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VOLUME XIX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1902. NUMBER 15.
A FEDERAL CABLE
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS
PASSAGE OF CORLISS BILL.
GIVE GO VERNMENT FULL CHARGE
Advocates Ask Construction, Opera
tion and Control by Nation—Value
of Communication with Hawaiian
Islands Inestimable.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The re
port to be tiled today in the house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce recommending the passage
of the bill providing for government
ownership of a Pacific cable, says that
the United States, by the annexation
of Hawaii and the acquisition of the
Philippines and other islands through
the ratification of the Paris treaty,
assumed the responsibility of main
taining peace in the Pacific ocean.
This obligation, the report, which was
prepared by Representative Corliss, the
author of the bill, says was deliber
ately undertaken by this country and
approved by the united voice of the
people. It adds:
“The future peace and prosperity of
these islands will largely depend upon
the facilities extended by our govern
ment for the advancement and en
lightenment of the people there. If
we are to continue in control of these
islands the people must be made to
understand the character and purpose
of our government and to fed the ben
efits of the enlightenment of civiliza
tion. This can tie accomplished through
the mediation of cable communica
tions. The advancement of our own
people and the benefit of rapid com
munication through the telephone, tel
*
graph and railway lines illustrate the
advantage and the progress that may
he achieved through cable messages.”
Regarding government ownership of
cables, Mr. Corliss says England for
fifty years has been constantly acquir
ing by purchase and construction ca
ble communication with her vast pos
sessions. until she has expended up
wards of $100,000,000 for this purpose
and operates her own cables connect
ing her colonies. England is now
constructing a Pacific cable from
Vancouver to Australia at a cost of
nearly $9,000,000, and in order to give
her tradesmen ynd manufacturers the
benefit of this communication at the
least possible expense, has fixed a rate
of 2 shillings, or 50 cents per word, for
cable messages front Vaneoucer to
New Zealand.
“France, Germany, and other na
tions are not sleeping upon their
rights as the people of the United
States have been,” comments Mr. Cor
liss, “but are establishing government
telegraphic communication with their
respective possessions.
“1 therefore contend that the Pa
cific cable should be owned, controlled
and operated by the government of
the United States. It should be made
by an American manufacturer. laid by
an American ship, under an American
flag, and operated at actual cost for
the dissemination of knowledge, the
proper direction of our army and navy
and the advancement of our trade and
commerce in the Pacific. The trans
mission of communication should be
held by the state.”
To Reduce Representation.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.—The elev
enth continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion will begin here today and con
tinue throughout the week.
A number of important matters are
to come up for consideration. One of
the important questions is how the
large representation in congress may
be advantageously reduced. Fifteen
amendments to the constitution and
three to tlie by-laws are to be dis
cussed and an editor and business
manager for the magazine are to be
elected. Since the last congress 3,049
women have been admitted, making
the total membership of the society
nearly 40,000.
Will Arrive with the Prince.
LONDON, Feb. 17— Messrs. Wea
sels and Wolmarans expect to land at
New York simultaneously with Prince
Henry. The Boer delegates will vis
it New York. Philadelphia. Boston,
Chicago. New Orleans and San Fran
cisco.
Kruger Expects Good Luck.
BKItLlN, Feb. 17.—In a dispatch
from Amsterdam the correspondent
of the Daily Mail says Mr. Kruger
expects favorable results from the
tour in the United States from
Messrs. Wessels and Wolmarans.
SUCCESS OF GENERAL BELL.
Said to Have Crushed Insurgents in
Batangas Province.
MANILA, Fob. 17.—General J.
Francis Bell has practically cleared
up the Insurrection in Batangas prov
ince. the troops under his command
having made a clean sweep of the
district. It is net believed that all
the insurgent arms have been cap
tured or surrendered, but that a num
ber of them have been taken by the
insurgents to other provinces or safe
ly hidden. The Increase of robber
bands in the provinces of Tayabaa
and Cavite show the effects of the
drastic measures adopted in Batan
gas and Laguna provinces.
General Bell says the people of
these latter provinces never realized
the terrors ot' war until they person
ally experienced its hardships, owing
to the closing of the ports and the
concentration of the natives in tho
towns. General Bel! believes that
the insurgent leader, Malavar, is be
coming exceedingly unpopular with
the Filipinos, and that when the na
tives cease to fear his venegance
many will be found willing to betray
him. What has been said of Batan
gas applies almost equally to La
guna.
INTO A BOER SNARE.
British Mounted Infantry Meet With
Disaster.
PRETORIA, Feb. 17.—One hun
dred and fifty mounted infantrymen,
while patroling the Klip river south
Johnnesburg, February 12. surround
ed a farm house where the suspected
Boers were in hiding. A single Boer
broke away from the house and the
British started to pursue him. The
Boer climbed a kopje, the British
following. Immediately a heavy fire
was opened on them from three sides.
The British found themselves in a
trap and in a position where they
were unable to make any defense.
Eight of the British officers made a
gallant effort and defended the ridge
with carbines and revolvers until
they were overpowered. The British
had two officers and ten men killed
and several officers and forty men
wounded before the force was able
to fall back under cover of a block
house.
oiv,r\ ours «n c. uuimu vyull.
Young Roosevelt and His Comrades
Show Much Improvement.
BOSTON, Feb. 17—The three sick
boys in the Groton school infirmary
had a quiet day and from a medical
point of view a satisfactory one, al
though in the morning there was
some uneasiness about Howard Pot
ter. Dr. L. C. Shattuck of Boston
was recalled by Dr. Warren for con
sultation in his c ase and later it was
stated that young Potter jiad not bad
a setback, but simply a spell of rest
lessness. Theodore Roosevelt, jr..
and William Oimmell, jr., continued
to show much improvement.
Mrs. Roosevelt spent the greater
portion of the day at the infirmary
Notorious Man is Killed.
HAVRE. Mont., Feb. 17—Henry
Thompson, better known as "Bad
Man Henry,” was shot and Instantly
killed today in a saloon at Saco by
Ed Spuefell. The fight was the re
sult of a quarrel over a woman.
Thompson was a notorious character
In eastern Montana. Four years ago
he and Ed Starr, a stock inspector,
fought a duel near Saco, in which
Starr was killed and Thompson badly
wounded. He is also said to have
killed a man near Miles City. He
came here from Indian Territory.
One of the Hindoo Twins Dies.
PARIS, Feb. 17.—The Hindoo twin
named Dordica, which was separated
from Itadica by an operation Febru
ary 9. died suddenly this morning at
7 o'clock in convulsions, due to the
advanced stage of the tuberculosis
from which she suffered. The twins
appeared to improve during last week
and passed their time playing happily
with toys. The death of Dordica has
been concealed from Itadica, who is
making excellent progress.
Confirms Payment of Ransom.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The state
department has received cable advices
confirming the report that the ransom
money for Miss Stone has been paid
tot the brigand captors. It is not
known when her release will occur, but
it is understood that the brigands
have made a condition that they shall
have a period of a week or ten days
in which to make sure their safety in
retreat before the prisoner is finally
delivered up. J
WARM CROSSFIRE
WHEELER AND GROSVENOR EX
CHANGE LIVELY WORDS.
FORMER ASSAILS PRESIDEKT
He Denounces Our Attitude Toward
England as “Flunkeyism"—Thinks
it Proper that Lord Pauncefote Bs
Ordered Home.
WASHINGTON. Fob. 15.—The ni<>
notuny of a private pension day of
the house was enlivened by an im
passioned speech from Mr. Wheeler
of Kentucky in denunciation of what
he denominated "flunkeyism” to for
eign countries, lie took the recent
statements emanating from the conti
nental cabinets regarding the attitude
of Great Britain during the Spanish
Amerlcan war as a text for a whole
sale attack upon the trend of the
United States’ recent diplomacy. He
severely scored Secretary Hay and de
clared that if l.ord Pauncefote had
sought, as was alleged, to circumvent
this country during the war of 1898,
the sooner he was shipped across the
seas the better.
He also criticised the president for
his reported intention to send his
daughter to the coronation of King
Edward and protested against the offi
cial reception of Prince Henry.
His speech aroused the house to a
high pitch of excitement, and elicited
from Mr. Boutell of Illinois a spiced
defence of Secretary Hay. whom he
eulogized in high terms. Several
members took a hand and later in the
afternoon Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio took
Mr. Wheeler to task for his “inop
portune protest” and rehearsed the
history of the visit of the prince of
Wales to this country in 1860 and
his reception by President Buchanan.
Mr. Wheeler excoriated what he
termed the modern disposition toward
“European flunkeyism.” Until 1896,
he said, all Americans had gloried In
the splendid isolation of the republic
and its determination to hold aloof
from foreign entangling alliances.
Less than five years ago. he declared,
a president, "goaded on by the pitia
ble flunkey in the State department,”
had stretched his arms across the seas
in adulation to the people of Great
Britain and today the government was
hugging to its bosom that which since
the battle of Yorktown had systemat
ically and persistently plotted our
uuwuiau.
“I have respect, for the present oc
cupant of the White House. I frankly
avow,” said the speaker. “1 think lie
is too honest to be palatable to the
average republican partisan. A little
Quixotic, it is true, hasty-temperert,
fivll-blooded and not exactly desirable
to many of our citizens, and I indulge
the hope that the lingering element
of Americanism will induce him at the
first opportunity to boot out that man
in the State department, who in my
Judgment has brought us to this hu
miliating condition.”
He continued:
“England a friend of the United
States? 1 would to God she were, but
what a spectacle have we presented
in order to boast that we have the
friendship of Great Brtain and have
become a world power.
“For more than four years we have
witnessed Great Britain maintaining
military stations inside the borders
of two republics. We have seen her
agents going up and down this coun
try enlisting men and buying mate
rials of war. and I believe I will not
travel outside the record when I as
sert that any, member upon this floor
who has served here as much as
four years has received letters from
Ilia constituents protesting against the
enforced enlistment of American hoys
by the English government to do bat
tle in South Africa.
“We have swung further away from
the democratic traditions, from repub
lican ideas and republican principles
in the last five years than in the pre
vious 100 years.”
W. E. West Acquitted.
AMES. Ia.. Feb. 1-4 —The trial of W.
E. West of Grand Forks, Minn., for
killing Frank March, has resulted in
his acquittal after a three weeks’ ses
sion.
Report of Tolstoi's Death.
VIENNA. Feb. 15.—The Nieus Wie
ner Journal publishes an unconfirmed
rumor that Count Tolstoi is dead.
A bill was introduced in congress
by Delegate Flynn, providing for two
additional judges in Oklahoma and
placing Judicial salaries in the terri
tory at $5,000 a year.
FOR GOVERMENT EXHIBIT.
House Committee and St. Louis Men
Discuss Appropriation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—'Th« offi
cials of the government board for the
St. Louis exposition and a number
of St. Louis men identified with that
enterprise today were before the
house committee on ext>oBitiona rela
tive to the amount required for the
government exhibit.
Congress has heretofore appropri
ated $250,000 as n part of the amount
for the building, lint the amount for
the exhibit itself was left open.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Brigham, head of the government
board, and bis assistants calculate on
$800,01*0 for the exhibit. They also
desire a building to cost $450,000.
Supervising Architect Taylor of the
Treasury department stated that the
building would cost from $50,000 to
$75,000 more if built within the time
originally set for opening the exposi
tion than it would if another year was
allowed. ,
The various officials explained the
magnitude of the work and the plana
to make this government exhibit in
every way worthy of the enterprise
as a whole.
RUSSIA LIKELY TO PLAY EVEN.
Austrian Papers See a Way to Be Re
venged.
VIENNA. Feb. 14.—The Angto-Jap
anese treaty of alliance is the feature
of today's news in the Austrian news
papers and Russia's probable action
is widely discussed. The consensus
of opinion among those who are gen
erally in touch with Russian views
is that the militant Muscovites will
endeavor to revenge themselves by
stirring up disorders in Afghanistan,
while the Russian government will lie
low, awaiting the moment when Jap
an. having organized the military
forces of China, will join hands with
the latter and drive out all Euro
peans with the exception of the Rus
sians, who. by that time, will occupy
an impregnable position in Manchu
ria.
Some of the papers affect to see
in the publication of the treaty at
tlie time when Admiral Prince Henry
of Prussia is starting for the United
States ‘ Great Britain's reply to Ger
many's reapproaehment with the LTni
ted States.”
NOW OUT OF DANGER.
Young Roosevelt is on the Road to
Recovery.
GROTON, Mass., Feb. T4.—'The
most eventful day at the Groton
school since Theodore Roosevelt, jr.,
became ill closed with the departure
of President Roosevelt for Washing
ton late last evening. Before that
the president, in the homely phrase
"Ted has improved with such rapid
jumps (hat 1 am sure he is out of the
woods,” had told to the world of the
load lifted from his mind.
The day was full of happiness for
the president and Mrs. Roosevelt, and
for all at the Infirmary or near the
school grounds. The first report
from the bedside of young Roosevelt
showed that he had passed a good
night. After the morning examina
tion by the doctors it was announced
that the hoy’s condition was pro
gressing favorably. The report said
that the lungs were clearing well,
although the patient was stilt in the
second stage of pleuro-pneumonia.
known to medical men as the stage
of education.
Olympia Ready for Prince.
NEW YORK, Fob. 14.—The United
States cruiser Olympia. Captain Hen
ry Lyman commanding, went into the
harbor from Boston and dropped an
chor off Tompkinsvillq, S. I., about 1
o'clock. Olympia comes here to par
ticipate in the naval reception of
Prince Henry, after which It will pro
ceed- south to become the flagship of
Rear Admiral Higginson, commanding
the North Atlantic squadron, now in
West Indian waters.
Killed Quail.
WATERLOO, Ia„ Feb. 14.—For
shooting six quail Harry Fields, taxi
dermist for the state normal school,
was fined $125 by Justice Hildebrant.
Fields will take an appeal, as he
holds that he had a right to kill the
quail for scientific purposes.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
tones has given formal notice that
:he new leases of the 480,000 acres of
Kiowa Indian lands in Oklahoma, bor
dering on Texas, will take effect April
17, as originally proposed. An effort
aad been made to have the date post
poned some months. J
:
ASKS ANNEXATION
FILIPINOS PETITION FOR PERMA
NENT UNION WITH AMERICA.
SEND A MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS
Saye Natives Desire a Definite Civil
Form of Government—All Provinces
Except Two Said Now to Be Peace
ful.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The me
morial of the federal party of the
Philippine Islands was transmitted to
Fie senate yesterday by the secretary
of war. together with a letter of
transmittal by Governor Taft, in
whose charge the document was given.
The memorial was adopted at an ex
traordinary session of the federal
party held In Manila in Noevmber. It
sets forth that the performance of that
obligation of the treaty of Paris which
gave the United States congress au
thority to fix the statutes of the Phil
ippine islands, lias been deferred to
this time because of the attack by
the Filipinos upon the sovereignty of
the United Slates, an act brought
about, the memorial says, through a
misunderstanding and not through
hatred of the American sovereignty.
It further slates that out of the
sixty provinces and districts war ex
ists In only two- Batatngas and Sa
mar. It also asserts that it is a dem
onstrated fact that the pueblos, or
tow’ns, anxiously desire a "definitive
civil rule,” and says that those who
are still in arms allege the lack of a
civil regime, "agreed upon and pro
mulgated by the congress of the
United States as a weighty pretext for
their belligerent attitude, which regime
shall determine at once the political
status and civil lights of the inhab
itants of the archipelago in accord
ance with the treaty of Pails.”
The memorial then makes a pres
entation of the deduction of the fed
eral party that congress should pro
ceed to carry into effect its intention
of defining the future of the Philip
pines in their relations to the United
States and asserts that there is no
reason for not replacing the military
regime "by a civil rule of a popular
character in conformity with the de
cisive words of the never-to-be-forgot
ten President Mc Kinley.”
The memorial proper is divided into
two parts. Tim first of these is a pe
tition for annexation and a presenta
tion of the form of government de
sired. In this subdivision the federal
party sets forth that it has made an
exhaustive study of both the Filipinos
and the Americans and concludes that
from the mass of data collected it Is
“the intention of the two peoples that
they should never be disunited.” The
memorial then proceeds:
To make the Philippines a colony
of the I'nitcd States or to grant In
dependence to the Philippines would
be to hand the islands over to disorder
and to anarchy, to destruction and to
chaos. In effect the colonial system
Involves the principles of difference
of citizenship, in equality of rights
and other consequent abuses and in
justices, of ail of which we Filipinos
were surfeited under the Spanish gov
ernment, and for this reason we re
ject everything which tends toward a
colony. Philippine independence, with
or without a protectorate, means a
holding of power by ail the tribal ele
ments of the sccas which predominate,
and would predominate still for years,
until the anger of Filipinos toward
Filipinos shall have become complete
ly calmed, education become general
and the fanaticism we have inherited
from Spain exiled. Federation or an
nexation would settle all these difficul
ties by concentrating the Interest of
the Filipino people upon education
and labor.
HOPE FOR AMERICAN SUPPORT.
British Papers Think We Sympathize
with Alliance.
LONDON, Feb. 13—The liberal aft
ernoon newspapers .view the alliance
between Great Britain and Japan with.
mixed feelings and conservative or
gans generally applaud it. The St.
James Gazette (conservative) express
es "modified surprise at this wide de
parture from British traditional pol
icy," but finds solace In the thought
that the policy and interests of the
United States are identical with thosa
of Great Britain and Japan, and con
cludes: ‘‘Perhaps we shall find, when
the policy of Great Britain Is definitely
known, that the United States Is
formally or informally a party to the
league of peace in the far east. At
any rate, no
to secure Us
QUESTION CHECKS' LEGALITY*
Official* Believe Thoa® Certified
Without Knowledge Illegal.
DETROIT, Feb. 12.—The moat vital
question to the depositors of the
wrecked City Savings bank is wheth
er tho chocks which Cashier H. R
Andrews certified for F. C. Andrews
when he has no funds In the bank,
amounting to $002,000, and which the
latter deposited among four other lo
cal hanks and a trust company, ar®
legal.
If they are held to be Illegal be
cause of Cashier Andrews having cer
tified to them without the knowledge
of the directors, it is thought that tho
assets of the City Savings bank, with
what has been turned over to it by
F. C. Andrews, will be sufficient to
pay depositors in full.
On the contrary, if they are held to
be legal, it will take just that amount
from the depositors. President F. C.
Plngree said today that he believed
the cheeks would be decided illegal
and that the depositors would receive
at least 75 per cent on the dollar. In
the statement prepared yesterday of
the bank's condition these certified
checks were ignored.
KING HOLDS HIS FIRST LEVEE.
Array of Diplomats, Nobility and Mil
itary.
LONDON, Feb. 12.—King Edward’s
first levee since his accession was
held in St. James’ palace at noon to
day, and was an exceptionally bril
liant function. The prince of Wales,
the duke of Connaught and other
members of the royal family were
present, and the gathering of mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, cabinet
ministers and naval and military offi
cers was unprecedentedly large. The
king, who wore a field marshal’s uni
form, drove from Marlborough house
to the garden entrance of the palace,
escorted by Life guards. On his ar
rival there his majesty was received
by the high officers of the household!
and was conducted by the lord cham
berlain and the lord steward to the
royal retiring room, where he was
subsequently joined by the other
members of the royal family. A pro
cession was then formed and pro
ceeded to the throne room, where the
members of the royal family took up
positions on the left of his majesty,
in order of precedence.
Emperor is Grieved.
BERLIN, Feb. 12—A dispatch an
nouncing the gravity of the condition
of the son of President Roosevelt was
communicated to Prince Henry this
afternoon by the correspondent of the
Associated Press and was communi
cated by the prince to the emperor.
Deep sympathy was manifested at the
Schloss for President Roosevelt. The
foreign office expects to receive a re
port from Dr. Von Holleben, the Ger
man ambassador at Washington, of
the condition of the president’s son.
The last dispatches from Groton were
received too late for publication in
the evening papers, but these journals
comment regretfully on the early
news.
Place the Responsibility.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 12—J. W.
Gillhain, proprietor of the Empire ho
tel, which was burned last Sunday
morning, was this afternoon held re
sponsible for the death of the eleven
persons who lost their lives as the
result of the fire. The jury says his
responsibility lay in his neglect to
furnish fire escapes and life lines, as
provided for by the statute and ordi
nances. Police Sergeant Hall, who
was present when the fire was rag
ing, testified that not a life would
have been lost had there been fire es
capes on the building.
Sheep Owner Murdered.
DENVER, Colo., Feb. 12—A special
to the News from La Jara, Colo., says
that Porfello Gallegos, a prominent
and wealthy sheep owner, was mur
dered on Cat Creek, fifteen miles
west of Ua Jara, while taking sup
plies to his sheep camp.
Death of General Egbert Brown.
WEST PLAINS, Mo., Feb. 12.—Gen
eral Egbert Brown, who was in com
mand of the union troops at the Bra
zos, Texas, in the last battle of the
civil war, died here today, aged 85
years.
Miss Daisy Doane.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Miss Dai
sy Doane of Omaha expects to soon
embark for the Ph^llppl&t
her brother, LiatttMUiot
of tbs re