Nebraska Newspapers

    rLoup City Northwestern
volume xxix
LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 16, 1911.
NUMBER 15.
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a two-tfetrd* »a>ort*y
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H o'Ht Praotoi cattle died at hie
toe ** Saudi Creek % T. airs b<
*a» be*.** ewatjear years <«r
fjord Dew a*«d bt» Vtales Gecld
da cb*«tr <d Gec*r». 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.
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•■■■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.