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ALTERNATE PAGE FOLLOWS Mm LAST' EDITION. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL 2, 1900. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. TRAPPED. Boers Ambush Gen. Broadwood Near Bloemfontcin. Capture Seven Guns and All of Bis Baggage. RITISH LOSS HEAVY. jberts Beports -Casualties at 350 Including Prisoners. British Marched Blindly Into Trap of the Boers. London, April 212:50 P. M. The war office reports that CoK Broadwood lost seven guns and all. his baggage in an ambush laid for him by the Boers on Saturday. The casualties numbered 350. The war office has received the fol lowing dispatch from Lord Roberts, da ted Bloemfontein, April 1: "I received news late yesterday even ing from Col. Broadwood who was at Thaba N'Chn, 38 miles east of here that Information had reached him that the enemy was approaching in two forces, from the north and the east. He stated "hat if the report proved true, he would retire towards the waterworks, 17 miles nearer Bloemfontein, where we have had a detachment of mounted infantry for the protection of the works, Broad vood was told in reply that the Ninth "llvision of Martyr's mounted Infantry will march at daylight today to support him, and that if he considers it neces sary he should retire from the water works. He moved there during the night and bivouacked. At dawn today he was shelled by the enemy, who at tacked on three sides. He immediately dispatched two horse artillery batteries and his baggage towards Bloemfontein, covering gome of them with his cav alry. "Some two miles from the water works th" - oad crusses a deep nullah or spro which during the night a force s had concealed themselves. So 'ere they hidden that our leading .-uts passed over the drift without uiscovering them and it was not until The wagons and euns were entering the rlft that the Burrs showed themselves iad opened fire. Many of the drivers and artillery hor?-s were Immediately shot down at shors range and several of the guns were captured. The remainder galloped away, overed by Roberts' Horse, which suffei. J heavily. "Meanwhile, Lieut Chestermasters, of Remington's scouts found a passage icross the spruit unoccupied by the en emy, by whith. t;e remainder of Broad wood's Airce crossed. They reformed with -eat steadiness, notwithstanding jiCt fhat had previously occurred. 'Broadwood's report, which has just reached me,. and which contains no da tails stated that he had lost seven guns and all his baggage. He estimates all his casualties at about 350, including 200 missing. "On hearing this morning that Broad d was hard pressed I immediately . Jered Gen. French with the remain g cavalry brigades to follow in sup port of the Ninth division. The latter r a magnificent march arrived oa ilie scene of action shortly after 2 p. m. "Broadwood's force consisted of the .oyal Ho -ehoid cavalry, the Tenth Hussars, u., and V. batteries of the Royal Horse artillery and Pilcher's bat talion of mounted infantry. "Tne strength of the enemv is esti mated at from 8.000 to 10.000 with guns, 1lie number of which is not yet report ed." ORKAT BOER ACTIVITY. Kimberley, Sunday, April 1. There Is gxeut Boer activity along the Vaal .iver. About 0,000 burghers have as sembled at various points between Fourteen Streams and Christiana. lbout 700 men are occupying Witrand. north of. rutpdam. and 400 men are laagered at Boetsap. BRITISH ARE ASTONISHED. London, April 2. The rumors of the recapture by the British of the sevtn guns taki n from Col. Broadwood's force, hased on a dispatch to the Chronicle, from Bloemfontein, which it is said in all probability is correct, fails to com pensate London for the severe shock experienced by the humiUa.ting defeat . sustained within a few miles of the headquarters of the BritiVc army of oc cupation. The public is painfull" surprised to learn after all that hascome and gone that British officers of tigh position can still neglect precauti as which the veriest tyro might be expected to ob serve, and blunder into traps which the observance of the elementary military rules would have revelled. Then' is no attempt here to minr.iize the disoredit Mableness of the whole affair so far as the British are concerned, or detract Wrom tht dexterity of the Hoers, wno were apparently commanded by Gen. l)e Wit. The tacti.:s of the burghers were evidently excellently conceived and boldly carried out and unless the reinforcements sent by Lord Roberts have turned the tide and recaptured the prisoners, a couple of hundred men from two crack corps of the Household cavalry and the Tenth Hussars are now on their way to swell the growing de posit of British prisoners at Pretoria. President Kruger is said to have promised to re-occupy Bloemfontein this week, and the stubborn burghers seem to be closing around the place in such force as promises to be trouble some especially when it is realized that the activity of a strong Boer force in the vicinity of Paardeberg has already Interrupted direct communication be tween Lord Roberts and Kimberley. But for the overwhelming numbers at the disposal of Lord Roberts the situa tion would Justly cause Great Britain priiHlfip nnvictv. .As it is the nafnn i ibeglnnlng to realize flrom the nature of 1 (the guerilla warfare that it is liable to embarrass the future movements of the i British troops. WATER CT7T OFF. A special dispatch from Bloemfontein reports that the water supply ;if the place has been cut off. This Is the nat ural sequence of the Boer success at the waterworks. But the authorities are hopeful that the strong reinforce ments sent by the commander-in-ch'.ef will promptly remedy this. It la evident from Lord Roberts' dis patch that a big engagement is In pro areas. Although It Is difficult to esti mate the number of British engaged, they probably exceed even the eight or ten thousand men which the Boers are tlmated to number. The acene of the British disaster ap pears to be Mealle Spruit, where the Bloemfontejn road crosses a tributary of the Modder river. A dispatch from Lorenzo Marques dated today announces the arrival there of Captain Haldane of the Border High landers and Lieutenant Le Mesurie of the Dublin Fusiliers, who escaped from Pretoria after perilous adventures. It appears that after Winston Churchill's escape, the sentries were doubled, elec tric light was installed, additional bar ricades were constructed and the offi cers were confined in the model school after 8:30 p. m. Captain Haldane says that after sev eral unsuccessful attempts they suc ceeded in cutting off the electric light, but even then the street lamps preclud ed an attempt to escape, and they de cided to hide in the space behind the building to which a trap door had prev iously been secretly constructed as it had been announced that the officers would be removed elsewhere in a few days when it was hoped that the two men would be able to escape. But the removal of the prisoners was postponed, and the two men in the damp, subterranean dwelling began to despair and commenced digging in dif ferent directions in the hope of finding a suitable exit. The work was most arduous, as they had only a screw driver and a skewer with which to dig the ground, which was as hard as rock. The imprisoned officers March 15, heard somebudy above saying the officers would be removed the following day. After passing twenty days under ground. In a cramped position and sub sisting on a little food and water sup- pneu Dy some or tneir reiiow prisoners, who were In their confidence, their de light at the good news was indescrib able. The following morning they heard the officers above leaving and all day long the room was filled with curious visitors looking at the clever caricatures on the walls drawn by the prisoners. When evening came the no'sc ceased and Haldane and Le Mesanere crept to the trap door. They were so weak that they could hardly walk, but grad ually recovering they made their way to the cuurt yard, got over the railings arid reached the street. WHOLE BATTERY GONE. London, April 2 1:53 p. m. The war office nan received another dispatch from Lord Roberts dated at Bloemfon tein, Sunday, April 1, 8:15 p. m., in which after referring to his previous telegram he gives a partial list of the missing British officers. Of "Q" battery four officers were wounded, two of whom are missing. One gunner was killed and forty non-commissioned offi cers and men are wounded or missing. Lord Roberts then continues: " " battery, all are missing except Major Taylor and a sergeant major. The two cavalry regiments did not suf fer so much. "A report has just come In that the enemy has retired towards Ladybrand, leaving twelve wounded officers and some 70 men at the waterworks. "We are now sending an ambulance for them." It will be noticed that in the fore going advices, Lord Roberts says noth ing tin regard to British guns being re captured. GOES TO DENVER. J. J. Frey, recently general manager Santa Fe, has been elected preiJdent of the Florence and Cripple Creek, Canon City and Cripple Creek and Golden Circle railroad, effective April 1st. Mr. Frey's headquarters will bo Denver. in MACHINISTS WIN. Beturn to Work Nine Hours for Ten Hours Pay. Chicago, April 2. With the blowing of the whistles in the machine shops of Chicago for the beginning of work today thousands of machinists resumed the work interrupted some weeks ago by a strike. About half of the five thousand five hundred men who went out resumed their labors this morning, and the manufacturers said that as the differences had either been settled or put on a basis to be arbitrated, the re mander of the machinists would un doubtedly return in straggling lots dur ing the next two or three days. The agreement entered into recently by rep resentatives of the manufacturers and the men was ratified yesterday at a mass meeting, the vote being 3,208 In favor of ratifying the modified agree ment and 396 against it. The strike has cost the men half a million dollars in salaries, while the loss to the manu facturers through inability to complete contracts cannot be readily calculated. The men have been granted a nine hour day with ten hours' pay. Fifty thousand members of the build ing trades' council learned that their fellow workmen in another trade had gone back to work with feeling 3 of envy. By reason of strikes and lock outs they have been out for over a month, yet the settlement of the troubles between them and the con tractors seems as far away as ever. MR. ROBINSON'S 0SIN. He Is Here With His Wife, Prominent Missionary Worker. Mr. George Robinson is In t'.ie city visiting his cousin. Mr. A. A. Robinson, and family. He is accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Jane Bancroft Robinson, sec retary for Deaconess Bureau of Wom an's Home Missionary societies of the Methodist Episcopal church. A meeting of the Home Missionary society will be held for her Wednesday afternoon In the parlor of the First "Methodist church. Mrs. Robinson is one of the leading national workers of Woman's Home Missionary societies. For the past six weeks Mr. an I Mrs. Robinson have been traveling through Mexico In Mr. A. A. Robinson's private CONTINUED GOOD WEATHER No Prospects of Rain According to Weather Bureau. Tbe prospects for pleasant weather are good unless some unknown high or low stirs up the elements. Tne forecast is "fair tonight with w armer north portion. Tuesday partly cloudy." The maximum temperature today up to 11 o'clock was 57 and the minimum 37. The wind has been east, making but four miles an hour. Sunday there was a high in eastern Kansas, but it passed eastward without being felt. Plumbers Strike. Cleveland. April 2. Journeymen plumbers to the number of about 300 went on strike in this city today for higher wages. The Journeymen are at present receiving $3 per day while junior plumbers set $2.25. They demand $3.50. GALLERIES FULL. Big Audience Present at Today's Senate Session To Listen to a Speech hy Chaun cey M. Depew. STANDS BY HIS PARTY. He Defends the Levying of Porto Rican Tariff. Senate Meets an Hour Earlier Than Usual. Washlngton.April 2. The senate con vened at 11 o'clock today in order that the debate on the Porto Rican bill might be extended. The public galleries were all crowded. Mr. Vest (Mo.) rising to a question of privilege said upon his return to the city after an absence on account of 111- SENATOh DEPEW. ness he had found that on the vote to strike out the provision in the Porto Rican bill for a duty of 15 per cent of the Dingley duties, he had been noted as absent and not paired. He explained that he had a general pair which he thought was sufficient. Had he been present he would have voted to strike out the duty on Porto Rican products. Proceeding he directed attention to a notable case, which he said had been overlooked in all the arguments. A sail or named Ross had shipped on an American merchantman from New York to Nagasaki. At the latter port he had murdered a fellow seaman on the vessel's deck and was convicted and sentenced to death by a consoler court. His sentence was commuted to impris onment for life in the Albany, N. Y., penitentiary. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus, the ground being that he had not been given a trial by jury as insured by the constitution. The su preme court decided that he had had a fair trial and must remain in prison; that in order to avail himself of the right to a trial by jury the vessel must have been within the territorial limits of the I'nited States. Mr. Vest said he would like any sena tor to explain how the supreme court could come to that conclusion and state emphatically that within the territorial limits of the United States the consti tution applies without act of congress, or treaty stipulation and yet agree that a different tariff can be imposed on the people of Porto Rico from that impos ed on the people of Missouri. Mr. Bate (Tenn.) after the Porto Rico bill hau been laid formally before the senate delivered his announced speech in opposition to the pending measure. Mr. Cullom (111.1 followed with an ar gument in favor of the bill. Mr. Depew (N. Y.) then spoke as follows: SENATOR DEPEW'S REMARKS. , "Mr. President, 1 have been listening with great interest to the many and very able speeches which have been delivered upon the Porto Rican tariff. I have endeavored to find in them a solution of the singular political condi tions which seem to have arisen out of the presentation of this measure. I have thought perhaps the fact that the country is divided into storm cen ters and normally placid conditions Is due to the extended discussion of the constitutional question having ob?eured the real meaning of a measure of rev enue and relief. "There is no division among the ma jority in either house as to the power of congress to legislate on this sub ject. The majority all agree that the constitution does not exteinl by its own power over these new possessions, and that congress can legislate for them as it deems wise, subject only to the pro hibitions upon congress in the consti tution. The Democratic party accepted the other view, that the constitution does extend by its own force into the territories, from the moment that it was Invented by John C. Calhoun for the purpose of carrying slavery into the new territories, when it was impossible against the aroused conscience of the country to secure legislation to that effect. It is but fair to say that while the action of the country by the unani mous consent of all statesmen and of all parties for fifty years, and the trend of the decisions of the supreme court, sustain the power of congress to take the whole or any part of the consti tution and the laws of trie United States into new territories and to es tablish governments for them, yet the questions raised by the acquisitions of Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines,, when presented to the supreme court, must result in such a broad and com prehensive interpretation as will make clear for all time the position of the TJnitad States upon the government of territories which come to us. "While the practical part of this measure has received some considera tion, yet it has resulted in pictures of Porto Rico and its inhabitants which are utterly misleading. The lower house of the Iowa legislature the other day adopted a resolution for free trade with Porto Rico on the sentimental ground that her people had accepted our sovereignty willingly, while other islands were resisting it. The sudden collapse of the Spanish power, and the almost Instantaneous dropping Into our hands of the island possessions of Spain, found different conditions in these possessions. It Is admitted, for instance, ihat Cuba is to be-under our government only until she is capable of governing herself. We all know that, with the revolutionary elements and professional agitators of that island, if any excuse or opportunity had been offered there would have been a re volt against our authority. We all know that In the Philippines there would have been universal acceptance of government by the United States except that professional agitators, who revolutionized for revenue and had made fortunes in previous revolts, played upon the imagination of an ig norant reople and led them into in surrection, hoping the United States would follow Spanisn precedents and purchase their allegiance. It is equally true that in Porto Rico the population is so poor and so crowded, and the con formation of the ialand makes it so easy for an army to put down Insur rection, that, though the same govern ment existed in Porto Rico as in Cuba and in the Philippines, it was impos sible to inaugurate revolution in Porto Bico. The Porto Ricans knew that they must come under some government, and after three hundred years of Spain hailed with delight the transfer to the United States. OUR PLAIN DUTY. "We come naturally now to the ques tion of hardships upon the Porto Rican people and of cruelty to the inhabitants of our new possessions by the proposed legislation. We are told with wonder ful eloquence and passionate rhetoric that it was our plain duty to return to the people who have paid the duties under the Dingley tariff act since our occupation the money which had been collected. The whole policy of the Re publican party, from the President to congress, has been to give back to Porto Rico all the taxes levied and collected upon her products to give them lack to her for the purposes of her govern ment and for the purposes of her im provement and her progress. These du ties had been paid by the sugar trust, which controls the sugar products of the islands, and the tobacco trust, which controls the tobacco product of the island two of the richest and greatest money-making corporations in the world. They had bought the sugar and tobacco at a price which included the Dingley tariff duties and sold them to the people of the United States at a large profit after the duties were paid. In the bill which we have just passed, instead of paying these duties back to these corportions, which have been the subject of so much abuse and with whom we have been charged with be ing allied, we have given them back to the people of Porto Rico for their school houses, for their roads, for the relief of the starving, and for the em ployment which will come in the proper administration of the fund. "The analysis of the productions of the island which are exported shows that about five-eighths is coffee. There is no duty on coffeeT and so there is no outrage there. There is a duty at pres ent of $1.60 per hundred pounds upon sugar and $1.85 per pound upon tobac co under the Dingley tariff act. There are millions of dollars' worth of this su gar and tobacco, owned by the sugar and tob.acco trusts, which is held from the market and stored in Warehouses in Porto Rico awaiting the action upon this bill. This sugar and tobacco was bought from the planters of Porto Rico at a price which included these Dingley tariff duties and still left a large profit for the purchaser. Every concession made from the Dingley tariff is that much more clear profit, not to the r re ducer, or the laborer, or the citizen of Porto Rico, but to tnese purchasers of tneir products, ho oy this act w.e are, out of the hundred per cent of addition al profit which the sugar trust and to bacco trust would receive under free trade, taking 15 per cent for the people of Porto Rico and leaving the purchas ers 85 per cent for their own income. The only difference between the original recommendation of the president of the United States and the action of the house of representatives and of the senate committee is in the method by which the people of Porto Rico can re ceive the whole of the revenue from the tariff. "The president's recommendation of free trade was made in order that Porto Ricans might have the use of these du ties in Porto Rico by not having to pay them that is, by keeping the money for public purposes in the island. The pro position of the house of representatives and of this committee is that those du ties shall be collected and returned to the people of Porto Rico, because it is the only way by which the people of the island will get a dollar of benefit from them. Now, from whom will they be collected? In the last 25 years sugar has fluctuated as much as any other product in the market; coffee has been subject to the opening of new sources of supply, to failures of crops, and to all those elements which add or take away from 25 to SO per cent of the mar ket price. But whiie coffee and sugar importers have grown rich and by their skill, their capital, and their far-sightedness been able always to calculate fu ture prospects and to make money, no matter what the conditions, the laborer upon the plantations who produced these crops has never known any differ ence in his wage. Unhappily for him, the labor market was always over stocked: unhappily for him, there was no industry but the land to which he or his family could apply for help. He was 'the man with the hoe.' meeting all the conditions of Dr. Markham's remarka ble poem. He was too ignorant to know when good times were making fortunes for those who handle the product which he raised by his labor; he was too pov erty stricken to subsist in an organized effort to increase the remuneration for his toil. It will be many a year before these conditions change for the masses of the Portu Rican people. They can never change when an overcrowded population has but one means of liveli hood and there are no varied industries for its relief. "Then who pays this tariff, and who gets the benefit of it? For the first time in the history of Porto Rico It Is paid by those who make money out of her, by those who are enriched by her toil; by those who are far removed from the ignorance and the suffering and the squalor of her population. The tariff money taken from them goes really to the people of Porto Rico who never be fore received any benefit. It will go for school houses and school teachers, which will make the next generation worthier of citizenship and self -government; it will go for roads, which will give em ployment and opportunities for other industries than merely agricultural: it will go for those ordinary functions of government which must be maintained or you have anarchy, and they will be maintained by this process without those burdens of direct taxation which, in the present condition of Porto Rico. would be such a terrific brake upon her progress. BASELESS EXCITMENT. "The history of remedial legislation pre sents no example of baseless excitement like that which prevails over this measure In certain parts of the United States. The localization of the storm is unprecedented. It has great volume and force In one state, with little evidence of it in the ad joining commonwealth. A northwestern staje may have the fever, while the mid dle states and New England are normal. In every instance in the contests of par ties where a principle was at issue, the sentiment of the party in one state has been equally pronounced in every state. This phenomenal localization of Interest compels the conclusion that a mere mat- Continued on Sixth Page.) BURTON OR ANTI. Abilene Man Against the Field in Local Contest. Much Sentiment in Favor of a New Man. MR. MUL VASE'S PLANS. Trying to Force Curtis Issue Into the Campaign. Great Scramble of the Legis lative Fixers in Progress. Shawnee county Republicans are In volved In a spirited political contest which will be settled at the primaries in less than two weeks. The principal issue is the senatorial contest, and the leaders of the opposing forces are lined up for Mr. Burton on one side; for Mr. Baker or some new man on the other. Some of the legislative candidates are unpledged and favor a new man. The Burton campaign is being man aged by Dave Mulvane and John Dud ley. W. E. Stferne and J. E. Larimer direct the movements of the Baker forces. The question of United States senator has not yet entered the contest for the nomination for state senator, except that T. W. Harrison says he is op posed to Mr. Burton. John Chaney Is unpledged. The senatorial question is seldom heard in this contest. The im portant fight is between the candidates for representative. The candidates for the lower house are divided as follows: Thirty-seventh district A. L Brooke, J. B. Sims. Thirty-eighth H. C. Safford, Alvln Dodge. Thirty-ninth E. D. McKeever, A. K. Wilson. In the district first named Mr. Brooke seeks a nomination for the third term, and is meeting much opposition on that part! ii-r point. He is also opposed by the Republicans of the northwest part of the county because he was re sponsible for the death of the bill which conferred the right upon the people of Rossville, Dover and Silver Lake town ships to vote on the proposition to build a bridge across the Kansas river. Mr. Brooke has the support of Dave Mul vane and was induced by him to be a candidate for a third term. J. B. Sims, who Is opposing Mr. Brooke, Is unpledged on the senatorial question, but he is against Mr. Bur ton. If thpre should, be no other can didate t.gainst Burton Mr. Sims, if elected, would undoubtedly support Mr. Baker. . In the Thirty-eighth district the con test between H. C. Safford, a Burton man, and Alvin Dodge, who is for a new man first, Charles Curtis. J. W. Gleed, J. A. Troutman or General J. K. Hudson, but for Baker if no other candidate Is in the race, is spirited. The opposition to Safford on the part of the supporters of Mr. Dodge Is especially bitter be cp.use the Dodge supporters claim that Safford pledged himself to support Mr. Dodge and urged him to enter the race. Mr. Safford at first demurred against entering this race. A committee of Dodge supporters called on him and was assured that Safford would keep out of the race. Later Charles Stock ham, superintendent of the Santa Fe lumber yard, called upon Mr. Safford, and was again assured by that gen tleman that he would support Dodge. On this agreement, it is said, the two men shook hands and Mr. Dodge en tered the race. Dave Mulvane. John Dudley and other friends of Burton in duced him later to enter the race, much, to the surprise of the Dodge men. Safford went into the fight as a Burton man because it was claimed that Dodge is a Baker candidate. Safford is one of the law- partners of Charles Curtis, and he is being supported by A. K. Rogers, on the theory that Senator Baker supported Congressman Bailey in the First district. The biggest fight is in the Thirty ninth district, between E. D. McKeever and A. K. Wilson. The attitude of Mr. McKeever is not definitely understood by those who will determine the ques tion of a nomination. At the outset McKeever was believed to be an anti Burton man. This was generally ac cepted as the fact until Dave Mulvane and John Dudley, the Burton managers, lined up with McKeever. Then the Baker forces brought out A. K. Wilson. Wilson is unpledged, but he is against Burton. However, McKeever is still claimed by both the Burton and Baker managers. Mr. McKeever says he has not made nor will he make pledges to any one. In this district strenuous efforts are be ing made to defeat McKeever. The oppo sition first wanted A. W. Dana to make the race against him but Dana declined. Then Dave Palmer of Gleed. Ware and deed's office was announced as a candi date, but he promptly declined to stand by the publication which, had been made without his knowledge. Then the Fourth warders held a caucus and A. K. AVilson was prevailed upon to make the race. In the district in which Harry Safford is running M. W. Overton broke into the race for representative. He has retired with the following announcement: "After a canvass among my own people from which source I expected the most of ray support; a careful summing of my friends convinces me that they stand about 10 to 1 in opposition to my remain ing in the race, hence my withdrawal." Overton retired in deference to the wishes of Mulvane and Dudley. Dudley is said to have promised Overton a job as policeman or sanitary sergeant If he would withdraw. The story goes that Dudley said Councilmen Blossom and Betts of North Topeka would deliver the goods. There is an effort on the part of the Burton forces, since A. K. Rodgers has championed the cause of Safford. to turn theBurtoncampaignovertothe Curtis peo ple in this county. The representation has already been made that Curtis wants Burton carry this county, all of which Is denied by the Curtis forces. The man agers of the Curtis campaign say no such proposition has been made to them, but it has been talked among the Burton managers just the same and one of them gave it out that such an arrangement would be made. TROUBLE IN MIAMI. Burton People Do Not Take Their Defeat Kindly. There is trouble dawn in Miami coun ty over the senatorial situation. Ths Baker forces scored a. decided victory Saturday and the Barton people now iiMMMiMMiMiiM nnsfiiiii iir nriir MMM mllTMfjll threaten to defeat the nominee, Major J. B. Remington. Following are the delegates selected: State convention J. B. Remington, Reuben Smith, A. L. Thomas, D. W. Hayes, J. H. Reah, A. N. Protzman, C. F. Worthington, T. M. Fleming, R. J. Rogers, F. B. Stem, J. M. Bryan, O. S. Cartwright. The congressional convention W. D. Greason, w; H. Campbell, N. C. Davis, C. T. Ricketts, C C. Clevenger, M. C. Everett, J. A. Denise, J. L. Officer, G. Mott, W. H. Carpenter, F. C. Walthall. Ford County Delegates. Dodge City. April 2. At the county con vention here Saturday the following dele gates to the Republican conventions were selected: State M. W. Sutton, J. II. Churchill. S. J. Crumbine, J. H. Liedigh. Congressional John H. Small, Frank Manly, J. L. Ridenour, and W. J. Fitz gerald instructed for Long. Another Breidenthal Delegation. Lincoln, April 2. The People's party convention Saturday Instructed unani mously as follows: For John W. Breiden thal for governor; for E. D. Smith ' for state senator: for Tully Scott for con gress in the event that Scott is the nomi nee of the Democratic convention at Col by. DAVISJUITS. Assistant Secretary of Interior Throws Up His Place. Washington, April 2. Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the interior, to day tendered his resignation. He will go on the lecture platform In the interest of the Boers. In an authorized statement given out today, Mr. Davis says that as a result of his visit to the Transvaal he feels impelled to tender his resignation as assistant secretary of the interior. He WEBSTER DAVIS. will at an early date deliver a lecture in this city in the interests of the South ffrloan republics. Mr. Davis feels that this is the best way to arouse the enthusiasm of the American people in behalf of those re publics. Mr. Davis decided to resign because of the acceptance of an invitation to deliver a lecture on the South African war and he felt that as an official he could not express his views with such freedom as he could as a private citi zen. The invitation was extended by non-partisan citizens of Washington and was not inspired in any way by persons directly connected with Boer interests. Mr. Davis said today: "It is purely a matter of sympathy on my part. I went to South Africa un prejudiced, visited both armies, saw much of the British soldiers and people and also much of the Boers. After see ing.what I did I made up my mind that the cause of the Boers was just, that the two smallest republics in the world were struggling against the greatest empire in the world, for home, justice and independence. The struggle seemed to me very unequal. The whole number of Boers including men, women and children is not greater than the popula tion of the city of Washington, and yet these brave people have the courage to put up the greatest fight in history against an empire of four hundred mil lions. "I concluded at once that my sympa thies were with those struggling for lib erty and 1 feel that the American peo ple should sympathize with them in their fight for justice and independence. "When I entered the train at Pretoria on my return home, fully 2.000 men and women, mostly women, whose husbands and fathers and sons were at the front, gathered at the station to bid me good bye and as the tears rolled down many of their faces, they made the last re quest of me that I do everything within my power upon my return home to let the American people know of their ex- -act condition; to let them know how they had been abused and outrageously misrepresented by the English. The English correspondents have no trouble in getting their dispatches over the ca ble lines, as they are controlled abso lutely by the British, while it is im possible for information regarding the situation from the Boers' standpoint to reach the American people. If I did not as a free American decide to listen to their appeals, my conscience would burn and the faces of those suffering people, as brave and as noble as God ever let live in any land, would haunt me as long as I live. "I am therefore determined to do everything in my humble way to assist them. Their cause Is just, and in God is their trust, and in the light of the pasv nistory ot tne American people, who went through the same struggle, I believe the Boers will win." Mr. Davis was asked what course he would have the people of this coun try pursue in order to assist the Boers. He replied: "Do everything and anything within their power, and let Great Britain and the world know that the sympathies of the American people are not with Great Britain but with the Boers and in the interests of, humanity and civ-ll-zation. We should let the world know that such an unholy war should stop, and stop at once.. Mr. Davis since his return to this country has had numerous invitations to deliver lectures, but has so far de cided to accept only that extended by the citizens of Washington. Tis lec ture probably will be delivered next Sunday night. Mr. Davis denied that he brought with him a communication to chis government from President Kruger. He admitted. however, that he had several conferences with Presi dent McKinley, but declined to make public what had passed between- them. When asked as to whether he would go on the stump during this campaign in the interests of the Republican party, Mr. Davis said that he did not care to look into the future. OHIOJOTES. Municipal and Township Elec tions Throughout the State. Nine Thousand Women Are Registered in Cleveland. COME OUT IN THE RAIN To Tote For Their Choice For School Director. Much Scratching Being Done in Cincinnati. Cleveland, O.. April 2. Unusual in- terest was manifested In the municipal election held in this city today as a re sult of a hard three cornered fight over1 the selection of a director of schools. More than U.000 women registered in or der to be eligible to vote and they wera at the polls early in the day notwith standing a heavy rain. CINCINNATI. Cincinnati. April 2. The weather waa clearing and pleasant after a rainy night and afforded no excuse for ab sence from the polls. The interest in the election was greater than usual, owing to the many personal contests for ward as well as for city offices. The voting early was done quite rapidly in many precincts and the outlook is for a more than ordinary full vote. A greac many voters made selections from bott tickets. TOLEDO. Toledo, O., April 2. Not much inter est was displayed in the municipal elec tion here today. The early voting waa light. COLUMBUS. Columbus, O., April 2.--Election day was misty and dismal, but the voters"" were out early to cast their ballots for city officials, and indications were for a heavy vote. In addition to a street rail way franchise contest in the council, a proposition to bond the city for a new market house and a vote to give a franchise to a natural gas company ad ded interest to the ballotirrg. TO INDICT TAYLOR. That Will Be the Instruction of the Kentucky Grand Jury. Frankfort, Ky., April 2 It was ru mored this morning that Judge Cantrill will instruct the Franklin county grand jury when the court convenes at 2 o'clock this afternoon to return indict ments against Republican Governor Taylor and all of the Republican state officers, charging them with usurpation of the offices they claim. Usurpation of office, under the Ken tucky statutes, is. a high misdemeanor, punishable by heavy fine. Louisville. April i. Arguments in tne gubernatorial contest cases were begun before the court ot appeals, sitting In the chancery division of the circuit court in this city today. Justice Hazel rigg announced that all the argument will be heard today, with two speeches on each side, each speaker to be limited to an hour and a half, and that a de cision would be reached before the lat ter part of the week. Ex-Governor Bradley and Helm Bruce represented Governor Taylor: Lewis McQuown of Bowling Green and Judge William S. Pryor for Governor Beckham. TO ENJOIN COLE. Clay Center Brings Suit to Pre vent Purchase of Parsons Asylum Site. A petition was filed before Judge Hazen in the district court Saturday night at 8 o'clock to enjoin and restrain State Audi tor George E. Cole from issuing warrants for $28,000 in payment for the land at Par sons condemned by John Seaton and Michael Heery to be used as the location for the new asylum. The hearing has been set for April 11. The petition is brought by the "Stale of Kansas on the. relation of A. P. Jet more, county attorney," and was filed by Coleman and Williams of Clay Center. The petition says in part: "And the plaintiff avers that the said John Seaton and Michael Heery have no authority as a board of public works for the state of Kansas; that said board of public works has ceased to exist by rea son of the fact that for more than four years it has performed no acts, no duties, and has not been recognized or treated by the state of Kansas, nor by the gov ernor of the state, of the legislature of the state, and of the members of the board itself, the said board ceased to ex ist and had no legal existence. That in the year 1897 the said John Seaton re signed as a member of said board and no person was ever appointed in his stead and the full term for which the said John Seaton was appointed for said board has long since expired and no successor has ever been appointed. That the term of office for which said Michael Heery was appointed has long since expired and no person has been appointed in his stead. That the said pretended board has no president, no secretary and has no exist ence as. a board and no authority as such. "Plaintiff further avers that said pre tended condemnation of the said fifuids was made without proper advertisement and notice as required by law and that no notice such as is required by law of the intention of the said Heery and Sea ton to condemn the said lands or to ap praise the same or fix the values thereof was ever given or published in any news paper nor in any other manner provided by law. "The plaintiff further avers that more than four years had elapsed since the be ginning of the "term as members of the board of public works of the said John Seaton and Michael Heery and that if any law of the state of Kansas purports to confer upon the said John seaton and Michael Heery the right to hold said of fices for a longer period than four yean. the same is void and unlawful, being in contravention of Section 3 of Article 15, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas." ROBBED A KLOXDIKER. Tacoma Detective and His Nephew Under Arrest. Tacoma, Wash., April 2 J. B. Thomp son, chief city detective, and A. J. Hoshor, his nephew, were arrested last night by Sheriff Vandevanter and two deputies of Seattle" on a charge of em bezzling J2G,00 from H. G. Torrence. a Klondlker. Hoshor was Torrenee's private secretary for two years and was to have sold him two mining claims for $8,000. According to Torrence, Hoshor had this money and 912,000 whl-h he has held and under Thompson's instructions has refused' -to refund or give a deed tq the Thompson properties.