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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
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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.