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.
