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The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
JOHN r. BROOKE,
Major General Commanding.

FORTUNE is certainly smiling upon the
men from Nebraska. Last week they
captured native who was carrying a
stolen box OF dynamite, thus making
quite reputation for themselves. Last
evening they were successful in captur-
ing a powder thief. While Private Bick
Of Company q was patrolinR his beat,
along the north side OF the river, about
8 o'clock Friday night, he saw a native
carrying three sacks upon his shoulder.
The sentry promptly stopped the native
and proceeded to investigate the sacks.
The sacks appeared to contain only
black mud but the sentry quickly recog-
nized it as prismatic powder. He called
the corporal of the guard and sent the
native to the police station under arrest.
The man gave his name as Celdonia de la
Cruz and stated that he picked the three
sacks out of the water, but refused to
say where he was taking the stuff or
what he proposed to do with it. He was
turned over to the military police for
further investigation and action.-From
Manila American.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

j. J. KENNEDY, yardmaster of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad company, was
found dead Tuesday evening of last "es.,
at the bottom of flight of stone steps
in an areaway at lis North Twelfth
street, Omaha. He was lying face down.
ward in position that indicated he had
fallen and slid down the steps head
foremost.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

The family of Carl Grunz, residing at
Doniphan, Hall county, is quite seriously
i'll, resulting from the eating of sausage,
in the meat OF which trichinae has been
discovered. Mr.. Grunz is farmer.
The sausage from which the sickness
resulted was made by the family, from
their own pork about four weeks ago.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
PLACE TO REcUpRRArR SOLDIERS.

fLACE 10 hECUfkHATE SOlLDlEtSs
The secretary of war has received q
recommendation from Surgeon General
Sternberg of the establishment of an
army sanitarium at Nagasaki, Japan, fol
the use of the United States troops al
Manila. The recommendation has not
been approved, but it is looked upon
with much favor owing to the desirable.
ity of having such a sanitarium well
away from the Philippines and from any
possible epidemics which may arise there.
1t would require the consent Of the Jap
anese government, but little doubt exists
that this would be given. The climate
in this Japanese locality is very salubri.
ous and bracing and it is in every way
better than that about Manila, particu-
larly for the sick and convalescing.
Advices from Manila Wednesday say
that the insurgents have taken Iloilo.
Gen. Otis has full power to act for the
United States, and it is supposed he will
demand the surrender of Ilolo into his
hands, and this demand may at once
raise the issue between the insurgents
and our own government of possession
OF the islands.
The province of Iloilo is set down in
the official directories a. having q popu-
lation of ZOO, and it is the second sea-
port in importance in the Philippine
group. It 10 located on q river navig-
able for vessels OF fifteen feet draught,
90 that very few Of our gunboats would
be available to assist the troops in case
it should be necessary 10 take forcible
possession OF the city.
The Spaniards have chosen q strong
place for the concentration Of their
troops in the town OF Zamboanga, which,
q the reports here indicate, is strongly
fortified and possessed Of considerable
natural strength from q defensive point
Of view. It is not doubted that they
will be able to maintain themselves for
an indefinite period of time against the
insurgents, presuming tha: they are not
cut OF from obtaining supplies from the
sea. The town itself hes Q population
Of q 900 inhabitantA
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

BACHELORS, it Is said, can live in lux
ury in Porto Rico at small cost. Per-
haps this explains the appointment of
Tom Cook to government position
there. 1t is the only plausible explain
alton suggested to date.-Fremont Trib-
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

Our own ships earn only about one
dollar OF each ten paid for carrying our
own commerce. England gets most of
the nine. Encourage home production;
stop the policy OF neglecting our marine.
The $3OO,O0O,OOO given to foreign ship
owners should be earned by Americans.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

HENRY WATTERsON in a leading editO-
rial Saturday in the Louisville, (Ken-
tucky) Courier-Journal nominates Admi-
raj Dewey for president and General
Fitzhugh Lee for vice-president.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

IT is said that in the time of the Mid
die Empire Egyptian) new medicine and
new treatment were adopted by the
doctors at the risk of being put to death
II the patient died.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

U. S. GRANT, OF this county, has shown
in the senatorial fight that, unlike SO
many of his opponents, he is gentle
man. Mr.. Grant may not be Webster
when it comes to public speaking, but
that he is an honest man and will prove
an earnest worker for the interests of the
whole state when a U. S. senator, his
most bitter foes will acknowledge after
his election which, at this time, seems to
he an assured National City (Cal)
Record
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

CONGREssMAN-ELEcTB B. H. Roberts of
Utah, being polygamist, is regarded by
some as legally barred from taking his
seat in congress. If there is question of
his right, he purposes making the
strongest possible showing in his own
favor. He says polygamy is not adult
cry, for, ''were it SO considered, then
Abraham, Jacob and the prophets who
practiced it would not be allowed a
heritance in the kingdom Of heaven, and
il polygamy is not adultery, then it can
not be classed as a sin at all.''
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

The HASTINGS RECORD is responsible
for the report that Mrs. c. H. Van Wyck,
now q resident of Washington, is to
marry 8. s. Alley OF Saline county, Ne
hrnaka
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL,, the senior
United States senator from Vermont,
died Wednesday morning last Of pneu-
mOnia, after an illness of less than a
week. He was not only the senior men,
ber OF the senate in point of service, but
its oldest in age, having served continu-
ously for more than thirty one years,
and was eighty-eight years old on the
4th OF April last. He was great worker,
and commanded universal respect.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

Rev. Ludden, at the school board sec
ton of the State Teachers association
last week, read paper on 'School Board
vs. Truancy, in which he stated that
1.-The actual per cent Of truancy was sc
large as to be startling.
HE called attention to the discrepancy
between the figures as given in the an
nual school census in q district and the
actual annual enrolment of the same
district. One remedy suggested was the
creation Of a school spirit among parents
of children. When American parents
catch brighter views and clearer com.
prehension Of the school system the puz.
zling problem OF truancy will be nearer
settlement.
A second aid, Mr.. Ludden thought,
was more cooperation between teachers
and principals with plans OF superin-
tendents and school boards. 1t is neces-
sary to make teachers lovers of the
schools. To cope with persistent tru-
ants Mr.. Ludden favored q stringent
truancy law. He thought q special tru-
ant school would be advisable"
Those who have had any part in the
management Of schools, whether as
teacher, superintendent or member of
school board, have abundant reasons for
knowing the evils OF truancy, and like
wise the difficulties which lie along the
path of endesvor to do away with the
evils, or measurably to mitigate even
their worst features.
Compulsory education has been tried.
Truancy officers have been appointed.
Taxpayers have been told that the mis-
demeanors and crimes and consequent
expenses, resulting directly or indirectly
from truancy, have been sufficient to
justify the state in exercising the strong
est measures at it's disposal in sheer self
defense.
While there is doubtless great i'm
provement in q general way, there is
good cause for much anxiety.
The truth is that If individuals are
properly looked after, the combinations
of individuals will look after themselves
on the principle Of the cents and the
dollars.
What is taught should be really de-
sirsble, and be made to appear 30 to the
child, either by the parent and teacher
or both. II this vere thoroughly done,
the attraction would b like gravity,
every way mutual, and like gravity also,
thoroughly useful and practical.
The mind-world corresponds to the
body-vorld, and mental sustenance and
growth are very clearly illustrated in
body-growth-preparation Of food, masti-
cation, digestion, ETC., the very names Of
the one fitly characterizing the other,
and the most important question With
child or man IL OF what use to mo? A
question which must be answered salts
fsctorily before the spirit Of truancy
will appear - the true genius Of pro-
gress in embryo, seeking individual de-
velopment along tho line Of natures i'm
planted attfsotious.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

A GENTLEMAN said that the match
game of ball on our grounds played by
the deaf OF Iowa and our own, was most
interesting. A game, with no swearing,
quarreling nor slang, no loud noise nor
yelling, was so new as to be a marked
attraction. He said if the boys would
advertise and play in Omaha they would
make barrels of money. Better try it,
boys.-Nebraska Mute Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

ALL the survivors of General Morgan's
party, who escaped from the Ohio peni-
Tertiary during the war, have been invit-
ed to Columbus to inspect the recently
discovered tunnel through which it is
claimed the raiders escaped, and settle
for all time the dispute as to whether
Morgan and his men escaped through
the tunnel, or by the cOnnivance Of the
officials OF the penltentiary. A car load
of dirt taken from the tunnel made
under the walls has been found in the
air duct under the cells which Morgan's 3
men occupied. After the men made
their escape the hole was filled up with
lose dirt and the clay around this shows
the exact dimensions of the tunnel.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

THINGS the legislature should do:
Take the first steps toward calling q
constitutional convention. Abolish the
railway commission. Repeal the Law
providing for the Nebraska national
guards. Amend our revenue laws.
Repeal q lot of dead letter laws and be
very careful not to make any new ones.
Not monkey with anti-pass bills, but
reduce fares to 2 cents per mile. The
house should get its appropriation bills
to the front early in the session and
insist on them being finally disposed Of
before the rush OF the closing days.
Fusionists should favor every good
measure of prime importance without
regard to its Charles Wooster,
in Silver Creek Timee.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

WILLIAM McDANIELs of Nebraska City
was severely burned while endeavoring
to play" Santa Clans. He had arrayed
himself in appropriate costume, being
covered with cotton and had put on a
false face, and while waiting started to
light a cigarette, when the cotton was
ignited and he was at once a mass of
flames. He tried to tear of the cover
ing, badly burning his hands. He was
thrown to the floor by his mother and
sisters and the fire smothered, but not
before he was severely burned. 1t is not
thought his eyes are injured.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

An expert gives it as his opinion that
Africa's output Of gold this year will
reach $l00,OO0,O0O, an amount far b.
youd Caliiornia's high water mark.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

READERS of the Omaha World Herald
need not be surprised to find that its
editorial opinions are not always in line
with the current news, as placed before
it's readers. As for just one instance.
All who read the opposition organ which
is held in such high esteem by the triple
alliance will recognize in the following
trade report of r G. Dunn & Co, pub
lished in the organ Of distraction, q
bright oasis in the sandy desert: 1T is
a year beyond parallel, and goes to it's
close with the biggest volume Of bust
ness ever seen. Enormous transactions
at the stock exchange make some differ
ence, but when all the transporting and
speculative interests are eliminated there
is still q much larger business than in
any other month of the year."
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
Very Low RIllrGEI Rates.

The Burlington will make very low
holiday rates. Date of sale commencing
Dec. "a. For full information call on
3 j. Il. Cox, Agent.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

Mr. BRYAN is long on eloquence, but
short on strategy. Returning to Lincoln
he delivers an imaginative and fervent
speech against expansion in Asia. His
handling Of the question OF "hauling
down the flag" is admirable; his sono-
rous periods about the stars, ''the stripes
OF white,r and 1.-The stripes OF red" thrill
the anti-imperislist's aching soul; but
what does it all amount to? This same
orator, Who might have been Of great
service in the cause he pretends to
espouse, has fritted away his influence
on this question 80 far as practical
results are concerned. The eloquent Mr..
Bryan can declaim until the crack OF
doom against the annexation OF the
Philippines, but his defamation is mere
wind 20 long as he advises the United
States senate to ratify Q treaty that
annexes those islands. = Springfield
Rspab'iesn.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

SHIPS, nowadays, are made OF steel;
steel is made Of iron ore and coke and
limestone; all Of these things exist in
great natural abundance in this country;
We have surplus OF people eager to
mine and quarry the essential materials;
We have the finest skilled labor in the
world capable Of turning it into steel,
and of turning the steel into ships; We
have the money in abundance with which
to run the ships, and We have a great
foreign trade worth nearly two millions
Of dollars annually to carry-what, then,
is there to stop us from doing our own
carrying once We begin? We shall not
he able to begin, however, until Congress
says the word.-A. r. Smith.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
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The Way to 20 to California

The Way to 90 to California
Is in . tourist sleeping csr--personally
conducted-via the Burlington Route.
You don't change cars. You make fast
time. You see the finest scenery on the
globe.
Your car is not so expensively finished
nor 20 fine to look at as q palace sleeper
but it is just as clean, just as comforta-
bic, just a. good to ride in, AND NEARLY
80 CHKAPKR.
The Burlington excursions leave every
Thursday, reaching San Francisco Sun
day and Los Angeles Monday. Porter
with each car. Excursion manager with
each party. For folder giving full infor-
nation call ct nearest b. & NJ. r r.
depot or write to J. Francis, Gen1. Pas.
ssnger Agt, Omaha, Neb. june-2699
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

The state board of transportation
costs the state of Nebraska seven thous-
and dollars worth of an equivalent. The
question arises, what is the incoming
Legislature going to do about it? The
question ought not to be difficult to
answer. 1t should be dispensed with in
the shortest possible order. The objec-
ton is raised in some quarters that to
abolish the board would remove the only
means the people have Of securing
redresses, but the objection is not good
one for the reason that it has shown
neither ability nor power to do that in
the past. Abolish it.-Kearney Hub.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
SoME nations Of Europe are endeavor-
ing 10 take United measures against an
archists.

GEN. SKATER is to 90 to his old post,
having been assigned to ths command
of the department OF California.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
If YOU ARE GOING
to the PACIFIC COAST

Don't complete arrangements until you
have secured information regarding the
Personally Conducted Excursions to
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Port
land via the Union Pacific. These ex-
cursions leave Chicago, Minneapolis and
st. Paul every Thursday, and Omaha
every Friday in elegantly upholstered
Pullman Tourist Sleepers; illuminated
by Pintsch light; heated by steam. Bag
gage checked through from starting
point to destination. Prompt and salts
factory service. Many hours quicker
time than any other line.
For full particulars call on or address
st. G.. f.. JOY, Agent.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

x The whole duty of the United States *
e by the Philippines is to do right by them, 81
ss and allow no other nation to do wrong =
x by them. y
*
THE PROPOSED BONDS.

1t seems that tho S37, 1900 four-per
cent bonds OF the city recently author
lied for refunding tie $4,000 bearing
z per cent interest, and the $4,000 ut 6
per cent, could not be negotiated, and
80 the proposition is to be re-submitted
to the voters Of the city, with change
in the rate Of interest to ~ per cent.
A special election has been called for
January II, between 3 q. M, and z p. m,
the voting to be at the usual places in
the city. The amount asked for is $37,-
500 to bear date March l, 1899, payable
twenty years after date at the fiscal
agency of Nebraska in the city Of New
York. interest payable semi-annually,
September l and March l. each year. II
anybody knows q single good reason
Why these bonds shguld not be voted, at
this time, he should certainly make it
known or forever after hold his peace" I"
The only consideration We see is that to
tax payers it lowers the rate OF interest,
which is paid annually, and places
further in the future the date Of pay
ment, and is to the city what the re-
newal of loan secured by q mortgage
is to an individual. The columns OF The
JOURNAL are open to remarks.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

The following paragraph is a neat
sample Of presenting a subject by con-
trast, t,-one of the most effective methods
to reach the average citizen, and it states
the case pretty plainly, from the stand
point OF the Lincoln Journal: 1.-TWO
years ago Colonel Bryan thought the
American people were big enough and
strong enough to do anything, even to
the extreme of changing the money
standard Of the world. Now he fears
that We canuot spare enough national
ability to frame provisional govern
ment for group Of children in the Phil
ippines. His opinion of the American
people seems to have been tremendously
changed by little event occurring in
November, 1896"
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
Spanish Sovereignty Gone In
America.

HAVANA, Jan. 1.-Secretary OF War,
Washington: The flag sent up on MORO
castle and the palace at l2N p. m,
local time.
TDry p RpOOrp
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
ESTRAY NOTICE.

IShl NOi lCEI.
Came to my premises abOu. the middle Of DE.
cember.
A TWO-YEAR-OLD HEIFER,
black, with white tip Of tail, and hind leg:
partly white; horns seemingly taken of this fail
Owner will prove property, pay expenses. includ
ing this notice. Call on the undersigned on Sec
Il. L. II. X. 3 west, near WOOdburn pOst-offioe
3-dec-5 X. kURTH.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kid You Have Always Bought
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Weather Report.

Prevailing winds N. to n. W.
Very foggy on Goth.
On 23d, light fall of snow accompanied
by very high wind and great reduction
of temperature.
The Columbus journal., 1899-01-04

Five hundred men are to be recruited
for the Twelfth United States infantry,
now at Jefferson barracks, Missouri.
The regiment will soon start for Manila.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-14
Two SYmnathetic Lakes.

The Wetternsee, in Sweden, like so
many other lakes. has long enjoyed the
local reputation of being bottomless pit
The Swedish scientists have now destroy
ed the venerable legend, says the kleine
Zeitung. for in the measurements taken a
few days ago they have demonstrated that
the greatest depth of the lake is only
119 meters. There still remains, however.
a series of mysteries which science must
be content to leave unsolVed-at least, for
a time. 1t is not only legendary belief,
but there is a quasi-scientitic ground for
the queer supposition. that living crea-
lures, animal and vegetable can and do
make journeys to and fro between the
high northern lake of Wettern and the
South German lake of Constance.
This bold conclusion has been partly
justified by the appearance of exactly
the same fauna, and even of the same
animal life in the Swedish and the Swa-
bian inland seas. 1t is even asserted that
whenever there is a storm on the Lake
of Constance the Lake of Wettern begins
sympathetically to roll and swell and
that the southern lake is similarly moved
by any agitation in the distant northern
lake.
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James Mellon and James Brown were
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got into fight in a South Main street
saloon, in which Brown broke a bill
lard cue over the head of his antagon-
list. Mellon was pretty badly used up
when an officer arrived on the scene
and placed both combatants under ar
rest
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Gheap Excursion to Denver.

On Jan. % (only), the Oregon Short
Line will sell tickets from Butte to
Denver at one fare for the round trip
viz, $780, same limited for return not
later than Jan. 81, 1899. For sleeping
ton call on or address city ticket office.
No. 10 East Broadway. Butte, Mon.
II. Q. Wilson, General Agent.
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They We're born 80 years ago and be-
gan their stage career when they were
children
John j. Nolan. manager of the Black
Patti Troubadours, is in Butte. The
Iroubadours including Black Patti and
that COON Ernest Hogan. will be at
the Grand next Thursday night The
company has been doing a tremendous
business on it's way westward, accord
ing to press reports. The cake walk
contest, as illustratedf lin the perform
ance, is one of the most exciting and
amusing episodes in that company's
stage entertainment. THE poetry of
action as viewed by the Ang1o-Afri-
can race, is most amusingly Illustrated
in this characteristic walking contest.
Roland Reed was playing at Wilkes
barre, Pa. few nights ago and got
into an alteration" with the house
property man and slapped his face, for
which he was arrested and paid s12.5O
and costs. amounting in all to $37 so.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-08-26

arrangements of Menstrual Fuc-
tons produce Miscarriage. Sim
mons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets
correct the arrangements.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-08-26
Insolvency Notice.

Many old soldiers now feel the
effects of the hard service they en-
dured during the war. Mr.. Geo. S.
Anderson, of RossviIie, York coun-
ty, Penn, who saw the hardest
kind of service at the front, is now
frequetly troubled with Iheuma-
tism. 81 had a severe attack lately"
he says, "and procured bottle of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. 1t did
so much good that l would like to
know what you, would charge me
for one dczen bottles" Mr.. Ander-
son wanted.in both for his own use
and to supply it to his friends and
neigbors, as every family should
have bottle of 1t in their home
not only for rheumatism, but lame
back, sprains, swellings, burns, brui
ses and burns, for which it is un-
equalization sale by Tedford,
Tedford & George.