The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-04-04
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


dent Roosevelt.
A number of South Dakota land
cases have been settled by the sec
retary of the interior upon appeal
from the decision of the general land
office.
Roberta Maria Wright daughter Of
the mayor of DenVrr, Colo, is to act
as sponsor for the cruiser Denver
when she is launched about the middle
of April.
Senator Fairbanks has introduced a
bill authorizing the construction of an
agricultural building on the site of
the present building at a cost of $2,-
100000.
John Green of Petersburg, Va, a
person who has posed before the world
for thirty-five years as married man
and who died aged seventy-five years,
was woman.
John Morley, who is writing life
of Mr.. Gladstone, has just discovered
among the late premier's effects di-
ary covering most of the interesting
period of his career.
General Greeley has invited bids
for supplying system of wireless
telegraphy between Nome City and
st. Michael, Alaska, 104 miles distant,
ncroca Marion coupd
The senate committee on judiciary
has reported bill to allow persons
along the Mississippi to sue the gov
ernment for damages resulting from
the building of levees.
At conference of cotton experts
held at the colonial office at Berlin,
it was resolved to dispatch COM
mission to the United States to study
the cultivation of cotton.
Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of the
bureau of docks and yards, will ask
congress for an appropriation of ST.
100000 for the construction of a new
dry dock in the Philippines.
While the prince and princess of
Wales were launching the battleship
Prince of Wales at Chatham gunner
who was firing a salute was mortally
injured, both his arms being blown
Off
A bill has been introduced by Sen
ator Morgan, giving the court Of
claims jurisdiction in cases arising out
of the seizure of vessels engaged in
the sealing industry prior to April 1,
1904.
The department of encouragement
of Mexico has issued directions to ex-
hibitors in the st. Louis Worlds fair
and to various state governors asking
them to exercise great care in prepar-
ing state exhibits.
May % and % has been decided
upon by the Nebraska department Of
the Grand Army of the Republic for
holding it's annual encampment and
Omaha is to be the city which will
entertain the veterans.
MIR. Martin of South Dakota has in
troduced in the house a joint resolu-
ton providing for the publication of
1,0Oe copies of preliminary descrip-
ton of the geology and water reser-
tion of the peology and water reser-
voirs of the southern half of the Black
Hills.
Major General E. S. Otis has closed
his active career in the army by rea-
son of age, and will go into retirement.
He will be succeeded in command of
the Department of the Lakes at Chi
cago by Major General Arthur Mac
Arthur, recently in command of the
Department of the Colorado at Den
yer.
The senate has passed the Gamble
bill directing the secretary of the in
terror to investigate the claims of GER
tain members of the Lower Brule band
of Sioux Indians for damages sustain
ed by their forcible removal from
South of White river, S. D., in 1893,
and authorizing the treasury to pay
these claims.
David Blaine of the Kansas and Ok
lahoma Implement Dealers associa-
tion announced recently that the rail-
roads would be asked for special rates
for 10000 harvesters and $4,000 teams
for the wheat belt, to take care of the
harvest. The recent rains, he says,
indicate a heavier wheat crop than
that of last years.
Governor Jordan of New Hampshire
has appointed Thursday, April II, as
Fast day in the Granite state.
The German Cable company has ar
ranged to buy the Emden-Virga line
of the German Sea Telegraph COM
pany.
The tailors of Lincoln, Neb., are on
a strike for higher wages.
At Helena, Mont, the entire police
force of the city resigned as a result
of orders which they say were issued
by Mayor Frank ]. Edwards, who is
fOr oil