Nebraska Newspapers

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I. M. RICE , Publisher.
VALENTINE NEBRASKA
NEBEASKA NEWS NOTES
Kev. Stlfiler Is 'the new Methodist
jjastor at Sbelton. He comes from Ord.
Btate Superintendent Fowler says
we 112 log .and 505 sod schoolhousea
'In ' the state.
A charter has been Issued to tha
State Bank of Nemaha , Nemaha coun
ty , with a capital of $5,000.
The Security Tontine Investment
company at Grand Island has gone
the way of all tontines busted.
There seventy-three cases on the
docket , six of which are criminal , at
the fall term of court at Clay Center.
The Ainsworth board of health held
a meeting and quarantined the town
against Long Pine , where smallpox Is
reported.
The Marquette club was closed by
the sherm ! . Two barrels of beer , some
whisky and the bar fixtures were con
fiscated. '
The docket at the November term
of court at David City Is light , there
being but thirty-nine civil and two
criminal cases.
Congressman Burkett has planned to
establish a system of free rural mail
routes' which will include every farm
house in Cass county.
iThere will be a balance of approxi
mately $2,000 left in the treasury after
41 expenses of the Nebraska exhibit
.t the Pan-American are paid.
Everything is on the boom in Ham
ilton county. The wheat prospect is
the finest ever known and the acre
age the largest'in the history of the
county.
Nebraska Is claimed by the Woman
Suffragists as the next state tofall
Into' the * column allowing * women " to
vote.
The state banking board has reject
ed the application of the Tontine Loan
and Security company of St. Louis to
do business in Nebraska under the
building and loan law.
Securitiess uitable for the investment
of school funds are scarce and Treas-
tirer Steufer is considering the advis
ability of raising the usual premium
which has been paid.
The board of public lands and build
ings has decided to readvertise for
bids for the erection of the Norfolk
asylum. No material can be secured ,
tt is claimed , until midwinter.
Judge Holmes at Lincoln decided
that R. E. L. Herdman , clerk of the
supreme court , is 'entitled to draw
$1,500 from the state treasury for sal
ary as court reporter.
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The public library commission creat
ed by the last legislature has at last
opened an office and will try to an
swer the numerous calls from various
portions of the state for traveling li
braries.
Land Commissioner Follmer and
Deputy Eaton have returned from the
land-leasing tour in southern Nebras
ka and will at once begin the holding
of auctions in the northwestern 'part
of the state.
The general merchandise store of
Banks & Eoff at Cozad was entered
and about $700 worth of goods taken
by the thieves , who also entered the
market and grocery of H. Burns 'and
took about $100 worth of canned goods
and meats.
Michael Kilroy , charged with shoot
ing Jesse Rodgers with intent to kill
at Raymond Jast summer , was acquit
ted. In extenuation of his offense Kil-
roy had recited the stor yof his wrongs
and accused Rodgers of assaulting his
vife in his absence.
There never was so many cattle .in
Dawson county as at the present time.
Stock is being shipped in for the win
ter and market .shipments are very
light. Alfalfa and buffalo grass pro
duced good crops and corn was of an
average yield in all sections of the
county.
Sections of old water pipes of cypress
that had been underground and in use
for nearly a century , were recently ex
humed at New Orleans and to the sur
prise of all the wood was perfectly
preserved and as hard as when laid.
They were part of the first waterworks
system of the city , , and it is thought
the wood was from trees one hundred
years old when laid.
A certificate found among the'seized
effects of a visitor at St. Louis affords
convincing proof of one woman's sub
lime faith in man. "This is to certify , "
says the document"that f , Mrs. Blank ,
the legally wedded wife of Mr. Blank ,
< So permit my husband to go where he
pleases , drink what he pleases and
where he pleases. I furthermore per-
knit him to enjoy the company of any
lady or ladles he sees fit , as I know he
Is a good judge. I want him to enjoy
life , because he will be a long time
dead. "
The production of oxygen and hy
drogen on an industrial scale by the
decomposition of water with electro
lytic apparatus In Germany has led
to the suggestion that hydrogen thus
produced "may find a wide field , of
' employment as a lighting agent. It i3
now used for inflating military bal
loons. For lighting purposes.it Is com
pressed into-steel cylinders. With a
proper burner it is said to be a cheaper
illuminant than acetylene , the relative
cost for equal illuminating pawer be-
as 25 to 59 for acetylene.
VERY PQOR
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The Great American Staple Falls Below Its
Usual Output ,
Uncle Sam's Agricultural Department
Says It Is the Lowest Average
Yield Ever Recorded.
"Washington , D. C. ( Special. ) The
following crop bulletin has been issued
by the department of agriculture : The
preliminary estimates of the average
yield per acre of corn as published in
the monthly report of the statistician
of the department of agriculture is
16.4 , compared with an average yield
of 25.3 bushels per acre in 1900 and
1899 and a ten-year average of 24.4
bushels.
The present Indicated yield per acre
Is the lowest general average ever re
corded for this crop , being 2.2 bushels
per acre below the yield in 1881 , which
has stood for twenty years as the low
est on record. The indicated yield
in bushels per acre in the seven prin
cipal states is as follo'ws : Ohio , 26.1 ; In
diana ,19.8 ; Illinois , 21.4 ; Iowa , 25 ; Mis
souri , 10.1 ; Kansas , 7.8 , and Nebraska ,
14.1.
14.1.O the twenty-three states haying 1-
000,000 acres or upward in corn all but
Pennsylvania , Virginia and Michigan
repoit an average yield per acre be
low their respective ten-year averages.
The general avrage as to quality is
73.7 per cent , as compared with 85.5
per cent in November , 1899. It is esti
mated that 4.5 per cent of the corn
crop of 1900 was still in the hands of
farmers on.November 1 , 1901 , as com
pared wi h 4.4 per cent of the crop of
1899 in farmers' hands on November 1 ,
1900 , and 5.9 per cent of "that of 189S
in hand November 1 , 1899.
GOOD YIELD OF BUCKWHEAT.
The preliminary estimate of the av
erage yield per acre of buckwheat is
18.9 bushels , against an average yield
per acre of 1C bushels in 1900 , 16.6 bush
els in 1899 and a ten-year average of
16.9 bushels. Of the six states having
10,000 acres or upward under this pro
duct , including New York and Penn
sylvania , which together contain over
three-fourths of the entire buckwheat
acreage of the country , four report a
yield per acre in excess of their re
spective ten-year averages. The gen
eral average as to quality is 93.3 per
cent , against 90.2 per cent in Novem
ber last and 86.4 per cent in Novem
ber , 1899.
Preliminary estimates of the yield
per acre of potatoes is 59.9 bushels , as
against an average yield per acre of
.80.8 bushels in 1900 , 88.6 bushels In 189.9
and a ten-year average of 78.7 bushels.
The present indicated yield per acre Is
the lowest since 1890. Of the states
having. 50,000 .acres or upward in pota
toes , jill except * Michigan and Maine
report a yield per acref comparing
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unfavorably with their ten-year aver
ages. Indiana , Illinois , Iowa , Kansas
and Nebraska , report less than one-
half and Missouri less than one-fourth
of an average crop. The average as to
quality is 78.4 per cent , as compared
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with 88.1 in November last and 91.4 in
November , .1899. .
The-preliminary estimate of the av
erage yield per acre of hay is 1.32 tons
against an average yield of 1.28 tons
in 1900 , 1.35 tons in 1899 , and a ten-
yea raverage of 1.28 tons , while more
than three-fourths of the forty-seven
states and territories for which com
parative data'are available report a
yield per acre in excess of 'their re
spective ten-year average. Such im
portant states of Illinois , Iowa , Mis
souri , Kansas , Nebraska , South Dako
ta , Texas and Arkansas are all includ
ed in the region representing less fa
vorable. The average as to quality is
91.3 per cent , against 89.7 per cent in
November last and 93.8 per cent in
November , 1899.
Of the fifteen principal tobacco rais
ing states , including Kentucky , Vir
ginia , North Carolina and Tennessee ,
report an 'average yield per acre of
tobacco In excess of their ten-year av
erage , while six , including Ohio , Wis
consin and Missouri , all below such
averages.
The apple crop is considerably below
the ten-year average , the pear and
grape crops are slightly below , and
the sweet potato crop is slightly above.
BRISK FIGHT WITH THE REBELS ,
Manila. ( Special. ) Captain Hart-
man's troop of the First cavalry early
this morning came upon 400 insurgents
at Buan in Patangas province , south
western Luzon. Half the insurgents
were armed with rifles. They were
prepared for an attack and were in
rifle pits. The cavalry attacked the
insurgents on the flank , killing six
teen of them , wounding five and cap-
Luring nine rifles. The insurgents
aroke knd ran , the cavalry pursuing
: hem.
Two large boatloads of arms are re
ported to have been landed on the
southern part of the Batanzas penin
sula and taken to Durangan. Major
EVest , stationed in that locality , is en-
leavoring to find these arms.
IglesiasSilent on Charges.
San Juan , Porto Rico. ( Special. )
Santiago Iglesias , who was sent to
Porto Rico by the American Federa-
; ion of Labor to organize the work-
ngmen ofthe island , and who was ar-
ested on arriving here last week on a
iharge of conspiracy , has not yet an-
iwered the message from Mr. Gompers
LS to the cause of his detention. He
s withholding his reply until tomor *
ow , awaiting the attorney general's
mswer to his petition to Governor
lunt to be relisasec" * *
THE POSTOFFICES OF THE WEST.
Washington , * D. C. ( Special. ) The
annual report t > f the fourth assistant :
postmaster general was made public
today. For Nebraska it shows : Dur
ing the year ending June , 1901 , there
were ten presidential and 207 fourth-
class postmasters appointed. There
were 115 presidential and 938 fourth-
class offices , the receipts of which were
$1,557,665.51. Duringthe year twenty-
two ppstoffices..were established fifty-
five discontinued and forty-four names
and sites changed. Of presidential
postmasters one resigned and three
commissions expired. Of fourth-class
105 resigned , nineteen were removed
and six died.
In Iowa there were twenty-nine pres
idential and 440 fourth-class appoint
ments , 250 presidential and 1,587 fourth-
class offices , the recepits of which were
$2,998,389.51. There were thirty-eight
offices established , 109 discontinued and
thirty-six names and sites changed. Of
presidential seven resigned , nine com
missions expired , two died and one re
moved. Of fourth-class 246 resigned ,
twenty-six were removed and twenty-
one died.
In South Dakota.there were nine
presidential and 187 fourth-class ap
pointments. There were fifty-one pres
idential and 632 fourth-class offices , the
receipts of which were $475,828.64. There
were twenty-six offices established ,
thirt'y-seven discontinued , forty-four
sites and names changed. Of presi
dential there were one resignation , one
removal and three commissions ex
pired. Of fourth-class there were 7iine-
ty-two resignations , twenty-four re
movals and eight deaths.
BOERS ARE CHARGED WITH MUBDER ,
London. ( Special. ) Mr. Broderick ,
the war secretary , speaking at a ban
quet given in London in his honor by
the City Carlton club , declared that-
the Boers were hiding their tracks by
murdering the Kaffirs behindthem. .
Lord Kitchener wired today , he con
tinued , that the cold-olooded murder
of natives had become frequent "of
late , and that two dead natives , their
hands tied behind their backs , were
found November 10 at the bottom of
a mine shaft.
Later in his speech Mr. Broderick
said Great Britain now had 42,000 Bo
ers in .custody in the concentration
camps and on various islands , and that
11,000 more had been killed or wounded ,
or had left the country on parole. He
added that he believed the number of
Boers now in the field to be about
10,000.
Mr. Broderick said he was sorry any
thing had happened to affect the ca
reer of Sir Redvers Buller and he as
sured the company that the deafness
of Sir Evelyn Wood was not a bar
to the work of that officeras com
mander of an army corps.
CAT GUTS OFF THE NIAGARA POWER ,
Lockport , N. T. ( Special. ) A cat ,
was the cause of a great deal of trou
ble to the International Traction com
pany and the Niagara Falls Power
company last night. Puss climbed a
trolley pole on the Buffalo and Lock-
port railway at Hoffman , a small ham
let west of this city , andtried to walk
on the feed wire. Her tail touched
the parallel wire that carried the cur
rent back to Niagara Falls.
There was a flash that could be seen
for miles as the 24,000 volts of electric
ity passed through her body. The cat
was burned to a crisp. Her lifeless
body fell across both wires , and did
not drop to the ground. This short-
ciicuited the current , caused a fuse to
burn out at the Niagara Falls Power
'
house and immediately cut oif the
power from all the lines centering
there. *
It was two hours before the cause of
the trouble oould be located , and the
charred remains of the cat removed
rrom the wires. In the meantime al
most all the electric railways and
-treet lighting plants in western New
York were without power.
MAJESTY OF THE LAW UPHELD ,
Buffalo , N.Y. ( Special. ) District At
torney Pennell today received from
Governor Odell a letter accompanied
by a communication from the secre
tary of war. Secretary Root asks the
governor to accept and convey to the
officers charged with the administra
tion of justice in the state of New
York , especially in Erie county , an ex
pression of his satisfaction and ap
proval of the effective and dignified
way in which the law has been vindi
cated and the ends of justice attained
n the punishment of the assassin Czol-
josz.
"The course of justice was swift , but
neasured , " the secretary continues.
'Protection against lawless .violence
, vas shown to be consistent with car-
ain and awful punishment of guilt. No
> ppoitunity for defense was withheld ,
> ut no opportunity for spectacular dis-
jlay or the gratification" * of vanity
vhich is so great an incentive to such
: rimes was afforded. I know that this
las been appreciated by the cabinet of
he late President McKinley , and it is
tlso appreciated by the representative
if New York in that cabinet. I am au-
horized to say that President Roose-
relt fully concurs in the sentiments
vhich I have expressed. "
Kills Self on Fourth Trial
Omaha , Neb. ( Special. ) Peter Miller
, laborer , committed suicide here "in
.n unusual manner. He got out of his
ted and drew a large' knife across his
hroat and was making another slash
t-hen his roommate stopped him. He
hen grasped a heavy iron pin and be-
; an to crush his skull. When the pin
ras taken from him he picked "up a
iatchet and fled from the room in his
light clothing. He was found later ' i
uspended by a rope from from the '
ap of a furniture van.
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THE RAILWAY -
: ' KINCS FIGHT.
' The Hill and Harriman Interests Sigu Trea
ty of Peace at Trenton N , J ,
The' Northern Securities Company Is
Licensed With Immense Cap-
ital of $400,000,000.
New York. ( Special. ) There was in
corporated at Trenton , N. J. , a com
pany with $400,000,000 capital , whose
existence marks the most huge com
bination of railroad interests known in
the history of the world.
It is the Northern Securities compa
ny , endowed by its articles of incor
poration in general terms with the
power to acquire , control and dispose
[ of the capital stock of other corpora
tions , but organized on purpose to
take over the stocks of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail
roads.
The meaning of the appearance of
this company is that Hill and Harri
man , through Morgan , have come to
such terms that they will act in the
' future as one. It means the final set-
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tlement of that great strife of the
railroad monarchs which brought in
its most acute moments the Black Fri
day of the stock exchange , when quo
tations on Northern Pacific reached
the 1,000 mark. It means that Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific , Burling
ton , Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific , with a total of 34,000 miles of
tra"ck , are in the future to be held in
such close and intimate terms of own
ership that conflicts between them will
be out of the question.
In short , it is the triumph of the
idea of community of ownership , not
merely on the smaller scale by which
the two greatest railroad groups of the
country were built up , but between
these two groups themselves. "
The birth of the Northern Securities
company was not the only event
which was full of meaning as a sign
of this great harmony of the compa
nies. There was also a meeting of the
directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road company , at which the preferred
stock of the road was retired , to be
replaced by bonds convertible into
common stock. In this action both
Harriman and Hill interests agreed , no
longer having between them the hos
tility which last May , after the panic
in "Wall street , bade fair to make the
fight upon this point a bitter one.
James J. Hill has come out of the
long struggle in control of his north
ern group of railroads. He has , thro'
the Burlington properties , which were ,
so to speak , annexed by the greater
power to the northwest , brought his
system down to Chicago with all its
outlets to the east. He has built up
his group of roads into one which
might conceivably rival that other
great group , the Harriman roads.which
combine the Union Pacific and the
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Southern Pacific and , with the North
western and the Vanderbilt lines fur
ther east , make a transcontinental line.
But he does not hold his transpor
tation empire as one hostile to the
system to the south of him. Great
amounts of the stock of his system will
be held by the Harriman syndicate.
Through its holdings in the new
Northern Securities company.for which
the Union Pacific's interests in the
Northern Pacific road will be ex
changed , it * gains also an interest in
the control of the Burlington line.
In short all these roads are now to
be so closely bound together that rate
cutting , indirect , and stealthy , or open
and fierce methods of war , will be im
possible , and the stockholders will be
immeasurable gainers.
MOST DEADLY GUN EVER INVENTED.
Philadelphia , Pa. ( Special. ) General
Joseph Wheeler has arrived in Phila
delphia to take up a permanent resi
dence. He is organizing a $6,000,000
arms company that will erect a great
factory , and may operate in connection
with Cramps Shipbuilding company.
The company will manufacture wea
pons of a new invention. They are so
deadly and of such a radical departure
Erom modern guns that the experts
believe they will revolutionize warfare
on land and sea. Members of the
United States ordnance bureau have
conducted secret tests of the guns , and
assurances have been given that the
entire army may be re-equipped with
: he new weapons.
General Wheeler says he will take
jne regiment armed with the new
weapon and whip any three regiments
ising rifles of any other kind.
Edwin S. Cramp , who has charge of
; he mechanical end of the great ship-
) uilding plant , says : "The guns are a
vonder. There is nothing like them.
! n fact , they are revolutionary. "
At a secret test held t y government
nspectors at Newport recently , four
idmirals and five generals watched
he firing and the organizers of the f ;
: ompany state that prominent officers
n both army and navy are stock- n
lolders.
Luetgert Factory.
Chicago , 111. ( Special. ) After stand-
ng idle for over four years the famous ti
liuetgert sausage factory has been
old by the estate of the dead owner.
? he plant was one of the most exten-
ive private enterprises in Chicago ,
juetgert was accused of having mur- o :
; ered his wife in May , 1897. He was
aid Jo ; have placed the body in one
f the rendering tanks and there con-
umed it in crude potash. He was
entenced to the penitentiary , where ai
e died/- - * - * ' - * . . -
NEW TOWN MAKES ITS DEBUT ,
Ccdy , Wyo. ( Special. ) Cody , tha
baby town in Buffalo Bill's bailiwick ,
in the heart of the Big Horn basin ,
has made its debut. It was brought
out by the most unique party ever seen
In the state , given in Its honor by its
godfather , Colonel William F.Cody , as
sisted by a score of notable persons.
The first train to connect the new
city of thebasin with the outside
world arrived at 10 o'clock in the
morning. . It made tl.e run over the
130 miles of the Burlington's new track
from Toluca , Mont. , in good time.
A grand procession was formed on
the arrival of the first train. Amid the
booming of cannon and the blare of
the first brass band ever heard in the
Big Horn basin , Judge L. F. Houx ,
first mayor of Cody , welcomed the
founder of the town and his friends.
Fifty buildings , mostly of recent
growth , were almost hidden in bunt
ing , and the rest of local color was
supplied by the Indians. As the pro
cession of Indians , real broncho bust
ers , notable visitors , fair daughters of
the Big Horn mountains , measured its
length for more than a mile through
the town , every human and mechanical
noise producer became busy and Buf
falo Bill knew that he was at home.
He remarked to Colonel "Nickle of the
State J-and board : "I've led a few-
processions in my life , but never one
of which I was so proud as this. "
DAIRYMAN FAVOR THE GROUT BILL ,
Dubuque , la. ( Special. ) The second
day of the Iowa dairymen's convention
brought out an attendance of fully
800. Among the arrivals was W. W.
Grout of Vermont , who introduced a
bill in congress to tax oleomargarine
artificially colored 10 cents per pound
and uncolored one-fourth of 1 cent
per pound. The present tax is 2 cents.
Mr. Grout says the colored product is
seriously injuring the dairy interests
of the country , but if uncolored no one
would be deceived by the counterfeit.
Mr. Grout is confident his will will be
considered at the next session of con
gress. The matter was discussed by
Mr. Grout , James A. Tawney of Min
nesota and farmer Governor Hoard of
Wisconsin. All the dairymen are fa
vorable to the measure.
Many papers were read and dis
cussed at today's sessions , among the
best being one by former Governor
Hoard on the necessity for more and
better dairy education among the pat
rons of Iowa creameries. An encour
aging feature of the convention is the
addition of many new members to the
association.
TWO TERRITORIES BUT ONE STATE ,
Muskogee , I. T. ( Special. ) At to
night's session of the Oklahoma and
[ ndian Territory statehood convention
a. resolution was adopted authorizing
sach territory to select fifteen mem
bers each , the thirty to constitute a
permanent executive committee to
raise funds necessary for maintaining
a. delegation of six members , three
'rom each territory , at Washington ,
ind another authorizing the chairman
Lo appoint a special committee of fif-
: een from each territory , each com-
nittee to select three members of the
Washington delegation. These special
committees were named and the two
territories elected a joint executive
: ommittee :
The resolution committee's report.as
idopted , accompanied by a perfunc-
.ory memorial to congress , outlined ex-
sting conditions In both territories.
: alled attention to their vast resources
ind insisted on a single form of gov-
rnment. The most important features
if the resolution , hailed with delight
> y Indian Territory , were as follows :
"Resolved , That we are opposed to
he admission to statehood of Okla-
loma with any part of the Indian Ter-
Itory tacked on and the taking into
aid state of the Indian Territory by
ilecemeal , and we demand the admis-
ion of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
.s a whole , according to their pres-
nt boundaries.
"That we are unalterably opposed to
ingle statehood between Oklahoma
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, nd Indian Territory except upon ab-
olute equality of representation based
pon population.
"That the lands in the Indian Terri-
ory be alloted to the individual Indi-
ns of the several tribes immediately
nd fee simple title ssued to said
inds , and the allottees be allowed to
ispose of their lands other than their
omesteads without restriction. "
GOV , BEGKHAM FREES HiS MIND ,
Frankfort , Ky. ( Special. ) Governor
s
ieckham tonight addressed to Gov-
rnor Durbin of Indiana a letter reply-
c
ig to the criticism by that executive
E the courts and officials of Ken-
icky in his recent letter refusing to
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onor the requisition for Taylor and
inley , wanted for alleged eomplicity
i the assassination of Governor Goe-
el. He severely ararigns Governor
urbin for his refusal , cnarging that
i doing so he violated his oath of
Bee to support the constitution of the
hited States and that he became a
irty after the fact to the most in-
imous crime in the history of this
ate , the cold-blooded and dastardly
iurder of an eminent and distin-
lished citizen of Kentucky. ' *
' Reduce Ransom-
Sofia , Bulgaria. ( Special. ) The cap-
ve American missionaries , Miss Stone
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id Mme. Tsilka , are now-said to be
icupying a hut in a village of southCj '
n Bulgaria , fb which they are closely
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mfined. There is no confirmation here
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the reported death of Miss Stone.
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inferences being held by a secret
mmittee believed to relate
are to a ri
duction in the ransom.which , as soon tj
i it reaches the figures of the fund
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the disposal of Consul General Dick-
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son , will be paid. * j
BEET SUGAR
MEN FIGHT.
Westerners Join With Hawaii In Opposition
To Cuban Reciprocity ,
Mr. Oxnard Takes the Sugar Trust To
Task For Its Methods In Fight-
ing Beet Sugar Interests.
Washington , D. C. ( Special. ) Reci
procity with Cuba that will admit su
gar from that Island to this country
at low tariff rates will be vigorously
fought during the coming session of
congress. Hawaiian citizens had an
interview with the president today ,
during which they said the sugar in
terests of Hawaii were unalterably op
posed to Cuban sugar coming into the
United States at tariff rates lower than
at present. They told the president
they were united with the beet sugar
growers in fighting reciprocity for
Cuba. Many Influences will be at work
during the approaching season of con
gress having a direct bearing on the
sugar question. The beet sugar peo
ple , with Henry T. Oxnard at their
head , say that the beet sugar company
has a right to manufacture the raw
material and turn it out direct to the
consumer without passing It through ,
the hands of the sugar trust. Mr. Ox
nard , who is in Washington looking
after the interests of the beet sugar
growers and who will watch the pro
ceedings of the reciprocity convention
in this city next week , charges the
sugar trust with having gone into
the beet sugar territory and cut the
price of sugar in an unfair way. The
American Beet Sugar company had to
meet this cut , which it is claimed is
from 1 to 1 % cents under the prices
at seaboard , thereby causing great loss
to beet sugar growers. He further
charges the trust with covertly desir
ing free sugar from Cuba and he has
announced his intention of fighting re
ciprocity with Cuba as strongly as he
knows how.
Congressman Hepburn of the Clarin-
da , la.district , chairman of the in
terstate and foreign commerce com
mittee of the house during the last ses
sion of congress , had a long conference
with President Roosevelt about the
isthmian canal and Pacific cable legis
lation. Representative Hepburn said
after the conference that the presi
dent would lend substantial aid to the
canal proposition by treating the im
portant subject at considerable length
in his forthcoming message. "The ca
nal bill , " said the Clarinda congress
man , "which passed the house at the
last session of congress , will be rein-
troduced in much the same form in
which it passed last winter and early
action will be taken. Should I be re-
appointed to my old committee , I will
do everything possible to secure an
early vote. Of course there will be
changes in the bill to conform to the
new agreement with Great Britain , but
In all other respects it will be substan
tially the same measure. The building
af an isthmian canal Is in my opinion
Dne of the most important questions
that congress will be called upon to
consider. "
OWA BANK ROBBERIES NUMBER EIGHT.
Des Moines. la. ( Special. ) A private
> ank at Leroy , Decatur county , on
; he Keokuk & Western , was broken
nto and $2,000 taken. The robbers ef-
ected an entrance through the door
tnd broke open the safe.
Officers were notified of the burg-
ary early in the morning , but have
> een unable to locate the parties sus-
> ected of having committed the crime.
? he bank building was wrecked by the
xplosion of nitro-glycerine and the
ontents of the safe scattered about
iromlscuously. No one was awakened
n time to see any of the robbers or
ecure a clue. All the cash was taken.
? his makes the eighth bank robbery
n Iowa in the last month.
State Superintendent of Schools Par-
ett has decided an appeal case from
ra.n Buren county relating to the du-
ies and authority of county superin-
endents which sets a precedent for
hem in many matters of controversy ,
t was a case in which patrons had
bjected to the moving of a school-
ouse because of the fact that certain '
hildren would have to go too far for
schooling. A compromise had been
ffiected by which the school board had
greed to provide that the children
tiould be schooled in another district ,
he superintendent was notified offi-
ially that this had been done and de-
ared the case closed , but later found
lat the agreement had not been car-7
ed out , and then refused to reopen
le case on the theory that it had been ,
osed and he had no right to reopen
. But the state superintendent cites
le supreme court as authority for it
tat the state superintendent is in
ity bound to reopen a case where it
is been discovered that an error had
: en made and he holds that the coun-
superintendents have the same pow-
. Heretofore it has been the custom ,
superintendents to consider such
ises closed and to refuse to reopen
lem for correction
Clergy's Place In Politics.
Mount Vernon , O. ( Special. ) Bishop-
jtter of New York tonight addressed ,
e Sandusky convocation of the Epis-
pal diocese of Ohio on "Municipal Re-
rm. " His address dealt almost en-
ely with the relation of the clergy
politics and political movements. He
Id that the clergyman has the same-
jhts as a citizen as his brethren of
e laity , but that as a minister of
) d he has no business as an inter-
2ddler in4or aggressive leader of pc-
Ical controversies.