t • 'Loup City Northwestern. VOL. XVIII. LOUP CITY. SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 2(5, 1901. NUMBER 21. Hew Philippine Schedule Probably With held Until Insular Oases Are Decided. A CHANGE MAY BE UNNECESSARY. Work of A'ljiiMt ment I*ro(-renH?)*, How ever. Without Interruption—Several IlevininiiK Advised — 1 lie (1h line tliut Dairymen Ask For. WASHINGTON, April 22. It is not likely that the new Philippine tariff will lie promulgated until after the de cision of tlie supreme court in the in sular case. It is stated at the War D department, where the matter lias re ceived consideration, that this decis ion may make it unnecessary for the government to establish a system of tariff rates in the Philippines, al though the department has proceeded with the work of equalizing the rates and receiving and considering sugges tions, as though the coming decision Would not mak any change in the present, conditions. Some months ago the War depart ment published the tariff ns prepared by the tariff experts in the Philippines and approved by the Taft commission, Interested parties, especially manufac turers and shippers, were invited to examine this proposed tariff and make suggestions and criticisms, it is in teresting to note that of the 119 par agraphs in the proposed tariff only 33 paragraphs have provoked criticism or suggestion. Even these arc in a mild tone and nearly nil lake the form of suggestion. Some of the more impor tant suggestions are embodied in the following: it is suggested that there will be difficulty in making duties specific and that it; many cases perhaps ad valor em duties will he better. There are some objections to the metric system, as American goods are in yard folds and European goods are in metric folds. If the yard folds are continued it would be better for the American nianu facturers. Tiie Manila Chamber of Commerce arks that four months intervene be tween tho promulgation of the tariff DbikI its enforcement. No provision is made for marking oleomargarine to distinguish it from butter. The dairy Interests think such a provision desir able. A lower rate is asked for gas oline to be used for fuel and for launches. An ad valorem duty is ad vised upon precious stones and watehes. One Arm suggests that cop peras and oxide should be ti|>on the free list. It is claimed that cotton yarn should not he admitted at a lower rate than fabrics woven from such yarn, also that the weight and washing of cot ton tissues should be changed in the interest of the coarser cotton fabrics. There has been quite an extensive dis cussion of this subject and it has been pointed out that the changes in the Cuban tariff also were needed in this particular. The free entry of “news" print pa per is advocated. Reductions are ask ed from 20 to 40 per cent on harness and saddle makers’ wares. It is sug gested that cheap and expensive ma chinery should not pay the same rates. Certain typewriter firms want the duty on their machines reduced. A change is asked in the classifica tion of meat products. It is said that the duty on alcohol should lie dou bled or manufacturers of whisky will be able to use the alcohol for making whisky at much less than the distilled product. Sheriff Will Starve Them. LONDON. Ky.. April 22.—The latest j&tiews from Letcher county reached ' London tonight. It is that the Rey Holds crowd has increased until they now number twenty-eight men; that £ they are fortified in a brick house on V the head of Millstone creek: that the Sheriff has them surrounded with a posse of sixty men, some of them com ing from the Virginia side, and that .they refuse to surrender unless they .. can dictate terms, which moans bail of their own making. It is said there ’v Is no way by which they can escape. •&?. and the sheriff says he will starve them into a surrender. New* From l.ortl Kitchener. LONDON, April 22.—The war office fe.fcas received a dispatch front Lord § Kitchener, reporting that since April BIS tlie various British commanders r have taken eighty-one prisoners, to ff gether with 100,000 rounds of ammu I nition and many horses, cattle anfi k. ■Bwagons. Lord Kitchener leports also p,-; Bp the surrender of twenty Boers since | that date. *? . V REPULSED BY THE BOXERS. Cien. Rei out posts and the Chinese. Three met. 1 ft yesteidiiy under es cort to convey Emperor Kwang Hsu’s first order to General I.in to retire im mediately inlo the province of Shan Si. Prince Ching and other Chinese I offii iais say the Chinese general has ! already retired, but their confirmations j or denials are considered very unre liable. POSTPONES EXAMINATIONS. Civil Service I'omnUslun Defer* Date for Te.ting A pplIrHlltx. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 22.— The civil service commission an nounces that the examination adver tised for April 23. 1901, for the po sition of department assistant in the Philippine service, has been postponed to June 3 and 4. and tha' this exam ination will be held in any city in the I’nited States where postal free deliv ery has been established. Competitors in the examination in addition to tak ing the regular examination required for this position also may take one oi more of certain optional subjects, for which due credit will be given. Particular attention is 'ailed to the fact that within a few months it is probable that, a number of financial agents will be needed. These agents will lie selected for this examination and the selections will be confined as far as practicable to those who have i shown proficiency in the optional sub jects of bookkeeping and finance and who have passed the regular examina tion. The salary of the position of financial agent will be about $2,000 per annum. The entrance salary of the position of department assistant will not be less than $1,200 per annum. KOREA DECIDES TO BORROW. Would lie Pleased to Secure Five Million Yen From France. Yokohama, April 22.—The Korean i government, according to advices just received from Seoul, the capital of Korea, has decided to borrow from Prance 5,000,000 yen for the purpose of constructing the Northern railway from Seoul to Wikiu. It is asserted that it was objected to pledging the Korean customs for security of this loan, which treated a desire in certain quarters for the dismissal of Mr. Mc Leavy Brown, the director general of Korean customs. According to the same advice, Vice Admiral Seymour and Sir Claude M. MacDonald, British minister to Japan, have arrived at Chemupo, Korea, on board the British cruiser Powerful, and it is said they will have an audience with Emperor Yi'Yieung. Pioneer Salmon Packer Dead. BERKELEY, Cal., April 22.—Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon packer of the Pacific coast, is dead. Death was due to heart disease. Mr. Hume es tablished the first salmon cannery on the Columbia river in 1874. In 189t> his business interests were transferred to Alaska, Democratic* Lender Dead. DOVER. Del., April 22.—Former Congressman .1. C. Stockley, a pictur esque figure in Delaware politics and a former democratic leader, died last evening after a long illness at his home in Georgetown. Snnirttlide'H Fatal £\vec|> TELLURIDE, Colo.. April 20—This afternoon a snowslide carried away the bunk and boarding house of the Alta mine near here. Uhdiard Pen oergast, the cook, lost his life. Germany, the (Tilted States, Great Britain and Spain have refused the Venezuelan courts as fit tribunals to adjudicate claims involving the rights of foreigners. IffllllDO WON OVER Filip no Lender AnnornoeB His Fntur* Allegiance to United States. ADDRfSSf S PrOPIf fOR PI ACC 8i»)« licit f ntv refit m Now l><-m.inw and specific proposals to Japan,” say* the Yoko hama correspondent of th» Daily Mail, "for a mutual understanding, hut Japan gives no sign of accepting." LUZON’S INTfRNAL REVENUE. II Amounted lo Over One Hundred Thoni nud Dollars l.mt Year. WASHINGTON, April 19—The di vision of insular affairs of the War department yesterday announced that fhe internal revenue collections in the department of northern Luzon, Phil ippine islands, for the calendar year 19(10 were $106,791. The supervisor of internal revenue for this department reports that the people, as a rule, pay their taxes promptly and without complaint and says that largely increased revenues for the year 1901 may be safely pre dicted. How to Keep Hivi-m Pare. WASHINGTON, O. C„ April 19.— Consul General Guenther, at Frank fort. Germany, in a report to the state department says that a commis sion has been designated for the pur pose of studying the question of keep ing rivers pure and preventing the waters from becoming injurious to tlie health of the people and the an imals in that country and that effec tive regulations along this line will be put in operation. Nebraska Drain Dealer*. LINCOLN, Neb.. April 20.—The Ne braska Grain Dealers' association met in annual session here. AH executive officers were re-elected for another term. The officers will decide on the time and place for the next annual meeting. About 125 members at tended. Ha by llurnetl to Death WAYNE, Neb., April 20.—While the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Goll of this city were putting some paper on a bonfire her clothing caught fire and before her mother could reach her the little one was badly burned and died the following day. Cubaj General Coming to Thank the Peo ple of the United States. TO DE THE GttSTOE SENOR PALMA Win KnikiIii Here t'ntll Krturn of Special Coin uil I Ire on Relation* Sent to Conault President — III* Sojourn Will He Void of I'ollEU-iil SigitlfjcMiM-e, HAVANA. April 18.—General Max tmo Gomez is malting arrangements to go to the United States to visit Senor Sstratla Palma. He will be accom panied by his son, Urbano, and will probably remain in tlie United States until the return to Cuba of the spe < ia! committee on relations, lie de sires to await definite action in refer ence to t lie Platt amendment In order to avoid the accusation that the trip Is made for political purposes. He lias always expressed a desire to meet tiie people of the United States and to thank them for the assistance they rendered Cuba during th<’ war. Senor Palma is the choice of General Go mez for the presidency of Cuba. Senor Meriel has resigned from the special committee on relations, owing to ill health. Surgeon Glennan says it. is neces sary to continue the disinfection of vessels from Uruguay and other parts of South America where it is suspect ed that the bubonic plague exists, as there is a danger of thp disease get ting a foothold here unless the great est care is taken. Most of the vessels that arrive here from South American ports a».- small craft loaded with dried beef. Their cargoes are discharged immediately on lighters, after which the vessels are sealed and fumigated in order to kill the rats which infest them. Numerous complaints have been made by ship owners because of the refusal of the officers to allow vessels to come alongside the docks and re main there until the cargoes are sold. INDIANS FINALLY CONSENT. Council of Oklahoma Trilifi Re.ull. In Removing Their Objections. GUTHRIE. Okl., April 18.—A three days' council of the chiefs and lead ing members of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian tribes closed at the Indian agency at Anadarko today. Oh Re Ah Tone, who has been the leader of the Kiowa seeeders, who for a year have refused to come into council or comply in any way with the law re quiring them to take allotments, was present and it was decided that the Kiowas would come in and take their allotments at once. It was decided to empower Agent Randlett to select the 48,000 acres of grazing lands provid ed for in the bill opening the reserva tion to settlement. This has been the stumbling block to the way of com pleting the preliminary work neces sary to get in readiness for the open ing and this action of the tribes re moves what promised to be a serious obstacle. TIRE LOSS TO INION PACIFIC A Conflagnit Ion at ili<* Transfer Does Miii'li Diiinngt*. OMAHA, April 18.—Fire raged three hours last night in the passenger cleaning yard at the Union Transfer depot. Council Bluffs, destroying the row of frame buildings used by the Union Pacific and Pullman companies as store and machine rooms, with their contents, entailing a loss to both companies that will run well up into the thousands. The origin of the conflagration is unknown, but the fire is supposed to have been started either from a spark from an engine or from spontaneous combustion of some of the supplies in the oil and waste room. The buildings destroyed comprised the linen and commissary storerooms of the Pullman company, the machin ery room, car repair room, oilroom of the Union Pacific and the office of James F. Spare, foreman of the yard. Iiiillana ltt*Hi*lie* Manila. WASHINGTON, April 18— General MacArthur reports the arrival of the transport. Indiana at Manila. It had on board 145 men of the Tenth in fantry and 585 of the Twenty-eighth Infantry. Still Itcftifte* to Answer. DALLAS, Tex.. April 18—H. C. Henderson again today refused to an swer any questions in the deposition sent from Omaha in regard to th« Cudahy kidnaping case. PUZZLES THE AS MONOMERS. Change* of Liglit on Little Planet Ero Attract* Much Attention* NEW YORK, April 17.—A special to the Times from Boston says: Eros, the little planet that has been watch ed so closely by astronomers lately, on account of Its nearness to tha earth, has recently taken on addition al interest. I'ntil within a short time Eros has been observed simply on ac count of its position, by means of which it is honed to determine more closely the distance between the earth and the sun. This spring the planet has shown marked changes In light, and Is the first of the asteroids In which variation of light has been firmly established. It has been found by the Harvard observers that the intensity of the light changes sometimes two or three times in as many hours. This is ac counted for iu two ways. Some as tronomers think that one aide of the planet is dark and the other light, and that as it revolves first the light and then the dark side is presented to the watchers on earth; other ob servers, and especially those In Eu rope, believe that the planot Is dou hie and that two spheres so revolv ing around one another first present their combined light and then only the light of one. The planet Is be lie\od to revolve in five hours. BUYING UP COPPER MINES. AmalcaiiiHli«(l Company Haiti to Have De nigia on All Ills; Onri. NKW YORK, April 17.—The Trib une says: It can be announced on the best of authority that all the prelim inary arrangements have been made for the acquisition of the stock of the Boston & Montana Copper and Silver company and the Butte & Boston Min ing company by the Amalgamated Copper company. Humors of the impending deal have been in the air of Wall street for several days, but it was not until late last evening that details of the pro ject became known. There is a gen eral belief among those well informed on the copper situation that the fore going plans are only preliminary to a much larger expansion of the Amalgamated company, which aims to rake In eventually the rich mines of northern Michigan and Arizona, as well as those of Montana. This would give the company a practical control of the copper situation in this coun try, with the exception of the Helnze holdings in Butte. Senator W. A. Clark and his sons are believed to be in the new deal. mu says so niMSEir. Personally Announce* tlio Purchase of tl>« lliirllngton Sy*tcm. CHICAGO, April 17.—The Tribune tomorrow will say: James J. Hill, be fore leaving St. Paul for the west, an nounced the success of the long pend ing deal for the control of the Bur lington railway. He said he had con cluded negotiations for the purchase of the Burlington system and added: “There are no changes in our rela tions with the St. Paul-Chieago line. We merely wanted the Burlington for a St. Louis and Kansas City feeder.” Mr. Hill denied the report that the Burlington deal meant the establish ment of a transcontinental system with the Brie as an eastern outlet. He said that the Erie would not be a part of a transcontinental line, and that there would be no transcontinental line and that the Erie would be free from alliances." ST. PAUL, April 16.—The Pioneer Press tomorrow will say: It is ru mored in well informed railway cir cles that James J. Hill of the Great Northern has disposed of all his hold ings of Erie and Baltimore & Ohia stocks. Rnrienbure Take* III* Place. WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 16.— Ex-Hepresentative Hodenburg of Illi nois today began his official duties as a member of the civil service commis sion. All the employes of the commis sion were introduced to him. Later the board held a session and trans acted business that had been waiting for a considerable time pending a meeting of a majority of the board. When asked today regarding his civil service policy, Mr. Hodenburg said: "I certainly believe in the spirit of civil service reform and I will exe cute and enforce the law to the best of my ability.” Re-Klect Steyn President. LONDON, April 17.—A special from Capetown, under today's date, says forty Boers recently met at Boshoff and solemnly re-elected Mr. Steyn president of the Orange Free State.