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CSBE DEMOCBAT - ... WILL E. rSTOKE, EDITOR " AND PROPBIKTOK. v. OREATBEND. .... KANSAS. CURRENT COMMENT. The influenza is prevalent in Persia. Beveral members of the Shah's house hold are prostrated. , . ,. .... A completely, satisfactory test of the new fire alarm apparatus in. the White Souse has been made. Ax unlocked lamp alonside the corpse of a workman named Morris explains the last colliery explosion in Wales. Hesbt M. Stanley will leave Cairo An Va OCTV. Vina rVAa V.. .-411 main a week and then proceed to Brus sels. A bill fixing' the salary of the District court judges at $5,000 per year has been favorably reported by the Judiciary Com mittee. The O'Shea divorce case will probably not be tried until fall as further time has been asked for by Mr. Parnell to secure evidence. Prince Bismabck is said to be firm in bis intention of retiring. He says: "I have done my work and want rest and recreation. At the annual meeting of the Penn sylvania railroad at Philadelphia it was resolved to issue 400,000 additional shares of stock amounting to 820, 000, 000. The remaining indebtedness of Ives and Stayner, in connection with Cincin nati, Hamilton fc Dayton affairs, is to be compromised at five cents on the dol lar. The wages of the steamship firemen and seamen at Liverpool have been ad vanced ten shillings a month, and all rouble so far as these men are concerned is over. " T Because William Dudley, aged eight een, son of a minister at Eau Claire, Wis., was late at school and the class was deprived of a half holiday, several of the boys gave him a terrible drubbing. Information has reached Detroit of the existence near Potts, Osceola Coun ty, of one of the most infamous stock ade dens that ever 'disgraced Michigan. Thirteen girls are held in slavery by one Jim Murrin. The sessions of the international la bor conference will be held in the large hall of Prince Bismarck's College, where the congress of 1878 was held. Baron von Berlepsch, Prussian Minister of Commerce, will open the proceedings. The Foreign Corporations bill passed t)Oth houses of the Maryland Legisla ture and awaits the signature of the Governor to become a law. It imposes a tax ranging from one to two per cent, .on the gross receipts of all corporations outside of Maryland, doing business in the State. The correspondence between Germany and Great Britain relative to the scope of the international labor conference has been made public.. In his letters on the subject Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister, declined to favor any scheme looking to a legal restriction of " the hours of labor. In the British House of Commons Sir James Ferguson, Under Foreign Secre tary, responding to a question as to the position of the Behring sea negotiations, declined to say any thing until he should be able to communicate to the House such information as might be imparted without detriment. The Whitney mansion at New York was thrown open for . the first time in four years on the 11th, and many guests were bidden to afternoon tea. Assisting Mrs. Whitney to receive were: "Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Miss Winthrop, Miss Amy Bend, Miss Florence Kip, the Misses Hewitt and Miss Sallie Hargeous. An official trial of the dynamite guns of the cruiser Vesuvius has been made. The cruiser was towed to a point in the Delaware river near Marquihook. The test was on the points of ranges, fuze and distances. Wooden bombs loaded with gunpowder were used and the test is reported to have been eminently sat isfactory. -. . It is stated in Berlin that in the course of an interview between Prince Bismarck and Dr. Windthorst the Chan cellor asked the Clerical leader to support the Government ia the Reichstag. ' The Government is preparing for intro duction in the Reichstag proposals for financial support to the Military Depart ment which will be startling in their magnitude and scope. The Frankfort lottery is making a great effort to prevent the Kentucky Legislature from putting an end to its operations. It is charged that its agents have been attempting to bribe legis lators. Hon. Evan Settle, of Owen ton, says that he was offered money as a re- - utixicr, usu?HEuuiy mr ma services as a torney, but really in the nature of a - bribe. Feeling in the Legislature against the lottery is growing strong. The Supreme Court of New York has decided that pool selling on races was legalized by the act of the Legislature in 18S7. The decision was in a case where a man sued a racing association to recover winnings on a pool ticket. The defense moved to dismiss the com , plaint on the ground that it was gam bling. The lower court granted the mo tion, but the general term reversed this ruling and ordered a new taiaL ' - The Tennessee House of Represents tives recently enacted what is known as the Dortch Election bill, Myers Regis tration bill and Carson Poll Tax bill into laws, they having previously passed the ' Senate. They passed by a strict party vote, the Democrats having, but . three more than a Constitutional quorum or two-thirdt and the Republican minor ity by refusing to vote attempting to prevent a quorum. Enough sick Demo crats were , brought in, however, to pass the bills. - i '.A woman named Clarke; living in Salt Lake City, conceived the idea of . being united for eternity to the ghost of the late J oseph Smith, the Mormon prophet. She did so and took. the name of Mrs. Joseph Smith,' and deeded all of her prop . erty to Mrs. Joe Smith. A boom has struck the town, and she is in a bad box, as she can not sell her real estate With . out having her, husband's signature, and "she is 'not a widow in theeyes f jthe law, as her husband has not died since marriage. NEWS OF THE WEEK. aiMUMd By Telegraph and Mafl. CONGRESS. Ja the Senate on the 10th Senator Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elec tions, made a report on the Chandler-Call discussion ordering certain remarks strick en from the Congressional Record and the substitution of the, report of the official reporter. Senator Standford offered a resolution instructing the Finance Com mittee to inquire what relief for the present agricultural depression . rosy be furnished by the Government and par ticularly as to the : proposition to fur nish loans by the Government to the people. Referred. Resolutions by Senator Plumb calling for a statement as to the cause of withholding patents for lands with in the limits of the Union Pacific land-grants were adopted. The Foreign Heat Inspec tion bill was then considered for some time, when the Educational bill was farther discussed until adjourn ment..... In the Bouse after routine business the Senate bill was passed (with verbal amendments) to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one State to an other. Bills were passed authorizing the construction of a number of bridges. The resolution to appoint a committee to go to Arkansas and report on the contested elec tion case of Clayton against Breckinridge was amended at the request of Mr. Breckin ridge so as to enlarge the inquiry and make the investigation thorough, and then adopt ed. The Oklahoma bill was then considered until adjournment. ' Anxm the transaction of unimportant routine business In the Senate on the 11th Senator Mitchell offered a Joint resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment for the election of United States Senators by the people. A resolution was adopted asking for information as to the authorizing of lot teries by the Creek Nation in the Indian Territory. The resolution tor the exclusion from the Record the sentence Interpolated by Senator Call In bis late discussion with Senator Chandler came up and occasioned a lengthy debate which at times grew warm When a vote was reached no quorum was present and the matter went over. Adjourned ....The House passed a number of bills for public buildings, among them for buildings at Atchison, Kan., Fremont; Neb and Springfield, Mo. Mr. Enloe (Tenn. ) moved to discharge the Pensions Committee from the farther consideration of a resolution offered by him for an investigation into re cent re rating of pensions and the reason for the removal of Corporal Tanner, as the com mittee had failed to make any report. After explanations from the committee he with drew the resolution. Mr. Baker (X. T.) re ported the bill for the admission of Wyom ing and asked its Immediate consideration. After some debate the House went into Committee of the Whole and the bill was discussed until adjournment. TBS Senate on the 12th concurred in the House amendments to the resolution for the Investigation of immigration mattera One of the amendments extends the Investi gation to the purchase of American indus tries by foreign capital. The Senate then adopted there solution expunging from the Record the interpolations made by 8enator Call in the report of his late debate with Senator Chandler. A resolution to provide for the choosing of a President (pro tern.) of the Senate was then adopted, and the Educational bill further discussed until ad journment.... Among the bills passed in the House was one to extend the time of pay ment to purchasers of land from the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska. The House then In Committee of the Whole considered the Oklahoma bill, the main question of dis cussion being as to what system of State laws should be temporarily extended over the Territory. A motion finally prevailed that section 2,139, revised statutes, (U. 8.) shall be in force in the Territory until after the adjournment of the first session of the Legislative Assembly. Pending considera tion the House adjonrned. The senate on the 13th passed several more public build Ings bills. After a colloquy between Senators Kustis and Hoar on the Southern question" the Educational bill was again laid before the Senate and Senator Blair explained it further. Then Senators got Into a heated debate on the negro ques tion, which continued until adjournment.... During the morning hour In the House Mr. Perkins (Kan.), on behalf of the Committee on Indian Affairs, called up and the House passed the bill extending for three years the tune within which the Den I son & Ouachita Valley Railroad Company may construct Its road through the Indian Territory. The House then counsidered the Oklahoma bill in Committee of the Whole. On motion of Mr. Tarsney (Mo.) an amendment was adopt ed providng for a land-office in No-Man's-Land. When the committee rose the bill passed, ayes 160, nays 25. The bill estab lishes seven counties. The county seats are to be at Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Norman, Lisbon or Kingfisher, Beaver, Stillwater and one more to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. The Public Land Strip Is declared to be public land and open to settlement un der the homestead laws and bona fide set tlers and occupants are given a preference right. After the disposition of a number of bills. local only in their character, the Senate on the 14th resumed consideration of the Edu cational bill and Senator Teller spoke at length in favor of It. The bill went over and Senator Call gave notice of his intention to move for a modification of the rules as to executive sessions. Resolutions were in troduced by Senator Cullom relating to the death of Representative Townshend. of Illinois, and after appropriate addresses the Senate adjourned until Monday In the House Mr. Perkins (Kan.) stated that an erro neous Impression had gone out that accord ing to the provisions of the Oklahoma bill the Cherokee Outlet had been declared open to settlement under the homestead laws. Under the provisions of the bill, the Chero kee Outlet was not open to settlement. The statement should have been that the Public Land Strip had been opened to settlement. The Cherokee Outlet, he said, was embraced Within the limits of the new Territory, but was not open to settlement under the home stead law. The House then considered pri vate bills until adjournment. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ex-Coxgre8smak Tattlbee died at Washington on the 11th from the effect of Kincaid's bullet. The Massachusetts House has passed the bill forbidding the sale of oleomar garine as butter. It is stated that the Russian Govern ment will attempt in April to lift two English steamers which were sunk off Balaklava during the Crimean war. It is believed that in one of the vessels is a chest containing 40,000. Governor Francis, of Missouri, has appointed Lon V. Stephens, of Boon ville, State Treasurer, in place of Ed T. Noland, resigned. The editor of La Tordo, of Havana, has been thrown into prison for criticis ing the Spanish administration and pre ferring annexation to the United States. Rev. Dr. Charles F. Thwing, of Minneapolis, Minn., has been formally elected Chancellor of the Kansas Uni versity at Lawrence. Thr jury trying Sarah Althea Hill Terry for contempt of the United States Court disagreed; Major-General Sir Howard C Elfhinstone, comptroller and treasurer of the Duke of Connaught's household, was washed overboard from the steamer Tangario near Teneriffe recently and drowned. . - The wife of Tony Hart, the actor, died recently in Roosevelt Hospital, New. York. - Her stage name was Gertie Granville. Her husband is in an insane asylum. . The British Government, in reply to a question by a member of Parliament, states that it has no power to approach the Russian Government on behalf of the Siberian exiles. . , . President Harrison and party visited Charleston, S. C., on the 14th. Dr. Charles F. Thwing has declined the Chancellorship of the University of Kansas tendered him by the Board of Regents. (Considerable uneasiness was report ed at Washington of a possible rupture with ureat Britain over the fishery dis putes. . - WSCKIXAHEOCb. , Rowlajtd Leach, ,the missing New York drummer, was found dead in the river at Chicago, near Market street. ' The village of Exoelsior, fifteen miles south of Fort Smith, - Ark., was demol ished recently by a cyclone. No one was hurt. - A dispatch from Bismarck. N. D., says the Lottery bill has been finally killed. The lard hearing was closed at Wash ington on the 12th, Mr. Butterworth pleading for the farmers and energet ically denouncing the fraudulent im itations,' which he claimed were a loss to the agriculturists of $15,000,000 a year. The influenza is prevalent in Persia. Several members of the Shah's house hold are prostrated. Six prisoners, . all burglars, escaped from the county jail at Eau Claire, Wis., the other morning. They had been fur nished tools by outside friends. Twelve loaded cars went through a high trestle on the Georgia Pacific road twenty miles east of Birmingham, Ala., the other day and were destroyed by fire. Several train men were 'hurt but none fatally. The Sexton Ballot Reform bill was passed in the New York Assembly by a vote of 72 to 51. Four Democrats voted for the bill. Edward Harrison and Noah Loder, wholesale dry goods merchants of New York City, have assigned with $400,000 liabilities and nominal assets in excess of liabilities. Bv an explosion of dynamite on the Brooklyn aqueduct near Rockville Cen ter, L. L, two men -were blown to pieces and two others badly hurt The sale of the Burlington & North ern, it is thought, will have a quieting effect on the rate troubles. Four of the party who lynched Olsen at Whitehall Wis., October 24 last have been found guilty, among them Olsen's wife, who urged the lynching and pro vided refreshments for the mob. The Rio Grande railway recently had 250 snow shovelers at work opening the snow, blockade across the 'San' Juan range at Cumbres, on the east side of the divide. The snow was reported six ty feet above the top' of the telegraph poles and for miles on each side it was from twenty-five to forty-five feet deep. Ax epidemic resembling influenza is creating havoc in India. By an ordinance at San Francisco all Chinamen residents are required to move their residences and places of business within sixty days to certain sections of the southern part of the city. They number 60,000. - Twenty thousand men employed as engineers in Northeast England have organized a strike for shorter hours. In the Lower Rio Grande country in Texas cattle are suffering for water. A terrible landslide occurred in a cut on the West Virginia Central rail road, forty miles west of Cumberland, Md., on the 14th. A work train was wrecked and three men were killed and four injured, mostly Italians. The river reached the highest point known at Memphis, Tenn., on the 14th. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended March 13 num bered 252, compared with 260 the previ ous week and 261 the corresponding week of last year. Secretary Windom has received a let ter from Secretary Blaine, asking for an additional appropriation of 535,000 to meet the expenses of the international marine conference held in Washington last autumn. The original appropria tion was $20,000. . The L. Baurie woodenware factory, Petowskey, Mich., was destroyed by fire the other day, causing $100,000 loss. Two men were burnel to death re cently while asleep in the workmen's building near the new bridge at Johns town, Pa. Secretary Windom has executed a lease with the North American Commer cial Company, of New York and San Francisco, for the taking of fur seals on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska, for a period of twenty years from May 1 next. The steamship George H. Chance, of Astoria, Ore., with a crew of fifteen men has not been heard from for a month and is reported lost. Great damage to wheat in Central and Southern Illinois by the recent cold snap is reported to the State Board of Agriculture. ' ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. A switch near Andover, O., was spiked by miscreants the other night to wreck a fast passenger train. Fortunately a slow freight preceded the express and struck the switch. Little damage was done. Two boys went under the ice while skating at St. Paul, Minn., on the 16th. Three fishermen were lost on the lake near Chicago the other night. They must have been capsized or per ished with cold on an ice floe. The three desperadoes who escaped from the Rio Grande County (Col.) jail recently were overtaken in the moun tains and on resisting arrest were killed. Clearing house returns for the week ended March 15 showed an average in crease of 6.1 compared with the corre sponding week of last year. In New York the increase was 3.1. By a landslide on the west side of Warren's hill at Troy, N. Y., recently, two dwellings were demolished and three persons killed and several injured. The Senate was not in session on the 15th. The House listened to eulogies on the late William D. Kelley, of Penn sylvania. - Two workmen were torn to pieces and several other persons were badly in jured by a boiler explosion at the north west colliery near Carbondale, Pa. By the burning of Robert William Livingston's farm house near Quebec, Can., the other night, two children per ished. A dispatch was received at Baltimore, Md., on the 16th that the United States steamship Dispatch was ashore at Cedar Points. , Secretary Tracy and party were on board bound for Newark. The late revolt in Afghanistan ended in a complete victory for the Ameer, who beheaded many of the captured leaders. Secretary Proctor has issued an or der transferring the headquarters of the department of the Missouri from Leav enworth, Kan., to St. Louis, Mo. The New York Star says that William Hunt, the distinguished sculptor, is in sane. ' He had been wandering around the country, but was . finally found by his friends. The new French Cabinet is: Presi dent of the Council and Minister of War, M. De Freycinet; Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Aribol; Minister of the Interior, M. Constans; Minister of Finance,M. Rouvier; Minister of Justice, M. Fallieres; Minister of Commerce, M. Roche; Minister of Public Instruction, M. Bourgeois; Minister of Agriculture, M. Develle; Minister of Public Works, M. Guyot; Minister of Marine, M. Barbri; Minister of Colonies, M. Eyrenio. KANSAS STATE NEWS. Arbor Day. , ' Governor Humphrey has issued the following Arbor Day proclamation: . ExsconvB Dxpabxkxr. Tofkka, Kan., March 14. Arbor Day and Kansas Day are festal days in our schools. One Is devoted to the Improvement of school house froonda and the other to rehearing Kansas history.. The custom has grown , up naturally all over the State and the festivals are days of enjoy ment for many thousands of happy children. In our towns Arbor Day Is fixed upon by usage and common consent as the occasion when the streets, the parks, the grounds of public buildings and churches and the lawn around the home shall be adorned with trees. The larger cities neglect the custom ; the smaller obey, It with one voice and are already famous for their beauty. On the farm ornamental trees are found shading the grounds and buildings ; and fine orchards, visible miles away, beautify and add to the value of the home. Tree are the mark of prosperous and com fortable homes. Kansas loves trees. On the return of the glad springtime she says with Bryant, 'Come, plant an apple tree." She planted the tree of liberty, the tree of tem perance and the tree of progress, and here they grow with the greatest vigor symbol of health, purity and a Jvancement. In obedience to a custom now nearly twenty years old, and obeyed without official order, I hereby recommend the observance, Thursday, the tenth day of April, as Arbor Day for the year 1890. . Lyman U. EciOBBiT, Governor. Miscellaneous. St. Clatr Pinxston, twenty years old. a stenographer in the office of . a promi nent Kansas City, Kan., architect and a regular attendant of 'the Y. M. C A., was 'recently arrested while on a bum across the State line. .Hie had stolen a number of articles from other young men. Several counterfeit silver dollars were found on bis person, and a search developed the fact that he was preparing to go into counterfeiting on an extensive scale.' r He was held for trial. 1 The other night James M. Hughes, proprietor of a Topeka billiard halL was cut in the head by one Williams, a des perado. Hughes was in a most precari ous condition, and his physician had lit- tie hope of. his recovery. . Williams was intoxicated. ' , The Governor recently made the following appointments: D. E. Cornell, of Kansas City, "Kan.; "director of the penitentiary for the term commencing April 5, 1890; Dr. C. Jones, of Topeka, Dr. H. T. Johnson, of Atchison, and Dr. J. Milton Welch, of La Cygne, members of the State Board of Health for the term commencing March 28, 1890; James T. Taylor, of Atchison, member of the State Board of Pharmacy for the term commencing March 28, 1890; Keenan J. Hurst, of Howard, member of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission for the term commencing March 25, 1890. ; Charles Williams and his son, aged twelve years, were found murdered in their beds at Galena the other morning. Williams was blind and had lost both arms in an accident in the mines a year ago. Jerry Alipe, a negro, was arrested charged with the crime and the evidence against him was very conclusive. About ten o'clock the other night Rev. David McGrew, pastor of the colored Baptist Church at Armstrong, Mrs. Andy Bigman and William Jackson, members of his congregation, were returning from a prayer meeting, and were walking on the Union Pacific railroad tracks near the bridge that spans the Kansas river, when they were struck by an engine. The first two were instantly killed and the latter fatally injured. Three other colored men in the party saved them selves by jumping down an embakment , The Boston Cash Store at Hill City was destroyed by fire the other day. Loss, $20,000; no insurance. The Grand Encampment L O. O. F., recently in session at Kansas City, Kan., elected the following officers: Grand patriarch, D. M. Ferguson, of Paola; grand high priest, F. H. Betton, of Pom eroy; grand senior warden, H. E. Pyle, of McPherson; grand junior warden,' S. H. Glenn, of Harper; grand scribe, Sam uel F. Burdett, of Leavenworth; grand treasurer, C H. Schaffer, . of Council Grove; grand representative, Thoma3 Beattie, of Atchison. It was decided to hold the next annual encampment at Arkansas City on the second Tuesday in March. At the late meeting in Lawrence of the order of the Eastern Star, grand chapter of Kansas, the following officers were chosen: Grand matron, Lilian A. Wiggs, of Lawrence; grand patron, Wil liam A. Julien, ' of Olathe; ' associate grand matron, Mrs. Lizzie Gabriel, of Parsons; associate grand patron, Thomas K. McFarland, of Parsons; grand treas urer, Mrs. Jessie M. Pear sail, ot Fort Scott; grand secretary, Rinda E. Ches ney, of Topeka; grand conductress, Mrs. Olive Clark, of Lyons; grand A. con ductress, Mrs. T. Hays, of Osborne; grand Ada, Mollie Pratt, of Burlington; grand Ruth, Virginia V. Carter, of Jew ell City; grand Esther, Mrs. Alida J. Reed, of - Carbondale; grand Martha, Miss Abbie Gibson, of Emporia; grand Electra, Mrs. Elisabeth Magee, of Pitts burgh; grand warder, Ellen A. Kenner, of Eureka; grand sentinel, D. C Welch, of McPherson; grand marshal, Mrs. Cassia A. Getty, of Ellsworth; grand chaplain, Eudora E. Hall, of Wichita; grand organist, Miss Amanda Duele, of Galena. A printer named George Brown fell dead at his case in the office of the Demo crat at Wichita the other evening. The other day the two-year-old child of John Blunt, a farmer living near Stockton, Rooks County, found a bottle of laudanum and drank a quantity of it. The child died in a short time. The next day the mother, who was crazed by the loss of her child, drank the rest of the contents of the bottle and it was thought could not live. .A. D. Howells, Rock Island agent at Gladys, eight miles south of Wichita, was assaulted the other night by Ed. Shaw and received fatal injuries. Shaw used a butcher knife, cutting the agent in the neck and abdomen. Shaw was arrested. The trouble grew out of the fact that Shaw was in the habit of steal ing a ride to Wichita and back and How ells advised the conductors to watch him. A recent .fire at Topeka damaged the Kansas Newspaper Union to the extent of several thousand dollars. There are .now 1,700 Farmers' Alli ances in Kansas, with a membership, in round numbers, of 40,000. George M- Huff, a farmer, was shot and killed near Kirwin the other day by bis 'nephew, David -Huff. - The murder was the result of a dispute over the di vision of crops, and committed in the presence of the dead man's wife and four children. John Stultz attended the Madison Street Baptist Church at Topeka the othet morning, and just as he was about to take his seat fell dead. Heart dis ease was the cause. The Equal Suffrage Association of Atchison has placecL in nomination a full ticket for members' oftheUoard of Education. - STRIPPING THE STBJP. Exit Ordered By President Har rison. Belated Individuals Continue to Arrii Cavalry Ordered to the Scene Ho Trouble Thought Likely. Washington, March 17. The Presi dent has issued the following proclama tion. To Whom It Hay Concern: The lands known as the Cherokee Strip are not open to settlement. The bill pending la Congress and intended to provide a civil government for the country known as Okla homa does not -provide for oDenlng the Cherokee 8UIp or Outlet to settlement and has not as yet received the vote of the two houses of Congress or the approval of the President. The entrance of settlers upon these lands Is unlawful, and all persons are hereby warned against entering thereon. When these lands shall become open to settlement, prompt public notiee will be given of that fact, but In. the meantime It is my duty to eschlde all persons therefrom, and those who enter unlawfully will only involve themselves in unprofitable trouble as they will be immediately removed. Bkhjaxxs Habjlisok. Executive Mansion. March IS, 189a Adjutant-General Kelton telegraphed General Merritt at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to use troops if necessary and with prudence, as heretofore, to enforce the proclamation by the President rela tive to intruders upon the Cherokee Strip lands. The order is sent by direc tion of the Secretary of War. The President has appointed ex-Sen a tor Cameron, of Wisconsin, a member of the Commission to negotiate for the cession to the United States of the Cher okee and other Indian lands in the In dian Territory, vice General Lucius Fairchild, resigned. This appointment fills the only vacancy in the Commis sion. . The members of the Commission will arrive in Washington within a few days to receive instructions from the Secre tary of the Interior, after which negoti ations with the Cherokees will be im mediately resumed. J. B. Mayes, Chief of the Cherokee Nation, is in the city, having come here for the purpose of protesting against the Government taking the Cherokee .Strip. The news of the occupation of the Strip by the boomers has angered him, and he said he hoped the boomers would be at once ousted. MILITARY MOVEMENTS. Fort Leavenworth, Kan., March 17. General Merritt has directed the com manding officers of the posts at Forts Supply and Reno in the Indian Terr! torv to send, with the least oracticable delay, two troops of cavalry from their respective posts to the Cherokee Strip and drive out all trespassers. - These are all the movements that have been ordered from this department. The four troops represent a strength of 240 men and can reach the points in the Strip within two days. The Supply cavalry can reach there before that time by forced march. This will likely be done. The only action taken by the Depart ment Commander was to notify the com manding officers of the posts named to hold their cavalry in readiness for an emergency. This precaution was taken prior to the receipt of orders from the War Department. Reports that the troops at this post are under marching orders are not correct. No such orders have been issued and no such move is contemplated by these troops. BOOMERS LEAVING. Arkansas City, Kan., March 17. The situation yesterday was virtually un changed, save that colonists were con tinually leaving the Strip and looking for other quarters. Reports from Caldwell and Hunne well state that there has been no ex citement at either place during the day beyond the advent of a few belated settlers who had not heard the news and were still looking for the promised land. None of them appeared to be greatly encouraged by the outlook. The only break in the monotony here was the advent of Lieutenant Charles Dodge, Jr., of General Merritt's staff, sent from Fort Leavenworth to ascer tain the exact condition of affairs. Speaking of the situation Dodge said: "I am convinced reports have greatly exaggerated the number of boomers and would not place them above 1,500. I am also convinced there are large numbers of these who will come out voluntarily when they learn the conditions, but a few will stay until ordered out by the military. ' You may state with authority that should troops be called out they will not be located at any border towns, but somewhere in the southern part of the Strip, where they can make effective patrol. It is not the purpose of the de partment to aid in booming any of these border towns or to give countenance to the reports that such is their plan of action." May Play With the Players. Philadelphia, March 16. The court of common pleas has refused to grant the Philadelphia National League Club an injunction to restrain William Hall man from playing with the Philadelphia Players' League Club. The Philadelphia National League Club claimed that under the "reserve rule" the club had an option on Hallman's services for the season of 1890. Fire in m Millinery Store. Atchison, Kan., March 16. The milinery stock of Mrs. C. May was totally destroyed by fire last night. Loss, 514, 000; insurance, $8,000. Origin of the fire unknown. Clippings. Treasurer Coleman, recently con victed at Lebanon, O., of the embezzle ment of $12,500, was sentenced to pay double that amount, pay the costs of prosecution and be imprisoned in the penitentiary for two and a half years. Angeline "Do you believe that love flies out of the window when poverty comes in at the door?" Howard "If it does it goes out for a divorce." Hereafter let no one say that the In dian is deficient In delicate though tful ness for others. The young buck In dian 8 of Canada refuse to marry because they have no work for their wives. John Cashner, of Spearfish, S. Dak., has in his possession an interesting his toxical relic of the long ago. It is the certificate of election of James Mauher, who was chosen to represent a Virginia district in the Fifth Congress of the United States, held in Philadelphia in 1797-98. The parchment is ninety-seven years, old, is well preserved, and the writing plainly legible. Mohammedanism in Turkey is evi dently declining. The multiplication of mosques has almost ceased. - "Where do you live when you are at home, Henpeck?" "I don't live until I get away from home." , - - HUMPHREY ON PENSIONS. The Governs alansae sTavora a Berries Fenslo BUL Tofkka, Kan., March 13. In response to an inquiry from the editor of the Western Veteran, Governor Humphrey has ad dressed a communication to that paper declaring in favor ef a erriee pension. He says: . "I am and have always been in favor of the most liberal pension legislation possible in aid of the survivors of the Union armies and of widows, orphans and dependent relatives of deceased comrades. The men who preserved this Union have a simple, trusting faith that the country, now rich and prosperous, will not fail to remem ber them kindly in time of peace. It would not be money thrown away but put in circulation through worthy and deserving hands. The Nation would be no poorer, but rather the richer for having thus remembered its defenders. The Republic would never lack for brave men to die in its name in the future. Millions would come to Kansas, the home and ref uge of more than 100,000 of the men who followed the right flag. Everybody would be helped. ' Best of alL the old veteran would light his pipe with old time zest, forgetting his wounds and misfortunes in the exuberance of his . joy. It would give him new heart to wrestle with the world. With his old wife he would devote his remain ing years to thanking God and blessing his country. It would lend a new charm to his life. His grizzled, wrinkled, weather-beaten face would beam with patriotic delight as he gathered his children about to Weep o'er his wounds or talk of duty done. Or shouldered his crnteh to show how fields were won- "If Congress will give us thelngalls bill, pass a silver bill and do something to destroy trusts and other odious com binations, it will bring great relief." SISTERS SUICIDE. Two Lonesone Maiden Ladles Drown Them selves In a Pond. Concordia, Kan., March 13. News has reached this city that Misses Adele and Hannah Poo re, sisters, who live alone on their farm four miles north- west of this city, had committed suicide by drowning and the bodies had been found last night almost side by side in Lake Sibley, a small piece of water ly ing about two and a half miles north west of town and about a mile from their place of residence. No cause is assigned for the suicides. as they were comfortably fixed, and de spondency is the generally accepted ex cuse for the rash act. They had few ac quaintances and few associates. They had one brother, who lives near them. to whom when- he was visiting them shortly before the suicides they gave a locked trunk with instruc tions to keep until called for. He sus pected nothing and took the trunk home. It now transpires that the trunk con tained all their jewelry, fine clothes, etc Immediately after their brother's de parture the two women went to the lake and deliberately jumped in. They were aged thirty-three and thirty-five years respectively. . PROMINENT CITIZEN DEAD. Hon. E. TV. Mc Comas Dies at Fort Scott Bis Eventful Life. Fort Scott, Kan., March 13. Hon. E. W. McComas was found dead in his bed from heart failure. As a lawyer he fig ured prominently in his native State, Virginia. At the outbreak of the Mex ican war he was mustered into the ser vice of the United States as Captain of the Eleventh Virginia infantry, and served all through the conflict In 1855 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor on the ticket with Henry A. Wise, and be cause of a difference with Governor Wise on the policy of executing John Brown, resigned. He afterward settled in Chi cago and followed his chosen profession of the law. In 1859 he became editor oi the Chicago Times, and continued on the paper until it was sold to Wilbur F. Storey at the close of the war. In 186S he settled in Nebraska, and located the town of Douglas. In 1S70 he came to this city. During his residence here he was foremost in every movement that had for its purpose the interest of Fort Scott and the State at large. He was sixty-nine years old. Opposed to Immigration. Emporia, Kan., March IS. Lyon County Farmers' Alliance has passed resolutions condemning the action of the county commissioner's appropriat ing $100 for the use of the immigration bureau. The action of the alliance is said to be based upon the argument that they do not want an increase of popula tion; that times are hard enough for those already here, and if more people are induced to locate here it will be just that much worse. The citizens do not agree with the alliance and Its action has caused much comment. Crased By Her Loss. Atchison, Kan., March 13. Last Sun day the two-year-old child of John Blunt, a farmer living near Stockton, Rooks County, found a bottle of lauda num and drank a quantity of it. The child died in a short time. The next day the child's mother, who was crazed by the loss of her children, drank the rest of the bottle. She will likely die. Blunt is prostrated with his loss and friends are watching him, lest he might also attempt suicide. FeU Dead at His Case. Wichita, Kan., March 13. A printer who has lived here for some years, known as George Brown, fell dead at his case in the Democrat office last even ing. Shot By a Policeman. Kansas City, Ma, March 13. 'Tatty" Mouten, a negro employed at the Hotel Andrews, Fifteenth and Campbell, was shot in the right side of the neck by Police Officer Charles Crowley about one o'clock this morning, and the wound is likely to cause his death. A second be fore the shooting the negro, in resisting arrest, had fired at the officers, the ball passing through the coat sleeve of Officer Carpenter, who was with Officer Crow ley, and grazing the skin. Officer Crow ley claims to have fired the shot in self defense. The negro says his own re volver was accidentally discharged. Homicidal Insanity. Roanoke, Va, March 13. Dr. H. A. Sims, a prominent physician of this city, was shot last night by Nora Woo tan, a young lady of this place, who accuses him of treating her wrongfully. She was adjudged insane several days ago and will be taken to an asylum. Incendiary Fires. Portland, Me., March 13. The com mittee appointed to inquire into the origin of the recent fires yesterday re ported that the fires on Brown's whaix and In Knight's bung factory were in cendiary, but reached no conclusion as to the Delano mill Cre. A GREAT RUSH. , A. Misunderstanding Causae WUd Bai For the CkmkM Outlet Hopes mmt gelled. Arkivsas Crrr. Kan.. March 15. When the reixrt came in Thursday evening that the House of Representa tive had passed the Oklahoma dui declared the Cherokee Outlet to be open for settlement, the city went wiia. with joy, and a general jollification was: immediately instituted by the citizen and boomers who h ave been eongregaio - here waiting for the glad tidings. It was not long, however, before the celebration changed into a common de sire to proceed at once to the Strip ana. search for locations and claims. As this idea spread the boomers began to pack. up their belongings, and by midnight the whole town was on the move, get ting ready for 8 grand invasion. As the work proceeded a panic appeared to strike the boomers, and the migration, began before daylight As the crowd began to move a regular stampede oc curred, and wagons, buggies, horsemen. and footmen went helter skelter across the country as fast as possible, as if they were afraid the claims would all be taken before they could get there. All day long a steady stream poured. over the border and by nightfall the city was almost depopulated, and not. less than 5,000 people had gone into the Cherokee Strip in the rush. Some car ried tents, some had houses on wheels and some had portable houses loaded, up on wagons, which went at a gallop across the prairie to the claims which, have been staked out for some time waiting for this day. In the rush across a small bridge the crowd became so great that the structure gave way and the passers were precipitated into the stream, caus ing the breaking of three legs and th killing of a horse. ALL A. MISTAKE. Washington, March 15. One of those unfortunate errors of transmission oc curred yesterday in the report of the House, wherein Mr. Perkins was made to say that the Cherokee Outlet was open to settlement by the provisions of the Oklahoma bill which passed the House. This error had .been followed with -such grave consequences all along the border that Mr. Perkins felt called upots to rise in the House yesterday in ex planation and correction. The Strip is not declared public land in the bill, but. No-Man's-Land is, and this is what caused the error. POSSIBLE HOSTILITIES. Grave Bnmors Concerning the Fisheries Dispute With Great Britain. Washington, March 15. Considerable uneasiness exists in a subdued way since it is whispered about confidentially that trouble is imminent at the Department of State over the fisheries question, which, unless accommodated, is likely to precipitate hostilities with Great Britain. It is said that the representatives of the two Governments are inharmonious over the fisheries issue and matters bear the appearance of a rupture between the high contracting parties. It is not divulged, however, upon what particu lar propositions the disagreements exist, but it is believed that within three or four days matters will culminate one way or the other with the chances favor ing a rupture. It will be remembered that some weeks since Foraker, of Ohio, made the statement that he had been called upon last fall by the War Department author ities to advise them as to how many men he could throw into Canada upon a sud den crisis but the War Office people ex plained that this was only a question relating to the general operations of the militia and had no reference what ever to any threatened or impending trouble with Great Britain It is now believed that Governor For aker's statement was extremely signifi cant, although he may not have realized it, and that the explanation made by the War Department was only a ruse to cover the real purpose of the inquiry. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that the War Department authorities were furious and denounced Foraker for "giving the thing away." TRAGEDY AT PLEASANT HILL. A. Constable Stabbed Suicide or His As sailant. " . Pleasant Hill, Mo., March 15. Con stable A. D. Prater was mortally wound ed yesterday by E. B. Stonaker, who in turn took the knife and plunged it into his own heart This is the case: Ston aker was a man of dissolute habits and had several times been arrested by Prater for drunkenness. Yesterday they met. Prater was drunk and angry words passed between them, owing to former arrests, which had nettled Ston aker - considerably. Words only in creased the bad blood and Stonaker's knife was soon in use and had wounded the officer. Supposing that he had killed him, he immediately stabbed himself to the heart and died. Prater is still alive, but it is believed he can not live. Tapering Rations. Minneapolis, Minn., March 15. -The Indians at Crow Creek agency, S. D., are raising serious objections to the quanti ty of rations Issued to them each week. As many of them are well enough civ ilized to be self-supporting the Indian agent has gradually reduced the rations furnished them in order to make them have more dependence upon themselves for their daily bread. There was quite a serious disturbance when rations were distributed last Saturday. The Worst Over at Cairo. Cairo, I1L, March 15. The high water is subsiding and the rise coming from above will not materially check the fall here. The rise in the Mississippi, un less very high, will not affect the stage of water here. The Ohio being so high, will cause backwater in the Mississippi, and this water will all run out through, the lowlands of Missouri. Trains from tuo uuriu mcv ail ruuuiiig auu uw uvia the south on the Illinois Central and Mobile & Ohio. The Hlinols Central be tween Cobden and Makanda has delayed, trains some on that road, but they ex pect to have every thintr eoimr bv noon. The weather is cloudy and cooL Schwarta Arrested. Kansas City; Ma, March 15. A tele gram received yesterday by Mr. Henry Wollman from Kimball & Allison, at torneys of Ogden, Utah, announces that .Tnu1 6.1i.. 1 X T . - uocu iixifu m. that city Thursday with 530,000 worth. of diamonds in his possession. Mr. Wollman represents creditors who at tached Schwartz in November, the ag gregate amount of their claim being about equal to the value of the dia monds now in the hands of the police officers at Ogden. Schwartz was a pawn broker of this city, who failed suspicious Jy last November, - .