McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA Brief Telegrams Secretary Shaw is encouraged ovei the outlook for the rapid reduction in the deficit Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia con tinues to wield ax among Philadelphia office holders The apple king of Kansas says there will he but a fourth of a crop in that state this year Lars Johnson an old resident ot Millard Neb was run over by the cars and killed Three suspicious cases believed to be cholera have occurred at Tula 120 miles south of Moscow Secretary Shaw gains a reputation for hard work among his subordinates in the treasury department Employes of the Pennsylvania Road are given to understand that hereafter hustle is to be their watchword It is officially announced that King Edward has appointed King Oscar an honorary admiral of the British fleet The weekly trade reviews report im proved business conditions in spite of the strike which is the only draw back Governor Higgins of New York has issued a call for the legislature to con vene in extra session on Wednesday June 22 For the first time in the history of the military academy at West Point representatives of the Chinese empire were entered as cadets in the institu tion An Illinois representative has de clined to be renominated because a cc gressman is nothing except a pen sion agent and a solicitor of postoffice jobs The abiding popularity of Dickens is attested by the fact that more than 200000 copies of his various books were sold in England alone during De cember last Rear Admiral TJriu who bore the brunt of the great naval battle in the Straits of Corea graduated from the United States naval academy at Anna polis in 1881 Daniel Tarbox Jewett probably the oldest lawyer in the United States soon will enter upon his 100th year He was born in Maine and lives at present in St Louis The Missouri Kansas Texas Rail way company has accepted a land proposition made by the city of Par sons and will build new shops there at a cost of 1050000 Benjamin F Daniels has been ap pointed United States marshal for the district of Arizona The appointment will take effect July 1 He succeeds Myron H McCord resigned The secretary of the interior has de cided that the state of Utah is- not entitled to select school lands in the Uintah Indian reservation which is soon to be opened for settlement Rev William Henry Locke former pastor of xthe Methodist Episcopal church attended by the late President McKinley in Canton O died last week at the home of his son in Brooklyn Dmitri Nelidoff chamberlain of the Russian embassy and son of Ambas sador Nelidoff was married in the Russian church at Paris to the daugh ter of a Greek banker M Mavrocor dato The laborers of Sweden are report ed to be unanimous in favor of dis solution of the union with Norway and may revolt if attempt is made to press them into service against Nor wegians Edwin H Conger United States am jasasdor to Mexico has put an end to Vhe many rumors that he would re main at that post only six months and retire to become candidate for gover nor of Iowa The late Premier Delyanis of Greece who was assassinated June 13 by a gambler named Gherakaris died in absolute poverty The chamber will vote a pension to the immediate members of his family A granite shaft erected in memory of those who lost their lives in the disaster to the excursion steamer Gen eral Slocum in East river a year agox was unveiled in the Lutheran ceme tery in Middle Village L I Brigadier General Tasker H Bliss president of the Army War College board will sail from San Francisco for Manila on July 8 to take charge of the command of the Department of Luzon to succeed General George M Randall Intelligence has been received at Yale that the governor of the prov ine of Hunan China has given per- mission for the establishment of the new Yale college at Chengsha in that province which hitherto has been somewhat unfavorable to foreign en terprises including missions The re sult was brought about by the good offices of the Yale graduates in China- Kotaro Date a Japanese student has been awarded the Wayman Crow medal for 1905 at the St Louis school of fine arts The minister of defense authorizes the statement that all rumors of the mobilization of the Norwegian army and fleet are devoid of foundation A letter from Secretary Loeb to the Progressive union fixes October 24 and 25 as the days upon which President Roosevelt will visit New Orleans The minister of defence authorizes the statement that all rumors of tli mobilization of the Norwegian army jand fleet are devoid of foundation ALL DONE OUT Veteran Joshua Heller of 706 South Walnut Street Urbana 111 says In the fall of 1899 after taking Doans Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kid ney trouble dis posed of a lame back with pain tcross my loins and beneath the shoul der blades During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to re sort to Doans Kid ney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack On each and every occasion the results ob tained were just as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to my notice I just as emphatically en dorse the preparation to day as I did over two years ago Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y proprietors For sale by all druggists price 50 cents per box QUIT Saying that fate is against you Finding fault with the weather Anticipating evils in the future Pretending and be your real self Going around with a gloomy face Faultfinding nagging and worrying Talking big things and doing small ones Taking offense where -none is in tended Dwelling on fancied slights and wrongs Boasting of what you can do instead of doing it Scolding and flying into a passion over trifles Thinking that life is a grind and not worth living Talking continually about yourself and your affairs Exaggerating and making moun tains out of molehills Pitying yourself and bemoaning your lack of opportunities Depreciating yourself and in making light of your abilities Saying unkind things about ac quaintances and friends Lamenting the past holding on to disagreeable experiences Comparing yourself with others to your own disadvantage Work once in a while and take time to renew your energies Waiting round for chances to turn up Go and turn them up Orison Swett Marden in Success Maga zine BY THE GENTLE CYNIC The fellow who marries for money sometimes buys a gold brick The fools are not all dead In fact a lot of them havent been born Joy cometh in the morning unless youve been making a night of it Its a mistake to marry too young out its a mistake that isnt repeated A woman is never quite happy with a man who refuses to argue with her Many an unsuccessful man would rather preserve his dignity than hus tle It is better to have too little confi dence in yourself than too much in others To indulge in the things we cant afford is the average mans idea of pleasure Why it is impossible for a girl to write an affectionate love letter and chew gum at the same time FOOD IN SERMONS Feed the Dominie Right and the Ser mons are Brilliant A conscientious hard working and eminently successful clergyman writes I am glad to bear testimony to the pleasure and increased meas ure of efficiency and health that have come to me from adopting Grape Nuts food as one of my articles of diet For several years 1 was much dis tressed during the early part of each day by indigestion My breakfast usually consisting of oatmeal milk and eggs seemed to turn sour and failed to digest After dinner the headache and other symptoms follow ing the breakfast would wear away only to return however next mom Ing Having heard of Grape Nuts food I finally concluded to give it a fair trial I quit the use of oatmeal and eggs and made my breakfasts of Grape Nuts cream toast and Postum The result was surprising in improv ed health and total absence of the distress that had for so long a time followed the morning meal My diges tion became once more satisfactory the headaches ceased and the old feeling of energy returned Since that time four years ago I have always had Grape Nuts food on my breakfast table I was delighted to find also that whereas before I began to use Grape Nuts food I was quite nervous and be came easily wearied in the work of preparing sermons and in study a marked improvement in this respect resulted from the change in my diet I am convinced that Grape Nuts food produced this result and helped me to a sturdy condition of mental and physical strength I have known of several persons who were formerly troubled as I was and who have been helped as I have been by the use of Grape Nuts food on my recommendation among whom may be mentioned the Rev now a missionary to China Name given by Postum Company Battle Creek Mich Theres a reason Read the little book The Road to Wellville in each pkg NS THEJJONFERENCE RUSSIA ACCEPTS WASHINGTON AS MEETING PLACE BY APPROVAL OF THE CZAR Decision Is Made Partly a Compli ment to President Roosevelt The Question of Armistice Informlly Dis cussed at White House WASHINGTON Russia and Japan have tentatively decided each to ap point three plenipotentiaries to repre sent them in the Washington confer ence M Nelidoff it is understood has already accepted the chairmanship of the Russian mission and is being con sulted about the selection of his as sistants but Washington has not yet heard whether Marquis Itos health will permit him to come as the rank ing Japanese plenipotentiary The be lief here is that Field Marshal Yama gata will be designated in Marquis Itos place should the marquis be un able to accept It is believed that the conference will convene here about the middle of August Pending the official announcement of the plenipotentiaries little toward the arrangement of an armistice is be ing done on this side Japan will not take the initiative in requesting an armistice It is improbable however that she would insist on Russia mak ing the request It is generally expect ed that when the missions have been announced the president will suggest to the belligerents the advisability of a limited truce and that this sugges tion will be accepted Instructions will then go to Linevitch and Oyama to sign the armistice The whole question of an armistice has been informally discussed at the frhite house and the belief in diplo matic circles is that there will not be a hitch on this score Japan pre fers that the armistice should be sign ed in the field by the Russian and Japanese commanders and there are indications that this will find approval in St Petersburg General commendation is voiced in diplomatic circles of the presidents act in not communicating to Japan the suggestion from St Petersburg for a reconsideration of the selection of Washington for the conference The irrevocable opposition of Japan to any capital of Europe was a mat ter of common knowledge in Wash ington and the transmission of any such suggestion it was realized would only invite an emphatic refusal from Tapan and possibly seriously menace the convening of the conference It was learned Sunday that the issuance of the authoritative statement on the subject by the Russian embassj here late Saturday night was based on ad vices from St Petersburg that the se lection of Washington was to be offi cially announced in the Russian capi tal thus removing all doubt on that score There have been several ex planations current among diplomats as to the reason for Russias sugges tion one being that it was based on a misunderstanding about the finality of the decision to select Washington and the other the St Petersburg gov ernment believed the president great ly preferred The Hague Both expla nations are unofficial and in view of die Russian embassys authoritative statement the incident is regarded as 2losed BUILDING OF TUNNELS AT TOESE COST RENO Nev The announcement is made that a contract for the con struction of tile tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains has been let by the Southern Pacific company and that work on them would begin within a month There are to be five tunnels in all and the main one will start a short distance north of Donner lake and the series will end at the foot of Blue canyon on the American river The contract calls for an expenditure of over 525000000 MAXIMO GOMEZ PASSES AWAY Hero of Two Revolutionary Wars in Cuba is Dead at Havana HAVANA General Maximo Go mez uied here at 6 oclock Saturday evening after an extended illness The end came quietly in the beauti ful temporary home at the seaside in the suburb of Vedado to which Gen eral Gomez was fciken on his return from Santiago President Palma ac companied by General Andrade ar rived pbout a quarter of an hour pre vious o the death of General Gomez Pays Wife to Get Divorce CHICAGO A check for 75000 is said to have been given by Charles H Thaw of New York to Frances Rush formerly a chorus girl who re ceived a divorce from Thaw here The divorce was granted by Judge Akers on statutory grounds Thaw making no defense GOING AFTER BODY OF JOHN PAUL JONES WASHINGTON Rear Admiral Sigs bee has been ordered to coal and be ready to proceed to Cherbourg France for the purpose of bringing to this country the remains of the late John Paul Jones The ceremonies con nected with the transfer of the re mains will probably take place in Paris on July G or 7 and the squadron will sail for Chesapeake bay on July 8 MURDERER PLOEHN IN JAIL The Man Who Killed His Cousin is Captured OMAHA Hidden in a hayloft in a barn on a farm owned by his victims mother within a mile from the scene of his crime Max Ploehn murderer of Alma Goss was captured by Sheriff McBride of Cass county about 9 oclock Thursday morning The prisoner was transferred from the county jail to Omaha during the afternoon According to Sheriff Mc Brides statement ho did not fear vio lence but wished to avoid the annoy ance occasioned by the curious The story of the crime is that Re turning after a day spent in drinking in Plattsmouth to the Goss farm where for four years he had been em ployed Ploehn for no apparent cause shot and killed his cousin Alma Goss and wounded her sister Emma His flight was immediate and until Thurs day morning two separate parties with blood hounds had been on his trail HOCH PIAY GET ONE MORE CHANCE CHICAGO Bluebeard Johann Hoch who was sentenced to be hanged June 23 for the murder of one of his numerous wives may be given one more chance to escape the gal lows His case may be taken to the supreme court of Illinois In a con ference held here Governor Dineen as sured counsel for Hoch that in case the states attorneys office is assured by Wednesday June 21 that sufficient money is forthcoming to provide for the preparation of the necessary re cord a reprieve will be granted until October term of the supreme court The sum needed is 700 Threat to Extend Strike NEW YORK President Frank Mc Ardle of the international associa tion of foundrymen has announced that if the empyers in New York and New Jersey where his men are now on strike do not grant an increase of 25 cents a day he will extend the strike to the entire country THE TEAMSTERS STRIKE IS A BACK NUMBER CHICAGO The teamsters joint council apparently has come to the conclusion that the strike is a dead issue For the first time since the ori ginal strike against Montgomery Ward Co was called the contro versy was shelved in the council meet ing as an unimportant matter of business PLAN FOR ARMISTICE It is Probable That Protocol Will Be Negotiated in Manchuria WASHINGTON Alone on the plains of Manchuria midway between the two great armies the Russian and Japanese commanders will meet to sign the armistice which will pave the way for the Washington conference if the present tentative program is fol lowed Exchanges on these points are now in progress between Tokio and St Petersburg via Washington but no final conclusion has been reached It was first thought a preliminary proto col might be signed at Washington providing for a temporary cessation of hostilities but in view of the fact that this concerns directly the armies in the field it is believed that the belli gerents will agree that arrangement of the armistice be best entrusted to Linevitch and Oyama the respective commanders-in-chief who in such event would be telegraphed special powers to sign FRANCE AND GERMANY Strained Relations Give Rise to Seri ous Apprehension PARIS The strained relations be tween France and Germany over Mo rocco continue to give rise to serious apprehension but while openly ad mitting that there are real difficulties involved the officials protest against this being made the basis of exagger ated reports Such reports have been circulated for several days past by a small and uninfluential section of the press notably by the Patrie and the Presso One report that Germany had submitted an ultimatum brought out a formal denial from the foreign office CHOLERA EPIDEMIC FEARED Three Deaths in Poland and St Petersburg Anxious ST PETERSBURG The anxiety caused by the danger of an epidemic of cholera is growing A dispatch from Sosnovice Poland reports that deaths from cholera are occuring daily there and three suspected are reported at Tula The authorities of both these cities have ordered anti cholera in oculations in the infected regions but the warm moist weather prevailing is favorable to the spread of the dis ease GOMPERS TO SEE ROOSEVELT Federation of Labor Appoints Com mittee to Con er With Executive SCRANTON Pa At the third days session of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor here President Gompers Vice Presi dent OConnell and Secretary Morri son were appointed a committee to wait upon President Roosevelt to present to him the subject of Chi nese exclusion and other matters af fecting the interests of labor IANI8H RED TAPE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WOULD HAVE IT CUT OUT IMPROVED BUSINESS METHODS He Appoints a Committee of Five to Look Into Matters Salarie Should Be Commensurate With Service Rendered WASHINGTON -The president has appointed a committee of five to re port to him on improved methods of doing the public business in the vari ous bureaus and departments In a letter addressed to Charles H Keep assistant secretary of the treas ury President Roosevelt says You are hereby designated as chair man of a committee to consist in addi tion to yourself of the following four gentlemen Frank II Hitchcock first assistant postmaster general Law rence O Murray assistant secretary of commerce and labor James R Garfield commisioner of corporations and Gi fford Pinchot forester in the de partment of agriculture who are to in vestigate and find out what changes are needed to place the conduct of the executive business of the government in all its branches on the most econ omical and effective basis in the light of the best modern business practice Salaries should be commensurate with the character and market value of the service performed and uniform for similar service in all departments The existence of any method standard custom or practice is no rea son for its continuance when a better is offered There should be a systematic inter department co operation in the use of expert or technical knowledge The business methods of the different de partments should be substantially uni form In the adoption of methods and the performance of work every step which is not clearly indispensable should be eliminated A resolute effort should be made to secure brevity in correspondence and the elimination of useless letter writing There is a type of bureaucrat who believes that his entire work and that the entire work of the govern ment should be the collecting of pa pers in reference to a case comment ing with eager minuteness on each and corresponding with other officials in reference thereto These people really care nothing for the case but only for the documents in the case In all branches of the government there is a tendency to greatly increase un necesary and largely perfunctory let ter writing In the army and navy the increases of paper work is a serious menace to the efficiency of fighting officers who are often required by bureaucrats to spend time in making reports which they should spend in increasing the efficiency of the battle ships or regiments under them ALL DEPENDS UPON RUSSIA Must Send Representatives Empower ed to End War BERLIN Count Inouye the Japan ese minister to Germany declares in an interview in the Lokal Anzeiger that the prospects for the establish ment of peace depends wholly accord ing to the Japanese view upon whether Russia appoints real pleni potentiaries rather than a mere diplo matist commission to learn Japans terms Russias commissioner must be authorized not merely to hear Japans conditions but to at the same time enter into serious peace negotiations Janan expects only commissioners equipped with such powers the minis ter says and will name its terms only to such representatives of Russia as are empowered to end the war GENERAL KUROPATKIN IViAY BE AN ENVOY WASHINGTON Whether the selec tion of Washington will affect the ten tative selection by Russia of M Ned lioff as one of her envoys is not known though the opinion here is that he will come from Paris Private ad vices reaching here from Europe say that Emperor Nicholas has been con sidering General Kuropatkin as a sub stitute for M Nedlioff FIGHT AT JACKSONS HOLE Late Reports Indicate that Six Persons Were Killed in the Melee BLACKHAWK Idaho Latest re ports from the Jackson Hole country indicate that the recent battle there between ranchers and outlaws was more sanguinary than was indicated by the earlier reports It is now stated that six persons were killed four outlaws and two ranchers Several horses were killed during the fight five being shot down in one spot The ranchers it is re ported succeeded in recovering the cattle which the outlaws were at tempting to drive away PENSIONER REMITS CONSCIENCE MONEY WASHINGTON Commissioner of Pensions Warner received a contri bution of 192 i to the conscience fund of the treasury It came from a pensioner and the sum total of the pension money drawn by him since the civil war beginning at the rate of two dollars and rising to six dol lars per month The identity of the pensioner is wiiVheld at the latters request vfccasgSr Calumet Baking Perfect In quality Moderate in price FLORIDA SUNSHINE These- Weather Burcan people are aot fit to be trusted wia the reins If all women were as good as they look men would never daro marry hem A womans credulity is boundless Dut beware how you trifle with her canity Few women ever destroy love let ers though such letters often destroy women The woman who marries a man to improve him may prove more than she set out to Money may be the root of all evil nut it is the women who are always persuading us to dig it up A womans way of reasoning is as much of a mystery to the average man as her way of dressing That a womans love of love should autlast her power of inspiring it is one of the brutalities of existence It is one of the paradoxes of Florida politics that so many bad bills should be introduced in the legislature by good men Florida Times Union Value of Sunshine If the beneficences of sunshine were more generally understood and appre ciated every house owner would have somewhere about the house a solar ium or sun room The ancient Ro mans knew the value of sunshine and always had solariums attached to the house or forming part of it SAVED CHILDS LIFE Remarkable Cure of Dropsy by Dodds - Kidney Pills Sedgwick Ark June 19 The caso of W S Taylors little son is looked upon by those interested in medical matters as one of the most wonderful on record In this connection his fath er makes the following statement Last September my little boy had dropsy his feet and limbs were swol len to such an extent that he could not walk or put his shoes on The treatment that the doctors were giving him seemed to do him no good and two or three people said his days were short even the doctors two of the best in the country told me he would not get better I stopped their medicine and at once sent for Dodds Kidney Pills I gave him three Pills a day one morning noon and night fop eight da s at the end of the eighth day the swelling was all gene but to give the medicine justice I gave him eleven more pills I used thirty five Pills in all and he was entirely cured I consider your medicine saved my childs life When the thirty five Pills were given him he could run dance and sing whereas before he was an invalid in his mothers arms from morning until night Some people go through life like a cat meaching through a blind alley without ever knowing theres a big roaring world beyond AGONY OF SORE HANDS Cracked and Peeled Water and Heat Caused Intense Paii Could Do No Housework Grateful to Cuticura My hands cracked and peeled and were so sore it was impossible for me to do my housework If I put them in water I was in agony for hours and if I tried to cook the heat caused in tense pain I consulted two doctors but their prescriptions were utterly useless And now after using one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuti cura Ointment my hands are entirely well and I am very grateful Signed Mrs Minnie Drew 18 Dana St Rox bury Mass A woman is never so afraid of catch ing cold in the wet when she has on low shoes and openwork stockings as a man is in rubber boots Pisos Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure J W OBiuen 322 Third Ave K Minneapolis Minn Jan G 1500 A stitch in time has mended many a mans ways CITO permanently cured No fits or nerrensnew after lllw flrt days use of Dr Klines Great Nerre Kestor er Send for FREE 8200 trial bottle and treatise DB B H Kjjse Ltd 031 Arch Street Philadelphia Pa The June Arena will appeal to all persons interested in clean govern ment and social and economic ad vance In it Rudolph Blankenburg continues his remarkable series of pa pers dealing with corruption in Penn sylvania the present discussion being concerned chiefly with the unparallel ed reign of graft and roguery in Phila delphia Frederick Opper A Car toonist of Democracy is another in teresting feature being an illustrated article dealing with the life and work of one of the best known and most effective cartoonists of the day A fine full page portrait of Mr Opper ac companies this sketch The Benjamin Fay Mills Movement in Los Angeles is an inspiring and highly suggestive paper showing what work a church may do when under the guidance of a broad minded thoughtful and earnest minister awake K 9 1 if i A