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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
RUSSIA WORKS FOR PEACE
All Possible Efforts Arc BEING Used
10 Keep France mud Germany
from War.

ST PETERSBURG, Feb. 2'-kussla u
using all its influence at Berlin to prevent
a rupture between France and Germany.
Its action has been taken at the instance
OF Paris. where the Rouvier government
Is apparently convinced that Germany pro
poses to persist in its attitude even to the
point of provoking war. on account OF the
close relations existing between the courts
of Berlin and St Petersburg 1t Is believed
in France that Russia will have more IN
fuence upon Emperor William than any
other power. Earnest representations IN
favor OF concessions to insure avoidance
of an appeal to arms were accordingly
being made. to which Germany replied that
it had no desire to provoke war. Never
theless it gave no indication that 1t pro-
posed to modify its attitude, and Russia S
latest advices from Algeciras indicate that
practically all hope of an agreement has
been abandoned.
Premier witte has now become distinct
advocate of an Anglo Russian understand
ing and 1t is understood that negotiations
have been or are about to be reopened in
London to determine the status OF TINS
agreement. II they are successful new
grouping of the powers will undoubtedly
check Germany's ambitions. The main OBJ
stacle to an understanding is the dispute
regarding the respective spheres of infiu-
ence of Russia AID Great Britain in Persia,
as the Russians are 10th to abandon their
| plans for reaching the Persian gulf.
| ALGECIRAS, Spain, Feb. 2I.-Sidi Mo-
| hammed el Mokhri the second Moroccan
| delegate, has caused considerable excite
ment by the disclosure that concessions
/ for harbor improvements at Casablanca
and Saffi, two leading Atlantic ports of
| Morocco, were given to the Cruesot com
| pany (French) at the same time that the
| Germans secured a concession for harboI
| i..a.. -. IL T. min
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
AMERICANS REACH KUIKlANG
Missionaries Compelled to Flee from
Nnnchang Are Reported
safe.

PEKING, Feb 27.-American Consul Cen
eral Rodgers telegraphs from Shanghai that
the fourteen American missionaries who
fled from Nan Chang all reach Kiu Kiang
in safety.
The gunboat III Cano Is proceeding from
Nan King to the scene of the trouble.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 27--The survivors of
the massacre of missionaries at Nan Chang
have arrived at Kiu Kiang.
The French cruiser Descartes and the
American gunboat QuirOs sailed today for
Kiu Kiang II is understood that the Brit
ish sloop Ciao and gunboat Teal are al
ready there.
LONDON, Feb. 2S.-Telegraphng from
Peking. the correspondent of the Tribune
says: The subprefect of Nan Chang. who
has had bad reputation among foreigners
since the boxer troubles, invited the mis-
sionaries to n banquet After the banquet
the subprefect withdrew and attempted to
commit suicide. This action. in Chinese
eyes, necessitates vengeance and led to the
massacre OF missionaries.
The feeling In Peking Is apprehensive
owing TO the fact that Chinese shoe was
thrown at the dowager empress while she
was walking in the palace garden The
miscreant has not been discovered.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
FORMER PREMIER REELECTED
Mr.. Baifour Returned to Parliament
from London District by BiG
Majority.

LONDON, Feb. 27.-Arthur J. Balfour
the former premier, was today elected to
the House of Commons for the city Of
London by a majority OF ll,34O over his
liberal-free trade opponent, Thomas Gibson
Bowles The vote was a strictly party
one. the candidates receiving fewer votes
than were cast for the conservative and
liberal nominees at the general election,
when the conservative majority was 10,So6.
Mr.. Balfour, who is not well, was not able
to appear at Guild hall, where the votes
were counted. but was represented by Miss
Balfour, who In a speech thanked the cleo
tors on behalf of her brother. The cleo
tion was foregcne conclusion. There was
no celebration.
The result Of the election was as follows;
Arthur ]. Balfour, unionist, 1914; Thomas
Gibson Bowles, liberal. i.l3I; unionlst ma
jority ll,2i0.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
MILITARY MATTERS IN HOUSE
Rank of Lieutenant General strickeH
from Army BiII.

WASHINGTON, Feb. I.-Military mat
ters held the attention of the house today.
the army appropriation bill being under
consideration for amendment That Cen
eral Corbin and General Macarthur might
become lieutenant generals, the provision
In the bill abolishing that rank was elimi-
mated on a point CT order raised by Mr..
Grosvenor of Ohio. who substituted an
amendment TO abolish the grade after
these officers had been promoted, but this.
too. net defeat.
Members OF the appropriations commit
tee disputed the right OF the military COM
mittee 10 appropriate for an apparatus for
fire control of held artillery. but without
succe~- Only eight Of the fifty pages OF
the b.. were passed upon when the house
sd.ourned.
The house passed the Dalzell hill char
tering the Lake Erie a. Ohio Ship Canal
company. with an authorised capital Of
81, ,0oQ.Oo1
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
FIVE MEN BADLY BURNED
Explosion of Gasoline Lamp in Corr
ridOr of Jail at Lawton, Okla,
Works Havoc.

LAWTON. Okl., Feb. s7.-Five men were
burned. two fatally, by the explosion of a
gasoline lamp in the corridor of the county
Jail today. The injured;
John Jamison. hydro-carbon operator, ia
tally.
Andrew Fitzwater prisoner fatally.
Sheriff c. G. Hammond.
Deputy Sheriff Homer Hammond.
Deputy Sheriff S. A. Elrod.
Jamison was in the act Of hanging the
lamp when the explosion occurred. His
clothes and those OF FitEwater were COW
cred with gasoline and instantly ignited.
They were horribly burned before aid could
.eaeh them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
ROYAL WEDDING AT BERLIN
Duchess sophie of oldenburg United
to Prince EiteI Frederick
of Prussia.

BERLIN, Feb. 27.--The Duchess Sophie
Charlotte OF Oldenburg, daughter of the
reigning grand duke of Oldenburg by his
first marriage with Princess Elizabeth of
Prussia, and Prince Eitel Frederick. the
second son of the emperor and empress.
we're married at o'clock this afternoon
in the chapel OF the palace by the court
chaplain. DR.. Dryander. Rain was falling
on the chapel dome. but the inside was lit
by hundreds of candles, showing the deli
cate costumes or uniforms of about 600
persons belonging to the royal families Of
Germany or the principal nobility. the cab
met ministers and number OF generals
and admirals. Ambassador Tower and
Mrs. Tower we're present in the diplomatic
circle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
PAGEANT OF MYSTIC KREWE
Climax of PFocessions In Mardi
Grass Carnival at New
Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 27.-The climax OF
the professions came tonight with the
pageant OF the Mystic Krewe of Comus
which drew into the streets the greatest
throng that has ever witnessed carnival
parade here. Comus selected THE Mas
que" by Milton, as his subject Of represen-
tations, and the principal themes OF the
poem were illustrated In twenty gorgeous
floats A brilliant ball at the French opera
followed the parade.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
DOUBLE MURDER IN KANSAS
Mr.. md Mrs. VIII Arnold Found with
Throats Cut q. Br"tber's Home
In Harrington.

HERRINGTON. Kan. Feb. 2I.-Will Ar
mold and his wife were found with their
throats cut at Engineer II. H. Arnolds
home here this evening, The husband was
dying from his wounds when discovered.
The body OF the wife indicated that she
had been murdered several hours before the
discovery. Will Arnold is a railroad man
vino came here a short time ago from Rock
Island, H., and has been working at Nc
Farlsnd. His wife had been staying here
at the home of his brother.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
SIX KILLED, TWELVE INJURED
Awful Explosion In Mine of Little
cshaba Coal Company at
Piper, Ala

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Feb. S.-Six men
we're killed and twelve 20 badly injured
that most OF them are expected TO die be-
fore morning by an explosion in Little
cahaba mine No. at Piper. Ala. at 4
o'clock this afternoon. The mine is owned
by the Little Cshaba Coal company. De-
tails OF the explosion are unobtainable to-
night, as wire service to the little settle
ment is meager.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
BUSCH WEDDING SATURDAY
Daughter of st. Louis Brewer and
Lieutenant schsrrer VIII Re
Married I'm Los Angeles.

PASADENA. Cal. Feb. 27.-Accordiug tn
a formal announcement which has been
made Of the plans of the wedding of Miss
Wihelmina Busch and Lieutenant Edoua rd
ScharreT the ceremony is to be performed
next Saturday afternoon AT 4:3) o'clock at
the Church of ;he Angels near Gravanend
II will be followed Immediately by recep-
lion in the Busch winter residence in this
city from TO s o'clock. There will be few
guests invited.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
Movement. of ocean vessels Feb. 27

At New York-Arrived: Astoria. from
Glasgow; WuTzburg, from Bremen; Rottcr-
dam. from Rotterdam. Sailed: Caronia, for
Naples: Furnessia, for Glasgow.
At Gibraltar-ArTived: Celtic, from New
York
New York.
At Alexandria-Arrived; Moltke. from
New York.
Al Christiania- United States, for
New York.
At Bremen-Sailed: Wittekind. for Baltl-
more. Arrived: Kaiser Wilhelm II. from
New York.
Al Hamburg-sailed; Pallaza. for New
York.
At Antwerp-Arrived: Kroonland. from
New York.
At Liyerpool-sailed; Lake Erie. for St.
John, ~. b.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
R....., for Futurc Governor.

MANILA, Feb s5.-At Jolo, the capital
city OF the Moros, a monster banquet will
be rendered by the resident Americans
and Filipinos TO future Governor james F.
Smith. on the eve of his departure on a
six months vacation by way of Europe
all. including the radicals, uniting IN the
exhibition of a better understanding.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28

GIBRALTAR. Feb. 97.-The United States
cruiser Tacoma sailed for Las Palmas,
Canary islands, today to Join the dry dock
Dewey.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST

Fair "wednesday and warmer in East
ern Portion. Thursday Fair In East
ern' Rain or snow and Colder In
Western Portion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-28
Attorney General Talks.

JEFFERSON CITY. Feb, 27-The fol-
lowing statement was made today by At
tnrney General Hadl'y regarding his pro.
pesed action under the decision of the SUI
r<fpe court Yesterday relating to the in
VefNgation into the Standard Oil cases:
| VAL ask Judge Gildersleeve Of the SUI
preme court of New York to require MIR
Hcgere 20 answer the questions which he
has declined to answer. Whether under
this decisiont VIII ask the court To require
officers OF The respondent companies TO
appear and testify will he matter of ftl-
ture consideration. AS the testimony I'm
the case Is now practically complete with
The exception OF the evidence relating TO
the common ownership of the stock of
these three companies, / will endeavor
tQ hasten the conclusion of the case i'm
the securing of this testimony
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11
RESOLNED

N L. AO v L. V L. G
 THAT OPERATIONS ARE NECES5ART SOMETIMES S. BUT D0CToRS ARE CARELESS. IrlSCARElESS OF q D0CToR To LOSE HIS ZEAL RING INSIDE OF A PERSON AND Nor FNDlT OUT TiLLAE HAS EN ALL SEMED I up. THEN HAVE TO COME BACK AND UNsEW| EN To HUNT AROUND FoR HIS RING.
 A DOCTORS CHARGE IS LIKE 14E CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, BUT HE HAS A RIGHT To CHARGE. NAO WoULDWIS To HEAR ALL THE LONG MINDED COMPLAINTS REAL AND IMAGINARY TAAT TAE POOR DoCToR HAS To LISTEN To. WHEN DOCTORS LEARN HOW To CURE HE 1 DlSpOSlTION TREY WON'T HAVE MUCH EISs To DO BUSTER BRowN
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29
Waits for His Master.

Hello. Ribs, he amt on this train!"
Thus brakeman or baggagemaster
greets a big black and white dog
which every evening trots down to
the station in a small Pennsylvania
town to meet the train on which his
master used to come home.
Ribs master has not come home on
the train for many months. He was
conductor Of a train which was
wrecked. and was killed. But Ribs
has never missed a train He stands
on the platform wagging his tail, his
tongue hanging out, an expression Of
anxious hope in his eyes, waiting for
his master
When one of the trainmen explains,
He amt on this train" the red
tongue goes slowly back into the big
mouth, the strong jaws close, the
shaggy tail drops and Ribs turns
walks back to his kennel. But on the
following day he appears promptly
in time for his masters usual train.
and waits until some one of the pity
ing train hands tells him, He amt
come in yeti"
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29
The Help of Machinery.

There was a time when the farmer
worked all by himself a small farm
and found Il profitable to do all of
his work by hand. Had there been
machinery at that time, 1t would
have possessed little value for him,
as he could not have disposed OF his
surplus for enough money TO pay for
his machinery and leave a balance
on the transaction. The transport by
sea was then by sailing vessels and
the transportation over the land by
means largely of OK teams. We can
not imagine the great grain crops OF
today being moved by such means.
II great grain crops had been raised
the grain must have fallen in value
till 1t would not have paid the cost
OF raising, or much of it would have
nodded in the bins. With the prog
ress of the world came the neces-
sity for the use of farm machinery.
The motive power on the water
changed to steam and great barges
were constructed with enormous car
ry1ng capacity. These could carry
the grain around the world at small
cost per bushel. On the land hun
dreds OF lines of railway opened up
the country, and train-loads Of grain
are now moved in any direction night
and day. 1t is no longer possible for
a community to produce so much
grain that 1t cannot be shipped out.
The commerce of the world will take
all the grain the farmer can grow.
1t is therefore necessary for the
farmer to take advantage of the ex-
istence of machinery for farm use.
The price of grain has fallen greatly
from what 1t was a hundred CIR so
years ago, and each acre of land
must therefore be worked at a less
cost than formerly. This the farmer
can do only by the use of machinery,
and the more improved the machin-
cry the less per acre is the cost of
handling the land Every farmer
should therefore study the machine
question and learn if he is using fair
ly good machines, or whether be is
using machines that are expensive of
labor and effective to a less degree
than should be found in farm ma
chimes. 1t is sometimes cheaper to
throw away an old machine than it is
to keep it.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29
At last he did get the horses head up.

a Noteworthy the ould Forty-siv-
enth-yis, more, III say We might be a
officer in the guards, or in the Rifle
Irish itself, b'gad, yes, sir!-Curly, ye
divvil, what do We mean by putin
me friend on such a brute, him the
first day in the land? And, Ned, how
are We goin' to like it here. me boy?"
Franklin wiped his forehead as he
replied to Battersleigh's running fire
of salutations.
We'll, Battersleigh," he said, Il
must say I've been pretty busy ever
since got here, and so far as can
tell at this date, I'm much disposed to
think this is a strange and rather rap
i'd sort of country you've got out
here"
Best d--n pilgrim ever hit this
rodeo!" repeated Curly, with convic-
tion.
shut up, Curly, We divvil!" said
Battersleigh. Come into the house,
the both of you. It's but poor house,
but we're welcome. An welcome We
are, too, Ned, me boy, to the New
World"
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29

1 he was the guiding mind in the af
/ fairs of the odd partnership which
now sprang between him and his
friend. Battersleigh would have lived
till autumn in his tent, but Franklin
saw that the need of a house was inn
mediate. He took counsel of Curly.
the cowboy, who proved guardian and
benefactor, Curly forthwith pro.
duced a workman, a giant Mexican, a
half-witted moso, who had followed
the COW bands from the far South
west and who had hung about Curly's
own place as sort of mental. bound
to do unquestionably whatever Curly
babe This curious being, a very CO.
lossus of strength, was found to be
possessed of certain knowledge in
building houses after the fashion of
that land-that is to say, of sods and
earthen unbaked bricks-and since
under his masters direction he was
not less serviceable than docile. il
was not long before the claim" of
Battersleigh was adorned with a com
Portable house fit for either winter or
summer habitation.
Even in the first year" the settler
of the new West was able to make
his living. He killed off the buffalo
swiftly, but he killed them in num-
bers so desperately large that their
homes lay in uncounted tons all over
a desolated empire. First the hides
and then the bones of the buffalo gave
the settler his hold upon the land.
which perhaps he could not else have
won
Franklin saw many wagons coming
and unloading their cargoes of
bleached bones at the side of the
railroad tracks. There was a market
for all this back in that country which
had conceived this road across the
desert. Franklin put out a wagon at
this industry, hauling in the fuel and
the merchandise of the raw plains. He
bought the grim product of others who
were ready to sell and go out the ear
lier again.
Meantime the little town added
building after building along its strag-
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29
Buy Glover Seed Early.

Usually clover seed is sown very
early in the spring or even late in the
winter. In northern localities it is sown
on the snow in March and further south
is put in in February. The clover
seed should be purchased a consider
able time before it is used, so that
it may be tested. This testing
should be done by counting out a
hundred seeds and placing them be-
tween damp wooden cloths inclosed in
reversed plates to keep In the mois-
ture. II the termination is low new
lots of seed may have to be pur-
chased, and this is the more reason
for buying the seed early in the win
ter. Also the testing is more likely
to be done If the seed is purchased
early than If it is purchased late. The
late-bought seed is too apt to be scat
tered on the land without the far
mer knowing whether it is fairly
good or not. If it fails he does not
know whether the failure is due to
poor seed or something else.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29

Cling street These new edifces were
for the most part used as business
places, the sorts of commerce being
but general merchandise. :"
which meant chiefly saddles and fire
arms, and that other industry of new
lands which flaunts under such sign
boards as the Lone Star, the Happv
Home, the Quiet Place, the COWBOYS
Dream and such descriptive nomencla-
ture, OF fourteen bushes houses. nine
were saloons, and all these were pros.
porous.
One by one, then in a body, as
though struck by panic, the white
tents of the railroad laborers van
ished, passing on yet farther to the
West, only the engineers remaining
at Ellisville and prosecuting from the
haven of the stone hotel the work of
continuing the line. The place of the
tents was taken by vast white-topped
wagons, the creaking cook carts of
the cattle trail, and the van of the
less nomadic man. 1t was the begin.
ming Of the great cattle drive from
the Southern to the Northern ranges
a strange, wild movement in Ameri
can life which carried in its train a
set of conditions as vivid and peculiar
as they were transient.
Ellisville lay at an eddy in the
Plains and gathered toll of the
strange driftwood which was then
afioat. Though the chutes at the rail
way We're busy, yet other herds Of
cattle passed Ellisville and wandered
on north. crowding at the heels Of
the passing Indians, who now began
TO see their own cattle to be doomed.
The main herd of the buffalo was
now reported to be three or four davs'
drive from Ellisville, and the men
who killed for the railroad camps ut
tered loud complaints The skin
hunting still went on. Great wagons.
loaded with parties of rough men.
passed on out, bound for the inner
haunts, where they might still find
their prey. The wagons came creak-
ing back loaded with bales of the
shaggy brown robes, which gave the
skin-hunters money with which to
join the cowmen at the drinking
places. Not sinless was this society
at its incipiency. In any social at.
mosphere good and evil are necessary
concomitants. Sinless men would
form a community at best but perish
able. Tolerance, submission, patriot
ism so called, brotherly love so
named-all these things were to come
later, as they have ever done in the
of communities, builded
mainly upon the foundation of in
dividual aggressiveness and individual
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29
Brown Rot of Plums.

Last summer the writer visited the
farm of a prominent fruit grower of
Northern Illinois. He had a consider.
able number of plum trees, but the
fruit was worthless, as it had been
taken by the brown rot The trees
had bloomed full and the prospects for
a large crop OF fine plums had been
excellent. But before the time came
to gather the plums the dreaded brown
rot appeared and soon spread among
all the trees The plums soon began
to drop, and the ground was covered
In few weeks with hundreds of the
decsying plums. Thousands of the
plums still on the trees were affected
on one side and it was seen that the
crop was ruined.
This disease is known scientifically
as Monilia fructigena. The spores at
tack not only the fruit, but also the
blossoms, leaves and twigs. The proc.
ess of its development is about as fol-
lows: A spore falls on a wet plum
and sticks there. 1t sends a flament
into the skin of the plum. This fila
ment develops into a thread-like
growth that permeates the pulp of the
plum everywhere 1t is the food-gath-
ering power of this mycelium or mass
of threads that causes the breaking
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-03-29
A Question of Locality.

The practice of Opening up" the
tops OF apple trees is followed by s.
G. Soverhill, of Northern Illinois. Mr.
SoVermll has been or harding in that
locality for about fofty years. The
practice is condemned by Edison Cav
lord, or Iowa, who has been orcharding
In that state for fifty years. Both men
nave had so many years of experience
that 1t is not probable that either is
making a mistake regarding the prac-
tees allowable in his vicinity. But
this brings us to che appreciation ~
the TACT that conditions enormously
differ in different localities separated
by only a few hundred miles. We
would ike to receive communications
from our leading horticulturists in diff
ferent states and different localities OF
the same state relative to the amount
OF sunscald in their neighborhoods and
the general practice of heading trees
The amount of sunscald existing in
a neighborhood does not seem to de-
pend on the latitude. Mr.. GAYLORD has
accurately defined the process when
he says that 1t is due to the break.
Ing up OF cambium cells by the alter
nate freezing and thawing. But there
is something more in it than this, for
sunscald seems to be worse In tbe
colder parts of the states than in the
warmer parts though even in the lat
ter some freezing and thawing must
go on. We would like to know how
far south sunscald is experienced.