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r -53 - f ir rsr V - irALtL i iJ5 McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA News in Brief Face all things even Adversity is polite to a mans face Josh Billings The New York Stock Exchange strikes the securities of the United States Shipbuilding Company from the list but assigns no reason for the action The Studebakers plan a 250000 building in South Bend Ind for the Y M C A which will stand as a memorial to the five Studebaker brothers Republican senators in debate on the naval appropriation announced that the policy of the party is to make the American navy second only to Englands Richard Sibley manager of a mo lasses importing house at Boston has filed a petition in bankruptcy stating his liabilities at 451329 with prac tically no assets Prof Prank Thilly Th D of the university of Missouri has been elect ed professor of psychology of Prince ton university in place of Prof J Mark Baldwin resigned Miss Juliet Ten Eyck McBlair of Washington D C has been unani mously elected as hostess of the Board of iady Managers building at the St Louis worlds fair Walter Wellman says that states men in Washington are amused at the reports in St Petersburg newspapers that the United States has changed its policy toward Russia and Japan The new United States protected cruiser Des Moines built by the Fore River Snip and Engine company of Quincy was formally placed in com mission at the Chanestown navy yard President Smith of the Mormon church confesses to the senatorial committee hearing the case of Sen ator Smoot that he has five wives and that several of the apostles are polygamists William E Curtis writes of the superb specimens of Saracenic archi tecture to be found in northern India and of the decay into which almost priceless specimens of ancient art are allowed to fall A jury at Carlsbad N M rendered a verdict of not guilty in the case of Claybourne W Merchant Jr who killed George W Hutchin in a duel Merchant who was badly wounded claimed self defense The Executive Committee of the National Board of Fire Underwriters has appointed a subcommittee to con sider the advisability of advancing in surance rates in the congested dis tricts of the large cities A letter from Grover Cleveland de nying that he entertained a negro at luncheon in the White House was read in the House of Representatives and preceipitated an acrimonious de bate on the race question President Smith of the Mormon church who was before the senator ial committee investigating the right of Reed Smoot to his seat declares he considers the revelations of his church higher than the law Secretary Shaw has notified spe cial national bank depositories that they will be called on by March 25 to pay 20 per cent of their holdings of government funds on account of the Panama Canal payments A motion has been filed in court at St Louis by the attorneys for Lord Frederick Seymour Barrington re cently convicted of the murder of James P McCann setting forth that he is entitled to a new trial Religious Education in the Home was discussed at the joint meeting of the Religious Education Association at Philadelphia among the speakers heing Professor Richard Green Moul ton of the University of Chicago The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank at Chicago has made a loan of 5000000 to the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway company The rate of interest is understood to be 5 per cent and the time nine months Music from the stars is made audi ble by the invention of Albert C Al bertson an electric engineer of New York Tne light rays falling on a polished plate connected by electric ity with a microphone produce weird sounds President Roosevelt in a letter to President Shepperd of the James town Exposition company indorses the tercentennial to be held in 1907 as demanding the united action of the people in commemoration of the real birth of the nation Secretary Cortelyou in addressing a banquet n Washington of the Na tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers As sociation defended the term com mercialism as representative in its highest sense of the best qualities of American citizenship Advices received from St Peters burg say that new orders have been sent to Admiral Wirenius to keep his squadron in the Red Sea for the pur pose of watching passing war vessels and to capture vessels carrying con- traband of war Representative Martin declared in the House that the packers control the price of crttle by having only one bid made and then dividing the lot He holds that conditions are worse than they were before the injunction -was granted A FIERCE ATTACK CONTINUAL POUNDING IS WEAK ENING PORT ARTHUR RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD SUFFERS Fourth Attack Said to Have Been the Most Effective Since the Siege Be gan One Russian Torpedo Boat De stroyed TOKIO Official and private reports both indicate that Admiral Togos fourth attack on Port Arthur on the 10th instant was the most effective since the first assault of a month ago One Russian torpedo boat destroyer was sunk and several Russian torpedo boat destroyers seriously damaged The fortifications of the city were sub jected to a heavy bombardment last ing nearly four hours The naval bombardments of the land works have generally been ineffective yet the pe culiar topographical conditions of Port Arthur maKe immunity from serious loss from bombardment almost impos sible Admiral Togos torpedo flotilla open ed the action by boldly steaming in un der the batteries and successfully plac ing a number of mechanical mines at the mouth of the harbor Following that there was a desperate bow to bow encounter between the orpedo boat de stroyers in which the Japs appear to have secured a clear victory Then there followed a long range duel be tween the cruisers ending in the retire ment of the Novik and Bayan the only Russians engaged The action was the bombard ment of the inner harbor by the Jap anese battleships The latter took a position southwest of Port Arthur and used their twelve inch guns There were twenty four twelve inch guns in the squadron of six battleships and each gun fired five rounds making a total of 120 huge projectiles that were fired at the citv The bombardment was deliberate and carefully planned In order to aid in perfecting the firing Admiral Togo stationed the cruisers in a position due east of the entrance to the harbor and at a right angle to the battleships The cruisers observ ed the range and effect of the firing and signalled the results and sugges tions by wireless telegraphy These observations and reports greatly aided the gunners in their efforts to make every shot count Admiral Togo was unable to defi nitely learn the results of the bom bardment but late private reports in dicate that much destruction was caused in the city wnere a series of fires uroke out There also was dam age to the batteries THE SENATE THIS WEEK Considerable Time Will Be Given to Woods Nomination WASHINGTON The senate Mon day will continue consideration of the iorcincation appropriation bill and when that measure shall be disposed of will return to the nomination of Gen eral Leonard Wood The committee on military affairs has recommended an amendment to the fortification bill authorizing the pur chase of a torpedo boat of the Protec tor type for experimental purposes at a cost of 250000 and as several sen ators have indicated opposition to the provision it is said that it will be de bated at some length Other features of the bill also will receive more or les attention There are still several speeches to be made on the Wood case but Sena tor Foraker who is in charge of the nomination hopes to conclude iLs con sideration during the week He will make the closing speech in support of General Woods confirmation Squiers Entertains Engineers HAVANA The members of the American Institute of Mining En gineers who with their wives and families are touring the West Indies on board the Hamburg American line steamer Princess Victoris Louise were entertained at a reception Sun day at the residence of United Stites Minister Squiers of Mariano a suburb of Havana Assistant Secretary of State Loomis who accompanied Ad miral Dewey to Sanitago on board the Mayflower is stopping at the Squiers home Corea Nullifies Russian Grants TOKIO The Japanese Corean pro tocol was published at Seoul in an extra edition of the Gazette Thursday The Corean government will publicly announce that the publication of the protocol nullifies the concessions granted to Russia such as the non alienation of coal mining at Kochyo island and Rose island and the for estry concessions in the Ulleungdo Tuman and Yalu valleys The Service Hension Bill WASHINGTON That action on the service pension bill will not be taken during the present session of congress is practically the decision reached by the leaders of both branches Russians Lost Sixty five TIEN TSIN Information from an official who was an eye witness to the bombardment of Port Arthur on Wednesday and Thursday is to the eftect that the Russians had twenty five killed on the battleship Sebasto pol twenty on the Retvizan and twenty in the town The Russians assert that their damaged cruisers have been repaired and are against ready for sea The battleship Czare vitch will be redy in a few days There is no dock here capable of tak ing in the Retvizan CLASH OF FORCES Russians and Japanese Said to Have Come Together LONDON A dispatch to the Times from Wei Hai Wei dated March 9 says It is reported on good authority that a collision on land between Jap anese and Russian troops has oc curred near Haiju Korea fifty four miles northwest of Chemulpo which resulted in the defeat of the Rus sians TOKIO Japanese warships bom barded the forts at Talien Wan Port Ualny on the night of March 8 and then attacked Port Arthur It is believed here that there has already been a decisive naval engage ment in the vicinity of Vladivostok and tidings of it are anxiously awaited The Japanese fleet did not it is said go to Vladivostok for the pur pose of bombarding the town but to locate and attack the armored cruis ers Gromoboi Rossla Rurik and the cruiser Bogatyer the Russan fleet stationed there It is understood that when the Japan fleet was there on Sunday last it found the Russian squadron absent If this is true it gave the Japanese squadron advan tage in the way of avoid battle close to the inshore batteries at the same time putting it in a position to pre vent the Russian ships re entering the harbor It is doubted that the Japan ese withdrew their entire squadron unless the location of the enemy had been discovered as it would have meant surrendering the advantage of being in a position between the enemy and the enemys base There is a strong possibility that the Japanese found the Russian ships in the vicinity of Possiet bay and gave them battle there The names and number of ships in the Japanese squadron have been kept secret but it was probably sufficiently strong to divide into two divisions the one to go to Vladivosttok and the other to cruise in search of the Russian ships It is said the newly purchased cruis ers Nisshin and Kasuga are taking part in the present movement off ladivostok The navy department expects to re ceive dispatches tomorrow from Gen sen where it was planned that the fleet would call after the operation involving an attack upon the Russian squadron had been concluded The Japanese are quite confident in the ability of their squadron to sig nally defeat the Russian ships and laughingly say that the big Russian cruisers wnich stand unusually high out of the water make excellent tar gets DEWEY WIRES EXPLANATION Why He Failed to Call on President Morales at San Domingo WASHINGTON Admiral Dewey who with several members of the general staff and Assistant Secretary Loomis of the State department are now at Havana has teleggraphed the Navy department the reasons why he failed to Call on President Morales of San Domingo when the party were in San Domingo waters several days ago The failure to visit caused con siderable surprise at the time It ap pears that there was fighting in prog ress in the vicinity on the dav the party was there and for that reason the admiral did not deem it advisable to make an official visit During the iorenoon there were several casual ties in San Domingo city from the fighting then in progress This was caused from shots crossing the river through which the boat must pass and as more fighting was expected during the afternoon the admiral gave up the projected visit The ad miral however sent his respects to President Morales by United States Minister Powell BRYAN HAS RIGHT TO APPEAL Executor of Bennett Will Does not Vaive the Right to Contest NEW HAVEN Conn By a deci sion handed down by Judge Gager of the superior court on a demurred to answers to an appeal by William J Bryan from a decision of the probate court which ruled against him in the Philo S Bennett will case Mr Bryan has the right to contest lor the 50 000 bequeathed to himself in the sealed letter The court says in substance that the action of Mr Bryan in accepting the office of executor does not cause him to relinquish any right that he may have in this appeal to establish the validity of certain papers as a part of the will The court says that when a letter is presented to the probate court the question is whether the letter be acceped or rejected The question of right of appeal can not be passed on by the probate court Ready for Reciprocity MELBO URNE Premier Beldn has announced in the House of Represen tatives that the federal government is prepared to alter the tanu in favor of Great Britain making sacrifices if necessary to secure reciprocal pref erences Patriotic Woman is Dead BELLEVILLE 111 Mrs Alfred P Bailey who before her marriage and removal of residence to Canada over a year ago lived here hurred here from Montreal ast week that her child might be born a citizen of the United States She was accouched of a daugnter Thursday night and died early Friday but the infant lives and thrives Mrs Bailey was 21 years of aga She had come here to visit her sister Mrs McLeary The hus band has been notified by wire and will come for tlte remains LOOK FOR BIG BATTLE ON LAND Russans Think Clash on the Yalu Rjver is Imminent ST PETERSBURG The only piece of important news up to this hour from the seat of war was tho Associated Press dispatch from Port Arthur announcing a fresh attack on that place by the Japanese fleet The dispatch contained no details Another telegram to the Associated Press from Vladivostok has been re ceived It makes no mention of fight ing and it is assumed that all is quiet there The reports that Japan has en tered Manchuria west of the Yalu river and has reached Feng Huan Cheng on the Peking road which is the Russian line of communication to the Yalu cannot be confirmed If the information proves true a land engage ment of some magnitude is imminent It cannot long be delayed as the Rus sians have a heavy force south of the line between Liao Yank and Mukden and they are also occupying strong po sitions along the Yalu A Japanese column between them would be In a desperate strait unless it moved hy the flank to take the Russians on the Yalu in the rear and was energetically supported by a forward Japanese movement from Corea ARE ON THE RUSSIAN FLANK Indications that Japs Have Secured Some Fine Positions WASHINGTON The government here has received advices by cable trom Che Foo opposite Port Arthur to the effect that Japanese tond forces a ve appeared at Fung Wang Chang and at Tashan No details are furnished The first named place is about forty-five miles north of Antung in Man churia and the latter is a few miles inland from the mouth of the Yalu river The naval officers here believe that this movement has placed the Japan ese on the Russian flank and perhaps in the rear on their line of commrni crtion It is believed that Tuesdays attack upon Port Arthur was a diversion per haps to cover the expeditious land movement ot the Japanese forces who were probably landed from trans ports at some point west of the Yalu river FINDING PLACE FOR BURT Report That Former President of the Union Pacific Is to Work for Czar SAN FRANCISCO Cal It is stated in local railroad circles on authentic private advices from the far east that Horace G Burt until recently presi dent of the Union Pacific has been given a years employment as an ex pert by the Russian authorities on communications and railways They want him to make a report on needed improvements for the Trans Siberian road and the new Orenburg Tash kend railway His remuneration will be 100000 for making these two ex pert reports Burt is to consult with the Russian engineers on the problem of building around Lake Baikal instead of using a ferry system forty eight miles in ex tent across the lake He is also to criticise the alignment of the Siberian road and its bridge and culvert work and the rails WAR REGULATIONS IN JAPAN Rules Governinq Corespondents of Newspapers WASHINGTON In a mail report trom Tokio February 18 Minister Gris som furnished translations to the de partment of state of a number of portant ordinances and regulations relating to the state of war Most of these have been described in the press reports Newspaper corespqondents with the armies must receive their admission through their minister or consul All 3f their correspondence newspaper or private must be submitted to the consor and there must be no use of ciphers The correspondents them selves are required to wear a white band on one arm marked with Jap anese letters in red ink stating their newsparer connection and no corre spondent will be received who has had less than one years actual ser vice on a newspaper BUFFALO BILL WANTS DIVORCE Colonel Cody Files Petition Asking Severance of Marital Ties DENVER A petition for divorce filed in the district court of Big Horn county Wyoming January 9 last by Colonel Vwiliam F Cody Buffalo Bill has just been made public The complaint charges cruelty and alleges that on December 26 1900 Mrs Cody attempted to poison the plaintiff Another cround on which the plaintiff asks a decree is that the marital relation has been made un bearable to him by his wifes refusal to entertain his friends at his former home in North Platte Neb Mrs Cody who is at North Platte denies her husbands charges and will contest the suit Colonel and Mrs Cody were married at St Louis March 6 1S66 Luetwin Needs Guns and Men BERLIN It was said in Reischstag circles that Colonel Luetwin governor general of the Southwest Africa col ony has asked for reinforcements to the number of S00 men and two mounted batteries He has found the Herreros to be more numerous and better armed than he supposed and they occupy a strong position which they are fortifying Further Colonel Luetwin is expecting difficulty in pre venting the enemy from le entering the parts of the country 1 e has al ready cleared KBEPWHEATMARKET MATTER OF SERIOUS MOMENT TO AMERICAN FARMERS Chamberlains Idea Is to Have Canada Furnish the Food Products for the Home Country Would Be Serious Blow to Western Wheat Growers On Feb 5 the Manitoba Legislature unanimously adopted a resolution strongly indorsing Mr Chamberlains preferential tariff scheme This ap pears to be the first formal legislative Indorsement of Mr Chamberlains pol icy It was given because that policy would give Canadian wheat growers a better British market than American wheat growers would have The United Kingdom is the largest customer of American wheat growers It takes now practically one half of all our wheat exports But we are not now supplying so large a part of its de mands as compared with Canada as we did twenty years ago In roun figures the United King dom imported in 1882 134000000 bush els of wheat including flour of which 75000000 bushels came from the United States and only 5000000 hush els from Canada In 1902 the United Kingdom imported 179000000 bushels of wheat of which 108000000 bushels came from the United States and over 2000000 bushels from Canada Competing on equal terms in the British market Canadian wheat grow ers are gaining upon American The Canadians have increased their trade 400 per cent while we have increased ours only 44 per cent If Mr Cham berlain succeeds in getting a tariff of 6 cents a bushel on American wheat it is certain that our best wheat market will be greatly curtailed and that Ca nadian wheat growers will profit by our loss That is what the Manitoba Legislature sees and that is why it indorses Mr Chamberlain What can we do to prevent this threatening narrowing of our best wheat market Two courses are open to us One is to reduce our tariff on manu factures to such an extent that the broadly there is little warranter any of mil thousands fear that Englands lions of dollars worth of manufactured -wares represented by her home con sumption and by her exports stand in any serious peril from tho competition of dollars worth of of a few millions American surplus products sold at low rates for special reasons Tho American business man does not hanker after any market which permanently represents only a loss or at best no profit Moreover this applied as it is process spasmodically is not limited to the American mer His English chant or manufacturer and German competitors take their oc casional fling at it just as he does occasion is and even our own market ally subjected to the needs of the foreigner for a little ready cash or the relief of an overstocked warehouse New York Sun Military Work in the Philippines Reports like that received concern ing the wiping out of a band of Moros prove that the pacification of the Phil ippines requires a constant military watchfulness such as England has practiced in her long course of colo nial expansion It is a fact however that the need for the employment of force is steadily diminishing There have of late been very few disturb ances in the more civilized islands of the north where our earlier cam paigns were conducted and there has been nothing at all resembling a con certed general effort at rebellion against the American authorities So far as we may judge from the dispatches it would seem that the races who followed the leadership of Aguinaldo or acted in co operation with him have given up the struggle If there is still an aspiration for inde pendence it does not express itself in the appeal to arms Instead of any thing resembling a national movement there is only the occasional outbreak of some few disaffected persons who are commonly classed as ladrones Canal Treaty Is Ratified The senate ratified by a vote of 66 to 14 the Hay Varilla or Panama ca nal treaty The ratification of the treaty means WILL THE SEA SERPENT BE AT THE WORLDS FAIR British people being able to exchange their manufactures for our wheat might prefer to reject Mr Chamber lains plan and go on as they are But to do that would injure our manufac tures and derange our whole fiscal sys tem That plan is impracticable The other course is to make it worth while for Canada to reject Mr Cham berlains plan and refuse to become merely the farm feeding Englands mills by opening to Canadas minerals timber and other raw materials a bet ter market in the United States Since our own wheat production has practically reached the limits of our new lands and can be greatly In creased hereafter not by increase of area but only by better culture we might also open our markets to Can adas wheat and induce her to send it here instead of to England to be ground By reasonable reciprocity conces sions to Canada promptly made we can without material injury to our selves prevent her economic alliance with Great Britain bring her into economic alliance with the United States and prevent the threatened curtailment of our best wheat mar ket We can make Canada the farm feed ing our mills rather than the farm feeding Englands mills The benefits that such an arrangement would be to us on both sides of the Atlantic are certainly worth consideration Chi cago Inter Ocean Slaughtering Surplus Products If a particular British industry or a particular British establishment suf fers a loss of trade there are those who raise the cry that the loss is due to slaughter prices on goods from the United States The cry was re cently heard in Canada when Ameri can steel rails on some very large or ders were quoted at 5 to 0 per ton Lelow the rates maintained in the United States It may be admitted that at certain times and in certain lines American goods have been are being and will be sold in foreign markets at prices which are below the rates prevailing at the same time in this country But the argument as an argument carries a strong flavor of absurdity Taken the triumph in our legislative halls of patriotism over partisanship of states manship over political astigmatism It means that within ten years the oceans which wash the two coasts oi America will be joined It means a doubling of the strength of the Ameri can navy It means the American flag will fly once again over fleets of mer chantmen It means increased pros perity to the commerce of the whole world but especially of this nation It means lower railroad rates across this continent It means a ship canal from Chicago to the gulf of Mexico It means the consummation of work which has been in the minds of men for 400 years but which has defied all efforts until attacked by the genius of the American people Much credit is due to Theodore Roosevelt and to John Hay for the American triumph Without their de termined and sagacious managemet of the isthmian crisis it is probable that we should still be weltering in- a chaos of uncertainty as to whether we were to have a canal within the next half century Shoes and the Dutu in uj The Record raises the question of the annual duties on raw materials wth reference to shoes The Dingley tariff put a duty on hides and while the Record and a number of other papers declared that this would kill the export of shoes the foreign demand for our shoes has grown ever sinc What is the use of butting agrinst facts in this way The experience of the last six years shows clearJr a duty on hides does nothing to orevont the increase of our exports of hoots and shoes and this is the truth with other duties on raw materials In the end they increase the suppW of raw material and diminish its price Philadelphia Press Not So Abusive Maybe the tariff showed its teeth to the tariff haters and frightened them out of their ten cent socks thev could buy for nine cents under tariff reform -if they had nine cents Thev are not so abusive now of its proven bene ficence and Practicabilitr Sheffielc Ala Reaper if I H 4 r j i 4 l i