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Humor ana Philosophy
By DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
1904, by Duncan NJ. Smith.
AUTUMN LEAVES.

When the palsied hand of autumn
Shakes the trimming from the trees.
And the ave- begin to tumble
And to fiutter in the breeze,
Then the man who has a lawn
Says some mild word like .Doggonei"
All the bright, artistic colors,
Red and yellow, gold and gray.
Somehow do not strike his fancy
AS he carts a DAD away
For he knows unto his sorrow
Two more loads will fall tomorrow.
Pretty girls go in Mysteries
Owe every tint and shade.
And they ask him for an armful,
Timidly and half afraid.
And he whispers as they fall:
Gee! 1 wish they'd take them all"
At the sad and solemn season
In the merry summers wake,
When Dame Nature runs her art school,
Then the mar behind the rake
The debris must keep on hauling
To the dump when leaves are falling.
, 1904-11-02
A New Meat Market.

Dare Brothers, meat and produce
dealers, have secured one half of the
building on the corner of Schellenger
and Pacific avenues, occupied in part
by Heating, the tailor. The work OF
Installing the equipment of a first class
meat market is now progressing rapid
ly and it is expected that there will be
a formal opening in a few days. Dare
Brothers have been doing an energetic
meat and produce business on the is
land all summer.
, 1904-11-02
WORLDS FAIR EXCURSIONS.
Via Pennsylvania Railroad. Last
Month of the Worlds Greatest
Show.

The low-rate ten-day coach eXcur-
sions of the Pennsylvania Railroad af-
ford a fine opportunity for those who
have not yet seen it to visit the great
est exposition ever held in this country.
Wednesdays, November 20, 16 and %
are the dates during the last month
the Fair is open. Rate, S20.1O from
Wildwood, n. J. Train leaves at 7.20
a. M; connecting with special train
from New York arriving st. Louis 4.l5
p. m. next day.
, 1904-11-02
Strong For Its Size.

A cheese mite a quarter of an inch
long can jump out of a vessel six inch
es deep. To equal this feat a man
would have to jump out of a well IA
feet deep.
, 1904-11-02
ReqiStered Voters on
Five Mile Beach

The Boards of Registry sat in the
respective borough halls on Tuesday
and revised the register of voters who
are entitled to vote next Tuesday. The
number of voters on the island num-
bers 655, divided as follows:
Holly Beach : 1913 =
Wildwood 2l2
Anglesea ITO
, 1904-11-02
A Double Favor,

Ills uncle died and left him several
millions"
"How kind of himI'
ITO die or to leave the money!
Both"
, 1904-11-02
Royalty Can Do II.

HE is spending money like a
prince"
prince generally tells the bartender to
chalk it up" I
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
PLAN COOPERATIVE MINING.
Union Men May Open a Camp in New
Mexico.

DENVER, Colo.-A new mining
camp will be opened in New Mexico,
according to the Post, to receive the
deported union miners from Cripple
Creek. The Western Federation of
Miners will work the claims on a CO.
operative basis and will have entire jul
r1sulction over their development.
Provisions wall be made by the fedora
ton for all deported miners, and to
this end q carload of supplies will be
sent to the new camp Immediately as
a starter. The camp will be located
neal Tres %fiedras, which is twenty
miles south of the Colorado line, on
the line of the Denver & Rio Grande.
There is a district ten miles square
of virgin ore, and the work of mining
it will be parceled out to the union
miners. They will work on the coop
erallve plan, but the miners will be
supported bv the federation while
prospecting.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
CAN'T TRUST HER SOLDIERS.
Korea Fears if Men Are Armed They
Will Become Bandits.

SEOUL-Telegraphic communica-
ton has been re-established with Ham
Heung, on the east coast.
The Korean war ministry recon-
mends distribution of $500 Korean SOL
diers in various positions, so to 300
each, along the Tumen river and
Great South road, in several impor-
tant inner towns and at Ham Hueng,
to prevent future Russian raids.
d, The step has not yet been agreed
on, as the policy is questionable in
view Of the probability of the major
ity of such a force deserving with their
rifles, turning bandits and robbing the
country folk rather than oppose the
Russians.
A number of women and children
from Gensan have followed the for
eigners to the Mountain monastery,
twenty miles from Gensan, where the
latter have sought refuge. Other
fugitive women and children from
Gensan, numbering sixty-five persons,
have arrived at Fusan, or their way
to Japan.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Parker Leads in Mississipni.

JACKSON, Miss.-The democratic
state convention to name delegates to
the national convention at st. Louis
meets here e%dnesday. There are 26S
votes in the state convention and the
indications tonight are that Parker
will come to the convention with a
majority of the vote instructed fer
him. One hundred and thirty-five is
a majority, and he has 127 instructed
votes with half a dozen more coun-
ties yet to act. John Sharp Williams
will likely be the permanent chair
man of the convention.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
ON WATER
SAID TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE OFF
PORT ARTHUR.
RUMORS ARE NOT CONFIRMED
A Thanking Movement of the Japa-
nese Near Feng Chang Weng-Rus-
slams Bury the Dead in the Battle of
Nan Sha..

ST. Observation-Disclosures are
circulating here that a great naval bat
tie has taken place off Port Arthur, in
which two Russian and four Japanese
battleships were sunk. No confirma-
ton of the rumor can be obtained.
TOKIO.-Rear Admiral Togo reports
that on Tuesday a part of the fleet
bombarded the west coast of the Lao
Tung peninsula, near Kai Chau, and
drove back a military train that was
approaching southwark. No trains
have been seen since. The enemy was
driving in troops and throwing up
works, evidently expecting a landing
of the Japanese at that point, and
making all preparations to prevent it.
Small gunboats sent close in by Admit
raj Togo bombarded the Russians at
work, and it is believed caused con
siderable damage.
Hal CHENG, Manchuria.-A flank
ing movement of the Japanese around
the Russian left from Feng Wang
Cheng June 9 was repulsed with a loss
Of two battalions.
A large japanese force moved out in
the morning along the Feng Wang
Cheng and Hal Chang road. The Rus
SLAMS had a force strongly posted in
a ravine thirty miles southeast of Hal
Cheng. The Japanese were preceded
by two battalions, who walked into the
Russian amDuscade. They received a
murderous rifle and artillery fire at
close range and were wiped out, only
M or Two escaping. The main Japa-
nese force tried to outflank the Rus
SLAMS, who drew off without losing a
man. The Japanese closing in, found
the ravine vacant, save for their own
dead.
TOKIO.-The military commission
assigned to bury the Russian dead in
the battle of Nan Shan hill, at Kin
Chou, May &c, presented its final re-
port today. 1t was found that 10 Rus
sian officers and 664 men who fell Is
the battle had been carefully buried
and so men were buried by the out
posts, making the total number of
killed left behind by the Russians 704.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
CockreIl's Injuries Not Serious.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cockrell
Of Missouri, who was painfully in
iured Saturday by being knocked
down by a boy with a bicycle, is con-
siderably improved. The wound in
the shoulder vas painful, but it is
thought it will readily yield to treat
ment. The senator is of robust physi-
cal condition and fortunately suffered
no shock to his nervous system as a
result of the accident. His pulse was
normal Sunday and he was able to
receive most of the many friends who
called on him.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
RUSSIA HAS RUMoR OF DEAL.
A Nespape- Says United States Would
Sell Philippines to Japan.

ST. PETERSBURG-The Novoe
Vremya discusses quite seriously the
report that the United States intends
to cede the Philippines to Japan and
argues that the ~far-seeing Yankee, an
t~icipating the inevitable future con
flict with Japan, prefers to sell the
islands instead of defending them,
having thereby learned Russia's les
son of the present war, namely, the
difficulty of holding territory so far
from the base. The paper adds:
Europe certainly was not pleased
at the exchange of Spanish for Ameri-
can domination in the Philippines, but
the latter is a thousand times more
agreeable than to see Japan installed
there, where it would be a constant
menace to Europe's Asiatic interests.
England will have to look well to it's
position in India, France to Indo-
China and even Holland to Java. The
only consolation is that the cession
may keep Japan quiet for a number
of years"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Russian Gunboat Is Sunk.

TOKIO.-The destroyer fiotiIla en-
gagged in watching Port Arthur from
the eastward reports that at 7:4O p.
m. on June 4 a Russian gunboat of the
Giliak type was seen to explode and
sink near Chentao Shan. The vessel,
with another gunboat, a destroyer and
other steal.ers. was evidently engaged
in clearing the vicinity of mines.
When the explosion occurred the 9th.
ers hurried back into Port Arthur.
Vice Admiral Togo expresses the opin.
ion that the explosion was caused By
a Japanese torpedo.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
they're Not Train Robbers.

PUEBLO Colo. H. Ross and
William Stubs, railroad section la
borers supposed to have been in the
party which held up the Denver & Rio
Grande train several days ago near
Glenwood Springs. are in Pueblo. Ross
was supposed to be the robber who
killed himself after he had been
wounded by the pursuing posse. The
police investigated and found that
Ross and Stubs were in Pueblo the
night of the crime, having left the
grading camp where they were work
ing two days before the holdup.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND,
The Question Can Only Be Settled by
the Murderer Barker.

LINCOLN.-Murderer Barker, calm
ly awaiting death in his prison cell at
the Nebraska ~penitentiary, has 1t Wlth-
in his owe to determine the owner
ship of the estate formerly belonging
to his brother at Inavale. He a
made a statement asserting that Alice
Barker was the first to die. Barker, the
brother, was twice shot, but lived
twenty minutes. To a World-Herald
reporter the murderer described his
crime as follows:
at vas drug store whisky that kill
ed my brother and his wife. On the
Friday before the crime l was working
on the ice, and, not feeling very well,
purchased a quart of whisky at an
Inavale drug store. l took a drink OF
it and the effect was very strange,
making me lose possession of my fac
ulties. That night 1 slept well, but
didn't feel very good on Saturday, and
took some more of the liquor. On
Sunday evening, while returning home,
l stopped at fathers and ate a lunch
AS l ate my mother and talked. AT
ter finishing the lunch l got in the rig
and drove on home. On the way l
took several more drinks. l remember
putting up the horse and going to the
house. Dan arose to let me in and |
shot him, nee in here Cpointing to his
abdomen) and once through here
(pointing to his breast). Then Alice
awoke and l shot her here Indicating
the right side of the head. l don't
know what l was doing. The whisky
must have been drugged."
Heirs of Barker claim the land on
the theory of his prior death, while
relatives of Mrs. Barker insist she was
a widow and inherited the property
before she was killed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
OREGON is STILL REPUBLICAN.
Herman and Williams Reelected to
Congress.

PORTLAND, Ore.-At 9 o'clock
Monday it is conceded that the re-
publicans have elected their congress
sional candidates by heavy majorities.
Congressman Binger Herman of
Reseburg, the republican candidate,
has probably carried the district over
R. M. Veaten, democrat, by from 5000
to 1000. John H. Williamson of Pine
vile, the republican candidate in the
Second district, will carry the district
by probably 10000 over j. e. Sim
MONS, democrat. Frank C. Baker,
chairman of the state republican COM
mittee, said:
8" predict that Herrmann's major
ity will be $500 and Williamson's 49,
600. Judge Frank A. Moore, the re-
publican candidate for state supreme
judge, will receive a majority of TO-
0O0."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
GET READY FOR CONVENTION.
Advance Guard of Republican Com
mittee Arrives at Chicago.

miIIeS Arrives dC CniCd9O.
CHICAGO-The vanguard of the
republican national committee reach
ed Chicago Sunday. Senator Nathan
B. Scott of West Virginia and Cover
o Franklin Murphy of New Jersey
were the first arrivals. The chair
man, Postmaster General Henry c..
Payne, is on the way from Washing
ton and will reach Chicago tomorrow
afternoon with several other COM
miteemen. When Senator Scott went
20 the Coliseum he expressed himself
rs agreebly surprised to find every
thing in the hall practically finished
and ready for the opening session.
Among other members of the ma
tional committee who will arrive Mon
day are Powell Clayton of Arkansas,
minister to Mexico; j. Edward Adj
dicks of Delaware, John w. Yerkes OF
Kentucky, L. McComas of Maryland,
]. H. Gallinger of New Hampshire
and Myron T. Merrick of Ohio.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
DEATH OF cATTLEMAN DEWEY.
Owner of Dewey Ranch in Kansas
and MuIti-MiIIionaire,

oi'e "NiS'
TOPEKA, Kas.-WOrd has reached
this city this morning of the death of
C. P. Dewey of Manhattan, in Wheel
ing, w. Va. Mr.. Dewey is rated as a
two time millionaire. He has extern
sive iron mine interests in West ir-
ginia, ice and rental incomes in Chi
cago, a 100, 900 acre ranch in Rawlins
county, Kansas, and over 1000 acres
in Riley and Geary counties in this
state.
In Manhattan he owned much town
property, including the electric light
plant and the telephone system. An
other enterprise of Mr.. Dewey's is the
Beach hotel at Eureka. He came to
Kansas twenty years ago from Chi
cago. He leaves a wife and son,
Chauncey Dewey, who was recently
tried and acquitted, with two of his
cowboys, on the charge of killing the
RerrVS.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
All Quiet at Cripple Creek.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo.-The
Cripple Creek district experienced a
quiet day Sunday. General Bell and
staff attended church and transacted
no business except what was abso-
lutely necessary. Another party of
%deported miners will leave Victor to-
morrow, their destination being either
New Mexico or Mexico. This party
will consist of about 100 men. A
number of arrests were made Sunday
and the peace commission sat for a
few hours and passed on several
cases. The saloons open Monday.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
To Extend Road 70 Pacific

MEXICO CITY.-If the plans of the
Chihuahua & Pacific railroad are not
impossible Of completion by reason Cf
the ruggedness of the country from
the Sierra Madre to the Pacific a
the road will be extended to the west
coast in the direction northeast from
Guerrero. Chihuahua and crossing the
great divide at Temosachic. This
statement is authorized by William X.
Ryan Of the New York firm of Ryan
& Dudley, VINO are building the extern
sion -.Cm Minaca to T~emosachlc.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
DRIVES BACK MILITARY TRAIN.
Japs lombard Russians on West
Coast of Lao Tunq.

TOKIO-Rear Admiral Togo re-
ports that on Tuesday a part of the
feet bombarded the west coast of the
Lao Tung peninsula neal Kai Chau
and drove back a military train that
was approaching southwark. No
trains have been seen since.
The enemy was driving in troops
and throwing up works, evidently ex-
pecting a landing of the Japanese at
that point, and making all prepare
lions to prevent it.
Small %gunboats sent close in by
Rear Admiral Togo bombared the
Russians at work and. it is believed,
caused considerable damage.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
FATAL ENDING TO RUNAWAY.
Rudolph oppIiger Killed in Columbus
township.

COLUMBUS.-Ruduloph Oppliger, a
well-to-do German farmer living in Co.
lumbus township. was almost instant
ly killed in a runaway accident. He
was returning home about Z o'clock
with a load of lumber, and while on
the Loup river wagon bridge his team
became unmanaseable and ran away,
throwing him out. For G distance he
rode upon the double trees and then
fell off and a wheel ran over him,
breaking his neck. The team ran on
home, only a couple of miles away,
and his son retraced the course of
the wagon and found the ~lifeless re-
mains lying near to the south ap-
prOach of the bridge.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Warns Soldiers and Sailors.

WASHINGTON-The general land
office continues to perfect arrange
ments for opening the Rosebud coun-
try and it was announced the blank
forms for use of soldiers and sail
ors who may desire to employ an
agent to make registration for them
have been received from the govern
ment printing Office and are now
ready for distribution. These forms
may be obtained on application to the
Commissioner Of the general land Of
fee at Washington.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
To Fill Quay's Shoes.

PHILADELPHIA. - Philander c..
Knox of Pittsburg, attorney general
of the United States, was selected
Thursday to fill the seat in the United
States senate made vacant by the
death of Matthew Stanley Quay. He
will accept and serve by appointment
Of Governor Pennypacker until March
4, the date of the expiration Of the
late senator's commission.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
FOR B~OOTLEGGlNG.
Young Man Arrested at Humboldt for
This Ofense.


HUMBOLDT.-Sheriff G. r. Martin
came down from Pawnee City and
placed under arrest Nick Beutler, a
well-known Humboldt young man. on
a charge of bootleging at Table Rock
some months ago.. The warrant was
issued from the court of Justice Mar
BILE shortly after the Offense is alleged
to have been committed, but in some
manner the offender seems to have
been given a tip and made himself
scarce. He is thought to have been
in Missouri, but on Sunday afternoon
drifted into town and was able to stay
here but slightly yer twenty-fOur
hours, when Pawnee county officials
were notified and the officer came and
arrested him.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Didn't Believe in Banks

PLATTSMOUTH-Joseph BiIa. an
eleven-year-old boy, was arrested on
the charge of stealing the sum of
$3.50 from an aged woman named
Mrs. Mary Ptak, being her savings
for many years. The money was
stolen from the cellar of the Ptak
home, where it had been secreted.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Fill IRRIGATION bitches.

Secretary DObson of the state board
CT irrigation has received information
that the rains in the northwest s>c-
lions of the state have completely
filed the irrigation bitches and most
Of them are overlooking.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Bitten by a RattIer.

TECUMSEH-Miss Anna Michael,
a domestic in the family of T. H. Nc
Clure, a few miles southeast of this
city, was bitten by a r~attlesnake one
day recently. She promptly recovered
from the effects of the poisoning
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Fatally Injured by Train.

BEATRICE-Mrs. Christina Kalo-
kowski, an aged woman, was struck
By north-bound Burlington passenger
train No. 80 near Roag this afternoon
and fatally injured.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Soy browns While SWIMMING.

AINSWORTH.-Frank Clapper. a
15-year-old son of a prominent ranch
maj living southwest of this place,
was drowned in the presence of COM
panions while ~endeavoring to swim
across Clear lake.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-29
The American Girrs Joke.

Miss Gladys Deacon, an American
girl, amazed a scientist whom she met
recently at a London dinner party. The
scientist narrated in great detail to the
girl a series OF experiments he was con-
Quoting with the microphone The
microphone," he explained, 'magnifies
sounds to the ear as the microscope
magnifes objects to the eye The foot
falls OF centipede heard through the
microphone resemble tattoo on ket-
tledrum. The dropping of pin is like
the report OF a cannon" THAT is very
interesting and odd said Miss Deacon.
This afternoon" resumed the scientist,
I caught fly and studied its note
The note resembled the neighing of a
horse Perhaps, said the young girl,
1T was horsetly"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-29
aerma as at waterloo.

A heated controversy has been started
IN English newspapers by the assertion
made by Emperor William H., at Han
over, that. the deeds of the German
Legion had saved the English army
from destruction at Waterloo. The
London journals seem to imagine that
the German Emperor meant to say that
unless the PrusSians under Butcher had
come up in time, Wellington's army
would have been annihilated by Napo-
leon. A moments reflection should have
suthced to demonstrate that, whatever
may be the private opinion of William
IL. touching the Importance of Blucher's
arrival, he did not express it at Hano-
yer. He was there to commemorate the
deeds of the German Legion" conf
posed, not of Prussians, but of Han
overians and Brunswickers, who formed
a part, not of Blucher's, but of Yelling
toms army. In Wel1ington's force at Wa
terloo, the Germans outnumbered the
English by some 1000, and, unquestion-
ably, but for the aid afforded by the for
mer, the Englishmen and Dutchmen
must have succumbed to the overwheIn-
ing weight of Napoleon's columns. The
German Emperor was, therefore, entire
ly justified when he said that the Han
overianS and Brunswickers had saved
Wellington from destruction. AS to the
part played by Butcher, about which
William II. had nothing at all to say
there seems to be no doubt that, but for
the arrival of the Prussians. Napoleon's
defeat, even had it been accomplished
which IS doubtful, could by no possibil-
ity have been transformed into rout
Wellingtons soldiers were utterly ex-
hausted at the close of the action, and
the pursuit of Napoleon's broken and
despairing forces was prosecuted mainly
by the Prussians. 1t is, moreover, very
questionable whether Napoleon would
not have crushed Wellington in the at
ternoon, had not the appearance of the
Prussian vanguard compelled him to en-
ploy large number of battalons for
the protection of the French flank This
IS one of. the questions about which stu
dents of history are likely always to diff
fer, but we ourselves are disposed to
think that, had Grouchy succeeded in
foillng Blucher's attempt to join Well
ington, the English general must have
been worsted by Napoleon, who had 2
force not only preponderant in quantity.
but vastly superior in quality to all OF
Its antagonists except the English, who
only numbered about twenty-five thou
sand.-Harper's Weekly