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Newspaper Page Text- tT - J XX DKMOCKAT PUBLISHING CO NO STEAL IN IT That the Choctaws and Chickasaws were pA fR THE LEASED DISTRICT r e A B Durant on the Subject r Into History Somewhat that a Detachment oT Cav t t irturriJ the Daltoit an Wifes Suicide Per t tpita Payment oi tl c Indian leased Dictrlct v 2 Several days back it contained an editorial i k iw Chiekasuw Steal - h etl remarkable for what know and tor the ease into the scheme of the rmwd nt interviewed liui iut a prominent Choc- rcian and one of the u alters affecting the re- u i and the general i nth is there in the charge and Chickasaws have i tin leased district and i i nation is u fraud vrurd of fact in it The u it property of the two iixt set apart by any i now sjieak of the u kasaw country which n district but were ml absolutely deeded lrmoval negotiated in railed the Dancing initiated the Choc- ms surrendered their v -- i ijjii m were concerned and lands individual t erred staying in the wire allotted their 040 i and tho land pat- iin are now owned by i - and these titles have I iwauFC some greedy 1 live farm or a heavy i w ires for a speculative This has been rc niiii our holdings as a win identically the same i i s issippi lands hird at so much per i us between the rivers and extending me to the 100th valued a patent th Nation of the - ands under the great niip signed by Andrew i nd attested by his i ireral land office By i I iiii i Stales sold these injcJ them using all ii il honored legal phrase- nd conveyance only in- ii forever as denoting and which the juiliiiid the words so or water runs were vveen the Western i imds being in favor invested in Fnited i lie United States i a kisiws an undivided i iu lands and issued to rest bearing bonds for In lb55 the United ii Choctaws and Chick r lietween the Vs and nadian rivers to be tf the Wichita lunie ami other small bands r i leave Teas For Slates paid in money i hi rebellion n recou ps mailf in lbijf The it b the commissioners i intaincd two articles vi lien submitted to the ii One was tho ii held iu the Choctaw v niy were admitted as ii- i article 3 was a ix of the leased 1iin named being 3000- - i i t The negroes are tiens The lands are 1or barring out the iii North have borne iM vears The recent v is simply a renewal of tamed in the rejected - i a id our councils ii in accepted there only ile money especially liis gone ahead and al- et is homes out of it e he rest open to white refuse us payment of luolery which should i or Mansur blush lure of the Daltoits O T May 23 Mar- ei this afternoon from here he landed one - Chestnut supposed niplexioned member of I officer captured him 1iiith of Antelope creek 1 ii inaron river Ho was i s d and had two six- Iiiiiw at the time he sc y0K country uis place to day that a 1 c fifth cavalry under iiptured the Daiton umMiing G troop one v is in that country and r the robbers but not - t nen to the Indians IVruiit or Not Miv 23 Airent Bennett i ceiaw Nation on a few ii recruiting for the oiv him and returned st night Monday ho - the per capita to the - i the Cherokee Nation herjkee freedmens per i liise two payments he M u now and the middle es the removal of the is is which he will begin from the depart- i nved before then i ush for permits in the he says there are over i tied there who will be cy have secured permits Wifes Act le i May 23 News reached f suicide of Mrs J B iable young wife of the at Caretta the section it Gibson Tho woman i u her room dead having s It is not known what iiitnit the act but it is ie domestic relations She r of a wealthy planter on home and married - ii being opposed by her FRE AT COMANCHE rame llullrtlnci Uurnrd to the 5i uund LUt or Losses i vuzette a - Tei May 23 This morning re was discovered in the boot s se atJ iore of Redden on the north square Wlien discovered tha LtiiisiimtSsSfMi flames had made such headway as to be wholly uncontrolable and rapidly spread to the buildings west of it all of which were frame buildings The losses as far as can be ascertained are as follows J S Redden stock of boots and shoes estimated at iMOO an entire loss in surance 35C0 J M Childers general merchandise es timated at 3000 insurance 7o0 Enoch Anderson barber shop total loss no insurance E X WeLsendanger barber shop every thing saved I owry McLane saved all their goods in a somewhat damaged condition Xo insurance on any of the buildings Mr U G Armstrong while assisting in tearing down an awning was struck on the head by a falling piece of timber sustain ing a severe concussion of the brain and is in a critical condition to day Au Old Veteran Dead Special to the Gazette SmmMAX Tel May 23 Mathew Ham ilton an old ex Confederate veteran died last night near this city He was wounded at Cold Harbor and the musket ball and his discharge were exhibited here to day The ball weighs au ounce and it was cut from his leg only a- few years ago PROFLIGACY Reeds Congress Eminently Suc cessful in Wasting Money OFFICES FOR POLITICIANS What Ilccame il the ltilliou Dollars Hurled at a ISird During tile Last Session Comment Upon Commissioner Itaums Successor Nrvr OlUee Special to the Gazette WsuivrTON May 23 One of the methods employed by the last congress in reaching the billion dollar line in its ex penditures was the creation of new places at the public crib and an increase of sala ries of some of those persons already provided for The otlicial statement of the work of the last session which lasted three months gives some interesting figures It shows that during the sessionthe economical Republican congress created 507 new spe clic ofilces for which salaries aggregating WssJ7 yearly were provided Besides this there was appropriated 41 4yiS51r0 for other new ofiices the number of offices or amount of each salary not being specified To offset this appropriation of 2 U471S50 for new ofilces 125 specific places were dropped taking with them 135J41S0 and -5-0 was cut off by dropping off a very small number of ofiices not specifically named This leaves a not increase of S22ii323410 in the salary rolh caused by the creation of new ofiices At the first session of the same congress the net increase of offices was 1233 carrying a net increase of J2fcti22SU2 Tho Fifty tirst congress therefore added over 1700 places to the Federal patronago list at an annual expense to the public of 4119 4uS2 It is this sort of record that made the Republican billion congress the most reckless and extravagant one in the history of the country and it is not surprising that its leaders are wondering what the people will think of their party next year As stated Hon John W Foster will act as diplomatic adviser at the state depart ment during Blaines absence Foster is virtually acting secretary of state where questions of policy are concerned Blaine has eoniided his aims and desires in nearly all of the important foreign problems now pending before the state department to Foster Gen Fred Kuefler of Indiana will be urged for the position of commissioner if Gen Raum resignsas now seems probable Gen Kueller is an old jieisonal friend of President Harrison Gen Hastings or Pennsylvania is also mentioned with sig nificant emphasis A WAR SPEC PORTUGUESE FIRE INTO A BRIT ISH EXPEDITION Fifteen ISrilish Snldects Incarcerated in a VortitKt4a Prison Iinluuil will Make a Demand for Their Itelcase I oxnox May 23 A dispatch received here from Lorenzo Marpuez a Portuguese town in Africa on the north side of Delagoa Bay says that the British turn screw tor pedo cruiser Beck six guns Commander Alfred Winslow has arrived there and re ports that a serious conflict has taken place between the British and Portuguese colony Commander Winslow says that the troops stationed at the Portuguese military post on the river Pungwee have attacked tho British South Africa companys expedition commanded by Commissioner Johnston Seven Portuguese were killed The British loss is unknown The British turn screw cruiser Ma gienne six guns Capt Ripon and the British composite gunboat Pigeon six guns Commander Floyd have arrived at Beira Mashonaland a Portuguese settle ment in South Africa It was at Beira that in April tho Portuguese authorities seized the British mail sacks aud refused to allow them to go to their destination The mails were intended for British colonies in Mashonaland Tho British colonists were indignant at this high handed proceeding on the part of the Portuguese and complained to the British government about it When Col Willoughby s expedition reached Beira the colonel applied for per mission to proceed to the Pungwee river in order to pay the prescribed duties but re ceiving no answer after forty eight hours he started without iermission and the Portuguese opened fire on his expedition and seized two steamers which composed it The Portuguese also seized the mails and provisions and imprisoned fifteen mem bers of the expedition Col Willoughby endeavored to secure the release of his ves sels by the payment of the usual custom duties but tho Portuguese officials refused to accept these payments and ordering the British flag hauled down hoisted the Portu guese in its place The Portuguese declare that the British are excluded from Pung wee river which Col Willoughbys boats were navigating when seized PERHAPS UNPRECEDENTED Aln Girl Criminally Assaulted at Eagle Past Special to the Gazette Evgle Pass Tex May 0 The grand jury empanelled here this morning has been engaged all day in investigating a horrible and unprecedented case of crimi nal assault upon an infant less than two years old Tho creature accused of the hideous crime was said to have been found with the wounded and screaming child near an outhouse at 3 oclock this morning There is no doubt that the crime was com mitted but the circumstances of the case and the unreliable character of the testi mony leaves serious doubts if the guilty party ha been apprehended Held Across the Railroad Track SnpxvEroivT Lia May 22 A colored girl about eighteen was murdered near Vaudeville Bossier parish by being held across tho railroad track by two negroes until the body had beeti run over by the train The negroes escaped after witness ing their deed and are being followed by a large body of armed men If they are caught they will be lynohed - - A ROMANCE IN BONDS A Story Full of All the Elements of Romance and Adventure- A MOST REMARKABLE HISTORY A Missouri County Cass Which is in Open Defiance of the Orders of the United States Circuit Court Tlio Judges Imprisoned for Contempt Fraud Robbery Snicide and Mob Violence Abounds Special to the Gazette ILurisoxville Mo May 20 The ar rest a few days ago of the judges of this county is but one more chapter in the ro mantic history of the bond question which has been vexing the people of Cass coUnty fcr the past seventeen years For that length of time the judges of the county have hem in contempt or the court of the United States For seventeen years the bond question has been fought over and over again by shrewd lawyers through all the legal processes known and still the holders of the bonds have nothing to show for their acton except the countys promises to pay and the judgments of tho court The history of the bond troubles of Cass county is a remarkable one in many re spects The story of the bonds themselves is dry and prosaic but tho adventures aud incidents attending their issuance aud the subsequent persistent refusal to pay de spite the decree of the national court is a story which bears all the elements of romance adventure and crime The history covers fraud robbery suicide mob vio lence aud murder Judges elected for the purpose of resisting United States officers have been TEUE TO TUCin TRUST aud have been fugitives from justice hiding like criminals in the brush and hidden by the citizens of the county while they were fleeing the deputy marshals they have languished in jails aud the penitentiary rather than betray the people ho placed them on the bench for the express purpose of defying the writ of the courts of the national government they have paid heavy lines to the courts for contempt which fines the citizens have promptly repaid While tho bonds have been handed down from successor to successor in the corpora tions and the judgments have been kept alive by the heirs in trust so have the successive judges handed down the tradi tions and the people of the county have been persistent in their obstinacy While the bonds arc acknowledged to be legal in every respect and while their issuance was directly in pursuance of the completion of a contract by both parties thereto yet the people have determined for seventeen years to repudiate the obligation and in this effort have spent more than double the value of the bonds To fully understand the situation of the case it is necessary to go back to the days when tho people were pioneers to tho days when tho traffic west of the Mississippi river was carried on in prairie schooners drawn by ox teams aud when Western Mis souri was the seat of border ruffianism The farmers were prosperous crops were large and prices high the farm land of the prairies along the frontier tier of counties responded abundantly to the efforts of the husbandman and the country was rich But with all tho prosperity thero was ouo disadvantage Markets were far away and difficult of access Railroads were feeling their way carefully into the new territory and the cost of transportation was so great that the immense crops availed nothing to tho farmers A ltAIlROAl CU4ZE This condition obtained for many years aud then came agents of railroad builders who talked of the advantages of direct communication with St Louis and Chi cago The people however were slow to grasp the opportunity aud the progress of these agents was marked with a gradually increasing sentiment Tho insidious work ing had its effect after many months and at last where there had beeu apathy there came such intense desire that one road was not deemed sufficient and the people fairly went wild with the craze On paper the county was gridironed with tracks and had all the roads boon built which were proposed there would not have been enough land left on which to farm Every township in the county took up the excitement and every fanner was sure that his farm was to bo tho site of a depot Then followed the bond propositions Dozens of offers were made to the citizens until it became a serious question as to which wero the best and which should be voted upon The representatives of the schemers who were fostering the idea of bonds did their work well and the people were anxious to be fleeced for the benefit of the corporations AW AT UACK IS THE FltTtKS the Clinton and Kansas branch of tho Tebo and Neosho road was projected and a propo sition was made to Cass county to issue 200000 in bonds in aid of the road This was granted by the county court which at that time had the power to issue bonds without the formality of an election Fol lowing this bonds were issued to the Lex ington Lawrence and Gulf the Pleasant Hill and Lawrence and the St Louis and Santa Fe roads in succession aud the county took on a veritable railroad boom Then came the war and its attendant horrors which were particularly severe in this county aud the building of railroads was stopped Two hundred thousand dollars in bonds had been issued to the Missouri Pacific road but before the contract could be com plied with the war prevented the work and the bonds were held at Harrisonville Dur ing the war many raids were made through the western part of the state by bands of bushwhackers and predatory Unionists These bands would fight each other and were driven backwards and forwards by tho varying fortunes of battle During one of these raids the courthouse was looted by the Unionists and the signed bonds were carried off They wero recovered from the vandals by a regular Union army officer at Leavenworth and held in trust These bonds afterwards found themselves into the hands of the Missouri Pacific railroad aud their history formed a bloody chapter in the annals of the county THE THOUELE BEGISS The other bonds which had been issued to the various railroad companies before the war now began to crop out After the rebellion was over and peace again came to the border the bond trouble arose The people had recovered from their excitement over the railroads and as they had borne the brunt of devastation they vero on the verge of starvation and bankrupty and de termined to resist payment on the bonds which had been of no benefit to their county The holders of the bonds took tho matter into the state courts but those tribunals from the lowest to the highest decided that the county was right and refused to give judgment in favor of the bondholders So the matter went until the last court of re sort in the state had made its decison and then the holders made overtures for a com promise Two elections wero held in the ceunty on the matter but in both cases the people gave an overwhelming majority in the negative This carried the matter down to 1SS2 when the bonds were sold to parties who lived outside of the state and then suit was brought before Judge Krekel of the United State court which resulted in a decision against the county and the judges wore ordered to make the levy to pay tho bonds which by this time had accumulated interest until the total amounted to 160281 lhK The county Judfes were C S Hockaday presiding juiticej William F Baraos and The Weekly G tisemeni itArf55 p75fe1Airi E FORT WORTH FORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY 3IAY 28 Finis E Johnston The order of the United States judge was received and a Tote taken on the matter Hockaday Toted in favor of making the levy but Barnes and Johnston were emphatic against it The result was that no levy was made and an order issued from Judge Krekel in chambers at Sedalia for the ARREST OP THE TWO JUDGES for contempt of court The arrest was made September 5 1SS2 and both judges were taken to Jefferson City and imprisoned in the penitentiary The judges were obstinate and remained in prison for about a month when a proosition was made to compromise the bonds The judges refused to in3ke the call for an election as long as they were confined and at the solicitation of the bondholders they were granted a fur lough to go home and issue a call for an election The people again emphatically refused to compromise and as the judges declined to make the levy they were re turned to prison and remained there until the expiration of their term From then until the present the judges have been elected to the penitentiary with great regularity and the elections have been followed by orders from the United States court to make the levy but these orders have been invariablv ignored and the judges have suflered arrest and imprison ment rather than be unfaithful to the trust imposed upon them by tiie people of the county The arrest of the judges of the county on the bth of this month and their being held in bond until the sitting of the United States court iu Kansas City in June is the last chapter of the bond ques tion oi me county THE BLOODT KOXU5 But there is another chapter to the bond question of Cass county A chapter which relates to the bonds captured by the raid ing soldiers aud it tells how the people arose against men who attempted a great crime and executed the penalty for their transgression swiftly and terribly In a common wooden frame hanging against the wall of Bishop Sterlings drug store in Gunn City iu the eastern part of the county is a handsomely exe cuted bond It is finished with a green bor der the coupons thirty eight in number being also embellished with green These coupons are of the denomination of 40 each being tho interest on 1000 for six months Below is a verbatim copy of the bond United States of America State of Mis souri Cass county funding bond Interest payable semi annually in New York No 22J 1000 Know all men by these presents That in pursuance of an act of the general assembly of the state of Missouri entitled an act to enable counties cities and incorporated towns to fund their respective debts Ap proved March 21 A D IfcCI and also an order of the county court of Cass county in the state of Missouriproviding for the fund ing of certain outstanding bonds of said county the county of Cass in the state of Missouri acknowledges itself indebted and for value received promises to pay to the bearer at the banking house of Northrup Chick iu the city and state of Now York the sum of 1000 nineteen years after date hereof with interest at the rate of S per cent per annum payable semi annually on the 22nd day of February and August of each year upon the presentation of the proper coupons of interest hereto attached at the said banking house of Northrup Chick in said city and state In testimony whereof the county of Cass has executed this bond the presiding jus tice thereof under the order thereof sign ing his name thereto and by tho clerk of said county under the order thereof at testing tho same aud affixing the seal of the said court This done in tho city of Harri sonville the county of Cass aforesaid this the 22d day of February A D 1S72 Attested jEniEi C Stejiiiensos Presiding Justice of the County Court C II Dore cierk by P H Yelton deputy a nonr of fiftt masked mes This is one of the bloody bonds so called because they gave rise to the Gunn City tragedy in which J C Stephenson presiding justice of tho county court J P Cline attorney for the railroad and T E Dutroe were killed by a body of fifty masked men who stopped the train on the Missouri Kansas and Texas road at Gunn City on the evening of April 24 1372 When the train stopped Cline drew a revolver and fired into tho crowd wounding two men and lumped from the train and attempted to make his escape but fell pierced by several bullets one of which passed through his head killing him instantly Stephenson was killed in the baggage car where ho sought safety by hiding He was shot through the throat tho ball passing through both jugular veins and was given a blow with some sharp instrument which split his skull to his eyebrow killing him at once Dutroe was shot in the back of tho head the ball lodging over the left eye He died iu about four hours This tragedy was the culmination of a piece of robbery which brought disaster to everyone connected with it and which was accomplished under the following circumstances The bonds which were stolen from Harri sonville by the freebooting Federal officer and which were afterwards recovered by a regular officer at Fort Leavenworth became the subject of a bitterly contested lawsuit The county took steps to recover tho bonds and after several years of litiga tion a compromise was effected by which the bonds were to be recalled and reissued to the St Louis and Santa Fe road with an additional amount in consideration for which the road was to be built through the county But this did not suit all the citi zens and an injunction was served on the judges restraining them from refunding the bonds This left the matter in such a shape that 229 unsigned bonds lay in the office of the county clerk awaiting the ter mination of the injunction proceedings It was at this time that a conspiracy was entered irto by which these bonds were to be signed and stolen by the county judges with certain others who were TO AID AND ABET THEM Legal proceedings had heen pending since 1S71 On tho evening of March 1 1S72 there met in the back office of Hincs Cline lawyers Judges Stephenson and Forsythe of tho county court J R Cline lawyer O P Yelton deputy county clerk mid R B Higgins The bonds were signed by Stephenson as presiding justice and Yelton was told that if he did not sign them he would be killed The signature was affixed and a hasty flight with the bonds followed The bonds were sold and the proceeds divided among the conspirators It was several days before tho people learned of the transaction and then the in dignation ran high A hot search was made for the perpetrators and hanging was freely threatened Judge Forsythe returned and plead remorse giving the full particulars of the plot and its execution R B Hig gins blew out his brains iu the courtroom at Harrisonville but the others were away The thievish Judges were ousted and others put in their places Suit was brought for the recovery of tho bonds and eventually they were all returned Cline and Stephen son then came back to the city and brazenly defied the people They walked the streets with Dutroe as a body guard and all three were heavily armed and openly said they would shoot down any man who attempted to arrest them At last the indignation of the people became too great and a meeting was called at which a committee of seventy was appointed to protect the welfare of the people This action frightened the conspirators and they made hasty preparation to leave They slipped out of Harrisonville on the train but word was wired to the members of the committee and the train was met at Gunn City with the result above men tioned All the bloody bonds were destroyed except the first and last which were given to iiarrisonvule and Uunn City tvery respect- Lyj i njtftiifieocil jmJEBrtZ k mA I - I Jlw 1 ONE IDEA The Delegates Wanted a New Party and Voted For It PLATFORM OFNOCONSEQUENCE The Nationalists Indorse the Platform of the Peoples Party as Nationalism Seiv Knglaml ami the South Scarcely Rep resented The south will Vote for tho Uuuiorratic Nominee in lSltJ ami will Not Join file 31 oremeut The Tarty Indorsed May21 The National ists have adopted a resolution indorsing tho formation of the Peoples nartv and I pledged themselves to render their best foits to advance its upbuilding and hoe ior a spirit oi enthusiasm oetween the ad herents of so noble an inspiration In the convention all New England and the East ern states combined including New York and Pennsylvania had but twenty eight delegates In tho South Louisiana had two North Carolina one Texas twenty six South Carolina one and Tennessee six a total of thirty six for the whole South Tho small representation from the South was not a surprise because of the fact that though the Alliance is very strong in those states the open policy has been to obtain local results without antagonizing in na tional matters the dominant party the gen eral understanding being that the Southern Allianco men were bound to support the Democratic nominee of 1SU2 The national executive committee elected Robert Schilling Milwaukee secretary and M C Rankin Terre Haute treasurer Only One Idea Cincinnati Onio May 21 The Na tional Union conference transacted so much of its vitally important business and was so late in closing the day of its session and did it under the stress and impulse of such wildly jubilant excitement that there was very little opportunity given for the ex pression of opinion upon the principles adopted It seemed that the great body of delegates had one cherished desire tho forming of a new party and when that was assured by the reading of the first para graph of the platform they resolved to nail and clinch that object without allowing any obstacle to intervene But this morning and last night after adjournment of the mass meeting there were numerous con sultations the most conspicuous perhaps being that of the nationalists They hold a meeting aud talked the matter over after scanning the platform at their leisure By way of an abnormal expression of their views they adopted the following Resolved that the nationalist del egates attending the national con ference believe that the spirit animating and entertained by the delegates in general was the chrystaliza tion of the reform elements of the country and therefore should be successful and as nationalists recognizing tho organiza tion of effort as the fundamental principle of nationalism we heartily rejoice in the formation of the Peoples party of tho United States of America aud pledge our selves to render our best efforts to advance its upbuildinc and hope for a spirit of eng thusiasm befitting the adherents of so no ble an inspiratiou The analysis of tho report of the commit tee on credentials shows that Kansas fur nished nearly one third of the whole number of delegates while she with her neighbors in West Missouri and Nebraska led the list of states except of Ohio and Indiana whose locality made it easy to secure an at tendance of many delegates The five states named furnished 104J of tiie 1417 dele gates in the conference The credentials committee reported that Now England and the South had very light representation in point of numbers how over weisrhty it might have been in other respects Vermont and New Hampshire in New England and New Jersey in the East and Mississippi and Georgia in the South do not appear at all on the list All of the New England and Eastern states combined including New York and Pennsylvania had but twenty eight delegates IIKIGIIT AND EAKLY to day the bt uid ne w executive committee got together for its first meeting The gathering took place in a narrow little hotel parlor into which the members wero packed like so many sardines in a box They did not seem to mind the stuffy quar ters but went to work with a vim Every body but the members of the committee were excluded Then it was announced that the first thing in order was the elec tion of a secretary and treasurer of the committee After considerable discussion the choice fell upon Robert Schilling of Milwaukee as secretary and M C Rankin of Torre Haute Ind treasurer Both were elected unani mously The members then busied them selves in filling out the vacancies that had been loft in the national committee as a re sult of tho rush that preceded the adjourn ment of tho convention Tho meeting of the national committee was presided over with unexpected effectiveness by Chairman Taubeneck tho big unsophisticated looking farmer whose recent exiierience of sharp parliamentary practice in the Illinois legis lature during the memorable senatorship contest served him iu good stead at this meeting A GREAT CRIME lohu Griffith Indicted by the Cooke County Grand Jury for an Inliumau Act Special to the Gazette Gainesville Tex May 20 John Griffith was arrested at an early hour this morning at his home twenty miles west of here upon an indictment presented by the grand jury now iu session charging him with incest Since the condition of his daughter was discovered there had been suspicions of an infamous crime The child died shortly after its birth ami thero being suspicions as to the manner of its death a post mortem examination has been or dered by the authorities The arrival of the officers had been expected by Griffith but at the time of the arrest he was taken by surprise Sheriff Ware and deputies reached Griffiths house at 2 oclock this morning and surrounded it Just at daylight the accused came out and was confronted with a Winchester His capture was effected without resistance and he was brought here and lodged in jail His arrest caused a sensation as he had lived in the county a long time and was re garded as and resiected farmer Ho has a family of grown children and a wife living BROTHERLY KINDNESS A Farmers Xeljhbors Cultivate Ills Crops Hillaboros Council A Fire Special to the Gazette Hillsbobo Tex May 23 Mr A G Hoffman living two miles north of HUls boro had the misfortune to lose one of his eyes which caused him to get behind with his crops Ten of his nearest neighbors met last week vrith their teams and plowed out his crop both of cotton and corn ohn hiteworth living three miles from n nau nis team yesterday to run awav with anew cultivator tearing it all to tilffces Neither h th team wpw rTously hurt The city council of Hiii3boro at their ular meeting last night passed an ordinanco making it a penalty and a J2o0 fine for any person to sell either the Police Gaette Foxs Weekly Now York Illustrated News Kansas City Sunday Sun or any other sen sational paper of the kind A FARMER BURNED OUT Cordon Tex May 23 The dwelling house aud outbuildings on the premises of Mr John Weigiukie a prosperous farmer near Gordon were entirely destroyed by fire yesterday Nothing was saved except tho clothing the family were wearinr at the time Tlic origin of the tiro was from a defective Hue The fire was not discovered until it was beyond control The loss sus tained they estimate at S0O The generous people of the community have responded promptly to the relief of the unfortunate family and ero long they will be under a new roof JUDGE TERRELL DECLINES TO SERVE AS ONE OF THE LAV CODIFERS Judge Z T Fulmiire Appointed How County Maps Can be Secured Prot estant Episcopal Church Council Special to the Gae tte AisnN Tea May 20 There are no new developments in the text book bill Hon Wells Thompson one of the re cently appointed coditiers was here to day King Sims charged with tho murder of Edward Uraudon near Waco on May IT was brought to this city last night and lodged in jail for safe keeping On being officially notified of his appoint ment as one of the commissioners to codify tiie laws the Hon A W Terrell declined to accept on the ground of pressing private affairs which would not spare him the time to do the laborious work required of coditiers Judge T Fillmore of Austin an able and highly respected attorney has been appointed in his stead The forty second annual council of the the Protestant Episcopal church of the diocese of Texas met at St Davids church in this city to day The council sermon was preached by Kev Sebright Leigh of Brenham The council will remain in ses sion to morrow aud Friday County Map of Texns Special to the Gazette Austin Tex May 20 The following circular prepared by Land Commissioner McGaughey shows a list of the 247 comities iu the state A map of any county can bo had by remitting the cost of same to tho land commissioner One hundred and seventy-one hae been lithographed and are indicated by to the left and arc 00 cents each The price of a hand made copy is shown to the right the amount lieing dol lars Anderson 25 Angelina 20 An drews Aransas 10 Areher 1S Armstrong S Atascosa i2T Austin 1 Bailey iti Bandera 30 Bastrop 20 Baylor M5 Bee ls Bell 2 Bexar Blanco 1S Borden fcj Bosque j2o Bowie 20 Brazoria j 20 Brazos S10 Brewster S2 Brisco 10 Brown 23 Buchel 15 Burleson 12 Burnet 30 Caldwell Sl -Calhoun 15 Callahan SIS Camp 10 Cameron 20 Parson JS Cass 25 Castro SS Chambers 15 Cherokee f 20 S10 Clay 20 Cochran S5 Coke 15 Cooke 30 Coleman 18 Collin Collingsworth S Colorado 15ComalS15Conianche 25 Concho 20 Coryell 25 Cottle 10 Crane ft Crockett Crosby 12 Dallam SS -Dallas 35 Dawson s Deaf Smith S Dslta 10 Denton 35 Do Witt 18 Dickens S10 Diinmit 20 Donley 10 Duval 30 Eastland 13 Ector 5 Edwards SS5 Ellis J30 El Paso 45 Encinal 20 Erath 20 Falls 20 Fannin 25 Fayette 20 Fisher S Flovd 10 Foard 20 Folev 20 Fort Bend 15 Frankln 10 Free stone 0 Frio 20 Gaines i Galves ton 13 Garza 412 Gillespie i 0 Glass cock 7 Goliad 15 Gonzales 20 Gray i Grayson 30 Greer 25 Gregg 5 Grimes 20 Guadalupe 15 Hale 12 Hall 12 Hamilton 25 Hansford ti Hardeman 15 Hardin 15 Harris 30 Harrison 20 Hartley 12 Haskell SIS Hays 1 Hemphill S Henderson 25 Hidalgo 20 Hill Hockley 5 Hood 15 Hopkins 30 Houston 25 Howard 12 Hunt 25 Hutchinson 12 Irion 10 Jack 25 M Uson 15 Jasper 20 Jefferson 15 leF Davis 15 Johnson 30 Jones Jib Karnes 15 Kaufman 20 Kendall 15 Kent 12 Kerr 15 Kimble 20 Kinney 25 King 15 Knox 10 Lamar 25 Lamb 5 Lampasas 20 Lasallc 20 Lavaca 20 Lee 15 Leon 25 Liberty Limestone 25 Lipcomb Live Oak 1S Llano ls Loving 5 Lub bock 12 Lynn fit Madison 10 Mar ion 10 Martin Mason 30 Mata gorda 20 Maverick 15 25 -McLennan 23 MoMullen 15 Medina 20 Menard 15 Midland 0 Milam 20 Mills 20 Mitchell 15 Monta omery 20 Montague 30 Moore 10 Morris S Motlcy15 Nacogdoches SIS Navarro 25 Newton 20 Nolan 15 Nueces 25 Ochiltree S Oldham 10 Orange G Palo Pinto 20 Pan ola 15 Parker 35 Parmer i Pecos 50 Polk 25 Potter 12 Presidio 25 Kaius fi Randall S10 Hcd Kiver 25 Keeves 25 Kefugio 25 Roberts S Robertson 20 Rockwall 10 Runnels 25 Rusk 20 Sabine 10 San Augus tine 15 San Jacinto 15 San Patricio 15 San Saba 20 Schleicher ls Seurrv 10 Shackelford 13 Shelby 20 Sherman fs Smith 23 Somervell 10 Starr 30 Stephens 18 Sterling 10 Stonewall 10 Sutton 1S Swisher 10 Tarrant 35 Taylor 1S Terry S Thockmorton 15 Titus S10 Tom 25 Victoria 20 Walker 20 Waller 12 Ward 5 Washington 1S Webb 15 Wharton 20 Wheeler 10 Wich ita 15 Wilbarger 25 Williamson 20 Wilson 15 Winkler 3 Wise 25 Wood 15 Yoakum t Young 20 Zapata 415 Za valla 20 A YOUNGSTERS ACT A Joy of Thirteen Veals Deliberately ilans His Death and Successfully Carrier Out Hh Scheme Special to the Gazette Libektt Hill Tex May 20 News reached this city to day of the suicide of a small boy only thirteen years of age His parents live abont fifteen miles from here and own a sheep ranch Their name3 are Yent The boys father sent him out to round up sheep yesterday evening He took his little brother still younger with him on horseback As they were riding along he told his little brother he was going to kill himself and that he would give him his horse and saddle so he got down taking off the saddle got the blanket spread it out on the ground tied a string to the trigger of his gun fastened the string to a bush told his little brother good bye lay down onthe blanket placed the muzzle of the gun to his breast and gave it a pull shoot ing himself through the heart His little brother was too young it seems to realize what his brother was doing but begged him not to kill himself No cause is known so far for his rash act AZETTE VOL XIIJ m 25 TWO STORMS Foster Predfcts a Storm on 31st or dune I He Loe Hi KeMiloucr aud Its Kntire Al QQ QM Contents I Special to the Gazette the THE 2D AND 4TH They Will be rollopil br an Inuual Weather rbenompnou Suppuns V That Changes oi the Moon Mute Weather Change U an Urror Special to the Gazette St Jo r mi Mo May 23 My last letter gave forecasts of the storm wave due to cross the continent from 2lst to 23th anil the one following it will bo due to leave the Pacific coast about Mai 27th cross the Rocky Allegheny valley from 2Sth to 3Uth and reach the Atlantic coast alKiut the 31st The most iiniortaut feature of this storm will be the heavy rains that will accompany I it Those rains however will not oo general out cxcessivn only iu spots leavinir other places with a detieieuey as is always the case iu years of great meteorological disturbances and tho electric forces of lupeter and Saturns equinoxes will begin to have very consid erable inlluenee This storm will be at its greatest force uear the mouth of the St Lawrence river about the 31st and June 1 and severe gales along that coast will be dangerous to shipping Weather preceding this storm will be very warm and following it will le cooler than usual for the time of year Great ex tremes of weather may be expected to ac company this storm wave especially about the time it leaves the continent to cross the Atlantic and about the first day of Juno important weather events will occur all around tho earth which will be regarded by tho newsgatherers as of special interest in the way of news Another storm wave willbe due to leava the Pacific coast about June 1 cross the Rocky Allegheny valley from 2d to 4th and reach the Atlantic coast about the 5th It will be quite severe on the Western part of the continent aud will have a very con siderable force throughout its course becom ing of less force on the Atlantic coast about the 5th Very hot weather throughout the Southern states and in the Missouri valley will precede this storm but the cool wavu will neither be severe nor reach lar south ward Both these storms will cause rains and gales in the Gulf states The great and destructive storms of June will attract general attention and I will further discuss their details in my next two letters TUE MOONS INFLUENCES This satellite has more intluence on tha weather than any other body except thu sun but the masses have been led into an error by supinising that the changes of tha moon cause changes in the weather When the moon and sun are on the same side o the earth tho electrical influences an increased in that direction but this doet not increase the force of the storms bu merely affects their location There u also a belief among the hunters frontiers mon and sailors that when the moon haugi on its oiut much rain or snow will occur during that moon Hie North Americas Indians also follow this sign und believe it to be a propitious sign for hunting Damp weather and snow aro favorabK to tho hunter for in dry weathet the leaves make too much noise for success and snow is favorable for tracking game When the moon hangs on its point th hunter says he cannot hang his powder horn on its point and then is the time t hunt and when the moon at new lies ou iU back it indicates that the huntor can han his shot pouch on its point an he would better not waste his time at hunting I have no use for any thing that has superstition for its base but these signs that have so mnchintluetc with certain classes of people throughout the world should not bo cast aside without investigation Many of those enmmou be liefs have some real foundation aud thou sands of years of experience on the part of thosu who are compelled to be much out of doors has taught them that with certain positions of the planets come certain change of the weather Why this is so they know not all they know is the coincidence f have investigated these crude signs and have fouud real causes at the bottom of somcofthein The moon lies ou its back when it runs north and hangs on its point when it runs south As the moon causes tides in the ocean it must also cause tides in the atmosphere and as it moves from about 24 degrees north of the earths atmosphere to the same distance south and tho reverse passing over about 3300 miles of the earths surface in about fourteen days or about nine miles north or south and 1000 mile east in twenty four hours the change neces sarily affects the atmosphere and tha weather by pulling the storms north or south The changes of the moon occur a little more than six days apart and the regulac storm waves pass over this latitude in little less than six days apart so that if u storm wave is due about the change of the moon the next storm wave will be due very near the next change of the moon and these coincidences will occur for several weeks This ha led to the belief that it is the changes of the moon that causes the storm waves But the coincidences will not continue long and I see no reason why changes of the mooi should cause a change in the weather If the moon crosses tho earths equator a little before a storm wave is due it will cross the earths equator in two weeks near when a storm wave is due and if tho changes of the moon should occur at thn same time it would lead to the belief that it is the changes of the moon that causes these storms of greatest force The elec trical theory of weather changes requires that we follow the laws of electricity and whatever is not in accord with these laws must be rejected aud if these electrical laws will not explain U1 meteorological phenomena then the theory must tie re jected as a failure The moon is 225719 miles from the earth at perigee and 251147 miles at aiogee mak ing a change of 2022S miles about every fourteen days This change makes a great difference in the tides and must necessarily make a difference in its effect -on the atmosphere Professor Proctor admitted that it had ben fairly proven that more eartnquakes occur when tho moon is close to the earth because of its greater inlluenee on the tides aud if this be true it must also have greater influence on the atmosphere at the same time W T Foster DEATH DEALING RATTLERS The Country Surrounding San Antonio Abounds with Them Five Victims Ueported within a Week Special to the Gazette San Antonio Tex May 20 At this timo of year the rattlesnakes in which the surrounding country abounds are much more vicious Within a week five persons have been bitten One of them a boy named Remple is dead and three are on tha road to recovery The last victim will die Ho is G W Brecker a chicken peddler He went to the residence of Col P B Andrews to purchase some poultry- After completing his purchase ho went into tha pasture to drive his horses up when a hugs rattlesnake imbeded its fangs into his thigh Every spring many Mexican sheep herders lose their lives because of their be lief that the only remedy for the bite is ta kill the snake cut it open and apply tha warm body as a poultice to the wound j inhTvitin fnr mWSVFnPrFrTt JgSMfeii