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The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
A MOURNING CITY
Funeral Services for President
Mckinley.
Many SS2ONG MEN SOB III SORROW
The Funerai Train la leave for Ills cam
ton Homo Tuesday Night prermra-
lions are Being Made fora Gunrd
of Homer Other Neus,

Sunday morning "A simple service
took place ut the residence in Buffalo
where Mckinley died. The scene there
wa pathetic in the extreme. Then the
body was borne out To the waiting
cortcgc on the brawny shoulders of
eight sailors and soldiers of the rcpub-
lie. The cortcgc passed through solid
walls of living humanity. barchcadcd
n gricf-Stricltcn. to the city hall.
where the body lay in state during the
afternoon.
Mrs. Mckinley bore NJ bravery dur
ing the service Mt the Milhurn resi-
dencc, and DIR. RiXcy, her physician.
thinks she will he able to supper, II n
trying part in the state funeral ut
Washington.
Arrangements had been made to
allow the public To view the body from
the time it arrived, but the people wcr,
wedged into the Streets for blocks.
Two lines were formed. They extend
ed literally for miles. When ) o'clock
came forty thousand people had al
ready passed. and the crowds waiting
below In the streets seemed undimished
IL was decided to extend the time until
midnight. Then for hours longer the
streets were dense with people and Il
constant stream flowed mp the steps Of
the broad entrance into the hall and
passed the bier. When the doors were
closed at midnight it was estimated
that eighty thousand people had view
ed the remains. but thousands of dis
appointed oncs were still in the streets.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Dates for the Yacht Races.

The challenge committee of the New
York yacht club, in conference with
the representatives of the Royal Ulster
yacht club, have decided that the first
race for the American cup shall take
place on September 20, Thursday.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
ToRRENcEFORc COMMANDER

Grand Army Veteran Select Him as Their
Chief.
4. Cleveland, o., September Is dis
patch says: General Sickles has with
drawn as a candidate for commanders
in-chicf. of the q. A.. Il. The fight was
left between Terrence and Stewart.
Judge Terrence of Minneapolis was
elected commandments of the g..
A. Il. by the unanimous vote of the
convention.
The balloting stood go to 4TG in
favor of Torrance when COmradc Wag-
ner, who had the Stewart interest in
hand, moved To make Torrance's cleo
ton unanimous. Tho election of Off
GERS was the only business before the
convention.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
From tho Baldwin Party.

c. T. Carpenter, a Cofreyvillc, KAN
banker, has received n letter from Rob-
crt Vineyard. one of the Baldwin
Ziegler expedition. The letter was
written August 2: and sent back on n
passing southbound whaling vessel to
Iiammerfcst, where IL was mailed Sep
tcmbcr =. Vineyard says tho party's
vessel, America, was going through
ice, northward, making It's way as best
IL can.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Farm Residences burned.

Near Grand Island the splendid farm
residence Of i. Is. Keller, one and one-
half miles north Of that city caught
fire one afternoon recently between 4
and 4 O'Clock and was burned to the
ground with all its contents. The
family barely escaped. The fire start
ei In a room in which oil was kept and
spread very rapidly.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Iowa Physician Murdered.

AZ Newton. Iowa, on September 10,
DIR. Is. NJ. Tailor WAS foully murdered
by footpads, while returning from a
professional call, about midnight. A
watch and n small amount was oh
tanned. The doctor died the next
morning. lie vas struck on the head
with a club.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Killed Himself While Insane.

The remains of Frank Goff, who
committed suicide ut Wichita, Kan,
by cutting his throat with a piece of
tin while temporarily insane, arrived
Mt Nebraska City and were inferred.
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. ID. j.
Golf, pioneer settlers of Nebraska City.
He had been down to Lawson and vas
IN his way home when he became in
sane.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Air gun Causes Loss Of Eye.

~l7-year old % of Fritz Baum Of
Malmo, Neb., was accidentally shot in
the right eye by the discharge Of an
air rifle in the hands of one of his little
brothers.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
strike Settlement Rumor.

At Pittsburg, it was learned recently
that President Shaffer of the amalgat-
ed association, with several of his ad-
visors had left for New York, prcsum-
ably under al arrangement with tho
steel people to settle the strike.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Alleged burglar Hound Over.

Leo May, " sixtecn-year-old boy, who
is charged with burglarizing the resi-
dcnce OF G. G. Mayicld at Louisville,
was bound over to the district court by
Justice Archer.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
GOVERNOR HUNT IN OFFICE
Private Inauguration Celebrated ~ san
Juan.

Juan.
Governor Hunt was inauguratcd priv
ately ut his residence in san Juan In
the presence Of the members of the
council, the justices of the supreme
court and others, The ceremony was
very impressive. Chief Quinones ad-
ministered the oath, and Bishop Blenk
offered prayer. Governor Hunt did
not deliver an inaugural address. but
referred feclingly tn the great national
sorrow. Extensive preparations for
the event had been made, but all were
cancelled Immediately upon the an
n%ounceinent Of the death Of President
Mckinley.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Aged Woman found Dead.

Amanda Stewart, a lady about sixty
years Of age, was found dead in her
dooryard in North York, Neb, Her
death. was caused from hemorragc of
the lungs and throat. She was a mem
Der Of the woman's relief corps, and IL
will have charge of the funeral.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Accidentally shot.

T. j. Burgess, jr., OF Superior, Nebr.,
was accidental shot through the leg.
In handling n No. ~ Colts revolver it
slipped ont Of the belt, the hammer
striking the door with the usual result.
The wound Is only a flesh wound.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
All Well In I'eary Party.

The Pcary Arctic steamer Erik, from
Cape Sabine, Ellesmcreland, August 20,
arrived at North Sidney On September
IA. vito all well
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20

When u boy knows what is in hia
mothers parlor, IL IL evident that ha
has no sisters, or they wouldn't let
him go in there.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20
Transfer Driver. Quit.

The entire force OF drivers of the st.
Lonis transfer company, numbering
about 200, struck for an increase Of
wages from 81 to So per month. The
business of the company is tied up
temporarily by the strike, but Presi-
dent i. Tans' " says that 1t will be re-
sumed in II ft~ ,isr, with a full quota
of new men.
Eigh; iniiau~ were lodged in Jail at
Ogailala, Neo,. by Deputy Game War
den g.. l.. Carter, arrested by Sheriff
Patrick for illegal shooting of birds.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-20

For Judge. Conrad ~IIollenbcck ~
Fremont, Dodge County.
For Regents, J. II. Bayston, " From
tier; 7. q. ilawxby of Ncmaha.
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go out after trophies and prizes. and
there is no end to Il.
In some respects the manner of play
ing the game resembles football-that
is, the teams line up opposite each other
on the floor of the gymnasium with the
ball put into play in the center Of the
hall, the object being to get the ball to
either end. But it differs in that there
are but FIVE players on a side instead Of
eleven; the ball is a great, balloon-like
affair. almost two feet In diameter,
very light and soft, and Instead OF be-
ing kicked over a bar between goal
posts to decide the game it must be
passed by the hands into a basket hung
at either end of the hall we'll above the
heads Of the players. Such, in brief, Is
the manner Of playing the game which
is rapidly growing in popularity ana
which bids fair to be the rage for in
door sport within a year or two. The
ball cannot be kicked or carried as
football Is advanced 1t must be tossed
from one player to another and inter-
ference of almost any kind by the oppo-
sition is allowable, although no rough
ness is tolerated. The interference, in
stead of being aimed against the play
er, as in football, is aimed against the
ball itself. If it is flying through the
air from one player to another a player
Of the opposite side tries to check its
progress by intercepting it or he strikes
It from the hands of the player who
catches it or jerks the arm which Is
preparing to throw it. But there is no
attempt to disable the players, as in
football, and as there is no running
with the ball allowed there is no tack
ling" of players, with the dangerous
falls which occur in football. The
player at the goal stands directly under
the basket and It is the object Of the
other four players on his side to get the
ball into his hands that he may toss it
into the receptacle. Beside him stands
an opposition player, who uses every
endeavor to prevent him from getting
the ball into the basket, and that is
about all there is to It.
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summer time when there are almost as
many fishers as there are fish.
In the mind of the small boy there
is an inseparable connection between
summer time and fishing, but fish have
to live in the winter as well as in the
summer and consequently they must
eat and swim. The man with the pole
and line throws in as tempting bait on
his hook as he can lay hands on, and
the men with nets let them down into
the water In the places where the fish
swim the same as in hot weather.
These fishers who keep up their fishing
all winter long make fair, regular lit
tie fortune. 1t is said. They take their
catches to the keepers of small mar
kets and readily dispose of them, for
the demand for fish keeps up steadily
even through the winter months. A
number of the fishers do not depend on
sales to the retail dealers, but carry the
fish from door to door and dispose of
them at a little less than the regular
retail prices. Some of these fishers
have established a regular line of Gus
toners and know just what they can
sell on certain days to certain custom
ers. Fishing In winter In Lake Erie
is not confined by any means to the
fishers who use hook and line or wind
lass nets. There are a number OF small
boats and tugs which are used exclu-
sively In the winter in the fishing in
dustry. The operators of the tugs run
out every day and sing nets not far
from the government pier and on the
following day the tugs run out to haul
in the catch. GOodly catches of hun
dreds of excellent fish are often made
and It is said that. taken as a whole,
the tug owners are doing quite a thriv-
ing business. The fishermen are care
full to lay their nets in places which
are not in the course Of the regular
steamers. A buoy is made fast over
the nets so that the fishers can easily
| find them again. The nets are sunk
deep in the water, so that even If yes
sells did come by they would not IN
lure them in the least. They might
strike the buoy and cut it loose, but the
nets would not be touched by even the
deepest draught vessels on the lake.
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element Of personal contestant pride
in team work, something not allowed
them by any other form of sport per
mitted In girls gymnasiums. and its
popularity became great in the last few
years. Then the college men and the
other gymnasium fellows who had been
smiling in a superior sort of masculine
way at the mild pleasures Of basket
ball began to think there might be
something In it and formed experiment
tai teams, just for the fun Of the thing.
That settled it. When men once or
ganize teams" in anything OF a com
petitive nature there is no end to It.
The team which wins the early contests
thinks itself invincible and rcams
around looking for easy" and ambi-
tious teams which II may wipe OF the
map. The teams which lose are deter
mined they can do better next time and
cannot be induced to quit. The compe-
titiOn thus engendered keeps the game
alive and the spectators Of the early
matches, seeing how easy It looks, form
new teams and leagues and things and
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Unpleasant Reminder.

In the recently published Life Of Sir
James Nicholas Douglass" a we'll
known English civil engineer, many
interesting stories are told of English
lighthouses. their builders and keepers.
One story concerns a man named Tom
Bowen, who was an assistant during
the building of a new tower.
Among many curious things that
Tom knew was every nook and Granny
in the rocks where the crabs were to
be found. He would put his arm into
the holes, often right up to the Shout
der, and haul out with wonderful dex-
terity-generally to make a present Of
his plumber to somebody else-one fine
specimen after another of the she'll
fish
He seldom met with a mishap while
engaged in this dangerous sport, but
once. at any rate, he did, as the follow
ing extract from a rough diary which
was kept by the principal keeper-a
strict Sabbatarian-quietly records
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12
The woodpeoker.

Woodpeekers which were long con.
sidered fair game for the gunner ere
now recognized almost everywhere as
useful birds. The flicker is so fond of
ants that it will alight on an ant hin
thrust in its bill to bring out the in
mates and then gorge itself on the aei-
tated ants as they swarm from the
opening. The sapsucker was consId-
cred an Injurious bird for many years.
out Frank Bodies showed that its tap
ping trees ordinarily produced no seri-
GUS injury; indeed. it is now claimed
that the birds eye formation in the
wood Of the maple. which Increases Its
value. Is the work of these birds
Woodpeckers are deserving all that
they can ask at the hands of farmers
The downy woodpecker feeds upon the
woolly aphis, often seen on our apple
trees.
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WINTER FISHING IN LAKE ERIE.
Coolest Weather Does Not Stop the ndusry-Fsh Are
Caught Almost as Easily as in the Spring.


Basketball seems TO be rapidly fol-
lowing the same route. Designed as a
good exercise for gymnasium classes of
women, which offered plenty Of run
ming, reaching and throwing without
the dangerous features of football. It
was looked upon with amused tolera-
ton by the husky athletes Of the col
leges and gymnasiums for several
years. 1t was good enough for girls. -
but there was not enough of the rough
work in It to meet the desires Of the
average athlete. Tossing a great bis
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

mushy ball around a gymnasium and
striving to pass it into a basket was too
much like child's play, they declared.
No ones neck was broken and no ribs
were caved in, so far as the basketball
records go, and, therefore, the sport
was too quiet for the men to take much
interest in it.
But the girls did not mind the criti-
cism of the football players and club
swingers. They liked basketball and
nearly every girls seminary and col
lege in the country has a basketball
team. 1t gave the girl athletes the ex-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

Unlmaglnative exactness-so the die
tionary defines literalsm-may not al
ways be the highest form Of truth, but
commercially 1t has compensations.
Some American manufacturers recent
ly sent to their German agent 10000
show cards In which their agricultural
machines We're drawn by tigers, driven
by an airily attired goddess Of liberty.
The agent returned the cards with the
criticism that neither In Germany were
tigers available nor adapted for draft
purposes, nor could such women as
work In the fields afford to dress as
seems to be the fashion in wonderful
America.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

An Englishman who has been collect
Ing statistics announces that 80 per
cent Of the personages in the DictiOn-
airy of National Biography We're the
children Of clergymen," and this dec
laration has inspired the suggestion
that a law be passed providing that
no bachelor shall hereafter be permit
ted to receive orders in the Church of
England. Every rectory. 1t is declared,
should be occupied by married man,
to the end that England shall have
more and more citizens who may be
deemed worthy of mention in Dlction-
aries of National Biography. Whether
these suggestions are to be taken seri-
ously or not the fact remains that a
surprisingly large number of the Eng
lishmen who succeed in winning fame
came, as Tennyson came, from the
country rectories. English clergymen
seem to have an unusual faculty for
and in addition to this there must be
something in the atmosphere of even
the vicarage that tends to greatness.
Here in America, however, this ten
dency of the sons of preachers to win
enviable renown is not generally notice
able. Indeed, 1T has been the exception
rather than the rule for the sons Of
preachers to exhibit evidences either
of careful training or inherited great
ness. Not lnfrequently the worst boy
in town is the preachers boy, and II
sometimes happens that. while the
good man Is exhibiting to the congrega-
ton the wisdom of keeping the Sab
bath holy, his son is out somewhere
stealing peaches or trying to break a
colt whose owner has gone away with
the family to the house of worship.
IL may be that the American preacher
has so much more than his English
brother to do in the way Of keeping
the rest of mankind from going to the
bad that he gets less time to look after
the welfare Of his own offspring. or
there may be some other cause for the
fact that the space In our biographical
dictionaries Is in no sense usurped by
the sons Of clergymen. In any case. 1t
Is gratifying to be able to say that
things are not so discouraging for our
preachers as they used to be. There
are not so many scapegraces among
the sons Of ministers as there were,
say, a generation ago. The families
Of ministers. like those Of other people,
are becoming smaller as the years pass
and in some places the tradition that
the minister's boy nuts lead a gang in
order to claim the esteem Of his con
temporaries has actually ceased TO be
a commanding influence.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

An editorial article in Scribner's Mag
azlne calls attention to the decline of
hatred" and shows that both in liter
allure and in life this passion has be-
come passe. Hatred of certain causes
and principles we have everywhere
treated, hatred of theories and ideas.
But individual, personified enmity, in
tense enough to last a lifetime, and
bending all the events of existence to
its malignant will, is employed charity
nowadays in any literary or dramatic
work that aims to be faithful present
ment of the conditions of modern life,
of progressive society" The author of
this optimistic article does not bezeve
that the counterpasslon of love is wan
ing; on the contrary, he declares that
no ancient ever brought love forward
with greater power to wiring the soul
than has Edmond Rostand in "Cyra-
no." OF course, to prove that indiyid-
uals are losing the power to hate each
other one would have to make a per-
sonal canvass of hearts, but, no doubt,
such an experiment would prove that
the corner in ones heart that has been
reserved for ones enmities is becoming
more and more occupied by the furni-
ture of ones affections. On the other
hand, though we are no longer given to
turning a poisoned dagger against the
bosom Of our foe, we sometimes send
him a box Of poisoned gum drops and
thus pursue vengeance through anoth-
er channel. And, then again, there are
conversational CONNECTIONS, seemingly
so sugary, which In reality conceal a
sting and which perhaps embody the
modern method of expressing hatred.
There was sanity in DR.. Johnson's
fondness for a good hater," and one
cannot but believe that all love and no
hate would make Jack dull boy. But
It is safe to predict that even though
Jack is learning to love his enemies as
himself he will always retain a few
wholesome prejudices against them.
And, on the whole, 1t is stimulating to
remember that the world is growing
better and that the milk of human
kindness is gathering a rich layer of
cream.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

On Lake Erie there is more or less
fishing done all winter long. 1t is very
seldom that the mercury shrinks far
enough down in the tube Of the Their
mOmeter to drive the fishers complete
~ off the shore. Fishermen are there
with poles and lines and with nets, and
any fish that comes near the shore in
the hopes of finding little warmer
water for thawing out its fins wiz
make bad move, for he doesn't stand
a much better show of swimming away
alive and happy than he would in the
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

A writer who studies sociology by
the statistical method has recently dis
covered that among boys ard girls be-
tween the ages of and II, girls are
more religious, while boys between the
ages of 8 and 81 are distinctly hos
tile to religion. Moreover girls "have
a keener sense of right and wrong; the
boys on the other hand look on religion
as objective and external more than
two and half times as often (as girls h;
these considerations would seem to in
dicate that girls are more imaginative,
more actively responsive to their sur
roundings. perhaps are more precocious
than the boys, and that religion has for
them more vital significance" Now
this writer is a very wise man and
knows all sorts of fine things. But what
he assumes to be a natural tendency in
woman to religion and a natural ten
dency in man against 1t may be a re
sultant of natural disposition and So
cial conditions. In fact, that is the
most probable. Given certain condi-
lions and boys win lean to religion.
Change the conditions and they may
tend to atheism. Whether or not WON
en- are naturally more prone to relig-
ious devotion is a question which will
probably never be satisfactorily an
swered. and It Is of no consequence
anyhow. To imagine that by studying
statistics one can penetrate the hidden
mysteries OF nature and spirit Is one
Of the follles Of latter day science.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

Pressed steel freight-cars have come
into general use within a very few
years. Now, with the design of making
passenger-cars more durable. builders
are making the experiment of covering
them with copper They say the South
American roads will welcome the in
novation with special cordiallty, since,
owing to the destructive climate, their
cars now have to be covered with ma
hogany, which is not so enduring but is
almost as expensive as copper. TO the
travelling public everywhere the inte-
rior Of the cars is the more important
consideration. Every one has more or
less fragrant memories of cars that
were much too enduring.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-04-12

Game Has Recently Found Much Fav-
or Among Athletes

1t seems to be the fate Of the fair sex
that when anything In the line Of sport
or exercise is devised which is especial
ly adapted to girls their brothers look
on in amusement and contempt for a
while. gradually realize the advantages
OF the new idea and then calmly appro-
pirate it, shouldering the girls into the
background or magnanimously allow
ing them to take part under revised
rules and other restrictions. This was
the history Of the safety bicycle. origin
ally referred to as the "woman's Wheel
with much contempt by riders Of the
old neck-breaking high machines.
When the riders Of the Ordinary"
wheels realized the advantages Of the
safety" they put the high wheels in
the discard and adopted the "woman's
wheel"