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Loup City Northwestern. - — . ■■ —■ "" - ' 1 ■” — —■■ ■ —- ' ■ —■ VOLUME XIX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1902. NUMBER 48. THE COAL STRIKE ANOTHER CONFERENCE HELD AT THE WHITE HOUSE. THE MEETING CALLED SUNDAY Nothing Is Expected From the Op erators—Peace Covenant Must Be With the Men Who Are Out—Thei Counsellors Very Secretive. WASHINGTON, Oct. G.—In an earn est effort to expedite the adjustment of the coal strike problem, another conference over the situation was held at the white house yesterday and ad journed after three hours of delibera tion. No statement was given out as to the conclusions reached and every participant absolutely refused to dis cuss what had taken place during the meeting. The conference was called ror jes terday, although it was Sunday, in view of the extraordinary importance to the American people of a speedy solution of the question. Besides the president there were present at the conference Secretary of War Root. Secretary of the Navy Moody, Attor ney General Knox, Postmaster General Payno and Carroll I). Wright, United States commissioner of labor. The last named was summoned to attend the conference on account of his ex pert knowledge of the situation in the anthracite coal fields, and because of his personal investigation of the con ditions there which he made some months ago at the instance of the president. Four of the members of the cabinet were present, and three of these four were lawyers, the issue involved being one which called for the deliberation of trained legal minds. The fourth cabinet officer. Postmaster General Payne, has taken a prominent part in the preliminary conference over the coal situation which led up to the conference with the railroad presidents and miners’ representtaives Friday, and besides, has had a life-long'identification with corporate interests which are involved in the present question. The fact that ^ Mr. Payne also has been one of the closest advisers for many years in the national councils of his party likewise is important In connection with the personnel of the conference. The president, in expressing hi3 views at the outset of the conference, talked earnestly and showed a deep feeling. His voice at times could bo heard downstairs. Several times dur ing the conference Secretary Cortelvou was summoned into the mom and di rected to prepare certain matters for the consideration of the president and of his advisers. This was taken to indicate that some action of one na ture or another was about to be con summated. When the conference adjourned a few minutes before 1 o’clock all those who had joined it declined to talk, i Every member of the cabinet and Col | onel Wright, the only outsider who ■ was present, was pledged to the presi dent to absolute secrecy as to what had occurred within the conference room. The utmost efforts were made to guard against publicity. CRUSHING OUT THE BOXERS New Viceroy of Chi Li Proceeds with ! Great Rigor. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Minister Conger's dispatches to the state de dopartment show that Yuan Shih Kai, the viceroy of Chi Li, Is really in earnest in his expressed determination to crush the hoxers in his section of China. A proclamation issued by him dated the lGth of the seventh month fAugust 20, 1002), just publish ed in the official organ and Mr. Con ger encloses a copy. It concludes a? follows: "Whoever can apprehend a boxer chief and give him up to the author ities he will he liberally rewarded. But those who persist in disobpying and practice boxing in secret, being of their own will and accord they will be punished with the utmost rigor. No leniency will be shown.” No Coal for Furnaces. NEW CASTLE. Pa.. Oct. G.—The Senango Valley steel mrll closed down at midnight on account of inability to secure coal for the boilers. The plant employs about 1,000 men ptyi is one of the main industries of the city. The ^ order was expected. All the industrial plants in the Shenango valley are hav ing trouble in securing coal. BOY HANDY WITH GUN. Shoots and Fatally Injures a Man Wno Had Assaulted Him. GERING, Neb., Oct. 6— Clarence N. Fulton was shot at Willford postolffce, about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, by Walter Houston, a boy scarcely 17 >rears of age. There had been some fueling between Fulton, who is a widower, and various persons in the vicinity arising from remarks made about a woman who was Fulton’s housekeeper. The Houston boy heard that Fulton had made threats and a few days ago came to Gering and bought a 32-calibre revolver, meeting in the postofflcc, Fulton struck at him and Houston got his revolver and sent a bullet through Fulton's stomach. Houston at oifee came to Gering and surrendered himself to the sheriff. Fulton lingered until about noon, when he died. CANNOT REVIEW GRAND ARMY. Doctors Forbid President Roosevelt to Uso His Injured Limb. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—President Roosevelt will not review the parade of tbe Grand Army of the Republic, at which it was expetced he would occupy the reviewing stand in front of the white house. The official state ment, issued last night, that he would have to exercise extreme care indi cated that it would be impossible for him to review the veterans and the direct statement that he will not do so was made on official authority to day. The president has not yet been aide to rest his foot on the iloor and his physicians have forbidden him again to overtax his strength as he did during the last week. Says Boers Were Tricked. NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—A committee of Boer sympathizers, including rep resentatives of the irish-American so cieties, welcomed Francis William Reitz, secretary of state of the Orange Freo State, who arrived with his wife from Boulogne Sur Mer. “While not here to agitate for the reopening of war,” said Reitz, “I have in view the two-fold object of duty to my countrymen and remuneration to myself. The Boers have been tricked into forsaking their colonial allies by oral promises of Kitchener and Milner that they would endeavor to obtain at the time of the coronation amnesty for all rebels.” To Solve the Trust Question. ROME, Oct. fi.—Signor Luzzatti, formerly minister of finance, has con tributed an article to the Neue Freie • Presse of Vienna, in which he invites a conference of European statesmen and economists to arrive at a solution of the question of trusts and combines. Signor Luzzatti’s idea is supported by other Italian economists and the press, who declare that Europe must adopt means to meet the "American danger.” President Feels Well. WASHINGTON, O. C., Oct. 6—It was stated at the White House tonight that the president is doing very well. He has practically recovered from the strain incident to the hard work of last week in connection with the coal strike but has to be very careful. Five Tickets Are Filed. DENVER, Colo., Oct. G.—The timo for filing state tickets and for the ac ceptance of nominations expired at midnight last night. The tickets filed represent the republican, democratic, socialist, socialist labor and prohl bition parties. American Consul Murdered. LONDON, Oct. 6.—In a dispatch from Vienna, in which the correspon dent of the Daily Express reports that Albanians have murdered the United States consul at Us"kub, European Turkey. As Harmless as Lead Pencils. MADRID, Oct. 5.—As an outcome of newspaper attacks General Barges, captain general of Catalonia, fought a duel today with pistols with the di rector of the newspaper El Imparcial of Madrid. Neither was injured. Are After Another Ransom. SALON 1CA, Oct. 6.—Brigands have captured a Turkish landowner, named Sheflk Bey at Orisar, near Vodenai forty miles from Monastir. He is b^ ing held for a ransom of $15,000. Venice Steeple Tottering. VENICE, Oct. <5.—The steeple of the Church of San Stefano shows further signs of collapsing. STRSKENOTENDEO CONFERENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE COMES TO NAUGHT. OPERATORS REMAIN OBDURATE Rock Upon which the Conference Split was Recognition of the Miners' Union—What President Roosevelt Will Do Next Unknown. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The great coal conference between the president and representtaives of the operators and the miners came to an end at the temporary white house at 4:55 o'clock yesterday afternoon with a failure to reach an agreement. Apparently the rock upon which the conference split was recognition of the miners’ union. The president urged the contending parties to cease strife in the interests of the public welfare; the miners through the pres ident of their union expressed a will ingness to submit differences to arbi tration of a tribunal to be named by President Roosevelt and to enter into an agreement to abide by terms fixed by the arbitration hoard for a period of from one to five years, and the employers, througn tne presidents or the railroad and coal companies and a leading independent mine owner, squarely refused arbitration, denounc ed the miners’ labor organization as a lawless and anarchistic body with which they could and would have no dealings, demanded federal troops to insure complete protection to work ers and their families In the mining region and court proceedings against the miners’ union, and offered, if the men returned to work, to submit grievances at individual eollerios to the decision of the judges of the court of common pleas for the district at Pennsylvania in which the colliery: was located. There the matter closed. Both the miners and the operators are still in the city, but today they will return to their several localities/ each saying at a late hour that th^ struggle will continue. The immediate parties to the strike! say they wil continue as heretofore. What course the administration will take next no one is prepared to say. One of the operators, as he left the white house with closely set jaw, was asked regarding this and replied: “If any one knows what the pres ident will do next, that Is more than I know.” Fourteen men. Including the pres ident, were in the second story front room at the temporary white house during the momentuous conference. President Mitchell and three of his district leaders represented the miners and five railroad men and one inde pendent mine operator the employers. With the president was Attorney Gen eral Knox, Commissioner of Labor Wright, and Secretary Cortelyou. What took place at the meeting is set out in ample statements made by each side and given out to the press by themselves and also officially at the white house. During the confer ence the president listened to both sides with the greatest eagerness. TURNS DOWN THE JAPANESE. Chicago Judge Vainly Searches for Precedent to Naturalize Japanese. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—After vainly searching for some legal precedent that would justify a different decision. Judge Carter has refused to grant naturalization papers to Lee Guy Dean, a Japanese who made applica tion with a view to becoming a citizen of the United States. “The statute on naturalization,” said Judge Carter, “reads that any free white man, or any native of Af rica, or any alien of African descent, may be naturalized, but that does not apply to Mongolians, and a Japanese is surely a Mongolian.” The only decision bearing directly on the case which Judge Carter could find was one made bv a Massachusetts court, and that was to the effect that an application from such a course could not be granted. Tomato Crop Damaged. BEATRICE, Neb., Oct. The to mato crop has been badly damaged in this county by the frost and toma toes are a scarce article at any price EUROPE HEARS FROM WINTER Severe Storms, with Snowfall in Gen many, Italy and Denmark. LONDON, Oct. 4.—Europe is experi encing an approach of winter and in England the weather is cold and stomy. Snow fell in Germany and Italy. MOROS FLY BEFORE TROOPS " ■ ■ Captain Pershing's Advance Meets with Only Slight Resistance. MANILA, Oct 3.—The Mac-in Moros in Mindanao have offered but slight | resistance to the column under Cap-1 tain Pershing of the Fifteenth cavalry. After a series of skirmishes on Mon day and Tuesday of this week the Me o.s retreated into six forts on the shores of the lake. When a courier left Matin yesterday for Camp Vicars Captain Pershing was preparing to The American column reached the former camp at Macin Sunday night On Monday the Moros opened fire on them with a brass cannon and rifles from a series of new forts which had been erected since Captain Pershing’s first visit to the place. The battery under Captain William S. McNair scaled a ridge commanding the posi tion of the Moros and shelled them out. The engineers under Captain Jay J. Morrow had constructed a trail over the swamp by the trail and captured and destroyed three of the Moro forts. The Moros stood but a short while and ran as soon as the artillery opened on them. Captain Pershing has been ordered to destroy the forts unless the Moros make peace. Twenty Moros were killed and many were wounded. There were no casual ties among the Americans. The letter of General Sumner, in command on Mindanao, to the Ma cinlans has been delivered. PROPOSE TO FIGHT MERGER Packing Houses Likely to Have Trou ble if They Pool. DENVER, Colo., Oct. 3.—The Na tional Live Stock association, several of the largest western railways and individual stockmen throughout the west have decided to fight the pro posed merger now in process of forma tion of the great packing industries of the country. Announcement was made by Presi dent John W. Springer of the Nation al Live Stock association today, after a conference with C. F. Morse of Kan sas City, who is president of both the Kansas City and Denver Stock Yards companies. President Morse said that his yards will stand by the stockmen, and if necessary he will build an indepen dent plant in Kansas City. ENDLESS CHAIN SCHEME. It Is Doing Something to Swell Mc Kinley Memorial Fund. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 3.—Myron Herrick, secretary of the McKinley Memorial association, is receiving many hundreds of letters daily, con taining small contributions to the me morial fund. I Some time ago unknown persons started a 10-cent, B*cent and 2-cent endless chain scheme in connection with the monument fund. Up to date fully 50,000 of these letters have been received by Judge Day, president of the association, at Canton, and for warded to the treasurer’s office. Many letters are from European countries. Now a Bishop-Coadjutor. UTICA, N. Y., Oct. 3—Charles Ty ler Olmsted, until recently the vicar of St. Agnes chapel. New York, was consecrated bishop-coadjutor of the Episcopal church in the diocese of Centrol New York, in Grace church, this city, today. The consecration service was a most imposing one. Bishop B. H. Huntington of Syracuse presided and the sermon was preached by Bishop Potter of New York. A number of other bishops were pres ent Attends to Public Business. WASHINGTON. Oct. 3.—President Roosevelt yesterday had a comforta ble day, and last nigh* the report from the temporary white house was that his condition is satisfactory. He spends fnost of the time in his wheel chair and is able to devote considei able attention to public business. Visits the Death Chamber. PARIS, Oct. 3.—Mme. Zola was al lowed to see the body of her husband today. A large crowd assemble?*, in front of the house saluted her re spectfully as the widow alighted from a carriage, assisted by two doctors. She was attired in deep mourning and was evidently very weak. London’s New Mayor. LONDON, OcL 3.—Sir Marcus Sampel was today elected lord mayor of London for the ensuing year, suc ceeding Sir Joseph C. Dimedale. TO GET TOGETHER PRESIDENT INVITES THE COP BARONS TO MEET WITH HIM. HOPES TO SETTLE THE STRIKE ihief Executive Has No Power but that of Persuasion, Yet Hopes to Succeed—A Confidential Chat in Private Between the ODStinate Op ponents. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—President Roosevelt will make an effort to bring tho anthracite coal mine owners and their striking employes together In the Interest of the public good. This conclusion was reached after a series of conferences with his cab inet advisers covering two days. Tho decision was arrived at when the law yers of the cabinet informed the pres ident that there was no way under the constitution and the form of gov ernment of tho United States for fed eral intervention to end the strike. Every phase was canvassed and the determination to have the mine oper ators and President Mitchell confer was reached when it was found that no other methods were open. At tho conclusion of the conference, which was attended by Secretaries Root. Shaw and Moody, Attorney General Knox Postmaster General White, at the temporary white house, the fol lowing statement was issued: “WHITE HOUSE, Washington, Oc tober 1, 19u2.—George E. Baer, pres ident Reading railway, Philadelphia; W. E. Truesdnle, president Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, Ex change Place, New York; E. B. Thomas, chairman of tho board, Erie company, 21 Cortland street, New York; Thomas P. Fowler, president New York, Ontario & Western rail road, C6 Beaver street, Philadelphia; R. H. Olyphant, president Delaware & Hudson, New York; John Markle, D2 West Thirty-fourth street New York; I should like to see you on Friday next, October 3, at 11 a. m., here in Washington, In regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole nation I have sent a sim ilar dispatch to Mr. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Work ers of America. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT." "John Mitchell, president United Mine Workers of America, Wilkes barre: I should greatly like to see you on Friday next, October 3, at 11 o'clock a. m., hers in Washington, In regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole nation. I have sent a dispatch to the presi dents of the anthracite coal com panies. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT." At the meeting tomorrow the line of approach toward the settlement of the strike will be an appeal by Presi dent Roosevelt to both sides to come together as men and not to allow false pride or feeling of obstinacy to stand in the way of the termination of the great strike, which is fraught with threat of misery to thousands of people. It is stated by one of the president’s advisers that beyond this the president cannot go. He has no power of compulsion which can bo brought into play against either side and he must rely on his persuasive appeals to their sense of humanity il anything tangible is to be accom plished. The president intends to lay before his hearers the situation as it ap pears to him with all the prospective horrors that will follow a fuel famine, and will urge them, in the interests of humanity, to open the mines and supply the demand for coal. TO SUE STRATTON ESTATE English Corporation is to Make i' Defendant in Big Suit. LONDON, Oct. 2.—The Venture cor poration, promoters of the Independ ence mine at Cripple Creek, Colo., confirms the reports from Colorado Springs that it is preparing to bring suit for $5,000,000 damages against the estate of W. S. Stratton. M. S Baker, managing director of the cor poration. is now with John Hays Hah hond, the engineer, in the United States, preparing the necessary evi dence, which it Is said has been ac cumulating for the last two years. It Is said that sensational details will be adduced by the plaintiffs In volving several of Stratton’s asso ciates who are now living. ZOLA DIES FROM GAS FUMES Autopsy Shows That Suspicion of Foul Play is Unwarranted. PARIS, Oet. 1.—The autopsy on the remains of M. Zo'.a, found dead in bed, has resulted in an official declaration that he died from asphyxiation from carbonic gas fumes. A crowd of people drawn there by curiosity has remained in front of Zola’s house, and his tragic death con tinues to be the chief topic of con versation here. The funeral has been fixed for Friday, and interest is shown in the question whether IJrcyfus will attend. The Patrie says: “If he dares to show himself in the procession the looks and contempt of all the spectators will he centered or. him. If he hides himself in this de cisive hour he will show himself to he his own judge of the work of his ben efactor.” The post-mortem examination of Zola's remains resulted in the addition to the official report that ills death was due to asvphyxiation caused by earbonic oxide fumes, in showing that the novelist fell into a densely satur ated atmosphere as he attempted to open a window and was suffocated. Mine. Zola, it was further declared, owed her life to the elevated position of the bed. BOB EVANS WILL JOIN BOXERS Rear Admiral of Fighting Fame Goes to Investigate “Cussedness.'’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The navy department received a cablegram from Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, sec ond in command on the Asiatic sta-> tion announcing his departure from Kuiksang for Hankow, aboard his tem pory flagship Helena. He is en routa to the port of Ichang on the Great Yangtse river near the province of Szc-chuan, to investigate the newly risen Boxer disturbances. The navy department received also a cablegram announcing the arrival of Rear Ad miral Silu^ Casey aboard his flagship, Wisconsin, at Panama, after an al most unequalled run down the Fciflc coast of 3,177 miles in one day less than two weeks. Rear Admiral Casey will assume general command of the American naval forces on the isthmus. CLARENCE THURSTON SUFFERS Gas Nearly Oovercomes Son of For mer Nebraska Senator. ST. LOUIS, Oct. L—Clarence Thurs ton, a son of former United States Senator Thurston of Nebraska, and an attache of the world’s fair offices in St. I»uis, was found unconscious from asphyxiation In his apartments at a hotel late last night. The door of his room was tightly closed, the key hole plugged, the windows bolted, and the gas jet open, indicating that an at tempt had been made at suicide. Thurston is 22 years old and has been in St. Louis about three months. He was taken to the city hospital, where at 2 o’clock the physicians say there is a possibility that he may not fecover. Asks for Payment in Gold. THE HAGUE, Oct 1.—At yester day’s session of the international courti of arbitration, which is hearicg argu ments in the Pius fund case, after Sen ator Descamps had concluded his ar gument for the United States, during which he contended that Mexico ought to pay in gold, “the only International money and the only money represent ing real value,” Solicitor Penfield of the United States department contin ued his pleadings. He paid tribute to the sovereigns of Russia, Great Brit J aln, Denmark and Holland as rulers of the countries of some of the mem bers of the highest of the tribunal whose judgment will be of the highest importance in the maintenance of the peace and justice of the entire world Peace and Order is Urged. ROME, Oct. 1.—A papal bull issued yesterday on the subject of religious affairs in the Philippines concludes with inviting all the clergy to use their beEt endeavors to bring about the re-establishment of peace and or der, helping with their influence the authorities working to the same end. The document at the same time ex horts the clergy to hold aloof from politics and to devote their attention to religion and to promoting by ev ery means the welfare of the people under the newr regime. Fire Wipes Out a Village. LODZ, Russian Poland, Oct. 1.—One hundred and twenty houses oat of 129; comprising the village of Voshnik, Russsian Poland, have been burned to the ground.