a a a The London Journal. A. MADARIS ED. PROP. LYNDON, OSAGE COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1894.
VOLUME XX, NUMBER 3. State Ilistorical Society STATE NEWS. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, owns a farm near Eu1, Greenwood county. Independence is to have a new planing mill, which will utilize some of its natural gas for motive power. The suspended bank at Jennings, Decatur has paid its depositors in full and will soon resume business.
The Wichita city officials have telegraphed to a brokerage firm in New York their acceptance of a bid on the bonds voted to bore for gas, oil, amounting to $10,000. The broker question offered par value for the bonds. R. M. De Garmo, of Pittsburg, who is said to be the largest owner of unincumbered lands in the state, died there last week after an operation for cancer of the stomach, with which he has been afflicted twenty years.
Oil was struck at Caney, on lots owned by Mr. Fugate, at a depth of 85 feet. A well was being drilled for water, and the presence of oil was noticed. By lowering a bucket a number of times six or seven gallons of genuine oil were secured. Emporia Republican: The flag raising at the school house in District No.
53 was an occasion of unusual interest. A programmo was rendered consisting of music, recitation, and declamations by the pupils. Speeches were delivered by the county superintendent, members of the school board and others. A number of citizens from the city were present. Wichita Special: James Herman, farmer living six miles west of here, was fatally shot during the night by stranger.
He got out of bed and went to the well for a drink. There he suddenly ran up against a man on horseback, who shot him without a word. Herman, in a dying condition, dragged himself to the house and the man escaped. The county clerk made a report to the auditor of the state of the amount delinquent taxes to ba credited to Shaw1100 county as required by law. The report shows a very small delinquentage compared with year ago.
The delinquent taxes are as follows: Personal property. $802.01 Real estate. 189.63 Railroad 687.16 $1,678.80 Topeka Journal: The office of poor commissioner be conducted differently this season from heretofore. Up to this time people able to prove themselves worthy of charity, given flour, potatoes and other provisions well as fuel, by the poor commissioner. Now the applicants must go without this small assistance and go to the poor farm, or take care of themselves, leaving no middle course.
There is no doubt but under the old syatem the county was many cases imposed upon, and the change war, made largely to remedy this feature. Some of the farmers in the vicinity Lane, Franklin county, are engaging largely in the culture of tobacco. Fully 200 acres have been grown this year, and the venture has proven so profitable that next year the acreage will be more than doubled. Several men have more than ten acres each. The yield this year was about 1,500 pounds to the acre, which is good.
As the price in the Cincinnati market, where all of it is sold, 10 cents a pound, and the cost of groWing it is not more than $30 an acre, is readily seen that the crop was a profitable one. One man bought a farm year ago for $4,000, and raised $2,000 worth of tobacco this year in addition a sufficient value of other crops to meet all his expenses for the season, leaving him as net profit 50 per cent on the cost of his farm. The quality of the tobacco raised in Franklin county is excellent, comparing favorably with that raised the best tobacco-growing districts Kentucky. From Winfield: This city was visited by a severe storm Saturday night, Oct. 20.
The storm came from the southwest and was about two miles wide. P. Baden's warehouse was totally destroyed, and the store of J. B. Linn was unroofed and damaged to the extent $2,000.
Baden's damage will amount to $3,000. Plate glass was broken several business houses and trees and outbuildings were thrown around in promiscuous way. The damage to property in this respect will amount to about $4,000. Genda Springs, eighteen miles southwest of this city, suffered a great loss. Several business houses and dwellings were blown to pieces.
The heaviest losses are: Nat Wells, one-story frame blown to atoms; Tom Royal, onestory frame business house blown away; Teal livery barn, total loss; Hubbel block, total loss; Pond Lumber company vard scattered and office blown awav; Albright block, damage $3,000. Dr. Duffield, who was in his buggy, was blown over and received internal injuries. The bus on its way from the train with Mre. Ayers and Mr.
Wood inside, was blown over, but both escaped unhurt. The billiard hall had the roof blown off. Barns and outbuildings are down generally. A flat car loaded with coal standing on the switch was blown out on the main track and was found Sunday morning a mile west of Arkansas City. barn on the Gilstrap farm was blown down the hill into the Arkansas river.
No lives were lost and the damages are estimated at something near $13,000. Ottawa is to have a cracker and candy factory. The inducement for its location there is the shipping facilities from that railroad center. Frank Wilcox, the Central Branch and Wyandotte station agent at Goff's, accidentally shot himself. There was a loaded revolver in the money drawer, and when Wilcox attempted to open it the revolver caught on something and was discharged.
The ball struck his arm, and it may have to be ampu- tated. Marshall county has 139 schools and the superintendent has to travel 1,800 miles to visit them. Champion: If the horticulturists of Atchison county want to see a fine display of home grown apples consisting of twenty five or thirty varieties, call at the Champion office. There is no doubt the display presents some of the finest apples, if not the finest ever raised in the state. Eastern Kansas has every reason to be prond of herself as an apple producing country.
It is said that Kansas apples this year sell at a higher price than the apples of any other state. The Hutchinson Commercial Club has completed arrangements for the meeting of the Kansas Irrigation Association in that city on the 23d and 24th days of November. Topeka Mail: Two or three years ago the Farmers' Alliance started an insurance company in this state. Thousands of farmers were induced to go into it and now they find their insurance worthless. farmer in Ellis county, who lost all his wheat by hail, wrote to the Alliance Insurance company in which his wheat had been insured, and received a.
circular from the company stating that it would be unable to fulfill its contract as it was financially embarassed, and appended a statement of its condition. Its resources were placed at $17,000 and its liabilities at over $30,000. STOCK AND FARM. Robert Freeman picked nearly eighteen barrels of apples from two Willow Twig trees in Leavenworth county this year, when apples are worth something. The receipts of hogs at the Kansas Citv, stockyards since January 1, have been almost 2,000.000, fully 15 cent heavier than during the sam9 period last year.
A great deal of cottonseed meal will be fed in Kansas this winter. Several large feeders have made contracts for large quantities of the meal laid down at their feed lots at $20 a ton. This is nearly 25 per cent less than oil cake costs. Topeka Mail: Peter Spotts, a colored farmer one mile east of Garfield park, has grown the largest sweet potatoes in Shawnee county this year. He has the white Brazilian variety and brought a load to town, several of which were three feet in length and weighed eight pounds.
Nothing like them were ever seen in peka before. Mr. Spotts says that in a good year he can raise 600 bushels to the acre from this variety. The way young and thin cattle have been going to the country of late, from the Kansas City, stock yards, it would seem that we are to have plenty of cattle next vear, notwithstanding the failure of the corn crop. There were no less than 460 cars of stockers and feeders taken for the country last week.
It looks as if someone had feed and there would be plenty of beef here next year after all. AMONG KANSAS CHURCH PEOPLE. The new Congregational church in Parsons was October 21, with appropriate services. The Cumberland Presbyterian church, corner of Polk and Huntoon streets, Topeka, which has been closed since last December, has a new pastor and will be opened again for regular services. The new pastor is Rev.
E. M. Wright, a young man from Washington, Ind. This church has had no pastor since Rev. N.
D. Johnson resigned and removed to Wamego. The Lutheran synod in Topeka selected Peabody as the next place of meeting. The election of officers of the Woman's Missionary society, connected with the synod, resulted as follows: Mrs. Elia Beegle, of Atch son, president; Mrs.
F. A. Selig, of Lawrence, treasurer; Mrs. J. N.
Lentz, of Ottawa, recording secretary; Mrs. J. M. Cromer, of Kansas City, corresponding secretary. Topeka Journal: The canvass of the county bible society to supply the destitute, recently completed required 330 days time, at an expense of $200 in excess of all receipts for this purpose.
Nearly every house in the county was reached, and 7,775 families were conversed with. The record of those not at home was not kept, but the average would be about one in ten. It hardly seems possible that 599 families were found without a copy of the bible or any part of it, yet such is the fact. Of these were supplied, 348 books being actually donated. The ninth annual convention of the Young Women's Christian association of Kansas assembled in the First Methodist church of Ottawa.
One of the features of the first session was the pre senting of greetings from the college presidents of the state. After a devotion service, conducted by Miss Blanche Thoburn of the State University, Mrs. Emery of Topeka took the chair and the following officers were elected: Mrs. Nellie Kedzie of the State Agricultural college, president; Mrs. Anna Elder of Salina, first vice president; Miss Helen F.
Barnes of Kansas City, second VICe president; Miss Maud Stackhouse of Holton, and Miss Anna Banks, Lawrence, recording secretaries. The Baptist state convention at Winfield closed with a sermon by Rev. A. P. Graves, followed with short addresses.
Dr. F. O. Hetrick, Rev. F.
C. Fassett, Rev. L. H. Holt, and Rev.
C. D. Rodgers, committee on resolutions, reported resolutions bearing on several subjects. First was a protest against continuing, contract Indian schools under sectarian control. Second resolution deplored the cultivation of the civil law in divorces and the frequency with which they were obtained.
Another provided that collections be taken by the churches to pay the debt of $1,000 on the ladies' college at Ottawa. This has been one of the most interesting sessions of the state conventions ever held and much good work has been done. The attendance was very large throughout the session. Topeka Journal: The First Baptist, church people do not now expect to build their new church next spring as had been anticipated, on account of the hard times. On account of the scarcity of money nothing is being done towards raising money for the church building fund, although the several societies in the church are raising money for special purposes.
One society, which has charge of what is known as the "new church organ fund," has raised over $800, which will go toward paying for a large pipe organ when the new church is erected. KANSAS RAILROADING. The freight, express and passenget business at Cawker City in September amounted to $4,000. The Santa Fe land department's fruit and grain exhibit at the food and health exposition at Boston is attracting a good deal of attention. The Santa Fe is just at present having unusually large stock shipments, and hardly a day passes that the road does not handle upwards of 250 to 300 cars of cattle.
Most of it is from Texas, and is bound for the eastern marketa Why Troops Are Necessary. ST. Louis, October 25. -Bankers and business men living in the towns of the Indian Territory, as well as those living outside the territory, but doing business with territory firms, has been greatly worked up over the condition of affairs which has made it necessary for the Pacific Express company to refuse money shipments either into or out of the territory. So far as the express company is concerned, however, they take a philosophical view of the situation and net a complaint has been registered.
"The situation in the Indian Territory today," said Superintendent O. W. Case, of the Pacific company, worse than it ever was. There is absolutely no protection for life or property, except as we furnish it our. selves.
This continual carrying of an armed force makes the business too expensive to be profitable. "We have lost more by the expense than we ever did by the actual robberies. Now this Saturday robbery, by it we lost just $317. This consisted of return C. 0.
which we are still handling, and our own and the railroad's remittances. But you can see that to protect even a small amount what it would cost when such a gang as that, attacked the train. The other companies are still carrying money, but I am informed by Mr. Simpson, of the Wells Fargo, that he has asked the general superintendent to issue an order simi'ar to ours. "To give you a litt.e idea of what we have paid out I will speak of the Oliphant robbery.
Our loss there was about $300, but it cost us $8,500 to capture the robbers. A Ton of Dynamite Explodes. The particulars of an explosion at Rio de Janeiro, which occurred over a month ago, have just been received. A Brazilian soldier found near the English cemetery a subterranean magazine, in which the insurgents of the recent rebellion had concealed a large quantity of gunpowder, cartridges and dynamite shells, which they had evidently intended to use against the government. He reported his find to the general commanding and a rough cart, drawn by two mules, was sent to the scene to remove the contents of the magazine to a place of safety.
A detachment of soldiers accompanied the cart, and a curious crowd of citizens followed it. A number of the shells had been placed in the cart, and a pile of others had been passed out close behind it, when one of the soldiers handling a shell dropped it among the others. An explosion shook the earth. A sheet of flame shot upward and a cloud of whitish smoke hid everything from view. The vessels in the harbor rocked at their moorings and the city was thrown into wild excitement.
Over a ton of dynamite had exploded. The soldiers and mules ware blown into fragments and only pieces were found. Over sixty persons were reported killed. Suffering New Orleans. New ORLEANS, October 25.
-A serious problem is confronting the citizens of New Orleans and suburban towns. They do not know where they are to get drinking water unless it rains, soon, of which at present there seems be no prospect. The drouth has lasted now about two months. The cisterns are nearly all empty and the wells dry. The people depend al.
most entirely upon the supply of water caught off the roofs of houses in cisterns. The Mis-issippi river water is unfit to drink unless filtered. There 18 considerable suffering in the rear of the Sixth district, and the people have to go six and seven blocks to the fire plugs. The cisterns are in danger of falling to pieces, owing to being empty and standing out in the sun. Vegetables are becoming scarce, being pretty well burned up.
The dust in the city is almost intolerable. Doomed to Disappointment, WASHINGTON, D. October civilians in the west have recently filed applications for appointments as Indian agents. This bas been done on the supposition that there is to be a change of policy, and that army officers who have been conducting the agencies. are to be sent back to their regiments.
It is true the war department is anxious to see the officers returned to their regiments. It is also a fact that the Indian office believes civilians would do better than army officers, but there is to be no change of policy. The Indian office encouraged the report until the return of Hoke Smith the other day. The secretary, however, had sounded the president on the subject, and learned that Mr. Cleveland was very decidedly in favor of utilizing the army for Indian agencies.
So the vacancies will be filled by other officers, and the papers filed by civilian candidates will avail them nothing. To Found a New Norway. VICTORIA, B. October 25. -Rev.
Simon Saagstadt, pioneer minister of the Lutheran church in Minnesota, and his little band of eighty Norwegian farmers, have got thus far on their way to Bella Cola, where they, with about 3,000 of their countrymen, propose establishing a new Norway among the British Columbia mountains and fjords, so like to those of their native land. These Norwegians purpose engaging in' mixed farming and development of the deep sea fisheries. They are the first to take advantage of the British Columbia government's new terms to settlers. Their families and friends will fellow as soon as they have completed building the houses, whose construction will be their first duty." Rev. Saagstadt says that in all, his settlements will have a population of about 3,000 souls and will have a capital of $500,000.
San Diego and Other Towns. San Diego and neighboring towns were visited October 23 by a series of earthquakes of more than ordinary severity. The first shock occurred at 3:03 p. m. and was foilowed at intervals of a quarter of a minute by two others.
the last being one of the strongest experienced there since the coming of the Americans. People in brick houses swarmed into the streets, hearing the startling grind of brick and mortar and seeing in some cases the walls crack. A heavy sound was heard in all parts of the city immediately preceding the quake. Considerable consternation was caused in the public schools, the children in some of the rooms being hastily dismissed. Clocks were stopped, windows and doors were shaken sensibly.
Stock Subscribers Weakening. HIAWATHA, October H. Adams and Samuel Bierer, who visited Pullman to investigate the Pullman club, made an adverse report at a meeting of the stockholders here, to the effect that the scheme of operating a co-operative manufactory in Hiawatha was impracticable. The stockholders voted to reject the committee's report, but the division in sentiment has caused some of the stockholders to give notice that they will not pay stock assessments. A K.
of P. Past Grand Master. N. H. Hallowell, of Cold water, past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Kan.
sas, met with a terrible accident at the Wichita Union depot. After the train started up he became sick and went on the platform for air, became dizzy and fell off, catching the railing and dragging. His right foot was emashed to a pulp. Hallowell has been taken to the hospital and leg amputated. Reed Speaks to Stockmen.
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, stood on a pine board platform in front of the Exchange building at the stock yards in Chicago and spoke to 2,000 stockmen and cattle herders. One-third of his audience were cowboys on horseback. The ex-speaker was loudly cheered upon his appearance and his speech was frequently interrupted by the enthusiastic cowboys. Anarchists Coming.
LONDON, October of the 'leading English and foreign anarchists are vacating their haunts in London and the majority are proceeding singly to America. The reason for this migration is the incessant barrassing to which they have been subjected, and on account of the vigilance of the police. Mobray, the socialist leader, will shortly return to the United States. Promulgating a Creed, LOWELL, October from all sections of the country attended the opening session of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Missionary association in the First Congregational church of this city, now in session. NOTABLE WEDDING And How the Bride and Maids Were Dressed.
Oklahoma Statehood Discussed at 102-Diphtheria Epidemic-A New Way to Ship Fruit and to Hold it in Storage. Ethel Ingalls Wed. Miss Ethel Ingalls, eldest daughter of exSenator John -J. Ingalls, was married October 24, to Dr. Edward G.
B.air at Trinity church, Atchison. Thirteen hundred invitations were issued and admission was by card. The ushers were two bro! hers of the bride, Ellsworth and Ralph Ingalls, and two brothers of the groom, Wesley and Elwynn Blair. The church was lighted by pink and white candles and decorated with pink and white crysanthemums. Miss Constance Ingalls was maid of honor.
Her gown was yellow faille and white moire silk. The bridesmaids were Misses Marian Ingalls, Ruth Parker, Hattie Marshall of Nashville. Abbie and Helen Schofield and Mable Waggener. The first three wore Empire gowns of pink tulle and the others white Empire gowns. The bride wore her mother's wedding aress of white moire and point lace.
Three little girls dressed in white spangled tulle preceded the bride as she entered with her father. The groom waited at the altar with the best man, W. A. Blair, and the marriage ceremony was pronounced by the rector, Rev. John Henry Hopkins, according to the Episcopal ring service, Cheaper Than Refrigerators, CHICAGO, October first car load of fruit shipped under the new process of preservation by carbonic acid gas instead of refrigeration, has been disposed of in the market here.
The car was shipped from Sacramento on the 13th and owing to numerous accidents en route did not reach Chicago until midnight of the 21st. It was subject to further delay in the yards. The car contained two air-tight compartments out of which, after the fruit had been loaded, the air was exhausted and the compartments charged with carbonic acid gas. In one of the accidents on the road, the car was partially derailed and one compartment sprung in such a manner as to permit leakage of the 8. The other was not injured.
When the fruit was unloaded that from the damaged compartment was found to be partially spoiled, owing to the admission of air; while the fruit from the other was in as perfect condition as the day it was loaded. The prices it brought were us high as any on the market. How Tom Reed Talks. MINNEAPOLIS, October opening his address hera Mr. Reed spoke of the great importance of the coming election to the affairs of the country in general; dwelt upon the effect the uncertainty of the tariff question had had on business during the past two years.
The democratic leaders declared all this was on account of the act of 1890. is strange," said the speaker, "that men should be so unreasonable. Nothing but business uncertainty produced the disaster. "For the next two years there are two fixed facts. First, the president and senate are democratic.
Consequently if the house is republican, as we expect to make it, it will simply educate the people. The other fixed fact is that the senate bill is a law. Whatever good there may be in it, it may be shown by trial. Meantime the matter being in a large measure settled, our duty is to geek a way out of these present misfortunes." Fifty Deaths in One Week. STURGES, October 26.
-A fearful and death dealing plague of diphtheria is raging opposite Casey ville, in Illinois, and coffins can hardly be furnished fast enough with which to bury the dead. No fewer than forty deaths have occurred within the week. A man from across the river arrived in Caseyville for the fifth coffin furnished to one family. The plague has now crossed the Ohio and 13 epidemic at Caseyville and Mut fortown. having been brought thither by families from Illinois fleeing from its ravages.
All the schools have closed. The community is in a general state of alarm. A number of physicians from elsewhere have been called to assist in combatting the disease. The local doctors thus far have been utterly powerless to arrest the epidemic. Would Make a Great State.
WASHINGTON, D. October Renfrow, of Oklaboma, has submitted his annual report to the secretary of the interior. In the report the governor says: "The question of statehood for Oklahoma has been much agitated, and the people are divided on the question. Some desire statehood for Oklahoma, with its present boundary; others prefer to have the matter. of statehood deferred until such a time as Oklahoma and the Indian Territory may be admitted as one state.
separate states neither Oklahoma nor the Indian Territory would rank among the great western states either in extent or wealth. Together they would be equal to the greatest, and, in my opinion, the greatest state west of the Mississippi." Coffins and Furniture, HIAWATHA, October 26. -The difficulties of the Pullman Co-operative company have been adjusted and a charter has been applied for. Four persons surrendered their stock and it was taken by others. The capital stock is $75,000.
The workmen take $25,000 of the stock and pay for it in work. Eighteen families and thirty-two men will be here at once from the Pullinan works. The superintendent of the Hiawatha factory will be D. H. Van Nasshe, said to be one of the finest workmen employed by the Pullman company.
The new works will not now manufacture cars, but will make furniture and coffins, and anything there is a demand for. Two Counties on Fire. HYANNIS, October 26. -A fearful conflagration has just swept over the southern. part of Cherry county and the northern part of Grant.
The fire has burned over a strip of country nearly fifty miles in width and destroyed haystacks, homes, and in some instances stock. Two men, names unknown, perished in the flames. The hay of a number of stockmen was burned and a large space of ranges ruined. The destruction of property is great and a number of stockmen will be ruined financially. Only Splinters Left.
ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, October dispatch received here from Peter Head, a seaport about twenty-five miles from here, announces that the Swedish schooner Alene, loaded with gunpowder, which was at anchor near Peter Head, has been blown up. It is added that within two minutes after the explosion nothing was to be seen on the surface of the water but splinters from the schooner. All her crew perished. Laborers' Pay Increased. PITTSBURG, October -The Carrie Furnace company has advanced wages of day laborers from $1.05 to $1.20.
It is believed other employers of labor who have been paying less than. $1.20 for day labor will restore the price to what it prior to the panic. This is the sr cond advance in wages which has occurred in Pittsburg this year. The other was to laborers at a south side mill. They, however, only received 7 cents of an advance.
One Hundred and Two Years. ST. JOSEPH, October -Mrs. Rosetta Saxton. mother of the late millionaire banker, A.
M. Saxton, died here of old age. She was born in Virginia, October 12, 1792, and was 102 years and 12 days of age at her death. She retained her faculties to the last and remembered many things connected with the beginning of the century. Another Gold Standard Country, LONDON, October Madrid dispatch The finance committee of the Corte: has decided to establish a gold standard of currency for Porto Rico.
The Mexican dollar will hereafter be used only as a basis of weight for the value of silver. Petitical Mobs. There were two political riots in Indianapolis the other night and the feeling has not run so high since the days the great Garfield-Porter campaign in Indiana. J. Milton Turner, a colored orator who has gained notoriety in recent years in the west.
ern states with his democratic speeches, was brought here to address the colored people. Turner was greeted an immense crowd of negroes. He commenced with a diatribe against ex-President Harrison, when the displeasure of the audience broke forth and a rush was made for the stand. Turner was dragged down and pounded, in spite of the squad of police present. Heads were clubbed, but the negroes could not be driven off the man.
Finally he was dragged out and made a break for the city under guard of the police. In spite of this the enemies of Turner chased him six blocks and came near killing him. The other riot occurred on the south side, where Allen Jennings, the populist, invaded a democratic community. The democrats listened to Jennings until he had heaped all the contumely he could think of on the head of Congressman Bynum, when, at a signal, a shower of eggs, stones and potatoes were rained on him. Panic Over Smallpox.
The health authorities of Washington, D. are using their greatest endeavors to prevent an epidemic. The news of the spread of the disease has caused considerable alarm and it is estimated that over 500 people were vaccinated in one day. All the public and private doctors were besieged by applicants for vaccination and there was a scarcity of vaccine points. Several large firms had all their employes vaccinated.
Superintendent Warning has dismissed from school all children who have not been vaccinated within the last five years. An agent of the health department visited the interior department, and at his request Secretary Smith issued an order requiring all employes to be vaccinated. It directed physicians from the pension office to vaccinate all who did not choose to be troubled by other physicians. The force at the department were in a siderable panic and many persons absented themselves entirely from the building, their scare being due to the fact that three of the smallpox victims are employed in the interior department. Wedding and Funeral Scenes.
It is stated that the condition of the czar varied between drowsiness and comparative cheerfulness. During one of the latter periods the czar is said to have been left alone with the czarowitz for an hour, and it is understood that during this interview the emperor dictated a loving message of farewell to Russia, which will be issued upon his death. The message is said to be of a purely personal nature, and to have no bearing upon political matters. The czar is reported to be much gratified at the expressions of sympathy upon the part of the Russian people, and it is said that he fully realizes the gravity of his position. A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from Yalta says that symbols of joy and sorrow jostle each other everywhere in that neighborhood.
State carriages and regiments of troops for the imperial marriage arrived at the same time as the mourning coaches and liveries of woe which will be required in the event of the czar's death. Hoke Smith in the Right. WASHINGTON, D. October Smith was asked what he should recommend to prevent permanently the law. lessoess and reign of terror that now exists in the Indian territory.
the treaties, abolish the tribal relations, establish a territorial government and extend the jurisdiction of the United States over the whole territory," he replied promptly. The secretary expressed the opinion that the local self-government of the civilized tribes was a failure thus far. Their legislatures make laws, but there seems to be no way of enforcing them. Men who had all along been opposed to the course he suggested, now say that there was no other way out of the diffleulty. He would see that the Indians were protected in the property rights, but he would have the United States control sufficiently to rid the territory of the outlaws.
If a territorial government were established, judges would be sent there to administer the laws and the governor who was appointed could see that they were forced. Sensation in Court. KANSAS CITY, October testifying i in court here against his wife in a divorce suit in which she sought separation, William Lacey, of Iola, was arrested charged with the murder at that place last August of William M. Cummings. According to Mrs.
Lacey's story her husband had twice threatened to take her life and for this reason she wanted a divorce. Lacey was on the stand testifying against her when Mrs. Lacey suddenly sprang to her feet and declared him to be the murderer of Cummings. After his arrest his indentity as the murderer was made positive upon the receipt from Iola authorities of his description. The murder was coldblooded and at the time caused a decided sensation.
Delawares Claim One-Fifth. WASHINGTON, D. October supreme court has under consideration a case involving the interest of the Delaware Indians to the money arising from the sale of lands west of the ninety-sixth degree of longitude recently sold to the United States by the Cherokees. If the case should be decided favorably to the Delawares it is claimed by their attorneys that such a decision would make clear their right to one-fifth of the proceeds of the sale of the Cherokee lands. amounting to $1,660,000, which has been withheld from the Cherokees pending the determination of the Delaware claim.
Choctaws After Railroad Lands. TUSKAHOMA, I. October big scheme is on foot to dispossess the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad of nearly c00 acres of land held as right of way through the Choctaw nation. A strong lobby is here to get the Choctaw council to pass a bill defining the right of way and to cut it down to less than one-half. Coal Miners Strike.
PITTSBURG, October men of Hamilton and Braid wood coal mines are out on a strike, refusing to work for 56 per ton, which they claim is a reduction of I cents per ton for screened coal. The company gave its miners the ultimation to go to work or take their tools out of the mines, which is a discharge from further service. Frisco Stockholders. The meeting of stockholders of the St. Louis San Francisco railroad, which was to have been he'd in the company's office in St.
Louis, was postponed. This action was taken to await the results of the Atchison election, which may take place at Topeka, next Thursday. General Rice to Return 10 Kansas. FORT SCOTT, October John Ho't Rice, the veteran politician of Kansas, and former editor of the Fort Scott Monitor, disposed of his paper at La Porte, Texas, and will return to Kansas to live, locating in Fort Scott. He his been in Texas for two years.
DENVER, October grand Frauds in Justices' aCcounts jury brought in indictments against seven constables and officials of justice courts who are charged with having forged names on witness certificates and defrauding the county out of thousands of dollars. Will Not Curse Her Faith. LONDON, October Alix, it is said, is still waging a desperate struggle against the fanatical zeal off the orthodox ciergy who insist upon her declaring that the evangelistic faith is accursed. She cannot be persuaded that the matter is al mere formality and demands that sha may be excused from pronouncing the words in question. Destructive Earthquake in Japan.
YOKOHAMA, October Three thousand houses have been destroyed by a suocession of violent earthquake shocks, As far as known 260 lives have been lost and a large number of people have been injured. IMPROVEMENT; But Still More in Prospect Than Fact. Chancellor Caprivi Resigns--Active Anarchists Heavy Hog Cholera LossesRussian Persecution of Jews Has Ceased -K. of P. in the Court.
Business Rather More Favorable. NEW YORK, October G. Dun Weekly Review of Trade says: Engrossing political excitement in many of the states causes a natural slackening in some kinds of business, but on the whole business indications are rather more favorable than they were a week ago. Gold exports have ceased, quite a number of mills have gone into operation and the demand for products, if not equal to that of prosperous years. is better than it has been most of the time this year.
The prices of farm products do not improve much, and there are still some strikes to resist the reduction of wages, so that the purchasing power the people cannot have materially increased, but there is a more hopeful spirit which prompts greater activity. The anticipated settlement of difficulties at Fall River has not been realized and at present a good many spindles and looms are But strikes are temporary; a more lasting influence is the largest accumulation of cotton in the world's markets, the of Americans now in sight exceeding 000 bales. The wheat market is lower and nothing appears to justify any important change. Western receipts have been 4,816,571 bushels against 6,276,623 last year, and Atlantic exports only 581,263 bushels against 1,066,666 last year. Corn 1S h'gher without any very clear reason and it is noteworthy that at the same time pork is 75 cents lower, lard 35 cents per 100 pounds and hogs 40 cents lower.
The contrast indicates how little the provision market depends at present on natural relations of supply and demand. The failures for the week were 231 in the United States, 325 last year, and 52 in Canada against 44 last year, Better Class of Immigrants. WASHINGTON, D. October Herman Stump, of the immigration bureau, has returned to Washington from a six weeks' tour of European cities. While Colonel Stump's tour was wholly unofficial, the subject of immigration was investigated with more or less care in all the cities he visited.
In Italy he found the government willing, and indeed very anxious to co-operate with the United States in wiping out the admittedly pernicious padrone system. In Germany the officials were taking unusual precautions to prevent any of the prohibited classes from sailing to America from German ports. General Stump had several conferences with agents of Baron Hirsch in regard to exodus of the Jews from Russia. He was assured that the persecution by the Rusians had practically ceased and that in consequence comparatively few were now leaving Russia. Speaking generally, Colonel Stump was of the opinion that a far better class of emigrants were now coming into this country than at any time in the past.
Ceprivi and Eulenberg. It is now known as a fact that Chancellor Caprivi's resignation has been accepted by Emperor William. The resignation of Count Eulenberg, president of the Prussian council of ministers, has not accepted. It has been learned that the chancellor resigned before a meeting of representative statesmen of the federal states. The meeting showed the existence of great discord regarding the proposed anti-revolutionary buil.
Eulen berg thereupon resigned. It is known for some time past there has been considerable tension between the chancellor and Eulenberg, owing to the former's views in regard to the measures to be submitted to the reichstag for the repression of socialists. The chanceller is in favor of pursuing a moderate policy while Eulenberg believes in the adoption of radical measures. Blow Up the Chamber of Deputies. PARIS, October 29.
-The Matin states that' information was recently received at the prefecture of police saying that the anarchists are preparing for a fresh outrage. It is said that three companions have resolved to come to Paris from three points -Poissy, Lille and Lyons-for the purpose of blowing up the chamber of deputies. The Palais Bourbon consequently is watched by the police with redoubled vigilance, and the strictest surveilance possible is being exercised over all anarchists and suspected persons, particularly those who are known to the police in the three towns mentioned. Land Plaster Pool. GRAND, RAPIDS, October was learned here that the land plaster pool, which has been somewhat demoralized for the past year, has been reorganized at a secret meeting of plaster and stucco manufacturers held in Chicago last week.
The reorganized trust is called the Michigan and Ohio Plaster company, and the headquarters are to be in this city. All manufacturers in the west except those of Kan-as and Iowa have signed the agreement, which is to run for two years. Grand Lodge Sustained. INDIANAPOLIS, October 29. -Judge Browa sustained the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, in its suit against Koerner lodge for property.
Koerner lodge sued because the supreme lodge ruled out the German ritual. It surrended its charter but held its property. The ruling is in favor of the grand lodge. The case is a test and is regarded as itportant as in that it will be followed by other suits throughout the United States. An appeal will be taken.
Investment" Lotteries, WASHINGTON, D. October 29. -It is as" serted that the postoffice department will attempt to suppress the so-called investment" societies, so far as it can, by prohibiting the transmission of their literature through the United States mails. It was said at the department that the postoffice Authorities have been for some time taking active steps to bring the promoters of the enterprises to justice, and among them are some very prominent men in political life. Hog Cholera Raging in Illinois.
BLOOMINGTON, October 29. -Hog cholera is causing great loss in various localities in this vicinity. It is raging among the droves at Kappa, Woodford county: Janes. ville, Dewitt county, and Mackinaw. Tazewell county.
Many farmers have lost from ten to fifty head each, and one has but five remaining of a drove of 125. Fraudulent Rebates. WASHINGTON, D. October National Lead company, of New York, is being investigated by the treasury department. It is charged that white lead was manufactured partly from imported and partly from domestic pig, but that the company received rebates on the whole of white lead it exported.
Between $30,000 and $40,000 is involved. This is Too Big a Story. Omaha, October special to the Bee from Gordon, says: The prairie fire is sweeping over the sand hills in this vicinity and is doing immense damage. The flames are traveling with almost lightning rapidity, and are consuming everything in their track. The fire was driven by the wind through the central portion of Sheridan and Cherry counties.
In the track of flames were the big Osborn and Spad ranches, and a number of smaller ones. Not a vestige of these ranches remains, except the bare and scorched ground. The fire is reported to have reached Pullman, and the whole country in that neighborhood is a raging furnace. It is not known whether any lives were lost, but thousands of head of cattle have perished. People in the track of the fire are fleeing for their lives, leaving all their properto to the mercy of the flames.
Under Martial Law, FORT GIBSON, I. October at no time in the history of crime and bold outlawry has this country been in such fever of excitement and universal dread as at the present time. Martial law has been declared and is enforced strongly at every point in the nation. There are nearly 300 of the Cherokee militia in the field approaching the stronghold of the outlaws from the east and north. while Agent Wisdom's force of Indian policemen are investigating the country towards the west.
A large force of United States marshals, under command of Heck Bruner, have gone straight into what is supposed to be the home of the gang, near Red Fork, as it is here that the people in general are friendly to them and assist them in every way. A strong force is kept on guard at all depots on the Missouri Pacific. Deputy United States Marshal Dobson, who, with his possee, has in and says he and his men were close to Jim French, Sam McWilliams, Will Harlan and two more of the Cook gang, but after a twelve hours chase they were compelled to give it up as their horses were completely worn out. He is of the opinion that the gang separated and is scattered all over the country. American Bref Barred.
HAMBURG, October has published a decree prohibiting the importation of American live cattle and fresh beef on the ground that two cargoes which just arrived contained several animals suffering from Texas fever. Consignments which are proved to have left America by October 27 are exempted from these provisions, but the animals imported must be killed at the abbatoir here immediately after they a.e landed. WASHINGTON. D. action of the German government in prohibiting the im-.
portation of cattle and fresh beef was not entirely unexpected by the agricultural department, although the officials had hoped up to the last moment that the Germans would prove open to reason. The matter will not be allowed to rest where it now stands, but our government will cause a thorough investigation to be made causes of the alleged act in such a fashion. No doubt is felt here that these alleged cases will turn out to be founded on a mistaken diagnosis; for if there is any cattle disease that the German veterinary surgeons know little about. that disease is Texas fever, a purely climatic non-infectious fever peculiar to America. Bicyclists Have Rights.
ST. PAUL, October a decision just handed down the supreme court gives bicycle riders all the rights of the general thoroughfares granted to other vehicles. The test case was that of N. A. Thompson, whose horse ran away at the sight of a bicycle ridden by W.
M. Dodge, the buggy of Mr. Thompson being and Mr. Thompson injured. The latter brought the suit for damages, alleging the bicyclist had no right in the road.
Judge Buck says in his decision against Mr. Thompson: "Bicycles are vehicles used now extensively for convenience, recreation. pleasure and business, and the riding of them upon public highways in the ordinary manner as is now done is neither unlawful nor prohibited. Because the plaintiff chooses to drive a horse hitched to a carriage does not give to him the right to dictate to other: their mode of conveyance upon a public highway where the rights of each are succeeds caprivi. Prince Hohenlohe governor of Alsace- Lorraine, has accepted the chancellorship after first declining the honor.
The prince also accepted the premiership of Prussia and Herr von Koeller, under secretary of the interior of the province of AlsaceLorraine, succeeded Eulenberg as Prussian minister of the interior. Much attention has been arroused by the honor which Emperor William paid to Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst and Herr von Koeller by going Wilf park station to meet them and give them apartments in the new palace. The emperor's choice of Hohenlohe for chancellor is taken as evidence that his majesty does not intend to adopt the extreme view of the measures required to arrest the spread of socialism. Hohenlohe, although 74 years old, is very active physically and mentally. For Fire Departments.
TOPERA, October Superintendent of Insurance S. H. Snider announced that he has received from New York a draft for $12,500 due the state of Kansas from the seventeen fire insurance companies of New York in reciprocal taxes. This money must, according to the state law, go to the paid fire departments in the state, but there 18 no law providing for its distribution, and Judge Snider has made a time deposit of the draft until the legislature shall pass a law directing its distribution. The Topeka tire department will eventually get a large share of this money.
There are only half a dozen paid fire departments in the state. Houses and Stores Blown Down. Reports are received of a cyclone that struck Tonkawa, a smali town north of Perry, 0, in which several buildings were blown down. The Reed store building at Tonkawa was leveled, and the dry goods scattered around generally. Dan Lawhead's store in the country several miles northwest of Tonkawa, was also blown down and his goods scattered for miles.
Several dwellings were whirled to pieces by the twister, but no lives were lost and but few slightly wounded are reported. Dropped the Pistol. At Wichita Sheriff B. R. Royce's son Earl, 10 years old, accidentally shot himself and died in a few moments.
Sheriff Royce was leaving sent for the for penitentiary his pistol. with a Just prisoner before his boy the little fellow reached the bottom of the stairs on bis return he fell and at the same moment the pistol was discharged. The ball went through the boy's heart and his father had hardly picked him up when he expired. Indicated Yield. WASHINGTON, D.
October returns to the department of agriculture make the general condition of corn 64.2 against 63.4 last month. The October condition in the year 1881 was 66 per cent, the lowest up to that date shown by any official record. The yield per acre of that year was 18.6 bushels. The indicated yield per acre for this year from a condition of 62.4 is 18.4 bushels per acre. A Kansas Man Sues.
ROCKFORD, October Painter of Webber, 11.. son of Mrs. Painter, the disciple of Schweinfurth, who was killed at Byron a few days ago, will bring suit against the false Christ to recover notes to the amount of $7,000, which she possessed and it is alleged Schweinfurth appropriated. Sherman's Commissary Chief Dead. General Amos Beckwith, who was chie.
of the commissary department of General W. T. Sherman's army during the civil war, died at his home in St. Louis. October 27, of pneumonia.
He was 69 years old and was on the retired list of the army. Railroad Men Sent to Jail. PUEBLO, October Hallet, in the United States district court here, sentenced Shaw, Carey and Jones to jail for three months for interfering with deputy marshals at Trinidad during the railroad strike. Whites Strike Against Blacks. NEW ORLEANS, October strike of immense importance to New Orleans was unexpectedly inaugurated on the levee.
All the white cotton screwmen quit work in a body, and a few minutes later the longshore men stopped operations. The cause of the trouble is the difference which has ariser between the colored and white handlers. Held Up in Front of a Hotel. SAVANNAH, I. October highwaymen of the Indian Territory are growing bolder.
Two men were held up in Muskogee in front of the Adams hotel, the most public place in town. They secured only a few dollars. OFFICIAL Figures of 1894 Railroad Assessment. Holy Ivan Says the Czar Will Get WellGresham Protests Against Germany's Cattle Order--County Clerks Control Formation of Ballots, Assessment for 1894. The official figures of the railroad assess.
ment of Kansas for the years 1893 and 1894, as made by the state board of equalization, show a reduction for the present year of over $2,000,000. The assessment was increased in seventeen counties and reduced in eighty-three counties, the total reduction being $2,518,133.27, and the total increase $372,975.10, leaving an actual reduction in the entire state of $2,145,158.17. The counties in which the railroad assessment was reducec, and the amount of the reduction for 1894 as compared with 1893 are as follows: Atchison, $37,925.86: Barber, $6,241.66: Barton, Bourbon. Brown. Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne, Clark.
Clay, 387.21: Cloud, Coffey, Comanche, $7,390.08: Cowley, Decatur, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, EdElk, $42,765.77: Ellis, $3,480.65: Ellsworth, Finney, 635.76; Ford, Franklin, 733.08; Geary. Gove, Graham. Gray. Greeley, Green wood. Hamilton.
Harper, Harvey, Hodgman, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Johnson. Kearney, $1,635.70: Kingman, Kiowa, 946.74; Lane, Leavenworth, 415.15; Lincoln, Logan, Lyon, Marion, Marshall, McPherson. Meade, Montgomery. Morris, Nemaha. Ness, Osage, Ottawa, 440.12; Pawnee.
Pottawatomie, Pratt, Rawlins, 621.66; Republic, Rise, Riley, Rush. Saline, Scott, $13,766.33, Sedgwick, 903; Seward, Shawnee, $32,880.47: Sheridan, Sherman. Stafford, $49.761.40: Sumner, Thomas, $5,663.59: Trego. $4,449.15: Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wichita, Woodson, Wyandotte, $12,131. Particulars From Buenos Ayres.
A special dispatch from Buenos Ayres says: A correspondent at La Rioja, the capital of the province of the same name, telegraphs that the city has been ruined by earthquake. The churches, schools and publie edifices were all thrown down. The people are camping out in the neighborhood. Comparatively few were killed, as there was a general rush into the open when the first shock came. The scene was a horrible one, women shrieking and fainting on every side as the walls came crashing down.
Two Sisters of Mercy were killed and many more are now entombed beneath the ruins. The governor fears that the killed and wounded throughout the province must number 2,000, as many of the outlying towns also suffered. The village of Del Arbodon has been completely swallowed up in the huge gaps which opened in the ground. The naticeal government is sending special trains with doctors, tente, food and every kind of assistance as well as laborers to clear away the wreckage. Supreme Court on Ballots.
TOPEKA, October 31. -A case has been decided by the supreme court, all the judges concurring, in relation to the formation of official ballots. The case was one from Labette county. The clerk had prepared the copy for the ballot, but when he received a proof of it the ticket by order of the county commismissioners had been transposed. The clerk of Labette county appealed to the supreme court for a writ of mandamus compelling the printers to print the ballot as it was furnished to them.
This the court granted, all the justices concurring. Nelson Case appeared for the clerk and the commissioners and printers, Foley and Claiborne, were represented by T. N. Sedgwick, general attorney for the M. K.
T. railway. The decision is contrary to an opinion from Attorney General Little furnished the defendants to the effect that the county commissioners could arrange the positions of the tickets on the ballots. Irrigation for Sugar. SAN FRANCISCO, October The outlook for the Hawaiian sugar crop of 1895 is very flattering.
For years this industry has been in a depressed condition. This has been due in part to successive seasons of drouth. The dry seasons have taught the sugar grower a lesson. Most of them no longer depend on the element alone for weather. Reservoirs for the storage of water have been built in the mountains where the rainfall is very heavy.
From these reservoirs the water is conducted to the plantations across hills and sandy plains by means of wooden or iron aqueducts, in some cases as far as forty miles. For one. the Hawaiian Sugar company has expended nearly 000 in the development of its water supply this year, and now has more than seventy miles of ditch. The sugar crop of 1895, which will begin to come into the market very soon, is estimated at 150,000 tons. John of Cronstadt is There.
A dispatch from Petersburg states that an analysis of the fluid drawn from the limbs of the ezar has a reassuring result, giving hope that the process of absorption may soon begin. Should the improvement in his majesty's condition continue, the of the czarowitz and Princess Alis my ba further postponed in order that the sh dows of illness shall not fall on the union. Father Ivan, (Holy John of Cronstadt) the miracle worker, who it was said had recently been summoned to pray for the czar, telegraphed a week ago to his wife saying, "God is surely working a miracle. The czar will recover." The latest official bulletin from Lividia says that the czar took little nourishment that day. He appeared weaker.
He coughed more, bringing up phlegm. Theater Threatened by Flames. PITTSBURG. October 31. -Fire broke out in a wholesale millinery and trimming goods establishment.
The loss to the firm is total, estimated at $200,000 and damage to the building about $350,000. When the alarm was turned in, the performance at the Academy of Music. next door, was in full blast. A panic followed, but nothing serious resulted. The Seventh Avenue hotel is three doors above Porter place and the guests were inclined to be panicky.
The hotel people, however, succeeded in quieting their fears. Senator Martin Charged With Libel. TOPEKA, October -Senator John Martin received word from Iola that Nelson F. Acers had begun suit against him for criminal libel because in the senator's interview he included name in a list of men that he referred to as gamblers and boodlers. Senator Martin was informed that he would be served with a warrant for his arrest.
The senator immediately telegraphed the sheriff of Allen county that if he would notify him when the hearing was set for he would be present, Restrained by Law. WASHINGTON, D. October has been determined that no troops can be us to suppress the lawless bands in the Indian Territory unless called upon by the courts to assist the United States marshals. The request for troops would then come through the department of justice. Admit Their Guilt.
The sheriffs of Logan, Finney, Ford, Gray, Edwards and Lane counties, ran down the murderers of the late mayor of Kinsley in Logan county. The men gave the names of Harvey and Arnold and admitted their guilt,.