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Andrce who left
Dimes Island Spits
bergen in a bal
loon on July 11
1S97 with two com
panions and has
never been hoard
from since Walter
Well ma n a news
paper correspond
ent has spent many
WfJllv mmitlia fun
waitor wcm man
mnuy 1Il01IBandB of
dollars of the Chicago Kccord IIeraIds
money in preparation for a second
quest of the north pole by airship
Three men and twelve dogs will share
the perils of the expedition and the
spot chosen for the start is the very
spot where Andree and his compan
ions waved their farewell Wei I mans
airship the America carries gasoline
sufficient to run its three motors until
the craft lias covered 2700 sea miles
or more than twice the round trip dis
tance between Spitsbergen and the
coveted pole The America is 183 feet
long G feet high and 525 feet wide
and is one of the largest strongest and
most expensive dirigible balloons ever
built Its total weight when fully
equipped with men and supplies is
22840 pounds and from it will hang
a leather sausage guide rope 130
feet long packed with over 1000
pounds of bacon ham bread and but
ter This odd contrivance which will
trail along oxer the ice floes was de
vised to check the speed of the airship
and at the same time furnish an addi
tional supply of food In case Well
man and his party are stranded near
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AMERICA
the pole because of disaster to their
airship they will push on toward their
goal with a complete sledging outfit
drawn by Siberian dogs or make a
dash for civilization The Spitzbergen
group of islands is 504 miles north
east of Norway and is owned by Rus
sia
Dr W H Wiley the government
chemist and former Senator Thurston
of Nebraska went out to the Columbia
Golf club to piay golf Wiley started
off gayly from the first tee He topped
his drive and the ball rolled into the
bunker Wiley began beating the ball
with a niblick He couldnt get it out
At the fifteenth stroke his caddy light
ed a cigarette sat down on the grass
and said Well anyway it is a fine
day
Governor Edwin Warfield of Mary
land is credited with a distinct ambi
tion to go to the United States senate
Should that ambition be achieved dur
ing the present administration there
will be at each end of Pennsylvania
avenue one of the best horsemen in
the country President Roosevelts
horsemanship is well known Gov
ernor Warfield who has passed much
of his life on the
farm in connection
with his great es
tate of 800 acres is
so proud of his
ability to sit a live
ly steed that once
when a Baltimore
newspaper stated
that the Hon Ed
win Warfield had
been thrown from EDWIN wabeield
his horse he called up the editor by
telephone at once and said
That was Edwin Warfield Jr who
was thrown from his horse if you
please The horse does not live that
can throw Edwin Warfield Sr
Governor Warfield belongs to one of
the oldest of Maryland families The
family fortune was impaired during
the civil war and the reconstruction
period and the future governor was
compelled to look out for himself to a j
considerable extent He was a store
clerk a country schoolteacher and the
editor of a paper in a small town Lat
er he became a resident of Baltimore
got into the banking business and be
came a man of wealth His fine estate
he farms thoroughly employing many
negroes
Governor Warfield once remarked at
a high school commencement that in
his opinion girls should not marry un
til they reached the age of twenty six
He was severely censured for trying
to create a race of spinsters but the
governor valiantly stuck to his thesis
and argued against early marriages
for either men or women
Representative Morris Sheppard of
Texas was declaiming one day In the
house against the distribution of seeds
by the government He contended that
It Is a useless wasteful and altogether
deplorable practice
Why said Representative Shep
pard the people do not care for thn
Reeds I scut some to a constituent
last year A time ago I received a let
ter which said the man had the seedn
T had sent him and didnt want any
more Instead lie wrote if you real
ly want to do something for me I wish
you would send me a suit of this new
fangled union underwear
Among white children the Teddy
bear doll Is a thing of quite receut
date but there is a tribe of American
Indian children to whom the bear
dolly though of course not exactly the
Teddy kind is very ancient These
are the children of the Mokis in north
central Arizona The Mold Indians
form one of the most interesting tribes
we have They have rites and cere
monies dating back no doubt to pre
historic times
At tlie several annual dances and
ceremonial affairs of these Indians
some of the men appear in strange and
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TEDDY I3EA11S OF THE MOKI GIltLB
fantastic costumes Each costume
represents some mystic idea One
man for instance comes out dressed
as a boar Another is in a wolfs garb
These are the bear god and the wolf
god The latter is one of the deities i
of war The bear god also serves some
mysterious purpose in the primitive j
belief of those people j
There are little bears and wolves
and other animals of miniature size
carved out of the roots of the cotton
wood tree This tree has a sacred
character because it grows near water
the scarcest and most precious article
in that sun parched country When
the big folks get through with the ani
mal dollies they give them to the f
dren for playthings hence the pre
Teddy bears shown in the picture
United States District Attorney
Charles B Morrison of the northern
district of Illinois is one of the gov
ernments lawyers who are concerned in
the so called immunity bath enjoyed
by E H Harriman and the Chicago
and Alton railroad officials Attorney
Morrison prosecuted for the govern j
ment in the case wherein the Standard
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af
Oil company was
fined 29240000 for
accepting rebates
from the Chicago
and Alton The of
ficials of that road
turned states evi
dence it being un
derstood that in
consideration of
such assistance the I
road would not be
prosecuted
District Attorney
Morrison has had
much experience in
government service
ciiakles b mob- as a prosecutor He i
bison ci0sen to con 1
duct the famous beef trust Inquiry of
two years ago a distinction earned
by long service as district attorney j
to which office he was appointed in
1S9S
Mr Morrison has resided in Illinois
from early boyhood He is an east
erner by birth In 1S7S he was gradu
ated from the Union College of Law in
Chicago and began practice at Dixon
1111 He served two terms as state
attorney for Lee county
The lawyer who has been selected to
be Harry K Thaws chief counsel in
the next trial of Stanford Whites slay
er is Martin W Littleton of Brooklyn
Mr Littleton is only thirty five years
old and possesses enthusiasm enough
to supply several average men His
career is one that is possible only in
America
Born in Tennessee Littleton was
taken to Texas in early boyhood
There he grew up without schooling
save for a seven
months term He
worked as a farm
hand and later as
a railroad track
man He read and
studied in his lei
sure time to such
an extent that he
was admitted to
the bar before he
was twenty one
Texas though
the biggest state in
the Union appar
ently was not large
enough to satisfy
S P y3fii
MARTIN W LIT
TLETON
the vaulting ambition of young Little
ton He removed to Brooklyn shortly
after beginning law practice He got
into politics being a Democrat and
soon was making stump speeches
throughout the state
This placed him in line for office and
In 1903 at the age of thirty one Mr
Littleton was elected president of the
borough of Brooklyn for the term of
two years At the Democratic nation-
al convention in St Louis in 1904 Mr I
Littleton was selected to place Judge
Alton B Parker In nomination Some
time after the election Littleton was
Introduced to President Roosevelt in
this fashion
Mr President permit me to intro
duce the man who elected you
Indeed said the president And
how was that
He nominated Parker
A BOY PIONEER
Joseph Watts Fatoful Journey to Ore
gon In 1844
In li44t when emigrants from the
middle states were going lo make
homes in Oregon many young boys
joined the pioneers and made the hard
journey over the plains and moun
tains One of these lads Joseph Watt
of Missouri Is described by the author
of McDonald of Oregon He was
about seventeen years of age and was
employed to drive cattle He walked
most of the way to his new home
I have borrowed 250 Joe to fit
you out his father had said at part
ing and with that the young man
had bought pair of boots and invest
ed the rest In pins and fishhooks to
trade with the Indians But new
boots He slung them over his rifle
and put on moccasins
At a certain point in the journey
away back on Burnt river the man
for whom Joe was driving said You
had better leave us and hurrj on into
Oregon Provisions are getting scarce
We shall need all there is for the chil
dren
All right I can taKe care of my
self Without a morsel of food Joe
Watt and Elisha Bowman struck out
with their rifles and Joes boots
If we could only eat the boots
sighed Joe Bare to the knees from
continually cutting off his trousers to
mend his moccasins he strode through
the lacerating sagebrush
How are you going to get down
inquired the boatman when every
other eager passenger had piled on
the Hudson Bay bateau sent up bj Dr
McLoughlin Alone on the shore stood
Joe Watt How are you going to get
down
I dont know
Have you any provisions
No nothing
Can you sing or tell yarns
Yes both
Very well climb on to the bow of
that boat So they started
Well figurehead pipe up was the
present demand
With sad and solemn eyes without
a smile Joe sang and told stories
Everybody laughed The weary emi
grants needed entertainment and Joe
was a born comedian
The doctor was building a flour mill
at the falls and with some misgivings
Joe was engaged as a carpenter At
night he slept In the shavings The
first pay day he was rich With 12
In hand clothes soap Hudson Bay
blankets were his
Never blankets felt so soft Passing
his hand thoughtfully over the wool
within sound of the potential falls a
great Idea came into the heart of Jo
seph Watt I will build woolen mills
on this Pacific coast Years later the
boy fulfilled this resolve Youths Com
panion
The Hawaiian Alphabet
There are but twelve letters in the
Hawaiian alphabet These with their
pronunciations are A ah e a o o
as in ho u oo h hay k kay 1
la m moo n noo p pay and w
vay The missionaries added a thir
teenth t but the natives wont have
it and continue to pronounce for in
stance the name of the root from
which poi is made kara although the
missionaries have it tara Every
vowel in a wrord is distinctly sounded
except that the vowels ai are sounded
i as In English Waikiki the beach
in Honolulu is properly pronounced
Vikeekee There is a great differ
ence in the speech of the high and low
caste natives The first call their is
land group and the lat
ter begin it all right with Ha but
conclude with a guttural grunt and
the word heard most Aloha sounds
soft and beautiful on the lips of the
first but is a lazy good natured grunt
as the latter speak it Aloha is in
their limited vocabulary at once a
greeting and farewell a formal ex
pression of regard and of deep love
In the latter case it Is increased in
warmth and depth of meaning by
modifying adjectives annexed instead
of prefixed as Aloha nui Aloha
nui loa or even Aloha nui loa kea
and then it is time to speak to papa
Fans From a Fishs Fins
Curious little fans are made from
the pectoral fins of the fish known as
the sea robin The sea robin is not
a very large fish but its pectoral tins
are large in proportion to its size and
In nature they suggest fans from the
manner in which the fish opens and
closes them The pectoral fins of the
smaller sea robins are marked with
brown those of the larger fishes with
maroon beautifully shaded The fins
have many rays or ribs In making a
fan the fin is first stretched out on a
board to dry A large fin will make a
fan about six inches in breadth The
rays spread out in it as the split bam
boo strips do in a Japanese fan ex
cept that the rays are tapering and
they are mucli slenderer and more deli
cate When the fin is dry it is mount
ed as a fan and when it has been
thus completed it is dipped in varnish
The varnish not only brings out the
colors but it serves also as a pre
servative Thus treated the fan will
last for years
Sentient Alarm Clocks
Devil dogs are a species of alarm
clock used in Greece for the purpose of
keeping persons awake such as watch
men stage drivers and railroad men
They are generally small black dogs
Should the person whom the devil
dog is detailed to keep awake be a
stage driver the dog is strapped to a
little stool beside him and throughout
the journey he keeps up a sharp bark
ing often causing the passengers to
keep awake as well as the driver
At times he will pause for a minute
or two to moisten his parched rasped
throat at the basin of water set before
him and then begin again
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ORDER OF HEARING
State of Nebraska Red Willow county In
the county court To all persons interested in
the estate of Hiram C Plumb late of said
county deceased
You are hereby notified that on tho 2nd day of
September lJ07 Ellen Plumb filed her petition
in tho county court of said county for tho ap
pointment of T E McDonald as administrator
of the estate of Hiram C Plumb late of said
county deceased and that tho same will bo
heard at the county court room in the city of
McCook in said county on the 23rd day of Sep
tember 1907 at the hour of one oclock p m
It is further ordered that notico of said hear
ing be given all persons interested in said estate
by the publication of this notico for three suc
cessive weeks in the McCook Tribune a news
paper printed published and circulated in said
county
Dated this 2nd day of September 1907
seal J C Moore County Judge
No 8823
NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION
Treasury Department
Office of Comptroller of tho Currency
Washington D C August 5th 1907
Whereas By satisfactory evidence presented
to tho undersigned it has been made to appear
that THE McCOOK NATIONAL BANK in
the City of McCook in tho County of Red Wil
low and State of Nebraska has complied -with
all tho provisions of the Statutes of tho United
States required to be complied with before an
association shall be authorized to commence
the business of Banking
Now Therefore I Thomas P Kane Deputy
and Acting Comptroller of the Currency do
hereby certify that THE McCOOK NATIONAL
BANK in the City of McCook in the County
of Red Willow and State of Nebraska is auth
orized to commence the business of Banking as
provided in Section Fifty one hundred and sixty
nine of the Revised Statutes of the United
States
In Testimony Whereof witness my hand
and seal of this ofiico this Fifth day of August
1907 T P KANE
j official I Deputy and Acting Comp-
seal f troller of the Currency
First August 9 1907 Last October 11 1907
Hairbrushes
An experienced hand will by touch
tell if a broom or brush be all hair or
a mixture but if ever in doubt pull
out or cut off a suspicious hair and
apply a match However well doctor
ed the deception will be shown at
once Hairs will burn rolling up ball
like with the well known smell of
burned hair while a vegetable substi
tute -will consume leaving the charred
portion like a burned match
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