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NEBRASKA
Domebody must have shot the aove
of peace
Dr Wileys poison squad is to re
sume its experiments but it will not
tamper with wood alcohol
It seems that no matter how many
attempts are made to revive hoop
skirts the ladies sit down on them
A Chicago woman says her husband
is right In style as he has a dam
brown taste in his mouth every morn
ing
A New South Wales woman has a
scheme for curing consumption with
hot air But hasnt this been tried
Ineffectively before
All the married women are getting
their lives insured Will the hus
bands continue to warn them about
drafts and damp feet
There is sound sense in that de
cision to keep on remarrying divorced
people Business in that line is get
ting bigger every year
It is simply wonderful how much
some American railway officials can
forget about their business when they
get on the witness stand
The whole state of Connecticut
should rise as one man and run down
the miscreant who is trying to de
stroy its armor plate namesake
Cornell students are being expelled
for hazing Evidently the authorities
at Cornell have decided that it is
about time to take hazing seriously
A fashion paper says that the Fall
gowns will contain thirty yards of ma
terial We can readily understand
why some men are driven to divorce
About the best thing that can be
said for war as the discussion now in
progress indicates is that sometimes
it is a bad way of getting good re
sults
The doctors say free lunches serve
to spread diseases There are people
who will insist that anyone who would
tackle free lunch deserves to catch
diseases
A Chicago milkman has sued a
stock company for the value of cer
tain shares in which he invested 200
Presumably there was too much water
in the stock
Automobiling may cause the legs
of its devotees to waste away and be
come useless but it tends to cultivate
strength and activity in the legs of or
dinary pedestrians
A Chicago girl has been awarded
40000 damages against a street cat
company after nine years of litigation
The question now is How long will
it take her to collect it
Whether man descended from the
monkeys or from the gods is not near
ly so important as the question of his
present conduct and the promptness
with which he pays his bills
An esteemed contemporary says
there is a marked conflict of views
as to the remarriage of innocent par
ties to divorcees What is an in
nocent party to a divorcee
If Jupiter has any inhabitants they
must have been more or less inter
ested lately in observing the transit
of an insignificant planet known here
as the earth across the suns disk
Witboi the chief of the Hottentots
has declared war on Emperor Wil
liam and the German nation generally
William has got good fighting stuff in
him and we believe he is going to
win
An epidemic of rabies has struck
this town wrote an editor but the
printer spelled rabies with a b
instead of an r and now the editor
blushes every time he appears upon
the street
Even the London Times says it
cant understand Mr Kiplings latest
book This is probably the first time
on record that the Times has admitted
its inability to understand anything
and everything
Jack Root predicts that Jim Jef
fries will be champion until his teeth
fall out says the San Francisco Bul
letin And a chap will face him some
day ere long with a punch that will
make em fall out
To a man like the sculptor St Gau
dens the loss by fire of his studio
-with its irreplaceable treasures em
phasizes with peculiar pathos the sig
nificance of the truth that Life is
short and art is long
Ten million pills were taken into a
New York police court as evidence
the other day Now let the mathe
maticians get busy and tell the world
how high the pills would have reached
if they had been piled one on top oi
another
Mr Alfred Austin Englands poet
laureate can see little good in the
present generation He says that
manners and literature alike have
declined The poets too are deteri
orating Perhaps there is one excep
tion just one
BATTLE EXPECTED
MOVEMENT AT THE FRONT 1NDI
DATE READINESS
DULY SKIRMISHES AT PRESENT
A Decided Engagement Was That at
Buddist Temple Hill The Third
General Attack on Port Arthur Be
gan Oct 24
ST PETERSBURG The military
situation has not developed anything
of great importance although the
fight at the Buddhist Temple hill on
October 27 appears to have been a
decidedly heavy engagement It prob
ably indicate that final moves on both
sides are now occurring preparatory
to another long and serious battle
Viceroy Alexleff is now on the way
to St Petersburg The nature of his
reception here is the food for much
speculation Some of his friends still
cling to the idea that he will be made
chancellor of the empire with his
residence in the Winter palace where
it is said a suite of apartments has
already been prepared for him On the
other hand many declare that his
political career is practically over and
that his reception at St Petersburg
while officially cordial will mark the
end of his political ascendancy It is
rumored that the viceroyalty of the
Caucasus will be revived for his spec
ial benefit which would constitute a
complimentary and comfortable sort
of exile
General Kourpatkin has telegraphed
as follows under date of October 29
I have received today no dispatch
reporting encounters with the enemy
During a cavalry reconnaissance yes
terday after an infantry fight sup
ported by artillery we occupied the
village of Chiantsanhenan The en
emy has retired from Sindiapu On
October 28 our chausseurs with in
significant losses retained a village
a kilometer west of Chenlianpu
against a violent Japanese bombard
ment
General Kouropatkin also records
other outpost affairs including the
Russian re occupation of the village
of Tynsin a short distance south of
Luidziatung whence they had been
previously expelled by the Japanese
who burned the village
CHE FOO The third general attack
on Port Arthur began October 24 ac
cording to unimpeachable authority
On October 2G Japanese shells set fire
to the only smokeless powder maga
zine in Port Arthur Portions of the
town caught fire and the conflagration
continued the whole day On October
26 the Japanese captured the Russian
trenches on the slope of Rihlung
mountain also a fortified position
protecting that fortress The Japanese
consider the progress of the siege to
be highly satisfactory
COMPILATION OF INDIAN LAWS
Two Volumes of 1200 Pages Each
Fully Indexed
WASHINGTON A revised edition
of the compilation of the laws and
treaties relating to Indian affairs
compiled and edited under direction
of congress by Charles J Kappler
chief clerk of the United States sen
ate committee on Indian affairs has
been issued by the government print
ing office This compilation is em
braced in two quarto volumes of 1200
pages each and contains all treaties
ever made with the Indian tribes and
all laws relating to the various In
dians enacted by congress up to the
present time together with executive
orders creating reservations procla
mations statistics trust funds etc
The revised edition includes the sig
natures to the treaties many treaties
that were heretofore unobtainable
and other useful Information Each
volume is fully indexed making re
search easy The statutes at large
is followed in its makeup The com
pilation of the Indian treaties and
laws has been recommended for many
years by the secretary of the interior
commissioner of Indian affairs and
both Indian commissions of congress
Two Queens Worked for Peace
COPENHAGEN The Associated
Press learns that the North sea af
fair caused the deepest anxiety to
King Christian of Denmark who de
clared that should an Anglo Russian
war result it would be the cause of
his death The dowager empress of
Russia promised her father the king
to use her greatest efforts to prevent
a conflict It is stated that hundreds
of dispatches were exchanged be
tween the dowager empress and the
queen of Great Britain during the
week just passed
Drops Dead at Political Meeting
MILWAUKEE Wis A Sentinel
special from Baraboo Wis says
Former County Treasurer Archie
Christie dropped dead at the feet of
Governor La Follette on the platform
of the local hall in which the gov
ernor spoke just as he was about to
grasp the hand of the executive in
congratulation at the conclusion of
his address
Parker Ready for Speaking Trip
ESOPUS N Y Judge Alton B
Parker will start for New York at
noon Monday to begin his speaking
campaign He spent a quiet Sunday
He attended church at Kingston ac
companied by George F Parker
chairman of the literary bureau of the
democratic national committee who
has been a guest at Rosemount since
Friday and who will go to New York
with the judge Monday The candi
date has practically completed the
preparation of the speeches he will
make this week
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NOTE TO RUSSIA
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British Government Demands Apology
For Attack
LONDON Great Brjtain has sent a
long and urgent note to the Russian
government officially detailing the
circumstances of the amazing and un
explained attack by the Russian sec
ond Pacific squadron during the night
of October 21 on British fishing boats
in the North sea The text of the
note has not been given out but it
is officially stated Jt om the foreign
office that it contakis the significant
announcement that the situation is
one which in the opinion of his ma
jestys government does not brook de
lay
Meanwhile the conservative public
and press are remarkably undemon
strative As usual the jingo element
democrats and even some officials go
so far as to say that it may be nec
essary to stop the Pacific fleet pend
ing settlement of the whole affair
though this extreme measure it is
believed will not be necessary Ev
erywhere there is evidence of the
very positive opinion that this is no
time for the usual diplomatic dilly
dallying that there must be no de
lay and no limit set by Russia to its
apology or the extent of compensation
for sufferers by what King Edward
himself terms the unwarrantable ac
tion of the Baltic squadron com
manders
The king sent the following mes
sage of sympathy to the mayor of
Hull
From FraHcis Knollys Bucking
ham Palace Oct 24 1904 To His
Worship the Mayor of Hull The king
commands me to say that he has
heard with profound sorrow of the
unwarrantable action which has been
committed against the North sea fish
ing fleet and asks you to express the
deepest sympathy of the queen and
his majesty with the families of those
who have suffered from this most la
mentable occurrence
KNOLLYS
Francis Knollys baron of Faver
sham is the private secretary of King
Edward
The deep resentment of the wholo
British public however is reflected
by the incident at the Victoria sta
tion Monday night on the arrival of
Count Benckendorff from the conti
nent There is no attempt anywhere
among men of responsibility to mag
nify the occurrence into a deliberate
act of war but in view of the pres
ent inability to find an explanation
there is being poured upon the heads
of the officers of the squadron a flood
of invective and insinuation though
incompetence first and thereafter
complete panic is the most generally
accepted explanation Thus far no of
ficial word has been received from SL
Petersburg as to the attitude of the
Russian government
The fact that it had been decided
during the day to prepare a semi-official
note expressing the regret of the
Russian government and its willing
ness to make full reparation so soon
as the responsibility was fixed was
communicated by the Associated
Press to Lord Lansdowne and was
the first information on the subject
he had received from St Petersburg
RELIEVES TENSION IN PARIS
Thinks British Coolness Is Giving
Way to Excess
PARIS The news from London
late Friday evening that the Anglo
Russian trouble had been put in the
way of settlement by adoption of the
principle of reference to a commttee
of inquiry in connection with the
lines laid down by The Hague con
ference has relieved the tension
which has been felt the last few
days The sentiment of the public
and press in regard to the North sea
incident has undergone a change
since Thursday It was then in fa
vor of Great Britain The dominant
note Friday is criticism of Great Brit
ains precipitancy The Gaulois re
fers to the impatient British effer
vescence and the Figaro says the
real situation did not warrant the
alarmist British reports
The Echo de Paris comments sar
castically on the ultimatums issued
by the British press and declares
that British dignity and coolness are
giving way to excess
The view continues to prevail that
Great Britain has right on her side
but she was likely to lose this posi
tion of vantage by the imperativeness
of her attitude toward Russia The
tone of the evening papers was much
more optimistic
Yellow Fever in Mexico
MEXICO CITY There are six cases
of yellow fever at Texistpe There are
in all twenty four patients The last
patient has left the hospital at Te
hauntepec Merida reports two new
cases and Santa Cruz four new cases
Torpedo Boats Put to Sea
TANGIER Five Russian torpedo
boat destroyers have put to sea The
remainder of the fleet has been coal
ing and provisioning all day
Ranchman Disappears
STURGIS S D Word has been
received here of the disappearance
of James Garrett a resident of the
Cave Hills country It seems Garrett
had gone out to place some poison for
wolves The horse he rode is said to
have come home to the ranch with a
bullet hole through the saddle This
as led the people of that vicinity to
believe that he has been murdered
A large number of men have been
scouring the country for the man
but at last accounts he had not been
found nor any trace of him
A MINE
DISASTER
BETWEEN THIRTY AND SIXTY
MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES
FIRE FOLLOWS THE ERUPTION
Great Timbers and Rocks Thrown
from the Mouth of the Mine No
Hope of Rescuing Any of the En
tombed Miners
TRINIDAD Colo A terrific ex
plosion occurred at mine No 3 of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel and Iron com
pany at Teroio forty miles due west
of Trinidad at 130 Friday afternoon
and the number of dead is variously
placed between thirty and sixty men
The number reported as having gone
into the mine in the morning was
seventeen miners and four company
men In the afternoon many more
miners are known to have gone into
the mine and the exact number of
dead may never be known as the
mine is burning and in all likelihood
the bodies will be cremated
A large number of mine officials
left here as soon as word of the acci
dent was received Company doctors
were picked up all along the line as
well as all other available physicians
United States Government Stock
Inspector F J Foreman was at the
Teroio when the explosion occurred
He returned her last night and gives
the following account of the affair
I was standing not more than 300
yards from the mouth of the tunnel
when the explosion occurred The ex
plosion was preceded by a low rum
bling sound resembling an earth
quake which made the earth tremble
and startled the whole camp
I looked toward the mine and out
of the mouth of the tunnel and the
two air shafts came great volumes of
smoke and dust which continued for
nearly a minute Out of the two air
shafts each of which are seven feet
in diameter timbers that were fully
two to three feet in diameter were
shot into the air and broken into
splinters Rocks were thrown over the
camp for a distance of a quarter of a
mile In fact it rained rock broken
timbers and all kinds of debris for
fully a minute and many people were
injured by being struck with these
missiles
Immediately after the explosion
which was for all the world like a
volcanic eruption the wildest excite
ment ensued Women men and chil
dren rushed to the mouth of the tun
nel and women whose husbands were
in the mine had to be brought away
by miners to keep them from being
killed by deadly fumes coming from
the mouth of the tunnel
The mine works eighty men and it
is believed that sixty men were in
the mine at the time
News of the explosion brought as
sistance from the adjacent camps and
hundreds of men are trying to get into
the mine Deadly fumes overcome the
rescuers frequently but their places
are immediately takn by othrs ready
are immediately taken by others ready
possible that anyone in the mine can
escape death if they are not all dead
already
GREAT CROP OF POTATOES
Yield This Year Estimated at
8774245 Bushels
OMAHA The Union Pacific has
just issued an agricultural bulletin
dealing with the potato crop of Ne
braska for 1904 The bulletin shows
that the avreage of Nebraskas potato
that the average of Nebraskas potato
yield 5523767 bushels The acreage
this year is estimated at 74552
The bulletin adds It will be seen
that a material increase has taken
place in the acreage planted to pota
toes It would seem that Nebraska
can successfully engage in potato
raising for commercial reasons When
one reflects that the total acreage
this year is about one third the area
of the smallest county in the state it
is evident that potato raising is very
profitable The western portions of the
state will produce potatoes in great
abundance if the climatic conditions
prevalent for the last four years con
tinue
An estimate by counties of the 1904
yield is then given and the total yield
is estimated at 8774245 bushels
NEBRASKA DAY AT THE FAIR
One Thousand Residents of State Take
Part in Ceremonies at St Louis
ST LOUIS Headed by Governor
J H Mickey 1000 Nebraskans cele
brated Nebraska day at the Worlds
fair on Tuesday The formal cere
monies took place in Festival hall
Chancellor E Benjamin Andrews of
the University of Nebraska offered
the invocation Addresses were made
by President Francis of the exposi
tion Governor Mickey Hon John Lee
Webster of Omaha and G W Wattles
of Omaha president of the State
Worlds Fair commission
M S Phillips Drops Dead
CHICAGO While listening to the
pitiful tale of a deserted wife Myron
S Phillips a real estate dealer
dropped dead Friday in the grand
jury room He was serving as a mem
ber of the October grand jury and
had been an attentive listener while
the woman testified As he rose from
his chair to demand tho husbands
indictment for abandonment he fell
to the floor unconscious and died
three minutes later Heart disease
was the cause Phillips came to Chi
cago In 1S92 from Hebron Neb
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NEWS IN NEBRASKA
THE STATE AT LARGE
The parishioners of Rev Smith at
Bradshaw surprised that gentleman by
calling on him in goodly numbers
article suit
each one bringing some
able for the preachers larder
D J Kimmerly was badly injured in
a runaway accident in Beatrice by be
ing thrown from his wagon on to the
pavement He is 70 years of age and
will be confined to his home for some
time because of his injuries
Orville Bateman 12-year-old son of
J R Bateman of Stella accidentally
discharged a shotgun blowing his en
tire left hand off and shattering the
bones so that it was necessary to am
putate the arm a couple of inches be
low the elbow The accident occurred
while the young man was out hunt
ing
Will Moore and James Daggett who
live fourteen miles southwest of Clear
water were out hunting and the team
which they were driving jumped just
as Daggett was getting into the
wagon causing him to drop his gun
Both barrels were discharged into the
right leg just above the ankle The leg
will be saved
The ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the ladies hall of the Grand
Island college was observed by the
faculty students and friends of that
institution the contents of the corner
stone being issues of the college paper
containing a history of the institution
articles of incorporation of the col
lege etc The hall will cost 20000
- Charles Wells a farmer living three
miles from Fairbury committed sui
cide He left the house during the
night and not being able to imd him
in the morning his wife called in the
neighbors at daybreak and they found
him hanging in the barn loft He was
in good financial circumstances and
his domestic relations were harmon
ious so no reason is known for his
act
Copies of the new manual and the
regulations provided for the new mag
azine rifle have just been received
from the war department by the ad
jutant general and the Nebraska na
tional guard will hereafter be drilled
under the new rules The regimental
and battalion movements are much
simplified and the new regulations are
much more condensed than the old
ones
Detective Malone of the Burlington
has returned from Colorado where he
succeeded in causing the arrest of
three persons who gave their names
as J M Harris an ex convict Charles
Mock also an ex convict and Earl
Bush 16 years old They have all
been bound over to the district court
in Akron Colo Bush made a confes
sion naming the towns where they
had stolen merchandise from the cars
Brakeman L W Hansen of Emer
son owes his life to luck Beneath
the wheels of his freight train on
the Omaha road he was nearly
ground to death in the switching yards
at Norfolk Tossed headlong from the
top of a moving car by the sudden set
ting of the air his body lit beneath
the trucks and was churned for ome
distance being shoved along by the
guards and kept by them from the
wheels His injuries are serious but
he will recover
A committee of dentists represent
ing various dental organizations over
the state met in Lincoln and formu
lated a bill which if it passes an ex
amination by competent lawyers will
be presented to the next legislature
for passage The bill is based on the
law now in force in California and
one of the purposes of it is to raise the
standard of the profession in the
state The provisions of ihe California
law are said to be the strictest of any
state in the union
Albert Abrahamson a bachelor far
mer 50 years of age living twelve
miles northwest of Shelton was rob
bed of money and securities to the
amount of 1250 A trunk in which he
kept the valuables had been taken
from the house carried to a corn field
and broken open
At a meeting held in Shelton which
was attended by representatives of
the independent telephone companies
of that part of the state the Cenral
Nebraska Toll association was organ
ized The object of the organization
Is to arrange for toll rates over the
various independent lines
Willie the 14-year-old son of D C
Fender section foreman of the North
western railway at Battle Creek was
the victim of a shooting accident He
had been out hunting and when cross
ing the railroad bridge west of town
his gun which he was carrying in the
left hand barrel up slipped between
the ties of the bridge the hammer
striking a tie and discharging the
gun the full charge taking effect in
the left hand and the left side of the
chest and head He is badly injured
but may recover
The Ashland Light Mill Power
company has been incorporated with
a capital stock of 15000 The incor
porators are C H Brown R K
Brown J C Ralsbock and F E
White
The farm home of George Halmas
located five miles northwest of Platts
mouth was burned to the ground The
fire originated in one of the upper
rooms of the building and is supposed
to have started from a defective flue
Fred Grigsley of Seward county was
severely injured by being thrown from
a load of hay
MORE SUGAR THAN BEFORE
Factory at Ames Making New Record
This Season
FREMONT Tho Standard Beet
Sugar company at Leavitt will make
more sugar this season than in any
previous year and on account of the
high test of the beets at a less ex
pense than in previous years It is
estimated that 50000 tons will go
through before the season ends and
6500 tons of sugar manufactured The
beets are testing an average of 15 per
cent and from eight and one half to
nine tons to the acre The company
pays a flat price this year 475 and
525 the latter for siloed beets All
tho beets raised around here are de
livered direct to the factory but some
from the western country will be
siloed and delivered in December
Last week 2SS tons were run through
the factory which is above the av
erage which is about 500 tons for
each twenty four hous This average
cannot be maintained as the factory
has to partially shut down for a
clean up once in ten days
The company has succeeded in sav
ing a higher percentage of sugar this
season the estimated amount being
better than last year which was
261 2 3 pounds of granulated sugar per
ton The first season it was only 204
This year it will probably reach 265
and as the expense of operation will
be less on account of the high per
centage of sugar the net profit per
ton will be much larger than in any
previous season The amount paid
out for beets will not be far from
245000
NEW RULING ON INSURANCE
Attorney General Prout Hands Dowr
Decision I
LINCOLN Nebraska insurance
companies must reinsure their risks
only in companies licensed to do busi
ness in the state Attorney General
Prout has issued an opinion wherein
he states that insurers transacting
business in this state shall according
to statute make a sworn statement
that they will not insure any proper
ty whatever in any manner except
under a policy which shall be regu
larly issued and duly countersigned by
its legally authorized agent resident
within the county or state where such
property is situated such agent being
duly licensed by the auditor or state
insurance commissioner
The attorney general intimates fur
ther that the legislature intended to
bring insurers within the jurisdiction
of the stite and to require them to
pay fees for the privilege of reinsur
ing risks He thinks that a company
authorized to transact business in
Nebraska has no authority to reinsure
the companies not so authorized This
makes it necessary in compliance
with the foregoing opinion for all
companies issuing policies of reinsur
ance on Nebraska risks to be regular
ly admitted to transact business in
this state also that all policies of re
insurance be signed by some regular
ly licensed agent in the state
Treasurers Are Liable
LINCOLN Attorney General
Prout has handed down an opinion
to the effect that county treasurers
are liable for the non collection or re
turn of distress warrants forwarded
to them by other county treasurers
for collection The county clerk of
Gosper county had sent in the query
as to whether county treasurers to
whom the county treasurer of Gos
per county had Issued distress war
rants were liable for the collection or
false return of the same Passages
from the law governing tax collections
are quoted in the attorney generals
opinion
Wolf Bounty Claim Void
Parties holding wolf bounty claims
against the state that were rejected
by Auditor Weston because they had
not been filed in his office within two
years of their date will not get their
money The supreme court decided
this in the case brought up from the
Lancaster county district court where
in the Lincoln Safe and Trust com
pany sued Auditor Weston for the
value of claims that he had rejected
Sentenced for Highway Robbery
PAPILLION In the district court
in the case of Erve Hike and James
Dillon Hike having been found guil
ty of highway robbery the atttorney
for the defense advised his client to
plead guilty which he did Judge
Sutton sentenced him Hike to four
years and Dillon to three years in the
penitentiary
Osceola has the opportunity to get
a park in the heart of the city for
Dr Smith of Cedar Rapids la who is
a large land owner in the county as
well as in Osceola has offered to give
the village a whole block of land 300
feet square for a park
Against Home Co operative
The supreme court has sustained tho
validity of the act giving the state
banking board control over install
ment investment companies and has
given judgment of ouster against tho
Northwestern Trust company of
Omaha a corporation that sought to
continue business without authority
from the state banking board This
company operating on the home co
operative plan refused to comply with
tho act passed by the legislature two
years ago and Attorney General Prout
began action
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