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By COLUMBUS JOURNAL CO.
COLUMBUS.
NEBRASKA.
News in Brief
Five thousand men are now work
ing on the Panan.a canal.
Notices of the Japanese bond allot
raent have been sent out at New
York.
Fear of wrecks has caused train ser
vice at night to be suspended in the
Caucasus.
Chicago has decided to build a new
court house on the ruins of the pres
ent rookery.
The whisky trust,has made a 2 cent
cut in the price of whisky. The quo
tation is now $1.20.
The emperor of Japan intends to
transform the legation at "Washington
into a full-fledged embassy.
After adopting the supplemental
and colonial budgets the Prussian
rcichstag adjourned until May 10.
The Nevada & California railway
company filed articles of incorporation
Willi the secretary of state of Cali
fornia. The Washington Star questions the
Interview given out by Governor
Cummins on the subject of tariff re
vision. Ex-Mayor Carter II. Harrison of
Chicago was presented with loving
cup by members of the Board of Edu
cation. Mexican Central officials announce
embezzlements at four stations on
that road in the last, month to the ex
" tent of $2y,000.
Theodore 1. Shonts, the new head
of the Panama Canal commission, is
of Dutch descent, but has a strain of
French Huguenot in him.
W. W. Ilockhill, newly appointed
minister to China, called upon Secre
tary Taft and the officials of the state
department to take his leave.
John D. Rockefeller has given
$5,000 to the Sisters of the Good Shep
herd in chares of the house of the
Good Shepherd for girls, in Cleveland.
Ha ron Suymatsu, Japanese leader,
in an article in the Outlook, declares
the war will continue iintil Uusia is
crippled, and that Japan demands in
demnity. Senator Scott is believed to speak
for railroads in declaring that any
attempt to tako rate making power
out of hands of the railroads will be
resisted.
Officials of New York gas com
panies before the legislative invest i
jmting commit toe admit that the pro
duct which costs the consumer $1 per
1,000 feet is made for 2S cents.
Secretary Shumway of the state
board of health of Michigan has re
ceived a report of an outbreak of
""spotted fever" or cerebro meningitis
in Star township. Antrim county.
Tho remains of thirty-five unidenti
fied dead who lost their lives in the
explosion and fire at R. B. Grover
company's shoe factory. March 20, at
Brockton, Mass., were buried in a lot
purchased by the city.
Standing before his young wife,
who held their 4-months-old baby in
her arms, George Lucke, who came to
Minneapolis from Clinton, Iowa, four
'weeks ago. drained the contents of a
bottle of carbolic acid.
At New York the North American
Trust company, the Trust Company of
America and tiie City Trust company
are to be consolidated into one com
pany, having a capital of $2,000,000
and a surplus of $9,000,000.
Itcv. Dr. J. J. Murray, a member
of the Maryland conference of the
Methodist Protestant church, and for
sixty-five years a minister o? the gos
pel, died at Bellevue. a suhurn of
Pittsburg. Pa. He was S- years old.
It is rejiorted at Springfield. Ark..
that Marquis Meadam has made a
deathbed confession to the murder
several years ago of Dr. C. Chantless
at Center Ridge. Ark., for which Alex
Ilrinklcy was hanged at Merriltown.
It is ascertained that the increase
in the common stock of the Erie rail
road company from $113,000,000 to
$133,000,000, recently announced, was
made to prepare for a conversion of
its outstanding $10,000,000 of convert
ible bonds.
In the South American mail the
state department received from Min
ister Bowen a copy of President Cas
tro's reply to the minister's proposi
tion to submit the issues between the
United States and Venezuela to ar-
bitration.
President W. R. Harper of the Uni-i
versity of Chicago again took up his
university work, interrupted by his re
cent illness and the following neriod
of convalescence at lakcwood. X. J.
He was given a hearty greeting by
the student.
General Linevitch has pilloried a
number of officers who displayed cow
ardice during the battle of Mukden,
publicly disgracing them by posting
their names at all the division head
quarters, while some of them are ig
nominiously drummed out of camp.
The price of beef and pork has been
advanced from 1 to 3 cents per
pound by St. Louis packers. Retail
163161-?. with few exceptions, are
maintaining the old prices, although
they assert that in some cases they
are selling meat at a loss.
The appearance of the Russian
squadron in the China sea was re
flected on the bourse by a rise in
Imperial 4s to S5.
Through report of Minister Conger.
the United States is able to assure
Russia that anti-foreign sentiment in
China is not on the increase.
Police were stoned on the streets of
Madrid by a crowd roused to fury
Yy collapse of the reservoir, which
killed hundreds of people.
Senator Dolliver will insist on thor
ough investigation of freight rates, in
pite of majority sentiment of com
mittee in opposite direction.
James Berlingett has been appoint
ed acting general manager of the St.
Joseph & Grand Island railroad, vice
Raymond Dupy. resigned.
The British bark Aldergrove was
wrecKeu recently on juazorca. a J
guano island. First Mate Marshall and
one sailor were drowned.
Advices have been received from
Sydney of the outbreak of bubonic
plague there. The disease has also
appeared at Brisbane.
An injunction suit to prevent the
proposed mutualization of the Equit
able Life Assurance society was ar
gued in a Brook'yn court
The Finland senate resolved to peti
tion the emperor of Russia to with
draw the gendarmerie from Finland.
The R. B. Grover company and its
'agents were declared to be blameless
'for the explosion which destroyed its
factory at Brockton,
"MY WIFE'S PEOPLE COMING."
"We have had a splendid winter" in
Western Canada.
Canada's inrush this year is wonder
fully great and considerably ahead of
any previous year. It is always inter
esting to those who contemplate mov
ing to read expressions of opinion
from those living in the country, it
is therefore our pleasure to reproduce
the following, written to an Agent of
the Government and forwarded to
the Immigration Branch of the Depart
ment of the Interior at Ottawa:
Birch Hills, Sask., Canada, Feb. 1, '05.
Dear Sir: I take pleasure in drop
ping you a few lines to let you know
how we are getting along up here and
how we like the place. We have been
here close on to a year now and think
the place is fine. We have been out
every day this winter working in the
bush getting out logs for buildings,
etc., getting rails for fencing. We
have not suffered with the cold as
much as we did in Chicago. My lit
tle boys are out every day with their
sleighs having a good time. The low
est the temperature has been this
winter is 34 below, and it is very still,
no wind.
We had a splendid summer. We
put up about 50 tons of hay and will
have about 30 tons to sell. Hay
brings $8 per ton now and will be
higher in the spring. We have 20
acres broke and ready for crop. We
worked on the Can. Nor. Ry. for
awhile this summer and am just 3
miles from the R. R. and town site.
The steel is all laid to within 2
miles of the river and we often see
the train bringing supplies for the
Bridge.
My wife's people are coming up
about May. I wish you would write
them and if there should be any one
coming to Prince Albert that could do
with a half a car let them know. The
homesteads are all taken up within
12 miles of us. I often think if this
land were only in the States what a
rush there would be. It is the rich
est land and most productive I ever
saw, and the climate is O. K.
I know that people back there that
I write to do not believe me when I
write them what a splendid winter
we are having. They think we are all
frozen up. We have only about S
inches of snow, and there are cattle
on the range that have not been
rounded up this winter. Day after day
the Tlier. raises up to .".0 and CO, and
I don't believe we have had a day
this winter that it stayed at zero.
My wife says that we used to think
that zero was cold in Chicago. But
we don't mind it one bit. Christmas
night we went out and drove T miles
witli our 3 little boys, it was 20 be
low, ami there was not a whimper
from any one of them; I'd hate to do
it in old Chicago.
Well. I guess I will close, and you
can tell any one in the U. S. that they
cannot do better than come to the
Prince Albeit District. I remain,
Yours truly,
(Signed) J. D. Head.
Be not slaves to your children, they
will have their happiness later.
In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE.
A powder. It cures painful.smarting.nerv
ous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the
greatest comfort discovery of the age.
Makes new shoes easy. A certain care for
sweating feet. Sold by all druggists, 25a
Trial package FREE. Address A. S.
Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
The life of an old man is like a
lighted candle in a draught.
Defiance Starch
should be in every household: none so
good, besides 4 ounces more for 10 cents
than any other brand of cold water
starch.
Completed the Cheer.
A day or two are there appeared
Dn the register of the Ccates house
the names of Charles Hipp and Mrs.
Hipp of Chicago. A traveling man,
who was the next arrival, picked up
t pen and hesitating amoment. said
to the clerk. "I guess I'll change my
name today." Then under the names
Df the Chicago guests he wrote. "John
F. Hooray." Kancas City Times.
Game She Didn't Like.
A little girl, the daughter of a min
ister, was up later than usual one
night, and for the first time in her life
was present at family prayers. Dur
ing the reading of the Bible she was
very quiet, but when her lather knelt
down to pray she went up to him, and,
touching him on the shoulder, said:
"Pa. 1 don't like to play at this game."
Poverty and Education.
Poverty is a great bar to education,
but would not be if both the child
and the parent were alive to the real
value of an education. If education
cannot be acquired in one way it can
in another. The trouble is that the
judgment of the child is too immature
to prove a safe guide, and the parent
leaves everything to the child.
Insects Destroy Telephone Poles.
Owing to the climatic deterioration
and insect destruction of the wooden
poles the eighty miles of telephone
line in Abyssinia have to be constant
ly patroled by special police to insure
continuous operation.
HONEST CONFESSION.
A Doctor's Talk on Food.
There are no fairer set of men on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been in error they are
usually apt to make honest and man
ly confession of the fact.
A case in point is that of an emi
nent practitioner, one of the good
old school, who lives in Texas. His
plain, unvarnished tale needs no
dressing up:
"I had always had an intense preju
dice, which I can now see was un
warrantable and unreasonable, against
all muchly advertised foods. Hence,
I never read a line of the many 'ads.'
of Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till
last winter.
"While in Corpus Christ! for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of the ruddiest, health
iest little boys I ever saw. I ate my
first dish of Grape-Nuts food for
supper with my little grand
sons. I became exceedingly - fond
of it and have eaten a pack
age of It every week since, and find it
a delicious, refreshing and strengthen
ing food, leaving no ill effects whatever,
causing no eructations (with which I
was formerly much troubled), no
sense of fullness, nausea, nor distress
of stomach in any way.
"There is no other food that agrees
with, me so well, or sits as lightly or
pleasantly upon my stomach as this
does. I am stronger and more active
since I began the use of Grape-Nuts
than I have been for 10 years, and am
no longer troubled with nausea and
indigestion.' Name given by Postum
Co., Battls Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
littla book, "The Road to WellTiUe."
GOME INTO COURT
QUESTION OF REBATES TO BE
.INVESTIGATED.
THOSE REQUESTED TO APPEAR
Chairman Elkins Says Private Cars
and Terminals Will Be Looked Into
Many Maqnates Summoned
ge.
fore the Special Session Now On.
WASHINGTON Following is a list
of the railroad men who have been
requested to appear before the senate
committee on interstate commerce,
which will begin its inquiry into rail
road regulation at once.
W. K. Vanderbilt of the New York
Central, George Gould or the Gould
system, E. H. Harriman of the Union
Pacific, J. J. Hill of the Great North
ern. A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsyl
vania. E. D. Kenna, vice president of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe;
Walker D. Hines. general counsel of
the Louisville & Nashville; Hugh L.
Bond, general counsel of the Balti
more & Ohio; Winslow Pierce, gener
al counsel of the Gould system; Presi
dent Hughitt of the Chicago & North
western, President Ripley of the At
chison, Topeka & Santa Fe; President
Tuttle of the Boston & Maine, Vice
President Wilcox of the Delaware &.
Hudson. President Truesdale of the
Delaware, Iackawanua & Western;
President Spencer of the Southern.
President Fish of the Illinois Central.
Of these only Messrs. Cassatt, Fish
Spencer and TtIe have signified a
willingness to attend, and they say
they, will not be aide to be present at
the beginning of the committee's sit-
ting. A number or the witnesses have I r" " "";",'', ,
. , , , ,. .leaden coffin was opened in the ores-
been summoned, however, and it is
expected that the committtee will be
able to proceed soon after coming to
gether. Among the non-railroad men
to be heard are Senators Spooner,
Knox and Morgan: Prof. W. Z. Ripley
of Harvard university and Victor
Morawetz of New York.
The committee has been summoned
to meet at 3 p. m. Monday, and Chair
man Elkins of the committee has an
nounced his purpose to go very thor
oughly into the subject. The resolu
tion under which the hearing will be j
held directs the committee "to con
sider the question of additional legis
lation to regulate interstate com
merce, and to authorize the Interstate
Commerce commission to fix rates of
freights and -tares and to acquire fur
ther information as to interstate com
merce, including violations or eva
sions of t!nj anti-rebate law and the
devices and methods by which such
evasions are accomplished and includ
ing refrigerator and other private car
system, industrial railway tracks,
switching charges and the like, and
also t,o consider what legislation
should be enacted in relation to the
liability of railroad companies engaged
n interstate traffic or operating lines
in any territory of the United States
for injuries received by their em
ployes when in tho discharge of
duty."
GARFIELD READY TO BEGIN
Investigation of Kansas Oil Situation
Will Commence at Once.
TOPEKA, Kan Commissioner of
Corporations Garfield announced that
the investigation of the Standard Oil
company in Kansas -would be started
at once. The hearings will all be se
cret, and no intimation of the com
missioners' work will be made public
until the report is given out by Pres
ident Roosevelt. Commissioner Gar
field held conferences with Governor
I loch. Attornev General Coleman and
United St-ites District Attorney Dean.
AH the information gained bv these
olTick'ls wav placed before him and lie
re-sards it as sufficient to start to
o! Ic on.
In reply to a question Commissioner
jnr'Ield said that he had been work
ing on the oil situation for several
months He said:
The '!!' anitalion in Kansas in
tsrestc me. as it is practically a
repetition of what we went through
In Ohio several years ago. The rela
tions of the production of crude oil
to demand is naturally a very import
ant matter in this investigation. The
Standard Oil company seems to have
raised the cry of over-production as a
defense against the charges and this
claim is one of the things that we
will go into very carefully.
BRIDLE FOR MISS ROOSEVELT
Made of White Horse Hair With Solid
Silver Buckles.
NEW CASTLE. Colo. Now that
the reception to President Roosevelt
and the parade is assured the women
of New Castle have decided to do
their share. As soon as the president j establish and maintain kindergartens
alights from the train a committee j and day nurseries for the poorer
from the women's reading club will j classes of colored children,
surround him and will escort him to j Resolutions also were adopted op
the club rooms, where on behalf of j posing the indiscriminate use of the
the women of Garfield county he will j American flag, and advocating on all
ne presented with a horse hair hi idle
for the use of Miss Alice Roosevelt.
The bridle itself is a work of art.
which took over a year to complete.
Turkey Settles Claims.
PARIS A dispatch to the remi
Dfficial Temps from Constantinople
says the French ambassador. M. Con
stans. has received an imperial irade
making a complete and definite settle
ment of the French claims. It gives an
indemnity of $7,000,000 for the contro
versy over the Damascus-Nazrib rail
road and insures continuous French
control of the road, and also accords
as damages $.120,000 to the Frnech
company operating the quays of Con
stantinople. These are the main feat
ures. Hitchcock Refers Rebate Case.
WASHINGTON Secretary Hitch
cock has decided to refer to the at
torney general the question of rail
road rebates on material used in con
nection with the irrigation reclama
tion service, which Comptroller Trace
well has decided could not be legally
accepted. The secretary refuses to
discuss the comptroller's opinion, but
other officials at the interior depart
ment hold that the so-called rebate
is merely a reduction, such as is pro
vided for by section 22 of the inter
state commerce act.
Banker Hunt Pleads Guilty.
CHICAGO W. H. Hunt, former
president of the defunct Pan-American
bank here on Wednesday changed
his plea of "not guilty" to "guilty."
Hunt is under indictment for embez
zlement. After the change of plea had
been allowed. Judge Kersten granted
a motion for continuance, made by
Hunt's counsel. The change of plea
places the case in the hands of the
court, and by avoiding a jury trial
Hunt is left free to follow an express
ed desire to visit New York and other
cuter cities.
PAUL JONES' BODY FOUND.
Successful Termination of a Remark
able Search at Paris.
PARIS The remarkable search
which Ambassador Porter has con
ducted for the body of John Paul
Jones has been crowned with success
by the discovery of the body and its
identification by the highest French
medical experts as unquestionably
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i - " i,c irtuiuus American aumirai
who lounueu tne American navy.
Ambassador Porter cabled to Wash
ington announcing the successful re
sults of his long and difficult search.
The body is. in a good state of preser
vation, considering that the inter
ment took place over 100 years ago.
The circumstances leading to the
final discovery of the body are par
ticularly interesting. General Porter
has conducted the search for the last
five years and when congress recently
took no action upon the president's
recommendation for the expenses in
cident to the search the ambassador
continued the extensive labors at his
own expense. A large force of work
men has been engaged night and day
tunneling and cross-tunneling the old
St. Louis cemetery. This constituted
a huge operation, embracing nearly a
block covered with buildings and re
quiring a system of subterranean min
ing. -itindreds of wcoden caskets were
found, but not until Wednesday were
unearthed four leaden caskets which
gave promise of containing the body
of the admiral. Three of them bore
plates designating the names of the
deceased. The fourth showed superior
solidity of workmanship. No plate was
found on this casket and it is sup
posed it was removed when another
rnffln M1C? ClMlnritnnnnn.l n I IM.
ence of Ambassador Porter, Colonel
Bailey Blanchard. the second secre
tary of the American embassy, and
Engineer Weis. who lias been direct
ing the excavation. The body was
found to be well preserved owing to
its being immersed in alcohol. It was
wrapped in a sheet with a packing
of straw and hay. Those present were
immediately struck by the resem
blance of the head to that on the
medallions and busts of the admiral.
As was anticipated, no uniform, de
coration or sword was found, as all
such articles had been accounted for
after the burial.
The coffin is shaped like a mummy
coffin, which coffins were common at
that period, widening from the feet
to the shoulders, with a round top
fitting over the head.
The coffin was taken to the medical
school wlieie directors Capitan and
Pilillau, distinguished professors of
the school of anthropology and recog
nized authorities on such investiga
tions, were charged with making a
thorough examination for the purpose
of identification. To facilitate litis.
the ambassador furnished them with
portraits and medallions, two busts
by Houdil and authentic descriptions
of the color of the admiral's hair and
height and measurement of his lody.
After the most minute examination
these facts were fully substantiated:
Length of the body, five feet seven
inches; the admiral's exact height.
Size and shape of the head agree
with several peculiarities identical
with the head of the admiral. Hair,
dark brown, the same as the admir
al's; in places slightly gray, indicat
ing a person of his age. 45 years.
Tho hair is long, reaching below the
shoulders, and is combed back and
gathered in a clasp at the back of the
neck.
OVER-RIDES SUSAN B. ANTHONY
National Council of Women Declares
Divorce nvil to He an Evil.
WASHINGTON -0i-r the bitter
vrotost of Miss fiuFtin B. Anthony tho
National Council f Women adopted
a resolution pledging the organization
to co-operate with church and state
to ascertain what are the chief causes
which induce or lead up to divorce.
Divorce, the resolution recites, is
known to cause most disastrous re
sults in the family and state.
"I do not consider divorce an evil
by any means." asserted Miss An
thony, who was on her feet before the
reading of the resolution had been
concluded. It i? just as much a refuge
for women married to brutal men as
Canada was once a refuge from brutal
masters. I will never vote for a re
solution that will cut women off from
refuge from designing and brutal
men."
The council adopted formally the
anti-jKilygamy resolution favorably re
ported from committee: also a resolu
tion deploring the horrors of war in
ceneral and particularly the present
war in the far east. The council
pledged itself through resolution to
nossihle occasions the adoption of the
initiative and referendum as the most
effective means for securing equal
rights for women.
Stricter Medical Examination.
BUFFALO. N. Y An executive
committee of the Royal Arcanum is
in session here. One of the members
in speaking of the order said their
reports for the year ending May 1.
next, would show that the receipts of
the association exceeded the amount
of the death claims by only $20,000.
The speaker stated that the execu
tive committe would recommend not
only that the medical examination
be made stricter, but that the appli
cant's mode of living and habits be
examined into.
Early Spring in Alaska.
SEATTLE. Wash. A special from
Nome to the Post Intelligencr states
that the past winter has been unpre
cedented for mildness and that the
ice is rapidly breaking up all along
the coast. In St. Michaels bay the
water is open and the ice in Norton
bay and sound has already moved
north as far as Nome. Bering strait
has been open all winter, and at no
time since January has the thermo
meter been lower than zero, and for
the past forty day? the average tem
perature has been 50 above.
President May Prolong Trip.
LAWTON. Okia. Cowboys who
have arrived here from Frederick,
Okla.. near where President Roose
velt and his party are in camp, assert
that the president has decided to re
main in the pasture until Saturday,
thus extending his hunt two days.
Meaning of "Dakota."
Dakota is an mdian word meaning
confederated. It was the name of a
division of the Siouan stock of North
American Indians, composed of the
Dakota proper and the Aaatmlboias.
BAD FOR INDIANS
AGENT WILSON SAYS FREE
WHISKY MEANS THEIR END.
RED MEN FORWARD A PROTEST
Insist That They Have Been Robbed
of Their Lands and Money Belong
ing to Them is Gobbled Up by the
White Speculators.
WASHINGTON H. G. Wilson,
bonded school superintendent of the
Winnebagoes, arrived in Washington
on matters before officials of the In
dian bureau and expects to return
home within a few days. Upon his re
turn he will install his successor. W.
A. McFatridge, and this having been
accomplished will start for Klamath.
Ore., having recently been appointed
bonded school superintendent of the
Klamath schools.
Mr. Wilson, in speaking of the con
ditions on the Winnebago reservation
respecting the sale of liquors, said
that during the recent months there
had been much less drinking. The re
cent decision of the supreme court,
however, holding there is no law to
prevent the Winnebago or other In
dians who hold full American citizen
ship from purchasing liquor, will have
a disastrous effect.
"This decision means the finish
morally and physically of this tribe of
Indians," said Wilson.
"If enabled to purchase whisky they
will soon become extinct. In fact, it
will be but a few years until nearly
every able bodied man among them
will have drank himself to death."
The Winnebagoes have filed a pro
test with the secretary of the interior
tind commissioner of Indian affairs
of the manner in which that tribe has
been robbed of its lands and cast into
outer darkness by the white man for
the last twenty-live years. The Winne
bagoes declare their lands, which
have apparently been sold by them
have been taken away fraudulently.
Members of the tribe, they assert,
have been forced to sign blank papers
they know nothing about; checks they
have received have been taken from
them by force or offset by enormous
whisky bills; their agents have falsi
fied itemized accounts they sent to
the department, and during the last
three months have ridden all over the
reservation getting signatures from
Indians to papers which enabled the
speculators to get hold of their prop
erty. The (Umax, they charge, came
when their ai'ont himself handed to
spi culators direct the government
checks, inon"- belonging to the In
dians to pay fraudulent debts and
whisky notes of Indians without in
vestigation or hearing and without the
knowledge and consent of the In
dians?. The complaint is transmitted
by Phillip Long, a Winnebago, and
is signed by more than 100 of his
tribesmen. Some of the names attach
ed are Red Legs, Charles Earth,
George Ixingtail, Louis Grayhair,
Green Rainbow, Pet Snake. Two Buf
falohead, South Wind, Big Tree, Walk
ing Day, George Whitewing and Green
Hair.
RUSSIANS ON THE RUN
Tokio Report Says Main Body of
Czar's Army is Now at Kirin.
TOKIO It is reported that the
main force of the Russians, which re
tired in the direction of Hsing.kiog.
has reached Kirin. The rear guard,
which is estimated at 12.000 men. cun
tinues in the vicinity of Harltmg
cheng, closely in touch with the Jap
anese vanguard. The main force,
which retired from Kniyuan over the
Kirin road, is leported at Kirin, with
a rear guard of S.uoo men. ac It
suchow., Hakln'i and at Sulipao.
keeping in touch with the Japanese
forces.
Changchen is evidently the rallying
point for the Changtu and Fakeumen
forces. Although a force, estimated at
13.000 men. has been detailed to oc
cupy Fenchua, and 3.000 to hold Pa
miencheng, the latter force seems- as
signed to check and retard the Jap
anese advance.
MERRIAM COMMITS SUICIDE
Of Merriam Mortgage Co. and Brother-in-Law
of Sheldon.
BOSTON. Mass. Clarence M. Mer
riam, an investment broker having of
fices in this city, has committed sui
cide at a hotel. His father is a broker
in Chicago. No cause for the suicide
is known.
Mr. Merriam's body was found some
hours after death on a bed he hail oc
cupied since last Saturday. There
was a bullet wound in the head. The
suicide leaves a wife and two chi'dren.
He was a native of Waterbury, Conn.
The police of this city say that
Clarence M. Merriam, whose body was
found in a hotel late yesterday, com
mitted suicide by shooting. Merriam's
friends here cannot explain the act.
They say so far as they know Merriam
enjoyed splendid health and was pros
perous. Merriam's father and brother
reside in Topeka.
Margin Skipped to France.
PHILADELPHIA Frank C. Marrin
alias "Judge"- Franklin Stone, whom
police agents have been seeking in
connection with the affairs of the col
lapsed Storey Cotton company, is re
ported to have landed at Havre,
France. March 23. having sailed from
New York on the same day the con
cern went into the hands of a re
ceiver. Marrin was accompanied by
his wife and two sons. Thomas H.
Quinlan, secretary and treasurer of
the Storey company, is also said to
have been in the party.
Would Take Him Up Pike's Peak.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. Upon
return of President Roosevelt here
from his hunting trip about the middle
of May he will be waited upon by the
members of the Pike's Peak Press
club of this city, and presented with
one of th club's handsome gold badges
as a souvenir of his visit. The presi
dent has been elected an honorary
member of the club. The badge will
be made out of pure Cripple Creek
gold. It is also planned to take the
president to the summit of Pike's
Peak on the cog railway.
Governor Bradv Explains.
WASHINGTON Secretary Hitch
cock has received a cablegram from
Governor Brady of Alaska in response
to the secretary's letter asking the
governor to explain his connection
with a mining promotion company.
The governor merely says that he has
sent explanations by mail. The presi
dent of the governor's company, who
is a clergyman, called upon the sec
retary and explained the governor's
connection with his company, bat he
was told that his showing was mot
nflcteatlr clear
ALL BROKEN DOWN.
Ho Sleep No Appetite Just a Con
tinual Backache.
Joseph McCauley, of 144 Sholti
street, Chicago, Sachem of Tecumsek
Lodge, says:
lwo years ago mj
health w a s com
pletely broken down.
My back ached and
was so lame that at
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able to dress myself.
I lost my appetite
and was uuable to
sleep. There seemed
to be no relief until
I took Doan's Kid
ney Pills; but four boxes of this rem
edy effected a complete and perma
nent cure. If suffering humanity knew
the value of Doan's Kidney Pills they
would se nothing else, as it is the
only positive cure I know."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milbum Co.. Buffalo, N.Y.
New South Wales Wool.
New South Wales owns more thar
CO per cent of the entire number ot
sheep pastured in the provinces ol
Australia. Since IStH) the wool clip
has brought to New South Wales alone
the enormous sum of $1.3:10,000. Near
ly 250,00').000 pounds or wool are
yealy exported from New South
Wales. Angora goats have also been
bred in the colony, and there are at
present nearly 40,000 of them in the
country.
New and Profitable Occupation.
A shorthand writer in Berlin at
tends the funerals of prominent per
sons and takes down verbatim the ad
dresses of the officiating clergymen.
He prepares highly-ornamented copies
of these and sells them to the friends
ot the eulogized dead. He is doing a
profitable trade.
American Coal Production.
The United States produces 310.000.
000 metric tons of coal a year, worth
at the mines $lS.ri,000,00ii and costing
consumers nearly a billion dollars.
Iris plants grow in Thibet. ir,.0(l
feet above sea level, in such masses as
to look like sheets of purple.
A Wonderful Discovery.
Broadland. S. Dak., April 17. Quite
a sensation has been created here by
the publication of the story of G. W.
Gray, who after a special treatment
tor three mouths was prostrate and
helpless and given up to die with
Blight's Disease. Bright's Disease has
always been considered incurable, but
evidently from the story told by Mr.
Gray, there is a remedy which will
cure it even in the most advanced
stages. This is what he says:
"I was helpless as a little babe. My
wife and I searched everything and
read everything we could find about
Bright's Disease, hoping that I would
be able to find a remedy. After many
failures my wife insisted that 1 should
try Dodd's Kidney Pills. I praise God
for the day when I decided to do so.
for this remedy met every phase of
my case and in a short time I was
able to get out of bed and after a few
weeks' treatment I was a strong, well
man. Dodd's Kidney Pills saved niy
life."
A remedy that will cure Bright'l
Disease will cure any lesser Kidnej
Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills are cer
tainly the most wonderful discovery
which modern medical research haf
V.vcn to the world.
If the windows of our mind are
thrown wide to the sunlight there is
no place for dark thoughts.
JfVHAT IS A BUILDING & LOAN AS
SOCIATION. To those Mot familiar with tho plan
and opera ti n of a Building & Loan
Association it may be proper to say
that it is in fact a mutual society lor
favings, in which every member, pop
ularly styled a "depositor," is a stock
holder and entitled to share in the
profits of the Company, the aggregate
savings being loaned to other mem
bers of the Association.
It affords every person an opportun
ity to at any time safely invest sums
or $1.00 or more and assures him that
whatever interest may be derived
from loaning the aggregate sums will
be divided pro-rata and his share paid
or credited quarter-annually.
AH money is loaned on first mort
gage security or on stock of the Asso
ciation to other members, and is re
paid in monthly installments. Hence,
safety is as nearly absolute as possi
ble, and, with common honesty and
with the exercise of ordinary judg
ment, the institution cannot fail.
It is not intended to be as flexible
As a bank, since the State law renders
ell securites non-negotiable. There
fore, notice of withdrawal of money
Js required, but this is more than off
se. by th higher rate of interest or
dividends paid to its members. Per
manency in savings and investments
ars its characteristics.
In additon to offering absolute safe
ty for investments, it also offers an
excellent opportunity to own a home
of your own. Why forever pay rent?
You will assume practically no more
obligation in undertaking to purchase
a home of your own. It will only re
quire the regular setting aside of such
an amount as you can from each pay
day until you have the necessary mar
gin of cash to put up as security
Then for a time you pay about tho
same as the former rent, and after
that you have only taxes and insur
ance to pay. For circulars exnlaining
our plan, address Occidental Building
& Loan Association, 1523 Douglas St.,
Omaha, Neb.
Vain excuses only
gravity of an offense.
aggravate the
I do not believe Pi's Cure for Consumpt'or
has an equal tor couxlis and cold. Jouv F
ItoYEit, Trinity Sprin, InU.. Feb. 15. 1WJQ
Farmers and hens are
busy as they ever get.
about as
MI had Inflamatory RhrnmatUm. hot I am
well now. thanl.it to l)r IiavM Krnnrttr'i 1 T,rlt I:m
dy. If tax Lett friend." Oarrttt Lanslu, Troy, '. Y.
The Japs are not the only ones who
have taken a tie pass.
Every housekeeper should knot
that if they will buy Definace Colt
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 oz. one full
pound while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in -'-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same. 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures "IS -." Demand De
fiance and save mud: time and money
and the annoyance of the Iron stick'
tag. Defiance never sticks.
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News in Nebraska I
Hardy voters have approved a
proposition for a system of water
woiks.
The ball tams of Frontier county
have organized a county league,
games to begin May 1.
The elevator building of J. H. Ros
enfelt & Son of Cambridge burned.
Loss $5,000 mostly covered by insur
ance. Dan Rumelin, a young farmer re
siding four mile3 west of FJmwood.
lost his barn and four head of horses
by fire.
Four fires in seven hours is the rec
ord that Norfolk has established. An
incendiary seems to have done the
work.
G. Lu Brown, a young medical stu
dent at Omaha, attempted to end his
life with cocaine because of disap
pointment in a love affair.
It is said that twelve young wom
en are to resign their positions as
teachers in the Plattsmouth public
schools in order to get married.
Mrs. Mary McGill of A precinct.
Seward county, was declared insane
on complaint of her husband, whom
she insists i3 dead and buried.
A smooth young fellow who claims
to be a traveling optician is the latest
grafter who has been trying to get
some of the hard-earned dollars of
Cass county tarmers.
Stephen McNichols. a grain dealer
at O'Neill, is loading six cars of oats
billed to Manila. Philippine islands.
This is the first consignment from
Holt county to the Philippines.
Gus White, living north of Sterling,
was compelled to kill one of his best
horses last week on account of its
showing symptoms of hydrophobia.
Several other of Mr. White's horses
were bitten bv the mad horse.
United States Judge Munger has
written to Norfolk asking as to fur
niture in the court room of the new
government building, and stating that
a jury session will be held there this
mouth if furniture is made ready.
Mrs. James Dagget of York was- de
clared insane and wa taken to I in
coln by Sheriff Booth. It is said her
malady was caused by the death of
her husband who was accidentally
shot several years ago in Oklahoma.
A large amount of live stock has
hern purchased in Custer county re
cently, especially feeders, the biggest
purchase being made by S. McFall
and R. F. Bridgeford. representing
C'rider Bros.' commission house of
Kansas City.
In the district court of Tierce coun
ty. Paul Klawitter. living near Os
mond, was convicted of assault on the
person of Anna Blackwell. a 1 1-year-
old girl living near Osiinnd. Judge
Boyd sentenced him to six years in
the penitentiary at hard labor.
Governor Mickey sent the following
telegram to Secretary to the Presi
dent IxMh: "The citizens of Lincoln
join with me in extending a pressing
and cordial invitation to the president
to stop in this city on his return east.
A western welcome awaits him."
The state labor bureau intends to
find out just what it costs to live in
Nebraska and instead of adding one's
iebts to what he has made during the
year will get out In the state and
hustle up statistics on the matter.
Omaha, South Omaha. Lincoln and
3rand Island will be the principal
towns In which statistics will be
gathered.
Attorney General Norris Brown has
announced his intention of filing an
application with the United States su
preme court for the advancement of
the Union Pacific and Burlington tax
cases now pending against the state
to the head of th" docket as soon as
the transcript of the proceedings in
the federal district court is filed at
Washington.
Mrs. Anna Wood, formerly Mrs.
Charlton, called upon Governor Mick
ey to secure executive clemency for
her son. Charles Charlton, who is
now in the penitentiary for murder.
Charlton killed a man in Dodge county
some thirteen years ago. and since
his incarceration several attempts
have been made to secure his release,
but without success.
Martin Anderson, an energetic
young farmer from Nemaha precinct,
Lancaster county, walked into th
office, of the county clerk and deposit
ed nine young wolves with their eyes
yet closed, for which he wanted $I.2."
each under tho appropriation and law
passed by the recent legislature. Not
with standing the law is not effective
until July 1 Anderson was given a
voucher for his money.
Thc"Rn"k Island railroad was the
first of thiK year to file a report of
the value of its property in Nebraska
with the stat" auditor for the use of
the State Board of Assessment in
placing a value niton this road. The
reports goes into detail about the
number of ties in every mile of its
road and the kind of ballast and
weight of j-teel used, but it remains
silent upon those essential points
upon which the board should have in
formation. Indictments by a federal grand jury
on the charge of appropriating gov
ernment property is the serious situ
ation with which a large number of
men in Norfolk are just now threaten
ed and, .according to Adjutant General
Culver, a situation which they cannot
escape.
Articles of impeachment have been
filed in the district court of Otoe coun
ty against Police Judge C. P. Logan
of Nebraska City. It is alleged that
he has failed to turn Into the city
treasury $1.0.r9.'80 of the fines and
costs collected by him during Feb
ruary and March.
Theodore Schneider, the grocery
man of Nebraska City, who filed a
petition of voluntary bankruptcy in
the United States court several days
ago, has made a settlement with his
creditors and the bankruptcy pro
ceedings have been withdrawn.
Under the name of the Western
Maccabees, a complete fraternal or
ganization was formed at Grand Is
land by the committee chosen last
October by the protesting Maccabees
of Nebraska. A full quota of officers
was chosen and every necessity to
the formation of a new order was
supplied.
Charley Ott, of Otoe county, a 15-year-old
boy, was accidentally shot
below the heart by Collins Riley and
Merrill Cook, boys about 13 years of
age. The shooting was accidental and
is not likely to prove fatal.
Frank Barker, the Webster county
murderer, will not be taken before
the insanity commission as Warden
Beemer refuses to file an insanity
complaint against him. Stories to the
effect that Barker was to be declared
insane and placed in the Lincoln asy
lum have roused a storm of indigna
tion near Red Cloud, where the crime
was committed.
EVERY OKKS HIM
HOW HE GOT KID OF HIS OBSTDTATB
MUS0ULAE RHEUMATISM.
Sir. Jotir Tell wf thv Way by "Which lie
Treated lllutvrlf SucwHsfulljr
lYlu-u lHx.:ir Fai !-!.
Six physicians, all of them good, one of
them a. specialist, had lono their best
for Mr. Jones ait different times during
three years, and still ho suffered fear
fully from the tortures of rheumatism.
Tho rheumatism that had been dor
mant in his system was suddenly
brought to an acute stage by exposure
while ho was drawing ice in February,
1901. From that timo on for n period
of more than threo years he was a con
stant sufferer. Ho tried many kinds of
treatment, bnt the rheumatism wouldn't
badge. When regular doctors failed,
and ono remedy after another proved
aseless, many said: "I should think ho
would give it np and save his money."
Of his condition nt this time, Mr.
Jones says: "3Iy rheumatism started
ill my right thigh, but in timo it ap
peared iu every muscle of my Kdy. I
lost tho uso of my left arm en
tirely and nearly lo.t the uso of my
right one. My feet were badly affected,
opeciully tho bottoms of tho heels.
When my right side was affected thero
was swelling, but tho left side didn't
swell when tho disease settled there.
Tho internal organs didn't seem to bo
involved at all. The trouble was all in
the muscles and the nerves."
Among tho few who still encouraged
Mr. Jones to think that u euro might
yet be found was a friend who had rea
son for great confidence iu Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills, and acting on her
advice he bought a 1mx of them iu Sep
temter, l!K)L The story of what fol
lowed is brief, but nothing could bo
more satisfactory.
" When I was on tho third lxx," says
Sir. Jones, " I could realize a change for
tho better. I felt sure then that Dr
Williams' Pink Pills were tho right
medicine for my case. I kept on with
rliem for several weeks longer and now
I am entirely well, and everybody is
asking what I took."
Mr. William Jones lives at Oxford,
Alich. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills effect
wonderful curts in rheumatism, becauso
chey work directly on the blood which is
the seat of the disease. They are bold
by every druggist.
People who are nlivays regretting
the past, are always the people wiio
are putting the future on the bum.
BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA.
Face Like Raw Beef Thought She
Would Lose Her Ear Healed
Without a Blemish Moth
er Thanks Cuticura.
"My little girl had eczema very bad
when she was ten months old. I
thought she would lose her right ear.
It had turned black, and her face was
like a piece of raw meat, and very
sore. It would bleed when I washed
her, and I had to keep cloths on it
day and night. There was not a clear
spot on her face when I began using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and now
It is completely healed, without scar
or blemish, which is more than I had
hoped for. (Signed) Mrs. Rose Ether,
291 Eckford St.. Brooklyn, N. Y.'
It is easier to find a thousand re
cruits than one general.
The Present Rate Law.
The duties of the present Interstate
Commerce Commission are to correct
all discriminations in railroad rates,
if it finds that an unjust rate is in
eflect, the railroad is notified. If It
declines to change it. the Commission
can bring suit in Court and if the
Court decides in favor of the Com
n'iisioners" finding, the railroad must
obey, or its officers may be brought up
lor contempt of court and summarily
uealt with.
A little friendliness is worth a
whole lot of tiii'ineial arsis'ance.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by I'.il ilIc.it!inM. a tliry c.wrmt rrwli lti 1I
eii-! iHrtlin of tin? -r I nrrr l-.iniy in' iay ij
cur-iI-.i!li-o ami (tut I r ii.iitl!tlt!.ml reinr.il-.
IV.ifnrb ! rau--l liy an liifl.iiiuM lomllilou ( (be
muruui Ilnltiir of tli- hii-t.irtiUn mil' Wlirii till
tul t Intliiiiifil j.iu haf a piiiiMIni: uninit ht Ira
JiTtecl tit-Arlii.; anil wlirri It It ciitlrrly -!ii-il, )frtf-BC-'
I the rrult .mi! unl- the Inlt immnt!..n run I
taken out mi'l till tiilir r turrit t" lti iinritiHl o.r.ill
tl'in.hrarln will be i!r-tn.jel fnrerr. nine c:i-rm
out if ten are i-iii-.il by atnrrh. whlrh In nothlug
but nil litlA'nrit i-Mint'ifi'ii if the iminjii purfai'r.
We will file One lliniMrril Iinllnr fur miy . of
Iejifjirfcn KMUfcetl hy eatarrh i thai raiinut he cured
by Hall Catarrh Curi- semi f.ir rlrcuUrK.fri-e.
V . CIIKNKV & M.. Toledo. O.
F"M hv Irut;i;:t-. T.'-
TuLc llall'n Katully I'll!' furriiontlpatlun.
A man may be the head of the fam
ily, but he has to foot the bills.
Many Children Are Sickly.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's
Home. New York. Cure Fevenshness, Head
ache, Stomach Troubles. Teething Dis
orders.Break up Colds and Destroy Worms.
tall Druggists'. 25c Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, I.eKoy, N. Y.
If they are filled with sweet temper
Miere is no place for anger.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every tottlc of CASTOTUA,
a aft:and cure remnly for infants and children,
and tec that it
Bear the
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In Use For Over 30 Yearn.
The Kind You Have Always lioughi
Push a worthy enterprise as Tar as
circumstances will pormit.
Quality Brings the Business.
Seven million (T.unO.OijO) Iewfc,' '"Single
Binder" straight :"e cigar now sold annu
ally. Made of extra quality tobacco. Many
who formerly smoked fix- cigars are now
smoking Jwis Single Binder. Lewis
Factory, Peoria, 111.
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ing left but to fight.
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