JAPAN TAKES A FIRM STAND
A8 TO 8AN FRANCISCO SCHOOL
CONTROVERSY.
Report From Tokio Is That the Mi
kado Will Insists Upon All Rights
Under the Treaty.
TOKIO—After a careful survey of
public feeling regarding the prospects
of a satisfactory solution of the San
Francisco school controversy it may
be stated that while the approach of
the termination of the disagreeable
affair is welcomed, yet the report from
Washington that a solution may be ef
fected by a mutual treaty excluding
the immigration of laborers is gener
ally disbelieved as unreasonable. Ac
cording to the prevailing feeling a so
lution must be effected on Japan’s
treaty rights, pure and simple.
However, confidence continues that
a solution of the question will be
reached without the least sacrifice of
Japanese honor and prestige.
The war talk of the American press
has been received here with great
surprise and sincere regret. The cor
respondent of the Associated Press
has talked with several leading men,
both in and out of the government.
They concur in the opinion that the
United States is the last country with
which Japan would go to war. Besides,
both nations are unaggressive in their
trade rivalries, which seldom leads to
•war unless territorial acquisition is
Intended by either rival.
San Francisco — Mayor Eugene
Schmitz and members of the San
Francisco Board of Education left here
for Washington to confer with the
president in regard to the exclusion of
Japanese from the public schools, with
a view of reaching a basis of settle
ment of the question.
The Famine in China.
Victoria, B. C.—Further advices
from the famine district of central
China, received by the steamship Tar
tar, state that smallpox has broken
out in the camps and the officials are
breaking them up. The people are
numbed by suffering and patiently
submit to being driven. Telegrams to
the Jiji Shimpo say upwards of half a
million people will die of starvation or
diseases incidental to conditions pre
vailing in the famine districts.
Three Freeze to Death.
Grand Rapids, Mich.—A woman and
two children were found frozen to
death Sunday afternoon in an upstairs
tenement here, with a third child in
an adjoining room badly frozen, but
alive.
Trenton Has $100,000 Fire.
Trenton, N. J.—The Imperial Porce
lain works of this city burned Sunday.
The loss is estimated at $100,OtJ, fully
insured.
MOSES P. SYVDENHAM DEAD.
Pioneer Nebraskan and Writer of In
dian History Passes Away.
Kearney, Neb.—While on his way to
church Sunday morning Moses P.
Sydenham, one of Nebraska’s oldest
citizens, and a writer of Indian history
and early settlement of the state,
dropped dead of heart failure at 11:30
o’clock.
He had been in poor health for some
time although a little better of late,
and was on his way to the Methodist
church of which he was a member. He
fell in front of the Goodall barn but re
covered and walked inside, asking to
sit down and rest a minute. 'While at
tendants brushed the snow off he be
came unconscious and was carried to
a lounge where he expired.
Born in London. England, in 1835,
in the Jewish quarter of "ghetto” of
that world’s metropolis, of Jewish par
entage, Moses P. Sydenham spent his
youth in England, but becoming at
tached to the “Stars and Stripes.”
which he frequently saw floating from
the mastheads of the American clip
per ships in the Indian trade, he had
saved enough money to pay his pas
sage to this country at the age of 19.
SOCIALISTS GET ELEVEN SEATS.
Result of Mid-W.inter Elections in
British Columbia.
Victoria, B. C.—The result of the
elections so far give the conserva
tives twenty-five seats, liberals eleven,
socialist eleven, with five constit
uencies to hear from. Victoria and
Vancouver went solidly for the con
servatives with heavy majorities. Ex
Commissioner Mclnness was defeated
in the last named city by 1,000 vote.
Mohler Has Pneumonia.
Omaha—A. L. Mohler, vice presi
dent of the Union Pacific railroad,
who went to Chicago a few days ago
to attend the meeting between gen
eral managers and trainmen was
taken ill and is suffering with a slight
attack of pneumonia.
oixiy-one bociics Recovered.
Charleston, W. Va—Up to midnight
Sunday sixty-one bodies had been re
covered from the Stuart mine. Twelve
are still in the mine. The property
loss is estimated at $30,000.
Mrs. Longworth Has Grip.
Washington — Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, of wife of Representative
Longworth of Ohio, and daughter of
the president, is ill at her home in
this city with what is stated to be a
slight attack of grip. The president
and Mrs. Roosevelt were very much
concerned about their daughter’s
health when they were informed by
the physician that her temperature
had gone up to 102. Mrs. Longworth
contracted a severe cold while attend
ing the White House reception.
Car Famine in Southeast.
Knoxville, Tenn.—The coal industry
of east Tennessee and southeastern
Kentucky has been paralyzed on ac
count of a coal car famine which pre
vailed on both the Southern and Louis
ville & Nashville railroads. Only on
one day were any cars furnished the
mine operators, and they have been
unable even partially to supply the
iarge district' dependent on them in
the southeastern states. Local operat
ors have been notified of the closing
down of hundreds of small industries
on account of lack of coal.
SHAW INCLINED TO OMAHA.
Possibly May Reside in the Nebraska
t Metropolis.
Washington—Chancea are now de
cidedly in favor of Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw becoming a citizen of
Omaha soon after he1 retires from the
government service. It. was learned
today from a close friend of the sec
retary, an Iowa man who has had op
portunity and occasion lately to be
come informed as to the personal
plans of the secretary, that he is de
cidedly inclined to go to Omaha.
If he makes this decision, it is said
he will become head of a trust com
pany of probably $1,000,000 capital, in
which he will take in his own name
a large block of stock. Other Omaha
people who believe there is an open
ing for such a concern there have in
dicated their willingness to subscribe
liberally. In fact, it is stated that,
given the assurance that Secretary
Shaw will take the management,
there is no doubt that the capital can
be raised in a very short time.
The statement that the secretary
leans strongly toward Nebraska
comes from a source which places it
beyond cavil.
Seattle, New York and Omaha have
been chiefly in Mr. Shaw’s mind for
some time. Omaha he knows and
likes, and he believes it affords an
excellent field for his business tal
ents. New York he does not like, and
he recently said that while he could
go there andcommand $100,000 sal
ary, he would have to spend more of
it living, and doubted if it were worth
while.
Omaha's political situation has also
attracted the former governor of
Iowa. He has been told that if he
would go there now he would have
powerful backing, if he cared to iden
tify himself with Nebraska politics,
for the senatorial seat now held by
Mr. Burkett.
EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE.
Eighty or More Men Killed by Acci
dent in West Virginia.
Charleston, W. Va.—With a detona
tion heard for miles and hurling debris
hundreds of feet in the air, dust in the
Stuart mine, near Fayetteville, ex
ploded Tuesday afternoon, bringing a
terrible death to eight} or more men
who were at work 500 feet below the
surface. There is little or no chance
that any will be taken out alive, for it
is thought that the terrific force of the
explosion snuffed out their lives in
stantly. It will not be possible for
rescuers to reach the bottom of the
shaft for forty-eight hours.
The disaster is perhaps the worst,
in the number of killed, in the history
of the state. Most of the men were
Americans and many of them were
married and had large families.
Livingston Wants a Suit.
Washington—Representative Living
ston of Georgia appeared before the
house committee on interstate and
foreign house committee on Tuesday
and urged favorable consideration of
his resolution providing for an inves
tigation by the Department of Com
. merce and Labor of the fluctuations in
the cotton market with the particular
object of ascertaining whether or not
speculations have resulted from the
character of the contracts, alleged
sales and deliveries made on the New
York Cotton exchange.
AMERICAN WHEAT IN RUSSIA.
First Shipload Via London Will
Reach Riga Soon.
St. Petersburg—On account of the
failure of the local wheat crop Russia
this year will be a purcnaser of Amer
ican wheat, and the first shipload will
arrive at Riga, from London, on its
way to Rybinsk. The price on the
Russian market probably will be $1.15
a bushel, which is 7 cents under the
local price. Other cargoes have been
ordered for delivery at St. Petersburg
as soon as navigation opens.
Treasury Balances.
Washington—Tuesday’s statement
of the treasury balances in the general
fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000
gold reserve, shows: Available cash
balance, $241,617,752; gold coin and
bullion, $101,290,490; gold certificates,
$2,468,300; total. $345,381,548.
President Hasn’t Answered.
Washington — President Roosevelt
has received the resolutions passed
by the constitutional convention of
Oklahoma asking him if he would ap
prove the constitution if it should con
tain a provision on the "Jim Crow
car” question. No answer has yet been
made by the president.
Increase in Mail.
Washington—First Assistant Post
master General Hitchcock has asked
congress for an additional appropria
tion for postoffice clerks during the
present fiscal year. He has asked for
$150,000 to cover the salaries of 690
additional clerks until July 1.
Appeals for assistance are coming
to the department from all parts of
the country, particularly from the Pa
cific coast. Postmasters report that
it is Impossible to handle the mail,
especially of the second class.
Two Senatorial Deadlocks.
Providence, R. I.—The tenth and
eleventh ballots for the election of a
United States senator showed no
change. Goddard had 40; Colt, 38;
Westmore, 31; Utter, l.
Little Rock, Ark.—Both houses voted
Tuesday for United States senator.
Governor Davis received eighty-eight
votes in the house and thirty in the
senate. Judge Worthington received
the five republican votes. The elec
tion of Davis will be ratified in joint
session.
Still 72 Bodies in Mine.
Frankfort-on-the-Main—A dispatch
to the Zeitung from Siarbrueck says
there are still seventy-two bodies un
der ground in the Reden mine. Of the
bodies brought out only twenty-four
have been recognized; the others are
s6 burned that their identity cannot
be established. One woman became
demented when she was confronted by
her husband, she having believed him
among the dead. A number of Swiss
and French newspaper correspond
ents reached Saarbrueck.
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Journal.
Jf the nation allows the child to enter It must expect the man to come
^ out “the small end of the horn."
THE REGULATION OF RATES
PASSED OUT BY THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Joint Tariffs and Joint Rates Covered
Specific Duties on Common Car
riers imposed.
Washington—The interstate com
merce commission promulgated two
tariff circulars containing regulations
governing the construction and filing
of freight and passenger tariffs and
classifications effective March 1, next.
The regulations cover joint tariffs and
through rates and also individual rates
of the various carriers.
It is provided that a change in a tar
iff shall be known as an amendment
and shall be printed in the supplement
to the tariff which it amends. No rule
shall be included, the circulars state,
which in any way or in any terms au
thorizes substituting for any rate
named in the tariff. Every carrier shall
publish, post and file separate tariffs
containing in plain and specific form
and terms all of the terminal charges
and allowances, together with all other
charges and rules which in any way
increase or decrease the amount to be
paid on any shipment as stated in the
regular tariff.
If a carrier refuse to participate in
through or joint rates to or from its
territory the commission will give
early hearing on complaint against
such action and render decision under
the law which confers authority to es
tablish through routes and joint rates.
Such complaining carrier may, the
commission rules, use such through
rates over the lines of the objecting
carrier as may have been lawfully pub
lished and filed, pending a decision by
the commission.
The passenger tariff regulations con
tain general rules regarding stopovers,
baggage and excess baggage weights,
and special provision is made for the
arrangement of points in local and in
terdivisional tariffs and for statements
showing the routing.
LAW TO PROTECT UNIFORMS.
President Desires to Give Social
Rights to Soldiers and Sailors.
Washington — If President Roose
velt can bring such a thing about, con
gress will pass a law which will pre
vent discrimination against the uni
form of the army or navy. Several
cases involving this question are
pending in state courts, hut the more
recent case of the refusal of a sakting
rink proprietor at Plattsburg, N. Y., to
admit two soldiers in uniform, which
was sustained by Judge Everest of
the city court, has given an impetus
to the movement set on foot by the
president some time ago to Insist that
the uniforms shall be recignied in all
public places.
Grain Dealers to Meet.
Des Moines, la.—The question as to
whether the government shall own the
railroads in order to solve the rate
proposition will be one of the main
features under discussion at the forth
coming meeting of the Farmers’ Grain
Dealers’ Association of Iowa, which
will convene at Fort Dodge Wednes
day and Thursday of this week. It is
expected to be the largest gathering of
grain growers and shippers ever held 1
in the United States and many noted
speakers will address the convention.
Burkett Changes Committees.
Washington—Senator Burkett of Ne
braska on Thursday resigned as chair
man of the committee on Indian dep
redations and was at once appointed
chairman of the committee on Pacific
railroads.
Ambassador Thompson Home.
Lincoln, Neb.—D. E. Thompson, am
bassador to Mexico, is in Lincoln for a
week’s stay. He will visit Washing
ton and return to Mexico by way of
Havana.
Head Off Diseased Immigants.
Washington—“We are trying to
have applied to Mexico the same regu
lations that are now In force respect
ing the admission of immigrants who
come into the United States by way of
Canada,” said Commissioner of Immi
gration Frank T. Sargent on Thurs
day when asked about the steps being
taken to reach an agreement with
Mexico for keeping out of the United
States undesirable immigrants who
reach Vera Cru and other Mexican
I ports and then come across the Texas
I boundary line.
Will of Late Senator Alger.
Detroit, Mich.—The will of the late
Senator R. A. Alger, filed in the pro
bate court, leaves all of his estate
excepting $20,000 to his widow and
five children. The senator's brother,
Charles M. Alger, of Hannibal, Mo., is
left $10,000.
To the Happy Hunting Ground.
Sheridan, Wyo.—Bear Claw, the
Crow Indian chief, died Thursday. He
was generally peacefully inclined and
had much influence with his tribe.
Iowa Editor Dead.
Marshalltown, la.—Byron Webster,
former editor of the Marshalltown
Statesman, died here. He was the
first editor to suggest the name of
Grover Cleveland for the presidency :
upon the election of Mr. Cleveland as
governor of New York in 1884.
Contagion at Chicago. ]
Chicago—The health officers esti
mate the number of contagious dis- ,
eases in the city at 4,477. Of these
3,058 are scarlet fever. j
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CATTLE FREEZING TO DEATH. ,
Stockmen in Northwest Will Lose Mil
lions of Dollars.
Minneapolis—J. H. Howells of Mi- i
not, N. D., a leading buyer of cattle
and sheep, says that the cattlemen of
the northwest would stand to lose ,
more than $1,000,000 by the severe
winter. He has made a tour of in- ]
spection along the transcontinental ,
lines, both in the United States and ]
Canada, and says the losses will not be ,
so great in North Dakota as in Al- ,
berta and Montana. i
In the Alberta country, according to ,
Mr. Howells, thousands of cattle had ]
huddled together along the railroad i
tracks and dead cattle were to be seen i
for 100 miles or more, lying twenty j
deep in some places'. The same con- -
dition, he says, prevails in Montana.
POPE CHANGES HIS ATTITUDE.
Agreement May Be Reached Between *
France and Church.
Paris—It is learned from an ecclesi
astical source that as a result of the 1
advice tendered to the pope at Rome 1
January 2 by five French prelates the 1
pontiff has changed his position to- *
ward the church and state separation '
question in France and will issue new *
instructions, under which it is believed
It would be possible to organize public
worship under the supplementary 1
church and state separation law intro- 1
duced by Minister of Education ‘
Briand. '
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Wants Famine Contributions. ‘
Washington—American Consul Gen- 1
eral Rogers, at Shanghai, cabled the
State department regarding the Chi
nese famine as follows:
Strongly advise that money contri- <
butions be sent instead of food at pres- I
ent. Provisions can be purchased at c
Shanghai at favorable prices. c
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Killed in Armour Plant. '
Chicago—Four men were killed and c
sixteen others seriously injured as the 1
result of the explosion of an ice ma- c
chine in the power house of Armour &
Co., at Forty-fourth street and Pack
ers avenue.
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Judge Beatty Resigns. I
Boise, Idaho—James H. Beatty, for *
sixteen years judge of the United c
States court for the district of Idaho on s
Monday announced that he had ten- 1
iered his resignation. 1
Freedom of stump in Russia.
Moscow—The governor general has *
canceled, at Premier Stolypin’s direc- *
tion, the election order that any per- J
sons delivering speeches hostile to the j
government at electoral meetings shall
be sentenced to three months’ impris
anment or to pay a fine of $250.
The premier has directed provincial C
authorities to avoid interference with j
campaign meetings except where nec- j
essary to prevent the open advocacy x
sf revolutionary outbreaks.
Great Graft in St. Louis.
St. Louis—Testimony taken by the
senate committee on municipal affairs, g
which is making an investigation into i
municipal affairs, developed at Mon- i
day’s hearing that E. C. Dodge, who i
has been the law partner of Excise t
Commissioner Thomas E. Mulvihill
Bince March 19, 1887, has represented
thirty-five or forty saloonkeepers
whose licenses were attacked by Ex
cise Commissioner Mulvihill, and that t
he had collected in eleven of these j
cases fees amounting to $730.
ORIGIN OF RUMOR OF WAR
REMARK OF HAYASHI ATTRIBUT
ED TO ROOT.
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Government Has no Intention of In
creasing Naval Force on Either
Side of the Pacific.
Washington — Secretary Root pos
itively refused to make any statement
touching the Japanese situation in its
relation to the conference which took
place at the White House Wednesday
evening between the president and
some members of the cabinet and the
California congressional delegation.
He does, however, deny the authen
ticity of any of the published inter
views attributed to him as to the im
minence of war. the state of the treaty
negotiations or any phase of this sub
ject, which he regards as one emi
nently unsuited for public discussion
it this time.
The Japanese ambassador declined
to be seen this afternoon, but the mem
bers of the embassy staff declared he
had not authorized any newspaper
statement on this subject. The fact
appears to be that a statement in the
press eable dispatches ascribed to
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister
for foreign affairs, to the effect that
in event the courts upheld the San
Francisco school officials, then the
matter of discrimination against Japa
nese would require diplomatic treat
ment, was in some quarters erron
eously attributed to Secretary Root,
who was put in the position of stating
that he received an ultimatum from
the Japanese minister for foreign af
fairs. Mr. Root denies that he has
received any such communuication,
ind careful inquiry fails to show that
the alleged remark of Baron Hayashi
nas ever been communicated officially
to this government.
it was said at the Navy department
is an evidence of the slight importance
ittached to the naval officers in the
present discussion of the Japanese af
fair, that there was not the slightest
ntention on the part of the depart
nent of strengthening the naval force
>n either side of the Pacific.
School Board to Come East.
San Francisco — After a conference
it the home of Mayor Schmitz this
norning, the members of the board of
;ducation decided that the entire
ward, with Superintendent Roncavieri
ind Assistant City Attorney Williams,
will go to Washington to confer with
he federal officials on the Japanese
luestion.
Mayor Schmitz will also be one of
he party. The determination of the
nayor to accompany the school direct
>rs came as a great surprise. In ex
jlanation of this, it was stated that a
elegram had been received by him
rom some one in Washington saying
hat his presence was urgently needed.
ALASKA RAILROAD HEARING.
Senator-Elect Guggenheim Attacked by
Witness Before Committee.
Washington — Hearings on the bill
o give a government charter to the
llaska Railroad company for its pro
wsed projected railroad from the head
if Cordova bay to a point on the Yu
ion river near Engle, Alaska, were
:ontinued before the senate commit
ee on territories. There was added
nterest in the hearing because An
Irw Burleigh of New York, one of the
iromoters of the railroad, declared
hat opponents to the bill were trying
o “corner" the copper fields of Alaska
ind that their plans will be interfered
vith if this railroad invaded the field.
TELLER PLEADS GUILTY'
<• H. Everly Sentenced to Five Years
for Embezzlement.
St. Louis, Mo.—Charles H. Ever
y, formerly teller in the St. Louis
Jnion Trust company, pleaded guilty
oday to a charge of embezzling $5,009
rom the trust company, and was sen
enced to five years in the peniten
iary.
Judge Muench before passing sen
ence said that while he agreed with
he circuit attorney that the law
vould be satisfied to take five years
if a man’s life, he could not refrain
rom remarking that the sentence
eemed entirely out of proportion to
ithers dealt by the criminal courts
fter a trial.
Epidemic of Scarlet Fever.
Chicago—Two hundred and eight
ases of scarlet fever were reported
'riday, as compared with 281 Thurs
ay. The decrease led the officials
f the health department to believe
hat they have the epidemic under
ontrol. Diphtheria showed an in
rease of nine cases. The total to
his date of fever cases is 5,852 and
f diphtheria 2,656.
Any Stamps Will Do.
Washington — A bill was favorably
eported by the house committee on
lostofflces and post cards providing
hat 10 cents worth of postage stamps
f any denomination may be used in
tead of a special delivery stamp, pro
dding the words “special delivery” be
irritten on the letter.
Fruit Cars for Harriman.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Six hundred re
rigerator cars, the first of a total of
,000 ordered by the Pacific Fruit Ex
ress company for handling Southern
California fruit shipments, in opposi
ion to the Armour company, arrived
ere. The cars will continue to arrive
t the rate of 1,200 a month until the
rder is filled. The Pacific Fruit Ex
ress company is known as an auxil
iry of the Harriman railroads, but it
s claimed will furnish competition
rith Armour, who has hitherto monop
lied the business.
Mrs. Sage Gives $1,000,000.
New York—Mrs. Russell Sage has
iven $1,000,000 to the Renselaer
’olytechnic Institute. Announce
lent of the gift wa3 made at a meet
ig of the institute alumni associa
ion.
Meningitis Epidemic.
London — Cerebro spinal menin
itis, hitherto but slightly known in
his country, has broken out in viru
;nt form in Scotland and the north of
reland.
HARD FOR HOMESTEADERS.
Made So By Issuance or An Executive
Order.
There Must Be Examination on the
Ground by a Special Agent Before
Patent Can Be Issued.
Washington—Besides fixing Feb
ruary 20 at the date to vote on the
declaration that Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah is not’entitled to his seat,
passing a bill appropriating $2,000,000
to confine the Colorado river to its
banks and another placing the man
agement of the Panama railway under
the isthmian canal commission, the
senate listened to an extended speech
by Senator Carter, Mont., in criticism
of the secretary of the interior and
another by Secretary Heyburn to the
same end.
The recent order of the secretary
preventing the issuance of patents to
the public lands after an examination
on the ground by a special agent was
the subject of criticism, and many
senators from western states, by cas
ual interruptions, showed their ap
proval of the seutiments expressed.
Mr. Heyburn concluded by explain
ing the hardship the executive order
was working. A homesteader, he said,
was put entirely at the mercy of the
“special agent,” was not allowed: to
know the report which was made
against him and given no opportunity
to answer it. It made no difference
whether the settler had rendered his
sworn affidavit and the affidavits of
two of his neighbors, in compliance
with the law. the report of the special
agent was placed above this evidence.
As it was to the advantage of the spec
ial agent to find trouble, the reports
so made were likely to be had.
RATE BILL IS READY.
Subcommittee Completes Measure
Dealing with Passenger Fares.
Lincoln, Neb.—The passenger rate
bill is ready for action at the hands of
the joint railroad committee; the com
mission bill proper will be ready a
few hours later, and the anti-pass biU
is on the road to completion. These
bills now are in the hands of sub-com
mittees selected from the joint com
mittee, and before being introduced,
into the house and senate, of course^
must run the gauntlet of the joint
committee. Inasmuch, however, as
the general outline of all the bills
was discussed before the sub-commit
tees were appointed, it is thought more
than probable the joint committee will
merely endorse what has been done
by the joint committees and the bills
will be introduced the latter part of
the week.
Indian Appropriation pill.
Washington—The Indian appropria
tion bill was reported to the senate.
It carries $14,609,201, a net increase
of $6,306,132 over the bill passed by
the house. The large increases by
the senate committee are due to ap
propriations under which the United
State treasurer will pay to a number
of tribes the money now held In trust
as Indian tribal funds. The commit
tee feels that these tribes are compe
tent to manage their own affairs and
that the government should cease pay
ing interest on the funds.
Swettenham’s Time Short.
London—There is reason to believe
that the resignation of Sir Alexander
Swettenham, governor of Jamaica, has
been accepted, although the officials
of the foreign office refuse all infor
mation on the subject. This official
reticence is attributed to a desire to
complete the arrangements for a suc
cession to the post before announcing
Swettenham’s retirement. It is ex
pected that the latter will leave the
island as soon as details can be com
pleted for handing over the affairs of
his office to his successor.
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HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT DEAD.
Funerals of Nearly All Victims c»
Prussian Mine Disaster.
Saarbruecken, Rhenishb Prussia —
The funeral services over the victims
of the recent mine disaster were held
today. One hundred and forty-two cof
fins were laid in long rows in the hall
adjacent to the shaft. Prince Fred
erick Leopold made a short address. A
total of 149 bodies have been recov
ered, of which 110 have been recog
nized. There are still nine bodies be
low, buried under wreckage.
LIVE STOCK FOR INDIANS.
Will Ask Bids on Million Dollar*
Worth of Cattle.
Washington — An expenditure of
nearly $1,000,000 for the purchase of
cattle to supply the needs of the In
dians on reservations in North and
South Dakota, Montana and Arizona
will be made by the interior depart
ment within a short time.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
has been authorized to invite pro
posals for furnishing and delivering
during the fiscal year 1907, 24,761
heifers, 776 bulls, 1,268 mares and
1,268 milch cows to Indian agencies
in the states referred to at. an esti
mated cost of $704,420.
To Create “Paul Jones Day.”
Washington—Senator Burnham in
troduced a bill providing that Sept. 23
and that on that day all United
and that on that day day all United
States vessels in port shall “dress
ship.” It is said that the bill is sup
ported by Admiral Dewey, General
Horace Porter, Rear Admiral Baird
and others. ■ •
Earthquake at Vandalia.
St. Louis, Mo.—A Republic special
from Vandalia, 111., says every building
in Vandalia was shaken by an earthr
quake Wednesday night. Many per*
sons were aroused from deep sleep.
The shock was accompanied by a loud
rumbling.
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Sixty Dead in Coal Mine.
Charleston, W. Va.—Late advices re
ceived from the scene of the disaster
at the Stuart company’s mines at
Stuart, Fayette county, is that the
number of victims will be about sixty,
instead of seventy-five or eighty as
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES
Glen Arnold, aged 19, is missing1
from Red Cloud.
-r,‘: Ice-gatherers at Schuyler are filling
their houses with 18-inch stuff.
" The home of Frank Varricka was
destroyed by fire near Blue Hill.
^William Crawford is wanted at
Grand Island on charge of larceny.
The Burlington' has donated $25- to
the Beatrice firemen’s monument fund.
Osceola contemplates an excursion
over the new Union Pacific line to
Central City.
Otoe Preserving company of Nebi
raska City will operate a factory at
Rockport, Mo.
A Des Moines company is boring for
coal'or oil in Kearney. They will go
down 200 feet.
The Beatrice military band has
made application to become the Sec
ond regiment band.
The farm house of Mrs. Shafer;,
three miles southwest of Schuyler was
totally destroyed by fire.
The end of the first semester at the
Kearney Normal finds the buildings
crowded with students.
The Ashland Business Men’s asso
ciation is negotiating with an eastern
factory for locating a plant in that
place. . t
Burglars have again visited Exeter
and have made their second visit to
the- store of W. H. Taylor within the
past year.
The Central City Commercial cum
will hold their annual banquet on Feb
ruary 12. . Many prominent speakers
will be present.
The United Presbyterian congrega
tion of Orvchard have called Rev. W.
S. Ritchie, formerly of Murray, Neb.,
to become their pastor. 4
A message was received by Mr.
and Mrs. Gust Rydberg of Stromsburg.
stating that their son, Emil Rydberg,
had died in Wheatland, Wyo.
J. J. Wlalker, an employe of the
American Beet Sugar company at
Grand Island was severely scalded
by the blowing out of a boiler tube
at the factory.
The Beatrice team is working hard
for the debate to be held at Humboldt
February 15. Beatrice will be repre
sented by Walter Vasey. Clifford But
ler and William Atwater.
Carpenter Foreman Will Plank of
the Northwestern railroad, with his
gaag of men are replacing the old
water tank at Blair with a new one,
which will hold 47,000 gallons of
water.
A number of Union Pacific survey
ors have been making their headquar
ters in Schuyler for the past month.
The work which they are doing is for
the double track which is to be put
through here.
The nine persons who were arrested
by Sheriff Phipps at Tekamah, charged
with gambling, were taken before
Judge Basler, and after pleading not
guilty, were placed under $500 bonds
to appear later.
A telegram was received in Tecum
seh from Casper, Wyo., announcing the
death there of Albert E. Bantaeli, for
merly of that city. He had been ill
since Christmas, and was aged about
forty-five years. ■
Ernest Lerry, of Republican, while
feeding a hay baler, set a foot on the
fork to force the hay, the trip sprung
and caught his leg, just above the
ankle, cutting off all the flesh and
mashing the bones.
George.S. Luby, one.of the old set
tlers from the western part of Cass
county has been adjudged insane by
the'board of insanity. Mr. Ruby is
seventy-seven years of age and has
been in a feeble minded condition for
some time.
Sheriff J. P. Westervelt of Scotts
Bluff county left Alliance on No. 42
for Lincoln’ with E. S. Kennison held
to answer a charge of first degree mur
der of Sam D. Cox. ■ Kennison will
be placed in the state penitentiary
for safe keeping until his trial.
Charles C. Hungate, secretary and
general superintendent of the Omaha
Ice & • Cold Storage company, was in
stantly killed at the company’s plant
at Cut-Off lake when, in making the
rounds of the plant, his clothing
caught in a shaft in the hoisting gal
lery, whirling him swiftly around to
his death.
Roy Barnes, son of T. H. Barnes oi
the Burlington dining room stations
in Alliance section, was shot and killed
by Roy Marynard, a former employe of
the dining room. Three shots were fired
at Barnes, all of them taking effect.
Two ranged through the neck and one
into the breast. Maynard gave him
self into the custody of the city offi
cials. . The shooting was therresult of
a quarrel.
r ue ui uiiKflown origin entirely tie
stroyed the Midvale school house, in
the ■ western part of Valley county.
While the burning of this building is
no great loss in itself, it recalls the
hardships attendant upon the great
blizzard of January' 12, 1888. It was
in the Midvale school house that Min
nie Freeman, a modest and unaspiring
school teacher, saved the lives of her
thirteen pupils on that memorable
dayr, by lashing them together with
a cord that they might not get separ
ated in the awful blizzard.
Wolves have become such a menace
to stock and poultry that farmers both
east and west of Red Cloud are form
ing hunting parties to rid the country
side of the brutes if possible.
At Nelson, Dr. W A. Cate was sen
tenced to eighteen months in the pen
itentiary at hard labor. The defend- ,
ant was charged with assault with in
tent to kill Lee Grass. The case had
been'tried by a jury for the second
time and after being out several hours
the jury reached a verdict of “assault
with intent to wound. Motion for a
new trial wais overruled.
C. H. Dixon, a prominent horseman
of Beatrice, who is at present at San
Jose, Cal., has purchased the great
pacing horse, “Spill,” r„-d will ship
the animal to that city. “Spill” has
a mark of 2:10 and is rated a* one of
the best performers in the west.
George Gkwthron, one of the pioneer
residents of Nebaska City took his
first trip on a railroad train last week,
in thirty years, when he left for Hor
ton, Ites., to visit his daughter. He
has lived within a block of a railroad
all of these years and this is his first
trip on a railroad train.