Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXIX. LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1911. NUMBER 20. EPITOME OF I WEEK'S NEWS Most Important Happen ings Told In Brief. Washington IU»mrBua»» Krill jr at Cos —rung baa tauodaccd a bill la -bo- bouat et rtpuwtauilia pro wdss* aa *-i#fctbo«r sorb day for ■Mil ram-fa and rWb ta trai and awnad rtada poataArca — a • • tty a drtcl party vote of 17k to M tW bnyaa of r« pre aaatati >« paaaod bcB armaac tba Uwm amberaUr trmm M ta *« YW-tar Berger of Jlllwatike-. the of «w(TrM. la a ta (k* bouse of rvyaaaaienres not oalf propose* to the Ht» but alma o strihe «f to* president the take from the court* IT to Invalidate legislation *a hr the kMM Oa arroaat of U1 health Senator Fry* of Mata* ’entered to the tire yeaKeatt hia resignation aa president ye tempore of the aaaate The acn •lor la octesd to hta span meet ted hts 'tvadt because of hta tditnced John H Small of Xnrth - arcritta ha* lauodtrtd !• the hm at Washington a bill prohibiting the nor at 'hr '«anu drinking cup plane* at the capital and the enforcement at tiatitr bgltlnfloc la all other part* of the la eptatf the debate oa the farm err tree hat ML! ta the bouse of repre oattlw. Reprea* Ltatlre rad»rrood at kUtaht outHoed the p-sl*lofs which 1 the Pi inocrat* Hi assume ta revising Che tan* He caaamw hi* part? to a straight oat tarts for ramu* policy. Domestic Three Btaeroui atrlhe* and a lock eat thraateaa. tf carried into effect, to throw about O.Oha me-c oat of eoi pkoyaMOt. tie up the building interest* of Chicago to taaottU running Into ten# of millions of dollar* and cause general deyetaioa of business thrvuchojt C’kktfo and the middle meat • • • Kerlama at the Tea Command meal* —the ungiaal aad ahorteead form — aaa &r|*4 by Ret Dr Ueorge B WU ham Dougina. caaoa at the Cathedral at m. John the Urine of Soar York. upon the tttauahik congress at the Freteacea: gpdacopal church nt Wash tagiaa D C e e • | Jady Fetit In the superior court nt fklfi. granted n rrtl of habeas cor pea far Ed sard TUden. packer, and fiunrge M Benedict and W C Cum nU(a. hankers, stthiu a half hour after they had beea arrested oa war matt hy which the Illinois state sen ate ordered that they be brought be fere k u> answer for contempt in con nernon with the Dortmcr senatorial Csaaplmcy on 'be part of the larg •a nllna4t Is the com*try with ore tH)| «r« and dock otnianies I* ptiusi nUtM la charged in mv«b teet tuir'umti handed down by the federal grand jury at CL r eland. Ohio The read* tadicted are the Lake Hbor* the Pennsylvania. the Bess* Mf and Lake Erie and the Nickel nett • • • The opening of the Gulf of 3t Lav reace t* navigation Is delayed by the eeatiWead presence at great quantities ai Icebergs sad leld lee. Thty and the way to do It” was tke geaetral topic for discussion at the third -oegresa of the National Fed emtio* at hellgloas Liberals, held In New York. e • # ' I Ten persons were hart, two probably fa*al!y in a collision of two trolley cars ta the shadow at a rladoct at Bsfsk>. St. T. • • e Dr B Clark Hyde, seder a life sen fence at uaprUonmest for the mur der of Cel Thomas H Swope, was re lonord from the county Jali on n writ id habeas corpus granted by the ses es judges at the circuit court at Kan aae CHy. • • • Reciprocity with Canada must be •doped now or neter. and must stand or fall by Us own terms So declared President Taft In an address at the Joint banquet at the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publish its* aeeorl irlna ta New Tort city. • • • A faw la the now Arcade building at Kalamneno. Mich, was pot out with hear carried from a nearby saloon. • • • I' Mr* J. H. Nunn mnd seven children, IrmnKl&s in age from adults to an in f*at. were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home in south west Roanoke. Va. • • • Surrounded by a score of dogs ot many breeds which she had found homeless and had befriended. Mrs. EUa Burt, fifty-eight years old, died ; at her home at Newport, R I. i The memory of Ulysses S. Grant, i former president o flbe United States 'nd commander-in-chief of the Union .orrr* st the close of the Civil war. • af honored at Galena. 111., in song and story. The occasion was in cele bration of the birth of the noted ; American, and bis departure from * this city for the front April 25. 1861. President Taft and many other emi nent men were guests of the Aeronau 1 tical society at Its first annual din ner in New York. The society's gold medal was presented to W. R. Hearst. • • • | Refusal of the interstate commerce j commission to permit the principal railways of the west to advance their rates on the transportation of cement for the reason that the carriers are alleged to need additional revenue is 'he feature of a decision handed down in the important Portland cement i case. Fire farting in the business section j -if Prentice. Wis_. practically destroyed I i he town Fifteen residences, a bank j a general department store, the post j office, a Jewelry store and the rail , "uad station were burned. Pour armed robbers drove up to the Jewelry store of Edward Alberti. In Milwaukee avenue. Chicago. In broad daylight to a limousine car, which they had stolen, compelled nine per toes to Me face downward on the Soot of a rear room, bound them hand and foot with pieces of clothes line, and '-scaped with jewelry and money amounting to $20,000. On his plea of nolle contendere. W. Vernon booth, former president of A. Booth A Co., the “Ash trust." was fined $2,000 by Judge Kavanagh at ''iiicago Booth was charged with con ; spl'acy to defraud the Continental Na ; ttonal bank of $300,000. A similar ! -barge against Frederick R. Robbins. 1 formerly secretary-treasurer of the same company, was nolle prossed. A sensation was sprung before the Helm committee at Springfield, 111., when W. H. Cook of Duluth testified ’hat he was in a room in the Grand Pacific in Chicago last May when Ed j ward Hines telephoned to Springfield . to a person be believed to be Governor Deneen, and had said that everything was all filed at Washington and tha* the governor was to leave no stone unturned to elect Mr. Lorimer, and i that he < Hines 1 would be down with all the money necessary. • • • ^'°rk will begin in New York with I in the neat few weeks on a $1,000,000 borne for the needy, the gift of Henry ; -1 Braker. a drug importer who died two years ago leaving a large for tune. • • • Sporting With a torrent of crushing blows administered so fast that no count ! of them could be kept. Ad. W’olgast, the lightweight champion, checked the aspirations of "One Round" Ho gan to win the title by technically knocking out the California boxer In j the second round of what was sched uled to be a ten-round bout at the Madison Athletic club at New York. Foreign A serious revolutionary outbreak , took place In Canton. China, attended ; by the firing of the viceroy's palace and a battle In the streets In which , several persons were killed. * * * Refusing to surrender or to leave . the train on which be and his com mand of 30 soldiers were being brought to Mexico City, a second lieu tenant. little more than a boy, en gaged In a battle with a force of 100 rebels at Cajonea. Guerrero. At the conclusion of the encounter the lieu ! tenant and 28 of the soldiers were | dead and the remaining two of his i men were prisoners. • • • The condition of the Crown Princess I Sodoko of Japan, whp has been 111 with typhoid fever for some weeks, is said to be serious. • • • The ancient castle of Schulenburg at Oldesloe. Prussia, vas destroyed by fire. It was erected In 1643 and was I filled with many objects of great bis j torlc Interest. • • • ! Certain papers of Berlin, Germany, criticised American diplomatic meth ods and said the overbearing attitude ; rrf the country was responsible for | 'he resignation of Ambassador D. J. Hia • • • j 1 Notwithstanding Mexican officials continue mute on the formal accept ance of the armistice proposal, news > that the war department had issued orders to commanders in the armistice j zone to cease hostilities has practically ■ official sanction. President Taft's proposed Anglo American arbitration treaty was una nimously ratified in a long-continued buret of cheers at one of the most re markable gatherings In the history of Guildhall. London. UN OSTRICH FIRM PROMOTERS WILL LOCATE ONE AT SIDNEY. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE Wtaat U Going on Here and Thera That la of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Sidney.—Charles H. Wilber, the pro moter of the ostrich farm to be locat ed hero, states that he expects to be here early in May to decide definitely upon an establishment. The location has already been selected by his agent here. Dr. Collister of Provo. Utah, was here last week looking up a location for a prune and apricot orchard, com prising about forty acres. * Got a Late Start. Fairbury.—Judge Boyle married a couple recently, the groom being 71 and the bride SO. The groom is F. F. Wet more, a veteran of the civil war, who came to Fairbury about a year ago. The bride is Mrs. Wheeler. .Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore will make their home^n Fairbury. Mrs. Ooxey's Trial May 8. Columbus. — St. Louis newspapers announce that Monday, May 8. has been set for the trial of Dora E. Doxey, the former Columbus woman, who was acquitted of a murder charge in St. Ixrnis a year ago. and is now held for trial for bigamy. I. O. O. F. Anniversary. Broken Bow.—An impressive pro gram was given Tuesday night at I. O. O. F hall, the occasion being the cel ebration of the ninety-second anniver sary of the founding of the order of Odd Fellows in America. _ Attempt to Rcb Bank at Ragan. Ragan.—Burglars made an unsuc cessful attempt to rob the bank of Ragan Saturday night. Entrance was rained by breaking the windows. Telephone wires were cut. An at tempt to open the safe failed. Aurora is agitating a city V. M. C. A. building. Deshler's system of water works is being extended. The only jaii owned by York is be ing torn out and dismantled. The central Nebraska track meet will be held at Kearney May 4. Merrick county will vote on the building of a new court house soon. J. M. Row ley, an old settler in York, died Tuesday morning, aged 72 years. Miss Jessie O. Lowe of Sterling has been elected principal of the Fairmont schools. Plans are being formulated for the construction of a dam across the Blue river near Hoag. Commencing May 7 the Fremont postoffice will inaugurate the Sunday closed office plan. Eilert Miller, for thirty-Bve years a resident of Gage county, died Sunday at Beatrice, aged 72 years. Rev. Chas G. Williams has re signed the pastorate of the Central City Presbyterian church. Circulating magazines, on the seven day book plan, forms a new feature at the Fremont public library. The city has commenced putting in Jlfi.000 worth of water mains in the outlying districts of Broken Bow. The little four-year-old daughter of William Cooms fell in a stock-tank of water at Paxton and was drowned. The directors of the Beatrice Com mercial club have passed resolutions favoring the holding of a race meeting there June 12. Roy, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Emerson at York, was fatally scalded by falling into a pan of boiling water Fourteen hundred pupils of the Fre mont public schools were given a half holiday in recognition of services they performed in cleaning up backyards and alleys. It was clean-up week in Fremont and the pupils of the schools joined in it. V An epidemic of smallpox is prevail , !ng in Fairbury and the board of edu cation has under consideration the matter of closing the schools. S. R. Reed, an aged citizen of Stella, came in front working in the garden, complaining of diffieult breathing. He died of heart failure in a few minutes. The total weight of the newspapers mailed front the Lincoln postoffice during the year 1910 was 4.492,518 pounds. The larger part of this amount is daily newspapers, the balance being made up of weekly and monthly edi tions of papers of various kinds print ed in the city. The citizens of Cambridge and sur rounding territory are very much de lighted over the prospect s of securing the agricultural school. It is conceded bv a large number of the influential citizens of southwest Nebraska that Cambridge is the ideal location. Fire of mysterious origin totally de stroyed the livery barn of Willis Beez ley at Syracuse. Splendid work by the fire department prevented a spread of the flames. In the barn when the fire broke out were eleven horses. Two of the animals broke their halters and escaped, but the others were consumed by the fire. Rev. Hugh Robinson of Brookings S. D„ has accepted a call to the pas torate of the Presbyterian church of ! Pawnee City. The principal business part of the j town of Anselmo was completely wiped out by fire at an early houi Saturday morning. The new $30,000 home of the Elks at North Platte, was formally dedi cated Thursday. Visiting Elks from many places were there. The Citizens State bank of Gitlner was robbed Tuesday morning, safe and building being badly wrecked. The robbers secured about $2,000. Silas J. Alexander, a resident of Lincoln since 1879. and secretary of state for one term, died in Denver Sunday night of heart trouble. Mrs. Emma Burhoop committed sui cide at Waco by hanging herself. Her body was found by her six-year-old son, hanging from a rafter in the barn. The school board has re-elected E. S. Cowan superinendent of the Albion schools for the coming year. Mr Cowan came to Albion last year from Creighton. At the special election held at An selmo Tuesday, the citizens voted a $10,0m) bond proposition. $7,500 foi water works system and $2,500 foi electric lights. Paul Martin will head Creighton law school at Omaha as dean with the opening of the school nest September He will be the youngest dean in the United States. He is 28 years of age Mrs. Ijee J. Mayfield, wife of Editoi l>ee Mayfield of the lvouisville Courier died Friday after an illness lasting but a few hours. She was stricken about 5 o'clock Thursday evening and passed away before morning. Fire, resulting from an automobiW explosion in which two cars were de stroyed. gutted the large two-story brick livery barn of Henry Ikmans in West Point. AU the horses and car riages being safely taken out in time Judge H. G. Leigh, of Nebraska | City, claims to have a dog that can speak several words quite plain one being "mamma.” “out,' "thank you' and “yip' for yes. He is a cross between a bull terrier and a pug. A train left Beatrice carrying a stal ; lion loaded iu a freight car. At De witt the animal was missing and the car door was found open. How the door was oi>ened is not known. letter the horse was found unhurt near the track. H. M. Bushnell of Lincoln was re elected president^ and F. S. Thompson of Albion was re-elected secretary treasurer at the closing session of the state convention of commercial clubs at Kearney. Hastings was selected for the next meeting place. A Lincoln street car on the peniten tiarv line was fired on two separate times by an unknown man Thursday evening. No one was struck. Thre« bullets from a small sized gun, prob ably a 22 calibre, entered the car. The man did not show himself and not one of the passengers of the car saw him The shots were fired under cover ol darkness. After listening to the recital by his sister of the story of her betrayal and ruin. Grant Hursh arose from a seat in the criminal division of district court at Lincoln and drawing a re volver from his hip pocket, fired five shots in rapid succession, one of the bullets striking Thomas Hawkins, her alleged betrayer, at whom all were aimed, in the right hip, and the other taking effect in the right thigh of Mrs. Hazel Rys. Hursh then held the re volver forth upon the palm of his hand ! and surrendered himself.. Will Appoint Board of Control. Governor Aldrich will reappoint as a board of control the present three trustees of the school for dependent children in Lincoln. The members are A. L. Weatherly, the Rev. K. H. Harmon and Dr. P. E. Hall. Edward Howard of Lincoln has been retained by Chief Clerk Richmond of the house to aid him in completing and indexing the house Journal. How ard was employed by the legislature and is familiar with the work he will have to do. State Engineer Price recently re ceived information that the Platte river in the western part of the state is lower than usual at this time o( the year. The government reports show, however that there is an ex I cess of snow in the mountains, and j oil# indications are that there will be plenty of water for irrigation purposes in the irrigated region of the western portion of Nebraska. j __ | ' Under the new Nebraska game law , every man who fishes in the state, whether he is a resident or not. must pay one dollar for a license. As a memorial to the late Professot | A: E. Davisson, principal of the school j of agriculture of the state university a concrete drinking fountain is to b« erected on the state farm campus, by the graduating class of 1911, to be known as the "Davisson Memorial Fount.” Governor Aldrich has accepted .an invitation to be one of the speakers at the annual Pan-hellenlc banquet tc be held in Lincoln Tuesday evening May 2, at which the regents of the university will be guests of honor. THIS 13 SAID TO BE PLAN OF DEMOCRATS. THE PUSHING OF RECIPROCITY Prince of Illinois Asserts that Clark and His Followers are Behind a Hidden Motive. Washington. — Another desclaration that annexation is the desired end ol the democrats in pushing reciprocity and a speech by a new member of the house, revealing the humorous fea tures of a tariff fight in congress, were the principal events of Friday's debate on the free list bill now pend ing before the house. Mr. Prince of Illinois, republican, attacking the Canadian reciprocity bill, sounded the annexation note. President Taft's speech in New’ York Thursday night furnished his text. He said that the pouring of Americans into the Canadian northwest and the attitude of the controlling forces of the democratic party could mean nothing else than annexation, reci procity and partial free trade tii« Canada being the first step toward that end. “1 say to our neighbors on the north, be not deceived.” said Mr. Prince. “When we go into a country and get it we take it. It is our his tory and it is right that we should take it if we want it, and you might as well understand it. The speaker has said so; the party back of him has said so and it does not deny that that is its desire.” Mr. Prince declared that the reci procity was the worst bargain ever driven by one nation with another and “the democratic farmers' free list" ought to be labeled the “farm ers' fake bill." The humor of the session came ; when Representative Kent of Califor ■ nia, a new republican member who ; succeeded Duncan McKinley in the i house, delivered a speech on the gen eral tariff question arraigning "a rev enue upon necessities.” He said that with other novices in th» house he felt sure he had ab sorbed speeches until he had “learned much that cannot possibly be Uue,” and that the Congressional Record was filled with a mass of mathemat | ics “proving what is logically ab ' surd.” "I am a republican, or what usea to be a republican." Mr. Kent ob served. “because I believe in the pro tection of infant industries that stand i some eventual chance of becoming | self-sustaining. But many industries. | having outgrown the cradle, have not ! been required to hustle for their live lihood. but have been carried boldly to a ward in the hospital where our standpat friends advocate keeping them during all eternity, to be doc tored, nursed and nourished at the ! public expense.” Mr. Kent said that a protective tar iff was an attempt to “tax ourselves rich.” “The nation can acquire wealth if not merit,’ he said, “by unanimously consenting to the reciprocal picking of pockets by all the people.” To show tariff inequalities Mr. Kent said that “Mr. Rockefeller probably pays less government revenue on the food he consumes than does the aver age hod carrier. He would doubtless like to pay as much, but he can't without eating as much.” CATTLEMEN STAY IN PRISON. Pardon Refused Richards. Bartlett, Comstock and Jamieson. Washington.—President Taft re fused to pardon Bartlett Richards, William G. Comstock. Charles C. Jam ieson and Aquilla Triplett, four wealthy Nebraska cattlemen, who have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government cf grazing lands along the Wyoming border. The men are owners of the Nebraska Land and Feeding company, with principal offices at Ellsworth, Neb. The evi dence at the trial showed that they had fraudulently induced homestead ers to claim thousands of acres of land which were later turned over to the company for grazing. Postoffice Criticised. Washington.—Representative Col tnp of Indiana, a democrat, in a speech in the house vigorously as sailed Postmaster General Hitchcock and the postoffice department for “pernicious activity” in politics. $21,000 for a Book. New York.—The second highest price for a book in. the Poe library sale was reached when a book sold for $21,000 Friday. This was “Helya’s Knight of the Swanne.’ the first print ed English version of the legend of Lohengrin. It was printed in London in 1512 by Wynkyn & De Worde. Kittredge's Condition Critical. Hot Springs, Ark.—That former Senator A. B. Kittredge of Sioux Falls, S. D.. who came to Hot Springs ten days ago, suffering from an attack of jaundice, is in a critical condition is admitted Revision of Prayer Book. Washington.—Revision of the book of common prayer was urged by Rev. Dr. Percy S. Grant of New York, in adressing the twenty-ninth congress of the Protestant Episcopal church in session here. IlNnufiricufiiiT KENNEDY TO GET RED HAT Right Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, Bishop of Adrlanapolis. president of the North American college at Rome. Italy, and a personal favorite of tho pope, shortly will be appointed by the Holy See as an American cardinal, to share honors with Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore. This statement is made upon the authority of a Roman Catholic, so high in church affairs that it should be taken without hesitancy, and ac cording to the same source the ap pointment will be the direct result of the suffragan bishops refusing to abide by the pope’s desire to see Bishop Kennedy recommended as a successor to Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, who died recently. The pope's wishes were made known to the suffragan bishops by Cardinal Gibbons. Instead of select ing three names the suffragan bishops submitted one. that of Bishop Pren dergast. of this diocese, who did Archbishop Ryan’s work two years before Ryan s death. Prior to the suffragan bishops' meeting the diocesan counselors and irre movable rectors met. The pope's suggestion had been made to them that they place Bishop Kennedy first upon their list. They did so. Monsignor Falconio, papal delegate, upset by the difference of opinion, requested the 13 Catholic archbishops in the United States to signify their individual choice for Archbishop Ryan's successor. The majority of them have written him favoring Prendergast. Falconio forwarded these letters to Rome, and now, according to precedents, there is but one thing for the pope to do—make Bishop Prendergast archbishop. NEW HEAD FOR HILL LINES Carl Raymond Gray, senior vice president of the St. Louis and San Francisco line, with headquarters In St. Louis, has resigned to become president of the steam and electric railroads of the Hill system, with headquarters at Portland. Ore., suc ceeding John F. Stevens. The ar rangements were made by James J. Hill. VV. C. Nixon, vice-president and i general manager, will succeed Gray as senior vice-president of the Frisco, with Charles M. Levy and W. V. H. Rosing as assistants to the vice-presi dent and with W. T. Tyler as general manager. • The ofTer from Hill to Gray was pending while Howard Elliott, presi dent of the Northern Pacific, was considering the proposition for the chief executive office of the Missouri Pacific railway and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern. Shortly after Elliott left St. Louis Gray met Hill In St. Paul and then inspected the Hill property In Oregon and Wash ington. Gray kept the negotiations secret, but as it was necessary to submit the matter to the officers of the St. Louis and San Francisco the fact that the tender had been made by Hill was known In St. Louis several weeks ago. and although Gray refused to discuss the matter it was learned that his resigna tion was at hand and that Nixon and the other officers had been chosen. BOOST EDUCATION IN SOUTH Parents and teachers in the south ern states will be interested in the fact that on June 1st James Shelby Thomas, dean of Virginia Christian college of Lynchburg, will become commissioner of education for the Southern Commercial Congress. His work for the congress will carry him into all states of the south, for thff purpose of bringing about a quicker exchange among all educators of edu cational ideas and of school improve ment suggestions. He will also work out a plan for the Southern Commer cial Congress, whereby it can assist college and other students of the south to secure or complete their edu cation along scientific lines. Mr. Thomas is a young man with an unusual educational record. He was born in Saltville, Va., in 1880. He received his education in public schools, then prepared for college at Tazewell and the city high school at Catlettsburg, Ky. He took his degree of master of arts at Milligan college, Johnson City, Tenn., In 1900. Imme diately after graduation he became an instructor In the same college. In the years between 1900 and 1902 he took an actlre part in Improving Ten nessee school conditions. In 1903 he moved to Lynchburg, Va., and was a founder of Virginia Christian college. The educational purpose of the congress is to work for the guidance of pupils In the common schools of the south, so as to prepare them for useful careers, though unable to go to high school or to college. IS A WIZARD AT FIGURES Representative John J. Fitzgerald of New York, who has come to the head of the committee on appropria tions in the readjustment made neces sary when the Democrats took over the control of the national house of representatives, will have as his right hand man James C. Courts, who for over a decade has been officially designated as clerk of this most im portant body. His mastery of figures is nothing short of wonderful; he has had years of experience in which to perfect himself, and there is little do ing in the way oDcommlttee business that he can’t reduce to cold figures. Congress annually votes an extra $1,000 to his regular salary in recog nition of his extraordinary efficiency. Mr. Courts is generally referred to as* the "mathematician of the house,” and what he doesn’t know about the governmental finances isn’t worth knowing. He is always “on deck” at committee meetings, and his usual place la by the aide of the chairman. If a queation cornea up Involving an appropriation for aome obscure matter he has all the necessary information at his tongue's end and reels off facts and figures In a manner tha; would dase the layman. Mr. Courts’ services will doubtless be as highly appre ciated by the new chairman as they always have been in the past. i