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Loup City Northwestern. VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY <>. 1903. NUMBER 13. A SENATE MUDDLE INSISTENCE ON STATEHOOD BILL MAKES PROGRAM DOUBTFUL. • r" ** SENATOR QUAY CHANCES TACTICS A Move to Tack the Omnibus State hood Bill Onto Another Measure May Cause Trouble — Senators Ready to Appeal from the Chair. WASHINGTON—The omnibus state hood bill will continue to hold its place for the present as tlie unfinished busi ness on the senate calendar, but it seems quite probable that the debate will be transferred to the appropria tion bills. Senator Quay lias entirely ( hanged his tactics during the last week and after trying in vain to se cure a quorum for night sessions on two different occasions, has abandoned all efforts in that direction, leaving the senators who oppose the state hood bill to take the responsibility for delay. He now apparently is the least concerned of all to secure late sessions. He makes no confidants, but it is evident that it is his purpose to make his fight in connection with the ap propriation bills and to secure prom ises to vote for a statehood rider to one or other of them. Thus far there has not been delay on any supply measure on account of the statehood debates, but there will be a decided effort to attach the state hood amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill. It is expected that the amendment will be ruled out on a point of order, in which event there will be an appeal from the decision of the chair. It is quite possible, how ever. that the question may be sub mitted to the senate without a ruling by the chair. This plan has been pur sued in other cases and has been found to work satisfactory. Senator Cullom will attempt to se cure consideration of the Cuban treaty, but until the statehood bill is disposed of all speculation as to what may be clone with other questions is idle. The anti-trust bill which was sched uled for early consideration in th" ! house this week, will not come up un til late in the week, if at all. and possibly may be postponed until next week. The friends of the currency bill are exceedingly anxious to get consideration for it, and it may most likely come in after the postotflce ap propriation bill is disposed of, In which case the anti-trust bill would be shut out this week. Omaha Child Saving Institute. A remarkable incident occurred some time past. A woman with a young child was on the streets in a perfect- \ ly destitute and helpless condition. She was without friends and without means of support and had tried in overy way she knew to find employ ment. with her little child, and failed. In her desperation she appealed to a children’s society to take care of her little one temporarily until she could gel in a better position. She was told that she must sign papers of re linquishment and make absolute legal surrender of her child and give it up, with the assurance that she would never see it again and would never know where it was; or that she must J go out again upon the streets. She j clung to her child and went on her , journey, although It was cold and | dreary and she was hungry. Finally she concluded there was nothing else for her to do but to go back and sign the palters and give up her child for ever. On the day to do this, some one seeing her distress and learning the cause of her trouble, told her of the Child Saving Institute and that it would help her. She appealed to the institute and her child was tendeily cared for several weeks and in the meantime the mother met with good | .fortune and reached a position where she was abundantly able to provide for her own child and to keep it per manently. Must Not Offer a Pass. ALBANY, N. Y.—Attorney General Conneen has written an opinion in which he holds that the offering of a transportation pass to a member of the legislature would constitute a mis demeanor and make him subject to forfeiture of his office. The giving or the attorney general's opinion arose from the fart that the 1 Pullman Palace Car company sent to Hon. Francis G. Landon, member of assembly from Dutchess county, an an nual pass, and Mr. l>andon referred i the matter to Mr. Conneen. BANK IS ROBBED. Burglar Blow Safe and Get Away with Cash. WATEaiiOO. Neb—The Citizens’ .State bank of this place was robbed at 2 a. m. Tuesday. The robbers secured $2,300. Of this sum $2,TOO was in currency and the balance in gold and silver. The damage to the safe and furniture is estimated at $000. The bank is fully protected by insur ance. The robbers, of whom there were at least three, and perhaps four, gained an entrance through the front window by removing a pane of glass. They carefully avoided disturbing the burg lar alarm. Their work inside the building was easily and quickly accomplished. The safe stands outside of the vault and it was completely w recked by a charge of nitroglycerine. The noise of the explosion awakened the people in the vicinity of the bank and they soon gathered around but were kept back by the robbers. A num ber of shots were exchanged, but no one was hurt. In the confusion and darkness the burglars made their escape with their booty and although a posse was soon assembled, there is little clue upon which to work. Several strange men in a wagon were seen north of town Wednesday. It is thought that they may be the robbers. It was said the outfit had gone to wards Omaha and the officers there have been notified to be on the look out for it. Detective Franklin and posse, with bloodhounds, took the trail from the wrecked bank. The hounds seemed somewhat confused ard were unable to get a start. After an hour J. W. Miller, one of the posse, found a roll of bills tucked under a plank in a barn one and one half miles from Waterloo. The dogs were taken to the barn. At noon they were in full chase to the north of Wat erloo. The trail is fresh and the race will be hard. NEBRASKA IRRIGATION PROJECTS Much Inquiry as to What is Going to Be Done. WASHINGTON.—The Nebraska del egation in congress is receiving numer ous inquiries from constituents as to what has been, or will be done, in the matter of irrigation projects in that state, their object being principally to ascertain the contemplated sites of res ervoirs in order to secure homesteads in that vicinity. In order to secure some defiritp information upon this subject. Congressman Shallenberger called upon the irrigation expert, El wood Mead of the geological survey, and was informed that nothing has been done in Nebraska up to the pres ent time, except the measurements of certain streams and the sinking of a few artesian wells, but that during the next season, which will commence in the spring, experiments with these wells will be carried out quite exten sively, but that no definite plans had been made as to the probable locations of the wells. This means of securing water from irrigation, so Mr. Mead stated, was more adaptable to Nebraska than any other system. Nebraska is in what is known as the Dakota sand stone belt, and the expert says there Is plenty of water under the soil to carry on all needed irrigation projects in that state. FIFTY LOSE LIVES IN FIRE. Horrible Catastrophe Occurs at Insane Asylum In. England. I.<ON DON.—About fifty Insane pa tients were burned to death by a lire at the Colney Hatch asylum Tuesday morning. The outbreak occurred in the Jew ish wing of the institution. The flames spread with great rapidity and before they could be got under control five wooden buildings, including dormitor ies and the doctors' apartments, were gutted. All the efforts of the officials were directed to removing insane patients, but the latter became wild with ex citement and so panic stricken that not only were they unable to help themselves, but greatly impeded the operation of those trying to save them. There were nearly 600 women in the burned annex at the time the fire was discovered and most of them were safely transferred to the main build ing. which was uninjured. Some, how ever, escaped and are still at large, rendering it difficult to ascertain the exact number of those burned to death. It.is believed that at least fifty per ished. |AT A STANDSTILL VENEZUELAN EMBROGLIO STILL FAR FROM SETTLEMENT. MAY CO TO HAGUE TRIBUNAL! Arbitration Necessitates, However. Preliminary Protocol of Terms— Problem is to Get Powers to Meet— Belligerent Allies Want Preference. WASHINGTON.— No answer has J come from the allies to Mr. liowen's last proposition. The British ambassador sent a long ' cablegram to Lord Lansdowne stating what might be expected in case Great Britain and its two allies insisted upon j the preferential treatment, blockading . the other powers. The text of the | cablegram cannot be published, but it ! informed the foreign office that Mr. j Bowen, in the event of a refusal of his proposition would call on the rep resentatives of the other claimant powers in Washington and explain to them that Venezuela was being forced by the triple alliance to yield to a plan which would affect seriously [ the interests of France, Belgium, Nor way and Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Holland and the United States. When this step is taken it is expect ed France will make representations at once to lx>ndon, Berlin and Home, protesting against any interference with the previous arrangement it has made with Venezuela for the settle ment of claims. France may be Join ed in this protest by the othc»r claimant nations. There is reason to believe that the ♦ French government already has sound ed the United States government, to learn how much in common there may be between their interests in Vene zuela. It is said that there is a strong resemblance between the claims of the two nations, perhaps enough to link them together in resistance to any policy on the part of the allies, which would tend to destroy those interests. The French officials had not doubted that equal treatment would be recog nized and this unexpected turn of events has caused much surprise and concern. For the present it does not appear to be the purpose of French authorities to assume an imperative position, but rather set forth what they regard as the manifest equities of the case. After conferring with those in au thority an official said that the French position is based on two essential principles. The first is that a pacific settlement between two sovereign nations is en titled at least to equal treatment with a war settlement. If not a precedent would be established which would be an incentive to war, as countries first adopting force in the collection of claims would have superior rights to those observing the usual pacific means of settlement. The view is freely expressed here that the United States, France and Belgium are. in effect, pacific allies, as they did not resort to force against Venevuela. It is insisted that the present attitude of the allies tends not only to prejudice the rights of the pacific allies, but also establishes the dangerous principle that a resort to war is preferable to efforts to main tain peace. AMENDMENTS TO ARMY BILL. Senate Committee Favors Increased Appropriations. WASHINGTON—The army appro priation bill was reported to the sen ate and amended in various particu lars. The most important additions provide for the retirement with ad vanced rank of officers who served in the civil war and for the creation of a general staff. The retirement amendment Is in the exact language i of the bill recently reported by the senate military committee and the stafT amendment is in the language of the staff bill recommended by the sec retary of war, with the military com mittee’s amendments added. The committee recommended in creases in appropriations aggregating $3,366,000, the total carried by the bill as reported being $77,241,277. Mutineers Make Confession. LIVERPOOL—The four seamen of the British bark Vermonica, accused of mutiny, were remanded. Two of the prisoners have made a statement implicating themselves and the others in the crime, but another of the ac cused men, William Smith, an Ameri can, declares their statements untrue. THE LAND LEASING BILL. Why a Texas Congressman is Opposed to the Measure. WASHINGTON—Additional opposi tion to the land leasing bill has arisen in the house from some of the south ern members of congress. Represent ative Burleson of Texas introduced a resolution in the house calling upon the secretary of the interior to fur nish the house with full information as to what steps, if any. had been taken j to prevent the illegal fencing of the | public domain in Nebraska. Wyoming and New Mexico, lie also desires to ! know the number of filings or appli cations for part of the public domain which have been made in the states of Nebraska and Wyoming during the year 1901 and 1902 under the home stead and desert land acts, and how many persons who have made such filing have been fraudulently used to secure color of title to said lands for the purpose of conveying or transfer ring the same to others. The resolu tions also directs that upon report be ing made the attorney general shall immediately Institute proceedings against all persons who have illegally fenced in government lands and to declare all fraudulent appropriation of lands under the acts referred to, and that in on event shall any money paid for land be refunded, where it is shown that the filing was fraudulent. When inquiry was made as to his motive for introducing the resolution and his opposition to the bill, Mr. Burleson stated that It would give the cattle growers of Wyoming and Nebraska an undue advantage over the Texas cat tlemen, for the reason that when Tex as came into the union she retained all ner public lands and the state had to buy or lease their lands from private individuals, and if the Nebraskans were permitted to keep up their fances without paying rent or allowed to lease lands at a few cents per acre it would continue to work an injustice upon the people of Texas. SOMETHING IN BUTTER NAME. A Ruling that “Renovated” Cannot Be Replaced with “Process.” OMAHA—Process butter manufac turers of the city have received from James Wilson, secretary of agricul ture. a letter, in which he refuses to consider the request of the national as sociation of process butter manufac turers that a change be made in the regulations of the department by which the word "process" may be sub stituted for the word "renovated" on the packages of butter sent out by the factories, in his letter the secretary says that the word "renovated” has been adopted by the department after considering the question at length and upon the recommendation of dairymen, and that no good reason has been shown why the regulations should be changed. He also refuses to make a rule for butter for export different from that for process butter for do mestic consumption. PLANNING A NEW OUTBREAK. Fears that China Will Re-Enact the Rising of 1901. VICTORIA. B. C.—According to ad vices received from North China, fears are being entertained that. China is planning another outbrust similar to that of 1901. The North China Daily News says: “It has been learned on good author ity that Yung Lu, the real ruler of China, and the man who is reported to be responsible for the murder of Prof. Hubert James of the Pekin uni versity, will centralize the command of the military forces of the empire, or at least the provinces north of the Yangtse, together with Tung Siang and others. “The plot for the simultaneous mur der of foreigners in 1900 failed owing to the unwillingness of many vice roys and governors to carry out the order to the military 'officials, whose implicit obedience may be relied' upon." Italy Accepts Proposition. ROME—The Italian government is ready to accept the proposition of United States Minister Bowen to set apart a certain percentage of the cus toms receipts at La Guayra and Puerto Cabello as a guarantee for the pay ment of the foreign claims. The gov ernment considers that the guarantees offered by Venezuela through Minister Bowen are sufficient to warrant the raising of the blockade, which, it is understood here, will cease as soon as Germany agrees to the proposi tions. The foreign warships, how- j ever, will remaiu in Vene/.ue'aa ,,rat- | ers. 1 TRAINS WRECKED IOWA MEN DEAD AND MAIMED IN SMASHUP. THE LOSS OF LIFE IS CREAT Twenty Bodies Are Taken from the Debris of the Sunset Limited and Others Are Supposed to Have Per ished in the Collision. CHICAGO—Four persons were kill ed, four seriously injured and eight slightly hurt in a rear-end collision be tween stock trains on the Chicago' & Northwestern railway near Laflx, 111. Dead: CHARLES X. COE of Woodbine, la., Imprisoned in the debris and roasted to death. B. LANE of Vail, la., pinned down by wreckage and burned to death. A. A. AMEY of Scranton, la., badly burned; died an hour later in the sta tion at I afix. J. PETERSON of Battle Creek, la., badly burned and died before medical aid arrived. Seriously injured; 11. Johnstone, Clinton, la. William Kochslms, Schleswig, la. Evers Nellson, Schleswig, la. Albert dayman, Dunlap, la. The trains came together in a dense fog. The killed and injured were for the most part stockmen in charge of stock on the way to Chicago und the cast. Train Runs Into Funeral Car. CAIRO, III,--On the Illinois Central railway near Pulaski the Chicago fast train No. 3 crashed into the rear of St. Ixniis train No. 203, which is due here at 4:17 a. m. Both trains were late on account of the dense fog and the Chicago train was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, while the St. Louis train was making thirty miles an hour. The last car on the St. Louis train was the private car of the late Judge W. O. Fentress and family of Chicago. Judge Fentress, who died in Chicago Monday, was the head counsel of the Illinois Central and his body was in the car en route to Bolivar, Tenn., for burial. The rear half of the car was demol ished and the coffin broken open. The family of the judge was badly shaken up. Three of the train crew were in jured. but none will die. None of the passengers were hurt. Twenty-One Dead on Jersey Central. NEW YORK.—One of the most ap palling railroad wrecks that has oc curred in the vicinity of New York for many years took place at Grace land, on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, when an express plowed at top speed into the rear of a local train. Up to noon Wednesday the total loss of life was believed to be twenty-one. Of these fourteen bodies had been identified and seven were held at Plain field for identification. From the wreckage twenty bodies were taken, and Thomas McCarthy, fireman, is dead in a hospital. More than fifty persons were Injured, some of them severely. The hospital reports were, however, that with per haps one or two exceptions all would recover. Missouri Pacific Denver Express. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Missouri Pa cific train No. 1, which left here at 6:40 for Colorado, crashed into a switch engine, head on, in the east bottoms of this city. Three trainmen on the passenger train were seriously hurt, and both engines and a dining car were badly damaged. The passen gers were uninjured. Accidents in 8t. Louis. ST. LOUIS—As the result of a heavy fog that overspread the city for several hours Wednesday, there were several street car collisions. Within seventy minutes two head-on collisions occurred on the Clayton di vision of the transit company’s lines. Seven men were seriously injured in the two wrecks and a number of others received bruises and scratches. Sunset Limited Wrecked. TUCSON, Ariz.—A disastrous colli sion occurred on the Southern Pa cific Wednesday morning between pas senger train No. 9, west bound, and No. 8, east bound. The wreck oc curred near Vailsburg, Ariz., twelve miles east of this city, as a result of which twenty are dead. TWENTY-TWO DEAD IN WRECK. Frightful Disaster on New Jersey Cen tral at Graceland NEW YORK—One of the most ap palling railroad wrecks that has oc curred In the vielaity of New York for many years took place Tuesday night at Graceland, on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, when an exprpss plow ed at top speed into the rear of a local train. Up to noon Wednesday the total loss of life was believed to be twenty-two. Of these fifteen bodies had been iden tified and seven were held at Plain field for identification. From the wreckage twenty bodies were taken, and two men, W. E. Davis, engineer of the Reading express, and Thomas McCarthy, fireman, died in a hospital. More than fifty persons were injur ed. some of them very severely. The hospital reports were, however, that with perhaps one or two exceptions all would recover. Tile blame for the accident is plac ed by the railroad officials on Engi neer Davis of the Philadelphia & Read ing express, and. according to a police man who took Davis from the smashed cab, Davis admitted that he had taken chances and disregarded the danger signals because he expected to see the red and green lights changed to white as he neared them. They did not , change. ROSEBUD AGENCY LANDS. May Yet Be Thrown Open to Settle ment Thi* Year. WASHINGTON—The chances of the passage of the bill opening the Rose bud Indian reservation in South Da kota to settlement have been some what enhanced within the past few days. The community of interests plan is to be tried on this measure and if the contemplated program can lie carried out. there is some hope that the Gregory county lands may yet be thrown open to settlement dur ing the present year. The members of the South foakota delegation in the house are laboring diligently to bring about this desired result and at the suggestion of Con gressmen Burke and Martin a confer ence was recently held in the commit tee rooms of the public lands commit tee to discuss ways and means of put ting the bill through. TIME IS TOO SHORT. Not Much Legislation by the Present Congress. WASHINGTON—A month ago or more party leaders predicted the prob able legislation that would be enacted by the present session of congress. They said that statehood would fail; that the Cuban reciprocity treaty would be ratified by the senate and that there would be no radical legisla tion against trusts, but provision would be made for a better enforce ment of the Sherman anti-trust law. The situation today justifies that pre diction. The president Is opposing the admission of any territory at this time, while there are many senators who hope they will not have to vote upon the real issue of admitting any territory. The opposition to the rati fication of the Cuban reciprocity treaty is also dwindling. NO TENDER OF A LIBRARY. International Court of Arbitration Waits on Carnegie. THE HAGUE—The foreign minis ter, Dr. Van Lynden, replying to a question In the chamber as to whether an offer from Andrew Carnegie of 1250,000 to found a library for the In ternational court of arbitration had been rejected, said It had not been rejected, and added that no offer had been made in a form rendering either acceptance or refusal possible. Th minister observed that in view of the special character of the arbitration court the best form for such a gift would be to make it a special foun dation. Meanwhile the government was willing to administer the gift if it were offered. FARMERS SEEK BETTER RATES. The Wants of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma Agriculturists. TOPEKA, Kan.—A call has been is sued for a meeting of the Farmers’ Co-operative Shipping association to be held in Topeka at an early day. The purpose is to form a close ar j rangement for . mutual protection among the farmers of Nebraska. Kan sas and Oklahoma. The farmers seek the same treatment from the railroads in the matter of shinping as the ele vator owner*.