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McCook Tribune
F M KMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
NEBRASKA
The wages of sin Is death And
sooner or later every man collects his
pay
Chefu does not guarantee the qual
ty of Its war news but it makes good
Dn quantity
A Pennsylvania woman has been
Killed by a henpeck which looks like
a turning of the table
Dancing masters have decided that
the two step must go The side step
will continue to be popular
Commander Peary feels that he has
a few more toes to sacrifice in the
great cause of arctic exploration
Game is reported plenty in the
woods A pinch of salt sprinkled on
the birds tail adds to its edible qual
ity
Editor Bok says every woman
should wear a beauty spot The wom
en no doubt will accept the advice on
the spot
How queer it must look to a Span
lard to read in the American news
papers about a flood on the Rio
Grande river
The Guatemalan ants have not done
much so far beyond providing the de
tectives with another mysterious dis
appearance case
The Vancouver Indian who bought
a coffin and a keg of gunpowder sub
sequently discovered that he reallj
didnt need the coffin
Dr Wiley says that Scotch whisky
is an imitation Hoot mon You will
uext be telling us that the Scotch bag
pipe is full of hot air
They havent got through wonder
ing out in the Cream City yet whj
the battleship Milwaukee was christ
cned with champagne
Tobacco is smuggled across the
Canadian border in bales of hay
Some antidote will have to be discov
ered for that tobacco habit
An Indiana man has invented a folfi
ng chair that will go into the hip
pocket Wonder what he thinks a hit
pocket is made for anyhow
The news that alcohol Is made
from honey may lead some gentlemen
of leisure to revise their adverse
opinion of the little busy bee
At the last battle of Bull Run 10000
militiamen got blistered feet As Gen
Sherman might have said but didnt
sham war is a blistering shame
An African potentate the alake of
Abeakuta is on his way to this coun
try Ournative smart alakes will of
course receive him with due honor
Japan is all ready to dictate terms
of peace to Russia but like the
typewriter with the toothache Russia
isnt taking dictation just at present
Chicago reports a growing tendencj
toward vegetarianism That is nol
surprising Corn and rye producta
have always had a wide vogue in Chi
cago
So New York crowds stare at Wil
liam Waldorf Astor No wonder Thej
want to see the eccentric person foi
whom little old NYork is not good
enough
The scientists say therell be nc
Niagara falls 3500 years hence Were
very glad now we didnt miss oui
chance to see the falls on our lasl
vacation
Gen Corbin is opposed to army offi
cers marrying without the consent oi
the war department This may be all
right but what does Gen Ma say on
the subject
Before accepting Prof Metchnikoffs
theory that sour milk is the elixir of
lite will some one kindly ascertain
whether the professor is interested in
any dairy enterprise
Mr Chesty Gullett is running for
office in one of the southern states
If he doesnt get it in the neck it will
be safe to assume that there is abso
lutely nothing in a name
The war department has rightly de
cided that the bow legged man is as
much out of place in military service
as he would be as a shortstop
though not exactly in those words
It is said that tobacco hidden in hay
is being smuggled into the United
States from Canada We have long
suspected that most of the campaign
cigars we have been smoking were
largely composed of hay
The eminent bacteriologists germ
iilling bees convince all gentlemen
with copper lined stomachs that they
nay drink any kind of water with
oertect safety But the trouble is they
dont want to pay such a price for
safety
A Utah preacher having sued a
widow for 150 for preaching her hus
bands funeral sermon obtained judg
ment Perhaps her disinclination to
pay was due to a too strenuous assur
ance that the dead man had entered a
happier state
AS AN AGGRESSOR
RUS8IAN8 FIGHTING TO REGAIN
LOST POSITIONS
SITUATION ATWRT ARTHUR
Czars Forces Unable to Capture Fort
Kouropatkln Russian and Japanese
Forces In Close Contact In the Vi
cinity of Mukden
TOKIO The Russians are reported
to be desperately endeavoring to re
take their lost positions at Port Ar
thur Including Fort Kouropatkln in
the hope of restoring the water sup
ply of Port Arthur They are said to
have repeatedly assaulted the Japan
ese after shelling from neighboring
forts and batteries
The Japanese continue to hold the
positions Both sidos are said to have
suffered severely The newly mounted
heavy Japanese guns are said to com
mand the entire harbor The position
of the remnant of the Russian fleet is
said to be precarious
Advices from Manchuria are to the
effect that the Japanese and Russian
outposts and scouts continue in close
contact south southeast and east of
Mukden Skirmishes are occurring
daily and an aggregate general action
is expected soon
It is believed that the general en
gagement will take place near Tie
Pass and that General Kouropatkin is
holding Mukden and positions along
the Hun river merely to temporarily
check the Japanese advance Snow
has fallen in the mountains east of
Mukden and there has been frost in
the valleys
It is rumored that a Japanese gun
boat struck a mine and sunk south of
the Liao Tung peninsula A portion of
its crew reached an island and were
rescued The name of the gun boat is
unknown The navy department does
not deny the report but says that the
department lacks confirmation
CHE FOO Severe fighting the
Russians being the aggressors oc
curred September 28 and 29 on the
west shore of the Liaoti promontory
near Pigeon bay according to report
brought by Chinese who left Port Ar
thur September 30 The Russians al
ready apparently are attempting to
capture the heavy guns which the
Japanese have mounted in that vicin
ity
The Russians were in considerable
force and they made several sorties
dragging field artillery with them
They were unsuccessful however
RUSSIANS USE NEW WEAPONS
Hurl Huge Bean Cakes Down on
Heads of the Japs
CHE FOO Two Japanese torpedo
boat destroyers were observed out
side the harbor of Che Foo Tuesday
night
A junk which left Lisoti promon
tory Monday night and which arrived
here Tuesday night reports having
seen one torpedo boat near Che Foo
Another junk carrying a Russian
his wife and two children was
stopped Monday night by a Japanese
vessel but owing to the great dis
tance the treatment which the Rus
sians received could not be observed
Chinese say that the battle which
began September 19 continued inter
mittently until September 24
In defending one fort the Russians
rolled bean cawkes down on the
massed Japanese These bean cakes
are very heavy and are pressed into
the shape of circular grindstones
PORT ARTHUR IS HOPEFUL
Believe Fortress Can Hold Out Until
Nxt Year
VLADIVOSTOK Private reports
from Port Arthur state that the garri
son there is confident of being able
to hold out until the beginning of
next year
The report is confirmed of the loss
of the three Japanese torpedo boats
and the damaging of a Japanese
cruiser by coming in contact with
Russian mines All is quiet at Vladi
vostok
Grand Duke Alexander Michaelo
vitch has telegraphed here offering
the hospitality of a specially con
structed villa on his estate at Aitodor
in the Crimea to officers wounded in
sea fighting Admiral Skrydloff has
given permission to Lieutenant Dom
brovski and Midshipman Baron Ad
minoff to accept the invitation and
they will start for Aitodor shortly
BUYING WHEAT IN THE WEST
Eastern Millers Go to Pacific Coast
for Supply
SAN FRANCISCO According to
the Examiner agents of a Chicago
grain house are here buying wheat
for the eastern market It is said
that 300000 bushels of wheat have
been bought in Oregon and Washing
ton for shipment east and that S000
000 bushels of wheat have also been
purchased in Oregon and Washington
principally in the latter state by
eastern buyers for shipment to the
east by rail
Memorial For Senator Hoar
WASHINGTON Memorial services
to the late Senator George F Hoar
of Massachusetts were held Sunday in
All Souls Unitarian church where
the deceased had been a conspicuous
member since his advent in public life
In Washington Much feeling was
manifested as Rev Ulysses B Pierce
the pastor read during the services
the closing paragraph of Bryants
poem on The Funeral of an Old
Man Dr Pierce spoke of the de
ceased senators valuable services and
his loyalty to party and to friends
URGES CONTRACT MARRIAGES J
CEOJG TP77f
George Meredith who believes that
contract marriages for limited periods
are a possibility of the near future is
a celebrated English litterateur His
mother was Irish his father Wolsh
and he received his education in Ger
many He was born in 1828 and pub
lished his first volume of poems in
1851 Though he has written several
bookB It is practically within twenty
years that Meredith has become fa
mous Critics have complained severe
ly of his literary style Many sen
tences have to be readseveral times
before their meaning Uecomes clear
others are unsolvable puzzles and in
many instances he recognizes no rule
oi grammar or of usage
HARCOURT IS DEAD
Former Leader of British Liberal
Party Passes Away at Oxford
LONDON Sir William Vernon Har
court the finest political gladiator
of his age died very suddenly Sat
urday at Nuneham Park near Oxford
the country seat which he recently in
herited from his nephew Only his
wife a daughter of the late John Lo
throp Motley the historian and form
er American minister to Great Brit
ain was with him When Sir William
went to bed last night he seemed
fairly well though he had been suffer
ing from a light chill In the morning
when he was called he replied cheer
ily In a short time Later a ser
vant entered the room and found Sir
William lying dead on his bed His
son Lewis Vernon Harcourt member
of Parliament for the Rosendale divi
sion of Lancashire was hastily sum
moned from London
Among all classes in the United
Kingdom regardless of party the un
expected news caused a sensation and
genuine regret The somewhat pathe
tic announcement in March last of his
intended retirement had prepared the
public for Sir Williams eventual dis
appearance from the active arena of
political strife but there had been no
whisper that his stalwart constitu
tion had been radically impaired by
nearly forty years of fierce parlia
mentary strife
EDITOR GERE IS DEAD
Founder of the State Journal Suddenly
Passes Away
LINCOLN Neb C H Gere found
er of the State Journal and for more
than fifty years its editor died at his
home in this city of neuralgia of the
heart shortly after 7 oclock Friday
evening
During the day the condition of the
editor became worse and his physi
cians declared that his condition was
extremely grave Neuralgia of the
heart was the ailment and it was im
possible to arouse Mr Gere to con
sciousness Early in the week the at
tack came Not long ago he returned
from a long vacation spent at Spirit
Lake la because of ill health He did
not feel much improved when he re
turned Monday while sitting at home
he was attacked by the neuralgia and
sank unconscious Stimulints brought
him out of the stupor and Wednesday
he was able to leave his bod Thurs
day night he was again overcome Mr
Gere was 70 years of age
The aged editor was known through
out the state as one of its ablest men
He made himself known and loved in
a Jarge circle in the old days and his
republicanism was widely influential
from the beginning of his residence in
Nebraska He was born in Gainesville
N Y February 18 1838 and moved
westward after the civil war
No Decision in Wisconsin
MADISON Wis Owing presum
ably to the absence of Chief Justice
Cassady who is detained at his home
by illness no decision was handed
down by the supreme court Tuesday
covering the right of the La Follette
or the stalwart faction to he repre
sented on the state ticket at the No
vember election The court room
was crowded by attorneys and politi
cians anxious to hear the decision
and its postponement was a keen dis
appointment The condition of the
chief justice was reported as much
improved
Gen Payne Very Low
WASHINGTON After a had night
in which his condition continued ex
tremely grave Postmaster General
Payne had a sinking spell at 5
oclock Sunday morning Dr Grayson
was at his bedside and rallied the pa
tient but a sceond spell occurred
about 7 oclock which was so severe
that Dr Grayson summoned Dr Ma
gruder The two physicians adminis
tered heroic measures for an hour For
a while it was feared the end was im
minent but the heart finally respond
ed About 10 oclock Dr OrJer arrived
from Baltimore
JAPS ON DEFENSE
CHANGE IN THE WAR SITUATION
OCCURS
A DESTRIBUTTON OF FORCES
Janpanese Fortify Northwest of tha
Yentai Mines According to Esti
mates Strength of the Mikados
Fcrces Is 207000
MUKDEN A great change in the
situation has occured The Japanese
now appear anxious to act on the de
fensive and have fortified a position
northwest of the Yentai mines
According to the best estimates ob
tainable the Japanese army confront
ing General Kuropatkln comprises
grand total of 180 battalions Allow
ing 800 men to a battalion there are
144000 infantry In addition there are
G3000 calvary and 680 guns The dis
tribution of the Japanese forces is as
follows One division at Bentsiat
putze two divisions at the Yentai
mines four divisions on the railway
a little further north of Liao Yang
one division northward near Hiamea
denz and one division at Sandepu
Russians estimate the Japanese
forces at the following strength
General Kuroki with the imperial
guards and the Second and Twelfth
divisions a total of thirty six bat
talions of infantry nine squadrons of
cavalry 108 guns and a separate ar
tillery corps of 108 guns the guards
reserve brigade consisting of eight
battalions of Infantry nine squadrons
of calvary and twenty four guns and
the reserve brigade of thirty two
battalions of infantry and thirty six
guns makig the total of Kurokis
army seventy six battalions of in
fantry eighteen of cavalry and 270
guns
General Okus army consists of the
Third Fourth and Sixth divisions of
thirty six battalions of infantry nine
squadrons of cavalry 108 guns one
separate cavalry brigade of eight
squadrons a separate artillery brigade
of 108 guns and reserve brigades
comprising twenty four battalions of
infantry nine squadrons of calvary
and twenty six guns making the total
strength of Okus army sixty battal
ions of infantry twenty six squadrons
of cavalry and 120 guns
PRESIDENTS NAME FORGED
Says He Did Not Write Letter Cred
ited to Him
BUTTE Mont When Senator
Fairbanks and his party arrived here
they found the republican leaders
much exercised over the publication
in the Miners Magazine published in
Denver by the Western Federation
of Miners of what purported to be a
denunciation of labor unions by Presi
dent Roosevelt and a denial of its
authenticity by the president The
presidents contradiction was sent to
former Senator Lee Mantle in re
sponse to a telegram of inquiry from
him and was as follows
Your telegram received The let
ter you refer to purporting to be ad
dressed by me to Michael Donnelly
and printed in the Miners Magazine
of September 22 is of course an ab
surd and impudent forgery I have
written no such letter nor any letter
even resembling it to Mr Donnelly
nor any one else I have written Mr
Donnelly requesting to know if he has
received any such letter and request
ing him if so to at once lay it before
the district attorney of Chicago to
find out whether it is possible to dis
cover and punish the forgers
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
DENVER Colo Secretary W D
Haywood of the Western Federation
of Miners said that the reputed letter
of President Roosevelt to President
Donnelly of the Butchers union was
copied from the Wisconsin Toiler
Secretary Haywood said he did not
know where the Toiler was published
NEW YORK PAPER WROTE IT
Alleged Letter cf President to Don
nelly Appeared as an Editorial
NEW YORK The letter alleged to
have been received by Michael Don
nelly the leader of the meat strike
purporting to be one sent by Presi
dent Roosevelt was copied from an
editorial in the New York Evening
Post of August 1 The Evening Post
today S2ys
The letter appeared as an editor
ial in the Evening Post of August 1
and was explicitly stated to be a let
ter which the president might hafe
written with advantage to himself and
the country In other words it was
confessedly an imaginary letter writ
ten for the sake of bringing out cer
tain truths in regard to the meat
strike
The Evening Post also says
We had no thought of course
of being able to make even a present
able imitation of the presidents liter
ary style and as the article was at
the time commented upon and repro
duced somewhat extensively in the
press we never dreamed of its ever
coming to figure as a campaign for
gery
Asks for Recognition
WASHINGTON The American
government has been formally re
quested to extend its recognition to
a new state on this hemisphere the
same being the free state of the Cau
nani This is a small bit of territory
formally wedged between the border
of French Guiana and Brazil claimed
by both nations but decided by an
arbitrator to belong to Brazil Upon
receiving the appeal from the would
be independent state Acting Secre
tary Loomis made an investigation
and secured reports
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA
Union Pacific officers are making
matters lively for coal thieves at Co
lumbus
A Gage county hog was sold last
week for 490 a Lincoln man being
the purchaser
Burglars broke into the home of
Henry Markel at Nebraska City and
secured a valuable gold watch and a
small amount of money
I Spencer colored languishes In
Jail at Fremont waiting results of the
district court for attempting to carve
one Wardell Cash also colored
A telegram was received at
Sprague that a John Crow of that
place had his legs cut off while steal
ing a ride on a train in Kansas
At Kearney William R Herrick
was sentenced by Judge Hostetter to
three years at hard labor for commit
ting burglary at Shelton last January
Scarlet fever was discovered in the
family of Mr Schroeder in Pawnee
City This makes three or four cases
now and going to school at the same
time
Ed Seeber employed by a Grand Is
land pump firm fell eighteen feet
from the tower of a windmill landing
squarely on the head He was unin
jured however
Lee Etting of Grand Island is the
first foot ball victim for this season
at that point He received a fracture
of the leg and will be confined to his
bed for a month
Stock on the range at Sutherland
looks very well and will start the
winter in good shape The grass has
dried up in such a way as to retain a
goodly amount of nutrition
The fall session of the district
court of Hall county was begun with
a light docket There are four crim
inal cases but it is expected that all
of the four will plead guilty
Diphtheria has broken out in Hold
rege in a mild form since the schools
opened Only one death has resulted
however and but two cases are now
known and they have been properly
quarantined
A joint sale of thoroughbred Short
horn cattle was held at Wayne by A
B Clark and William Lesseman of
Wayne and County Judge Hart of
Ponca Forty four head mostly
young cattle were sold The aver
age price per head was about 90
The docket for the next term of
district court of Douglas county
about to open carries 1420 cases as
compared with 1435 for the May
term Of the total number cf cases
on the docket 280 are divorce cases
or more than one fifth of them It is
figured that there is enough work in
this line to more than keep one of
the seven judges busy grinding out
divorces notwithstanding that many
of the cases are not contested and
the decrees are granted by default
The following list of delegates has
been announced by Goernor Mickey
to represent the state at the meeting
to be held at El Paso Tex Novem
ber 15 to IS Sam D Cox Minatare
F V Meagley Lexington W H
Wright Scotts Bluffs O W Sard
ner Gering C H Meeker McCook
J H Payne Omaha W H Fanning
Crawford Adna Dobson Lincoln E
F Seeberger North Platte S E Sol
omon Culbertson Page T Francis
Crawford
Donaker Kid alias Charlie Ever
etts waived preliminary hearing in
the county court at North Platte and
was accordingly bound over to the
district court for trial During the
street fair which was conducted in
that city a few weeks ago by the
company Donaker
Kid and his pal committed a series of
depredations The boys both of
whom were in the neighborhood of 20
years of age stole a suit of clothes
afterward hiring a horse and buggy
which they failed to return
L B Walsworth has sold his farm
northwest of Cambridge to a gentle
man from Missouri for 4000 Mr
Walsworth offered this same farm
one year ago for 3000 which shows
how real estate is advancing in that
part of the state
Mondays receipts of sheen says a
South Omaha correspondent rather
over reached the estimate made by
livt stock dealers at the yards Over
39000 sheep were received and yard
ed breaking the record for heavy re
ceipts November 10 1903 comes the
closest to the receipts when 35000
had were handled
Thomas Baty sues the South
Omaha stock yards company for
5000 for a broken leg He alleges
that he was employed to take care
of horses and saddle and deliver
them for the use of the employes of
the company He avers that on Jan
uary 13 he was thus delivering the
animal used by Superintendent James
L Paxton when it had an attack of
blind staggers and fell with him He
contends that he did not know the
animal was subject to these attacks
but that the company knew it
Vaughn Foote son of Mr and Mrs
W O Foote residing near Wood
River was kicked in the stomach by
a horse and is in a dangerous condi
tion
At Sidney James Connors aged 24
pleaded guilty before District Judge
Grimes to grand larceny and was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for eigh
teen months At Lode Pole July 5
Atolf Engler while drunk in a saloon
was relieved of 170 by Conners who
fled to Sidney where he was arrested
and the money found in his posses
sion
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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
HABITS OF HESSIAN FLY
What Prof Bruner Etomologlst Says
f th Insect
LINCOLN Lawrence Brnner In a
bulletin just issued from the state uni
versity agricultural experiment sta
tion has given a complete summary
of the habits of the Hessian fly and
has outlined several remedies for its
extinction He says in the bulletin
Although the Hessian fly has been
known for a number of years to oc
cur within the state It has done com
paratively little damage In the past
During recent years however It has
shown more of a tendency toward
multiplying In dangerous numbers
Especially has this been true in
Southeastern Nebraska where con
siderable injury has already resulted
In order that the wheat growers of
this and adjoining sections may not
be taken entirely unawares should the
insect spread and continue to in
crease the experiment station au
thorities have thought best to dis
tribute this brief circular treating on
the subject
This insect is a diminutive dark
colored fly much smaller than a lit
tle mosquito to which latter it bears
a general resemblance Its habit of
laying eggs on young plants of wheat
barley and rye renders it a dangerous
farm pest Especially is this true of
it in regions where winter grains are
grown It may also become a pest at
times even where spring wheat alone
is raised but there is little danger
that this last will occur
The fly appears chiefly during
spring and fall but a few of the ma
ture insects may be seen throughout
the summer as well Here in Ne
braska the spring brood may be
found late in April during May and
the first part of June The autumn
flies issue late in August throughout
September and the first part of Oc
tober appearing later in spring and
earlier in fall northward The eggs
are deposited both in spring and fall
on the upper side of the leaves and
the young as soon as hatched make
their way down the plant to near the
ground where they lodge beneath tfQ
sheaf of leaves
As remedied Prof Bruner has out
lined the following
Burn the stubble when possible
This is particularly desirable when
for any purpose shallow plowing is
unavoidable If the stubble is left
long it will burn more easily Some
farmers are willing to go to the trou
ble of spreading straw from threshinv
over the stubble thus insuring the
burning and at the same time getting
rid of some flaxseeds which may
have lodged n the surface of the
straw pile at ilie time of threshing
MANGLED BODY ON BRIDGE
Man at Ercken Bow Seemingly
Struck By Train
BROKEN BOW The mangled hody
of Ned Baker a young man employed
as a teamster was found on a small
bridge near the Burlington yards here
One leg had been severed and was
lying apart from the trunk He had
apparently been run over by a train
hut the railroad men and train crews
have no knowledge of any accident
and his friends are suspicious of foul
play County Attorney Humphrey is
looking into the case and an inquest
will be held
Barker it is claimed was drinking
and early in the evening said he was
going to join companions in a card
game under the bridge These com
panions are not known Barker
came from Fairfield Neb where he
has relatives He leaves a wife and
young child
Preparing Assessors Books
LINCOLN Members of the State
Board of Equalization have prepared
plans and lodged a requisition with
the State Printing Board for the an
nual supply of assessors books under
the law as it now exists Something
like 2200 books are needed Mem
bers of the board declare that theii
action in lodging the requisition at
this time is not calculated to give an
impression of confidence in the con
tinuance of the law or an expression
as to its virtues but rather a pre
cautionary step to procure the neces
sary books in time
Sugar Factory at Leavltt Opens
LEAVITT The sugar factory here
has commenced operations The
campaign starts this year earlier than
usual on account of favorable weath
er ripening up the beets The qual
ity so far has been excellent running
15 and 1C per cent sugar with a
purity of 80 to 86 per cent
Richardson county fanners are mak
ing war on automobiles because of
the fright they give horses
Killed Under Load of Straw
KEARNEY Claude Fester the 14-year-old
son of Mr and Mrs Fred W
Fester living in Buckeye valley was
instantly killed by the overturning
of a load of straw which he and his
brother who is two years his senior
were hauling The boys were com
ing down a hill with the load when
it slipped forward frightening one of
the horses which began to kick and
run The load was overturned
throwing the boys to the ground and
breaking Claudes neck The older
boy was badly bruised
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