„ . 1 Ill . . ' . - . . , , _ _ _ _ , , " . ' . . - ' ' . " ? j . ' , ' - - .14 . > . - - i ; ; . . The Valentine Democrat 1 , ' " . ' / VALENTINE , NEB. i , < i : ' I. M. RICE , - - - Publisher. ! . " ' " _ * - - rm" - - - r I Why is a housefly , anynowr The merciful man is now very men i clful to his beast. I ! . . We know of some cats that never fail to come back. . , I The Moros seem to be less dan I I f gerous than ice cream cones. ' I II I i 15 I I . . There are 130,000 foreign waiters I h i : In London , all with palms extended. ; ! { 11 How aeronauts have cities at their i , : I . mercy in mimic warfare is becoming I amazing. 1 ! With . a new record every day It d , ' seems there Is no limit to the powers . I of an aeroplane. 'I ' I The Chicago woman whose ear was ! : bitten off by her husband , probably . didn't feed him enough. I , I' ' i s : There is a very bad $2 bill in circu- lation. Insist on getting your change I : in twenties and fifties. ' \ ' I A Kansas judge rules that It Is the 'I ' duty of pedestrians to dodge automo- I biles. Also the necessity. ti I . Few horses are wearing bonnets * I this season , probably because bonnets I \ are absolutely out of style. I If you can't swim stay near the I shore. If you can swim be satisfied to tell your friends about it. I i . I : Two Philadelphians have lost their I lives running for trains. Such unusual taste ' was sure to be fatal in Philadel { phia. . . Just bottle up your weather grouch and strike a temperature average for the year on the 31st day of next De- . . cember. i It may soon be possible to telephone ) c to England from the United States. ! ) . Very well , but how about getting mon-j ey that way ? ! Still there is an abiding of optimIs- tic faith that it will prove easier to dodge an aeroplane than an automo- bile or motorcycle. ! ' It would seem that more people are ! giving their lives to the perfection ol I the aeroplane than to any former scientific achievement. I In twenty-seven years the Kimber- ; I ley diamond mines have yielded $420 000,000 worth of diamonds : Still our t i < western cornfields do a lot better than ( " "U that The man who is earning his own liv ing in these days , however mildly he may be going about it , is truly enough earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. timorous males who are frightened at the way women are invading men's , , -occupations should take heart at the I success some achieve in trimming , hats. . Going down to the sea in ships was the ancient idea of peril. , But it was common place safety beside going up in the air in the most modern style of ships. - Ten or fifteen deaths among the comparatively few aeronauts and avia- tors in the last few months are not only depleting their ranks but showing up air flights as mighty dangerous $ astiming. In printing the new passenger tick- ets to be used on airship lines care should be taken to have it specified that stop-over privileges may be had when necessary without the signature of the conductor. Counterfeit buttermilk is being sold In some of the drug stores in the , east , and the health authorities say it Is yery dangerous. Will it never be pos sible to get a good thing that the coun- terfeiters can't counterfeit ? Farmers after experiment report that the cows yield their milk better when the phonograph is kept going in & he barn at milking time. This seems to offer a grand scheme of relief in fche r form of moving all the phono- graphs to all the cow barns. 'I ' I : The oil-burning torpedo boat de stroyer Roe reached a speed of 31 I inots an hour in a test off the Dela- , ' - " ware breakwater , although the con- tract requirement was only 28 knots , , : and Is now acknowledged to be the ; , fastest exclusively oil-burning torpedo ' \ . boat'destroyer in the United States , ; navy. The American shipbuilder has , the reputation of cultivating a margin , , of safety , and turning out boats which exceed the maximum requirements of , .contracts. . I , When the automobile collides with 'the ' locomotive it is seldom that the latter has to go to the repair shop. The work of a contributing editor ; Is sometimes made difficult by the friends who insist on coming around during office hours to talk politics and. tell hunting storieE. r . Having all the news about the hot spell that was fit to print , and some that was not news , it seems that we ; might have a litle cool weather for ' variety In the news columns. . - - - , . ti . - - . - - * - . - : . . . . . . . . , , - . r - ; . : : . - . . ; _ _ . ' * ' : - n : , " . . : , ' _ . ' _ - , v - ' - .j ! . \ ' : : , St ' - \ , ' . - . : . - - : , , . , . . . . " . , . . " , " . I ; . WHITE CITYIN RUINS . BELGIUM'S WORLD'S FAIR IS DE STROYED BY FIRE ON SUNDAY. LOSS PLACED AT $100,000,000 J Sunday Visitors at Colony Island , the Amusement District , Become Pan- icky and Fight Madly to Escape- * Many Badly Injured. Brussels.-The white city of the world's -fair , as the Belgians have call- ed their 1910 exposition , is a mass of ruins. A spark falling into inflamma- ble material in the telegraph building Sunday burst up in flames , which , driven by a high wind , swept rapidly in all directions. Soon the Belgian , English and French sections were de stroyed. The firemen and detchments of sol diers , called quickly to the scene , found themselves baffled by the ver- itable gale , which carried the burning embers to all parts of the grounds. To the left from the main building arose the picturesque roofs and spires of "Bruexelles Kermesz , " a Belgian colony island with water chutes , to- boggan slides and scores of side shows. This place was alive with Sunday crowds , and before they could be got- ten out with any semblance of order the Kermesz was afire. The crowds became panic stricken , and men , women and children fought madly to escape. The exits became choked with the struggling mass and men used their fists to clear the path- way. Many were trampled under foot and badly injured. An engine corps from Antwerp at- tempted to dynamite the bridge of the French section in the hope of check- ing the fires , but the flames leaped across and engulfed the Italian , Rus- sian , Austrian , Japanese , Chinese and Norwegian buildings. Forty houses on the Avenue Solboch , adjoining the exposition , were destroyed. . Considering the rapidity of the con- flagration , the small loss of life is marvelous. So far as was known , up , to a late hour Sunday night , only two are dead. The injured , as officially announced , number 30 , but probably many hundreds received minor hurts. The monetary loss by the fire is esti mated at $100,000,000. FAMOUS WAR NURSE DEAD Passing of Florence Nightingale in London-Won Glory in the Crimea. London.-Florence Nightingale , the famous nurse of the Crimean war and the only woman who ever received the Order of Merit , died Saturday' after- noon at her London home. Although she had been an invalid fora long time , rarely leaving her room , her death was somewhat unexpected. A week ago she was quite sick , but then improved , and on Friday was cheerful. During that night alarming symptoms developed and she gradually sank until 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon , when an attack of heart failure brought the end. end.Her Her funeral will be as quiet as possi- ble , in accordance with her wishes. i During recent years , owing to her fee- I bleness and advanced age , Miss Night- ingale had received but few visitors. On May 12 last she celebrated her 90th birthday. Florence Nightingale was born May 12 , 1820. She was the first woman to follow a modern army into battle as nurse , and in the Crimean war gained the title of "Angel of the Crimea. " An Increase I Shown. Washington , D. C.-The government derived $289,728,015 from collections of internal revenue , including the cor- poration tax , during the fiscal year ended June 30 last , according to the preliminary report of Commissioner of Internal Revenue Babell. This is an increase of 43,515,296 over the pre vious fiscal year. Settlers Are Homeless. Spokane.-Settlers on the big creek of the St. Joseph river in the Coueur "dA'lene district in Idaho , are report- ed to have been driven from their homes by the ravages of forest fires. Mayor of El Paso Killed. El Paso , Tex. - Mayor W. E. Rob- inson lost his life while endeav- oring to warn a number of firemen of Imminent danger from a tottering wall. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Sioux City.-Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Top hogs , $8.30.rrop beeves , ' $7.50. Armored Cruiser Floated. Portsmouth , Eng.-The British ar mored cruiser , Duke of Edinburgh , which went ashore off Cowes Satur- day , was refloated early Sunday with the aid of tugs. The cruiser is not damaged. Carried Sixteen Passengers. l\Iunich.-The dirigible balloon Pai- seval VI. made a successful flight Sunday with sixteen passengers aboard. . The dirigible remained ID the air for one hour and a half. " . .Jo . I , - - - - " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . - - - \ , . . . . ' . , I . . t GORE BARES LOBBY SECRETS AGAIN REFERS TO SHERMAN IN LAND INQUIRY. McMurray , the Alleged Promoter , Shown to Have Operated a Cam paign of Telegrams. McAlester , Okla.-Senator T. P. Gore at the investigation of the Indian land deals Tuesday introduced and had read to the special committee tele- grams in which the names of Vice- President Sherman and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas were named. One of the telegrams read : "With McMurray there to state our claims , with Mr. Curtis and Mr. Sher- man , who understands better than anybody else what we want , and with the assistance of our president , it be- gins to look like we are coming into our own. " ' Its relation to Senator Gore's charges of having been offered $25,000 bribe to "put through" congress the $30,000,000 McMurray Indian land deal was explained by the senator. "It merely shows the activity of the McMurray interests at Washington , " said Senator Gore. "By offering this evidence , .I do not wish to reflect either on Mr. Sherman or Mr. Cur- tis , " said the senator. "Do you mean that as an exonera- tion from you of Mr. Sherman ? " asked Dennis Flynn , attorney for McMurray. "It is merely to state that if the names of these men were taken in vain at one time they may have been at another , " replied Mr. Gore. McAlester , Okla.-Six hundred In- dians assembled at a "war council" at Sulphur , Okla. , and , using up almost an entire bottle of ink , wrote their sig- natures individually to the McMurray land contracts. Although informed that J. F. Mc- Murray , holder of the contracts , would net a profit of from $2,000,000 to $3- 000,000 in "attorneys' fees , " the In- dians were advised that the contracts afforded the quickest way to realize on their land , estimated to be 450,000 acres In extent , and valued at $30- 000,000 to $40,000,000. In addition to the land contracts , McMurray's agents had the Indians sign contracts for tax cases against the government at a stated fee for each case. The land fee was 10 per cent. , contingent upon the sale of the land. James H. Godfrey , a ChIckasaw In- dian by intermarriage , gave this tes timony before the congressional in- vestigating committee Wednesday. Godfrey said he induced the Indians to assemble at Sulphur to persuade them to sign the contracts , almost 10,000 of which McMurray previously had obtained. McMurray , he said , had been successful In previous litiga- tion for the Indians and the Indians believed if they paid him 10 per cent. attorneys' fees he would be able to urge the authorities at Washington to expedite the sale. ILLINOIS MINERS' FIGHT ON President Lewis Is Hissed at Opening of Special Convention in * Indianapolis. Indianapolis , Ind. - The fight over the Illinois compromise agreement be- gan before the special International convention of miners. At the opening session President Lewis counseled harmony In a speech - - . ' 'it ! w 1vi + ) . . . . Thomas L. Lewis. to the. delegates. His report on the strike situation in the entire country brought hoots and hisses , when he mentioned the recommendation to the Illinois strikers to pay all over 1 * & cents a ton of the cost of shot-firers. Secretary Perry of the miners came out as an opponent of President Lewis and recommended that the convention make the Illinois strike the main is- sue of the international union to be fought until all the demands of the proposed Peoria agreement have been accepted by the operators. Wire Franks Called In. New York.-Following the revoca tion of railroad passes which the in terstate commerce law abolished sev- eral years ago , the telegraph compa- nies announce that the telegraph franking privilege is soon to be with drawn from those who have used it. Congressman Lamb Renominated. Richmond , Va.-By a majority of 700 to 800 , in a vote of about 6,000 , .Congressman Lamb of this , the Third district i , has been renominated for re election ' l by the Democratic . primary. l : _ _ . - - - - - - - ' - . " " " " . - 1. - . - " ' - . ; _ : _ . _ " " , . , t t - : f ' { OH , YOUNG LOCHINVAR CAME OUT OF THE WEST 1 - - - - - - . . , . . " ' : : . . Y M I , - - .rrrr . ' II 1 I I , - . ) cD - " . , - - : - : : : . . . -I gf i 1A r - - - - - - - - - = - - - - . . . . = : : : ; . ' ' : : : - = - - - - - - = = - - : 0r- - - . : - - - = - - - - - . = . - . - . . . . - = . . - - = F , . , . . ' - - . . . . . - - = : : ; r - - - : # /V ' (1 'J .I'ovRoIV : Ao-- _ = . - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEW TARIFF MAKES BI6 GAIN TREASURY FIGURES SHOW AD- VANCE OVER BANNER YEAR. In First Twelve Months Act Produces $75,000,000 More Than In 1907. Washington. - The Payne-Aldrich tariff law has produced in Its first year a revenue larger by 575,000,000 than the sum collected in any twelve months in the country's history , ex- cept the banner year 1907 , according to treasury department figures issued Monday. . During the first full year , ended last Saturday night , the total ordinary re- ceipts , including customs , ordinary in- ternal revenue , corporation tax and miscellaneous , aggregating $678,850- 816 , exceeded disbursements by $20- 214,029. These ordinary receipts were larger by $15,000,000 , approximately , than during 1907 , and the 1907 re- ceipts exceeded those of any other year of record by almost $60,000,000. Although there was a deficit of $58- 734,955 In the ordinary operations of the government in the fiscal year end- ed June 30 , 1909 , there was a surplus of more than $20,000,000 ' In the year which ended last Saturday , according to 'the department. The corporation-tax revenue was $27,090,934 , which is only $207,000 less than the amount assessed. RAPER WINS KNIGHTS' DRILL Indianapolis Commandery Captures First Honors , Cincinnati Is Sec- ond , Kansas City Third. Chicago. - Raper commandery No. 1 , of Indianapolis , captured first hon- ors in the competitive drill open to all Knights Templar commanderies out- side of Cook county. Hanselmann commandery , No. 16 , of Cincinnati , was awarded second prize , and Oriental commandery , No. 35 , of Kansas City , took third prize. Raper's trophy is an immense silver libation fountain with silver cups. An international concordat between Knights Templar organizations of England , Scotland , Ireland , Canada and the United States was formally ratified and adopted by the grand com- mandery of the United States at the first real business meeting of the sIx- ty-first triennial conclave. It Is agreed that no commandery or other branch of the order in one coun- try shall be organized in another country which is In the alliance. Each grand encampment , or grand priory , as they are termed in other countries , is given exclusive jurisdic- tion In its own country , and no other Templar body may be organied or conducted therein. DISASTROUS FIRE IN BOSTON Property in Business Center of the City , Valued at $2,000,000 Is Destroyed. Boston.-Driven by a strong south- west gale flames destroyed property valued at $2,000,000 here Tuesday night and for a time seriously threat- ened to wipe out the business and manufacturing part of the city. A general alarm called all the fire apparatus in the city to the scene and later a call for help was sent to Brookline , Cambridge and Somerville and all the available fire fighting ap paratus in those towns was rushed to the scene of the conflagration. Naval Collier at Bottom. Norfolk , Va.-The naval collier Mar- cellus lies at the bottom of the At- lantic in latitude 36 , longitude 74:08 , having sunk ten hours after she was struck by the Norwegian fruit steam- er Rosario di Giorgio. ' Langford Refuses to Fight. Philadelphia . - The bout between Al Kaufman of California and Sam Lang- ford , scheduled to take place at the Philadelphia ball park Thursday night . was called off becauue Langford re ' . fus . $ to f cl1t- \ . \ . . . - AERONAUT IS HURT BY FALL Walter Brookins' Machine Crashes In- to Crowd of Spectators-High Wind Causes Accident. Asbury Park , N. J.-Walter A. ! Brooklns , the aviator , and seven spec- tators were seriously injured at the Interlaken field Wednesday when Brookins , in a new type of Wright bi- plane , attempted to effect a landing in a high wind , after making a sensa- tional flight. George Burnett , fourteen years old , living at Spring Lake , . N. J. , was pinned under the wreckage and Is dy- ing at the Long Branch hospital as the result of a fractured skull , dislo- cated hip and Internal injuries. BrookIns , although pinned under the heavy motor , escaped with a broken nose and contusions about the head and body. The accident might have cost many lives , if it had not been for Brookins' presence of mind. In order to inaugurate Asbury Park's aviation meet on schedule time , he I went up shortly after four o'clock in I a gusty wind blowing at the rate of 30 miles an hour. As he was about to descend with one of his spectacular spiral turns he lost control of the machine. Being directly over the grand stand the machine dived for the panic-stricken crowd. Realizing that the result would be frightful if the craft fell on the spec- tators , caught like rats In a trap , BrookIns managed to swing the ma- chine around at an angle still more acute. But the aeroplane was too close to the ground to make the maneuver entirely successful. It barely cleared the heads of the wildly hysterical crowd , when It smashed into the grand stand at the end of the field. The groups of attaches there were unable to escape over a high wire fence designed to keep out the crowd. All of them were pinned under the wreckage. BUTTER BLENDERS BARRED . Product Produced by Machines Is Pronounced to Be An Adul- teration. Washington. - Commissioner Cabell of the internal revenue bureau is hot after those persons using butter mer- gers or blenders to increase the but- ter supply of the country. He is sending to collectors and oth- er agents of the internal revenue a circular branding as adulterated but- ter , within the terms of the law , the products of these machines. Briefly the decision is that the use of so-called butters mergers and blend- ers for emulsifying certain quantities of milk and butter subjects the prod- uct to a tax of 10 cents per pound as adulterated butter and the manufac- turer or manipulator to a special tax of $600 per annum , if such goods are sold. If oils are used in this process the product is oleomargarine and sub ject to all the provisions of that law. The merger macnines claim to make two pounds of butter from one pound of butter and one pint of milk. Indiana Sons of America. Glenwood , Ind.-The state camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of America of Indiana was held here Tues- day , opening with the address of President O. Perry Everson of Craw- fordsvlile * The report of Secretary Sam D. Symmes showed that the or- der was in excellent condition in the state and that five new camps were soon to be Instituted. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster Dead. Washington. - Mrs. J. Ellen Foster , one of the most noted women lawyers and civicists in the country , died in Garfield hospital , Thursday. Mrs. Fos - ter , who was seventy years of age , had been seriously ill for several months. . Alleged Murderess Dead. Newark , N. J. - Miss : Virginia O. Wardlaw , one of the three sisters un der indictment for the murder of Mrs. Ocey W. M. Snead , died Thursday in : ' a . cell in the house of detention - here. : I - - - - . _ . - - - - - - - - . iI I i Jr II FOUR SHOT TO DEATH ! I - . MAN , WIFE AND SON AND WOM ; AN'S FATHER SLAIN , IN { , CHICAGO. ; OFFICERS ACCUSE HUSBAND ) W. J. Myers and Spouse Had Quar- : reted and Separated-Police Be lieve Former , Who Was Crack Shot : Fired Fatal Bullets. \ I Chicago.-As the result of a tragedy . which occurred at their home , 2934 ; Cottage Grove avenue , on Thursday , . 0 W. J. Myers , aged forty yearshis ; wife Grace , twenty-five years old , their seven-year-old son Ralph and Frank Bouton , Mrs. Myers' father , are- dead. Each of the four had been killed by a bullet and the police are convinced ; ' that all of the fatal missiles were- . - fired by W. J. Myers , the proprietor of a shooting gallery , a crack shot. All the bullets had penetrated the brains ; ' of the victims : Myers had been living apart from. his wife and child and this circum- : ; stance , together with the fact that the : revolver was found beside him , con- ' vinced the police that he shot the ; other three and killed himself. Myers and his wife are said by the ] police to have quarreled and separated ; several weeks ago and the woman Is } declared to have caused his arrest re- ; ; cently. He Is said to have been placed ! under a bond to keep the peace. Since : that time he' had not been living at } the family home. The police found all four dead or dy ing In the flat. The body of Mrs. My- : ! ers lay on the kitchen floor , with ; ! blood flowing from a wound In her head. In a narrow hall leading from' ; ) the kitchen to the dining room was ! the body of Ralph Myers , the son. Bouton lay on the kitchen floor near the rear door , a few feet away from ; that of Mrs. Myers. Myers , the hus- : ; band , was found dead across a bed in ! a room adjoining the kitchen. A re- , volver , the only weapon found In the flat , lay on the floor beside the bed. BEEF OFFICIAL IS INDICTED ! Manager of Armour & Co. Accused of : Giving Perjured Testimony Be- r fore Grand Jury. Chicago.-Thomas G. Lee , manager- - of the dressed beef sales department ! of Armour & Co. , was Indicted for per- ! jury by the federal grand jury ThurS- : , day. A bench warrant was issued for ! his arrest. . The grand jury sent a report to Judge K. M. Landis , in which it was charged that stenographers' notebooks * of Armour & Co. , containing informa , tion which the grand jury wanted , had ! been destroyed. The report also se- . verely arraigns A. R. Urion , chief ; ) counsel of the packing company and ! ! . ' president of the board of education , , with other 'officials. educauonr/ Judge Landis issued an order conn { * manding A. R. Urion , George M. Wil- 4 litts , assistant office manager , and W. , W. Shaw and W. A. Helander , em- ployes of the concern , to appear be'i 'i { fore him and answer the charge. Henry Edmunds , chief of the sta , tionery department of Armour & Co. , , appeared before the grand jury August - " , 5. He stated that he was unable to produce the b oks. Attorney "Orion Is charged by the grand jury with saying that there were : no books and that if there were none/ Edmunds could not get them. Lee is charged with perjury in his : ; testimony before the grand jury on.- July 28. He is said to have made false- statements regarding weekly meet ings of representatives of the packing corporations , at which , the grand jury declares , prices were fixed and agree- ments were made regarding the quan- tity of fresh meat each company was. to ship in interstate commerce. JOE GANS , PUGILIST , DEACfc ' : Former Lightweight : Champion Suo * cumbs to Ravages of Tubercu- . losis at His Home. Baltimore , Md.-The "Old Master" ' has taken the final count. Joe Gans J : ; former lightweight champion of the world , died here Wednesday of con sumption. The most popular and most sklllfulj negro boxer who ever appeared before ? the public , a favorite for close on 20J years , he died , as he wished to - In the : arms of his mother. It was that he ! might be with his old "mammy" atl ! the end that the great fighter madej his race with death a week ago , hurw rying on from Arizona. , Only a few friends had seen him ? since he left for Arizona a few weeks ? , in the vain and desperate ago hope off checking the white plague. When he ! ! came back he was little more than a' ' skeleton , scarcely able to whisper , ! j and weighed but 65 pounds. Immigrants Arriving in July 52727' New York. - In the month of July ! 52,727 citizens of foreign lands eu-j I en - tered the port of New -York and of thi J number the Ellis island records class- 12,985 as illiterate. The numbe ! barred was 1,127. The Immigrants ! brought $1,537,794 in money. . N . Promotion Slow , Fireman - . a Suicide . , Newark , N. Frederick J. Hebrine , ? . a Newark fireman , committed suicide' 1 ' Thursday at the home : of an aunt be . cause of his failure to win rapid nroJ motion . , - ' - , uJ . . e : . " " . , .