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Loup City Northwestern. VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1902. NUMBER 3. TO GET TOGELHER MINERS AND OPERATORS TO SET TLE THEIR DIFFERENCES. THE CCMMISSION ADJOURNS Disposition to Avoid Prolonged cHar ing of Cause—Ten Per Cent In crease, Nine-Hour Day and Trade Agreement. SCRANTON, Pa.—The miners and mine owners have agreed to attempt to adjust their differences without the aid of the strike commission. The proposition was made on a compro mise basis, and negotiations, it is ex pected, will at once be entered upon, with a reasonable hope of settlement. The proposition which is to form the basis of negotiations, comprise three points. 1. A 10 per cent increase in wages. 2. A nine-hour day. 3. A trade agreement between the men and their employer. The only one of the four demands not touched upon is that of weighing coal by the legal ton. While both sides have expressed a willingness to settle their differences among them selves, this does not necessitate the acceptance of the terms proposed. They are only mentioned as a basis for the negotiations and it is possible the whole scheme may be wrecked by either party holding out too strongly on some one point, and thus forcing the whole matter hack into the hands of the commissioners, who in the meantime will act as a sort of a board of conciliation. The move created a wild sensation when it became known. It is said it was all brought about by both sides seeing that the proceedings before the commission would be indeterminable, and in the intermingling of lawyers, the present proposition materialized. It cannot be officially stated which party first made the suggestion. At torneys for both sides are averse to talking and different stories are afloat. Counsel for one of the railroads said , It came from the miners* side, while one lawyer for the ■ miners said it came from the operators. Another representative of the miners said it was a “spontaneous” proposition. It is generally believed, however, that the operators were the first to make the nroposition. Wayne MacVeagh, is indeed, gener ally given credit for the present sit uation. He went to New York after he had finished with Mr. Mitchell and had a conference with certain per- j sons, among them, it is said, with J. | P. Morgan. The commissioners were informed of i the new turn of affairs Friday night and acquiesced in the arrangement. The proposition, did not even directly come up during the public hearing Friday, and adjournment was made, nominally, to permit both sides to complete their documentary evidence. Clarence S. Harrow, near the close of the session, suggested that the miners be given more time to prepare their evidence. They wanted to pre sent the wage statements of thou sands of miners, and they found the task a stupendous one. They also wanted to carefully examine the com panies books and this, too, would take considerable time. Prince Edward Dead. LONDON—Prince Edward of Saxe AVeimar died here Sunday morning. He was attacked by appendicitis on Thursday and succumbed to conges tion of the kidneys with which the original malady became complicated. Prince Edward was born near London in 1823, and was married morganatic ally in 1851 to Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox. more support for cannon. Michigan and Ohio Will Both Vote for Him for Speaker. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Ten of the eleven republican congressmen in Michigan met here Thursday and dis cussed the speakership of the house. A formal motion was carried that the Michigan delegation go on record in favor of the candidacy of Joseph Can non of Illinois. COLUMBUS, O.—At a conrerence held here Thursday twelve of the re publican congressmen-elect of Ohio de clared in favor of Cannon of Illinois as speaker of the house. Two mem bers, Messrs. Jackson and Morgan, are pledged to support Burton of Ohio. AS TO ILLEGAL FENCING. f Mosby Takes Issue Regarding an In terview. WASHINGTON. — Colonel Mosby, special agent of the general land of fice, charged with the duty of report ing illegal fences on the public do main in Nebraska, is not at all satis fied with the interview which was pub lished, with District Attorney Sum mers. Colonel Mosby stated he had I made no agreement with District At torney Summers that proceedings in court against the fence men s bould be withheld until after sixty days had expired. He stated that he had no lawful right to make such an agree ment, nor had the district attorney. “My letters to Colonel * Summers,” said Colonel Moody, “will show that 1 complained against the violation of the fencing law in Nebraska long since and that I stated that the statutes re garding illegal fencing were a dead let ter so far as Nebraska was concerned. The general land office, in its instruc tions, directs special agents to give to cattlemen sixty days’ notice within which to pull down the fences, but the act of congress requires a district at torney to institute suit to remove a fence as soon as an affidavit is filed complaining of it. I had no right to repeal the statute. I was appointed to enforce the law by calling the at tention of the district attorney to illegal fences and it was his business to bring suit to remove the same. If Mr. Summers has not been apathetic then why has he not resented my letters complaining of his apathy? The letters which I have written to him regarding this matter, covering a period of several months, are made part of my report. Complaints were filed a year ago with Mr. Summers against Miller & Leith for the notori ous negro entries which appear in the Alliance ]and'offlce and later complaint wfcs' filed' with this same officer of the government calling attention to ille gal fences which they maintained, yet nothing was done by Mr. Summers to correct these gross violations of the statutes.” THEY THANK ADMIRAL CASEY. Gallant Seaman is the Lion of the ' Hour. PANAMA—The Star and Herald says that at the conference on board the Wisconsin a distinguished son of Uncle Sain, Rear Admiral Silas Ca sey, acted as a mediator and peace make, which conduct, it remarks, re flects great credit on a nation whose motives for doing good are too fre quently disparaged. Admiral Casey, in a brilliant speech, extended to the negotiators bis heartfelt good Wishes, highly praising them for their judg ment and patriotism and their ar rangement of such an extremely deli cate matter. General Cohas, chief of Minister ot State Perdomo's staff, made an elo quent reply to this speech, and in the' name of Colombia thanked the gal lant admiral for the hospitality and attention the negotiators had received on board his flagship, and also for his generous intervention in the’ arrange ment to bring about peace in that zone of Colombian territory. POPE LEO IS CHEERFUL. Tells Archbish Bruchesi He Will Wait Three Years ROME—The pope Sunday gave a farewell private audience to Archbish op Bruchesi of Montreal. His holi ness afterwards went to the throne room, where Monsignor Bruchesi pre sented to him all the Canadians now in Rome, numbering sixty, including several Protestants from, ,t.be prov inces of Ontario and'Qpehee. The pope said he was delighted to see the Canadians and gave his)ben ediction to them all. On leaving Archbishop Bruchesi said: “I hope to spe your holiness on my next visit to Rome, three years hence.” The pope replied promptly: “I wHl wait for you." Rival Armies Dispersed. PANMAMA—Troops are already be ing sent away and nearly 1,000 will leave at once for Baranquilla. As soon as the revolutionary gunboat Pa dilla arrives are soldiers in the Cauea province will be sent to Buena Ven tura and General Salazar, governor of Panama, has set all the political pris oners at liberty. The commander of are British cruiser Phaeton has offer ed to communicate the news of the treaty of peace to Captain Marma duke, the commander of Bogota. The offer was accepted and the Phaeton sailed Saturday night. RATES SHOVED UP FREIGHT AGENTS DECIDE COUN TRY CAN STAND RAISE. FORMER RATES GO INTO EFFECT Reduced Tariffs Filed Since Injunc tions Are All to Be Withdrawn—In creased Revenue Will Amount to a Large Sum. CHICAGO.—A meeting was held Thursday of the general freight agents of all western roads with a view to re storing the rates which were in effect January 1, 1902. Instructions to re store all such rates as could possibly be restored were issued by the execu tive officials and it is stated that they will be carried out t o the letter. Independent of this meeting the Col orado lines met and began the work of restoring conditions to Colorado common points. The plan is to go on the old basis of rates thef first of the year, which will necessitate the withdrawal of all the reduced tariffs placed in effect since January 1, 1902. Since the issuing of the instruc tions by the United States courts fully 1,200 reduced tariffs have been filed with the interstate commerce com mission at Washington and are now in effect. If it is found possible to take out the majority of these tariffs, the western roads will enjoy an increased revenue next year amounting to sev eral million dollars. Whether the rate raising will go beyond the restora tion of the old tariff remains to be seen. several reasons are assigned py rail road officials for a readjustment of freight schedules, the most important being the increased cost of material which is used in railroad construc tion. Another is the general raise in wages. Most railroad officials cannot see why the cost of every other com modity which is for sale is increased and freight rates stay down. It is ex«^ peeled that so long as the presefit plethora of freight traffic keeps up the railroads will be able to maintain higher tariffs without serious rate cut ting. PITTSBURG.—Railroad executives of the districts of the central freight and trunk line associations have de cided that a freight rate advance of 2 per cent must go into effect on the bulk of the mill furnace tonnage on or before January 1. The application and the division of the advances on the rates from Pitts burg to the east and west are matters of .detail to be worked out in the taiiff committees and associations. In the cheaper grain traffic an ad vance of 15 per cent is to be made. This will go into effect December 8. HENDERSON ON TRUSTS. Constitutional Amendment is the Only Way to Deal with Them. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Senators and members of the house of repre sentatives are beginning to arrive in Washington to the meeting of con gress next week. Most of the leaders will be here during the early part of this we.ek as the president desires to confer with them before putting the finishing touches on his message. Sunday’s arrivals included Senators Spooner, Allison, Fairbanks and Bai ley and Speaker Henderson. Senator Spooner spent some time at the White House tonight in conference with the president. Speaker Henderson ex pressed the opinion in an interview that there would be little legislation at the coming short session aside from the passage of the appropriation bills. He added that the president would have the first inning. The speaker to some of his caller, ex pressed his belief that a constitutional amendtheh’t would be the only method of dealing with the trust question. CHAFFEE GOES TO NEW YORK. Will Then Proceed to Washington to Make Report. CHICAGO, III—General Chaffee and his two staff officers, Lieutenant Har per and Captain Lindsay, left Chicago Wednesday for New York, where the general will be located permanently, i After being duly installed in his quarters in New York, General Chaf fee will visit Washington and present a report which is said to cover 8,000 typewritten pages. General Chaffee, while refusing to discuss matters to be presented to the government in his official capacity, intimates that some radical changes may be expected in the affairs of the Philippine islands as a consequence of his reports. COURTS POWERLESS TO ACT, Friar's Death by Water Cure Cannot Be Legally Avenged. WASHINGTON.—The secretary of war on Friday sent to the attorney general papers in the case of Father Augustine, who died from the effects of the “water cure” administered by soldiers of a Vermont regiment, while serving in the Philippines. The cans has been thoroughly inves tigated by the Judge advocate general of the army upon the charges brought by Charles Francis Adams, Herbert Welsh and others of what was known to the I^ake George conference. It is said the guilt has not been brought home to any person now serving in the army. It is expected, therefore, that the attorney general will declare that neither the courts in this country nor those in the Phil ippines have any jurisdiction over the men or officers who have been dis charged from the army. Looks Like Cannon. CHICAGO—Action by the repub lican congressional delegations of Ohio and Michigan is believed to clinch the election of Congressman Cannon as the next speaker of the lower house of congress and as the successor of David H. Henderson of Iowa. The nominee will require 104 votes to control the caucus. Accord ing to Congressman Mann, chairman of his campaign committee, Mr. Can non now has a total of 120 members pledged him in state caucuses and by personal letters. DEATH REAP3 RICH HARVEST. Frightful Work of Volcano of Santa Maria in Guatemala. PANAMA, Colombia — Passengers from Central America who arrived here Monday report the complete de struction of the territory surrounding the volcano of Santa Maria, province of Quezaltenango, Guatemala, in con sequence of the recent eruption. The adjacent villages, the rich coffee plan tations, with over $300,00 worth of cof fee stored in bags and hundreds of lives were lost. Refugees were arriv ing at the port of Champerico. Over 300 fugitives sailed for San Joe de Guatemala on the Pacific mail steam er. The strict censorship which has been established in Guatemala makes it impossible to get exact news regard ing the situation there. The port of Huevero Harris is reported to have been closed. No mail has arrived here from Guatemala. IOWA TRAIN HELD UP. Fifteen Masked Men Dynamite Safe in Express Car. DAVENPORT. la.—Fifteen masked bandits derailed the fast westbound express train on the Rock Island road three miles west of here Friday morn ing. detached the engine and express car and two miles further west drove the United States Express company’s messenger from the car, dynamited the safe, securing all its contents, and escaped after making one of the rich est hauls en record in this section of the country. The detonation from the discharge of the bomb could be distinctly heard in Davenport, five miles distant. One car is off the track and the ex press car is a mass of ruins. So far as known none of the pas sengers were molested, but it is feared that harm befell the express messen ger. To Confer About Laying Cable. WASHINGTON — Representatives of the Pacific Cable company have asked the attorney general for a con ference upon the questions at issue between the government and the com pany rgardlng the laying of the pro posed cable, and Friday has been de cided upon for the meeting. Up to this time the company has not indi cated its acceptance of the conditions imposed by the attorney general under which the government would consent to the use of the maps of the sound ings of the proposed route across tha Pacific. Looking at Embryo States. GUTHRIE, O. T—The senate com mittee on territories left Guthrie early Sunday on a trip of the territories. Stops were made at Oklahomt City and Shawnee, in Oklahoma, and at South McAlester and Muskogee, in In dian Territory. At Muskogee the committee was met by government of ficials connected with the Dawese com mission and Indian service. From Muskogee the committee went to Vin ita, where they will remain over night WILL NOT YIELD _ CASTRO PROPOSES TO STAND UP AND DEMAND RIGHTS. HE RESENTS FOREIGN ACTION Insists that British Sloop of War En tered the Orinoco Without Any Per mission—Protests Against German War Ships Landing Along Shore. CARACAS. Venezuela.—Discussing Venezuela's foreign relations. Dr. Do pez Baralt, minister of the interior, said: “Towards the United States Vene zuela entertains the kindliest feelings of friendship and she remembers with gratitude the attitude of the great republic in the past. Venezuela is de termined, so far as she is concerned, that nothing shall occur to disturb in the slightest degree the existing understanding with the American le gation and the friendly relations be tween the two countries. Venezuela has nothing to complain of over the way the various questions have been treated, and except for some pending questions her foreign relations have been of a cordial character. “The English government at Trin idad published a few days ago an of ficial decree declaring the blockade of the Orinoco null and void. If there is any place where the blockade is effective it is the Orinoco, for, besides the land defenses, we have maintained several gunboats which have efficient ly performed there all the duties ap pertaining to a blockade. “The English, too, are Inconsistent, for while one journal at Trinidad published the decree declaring the blockade to be ineffective the Mirror, another publication, insists that Ven ezuela is loyally fulfilling her inter national duty in this respect. The British sloop-of-war Fantome entered the Orinoco without permission, and President Castor has directed a pro test against this infringement on Venezuelan sovereignty. It has been recognized that the principal foreign ships shall ask permission to enter the mouth of the river, and we can not understand the disregard of this rule. “A similar protest has been sent regarding the action of the German warship Panther, which also entered the Orinoco without permission. “Another act which has provoked astonishment was the hoisting of the British flag on the island of Patos. Venezuela’s right to this island can not be questioned. Geographically, historically and politically It is Ven enezuelan territory. “With the Island of Trinidad it is recognized as forming part of the old Spanish colony by the treaty of Am iens. Trinidad was ceded to Great Britain, but Patos remained, and was recognized as an integral part of Ven ezuela. The English claim to Patos is in no wise based on the act of the former Spanish government and was not recognized by Spain. If further reorganization of Venezuelan’s right is needed, the fact that the island is 3ituated scarcely three miles from the mainland, while it is ten minutes from Trinidad, is sufficient. “Venezuelan's position is shown by the facility with which^ we have re plied to every argument in support of the British contention. Patos island is Venezuela’s and must remain so." Pistols at a Prize Fight. GUTHRIE, Okla.—Trouble arose at a prize fight in Oklahoma City Thurs day night, and within a few seconds twenty-five shots were fired. Goldie Filson fell dead with five bullets in his head, his brother is fatally injured with a shot through the neck, and two unknown men were shot, one through the shoulder, the other through a leg. The prize fight reach ed its fourth round when the melee started. Russia Employs Americans. ST. PETERSBURG—An American firm was on Monday awarded a |1> 000,000 contract to construct telephone conduits in this city. The contract calls for twenty miles of underground tubes to be laid by 1903. A Chicago firm has secured the contract for the switchboard. Will Stop the Bull Fight. SPRINGFIELD, 111. — Governor Yates has directed Colonel Oglesby to investigate a report to the effect that a bull fight is being advertised in Sullivan, Moultrie county, for Thanks giving day. Sheriff Foster has been notified to prevent such a show. CHINA’S TROUBLE, The Rebels Capture the City of Szenfu. VICTORIA, B. C.—Advices have been been received from Canton to the effect that the Kawangsi rebels nave cap tured the prefcvtural city of Szenfu and several district cities in the same prefecture. A number of the officials of the captured cities either committed suicide or were killed by the rebels, while some succeeded in escaping. It is stated on good authority that the rebels recently received a large consignment of provisions, magazine rifles and ammunition, which caused the rebellion to be renewed. Two bat talions of troops have reached Canton en route to fight the rebels. From Szechuan newrs was received that General Ting had defeated the Boxers, capturing the fortress at Yang Tacchi, between Horcou and Taihoo hen. In Tsa Nhsein the imperial troops also repulsed the Boxers, killing 300 in a fight. Reports are now being re ceived from the provinces of Yunnan and Kuenchou that the Boxers are massing in those provinces. A Peking correspondent of the North China Herald says the Chinese gov ernment is secretly planning another upheaval. From reliable sources he learns that the dowager empress has received reports from all viceroys and governors regarding the number of sol diers and amount of war munitions that can bo raised, and instructions have been given to train the Manchus in the use of the rifle and in western drill. They are to be drafted to the different provinces to instruct the boI diery, this being part of the plan for another outbreak. EUFFALO BILL OPENS HOTEL. Announces at Same Time Engagement of His Youngest Daughter. CODY, Wyo.—Several Interesting features marked the opening here Tuesday evening of the Hotel Inna, built by Colonel W. F. Cody at a cost of $100,000 and named by him in hon or of his youngest daughter, Miss Irma Cody. Colonel Cody and Miss Irma led the grand march when the festivities be gan, 600 guests from all parts of the west and northwest following the lead ers. Before the banquet which mark ed the climax of the festivities he an nounced the engagement of Miss Irma Cody to Lieutenant Charles Armstrong, Tenth United States cavalry, a young officer who won honors in the Philip pines. Colonel Cody’s guests included Gov ernor Savage of Nebraska, Colonel Frank Powell of St. Paul, Lieutenant Scott of Fort McKenzie and "Moun tain Charlie,” a well known scout. ARCHBISHOP GUIDI ARRJVES. Ready to Take Up Matter of Friars in Philippines. MANILA—Archbishop Gu/di, apos tolic delegate in the Philippines, ar rived here Tuesday. A delegation of Roman Catholics boarded the steamer and escorted the prelate ashore. Cap tain Noble, the military aide-de-camp of Governor Taft, extended the official greetings. , Archbishop Guidi proceeded from the wharf to the cathedral, where sol emn services were held. He will make a formal call on Governor Taft, and it is expected that the plans for the negotiations looking for the settlement of the friars’ lands question will be informally discussed on that occasion. Assassin's Shot Fatal. TELLURIDE, Colo.—Arthur L. Col lins, general manager of the Smug gler-Union Mining company, who was shot by an unknown assassin on Wed-* nesday night at Padora, died Thursday morning. He was born in England thirty-three years ago. In conse quence of the murder of General Man ager Collins, the Smuggler-Union Min ing company has closed its mines and mills for an indefinite period. The company employed betweeen 400 and 500 men. Must Vote in Person. ATCHISON, Kan.—Judge Hudson, in the district couit on Wednesday, held that the new absentee railway employes’ law permitting railroad men to vote when away from home on election day, to be unconstitutional. With the absentee railroad men’s vote Peter Laughlin, fusionist, has a ma jority of five for the legislature from the country, district. Without it Uj B. Sharpless, republican, has a major-. ity.