Loup City Northwestern.
VOLUME XIX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1902. NUMBER 52.
MOVE TG MURDER
LADRONES AGAIN ACTIVE WITH
OUTRAGES.
A GANG OF OUTLAWS KILL
President of a Town Has His Head
Cut Off and His Wife Slashed—
Charges that Were Preferred
Against the Victims.
MANILA.—A portion of a gang of
Ladrones, operating on the island of
Bilirian, north of Leyte, where they
committed various outrages, crossed
over to the island of I^eyte last Wed
nesday and entered a small town near
Carigara. Here they captured and be
headed the president of the town,
murdered his wife, whom they slashed
with bolos, and abducted the presi
dent’s children. The motive of this
crime is said to have been the pres
ident's friendliness with the Ameri
cans.
Ladrones are again active in the
provinces of Uizal and Bulucan, Lu
zon. Members of the native constab
ulary engaged these bandits twice dur
ing the past week at points clase to
Manila, and succeeded in killing a
number of them. The constabulary is
capable of suppressing these Ladrones.
Reports received here indicate that
the situation on the island of Salar is
better than has been recently reported.
A number of Dios Dios, or religious
fanatics, are still operating there, but
officials reports that the Samar police
are able to handle the situation.
The body of a native woman, who
was attended at her death by priests of
the Catholic church of the Philippines,
was refused interment Sunday at the
Paco cemetery, which is owned by the
Roman Catholic church. There was a
scene at the cemetery and the police
were called in to maintain order.
In retaliation for this refusal of in
terment “Bishop” Aglicipa and other
leaders of the Schismatic movement
are discussing a plan to appeal to the
courts to obtain possession of certain
churches and other property in the
Philippines.
i ms maepenaeni cnurcn movement
is being watched closely in govern
ment and political circles. The extent
ko( the defection of the native clergy
Pand their lay adherents from the
church of Rome is not known, but it
is claimed that a majority of the na
tive clergy sympathize with the move
ment.
THE IRRIGATION WORK.
What a Colorado Millionaire Has to
say.
;<>, WASHINGTON.—Thomas F. Walsh, j
the Colorado millionaire who presided !
over the sessions of the irrigation i
congress, recently held in Denver, ex- |
pressed himself Sunday as being well j
Satisfied with the results accomplished j
at the convention. Mr. Walsh said
the ideas carefully outlined by his as- j
association will endeavor to afford I
with the plans of the geological sur- j
▼ay, in whose hands the adminlstra- J
tion of the irrigation bill rests.
“You must understand,” said Mr. !
•Walsh, “that thp National Irrigation |
association expects to accomplish its j
jgr*atest work in the moral influence
with which it will endeavor to sur- i
round the settlers who shall make i
homes for themselves in the hitherto ]
great arid west. Working in hearty i
co-operation with the government the |
A association will endeavor to afford I
IP1 settlers the benefit of all the scientific !
knowledge it possesses, in relieving j
them, so far as it is possible, of the j
Obstacles which will confront them at
every hand.
Mr. Walsh explained that it will be j
the aim of the association to arrange
the settlements in small towns and
Villages and prevent If possible the
Isolation of farm life as it is usually
fiOQnd in the west.
“With the settlers gathered together
in ^communities,” he continued, "it
necessarily follows that they will en
joy the benefits of social intercourse,
good roads, schools, sanitation and
many of the advantages of city life
added to the healthful freedom of the
country.”
Stops at Cedar Mountain.
BRANDY STATION, Va.—President
Roosevelt passed several hours Sun
day afternoon on the battlefield of
Cedar mountain. Accompanied by
Secretary Root, Secretary Cortelyou
and Dr. Rlxey, the president drove to
' the site of the sanguinary struggle
and there received from an eye wit
and participant an account of the
inary fight.
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RUSH TO GET IDAHO GOLD.
Rich Discovery in Black Hornet Dis
trict the Cause of Stampede.
BOISE, Idaho—A remarkably rich
discovery of gold in the Black Hornet
district has caused a stampede com
parable to the mining rushes of the
early days. Knowledge of the dis
covery got out Sunday evening and
men started out at once to secure
claims. They kept going ail night and
on Monday several hundred visited
the scene.
A hitherto unknown vein has been
found about a mile and a half from
the Black Hornet vein. The mine was
a blind lead and was opened in doing
some work on property on another
vein. It shows seven feet wide.
On the hanging wall is a streak of
talc that is very rich; next lies four
teen inches of ore, showing great
quantities of gold. It is variously es
timated to be worth from $5,000 to
$10,000 a ton.
MORGAN SCHEME IS KILLED.
House of Parliament Refuses to Re
vive His Tube Bill.
LONDON—The House of Commons
Wednesday refused to allow the Mor
gan tube bill to be revived. Mr.
Yerkes was denounced during the de
bate for his ‘‘dishonorable transac
tions” and "dirty methods,” but it was
held that the trouble was all in one
family, anyway. The disputes prom
ise to involve Londoners in the thorny
problem of whether the county council
or private speculators shall supply lo
comotion needs.
Works to Save Pensions.
WASHINGTON—General Robert St.
George Dryenforth, commander-in
chief of the Union Veterans’ union,
has issued an appeal to union veter
ans of the civil war to organize into
a brotherhood for mutual protection.
He says eligibility to membership is
now extended to every honorably dis
charged union veteran of good record.
“By taking an active interest in the
afTairs of the present," he continu
es, “the veteran will not only com
mand recognition as an American citi
zen, but draw attention to the im
portance of according him reward for
his incomparably great sacrifices to
our beloved country.”
Jessup Accepts Chinese Job.
WASHINGTON—Alfred E. Jessup
of New York, now head of the test
laboratory in the supervising archi
tect’s office of the treasury depart
ment, has accepted the position of
chief assayer of the Chinese mint at
Tien Tsin. China. The designation
for the place was made through the
intermediary of Minister Conger, at
the request of the Chinese govern
ment. Mr. Jessup is a graduate of the
Lehigh university and of the School
of Mines at Freiburg, Germany.
Calls Porto Rico Foreign.
NEW YORK—Action has been com
menced against George R. Bidwell, for
mer collector of the port, on behalf of
Levi Bloomensteil and company, to
bacco importers of this city. They
complain that defendant assessed duty
on tobacco and cigars from Porto Rico
and compelled them to pay $2,028.
They contended that the assessment
wa3 a violation of the constitution,
which provides that all goods not com
ing from a foreign port should be ad
mitted duty free.
Havana’s Good Health.
HAVANA.—Dr. Einley, chief of the
sanitation department, commenting
upon the health conditions of Havana
during the month of September, says
the death rate was 17.86 per 1,000. Wiih
the end of September a full year was
completed since a case of yellow fever
originated in this city. This Is an
event which stands unparalleled in the
memory of the oldest physician who
has practiced here.
Boundary Monuments Found.
SEATTLE, Wash.—Advices were
received from Juneau, on the steamer
Dolphin, that the missing Russian
boundary monuments, which have
been so energetically searched for by
Lieutenant Emmons for the last two
seasons, had been discovered by a
prospector of the Porcupine district
Philippine Cholera Grows.
MANILA—The cholera Is gaining a
strong foothold on the island of Min
danao. It is expected to spread there 1
as elsewhere in the islands. The dis
ease continues bad in the province
of Ilio, island of Panay, but is light
elsewhere. It has disappeared from
Manila. The cases reported exceed
100.
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THE CUBAN WANT
SAY RECIPROCITY WOULD HELP
DOTH COUNTRIES.
OBJECT TO COALINC STATION
Minister Quesada Says that Havana
Will Never Be Given Up and He
Sees No Reason Why United States
Should Want Cienfuegos, Either.
WASHINGTON. — Senor Quesada.
Cuban minister to the United States,
ln commenting on the negotiations now
being conducted for a commercial
treaty between Cuba and this country,
said on Friday:
"The reciprocity treaty is a purely
commercial convention and has abso
lutely nothing to do with the Platt
amendment. The Cuban government
has been studying the draft of the
treaty submitted by Mr. Hay, and has
been consulting the different Interests
in the island and the custom house re
ceipts, and in due time will return
it with observations, suggested and
modificatiom?. It has been shown by
past experience, during the reciprocity
arrangement under Mr. Blaine, that
commerce between the two countries
materially increased, and it is expected
that under any other reciprocal ar
rangement, trade will be still greater
than it was ten years ago, at which
time it reached upward of $100,000,
000.”
He said the best of feeling existed
between Cubans and Americans and
found the proof in the fact that every
steamer arriving at Cuban ports
brought a great great many American
investors, who not only were putting
money in the island, but were estab
lishing more themselves.
He spoke of the popularity of Mr.
Squierg and the gratitude of the Cu
bans to the United States for services
rendered.
When asked regarding the proposed
coaling stations in Cuba, he said four
days before President McKinley was
shot he had, at the instance of Estrada
Palma, gone to Canton and secured a
solemn promise that while he was pres
ident, Mr. McKinley would not give his
consent to the establishment of a naval
station at Havana, and that President
Roosevelt knew of the promise.
Continuing, he said President Palma
would never have gone to Havana, the
Cuban capital, where a diplomatic
corps was established, while a foreign
flag was flying over the city.
He could not see the necessity for a
coaling station at Cienfuegos, which
had been recommended by Admiral
Bradford, chief of the bureau of equip
ment, in view of its proximity to Guan
tanamo, which also was recommended
as a coaling station.
MUSTERING OUT GUARDSMEN.
Tecumseh Company Has Lost Interest
in Soldier Life.
LINCOLN—Adjutant General L. W.
Colby has issued an order mustering
out Company I, Second regiment, Ne
braska National guard, stationed at
Tecumseh. Captain Bennett, now
bookkeeper in the state auditor’s of
fice, resigned several months ago.
Captain William H. Ray resigned last
week, leaving the company in com
mand in company of First Lieutenant
Clarence A. Kessler. The company
was ordered to elect a new captain
and did try to do so, but no one could
be found who would accept the office.
The company has been going down
ever since the last encampment and
General Colby decided to muster it out.
BRYAN IS IN TRAIN WRECK.
Uninjured and Continues Journey in
Refrigerator Car.
CRIPPLE CREEK—The Bryan spe
cial crashed into the caboose of a
freight train at Arena, in Brown can
yon, fifteen miles above Leadville, at
11:10 Tuesday. The special remain
ed cn the track, but the caboose was
derailed and three people saved their
lives by jumping. Mr. Bryan was un
injured. He and his party were put
into an empty Swift refrigerator car
and drawn by a freight engine to
Lathrop, seven miles away. There a
chair car was taken from a siding and
attached to the engine and run to
Buena Vista and Leadville.
Talk Union Pacific Strike.
NEW YORK—The directors of the
Union Pacific met here Thursday and
discussed the demands of the train
men who have threatened to strike.
No decision was made public.
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TREATY OF CUBA.
Belief that it Will Be Ready for Next
Congress.
WASHINGTON—The Tact recorded
In the news dispatches from Havana
Tuesday that President Palma has re
turned to Washington the draft of the
reciprocity treaty without his approval
has not shaken the belief of the offi
cials here that they will have a treaty
ready to submit to congress by the
date of its next meeting.
As soon as Mr. Quesada, the Cuban
minister here, receives the document
ho will submit it to Secretary Hay.
Negotiations will then be continued on
the basis of the original draft. Gen
erally stated, the Cuban objections
are based on a belief that the United
States has demanded undue conces
sions in the remissions of duties on
United States products entering Cuba
ranging all the way from 10 per cent
to 80 per cent in return for a 20 per
cent cut on Cuban sugar and tobacco
coming into the United States.
As the difference is one strictly of
figures and not of principle it is the
opinion at the State department that
it can be settled amicably. If not,
ajid the Cuban government Insists
upon terms that the State department
cannot grant, the two countries wll»
simply drift along without any trade
treaty of any kind. As Cuba will un
doubtedly be the principal sufferer, it
is expected here that it will be the
first to make another advance toward
a treaty.
There has been an important change
in the program respecting the whole
fabric of Cuban treaties. It had been
originally intended to perfect a reci
procity treaty before undertaking to
deal with other relations that must
be defined by treaty. As it is now
seen that the subject of reciprocity
is onf that will require considerable
time for its disposition, the govern
ment here is about to undertake ne
gotiations looking to the arrangement
of an extradition treaty, which is very
much needed, inasmuch as Cuba
threatens to become a sink hole for
American criminals.
Also the navy is pressing for the
coaling stations promised under the
terms of the Platt amendment There
fore the Cuban government willl be at
once invited to open negotiations on
this point. It is not expected that
this can be done without some friction,
because there has been a growing dis
clination on the part of the Cubans
to the idea of surrendering coal sta
tions to the United States.
LOUBET COPIES ROOSEVELT.
French President Tries to Settle the
Miners’ Strike.
PARIS.—President Loubet is now in
teresting himself in the attempt to end
the miners' strike. On Friday he held
an extended conference with M. Vin
cent, prefect of the department of Du
Nerd, who has been acting as inter
mediary between the strikers and the
mine owners in that department. The
mine owners have given the prefect
the names of four persons who are tc
represent them in a conference with
an equal number of strikers. In a
semi-official statement President Lou
bet expresses hope for an early settle
ment of the strike and declares that
this would be a political accomplish
ment beyond precedent.
GIRDLE AROUND THE GLOBE.
Last Section of British Imperial Pa
cific Cable is Laid.
LONDON.—The last section of the
British Imperial Pacific cable was laid
at th<> Fiji island Friday. A congrat
ulatory message to King Edward
reached Buckingham palace next morn
ing, being the first message sent ovei
the line which links the British empire
together.
Great importance is attached here to
the coming opening of the all-British
Pacific cable.
The completion of the. line brings
into being for the first time a British
telegraphic girdle around the globe.
The cable is (,900 miles in length
The Vancouver-Fanning portion is the
longest without a break in the world
Mrs. Cady Stanton Dies.
NEW YORK—Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, the well known woman suffragist,
died Sunday at her home in West
Ninety-fourth street, aged 87. Old
age was given as the cause. She was
conscious almost to the last. About a
week ago Mrs. Stanton began to fail
rapidly. This became more noticeable
late In the week, and it was apparent
that her death was a question of only
a few days or hours.
BEEF INTERESTS
GIGANTIC MERGER WITH MIL
LIONS OF CAPITAL.
PACKERS WILL ORGANIZE FIRST
Afterward the Same Firms Will
Amalgamate the Yards in Omaha,
Kansas City, Chicago, St. Joseph,
St. Louis and Other Places.
CHICAGO—The Record-Herald on
Friday says: Two big consolidations
are planned by beef interests. The
packers will combine first and then
effect a merger of all the stock yards
in the country.
With the exception of the Chicago
stock yards, which are controlled In
Boston, all the- properties involved
are owned and controlled by the own
ers of the principal beef packing in
terests.
The different yards that will prob
ably be included in the deal, aside
from the Chicago yards, are those at
South Omaha, Kansas City, East St.
Louis, St. Joseph, Fort Worth and
Sioux City.
The Armour interest is probably
! the largest in the Kansas City yards.
The Armours, Swift and Morris con
trol the East St. Louis yards, the
Swifts own the St. Joseph yards, the
! Armours and Swifts own the Fort
Worth yards, the Armours, Swifts and
Cudahys control the Omaha yards and
the Swifts control at Sioux City.
While the control of the Chicago
yards is held in Boston, the Chicago
packers have large holdings of the
stock also and their recommendations
would undoubtedly have great weight
with the eastern capitalists.
The plan for consolidating the vari
ous stock yards has not progressed
as yet to a point where the amount
of stock required has been more than
discussed. It would undoubtedly run
well to $100,000,000, exclusive of
the amount required for the packing
companies’ combination, which is said
to be $500,000,000.
THANKSGIVING.
President Proclaims November 27 as
the Time.
WASHINGTON—President Roose
velt on Wednesday issued his procla
mation designating Thursday, Novem
ber 27, as a day of thanksgiving. The
proclamation is as follows:
' According to the yearly custom of
our people it falls upon the president
at this season to appoint a day of fes
tival and thanksgiving to God.
Over a century and a quarter has
passed since this country took its
place among the nations of the earth
and during that time we have had
on the whole more to be thankful for
than has fallen to the lot of any other
people.
Generation after generation has
grown to manhood and passed
away. Each has had to bear Its
peculiar burdens, each to face its
special crisis, and each has known
years of grim trial, when the
country was menaced by malice,
domestic or foreign levy, when the
hand of the Lord was heavy upon it in
drouth or flood pestilence, when in
bodily distress and anguish of soul
it paid the penalty of folly and a
forward heart.
Nevertheless, decade by decade, we
Jiave struggled onward and upward;
we now abundantly enjoy material well
being, and under the favor of the Most
High we are striving earnestly to
achieve moral and spiritual uplifting.
The year that has Just closed has
been one of peace and of overflowing
plenty. Rarely has any people enjoyed
greater prosperity than we are now en
joying. For this we render heartfelt
and solemn thanks to the Giver of
Good, and we seek to praise Him not
by words only, but by deeds, by the
way in which we do our duty to our
selves and to our fellow men.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose
velt, president of the United States, do
hereby designate as a day of general
thanksgiving, Thursday, the 27th of
the coming November, and do recom
mend that throughout the land the
people cease from their ordinary occu
pations and in their several homes and
places of worship render thanks unto
Almighty God for the manifold bless
ings of the last year.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
29th day of October, In the year of our
Lord 1902, and of the independence
of the United States the 127th.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President:
JOHN HAY.
(Seal.) Secretary of State.
VISIT THE COAL MINES.
Arbitration Commission Begins Tour
to Examine Anthracite Region.
SCRANTON, Pa.—The seven com
missioners appointed by President
Roosevelt to adjust the differences
existing between the anthracite mine
workers and their employes on Thurs
day made a tour of the extreme upper
coal field and saw every step taken
in the production of coal from the
time it is blasted to the point where
it is sent to market.
The arbitrators had an interesting
day and returned to Vheir hotel at
night, grimy from coal dust and tired
after eight busy hours. They had
to endure many discomforts, making
their way through wet places in the
mines, almost crawling along some of
the gangways and passing through
clouds of coal dust in the breakers.
Notwithstanding this their eagerness
for information was not diminished
and they expect to put in another
hard day's work in the same manner.
"Every suit that has been brought,"
he said, "has been successful under
this section.” He said he would curb
trusts, not destroy them.
The tariff will have to be revised,
he said, again and again and again.
In conclusion Senator Hoar dis
cussed strikes, saying that to him, If
capital combined he could not Bee
why labor could not also combine.
“I believe the sympathy of all true
Americans,” he said, "is on the iide
of labor and its attempt to better its
condition. Capital and wealth will in
tho end take care of themselves.”
EVILS OF TRUSTS.
Eight of Them Named by Hoar of
Massachusetts.
BOSTON.—Senator Hoar,. sneaking
here Monday night, said:
The evils of the trust are:
First—Destruction of competition.
Second—The management of indus
tries by absent capital.
Third—Destruction of local public
spirit.
Fourth—Fraudulent capitalization.
Fifth—Secrecy.
Sixth—Management for the private
benefit of the officers.
Seventh—The power to corrupt elec
tions and in some cases to corrupt
courts.
Eighth—Indifference to public sent
iment.
If the first, fourth and fifth can be
cured the cure of others, in my opin
ion, will follow.
Now, is it not the duty of wise
statesmanship to go slowly and care
fully in this matter so that we cure
or prevent the evil without sacrificing
what is good?
Senator Hoar then reviewed the
Sherman anti trust laws, and claimed
that he himself had inserted in the
bill the section declaring any combin
ation or trust which restricts trade
to be illegal.
ARIZONA SEEKS STATEHOOD.
Governor Brodle Files His Showing
at National Capital.
WASHINGTON—Governor Brodle
of Arizona, in his usual report, renews
the plea for statehood and makes the
following explanation:
Under the Leland-Hansbrough act
the claims of Arizona for government
aid in irrigation to be fully carried
out and extended so as to inaugurate
in the territory the first of the great
irrigation systems under that action,
action to rejuvenate the depleted for
est area; increases in school facili
ties; in the salary of the governor;
of the appropriation for the Arizona
national guard; appropriation to im
prove the Colorado river and construct
a levee from Yuma to the Mexican
line; to prevent the overflow of cul
tivated land by the annual freshets;
and appropriations for purchasing
sites and erectings in Arizona. The
governor places the total taxable prop
erty of the territory at $39,083,178.
German Meat is Too High.
BERLIN—Increasing pressure Is be
ing brought on the government -with
a view to opening the frontiers to the
importation of foreign animals and a
relaxation of the regulations to e»
elude meat imports, or for something
else which will afford relief from the
excessive prices of mea' *