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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
He Knew the Train,

A traveller went into a Union ave
Eue barber shop one morning to
get shine and decided to inquire
about his train. Say" he said. ad-
dressing the negro bootblack. what
time does the Missouri Pacific leave
for St Louis this mOrning?"
"YOh mean the one that makes the
daylight rum queried the negro.
Yes, that's the one" said the man
1t ah the train that cOnEec's wifi the
one frum Leavenswuth. amt it, ask
ed the bOOtblack as he brushed away.
Yes Runs fru Wahnsbu'g 'gh?"
Yes" An Jeffahson City," Yes. "
"Ah knows the train yoh means. all
right. STAINS on the secon' er thud
track, doan' it?" Il think it does"
Changes engines. Les see. Wha'
do that train change engines?" Il
don't know" came from the man.
What l want to know is its leaving
time" 'Ah knows jes' what yoh wants,
an All knows jes' 'xactly what train
yah means" We'll, when does it
leave?" "Oh, yes. when do it leave?
Abs suah All doan' know bout that
boss" was the negro's reply.-Kansas
City Times.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30

An ocean hotel built in the style of
the Spanish galieons of the fifteenth
century, is one of the latest additions
planned for the City of Venice, new
resort that has been opened on the
California coast, and both in appear
ance and intention it will be unique.
The high, square, stern and bulging
bow, the tapering masts with their
quaint and clumsy sails, the decks
and outward appointments all will be
faithful reproductions Of the ships
that first crossed the Atlantic and
discovered America Inside the yes
sci will be fitted up with all the luXu-
rious appointments of modern Allan
tic liner
She is to be called the Cabrillo. in
honor of the discoverer of the Pacific,
and it will be a strange case of the
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
HEALTH OF TROOPS EXCELLENT
Encouraging Report From General
in Philippines.

WASHINGTON -Brigadier General
l-anuall commanding the department
of Luzon, Philippine islands, in his
annual report to the war department
says that the general health of the
troops is excellent, the disappearance
of cholera having removed one of the
greatest sources of anxiety. The inn
proved health conditions are said to
be due to the construction of new
posts, the absence of hard field SER
vice, the drinking of distilled water
and enforced abstinence from native
fruits and uncooked vegetables. 1t is
recommended that continuous service
in the Philippines be limited to two
years in order to avert nervous break
down which is said to be quite COM
mon among the white troops in the
islands.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
COST OF WARS TO NATIONS.
Resolution in House Calling for In
fcrmaticr.

WASHINGTON - Representative
Bartholdt (MOO, in accordance with
the action of the international peace
congress at Boston, requesting him to
introduce a resolution in congress
calling for certain statistics relative
to the cost of wars, introduced con-
current resolution instructing the sec
retary o. commerce and labor to col
lect and compile statistics on the cost
of wars in all countries from 1900
down to the present time; the amount
paid for pensions, and other allow
ances to soldiers and sailors engaged
in such wars; the amount paid to hos
pitfalls and retreats for disabled SOL
diers and sailors; the amount of prop
erty destroyed in such wars by land
and sea; the additional cost of main
tanning armies and navies in time of
peace, to each nation during that
period; an approximate estimate of
the indirect expenses and damages by
such wars to the health and prosper
ity of each nation resulting from such
wars. and the number of killed wound
ed and disabled on each side during
such wars. The resolution provides
that the statistics be printed and dis
tributed under the direction Of con-
preliminary to an international peace
congress to be held in Washington or
The Hague, July 6, 1906.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
The cabriIIo, as She Will Appear When Completed.

Old World come back to revisit the
new when she lies out in the bay
under full sail. She is 1872 feet long,
with a beam of fifty feet, and on her
construction alone $4,000 is being
spent The furnishing and interior
equipments will bring the total cost
up to three times that sum. She will
not be called upon to make any ven
turesome voyages, however for she
is to rest on piles, 800 feet from the
shore. To board her, visitors will
walk along the wide pleasure pier
that already has been built. and from
it a wide gangway with handrails on
both sides will lead to her main deck.
This will be given up to large and
handsomely furnished saloon, a spa
CiOus dining room and suites of apart
ments provided with every convent
ence that can be found in a hotel on
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
INSISTS ON A CHANGE.
The President Committed to Railroad
- Legislation.

Observation-Disclosures Roose,
vet discussed with several callers the
proposed leg Station regarding the
question of railroad freight rebates
and the question of empowering the
interstate commerce commission with
authority to adjust freight rates
where found to he excessive Among
those who talked with the president
were Secretary Morton and E. P.
Bacon, chairman of the executive
committee of the interstate commerce
commiss ;on.
The president is anxious that legis-
lation in the interest of shippers be
enacted at the earliest poss BILE date
and the matter has been considered
by him with many of his recent call
ers. 1t was stated by one of the
presidents callers that Attorney Cen
eral Moody now was engaged in the
preparation of a bill which, substan-
TALLY, would embody the views of the
administration on the question, and
that the measure would be presented
to congress probably soon after the
holiday recess. The president has
announced that the bill he is wiling
to support must be fair to both the
railroads and the people. He believes
that the initial steps toward the de-
sired legislation should be taken at
the present session of congress, and,
if possible, that the legislation pro-
posed should be crystalized into law
at this time
Senator Hepburn of Idaho had an
extended talk with the president on
the subject of federal charters for
corporations doing an interstate COM
merce business. The senator indi-
Gated his intention to introduce in
the senate after the holiday recess a
measure providing for the incorpora-
ton under United States laws of all
corporations. The bill as prepared
by Senator Hepburn will provide that
corporations now in existence must
take out federal charters and that
such corporations as may be organ
lied thereafter shall incorporate under
federal laws. All such corporations
will be under the supervision of the
department of commerce and labor
through the bureau of corporations.
The bill has not been matured thor
oughly yet, but Senator Hepburn
hopes to have it ready for introduc-
tion Immediately after the holidays.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
JAPS LOSE MOUND.
Russian Reports Say 2o3-Meter Hit Is
Auain in Their Possession.

Russian Reports Say 2o3-Meter Hill Is
Again in Their Possession.
ST. ERSBURG-General Kuro-
patkin has telegraphed to the general
staff that he has received a report
from Chinese sources to the effect
that the Russians have recaptured
203-Meter hill at Port Arthur, with
the guns mounted by the Japanese.
Kuropatkin's dispatch, which is
dated Dec. 81, also reports further
reconnaissance of botI- the Russians
and Japanese, but says they were not
productive of important results.
The weather at the front is sunny
and the thermometer registers IA de-
grees fahrenheit.
The war office has no additional In
formation regarding General Kuropat-
gin's report that the Russians have
secaptured 2O3-Meter hill, but the Off
eials consider it certain that the COM
mander-in-chiet would not have sent
khe report unless it came through ex-
ceptionally reliable channels.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
FOR REGULATION
CONGRESS SHOULD CONTROL IN.
TERSTATE COMMERCE.
so SAYS CARFIELD'S REPORT
ALLEGES that the Bureaus of the Com.
missioner of Corporations Furnish
Mans by Which People Engaged
in Interstate Business Can Be Con-
troled.

!SHINGTON-Th first annual
;e1 :. of the commissioner of corpora
80 is was submitted to congress We'd
ne 'ay by Commissioner Garfield. He
say no satisfactory reform is to be
expected under the state system of
incOTl" ration; that the federal govern
ment tas at it's command sufficient
power 20 remedy existing conditions
in its control of interstate commerce.
He therefore suggests that congress
consider the advisability of enacting
law for the legislative regulation of
der a license of franchise, which in
general should provide as follows:
The granting of federal franchise
or license to engage in interstate COM
merce
The imposition of all necessary re-
quirements as to corporate organiza-
tion and management as a condition
of the retention of such franchises or
license
The prohibition of all corporations
and corporate agencies from engag
ing in interstate and foreign COM
merce without such federal franchise
or license.
The full protection of the grantees
of such franchise or license who obey
the laws applicable thereto.
The right to refuse or withdraw
such franchise or license in case of
violation of law, with appropriate right
of judicial appeal to prevent abuse Of
power by the administrative officers"
Commissioner Garfield says the
bureau under the direction of the sec
retary of commerce and labor, affords
the appropriate machinery for the ad-
ministration of such law.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30

shore Here also will be the kitchen
"a chefs home far different from the
galley that any old Spanish ship
knew. A grand staircase will lead
down to the lower decks, where a
large number of bedrooms, arranged
like cabins, will be provided. There
will be more cabins on the upper deck,
and an attractive drawing room for
ladies, while promenades will be laid
out on the forecastle, the deck house
and the poop deck. Provision will be
made for dancing and pleasure parties
and for concerts and theatrical enter
tainments.
To keep up the illusion of old Spain
among it all the manager Of the Ca
brillO. with all his assistants, cabin
boys and walters, will be dressed in
full Spanish uniform, glittering with
gilt and epaulets.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
WHY HE DOESN'T REFORM.
Old Solomon Finds He Is Worth More
sin the Juq."

sin the Jug"
You may talk about the philosophy
of Socrates, or Tom Watson, or any
other of the wise men of the world,
but there is an old cOlOred man down
in my state who has them all beaten
to fare-yOu-well," l." said Thomas P.
Scott of Rome, Ga, according to the
Washington Post. "Old SolomCn-his
name is SolOmOn-is always in
trouble. Solomon l said, why don't
you try to do better? You're a likely
sort of man and you could live well if
you could only behave yourself and
keep a steady job instead of drinking
bad whisky and keeping yourself be-
hind the bars half the time
Goodness me, boss replied Solo
mon, 1 makes more money doing this
way. Now, you see, it's like this. When
| works hard | makes So a month and
my board and when | gets arrested
the magistrate says to me that it will
be SO or thirty days Now, according
to that, how kin l afford to work for
SS month when I'm worth So more a
month in the jug?'"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
Mrs. Powell Not Guilty.

WAYNE, Neb,-District court is in
session this week. Judge Boyd pre-
siding. The case of the State VS..
Mrs. Kemp Powell, in which the de-
fendant is charged with an attempt to
murder her husband by shooting him
with a revolver at their home four
teen miles southwest of Wayne, about
five months ago, inflicting a danger
Gus wound, was heard. Mr.. Powell
was taken to the hospital at Omaha,
where under medical aid he recovered.
Mrs. Powell was acquitted.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
Nebraska Pension Bills.

WASHINGTON-Every member of
the Nebraska delegation has intro
duced many pension bills during the
congress which will close March 4
with satisfactory results. The few
bills which have passed this month
were some of the hQldovers introduced
last winter 1t is safe to predict that
none of the pension bills introduced
this month will pass both houses
this session. and in that case every
bill introduced this session must be
reintroduced next winter. Possibly a
very meritorious bill may succeed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
VOTE OF STATES
OFFICIAL CANVASS OF NATIONAL
ELECTION RETURNS.
TEDDY'S PLURALITY 2,547,573
Total Vote Shows d Decreaoe of AGO.
o1S Compared With Four Years Ago
Parker Carried 13 States, Bryan
II, Mckinley %, Roosevelt 80.

CHICAGO-The official canvass of
the votes cast November s for presi-
dental electors was completed Thurs
day. when the result was announced
In Minnesota, North Dakota and
Warrington. The Associated Press
Is therefore able to present the first
table giving the official vote of all
the forty-five states. The total vote
is 13.508,496, against 13,968,574 in
1900. a decrease of 460,07S.
The ballots were divided as follows:
Roosevelt CRepD ......... 1927, ,632
Parker (Dem) ..... 5,080,054
Debs (Soc.) .............. 391. .5S7
Swallow (Pro) ......... 1908
Watson (Pop.) ...... 114,637
Corregan Soc LabCr) 80. 33,453
. Eolcomb continental labor) $50
RO2S evelL received over all, LAC
76S. and over Parker. 2,547,57S. In
1900 Mckinley had 4G7. O46 more than
all the other candidates, and 1884
more than Bryan. The vote for
Roosevelt was 1922 more than for
Mckinley, while that for Parker was
1,277 772 less than that for Bryan.
Mckinley polled more votes than
Roosevelt in Alabama, Georgia, Ken
tucky. Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia. Roosevelt got
more than Mckinley in the other
thirteen states.
Parker received more than Bryan
On Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi,
New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island,
South Carolina and West Virginia,
while Bryan got more than Parker in
the remaining thirty-seven states.
The republicans made gains over
their vote in 1900 in thirty-two states
and the official figures show losses in
thirteen. The total gains of the re-
> pubI;cans were 732,048, and the total
losses. S12,249; making the net gain
419,799.
The democrats polled more votes in
eight states than in 1900, but less in
thirty-seven. Their total gains were
S0.T92 and the total losses 1921, ,491;
net loss 1860 ,699.
Roosevelt carried thirty-two states,
against twenty-eight for Mckinley,
and has 336 a2ctoral votes under the
apportionment of 1900. Mckinley
had 292 under the apportionment of
1890. there having been an addition of
twenty-nine by the last apportion-
ment
Parker carried thirteen states,
against seventeen by Bryan, and has
140 electoral votes. Bryan had 155
under the apportionment in force in
1900.
Watson received his largest vote in
Georgia, the total vote of that STAG
being 22,664, with 20,5OS in Nebraska,
being nearly one-third of his agre-
gate. 114,637. Barker polled 50,218 in
1900.
The prohibition vote in 1900 was
29S.7 .791, in November 26O,3O3, gain
of 51.5l2
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
After the Beef Combine.

KANSAS CITY - Herbert Knox
Smith, acting commissioner of corpo-
rations of the department of com
merce and labor, has written to a
number of Kansas City meat dealers
for additional testimony regarding the
operations of the local packers who
are members of the alleged beef COM
bine. A representative of the depart
ment was mere recently gathering sta
tisticS from the local butchers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
MORE DENVER MEN IN JAIL.
Deputy Sheriff Among Those Adjudg
ed Guilty of Contempt.

DENVER-The supreme court ad-
Judged Leonard Rogers, William G.
Adams, Louis Hamburg and Thomas
Kinsley guilty of contempt for con-
duct in the second precinct Of the
Seventh ward in this city at the re-
cent election in violation of the courts S
snjunctfve order. Each was given a
jail sentence and a fine.
The court announced that the evi-
dence showed that Rogers, Adams and
Hamburg had prevented the appoint
ment Of a republican clerk, and Kins-
ley had elected the supreme court
watcher from the polls. Rogers is a
deputy sheriff and was candidate on
the democratic ticket for the state
senate. Kinsley is prize fighter.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
kaffirs Object to Chinese.

A sidelight on Chinese immigration
or importation into South Africa is
cast by the following remark in the
South African Press-Bulletin: Quar-
relS and fights with drawn knives be-
tween Kaffirs and Chinese are of al
most daily occurrence in Market
square. Johannesburg"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
CID MEN OF FAMOUS NAME.
Authors Who Were Productive After
Three Score and Ten

hree score ana en-.
The TALL handsome, myriad minded
Goethe wrought at his tasks till he
was nearly S3 years old. He produced
the first part of his masterpiece.
Faust" at 81, says the Saturday
Evening Post, the second part when
80 years old and wrote some of his
most beautiful poems at rs. Six Of our
foremost American poetS-and all but
one in quantity as well as IN quality
of verse-Bryant, Whittier, LOngfel-
low, Lowell, Holmes and Emerson
lived to ages varying from Is to s.,
and were productive to the last. Dr.
Holmes wrote in his eiyhty-fifth year
that time does not threaten the old
man SO often with the scythe as with
the sanGbag," yet he wrote brilliant
verse for special occasions almost to
the end.
Theodore Mommsen, the historian,
man of almost Insignificant stature
and emaciated frame. manifested in
his eighty-sixth and last year the en-
ergy of a man in middle life.
The earl of Dundonald. though he
was always in hot water and his whole
life was a series of quarrels-though
he performed some of the most dare
devil feats recorded in the history of
naval warfare, winning many brilliant
victories against enormous odds-lived
to s. and wrote his history of the
liberation of Peru, Chile and Brazil
and "The Autobiography of a Sea
man." two most vigorous, lucid and
dashing works, under the stress of in
tense physical pain, in the last three
years of his life.
Sir Charles James Napier, the hero
of Scinde, was 80 before he held any
great command. He fought and won
great battles, governed successfully
great provinces and achieved a great
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
Needed Money Is In Siqht.

COLUMBUS, O.-The executive
committee of the American Anti
Saloon league closed it's meeting here
yesterday after laying plans to extend
the organization into districts which
have not heretofore been penetrated.
1t was announced that the league now
has in sight sufficient funds to carry
put all It's plans for the coming year.
John G. Wooley of Chicago was pres
ent and submitted a proposition to
consolidate all the temperance papers
3f the country, which was taken under
sdyiseneDt
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
Wants Better Examinations.

WASHINGTON - Announcement
was made at the state department
Thursday that the government has for
the second time called upon Venezuela
to explain the arbitrary expulsion
from that country of A. F. Jaurette,
a newspaper man at Caracas. The
first explanation offered by President
Castro was altogether unsatisfactory.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
To Teach Deaf-mute Rovs

Very heartily welcomed, the Broth
ers of st. Gabriers institute, famous
for their success in the education of
deaf-mute boys, has settled at Bea-
consfield House, near Plymouth, Eng
land. on their expulsion from France
under the associations law. They are
about to commence there the educa-
ton of the deaf-mute boys irrespective
of creed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30

name long after that period of life had
passed when, according to an antique
morality not quite exploded, it be-
hooves q man TO lay aside the things
of the present life and to prepare his
soul for the next.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30

The first organ brought to America
Is at Portsmouth in the Episcopal
chapel, on State street.
1t is the old Brattle organ, so-called,
made by John Preston of York, Eng
land, in 1909 Or 1710, and first set up
in the house of Thomas Brattle, Cam
bridge, Mass, he having imported it.
At the time of importation great
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30

prejudice existed against the use of
musical instruments in religious SER
vices. Nevertheless. the organ Wis
later installed in Kings chapel, Bos-
ton, and there was used until 1856.
1t was then sold TO st. Paul's church
of Newburyport.
Rev. DR.. Burroughs bought the
organ for $3.50 in 1886, and placed it
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30

IN the chapel at Portsmouth, where
still remains.
In December, 1901. it was ta,,a,
apart and sent to Boston to be exbib-
ited at the historical musical instrn.
ment show. which opened Jan. II
ISoz' IN Horticultural hall. Before il
was returned it was put in thorougb
repair. ueu
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
EnuIand Annexes Islands.

SYDNEY. N. S. W.-Two British
warships have sailed for the Tonga
islands with the purpose, it is an
nounced, of annexing them.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-12-30
SMALLPOX in France

In 1903 smallpox occurred in fiftN
departments of France out of seventy
seven from which returns were re-
ceived.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-12
INTEREST IN TENNIS

Will Keller, captain, Edwin Wilson.
Myron Malsby, Gath Freeman and
Ollie Steinkamp formed a tennis team
that won the tournament with Foun-
tain City yesterday, the Richmond
team winning three sets out of five
The tournament started off with
Fountain City winning the first two
sets, but the local team rallied and
won out with ease. All the Richmond
players put up a fine game. The
tennis revival which lately has start
ed in Richmond caused the organiza-
ton Of the team, and the interest in
the game is greatly increased. The
tennis court in the east end is very
popular at present.
The Fountain City team will come
to this city in week or so for a
tournament here. A large crowd turn
ed out at Fountain City yesterday to
witness the tournament, which was the
first in the country. The tennis en-
thusiasts are doing everything posi-
Bile to arouse interest in this game.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-12
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The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-12
Night Air Purer Than Day Air.

The night air Is purer than the
day, particularly IN great cities;
therefore one should always keep at
least one window open in the bed
room or in an adjoining room, and
thus assure a sufficient and permanent
ventilation. OF course. it Is always
wise to protect ones self against di-
rect draughts from the open window.
When it is not possible TO place the
bed SO that it will be out of the
draught, screen in front of the open
window will suffice for protection
DR.. Knopf