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Loup City Northwestern. VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1903. NUMBER 23. i HOES FOR PUPILS SECRETARY WILSON PUTS PLAN IN OPERATION. TO POPULARIZE AGRICULTURE Children in Public Schools to Be TaiiQhf Mnw tr* Plant, Har. vest and Maraket Crops and to Understand Plant Life. WASHINGTON.—Secretary Wilson of the department of agrieultiitrr has conceived the idea of instructing the pupils of the schools of Washington along the lines laid down by a very great naturalist to a thorough tinder sUnding of plant life and the uses to be desirevd therefrom. The secretary ever since he came to Washington has been trying to elevate and develop the department over which he presides. There has never been a time when he failed to get the best results from his department, and his forcefulness and praticablllty have shown themselves throughout the department in the new propositions he has originated. As a result of his new' thought he has now a class of forty girl pupils from the Washington normal school receiving instructions under several of the ex perts of the department as to the plant ing and reaping of seeds. The secre tary believes that every school teacher should have some elementary knowl edge of agriculture and horticulture an hopes that when the class that he has selected graduates it will be thoroughly well acquainted with all the essential elements of practical agriculture and horticulture, and to he able to diffuse knowledge to the pupils under them. “What we most need just now is teachers who are competent to teach the great lessons of plant life to the classes in the elementary grades," said Secretary Wilson. “To inculcate in the minds of our boys a love and knowl edge of growing tilings will tend to lead more young men to complete the elementary studies thus begun in the greatest agricultural colleges which now nearly every state in the union maintains. The tendency has been too alarmingly marked of our young men and women in the rural districts to for sake their homes and seek pursuits in our cities. The backbone of our pros perity is in reality in agriculture. Upon the farmer we depend for our food products and should not drift into a purely commercial nation dependent upon others for our breadstuffs, as is the case with England, for instance. I am thoroughly convinced that the only plan lies through teaching the young in onr elementary schools in a practical manner tlie use of the hoe, to use an expression which covers the point I am endeavoring to make. Take my own state. Iowa, how could it. one of the great agricultural states of the union, better expend money than in diffusing practical knowledge in the minds of the boys and girls on agricultural and horticultural mat ters At the great normal school at Cedar Falls, for example, the teach ers there could lie taught upon agri cultuial subjects and they in turn when they go forth to teach could dif fuse their knowledge among the very young pupils. I know of no money that Iowa or any other state for that matter could possibly expend which would produce such returns as to train all teachers in a practical way the ele ments of agriculture and horticulture. They would thus be equipped in an important branch of knowledge. The agricultural colleges of the country could supply competent instructors to the normal schools and it would also be well to have such instructors in the secondary schools. Aerography Proves Satisfactory. WASHINGTON. D. C.—Wireless tel egraphy tests between Washington and Annapolis with an experimental apparatus have resulted so satisfac torily that Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment, has ordered twenty more sots of instru ments. with which vessels and shore stations will be equipped. Laying Cable to Manila. LONDON—The cable steamers An plaini and Colonia sailed Wednesday to lay the remaining sections of the commercial Pacific cable from San Francisco to Manila. It is expected that the cable from Honolulu to Manila by way of Midway island and the island of Guam, will be completed by July 4. Buys Metal for Coin. MANILA—The United States Phil ippine commission has appropriated $1,000,000 for the purchase of silver bullion and copper to make the new subsidiary coins. BECK GIVES UP HIS POST. Resigns Appointment as Assistant At torney General. WASHINGTON—Assistant Attorney General .lames M. Berk tendered liis resignation to President Roosevelt be fore the president's departure for the west. At the same time Mr. Beck took occasion to express his pride and gratification at having been privileg ed to serve under the president’s ad ministration and that of his predeces sor. In accepting the resignation the president wrote: ’’WHITE HOUSE, March 31 1903.— My Dear Air. Beck: ! regret to re ceive your resignation as assistant at torney general, which is accepted, to take effect on April 30 next, as indi cated. “I appreciate your expression of the satisfaction you have taken in your public service. It is a pleasure to me to say that you have performed your duties with marked ability and I here by extend my best wishes for your continued success in your professional work and for your health and pros perity. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” PACKERS PAY THE PENALTY. Settle with State for Violation of the Anti-Trust Law. KANSAS CITY. Mo.—The five Mis souri parking companies which were fined $5,000 each on March 20 for vio lation of the anti trust law, through their attorney. Frank Hagerman of this city, have m Med to the state supreme court a draft for $27,126. in payment of lines and costs incident to the action against them. The firms fined are the Armour Packing com pany, Cudahy Packing company, Ham mond Packing company. Swift K. Co., and Schwarzschild & Sulzberger. The payment was made before it was due, as the offenders had thirty days from March 20 in which to satisfy the judg ment. LOOK FOR NEW CUBAN TREATS Havana Citizens Are Overjoyed at Rec iprocity. HAVANA—Instructions were cabled to Minister Quesada at Washington Monday to sign the amended reciproc ity treaty in behalf of President Pal ma. The utmost satisfaction is expressed at the completion of the treaty and the opinion Is genera! that the United States congress will not fail to ap prove it. Those here who recently declared Cuba had no use lor deferred reciprocity are now pleased at the outlook and the time is regarded as opportune for closing a prominent treaty, covering political relations here. 'I’llis. it is expected, will he soo.i accomplished. PLOT DEATH TO SERVIAN KING. Dissatisfied Subjects Plan to Slay a Monarch. VIENNA.—The rumors of r plot against the life of King Alexander of Servia received apparent confirmation in private dispatches received at Buda Pest, according to which an attack on the king's life was planned for Sun day. The plot was discovered and fifty persons suspected of complicity were arrested. Semi-official reports from Belgrade declare that these rumors are false, hut it is thought here that King Alex ander's recent coup d’etat was has tened by the discovery of the alleged plot. PRAY BEFORE THEY SHOOT. With Religious Exhortations Moor In surgents Make an Attack. MADRID—A dLpateh from Molilla, Morocco, gives details of the fighting at Krajana. It says that the Insur gents made a desperate attack on the fortress of Krajana April 8. After the customary prayers the tribesmen ad vanced with a wild rush, to the ac companiment of religious exhorta tions. Twice they attempted to carry the fortress by assault, but were repulsed by well directed fusillades, which kill ed numbers of the Insurgents. Dur ing the attack the powder supply of the tribesmen exploded, killing many oi them. Schwab Not to Be Dropped. NEW YORK—The Evening Post of Saturday quotes a director of Hie Uni ted States Steel corporation to the ef fect that Charles M. Schwab will be re-elected president at th« annual meeting this month. According to the directors, there never was any Idea of supplanting Mr. Schwab. Continuing, the paper says there is a well defined idea in Wall street that Mr. Schwab’s work will be considerably lightened. SEIZED PROPERTY COLOMBIANS FORCIBLY APPRO . PRIATE OUR MULES. RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS Property Taken with Receipts Given for Very Small Proportion of the Same—What Assistant Secretary Hill Has to Say on the Subject. WASHINGTON, I). C—The diplo matic exchanges between the United States legation at Bogota and the de partment of state iu Washington, which will appear in the forthcoming volume of foreign relations of the United States, discloses that numerous complaints were made by American citizens during the revolution in Co lombia of the action of the military authorities of that government in ap propriating their mules and other prop erty. Mr. Beattpre, the American charge at Bogota, in the absence of Minister Hart, writing to the state department concerning the rights of citizens of the United States as to ex propriation of property, cited a case rnai tamp miner nis personal onsei va lion. An America citizen, who had dined with him, found, upon going; to look after two animals which lie had purchased, that the saddles and bridles had been taken by a government of ficial. who had left a receipt tiling the value of the articles taken at 1,000 pesos, where it was estimated the American citizen would lie obliged to pay 5,000 to duplicate his lost articles. Speaking of this, Mr. Beaupre said; "There are a dozen stores in Bogota selling the saddles, and hudreds of saddles are for sale,” and then asked, "Whence the urgent, immediate and pressing emergency that would justify the forcible expropriation of the sad dles, etc., from the Americans?” Con tinuing, be observed: “Certainly under the system of arbitrarily fixing the value of such property it is much cheaper to get it this way and the day of payment is indefinitely postponed, but I cannot believe it consistent with the guaranties of public treaties nor the laws of nations. It is altogether probable that in the majority of cases the reasons for expropriation are no more valid nor just than these in the case just cited. Necessarily, with tlie financial distress of the govern ment, it is almost impossible to col lect claims, large or small, and the government has announced to many, and to one American at least, whom I know, and who has had a large amount of property seized, that no pay ments would lie made until the close ®f the war.” Assistant Secretary Hill, in a com munication to the i'nited States lega tion at Bogota, said: “The declaration of tlie minister of war that all foreigners should be deemed public enemies cannot lint be regarded as gratuitously offensive, and this government must remonstrate against such characterization of its citizens, availing themselves of the conventional rights of visit and so journ in Colombia. It should have been made the occasion of instant and vigorous protest.” The attitude of this government to ward the seizure by Colombia of prop erty of Americans for military purposes is shown by the following instructions sent by Dr. Hill, as acting secretary of state, to the American legation at Bogota: “You will notify the Colombian gov ernment that this government will hold it responsible for any proven cases of seizure of American property for mil itary purposes without due compensa tion.” PRESIDENT ENTERS PARK. Retires to Nature’s Solitude for Six teen Days’ Holiday. CINNABAR. Mont. — President Roosevelt is in tlio fastnesses of Yel lowstone Park and for the next six teen days expects to enjoy complete rest and cessation from public duties. He will lie In almost daily commu nication with Secretary Loeb at Cin nabar, but nothing except of the ut most importance will lie referred to him. in company with John Bur roughs, the naturalist, who accompa nied him from Washington, he will closely study the nature of the various animals tlint inhabit the park. The president has looked forward to this outing some time and was In a particularly happy frame of mind when he led the cavalcade in:o the park. Every trail leading into the preserve is closely guarded and no one will be allowed to disturb bis solitude. His headquarters will be at the home of Major Pitcher, the superintendent of the park. THE BLIND CHAPLAIN DEAD. Rsv. William Henry Milburn Passes Away in California. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rev. William Henry Milburn, the venerable blind chaplain of the United States senate, died in Sata Barbara, Cal. Word to this effect was retelved tcro Friday by Coloe' D. A. Rausdell, tin1 sergeant at arms of the senate. Mr. Milburn, accompanied by his two nieces the Misses Tim ley, left Washington for the Pacific coast about a year ago. The chaplain was in broken health. The change brought no great Improvement in his condi tion and when congress met in De cember he forwarded his resignation to Washington, but ft was never act ed upon. The deceased was a native of Philadelphia where be was born In 1823. When he was 5 years of age a play fellow accidentally struck him in the left eye with a piece of glass. For two years he was confined to a dark room under medical treatment, and when he came out one of his eyes was entirely blind and little sight was left in the other. He, however, pursued bis studies at school and college for about twenty years, the hight grow ing dimmer, until gradually be became totally blind. PASS A NEW LIBEL LAW. Certain Thing* Now Required of Pennsylvania Newspaper*. HARRISBURG, Pa—The senate passed finally the new libel law in troduced by Senator Gradder. The bill requires that all newspapers pub lished in Pennsylvania shall print in every issue on its editorial page the names of its owner, publisher and managing editor, and if owned by a corporation, the names of the officers thereof. In all civil actions which may hereafter be brought against a newspaper, if it shall be shown that the publication complained of result ed from negligeuce on the part of such owner, proprietors, manager or editor in the ascertainment of the f^'ls. or In the publication thereof, compensatory damages may be recov ered for injuries to business and rep utation resulting from such publica tion as well as damages for the phy sical and mental suffering endured by the injured party or parties. Failure to carry out the provision requiring the publication of the names of those responsible for its publication is punishable by a fine of not less than $500 or more than $2,000. QUARANTINE AGAINST KANSAS. Action to Be Taken Against Hoof and Mouth Disease. LINCOLN—The statements in the morning papers that the live stock sanitary commission of Kansas was considering means of suppressing the foot and mouth disease near Concor dia has created activity here. Gov ernor Mickey Friday, at the sugges tion of State Veterinarian Thomas, tel egraphed Governor Bailey of Kansas for a statement regarding the preva lence of the disease. If Kansas Is Infected with the dis ease Nebraska will immediately quar antine against the state. "The hoof and mouth disease,” said a prominent veterinarian, "is not as dangerous as many people imagine. It is,however, very contagious. It af fects the mouth and hoofs of stock and usually runs Its course in two weeks. Howevpr, everything possible should be done to keep It out of Ne braska.’’ PASS PRIMARY ELECTION LAW Provides for Direct Vote on All Nom inations. LANSING, Mich.—By a vole of 73 to 130 the lower house of the Michigan legislature passed the Colby-Stone Powell primary election bill providing for a direct vote on all nominations, including state officials. An interesting incident of the de bate occurred when Representative Wade of Allegan, in declaring that Congressman William Alden Smith fa vors the passage of the Colby bill, an nounced that Smith is a candidate for United States senator. The announce ment was heartily applauded. Adopt Canadian Customs. WINNIPEG, Manitoba—Peter Vere gin, the leader of the DuUhobours, ar rived Tuesday evening to purchase horses for his countrymen in the Swan river colony. The Dukhobours, ac cording to his story are losing ail their old-time aversion to animals and machinery and are desirous of adopt ing Canadian customs. Another Im portant reform lie reports is that the Dukhobours are entering homesteads. ARMED CONFLICT! WATERSON FEARS IT BETWEEN LABOR AND CAPITAL. “PEACE BETWEEN SECTIONS” Southern Editor Urges South and North to Heal Sores—He Points tc the Negro Problem, Claiming thal Suffrage Has Proved a Failure. CHICAGO.—At the annual dinner of the Hamilton club at the Auditor ium hotel Thursday night, Henry Wat terson responded to the toast, "Peace Hetween the Sections.” and took occa sion to decry the attempts some north erners are. in his oplnotn, making to torn the n*‘gro Into a white man. At the same time he struck a note of warning, expressing fears of another civil war between labor and capital: After analysing the war of secession and its causes, as he saw them, he said: ‘T grew up to regard the instttuion of African slavery as a monstrous evil. With a gray Jacket 011 my back I abat ed no part of my abhorrence of it. The war over, I fully realized that the negro could not be suspended, like Mahomet's coffin, in the air; that he must be made a freeman in fact, as he was in name; that he must tie ha bilitated to his new belongings. But after thiry years of observation, ex perience and reflection. I am forced to agree with the Secretary of War that negro suffrage is a failure. It is a fail ure because the southern blacks are not equal to it. It is a failure be cause the southern whites will not have it. me negro ran never oecome in any beneficent, or genuine Benae, an integral and rerogntxed part of the hody politic except through the forces of evolution except through the forces at work, but which in the nature of the case must needs go exceedingly slow. Where there Is one negro At for citizenship, they are myriads wholly unfit. Remove every white dem ocrat in the south today and replace him with a northern republican, and twelve months hence the conditions will be the same, may be worse, since the northern republican would not be likely to have either the patience, or the personal sympathy and knoweldge, possessed by the native southerner.” Then he etruck a note of warning. It was customary he said, to regard the ill feeling incident to the war as dead and done with, but the present atti tude of the north was such as might, if r.ot actually stirring up renewed trouble, serve to so far estrange the two sections that the conservative forces of the north and south would not he able to coalesce when, if ever, the threatened war of labor and capital broke out between the east and west. In this connection he noted that the same ambitious clause was still re tained in the constitution which gave color to the civil war, and which would still allow any state to claim indepen dence without its citizens being guilty of treason. TROUBLE CONFRONTS CHINA. France Likely to Seize a Slice of the Territory. VICTORIA, B. C.—A new crisis has threatened the Chinese government as a result of the continued rebel suc cesses iti South China, for, according to mail advices received here, the French are pouring troops into Kwangsl from Assam. It seems that the governor of Kwangsi, Wang Chi Hun, requested the French officers in Assam to send troops to his assistance, and although the Pekin government has counter manded the request, the French have gone into the South China province and it is feared that the European powers will, like Russia, in the north, seize the territory into which her troops have gone. GRAIN BOYCOTT CONDEMNED. Illinois State Commission Orders Rail road to Give Cars. SPRINGFIELD, III. —The State Hoard of Railroad and Warehouse commissioners has ordered the Illinois Central to equitably distribute grain cars in future. In passing on the case brought by I). II. Curry against the railroad, the commission says it is led to believe that an understanding existed between the Curry company and the Illinois Grain Dealers’ association not to handle the grain of the Farmers' Ele vator company at Mason. City, and that Curry was willing to agree to anything to prevent the competing companies at Mason City from mar keting their grain. MEETS THE SIOUX. The President Talks to the Dakota Indians. BISMARCK. N. D.—Standing in tho private office of (iovernor White at the state capltol Tuesday afternoon. Pres ident. Roosevelt received the assurance of the friendship and support of the great Sioux Indian tribe and similar assurances from the chiefs of the Man dans and Gros vent res. Twenty of tho most distinguished chieftains of the tribes had come from their agencies to see the "Great Father," and assure turn of their support and good will. There were many famous Indians in the assemblage. John Grass, the ora tor and chief Justice of the Sioux, made the presentation of the tribes' good will. In a translation of the ad dress which had been agreed upon in council of the chiefs. At the same time Grass presented the president with a peace pipe of beautifully carved pipestone, in token of the good will and friendship of the Indians. Among the chiefs were: Red Tomahawk, the Indian who killed Sit ting Bull at the time of the uprising In the early '90's; Red Fish, one of the hereditary leaders of the Sioux Black Bull, Standing Bear, Crow Ghost. Cross Bear and other Sioux chiefs. “We have been treated well by the good great father," said Grass, “and we hope he will again he great father when his time is over.” Water, chief of the Mandan Indians, also presented written assurance of the good will of his people. "Tell him, ' said President Roose velt, through the interpreter, “that I am glad to see them. The Mandan In dians have always done well." Then the wrinkled old chieftains grasped the president's hand and sol emnly granted their approval. The president’s train reached the capital city of the state on schedule time and the president and party were imediately taken through lavishly dec orated streets to the capital. Three immense portraits of the president were ranged on three sides of the de pot. representing the president at the ranch, at Han Juan and at the White house. At the capltol a brief reception was held in the private office of Governor White, where the president met and shook hands with many of the friends of his western days. Following the re ception he delivered a brief address from the balcony of the capitol to a crowd of several thousand people, as sembled from all parts of the Missouri, slope. “I am an old setlter of this state,” said the president, “I lived here twenty years ago and feel that I am an old timer.” Continuing, he expressed his gratifi cation at seeing so many of the friends of his western days and said he ex pected to see more of his old friends as he continued westward. He paid a spec ial compliment to the veterans of the civil and of the Philippine wars who were present to greet him. He expressed his great interest in the growth and welfare of the state of North Dakota. “I know the people of the west." he said. “There are two ways to know a man—by working with him or by fighting with him; and on the range there are men with whom I have worked and with whom I have fought.” MRS. FAIR LIVED THE LONGER. Her Husband Was Dead While Sh9 Showed Signs of Life. NEW YORK—Evidence was given Tuesday by a witness who says he saw the automobile accident near Paris last August which resulted in the death of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair, before a referee in a suit instituted by Mrs. Fair's mother, Anna Nelson, and other relatives to recover from Mrs. Theresa Alice Oelrichs and Mrs. Virginia Van derbilt, sisters of Mr. Fair, a large portion of the Fair estate. It is contended that Mrs. Fair lived after her husband. The suit is ex pected to determine also whether an agreement to settle the estate by the payment of $250,000 shall be canceled. Lucian Mass of Paris testified that he witnessed the accident aud when he reached the scene Mr. Fair "was absolutely lifeless," but Mrs. Fair was breathing. He noticed a nervous con traction of her face and hands. Admiral Belknap is Dead. WASHINGTON. D. C.—A dispatch was received at the navy department Tuesday from Key West announcing the deatli of Roar Admiral George E. Belknap. U. S. N.. retired. Death oc curred of apoplexy. The dec-eased was detailed for duty in the execution of certain plans proposed by the board for establishing a naval base. He will he buried at Brooklin, Mass.
