Loup City Northwestern.
VOL. XVIII. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. 1001. NUMBER 40.
Amalgamated Association's Secretary Says
Strike May Have a Bloody Ending,
THE BAYONET MAY BE POSSIBLE
Declare* It Will lie Appealed to If All
Other Mean* Fall—Union* Decide
Their Course—.Sliuffer DI*appolnted at
the Number That Will Stand Firm.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 12.—The Iron
mstears are tonight claiming victory
in the great steel strikp. They huse
their claim upon the refusal of the
Amalgamated men at South Chicago,
Joliet and Bay View to obey the gen
k oral strike order of President Shatter
and their sucecss in maintaining oper
ations in other plants where it was
anticipated that there would he seri
ous trouble.
The strike leaders meet the claims
■of the masters with the assertion that
their cause is making satisfactory
progre- and that they will show
themselves masters of the situation be
fore the contest has progressed much
further. They do not conceal their
disappointment at the refusal of their
western brethren to join with them in
the strike, but none of the leaders
would discuss the defection.
The association secretary, however,
gave out an interview on the general
situation, in which he said:
1 tell you this question will have to
•be settled in some way. If not by
peaceful strike, then by legislation.
If that fails the ballot will be tried.
It all else fails I believe that it will
result in an appeal to the bayonet. 1
toll you, there is a condition existing
today that places this country on the
eve of one of the greatest revolutions
that ever eould occur in the history
of the world.
Secretary Williams urged the blame
for the strike upon the refusal of the
United States steel corporation to ar
bitrate and declared that before the
strike was over thousands of men in
other trades w'ould be drawn into it
to save the Amalgamated association
and the principles for which it stands.
He said:
* “We agreed to arbitration because
the business men and citizens of
Pittsburg urged us to do so. We
were willing to risk the interests of
our organization in the hands of oth
ers in this dispute if there was any
prospect for peace. It is practically
the first time in the history of our
organization that we have gone this
far. The effect upon the future would
be far-reaching, as it would enable
manufacturers to ask the same con
cession from us and this we have in
the past declined to grant because we
feared the results. This arbitration
being turned down flat and uncondi
tionally, those who have been urging
us to submit to it will have a chance
to prove their interest and friendship
for us in our inevitable battle with
the greatest trust that was ever or
ganized.”
Mr. Williams said that the strike
had been studiously avoided by the of
ficers of the Amalgamated association.
It had- been as studiously encouraged
by the officials of the manufacturers'
organization. The officers of the
Atnalgmated association had done all
they could and had worked hard to
bring about peace. The battle was
^ now in the hands of the men, and it
was up to them as to what the out
come would be.
BOUGHT BY ARMOUR AND SWIFT
Slock Yards at Fort Worth to lie Expand
ed by llrAoch Plants.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—The packing
firms of Armour & Co. became joint
owners of the stock yards at Fort
Worth. Texas, and will soon expend
$1,000,000 in building branch plants at
that place.
Ownership of the stock yards was
secured at a conference in the after
noon by J. Ogden Armour, president
of Armour Air Co.; G. F. Swift, presi
dent of the Fort Worth Stock Yards
company. While the two firms be
come joint owners of the stock yards
they will erect separate plants and
will continue as business rivals. It is
denied by the company that any com
bination is intended.
Bocri Accrued of Atrocity.
LONDON. A eg. 12.—According to a
dispatch to the Daily Mall from Loren
zo Marquez, the Boers are reported to
have captured and shot In cold blood a
lieutenant and trooper of Steinacker's
Horse in revenge for their being in
strumental in shooting a Boer dispatch
rider.
SIGNOR CRISPI IS Df AD.
Famous Italian rttatcfliuan Fatses Away
at Ills Home In Maples.
NAPLES, Aug. 12.—Signor Crispi
died at 7:45 o’clock this evening.
He was surrounded by the members
of his family and several intimate
friends. The news was immediately
telegraphed to King Victor Emmanuel
and Queen Helen. The evening papers
assert that the body will be conveyed
by steamer to Palermo, where the mu
nicipality will arrange for a great pub
lic funeral.
It is rumored that Signor Crispi's
will authorizes a prominent Italian
politician to examine his papers and
to publish his memoirs.
ROME. Aug. 12.—In consequence of
the low condition of Signor Crispi
yesterday (Sunday) morning the in
jections of stimulants and the admin
istration of oxygen were stopped, the
physicians recognizing that both were
quite useless. Throughout the day he
lay inert and insensible, and he was
virtually dead for hours before the
physicians certified that life was ex
tinct.
Some indignation was expressed
when the public learned that the de
tails of the funeral had been arranged
before death came.
It is rumored that the affairs of the
deceased are in the greatest confusion
and that Signora Crispi will have to
depend solely on the proceeds of the
sale of the memoirs. The body will be
embalmed and will lie in state for
three days in the drawing room of the
Villa Lina, in Naples, the walls of
which are adorned with frescoes pre
senting the principal episodes of the
aribaldean epoch.
SOON THE PRESIDENT'S TURN.
St. Louis Fair Management Nearly Ready
for Proclamation.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12.—During the
past week there has been a rapid
dosing up of the gaps in the work of
organization at world’s fair headquar
ters, the most important of which has
been done by the executive commit
tee, which had under consideration
the classification reports of the vari
ous departments into which the ex
position will be divided. All these
were gone over carefully by a sub
committee and its work was approved
by the whole committee. This was
the last stage necessary to meet the
requirements of the federal law be
fore the president of the United
States could issue his proclamation
to all the governments of the world
announcing that an international ex
position would be held in the city of
St. Louis in 1903.
WAR PROFITABLE TO KANSAS.
Sunflower Sfnfp and Missouri Have Sold
British Many Animals.
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Col. Skinner,
one of the English officers who has
been stationed in the I'nited States
since the outbreak of the Boer war,
luiying horses and mules, returned to
Kansas City from New Orleans today.
With the shipments just made from
Kansas City to Capetown the British
government has spent $1,000,000 in
Kansas City for horses and mules for
service in South Africa. Colonel Skin
ner says that approximately 100,000
animals have been shipped from this
vicinity through the port of New Or
leans during the past three years. The
average prices paid for these animals
is $50 a head, making the total ex
penditure $5,000,000 in Missouri and
Kansas alone.
Another Negro Hanged.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 12—The
negro assailant of Mrs. J. J. Clark was
captured at Liberty City by R. L.
Young, a atationmaster of the Sea
board Air lane and identified by Mrs.
Clark. While being removed from
Ways to the Bryan county jail the
prisoner was taken away from his cap
tors by a mob and it is believed has
been burned at the stake. Positive
news of the lynching is lacking.
This Hold Brick Hus Value.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 12.—A tele
gram received by Captain James Car
roll from the Apollo Mining company
of San Francisco states that a gold
brick valued at $20,000, which was
shipped from lTnga, Alaska, via the
Steamer Newport last July, has not ar
rived in that city.
“Fighting Bob" Called Down.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—The navy
department has reprimanded Rear Ad
miral Robley D. Evans, acting upon
the complaint made by former Secre
tary of the Navy Chandler, for criti
cisms of the latter in Admiral Evaua’
book. "A Sailor's Log."
TITLE SUVJSE INVALID
Decision that Indian With White Father
Cannot Have Allotment.
CHARGES AGAINST SEVERAL PEOPLE
Complaint* Accompanied by Application
to Enter llomeateaif Claim—Paper*
Sent to tieneral Comuil**ioner at Wash
ington— People of Lynch Excited.
O'NEILL, Neb., Aug. 10.—Much ex
citement is being caused here by rea
son of a recent decision of the secre
tary of the Interior with reference to
land allotted to quarter and half
breed Indians. The syllabus of the
case referred to is as follows:
“Children born of a white man, a
citizen of the Cnited States, and an
Indian woman, his wife, follow the
status of the father in the matter of
citizenship and are therefore not enti
tled to allotment under section 4, act
of February 8, 1887, as amended by
the act of February 28, 1891.”
The decision seems to affect the ti
tle to several thousand acres of very
choice land in Boyd ayd Knox coun
ties. In October, 1890. 'there were al
lotted to the Ponca tribe of Indians in
Nebraska several thousand acres of
land In the above named counties,
which theu formed a part of the Pon
ca and Sioux Indian reservations.
Many of the allottees were children
born of a white man and an Indian
woman and under the rule then in
force it was thought they were en
titled to an allotment. This ruling
was reversed in the decision above re
ferred to.
a. J. Weeks, register or the United
States land office here, when seen to
day said: "Yes, it is true that charges
have been preferred by individuals
against a number of Indian allotments
in Boyd county. The complaints are
in the nature of an affidavit, alleg
ing in each Instance that the allottee
in each instance is the child of a
white man and a citizen of the Uni
ted. States. In most instances the
complaint is accompanied by an ap
plication to enter the land as a home
stead. The homestead application is
not allowed, but all papers are trans
mitted to the commissioner of the
general land office, and will, as I take
it, if he deems the charges sufficient,
make the matter a subject of ‘inquiry
by a special agent or order a hearing
at the local land office. In case a
hearing is ordered the persons pre
senting the charges against the al
lotments must assume and pay the
expense of the hearing, but they ac
quire no preference right to make en
try of the land if the allotment is
canceled."
It is reported here today that the
people of Lynch, the town nearest
the land, are much excited over the
matter and many are on the way
here to make application for the land.
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AFTER REMAINDER OF LAND.
Settle™ Think Cattlemen Can Katlly Get
Out of the IteHerve.
LAWTON, Okl., Aug. 10.—A move
ment has been started here among the
homeseekers who have lost to have the
government open tip the three reserves
in the land lottery which it set aside
in the l^twton district before the open
ing. At a meeting of 100 or more of
them it was decided to petition the In
terior department at once to take such
action. These reserves embrace 532,
500 acres, or about 3,300 quarter sec
tions. The land was held in reserve,
it is believed, because the government
anticipated that the cattlemen, who
had all of the Kiowa-Comanche coun
try leased for pastures, would not be
able to find pastures in Texas or other
cattle grazing sections readily. If the
cattlemen can round up their cattle
and get them to the government res
ervations this fall, the homeseekers ar
gue, they can find pastures somewhere
else by next spring. The homeseekers
are willing to buy the land outright
from the government.
Warrant for Mint Clerk,
SAN FRANCISCOO. Aug. 10.—Uni
ted States Court Commissioner Hea
cock has, upon the request of Secret
Service Agent George W\ Hazen, is
sued a warrant for the arrest of Wal
ter N. Gimmick, former chief clerk
of the United States mint In this city,
charging him with embezzling $30,000
in gold coin, the loss of which was
discovered early last month.
Omaha Lina to Extend.
CUMBERLAND. Wig., Aug. 10 —The
Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & Om
aha railway will tap ths Upper Mich
igan Iron country.
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THE LAST FROM WARIHIR.
War Department Receive* Report of Af
fair* in the Philippine*
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The annual
report of Major General MacArthur,
dated July 1, 1901, the day he relin
quished command of the Philippines,
has been received at the War depart
ment. The period covered by the re
port is from October 1, 1900, when the
last report from General MacArthur
was dated. He says: "With the dis
bandment of tile insurgents' field ar
mies the Filipinos organized desperate
resistance by banding the people to
gether in support of the guerrillas.
'I'his was caried out by means of secret
committees which collected contribu
tions, inflicted punishments and car
ried on a considerable opposition to
the Americans.” General MacArthur
says he hopes the policy adopted will,
in time, conciliate the natives and
make thpm friendly to the United
States. Tlie education of the people
in times past made them suspicious
of any governmental beneficence and
they evidently looked upon the lenient
attitude of tlie United States as indi
cating weakness. General MacArthur
says the proclamation issued on De
cember 20 firmly declaring the inten
tion of the United States to hold the
islands and have the laws obeyed had
a good effect and the secret resistance
was much abated.
General MacArthur gives the follow
ing statistics from May 5, 1900. to June
30, 1901 (during which time there were
1,062 contacts between American
troops and insurgents), which show
the casualties on both sides:
Americans—Killed, 215; wounded,
490; captured, 118; missing, 20.
Insurgents—Killed—284; wounded,
1,193; captured, 6,572; surrendered, 23,
095.
During the same period the follow
ing material was captured or surren
dered from the insurgents: Hiflles, 15,
693; ammunition. 296,365 rounds; re
volvers, 868: bolos, 3,516; cannon, 122;
cannon ammunition, 10,270 rounds.
FACTS ABOUT CUMMINS.
li One of the Representative Republican*
of Iowa.
DES MOINES. Ia., Aug. 9.—A. B.
Cummins of Lie's Moines, who was
nominated at the republican state
convention, !s one of Iowa's repre
sentative men.
Born in Greene county, Pennsylva
nia, 51 years of, of Scotch-lrish parent
age, he worked his way through the
common schools and the Waynesburg
academy, and then, when his educa
tion was completed, followed the ad
vice of Greeley and came west.
It was in 1869 that he located in
Elekador, in Clayton county, Iowa,
and there secured a clerkship in the
recorder's office. Some time after
ward he engaged in carpentering and
still later he was express messenger.
In 1871 Cummins went to Indiana
and was deputy surveyor of Allen
county, a short time afterward becom
ing division engineer of the Cincin
nati, Richmond & Fort Wayne rail
road. At the age of 23 Cummins de
cided to study law. and two years
later was admitted to the bar in Chi
cago.
NO CHANCE t OR MEDIATION.
'Frisco Striker* Want All Demand* Met,
or Notlilug.
SAN FRANCISCO. Ca.. Aug 9.—
The strike situation is practically un
changed. Governor Gage has not
been asked to act as mediator, though
he is willing to do what he can to
settle the trouble by arbitration. The
City Federation has extended the
strike so as to include the ports of
Benecia and Redwood City. The San
Francisco board of trade has under
taken the task of enlisting all the re
tail dealers' associations of the city
in a united effort to bring about a
compromise.
The labor leaders, however, state
that the struggle is not likely to lie
ended for some time. A mass meet
ing to consider the situation has been
called for tomorrow night.
Col Breathitt Dead.
MARSHALL. Mo., Aug. 9—Colonel
Caidwell Breathitt d.ed suddenly at
his home near Nelson yesterday, aged
8L\ He was a son of Governor John
Breathitt of Kentucky and father of
John B. Breathitt, former railroad
commissioner.
Iowa Firm Bankrupt.
DUBUQUE, la., Aug. 9.—J. F.
I.indeman ft Co. of Llpie Springs have
filed a petition In bankruptcy. The
liabilities ase $40,000 and Use assets
$0,000.
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QSL~
Closa of Wednesday Finds Each Bide
With Something Gained,
Tiff NEWCASTLE PLANT IS CLOSfD
Manufacturer* Retaliate tty Hreaklng
Strike nt the Clark Mill*—Roth Shaf
fer und Schwab Say that the Other
Must Plr«t Suggest Peace.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 8.—In the
big steel strike honors are even in
this section tonight. The Amalga
mated association succeeded in closing
down the big steel plant at Newcas
tle and the manufacturers partially
broke the strike at the Clark mill In
this city. Neither side is exulting,
nor is there any expression of dis
couragement.
Up to this hour not the slightest
trouble has occurred at any point in
this immediate territory and the Amal
gamated men are correspondingly hap
py, because this condition would seem
to be the carrying out of the associa
tion's departure in the handling of
strikes. The quiet waiting of the
strikers may bo one of the surprises
hinted at by the national officers.
FVom one or two points the strikers
are reported as restless and eager
for action, but so far they have kept
faith with their loaders and refrained
from committing any breach of the
peace.
The 'United States Steel corporation
ft was learned today from an official
source, will at once proceed in a sys
tematic manner to start its closed
sheet mills, making the non-union
plants of the Kiskiminetas valley the
cradle where strike-breakers will lie
trained and then sent out to the mills
that are closed.
So far as President Schwab is con
cerned no overtures will lie made to
the workers. In a talk with a Pitts
burg man in New York yesterday lie
said: “We have made our last propo
sition to the Amalgamated associa
tion and will now proceed to start
our works.”
President Shaffer makes this coun
ter statement: "The next proposition
must come from the United States
Steel corporation officials.”
Thus the two officials stand. It
seems as If only outside efforts can
bring them together. The trust offi
cials have decided to go ahead slowly
In the matter of starting mills and to
do so with as little publicity as pos
sible.
The strongholds of the sheet com
pany are the mills at Vandergrlft, the
largest in the country, Leechburg, Ap
polo and Seottdale. It has been de
cided to take as many skilled men
away from these places as possible
without retarding operations there and
start the mills where there is the
lenst danger of an outbreak. The
places left vacant at the mills men
tioned will be filled with men deserv
ing of promotion and they will be
given better positions. This move
will be undertaken slowly and with
caution. The plan further contem
plates that after a time many of the
strikers will return when they see
one after another of the closed mills
resuming. This plan was tested and
was found to be feasible so far as the
mills at Hyde Park and Wellsvllle
go, and it has been decided to adopt
it so far as the sheet and hoop mills
are concerned.
CUMMINS ON FIRST BALLOT.
Kcpahlican* of low* Nominate Him on
FI rat Ballot.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Aug. 8.—For gov
ernor, A. B. Cummins, Polk.
For lieutenant governor, John Her
riott, Guthrie.
For supreme court judge, S. M.
Weaver, Hardin.
For railroad commissioner, Ed C.
Brown, O'Brien.
For superintendent, R. C. Barrett,
Mitcheli.
This Is the ticket given birth by the
republican state convention here yes
terday. The nomination of Cummins
was a foregone conclusion since the
break up of the Herriott forces, which
culminated in a release by Herriott
of his own Guthrie county delegation.
The fight was none the less a pretty
on? and close enough to be interesting
to the end.
The anti-Cummins combination
managed to capture a majority of the
district caucuses to the extent of con
trolling the credentials committee and
securing from it a report seating antt
Cummlna contestants in Carroll and
Jackson counties
Rt PORTS ON CROP CONDITIONS.
Superintendent Culvert of the Borllnf
ton Mnk®n KncourMRliiR Kutement.
OMAHA, Aug. 7.—General Manager
Holdrege of the Burlington road haa
received from General Superintendent
P. E. Calvert a crop report covering
all divisions of the line for the week
ending August 3. It is In the main
very favorable, corn being estimated
at from two-thirds of a crop down to
one-third in different sections. Hay
and wheat reports are most favora
ble. Detailed summaries of the yield
per acre and other facts are given for
each division.
On the northern division, extending
from Plattsmouth to Kearney, the
chief trouble is that there are either
too few ears to the stalk or that lit
tle corn has formed on the cobs. This
is true of corn that tasseled during the
heated spell. I.ater corn will yield
from t,en to twenty bushels to tlie
acre, in some places the crop will
make from one-half to two-thirds of
an average one. The general aver
age for the district will be, it is esti
mated. slightly less than one-third of
a crop.
Winter wheat on the northern divi
sion is threshing out well, with good
quality. It is ranging from twenty to
twenty-five bushels to the acre. Spring
wheat and oats are scheduled as
•'poor” and potatoes are considerably
damaged. The pastures are reviving
somewhat since the rain and the cool
er weather.
Corn conditions along the southern
division are similar to those in the
northern, although they are more fa
vorable in places. This section ex
tends from Blue. Hill to Atchison,
Kan. The yield will be from fifteen to
twenty-five bushels per acre and In
many places, constituting a consider
able section of the whole territory,
there will be from one-thinl to one
half a crop. In other spots nearly
all the corn will be cut for fodder.
Wheat in the southern division Is
proving all that it promised. Pastur
age is not in very good condition and
needs frequent heavy rains to make
good fall feeding. Hay is a little
short and the potato crop is poor,
while apples and peaches are badly
damaged by the dry weather.
CONDITION OF IOWA CROPS.
Haiti* Have Helped Corn Kxcept Where
It Wan Too Far Hone.
United States Department of Agri
culture, Iowa Section, Climate and
Crop Service, Weather Bureau,' for
Week Ending August 6. Des Moines,
la.—The week averaged from 1 to 5
degrees daily above the normal,
though as compared with the preced
ing week there was a fall of about
12 degrees In the daily mean tempera
ture. The cooler weather, increased
humidity and copious rains of July 27
and 28 broke the drouth effectually
except in quite limited areas, where
the rainfall was very light.
The reports generally indicate fair
improvement In the condition and
prospects of the corn crop, though in
a considerable portion of the early
planted area It is damaged beyond
recovery except for fodder. Much of
the late planted corn is earing, with
healthy show of tassels, and the yield
of sound ears will depend upon favor
able weather for the balance of the
season without frosts to the end of
September. With normal conditions It
may yet bring forth more merchanta
ble grain than has been estimated and
if the fodder is all saved the value of
the entire crop will fall but little, if
any. below the amount realized from
the grain alone in some recent seasons.
FIRST CLAIM IS ELONGATED.
Wood of Weatherford those* Choicest
Acre* Along Townsite.
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 7— A special
to the Star from Fort Sill, Okla., says:
John Wood of Weatherford. Texas,
who drew’ No. 1 in the Lawton land
district, created a sensation at the
land office when, in filing his claim,
he chose ICO acres running the en
tire length of the townsite on the
south. Acording to the government
plat the two most valuable sections
in the whole reservation were made
to adjoin the townsite on the south.
Miss Mattie Beals, the Wichita, Kan.,
telephone girl, who had drawn No. 2
from the wheel, had counted on se
lecting one of th°se, hilt when Wood
made the selection noted she had to
content herself with a tract south of
Wood's and two sections away from
the townsite. Wood’s claim Is valued
at about $50,000.
Jeffries’ representative states that
the story that he and Sharkey have
agreed to a match la iiatrae.