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LAST EDITION.
FRIDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 20, 1900.
FRIDAY EVENING.
TWO CENTS.
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Chinese Minister at "Washing
ton Receives a Cable
Transmitted In
the State Department.
SIGNED "CONGER" IN ENGLISH
It Was Sent Through the
Tsung Li Yamen,
Paris Also Has News of
Safety of the Legations
ARE STILL BEING BOMBARDED
Foreigners Were Shut Up In
British Legation
Under a Continuous Fire of Shot and
Shell.
URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP.
Message Sent July .18; and Is Considered
Genuine.
Washington, July 20 TheChinese min
ister has received aciphercabledispatch
from United States Minister Conger. It
is in the state department cipher and is
transmitted through the Tsung Li Ta
men and the Shanghai Taotai. It con
tains about 59 words and is signed in
English with the name "Conger."
Mr. Conger's telegram is as follows:
"In British legation. Under continued
Shot and shell from Chinese troops.
Quick relief only can prevent general
massacre."
The message is cot dated, but it is un
derstood was sent from Pekin on the
JSth. No doubt is expressed by state
department officials as to the authenti
city of the message. It is understood
that the message is dated the ISth.
PARIS HAS RELIABLE NEWS.
Paris, July 20. The foreign office has
received information from a Chinese
eource in which, however, certain reli
ance may be placed, that the foreign
ministers at Pekin have not been mas
sacred. According to this information
on July 7, the ministers were attacked
and the legations burned, but the for
eigners succeeded in crossing the city to
Prince Ching's palace, which was then
barricaded and the Europeans were
holding their own up to the time the
news left, July 9. Since then nothing
has been heard from Pekin.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
Washington, July 20. The following
Btatement has been given out at the
state department:
On the 11th of this month the state
department communicated a brief mes
sage asking tidings of Minister Conger
in the state department code. Minister
Wu undertook to get this into Minister
Conger's hands, if he was alive. Ke
has succeeded in doing this. This
morning the state department received
a telegram from Consul General Good
row at Shanghai saying:
The governor of Shan Tung informs
me that he has received today a cipher
message from Conger of the ISth."
A few minutes later. Minister Wu
appeared at the state department with
a telegram from the Taotai of Shanghai
dated 20th July, which had been re
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the Cipher of
ceived by Minister Wu at 8:30 o'clock
this morning reading as follows:
"Your telegram was forwarded as re
quested and I send reply from the
Tsung LI Yamen as follows:
' 'Your telegram of the 15th day of
this moon (llthv July) received. The
state department telegram has been
handed to Minister Conger. Herewith
is Minister Conger's reply to the state
department." "
This reply was in the state depart
ment cipher and it is regarded by the
state department as genuine inasmuch
as forgeries seemed under the circum
stances impossible.
SAFE ON THE 11TH.
Washington, July 20. The state de
partment has Just issued the following
bulletin:
"The secretary of state received this
morninjr a dispatch from Consul Fow
ler at Che Foo dated midnight 19, say
ing a Shanghai paper of the 16th said
all foreigners murdered. Fowler wired
the government demanding the truth.
The governor replied that his courier
left Pekin on the 11th and all then were
safe, but Pekin, east city, had been
carried by rebels with intent to kill.'
CABINET COUNCIL CALLED.
Washington.July 20. Following state
ment is issued by the state department
on Conger's telegram:
As soon as Minister Conger's cable
gram had been translated a cabinet
council was called in the office of the
secretary of state and all the cabinet
ministers accessible are now in ses
sion. In reply to a question Adjutant Gen
eral Corbin said it was impossible to
say what effect the receipt of Minister
Conger's dispatch would have on the
military operations in China or on our
preparations here. He said he did not
know but that increased military haste
m.ght precipitate matters in China.
A SHORT SESSION.
The cabinet council between Secre
taries Hay, Root and Long Iasted about
fifteen minutes. The postmaster gen
eral and secretary of the treasury did
out atentd: K Stateme wa given
out after the conference.
IT
a
Minister Conger.
CATCHES M'KINLEY AT CANTON.
Washington, July 20. As soon as the
cablegram from Minister Conger had
been translated at the state department
it was sent to the White House and
transmitted to the president. Owing to
the fact that his train did not stop dur
ing the morning he could not be reached
before he arrived at Canton. He reach
ed there at 9:30 (central time) and the
message was handed to him five min
utes afterwards.
M'KINLEY HEARS THE NEWS.
Canton, O..July 20. At the station the
president received the press dispatches
on Minister Conger's message and also
a telegram from the executive officials
at Washington on the subject. There
were many dispatches and other docu
ments awaiting the attention of the
president.
CHINESE KILLED THEIR WOMEN.
New York, July 20. A dispatch to the
World from Che Foo, says:
It is reported that after the allied
armies recaptured the native city of
Tien Tain last Saturday their shells set
fire to the town. The Chinese before
they fled killed all of their own women,
it is reported, to prevent their falling
into the foreigners hands. Native Chi
nese here report that there are in and
around Pekin, at least 300.000 Chinese
troops and that the boxers are armed
with the best and most modern weap
ons. From all sources come the same
tidings that the boxers have enormous
supplies of modern arms and ammuni
tion. Boxer leaders had organized plans
for massacring foreigners in all the
treaty ports as well as in the interior
and a heavy reward was promised for
each white head brought in. Rich loot
was promised all.
Especial stress is laid by Tuan's gen
erals on the opportunity the troops will
have of seizing white women.
The story receives the full credence
of the Europeans here.
CHINA'S ATTACK UPON RUSSIA.
New York, July 20. A dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from Xrfndon,
says:
"During the course of an interview
Sir Charles Dilke, the former liberal
cabinet minister and the statesman
who is universally regarded as being
the principal authority in England on
foreign affairs, said that he regarded
the latest news from China as extreme
ly grave.
"Up to the invasion of Russian terri
tory by the Chinese troops there was
nothing to lead us to suppose that there
was a direct and controlling government
at Pekin.
"The invasion of the Russian Amur
province is a visible sign that there is
a responsible government still in power.
"If China were as we have believed
until now, in the throes of civil war,
neither of the contending parties would
have time or opportunity to carry its
hostile operations into a foreign coun
try. "The Chinese attack upon Russia has
all the appearance of being an act of
imperial government at Pekin and the
only interpretation to be placed upon
this move is that the responsible Chi
nese government at Pekin has pro
claimed war upon Russia and upon the
powers.
"In this connection I must confess
that I am much impressed by the fact
that Li Hung Chang should have felt it
incumbent upon him to comply with the
summons to proceed to Pekin which has
reached him from the imperial govern
ment there. It is extremely significant
and constitutes another proof there is a
responsible imperial government in con
trol at Pekin."
JAPANESE SENTIMENT.
Yokohama, Thursday, July 19. The
United States battleship Oregon has ar
rived at Kure where she will undergo
temporary repairs. The leading papers
still urge the dispatch of more troops
to China butthereisagrowingsentiment
against Japan's engaging in extended
operations. The decision of the govern
ment in the matter is not known; but
another division from Sendai is on its
way to embark at Ujina.
Many refugees from China are arriv
ing in Japan.
SHANGHAI'S PERIL.
New York, July 20. A dispatch to the
World from London, says:
The Daily Mail correspondent at
Shanghai telegraphs under date of July
19:
"The boxer menace is hourly ap
proaching nearer. Shanghai city and
the foreign settlements are full of sus
picious characters and in the native
quarters continually increasing num
bers of armed Chinese are arriving from
the north.
"The troops in the Woosung forts are
being reinforced daily and a number of
new guns have been placed in position.
"The foreign consuls today presented
a united protest against these offensive
preparations. Viceroy Li Kun Yih re
plied that he would order the work of
strengthening the forts to cease imme
diately but the local commander still
persisted in the operations and refused
to heed the viceroy's remonstrances.
"These forts completely command
Shanghai and the guns already mount
ed are capable of blowing the foreign,
settlements to pieces in 12 hours."
SIXTY MISSIONARIES KILLED.
London, July 20. A dispatch from
Shanghai received here this morning re
ports that 60 missionaries and 100 native
converts have been massacred by box
ers at Tai Yuan.
WOMEN DRAGGED THROUGH
STREETS.
London, July 20. The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express says:
"Intense indignation is felt here at the
honors which the British in Hong Kong
have accorded to Li Hung Chang, who
is looked upon in Shanghai as the origi
nator of the whole fiendish anti-foreign
plot.
"A Chinese merchant who has just ar
rived from Pekin gives horrible details
of the massacre. He says he saw Eur
opean women hauled into the street by
shrieking boxers, who stripped them
and hacked them to pieces. Their dis
severed limbs were tossed to the crowd
and carried off with howls of triumph.
Some were already dead, having been
shot by foreign civilians.
"He says he saw Chinese soldiers car
rying the bodies of white children aloft
on their spears, while their companions
shot at the bodies. He gives other de
tails too horrible to be particularized
here.
"It seemed that the boxer leaders had
organized a plan including the offering
of rewards and rich loot for the annihil
ation of Europeans throughout China
and that Prince Tuan's generals have
emphasized the opportunity the sold
iers have after seizing the bodies of
white women."
RUSSIANS HARD PRESSED.
London, July 20. The Daily Express
publishes the following from Che Foo,
dated yesterday:
"TheRussiansare hard pressed around
Niu Chwang and have been expelled
from Tien Chwang Tai, the scene of the
great fighting during theChina-Japanese
war. where they have sustained heavy
losses.
"They have also been compelled to
abandon Tashichau by a large body of
boxers and armed peasants. Here again
the Russians lost heavily, but it is re
ported that they succeeded in killing 700
'of their assailants. The Chinese have
completely demolished the railway at
Tashichau. The Russians are now mov
ing on Neiu Chwang."
The Russians, according to the latest
news from St. Petersburg, have now
completely defeated the Chinese and
have occupied Blagovestchensk, capital
of the Amur government, with a large
force. Since General Gribski (not
Gribovski), chief - of staff at Port Ar
thur, has taken over the supreme com
mand in Manchuria, reinforcements
have been rapidly pushed up and the
general situation has been greatly im
proved. The Russian minister of the interior
has issued a notice that the Siberian
railway is closed to private traffic. There
is little doubt the Russian authorities
were not prepared for such an organized
Chinese movement in Manchuria, but
they have taken brisk measures and
they believe that China will soon be
too much pre-occupied with military
operations around Pekin to conduct ser
ious operations in the north.
The Daily Mail's Shanghai correspon
dent says:
"Advices from Vladivostock state that
the Chinese invasion of eastern Siberia
has stopped the Russian advance from
the north on Pekin. Russians have
burned the Chinese town of Helampo
and are taking very vigorous measures."
Berlin telegrams dwell upon the im
mense German interests in southeastern
Siberia. They say that the many Ger
man merchants, the numerous German
employes and the immense stores of
merchandise belonging to Germans in
that territory will compel Germany to
co-operate with Russia in resisting the
Chinese.
General Sir Arthur Power Palmer,
commander-in-chief in India, said in the
course of an interview in Simla yester
day that no more British troops could
be sent from India for- China, unless
they could be replaced from South
Africa.
HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED.
Washington, July 20. After hope had
almost been abandoned of hearing from
the legations in Pekin the two" cable
grams bearing tidings of the unfor
tunates beset in the British legation
were received this morning. First came
a short, sharp word from Consul Gen
eral Goodnow at Shanghai, an officer
of the state department who will not
be soon forgotten because of the im-'
mense energy and zeal he has exhibited
in securing information to meet the
demand of the department in the excit
ing days of the past six weeks. He
gave notice that Minister Conger had
at last been heard from directly and
that his words were on the way to
the state department.
Scarcely had the cheering news reach
ed Secretary Hay before Minister Wu
came tearing down the asphalt streets
from his legation in his automobile
bearing in his hands the precious mes
sage from Mr. Conger. The minister
was perspiring and almost speechless
with pleasure and excitement and even
the elevator in the state department
scarcely could meet his demand for
haste in reaching Secretary Hay. Sec
retary Hay had already prepared him
self for the minister's presence, but
nevertheless not knowing the nature of
Mr. Conger's communication he sat in
suppressed anxiety to receive the mes
sage. .
Mr. Wu himself was ignorant of what
he had in his hand because the mes
sage was in the state department cipher
an apparently meaningless mass of fig
ures and periods.
Secretary Hay at once called for Sec
ond Assistant Secretary Adee and the
two distinguished officials themselves
set to work translating the cipher into
English. This occupied nearly half an
hour. The first movement of Secretary
Hay upon deciphering was to make a
copy and dispatch this by messenger
in haste to the White House, with a
request to the telegraphers there to
forward it at the earliest moment to
President McKinley for his informa
tion. Then Secretary Hay remembering the
intense public anxiety to have tidings
of the Americans in Pekin caused his
private secretary to prepare copies of
the message he had received thought
fully accompanying them with an ex
planatory statement and the copies
were given to the newspaper men who
by this time scenting the fact that
news of the greatest importance had
come began-crowding the broad corri
dor before the secretary's office.
Then Secretary Hay betook himself
to the war department to convey the
news in person to Secretary Root and
to Secretary Long, who were together
at the time.
After the short consultation in Secre
tary Root's office. Secretary Long upon
emerging into the corridor was shower
ed with congratulations by a large
throng of department employes and
newspaper men who had congregated
there. As the one member of the cab
inet who has consistently maintained
during the dark days in which others
had given up all hope of the safety of
the foreigners in Pekin the news that
our minister was alive a few days ago,
was much in the nature of a personal
triumph for him. His face beamed with
the pleasure he experienced and he ex-
(Continued on Sixth Pace.)
BECKHAM CHOSEN
Kentucky Democrats Renomi
nate Youthful Governor
By Acclamation to Fill the Un
expired Term.
MAKE FAIR PROMISES.
Resolutions Pledge Amendment
of Goebel Law.
Republicans to Be Given a Show
Until it is Done.
' Lexington, Ky., July 20. Governor
Beckham was nominated by the Demo
cratic state convention for governo? of
Kentucky by acclamation 'at 3:05 this
morning.
After the names of Judge Black of
Barboursville, and Judge Tarvin of
Newport, were placed in nomination, a
roll call of the convention was begun.
When McLean county was reached at
3 a. m.. Governor Beckham had the
votes necessary to nominate. Then
Black and Tarvin's names were with
drawn and the latter moved that the
nomination of Beckham be made unan
imous. The motion carried and Beck
ham was escorted to the platform,
where he made his speech of accept
ance. It was 2 a. m. when Senator Blackburn
presented the following report of resolu
tions, which was adopted:
We, the Democrats of Kentucky, in con
vention assembled, do make the follow
ing declaration of principles:
First We heartily endorse the magnifi
cent platform adopted by the national
Democratic convention at Kansas Citv,
July 4. 1900, and also the splendid ticket
named by said convention, and pledge
the Democracy of Kentucky to an earnest,
cordial and active support of said ticket.
Second The entire history of the Dem
ocratic party has demonstrated that it
has always been the champion and de
fender of the rights of the great common
people; that it has ever insisted that the
will of the majority shall control and that
the minority must cheerfully and willing
ly acquiesce therein. It has always ad
vocated, and still does, that all elections
shall be fairly conducted and the result
honestly ascertained. We recommend that
the election law of 1SS8 (known as the
Goebel law), which was enacted to pre
vent the repetition of well known Re
publican frauds in certain districts of this
state, and which was a marked Improve
ment upon the then existing law, but
which has not proved sufficient for that
purpose be amended to secure this end so
thoroughly that the most hypercritical
can And no excuse for charging fraud or
unfairness to our- party in the conduct of
the election. Until such amendments can
be enacted by the general assembly we
declare that the Republican party shall
have representation on both the state
and all county boards of election com
missioners. We declare to the world that
the mob and the assassin shall not be the
arbitrators of the rights of the citizens of
Kentucky, nor shall the penalty of an ap
peal to the law and the regularly consti
tuted authorities be death at the hands
of assassins. Law and order must and
shall prevail in Kentucky.
Third We present to the people of Ken
tucky the picture of an army of intimida
tion, unlawfully quartered in the public
buildings of the state; a state senator in
the discharge of his duty to the state,
stricken down by an assassin's bullet,
fired from ambush in the executive build
ing, then occupied by his political adver
sary, who hoped to profit by his death;
that adversary, arming, filling and sur
rounding the building with armed men.
Instructed to defy the civil authorities and
prevent search for the assassins; that
same political adversary and Republican
?retender, by force dissolving the legis
ature in violation of the constitution, at
tempting by military power to force the
legislature to meet in a veritable slaugh
ter pen for the Democratic members: driv
ing its members through the streets of
Frankfort at the point of the bayonet,
forcibly preventing the legislature from
meeting in its lawful and proper place;
keeping armed riotous and disorderly men
under the very window of the room where
lay dying the assassin's victim; driving
the court of appeals from the capitol:
aiding with the soldiery and spurious par
dons those lawfully accused of capital
crimes to flee from Justice, and by mili
tary force defying the writ of habeas
corpus; the same Republican pretender
fleeing from the state after indictment,
and remaining a fugitive from justice,
protected by an open violation of the con
stitution of the United States, after hav
ing declared to the people of the state:
"I am a citizen of this state and amen
able to its laws. I am not a criminal,
neither shall I ever be a fugitive from
justice. Whenever indicted I shall ap
pear for trial." and we confidently de
clare our belief that a majority of the
people in Kentucky favor the preservation
of law and order; of both civil and per
sonal liberty, and the maintenance of con
stitutional rights of the people Demo
cratic doctrine, which is the hope and in
spiration of every true Democrat.
Fourth De denounce the action of Tov
ernor Bradley in using and personally
commanding the military force of the
state to control the election and intimi
date electors at the election of November,
1S99. in violation of the constitution and
laws of the commonwealth.
Fifth The Democratic party expresses
the deepest and slncerest grief over the
untimely end of its distinguished leader
and friend of the great commonwealth.
Governor William Goebel. His name and
fame in and will remain a sacred heritage
of the Democrats of Kentucky.
Sixth We earnestly invite the support
bv voice and vote of every sincere lover
of civil and personal liberty to join with
us in this campaign against the forces
gathered under the banner of a govern
ment bv assassination. The true man
hood of Kentucky will not endorse assas
sination as the means to obtain posses
sion of office and we appeal to every
Democrat and every good citizen of Ken
tucky to unite with the Democratic party
and thus express his detestation of a foul
crime. We endorse the administration of
Governor J. C. W. Beckham, and point
with pride to its submission to and stead
fast fealty to the law during the most
troublous, exciting and perilous days of
the commonwealth.
Governor Beckham, the Democratic
nominee for governor, is 30 years old and
unmarried. He has served three terms
in the legislature, and was the candidate
for lieutenant governor last year with
William Goebel. succeeding to the gov
ernorship on the death of the latter, five
months ago. The term is four years, and
he is now a candidate for the unexpired
term of three years.
Bristow Reaches Out.
Washington, July 20. Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow has
established a postoffice at the United
States naval station Pago-Pago. Island
of Tutuilla, Samoa. Mrs. M. H. Hud
son, wife of Chief Boatswain ' Hudson,
United States navy, has been appoint
ed postmistress at Pago-Pago.
Dock Strike Ends.
Rotterdam, July 20. The strike of
dock laborers which had been in pro
gress here fo rsome time is practically
ended and work has been generally resumed.
NEVER GATE UP.
The President .Has Doubted Conger's
Death All Along.
Canton, O., July 20. The president's
first news. of. Minister, Conger's dis
patch was handed him' the instant he
left the train by the Associated Press
correspondent. Scanning the bulletin
he gave evidences of pleasure at the
news. Later when the state depart
ment's statement reached him by the
Associated Press adding strength to the
genuineness of the news he was more
visibly gratified. Those near the presi
dent have known for days past that he
has not glwn up hope that Minister
Conger was alive.
After the president had read all the
news which followed the first bulletin
he started for a drive with Mrs. Mc
Kinley over the country roads.
A SOAKING RAIN.
From Two to Three Inches Fell
in Northern Counties.
'A soaking rain fell over the middle
and eastern portions of Kansas last
night and early this morning. In the
northern counties, where it was needed
the most, from two to three inches fell,
and as a result the prospects of a corn
crop in that section are much brighter.
The Santo. Fe general offices report
that rain fell on every division with
the exception of the western division,
from Dodge City to Denver, last night
In Oklahoma and New Mexico the rain
was heavier than in Kansas.
Another good soaking rain fell over
the northern part of Kansas last night.
The rain was general over the lines of
the Rock Island from Omaha to the
western part of Kansas. The western
division Is clear while the others are
cloudy. The temperature ranges from
65 to 75. On the Omaha division from
1 to 3 inches of rain fell, with some
hail at Rokeby. On the Fairbury divi
sion from 1 to 2 inches fell except at
Mankato and Montrose, where the fall
was very light. From 1 to 2 inches fell
on the Horton branch and good rains
visited the Herington and Chicasha
divisions
A peculiar fact is that in the last two
or three rains the fall has been light at
and around Mankato and neighboring
towns, when on all sides the fall has
been heavy. This section of the coun
try is in need of rain. The corn crop
this year will be lost if a rain does not
come soon.
HALF INCH IN TOPEKA.
The elements slipped up on the
weather forecaster yesterday and
knocked his .predictions into a cocked
hat.
In the morning the forecast went out
for fair weather. During the day a
high barometer in Washington moved
rapidly southeastward and sent the
temperature down from 94 at 3 o'clock
yesterday to 70 at midnight. The sud
den change brought the rain, which
commenced at 10:40 and ended at 4:30
o'clock this morning, a little over a half
inch falling. The forecast to-day is
"fair to-night except showers in east
portion. Saturday fair and warmer."
The maximum temperature up to 11
o'clock this morning was 67 and the
minimum 63. The wind was north,
blowing six miles an hour.
AZUMAlHCTIVE
200 Persons Killed or Injured
by Volcano.
Yokohama, Thursday, July 19. Mount
Azuma, near Bandaisan, which was the
scene of a volcano disaster in 1888,
broke into eruption Tuesday, July 1".
Two hundred persons were killed or in
jured. Several villages were engulfed by the
streams of lava from Mount Azuma,
and great damage was done in adjacent
districts.
THREE ARE KILLED
Train Men Suffer in Rock Island
Wreck.
Passenger and Freight Trains
Collide in Indian Territory.
Engineer Richard Brooks, Fireman
Geo. Meyers and Brakeman L. Nichols
were killed in a Rock Island wreck this
morning.
The wreck occurred this morning at
2:05 when passenger train No. 1 met the
first section of northbound freight train
No. 98 about three-quarters of a mile
west from siding No. 7 near Minnekah,
I. T.
Passenger train No. 1 is the Fort
Worth train which leaves Topeka at 1
o'clock in the afternoon . It met the
freight train in a head end collision. The
freight train was towing a dead engine
to Chickasha and all three engines, a
mail car and several freight cars were
piled up. The engines were badly dam
aged. Three trainmen were killed in the ac
cident. They were: Engineer Richard
Brooks, Fireman George Meyers of the
passenger and Head Brakeman L. Nich
ols of the freight train. Engineers
Headly and Seeley and Fireman Milli
can on the freight engines were injured.
Just how badly has not yet been learn
ed. Medical assistance was sent as soon
as possible.
None of the passengers were killed or
injured. The cars which left the track
were piled up so that it will take until
about 6 o'clock this evening to get the
debris cleared away. A work train was
immediately sent out and a temporary
track was laid around the wreck and
trains were only delayed a few hours.
Siding No. 2 is only a siding where
trains pass, and there is no depot there.
The passenger train was running at a
good rate of speed when the accident
occurred and it is fortunate that the
wreck was not more serious than it was.
It is announced by the officials in this
city that the blame is attached to the
crew on the freight train and that the
wreck was caused by a supposed mis
understanding of orders on their part.
WIN AGREES.
Atchison Man Will Not Stand in
Way of Fusion.
Nomination For Associate Jus
tice Must Be Unanimous.
APPEARS INDIFFERENT
Does Not Know Whether Name
Will Be Presented.
May Mean the Nomination of a
Democrat.
D. C. Tillotson, chairman of the na-
tional Free Silver Republican commit
tee, has obtained from Judge David
Martin, as the result of a conference, a
promise to withdraw, if necessary, in
the interest of harmony, and not permit
the use of his name in connection with
the office of associate Justice at Fort
Scott.
This conference was prompted by tha
Idea that the associate justiceship may
cause a split in the convention. The
Populists are assumed to be of the opin
ion that "Martin must be nominated."
James W. Orr and B. P. Wraggener are
of the opposite opinion, and this view is)
held by leading Democrats, the senti
ment of that party being against Judge
Martin.
The indications have been that the
Democrats would insist against Martin,
and that the Populists might throw tha
fusion arrangement to the four winds
and name him.
However, Judge Martin will not per
mit the conventions to take this action.
He states positively that under no cir
cumstances will he accept the nomina
tion and make the race as a Populist
nominee. The nomination must be made,
if he is placed on the ticket, by the Sil
ver Republicans, the Democrats and the
Populists. This position on the part of
Mr. Martin will avoid the split which
has been anticipated.
"I will decline the nomination if it be
otherwise made," he says.
"But this is all purely speculative,"
said Judge Martin. "I do not know that
my name will be presented to the Fort
Scott convention. I do not know that it
will be mentioned. I have not authoriz
ed any person to place me in nomina
tion, nor have I forbidden the use of
my name. If all of the fusion forces de
sire me for their candidate I would
make the race, but if any one of the
three state conventions would make
some other choice I could not accept. It
Is more to be desired that we win this
year than that the ambition of some in
dividual may be gratified."
ANDREE'S REMAINS.
Believed to Have Been Found on
East Coast of Hudson Bay.
Chicago, July 20. A special from Fort
William, Ont., to the Times-Herald,
says:
Indians hunting on the east coast of
Hudson Bay have brought word to the
Hudson Bay company's post on the
west coast of James Bay that they
found last spring a vast quantity of
wreckage, the bodies of two men, and
a man in the last stage of the death
struggle. The Indians reported that
they could not understand the language
he spoke, but that it was not English.
He died while they were there and they
returned to the trading post without
bringing any evidence of the strange
occurrence.
It is. believed by the officials of the
Hudson Bay company that the Indiana
witnessed the ending of Andree's at
tempt to reach the north pole by balloon.
They had never seen a balloon, but from
their description of the other wreckage
the officials are firmly convinced that it
was the remnants of Andree's air ship.
A party guided ty the same Indians has
been sent out to bring evidence to
establish the identity of the party.
Early last fall people near Moose fac
tory asserted they saw a large balloon
passing over to the northward and this
tends to confirm the story of the Indian
hunters.
OUR POLICY IN CHINA.
As Decided Upon at Recent
Cabinet Meetings.
Chicago, July 20. A special to the
Times-Herald from Washington, says:
As a result of the cabinet meetings
held Tuesday and Thursday, the policy
of the United States concerning the
great world crisis in China 13 fully ami
definitely decided upon. The substance
of this policy is as follows:
First The United States will under
no circumstances join in the partition
of China among the powers.
Second The United States will use all
its influence, to the utmost extent, short
of war with European nations, to pre
vent the dismemberment of the Chinese
empire.
Third The United States proposes to
have a voice In the settlement of the
Chinese trouble and its voice will ever
be raised against spoliation and in fa
vor of preservation of China's territor
ial and governmental entity, along the
lines set forth in Secretary Hays
note to the powers dated July 3.
Fourth The United States will not
declare war upon China on the present
showing of facts, no matter what other
powers may do.
Fifth The United States acting inde
pendently and for itself, will cooperate
with the other powers in restoring order
in China, in punishing all officials, high
or low, found guilty of crimes against
human life, in setting up a stable gov
ernment that may give guarantees of
security of life and property and free
dom of trade.
Satolli Promoted.
Washington, July 20. It is learned
from an official source that Cardinal
Francis Satolli. first papal delegate to
this country, 1893-97, has been appoint
ed prefect of the propaganda by Pops
Ijeo XIII.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, July 20. Forecast for Kan-
sas: Fair except showers in east por
tion tonight; Saturday fair and warmer
variable winds.