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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
NEW MINISTER FROM SWEDEN - i a V rfTzv Wmfe t tSj6 ifc i m CoiiyrlRht by Waldon Kawcctt Herman d3 Lagercrantz the recently appointed Swedish minister to the United States firmly established his popularity with the president imme diately upon his arrival in this country when jt became known that he was the father of seven children President Roosevelt told him that he had the right kind of credentials to make him an acceptable minister to any country on earth Before entering the diplomatic service of his country he was en gaged in the iron industry and was president of a railroad D U lilriL IS A MOST EXPENSIVE UNQER TAKING IN CHINA More Than 4200000 Will be Expend ed in Rites Over Late Emperor Obsequies of Empress Dow ager Just as Costly Pjkin The Chinese empire will ex pend more than 4200000 in the burial rites of the late emperor and dowager empress of the Celestial kingdom be fore the Confucian law and the an cient precedents governing the burial of Chinese royalty are complied with The religion and all Chinese usage is founded on respect for the -dead and to the western observer the lavish expenditure of money attendant on the taking of the body of Emperor Kwang Hsu from the Forbidden City -to the coal hill mortuary with all its pomp and splendor was nothing short of the grotesque For a week the body of the dead emperor rested in state in the room in the palace reserved especially for that purpose by the Chinese court Be fore his remains could be removed the law demanded that every piece of his personal property must be destroyed Priceless silks furs gems art works of which the emperor was intensely fond during his life were assigned to the flames This was done at the cost of a fortune while the destruction of the vast personal effects of the Dow ager empress will entail an expendit ure of doubly as much Brilliant barbaric and weird was the progress of the cortege through the streets of Pekin the other day The procession was led by Prince Chun the regent while the baby em peror had a prominent position in the line Thousands of soldiers ministers of state priests and prominent civilians marched to the coal hill while my riads of mourners bowed their heads in the dust as the body was borne by At mortuary hill the remains will lie in state until the imperial- sepulcher is prepared The dowager empress will be buried in the spring when her mausoleum shall have been completed Her ob sequies will cost as much as thoso of the emperor A vast collection of priceless furs and other personal prop erty belonging to her was incinerated in her palace two days ago The funeral observances were no table for a strange admixture of an cient Chinese custom with western forms and practices a fact that shows the progress made in recent years of modernizing the system of procedure for imperial interments handed down from oygone generations The fact that many of the old gro tesque funeral forms that have been observed for centuries were to day ig nored as utterly unsuited to modern conditions has brought out much local criticism of the government but in spite of this the throne has ordered the grand council to consider another memorial looking to the alteration of existing funeral observances to con form to modern methods SOCIETY UNIONS ON DECLINE Country Shows Falling Off of Seven Per Cent During Year New York Marriages among per sons in New York who are socially prominent are on the decline accord ing to statistics based on names ap pearing in the Social Register for 1909 just out A decrease of 20 per cent over last jears marriages is shown for New York city with a general fall ing off of approximately seven per cent throughout the country Pittsburg was an exception with 6D social marriages this year as against 05 last year and Chicago was sta tionary with 135 Compilers of statistics declare the financial depression was responsible for the decrease The figures in New York for last year were 7G3 and for 3908 only GG2 Philadelphias weddings dropped from 242 to 224 and Boston from 1G7 to 147 St Louis recorded only 98 for 190S as against 131 for 1907 but San Francisco showed an in crease from 81 to 119 In Baltimore there was a decrease from 11G to 99 in St Paul from G7 to 59 and in Minne apolis from 29 to 27 Southern cities as a whole showed no appreciable change FARMERS USE OAT INCUBATORS Poultry Raisers Have a New Way of Providing Food for Chickens Morocco Ind Farmers near here have a new device in connection with the raising of poultry It is called the oat incubator The outfit is simple and original consisting of a number of crates one above the other with nine inches of space between On the bot tom of each crate layers of burlap are placed and on the top crate water is poured each morning The water soaks the oats and then drops from one crate to the other Under the influ ence of artificial heat the oats sprout and grow rapidly the green tender shoots making excellent food for chick ens during the winter - months A bucketful of oats will make five buck etfuls of green food Poultry raisers who have tried the oat incubator are enthusiastic in its praise - v W2 1 -- L frl - mri - ar iv YsZtS ItftliVl Sr ESiSt3SsLL m bur Iftunl ED ouLU FAMOUS CONSTITUTION TO BE BROKEN UP FOR JUNK Was Built to Race Liptons Shamrock II 25000 Worth of Various Metals and Material in the Craft New York A few days ago marked the passing of another American cup yacht The famous Constitution predecessor of the Reliance was sold to Edward S Reiss Co by the American Cup Defender association the syndicate which built her of which August Belmont was the head She will be broken up for junk like Thomas W Lawsons Independence Liptons Shamrock II and other cele brated racers The Constitution is high and dry in he yard of the Thames Railway Company in New London Conn where she has been since her last race with the Reliance in 1903 She will be cut in four sections each of which will be put on a lighter with a derrick and brought down the sound and East river to the foot ot Broad street There everything in her construction will be broken up and sold There is 25000 worth of so called junk in the yacht There are 100 tons of lead 30 tons of bronze 25 tons of steel 20 tons of sails and 20 tons of miscellaneous materials in cluding anchors and chains Mr Reiss has bought nearly a score of famous yachts in a few years Some he has sent south and sold for tarpon fishing and others whose bones were getting brittle he has broken up In cases where their years have not told on them their size has kept them idle in some shipyard A cup defender is an expensive play thing because of the large crew re quired to man her The Vigilant and Colonia were changed into schooners which require less of a crew than a sloop of equal size but neither is as large as the Constitution The Con stitution measures 89 feet six inches on the surface of the water but from her bow to her stern she is 132 feet long She has a beam of 25 feet two inches a draught of 19 feet seven inches and has 19 feet of depth SISTERS WEDDED ON DARE Double Nuptials in Early Morn Result of Cousins Proposal Sioux Falls S D George Sweet of Gregory and Miss Minnie Austim and Guy Stearns of Ottumwa S D and Miss Sadie Austin were the principals in a romantic double wedding which was the result of a dare on the part of the young men The brides are sis ters and are the daughters of Mr and Mrs Azariah Austin of Iona The grooms are cousins The wedding fol lowed a midnight journey from the extreme southern part of Lyman coun ty to the county seat at Oacoma It appears the two young men were vis iting the sisters and during the eve ning made the daring jest that the sisters had not the nerve to accom pany them to the county seat at once and be married The sisters called the bluff accepting the dare and the four started out at once on the long and dangerous journey to Oacoma arriving at that place at three oclock in the morning The great diificulty and dan ger in making the crossing of White river in the darkness added zest to the occasion After their arrival at Oacoma there was a tedious wait for the clerk of courts to appear and issue the necessaiy license After this was se cured the services of Rev N H May were engaged and the marriage cere mony was performed WIFE OF MINISTER FROM SWEDEN HprEiBs Warn - IM B y V t mmy ZX vvS jf Livfevi XE8S3LZ L T7V6T ra arrtw30jummjaMivjB giiwt Copyrijht by Waldon Fawcett Mme de Lagercrantz vifc cf the new minuter frc r Zuzizu to the Lrt21 States is one of the moct dslighiful wemen in the dipionsatlccircies of the capital and bids fair to be one of the most popular hostesses in- Vachin2t0n with the opening of the social season nrtemi H IH Hi lul JA jna in JfvH BL STm iniedDeeki jft IR Sn H 1 li 1 R A jjLMy i m Ink I XLiSk yLdBbJBk ffmM z x - vyr svrf -5 ARIZONA SEZKS ITS PRBSEgffillffl DY lMllUll IfeS Tjfe VIEW MAI tBmi twin buttes mm iimim wells If present plans do not miscarry and if the people of Arizona are per mitted to have their way a little cor ner of the Painted desert equal to two townships in area will soon be de clared a national monument and set aside for preservation forever In its present condition for the use and en joyment of the whole people There is no more beautifully indefi nite term in American geography than the Painted desert There are rail road maps that confine the name to a narrow strip of territory along the Little Colorado river but anyone fa miliar with the southwest knows that there are at least a half score of other regions of equal or greater extent fully as deserving of the title George Wharton James defines the Painted desert region as extending from the Rio Grande west to the Calico moun tains the Salton sea the Mojave des ert Its northern limits are some where among the plateaus of southern Utah while its southern boundary must be sought somewhere down in northern Mexico It includes the Col orado desert the Grand canyon the Mongollon plateau the Tonto basin the Verdi Hassayampa and Salt river valleys the Petrified forest and the Superstition mountains Not all of this vast region is desert in character and only a relatively small portion of its desert expanses deserves to be de scribed as painted 1 Yet the conditions of color and bare ness that first suggested the name ex ist in places throughout this whole vast stretch of country Parts of it are as fertile as any of the worlds garden spots It contains some of the noblest virgin forests in America including a number of national forests aggregat ing many millions of acres in extent It is crossed by the Continental divide The lofty peaks of the San Francisco and San Mateo mountains as well as the lesser heights of the Zuni Super stition Mogollon Pinal and other ranges are within its borders It is crossed byone of the great rivers of America the Colorado and a hundred smaller streams such as the Little Col orado the Gila and Virgin rivers Bill Williams Fork and Havasu Walnut Oak Willow Diamond and Bluewater creeks drain other portions Portions of the desert area are mere wastes of natural sand but other portions are chaotic bad lands upon which the Master Painter of the universe has spread a divine harmony of color that shames the wildest flights of the ima gination Transcontinental travelers never fail to wonder at and admire the standing rocks red cliffs black lava precipices extinct volcanic craters and tall white walls that lend variety to the view the whole way from Isleta to Gallup West of the Colorado river the chocolate colored mountains and hills that shade from gray to black and from brown to crimson compel the notice of the least observant AH these are of the Painted desert but they are no more than tantalizing hints of the greater glories that lie beyond the car window perspective Most of those who forsake the Pull mans and ever after boast of a close view of the Painted desert inspect it only as an incident of a trip to the strange towns of the Hopi Indians a long and wearisome journey of a hun dred miles or more from Canyon Dia blo Winslow or Holbrook The por tions one sees on such a trip are not those most worthy of inspection for the wagon roads follow the lines of least resistance irrespective of the scenery Nevertheless no traveler over either route will ever forget the wide outlook over the gaudy super heated sands the fantastic sky lines the black grim volcanic craters and basalt cliffs the orange and carmine bad lands of the Painted desert Its coloring is as rich as that of the Grand canyon and more varied The prospect is limited only by the powers of human vision The winds and storms and rushing waters of ages have chiseled basalt clay and sand stone into Images columns monu ments towers and strange fantastic forms that have no names Irrespec tive of its coloring it would deserve to rank among the worlds wonders Yet its coloring is the greatest wonder of all Here may be seen a red wall 500 feet high and 100 miles long Yonder is a coal black cliff of hardened lava rising from a valley floor of snowy alkali From any vantage point one may survey a glowing landscape that shovs 100 shades of pink gray red chocolate carmine crimson mauve brown yellow and olive Near Indian Wells is a seemingly interminable line of tall rock sentinels all garbed in dif ferent hues on guard in this land of enchbiilment No wonder the Spanish explorers when they first beheld it more than 350 years ago named it Eft Pintado Desierto Nine miles north of Adamana is Dead River canyon from the rim of which one obtains a view of the Paint ed desert that can hardly be matched for scenic interest The drive re quires not more than two hours over a road that derives more than ordinary interest from the circumstance that it crosses the old Central Overland stage route the far western extension of the historic Santa Fe trail Although this has not been traversed for more than a quarter of a century the deep ruts worn by the wheels of the stage coaches freighting caravans and prai rie schooners of the emigrants bound for the far off land of gold in the excit ing years that began with 49 are still plainly visible v Just on the brink of the canyon is an ancient cedar tree the only one for miles around Tradition has it that here was the famous rendezvous and camping place of a band of despera does and cattle rustlers that terrorized this part of Arizona for many years Hence the spot is locally famous as the Robbers Roost To describe even the small portion of the Painted desert visible from Robbers Rocst is as hopeless as to describe an Arizona sunset As far as the eye can carry is a succession of buttes terraces and castellated hills that seem to display all the colors of the rainbow Pervading all is the mys tic purple haze of the arid lands that blends chaos itself into a symphony of color more celestial than of this sordid earth Away off to the northwest is a black flat topped mesa beyond which lies the land of the Hopi Indians To the north is1 the land of the Navajos the American Bedouins But this is desolation itself uninhabited even by the hardy tribes that find in the desert a congenial home At ones feet is the sandy boulder strewn bed of a forgot ten river whose healing flow ceased ages ago when this gorgeous land of thirst bore a far different aspect green with tropic vegetation and melo dious with the songs of birds From the parched desolation rise shimmer ing heat waves so that one shrinks from the descent into the canyon as from a fiery furnace However it is not as bad as it looks A circuitous path leads to the canyon floor over glittering beds of gypsum and thick deposits of mineral paint Near the bottom the edge of a vast de posit of silicified wood is reached This is not the famous Petrified forest of Arizona which is 15 miles south but in many respects it is not less wonderful Officially it is known as the North Sigillaria forest It is pro posed to set aside 72 square miles of it as a national monument that it may be forever preserved as a public pos session If ones eyes be sharp he may find many strange and curious things min gled with the sand silex and rock fragments There are corals and the fossil bones of fishes that disported themselves in ocean depths when this lofty Arizona plateau was far below sea level There are the fossilized re mains of prehistoric birds animals and reptiles for which science has not yet invented names On a larger scale are a thousand freaks of erosion the work of sandstorm and rainstorm of wind water frost snow heat and all the irresistible forces of nature Yonder stands a host of gigantic silent stone figures some of almost angelic beau ty and others diabolic in their gro tesqueness among which Colorados Garden of the Gods might be lost and passed by unnoticed so numerous are the greater wonders The safest way of not being miser able is not to expect to be happy SAMMYS FEELINGS o 3Bk AC II- yBL p fcjBMfc Sammy said his mean uncle how 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