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5i?3jt "75 igf "V" JpJ Ip? B'ssaasigg i;V s--r 5t - - X .Tf-8i A , -' S5'iS.-?.i-J v -"t -i "-j .N ? rsa iV .i r y " ?s,v' I: Thomas '"" ri' -c Cat. -,., - c -V. .. --! if- - ,;- - , l&. VOL. I. NO. 26. COLBY, THOMAS COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885. S1.50 PER YEAR. : rei'""Ttt'a'-' COUNT i !K?5e 8&.i - .1 v -- v ? -' 0 I " k I- TT. 31. EDWARDS, 31. D., Physician & Surgeon, COLBY, KANSAS. Bunker Hill Roller Mills, IIEALE & FEAKISS, Proprietors, BUAJtEB. HXtiXi, KAIffSiVS. Capacity, 200 Barrels Per Day. One or the Most Complete Roller kills in the State. MASTER'S HOTEL, COLBY, KANSAS. A New Honse. Board and Lodging by the Day and Week. BOARD, $3.50 PER WEEK. IV. G. PORTER, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. All Land Business Promptly and Ac curately Bone. COLBY, KANSAS. J. R. COLBY, NOTARY PUBLIC. All Business in this Line Promptly At tended to. C. C. REYNOLDS, OBERLIN, KANSAS. Attends to nil kinds of LAND-:-BUSINESS. Call nnd see him when you go to Obcrhn. it. T. HEJOIING, U. S. LAND LOCATOR AND SURVEYOR, QUICKV1LLE, THOMAS CO., KAN. JOHN A. WALKER, LIVERV iKDFEED STABLE flood Rigs and Plenty of Stabling and Feed. COLBY, KAKSiVS. W. A. WILSON. G. J. TACHA. THE OLD RELIABLE LAND OFFICE OF WILSOjST & TACITA. VJnr Grcsrts, IiOcatoh. Special Attention to Thomas County. NEWT. SI3IPS0X, ATTORNEY AND REAL ESTATE SLC3rsIr,I,, OBEIUJIS, - ICAJTSA.S. 1LE1T3IAS & SILLER, Land & Real Estate -A.CS-IE'VTS, OBERLIX, - - KANSAS. T. (j. TUEELEY PAINTER AKDJIGN WRITER, Sign lVriting a Specialty. COLBY, KANSAS. IBTTTCIIETi SHOP T. P. FEEKArM. Fresh and Cured bleats on AH Times. Hand at COLnY, - - ftAJTSAS. 6. J. OSUOItN. li:i: moxhoe. OSBOItX & MONROE, Eeal Estate Agents, WA-KLEXEY, KANSAS. E. S. SEE, LAND LOCATOR, CUMBERLAND, KANSAS. LAW, LOAN AND LAND OFFICE DONOVAN, CARPENTER & BAILEY, OBERLIN, KANSAS. Z. D. BEXTOX, House, Carriage & Sign Painting COLBY, KANSAS. V. W. COX. Notar- Public, Sevard. Nebraska THANK PING KEE, Notary Public.Colby.Kan COX A PIXGREE, Eeal Estate and Insurance AGBIVTS. Wo have choice farms and wild land1) in .Nebraska. also school and deeded lands in Thomas County. Kansas. Locating done in Thomas and Shcr'dan Counties promptly and accurately. Correspondence solicited. J. J. SEARS. T. B. MORTON. SEARS & MORTON, Eeal Estate Agents, GILMORE P. O., CLEVELAND STATION, St. John-County. Kansas, U. P. R. R.. Kansas Division, where all trains stop, tt'c arc doin" a General Land Business. Locating in ThonT asand St. John Counties made a smpinit- Tlenty good Government lands in thoei -pi. Lontesting claims and IFVR f J1"""!'" uucnaeu to. f ir, Kan. t IDIN) THOS. REED, nliiHAll T J) . jiNE & REED, vhiuucii, rvttu. ttm. locators: liHTb (it-ftBcc Farms and School Land J j Thomas County, Kansas. .r -fdDOHUcimi fsoiiciicu.' " . . -- i-- "" " - --- vi I --t - - a. " -r-'- to. , - rj7- -- 5rf a - . -TT5.W1. ... 5I - a CWiC 'TK", -Vi -fVufJL-, JF 1 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned by Telegraph and wai, WASHINGTON XOTK8. The publicity given to the fact that the United. States Treasurer had resumed the transfer of gold coin from San Francisco to Xew York by registered mail has again cause I a suspension of that mode of trans portation. It is not expected that any morogoM will be sent through the mails for some time. TnE issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended August 22 was $513,497. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 1,407. CMr. Cannon-, Comptroller of Currency at Washington, recently received a telegram from Bank Examiner Gelman, who is in charge of the City National Bank, of Fort Worth, Tex., reporting that the bank was unquestionably solvent, and would resume business in a few days. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re ports the total value of exports of domestic cattle and hogs and of beef, pork and dairy products, as follows: July, 1SS5, $8,480, .79; July, 1$S4, 10,278,049; seven months ended July 31, 18S5, $50,904,309; same months ended July 31, 1884, KV4,4I1,7C6; beef and pork products for the nine months ended July 31, 1SS5, $07,708,002; beef and pork products for the same time in 1884, $05,570,300; dairy products for the three months ended July 31, 1885, 4,031,710; dairy products for the same time in 1SS4, ifJ.K4,5C0. The total values of exports of bread stuffs from the United States was reported at Washington recently ,as follows: In July, 1SS5, jS,714,r,05; in July, 1884, $12,371, 754; in the seven months ended July 31, 1SS5, "S5,55S,9S.2; in the seven months ended July 31, 1SS4, 80,540,131. TIIK KAST. LionTNiNG struck the residence of Sam uel Chambers, near Titusville, Pa., re cently, instantly killing Mrs. Chambers and seriously burning a small child. The husband, at work not 300 feet distant, knew nothing of the catastrophe until ho went to his supper five houre later, when ho found his wife lifeless on the floor and the creep ing infant moaning piteously. Seven members of James Robertson's family, residing at Pittsburgh, Pa., were mysteriously poisoned recently. It was at first supposed that the trouble originated from somo ham, of which the entire family had partaken. Au analysis proved this in correct. Charles A. Gambriel, a wealthy Balti more merchant, died suddenly at the Con tinfntal Hotel, Philadelehia, recently, un der peculiar circumstances. Two bottles, one marked ammonia and the other vale rian, n ere found in his room empty. At Big Rock' Bridge Crossing, Pa., re cently a gravel train on the Alleghany Valley Railroad, struck a phaeton, in which were threo young ladies, instantly killing Stella Smith, and seriously, but not intaiij-, injuring Emma Smith and Mary Dunn. The phaeton was reduced to kindling wood, and the horse killed. Captain D. S. Babcock, Vice-President and General Manager of the 2 ew York, Providence & Boston Railroad, was run over and Wiled recently in the yard at Stoningtou, R. I. On the night of the 24th a very heavy thunder storm, accompanied by a gale, prevailed throughout New England. It was exceedingly sevcro in Boston and sub urbs. Many bouses and other buildings were damaged by lightning. Mn. Theodore Frelinoiicvsen, son of the late ex-Secretary of State, was mar ried the other morning at Newport, B. I., to Miss Alico Coates, daughter of James Coates, of the firm of J. & P. Coates, of Scotland. Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, died suddenly at Jamestown on the 25th. In the New Hampshire House considera tion of the bill to establish the whipping post for wife beaters was indefinitely post poned by a vote of 173 to 55. Joseph E. Bowen, the oldest master Ma son in the country, having been installed sixty-eight years ago, died at Philadel phia, recently, aged ninety-four. The Enterprise Brewery, of Philadel phia, together with over 300 barrels of beer, which had been seized by United States Internal Revenue officers on ac count of alleged irregularities in stamping the different sized packages, w as released upon the filiug of a 35,000 bond by the brewery company. THE W1-T. The extensive wool, hide and tallow house of Obearne, Hosick fc Co., of Chi cago, was set afire by lightning recently. The top Moor was stored w ith wool and the flames spread rapidly. The firo was, hon -ever, confined to tho upp-r floors with damage to stock ami building of $75,000. It was full insured. The Inter-State Fair to be held at Kan sas City September 14, 15, 1C, 17,. 18 and 19 promises many attractions to visitors this fall. The premiums aggregate $40,000 and blooded stock will be on exhibition from all parts of the country. New arrange ments have been made for the display of farm machinery, etc., and all railroads w ill issue half-fare tickets during the fair. Mrs. Agnes Kladztch, twenty-seven years old, the wife of a Chicago Libor&n was recently found by her husband on his return from his day's work dead, gagged, bound and evidently murdered, there be ing a long deep gash behind her ear. The bouse was in confusion and the few valu ables it had contained were missing. An eastbound passenger train on the At antic & Pacific Railroad was ditched near Powell Station, Arizona, r?cently. Two white -passengers and aa Indian -were killed. Prof. John Young, of Indianapolis.died recently, aged sixty-nine. He was Consul to Belfast, Ireland, under President Lin coln, and professor of languages at Butler University, Irvington, Ind. Leonard Gardner was recently ar rested at Springfield, HI., for wife beating. Upon being released he armed himself with two revolvers, and meeting the two- otScers who arrested him opened fire, in stantly killing one officer and mortally wounding the other. The officers returned the fire and Gardner received three shots, and died almost butafitly. .Oxbi Thompson was arrested at Wyan dotte, Kan., recently, charged with being- nupucateam tne, murder oi Jacob jobbsob In Washington County, IncL, September 23 - I iafe Z "' r-"-- 1 lir il T- , TT-r'. ."w5 1 - 1 In WflJtliinlVUl f V-tfintir. Tnrl. NAnfomhMp4lT I f-i DU 1nuJA'.A.T'.- a7 vn ... -J.. Ft.ed Be p. key, Jr., a eon of one of the leading citizens of Salem, lad., while in toxicated the other day, appeared on the streets and began an indiscriminate f usil ade. He fired nine shots, aiming at w ho tver happened to be in range. He suc ceeded in wounding five persons, one fa tally. The other morning Nicholas Gerst and Louis Haas, two young merchants of St. Louis, had an altercation about some triv ial matter and Haas plunged a knife into Gerst's neck, killing him almost instantly. Haas was arrested. The bodies of A. P. Goodykoontz and Frank P. Css, well-known citizens of Vinita, I. T., were found riddled with bul lets in a camp near Red Fork a few days ago. They were supposed to have been murdered w hile sleeping. The house of John Curlay, near Grattan, Mich., wa burned the other morning. Mrs. Curley, seventy-eight years old, was alone in the house at the time and perished in the flames. Major Edwards, the well-known Mis souri journalist, was stricken with apo plexy at Higginsvillc, Mo., recently. Frauds were said to exist in the Ap praiser's office at San Francisco. Investi gations wero being made. A DisrATCn from Nozales, Ari., of the 25th says: Themurderof three Americans and eight Mexicans at Baschuica by Apaches has been confirmed by Azopilo Franco, who arrived here yesterday from the scene of the crime. Judge George Y. Thurmond, of St. Louis, recently committed suicide by hang ing himself in a doorway on the third story of his residence. No cause was as signed for the suicide. A heavt frost, doing much damage to vegetation, was reported in the Northwest on the night of the 24th. AT the State encampment of the Knights of Pythias at Rocky River, near Cleveland, O., recently, H. T. Sandman, of Cincin nati, and G. H. Farnan, of Covington, Ky., were drowned while bathing in Lake Erie. A nest of counterfeiters was recently upset in St. Louis. One arrest w as made. The gang was operating in Brazilian cur rency. The largest excursion that ever left In dianapolis started the other day over the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western for Niagara Falls. There were 3,500, all told, and they traveled in three sections, of twenty cars each. Police Lieutenant Michael Mullen, recently pardoned by President Cleveland, after having served several months in the county 'ail for violating the Federal elec tion laws last November in Cincinnati, has bnen reinstated in the polico force and as signed to his former position. R. A. Rogers & Co., of Dayton, O., nude an assignment lecently. Dayton creditors hold 35,000 secured and uusecured paper; Cincinnati and Eastern firms hold upwnrd of 40,000. The liabilities ar t-itimated at 75,000; nssets, invoiced at 10,(K. Fire at Fergus Falls, Minn., tho other morning destroyed tho armory of the State militia, and swept everything on the south side of Cavour avenue, including a large tenement house, Billings' stables, the stables of Matthews & Striugham, J. 'Web ster's blacksmith shop and an agricultural warehouse filled with implements and ma chinery. Tho loss w as 20,000. Indian Agent Stoltsteisier, of the Southern Ute Agency, at Ignacio, Cal., has sent in bis resignation. General N. A. Miles has recommended tho appointment of an army officer to take charge of the af fairs at the agency. THE hOUTII. Joe Hawkins was shot and fr.tnlly wounded by William Thompson at Chris tiauburg, Ky., the other day. Both men wero farmers and quarreled about a hog. Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, has commuted to imprisonment for lifo tho death sentence of Andrew Hounds at Nat chez, and William B. Martm at Ellisville. J. II. McGowan killed and dressed a pig for a barbecue recently at Tallailega, Ala. His three children, aged eleven, nine and four, saw the process of butchering tho pig. The other morning McGowan left home nnd the children agreed to repeat tho process. Haviug nothing, the two elder children proceeded to butcher the young est. They cut its throat and bung it up by the heels as the pig had hung and w-ifo proceeding to disembowel it when their mother discovered the hoirible tragedy. Eight hundred stevedores struck at Pen sacola, Fla., tho other morning, overwork being the cause. Dan Shaw, a section hand, was shot ant" killed in the smoking car of the Louisville and Nashville train near Jellico, Ky., re cently by an unknown man. Shaw was driuking. Rev. S. S. Idlemen, minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Green Spring Hun, W. Vn., committed suicide re ceutly by jumping from a window nnd fracturing his skull. He was laboring un der a fit of temporary insanity. TnE Italian brig Aragon, from Bruns wick, Ga., was wrecked off the coast in the recent storm. The captain, his wife and nine of the crew wero taken off the dis mantled wreck by the brig Emma Ernst and brought to Savannah. The Georgia Legislature has formally re ceived the records of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Colony, which were pre sented to the State by John S. Morgan, of London. The presentation speech was made in the House of Representatives by General John R. Gordon, and the records were received by Governor McDanlels, who made a short address. The strike of the employes of the Queen and Crescent system ended at Meridian, Miss., on the 26th, the men agreeing to ac cept their pay and quit the service of the company. It is estimated that the total amount of damage by the recent storm at Charleston, S. C, will reach $2,000,0). Nearly every vessel in port and every house in the city was more or less injured. The Atlantic coast, from Florida to Maryland, was visited by heavy storms on the 25th. Much damage was done on Sullivan's Island, S. C. Superstitious people at Brownsville, Tex., were recently, greatly exercised over the numbers of parrots, never before seen, so far north, that have appeared in large swarms along the river and hack in the country. Crows, an unusual visitant, have also appeared in the lower valley. Tax body of Alexander Jandro Vlndara. the-wealthy mcarcliant assassinated, near tha CarrmlUdBTgB&k, was found floating A'nisrATcn from Baton Rouge, l.a., says-. I Tho committee to leara of tho condition ol the finances of the Fourth Levee District reported to the Morganza Levee Conven- tion t,t ni cinrra ,,. ..;im. .","""- '-.-.i ward repairing the crevasse. A committee was appointed to canvass the district foi the purpose of raising the additional 40,- 000 necessary to complete the work. Five bandits were brought into Laredo, Tex., recently by a company of soldien who captured them after a desperate ugnt, in wnicn inree oauuus were Killed and two soldiers wounded. One of th slain bandits was Juan Chevarria, aged eighteen, who is said to have killed six men. He was a brother of Caledonio Cho- varria, who wvis hanged at Laredo on the 14th of August. It was rumored recently at Dallas, Tex., that there would boa reduction of the force of the freight and ticket agents on the Gould and Southwestern system by com bination of freight and ticket agents into one. riiBu uum3, an ouii-rrouitutionist, attempted to address a crowd of alout five hundred people on a public thorough fare at Dallas, Tex., tho other day, bis theme being "Tho Lffiuor Traffic." He was drunk, however, and was arrested and a throng of admiring friends follow ed him to prison. A riot seemed imminent at one time. GKN'ERAL. TnE State Bank of Russia was recently robbed of $143,000. On investigation it was discovered that the robbery was committed by minor employes of tho bank. The rob bers fled the country. Information was received at Cairo, Egypt, that a great massacre recently took place at Berber, and that tho populace were starving nnd seized the city treasury. TnE Scotch steam dredge Beaufort was reported to have been wrecked ofT the Bermuda Islands recently. Captain Penny and crew of ten or tn elve men were be lieved to have all been lost. The entire town of Wasserburg, Bavaria, was destroyed by fire recently. Over sixty business houses and two hundred dwellings w ere burned. The Urstilino Convent nt Bally Trucky, Count Waterford, Ireland, was destroyed by fire the other day. All the inmates es caped. French papers were praising Spain for tho attitude she had assumed toward Ger many over the Caroline Islands affair. An epidemic of vellou fever was re ported raging in the State of Chiopas, on the Guatemalan lorder. Tho fover was ol a violent type, destroying entire families. A native craft, called a bugalow, loaded with pilgrims, was wrecked in tha Gulf of Adon recently, and one hundred of its passengers were drowned. he French man-of-war Bayard, carry ing the remains of the late Admiral Cour bet from Tonquin, arrived at Toulon on tho 25th. Signou Clerico, tho Italian Consul at Monaco, has been arrested on a charge of haviug embezzlod $70,W. The German flag, which was recently hoisted on the French island off the Victo rian const in tho South Pacific,, has been removed by order of Prince Bismarck at the request of France. There was a terrible lioiler explosion recently on tho steamer Orgo at Trieste, Austric. Eight persons were killed and many injured. There wero 4,009 now cases of cholera and 1,547 deaths reported in Spain on tho 25th. The plague was thought to be grad ually decreasing. Thers were nineteen deaths from small pox at Montreal ou the 25tb, being the largest number recorded siuco tho outbreak of the disease. It was reported that Don Carlos had of fered tho Spanish Government the services of 100,000 Cnrlist6 to vindicate Spanish honor against Germany. TILE LATKST A threatened duel between Editor Larry Gantt of tho Athens, (Ga.) Banner- natchman and Hon. R. A. Connell, mem ber of the Legislature from Decatur County, has been averted by the award of a board of arbitration. In the House at At lanta Mr. Connell withdrew his 'strictures on Mr. Gantt and apologized. From passengers arriving at El Paso, Tex., via, the City of Mexico, it is learned that yellow fover at Vera Cruz has greatly increased during the last two weeks. Acting Sfcretary Faiuciiild has re jected the offer of Julius A. Rhomberg to pay .$5,100 in compromise of judgments l amounting to $103,000, obtained on his distillers' bond in tho Circuit Court of the District of Columbia seven years ago. The bark Victor, which went ashore on Turtle beach, north of the Savannah (Ga.) quarantine station, was got off on the 28th, and was ordered by tht health officers to Sapolo quarantine station. Her crew, numbering eleven, had all been sick with yellow fever, and livo of them were just convalescent. The Great Western Iron Boat Building Company, St. Louis, has filed a deed of as signment for the benefit of their creditors. The assets were listed at $36,530; liabilities unknown. It was reported in Madrid that Spanish men of war had arrived at Yap, the chief island of the Caroline group, and planted the Spanish flag, no German vessels being in sight. i Reports were received at army head quarters on the 28th that one of the princi pal lessees had already moved his entire herd out of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe territory and that all others appeared to be moving as rapidly as possible. The business failures for week ended August 27 numbered, for the United States, US; for Canada, 24; a total of ISO; as com pared with 177 the week previous. Texas fever has appeared near Kanka kee, 111., amongst a herd of 200 cattle owned by Hiram Goodwin. Six have already died and many others have the disease. The other morning-about three o'clock a west bound passenger passenger train on the Texas & St. Louis Railroad ran into a bull on the track. The entire train was de railed. Mrs. D. E. Hill, an aged lady, was fatally injured and several others were more or less hurt. The Sheriff of Dauphin County, Pa., re cently visited the Pennsylvania Railroad office and served upon several of its officers notice of the court's injunction restraining She consummation of tke"8oatb Pennsyl vania Beach Creek Bafhroad transfer. ' FouaraaRrea were lost by the wreck of tare Beaafert pOotboahytta -I.. Kdk-oWi?Watt-i8MlllLad Joha Med ard.' ialhTtm o- SenrtCaVoV. KANSAS STATE NEWS. Th School rood. ' ..-"'. TV "T " " '"'"" the school fund of the BUte for the present year. Allen. 1 &824JR AndeMon"".r!.'.I!"J"".'!J!""," 2,068.30 Rbe011 '"Mias ' Barton " nus Bourbjn i,109J5 Butler 3.494.35 B.7Z140 Cbase. 1.13040 Chautauqua 2 443. c!ay..7.;r..'.".".'".'.".".".".'.'"".'.'.".". a85 CIoudV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.".V".V.".V.V &UJUS0 w 72 . CT&iloril""""ll""''.l"lll""l'. 3.'js:ij Davis.. 1.254 05 I nfkin"..";"""" ""' a'S ' Doniphan 2T,iM Douglas a.s.V.C5 td wards 24S.XJ Kilt 2.-J0O40 Kllis RSI.3J 1,410 JO Kllsworth FinnAr 150.73 iroru 47.45 Franklin 37510 Uralium 303 J Greenwood ,SN) Harper l.SiOiO Harvey - 2;4.Y!0 Hodj-cmun 1S1.S0 Jackson 2,0.VtM) JefTerion 2,bll.l' Jt-ell 3,00.10 Johcsou 2,H50 K D.-iiuin 1,134 M Labette 4..-U5 Leaienworth 5,"..'14 Lincoln LiTS-VO Linn 2,'J.W Lyon S.U'i.'W Jlur.on 2JS1 "0 Marshall 3.1GI.J0 JIuHicrson ilMVTi) Miami .SilJS-i Mitchell 2.1fiOS) Montgomery 4,ir5i" JtoiTs l,cri."J Kemahu 2,7.Sfl Neosho 2te7.-i Ne,s 37.S03 Norton 1?1 U0 Osajrf n,n0.30 Osborne l,tHj:!U Otiaua 1,'JTOuj PaniiCi t-77.50 Philips .... 1.15 Pottawatomie 72.35 Pratt fll"i Rawlins -1" 70 Itcno 2.44S00 Republic 2.XI.70 Rite I.-M-IV Kile;- LPOIJu Rnoks 1.0V4.40 RiibIi ti71S Rus.-ell tHfi.10 fcalinc 2.SSI.I0 Scdf-cwlck :Uu0 5i Shawnee 5r7t " Sheridan WOO Smith 2.2I.-.rO Stafford TlnO Sumner 4,415.70 Treito 4J.'Ji Wabaunsee 1.7TO40 Washington 3.217.').- Wiii-ou 2,-75 Woodfon 1,49: nt Wyandotte 4,17103 Total 15,049.45 These monoys are the interest on funds arising from tho sale of school lands. Mlscrllanroiin. William Willis, a young man, was re cently found dead at Leavenw ortb. Post-OFKICE changes in Kansas for tho week ended August 15: Established Green Ridge, Stafford County, William II. Beardsly, Postmaster; Happy, Graham County, Mrs. Mary J. Van Dyke, Postmis tress; Paxson, Pratt County, George H. Hoffman, Postmaster. Discontinued Ore gon, Jefferson County. Names changed Baltimore, Cowley County, to Atlanta; Hoi in wood, Jewell County, to Gregory; Olivet, Osage County, to Penfield; Zamora, Hamilton County, to Kendall. TnE number of children in the State of school age between fivo and twenty-one yenrs of age is 411,200, and the apportion ment of the State School fund per capita is fifty-five cents. The other day Miss Maggie Catherman, of Buffalo Park, accidently shot one of her fingers off with a pistol. In order to avoid conflict with tho meet ing of the Supreme Legion Select Knights of the A. O. TJ. W., tho annual meeting of the State Temperanco Union at Topeka has been changed to Tuesday and Wednes day, October 27 and 28, the first meeting being on Tuesday evening. The census of the city of Atchison shows a population of 15,318, a gain of only 218 since tho census of 1S80. The people claim that either tho National census was a fraud or there is some mistake in the Iaro enu meration by the Assessors. Reports are that in some localities farmers are complaining of damage to their corn from the ravages of tho wire- worm, it worts in tne tenaer roots 01 tue stalks, causing them to fall down, thereby depriving the corn of ability to mature its ears. It works in all kinds of land, but the most damage is on clay soils. A prac tical farmer, who has studied the habits of this worm, says its ravages can be greatly mitigated by a rotation of crops: that is. sow oats or wheat on this year's corn ground and corn or wheat on oats ground. By so doing the worms are almost entirely destroyed, or so much so that their dam age to the corn crop is hardly perceptible. This worm is always found to be most numerous in fields of corn that have raised the same crop year after year for a num ber of years. The Governor has appointed Captain George W. Ashby, of Leavenworth, As sistant Commissioner to the North, Cen tral and South American Exposition, to be held at New Orleans November 10, 1885 to April 1, 18S. Charters recently filed with the Secre tary of State: The Vesta Town Company, of Clark County. The object for which this company is formed is to purchase and lay out a town site and to sell the same in subdivisions. The capital stock is $10,000; the Union Horse Protective Association, of Harvey County. The object for which this company is formed is to protect its members from thieves by immediately turning ont in a tody and hunting for the stolen property; Wichita Encampment No. 29, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wichita, Sedgwick County; Heyt Meth odist Church, of Hoyt, Jackson County. William H. Tod", a boy about nint years old, was run over and killed by the cars at Wichita the other day. Western Kansas is improving rapidly. H. T. Beaman, a prominent citizen who has resided in Kansas since 1860, and held a number of prominent positions, died in Topeka the other day, A dispatch from Hutchinson stated that the cattle shipped from that point to BloomingtoB, BX, by Mikel Broa claimed to ber dying from Texas fever are all native stock raised la Beao Couaty, and never in any way exposed tOxaack ferer.. They left Hatcabuon perfectly healthy, .and gaod akape, and jiwstkaVe'Tjeea uraM at tlMstMkyaida.te the car. jTJwra mmtryrmMmm of Teaaaar. 8pa-J la fmr fai tba eowtr J'l -5.- STORM DISASTERS. Fearful Lois or Life by Floods at Canton, ChlDa A South Carolina Cyclone. Washington; August 27. Details of the destruction in Canton, China, and vicin ity by tho recent great rain storms there have been received by private parties In this city. The flood was the most serious which has visited Canton In thirty years. More than 10,000 persons lost their lives i ind a far greater number are left in a starv- in.g condition. Entire villages were en gulfed and the rice and silk crops In the vicinity were almost ruined. The price of rice lias been raised 18 per cent, in conse quence of the loss to tho crop. Tho rain fell since the latter part of June, tilling and overflowing the rivers. Many streets of Canton were flooded for oer a week. At Sezni City the water broke through the city wall. It is reported that several thousand people were drowned at that place. Tne embankments of the rivers were broken in numerous places and the waters swept across the sur rounding country carryinj-: everything be fore iL A foreigner who was an ee wit ness of the devastation reports that one night he occupied a house anchored near a bamboo grove. By morning the water had risen to the tops of the bamboos. At otliei points it rose as high as forty feet during the nizht time. The inhabitant) fled from tiie villages and camped on the hillside. At Kun-in. a market place situated near an em bankment of one of the streams connected and an attorney to represent the United with the river which brings water from tlit States at J8,000. Provision was also made north and west rivers, the majority of the for the rent of court-room, furniture, sta iiihabitants were drowned by tho breaking tionery, fuel and other necessary incidental through the embankment of the water, expenses, all of which were to be paid out Some escaped to rising ground in the neigh- 0f the fund before judgments were paid, borhood, but the water continued to rise The court was reorganized in 1882-with-tha" and gradually overtopped the elevation, same officers and salaries as before, except drowning those who stood upon it. Seventeen that the number of judges was reduced Chinese graduates in Canton, hearing ol to three. The Comptroller, in his In the distress and suffering prevalent in estimation of the- case, found that, their native villages, took passage on a boal outside of the above-mentioned officers, with a iew to proceeding home to render there were on the pay rolls the names of what assistance they could. On the way assistant counsel for the United States, the boat was capsized and all who were in clerks to that counsel, experts, cleiks to the it were drowned. In some places parents experts, messengers and watchmen, whose tied their children on the high branches ol aggregate salaries amounted to about $34, trees whilst they instituted measures foi 500 per year, He also found in the quar tlieir general safety, but the trees were terly returns that there had been paid to washed up by the roots, and the heart other assistant counsel over S8.000 for the rending cries of the children were silenced quarter ended December 31, 1834, S7,000 in the surging waters. The body of a bride for the quarter ended March 31, 1885, be dressed in her bridal robes was found flo.it- side other alleged illegal payments. He iug iu the m er at Canton. A large tub was Rays he finds no law authorizing such pay also seen. It was picked up and found ments, and, afterjconsultlng with tho Acting to contain a boy and a girl. With them Secretary of the Treasury and with the was found a paper stating their names, the day and hour of their birth. The parents had instituted this means to save the life of their offspring. Tho writer adds that the sufferinirs which thousands are endurini are heartrending, parents replying with tears in their eyes to their children's request for food that they have none. The people are obliged to use the filthiest water, and this, added to the disease which will ensue upon the subsidence of the waters, greatly aggravate the horrors of the situation. Meantime all that is being done by the in habitants to abate their misery is the teat lug of gongs, burning of incense and howl ing of prajers to idols. THE SOUTHERN' CYCLONE. Augusta, Ga., August 27. Full details of the storm at Charleston show that the damage was even worse than had been re ported. In Franklin street a large tree was riven in three parts from top to bottom, but remained standmsr. The whole street is barricaded with fallen trees. The south battery was the scene of great confusion and damage to shipping. The streets were flooded with water, and crafts of all de scriptions were washed ashore and were floating in the streets at high tide. The fishermen's boats were destrojed and the wharves piled high with incongruous w recks. The north western and central por tions of the city suffered slight damage compared with that in the water front, thoush the entire portion of the city west of Rutledge aenue was submerged with salt water from one to three feet deep. The spire of the Citadel Square Baptist Church, one of the tallest in the city, was blown across the four-story dwelling of Thomas I). Dotterer, cutting away the piazza and front walls and leaving the in terior of tho dwelling exposed to the storm. Seeral miraculous escapes occurred here but no one was injured. It w ill take 58,000 to replace the steeple. The Plymouth Church was completely unroofed. The Phillips Street Synagogue was also un roofed. The church home in Lawrence street was badly damaged, and the Avery Institute was unroofed. Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and the chapel of the Citadel were unroofed. The Mount Zion l'resb terian Church, colored, was unroofed and badly wrecked. A rough estimate of the damage is as follows: Wharf roperty, 350,000; private property, S300.000; cot ton presses, $80,000; churches, S30.000; city property, $35,000; railroads, $50,000'; Aslil.ey river bridge, $8,000; shipping, S150.000; lumber mills, $20,000; miscella neous, $100,000; total, $1,123,000. The track of the South Carolina Rail road from tho intersection of tho Northeast ern railroad to the wharves floated all about and was deposited in a zig-zag shape on whatever foundations wero exposed by the receding waters. The loss to the railroad is estimated at $20,000 at this point. At Sullivan's Island many houses were damaged. The New Brighton hotel had windows blown in and crockery broken, nut withstood the storm bravely. The Casino was lifted entirely from the foundation and dashed to the ground. It was impossible yesterday to telegraph an adequate description of the cyclone. It proves the most disastrous storm that ever visited Charleston. Within comparatively a few minutes the injury to private resi dences was very large in the aggregate, though individual losses were comparatively small, chiefly in roofs- and fences. Some of the wholesale dealers, howerar lost heavily by damage to stock. The heaviest losses were along the water front. The Sullivan Island steamers, Poos3in and Sappho, went agiound in the harbor and are considered bojond repair. The Union naval stores and city wharves are badly wrecked. On Charleston's favorite promenade, the last battery, the ground floor of residences, were from three to six feet under water, and the handsome gardens were covered deep with sedge. The sea rose so rapidly as to have the appearance of a tidal wave. The steamer Monticello of the Florida line encountered the gale twenty-four hours before she reached Charleston and had a terrible passage, but was not injured. General Palmer Talks. Spbtsgfield, III., August 26. General John M. Palmer was interviewed last night regarding the published reports that he would act wjth Congressman Warner, of Missouri, in the preparation f articles of impeachment agaiast Judges Treat, Brewer andKrekeL The General said his name had been used in that connection without hfa au thority, and that Judge Treat bad acted in the case before him entirely within the law. He felt called upon to say thiataij be did -jBot f ally approve t Jim Jaw aa, R stand., 'Be bad received' a -Cy aC'ikr rwaiutloBs ot Mm Knight aj Lakor wftit lapnranikiw q'-ao.-sappu 'taKakkaV farther aleaf Jaiejari to 4iZ4$k?s?r' r.r7rtiZr-Si THE- ALABAMA COMMISSION., A Decision That Ca'naos Many oa'the'Par Boll to Mourn I4t of tha Alleged Illeg ally KmployedL- WAsmsoToir, August S. The Pint Comptroller ot the Treasury to-day made a ruling that Is likely to embarrass the Court of Commissioners of Alabama ClalTM for some time to come. It is in effect that the employment of persons borne on the rolls of the court is entirely without war rant of law, and that no payments cas le gally be made from the Treasury on that account in the future. 3fr. Andrew IL Allen, Disbursing Agent of the Treasury, recently made a requisition on the Secretary of the Treasury for S9,000 to meet the cur rent expenses of the court. In the usual course of business the requisitions came be fore the First Comptroller and he decided to make an investigation of the affairs of the court before authorizing the Issue of the necessary warrants. His conclusions are summarized in the following statement prepared by him for publication: m Tho Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims was created in 1S74 to bear proof of claims to be paid out of the $15,500,000 awarded by the Geneva Commission, and was continued by various acts uutif Decem ber n, 1S77. It is constituted of five judges with an annual salary of 80,000 each, a clerk at su.uoo, a stenographer at 52,500, Solicitor of the Treasury, he has decided to stop all future payments of the same. The following is a list of employes on the regular pay rolls of the court who are affected by the Comptroller's decision: "J. J. Goodrich, "Expert in Insurance" at an annual salary of $4,200; Walker Blaine, Assistant Counsel for the United States, S3,500; William P. Huxford, Deputy Clerk; $2,500; Andrew 3. Allen, Disbursing Agent, $2,000; Eugene Rosis, Clerk to the Counsel for the. United States, $2,090; Frank D. Lunt, First Assistant to the Ex- - pert in Insurance, $2,000; Asa P. French, Clerk to the Judgc$2,000;FJu;jo"33'-&i r Second Assistant to, tho Expej) in Insur ance, 51,800; Enoch G. Good wiu.'Third As sistant tothesame,Sl,800; Henry O'Connor, jr., clerk in .the clerk's officeTSl;6O0; Fred Chapin, clerk in the clerk's office, $1,500 i Amos D. Allen, clerk in the clerk's office. $1,400; George Corvil, clerk to the expert in insurance, S1.400; William Haywood, clerk to the counsel for the United States, $1,400; A. B. Nichols, clerk in the clerk's office, $1,250; John Martin, messenger, S720; W. IL Forrest, janitor. $720; C. W. Towniey and Felix Muldoon, watchmen, $720 each; A. L. Jackson and A. L. Alex ander, messengers, at $400 each; W. P. Churchill and Hugh Griffin, messengers, at $S60; Anne Boyiein, servant, at $8 per month. Tho following is a list of persons who have been employed as assistant counsel in special cases: Charles Hamlin, Alex ander H. Hobbs, Godfrey Morse, Charles C. Suydam, William E. Spear, John T. Whlta ker, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Charles T. Bonnojy William IL Morrow, George G. Frellng huysen, James H. Herenin, George M. Zeders, Edmund J. Moffatt, Wallace H. White. Samuel Park, Thomas J. Cobb and B. P. Carpenter. The Comptroller says that all the above named employes hare been paid out of the provisions of the- organic act authorizing the payment of rent, sta tionary, printing and other necessary incidental expenses. The accounts or the Disbursing Agent have been settled up to March 31 lasted the salaries of all persons on the pay rw have been paid up to June 30. The requisitions which have just been refused were foe ex penses, including salaries for the month, of July. The Comptroller says the accounts of the Disbursing Agent for the quarter ending August 31, when received will be disallowed. The salaries of the judges and other officers of tne court, who are named iu the organic act, are not affected by his rulinr. The Comptroller says also thatjhe Secretary of State, who has jurisdiction over the court, is in accord with him in his view of the law, and has sanctioned toe action taken by him. Killed In Camp. Dej-vzb, Col., August 25. Harry H. Kirby, a Leadvilie politician and mining man, is in jail in that city for killing, Thil Nash. The men were working In .adjoin-' lug claims, Kirby being foreman. A quar rel had been going on for some time be tween them, Nash claiming- that Kirby's men were encroaching on his ground. He wished to go into the Fortunal tunnel Sun day to make measurements, but Kirby for-, bade him from doing so. Ttash retorted that he would go in and he started for-. ward. Kirby became enraged and ' seizing an axe, .ha sprang after him. and with the weapon dealt him a blow '- ' on the left side of the neck nearly severing: his head from his body, causing-deatn aK"- . most Instantly. Kirby at once-deft, takJnf; v , tho weapon with him, and after a shorr visit to his house, fled to the timber. Yea- -terday he returned and surrendered. Both; men were bard characters. Nash has bc-f-- a terror and his threats bare always been i . backed by his rifle or-revolver. Xirby h" been indicted as a ballot-box staffer and bis general conduct among miners-has .been slmilarto that of his victim. Tbecorotmr'a V jury yesterday returned a verdict of itsem. ous killing. JOrby's plea wiR bef that be ( acted In self-defense. " e - ' DaeUar la Boastaw New Tokk. Aagast 36. 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