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m m m i s McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA 3 News in Brief I Alter seven months of fruitless sittings the session of the Cuban con gress has closed Three were killed and fifteen wound ed in a fight with brigands In a sub urb of the City of Mexico Francis G Laddon of Staatsburg N Y has been appointed third sec retary of the American embassy at Berlin Prince Henry of Prussia Intends to give up his residence at the old castle of Kiel for his new chaceau at Hem melmark The wealthiest congressional candi date this year is said to be Mayor An drus of Yonkers N Y His honors valuation is Bet at 3000000 At Mobile la Charles Harding shot his wife three times and then turned the pistol on himself the bullet pene trating the base of the brain A dispatch to the Lokal Anzelger from Mukden says the Eighth Russian army corps has arrived there and that General Kuropatkin will make new plans immediately A movement has been begun In Ral eigh N C for the erection of a mon ument to United States Senator M W Ransom who died recently It will be placed in Capital square Frederick Douglas Morrison of Bal timore recognized as one of the ablest educators of the blind In the world died last Saturday from the effects pf an operation for appendicitis Great Britain keeps hold on Thibet by proposing to occupy Chumbi Val ley the key to the country until the entire amount of the 3750000 In demnity demanded has been paid British military experts are of the opinion that the battle of the Shakhe river has resulted in a victory for the Japanese and that the Russians are now returning north of the Hun river King Edward gave a luncheon at Buckingham palace in honor of Ad miral Jewell and other naval officers Ambassador Choate Secretary White and Attache Stockton were also pres ent Edward L Bartlett solicitor of New Mexico since 18S9 and once adjutant general of the territory is dead at Santa Fe of pneumonia He was born In Maine and went to Santa Fe in 1881 When Mayor McClellan of New York tried to register last week the registrars did not recognize him and demanded his naturalization papers when he told them he was born in Germany The unexpired portion of the sen tence of confinement of General Pris oner Benjamin Ladyburig late pri vate of Company B First battalion of engineers has been ordered remitted by General Wint The decision of the National Spir itualistic association in convention at St Louis to nominate the officers by ballot kept the assembly in an uproar for two hours It was finally decided to postpone the election Charles B Pfahler of Chicago re signed as chief clerk of the depart ment of concessions of the Louisiana purchase exposition Mr Pfahler or ganized the accounting system in use at the Columbian exposition A Liao Yang telegram says that ac commodations for the wounded are exhausted A service of hospital trains has been organized to take the Jap anese wounded to New Chwang where hospital ships are in the harbor Prof Barrett Wendell o Harvard university has sailed for Europe to de liver at the Sorbonne in Paris during the coming winter lectures in Eng lish every week on America Ameri can Ideas and Institutions Frank F Holmes of Chicago In his report as secretary treasury of the National Association of Local Fire In surance Agents at its opening session in St Louis hints at further trouble in the Cook County insurance case There is a slump in the coke busi ness in the Connellsville region Ovens are being blown out throughout the region the yards contain thou sands of tons of coke and the sidings are filled with loaded cars with no destination Mr McCormack the American am bassador to Russia called at the state idepartment to pay his respects to Sec retary Hay and Assistant Secretary Loomis The ambassador had satis factory reports to make regarding the condition of Russo American relations A slight earthquake shock travel ing from northwest to southwest was felt at St Louis The disturbance was recorded on the seismograph in the weather bureau exhibit of the Philippine government at the Worlds fair The earthquake caused a slight rattling of dishes in parts of St Louis but did no damage A resolution disapproving of reci procity with Canada was adopted by the Vermont house of representatives without opposition Fire destroyed the National bank building and three other houses at Wells Point Tex entailing a loss of 80000 insured partially The North German Gazette of Ber lin prints an explicit denial of the statement contained in a dispatch from Pekin to the London Times that Germany was intriguing against Chinas acceptance of the Anglo-Tibetan treaty THE ARMY FRON ALONG WHICH THERE IS SAID TO BE SHARP FIGHTING TROOPS HOLD OLD POSITIONS Russians Are Entrenching the Ground Recently Occupied by Them They Are Expected to Resume the Of fensive Within a Few Day3 MUKDEN Sharp fighting contin ues along the front The Russians are entrenching ground recently occupied by them While no pitched battle has occurred during the last few days the two armies are kept in touch with one an other holding the positions they oc cupied when the big battle ended There is no evidence that the Russian army will rush north as was the case after the battle of Liao Yang In fact tho Russians have another line of de fenses to fall hack on In the event that they are forced out of their pres ent positions During the last few days there has been frequent artillery fire occasional infantry attacks and daily clashes be tween outposts and ifouts Unless the Japanese take the Initia tive soon the Russians It is expected will resume the offensive and en deavor to drive the Japanese back for the purpose of insuring the safety of their winter quarcers which un doubtedly will be north of Mukden unless a southward advance is suc cessful Another big battle is expected short ly as the weather is already turning cold It will be impracticable for the two armies to winter in their present positions midway between Mukden and Liao Yang Many incidents are coming to light showin gthe bravery of the Russian soldiers during their stubborn resist ance to the Japanese advance and in their attempts to drive the Japanese back The men fought night and day without rest and afterwards worked for hours carrying the wounded to the hospitals When the Russian troops recaptured Lone Tree hill they retook several guns and a quantity of am munition which the Japanese had pre viously captured They also took sev eral Japanese guns in addition At the conclusion of the fight the hill was covered with the dead and wounded of both armies The Japanese prisoners were treated by the Russians with the greatest kindness At one hospital visited by the Associated Press correspondent Japanese pri vates were found in their officers ward The army hospital corps and the Red Cross societies did splendid work The wounded were dressed and forwarded to the hospitals with the greatest expedition Th Russian commissariat also was admirably handled Portable soup kit chens were most useful going under fire to feed the men ARIZONA POPULATION INCREASE Governors Annual Report Says It is Now Over 165000 WASHINGTON The annual re port of the governor of Arizona to the secretary of the interior says that the territorial population has increased considerably and that the total popu lation now is between 165000 and 170000 It expresses a desire on the part of the people of Arizona for state hood but says Finding themselves confronted with a plan to unite their territory with New Mexico the people of Ari zona have protested vigorously and will continue to do so until they have defeated this repugnant scheme They would perfer that their common wealth remain a territory indefinitely rather than be joined with New Mexi co The governor adds his belief that the merger would not be acceptable to the mass of people of either territory The report says the floating indebtedness of Arizona which on June 30 1903 was 92341 has been wiped out and a balance of 20849 remained in the general fund at the close of the last fiscal year The taxable property in the territory has gained 1981505 dur ing the year The total taxable prop erty of the various counties is 45 069545 Substantial progress in other directions is reported Russians Retake Shakhe Station ST PETERSBURG Shakhe sta tion or what is left of it has been recaptured by the Russians who will reopen it for railway traffic with Muk den It is reported that the Japanese made a furious attempt to take a wooded hill near Da pass The firing began at 11 oclock and continued with rifle and cannon through the night This action probably was a part of an attempt by the Japanese who were already in possession of small hills in the plain to rush the center along the foothills at the Shakhe river The Outlook in China LONDON Bennett Burleigh after careful inquiry into the situation ca bles the Daily Telegraph from Shang hai that the political outlook in China is worse now than prior to the boxer outbreak in 1900 Widespread oper ations of secret societies he says show a dangerous recrudescence of anti foreign feeling Drilling of large bodies of well equipped troops is pro ceeding day and night in many dis tricts of southern and middle prov inces and the Chinese authorities are buying military equipment CAPTURE LONE TREEHILL Japs Driven From a Point of Great Advantage ST PETERSBURG Despite the feeling of bitter disappointment over the failure of the Russian offensive and the complete miscarriage of Gen eral Kuropatkins plans the battle continues and his defeat does not ap pear to be so crushing and disastrous as the Tokio telegrams led the Rus sian public to suppose While the tales of death and slaugh ter have plimged the nation into grief and the exact situation of Kuropat kins army especially the left is not clear but probably must be regarded as critical it is evident that the wild stories of a rout and of the cutting off of a whole corps etc are baseless Kuropatkin is still doggedly trying to stem the tide and there is nothing but admiration for the heroic figure of the Russian commander personally directing the fight to save his batter ed legions Indeed the latest official dispatches almost revive the hope that he does not consider the battle to be irre triveably lost as he has personally launched attack after attack against the strong Japanese position on Lone Tree hill south of Shakhe at last carrying it by storm and obtaining some revenge for the loss of the Third artillery brigade by capturing eleven field pieces and one machine gun But whether this offensiveness of Kuropatkin was forced In order to ex tricate his flanks is not revealed the war office affirming that it is unable to communicate precise information re garding what is occurring on the left Everything proves mat not since the time of the ancients and certain ly not within a hundred years has the world witnessed such desperate fight ing The slaughter doubtless is ap ralling but the war office contends that the Tokio reports are exagger ated UNION PACIFICS REPORT Company Shows Net Earnings of Over Twenty Six Million Dollars NEW YORK The pamphlet re port of the Union Pacific Railroad company for the fiscal year ended June 30 last issued shows Gross earnings 55279231 increase 4 204042 operating expenses 29026 007 increase 1GS6723 net earnings 26252624 increase 2517319 After receipt of other income and payment of total charges there remains a sur plus for the year of 4713456 a de crease of 230018 The report sets forth that owing to the decree in the Northern Securities company suit the Oregon Short Line has been unable to collect its North ern Securities dividends since Feb ruary 1 last There were sold during the year 10000000 face value Union Pacific companys 5 per cent coJlateral notes maturing February 1 1905 the pro ceeds were used in further advances to the Southern Pacific company in the construction of or investment in new lines in the completion of the steamships Manchuria and Mongolia and in the purchase of other equip ment BIG MONEY ORDER BUSINESS Big Increase in the Domestic and In ternational Orders WASHINGTON The total number ot money orders issued by this gov ernment during the last fiscal year passed the 50000000 mark for the first time in history as shown by the annual report of the superintendent of the money order system The net revenue of the money order business was 2528403 an Increase of 288494 as compared with the pre vious fiscal year The gross revenue was 3626676 an increase of 376282 The number of domestic orders is sued was 50392554 aggregating 378 778488 and international money or ders issued numbered 208344 aggre gating 42550150 The issue of domestic orders in creased 4450873 in number and 25 150840 in amount while internation al orders issued increased 294195 and 7312215 respectively JAMES CALLANANS PROPERTY Must Be Converted Into Cash Within Five Years DES MOINES The millions of dol lars of stocks and other property of the late James Callanan must be con verted into cash within the next five years according to the provisions of the will which has been filed here Mr Callanans wealth is estimated at 5 000000 or 6000000 He owned great amounts of stock in industrial com panies both local and national He al so owned extensive iron mines in Arizona and gold mines in other parts of the west According to the will this must all be sold and a considerable quantity of the money will be deposit ed with the Iowa Loan and Trust com pany of Des Moines to pay annuities and carry out other provisions of the will Release Causes No Surprise ST PETERSBURG The newspa pers publish full reports of the trial by the admiralty council of the case of the British steamer Allanton seiz ed June 16 by the Vladivostok squad ron and her cargo but abstain from comment on the councils annulment of the judgment of the Vladivostok prize court The decision causes no surprise The demand of the owners of the Allanton for indemnity for the detention of the ship probably will have to be the subject of negotiations through the foreign office AS TO OUR LANDS I news in Nebraska LAWS IN RELATION THERETO IN NEED OF REVISION SO SAYS THE COMMISSIONER The Present Statutes Were Enacted to Meet Conditions Which Have Passed Away Question of How Best to Take Care of the Grazing Lands WASHINGTON The land laws of the United States need revision said Commissioner Richards of the gener al land office today Many of the law3 on our statute books are made for con ditions which existed twenty years ago and quarter sections of land up on which homesteaders are permitted to file must give way to larger areas of land because the best lands are oc cupied The forestry laws and timber and stone laws also need revision and the commission appointed by tho presi dent consisting of Mr Pinchot head of the forestry division of the agricul tural department Mr Newall chief hydrographer of the geological sur vey and myself expect to make a re port to congress based on an investi gation and data now at hand And yet all three of us find it hard to give this subject the attention It really de serves because of the duties of our several positions which take up all our time Upon the subject of the opening of the Rosebud in Gregory county South Dakota Mr Richards stated that about half the lands had been taken under the drawing at 4 per acre On Nov ember 8 three months after the time at which the drawing occurred the books will be closed for those enter ing on homesteads After November 8 the land remaining may be taken at 3 per acre that period extending for three months or until February 8 of next year After that date all lands remaining undisposed of may be filed upon at 250 per acre for a period of four years Upon the termination of that period the president is permitted to dispose of the remainder by sale under the rules and regulations of the secretary of the interior A most excellent class of people entered Rosebud country during the opening of the reservation and draw ing for locations continued Mr Richards Many of them were people of fair mS5ns otherwise they would not have ben able to comply with the terms laid down These people will be a great addition to the South Da kota population and cannot help but be good citizens We have found many cases where people after once look ing at the land decided to go else where and there are cases where per sons drawing low numbers have failed to take advantage of their opportunity to settle upon much valuable land Of course this number was small but it showed that the time between the in tention of filing and the time in which to put up the money weeded out many irresponsible persons and resulted in an exceedingly better class of settlers One of the geratest problems which confronts the interior department is the question of how best to take care of the grazing lands of the country Sometimes I think that if we could lease these lands to cattle and sheep men surrounded with every safe guard for the government that it would be a most excellent way of getting out of existing conditions As civilization pushes onward the great public domain is absorbed and broad acres of unfilled soil grow smaller every year The cattlemen and sheep men realizing this drove their herds far afield and if the government could obtain lease money from these cattle and sheepmen it would not only give them protection but be adding to the treasury JAPANESE PORT ARTHUR LOSS Camp Follower Says 50833 of Mika dos Men Are Slain CHICAGO A special to the Daily News from Che Foo says Accord ing to a camp follower who has been for some time with the Japanese army now besieging Port Arthur and who is at present in Che Foo having ar rived from Dalny the number of Jap anese killed before forts has reached 50000 He says the mikados men recklessly attacked the strongest positions making bold rushes in masses the soldiers being stripped of their accoutrements and clothing The result was that the Russian machine guns mowed them down He also as serts that there is some talk among the officers and men that leads to the belief that the Japanese mean to try to carry the inner forts this month Gold Discovery in Colorado DURANGO Colo The reported dis covery of extensive bodies of quartz rich in gold and silver in the La Plata range of the Rocky mountains west of this city has created excite ment Hundreds of men have gone to the locality and many mineral claims have already been located Assays ob tained are said to run from 50 tc over 2000 to the ion No Information at Washington WASHINGTON Assistant Secre tary Darling said on Friday that so far as he was aware no advices had been received at the navy department of the reported skirmish between United States marines and Panamans on the isthmus If any dispatches have been received the assistant secretary explained they in all probability would be sent to the department and would not be delivered to the officers until morning At this time the navy has about 450 marines on the isthmus ESTIMATE OF NORMAL EXPENSES State Board of Education Prepares Figures for Legislature KEARNEY The State Board of paration of the estimate for the Peru Normal school It is as follows GENERAL EXPENSES Salaries J71400 Fuel and light 8000 Total for equipment 500000 Total for the Peru school 99500 The estimate for the Kearney school Is as follows Salaries 47500 Heating plant 15000 Furniture blackboard and labor atory suplies 6000 Fuel lights and water C000 Improvements of grounds wa ter and sewer connections 5000 Postage telegraph telephone freight and express 900 Printing and office supplies 1500 Commencement expenses and in- cidentals 800 Total for the Kearney school 82700 George A Bertinghof architect of the Kearney Normal building sub mitted his report in which he says among other things that he has re cently examined the building and fully approves of tho substantial character of the material used In It to date RUSHING FOR THE ROSEBUD Preparing to Prove Up on Claims That They Drew NORFOLK Another influx of peo ple toward the Rosebud reservation has begun It is not a repetition of the rush which took place last sum mer but the trains between Norfolk and Bonesteel are just about as long It is a soberer lot of settlers however moving in This time they are people in earnest who are going to the Rose bud not as a gambling lark but for seriously settling and proving upon the claims which they drew from Uncle Sam Owing to the fact that the moving on according to law will come in the dead of a Dakota winter those per sons who drew are making every pos sible preparation ahead of time in or der that when the times comes for living there they will have comfort able quarters to occupy Houses are sprouting up all over the country The land office at Chamberlain is said to he doing a rushing business just now too owing to the fact that relinquishments have become possible under the sixty day limit Many are transferring their claims the average price being 400 to 500 Find Floater Near Nemaha NEMAHA A floater was found in the Missouri river about four miles north of Nemaha Thursday by Wil liam Gillespie The body had evident ly been in the river several months In its trowsers pockets were found a bunch of keys a pocket knife a rule and a nail set such as carpenters use The body was boxed and taken to Brownville Must Answer in Court OSMOND Paul Klawitter a farm er of this place and formerly from Wisner was arrested on a charge of assault committed upon the person of a 14-year-old girl by the name of Blackwell He was bound over for trial Whitticar Found Guilty DAKOTA CITY The jury in the incest case of the state against Steve Whitticar which has occupied the at tention of Judge Graves all week last Friday brought in a verdict of guilty Whitticar was accused by a 14-year-old daughter of criminal assault On the witness stand she told a graphic story of the inhuman crime which counsel for the defense was unable to break down Fatal Fire at Hartlngton HARTINGTON F W Barnhardts residence here was burned and his youngest daughter Doris 2 years old was burned to death An older daugh ter Hazel was probably fatally burn ed and Miss Bertha Feiber who was assisting in the household duties also lost her life Favors Ramsey Law LINCOLN In overruling a de murrer filed by the Kansas South western railroad the supreme court has given some assurance that the judges favor the Ramsey elevator law The demurrer was filed by the rail roads in the suit brought by the Farm ers Shipping association Collects Many Subscriptions YORK Maybe he was deaf and dumb and perhaps he pretended but the fact remains that a young man came here about two months ago pretending to be deaf and dumb and solicited subscriptions to the Ladies Home Journal making a strong plea that he was doing this for the pur pose of further educating himself He did not ask more than the 1 subscrip tion and succeeded in securing many subscriptions It now develops that he is a swindler having no right to soli cit subscriptions THE STATE AT LARGE Prohibitionists of Polk county have put a ticket In the field Jacob Bodner an old resident of Education met in this city The prin 1 Platte county was found dead in a cipal business transacted was the pre- i chair Mike J McCarty was attacked by a stallion at his home at Unadilla and fatally injured A car loaded with cinders in the- PrTnUaomce ppH So Union Pacific yards at Columbus could be- Apparatus ana latboraory sup plies 1000 Postage telegraph telephone freight and express 900 Furniture and cases 800 Repairs 800 Repairs and improvements 5000 Commencement expenses and in cidentals 800 Total of general expenses 18100 EQUIPMENT laboratory blackboard 5000 Adition to heating plant boil ers tunnel and fixtures 2500 Pumping station 2500 caught fire and before water turned upon it was destroyed A new German Lutheran church at Telbasta was formally dedicated last Sunday Bishop Bowman ot Omaha was in charge of the exercises Frank Sedlitsky a farm hand who has been working at Lavitt was held up and robbed of 7 while walking home fromFremont a few nights ago An artesian spring has recently been discovered on the Mousol ranch seven miles northwest of Cambridge which is a wonder of unusual interest to that country Laying of the corner store of tho new government building at Hastings took place under the auspices of tho Masons Hon W E Andrews of Wash ington delivered the address F U Dyers an employe of the Keaton restaurant Fremont was rob bed of 18 at Mrs Wests Albany house by a strange boy whom he be friended in offering shelter for tho nip c Dr S R Towne state expert on contagious diseases accompanied by Dr Gabbois of Humphrey are gating the epidemic of scarlet fever at Sr Bernard a small place nine miles northwest of Humphrey At Columbus the Utile 2-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs William Dietrich was found face downward in a tub of water The child was appar ently dead and the face was turned a blue black but after some hard work by the physicians it was resuscitated Enos Perkins the farmer living eighteen miles north of Cambridge who was arrested on a counterfeiting charge January 11 by the United States marshal is unable to appear in court on account of an injury caused by a stroke of lightning recently re ceived C L Hummell cashier of tho Hum boldt National bank caused the ar rest of William Perkins a young col ored man quite well known in police circles of that section on the charge of uttering a forged endorsement on a check of small denomination wnich was cashed by the bank F Birkner about 70 years old was struck by the engine of passenger train No 16 and instantly killed He was walking on the track two miles west of Red Cloud when the acci dent happened He was very deaf to which is attributed his failure to hear the approach of the train Jesse Young who was tried some time ago for shooting and killing James Botts last spring was brought into court at Nebraska City and Judget Jessen gave him a sentence of thir teen years in the penitentiary The jury found Young guilty of murder in the second degree Henry M Willis of Blue Spring who escaped from the insane asylum at Lincoln some time ago was found wandering about northeast of Beatrice and was brought to the county jail by Deputy Sheriff Moore for detention until he could be sent back to the asy lum He was taken to Lincoln by Sheriff Trude The body of Tom Fogarty aged 45 of Fcrt Dodge la was found on the Union Pacific tracks under the Six teenth street viaduct at Omaha He v x lying across one of the rails o t sidetrack beneath a freight car One wheel had passed over the body cut ting him in two above the hips Tho name Fogarty was tatooed on the arm Red Poot a new Lutheran minister from Kansas has entered upon his duties at Stella The fine barn on the farm of James Stewart near Salem was burned un der circumstances strongly indicating incendiarism In the structure were stored forty tons of hay and much grain and other property and the loss is very heavy upon the owner Citizens of Falls City have become imbued with the idea that that section is underlaid with a vein of coal and gas and are at work raising funds to pay for prospecting The plan contem plates organization of a stock com pany with shares of 10 each and a capitalization of at least 5000 much of which has already been taken F G Karlson discovered his photo graph gallery in Mead had been rob bed of some silverware which he stored in his Mead gallery before mov ing to Wahoo Upon investigation it was found that Harry Davis a printer working on the Mead Advocate had been disposing of some silverware that was identified by Mr Karlson as belonging to him and a warrant was sworn out for his arrest along with two other young men of Mead An elevator to cost about 3000 is to be erected at Holmesville by the Farmers Elevator company of Blue Springs R E Grinstead of Richardson coun ty has been working on a plan where by the bottom lands along the Nema ha river can be drained thereby sav ing the crops which are destroyed al almost every spring He has had some correspondence with Secretary of Agricultural Wilson and that official has sent Prof Elliott a government drainage expert to confer with Mr Grinstead Jt X M L in rH Ji f A P J 1 S J t