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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1903
Page
6
A gardener dropped to see his 250 planted bulbs vanished overnight. He traced the theft to rats and uncovered a hidden underground chamber where all bulbs lay stacked in rows, with hay and dead leaves signaling a careful winter storage by the rodents.
Judge John H. Reagan objects to a national Capitol duplicate of the General Sam Houston statue now in Austin. Sculptor Miss Elizabeth Ney portrays Houston as an Indian living with the Cherokee during his self exile from Tennessee.
New Berlin March 16 Mr frank Newton credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a major health turnaround after two years of back pains general weakness and loss of appetite he reports rapid improvement and now feels like a new man.
An advertisement claims FIT permanently cured with first day use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. It offers a free 82.00 trial bottle and treatment, directing readers to RK G. Aving Ltd at 81 Arch Street Philadelphia.
Duncan Gillies, father of Victoria�s parliament and its new speaker, has a rare legislative record. Elected at 25 by Balla rat gold diggers, he has stayed in the Victorian parliament 40 years with few repeated constituencies, driven by a dislike of routine work and a love of ease. In Melbourne a lord mayor dinner moment had him joking about never representing a district.
Sir William Preece recalls a Royal demonstration when a London band failed to perform for Queen Victoria. To show the line’s reach he hummed a tune into the receiver and asked if she recognized it. The queen replied yes, it was the national anthem, badly played.
Electrical engineer working for Edison observed mosquitoes flocking to a harmonic telegraphy note. He used flypaper to trap thousands of gnats, noting the pitch matched the wing vibration. Sir Hiram Maxim replicated with a tuning fork, drawing the insects to the sound.
The article notes thirty eight years after the Civil War there are fourteen men in the U S Senate who served in the Confederate army and thirteen who served in the Federal army. Several were young veterans at enlistment and many entered service as teenagers. Senator Pettus of Alabama served in both the Mexican and Civil Wars.
Norman Argo a former slave known as the original Uncle Tom died at Pain's Lick near Lancaster Kentucky after an estimated age of 111. He long served General Samuel Kennedy and was famed as a jockey who won large sums for his owner. Argo stood 3 feet 4 inches tall.
J B Poston of Bath Maine values a hitching post at one million dollars though it could not fetch that in a forced sale. The post is said to be the last of thousands placed along the Erie railway route through Susquehanna Canisteo and Allegheny sixty years ago to elevate the railway bed, a plan abandoned after costing one million and helping drive the Erie into bankruptcy.
Mrs. Washington A Roebling who died last week was the first woman to cross the Brooklyn bridge. She aided her husband to complete the structure while he was ill and studied engineering with him in Europe. Her public credit for assisting her spouse was notable.
The Interior Department will soon issue notices to cattle owners across the west and southwest to remove unlawful fences on public land. Secretary Hitchcock insists on no further delay after Congress failed to act, enforcing the 1885 anti-fence law. If not complied with, summary action will follow.
February gross postal receipts across the fifty leading offices show a net increase of over 12 percent from February 1902. Los Angeles reports the largest gain at 34 percent while Jersey City posts the heaviest decline at 9 percent. New York up 12 percent and Chicago up 135 percent.
Washington D C The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday authorized a favorable report on the Cuba reciprocity treaty with an amendment tying its effectiveness to approval by both the House and the Senate.
Chicago brokers William Young & Co. face a trading suspension after a board of trade notice closed all trades for their account. The firm, an old operation now run by the principal succeeding his father, was not prominent in grain but directed many of its transactions there.
Salt Lake City Utah Governor Wells signed a bill providing a six thousand dollar state appropriation to support the national irrigation congress set for Ogden September 9 to 11. President Kiesel said already ample funds have been subscribed to carry out the most elaborate program yet attempted.
Colonel W F Cody reports from London on March 3 that sheep overgrazing underbrush threatens timber and water sources in the Big Horn basin. He warns in five years homeseekers will lack water for irrigation unless sheep browsing is stopped.
Washington Commissioner Richards said President Roosevelt favors continued grazing by stockmen with prior privileges on lands added to western forest reserves. The aim is to avoid hardship for settlers and allow current grazing this year while planning withdrawal next year. Interior Department has issued instructions aligning with the president’s position.
Ex speaker David B Henderson travels from Washington with Mrs Henderson and their daughter to New York City for a week before returning to Iowa. After a few days there the party plans to visit California and hints say Henderson may settle permanently in New York City.
The fruit steamer Duncan from Ceiba, Honduras, arrived at New Orleans quarantine with news of a March 6 battle in Ceiba where Bonilla forces defeated the government army, killing six, wounding fourteen, and capturing the fort and town. Admiral Vice Consul W C Wildt requested a protective warship for American interests.
Representatives Cannon Richardson and Hepburn urged the Interior Secretary to start condemnation to acquire a city block for a new office building for members of the house. The site lies south of and across from the Capitol grounds, bounded by First Street to the east C Street to the south New Jersey Avenue to the west and B Street to the north.
Government troops from Margarita island attacked Carupano on March 13 retaking the town after three hours of combat. They recaptured guns and Mausers, took sixty three prisoners with thirty nine wounded. First installment cash due Germany under the Washington agreement deposited for payment on German minister von Peltddamm’s order, expected Tuesday.
Secretary Moody, Postmaster General Payne, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Cannon and Foss of Illinois, Judge Dunbar, Carr of Haverhill, and Fishback depart Washington for a West Indian waters cruise. Senator Proctor and Representative Gillette plan to join in Florida.
Secretary Moody praises Dolphin crew for rescue during a deadly squall in Havana harbor. British squadron arrives from Kingston as Moody plans to meet President Palma and cabinet, inspect naval sites at Guantanamo, and visit Bahia Honda.
Seneca chiefs Silas Smith and Henry Capitan spent a week in Pawhuska with Osage Governor Bigheart to discuss buying Osage lands for about 1,500 Senecas living on a Canadian reservation. The Canadian Senecas wish to relocate near their brothers in the southwest. The Osage conference yielded no definite conclusion.
London promoter J P Whittaker Wright was seized on arrival of the La Lorraine from Havre by two central office detectives. He was arraigned at Tombs and handed to U S authorities before being jailed on Ludlow Street. A tall woman named Miss F Browne traveled with him.
Word reached Major W. H. H. Llewellyn and Governor Otero that President Roosevelt will be in Santa Fe on May 5 morning and in Albuquerque in the afternoon en route to California. Local preparations are underway to host a notable reception.
Superintendent W L Park of the Wyoming division said bids will be invited for thirty one miles of reconstruction between Ogden and Morgan within a month. A contract for sixteen miles Morgan to Echo was let to Utah Construction Company a month ago. The project costs about 1.5 million dollars.
Count von Bernsdorf, Potsdam police president, returned from the United States with four young guardsmen and a junior attaché. They visited New York from January 30, toured the city and West Indies, and studied the New York police system. He praised the courteous officers, large stations, and orderly streets, noting fewer tensions with women in the streets.
Homer Bird was executed in Sitka Alaska on Friday after a legal process that upheld his sentence. About twenty witnesses attended as Bird spoke from the scaffold denying guilt before dying within half a minute. Bird had previously been linked to a 1897 98 mining rush on the Yukon where two companions disappeared and later were found shot.
The president named a commission to recommend offices or divisions in the legislative departments for transfer to the new department of commerce and labor. It includes Charles D. Walcott Brigadier General William Crozier Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles BE G Pinchot and James H. Garfield.
Negotiations between the Vatican and Rome aim to place Pope Leo's Jubilee presents in St Louis for the exposition. An American vessel, carrying Queen Victoria's jubilee gifts promised by King Edward, would call at Civita Vecchia to embark the pope's gifts if talks succeed.
Port health chief Dr N Hommedieu says ship surgeon and Dr Baltaglio admit belief four seamen and two passengers who died on the voyage had cholera symptoms. Authorities note the ill aboard showed all classic signs.
Washington reports the largest single American investment in the Philippines, a contract allotment for ownership and maintenance of 35 miles of electric light heat and power works. The allotment follows the Philippines Commission act of October last and comes from Governor Taft via a war department cablegram.
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