m tjg in i -Mil in McCook Trsbune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK Bln Brief Telegrams The Agra diamond weighing 31 karats was sold in London for 25 500 The anti prize fight bill was defeat ed in the California assembly by a vote of 33 to 35 The- Central Passenger association has granted reduced rates fori eighty annual conventions The New York Evening Post is go ing to put up a modern office build ing occupying three lots Three hundred and eight West In dian contract laborers arrived at Pan ama to work on the canal Secretary Metenlf has appointed Richard K Campbell law officer of the bureau of immigration Sir Henry Irving has signed a con tract for an American tour under the management of Charles Frohman and beginning in October W A Tuley general passenger agent of the Frisco lines in Texas has tendered his resignation to take effect April 1 Ill health causes this step Emperor William addressing the naval recruits at Wilhelmshaven held up the Japanese soldiers as a lumin ous example of patriotism and sol diery fidelity The London Times Paris corres pondent telegraphs that the Russian government has placed an order with a French firm for S0000 three inch shrapnel shells According to a semi official state ment given out at Schwerin the mar riage of Crown Prince Frederick Wil liam and Duchess Cecilia will take place in Berlin on June C Senator Burkett of Nebraska has purchased a Washington home at a cost of 17500 The house is a hapd some new brick structure with a mottled front and contains twelve rooms The Frawley boxing bill in New York permitting limited round con tests between amateurs under the sanction of the Amateur Athletic as sociation has passed the senate The bill now goes to the assembly Count Benkendorff the Russian am bassador to Great Britain paid 325 000 to Foreign Secretary Lansdnwne in settlement for the North sea claims and the incident was thus closed E D Tucker division superinend ent of the Milwaukee railroad died at his home in Des Moines of pneumonia Mr Tucker took charsre of this divi sion last October coming from Aber deen S D A City of Mexico dispatch says the volcano of Colima is emitting great clouds of thick smoke which rise high above the crater Many people living in the neighboring towns are preparing for flight The cabinet ejsis in Norway has been settled by the formation of a coalition ministry of which M Mich olsen is the premier Lovland a for mer minister will head the section of the state council sitting at Stockholm The Missouri senate passed a bill making all pipe lines constructed or to be constructed in the state for the purpose of carrying oil common car riers and placing them under the di rection of the railroad commissioners The secretary of the treasury has issued a warrant for 750000 in favor of Mansfield McMurray Cornish lawyers residing in Indian Territory as foes for services rendered by them to the Choctaw and Chickasaw In dians In the present of famous educators representing the leading educational institutions of the country Samuel Black McCormick D D LL D was formally made chancellor of the West ern University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg New York Rapid Transit rolling stock is to be augmented by two cars each S000 feet long containing 2700 seats and a seating capacity of S000 passengers The motive power will be electricity and the speed from nine to twelve miles a hour The resignation of W W Rockhill as director of the bureau of American republics has been accepted and Mr Rockhill who has been nominated to succeed Mr Conger as minister to China will probably leave for his new post some time in April Rev Dr William H Roberts stated clerk of the Presbyterian general as sembly and secretary of the inter church conference on marriage and di vorce will send to 30000 ministers representing more than 1 S000 000 members of almost all of the Protest ant denominations in the country copies of an appeal urging the adop tion by the -various state legislatures of more stringest divorce and re-marriage laws At Jackson Miss Governor Tarda man issued an address to the peace officers of the state declaring that the situation is growing extremely critical that crime is rampant in all quarters of the commonwealth and urging offi cers at once to begin a crusade and clean out the dives and haunts of criminals It is intimated that President Roose velt has tendered the office of United States district attorney for the north era district of Georgia to former Rep resentative F C Tate of Georgia Mr Tate is a democrat The office is now held by E A Angier republican i ii pi man i i n m ii iu iiji I i p i ii NEBRASKA THE JAP VICTORY FIELD MARSHAL OYAMA REPORTS THE OUTCOME FORTY THOUSAND PRISONERS Casualties on the Japanese Side Esti mated at Forty one Thousand Those of the Russian Forces Said to Be Ninety Thousand TOKIO Field Marshal Oyama re ported that 40000 prisoners were taken and that there were 90000 Rus sian casualties in the Shakhe river direction alone He estimated that the number of Russian prisoners captured will exceed 40000 The Japanese cas ualties are estimated at 41000 The spoils include two flags about sixty guns G000Q rifles 150 ammunition wagons 1000 carts 200000 shells 25 000000 of small arms ammunition 25000 bushels of cereals 275000 bush els of fodder 45 miles of light railway outfit 2000 horses 23 cart lots of maps 1000 cart loads of clothing and nccountrements 1000000 rations of bread 70000 tons of fuel and 00 tons of Jjay besides tools tents bullocks telegraph wire and poles timber beds stoves and numerous other property The Japanese captured a retreating Russian column at the Pu river yes terday TOKIO The Japanese pursuit of the Russian armies continues and a resumption of heayy fighting in the vicinity of Pass is anticipated Tie Pass which is naturally strong has been extensively fortified and it is thought the Russians will rally there in an endeavor to check the Japa nese The rapidly advancing Japanese al ready are in touch at Tie Pass The Russians evidently are confused and exhausted and possibly are short of food and ammunition and it is be lieved here they will be unable to re sist a strong attack Succeeding field reports increase the extent of the Russian disaster It will take months to resupply and re organize the Russian armies Reports of casualties given by captives reach 40 per cent The artillery losses were especially heavy The captured guns have not yet been counted but the nu merous captured stores and muni tions aie valued at millions of dollars This loss materially adds to the crip pling of the Russian armies The Jap anese people are receiving details of the victory with calmness Tgkio and other cities are exceedingly quiet and the recent admonition to the people to refrain from spending money in cele brations and devote their saving to war charities is being universally obeyed The Japanese press editorials in discussing the possible effects of peace on victory declare Japan will con tinue the vigorous prosecution of the war and has no suggestion to make to Russia directly or indirectly In the general elation over the suc cess of the Japanese a special source of satisfaction is the celerity with which the flanking operations were carried out the quick seizure of ad vantage and the speed made in pur suit of the Russians After the sum mer campaign there was a general admission of the truth of the repeated criticism that the Japanese army had failed in those respects and an avow ed determination was made to redeem the shortcomings During the recent operations against the Russians the left portion of the Fifth army march ed forty milesin one day greatly aid ing in the achievement of the victory Captives taken in this last engage ment make the total of prisoners now held by Japan 75000 Their care is becoming a very expensive problem This government is formulating plans to remove the prisoners to the islands probably in the inland sea and it is possible that the captives will be re moved there Funeral of Mrs Stanford HONOLULU The mail room of the steamer Alameda which sails for San Francisco next Wednesday has been appropriately draped for the recep tion of the body of Mrs Jane L Stan ford Before the departure of the steamer funeral servces will be held at which Bishop Resarick will read the services Among the pall bearers will be Governor Carter United States District Judge Dole and David Starr Jordan president of Stanford university There have not been any developments in the case Kuropatkin Has Enough LONDON The St Peterburg corre spondent of the Times says General Kuropatkin has asked the emperors gracious permission to hand over his command alleging that he is in ur gent need of physical and mental rest It is said that Japan has twice ap proached Russia through informal channels on the subject of peace but 4 that in each case the proposal failed because Japan demanded an indem nity and a pledge that Russia would not keep warships in the Pacific for twenty five years Decides Against Government NEW YORK Judge Wheen in the United States circuit court handed down an opinion which if finally sus tained will cost the United States government five dollars This money the government will have to refund to the American Sugar Refining com pany for duties paid to it on raw sugars imported from Cuba in 1903 and upon which the company contend ed that a reduction of 20 per cent should have been allowed under the then existing treaty The sujt was a test case BRITISH QUESTION PEACE Believe Russia Will Fight Until She Is Worn Out LONDON The announcement of fall of Mukden was discounted in London by the reports chronicling the progress of the great battle but the actual occupation of the capital of Manchuria by the Japanese is the sub ject of comment everywhere especial ly in diplomatic circles The foreign office declined to comment on the event but there as elsewhere there was intense interest in the result of the Japanese encircling movement and its possible effect on the future progress of the war Few who are well informed are inclined to the be lief that Oyamas magnificent victory and successful strategy would bring peace within measurable distance the opinion being that while the Russian fighting force is disabled and prob ably will be obliged to retire further than Tie pass or even Harbin the fighting spirit of the Russian nation would be increased rather thatt de terred by the- defeat and that only compulsion will bring the nation to its knees Baron Suyematcu formerly Japa nese minister of the interior in the course of an interview said that whether the victory indicated an early termination of the war was a question tnat Russia alone could answer The Jupaucse legation has been in undated with congratulations and everywhere the prime note is the praise of the genius of Oyama which was conceded even by the most pro Russian observers There is intense anxiety hero to learn the fate of Kuropatkins force and whether the chain Oyama has drawn around them will be strong enough to hold them The Russian forces must be in a and a repetition of all the errors of Vestern Nebraska WASHINGTON District Attorney Baxter had an important interview with the secretary of the interior on the subject of the pending suits against cattlemen who have fenced in portions of the public domain Sec retary Hitchcock is of the opinion that such violators of the law should be proceeded against vigorously by the government Judge Baxter also consulted Major Iarabee assistant commissoiner of Indian affairs and re ceived the latters congratulations up on his successful prosecution of the bootlegging eas arising at the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reserva tions Judge Baxter left for New York He will be in Chicago at the opening of the inquiry into the meth ods of the beef trust by the federal grand jury There is a report that he will appear officially but he raid he would rather not discuss the matter Service Needs Reforming WASHINGTON Hon Andrew D White formerly American minister to Germany delivered a lecture here un der the auspices of the regents of the Smithsonian institution on the sub ject of the diplomatic service of the United States with hints towards re form Mr White charged that resi dence abroad make men un-American and combatted the statement that the diplomatic service is mostly re creation He declared that no country does so much as ours to protect adopted citizens JAPSCETMUKDEN ANOTHER HOLD RUSSIAN STRONG IS CAPTURED ITEM DAYSGOHXIHUOUS FIGHTING Every One of These Attended With Fearful Loss of Life Severe Fight ing Still Going On in the Country Round Aboit Mukden Tlie fate of the Russian army of up ward of 250000 men and the 2000 pieces of artillery with which it was expected confidently General Kouro patkin and his lieutenants could pre vent the advance of the Japanese be yond the Shakhe and Run river posi tions still is in the balance They have been driven from those positions and now are rushing northward toward-Tie pass around which are high hill which were prepared for defense alter the battle of Lmo iang in bep tember there being no hope at that time that the Japanese would allow the defeated army to south of the Tie pass That the Russians have lost many guns an i large quantities of am munition and supplies is certain for with but a single track railway to the north it would be impossible to re move the large stores which had been gathered together at Mukden These it seems certain have been destroyed TOKIO Field Marshal Oyama tele graphed as follows under Fridays date We occupied Mukden at 10 oclock this morning Our surrounding move ment in which we have been engaged terrible plight I for some days past has now complete More Troops to Be Mobilized Sent to the Scene of War ST PETERSBURG The immediate answer of the Russian government to the defeat at Mukden is the announce ment that another army will be rais ed and the forces in the far east re organized that Vice Adminral Ro jestvensky will bo ordered to sail on and try conclusions- with Togo and that the war will be prosecuted to the bitter end This is the present tem per of Emepror Nicholas and his dom inant advisers voiced in a firm offi cial announcement that the position of Russia is uichanged and that the initiative for peace can only come from Japan Should the island em pire choose the tender moderate terms and recognize its adversary as the power ir the far east peace could be easily arranged but the voice of hei diplomacy in various parts of the world indicates that she is not ready to do this and the Rus sian government with the full magni tude of the disaster at Mukden still undetermined but with the 1905 cam paign seeminly already hopelessly compromised retreat to Harbin inev itable and Vladivostok practically lost declares that the time has not yet come Avhen Russian can be forced to humble herself Spotted Fever Killing Many NEW YORK That cerebro spinai meningitis or spotted fever is kill ing about forty persons a week in this city was asserted by Commis sioner Darling of the health depart ment M Witte Hss Not Resigned ST PETERSBURG The report from Berlin that M Witte president of the committee of ministers has re signed is officially denied No TOLD TO PUSH SUITS More Favors for Cattlemen of ly succeeded The fiercest fighting Napoleons- retreat from Moscow is re- continues at several places in the vi- garded as among the possibilities On cinity of Mukden the other hand the condition of the Japanese armies which must be suf fering from exhaustion might possibly enable Kuropatkin to gather his forces and break through He is said to have been a spectator at Sedan and it is believed the memorier of those days will suffice to convince him of the hopelessness of the struggle CZAR DETERMINED TO FIGHT and We captured a great number of prisoners enormous quantities of ai ms ammunition provisions and other war supplies There is at present no time to investigate the number of these NEW CIIWANG According to re liable information received here the Russians having been driven out of Mukden and Fushuau and with the railroad cut are retreating in a de moralized condition to the hill country toward the northeast Detached bodies of Russians arc roughly entrenching with a view to checking the pursuit but no great rear guard action is being fought It will be impossble for the Rus sians to keep up any sort of resistance for many days as there are no means of provisioning in the rough country through which they are retreating It is believed that the Russians may attempt to retch Kirin 225 miles northeast of Mukden through the val leys but a special Japanese corps from the direction of the Yalu river probably General Kamamuras forces threatens to cut them off The casualties on both sides have been enormous The Russian Sixteenth army corps was practically annihilated at Tatchekiao Eight thousand Rus sians fell at Leukuanpao ST PETERSBURG Last night all our armies commenced to retreat The greatest defeat in the history of the Russian Japanese war was made known in St Petersburg last night but only in tne paltry eight Avords from General Kouropatkin to Emperor Nicholas which weie flung about the streets in newspaper extras and pass ed from mouth to mouth Two thoughts formed instantly in the minds of everyone and two words were on every lip surrender peace the for mer dreaded the latter hoped for Geneial Kouropatkin is no maker of phiases his words never are quoted like the famous All is lost save honor but his laconic messages hide more than probably any other two i sentences in the literature ot war St Petersburg know nothing of the ex tent of the disaster not even the lines of Kouronntkins retreat whether the route to Tie yas is still open whether he is endeavoring to cut his way through to safety or whether as many of the pessimistic believe he has taken to the mountains If it be the latter he will inevitably be hemmed in and starved into surrender as Marshal Bazaino was at Metz Orders Schools Reopened WARSAW The authorities have decided to order the schools to re open on Tuesday and unless the boys leturn within a week to expel them It is expected that the majoiity will continue on strike Red Flag in Heart of Russia ST PETERSBURG A telegram from Ekateiinoslav South Russia says that five miners have been killed and fifteen wounded in a conflict be tween strikers of the Shoerbinoff mines and the Auerbach quicksilver mines and soldiers in the district of Bakhmut The strikers started looting and the troops threatened to shoot The former thereupon fired on the sol diers with revolvers and also threw stones at them whereupon the troops fired a vollev and order was restored Wichita Merchant Killed WICHITA Kans J C Casey head of the Casey Wholesale Mercantile company was shot through the head and instantly killed by James Oliver Oliver lost 23000 in the failure of the Casey Garst Mercantile company a few months ago and the misfortune preyed on his mind He demanded his money when the firm was reor ganized and had several arguments with Casey over the loss While Casey was seated at his desk Oliver slipped up behind him and fired three times without i FOR A VALLEY OF DEATH Awful Slaughter Attending the Long Battle HEADQUARTERS GENERAL REN NENKAMPFF near Oubenpusa Via Mukden The road northward is crowded so far as the eye can reach by a continuous file of two wheelitt Chinese carts full of Russian wound ed the best testimony of the valor with which the army of the east fight ing continuously for a fortnight has defended every inch of ground over which it has been compelled by su perior numbers to retire Each cart bears from three to five wounded men whose exhaustion is almost too utter for them to feel pain Scarcely a groan or cry is heard not even the moans of the dying only the dismal creak of the rude wheels and the thud of the poinies hoofs are audible Most of the wounded have their heads covered with Chinese blankets or dirty coats stiff with blood hiding wan and dirtv faces distorted with pain sunken eyes and expanded nos tril Here and there is seen a cart with two wounded men between whom is a corpse which with every jolt pounds against the helpless liv ing comrades of the man on whoso face death had sealed the distortion of unbearable agony The valley in front of the Rursiin position has become a valley of death Corpses strew the debatable ground from which neither side can remove its dead Again and again the Japanese charged down the slope and up the hill Again and airain the Russians counter attacked trying to gain pos session of the hill with the tower No quarter was asked for or given by either side The enmity ceased only in death Here sits a Japanese upon a stone a moments pause for rest having stretched him out into eter nity There lie two foes with bayonets sheathed in each others breasts Everywhere corpsej corpses corpses For two days the Russians had been concentrating a heavy artil lery fire on the hill with the tower stopping the Japanese sapper work PROSECUTING THE WAR St Petersburg Paoer Contains No Talk of Peace ST PETERSBURG The Russ in an editorial article strikes a stirring note not minimizing the extent of the defeat in Manchuria but bidding the people not despair The article con tains no word about peae its whole thought being uncompromising prose cution of the war though it is real ized that this means months of pre paration for another battle and that perhaps Tie Pass may follow Mukden It does not even demand General Kur opatkins removal but says it is first necessary to determine whether Rus sia has a better general While hold ing up the hands of the government in regard to the continuation of the war the Russ solemnly warns it of the necessity of internal reforms Other influential papers are apt to take the same stand and voice a pa triotic demand to crown the war with victory and rally all forces for the prosecution of the war Fairbanks Appoints Son WASHINGTON D C Vice Presi dent Fairbanks has appointed as his secretary his son Frederick C Fair banks He was graduated from Prince ton in the class of 15ii3 FIX DATE FOR REVOLUTION May 1 Declared to Be Time for Rus sian National Rising ST PAUL Minn A special to the Dispatch from Sioux City Iowa says Arom Enden who came from Rus sia four months ago and joined the Russian colony here received a letter from a member of the Russian re volutionary party saying that April 18 of the Russian calendar or May 1 American calendar has been named for the opening of the national re volution Since the St Petersburg massacre the revolutionists in the cities have been repressed until or ders could be conveyed to all the cities and province- for a universal rising on such a scale that to cope with it would be impossible AH railroads and industries will be tied up and mobs will tako possession of every city It is claimed that support of many of the troops is pledged Enden has heretofore received information from Ru sia which has proved accur ate Talking of the Battle BERLIN Military writers here dis cussing General Kouropatkins situa tion admit its extreme seriousness but do not believe a new Sedan will follow urging that the Japanese army is not heavy enough to compel a sur render Unstinted praise is given Field Marshal Oyamas military achievement in the present battle but it is believed territory over which the fight has been goimr on i too enor mous to expect the Japanese to seri ously plan to surround the Russian forces Vork on Canal Can Go On WASHINGTON There is authority for the statement that the question as to whetner the isthmian canal shall be made a sea level waterway or con structed on the lock system is one that need not ho determined at the outset of tho work In fact it is stated that work could progress for five years or more before this matter would necessarily he decided and without in any way retarding the progress of construction or causing any delay There is strong recom mendations for a sea lex canal OS IEADACHE llABBED A YOUNG WOMANS HAP PINESS TOE SEVEN YEAE3 Interfered With Her Social Tlutirn unit ThrrutPiiiMl to Cniiwi Her iniMit How Slio Win Curcil Every sufferer from nervous hundiieha knows how completely it unfits onu for the duties and pleasures of life Any little excitement or ovei exortiou or ir regularity brings it on Sometimes tim pani is over the whole head Again it is like a nuil driven into the brain or a wedge splitting it open or u band tight ening about it At one timo ic is all in tho top if the licnl tit another it is all at the base of tho skull Most headaches can be traced to soma fault v state of tho blood When tiio blood is scanty or charged with poison ami the nerves are imperfectly nourished and the digestion weak onu of tho com monest results is frequent and severe headaches The important thing is to get rid of tho dieicd condition of the blood that causes the attack by the nso of n remedy that will do tho work quickly and thoroughly What is that remedy Tho experience of Miss Ellen McKenim fur nishes the answer Shu says For more than seven years I was a great sufferer from nervous headache and dnvincss My stomach was disordered and I became so restless that I could nut sit still any length of time Dizziness interrupted my work greatly At liiNfi tho attacks were not so severe hut they gradually grt v more violent ami finally became so acute that I was on the point if relinquishing my membership in tho different organizations to which I be longed What saved you from that necessity A very simplu thing the call of it member of one of the clubs who strongly advised me to try DrWilliamsPiitk 1ilfs before giving up 1 acted on her sugges tion at onceand aftersteadily using this great blood and nerve remedy for two months my headaches and my dizzi ness entirely disappeared Mi s McKeiina is secretary of tho Aociatcd ladies Guild and resides at No S Wait stre r Roxbury Mass 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