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    Loup City Northwestern
YQLL ME XXV LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAYr, FEBRUARY 13, 190S NUMBER 14
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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.
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“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.
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PUBLIC OFFICIAL SUSPENDED
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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.).