VOL. XIX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1901. NUMBER 2.
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lzzzrZz -t3 in Samar Prefer to Live to
Pi^lit Another Day.
SIXTEEN EOLOrVIEiM ARE LEE T DEAD
Ninth Iiifuntry Suffer* Loiiof Two Killed
and One Hurt—Hurt tillin'* Achieve
ment* Are (liven Trnlge—Bout of Tour
Hundred Hcbela in Tit*.
MANILA, Nov. 18.—Company E of
the Ninth infantry, under Captain
K. II. SbocfTe!, was attacked by iifty
bolonen and several insurgents arm
ed with rllles at a point six miles
Tt Tarangan in the island of Sa
r The insurgents tried to rush
l:r ■ ■ r.iericans, but, failing to accom
plish their purpose, they quickly
broke and scattered. Tlie men of the
Ninth lost a corporal and a scout,
killed, and one private was wounded.
Sixteen of the bolotncn were killed,
while the riflemen escaped.
len Hotchkiss rapid fire guns will
be sent to the southern islands fur
operations in the mountains. Cupt,
Herman Hall of the Twenty-first in
fantry has been scouting for several
days in Batangas province, lie had
four separate engagements with the
insurgents there.
Judging from the firing on these
occasions, Captain Hall estimates tlie
force of each band of the rebels at
from thirty to fifty'. They made no
attempt to charge Captain Hall's
Party. Captain Hall's scout resulted
in the capture of one insurgent offi
cer and 50,000 pounds of rice.
General Sumner, commander of the
district of southen Luzon, highly
praises Captain Hartman and his
troop of the First cavalry, who last
Wednesday morning attacked 400 in
surgents entrenched in the rifle pits
at Buan, Batangas province, and
routed them. General Sumner says
the blow then administered by Cap
tain Hartman is the most severe the
insurgents have suffered, since lie
(General Sumner) assumed command
of his district.
Owing to the fact that the United
States transports Sherioan, Waldron
and Hancock all met with accidents
in the inland seas of Japan and the
returning party of visiting eongress
inent is consequently now delayed
in the latter country, the transport
Thomas, which arrived at Manila
November 12, will be immediately
dispatched to Japan. General Chaffee
opposes United States transports in
future passing through the inland
seas.
The Filipino priest. Deposy, has
been sentenced by court-martial to
the penalty of death for the murder
of certain of his countrymen who
favored the Americans. Out of re
spect. however, to the condemned
man’s calling and the religious body
to which he belonged and most un
worthily i cpresented. General Chaffee
has commuted his sentence to twenty
years’ imprisonment.
General Chaffee desires it to be un
derstood that the leniency exercised
in the case cannot be taken as a
nrei.edent and no pbrson in the
islands can be permitted to plead bis
office, however sacred and exalted, as
a protection against crime.
No Credence for the Story.
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 18.—No
eredence is given here to the story of
the alleged discovery at Skagway,
• Alaska, of a conspiracy to overrun
the Canadian government in Alaska.
United States Marshal Shoupe, who
ia credited with having come here
to communicate with the United
States government regarding the mat
ter, is said to have come only for the
purpose cf bringii* some United
States prisoners who had been sen
tenced to terms in the penitentiary at
McNeill's Island. He returned north
yesterday.
Mother of Seimtor Teller Dead.
CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 18.—Mrs. Char
lotte, M. Teller, mother of United
States Senator of Colorado, died at
her home in Morrison, 111., tonight.
Mrs. Teller was 93 years of age, but
was possessed of her faculties until
tho hour of her death. She belonged
to the Chapin family of Massachusetts.
EartliqnakH In New Zealand.
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Nov. 18.—An
earthquake in Cantoobury district has
devastated the township of Cheviot.
Many people have been injured.
The best way to make both ends
meet is to pursue a straight career.
MANY HANDS TAKE CENSUS
Increased Force Needed to Have Report*
Ready on Time.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—The an
nual report of Hon. W. R. M err la in,
director of the census, was made pub
lic Saturday by the secretary of the
Interior, to whom It Is addressed.
Speaking of the prospect of meeting
the legal requirements for the comple
tion of the four principal reports by
July 1, 1!)02, Mr. Merriam says:
“The work of tabulating the returns
and results of the field work of the
enumerators and special agents of the
twelfth census has progressed with
reasonable c( lerlty. The law provides
tiia: the four principal reports shall
be placed in the hands of the public
by July 1, 1002, and this requirement
liar, rendered it absolutely necessary
to maintain a clerical force adequate
to complete the work within the pre
scribed period. The statisticians made
estimates of the time needed to finish
the particular branch assigned to each
cf them."
ALL NATIONS ASKtl) TO COME
ICuli H for Exhibitor* itt 8t. l.oui* Expo
sition Will 80011 He Indued.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 18.—Rules and
regulations which will govern exhibi
tions and concessionaires at the St.
Louis exposition have been taken up
in detail and discussed by the execu
tive committee of the company. A
majority of the rules have been agreed
upon and the remainder will be ap
proved within the next two weeks.
Ase soon as the entire list is approved
several hundred thousand copies will
bo printed in different languages and
distributed through the entire civilized
world.
Plans for a mammoth live stock ex
hibit have also been discussed by the
executive committee. Assurances have
been received from many of the lead
ing live stock organizations of the
United States that they will duplicate
any sum which the World's fair will
offer in cash prizes for the exhibit.
ARBLCKLES WIN OIT
Hlylier Court Oecble* Tl»«*ir Glnxctl
Coffee In Not Impure.
TOLEDO, O.. Nov. 18.—Judge Pugs
ley in the common pleas court today
handed down a decision in the now
famous (ase in which a local grocer
was arrested at the instance of the
state pure food commissioner on the
ground that in? was selling a certain
brand of glazed coffee turned out by
the Arbuckle company, the commis
sioner claiming that the glazing was a
violation of the pure food law.
In a lower court the commissioner
won, but Judge Pugsley reversed the
decision and administered a rebuke
to tjie lower court. It was claimed by
the Arbu. kies that the sugar trust
is back of the prosecution.
BRONZE STATUE TO M’KINLEY
Citizen* of Cleveland Propose to Erect
Memorial
CLEVELAND, Nov. 18.—If the prop
osition made by the committee of 100
citizens to the finance committee of
the recent Grand Army encampment
is carried out. a surplus of $8,000
collected for that occasion will be used
to erect a bronze statue of heroic size
to the late President McKinley in
the public square, the center of the
business portion of the city. Tlius far
the matter has received the endorse
ment of most of the men connected
with the Grand army encampment and
there is little doubt of the memorial
soon becoming a reality.
Our Influence Orows in Corea.
SAN FftANCISCO, Nov. 18.—Dr.
Horace M. Allen, United States min
ister to Corea, who lias arrived here
enroute to his former home in To
ledo. is quoted as saving that Amer
ican influence is on the increase in
Corea and that American capital is
being invested in large amounts in
the development of the country’s re
sources. No less than eighty Amer
icans of large means, he says, are at
present engaged in developing mines,
building railroads and furthering
other big enterprises.
fjARt Touclu** to the Exposition.
CHARLESTON. S. C.. Nov. IS —
On Sunday, December 1, the exposi
tion will open here with a religious
service, in which all denominations
will take part. The musical program
will be rendered under the direction
of Mme. Uardt. The formal opening
of the exposition will take place on
I Monday. December 2. Chauncey M.
! Depew of New York will deliver the
principal oration and President
Roosevelt will start the wheels mov
ing by wire.
BEATEN
. —
! Champion Jeffries Gives Akron Giant
Enough in live Bounds.
' STOMACH BLOW CAUSES COLLAPSE
—
Vanquished I'ugllUt C'liti in « Jeffrie* Struck
Loiv-‘liaiy Victory ^arpriiM Boiler*
maker — Winner Couilderit Opponent
Vignrou* Cnt.il l.alter Yield*.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.—In one
of the most unsatisfactory prize fights
ever witnessed in this country James
Jeffries proved the victor last night
over Ous Ruhlin. In the fifth round
of what was to have been a twenty
| round struggle Ruhlin wilted and then
surrendered to his peer, to the utter
amazement and disgust of the assem
bled thousands. No one was more
surprised than Jeffries himself, who
asserted that although he had deliver
ed one telling blotv in the second
round ho did not expect to win the vic
tory so easily.
Kuhlin's sole explanation of the out
come of the fight is that lie received
a chance blow which utterly disabled
him and that Jeftiles persisted in
fighting him low. While Ruhlin will
make no absolute charge of Jeffries
having committed a foul he intimates
that he was unfairlj handled and in
jured as a result. Ruhlin received
the report of his seconds in this stand,
who say that his was a hopeless case
after the second round.
When seen in his dressing room af
ter the fight Champion Jeffries said:
‘‘I was certainly surprised at my
easy victory and Ruhlin's amazing de
feat. While it is true that he did not
punch me hard enough during the five
rounds to cause me any alarm, I be
lieved him strong and cautious up to
the moment of his collapse and was
surprised when he quit. I certainly
had no trouble in whipping him and
had the fight gone on the result must
have been the same. Ruhlin was in
accurate and in poor wind and I can
not say that he even had the courage
and force that I expected to ecounter
in him. Ruhlin took a stiff punch
In the stomach in the fourth round.
liich I presume gave him trouble.
Nevertheless I expected him to lose
harder than he did. Ruhlin can
doubiless besi explain his own posi
tion. and as for myself 1 am willing
to meet Sharkey next month and
thereafter to defend as best I can the
title I hold.”
When Ruhlin went into his dress
ing room lie was followed by a gloomy
group of adherents. The defeated
man complained of no parin and mov
ed about without assistance. He
j stated:
j “I believed from the tap of the gong
: that I would win, but as the fight
progressed 1 was beaten down until 1
received a blow in the stomach which
I must say was very low. It may not
have been a foul, but no living man
could have survived it. Jeffries de
parted from the written rules and
from the common regulations of box
ing when ue threw himself upon me
and wrestled rather than sparred. I
believe that had I not received the
stomach punch which ended me in
the fifth round I would have worn
down Jeffries a few rounds later and
beaten him as a matter of endurance.
I am ready to fight him again and be
lieve that in time I will have the op
portunity of showing (hat I can de
feat him.”
IOWA MONEY MISAPPLIED.
Borird of Control Charge* Abuse of State’s
Appropriation*.
DES MOINES, la,, Nov. 16.—The
second biennial report of the Board
of Control of Iowa institutions was
issued today. An appropriation of
$848,127 is asked, mostly for improve
ment of state buildings.
The report charges that appropria
tions for the State college at Ames
and the State university at Iowa City
have been used for lobbying purposes.
Concerning insane at county asylums,
it is charged they are treated like
animals, male attendants having ac
cess to women’s wards, and that in
one instance six persons were bathed
in the same water.
It is recommended that the Ana
mosa penitentiary be converted into
a reformatory and au indeterminate
sentence law enacted.
IV m* ion* IiKT^asIng.
DES MOINES, la., Nov. 16.—The re
port of the Des Moines agency to the
commissioner of pensions for the
month of October shows a gain of 1C5
original pensions and renewals and a
loss by death of 127, by remarriage
one and by minors becoming of age
twelve.
KNOCK AT Tfir IVON’S DOOR
—
Oklahoma and the fm-llan Territory Urgr*
Their Demand fnr Statehood.
MUSKOGEE, I. T.. Nov. 15.—Single
statehood for Oklahoma and Indian
Territory will be brought to a definite
Issue at the convention catted to meet
in the United States court room here
this afternoon. The date for the con
vention was set at Oklahoma City on
October 22, and three hundred dele
gates from each territory have come
to fight out the issue. The supreme
effort of the two territories to secure
a single statehood form of govern
ment at the next session of congress
will bo made.
The Issue will, it is believed, be.
squarely divided between the political
and commercial interests of the terri
tories. Politicians, as a rule, it is
conceded, are in favor of separate
statehood. This view, as far as indi
cations point before the meeting gath
ers. is opposed by the business men
tf tha territories, who want all ave
nues of trade and industry opened
without restriction, and who profess
to believe that this end coukl not lie
secured in making two states of the
territories. This, it is held, .is espe
cially true in Indian Territory, whose
undeveloped natural resources, they
assert, are as rich as can be found in
any state of the union. Among the
first delegates to arrive the current of
feeling seemed strongly for single
statehood for Oklahoma without de
lay, Indian Territory to be later.
( Aside from speechmaking and the
adoption of resolutions bearing on
the subject, tne convention will likely
provide funds to carry on a system
atic campaign of education for state
hood that shall finally reach congress.
fAVORS TUI AMERICAN ELODR
l*ruzil iDfreBHfH Duty «m Ttmt Import**!*
in 1 iag*.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—The Rio
Janeiro correspondent of the Heuald
cables: The Chamber of Deputies has
passed a bill increasing the duty on
lloifr imported in hags instead of bar
rels. There was a lively discussion
over the measure. It was contended
that flour imported in bags is apt to
contain dangerous germs, but this as
sertion was combated vigorously.
One member of the budget commit
tee frankly declared that the object
of the bill was to protect United States
producers against the Argentine. Af
ter the votp hud been taken several
deputies said: “The Yankees have
routed the Argentines.”
Public opinion and the newspapers
generally disapprove of the new law,
as it is known that flour from the Uni
ted States arrives in barrels, while
the Argentine product comes in bags.
Newspapers of Buenos Ayres unani
mously condemn the measure and re
monstrances will be filed by the Ar
gentine millers.
It him I Mall Clerk* In Civil Service.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—About two
hundred employes in the executive
branch of the rural free delivery ser
vice of the postoflice department will
be brought into the civil service by
an order of President Roosevelt, which,
it is understood, will be issued within
a week or two. These employes are
clerks, special agents and inspectors.
The 6,000 rural free delivery carriers
throughout the country will not be
brought into the civil service under
the same order, but they will be taken
in at some later day. Their civil ser
vice status is to be somewhat different
from that of those first included,
though, the regulations governing them
have not yet been passed upon.
Wr< ekn Strewn Along Shore.
LONDON, Nov. 15.—It is still im
possible to estimate with any exact
itude the total loss of life and prop
erty resulting from the protracted
gale, and probably the full extent of
the damage will never be known.
Much wreckage of unidentified ves
sels is still being thrown up. Alto
gether it is known that some fifty
vessels have been wrecked along the
British coasts, thirty-four of these
have become absolute wrecks, involv
ing. It Is believed, a loss of more than
ISO drowned. The Yarmouth lifeboat
disaster alone leaves forty-four father
less children.
Krprtlon or Norfolk Asylum.
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 15—The
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
decided to readvertise for bids for the
erection of the Norfolk asylum. No
material can be secured, it is claimed,
until midwinter. The State Board of
Charities may recommend that 125 of
the patients be sent to Hastings and
the asylum at Lincoln to relieve the
overcrowded condition of the reniain
| ing buildings at Norfolk.
A BRUSH JVITU REBELS
Cavalry Troop Encounters four Hundred
Kativts in Rifle Pitsx
WADS OF ARMS COME TO LAND
llujor Went Statlniiml Near Pu<a»g»n
la cm Trail ctl Smu^glt-d itoutlM—Six
Natiw* /ire ItOUrd iiuil l ive Wmiiide*)
—I’aacmltlicx Utirini; September.
MANILA, Nov. 14.—Captain Hart
umn's troop of tiio First cavalry early
this morning name upon 400 insur
gents at Bunn in Pantangas province,
southwestern Luzon. Half the insur
gents were armed with rifles. They
were prepared for an attack anti wero
in rifle pits. The cavalry attacked
the insurgents on the flank, killing
sixteen of- them, wounding five and
capturing nine rifles. The insurgents
broke and ran, the cavalry pursuing
them.
Two large boatloads of arms are
reported to have been landed on the
southern part of the Batanzas penin
sula and taken to Duraagan. Major
West, stationed in that locality, is
endeavoring to tind these arms.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—General
Chaffee reports to the war depart
ment the following casualties during
last September, dated September 30:
engagement near Candelaria, Lu
zon, 4 p. m. September 24: Allen
Crocket, lieutenant. First infantry,
killed in action.
In engagement near San Antonio,
Samar, September It!: Jacob Settlor,
G, Ninth infantry, chest, mortal.
In engagement at Ulio. Luzon, Sep
tember -0: William Hire, M, Eighth
infantry, hip .severe.
it: engagement at Jagua, Bohol:
Howard M. Reiley, M Nineteenth in
fantry, chest, slight; Andrew Rowan,
oaplatn, Nineteenth infantry, '!/'-■ g,
slight; James Carter, I, Nineteenth in
fantry, leg, severe; Benjamin F. Dav
idson, I, Nineteenth infantry, leg,
slight; Peter W. Scanlon, sergeant, I,
Nineteenth infantry, thigh, slight.
HAS A TALK WITH MISS STONE
Kh«> li Confined In tlie Kciidence of a
Ttirkluli Otllviul
NEW YORK, -Nov. 14.—Ivan Molo
cholf, a Bulgarian clergyman from
Uscub. in Macedonia, lias just arriv
ed from visiting Miss Stone and is
now in consultation with Mr. Dickin
son, says a Sofia iBulgariu) dispatch
to the Journal and Advertiser. “Miss
Stone,” be said, "is in (he town of
Ceres, Macedonia. I left her two days
ago, coming direct to Mr. Dickinson
to try to arrange for her release. Miss
Stone and Mine. Tsllku are well, but
the strain is terrific, and there is dan
ger that Miss Stone may lose her
mind. To be always in the same sur
roundings is likely to drive her crazy;
constantly looking at the same objects
has semi-mesmerized ner and she has
bad a presentment that evil will befall
her.
“The brigand chief informs me that
he will now insist on the full ransom,
as the length of time Miss Stone has
been left on his hands leaves no mar
gin for bargaining. The name of the
brigand chief is Dervich Younouss,
and he is an Albanian.
IglbRlaR A bill p* in f-unbo.
SAN JUAN. P. R., Not. 14.—Santi
ago Iglesias, who was sent to Porto
Rico by the American Federation of
Labor to organize the workingmen ot
the Island and who was arrested on ar
riving here last week on a charge of
conspiracy, has not yet answered the
message from Mr. Gonipers as to the
cause of his detention. He is with
holding his reply until tomorrow,
awaiting the attorney general’s an
swer to his petition to Governor Hunt
to be released on bis own recogniz
ance.
]ii*une In London.
LONDON. Nov 11 Miss Venderbiit
Wackerman of New York, who cam..
Into prominence last winter by threat
ening Hubert Herkomeyer, the artist,,
with a suit for damages because he re
fused to allow’ her to complete sittings
for a painting of her. which he had
begun, w’sa taken to St. Giles' infirm
ary today as a wandering lunatic. She
will probably he examined tomorrow.
Fighting Hob (loei to Aula*
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Secretary
Long intends to send Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans out to the Asiatic sta
tion to be second officer in command.
Both Admiral Rcmey, commander-in
chief at that station, and Admiral
Kempf, junior squadron commander,
will return soon to tbs United States.
LUTHER W. OSBORN IS DEAD
DlHIfRfftilrtfted Nehmuktin Panics Away
at Ilia Post in Samoa.
WASHINGTON, Nov. U^-A cable
gram received at the state depart
ment today from Auckland, New Zea
land, announce* the death at Apia,
Samoa, on October 17, of Luther W.
Osborn, United States consul geueral
at Apia.
Mr. Osborn was born in New York
ami appointed to bis present post
from Nebraska July 2t>, 1897. Thus ho
was the principal repceaentatlve ot the
authority of the United States in the
Samoan group in the. troublesome day*
before the partition and it appeared
that he alone of all the foreign rep
resentatives at Apia arejused no op
position. He obtained the confidence
of the natives and the other repre
sentatives of the foreign powers.
The death of Iaft her W. Osborn of
Nebraska, consul general at Apia, Sa
moa, announced today by the state
department, came us a great shock to
the officials. His communications to1
the department have been marked by
thoroughness, clearness and value.
When trouble between the contending
factions of natives arose Judge Osborn,
as acting chief Justice of Hie Samoan
islands, decided every question with
such eminent fairness that both sides
to a controversy were bound to ac-;
eept his decisions. When the excite-;
inent in the islands was at white heat'
and actual warfare between contend
ing native tribes had broken out Con
sul General Osborn remained on the
island, refusing to take refuge on a
man-of-war, and by liis coolness and
courage prevented wholesale slaughter.
The consular service of the United
States contains not a chapter of cool
ness, Intelligent judgment and suceess
eessful diplomacy on the part of any
consul surpassing this chapter of Judge
Osborn's record at Apia.
_
SORROW AT HIS OLD HOME
How News of Death of Col. Osborn Was
RfnMTHl In liluir.
Br.AIR, Neb.. Nov. 13.-Thre Is
great sorrow here at his old home
over the death of Consul Osborn. Mr.
Osborn came to Blair from Elmira.
N. Y., In August. 18119. and began the
practice of law, which he continued to
follow until October 14, 1S97, when
he sailed for Samfta. Ills wife and
son, th< ir only child, accompanied
him. Mr. Osborn’s death oasts a gloom
over the entire city and many are
the expressions of sorrow heard to
night on every hand. Two letters
were received here yesterday from Mr.
Osborn. one being to Mayor W. D. llal->
ler, which was dated Apia, October!
18, and the other October 19. In both1
letters Mr. Osborn writes cheerfully,
as though in good health. He was a
member of the Masonic lodge and
Knights Templars of this city.
C'hiimmvn Mu at Go Hack*
WASHINGTON. I). C., Nov. 13.—The
cases of approximately one hundred)
Chinamen who are detained at San.
Francisco were heard by Assistant
Secretary Taylor today. They are all)
known as “transit cases,” the China
men making oath at the port that
they were bound for Mexico.
“We have investigated many simi
lar cases,” said Secretary Taylor, "and
found that ninety-nine out of a hun
dred mysteriously came hack to the
United States. As a matter of fact
they go to Mexico only in order to
come over the border at the first op
portunity.”
M’KINLEY MEMORIAL PIAIYS.
A Meetlug of the CouuuUtM Swiveled by
Gov. Sliuw.
LINCOLN, Neb., Now. 13.—People of
Nebraska are asked to contribute to
the fund of the McKinley National Me
morial* association, which proposes to
erect a monument to the late presi
dent at Canton. Governor Savage Is
an honorary member of the associa
tion. and bankers uud other promi
nent men have been asked to co-op
erate with him in organizing a Nebras
ka auxiliary. The governors of all
states are honorary members.
Mexican I.ettfirs by One Tout,
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 13.—The
Mexican government has notified the
postoillce department of this country
that it desires the customs duties
chargeable on articles sent by mail
from the United States for delivery
to addresses in the City of Mexico
hereafter shall be addressed at Neuvo
I^iredo, Mex. Instructions to forward
all such mall to Neuvo Laredo accord
ingly have been issued from here and
all railway postoffices authorized to ex
change mails with postofiJcra in Me*'
ice.
