Loup City Northwestern. VOL. XVIII. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1901. NUMBER 36, 80JST lli M STATE Government Reports Eleven Sweltering in the Boiling Sun. KANSAS CORN CROP CUT SHORT Must Ship Cattle to Market llrcanse Water Is (letting Brarce—Pastures Dried I'p aud Fruit and Vegetable Crops Almost Ruined. WASHINGTON. July 15.—Reports to the weather bureau show that the hot weather continued yesterday in nineteen states and territories of the great corn belt, the Ohio valley and various portions of the south. There seems to be no immediate evidence of abatement, except in the south and southwest, where local thunderstorms may cause some moderation. The states affected include Indiana, Illi nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis souri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas, Ok lahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Da kota, North Dakota, Colorado and Michigan. It has become considerably warmer also In the upper lake region and in New England, Marquette, Mich., reporting today a record-break ing temperature of 102 degrees. Hope of rain today in the region affected by the heat was not fulfilled, only traces of it apjtearing in one or two sections, except at Galveston, Tex., where about two-thirds of an inch fell, and in eastern Texas, where there were local thunderstorms. The tem peratures reported today show only slight variations from the extremes of the last few days, and these arc due to local conditions entirely. In lies Moines, la., today the tempera ture was 100. in Kansas City 102 and in Omaha 102, while at Davenport, la., Denver, Colo., Little Rock, Ark., New Orleans, North Platte, Neb., St. Paul and Vicksburg, Miss., it was 06 or higher. KANSAS CITY, July 15—No re'.iof came yesterday from the heat. It was a repetition of the past two weeks, with reports from many places in western Missouri, Kansas and the ter ritories of temperatures over the 100 mark. At most places the sun shon? mercilessly with not even a fitful cloud to break its rays nor a slight breeze. In Kansas City last night proved more bearable, a breeze from the north alleviating the condition but a day of intense heat followed. Tonight there is a prospect of rain. In Oklahoma, but there are no indi cations of a change in any other part of the southwest. With no relief In sight the fears for the crops that have been expressed are fast becoming realities and the scarcity of water and generally dry most serious one. What the real dam most serious one. What th ereal dam age to com, the crop most affected, will be is problematical, but it is prob ably safe to say that half the crop will he lost. The supply of water is short in almost every direction and the shipments of cattle and hogs to this market to save them must con tinue. In Kansas City today the gov ernment thermometer reached 102 and at Marysville, Kan., 104 was recorded against 100 yesterday. There were three prostrations at Marysville. LINCOLN, Neb., July 15—Nebraska again suffered from the heat yester day. The highest temperature report ed by the weather bureau was 102 de grees at 4:30, but the thermometers >. In the business district recorded 109. The mean temperature of the day was 90 degrees, the highest of the year. The reports show that no rain has fallen in the state during the last twenty-four hours. Reports that reach Lincoln tonight indicate that rain falling within two days wilt yet save the corn crop. The wind shifted to the southeast this evening and the atmosphere is some what cooler. ST. JOSEPH, Mo„ July 15.—The long continued drouth has resulted in the entire ruin of the corn and oats crop in this section of the country. Corn has commenced to tassel only a few feet high and no amount of rain would now be of any benefit to that cereal. The fruit and vegetable crops are also complete failures, and the pastures have dried up so that the farmers are paying enormous prices for hay and feed. Today was clear and hot, with no relief apparently in sight — Minister Conger to Leave. SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—E. H. Conger, United States minister to Chi na, has arrived, en route to Pekin. f Minister Conger will sail next Wed nesday on the steamer Nippon Mara. OHIO BRYAN MTN BOLT. Ten of III* Democratlo Follower* In Cleveland Deride to Act. CLEVELAND, July 15.—On July 31 Ohio democrats who believe iu Bryan and the issues which he represents, which tlie recent democratic conven tion ignored, will assemble in Colum bus and make up a state ticket. Ten men met this morning in a downtown office building in this city and de cided that a bolt should be made and that a new party should enter the field of Ohio politics. The attendance at the conference was larger and represented a greater area in the state than was expected by these who called the meeting. A formal statement of principles was submitted to the conference and was adopted. This will be printed anti sent throughout the state to those who are known to be faithful to the Nebraskan. A convention was decid ed upon to be held at the Great South ern hotel on the last day of .July. To this convention may come all those who sign their name to the declaration of principles. START OUT TO fiND PEARY. Expedition on the Steamer Er'.k Sails North to Aid Explorers. HALIFAX, N. a., July 13—The steamer Erik left North Sydney this morning on its voyage to the frozen north. It is to call at Labrador and then at the various Esquimaux sta tions in Greenland West, reaching Etah under favorable conditions iu about three weeks. At the various stations it will make inquiries as to news of Lieutenant Peary and the* Windward. The Erik took 350 tons of coal and is provisioned for at least a year. The members of the Peary Arctic club, who went on the steamer, are Dr. F. A. Cook, surgeon of the expedition; Hei bert Stone and Herbert Berri, both c,f Brooklyn; C. F. Wikoffand L. C. Bene dict of Ithaca, and L. C. Whitney Church of Elgin, lit. AMALGAMATED STRIKE IS ON. f’reshlrnt Shaffer's Order# lo Continue Struggle Will He Obeyed* PITTSBURG, July 15.—From pres ent Indications it looks probable that President Shaffer's strike order, issued last night to the Amalgamated asso elation members in the employ of the American Steep Hoop company, the American Sheet Steel company and the American Tinplate company, will he obeyed and the great struggle be tween the Amalgamated association and the steel companies will be on In earnest today. In the union mills of the three com panies against which a strike has been declared it is predicted that not a wheel will turn. An effort will be made also fo close down some of the non-union mills of the companies and to cripple the rest. The Amalgamated people are very sanguine of success. HAVE TO PROTECT THE WHEAT. I'nrmfr* Aronntl York Are Flowing Fire Guardi* 5>luce decent Hlazei. YORK, Neb., July 15—For miles and miles along both sides of the Bur lington, the Elkhorn and the Kansas City & Omaha railroads In this county are fields of winter wheat shocked and Blacked and the long wheat stubble is dry, easily catching fire. Yesterday morning the Elkhorn train coming lrom Henderson, this county, set fire 10 wheat stubble in seven different places. The train stopped each time and the train crew with shovels put out the fires before doing any damage. Yesterday nineteen shocks of winter wheat were burned up on Hon. An drew J. Sandall's farm east of York, supposed to have caught from engines on the Burlington. Nearly all of the farmers are plowing fire guards be tween fields and railroads. CELEBRATE PERRY’S VISIT. Auirricnu ami Jupiint-ne Sprnkcr* Dwell on Friendly It elm loin. YOKOHAMA, July 15.—The cere mony of unveiling at Kurihama the monument to commemorate the land ing there of Commodore Perry, July 11, 1853, was performed yesterday by Rear Admiral Rodgers, commanding the United States visiting squadron. Viscount Katsura, the Japanese pre mier, delivered the memorial address and a number of oilier Japanese olll cials of high rank were present. Three American and five Japanese warships sainted. Various speeches were made by Americans and Japanese, all dwell ing on the close relations between the ! two powers. It Makes Another Big Advance on Chi cago and New York Markets. BROKERS SWAMPED WITH ORDERS Yarinei! Become Bull* When Frt>fe!§lon ■ It Begin Iteullzlug—Wlient Completi on! By Giving Corn a Close Kmv In the Advance. NEW YORK. July 13—There was a scene of great excitement in both the wheat and corn markets at New York today, the trading aggregaating one of the largest day's totals in a year or more, especially as to corn. Prices jumped 2 3-8 cents during the day in corn, making 6>-2 cents advance for th» week. Orders poured into the market so fast that the brokers could scarcely execute them at the prices de sired and the usually small crowd around the corn ring was Increased to such an extent that at times it al most outrivaled that in the wheat pit. The farmers have taken the bull side into their hands and in the face of heavy realizing on the part of profes sionals have kept prices going until the cry is for 60-cent corn in Chicago. Where the present hull movement will end depends a great deal on weath er conditions in the leading corn states. Wheat also took an extraordinary jump today and from being in a posi tion almost entirely friendless at once leaped into popularity with the bulls and gave corn a close race for leader ship in tlit? advance for the day. Prices in New York closed 2 and 3 cents higher than yesterday and prac tically at the top price. Professionals were caught in this bulge in wheat and some of them lost about all the money they have made by selling long eorn to the bull public. For weeks and for months wheat has been ham mered persistently by everybody in the belief that the crop would be a record one and more than enough to make up the foreign shortage. The result has been a huge short interest, part of which was caught in yesterday's big advance. The remainder is in a state of anxiety as to what the out come will be, realizing that a much greater upturn must mean the covering of a big line of wheat. Today bulls were still further encouraged by re ports that wheat in the Red river val ley was being injured by excessive heat after recent wet weather. CHICAGO, July 13.—Today's advices to the Boaid of Trade grain compa nies are to the effect that the heat and drouth in the southwest are un broken. It is said that the damage outside of Kansas and Missouri is com paratively slight, but that tinless there is relief within the next ten days the corn crop situation will approach a calamity. A message from Topeka, Kan., says the prospects are for a crop of but 50,00,000 bushels of coin, although last year's crop was 163,000,000 and the year before 237,000,000 bushels. The loss of hay and potatoes is also great, second only to the loss of corn. It is estimated that the farmers of Kansas and Missouri have already lost $50,009, 000 by the torrldity and drouth. The straits in the corn crop Is said to he owing to the intense heat and lack of moisture and is ieffected In the course of prices of that cereal on the Board of Trade. Corn for Sep tember delivery at the opening today sold simultaneously from 52c to 52%c, compared with the close yesterday at 51%@51V6c; shortly afterward it was quoted at 527(tC, or 9 cents higher than the price one month ago shortly be fore tlte heat and drouth began to arouse misgivings as to the future of the crop. El Kenn Crowd la Thinning. WASHINGTON. July 13.—Secretary Hitchcock said that reports from the Oklahoma registration showed the crowds in that country had digested thoroughly the president’s proclama tion and realized that there was no chance for speculators, intruders, tres passers or gamblers. “The people,” said the secretary, “realize tluit the lands are being opened in good faith to everybody qualified and that what Is given them is not transferable.” Hod* Richard Hubbard Head. DALLAS, Tex., July 13,-Hon. Rich ard 11. Hubliard, a former governor of Texas and during President Cleve land's administration United States minister to Japan, died at bis home in ! Tyler, Tex., today. TEN KILL'D AT A BRIDGE. Niekle Plate'* Road structure Ciillapiri I'nder Load of Stone. CONNEAUT, O, July 12.—Just nf ter 11 o’clock today three ears of the local freight went through the Nickel Plate bridge at Springfield, Pa. The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident in charge of Engineer William Griffith of Buf falo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo. The latter was killed out right. The bridge gang was at work on the bridge and the ten men in jured are mostly workmen. A fill was being made at the bridge and about twenty-five workmen were about the structure. The Conneaut wreck train, with to cal officials and doctors, left for the scene at 11 o’clock. The accident oc cureed just after passenger train No. 3 had pulled through. The local, after the passing of the passenger train, pushed three cars heavily laden out on the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone foundation. The work of un loading had hardly begun, when, with out warning, the whole structure, bearing the three laden cars filled with laborers, fell with an awful crash into the valley. IOWAN CHOSEN PRESIDENT. National Educational .iMoriallou HelcctN I*r««ldent lleardatienr. DETROIT, Midi., July 12.—The Na tional Educational assoc iation today reaffirmed its declaration in favor of national university at Washington to be maintained by the national gov ernment. After taking this action the associ ation elected as its president for the ensuing year President W. N. Heard shaw of the University ot !o\va. The election was unanimous, as was that of C. M. eyes of Hartford, Conn., for treasurer. This afternoon thirteen departmental meetings were held and in several of them officers were elect ed. Interesting papers on the teach ing of economics is the schools w'ere read at the morning session by Prof. George E. Vincent of Chicago univers ity, President George Gunton of the Institute of Social Economics, New ork, Prof. F. W. Speirs of Philadel phia and R. P. Haiieck of Louisville, Ky. com ! IS 10 GO IN FREF. It til Ini; of the Treasury Department Dive* *fiK» Shipper* Chance, WASHINGTON, July 12.—Under a ruling of the Treasury department cof fee shipped from the United States to Porto Rico will he admitted into Por to Rico free of duty as soon as free trade is proclaimed between the United States and that island. This in practice will result likely in all coffee shipped into Porto Rico from any country being admitted free of duty. Although the Porto Rican tariff provides for a duty of 5 cents a pound on all coffee imported from a foreign country, it is expected that coffee Importers will take advantage of the fact that coffee is admitted free into the United States and ship their coffee into the United States and thence to Porto Rico, thus avoiding the duty which would be imposed if shiped from a foreign country direct to Porto Rico. ASKS PRAYERS AND EASTING. Gournor of Missouri t'rged to Nam« Day for Kuln. SI'. 1XH!IS, Mo., July 12 ~A special dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., says that Governor Dockery has received numerous petitions asking him to is sue a proclamation setting a day of fasting and prayer for rain. It id stated that unless rains soon come the failure of crops in Missouri will be the greatest since 1854. The temperature at various points in the slate yester day was as follows: Jefterson City, 107: Columbia, 110 to 112 in the shade; Mexico, 112; St. Joseph, l‘J9; Hanni bal, 105; Harrisonville, 109 At 4 p. m. the record of yesterday, 104 degrees in the shade, was reached with prospects that it would go a frac tion higher l>efore sunset. Kniisitiiift HtIII Hung On. LONDON, July 12.—“Apparently the Russians have no intention of evacu ating Nieu Chwang,” says a dispatch to the Morning Post from Nieu Chwang, dateu July 8, "although there is no reason for their administration of a treaty port. The country is per fectly quiet between Nieu Chwang and Mukden. Russia's immense harbor works at Dainey are half completed. When finished the harbor will be the finest in the east,” Thousands Rush to Register for Claims in Indian Territory. SIEEP IN STREETS TO BE ON HAND Not rotll .Inly 9 Will Kttrly Comer* Know Tbelr I.urk — Lottery Deal Spoil* Plc turc(queue**—Excitement I* When In terlopers Try to Push In. EL RENO, O. T., July 11.—The total registration of homesteaders at El Reno yesterday was 4,018, 193 being women. Commissioner Richardson es tablished a separate registration booth for women. Mr. Richardson says he can register 8,000 daily from now on or as soon as organization of his force is perfected. EL RENO. O. T„ July It.—Follow ing out the proclamation of President McKinley opening up to settlement by whites the 1,300 farms In the Ki owa-Comanche country, the first regis tration of homeBeekers was made here and at Lawton at 9 o'clock this morn ing. Hundreds were stll! lined before the various registration boards when darkness came tonight and tomorrow and next day the registration will continue until all who come have been given an opportunity to file their names. The drawing by lottery will begin July 29 and until then none of the 50,000 applicants will know wheth er or not he has been lucky enough to receive a homestead. The lottery scheme robbed the open ing of the picturesque nm and the exciting times incident to the great opening of the Cherokee strip ten years ago. Compared with that event the affair today was tame in the ex treme. Although there are perhaps 20,000 people In town .practically no disorder prevailed. As a rule the homeseekers were well provided with money and provisions and aside from the long wait in the sun before the registration booths, no serious incon venience has been experienced. Last night hundreds of people slept in the streets and alleys to maintain their places in lines which began forming yesterday at the six regis tration booths in El Reno. Many had waited on the border of the new coun try for two years or more and the last night of their long vigil was the most trying they had experienced. The line was made up of the halt, the lame and the brawny frontiersman, sprawled out in the dust. The crowd before each booth elected a captain and each man and woman in line was given a number which they pinned conspicuously to their clothes. A company member was permitted oc casionally to absent himself from line for a short breathing spelt and Inva riably his place was protected by bis fellow watchers. As the hour of 9 o’clock neared in terlopers tried to push in and break the numerical order of the line or ganization. This instantly raised bad blood and when word was passed down the line a little later that the I , booth officials would not recognize the line organization, but would regis'er the first person to present themselves there were threats of violence and ri oting seemed likely. Trouble was pre vented by the early announcement that the line organization would be respected by the government officials. Cheers and waving of hats greeted the word and from this time forth no sign of trouble was apparent. Ap plicants were admitted to the bootas four at a time and the filing proceed ed rapidly all day tong. During the day the heat became in tense, but no serious sutferlng was reported. The numerous women in line were treated gallantly by the men, who shaded them from the sun with embrellas and furnished drinks from the lemonade venders who plied ineir ranks. The second place of registration named in the proclamation was at Lawton twenty-five miles overland, where similar scenes to those enacted in El Reno were witnessed. OPENING NOT TO BE DEFERRED. Secretary Hitchcock Telegraphs There can Ite No Postponement. WASHINGTON, July 11.—The complaints from land offices in Okla homa other than El Reno and Lawton that they should he allowed to make registrations from the opening of the reservations are regarded officially as not well founded. The matter was taken up some weeks ago and Delegate Flynn at the time unsuccessfully en deavored to haTe the other Oklahoma offices included. MBR4SKA CROP Ci»NDiTIONS. Yield of Wheat Good In Qnantlty and OimlltT—Corn Grow* Well. United States Department of Agri culture, Nebraska Section, Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau— Weekly Crop Bulletin—University of Nebraska, Lincoln. July 10.—General summary: The past week has been hot, with heavy showers in eastern counties. The daily mean temperature has av eraged 5 degrees above normal. The maximum temperatures for the week generally exceed 100 degrees in southern counties and were but little below 100 degrees in the northern. The rainfall of the past week has been heavy in southeastern counties, varying from one to nearly six inch es; in the northern and western coun ties it has generally been less than half an inch. Winter wheat harvest is nearly completed and threshing has com menced in southern counties; the yield is good in both quantity and qual ity. Spring wheat and oats have ( been considerably damaged by chinch bugs and dry weather in central and southwestern counties, and in many tields these crops will be about a fail ure. In gome placeg chinch hugg are^ leaving the wheat fields and attacking the corn. Corn has been damaged slightly in a few southwestern coun ties by the hot weather of the past week; generally, however, corn has grown well and in a large part of the state has grown very rapidly. Corn is small for this time of year. G. A. LOVELAND, Section Director, Lincoln, Neb. RUSH IN REVENUE OFFICE. Deuntod for Refund of Wur $tani|Mi M»kfi llmilnoMS ItrUk. OMAHA, Neb.. July 10.—The de mand for the refund of money used in the purchase of stamps under the war revenue law which are not re quired under the amendments to that law whirh went into effect July 1, is keeping the office force of the inter nal revenue collector busy. It is estimated that in this dis trict there are $50,000 in stamps sub ject to redemption, but these Btamps are so scattered that the redeeming of them is a slow process. Applica tions for refunds come from people holding hundreds of dollars in stamps and from those whose total refund will not exceed 25 cents and the work re quired in each case is the same. It is believed that the revenues of the government will he swelled to a marked extent over estimates by the failure of many persons to have their money refunded, as in many cases the time necessary to prepare the nec essary papers is of greater value than the stamps to be redeemed. The redemption of these stamps coming at the beginning of the fiscal year when the force Is busy preparing the reports for the year just closed, together with the fact that several new clerks are be ing Instructed in the duties of the of fice, consequent upon the change In the head of the Omaha office, keeps the force at work overtime. “SOONER” RFADY TO MAKE RUN. Disregard Fact that R«aemn Will R« Opened He I/otlerjr. EL RENO, I. T., July 10.—Judge Kilpatrick, special alloting agent of the Kiowa-Oommanche reservation, said that Caddo county is full of "sooners" and that trouble is likely to occur, notwithstanding the county is to be opened by lottery and not by run. Two troops of cavalry, one each for Fort Reno and Fort Sill, have been ordered to the posts and are ex pected to arrive at their destination on Wednesday. Lew Hornbeek, of Mlnco Newstral, has a small follow irotrR Granted. DES MOINES, la.. July 10— Gover nor Shaw has granted paroles as fol lows; Arthur Moer, from Marshall county, convicted of burglary; Harvey Owens, Davis county, convicted of lar ceny; William Voshall, Iowa county, larceny, and James O’Brien, Bremor county, assault on a woman.