McCook Tribune
F M KIMMELL Publisher
MCOOK
In
NEBRASKA
News in Brief
Civil service examination will be
held April 15 for clerk and letter car
rier in the Lead S D postoffice
-Governor Frazier lias vetoed the bill
increasing the salary of the governor
of Tennessee from 4000 to 5000
President Roosevelt received con
gratulations upon his election in a letter-
from the Catholics of the Armenian
church
The stockholders of the Louisville
Nashville Railroad company at a spe
cial meeting authorized the issue of
50000000 additional bonds
It is announced that the Canadian
government has decided to grant a
bounty of 0 per ton to encourage steel
shipbuilding in that country
Lord Norton who as Charles Ad
derly took an active part in the es
tablishment of colonial self-government
is dead aged 90 years
Letters and consular reports received
in London from Van and other parts
of Armenia state that the situation
there is steadily growing worse
Judge Henry S Foote son of ex
Governor Foote of Mississippi and
brother of Senator Stewarts first wife
died of pneumonia at Washington
It has been definitely ascertained
that the whole Russian second Pacific
squadron left the waters of Madagas
car March 16 for an unknown destina
tion
A decrease of 1102004 in its net
earnings for the year ended November
30 last is shown in the annual report
of the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron
company
The lower house storthing in Nor
way by a vote of 48 to 32 rejected the
government bill proposing to give wo
men equal rights with men to hold
public office
Governor Frazier of Tennessee has
signed the anti race track betting bill
prohibiting betting on race tracks in
the state The law becomes effective
next December
Zachariah Hamilton of Hawthorne
Nev crushed the skulls of his wife
and 7-year-old daughter as they lay in
their bed at a hotel and then blew out
his own brains
The First Methodist church of Ne
braska City Neb will celebrate its
fiftieth anniversary some time in
April This is the oldest Methodist
church in Nebraska
The Nevada legislature which has
just adjourned broke all records for
American commonwealths by repealing
every restrictive liquor and gambling
law on the statute books
At Peoria 111 Otis Botts 21 years
old was found guilty of murdering his
girl wife and punishment fixed at
death The youthful defendant laugh
ed at he left the court room
The Uintah Indian reservation in
Utah soon to be opened to settlement
is described in a pamphlet just issued
by the passenger department of the
Denver Rio Grande railroad
Maxim Gorkys lung trouble is in
creasing the anxiety of his friends
The doctors declare that his transfer
from Riga to South Russia is abso
lutely essential to his recovery
The Appellate court has affirmed a
ruling of a lower court upholding the
alidity of an ordinance of the city of
Chicago prohibiting the giving away
of cigarette papers with tobacco
Judge Wall of Tampa Fla after
arguments dissolved the injunction se
cured by Adolphus Busch of St Louis
to prevent the sale of the Tampa Bay
hotel to the Kauffman syndicate
Governor Pardee of California has
approved the bill passed by the last
legislature fixing a flat tax of 10 a
year on all corporations foreign and
domestic doing business in that state
As a reward for her faithful serv
ices in the capacity of nurse Mrs
Alida H Gray employed in the State
hospital at Middletown N Y will re
ceive 40000 from the estate of a pa
tient
Mr Bunau Varilla the negotiator of
the treaty and
Panamas first minister to the United
States who is in this cruntry on a
visit called at the White House to pay
his respects to the president
The London Times states that Rus
sia has bought ten Hamburg American
steamers for delivery at Libau with
cargoes of coal It is supposed that
they are designed for employment as
colliers to the Baltic squadron
Mrs Mary Brockwell of Paducah
Ky whose three children aged 3
and 5 years died from poisoning under
suspicious circumstances broke down
and confessed that she killed them by
giving them morphine and coal oil
Before President Ttoosevelt starts on
his Southwestern trJphe will issue a
proclamation invitihgforeign nations
to participate in the exposition to be
held in the summer of 1907 in the vP
cinity of Hampton Roads in celebra
tion of the settlement of Jamestown
Va
A inan giving the name of James
Griffith serving a thirty day sentence
at Eureka Utah on a charge of va
grancy is believed by the authorities
to be Benjamin Pettis who Is wanted
at Montclair N J for murder and
arson committed last month
THE
CKERS
THEY MUST STOP TAMPERING
WITH WITNESSES
WHAT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS
More Attempts to Influence Testi
mony Manifested Fifteen Wit-
nesses Examined During the Day
Among Them an Omaha Man
CHICAGO Conspiracy indictments
are threatened against heads of the
big meat packing concerns unless al
leged tampering with witnesses who
have been summoned to testify before
the federal grand jury is discontinued
at once With two witnesses on the
stand yesterday who it is asserted
admitted that they had been ap
proached with a suggestion that their
testimony be mild the jury it is de
clared is getting ready to take dras
tic measures We will shut off inter
ference with witnesses said Assist
ant Attorney General Pagin even if
we have to resort to proceedings un
der the conspiracy statute to do so
Belief was general that Mr Pagin
has already laid out plans for new
indictments
Fifteen witnesses were heard three
women being among those who testi
fied The women were said to be sten
ographers employed by the National
Packing company
One of the witnesses before the
jury was Charles E Meade of Bos
ton formerly connected with Swift
Companys car lines Mr Meade said
that he had not been in that business
for three years The witness said
that since his retirement Swift and
Company had disposed of their inter
ests in the car line business
L S Curtis of T E Baker Co
oi Boston and Frank Dimpon of
Omaha were other witnesses before
the jury Mr Dimpon explained the
meat business from the viewpoint of
the medium through which the custo
mer obtains meat
The fifteen secret service men who
have been frequenting the corridors
in the building where the grand jury
is in session were not to be seen yes
terday District Attorney Morrison
was said to have ordered that waiting
witnesses instead of spending their
time in the vicinity of the jury room
are to be concealed in down town
hotels until called before the jury In
this way the witnesses will be more
readily prevented from learning the
identity of the secret service men
watching for nossible irregularity
Ten men arrived in the jury room
in the afternoon and reported to the
government officials It is said that
the ten are employed by railroads in
Michigan
TO CRUSH LOAN SHARKS
Illinois Legislature Is Taking Some
Drastic Measures
SPRINGFIELD 111 By unanimous
vote a sweeping anti loan shark bill
was ordered to third reading by the
upper house of the Illinois legislature
The bill provides that there can be no
legal assignment of wages unless
both husband and wife join in the
transaction and three days notice is
given the employer
Attorney General Stead a number
of eminent lawyers and the Mer
chants club of Chicago are backing
the bill Senator Dickson who intro
duced the measure said in address
ing the senate Homes are wrecked
and men who once get into the
clutches of loan sharks are driven to
suicide There is a crying need for
this measure
CATTLE GROWERS WILL HELP
Assist the Government in Breaking Up
Beef Trust
EL PASO Tex The following
statement with reference to the reso
lution of Texas cattle men to give all
possible evidence in the campaign
against the beef trust was issued by
President W W Turney of the Inter
State Cattle Growers association
Ninety nine per cent of the cattle
growersof the country believe there
is an illegal combination having for its
end the stifling of competition and the
controlling of 98 per cent of the cattle
shipped to the six great slaughtering
markets Chicago Kansas City St
Louis Fort Worth Omaha and Los
Angeles and they are ready to help
the government and will help it all
they can to break up this monster It
can be done and the cattle men will
help
Will Try to Use the Rivers
ST PETERSBURG During his
forthcoming inspection of the Siberian
railroad Minister of Railroads Hil
koff proposes to make an exhaustive
inquiry into the possibility of organ
izing a big system of transport along
the rivers
Dowager Duchess of Abercorn Dead
LONDON The dowager duchess of
Abercorn who was Louisa Jane Rus
sell daughter of the sixth duke of
Bedford died of gastritis at Coates
castle Sussex
Gets 20000 Judgment
SIOUX FALLS S D Judge Car
land of the United States court in
this city has granted to Isaac L Ell
wood of DeKalb 111 a judgment for
the sum of 20000 against the city of
Hurpn S D Ellwood recently insti j
tuted a suit for the recovery of prin
cipal and interest on bonds which
were issued in 1890 for the ostensible
purpose of refunding the outstanding
bonds of the city but which were in
reality issued for the purpose of
carrying on the fight for the state
capital of South Dakota
JAPS NEW PLANS
Will Likely Turn Their Attention to
Vladivostok
ST PETERSBURG The impres
sion prevails in some circles that the
Japanese having removed the possi
bilty of the main army in Manchuria
assuming the initiative will now turn
their attention to the next objective
of the war Vladivostok is strength
ened by the Associated Press dis
patch from Gunshu pass announcing
the withdrawal of the Japanese from
the immediate front of the Russian
army for a distance of thirty five
miles south It is realized of course
that this may be merely a bluff to
cover flanking operations but it is
not improbable that the Japanese
having cleared southern Manchuria
of Russian troops and secured a po
sition from whence expulsion would
be a long arid difficult process ma
be satisfied to hold the Tie Pass lins
without further extension of commu
nications
While the voice of the emperors
advisers is for peace if honorable
terms are obtainalle the government
as is the part of wisdom is going
forward with all provisions for the
continuance of the war Prepara
tions are reported to be making for
the mobilization of five corps It has
been understood that the guards
would be retained at St Petersburg
but some of the officers of this crack
organization believe their servces
have been requisitoned and are mak
ing preparations to that end
There has been a recrudescence of
reports of a change in the attitude
of the war office It was stated Mon
day night in a usually well informed
source that Lieutenant General Sak
haroff will leave ver shortly and will
be succeeded by General Ridiger now
chief of the chancellery of the war
office It is also reported that Gen
eral Polivanoff will be appointed chief
of the general staff Both Polivanoff
and Ridiger are of the younger school
of generals ard have high repute as
theoreticians and administrators Gen
eral Ridiger is the- author of a num
ber of text lnoks on tactics
The government is advised that
Chinese bandits are appearing in
great numbers along the Siberian
railroad and causing interference with
the train service
The Japanese have apparently with
drawn from the region to the south
of the Russian front Cossack pa
trols who have been making extensive
reconnaissance southward found no
Japanese within thirty five miles Gen
eral Linevitch is dispatching scouting
parties east and west to guard
against a possible turning movement
PRIZE LANDED FOR OMAHA
Formal Order Issued Making it Rural
Mail Division Headquarters
WASHINGTON The order estab
lishing division headquarters of the
rural mail delivery service at Omaha
and removing to that point the rural
delivery district headquarters at Kan
sas City was issued at the postoffice
department Tuesday With this order
was an announcement that Postmaster
General Cortelyou had appointed
Charles E Llewellyn of Nebraska a
division superintendent and assigned
him to take charge of the new head
quarters The change will take place
April 17 when the three clerks who
have composed the force under the
supervision of Postoffice Inspector J
R Harrison will be transferred to the
force that will be appointed for the
work under Superintendent Llewellyn
The district of which Omaha will
be the headquarters will remain as
at present consisting of the states
of Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma
and the Indian Territories
GOOD NEWS FOR POSTMASTERS
All in Fourth Class in Nebraska Can
Retain Their Jobs
WASHINGTON All fourth class
postmasters of Nebraska may rest
fully assured that their services will
be retained for another term of four
years providing they are proficient
and do not violate the presidents or
der respecting office holding Perni
cious political activity will not be
countenanced by the administration
Postemaster General Cortelyou
stated that the same rule should op
erate toward all presidential post
masters in the state This new pqlicy
is likely to create a great deal of
dissatisfaction among the Nebraska
congressmen since the naming of
postmasters is about all the federal
patronage they have to dispense
Monument to Cc vantes
HAVANA The provincial council
has voted in favor of the erection of a
monument to Cervantes author of
Don Quixote
Dr Hewett Dies Suddenly
BLOOMINGTON 111 Dr E C He
wett for fifteen years president of
the Illinois State Normal school died
suddenly Friday He was 77 years old
Whiteman Released on Bail
BUFFALO N Y Alonzo J White
man was released from jail on 10000
Armour Man is Indicted
CHICAGO The federal grand jury
returned an indictment against Thom
as J Connors general superintendent
of Armour Co on the charge of in
terfering with a witness summoned to
appear before the jury now investigat
ing the so called beef trust Mr Con
nor who is J Ogden Armours most
confidential employe and the tive
head of one of the largest packing
companies in the world was arrested
on a bench warrant by a United States
deputy marshal and brought to the
grand jury room
OT AT WARSAW
FOUR PERSONS KILLED AND
FORTY WOUNDED
SEVERAL OF LATTER WILL DIE
Crowd Carrying Red Flags Attack Pa
trol of Troops and Police Proclam
ation Distributed Warning People
Away from Public Buildings
WARSAW A serious conflict oc
curred at 730 oclock Sunday evening
in Dzika street where a Jewish so
cialist society known as the Bund had
organized a demonstration Troops
which came to disperse the gathering
fired into the crowd killing four per
sons and wounding forty others
Other disturbnaces are reported to
have occurred The street had been pa
trojled throughout the day Conditions
here are causing much easiness and
nervousness Hand printed proclama
tions have been found in the streets
warning the public against walking
near public buildings and other places
as bombs would be thrown in these
quarters Several parents whose chil
dren are attending school in defiance
of the school strike have been warn
ed by letter to withdraw their chil
dren as the school buildings will be
blown up Representatives of the party
of violence it is not quite clear
whether they are revolutionaries or so
cialists are visiting private persons
and levying contributions for ammu
nition They produce lists of names
with the amounts to be collected from
each and request the contributor to
sign his name opposite these assess
ments which range from 250 to 350
When Governor Maximovitcli arrived
here ten days ago to assume his duties
he ordered that the Cossack detach
ment awaiting him at the station be
retired saying he did not want an es
cort Driving through the city today
however the govprnor generals car
riage was surrounded by twenty Cos
sacks
The editors of the Polish newspa
pers were summoned to the castle yes
terday Governor General Maximovitcli
received each of them separately in
the most friendly manner and talked
with them on various subjects espec
ially on thr question of the censor
ship He invited them to come to him
in case of any difficulty
The trouble in Dzika street began
when under the pretext of holding a
memorial meeting for a late Jewish
socialist leader a crowd of more than
1000 mostly Jews carrying red flags
marched into Dzika street and was
met by a mixed police and military
patrol of twenty men The police de
clare the socialists fired revolvers at
them the leaders inciting the mob to
attack the patrol which thereupon
fired several volleys into the crowd
Four men were killed and forty were
wounded
TO STUDY DEEP WATERWAYS
President Appoints Commissioners to
Meet the Canadians
WASHINGTON The president has
selected the American members of
the joint international commission to
study the effect on the navigation of
the Great lakes of the changes of level
expected to result from the execution
of the dee waterway project They
are George Clinton a lawyer of New
York General O H Ernst corps of
engineers United States and Frof
Gardner S William professor of hy
draulic engineering at Cornell The
Canadian commissioners are 1 P
Maybe of Toronto W King Dominion
astronomer of Ottawa and Louis
Acoste civil engineer of Ottawa with
Thomas Cole as secretary
The American commissioners have
been instructed to arrange a meeting
among themselves for organization
and then to correspond with the
Canadians to select a time and place
probably Toronto for the joint
meeting to begin the work
NEWSPAPERS ARE NOW QUIET
Believed They Have Been Given a
Tip by Government
ST PETERSBURG The newspa
pers are so significantly rilpnt about
the peace reports from abroad that
it leads to the inference that they
have been warned by the government
of the inadvisability of airing their
views at this time
These papers which have been fa
voring peace say nothing while the
small section of the press which ha
been insisting on a continuation of
the war contents itself with the repro
duction of articles from foreign news
papers showing that peace now
means the abandonment forever of
Russias position on the Pacific
No Community of Interer ts i
HAMBURG At a general meeting
of the Hamburg American Steam i
Packet company Herr Ballin director
general of the company said no plan
existed for the establishment of a
community of interests between the
Hamburg American and North
man Lloyd lines
Girl Goes to Penitentary
CHICAGO Inga Hanson former
Salvation Army girl convicted of per-
jury was denied a new trial and will f
go to the penitentiary on an i
minate sentence The perjury was
committed in a remarkable attempt by
the prisoner to obtain 50000 damages
from the Chicago City railway for al
leged injuries in a street car accident
by which Miss Hanson claimed to
have been rendered deaf dumb blind
and unable to walk She claimed to
have been suddenly cured by prayer
as the result of a revivah
MAGOON TO BE GOVERNOR
Lincoln Man Selected a
Canal Zone
Executive
WASHINGTON Judge Charles E
Magoon of Lincoln Neb who is the
law officer of the bureau of insular
affair war department will be the new
governor and minister of the Panama
canal zone as was announced several
days ago He will have the combined
executive and diplomatic duties as a
result of the reorganization of the is
thmian canai commission now being
made by the president and Secretary
Taft
Judge Magoon has done important
work for the government in connection
with the legal administration in the
Philippines He is qualified in every
way to undertake the organization of
the canal zone government
Plans for the reorganization of the
commission are rapidly being perfect
ed by the president and Secretary
Taft Announcement of the retirement
of the present members of the com
mission and the appointment of their
successors is expected to be made
within the next day or two
Although the president ha been ad
vised that under the law there must
be -seven commissioners it is possible
that he may not name all of them at
once
Judge Charles E Morgan will be
designated to act as the governor of
the canal zone in place of General
Davis He will also assume the duties
as United States minister plenipoten
tiary to Panama now being performed
by Hon John Barrett
WILL OF MRS JANE STANFORD
After Bequests of 4125000 Balance
Goes to University
SAN JOSE Cal The will and co
dicil of Mrs Jane Stanford were
proven and admitted to probate Fri
day and letters of administration
were issued to Charles G Lathrop
Timothy Hopkins Joseph D Grant
Whitelaw Reid and Thomas B Croth
ers as executors without bonds The
estate was represented by Attorneys
S F Li eh and Mountford Wilson All
of the above mentioned and also
Charles K Lovell Robert G Honker
and T F Draper were examined by
the court They testified that at the
date of the wiH Mrs Stanford was in
full possesson of her mental powers
and physically strong
The will was executed July 28 1003
and signed in the presence of Lovell
Wilson and Draper in the library of
Mrs Stanfords San Francisco home
The codicil was written by Mrs Stan
ford herself in August 1904 under the
direction of S F Lie
By the terms of the will 2000000
are left in trust to Ariel Lathrop and
descendants of D S Lathrop her
Brother 1000000 in trust to her
nieces Jeinie L Lawton and Amy L
Hanson and the children of Christine
L Gunning 1000000 to Charles G
Lathrop 125000 to various charit
able institutions
PRESIDENTS WESTERN TRIP
Chief Executive to Spend Two Months
Hunting in Texas and Colorado
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt wll leave Washington Monday
on a trip to the west and soutnwest
He will he absent nearly two months
One of the chief objects of the trip
which the president has long had in
mind is the reunion of his Rough
Rider regiment of the Spanish-American
war which is to take place at
San Antono Texas Friday April 7th
and for which an elaborate program
of exercises has been arranged There
will be a number of brief stops en
route where the president wll make
addresses Leaving San Antonio
there will be a brief stop and ad
dress at Fort Worth which will ter
minate the public part of the trip
following which the president is to go
hunting in the Panhandle of Texas
and later in Colorado All arrange
ments have been made whereby the
president will keep in touch with pub
lic affairs both during his railroad
ride and while huntng so that he will
be enabled to pass on all matters re
quiring his att ntion The pres ident
is looking forward with keen pleasure
to his long vacation
TEN YEARS IN PRISON
That is the Sentence Imposed Upon
Mrs Chadwick
CLEVELAND O Unless the hgh
er court interferes Mrs Cassie L
Chadwick will spend the greater part
of the next ten years in the Ohio
state penitentiary
A sentence of ten years was im
posed on her by Judge Robert Taylor
in the United States district court
here The sentpnee came at the
close of a busy day for the court in
hearing arguments on a motion for a
new tral which lasted all day The
motion was overruled
Mrs Chadwick was convicted on
seven counts and sentenced upon six
counts For four of these counts
sentence of two years was imposed
Upon two counts a sentence of one
year each was impospd making a to
tal sentence of ten years
Austra Ask For Inquiry
SALT LAKE CITY The Austrian
government through its consul at San
Francisco has demandpd of the Uath
authoritis a risid investigation of the
killing of Jacob Oman a citizen of
Austria by a special policeman at
Castleate Utah on January
rth I
list Oman with several other Aus
trians was quarantined for smallpox
in a pesthouse guarded by Officer R
A Lewis Oman tried to break quar
antine when Lewis shot him in the
head killing him ni iaritly He says
the shooting was accidental
ADVANCE BEGINS
JAPANESE
MAIN ARMY
FORWARD
MOVING
SEARCH F0RTHE RUSSIANS
Activity of Oyamas Troops on th
West Near the Mongolian Frontier-
Large Scouting Parties Throwr
Out for Investigation
ST PETERSBURG The rewsr
from the front Indicates that Field
Marshal Oyama has begun a genuin
advance of his main army with wings
far extended Heavy reconnaissances
are being made against the Russian
center with the object of developing
the Russian position
It is officially announced that Gen
eral Karkevitch has been appointed
General Linovilchs chief of staff in
place of General Sakharoff who has
been transferred to the Alexander
committoe for the care of the wound
ed General Stakelberg has also been
appointed a member of the same com
mittee
A dispatch from General Linevitch
dated March 0 says
There is no change in the situa
tion The enemy is displaying activ
ity east of the railroad
Heavy snow fell during the night
A telegram from Gunshu Pass says
General Linevitch has forbidden the
inhabitants of Harbin with the ex
ception of the women and children
to leave that place without special
permits fearing that the town may he
denuded of workmen
GUNSHU PASS Reconnaissances
disclose especial activity on the part
of the Japanese on the west near the
Mongolian frontier It is reported
that an anti foreign propaganda is
conducted among the Chinese who
are stirred up to a renewal of the
Boxer disturbances The Hun Yuan
min societies of Mukden and Kirin
and the Tai Li society which is
strong in Tsitsihari and northern
Manchuria are said to be working to
spread this agitation among the Man
churian population and Japanese suc
oss is doing much to augment the
movement Many Chinese bandit
chieftians are leaders in numerous
spcret societies extending throughout
China and their influence may have
a powerful effect on the attitude of
the Chinese government and popula
tion
ADMIRAL BARKER RETIRES
Admiral Evans Now Commands the
North Atlantic Fleet
WASHINGTON After long and dis
tinguished service Rear Admiral A
S Barker commander-in-chief of the
North Atlantic fleet hauled down his
flag on the Kearsarge and was placed
on the retired list of the1 navy
In the war with Spain Admiral
Barkpr was one of the most prominent
members of the strategy board He
was later in command of the navy
yard New York and from ther in
April 1903 was appointed to the su
preme command of the North Atlan
tic fleet Admiral Barker will make
his home in Washington He is a na
tive of Massachusetts whence he was
appointed to the naval academy
Rear Admiral Evans succeed Ad
miral Barker in command of the fleet
and has selected the Maine for his
flagship
MRS MAYBRICKS POSITION
England to Be Asked to Rehabilitate
Her in Eye of Law
WASHINGTON Mrs Florence
Maybrick accompanied by her coun
sel had a long conference with Act
ing Secretary of State Adee In the
legal proceedings now in progress to
which Mrs Maybrick is a party in
volving considerable property inter
ests some obstacle ha been encoun
tered in availing of Mrs Maybricks
testimony because of her peculiar
legal statu and she is seeking the
nood offices of the state department
to procure from the British govern
ment the papers necesary to rehabili
tate her in the eye of the law The
state department will probably take
up the matter with the American em
bassy in London
HAS NO PROOF OF MARRIAGE
Suit Brought in Paris by American
Actress Dismisc sd
PARIS The civil tribunal of the
Sine formally announced its decision
in the case of Carrie Swain the
American actres against Frank Gard
ner the American sportsman in which
the actress claimed to be Mr Gard
ners wife The decision was on a line
with the recent announcement of the
conclusions made by the attorney gen
eral The court rejects the plaintiffs
claims and says the correspondence
between the parties shows that no
marriage existed The defendants ob
ligation therefore was only moral
The decision also rejects the defend
ants counter claim for damages on
the ground that he had not establish
ed the plaintiffs bad faith
Gilbert Gets Judgment
ST LOUIS Mo A judgment was
rendered on Friday in the United
States circuit court for 6450 against
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
ompany in favor of Cass Gilbert a
New York architect Mr Gilbert sued
for 31000 alleging that the sum was
due him for drawing plans for cer
tain worlds fair buildings William
H Thompson treasurer
of the ex
position company and other high
worlds fair officials stated that the
veraict win not be appealed
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