McCook Tribune F IVJ KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA Brief Telegrams The prohibitionists of South Dakota have named a state ticket headed by W J Edgar of BroIngs for gover nor John L Willis 19 years of age of Toronto Canada was arrested on the Eads bridge at St Louis as he was about to spring into the river Advices from Constantinople to the Turkish embassy at St Petersburg sa the troubes in Armenia have ceas ed and that absblute tranquillity psv vails The president has appointed Pout Quartermaster Sergeant Ernest Flack er stationed at Fort Sill I T a second lieutenant in the Philippine scouts Thomas C Dawson who for seven years has been secretary of the lega tion at Rio de Janeiro has just been appointed United States minister to San Domingo Charles L Tucker of Auburndale Mass was Indicted by the Middlesex grand jury on the charge of murdering Miss Mabel Page at her home in Wes ton March 31 Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania in state convention passed a resolution eulogizing General Miles and stating that the party would be honored in having him as their leader J P Morgan Co confirm the re port that they as syndicate bankers have completed ihe sale of about 12 000000 of bonds for the Terminal Railroad association of St Louis Populists of Oklahoma elected an un- instructed delegation to the national convention to be held at Springfield 111 July 4 The delegation is supr posed to be opposed to national fusion The protective bureau of the Na tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers as sociation during the past year took part in 287 elections where the local option of other liquor issues were in volved Antonio Sperano a life prisoner at the Connecticut state penitentiary who on Monday last was granted a conditional release by the board of pardons has declined to accept the release The London Daily Telegraph has a dispatch from Tien Tsin that Louis Etsel who was killed by Chinese while acting as a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph was buried at New Chwang The questions pending between Bra zil and Peru now seem to be in a fair way to a peaceful settlement It is reported that a joint administration will be established In the disputed Acre territory The report of the Congregational Educational society shows two new colleges instituted one at Redfield S D and the other French American at Springfield Mass Twenty academies were helped financially It is understood in Brussels that the Congo State government considers the British proposal of a special commis sion to inquire into its administration as unacceptable and contrary to its dignity and independence United States Consul Lee at Pan ama has cabled the state department that the government of Panama has consented to suspend action upon the pending coinage legislation until a conference is held in Washington President Capen of Tufts college announces that the honorary degree of LL D will be conferred on Sec retary of the Navy William H Moody and Mrs Julia Ward Howe at the forty eighth annual commencement Coal is dearer in South Africa than in any other part of the world It is cheapest in China Archduke Frederick of Austria ar rived in London He is the bearer of tht field marshals baton bestowed by Emperos Francis Joseph on King Edward S M Wanamaker a leading mer chant of Philadelphia and brother of the former postmaster general died last week of heart disease The White Star Dominion and Al len lines have decided to cut steerage rates from Liverpool and Glasgow to American and Canadian ports to 15 The American Bridge company of PittsbuVg Pa accepted a contract for 2000 tons of structural steel at the Iowes price ever given The contract is for the steel framework of the Mis souri Pacific shops at Sedalia Mo Thomas F Kennedy alias Wiliam H Warren whom the police allege is a member of the famous Knox-Whitman band of forgers was arrested in New York on a charge of forgery preferred by the American Banking association The prisoner is charged with having raised a draft of 10 to 10000 In the United States district court at Boston Atherton N Hunt was ap pointed trustee in bankruptcy of the Dr Green Nervura company At the thirty second commencement of the Kansas university at Lawrence degrees were conferred and diplomas granted to 201 students There is trouble over the new two shilling Engish coin As it shows Britannia she has only one foot Former Cotton King Price has an nounced that he will pay his debts Being not legally responsible hi3 promise is creating comment BATTLE 0 t iitii miiiiiiiiMiwii i imjmhq rmu i NWATE SAID TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE OFF PORT ARTHUR RUMORS ARE JOT CONFIRMED A Flanking Movement of the Japa nese Near Feng Chang Weng Rus sians Bury the Dead in the Battle of Nan Shan ST PETERSBURG Rumors are circulating here that a great naval bat tle has taken place off Port Arthur in which two Russian and four Japanese battleships were sunk No confirma tion of the rumor can be obtained TOKIO Rear Admiral Togo reports that on Tuesday a part of the fleet bombarded the west coast of the Liao Tung peninsula near Kai Chau and drove back a military train that was approaching southward No trains have been seen since The enemy was driving in troops and throwing up works evidently expecting a landing of the Japanese at that point and making all preparations to prevent it Small gunboats sent close in by Admi ral Togo bombarded the Russians at work and it is believed caused con siderable damage HAI CHENG Manchuria A flank ing movement of the Japanese around the Russian left from Feng Wang Cheng June 9 was repulsed with a loss of two battalions A large Japanese force moved out in the morning along the Feng Wang Cheng and Hai Chang road The Rus sians had a force strongly posted in a ravine thirty miles southeast of Hai Cheng The Japanese were preceded by two battalions who walked into the Russian amouscade They received a murderous rifle and artillery fire at close range and were wiped out only one or two escaping The main Japa nese force tried to outflank the Rus sians who drew off without losing a man The Japanese closing in found the ravine vacant save for their own dead TOKIO The military commission assigned to bury the Russian dead in the battle of Nan Shan hill at Kin Chou May 26 presented its final re port today It was found that 10 Rus sian officers and 664 men who fell hi the battle had been carefully buried and 30 men were buried by the out posts making the total number of killed left behind by the Russians 704 GET READY FOR CONVENTION Advance Guard of Republican Com mittee Arrives at Chicago CHICAGO The vanguard of the republican national committee reach ed Chicago Sunday Senator Nathan B Scott of West Virginia and Gover nor Franklin Murphy of New Jersey were the first arrivals The chair man Postmaster General Henry C Payne is on the way from Washing ton and will reach Chicago tomorrow afternoon with several other com miteemen When Senator Scott went Jo the Coliseum he expressed himself as agreebly surprised to find every thing in the hall practically finished and ready for the opening session Among other members of the na tional committee who will arrive Mon day are Powel Clayton of Arkansas minister to Mexico J Edward Ad dicks of Delaware John W Yerkes ol Kentucky L McComas of Maryland J H Gallinger of New Hampshire and Myron T Merrick of Ohio PLAN CO OPERATIVE MINING Union Men May Open a Camp in New Mexico DENVER Colo A new mining camp will be opened in New Mexico according to the Post to receive the deported union miners from Cripple Creek The Western Federation of Miners will work the claims on a co operative basis and will have entire nsmction over their development Previsions will be made by the federa tion for all deported miners and to tnis end a carload of supplies will be sent to the new camp immediately as a starter The camp will be located near Tres rledras which is twenty miles south of the Colorado line on the line of the Denver Rio Grande There is a district ten miles square of virgin ore and the work of mining it will be parceled out to the union miners They will work on the co-operative plan but the miners will be supported bv the federation while prospecting Cockrells Injuries Not Serious WASHINGTON Senator Cockrell of Missouri Avho was painfully in jured Saturday by being knocked down by a boy with a bicycle is con siderably improved The wound in the shoulder was painful but it is thought it will readily yield to treat ment The senator is of robust physi cal condition and fortunately suffered no shock to his nervous system as a result of the accident His pulse was normal Sunday and he was able to receive most of the many friends who called on him Theyre Not Train Robbers PUEBLO Colo J H Ross and William Stubbs railroad section la borers supposed to have been in the party which held up the Denver Rio Grande train several days ago near Glenwood Springs are in Pueblo Ross was supposed to be the robber who killed himself after he had been wounded by the pursuing posse The police investigated and found that Ross and Stubbs were in Pueblo the night of the crime having left the grading camp where they were work ing two days before the holdup rfaabfttwKwwwi CANT TRUST HER SOLDIERS Korea Fears If Men Are Armed They Will Become Bandits SEOUL Telegraphic communica tion has been re established with Ham Heung on the east coast The Korean war ministry recom mends distribution of 2500 Korean sol diers in various positions 50 to 300 each along the Tumen river and Great South road in several impor tant inner towns and at Ham Hueng to prevent future Russian raids The step has not yet been agreed on as the policy is questionable in view of the probability of the major ity of such a force deserting with their rifles turning bandits and robbing the country folk rather than oppose the Russians A number of women and children from Gensan have followed the for eigners to the Mountain monastery twenty miles from Gensan where the latter have sought refuge Other fugitive women and children from Gensan numbering sixty five persons have arrived at Fusan on their way to Japan OREGON IS STILL REPUBLICAN Herman and Williams Re Elected to Congress PORTLAND Ore At 9 oclock Monday it is conceded that the re publicans have elected their congres sional candidates by heavy majorities Congressman Binger Herrman of Roseburg the republican candidate has probably carried the district over R M Veaten democrat by from 5000 to 7000 John H Williamson of Pine ville the republican candidate in the Second district will carry the district by probably 10000 over J E Sim mons democrat Frank C Baker chairman of the state republican com mittee said I predict that Herrmanns major ity will be 7500 and Williamsons 10 000 Judge Frank A Moore the re publican candidate for state supreme judge will receive a majority of 20 000 RUSSIA HAS RUMOR OF DEAL A Nespape Says United States Would Sell Philippines to Japan ST PETERSBURG The Novoe Vremya discusses quite seriously the report that the United States intends to cede the Philippines to Japan and argues that the far seeing Yankee an ticipating the inevitable future con flict with Japan prefers to sell the islands instead of defending them having thereby learned Russias les son of the present war namely the dfficulty of holding territory so far from the base The paper adds Europe certainly was not pleased at the exchange of Spanish for Ameri can domination in the Philippines but the latter is a thousand times more agreeable than to see Japan installed there where it would be a constant menace to Europes Asiatic interests England will have to look well to its position in India France to Indo China and even Holland to Java The only consolation is that the cession may keep Japan quiet for a number of years DRIVES BACK MILITARY TRAIN Japs Bombard Russians en West Coast of Liao Tung TOKIO Rear Admiral Togo re ports that on Tuesday a part of the fleet bombarded the west coast of the Liao Tung peninsula near Kai Chau and drove back a military train that was approaching southward No trains have been seen since The enemy was driving in troops and throwing up works evidently ex pecting a landing of the Japanese at that point and making all prepara tions to prevent it Small gunboats sent close in by Rear Admiral Togo bombared the Russians at work and it is believed caused considerable damage Ajl Quiet at Cripple Creek CRIPPLE CREEK Colo The Cripple Creek district experienced a quiet day Sunday General Bell and staff attended church and transacted no business except what was abso lutely necessary Another party of deported miners will leave Victor to morrow their destination being either New Mexico or Mexico This party will consist of about 100 men A number of arrests were made Sunday and the peace commission sat for a few hours and passed on several cases The saloons open Monday Parker Leads in Mississippi JACKSON Miss The democratic state convention to name delegates to the national convention at St Louis meets here ednesday There are 208 votes in the state convention and the indications tonight are that Parker will come to the convention with a majority of the vote instructed fcr him One hundred and thirty five is a majority and he has 127 instructed votes with half a dozen more coun ties yet to act John Sharp Williams will likely be the permanent chair man of the convention To Extend Road to Pacific MEXICO CITY If the plans of the Chihuahua Pacific railroad are not impossible of completion by reason cf the ruggedness of the country from the Sierra Mrdre to the Pacific coast the road will be extended to the west I coast in the direction northeast from Guerrero Chihuahua and crossing the great divide at Temosachic Tnis statement is authorized by William K ityan of the New York firm of Ryan Dudley who are building the exten sion om Minaca to Temosachic - FIFTY YEARS mss3a0jms HALF CENTURY LIVED OVER AGAIN BY PIONEERS OMAHA The splendor of the pres ent the wilderness that was and how and why For the contemplation of which was the semi centennial The people of Nebraska in Omaha commemorated the approval of Pres ident Pierce May 30 1854 of the Nebraska-Kansas bill which permitted the organization of the territory of Ne braska A beneficent providence forbade the rain that fell slightly in the morning and the remainder of the day was so fair in character as to induce thou sands to view the parade down town and pack the huge Auditorium to its last seat The celebration was everything the name implies and was divided into three distinct phases First in pa geantry and dispay by the grand civic and military parade in thought ful consideration of the circumstances combining to make tne state Its pres ent and its future by the meeting in the Auditorium at which Henry D Estabrook delivered a brilliant ad dress and third in reminiscence and good fellowship by an informal old settlers reunion at the Orpheum the ater in the evening at which nine of the oldest and most prominent citi zens told of the events that shaped the commonwealth The outpouring of venerable resi dents who came to Nebraska and Omaha in the early days was espe cially remarkable and indicated the deep interest felt in the affair The men and women classed as pioneers were too many for the sixty carriages that had been provided and the many private conveyances and some diffi culty was encountered in giving all of them an opportunity to ride in the parade At the Auditorium more than 0000 people of all ages and con ditions probably one of the most truly representative and cosmopolitan groups that ever assembled in Omaha proved that the great building is none too commodious In its present unfinished condition The commemoration did not begin unti afternoon and from 12 oclock on the day was given up entirely to the occasion all public buildings and many private ones being cliseu The throngs that congregated down town to view the parades have been equaled only by some of the con gregations when thousands of visit ors were m the city For a celebra tion of the kind the parade was un commonly fine Most marked of all the feelings ex pressed and felt was that of deep wonder over what had been accom plished in Nebraska In fifty years self congratulation upon the condition of the present and earnest faith in the future This was the spirit that predominated the gather ings It was a truly happy celebra tion without tumult but with many happy smiles and frequent handclaps betokening feelings of brotherhood and awakening old memories and as sociations Dr George L Miller president of the day presided over the exercises in the Auditorium and made brief introductory remarks Governor Mickey also spoke briefly Bishop A L Williams bishop of the diocese of Nebraska offered the invocation DEATH OF CATTLEMAN DEWEY Owner of Dewey Ranch in Kansas and Multi Millionaire TOPEKA Kas Word has reached this city this morning of the death of C P Dewey of Manhattan in Wheel ing W Va Mr Dewey is rated as a two time millionaire He has exten sive iron mine interests in West ir ginia ice and rental incomes in Chi cago a 100000 acre ranch in Rawlins county Kansas and over 11000 acres in Riley and Geary counties in this state In Manhattan he owned much town property including the electric light plant and the telephone system An other enterprise of Mr Deweys is the Beach hotel at Eureka He came to Kansas twenty years ago from Chi cago He leaves a wife and son Chauncey Dewey who was recently tried and acquitted with two of his cowboys on the charge of killing the Berrys To Fill Quays Shoes PHILADELPHIA Philander C Knox of Pittsburg attorney general of the United States was selected Thursday to fill the seat in the United States senate made vacant by the death of Matthew Stanley Quay He will accept and serve by appointment of Governor Pennypacker until March 4 the date of the expiration of the late senators commission Russian Gunboat Is Sunk TOKIO The destroyer flotilla en gaged in watching Port Arthur from the eastward reports that at 740 p m on June 4 a Russian gunboat of the Giliak type was seen to explode and sink near Chentao Shan The vessel with another gunboat a destroyer and other stealers was evidently engaged in clearing the vicinity of mines When the explosion occurred the oth ers hurried back into Port Arthur Vice Admiral Togo expresses the opin ion that the explosion was caused by j a Japanese torpedo ULU NEBRASKAS SEMI CENTENNIAL Golden Jubilee of Organization of Ter ritory is Made Memorable Event An Outpouring of Venerable Resi dents Showing Interest They Felt NEBRASKA STATE NEWS OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND The Question Can Only Be Settled by the Murderer Barker LINCOLN Murderer Barker calm ly awaiting death in his prison cell at the Nebraska penitentiary has it with in his power to determine the owner ship of the estate formerly belonging to his brother at Inavale He has made a statement asserting that Alice Barker was the first to die Barker the brother was twice shot but lived twenty minutes To a World Herald reporter the murderer described his crime as follows It was drug store whisky that kill ed my brother and his wife On the Friday before the crime I was working on the ice and not feeling very well purchased a quart of whisky at an Inavale drug store I took a drink of it and the effect was very strange making me lose possession of my fac ulties That night I slept well but didnt feel very good on Saturday and took some more of the liquor On Sunday evening while returning home I stopped at fathers and ate a lunch As I ate my mother and I talked Af ter finishing the lunch I got in the rig and drove on home On the way I took several more drinks I remember putting up the horse and going to the house Dan arose to let me in and I shot him once in here pointing to his abdomen and once through here pointing to his breast Then Alice awoke and I shot her here indicating the right side of the head I dont know what I was doing The whisky must have been drugged Heirs of Barker claim the land on the theory of his prior death while relatives of Mrs Barker insist she was a widow and inherited the property before she was killed FOR BOOTLEGGING Young Man Arrested at Humboldt for This Offense HUMBOLDT Sheriff G R Martin came down from Pawnee City and placed under arrest Nick Beutler a well known Humboldt young man on a charge of bootleging at Table Rock some months ago The warrant was issued from the court of Justice Mar ble shortly after the offense is alleged to have been committed but in ome manner the offender seems to have been given a tip and made himself scarce He is tnougnt to nave ueen in Missouri but on Sunday afternoon drifted into town and was able to stay here but slightly over twenty four hours when Pawnee county officials were notified and the officer came and arrested him FATAL ENDING TO RUNAWAY Rudolph Oppliger Killed in Columbus Township COLUMBUS Ruduloph Oppliger a well-to-do German farmer living in Co lumbus township was almost instant ly killed in a runaway accident He was returning home about 7 oclock with a load of lumber and while on the Loup river wagon bridge his team became unmanageable and ran away throwing him out For a distance he rode upon the doable trees and then fell off and a wheel ran over him breaking his neck The team ran on home only a couple of miles away and his son retraced the course of the wagon and found the lifeless re mains lying near to the south ap proach or tne bridge Boy Drowns While Swimming AINSWORTH Frank Clapper Warns Soldiers and Sailors WASHINGTON The general land office continues to perfect arrange ments for opening the Rosebud coun try and it was anounced tlm blank forms for use of soldiers and sail ors who may desire to employ an agent to make registration f6r them have been received from the govern ment printing office and are now ready for distribution These forms may be obtained on application to the commissioner of the general land of fice at Wafcngton a 15-year-old son of a prominent ranch man living southwest of this place was drowned in the presence of com panions while endeavoring to swim across Clear lake Didnt Believe in Banks PLATTSMOUTH Joseph Bila an eleven-year-old boy was arrested on the charge of stealing the sum of 350 from an aged woman named Mrs Mary Ptak being her savings for many years The money was stolen from the cellar of the Ptak home where it had been secreted Bitten by a Rattler TECUMSEH Miss Anna Michael a domestic in the family of T H Mc Clure a few miles southeast of this city was bitten by a rattlesnake one day recently She promptly recovered from the effects of the poisoning Fill Irrigation Ditches Secretary Dobson of the state board cf irrigation has received informatioji that the rains in the northwest sec tions of the state have completely filled J he irrigation ditches and most of them are overflowing Fatally Injured by Train BEATRICE Mrs Christina Kalo kowski an aged woman was struck by north bound Burlington passenger train No 90 near Hoag this afternoon and fatally injured THE STATE AT LARGE Omahas audltorloum was openod oil the 7th with a grand ball A party of five Humboldt peopla left last week for a visit of three soil John Hol months on English man and wife their son and daughter James and Nellie and Mrs George Clift comprise the party District court was held at Mullen last week Theodore Roggenshem who was accused a stealing a cow from Fuller Bros and butchering it and sentenced ta was found guilty thirteen months in the penitentiary The business men of Broken Bow held a meeting and decided to cele brate the Fourth of July The neces sary committees were appointed and efforts will be made to have the big gest celebration ever held in the county All the red cedar trees in Seward county are dying from some parasite disease Numberless hedges are dead The nurseryman here reports the loss of 2000 red cedars The botanists at the State university have offered no remedy Seward county farm land still sells at highest prices The Furnald fifty acres sold at 3150 per acre a short time ago and last week Gnekow pur chased the old Mclntyre thirty acres a short distance north of Seward for 133 per acre The 3-year-old son of Henry Muhle was drowned in Omaha creek about ten miles northeast of Bancroft Some of the older children were sent to the store nearby and the little fellow fol lowed them and fell into the creek The body was recovered The record for mortgages in Rich ardson county last week is as fol lows real estate filed twenty eight 43649 released twenty seven 42 290451 city property filed eight 3 53125 released seven 3727 chat tel filed 16300 released 3778840 Hon Edward A Mann whose ap pointment as associate justice of the New Mexico supreme court was made by the president was until one ye ago a resident of Gering removing to New Mexico on account of his wifei health He was prominent in repub lican politics The Cass county mortgage record for May is as follows Amount of mortgages filed on farm property 37 975 amount released 35518 Amount of mortgages on city property filedk 4550 released 7991 Sixteen farm and eleven city mortgages were filed and fifteen farm and nineteen city mortgages were released Freight trains No 63 and No 110 of the Burlington came together at Dawson and did considerable damage to the rolling stock though the speed was not insufficient to occasion loss of life One engine went into the ditch and the other was just able to pull its train out with a badly battered pilot and other slight damage Tho annual report of the librarian of the public library at Grand Island shows a circulation of an average of ninety books per day or over 27000 for the year The library has nearly 9000 books and an effort will be made as soon as the new building is occupied and incidental expenses in connection therewith are out of the way to increase the number to 10000 An affray at a boarding house at the stone quarries near Wymore prom ises to be fatal to one of the par ticipants Those engaged were all ot them Bohemians Brehm and Fraska were intoxicated and in this condition went to the boarding house where they assaulted another laborer named Blaka using a hammer and knives Aside from being seriously beaten Blaak is stabbed in several places with knives It is not thought pog sible he can recover For having in his possession con trary to the state game law ninety one catfish John Hopkins of Dewitt has been held in the sum of 100 bail to appear for trial at the next term of district court by Justice R n in of Crete In default of giving bond he was committed to the county jail For the purpose of perfecting the organization of the southern Nebraska fruit growers association a move ment which has been under way for a year a number of the representative fruit growers in that part of the stato met in Tecumseh Committees named to take charge of the businS at once and a second meeting win be held at an early day ml V4U kTT Illlll llf 1 m inrr fnr t 1 o Prelllnary hear- at rnTif u - ty Attorney J y oun Zl a chn 13 nu xed bis bond 1000 - which i At the mepHnrr r ard procuring a new 2 000 000 U Ion water pump for the citv lof ater works station The c mnp be open to the flt T and the contract will be lef the rl meeting in August Miss Anna IIitcliei the family of ThomSSl60 ln mile north of Elk Creek a v by a rattlesnake A phvscHn summoned and it Snt Has this time thnt i th0St at - 10 J a vcrv firm i on- COiwlitiop although sh - is very in d t f i i v V - t si ii 4 k A