McCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
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I THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Lieutenant Guy Hanna of Iowa here
tofore detailed at Fort Hunt Virginia
baa been transferred to San Francisco
Part of the navy department build
ings at Buenos Ayres was destroyed by
fire The loss is estimated at about
80000
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund shows
Available cash balance 221971889
Cold 102571296
At a meeting of Americans In Ha
vana it was arranged to hold memo
rial exercises at the wreck of the
Maine on the anniversary of the de
struction
The Idaho senate passea ttoe house
bill providing for a tax on the net out
put of mines Strong efforts it Is said
will be made to induct the governor
to veto it
Joel Sumner Smith of the class of
1853 of Yale died at his home In New
Haven Conn He was assistant li
brarian at the university and was 72
years of age
The Kansas senate adopted a con
current resolution recommending Uni
ted States Senator William A Harris
for appointment as a member of the
isthmian canal commission
Joseph E Cot and Juan Gonzales
were hanged at San Quentin Cal for
the murder of an old man in San Ben
ito cotnty named Buiz whom they
killed for purposes of robbery
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The international convention of the
Building Laborers Protective union
in session at Fort Wayne Inu for
two weeks adjourned after choosing
St Louis for the meeting place next
year
Twenty five states were represent
ed by more than 100 delegates at the
first session of the annua meeting
of the American RoadniaKers and In
ternational Good Roads conference at
Detroit
The foot and mouth disease has be
come serious again in Massachusetts
and Dr Salmon chief of the bureau
of animal industry will return to Bos
ton in a few days to investigate the
situation
At Mystic S D the air compressor
plant of the Castle Creek Mining com
pany was totally destroyed by fire
The plant consisted of boilers and en
gine as well as air compressor and
pump The loss is 7000
The great prevalence of smallpox
in the Pennsylvania coke region has
prompted the officials of the H C
Frick Coke company to issue an order
calling for the free vaccination of all
its employes and their families
Captain W W Brown general man
ager of the United States Transpor
tation company of Cleveland O died
suddenly at Rome Italy He was 43
cars of age and was in good health
w2in he left for Europe in January
Willie Stoltzman aged 20 years ac
quitted ten days ago at Fort Scott
Kan of the charge of killing R J
Morrison postmaster at Pawnee Kan
was arrested at Kansas City for steal
ing a suit case from Dr A Craig of
Chicago
Orders were Issued to shut down the
print works of the Cocheco Manufac
turing company at Dover N H The
closing of this branch of the industry
is due to the strike df the 250 ring
spinners and carders ana win tnrow
out of work about 1000 additional
operatives
William E Parnell superintendent
of the Tamarack Osceola Consolidated
and the Isle Royale mines of the Bige
Iow group Michigan died at Calumet
of cancer of the intestines He was
vice president of the National bank
of Houghton and was interested in
many other enterprises
The Nebraska Telephone company
has filed amended articles of incor
poration increasing the capital stock
from 2000000 to 3000000 This ac
tion was taken at the annual meeting
at which provision was made for the
expenditure of about 60000 this year
in improvements and extensions
An agency dispatch from Corunna
Spain says that a resolution was pass
ed at a meeting of workmen there In
favor of a general strike in conse
quence of the increase of the octroi
duties which have advanced the price j
of food The authorities have taken j
precautions to cope with possible j
turbances
Senator Cullom from the senate j
committee on foreign relations report-
ed an amendment to the general de- i
ficiency bill providing for the payment
of 5000 to the Italian government
on account of the killing of two Ital
ians in a riot at Erwin Miss in 1901
The greater part of the 10000
worth of watches and jewelry stolen
from the sale of S Vann Co jewel
ers of Albuquerque N M November
20 1902 was found under an old barn
by two boyB who were hunting for
iens eggs
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THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE I
A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of i
T 5
the Twenty Eighth Geriera1
SENATE
Most ot the day In the senate on the
11th was taken up as a committee of
the whole in discussing the bulk law
providing that no retail merchant should
bo allowed to sell his stock entire or
Jn part outside of the regular trade
routine without first having notified
his creditors and filing a list of credit
ors with the county clerk The bill was
amended and discussed so much that it
was finally sent back to the committee
Yhich was instructed to patch on the
amendments and again bring it forth
S F 114 calling for a convention to
amend the constitution after a lengthy
discussion was recommended for pas
sago by the committee of the whole
Sheldon of Cass introduced a resolution
authorizing the judiciary committee to
get up a bill making such changes In
the ballot law regarding constitutional
amendments as may be deemed neces
sary and submit the same on or before
February IS 1903 Bills on first reading
Included Fixing fees for county clerks
for Issuing instruments To provide for
the sale by railroad companies of un
claimed goods Authoriizng mutual fire
Insurance companies to do business uot
slde of the state To extend the bound
aries of all cities villages school dis
tricts and other municipal incorporations
bordering upon igable streams which
constitute state boundaries To define
the crime of desertion of minor child or
children wife or husabnd or home by
father mother putative father husband
or wife and to provide punishment
therefor
After being in session an hour on the
12th the senate adjourned for the day
This was done in order to give the com
mittees time to get up a large general
file Standing committees reported as fol
lows S F GS providing for the payment
of certain fines into the school fund in
definitely postponed S F 9 providing for
a board of pardons recommended for pas
sage S F OS to prevent the mutilation
of horses recommended for passage S
P G5 relating to marks and brands rec
ommended for passage S F 139 for is
suance of bonds for irrigation purposes
recommended for passage S F 138 In
regard to water rights recommended for
passage S F 137 water rights irriga
tion recommended for rassage S F 131
relating to the destruction of wild ani
mals favorable II R 16 substituted for
S F 23 providing for the division of
counties into districts S F G4 relating
to county treasurers deposits indefinitely
postponed S F Ill providing for the
calling of a constitutional convention
was passed Bills on first reading were
Providing for general revision of elec
tion law Providing for the appointment
of a union soldier having served three
years a member of Board of Soldiers and
Sailors to serve three years and the ap
pointment of one member annually there
after
The senate on the 13th went into com
mitce of the whole to consider bills on
general file with Howell of Douglas in
the chair S F 12G an act to provide for
the stale superintendents making a uni
Iform course ol study for district schools
was ordeied engrossed after it had been
amended so that no change be made in
text books S F 9 provding for the ap
pointment of a board of pardons to con
sist of three members one of whom shall
be a practical attorney After some dis
cussion the bill was allowed to retain its
place on the general file and no action
was taken S F 131 to repeal act pro
viding for bounty paid for killing wild
animals ONeill wanted to amend by at
taching the emeregncy clause The fol
lowing bills were placed on general file
To provide for school districts in metro
politan cities paying for cost of bond for
treasurer Providing for making five year
contract for purchase of text books by
school districts Relating to qualifications
of teachers Relating to notice of annual
school meetings Relating to printing re
port of state superintendent Relating to
establishment of public school system
Providing for payment of bond of treas
urers of school board by school district
An act proSdivg for compiling abstracts
of title bonds Providing for the pub
lishing nt statutes- Providing for the pro
cedure against tenants holding on Pro
viding for appeals to supreme court De
fining child dependency neglect cruelty
etc and providing for protection
The senate with eighteen members in
sight and twenty seven marked present
held a thirty minute session on the 14th
beginning at 9 oclock This early was
chosen so that those wiio had not gone
home would be able to get out of town
and the entire thirty three members
would draw nay for a full day The read
ing of the journal was cut short The
committee on enrolled and engrossed bills
reported that II R No 60 appropriating
S2SO00 for incidental expenses of the legis
lature was taken Hti the governor Thurs- j
day evcnuiK at i oclock Three bills were
introduced and read by title and two sen
ate bills and three- house bills were read
a second time and on adjournment was
taken until Monday at 2 oclock One of
the house bills advanced to second read-
ing is to prevent me uocKing or norses
tails and the others were of little more
Importance The following were the bills
Introduced S F No SS by Hall of
Douglas to legalize illegal special as
sessments levied in the city of Omaha
S F No 187 by Cox by inquest relat
ing to the removal of guardians
Jennings of Thayer introduced In the
senate on the loth a resolution providing
for the appointment of a committee of
three to investigate the management of
the office of the commissioner of labor
and to report finding within ten days
The resolution went over one day S F
Go relating to marks and brands ordered
engrossed s is to prevent mutila
tion of horses recommended for passage
II R 1G to provide for township organ-
izulion recommitted S F 49 providing j
Assembly c
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for school districts in metropolitan cities
paying for bond of treasurer Committee
asked leave to sit again S F 120 relat
ing to school lands and funds H R 32
to make five years contract for purchase
of textbooks reported progress and asked
leave to sit again
HUCKE
A petition from the Nebraska Federa
tion of Womans Clubs praying for the
passage of a pure food law was intro
duced in the house on the 11th by Gregg
of Wayne and referred to the committee
on commerce H R 119 by Gregg re
quiring district school board to notify of
ficers when reports are due was read the
third time and passed Anderson of
Kearney moved thrit the house go Into
committee of the whole to consider II R
112 a bill introduced by Deles Dernier of
Cass to authorize and empower boards of
county commissioners or supervisors to
make contracts for the construction and
repair of bridges to buy material and
employ the necessary help to construct
or repair the bridges The matter was
discussed at much length but definite
action was not taken Bills were intro
duced To amend section S3a article I
chapter xvili Compiled Statutes by
clerks of district courts to file
notice of foreclosure or payment of mort
gages with both county treasurer and
clerk Emergency clause To authorize
county commissioners to appropriate un
expended balances credited to any pre
cinct to such precinct To permit the
payment of money arising from the sale
or purchase of irrigation bands or cou
pons at county treasurers offices as wel
as state II R 301 by Rouse relating to
district court fees A joint resolution re
lating to the unexpended balance in the
hands of the Nebraska State Relief com
mission created by an act of the legisla
ture at its twenty fourth session and to
provide for conevrting said balance of
39G9G into the state treasury
The house on the 12th concurred in the
senates amendments to II R 60 reduc
ing the appropriation for legislators ex
penses from 48000 to I2SC00 It was
shown by a report by the house deficiency
cemmittee that the reduction was war
rented as last session thousands of dol
lars were spent for furnishings and dec
orations which are not required this
year These bills were read the third time
and passed H R SS by Shelly of Doug
las to prevent and punish the desecra
tion of the federal flag H R 16G by Kit
tel of Sherman repealing the wolf bounty
law H R 173 by Burgess of Lancaster
known as the anti printing trust bill was
recommended for passage New bills in
troduced were To establish an experi
mental station at or near Crawford Neb
fixing the control and management of the
same and making an appropriation of 18
000 therefor Providing for holidays to be
known as Lincoln and McKinley anni
versaries and Flag day February 12
January 29 and June 14 respectively To
amend an act to give an award for the
discovery of coal iron ore gas t nd crude
oil and to provide an appropriation of
23000 to pay the award To provide for
the abandonment of onerations by irriga
tion districts and for their disorganiza
tion To provide for full width of public
roads of sixty six feet and to keep them
unmolested
This resolution by Cropsey of Jefferson
was adopted
Whereas This the 12th day of Febru
ary being the anniversary of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln and
Whereas His memory is revered by all
people his ability and loyalty acknowl
edged and admired his unbounded love
for humanity and devotion to principle
marks him as an honorable example for
generations to come therefore be it
Resolved That the flag of our country
for whicli he gave his services and his
life be placed at full nlast for today as
a token of respect to the memory of the
lamented saviour of our country
In committee of the whole the house
on the 13th considered the following bills
among others II R 133 by Gregg To
repeal the law providing for rural high
schools without lequiring a consolidation
of districts Recommended for indefinite
postponement II R 112 by Deles Der
nier to authorize county boards to con
struct bridges without letting contracts
when such boards deem it best to reject
all bids for the contract After a num
ber of futile attempts to amend the mo
tion for indefinite postponement was lost
by a vote of 27 to 43 An amendment
was offered by Kittell of Sherman re
quiring boards to advertise for contracts
by competitive bidding for bridge work
costing 300 or more The amendment was
adopted An amendment by Rouse of Hall
to provide that the work done by the
county board shall not exceed the cost
of the lowest bid rejected was adopted
McAllister offered an amendment striking
out all that portion of the bill which au
thorizes the board to build bridges with
out contract where the amount involved
is 300 or more It was lost and the bill
as amended was recommended for
passage II R 132 by Gregg To provide
that in cities of over 1300 and less than
100C09 inhabitants school boards shall con
sist of five members to hold for a five
year term one members to be elected each
year The committee voted against the
bill Mookett of Lancaster then amended
the bill so as to make it apply only to the
city of Lincoln The amendment was
adopted and the committee then decided
to report progress on the bill
The house convened on the 11th with a
bare quorum present Because of the
small attendance Spurloek of Cass mov
ed to adjourn when the order of bills on
third reading should be reached This
prevailed Rouse of Hall was very anx
ious to compel the members to labor
In committee of the whole and though
many demurred they were finally com
pelled to do a little work H R No 152
by Gregg was first considered The
measure was amended by Speaker Mock
ett so it related only to Lincoln reducing
the number of members of the school
board The hill was passed over till the
amendment might be printed H R No
143 by Gregg specifying qualifications for
county superintendents was next on gen
eral file The committee rose without
taking action on the bill Mr Gregg en
deavored to amend the report of tho com
mittee by ordering II R No 143 to a
third reading A parliamentary struggle
resulted over the attempt to adjourn with
out acting on Mr Greggs motion A mo
tion to adjourn by Wilson of Pawnee
finally prevailed by a vote of 26 to 23
The following bills were Introduced in
the house on the 14th H R No 31G by
Koetter of Douglas to amend section 215
of chapter 21 of the criminal code Re
lates to the statute concerning keeping
gaming fixtures H R No 317 by Bacon
of Dawson to amend section 59 of article
1 chapter 18 of the statutes of 1901 Re
lates to the duties of chairmen of board
of county commissioners H R No 318
by Mockett of Lancaster to provide for
the appointment of a board of commis
sioners to be known as commissioners of
inspection and weighing for the state of
Nebraska and prescribing their compen
sation duties and regulations pertaining
thereto H R No 319 by Jones of Otoe
by request to prevent shooting and In
jury to pigeons and other birds
The house renewed consideration of H
R 143 by Gregg of Wayne providing that
no one shall be eligible to hold the office
of county superintendent of schools who
does not hold a first grade teachers cer
tificate Mr Gregg moved that his bill
be engrossed for the third reading Doug
las of Rock opposed the bill arguing that
many of the counties in the western part
of the state were without first grade cer
tificate teachers and therefore if this bill
was passed it would impose the neces
sity of importing persons for county su
perintendent Bartow of Valley thought
this was an argument for the bill Spur
lock of Cass made a forcible speech In
favor of the bill urging the importance
of raising the educational standard
Greggs motion finally carried by a vote
of 50 to 23 These bills were passed Ap
propriating 10000 from the unexpended
board and colthing fund of the Norfolk
asylum to the maintenance of patients re
moved from that to the Lincoln asylum
Permitting the small printer to bid on
any state work in separate items he can
furnish instead of as at present letting
the printing out in bulk This is the so
called anti printing trust bill Strength
ening the powers of county commission
ers and supervisors in the suppression of
contagious and infectious diseases To
provide county treasurers with a seal
Providing the school vteachers principals
and superintendents shall not receive
their full terms pay until they shall
have made the full report required by
law
REAPPORTIONMENT OF JUDGES
Warner of Dakota is out in a bill to
reapportion the state into judicial dis
tricts According to the bill introduced
the state will have four less judges than
at present the Omaha district losing one
judge The Lancasted district gnins one
county Following are the districts as
apportioned under the bill
First Johnson Richardson Nemaha
Second Otoe Cass Sarpy
Third Douglas Washington Burt
Fourth Jefferson Gage
Fifth Lancaster Saunders
Sixth Platte Colfax Dodge
Seventh Boone Madison Stanton
Cuming Thurston Dakota Antelope
Perce Knox Cedar Dixon Wayne
Eighth York Seward Polk Butler
Ninth Clay Fillmore Saline Nuckolls
Thayer
Tenth Franklin Webster Phelps
Kearney Adams
Eleventh Hamilton Hall Howard
Merrick Nance
Twelfth Dawson Buffalo Sherman
Custer
Thirteenth Cherry Brown Rock Holt
Keya Paha Boyd Wheeelr Garfield
Dawes Box Butte Sheridan Sioux
Grant Hooker Thomas Valley Greeley
Blaine Loup
Fourteenth Scotts Bluff Banner Kim
ball Cheyenne Deuel Logan McPher
son Lincoln Keith
Fifteenth Chase Hayes Hitchcock
Dundy Red AVHIow Furnas Harlan
Frontier Gosper
In the third district there shall be six
judges in the fifth district three judges
in the seventh and thirteenth districts
two judges each and in all other districts
one judge each
LEGISLATIVE NOTES
Major Buchanan general passenger
agent of the Elkhorn road appeared be
fore the house committee on agriculture
in the interests of H R 13S by Jahnel
of Washington providing for more ex
peditions methods of compiling and pub
ilshing state statistics Major Buchanan
said the railroads favored the bill as it
would facilitate the work of their adver
tising departments
Since the introduction of bills into the
legislature providing for the killing of
prairie dogs the legislature has attracted
attention outside the state Governor
Mickey received a letter from a Hoosier
who has a remedy that he desires to be
tried in Nebraska that he guarantees will
bring about the desired results The let
ter dated Clifty Ind follows Your
honor I have a device for the extermina
tion for the destroying of the pests the
piairie dogs guaranteed to do the work
If your state will remunerate I will send
you the device I have applied for patent
The device is this attach rubber hose
to steam engine insert the nozzle in the
holes occupied by the dogs Let steam
on by proper attachments will burn them
out in a few seconds Will destroy badg
ers or anything that lives in the ground
by this means you can destroy the dogs
on the prairie Please give notice in some
paper that will extend over the state that
is infested with doge
Belden of Richardson presented a bill
designed to impose greater restrictions on
the proprietors of barber colleges and
their students It contemplates an an
nual license fee of 300 to be paid August
1 each year provides not less than a two
years course for every stunt who in
addition to this must possess a certificate
frcm the manager before he can work at
the barbers trade
That Beef Trust Case
CHICAGO 111 The principal brief
of the argument for the government
in the beef trust case was filed in the
United States circuit court Wednes
day and the whole case is now before
Judge Grosscup for consideration It
is possible that a decision will be giv
en next week
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
man was run
companys yards
CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN RY
Fist Road to Double Its Track from
A new bank will begin business In
Chicago to Omaha
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Barneston March 1st A doublo track block system line of
Tho Nebraska Editorial association t transcontinental railway now reaches
meeting at Hastings was unusually from the Missouri river to Chicago
well attended will be in tho way of a distinct
revelation to the man who made the
The telephone company at Arlington trfp acrogB the pialns twenty five years
will erect a suitable building for car- j ago jn a prairie schooner or on tho
rying on its work emigrant train of the seventies
Yor count armers are orsaaMas ThrapM Sg
to handle their own products by of to a certaln degree in the discussion
vator and otherwise that has arisen lately concerning the
a sit f A 3
Fire destroyed four buildings in commercial invasion oi umim u
Bartley and scorched another so badlj
far east our occupation of the Philip
pine Islands the annexation of Hawaii
as to practically render it worthless whnlfi eeneral movement by
The Y M C A board of Fremont which wo have suddenly become a
has decided to build a two story build- world power But while wo have pa
lag wth hasemea to cost ahout SEffi S SS
00- I and relentlessly in the direction of the
The Fremont public labrary build- Pacifi ccoast raising up new towns
ing the cost of which 15000 was do building up old ones naklng facto-
where wild prairie had
rles and farms
ii i -11 u e uuu llUi
nated by Andrew Carnegie has been
completed and accepted by the library TQe resuit js shown in part in the-
board 1 necessity on the part of tho Chicago
Cyrus Kelley a young man of Bur
well was instantly killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of a gun The re
Northwestern for this douuie iracit
line where great trains of live stock
and grain move in long lines eastward
to feed not only the eastern states but
mains were taken to Tekamah for I to afford an outlet for the products of
burial what i3 now more than ever before
the granary of the world
The two children of Mrs James To tnQ westward there is also a con
Lyons Lincoln were burned to death tinuous stream of travel The North
while the mother was temporarily western Line with its connections op
sent She had locked them in the urates three daily passenger trains be-
tween Denver and Chicago and three-
lt i vi i ii
call
house while making a neighborly
from gan Francisco to tho east Ono-
While trying to start a fire in the of these known as the Overland Lim
furnace at the home of Mrs Wads- ited is probably the most luxurious
worth at Beatrice Miss Bessie Mc 1 and beautiful train in the world
Pullman service from Den-
Kinney was badly burned about the Through
ver Ogden Cheyenne Portland San
face and hands by the explosion of daily
Fraclco aml 0maha t0 Chicago
eas As to freight movements the great
Mrs Nancy J Taylor of Fremont double track system across the plains
has sued the Union Pacific Railroad Is busy carrying manufactures for Asi
atc Russia cotton cloths for the Chi
company in the district court for 20-
i neae various articles required by the
000 damages alleged to have been pIoneer8 who have cr0ssed the Pacific-
tained at the passenger station in j t0 Manila and gone north to the gold
Council Bluffs mines of Alaska as well as the tre
The Lange Canning Preserving mendous traffic for Colorado
compan or BeaMce hid XSSSTSSL
plated moving its plant io Fremont I tranch of the countrys commercial
has decided to remain in Beatrice and activity
will erect a new factory north of town It was In 1848 that the Galena
which will cost about 15000 Chicago Union having been completed
from Chicago to the Des Plaines river
t nu 4 ii t
Fred Sibert a young man living dlstance of ten mlleB the first train
fourteen miles southwest of Red aver the line opened the traffic to Chi
Cloud was killed while chopping down Dago by stopping on its way east to
trees A tree fell carrying him and take on a farmers load of wheat the
rst by rail to Chicago-
pinning him to the ground His arms Bln salient
from the west It may be imagined
and legs were broken and his body lhat thls wheat was hardly deslned for
horribly mangled export and that the travelers on this
H C Grese representing the Ames junket of early days little thought to-
beet sugar people has been at what proportions this nucleus of a-
ton iaterosuas tae farmers to sugar - fto
beets He secured a number of con- ne to Council Bluffs was complete
tracts and a large acreage wiljl be put and the Pawnees on the Platte and
in Culbertson has organized a sugar Sioux on the Missouri began to feel
beet association tne4crVdillf Tthe w55e maS OUt
posts In 1880 Iowa Minnesota and
Otto L Gibson former x
a prominent
wisconsin had become well settled
resident met death in a peculiar man- While along the Platte the Indians
ner near Blackfoot Idaho recently still remained The Northwestern had
He ate from a raisin stew prepared in however built a line across southern
-d i Minnesota and into Dakota as far as
a galvanized iron vessel By some -
Watertown with feeders to various
chemical action a poison was formed points while in Wisconsin and north
causing death during the night era Michigan lines had been extended
Swen E Benson an Elkhorn section Into the Lake Superior district through
Escanaba to Negaunee and Ishpemlng
over and killed in the I
This all seems very recent but sinco
at Fremont He L
was fW ttma
that time the system has until
clearing the ice from a switch and was
struck by some cars that were being
kicked back The dead man was 35
years of age and leaves four small
children
grown
It penetrates nine states of the union
and its heavy lines of freight trains
and its palatial passenger service
reach all important points from Chi
cago to Milwaukee Madison St Paul
and Minneanolis Duluth and Sunerinr
John Krema a prominent Bohemian Omaha the Black Hills and Colorado
and former business man of Schuyler with three fast trains between Den
shot himself fatally He had been ver Salt Lake Ogden Cheyenne and
brooding over financial matters forgcaf fy fast frvice to and
from the Pacific coast
some time and was it is alleged short The
completion of the first double
in his accounts as treasurer of the track between Chicago and the Mis
Woodmen of the World He leaves a EOUri ver puts the road not only at
wife and three children the front as compared with the other
western roads but in advance of
At Anoka during a quarrel between J manv
of the eastern 5nes tfaat
Clarence Dutcher and F L Williams country where he population is much
bus drivers of Butte as to the proper more dense
places to have their buses at the de-
pot Dutcher drew a 45 caliber revolver Th rFgir Amerl an Expansionist
Captain Thomas Read was the
and shot at Williams but missed He in
neer our expangion policy but
was arrested charged with shooting was just 112 years ahead of time On
with intent to kill and bound over a voyage this is interesting history
under bail of 800 in the ol1 frigate Alliance which his
Albert Gerling a farmer residing feond el0 had coerted
mto a merchantman he made the first
twelve miles north of
Humphrey made out-of-season
passage to China There
an attempt to commit suicide by were supposed to be million in it but
ing strychnine It seems that an over- tney did nt pan out Commodore
dose was taken and with medical as- Dalf Tand leorfe HarrJson
nied him the former as chief officer
sistanco he was saved Gerling has
and the latter as supercarg d
been ailing for the past two years is discovered two islands which he nam
the only cause given for his attempt- ed Morris and Alliance They were
ing to take his own life In the Caroline group and by virtue
Raymond Brooks carrier on rural ff discovery belonged to the United
States The Carolines are not far from
rural route No 1 was killed by tram the Philippines Spain came along
No 6 at Glen Creek He arrived in and appropriated them while America
town at 320 and was struck at the sat back on her dignity and looked
crossing by the train which was go- 0r rights never were as
to fortl ve miles aa hoar The ea- r3to5ffiySKj2K
gine struck the middle of the carriage islands in 1899 for 10750000 marks
demolishing it and carrying him Reads discovery is a forgotten chap
eighty feet He fell close to the track ter in our history
Sheriff Hodges took Joseph Robin
son to the penitentiary from Nelson
The Oldest School House
The old log school house at Hsmn
to begin serving a sentence of seven Run Westmoreland county Pa is
years at hard labor for setting fire said to be the oldest school house in
to a saloon bulding in Lawrence last thls cUIJtry It is very primitive in
lts aPP5ntnients but the teacher
June wnicn resuiteu in a propeitj loss
Miss Celia j MilIer who is onlv 16
to the extent of about 9000 Robin- old has enlisted
years the help ot
son made a confession in which he the big boys to make some improve-
stated that three saloonkeepers here nients
hired him to burn out their competitor j
SeCe and SuPetition
While a train of the Union Pacific j
was pulling along at the rate of forty thA minister of Alsace T Lorraine by
miles an hour in the vicinity of to the Societe Industriel de Mulhouse
ington in the baggage car there was whom he has asked to select for him
born to the happy parents passengers a competent electrical specialist ca-
from the west to Fairfield Cornish by Pae Z writing series of articles in
order to refute scientifically the
- v u i ttt
name a bright bouncing baby When
stitions of various viIlagers in
the train arrived at Grand Island the it seems that the villages in which
company physician was at the depot those superstitions people live have
but his services were not needed and Deen recently provided with electric
all in the party were reported to he TK8111118 beIieve
that the aerial wires attract storms
doing finely and are the special cause of heavy
falls of hail
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