Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MAY 13, 190!* NUMBER 27
< A Boiling Dows of the More Impor
| tant Events Here and There
Foreign.
Hx-President Roosevelt declares, in
an article in this week's Outlook, that
it is the duty of America to wait and
see w hether or not .lapan succeeds in
preventing the immigration to this
country of any appreciable number of
.lapanese of the laboring and small
trading classes. If Japan fails, he
writes, this government must protect
itself by treaty or legislation.
The Chamber of Commerce and the
Merchants’ asociation of Lyons,
France, have combined in the organi
zation of an emergency jiostal service
in anticipation of a strike in Paris.
Hilmi Pasha and Mollah Sahib were
installed respectively as grand vizier
of the empire and Sheikul-lslam, head
of the faith.
Following a violent altercation in
the Portuguese chamber of commerce
Mellea Baratto and Rodriguez Noguie
ira fought a duel with swords. Depu
ty Nogueira received a wound in the
wrist and the duel was stopped.
M. Bertillon, director of the Paris
autbropometic department of the po
lice. has fully identified a man now
being held by the San Francisco po
lice as Arthur Bernard, a dangerous
criminal. Bernard was arrested re
cently in San FTancisco and gave the
name of Ramul.
May day passed quietly in Paris.
Three thousand striking workmen
met and passed resolutions denounc
ing enforced military service, but the
meeting was orderly.
Owing to the premature releasing
of the air brakes on several dump
cars an accident was caused at Pana
ma in the Gold Hill section. The cars
started down the incline and fell into
the C'ulebra cut below, killing eleven
and seriously injuring nine more.
A terrific eruption of the volcano on
"White Island in New Zealand is be
lieved to be the precursory of an
earthquake. The smoke and flame
from the crater are visible for thirty
miles.
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A training school for saddlers and
’ uttery mechanics in the army will be
established at Rock Island. 111.
"t'ncle Jo#' Cannon, speaker of the
house of representatives, celebrated
bis 7:id birthday at his desk at the
capitol, attending to his official duties.
Diplomatic and official Washington
joined to do honor to the memory of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at the
unveiling of a statue of the great
.American poet.
A factory at Turin has built for sev
eral Americans an automobile which
will be presented by them to Pope
Pius.
Weston, the veteran walker, who is
making for the Pacific coast, arrived
in Kansas City on time.
Senator Stewart of Nevada, always
reported wealthy, died in debt.
Congressman Klnkaid of Nebraska,
lias received information that the
O'Neill postoffice will be advanced to
second-class on the first of July, and
that the Morrill office, in Scott's Bluff
county, will be advanced to tbird-class
at the same time.
President Taft favors an inheritance
tax and a tax on corporation dividends
if necessary to raise revenue.
Ambassador Bernstorff says Ger
many's navy is maintained to pro
mote peace.
Chairman .Norman b. .MacK oi tre
democratic national committee has is
sued the first number of his new maga
zine. the National Monthly.
The electrical show at Omaha was
opened by President Taft by wireless
message sent to Fort Omaha.
Robert A. Taft. Yale TO, son of
President Tail, has been chosen presi
dent of the university debating asso
ciation at New Haven, Conn.
Ak-Sar-Ben dates for Omaha this
year have been fixed for Sept. 29 to
Oct. 9.
The sugar trust has paid $2,000,000
into the federal treasury as fines.
A magnificent statue to Henry W.
Lougfellow was dedicated at Wash
ington May 7.
A reduction of 5 cents a barrel was
announced by the Standard Oil com
pany in the price of all grades of
erude oil except Ragland, which is un
changed.
The first shipment of cotton com
ing to New Orleans from Nicaragua
has reached there on the steamship
Kilts.
The possibilities of the passage of
the tariff bill and the adjournment of
the special session of congress before
June 15 or July 1 seems to have van
ished.
Aberdeen, S. D.. has asked Presi
dent Taft to visit there “home coming
v eek.”
In a counter movement against the
monster petition of Chicago women
opposed to a duty on hosiery and
gloves, a committee of ten young
women and five men arrived in Wash
ington to present to congress a peti
tion for a 25 per cent advance in the
present hosiery duties.
George J. Owens is dead at the city
hospital in St. Louis of a malady diag
nosed by physicians as the sleeping
sickness.
Lincoln. Neb., voted no saloons at
the late election.
Steel corporations have announced
a reduction in the price of wire.
Miss Elizabeth Webb of Illinois, mis
sionary, gives a graphic account of
tile Turkish massacres at Adana.
Secretary Frank Morrison of the
American Federation of Labor has is
sued a statement announcing that
2.000.000 citizens of the I'nited States
are out of work.
The supreme court of Kansas de
cided that a distiller, brewer or whole
sale liquor dealer cannot invoke the
aid of the courts in collecting a bill
for liquor in Kansas. The suit was
brought by the Nelson Distilling: com
pany in Butler county.
That President Taft may lie driven
to veto the tariff bill is talk that is
current in Washington He is known
to be much disappointed over some
features of the bill.
Dr. Manuel Amador, first president
of the republic of Panama, died re
cently at the age of 75.
President Taft indicated his appro
val of Senator Brown's plan to give
unquestioned authority to congress to
pass an income tax law and said that
he would sign such a bill. He also
believes congress would be keeping
faith with the people by adapting
Brown's amendment.
The Missouri senate passed a reso
lution submitting to the people a
state-wide prohibition constitutional
amendment.
Oscar S. Straus, former secretary of
commerce and labor, has been select
ed for ambassador to Turkey.
Record breakers for low tempera
tures in May were the rule in eastern
and southwestern Nebraska last week.
Budding fruit has been blighted.
There is a big deficit in England,
and revenues must be increased by
nearly $80,000,000.
Henry T. Clarke of Omaha arrived
i in Washington to interest senators
and members in a plan for the further
dredging of the Missouri river at: Oma
| ha and Fort Crook.
The senate committee on finance
heard protests from a large delegation
of tobacco men and cigarmakers
against the free admission into the
I'nited States of Philippine tobacco.
A serious split iu the woman's suf
frage ranks took place at the session
of the International Suffrage alliance
in London, and as a result a body of
delegates left the hall.
May 1st 505 saloons and 13 brew
eries in counties of Michigan which
voted "dry" at the last election closed
their doors.
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Wr^iington.
Senator Burkett, just so soon as he
may he able to gain the flpor. has a
speech which he will deliver in reply
to Senator Piles on the lumber sched
ules of the pending tariff bill. Sena
tor Tlurbett is one of the strong advo
• cates of free lumber.
Plans for the location of the new
agricultural experiment station at
Scott’s Bluff. Neb., have been perfect
ed so far as possible. The secretary
of agriculture told Senator Burkett
that the men who are to meet with
the parties locally interested have
been selected and ordered to go to
Scott's Bluff about May 18.
The Morris High school of New
York City won the first interschool
gallery rifle shooting championship of
the United States with a record score
of 953. or an average of 95.3 for each
boy.
Walter Wellman announced that he
will this summer renew his effort to
reach the North pole by means of a
dirigible balloon or airship. All the
preparations have been made, and Mr.
Wellman will sail soon for Paris and
Norway.
Reversing the policy adopted during
the Roosevelt administration by Sec
retary Garfield. Secretary of the In
terior Ballinger has restricted to a
minimum the amount of land the de
partment of agriculture may withdraw
from entry for improvement for ad
ministrative purposes.
The entire yellow pine lumber
schedule of rates in the country west
of the Mississippi river is involved in
a complaint of excessive rates, filed
with the Interstate Commerce com
mission.
Approval has been given by the
navy department to the plans submit
ted by the general board of the naval
militia for the exercises of the? com
ing summer.
The secretary of the interior has
appointed Vernon Whiting, Ned E.
Sisson and Arthur W. Dunnignn, all
of Oklahoma, as district agents in the
Indian service at $1,800 per annum
and expenses. These appointments
were authorized by the act of con
gress of March 3, 1909.
During a speech on the income tax
in the senate Senator Borah of Idaho
referred to former President Roose
velt as having shaped the destinies of
the Republican party and said that
without his leadership “his party
would have gone out of business.”
Personal.
President Taft will have to remain
in Washington all through June be
cause of tariff revision.
' Wilbur and Orville Wright, em
barked from London for New York. A
large gathering of members of the
Aero club bade the American aviators
farewell.
Ambassadors from Germany and
China made addresses at the Chicago
peace congress.
Charles F. Magoon. former provi
sional governor of Cuba, will leave
New York May 22 on the steamer Lap
land for Antwerp, spending six months
abroad.
Mayor Dahlman (democrat) was re
elected by an increased majority over
three years ago.
Weston, the pedestrian, is making
good time in his walk to the Pacific
coast. He is passing through Ne
braska this week.
Nebraska City. Neb., boasts of the
j oldest man in the state in Edward
I Whited, who recently celebrated his
9Sth birthday anniversary.
SPECIAL AGENT PEPPER PREPAR
ING A REPORT.
EN6LAN0S 6REATESTREVENUE
Tariff Bill Will Continue to Rr- 've
Attention in the Senate All
This Week.
Washington.—A report which con
stitutes an important contribution to
the current discussion of the proposed
income tax is made to the bureau of
manufacturers of the Department of
Commerce and Labor by Charles M.
Pepper, the special agent who has
been investigating fiscal affairs in Eu
rope.
Mr. Pepper says that Tor the fiscal
year ending March 31, 1909, revenue
from the income tax in Great Britain
was $165,000,000. This tax in 190$
was the greatest single source of rev
enue. exceeding the excise imposts by
$1,500,000 and the customs receipts by
*23,000,000.
It. is explained in the report that
the tax is imposed for every 20 shil
lings of the annual value of certain
profits which are set forth under the
various schedules comprising the
source of income. Two-thirds of the
lax is paid indirectly. Collections in
clude the tax on land paid through
the tenants, on dividends paid from
the offices of public companies and on
consols paid through the Bank of Eng
land.
The tariff bill will continue to re
ceive the undivided attention of the
senate during the present week. Os
tensibly the amendments to the dif
ferent schedules will be before the
senate, but there will will doubtless
be much general discussion of the
whole tariff question. The bill has
aroused a degree of opposition among
republican senators which had not
been counted upon, and while the
finance committee is still confident
that it will be sustained in its posi
tion. there is little effort on the part
of its members to conceal the fact
that they are annoyed over the situa
tion because of the delay, if for no
other reason. The general opinion is
that in the end the committee will
prevail, hut every turn in the pathway
of discussion opens up new vistas, so
that apparently the end is still far off.
There is talk of lengthening the
hours of daily jottings, but there Is
j fear that if this course is resorted to
it will have the effect of antagonizing
to a still greater decree the opponents
of the measure and of thus creating
delay rather than expediting the
measure. No announcements for the
delivery of prepared speeches have
been made, but this circumstance if
nowhere regarded as an indication
that the supply of oratory has been
exhausted.
In the house the Philippine tariff
bill will be reported Monday and there
will be an effort to consider it Thurs
day. If there should be objection on
account of the absence of a quorum
recess will be taken until Friday when
the house will proceed with the discus
sion of the hill. There is little or no
opposition to the hill.
NEW SULTAN TAKES SWORD.
Mehmed V. Will Be Girded with the
Weapon of His Authority.
Constantinople,—Reviewing stands
are being put in the principal streets
of Stamboul in preparation for the
procession Monday following the gird
ing of the sword upon Mehmed V.
This ceremony, which corresponds to
that of coronation, will take place
in the Mosque Avoub, the single mos
que in Constantinople which Chris
tians are not allowed to enter or even
congregate about the entrance or
courtyards. It will last but a few
minutes and no foreign representa
tive will witness the ancient rite of
the spiritual power consigning the
power to the consul. A stand has been
erected for the diplomatic corps and
distinguished foreigners some eight or
ten blocks from the mosque.
Union Pacific Earnings.
New York.—The Union Pacific road
for the full year is likely to have a
surplus over all expenses and charges
of $21,000,000, which is equivalent to
a dividend of 10.73 per cent on the
common stock. To this must be added
about $18,000,000 received by the road
in dividends from other companies in
which it holds stock, so that its full
earnings for the year will be equal
to about 20 per cent.
To Hold Conferences.
Chicago —Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson arrived here Sunday an on
Monday will begin conferences with
the government meat inspectors from
all sections of the country. They will
discuss conditions in the packing
houses.
Judge William £enfield Dead.
Washington.—Judge William Pen
field. former solicitor of the depart
ment of state and an authority on
internatioua:: Ufw, died here Sunday.
Open to Settlers May 22.
Washington.—Large areas of valu
able farming: lands in one of the most
beautiful valleys in the west, a region
described by government experts as
of wonderful scenic grandeur, of fertil
ity and free of cyclones, blizzards or
other severe storms, will be opened
to settlers on May 22. The lands are
situated in the Shoshone irrigation
project, which eventually will reclaim
150.000 ac-es east of the Yellowstone
National Park in northern Wyoming.
Settlement will be under the home
stead law.
AFTER ABDUL’S GOLD.
IT IS RUMORED THAT MUCH TREASURE
TAN’S PALACE.
IS BURIED IN THE SUL
WKITLA KIDNAPER CONVICTED
MRS. BOYLE’S TRIAL FOLLOWS
THAT OF HUSBAND.
Verdict Quickly Rendered in Man’s
Case and Woman Now Faces
Jury.
Mercer. Pa.—James Hoyle, charged
■with kidnaping "Billy” Whitla, was
convicted Thursday, alter a trial last
ing but a few hours. No defense was
made and the jury was out but a few
minutes. The penalty is from one
year to life imprisonment. Mrs. Boyle
was immediately placed on trial,
charged with aiding and abetting the
kidnaping.
The first witness called by the state
in Mrs. Boyle's case was Miss Ella
Boyle, a sister of James Boyle. Ap
parently from the line of questioning
the prosecution w ah ted to prove by
her that the kidnaping conspiracy
was formed while Mrs. Boyle was vis
iting in Sharon with her husband and
that she was implicated in it.
Mrs. Boyle took a prominent part in
the selection of her jury, prompting
her attorneys in numerous cases and
evidencing a preference for young, un
married jurors.
As she was being taken from the
courthouse to the jail at the close of
court yesterday, Mrs. Boyle was sur
rounded by a crowd of angry women,
who threatened to attack her.
That Boyle's trial came to such an
abrupt ending, immediately after the
state had rested, was due to the fact
that so strong a case had been made
against him. From the night before
the abduction when he was seen in
Sharon, till the time of his arrest in
Cleveland almost every movement he
made was testified to by one or more
witnesses. A man who hired him a
horse and buggy, another who saw
Bovle driving with "Billy” in the
buggy, the barber who saw the two to
gether and shaved Boyle's mustache
off. train and electric railway conduc
tors, who saw the couple on the way
to Cleveland and identified them in
court, all told stories which fitted in
perfectly with that of "Billy" Whitla
and left no doubt as to the part Boyle
had taken in the case. The penalty
is from one year to a life sentence in
the penitentiary. Sentence has not
been pronounced yet. Mt
Plot to Steal Governor's Son.
Oakland, Cal.—A plot to kidnap the
eight-year-old son of Gov. Gillette was
unearthed at San Quentin prison
when it was found that J. B. Clifton,
one of the most notorious criminals
in the state, who is serving time for
attempting the life of Detective Hod
kins in Oakland, had completed- ar
rangements with a confederate on the
outside to steal the hoy and hold him
for ransom.
The price of the lad's return to his
father was to have been Clifton's par
don.
Celebrates Discovery of Gold.
Denver. Col.—Colorado celebrated
Friday with fetes in Denver and other
Ci .les the fiftieth anniversary of the
discovery of gold that started the
great Pike's Peak stamiiede of for
tune-seekers in 1839. The discovery
was made by George W. Jackson near
the present site of Idaho Springs, and
the company he organized began the
development of the first paying depos
its 50 years ago. On May G, 59 years
ago the first recorded find of gold in
tin Rocky mountains was made in the
district of Clear creek by Capt. John
H. Gregory, a Georgia miner.
Dobbins’ Trial is Postponed.
Council Bluffs, la.—The trial of
John R. Dobbins, charged with com
plicity in the alleged robbery of
Banker Ballew of Princeton. Mo., of
{30.000 by J. C. Maybray and asso
ciates, which was set for nest Mon
Jay. was postponed until the Septem
ber term of court.
Weston Reaches Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo.—Edward Payson
Weston, the pedestrian, arrived in
Kansas City Thursday, escorted by a
throng of people.
AWFUL HORROR AT TARSUS
i Soldiers Aid in Slaughter of Chris
tians by Armenians—Adana
Still Lawless.
, Adana.—Adana is still lawless. More
1 people have been killed in the city.
There are 20,000 dead in the Adana
provinces as a result ol the massa
cres, and 25,000 homeless and penni
less refugees are wandering in the
vilayet.
The deaths in Adana city alone are
estimated at 6,500.
Adana is terrorized by 4.000 sol
diers, who are looting, shooting and
burning. No respect is paid to for
j eign properties. Both the French
schools have been destroyed, and it is
feared that the American school, com
! mercial and missionary interests in
i Adana are totally ruined.
Tarsus. Asiatic .Turkey.—Authentic
details of the atrocities committed by
: the fanantical Mohammedans in the
! villages and farms in this district are
| now coming in to Tarsus with sicken
; ing abundance.
At least 10,000 persons lost their
lives in this province, and some esti
; mates place the total casualties at
| 25,000. Villages like Osmanieh,
; Bazsche, Hamadieh. Kara. Kristian,
Keoy and Kezoiook were actually
wiped out. Each of these places had
| populations of from 500 to 600 people.
Marash, Asiatic Turkey.—A letter
! received here by messenger from Har
ni says hat every man there has been
i killed. Only women, girls and boys
under ten years of age have been left
1 alive. The churches and houses were
plundered and most of them were
! burned.
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GET $7,000 BY FRAUD.
I Illinois Couple Alleged to Have
Wrongfully Obtained Part of Es
tate in New York.
New York.— Ifow a man and
! woman from Hamburg. 111., are alleged
j to have fooled the supreme court and
the state attorney general into pay
ing them $7,000 in the belief they were
half-brother and half-sister of John Ed
ward Hughes, who died intestate in
the Flatbush asylum. November, 1902.
was revealed in motion pai>ers sub
mitted to Justice Se&burv in the su
preme court.
Hughes left $26,000. and it was not
known that he had a living relative.
The man and woman from Illinois
turned up and demanded the estate.
They were in a fair way to get all of
it when, after an investigation, James
T. Williamson declared they were not
related to Hughes and that relatives
of Hughes live in Newark. N. J„ and
in Ireland.
Federation of Musicians Meets.
Minneapolis. Minn.—Nearly three
hundred delegates were present Mon
day when the fourteenth annual meet
ing of the American Federation of Mu
sicians opened. Joseph Weber of Cin
cinnati, the president, was in the
chair. The convention will last six
days. The federation is composed of
510 locals in_ the United States and
Canada, with a membership of about
52,000 professional musicians.
Mothers’ Day Celebrated.
Chicago.—Sunday was set aside offi
cially in many states as ‘Mothers'
day, and in the cities and towns in
numerable mass meetings were held
at which collections were taken up for
the relief of destitute mothers. In
Chicago thousands of meu and women
wore white carnations.
Business Man Shoots Two.
Huntsville. Ala.—J. Robert Jones, a
prominent insurance man. Was killed
and A. D. McDowell, a shipping clerk,
was fatally injured here in a shooting
affair Friday evening by A. L. Halsey,
a Huntsville business man.
Ned Capitol for Missouri.
Jefferson City, Mo.—The house has
passed the senate resolution submit
ting to the vote of the people a con
stitutional amendment providing for
a new state capitol here which will
cost $5,000,000.
ML FOR JUDGES
MURPHY SAYS HE WILL FILE IM
PEACHMENT CHARGES
AGAINST JURISTS.
REPEATS CHARGES IN HOUSE
Declares He Will Attempt to Oust
Philips and McPherson from Fed
eral Bench for Conduct in Missouri
Railroad Rate Cases.
Washington.—Mr. Murphy of Mis
souri. following a speech in the house
Thursday, said he would file formal
charges of impeachment against Fed
eral Judges McPherson and Philips of
the western district of Missouri, whom
he accused in a resolution Monday of
misconduct.
Incensed over a telegram to Attor
ney General Wickersham by Frank
Hagerman. attorney for 18 railroads, in
which Mr. Hagerman characterized
Mr. Murphy's resolution of inquiry
into the official conduct of the two
judges, introduced in the house Mon
day, as "an outrageous tissue of mis
representation,” Mr. Murphy held the
attention of the house with a repeti
tion of the charges.
His colleague, Mr. Rucker, cor
roborated all that he said in denun
ciation of the action of the two judges
in connection with Missouri's two
cent passenger rate law and the maxi
mum freight law't Incidentally Mr.
Rucker remarked’ that Judge Philips
ought to have been impeached 20
years ago.
Mr. Murphy brought the matter up
as a question of personal privilege.
Mr. Murphy had read some newspa
per dispatches to the effect that
Hagerman had telegraphed the attor
ney general of the United States al
leging that the charges in the Murphy
resolution were an outrageous tissue
of misrepresentation by one who1 had
no Knowledge 01 me lacis ne saiu
that he had confirmed the fact that
such a telegram had been received by
Attorney General Wickersham.
Mr. Clayton oi Alabama, a member
of the judiciary committee, objected,
saying that the argument was not one
of personal privilege.
Speaker Cannon ruled that Mr Mur
phy was within his rights and could
continue, but he had not proceeded
far when Mr. Henry of Tevas. another
member of the judiciary committee.
Stopped hiiti with an Inquiry as to
whether he did not intend to formally
bring in charges of impeachment.
The Missouri member, however, did
not give a direct answer, but con
tinued bis recital of the charges con
tained in his resolution.
Several times Mr. Payne, the ma
jority leader, objected, saying Mr.
Murphy could not yield for debate.
Later he again objected on the ground
that Mr. Murphy was traveling outside
the issue raised by the Hagerman
telegram and the preamble of the res
olution.
Again in passing on the objection.
Speaker Cannon ruled in favor of Mr.
Murphy, remarking that "the tele
gram is pretty broad."
Continuing, Mr. Murphy denied that j
tbe state of Missouri bad been ac
corded every courtesy in the rate
cases, as was stated in Mr. Hager
inan's telegram. The state, he de
clared, had no knowledge or notice
whatever of the first injunction in
those cases.
"1 am asking the congress of the
United States." he said, “to give back
to us that government which you
banded to us when you admitted us as
a state in the union by requiring the
federal judiciary in tbe western dis
trict of Missouri to proceed along or
derly and decent lines iu the execution
of the law."
Both Judge McPherson and Judge
Philips declined to discuss the an
nouncement that Representative Mur
phy will ask their impeachment.
BRITONS THE BEST SHOTS.
John Bull’s Riflemen Defeat Uncle
Sam's 14,583 to 14,179 Points
in Match.
Washington. — British rifleman in
the international small Imre match
just ended, demonstrated the’r su
periority over the Americans. The
match was a friendly one with bore
riflee on gallery ranges in the respec
tive countries.
The targets wore issued by the Brit
ish Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs,
were signed by the respective asso
ciations and interchanged, and the re
sults announced by cable. Australia,
the other contestant, has not yet been
heard from but the National Rifle as
sociation of America, under whose
auspices the contests were conducted
in this country, is of the opinion that
their scores will not equal those of the
British team.
The British team made the grand
total of 14,585 points out of a pos
sible 15.000, or an average of 2!>1 per
man. The scores of the American
team were 14.179.
New Order for Postmasters.
Washington. — Postmasters here
after will be held strictly to account
If they deliver to persons packages of
foreign origin containing dutiable
articles without first submitting them
to the nearest customs officer, or
without collecting the duty.
Castro Waiting for Wife.
Santander, Spain.—Cipriano Castro,
deposed president of Venezuela, has
arrived here and awaits the
coming of his . wife from the
West Indies.
POET’S STATUE UNVEILED
MONUMENT TO LONGFELLOW
GIVEN TO NATION.
President Taft and Other Notable*
Take Part in the Ceremonies at
Washington.
Washington.—To the strain* of
“Hiawatha” and “The Star-Spangled
Banner.” played by the Marine band,
the statue erected to the memory of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was un
veiled Friday. The monument, which
phows the American poet seated with,
a book in his hand, represents 12
years of hard and conscientious worlc
by the Longfellow National Memorial
association and the generosity of the
public in coining forward with sub
scriptions to perpetuate in the na
tional capital the memory of one of
the nation's greatest poets.
The occasion was the more notable
because of the presence of the presi
dent of the United States, members of
the diplomatic corps, men distin
guished in letters, and by practically
all of the living relatives of the poet.
The statue itselt is an artistic addi
tion to the tributes to Americana who
Monument to Longfellow.
havp won renown in the higher arena
of individual effort which adorn th«
national capital It is the first statu®
erected here to mark distinguished
services rendered to our national lit
erature.
The statue, which is located in a
small triangular parking at the inter
section of Connecticut avenue and U
street, is of heroic sire, of pure white
Persian marble, and the pedestal, in
striking contrast, is of reddish brown
marble imported from Scottish quar
ries.' William Couper of New York is
the sculptor.
Chief Justice Fuller of the supreme
court of the United States presided at
the unveiling exercises, and the invo
cation was delivered by Rev. Charles
Wood, pastor of the Church of the Cov
enant. Addresse. were delivered by
Rt. Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smith, co
adjutor bishop ol Pennsylvania, on
"The History of the Statue:” by Maj.
Gen. A. W. Greely on “Longfellow the
Man;” by Prof. Bliss Perry of Har
vard university, on "Longfellow the
Citizen,” and by Hamilton W. Mabis
on "Longfellow the Poet."
The statue was presented to the
city by Brainard H. Warner, treasurer
of the Longfellow National Memorial
association, and was accepted by Pres
ident Taft.
21 ARE REPORTED DEAD.
Duluth Hears the Steamer Shores
Went Down in Lake Superior—
Vessel Long Overdue.
Duluth. Minn.—Advices received
here are to the effect that the steamer
Shores, sis days overdue at Duluth,
went down off White Fish Point in
Lake Superior with all on board.
The crew and passengers numbered
21. >News .of the destruction wa»
brought to Duluth by the crew of the
steamer Northland, who say that as
the latter was passing YVhite Fish
Point on the way up they discovered
wreckage strewn all over the lakw
and in their opinion it belonged to
the Shores. The fact that she was a
week overdue adds color to the
theory.
The Adelia Shores belonged to the
S. O. Neff Transportation Company of
Milwaukee. Wis.
The gale in which the ship found
ered last week and in which also
the Anrania. the Russia and the
Nester went down was one of the
fiercest in the history of Lake Su
perior for this season of the year. The
wind at times gained a velocity «f l©
miles an hour. This, together vMk
the fact that a violent snowstorm pre
vailed for three days, made navigation
extremely perilous for ships that were
caught away from land and in the
trough of the sea.
Taft Has a Sore Eye.
Washington.—President Taft ap
peared at the White House offices
Friday wearing an eye shield over
one eye. It was stated that on
Wednesday the president got some
thing into his eye. After suffering
pain from it all day he finally con
sulted an oculist and had the source
of the irritation removed
Alleged Wire Tapper Arrested.
New York.—Frederick J. Reming
ton. who says he is a broker, was ar
rested and locked up at police head
quarters awaiting information from
Chicago, where it is alleged that be
obtained $7,000 by means of a wire
tapping scheme.
Kills Wife, Daughter and Self.
Everett Wash.—James M. Dawson
of Three Lakes killed his wife and 14
year-old daughter and then himself
Friday. Mrs. Dawson arrived a few
days ago from Arkansas.