IVScCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK - NEBRASKA J4 Jjp343rf33 8 ucuic nnpn IJIL lHKO IN ShSxSx3xS5 Continuous heavy rains In many parts of Austria are damaging crops Clair A Orr of Illinois has been ap pointed consul at Cartagena Colombia Frederic Masson was recently elect ed a member of the French Acad emy Grover Cleveland and M A Hanna address a labor and capital pow wow In Chicago October 14 An unknown negro who Insulted some ladies by tmrsing and firing into their house was lynched at Alto Tex Secretary Root has directed the sale of the military reservation known as Columbus barracks at Columbus Ohio sixty days from date at its appraised valuation of 290000 The art glass manufacturers of the country perfected a national organiza tion at Columbus Ohio to be known as the National Ornamental Glass Manufacturers association Aunty Jeanette White colored who died at the home of her daughter near Wichita Kan clamed to be 136 years old the family record showing that she was born January 16 1767 Prominent hop growers of the Pa cific Northwest are endeavoring to se cure unity among the producers with the object of controlling this seasons production and forcing up of prices Lack of work in Roumania is caus ing a renewed exodus on a large scale of Jewish workmen to America The emigrants are assisted by the BNai BRith and other foreign Jewish so cieties Professor C H Eigenmann of the state biological station at Winona Ind received 1000 from the new Car negie institute at Washington to fur ther his investigations of the hlind fishes of Cuba The United States cableship Burn side has arrived at Seattle Wash from Sitka where she completed the preliminary work of laying the cable between Seattle and southeastern Alas ka to take on board 600 miles of cable The Kansas board of charities is preparing to take a whole trainload of insane people from the Topeka and Osawatomie asylums to the new Par Osawatomie asylums to the new Par sons asylum about August 15 Edward Beaupre the largest man in the world is visiting New York He is 22 years old 8 feet 2Ys inches high weighs 367 -pounds wears a 22 shoe and a 21 collar and is from Willow Brush Canada near the Montana line The church bell ordinance of Eldora la has been vetoed by the mayor Maintaining that the ringing of the church bells disturbed and annoyed the patients in the city hospital it was passed by the city council prohibiting the old time ringing and tolling of bells A strong movement against the par ticipation of Chile in the St Louis ex position has been initiated at Santi ago where the principal papers oppose any official representation at the fair and the commission of deputies consid ering the matter is also unfavorable to it Congressman Richard Bartholdt who is working in the interests of the St Louis exposition will attend the Interparliamentary peace conference to be held in Vienna September 7 to 9 and try to have the next peace confer ence meet at St Louis during the ex position The Afro American Equal Rights League of the state of New York has heen organized at Saratoga officers elected and the president empowered to appoint one person from each con gressional district to form an executive board Associations are expected to be formed in -other states The secretary of war has decided that officers and soldiers of the militia while serving at encampments are en titled to the same pay as the officers and men of the regular army and that they are also entitled to transportation to and from such encampments as if they were regular troops Robert M Wilson editor of the rand 111 Clipper plans to walk to Cape Lisburne on the Arctic ocean 8000 miles away He will go through Minnesota through Canada following the coast -from Vancouver to Cape Nome thence to his destination be yond the Arctic Circle He expects to be gone fifteen months Captain G O Cress has been re lieved as post quartermaster at Fort Riley Kas because of the large amount of work requiring his atten tion as constructing quartermaster Work to the amount of over 1000000 is in progress at Fort Riley now President Roosevelt received a call from Bishop Dougherty recently ap pointed to the See of Nueva Caceres P I- who decided to pay his respects to the president hefore sailing for Ma nila and to talk over the situation in the archipelago Adams Antelope Banner Blaine Boone Box Butte Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt Butler u5S Cedar Chase Cherry Cheyenne ijiny Colfax Cuming Custer Dakota Dawes Dawson Deuel Dixon Dodge Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley XiQ11 Hamilton Harlan Hayes Hitchcock xiort Hooker Howard Jefferson Johnson Kearney Keith Keya Paha Kimball Knox Lancaster Lincoln Logan t Loud Madison McPherson Merrick Nance Nemaha Nuckolls Otoe Pawnee Perkins Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Red Willow Richardson Rock Saline Sarpy Saunders Scotts Bluff Seward Sheridan Sherman Sioux Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler York Totals 7G128 1984 151 11 15721 47 1007 S72 E6S57 505 50275 15527 451 995 155 97261 9115 GGfi 233S3 14 1G79 59051 C31 145 11455 4S4 5fi9 77000 507GG 4738S S19S8 67359 70R 43790 8390 S4233 SG95G 66958 1791 1G092 1222 21857 3S2G0 25527 75139 952 13G 213 758 28556 9421 360 2041 2342 7484 16304 25457 48584 34217 16036 8V154 791 2776SI 351041 534RS 25813 541 00500 720 2091s 953 49594 386 1621 35S 1415 46277 226 11739 - 2706 1063 46916 1444 81393 1939766 1147 14665 2355 63 9006 1549 9536 5886 2956 16716 358 3889 10815 5043 40S7 528 9271 33311 23812 14897 4176 1422 1349 16382 7727 1568 o 071 37 15063 4317 110 632 2594 2380 148 2374 2505 7736 4537 5369 25 15 4711 1241 4921 691 13328 7 4458 1450 2017 16222 6 320 4 37 396 3927 1430 125S8 9479 233 13932 562 35 955 662 854 iV729 8218 94 10751 10R52 8718 18845 19369 27 1044 20 Saved by Presence of Mind TECUMSEH Roy Pickering who lives in the northern part of this county came very near being killed He was threshing for N O- Biner and was sitting on tne separator with his feet close to the fast revolving rod which operates the self feeder The rod caught his pants legs and began to pull him into the macnine With rare presence of mind Mr Pickering rolled over and caught hold of some timbers on the machine and held with tenacious grip while his trousers shoes and stockings were stripped from him and hurled through the cylinders and into the straw stack Prominent Citizen Dead WEEPING WATER George W Adams dropped dead while sitting in r the shade here He had been in poor health for two years No Trace of Donnell YORK Every effort has been made to ascertain the whereabouts of Mr J E Donnell a business man who departed suddenly from York ten days ago Mr Donnell is a member of several societies who have appointed committees to ascertain his where abouts but so far no word htfs been received from him nor any clew as to his present place of residence The last time he was seen was on Satur day evening at Linwood S- w o 521 3881 730 596 3442 1996 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570 3070 25484 3143 50593 41175 9232 2483 17761 462 35954 42726 18691 19 39ivi 1179S 42S9 2248 53790 2727 3906 15 20724 36335 33050 574 2S0 170 32407 20134 119799 18815 20058 403 6541 94 49058 44846 304 61 2319 G3710 21192 15996 14043 14 191 4498R 19748 155 14991 4953G 677821 29560 722 2260S 3592 40054 17327 56655 2240 43558 721 15749 941 36700 30156 1 15943 20695 40003 47234i 13301 6161 41533 195S721 NEBRASKA NATIONAL GUARD Adjutant General Issues Orders for Reorganization LINCOLN Adjutant General Cul ver has just issued orders for reor ganization of the Nebraska National Guard along the lines laid down by the Dick bill and instructions given in general orders of the regular army The reorganization will give the guard several new officers chief among them being two majors one for each battalion of the regiment Hereto fore each regiment has had but two majors one battalion being command ed by the lieutenant colonel An elec tion will be called at once to supply these newly created offices Besides these the governor and ad jutant may appoint a regimental com missary and quartermaster each of whom will rank as captains and re ceive the same pay They will have charge of the subsistence and ord nance stores Strange Robbery at Grand Island GRAND ISLAND While Miss Emily Blunk and sister were at church and the other members of the family were away someone entered their residence and took from a pocketbook lying on a piano 20 in bills leaving the silver change in the book Noth ing else was disturbed The residence is in a well settled portion of the community A negro was seen by a neighbor loitering about the place t - atKiSESsmsisfyssBiasmimSBsnKass A Complete Tepor Lafcor CommiFstoner Bush will Issue a rop report today giving the total acre ages of all crops raised in Nebraska by counties the number of head of rive stock the act eases of timber and of vegetables The entire report is by coun ties and has been compiled after careful research on the part of Mr Bush and his assistant Chief Cleric Don Uespain The two men have personally inspected the growing crops and have compiled their acreages from e reports of thu precinct and township assessors made to the county cleiks as provided by statute An important feature of the report is the percentage of condition with 100 as per fect Advance sheets of the report have been prepared for publication In a resume cf the conditions of the principal crop the report says WHEAT Conditions early in the season were such aa to warrant the expectation of the greatest wheat crop in the history of Nebraska Hail and wind have visited the state so frequently us to destroy these COUNTY a P tn a n a a P prospeots and have made appearances very deceiving by injuring the wheat in such a way as to prevent perfect tilling of tho heads The south central portion has received the greatest damage In this oartlcular district Hartan county seems to hayo fared worst it having sixty six pectlons almost totally de stroyed Throughout the south central portion the average yield ns been de creased from X to 15 bushels per acre The north central portion has excellent prospects Custer county especially will yield an immense crop of all grains to gether with atfalfa and Jxiy The standing of the Southern part of the state Is 90 uc central 91 and the northern 01 The average estimated yield of wheat by counties appears in the sum mary by courthB ESTIMATE OF WHEAT After close inspection and observation by officials of the department supple mented by conservative opinions of ex perienced producers in all sections of the state the department supplemented by conservative opinions of experienced pro p o 367 859 101 806 826 927 449 771 2354 365 46 10626 300 84 57S 2125 2220 7407 897 2819 261S 979 3540 810 504 845 85 67 C74 1208 32 195 152 40S 487 1504 1159 417 7853 649 531 29 123 152 533 051 4- 9121 44 2986 i513 49 2S10 227 4S7 14 16 71 6 186 278 8505 3326 453 1507 199 154 97 62 111 J 183 120 873 273 2637 56 2853 1057 838 7S72 42 144 930 113717 Acreages by Coun ties of Alfalfa and Millet aP03 p p 886 2269 45 109 2457 472 358 4 15126 1799 1329 709 1240 374 1SS0 4828 776 1135 7339 229 2640 22907 1277 808 SO 850 LOGO 3453 8458 1359 15861 3094 233 1598 574 1570 12780 1227 10134 509 784 11S1 K 1698 235S 1352 4740 1991 275 963 683 1997 1446 44 242 972 4638 2643 1649 S57P G42 905 4435 371 4234 1267 7795 3155 387 18S5 915 798 7217 1350 1665 2596 541 1799 4530 46 107 6338 2093 422 93S7 971 4297 238401 709 2252 9S1 342 1991 2538 2567 2370 2719 1307 311 603 1693 2974 1596 l459 979 3449 10508 2304 1939 1592 1009 3058 223 4 I 03 744 559 771 1970 72 3146 232 990 2073 772 212 114S 1316 662 2331 125 1731 2209 1500 437 1051 2S00 226 3943 2117 1359 131 140 550 C209 499 2667 1379 23S6 113 699 1073 3228 220 733 606 445 1687 1171 S91 50 763 1911 2407 221 1941 1478 130 1422 2699 1930 3325 1585 42S 356 137245 13330 07619 6005 7620 2442S 220S4 13666 16562 326S5 25195 24706 23781 38702 18069 88736 lV987 21893 37434 78956 12824 22960 34725 41027 25315 30081 16358 15865 1S168 25086 24514 25197 28371 52 16712 30501 14491 29355 26558 19942 13498 12602 58541 889S 235G5 24952 16643 20586 25026 26013 21523 37200 35810 40487 7872 163 30644 30000 26233 236 S629 22698 30714 21466 16679 24388 2342 34109 20449 18610 80379 21513 20435 8645 335S2 17635 25388 350S9 23040 37255 27193 24959 2478 8524 23233 256S0 3042 28021 12742 27900 2161773 THE STATE IN BRIEF acta Nebraska ducers In all sections of the state the de partment feols able to estimate the aver ago yield of winter wheat in the state at cigliteen bushels per acre and the total yield at 35200000 bushels The average yield of soring wheat is estimated at twelve bushels per acre ad fotar yield ef 5450000 bushel3 CORN The general condition o the corn crop over the state is far below normal not ranking over 78 With a frost at the nor mal period about the 15th of September there bhould be 75 per cent of a corn crop This will be increased or dimin ished according to the date of the frost and freeze following Corn Is now looking- much better than a fortnight ago and the prospects for a crop are correspond ingly brighter Tho corn crop has made wonderful progress in view of the handicap caused by late seeding nils will seriously af fect the yield in spite of a late frost because when the corn begins to ear It will not have had its growth and instead of all the vitality going to the ear a large 17497 27660 196 573 2390S 387 10437 4144 23424 34867 26843 24145 29347 2741 L269 20831 24260 41915 42548 16209 834 2307 1678 24475 34632 12275 6459 17611 17799 16715 19303 27710 2061 11902 22 10575 22124 31906 12102 4603 2638 19150 116 19523 29370 20667 17311 93S 5692 27 32681 27755 7057 2004 1817 29684 55 16169 17139 1S267 220S6 33106 28652 1433 18954 23227 38394 21906 10S13 38774 1836 22 522 8716 34930 1015 24914 4474 12877 276 19S1S 31967 530 8566 20516 29463 29552 20570 5884 29107 14S2264 I Deputy Auditor Anthes placed the seal of his disapproval upon a batch of claims for wolf bounty thirty three in all and aggregating 300 Several of the claims dated back for a score of years Barry Gilbert a prominent young at torney of Cedar Rapids has been ap pointed by the board of regents of phone two lines having been com pleted by the Bell Telephone company which run northeast of Beatrice After ten years receivership the af fairs of the Capital National bank have been brought to a close and the final dividend will be paid National Bank Examiner Griffith John D Mac Farland Kent K Hayden and J W McDonald have in turn been success ively receivers of the wrecked bank Years of litigation have followed the failure of the bank DuriDg an electrical storm at Oak land the barn of R Suhr was struck by lightning The bolt set fire to the structure which was destroyed to gether with hay oats corn and a 40 set of harness The horses weie re moved Regent Forrell and Prof Bur nett of the State university accom panied by Land Commissioner McAl lister of the Union Pacific were at Sidney interviewing the citizens rela tive to the establishment of a state experimental farm near that city 60 1017 3434 199 432 0637 433 505 2655 396 440 412 932 403 1708 434 2691 1379 470 25 12918 769 S472 58 446 1257 611 234 964 31 285 75 65 298 7474 500 172 52 v 2313 5822 i384 25 1949 1190 170 110 27365 895 2041 2772 5 6190 2304 1211 919 144 275 8S6 20317 IS 75 20275 33 1484 2335 1258 735 97 50S 13743 4011 15033 580 12650 1680 180 1765 1617 321 378 1 244 709 629 256 218711 pat will enter tiie stalk to complete its growth which will cause smaller slaod corn than if conditions had been normal The condition cf the southern counties is 5 central counties S4 northern counties M OATS The oat crop Is an enigma so far an estimating is concerned because of the irregularity of the eland and prospects There is no uniformity of appearances Nevertheless there will be a normal yield of oats and the condition found by obser vation over the state is 92 Tho central and northern portions of the htate will yield better in oats than the southern Tho condition in the central poitlon Is 94 in the northern 92 A summary of the acreages not given in the county tabulation is as follows Sugar beets 11163 acres timothy 23S C41 acres sorghum cane 12SC9S acres Irish potatoes C9102 acres broom corn 2373 acres clover 54035 acre- bluo grass 172SS1 acres other tame grass 2US513 acres timber 311215 acres Number of Cattle Hogs Sheep Horbcs and Mules in Nebraska July 1 1003 O p o m w o IB a re m u o in p 3- C061 80S7 1513 855 C404 3491 4825 3520 10979 7240 8754 9679 9466 3010 10723 8653 G531 6709 19679 3432 4164 9S91 4955 7121 7900 10S93 2831 S7S7 6552 8522 9670 12S0S 1110 4610 196S 3942 7312 1014S 0195 3755 4129 10037 876 6177 7496 6267 7602 2523 46SS 2io9 7849 4265 I ID 1269 519 I if ooSO 6457 G195 7544 11 boo 713S 2321 7398 5200 8678 5595 566 9723 3006 973 3S12 11424 4487 9850 1814 0450 5i02 4832 8814 382 S522 6260 8154 6536 7542 1477 95641 5399171 fi n y Off 3 O d i 20 18 OO 1C 26 19 22 20 ro 22 20 Z3 IS 21 19 19 27 21 24 24 20 19 22 22 20 21 20 20 o 2 21 21 24 23 19 22 22 IS o 19 20 21 ii 20 2i 2f is 22 22 20 19 2 20 19 20 22 23 26 20 1 19 20 22 is 25 21 22 24 20 25 19 20 22 - 352 -3 o o SO 77 7S 80 82 78 76 78 SO 76 76 75 76 78 SS 79 74 1 1 79 77 78 74 79 76 75 7S 84 78 S2 86 85 77 78 77 SO S6 76 77 76 76 76 S5 82 SO 79 78 75 74 75 76 78 7 SO 7S 76 78 75 75 SO S2 79 77 79 75 82 ir 7S 76 75 mcto Ov V 2 3 O 3 3 o p in 90 91 92 88 9C S3 91 92 90 9i 9fl 91 SS 92 90 92 94 90 92 92 a 88 93 91 92 90 92 90 93 91 92 91 1 92 91 92 SS SS ST 92 96 SO i 91 88 91 90 90 92 92 88 ii 90 90 S9 fiO 91 92 92 92 91 91 89 91 91 92 90 94 90 91 90 88 91 92 90 92 90 Spalding has voted bonds for a sys tem of water works Mrs Boydston wife of W T Eoyds ton a mail clerk running between Ord and Grand Island made an unsuccess ful attempt at committing suicide at their home in Ord After taking strychnine she informed her husband of the fact and medical assistance was summoned immediately and after several hours of treatment she was considered out of danger The contractors who are to put down the new artesian well at Lynch arrived the first of last week All the machinery has been put in place and the drilling will be commenced at once During an electrical storm at Oak land the barn of R Suhr was struck by lightning The bolt set fire to the structure which was destroyed to gether with hay oats corn and a 40 set of harness The horses were re moved State Engineer Dobson has received a notice of the call for the National Irrigation congress to be held from September 15 to 18 in Ogden Utah The governor is asked to appoint twenty state delegates to the con gress and will probably do so within a few days A number of farmers residing In Midland and Logan townships Gage county can now be reached by tele phone two lines having been com pleted by the Bell Telephone company which run northeast of Beatrice agrwi atyTgsaaa Competition Is the lire of trado an tho death of the non advcrtlsor DO TOUR CLOTHES LOOl YUEXOWf If bo UBoRed Crocs BaliBkic ItwlllmaJa them white as buow 2 oz package 5 conts Seeing isnt believing when a man cant believe his own eyes To tho housewife who na3 not yqi t9coi acquainted with tho ne n things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old wo would suggest that a trial of Deflame Cold Water Starch be made at once Not alono because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand but because each 10c packagn con tains 16 ozs while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs It Is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other Quality and quantity must win Opposition Inflames the enthusiast never converts him Schiller The Astors at Court William Waldorf Astor has never recovered his social footing in Lon don since he snubbed one of King Ed wards friends by turning him out ol doors when ho came to tne Astor res idence without invitation having been brought there by one of the guests with whom he had been din ing But the royal cold shoulder does not extend to the expatriated Ameri cans son for young Waldorf is quite popular at court He was even in cluded among the small number of personal friends of their majesties who were invited to celebrate the for tieth anniversary of the kings wed ding Eight Tall Brothers At a recent meeting of Benjamin Hamricks family In Webster Springs W Va it developed that the aggregate stature of Mr Hamrick and his eight sons was sixty two and one half feet The father stands six feet five and one half inches and the sawed off of the family a son named William is six feet one inch The members of this remarkable family range in weight from 155 to 200 pounds She Didnt Care Maplehill la Aug 10th I felt as though I didnt care whether I lived or died I was so miserable all the time In these words does Miss Nellie Bar foot of this place describe her tion Every woman who is or has been sick and suffering will under stand and appreciate just how Miss Barfoot felt and there are no doubti many thousands of similar cases It is truly an awful thing when a woman gets so low that she can say I dont care whether I live or die But Miss Barfoot tells a differentt story to day and her words should guide every suffering woman to tho path of health and happiness I used Dodds Kidney Pills and I m cured I feel like a new person and I would say to every woman suf fering as I did give Dodds Kidney Pills a trial and you will not be disap pointed They are worthy of the high- est praise Wise is the man who can recall a previous engagement when he re ceives a disagreeable invitation B ms J Ul imvrur IA Ktf llj isj tChSx 1 ui t nmnr tt r 1 t 1 a llrli luruiii 1 wtsyi fi 1 Awzmnii ia 2t s -a EVERY SHOOTER I wan eunTe at 11 nu onuuid When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention Thu Paper W N TJ Omaha jtTi rf 7ali i 1 sm 71 OB V- m J I ffm has no terrors for the man who wears SWYERS EXCELSIOR BRarUB Slickers Warranted IVater Prcxif SAWYERS I 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