Papers on his person and
statements made to the police led
them to believe he was formerly con
nected with McKeens bank of Terre
Haute Police are holding him until
Terre Haute authorities can be heard
from
Boers Still Hold the Guns
PRETORIA March 31 The four
guns taken by the Boers when Gen
eral Methuen was captured are still
in General Delareys hands Those re
captured by Colonel Kekewich are the
guns lost at the time of the Vondonop
convoy disaster
Death of Major Clagget
NEW ORLEANS La March 31
Major J R Clagget of the Second Uni
ted States infantry died here today
He came to New Orleans two months
ago from Fort Thomas Ky in search
of health
Cholera Spreads in Manila
MANILA March 31 During the
last three days there have been ten
new cases of cholera here and four
deaths from the disease
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STOLE MOTHERS MONEY
Skrabal Boys Confess and Dig Up the
Wealth
BEATRICE Neb March 31 After
being In the sweatbox for several
hours William Skrabal finally con
fessed his guilt in the stealing of his
mothers money and then planting it
in his blacksmith shop floor He in
formed the authorities that he had
put about 1000 of money under the
sill of his barn Sheriff Waddington
at once went out to the farm and
found the money as indicated The
amount recovered by the sheriff is
1050 which with the 530 unearthed
by the detective making 1580 in all
still leaves 1120 unaccounted for
The boys stoutly maintain that they
only got a trifle over 1800 while
their mother insists that 2700 was
stolen from her The bovs claim that
they had no intention of robbing
their mother as they only wanted
her to come to time about certain
matters when the cash would have
been resorted They say that when
their father died last year he left
quite a sum of money and that they
were entitled to a portion of it but
as the old lady seemed to think oth
erwise they resorted to strategy in
getting even
AFTER OLEO DEALERS
State Food Commissioner Lodges Nu
merous Complaints
LINCOLN Neb March 31 State
Food Commissioner Bassett has lodg
ed complaints with County Attorney
Shields of Douglas county against
thirty one butchers and grocers and
several wholesale dealers of Omaha
for failure to take out permits to sell
oleomargarine After permits are se
cured under the state law a dealer is
not allowed to sell oleomargarine col
ored yellow The penalty for failure
to take out a license in a fine of from
10 to 100 and costs The food com
missioner merely makes complaint to
the county attorney and it is the prov
ince of the latter to file suit
Mr Bassett and County Attorney
Caldwell of Lancaster county won a
suit in the district court against Beha
Bros for selling colored oleo This
suit is considered by them a test case
and the state food commissioner will
now proceed to enforce the law
throughout the state
CONVICTED UNDER NEW LAW
Writing of Threatening Letter Proves
Costly
RUSHVILLE Neb March 31 In
the district court here was an impor
tant case where a young man by the
name of Fred Reno was charged with
sending a threatening letter through
the mail to Charles W Clafflin
threatening to wipe him off the face
of the earth if he should remain in
the community The letter was mail
ed at Pine Ridge and the postmis
tress identified it as the one dropped
in the box by the defendant The de
fendant denied having written the
letter and evidence was also intro
duced to show that no malice existed
between the man threatened and him
self This was the first case prose
cuted under the new law which was
passed by the last legislature as a
result of the Cudahy kidnaping case
The jury after being out eight hours
returned a verdict of guilty
Nebraska Beats New York
GRAND ISLAND Neb March 31
The finance committee of the A O
U W adjourned a regular session
here The committee has secured the
figuires of the New York Nebraska
contest and feels elated over the re
sult Last fall the contest was ar
ranged between the orders of the two
states to ascertain which would at
the end of three months have secured
the largest number of new members
Nebraska has been found to be the
winner and by figures which will un
doubtedly lead Father Knickerbocker
to the conclusion that the A O U W
jurisdiction of Nebraska has some
hustlers in it In December New
York secured 415 Nebraska 4G8 in
January New York 219 Nebraska
568 in February New York 47G Ne
braska 1216 making totals of New
York 1110 Nebraska 2252
Three Years for His Frolic
GRAND ISLAND Neb March 31
John Patterson one of the men
who confessed to holding up Dick
Nietfeld and of extorting 10 from
Henry Sander was given three years
in the penitentiary
Danel Wells the wealthiest man
in Wisconsin who died last week
erected an office building in Milwau
kee of pure white glazed terra cotta
the only one in the United States
Jury Unable to Agree
TEKAMAH Neb March 31 Much
interest has been manifested here in
the trial of John Wedgewood charg
ed with shooting Alpheus Marsh The
trial took place before Judge Dickin
son of the district court County At
torney Alex Corbin conducted the
prosecution and Speaker Sears was
the counsel for the defense The plea
was that Wedgewood did the shoot
ing in self defense The jury disa
greed
LOSE FREE SCHOOL RIGHTS
Twenty Counties in Nebraska Lack
High School Districts
LINCOLN Neb March 29 State
Superintendent Fowler is advocating
thS organization of high school dis
tricts and the consolidation of rural
schools He says there are twenty
counties in Nebraska without a high
school district
While in two or three of these
twenty counties said Mr Fowler
Chase for example a high school
district could now be organized at the
county seat in accordance with the
provisions of the school laws the
other counties are without a district
containing the required number of pu
pils or more than 150 children be
tween the ages of 5 and 21 years to
organize a high school district A
county without a high school district
cannot establish the adjunct district
and thus free high school privileges
are denied all children residents in
said county
I would urge therefore that in
every county with a district at the
county seat which contains according
to the last school census more than
150 children between the ages of 5
and 21 years the people organize un
der the school laws with a board of
six members In counties where the
county seat district contains less than
150 children between the prescribed
ages the districts around the seat
should consolidate until the consoli
dated district contains more than 150
children of the school age when it
may organize as a high school dis
trict Under consolidation with this
end in view it is not necessary to
transport the pupils in vans or wag
ons at public expense provided of
course a school is maintained for pu
pils in the grades below the high
school in the school houses on the
sites they occupied before consolida
tion
These schools may be continued
as are the ward schools in city dis
tricts continued Mr Fowler but all
high school work should be done in
the central school in the village
This would insure free high school
privileges to all pupils in the consol
idating district and upon the estab
lishment of the adjunct district to all
pupils in the county Consolidation
is not the organization of a new dis
trict and may be effected at any time
during the year
LAND BOOM MAKES CHANGES
Causes Removals of Nebraska Fami
lies to Minnesota
OMAHA Neb March 29 There
has been loss of population along the
line of the St Paul Omaha road in
Nebraska this spring and therefrom is
deduced the fact that the Nebraska
soil and climate are wonderfully pro
ductive Because of the heavily in
creased values in land and raises in
rent a large number of German fam
ilies left the state for the cheaepr
lands of Alberta and northern Minne
sota the total number of people being
from 175 to 200 For every family
that left another family arrived from
Iowa or Illinois but still the loss con
tinues
All of the outgoing families had
lived several years in this state and
had children in abundance so that the
families going out ranged from six
to twelve persons in size while the
families coming from the east and
having lived in a less productive coun
try numbered but from three to six
Therefore the net loss in population
is nearly a hundred
In the way of household goods
however Nebraska is the gainer for
the outgoing settlers sold all of their
possessions and limited themselves to
their trunks and their pockets while
every incoming family brought in from
one to three carloads of stuff
Killian Ordered to Philippines
BLAIR Neb March 29 Word has
been received by the parents of J N
Killian that he has been ordered to
the Philippines Captain Killian is
now in the commissary department
of the United States army He was
formerly adjutant general of Nebraska
Ex Judge tovley Dies
SEWARD Neb March 29 George
W Lowley ex rounty judge of Seward
county and a prominent attorney of
this place died of pneumonia after a
short illness Judge Lowley was one
of the pioneer citizens of Seward
county
Slashes Throat with Razor
ELK CREEK Neb March 29 S
C Bicknell tried to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor A
doctor was summoned in time to stop
the flow of blood Poor health is as
signed as the cause
For Fraud in Mortgage Transfer
FREMONT Neb March 29 Jacob
D Storms who was brought back
from Baltimore by Sheriff Kreader to
answer to the charge of having ob
tained 300 from the Bank of North
Bend in June by means of a fraudulent
chattel mortgage was arraigned in jus
tice court and waived preliminary ex
amination He gave bail with his
brother as surety for his appearance
before the next term of the district
court
When In Omaha Stop at Millars
Hotel for 200 and up Per Day
European Plan 100 and up Per DayJT
All Street Cars at Depots Take You to
The Millard 13th and Douglas Con
venient for Wholesale and Retail Dis
tricts Banks South Omaha Car Llmu
otc Lincoln Hotel Lincoln Opposite
Depots 200 and up Per Day
Ping pong sets are being shipped to
West Africa
EITC pcimiMHniiy cured fn fltn or nenrousncM after
Sl SO lint da live of DrKIIneHOreatNerYtiltestor
t Send Tor KItKK 8300 trialbottln and treatise
Uu I II Kunk LtdSJt Arch Street IhIUdelphU
Great men look into other peoples
mirrors small men into their own
ALL UP TO DATK HOUSEKEEPERS
use DcHnnce Cold Water Starch because
it is better und 4 oz more of It or sarao
money
That man is lacking In diplomncy
who tries to guess a womans age
Sweat or fruit acids will not discolor
floods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES Sold by druggists 10c package
Japan bus acquired the American
dining car system
Sire WlnHlows soothSnsr Syrnp
Forchlldren tectttntc soften the irums reduce
allay palncuro wind colic Zo a domic
If von do not fear yourself you need
not be afraid of others
Hamlins Wizard Oil la a friend of the
afflicted and an enemy to pain which it
overcomes
The devil always pays his dues
Do you
Stops the Crijh and
Works Oft the Cold
Laxative Brouio Quinine Tablets Trice 250
A child wouldnt be superstitious if
some fool grown person didnt teach it
Dont you know that Defiance
Starch besides being absolutely su
perior to any other is put up lf
ounces in package and sells at same
price as lz ounce packages of other
kinds
God gives talent but the people
fame
1213 BUS ONIONS PER ACRE
Salzers New Method of onton culture makrff
it possible to grow 1200 and more bus per acre
lucre iiuo vcKeuiDie
that pays better The
Salzers annually dis
tribute nearly one
eighth of a million
lbs of onion seed
scllinB same at 60c
and up per lb
For lCc nnd this
Notice
John A Salzer Seed
Co LuCrosse Wis
will mail you their mammoth catalog together
with 150 kinds of flower and vegetable seeds
Market gardeners list 2c postage w v u
A little Christianity is a dangerous
thing for others
THREE SERIES OF CHEAP RATES
Great Northern Railway Popular Home
seekers and Sottlcrr Excursions
Ttound trip tickets to points in Min
nesota North Dakota Montana Ida
ho Washington Oregon British Co
lumbia will be sold first and third
Tuesdays in March April and May
at one fare plus 200 for the round
trip
One way settlers tickets to points
in Montana Idaho Washington Ore
gon and British Columbia on salo
every day during March and April at
rates 1500 to 2500 each
One way settlers tickets on sale
March 4th 11th ISth 25th and April
1st and Sth to Minnesota and Noftli
Dakota points for only 600 each
These tickets are good on all trains
including the famous Great Northern
Flyer
This is the best opportunity that has
over been offered to parties who wish
to investigate the many advantages
offered them in the Great Northwest
Information about Great Northern
country is given by agents of the
Great Northern Railway or those de
sirous of ascertaining just what op
portunities are offered there can se
cure full illustrated information in
reference to land climate crops rates
etc by writing to Max Bass G I A
220 S Clark St Chicago or to F I
Whitney G P T A St Paul Minn
Most opportunities are talked into
idle dreams
Superior quality and extra quantity
must win This is why Defiance Starch
is taking the place of all others
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