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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1901)
127 y'EA'RS AGO. |rANE\JIL I HALL or 60N Ca Cit V.VS _/■ King George III. had reached the ago of 36, and had reigned fourteen years, when Lord North, by unani mous consent of the house of commons, presented the Boston port bill for its consideration. This atrocious act was the return lightning stroke of the min istry for the blow rebellious Boston had dealt when it emptied the East India Company's tea into the harbor. No event in the series of causes that led to the revolution was so determin ative of an ultimate resort to arms as was this brutal measure. Singular, indeed, at the first blush. It would seem, that such a vindictive and utterly ur.statesmanlike measure, designed as it was to rivet the collar of political servitude upon the necks of a great people. But the average Englishman did not understand the American-colonial problem. His no tion of the Americans was that they were an inferior race, mostly wild In dians and negro slaves, while the rela tion between them and the English at home was substantially that of ser vant and master. "Why," said Pitt, with reference to this state of feeling, the revenue measures, and particularly "even the chimney-sweeps and boot blacks in the streets of London talk about ‘our subjects’ in America!" The resistance of the Americans to the audacious act of the Boston "hypo crites, traitors, rebels and villains”— such were the mild terms applied to 1>AAA/WWWV>A/S/WWWWN^A^i^i/VWl John Hancock coipmel °> rntcapets. Receiving gen- Gage- at Long vvharf. Boston, niaTi3- 1774_ PICTURES OF SCENES IN BOSTON AFTER PASSAGE OF PORT BILL. our ancestors by English gentlemen of that day—who had taken such liberties with the tea cargoes, apparently united all parties against them, and punish ment for the act was loudly demanded. Lord North confidently and success fully appealed to all classes to rally to the support of the government. It was a question involving the national pride. The bill passed both houses unanimously. The port bill was signed by the king March 31. 1774. It was received in Boston May 10, and on June 1, Just 127 years ago this month, it went into effect. The day was ushered in with toiling of bells and other signs of pub lic mourning, and throughout the col onies generally similar demonstrations were made. With the stroke of noon on that fated day Boston entered up on her period of suffering. Her forti tude had before this been severely tried. She had coped with famine, pes tilence, devastating conflagrations. The blood-guiltiness of oppressors had reddened the stones of her streets and brought the shadow of sudden death to many of her thresholds. But these were minor scourges compared to the overwhelming calamity that now threatened her very existence. For ten months the metropolis of New England was practically isolated and held in the grasp of military power. Eleven regiments of British troops were quartered in and about the town; Boston Common was white with their tents. They desecrated her holy places and intruded into the houses of her citizens, insulting, and in some cases maltreating, their help less ones. They made night hideous with their ribaldry. In the harbor rode the hostile fleet. On every point com manding the outlets into the country were planted cannon, the men serving them acting al3o as guards to main tain a constant and vexatious sur velllance over the passers In and out. The British ministry thought to starve Boston into submission, and, be lieving also that the "pocket nerve" was the particularly sensitive part of the Boston Yankee's anatomy, hoped by cutting off his trading facilities to bring him to his knees. The moment Boston's needs were known, the neighboring towns and the most distant colonies hastened to her assistance. Their sympathy took the I practical form of contributions of cat tle, sheep, corn, vegetables, fish and | other necessities. Then came implements of war from i Virginia, where Washington and Pat ; rick Henry were raising small com panies of men to go to the aid of starving Boston. The functions of the town appear to i have been attended to in spite of the | presence of a hostile military force, and in no way more systematically thac in the town meetings which were held in Faneuil Hull "pursuant to ad journment." Gage had forbidden the calling of i these meetings except as authorized i by himself; but Boston would have ! given up every other privilege of citi zenship before she would have yielded this transcendant one. Hence by a little parliamentary device the free holders kept the town meeting perpetu ally aiive by continuous adjournment. The spectacle of this town of If,000 inhabitants In the face of a frowning military governor and bis soldiers, | calmly and openly gathering its citi zens to pursue a prohibited civic fune | tlon, and there In open assembly to concert measures designed to baffle and I controvert the schemes of a powerful j ’ enemy, boldly too, yet under diplo I matic forms, criticising his conduct ’ ' and questioning his motives, is one i that surely approaches £he sublime in | audacity. The Mad Mullah The soldiers of Great Britain seem destined to get their fill of bloodshed before the halo of peace again settles over these perturbed little islee. The Mad Mullah, most fanatic of India's tribesmen, is on the warpafh, arming countless hordes against the "mother country," and instilling into them the hatred of the foe and disregard of death the meaning of which the Brit ish soldiers well know. Multah'g plan is to form an alliance with the Mijer tain tribe, which will place 80,000 men at his disposal. A feint in the direc tion of Ber will. It is thought, make it necessary for the British to enter the Mijertain country. Terrible fighting will ensue. As the natives are well equipped with rifles and ammunition, and the lines of communication with the British may at any moment be broken. The heat in India at present is intense, and it is telling on the members of the British expedition. CoadyUm and flon-ten-tt Some merchants of New York and London dined together a few days ago in London. There were noble lords to spout platitudes and once more were uttered the flat, insincere statements about English love of Americans, etc. "If England is ever attacked by a for eign combination she will find the United States fighting with her shoul der to shoulder.” “The Engifah and Americans are brothers, and always have been." "There is deep sympathy,” etc., etc., etc. All rubbish, and of the sickliest sort. If Germany should fight England there would not be an idea here of interfer ing. In the first place, the political in fluence of German-American8 would effectually choke off any idea of help ing England, says the Chicago Ameri can. In the second place, those very American merchants who talk go glibly of love for England would be too busy making money out of Eng land's misfortune to bother about help THE MAD MULLAH (Exhorting his tribesman.) | ing her—if once she went to war. One fact is plain and clear; it is this: The regulation Englishman dis likes the American. He used to de spise him. Now' he hates him—chief ly because the days of despising have gone by. In the very day of the lach rymose Anglo-American love feast the London Daily Mail expressed the real feeling of Englishmen toward Ameri cans. Mr. Harmsworth’s paper speaks of “Americans who desire to lull great i Britain to sleep while they capture the British foreign markets.” That is the genuine British feeling—one of sus- j picion and dislike. And it is a pretty sensible suspicion, too. We arp trying to get their business away frotn them. We are trying to drive them out of all posisble markets. The English race loves the American race at heart about is much as the clothing man on one 3ide of the street loves the more suc cessful clothing man on the opposite side. As for out much-talked-about blood relationship, that is all bosh. This race is no English race. It is an American race, with Irish. German, French, Scandinavian. Slavonic and Italian blood—the good qualities of many races—boiled down into it. It gets more from the fighting, thinking Scotchman than from all the English blood. The two races are just enough alike to dislike each other. The dog and the wolf hate each other. The horse has no more liking for the mule than ha« the American for the Eng lish, and a palaver between merchants trying to get a little money out of each other will not change human na ture. Put that down. West Point Victims. When five cadets were expelled from West Point for gross and persistent in subordination they invoked public sympathy for their blighted careers, and they have announced that they in tend to have Congress restore them over the heads of the authorities. But ten of their comrades have just been dropped for deficiency in their studies, and nobody seems to have begun any agitation in their behalf, yet a failure in studies is a small matter in deter mining the quality of an officer com pared with a failure in the prime mili tary essential of discipline. Grant was not a distinguished aeholaf at West Point, but he learned how to command by learning how to obey. Wnen a young man has been at the Military Academy for thretTyears with out mastering that elementary condi tion of the military life it is plaiD that he has mistaken his profession. REMINISCENCES Of A tYClONE, Ad Old-Fft*hloned Twister that Strongly Impressed a Nebraskao LINCOLN, Neb., June 24--Dr. W. H. McHenry of Nelson ”'a* in the ciey several days ago and the recent tornado at Dorchester suggested to his mind several eyclono reminis cences. One cyclone in particular had made a deep impression. "Eight or nine years ago we had an old-fash ioned twister in Nelson and the freaks it performed were wonderful to be hold." said he. "That cyclone was al most human in its intelligence, judg ing from some of the things it did. Several incidents happened which knocked out completely the Dorchester tornado story. In the north part, of town there lived an invalid who had mtt walked a step for five years. She was asleep when the storm came on her house and directly in the path of the cyclone. Well, sir, that storm picked her up so gently that her som nolent senses were deluded Into the belief that she was making a quick voyage in an airshipL Her bed sailed gracefully through tho air for almost a mile, the invalid smiling in her dreams. Then she was gently depos ited between two straw stacks upon eight or ten feet of chaff. But that wasn't the wonderful part about It. Down in town Warren Knapp runs a soda water fountain. That cyclone whisked around his store pretty lively and in the general confusion mixed an ice cream soda, flavored it with pine apple syrup and carried it to the bed side of the invalid. By her pillow it descended with a gentle thud and she awoke to find two long straws, carefully selected from the farmer’s straw pile, protruding from the glass. An hour later the invalid was res cued and taken to the home of a neighbor. The soda water g+ass was donated to the museum of the local High school.” WIST PAY BY JULY 1ST. Of Intercut to I.and Pnrcliaacra in Otoe and Missouri Reservations. LINCOLN. Neb., June 21.—The set tlers on the Otoe and Missouri In dian reservation lands in Gage county and also across the line in Kansas will be Interested in the following dis patch from Washington: The purchasers of lands in the Otoe and Missouri Indian reservation in Kansas and Nebraska will be expected to make final settlement of their ac counts with the government by J“uly 1. The time, under the law, expired a year ago, but a year’s grace was al lowed so as to bring the matter to a final close without hardship. Some of the settlers have recently been in formed that they could secure a fur ther reduction in the price to be paid for the lands by giving their cases into the hands of certain attorneys. It is understood that a number of settlers were almost coerced into con senting to join with others in an at tempt to secure further concessions. The copy of a letter purporting to have been sent by an attorney named Van Arsdale, of Cheyenne, Wyo., to set tlers on the reservation was trans mitted*^ Washington, and the depart ment immediately wired him to know if he had written such letters. He replied that he had not and could not understand how his name was used; that he had acted as attorney for the settlers, and advised them that the time for final settlement would expire on July 1, and that there would be no further grace. It is evi dent that settlers are being misled, and it is possible that those who fall into the snare will forfeit their lands. Lif« 9«ntenc« for a Lad. LINCOLN, Neb., June 24 — Accord ing to decision of the supreme court, Ernest Bush, the 16-year-old boy who was convicted of murdering Silas Bai ley near Benkeiman on February 7, 1899, will have to serve his life sen tence unless executive clemency comes to him. The chief objection raised by the defendant to the decision of the lower court was that the evidence did not justify conviction. The su preme court holds that the boy's con fession w'as fully corroborated by oth er evidence. Church Destroyed by I.ightnliiB. NEWMAN GROVE, Neb., June 24.— Salem church, ten miles south of this city, wras struck by lightning and en tirely consumed. The edifice was own ed by the Swedish Evangelical Luth eran denomination and was built l*n years ago at a cost of $4,500. All the furniture, including the pews, two or gans and a $300 oil painting, were saved. Insurance, $2,500. Court Denim ?hr Motion. LINCOLN, Nob., June 21.-One of the 102 opirfions filed by the supreme court was a denial of the motion of Attorney General Prout to dismiss the case of the state against the Rock Island railroad because of the judg ment of the I’nited States court. w4iich held that the attorney general was enjoined from proceeding against the railroads to collect penalties for alleged violations of the maximum rate law. EXPLOSION Of THAT LOCOMOTIVf Opinion of an Olil Railroad Engineer at to the Cause. BEATRICE. Neb., June 22—A cor respondent was talking with an old time railroad engineer here when the Columbus disaster was referred to. "What, in your opinion, was the cause of the accident?” was asked. Without any reserve, he said: ‘‘The cause, primarily, was that the engine was poorly constructed. It was a cheap John affair and if they do not reduce the pressure on these big tubs moro of them will go just as that en gine did. The point is right here: The company is in need of say fifty engines. They take their specifi cations and go to every factory in the country to get prices. Of course they all cut th° price and the quality of material and workmanship is also cut. When it comes to constructing the boiler no hand work is employed. A bushel of rivets are put in the fire and treated to a temperature no one knows what. Then they are put in and given a lick mid a promise by a trip hammer. Scarcely any hand work about it; all machine. As I said, they are carrying too much pressure. There is too much contraction and ex pansion; the boilers won't stand it. I see they talk about the water being low. That is nonsense of* the most absurd sort. They were on the siding only a few moments before waiting for another train and had only got outside the mile limits when the ac cident occurred. Poor construction, in my opinion, is responsible for the w reck.” Hear Itellatadt This Week. The engagement with the BelLstedt band for a aeries of concerts extend ing over the month of June expires on the 29th. There has bren a large : attendance from the first and all have been delighted with the efforts of this ! celebrated band. Special features are j to be provided from now until the | close, and increased attendance is j looked for. Two concerts each day In j a large pavilion spread for the pur- j pose, with reduced price of admission 1 to the afternoon entertainments. Hear this great musical organization while there is yet opportunity. Two New State Hanks LINCOLN, Neb., June 22.-The State Banking board issued charters to two j new state banks. One is the Bank of Merna, Merna, Custer coonty. It has ! a paid capital stock of $10,000 and its principal incorporators are Charles ' E. Ford, S. K. Warrick and J. M. Kim berfing. The other charter was given to the Newcastle State bark of New castle, Dixon county. Its paid capital stock is $10,000 and its incorporators are Charles E. Crew, A. B. Francis, Thomas Hoy, T. J. Hoy and A- H. Marshall. High School. May Hire Relative*. LINCOLN. Neb., June 22--The law passed by the last session of the legis lature forbidding school directors from hiring relatives for teachers without the unanimous consent of the board has aroused considerable discussion and many inquiries have been received by State Superintendent Fowler asking for his opinion of the law He has decided that the law apples only to rural districts and not to high schools. Drowned In the Rlue. SEWA*RD, Neb., June 22.—R. Lack er, a blacksmith of Germantow’n, was drowned in the Blue river, three miles south of Ruby. He was swimming across the river to set some fish lines, when he was taken with cramps. Five men were on the bank, but without a boat and they made no attempt at rescue. The body was recovered. David City Chautauqua. DAVID CITY, Neb., June 22.—The program for the first annual session of the David City Chautauqua assem bly is out. An exceptionally good list of lecturers, preachers, volcalists, elo cutionists and musicians has been se cured, and the grounds have been put in first class condition. The session opens June 27. Melklvj oliu Hoe* to Wyoming. FULLERTON. Neb., June 22.—For mer Assistant Secretary of War Mei klejohn has gone to Wyoming to in spect copper mines in which he lately secured an interest. Mr. Meiklejohn was accompanied by Thomas C. Koch and H. E. Knapp, w ho had Joined with him in the investment. Secretary Hay has returned to Washington from Buffalo ami re sumed his duties af> the state depart - ment. nUruM Mate Fair I)«t*ili. LINCOLN, Neb., June 22.—The State Board of Agriculture met and discuss ed details conected with the state fair. Arrangements were made to supply fodder and forage to owners of stock. Lightning Strike. Church. ST. EDWARDS, Neb., June 22.— During a storm lightning struck the German Lutheran church eight miles northeast of here and it was burned to the ground. THE IIVE STOCK MARKET. ______ Y Latest OnntarlAB* from »outlt Omaha anil Km-a. Cite, SOUTH OMAHA. Cattle—There was a very light run. Packers all seemed t« want a fairly lib eral number of cattle and as a result the feeling was a little lamer on all good cattle. There were about twenty loads of beef steers included in the receipts and the market could safely be quoted stronger, particularly on the good heavy weights. Packers are not very anxious for the common stuff agid the light weights. and tmthat,class the feeling was not so much better. In some cases tho choicer hunches sold 5c or even 10c higher than yesterday, but the situation could probably best be described by calling It a good, strong market. Practically every thing was sold In good season. The cow market did not show much change, but still a little better prices were obtained for the better grades of corn-fed stufT. Prices are probably a dime higher than they were Tuesday, which was the low day, so that the market Is about back to where It was on Monday. The grassers have not improved as much as the corn feds, but still they are selling a- little better than they were on Tuesday. Hogs—The fresh receipts were fairly lib eral and as there were several loads car ried over from yesterday the supply on sale was of good proportions. The mar ket opened very slow and packers were bidding 2V4®5c lower than yesterday’s general market. Sellers did not like the Idea of selling any lower, and as a re sult It was some time before much was done and the hogs moved toward tho ecales very slowly. The bulk of the early sales went at $5.S7'/»5U&.92Vx, with some of the better grades as high as $5.97*4, Tho market, however, grew worse Instead of better as the morning advanced, and It - finally took pretty good hogs to bring $6 9*1 The most of the later salts went at $5.87*4. Shoep—There were quite a few sheep on sale today and the market on fed stuff held just al>out steady. A string of weth ers sold at $5.83 and a small bunch of na tive ewes brought III.5*). Fair to good western ewes sold at $3.<»). Taking every thing Into consideration those prices look ed just about steady with yesterday. Lambs also sold In about yesterday’s notches. Western stuff sold as high as $4.50. There were several cars of western grass sheep on sale this morning, but packers were slow about taking hold of them and the market could be quoted a little lower. KANSAS CITY Cattle—Choice beef steers, 54/1V higher; others, steady; choice dressed beef steers, $>.30(85.90; fair to good, $5,004(5,40; stockera and feeders. $1.504(4.90; western-fed steers, $4.504(3.75. Texans and Indians, $1 .154(5.23; Texas grass steers, $.7.00''/4.00; cows. $2.80 4i4.50; heifers, $3,304(5.00; canners. $2.004j* 2.73; bulls, ti.2o4j4.75; calves, $3,504(3.00 Hogs—Market steady to 2**c higher; top. $t>.07*«s; bulk of sales. $5.83416.05: heavy, $6.004(6.07*4: mixed packers. $3.834(0.03; light. $5,604/5.90; pigs. $5.2585.65. Sheep and Lambs—Marlwt strong; west ern lambs, $1,334/5.00; western wethers, $3.236i'4.00; western yearlings. $4,004/4 50; ewes, $5.254(3,70; culls, $2,004(3.00; Texas grass sheep, $3,004*3.60; spring lambs, $4.30 4(5.10. ROOT ISSUES FINAL ORDER. Publtahea Pre»l<t«u t’» Proclamation I a tabllahliiK Civil (•ovcrnmrnt. WASHINGTON, June 22—Secretary Root today issued the order of the president establishing civil government in the Philippines, The order Is as follows: ‘‘On and after the 4th day of Ju’y, 1901. until it shall he otherwise or dered, the president of the Philippine commission will exercise the executive authority in all civil affairs in the government of the Philippine islands heretofore exercised in sucn affairs by the military governor of the Philip pines. and to that end the Hon. Wil liam H. Taft, president of the said commission, is hereby appointed civil governor of the Philippine islands. Such executive authority will be ex ercised under and in conformity to the instructions to the Philippine commissioners dated April 7, 1900, and subjected to the aproval and control of the secretary of war of the United States. The municipal and provincial civil governments, which have been or shall hereafter be established In said islands, and all persons perform ing duties appertaining to the offices of the civil government in said is lands, will, in respect of such duties, report to the said civil governor. 1 ‘‘The power to appoint civil officers heretofore vested in the Philippine commission, or in the military gover nor, will he exercised by the civil governor with the advice and consent * of the commission. The military governor of the Philip pines is hereby relieved from the per formance on and after the said 4th of July of the civil duties hereinbe fore described, but his authority will continue to be exercised as heretofore in those districts in which Insurrec tion against the authority of the Uni ted States continues to exist, or in which public order is not sufficiently lestored to enable provincial govern ments to be established under the in structions to the commission dated April 7. 1900. ‘‘ELIHU ROOT, ‘‘Secretary of War.” Hebron’s Sew Court House. HEBRON, Neb., June 22.—The con tract for the erection of a court house according to the plans of G. W. Bur llnghoff was let to Robert Butke of Omaha. The building will be three stories with a tower and built of In diana limestone at a cost of |ji>,000. Andrles De Wet, the Bosr leader, says he is coming to the United States ir. the middle of July to lec- ^ ture, v