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Meade County News. JOHN D. WEHBLE, Publisher. MEADE, KANSAS At Annapolis, Md., the women who .pay taxes appeared for the first time as ivoters a few weeks ago. Of the 679 votes cast only twenty-two were by women. The managers of, Glasgow's Exhibi tion of next year will have a big job distributing the space without hurting International susceptibilities. The ap plications for floor-space are already 40,000 feet beyond the accommoda tion. Overhead trolley system not only damages underground pipes, but it also Injures trees. Wherever a cable touches a branch it rapidly decays and the tree eventually dies. Serious com plaints of this nature are made at Bay Ridge, N. Y. Collis P. Huntington, now that he has bought out his associates in the Southern Pacific railroad, is sole own er of a system embracing ferries, terminals, river and ocean steamboat lines and 7,600 miles of railroad, rep resenting 5350,000,000 of securities and annual earnings gross of J60.000.000. Four hundred elk teeth were sold in Spokane, Wash., the other day for ?1,000. The demands of the members of the Order of Elks and the growing scarcity have Increased the value of; the teeth. Fourteen years ago a Mon-? tana man paid only ?80 for an Indian; headdress than contained 800 elk teeth. Last year a similar head-dress containing only 280 teeth sold for 5200. Sig. Constantino Maes, the Italian archaeologist, says that 3,000 bronze tables, constituting the records of Rome from its foundation to the time, of Vespasian, are buried in the marsh at Ostia, near Rome, having been car ried to Ostia after being rescued from! the fire. which devoured the capital in the year 69 of the Christian era. Sig. Maes suggests that the marsh should be completely drained in order to re-; cover this historic treasure. A Chicago physician has invented for -himself a house which he claims to be absolutely noise-proof, that is, protected thoroughly against the in trusion of street dins, which persist inj spite of the existence of an anti-noise ordinance. He has stuffed all the cracks about the doors and windows with strips of rubber, and in order to. admit the air has perforated these with zigzag holes. The sound waves are said to die out by repeated reflec tions in the crooked passages. Scientific research has just destroyed an interesting piece of ancient history.; For centuries Pharsala, in Southern Thessaly, has been regarded as the scene of the famous defeat of Pompey, which gave the dominion of the world 'into the hands of Caesar. According, however, to the "Messager" and the "Journal d'Athenes," Capt. Dousmais, of the Greek Engineers, after an ex haustive study of the ancient battle fields of Thes3aly, affirms that beyond question the battle between Pompey and Caesar was not fought at Phar .sala, but near the modern Karditza, which is about 50 miles to the north west. When prosperity and philanthropy go hand in hand, the progress of a country is beyond question. Germany is advancing in a business way. Her trade operations show increasing ca pacity for planning and fuller scope; in performance. But with the devel-! opment in material things is noted an increase in gifts for the benefit of. schools, libraries, charitable institu tions and other objects. The provision' of corporations and private manufac turers in aid of employes is a further token of a keener sense of responsi bility for the proper use of wealth.' The world abounds with articles marked, "Made in Germany." Let not the world forget the good deeds which; may be labeled "Done in Germany." The writer of a short story in the' Century Magazine has invented two phrases that may find a permanent place in political slang. Party plat forms do not always express the real sentiments or the intentions of those who subscribe to them. It is easier to promise than to perform the prom ise. This writer speaks of a "weasel word as one that sucks the meaning out of another which is beside it, just as a weasel sucks an egg, leaving only the shell. "Weaseling," he says, is nigmy expedient because one class of voters will like the weasel, and the other the word that has been weaseled tne egg. The other phrase is "the stained glass plank." Glancing through the window at one point a dog looks yellow, while at another he is green, ana not until the window is thrown open can you actually see what the dog is like. Of course windows are not made of "planks" which one can' look through but let that pass. Chief Wilkie of the United States se cret service has received from the Penn National Bank of Philadelphia one of the most dangerous counterfeit $20 notes that have appeared in a long time, and second only to the celebrated $100 Monroe head silver certificates, the character of which the treasury sx perts were for some time unable to def initely determine. The note is of ths' series of 1880, check letter A, plate; number 7, Tillman register, Morgan treasurer. It is a trifle shorter than the genuine, but the most notable de fects are in the portrait of Hamilton. The war in South Africa has taken go many English farm-hands away from their work that electricity is em ployed on several dairy farms in Eng land in feeding cattle. An automatic mechanism, set for a desired time, de livers the proper quantity of feed from the hoppers over the stalls. An alarm rings to wake the farmers at the same time. "Mary" does not yet "call the cattle home" by telephone, but that IinrnmanHp nrnppss m o v ho fn dIam t " " J MVr DIUIQ for us. Even the cow must feel that we are living in a realistic age. Ill KANSAS BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK. KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Bert Gatliffe, of Wellington, haa been missing' since June 20. The Bock Island is making extensive improvements At Smith Center. The Emporia Avenue M. E. church in Wichita is to have a $3,000 addition. State Librarian Anna Diggs says she will not take another appointment to that position. The annual picnic of the Johnson county Co-operative Association was held at Olathe July 28. W. C. Fair, of Caldwell, was over come by damps in a well ana aiea De- fore help could reach him. Samuel Hazlett, a Scotchman, aged 4, dropped dead while working1 over his wife's grave at Hartford, Lyon county. The Missouri Pacific train dispatch er's office at Conway Springs has been abolished and the men tsansferred to Wichita. The postofnce department has au thorized tht appointment of fifteen more mail clerks to work on Kansas trains. Harvey, McPherson, Stafford, Rice, Barton, Pawnee and Edwards counties will hold their fourth annual logroll ing at Halstead, September 11. Circleville held an old settler's meet ing, a woodmen logrolling- ana a barbecue, all on the same day. It is said that 5,000 people attended. H. J. Parker, who swore warrants against eight Emporia druggists, charg ing them with unlawfully selling liquor, has been arrested on a charge of perjury. Chancellor Snow's report says that July : was cooler than usual and that there was one inch and seven-tenths more rainfall during the month than the July average. Eight threshing machines were run ning within sight of Cicero, Sumner county, at the same time. One man estimates that there are 150 machines at work io that county. Joseph Lewis, who served "in the Black Hawk, Mexican and Civil wars. has been mustered into Lincoln Post, in Topeka. Abraham Lincoln was his captain in the Black Hawk war. During the recent big fire at Phillips- burg, a resident of the town managed to get away with 17 pairs of pants and 13 pairr of shoes. The goods were found in his possession the day follow ing. Agnes Thomas, aged 10, daughter of a Butler county farmer, was riding a horse when she was thrown over the horse's head and trampled to death. The horse's hoof went clear through her abdomen. v. v. Addington s. daughter was visiting at her uncle's farm in Mont gomery county, and her cousin placed his knee against her back and pulled her shoulders back. She died from the effects of the act. Francis McNeely sold a 200 acre farm near Lindsborg for 86,000. When he took the claim in 1864 the buffalo cov ered that part of Kansas and every thing west to the Rocky Mountains was in Piketon county. On July 15 there was paid for freight on wheat shipped over the Missouri Pacific from Lindsborg, 8786.86, and the 16th 864. It is estimated that it will average during the shipping sea son between 500 and SG00 a day. This beats them alL Dr. Milton, of Ford county has threshed ten acres of wheat which averaged 50 bushels to the acre and tested 64 pounds. ine reason mat circuses are scarce in Kansas this year, railroad managers say, is because engines are all better employed than in hauling circuses from town to town. Mr. Young, of Perry, Kas., started to throw a blazing gasoline stove out or tne house, wnen some ol the gaso line spilled on his 1-year-old child, who was burned to death. August 20 is appointed by Governor Stanley to hear applications for par don. There are 125 cases on the dock et. Cary Aikens, a cattleman at Hoyt. Kas., was thrown from a horse and his skull fractured. Physicians say that he cannot recover. Later: he died. bince tne shipment ol Kansas corn to India 8500 has been received by Sec retary Anderson for the relief fund, This money will be forwarded to the Christian Herald Relief association in New York. A Twentieth Kansas soldier, while in camp at San Francisco, flirted with a girl and corresponded with her while in the Philippines. By mistake he sent his wife in Topeka a letter written for the Frisco girL His wife promptly ot a divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Buffon, two recently married Jackson county teachers, were driving to the Wathena Chautauqua when E. passenger train struck them at a crossing. The lady was quite badly hurt, the team was killed and the wagon broken up. The penitentiary twine plant changing some machinery so as to make twine suitable for binding corn shocks, and the new product will be ready for market very soon. Two children of T. J. Duncan, of Mitchell county, one a girl of 16 and the other a boy of 14, rented 190 acres of wheat ground. They plowed the ground with riding plows, the girl harrowed and the boy followed the driU. Harvesting and threshing were I hired. The crop was 4,000 bushels of I ! pound wheat, Shawnee county has 2,288 farmers." 1 Kingman ships two cars of rock salt daily. Stafford county holds its first fair this year. , New Yorkers are in Kansas trying to contract for hay. The cement works at Burns is being doubled in capacity. W. L. Yaggy has a 5 00-acre catalp plantation in Reno county. Government agents have been stock ing the Smoky Hill river with black bass. Henry Birt, of Mitchell county, re ceived over 81,200 for wheat from 57 acres. Wichita bicycle riders held a meeting to devise a - plan to catch bicvcle thieves. Dan'L Stiger, a farmer near Hunne- well, was killed at a railway crossing July 31. Joseph Brown, of Rock Creek, had an arm torn off in a threshing machine and died. Arthur C. Smith was killed near Oberlin while lifting a gun off from a. cultivator. Two carloads of wild horses were sold in' Chanute a short time since. They came from Idaho and Montana. The Rock Island's southwestern ex tension from Liberal means cheaper coal for the southwestern counties of Kansas. A Rooks county man ships St. Ber nard pups all over the country and re cently received a good offer for an entire litter from Mexico. During July the sale of stamps and postal supplies at the Topeka postoffice amounted to 810,642.56, an increase over July, 1899 of 81,500.89. C. G. Toland, of Wellsville, was found by trainmen near Red Rock sta tion and taken to Perry, O. T. He was bruised in many places. Farmers in the vicinity of Russell are talking of putting up an elevator with a capacity of from one-half to a million bushels in which to store their grain. Five of the new chair cars which are being built in the Topeka shops by the Santa Fe have already been turned out. There is nothing that is desirable to have which these cars lack. Superintendent Nelson of the Wichi ta street car line gave a trolley excur sion in honor of his daughter's eighth birthday. Her little friends made up a handsome crowd and enjoyed the occasion. Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Challiss, who came to Atchison in 1856, recently celebrated their golden wedding. Mrs. Challiss was attended by one of the three bridesmaids who "stood up" with her fifty years ago. At a recent country funeral in Mar ion county there was a long line of dozens of vehicles, and not a wagon amongst them; they were all buggies and surreys. Not many years ago such an event would have shown only wagons. Corn in Marshall county that was thought to be burned up three weeks ago is now coming out in surprisingly good shape since the rains. Of coarse the crop will not be a full one, but it will be a long way ahead of what was expected. . Most of the state boards are made up of state officers. It transpires that should the fusion state ticket be elect ed the executive council would be tied with the governor as chairman and all the boards would be controlled bv Democratic state officers as follows: railroad assessors, 3 to 2; equalization board, 2 to 1; charter board 2 to 1 and the printing board by its whole mem bership. Three miles from Seneca is a $50,000 Catholic church, and six miles from Westmoreland a still finer one is being built. County Clerk B. L. Barton, of Bour bon county, died of a hemorrahsre. while sitting on hie porch reading the evening paper. Brakeman Cornell, of the Missouri Pacific was killed at Conway Springs by being eaught between the .bumpers of two freight cars. The cars had automatic couplers but he was between them. A Union Pacific freight train ran into a Rock Island engine at Perry, Kas., and Engineers Anderson and Mc Kittrick were injured. Gas wells are rapidly increasing in Southern Montgomery county and many acres have been leased. It is ex pected tnat Indiana factories will re move there. A coal salesman from Kansas City made insulting remarks at Abilene about Kansas soldiers. A dozen Twen tieth Kansas boys made him stand on a plow and apologize to a large crowd. Ben Kerfoot, private secretary to Webster Davis, was a soldier in the Twentieth Kansas. tie was made a lieutenant while in the Philippines. Kerfoot is a graduate of the Wichita high school and of Kansas -university. Joseph Lewis, of Topeka, is 92 years old. His family settled near where Topeka is now in 1812. He served in the Black Hawk war, the Mexican war and the civil war. He, at the age of 8, witnessed the burning of all the rest of his father's family by Indians. He is still a strong man. The Shawnee county poor farm has 32 people there; the smallest number in five years. An Ottawa man recently sold a bunch of 800 goats to Missouri and New York breeders. At Mound Ridge a sewing society has adopted a by-law which reads: ".No gossiping will be allowed by any member of this order." A brother of General Adna Chaffee, now at the head of the American army in China, beats the big drum of the Salvation army in Wichita. mm RIGHT JiOT FAVOR Secretary Hay Makes Public His' Official Dispatches. NO CHIN-CHIN IN DURANCE. Washington, Aug. 4. The state de partment has made public the follow ing correspondence between Li Hung' Chang and the department regarding the abandonment of campaign in Pe kin. Telegram sent to the United States embassies in Berftn, London, Paris, Rome and St. Petersburg, and to the United States minister at Tokio: "Department of State, Washington, Aug. 1, 1900. In reply to a suggestion of Li Hung Chang that the ministers might be sent under safe escort to Tien Tsin provided the powers would ar range not to march to Pekin, the sec retary of state replied on the 20th of July: 'This government will not enter into any arrangement regarding dis position or treatment of legations without first having free communica tion with Minister Conger. Respon sibility for their protection rests upon Chinese government. Power to deliver at Tien Tsin presupposes power to protect and to open communication. This is insisted upon.' "This message was delivered by Mr. Goodnow on the 31st to Viceroy Li, who then inquired whether 'if free communication were established be tween ministers and their govern ments, it could be arranged that the powers should not advance oa Pekin pending negotiations?' "To this inquiry the following reply was sent on the first of August: 'Goodnow, Consul General, Shanghai: I do cot think it expedient to submit the proposition of Earl Li to the other powers. Free communication with our representative in Pekin is demand ed as a matter of absolute right and not as a favor. Since the Chinese gov ernment admits that it possesses the power to give communication it puts itself in an unfriendly attitude to deny it. No negotiations seem advisable until the Chinese government shall have put the diplomatic representa tives of the powers in full and free communication with the respective governments and remove all danger of their lives and liberty. We would urge Earl Li earnestly to advise the imperial authorities of China to place themselves in friendly communication and co-operation with the relief ex pedition. They are assuming a heavy responsibility in acting otherwise. (Signed:) "HAY." . "You will communicate this infor mation to tne minister of foreign af fairs." Severe Gale in England. London, Aug.. 6. A severe gale has raged throughout the United King dom. Channel traffic was suspended, causing much inconvenience to thou sands of excursionists, who wished to take advantage of the August bank holiday. Rain and wind have done much damage in the provinces. Sev eral small vessels have gone ashore and many others have been obliged to seek refuge in the harbors. Prices in Bayers' Favor. New York, Aug. 6. Bradstreefs says that trade conditions still favor the buyers. The cereals have been all lower this week, partly on better crop reports, partly on lower cables, but largely on the growth of bearish feel ing after late reaction. Beef products are generally higher on army demand, while tin is seeking a lower level in sympathy with foreign markets and increased supplies. Praise of Japanese. Tien Tsin, Aug. 6. The Japanese are giving a splendid exhibition of organization. Their whole machine moves like clockwork. There have been forwarded from Japan small boats , or lighters for moving troops and stores and every regiment is land ed quickly and without confusion and started for Tien Tsin within a few hours after the transport has anchored in the harbor. The management of the Japanese army and the bravery, spirit and intelligence of the Japanese troops are a revelation that command the respect and admiration of all for eign officers. Immediate British Advance. London, Aug. 2. In the house of commons the parliamentary secretary for the foreign office, William St. John Broderick, announced the receipt of a dispatch from General Sir Alfred Carselee, commanding the British troops in China, stating that he con tempi a tea an immeaiate advance on Pekin and that he hoped to have the co-operation of the allied forces. Bubonic Plague in London. wasmngton, Aug. o. rne marine hospital service has received the fol lowing dispatch from Past Assistant Surgeon Thomas, announcing the out break of the bubonic plague in Lon don: "London, Aug. 3. Surgeon General Marine Hospital, Washington: There have been four cases of plague and two deaths from plague in London. Diag nosis confirmed . by bacterological ex amination. Do not think there will be further spread. THOMAS." All Respect Minister AVu. Washington, April 4. It may be stated on good authority that the state department, whatever may be its opin ion of the imperial government of China, has had no reason to change its opinion as to the sincerity and good intentions of the Chinese minister here and the department is continuing to deal with him in entire confidence, despite the peremptory tone of the last message addressed to Secrets jHay through him to the Chinese gov ernment. . COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. City. CATTLE .Heavy. . . . 3 75 4 65 auus unoice to Heavy YHEAT No. Shard 5 17 5 1TA 68 0 37 a 67 3T 50 9 50 6 50 IS CORN No. t OATS No. 2. RYE No. 2 HAY Choice tirrothy Choioe prairie BUTTE U , EGOS a & 15 10 & Chicago. WHEAT No. I hard. 71 73 21 H 23 CORN No. 2 OATS No. 2 , Sfc Louis Lire Stock. BEEVES...! STOCKERS & FEEDERS.... SOUTHEKS STEERS - 3 40 9 i 75 3 65 4 35 3 00 & 4 65 Cotton. Uplands. Gulf. Li verDOol New Yors: silio 10c 5 7-16d u&iveston.... ojC Wichita Grain. Close. Close. Open. High. law. Today Y'day WHEAT- Aug, Ft Sept CORN 74 73 H 75 X 3t?37 75 H 717, 73 Auirust 37 M fcept- 37J, 20 V UATS August bepU 21,' 21 "i 21 Jl.'4 Puts. 74 365, Wheat: Sptomhr v Corn: September.. V.V.".l".".".l38 Wichita Live Stock. nutis. 643 head sold 4 63 CATTLE 5 OTJtf Chicago Live Stock. BEEVES .-.. 4 63 6 00 COWS AND HEIFERS 3 110 5 00 SiSSrS3 FEEDERS.... . 3 0J 4 60 TEXAS FED BEEVES 3 4 4 35 HOGS 5 JO Hi 5 40 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF Smallpox is under control at Cape Nome. Augusta, Ga., has separate strecb cars for negroes. The New England drouth is broken by copious rains. Wine is transported in France in bulk in tank cars. The melon crop about St. Josepli, Mich., is a failure. Russia is negotiating another loan in the United States. American coal is being shipped to Russia for railroad use. Every steamship from Australia to San Francisco brings gold. Grass Valley, Cali., lost two business blocks by a fire which started in a laundry. The report of the massacre of mis sionaries at Pao Ting Fu has been confirmed. It is said that rich gold mines have been discovered in Hawkins county, Tennessee. Yellow fever exists in Tampa, Flor ida, and the state of Alabama has de clared quarantine. E. G. Rathbone finally secured bail in Havana; several Spanish merchants gave the necessary security President McKinley has accepted the grand army invitation to attend their annual encampment in Chicago. The broom corn district of Illinois has lost its whole crop. The corn ali lies on the ground as flat as if a roller had bpen hauled over it. One of the boilers of the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabella gave away as the steamer was about to leave San Sebastian, scalding 21 soldiers. Mexican troops at war with the Maya Indians in Yucatan were badly routed in a recent fight, losing heav ily. There were 3,000 Mexicans against 0,000 Indians. All of the missionaries sent out by the Presb3'terian board, and about whose whereabouts there had been uncertainty, are now accounted for, although come are still in Pekin. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces tribe, who wanted to be sent to their former home in Oregon has been told that their going their is impossible as their old country -is now occupied by set tlers. ' The crack team of the Kansas Cit-f fire department has gone to Paris to show how Americans fight fire. -A number of Maine cotton mills are shutting- down on account of loss of trade with China, resulting from the war. E. Ii. Swazey is gone to parts un known, leaving Kansas City banks and commission men with duplicated mort gages on herds of cattle which may and may not have an existence. There is said to be SI, 000,000 of his paper afloat. Clear water in the Chicago river is lessening the city revenue from water, factory owners drawing their svoply from the river. The Chinese ministers in European capitals have united in cabling the Chinese government a demand that the legations be permitted free tele graphic communication with their gov ernment. The increase in the total internal revenue receipts for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1900, over the receipts of the previous year were 21,831,534. Governor Beckham has decided to call an extra session of the Kentucky legislature to amend the Goebcl elec tion law. A firm of American contractors is ad vertising for 4,000 laborers to begin work on the Central railroad in Cuba on November 1. During a Nationalist meeting in Cork John E. Redmond, leader of the Irish party in parliament appealed for election funds. Hand bills were dis tributed discouraging recruiting in Ireland for the British army. John Wickersham, recently of Kan sas, was drowned in the White River, Arkansas, by collision of a launch load ed with pleasure seekers with a barge. Lieut. J. B. Gridley, son of the com mander of Dewey's flag ship, now attached to the Boston navy yard, is making effort to be assigned to duty in China. ' There is about 87,000,000 insnrance to be paid, mostly by English compan ies, on the life of King Humbert of lltaly. There is said to he none of it carried by American companies, I ilcjeicoyRiL Nine Millions Raised In Three Months Work on 365 Miles THE SCHEME IS 22 YEARS OLD. " Kansas City, Aug. 5. Five months ago President Arthur E. Stillwell of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railway company, began the promo tion of that company in Mexico and three months ago the first work on the project was done outside of Mexico. Since then nearly $9,000,000, or 40 per cent of the approximate cost of build ing the railroad from Kansas City to Port Stillwell, has been secured and contracts have been awarded for the construction of 365 miles of roadbed, payment for which is, in the case of each contract, to be made in the securi ties of the company, so that the money subscribed will be available for other work. The prospectus upon which Stillwell has been able to raise 59,000,000 in three months, an average of 5100.000 a day for the new project, shows many interesting things not heretofore pub lished. General Ulysses S. Grant was presi dent of the first company which pro jected the Mexican end of the route. That was twenty-two years ago, and after two years General Grant was suc ceeded by William Windom, later sec retary of the treasury. Senator Windom and his friends retained their interests for 18 years, when, having been unable to secure concession 3 from the Mexican government, they gave up the effort and the project 'was later taken hold of by President Stillwell. The original company was known as the Mexican Pacific, and later as the Chihuahua & Pacific, under which latter name it was operating 120 miles of road from Chihuahua to Minica when it passed into the hands of the Stillwell interests which merged it into the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient project. In the vicinity of Port Stillwell large cocoa groves are being planted, and many such groves are already in bear ing. Oranges, figs and all tropical fruits are grown there, and vegetables, melons and berries grow throughout the year, strawberries being on the market every day. Jester Acquitted. New London, Mo., Aug. 3. Alexan der Jester, (alias Hill,) was acquitted by the jury who for four weeks have listened to the testimony in his trial for murder committed 30 years ago. Jester was arrested in 1871, when he resided in Sedgwick county, Kas., but escaped from the Paris, Mo., jail short ly after his preliminary heariug. He was again arrested about two ' years ago in Oklahoma, where he resided, his sister having given his place of res idence to the Missouri sheriff. ' He was taken to New London, Mo., in the county where the murder is alleged to have been committed. Detectives were employed by the murdered boys brother, who is a Chicago millionaire, and every inch of the territory trav ersed by Jester and young Gates was gone over to' procure evidence against the old man. At the trial Jester was traced from Indiana to Sedgwick county. Militia For Canadian Strikers. .Montreal, Aug. 2. lwo companies of the Eighty-fifth regiment, of Sher- brooke, have been ordered to Magog to prevent rioting among the mill hands who " have been locked out be cause they asked higher wajres. The strikers numbered about 1,000. . There Are Villains in Dallas Also. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 4. There - was an explosion under the tracks of the Dal las Consolidated Electric Street Rail way company on south Harwood street as one of the cars passed. The car was damaged but not wrecked. The passengers were panic stricken and fled in all directions. The union motormen who have been on a strike for six weeks are accredited with the explosion. General Chaffee. Washington, Aug. 2. --General Chaf fee arrives in China with two well defined intentions first, to begin a farward movement, in accordance with the instructions of his government, at once; second, to act as if he were the only military commander in China, unless the other commanders fall in with his views. Should they do so, of course, General Chaffee will be only too glad of their help; but he goes to Tien Tsin as an independent com mander, bent on following out his own policy, and not as one officer of the discordant "allied army." Congressional Candidate Arrested. Dayton, O., Aug. 6. Charles Specht, the Socialist congressional nominee from the Twelfth district of Missouri, who was selected at the Socialist con vention held in St. Louis, was arrested here on the charge of loitering. Specht is a representative of the International Union of Cigarmakers and has been in the city for several weeks past assist ing the local men in an adjustment of the difficulties between the employers and the striking employes. He is 23 years old. - . G. A. K. Reunions. Topeka, Aug. 4. Commander Mar tin of the Kansas G. A. R. announces the following soldier reunions: Dexter, August 7-11; Corning, August . 8-10; Cedarvale, August 14-16;"- Frankfort, August 14-17; Cherryvale, August 20-25; Iola, Augusts 21-23; Baxter Springs, Inter-State, August 27 to September 1; -Phillipsburg, August 29-31; Garnett, Sept. 5-7; Oakley, Sept. 12-15; Eureka, Sept. 11-14; Smith Center 17-21; Sedan, jSept. 19-22; Hutchinson, State, Sept. 124-29; Wichita, Oct 2-5; Erie, Oct. 56. .NO TERRITORIAL DIVISION Of China Contemplated by the European Power. London, Aug. 4. Mr. Brodericli's statement in the heuse of commons, placing Great - Britain on record as unalterably opposed to the partition of China, is well received by all the morning papers, which for lack of other news, chiefly devote their com ments to Dr. Morrison's remarkable . remarkable message to the Times, cabled to the United States. The cabinet, Mr. Broderick said, was completely unanimously against parti tion of China, which would be fraught with infinite danger, and the govern ment had no reason to believe they ' were at variance with any of the Euro- .-' pean powers in that respect. Further, the government would do nothing to set up anything but a Chinese admin istration in China. The government had not in contemplation the idea of organizing the Chinese army under foreign officers. What form the in demnity should take must be Veft for future consideration. Mr. Broderick thought it was a time when the less said the better. Great changes might result from the recent calamitous events, but he hoped the European powers would discover some founda-. tion upon which to build up a Chinese government which would insure civil izing rule, to a population forming one-third of the human race. Condition of Kansas Banks. Washington, A tig. 6. An abstract of the condition of the national banks of Kansas at the close of business on Jnne 29, as reported to the comptroller of -the currency, shows the average reserve held at 38.34 per cent against 34.69 per cent on April 26. Loans and discounts decreased from 524,5ri6,712 to $24,529,474; stocks and securities in creased from 8539,817 to '5560,414; gold coin from 81,161,176 to $1,209,274; total specie from $1,658,945 to $1,734,407; lawful money reserve from $2,478,554 to $2,630,693; individual deposits from $20,205,559 to $26,941,958. England's Avar Loan. London, Aug. 6. The war loan has been issued in the form of $50,000,000 3 per cent exchequer bonds at 98, re payable at par in 1903. New York, Aug. 6. Subscriptions will be taken in this country for the issue of 10,000,000 in . 3 per cent ex chequer bonds, issued through the bank of England. The bonds are to be for three years and will be issued at 98. No fixed amount has been assigned for subscriptions in this country. Half of the entire issue was underwritten here the first daj'. Victoria's Second Son is Dead. London, Aug. 2. The news of the death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria, has created a sensation in London, as it was totally unexpected. The queen was deeply affected, and the Prince of Wales canceled the arrangements for attending Goodwood, where his horse T l i. j. : ii 1 for the steward's cup. The duke's successor, the Duke of Albany, has arrived in London. Germany has Storms. Berlin, August 3. Thunderstorms and heat have done great damage in the eastern provinces, especially in Stettin, Dantzic,Elbing and Schneide muhl, whence a number of deaths are reported. Lightning killed fifteen' persons,and fired and consumed twenty three large estates. A large number of soldiers were sunstruck and killed in Brunswick, Posen and Breslau. i Weatherford is about to put in water works to utilize its grand supply of spring water; the best in the west. Dates Fixed for Cnba. Washington Aug. 2. The war de partment has - issued., an order for a general election to be held in Cuba on the third Saturday of September to elect delegates to a convention to be held in Havana on the first Monday in November. This convention is to frame and adopt a constitution for the people of Cuba. The London Times Draws Conclusions. London, Aug. 2. Commenting upon Dr. Morrison's dispatch, the Times says: "It is now beyond doubt that the fre quent assertions of the different Chi-j nese representatives that for a month past the legations have been enjoying the protection of the throne are, one and all, unqualified falsehoods. The cumulative evidence is overwhelming that the whole affair has been through out under the control and direction of the Chinese government. "It now rests with the powers to make the Chinese government under stand that it will be held fully respon sible for whatever happens in Pekin." . . Fishing Nets Destroped. . Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 6. Fifty sal mon fishing nets of a total approximate value of $5,000, have been destroyed on the Frazer river. The nets were mostly owned by Japanese. ' The white union fishermen, . accord ing to the reports at Steveston, had made a combined attack on the Japan ese fishing at the mouth of the rivers The Japanese were worsted and it is reported that -one of them was thrown overboard and was not seen again. Arrested For Perjury. Georgetown, Ky., Ane-. 4. Georire F. Weaver, the witness who said he came from Colorado, and who asserted that he saw the (run barrel Dointinp- from the office of the Secretary of State at the time Goebel was assassinated 18 arrested on a warrant charjrin? him with perjury. The warrant was 6 worn out by attorneys for the defense in the Powers case, who found out thati Weaver was not only not in Frankfort- the day.of the assassination, but waw never there till last week ' .