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Loup City Northwestern. ^ ~ - 1 1 li1'?".. -* •.~ ~ ■ - —«■■■■ i <— VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1903. NUMBER 51. i AT THE CAPITAL — .P08TMA8TER GENERAL BAR8 IN DICTED ATTORNEY. TURNING THE RASCALS OUT **„ Estimates of Departmental Expense— Interior Department Will Require Less Money, but War Department Asks for a Little More. WASHINGTON—Postmaster Gen era! Payne on Friday signed an order debarring IT. J. Barrett of Baltimore, nephew of former Attorney General Tyner and for some years law clerk and acting assistant attorney general for the department, from practice be fore the department. Barrett was in dicted by the grand jury in connec tion with the investment cases. The postmaster accepted the resig nation of William H. I.andvoight. chief of the division of classification of malls of the postoffloe. to take effect at the close of lousiness Saturday. Estimates for Interior Department. The secretary of the interior has completed and forw arded to the secre tary of the treasury his estimate of f > the appropriations necessary to con ! duct the affairs of the interior depart ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906. The estimate places the total requirement for the department at $156,000,000, which is about $3, 000,000 less than the appropriation for the current year. The proposed re duction will be made in the pension bureau and the Imllau office. The es timate for pensions is $136,800,000, or $1,700,000 less than the appropriation •made for this year. There also is a rut of $1,300,000 in the estimate for the Indian bureau. The estimate for the expenses of conducting the affairs of the five civilized tribes of Indiana ds $528,656. The reduction in the pen sion estimate is due to the calculation of deaths of pensioners made by the commissioner of pensions. War Department Estimates. The estimates for the war depart ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, show a net increase over the estimates of the previous year of about $130,000. This, including $16, 000,000 for river and harbor improve ments. for which no estimates were submitted last year. The estimate for the military, which includes the pay,equipment and supplies for the army, is about $78,000,000, $200,000 less than last year. The estimates for public works of a military char acter, which includes arsenals, forts, barracks, buildings and grounds, ag gregate $24,000,000. which is about $16,000,000 less than last year. * Bristow's Report Ready. Friday's meeting of the cabinet was brief. Only four members. Secretary Hay and Cortelyou, Postmaster Gen eral Payne and Attorney General Knox, were present. Postmaster Gen eral Payne announced that the report of Mr. Bristow on the postoffice in vestigation would be placed in the hands of the president either Satur <fay or on Monday. It has not been decided when the report will be given to the public. HUNTING FOR MORE FRAUD8. Money Made by Selling Cans and Empty Barrels. NEW YORK.—The War depart ment is investigating charges of wholesale fraud in the quartermas ter's department on Governor's Island. James R. Seville, wbo resigned his clerkship In the quartermasters de partment of construction at Gov ernor’s Island, and F. H. Ewald. chief clerk of the quartermaster’s depart ment at that poet, have been for years selling the empty oil cans and oil barrels that accumulate In large quantities at that post, and that no accounting has been made to the gov ernment of the proceeds. The bar rels have a market value of $1.15 each. . Creditors Lose $40,000. ST. PAUL, Minn.—A special from Mankato, Minn., says that the losses of the creditors of Alfred H. Buck, missing cashier of the Mapleton State bank, are now estimated at $40,000, — Plot to Kill Russian Consul. CONSTANTINOPLE — In conse quence of the discovery of a military plot to kill M. Belaieff, the Russian consul at Uskub, the government has rushed six battalions of troops thlth Ier from Koprulu and Perlepe. CALL FOR EXTRA SESSION. President Issues Summon* for Both Chamber* to Meet. WASHINGTON—The president Is sued tbis proclamation: By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation: Whereas, By the resolution of the senate of March 19, 1903, the ap proval by congress of the reciprocal commercial convention between the United States and the republic ol Cuba, signed at Havana on Decembei 11, 1902. is necessary before the said convention shall take effect, and Whereas, It is important to ihe public in these United States that the said convention shall become oper ative, as nearly as may be. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, pres ident of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by this constitution, do hereby pro claim and declare that an extraordi nary occasion requires the convening of both houses dt' the congress of tho United States at their respective chambers in the city of Washington on the ninth day of November next at 12 o’clock noon, to the end that they may consider ' and determine whether ihe approval of the congress shall be given to said convention. All persons entitled to aci as mem bers of the Fifty-eight congress are required to take notice of ibis proc lamation. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington on the 20th day of October, in the year of our I,6rd, one th nine hundred and three, and of the inde pendence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eight. (Seal.) THEODORE RSOSEVELT. By ihe President. JOHN HAY, Secretary of State. BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED, America Gains Title to More Terri tory Than Anticipated. WASHINGTON, D. C—The im pression prevails at the State depart ment that all the details of the Alaskan Boundary Commission’s decision will not be known until the mails brings copies of the maps and other docu ments actually laid before the Com mission. There is a slight gap in the outline description of the boundary in the northern portion which will prob ably be filled in when the full tran script is received. Closer inspection of the charts here, in the light of Mr. Foster's dis patch of yesterday, adds to the satis faelion of the officials, particularly-as the commission actually extended the American title over a large territory north of the Kliehini river boundary line claimed by Secretary Evarts a quarter of a century ago, instead ol limiting it to that stream, the bound ary tentatively fixed by the Ilay Pauncefote modus vivendi. Tlie treaty requires expert survey ors to personally fix the boundary line on the general data furnished by ths commission and the State department intends to turn this work over to the coast survey and to prosecute it with all vigor, to obviate further friction among the miners along the boundary. BIG PITTSBURG BANK FAILS. Federal National of Pittsburg Fails to Open Its Doors. PITTSBURG.—The doors of the Federal National bank were not opened for business Wednesday morn ing. The following notice was posted in explanation: “Closed by the .authority of the comptroller of the currency. “Signed I “JOHN B. CUNNINGHAM, “Receiver." Some such action as this has been within the possibilities for the past two days, forecasted by the deter mined raid made upon the institu tion's stock on the Pittsburg Stock Exchange. The positive statements, however, of the president, J. A. Lang fitt, to the effect that the bank was not in need of money, that its losses would not affect its capital or surplus, did much toward allaying distrust on the part of its depositors, thus pre venting a run. Sentenced to Fifty Years. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—William Mat zinger, aged 23, member of a good family, wss sentenced to prison for fifty years for the murder of Miss Alta Msy Gallimore, which occurred two months ago. NAVAL 8TRENCTH SHIPS THAT ARE OWNED BY THE NATION. NUMBER OVER TWO HUNDRED The Chief of Bureau Makes His Re port—Rate of Progress on Vessels Under Construction is Satisfactory and Twenty-Five Are Being Built. — WASHINGTON — Hear Admiral Howies, chief of the bureau of con struction and repair, in his annual re-j port to the secretary of the navy re views at length the progress made by this government in naval construction during that period. It is shown that the following additions have been made to the effective force of the navy during the year: One battleship, four monitors, twelve torpedo boat destroyers, one torpedo boat and seven submarine tor pedo boats. The list should have been increased by two battleships and five cruisers, the report states, but ow ing to slrikes and other causes their completion was delayed. The report states that the "rate of progress of ! vessels under construction at the pres ent time presents some very encour aging indications for completions of many of the most important contracts, but, considered as a whole, the pro gress made during the last fiscal year has been very unsatisfactory.” Speaking of the battleship Connec ticut, which is being built at a gov ernment yard, and which is a sister ship of the Louisiana, being built by a private company, the report says that although slightly behind the Louisiana, the progress made has been well up to the present previous aver age of contract. Appended to the report is a complete list of all the vessels In the navy, with elaborate data concerning them, also a summary which shows there are 252 vessels in the navy fit for service, j forty-five building and twenty-three unfit for sea service. Vessels fit for sevice, including those under repair, are as follows: First class battleships, ten; second class battleships, one; armored crui sers’ two; armored ram, one; single turret, harbor defense monitors, four; double turret monitors, six; protected cruisers, fourteen; unprotected crui sers, three; gunboats, twelve; light draft gunboats, three; composite gun boats. six; training ship (naval acad emy), one; special class. Dolphin, Ve suvius, two; gunboats under 500 tons, twenty-one; torpedo boat destroyers, sixteen; steel torpedo boats, twenty nine; submarine torpedo boats eight; wooden torpedo boats, one; iron cruis ing vessels, steam, five; wooden cruis ing vessels, steam, six; wooden sail ing vessels, four; tugs, thirty-nine; auxiliary cruisers, five: converted yachts, twenty-three; colliers, seven; supply ships and hospital ships, four teen. The following are under construc tion or authorized; hirst class battle ships. fourteen; armored cruisers, eight; protected cruisers, nine; gun boat for Great Lakes (not begun), one; composite gunboats, two; steel torpedo boats, six; training ships, two; training brig, one; tugs, two. _ i DROPS CHIEF OF DIVISION. William H. Landvoight of Postal De partment Resigns Upon Request. WASHINGTON—William H. Land voight, chief of the classification di vision of the Postofflce department, on Thursday presented his resigna tion to Postmaster General Payne. The resignation was requested by Mr. Payne as a result of the Investiga tion by the inspectors of the charges growing out of the employment of Mr. Landvoight’s son in the General Manifolding company of Franklin, Pa., which had a contract for supply ing patented registry books to the department. Mr. Landvoight was chief of the registry division of the department prior to his comparatively recent transfer to take charge of the classi fication work of the department. Cullom Call6 on President. WASHINGTON—Senator Cullom, chairman of the senate foreign rela tions committee, had a conference with the president. He discussed with him the Cuban reciprocity legis lation to be taken up at the extra ordinary session of congress next president on the award of the Alas kan boundary commission. FOR ANNEXATION. Some Canadians Favor Joining the United States. VANCOUVER, B. C —Local feeling is very bitter over the award of the Alaskan Boundary Commission. There is much talk of annexation and of Canada becoming independent. Busi ness men are generally much dissatis fied al what they pronounce British disregard of Canadian interests to please the United Slates. It is a mat ter of comment that the loudest amongst the discontented are En glishmcn residing here. Many of these say that Canada will never achieve its greatest possibilities un til it becomes a part of the United Stat es, Rev. Elliot S. Rowe, the leading Methodist minister of British Colum bia and who, with Chief Justice Hun ter. constituted the Labor commis sion which sat this summer, in an in terview hpre, said: ‘ I am a Britisher and 1 have al ways been a Britisher, but if Croat Britain is lo hand Canada over piece meal to the United States, I say let us join the American republic also. By doing so now we are large enough, populous enough and important enough (o have something to say re garding the terms of such annexation, and also would be potent enough to have something lo say in the affairs of the republic, of which we would form a part. But it we wait until our best and richest territory is given away we shall simply bo absorbed It looks to me as if Canada had won The case and lost the territory.” Mayor Needlands of Vancouver thinks that the Alaskan award may lead to the establishment of Canada as an independent nation. Congratulates American Members. WASHINGTON.—On receipt of of ficial advices concerning the award of J the Alaskan Hrtlnidary Commission President Roosevelt sent the follow ing cablegram to .Messrs. Lodge, Tur ner and Rool, the American members : of the commission: “Congratulate you heartily In the name of the people of the United States. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” FORGERIES OF $69,000. The Bank Caahler Makes Confession of His Transgression. PRINCETON. VVls.—J. E. Limner, cashier of the Princeton bank, has been arrested and taken to Dartford, where he is in jail. State Bank Examiner Bergh stated Monday night that Liemer had con fessed that the forgeries amount to the sum of $69,000. The Princeton State bank is closed and the Monticeilo State bank, of which Leimer is vice president, has been ordered by the state officials not to open its doors for business for a few days. Speculation in grain. Leimer says, was the cause. Leimer came here as cashier of the Princeton bank eight years ago, and the examiners believe that the forgeries have covered a pe riod of six years. BOMBARD THE MAD MULLAH Italian Cruiser Has a Brush in So maliland. ROME-~The government has re ceived the following Information con cerning the engagment between the Italian cruiser Lombardia and forces of the Mad Mullah near Illig, in Ital ian Somaaliland: “Owing to the close watch kept on the Somalliland coast by British and Italian ships, the M&d Mullah was unable to get arms and ammunition by sea as previously. He decided to make a desperate attempt to take possession of a point on the coast with 600 men, who, on October 14, attacked the Italian boat and killed several men. The following day the Lombardia bombared the Mullah’s po sition and obliged his followers to re tire.” San Antonio Quarantined. AUSTIN, Tex.—Governor Lanham on Saturday quarantined all Texas again San Antonio on account of the yellow fever there. The order is mandatory upon all railrpads to oper ate no trains in or out of San An tonio. Marking the Battlefields. VICKSBURG. Miss—The Vicks burg battle park commissioners of Iowa are here engaged in marking the positions occupied by Iowa troops during the siege CLERKS LET OUT j - i ■■ ii THREE IN THE P08T0FFICE DE PARTMENT DISMISSED. MORE WILL BE DROPPED SOON Awarded Contracts to Favored Bid ders and Were Extravagant and Wastefu—Ono is Guilty of Petty Smuggling. WASHINGTON, D. C. Postmaster General Payne on Wednesday remo\ cd from office Michael W. Louis, su perintendent of supplies of the post* offlvJ* department; Louis Kempner, chief of the registry division of the third assistant postmaster general's office, and C. H. Terry, a $!*00 clerk in the postoffice department, and direct ed the postmaster at New York to re move Otto Weis, a clerk. These removals are the flrst result of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow's report on the irregu larities in the postofflee department. Information on the contemplated dis charges did not leak out at the depart ment untt' after 4 o'clock, and at 4:30 the postmaster general made an offi cial announcement of his action as follows: "Michael W. Lewis has been remov ed from the offiee of superintendent of the division of supplies because the recent investigation shows that he Influenced the awarding of contracts for supplies to favored bidders; that lie has been extravagant and waste ful in the administration of his of flee, and that he has paid excessive prices for supplies to favored contrac tors. "Louis Kempner, superintendent of the registry system, has been removed for incompetency; for wasteful and reckless extravagance In sending ex pensive manifold registry books to a large number of small fourth-class offices, and for violating the revenue laws by n system of petty smuggling "C. B. Terry, a clerk In the division of the supplies, has been removed fot making false affidavits; attempting to obtain money from the clerks under the guise that he could influence their promotion, and general Inefficiency.’ The postmaster general also stated that the postmaster at New York had been directed to remove Otto Wela clerk In the New York postofflce, for collecting money from clerks to influ ,ence legislation and to secure promo tlon. In reply to questions Mr. Payne said the discharges were the result of die closures made by the Bristow report “I have read the report,” he said, "and am free to say that my action was the result of Its perusal.” CONTRACTOR STERN ON TRIAL Preliminary Hearing Before Supreme Court for Furnishing Satchels. WASHINGTON—Leopold J. Stern, the Baltimore contractor arrested In .Toronto under two warrants charging false pretense In the supply to the government of satchels for rural free .delivery carriers, was given a pre liminary hearing In the supreme court ^Tuesday. Stern pleaded not guilty. Postofflce Inspector Walter B. Mayes, who worked up the case against Stern, was called to the witness stand, but before his examination was concluded court adjourned for the day. The case will be continued Wednesday. Assistant District Attorney Taggart reviewed the charges against Stern, who, he said, submitted a bill and re ceived money for satchel straps which he never furnished. "The bill on Its face,” said Mr. Taggart, “was a lie. There were 1,667 satchels sup' piled, but they did not have the straps stipulated In the contract.” On croBB-examination of Inspector MajeH the defense brought out the admission that Stern had claimed that he secured the permission of two postal officials to furnish the satchels without straps. Election Don’t Affect Contract. WASHINGTON.—On a question raised in the case of a representative elect in congress, who owns property leased to the Postofflce department, it has been decided that a contract made by the proper officer with a per son who, during the existence of a contract, is elected a member of con gress, is not affected by such election. This is based on a decision of Attor ney General Rodney, rendered in 1809, a ymr after the passage of an act of congress prohibiting any member of congress from making a contract with the government. ALASKAN AWARD. Canada la Not Reconciled to thoi Award. LONDON.—The engroased copy of the Alaskan award was signed at 2:10 p. m. The Canadians declined to sign the award. The Alaskan award relating to the Portland canal gives the United States two islands. Kanaghunut and Sitklan, commanding the entrance of the Portland channel and the ocean passage to Port Simpson and destroy ing the strategic value of Wales and Pearse Islands, which are given to Canada. The mountain line adopted as the boundary lies so far from the coast as to give the United States substan tially all the territory. The line com pletely clears all the bays and Inlets and means of access to the sea, giving the United States a complete land barrier between Canada and the sea, from the Portland canal to Mount St. Ellas. Around the head of the Lynn canal the line follows the watershed somewhat In accordance with tho prpsent provisional boundary. In consequence of the attitude maintained by the Canadian commis sioners, la>rd Chief Justice Alverstone decided I his morning not to hold the proposed public meeting of the Alas kan boundary commission, but to hand Its decision to Messrs. Foster and Stfton, respectively agents of the American and Canadian governments. The fauadian eommisaioners not only declined to sign the award, but said they would publicly withdraw from the commission. They, as well as the Canadians connected with the case, are very bitter. Telegrams front Premier Laurier and other prominent persons in Can ada show that this sentiment is shared generally throughout the do minion. Messrs. Aylesworth and Jette have Issued a long statement in the nature of an argument explaining the con-; tent ion of Canada and why It should have prevailed. Sleslrs. Aylesworth and Jette will submit their contrary opinions to the tribunal, so as to go officially on record and while they declined to sign {he award, they signed the maps agreed on by the majority. RECORD LOWERED. * i. Cresceus Beats the World's Trotting Figures. WICHITA, Kan.—Cresceus broke the world's trotting record for a mile Monday afternoon, going the distance in 1:59%, beating the previous rec ord held by, Lou Dillon and Major Del mar by a quarter of a second. The day was Ideal and the track could not have been better. Mr. Ketcham worked the horse out before the final test In 2:15 and then sent h:m the record. He broken when he first scored for the record, but on the next attempt was sent off, going to the first quarter in :30 flat. There was a cheer when he reached the half in :69% and when the three-quarters was passed in 1:30 the cheer became an uproar. Just before he reached the wire Cresceus broke and it is believed lost fully three-quarters of a second. He caught handily and flashed under the wire in 1:59%. No wind shield was used. Cresceus was paced by Mike the Tramp. " Such an ovation as was given Cres ceus when he trotted a mile in 1:59% and made a new world's record has rarely been witnessed. The stallion was nearly smothered, so eager were the people to pat him or get neat enough to touch him. George H. Ketcham, who owns Cres ceus and drove him, Baid: “The condi tions were perfect. When I was here week before last the track was wet< but I saw its advantages and deter mined to come back. The result Jus tified my expectations. I knew be fore the race that the stallion would beat his record, but 1 did not antici pate a triumph so complete. I shall go to Oklahoma City and Fort Scott right away to keep engagements and that will be the last time Cresceus will appear In public.” Steamer Loaded With Gold. 1 PLYMOUTH, Eng—The sum of $5,000,000 In gold was landed here Fri day from Bombay. This Is the largest shipment every brought to Engjand on one steamer. Electric Car Attains High Speed. BERLIN.—An electric car on Fri day in the high speed experiments on the Marlennelde-Sososen line attained the speed of 130 2-5 miles per hour. 1
