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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1906)
lis IB 6 SEE DAR6ER AHEAD SITUATION IN MOROCCO INCREAS INGLY PERILOUS EUROPEANS ABE III- All UGLY PLIGHT Number of Powerc Prepared to Send Warships Firct Act of Hostil ity by Moors Signal for Disembarkation As a consequence of the receipt by the Spmish cabinet of the dispatches selling forth that Ihe situation of Euro peans in Morocco is growing worse Minister of Marine Aivarado decided after consultation with the premier and his colleagues to order tho battle ship Pelaj o to the Moroccan coast The Pelayo will proceed to Tangier -where she will join the French war ships She will take 500 marines It is reported at Madrid though the ru mor lacks confirmation that the Brit ish squadron now on the coast of Spain has also been ordered to Morocco lu official circles the opinion is held thai the Moroccan situation is im mediately perilous The present pre cautons are intended to forestall the serious developments rendered possi ble by the giving or increased powers io Ihe bandit Raisuli The attitude of all the powers concerned is declared o be perfectly harmonious and the first act of hostility on the part of the Moors will be the signal for the disem barkation of landing parlies from all the foreign -warships OLD AGE -PENSIONS IN FAVOR Premier Campbell Bannerman clarec Himself a Convert Replying to the deputation of mem bers of the house of commons from rhe liberal and -labor parties Premier Campbell Bannerman said the matter of old age pensions would be taken up as soon as time and money permitted Old age pensions the premier ued far from sapping independence and undermining thrift would do just ihe opposite Speaking to the same deputation Chancellor of Ihe Exchequer Asquith said there was nothing nearer his heart than to be able to submit a finan cial plan for such pensions He fa vored one altogether disassociated from the poor law and assured the imputation that the government question as one of -extreme urgency IN FAVOR OF PROTECTORATE Sentiment In Cuba Crystallizing in That Direction Sentiment in Cuban industrial and financial circles in favor of the estab lishment of a vStrong -American protec torate over -the -island is crystallizing There are two independent -movements for -this purpose the instigators of which are gathering signature to peti tions to President Roosevelt opposing ihe idea of annexation pointing out ihe inability of -the Cubans to direct iheir affairs unaded and declaring that only -by a protectorate can Cuba be preserved for -the Cubans It is re ported that a considerable number of signatures have been secured but they are being kept secret pending the de v elopmenl of the movement KILLED BY SLIOE OF LAND Seven Trackmen of West Virginia Swept Over- Mountain Seven trackmen of a gang of nine teen engaged in removing a slide on ihe Dry Dock branch of the Norfolk Western road were killed near Blue field W Va as the result of a big slip of land The men were swept down the mountain side and into the river -Twelve escaped The bodies of four of the victims were recovered and three of the bodies -are buried under Imndrcds of tons of earlh AH of the victims were Italian laborers and -were lnown only by numbers Diointer Patriotc Remains The body of James Wilson of Penn sylvania who with fifty five other American patriots signed the Declara tion ot Independence was disinterred from Its long resting -place at Edenton N C preparatory to being sent to Phil adelphia where It will be deposited in Christ church burial ground3 alongside that of his wife almost in the shadow ot Independence -hall SEES NEED OF STRONG MAN Flower of British Diplomacy Demand ed at -Washington The Westminster Gazette urges the government to select a man of supreme ability for British ambassador at Washington The paper declares that Great Britains Xormer influence and prestige at Washingtii has -been iisurpcd by the-German-embassy add ing thafMr Rooseveltds in more close and more confidential communication Tfith Emperor WiIIiam than with any other ruler or statesman in Europe 3JW iuijyMpmjjiiil AST V HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED TJie Trememlious Itoar Kclioad TliroiiKh tlie JoJfy Arelies UKo n Tluntder Clan Rome A bomb was exploded in St Peters Sunday The edifice was crowded and an indescribable scene of confusion followed There was no atalities As soon as the echoes of the tre mendous roar had ceased canon sought by reassuring words to quiet the people but in vain They fled in all directions and a number of women fainted Women and children scream ed and tried to protect their families in the crush The church is so large however that there was ample room for the crowd to scatter and no one was injured No trace of the perpe trator of the deed has been found Since Saint Anacletus who was or dained by Peter himself erected an oratory in 90 A Df on the site of the basilica to marl the spot where the re mains of St Peter are buried no such dastardly occurrence is noted in the annals of the church St Peters is the greatest basilica in Christendom It took U50 years in the building and stands as a result of the efforts of forty three popes and the genius of Michael Angelo Braman te and Rafael- The commission of such an outrage in such a place has called forth unlimited condemnation and is characterized as proving that the perpetrators of the crime were ac tuated by feelings morse than those which moved the vandals and the Sar acens The theory- is held that this at tempt was -not directed against the papacy but rather a challenge to so ciety in general by attacking religion the most sacred institution of the people Hearst Got Kuourli San Antonio Tex R Hearst recently democratic candidate for governor- cf New York was here at noon Sunday for a few minutes on his way to Monterey where he has mining interests He is accompanied by the members of his family In dis cussing his course in reference to politics in New York he said I shall never again be a candidate However I shall continue to reside In New York Vnd advocate and-sup-port the principles of rerorm which I have always stood for but these principles are now sufficiently under stood by the general public for it to bo no longer necessary for me to be an candidate Dr Crapsey Out Buffalo The Rev Dr Algernon S Crapsey of St Andrews Episcopal church Rochester is condemned to suspension from the church a3 a re sult of the decision of the ecclesiasti cal court of review which was made public Monday The court of review sus tains the decision of the lower court which was that Dr Crapsey should be suspended for heretical teachings More Pay for Hvpress IinpSoj ex New York The wages of employ es of the American Express com pany who are paid less than 200 a month were increased 10 per cent beginning Thursday 10000 em ployes are affected Receiver for Insurance Company Freeport 111 The German In surance company which reinsured hi the Royal tf Liverpool last week was placed in the hands ot a receiver Monday the Chicago Trust Title company being named Hotel J3nest Rum Regina Manitoba The Hotel Windson the largest in this city was destroyed by fire Monday tand five people were burned to death- There were C5 guests in the hotel at the time of the fire MAY NOT DISMISS NEGROES ficers may be called on for an explana tion in connection with the movements of these men at the time the Browns ville incident occurred SOUTHWEST BLIZZARD day night it was almost impossible to make headway along the streets The Colorado Southern railroad reports the storm extending into the Panhan dle of Texas The Santa Fe reports blizzard along its line clear to Kings ley Kan In northern New Mexico the blizzard is the worst Heavy loss in sheep and cattle in New Mexico territory and this section of Colorado are almost certain to occur All trains are running hours behind schedules and there was no prospect of an abate ment of the storm Sunday night FORTY LIVES LOST ViiMsensrer Stenaner Dix Sunk in Ket Sound Immediately After Collision ivitli Another Aresuel Seattle Wash The Sound steam er Dix and the Alaska steamer Teanie collided Sunday night in Puget Sound Forty persons on the Dix were drowned Of the 79 or 80 per sons aboard the Dix- more than half were on the loyer deck when the collision occurred They were penned in there and had absolutely no chance for their lives One 15-year-old girl of all the sur vivors is known to have made her way from the lower deck and to have escaped with her life All the mem bers of the crew save Captain Ler mond who happened to be above in his fare collecting round and a deck hand went down with their steamer So far as is known every one who managed to get free from the wreck was saved Teronic to Suppress tinmulliia New York A warning to gam blers that they wil bo prosecuted to the extent of the law and that a bill will be introduced in the legis lature at the next session to repeal the present law which permits betting at race tracks was given Friday by District Attorney Jerome in the su preme court Oil Men Demand Keduetion Chicago A demand by the inde pendent oil dealers of the entire coun try that the Eastern railroads make a reduction of nearly 40 per cent in the rates of petroleum and its pro ducts was refused here Friday at a meeting of the Central Freight asso ciation and the oil men declare they will take their case before the inter state commerce commission An in vestigation of the matter will be sought and the dealers declare their demands will be crantfid Thp marls I offered a reduction of 10 per cent INSTPETERSATROME Ancient Church Was Crowded But ITo Damage Resulted Biiersetle Protests Cause War Te lmrlmeiil to Investigate Browns ville Jneidciit lilore Closely Washington D Acting under orders of Secretary Taft Major Gen- i eral Ainsworth the- military secretary has directed that further discharges of the men of the three negro com panies of tho Twenty fifth infantry on account of the shooting at Browns ville Texas he suspended pending fur ther order The action it was stated Monday night is in order to await the return of Secretary Taft to Washing ton Tuesday and is pending further advices from President Roosevelt who has been communicated with on the subect The war department has been deluged with protests against the order directing the discharge of the I WilCSi TO DISSOLVE STANDARD OIL United States Government Takes In itial Step by Filing Suit It jXhUs Taut Combination ot TO Cor partition Uc Declared Unlawful and Knjoined from Couliiniti St Louis Mo The United States government Thursday made the ini tial move to dissolve the Standard Oil so called monopoly by filing in the United States district court in St Louis a petition in equity against the Standard Oil company or New Jersey and its seventy constitu ent corporations and partnerships and seven defendants induing John D Rockefeller and William Rockefeller asking that the combination be de clared unlawful and in the future en joined from entering into any con tract or combination in restraint of trade The suit is brought under the Sherman anti trust act which the Standard and its constitutent compa nies and the seven individuals defend ants are charged with violating In a formal statement by Attorney Gen eral Moody he says that criminal pros ecution is reserved for future ccn sideration The investigation into methods pur sued by the Standard Oil company be gan early in 1903 and the results were laid before congress last May by Pros- ident Roosevelt who accompanied the report by a special message denounc ing the apparent methods pursued The president asserted at the time that suits would be instituted in the United States courts to abolish the combination and the filing of the suit marks the initial step GREAT FLOOD DAMAGE leoile Ua e Keen Driven From Their Houses in tite River Valley anil Sufler jniv UosHlla Seattle Wabli Homeless and suf fering from hunger and exposure and in hourly dread that the rising wa ters will overwhelm them thousands of residents of the fertile valleys ly ing between Seattle and Tacoma are camping in the foothills nearby with what few provisions and effects they could carry in a hurried flight Six deaths have been thus far chronicled as due to the floods which three companies It was reported j have foloved the r i rise o tho Momlay night that a further inrestiga J river R anfl pcrce colmtics tion will be made and that certain of Three of the men who met death in the floods were trying their utmost to prevent log jams that would en danger the residents of the towns fur ther down the river P W Killmer of Auburn was the first to lose his life while working en a jam in lle TtTi zt rr iii - A iiiiifiiii Snow Storm Prevnilcil in j nver 1 wo Otlier loggers WHO Coioraiio Xortiicrn Aw Mexieo j werc working for the Decker Lumber company trying to break ctmt western Kan jams and names are were Trinidad Colo The worst j drowned in the Green river three zard experienced here in a decade was nillej5 fl03n Auburn rasinjr Sunday ntehL The storm mcK unuc Green cedar stuck started Saturdav and eraduallv crew Snoqualniie and other streams having in severity until Sunday when it as sumed the proportions of a blizzard in creasing in severity each hour Sun their source in the fool hills of ths Cascade mountains have risen over night and have flooded thousands of acres of land and caused incalculable damage How many farmers families have lost some member through the rapid advances of the treacherous waters will not be known until the waters subside All the valley towns are under water the depth ranging from eight to 20 feet Railroad communication has been cut and the towns canno be reached except by messages over the long distance telephone wires With the water already standing on the streets at such a depth that it id no longer safe for resident to remain in the first stories of their houses the mn are organizing in each town and either removing the helpless ones to the second stories or carrying taem away to places of safety Floods DiimRX d Itatlroada Tacoma Wash Reports from Roslyn state that fully 200 feet of the Northern Pacifics two mile tunnel through the Cascade mountains has fallen in as a result of the recent floods Additional sections of track are still falling into the water at the Cowlitz river On the line over the mountians the tie up of trains may last a week or ten days Rivers have changed their courses and have adopt ed the railroad cuts on both side3 of the Cascades for channels piobably permanently A Xew Canal Zone Order Washington D C An order signed on the Isthmus of Panama by President Roosevelt making radical changes in the organization of affairs fn government for the canal zone was made public monday at the offices of the commission The effect of the order is to place the canal work and the government of the zone under the direction of Chairman Shonts aided by chiefs of bureaus who will report directly to the commission thus elim inating the office of governor Want evp Treaty with Japan San Jose Calif In an inter view Congressman E A Hays said I expect to introduce a reso lution at the coming session of con gress asking the president to enter into negotiations with Japan for the purpose of making a new treaty be tween the two countries to settle this question of Japanese immigration in somewhat the same manner as we settled the question with China which I believe to be the only sure way of preventing serious trouble and per- j tap3 war with japan -- fc x FADS AND HOBBIES OF ACTORS Hew Stag Folk Spend Their Spare Time The majority of actors have some fad or hobby and in no way is this shown more than in their favorite amusement Julia Marlowe is a great reader- and has a hobby for collecting books This love of books led her to take lessons one summer in bookbind ing Ethel Harryniore has a pas sion for old lace and beautiful furs Siic is fond of all kinds of outdoor sports and prefers tennis The book Maude Adams prizes most is Vecel iio on Costume which was published lu 1598 Francis Wilson is an inveterate reader and has over 12000 books He is an enthusiast over pictures be cause as he says of the story they tell fie has a collection of auto graphs of nearly all tho celebrities in art history and literature When George Cohan is not acting writing a play composing a new song or staging a piece he is talking base ball There are not two people that are more suited to each other than Mary Mannering and her husband James K Hackett They both love to travel abroad and when they are at FATHER DIDNT KNOW Story of a Parents Sad Mistake Told by Camille Clifford Camille Clifford who is going to marry Hon Henry Bruce is a Ger mantown girl said a New York man ager In Philadelphia though sho used to be much admired there no one ever thought that in London she would achieve fame Yet in London Camille Clifford with her gowns all made in one piece her gowns that fit like a silk stock ing has been famous for some years ami there are many Englishmen who will envy Lord Aberdares son hi bride Miss Clifford when I last saw hc talked of Lord Aberdares opposition to the match She did not think this opposition would last long Apro pos of it she told me a little story story that she is going to work u into a play for she has literary as pirations She said there wa3 a certain girl whose parents objected strongly to her sweetheart The parents found in this girls pockelbook one night a love letter and wild with rage they summoned her before them What kind ot a letter do you call this the old father demanded home there is nothing they like bet ter than roughing it in the woods fishing and hunting Mrs Fiske is fond of tres and old fashioned flow ers Blanche Walsh has a tad for collecting Indian curios John Drew is devoted to his horses His greatest pleasure is riding with his daughter His deep regard for both is shown in the fact that he al ways has with him a picture or her that is framed in a steel racing plate which a favorite mare of Mr Drews wore when she won a race Blanche Bates spends most of her salary on horses and dogs She has nine horses and It dogs Marie Bates has a hand some aviary in which are many night ingales and canaries Henry Dixeys pet hobby is his farm Much of the leisure time of Robert Edeson is spent in painting When free from her stage work Vir ginia Harned likes nothing better than to go to Stratford-on-Avon and as she says bask and vegetate Viola Allen reads ai the good fiction of the day Hackett Sees a Joke James K Hackett who is at pres ent in London says he found one funny story in a recent number of Punch Here it is An old boy who had just recovered from a hard since met a pal and was telling him about it It was awful he said Im all right now but for moren a week there were big green beetles with canary bird heads crawling all over me Hold on yelled the other old soak brushing at his shoulder you aint got over it yet Theres one of the blamed things now Phonograph Aids Actress Julia Marlowe is taking dancing les sons with the aid of a phonograph In the production of Johannes vie has the role of Salome which calls for a dance In order to get the music she desires and not to have a pianist with her for all the time the actress had the music for the Salome dance put on her phonograph ing at his daughter over his specta cles Listen to it Light of my life Light of his life Faugh But papa Not a word the old man inter rupted And he goes on I could nob sleep all night long love for thinking of you Liar said the mother Fool and liar to write so Then the lunatic says continued the father he says How happy wo would be if only that pig headed narrow-minded old fool of adad of your would give his consent The villain said the mother Would I trust my daughters fn tare said the father to any man who was base enough to speak like that But papa if youll look Not a word If youll only look papa at the date Oct 2 1S72 Then a light dawned on him and he gasped Why mother bless my heart if one of my own letters to you 7Yu SaW the youa SM I found it in the cedar chest yesterdav rd mK1 ou long ago but wouldn t let me speak yoit ABOUT STAGE FOLK A new musical farce by Glen Mc Donousb bearing the title Too Near ruy W1H be Produced by the VU1 J Block company with The casT the f6atUrea member Brownings Pippa PaSSes wltu Mrs Sarah Coweli Le Moyne as ot tima and Monsignenr had its first Performance at the Lyric thea erNow 9 Mabel Taliartern0011 Nb Beach 8U1POlt incIUdert wlo hisRdebut fe3D ViU Short Ae debut as an essayist He has al seeveri11SPlaye1 ande t several one act plays and now accepted the offer of w5L a magazine for a JLJ f Slh0 trasting the commercia artSE Inspects of the theater V Y1 t a j f r 1 4 t S K H at