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TRAItl HELD UP
ATHIDHIGHT.
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Ex
press Robbed Near Memphis.
Six Masked Men Board Train
Unseen by Crew.
COLORED PORTER SHOT
Express Messenger Badly Beat
en With a Revolver.
Bandits Secured Over $3,000
From Express Safe.
Passengers Were Molested by
the Highwaymen.
St. Louis, April 23. A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
says:
The Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf pas
senger train, was held up at midnight
near Iron Mountain crossing, four and
a half miles west of Memphis. It ar
rived here at 6:10 this morning half an
hour late.
Sidney Drew, the negro porter, who
was shot by the bandits was taken to
St. Vincent's hospital and his wound
dressed by the company's local physi
cian. His condition is serious and he
may die. C. T. Header, the express mes
senger, was badly beaten over the head
and shoulders with a pistol, but he was
able to continue his run. The passen
gers were not molested.
Frank TV. Haskell, local agent of the
Wells-Fargo Express company, could
not estimate the amount the robbers se
cured but it is said to be over $3,000.
The train left Memphis at 11:40 last
night and after crossing the bridge
made the usual stop at Bridge Junction,
Ark. At this point six masked men
boarded the train, but were not seen by
any of the train crew. When a point
half a mile west of Iron Mountain cross
ing had been reached, Messenger Meader
started to cross over from the first car
to the other where the express safes
were as he had finished arranging the
baggage. ' Aa he opened the door he
found himself staring into the barrels of
two revolvers and two shotguns and saw
four men standing on the fdatform. He
was immediately grabbed by one of the
robbers and his ristol which he carried
in a belt around his waist, was taken
from him.
About this time the train began to
slow up and came to a full stop. Then
shooting began. The two men who had
boarded the rear of the second car cap
tured Sydney Drew, the train porter,
and made him uncouple at that point.
The engineer and fireman had been
taken care of by this time. Under orders
from two of the men "who had mounted
the cab, Engineer Johnson started up
the locomotive and ran It with the two
baggage and express cars for about
half a mile. The place where the cars
stopped is in the midst of a dense cane
brake and ten or fifteen miles from any
habitation. The track is raised fifteen
feet above the surrounding country.
When the engine stopped George
Ward, a boy who had been riding on the
blind baggage, sprang off and started
Into the woods. A shot from one of the
robbera brought him back to the train.
Then "open the local safe or we will
kill you," was the only order given to
the messenger by one of the robbers who
eeemed to be the leader. He was very
calm, while the other three were very
much excited and worked like amateurs.
The messenger obeyed and one of the
men who carried a sack, placed all the
contents of the local safe in it. "Now
you kid get into the car ahead," was
the next order. Meader did not seem to
move fast enough to suit the young fel
low -who had him In charge so he de
livered a few blows with the heavy re
volver he carried. After the messenger
was in the other car the robber contin-
' ued to beat him just for pure meanness,
the messenger says, until he waa very
badly bruised up.
He received a very bad cut over the
right eye.
One robber stayed to guard the two
prisoners, the other two joining the two
In the express car, where they were
working on the through express safe
which was locked and could not be
opened until Little Rock was reached.
They had about a pint of nitro-glycerine
and poured it in the crack of the safe.
.When everything was ready, all left the
car and the explosion followed. It was
a complete success, for the door of the
eafe was blown off and hurled twenty
feet away, striking a tree trunk and
Bmashing it. The robbers re-entered the
car and it was but the work of a few
momenta to transfer the contents of the
safe to the sack. Everything was taken.
The robbers then jumped off and with
a few parting shots disappeared into the
canebreak.
The engineer ran back to the rest of
the train and as soon as the coupling
was made, started as fast as possible for
Edmonson, 12 miles away, the nearest
telegraph station, where the affair was
reported to Superintendent John H.
Harris. The superintendent immediate
ly wired to the convict camp at Hulburt,
five miles this side of the scene of the
holdup, asking that the bloodhounds
there be placed on the trail of the ban
dits. Rewards win be offered.
MESSENGER'S STORY. .
Messenger Meader tells this story:
"I started to the other car and upon
opening the door found two pistols and
two guns pointed in my face. I threw
up my hands and one of the robbers
went through me, taking my pistol.
About this time the train stopped and
later, when we had uncoupled and run
ahead. I was made to open the local
safe with my keys. I was then ordered
Into the car ahead and heard them blow
cjjen the safe. They beat me with their
pistols, just for meanness, for I did
all they told me to do without protest.
They had the drop and I did not care to
get shot. I saw six of the men and all
were masked. They appeared to be
young men and all were excited but
one, who seemed to be the leader."
Sidney Drew, the negro porter, lives
in Memphis. Tenn. He is shot in the
thigh and may die. He refused to un
couple the train when first commanded
to do so and one of the robbers tired at
him.
George Ward, aged 17, who lives ia
Cincinnati, got the best look at the rob
bers and is the only person who saw
them iret on the train. He was ridins?
on the blind baggage, trying to get to
Hot Springs. He says:
When the train stopped at the rail
road crossing I saw the men run out
and jump on. Four got on the rear end
of the first car and two on the rear of
the second car. I paid no attention to
them until the shooting began and as
soon as the train stopped I got off and
started to run away, but they saw me
and made me come back."
The Choctaw officials will co-operate
with the express company and will spare
no expense to capture the bandits.
HAD FIFTY WIVES,
Count Leopold Be Melville Must
Face Deserted Spouses.
Chicago, April 23. The Chronicle
sajs: In the arrest of Count Leopold
de Melville, otherwise known as Leo
Farlquini, who is held by the New
York police on a charge of bigamy
sworn to by a brother of one of Ids
Chicago wives, there was brought t3
light in this city a romance whose un
folding reveals the count as the hero
of more than 100 love affairs. He is de
clared to be the husband of an assort
ment of wives whose number a recently
deserted wife in Chicago estimated at
not less than "fifty or so."
As a duelist on many a blood-stained
field of honor in Europe the count be
came celebrated nearly a generation
ago. His duels were always fought for
love and the wounds received in the on
sets he proudly bears on his face and
body. He at last broke altogether with
his father, a nobleman high in the court
and councils of the king of Belgium,
and came to this country.
Such was the narrative detailed last
evening at her re-idence in this city by
Jlrs. Hannah Henson de Melville, who
married Count de Melville in this city
August 21. ,1900, and lived w ith him until
three weeks ago. A few days before
April 1 of this year the count eloped
with a young woman from Riverdale
whom, it is alleged, he married in this
state and then took with him to New
York. Within a few days of the elope
ment the young lady's brother discov
ered that de Melville toad a wife in
Chicago Mrs. Hannah Henson de Mel
ville -with whom he had been living un
til the time of the elopement. His sis
ter in New York was made acquainted
with his brother's discoveries. There
was a scene between the elopers, after
w hich the woman returned to Chicago.
When placed under arrest in New
York the count was reported to have
told Detective Burke he had so many
wives that he had not been able to keep
track of even their names and could
form no idea as to the real number.
To have made such an admission the
countess thinks wouid have been unlike
the count, who is said to be habitually
cautious and taciturn in dealing with
strangers. But she freely avowed that
in her opinion he has several wives liv
ing and added that she should not be
surprised if the number should be found
to reach fifty.
With this latter number to his credit
the count would be found to have
thrown into the shade the records of the
two most celebrated Chicago bigamists.
Bates and Farnsworth, since Bates was
able to muster only five at his trial and
Farnsworth about the same number, al
though Farnsworth told the police here
that the number of his living wives was
forty-twos
The countess first met the count dur
ing the World's fair. She is the sister of
Rev. John Henson, pastor of a church
at Grand Rapids. Mich. She had come
to Chicago to visit the fair and was
stopping at the Richelieu hotel, her com
panion being a southern heiress.
At first the count was infatuated with
the southern belie, but later diverted
his affections to Miss Henson. She re
turned to her brother's home and did
not see the count again until last fall,
when she married him. She declared last
evening that there is no doubt in her
mind that he is a genuine count and
that he has been all over the world.
Before the end of the week the count
will be brought to Chicago to face his
aoeussers. Detective Walbarn of the
states attorney's office having gone
to New York with copies of the indict
ment and other documents necessary for
the nobleman's extradition.
KIDNAPING TRIAL
Callahan Arraigned For Abduc
tion of Young Cndahy.
Omaha, April 3. James Callahan, the
alleged abductor of Edward Cudahy, jr.,
son of the millionaire packing house
owner, was today brought before Judge
Baker in the criminal branch of the
district court for trial on the charge of
robbery of 525.000.whieh is the amount cf
ransom paid by Mr. Cudahy for the re
turn of his boy. The kidnaping occurred
December 18 last and Caliahan was ar
rested two months later as a suspect. He
was later identified by several persons
who had had dealings with the supposed
abductors prior to the night the young
man was forcibly carried away, as one
of the men who had negotiated the lease
of the house in which young Cudahy
was held a prisoner. Young Cudahy has
also identified Callahan as one of the
members of the trio who guarded him
for thirty hours in a house on Melrose
hill, to which he was carried on the
eventful night. This morning's session
or me court was occupied in trying to
secure a jury, for w hich a special venire
of 150 has been called, but up to noon
those examined had been rejected for
cause and other reasons.
It is expected that nearlv one hundred
witnesses will testify in the case.
Death of a Pennsylvania Editor.
Pittsburg, April 23. Col Chill W. Haz
zard, editor and proprietor of the Mon
ongahelaRepublican and one of the most
forceful citizens of western Pennsylva
nia, died at 10 o'clock last night at his
heme in Monongahela Pa., of paralysis
aged 62. Col. Hazzard was a past su
preme chancellor of the Royal Arcanum,
past commander of the G. A. R., and a
member of the Loyal Legion, a Knight
Templar and 32d degree Mason.
IS HE DODGING?
Politicians Wonder Why Mr.
Burton Avoids Topeka.
Ilia Lieutenants Were Here
Awaiting Him.
A LOSG RANGE VIEW.
Inspects the Capital Only From
a Car Window.
Fifth and Sixth Districts Want
to Know.
The politicians do not take kindly to
Senator Burton's passing Topeka by
with only a look from the car window
as compensation. They want to have
"something doing" around Copeland
county. Twice in the last four days
Burton has passed through, going from
Kansas City to his home in Abilene and
thence from Abilene back to Kansas
City. It is unusual because heretofore
the senator has always come to Topeka
the first thing. Now the order seems
changed and the politicians either go to
Kansas City for their conferences or, as
perhaps the senator wishes, they must
go to Abilene.
Burton has given out several inter
views in the last few days to the effect
that there are as yet no vacancies in
the federal jobs and certainly no ap
pointments, and that no recommenda
tions will be made even until such oc
cur, and that such occurrences will not
come about for several months yet.
Here again the politicians differ, with
respect to the revenue collector-ship in
particular. This will soon run out and
the new appointment is certainly ex
pected this summer for the job is not a.
tenure of office. J. H. Simpson is here
again today looking after his fences in
that line and was closeted all morning
with Frank Grimes. Only the last of
last week Simpson went back to Spring
Valley to begin his work on the farm,
but he gets back to Topeka promptly
with the beginning of the week when
Burton was scheduled to be here ac
cording to the understanding of things
last week.
There has been such a hubbub made
by the friends of George Findlay for the
past week or so that some of the partis
ans think they have the senator dodg
ing and thus account for his not visit
ing the state capital, where he has been
expected from time to time for more
than two weeks. It is given out on the
other side that Burton has a great deal
of business pressing him at present get
ting housekeeping afairs straightened
at Abilene and picking up the threads of
legal business that have gotten lost
while he has been attending to the du
ties at Washington. One of these cases
is that of Doctor Weltmer, of Nevada,
Mo., whose mail has been held up by the
postofflce department. He took up this
case before his election by the legisla
ture last January.
Now it is given out positively that
Senator Burton will be here on Thurs
day. The fellows who have been dodg
ing in and out for the last two weeks
will be back again day after tomorrow
in anticipation of that lively time that
everybody has been looking forward to.
Frank Grimes is a little bit anxious
himself. He wanted to know this morn
ing if the boys thought he stood close to
Burton and was greatly relieved on be
ing told that "the boys" thought he did
stand close and was the senator's main
stay. George Findlay is the least concerned
of any. He has not been seen around
the state house or Copeland county
through all this turmoil and is not yet
back from his business trip to Chicago
though everybody is on the qui vive ex
pecting the thing to crack at any mo
ment in which he is the most interested
party.
There is a rumbling of coming trouble
for Mr. Burton in the Fifth and Sixth
districts. This has always been his
stronghold and the woikers don't want
to be ignored. In none of the suggested
appointments has either the Fifth or
Sixth district been considered.
There was a meeting at Salina a few
days ago of Republican politicians who
supported Mr. Burton and they formu
lated some pretty pointed demands
upon the new senator.
These people do not understand why
Lit Crura, who lives way down in the
Third district, should have a cinch on
the position of United States marshal.
It is rumored that ex-Speaker Steve Os
born of Salina would not object to this
place but there are a dozen competent
men in these two districts who might
grace the place, among them being J.
B. Tomlinson, Senator Morrow, Rep
resentatives Rees. Short or Emmons,
Senator Ward, Jerry Mohler, Harry Pes
tana and others.
The position of United States attor
ney is also one of the bones of conten
tion and there is plenty of timber in the
Fifth or Sixth district.
The fact is that this part of the state
intends to have one of the big federal
jobs or know the reason why.
TOLSTOI BANISHED.
Czar Has Signed Decree and It
Has Been Served.
London, April 23. A special dispatch
from Vienna says the czar has signed a
decree expelling Count Leo Tolstoi from
Russia and that the decree has been
served.
Colorado Pioneer Dead.
Denver, Col., April 23. E. S. Nettle
ton, for the past two years connected
with the department of agriculture in
Washington as an expert on matters)
pertaining to irrigation, is dead, at the
Homeopathic hospital in this city, of
heart failure. He was 69 years of ago.
About a week ago in La Junta, Col.,
Mr. Nettleton overexerted himself In
running for a train and on his arrival
here was taken to the hospital where he
remained until his death. Mr. Nettle
ton was one of the most prominent en
gineers In the west and active in the
promotion of irrigation enterprises. He
was at one time state engineer of Col
orado and laid out the tow ns of GrGee
ley. Colorado Springs and Manitou. One
daughter, Mrs. W. H. Pickard of-Kansas
City, survives him.
CUBAN TRADE LOSS.
Falling Off in Both Exports and Im
ports Continues.
Washington, April 23. A decrease of
$226,081 in the customs receipts of Cuba
for the months of January and February
1901, as compared with the same period
of 1900 is shown in a statement issued
by the division of insular affairs, war
department, today. This falling off in
receipts at the custom houses of the isi
and is but another indication of the re
markable let down in the trade of Cuba,
as set forth in a recent statement of the
department which showed that Cuba's
trade with the outside world had de
creased over $1,500,000 in imports and
over $2,000,000 in exports for the first
three quarters of 1900 with the same
period of 1899. The trade with the United
States during these periods showed a
decrease of about $4,000,000 in imports
and $8,000,000 in exports,
A cleverTraud.
Washington Street Car Lines
Swindled Out of $50,000.
Washington, April 23. Systematic
frauds practiced on the lines of the
Electric and Traction company to the
extent of probably $50,000 have been dis
covered and eight of the employes, six
of whom are conductors and two fire
men, are under arrest on a charge of
conspiracy. The men arrested are
George W. Cadarr and Richard Wil
liams, firemen; Oliver A. Gardner, Ed
ward Parker, George W. Blair, John J.
Keating, John N. Meyers and John W.
Dodson, conductors. The operations, it
is claimed, have been going on for sev
eral months. The punched tickets
turned in by the conductors are first
checked up at the offices and then burn
ed by employes. The investigation that
has been in progress, it is stated, dis
closes that many of the tickets, instead
of being destroyed, were saved and sold
to conductors at $1 per 100 and that the
conductors who bought them substitut
ed them for good tickets. This was done
by turning in the old tickets to the com
pany at the close of each day, the same
number of good tickets being retained
in the pockets of those who were in the
conspiracy. It is also alleged that in
many cases the number of fares rung
up and the number of passengers on
trips showed a wide divergence.
. Fireman Cadarr's bond was fixed in
the police court today at $2,000. The
eases will come up for hearing in court
probably tomorrow. When detectives
arrested Cadarr the latter carried a
lunch basket in which were found al
most a thousand tickets supposed to
have been taken from the furnace at
the company's plant, where these tick
ets are usually destroyed. Later de
tectives found 4,000 tickets of the same
kind in a trunk at his home. Cadarr is
married and is 3S years of age. His was
the first arrest. He made a frank ad
mission of his part in the affair and
told the detectives that others were in
it with him.
KILLED BY TRAMPS.
Officers Shot by Prisoners While
En Route to the Calaboose.
Joplin, April 23. Policeman Charles
G. Sweeney was shot and killed and Of
ficer Bert Brannon was fatally wounded
early this morning while attempting to
arrest a gang of five tramp3 found in a
box car. The officers were taking the
men to the station when one of the
tramps shot both policemen from be
hind. Four of the men escaped; the
fifth, Jame3 Roby of St. Louis, gave
himself up at the police station. Rob
says he fell in with the men while on
his way to Fort Smith, Ark. He says
they were on their way to Fayetteville,
Ark.
BOXERS PREPARE TO RISE.
People Are in Sympathy Owing to
the Famine.
Berlin, April 23. The Cologne Folks
Zeitung prints correspondence from a
German missionary in China, which says
that in southern Pe Chi Li the boxers are
preparing for another great rising, es
pecially in the district of Kuang Ping Fu
and Nat Ming Fu, where the population
sympathizes with the boxers because of
the famine there. The population per
sistently disregards the decrees issued by
the authorities.
ernor of Shan Si, the correspondent says
.emperor iang su was tuny informed
on the subject of Yu Hsien's murders of
foreigners and ordered the provincial
judge at Kan Su to decapitate Yu Hsien,
who has since fled and disappeared.
im. NATION IN JAIL
She and Three Others Refuse
to Give Bond at Wichita.
Wichita, April 23. At a meeting at Mrs.
Wilhite's last evening. Mrs. Carrie Na
tion, Mrs. Lucy Wilhite, Mrs. Julia Evans
and Mrs. Lydia Muntz. the four women
who smashed two saloons here some
months ago, decided to reject all bail and
go to jail. Their cases come before the
court tomorrow morning for the purpose
of renewing their bonds. They claim that
they couid easily get bonds, but say they
consider it their duty to resent the'impn
tation that they have committed any
crime, hence their decision to go to jail.
Frightened Themselves Away.
Wiscasset, Me., April 23. An attempt
waa made to rob the First National
bank here early today. The vault and
interior of the bank building were badiy
damaged by a heavy explosion, whicn
shook the entire town and the robbers
fled, leaving their tools behind. They
secured nothing.
Calls It "Tartar News."
Berlin, April 23. Emperor William re
gards the news of the plot against hi3
life as "Tartaran Nachricht" (Tartar
news) but he approves the comprehen
sive steps now taken to forestall the al
leged plotters. The empress saw an ac
count of the plot and immediately
warned the emperor who joked about the
matter thus removing her disquiet.
Berlin .Denies It.
Berlin, April 23. Officials here em
phatically deny the report cabled from
London that new complications have
arisen in the China question and Wash
ington, London and Berlin are busily
conferring on the subject.
STILLJPG.
Ohio Elver Continues to Come
Up Slowly.
At Cincinnati All Danger Is
Considered Passed.
BELOW EXPECTATIONS
Flood Will 3Not Reach Stage of
Former Years.
Several lives Have Been Lost
Up the River.
Cincinnati, O., April 23. Although the
Ohio is still rising and the backwaters
of the Little Miami and Mill creek sur
round the city, there is no longer any
alarm here on account of a flood. This
is due to the fact that the weather bu
reau and others see that the trouble is
of short duration and that there will
be no such a high stage as was expect
ed. During the larger floods of former
years the conditions were such that it
was impossible to see "the finish." The
stage of the Ohio river shows 54 faet
of water this morning and at the rate
of increase of two inches per hour, it
will reach 56 feet tonight. But it is al
so easily seen that the maximum depth
will be reached here in less than 24
hours and that it will not exceed 5S
feet or come within fourteen feet of the
record. The flood is receding as far
down as Parkersburg today and its
crest will be here tomorrow. While sev
eral lives have been lost up the river in
gathering drifts and in accidents, none
have been lost by being caught by the
flood. All who have been driven from
their homes here and elsewhere have
been well cared for in their respective
localities and taken to homes.
RESUMING BUSINESS AT PITTS
BURG. Pittsburg, April 23. The officials, of
the Allegheny bureau of health com
menced a thorough inspection of the
flooded districts. Every house that was
inundated will be inspected and the oc
cupants notified to thoroughly cleanse
and disinfect it to prevent disease, or a
plague. If the order is not obeyed with
in five days the occupants will be pros
ecuted. A similar inspection will be
made in this city by the Pittsburg offi
cials. Work was resumed today at many
mills along the river fronts after an en
forced shut down of three days and
within 48 hours all the plants will be
again in operation.
The rivers continue to recede here ana
at the headwaters. At 10:30 the stage
of water in the Monongahela river was
17 feet 2 inches.
HAS RAINED SIX DATS. .
Huntington, WT. Va., April 23. The
Ohio river is 55.5 feet and rising an inch
an hour. One foot more of water is ex
pected here. News of great suffering
from the flood comes from the interior
counties. The rain ceased at midnight
for the first time in almost six days.
KENTUCKY AT A STANDSTILL.
Frankfort, Ky., April 23. The Ken
tucky river is about at a standstill to
day and as bright clear weather has fol
lowed two days of rain no danger is
now apprehended here.
. DEPOTS ABANDONED '
The Central Union passenger station
was abandoned today, not because it is
impossible to run trains through the
water but because the injury to cars and
engines is too great. Freight depots
reached over the tracks now submerged
are abandoned and trains are obliged to
unload at points farther out.
The baseball park used by the Nation
al League is flooded and the Chicago
Cincinnati games scheduled' for i this
week will be postponed. The stage of
the river at Cincinnati at noon is o4.3.
At Gallup, on the Big Sandy, a wash
out broke the natural gas main, leav
ing the city last night without fuel and
in darkness and closing factories at
Ashland and elsewhere along its line.
At Middle Fork, Ky., Jacob Tussey
was d rowned, while rafting logs.
At Portsmouth, O., the weather is
clear. River 55 feet 5 inches and not
likely to rise much more. All homeless
families have been cared for.
At Ironton this morning the river was
56 feet 9 inches and rising one inch an
hour.
West Ironton and all the territory in
the lowlands along the creeks are inun
dated rendering hundreds of families
homeless. A landslide has cut off the
natural gas supply from all cities and
towns along the Ohio between Ironton
and Huntington.
Industries are suspended and railroad
and street railway traffic has stopped.
Destitute sufferers are quartered in
public buildings.
SEVEN FEET OF WATER IN STORES
Gallipolis, O., April 23. The great
deluge of water that has been sweeping
down the Ohio valley has done great
damage to Pomeroy Bend. Pomeroy,
Middleport and Point Pleasant were
the first points to be inundated. Point
Pleasant has seven feet of water in its
business houses on the main streets.
Many families are homeless, but are be
ing cared for in school houses and by
neighbors. The depots at Middleport
and Pomeroy are both under water.
p'ive thousand barrels of salt were al
most given away at the salt mills at
Pomeroy which otherwise would have
been washed away. All railroads have
suspended operation into Point Pleasant,
Middleport and Pomeroy. Gallipolis is
receiving only one train a day and it is
feared mail communications will be cut
off today. The mark at 11 o'clock this
morning shows 55 feet 3 inches and ris
ing one inch every three hours.
TRAFFIC TO SUM E.
TwoVessels Leave ThisWeek For Gold
Fields.
Seattle, Wash., April 23. The Nome
traffic for the season of 1901 may be
properly said to have opened with the
beginning of this week. So far no ves
sels have departed, but two leave Fri
day and Saturday for the famous gold
fields. They are the Pacific Clipper line's
steamer Nome City, Captain Daniels,
and the Pacific Steam Whaling: com
pany's steamer Jeanie. Both will have
heavy passenger lists. These two ves
sels are the only ones booked for early
Nome sailings. It will be a month after
their departjre before another steamer
leaves for Nome, though six or eight
sailing vessels will rneanw-hile have de
parted for that destination.
No trouble with the Behring sea ice
is anticipated.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, April 23. Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and possibly Wednes
day; variable winds.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
British Consular Officers Make He
port of Affairs in America.
Washington, April 23. Copies of the
annual report of Mr. Wyndham, the
British consul at Chicago together with
those of the vice consuls at St. Louis,
Kansas City, St. Paul, Denver and
Omaha and reports upon the trade of
Milwaukee and Duluth have just been
received here. The reports generally
attest to a very prosperous condition of
trade in this district and furnish many
interesting instances of the view taken
by a Britisher of American enterprise
and methods of business. For instance,
in describing a department store in Chi
cago, Consul Wyndham says::
"A department store means an ag
gregation of many trades under one roof
and management enabling customers to
buy everything necessary for life with
out leaving the building."
He also comments upon advertising
methods o? these stores, pointing out
that the main object is to get the people
into the stores and not especially to
sell any one branch of goods whose sale
is heralded in the daily newspapers.
"To this end," the consul says, "many
firms spend several hundred pounds a
week."
The export business of Chicago during
1900 in farming implements is shown to
have been the largest on record. Chi
cago banks, it is stated, have had a
most successful year and probably are
in a better position than ever. The man
ufacture of shoes, which has been a
monopoly of the New England states, is
now said -to be rapidly moving its cen
ter to the west. In this connection the
use of the word "boot" in America is
referred to and is shown to mean "high
boots" as it is applied in the united
States. An English boot is in America
simply a shoe. Brewing in the Chicago
district is shown to have been far from
satisfactory the past season, though the
sales showed a slight increase over isy.
In breeding and raising live stock the
past year is stated to have been remark
ably favorable in the Chicago aistriei.
The consul cautions exporters to send
only good breeds of cattle to America.
The American farmer, he says, will pay
good prices for good cattle, but does not
want inferior stock at all. The quality
of meat, he says, has improved of late
and the lank animals of ten years ago
have been replaced by sleek looking cat
tle of medium weight.
As to Chicago schools Consul Wynd
ham says:
"A citizens committee has pointed out
the necessity of teaching fewer subjects
in schools and geography, history and
English more thoroughly."
The sale of hsh in Chicago is stated
to be very large and it is predicted will
increase on account of the large Catholic
population and the rising price of meat.
The output of flour for 1900 was the
largest on record. The export trade how
ever has been less satisfactory.
- "The millers state," says the consul.
that freight rates discriminate against
flour to the advantage of wheat and
they look forward to the future when
no American wheat will be ground in
European mills."
The gold output of the Chicago con
sular district is estimated at about 7,
500,000 pounds sterling. The fire insur
ance companies doing business in the
United States had a very bad year dur
ing 1900. The Chicago claims were about
800,000 pounds or 55 per cent of the
premium.
About one-fourth of the iron and steel
produced in America, it is said, is em
bodied In the machinery of Chicago's
manufactories.
As to the need of a good system of
storing water for irrigation purposes in
this section of the west the consul says:
'It is thought that the government
should undertake the task of building
dams for the benefit of the general pub
lic."
Consul VV yndham comments at some
length on the condition of labor. The
price in any one branch, ne says, nas
not increased much during the past year.
No half holiday on Saturday is given, he
says, and absence for any reason is not
allowed to occur more than once.
The unions, owing to the large immi
gration into these states, have not the
nower thev Dossess elsewhere. The im
migration averages about 1.000 a day, and
the newcomers will work at almost any
figure. In one large place of business it is
Dointed out over 800 of 6.000 men cannot
speak English. The decline in the wages
of stenographers is commented upon, and
the supply is said to so far exceed the
demand as to cause young girls to work
for Ms., or about $4 a week and less.
Chicago is now the greatest piano mar
ket in the United States, it is stated, and
a feature of last year's trade has been a
demand for the very best class of goods.
There was a marked decrease in the sale
of Chicago real estate during It.), ac
counted for by the iabor troubles which
have made building practically impos
sible, the fast electric suburban roads and
the enormous buildings with their great
capacities that have been erected. Ship
building has been brisk during IfrnO, and
many large orders have been booked for
1901.
The comforts of the ice box during the
summer months are spoken of in admir
ing terms. The consul says:
"In Europe the American lice habit' is
regarded with astonishment, but here,
where water is the beverage at meals for
most, ice is a necessity."
Consul Wyndham, in concluding his re
port, says that the Chicago manufac
turers are greatly interested in the trade
possibilities of South America and hope
to gain a foothold on that continent
through the medium of the coming Pan
American exhibition at Buffalo. He ad
vises young Britishers without a trade
of some kind not to come to the United
States. Clerks in offices and stores re
ceive only a bare living in many ca-s s, he
warns them, while in agricultural or
manual labor fields he would have to
give way to the great number of emi
grants who are thoroughly inured to thi3
sort of work.
A great quantity of sausage is said
to be made in Milwaukee. It is said
to be becoming a very important man
ufacturing town. Duluth is spoken of
as an important shipping point and
particularly of iron ore and lumber.
The prosperity of St. Louis territory
was general during the year 1900, ac
cording to the report of Vice Consul
Bascom at that city. Decidedly satisfac
tory returns were received from all
branches of financial activity. Brewers,
clothing concerns, boot and shoe indus
tries, agricultural implements, manu
factories in fact all branches of trade
there reported a most satisfactory sea
son. The city leads the world in the
manufacture of tobacco, Mr. Bascom
states, and is also one of the four recog
nized wool markets of the country.
Of Kansas City, Vice Consul Young
made a most favorable report, partic
ularly as to the growth of agricultural
and stock raising interests. He dwells
upon the growth of Oklahoma as re
markable and describes the farmers and
stock raisers as very prosperous. He
advises British manufacturers to cul
tivate a market in that section, point
ing cut opportunities for the extension
of trade im Scotch and Irish whiskies
and in cutlery. He even thinks there is
a market for British harvesting ma
chinery and toe urges a personal can
vass. State Soldiers Officers.
Governor Stanley has appointed Ed
mund E. Keller brevet captain in com
pany E, First regiment. K. N. G. James
H. Titus, jr., was breveted second lieu
tenant in the same, which is a new com
pany organized at Ottawa.
A IIAflGinG PARTY
Invitations Issued to Railway
Officials of the Southwest
To Witness the Execution of
'Biack Jack" Ketchum.
TO COME OFF FRIDAY.
He
Is Being Removed From
Santa Fe to Clayton.
Rumor That His Friends Will
Attempt a Rescue.
Denver, April 23. The Times today
says: It is said that "Black Jack"
Ketchum is being removed today from
Santa Fe to Clayton, N. M where he
will be executed Friday for the double
crime of train robbery and murder. For
the past two months the rumor has been
circulated in New Mexho that the ban
dit would never be hanged. It SHid
that the most daring desperadoes in the
southwest have been organizing into a
rescuing band to save their famous
leader from the ignomy of dying on the
gallows. A special train will carry the
party from Santa Fe to Clayton vi:i
Trinidad. The Santa Fe railroad will
furnish the train to. Trinidad and the
Colorado & Southern from that point,
south. The sheriff of Union county wil
have charge of the party en route in
conjunction with W. H. Reno, special
agent of the Colorado & Southern rail
way and a strong guard of picked men
will accompany the train and guard the
jail until Friday. ,
Invitations have been issued to rail
way officials of the southwest to wit
ness the hanging.
USE PAINT BRUSH.
Topeka Should Spruce Up la
Honor of McKinley.
"The business houses along Kansas
avenue should undergo a transforma
tion," said Major T. J. Anderson to a
reporter for the State Journal this
morning. ' ,
"It is an undisputed fact that we have
some very disreputable looking business
blocks along the city's best business
street, and the appearance of these
buildings could at least be improved l y
the expenditure of a little money uiul
tfc use of a paint brush.
"President McKinley will visit Tope
ka on June 8, and will be driven throuo
the city. We should be very particular
to make the best appearance possible
and the only way to do that is to use a
liberal supply of paint.
"Upon the evont of the first fall festi
val in this city in 1896 the busine: s
men and property owners fairly outdid
themselves in fixing up and the changed
appearance of the street was more than
enough to repay the cost of the im
provements. "The matter of again cleaning up and
taking on some style is a matter worthy
of the most careful attention of our
people and should by all means be look
ed after." i
WANT TROOPS TO GO.
China Offers Guarantee of Pro
tection to Foreigners.
Washington, April 23 It is understood
here that the Chinese plenipotentiaries
at Pekin, Prince Ching and Li Hunff
Chang are prepared to give guarantee
to the powers for the protection of all
foreigners in China, if the troops now
stationed there are withdrawn. Thus
far the retention of the foreign forces
has been urged as necessary in order to
preserve order and protect foreigners,
but the Chinese authorities say that or
der has been so far re-established that
the Imperial government is fully able
to direct the Chinese troops in such a
way as to secure complete safety to the
interests of ail foreigners. This is un
derstood to be the basis of the with
drawal of 10,000 French troops and it i
earnestly hoped among Chinese officials
that, this will be followed by a similar
movement on the part of the other for
eign forces in China.
It is said at the state department that
no doubt, without intention, the Pekin
dispatches representing the United
States as joining In the demands for
more heads and more punishment in
China do not correctly portray the posi
tion of this government. As a matter of
fact Mr. Rockhiil, our special commis
sioner at Pekin is acting under broad
instructions from the state department
to do all within his power to restriin
the unnecessary shedding of blood. H:
presence with the ministers in their
consideration of the subject of punish
ment of provincial officials is therefore
distinctly palliative and deterrent. He
is seeking to minimize the punishment
and it is not doubted that he can do
this with greater sucoetw by adhering
to the councils of the ministers than
by completely withdrawing himself from
their deliberations even though the ap
pearance is thereby conveyed that lie
is in full sympathy with their demands.
A STATE DINNER
Will Be Tendered Cuban Com
mission at White House.
Washington, April 23. Much of the
time of the cabinet today was devoted
to discussing the coming visit of the
committee appointed by the Havana
constitutional convention which is nw
on its way to Washington. The commis
sioners are to be received cordially and
are to be shown every courtesy. A st;itr?
dinner in the state dining room at the
White House will be given by the presi
dent in their honor Thursday nipht.
It was decided not to delay lonirur
the commencement of the construction
of the new department of Justice bui; :
Ing for which congress appropriated
$1,000,000.
Former Attorney General Gritres was
opposed to proceeding with construction
owing to the limited appropriation and
repeated attempts were made to secure
an additional appropriation. These fail
ed and as the present quarters are very
crowded, Attorney General Knox recom
mended that the work begin under the
present plans which will be modified
to conform to the size of the appropria
tion available.