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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXV LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY !>, 1908 NUMBER 9 WRITES REGARDING FRICTION IN THE DEPARTMENT. OFFICERS TO OBEY ORDERS Some Strong Words for Rear Admiral Brownson, Whose Resignation Is Severely Criticised. Washington—President Roosevelt’s attitude on the question of the com mand of hospital ships in the army, which resulted in the resignation of Rear Admiral Willard K. Brownson and incidentally caused some caustic observations on that incident and that the controversies among the naval of ficers and their adherents as to de tails of naval construction and meth ods of training, were made known when Secretary Metcalf gave to the press two letters from the president, addressed to him on these subjects. In the first of these letters Presi dent Roosevelt, without mincing words, condemns in measured terms the act of Admiral Brownson, declar ing it to be unseemly and improper. The question as to which Admiral Brownson took issue with the Navy department the president declares is one as to which there can be entirely legitimate differences of opinion as to the gross impropriety of the ad miral's conduct in resigning sooner fhan carry out the orders of his su perior officers in such a matter. The officers of the navy must remember that it is not merely childish, but in the nighest degree reprehensible to permit either personal pique, wound ed vanity or factional feeling on be nan oi some particular oureau or or ganization to render them disloyal to the interests of the navy, and there fore of the country as a whole.” Regarding the controvercies in the navy, the president admits there al ways are and always will be defects to correct, both in the construction of ships and in the organization of the department and in the actual drill of the fleet. It is well, he says, that these defects be pointed out but it is also well that they should be point ed out without hysterical exaggeration or malicious untruthfulness. He scathingly rebukes those guilty of ex ploiting them in grossly exaggerated form in the fancied interest of an in dividual or clique of individuals or for the sake of supplying sensational ma terial to newspapers. Because of so much misrepresentation and exagger ation the president has asked Secre tary Metcalf for a statement as to the exact facts concerning which there have been disputes, desiring particu larly the opinion of Admiral Con verse, formerly chief of the naviga tion bureau, who, because of his high professional attainments and standard of conduct and duty the president con siders peculiarly fitted to give judg ment. STOKES TO COMMAND RELIEF. Surgeon Will Take Charge of Hos ital Ship Being Fitted Out. Washington—Acting under orders of the president. Secretary Metcalf signed the orders assigning Surgeon Charles F. Stokes to the command of the hospital ship Relief, which is being fitted out at Mare Island, Cal., with a full hospital equipment. Surgeon Stokes, it is said, will start for the coast next week. The secretary said that accommodations would be afford ed for about 250 sick persons. Other officials will be assigned to the vessel as assistants to surgeons. The ar rangements are to be made to secure a merchant crew and master. Lottery in Lower House. Washington—An unique feature of the week’s proceedings in the house of representatives will be the assignment to members by lottery of rooms in the $9,000,000 house office building, now' about completed. The drawing will be held on Thursday, Jan. 9, after reading of the journal. Three hundred and thirty-three marbles, consecutively numbered from one up. will be placed in a box and as each In turn is drawn out by a blindfolded page and handed to the reading clerk Its number will be announced* Work for Five Thousand. St Louis, Mo.—According to arrange ments made an aggregate of 5,000 men will be re-employed January 13 by many large industrial plants in East St. Louis, 111., and vicinity. HARDEN TAKES CASE HIGHER. German Editor Convicted of Libel Will Proceed to Supreme Court. Berlin—Maximillien Harden, who was found guilty of libeling Kuno von Moltke and sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, has appealed to the su preme court of the empire on the ground that testimony was illegally excluded from the hearing and several other technicalities. COUNT WITTE IN NEW ROLE. Former Premier Replies *0 Kouropat kin‘s Charges. St. Petersburg—The controversy be i tween Count Witte and General Kour opatkin over Kouropatkin's testimony at the trial of General Stoessel, which has been conducted at length for sev eral days in the Novoe Vremya, has developed into a discussion of Count Witte’3 role of so-called eastern ad venture and the extent of his respon sibility for the war. This the ene mies of Count Witte have persistently i endeavored to saddle upon him. Gen eral Kouropatkln, in a series of let ters, has sought to prove that Witte was responsible for the foundation of Port Dalny, which the general de clares gave the Japanese an invalu able base during the siege of Port Arthur and also interfered with the prompt dispatch of heavy artillery to the fortress. Replying to these letters Count Witte explicitly declared he was op posed to the establishment either of a military or a commercial port in Chinese territory and says that the policy of leasing the Kwantung penin sula and extending the railroad line thither was adopted over his head. He ascribes the occupation of Port Ar thur by the Russians to the initiative of Count Muravieff. who then was for eign minister, and declares he was so indignant at the move that he imme diately broke off all relations with Muravieff. Count Witte challenges General Kouropatkin to prove that he ever called attention to Port Dalny as a strategic menace to Port Arthur be fore the war and says hat Kouropat kin in 1903 stated that Port Arthur was abie to resist the whole Japan ese army and defend the Kwangtung peninsula in Manchuria. The controversy has .greatly re stored Count Witte's din*TT-d prestige and brought him prominently into the public eye. Among his partisans is Premier Stolypin, who in a recent con versation said he was a great admirer of Witte's talents and would be glad to have him in the cabinet were it not for the opposition to him in the high est quarters. EX-GOVERNOR BOIES DYING. Enroute to California for His Health and Taken from the Train. El Paso. Tex.—Ex-Governor Horace Boies of Iowa is dying here. He was en route from his home in Waterloo. Ia.. to California for his health, but was taken seriously ill and being un able to continue the journey was taken from the train here. He was elected governor of Iowa on the democratic ticket when the prohibition movement disrupted the republican party. MILLION IN FALSE ASSETS. Bookkeeper Storrs of California Safe Deposit Company Admits Deed. San Francisco—Another sensational chapter was added to the California Safe Deposit and Trust company scan dal when H. I. Storrs, one of the bookkeepers of the concern, broke down under a merciless cross-exami nation and confessed that the false entries in the books were in his hand writing and had been made under or ders from J. Dalzell Brown, the im prisoned manager of the bank, and J. D. Robertson, the fugitive assistant secretary. The confession made by Storrs was complete in every respect and estab lished the fact that nearly $1,000,000 had been falsely added to the assets of the bank in order to deceive the state commissioners. Countess Wants Divorce. London—The failure of another al liance of the English nobility with an American woman of wealth became public on Friday, when the countess of Yarmouth, who was Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, a daughter of Mrs. William Thaw, and a sister of Harry K. Thaw, whose second trial for the murder of Stanford White will begin next Mon day in New York City, applied to the divorce court for an annulment of her marriage to the earl of Yarmouth. The court has ordered all papers kept se cret. Vesuvius Gets Busy Again. Naples—Mount Vesuvius, after a month or more of comparative quiet, has again resumed activity. A huge column of flame and smoke is arising from the fissures at the summit of the crater. Editor Harden Found Guilty. Berlin—Editor Maximillen Harden was sentenced to four months’ -im prisonment on the charge o. libeling Count Kuno von Moltke. Mr. Bryan's Candidacy. Nacagdoches. Tex. — William J. Bryan practically announced his can didacy for the presidency. He con cluded his speech with this statement: “Those of you who never have an "opportunity to hear a real live presi dent of the United States can at least say now that you have heard one speak .who on two different occasions cher ished the delusion that he was going to be a real live president, and he feels the disease coming on again.’" THE FIR8T TEST. ASKS NEWSPAPERS TO HELP WANTS THEIR ASSISTANCE IN PUSHING HIS BILL. If Measure He Is Advocating Is Not Good One Desires Imperfections Pointed Out. Washington—Senator Burkett pro j poses to ascertain the sentiment in I Nebraska in relation to the grazing bill he has introduced by addressing a letter to every newspaper publisher ! in the state, asking his assistance in bringing before the people of Nebras ka the provisions of the Burkett bill. Following is a copy of Senator Bur kett's letter to the editors: "I enclose a copy of the grazing bill that 1 in ■ i induced. You will notice changes from last year's bill—they are intend ed to protect more the homesteader and to promote homestead entry. Homesteaders and small cattlemen we always want to protect; and then we want all the land put to use. The gov ernment land is certainly not being used as well as it should be. It is not being utilized for the best interests of i me icaerai govprmntni oi me state j or the people of the community. I be : lieve these great tracts of government land should be made a source of in come to the states rather than be per mitted to remain a source of expense forever. The state makes its own i lands produce an income why should j government lands remain idle and ! unproductive? Authority should he ! lodged somewhere tp devise a plan I to make them a source of income and | also for their more economic use. 1 There is no reason why anything I should be wasted simply because the government owns it. Privately owned lands in the same community are sus ' taining more cattle than the public lands on an average. I was told the other day of officials of a cattle com i pany opposing the hill because they i owned all the water front of a certain | community and nobody would want ad jacent government land without water. But reverse the proposition and perhaps nobody would need all that water front without unlimited range behind it free. My jtosition is that if the government had someone looking after its grazing lands as it has after its forests, then water front owners will have to make terms instead of dic tating them. *‘I want you to help me get this bill before the people. If the bill is right I want your support and the peo ple's support for it. If it is wrong I want you to point out the err*rs. I shall be glad to hear from you and everyo’^-who will help take interest enough in it to write to me. I am de termined to help get some legislation that will settle the controversy over the public lands that has waged so long." SHAW'S MIND NOT MADE UP. Former Secretary of Treasury So Tells Denison Friends. Denison. Ia.—Hon. L. M. Shaw, who Is here, spent New Year’s day at Denison visiting old friends and look ing after business affairs connected with the bank with which he is inter ested. When questioned as to the con nection of his name with the nomi nation for the presidency he stateS while he had received many letters urging him to ask the support of Iowa in the convention, he was far from decided that: he would do so. Another Gift from Rockefeller. Chicago—Martin A. Ryerson, presi dent of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, has announced that John D. Rockefeller has added j $2,191,000 to his gilts to the university, : making the total of his benefactions I over $23,000,900. RECEPTION AT WHITE HOUSE THE PRESIDENT’S FUNCTION A BRILLIANT AFFAIR. Distinguished People From All Sec tions of the World Honor the Chief Executive. Washington — President Roosevelt received at the White House Wednes day a New Year's throng of well wish ers which was three hours in passing. Mrs. Roosevelt and the members and women of the cabinet were his assist ants. Though curtailed in number, 5,G45, by more that 1,000 over the preceding New Year's day. the reception was re splendent in all the incidents of tra dition which has accumulated in more than 100 years. The gorgeousness of the diplomatic and militant features; the cordiality of the many personal friends of the president, who made him their seventh anntial greeting as such, and the intensely human and patriotic characteristics of the Amer ican people, typified by the thousands who represented them Wednesday, all combined to make a happy conclusion to the historic event. From greeting in stately dignity and appropriate surroundings the am bassadors and ministers of the na tions of the world to stooping far down to grasp the hand of a “dolly” that its toddling parent of three years and a half might be gratified, were the extremes required of the presi dent; and both the infant and the diplomat realized an anticipated pleas ure. And the president enjoyed it all. The setting, the historic White House, and the picturesque entertain ing accessories, were amply sufficient to enthuse the holiday exhilaration. The presence of men whose names are daily in the public press as presi dential aspirants lent interest to more subtle observations. The vice presi dent. the speaker of the house of rep resentatives, Secretary Cortelyou. Senator LaFollette. all of whom had pleasing things said to them in the big east room, where the distinguish ed guests gathered to chat after pass ing through the historic blue parlor and making their bow to the receiving Brownson, whose recent differences Brownsou, whose recent digerences with the president led to hia resig nation as chief of the bureau of nav igation. He came late, but hurried through the lobby and corridor and reached the president near the head of the gorgeously uniformed naval line. The admiral received many hearty hand clasps from brother officers of the line of the navy. Admiral Rixey was also in the naval contingent. Indian Uprising in Nicaragua. Panama—Advices from Pocas del Toro say that passengers arriving there from Blueflelds, Nicaragua, re port that the Mosquito Indians have arisen against the government of Pres ident Zelaya, which is accused by them of being responsible for the death of their chief. Heavy Earthquake Tremor. A very heavy earthquake was re corded on the instruments at the coast and geodetic survey observatory at Cheltonham. Md., Monday. It com menced at thirty-two minutes, thirty seconds at midnight and lasted two hours. % Bankers Indicted. San Francisco—The grand Jury re turned four Indictments for alleged embezzlement against officials of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company. Wftlter J. Bartnett was in dicted on one count in connection with the disappearance of $30,000. TAFT TALKED CN THE PANIC. Makes an Address Before the Mer chants of Boston. Boston—Greeted with cheers as "the next president of the United States.” a topic which he carefully avoided in his own remarks, however, Secretary of War William H. Taft de livered his first public speech since his world-circling tour Monday at. the annual banquet of the Boston Mer chants’ association at the Hotel Somerset. The banquet qlosed a long and stren uous day for the secretary of war, dur ing which he delivered a brief address before 406 ministers in the morning and attended a reception and spoke before a large gathering of the Jews of the city at the Elysium club in the afternoon. During his visit to Boston, which ends Tuesday morning, Secre tary Taft is the guest of Samuel Carr, a Boston banker and a relative of Mrs. Taft. A more notable gathering of promi nent and representative business men has seldom been seen in Boston than that which greeted the secretary Mon day night. In the banquet hall beauti ful decorations adorned the tables, which provided for the seating of over 500 guests, while behind the speakers’ tt.ble were a great many American flags. President Jerome Jones of the Bos ton Merchants’ association presided. Seated on either side of him were the speakers and guests of honor, who in c.uded Secretary of War William H. Taft, Congressman Sherley of Ken tucky, Lieutenant Governor Ebeu S. Eraper of Massachusetts, Mayor John Fitzgerald and Rt. Rev. William Law rence, bishop of Massachusetts. In introducing Secretary Taft Pres ident Jones said: “Wo arc* farnraH nrnnin<r U»». presence of a man from the middle west who has impressed us all with his fitness for the most important pos ition that the great and powerful na tion can bestow and, in brief, an of ficial of great strength and wisdom. He has recently put a girdle around the earth as an ambassador of peace and good will, visiting the great rulers C'f mighty nations, and we want to hear him talk to us.” As the secretary of war rose to re ply all the guests stood up with him and filled the air with long continued cheers. Calls for "three cheers for Secre tary Taft, the next president of the United States,” were heartily ac claimed. The secretary delivered a speech of <.000 words, which he read from man uscript throughout, making no addi tions or comment relative to his own candidacy for the presidency or other topic. In the course of his speech Secre tary Taft said: “The panic has been given a certain political bearing and importance. For this reason. I have selected for my topic of tonight: 'The Panic of 1907, its causes, its probable effects and the relation to it of the policies of the national administra tion.' " WILL INTEREST NEBRASKANS. Dr. Condra of State University Writes Book for Geological Survey. Lincoln. Neb.—A bulletin by Dr. George A. Conilra of Nebraska uni versity has just been issued by the United States geological survey at Washington. It is entitled. "The Geography and Water Resources of the Republican River Valley of Ne braska," and deals with ten of the southwestern counties. Sewers Flushed with Beer. Oklahoma City, Okla. — Twenty three hundred barrels of beer, valued at $17,500, belonging to the New State brewery, was poured into the sewers of this city by United States Internal Revenue Collector Charles Howard. The brew was completed after Okla homa became a state. The state au thorities would not permit its sale and shipment from the state. PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELEGRAPH. System Can Be Used by Either Wire or Wireless Method. Paris—Pascal Berjooneau. an in ventor, exhibited before the \ postq master general and a number of per sons interested in scientific investiga tion. a new telephotaography appara tus, which can be adapted to the wire less system or to the ordinary tele graph wire system. He transmitted the picture of the postmaster general without the aid of wires from one end of the hall to the other. The inventor claims that distance does not inter fere with the effectiveness of his method. BOMB OUTRAGES IN SPAIN. Partial Martial Law Prcciaimed in Barcelona. Barcelona—In consequence of the renewal of. bomb outrages by local anarchists. King Alfonso has signed a decree provisionally suspending a por tion of the constitutional guarantees in this city. In this last few days five infernal machines dr-posited in various parts of the city exploded without causing material Cirnsje. AGAIN FACE A JURY SECOND TRIAL OF HARRY THAW SOON TO BEGIN. WILL BE NO FURTHER DELAY Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, it is Said. Will Again Relate Her Story to the Jury. New York—On January 6th Harry K. Thaw will be called a second time before a jury to make his defense to the charge of having murdered Stan ford White. There have been several postponements of the date of the second hearing of this noted case, but it is said now there will be no further delay. It is announced that Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the defendant, is ex pected in the city in a few days. Mrs. Thaw has been in poor health, it is said, but believes she will-be able to come to be with her son during the opening hours of his second trial for life and freedom. Other members of the family circle, including Mrs, George Carnegie, Harry Thaw's sis ter, and Josiah and Edward Thaw, his brothers, are also expected to reach the city during the week. The Coun tess of Yarmouth, the defendant's sis ter at present in England, is not ex pected to attend the second trial. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who is a daily visitor at the Tombs ever since the first Thaw jury disagreed save re cently when she was ill for a few days, will of course, be one of the first ar rivals in the court room. There has been many rumors as to the plans of the defense for the second hearing of the case and it has been predicted that an entirely new line of action might be followed. It can be authoritatively stated, however, that the defense will again be the same; that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will again relate her story to the jury and that an imposing array of expert alienists will again undertake to es tablish the theory that Thaw was in sane at the time he killed Stanford White in the Madison Square roof garden, but has so far recovered his mental balance since that time as to bo no longer a menace to the commu nity and therefore is entitled to free dom. There were mistakes made at the first trial which it will be the attempt of Thaw's attorneys studiously to avoid during his second hearing. In the expert testimony, for instance, they have been able to separate the wheat from the chaff and will only offer that which proved most effective before. CANAL WORK IS STUPENDOUS. Concrete in Dams Would Make Houses Enough for a Large City. Washington—The engineers on the Panama canal are dealing in vast fig ures these days and the Canal Record, •just received, conveys in a graphic manner an idea of the magnitude of the work to be done upon the locks of the canal. It is stated, for instance that the amount of concrete to be used in building these locks would suffice to construct eight room city houses of the generous size of thirty feet with two stories and basement and with concrete floors and with con crete roof to the number of 22,842. Al lowing each of these houses a seventy five foot lot, they would make a con tinuous street from New York to Phil adelphia, with enough houses left over to make a row on one side of the street from Philadelphia to Washing ton. The houses would furnish subur ban homes for 120,000 people, or ac cording to city standards, would house a population equal to that of the city of Minneapolis. EXPLORE SOUTH OF AMAZON. An Expedition Being Organized in the City of Boston. Boston—The expiorauon of the vast unknown regions in the southern watershed of the Amazon river, bo tween the fourth and tenth parallels, is the object of an expedition which 4s being organized in this city under tbo supervision of George M. Boynton. Nebraskan Frozen to Death. Bayard, Neb.—John M Grfant. an old soldier, was found frozen to death in an old sod-house near here. He had no known relatives. The body had been in the house three or four weeks. Georgia Will Be Dry. Atlanta. Ga.—With the advent of the New Year, the law preventing the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors passed by the last session of the legislature becomes effective, mak ing Georgia the first of the southern states to be placed in the prohibition column. The law is very drastic in its prohibition, and prevents the keep ing or giving away of liquors in public placen and imposes a tax of $500 on ciub-3 whose members are allowed to keep drinks of an intoxicating nature.
