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VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SIIERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1902. NUMBER 5.
STATEHOOD BILL
IT WILL BE TAKEN UP IN THE
SENATE WEDNESDAY.
THE QUESTION OF ADMISSION
Committee Report Will Be Adverse to
New Mexico and Arizona—Senate
Will Probably Adjourn Thursday for
Several Days.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In accord
ance with the unanimous agreement
of the last session, the senate will
take up the statehood bill Wednes
day, and it is expected to remain the
unfinished business for some time. The
bill undoubtedly will provoke consid
erable debate and It is generally be
lieved that it will continue to receive
attention until the adjournment for
the Christmas holidays at least.
Senator Beveridge, as chairman of
the committee on territories, will call
the bill up Wednesday, and probably
will make a speech in support of the
report in favor of the substitute bill
presented by the committee. Othpr
members of the comittee who agree
with him will follow. All of them
will give careful attention to the testi
mony taken by the sub-committee
which recently visited the territories.
The committees written report has
not yet been submitted to the sen
ate and this, too, will probably be
put In on Wednesday. The report
will analyze the testimony, dealing
with the Questions of soil, mines,
agricultural possibilities, educational
facilities and general fitness of the
population of the various territories
for statehood. It is generally under
stood that a strong position will be
taken In opposition to the claims of
New Mexico and Arizona, considera
ble stress being laid on the fact that
a large percentage of the people of
these territories do not use the Eng
lish language and that interpreters
are necessary in the conduct of the
business of the many courts. Atten
tion will be given to the previous
question of statehood of those terri
tories, many of which are seriously
^ criticised by the present committee,
F on the ground that they fail entirely
to represent the real conditions. The
report giving the views of the com
mittee will be accompanied by a
transcript of the testimony taken by
the committee, which will be printed
for the information of the senate and
the country.
It is expected that the Immigration
bill Will continue to receive desultory
attention on Monday and Tuesday,
but the proceedings with reference to
this bill will consist largely In the
reading of the bill and the consider
ation of amendments.
There will be more or less of exec
utive business during the week, and
in all probability another adjourn
ment from Thursday until the follow
ing Monday.
CATTLE EXPORTS HALTED.
New England Shlopers Stay Idle Till
Disease is Stamped Out.
BOSTON—No reply has been re
r| ceived as yet to the cable scut to the
ijpBrttiBh government by the acting con
iul expressing the desiie of steam
ship men and cattle shippers that its
quarantine against the shipment oT
cattle from New England be modi
fied so as to permit shipments from
Portland of western and aCnadian ani
HHp Jfeanwhile the New England export
;tle trade is at a standstill, though
e Information from Washington
that the British authorities have
ested a statement with regard to
HI! Toot and mouth disease, and a re
as to the wisdom of allowing
cattle to be loaded at Portland.
Dr. Salmon said today that it had
1 been his intention to have the work
p§ of slaughtering the affected cattle be
gun by Tuesday, but the Heavy snow
about the Rtate might cause a delay.
Fix Next Year's Fair Dates.
Hp-HCAGO.—The National Associa
tion of Fairs and Exhibitions met
OgiKTucsday and decided dates for
State fairs in 1903 as follows:
flfcsnuri. August 17 to 22; Iowa,
Atapst 2-1 to 29; Now York, August
24*.to 29; Minnesota, August 31 to
September 5; Ohio. August 31 to Sep
T te%bci 5; Wisconsin, September 7 to
September 12; Nebraska, September 7
“k to 12; Indiana, September 14 to 19;
RUKgjtBas. September 14 to 19; Ken
tucky, September 21 to 2G; Illinois
■ gajpteiuber 28 to October 3; St, Louis,
REED PASSES AWAY.
Former Speaker Succumbs at Arling
ton Hotel, Washington.
WASHINGTON—Thomas Brackett
Reed former speaker of the house of
representatives, died here at 12:10
Saturday night in his apartments in
the Arlington hotel. The immediate
cause of death was uraemia.
A change for the worse was noted
In Mr. Reed's condition early in the
■ morning. At 9:30 he was was given
a subcutaneous saline transfusion in
order to stimulate his kidneys, which
were failing to perform their proper
function.
At 5 in the afternoon saline solu
tion wa6 again administered, about
three-quarters of a pint of fluid being
used.
The heart became weaker and weak
er, but the patient retained conscious
ness until 11 o’clock at night, when
a complete coma supervened.
At the bedside were Mrs. Reed and
Miss Catherine Reed, Drs. Gardner,
Mac Donald, Bishop and Goodnow, and
the nurses.
Dr. Goodnow, who had been in con
sultation with the local physicians on
Thursday, was again summoned from
Philadelphia.
It Is stated that Mr. Reed had been
suffering from Bright's disease for
some time, which reached the acute
stage Saturday, and this furnished an
additional c ause for alarm. Mr. Reed
passed away peacefully and without
pain.
The remains of Thomas Brackett
Reed left here Sunday afternoon for
Portland, Me., where the interment
will take place on Tuesday afternoon.
The casket was placed on a special
train, leaving Washington at 4:50 and
running as the second section of the
Federal express, scheduled to arrive
at Portland Monday.
Accompanying the body were Mrs.
! Reed, Miss Catherine Reed, Amos U.
! Allen, Mr. Reed's successor in the
house; Asher C. Hinds, Mr. Reed's
parliamentary clerk while speaker,
and Augustus G. Payne of New York,
a lifelong friend. At Mrs. Reed's re
quest there were no ceremonies of any
kind and at Portland they will be of
the simplest character.
Reed Chronology.
1839—October 18, Thomas Brackett
Reed, born in Portland, Me.
1860—Graduated from Bowdoin col
lege.
1864—Joined the United States navy
as acting assistant paymaster.
1868-69— Member of the Maine leg
islature, lower house.
1870—Member of the Maine senate.
1870-72—Attorney general state of
Maine.
1874-77—Solicitor city of Portland.
1877-99—Representative in con
gress.
1889-91—Speaker of the house.
1895- 99—Again speaker of the house.
1896— Prominently mentioned for
president.
1899—Retires from congress.
Says Swift Buys Railways.
KANSAS CITY.—George H. Ross of
Chicago, for several years traffic man
ager of the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa
railway, has succeeded Theodore C.
Bates of Boston as president of the
Union Depot, Bridge & Terminal Rail
way company. Mr. Bates says he re
signed so that the company’s interests
might be in the hands of a practical
railroad man A dispatch from Bos
ton however, positively asserts that
Mr. Bates sold his interests, and the
Winner bridge piers in the Missouri
river, and the valuable river land and
terminals owned by it, have been pur
chased by Swift & Company, who con
template building an independent
stock yards and a new plant.
Another rumor is to the effect that
the Rock Island system has purchased
but no reply had been received.
MEET AND TALK ON TREATY.
General Bliss Says Things Are Moving
Along.
HAVANA.—General Tasker H. Bliss,
who is here to arrange a basis for
a reciprocity treaty between the Unit
ed States and Cuba had another con
ference Tuesday with Secretary of
State Zaldo and Secretary of Finances
Manos. General Bliss afterward said:
“We expect to conclude the conference
by next Saturday. Everything is pro
gressing satisfactorily.”
It is generally understood that the
Cuban commissions have accepted all
propositions which General Bliss has
advanced thus far on behalf of the
United States.
RESTRAIN TRUSTS
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUPPORTS
PUBLICITY PROPOSAL.
LITTLEFIELD’S BILL REPORTED
Measure Will Now Be Considered with
Others Affecting Combines—Infor
mation in Which Particulars Are
Required to Be Given.
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WASHINGTON.—The subcommittee
of the house judiciary committee, to
which was referred anti-trust bills, on
Friday reported favorably to the full
committee on Mr. Littlefield's bill pro
viding for giving publicity to the af
fairs of commercial combinations.
The acting chairman of the judiciary
committee appointed a subcommittee
consisting of Representatives Little
field (Me.), Overstreet (lnd.), Powers
(Mass.), Da Arnond (Mo.), and Clay
ton (Ala.), to which all anti-trust bills,
including the publicity bill, have been
referred. A metelng of the committee
is called for tomorrow.
The publicity bill, as amended, pro
vides that every corporation, joint
stock company or similar organization
engaged in interstate or foreign com
merce, and • cry such corporation
! which shall hereafter be organized,
shall file with the interstate commerce
commission on or before September
1, each year, a return stating its name,
date of organization, where and when
organized, the statutes under which
organized, and, if consolidated, the
name of the constituent companies
and the same information concerning
them.
If the concerns have been, reorgan
ized the original corporation is to be
stated, with information concerning it.
The following particulars must also
be given:
(1) Amount of authorized capital
stock, shares into which divided, their
par value, whether common or pre
ferred and distinction between each.
(2) Amount issued and outstanding,
amount paid in, how much, if any, in
property, and if paid in property a de
scription and cash value of the prop
erty at the time it was received.
(3) Indebtedness, its nature and
for what purpose incurred.
(4) A statement of the assets at
their present cash market value, giv
ing the elements upon which the mar
ket value is based.
(o) The total earnings and income,
operating expenses, interest, taxes,
permanent improvements, net earn
ings, dividends declared, with rate and
date, during the period preceding the
first preceding July, salaries of officials
and wages of employes.
It is further provided that the treas
urer or other officer of concerns af- j
fected shall answer on oath all inqulr- j
ies that may be made in writing, under
the direction of the interstate com
merce commission, relative to its
financial condition and its capital
stock. Such answer is not to be used
as evidence against the person making
it, except in prosecutions under the :
proposed act.
A tax of 1 per cent per annum is im
posed on so much of the capital stock
outstanding which is not fully paid in
cash or property at its full cash mar
ket value, and provision is made for
collecting the tax.
Any concern falling to make the re
turn as required, and any concern fail
ing to pay the tax imposed, Is to be
restrained, on the suit of the United
States, from engaging in interstate or
foreign commerce.
DIE IN A FIRE TRAP.
Fourteen Guests Perish in Another
Chicago Holocaust.
CHICAGO. — Fourteen persons
among the scores crowded Into the
Lincoln hotel, at 176 Madison street,
met death shortly before 6 o'clock
Thursday morning in a fire. Death
came suddenly to a few, but with
awful slowness to others, who were J
penned in the death trap and suffocat
ed or burned to death. Some died in
their rooms, some chanced all in
jumping and lost, while others wrere
found in the hallways, where they had
expired with their Angers dug into the
cracks of the Aoor.
i All the bodies were recovered, as
the hotel was not destroyed.
The building was a Are trap of the
worst kind, according to experts.
There were but two exits, a narrow
stairway leading down the four Aoors
of the building and an incomplete Are
escape in the rear. i
THE SICK CATTLE.
Unprincipled Dealers Said to Have
Sold Them.
BOSTON.—Dr. Salmon rracned Bos
ton from Washington Tuesday. His
first action was to hold a conference
with Dr. Samuel E. Bennett, the Bos
ton agent of the bureau, Dr. Austin
Peters, clii< f of the Massachusetts An
imal Bureau, and Dr. John R. Moh
lrn, chief of the pathological division
at Washington, James I^aw of Cornell
university and Dr. Leonard Pearson of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Salmon said:
“The situation Is very disquieting,
principally because cattle dealers have
been selling diseased animals and
scattering the contagion and because
there has been no adequate conception
of the danger of carrying the disease
by persons who have visited diseased
herds.”
Dr. Salmon will take offices so as
to be in the closest touch with the
cattle bureau.
Dr. Peters on Tuesday issued a no
tice calling attention to the statutes
which direct local board of health to
report all cases of contagion among
cattle as soon as their presence is
known.
WASHINGTON.-Official notice of
the action of the British government
prohibiting the lauding of stock from
New England was received Tuesday.
Mr. Moore on Tuesday ordered about
twenty veterinary surgeons In various
western cities to proceed to New Eng
land to augment the force of experts
already fighting the epidemic. This
force also will be added to by the in
spectors relieved from duty owing to
the cessation of exportation to Great
Britain.
PORTLAND, Me—The steamship
officials have stopped loading cattle
at this port, until word is received
from England that cattle shipped from
Canada via Maine will be allowed to
land.
CUBAN TREATY IS READY.
President Palma Will Sijjn Document
at Havana Next Wednesday.
HAVANA—After a conference with
Secretaries Zaldo and Montes Friday
night President Palma said:
“My commissioners, Senores Zaldo
and Montes, will sign the reciprocity
agreement with General Bliss Tues
day or Wednesday next. It will he
then sent to Washington, where the
treaty will be signed by Secretary
Hay and Minister Quesada.
“After confirmation by the United
States senate I will send the treaty
to the Cuban senate for approval. I
shall not send it to the house of rep
resentatives because that house has/
with the approval of the senate, the
right, according to the constitution;
to make a treaty which does not affect
the tariff.
“This agreement provides for cer
tain reductions in the duties on im
ports from the United States, but the
tariff on those articles Is not changed.
After the approval of the treaty I in
tend to send1 a message to the senate
and the house asking for a revision
of the tarifT in order to keep up the
revenues which will be necessarily
lessened by the treaty.”
A senator who represents the ad
ministration gives his opinion that the
reciprocity agreement must be ap
proved by the house of representa
tives. The matter of issuing a loan
for $35,000,000 is again being taken
up in the senate.
Suit Over Harrison Estate.
INDIANAPOLIS.—Mrs. Mary Scott
Harrison McKee, daughter of the late
President Benjamin Harrison, has
brought suit against Elizabeth Harri
son. Mary Lord Harrison, her guard
ian, Russell B. Harrison. William
Schoppenhorst, the Union Trust com
pany and Martha E. Clark and Stephen
A. Clark. The complaint sets forth
that the plaintiff and Elizabeth Har
rison and Russell B. Harrison each
owns an undivided one-third interest
in the property at 20 North Pennsyl
vania avenue, occupied by William
Schoppenhorst.
Honduras Faces Resolution.
PANAMA—A revolutionary move
ment is threatened in Honduras. Gen
eral Sierra has been induced to refuse
to turn over the presidential power
to Senor Monlila, who was elected
president in October. It is believed
that the Honduras congress will try to
declare the last elections illegal, and
Senor Bonilla’s numerous partisans
threaten to protect their leader'3
righta by force. Juan Angelarias, the
defeated candidate, has been appoint
ed minister of state.
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A RULING ON INSURANCE.
Important Decision Announced by the '
Supreme Court.
An important decision on life insur
ance is announced in the supieme
court in the ca3e of the Royal Neigh
bors of America against Wallace, an
error case from Dodge county. The
court adheres to its former ruling of
reversal, announced at the last term
of court, but changes its mind ma
terially as to the rule that applies
to answers to questions m the appli
cation. The matter turned upon
whether these answers are warranties
or merely representations. The court
says that the .proper rule is that the
asking of a question by the company
is a declaration that the fact sought
to be elicited by the question is ma
terial, and the answer by the appli
cant, when he procures a policy to be
issued is an assent to its materiality,
the form of application and the pol
icy const ltutlng an agreement that the
sta*ements are material to the risk.
This still leaves it open, says the court,
to the determination of the jury
whether the answer was true, and if
not true, whether the variance was
material to the risk. It is not for the
jury, however, to say that the answers,
though substantially true, were nev
ertheless immaterial.
WANTS A BOND REGISTERED.
Auditor Refuses Because He Alleges
it is Not Legally Issued.
LINCOLN.—J. Y. Niles has filed a
suit in the supreme court for a writ
of peremptory mandamus to compel
Charles Weston, state auditor, to re
cord a bond for $1,000 Issued by Doug
las county in 1877. Weston refused to
record the bond because, he claimed,
the law under which the bonds were
issued was unconstitutional. The
bonds were issued to the Omaha &
Northwestern Railroad company,
bearing 8 per cent interest. In 1887
the county refunded the bonds and
issued others bearing 5 per cent. These
were Issued under the law of 1885.
which the supreme court has declared
unconstitutional. This year the bonds
were again refunded and others issued
bearing 3% per cent. The stale bolds
$176,000 worth of the bonds.
Earnings of Iowa Railroads.
According to the reports of the rail
road companies for the year ended
June 30 last, as made to the railroad
commissioners in accordance with
law, there has been a rap.id increase
in the earnings the first half of the
year. The aggregate of earnings on
Iowa business as shown by the reports
for the year ended June 30 last was
$3,000,000 more than the aggregate for
the year ended January 1 last, as re
ported at that time to the state. The
mileage reported in Iowa for the year
ended June 30 last was 9,614, the gross
receipts $59,106,191.41, the expenses
$39,839,794.93, leaving as net earnings
$19,686,396.58 *
H*i a Corpse on His Hands.
BEAVER CITY.—The Burlington
agent here has a piece of express on
hand which he would be glad to dis
pose of. It is the dead body of James
Bisbee, formerly of this county, who
died at the insane asylum in Lincoln.
His mother lives twelve miles south
of this place and the authorities
ehiped the body to her with C. O. D.
charges for the casket and transporta
tion, amounting to $66. When the
family of the dead man called for the
remains they were surprised by the
charges and were unable to raise the
money.
No Fear of Contagion.
The "hoof and mouth'’ disease, so
prevalent among cattle in the New
England states and against which
many of the states in the west have
quarantined, need occasion no alarm
among cattle and stock men in Ne
braska, was the statement issued from
the state veterinary surgeon. While
some of the surrounding states have
quarantined against the disease, Ne
braska will not do so, for the officials
do not believe there is any danger of
the disease reaching here. “We see
no occasion for alarm,,” said t)r.
Thomas, "and therefore will establish
no quarantine. It would interrupt
traffic and do no good."
Sunday closing io to be enforced at
Crete.
A bank is about to be established at
Sterling.
An ice making plant I3 to be estab
lished at York.
Crete's new lighting plant has been
put in operation.
A series of religious meetings are
being held at Wymore.
A war is on between the telephone
companies of Fremout.
The postmaster at the village of
Smartville has resigned.
At Broken Bow, “Pink” Brown was
killed by the kick of a horse.
The Burlington road will put in a
new passenger station at York.
A brick factory at Hastings was
damaged by Are to the extent of $1,200.
The new Methodist church at
Geneva will soon be ready for occu
pancy.
Dr. Covert of Pawnee was thrown
from his horse, sustaining a broken
collar bone.
The saloon of Jacob Thomas of
Wahoo was robbed of 800 cigars and
a few bottles of wine.
Dogs are dying off fast in Fremont,
all classes of the canines suffering
from some unknown disease.
George H. Thomas, a colored barber
and an old resident of Wauneta, was
found dead in bed at Wauneta.
There are six divorce cases to be
disposed of by the district court of
York county at the December term.
Peter McDermott, for a long time
an engineer on the Burlington, run
ning out from Alliance, fell dead in
Salt Lake.
An unusually large amount of wheat
has been sown in Gage county this
season and farmers report that it is in
splendid condition.
Mrs. Myattway, wife of the pastor
of the Baptist church at Falls City, in
taking a dose of medicine got the
wrong bottle and took arnica. It al
most proved fatal.
At Valentine John and Harry Junod
were sentenced to Ave years in the
penitentiary for stealing about 6,000
pounds of wire from David A. Han
cock, a large ranchman.
Dr. Alma Chapman, second assist
ant physician at the Hastings asylum
for the incurable insane, has handed
in her resignation to the governor and
the same has been accepted.
The Alfred Cownie farm of 280
acres, near Beatrice, was sold for
$62.50 per acre, the top price so far
paid for Gage county land. The pur
chaser was Charles Hentges, who the
same day sold his farm in Hanover
township to William Pardee for $50
per acre.
William P. Redifer, who nas made
his home in Fremont for some time,
was arrested at St. Joseph, Mo., on a
warrant issued for him here, charging
his with disposing of some horses and
other property after first obtaining all
that he could get from them on a
chattel mortgage.
Chester Brown, alias John Finn, is
under arrest at Wayne charged with
stealing a team of horses from a citi
zen there some time ago and later
leaving two citizens of Fremont in the
lurch by departing from that city with
three horses on which they held chat
tel mortgages. He was captured after
being traced to Platte, S. D.
Hallie, the 20-year-old daughter of
John Rathbun, a merchant of Shelby,
had her life hanging by a thread for
several hours. She arose to build a
fire and was discovered later in a
chair, partly dressed, unconscious and
her body quite cold. Through mis
take Bhe had taken carbolic acid, mis
taking it for a cough remedy.
Proofs were offered to the governor
by Frank I^isse, E. W. Cullen, David
Leary and Perry Boram of Winside,
in support of their claim of the $200
offered by the governor for the appre
hension of Gottlieb Niegenfind, the
Pierce county murderer. In order that
there might be no mistake about it
the certificates were made out so that
each one of the four is entitled to $50
and payment will be made in that
way.
The report of the officers o* the
Fremont Sugar Beet company shows
that the crop of 1902 yielded a profit
of 30 per cent, a dividend of 25 per
•cent being declared and 5 per cent
added to the surplus fund. The syndi
cate raised 1,749 tons. Out of the
total disbursements of $5,861, the sum
of $4,352.18 was expended for labor.
The company has rented 480 acres of
land near Fremont for a term of four
years and will rotate beets with other
crops.