McCook Tribune R M KIMMELL Publisher IIICOOK NEBRASKA News in Brief Two new bridges are to be built over the Neva river at St Petersburg The last year of the sugar bountis cost Franco alone no less than twenty millions dollars In 1881 the London birth rate av eraged 322 per j000 It steadily de clined to 285 In 1902 Korean commerce amounts to about fifteen million per annum the imports being double the exports Typhoid fever has broken out among all the detachments of marines in German Southwest Africa Exportation of 6600000 gold from New York last week broke the record for outgo in one day since 1901 John D Daly an old time newspa per man well known In Chicago and other cities died at Elkhart Ind The Chicago Great Western Railroad company filed with the secretary of state a certificate increasing its capi tal stock fr6m 30000000 to 50000 000 Tommy Love of Philadelphia was given the decision over Tommy Feltz of Brooklyn in their fifteen round bout before ithe Eutaw Athletic club of Baltimore Md The Wabash -railroad shops at De catur 111 were ordered closed by President Ramsay The order is sup posed to be on account ofthe strike order by the Carmens brotherhood At Syracuse N Y the Lyceum theater a vaudeville house was de stroyed by fire It had closed during the season until last week when a New York company played six nights While no official announcement of a Wabash loan was made it was learned from a trustworthy source that a loan for 6000000 bearing 5 per cent interest has been negotiated Senator Hale and others counsel de lay in building more battleships until tne Russo Japanese conflict shall have demonstrated the comparative utility of the big fighters and the torpedo boats Frank McNamara employed for fif teen years in Chicago plead guilty of murdering Captain Jennings in Brook lyn in the hope of covering up his theft of 5000 from his western em ployer Colonel Loutwein governor of Ger man Southwest Africa cables that typhus has broken out in Major Von Glasenapps column Seven deaths from the disease were recorded up to April 22 W A P Davis of Philadelphia sec retary of the Gregory Buell Mining company was seriously injured in the tunnel of the mine near Central City Colo by the unexpected explosion of dynamite The president sent the following nominations of postmasters to the senate Nebraska Thomas A Boyd Beaver City Iowa William G Ross Fairfield E M Smith Winterset Samuel H Hall Lime Springs At Deadwood S D fire destroyed the large pressed brick plant owned hy Thomas Whittaker of that city and Sioux Falls capitalists Loss 15000 partly covered by insurance The plan will be rebuilt In a lecture in New Orleans Dr Isa dore Dyer physician at the lepers home in Louisiana after saying there were 3000000 lepers in existence an nounced that in the last two years the problem of curing the disease has been solved Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson last of the adjutants general of the Army of the Potomac and chief of staffs under Generals Hooker and Meade during the civil war died in Washington after an illness of three months He was 72 years old The Supreme Court of Colorado re fused to admit to ball Charles H Moyer president of the striking min ers of Colorado pending the hearing of his habeas corpus case May 5 and the prisoner will remain in the hands of the military in the bull pen That the prayer meeting with its cut and dried programme has out lived its usefulness that the Christian Endeavor Society is exercising too much influence on the church and that radical changes are needed were the declarations of Rev George Tay lor at the meeting of Congregational ministers in Boston After receiving one current of 45 000 volts and another of 25000 and falling forty feet to the ground Henry Elsey of Galesburg Mich an electric lineman is alive with the loss of two toes the only permanent injury El eey has returned from Kalamazoo where lie has been six weeks in a hos pital recovering His recovery is con sidered one of the most remarkable on record The Swiss Alpine club has within the last four years spent 21000 in building reruge huts on various moun tains Charles F McKenna of Pennsylvan ia has been nominated by the presi dent United States district judge for Porto Rico The Pennsylvania railroad union station at Harrisburg Pa was dam aged by fire to the extent of 75000 to 100000 Tfie London Crystal Palace accom modates Nmore people than any other building in tho world It will hold 100000 people A GREAT BATTLE IN WHICH JAPANESE TROOPS ARE VICTORIOUS CROSS RIVER AND TAKE HEIGHTS After Five Days of Preliminary Fight ing Mikados Men Begin Decisive Battle Turn Left Flank of Russians Near Wiju and Capture Position TOKIO Advices received here state that the twelfth division of the Japanese army forced a crossing of tho Yalu just above Wiju just before dawn Sunday morning The second pontoon bridge across the river near Wiju was completed at 8 oclock Sat urday night and the Imperial guard of the second division crossed during the night The Russians left flank has been turned and a general attack began at dawn today Sunday nearly all the Japanese batteries on the south bank of the river and a flotilla of gunboats co operating with the army The Japanese have the advantage of positions and numbers and are confi dent of routing the enemy Aavices from the front say that Japanese forces began an attack on the Russians on the Yalu river last Tuesday The battle was continued Wednesday Thursday Friday and Sat urday On Thursdav the Japanese effected a crossing of the Yalu and secured a lodgment on the right bank of the river The fighting on Saturday was at long range and there was a duel with heavy guns across the river Fighting was resumed at daylight to day Sunday The Russian force is estimated at 30000 The Japanese loss is reported to have been small thus far TOKIO Supplemental reports from General Kuroki covering Sundays fighting say The Russians made two stands The enemys strength included all of the third division two regiments of the sixth division one cavalry brigade about forty quick firing guns and eight machine guns We have taken twenty eight quick firing guns many rifles much ammunition more than twenty officers and many non-commissioned officers and men as prisoners I am informed that Major Kashtal inskl commander of the Third East Siberian rifle brigade and Lieutenant General Sasulitch commander of the Second Siberian army corps were wounded Our casualties number about 700 and the Russian loss is more than S00 men JAPANESE NOW ON RUSSIAN SOIL Minister McCormick Learns Number of Those He is Caring For ST PETERSBURG As a result of his investigations Ambassador Mc Cormick finds that exclusive of the 570 Japanese in the Islands of Sagha lin the total number of Japanese in Blissian is 351 of whom 63 are in the province of Amur chiefly at Port Zeya 280 in the province of Prim orvsk chiefly at Nikolaievsk and a major and his officers with five sol diers two merchants and an interpre ter under arrest as spies They are all being concentrated- at Stretnsk whence as soon as navigation is opened they will be forwarded to Irk utsk from there they will go to Ber lin via the Black Sea the Russian authorities desiring to transport them so far as possible by water HAVE CLAIM AGAINST COLON Sufferers From Colon Fire Confer With Secretary Hay WASHINGTON Secretary Hay heard argument by attorneys repre senting the American interests in volved in the Colon fire claims These attorneys have formally requested the secretary to deduct the amount of their claims from the fund of 10 000000 which is fo be paid by the United States to Panama on the ground that the inhabitants of the present new republic of Panama while in insurrection against the Col ombian government were responsible for the destruction of Colon by fire about twenty years ago with the re sulting loss to American property owners These claims have been presented several times in recent years to the Colombian government which has re pudiated them as growing out of the acts of insurgents so that the present method of bringing them forward Is new Secretary Hay promised to give careful consideration to the claims but has decided that they must be con sidered entirely apart from the canal negotiations and as congress has made a specific appropriation of 10000000 for Panama no deductions can be made from that appropriation by the executive on account of any other claims Act of an Insane Mother CLEVELAND O Mrs Caroline Volkman who is believed to be in sane threw her three children Annie aged 11 Willie aged 5 and Otto aged 2 into Lake Erie Sunday afternoon and then jumped in herself Fortun ately boatmen t were nearby and the whole party were rescued without any ill effects The children were sent to their home and -the mother is locked up pending examination regarding her sanity Domestic troubles is said to have made her temporarily mentally irresponsible X OPENING OF THE FAIR St Louis Welcomes the World to the Great Exhibition ST LOUIS -Representing a larger expenditure than any similar enterprise heretofore attempted on this conti nent greater In its ambition and wider in lis scope man any pruviuus euuu of its kind the Louisiana Purchase exposition was formally opened Satur day afternoon The inaugural exer cises could hardly have been improved upon They were simple were car ried througn without delay and with out a halt or delay of any descrip tion The weather was without flaw No fairer day from dawn to sunset could have been hoped for The handling of the crowds the guarding of env closures sacred to the participants in the exercises and the police work generally could not have been better ed This work was in the hands of officers of the regular army It was arranged that President Roosevelt should press the button at exactly 12 oclock but when that hour arrived several of the addresses had not been completed At approximately 1215 St Louis time in order that his time might not be encroached upon the signal was given to President Roosevelt that all things were ready His response was quick and in a few seconds came the answering touch over Jthe wire from the White house This officially opened the exposition but it was de termined to conclude the program and the signal for the actual opening for the unfurling of the flags the ringing of bells and the operation of the great cascades was not given by Director of Works Taylor until 104 COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS GOT IT S F Smith President Central News paper Union Daveport la Short 50000 Trust Funds DAVENPORT la Statements and old papers filed for record with the recorder of Scott county show Samuel F Smith ex mayor of Davenport trus tee of Davenport Carnegie library publisher of the Daily Republican and son of the author of America short in his accounts with trust funds of 50000 Smith signed over to W C Putnam and A W Vanderveer all of his property in Davenport including stocks in local companies and real es tate Mr Smith has long held the confi dence of the people His residence is the finest in the city It is rumored that the greater part of the shortage was caused by the at tempt of Mr Smith to establish a house to furnish ready printed sheets for country newspapers The Central Newspaper Union was started about three years ago by J X Brands as manager and Mr Smith as financier The business was run for three years at a loss It is stated that the total loss up to the time he sold his inter ests was in the neighborhood of 30 000 Smith is ill his daughter is in a hos pital and his wife nearly heart broken Smith has made a full confession SHAW CALLS FOR THE CASH Banks Requested to Put Up Money to Pay for Panama Canal WASHINGTON The secretary of the treasury has isued a call direct ing national bank depositaries to transfer to the assistant treasurer at New York City on or before May 10 1904 an aggregate amount of 12 000000 The call on each bark is for 10 per cent of the public deposit cf such bank as it stood before the recent 20 per cent call thus making a total withdrawal of 30 per cent of public deposits Todays call however ex empts all depositaries whose author ized balance before the recent call was less than 100000 It also ex empts a few banks having active ac counts were their authorized balance is not greater than the convenience of the treasury department in trans acting public business required With these exceptions the call applies to all depositaries permanent and tempo rary In view of the plethora of money in all the central reserve cities it is probable that an additional call of the same character will be issued payable about June 1 This would supply the amount of the draft upon the treasury made by the payment for the isthinian canal right-of-way and would afford a working balance of 50000000 actually in the treasury and sub treasuries as at present Complaint Against Paper Trust WASHINGTON Conde Hamlin of the St Paul Pioneer Press Don C Seitz of the New York World and John Norris of the Philadelphia Ledger and the New York Times representing the American Newspaper Publishers as sociation called on the attorney gen eral today and laid before him a com plaint against the paper manufactur ers trust alleging violation of the Sherman anti trust act The attorney general stated that he would have an investigation made into the matter Furnish Free Fireworks CHICAGO In order to protect cni dren from injury and property from damage the Chicago Amusement as sociation is planning to furnish fre2 firecrackers and torpedoes in unlimit ed quantities to every child in Chi cago on Independence day The am munition for patriotic celebration however must be exploded in the parks and public playgrounds under supervision ot a fireman a physician and a member of the asociation The organization is capitalized at 1000 000 WORK ON CANAL THOUSANDS OF APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED ANTHRACITE COAL RATE INQUIRY Venezuela Cattle for United States Will Be Used Exlusively for Food and Have to Pass a Rigid Inspection Besides Paying Duty WASHINGTON Since the return of Admiral Walker and General Davis of the Isthmian canal commission to Washington from Panama they have been engaged in work preliminary iO the meeting of the commission next w 2k During the absence of the com mission application for positions on the canal force were received by the thousand Thus far it has not been determined how the canal work will be done hence the commission itself does not know yet just what positions it will have at its disposal The probability now is that the great bulk of the work will be done Dy contract It has been suggested that a construction company be organ ized to undertake the work under the supervision of the commission The organization of several companies each to do a specified portion of the work also has been suggested In the anthracite coal rate inquiry against the Philadelphia Reading Railway company the interstate com merce commission Friday entered an order reopening the proceeding for fur ther investigation The commission has set the case for hearing at New York on May 4 The committee directed by congress to investigate and report on the best methods of restoring the merchant ma rine of the United States Friday chose Senator Gallinger for the chairman ship At Fridays cabinet meeting Secre tary Wilson reported that the depart- i ment of agriculture had granted per mission to the Venezuelan government to import into the United States 1000 head of Venezuelan cattle Of course the customs duties will have to be paid on the cattle They will be ship ped to New York consigned to an ab battoir No breeding cattle are to be among the number imported the idea being to use them exclusively for food The department is exceedingly careful about all importations of live stock and each head of cattle imported from Venezuela will be rigidly inspected Postmaster General Payne returned Friday from Charleston S C after an absence of several weeks spent in cruising along the Atlantic coast and in West Indian waters He is im proved in health though still complain ing of a slight attack of gout in one foot The treasury department forwarded to the secretaiy of state for trans mission to J P Morgan Co of New York financial agents of the Repub lic of Panama a warrant for 1000000 on account of the Panama canal pur chase OPEN HEAVY FIRE Russians Repulse Japanese Charge on Manchurian Side of Yalu River LIAO YANG Tho Japanese troops which crossed the Yalu north cf Fuit jiou Tchangdjiou charged during the night of April 2G 27 the Russian position near Liazevana a vilage on the Manchurian bank of the Yalu They were repulsed but their loss is not known Two gunboats steamed up the river to the support of the Japanese when a Russian battery at Amizan open ed on them resulting in a duel which lasted for twenty minutes The Rus sian fire was so hot the gunboats were forced to steam out of range The Japanese were facilitated in crossing by their occupation of the island of Samalinda Suit to Divide Estate ST JOSEPH Mo The suit of Mrs Frances B Burnes and daughter Mar jorie of Chicago and Kenneth Burnes of St Louis for a division of the Burnes estate worth 5000000 and which has been kept intact for a quar ter of a century was called for trial in the federal court Tuesday The defendants are L C Burnes James N Burnes and Virginia Burnes of St Joseph and Kate B Gatch of St Louis The plaintiffs charge L C Burnes with securing wrongfully a large number of shares in the estate it being Incorporated Jaos Publish Their Side of It WASHINGTON The Japanese lega tion has published the correspondence that took place between Baron Kom ura Japanese minister ot foreign af fairs and Mr Kurino Japanese min ister to St Petersburg preceding the beginning of the Russo Japanese war The purpose of the publication is to disclose officially the Japanese attitude and especially to point out the efforts to force Russia to an early and con clusive answer to the Japanese pro posals relative to the evacuation of Manchuria Prince Pu Lun Presents Letter WASHINGTON Prince Pu Lun a nephew of the emperor of China and his personal representative at the St Louis exposition was officially receiv ed by President Roosevelt at the White House on Monday Prince Pu Lun brought to this country a letter to President Roosevelt from his royal uncle Emperor Kwang Su which was written on a strip of beautifully woven silk four feet long and two feet wide It was folded in three folds with the upper part of the document handsome- i ly embroidered MEDIATION REFUSED BY CZAR Suggested by Both King Edward and King Christian - ST PETERSBURG The Associated Press is enabled to announce authori tatively that the talk of mediation in the Russian Japanese war was found ed upon the personal desires of King Edward and King Christian of Den mark to avoid further bloodshed and end the conflict but that steps ini tiated have utterly failed The czar with the full concurrence of the Imperial faily and his advis ers has firmly decided not only to re ject all proposals looking to interven tion but to prosecute the war with all the sources of the empire until vic tory crowns the Russian arms and then when the time comes for peace to make terms directly with the en- emy The interference of outside powers will not be tolerated There is to be no repetition of the Berlin congress Furthermore the Associat ed Press is authorized to state that Russia will in no wise consider her self bound by the propositions made to Japan prior to the war The hos tilities have wiped out the engage ments Russia offered to make with Japan regarding Korea and Manchu ria Russia will consider herself free to impose such terms as she desires FRENCH SYNDICATE PAYS IT Advance the 40000000 to the Pana ma Canal Company WASHINGTON The attorney gen eral has received cablegrams from Messrs Day and Russell who went to Paris as his representatives to con duct the closing negotiations for the Panama Canal property to tho effect that the deeds of the property arch ives and all other papers and docu ments which will belong to the United States under the transfer have al ready been turned over to them and that the purchase price of 40000000 has been advanced to the canal com pany by a Paris syndicate of bankers This syndicate it is understood of fered to pay over the money with a view to expediting the consummation of the sale on the assurance of the attorney general that the draft of the syndicate on the United States for the 40000000 would be honored on presentation at the treasury at Wash ington JAPS MAY HAVE SET TRAP Strong Squadron of Armored Cruisers on the Move CHICAGO A special cable to the Daily News from Kobe says Under tull steam a strong squadron of Japanese armored cruisers was ob served this morning making its way northward in the Japan sea It is be lieved that the vessels are on their way to attempt to cut -off the Russian squadron that appeared at Won San on the east coast of Korea yester day It is feared however that as the czars cruisers are superior in srjeed to those of the mikado they may es cape in safety to the shelter of Vladi vostok It is also stated that the Japan ese have succeeded in luring the Rus sians from protection of the Vladivo stock guns and that there is another Japanese squadron between them and their retreat but these are mere rumors BECAUSE SHE VOTED FOR SMOOT Mrs Coulter of Ogden Will Not Be Allowed to Address Federation SALT LAKE CITY Mrs Marry G Coulter of Ogden a prominent Utah club woman will not be allowed to make an address at the biennial con ference of the Federation of Womens clubs on May 17 next because she voted for Smoot while a member of the last legislature Mrs Anna D Nash of Boston chairman of the do mestic science department of the federation the subject on which it is asserted Mrs Coulter was to speak says repeated requests have been made by Mrs Coulters friends ask ing that she be invited to make an address but on account of general opposition of club members of Utah based on Mrs Coulters supnort of Smoot the requests had been refused Mrs Coulter is a gentile Bills Pass in House WASHINGTON When the house met at 10 oclock it was still tho leg islative day of Wednesday a recess having been taken Tuesdav Until that hour Bills were passed To regulate the disposal of public lands released and excluded from pub lic forest reservations To establish a life saving station at or near the entrance to Tillamook bay Oregon Ratifying and confirming the pres ent right of way of the Oahu Railway Land company through the military reservation of Kahauik Hawaii Mr Hemenway callea up the con ference report on the general defi ciency bill The report was unani mously adopted and the house then proceeded to the consideration of the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill Brave Man Surrenders to Cupid CHICAGO In recognition of his heroic conduct at the time of the ex plosion on the battleship Missouri Chief Engineer Studdard of that vessel was given a furlough of several months He came to this city to visit his brother Gus Studdard and at once fell in love with Miss Catherine Hur ley the sister of his brothers wife He procured a marriage license and tomorrow the wedding will take place Engineer Studdard will leave with his wife for a visit to his former home in Ireland gffgt f ONE DOLLAR WHEAT Canadas Wheat Fields Pro Western Yields Free duce It Magnificent Grants of Land to Settlers Interior Depart The returna of the of that the movement ment show American farmers northward to Can ada is each month affecting larger United States Time was areas of the Free Press when the Winnipeg says furnished and Iowa the Dakotas Minnesota with the main nished the Dominion bulk of its American contingent Last four states and year however forty in the oi represented districts were flclal statement as to the former resi dence of Americans who had home steaded in Canada The Dakotas still head tho list with 4006 entries Min nesota being a close second with 3887 but with the exception of Alabama and Mississippi and Delaware every state in the Union supplied settlers who in order to secure farms in the Canada became lertile prairie country of came citizens of and took the oath of allegiance to the Dominion iasc year no less than 11841 Americans entered for homestead lands in Can ada From tho Gulf to the Boundary and from ocean to ocean the trek to the Dominion goes on Not only the wheatgrowers of the central Missis sippi valley but the ranchers of Texas and New Mexico and the cultivators of the comparatively virgin soil of Oklahoma are pouring towards the productive vacant lands of the Cana dian Northwest It is no tentative half hearted departure for an alien country that is manifested In this exodus it has become almost a rush to secure possession of land which it Is feared by those imperfectly ac quainted with the vast area of Can adas vacant lands may all be acquir ed before they arrive Thera is no element of speculation or experiment in the migration The settlers have full information respecting the soil wealth the farming methods the laws taxation and system of govern ment of the country to which they are moving and they realize that the opportunities offered in Canada arc in every respect better and greater than those they have enjoyed in the land they are leaving Canada can well afford to welcome cordially every American farmer com ing to the Dominion There is no question but that these immigrants make the most desirable settlers ob tainable for the development of the prairie portion or the Dominion Full information can be had from any au thorized Canadian government agent whose address will be found else where in this paper Not David the Psalmist David Belasco and Henry de Mille collaborated ence on a play in which they used the line from the Psalm of David Lord how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph The actor to whom this line fell expressed his dissatisfaction over it and confided his feelings to De Mille Are you stuck on it the actor asked him Yes said De Mille I must confess I am You see the line isnt mine its Davids I thought so said the actor anyone could tell that was some of Dave Be lascos bad English Electricity Prevents Collision The Baltic is equipped with i electrical device for preventing col lisions with other vessels The mo ment another ship enters the mag netic field of the Baltic the needle of the indicating instrument points in the direction of the vesFel ap proaching of being overtaken and the steersman knows at once what course to take Even the rhythmic beats of an unseen steamers screws are reg istered by means of this delicate ap paratus Another safeguard is an electrical contrivance to show if the ships lights are burning properly Rheumatism in Utah Frisco Utah May 2nd There Is a great deal of Rheumatism in this and neighboring states and this painlul disease has crippled many a strong man and woman among an otherwise healthy people Recently however there has been introduced into Utah a remedy for Rheumatism which bids fair to stamp out this awfully painful complaint The name of this new remedy is Dodds Kidney Pills and it has al ready wrought some wonderful cures Right here in Frisco there is a case ot a Mr Grace who had Rheumatism so bad in his feet that he could hardly walk He tried many remedies in vain but Dodds Kidney Pills cured him His wife says We both had Kid ney Trouble and my husband had the Rheumatism so bad that he could hardly walk We used Dodds Kid ney Pills with much benefit We have tried many remedies but none have done us so much good as Doads Kid ney Pills Similar reports come from all over the state and it would seem as if Rheumatism had at last been con quered Little Willie Papa what is meant by forging the fetters Willies Papa Signing another mans name to a check my boy Ask Your Dealer For Allens Foot Ens A powder It rests the feet Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Sore Hot Callous Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails Allens Foot Ease makes new or tight shoes easy At all Druggists and Shoe stores 25 cents Ac cept no substitute Sample mailed Free Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y Now there are rumors oi a boardirg house trust abroad in the land Board ing houses that will trust would fill a long felt twant - i 11 J8 ti I vj x