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IH u Krtrthfyth WWifrtiAidBfc The Valentine Democrat I M RICH Publisher VALENTINE NEBRASKA BRIEf TELEGRAMS I Advices were received at Berlin an nouncing the opening of the railroad from Kiao Chau to Tsin Tau China The Northwestern Iowa Odd Fel lows have announced their convention for Dubuque la- April 29 It will be the eighty second anniversary of the founding of the order The election of democrats as alder men in the Third Fourth and Fifth wards of Denver is contested by the republican fcandidates on the ground of corruption and fraud Andrew Carnegie has offered to give 100000 to Portland Ore for a free - public library provided the city will guarantee a site and sufficient annual income for its maintenance The Amalgamated Association of Sheet Metal Workers will take the in itiative in having designers and archi tects sign contracts with builders to employ only union men on their con tracts A great many carloads of young stock are being received at Webster S D for the settlers who have lo cated on the land formerly embraced within the Sisseton and Wahpeton In dian reservation Mathilda Henderson colored died at Quincy 111 aged 105 years She was recognized as the oldest person of her race in that vicinity and her relatives have records showing that her age 105 was authentic The navy department has awarded the contract for the building of the twenty three knot protected cruiser Milwaukee to the Union Iron Works of San Frnrisco The contract price is 2825000 Secretary ofthe Treasury Gaga re ceived an offer for a million dollars short term bonds from New York The price was higher than he was willing to pay and he therefore re jected the offer About 400 union carpenters did not report for work at Indianapolis Ind owing to the failure of the contrac tors to sign the scale Seme of the members of the union are at work for contractors who have signed The old scale of 30 cents expired Mon day The Minnesota house passed Sena tor Chiltons bill prohibiting the mar riage of imbeciles feeble minded leptics or insane persons with an amendment striking out the require ment for a physicians certificate be fore any license to marry shall be is sued Victor R Schultz the mail car rier who shot and killed his wife and sent two bullets through the breast of W H Eikenberry at Marion Ind and then cut his own throat is liv ing His windpipe which was sev ered was sewed together by the phy sicians at the hospital The board of trustees of the West ern Illinois Normal school at Macomb awarded the contract for building the school to the Tri City contracting company of Davenport la Moline and Rock Island The building is to be of Berea stone and will cost in the neighborhood of 175000 A crowd of about fifty Ponca Neb men seized Alva Smith while he was on his way from the theater and tar red and feathered him He was giv en twenty four hours to leave town Smith is accused of ruining Minnie Ellum a girl of 18 who died in an Omaha hospital two weeks ago The Teheran correspondent of the Cologne Gazette under date of Mon day April 8 telegraphs that the Per sian government has ordered the im position of a duty of 5 per cent on all Russian goods imported instead of 3 to 4 per cent as hitherto enforced The Minnesota house reconsidered the vote which killed the bill to per mit the parole of the notorious Youn ger brothers now serving life sen tences in the state prison and sent the bill to the governor for approval or rejection The famous Okefenokee swamps in South Georgia have been sold to Charles Hebard Sons of Michigan The consideration it is understood is 175000 The swamp contains 354 000 acres and its circumference is 137 miles Samuel N Ferris shot and killed himself at Baker City Ore He was about 33 years of age was secretary of a prominent mining company and is said to have been worth more than 100000 in mining property The cause of the suicide is unknown The latest statement of exports pub lished by the bureau of statistics shows that during the eight months ending with February the total amounted to 95000000 more than the exports for the corresponding riod ending in February 1900 D B Robinson formerly first vice president of the Santa Fe is reported to be dying in a Chicago hospital The strike of the journeymen paint ers of East Liverpool O section which has lasted for the past ten -days has been settled rfSbfaMetMbStfaM A CALL FOR EMPEROR The Japanese Formally Ask for Kwang Sub Eeturn to Pekin CHING AND CHANG BOTH URGED Are Instructed to Hare Their Baler Promise Something Definite Had Bet ter Brine All Soldiers so as to Quell Disorders In Knasla PEKIN April 15 Komurs Yutaro the Japanese minister accompanied by General Yamaguchi the Japanese commander recently called upon Prince Ching and notified him that the return of Emperor Kwang Su to Pekin was urgently desired Prince Ching was Informed that the emper ors wishes would be respected by the foreign troops and that every courtesy would be shown him It was pointed out to the Chinese plenipotentiary that the emperors return was of the highest possible im portance as affecting the maintenance of the integrity of the Chinese empire and that he should come accompanied by every available soldier by at least 20000 men if possible These troops it was further contended by the Japanese minister must be sent into Manchuria as the Russians re ported great disturbances there and it was not right that the task of quelling the trouble should be thrown upon the shoulders of one nation Finally Prince Ching was assured that if the 20000 Chinese troops cculd not suppress the disorders in Manchu ria other powers would send an inter national force to co operate with China which the powers regarded as a friendly power No reply having been received to this communication Li Hung Chang was today notified to the same effect and told that Emperor Kwang must give an immediate answer The preparations which the Jap anese here are making for an early start indicate that they expect war between Russia and Japan Vessels arriving at Taku from Nagasaki report the mobilization of the Japanese fleet and the continuance of preparations on board ship for the anticipated struggle Prince Ching says all his reports go to show that the missionary state ments regarding a rebellion in Mon golia are not supported by the facts Neither does he believe that the re bellion of General Tune Fu Sian amounts to much It is the object of certain ele ments he asserts to make it seem that China is in a condition of con stant broil rendering it unsafe for the foreign troops to be withdrawn Those who have this in view will magnify a village riot into a big rebellion The Chinese ministers naturally timid take these reports in good faith BEHEAD HIM P0R TREASON Corean Government Disposes of Kim Yang Chun TACOMA Wash April 15 A sen sational political crisis exists in Seoul capital of Corea The news is brought tonight by the steamship Duke of Fife that the government has beheaded Kim Yang Chun for planning to make the son of the emperors favorite mis tress Lady Om heir to the throne dis placing the prince imperial son of the murdered uqeen The decapitated official was the lead er of the Kim faction which has been engaged for months in deadly rivalry with the Min faction led by Min Kong sik for the domination of Corean poli tics The Min faction learned of the plot against the prince imperial and a street fight between the factions re sulted MRS NATION AGAIN ARRESTED Katr Town Crowd Gathers About the Hatchers KANSAS CITY April 15 Mrs Car rie Nation was arrested in this city tonight on the charge of obstructing the street and hauled to the police station in a patrol wagon She was re leased on a cash bond of 6 and will be tried in the police court tomorrow morning Mrs Nation lectured in Kansas City Kan last night and came over to the Missouri side this morning She start ed on a tour of investigation among the downtown saloons this evening A thousand men and boys followed her and at Twelfth and Walnut streets where there are saloons on three cor ners she was arrested because the crowd following her blockaded the street She roundly lectured the sa loon men whom she visited Memorial Day in Fekln PEKIN April 15 Memorial serv ices will be held by order of the court in honor of Ysu Chien Sing Li Sien and Hsu Sung Yi the members of the tsung 11 yamen who were executed be cause of their pro foreign sentiment The staff of the United States legation has been invited to attend Hsu Chien Sing held the post of Chinese minister to Russia director of the bank and president of the Chinese Eastern railway ADMITS THE PLAGUE Dr Victor Vanghn Reports on Case of Charles B Bnre CHICAGO April 15 A dispatch to the Record Herald from Ann Arbor Michj says Dr Victor Vaughn direc tor of the medical department ap peared before the state board of health yesterday and practically ac knowledged that the case of Student Charles Benjamin Hare of Pawnee City is one of bubonic plague He as sured the board there would be no spread of the disease as all precau tions had been taken to prevent it and that the student would recover Dr Novy who attends Hare wears a germproof rubber garment that cov ers him from head to fcot with two little eyeholes for sight whenever he goes Into the contagious -ward and ho also injects preventative doses of se rum into himself Dr Vaughn told the board that Hare contracted the disease by an accident almost identical with that which oc curred in Vienna in 1898 Prof Noth najle and his assistant Barisch were conducting bacteriological experiments on bubonic plague bacilli Barisch caught the disease and died as did also Dr Muller who attended him ATTEMPTS LIFE OP KRUGER Reported That Someone Tried to Stab the Aged President PARIS April 15 LEstafette pub lishes a report that an attempt was made to stab Mr Kruger LONDON April 15 According to a dispatch to the London Daily Express form Amsterdam cabled to the Asso ciated Press Saturday last the Dutch police recently got wind of contem plated attempts upon the life of Mr Kruger It is quite likely that the report to which LEstafette gives cur rency is traceable to a similar source Not Dangerously Tnsane DENVER April 15 Albert S Cowan who was arrested on February 2E last on a charge of murder which was subsequently dismissed for lack of sufficient eivdence to justify his in dictment has been released from cus tody a jury before which he was tried on a charge of insanity having decided that he was not so distracted in his mind as to endanger his own life and property or the lives and property of others It was believed for a time that Cowan was the thug who knocked down many women on Capital hill dur ing the fall and winter Several of the assailants victims died Border Ruffian Slain I SILVER CITY N M April 15 Red Weaver a vell known border char acter and a reputed member of the fa mous -Black Jack gang of bandits has been killed at Alma a little min ing camp seventy two miles northwest of here Weaver had threatened to kill Tod Holliman who had previously called him to account for certain remarks against a young womans character Later they met again and fired at each other simultaneously Weaver fell dead with a bullet through his heart Holliman was exonerated Farmers Fight the Combine SALINA Kan April 15 Farmers of Saline county have completed the periiminary organization of their as sociation to fight the grain combine by building or leasing their own ele vators and a charter will be applied for at once The board of directors chosen is made up of J A Reser W A Mur phy C L Stone J E Runquist Wil liam Muir A C Hillman and John S Bean all of whom are prominent far mers Fourteen Scutes Represented CINCINNATI O April 15 Four teen states were vepresented here to day at the meeting of the Keaher She Barzel a Jewish beneficiary organiza tion The annual message of the presi dent and the reports of the other offi cers were submitted and discussed to day The society will be in session several days Steyns Health Broken BLOEMFONTEIN April 15 It is reported that the health of former President has broken dawn It is also said he has advised all the Boers on commandoes to surrender immediately JSmllla Kempln Dead BERLIN April 15 Emilia Kempin doctor of laws and one of the foremost leaders of the womans movement in Germany has just died in an insane asylum at Basle Switzerland Chairman Walkers Funeral NEW YORK April 15 Funeral ser vices over the body of Aldace F Walk er president of the Atchison Topeka Sante Fe railroad were held today at the West End Collegiate church The pallbearers were John G McCul lough of the Erie railroad General H L Burnett United States district at torney General E H Ripley presi dent Charles M Hays of the South ern Pacific Victor Morawetz George H Haven and R Summer Hays DESTRUCTION Of GRASSHOPPERS Frof Brnnner Issues a Bulletin Regard Ins the Matter LINCOLN Neb April 15 Prof Lawrence Bruner entomologist at the University of Nebraska has Issued a bulletin in which he discusses vari ous plans for destroying grasshoppers It begins with a general description of the insects this outline includes a statement of their life history habits and relations to other insect forms as well as the effects of climate lati tude altitude and diseases in keeping them within certain limits Much -stress is laid on the past carelessness in the efforts of farmers of the state for permitting native locusts to be come sufficiently numerous to cause trouble Among the artificial remedies which are suggested and described in this bulletin the most important is that of discing in early spuing alfalfa fields and other grounds containing the eggs of these insects This disc ing can be done at any time after the frost is out of the ground but the best time seems to be early in April Instead of injuring the alfalfa numerous experiments in Kansas and Nebraska have shown that by running the disc over the fields the yield is greatly increased This stirring of the soil breaks up the egg masses and exposes them to the drying influences of the air and the keen eyes of the birds NEW PISH AND GAME LAW No Effort to Enforce It Until After the First of Tuly LINCOLN Neb April 15 It is of ficially announced at the state house that no attempt will be made by state officers to enforce the new fish and game law before July 1 that being the time when all laws passed without an emergency clause by the last legis lature will become effective An emergency clause was attached to the enrolled copy of the bill through er ror and without authority but al though it was signed by the presiding officers of the legislature and by the governor it canot be enforced for the reason that it was defeated in the house of representatives The official journal of the house shows that the bill was ordered for third reading on March 13 and that on roll call it fail ed to receive the constitutional two- tniras vote necessary for an emer gency clause thus leaving it subject to a motion to strike out the clause Such a motion was made by Coppoc of Holt county and adopted as the record shows The roll was then call ed on the bill without the emergency clause and as it received the requisite number of votes it was declared pass ed Senator Millards Private Secretary OMAHA Neb April 15 Senator Millard has selected James B Haynes as his private secretary and has sent the name to Washington Mr Haynes the new secretary has been a resident of Omaha for many years In 1881 he did his first newspaper work in this city reporting the session of the legislature for the Bee From 1882 to 1885 he was stenographer in the office of the general passenger agent of the Union Pacific railroad and in 1887 was stenographer in Judge Hopewells court Will Movo For Acquittal FRANKFORT Ky April 13 The prosecution in the Ripley conspiracy case will conclude its testimony to morrow The defense will move for instructions for a verdict of acquittal Lawyers for the prosecution do not believe this will be sustained in view of the ruling of the court permitting the introduction of evidence as to the conspiracy They assert that the evi dence of ex Governor Bradley and Judge Yost connects Ripley with the case Burns Herself to Death PLATTSMOUTH Neb April 15 Mrs Kinkead 82 years of age who had been living with her son went into the cow house of Mrs Seiden striker a neighbor and after partially disrobing set fire to her underclothing and started for the house A phy sician was called but she died She said she was tired of living and beg ged the doctor to give her chloro form She had been in poor health Fixes Date of Kennion PLAINVIEW Neb April 15 The Grand Army of the Republic commit tee of northeast Nebraska met to lo cate the next reunion Neligh was chosen as the place the reunion to be gin the second week in July A campfire was held at the opera house lieutenant Mapes Friends Active NEBRASKA CITY Neb April 15 Lieutenant William Mapes of the Twenty third United States infantry who has won such honors by captur ing insurgent officers at Manila and some 40000 of their funds was born and raised in this county He was formerly major of the Second regiment of the Nebraska National Guards His friends here will ask for his advance ment as a reward for his services in the Philippines - jto WHt TO BE HANGED AUGUST 2 Judge Grlmlson Passes Sentence Vpea Herman Zahna Murderer FREMONT April 13 William Rhea who was convicted of the mur der of Herman Zahn was sentenced by Judge Grimisou to be hanged with lnthe walls of the penitentiary at Lin coln August 2 The defendant was brought into the court room hand cuffed in charge of Sheriff Kreader He wore the same dark suit as during the trial starched white shirt white high collar and small black band neck tie His face was white with the pal lor of close confinement but looked a little fuller than during the trial The bold reckless look in his eyes has soft ened little During the half hour which he spent in the room he showed no emotion whatever but appeared a little restless He fingered the band of his black slouch hat changed his position frequently and looked around the room in a careless unconcerned way Mr Gray filed a motion for a new trial and stated to the court that the grounds were statutory and the same points were raised as were passed up on during the progress of the trial I havent seen any reason to change the opinions formed during the trial of the case said the judge and the motion will be overruled In a slow solemn voice the judge then read the sentence which in the words of the statute substantially was tnat the defendant be taken to the penitentiary at Lincoln delivered into the custody of the warden kept in solitary confinement and on the 2d day of Auugst 1901 between the hours of 9 and 11 a m be taken to some place designated within the walls of the penitentiary and there hanged by the neck until dead As the judge read the latter part of the sentence the tones of his voice grew lower and more impressive and the word dead was spoken scarcely above a whisper The defendant was wholly unmoved He took his seat and looked around as unconcerned as before Not a muscle of his face changed and he scarcely moved an eye while the sentence was being read NEBRASKAS PLAGUE VICTIM Father of C B Hare Intends to Visit the Patient at Ann Arbor PAWNEE CITY Neb April 13 It has been definitely ascertained that the Ann Arbor bubonic plague patient is Charles Benjamin Hare whose home is in this city His parents and a number of other relatives reside here The parents were informed of the sons sickness by a reporter for The Bee and a telegram was immediately sent to Ann Arbor for information in regard to the young mans condition Dr Novy answered that Mr Hare was resting easily and would probably re cover Hare is 26 years old and a student in the medical department of the Ann Arbor unversity He is taking a spe cial course in bacteriology and is as sistant to Dr Novy the celebrated specialist who has for several years been interested in an effort to develop an effective serum for bubonic inocu lation THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS Is it Less than the Estimate of the Senate Committee LINCOLN April 13 Practical Civics In Schools KiiTiPrlntandent Howell of The Wife and piled in the auditors office shows that Pure grains and when properly prepared the total of legislative appropriations was 292000 less than the estimate of the senate committee on finance ways and means Exclusive of the endow ment and trust money for the univer sity and the appropriation for the dis trict court the amount is 2645433 which including all the extraordinary appropriations is only 5405992 more than the- total of two years ago These figures are taken from an official com pilation but are substantially the same as those printed at the close of the legislative session Quits Life lu a Fearful Way YORK Neb April 13 Guy Ander son a young man 26 years old com mitted suicide in a horrible manner at his home south of Waco The body was found lying Reside a pile of burn ing rubbish in a field near the barn blackened and burned almost beyond recognition In order to make his des perate work more certain he first tied his legs toegther with wire and then fastened the wire to a fence post near a pile of rubbish He then must have set fire to this rubbish and thereafter cut his throat -with his pocket knife severing both the windpipe and the jugular vein He was perhaps dead before the fire had any effect upon his body Missing Man Writes Home PLATTSMOUTH Neb April 13 Walter Grim a young man who de serted his wife at Nehawka in this tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about i es much All grocers sell it 15c and 25c The world is like a piano full of sharps and flats PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle The prosperity of fools shall destroy them Solomon Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH the only 1G oz nackace for 10 cents All other 10 centstarch con tains only 12 oz Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded Platonic love is a dinner at which nothing but soup is served Mrs Wlnslows Soothing Syrup A1 rea f etnnff softens the sums reduce iv flammatlon allaya pain enrea wind colic 25c a bottle A perfect woman nobly planned to warn to comfort and command Ask your grocer for TDEFIANCE STARCH the only 16 oz package for 10 cents All other 10 cent starch con tains only 12 oz Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded All I am or can be I owe to my an gel mother Abraham Lincoln Pisos Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs Wir O Exdslsy Vanbaren Ind Feb 10 1900 Toasts are often drunk yet they are never intoxicated SlOO Bexrard Qioo lerwdiTJortnIsPaper T7iU e Pleased to learn tha there Is at least one dreaded disease inat scence has been able to cure in aU it cSgktSP is Halls Catarrh ESS be only Positive cure now known to the medical fraternity Catarrh bein a constitu tional disease requires a constitutional treat ment Halls Catarrh Cure is take internally acting directly upon the blood and mucoussur I county recently -without giving any oTtheXSS wua flas rnea up at sSPbrtaiSTwfiS ca la ie sent money to his wife to pay her expenses to go to him but offered no explanation Since his de parture his wife has been prostrated with grief but it is not thought that she will leave Nebraska to join him They were married three months ago ncCiof o rr r aau 3r u uuin s woric The i pro prietors have so much faltt In its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for SendfSlSSS Calls Family Pills are the best Youth may stray afar yet return at last - the Scranton Pa schools has proposed a plan for instructing the pupils as to the manner in which a president of the United States is elected The dem onstration is to be a practical one Each school is to constitute a conven tion and each pupil is to write an es say giving the history of a presidential campaign from the beginning to the inaguratioa After these are com pleted a platform committee will bo appointed in each school to prepare resolutions or declarations of party principles after which the election will be held each pupil voting for his candidate for president The election is expected to take place in March Many advantages are to be had from practice of this kind and there is no reason why it should be confined to presidential elections Began as a Backstop Congressman Wadsworths hands are battered out of shape nearly as much as were those of the late Sil ver Flint and from the same cause The New York man was in his day a crack baseball player and at one time held down first base in the Yale nine He has a son who filled the same posi tion for Yale and was as good a player as his father MOTHER AND DAUGHTER of airv Charlea Koys CLARISSA Minn April 15 Spe cial No family in this vicinity ia better known or more universally re spected than Mr Charles Keys the local School Teacher and his estima ble wife and mother-in-law For a long time Mrs Keys has been in ill health Recently however she has found a cure for her ailments in Dodds Kidney Pills I cannot speak too highly of Dodds Kidney Pills or of what they have done for me said Mrs Keys My life was miserable my back always ached also my head I was troubled with Neuralgia in the head and face and suffered extreme pain but thanks to Dodds Kidney Pills all those aches and pains have vanished like the morning dew and it now seems that life is worth living I con sider Dodds Kidney Pills a God send to suffering humanity They may rlehtlv ho nampri the VM rir nf WmtTi J While speaking of my own case and the wonderful benefit I have re ceived I might also add that myj mother who is now an old lady of 74 years and who lives with me has been troubled more or less with aches and pains as is natural with one of her advanced age When she saw what Dodds Kidney Pills had done for me she commenced to use them her self and she says that they have done her more good than any other medi cine she has ever tried This testimony is given in the hope that others who may be af flicted as we were may see and read it and be benefited by it What Mrs Keys states in her letter can be verified by reference to any of her many friends in this neighbor hood Dodds Kidney Pills have al ready a wonderful reputation in Todd County Nothing has ever cured Bright3 Disease Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd3 Kidney Pills Bret Harte Comlnjr Home Bret Harte will probable return to America next year but only for a visit as he merely intends to make a tour of the West to brush up his mem ories of that section of the country and see its development What Po tho Children Drink Dont give them tea or coffee Have you tried the new food drink called GEAIN O It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee The more Grain O you give a AnAi 7 icyui l tnrongn teen systems tirain U is made of k V v i i I I