McCook Tribune
P M KJMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
Speaking of htraw votes did any
Dody ever hear of one that didnt go
ho takers way
Ballooning Is a very pretty way of
traveling if you arent anxious to get
anywhere In particular
The racing automobile is all right
In its proper pluce but it doesnt seem
to have found the place yet
It is the opinion of every mother
that a boy never loses an opportunity
for attempting to break his neck
How disappointed George Gould
would be if that dog for which he has
just paid 5000 should ever bite him
As she knows where she Is apt to
get it China is wearing a high cellu
loid collar with gun metal fasten
ings
The sultan of Turkey has 171 titles
Dut Man-Who-Keeps-His-Promises-and-Pays-His-Debts-Promptly
is not one of
them
The death of Hole-in-the-Day chief
of the Chippewas leaves a hole in
he western landscape that never can
be filled
There is another new language
which Is called by its builders
Spokil Obviously it never can be
sp ke w II
The sultan of Turkey has seventy
six titles but the best plan is to call
him with a gun when you want him to
respond promptly
Perhaps Vesuvius started that erup
tion now knowing that it couldnt at
tract any attention after the spell
binders get to talking
May Irwin has a plan to keep the
men from going out between acts
Perhaps she is going to offer them a
few drops of the curtain
Sir Thomas Lipton Is making ar
rangements for another contribution
to one of the largest and most ex
pensive scrap piles ever reared
Mr John Munroe late of the pugi
listic ring was born in Chester Pa
And he is without pugilistic honor
now in his own or any other country
An Alabama negro went to the gal
lows smoking a cigar If it was a
campaign cigar it must have gone a
long way toward reconciling him to
his fate
Koreas emperor has decided to ac
cept Japanese sovereignty This in
formation comes to him from Japa
nese headquarters so he is bound to
believe it
Louise the eloping princess an
nounces that she is going to expose
some scandals in high life If any
body can do it Louise would seem to
be the lady
Lipton is bound to prove that Great
Britain can beat the United States
at the yachting game even if he has
to get an American designer to build
thetioat to do it
Munroes share of the gate receipts
of the fight with Jefferies was 6104
and Jefferies was 9156 Mr Munroe
earned his money whether Mr Jeff
ries earned his share or not
Persons who wish to enthuse or
do a stunt may do so according to
the latest dictionary with the ex
press understanding that they become
thereby colloquial and slangy
The Englishman who has rejected
an offer of 10000 compensation for
seven years unjust imprisonment is
certainly taking the right course un
less 10000 is all that he can get
We read about a victim of a car
accident who is suffering from con
tusions on the left side A con
tusion is a bruise of course but
how much worse contusion sounds
It is just possible also that before
the diggers of that twelve mile hole
could get half way down to the de
sired depth thewsenter of the earth
might rise up inhot and indignant
protest
Sir William Harcourt is according
to the London Chronicle the most
weighty member of parliament in
body as well as in character But
he has a grown up son whose first
name is Lulu
The cable tells us that the worlds
record grouse bag was made Aug 24
at Broomhead near Sheffield Eng by
Rymington Wilson and eight other
guns The hunters bagged 2748 birds
and they ought to be ashamed of it
Newport chauffeurs are being sent
to jail for scorching The rich ones
for and by whom they are hired to
scorch are supposed to be sufficiently
punished in having to live without
scorching while the sentences are be
ing served
The robber who looted the Adiron
dack camps of thousands of dollars
worth of jewelry and silverware is a
reformer and ought to have a monu
ment What do these vulgarians want
to take all those gewgaws into a
woods camp for
LAVS AT Mil
KOEN
DO NOT ANTICIPATE ATTACK ON
THE PLACE
JAP FORCES J5EIIHG IKCEASED
Many Convalescents Returning to
Duty Russian Forces at Mukden
Considered to Be Very Large and
More Troops Being Added
ST PETERSBURG The reports
that General Kuroki is pushing on
northeast of Mukden are not borne
out by official telegrams that have
been received here According to
the latest advices the Japanese forces
continue to increase at Blanupuza
and Yental A decisive advance in
the direction of Mukden is therefore
not expected to occur for some days
Menwhile Indications increase of the
probability of the Japanese meeting
with resistance The Russian forces
at Mukden are undoubtedly very large
and every days delay enables the
commander-in-chief to perfect his de
fences A private dispatch from
Mukden reports the arrival of an im
mense train filled with convalescents
returning to duty This may be re
garded as good evidence of a large
concentration of troops at Mukden
The same correspondent describing
the scenes at Tie Pass notes extra
ordinary animation there The great
concourse of visitors there and the
fact that theatrical performances and
open air concerts are of daily occur
rence hardly indicate that the town is
expecting an immediate attack
Dispatches from Vladivostock and
Sakhalin make no mention of devel
opments there The citizens of Vlad
ivlstok scout the idea of a siege and
many are returning from their coun
try villas The long promised Japan
ese operations against Sakhalin and
Vladivostok which were expected to
act as a diversion for General Kuro
kis advance are not yet in sight
Neither the admiralty nor the for
eign office is inclined to attach im
portance to charges of a breach of
neutrality over the supply of Welsh
coal by German steamers to Vice Ad
miral Rojestvenskys squadron and to
Russian cruisers in the Baltic It is
declared that there can be no breach
of neutrality in coaling Russian war
ships outside of Russian territorial
waters This whole question was
thoroughly discussed by eminent jur
ists at an earlier stage of the war
and resulted in the odmiralitys de
cision not to seek coaling facilities
in neutral ports which might lead to
implications but to adopt the inde
pendent course of coaling war ships
at sea This course does not fc y either
Great Britain or Germany open to
suspicion of favoring Russia for
though German colliers were used on
the occasion in question the repson
sibility of the German goTernmeut
was not involved as is shown by the
semi official note in the Aligemeine
Zeitung and obviously Great Britain
is unable to follow up every departing
collier If Japan feels aggrieved offi
cials nere say sne nas iue remcu
in her own hands and can send out
war ships to intercept the colliers
The repair ship Kamchatka has left
Cronstadt to join the fleet of Vice
Admiral Rejestvensky at Libau
Expect Early Developments
MUKDEN The armies having re
covered from the effects of the recent
fighting betore Laio Yang an early de
velopment of the situatioln may be
expected A mysterious movement
eastward is on foot on the part of
bands of Chinese suitaDle for military
service
Marconi In New York
NEW YORK William Marconi ar
rived in New York from Europe In
an interview as to the reason for his
visit be said My present trip is
made to inspect the service of the
Cunard steamers and the Cape Bre
ton station
Thief Gets 1545
ATLANTIC la During the mo
mentary absence of Cashier C H
Miller an unknown thief entered the
Rock Island freight office here and
made off with 1545 from the cash
drawer No arrests have as yet been
made
Olney Refuses to Run
BOSTON Mass At a meeting of
the democratic state committee it was
announced that Richard Olney whose
nomination for governor has been
urged had absolutely declined to be
come the nominee under any circum
stances
Attendance at Worlds Fair
ST LOUIS Attendance at the
woria s fair for the week ended Sep
tember 17 was 1027918 Total since
the opening of the fair 11022340
Break Up Concert with Dynamite
CLEVELAND O During a band
concert at the corner of Fairmount
and Frank streets a lead pipe loaded
with powder or dynamite was ex
ploded with malicious intent the po
lice believe and Pasqualo Farrito of
53Hudson street and Walter Cox 15
years of age of Cedar avenue were
probably fatally injured Pasqualos
back was torn away and Cox had a
leg blown o Rivalry between two
bands of the district is said to be the
cause for much ill feeling of the
bandsmen toward each other
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A JUMP IN WHEAT
Bull Operators See a Chance For
Higher Prices
CHICAGO Wheat at 2 a bushel
before next May was roared by the
bulls on Monday on the board of
trade At the opening of the market
there was an excited demand for
wheat with few traders venturing to
sell The price for May delivery was
from 111 to 112 and for delivery
for the present month from 105
to 108 Those who wished to buy
shouted bids of 2 cents a bushel above
the prices prevailing at the close Sat
urday and the quantity that one would
sell even at such a tempting advance
was extremely limited
The agricultural bureau at Wash
ington issued a report Saturday after
noon that according to the bulls con
firmed the worst fears regarding the
lamentable losses to the spring wheat
crop by the black rust Of winter
and spring wheat produced this year
in the United States it was contended
there was barely enough for bread
and seed if every bushel of it was
available which is not possible and
the country is therefore face to face
with the necessity of bringing in for
eign wheat to help keep the wolf from
the door until another harvest shall
have been raised
At the high point of the day all
deliveries showed a gain of 4 cents
or more as compared with Satur
days final quotations The sensa
tional strength was maintained to the
end the market closing almost at the
highest point Final figures on May
were at 148 September closed at
109 and December at 112
NEW YORK Before a combination
of sensational bullish crop report fig
ures from the government and a big
frost scare in the northwest wheat
prices shot up 4 cents a bushel Mon
day and closed within five eighths of
1 cent of the seasons highest record
HERBERT BISMARCK DYING
Prince Herbert Bismarcks condi
tion is grave His sister Countess
Von Rantzau has ben summoned to
join the rest of the family who are
at Friedrichsruhe The princes mal
ady Is pronounced to be cancer of Che
liver and although he is slightly bet
ter Profs Schwelninger and Van Nor
den pronouncp his case hopeless
Prince Herbert is the eldest son of
the late Prince Bismarck He was
born in Berlin Dec 28 1849 and
married Margaret Countess of Hoyos
in 1892
PRINCE BISMARCK IS DEAD
Son of Famous Iron Chancellor Passed
Away Sunday Morning
FRIEDRICHSRUHE Prince Her
bert Bismarck died Sunday morning
at 1015 oclock The end was pain
less r
Since he ceased to be foreism min
ister on retirement of his father jii
1890 Prince Herbert Bismarck had
taken part In public affairs only as
a member of the Reichstag His at
titude had been that of a man not
appreciated by his sovereign and who
was waiting in the background for
an opportunity to resume his career
From 1SS4 to 1S87 the deceased was
a member of the German Reichstag
and also from 1893 to the time of his
death He was married in 1892 to
Countess Margaret Hoyes of the Hun
garian nobility and after the death of
his father he inherited the title of
prince The deceased had only one
sister who is the wife of Count von
Rentzau His brother William died
in 1901
Delegate to the Philippines
ROME Father Agius the newly ap
pointor apostolic delegate to the Phil
ippine islands was consecrated arch
bishop of Palmyra The ceremony
took place in the Benedictine church
of St Ambrose at Massima Cardinal
Merry Del Val officiating assisted by
Archbishop Chapelle of New Orleans
Members of Father Agius family who
had come from England and Malta to
witness the consecration of their rela
tive were present Father Agius
omitted the uusal luncheon after the
ceremonies of consecration
Lucien Cut Off Now in Use
SALT LAKE CITY The Ogden
Lucin cut off of the Harriman system
running across the northern arm of
Great Salt Lake was opened for pas
senger traffic on Sunday Sept IS It
has been in use for some time for part
of the Overland freight traffic but
now it is made a part of the Oveland
system and henceforth freight and
passenger trains will be run over the
tracks of the cutoff which stretches
for miles in a straight line over piling
and filling through the waters of Great
Salt Lake
YSELD
ONE POSIT
RUSSIA FAVORABLE TO
RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS
THE
WHAT fS CfflTBABAHO Bf WAR
The Consignment of Goods to Private
Parties Does Not Always Prove that
They Are Not Intended for the Belli
gerents
ST PETERSBURG Russias reply
to the representatives of the United
States and Great Britain regarding
contraband of war was communicated
to their respective embassies this aft
ernoon It is understood that Russia
recognizes the principle that provi
sions are not contraband when con
signed to private parties but only
contraband when intended as military
or naral stores
Russia in Count Lamsdorffs re
sponse to Ambassador Hardinge in
principle meets the views of the Ameri
can and the British governments re
garding foodstuffs and coal and other
fuel as being conditional contraband
o
of war distinctly placing them in the
category of articles susceptible of
uses both in war and in peace and
as such only confiscable when consign
ed to blockaded ports or destined for
military or for naval forces of the
enemy
Shipments In the ordinary course of
trade by private persons or firms even
to an enemys port may be regarded
prima facie not contraband but on
this point distinct reservation Is made
The simple fact of consignment to
private persons does not preclude the
possibility that the articles are not ul
timately destined for belligerent
forces and Russia insists that it be
not necessarily regarded as conclusive
evidence of the innocent character of
the goods In other words irregular
ships papers or other suspicious cir
cumstances might vitiate the assump
tion of innocent character but where
such suspicion is raised the burden of
proof to warrant legal seizure is to
rest upon the captor Count Lamsdorff
pointed out however that captains of
merchantmen also owed a duty in
such cases
Count Lamsdorffs reply was net
presented in written form but was
communicated verbally to Ambassa
dor Hardinge It will not involve pub
lic amendment of Russian contraband
and prise regulations but in effect it
becomes an official interpretation of
the original regulations made by the
commission composed of representa
tives of the ministries of foreign af
fairs marine war and justice which
considered the subject in connection
with the objection raised by the
United States and Great Britain and
as such will hereafter govern naval
commanders and prize courts which
thus far in the war have classed all ar
ticles enumerated in article six of the
Russian regulations as absolute con
traband
In this way Russia preserves its dig
nity by not making an open surrender
at the same time consenting to the in
terpretation asked for by the United
States and Great Britain in the rights
of neutral commerce
EXTRADITING AN EMBEZZLER
Official to Be Brought Back From
Mexico
EL PASO Tex The Mexican state
department notified the United States
distrct attorney here that the court
order extraditing Vance Fulkerson had
been approved Fulkerson while in
spector and appraiser in the Uaited
Staates customs service here em
bezzled funds it is alleged and s
grand jury returned indictments in
forty counts against him He left at
once for Mexico where he was later
arrested He will now be returned to
El Paso for trial
This is the first instance on record
of the return of a government offi
cial from Mexico for embezzlement by
the Mexican authorities
IAN LOSSES WERE 22000
Besides Fortifications Costing 30
000000
PARIS Exact figures of the Rus
sian losses in killed wounded and
missing in the operations before Liao
Yang from August 13 to August 26
have been received by the general
staff according to the Journals St
Petersburg correspondent These
amount to two generals 25C officers
and 21S11 soldiers In addition 133
runs were lost The material losses in
clude fortifications costing 30000000
Cause Big Rise in War Risks
SAN FRANCISCO Cal War risks
on cargoes to Japan jumped from a
quarter of 1 per cent to from 3 to 5
per cent as a result of the arrival of
the Russian cruiser Lena in this port
Japs Near Mukden
MUKDEN The Japanese army is
within twenty one miles of Mukden
There is no indication of their ad
vance
Pullman Works Now Idle
CHICAGO ni The Pullman car
worns at Pullman shut down on
Thursday Practically every one of
the companys 7000 employes is idle
The repair department where 1500
men were employed was the last to
close The shutdown has been grad
ual during the last three weeks two
or three departments being closed at
a time The workmen were told to
take their tools with them when they
le t and from this they infer that a
considerable period of idleness con
fronts them
NEWS IN NEB
C HI II 111 I I MM Mill L ill
JU I I
CONFESS TO KILLItYG WATCHMAN
Each of Accused Trtes to Shift Blame
on the Others
SIDNEY The preliminary hearing
of Tom Mclntyre James J Miles and
Harry Neville alias Tom Flynn
charged with the murder of Watch
man Frank Wiser was held before
Judge Tucker After the reading of the
information by County Attorney Span
ogle all the defendants pload not
guilty They each in turn however
took the witness stand and accused
one another of the crime alleging that
they did not intend to kill Wiser
Their statements were conflicting Mc
lntyre claims that the watch and chain
and revolYcr were hidden under the
coal chutes at Pine Bluffs
Their description of the death of
Wiser was harrowing in Its details
They sat alongside of his body smok
ing cigarettes watching him die
Flynn Is about 30 Miles about S2
and Mclntyre 20 years old They were
bound over to the district court with
out bail and the two witnesses for the
state Jenkins and Redding were held
under 2000 bail for their appearance
It is currently reported that this trio
will ask a speedy trial plead guilty
and accept a life sentence
Later The three men plead guilty
to manslaughter and were sentenced
to the penitentiary for life
SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST
Charged With Blowing thc afe of the
Palmyra Bank
LINCOLN George Dowd and Frank
Todd arrested by the police on sus
picion of having blown open the bank
at Palmyra were taken to Otoe coun
ty by Sheriff Srader The police have
strong evidence against the suspected
men and believe they will have no
trouble In securing a conviction Both
are ex convicts and each was paroled
before the expiration of his sentence
Todd was sent to the penitentiary
from Boone county on one occasion
for oatle stealing and once for safe
blowing Dowd was sent up for for
gery and his sentence expired about
two weeks ago Todd has been em
ployed by S M Melick until recently
when he went to work at the Skinner
livery barn while Dowd has been thy
engineer at the Windsor hotel since
his release from prison
Protests Against Fast Running
GRAND ISLAND It is reported In
railroad circles that Engineer Wood
White of North Platte has just been
quite severely censured and given an
cut-it-out order for making too good
time on the Union Pacific The story
goes that the dispatchers train sheet
which ought to be the best evidence
showed the train pulled by White re
cently from Gothenburg to Cozad to
have reached the latter point in six
minutes and as the distance is ten and
two tenths miles showing a speed of
about 100 miles per hour it called
forth vigorous protests It is learned
that the trip from North Platte to this
city on this occasion 138 miles was
made in 126 minutes including the
stops White had the fast mail train
at the time which was several hours
late
Auburn Cannery Closing Season
AUBURN The Auburn canning fac
tory is just about to close a most suc
cessful season Four carloads of its
corn product has already been shipped
out and more Is being rapidly put in
readinees for shipping The capacity
of the plant was doubled for the sea
sons work and an average of 65000
cans of corn daily were put up since
the opening An average of 200 per
sons have been on the pay roll of the
company The opening of the city
schools were postponed two weeks to
allow some of the pupils to continue
work
Stolen Wstch Returned
PLAT TSMOUTH Several days ago
while the family of J A Walker was
absent from tneir home near Murray
some unknown party entered the place
and carried off a solid gold watch
valued at SI 50 The owner did not
report the theft to the officers as he
thought such a thing would be useless
The watch however came back to
him much to his surprise The missing
time piece had been found where it is
thought the thief had thrown it away
Nebraska Rhode Scholar
PERU Neb Remond Coon son of
Rev Dr Coon of the Baptist church
at this place has cone to Oxford Eng
land where he will study for the next
three years on a Rhodes scholarship
for which he was a successful contest
tnt from this state
RASKA
THE STATE AT LARGE
Matt Huntington will put
in n
eewerage system at Wahoo
It cost a Lincoln young man 50
for cutting a tire on a bicycle belong
ing to a policeman
Elmer Barry a Northwestern bridge
workman fell from a bridge at Wa
hoo and had his right arm broken
The Masonic fraternity will have
charge of the laying of the corner
stone of the new court house for
Sheridan county
Burglars felew open the safe of the
bank at Palmyra wrecking the inte
rior of the building but failed to get
into the ttrong box of the safe that
contained 5800
The Independent Telephone com
pany is issuing a new diroctory for
York county which shows 1400 sub
scribers Thlis is one of the largest
Independent companies in the state
and lias one of the best equipped tel
ephone exchanges
The socialists of the Fifth congres
sional district met in Grand Island
with fifteen delegates present all
from Adams and Hall counties and
placed a congressional ticket in the
field for the first time In the history
of the district
The JoneB Grain companys elevator
at Mynard was totally destroyed by
fire at an early hour In the morning
The blaze Is supposed to have been
started by sparks from a passing en
gine Besides the building office and
elevator fixtures about 1400 bushels
of grain was destroyed
A marriage llcunse has been iud
to Mr Joseph M Cudahy of Omaha
son of Michael Cudahy of Chicago
and Miss Jean Morton daughter of
Joy Morton of Chicago The wedding
will take place on the afternoon ef
October 1 at Arbor Lodge the coun
try home of Miss Mortons parents
near Nebraska City
The official board of St Paul
Methodist church has selected a Ma
man to succeed Dr Whar
ton A call has been extended to
the Rev J W Jones of Everett Ma- -
and he has accepted with the pro
viso that the concent of the biships
be obtained for hs transferrene
from the Nov England conference t
Nebraska
Messrs M Robbins W II Read
and N B Atkln who hurriedly colloet
cd material for tho York county col
lective exhibit at tho state fair are
receiving their reward While many
exhibits were larger than that of
York county the fact remains that
York county received thirty four first
and second prizes and tho firsts wero
predominant
The harvest of sugfr beets at Grand
Island lias begun and as scon a a
inlTIc Iciit supply of beets are on hand
the factory -will begin the process of
manufacturing 3ugar The crop is
fine and it is erpected will bo espe
cially heavy a condition much in fa
vor of the farmer owing to the fiat
role contracts In voguo during the
past few years
Colonel J F Dickey and wife of Ne
braska City celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary at their home
The celebration was a quiet affa
there beins only a few friends pr
outside of their family All of
the children with their families wore
present Colonel Dickey served tho
confederacy during the civil war un
der General Lee
St Francis hospital In Grand Island
has just discharged from its list of
patieats oae who held the record for
unconsciousness Samuel Covington
was tereurkt to the hospital from the
raages of Wyorains He had been
tkrow from a horse and had his hip
dislocate and received a fracture of
tke skull He lay absolutely uncon
scious far six weeks He is now able
to be eut on cruteho3
The tuestion of 20000 school
kade was carried at Genera 460 for
aad 157 against No question has
CTer craated quit so much interest
heretofore The majority of the wo
men voters were out and voted for
the bonds
John Wass a ten-year-old boy is ly
ing at the home of his mother in Co
lumbus critically ill from lockjaw
caused by stepping on a live catfish
some weeks aro Out of the fins of
th fish penetrated the hollow of
lads foot to a dth of about half an
inch Nothing wa thought of th i
matter at the time and the wound
gave the boy no trouble until severa
drvs afterward when blood poisonli4
set is
Charles Keley was knocked
at his threshing machine in Gr
lj county and had a close call for i -
j life A portion of the machine w
LINCOLN Jmes Marks of Douc 1 torn loo3e by sunflowers runnT
tas county a Hfe prisoner at the peni
tentiary and Charles Larkins from
Thayer county have been declared in
sane by the county board of insanity
ind have been ordered transferred to
the asylum by Governor Mickey
Two Held for Horsestealing
SIDNEY The preiminary examina
tion of Chance Willard and Jay Cap
ron of Bridgeport charged with steal
ng twenty head of horses from William
Dugcer of Redington was held here
The defendants undertook to prove an
alibi but the court bound them over
to the district court under 20r0 bail
The horses were found in Deuel coun
ty nearly fifty miles from Duggers
ranch and several witnesses testified
they saw Willard and Capron with the
stock and that they afterwards turn
ed the horses loose
through the cylinder and struck hin
across the breast and arms
him a dozen feet back from the taM
But for his having a sheaf of oats it
his hand that deadened the force f
the blow he would have been killed
outright
John Wt iae residing twelve ral
southwest of Grand Island lost sev
eral stacks of wheat rye and oats by
fire the same communicating to
stacks shortly after the threshers had
started the work of threshing
Frank Wiser the Union Pacific
right watchman at Sidney was mur
dered by some unidentified tramps
Wiaers duty was to keep tramps off
the trains and to keep guard over the
large amount of storage coal which is
constantly kept by tho railroad com
pany also to see that there were no
fires near the stock yards
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