ifci-f ' ! wmm i XpMJ9&$ h:S ! ! r ijmf 'fX-S '-j-.f ' '.;Sr-ilW.-l.t " - I " 1 k F- " - t- .-:. - '. . .- . . ! a "" f . . ..- m -.. X I V BL rc r I '' F:,... .-.- .'.:- f f .;-' li-?-v 1' ktT.:-. W "I ff K " . " : . v '' : r' .. :' .- -.. '- : " . f .h- ... M. - . . - .-.. . " - - v ; ..- " I J"' ' 1 .. A :-.-.-"- - ." ... . '.. F v .v fcs. " I - lie Colnnbns Jowial :.. ; By COLUMBUS JOURNAL Ca OOUJUBUd. NEBRASKA. "What sn opportunity for another set of war paintings Vercstchagin has tniE8td! WltL Japan and Russia holding a gHB at each ear, how can China help beinu neutral? If you want to retain your faith in a critic you ought never to see the ifciags lie criticises. Judging from the way the czar !s acting, there is nothing in that story of its being a borrowed boy. There is a thortage of 40,0rt) servant Riris in New York. Verily the police jnan's lot is an unhappy one. Now that he has a son and heir, the czar will be affectionately referred to by bis faithful subjects as the old Nick. The New York World says that "the .poor consumer can "never strike." frown this way he strikes many a ?aag. ' How these flying machine inventors mast wish that they could hitch their lerial wagons to the soaring price ol wheat. The man who is fool enough to hunt trouble is scarcely man enough to at it after his search has been re garded. One of the leaders of Newport soci ty has just given a "bal blanc" It ' bow up to her hated rival to give colored dance. It is quite evident that there is no -neat strike in China, for we read that the dowager empress Is reducing her aonschold expenses. The prehistoric animal whose tracks nae been found leading out of New Jersey was probably trekking away from the mosquitoes. During a fire in a New York hotel a woman dressed herself in less than iificqn minutes. The record will doubt less Mand for eternitv. If the report that credits the sultan of Turkey with the ambition to out Jive all his predecessors is justified, it may explain sonic things. And now Mr. Charles M. Schwab comes forward with a declaration that he wants to die poor with significant and emphatic emphasis upon the poor. Realizing that a woman climber set poa a mountain top cannot be hid. Miss Peck of Boston shows no di position to hide her light beneath a Jjushcl. Now that he has taken up smoking. U is up to Edward Atkinson to invent i tobacco consumer that will give ihrec times the &moke with half the material. It was kind of the kaiser to give his American-built yacht Meteor, of which he is tired, to the crown prince; but will she be last enough for such a speedy youth? Venezuela has entered suit against ca asphalt company for r.0.000.000 bol ivars. The exact value of a "bolivar' is unknown to us, but we are always willing to learn. A deaf and dumb man wants to be Jlayor ol St. Paul. It might be a rood thing for St. Paul to have such a mayor. The grafters would have put their demands in writing. to In New Jersey a young woman is filing her guardian because be has not pought her a new hat in three years, tt's certainly scandalous to keep a girl ,'rom going to church all that time. King Edward would doubtless fc-1 Sattcred ir he could know what wide attention his double-creased trousers are attracting in the editorial columns ?f the newspapers of the United States. - A man has been discovered in the rvuth of France who remembers see ing Napoleon cross the Alps. Some oo2y will turn up some day who re members seeing old Russell Sage "come across." Hazel Belle Melvin of Hudson, N. IL. boasts of a hydrangea which was planted the day she was born and which now has 129 blossoms. But that doesn't give away the secret of Miss Hazel's age. The Newport society leaders who are setting the fashion of short skirts for fall suits are probably indifferent to the fact that at last they are doing caaething that will meet with gen eral popular approval. The young Count von Arnim. just fculed ia battle with the natives ol tk Africa, oace threatened Bis with a chatlenge to a duel, but arck was sensible the young . lived to die ia the battle with the Hasaakari. till, the action of the czar in issu- iac the ssaaifesto providing that ia .;taae. of his death before the czare vMch attalas his majority, jhe Grand Sake Michael shall become regeat. at prove conclusively that the is golag to the front. LfllJaa Russell's pet spaaicl reseated with an $1,800 collar r of the lady's admirers. Cari aasly enough the dispatch falls to give the Basse of Miss Russell's new piece. -. Aaother indubitable evidence of the hygieaic properties of pure whisky is the discovery that the oldest man in the Ualted States lives in Kentuckv. Hungary is becoming suspicious of the American prune. The hungry .boarder has looked askance at it since boardinghouses were established. In this ungrateful age it is refresh ing to read of the New York woman who dropped a purse containing $500 and impulsively showered four nickels upon the newsboy who returned it. Question: When a professional man. after long acd strenuous striving finally gets an increase of salary ought he to inform his wife? Money is a drug in the market since "Wall street methods have been ex nossd. The lambs used to think the tad a charce for their wool. . FIGHT CONTINUES RESULTS. HOWEVER, ARE AS YET UNKNOWN. RUSSIANS STUBBORNLY RESIST Indications that the Russians are in a most Serious Position. Thrown into Great Confusion as They Attempt to ....... . -., Hurriedly Cross the River. TOKIO The fighting at. L.iao Yang , was contcued until a late hour Thurs t, It was resumed af dawn Friday. The fate of the sreat bulk of the re- treating Russian army hinges upon j J .-o I the bravery and fortitude of its left flanl- Before falling back General Kuropat - kin intended that his left to the east- ward and northward of Liao Yang should i,r. croativ strenethened in thP hope of checking General Kuroki's ad- vauce around his flan and to protect his line of retreat and communcation. The greatest part of this protecting force seems to have been massed in the neighborhood of Heiyingtai. twelve miles northeast of Liao Yang, where if. was fiercely assaulted by General Kuroki at 11 o'clock Thursday morn ing. ! The result of this fighting 'Is not known. If Kuroki wins and strikes the flank ,- oi tne retreating Russian army and reaches the railroad it will place the Russians in a most serious predica ment. Yesterday the Japanese managed to Interfere seriously with the train ser vice from Liao Yang. They used some guns captured from the Russians, to gether with some of their own. to bom bard the railroad station at Liao Yang, thus preventing the entraining of Russian troops. It is reported here that a conflagra tion is raging at Liao Yang. The chief of staff of the center Jap anese army. General Nodzu's. tele graphing early this morning, reported j tai i lie .Japanese center was continu ing to advance today, with the object of taking a line from Shinchiyen to Liao Yang, and effecting a re-junction with the Japanese left, commanded by General Oku. The Russians brgan to ret i eat on the right center Irom Liao Yang earlv uutiid. uiey were tnrown into great confusion while attempting ?o cross to the right bank or the Taitse river. The Japanese pursed them vigor ously and seized a .Russiau cannon which they used to shell tiie Liao Yang railway station. Field Marshal Oyama's right attack ed a heavy force of Russians in the vicinity of Heyingtai. twelve miles north or Liao Yang at 11 o'clock Thursday. His left began at dawn to day, pressing the Russans towards Tatzho. It is thought that he will se verely punish the Russians. The Japanese casualties in the Liao Yang engagement have not yet been ascertained officially. It is announced that they will not exceed 10.000. Government to Make Medals. PORTLAND That there will be a government mint in full operation at the Lewis and Clark exposition is-the assurance given President H. V. ue oy secretary Shaw of the! treasury department. The visit of Secretary Shaw to the exposition grounds Wednesday had the effect of gaining his sanction to the establish ment of the mint. The mint will be an active exhibit and will be placed Where the nrnpovcm: r n.L-:nn- ........... ' mm i. v.w,i i. li, o-u ..7. ",f. I .- ..w ...... v.. vj oil. 1 IJlillll Will be complete in every detail. Scheme for Killing Fails. SAN ANTONIO. Tex. A sHiPmo for a "killing" on the fourth and sixth cont!n"e the search and another crui raccs at Harlem went wrong at the scr was ,rderetI to report to him and llast minute and the nool rooms of i Texas, which stood to lose thousands of dollars, escaped through overpiav of the confederates, who seemed to nave an abundance of money. Rag Tag was sent by wire tappers to the pool rooms as the winner of the fourth race and Docile as the winner of the sixth. Neither won. although they were confirmed. Pool room op erators got suspicious end held bets. Subway Muddle Ye; Unsettled. NEW YORK Another fruitless ef fort to settle the threatened trouble between the Ititerborough Rapid Transit company and the employes was made by committees representing ! both interests. At the conclusion, i which was held at the Horns of August ' Belmont, the announcement was made that no agreement had been reached. Mr. Belmont was of the opinion that the situation would be adjusted with out serious trouble. Assistant Grand Chief Stone of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers thought differ ently. -Servia to Extend Railroads. BELGRADE, Servia. The govern ment proposes to raise a loan of $6. 000,000 for purposes of extending the' railway system of the kingdom. United States Makes Protest. ST. PETERSBURG The United States has protested to Russia against the seizure of the cargo of the British steamer Calchas, which was captured whlle bound frost Puget Sound to ! Japan by the Vladivostok squadron. The protest follows the lines of the case of the Portland and Asiatic liner Arabia, also seized by the Vladivostok squadron, in declining to recognize as of a contraband character goods and t r n r tin m. : . ..- i '""" ,B ne oroinary course of trade and not designed for the use or belligereats. j French Count May Be Lest. PARIS The eBcials here have al saost given up hope of finding Lieuten ant De Cuverville, the French aaval attache, who left Port Arthur in a junk with "Lieutenant Gilheim. the German naval attache, about the mid dle of August. He cabled to the au thorities here August 15 that he was about to leave and that the Ameri can naval attache. Lieutenant Newton AI1 the governments understood that A. McCuIly, had succeeded in getting j Great Britain and France, at some oat on a junk. De Cuverville has not time agreed on. would offer to medi been ueard of since starting. His ate when both belligerents desired it. family are greatly alarmed. mit not tm tboiu China Stws Work en Ships. j Touring the United States. stiAAUHAi-ine ii;nc3e govern-j meat, acceding to th. demand of Jap.; an, effected the stoppage of all re-' pairs on ine uussian prorciea cnus- or Askold and the Russian torpedo j boat destrorer Grozovoi. i Russian Loss 3,0CO. HARBIN, Manchuria The Russian, losses in the fighting of August 25 and 2G, east and south of Liao Yang. were 3,000 killed or wounded. The I great majority of the casualties were i sustained at Anping. BIOS FOR LETTER COXES. Contractor Under Indictment Objects to Refettina the Contract. WASHINGTON Bids were ooened I . a the iostofl5p (lenartmnt for fiir' I nishjng "street package and combina tion package and letter boxes," under the supervision of a special commit tee headed by Postmaster- Hibbard of Boston. " "" c ,UC1 m"bb of New York was present as attorney of Isaac S. McGiehan of New York, who made a contract in the name of - , ""; """- vv ., m 19"1 for furnishing such boxes, and h nmv c,a,ms .the..r.i?bt to fun,I,,l . iacm.' anu warned aU ,,Iduers Slnst making aay bids. The government t.. ...! . I r"" """ -u re,uscu l" n further supplies of.this character from ! the Columbian Supply company, j McGenan, who is a New Yorker, t aml r,eorSe H- Huntington, a clerk in hls ffics. aQd former Superintendent Machen of the free delivery service, were indicted in Washington for con spiracy and fraud in connection with the furnishing of hese package -boxes to the rovernment. RACE QUESTION THE ISSUE. The South Wrought Up Against Roosevelt. ESOPL'S, N. Y. Senator Asbnry C. Latimer of South Carolina was the only political visitor atRosemount. After leaving Rosemount Senator Latimer said: "I came to tell Judge Parker that the south stands ready "to send a host of orators north to help in the cam paign against Roosevelt. Every speaker in the south is prepared to assist in this work in the north. The south is solid, not so much against republicanism as against. the person ality of Roosevelt The race question. as fathered by Roosevelt, will be the chief issue against him." The announcement by David B. Hill of his contemplated retirement Janu ary 1 occasioned much interest in Esopus today, but Judge Parker re fused to comment on It. INTENSE ANXIETY PREVAILS Battle Now in Progress May Put an End to the War. ST. PETERSBURG Even late Monday night the greatest uncertain- ty prevails regarding the actual situation at Liao Yang. There is in tense anxiety for definite news from the front, but even the authorities are frankly ignorant as to whether or not j the long expected decisive ac tion will be fought at Liao Yang or further north. It is iiossible that a great battle is now proceeding and there are many indications that such is the case. If this is so, the fate of this year's campaign may be settled within forty-eight hourc. At the same time, opinion is almost equally divided, many believing that General Kuro patkin will not make a determined stand and that the Japanese will crack the shell, only to find that the bird has flown. CANNOT FIND RUSSIAN SHIPS. j British Cruisers Fail to Take Message to Volunteer Vessels. LONDON The efforts of the Brit ish cruisers of the Cape of Good Hope sniiadron to establish communication with the Russian volunteer fleet steamers Smolensk and St. Petersburg havo thus far failed. The admiralty received laie inursuay atternoon a Uhpaich from Rear Admiral Durnford announcing that none of his ships had caught sight of or had heard by wire less telegraphy from either of the Russian cruisers. He was directed to join t"c .oarcn. In Russian diplomatic circles it is said that it is not surprising that ! neither oi the Russian cruisers had put into an African port to coal, for the reason that before they sailed Black sea colliers preceded them with instructions to transfer coal at certain specified points. IS A GAME OF GIVE AND TAKE. Forts Change Hands Repeatedly at Port Arthur. CHE FOO. A Chinese who lived near Rihlungeshan declares that he saw (lie Russians occupying this fort. from which previous reports stated that they had been driven. Probably both reports were correct at the time they were enrrent, as semi-official ad- vices state that many positions about the fortress change hands repeatedly. The fighting, which began on the 27th soon became general. While the Chinese were at sea August 28, the heavy firing was resumed. Two junks containing contraband of war were sunk by a Japanese tor pedo boat ten miles off Liaoti prom ontory. It is said that fort No. 5 has changed bands four times and is now unoccupied. Meat en Unfair List. CHICAGO "A meat famine will be forced at all costs. It is the best weapon with which to fight the trust packers, although it may not be wel- corned by the independents. In these words President Donnelly of the butchers national organization declar ed a boycott agaiast all meat and an nounced that unto men would quit in all the packiag houses Thursday afternoon, regardless or where-live - - - - - - stock Is secured. Doaaeliy s an nounceneat was made after the meet , nf fh Anted Trades hoard. w -----. Not Ready far Mediation. BERLIN The German foreign of fice, taking note of the fresh asser tions that the neutral powers are comparing views with the object of forcing friendly mediation in the war between Russia and Japan, says such an idea is absurd at this moment, as the Russian purpose to continue the war has been clearly made known. WASHINGTON Fifty or members of the chambers of merce of Austria and Hungarv, more are on a tour of the United States, including a visit to the World's-fair, arrjVpd in Wathinnn Thun.inv John M. Thurston Soeaks. ASBURY PARK. N. J. Former Senator John M. Thurston of Nebras ka was the principal speaker at the convention of the New Jersey State League of Republican clubs Thursday night. - . -' . HffE-tBKtAW RUSSIANS WITHDRAW TO THE LEFT' BANK OF TAITSE RIVER. ADVANCE OFJHE JAPANESE Kuroki's Army Crosses the River on Pantos-n Bridge Japanese Casual ties, Since -August 29 Estitmated at Ten Thousand. TOKIO The Japanese left began pressing the Russians toward Ttazho at dawn Friday morning. The Japan ese right is engaged in the neighbor hood of Heiyingtai. The Japanese casualties since Au gust 29 are officially estimated at 10.000. ST. PETERSBURG The news of the occupation of Liao Yang by the Japanese and the withdrawal of the Russian army to the right bank of the Taitse river reached only a small section of the people of St. Peters burg at a late hour and caused intense excitement and disappointment. The majority of the inhabitants retired to rest believing that Russians arms bad again been successful and that the Japanese attacks had been repelled. Ugly suspicions, however, have been rife during the day, owing to the ab sence of press telegrams from Liao Yang, leading to the belief that the communications had been cut by 'Gen eral Kurok-i. The following statement was ob tained by the Associated Press from the war office at 10 o'clock Thursday night: "General Kuroki's army crossed in force to the right bank of the Haitse river, and it therefore became necessary- for the Russians to be in a po sition to repel a blow in this direc tion. "In view of this development in the operations General Kouropatkin decided to abandon his positions on the left bank and to concenarate his whole army ou the other side of the river. This position is the strongest both in character and in site. The great issue will finally be decided there. "By withdrawing to this position, the Russian army avoids the neces sity of being divided by the river and enjoys the advantage of com- ! pactness l General KouropatKin s move, mere fore, is not to be considered as a retreat, but rather as the carrying out of a well defined idea." The withdrawal of the Russians to the right bank involved the abandon ment of Liao Yang, which is situated on the left bank. The Japanese took advantage of this to occupy the city, but the sternest part of the fighting is still before them unless General Kouropatkin decides at the last hour to again fall back to the northward. It is more than likely, however, that he will decide to fight to a finish: The cards are all in his favor, H is believed, now that he has the Japan ese divided by the river, thus effect- ually turning the tables up bis foe. GROUND HEAPED WITH DEAD. Russian Correspondent Tells of Bat tle at Tsegow. HARBIN. A Russian correspondent of the Associated Press supplies the following: "Fighting with the extreme left flank of General Herscheimann's corps commenced at 10 o'clock on the night of August 25. with an attack on our position at the village of Tsegow. The Japanese attack was persisted in through the night and by 4 o'clock the next morning it involved the whole line. They drove a hard attack against General Herscheimann's right flank while attempting to turn his left "The Tamhofi regiment desperately protected the left flank until after day light, and just as it was wavering from the repeated shocks of the Jap anese assault our reinforcements came up and the whole line, including the weary defendants, charged shouting. "The Japanese stood stubbornly to tne oayonet attack, but finally were borne back in the whirl of the hand-to-hand fighting, leaving heaps of dead behind them. "Later a false report that the Jap anese had carried the position brought up another battalion of reserves at double quick. The battalion caught a Japanese infantry column standing with its flank exposed and fired, kill ing many and forcing the others to re tire. "Our battories'opened with the day light, forcing the Japanese from sev eral positions in the hills. They lost hundreds by our shrapnel fire. "We held the position all day long, but at G o'clock in the evening retired in accordance with orders." Russian Steamer Goes Down. TOKIO A Russian steamer engaged in clearing the channel at Port Arthur struck a mine and was destroyed. Russian Craws Tsld Xm Leave. SHANGHAI Repair work on the Russian cruiser Askold and torpedo bota destroyer Grozovoi has been stopped by the order of the British minister, the dock at which the re pairs are being made being owned by British-citizeas. Chiaa has- ordered that the paroled crews of the Askold and Groaovooi return to, Russia. The Japanese consul notified the consuls of neutral nations that any ship leav ing' port with crews of the Askold aad Grozovoi will be captured by Japanese warships still outside the harbor. 'Battle Brings Two Thousand. KEW YORK What is said to be the largest number of steerage pas sengers ever brought 'from Great Brit ain ia a single vessel arrived .Thurs day oa the steamship Baltic, which brought 2.000 passengers in the steer age, in addition to 671 in the cabins, making a total of 3.124 persons on board, including the crew. Among the steerage passengers were a number of returning Americans. William Riley a well known cattleV.an. "was in. the 1 steerage, having completed his 20th round trip across the Atlantic. Watson Talks in Atlanta. ATLANTA. Ga. Thomas E. Wat son, candidate for president on the people's party ticket, addressed an immense audience in the hall of the house of representatives of the Geor gia legislature. - Cullen Succeeds Parker. NEW YORK Judge Elmer E. Cul len of Brooklyn has been appointed chief judge of the court of appeals b Governor Odell, succeeding judge Parker,, resigned. : J iH&U3XHE.SULTAN DEAD.' - Former Turkish Ruler Passes Away , y at Constantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE. Former Sul tan Murad V. died Wednesday of dia betes,, from which he had long suf fered. It was reported in May last from Venna that Murad V.. the thirty-third sovereign of the. bouse of Osman, was' dying- and at the same time it waa reported from the same source that his adherents all over Turkey, known as the young Turks, were secretly arming and only awaited the signal' to rise is insurrection. Murad V. was born in 1840 and as cended the throne after the murder of the sultan, Abdul Aziz; May, 1876. In July of that yearJMurad was placed upon the regency of his brother, the present sultan, Abdul Hamid II., and on August SI he. was dethroned. Out wardly this act was performed legally by the council of ministers on the ground that he was insane. The real, facts in the case, however, will probably never be known, but it has been claimed that Murad was-a good deal more sane than his brother and one of the greatest " terrors of 'Abdul Ham id's existence was the fear that this Turkish "man with the iron mask," as he has been termed, might escape from his place of confinement in the Cheragan palace, and some six' years ago he was removed to the Malta Kiosk, in the grounds of the Yildiz palace occupied by Abdul Hamid, which is surrounded by lofty walls. In spite of the secrecv of Murad's removal he was seen as !:e passed by several foreigners, who de clared that though he had aged anu -vas haggard in appearance, the form er sultan had not lost his majeoUc bearing and that he preserved the ap pearance of a man in the full posses sion of his mental faculties. The confinement of Murad has been of the crudest character. Oaly his jailers were allowed to see him and every precaution was taken to pre vent any intelligence of what was go ing on in the opposite world from' reaching him. ' Although Murad is announced to have died from diabetes, it had gen erally been understood, according to' the palace representatives, that he was suffering from tuberculosis. BUTCHERS' STRIKE IS GROWING. Stock Handlers and Other Laborers Ordered Out. CHICAGO, HI. The efforts of Pres ident Donnelly of the butchers' union to spread the strike against the pack ers throughout all trades that are in any way connected with the packing house industry was only partially suc cessful on Wednesday. The first step was in calling out the men employed by the independ ent packers and the stock handlers I that were still at work for those pack ers against whom the original strike was made. The total number of men to quit work today in response to the appeals' of President Donnelly was about 3.000. It was also announced by President Donnelly that he had made arrange ments for a strike of the switchmen on the railroads doing business in the stock yards, and that in a short time the packers would find it impossible to ship out the'.r product. TJhe switch men, however, have refused to strike. After a long meeting which was at, tended jointly by members of the switchmen's union and members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, it was decided that the members of both organizations would remain at work. The members of the switch men's union declared themselves ready to strike, but those switchmeu who are members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen declined to do so. When this was made known to the members of the switchmen's union they declared that a strike on their part would be useless unless the members of the brotherhood went out at the same time, and they rescinded their action. PULLMAN SHOPS TO CLOSE. Seven Thousand Men Will Be Out of Employment. CHICAGO. The great shops of the Pullman company are to shut down on September 1 and thousands of men employed in the various departments of the car building corporation will be without work. Thirty thousand people at Pullman and in the sur rounding towns will be 'effected. When the Pullman company is working on the full time 7,000 persons are employed. During the last few months owing to a lack of new or ders, men have been laid off. GOO and 400 at a time, until now the force does not amount to more than 2,000. These men are engaged in finishing the construction of cars already un der way, and when these are ready for the rails the shops will be closed and the plant rendered idle. The plant may remain closed for more than a month. Letter in Hands sf Printer. OYSTER BAY. Having transacted all business of pressing importance that has been pending since his ar rival at Sagamore Hill the president will give more time henceforth to vis itors. A few callers will be received almost every day. Members of the In ternational arbitration conference which Is to be held In 8t. Louis- in the next ten days, will be received by the president at the White house September 24. The delegates will be the guests of the nation while In this country. Nine Persons Killed. MONTREAL. Nine persons were killed and twenty-three injured ia a head-on collision on the Grand Trunk railway, near Richmond, Que.. Tues day. The trains involved were a spe cial excursion from Montreal bound for Sherbrooke and passenger train No. 5, running between Island Bond, Vt.. and' Montreal. The collision. It Is claimed, was due to neglect of orders on the part of the train crew of the excursion train, which left Richmond without awaiting the arrival of the passenger fpin. Mad Scramble for Land. BLACKFOOT, Ida. The lineup at the land office at Blackfoot in anti cipation of the opening of the with held Fort Hall reservation lands, Sep tember C. is gradually increasing. Every train brings recruits. No seri ous conflicts have taken place, but trouble is expected when the Pocatello applicants, who were caught napping by the early arrivals,.here, commence "to arrive, as ' several' tracts close to Pocatello will be stubbornly contested ' NEWS IN RESOURCES OF NEBRASKA. It is Shown in a Bulletin that is Being Distributed. The State Labor bureau has had published a bulletin showing the re sources or Nebraska and other items of interest in the state, for distribu tion at the state fair. Every year some literature of this kind has been in de mand, but heretofore has not beea supplied. The bulletin is a portion of the matter which will be published in the biennial report. It contains tables showing crops anu value by counties, live stock by counties, and other matter. As an introduction to the tables the bulletin says: Nebraska has the largest creamery in Jhe world. Nebraska has the largest broom fac tory in the world. Nebraska has the largest individual cattle feeding station in the world. Nebraska has the largest and only beet sugar syrup and refining plant in the world. Nebraska has the second largest smelting works in the world. ' Nebraska has the third largest meat packing industry in the world. Nebraska is the third state in the production of corn. Nebraska is the fourth state in the production of wheat. Nebraska is the fourth state in the production of oats. Nebraska is the fifth state in the production of beet sugar. Nebraska is the first state in the production of rye. Nebraska is the fourth state in the production of cattle. ' Nebraska is the fourth state in the production of hogs. Nebraska Is the seventh state in the production of horses. Nebraska is the tenth state in the production of milch cows. Nebraska is the first state in the production of vine seeds and sugar corn for seed purposes and produces more than all of the balance of the United States combined. Nebraska has the greatest number of distinct varieties of native pasture and hay grasses of any state in the J union. Nebraska has. m the east half of the state. land of higher agricultural value and producing more products than any equal area in the United States. Irrigation Agent Moves. J. C. Stevens, formerly of the state board of irrigation, but now connected with the government survey, will leave Lincoln the first of the month for Denver, where his headquarters will be in the future. Mr. Stevens has just completed taking measurements along the Niobrara for a distance of several hundred miles, and incident ally looking out for irrigable lands. He found little of the land that was fit for irrigation, however. The river runs through a canyon and for many miles is three or four hundred feet deep. Prout Gets Notice. LINCOLN Attorney General Prout has been advised of the decision of Judge Kelligar in the Nemaha tax litigation. Judge Kelligar overruled the motion to dissolve the injunction restraining the county clerk from apportioning the increase in taxation made by the state board The case will now be argued. Strong f.-eling has been manifested against the rev enue law in that section of the state, and the suit will be bitterlv contested. Photographer Takes Poison. FULLERTON Lee Richards, pho tographer of this city, took a drFe or strychnine with suicidal intent and is not expected to live. The physicians say he is insane. Jubilee Week at Holdrege. IIOLDREGE Preparations are now complete for the jubilee and agricul tural exhibit to be held in this city September 5 to 1. The various town ships in the. county have organized to exhibit the resources of each section of the county. There will be a spe cial for each day: among them a flow er parade, Thursday; the merry mak ers Friday. The last day. Saturday, will be given up to the traveling men of Southwestern Nebraska. Gigantic Family Monument. BEATRICE A record family monu ment, which will contain C.000 pounds of granite, is to be erected by Kil patrick Bros, in the Kiipatrick burial grounds west of this city. The in scriptions thereon will consist of COO letters and will cover three genera tions of the Kiipatrick family. Adams Elevator Burns. BEATRICE The Samuel Q. Adams elevator at Odell was totally destroy ed by fire, entailing a loss of about 13,500. Wanted in Minnesota. YORK The alleged forger who has several names Is now in the county jail. Sheriff Brott received a message from Albert Lea. Minn., saying if he was not prosecuted hold him until the authorities arrived. The complaint has been lied and he will be prose cuted to the full extent of the law. The man passed a check here under the name of E. H. Seaman. The check was oa a bank in Davenport. Ia., and when it was presented payment was refused. Killed at a Creasing. AURORA Frank Klimper. aged about 22. when driving home from a neighboring dance, between 3 and 4 o'clock Sunday morning, was struck by a passenger train aad instantly killed. Threatens a Mandamus Suit. LINCOLN Attorney General Prout has threatened the' county clerk of Gage county with a mandamus suit if he does not apportion the .". cent increase recently oted by state hoard. per the Beatrice Man Kills Himself. BEATRICE John Trautwein. old resident of this city, until an re- cently a member of the firm of Tread ncll & Trautwein, implement dealers, committed suicide by shooting him self through the head with a revolver at his home here: Crushed Under His Horse. OAKLAND Charles Larson, a farm hand 25 years okl. was killed wTien riding to town. His hone stumbled and fell, and Larson was crushed be neath the horse. S3 - NEBRASKA THE STATE AT LARGE. Bakers of Omaha and Lincoln have increased the yrice of bread. The Pioneers and Old Settlers as sociation of Dakota county held their annual reunion last week, with a large attendance. The Pawnee county fair will hold Its twenty-fourth annual session Sep tember 20 to 22. A good fair and plenty of attractions are assured. Lee Richards, a photographer of Fullerton, took poison with suicidal intent. He is not expected to live. He has a wife and two little children. Every preparation is being made for the business men's carnival at York, commencing September 12 and ending September 18. At quite an ex pense the citizens and business men have prepared an entertainment which is said to be the best. Every arrangement will be made to enter tain the visitors. In attempting to fill a gasoline stove while it was burning. Miss Fer tig of Albion was severely burned at tha residence of ex-Judge Hamilton. The gasoline from the can became ig nited and in a moment the girl's clothes were ablaze, but bv prompt efforts on the part of those present the blaze was extinguished without ratal results. Carl Wilson, the only son of Charles Wilson, living three miles south of Table Rock, aged 17 years, shot and accidentally killed himself. The re volver was accidentally discharged while he was examining the weapon. He was shot through the heart aad lived but a few moments. The acci dent occurred In the door yard close to his father's residence. Deputy State Game Warden D. Ii Smith was in Boone county and made ihree arrests. In one case he found one hunter with two chickens in his possession and the second two hunt ers with thirteen chickens. The for mer plead guilty before County Judge Riley. These are the first arrests that have been made in the countv this year for violations of the came law. The good work of the Nebraska Prison association has attracted the auennon or tne national committed located at Trenton. N. .1. Dr. Martin of the local association received a let ter from A. M. Fish, chairman of the committee on discharged prisoners, of the national committee, asking for a copy of his report on this matter to be incorporated in the national report. Frank Barker, convicted of the mur der of his brother and his brother's wife, will not be hanged on the day set for his execution. Judge 11. G. Hamer filed a petition in error in support of an appeal to the supreme court, and this in itself acts as a rtay without the orders of any of the judges. Clerk Lindsay at once issued an order to Warden Beemer to stop the execution. The National Brick Manufacturing and Construction company, with head quarters at Omaha. Hied its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The capital stock is $750,000 and the stockholders are not individu ally responsible for its debts. The in corporators are E. II. Pumphrey. John Ellingsworth and A. J. Minick. and they exoecl to manufacture brick- plants, sell territory and do a general mining business. Governor .Mickey has been asked to extradite A. S. Whitman, now under arrest at Hastings, who is charged with having worked a confidence game ltl fllA lTWtV Mvtl I.....1' tf.fn.. ' burg. III. He represented himself to i be a member of a Chicago linn, and presenteil a draft on the Central Trust company of Chicago for $3."f). He cashed it on the pretense that he was using the money in a real estate deal near Galesbunr. When Frank Mcf'ormick's mother at Crete tried to arouse him the other day. yhe was unable to do so. .At noon she tried it again unsuccessfully and becoming alarmed called in Dr. Sample, who with difficulty restored him to consciousness. It v;as found that in a fit of dospondenc. said to have been caused bv a mis understanding wiili a girl i'niend, he had taken a dose of chloroform with the apparent intention of ending his life. Dodge coun?v rs trts vear produc ing the finest apples ever grown there' On July 2 last two sons of Wil liam Ebke. a farmer living northwest of Beatrice, were struck by Burling ton passenger train No. 12 as they were in the act of crossing the track in a buggy at DeWitt. Last week in the county court .Mr. Ebke tiled suit for 557.0O damages against the com panj. and the company, through its attorneys. Hazlett & .lack, entered a voluntary appearance and judgment was entered against it for J;.". The company claimed no liability, but was willing to pay the doctor bills and enough to repair the buggy. The elevator of the Central Gran aries company at Graf. Johnson county, was damaged by fire to the extent of 250. Insured. County Treasurer Russell of Wash incton county returned from Des Moines, where be had several of his red pigs on exhibition at the state fair. His stock took sweepstakes on boars, any age. open to the world, and sweepstakes on boar, any age, bred by owner. This pen, which con sists of three boars and four sows, were on exhibition at the Nebraska state fair. ' .1. B. Smith of Gage county, who took a bunch of fine Jersey cattle to the Iowa state fair at Des Moines, has taken seven first premiums, three seconds, one third and one fourth in the awards. Rev. Philip A. Hubert, a colored minister, has been arrested at Minne apolis and the Lincoln detectives want him on a criminal charge. He is accused of assaulting Mias Lillie Itanium, the 15-year-old daughter of a colored mail carrier. Detective Hfillc went to .Minn -aio!is to brlg Hubert to Lincoln. V. 1. Gilisen. Tor some years agent of the Omaha road at Pender, has re signed and accepted the place of chief clerk or the freight department of the Illinois Central at Council Bluffs. Walter Johnson was adjudged in sane by the insanity commission at Kearney and taken to the asVlum at Lincoln as soon as possible. John son is a stranger in Kearney. He came there from Grand Island from which Dlace it has since been learned he was shipped by the authorities. Johnson imagines he is running a train and pulling a long line of cars. G BWBBBjK"3feqSgS$RM WASH BLUE Casts M cent and equals ao Mate www oi aa-fftiicr kind f bhiia. Won't Freeze, Spill, Break Nor Spot Clothes mround in f6 Water. Smallest Monarchy en Earth. The sovereign who reigns over the smallest monarchy in the world is the king or Cocoa, a group of island? near Sumatra. These islands were dis covered about 300 years ago, by the captain of the Keeling, but were com paratively little known lill 1825. When Mr. Ross, an Englishman, visited them he was stnick by their beauty aad took up his abode there. It is hi grandson. Georce Ross m-hr . tolds sway over the Cocos. Allen's Foot-Ease. Wonderful Remedy. Have tried ALLEN'S 1'OOT-EASK. and find it to be a certain cure, and gives 'com fort to one suffering with .sore, tender and swollen feet. I will recommend ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE to my friends, as it N certainly a wonderful remedy. Mr. N. H. Guilford, New Orleans?, La." Condemns Top Hats. The lumdon Medicol Press thus la sues a call for heroes: The top hat is ugly, unhygienic and embarrassing. Its sole claim to support is the ap pearance oi respectability It gives. If only a few medical baronets would drive to their consultations in Pana mas and cloth caps they would brak the tyranny of habit over health and comeliness, and at the same tim earn the undying gratitude or their numb, ler confreres." . To the housewife who has nrt yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the murk?; .uitl who Is reasonably satisfied with the old. we would suggest that a trial of Defiance I'nW Water St.irch ! made at once. Not alone because It Is guar anteed by the manufacturers to tt su perior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 1H 'zw.. while all the other kinds contain lut 12 ozs. It is safe to say that th- lady who once us's Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. Snake That Stole. While working close to a farm house at Fulbeck, in Lincolnshire, a laborer was astonished to see a snake, over a yard long, swim across a stream. With some trouble he cap tured it and found in its mouth a cheese cake which it had stolen from the farm house larder on the other slue of the river. Loudon Daily Ex-' press. Horns at the WerM'a Fair. D. C Kolp. e Chief t'lerlt of Iowa I!otie oi Representatives, in manager Hotel Alt a ViM.". ear Agricultural entrance aad in prepared to entertain Kt with rooms at tl.Wand lotsftt cents. Kleclric lihts. toilet and bath rooms. cafe. Market street rarsthrect from Union Station. Highest ami coolest point aroutnt St. I,otiis. OMcUl maps of Kuir ami other lnfonn.i tior ent oi: application Make reservation nu. Unresisting Victims of Button Trust. Why are there two buttons, or even one, on the sleeves of a coat? The writer took a census of his buttons" and found that () of them were un necessary. He is particularly anxious as to the two buttons behind on :i frock coat. Taking a survey of thu whole human' family he finds that there are 8'JU.0yu,0tio buttons worn, all of them useless. Philadelphia L:d- er. Wild Dogs of Central Africa. The wild dog of central Africa, an explorer writes, is common enough. He is an ugly looking beast, with m, pied body, coarse hair, short head and , large upright ears. These wild lo,s play fearful havoc with game, occa sionally clearing out whose districts precisely in the same manner as red dhole of India, betore which even the tiger is said to letreat. Wife Drove Pest3 Away. A Yorkshire man whose poor rela tions pestered him continually, mar ried the worst scold in the county in order to haie a guardian who would protect him from the importuuutu legacy hunters. The venomous and incessant vituperation of the woman lad the desiied effect. Greater New York's Pay Roll. Some idea of the size of Greater New York may he gained by the state ment that there are -tf'.OOU employes ;n the pay roll This is a greater number than many South American republics and pr-tty monarchies of tho old world carrj. including their stand fpg armies. BUILDING FOOD To Bring the Babies Around. When a little human machine (or r large one) goes wrong, nothing is so important as the selection of food which will always bring it around apain. "My little baby boy fifteen months old had pneumonia, then came brain fever, and no sooner had he got over these than be began to cut teeth aad. being so weak, he was frerueatly thrown Into convuIsioBS," says a Col orado mother. "I decided a change Blight help, so took him to Kansas City for a viblt. When we got there he was so very weak when he would cry he would sink away and seemed like ha would die. "When I reached my sister's home abf- aaid immediately that we mist feed him Graae-Nuts aad, although I had never used the food, wo got some srd for a few days gave hist Just tbs juice or Grane-Xuts and milk. He get stronger so quickly we were sooa feeding him the Grape-Nats itself and la a wonderfully short time he fat tened right up and became strong and well. "That showed me something worth knowing and. when later on my girl came. 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