Loup City Northwestern.
VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 13. 1903. NUMBER 18.
Murder miners
MARSHALS FIRE ON DEFENSE
LESS CITIZENS.
SHOT WITHOUT PROVOCATION
What Investigation of West Virginia I
Killing Shows—Union Attorney
Throws More Light on the Sanguin
ary Conflict.
INDIANAPOLIS.—The official re
port of Chris Evans, who was sent to
the West Vlriginia coal fields to in
vestigate the killing of colored miners
at Atkinsville on February 25, has
been received at the headquarters of
the United Mine Workers.
The report says General St. Clair,
who is the attorney for the coal com
panies, created an agitation to have
the men arrested and taken to
Charleston and that immediately
afterward arrangements were made
with the United States marshal by
the Mine Workers' officials to give
bond for all who were arrested, but
that later, on account of the agita
tion created by Deputy Marshal Cun
ningham, the agreement entered into
with the marshal was broken and
Cunningham was sent to arrest the
men.
According to the report there was
great feeling against Cunningham and
the men decided not to allow him to
arrest them and he was driven away.
Mr. Evans says he sent a telegram to
the men to submit quietly, but the
coal companies, who own all the tel
egraph and telephone lines connected
with the town, refused to deliver it
and before he could get any message
to the men Cunningham and his dep
uties, who, he says, were the ^vorst
characters he could collect, went to
the town a second time and killed the
miners in the night-time in their beds.
Mr. Evans says he went to the scene
of the trouble the next morning, when
forty-eight men had been arested for
conspiracy to kill Cunningham, and
found, in a house occupied by a col
ored man called "Stonewall” Jackson,
the dead bodies of William Dodson,
William Clark and Richard Clayton,
all colored. The report continues:
On inquiry we find that the wife of
Jackson, with four children, together
with eight colored men, were in the
house, and that about daybreak all
were awakened by shots being fired
into the house from the outside. This
shooting took place without anything
being said, and the three colored men
I have mentioned were found dead on
the floor. Two were in their night
clothes and the other one partly
dressed, with one shoe on, partly
laced, and the other foot bare. We
visited another house where Joseph
Hizer lay mortally wounded, having
been shot through the window as he
was stooping to put his trousers on
after getting out of bed. Hizer lived
with his sister and she made the state
ment at the inquest that she pleaded
with those shooting not to ^ill her
children and In reply Cunningham
said:
"Women and children must take
care of themselves.”
In no instance do we find where the
persons were asked to surrender until
after the deputies had commenced to
shoot at the occupants of the houses
named.
RESUME PROTOCOL SIGNING.
Minister Bowen Resumes Negotiations
for Venezuela.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Herbert W.
Bowen, the representative of the Ven
ezuelan government, who, with Mrs.
Bowen, went to Brooklyn to attend
the funeral of Mr. Bowen’s mother,
returned to Washington Friday night.
He will resume immediately the nego
tiations for the signing of the proto
cols for the settlement of the claims
of foreign government against Vene
zuela.
The protocol with Belgium is now
ready for signature and will be signed
by Baron Moncheur, the Belgian min
ister, and Mr. Bowen Saturday. It
will follow mainly the lines of the pro
tocol of the United States. When Bel
gium's agreement has been signed, five
of the eight protocols with the peace
powers will have been completed.
The protocols with the blockading
powers, Great Britain, Germany and
Italy, for the reference to The Hague
arbitration tribunal of the question of
preferential treatment in the payment
of the claims of the citizens of those
countries, also will be taken up im
WHERE THE MONEY GOES TO.
Distribution of the $1,564,103,514 Ap
propriated by Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The appro
priations made during the session of
congress which closed Wednesday ag
gregated $753,4S4,018, as against $800,
624,496 for the last session. The to
tal lor the entire congress footed $1,
564.108,514, or something more than
$100,000,000 in excess of the total ap
propriations of the Fifty-sixth con
gress, the total for that congress be
ing $1,440,438.
These figures were embodied in a
statement presented to the senate by
Mr. Allison, chairman of the commit
tee on appropriations.
The statement also contained an
itemized statement showing the ex
penditures by the past session by bills
as follows:
Agriculture, $5,978,160; army, $78,
138,752; diplomatic and consular, $1,
968,250; District of Columbia, $8,647,
497; fortifications, $7,188,416; Indian,
$8,512,950; legislative, executive and
judicial, $27,595,953; ruilitaray acad
emy, $653,248; navy, $81,877,291; pen
sions, $139,847,600; postofiiee, $153,
401,549; sundry civil, $82,272,955; de
ficiencies, $21,561,572; permanent an
nual appropriations, $132,589,820; mis
cellaneous, $3,250,000.
GERMAN TRADE CONDITIONS.
Exports to the United States Show a
Large Increase.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Reviewing
German’s commercial record for the
past year, Consul General Frank H.
Mason, at Berlin, in a report to the
state department, declares that while
a few branches of manufacture and
trade experienced a partial recovery
the year as a whole belonged to the
period of over-production, collapse and
panic, which began in the summer of
1900, and has caused the condition
still prevalent, wherein prices of food
and raw materia^g. are above all logi
cal relation to the market values of
finished products.
Referring to German trade with the
United States, the consul general calls
attention to the notable increase in
German exports to this country,
amounting to $14,778,770, distributed
through twenty-flve consular districts.
PENSIONS FOR PROFESSORS.
Cornell Will Retire Teachers at the
Age of Seventy.
ITHACA, N. Y.—Announcement was
made Friday of a scheme for the pen
sioning of Cornell university profe
sorss who, under the rule adopted by
the board of trustees last fall, will be
retired after attaining the age of 70
years. A fund of $150,000 has been
given the university for this purpose,
and this amount will be placed at com
pound interest until 1914, when it will
amount to $250,000. Each professor
retired will receive an annual pen
sion of $1,500, three-fourths of which
will be paid from the pension fund and
one-fourth of which will be contributed
by the professors.
It is expected, however that profes
sors who reach the age limit before
1814 will also receive the benefits of
the pension scheme.
THE PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND.
Convention of the Railway Christian
Association.
TOPEKA, Kan.—President Roose
velt will be present at the interna
tional convention of the Railway
Young Men’s Christian association,
which will be held in this city from
April 30 to May 3. He has not desig
nated the date of his visit. An effort
will be made to have him officiate at
the laying of the corner stone of the
new Railway Young Men’s Christian
association building, the money for
which was largely furnished by Presi
dent Ripley of the Santa Fe.
Miss Helen Gould of New York and
other well known people will attend
the conference. Delegates will be
present from all parts of the world.
Riot Ends College Debate.
ATCHISON. Kan—The regular ora
torical contest of the Kansas Intercol
legiate association ended in a disgrace
ful riot Friday, night. The trouble
arose over the eligibility of Malcolm
Garrard of Kansas university to com
pete as one of the orators. He at
tempted to speak, but was hissed down
by the audience. The police w'ere fin
ally called in to expel the unruly Kan
sas university students.
THE MINERS WIN
COAL STRIKE COMMISSION FIND
INGS ARE FORETOLD.
A TEN PER CENT WACE RAISE
Payment by Weight When Practicable
Will Also Increase Pay—The Per
Diem Men Are to Receive Same Sal
ary for Less Work.
NEW YORK—The Herald prints
the following as a summary of the
findings of the coal strike commission
appointed by President Roosevelt,
which, it is expected, will be handed
to the president within a week.
There will undoubtedly be at least
a 10 per cent advance in the pay for
mining, to take effect from the time
the miners returned to work last Oc
tober. The per diem employes will not
have their wages increased, but will
be recommended for the same pay of
a day of nine hours.
The system of pay will be regulated.
Wherever practicable the operators
will be required to pay by weight, In
stead of by the car. and elsewhere by
the llenal yard. The miners will have
checking representatives at their own
expense. This will practically amount
to a second Increase in wages.
There will be indirect recognition of
the union, which will come when the
findings are submitted by President
Roosevelt to John Mitchell, as presi
dent of the miners’ union.
The causes of the strike as found by
the commission will not be comforting
to the coal mining companies.
The boycott will be condemned and
the principle will be laid down that
a miner has a right to work without
molestation, even though he does not
belong to the union.
The terms of the verdict are to hold
good for three years, and recommenda
tions are to be made for settlements
of other questions at the end of that
period.
In local disputes the operators will
be advised to treat with committees
of the miners and there may be a sug
gestion of a local board of arbitration
MORGAN DOES NOT BUY CUBA.
Denies Reports of Hotel and Railroad
Purchases.
TAMPA. Fla.—J. P. Morgan arrived
at Port Tampa Sunday afternoon
from Havana. Immediately after dis
embarking his party boarded a spe
cial train for New York.
A rumor that the Flagler system of
hotels in Florida and the Florida
East Coast railroad had been turned
over to Morgan, presumably for the
Southern railway, and that the At
lantic Coast Line and Southern were
to own the property jointly and that
he intended to build a large tourist
tourist business in Florida and estab
lish a modern line of steamers be
tween this state and Cuba, was men
tioned to him.
"1 know nothing whatever of such
a deal,” he said, making the state
ment with considerable emphasis.
HE DESCRIBES LA SOUFFREIRE.
American Geologist Examines the Vol
cano.
KINGSTON, St. Vincent.—Ernest
Howe of the United States geological
survey, after a personal inspection of
La Soufreire, gives this description of
the slight eruptions now frequently oc
curring:
"Without warning big puffs of steam
rise constantly and countless rockets
of black mud and stones are shot up
from the crater and spread outward.
Then the mud and stones fall back
into the lake with a loud roar. Other
clouds of steam, charged with dust,
rise and drift over the country. An
other interesting feature of the region
is the deposit of ashes. The Wallibou
river is still hot enough to cause the
water in the stream to evaporate in
huge columns, laden with dust.”
Mexicans Pray in Streets.
COT.IMA, Men.—At 10 o’clock Fri
day forenoon the volcano was again
in action, the eruption being the most
violent yet. The people of Tuxpam
are in consternation. According to
advices from that point the eruption
was accompanied by showers of ashes
and dense clouds, darkening the sky.
Some of the people have fled to neigh
boring hills and the i>eople have in
their fright 1 nelt in the streets to pray.
Many houses and stores have been
closed.
,t:. THEIR WORK OVER. ^
Fifty-Seventh Congress Passes Into
History.
WASHINGTON—The fifty-seventh
congress expired at noon Wednesday
by limitation. There has not been in
many years a demonstration in the
house as occured Wednesday, owing to
the fact that Speaker Henderson was
retiring not only as presiding officer,
but from the house as a member.
The bitter partisan feeling that has
sprung up in the house of representa-1
lives during the past week reached
a pitch which prevented the unanimous
aproval of the house for tho usual
resolution of thanks and courtesy
which was offered. More than this,
the resolution had to come from the
republican side, and while this has oc
curred before, it Is not the usual cus
tom.
Tho usual resolution of thanks to
President Pro Tern Frye was unani
mously adopted in the senate.
Two years ago, when the Fifty-sixth
congress expired, it was remarkable,
not only for the inauguration of Mc
Kinley, but for the fact that Senator
Carter of Montana talked the river
and harbor bill to death, occupying the
time of the senate up to within a few
minutes of the end.
Senator Mason, wnose term expireu,
also talked an unimportant bill to
death, but in his valedictory he lec
tured the senate for its unlimited de
bate, which allows bills to be killed
In that manner, and he also made a
final plea for the freedom of the Fil
ipinos.
As all the important supply bills had
pased before the two houses took a
recess, no legislation was necessary,
and none was attempted. The bills
which had passed and reached the
stage of enrollment were all signed by
President Roosevelt, who, with mem
bers of his cabinet, entered the presi
dent’s room in the senate wing of the
capitol. This biennial visit of the pres
ident to the capitol is one of the fea
tures of a closing congress.
FOUR NEW BATTLESHIPS.
Naval Appropriation Bill Provides for
Building.
WASHINGTON.—Senator Hale,from
the committee on naval affairs, report
ed the naval appropriation bill.
The most important amendment
recommended by the committee re
lates to the increase of the navy. The
entire house provision is stricken out
and in its stead provision is made for
four first class battleships of the gen
eral type of the Oregon and two first
class armored cruisers of the type of
the Brooklyn. The battleships are
to cost not exceeding $3,200,000 each
and the cruisers $2,750,000.
The battleships are to be of 12,000
tons displacement, and the cruisers of
9,500 tons. There is a provision that
not more than two of those vessols
shall be built by one establishment,
and for the building of any or all of
them in the government yards in case
of a combination to deprive the gov
ernment of the benefit of fair compe
tition.
LARGEST NUMBER OF BILLS
Introduced During Session 17,500 and
Passed 2,000,
WASHINGTON, D. C.Tho number of
bills introduced during the Fifty-sev
enth congress aggregated 17,500, of
which 3,918 were reported and more
than 2,000 passed. The house calendar
is clearer at the close o fthis congress
than it ever has been before, only sev
enty-eight bills remaining undisposed
of. In the Fifty-fifth congress 2,214
bills were reported and 1,473 passed;
in the Fifty-sixth congress 2,787 were
reported and 2,204 passed. The near
est approach to the number of Hills in
troduced in the Fifty-seventh was in
the Fifty-sixth congress, when 14,399
wore brought in, and the greatest
number reported were in the Forty
ninth congress, the aggregate being
4,181.
The number of private bills passed
by this congress have been exceeding
ly large.
Fifty members of the house died dur
ing the congress just closed, an un*
usually large number.
Plague Record at Mazatlan.
MAZATLAN, Mexico—The number
of deaths here In February was 107,
of which fifty were from bubonic
plague. From January 1 to March 1
there were burned by the sanitary au
thorities 291 houses of a cheap class,
for which the owners were paid $73,
000. I
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A SPECIAL SENATE
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OPENS IN OBEDIENCE TO PROCLA
MATION.
AN IMMENSE CROWD PRESENT
Cannon's Speech in the Home the
Subject of Some Fervid Remarks—
Senator Smoot of Utah Subscribes to
the Oath.
WASHINGTON—In obedience to
the president's proclamation the sen
ate of the Fifty-eighth congress con
vened in extraordinary session at noon
Thursday. An immense crowd wit
nessed the ceremony. Echoes of thp
Fity-seventh congress has not died
away when the senators who were re
elected and those who were to take
their seats for the first time, marched
to the desk and took the oath. Friends
and admirers of the senators loaded
down their desks with beautiful floral
tributes.
Mr. Cannon’s speech in the house
of representatives early Wednesday
formed the subject of some fervid re
marks by Mr. Tillman and by the
senate conferees, Messrs. Hale, Allison
and Teller.
After tne invocation Mr. nenneri,
the secretary of the senate, read the
proclamation from the president con
vening the session.
Mr. Hoar, speaking for Mr. Burrows,
chairman of the committee on privi
leges and elections, referred to the
constitutional procedure of administer
ing oaths to new senators, and said
if there were any other procedure
the result would lie that a third of
the senate might bo kept out of their
seats for an Indefinite time. The re
sult of that might be that a change
in the political power of the govern
ment might be indefinitely postponed.
Questions of qualification should be
postponed and acted upon by the sen
ate later.
The namees of the newly elected
senators were called alphabetically
and each was escorted to the desk
by his colleague.
As some of the names were called
there was applause from the galleries,
that given to Mr. Gorman being es
pecially noticeable.
Messrs. Spooner and Allisqn receiv
ed generous applause as they were
escorted to the desk.
Mr. Smoot of Utah subscribed to
the oath with an emphatic "I do.” No
objection was made to his taking the
oath. When Mr. Ankeney’s name was
called his colleague, Mr. Foster
(Wash), announced that he was under
the doctor’s care. Three other newly
elected senators did not respond—
Messrs. Clarke (Ark.), Gallinger (N.
H.) and Stone (Mo.).
There were seventy-four senators
present. Messrs. Hoar and Cockrell
were appointed a committee to wait
upon the president and inform him
that the senate was ready to proceed
to business.
HAS HOPES FOR THE TREATY.
Governor of Newfoundalnd Reports
Progress in Matter.
ST. JOHNS, N. F.—The leg'.'-.iature
opened Thursday afternoon. The gov
ernor announced a surplus In the treas
ury and also that the Bond-Hay treaty
negotiations were still progressing.
He intimated that measures would be
introduced for the enlargement of the
naval reserve movement, the exten
sion of the telegraph system to Lab
rador on the expiration of the Anglo
American Telegraph company’s mon
nopoly next year, the establishment of
a cold storage plant and the encour
agement of local iron smelting indus
try.
The French shore modus vivendi bill
was Introduced and given its first
’•eading.
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
Decrease During Month of February
$5,969,665.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The month
ly statement of the public debt shows
that at the close of business February
28, 1903, the public debt, less cash in
the treasury, amounted to $937,972,
898, which is a decrease as compared
with January 31 of $5,909,665. The
debt is recapitulated as follows: In
terest bearing debt, $914,541,420: debt
on which interest has ceased since ma
turity, $1,230,510; debt bearing no in
terest, $396,744,438; total, $1,312,516,
368.
THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY.
Republicans Will Make a United Effort
to Secure Action Thereon.
WASHINGTON. D. C —The republi
can senators will make a united effort
to secure action on the Panama canal
treaty and the Cuban reciprocity
treaty as speedily as possible. A
meeting of the republican steering
committee of the senate was held
after adjournment Thursday and this
course was decided on. The situation
was discussed at some length and the
conclusion reached that business
might be greatly facilitated by keep
ing as many senators as possible in
the city and in their seats, and the in
dividual members of the steering com
mittee agreed to devote their energies
to this end.
No one In the committee hail any
definite information as to the time
that may be consumed in debating tho
treaties, but it was stated as a rumor
that Senator Morgan had said that as
there were a number of new members
of the senate he would feel it Incum
bent on himself to go over the ground
quite completely and even to review
much that he has already said.
The evident purpose of the republi
cans is to avoid, if possible, calls on
account of the absence of a quorum
and to keep the senate running as
steadily as possible.
Emperor on the Bible Lore.
BERLIN.—Emperor William has
presented all the chaplains of the
German navy, both Catholic and Pro
testants, with copies of his letter to
Admiral Hollman, counsellor of the
German oriental society, on the sub
ject of the Babylonians.
It is officially announced that Em
peror William's famous letter on tho
bible controversy was composed and
written by himself alone. Several
statements to the contrary have been
published, hence the present precise
notifications that from the first to the
last word, it was written by the em
peror’s own hand without outside aid.
In publishing the announcement the
North German Gazette says:
’’The letter indeed bears in every
sentence the impress of the tunpror’a
own personality.”
ACCUSES CONSUL OF NEGLECT.
Did Not Help Shipwrecked Americans
in Bermuda.
WASHINGTON, I). C.—Complaint
has been made to the state depart
ment of tho conduct of the United
States Consul W. Maxwell Greene at
Hamilton, Bermuda, in connection
with the casting away of the steamer
Madiana. It is alleged that the consul
showed absolute indifference toward
the shipwrecked passengers and took
no part In their rescue. The local pa
pers in Bermuda commented on this
matter and the papers have been sent
to the state department, which will
institute a prompt investigation of tho
consul’s conduct.
Mr. Greene was appointed to hl8
post from Rhode Island In 1898.
Western Lumbermen Cut Loose.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—The West
ern Retail Lumber Dealers’ associa
tion withdrew from affiliation with the
National Association of Lumber Deal
ers.
The Western Retailers announced
their relations with the wholesalers
would continue to be friendly, but the
retailers were unable to live up to the
agreement signed at Boston in 1892.
It was pointed out that courts in the
west have decided that such an agree
ment is in restraint of trade and there
fore unlawful.
Soldiers Will Return Home.
MANILA—The United States tranfc
port Thomas will sail for home Thurs
day, taking two batteries and four
companies of the artillery, the first
long-service troops returning. Sixty
of the artillerymen expressed their de
sire to remain in the island. Seven
hundred men out of five cavalrv and
infantry regiments ordered home have
applied for transfers to commands re
maining here, but General Davis is un
able to comply with their requests, as
the authorized strength of the regi
ments which remain here is already
exceeded.
John Reese for Receiver.
WASHINGTON—The president on
Monday sent the following nomina
tions to the senate:
George C. Holt, United States dis
trict judge, Southern district of New
York; John Reese, receiver of public
moneys at Broken Bow, Neb.; John
F. Vivian, surveyor general of Colo
rado.