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rLoup City Northwestern volume xxix LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 16, 1911. NUMBER 15. -A-tiS- W FPE ■ NiS THE *0PL3 C . t TCi-C IN iTEV.ZED FORM. r* EKTS - £?.£ r*j THERE Zcriet'+tz r’.a a Fe» L •sr t->e Fe*-.* «f t»«f Easy Win— Ljime Uiul Infer matfeR. FE^SONA* »a» • minted » I*t -ruie cere Taft • it* tte I c4u*€ »|*t*fcer. r , i. .*>, r Sind for *-**: Cf? t*r XltUOUtl 1 I 1*4 S’ '.r®, 1® ill ^ : j>< kk-r. wr% ui I*no rib* Audi * *« *: it free: of * # ft 1 *■ .if frf=r Jfit'-m T«t ■**'.» * ' *t wm m.*».«*•* from *rrm»S :-..::..:-ji,rj mand • * V > u« t ■- _•.• . : i.rarj re «*t »* aw'i*. j*, ■ ii'* I=ii'Si . a S.tUper. for ffctrtT • *S>- *JE urT t>f fatut rUppiiT r it? t-• **-1 ?*r. Pnacteor tc ...**.»*.*,■ 6*-*<I ** hie : ' ~ ■' ~U * 11* . ' 8 X>« Tor* TV-tj * * to w one of lit far * i» iMNuimuEtK* »t H*rj.»rr'* f!‘*'1 * l n- f*i.s»d«ea - - wa* »t;.tfa; utae j<?ar* uid. 1 # ’ e r*~ . lie- for ***4 .1* :h* «km» of K:: .. 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Gouid. a ate *i*t rled 1C Sr» York City. l-<-- i- ■ ::y wttfc Canada will bean -he entire Unlteu elate*—farmer, manure. _rer rat:read company, mid • '••«■. atehouaeumn. This tis the -• in ration c. Pmldtlt Taft in an ad be th- National Cora expo 's it Columbus, Ohi. While his • - an -s aa cevuted especially to that the farmer had nothing >tr but much k.- gain. he attempt C to prove also tha’. all the other in •<-reft± of the country would be bene fited. •dr- i: . *• rta Menges-Corwin-Hiu in •he United States circuit court plead ■■<1 gu.’-y to smuggling and was sen n ■ - - -it i £afc of lb (Kh) and to r- r._jr :n prison four days. Mrs Hill smuggled e sable coat valued at $6,750. t-ie-r relieved f.wO.O-'O people in »'iU d,e of starvation. This Is ' . i> /»-:< N.-nn Consul 6«-ner* ai Wilder it Shanghai He appeals ■ .1. • r.d i_:-s I5OO.000 u needed Immediately. ' at ! roes nder General Luque - -*aine<J ai -.her defeat in their at k • n -n>urrect< s. whom they have ■ ■ • : .-a-:: e :i. -V vicinity of Mu'.ata. >b xi ■ fur * ijj. days pas’. The- fed • united the icsurrecto force h»-d at - .* Mu'.ata. They were - d • r a battle ladling five boon. In a - • .7; made of c herry wood - n bv himself more - lift y-nr- ago. the body of Wil ma] of r*: - - at Springfield. O.. was cre n. -ec at Clmdsaatt. - r >r.’hs of her ecu R ■f niU-r •■■■n Sprint, mother r, the dram.;ti.'T and i... Ti*• literary re!< bri : ii cays, died at Log TV* run tu the congressional n&d : reciprocity was • ; S-at« s senu*e by " ■ Indiana and he • i-,: - ui ■: 1 *.i f; : jf the adtninistrn . 1 pres : ■ -i strong arguments ' • • natural resources o? m:-. T ’ ■ impended upon to r> da • *};. as: .if living in this coun ' r> J -a repents!, the loss suffered Amer .: n *• sources. C’ at Erie. Pa., hay broke into • ■- I' A'ed 'he mausoleum of the • . ... sr. L Sc ott. w ho was a eon - ssir.au . m.J.onnire coal and rail r ...a a...ai.a- ad an intimate person ’ f-.. :ui ol former President Grover >*la: d. Ti' body of Mrs Anna M. ‘ a t . -er of Mrs. Scott, has r r ved f- cm the ,-oSin. Much myster surrounds the case. - 1 r. at the Wilburn : t. Car; : • rjsvU.e. ill.. Howard ant. \0:_m C tiers! were killed : 1 1 'Tt* - injured, four fatally T • : -1 was wr • Ked Carpenters : :..a.. toun six m!k*s north of Eifir 7 x men were drwr.ed at .■hi. V. is . when a local s-ree* ■ a:, open draw into t- '>.■-! rt~ r uffd became sub — • rr«-d 7'n ause of the accident is b*!;ei.-d by the mot orman to be due to du- : e working of the brakes. it. ■■ ueSe.ds. Nicaragua, givn u* her d. litina- m. the (ranboat Siren. cwneu ly the Tni'-d States c •-rm-rit. s-cured ckarar.ce papers at Xo-dcik. Va ’ : .-a : . — • r.. founder and for n_ ■ • ,-t presic c* of the National Croat in the United States, is ■ -usly ill at her residence in Glen Echo, lid ' ured no-fg aggregating SCOO. h:. v* been found among the pos s- »t. -,f f Ij I! M. Crown, secretary ur.j t* usurer of the old Illinois Cnn n.r.g mpaay at Hot pest on. 111., who t***d su d< National hank ex -m.t.err it is said, have been investi . '.ng Mr. Brown's affairs for some time. P-< id : -. Taft has served notice on ■ g--ss tkr.ugh Senators Crane and Carter that there must be a vote on the reciprocity agreement with Can ada. or he would call congress back tn • r-s session almost Immediately after March 1. A terrific tornado of three days’ duration ha.- passed over Reunion 1* Hid. a French possession in the Indian ocean, killing score# and «t» king tillages, according to ad Tic*-- received at Paris from the French g «veroor general there. Many million dollars' worth of prop erty In the bear- of the business sec •jon of Brooklyn wa.- tfcreatetned by a fir*- which desire yed the two-story fac tory of it F Bischofi Cocoa atiu •-toco-ai- company >a Ashland place The loss was S&M.OOO. >• v. :.:<*t r* of Pekin, Pe oria. Eureka and Bloomington. 11!.. a • re ln.'jrei whet tso jasser.ger tao i<T» a th»- I-**- >ria electric terminal -aiiwar collided on an open 'witch, at South RsrtocviUe A trek- a switch device was the cause Ac explosion of dynamite at the mills of the Piute Powder company, •tree miles south of lspheming. Mich-, kill- c ten men and seriously injured another. The nitric acid house was wreefcre and the office building badly damaged Frank Bernard, his wife and their two Isrtl- ct' :*er. were found dead ic their horn* on Fulton street. Brook !yn N. T- the victims of escaping ga*. Resistance to the uttermost to the attem; is to transfer from congress to toe vartou- state legislatures the con -rol of the time and manner of elect ing lulled States senators, as pro p-rfd by the resolution providing for •heir election by direct vote of the ] p-. • ie was adv -cated by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts in a speech in the lulled States sdhate. j athet Gebhard. a missionary, was killed. road superintendents were hacked to pieces and nine Germans were shot to death on Ponape island, i Caroitnas. In a rising over punishment of a native workman. MASKED ROESERS IN TOURING CARS HAVE RAIDED 30 IN 90 DAYS. EPIDEMIC THROUGHOUT WEST A';ll-Organized Gang of Motor Pirates Terrorizing Country Bankers, and Farmers With Fat Fockeibooks Fear the Marauders. Tor ka. Kan.—Always up to date and sometimes spectacular. Kansas •’■as a new claim to fame. The banks u: ;he Sunflower state are being rob ot : by a well organized band of motor ; ■■ -es. Country bankers are frankly rr-r-strbken end the city bankers are growing uneasy. Farmers with •at rolls are tossing uneasily in their bt us. S far the record shows that w ithin tu* las: three months over 30 banks 1 ave : , a robbed within the confines <’ .he state oi Kansas. Over $100,000 : as been la’-.- a and never a banuit has ... yet decorat• d the interior of a jail No: a man has been arrested, and ta clues are very vague and bird :o foil. tv. Kansas sheriffs. town mar shals. detectives and chiefs of police a: a- their wits’ end and the robbers minuc- to dart in and out of the s'hte. raiding the richest and most Me banks apparently at their ' hi. pit a. urc. The authorities have ... -it-.. ' gvther with the Anti-Korse . . iff a r elation? that are still found > ver the state, and are vowing ven -nee. but so far nothing has come .1 all their efforts. A meeting of sheriffs and policemen held in W ichita in an effort to - ways and means for capturing he ld marauders. But the black mo r cars filled with masked banditti stil race along the prairie highways. state P.ank Commissioner Dolley of Kansas has taken matters into his own hands to a certain extent, and has caii i upon the governors of Oklahoma -fd .Nebraska to keep their bandits at tine. It is the contention of the Kan tacking a Get-Away. ss? airhorities that these midnight marauders dart across the state line ictc Nebraska from both Oklahoma and Nebraska, rob a bank or two be tween dark and daylight, and dash back a- ros= the boundary, where the maddened Kansans dare not follow ti t m. Oklahoma and Nebraska resent the imputation and the citizens of these commonwealths are calling upon Kansas To remove the beam from her own eye before trying to locate the motes in those of her neighbors. The bandits have undoubtedly come back into their old haunts. They are riding the same prairies in motor" cars tha’ they once galloped over upon tht;r cayuses. They seem to find the change altogether profitable and com fortable as well, it is safer to make a get away in a big powerful racing car ’ -’an »t is to trust to horseflesh and ' -i-ttal stamina. It is easier to carrv away the “swag” in a car than it is to J l:! it id a gunny sack and tie it to a r-lale horn. Kansas has known lank robbers In tbe old days The Kansas town is poor and indeed uninteresting that nas no story to tell cf the “day the st:g- was held up a couple of miles out of town." or of that other day when the "Dalton gang rode into town and held up the bank in broad day • . They are able many times to show you the exact spot ..here the cashier was killed or where some bold bandit was left wallowing on the prairie when his companions were ^for ed to gallop out of town. The bandits who have come back are possibly not so spectacular as j those of a decade ago. but they get what they go after. Motor cars as a means of marauding are new even to Kansas. Put three-score raided banks and a few thousand depositors can testify that they are effective beyond the dreams of those more dramatic holdup men who dashed into town on lean and rangy cow ponies. The states of Iowa, Oklahoma. Ne-' braska and Texas, as well as Kansas have suffered from a regular epidemic of bank robberies during the past few months, and as many as a dozen dif ferent towns in Oklahoma have had their banks burglarized. DEADLY SNAKE KEEPS A CREW IN RIGGING REPTILE. FREE FOR SIX HOURS. FINALLY CAPTURED BY AID OF LASSO. Boston.—With an infuriated and deadly snake ioose on the deck of their vessel, which was rolling and plunging in a heavy sea. the crew of the British steamship. >! uncastor Castle, hung to the rigging for six hours during a terrible gale in the Indian ocean. The steamship left Singapore bound for Boston. Tart of her cargo was a small zoo of wild animals, birds and reptiles. Heavy weather was encoun tered the second day out, and con tinued during almost the entire voy age. .lust before reaching Ceylon, when the gale was at its worst, the Snake Terrorizes Ship's Crew. cage containing the snake, which was kept on the deck, broke from its fastenings, crashed against the rail and liberated the reptile. The alarm was given immediately, and the terrified sailc-s who were on deck took to the rigging Those be low closed the hatches and fled to their charters. Tia .vae *as throws this way and that by the heaving deck, becoming more infuriated every moment, and for six hours the sail ors were afraid to move. Finally a I-ascar cut away a section of rigging, made a running noose and. crawling down as far as he dared, succeeded in lassoing the sur.i.e around the tali. The snake was made fast to the mast and the men descended, finally getting the reptile back into its cage. The voyage was eventful all along. In the straits of Malacca a Chinese fireman jumped overboard and started to swim to shore, but was overtaken by a lifeboat and brought back to the vessel. Two days later a help less derelict, containing 21 Arabs and a sixteen-year-old girl, half dead from privation and exposure, was sighted. The men said that their sails had beer, blown away 12 days before and the vessel sprung a leak. Their food had been spoiled by salt water and their water casks washed away, so that they had been without food or drink for five days. They were land ed at the first port the Muacaster made, three of them insane from their experiences. CO-EDS SUBDUE A BURGLAR Two College Girls Force Intruder Into a Clothes Basket ar.d Call for Help. Beloit. Wis.—The story of bow two co-eds at Beloit college fought with and subdued a burglar in their room at the college dormitory the other night was revealed by Miss Clara Hanaford, who went to her home in Elgin. 111., to recuperate from the nervous shock which followed the en counter. Miss Hanaford and Miss Ruby Hoefer of Freeport were asleep Burglar in a Basket. in their room whet the burglar awak ened them. Grappling with him they forced him into a big clothes basket and then gave the alarm. He es caped before help could be sum monad. Miss Hanaford and Miss Hoef er are freshmen at Beloit. Ends Life in Fiery Furnace. Nelson. B. C.—A Chinese porter is the hotel here committed suicide by crawling into a raging furnace. An hour later his carbonised body was found. PURSUESJLOPERS ARRESTS THEM AT WINNEBAGO AND THEN RELENTS. _ RAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What is Gbirg cn Here and There That is of interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Winnebago—Two eloping young peo ple from Walthiil were cultured by the girls irate father, who pursued them in au automobile. The eloping young people were overtaken at Homer. Xeb. By that time the animos ity of the father had subsided some what. the matter was peacefully set tled and the young people continued their interrupted journey to Sioux City, where they were married. Co-operation in Business. Hastings. X'ebr.—A co-o;erative or ganization has been perfected here for the purpose of conducting a general merchandise store. The meeting was he’d in the district court room under the auspices of the American Society of Equity and was attended by up wards of IPO farmers and members of the society. Y. M. C. A. Day at Hastings. Hastings.—At a meeting of the board of directors of the Young Men’s Christian association it was decided, to obsene Wednesday. February ir>. as Young Men’s Christian association day. The day will be celebrated by each member of the association attempting to secure at least one new number. Farmers' Institute Opens. Lyons—Notwithstanding the four teen-inch snowfall, the farmers’ insti tute convened in the Lyons opera bouse Monday. The day was an idea! one overhead and a large crowd was in attendance. The high school chil dren were excused for the occasion. Troops in Railroad Accident. Fremont.—A train carrying two troops of cavalary from Fort Meade. S. D„ was ditched at the roundhouse here. Fortunately the train was run ning at a low rate of speed through the ►»- a » • L*v * * * have resulted. Ticket Twelve Feet Long. Omaha. Xcbr—Mr. and Mrs. A. Lott , of South Octal \ are e-n route to the coast. The : 'road ticket to cover the trip is twel e feet long, exclnsiv. of the sleeper c. tpon. Joseph Ord. an old resident of Au burn, is dead. Farmers will start a co-operative stcre at Hastir rs. The Daily R ••■ublican is a new ven ture a: Broken Bow. Otto Zutlow has been appointed postmaster at Srhu>ler. Bonds for an electric light and water plant at Gordon carried. The Burling', a is arranging to build a new depxn at Grand Island. \ ourg ladies at Ainsworth have or ganized an inue. r baseball team. One lone an ma; was the bag netted in an old-fashimed wolf hunt at Lor ton. Albert Shaw had his hand tom e® at Superior in a gasoline pumping ma chine. The farmers of Darnebrog have or gan tzed a ctx. native grain and sup ply company. The Syracuse farmers' institute just closed was said To have been the best in its history. There is talk of an interurban be tween Beatrice rtd Adams, a distance of thirtv miles. Henry Ahlneyer was instant’" kilted by a N 'rth western train at a crossing near rliugton. Will Hamer killed a bald eagle that measured ten feet from tip to tip near Sparks the other day. Rev. Virgil Shirley of Minden will probably accept the pastorate of the Christian church at Central City. Ed Armstrong of Broken Bow will frobably lose one eye as the result of the bursting of a gun barrel when he shot at a coyote. Charles Becker, near Polk, was seri ously injured by the bursting of a grind stone which he had attached to a gasoline engine. A sterna pipe in a B. & XI. engine burst as the train was nearing Craw ford. blowing the engineer out of the cab window and seriously injuring him. Willie Moore is under arrest at Ra venna chanted with the burning of Custer county's court house, w hich was destroyed a little more than one year ago. Otoe McKin was struck by a train at Winnebago and so badly mangled that his recovery is doubtful. The Nebraska conservation and de velopment congress will hold its sec ond annual session in Lincoln Febru ary 23 and 24. The state's resources and their proper development will be discussed. Frank Wetzel, a Fremont boy. was on the Delaware, the I'. S. battleship, when an explosion killed and injured a number of marines, some time ago. He was blown through a door by the concussion and painfully but not seri- j ously hurt. INITiATiVE AND REFERENDLM AP PROVED SY SENATE. The Nebraska state senate reeom i mended tLe initiative and referendum \ bill f or passage Tuts day afternoon af.trr a session dev ted largely to ora : tory. The bill was discussed in com mittee of tee whole and after minor chances was ordered engrossed for a third rending. Friends of the measure stood shoulder to shoulder and suc ceed-d in voting down ail' radical amendments offered. Skiics of Cutler, the introducer of the bill, championed the measure, while Albert of Platte opposed some of its provisions and pro; osed refer ring it to n committee to digest the many proposed amendments. Placek of Saunde t s offered several amend ments which the introducer of the bill opposed and they were defeated. Petitions Against Sunday Easeball. A bunch cf petitions against Sun <hiy baseball were introduced in the senate Monday, all of the papers be ing' referred to the judiciary commit tee. which had the bill in charge. A petition to Senator Pickens was head ed by E. S. Burr of Carieton, a peti tion to Senator Skiles was headed by W. Cady of Pleasant dale, a petition to Senator Cox cf Hamilton had the name of the Rev. A. V. Wilson of Ong at the tcp. one to Senator J. A. Cox was headed by E. A. McVey of Stockman the petition addressed to Senator Var ner came from J. A. Dorens of Madi son and others. Senator C. E. Smith received two petitions, ere from Q. W. Stone and others of Exeter, and one from R. A. Smith and others of York. A petition to Senators Selieck and Brown of Lancaster was headed by the name of J. D. Priest of Normal. wh:!e the last of the bunch of peti tions addressed to Senator McGrew had the name of C. H. Shader of Bioomington at the beginning. Conservation Congress. The second annual session of the Nebraska conservation and state de velopment congress is to be held in Lincoln, February 23 and 24. The congress is to discuss the state’s re sonvita, Including aie states people, and tae proper development of the resources: to promote co-operation between country and town, and to encourage the development of home manufactures, trade and commerce for the purpose of supplementing the rapid development in agriculture. The officers of the association are G. E. Ccndra, president: W. G. Whit more, vice president: W. R. Mellor, secretary: V.'. S. Whitten, chairman publicity committee. Hard On the Short Weights. Senate File No. 1S5. by Reynolds, a bill introduced at the request of the pure food commission, is designed to strike a death blow at the short weight dealer in this state. The commissioner is made the state sealer of weights and measures. It is provided that all weights End meas ures shall be inspected by the com mission or its deputies. The usual standards of weights are included, the national bureau of standards system of measures adopted, the metric sys tem legalized and a number of com modities are specifically included in the bushel weight list. Expense of Guaranty Law. Governor Aldrich has prepared a special message to submit to the legis lature. It is said to contain informa tion in regard to the needs of the state banking board to enforce the guaranty of deposits act. The gover nor will ask for twelve state bank ex aminers instead M the five or six now on duty. The sr. aries and expenses of the twelve evar iners will reach $23. •bvi a year. If the legislature amends the law so as to eliminate that part which requires examiners to verify notes and other assets in banks, eight or nine examiners will be able to do the work. - Lnar.ges in Bank Law. A lengthy bill contemplating sever al radical changes in the state bank guaranty law was introduced in the house Monday afternoon. The law has recently been declared constitu tional. but has not been put into oper ation. The bill is said to come from state and national bankers. It was in iroduced by Bonham of Jefferson and Minor of Lancaster. Southwest Wins a Point. Eastman's agricultural bill has re ceived votes enough in the house to indicate that it will pass that body on third reading. This bill, appropriat ing S1PO.OOO for another agricultural school in the southwest, was put t» sleep twice, hut because of a parlia mentary mistake was so located that its friends could bring it up again. I>r. J. P. Lord, superintendent, and Dr. H. W. Orr assistant superintend ent of the Nebraska Orthopedic hos pital. desire raises in salaries for those two positions. The superintendent at present gets $1,400 a year and the assistant $1,300. They have suggest ed $2,000 as adequate compensation for the superintendent and $1,S0© as proper for the assistant. They also believe the compensation of some of the nurses should be increased. They appeared before the finance, ways and means committee to urge these in creases. FEftRSDP CONGRESS ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT REGARD ING EXTRA SESSION. DON'T WANT A SOM JOB Idea of Working Through the Hot Season on Reciprocity is Not at Ailuring. Washington.—Members of congress would give much to know wnether they are to be permitted to break ranks on March 4 and retire to ihe.:r homes for the summer or whether they must linger in Washing-ton for an indefinite period to act ui>on the Canadian reciprocity agreement in extra session. Something positive on the subject from the White house woud be especially acceptable. There is some foundation for the re[>ort that President Taft is viewing with entire complacency the solici tude of members of the senate on the subject of an extra session. Several j ?eca rs who f el there is no chance : for the approval of the agreement at | the present session have found this new is not shared at the White house. The president has me* all pessimis tic predictions with the suggestion that he is willing to trust the agree ment to a vote. He has never said, for publication, that he would call an extra session if such a vote is denied, but senators certainly have failed to obtain assurances that he woud not do so. lae McCall bill to carry out the provisions of the Canadian agree ment. haring been reported to the house front the ways and means com mittee. probably will be brought up Monday. Immediate consideration will be asked. If an agreement to that end is oppos*?d the supporters will seek a rule for the limitation of debate and inhibition of the amend ment. In view of republican domination of the committee on rules, headed by Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl vania who. as a member of the ways and means committee, voted against the rejiortina of the bill, it may not i he possible to secure a rule. At the JUS >ct « thus far no organized movement to the prevention of a vote in the house. The consideration of the bill, nev ertheless. probably will result in one of the liveliest debates of tlie ses sion. The democrats of the house are pledged to the reciprocity agreement under the recent caucus action, al though a handful of the minority will oppose the measure, being exempted under the caucus rule which relieves members from being bound by the will of the party majority when such action brings them into conflict with the expressed will of their constitu encies. A conference of democratic sena tors has been called for Tuesday, but it is expected an adjournment will be taken until the house has acted upon the agreement. THREE STOCKMEN MURDERED. After Which Their Bodies Are Hidden in a Cave. Alturas, Cal.—Details received here vf tiie murder of Harry Cambron, J. B. Lex&gue, Peter Eramusjie and B. Indiano. wealthy stockmen of this county, whose bodies have been found nar Denio. >Cev.. show the trag edy to have been one of the most atrocious crimes in the history of this region. The men were unarmed, and intent on a peaceful mission at the sheep cabps near Denio, when they were shot down and stripped of cloth ing and valuables. Their bodies were concealed in a hidden cave. For Prison Reform. London.—In pursuance to Winston Spencer Churchill's aspirations for a reform in the prison system, the home office announces the creation of a new body, to be aided by the states, which shall devote itself to the re claiming of discharged prisoners. The central idea of this reform is the sus pension of police supervision during the good behavior of the ex-convicts. The new commission will be presided over by the home secretary and will co-ordinate sixty societies. Aid For the Chinese Sufferers. Washington.—So amended as to provide an appropriation of $50,000 to carry it into effect, the house bill au thorizing the use of army transports for the conveyance of Red Cross sup plies to the Chinese famine sufferers passed the senate. Baron Rothschild is Dead. Vienna.—Baron Albert S. .A. Roths child, head of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild house, died here. He was born in 1844. Sixty Chinese Deported. San Antonio, Tex.—Sixty Chinese were deported from Texas Saturday. Five were started from San Antonio, another was picked up at Del Rio and fifty-four waited the coming of the prison train at E! Paso. Seattle Changes Mayors. Seattle.—Mayor Hiram C. Gill, re called by the electors for alleged mis conduct in office, retired at noon Sat urday without ceremony and George W. Billing, chosen to succeed him, took the oath of office.