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Earmark square
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Southern branded
cattle have but one
brand on left side
Native cattle have
throat wattle
Itanue on Gordon and Snake Creeks
Horses havo same brandjon left thigh
A Reward of 100 will be paid to any
person for information leading to the arrest and
final conviction of any person or persons steal
ing cattle with above brand
Joseph W Bownet
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Mernman Nebr
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Cody Neb
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Horses same on
left shoulder
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Cody Neb
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Jack LePoint
Mcrriman Neb
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Kennedy Neb
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Hip
Horses a on left
shoulder
Brand is small
Earmark Quarter
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Charles Benard
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AROUND THE EAM
OCCURRENCES THEREIN
FOR A WEEK
INVADING PORTO EICC
FIRST EXPEDITION LEAVES SAN
TIAGO FOR THE ISLAND
Gen Miles Sails on the Yale with
Pour Artillery Batteries and a Few
Seasoned Troops More Men Will
Follow in a Few Days
Miles Off for Porto Hico
The Porto Rican expedition has started
on its mission to capture the island Miles
leading the invaders left Santiago on the
Yale Monday with four batteries of artil
lery and a few seasoned troops Two bri
gades at Charleston were embarking on the
same day on transports to take them to
Porto ltico All the force at Tampa 18000
strong embracing artillery will be put
aboard ship as rapidly as the transports
can be gotten there and sent to re enforce
the other troops Gen Brooke will take
the First and Second divisions of his corps
from Chickamaugo to Porto Rico Brooke
left Washington Monday afternoon for
Chickamauga to get his troops started
It is expected the whole expedition will
be under way within a few days It has
been decided by the authorities to retain
Shaffers brigade at Santiago for an indfi
nite period
EPOCH IN AMERICAN HISTORY
State Paper Issued Providing for
the Government of Santiago
A state paper that will bo historic
marking an epoch in American history
was issued Monday night by direction of
President McKinley It provides in gen
eral terms for the government of the prov
ince of Santiago de Cuba and is the first
document of the kind ever prepared
by a president of the United States
By order of Secretary Alger Adjt Gen
Corbiu cabled the document to Gen Shat
ter in command of the military forces at
Santiago The paper is not only an au
thorization and instruction of Gen Shafter
for the government of the captured terri
tory but also a proclamation to the peo
ple of the territory of the intentions of the
government of the United States re
garding them and their interests It
marks the formal establishment of a new
political power in the Island of Cuba and
insures to the people of the territory over
which the power extends absolute security
in the exercise of their private rights and
relations as well as security to their per
sons and property
RIOTING IN SPAIN
A Mob of 4000 at Huelva Is Dis
persed by the Military
A Madrid dispatch written on Sunday
says Riots have broken out at Huelva
capital of the province of Huelva in An
dalusia The inhabitants marched to the
municipal buildings shouting for cheap
bread The rioters to the number of 4000
sacked many private houses They were
finally dispersed by the military and en
ergetic measures will be taken to prevent
a renewal of the disturbances
MUST FALL FIRST
Overtures Not Liooked for Until
Havana Is Captured
It is learned the government does not
look for peace overtures from Spain before
the fall of Havana As it is understood
to be the policy of the president to post
pone the Havana campaign until fall the
belief exists in high official circles that
Spain will put off the inevitable until the
last stronghold in Cuba is lost before mak
ing an effort for the cessation of hostlities
QUIET AT MANILA
No Advance by the Insurgents made
Up to the 15th of July
The German cruiser Cormoran from
Manila July 15 reports that all ias quiet
when she left there The insurgents had
not advanced The second American
contingent had not arrived It is reported
Aguinaldo the insurgent leader had an
interview with Capt GenrAugusti The
result is not known
Kansas City 3Ien Contented
Kansas City packers are expecting no
irouble from a spread of the Omaha
strike The employes seem well contented
and an unusually full force is working in
every plant Leading packers of Kansas
City when asked about the situation say
that the question of a sympathetic strike
has not even occurred to them and there
is nothing about the behavior of their men
to cause apprehension
Murder Followed by Suicide
Sara Cole Colored was murdered by
her divorced husband James Cole north
west of Washington Ind Monday night
The nimderer then made several attempts
on the life of his four children who ac
companied their mother but his bullets
flew wild Seeing that he had killed his
wife Cole fired a pistol ball into his heart
Cole had just returned from Jeffersonville
where he served time for forgery
Spain Prepares for Attack
The work on the defenses is being
pushed at all Spanish ports The sup
posed American peace terms greatly ex
cite the public The opinion is expressed
among the people that a war to death
would be preferable to the ruin of Spain
Porto Rico Is Alarmed
Advices from San Juan Porto Rico
show the inhabitants are greatly alarmed
They expect the port to be attacked by the
Americans at any moment They are flee
ing into the interior It is said the city
and its suburbs are practically deserted
Yosemite Suffers from Fire
During its service on the blockade the
auxiliary cruiser Yosemite was discovered
to have a fire in its coal bunkers which
burned for three days Some repairs to
the vessel will be necessary
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Ovop Govornora Palaoo and Fovtl
floatlons in Santiago t
Thefollowing dispatch was recoived iu
Washington Sunday Santiago de Cuba
July 17 Adjutant General United States
Army Washington I have the honor to
announce that the American flag has been
this instant 12 oclock noon hoisted over
the house of civil government in the city
Santiago An immense concourse of peo
ple is present A squadron of cavalry
and a regiment of infantry presenting
arms and bands playing national airs A
light battery fired a salute of twenty one
guns Perfect order is being maintained
by the municipal government The dis
tress is very groat but there is little sick
ness in town scarcely any yellow fever
A small gunboat and about 200 seamen
left by Cervera have surrendered to me
Obstructions are being removed from the
mouth of the harbor Upon coming into
the city I discovered a perfect entangle
ment of defenses Fighting as the Span
iards did the first day it would have cost
5000 lives to have taken it Battalions ol
Spanish troops have been depositing arms
since daylight in the armory over which
I have guard Gen Toral formally sur
rendered the plaza and all stores at 9 a m
W H Shafter Major General
The terms of surrender consist of nine
articles as follows
The first declares that all hostilities shall
cease pending the agreement of final capit
ulation
2 That the capitulation includes all
the Spanish forces and the surrender of
all war material within the prescribed
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4 Provides for the transportation of
the troops to Spain at the earliest possible
moment each force to be embarked at the
nearest port
4 That the Spanish officers shall retain
their side arms and the enlisted men their
personal property
5 That after the final capitulation the
Spanish forces shall assist in the removal
of all obstruction to navigation in Santi
ago harbor
6 That after the final capitulation the
commanding officer shall furnish a com-
plete inventory of all arms and munitions
of war aud a roster of all the soldiers in
the district
7 That the Spanish general shall be
permitted to take the military archives
and records with him
8 That the guerrillas and Spanish
irregulars shall be permitted to remain in
Cuba if they so elect giving a parole that
they will not again take up arms against
the United States unless properly released
from parolfe
9 That the Spanish forces shall be per
mitted to march out with all the honors of
war depositing their arms to be disposed
of by the United States in the future the
American commissioners to recommend
to their government that the arms of the
solfllers be returned to those who so
bravely defended them
CATTLE QUARANT I N E
Proclamation Against Shipping Cat
tle from Texas
Gov Culberson of Texas has issued a
proclamation prohibiting the shipment ol
cattle from the counties of western Tom
Green Iron Sterling Mitchell Scurry
Jones Haskill King Stonewall Knox
Foard Cottle Childress Hardeman and
Wilbarger prior to October 1 1898 no
also ordered that no cattle from the follow
ing counties shall bo moved to other parts
of the state prior to October 1 unless they
shall have been properly inspected by
the sanitary board Donley Hald Motley
Dickens Kent Borden Howard Midland
Glasscock Upton and Crane
DISPUTES WITH CANADA
McKinley Names a Commission to
Meet a Similar British Body
The president appointed the following
commissioners to meet a similar commis
sion from Great Britain and Canada for
the purpose of adjusting relations between
the United States and Canada Senator
Fairbanks of Indiana Senator Gray of
Delaware Representative Dingley of
Maine Hon John A Kasson of Iowa and
Hon John Vf Foster of the District of
Columbia
ALFRED PILLSBURY DEAD
Noted Minneapolis Capitalist Dies
in His S2d Year
Alfred Pillsbury of the firm of Pills
bury Co president of the Northwestern
Bank of Minneapolis and one of the best
known men in the northwest died Sun
day aged 82 He leaves a large fortune
Porto Rico Plans
An important conference was held at
the White nouse Sunday night Even be
fore the details of the Santiago campaign
have been cleared away the expedition
against Porto Rico absorbs the attention
of the president Arrangements for the
Porto Rico expedition were under discuss
ion by the president and the war board at
that time It may be two or three days be
fore the details of the new invasion are
worked out but it is probable that before
the end of the present week the military
forces of the expedition will have effected
a landing not far from San Juan
Charged with Stealing 360000
Chas G French has been arrested at
Tampa Fla for the embezzlement of
360000 from the Merchants and Traders
Building and Loan Association of Chi
cago of which organization he was secre
tary up to last fall French denies being
in embezzler
Shuts Out American Fruit
The Bundesrath or Federal Council oi
Switzerland has prohibited the importa
tion of fresh and unpeeled dried American
fruits with the view of keeping out the
San Jose scale
Another Maine Victim
Lieut J II Blandin an officer of the
deck on the Maine when it was blown up
in Havana harbor died in Baltimore Sun
day as the result of the nervous shock
sustained then
Liabilities Are 500000
John Mason Sons one of the oldest
cotton manufacturing firms in Providence
11 I are financially embarrassed the
liabilities are over half a million dollars
Sender of Message Pays the Tax
The commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that all telegrapic messages
muaipe stamped by the senders
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OVERLAND TRAIN IS HELD UP
Robbers Blow Open tho Safe and
Escape with Thiir Booty
Passenger train No 2 on the Southern
Pacific was held up the other night one
mile east of Humboldt Nev The express
car was blown up and the safe blown
open The robbers escaped It is not
given out how much they secured When
the train arrived at a point one mile east
of Humboldt a Tiegro and a white man
covered the engineer with guns stopped
the train and going back to the express
car they blew it up with dynamite
almost destroying the express packages
Covering Messenger George Hughes they
blow open the safe and rifled it of its con
tents which was but a trifle and de
camped The train went on to Winne
mucca whore the damaged car was set out
and the express matter transferred to a
box car and then proceeded east
A strong posse from Winnemucca went in
pursuit It is thought the robbers boarded
tho train at Reno
MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY
Theory as to the Disappearance of
a Rich Nebraska Farmer
Great mystery surrounds the disappear
ance December 13 last of Thomas Jansen
i wealthy farmer and corn dealer of Ne
braska who had made Topeka Kan his
headquarters for several years On the
date named he left Indianola Neb in
company with three strangers who
claimed they desired to purchase Jansens
farm fifty six miles from Indianola He
had more than 53000 on his person Rela
tives and detectives have been unable to
find any trace of him since and the con
clusion is now reached that Jansens com
panions were confidence men who mur
dered him for his money L H Jansen
a prominent mining man of Tacoma
Wash and a son of Thomas Jansen is in
Topeka directing a search for his father
or his body He has been appointed ad
ministrator of the missing mans estate
valued at nearly 50000
O V ER 3000 MEN O U T
Killing Gangs at Cudahys South
Omaha Packing Houses Quit
Work is practically suspended at the
Cudahy packing house at South Omaha
The killing gangs have gone out in sym
pathy with the laborers At Swifts the
hog butchers are at work At the Ham
mond plant matters are unchanged Over
3000 men are out
CHINESE NAVAL DISASTER
A Torpedoboat Goes to the Bottom
with Over a Hundred Men
News by steamer to June 20 tells ol
the sinking of the Chinese torpedoboat
Ilee Ching at Port Arthur a few days be
fore It is slated there were 118 men on
board not one of whom were saved
The Farragut Launched
The torpedo boat destroyer Farragut was
launched at San Francisco Monday even
ing from the yard of the Union iron works
The selection of the hour was due to tho
simultaneous occurance of high tide and
moonlight The Farragut is a 273 ton
boat Her speed is 80 knots She will be
placed in commission as soon as possible
Two Negro Murderers Shot
Jim Redd and Alex Johnson two ne
groes were lynched at Monticello Ark
A mob of men broke down the doors ol
the jail and entering the cell room poured
a volley of shots into the cages where the
men were confined They wero convicted
of killing W F Skipper a rich planter
and merchant of Baxter
Finishes Revision of Bible
The joint commission of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of America on a revision
of the authorized version of the Bible
which has been in session at Saratoga N
Y since July 6 has concluded Its labors
and will report to the general conference
iu Washington in October
Wounded Soldier Dies
August Griepenstock Troop 1 First
cavalry who came to Fort McPherson
with the last detachment of wounded men
is dead of heart failure The others are
doing well
lGOO Soldiers Poisoned
A mysterious illness seized the soldiers
at Altona Prussia after dinner Sunday
Sixteen hundred are now in the hospital
An official examination of the food is being
made
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common to prime
300 to 550 hogs shipping grades
300 to 425 sheep fair to choice 250
to 525 wheat No 2 red 73c to 75c
corn No 2 31c to 32c oats No 2 22c
to 23c rye No 2 4Gc to 47c butter
choice creamery 15c to 17c eggs fresh
lie to 13c new potatoes choice 05c to
75c per bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 400
sheep common to choice 300 to 425
wheat No 2 72c to 74c corn No 2
white 32c to 34c oats No 2 white 26c
to 2Sc
St Louis Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 375 to 500
wheat No 2 72c to 74c corn No 2
yellow 30c to 31c oats No 2 22c to 24c
rye No 2 44c to 46c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 250 to 425
wheat No 2 red 76c to 7Sc corn No
2 mixed 34c to 35c oats No 2 mixed 25c
to 26c rye No 2 41c to 43c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
325 to 400 sheep 250 to 475
wheat No 2 77c to 79c corn No 2
yellow 32c to 34c oats No 2 white 2Sc
to 29c rye 44c to 46c
Toledo Wheat No 2 mixed Sic to
S3c corn No 2 mixed 32c to 34c oats
No 2 white 24c to 25c rye No 2 45c
to 47c clover seed 2S5 to 295
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring i9c
to 91c corn No 3 32c to 34c oats No
2 white 26c to 28c rye No 2 47c to 49c
barley No 3 30c to 32c pork mess
975 to 1025
Buffalo Cattle good shipping steers
300 to 550 hogs common to choice
350 to 425 sheep fair to choice weth
ers 350 to 500 Iambs common to
extra 500 to 650
New York Cattle 300 to 575 hogs
300 to 475 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 red S9c to 91c corn No
2 37c to 38c oats No 2 white 28c to
gOc butter creamery 13c to 18c eggs
Western 13c to 15c
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