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( Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 21, 1909 NUMBER 50 I fj !! | Prominent People p^TTTTTTTWTTT.,..»r-||-n-|»n.l..n 1 TAMMANrS MAN FOR MAYOR | William J. Gaynor, justice of the supreme court, has been nominated for the mayoralty of New York City by the Democrats. In the cam paign that will follow he will be opposed by Otto Bannard, nominated by the Republicans and in dorsed by President Taft. Tammany will do its utmost to elect Justice Gaynor. If Justice Gaynor wins it will be a victory of a plow boy who became a school teacher, then a lawyer, then a political giant who overthrew Hugh McLaughlin, for 25 years the “boss” of Brooklyn; then the implacable enemy of trusts, justice of the supreme court, and iinally mayor. ilt will be a victory for a man who had scorned to run for governor w'hen he might have won, and who once rejected “Boss" Croker’s offer of i ammany s nomination for mayor ot tne tciy. Justice Gaynor is 5$ years old. It was on a stony farm that William was born. It was there he toiled when a boy in a winning battle with pov erty. He went to the district school and grew up sunbrowned and strong. After graduating from the Whitestone academy he taught school in Boston. 1 Accumulating sufficient funds to permit it, he moved to Utica and began ^ studying law in the office of Ward Hunt, who later became justice of the supreme court of the United States. As long ago as 1875 Mr. Gaynor moved to Klatbush. L. I., then an inde pendent municipality having 40 saloons, but only one operating under a license. This, he discovered, was due to corruption in municipal govern ment. In 1885 Mr. Gaynor moved to Brooklyn, then held in the despotic politi cal grip of McLaughlin. Brooklyn was expanding. The town of New Lots, which had a little institution known as the Long Island Water Supply Com pany, was annexed. Gaynor discovered that the “McLaughlin ring” had bought out this company through dummies for $185,000, and had contracted to turn it over to the city of Brooklyn through the mayor for $1,500,000. He denounced the deal as a swindle. He fought it through the courts and after spending $14,700 of his own money knocked it out. Afterward he compelled the elevated roads of Brooklyn, practically owned by McLaughlinites, to pay taxes aggregating about $1,000,000. With one victory after another along similar lines to his credit he was by- 1893 the most powerful man in Brooklyn. Then he was nominated for supreme court justice to help elect a fusion candidate for mayor. He was. elected and with him his whole ticket. That marked the end of the Mc Laughlin ring. The next year he refused to run for governor on the Demo cratic ticket. Two years later Richard Croker tried in vain to have him run for mayor on a Tammany ticket. Ever since then Justice Gaynor has been fighting corruption in politics. He has made a study of the constitutional questions involved in attacks on corporations, particularly public franchise monopolies. One of his "hobbies” is how to prevent railroads from giving rebates to shippers. "C. Q. P.” HERO A “FRESHIE” Abandoning the sea for the law school. Cap:. Inman Sealbv, of the White Star liner Republic, which went down off Nantucket island last win ter after passengers and crew had been rescued through the “C. Q. D.” messages of “Jack” Binns, wireless operator, has been enrolled as a fresh man in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The hero of the marine disaster that thrilled two continents began to realize the dreams of his youth when he appeared at the registrar’s office and matriculated. Years and years ago, long before he snuffed the salt breeze from the captain’s bridge, the master of the Republic had ambitions to take a course in admiralty law. promotions came, tne lure or tne ocean was strong, and Capt. Sealby would probably have gone down to the sea in ships all his days had not the Italian steamship '1 Florida poked its nose out of the fog on January 23 and rammed a hole in ’ the Republic. Then came the drama of the high seas that held the attention of whole nations for days. “C. Q. D.” messages crackled through the air summoning steamships to the rescue. Six persons, tw’o of them passengers, were killed, but the rest of the numan cargo of both crippled boats, 1,650 lives in all, were transferred to the steamer Baltic without mishap. Next day the Repub lic went down Capt. Sealby sticking at his bridge until the decks were under water and then climbing up the mast as it sunk still lower, refusing to abandon his boat until the last vestige was under the waves. l | GOT DIPLOMATIC CALL-DOWN Mulai-Abd-El-Hafid (that’s most all of it), sul tan of Morocco, has beeff made the subject of a diplomatic cail-down by France, which said, in effect, he needn’t have been so rough with El , Roglii. the pretender, who was merely trying to \ take his sultan job away from him. Several he ft whiskered kaids et al. recently surrounded El | Roghi, took him prisoner and, on the orders of I the sultan, threw him into an iron cage. Then, placing the cage on the back of a camel, they took him to Fez under an escort of 1,500 troops armed with spears and guns. , France, in objecting to this form of hazing, \ reminded Mulai that he was one of the pretender tribe once himself—before January, 1908, when by taking four new wives and adding new fathers m-iaw, one oi wnom was Hamo Hocko, and their armies to his forces, he managed to push his half-brother, Abd-el-Aziz, into deeper than ex-vice-presidential obscurity. Then came the news that Mulai had El Roghi thrown into a cage of lions and that when the lions, disgusted with their job of eating the pre tender, refused to claw him further, the sultan had the unconscious pretender soaked with oil and burned to death. .Mulai is declared to be an- enemy of Europeans, but has listened to their voices when they were backed up by force. MAKES $7,500,000 IN A HURRY~~| Charles \V. Morse is well along the road lead ing to multi-millionaireville again. He has wiped out all his debts with the exception of $500,000. .Mr. Morse regards this as a paltry sum. He has securities worth three or four times the half million he owes and if necessary he could wipe out that debt and still have left what world be regarded as a large fortune by 99 men out. of a hundred. When Mr. Morse got out of the Tombs June 17 last his affairs were in what his own lawyers admitted to be a hopeless tangle. They confessed they saw no chance of saving anything from the wreck and frankly told Morse so. At that time Morse was confronted with a v>ew77*7?y \ Tmr~-r / / I Clamorous army or creauors, 10 wnom he owed $4,500,000. At the beginning of the panic, in October, 1907, he was worth $22,000,000. The depreciation in security values that followed cut this fortune into less than halt, for the Morse securities were about the hardest hit of all. His credit was greatly extended when the tumble came. He owed money to more than a dozen financial institutions in New York City and to many ^ more in New England. These loans were secured by stocks and bonds. As 7 7 they shrunk in market value they were sold by banks and trust companies at panic prices. The slaughter was so severe that in many cases they did not bring the amount of the loans. These sales of his securities converted paper ln»se« into actual losses. THE NEW COMET V Pork Takes Its Place Among the Stars and Constellations of Mr. Con sumer’s Heavens. 37 DEAD IN DIXIE DY3L0NE DESTRUCTION IN WAKE OF TOR NADO IN SOUTH. Denmark, Tenn., Leveled and Fire Completes Destruction—Shiloh Mon uments Wrecked. Memphis. Tenn., Oct. 16.—The havo-s and destruction of Thursday's storm, which swept middle and west Tennes see, Alabama, Georgia and portions of Arkansas and South Carolina, grows hourly, as reports are received from remote points and as telegraphic ser vice is gradually restored. Already the known deaths reach 37, and there are 13 others reported dead, with scor4s seriously injured and many others painfully bruised and scared. The property loss will reach one mil lion dollars, or more. In one town 200 people are homeless from the effects of fire and storm. The storm was probably the worst that has visited this section of the south In years, being Intense In its destroying fury and widespread In its area. Halves of counties were laid In waste and ruin. Towns were de stroyed, plantations were greatly dam aged and from all sections of the storm-swept area came reports of loss of life, ruin and desolation. While only one death occurred at Denmark, Tenn., the horrors of the storm there were greatly heightened by the fire which started amid the ruins and debris of what was once a flourishing little town in middle Ten nessee. Two hundred people were rendered homeless and have appealed to neighboring towns and cities for Immediate aid. Reports of five deaths and heavy damage come from McNairy county, where is located the famous battle field of Shiloh and which was directly In the path of the storm. Homes and stores were leveled to the ground and great trees in the historic National cemetery were uprooted. Many handsome and imposing stat ues In the National park were torn from the pedestals and the property damage Is estimated at $100,000. VIVIANO CHILDREN FOUND Kidnaped Boy and Girl of St. Louie Found Wandering About Chicago Street*. Chicago. — Grace Vivlano, three years old, and Tomasso Vivlano, seven years old, children of two wealthy Italian cousins of St Louis, who were kidnaped there on August 2 and held for a ransom of $45,000, are now in the care of the Chicago police. They were found wandering along hand-in-hand at Larrabee street and Clybourn avenue, near the spot where, it is believed, they were deserted by their captors. They were taken to the Hudson avenue police station. The boy is in excellent health, but the little girl is in a Berious condition from exposure. They were both taken to the Passavant hospital, where they will be held until the arrival of the girl’s father, Pietro Viviano. The police have been unable to glean a single word from the children as to the identity of their abductors or where they were taken after they were kidnaped from their home la St. Louis.. Both children seem to be paralyzed from fear and refused to talk to their questioners, even under more urgent persuasion. Ocean Steamer Strikes Wreck. Montreal.—Steamer Empress of Ire land, Liverpool for Quebec, struck a submerged wreck off Cape Chatta and stove a hole in her bows. She is com ing up the river under her own uteam and will arrive at Quebec Friday. She carries 1,100 passengers. — ' 1 Naval Lieutenant Kllla Self. | Norfolk. Va.—Seamen from the gun boat Marietta coming ashore at Nor folk Thursday reported that Lieut Carl A. Richter, U. S. N., committed uiicide by banging himself aboard ship. REVOLUTIONIST IS SHOT Prof. Ferrer Is Deeply Touched by Attempt of Daughter to Save His Life. Barcelona. — Prof. Francisco Fer rer, the Spanish educator, and convicted revolutionist, was shot at the fortress of Montjulch where the prisoner had been confined since his condemnation by court-martial. The doomed man faced the firing squad without flinching, and fell dead at the first volley. Ferrer, except for a momentary ex pression of emotion Immediately pre ceding his death, retained his compos ure to the last His attorney, M. Gal ceran, who had defended the prisoner so loyally as to bring about his own arrest for Improperly addressing the court, had secured permission for a brief talk with the revolutionist be fore the latter was led to the ditch where he was to die. To his attorney Ferrer spoke feelingly of the work for which he was sacrificing his life and of the future of his daughter, whose brave attempt to save his life touched the father more deeply, ap parently, than any other Incident of his trial and conviction. With the execution of Francisco Ferrer the authorities have removed from the affairs of Spain one long suspected of revolutionary activities, and who, because of his education and Influence, was deemed of peculiar dan ger to the state. STORM CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE Worst 8torm In Years Rages at Leech Lake, Minn.; Lives May Be Lost. Walker, Minn.—One of the worst storms In recent years Is blowing over this section and Leech Lake Is being lashed by a gale. The waves are running high, and fears'are enter tained for the 35-foot launch, Sarah L, which started out from here into the big lake two days before the storm struck. Among those on board were several ladies. Nothing has been heard from the launch, but it is hoped that the crew found shelter in some of the bays. The waves have done much dam age to numerous boat houses. The government dock is a total loss. A cement retaining wall 100 feet long has been demolished and many launches and the steamer Flora are on the bottom. The Leech Lake Lumber Company has lost a large lot of logs, a barge and a pile driver. The damage caused by the storm will amount to thou sands of dollars. CITY MARSHALL LOSES LIFE Killed by Explosion of Gas Engine Used for Pumping at Water works. Eureka, 111. — City Marshal Wil liam Wyrlck lost his life here when the gas engine used for pump ing purposes at the city waterworks plant exploded, and awakened the en tire town by the detonation. Wyrlck aside from his duties as city marshal, was required to operate the pumping plant. A part of the building was wrecked, several pieces of iron had struck Wyrlck about the body, andjjhls right leg was blown off entirely." Four Hurt in Runaway. Reno, Nev.—Four men were serious ly Injured, one fatally, in a thrilling stage coach runaway when the six horses took fright on the Jodie Grade desert and ran down a steep hill. Frank Williams, the driver, was fatal ly hurt, and S. W. Martin and two other passengers were Injured. Hall Caine Stricken. London.—Hall Caine, the author, suffered a severe attack of heart trou ble. His condition Is such as to cause much anxiety. CRANE IS LET OUT MINISTER TO CHINA INFORMED HIS RESIGNATION WILL BE ACCEPTED. IS GUILTY OF INDISCRETION Denies Giving Out Interview Contain ing State Secrets—Knox Says Good of Service Demanded That Minis ter's Resignation Be Accepted. Washington. — By a demand from Secretary Knox Tuesday, for his resig nation, Charles R. Crane of Chicago was practically deposed as minister to China. Thus a new chapter in American diplomacy was written. A citizen chosen with special regard for his qualifications for the post was re called before he had embarked from San Francisco and discharged from his high office because of alleged in discreet disclosures through the press. Moreover, this minister, breaking through all the old traditions, insisted on defending himself from the asper sions cast upon him by the secretary of state by the issuance of a state ment which most people here com ment upon as certain to be very em barrassing to the administration. The history of this extraordinary af fair, which began about a week ago with the announcement that Minister Crane had been stopped at San Fran cisco at the moment of embarkation for his post by a demand from Sec retary Knox for his return to Wash ington, reached at least its first crisis when the secretary in a formal state ment announced that Mr. Crane’s resignation had been invited and the minister designate replied in an equal ly formal statement that while his resignation already had been tendered to the president, he felt himself very unjustly treated. Moreover, Mr. Crane in his statement reflected very severe ly upon the officials of the state de partment, charging that not only had they refrained from giving him the in structions usually issued to a minister or ambassador about to leave for his post, but that he had been denied ac cess to them even after he had made repeated appointments with them. He enters a sweeping denial of the charge that he “gave out” a newspa per story which is said to be the cause of his deposition, and places squarely upon the shoulders of Presi dent Taft the responsibility for the various utterances be has made re garding conditions in the far east which have aroused the ire of Secre tary Knox, and for final action upon his resignation. Washington.—All doubt as to what action the president would take with re spect to the resigntaion of Charles R. Crane, minister designate to China, was dispelled by the receipt Thursday of a dispatch from President Taft ad dressed to his secretary, Mr. Carpen ter, directing him to convey to Mr. Crane announcement of the fact that the resignation has been accepted. The telegram was dated Prescott, Ariz., October 13, and reads as fol lows: "Convey to Mr. Crane following communication: “ ‘I concur in the letter under date of October 12 which the secretary of state has addressed to you and I greatly regret that the circumstances found to exist by him make it neces sary for me to accept your resigna tion.’ “TAFT.” ATTACKS TWO-CENT LAW Preliminary Injunction Is Issued Re straining Its Enforcement Until Tested in Court. Springfield, III. — The constitution ality of the Illinois two-cent rate law is attacked in an action brought in the federal court by the C., P. & St. L. Railroad Company. Judge Humphrey In the United States circuit court has granted a pre liminary Injunction restraining the at torney general of the state and all of the state's attorneys for the counties through which the Chicago, Peoria & St Paul Railroad Company of Illinois runs, from enforcing or attempting In any manner to enforce the two-cent passenger rate act of this state as against John P. Ramsey and H. M. Merriam, receivers of that railway. Tigers Tie 8erles Again. • Detroit, Mich.—By defeating Pitts burg Thursday, 5 to 4, in a game full of thrilling and sensational situations, Detroit is still in the great fight for the world’s baseball championship. The two teams have won three games each and are tied. The deciding game will be played in Detroit on Sat urday. Murder Ends Quarrel. Cleveland, O. — Jacob Herrey, 36 years old, shot and Instantly killed his wife and probably fatally wound ed his sister-in-law. Herrey then shot himself. He is dying. The shoot ing followed a domestic quarrel. Gen. Drum Is Dead. Washington.—Brig. Gen. Richard C. Drum, U. S. A., retired, a distinguished veteran of the civil war and for many years adjutant general of the army, died In Drummond, Md. His death was caused by diseases Incident to old age. Paper Mill Destroyed. Beloit, Wis.—The last of a number of paper mills at Rockton, 111., near here, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $80,000; insurance, $20,000. The origin of the fire is not known. BANK ROBBER KILLS HIMSELF LONE MAN LOOTS CONCERN AT HIGHLAND PARK. Shoots Marshal When Auto Fails to Aid Escape—Bandit Once a Lawyer. Chicago.—Trusting unavailingly to an automobile for escape, a young man known in many cities under the assumed name of L. Harrison — but almost positively named in Lo6 An geles, Cal., as Lamar H. Harris, a fu gitive lawyer of that city—robbed a. bank in Highland Park Wednesday afternoon and then ended a losing re volver battle by taking his own dis graced life. In the duel between desperado and pursuers, Marshal John H. Sheahan was wounded. The bullet struck his star over his heart and glanced into his arm. The bank was the private establish ment of David M. Erskine & Co.; the price of the fatal endeavor was $500. The tragedy was enacted in 15 min utes. A borrowed chauffeur, Fred J. Schwab, employed by J. E. Keeiyn of Evanston, owner of the borrowed au tomobile—neither of them with knowl edge of the purpose or character of the borrower—were figures in the progress of the drama. Keeiyn, who met the supposed Har rison at the Avenue house, Evanston, for the first time on Tuesday night, rented him the machine. Schwab drove. So little did the chauffeur suspect the nature of his customer’s quest that when, after an inspection of three north shore banks, any one of which might have been robbed, the machine was stopped in front of the Highland Park hank at three o'clock, he let the engine stop as wrell. When the bandit ran from the bank and jumped into the auto, it did not start. Schwab cranked and cranked, but the cold had affected the engine. The actions and the appearance of the dead robber both led to the con clusion that he was a stranded and desperate amateur, a "high roller,” re duced to a crime as tho last resort. In Los Angeles his description and his garments alike caused the police to assert that he was Harris, who w-as a member of a prominent family in that city. A month ago he forged several checks in Los Angeles and other southern California cities and disappeared. NEW YORK HONORS DR. COOK Is Given Freedom of City—Exp oref Pronounces Barrill’s Affidavit a Deliberate Falsehood. New York.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn came back to New York calm and smiling as ever, received the freedom of the city as conferred by the board of aldermen, branded as a lie the affidavit of Edward N. Barrill, the guide who says he did not attain the summit of Mount McKinley, and finally, to crown the day, fired the shot which started a 24-hour automobile race at Brighton Beach. He will re main in New York until Sunday night, when he will start for the west on an other lecture tour. In the meantime he will confer with counsel over the advisability of bringing action against Barrill for alleged perjury, and he may issue a detailed affidavit in reply to the guide. The conferring of the freedom of the city upon the explorer was a for mal affair, conducted Jointly by the board of aldermen and t!:e Arctic club oi America. in nis speecn accepting the honor. Dr. Cook said in part: "I will substantiate every claim I have made with every proof within the power of man. The charges brought against me relative to my polar trip have been based upon eva sive answers by my loyal Eskimo friends, while the alleged affidavit of my Mount McKinley guide is nothing more nor less than a deliberate false hood. The confidence you repose In he is not misplaced. The Eskimos were made to say what they did not say and I will bring them here, not to prove my conquest of the pole, but to prove the truth of this last statement. Their presence as a proof of conquest will not be necessary. "I am perfectly willing to go before the Explorers' club and give my testi mony as to the ascent of Mount Mc Kinley; in fact, I have already con sented to do so.” Blame Socialists for Split. Toledo. O. — That the upli; In the Ohio Federation of Labor is part of a socialist movement to in jure the American Federation of I,abor is the declaration of a resolution adopted by the bolters’ faction of the Ohio Federation of Labor. The reso lution intimates that Max Hayes of Cleveland, who was one of the leaders of the fight to seat electrical workers and Central Labor union delegates in opposition to the wishes of tbe nation al council, desires to head an opposi tion organization of union labor. Revolution in Nicaragua. Colon.—A dispatch received bere by .wireless telegraphy from Eiluefields. Nicaragua, says Gen. Chamorro, a rebel leader, marched on Greytown and attacked and defeated tbe govern ment troops, 19 being killed. Gen. Juan Estrada is reported to be march ing on Cape Gracias, where 2.000 gov ernment troops have been concentrat ed to oppose him. The dispatch states that the revolution appears to have been well planned and broke out simultaneously on tbe Pacific and At lantic coasts. ■Amy aci void SO DECLARED BY FEDERAL COURT AT LINCOLN. < JUDGES SITTING IN THE CASE Injunction Restraining Governor From Putting the Law Into Effect Is Made Permanent. Lincoln, Neb.—The federal court has made perpetual the temporary re straining order against Governor Shal lenberger and members of the State Banking board, preventing them from enforcing the provisions of the guar anty banking law enacted by the re cent legislature. Circuit Judge AVillis \TanDevanter and District Judge Thomas C. Munger filed the decree, holding the law un constitutional, being in violation of the constitution of the United States and of the state of Nebraska. The court holds the provisions which forbid an individual from en gaging in the state banking business without incorporating is in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, and section 3, ar ticle 1, of the Nebraska constitution as is the enforced contributions to the guaranty fund. The decree makes the temporary injunction perpetual and taxes the costs of the case to the defendants. Governor Shallenberger and the mem bers of the State Banking board and the secretary to the banking board appointed by the governor, Samuel Patterson. Syllabus of the Case. The syllabus in the case is as fol lows: 1. Constitutional Law. Due Pro cess of Law. Banking. Restricting Business to Corporations. Guaranty Fund. The Nebraska act of Mark 25, 1909 (Laws Neb., 1909, ch. 10, p. 68), which prohibits individuals from engaging in the banking business, unless they do so through the agency of a corpora tion, and which also conditions the right to engage in that business in that form upon the making of enforced contributions from time to time to a depositors’ guaranty fund to be em ployed in the payment of the claims of depositors of any bank whvcli shall be come insolvent, is in conflict with sec tion 1 of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, which provides: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the ^ United States; nOr shall any state de prive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law?4 and is in conflict with section 3 of ar ticle i of the constitution of Nebraska/ which declares: “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law,” and therefore is void. 2. Same. Void provision, when in ducement to passage of act, renders entire act invalid. The provisions of the Nebraska act of March 25, 1909, supra, which pro hibit individuals from engaging in the banking business, unless they do so through the agency of a corporation, and also condition the right to engage in that business in that form upon the making of enforced contributions from time to time to a depositors’ guaranty fund to be employed in the payment of the claims of depositors of any bank which shall become insolvent, were the inducement to the passage of that act, and as those provisions, so coupled together, are void, the en tire act is thereby rendered invalid. No Extra Session. Governor Sballenberger, after read ing the decision, said he saw no re course except to appeal the case to the supreme court of the United States. Under the decision, he said, the legislature could not pass a guar anty bill which would meet the test and therefore there was nothing to be gained by calling an extra session. TWO PRESIDENTS^MEET. Chief Executives of United States and Mexico Clasp Hands. El Paso, Tex.—The long-expected meeting between President Taft of the United States and President Diaz of the Republic of Mexico occurred here Saturday. Outwardly it was at tended wtih a display: of soldiery, a blare of trumpets, a boom of can non aad a pomp of ceremony sug gestive of supreme authority, but in the actual band-clasp of the two ex ecutives and in the exchange of courteous words which passed from lip to lip, there was simple but cor dial informality. Suit for $236,625,000. Chicago—An amended petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the board of review to tax stock owned by Chicago millionaires, whose total holdings are valued by the petitioner at $230,625,000, was filed in the cir cuit court by an attorney for the Illinois Tax Reform league. American Diplomat Dead. London—William I. Buchanan of Buffalo, N. Y., former American min ister to 'the Argentine republic and to Panama, who had been closely identified with several important American diplomatic missions, met k tragic death on a London street He was discovered lying on a sidewalk in Park Lane, near the American em bassy, in a dying condition a few minutes before 12 o’clock, and was carried to St. George’s hospital, % short distance. He was dead when the ambulance reached the hospitaL