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The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15

T. G. Horr Of Frankfort, n travelling
man for a Chicago tailoring house, was
found insensible in the rear of a school
building at Hiawatha. He had appar-
emily been beaten with an iron bar and
robbed. He recovered consciousness
long enough to say that he had been
struck from behind by an unknown
person. The assault is charged against
some of the prisoners who escaped. He
NAV die.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
Kansas Robbsr Caught.

John Callahan. who was arrested in
the Union Iron foundry at st. Louis,
after attempting to hold up the night
Waterman, Michael Henneberger, has
confessed TO Chief Of Detectives Des-
mond that he was one Of three men
who robbed u bank at Turon, Reno
county, Kas., in October, 1899. After
the safe was blown open with nitro.
glycerine the money was divided equal
ly among the trio, Then they rode
twenty miles on n Missouri Pacific
handcar to make their escape. The
authorities of Reno county, Kansas.
have been notified of the arrest.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
KANSAS G. A. r. RUMORS
Somebody IL Trying to Injurs the Oder,
the Commsndss says.

Mr.. Norton, commander Of the g. A.
r., who was at Marysvillc attending a
w. X. c. entertainment, made a state
ment in reference to rumors Of mis-
management at headquarters.
II do not know who is interested in
injuring the q. A. X. There is moth
ing wrong with the accounts or ex-
penditures at headquarters" said Mr.
Norton. "All the expenditures have
been for regular and legitimate expen-
SEES and there are vouchers and receipts
for every cent. When the regular time
comes for auditing the accounts the
proper committee will audit them in
the regular way. There is no founda-
ton for any charge that the funds
have been misused."
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15

Brigadier General Henry c. Merriam
will be placed on the retired list No.
vember 10 on account Of age. His pres
emit command, the department Of the
Colorado, will be assumed temporarily
by Brigadier General J.. C. Bates, COM
handing the department of the Mis-
souri,. II is expected that Major Gen
eral Arthur Macarthur, about the LIST
OF January, will be assigned command
Of the department OF the Colorado.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
General Dswet Not Dead.

A dispatch from London dated No.
vember ~ says: Lord Kitchener, in a
dispatch from Pretoria, dated Monday,
November II, presents his weekly re-
port and incidentally locates, General
Dewet in the northeastern part Of the
Orange River colony. He says the
Beers have recently been collecting
under his leadership and that the Brit
ish are now moving 20 dispense them.
Lord Kitchener gives the Boer casual
ties since November 4 as sixty-three
killed, 105 wounded, 104 captured and
forty-five surrendered.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
Mormon. Ratlfy SMITH. selection,

At u special conference Of the gencr-
al officers Of the Mormon church, held
At Salt Lake, November 10, the action
OF the council Of apostles in selecting
Joseph Smith as president of the
church in succession to the late Lo-
renzo Snow, was sustained. The con
ference also ratified the selection OF
Joseph u. Smith, John X. Winder and
Anton II. Lund as members of the first
presidency. a
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
SECURES Divorce.

Mrs. Sophia Harrison Eastman was
granted a divorce at Deadwood, S. d.,
from Barrett Eastman, n Chicago
journalist, on the grounds of non-sup-
port, Judge Joseph Is. Moore of the
Eighth judicial district signing the de-
cree. Mrs. Eastman is a sister of May
or Harrison of Chicago. She has been
accompanied during her residence in
South Dakota by her brother, William
Preston Harrison.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
Six Killed. thirteen W ound.d.

A terrible gun accident occurred on
board the British battleship Royal
Sovereign. outside OF the Astoka har.
Dor. An artilleryman forgot to close
the breech before the gun was fired.
One officer and six artillerymen were
killed outright, the bodies being terri
bly, mutilated and the captain and thir.
teen sailors were seriously injured.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15

A meeting OF mempers of the order
Of railway conductors and the brother
hood Of railway trainmen at Denver
sustained the position Of Grand Master
Lee in his opposition to the switch
mems strike and decided to expel from
the order all trainmen who went GU,
as q result of the switchmen's strike.
Grand Chief Clark of the conductors
and General Master Morrissey of the
trainmen were present.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
Killed Him ny a Fist Blow.

Joseph Carter killed Edward Camp.
bell, one-half mile east of Enid, Ok,
by striking him over the heart with
his fist. Campbell was forty-four years
old. Carter is twenty-five years old
and of a wiry build. Both are farm
ers. Campbell laid aside a knife and
challenged Carter to fight. Carter
sen a heavy blow with his fist. Camp
bell fell and expired. Carter was ar.
rested,
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
Killed By Landslide.

A Troy, NY, dispatch says: A big
landslide at Mechanicsvillc caused the
death of three Italian laborers, who
were buried under about 1000 tons of
clay. The landslide occurred in the
clay banks Of the pressed brick com.
pany yard.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.
Governor savass's Thanksgiving Proc

Governor ssvags's Thanksgiving Proc
~lanltiOn.
Never before in the history Of Ne
braska have the citizeus of this state
had more cause to be thankful for
worldly blessings than at present.
Our hearts and our homes are filed
with happiness and prosperity Is man.
ifested everywhere.
Though but recently stricken with
grief through the loss Of our dearly
beloved president, there is consolation
In knowing that since his death out
ragged justice has been satisfied and
public sentiment has more firmly than
ever been moored to that precept which
Mt any sacrifice directs the conserva-
ton and preservation Of law and or
| der.
A more beautiful or impressive ex-
ample of devotion to principle and JUS
tice car be found nowhere in history
than the American people with bruised
aud quaking hearts still standing reso-
lutely upon the high moral principle
that even under such conditions the
majesty Of the law should be main
iAt III III w
established law must of necessity cast
rays Of light across the pathway of
posterity and ripen into higher enlight-
eminent and more exalted civilization.
We should be thankful that the va
cancy in the presidency has been filed
by one whose sympathies are anchored
In the hearts Of the people, who Is i'm
bued with patriotism, and who pos
sesses are Judgment and splendid ex-
e~cutive ability. While the bereave-
ment was sad and distressing, we
should be thankful, too, that humanity
has in q degree been compensated
through the stimulation Of that senti.
ment which Is calculated to promote
the evolution Of human genius and
public morality.
AT peace with the world, with on
labor employed, our commerce and
trade expanding, our nation at the
mead Of the great powers of the world
and rapidly extending its commercial
supremacy over the waters of the
globe, with good prices for our pro-
ducts and ~contentment everywhere,
certainly we of all people should in
~prayerful gratitude offer up thanks to
Providence, who has given so unspar.
ingly Of these material tokens.
That u gratitune and appreciation
may be attested, 1, Ezra p. Savage, gov.
ernor of the state of Nebraka, by virtue
Of the authority vested in me by law,
do hereby appoint and designate
Thursday, November 2sth, 1901, as q
day for thanksgiving, and l do hereby
recommend that the transaction OF
public business be suspended on thai
date, and respectfully request that tbs
people repair to their accustomed
houses Of worship and revcrently Offer
up thanks to Him who has so carefully
supervised our affairs, and who hal
given so generously Of His blessing.
In testimony whereof l have hereunt.
set my hand and caused TO be affixed
the great seal of the state of Nebraska
Done at Lincoln this 9th day OF No
vember, A d., 1901.
: EZRA p. SAVAGE.
BY the governors:
q. W. MARSH. Secretary Of State
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
An OH strike In Kansas.

1t is reported that oil has been found
at Blackstone, a small station on the
Kansas Southwestern railroad, between
Anthony and Caldwell. The farmers
will engage an expert and have the oil
tested,
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
jail Break Mt Great ncus.

During an early hour last Tuesday
four prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at Great Bend, Kas., by removing
a stone in the side wall. This is the
Second time within a month that a Jail
delivery has occurred there. All four
that escaped were to be tried this No
vember term Of court. B~loodhounds
have been set IN their track and 1t is
thought that they will be overtaken.
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shocks Continue.

Earth quake shocks continue to be
felt at Erzeroum, Armenia. There
have been casualties. The foreign
consuls have joined the inhabitants
and are living in tents.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
BY the governor:
e. w. MARSH, Secretary Of Stat

A vein of coal vas discovered on q
farm owned by II. II. Dewey, near
Wichita, Kas-, by a number Of labor.
ers who were engaged in digging a
we'll, at seventy-six feet. Traces ofoil
were also found. Further ~investiga-
ton will be made, with a view of ascer-
tanning just how valuable the discov-
ery is,
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
To Wed at Eighty.

Richard A. Garland, aged eighty,
father of Hanlin Garland, took out IL
cense to wed Mary Bowles, aged sixty,
at La Crosse, Wis, November 12.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15

While a bus was on its way to North
Valley City, N. D., it was held up by
masked me-, number of the wen
teen passengers robbed, the amount
secured being ABOUT $500.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15
Me b. Prince of Wale. NOW.

The Duke of Cornwall and York has
been created Price OF Wales and Earl
of Chester.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-15

A man naturally feels cheap when he
gives himself away.
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
Suffraue in Alabama.

The Washington Star has very little faith in Mir. Bankhead's predictions of two white mems parties in Alabama if negro suffrage be eliminated. It cites South Carolina, where the negro has not voted in twenty years. and Missis- sfppi, where he has not voted in ten years, and Louisiana, where be has not voted in five years. And then it adds:
 'Is there any reason especially apply ing to expect different result in Ala bama? Tho State Is developing rapidly. Business men arc very much alive to their own interests. The negro. who never played a conspicuous part In the affairs of the State. Is or the eve of disfran- chiseuent. The Constitutional Conven- ton soon to meet will attend to his case. But when the polls have been formally closed against him what7 There will be no revolution effected by the act. Things win probably remain about as they are now. The Democracy is in charge today and is likely to continue in charge At least until after another try at the Presidency.
 The Star does not consider the Mo Laurin Republican party Of South Carolina as movement worthy of notice, for it does not even mention it. and it takes it at it's true value. It is an office-hunting break. and none oth. CT is likely to occur in these states in this decade. Other decades may act differently, but e.anticipations of two real parties in this section in this decade are plainly fanciful. There are no indications of such movement in any cotton state outs-4e of the very small McLaurin squad, which Is at present confined to four persons.
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Thomas M. owens Zeal.

The vote was preceded by some inter- esting talk. Comrade Yancey, the mover, explained the bright prospects of the De- ing from the zeal and intelligence dis played in the past by Hon. Thomas M Owen, the director, in the field of Ala bama history. He spoke of tue thorough organization of the board of control and stated that Go. Sam Will John of this city was very active member of the board.
 Coming to the second preamble and res- olution. Comrade Yancey most heartily recommended the camp to take stand up- on 1t in the defense of justice and his- tory. He made the rather emphatic con- trast between the positions of Washing ton in IT'S and Lee In 1861, to the effect that while Washington may have been a ''reber', having no flag to fight under because the American belligerent then was not an organized nation, Lee, on the contrary, began his fight under the lawful flag of nation of eight to twelve million of the most prosperous people on earth, living in peace under established free government.
 In so large meeting there was but one dissenting voice to Comrade Yan- cey's resolutions. This opposing comrade said he gIoriedNin the appellation ''rebel' as applied to him in such a cause as Ala bama maintained forty years ago. Fossil ply this one dissentient. who had but lately joined the camp. did not exactly take In the sense of the resolution he voted against.
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
Resolutions That Ring.

T. Whereas. Alabama has created a Department of Archives and History for the arrangement and preservation of long neglected facts and records most valua- ble 10 our posterity regarding the splendid career In peace and in war, of this State
 Be 1t resolved. Frat this camp of United Confederate Veterans does now re- new Its appeals to all camps in Alabama, as organized bodies and to all veterans as individuals to give formal active rec ognition to the said new Department of Archives and History. by regular and per- sistent contributions to it of data and "reminiscences such as each. both camp and individual veteran, may possess re- lating to the war on land and sea. In mill itary lines and in the home sacrifices of families, waged for four years between the United States and the Confederate States.
 ''2. Whereas, This camp does repudiate and denounce as false to history the phrase rebellion, when applied to the con duct of the people and States of the South engaged in the defense of them- selves in the said war:
 Resolved, That this camp does now protest that the phrase rebellion is un- worthy to be employed in books. speeches or otherwise to describe Alabamians or Alabama and the part we or our State took in defense of our liberties.
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
This Is the Place.

'As I came down the street a few min utes ago, remarked a business man from Chicago. ''I heard n young man say I intend to pay up and leave this country and go to some place where a man can make living. looked at the young man who made this remark and thought how foolish he was, as my impression of the opportunities in this district are indeed most favorable. have visited Birming- ham many times within the past ten years. and if I was not tied down to Chi cago by lucrative business that I can not afford to give up, ] would move to Birmingham tomorrow Tn my judgment this section has the best future of any portion of the United States. have trav- eled all over 1t, and in no section have l found more attractive openings for a poor young man to succeed in life pro- vided he is willing to work. Of course, he cannot expect to pick up on the streets salaries of s100OO or $5OO0 or 5000, nor many one thousands, but if he takes what he can get, he can soon build himself up to a paying position. Yes, the Birming- ham district affords the best business op- portunities of any section I am familiar with, and if that fellow I heard talking up the street cannot earn a living here he had better abandon the idea of suc- ceeding anywhere"
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
A GREAT NEGRO.
From the Galveston Tribune.

from the GdiVeStOn IrlDune.
 From all accounts Booker T. Washing ton is the greatest negro and one of the greatest Americans of his time. Before the Methodist missionary conference at New Orleans recently he easily outstarred ex-Minister Barrett and Bishop Hendrix, though. as upon all occasions, he bore himself with becoming modesty.
 Self-educated, handicapped by the heav- fest social and political weights, he has taken the leadership of his race and of race thought by sheer force of intellec- tual and moral character.
 His school at Tuskegee. Ala, is the model and marvel of it's kind. His ad- dresses, essays and books command the attention of the English-speaking world
 In sense he is a theorist. That is, he is treading an unknown way. But in the same sense all pioneers of thought and action are theorists. So far Washington
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Troops Will Withdraw.

Berlin. May 6.-The National zeitung publishes a, statement evidently inspired, regarding the withdrawal from the pro- vince of Chi Li. The withdrawal, 1t ap- pears, will be under Count Von Walder- sees command, no nation proceeding alone. The first step will be a note sent to the Chinese commissioners naming the total indemnity. If China gives written pledge of payment. the greater portion or the foreign troops will be withdrawn, but sufficient number will remain until the indemnity question is settled. Not until then will all the troops be with orawn with the exception of the legation guards and the garrisons between Pekin and the coast.
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whites. and there will then be no ''black" states
 When the racial figures are pre- scented this fact will be made plain. 1t is stated that there was not in the dec ade just ended any higher increase in the negro population than in the preTi- ous decade. The percentage stands, it is said, below IA per cent, while the gain of the entire country was nearly 2l per cent. The full figures for the various states will be awaited with h. terest.
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
OFFICE BOYS SUDDEN RISE.

New York Letter in Chicago ,Inter-O Ocean.
 From s2.50 week as office boy to the highest-priced seat on the Stock Ex- change is the record of Frank E. Brum- ley at 27 Bruuley paid the record price yesterday-s700 900. He bought it with money made in the market in the past two years. He Is credited with cleaning up s2oo,o00 in that time. most of it in the last ten days. He went to work thirteen years ago as officeboy in the same office with which he is now connected. He will probably be the youngest member of the Stock Exchange
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
A Pond of Fish.

fisherman's paradise said Frank M. Holley of Centreville.
 This pond Is the property of Senator Jones G. Moore and formerly belonged to the estate of the late Governor Moren. It is about five miles from Cen treville.
 ''The water is wonderfully clear and beautiful and It teens with bream, perch, trout and suckers, being especially rich in bream, the fish averaging about the size of mans hand. In few minutes one of a party of us caught twenty-five pounds of those most delicious of all fresh water fish,
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
EDUCATIONAL TAX.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 You so persistingly and insistingly urge that power be given to beats townships, for educational purposes that I ask to make through your columns brief pro- test to the proposition. The power to tax says the Supreme Court of the United States (Obiter Dictum), as the lawyers would say, in Loan Association vs. To- peka, is the most dangerous of powers and amounts to robbery when it's exercise is not legitibate and imperiously demand ed. We aver that to tax one citizen against his will to educate the children of another citizen cannot be justified by any code of morals which has justice for it's basis. The right only inheres when en- forced as matter of public policy to which all good men assent. E,
 No state proposes or should propose to give its children more than an elementary education, and we are informed that our public school fund will now give six months tuition. This Is amply sufficient half of it is, if properly handled-to se- cure the education proposed. Now to im- pose farther burdens upon the indus trieus, hard-working and already over taxed citizens to educate the worthless negro and the lazy, thriftless whites. who pay little or no taxes. would be a prem try. as well as travesty upon justice. and should not be entertained. Such would easily come under the maledictions of the court alluded to. Of course let it be~un- derstood we are alluding more especially to the rural districts-it might be differ ent in towns and cities.
 To grant the power of local taxation which you advocate, would in nearly every county in the State. be tantarnont to imposing the tax. That, you must grant. Is indisputable. Further. MT Ed itor, you propose to do by indirection what you assert should not be done di- rectly. You say the coming convention should not impose higher taxation. yet you would put the taxpayer in the hands of the non-tax7payer, and ask him to do 1t. The difference to the taxpayer would oe about ttat between twedledum and twedlede.
 Further, again. we think the organic law of the State should merely provide for a public school system and leave the details to the people acting through their General Assembly. Then it could be ad- justed to changing conditions and circum- stances. Our present constitutional pro- visions on the subject may need little revision-not much we think. Our teach CTS are all right-a splendid corps. What we more particularly need is a Legisla- ture with sense enough to enact suitable school laws-a luxury we have not en- joyed in many long years.
 Summing up, we protest against your proposed system of local taxation as superadded to the State assessments, as unwise. unjust and most agrarian in it's tendencies and believe that if it should be incorporated into our to-be constitution 1t would or might endanger It's radifica- ton by the people.
 PRO BONO PUBLIco.
 May {. 1901.
The age-herald., 1901-05-07
KISSING THE ROD.

By James Whitcomb Riley. o heart of mine. we shouldn't
 Worry so!
 What we have missed of calm We couldn't have you know! What we've met of stormy pain. And of sorrows driving rain. We can better meet again v If 1t blow. We have erred in that dark hour. We have known When our tears fell with the shower All alone Were not shine and sorrow blent As our Gracious Master meant? Let US temper our content
 With His own. For we know. not every morrow Can be said; So. forgetting all the sorrow
 We have had, Let us fold away our fears, And put by our foolish tears. And through all the coming yearp Just be glad
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still wider range of information, said that the oil fields of Alabama to be dis covered at no distant day. would eclipse anything that has yet been found in Tex as. Everything points to the presence of oil in the mineral district of Alabama. oil bearing rocks. asphaitum springs and other indications of like nature. When I was lad I used to go to Winston County to a tar spring Ca sure sign of oiD which my father owned, to get tar to grease my wagon"
 After listening to this slick story of Mir. Musgrove. the interested group left hurriedly for the nearest book store in order to purchase a supply of option blanks prior to leaving on the first train for the oil fields of Winston.