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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
FAST IN The NET.
Chicago Grand Jury lndlcts Burling'
ton Road.

CHICAGO-The federal grand jury
returned an indictment against tho
Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy railroad,
Darius Miller, first vice president, and
c. G. Burnham, foreign freight agent,
on the charge of granting railroad re-
bates.
The indictment charges that the re.
bates were granted to the United
States steel Product company OF New
York, subsidiary company OF the
United States Steel company. All Of
the shipments on which the indictment
alleges rebates we're paid were made
from six cities Eldwood, Ind, Martins
Ferry o., Pittsburg, Pa, Newcastle,
Pat, Cleveland, o., and Joliet ILL.,, to
Vancouver, d. c. Twenty-six separate
offenses are charged
The indictment further alleges that
by an agreement between the defend
ants and a number Of connecting rail.
roads n joint tariff was made and filed
with the interstate commerce commits
sion.
The rates were paid, It was declared
in the Indictment. according to the
tariff, but afterwards a rebate Of
about 80 per cent was allowed to the
shipper. In all cases the United
States steel Product company was the
recipient of the money, according to
the Indictment
AS soon as the indictment was laid
before Judge Bethea in the United
States circuit court he fixed bonds Of
$4,000 in each case and the officials Of
the Burlington road were notified to
call and give bail to the amount of
$4,000, which they agreed to do with
out delay.
The greater part of the evidence
upon which the Indictment was voted
Is said to have been furnished by T.
p. Adler of New York, president of
the United States Steel Product com
pany; j. d. Moore, foreign traffic
agent for the Burlington road, and G..
w. Perry, freight claim agent of the
Great Northern road,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
DEAD NUMBER 74I
WHILE THE WOUNDED GO BE.
YoND ONE THOUSAND.
ALL is NOW QUIET IN THE CITY
No Fighting in Streets Of Moscow for
Several Days--Stores open and the
Thorouehfares Crowded With Holi-
day Shoppers.

MOSCOW-lt is impossible to as
certain the total losses resulting
from the ten days revolt, as many of
the dead and wounded have not been
reported at the hospitals, public or pri'
vate, aud some of the bodies were in
cinerated But n personal tour OF the
hospitals shows there were 5iS killed
and ,065 wounded. One hundred and
seventy-four of the injured taken to
hospitals have since died The troops
lost nine killed, of whom two were
officers, and fifty-one wounded Among
the killed or wounded were n number
of children, the returns generally show
ing that innocent persons suffered the
heaviest. The final figures of the cas-
ualties will closely approach $500, the
original estimate in these dispatches.
The stories of the discovery of great
heaps of dead in the Presna district,
as we'll as other sensational stories
printed by the local papers, like the
statement that over 400 revolutionists
are still holding the Prokharoff mills,
turn out after an investigation to be
untrue. There has been no fighting at
the Prokharoff mills since Saturday.
An eyewitness of the surrender of
the last batch on Sunday says that two
of the ringleaders were shot without
even the sembance of a trial.
The property of foreigners in the
Presna district has been destroyed to
a considerable extent, among which is
n flve-story brick building belonging
TO a naturalized American, NJ Strabo-
loffski, who has lodged with the
American consul Mr.. Smith, demand
for damages against the Russian gov
eminent, which will be forwarded to
the embassy at ST. Petersburg. Four
similar demands for damages have
been lodged with the British consul
and seven with the consul of Germany
by German subjects.
Except for the numerous military pa
trolls In the streets and the pillars of
smoke lazily floating above the ruins
of factories and houses in the Presna
district. there is little to recall the
nightmare Of the last ten days. AS If
by magic in twenty-four hours the APP
pearance of the city has changed. The
stores everywhere have been re-opened
and the streets are crowded with holt
day shoppers making belated pur-
chases for the Russian Christmas,
which. according to the Julian calen'
dar, falls on Sunday.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Whites New Move.

ST. PETERSBURG-It is learned
from high source that Premier WHITE
is again strongly urging the emperor
to Immediately promulgate a moder
ate constitution for the double pur
pose of reassuring the liberals that the
present war against the reds does not
mean reaction and blocking the at
tempt which undoubtedly will be made
when the national assembly convenes
to transform that body into a constit
uent assembly. The plan has other
heavy backing and the emperor is
showing inclination to accept it.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
COMMANDER YOUNG
TO- RECEIVE REPRlMAND

WASHINGTON - Secretary Bona
parte has acted upoh the proceedings
of the court-martial in the case of
Commander Lucien Young of the
Bennington, who was tried on charges
connected with the fatal explosion
on that vessel at San Diego, Cal, last
summer. The court found Com
mander Young guilty of part of the
specifications, alleging negligence of
duty, and sentenced him to receive a
letter of reprimand, which sentence
will be carried out.
The case of Ensign Wade, who was
associated with Commander Young
in this matter, has not we been dis
posed of.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Charles T. Yerkes is Dead.

NEW YORK-Charles It. Yerkes, the
noted railway financier of Chicago
and London, died in his apartments
at the Waldorf-Astoria where he had
been i'll for moro than six weeks. Mr.
Yerkes suffered from complication
of diseases, growing out of severe
cold which he contracted in London
early in. the fall. His condition had
been critical for ten days and the at.
tending physicians gave up all nope
several days ago, although members
of the family thought he would pull
through.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Omaha Men Beat Uncle Sam.

MEETEETE, Wyo-Omaha par
ties, 1t is believed, have circumvented
the reclamation service in the matter
of the Little Buffalo basin irrigation
project, five miles east of here. A
party of surveyors sent out from
Worland are now at work In Little
Buffalo basin making surveys, but
the man in charge refuses to say in
whose employ they are working. II is
believed here that private capital in
terested in the Hanover canal com
pany at Worland is behind the
scheme.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Grand Jury IndIcts Foreman.

HELENA, Mont.-The United States
grand jury, which adjourned last Sat
urday indicted, among others, Joseph
p. Woolman of Helena, formerly
United States marshal for Montana, on
a charge of illegally fencing public
lands in Teton county. A feature Of
the case is the fact that Mr.. Woolman
was foreman of the grand jury up to
the time an indictment was returned
against him, when he retired, in order,
as he said, not to hamper the jury. He
gave $1,000 bail to plead next Satur.
day, January 9Th
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
HALF A MILLION THUS FAR.
Shortage of N. c. Doueherty for
Seven Years $541,4OS

PEORIA, In.-The report of the
Everitt Audit company on the defal-
cations of N. G. Dougherty was made
board tonight. The total shortage Tor
seven years is $541 ,408, from which
will be deducted approximately $751;
900 for unused but warranted ex-
penditures. Everitt gave it as his
opinion that the total shortage for
eighteen years would fall slightly
short of $1O0O,OO0, stating that large
amounts Of forged script had been
found for 1887 and 1889, but no total
estimates on these years had yet been
made.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Must Eurnlsh Llet Of Names.

NEW YORK-The right to secure a
full list of names of policy holders in
the New York Life Insurance company
was granted to Clarence II. Venner
and nearly one-hundred other policy
holders by Supreme Court Justice
Greenbaum. The court denied their
request that they be informed of the
face value of each policy and also de-
MED their petition to inspect the com
pany's books. A writ of mandamus
was issued directing President John A,
Mccall to furnish Venner a complete
list of the policy holders.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Would Charge Ten Cents.

CHICAGO-A meeting OF the lead
ing bankers Of the city and represen-
tatlves of the Illinois Manufacturers
association was held on Thursday to
consider the matter of charging 10
cents collection fee on all out-of-town
checks deposited in the banks of the
city.
A resolution was adopted by the
Chicago clearing house some time ago
declaring that the banks should make
the charge. and the association has
opposed the move with decided energy.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
RUSSIA MUST BORROW MONEY.
Will Issue 100000 600 in Bonds to
Meet War Expenses.

ST. PETERSBURG-Th budget for
1906 estimates the ordinary revenue at
$5O,0O0,O00 in excess of the ordinary
expenditure, but shows that the gov
eminent will require S195, 900 addi-
tional to liquidate the war expenses.
The emperor has signed a ukase en-
towering the minister of finance to is
sue $200,000,0 900 shott term gold bonds
for sale abroad, not aay of which, how
ever, are yet known to have been
taken.
The Milva reports that General Kur-
opatkin, the former commander-in-
chief of the Russian forces in the Far
East, has withdrawn his fortune, ST.
100000 in gold from the imperial bank.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Irrigation at Vienna.

LONDON-The Standards Vienna
correspondent telegraphs: THE con-
clusion of a customs union between
Bulgaria and Servia, coinciding as 1t
does with the rupture of the negotia-
tons for commercial treaties with
Austria, has given rise to great CON
Germ and irritation at Vienna.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Comfort fer Aohillna

Achilles was bemCaning his vulnor-
able heel, That's nothing" they as
sured him, suppose the faculty had
dropped you from the eleven for poor
scholarship" Herewith he realized
the danger of death was a mere trlGc.
New York Sun.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Peruvian Bonds Sold.

WASHINGTON-Th legation of Peru
has received notice that the Peruvian
loan of s15OOO,OOO has been taken
up by the representatives at Lima,
Peru, of a Berlin bank, The bonds will
earn 6 per cent and the issue will De
at 921h.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Goethe and His Ghost

Goethe, the German poet, declared
that he had met the ghost Of himself
at a certain place att,red in n certain
way. and later to have found himself
Mt that particular srot dressed as haf
been the ghost of himself.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Weds ON EehruarN II.

WASHINGTON-The president and
Mrs. Roosevelt announced that tho
wedding of Miss Alice Roosevelt to
Representative Nicholas Longworth Of
Cincinnati will occur on Saturday,
February II, at II o'clock noon in the
east room of the White house.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Company for w. ]. Bryan.

MANILA-W. Morgan Shuster, col
lector of customs for the Philippine
archipelago, will accompany William
], Bryan on visit to the southern
islands OF the group as the represen-
tative OF the civil government.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Considering Statehocd.

WASHlNGTON-The senate COM
mittee on territories met and BEGAN
consideration of the joint statehood
bill. This was the first meeting Of
the committee to consider the admis.
sion of states.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
John Sharp William Detained.

WASHINGTON - Representative
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi,
the democratic floor leader, who was
called to home by. the serious illness
Of his daughter, has not returned to
Washington, but is expected in few
days, as his daughter is much i'm
proved.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Killed by Landslide.

RICHMOND, Va.-On account of
recent heavy rains a landslide &C.
Cured on the South & Western rail
road. in process of construction, near
Pine Ridge. N. c., killing three men
and fatally injuring two others.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
MRS. "FITZ" WANTS DIVORCE.
Has Gone to Sioux Falls, S. D., to Es-
tabIish a Residence.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.-Mrs. Robert
Fitzsimmons, who was generally sup
posed to be in New York studying vo-
cal music, has become a resident of
this city. 1t is said that she has en-
gagged the services of local attorney
and that when she has established a
residence she will institute divorce
proceedings.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Gotch Defeats nellunk

MONTREAI-Frank Gotch defeated
Delivuk, the Australian wrestler, in
two straight falls, Graeco Roman. He
took the first fall in an hour and the
second in twenty-siX minutes
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Profllcarn Of the Herring.

Button calculated that If pair Of
herrings could be left to breed and
multiply undisturbed for a period of
twenty years, they would yield an
amount OF fish equal in bulk to the
globe.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
Earthnnake In Austrln-

VIENNA-A series of earthquake
shocks were felt at about $50 this
morning at Agram, CHI, ] aibach,
Marburg and Gratz. BUILDINGS cracked
and the inhabitants fed panlc-strckcl
from their houses.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
French Cardinals Meet.

PARIS-All the French cardinals
met here to discuss their attitude to.
ward the separation of church and
state and forwarded cipher dispatch
to Rome.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
For Your Con,olatlon.

you mustn't grieve wen dc worl
goes ter abusin YOU" said the colored
philosopher. EFF it's all the time look
in fer spots on de sun, what kin you
expect of it?"-Atlanta Constitution.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-01-11
All Yellow Jack Has Gone.

notwithstanding to an official
report, the last case of yellow fever
has disappeared from Havana, and
there are no suspicious cases under
observation.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-13
x17DZAN COBRA 6HARmER5

as regards habits First there is the
game-killer, powerful. husky beast,
as cunning as fox, as 1.-THE as steel
rod, and with teeth and claws that rip
and cut like buzzsaws. Then there is
the 'cattle-killer. He is beast who
has grown a trifie lazy. In the course
Of his experience. he has found that
bullock may be killed with great deal
less trouble, than deer or other sort
of game, and he has also discovered
that the flesh is just as good if not
better. He begins with a calf, and
finding that easy to- kill, he works up
through the various stages until he
learns that the largest bullock or OK
that walks is very easy prey. A tiger
who: becomes a :'scattle-lifter has
started on the downward path. He
does not know this, of course, but he
has, nevertheless is on the sure
road toIthe ,man-eating trade, and that:
in the end means degeneracy and GER.
tain death. ]. <.s <&*&$* S.>* ..2 II ~: :,
~: \: The: step is easy. The "cattle-lifter,'
proWling5% about the herd, suddenly
casts. eyes upon the herder; a little:
brown man; who does not. impress the:
tiger with II sense of respect: This;
froglike being seems mll oh easier than
a bullock to the tiger, and, moreover
the herd der' is;E Of sue q size as to.
warrant shis being carri "a away to
the lair before. eatin g. This is exactly
the wa q tiger about Ii. tof become Al
,man.eater reasons accordi ID 8 @to 1W. IL. Y
Hornada Az, c,lra t Is off the IByonxSZ Zoo to-
whom the ind ebt{f uch
sof this INFO on. Al ami;
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-13
Tackled the Wrong Party.

During the National Civic Fedora
tons convention. in New York Sam
uel Gompers, apropos of mistake,
said:
ut might have ben embarrassing
as embarrassing as the position Of a
young man of Toledo whom I heard
about the other day.
<tHe had been calling now and then
on a young Toledo lady, and one night
as he sat in the parlor waiting for her
to come down her mother entered the
room instead and asked him in
grave, stern way what his intentions
*He turned very red and was about
to starnner some incoherent reply
when suddenly the young lady called
down from. the head of the stairs:
mamma, mamma, that is not the
one ,%$s:>
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-
- VICTIMS OF SNAKES AND TIGERS
Thousands of
: Literally Swarm


the same as human beings-the men
tai workings do not differ in kind, only
in degree.
Well, reasoning this, the tiger makes
his spring, and finds the herder about
the easiest thing that he has ever
tackled Knocking the herder down
with one blow of his paw, he seizes
him in his jaws sinking his teeth into
the chest on a level with the armpit.
Then he trots away with him, as fox
would trot away with a chicken. Mr..
Hornaday is large man himself, with
good hefty chest, but he says that
tiger would crunch his jaws upon his
chest and walk away with him for
mile or two as easy as not
"Once," said Mr.. Hornaday, "a gang
OF men were building a railway
through the jungle along the Malay
Peninsula. They worked inside
stockade seven feet high to protect
them from tigers. While they were,
digging away at broad midday great
tiger suddenly leaped the stockade,
grabbed a man, and before move
could be made, leaped over the stock
ade again and made off with his prey.
I know that this story is true.' con-
tinued Mr.. 'Hornaday, "for I got it
while I was in India hunting tigers,
from a scientist whose word is absO-
lutely unimpeachable. This will give
you an idea of the strength and agil-
ity of the man-eater'
Once a man-eater, always a man
eater. A man-eating tiger is almost
invariably an old tiger whose teeth
and claws are blunted and who feels
his pristine agility departing. Even
cattle-Eilling tires him, and as has
been said, he tries his luck with man,
and thenceforward he has rather an
easy time of it until he is killed, as he
always is, sooner or later. AS time
goes on he degenerates terribly, &C.
cording to animal men. He grows
lean, his blood turns bad, and he is so
NANCY that his pelt is worthless from
a commercial >ppint of view.
But the killing of a man-eater is no
EASY task fors the reason that: be
never kills twice in the same village.
| Instinct has taught him that after he
| has made a killing in a village it is
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-13

much more conducive to his health
and longevity to move on to, another
village And he does. The average
range of a man-eater is twenty miles,
and as all of his range lies in the jun
gle, it. is no easy matter to hunt him
out. Yet he always is hunted out in
time. For the advent of man-killer
in a village is wonderfully exciting
event, and every ~yillager who has: a
not constitute themselves into a corps
Of beaters, rushing through the jungle.
shouting and ringing bells and fright
ening the beast out of cover. =, il:
Mr.. Hornaday1 said also that tigers
do not eat or kill men just for, the
love of the killing, They have, no
more. animosity. against II, man I: than
they have against any; other animal,
and when they do kill; a%man. they do
so only because they are hungry. He
said,> though, ), that they, are liable to
kill "a. man against their morrow's
meal; even though they have just. eat
en-, ,zaH of which argues that you must
not stop to ask a. tiger whether he has.
dined or not should yot meet HMM
the jungle: -, .' : MI " ;:= 1:t 5f3 {:5 \
*S= S= The deaths resulting from. man
eating tigers as compared to- those
resulting from sna kes is like com
pairing the mortality from measles.
and III rom zpneumo onia Poisonous
snakes. litera rs :swa m i'm India they
are almost ba q IS. |. mo- squitos iin
Staten 1ld Cobrag1 IS door.
yards; lins cen ars,z IS ardens and some
times you score azfe1d.:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-13

Natives walking about in their bare
legs are killed day after day, year in
and year out. Perhaps the mortality
would not be so great were the ma
tives not fatalists, but they are, and
when they are bitten they argue that
II their days are numbered, they will
die whatever they do, and if their
days are not numbered, then their
lives will surely be saved in the pres
ent instance, and all efforts looking
to that end will be wasted. And So,
being bitten, the majority of them do
not bother about it for four or five
hours, when perhaps the pain will
drive them to a village doctor. OF
course, it is then too late, Perhaps
it was too late in the beginning, but
the British government has lately
adopted an antitoxin which is said
sometimes to result beneficially when
cobra victim is treated in time. The
poison of cobra attacks the nerves,
whereas the bite of an American
viper attacks the blood, and in fact
there is little to choose, although
R. w. Ditmars the snake curator at
Bronx Park, told the writer that des-
pite the fact that the cobra is popu-
larly believed to be the most poison
GUS serpent in the world, he would
rather be bitten by that species than
by a rattler. In any event, he said
the proper thing to do, being bitten
is to cut the wound out with a pen.
| knife, and then tie tourniquet above
the wound and run for a doctor.
! Despite it's reputation, the cobra
has rival snake in India that takes
almost as many lives as the hooded
reptile. This is Russel's viper, the
most venomously, viciously marked
snake in the world, whose habits an6
bite bear out the deadliness suggest
ed by the skin There is another
snake in India which also swells the
mortality tables, the sea viper. This
snake, as the name suggests, lives il
the salt water, and makes a grea
specially of nipping the legs of bath
ers. AS rule, the bathers never live
very long, after reaching shore.
While. talking to Mr. Ditmars TIT
writer saw fierce battle between
| four hooded cobras. They struck a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-13

and bit one another repeatedly, but
they did not seem to mind, and in fac1
there was no reason why they should
They are immune from the poison o1
their own species.
Mr.. Ditmars gave as the reason fol
the absence of deaths from poison
snakes in the United States, which
of course abounds with them, thai
they live in out of the way places
where man does not usually go, and
that as "a rule American snakes are
retiring and will flee, provided they
are not stepped upon or forced into
a corner.-New York Times.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-01-13
Historic Tree Near. Baltimore.

T. A gigantic: chestnut tree with: 3
girth Of: about twenty-five feet, and
under whose branches in 1777 Wash
ingtor and Lafayette held "a council ol
war and ate their meals while camp
ING On the place when the American
army was marching from Baltimore
to Philadelphia is. one OF, the many
objects of interest: shown to- visitors
on the McC Cormick farm, near Balti
more ~ r. + -: 7 .3 +. .= 81 r. :.
i. : This is ilot.z q. tradition,but*a a vel
authenticated i fact. as 4 is. abundantly
attested bys the archives Of the Nc
COrmick family. W. i: s: :sa I :s5% . :,