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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-08
All Colds and Coughs
are cured quickly and certainly b,
HaIeS
Honey Of
Horehound
and ar.

It is an effective remedy-harmless
and palatable. $50, 500, $500 per
bottle; the largest size cheapest. AT
all druggists. Take no substitutes.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Prairie Dogs FIourishinr.

There is one North American ami
NAL that does not share the fate of
becoming extinct which appears to
threaten all the other beasts on this
hemisphere. The exception is the
prairie dog. Man has been so busy
and successful in exterminating this
little ground squirrels natural enemies
the coyotes, badgers, ferrets, hawks.
owls and eagles-that the prairie dog
has multiplied marvelously and on
certain vast grazing lands its mounds
are so many and its consumption and
ruin of herbage are so great that ONLY
half as many cattle can be pastured on
them as formerly, when the beasts
were kept down by other animals that
fed on them.
The federal government and the
state governments of Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Kansas and Texas are spending
lots of money now to find some means
for exterminating the pest.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS
Teachers Attending Associa tion Meeting
Will Get Low Rates.

LINCOLN, Dec. 21.-For the in
formation of teachers and others who
wish to attend the forthcoming meet
ing of the Nebraska State Teachers
association, Superintendent Fowler
publishes the following rate bulletin
which was received from the Western
Passenger association:
Rate of one fare for the round trip
from points in Nebraska and the
Black Hills district of South Dakota;
excursion tickets to be sold from
points in the territory mentioned
from which the local one way rate
to Lincoln is more than So on De-
cember 80, 81 and January 1, and
from points within the radius men
toned on December 81 and January
l, good to return until and including
January 4, 1902. Tickets limited for
going passage commencing date of
sale and for continuous passage in
each direction"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
ADULTERATION MUST STOP
State Proposes to Enforce Pure Cider
Vinegar Act.

LINCOLN, Dec. 21.-Deputy Food
Commissioner S. C. Bassett is prepar-
ing to prosecute manufacturers and
dealers who sell vinegar that does not
come up to the test required by the
law or sold under a false name. The
department has already analyZed
many samples of alleged cider vinegar
and found it to be a base imitation.
A distilled product, colored to re-
semble apple cider vinegar, is the
most common of the adulterated ar
ticle on the market. One of the sur
prises is that the state has bought
''cider vinegar" for cents a gallon,
and upon investigation it proved to be
below the test required by law and
bore no evidence of having been in
the vicinity of an apple. Vinegar of
this character has been shipped into
Nebraska for cents gallon and re-
tailed for from 25 to forty cents gall
Ion as pure cider vinegar. One sam
pie taken from a Lincoln store con-
tanned salicylic acid. This acid is
used as preservative and according to
law its use is made an offense pun
ishable by fine of not less than $50.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
FOR EpIousEs TO READ.
Add to Your knowledge of the Tempting
Oyster.


Oyster.
This being the oyster season all In
formation concerning that sea animal
known TO the illiterate as the luscious
bivalye" is in order. We know tlEt
oysters sometimes give peorle typhoid
fever, taste strongly of oil II scooped
up in the Staten Island Kills, are
whitened and fattened for the New
York market by being kept in fresh
water and fed on corn meal; that their
favor is spoiled by the process and, In
short, lot of things about them which
were, perhaps, just as we'll that we did
not know At present a discussion is
going on as to how long an oyster lives
provided he is let live. Prof. Mobius.
German authority on the subject.
says that the Schleswig oysters which
they eat in North Germany are from
seven to ten years old when they come
into the market, and he has seen some
which were between twenty-five and
thirty years old, though he acknowl-
edges that oysters even twenty-five
years old are rare. Bertram in his
Harvest of the Sea" says that an
oyster is in it's prime when it is five
years old. Prof. s. p Woodward as
serts that an oyster on artificial
ground does not arrive at maturity un-
til it is between FIVE and seven years
old, but those grown in natural beds
mature at the age of four. 1t is be-
lieved that an oyster, left to its nat
ural chances, would be likely to arrive
at an extreme old age. Fossil oyster
shells have been found which were
nine inches thick, from which it is
computed that the oyster must have
been more than a hundred years old
at the time of its death. The age Of
an oyster is determined by the outside
of its shell, the successive layers or
plates overlapping each other, mark
ing a years growth each. Up to the
time of the oysters maturity these
Shoots, as they technically are called,
are regular, but after that period they
become irregular and are piled one
over the other so that the shell be-
comes more thickened and bulky and
the age marks more confused.-New
York Press.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Missouri Against Nebraska.

LINCOLN, Dec. 2l.-Attorney Gen
eral Prout has returned from Wash
ington, where he appeared before the
supreme court and asked that COM
missioners be appointed to take evil
dence in the suit of Missouri against
Nebraska. The controversy arises
over several acres of land cut off from
Nebraska by a sudden freak of the
Missouri river. The land and citi
zens are still considered Nebraska's,
taxes being paid in Nehama county.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
SCENT THAT ClINGS.
Smoke of Cigars Worries the Bachelor
Girl Quite a Lot,

Smoke of Cigars Worries the Bachelor
Girl Quite a Lot.
Talk about q grain of musk scent
ing room for twenty-five years." said
the bachelor girl; that's nothing to
the way Whit of tobacco smoke will
make its presence known for ages
without apparently diminishing in
strength. My brother calls on me
sometimes in the afternoons and when
he does he is, of course, accompanied
by the inevitable cigar. He smokes
during the interview, and l talk-a
very acceptable division of labor to
both of us-and then he goes away
and I air my sitting room thoroughly,
as l suppose. That night, if purchance
| have visitor, Dear me- he says, or
whatever is the masculine equivalent
for that expression, dear me, find the
mani l smell tobacco smoke, so there
must be one about here somewhere
When 1 mention my brother he looks
first incredulous and then suspicious.
I've caught more than one of my call
ers furtively looking at my fingers to
see if they showed any trace of nico-
tine, | suppose, and once or twice my
opinion as to the relative merits of the
different brands of cigarettes has been
asked suddenly when | was off my
guard, apparently to see whether 1
would commit myself. Evidently my
kind friends suspect me of doing the
smoking myself. There's plenty of it
done among women, and what are
known as nice women, too; but it's a
habit that l abhor. 1 never had a
cigarette in my mouth, and still when
someone notices the fragrance of to-
bacco about my rooms or my clothes,
for both are impregnated, they seem
convinced that l am a 'fiend' Last
week when l took my winter hangings
out Of the cedar closet l could smell
last winters tobacco smoke still lin
gering in their folds. 1 can't get it
out. Air is of no avail. This winter
my brother is going to be denied his
CIGARS" said the bachelor girl. 'T
can't get the reputation of being a
cigarette fiend just to make him COM
Portable, now can 1? 1 hate to sacri-
flee him. but no doubt for the good of
the family he'll be willing even to
give up his perfecto. Baltimore
News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
A REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION
Letters Sent Out Suggesting Such an
Organization.

LINCOLN, Dec. 23.-Deputy Labor
Commissioner C. E. Watson has sent
out letters suggesting the organization
of state association by real estate
dealers. From many responses receiv-
ed it is apparent that the dealers in
the state are ready to take up such
an enterprise, the object in view be-
ing to encourage immigration to Ne
braska. 1t is believed that a majority
would prefer not to admit real estate
dealers in the cities of Lincoln or
Omaha, as such dealers are supposed
to be interested more particularly in
city property. Farm property is rep
resented more generally by agents liv
ing outside the large cities.
The towns of York, Hastings, Grand
Island and Columbus all have been
mentioned as the probable place of the
first meeting. If meeting is called
it will be held early in the new year.
The object is to organize state as
sociation, to promote immigration, dis
cuss papers dealing with land values,
acreage and the yield of crops and
kindred topics.
A dealer in York county writes that
he has secured good results by adver-
tising Nebraska in reputable newspa-
pers and farm journals in Iowa and
Illinois.
Several farmers from Aledo, ILL.,,
have already bought land in York
county and it is reported that a party
of fifty farmers from the same place
will buy tickets for York county on
March 1. He says the Illinois farm
ers who have been in Nebraska now
realize that they can secure as much
profit from Nebraska land as they can
from Illinois land valued at $50 and
500 an acre.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
DIFFICULT TO MAKE TERMS.
Federal Authorities Are Still Negotiating
With Kidnspers

CdeIdA a AAC sun
With Kidnaper
CCNSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 23.-W.
w. Peet, Treasurer of the Turkish mis-
sion in Constantinople, and M. Gar
guilo, dragoman of the United States
legation here, are still at Salonica, en-
deavoring to open negotiations with
the brigands who hold captive Miss
Ellen M. Stone and to fix a rendezvous
with them.
LONDON, Dec 29.-According to a
Sofia dispatch to the Express an ar
rangement has been made with the
brigands holding Miss Stone captive
and the American legation at Constan
tinople, under the terms of which the
brigands are to accept $4,000 for the
release of Miss Stone. 1t is said the
ransom is to be paid on Bulgarian soil
and that Miss Stone is to be liberated
in Turkish territory.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
County School superintendents.

LINCOLN, Dec. Superintendent
Fowler has issued a call for busl-
ness meeting of county superintend-
ents and superintendents-elect, to be
held in the senate chamber beginning
Tuesday afternoon, December 81. Mr.
Fowler says: "We hope to have a
very interesting and profitable meet
ing. Superintendents now in office
should meet with us and give us the
benefit of their experience, whether
they remain in Office or go out"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Shortage Made Good.

LINCOLN, Dec. 21.-The shortage
of former Oil Inspector J. N. Gaffin
was made good by the payment of
$522.03 to the state by the Fidelity
and Deposit company of Baltimore.
The settlement was brought about by
the state board of compromise, of
which the attorney general, state
treasurer and state auditor are tie
members. A check for the amount
was given to the auditor
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
BONNfSs MYST GO BACK
Governor Grants Requisition, but Chica-
goan Still Battles.

goan Still Battles.
OMAHA, Dec. 21.--Governor Savage
granted the requisition of the COVER
{ nor of Illinois for the return to that
state of Frederic Bonness. who was
arrested in Omaha December 10, and
was later released on bond.
Bonness is charged with deserting
in Chicago his wife and four small
children. Policeman Joseph T. Barry
left the Windy City Immediately upon
his arrest, bringing with him the
necessary papers. Bonness, through
his attorneys, claims that he is not
married to the woman. The officer
who is after him says that the wo-
man is the legal wife of the man and
that when Bonness left Chicago he
had in his possession $1,40G, leaving
his wife penniless with a child but
three weeks old and the three other
children too small to care for them
selves.
The fight made before the governor
by Bonness' attorneys lasted for some
time, and upon its conclusion the
papers were signed for his return.
Immediately upon the receipt of the
information in Omaha Bonness was
re-arrested and his lawyers began
habeas corpus proceedings and the
argument will be heard before Judge
Baker. Bonness is meat cutter BY
trade and was employed while in
Omaha by the Omaha Tea company.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
WIPED OFF THE Slate.
Secretary Long Writes that the schlcy
Case is at an End.
APPROVES THE COURTS FINDINGS
A Rehearing is Denied the Admiral,
Therefore the Matters Rests-The APP
peal of Attorneys for sampson Like
wise Ruled Out

WASHINGTON, Dec 23.-Secretary
Long has disposed finally of the
Schley case so far as the navy de-
partment is concerned by acting upon
the findings and conclus. is of the
court of inquiry
He approves the findings of facts
and the opinion of the full court; he
approves the majority opinion where
there is difference in the court; he
holds that the court could not have
entered in to the question of COM
mand at the battle of Santiago, and
finally he accepts the recommendation
that no further proceedings shall be
had
The secretary also has declined the
application of Admiral Simpsons
counsel to enter upon an inquiry into
the question of command and hos no
titled Admiral Schley's counsel of that
fact as reason for declining to hear
them on that point
Secretary Longs approval Of the
majority report was as follows:
WASHINGTON, Dec 21, 1901
The department has read the testi-
mony in the case, the arguments Of
counsel at the trial, the courts find
ings of fact, opinion and recommen-
dation, the individual memorandum of
the presiding member, the statement
of exceptions to the said findings and
the opinion by the applicant, the re-
ply to said statement by the judge
advocate of the court and his assist
ant and the briefs this day submitted
by counsel for Rear Admiral Samp-
son traversing presiding members
view as to who was in command at
the battle of Santiago.
'sAnd after careful consideration the
findings of fact and the opinion of
the full court are approved. AS to
the points on which the presiding
member differs from the majority Of
the court, the opinion of the majority
approved
''As to the further expression
of his views by the same member
with regard to the questions of COM
mand on the morning of July 3, 1898,
and of the title to credit for the en-
suing victory, the conduct of the
court in making no finding and rem
dering no opinion on those questions
is approved-indeed it could with pro-
priety take no other course, evidence
on these questions during the inquiry
having been excluded by the court.
''The department records it's appre-
ommendation of the court that no fur
ther proceedings be had in the prem
ises
'The department records is appre-
citation of the arduous labors of the
whole court. JOHN D. LONG,
Secretary of the Navy"
The text of the secretary's letter to
Admiral SIMPSONS attorneys is as fol-
lows:
Navy Department, Washington, D.
c., Dec 20, 19O1.-Gentlemen In view
of the departments approval, this
day, of the recommendation of the
court of inquiry, in the case of Rear
Admiral Schley, that no further pro-
ceedings be had, and of the fact that
THE question of command was ,ex-
cluded from consideration by the
court, the department will take no ac-
ton upon the brief filed by you in
behalf of Rear Admiral William T.
Sampson. Very respectfully,
JOHN D. LONG, Secretary.
"Messrs. Station, Campbell and Thiell,
New York"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
SOD HOUSE PAYS BIG MONEY
mrs. Bowser Tells of Her Big Triumph
int Buffaio Exposition.

.at Buffalo Exposition.
OMAHA, Dec. 23.-Mrs. L. Bowser
of sod house fame, the Nebraska wo-
man who made such success of sell
ing Nebraska cooking in Nebraska
prairie home at the Pan-American ex-
position, is back to her native heath.
In an interview with the Bee she said:
''This fall / had an opportunity to
find out how valuable sod houses and
the $50 acres of Nebraska land that
surround them are. When my hus-
band and I first settled in Nebraska
with our two children we took a
claim near Newport, in Rock county,
and erected little sod home. 1t was
a comfortable home, too, and some of
the happiest days of my life were spent
there. We planted and improved the
place, but were not contented and sold
the little claim for $500. My son has
always wanted to own the place. This
fail he tried to buy and the price is
now $4,000. That shows the increase
there has been in the value Of Ne
braska land during the last twelve
years, for it was just dozen years
ago that we left the little sod house.
Il have been at loss frequently to
explain why eastern people are so
much interested in sod houses. know
why l have such love for a home of
Nebraska turf, but the hundreds Of
thousands of people who visited the
Buffalo exposition seemed to be inter-
ested in my little house, tucked away
in space so small that it could hardly
be seen The size of my entire space
was thirty-seven feet by seventy-fve
feet and the building covered almost
every inch of it.. 1t was all the room
l could get.
'In that little house thirty-seven
ployed during the entire summer and
at times my employees numbered as
high as eighty-six. Some idea of the
great amount of Nebraska creamed
chicken we sold can be gained from
the fact that 1 paid nearly $4,000 for
the chickens we used. Some days we
used forty dozens of chickens. Coffee
was bought by us at the rate of 1000
pounds week. 1t was nothing un-
common to use $50 pounds of coffee
per day. Two Omaha men were kept
busy making coffee all the time during
the exposition and sometimes there
were as many as fourteen people draw
ing and serving coffee.
There was nothing to be had in
my house but the plain cooking that
might be found in any Nebraska home.
Creamed chicken, ginger bread, baked
beans, brown bread and coffee were all
that we served At times the crowds
were so dense in our little sod house
that it seemed as though people must
be trampled under foot. When I went
to Buffalo I told Mr.. Buchanan that
it was my ambition to serve the best
coffee on the grounds and to run my
receipts up to $1,000 day. l accom-
plished both and have only pleasant
of the Pan-American."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Live Stock Stands 1t.

HARRISON, Neb., Dec. 21.-A bliz-
zard set in Sunday evening and con-
tinued until Monday evening, piling
up a foot of snow on the level and
great heaps in railroad cuts and over
the range. Cattle are in good condi
tion, and it is thought will be able
to tide over all right.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Rich Mans Idea of Revenge.

]. NJ. Longyear of Marquette, Mich.
who built himself a palatial home at
a cost of s500,OOO in that city. has be-
come so embittered against the city for
allowing railroad to run so near his
property that he will move the house
stone by stone, to Boston, which
project will almost reach the original
cost Of the structure.-Chicago Chron.
icle.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Chosen AgrostroIorist.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 23.-W.
j. Spillman of Pullman, Wash, has
been selected to succeed Prof. F. Lat
son Scribner as the agrostologist of
the department of agriculture.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Protectorate Over rripoli.

VIENNA, Dec. 23.-The Allgemeine
Zeitung asserts that France and Italy
have concluded formal treaty which
enables Italy to declare a formal pro.
rectorate DER Tripoli.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
Mrs. Nation at Beatrice.

BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. 21.-Mrs.
Carrie Nation lectured here, but her
audience was quite small owing to the
inclemency of the weather.
Evening star., 1901-09-28
A Riddle.

I rom the Drugglsts circular.
In 1899 the Missouri Historical Society
gave a historical loan exhibit, to which
were contributed objects of a general as
well as local historic interest. During the
temporary absence of the librarian one day
a porter called and left an oil portrait
with the janitor but did not tell the name
of the owner nor the subject of the picture.
On opening it the librarian saw the face of
a man apparently about thirty years old,
with small brown eyes a great deal Of
curly reddish-brown hair, high color,
straight nose and decided expression of
scorn on the mouth. Altogether a decided
air of distinction rests upon the face. The
man is dressed in the high stock white tie
and rolling black collar which dintintuisn
portraits painted during the first quarter
of the last century. The picture was hung
during the exhibit with the query at
tached. who is this gentleman" and so it
hangs on the Historical Society's walls to-
day. 1t was never called for, and though
copied in numerous papers with the request
that it be identified or claimed the myste-
rious owner has never made himself
known, nor has he parted with the secret
of the strangers identity. Suggestions
have been offered from time to time but
none of them has seemed satisfactory and
the question still remains, Who is this gem
tleman?
Evening star., 1901-09-28
The Florida Everglades.

From the Tampa Times.
The mysterious grounds known as the
Florida everglades may, within a very
few years, be a memory Of the past, and
where the swamp and sluggish bayou now
reign supreme acres of rich sugar land will
add their share toward the prosperity of
the south. The imaginary terrors sur
rounding the district, terrors which it has
been a special object of the hunter and the
Indian to add to by blood-curdling legend
rather than to soften, will give place to
the matter-of-fact push Of the twentieth
century commercialism, for the district is
to be explored. A company was recently
chartered to drain the district by cutting
ship canal, another company has been in
corporated to cross it with a railroad and
telegraph line from the gulf to the Atlantic
1t is expected therefore, that the tourist
of few years henceswill find new scenic
route for his exploration, for the very mys-
terry which has surrounded the everglades
will be a prime idra wing card.