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.
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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
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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*.
