Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1900, Page 5

TIE TWO BOTTLES OF RED SAUCE Bamples of Peppery Oondiments Used at West Point Bhown at Booz Trial, TABASCO NOT TO BE FOUND IN PANTRY Freshman in Order to Qualify in Mens Hall Has to Eat Eighty-Five Prunen of Regolation Size at One Sttting. WEST POINT, N. Y., Dec. 20 ~The mili- tary court of Inquiry that has been in ses #lon here since Tuesday esamining fnto the allegation that the death of Oscar L. Booz & former cadet at the United States mil tary academy, was caused by brutal tr ment, to which he was said to have subjected by fellow students, resume it sitting today. There remain to be exam tned twenty cadets of tho class to which Booz belonged and it is likely that some of the first-class cadets and ofcers of the domy will also be interrogated as o thoir knowledge of hazing. It is probable, thorefore, that the court will not close ita investigations before Siturday Major Cbarles B. Hall, Second infantry, treasurer of the Military academy and quar termastor and commissary of ets, was the firat witness called today. He identified two bottles of red sauces, which he said were the oniy kinds of pepper or tropical sauces in use in the cadets’ mess hall since be took charge three years ago. Tobasco #auce was not in use in the academy. The hot sauces were not generally lald on the tables, but were served when called for Cadet Willlam H. Cowles of Kansas testi- fled that he knew Booz, but was not present at the fight with Keller. He deseribed the bazing ordeal in the summer of '98 and had undergone everything that his classmates wont through. He sald he had attended Fat funerals, took cold baths and joined in bowl races, as well as being made scqualnted with “Wooden Willie” and the process of ‘“eagling.” He had taken a couple of drops of hot sauce from a speon When asked to describe the sauce the wit- Bess said “The bottle T saw In our tent was labeled “tropical pepper sauce.' " The witness was at the same school with Booz and did not consider him strong. WeEile at the school, St. Luke's at Bush- town, Philadelphix, Booz was examined by physicians and was developing lung and chest capacity. The witness could not re- member the names of the physicians. The witness had little to do with Booz after coming to West Point; their relations were “Just Indifferently friondly." The next witness, Herbert Z. Krumm, of Ohio, told the court that among other things which he was made to do as a fresh class- man was to qualify in the mess hall “What does that mean?" asked Captain Dean “1 had to eat eighty-five prunes at one sitting and at another 1 had to swallow a bowl of molusses and six slices of bread.” “Did you succeed in doing these things?" asked the court. “No, sir, 1 was not suceessful on my first attempt on the molasses, but I did it all right the second time." In concluding his testimony the witness mald that Booz had a slouchy manner and did not seem to have enough energy to hold himself together Cadet David H. Bower of Towa said he had been hazed in He had to do foolish things, such as elving a turtle passing down the company street with a candle on its back.” and “chasing a sparrow off the street after being told it was an cagle. Never 1 Boos Called “BibI 3 of Illinois had had never heard him The witness was hazed, but never became exhausted nor had he heard or known of any cadet becoming exhausted owing to hazing Cadet Charles Telford of Utah testified that he, like other fourth-class men, had to stand on his head and eat about a bowl of molusses and about eight slices of bread. The wi ness belonged to the Mormon church He had not been in any way discriminated Cadot Clan ( known Hooz, but called “'Bibles.” Aleshire against or looked down upon on account of hix religion Cadet Oscar L. Foley of Missouri had no complaint to make of treatment he received Cadet Charles L. Jennings of Connecticut sald that on one occasion Cadet William G. Caples of Missouri told him to put out his tongue and Caples dropped five drops of hot on it. 1t did not hurt or choke him and only left a burning feeling on the tongue for a few minutes. At an- other time he had stand on his head n & tub half full of water and say “We've met the enemy and we are theirs.” The witness had seen Hooz a few days before he left the academy and “he looked as well as any of vs' Cadet John R. McGinnis of Ohio is a Roman Catholic. He had never been dis- criminated against on that account, nor d1d he know of any candidate who had suffered or been annoyed on account of his religion Several men who had been iu Booz's class, but who o © now third-class men, were called to the witness chair, but not one of the first three, Deyers of Ohio, Roselle of Arkansas and Colvin of Missourl, gave any material evidence. Cadet Carl Boyd of Georgla sald that on one occasion he had swallowed from half to thr tropical sauc equarters of a tablespoonful of It did him no harm, nth Keefe Takes e Stand, Rev. 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Free, duction from a Catholle priest in Altoona | He never complained to me of belng il treated und when | jokingly asked him how he liked the hazing he replied that he wad | roceiving 1 Ban others and seemed { 1o treat 1t an m . He never gave me celved any in { jur I 'me the boy was it ik matters. [ asked | him tudles 1 founa he was ond section. 1 told him he ket out of that sece tion or he would be d In reply to General Clous the witness | said he had never heard of such a thing as a cadet being put into a straightjacket for the amusement of others. The reverend gentloman sald that In his opinion the matter of religion was never a factor in the program of the cadet ninl y Re entative hiltpps. A telegram from Representative Phillips of Ohlo was read LVEL AND, 0., Dee. 20.—~Colonel A rintendent West Point Academ: 1N 8 paper staies that Mr. B that I visited West Polnt th pro n from being hazed This state- wholly erroncous. 1 have alway 7 leved that the experfence of plebe can year 18 an indispensable facto West Point military developmer | show this to the court | (Signed) P, 0. PHILLIPS. Cadet Jobn F. Franklin of Tennessee tes- tified that he had seen Booz “braced” fn | the tent and company “Did you ever see sauce given to him?" “Yes, two or three drops at a time. “Who gave it to him?" “Cadet McGuire, who is not now in the corps, and Cadet Fred L. Dean, who ie now in the first class.” Major J. M. Banister, surgeon, U, 8 A, produced all the records of the medical department. This showed that Jobn E. | Breth was admitted to the hospital on June 24, 1897, and discharged a week later. He was treated for external hemorrhoids, He was admitted again on July 6 and dis- charged the following day, as he had only an attack of thermal fever, which {s a very simple ailment Medical Record of Hreth and Boor. On December 17, 1897, Breth was excused from sections on account of acute indiges- tion and these are the only instances on record where the Altoona cadet had been medically treated. In regard to Cadet Booz, Major Banister said that there was only one instance on record of his being il and on that occasion Booz was allowed to remain away from one drill as he was suffering from diarrhoea Cadet W. P. Ennis of California of the present first class testified that he knew Cadet Breth, but had never heard of him or any other man being placed in & straightjacket. He told of the arrangements made for the fight between Kellar and Booz. Commandant of Cadets Hein produced a report made by Cadet W. G. Caples of Missonrl against Booz for facing In wrong direction at guard relief and on which Booz had placed an indorsement, denying the charge. Cadet Caples was then sworn and told how, when relieving guard, Booz faced in ward toward the camp, which was vrong, and he talked to Booz at the time, telling {him he was wrong Booz gave him his name when he asked him and he then re- ported him LYNCHING FOLLOWS MURDER Mixeinnippl Mob Shoots One Negro to (h and in Following Three Others, NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.—Citizens of Gulf Port, Miss, a lumber town seventy- five milex from New Orleans, today lynched W negro and are hot on the trail of three others, as the result of the murder of Town Marshal W. E. Richardson last night. The negro Iynched was not the one who 4id the shooting, but he had been arrested by a that was pursuing the rea! culprit and his relatives, The murder was the result of a dispute between Alvin Lewis, a negro, and Marshal Richardson. A large crowd, principally composed of negroes and including two sons and two nephews of Lewls, both of the latter bearing the same name, Henry | Lewis, surrounded the men. While the marshal's back was turned, one of the nephews drew a revolver and taking de- liberate aim shot the marshal through the posse heart. The crowd at once scattered and Alvin Lewlis, his sons and nephews, fled in the direction of Wolf river. Bloodhounds wero secured and Alvin Lewis was cap- turad quickly and sent to Miss'ssippi City, where he was placed in jall. The posse then ran down one of the nephews. The prisoner protested his innocence, but was started toward Gulf Port under an escort Half a mile from Gulf Port the escort was overpowered and the prisoner taken away and shot to death. The posse ic still pursuing the two Lewis boys and thelr cousin. — AMERICAN STOCKS ABROAD NEW YORK, Dec. suys Large amounts of stocks shipped this week by foreign every steamer safling from this city e London. One International house, in do- seribing the volume of its shipments. sald 20.—~The Evening Post have been bankers on today that it sent to the steamer yes| rda; amer v y bundle of stock certificates two feet hi hese shipments resulted L from the con- rbitrage tinued purchase on count and on direct foreign orders since and fneludin, ing yesterday arbitrage purchases of stocks | for Burope have been estimated at 500,000 shares and fn addition to these purchases on bulance large blocks of stocks have been ught on - direct orders by houses ke Moore & Sehley, J. & W. Seligman, Kuhn Loeb & Co.. Hiring, Magoun & Co., and | muny others whose foreign connections are large, but who not do any arbitrage | business on London account n Monday one of the above-mentioned hoages alone hought 30,00 shares of stocks here, and all of them have been buying in the last ten days. A conserva- tte of such purchases in this 0.000 shares, making an ostimated ht_for London in the ten duys past of fully 700,000 shares OBJECT TO TARIFF ON GLASS Philadelphia Pal Men Declare That Prices Have Been Unfalrly Advanced, PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 20.—The contro- versy between the Pittsburg Plate Glass company and the Philadelphia Palnt club | regarding the importation of certain kinds | of stained glass was brought before the In- dusirial commisslon today. Fred G, El- liott, manager of the firm of John Lucas & | Co.. presented a prepared statement com- | plaining of the “encroachments of combined | capital” and suggesting a modification in the tariff on plate glass iecorge H. Maher, assistant manager of the glass department of John Lucas & Co,, this morning stated that the combination of | ®lass manufacturers had advaneed the price of glars within three years 150 per cent The prime cause of existing conditions, Mr, Mayer said, was the high tariff, of which the manufacturers have taken undue ad- | vantage Will Relieve Asnocintion's Difficulties, NEW YORK, Dec. 20—A Deshon, at- | tarney for the Anglo-American Savings and Loan ‘ussociation, which wis recently forced | Into @ receivership, innoutced today that plan for relleving the tes h inw ¢ suMe sxoclation’s ditficul 1 been determined vpon at a ms he directors held last night money pledged to carry out nd the nt N wer Melbourne's, NEW YORK, Dec 20.-Referee Mant Bluemenstiel has filed his report in the su- preme court in the divoree suit brought hy | Wilhelmina MacDowell Melbourne MacDowell, once hushand Fanny_ Davenport. The referee finds thit Mrs. Muchowe is entitied to a decree The couple were married on June 15 last. neainet Willlam DRINKING DREGS OF MISERY Estorhazy Walks Strests of London with Neither Roof Above Nor Bed Below, | | ONLY MEAL IN TWO DAYS AT WORKHOUSE | Man Incriminated in Dreyfos Case Resorts to Churches and Musenms for Shelter, While His Wife Sues Mother for Support. FARIS, Dec. 20.—Major Count Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, who figured so promi- | nently in the Dreyfus case, has sunk into utter misery. His divorced wife's suit agalust her mother, the Marquis de Hetan- curt, for an allowance, claiming she is in prefound distress and unable to support | her young daughters, has brought forth the follewing letter, written by the major to his wite on November 1 I have been unable to write to my chil- | dren recently, not having the money (o buy a postage stamp. 1 am at the la extremity of streugth, courage and r kources. | have rot eaten for two days, unie | t!l this morning in the workhouse, 1 ha no clothes, am shivering with cold and am compelled ' to~ warm myself by entering one wil churches and museums. Every pay this fs a confession of guilt, but vou say 1 am killing myself because, afier \aving struggled to the utmost of my cour- age, my voice is stified by my persécutors Without bread, home or clothing [ shall die of privations of all kinds, unless a volver bullet puts everytaing in good or der. Kisg my children. ' Tell them | adore them and if a frightful fatality has pre- clpitated me into an abyss, if I die tho vietim of human cowardice,’ I never c mitted the crime of which’' I am accused by scoundrels to save themsely The letter s dated London, Major Cuignet, who figured in the Drey- ful court-martial at Rennes, has been ar- rested and imprisoned in Fort Mont Valerien, where he is awaiting trial by court-martial on two charges. The first is a charge of grave offense agalnst discipline | in ‘writing directly, without authorization, | to the president of the council, M. Waldeck- | Rousseau, accusing M. Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs, of having told the Chamber | of Deputies an untruth when he said that | Major Cuignet had approved the inter pretation officially placed upon the tamous | Pannizardi telegram. The second charge is being guilty of dis- closing a confidential document, viz., the | statement signed by Major Culgnet and | jeneral Chamoin, which was read in the Chamber by M. Jeseph Lascies, formulating some reservations, concerning the Panni- zardi dispateh. M. Lascies pointed out that ment did not mention M. Delcasse and d clared the fact to be that M. Paleogue, the Foreign office expert, had refused to coun- tersign it. General Andre, minister of war, drew Major Cuignet's attention to this conduct and asked for an explanation, Which the officer refused, declaring that he would hold his explanation for an officer of the Judicial police. General Andre at once ordered him to return to his home and to await orders there. A few minutes later an officer of the military government of Paris called upon Major Culgnet at his residence and informed him that he had been ordered to surrender himself at Fort Mont Valerien beforo § o'clock this evening. General | Chamoln was questioned by the minister of war during the afternoon. Le Radical says that General Florentin, | the military governor of Paris, is charged with the inquiry into the Culgnet affair, M. Joseph Lascies, in the course of an inter- view stated that the basis on which the sec- ond charge against Cuignet was made was not given him by Major Cuignet. SPEAKERS DENOUNCE BRITAIN Continen Powers Come In Blame — School Children Welcome Kruger. the docu- for AMSTERDAM, Dec. 20.-Mr. Kruger at- tended u crowded meeting today In the Nteuwe kerk. The speakers declared Great Britain had sold its birthright for a handful of gold and that the continental powers would forever bear the brand of Cain unless they intervened in South Africa. Subsequently, Mr. Kruger repaired to the Palace of Industry, where 5,000 school boys welcomed him with a choral. Mr. Kruger started for The Hague this afternoon. The farewell scenes were a repetition of the enthusiasm manifested on his arrival here FREE PARDON DEMANDED Dewet's Alleged ition of Surren- der Includes Amnesty for Cape Dutch, BLOEMFONTEIN, Tuesday, Dec. 18, General Dewet had 6,000 men and 18,000 horses when he captured Dewetsdorp, ac- cording to a gentleman who was impris- oued there, The Boer cammander then declared that he was wet going to surrender without a freo pardon for all his men including many Cape Dutch. The force of 6,000 1s now divided Into three sections, Salt Against Count Bonl PARIS, Dec. 20.—The suit of Charles Wertheimer, the London bric-a-brac dealer, against Count Boni de Castellane to re- cover payment for art objects sold Count and Countess de Castellane, be- gan today in the first civil chamber. The transaction taken as a test case involved the sum of 12,496 francs. The hearing devoted to the arguments of counsel, of the parties were in court The total sum involved in the transaction is 6,600,000 fancs Count Boni de Castellane has replied with fling a counter sult, demanding a full statement of all transactions, claiming that various objects, admittedly authentic, were #old at scandalously exaggerated prices ana that many articles were represented as authentic antiquities, when they were really imitations, modern or useless, while in a serles of exchanges In 1899, he took back a number of articles ut prices greatly tnterior to their value. Ther fore, the count demands a reduction of the debt, to at least 2,000,000 francs and the restitution of the objects taken In exchange by Wortheimer, under the penalty of 1,000 francs for each day's delay in the restitu- tion on the day of judgment. Finally, he claims damages in the amount of 300,000 trancs Count de Castellane also asks, in case the judges decide it is necessary to throw further light on the case, that experts shall be appointed to appralse the articles in- volved. The appointment of these experts | is the first aim of counsel for Count de | Castellane. Tho pleadings in the case were unfin- ished today and the hearing was adjourned for a week one. Destractive Storm in Jama KINGSTON, Jamalca, Dec. 20 was received here today of a storm, which swept over the Costo Rica last week. Miles track were damaged, the fruit plantations were injured and communication was cut oft. The full extent of the destruction wrought is unknown, but It is believed to be serious. News destructive interior of | of railroad g International Consolidation, ONDON, Dec. 20.—Details of the al- leged impending consolidation of the Vick- ers-Maxim and Cramp companies are pub- lished here. ‘It is sald the capital will be OMAHA DATLY £30,000,000. Of £10,000,000 preferences shares the Cramps take half, the balance AY, BI'E: R to be in the United States The Vickers-Maxim company gives all of its American recelving in return £500,000 in ordinary stock. The foregoing underwritton patents statements are denied by a director of the Vickers-Maxim company, who sald to the Aseoclated Press today that nothiug has yet been decided and that consolidation will be firs any question of submitted to the shareholders. Warm Time in 8 b Senate, MADRID, Dec. 20.—During the discussion in the Senate of the royal message an- nouncing the marriage in the near future of | the princess of Asturias, heiress presump. tive to the throme, with Prince Charles second son of the count of Caserta, Senor | Ortega, republican, raised a storm of protest by recalling the conspiracy of the bourbon princes against other royalists, which he feared this marriage would have a tendency to renew. Amidst insults from all parts of the house the speaker was | finally called to order. Hear Sound of Cannonadin LONDON, Dec. 20.—A special from Jo- bannesburg, dated Decewnber 19, says that heavy cannouading was heard tne morning of that date north of Krugersdorp. CONSIDERING THE GROUT BILL Senate Committee on Agricultare St Listens to the In- s Guerrllla Tacles, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—When the sen- ate committoe on agriculture today resumed its hearing upon the Grout oleomargarine bill Senator Allen of Nebraska, a member of the committee, made a pointed and sensational statement concerning his posi- tion a¢ to the measure. He never had an- nounced, he said, whether he was in favor or opposed to the pending measure, but by reason of some questions he had asked yes- terday it had been supposed “by the lobby- ists present” that he would antagonize the measure, Since the hearing of yesterday he had been flooded with telegrams urging him to support the bill. The conclusion was obvious. With some vigor he said I want to enter my srainst cheapjohn, peanut politic ethod. I | have no Wwords fo express my utter con- tempt for this method and for those who ild engage in ft. The lobbyists who are supporting this bill are doing it more injury than its open and avowed opponents. Mr. Allen declared that if such methods | were continued he would ask that the hearings be private. In conclusion he sald I want agaln to denounce in the sever language T am capable of Using the sneak- ing and cowardly method that has been pu sued in respect to this measu Rathbone Gardner of Providence, rep- resenting the manufacturers of oleomar- garine, continued his argument begun yes- terday in opposition to the pending bil In the course of his argument he mentioned | rotest this process butter.” In response fo an in- quiry one of his clients explained what process butter was. He declared in the course of his explanation that process but- ter was “washed with sulphuric acid* to remove the rancidity. Governor Hoard of Wisconsin, with some feeling, combatted the statpment, main- taining that no occasion whatever existed for its treatment with acid. He demanded the name of even a single process factory where the product was washed with acld, but his opponent declined to mention names, Discussing the coloring of olcomargarine, the natural color of which was nearly white, Mr..Gardner said the oleomargarine manu- facturer used anato. That likewlse was used as the coloring matter for creamery butter. It was, he said, in no sense a dele- terious substance. Coloring matter was employed merely to meet the demands of the people “that the eye might ald the palate.” Continuing his argument, Mr. Gardner de- clared that the purpose of '‘he advocates | of the Greut bill was not to regulate the oleomargarine industry, but to destroy it. | “That,”” he said, “is evidently the result the advocates of the measure propose to accomplish.” NEXT STEP IN PROCEDURE Amendment, Instend of the Treaty 1t- welf, Will Be Sabmitted to Great B ain, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Inquiry at the State department as to the future of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, just ratified with amendments by the senate, develops the fact that, contrary to the common understand- ing, the document docs not need to be re- turned at this stage to the British govern- ment, even it the president Is of & mind to £0 on with the negotiations. Secretary H will await an iudication of the presiden wishes in the matier, and if the latter, as has already been indicated by official state- | ments, concludes to glve the British gov- ernment an opportunity to pass on the amended treaty, then the State department will forward at once to that government, not the treaty itself, but the terms of the amendments. In diplomatic parlance, the British government will be “notified” of the amendments, According to the statement of the officials of the State department Great Britain must then be allowed a rea- sonable time within which to accept or re- ject them. As to what would constitute u | “reasonable” time, no expression was to be had, but attention was directed to the fact that the United States government has had the treaty under consideration for a year and that the amendments made today were beyond dispute vital. WU GROWS NERVOUS AT DELAY Chin ‘alls at Sta 'alk Over Joint De- Note of WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Minister ‘Wu called at the State department today to talk over the Chinese situation with Sac- retary Hay. He had no information from Pekin, and evidently was very nervous at the tedious delays that are being experl- enced in Initiating direct negotiations be- tween the ministers and the Chinese govern- ment, through LI Hung Chang, Prinse Ching and the two southern viceroys. It s ported here that the agreement in its pres- nt form does not name any suecific sum or sums to be pald by the Chinese govern- ment as Indemnity on account of the Boxer movement and the destruction of foreign missions. That question is left to be set- tled by negotiations between the ministers | and the Chinese plenipotentiaries with pro- visions for its referonce to the Hague tri- | bunal in the event of failure through that means, and not much has as yet been uncovered 80 that Its richness cannot be told for a day or 1wo. New Viay for Marlowe, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. It in an- nounced here fodiy that Julla Marlowe, who 15 playing in this city this week, has securcd the dramatization rights for “The Redemption of David, Corson,” the novel written by the Rev. ¢, D. Gous of Cinen- | natl. It Is announced alfo that Mr. Goss has no financlal interest In the dramatiza- tlon, but wants the moral of the book por- rayed. | tinue the practice and the | and who was then the DECEMBER 21, 1900, ' JOINT NOTE SIGNED AT PERIN THL CHEERFUL IDI0T Ultimatum to China Reported to Be Ready for Delivery, REPORTS AS TO UNITED STATES CONFLICT Cablegram to Paris Agency Repre- sents Minister Conger as Walting for Further Instructions Before Signing. PARIS, Dec. 21.—The Havas agency has received the following dispatch from Pekin dated December 20 A | The foreign envoys*have signed the jolnt note with the addition of England’s stipula tion that China cannot be allowed to fore Bee a cessation of the occupation of Pekin or the province of Chi LI so long as she has not conformed to the conditions of the pow ers. “Mr. Conger has deferred signing owing to instruction to insist on final moderation, but be thinks Washington will not insist.’ LONDON, Dec. 21—All the governments have approved the British amendment, says the Pekin correspondent of the Morning Post, and the demands will be presented to the Chinese plenipotentiaries without any suggestion of an alternative BERLIN, Dec. 20.—The Cologne Gazett in an article deallng with the Chinese situa- tion, announces that all the ministers signed the preliminary note today (Thurse day), and that the note will be sent fm- mediately to Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang. It also declares that the note em bodies the principles of the minimum de mands of Germany and the powers and it wag agroed, on the proposal of Great Brit- ain, that until the demauds were satisfied there would be no withdrawal of troops from Pekin and the province of Chi Li rin Urgent Need of stablishing Definite tem of nt. LONDON, Dec. 20.—A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company from Pekin, dated Wednesday, December 19, says the situation throughout the province is rap- idly growing worse and is causing grave anxlety. The dispatch adds that unless a definite system of government is speedily installed a recrudescence of the anti-foreign cutbreaks is confidently predicted. The pressure of winter begins to be felt by the people, who are also suffering on account of the blackmail levied by the native em- ploves of the allies for which the foreign- ers are blomed. A number of desperadoes, imprisoncd at San Chow Fu by General Mol, whom the Germans released, are now hurrying to the Chi Li-Shung Tung border, burning houses, murdering and pillaging NO TAXES ON NOMADIC HERDS Wyoming Cannot Col ot from Cattle n the State CHEY In the United Stat (Special.) court here a decision was rendered in a of great importance to every county in the state, as well as local stockmen and stock owners at large. The sult, which was brought aguinst the county treasurer of Converse county by Newman Bros. & Sessions, involved the collection of taxes on herds of stock being driven across the county or state from one state into another. A herd of cattle, owned by the plaintiffs and being driven across the state to Nebraska, was assessed for taxes In Converse county. The owners re- fused to pay the taxes and the cattle were sized and sold, the suit to recover the money received for the cattle resulting. The plaintiffs maintained that under the law stock being driven through the state i8 not subject to taxation and that taxes cannot be collected on same. Their con tention was sustained by Judge Riner in his decision, who stated that the state law relating to the subject is in conflict with the interstate commerce laws. Judgment was therefore rendered for the plaintiffs. The case has been watched hy stockmen | and county authorities all over the state Had a decision been rendered in favor of the county treasurer every owner that drives stock across Wyoming from another state would be lable and would be compelled to pay taxes. As it Is, these nomadic herds, which annually graze on the ranges of Wy- oming and pay taxes in anoth in many cases pay no taxes at all tate will derive no revenue therefrom whatsoever The stockmen of the state will not per- mit this condition of affairs to long prevail, however, as steps will be taken at the com- ing sesston of the state legislature to have the law amended 50 us to correct the evil DEATH RECORD. can con Captain Horn of Plerce. PIERR D., Dec, 20.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Captain B. F. Horn died at his residence in this city of pneumonia. Cap- tain Horn was one of the oldest Missouri river steamboat men, making his first trip to the head of navigation in 1866, and he has been on the Missourl ever since, with the exception of oue year as a pilot on the Yukon. noF. Dec. 20 oldest at his Captain PIERRE, 8. D Horn, one of the steamboatmen, died today. the head of navigation on the Missourl in 1866 and has navigated the river continu- ously since then, with the exception of one year, when he served as a pilot on the Yukon river. Horn. Captain B. ¥ Missouri river sidence here George W. Co nmseh, TECUMSEH, Neb.,, Dec. 20.—(Special.) George W. Corson died of pulmonary troublo at his home near this city this morniug. He was 50 years old, and leaves a family. The funeral will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon, and interment made in the Tecumseh cemetery. rofessor Carl Becker, BERLIN, Dec. 20.—Prof, Carl Becker, the German historical painter, whose elghtieth birthday was celebrated on December 18 reciplent of a con gratulatory address from the Berlin Acad- today emy of Arts, died of influenza. Mrw. Al okers of Percival, LA PERCIVAL, la., Dec. 20.—(Special.)—Mrs aeARUMET, Mich, Dec. 20Far six years | Almon Rogers, one of the last of the e Tamarack MIning company has been ot A pia ey work on & shatt which is now down a depth | Original settlers here, has passed away, at of 1A feel it Which wax sunk at'an ex: | the age of 81. She has a grandson and lende of $100,00° through DAFTen krouns ear relatives in Omah l.“fl night at midnight it encounte 4\] he | other near latives in Omaha, first evidence of anything that would repiy. | o it for this outlay A miner's drill ran | 3 tus ownsend, ghe “hard” copner-bearing tock forimia e SPRINGFIELD, 111, Dec. 20.—Dr. Justus Howil the Calumet & Hecla conglom- | mownsend, one of the most promine s crate. This s the identical formation whicn | ToWP#end; ene of the most prominent phy | Wias ‘made miltons for the Calimet & Heciy |sielans of Tllinols, died tonight, aged 72 K‘.u ple . amarack management be- | He was in the service of the United States eved the mining engineers Knew whereof | government durin (he oivil wap they figured, and the miners found copper | BOVernment during the civil war i R AR R R T Three Killed by Traln, nearly When holsting from the lode | CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Dec. 20.-A Burling- T A thabe o€ Of | ton, Cedar Raplds & Northern passenger in the world. Miners are sUripping the lods | train tonight struck a buggy containing three young men named Reinzell, near Shell Rock. Two were instantly killed and the third fatally injured ¥ears of Another Lynching. PUEBLO, Colo.,, Dec. 20.—Clyde Gray, a 17-year-oid white' boy, has been arrested here on the charge of having o asssaulted Anna Rust at Divid Threats have been made against Gray and Governor Thomas has requested the sheriffs of Pueblo and E! Paso countles to take all neceasary pre: vent a lynching. ntions to pre- r state, and | Captain Horn made his first trip to | | | And the Glum Dyspeptic. The cheerful idiot when ho you dripping from the nquires pleas antly, “Is it raining?’ If you were whit- tling and the knife slipped and cut off the ton of a finger he would say just as pleas is the individual who, the house om to storm antl Did you cut you 1 It seems the chief business in the life of the cheer- tul fdiot to ask fool questions. Mostly peo ple put v with him as they do with mos- quitoes—because they can't help them- | selve But once in a while the cheerful idiot runs up against the wrong man. It was that wa; hous when the C. I of the board ing o tackled a miserable looking fel- low-boarder who was tortured by dyspep #ia. “Hello, Smith,” he cried, “aren’t you fecling well?”’ And Smith growled back “It's none of your business how I'm feel- ing." Talk abcut adding insult to fnjury! could be any than asking a who had suffering stamped all over ‘Aren’t you feeling well?” It's rather hard for the dyspeptic to ) stranger to the disease understand how much suffering dyspepsia can Words don't express it. That Wha man him, worse make Just cause, 5 curity until he day very u probably finds himselt somo ich worse for thelr use HOW DYSPEPSIA 1S CURED, There is an almost certain cure for dys- pepsia and other diseases of the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition. Dt I Golden Medical Discovery always Ips and almost always cures, In ninety elght per cent of cases in which the “Dis covery” has been given a fair and faithful | trial it has wrought a perfect and perma | cines to ali suffering peopl by nent cure. It has cured the most severs and obstinate conditions of stomach troubls which have failed to yield to any other medicing Mr. Ned Nelson, the Irish Comedian and Mimic, of 577 Royden t, Camden, N. J, writes: “We fulfilled an engagement of twelve weeks and the constant traveling gave me a bad teuch of that aded dis ease called dyspepsia. I had tried every thing possible to cure it till last week while playing at B I Kieth's Bijou Theater Vhiladelphia, in the Nelson Trio a professional friend ot mine advised mo to try Dr, Plerco's Golden Medical Dis covery. 1 trled {t, and, thank God, with good re- sults For throe years 1 suf fered untold agony,” writes Mrs. H. R. White of Stan stend, Stanstead Co., Quebs (Box 115). “1 would have spells of thembling and being wick at my stomach, pain in right side all the time; then it would work up into my stomach, and—such distress 1t 18 impossible to describe. 1 wrote to the World's Dis« pensary Medical Ass'n, stat fug my caso 10 them, and they very prompily answered anl told me what to do. 1 took cight bottles of Dr. Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery, and five vials of Dr. Plerce's Pleasant Pellets. Thanks to Dr. Plerce and his medicine, 1 am a well woman today. Dr. Plerce's medicines also cured my mother of liver complaint from which she had been a sufferer for fifteen years. We highly recommend theso medi- Diseases which seem to be remote from the stomach, but which originate in the stomach are cured through the stomach. For this reason diseases of heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and other organs are cured “Golden Medical Discover when it has cured the disease of the stomach and terrible gnawing sensation in the stomach | its associated organs of digestion aud nutri- is past descript Even after you have recited the specific aches and pains there are no terms to express the cumulative and combined effects of them all upon both mind and body DON'T CULTIVATE DYSPEPSIA That would seen unnecessa is @ fact that in the main, people who ally become dyspeptics seem to have studied how quickest to bring on the dis case. They eat irregularly. They cat un wholesome or innuiritious foods, They eat heartily when they are tired with a day's work and the stomach needs rest instead of exercise. In fact if they made a study of the quickest way to dyspepsia or disease of the stomach in general and its allled organs of digestion and nutrition, they could not practice more sucsesstul methods. When dysp stomach the with table liatives without permanent relief himself asking the question. “Am I going to be well again so that I can with appetite and enjoyment The one necessity to the recovery of health is the cure of the diseases of the siomach and othcr organs of digestion uud putrition. Tablets of soda for the moment alter the condition in the stomach, but they won't alter the condition of the stomach itsclf. These things therefore merely palliatives they not cure, bat by man who has experimented finds over at s and powders and other pal-| mint, ete., willfor youag married couple. It tlon. 1t has been a surprise to many peoplo who have taken “Golden Medical Discoy- ry'’ for stomach “trouble,” to find that as tho stemach was cured, diseases of long standing which had affected other organs were cured also. The “weak” heart be comes strcng, the slugglsh liver active, the clogged Kidueys are cleansed, the lungs made scund The whole body is practically built up with firm, healthy flesh, and not puffed up with flabby fat. Some dealers desiring to make the little more profit paid by the sale of less merl- torious miedicines will sometimes offer tho customer a substitute for “Golden Medical Discovery,” claiming it to be “just as good.” Nothing is just as good for you which has not just as good w record of cures, and no other medicine has a record nowed, psla once has its grip on the |of cures comparable with those effected by “Golden Medical Discover: IT TO SOME ONE ELSE Plerce’s Common Sense Medical Ad- containing over a thousand largs pagees and more than 700 illustrations is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay ex- pense of maliling ouly. 1f you don't feel the need of this valuable medical work yourself, why not give It o friend is an invalu- Dr. viser, | able gift and one which will be highly ap- are | cent Not only do| cloth bin affording temporary | preciated by the recipient. Send 31 one- stamps for the valume in durable 1g, or only 21 stamps for the paper covers. Address Dr. R. 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