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ls'a"&' 5T w w. 'TTjvwjvv " "-4 WWW - ESTABUSUD MAX 11,1879. Columbus Journal. ColamboS) Nolr. Emtoced at the Postoffice. Cotambae, Nebr., MO"' rl anil matter. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY Cftlukis Journal Co., (INCOHPOliATED.) TZMS OF 8UB8CRIPIIOH: OHitw, by mail, postajr prepaid 1.M Six Moata.. ..... - .jj Tana moatba WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1905. TZXSBCT E. A835TT,.Siii. RENEWALS The dato opposito yonr naiuo on yonr paper. or wrapper pIiows t what time yonr anlMcriptifin i9 paid. Thnit JanO-'t ohnws that payment lias been receired np to Jan. 1, IS'. FebOS to Fell. 1, 1WJ3 anil no on. When payment ia made. the. tlate.whirh answers as a receipt, will be chanced accordingly. DISCONTlNUAXCES-KeKponfiihlcimbBcrili-mwwill continne to receive tint journal nntil the trablibhere nro not ifieil by letter to dicontinne. when all anwirciKi'H mnnt le paiil. If you do not winh the Journal continued for another jear af ter the time faid for has expired, jon hhonld provioOHly notify ub t" discontinue it. CIIANKF. IN ADDKESS-When orrferinR a clanRe in the aildrenH.HiiliMTilKTH nhonld lie Mire to give Uieir old as well tin their new addreca. Even aow we can imagine the sorrow of onr esteemed contemporary and see the tears in its meek brown Toice when next it has occasion to refer to that unspeakable city council. Americans are the greatest coffee drinkers in the world. Statistics show that we consume 11 75 pounds per head. And we head the list as beer drinkers, swallowing 18.28 gallons per head annually, abont thirteen times as much as we drank sitxj-live years ago. We were talking with a group of friends the'other day about tho habit OularabuB people have of reading their neighbor's Daily Journal, when one of the number.a good married woman, said that she saw something in a paper that she believed would "cure, the habit." Here is the clipping:" A Kan sas paper awarded a prize offered for the best answer to tho query:" Why is a daily newspaper like a woman," to tbo answer given by a woman; "Be cause every man should havo ono of his own and not run after his neigh bor's. ' ' Editor Pratt ot the Humphrey Dem ocrat is evidently afraid of cyclones. Strange that an Editor wonld tie alarmed at anything. But thoy are some times. After reading of the cy clone that occured in Omaha a few days ago and being almost m tho mid6t of one up his wav lately ho admits of flying Into the cellar and there on bended knees remained in silence nn til the fnrv of tho storm had passed. On emerging from tho pit ho went straight to his office and wrote his sentiments concerning his retreat be low ground during tho storm. Ho says: "People will poke fun at the Damocrat editor for crawling into the cellar during the worst of the storm. Host of our readers have heard abont tho dead hero and the live cow ard. This editor is going to continue to board with his wife just as long as Providence will permit, even though he is called a coward for doine so." DARK TRAGEDY The Telegram has brought to light a terrible state of afffrs. Jesse L. Root was a candidato for appointment on the Supreme Court Commission. Some of his friends thought if ho would assure a certain railroad attorney of his friendliness to railroads ho could get tbe endoisoment of tho railroad attorney and his friends thought such an endorsement wonld land tho ap pointment. Jesso balked and like a number of other candidates, railroad, aati-railrcad and nentrals, got left. Whether tho Telegram blames Jesse's friends for suggesting such a course, Jesse for balking or tho members of the Supreme jConrt who appear to have known nothing about it, is not clear. DECORA TIOX D. Y. Tho Hnghes Bill providing against the desecration cf Decoration Day by ball games, horse racing and other similar sports will not be in force till July 1 so that it will not effect our next Decoration Day. It is to bo hoped, however, that the good citizens of Nebraska will join heartily with the members of the Gracd Army and the Sons of Veterans, in creatine a public senti ment that will enforce the spirit and purposes of the Hughes mil even though it cannot bo legally enforced. It should be gratifying to the old sold iers and sons of veterans of Colum bus, to know that Manager Corbett of the Columbus Base Ball club has refused to sign for a came on that day and expresses himself in favor of a strict and reverent observance of that most sacred of all our legal holi days. The Journal hopes that its readers in every part of Platte county will take a firm stand for the elimination of all sports in their respective com araaities on May :. THE LWRARrS XEEDS. All friends of education and pro grass will no doubt join in the hope that the city council will deal as gen erously with the pnblic library tnis year as the law allows. The remarks of Jadge Boeder and Prof. Britell be fore the council last night would without question have been endorsed by a great majority of our citizens if they could hav heard them. The law permits a two-mill levy for the library which, as Judge Beeder said, would be aa averaee of about twenty cents a year for each inhabitant of the city. As the sneakers farther said, -the library board is not coming as a beg gar. The support of a public library ia mat a charity, bnc a duty. The li brary is second oaly to the public school system as an educational insti tatioB, aad it offers advantages to saay people whom the schools do not reach. Eaif the levy of twenty cents par capita was to be expended for lax- 17, tats coamuairy coaiu mmptj afford it Waeaitia asked for some tfciag that is a positive necessity. be little doubt that the wmsdadly grant it COLUMBINES. An international congress of scien tists assembled at Berlin yesterday to celebrate the achievements of the famous Professor Roentgen, dis coverer of the X-ray. Roentgen of coarse was expected to be present and his name was put on the program bnt at the last' minute he declared he didn't have the nerve to appear before a convention that had assembled to do honor to him. Another encourage ment for us bashful great men. Harry Lindsay comes back from Texas and announces that the press reports of the incidents betweenDavis cf Arkansas and Mickey of Nebraska weie grossly exaggerated. He says that the reproof which the honor able Davis administered to the honor able Mickey was eo delicate and so veiled that the audience didn't notice it at all. According to Mr. Lindsay, all thero was to it was this : Govern or Cummins of Iown and Governor Mickey of Nebraska made speeches as northern visitors to a southern state. Then Governor Davis of Arkansas, on behalf of tbe South, got up and said he was glad to welcome Governor Cummins of Iowa, but he had no welcome for a man who sought to revive memories of the civil war. That was all, says Mr. Lindsay. Of course, that's different We had been led to believe that the honorable Davis said- something discourteous, but now that the circumstances are explained it as clear as mud that the reports were exaggerated. It will be perceived that he didn'c mention Governor Mickey's name at all ; he didn't recall to the audience the fact that some six minutes previously the Governor ofNebraska had remark ed that his only former visit to the South was as a Union soldier in the '('0's; he didn't even remind the audience that another governor be sides Cummins of Iowa had just made a speech and was that minute sitting on tbe platform. His allusion was positively delphic in its obscurity. That Jeff Davis wonld have made a great diplomat. It is fortunate that the polished statesman from the Oz arks observed 6uch delicacy of expres sion, for we beliovo that if ho had been any less tactful some of the auditors would very likely have seen what ho was driving at. Texas audi ences are evidently keen. a A citizen of Seward. Neb., publish es the following advertisement in the Seward Blade: To the Parents of Soward : I am trying to raise flowers, bnt it looks now as if I would have to give it up, because your boys and girls are nightly raiding my premises, stealing my flowers and trampling into tbe earth others just coming up that will bloom later. I have never refused the gift of a flower to 'anyone who is gentleman or lady enough to ask for it. I am fully aware that, to the majority of you, I am not supposed to have any rights that anyone is bound to respect, and am also uwnre that the notion is fnlly shared with you by the present city administration, and that an appeal to them to protect my prop erty would be worse than useless. Therefore in order to protect my prop erty, which I shall surely do, I must resort to primitive methods. This therefore is to warn yoa that, unless yon can keep yonr children within bounds of the law, vou may expect them horsowhipped whenever they set foot on my premises at nights in this regardless' of sex. F. B. Tipton. If chore is anything that is calculat ed to justify a return to first princi ples in tbe matter of retribntivo jus tice, it is the great American pastime of despoiling flower beds. A flower in its native state is a thing of beauty and any person who mnrdors it with out good and sufficient reason 6hocId be held guilty of a felony. It is diff erent with tho other things that nro tho usual objects of nocturnal raids. A hen can be considered beautiful only by a far stretch of imagination or by comparison with a dnck ; and a watermelon is as ugly as Oom Paul. The swiping of such articles as these, which serve none but a material purpose in the cosmic order, has come by common consent to be regarded as a venial sin. Bnt the bloom and fra grance of tho flowers that bloom in the springtime, gentle Annie, occupy a higher station, and it is good to find a defender of them, even if he speaks only for his own flowers. We rise to endorse unequivocally the sentiments of the gentleman from Seward. CHICAGO'S EXAMPLE. In a hundred phases, the relation shins of the corporations and monop olies with tho Government and the people were under vigorous discussion throughout the United State? last month. The most striking event in the series of events or situations that provoked all this fresh outburst of argument and arousing of tho public mind was tho election of JndgeDuune as mayor of Chicago, on a platform demanding the immediato ownership of the street railroad lines of the city by the municipal government and the direct conduct of tho business as a municipal department. Thero have been many creditable things in the history of tho municipal government of Chicago. In view of tne brevity of the city's existence, the hetero geneous character of its working pop ulation, and the other difficulties be longing to the circumstances of the case. Chicaco's achievements are among the greatest in tho history of mankind. In due time, doubtless, Chicago will overcome its chief re maining defects, and obtain full recognition for all its past and present merits. There is now only a com paratively narrow margin of advance ment to be won in order to transform Chicago from its present disparaged and criticised condition into a much lauded and admired metropolis. It is obvious that one of the thingsCbicago most needs is an up-to-date transit service. Whether however, this is to be promptly and thoroughly obtained by Tirtue of the election of Judge Dunne as mayor, is a question that time alone can answer conclusively. There will be many difficulties con fronting Jadge Dunne's programmo; and the thousands who havo assumed that the thin is as good as accom- pli8hed,merely because of tbe triumph of the municipal ownership I the polls" will probably find that they did uot take due account of the mag nitude andoomplexity of the problem. Review of Reviews. FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE. Mr. Carnegie's big donation fcr the benefit of retired college professors dees uot carrr the condition that he usually attaches to his gifts. He does not ask that the public shall raise a certain sum before he gives his money. But he calls attention to the wisdom of the New York pnblic schools in pro viding retiring pensions for their teachers. Officers of oar armv and navy re ceive pay for life. They are public servants of a class that requires spec ial training nnd entire devotion of time and energy. If n man was turn ed out of the military or naval service at middle age. knowing no other call ing and having no provision ot fnture maintenance, what class of men wonld be applicants for the posts of presonsi bility in onr army and navy. When a war mteht break out, wonld there be any Grants or Shermans or Deweys in the service? Only those would enter tho lighting profession whose nativo love for war is strong enongh to overcome their considerations of prudenco and their desire to provide their families with the bus-t advant ages they are able to give them. Sncb is exactly tbe condition that exists with regard to the teaching profession. No man enters that field except thoso who are not fitted for any other, anil who tnke advantago of the constant demand, or those whose love for the cause of learning is great enough to inducn them to adopt a profession which is ueitncr proptrlv paid nor propcrlv respoctrd. It goes without saying that if it were remun erated as it should lie bettrr men would bo attracted .to it and greater regard for tho teaching profession would bo found atunug people at large. It is devoutly to bo wished that the authorities having charge of our var ious public school.-', state universities, etc , will follow the example set by the New York City schools and An drew Carnegie, and provide for the maintenance, of retirtd teachers of public institutions of learning. AX OPPORTUNITY. So far as the present city council is concerned, the city printing is settled, and settled on a business basis that will meet the entire approval of a very large majority of citizens. It remains only for tho council now to award the work to tho lowest and best bidder. They can award this work either on tho unit plan or on the item plan. Which shall it be? It is to bo hoped, as a matter of protection for the fntnre, that the conncil will adopt the item plan. Where the council is honest; where no paper bas a graft ; where estimates are solicited on all work actually needed, no more and no loss, it makes little difference which plan is adopted. Bnt if onr city government should ever fall into the hands cf men who desired to graft the public in the in terest of their favorite newspaper, they could uso the unit system to accomplish tboir purposo, just as that system is being used today in Platte county in contravention of law and justice. Tho item plan makes that kind of graft impossible. Tho nnit plan offers a constant indncemont to craft. Tbe item system saves money by securing tho very lowest price on each item. If our council adopts the item plan, they mav not save tho city five dollars on a year's printing this year, becanse they have asked bids on all supplies needed and no mere, but they will establish a precedent that will disarm dishonest officers if wo should. elect them in the future, nnd save the city hundreds of dollars. In arguing along these lines we are aware that the nnit srstem is better for tho nowspapcr temporarily. But we believe that strict honesty nnd le gitimnte profits form the only safe basis for any business in the long run, and that newspapars are no exception to that rule Argnment, however, is unnecessary. Gentlemen of the conncil. read the records at the court house. Take note of tho items that the Colnmbns Tele gram bas offered to furnish the county on the nnit plan, at nearly 50 per cent below cost, and then check over the printing bills and see how many of thoEO items you find have been furn ished. Then take note of the quanti ty of supplies that have been furnish ed outside of tbe items named in the bids. Then count up the hundreds of dollars that have been wasted in the coznty printiug on this plan. When you have dono this, just act as you would in establishing a pre cedent for the conduct of your pri vato business. YELLOW JOURNALISM. Onr old friend the World-Herald has been using the cable service of the Hearst papers for some time, and now it is under a grave suspicion of having branched out into yellow journalism in its local news. The mysterious appearance of tbe celebrated Pat Crowe, who drifted into tho World Herald office unsrrn by the rest of the ciry of Omaha, and cnbesHOWGst to anybody but the ono man who wrcte up the story, looks very much like some of the products of tbe New York World or the great Hearst dissemin ators of up-to-date fiction. At any rate, nobody but the World-Herald seems to believe the story. However, this particular incident is of no great importance. The in teresting fact is that tbe yellow papers are the ones that are most prosperous and most sought after by the public. The uneducated masses like tham for the same reason maybe that they like the five-cent novels. And nntil the masses are educated beyond the present stage, there is not much doubt that the city newspaper that wants to make monev had better spread on as much of the saffron as it can possibly devise. But while this is true of city papers, it doeB not seem to apply to those that circulate in the country and smaller towns. The country paper which is reliable and honest is generally the one that succeeds in the long run. Neither depraved tastes nor benighted I ignorance can be foaad in the country to anything like the extent that ex stsin the large cities. Therein at least one comfort tnat canaot be taken away from the lowly newspaper man of the crossroads. ELECTION MONEY. Since 1S90, according to Harper's Weekly.no less than fifteen states have attempted to parity elections by statute. Some of them have laws limiting the expenditure or campaign money; some have attached severe penalties for tbe use of any campaign money whatever by candidates : and still others simply compel pabltcity as to campaign expenses and contri butions, both by individual candi dates and party committees. It is pointed out that the use of money to pay campaign debts has grown in direct proportion with the growth of eivil service reform. In the early days when campaign debts could be paid with offices, it was not necessary to use money. Abraham Lincoln's first election, for instance, was secured hv an outlty f $100,000. EimiimiiuiiiiiiiiiiMtiintsitiiiiititiMiiis Jaattti ftcars ago. I Sirjiiiiiiiinimiuittiitu'imitmiiiiiima (From files of Journal May 10, 1871) Lincoln has voted 150,000 bonds for th purpose of erecting school build ings. Six car loads of Nebraska cattle were snipped to Chicago from Platts month Saturday. The B. M. in Nebraska have re duced tbe passenger tariff to five cents a mile, taking effect Aprl 10. Louis Phillipps has removed his boot and shoe store to Olive street opposite the post office. E. A. Gerrard returned from his trip east last week bringing with him thirteen head of very arood horses. Three city ordinances are being published in this week's Journal, one frr restricting an animal from run ning at large in the town, one to pro vide for making, building or repairing sidewalks and one for the protection of shade trees. At the meeting of the board cf county commissioners last week the following bills were allowed among others: J. Strother clerk of election, 2 : Sntton Winterbotham, lounge for jail, $5; F.' G. Becher, wood for jail $5; W. T. Strother, services as asses sor Monroe precnict, $1 ; A. Heintz n aa m a strvice as assessor aneii ureea pre cinct. SCO ; O. Rose services aa asses sor Colnmbns precinct, $20 ; A. Fraie dline salary as janitor fcr Aril, f IB. The commissioners issued a license to sell liquors for one year to John Strasser. Twenty-two wolf scalps and ten wild cats sent in by hooters for prizes offered by the coanty, were counted and destroyed. Creston. Mr. McDonald of Pilger.who form erly clerked for C F. Buhman, re turned last Saturday to again work for M. Buhman OlydoEli whleft the employ of Mr. Buhman last week is clerking for the new firm of Frieden Bros. Last Satnrday Frieden Bros, open ed np for business. They seem well satisfied with the outlook here for a large trade. Wm.Wenk sr returned from his trip to Missouri on Saturday last. Bruce Webb returned from Omaha Friday night to spend Saturday and Sunday with his family. He return ed to Omaha Sunday night where he is serving on the jury. Wm. Seeton, the shooting gallery grafter left here on Monday. Mr. Seeton has reaped a little harvest since he came here four weeks ago. Albtor Schief came up from Blain Saturday night for a few days visit with relatives. He starts for Cali fornia on Wednesday where his chid ren are. John Spanhack who used to tend bar for Mr. Ingham but has lately been farming returned to Creston last Sunday to tend bar again for S. Ing ham. Jake Evans west to Omaha Monday to attend the K. P. convention. W.C.Jackson, and D. Clark went to Omaha to attend the A. O. U. W. convention. A sister of Mrs. Geo. Hook returned home last week. Mrs. Clark accompanied Mr. Clark to Cmaha en Mocdsy. Anna Luchsinger who has been staying with the Eastan family all winter went out to her uncles, Mr. Hoeslers on Saturday. Creston gained a victory overOlark son last Sunday in a game of ball, scoro 23 to 3. Theodore Wolf came up iromOsoaba last week to look after his interests here. Carl Rosche is building a creamery here. It is located east of F. Adams blacksmith shop. G. H. Palmator&Co., will add SO feet to the northeast end of their 6tore. Dr. Lowery was called over here las t Friday to see Mrs. Jake Lud wick. She is some better at this writing. Mrs. Joe Kilmer is still quite sick. Farmers around here are bnsy plant ing. In a few days Thomas M. Gees liv ery barn will come ont in a new coat of paint. It needed it Tom. Mr. 8uetje8 boy has entirely recov ered from a siege of typhoid fever. Dr.Jones was the physician. This makes 20 cases of typhoid fever that Dr. Jones has had since he came here three years ago and be has had won derful success with each and every one of them. W. J. Bellnap is having part of his house reshingled. A good many were over from Leigh and Clarkson last Sunday to witness the ball game. Mr. J. W. Bennett who used to be depot agent here bat went to Leigh last January was over between trains last Sunday visting friends. Dr. Jones was over to Humphrey hut week and bought him a brand new top buggy of John Breaing. The stock food grafters have woke up. For fresh lah mmA tnwtmwu mtoM. Oaaria'a, iMi$IMl TRAIN LEAVES DENVER ON THE WAY TO CHICAGO. SPEECH 3V CHIEF EXECUTIVE Addrecs is a Discussion of Regula tion of Railway Rates Most Sumpt uous Banquet Ever Held in Colora do is Given Him. Denver, May J. The entertainment cf President Roosevelt by tho citizens of Denver last eight was a fitting con clusion of a day of royal welcome as le journeyed through the state of Colorado from Glenwood Springs. All the towns along the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, over which the presi dential party traveled, centered their population at the stations to greet tbe president and every evidence of hearty good will was seen and heard. The crowning event came last night. in the form of a banquet tendered President Roosevelt by the Denver chamber of commerce at the Brown Palace hotel. This was perhaps the most sumptuous affair over held in tho state, and the president was visi bly pleased by the picturo that un folded itself to his eyes as he entered the banquet hall. Everything known to the decorator's art was called into vse to embellith tho commodious ban quet hall. Promptly at. 9:30 o'clock the last course of the elaborate menu was fin ished and President James S. Temple cf the chamber of commerce called the guests to order and introduced Chief Justice Gabbert, who acted as toastmaster. In a brief speech Judge Gabbert introduced the president, who arose amid cheers and applause. He responded to the toast. "The Nation." After discussing various questions of interest, the president took up the subject of railway rate legislation as follows: "I want to say a word as to a governmental policy in which I feel that the whole, country ought to take t great Interest and which is itself tut part of a general policy into which I think our government must go. I speak of the policy of extending the powers of the interstate commerce commission and of giving it particu larly the power to fix rates and to Lave the rates which it fixes go into effect practically at once. As I say, that represents In my mind part of vhat should be the general policy of life country, the policy of giving not tn the state, but to the national gov ernment increased supervisory and regulatory power over corporations. When you give a nation that power, remember that harm and not good will come from the giving unless you give It with a firm determination not only to get justice for yourselves, but to do justice to others; that you will be as zealous to do justice to tbe railroads as to exact justice from them. As bas been well set forth by the attorney general. Mr. Moody, in his recent masterly argument present ed to the senate Investigating commit tee which Is investigating tbe matter, the legislators have the right, and, as I believe, the right of conferring those powers upon some executive body." He was followed by Governor Jesse McDonald, who spoke of "The State," and Mayor Robert W. Speer. who re sponded to the toast, 'The City." Sen Etor Thomas M. Patterson then spoke to the toast "The President" At the conclusion of the speech making patriotic airs were played by the orchestra, the 500 participants in tbe banquet singing"in chorus. Then all surrounded the president and es corted him to his rooms In the hotel, where they shouted "Good night." and cheered for several minutes. Shortly afterward the president and his party were driven to the station. The presi dential special left ,for Chicago at 7 o'clock this morning; Day Discusses Rate Question. St. Paul, May 9. General Manager L. F. Day of, the Minneapolis and St Louis railway. In an interview, de clared that tbe public demand for drastic regulation of railways is wan ing, and that a considerable revision of sentiment is in progress in tbe west. He discussed the question of rates and the sentiment of shippers at seme length, stating that the senti ment is growing that present laws will be found sufficient. If the government authorities and the Interstate com merce commission enforce them. LAST WIFE 0MTHE ST AND Mrs. Fischer-Hoch Is Called by Prose cution in Case of "Bluebeard." Chicago. May 9. A novel occur rence in criminal procedure was wit rassed at the trial of the alleged "Bluebeard" Johana Hoch. The inno vation consisted In a "wife" appear ing as a witness in a case involving her "husband," the woman being Mrs. Fischer-Hoch, tbe last survivor, with whom the 'multi-bigamist underwent the marriage ceremeny. Sho was called to the witness stand by the' prosecution. She narrated In detail the flirtations carried on by Hoch with her while Mrs. Walcker-Hoch lay dying. Frank Spreyne, the undertaker, stat ed that the enbalming fluid used after tbe death of; Mrs. Walcker-Hoch con tained no arsenic. Spreyne's testi mony was corroborated by the results of an analysis" Of the fluid. J. M. Schleisser, employed as clerk In a drug store at Sixty-third and Hal stead streets, testified that he had fre quently sold various prescriptions to Hoch. He Identified a number of them. In his direct testimony Schleisser de clared that none of them contained arsenic. In his cross-examination, however, he said that one of the pre scriptions did contain a small quan tity of arsenic. Autos Begin Long Race. New York, May 9. Two runabout automobiles. started from New York to race to. Portland. Ore., for a cash prize of $1;000. offered by the National Good Roads association, whoso con vention opens in Portland on June zi. Tne men hope to reach Portland in time for the opening of the conven tion. Cell Admitted to Bail. Milwaukee, May 9. Henry G. GoiL the former assistant cashier of the First National bank, charged with em bezzling over 1100.000 from ths baak. was admitted to bail in the sum ot $10,000. GoU'8 case comes up for pre liminary hearing on May 1C. Honor Cervantes' M emery. Madrid.' May 9. The ceateaary of the publication of Don Quixote was observed as a holiday throughout the country with floral festival aad the aaveillag of monuments to the author, Cervantes. M 1 NEBOGATOFF'S DIVISION JOINS ROJESTVENSKY'S SQUADRON. JAPANESE WARSHIPS ARE NEAR Nebogatofra Ships Will Have to Bt Rccoaled and Refitted for Action. Linevitch's Lines Forced Ck to the Northward. London, May 9. There arc indica tions that French hospitality will not be taxed much longer by the Russian warships which have been hovering t-bont the coast of Indo-China for near ly a month. Official advices have leached St. Petersburg which are be lieved to indicate that the division under Vice Admiral Nebogatoff has effected a junction with the more pow erful squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Roj?stvensky. At tho Rus sian capital it is expected that tue combined squadrons will lose no time in steaming northward to encounter the Japanese. Confirmation of St Petersburg's expectation Is afforded by an official dispatch to the French naval office announcing that tho Rus sian sijuadron has left Konghal bay. its destination being unknown. The bay named is probably what is shown n some maps as Kanh or Nha Trang. which is a few miles south of Honkoho lay, where the Russian ships were re cently reoorted to be. Simultaneous ly, Japanese warships are said to be concentrating In tho Straits of For mosa, the scouting line being much extended. A dispatch from St Petersburg cays: According to dispatches to the admiralty, brought to Saigon on the hospital ship Kostroma, tho junction of VIco Admirals Rojestvensky and nd Nebogatoff Is by this timo an ac complished fact The admiralty pro lesses Ignorance of the present loca tion of the united squadrons, but ia view of the long and uninterrupted voyage of Nebogatoff's division it is believed his ships will spend some time in sheltered waters of the Chi rose sea near the coast but outside tbe three-mile limit In order to com plete final recoaling and other prepa rations before setting out on the last and crucial stage of the voyage. There has been increasing feeling In Japanese official quarters regarding tbe way in which France has con strued neutrality and Great Britain's rympathy for her ally has been evl fenced in communications that have passed between the British foreign secretary and the French ambassador ia London, as well as between the British ambassador in Paris and For eign Minister Delcasse. The London newspapers do not con ceal their opinion that the facilities Rojestvensky has obtained in French waters constitute a serious menace to Japan's ability to retain command of the sea, and although it Is not appre hended that Japan will force the situa tion In a manner calculated to draw ether powers Into the struggle, since tuch developments would suit Rus sia's plans, strong appeals will be made to the French government to avoid the possibility of such compli cations. The correspondent of the Times at Paris telegraphs: "It is rumored in Russian circles here that the Japa nese flagship Mlkasa was lost in the Straits of Korea a week ago." London, May 9. The correspondent at Singapore of the Daily Mail tele graphs: A private letter from Influ ential friends at Tokio states that Vice Admiral Togo's fleet is concen trating in the Korean chaanel and that a porition of the Japanese navy 12 watching Vladivostok. Russians Watch Armies. St. Petersburg, May 9. Interest !s ence more directed to Manchuria, the news from the front indicating that Field Marshal Oyama Is pressing Gen eral Linevitch's advance posts, east and west of the railroad, with consid erable force, as if about to undertake a general offensive movement. The Russians are offering slight resistance feed are falling back upon their first tine of defense. Experts believe that Oyama's purpose Is to thrust in from the east, turn Kirin and interpose him self between Harbin and Vladivostok preparatory to the Investment of tho latter place. Russian Squadron Moves. Paris, May 9. An official dispatch was received here saying that the Russian Pacific 'squadron had left Konghal bay.. This follows the efforts ot the French authorities to keep the squadron moving. Its destination is tot known. Police Fire on Mob. Tiflis. May 9. Police who were at tempting to arrest two men who had tried to murder a nobleman la a vil lage near here were attacked by a mob of would-be rescuers. In the conflict which ensued twenty of the mob were tilled or wounded. Leads Takes All the Blame. Waverly, Mo., May 9. Investigation by state auditors of the alleged short age In the funds of the Middleton bank revealed a note signed by Cash ier E. II. Leads, In which, referring to Assistant Cashier Warner, Leads wrote: "You must not accuse Mr. Warner 61 wrecking this bank, he had nothing to do with it, I did it all my self." The note was found In Leads' private box. The police have been searching for Leads alnce April 24. but have not found a clew. The aud itor atate that $62,000 Is missing. Nan Patterson Still in Jail. New York, May 9. Nan Pattersons future Is still uncertain. Bail has been provided for her, but District Attorney Jerome has not yet decided what ac tion he will take in her case. After a long conference with Mr. Jerome and Ibis assistant, Mr. Rand, Miss Patter son's counsel was compelled to bear to the girl In the Tombs the disap pointing news that sho may have to remain in prison for at least a week longer. The prisoner bore the an nouncement with fortitude, although the had been led to believe that she might be granted her freedom today. Cut Rates to Meet Trolley Competition Chicago, May 9. The Illinois Cen tral railroad announced a reduction of nearly 100 per cent in passenger fares between Chicago and Kankakee, De catur and Bloomlagton. The object Is to meet the competition of the Inter urbaa trolleys. This Is said to be the Irst move in a plan formed by the tig steam railroad managers of the country to flght the trolleys. The Chi cago and Alton road has already be gan competition between Bloomlagton aad St Louis. DR. TERRY, Erilnent Eu Specialist and Expert Optician i or omana Will be at the MERIDIAN HOTEL PARLORS three days, Monday, Tuesday and 17, where he will be pleased to serve you and your friends Owing to the large practice Dr. Terry is doing in Columbus, it is necessary to have more room. Therefore I have arranged for Dr Terry to in future have the parlors at the Meridian Hotel, where he will have room to use many of the Optical instruments necessary to deal with the most complicated defects of vision. 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