Loup City Northwestern.
LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1903.
VOLUME XX.
NUMBER 15.
SIGN PROTOCOLS
AS TO METHOD OF VENEZUELAN
SETTLEMENT.
BLOCKADE IS TO BE RAISED
Representatives of Powers and Um
pire Named by Roosevelt Settle All
but Preferential Treatment—What
the Protocols Provide.
WASHINGTON—Mr. Bowen Friday
signed with each the three protocols
providing for the immediate raising
of the Venezuelan blockade and for
toe reference of the question of pref
erential treatment to The Hague ar
bitration tribunal.
At 11:30 Herbert Dering, first sec
retary of the British embassy, an
nounced that the British protocol had
just been signed and that the signa
tures of the Italian and German pro
tocols w'ould follow in the order
named.
Tne British protocol was in English,
the Italian in Italian, and the Ger
man in German and English.
Mr. Bowen signed in duplicate for
Venezuela, Sir Michael Herbert for
Great Britain, Signor Mayor lies
Planches for Italy and Baron Von
Sternberg for Germany.
Immediately after the signing of the
last protocol cables were dispatched
to London, Berlin and Rome announc
ing the fact. It is expected that the
commanders of the blockading fleet
will receive orders within the next
twenty-four hours to withdraw their
vessles.
The protocols also provide for the
return of all Venezuelan vessels, war
and merchant, which have been captur
ed by the allied fleet.
Great Britain, Germany and Italy re
ceived advance payments of £5,600
each, Great Britain receiving Its pay
ment on the signature and Germany
and Italy within thirty and sixty, days
from date. Germany, in addition, will
receive five monthly payments until
the amount paid it in advance aggre
gates $340,000.
As a guaranty for the satisfaction
of their claims, Mr. Bowen pledges
tae allies a share with the other cred
itor nations In 30 per cent of the cus
toms receipts of the two ports of Ha
Guayra and Puerto Cabello. This per
centage will be set aside beginning
March 1 and retained in the Venezue
lan treasury until The Hague tribunal
decides whether it will be distributed
without preference between the claim
ant nations, or whether Great Britain,
Germany and Italy shall receive pref
erential payments.
Italy gains immediate payment of its
first, class claims without further ad
judication as soon as the joint com
mission at Caracas has passed on the
remainder of its claims.
In round figures the adjudicated
Italian claims amount to $560,000,
from which will be subtracted the $27,
500 to be paid sixty days from the
signature of the protocol. The Italian
ambassador also has secured for his
government the insertion of an agree
ment that Venezuela will insert In its
treaty with Italy the favored nation
clause possessed by the other nations.
CUBA TO BORROW MILLIONS.
Will Issue Bonds to Pay Soldiers and
Aid Insular Agriculture.
HAVANA—The joint committee of
the senate and house has prepared its
report on the soldiers’ pay bill. It
provides for a 5 per cent bond issue
of $35,000,000. $1,000,000 of which will
be expended in the aid ot agriculture,
and the balance in paying the soldiers.
The loan is guaranteed by stamp
acts, and duties on liquors, matches
and tobacco, but the committee does
not propose to levy the duty on to
bacco until ten years hence, when a
portion of the principal loan becomes
due.
Powers Will Sue Together.
LONDON—Mr. Bowen's formal ac
ceptance of the British protocol is not
believed here to be likely to hasten to
any great extent the conclusion of the
Venezuelan negotiations. The allies’
ambassadors have been strictly enjoin
ed not to sign any of the protocols
until all three powers are satisfied
with the terms, when the signatures
will be simultaneous. When the ques
tion or separate treatment of the al
lies is brought before The Hague court
of arbitration the triple alliance will
appear as one power, their interests be
ing regarded as identical.
DEMAND FOR CASH.
Germany Wants $340,000 Before Arbi
tration.
WASHINGTON—Germany has Ig
nored its previous engagement, made
with Mr. Bowen by Count A. von
Quadt-Wykradt-Izzy and insisted on a
cash payment of $340,000, or a lien
on the customs receipts of one of
the Venezuelan ports until this is
paid. This information was conveyed
to Mr. Bowen Wednesday by Baron
von Sternberg.
Mr. Bowen immediately refused to
yield the receipts of any port prior to
The Hague decision, but left the mat
ter of a cash payment to the German
minister to determine.
‘ If Germany can afford to confess
that it does not stand by, agreements
signed by its duly accredited diplo
mats,” replied Mr. Bowen. "1 am will
ing to guarantee payment on the day
the protocol is signed of the total
amount asked in the original ultima
tum.”
That response has been cabled to
the German foreigu office.
Great Britain and Italy have re
nounced any responsibility for the ac
tion of Germany and have informed
Mr. Bowen that they will stand by all
agreements made with him and will
not be influenced by the action of Ger
many.
With the exception of the demand
for an increased cash payment the Ger
man protocol, in all essential respects,
conforms to that of Great Britain,
but is more concise. All three pro
tocols provide for the immediate re
turn of all vessels seized by the block
ading ships.
It is stated that the action of Ger
many in asking for $340,000 instead of
contenting itself with £5,500, is due to
a misunderstanding of certain steps
in the negotiation which had been
passed on by Count von Quadt before
the arrival of Baron von Sternberg.
In the original ultimatum addressed
to Venezuela by the three govern
ments 15,300 bolivars was demanded
by Great Britain and Germany and
2,500,000 bolivars by Italy.
A paper was signed at the British
embassy by the three representatives
of the allies, the British and Italian
ambassador and the German charge,
Count Qttadt, and by Mr. Bowen, by
which the allied powers agreed to ac
cept a cash payment, or an adequate
guaranty for the eventual satisfaction
of their claims, as a condition prece
dent to the raising of the blockade.
Mr. Bowen offered 30 per cent of
the customs receipts of Puerto Cabello
and l a Guayra as a guaranty for the
payment “of all claims.” Later he
consented to give the British govern
ment £5,500 cash in view or thetr con
tention that they desired immediate
satisfaction for outrages committed on
British subjects. No objection was
made at the time by the Italian ambas
sador or the German charge. The
three powers accepted the guaranty
offered as entirely satisfactory.
MOUNTED MEN ROB A TRAIN.
Burlington Express Held Up Soon Af
ter Midnight Near Butte.
BUTTE, Mont.—The Burlington ex
press, No. 6, eastbound, was held up
shortly after midnight on the North
ern Pacific tracks, eight miles east of
here, near Homestead, by five mount
ed men.
They covered the sides of the train
with their guns, uncoupled the engine,
mail and express cars, and ran them
ahead of the train about two miles.
The trainmen of the passenger
train, after the robbers had left with
the engine and cars, hastened back
toward Butte and met an incoming
freight train, the engine of which was
uncoupled and run to Butte and the
alarm given. A sheriff and posse and
force of police have left for the scene
on a special train. The railway offi
cials have asked the penitentiary ofll
cials for their bloodhounds.
MELVILLE ABOUT TO RESIGN.
Naval Engineer-in-Chief is to be Suc
ceeded by Captain Rae.
WASHINGTON — Hear Admiral
George W. Melville will relinquish his
post as engineer-in-chief of Ihe United
States navy within the next few weeks
and will be succeeded by Captain
Charles W. Rae, now on duty as a
member of the examining board in this
city.
It had been expected that Rear Ad
miral Melville would remain in his
present position until August, at least,
and his friends anticipated that he
would not withdraw' from active serv
ice before January, 1904, when the
term of office for which he was ap
nninted will expire.
BALKAN OUTLOOK
GROWS MORE SRIOUS WITH EACH
PASSING DAY.
TURKEY CALLS BATTALIONS
Porte Increases Men in the Disturbed
District by Many Thousands—Aus
tria Stops Soldiers’ Leave and Gets
Transports Ready.
LONDON.—A special from Rome
says: Italy has fully consulted in the
court of the Lamesdorff-Goluchowskl
conference on Macedonia and prom
ised to support the proposed action.
The scheme for reforms includes a
demand for the assembling of an in
ternational congress to adjust the de
tails. This will be supported by a
demonstration of European war ships
ofT Salonica. where they will remain
while the congress is in session.
Orders have been given to the
Austrian Lloyds at Trieste to be pre
pared, at short notice, to furnish suf
ficient transports to convey a large
army to Dalmatia. Leaves of absence
have been canceled, the reserves have
been warned and the railroads notified
to be ready to deal with large bodies
of men and supplies.
CONSTANTINOPLE.—Fourteen bat
talions of redifs (emergency militia)
of the Third army corps, whose head
quarters are at Salonica, have been
ordered to join the colors.
According to official statements
these troops are intended to replace
the reserve battalions called out to
quell the Macedonian outbreak last
autumn.
The latter are still under arras and
it Is generally believed that they will
be kept with the colors.
General Rlcciotti Garibaldi, one of
the soiib of the great patriot, who
raised a force of Italian volunteers
for Greece during the Graeco-Turkish
war, is organizing a volunteer expedi
tion to assist the Macedonians in the
rising against Turkish rule, which is
believed to be impending.
ST. PETERSBURG.—M. Bakmet
kieff, the Russian diplomatic agent at
Sofia, Bulgaria, who came here to see
the czar and the foreign minister,
Count Lamsdorff, is said to have de
scribed the situation in Macedonia as
leaving little hope of a pacific solu
tion.
The government, therefore, is more
desirous of localizing the outbreak
than of securing the success of the
Austro-Hungarian scheme of reform.
In pursuance of this object Russia has
advised Bulgaria to declare a state
of siege in the agitated districts.
VALUABLE MAIL PACKAGE LOST.
Letters Containing $50,000 in Commer
cial Paper Missing.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—A package
of letters containing upwards of $50,
000 in commercial paper was lost by
the postal authorities from a pouch
on the Pennsylvania train leaving
Louisville at midnight Januaiy 31
and running to Chicago via Indianap
olis.
The postal authorities have failed
to produce the missing package. The
loss was first made known by com
plaints coming to the Indianapolis
postofflce irom towns along the line.
Twenty-one complaints have been
made and nearly all speak of letters
lost with commercial paper in them.
The theory at present at the post
offlcc is that the package was left in
a pouch through the carelessness of
an employe after it was thought to
have been emptied. No suspicion
rests on any one of wrong doing, and
no attempt has been made to cash
any of the missing checks.
SHIRKS HIS PERSONAL TAX.
John D. Rockefeller Pleads Poverty to
Commissioners.
NEW YORK.—John D. Rockefeller,
jr., is supposed to be about the richest
young man in America, but he owes
$400,000 and has only $30,000 worth of
personal property, according to the
statement filed with the department
of taxes and assessments.
Mr. Rockefeller was assessed at
$500,000. From what could be learn
ed at the tax office he called there
and stated that he had $400,000 in
debts and that his personal property
above his debts was worth only $30,
000.
ROOT NOT READY TO RESIGN.
Will Continue in-the Cabinet for an
Indefinite Period.
WASHINGTON — “There la no
foundation for the story," declared
Secretary Root, referring to the pub
lication of a rumor In New York that
ho will resign his position in the cab
inet after the adjournment of con
gress March 4, and resume his iaw
practice in Now York.
Ho said that the report undoubtedly
originated from chance conversations
he frequently hail with friends when
ever he visited New York. He was
asked if he did not expect to resume
his law practice there and he invari
ably replied that he did. and when
asked when he was likely to do so he
usually gave the non-committal reply
that he would take up his law busi
ness in New York “when his job in
Washington was done.”
CATTLE AGAIN DISEASED.
Foot and Mouth Epidemic Takees
Fresh Start in Massachusetts.
WASHINGTON — The foot and
mouth disease has become serious
again in Massachusetts and Dr. Sal
mon will return to Boston in a few
days to investigate the situation.
BOSTON. Mass.—The recrudescence
of the cattle disease in Massachusetts
reported by the bureau of animal in
dustry at Washington is in the towns
of Needham and Medfleld in Norfolk
county, some twenty miles southwest
of Boston.
The oases were reported to the
state cattle bureau last week and a
herd of thirty-nine pure bred Jerseys
was slaughtered on Monday after con
demnation, by Drs. Thompson and
Durfee. representing the federal au
thorities, and Dr. Austin Peters, of
the state cattle commission.
HOUSE WELL ADVANCED.
The Appropriation Bills are Nearly All
Through.
WASHINGTON—Tho appropriation
bills are well advanced In the house
for this stage of the session. With
nearly three weeks remaining only
three supply bills remain to be acteii
on.
Two of these, the naval and fortifi
cation bills, are on the calendar and
will be passed this week. Delays of
these bills in the senate, however,
now promise to crowd things during
the final hours.
The Fowler currency bill, which has
been postponed from time to time, is
to have a special rule making it a con
tinuing order at the first opportunity
this week. But if it reaches the stage
of consideration it will be side tracked
whenever an appropriation bill or con
ference report is ready.
SLOW PROGRESS IN HOUSE.
Sharp Criticism Made on the Cost of
Keeping White House.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The house
made slow progress with the sundry
civil bill Thursday, covering only
twenty-seven pages and leaving forty
pages still to be disposed of. The de
lays were occasioned by a rather pro
tracted discussion of the item in the
bill for the maintenance of the White
House, and considerable debate on the
item appropriating $3,000,000 for the
relief of distress in the Philippines.
Mr. Gainese (dem., Tenn.) and Mr.
Fitzgerald (dem., N. Y.) criticised the
greatly increased cost of maintaining
the White House. An amendment to
cut in half the appropriation for the
relief of distress in the Philippines
was defeated, but the language of the
paragraph was modified to require an
nual reports of the expenditure of the
money.
Is Bad for Sea Rioters.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Senator
Thursday introduced a bill providing
fines of $1,000 for persons engaged in
riots at sea. A bill providing for
postal checks in place of all bills of
less than $5 was introduced by Sen
ator Penrose.
SEES SALVATION IN TRUSTS.
Holds Combines Alone Able to Meet
American Competition.
BERLIN.—Minister O. Comerie Mel
ler, in the course of an address in the
chamber of commerce, said:
“The United States will be Ger
many’s chief competitor in the world’s
markets in the future. We must
therefore learn from the Americans
to adopt their business methods, the
salient feature of which is the concen
tration of capital and trade into
trusts.
THE TRUST BILLS
WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL
KNOX HAS TO SAY.
ADMINISTRATION IS SATISFIED
The Legislation Will Give Opportu
nity to Test Many Points and Obtain
Useful Court Decisions Withhut
Harming Country's Industry.
WASHINGTON—Attorney General
Knox, who Is known to have proposed
many clauses of the anti trust bills
recently passed, being asked the ad
ministration's opinion on the legisla
tions, said:
The legislation affecting the trusts
passed at this session of congress is
satisfactory to the administration and
the prompt response to the president's
requests is highly gratifying. A long
stride in advance has been accomplish
ed and the promises of last fall have
been made good.
The giving and taking of railroad
rebates is now prohibited by a law ca
pable of effective enforcement against
corporations as well as individuals,
and the courts of the United States
are clothed with jurisdiction to re
strain and punish violations.
The act creating the department of
commerce vests in that department
complete authority to investigate the
organization and business methods of
corporations engaged in interstate
and foreign commerce, and, to that
end. to compel the testimony of yer
sons paving the desired knowledge.
The legislation is concise in Its
terms, but comprehensive in its scope.
Under its provisions a fair opportu
nity will be afforded to test the effect
upon the tendency toward industrial
monopoly of its guarantees of no fa
vors for the great producer as against
the small one.
Discretion is lodged in the president
as to the publication of facts useful
to the public and a wise administration
of the law promises much that is help
ful and nothing that is harmful.
The law to expedite the hearing of
cases and giving an appeal directly to
the supreme court from the court of
first instance assures, within a rea
sonable time, authoritative decisions
u|>on important questions on the
knowledge of which future legislation,
if necessary, can be confidently fram
ed.
Upon the whole, the situation Is em
inently satisfactory and Is the result
of concessions, modifications of views
and forms of expression upon the part
of many earnest and thoughtful men
who have endeavored, within a brief
session, to meet a rational public dc
mand in a rational and effective way.
The Child Saving Institute of Omaha.
The child Saving Institute of Omaha
is distinguished from other organiza
tions in that this institution in some
cases allows'parents and relatives to
know where the children are placed.
Some years ago an appeal was made
to another society to take charge of
a little girl nine years of age. whose
mother had died in Omaha. The
grandmother of the child, who was 70
years of age and very feeble, was
anxious to know where the little girl
wouid be placed. This society said
“No, you can never know her loca
tion ’’ The grandmother was anxious
to receive occasionally little letters
that her granddaughter might write.
Being refused, an appeal was then
made to the Child Saving Institute of
Omaha and the little girl was placed
in a home near Fullerton. Neb., since
which time she has written many com
forting letters to the old lady in her
declining years. It does not appear
to this institution that any harm was
done to the child nor any one else, In
allowing her grandmother to know
her whereabouts. There are many
similar cases.
New Greek Letter Fraternity.
WASHINGTON, D. C — A new secret
leteter fraternity named the Sigma
Nil Phi, designed to embrace chapters
in all the law schools of the United
States, has filed articles of Incorpor
ation here. Members of other fra
ternities will not be admitted. The
membership will be confined entirely
to undergraduates of law schools and
alumni associations and their facul
ties. It is proposed ultimately to own
a fraternity house in Washington and
to publish a paper here. The incor
porators are members of the faculty
and under graduates of the National
University School of Law.
WAS NOT LOOKING FOR WAR.
Uncle Sam Will Have Vessel on the
Scene.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Although It
was recognized here that the feeling
between several of the Central Amer
ican republics was at high tension
because of the political conditions ex
isting there, yet the officials were not
prepared for reports that war had been
declared. No later than Saturday last
Senor Lopez, the Salvadorean minister,
had reassuring advices from his gov
ernment which indicated that the peo
ple were for peace. Secretary Hay
has been exerting his influences,
merely in the capacity, however, of a
good friend, to prevent the outbreak
or hostilities in Central America.
The United States will soon have
naval representation on the Pacific
coast, as Admiral Glass is about to
leave for Amalapa island, off Hon
duras.
CONFESSES TO THE HOLD UP.
Two Men Arrested at Butte for the
Burlington Job.
BUTTE, Mont.—George Cole, under
arrest here, has made a confession of
the Burlington hold-up of Wednesday
and implicates George Howard, alias
Joe Kirby. He sayB they sent a boy
to hire a rig at Morrow s livery stable
on South Main Btreet about 9:30 Tues
day night. They drove to the scene
of the hold up and held up the train.
Kirby had two guns, but was too
drunk to use them. Kirby is the man
who jumped on to the engine as the
train was nearing Homestake and
compelled the engineer to stop and
made the fireman get. down. But for
Kirby’s drunken condition, Cole says,
they would have met with better suc
cess. Cole and his companion were
arrested because they had just come to
town and answered the general de
scription of the two hotd-ups.
HIS ANSWER IS EVASIVE.
Cleveland Does Not Say that He is
Not Candidate for President.
CINCINNATI—In response to a di
rect inquiry as to whether he was a
candidate or will accept another nom
ination for the presidency the follow
ing has been received from former
President Grover Cleveland:
“PRINCEON, N. J.—To the Editor of
the TlmeB-Star, Cincinnati: Dear Sir—
I have received your letter <)f the 4th
inst., asking on behalf of the Times
Star for an expression regarding my
Intentions as related to the next demo
cratic nomination for the presidency.
I cannot possibly bring my mind to
the belief that a condition or senti
ment exists that makes any expres
sion from ma on the subject of the
least importance. Yours very truly,
“GROVER CLEVELAND.’*
HE RETURNS TO MISSOURI.
Cole Younger Goes to the Scenes of
His Earlier Life.
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Cole Younger,.the
pardoned bandit, left St. Paul and Min
nesota Saturday for his old home In
Missouri, which he has not seen in
twenty-seven years, when he left It to
participate in the memorable North
Held bank raid, which resulted in his
arrest and Imprisonment.
Younger had planned to leave St.
Paul Monday, but he received a tele
gram Saturday afterpoon stating that
his sister was seriously ill at Lee’s
Summet, Mo., and he decided to leave
at once. He cannot, under the con
ditions of the pardon, return to Min
nesota. He said he intended to locate
in Dallas, Texas, and would probably
go into the stockraismg business.
Monster Aerolite Falls.
SALT LAKE, Utah—A special to
Tribune from Bingham, Utah,
“A large meteor struck the earth in
the vicinity of this place at 4:04
o’clock Saturday morning. The fall
nlg body, when it collided with the
earth, caused windows to rattle and
the house to tremble, while a sound
like a mighty clap of thunder awak
ened the inhabitants from their sleep.
The peoplo thought there had been an
earthquake and much alarm was felt
until the true nature of the shock was
learned.”
To Help the Old Soldier.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Represen
tative Aplin of Michigan introduced a
bill Monday granting a pension of $12
a month to all soldiers and sailors
who served at least one year in the
civil war. A bill introduced by Rep
resentative Marshall of North Dakota
permits the free transmission through
the mails of pension papers mailed by
pensioners to pension agents.
