Loup City Northwestern J. W BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Brief Telegrams A New York broker has obtained a $12,500 verdict in a suit against Rus sell Sage. Leonard Wood is confirmed as a major general in the Senate by a vote of 45 to lti. W. H. Thompson has declined to be a candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for governor of Nebraska. Senator Gibson introduced a bill to repeal the desert land act and the commutation of the homestead act. The majority of the House subcom mittee recommends the impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne of Florida. Mouse committee on judiciary au thorized a report on the limitations statute leaving out the restroactive feature. The British submarine boat was run down by an ocean liner off Ports- i mouth and its crew of eleven men | drowned. The lion cub and two elephant tusks, gifts of King Menellk to President Roosevelt, arrived in New York and animal keepers have been sent to get I them. Secretary Taft Informs the House > committee on interstate and foreign j commerce that he favors the Lovering Dill for governing the Panama Cana! zone. I. N. Ford says mystery still sur rounds the situation in the far East, but it is believed a general Japanese advance has been commenced in Korea. Andrew Carnegie’s gift of $50,000 to Kenyon college at Gambier, Ohio, is ; said to be in recognition of Edwin M. Stanton's kindness to Mr. Carnegie j years ago. Reports that the Russians have j crossed the Value river on a raid of Manchuria are oonflremd. The Japan- j esc await a battle on the south side of the river. The bill making appropriations for j the Indian department shows a gross | increase of $2,179,213 over the bill as passed by the house. It now carries • u total appropriation of $9,821,405. The Bavarian Courier of Munich printed a dispatch from Rome saying | it. is asserted in Vatican circles that an j agreement has been reached for the | establishment of a papal nunciature j in Berlin. William E. Curtis writes of the j thousands that annually are slain in India by snakes and wild boasts, and tells of the crusade begun by the i government against the denizens of ! the jungles. The commissioner of the general j land office lias temporarily withdrawn from entry under the reclamation act j two townships in The Dalles, Ore., \ land district and three townships in the La Grande, Ore., district. Allen P. Ixivejoy of Janesville, Wis., 1 has just died. He leaves an estate valued at about $10,000,000 ahd was tin* richest man in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee. His fortune was chief ly accumulated in lumbering opera tions. Acting Postmaster General Wynne has received a report from Assistant Superintendents Gould and Sawyer of j the salaries and allowance division, j recommending the consolidation of the I East St. Louis stock yards station with the East St. Louis office. The House committee on elections reports that A. D. Dantzler, a negro of South Carolina, was not elected to j Congress, but ignores his plea that the j southern election laws are unconsti tutional. on the ground that a ruling ! would cause wide complication. It Is said at the State department | that Instructions were sent Saturday j to Ambassador Motontion at St. | Petersburg to call the attention of the ltussian government to the condition of the Japanese in Siberia in the hope that the government will do all in its ppower to enable them to return to Japan. The house committee on industrial arts and expositions adopted a com- j plete substitute for the senate bill, ! making an appropriation for the Lewis and Clark exposition to he held at i Portland, Ore., beginning May 1, 1905. The bill as reported by the house com mittee reduces the appropriation to 5475,000. The resignation of Major Seely, con- ; servatlve member of parliament for j the Isle of Wight, division of llamp- j shire, which he announced in the \ hofse of commons during the debate ! on the liberal motion to cesure the government for its |K>liey regarding the importation of coolie labor into South Africa, is final. Governor Carter of Honolulu has called an extra session of the legisla ture to meet on April 4 to consider the finances of the treasury, which is unable to meet the warrants drawn upon it. For the present (iseal year the appropriations exceed the income py 51,500,000. The reorganization of the territorial government on a less expensive basis is now proposed. A Manila dispatch says that the flat to, Hansen, who wounded Major II L. Kcott during an engagement in Jolo in November last, has been killed by pursuing troops. Everything is peace ful now, with no opposition of any kind to the American rule in the island of Jolo. The Maryland senate has passed the bill appropriating $25,000 to relieve the destitution caused by the Baltimore I fire. The consolidation of the Colonial j National and Union National banks of Cleveland has been ratified by the stockholders. REPORT IS FILED MERCHANT MARINE AND FISH ERIES QUESTION. THE PROPOSED SENATE BILL — It is Scored in the Minority Report of the House Committee—Passage of Measure Would Result in Holding Up the Government. WASHINGTON — Representative Stevens (Minn.) filed the favorable re port authorized by the house commit tee on merchant marine and fisheries n an amended senate bill ‘to require the employment of vessels of the Uni ted States for public purposes.” The bill requires all government supplies transported by sea to lie car ried in vessels either owned by the government or flying the American flag. The report bases the necessity for the bill on the ground that it never is safe to depend on foreigners for the defense of our own country. It says that the United States now owns thirteen passenger and freight transports, and that should these be inadequate for the necessary trans portation of government supplies and troops, ships flying the American fag only may be used in addition: that the government cannot expect Ameri can ships to be available in an emer gency. The views of the minority of the committee, prepared by Representa tive Lucking (Mich.) and signed by Representatives Spight, Gottlden. .Mc Dermott and Lucking, declare the bill to be a step in the policy of subsidiz ing our merchant marine, for which for seven years the most active, per sistent, influential and unblushing lob by has been hounding the life out of both branches of congress. The re port says that outside of the goods transported in vessels owned by the government there was paid in freights for such carrying In the year 1901, 14.523,954. and that “this carrying is done principally to the Philippines, and, like the major portion of all our war and naval expenditures of the present day, has been rendered nec essary by the ill-advised subjugation and retention of those islands.” The report says the bill is a most barefaced misappropriation of public moneys, and adds: “Of the seventeen vessels now en gaged in this traffic on the Pacific, all are manned exclusively (except offi cers) \<7. Chinese sailors, who work for about one-third or one-fourth the wages that American sailors receive, so that the American sailors have been completely supplanted by these Chinese in the very Pacific ocean companies who are pressing the . ill and who are, In part, to get its gratu ities.” The report concludes that “in some respects tnis bill is worse than any pronounced subsidy measure which has been advocated in congress, be cause it gives an absolute monopoly to a few corporations and individuals who may, and probably will, form a combine and hold up the government for ail it will stand.” YOUNG CORBETT IS LOSER. James Britt is Given the Decision in the Twentieth Round. RAN FRANCISCO—James Britt of California was given the decision over William Rothwell, better known as “Young Corbett,” of Colorado, in a twenty-round contest at Woodward's pavilion Friday night. In the seven teenth round Corbett's advantage was apparent, but in that round Britt ral lied and rained right and left blows on various portions of Corbett’s anatomy, forcing the champion to clinch to save himself. 1 he styles of the two boxers were entirely different. Britt fought for the body most of the time, while Cor bett devoted his attention to the head, face and jaw. Britt weighed just 129 pounds, but Corbett's weight was not made public, though it is understood lie was at least a pound and a half below the agreed weight—130 pounds. TURKEY AGREES TO THE PLAN. Reaches Understanding with Austria ar to Police Force. LONDON—According to the dis patches received from Constantinople, the porte and the Austro Russian em bassies have reached an agreement in regard to the organization of the Macedonian gendarmerie under Euro pean officers, so it is believed it will not be long before tfie reform scheme for Macedonia, agreed upon by the em perors of Russia and Austria at their meeting at Muerzteg. Syria, last year, in support of which Austria has been alleged to be mobilizing troops, will l»e in full operation. In an interview at Sofia, March 21 Boris Surafoff. the Macedonian leader, said his party intended to await the result of an introduction of the re forms before launching a fresh in surrection. Report Original Package Bill. WASHINGTON. The house com mittee on the judiciary on Friday au thorized a favorable report on the Hepburn and Dolliver bill, granting the states police power over “original packages" of intoxicating liquor com ing into their borders as interstate commerce. An amendment was adopt ed stipulating that the bill should not apply to persons receiving interstate shipments of liquor for their own personal use. Hearings on the bill have been made during the last six weeks. i WILL MOVE UNITED STATES SHIP ' Admiral Cooper Thinks New Chwang No Place for the Helena. WASHINGTON.—To Admiral Coop er. in command of the naval forces on the Asiatic station, has been left the decision of the question whether or not the Helena or some other United States naval vessel is to be kept at New Chwanfc as requested by American interests there. The Navy department has been In formed by Admiral Cooper that he has decided that the conditions are not. such as to warrant him in detain ing the Helena at New Chwang. If I the town is attacked by the Japanese navy the Helena would be in the line of tire, and no neutral ship has a right there if it can get away. The Navy department has cabled him to withdraw the ship, and it probably will leave New Chwang for Shanghai and start for Manila within the pres ent week if the ice continues to soften as rapidly as expected. PERSONS RIDING ON PASSES. Railroads Not Liable for Damages to Deadheads. WASHINGTON—The United States supreme court again decided that per sons traveling on railroads may not secure damage in case of accident when they ride on passes, and the de cision went to the extent of applying the principle to such passengers as were not familiar with the contract usually printed on the backs of the passes. The case decided was that of John L). Booring and his wife, Meariing Boering, against the Chesapeake Beach Railroad company. Mrs. Boer ing was injured in an accident on the road while traveling on a pass Issued to herself and her husband, containing the usual stipulation of ex emption from damage. It was urged that she had not been made aware of the stipulation, and that even if not bahle on general principles, the com pany must be so on account of her ig norance. The court did not accept this view. CHINESE ARMS MENACE RUSSIA. Forty Thousand Ttoods Drilled by Foreigners Ready for Field. PAIUS—The Figaro’s correspond ent in Berlin telegraphs that a Ger man officer who has just arrived there from Mancnuria says serious opera tions in the far east will not be be gun before the -end of June. The principal obstacle to Russian victory, according to this officer, is the fart that 40 000 Chinese troops, well trained and with German and Japan ese instructors, are menacing Russia's lines of communication. Russia, with the support of Germany, will protest against this concentration of Chinese troops. According to the Tokio correspond ent of the Petit PaHsienne official confirmation lias been received of the destruction of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Sheri at Port Arthur by the explosion of a submarine mine. The correspondent says that the mikado yesterday bade adieu to 4b5 officers who were leaving for the front. Anarchists After Police. ROME.—Another anarchist outrage was attempted, but the infernal ma chine, which was placed on th" win dow’ sill of the residence of Police Commissioner Rim t. was discovered in time to prevent any damage being done. The machine was id ntical the one which was exploded March 18 outside the residence of Commis sioner of Police Laurent, and which wrecked the house, killed an artillery officer. Major Papin, and fatally or wounded half a dozen others. German Consul Gives Counsel. YIN KOVV—The German consul from Tien Tsin, at a meeting of Ger man citizens, counselled all residents ol' that nationality that they remained at New Chwang at their own risk and that in event of loss of property re covery was doubtful; also that in the event that Russia was defeated the recovery of losses would only be after a long time, but if Japan was defeated recovery would be sooner. British residents will protest against the ab sence of a warship from New Chwang. Death Pleases Officials. WASHINGTON. — Secretary Taft and the officials of the War depart ment openly express their gratifica tion at the news of the death of Ma cario Sakv. the so-called president of the Philippine republic. Saky secured his freedom under the amnesty procla mation and fled to the mountains with a small force* of kindred spirits and since has made considerable trouble by attacking small villages and unpro tected expeditions. Ballantyne Again Acquitted. MANILA.—W. 1). Ballantyne. ex inspector of customs, has just been acquitted by Judge Ambler on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the customs by furthering the illegal en ery of non-exempt Chinese. He was tried upon a similar charge in January last and acquitted. President Will Touch Button. WASHINGTON--Although Press dent Roosevelt cannot attend the opening of the Louisiana Purchase ex position, he nevertheless will he a participant in the exercises. He has consented to press the button at the White house which will start the ma chinery of the exposition. This cere mony will take place at 1 o’clock t(>astern standard time) on April 30. The deals have not boon worked out yet. but they will he In a few days. The president probably will send tnes ' sage of congratulation. JAPS’ ATTEMPT ANOTHER MOVEMENT TO BOT TLE PORT ARTHUR. WHEN ATTEMPT WAS MADE ! Report that the Japanese Have Sunk j Seven Merchant Steamers in the Harbor — Demand in Connection With Manchuria. LONDON—The Daily Telegraph published a dispatch from its Tokio correspondent, which says: “On the night of March 22 the Jap anese fleet renewed the attempt to bottle up Port Arthur. Sixteen war ships escorted seven merchant steam ers to the mouth of the harbor and j under cover of the bombardment the steamers were ran in and sunk in de sired positions. Three hundred Jap anese officers and bluejackets volun teered for the duty. An official re- ! port is expected this evening.” The Daily Telegraph's circumstan tial report from the Tokio correspond ent that Japan succeeeded in bottling tip Port Arthur on the night of March 22 is not confirmed from any other quarter. The special d’spatches to the other morning papers announce | no new developments, hut throw a few ! sidelights on the operations. The Standard's Tien Tsin corre spondent says that Viceroy Alexieff renewed his demand for the with drawal of all Chinese officers and sol diers from Manchuria on the ground that it would lie Impossible to conduct the war properly. The Daily Mail's correspondents give from Japanese sources some de tails of the condition of Port Arthur, which were gathered during a recent j visit of a Chinese junk there. It is j asserted that a boom had been placed { across the entrance to the roadstead, j which was alive with mines, so de- : fective and so carelessly laid as to ; equally endanger both Russian and | Japanese vessels. The damaged Rus sian warships, these reports say, were > repaired with such hnste that it is dangerous for them to leave their an chorage. Eight battleships and cruis ers and ten torpedo boar destroyers are now uninjured and often leave the harbor, but never go far from the forts. Japanese naval officers praise the quality of the Russian torpedo boat destroyers, which, they confess, have done excellent work, but they declare that the Russian shells are badly | fused and fail to explode, except when , they strike direct upon armor, and ' that their charges of guncotton are in sufficient to cause serious damage. The Daily Mail’s Shan Hai Kwan correspondent says that the Japanese ! are secretly engaging Chinese to act as irregular corps. CODY MAKES DEPOSITION. "Buffalo Bill” Testifies that His Wife Tried to Poison Him. DENVER—Colonel William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill”) made a depo sition before a notary in this city Wednesday in the action for divorce which he has begun in Big Horn coun ty, Wyoming. Colonel Cody will sail for Europe shortly and will he absent j from the country when his suit is j tried. In the proceedings today Colo- | nel Cody was interrogated by his own I attorney and was subjected to an ex amination by counsel for Mrs. Cody. "Mrs. Cody tried to poison me three years ago,” the colonel testified. "She j had frequently threatened to do it. We were visiting in Rochester, N. Y., during the holidays of 1900. and the day after Christmas 1 was ill. I sup posed the turkey and plum pudding | did not agree with me. She said she | would fix me up. She pretended to \ give me medicine. It was poison. It ] almost finished me for 1 was tincon- i scions for some time. I think it must have been an overdose, for it made I me vomit, and I suppose this saved ; my life.” Colonel Cody related many in- j stances of his wife’s having humili- j ated him at his "former home" in j North Platte by her conduct toward : guests. _ GALES SWEEP ILLINOIS. Several Are Killed and Many Injured at Indiana l^rbor. CHICAGO.—One of the most se vere storms this city has known in years passed over Chicago Thursday night. Great damage was done in the suburbs to the south of the city, and considerable loss was sustained by the people living to the north of the city proper. The storm did not strike the business iMirtion in its greatest force. The storm in the vicinity of Indiana Harbor was one of the most severe ever known there. Three people are known to he dead, several are fatally j hurt, and at midnight several others ! were reported missing and they may he buried in the ruins of their homes. A two-story brick building known as the Barker building was blown j down and a number of people who had i sought shelter there were buried in the ruins. Remarkable Marksmanship. WASHINGTON—in a private letter received at the navy department from an officer on hoard the Kearsarge, the following remarkable record made by tnut battleship in her target practice, just completed at Pensacola, is given: One thirteen-inch gun made six hits out of seven shots in five minutes and twenty seconds. An eight-inch gun made ten hits out of ten shots in five minutes and twenty seconds, and a five-inch gun made eighteen j hits out of eighteen shots in two min utes. PEOPLE FORGET PRINCIPLES. President Schurman Talks of Lawless ness in the United States. NEW YORK—In an address at New Rochelle President Schurman of Cor nell university lias discussed what he considers the true elements of na tional greatness and expressed the truth that so far as physical power Is concerned our nation leaves almost nothing to be desired. In referring to our respect for law and our regard for the rights of others, however, ho said: "There has been in the last few years more lawlessness than those liv ing in the present generation can re member. Lynching seems to go on apace. There are reasons given for this, as a matter of course. Some say it is because our children are not taught religion in the schools; others that it is due to the great immigra tion to our shores. To me there seems to be an entirely different rea son for it. It is, I think, duo to a certain amount of race depreciation— I will not say race hatred, which some how seems to be still very potent in our blood. We still talk a great deal of the superiority of the white race. With an excess of passion, we still talk of the inferiority of the people with dark skins. It appears that the tiger is still in our blood and woe to the man who stirs him up. "We seems already to have forgot ten some of the great principles for which our fathers died and we have become compelled to hear in the last few years derisive remarks about the constitution.” GET FINAL INSTRUCTIONS. Canal Commission Meets and Receives Letter from President. WASHINGTON.—Preliminary work was begun by the Isthmian canal com mission. Tlie fir-t fill! meeting of the commission was hold in the offices of ; Admiral Walker, the chairman. The session resolved itself into an informal discussion of various features of the preliminary work and of preparations for the first visit of the commission to Panama. President Rocsevelt en tertained the members of the commis sion and Secretary Taft at luncheon. During the luncheon there was a gen eral discussion of various phases of the canal question. General instructions to the members of the commission were contained iti a letter from President Roosevelt to the commission, under date of March s. TO INTERCEPT JAP SHIPS. Rumor Regarding Russia's Vladivostok Fleet. PARIS—The Echo De Paris corre spondent at St. Petersburg says it is rumored in naval circles there that Captain Peitzenstein's Vladivostok squadron has been ordered to overtake, at a certain point on the Pacific, thp battleship and two cruisers bought from Chili by Japan and return with them to Vladivostok. The correspondent says it is ru mored that Emperor William of Ger many has refused to accept three cruis ers built at Kiel and Stettin, on the ground that they did not conform to the terms of the contract, and that Russia is negotiating for their pur chase. The Russian general staff, the cor respondent says, estimates that the number of Japanese troops landed in Korea does not exceed 75,000. MANY RUSSIANS COMMIT SUICIDE j Several Officers at Port Arthur Suc cumb to Strain of Bombardment. NEW YORK—News has been re ceived from Port Arthur that several officers of the garrison, under the strain caused by the bombardment, have committed suicide, says a World dispatch from Shanghai. The total number of casualties in the town to date is 265. Marquis Ito has held a large recep tion. which was attended by the for eign legation officials, cables the Seoul correspondent of the Times. He ex pressed the belief that under Japan ese guidance Corea will advance com mercially and intellectually, it being Japan’s intention so to use its influ ence that the Coreans will never re gret their connection with it. The marquis will return to Japan March 25. Nationalists Win Victory. DUBLIN.—The nationalists in the St. Stevens Green division of Dublin elected Lawrence Waldron to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons caused by the death of James McCann by a majority of 620 over ihe unionist candidate. Wr. Waldron is a wealthy stock broker. While he was not an official nationalist candidate, lie is pledged to support home rule and (lie proposal to establish a Catholic uni versity in Dublin and to oopo.se ihe present financial relations between Ireland and Great Britain. Death from Bubonic Plague. JOHANNESBURG—Up to date the total number of deaths from bubonic plague is forty-two white and foriy colored persons. Coming to St. Louis Fair. LONDON.—A meeting of the oor-i mittee of arrangements for a visit of the municipal officials of the United Kingdom to St. Louis, of which Lord Clyveden is chairman, was held in the chambers of the lords. Sir Thomas Pile, mayor of Dublin, reported that some hundreds of officials had applied for particulars regarding the arrange ments. The committee finally ap proved the program. The party will leave England May 1, and will visit New York, Washington, St. Louis, Toronto and other cities. Shortly after getting the political bee in his bonnet the average mam gets It in the neck. T am here in the world to serve and to think of others and not myself.— Dr. Horton. FllK RENT OR SATE On Crop Payment*. SEVERAL CHOICE PARKS. feud tur UAL J. Ml LIIAI.I., Sioux City, luwk, Conscience doesn’t, make cowards of literary romancers. A man knows less after marriage than a woman does before. Rhrnnintlsni'n Killing Enin. Left in quick order after taking 10 doses of Dr. Skirvin’s Rheumatic Core, in tablet form. 25 doses 25c. nostnaid W1S DRUG CO., LA CBOfcaK, WLk (W. N. U.) To withstand evil is quite as neces sary as to do good.—Mrs. Craik. The gain of love is lost by the love of gain. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES cost but 10 cents per package. Holiness is the reaching niter rath er than the arriving at perfection. Lots of people come to grief by meeting trouble half-way. Smokers find Lewis' ‘'Single Binder” straight 5e cigar b"ttc quality th in most 10c brands. L*wis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. You may reap what you sow—not something else—but that.- F. W„ UoberLson. If all women who look back were turned into salt pillars the streets would be full of statues. To Cure a Colil In One flay. Take Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablets. AIJ druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. No fountain is so small but heaven may be imaged in its bosom—Haw thorne. Fish may be all right as brain food if a man isn’t boru a fool to start with. When You E-uy Starch buy Defiance and pet the best, hi oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Things to Remember. “My boy,” said a man of the state of Texas to bis son, who was start ing out for a career in an eastern city; "*ny boy, let me tell you some thing which may help you. You get up there, and you may see a heap of people who have got more money than you have; a heap of people who liav» got more brains than you have, and more success. Some of them may even be better looking than you are. Don't you worry about that, and don't you he scared of anybody. Whenever you meet a man who allows he's your superior, you just look at him and say to yourself, 'After all, you’re just folks!’ You want to remember for yourself, too, that you're just folks. My boy. after you have lived as long: as I have and have knocked around the world, you will come to sec that that's all any one of is—folks." A Suggestive Name. Jake, the colored servant of Lionel Barrymore, has quite a fork of chil dren, all of them with Biblical names, as their lather is very religious, and a great, student ot the hible. A hoy was added to the family not long ago. atul Jake confessed himself puz/Jed as to a name for him. "You see,” he ex plained, “we'se 'bout 'sausted all dem characters— sich as David an'Amos an’ Solo/nan. De woman suggest* Balaam, hut l’se calculatin' on Hal low. as the book siggests it foh itself. 'Hallowed he Thy name,’ nab. I reck on we ll leave it dah. sah.’’ DOCTOR DID IT. Put on 36 Pounds by Food. Feed a physician back to health an