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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1904)
T _ _ - - , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . RUSH TO GET LAND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND WOMEN . EN FILE ON TRACTS. ORDER PREVAILS EVERYWHERE Crowds nt the Lend Office Stand In Line All Night In Order to De on Hand In the Morning-Miss Pitts Gets First Chance. SIDNEY , Neb.-1'ho streets packed ( with people from everywhere , anywhere - where and all other directions charnc- tel'lzCl the opening hero of the land Lo settlement unl1er the new Klnlmld homestead 1)111. The gradual gather- lug of 11001110 for several days past preparatory to the opening steadily grew until with last evonlng's gor- geous setting of time Western Nebras- 1m sun there hud assembled In Sidney an approximation of ,000 land 10' caters. As denser feB the shades of the Sidney night , so also closer grew the ranks and lines of the Cheyenne h01l108eol\01'8. Bed > were an utter impossibility , and the future settlers coalesced Into long and serried columns , which occupied - cupied city streets .and sidewalks , these 00111l1\I1R reaching from cuuurbs to the night-closed doors of the cen- trally located hUlll olllco In the Ohm'- feldeI' hloclt The night hours passed rapidly with the jollity of agreeable concourse and comradeship and the jubilance of the next dny's nssurnnco of the ownership of wide and rIch ncres. The dawn broadened to the daylight and the daylight hurst Into the sun- light Wllh the rising of the sun the long line of waiting homeseel\Crs steadied themselves anew , and with the opening of the land ofllco doors at 1) o'clock were apparently aR fresh as if f they had counted no long and weary periods of the wailing night. Dllrlng the lagging hours of the _ darlt watches Miss Nettle Pitts had been a bright particular star , shedding u cheerful nnd constant radiance from ono end of the waiting line to the other , and when at last i time doors of the land office were open , she and her venerable father were , by a unanimous and hearty vote , given , irrespective of any rotation In the lIne of land locators - caters , the first two land filings In Cheyenne county under the new Kin- Imhl homestead law , Miss Pills quick- ly l filing on superb .ISOacre home- ' ; stead and her father at once following her with a .ISO.acro location. These two locations started the rush , and from then co to , I p. m. time filings fell thick and fast , running at times as high as one per minute , with 400 loca- tions registered for time day and a cash land office aggregate of $5,000. The locations ] of today wlll aggregate - _ gate 200,000 acres , while tomorrow will see the filing on of at least 150- 000 acres 1dltlona1. The third day will UO handsomely represented , and It is expected that these three I days of initial location tinder time Klnlmld homestead act will bring a total settlement - Uemont approximating iOOOOO [ acres in time Sidney land dlsLrict. Time Sidney land ofllco officials ex- I press the confident opinion that time work of locations ] of time first three days will uo continued on a sufficient scale ] to practically exhaust the entire 850,000 acres avallablo under the Kin- Imld land act In this district within time next three months. Bryan May Not Bolt Po : ker. PI'l'TSnUHG.-"Wllllam J. Bryan will not bolt his party ticket If Judge Parker Is nominated for president. Of -this I am confident , " declared oxSena- tor J. K. Jones national democratic ( chall'lllan , whllo In this city en route _ to the St. Louis convention. "As to what Mr. Bryan might tlo If 1\1' Cleveland - land Is nominated , 1 could nol say , hut I regard time nomination of Clevolmlll as little slIDl't of un impossible contin- gency. Outside of Judge Parker , 1\11' Hearst will have the greatest number - ot instructed t\ccgatC5. ] " . - - T - - - - - I WON BATTLE OF KINCHOU. - Japanese Commander Has Deserved Well of Hls Country. Gen. Okti , comnmamider of the army that took Klncliou , stormed 1'ao / / l 0/CU heights of Nanshan bill , and drove time Russians before it , is a veteran of time Cimino-Japaneso war and for several years was a member of time Mikado' & supreme military council. WESTERN CATTLE RAISERS. Order Promulgated In March Works a ' a Hardship. ASIlINGTON.-ny an order promulgated - mulgated In March uy the secretary o4 agriculture It Is required that all cattle west at time Mississippi river intended for shipment should le "dipped" In a preparation prescribed hy the department for the purpose of absolutely exterminating time skin d us- ardor , known as the mange , which has existed to a limited - ox tent for many years In that section. This order , If rigidly enforced , would require that all beef cattle , wheth.or affected by time mange 01' not , should UO dipped twice before shipment. As It has been found impossible to make prepa- rations and round up and dip the cattle within the limited time allowed , numerous petitions have reached time department praying for a relaxation of the order. Today a delegation up- Ileared before the secretary of agriculture , turo and later called on the president requesting the order to UO so modified so as to obviate time dipping of beef cattle before shlpm nt , and In lieu thereof to institute rigid government Inspection at the point of shipment before time cattle are loaded on the cars. Time delegation consisted of Former Senator Carter , Representa- tlvo Dixon and Hon. Conrad Kohrs of Montana : 1\11' Buell or the Union stock yards of Chicago and Joseph Rosen- baum , representing the Chicago commission - mission houses. The subject , which Is regarded as of time first Importance , wlll UO given careful consideration uy the president and Secretary 'Vilson. CABINET MEMBERS STEP OUT. Secretary Morton Will Not Get to Work as Soon as Others. WASHINGTON.-A ornoy General Knox and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Corteh'ou tool leave of their cabinet associates at Tuesday's meet- ing. The r successors , Secretary Moody and Victor H. 1\Ietcalf , are expected - , petted to take the oaths of their new offices Friday , tilt beginning of the new fiscal 'ear. Paul Morton , Secre- tm'y Moody's successor In time Navy department , probably will not assume time duties until next londay. I . 1\11' CorLeyou ] , while he leaves the cabinet , taking up the duties of the chairmanship of time republican national - Honal committee , wlll remain In close touch with time president and cabinet. He and Secretary Dover will have headquarters at the Arlington holel. Campaign headquarters wlll uo open ed In Now York and Chicago about August I , hut It Is not expected that the campaign work will uo In full operation - eration before September 1. . CLASH OF BATTLE I - INDICATIONS ARE THAT IT IS NEAR AT HAND. MAY r NOW BE IN PROGRESS General Kouropatkln Assumes Offensive - sive Against Oku and Kurold Is Mov- Ing-Belief that the Japanese Fleet Has Suffered Defeat. . 8'1' PETERSnUHG-Dispatchos received - celved here from 1'a Tche Klao Indicate - cate that both time Russian and Japanese - ese armies arc moving Into contact for n great bathe , which even now may be in In'ogress. General Kouropatldn Sunday assum- ed the 01Tensivo against General Olm , while General Kurold , from a position fourteen miles to the eastward , was moving against the Husslan flank ] at Hat Cllong. Not since the war began has such an air of excitement pervaded time war ofllco and admiralty. Time news received - celved during the next few days Is expected to largely determine the fate of time present campaign on land and sea. Time spirits of time Russians have appreciably risen at the prospect that after all the sortie of the squadron of Rear Admiral WItteof , In command of the naval forces at Port Arthur , while It may have resulted In the loss of some of the Russian ships , has been successful. A dispatch \ from Cho Fee Monday states that a Chi- neso junk reports having seen two big Japanese warships and several ] torpedo boats damaged on Friday near Port Arthur. 1'hls strengthens the belief hero that a great sea fight has occurred and that the Japanese , who are able , through wireless teleg- raphy , to be in constant communication - lion with their base , are w'ithholdlng the news If the Vladivostok squad- ron Is r t sea with the purpose of effecting - fectlng a juncture , as Is generally believed - Heved , with the Port Arthur squadron - ron , Its appearance ) ) on the scene could easily turn time scalp in favor of the Husslans. Some usually well Informed personages - ages at time war office are bold enough to see In n report received Monday morning hy time Bourse Gazelle of the hasty retirement of General aIm , ovl- denco that the Japanese fleet has suf- forOll n reverse and that the communi- cation of this Into1lgenco ! to General O1m , with the accompanying throat that his base at Pltsewo may bo attacked - tacked , compelled his wlthdrawa1. All direct news from time land side indi- cates an immense and declslvo battle near Tn 're-he Klao. According to the Associated Press ! advices Sunday night , General Kouropatltln is there , personally In command. Time presence . of the military attaches and newspaper - I per correspondents Is also significant. Kouropatldn's purpose seems to UO to try to prevent a juncture of Genera ] O1\\\'s. and General Kurold's armies. The outposts arc In touch all along the line. , Child Falls Into Well. IllOLD1'-Cora Iiobbs ! ! , a 12- 'ear-ohl daughter of Taylor H'10h of this city , In attempting to draw U bucket of water , slipped and was precipitated - cipitated twenty feet to the bottom of the well Fortunately ] the f-tl ! did not stun her so badly hut that she was able to hold the rope until she was rescued. Oppose Harsh Measures. ST. PE'rERSnUHG-l\1. Linder , vice president of time Finnish seulate , In conference wltlrl\lInlster of time In- tenor Von Plehwe , discussed the pol- icy of the Russian government In Finland - land III view time assassination of GovOl'ellor General Dohrllwff. Minister Von Plehwo expressed Himself as averse to harsh measures III cOl1se- quenco of time act of ono man whoso views were only held by a small por- tion of the people , hut l'eC0ll1111011l13 continuation of General DolJrl1wff's policy : ' y . y I GERMANY'S TRADE. , jt Memorial Presented by the Manufac turers' League. nmnI..IN-An hllportnat memorial 011 the American customs administration , tlon and German trade has been lire' son tOll by the League of German Manufacturers to Chancellor v\1 , , nuelow , Baron von Hlchthofen , t - rotary of foreign affairs : Herr Moel- ler , Prussian minister of commerce and Industry , and Herr Buenz , Ger- man consul general at New York \ who Is now in Derlln. The memorial Is based on material which the league collected In accord- i ance with a resolutIon adopted In 1903 and was written by the Saxon I manufacturer , Alfred Petzschow , who was sent to the United States to col- , ect ] Information among Importers. ( . Time league summarizes Its views in time following five points : . , First Time AmerIcan government Mhdul ue prcvuHel1pon La accept - Ge man mill1ufacturers' declarations sworn to before American consuls , as evidence of value In an cases. Second-It Is necessary to reintroduce - duce the former privilege of appeal- ing directly to time American treas- ury department because , under the present practice , a decision rendered cannot be I uy the general appraisers overthrown even when the courtso find It to be orroneous. Third-Tho general appraisers \ should ue required to communicate to ' " the Importer sentenced the penalty and duty , and the reasons for the uoard's decision so that time importer can defend himself. , Fourth-The practice of classing German goods sold In the United States as consigned and subject to special legislations merely because the Invoices are not made out In dollars . lars and cents should coase. Flflh-Shlpments of goods and samples should not be detained in public stores as hitherto until the buyers refuse to take the goods IJ } ' cause too late delivery and the sam- ples are no longer available for the approaching season. The memorial complains that such detention now occurs even when bender 01' security Is offered. It concludes with reference to the Imnortance of . . _ _ n _ _ _ _ _ _ n _ _ _ the German market to American exporters - porters as being much greater than that of the American market to Ger- many and argues , therefore , that It Is only a question of how the Ger- man government acts In the matter which will decide the response of the American government to the wishes of the German manufacturers. CLAIM CAPTURE THREE PORTS Unconfirmed Report Alleges Japanese i-J. Success Near Port AI'lhur. TOKIO-It Is unoflhciall . reported that time Chile Wan Shan Chltan Shan I Hnll So Cho Shan forts , sottthmeast : : ; : of that part of the Port Artl1U defenses ' , were captured on Sunday after an till ] ] ( hfight , beginning with an artillery duel. So Cho Shan , It Is added , was first captured and the othe" torts fell soon afterward. The Russian r & treated west , leaving forty dead , anti the number of wounded 1l\3 not been ascortalned. Time Japanese force con. slsted of all branches of the scm-vice The Japanese lost three officers and 100 men killed or wounded and captured ' tured two guns and n. quantity of am' munition. The officials here do not confirm time report. . Brigham Dies SUddenly. " ASHINGTON-Nows has been received - ceived here of the death at Delta , A" , of Colonel Joseph n. Brigham , assist- ant secretary of agriculture. Colonel Brigham was chairman of the government . ernment board at the St. Louis exposition . sition He had left hero Tuesday evening for Sl. Louis to attend a meel1ng of time board and had sLop- lIed off at Delta for a short \'Islt. For many years ho has been proml- net In Ohio politics and has occupied his present ] ( position for a number ot 'e \rs. _ it .
