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Si-3? '1vi 'ssss-' r-- 1 l t Vi-- :rv ----i v' - " 'Tl'W- v- "-V4 QV 1 ! V si? r:1- sV ?- . trVV?'? If Oe m BaS el r Beea fflmmal WHOLE NUMBER 1 .712. VOLUME XXXJII.-NUMBER 48. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1903. i -." ? - I: I" IS URGED TO ACT PRESIDENT SENDS A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL Action is Asked in Behalf of Humanity as Well as From the Standpoint of Wise Government President Points Out What Is Needed. WASHINGTON. The president on Friday sent the following message to the senate: "I have just received a cable from Governor Taft, which runs as' follows: "'Necessity for the passage of the house bill is most urgent. The condi tions of productive industry and busi ness are considerably worse than in November, the date of my last report, and are growing worse each month. Some revival in sugar and tobacco prices hae been experienced, due to the expectation of a tariff law. The interests of Filipinos in sugar and to bacco are excessive and the failure of the bill will be a blow in the face of those interests. A number of tobacco lactones will have to close and many sugar haciendas will be put up for sale at a sacrifice if the bill should not pass. "'Customs receipts have fallen oif this month one-third, showing the de crease of the purchasing power of the islands. General business is stagnant. All parties, including labor unions, most strenuously petition for the tariff bill.' "Vice Governor Luke Wright en dorses in the strongest manner all that Governor Taft has said and says he has the gravest apprehensions as to the damage that may come to the islands if there is not a substantial reduction In the tariff levied against Philippine goods coming into the United States. I most earnestly ask that this matter receive the immedi ate attention of congress and that the relief prayed for be granted. "As congress knows, a series of calamities have befallen the Philip pine people. Just as they were emerg ing from nearly six years of devastat ing warfare, with the accompanying destruction of property and the break ing up of the bonds of social order and the habits of peaceful industry, there occurred an epidemic of rinderpest which destroyed 90 per cent of the caribous, the Philippine cattle, leaving the people without draught animals to till the land or to aid in the ordinary work of farm and village life. The extent of the disaster can be seen from the tact that the surviving caribous have increased over ten fold in value. At the same time a peculiar oriental horse disease became epidemic, further crippling transportation. The rice crop already reduced by various causes to but a fourth of its ordinary size, has ucen camaged by locusts so that the price of rice has nearly doubled. "Under these circumstances there is imminent danger of a famine in the islands. Congress is in course of gen erously appropriating 3.000.000 to meet the immediate needs, but the in dispensible and pre-eminent need is the resurrection of productive indus try from the prostration into which it has been thrown by the causes above enumerated. "i ask action in the tariff matter not merely from the standpoint of wise governmental policy, but as a measure of humanity in response to an appeal to which this great people should not close its ears. We have assumed re sponsibility toward the Philippines which we are in honor bound to ful fill. We have the specific duty of tak ing every measure in our power to see to their prosperity. The first and moss important step in this direction has been accomplished by the joint action of the military and civil au thorities in securing peace and civil government. The wisdom of congress at the present session has provided fur them a stable currency, and its spirit of humane liberality and justice will be shown in the appropriation now substantially agreed upon, but there remains a vuai neuu imu "i" thing further shall be done. The calamities which have befallen them as above enumerated could have been averted by no human wisdom. They cannot be completely repaired, but the suffering can be greatly alleviated and a permanent basis of future prosper ity assured if the economic relations of the islands with the United States arc put upon a satisfactory basis. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." President Vetoes the Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C The presi dent on Monday sent to the senate a veto of the bill to place Francis S. Davidson, lately a first lieutenant of the United States cavalry, on the re tired list. He points out that the of ficial was dismissed twenty-seven years ago and has rendered no serv ice to the government since, and says it would be an injustice to other offi cers with honorable records to retire Davidson. Right to Tax Railroad Stock. WASHINGTON, D. C In an opin ion delivered by Justice Holmes in the case of Kidd against the state of Alabama, the United States supreme court Monday held that a state has the right to tax the stock of railroads incorporated in another state, which is held by an estate In the state seek ing to exercise the power. The opin ion affirmed the decision of the su preme court of the state of Alabama. FOUR NEW BATTLESHIPS. Naval Appropriation Bill Provides for Building. WASHINGTON. Senator Hale,from the committee on naval affairs, report ed the naval appropriation bill. The most important amendment recommended by the committee re late? to the increase of the navy. The entire house provision is stricken out and in its stead provision is made for four first class battleships of the gen eral type of the Oregon and two first class armored cruisers of the type of the Brooklyn. The battleships are to cost not exceeding $3,200,000 each and the cruisers $2,750,000. The battleships are to be of 12,000 tons displacement, and the cruisers of 9,500 tons. There i3 a provision that not more than two of these vessels shall be built by one establishment, and for the building of any or all of them in the government yards in case of a combination to deprive the gov ernment of the benefit of fair compe tition. BILL TO DIVIDE NEBRASKA. It is Dead for This Session of Con gress, at Least. WASHINGTON The bill to divide Nebraska into two judicial districts has gone glimmering. A prominent member of the sub-committee of the house committee on judiciary stated that the bill would be reported out of the committee. The members, he stated, did not think there was any necessity for such a measure, the at torney general having opposed it, and his opinion was known to all. In ad dition to this several members of the Nebraska delegation had expressed themselves as opposed to the division of the state. It is safe to prognosti cate, said the member, that the meas ure will not pass the house, at least not at this session. R. J. GATLING ENDS BUSY LIFE. Famous Inventor of Gun Dies at an Advanced Age. NEW YORK R. J. Galling, invent or of the Gatling gun, died here Thursday at the home of his son-in-law, Hugh E. Pentecost. Dr. Gatling died very suddenly in the arms of his daughter, Mrs. Pente cast At 1:13 Dr. Gatling returned home from a trip down town on busi ness to the office of the Scientific American. Being 84 years of age, and accustomed to resting after any physical effort, he told his daughter he would lie down. Shortly after ward he commenced to breathe heav ily, and a physician was called and he administered strychnine, but to no avail, and Dr. Gatling died in his daughter's arms a few minutes after ward. AUTHORESS "KORADINE" DIES. Victim of Scarlet Fever, Caused by Improper Diet. CHICAGO The funeral of Miss Cora Dean, better known as "Kora dinc." who achieved renown as a writer of short stories, occurred here Wednesday. Miss Dean died of scar let feer, after an illness of a week. The fact that the young authoress had restricted her diet for borne time to uncooked foods and was accustomed to omit the morning meal in pursu ance of a system exploited by a local physician, is believed by the friends of Miss Dean to have rendered her peculiarly susceptible to the disease which caused her death, and her death is.in a measure, attributed to these practices. The body was sent to Bloomingdale, Mich., where it will be interred on Sunday. CONSUL SAWTER IS AFRAID. He Decides to Not Accept Post Be cause of the Yellcw Fever. GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. United States Consul General Sawter and Mrs. Sawter, who arrived here Febru ary 25. via Payta. Peru, have started on their return to the United States, on the steamer which brought them south. Mr. Sawter. it is alleged, be came afraid of the yellow fever when he saw the consulate where Thomas Nast. the former consul general, died December 7 of the fever. Strong winds have caused an over flow of the Allausi river. Some dam age has been done to the railroad line to Quito, but traffic will be resumed in a few days. Will Stop Tratfic in Women. ST. LOUIS. Mo. The Post-Dispatch Thursday says: Startling dis closures of a system of traffic in young women under police protection are to be made by the grand jury as the re sult of a raid on resorts which begun under the direction of Circuit Attor ney Folk. There are said to be many agents in country towns about St. Louis who daily send recruits to SL Louis, luring them from home with promises of lucrative employment. Say Member Askrd Bribes. OLYMPIA. Wash. A formal charge against Representative Lcuis Levy of King county was filed in the house Tuesday, charging him with soliciting bribes in connection with the inves tigation of the state printing contract The speaker appointed a committee of five to investigate the charges. The senate passed a high liquor license bill and the house defeated the anti pass bill and the anti-trust bill. A BIG FIRE LOSS CINCINNATI SUFFERS A GREAT CONFLAGRATION. DAMAGE IS TWO MILLIONS Flames Rage for Nearly Twelve Hours Half a Square in Heart of City is Totally Destroyed Pike Theater and Scores of Offices Burned. CINCINNATI. This city was visited witn a fire Thursday that destroyed one-half of a square in the center of the business district and caused a loss of over $2,000,000. The fire departments of Covington, Newport and other Kentucky 4 towns eune promptly to the assistance of the local firemen, but it took twelve hours before their combined efforts got the fire under control. Crews were at work all the time on the roofs of sur rounding buildings, and a general con flagration was narrowly averted. It was perhaps the greatest scare the city ever had. as it was thought at one time that the entire business sec tion was doomed and such would have been the case if there had been a high wind. Joseph Shaefer and John Kennan were seriously injured by falling walls, but both will recover. Captain O'Keefe, with seven firemen, was caught oa the roof of one of the buildings, and -all came near perish ing when the flames broke out under them, but they were rescued in the nick of time, and it is not believed airy lives were lost About 1:30 Thursday morning flames were discovered in the cellar of George Joffe's grocery building on Fourth street, between Vine and Walnut. An hour later there was an explosion, sup posed to come from some liquors in storage, and the flames soon after ward shot up through the roof of the six story stone front building, and from that time on for several hours the fire was beyond control. The Pike building was totally de stroyed, including the offices of the United States Express company, the Adams Express company, White's res taurant, owned by Maynard & Kerr; George Joffe's grocery, John B. Mar tin's restaurant, Empson's confection ery. Henry Strauss' cigar store and the offices of the Pike Theater com pany on the first floor, the Pike thea ter auditorium and green rooms and other offices on the second floor and all of the offices on the third, fourth and fifth floors. The Seasor Good building, adjoining the Pike building on the west, at the corner of Vine and Fourth streets, was badly damaged. CORBETT AND HANLON FIGHT. Mill is a Fast and Furious One and is Decided a Draw. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal After twenty rounds of the fastest fighting ever seen in San Francisco, Referee Grancy decided the bout between Young Corbett of Denver and Eddie Hanlon of San Francisco a draw. Young Corbett clearly demonstrated to the crowd present that he has not gone back, as some sporting writers would have the public believe. Han lon also showed that the high opin ion in which he has been held by California boxing enthusiasts had been justified. The contest, from a spectacular stand, was the best ever witnessed on the coast, both men putting up a clean, hard, scientific contest. Something to Look Forward To. ST. LOUIS. Mo. The will of Prof. Sylvester Waterhouse, a prominent ed ucator of St. Louis, who died Febru ary 12, 1902. has just been made pub lic. He left $45,000, divided as fol lows: Washington university, $25,000; Missouri Historical society. $5,000; Philip Exeter academy, $5,000; Har vard university, $5,000; Dartmouth college, $3,000. Tax Franchise in One State Only. WASHINGTON, D. C The United States supreme court on Monday de cided the case of the Louisville an Jeffersonville Ferry company adverse ly to the contention of the state of Kentucky that that state had the right to tax not only the company's Kentucky franchise, but also its In diana franchise. The opinion was de livered by Justice Harlan, who said that the Kentucky authorities had no jurisdiction over the Indiana fran chise. The opinion reversed the de cision of the Kentucky court of ap peals. Money to Pay Prize Degree. WASHINGTON, D. C The secre tary of the treasury on Wednesday transmitted a letter to the senate from the attorney general, recommending an appropriation of $946,063 to satisfy the decree of the Admiral Dewey and others on account of the sinking of Spanish vessels in the battle of Manila bay, vhich after wards were raised and converted to use. One-half of the money decreed goes to Admiral Dewey and the offi cers and men under his command, and the other half to the navy pension fund. The request for an appropria tion is made in order to comply with the recommendations of the court. Schley Enthusiastically Received. NEW ORLEANS. Admiral Schlej Friday visited the New Orleans cot tea exchange in company with Colonel A. K. McClure. The admiral was given a wildly enthusiastic reception and made an address expressing his pleasure at being in New Orleans. TO ANNEX CANADA. -? f England's Views Regarding Sam tfjj Be Ascertained. WASHINGTON Representativt. De Armond (Mo.) on Wednesday t traduced a resolution requesting the oresident upon what terms, if aayv honorable to both nations, and satia factory to the inhabitants of the ter ritory primarily affected. Great Brit tin would consent to cede to the Uni-. ted States all or any part of Can ada, to be formed in due time into one or more states. - Count Yanagiwana, a cousin of the- Mikado, who is in the United States on a pleasure trip, arrived here. He desires it known that he is marrried ind has not come in search of an American wife. The secretary of the treasury sent to the senate a letter from the at torney general recommending an ap propriation of $946,063 to satisfy the decree of the United States supreme court in the prize money case of Ad miral Dewey and others on account of the sinking of Spanish vessels. One-half of the money decreed goes to Amiral Dewey and the officers and men under his command, and the oth er half to the navy pension fund. The request for an appropriation is made In order to comply with the decision of the court. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of How ard university, has resigned, owing to advanced age and infirmities. Dr. Teunls S. Hamlin, a member of the board of trustees and pastor of the Church of the Covenant in this city, has been elected president pro tem. Howard university is a negro institu tion. The democratic membcars of the committee on postofflces had another conference with the republicans favor able to the omnibus statehood bill and discussed the possibility of yet se curing a compromise. The democrats were requested to suggest a basis of agreement, and proposed that New Mexico and Arizona might be admitted as one state, with the understanding that Arizona be made a separate state when its population reaches 200,000 and on the vote of the people of that area 'alone. The republican conferees promised to present the suggestion to other republican senators. Senator Elkins has- introduced a bill providing for a duty of 10 per cent ad valorem, in addition to pres ent duties, on all goods imported on vessels not owned in this country. The interstate commerce commis sion submitted a report to the senate showing the total par value of rail way securities is $11,724,035,829 and their market value is $8,351,103,523. The capital stock is, par value, $6, 021,364,502, and market value, $3,250, 144,596. The par value of the funded debt Is $3,702,661,327, and the market value $5 100,958,927. CHINA SITUATION IS SERIOUS. Importation of Arms Has Reached Alarming Stage. WASHINGTON, D. C Represen tations have been made to the state department by the Russian ambas sador, Count Cassini, regarding the increasing seriousness of the situa tion in China, in the hope that the United States will co-operate with the other powers to stop the illegal im portation of arms, which has reached an alarming stage of activity. Similar representations have been made through the Russian represen tatives to Belgium. Germany and Great Britain. The Chinese officials claim they are powerless to stop the practice and the Russian government, in the interest of peace, has called the matter to the attention of the powers. ABSOLUTE RIGHT OF WAY. It is Granted to Railroads and Water Companies. WASHINGTON The senate com mittee on public lands favorably re ported the bill introduced by Senator Warren, granting to riilroads and water companies the right of way through public lands and reservations for reservoirs and pipe lines. Under the present law these companies do not acquire absolute right of way across public lands, and when any portion of these lands, upon which the3e reservoir or pipe lines have been erected or laid, are sold to home stead settlers, the railroad companies are required to settle with them for damages or take up their pipe lines. The proposed measure gives them an absolute right of way, and toe pro posed purchaser takes the land with this understanding. Working for Hosebud Treaty. WASHINGTON. Senator Gamble and Representative Burke have had several conferences with Speaker Hen derson and Representathe Cannon Thursday regarding the Rosebud treaty. The members of the South Dakota delegation stated that they were greatly encouraged and now have strong hopes that they can secure favorable action upon the amended treaty. N. P. Merger Case Reacts. NEW YORK-rCamille Weidenfeld, a member of the stock exchange, was on Monday suspended for one year. The exact character of the "charges and specifications" against Mr. Weld-, enfeld were not disclosed, but it was accepted as a matter of fact that he was regarded as the author and in stigator of the Peter Power merger suits, and that the brokers belie fed these suits to have been conceived in bad faith. FOR RUSSIAN WAR ALFOUR DEFENDS THE BRITISH ARMY SCHEMES. REFERS TO INDIAN DEFENSES Claims Muscovite Must Be Watched Debate on Vote of Censure in Hsuss f Commons and Government Sus tained by Big Majority. LONDON. When the debate on Mr. Beckett's amendment to the address in reply to the king's speech was re sumed In the house of commons the attack on War Secretary Broderick was continued. Wlastoa Spencer 'Churchill, con servative, declared Mr.-Broderlck's ex pectations had only been realized in two directions, namely, in the decrease of the number of volunteers and in the increase of expenditures. There were, Mr. Churchill said, fewer bayonets and sabres in the Brit ish army in proportion to the number of generals than in any army in the world, except the Venezuelan. The speaker further declared that the whole army corps scheme was a "humbug and a sham, and was only introduced with the object of militar izing' England." He asked where ihe government expected the three army corps Intended for foreign service to operate. It was not in South Africa and such a force was not needed on the Indian frontier. They certainly could not contemplate in three army corps oper ating in Canada, because the United States was "no more p-epared to in vade Canada than Great Britain was prepared to invade the United States." The house finally rejected the amendment by 261 to 145. The division revealed fewer defec tions in the unionist ranks than had been expected, only about a dozen unionists voting against the govern ment, while the nationalists abstain ed, walking out in a body when the division was called. In the course of tLe debate Herbert Asquith expressed the general feeling when he remarked that the debate was of greater significance than the divis ion, and would he remembered leng after the Sixth army corps had van ished Into thin air. SANTO DOMINGO WILL PAY. Concludes to Settle Without Arbitra tion. SAN DOMINGO, Republic of Santo Domingo. The Dominican govern ment has notified the United States minister, Mr. Powell, that it has re considered its intention to send an envoy to Washington to make repre sentations there against the Ros and Clyde companies' claims, and that it will accept Mr. Powell's proposition in regard to the Ros claim and has requested further time to consider the claim of the Clyde company. The treasury officials here have paid Minister Powell $18,750 as the first installment in the payment of the Improvement company's claim, amounting to $4,500,000. The Domin ican government has agreed to pay during the first year $225,000 in monthly installment of $18,750. MAY PAY MEXICAN DEBT. Multimillionaire Offers Diaz $50,000, 000 to' Square National Account. MEXICO CITY. President Diaz has received a communication from Pedro Alvarado, a multimillionaire mining man of Parral, Mex.. offering to con tribute $50,000,000 for the payment of Mexico's foreign debt. Several weeks aga Alvarado wrote to Minister of Finance Joseph Ives Limantour offering to pay off the pub lic debt of Mexico. The offer was de clined at the time, but it has been re newed in another way, direct to Presi dent Diaz. Preparing to Trek to America. OGDEN, Utah George E. Owens, the ticket agent of the Lackawanna railroad at New York City, is in Og den with the intention of meeting a delegation of Boers, who arc on their way east over the Southern Pacific. Mr. Owens states that these Boers will make a tour of the United States as the guests of the various railroads and will reach here Monday. He says the Southern Pacific has sold the delegates a large tract of land for settlement within 100 miles of Ogdcn. It is un derstood that the tract lies in the Bear river valley, to the northwest of this city. Presidential Nominations. WASHINGTON The president on Wednesday sent the following nomina tions to- the senate: Frank L. Campbell, Ohio, assistant attorney general. Melville W. Miller, Indiana, assist ant secretary of the interior. Lucius A. Wright, agent for the In dians ol the Mission Tule river agency in California. Postmasters: Nebraska Dennis H. Cronin, O'Neill. South Dakota Evan J. Eiwards, Bowdle. Will Discuss Philippines. MEMPHIS, Tenn. Vice Governor Luke Wright of the Philippine islands left for Washington Sunday at the re quest of Secretary Root. This probaly will be his last visit to Washington before his return U Manila. During the present visit resident Roosevelt and Secretary Root will have a final conference with General Wright about Philippine affairs. MEAT TREATED VITH CO RAX. Germany Against It if It Comes . From This Country. 'BERLIN. In the reichstag Wed nesday Herr Ortel, editor of the Deutche Tages Zeitung. urced the government to enforce with the ut most stringency the regulations against meat trsated with borax, espe cially against meat so treated in the United States. Home Secretary Von Posadowsky Wehner remarked that the American house of representatives had passed a bill 'prohibiting the export of, im port of or internal trade in adulter ated food or foods treated with un wholesome ingredients. A motion to except borax from this prohibition had been voted down in that house. The secretary added that the gov ernment was determined to strictly en force the regulations until borax was proved to be injurious by indisputable scientific authority. CORNER STONE OF SEA WALL. Great Structure to Protect Galveston From Tidal Waves. GALVESTON, Tex. The corner stone of the $125,000 sea wall was laid Monday with impressive ceremonies and a parade of citizens and marines and officers from the United States battleships at anchor in the harbor here. The work of the wall has "pro gressed satisfactorily since its begin ning last October. The wall will be three miles in length and will give absolute protec tion to the city, even from a stage of water equal to the great and disastrous tidal wave of the 1900 storm. The funds for its construction were raise! by popular subscription to a bond is3ue. most of the money being sub scribed by local men. The city has been exempted from state taxes for a period of eighteen year3 as assist ance in the erection of the great wall for Its protection. CAR SITUATION IS CRITICAL. Many Mines Are Shut Dcwn Besauco the Product Cannot be Moved. PITTSBURG, Pa. While the car situation at the mines in the Pittsburg district has not been good for several months, the condition just at present are pronounced by coal operators the worst in history. Outside of the river mines and those along the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Monongahela division of the Penn sylvania railroad, fully 70 per cent are idle. Of the twenty-eight minc3 cf the Pittsburg Ccal company on the Pan Handle road sixteen are shut down and the others have but a fair supply of cars. Six of the largest mines oa the Bal timore & Ohio railroad, out of fifteen owned by the combination, are Idle. This is said to be a good showing, compared with the conditions at the independent mines. MONEY FOR HAWAIIAN QUEEN. Liliuokalani is to Be Paid $200,003 in Full Settlement. WASHINGTON, D. C The senate committee on appropriations Monday concluded consideration of the sun dry civil appropriation bill. The committee recommends increases over the appropriations made by the bill as it passed the house amount ing to $3,279,701. bringing the total up to $83,279,650. The following arc the principal items of increase: Quarantine stations, ?C5.000; light houses, beacons and fog signals, $1. 175.1C0; revenue cutter service, $360. 000; for payment to Queen Liliuoka lani of Hawaii, $200,000; armories and arsenals, $2S3,000; for military posts, $750,000; soldiers homes, $126. 500; beginning of new buildings for the agricultural department, 5250,000. Encampment Date Fixed. SAN FRANCISCO General Thom as H. Stewart, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, mem bers of the national council of ad ministration who are accompanying him on his tour and the local com mittee in charge of preparations for the coming national encampment, have directed the holding cf the en campment during the week of August 17. Tickets will to put on sale by the railroads August 1 and they will be good for stop-overs both coming and going. The time limit will prob ably be sixty days. The executive committee will be empowered to in vite President Roosevelt to attend the encampment. Outlook for a Settlement. TOPEKA. Kan The outlook for a peaceable settlement of the Santa Fo wage dispute is looking rather unfa vorable. More conferences have been held, but the only development is a more persistent unwillingness on the part of either side to give in. The national officers of the conductors and trainmen, who are here, appear to bo firm in their determination not to ac cept less than a 20 per cent increase of wages. Turkey Makes It Clear. SOFIA, Bulgaria In her recent note to Burgaria, Turkey declines to ac cept the Burgarian government's dec laration as to the non-existence of rev olutionary bands in Macedonia and warns Bulgaria that explicit instruc tions have been sent to the Turkish authorities to prevent the disturbance. This cote is regarded as. being intend ed to justify Turkey's military activity. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. A successful religious revival Is la progress at Tobias. Nebraska City proposes to hold street fair in June next. F. F. Leoman, the first settler of Polk county, died last week. Mrs. Amanda Towner, the first set tler in Butler county, died last week. Business mea of Papilllon have de cided to organize a commercial club. A commercial club has been organ ized at Spalding with large member ship. The police iudge of Nebraska City has handed In his resignation being about to remove to Virginia. A corporation of Grand Island is asking for a franchise to put in an In dependent telephone system. Mrs. Mary Hoffmeister of Fremont was adjudged lasane by the ootid of insanity and will be taken to Eiacoln. The wolf drive near Chapman, in which sixty-four sections of laal were covered, resulted in one lone animal being rounded up. An auditorium building with a seat ing capacity of nearly 1.000. will soon be built in Scotts Bluffs, all &Tange ments having been practically com pleted. The Arlington Milling company has doubled the output of its plant, owing to large orders being received from abroad. The flour will be marketed in England. A movement is on foot by a number of local capitalists, co-operating with New York and San Francisco parties, to erect a cold storage plant in Bea trice that will cost $150,000. The Dennis Dry Goods company, one of the largest mercantile estab lishments of Humboldt, Neb., assign ed its stock to two trustees to dispose of in the interest of creditors. Five more free rural delivery routes" will soon be established in Johnson county. Three of them will run from the Sterling office, one from Ve3ta and another one from Tecumseh. David Mulcahy, a patient in the in sane asylum, escaped. He is 40 years of age and was committed from South Omaha five months ago. He was once a member of the South Omaha police force. Two carloads of new machinery were received at the Argo starch plant and will be installed as rapidly as possible. The machinery is for the manufacture of printed wooden boxes for the starch. Cass county's district court docket for the March term is the lightest it has even been. In all there are only seventy-five cases twenty-five law, forty-two equity and live criminal. The terra begins on March 9. At Eustis, a German named Fry mere shot and killed Mre. Fred Pulz. She had recently jilted Frymere. He went to the Pulz home and beat the husband into insensibility and stole the dying body of the woman. Louisville will secure the district G. A. R. reunion for 1903. The Com mercial club took the matter in hand and appointed a committee to raise funds. The necessary amount was easily raised and the reunion will be held in August. Oscar D. Tibbitts, a merchant of Table Rock, while out delivering goods with a fractious colt, waa thrown from his vehicle. His feet caught in the lines and he was dragged for quite a distance. The horse was finally stopped and he was rescued from his perilous position. George Briggs. & Son, living nine mile3 from Harvard, held their an nual sale of thoroughbred Duroc-Jer-seys, which is said to have made a record better than any other before made for this breed of hogs. Thirty one head sold for an average price of $108.50. One sow sold for $310. A letter has been received from M. M. Merer and Melbourne Carriker of Nebraska City, who have gone to South America in quest of pearls, stating that they arrived safely at Port Limon, Costa Rica, and have lo cated several beds from which they hope to unearth a large number of fine pearls. Mr. Carriker is gathering specimens for the State University and will tour dll of the southern coun try with that object" in view. The new M. E. church at Adams was dedicated last Sunday. The cost of the church, with all its furnishings, is about $7,750, which together with the lot and parsonage adjoining. give3 the entire property a value of $8,500. The paid up subscriptions on the building, with a donation of $250 from the church extension society, left an indebtedness of $2,400 still to be rais ed. Thi3 was easily accomplished In the course of a couple of hours. Following are some of the figures taken from the books of the Standard Sugar company, showing the magni tude of the beet sugar industry is Dodge county: Acres of beets har vested, 3, 696; tons of beets sliced 36,884; tons per acre, 10; total output of sugar, 8,000,000 pounds; paid oat for beets, labor and supplies. $2D3, 172.34. The acreage figures, of course, show what the Leavitt factory receiv ed from all counties where beets were grown. The remains of the late Louis C. Burnett, who died from the burns that he received in the hotel that burned at Cedar Rapids la., arrived in Nebraska City and were taken to the home of his parents, south of the city,, where they lay in state prior to the funeral. Deceased was one of the most popular young men in the city, having grown-to t manhood there, and was held in high ', esteem by all. He had made, a tour, of the world, despite the fact that he. was but twenty-five years cf age. s 000tOOOOOOO4 IteSMStltffc. State JBait o Z ' Jt Ji SMMIT DRAFTS JN Cllrjiv WewYtrtL giys Cood Holes, f o wl twit Hi o o o 6 o o o ji am tnaorewa V MMTVN. VIOa-MMSw m. MWSSSM. OMMtSII. MAMV I. NIUT. MIHMTT NWLST. ooTofofoasoTofasoofo Columbus JournaJ, A WUr fepibBao NcwqMper Derate! to the Bert Iateratoaf X X ' Columbus, THE County of Platte, The Stale el -Nebraska- THE United States, m iT mm. Tbm Unit of Measure Utie with $1.50 per Year, If Paid in Advance. ::: m u ey OeMsrs Sample Copies Sent Tree to any Address. HENRY GASS. UNDERTAKER Metallic I Ushalsury Net A flWeee - Columbus Journal. t Rjrnteh Any ilog Refuetcdofa 0T COUNTRY. oeagaoaeaeaqaoaoooce- m.-fc tk I at w -- o a Pkyv lofleftflt on Tims 9 I Depot!: I AND flltte Lotus 00 Red I . Estate . . 15he j I 1 nl 1 Jj CLUB WITH THE 1 Beat Papers I