THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL
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NORFOLK. NEBRASKA FRIDAY MARCH 5 11)01)t ) )
FIERC TORBI KILLS
INACTION PLANS
Washington Lashed by Terrific
Storm ,
SNOW , WIND AND SLEET
Telegraph and Telephone Wires
All Went Down ,
PLANS ALL DISARRANGED
A Storm of GGreat Severity Raged in
and About Washington All Night ,
Demoralizing the Inauguration Plans.
Trains Snowbound.
Washington , March 4. William
Howard Taft was inaxiguratcd
president of the United States at
12:55 : o'clock this afternoon.
On account of the storm raging
at the time , and the snow and sleet
which covered the streets and
stands erected for the occasion , the
ceremony was performed in the
senate chamber , instead of on the
platform o\Uside the capital , as
had been planned.
The inaugural address was de
livered to a comparative handful
of people crowded into the senate
chamber , instead of to almost
countless thousands who had plan
ned to hear it.
Just before the inauguration of
President Taft , the new vice presi
dent , James Schoolcraft Sherman ,
took the oath of office in the
senate chamber.
\ Many thousands of people who
had expected to attend the in
auguration festivities were unable
to reach the city on account of
the blockading of trains in all di
rections by the storm.
President Taft finished speaking
at 1:32 : o'clock.
ROOSEVELT LEAVES WASH
INGTON.
Former President Roosevelt
warmly congratulated President
Taft and , escorted by the Republi
can county committee of New
York , two minutes later started on
foot for the Pennsylvania station ,
where Mrs. Roosevelt awaited
him.
him.The
The Roosevelt party left at 3
o'clock for Oyster Bay.
The inaugural parade started at
1:45 : , General J. Franklin Bell ,
chief of staff of the United States
army , giving the command to
march at that time , despite the
storm.
Washington , March 4. 11 a. m.
The storm here Is almost unpreced
ented.
It was blowing , sleeting and snowing
all night.
Everything in the city Is almost at
a standstill.
The streets are full of Ice , snow and
sleet.
Philadelphia , March 4. A wireless
message from Washington to the
Philadelphia navy yard at 11 o'clock
this morning says that the snow Is
eight Inches deep and snow Is still fall-
Ing.
Plttsburg ( Pa. , March 4. The local
weather bureau received a message
from Washington today to the effect
that the temperature there was 28
above zero at 8 o'clock this morning ,
there was a west wind blowing at the
rate of twenty-four miles an hour and
It was snowing.
Washington , March 4. The city of
Washington wat cut off from communi
cation with the rest of the world for
many hours today , the day of the In
auguration of William Howard Taft as
president of the United States , by a
raging snow and sleet storm of the
greatest severity ever known In a bliz
zard here.
At 4 o'clock this morning every telegraph -
graph and telephone wire out of the
city bad been carried down In the
storm and for many hours not a word
could be sent out of the city.
The storm raged all night around
Washington. Wet snow was driven
Into a furious blizzard b > a tremendous
deus gale.
This morning the snow turned to
sleet , adding oven moro to Iho dis
comfort of people hero for the Inaugur
ation cei ( 'monies.
And This of All Days.
There was dramatic and tragic In
tensity In the fact that Washington
should ho cut off from all communica
tion with the rest of the world on this
of all days , when a great Inaugural
was at hand.
Inauguration Plans Killed.
Plans for the Inauguration cere
monies out of doors on an elaborate
scale were disarranged and practically
annulled In every detail as a result of
the blinding storm.
Trains scheduled to arrive in Wash
Ington this morning , bringing thous
ands and thousands of visitors for the
Inauguration day program , were snow
bound In most cases ami someof them ,
owing to paralyzed telegraph and tele
phone service , have not yet been
found.
Newspaper Reports Pile Up.
Literally hundreds of thousands o ;
words of telegraph matter that the
hundreds of Washington correspond
cuts were frantic to get to their pa
pers , wore piled up In a mass in the
local telegraph offices and for hours
not a word could be clicked off to the
papers of the world regarding this , the
greatest day In Washington of sevoi
years.
When a wire was restored at last , It
was given over exclusively to sending
out the Inaugural address , which was
delivered , Inside , shortly after noon.
Details of the Parade.
The culminating feature of the In
augural ceremonies will be the ball H
the pension office. President Taft and
Mrs. Taft , Vice President Sheimai
nnd Mrs. Sherman and every one else
will attend the ball , and the presl
dent's reception will be one of the
leading features. He will be on pub
He Inspection , for the ball Is open to
all who have been able to pay ? E
apiece for tickets. The reception com
mittee , composed' of prominent clti
zens of all the states , will present to
Mr. and Mrs. Taft the visitors fron
their respective states. The hall wll
probably last until midnight. Tomor
row and the next day there will be
concerts , Instrumental and vocal , In
the pension office to wind up the in
auguratlon week.
Leading the great parade are th
regular troops , including the \Ves
Point cadets. Then come In turn th
marine corps and the jackles of th
navy , the latter Including the men o
the battleship Heat which clrcumnav
gatea the world. After them come th
militia organizations , and the civilian
bodies wind up the procession. Fo
several days the paraders have been
pouring into town by thousands. To
day's parade Is declared to be by al
odds the biggest that ever marche
up Pennsylvania avenue. Every fea
ture of It Is recelUng generous ap
plausc from the people who pack th
sidewalks of Pennsylvania avenue am
fill every window on that historic thor
oushlare.
New York , March 4. The city o
Washington was isolated from al
communication with the rest of th
country after 4 o'clock this morning
by a heavy snow storm which brough
down a great many telegraph am
telephone wires and rendered other
unworkable.
Louisville , Ky. , March 4. Official
of the Chesepeake and Ohio railroad
In communication with the railroad
officers at Richmond shortly before
o'clock this morning , were advisee
that there was no communication a
that hour between Richmond and
Washington.
The storm was very severe and the
train dispatchers were unable to fine
several trains , some of them headec
for Washington with visitors who line
planned to be at the Inauguratlot
ceremonies.
The long distance telephone com
pany hero was advised over a wlr
running to Richmond , via Spartanbnrg
Charlotte and Raleigh , that the stern
of wind and snow which raged al
night around Washington , changed t
sleet this morning.
Every effort was made today to es
tabllsh communication between Rlcl
mend and Washington but there wn
poor prospects of success.
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PRESIDblMT TA T.
BRIDGE IS OUT
NEARJTANTON
Seventy Feet of Big Elktiorn
Bridge Gone ,
BUILT 1WO YEARS AGO
Swollen Current and Ice Jams in the
Elkhorn Carried Away Two Spans
of Bridge South of Stanton , Cutting
Off Big Territory.
Stanton , Nob. , March 4. Special to
The News : Two spans , amounting to
seventy feet , were torn out of the new
wagon bridge across the Elkhorn river
just south of here , last night. The
swollen current and Ice cakes did the
work of carrying the bridge out. This
cuts off a large and rich territory ,
tributary to Stanton , and serious ef
fects will bo felt by this city until the
bridge can be rebuilt.
This Is the bridge which was built two
years ago over the new channel of the
Elkhorn , when the river ate out a new
course for Itself south of here. The
bridge was about 150 feet long and half
of It was taken away last night.
Ponca Creek Swollen.
The Northwestern railroad In this
territory Is having no trouble with
high water excepting slight Incon
venience In the region of Ponca creek ,
In I3oyd county , where Ice gorges have
formed and are causing slight delays
In traffic to make safe against possi
ble accident. No serious trouble has
occurred.
Danger From High Water Not Feared.
Unless a heavy rain sets in , It Is be
lieved that the Northfork river , which
Is still rising , will fail to pass suf
ficiently above the flood mark to over
flow East Norfolk avenue and North
First street or back over the east part
of town from Nenow's addition. The
river Is approaching close to the flood
mark but It Is believed that the crest
of the high water has arrived.
Following a fall of three Inches dur
ing the morning , the Northfork rose
eight Inches Wednesday afternoon ,
coming up nine Inches farther during
the night.
During the day the Northfork has
been Using about an Inch an hour ,
but word reccl\ed from Plerco this
afternoon was that Iho water was re
ceding.
The Northfork Is bank full and the
scene at the dam attracts numerous
spectators The bottoms north of the
M. & O. tracks , Including part of the
race grounds and the tract sometimes
suggested for a city park , arc sur
rounded and partly covered by over
flow water.
Destructive high water has been
prevented this week , It Is said , by the
fact that the hours when It was warm
enough to melt the snow hanks which
stretch over Pierce and Antelope coun
ties have been short. The night
freezing has prevented the snow water
from coming down in a rush.
The Elkhorn has been balling. Flan-
nlgan bridge near the John Ray form ,
the only danger point In this county ,
is now reported safe. Ice blocks
threatened for a time , two layers of
ice , one twenty inches and one four
teen Inches , pressing down on the
bridge. Twenty Inch Ice is unusual
for the Elkhorn.
ATLANTIC STATES STORM SWEPT
Wind Reached Velocity of Fifty-two
Miles an Hour.
Norfolk , Va. , March 4. A storm of
great Intensity swept eastern Virginia ,
Maryland and North Carolina last
night with a maximum velocity of
fifty-two miles an hour for the wind ,
which was reached at Cape Hatteras
during the early morning.
War Inevitable in Central America.
Sallna Cruz , Mexico , March I. The
steamer Pather brings news from Aja-
jntla that war Is Inevitable between
Nicaragua and Salvador , Troops are
being mobilized In both countries. The
battleship Presldente , which comprises
the entire navy of Salvador , sailed
under sealed orders and It Is presumed
will bombard NIcaraguau ports.
No Shortage of Hogs.
Clearwater , Neb. , March 4. Special
to The News : A record shipment of
hogs were loaded last night by the
Nye , Schneider , Fowler Co. at this
place consisting of four loads contain
ing 28C hogs. Most of these were
brought in yesterday from the sur
rounding country , and such receipts
would tend to show that there Is no ap
parent shortage of the hog crop In this
part of Nebraska.
Ducks In Northeast Nebraska.
Sioux City , March 4. W. C. McNa-
mara Is In the city from his ranch near
Long Pine , Neb. Corning to Sioux
City , ho says , he never saw so many
ducks since 1880. On Logan creek
and the bottoms near Wakefleld ,
Wayne and Emerson great Hocks of
wild fowl are to be seen from the
trains. The ducks are mostly pintails.
However , the redheads and mallards
are to bo seen. Mr. McNamara said
that owing to the largo amount of
water In the lowlands and the abund
ance of feed , shooting promises to bo
exceptionally good ,
STEPHENSON
IS RE-ELECTED
Long Drawn Out Wisconsin Bat
tle is Finished.
IN TIME TO BE SWORN IN
After a Long Senatorial Contest In
Wisconsin , United States Senator
Isaac Stephenson Has Won Out on
Twenty-third Ballot.
Madison , Wls. , March 4. United
States Senator Isaac Stephenson was
re-elected today on the twenty-thin'
ballot In a joint session of the leglsla
ture , receiving 03 of the 123 votes
cast.
Today's victory for Senator Stephen
son comes after a prolonged senatorla
battle whose bitterness has been un
surpassed In Wisconsin.
The senatorial primary exists In
Wisconsin and senator Stephenson was
nominated by the Republican party
primary last fall , against opposition of
Senator La Follette.
Senator La Follette , who was Instrn
mental In bringing this senatorla
primary Into Wisconsin , after falling
to defeat Stephenson In the primary-
led a movement to induce the state
legislature to violate the primary In
structlons and refuse to elect Stephen
eon.
Charges of money spent In corrupt
ways , were made and 'Investigated.
A week ago the state attorney general
oral left here with a certified copy o
the vote of January 2G , at which Stc
phenson received a majority of al
votes cast , but not a majority of the
legislature voting , although there was
a quorum present. It was the inten
tlon to present this certificate to the
senate election committee In Wash
Ington this afternoon and claim the
election.
Today's genuine election , however
does away with all question as to Ste-
phenson's re-election.
Senator Stephenson certified to the
secretary of state that his primary
campaign cost him $107,000.
He is a wealthy lumberman.
J. R. Hackett Dead.
Cleanvater , Neb. , March I. Specla
to The News : J. R. Hackett. an oh
settler of Grecian bend , living abou
four miles east of Clcarwator , diet
jestorday forenoon. He was suffering
from a complication of diseases \shlcl
on account of his nd\anced age. nearlj
seventy , proved fatal
IHE GUNQiriON OF Ult WEAIHER
Temperature ( or "Twenty-four Hours.
Forecast for Nebraska.
Condition of the weathci na recorded
od for the twenty-four Mount ending
nl S n. in. today :
Miixliinun in
Minimum 21
Average ju
Uaiomoter L'U.SI
Chicago. March I. The bullotln issued -
sued liy tMo Chicago station of tlio
United States weather Iniroau Klves
the forecast for Nebraska as follows :
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Warmer tonight.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Sim sets fi"il : , rises lli'JI ; moon sets
(5:10 ( : a m : 'J p. in. , planet Venus at
ap1" ' " ' ii f-TtlnM from the sun ; planet
v ' -H'-lc ' Ill-Tore sunrise.
DIDN'T ' KNOWJMVAS LOADED
Boy Killed by Companion While Mak
ing Run In Baseball Game.
StockUlle , Neb. , March I.-Sylves
ter Cozad was accidental ! } shut mul
killed at a ball game about a mile
north of Freedom , In Frontier county.
Young Coznd Is a boy about torn teen
years of ago. While ho was making a
run dining the game a revolver loll
from bi ° > pocKct , which was Immedi
ately picked up by a younger boy
named Honar He tailed out to young
Coznd , "Stop , or I will shoot > ou , " ap-
patently In fun , and then 11 rod the re
volver Co/ad turned at the call and
was shot through the left In east and
died almost Instantly. The Honar boy
thought the gun was not loaded , bo it
Is leported.
Render In Flood's Grip.
Ponder , Neb. , March -I. Residents
of Ponder are greatly alarmed heio
over the rapid ilso In Logan cn-oU ,
due to melted snows north of the city.
A grade , which was built seveial years
ago after a former flood to piotect
that pait of the iosldonri portion slt-
nntod on the bottom land , gave way
and the water has commenced run
ning into the city. People are prepar
ing to move to higher giound.
Italians Held on a Shooting Charge.
Fremont , Neb. , March 1. Joseph
Cosmanno and Nlcolll Gallon ! , Italians
held In connection with the ilot at
Euhling , have been held on the charge
of shooting with intent to kill Marshal
Ileineman and C. 15. Emlch of Kuhling.
A nuniliT of witnesses testified tbat
the Italians shot promiscuously Into a
crowd in a saloon and at the marshal ,
who was trying to make arrests
No Rink In Church Basement.
Hastings , Neb. , March 4. Following
the announcement of Hev. Harrison
that a skating rlnlt would he located
in the basement of the new Congrega
tional church , the trustees held a
meeting and have announced definitely
that there will be no rink. The new
edifice will cost $10,000 and bids will
soon be advertised for.
Sugar Fraud Cace Ready for Jury.
New York , March 4. COUUBO :
summed up today In the caswj of the
government , against the American
Sugar Refining company for evasion of
customs duties alleged to have been
unpaid because of shortage In weight
It Is expected before ulght the oaao
will be in the hands of the Jury.
Colonel Tucker on Retired Li at.
Washington , March 4. Secretary
Wright appioved the findings of the
retiring board In the case of Colone
William F. Tucker of the pay depart
ment of the army and son-in-law o
Mrs. John A. Logan. This places Col
onel ' 1 ncker on the retired list for
llle on three-quarters pay.
TWO GEM FAREUASES DISMISSED
Two Lines Not Joined In Suit Set fo
Hearing in October.
Pierre , S. D. , March 4. The stat
supreme court dismissed all the case
brought in that court under the 2-cen
fare law , with the exception of thos
against the Great Northern rallroai
and the South Dakota Central roads
which Hues were not joined In the
suit In the United States court. These
cases are set for hearing at "tho Octo
ber term of the supreme court.
Antl.Jap Bill Voted Down.
Sacramento , Cal. , March 4. Another
vain attempt was made by the anti-
Japanese element In the assembly to
exclude Japane&o Irom the public
schools. An unimportant school Jjlll ,
b7 Caskett of Ventuin , was called up
for final passage , when Poldlo ol
ited Hlutf ottered an amendment bur
ring not only Chinese and Japanese ,
but all Asiatics. The amendment was
voted down.
Negroes Ordered to Leave.
DuQueen , Ark. , March 4. As the re
sult of the dynamiting of the two ne
gro homes and the slight Injury of a
negro girl here , many negroes of this
places are preparing to leave. White
men are said to have warned the ne
groes to quit work In the plant oper
ated here by the Dlerks Lumber com
pany and leave the country.
Hill fK.med Acting Chairman.
Washington , March 4. Former Gov
ernor John Hill of Maine , member of
the Republican national committee of
that state , has been named as acting
chairman of the national committee
by Chairman Frank II. Hitchcock.
Village " : ported Leveled by Quake.
London , March 4. A telegram re
colved here from Smyrna , Asiatic Tur
key , baj.s that the \illage of Masraii
mai Jerusalem lias been destroyed by
an oarthijunlvo One hundred and fiftj
prr.iiiB are hurled in the ruins
INAUGURAL
MESSAGE
New President Outlines Policies
of Administration ,
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PRAISE FOR ROOSEVELT
Speech Begins Advocating Pred
ecessor's ' Reforms ,
'GOOD ' AND BAD TRUS'S" '
Japanese Question Discussed Postal
Savings Banks Favored Lock Canal
Plan Defended Words of Friend
ship for the South.
Washington , March I. In his In-
uigural address President Taft said ,
lust after noon today :
My Fellow Citizens Any one who
taken the oath I have just taken must
feel a heavy weight of responsibility.
If not , he has no concept Ion of the
powers and duties of the olllco upon
which he Is about to enter or he In
lacking In a proper sense of ( he obliga
tion \\hlch the oath Imposes.
The olllce of an Inaugural addicts Is
to give n summary outline nf the main
policies of the new administration so
far us they can ho anticipated. I Imvo
had the honor to lie one of the ad
visers of my distinguished picdeccssor
and as Mich to hold up his hands In
the reforms he bus Initialed I should
be untrue to myself , to my promises
and to tin1 declarations of the parly
platform upon which I way elected to
olllce If I did not make the malnte
nance and enforcement of those re
forms a most Important feature of my
administration. They were directed to
the suppression of the lawlessness anil
abuses of po\\er of the great combina
tions of capital Invested In railroads
and In Industrial enterprises carrying"
on Interstate commerce. The stop *
which my predecessor took and the
legislation passed on his recommenda
tlon have accomplished much , Imvo
caused u general halt In the vicious
policies which created popular alarm
and have brought about In the bust
ness affected a much higher regard for
existing law.
Further Action Needed.
To render the reforms lasting , how
ever , and to secure at the same tlmo
freedom from alarm on the part of
those pursuing proper and progressive
business methods further legislative
and executive action are needed. Re
lief of the railroads from certain re
strictions of the anti-trust law have
been urged by my predecessor and will
be urged by me. On the other hand ,
the administration Is pledged to legis
lation looking to a proper federal su
pervision and restriction to prevent ex
cessive Issues of bonds and stocks by
companies owning and operating inter
state commerce railroads.
Then , too , n reorganization of the de
partment of Justice , of the bureau ot
corporations in the department of com
merce and labor and of the Interstate
commerce commission looking to effec
tive co-operation of these agencies is
needed to secure a more rapid and cer
tain enforcement of the laws affect
ing Interstate railroads and Industrial
combinations.
I hope to be able to submit at the
flrrU regular session of the Incoming
congress In December next definite
suggestions In respect to the needed
amendments to the anti-trust and the
Interstate commerce law and the
changes required In the executive de
partments concerned In their enforcement -
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ment ,
"Good , nd Bad Trusts. "
It Is believed that with the changes
to be recommended American busl-
licss can be assured of that measure of
stability and certainty In respect tc
those things that may be done and
those that are prohibited , wiilcb In
essential to the life and growth of
all business. Such a plan must Include
the right of the people to avail them-
Helves of those methods of combining
capital and effort deemed necessary to
reach the highest degree of economic
efliclcncy , at the same time differenti
ating between combinations based
upon legitimate economic reasons and
those formed with the Intent of creat
ing monopolies and artificially control-
Hng prices.
'Pio work of formulating Into prac
tical shape such changes Is creative
, work of the highest order and requires
ell the deliberation possible In the in
terval. I believe that the amendments
to be proposed are just as necessary In
the protection of legitimate business as
In the clinching of the reforms wh ! < h
properly bear the name of my prede
cessor
Revision of the Tariff.
A matter of most pressing Impor
tance Is the reUsInn of the tariff In
ncciirdaiu e \\lth the promises of the
platform ujmii which I was elected , 1
shall call congress Into extra session ,
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