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Loup City Northwestern YQLL ME XXV LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAYr, FEBRUARY 13, 190S NUMBER 14 — " ■ ' ~~ ' ■ * ■ * I —' ——^— _ VIEWING THE SUIN' POPULACE FILES THROUGH THE LISBON CATHEDRAL. RESPECTS TO DEAD MONARCH Floral Offerings From Rich and Poor Alike Attest the Feelings of the People for Late Ruler. Lisbon—Thousands of Portuguese : filed slowly Sunday through the noble cathedral of San Vicente and gazed for the last time on the faces of their late king and crown prince. When night fell and the doors of the church ■were closed there was still a large crowd patiently awaiting admission. They turned away disappointed when informed that the public lying-in-state liad been interrupted till Monday. That day at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the caskets will be closed and transported to the pantheon, where, with further ceremonies they will be placed in the sepulcher. All the people wore the emblem cf mourning and in passing by the coffins placed beneath them floral offerings, some budding wild flowers from the fields, others simple clusters of vioiets and others elaborate creations and exotic blooms. The bodies were guard ed constantly by officers of the army and navy, royal archers and the palace guards. Masses were said at various altars for the dead and prayers were offered in many homes. In official circles it is believed the ceremony in connection with the coronation of King Manuel may not occur for two or three months and perhaps may never occur, as the young king wishes to inauguru rate his reign with as little ostenta tion as possible, not unlike Gustav cf Sweden. indications point to relative tran quiiity for a few weeks when republi can activity and determination to pro claim a republic. which appear strongly in evidence, may force impor tant developments. During the afternoon the square in front of the church, though guarded by soldiers, became dangerously crowd ed with people who had poured in from various sections of the city and its en virons. Many were knocked down, especially women anti children, and women fainted both within the church and while waiting on the streets. A child who was crushed to the ground under the surging mass striving for admission was dead when finally lifted from under the feet of the crowd. Queen Ame'ie, relating her expe rience on the day of the tragedy to an intimate friend who congratulated her on her escape from death, said: *T spread out my cloak to protect Louise Phillipe. after seeing my hus band stretched lifeless on the cush ions. I saw a man levelling a weapon at me and I thought in that fateful mo ment that at least my son will escape, that I shall die like a true French woman for my adopted country and son. when suddenly the murderer -staggered and fell.” To Exterminate Wild Horses. Reno, Nev.—The forestry depart ment has issued orders to the rangers on the Toelyabe. Toquina and Moni tor reserved in Lander county to kill on sight all wild horsas found on the government domain. There are about 15.000 wild horses on the reserves. They are doing much damage to the vegetation and attracting domestic animals to their herds. PRESIDENT A MODERN ISAIAH. Jewish Rabbi Commends Utterances of Roosevelt on Finance. Boston. Mass.—President Roosevelt was characterized as an “American Isaiah" by Rabbi Charles Fleischner in an address on “The Moral Heart of Life” at the Temple Israel Sunday. He said in part: “The president is reported to have said recently that etery time he re peated. ‘Thou shalt not steal.’ there is a financial panic. Be that as it may. I. who am no out-and-out sup porter of the president’s policies, hail his last utterance as that of an Amer ican Isaiah. Its moral fervor is wor thy of a Jewish prophet, that of a statesman haunted by the ideal. It is high time the world of finance began to realize that ‘business is business' was not among the moral maxiins re vealed on Mount Sinai. Business is more than that, it is the means of conducting rightly or wrongly, ethic ally or unethically, the material affairs of men.” BIG PACKING PLANT IN WEST. Swifts Will Erect House in Portland at Cost of Over $3,000,000. Portland. Ore.—L. F. Swift and . a party of officials from his Chicago packing plant arrived in this city to complete final plans for the erection in Portland of an immense packing plant to cost -in excess of $3,500,000 and which when completed will make Portland the packing Wuse center of the Pacific coast. THE MINORITY CURRENCY BILL. Introduced by Representative Williams •f Mississippi. Washington—What will be known as ‘ the minority currency bill" was introduced Friday by Representative John Sharp Williams (Miss.), the dem ocratic leader of the house, who drew the measure as a result of a confer ence of democrats behind closed doors today. Those beside Mr. Williams who participated in the conference were Representatives Lewis (La.), Pujo (La.), Glass (Va.), Gillespie (Tex.). Ollie James (Ky.). Crawford (N\ C.) and McHenry (Pa.), all mem bers of the committee on banking and currency. Entire harmony is said to have marked the meeting. ft is understood that the bill as drawn by Mr. Williams, may be sub ject to slight amendment by its sup porters. but it will come before the house in the shape of a minority re port from the banking and currency committee in its present form. Among the provisions of the bill are the following: It repeals all law permitting national banks to keen three-fifths of the re serves in national banks of reserve cities, and similar laws permitting such deposit of one-half of the reserve amount. It provides that no. less than one half of the reserve now required to be kept in lawful money in central re serve cities, shall hereafter be held in gold or gold certificates. It does away with the payment of national bank examiuers by the fee system and substitutes salaries not less than $3,000 nor in excess of $5,000 yearly, with* actual expenses. u provides mar me total iiaouities of any national bank, inclusive of the liabilities of its members, shall not exceed one-tenth of the bank's paid-in and unimpaired capital stock and one tenth of its unimpaired surplus funds; and that in no event shall the liabil ities exceed 30 per cent of the capital stock. Bnr the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith against actually existing values and the discount of commercial or business paper actually owned by the person negotiating it shall not be considered as liabilities. Violation of ihis section is made a misdemeanor punishable by fine or im prisonment. No national bank shall loan in the aggregate more than seven times the amount of its paid-up capital, plus its unimpaired surplus. COMPLETE CONVENTION HALL. Chicago Coliseum to Be Perfect in Ap pointments in June. Washington — Chairman Harry S. New. Secretary Elmer Dover and other members of the sub-commiWee of the republican national committee, prac tically have completed the hall ar rangements for the national conven tion, which is to be held in Chicago next June. The convention will assemble in the Coliseum—the scene of many historic gatherings—which was designed and erected with special reference to the needs of a political convention. Tt is admirably located, being only about twelve minutes' walk from the busi ness center of Chicago. The total seat ing capacity is 11,011. BURLINGTON TO BUILD LINE. Directors Approve Construction of Road from Kearney. Cheyenne. Wyo.—The Burlington railroad directors have approved of a new line from the Burlington's con i nection with the Northern Pacific in ! Montana to its terminus at Kearney, ! Neb.. General Manager Holdrege of the ; Burlington stated in a hearing before ; the state engineer of Wyoming. The ; hearing was for the purpose of listen 1 ing to a protest by the Burlington against the erection of a power dam ! on the Big Horn river by A. Asmus Boysen. KANSAS DEMURRAGE LAW GOOD Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court, Finding Act to Be Good. Topeka, Kas.—In the case of Wil liam M. Patterson against the Mis souri Pacific railway the supreme court reversed the decision of the lower court and sustained the Kan i sas freight demurrage law of 1905. This imposes a penalty of $1 per day on each car for delay in furnishing ; freight cars ordered. Taft Organizing West Virginia. Charleston. W. Va.—Every republi i can member of the West Virginia leg-t | islature has joined the Taft club' I which was organized this week. Gov j ernor Dawson was th° principal speak j er at the meeting of the organization, j urging immediate action to that end. i and a membership covering all parts ; of the state was planned. Back Pay for Trucks. Washington — Congressman Boyd passed in the house a bill to send to the court of claims a claim for $377 of Michael Trucks of Cuming county for back pay as a soidier in the civil . war. THAT NEW TIPPING SYSTEM. -L -.mi j i—— Jr. ^ j “All You Gotter Do Is Jes’ Smile an* Be Polite an’ You' Doan’ See No Hard 1 Time*.” KENTUCKY^ KILLED BY SON OUTCOME OF RESENTMENT HELD BY THE BOY. Had Been Chastised by the Father, and Murder Was the Outcome of the Trouble. Jackson. Ky.—His last words, an unavailing plea for mercy. Judge James Hargis was on Thursday shot to death by his son. Beach Hargis. Fol lowing a brief quarrel, the son drew a revolver and fired four shots into his father's body. “Mercy, mercy, you've killed me!” appealed the eider man as he lay on the floor. Young Hargis' answer was to fire two more bullets into his fath er's prostrate body. The tragedy occurred i.n Hargis Bros.’ store and was witnessed by two customers and a stenographer. All three fled. Young Hargis was later removed to jail by the town marshal and a deputy, but he" struggled like a madman until thr n into his cell. Soon afterward the report was current that he had taken morphine in his cell, but no con firmation of this or any word of his condition could be secured from the jail officials, who are guarding him closely. Tne news of Hargis' end came as a profound shock To the residents of Jackson and Breathitt county, on whose bloody feud records his name appears on almost every page. There did not appear to be any prospect of further violence, however. . The younger Hargis had been on a protracted spree and some days ago his father administered a thrashing. The chastisement was the cause of the murder, the son having continued his debauch, nursing his resentment until his father again upbraided him for his condition. Judge Hargis will be buried in a casket which be himself purchased about a month ago. Some time during the early part of last month Judge Hargis went to the National Casket company at Louisville and requested that he be shown the most elaborate coffins the comqpany had in stock. Nothing suited him and he finally or dered one along his own ideas, costing *1,500. REPORT OF CONFLICT UNTRUE. Statement Ten Thousand Moors Were Killed Believed a Mistake. Paris—The Foreign office is with out confirmation of the statement published Thursday by a London news agency that there has been a battle between the French and the Moors near Settat. Morocco, in which 10.000 Moors were killed or wounded, the French losses amounting to 160 men. including four officers. It is believed that' this report refers to the recent engagement near Wabash Ber Rehid in which eight Frenchmen were killed and fifty wounded. NON-RESERVATION schools. Bitter Fight Waged on Proposition to Close Them. Washington — Political speeches came to an end in the house Friday and actual consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was resumed. A bitter fight was waged on the proposi tion to abolish non-reservation schools and the subject was discussed throughout the afternoon. General O. O. Howard Retired. Washington—-The senate passed the bill placing Major General O. O. Howard on the retired list of the army as a lieutenant general. V * PUBLIC OFFICIAL SUSPENDED — PRESIDENT TEMPORARILY RE LIEVES PUBLIC PRINTER. Change Made That the Fullest Oppor tunity May Be Given to Look Into Matters. Washington—President Roosevelt on Wednesday temporarily suspended as public printer Charles A. Stillings and appointed William S. Rossiter tem porarily to fill the duties of that office. The action, as explained officially, is to facilitate the investigation now be ing made of the government printing office by congress. Mr. Roositer is now chief clerk of the census office. The following correspondence rela tive to the change in the government printing office today was made pub lic by the president, the first letter being adressed to Chairman Landis of the house committee on printing: The information you have given me this morning is so important that I deem best that there should be a writ ten record thereof. I had already be gun some weeks ago an investiga tion into the printing office under Mr. Stillings : this investigation originated because information which reached me as to the Increased cost of printing to the departments. I accordingly di rected Mr. Havennour of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor to in vestigate and report upon this matter. His report on its face was severely condemnatory of Mr. Stillings. I fur nished Mr. Stillings witha copy and requested an answer from him. which I have not yet received. I enclose you a copy of Mr. Havenor s report, and as soon as I receive the answer I shall also forward that to you for your information, and will let you know what action I have taken on the report. You now inform me that your com mittee has discovered circumstances in connection with the printing office, notably in connection with the ex penditures for furniture in the printing office and in the purchase of supplies, which makes you feel that there is great irregularity therein. You also inform me that you believe that the present audit system of the printing bureau serves to shield these irregularities and that the persons in charge of this system exert an un due and improper influence, not merely on the purchase of supplies for the government printing office, but in the management of the office itself. You also say that the subcommittee feels that it cannot make a satisfac tory investigation of the office while Mr. Stillings and the person in charge of the audit system are in the office, and request that I suspend Mr. Stil lings pending investigation, and also shall suspend the execution of the con tract made under the audit system. I have accordingly temporarily sus pended Mr. Stillings, and shall put Mr. Rossiter in his place, directing him to co-operate in every way with your committee, and furthermore, make an exhaustive report to me on conditions in the office. PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. It is Decided to Hold Next Meeting in Buenos Ayres in 1910. Washington—At a meeting of the governing board of the Bureau of American Republics, presided over by Secretary Root and attended by near ly all of the members in this city, it was decided that the fourth Pan American conference should be held in the city of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, May 20. 19I<). NO PRESENT TARIFF REVISION. Delegat on Calls Upon Cannon and Chairman Payne. Washington—The present congress will not appoint a tariff commission. A revision of the tariff will be under taken next winter in the short term. These announcements, in substance, were made by Chairman of the house committee on ways and means, in the presence and with the tacit approval of Speaker Cannon, the occasion being a call upon those leaders by a tariff revision delegation from various parts of the country, comprising represen tatives of many of the biggest manu facturing and industrial concerns in the United States, headed by James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, president of the National Association of Manu facturers. former Governor J. N. Batch eider of New Hanipshire and H. E. Miles of Racine, Wis.. chairman of the ta-i.ff committee of the National Association of Manufacturers. The delegation spent more than an hour presenting its case and listening to replies by the two foremost republi can leaders in the house, who. while they were cordial y couched, were practically a refusal of all that the del egation had journeyed to Washington to plead for. In introducing the ‘subject of the ap pointment of a tariff commission, in line with the Beveridge bill recently offered in the senate, Mr. Van Cleave said the delegation was unanimous in the belief that the matter of the tariff can best be handled by the passage of a hard headed “business bill" which would so amend the tariff schedules as to encourage the development of for eign commerce by the producers of the United States without at the same time exposing their goods to the reac tionary effects of free trade. He said it was the firm belief of the vast in terests represented by the members of the delegation that a wholesome re vision of the tariff could be best gotten at by a commission appointed to as certain the costs of domestic produc tion. the relative profit derivable from home and foreign sales and all the multitudinous facts appertaining to so complex and important a subject. “We want," he said, “and we be lieve we can truthfully state to you that the whole country wants, a sound and rational business consideration of the subject, and we believe after long and earnest study of the situation that the suggestion of the appointment of a tariff commission to stand between us and you, to receive and weigh and formulate the mass of technical infor mation we have to offer and to then present it to congress in compact and intelligent shape, embodies the best means of arriving at that result." NEBRFASKA LAND CASE ENDED. United States Supreme Court Affirms Lower Judge in Land Suit. Washington—The effect of the sale of land by one owner when there are two owners was involved in the cases of the Missouri Valley Land company and the Iowa Railroad Land company against Asmus Wiese and Carston Wrich, which was decided by the su preme court of the United States against the companies. The two cor porations are successors of the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad company and the land in both cases lies in Ne braska. FLAT PENSION FOR WIDOWS. House Passes a Bill Giving Them $12 a Month. Washington—The house took up and passed the Sulloway bill granting a flat pension of $12 monthly to all widows of honorably discharged sol diers. Its provisions were first ex plained by its author, who said it in volved an additional expenditure of $12,741,000. He described desittute widows of soldiers who are unable to secure pensions because of some tech nicality regarding their property hold ings,, and received applause when he said these technicalities should be swept away. Norris' Hand in Pension Bill. Washington—.Judge Norris of the Fifth district. Nebraska, received the congratulations of many of his col leagues on the floor of the house for hating written into the widows' pen sion bill, which passed that body on Monday, much of its provisions and much of its verbiage. The bill which passed the house gives to widows of soldiers or sailors who served in the civi' war, the war with Mexico and In dian wars *12 per month, providing said widow’ was married to said sol dier or sailor prior to .June, 1890. THOMAS GETS PLACE. Ncminated for Postmaster at Omaha and Immediately Confirmed. Washington—The nomination of B. F. Thomas to be postmaster at Omaha to succeed H. E. Palmer was sent to the senate Tuesday by the president. As the senate was to have an f xecu ti\e session at 2 o’clock the postoffice committee was hastily called together and an immediate report made on the nomination. This was followed by confirmation. | DICTATOR GOES OOT PREMIER FRANCO PLACED BE YOND MAKING T..OUBLE. A NEW CA S FORKED The Young King of Portugal Humbly Commits Himself- But Admits His Inexperience. I.lsbon—Under a new regime, with a new king and the establishment of I a new cabinet. Portugal seems to be j for the moment at peace. There is an underlying current of revolution, how ever. and the strictest measures ate being taken to preserve order. At noon an official statement was given out. that perfect order existed throughout Portugal. Franco, the once dictator, was forced to resign because of the bitterness of the people against him, and the new cabinet will strive for the welfare of the fatherland under the presidency of Rear Admiral Do Amaral. Another official statement given out was to the effect that the president of the cab I met would ue supported ov an tne ! groups of monarchists who had agreed to forget previous differences. The situation for Premier Franco after the assassination of the king and crown prince became impossible. Dur ing the days which preceded the trag ; edy and during the tumultuous mani festations on the streets, with the later discovery of vast stores of arms and bombs, public opinion backed him in j his efforts to maintain order, but the j murders changed the entire complexion j of the situation. He has not been seen on the streets since his meeting with the king immediately after the latter's arrival from Villa Vicosa. but all pos sible places where he might have been were closely watched and guarded. The new cabinet, which is composed of the strongest members of various factions, but all opposed to Franco, has drawn to it a strong patriotic sup porting movement. During the night Admiral Do Amaral and the chiefs of the monarchist parties held a pro tracted session and laid out a pro gram looking to the pacification of the people. Word has been received here that a British fleet, the number of the ves sels not being stated, passed Oporto bound for Lisbon. The opening session of the new council was held. King Manuel II ap peared before his ministers, and with a voice vibrant with emotion, said: “I am yet without experience either in science or in politcs. I place my self entrely in yours hands, needing and believing in your patriotism and wisdom.” LANDIS REFUSES ANY DELAY. Santa Fe Road Must Come Into Court and Answer. Chicago—Judge Landis, in the Unit ed States district, court, overruled the demurrer of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company to the federal indictment, charging the com pany with granting rehates to the United States Sugar and Land com pany of Garden City, Kas. Counsel for the railroad asked the court to pass the matter until a rul ing could be had in the case against the Great Northern, now pending be fore the supreme court of the United States. Judge Landis, however, de clared that he conld not wait for the action of the higher court, and over ruled the demurrer. The railroad com pany was given two weeks in which to plead to the indictment. To Rearrange Stars on the Flag. Washington—A rearrangement of the stars on the flag of the United States is proposed in a bill intro duced by Representative Ansberry (O.). The bill provides for the amend ment of sections 1791 and 1792 of the revised statutes so that the arrange ment of the stars shall be “in five arcs in combination, the centers of the arcs to be the apexes of a regular pentagon.” Chileans Dine Officers. Punta Arenas. Strait of Magellan— A banquet was given on board the Chilean cruiser Chacabuco to the high er oflicers of the American fleet. Death of Colonel Lawlor. Rockford, 111—Colonel T. G. Lawlor. postmaster of Rockford and former commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., died Monday. To Teach Filipinos to Fight. Washington—Senator Warren in troduced a bill which provides for^fhe admission of not exceeding seven Fili pinos to the t'nited States military academy. New Liability Bill. Washington—A. bill designed to take the place of the employers' liability act recently declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the United States was introduced in the house i by Mr. Sabatl: (III.).