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■'UPPp Loup City Northwestern LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1901. VOL. XIX. NUMBER 1, Chief Equipment Bureau Gives Statistic# of the Fuel Department. AMOUNT GROWS TO 95,713 TONS Excteda by tlmt Figure the Total Pur chase of Last Pineal Year—Secretive About Home Stations—They Are Pro posed Places Not to He Mentioned. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—A strik ing illustration of the growth of the American navy is presented in the single statement in the annual report of Hear Admiral R. B. Bradford, chief of the equipment bureau of the navy, that lie spent $2,273,111 the last fiscal for 324,108 tons of coal at an average cost of $7.01 per ton. The report says that tins was nearly 95,713 more tons of coal than was used during the pre ceding fiscal year. Ten years ago the coal consumption was 73,000 tons per annum. The domestic coal costs $0.20 per ton and the foreign coal, of which there were used 105,066 tons, cost $8.50 per ton. Admiral Bradford has scat tered American coal all over the world wherever suitable storage could be found. He has placed 12,000 tons at Yokohama and 5,000 tons at Pichilique Mex., and he has sent large quantities to Guam and to the Philippines. He carried 9,000 tons by water from the Atlantic coast to Mare island, Califor nia,w here it came into competition with English Cardiff coal. They have averaged the same in coast, viz $9.29 per ton, but at present, owing to the scarcity of American freight vessels, the best Cardiff coal is considerably cneaper at Mare lsiana. it is recom mended that two large steam 10,000 ton colliers be built to keep depots supplied in time of peace and to ac company the fleets in time of war. Summarizing the work accomplished at various coaling stations during the year the report takes up Cavite and jjays that the bureau is about to open bids for a 45,000-ton coaling station there. Efforts have been made to ob tain a site for a coaling station at Cebu, but thus far without success. Coaling stations have been located at Port Isabella, Basalin island and at Poloc, Mindanao. A complete station has been estab lished at Yokohama, Japan, and it is now fully stocked with coal. The same statement is true at PIchilique, Mex.. where through the courtesy of the Mexican government our coal and colliers have been admitted to the station without port duty or customs of any kind. In the West Indies a lit tle work has been done at San Juan on the coaling scale, but Admiral Bradford expresses regret that little progress has been made for securing other sites for coal depots in the West Indies. It is particularly essen tial that some of the deep wfater ports of Cuba should be made available for this purpose, as the entire waters sur rounding Cuba are most important in a strategic sense. Estimates are suo mitted for improvements of coaling stations at most Atlantic ports, includ ing a modern plant at Norfolk. CAPf COLONISTS MIST TIGHT They Must Aulit In Driving Out the Swarming Rebel*. LONDON, Nov. 11.—-In a letter, dated October 23. the Capetown corre spondent of the Daily Mail says: Lord Kitchener and Sir John Gordon Sprigg (the Cape premier) have ar ranged a scheme for the expulsion of the invaders from Cape Colony. A Joint commission of imperial and co lonial military chiefs have been sit ting here for some days past to draft a scheme. It is understood that this provides for the coloney taking a large share in the future campaign and contribut ing largely toward its cost. Appar ently a levy of loyalists en mafise is the idea involved. Paul Revere In D«»d. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Paul Revere, vice president, general of the Sons of the Revolution, died today at Morris town,. N. aged 45. He was a son of General Joseph Warren Revere, who fought in the Seminole and civil wars, and a great grandson of Paul Revere of revolutionary fame. Peculiar Accident Reunite Fatally. FRANKLIN, Neb., Nov. 11.—Jack Smith, who was injured by jumping from a load of hay and striking on a pitchfork, the handle of which pen etrated hts body for a distance of ten > inches, died of his injuries. NINE MEN RUN DOWN. Parmer Snrpiiifi Party of toafifti Who Are Hidlug in Hi« Hnrn, LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 11 — •All the police, deputy sheriffs and farmers in the country adjacent to I^avenworth were on the lookout to day for the twenty-six federal con victs who escaped from the stockade yesterday. As a result two convicts have been killed, two wounded and five captured unhurt. The casualties took place in a fight near Nortonville, Kan., that resulted in the death or capture of five men. The dead: James Hoffman, aged 20, white; ,1. J. Poffenholz, aged 25, white, a sol dier convict; John Green, aged 21, white, and Willard Drake, aged 10, are wounded and recaptured, and the fifth, Fred Moore, aged 10, a negro, is recaptured, unhurt. The five men were discovered in the barn of Fay Weishaar. a quarter of a mile from Nortonville, Kan., about 3 p. in. today. Weishaar went into the barn and was ordered out at the point of guns. He rushed to Nortonville and gathered a wagonload of men, who, with revolvers, shot guns and a few Winchester rifles, has tened to the scene. IN CONVICJS’ GRASP, Sheriff Cook hiicI Deputy of Topeka Are TIicinHrlveii Marie FriHoneva. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 11.-Sheriff Cook of this county and Deputy Sheriff Williams were captured by two escaped convicts from the Fort Leav enworth military prison yesterday afternoon at Pauline, five miles south of Topeka, and held prisoners in the farm iiouse of a man named Wooster for several hours. The convicts finally escaped between a line of police sent from Topeka to reinforce the sheriff and are now at large. Both were slightly wounded. Wooster was badly wounded by one of the convicts when he tried to Are on them. Mrs. Wooster and Sheriff Cook were held before the convicts a6 a shield by the prisoners in making their escape. A posse is in pursueit. VOTE GREATLY REDUCED Nearly Quarter of a Million Lm in Ohio Than in 1900. CINCINNATI, O.. Nov. 11.—With almost half of the official returns from the eighty-eight counties in Ohio re ceived, it Is estimated that the total vote may be 100,000 less than for gov ernor two years ago, when 920,872 votes were cast, and almost a quarter of a million less than for president last year when the total vote of Ohio was 1,649,121. Notwithstanding the Increase in population duiing the past thirteen years, the total vote, will likely be much less than for president in 1888, when it was 841.941 and probably less than has been cast for governor since that time with a single exception. FIRST IN MTINLEVS MEMORY UiDDeiota Village Unveil* at the Town of Tower. TOWER, Minn., Nov. 11—To this village belongs the honor of having erected the first monument in honor of William McKinley. Representatives from the entire northwest were pres ent at the unveiling, including Gov ernor Van Sant and other men of prominence. When the monument was unveiled all the bands that Tower and the surrounding country could muster played the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee." The speakers were Governor Van Sant, John Owens, Thomas Mc Kee on and Rev. Dr. Forbes. Anti-Saloon t.M(«a WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Active preparations are making for the meet ing here in December of the sixth an nual convention of the American Anti Saloon league. The sessions will be held in one of the commodious build ings of the city and beginning Tues day. December 3d, will cotinue through Thursday. A large attendance is ex pected, as the league expects to secure railroad excursion rates throughout the country. The call for the conven tion is signed by Rev. Luther B. Wil son, the acting president of the league, and a request is made that all bodies hostile to the saloon send delegates together with a representative from each for the national board of direc tion. Six Hundred t'aiea of Smallpox. LINCOLN, Nov. 11.—Dr. Brash of Beatrice, one of the secretaries, said that over t>00 cases of smallpox hafl been reported to him since October 15. Of this number 200 were in the Indian reservations. The disease was found in over 100 localities. Vexation Regarding Treaty Charged With Causing Earl Li's Death. JAPAN WANTS TO KNOW ITS FORM Ktiimla Anxloun that the Manchurian rr«aty Be Secret—Emprcsa Dowager Orders Publicity — Hemorrhage Pula an Kud to Chtuese staienmail. PEKIN, Nov. 9. A violent dispute | with M. Paul Lesser, Russian minister l to China, over the Mam huiian treaty appears to have lieen the immediate j cause of the death of Li Huns Chang. The diplomatic confusion following i this tragic climax has enabled Japan for a moment to frustrate the designs ! of Russia. ! A fortnight ago the Japanese lega 1 tlon secured a reliable outline of the terms of the treaty and thereupon de manded that the Chinese plenipoten tiaries officially lay before them the text basing the demand upon the al legation that tlie Japanese interets were involved in any charge of the ■ status of Manchuria. The Chinese plenipotentiaries re 1 fused to comply with the demand Thereupon the Japanese government from Tokio communicated with the southern viceroys and induced them to use their influence with the empress dowager against the treaty, in the meantime the empress dowager in structed Li Hung Chang to communi cate the treaty after certain modlflca tions to the ministers of the powers and if they did not object to sign the1 same. JLil nUUK V^UHUK VIBIIVU m. l^noai and explained to him the instructions. The Russian minister strongly object ed to revealing the text of the treaty to the ministers of the other powers and a stormy interview ensued. la1 Hung Chang went home in a violent passion and had a hemorrhage, which the doctors attribute to the over-exer tion of a weakened system. While these things were happening in Pekin, instructions were issued countermanding the order to sign. This instruction came after la Hung Chang had become unconscious. When M. Lessar endeavored to have LJ Hung Chang’s official seal affixed to the treaty, Chou Fu, provincial treasurer, had arrived from Pao Ting Fu, and had taken charge of the seals as the temporary successor of Earl U. The flag of the United States legation was the only one half-masted today. Musicians beat drums about the house of Li Hung Chang. Li Hung Chang's estate will remain intact for the use of his eldest son who will provide for the other mem | hers the family. MAN HIM FOLLOWS MUTINY ! Armed Guard* Fur»ue Convict* From Leavenworth. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 9.— Forty mounted guards are beating the country for a radius of five miles around the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth in search of twen ty-six convicts who succeeded in es caping from the guards late yester day. The country is wild and rough and affords ample opportunity for es cape, and, as all the convicts are desperate men and armed, conflicts will doubtless result before they are captured. ine net Known result ot tne mutiny and the following light with thfe guards was one convict killed and four guards shot or othewise hurt, but It is believed that many of the fleeing convicts received wounds from the bullets sent after them by pursuing guards. The dead: Fort Quinn, a desperate criminal from Indian Territory, who is believed to have been the ringlead er of the outbreak. Wounded: Joseph B. Waldruphe. prison guard, shot in forehead and breast: condition still critical: Ar | * ! thur Trelford, captain of the guard, shot in leg. not serious; C. E. Bur ! rows, guard, shot in neck: slight; Andrew Leonard, guard, leg broken. Htnckm^n'w Fight Titkan t’p. WASHINGTON. Nov. 9—The Cni • ted States supreme court heard argu ments in the case of the Interstate I Commerce commission against the ! western railroads terminating at Chi cago. The case Involves the legality of the terminal charge of $2 per car on all cars for the Union stock yards at. Chicago in addition to the through rite charged. The commission de cided against the terminal charge, but the railroads appealed. PIOT TO MIIRDTR GARRISON. Si-wi-hI civil Officers of Town of MrnratU Impltrittfil in Cnnsplrury. MANILA, Nov. 8.—A plot to mas sacre the American garrison at Mon caila, province of Tarlac, island of Luzon, has been revealed by the wife of one of the conspirators. Sevesal of the town offf.ials are implicated in the murderous scheme. The woman who revealed the plot had a detective beneath th® house in which the leaders of the conspiracy were meeting. Arrests followed and many incriminating papers were seized. The plan was to set lire after dark to a house close to the barracks and when the soldiers came out to assist in extinguishing the flames, 150 con spirators, armed with bolos, were to rush on the guard, capture their arms and proceed to massacre the sol diers. The commissioner today took the oath of office as vice governor. He will be the acting governor during the- convalescence of Governor Taft, who probably will be unable to re sume his duties for some weeks to come. The newspapers approve the appointment. The Philippine commission passed the treason laws, with slight altera tions. Several sjioke against them. MO Slit P TOR ltir Sill TAM r’m nr* nml HumIa Tnk« Action for Hcform. It in reported here, nays a dispatch from St. Petersburg, that France aud Russia have arrived at an agreement for common action, with a view to the execution of reforms in Armenia and the European provinces of the Ot toman empire guaranteed immunity by the .sultan in the Berlin treaty. They propose to invite the signatory powers to meet in conference for this object. It is expected here that all the powers will accept the invitation, but the conference could not well be held before spring. In well informed circles in St. Pet ersburg a fear is expressed that the present steps of France may cause matters to develop so rapidly that Russia, despite the czar’s love of peace, may find itself driven into an attitude of another kind in order to safeguard its own interests. Events in Turkey and the Balkans are re garded in political circles with great anxiety. DICKENSON IS AGRIEVED, Deeply Regret* DI*cto*nro* that He Had Letter From Brigand*. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 8.—Consul General Dickinson of Constantinople is greatly chagrined because the fact that he has received a letter from Miss Ellen M. Stone leaked out. He says it is calculated to seriously ef fect, if not completely undo, the progress already achieved. On two previous occasions negotiations with the brigands who abducted the Amer ican missionary were abruptly broken off by the former, owing to the pre mature disclosure of its contents, which the bandits regarded as a breach of the understanding with them. Mr. Dickinson informed a repre sentative of the Associated Press that it is absolutely necessary, if Miss Stone is ever to be released, that the course of the negotiations be kept se cret. It is hopeless to expect the brigands to plac#* confidence in the ne gotiators when they find that in formation which they regard as secret is constantly leaking out. THURSTON CHOOSES A KANSAN •«lcct« Mrs. Kv«rlit of Atchison to Att on Hoard of ftlaaaitarft ST. LOUIS. Nov. 8.—Ex-Senator John M. Thurston, a member of the World’s Fair National commission, notified Secretary Joseph Flory of the commission that he had nominated Mrs. Belle Everist of Atchison, Kan., on the recommendation of the Kansas senate and house of representatives, as a member of the board of women managers of the World’s fair. The nomination will be confirmed at the next meeting of the commission, No vember 20. Srhl«T Will VUIt South. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Admiral Schley expects to make a visit to Memphis, Tenn., in January, at a date to be determined upon later, when he is to be presented a silver service by tip* people of Memphis. K. r. Turner’! Fall la Fatal. CEDAR FALLS, la., Nov. 8.—E. F. Turner of Wilber. Neb, employed on the Cetlar river bridge, died from in juries received in a fall Thursday. Btate Results Quite Generally Favorable to the Republicans. THE LOCAL CONltSTS ARE MIXED The Lindillilt lo Greater New York An* toiiml* l>eiiin<-r*in Additional Itrtnrna ITroni Mebranha, Iowa, UMninhuelU and Other Mine*. OMAHA. Nov. 7.—In this city these worn successful candidates in the late election: Sheriff. Power, dem.; Judge, Vlnsonhaler. rep.; clerk, iJnltt, rep.; treasurer, Klsasser, dem.; register, lJeuel, dem.; coroner, Ilrailey, rep.; superintendent, Hod well, rep.; sur veyor, Edquist, rep.; representative, Hattin, rep.; county commissioner, Connolly, dem.; Waterman, rep.; O'Keefe, dem.; police judge, Berka, rep.; school hoard, Andresen, Cermak. Homan, Funkhouser, McIntosh. Judge Sedgwick and the republican candidates for university regeuts on tho state ticket have carried Douglas county by some 1,700 majority. The regents run dose to the supreme court and dose to one another. LINCOLN, Nov. 7.—From all re turns received up to noon Chalrma* Lindsay of the republican state cen tral committee estimates that Judge Sedgwick's plurality will exceed 7.0Q0 The entire republican ticket is elect, ed in I-aneaster county. Complete re turns give Jesse Moore, candidate for register or deeds a majority or di, ana B. F. Knight, candidate for treasurer, over 800. All other nominees are elected by between 1,000 and 2,100. A table of forty-two counties, com plete, shows a plurality for Sedgwick of 6,001. These same counties last year gave Dietrich, republican candl date for governor, a plurality of 41, a net gain over last year of 5,960, whan Dietrich had a plurality In file state of 861. This would indicate that the republican plurality on the head or the state ticket will be in the neigh borhood of 10,000, as the counties In cluded in the table represent more than half the vote of the state for governor last year. Partial returns from other counties show that tho same ratio of republican gain obtains throughout the state OMAHA, Nov. 7.—The Herald says. Figures secured by the World-Herald covering about 70 per cent of tho state vote on judge of the supremo court of Nebraska indicate that in 1,121 voting precincts of the state out of the total number of 1,611, that Sedgwick has received 74,527 votes, and that Hollenbeck has received 63, 118 votes, thus giving Sedgwick a ma jority up-to-date in the first, heard from portions of the state, customarily republican, of 11,409. But. comparisons with the Holcomb Reese vote of two years ago for the same position indicate that this ma jority will receive a big trimmin-j down on the late precincts. Tl»»* in low*. DBS MONIES, Nov. 7. Returns are corning In slowly, only one-half of the 2,100 precincts have been heard from. It the same percentage of gain In majority continues. Cummins, repub lican candidate for governor, will have 92,000 over that of Phillips, dem ocrat. ,.s The prohibition vote has beea largely increased, advancing from 9,000 last year to 25,000 this year. Practically every precinct heard from shows a falling off in the demo cratic vote. Republican* Own Colorado DENVER, Colo,, Nov. 7.—In the election of county officers in Colorado, the republicans won In most of the large counties except Arapahoe. Com plete returns from all the precincts In this city and all country precincts except one show that all the demo cratic candidates were elected in Ara pahoe by majorities ranging from 2,000 to 4,000. In many counties the result is mixed, the offices being di vided between democrats and republi cans. Will of Edward Stoke*. NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—The will of Edward S. Stokes, who died on Sat urday last at the residence of his sis ter, Mrs. McNutt, was died in the sur rogate’s office yesterday. The will wa* executed on February 13, 1891, before Mr. Stokes had the disagreement with his cousin, W. E. D. Stokes, and the latter is the chief beneficiary under the will. No petition setting forth the value of the property left by Mr. Stokes was filed with the will. Ttlf I IVf STOCK MARKfT. I«tMl Quotation* Front South Omah* and KknRii* City. SOUTH OMAHA. Cattle—Receipts of cattle wer* fairly littoral, but the market ruled strong aa<l active on all desirable grade*. There were about thirty-five oar* of oorn-fed steers on sale and the quality aa a whole was very good. Packers ail had liberal orders, and aa a result the better grade* sold about as fast as they were unload ed. The market oould safely be quoted steady to strong and active. The cow market was also active and prices were fully as good as yesterday The better grades In some cases sold as much as 10c higher, as the demand was very active for that class of stock. The medium kinds and canners sold In just about yes terday's notches. Hulls, veal calves and stags all changed hands freely at good, steady prices. The supply of feeder* was not large, and as the demand was fairly liberal the market took on con siderable Ilf* and stronger prices were paid for the more desirable hunches There wero very few western steers In the yards good enough for killers. Oood, firm prices were paid for such as did ar rive, as packers all seemed anxious for good grass cattle. Range cows were also ready sellers at strong price*. Hogs—Owing to unfavorable reports from other points the hog market her* opened rather slow and 2*/(|5e lower. The first hogs sold mostly at $6.fl7Ht, and os sellers were generally asking more money the market was dull. Puckers finally r'llsod their bids and tho bulk of the sabs wont at $5.67Vi and $5.70. The close of the market was good and strong, the most of the late sales being at $5.70. In splto of the slow opening everything was disposed of In good season. Th* choicer hunches sold largely from $8,72V» to $5.85. Sheep—Receipts of sheep were fairly liberal for this time of th* week, but the big bulk of what did arrive was feeders. There were hardly enough of the mutton grade* to make a test of th* market. The few bunches that packers did buy brought good, strong prices, as Is shown by the fact thAt a string of owes sold at $3.25, which were far from lining choirs. Other hunches of fat sheep and lambs sold proportionately high. Tho feeder market, on the other hand, was slow and weak, the same as It has been for th* last severul days. KAN8AH CITY. Cattle—flood cattle worn «toady to a «hada lower; common cattle were lower; choice export and dreseed beef steers, IS.90««.60; fair to (food, $4.75©6.8S; stock firs and feeder*, $2.5304.25; western fed steer*. $5.0006.30; western rang* steer*,■ l2.RtVff4.6fi; Texas and Indian steer*. 12.75 tY4.50; Texas cows, $1.75@3.26; native »w», $2 MVR4 .40; heifers, $3.0005.28; bull*, I2.50iR3.H0; calve*, $3.2605.10. Hog*— Market was strong to 5c higher; top. *6.05; bulk of sales. $5.5505.95; heavy, 15.05. .6.05; mixed packers, I5.7IVR6.I15; light, $5 3305.80; pigs. $4.50(95.35. Sheep and Lamia* -Market waa strong; native lambs, l4.0OtR5.OO; western lamb*. $4.0004.00: native wethers. $3.2503.36; west ern wethers, $2 1003.60; owes, $2.7503.40; culls, $1.5003.25. PRANCE FEELS TRIUMPHANT K«(«lTejL Adrloea Announcing Turk's ^Conjplfiti CapitularIon PARIS, Nov. 9.—France has secured a complete triumph in the Turkislt dispute. The foreign office this morn ing received advices announcing that the sultan has yielded to the entire demands — irmulated by the French government and only the question of form regarding the execution of the engagements remains to be settled. This may be done within the next twenty-four hours, or, it is expected, at. the latest, in two or three days. Then Admiral Cailiard will relinquish hia occupation of the island oil Mity lene. An official note was issued at 1 p. m. yesterday to the effect that the porte had decided to yield to all thl demands of France and that as soon as the sultan has issued irade ratify ing the decision the French squardon will leave Mitylene. President Loubet presided at the cabinet council. The foreign minis ter, M. Delcasse, announced that the porte had Just advised him that it had decided to give satisfaction in the case of the various French demands, to which M. Delcasse replied that so soon as the sultan's order regarding the porte’s decision was communicated to him. Admiral Calilard’s squadron would leave the island of Mitylene. Booth ol* Major Dlnwiddio. CEDAR FALLS, Nov. 9.—Major W. A. Dinwiddle, U. S. A., second lieu tenant Second cavalry, 1866-1874; first lieutenant, 1874-1386; professor of mil itary tactics Illinois State university, 1877-1881; professor of military science and tactics Iowa Western university at Mount Pleasant, 1887 1891, and professor of military science and tactics at the state normal school for the past ten months, died at Pal myra, Wis. Interment will take place here. Britain's Aid Not Aonght. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 9.—There is absolutely no foundation for the re port which originated with the Paris Echo de Paris, that the port had de manded that Great Britain should protect Asiatic Turkey from French attack.