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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1905)
- 1. ' " . : ' 1 Uj ir/jW _ / _ fcl MS 'fl-L-rti jJ . . ' , /tf * . . ! / "Seven years ago tinAimriran people dropped a great load of anxiety. Fifty years had gone by .since they had known foreign war , and a generation had ] > assed since they had left the bat tle Held.nd ihe supreme issue of na tions was in the balance between them and Spain. Seven years ago on May 1 George Jx'wey struck that issue from the balaji'-e. lie steamed into Manila Hay as Horatio Nelson had sailed into Aboukir Hay 100 years before , and won u complete victory. From the techni cal viewpoint Manila was not an epoch- making battle , says the Chicago Inter Ocean. With the American people it 2'eplaced uncertainty by confidence. All chance of attack on our Pacific coast was removed by the first blow. And that blow proved the mettle of onr men and Spain's. It made sure the victory off Santiago , Best of all , it showed that the line of Paul Jones and Decatnr and Perry and Macdon- ongh and Farragnt and Porter and Da vis was not extinct. It proved that this people still had with them the great naval commander , ready to meet their need. GROWTH OF CROPS SLOW. Temperature Conditions , However , Favorable in All Sections. The whither bureau's wcokly summary of crop condition * is as follows : While tlu > loin pern turo conditions of the week ending .May 1 were much more favorabl" than in the previous week , complaints of slow germination and growth nro very general in the Missouri and Red River of the North valleys , mid dle Rocky Mountain slope , lake region and New England. In the middle and Gouth Atlantic and : rulf States and in the Ohio valley very favorable temperatures prevailed , but the central and west gulf States and portions of the south Atlantic States and Ohio and central Mississippi valleys suffered from excessive rains , which hindered farininsr operations ma- -terially. New England. North Dakota , * 7 3Iontana and Florida continue to need rain , but the portionof the lower Mis- BOtiri and Ohio valleys needing moisture in the previous week have received am ple rainfall. On the Pacific coast the week was too cool for favorable growth , with frequent fists in Washington. In most of the principal corn States corn planting has made slow progress , but extensive preparations for this work have been made and. with favorable weather , much will be planted during the lirst week in May. Planting generally is finished in the Southern States and is nearly completed in the southern portions of Kansas and Missouri. In the southern portion of the middle Atlantic States planting hns been actively fvirried on ami has begun as far imrth as Pennsylvania. Practically all reports indicate that winter wheat vontimies in unusually promising condition , the temperature of the pas ! week havin-z been more favora ble for the advance of this crop. Dry wenllier has been unfavorable for the germination and growth of spring wheat in the Dakotas. The early sown in South Dakota , however , and in Min nesota i * doijig well. The outlook for spring wheat in Iowa. Oregon and Wash ington is very promising. The general outlook for oats continues favorable in the most important oat States. In Kansas and Nebraska the crop is recovering from the effects of previous cold. In the Dakotas and por tions of the lake region germination has not been satisfactory. Seeding is well advanced in. the more northerly sections of the central part of the country and has bi'sr.n in the northern part of the middle Atlantic States. Over the eastern portion of the cotton belt the weather conditions have been favorable for cotton planting , which is nearini : completion in the more southerly districts , good stands being generally in dicated. In the central and western districts planting is much delayed , less than half of the area having been plant ed hi Louisiana and Oklahoma and In dian territories , only about one-half in jiorthern Mississippi and very little in Arkansas , practically none being up in the hut mentioned State. In northern , central and eastern coun ties of T.-xas much of the cotton arra remains implanted , and much cotton hmd iu both Texas ami Louisiana has been Tjadly washed out by rains and extensive replanting will be necessary. Over the southwestern part of the cotton area in Texas cotton is generally doing well and chopping and cultivation are in progress. Transplantiiig tobacco is nearly finish ed in South Carolina and has begun iu North Carolina. Plants are generally plentiful , but are backward in Ohio and are being damaged somewhat by insects in Kentucky , where preparations for planting are iu progress. While the reports respecting fruit are more favorable , they indicate that peae'.io.s have been extensively killed , al though an excellent crop is promised in southern Georgia , and in a few other sections the outlook for peaches is some what improved. Brief News Items. Fire destroyed an entire block of build ings at Ettabena , Miss. , the loss aggre gating $75,000. During a dispute about a girl at New ark , Ohio. Harry Freincr shot and killed JEhomas Osborne , agedo years. CHICAGO'S SUBWAYS. The Busy Underground World of the Western Metropolis. The stranger visiting Chicago has no idea of the immense amount of traffic that is being carried on beneath his feet. As a matter of fact that enterprising western metropolis has developed a vast underground system so quietly that many of her own residents are unaware of its great extent. This compares quite favor ably with New York's method of sub way construction , where the people liter ally "tumbled" to the work by falling down the gaping chasms in the streets being operated upon or else were made aware of it by dynamite-hurled messages from the rending rocks. Without noise , dirt , smoke or the slightest delay to trallic , the central business district of Chicago has been honeycombed with these tunnels. Tiventy-eiirht miles al ready have been ronstructcd , and exten sions are projected. To the visitor , Chicago's principal streets might seem as much congested with trallic as ever and yet. far below their surface , scores of electric locomo tives are pulling freight trains that are taking thousands of tons of coal into the boiler rooms of skyscrapers , without dirt , noise or sign of effort in the street. They are removing tons of ashes , ami caring for the excavations from the basements < .f buildings in course of construction. More than ( his. they are hauling daily many thousands 01 tons of freight which was formerly carried over the pavements in wagons. Think of the relief this must afford ! But that is not all. There is another way in which the tunnel system will be used to materially advance Chicago's interests. On Feb. 15. TOO. * , the company entered into a contract with the government un der which all of Chicago's second , third and fourth-class mail matter will be transferred from the railway stations to the new postollice through the tunnels. A further plan to utilize the tunnel for mail purposes involves the building of chutes connecting the street corner mail boxes with boxes iu the tunnel , whero the mail can be collected by cars. When the new schemes are perfected and added to the present pneumatic tube service for first-class mail. Chicago will have the most perfect underground mail facilities in the world. Through the tun nels SOO tons of mail will be handled daily , in special locked United States cars. The system will be in operation by June 1. PATTERSON JURY DISAGREES. Show Girl Accused of Murder of Young to Go Free. The jury who have been trying Nan Patterson in New York for the murder of Caesar Young , the bookmaker , report ed that they were unable to reach an agreement , and Recorder Goff discharged them fromfurther consideration of the case. They had been sent back once to try again to reach a verdict. Nan Pat terson was remanded to the Tombs. This means she will soon go free , as the district attorney's oilice has aunouuc- XAX PATTKIISOX. od .she will not be tried airain in rase of a disagreement. One of the oflieers of the court said tho jury stood three for acquittal and nine for manslaughter in the iirst degree. Nan was in court when Iho jury came for the second time , but was in : i dead faint the whole time. A physician was sent for. but did not arrive , and Nan was carried back to her cell still uncon scious. ' 'Car-sar" Youngas kiilcil on .Tune 4. 100Jwhile riding in a cab with Nan Pat terson. She was arrested and has been tried three times on the charge of mur der. The first trial foiled because of tho illness of a juror. In the second trial the jury disagreed. The theory of Hie pros ecution was that the girl killed Young because he was about to sail to Europe to get rid of her. She declares he shot himself because lie had to leave her. Russia has nerve. She can talk bigger after a licking than any nation on earth. However , it is hardly a "square deal" to the lid to go away and leave Taft sitting on it. If Castro keeps lifting the lid to that little asphalt pot he'll fall in and sea id himself to death. Washington city hasn't even the ex citement of a horse race now to keep it Irom going asleep. The beef trust is about to receive an other indictment. But will the beef trust take notice of it ? Mrs. Chailwick will always regret that she never had the pleasure of meeting James llazcn Hyde. The farmers have had to pay high prices for their Hour , but they got good money for their wheat. Taft must have put his whole weight on the lid of the Yenexuela affair. Not even a squeal is heard. Japan accepted "friendly offices' ' once and was robbed of Port Arthur. She wants no more of them. When Secretary Taft sits on a monop oly it is never likely to look so plump and symmetrical afterward. Nevertheless , young Hyde is evidently a disappointment to those who supposed that he would quit under fire. Hfr JhriiiiMniii'"i * THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET. mK v < - - w T y ' * * ; , > $ m iililii ' ' " - > > % WAR DURING THE WEEK. No Important Developments in the Naval Game. The week's developments in the naval game in the China Sea make it clear that A'ice Admiral Rojestvensky will not undertake to give battle to Admiral Togo , or to make a dash for a safe harbor at Vladivostok until his fleet has been re-enforced by Rear Admiral Nebogatoff's division. Rojestveusky left the shelter of the French harbor .it Kamranh Bay just in time to prevent the neutrality crisis between Japan and France from as suming ao critical stage. Apparently he anchored just outside the three-niile limit , for French dispatches from Kamranh Bay said he would not leave the Annam coast until he was joined by Nebogatoff's ships. Concurrently the wires have been busy with rumors concerning Neboga toff's collection of antiques , which is to re-enforce Rojestvensky. This squadron may have reached the China Sea without having been observed by reliable witnesses , but that does not seem probable. Rojestvensky has now been three weeks in the China Sea , a time long enough , it would seem , to satisfy him that Togo has no intention of leaving the neighborhood of the Japanese naval bases to attack him. Admiral Togo is still keeping his fleet well away from the trade routes. Otherwise his vessels would have been reported long before this. In addition to the many ports which have been closed by the Japanese to com merce , the whoie of the island of For mosa has now been proclaimed to be tinder martial law. It might be in ferred from this that Togo was in waiting in Formosan waters , but such an Inference would be rash. Only rhe event will show where Togo elects to meet Rojestvensky. when Rojestven- sky elects to proceed on his course. No one knows where Togo's fleet is but Togo. There is , however , a quiet note of confidence in all Tokio dis patches , which indicates clearly thai In Japan , at least , there is no anxiety for the outcome of the naval combat when it does take place. The neutrality question seems to have settled itself. Probably if tho truth were known the Tokio statesmen were not nearly so angry with France as the Japanese newspapers represent ed , and doubtless France receive , ! nothingthat could by any stretch of diplomatic usage be called a "protest" or a "demand for an explanation. " As a matter of fact , It is clear thai- Japan has little to gain and much to lose by compelling a serious diplo matic breach with France over the neutrality question. It is easy to say that by coining to an open rupture with France over a real or fancied grievance Japan could call upon Eng land to fulfill the obligations of an ally. Such a contingency could be imagined , of course , but it Is clear that Japan might lose more than she could gain by dragging England and France Into the war. When four nations engage In war , necessarily four nations are concerned In the adjustment of the terms of , peace. At present Japan has proven .herself stronger than Russia on land , and sea. If Japan unaided can whip [ Russia then only Japan and Russia 'will be concerned In the peace settle- jment and Japan can dictate the terms. But If Japan drags France and England into the Avar the peace con ference will much resemble a confer ence of the powers and Japan , so far from being able to dicate terms alone , would be in the minority and com pelled to accept what she could get. Abolishes the Grand Jury. That ancient bulwark of Anglo-Saxon justice , the grand jury , is to be nbolish- ed in Minnesota. A constitutional amend ment for that purpose received 121,000 majority nt the recent election. Minne sota is the first place in the Anglo-Saxon world to do awa.v with the time-honored institution. The plant of the Condon-Lane Boom land Lumber Company , with the entire , town of Horton , W. Va. , consisting of iabout 150 company houses and millions of feet of lumber , were burned by a fire started in the woods by sparks from a donkey engine. The twin town of Whit- mer is threatened. Edward Kennedy , a Great Northern fireman , aged 70 , while boasting of hav ing never been sick a day , dropped dead at Havre , Mont. He organized the first fire company in Minneapolis DOZENS DIE IN WARSAW. Many Also Wounded in Clashes Be tween Troops and Workmen. Thirty-one persons were killed and many were wounded in a conflict at War saw , Russian Poland , between troops and workmen at Zelazna and Jeroschinska streets. A procession of workmen carry ing ivd flags was stopped by cavalry and infantry. The cavalry charged and the infantry fired a volley. Fifteen of th < ; wounded were removed to the hospital , but many others were taken to their homes. Another collision between sol diers and workmen is reported to have taken place at the corner of Zlote and Sosnowa streets. A military patrol fired on a crowd and killed or wounded twenty persons. According to the custom in Russia Easter Sunday and the days immediately succeeding are given up to feasting and rejoicing. The use of liquor is freely in dulged in , especially among the lower classes , and drunkenness is common ev erywhere. Agitators and anarchists take advantage of this condition of affairs to inflame the minds of the people , to in cite disorder and to cause uprisings. Even in ordinary times the police and military have difficulty in maintaining the peace. On account of the intense feeling arous ed by the massacres attendant upon tho strikes in St. Petersburg , Moscow , War saw and the other industrial centers in Russia in January last and the sending of conscriprs to the war in the far East the Easter holidays this year were looked forward to with great apprehension by the authorities and extensive prepara tions made to quell disturbances. Ac cording to the Russian calendar Easter Sunday fell on April 30 this year. Easter Sunday in Russia brought a re script from the Emperor of far greater importance than the absence of disorder , a rescript granting religious freedom throughout the empire. The ukase will benefit 30.000.000 believers in the old faith. 12.000.000 non-conformists , and THOUSANDS PERISHED. Frightful Destruction Wrought by the KarthquakcH in India. The recent earthquakes in India have been much more disastrous than at first supposed. Instead of a few hundred having been killed , the num ber of fatalities reaches 15,000 , with the prospect that hundreds , perhaps thousands , more may have perished. The affected area is 700 square miles in extent , with a population running up in the millions and thickly dotted with towns and villages. In this area nearly every building was damaged and many were entirely destroyed and their occupants with them. The town of Dharmsala was practi cally annihilated and nearly 500 Gurkha soldiers perished in the ruins ' . . * Ji THE V1CEUKOAL LODGE AT SIMLA. of their barracks. Several Europeans also perished. At Mussoorie much damage was dono to buildings and many persons were killed or injured. At Simla , which is the summer home of Lord and Lady Curzon , the latter an American , the damage wrought by the earthquakes was confined chiefly to property. Lady Curxon had a nar- VIEW OF KANGRA YALLEY , WHERE THE EARTH QUAKED. about 40,000.000 of alien faith , including Roman Catholics. Lutherans , Protestants , Mohammedans and Buddhists. Logically the ukase involves a com plete reversal of Russian policy of seek ing national unity in conquered provinces by compelling religious unity. Told In a Few Lines. The Loreto cotton factory , near Mex ico City , burned. Loss $200,000 , fully insured. A law was passed by the New York Legislature forbidding profanity in tele phone conversations. The Susquehanna planing mills , in Williamsport , Pa. , operated by George B. Breen , were destroyed by lire. Loss ? ? 30.000. A Brooklyn private watchman fatally shot a burglar making oft"with a $700 rug from the residence of George Pren- tiss of Brooklyn. Arthur Lutchford , secretary and treas urer of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Rochester , N. Y. . . committed suicide a : his home by shooting. Tight lacing caused Mrs. Violet O'Con nor of St. Louis to have cerebral hemor rhage and she died shortly after being stricken in the street. The British schooner Laconia was oc cupied five months and survived seven hurricanes and two-score storms hi a trip from a New Brunswick port to New York. Col. Nicholas Pike , a naturalist , au thor of a "Life of George Washington. " and many scientific works , is dead iu New York from paralysis. He wis ST years old. One of the highest prices ever brought by an autograph letter of Abraham Lin coln , has just been recorded at an auc tion sale in New York. The relic brought $110. row escape , a tali chimney crashing through the roof into the room direct ly above her bedroom. The populous city of Lahore and also the city of Delhi suffered severely. At Lahore at least seventjpersons were killed , while many more were injured. Near ly a score of towns and villages were damaged , buildings being demolished and thousands killed and injured. Earthquakes are of frrequent occur rence in India , a half a dozen serious ones occurring since the English oc cupation. In 1S42 northern India was shaken by a terrible convulsion , and in 1S07 Assam and Lower Bengal were similarly visited. The recent earth quakes are probably the most fatal In the history of India , though they fall far short of some of the great seismic disasters in other lands. Thus the earthquakes nt List/on / , Portugal , In 17."i. i. are credited with having de stroyed C.0.000 persons , while the dis turbances in Calabria. Italy , in 1S73 , wiped out 4O.OOO lives. It is estimated that as many as 1. , .0)0.f)00 ( ) ) human beings have been swept off the face of the earth by this awful visitation. Frederick II. Wilson , financial clerk In charge of the United States Indian ware- ho.use iu New York , whose dismissal to gether with' several clerks was ordered by Secretary of the. Interior Hitchcock , has not yet received ollicial notice of hi ? removal. A pitched hat tie was fought early th < j other morning bet-.veen two robbers and John C. Brutl. a saloonkeeper at Second and Braunau streets. San Francisco. Thomas Reilly. a laborer who was In the Bruit saloon at the time , was killed by one of the flying bullets. In After Years. "Women are certainly changeabls creatures , " said the weary-looking man. "What's the e.-cplanation ? " asked the friend of the family. "During our honeymoon. " answered the weary party , "my wife declared she could not live a dny without me. " "Well ? " queried the family friend. "Only last week , " continued tho other , "she tried to get me to insure my life for $10,000 in her favor. " Her Uelief. Nixon My wife Is too much of an orthodox to suit me. Homer Makes you get up and go to church Sunday mornings , eh ? Nixon No : but judging from her regular raids on my pocketbook she evidently believes in the theory that man is made of "dust. " A Tale oi' Suffering. Oakley , Mich. , May S. ( Special. ) " ! could not sleep or rest In any place , " says Florence Capen of this place in a recent interview , " 1 had a pain in rny back and hips. If I sat down I could not get up out of my chair. I was in pain all the time. I got poor for 1 did not eat enough to keep a small child. I could not rest nights. "Then I sent for a box of Dodd'a Kidney Pills and went to taking them and what do you think that very night 1 went to bed and I slept till morning. I got up and thanked God for tha night's rest and Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1 know that Uodd's Kidney Pills are all that is claimed for them. " This is only one of the numerous ex periences that show the way to build up run down people is to cure the kid neys. Thousands of people in every State bear witnesa to the fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to cura the kidneys. LONGfc.br OF ALL TUNNELS. Simplon Bore Under Alps , NOTT Nearly Complete , a Great "Work. The longest tunnel in the world is nearly finished the Simplon , twelve and one-half miles under the Alps , from Switzerland into Italy. Of the difficulties encountered Con sul Monaghau writes from Chemnitz , Germany : Work was started in August , lS9Sr | simultaneously from the Swiss and Italian sides. All the workmen are Italians , 4,000 beginning work at Brigue , Switzerland , and 0,000 at Iselle on the Italian side. Great streams of water were met , which it required much energy to turn aside. Then the engineers came upon moving sand , which threatened to till the shaft already drilled. Enormous wooden supports were used to stem its rush , but they went to pieces under the pressure and were replaced by steel stays to hold up the metal plates' ' to keep out the sand. Last , hot springs , were encountered. The rock Is mostly granite. By the ) Brandt drill the galleries on the Swiss , side were advanced twenty feet daily ) and often more. The Brandt drill , three inches in diameter , rotates slow ly and is kept at its work by a hy- . draulic pressure of ten tons on tha cutting face. The waste water is dis charged along the axis , and in this way the tool is kept cool and the rock dust is washed out. The undertaking consists of two par allel single tunnels fifty-six feet apart , ' connected at every 300 feet by trans- verse galleries. The workers are supplied with oS.OOO cubic feet of air a minute. The water discharged by drains cut in the rock amounts to r ,000 gallons a minute. Shifts change every eight hours. Tho men are brought out in heated cars and taken to a warm station , where they change their clothes. The work men's clothing is hung up in hot rooms to dry. that it may be iit for the next day's work. Sleeping apartments are also arranged for the men at a low price. New York World. COFFEE HEART Very Plain in Some People. A great many people go on suffering from annoying ailments for a long1 time before they can get their own consent to give up the indulgence fromt which their trouble arises. A gentleman in Brooklyn describes ais experience , as follows : "I became satisfied some months ago that I owed the palpitation of tha tieart , from which I suffered almost 3aily , to the use of coffee ( I had been a coffee drinker for 30 years ) , but I found it very hard to give up the bev erage. "I realized that I must give np tho harmful indulgence in coffee , but I felt the necessity for a hot table drink , and as tea is not to my liking , I was at a loss for a while what to do. "One day I ran across a very sen sible and straightforward presentation of the claims of Postum Food Coffee , and was so impressed thereby that I concluded to give it a trial. My ex perience with it was unsatisfactory till I learned how it ought to be pre pared by thorough boiling for not less than l. > or 20 minutes. After I learned that lesson there was no trou ble. Postum Food Coffee proved to be a most palatable ami satisfactory hot beverage , and I have used it ever since. "The effect on my health has been most salutary. It has completely cured the heart palpitation from which I used to suffer so much , particularly after breakfast , and I never have a re turn of it except when I dine or lunch away from home and am compelled to drink the old kind of coffee because Postum is not served. I find that Postum Food Coffee cheers and invig- . orates , while it produces no harmful stimulation. " Name given by Postum Co. . Battle Creek. Mich. here's a reason. en days' trial proves an eye opener to many. Read the little book "The Road to Wellville" in every pka.
