Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 July 1901 — Page 6

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IZctvard of Heroism. dy a display of much courage and Ingenuity Edward Mallvehill, a bag- . gage master, saved the life of Mme. Bchumann-IIeink in New York the other day and at the same time prerent d her from falling into the hands of the police who wished to detain her-a a witness to a runaway. When the danger was over aui she was safe era. beard tie steamer on which she sailed for Germany the famou- irima donca rewarded the hero by throwing her anna around his neck and giving nicx a kiss. The question is at once raised?, -whether the ordinary hero would consider himself properly and suScirntiy rewarded for saving the lifer oft-on elderly s-vas bird by a singlo kiss- from her ruby lips. If the value ota prima donna':- his.vs is to be computed on the same financial scale as her hitdi notes the most unmercenary ot fceroea might be excused if he prefTP(i to take the equivalent of the kiss int cash. Such an equivalent in thecuse oso famous and highly paid a sinter as Mme. Schumann-Heink might- well amount to a sum sufficient to- allow the humble baggagemaster to retire from business and live thereafter 01. the interest of his money. At aar 'rate it iä to be hoped that Manager Grai will not prove ungrateful. H should at least .send to Mr. Mullvehill a check for a sum equal to what Mme. -Schumann-Heink would earn in a single evening. Injustice to a Child. Tie ignorance or stupidity of the con.-iable and police justice who brought a 13-ycar-oM girl from Matteson. TIL,, to put h?r in the county jail In CIi:xco, almost passes belief. The child is too young to go to jail for any crime, a fact which both, these country officials .should have known. Moreover. TK&A r her offense appears ''fcÄ;S& ru h lV0 becn noth" 'Vy- ' in? more than the tr. king of some eggs from a hen's nest ;:r;-s along the foirvr in rath ozt t n-ur Lor home. A cut: -l !:c child's arrest. and thercsiiur.;i to ;avp been nobody tovdefenrl hW. Th- justice of the peac wiiosr? duty It is to know th.3 lav in sitdi eui'-.s an4 to prevent injust!o.?irjrr:ni! g iiilü' tir.g it, lias displayed ;e degree of ignorance that is hlghly-ttecretfitiiblo. The mittimus by Trhic!Himcint to Lend the child to the count y fji eharsrs th-1 prisoner with 'larreTifcasuI mjlitinsr a !aJe." The spllim i-9 merely a surface indication:: o& tu deeper ignorance of the dutij ofcth-i position he holds. This 'hiT.i-ap'Fean? t need a little parental carac endt attention rather than imprisonment. ?.Iio was promptly released audi heme by Judge Tuley of Chldfe without trial". An American Countess. Though tto Countess of Strafford has bcertlrtt!.? heard of since the sudd err de thiol! her husband a year or so ago, she is still as popular and as much sought aStec as ever, and is expected to-re-enter society as soon as the period otmourning for Q". tn Victoria is over. TbatCountess, as is well known, U fin Ameri-Jiu woman, whose first hu3l andt-wa- the late millionaire Colgate o2rNew York. She married the Earl ofcSrranotd in Now York in 1S9S, and na.-i-thrre ieen a male heir resulting frorrctfte union the countess would now bo. rtti:led to occupy Wortham J CasrW audi th house in St. James j sq-.tar'v fccodtvi. both or' which were j pu5.tr osr witle her money. The Earl j TT -l5tfiiT V.v 1 rtÜTi v friin onrt I coieeess of strafford. leavfaarra teirr the estate all went to hi brathrXr the Itev. Francis E. C. ByngtTJni cruntt-ss visited her mother, MrjuSJcTuef Smith, at the Laurel Houses EIc;r.vcod, X. J., last summer. ThixCcrjÄtfcs has one daughter by her firstitnataiirf. "Rhodes a Thy steal WrecK. Cecil- Rhojdea, hero of Iondon jingoeaFaTPdL"tlie uncrowned king of South Africa, is socn to rotiirn to Kn gland, a physical wreck. He will leave Cape Town next Wednesday to consult the most eminent specialists of Ixmdon and the continent, but it i3 pr dieted nothing can rescue him from the clutches of eeneral paraly sis, ot Tshicli ha is said to be the? . "victim Th? change Is esXWclaRjr notlcyiahle In his bent flgnre; Ma drcopictf lip and his lackhlKtxjr eyes which once shot macÄltf.irrL and wer er his chief aid in tsxc&LZ Bower in. the- dark continent. TkflCeaier on which, he 13 to return !c31.toated mt fog his especial comIffl73nfförtH Carolina ranked third fee. poptrlatforr ot all the states. Now C rank fifteenth.

IN rriE ElKHORN YALLEY. Laxarlint Flrldi and Pastore Lndt Are Sight ThU Tim of the Tear. A trip up the Elkhorn valley, at any season of the year, will always inspire the visitor with a realization of its great agricultural resources. Rut at this period in the growing season, hen the entire stretch of valley, lowland, hill and slope, as far a3 the eye will carry, brings to view nothing but the grazing herds and flocks dotted here and there among the living green of pasture, meadow, growing crops, orchard and grove, one Is doubly impressed with the beauty and grandeur of this district of country, whose wealth of soil resources has scarcely an equal in all the agricultural districts of the world. The Elkhorn valley comprises a large district of rich and beautiful agricultural lands, extending more thin 200 miles northwest in the state, where the agricultural and grazing lands gradually blend together, forming one of the greatest combined live stock districts of country, to be found anywhere. The great advantage of an agricultural or corn raising district of country and a distinctly grazing district, lying side by side, is readily appreciated when the cheapness of growing stock on the low priced lands of the range are coupled with the feeding advantages of a nearby corn country, where the animals are finished for the slaughter at the least possible expense of transportation and change of climatic conditions. These are the general conditions which confront the live stock grower of Western Nebraska, and the stock feeder. In the corn country of the east side of the state. The Elkhorn valley Is not a wide expanse of low swamp bottom or untillable lands that are adapted only to pasturage or hay purposes; on the contrary it is a comparatively narrow valley where the Elkhorn flows, varying in width from a mile or two miles, and exceptionally well drained, leaving almost the entire area of river bottom lands admirably suited to cultivated crops. "The Elkhorn valley," used in its broadest sense of meaning, comprises all that district in North and Northeast Nebraska drained by the Elkhorn and its tributaries. This embodies hundreds of thousands of acres of the richest prairie lands to ba found in America; lands with every conceivable feature of surface, usual to the western prairie, from the almost level prairie to the gently undulating, the rolling and the hill lands, all of the highest agricultural merit in soil properties for live btock and farm purpose. In no portion of the state has there been more rapid advancement made in farm improvements and land values during the past five years. Yet thre are tens of thousands of acres of uncultivated lands scattered throughout this district, held by non-residents, that sooner or later must be turned into improved farms. These lands, if purchased now and started with the ordinary western farm improvements, v. ill double in value within the next ten years. At no time in the history of Nebraska since the east side of the state was open to homestead entry, has there been a better opportunity for speculation in farm lands than now. The good agricultural lands of the east half of Nebraska are just as sure to advance to $00 per acre as that a succession of favorable crop seasons follow, such as represent the average for the past twenty-five years in this state. The present indications for a good general crop over the Elkhorn district could not be more encouraging, unless the growth of corn were advanced about two weeks beyond piesent conditions. In stand and color the present conditions are all that could be desired. The influence of a late spring and the cold weather, after planting, is apparent hre. as in all portions oi the corn growing country of the Missouri valley. The Elkhorn country, especially that portion dividing the corn lands and the buffalo grass range districts to the northwest, known to the commercial hay trade of the country, as the great hay flats of North Nebraska, is in a most prosperous and encouraging condition of hay crop. The heavy rains which have visited this portion of the state during the past spring, and up to the present time, have been ample to keep up a vigorous growth of the hay grasses on the valleys and hay flats; not alone on these distinctly native hay meadows, but also over the adjoining sand hills and table lands, where thousands of tons of hay can be cut of excellent quality and in paying quantities. The great growth of pasture grasses all over the range portion of West and Northwest Nebraska, will guarantee a better general condition of ail classes of cattle this fall. It will also encourage the carrying over of a larger number of young cattle and feeding stock, than would have been possible with a short hay crop and scant pasturage conditions on the range. It is also reasonable to believe that the marketing season for the grass fat cattle will commence sooner and continue longer than usual, that the stock to be marketed will come more uniformly as the demand requires and better prices be maintained for this class of range cattle. Th small grain outlook from one end of the Elkhorn to the other Indicates that the usual reputation of a satisfactory yield will be realized. There Is no insect damage reported over this portion of the state and growing conditions are favorable for harvest, even if there should be no more rainfall. G. W. HERVEY.

lilt; an1 l ittle Raindrops. The Paris Meteorologist society has undertaken the laborious task of measuring the dimensions of raindrops. It is found that the largest aro about one-?ixth of an inch and the smallest one-.'.OOth of an inch in diameter. They are larger in summer tbnn in winter, and larger in hot than in cold climates. At the moment of condensation of the water vapor to the liquid stat great numbers of extremely small drops are formed in close proximity. As they fall they come together nnd coalesce In consequence of mutual attraction, and so what we call raindrops are formed. Studying 14 Croat Emplr. Paul du Challlu, the explorer and writer, recently sailed for Russia, where he Intends to make an exhaustive study of the great empire and Its people. He will spend three or four years In his Investigations. Ft 111 In Danger. Lightning has not been doing much damage In the South. It recently, through some mistake, struck a Georgia mule, and is not convalescent ytt. Atlanta Constitution.

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Joseph Ladue, the founder of Dawson City in the Klondike, died last week at his home In Schuyler Falls, N. Y. He had not been well since his return from Alaska and spent last winter at Colorado Springs in a vain search for health. He fell a victim of consumption, contracted in the severe northern climate. He leaves a widow and one son. The adventurous career of the prospector was begun on a farm near the northern end of Lake Champlain, where he was born. In his early manhood Mr. Ladue went to the far northwest and finally located on the Upper Yukon, having been attracted by the fine woodland in the neighborhood. Here he bought ICO acres of land, built a sawmill and established an embryo trading post. It was upon his land that gold was first discovered In the Yukon regioc, and Ladue's trading post became the prosperous city of Dawson, the northern city of gold. His estates In the Klondike region, with the property that he has sold are said to be worth several millions of dollars. Mr. Ladue returned to his homo near Plattsburg in July, 1SD7, and told strange stories of the gold-mad colony in the North. Love for Misa Anna Mason of Schuyler Falls, N. Y., led the gold king back to civilization. She had been engaged to Mr. Ladue for many years, and the marriage had been postponed from time to time, awaiting the day when the lumber business on the Yukon would justify the union. Fortune was the ally of romance and Miss Mason became Mrs. Dadue a few weeks after her fiance's return in 1807. Before Mr. Ladue strayed into the Yukon Valley, In 1SS2, he had spent

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Congress ordered that two meda's be struck to commemorate the achievements of the United States navy in the campaign in the West Indies during the Spanish-American war; of these one is to be known as the battle medal, and the other as the meritorious service medal. Acting upon the unanimous recommendation of the Naval Board of Awards, SecreHussia and the Hounty. Unless Russia actually pays her sugar refiners to export their product our law does not subject her sugar to discriminating duties. But she does not pay them. She simply refunds them the amount they have already paid in domestic taxes. She doesn't even do that completely. She gives them certificates of export which may be used In paying their taxes a year later, but which are worth 8 per cent less than cash on the spot. If Russia did not collect any tax on sugar at all nobody would contend that she paid a bounty on exports. If she had a system by which sugar designed for export was shipped directly abroad without paying a tax, while the tax wa3 collected on that retained, it would be a bounty. But because she collects her domestic taxes from all sugar alike, and then gives them back to exporters, not in cash, but in the shape of certificates receivable for next year's taxes, Mr. Gage insists that she pays a bounty. If the remission of a tax Is a bounty we may as well prepare for a tariff war with every country on earth, for there Is not one of them that does not give its exports that chance to compete on even terms In foreign markets, says the San Francisco Examiner. The population of Idaho has increased 82 per cent since 1890, that of Montana 70 per cent. North Dakota C7, Wyoming 48 and Washington 45. Nevada is the only state which shows an actual decrease in its population since 1890. Held Guilty of Trcaton. The Marquis de Lur-Saluces of France has been found guilty of treason by the senate, which sat as a high court of Justice The verdict, however, was found with extenuating circumstances, and! the marquis was sentenced to only five years' banishment. Tha "marquis adjudged guilty of treason In January, 1900, and was at that time sentenced to ten years' banishment from Franco. He did not put In an appearance before hla tribunal, and the term for that reason was probably made longer than it would have been otherwise. Last month th marquis suddenly appeared In Paris and was arretted. The sentence of today is a milder punishment, softened, as it has been, by the accused making his nppearanca in Dtnon. The royalists, who dote on

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THE LATE JOSEPH LADUE, several years in the Black Hills during the gold excitement in that region, and in Arizona and New Mexico. Upon his return from the Klondike in 1S97 ho brought with him gold nuggets worth ?3,000. He carried them about with him and made no secret of it. As he was passing through Chicago on Lis tary of the Navy Long has Just approved of the above two designs for the battle medal. In its report to Secretary Long the board on awards took particular pains to point out that the battle medal Is not conferred for services rendered on any one engagement, it is, as congress ordered, intended for all the men who participated in the West Indian campaign, and so it will

'Boat For German Cavalry.

TSE. IiAKCL BQ&f jtfiOnX These new lance boat3 have but recently been adopted for the German army. When packed two boats weigh about sixty pounds and can be carried by a single horse. All that is needed for the lance boats is a water-proof rover, from twelve to sixteen lances, and a few cross-sticks. The lances forming the framework can be tied together by the troopers in fivo minutes. In another two the cover is fastened on and the boat is ready for launching. Oars are made, a lance and a blade composed of canvas fastened to stout pieces of stick. Sometimes, to secure further Btability, lances are laid across two boats, binding them together. One horse can easily carry two boats when packed up. On the old system it would require the outspoken and conspiring exdeputy, fully believed that their hero would bo acquitted for his courage in facing his trial, and they are correspondingly depressed. The marquis was conducted to tho frontier under guard. Ruskin's burial place In Coniston churchyard V.Mgland, has been marked by a heads'.one from the design of W. G. Collingwood. The monument is a tall cross of tho simple early English type, which would have been approved by Ituskin himself, hewn from tho hard green stono of Coniston. It stands some nine feet from the ground und bears carved figures representing symbolically tho activities of Ruskln, poetic, artistic, ethical and social. Lord Wantage is one of the most extensive landowners in England, owning over 50,000 acres, located in five counties. He is a generous landlord, has allowed several reductions of rent in times of agricultural depression and was never known to dispossess a tenant for being In arrears.

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return West a pickpocket ßtöle the nuggets and they have never been found. Mr. Ladue was 46 years old. He was a typical miner in speech and dres3. Uneducated, hut naturally of keen intellect, he was a leader In each mining camp that he visited. go to those who were at Santiago, or at Ponce, or at San Juan, or at Matanzas, or at Cardenas, or off Cienfuegos, or to the fortunate few who were in nil cf these battles. The board stated that it placed Sampson's head upon the medal because he was commander-in-chief of the West Indian squadron, as the head of Dewey was placed on the Manila medal. Tut the medal will not be known the Santiago medal In particular, for the reason that It will bear upon the reverse the name of the decisive battle in which the recipient paiticipated. The additional battles will be represented by separate bars attached to the suspending ribbon, the latter red, white, and blue, one bar for each battle. Thus in the case of an officer like Wainwright, who figured in many engagements, the bars will bo almost as conspicuous as the medal. The Sampson portrait is in profile taken from a likeness made just before the outbreak of the Spanish war. On the faco of the medal the inscription reads: "United States Naval Campaign in the West Indies, 180S William Thomas Sampson, Commander-in-Chief." The suspending bar above boars the American eagle over a design in oak leaves. The reverse of the medal marks the government's recognition of the splendid services of "The Man Behind the Gun." Surrounding the picture on the rim of the medal is a handsome laurel wreath. The inscription would read like this: "Santiago (or Clenfuegos or San Juan, etc.) July 3 (or the appropriate date), 1898, John Smith, seaman, U. S. S. Texas." 2,000 men and 3,500 horses merely to look after the transport of the boat3 if every squadron were supplied with two boats. With the new boats, however, only 500 horses are needed. Gifts to "Stale and Harvard. Commencement week is the timo when the colleges "take stock" like business firms and reckon up the financial receipts of the year. The presidents of Yale and Harvard have made announcement showing that the year has been one of remarkable prosperity for both institutions. In the last twolvo months each has received gifts aggregating about 12.000,000. No further proof Is needed to show that the remarkable new era of educational donations and of university expansion continues unabated. The most striking announcement is that of J. Plerpont Morgan's offer to erect a group of buildings for the Harvard Medical School at a cost of about $1,000,000. The buildings are to be a memorial to Mr. Morgan's father. The now architectural building and an endowment of $300,000 for that department hvi been given by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson of New York. In addition to these Important gifts President Eliot was able to announce that more than $750,000 in cash had been given to Harvard University in the last Tear,

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4Current Topics 4 Manchester's Municipal Trams. In 1893, one year after Glasgow had begun the successful operation of its tramways, the City of Manchester began to debate the wisdom of similar action. The matter was carefully considered for two years, and it was finally decided to municipalize the tramway service of the city and insta'l the overhead electric system in place of horse traction at the expiration of the operating company's lease of the tracks in 1S01. The company endeavored to withstand this project before parliament, but Its effort was unsuccessful, and a few days ago the first reconstructed line3, comprising about eighteen miles of single track, were opened by the city with appropriate ceremonies. Electrification of the other lines Is proceeding.

Samuel Gompers Hurt. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is lying ill at his home in Washington, D. C, suffering from concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull. While his condition is critical, hi3 SAMUEL GOMPERS. physician says he probably will recover. He was injured as he alighted from a car on which he had been taking his two children for an outing. y "Prompt Lesson. The city of Philadelphia has just offered tor sale $9.000,000 of 3 per cent bonds and has failed to find a purchaser. Only one bid of $3,000 was received. Some bond experts think that the franchise scandal has impaired the city's credit, as it well might. Others say that the rate of interest offered i3 too low. But however, that may b if Mr. Wanamaker's original offer had been accepted the city would have had to borrow only $C, 500,000 Instead of $9,000,000 and might reasonably have expected better terms. And if this new offer should be accepted and the stolen franchises be put up at auction, an ' amount might be secured that would j prevent the necessity of issuing any bonds at all. Horse tvith Stralu Hat. How are you, Mr. Horse? I seo You wear a new straw hat, And it is quite becoming to You, too, I'll tell you that; I watch you plodding down the street, And as I stand and gaze I think of those old ladies who Wore shakers and looked much like you Back in tne glad, old days. Ah, good old her?. I'm glad to sea That some one cares for you. That some one eres for you. As I and others do, Kind hands still smooth your mane, that they For whom you strain and sweat Know that you have the sense to feel The pain of woe, the joy of weal And, knowing, don't forget Chicago Record-Herald. Highways Versus Railbuays. An average speed of forty-five miles per hour, exclusive of stops, was made by the winner of the first run of 2S2V miles in three days' automobile race from Paris to Berlin, which Is to bo finished today. Does this mean that the railway is to yield to the highway? In an exceedingly suggestive article in tho June North American Review Mr. Hi G. Wells foretells the reconstruction of modern cities in this country through the automobile moving over new systems of broad, smooth roads, carrying freight as well as passengers, eclipsing railroads In enterprise, comfort, adaptability, and speed, and lengthening the limit of the one hour'?, ride, and so the radius of the "urban district," to 100 miles. Michael T)aoitfs Tour. Michael Davitt, who will soon begin a tour through the United States, is one of the leading Irish statesmen and journalists of the United Kingdom. Mr. Davitt, after a long and honorable career in parliament, resigned from that body in 1899 owing M',jf' victious concern ing the injustice of the Anglo-Boer war. lie has the distinction of having been elected a member of parliament while he was a political convict under eentence ia the Portland prison. Of course he was disqualified by the house. Mr. Davitt is an eloquent orator and a wTlter of great fores. He is now in his fifty-fifth year. W. C. Brown who has Just been, elected vice president and general Manager of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road started in life tt a section hand.

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Uhe Late Judge Woods. Judge William Woods whose death was recorded a few days since, was born on May 13, 1837, at Farmington, Marshall County, Tenn. He left tho youngest of three children, the other two being girls. At the age of four months William Allen Woods' father died. When he was 10 years of age he took his share of the work on the farm and continued for four years. He was then sent to Wabash College, from which place he graduated in After leaving college he taught school at Marion, Ind., which was broken up by the outbreak of the war. He began the practice of law in 1ST3. Judge Woo la' THE LATE JUDGE WOOD3. success at the bar was rapid. In 1873 he was elected to the office of Circuit Judge of the Thirty-fourth Circuit of Indiana and was re-elected in 1878. In 1S80 Judge Woods was elected to the State Supreme Court bench. In 1SS3 President Arthur appointed Judge Woods ae United States District Judge, succeeding Judge Walter Q. Gresham. On March 17, 1S32, President Harrison appointed Judge Woods Judge of the United States seventh judicial circuit, which he held until his death. Besides a widow, two children survive him, Floyd A. Knd Alice, both c Indianapolis. He gained celebrity by issuing the injunction against the railway strikers in ISOi and sentenced Eugene V. Debs and other officers of tho American Railway union to jail. Gen. Gomes' Visit. General Maximo Gomez, the greatest soldier of Cuba, came to the United States with words of gratitude to the American people. He expresses tha opinion that if the Cubans lud understood some things better tin to would not have been so much delay in the action of the Cuban convention, and adds: "Our people simply want an opportunity to develop their puesions and live in peace, freed from the galling yoke which has held them heretofore." Undoubtedly Maximo Gomez is one GEN. MAXIMO GOMEZ, of the remarkable men of the ace. His career as a revolutionist in Cuba was one of strange adventure, of many sacrifices endured with indomitablefortitude, of desperate courage in puerrilla warfare and of moderate opinions as expressed since the freedom of the island was secured through the help of the United States. "Problem of Labor on the Farm. Economists and students of industrial conditions who "view with alarm" the constant invention and multiplication of labor-paving machinery in this country will find food for thought in the present efforts that arc being made to coax the idlers and hoboes from the cities to the western wheat fields. It is the same old Macedonian cry for help from tho farmers of Kansas and Dakotas. The harvest is ripe and the reapers are few. Vast fields of golden grain are already overripened and the farmers are threatened with heavy losses through inability to secure the necessary help to harvest the crop. Employment agencies and railroad companies aro making the most tempting offers to the unemployed. In some instances wages as high as $3 per day and free transportation are offered. But the idlers prefer the overcrowded city with a meager and uncertain livelihood to good wages and plenty to eat on the harvest fields of the Dakotas. Facts About Joe Cocr The recent death of Rev. Dr. Joseph Cook recalls to mind the facts of his brilliant history. Twenty-fi v e or thirty years aga he was the man most prominent on the stage as a lecv more than that. V ... M-i great Ü orator, a :vfo. ruT V of the best rank and a leader of opinion with countless followers. His oratory was wonderful, with cyclonic forco and persuasive in fluence. His exploits as a traveling lecturer were tremendous. One day he would overpower a Botoa audience with his tremendous rhetoric, the next he would astound a Philadelphia audience with the thunder and lightning of his oratorical display and tho next an audience in some other distant city would sit before him amazed at the wonderful power of Ma voice, the splendor of his language audi the magnetism of hla presence.