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f'-ri 3b.3 -- fltttnal. . - WHOLE NUMBER 1.714. VOLUME XXXIII. NUMBER 50. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18. 1903. (Mttmbis v J TREATY REPORT SENATE COMMITTEE DISPOSES OF ONE PROTOCOL. CUBAN TREATY ON WEDNESDAY Some Think It an Important Question That Might Ee Delayed Until Regu lar Session cf Congress Miscel laneous Washington Matters. WASHINGTON. The senate com cittee on foreign relations on Monday agreed to favorably report, the Colom bian canal treaty to the senate. No action was taken on the Cuban or other reciprocity treaties. The Colombian treaty was reported, as in the former session, without amend ment. When the senate went into executive session. Senator CaHom reported the treaty and it was ready at length, as the n:les of the senate r?quire. Un der the rules an objection carried the treaty over for one day before it could be considered. Senator Morgan objected to its con sideration. He stated that he desired to have the Spanish copy of the treaty so as to compare it with the English text. It is expected that a draft in Spanish will be sent to the senate by the state department Members of the committee on for eign relations express the opinion that there will not be any great delay in the ratification of the treaty. In the committee meeting Senator Clark of Montana. who succeeds Senator Eailey as a member, was present. During the session of the committee Senator Morgan offered to consent to a vote on the canal treaty on Satur- day, providing the senate would allow him to print such remarks as he want ed in the Congressional Record, or as a public document Members of the committee later dis cussed the proposition with other senators and the consensus of opinion seemed to be against granting this permission Some of the remarks here tofore made by Senator Morgan re flected rather severely on the Colom bian gjvemment. and especially on the presiednt of Colombia, and sena tors think it would be inadvisable to give official sanction to such utter ances. It also is feared that the Colombian government might take of fense and fail to ratify the treaty. The committee will take up the Cuban treaty on Wednesday. Quite a number of democratic senators are op posed to it, and while they say they have no desire to prevent a vote, they intend briefly to speak. The repub licans count en three or four more votes than the necessary two-thirds majority to ratify it. There is a prob ability of some discussion of the con stitutional rights of the senate to make a treaty affecting the revenues of the gavemment without concur rence of the house of representatives. Some opponents of the treatv have caid that they think it is such an im portant question that it might be de layed until the regular cession of con gress. Others have suggested that there should be an amendment pro viding that the treaty should not be come operative until its provisions have been approved by the hquse. Some members of the committee think that this much disputed ques tion ought to go to the supreme court and be rettled there. It is the present intention of the committee to press the treaty to a vote as soon as the Colombian nrotocol is out of the way. GERMAN TRADE CONDITIONS. Cxpotts to the United States Shew a Large Increase. WASHINGTON. D. C Reviewing German's commercial record for the past year. Consul General Frank H. Mascn. at Berlin, in a report to the state department, declares that while a. few branches of manufacture and trade experienced a partial recovery the year as a whole belonged to the period cf over-production, collapse and panic, which began in the summer of 1200. and has caused the condition still prevalent, wherein prices cf food and raw materials are above all logi cal relation to the market values of finished products. Referring to German trade with the United States, the consul general calls attention to the notable increase m German exports to this country, amounting to $14.77S.T0. distributed through twenty-flve consular districts. ENGLAND INCREASES NAVY. Mere Ships, More Officers and Mere Men. LONDON The British navy esti mates for 1S03-1. issued Monday even ing, provide for an expenditure of S173.1S4.2C5. an increase of SIC.010,000. of which amount S11.2S0.C00 will be devoted to ship building and repairs. The maintenance estimates provides for 127J.C0 officers and men an in crease of 4,500 officers and men. The total expenditures for ship building, repairs and maintenance is SS0 JOC.GOO. The new construction includes three battleships, four armored cruisers, three protected cruisers, to be used as scents, fifteen torpedo beat destroy ers, ten torpedo boats, two coast guard cruisers, a river gunboat and an admiralty yacht. What is known as an angel shark, en ugly fish with an eight-inch mouth containing three rows of teeth, has bean caught with a hand line at Felix stowe, England. KAISER STUDIES AMERICA. Sends Young Officers to Land Where They Can Learn Something. BERLIN. Count von Bernsdcrf, president of the Potsdam police, who recently returned from the United States, has submitted to Emperor William a narrative of his experiences and observations in America. The count and his five traveling companions, four young guardsmen and a junior attache of the diplomatic service, happened to be sent 'his wi3e: The emperor was talking to a group of subalterns at the Casino of Pots dam, early in December, and asked them where they were going for their holidays. One was going to Paris, and another intended to visit Eohe mia. "Why don't you go where you can learn something?" interrupted the emperor. "Go to America; yon shall go as my guests and tell me all about it when you come home." The party, after reaching New York on January 30. went through the West Indies and then spent three weeks in New York. Count von Bernsdorf, with a dectec tive sergeant detailed by Police Com missioner Greene, studied the police system of New York. The thing which most astonished him was that he was not bothered in .the streets by dissolute women. He especially ad mired the size of New York police men, their smart uniforms and their courtesy, and referred in his report to the large, well-organized police sta tions, contrasting them with the Ber lin stations. EXECUTION AT SITKA, ALASKA. Homer Bird, Who Murdered Compan ions, Protests His Innocence. SEATTLE, Wash. A special to the Times from Sitka says: Homer Bird was legally executed here Friday. The execution was void of . accident. Bird walked from the jail and mounted the scaffold without assistance. On the gallows he made a short speech without visible emo tion, in which he protested his Inno cence. Thirty seconds after the trap was sprung, and the murderer died without a struggle. About twenty witnesses were allowed within the en closure. During the great Knodike rush of 1S37 and 1S9S Eird started up the Yu kon river with two companions. One day the two companions were found to be missing. When questioned Bird stoutly maintained that they had gone off on a prospecting expedition. The bodies of the two men were aft erwards found, riddle with buckshot Bird's sentence was aSrmed by the United States supreme court and Pres ident Roosevelt refused clemency. PRESIDENT NAMES COMMISSION. Appoints Five Politicians to Recom mend Transfers. WASHINGTON. The president ap pointed a commission to recommend any ofices. bureaus, or divisions in the legislative departments, except the department of agriculture, for trans fer to the new department of com merce and labor. The commission comprises Charles D. Walcott. director of the geological survey: Brigadier General William Crozier. chief of the bureau of ord nance of the war department; Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowies, chief naval constructor; E. G. Pinchot of the agriculture department, and James H. Garfieid of the department of commerce and labor. May Exhibit Pope's Prersnts. ROME. Negotiations have been be gun with the Vatican with a view to securing and placrig an exhibit at St. Louis of Pope Leo's jubilee pres ents. The American vessel which will transport the jubilee presents of Queen Victoria, which King Edward has promised to exhibit at the exposi tion, would call at Civita Vecchia. the port of Rome, to embark the pope's jubilee presents if the negotiations are brought to a successful termination. Had Syrr.otcrns of Cholera. NEW YORK. Dr. I'HDmmedieu of the port health authorities, who is in charge of the Anchor line Karamania. on which a. number of mysterious deaths occurred, said that the ship's surgeon and Dr. Ballaylio. a govern ment physician on the "hip. had vir tually acknowledged a belief that the four seamen and two passengers who died on the voyage had been stricken with cholera. The sick persons be tray all the symptoms of cholera. Investment in the Philippines. WASHINGTON. D. C The largest i single investment of American capital in the Philippines yet made is record- ed in a cablegram received at the war department from Governor Taft. This ' relates to the allotment to an Ameri i can of a contract of ownership and ' maintenance of thirty-flve miles of electric light, heat and power works. This allotment was made in conform ! ity with an act of the Philippines com mission in October last. English Seek Coal Lands. NEW YORK. A syndicate of Eng lish capitalists is seeking to acquire coal fields in the Danville district in Illinois, with the intention of shipping much coal to England. One possible result of the purchase, if effected, will be the construction of another rail road from Danville to Chicago, a dis tance of 125 miles, and shortening the route fifty miles. FENCES MUST GO INTERIOR DEPARTMENT -WILL TAKE DECISIVE ACTION. REMOVAL NOTICES EXPECTED No Further Dilly-Dallying on the Question Congress Failed to Act and Now the Secretary of the Inte rior Will Do So. WASHINGTON Notices will go out in a few days to owners of fences un lawfully maintained on the public do main that these must be removed at once and no excuse offered for the purpose of further delay will be ac cepted by the interior department, un der whose direction this order will be made and executed. The order will affect a large number of cattle own ers throughout the west and south west, where millions of acres of pub lic lands have been kept under these prohibited fences for many years. Mr. Hitchcock, secretary of the in terior, is determined that there shall be no further dilly-daliying on this proposition. It is knevn that the pres ident is in thorough accord with the secretary and sp ports him in his de termination to put an end to the abuse that has grown into a public scandal within the last few years. So long as congress was in session and a show of an effort was being made to have the grazing and leasing law passed the secretary was disposed to be le nient in the matter of enforcing the anti-fence law. Congress failed to take action, through the inability of the cattle owners to agree upon, any bill that met the approval of the secretary of the interior, and there is nothing left now but to enforce the law passeu in 18S5, prohibiting the maintenance of any fence on the public domain. The order for final removal of the fences was issued in April last year. The cattlemen throughout the country presented protests and appeals for an extension of time in which to comply with the order. The president grant ed an extension until July 1. The cat tlemen represented their willingness to get together on an acceptable leasing bill and action was further deferred until the opening of congress. All dur ing the last session representatives of t ! the cattle owners were in Washington seeking the passage of a bill allowing the leasing and fencing of the public ranges. It was impossible to secure an agreement upon any measure and congress adjourned without action. The officials of the interior depart ment are now convinced, that the cattle owners were not anxious to secure Te passage of a leasing law, but werp sparring for delay, with the hope of bringing pressure sufficient to induce further postponement of the fence re moving order. The orders for removal of fences will be directed to owners of herds that are now maintaining these unlaw ful enclosures. If the order is not complied with in a reasonable length of time the interior department will take whatever summary action is nec essary for the enforcement of the law. There are thousands of acres of pub lic iands enclosed by these fences in Nebraska. Wyoming, Kansas and oth er western states and territories. Postal Receipts Increase. WASHINGTON. D. C The compar ative statement of gross postal re ceipts for February, compared with February. 1902, for the fifty leading postoffices in the country, show a net increase of over 12 per cent. The largest increase was 34 per cent, at Los Angeles. Cal.. and the heaviest de crease, S per cent, at Jersey City. The receipts at New York increased 12 per cent and at Chicago 15. Hcuse Must Approve. WASHINGTON. D. C The senate committee on foreign relations Thurs day authorized a favorable report on the Cuban reciprocity treaty with an amendment similar to that recom mended in conne"tion with other reciprocity treaties, oroviding that the treaty shall not ta--e effect until ap proved by the house of representa tives as well as by the senate. Chicago Brokers Break. CHICAGO, 111. The suspension of William Young & Co., brokers was an nounced by the posting of a notice on the board of trade to close all trades for their account. The firm was not prominent in the grain trade, to which their transactions were large ly directed, although an old concern, the present principal having succeed ed his father in the business. Funds for Irrigation Congress. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Governor Wells Tuesday signed the bill malting a state appropriation of 56,000 tc aid in carrying out the program of the national irrigation congress, which meets in Ogden September S to 11. Outside of this President Kiesel of the congress said that ample funds had already been subscribed to carry out the most elaborate program yet at tempted. Senate Confirmations. WASHINGTON. D. C The senate, in executive session Tuesday made the following confirmations: William Plimley, to be assistant treasurer at New York; Milton D. Pur dy, Minnesota, assistant attorney gen eral; David L. Geyer, receiver of pub lic moneys at Roswell, N. M. Postmasters: Nebraska Frederick J. Ettar. South Omaha; C. K. Olson, Newman Grove. ELKINS LAW IN COURT. First Opinion in an Interstate Com merce Case. WASHINGTON. The United States supreme court oa Monday rendered its first opinion hi an interstate com merce case in which the Elkins act, passed at the last session of congress, was involved. The case was that of the Missouri Pacific Railroad' company versus the United States, involving a question of discrimination on the part of the railroad as between places. It was brought at the instance of the In terstate Commerce commission. The railroad filed a demurrer chal lenging the regularity of the proceed ings, but the circuit court and court of appeals decided the case in favor of the government. These decisions were reversed by Monday's opinion, which was delivered by justice White. He said that by the terms of the old law, under which the case was tried, the proceedings would not have been regular, but that under the Elkins law it would be. The court, therefore, re versed and sent the case back for a new trial under the Elkins act. HELPS OUT STOCKMEN. The Question of Stock Raising on Lands Discussed. WASHINGTON Commissioner Richards of the general land office announced that recently President Roosevelt discussed with him the question of stock grazing on Iands re cently added to western forest re serve and said that it was not his intention, when additional reserve areas were created, that settlers who heretofore have grazed stock thereon should be subjected to hardship. He directed that the general land office permit stockmen who enjoyed grazing privileges prior to the creation of re serve additions to continue during this year to range cattle and sheep on the same lands, with a view to adjusting business so thrt the stock might be withdrawn the year following. In structions in line with the president's wishes have been issued by the inte rior department. NEW YORK TO BE NEW HOME. Ex-Speaker Henderson Expected tc Remove from Iowa. WASHINGTON Hon. David B. Henderson, ex-speaker of the house of representatives, accompanied by Mrs. Henderson and their daughter, left here for New York City, whence, after a week's stay, they will go to their former home in Iowa. After remain ing there a few days the speaker and Mrs. Henderson wilf visit California. The impression here is that Mr. Hen derson eventually will take up his per manent residence in New York City. REBELS DEFEAT GOVERNMENT. Bonilla Routs Rival Claimant for Hon duran Presidency. NEW ORLEANS The fruit steamer Duncan of the Vaccuro line reached quarantine Thursday night from Cei ba. Honduras, with the most signifi cant war news since the outbreak of rue Bonilla rebellion. A battle was fought at Ceiba on Marach 6. when Bonilla defeated the government army, killing six. wound ing fourteen and capturing the fort and town. Admiral Vice Consul W. C. Wildt sent a telegram by one of the passen gers asking that a warship be sent to protect American interests. Site for New Office Building. WASHINGTON, D. C Representa- tives Cannon (111.), Richardson (Tenn.) and Hepburn (Ia.j the com mittee which has been considering a location for an office building for the use of members of the house of rep resentatives. Monday decided to ask the secretary of the interior to insti tute condemnation proceedings to ac quire a block south of and across the street from the capitol grounds, bound ed on the east by First street, on the south by C street, on the west by New Jersey avenue and on the north by B street. Progress of the Honduras Scrap. PANAMA. Colombia. Cable ad vices received from Honduras by way of Salvador say that the departments of Copan. Gracias, Intibucot, La-Paz. Comayaqua and Paraiso are in the hands of the troops of General Bon illa. the president-elect of Honduras, who is marching on Santa Barbara. The forces of President Sierra of Honduras, it is added, occupy the cap itals of the departments of Teguir gaipa. Choluteca and Valle. Cruise in West Indian Waters. WASHINGTON, D. C Secretary of the Navy Moody. Postmaster General Payne. Senator Hale of Maine, Repre sentative Cannon of Illinois. Repre sentative Foss of Illinois, Judge James R. Dunbar, Joseph H. Carl of Haver hill, Mass., Mr. Moody's law partner, and Fred L. Fishback, Mr. Moody's private secretary, left here Tuesday for a cruise in West Indian waters. Senator Proctor and Representative Gillette will join the party in Florida. Veteran Publisher Dies. CEDAR RAPIDS, la. Thomas C. Newman died of eld age in San Fran cisco Tuesday afternoon, aged 70 years. He was editor of the Millenial Harbinger of Seneca Falls, N. Y., from 1S54 to 1S58; he founded the first daily newspaper cf Cedar Rapids In 1870; was publisher of the American- Bee Journal of Chicago, 1S73-96, anJ wa3 editor of the Philosophical Journal, San Francisco, from 189C to the pres ent time. EXTRA CONGRESS ROOSEVELT MAY CALL LOWER HOUSE TOGETHER.' THERE IS WMK FOR IT TO DO President Is Determined to Have the Cuban Treaty Effective Irrigation Work Ordered Other Matters From the National Capital. WASHINGTON. It can be stated by authoritythat President Roosevelt is considering the advisability of call ing an extra session of the Fifty eighth congress. When he was informed that it was the intention of- the senate to so amend the Cuban reciprocity treaty as to. reader a decision upon it by the house of representatives neces sary to make it effective, he inform ed some members of the senate that he would hold himself free to call an extraordinary session of congress in order to secure action upon it. No definite time was mentioned by the president for the meeting of the ex traordinary session. It is added, however, that Mr. Roosevelt does not think it at all like ly that the senate will continue its present attitude. The belief of the president and of his advisers is that the senate will take definite action upon both the Panama canal aad Cuban reciprocity treaties at the present extraordinary session. As surances to that effect have been re ceived from the leaders of the senate. The president believes, it also can be said, that this work of the senate will have been accomplished by the next week. Secretary Hitchcock of the interior department has granted authority for the acquisition of necessary property, rights of way, etc., prior to the con struction of irrigation works in five localities. These projects are: Wyoming. Sweetwater dam; Montana Milk river; Colorado Gunnison tunnel; Ne vada. Truckee; Arizona, Salt river reservoir. The estimated cost is $7,000,000 and the plan is to irrigate about 700,000 acres of arid land. In addition there to the Gray Bull reservoir project is to be taken up immediately. The construction remains subject to the feasibility of obtaining the nec essary rights and the adjustment of private claims in such manner as to comply with the act approved June 17, 1902. The authority granted relates to the projects upon which examina tions have been made in sufficient de tail to justify estimates of cost and results. Several others, in other states, are as well advanced as re gards investigation and it is expected that further recommendations can be made after the close of the com ing field season. The secretary has authorized the expenditure, during the present calen dar year, of $450,000 on surveys, and other examinations which will oe carried on in all the states and ter ritories included within the provisions of the law. IMPERIAL TROOPS DEFEATED. Chinese Rebels Victorious, Killing Some High Officials. VICTORIA. B. C. The steamer Tosa Maru. which arrived Friday night, brought news of further en gagements between the Chinese gov ernment forces and the Wwangsi re bellions, in which the imperial troops were defeated, with loss, some high officials being among the slain. The governor of Hunan has tele graphed to the Chinese government to the effect that the rebellion has reached a most dangerous state and he requests the governmetn to mob ilize troops in other provinces as a precaution against emergencies. Favored Annexation of Canada. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. A private dis patch from Washington received Fri day night says Major Bittinger is re called as consul general to Montreal, directly due to an interview advocat ing annexation of Canada to the United States which he recently gave to a Montreal newspaper. The inter view was based on utterances in con gress of Mr. Dermott, who is strong ly in favor of a union. Great Britain, according to this dispatch, entered a protest, and the remarks of the con sul general were considered of suffi cient importance for his recall. Denver Has $100,000 Fire. DENVER, Colo. The Evans block at the corner of Fifteenth and Law rence streets in this city was gutted Wednesday morning by a fire that broke out in the basement bakery of the Hurlbut company's store. The total loss is estimated at $10)00. The Hurlbut Grocery company's stock, valued at $50,000, was destroyed. Other stores in the block whose stores were damaged are those of W. S. San derson Co., tea and coffee; George Crater, drug3; John D. Ross, cigars and tobacco. The losses are covered by insurance. C?stro Raises Import Duties. WASHINGTON. D. C Formal no tice of the "extraordinary war tax" which President Castro created on the lifting of the blockade has been re ceive! at the state department from United States Consul Russell at Car acas.' There is a 30 per cent iscresss in the duties on imparts. THE VENEZUELA INCIDENT. Instructions to Its Washington Minis ter by Argentine Republic WASHINGTON The following statement was given- out Wednesday night at the Argentine legation: Recent publications referring to the note of instruction sent by the Ar gentine government to its minister in Washington. Dr. Garcia Merou, in re gard to some of the features of tho Venezuela incident, gave the errone ous impression that Argentina asked for an alliance with the United State3 and that its proposal was rejected by the secretary of state. In fact the dispatch of Dr. Drago. minister of foreign relations of tha Argentine republic, aimed only to ex plain to his diplomatic agent in Wash ington the views of his home govern ment relative to the collection of pub lic debts of American states by Euro pean nations and instructed him" to convey these views to Secretary Hay. expressing the hope that the doctrine of international public law set forth by the Argentine government should prove acceptable to the United States. Taking into consideration the real character of many of the obligations contracted by the governments of the minor South American republics, the Argentine government has felt that there is great danger to the peace of the continent if the compulsory de mand for immediate payment of pub lic debts, or national obligations, is to be accepted in silence, without dis crimination, as a right of the stronger powers of Europe to control and dom inate the weaker and struggling states of Central and South America. On this point the Argentine minis ter of foreign relations in his note re marks that the capitalist who supplies any money to a foreign state always takes into consideration the re sources of the country. The compulsory and immediate de mand for payment at a given mo ment of a public debt by means of force would not produce other than the ruin of the weaker nations and the absorption of their government al together by the powerful nations cf the earth. We do not pretend, neither can we either pretend, that these nations shall occupy an exceptional position is their relations with European powers, who have uie undoubted right to pro tect their subjects as amplv as in any other part of the globe, against any injustice they may have been victims of. The only thing the Argentine re public maintains is the principle, al ready accepted, that there cannot be European territorial expansion in or oppression of the p -ple of this can Yinent. because their unfortunate finan cial condition might oblige one of them to put off the fulfillment of its 'obligations. The principle which we maintain is that a public debt cannct give rise to an armed intervention, and much less to the territorial oc cupation of the soil of the American nations by any European power. Complying with his instructions. Minister Merou left a cop; of this communication with the secretary of state. In his reply, Mr. Hay did not express assent or dissent to the doc trine of public la-T set forth in the not2 of the Argentina minister of for eign relations. He referred the min ister to the meszages of December 3, 1901, and December 2, 1302. MORGAN DOES NOT BUY CUBA. 0enic3 Reports of Hotel and Railroad Purchases. TAMPA. Fla. J. P. Morgan arrived at Pert Tampa Sunday afternoon from Havana. Immediately after dis embarking his party boarded a spe cial train for New York. A rumor that the Flagler system cf "hotels in Florida and the Florida East Coas. railroad had been turned over to Morgan, presumably for the Southern railway, and that the At lantic Coast Line and Southern were to own the property jointly and that he intended to build a large tourist tourist business in Florida and estab lish a modern line of steamers be tween this state and Cuba, was men tioned to him. "I know nothing whatever of such a deal," he said.- making the state ment with considerable emphasis. Mad Mullah Used the Knife. ADEN, ARABLE Advices from Ob bia. Somiland, say that during the recent fight between the followers of the Mad Mullah and the Abyssinian forces co-operating with the British, the former lost 1,000 men. Watch for Conscience Fund. WASHINGTON The secretary of the treasury has received a unique con science contribution in the shape of a watch with a gold filled case. The watch came in a package, postmarked Pittsfield, Mass. The sender says in an accompanying letter: "Such as I have I give unto you for the conscience fund. The money I gave for the watch is more than I con sider I owe the government." Get-Rich Man Goes to Jail. NEW YORK. Thomas Byrnes, one of the men arrested in the recent raid on "get-rich-quick" concerns, was oa Wednesday sentenced to a year's im prisonment. As the police could not get any of his victims to appear against him. he was charged with doing business un der an assumed name, pleaded guilty and was sentenced. Byrnes' business was one cf the similar ones broken up" by the police. - bbmcts: Tnrr.siuc I A. i t 1 1 Z I : I M-H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 tl Senator Jones of Arkansas is confin ed to his bed in Washington by an at tack of grippe. Minister Squires declares that Cub is the most expensive country in the world to live in. There are three superintendents to every eight windows in the legislative wings of the Kansas capitol. Vesuivius has again become active. The volcano is throwing up ashes and explosive incandescent globes. The Tribune announces that the German emperor will visit Rome in May and that the czar is coming In No vember. The general assembly of North Car olina -has appropriated $10,000 for a state exhibit at the Louisiana Pur chaseerposition. Mrs. John Churchill, widow of John Churchill, owner of Louisville's fam ous race course. Churchill Downs, was found dead in bed. A. D. Mead, deputy treasurer of Walsh county, North Dakota, has been arrested, charged with embezzling be tween $2,000 and $3,000. Arthur W. Thenholm has been ap pointed general manger of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha to suc ceed the late Walter A. Scott. James Mooney of near Stanhope. Ky., Webster county, unearthed $1,000 in gold while digging post holes an the farm cf William Gardiner. Reports from the ranges in Indian Territory indicate that cattle losses to stockmen as the result of the recent blizzard have been very heavy. "The Siangeli copper fields, which are on the south side of the boundary be tween Norway and Sweden, have been sold to an American for $1,000,000. An increase of 5 cents an hour will be paid the carpenters in Chicago in the building season this year. This is in accordance with the agreement. Ex-President Steyn is convalescing at Clarens. Switzerland, and as soon as his medical advisers allow him tcj travel ha will return to the Orange River colony. Ssnorita Rence Abreu. aged 14. the daughter of Dr. Abreu, a well known surgeon of Havana. Cuba, is dead from pneumonia at the convent of the Sa cred Heart. St. Louis. Ten thousand miners of the Flat Top and Norfolk coal fields of the Norfolk & Western in West Virginia will be given a voluntary increase of 10 cents on a ton. beginning April 1. When President Roosevelt visits the Rocky mountains this spring he has: expressed the desire to climb Mount Shasta, the giant of the Siskiyous. which towers 14,410 feet above sea level. In a special message to the Rhode Island senate. Governor Garvin declarj ed bribery common in this state ami that many members of the legislature occupy seats obtained by purchased votes. Not the least notable feature in con nection with the swearing in of new Cnited States senators in Washington last week was the cordial reception 5iven by the ladies' gallery to Reed Smcot of Utah. At Black River Falls. Wis., Grant Olsen. a justice of the peace, who was recently convicted of working up ficti tious cases to increase his fees, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the state penitentiary- The Tennessee house of representa tives has adopted a resolution re questing the governor to ignore the request of the governor of Wisconsin to appoint delegates to a convention to settle the race question. William Crozier, editor of the Amer ican at Manila, who, with a reporter of the paper, was arrested March 2. on the charge of libeling General Da vis, commander of the American troops, has been convicted. Arthur R. Pennell, the young lawyer who figured so prominently in the Bur dick murder mystery, was killed in Delaware Park, Buffalo, N. Y. His automobile ran over the edge of an embankment surrounding an old stone quarry. The American Seeding Machine Manufacturing company, with an au thorized capital stock of $15,000,000, was incorporated at Treton. N. J. Of the capital stock, $7,500,000 is prefer red, drawing 7 per cent cumulative dividends. James Sparks, a veteran of the Black Hawk, the Mexican and the civil wars, died at Hartville, Mo., aged 100 years. He was one of the first set tlers in Wright county, Missouri, and was a justice of the peace for forty two years. The Vancouver Athletic club has of fered a purse of $25,000 fox a twenty round contest between J. J. Corbett and J. J. Jeffries. The club3 manager declares he has assurances of the civil officials that a twenty-round contest would be permitted in that city. The findings of the court which ac quitted Lieutenant Chester Wells of all responsibility for the accident to the Leyden. off the New England coast, re sulting in the destruction of the ves sel, have been approved by the navy department. A group of capitalists and railroad men from New York City and Roches ter, N. Y.. are in Los Angeles to close up the sale of the Bagdad mine at Camp Rochester, near Ludlow, on the "Mojave desert, wuich has been sold to a Los Angeles syndicate for $1,500,000. State Game Warden Scott of Mon tana received word that hundreds of elk are dying from hunger along the northern boundary of the National Park. Snow has been deep in that re gion, preventing the animals from se curing food. aaosoosoosooocoa MW6toooooooico lit iM IcflaMe o gUQMMW I State JBanh- o o ' sratrr drafts jn CMC, NewYtrfc. o o o o o o o o o 6 6 o 6 ASF Sells Steamship Ticta gMjg Oood Hotes, mi kdpa m cMtanen whsm HT nee WlpJ? ppicas and DiRecTONSi LIM3M MNPlRO. . mmr mmtyn. vtca-na. m. Nuaean. cASHian. ' mmnr l. nmrnnr. OANNBTT HULST. & ilAnAAAaAa&OAQAaAflAOAQii o o -004004a000': 00.yO Columbus Journal, A Veekly Republican Newspaper Devote! to the Best Interest of X X Jt S : - Columbus, THE County of Platte, The State of Nebraska.- THE United States, and the Rest of MartM. 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