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"Barton Connty Democrat.
WILL K. STOKE, Editor and rnbllaha
GREAT BEND. i KANSAS.
THE WOKLD AT LAKGE,
Summary of the Daily Newa
"WASHINGTON NOTES.
John W. Foster, the special seal am
bassador, has received advices from
Great Britain, Russia and Japan which
leave no doubt in his mind that at the
conference to be held in Washington
next October a treaty will be drawn
up and signed, and that the protection
of seal life in Behring sea by Christ
mas will be assured.
The departments of agriculture,
through-its bureau of animal industry,
has prepared vaccine for the cattle
disease known as "blackleg" and has
issued. a circular containing1 directions
fdr using it.
David G. Swaim, retired judire advocate-general
of the United States army,
died in Washington on the. 17th oik.
1J right's disease, aged 63.
The civil service commission is over
whelmed with papers of examinations
for government offices. Over 14,700
papers are now on file pending action,
covering all kinds of examinations. In
addition to these examinations have
just been held in 53 of the largest post
offices in the country which are expect
ed to increase the number of cases by
no less than 5,000.
The report of the United States
commissioner of education for the year
ended July 1, 1896, has just been com
pleted. It shows a total enrollment in
that year in the schools and colleges,
both public and private, of 15,997,197
pupils. The number in public institu
tions was 14,465,371 and in private in
stitutions 1,531,826. In addition to
these there were 418,000 pupils in va
rious special schools, making the
grand. total enrollment for the whole
country 16,415,197.
It was stated at Washington that
one of the first bills to be laid before
congress a t the regular session will be
one to improve the present government
of Alaska.
Officials of the treasury depart
ment believe that, despite the enor
mous importations of all kinds of
goods just previous to the enacting of
the Dingley tariff law, the measure
will result in a comfortable surplus
the first year.
The post office department is extend
ing the long-distance telephone serv
ice, and on the 20th 3,000 cities through
out the country secured long-distance
connection directly with the depart
ment. The commissioner of pensions has
had a statement prepared on the num
ber of applications for pensions filed
since July, 1896. The comparison
shows that in July, 1896, applications
for pensions aggregated 2,898, while in
June, 1897, there were 40,169, largely
for increases and for widows and
minor children.
The commissioner of pensions re
cently stated that the pension list was
increased by old soldiers marrying
young wives and that he hoped con
gress would pass a law to prevent pen
sions from being given to widows of
e soldiers of the last war who married
the soldiers in the future.
GENERAL NEWS.
At the reunion of the survivors of
ihe Army of the Potomac at Troy, N.
Y., on the 20th about 1,000 of them
were in line in the parade. President
McKinley reviewed the parade.
A carriage containing II. C Claugh
ton, a well known attorney of Wash
ington, and Miss Villa Curtis, was run
down by a train on the B. & P. rail
road, a short distance from Washing
ton, and both the occupants were in
jured so badly that they soon died.
Paddy Purtell, the American box
er, met Lachie Thompson in a contest
for 20 rounds at Birmingham, Eng.
Purtell won easily in six rounds. It
was his first battle in England
Will Lipps, James McCullough and
a ten-year-old boy were fatally injured
by the explosion of a thrashing engine
boiler on the Spring Creek ranch, near
Hastings, Neb.
The middle-of-the-road populists
held a state convention at Des Moines,
la., on the 19th and nominated a com
plete state ticket, headed by Charles
A. Lloyd, of Muscatine, for governor. .
In the Indian creek oil region near
Parkersburg, W. Va., a boiler exploded
and killed five men and wounded six
others.
A New York telegram said Steinway
& Sons, piano manufacturers, had sold
their business to an English syndicate
for 6,000,000.
The World's Congress of Medicine
convened at Moscow, Russia, on the
19th with over 7,800 delegates, one-half
- of whom were from abroad.
The coal operators of the Pittsburgh,
Pa., district formed an organization
on the 19th for the special purpose of
. breaking up the strike of the miners.
They proposed to operate their mines
even if they had to employ force to do it.
The excitement over the Klondike
gold discoveries, which for a time
raged in Memphis, Tenn., has been al
together eclipsed and superseded there
abouts by the remarkable finds oi
pearls in apparently inexhaustible
numbers in the lakes and bayous oi
western Arkansas. The extent oi
these pearl deposits cannot be esti
mated. The Wholesale Liquor Dealers' asso
ciation of America convened at New
York on the 18th, 600 delegates from
all parts of the country being present.
The convention of the Firemen's In
ternational association was formally
opened at New Haven, Conn., with a
procession, headed by the mayor.
The full-blood Cherokees presented
a protest to the Cherokee commission
at -Tahlequah, I. T., against any fur
ther negotiation with the Dawes com
mission, They propose to fight all
matters coming up in congress contrary
to their treaty rights and also to gotc
the United States supreme court and
testthe strength of vho "
The State Farmers' alliance of Txas.
which was in session at Dallas for
three days, seceded from the national
organization by an overwhelming ma
jority. The State alliance also adopted
ihe proposition to establish, co-operative
branches among the members.
A terrible collision occurred at
Lima, O., on the 20th between a heavily-loaded
excursion train and a
freight, badly injuring a large num
ber of passengers.
Aeronaut Allerd fell 300 feet from
his balloon at Electric park, Chicago,
on the 20th, every bone in his body be
ing broken. - He became entangled in
a guy-rope and was dragged from hi &
parachute.
Mamie Keifer, for many, years a
well-known balloonist of Peoria, I1L,
was drowned recently as the result of
a drunken spree. She crossed the river
in company with another woman and
two men, and when in midstream the
boat was capsized and all thrown into
the water. Three were rescued, but
the balloonist was drowned.
Porter Parks, aged 13 years, com
mitted suicide at Quincy, 111. His
mother, said he was naughty, and to
punish him she sent him to his bed
room shortly before ioon. Soon after
a younger brother entered the room
and found his brother's body hanging
to the closet door. Life was extinct
when the horrified mother reached the
scene and took down the body.
James Jeffreys, of Camden, Tenn.,
and Ross Guffin, of Kansas City, Mo.,
have been appointed commissioners to
allot lands in severalty to the Indians
of the Uncompaghre reservation in
Utah.
Rev. Perry Hopkins, a bishop in the
A. M. E. church, died in New York on
the 20th, aged 75. He was a slave be
fore the war, but purchased his free
dom. Solly Smith, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
knocked out Johnny Griffin, of Bos
ton, in the seventh round at San Fran
cisco. The elevator of the Davenport (la.)
glucose works was the scene of two
terrific dust explosions on the 19th, as
a result of which four lives were lost
and two persons seriously injured.
Rev. H. H. Burgerine, aged 60, a
highly respected Methodist minister
of Hulings, W. Va., was stoned to
death because he was unable to pay a
bill due to Coleman Pitzerr a day
laborer. Pitzer and his brother Lewis
were jailed, charged with the crime.
About 40,000 people lined the broad
boulevards over which the great flower
parade of the Colorado Springs, Col.,
carnival passed on the 19th. The pa
rade, in which 2,500 took part, was 2
miles long, and the turnouts were par
ticularly gorgeous.
St. Louis speculators in , wheat re
cently cleared upward of $2,000,000 on
September options during, the recent
bulge. Ex-Secretary of the Interior
D. R. Francis was said to have netted
B300.000.
A petition has been presented to
Gov. - Bradley at Frankfort, Ky., asfe
tng the pardon of Morgan Johnson,
who has been confined in the peniten
tiary for 17 years, having been convict
id of the murder of Pompey Bell, a
guard in the penitentiary, in 1881, and
given a life sentence. Capt. Hide, who
presented the petition for pardon, also
presented a confession of Henry Smith,
a. convict, who confessed to the crime
for which J ohnson was convicted.
Harvey De Berry, colored, was
hanged in the jail at Memphis, Tenn.,
on the 19th for attempting to rape a
ieven-year-old girl on October 8, 1896.
The Pittsburg & Gulf railway will
have its own rails into Port Arthur,
Tex., by September 10.
Fire destroyed the Gerry Lumber
Do.'s yard at Eagle River, Wis., with
10,000,000 feet of lumber. Loss, 150,
000. Recent dispatches from London
seem to indicate that England will not
even make a pretense of joining with
the United States and other countries
in rehabilitating silver.
Jesse Gobbin, aged nine years, cut
his ten-year-old sister's throat as she
lay asleep at her home near Hender
son, Ky., because she had informed on
himfor robbing hismother of 65 cents.
Ox the Louisville & Nashville rail
roadt IK miles north of Dahlgren, 111.,
two freight trains, headed in opposite
directions at full speed, collided, kill
ing six employes of the company and
demolishing the engines and a large
number of cars of both trains.
A negro boy, aged about 19, was dis
covered in the room of Mamie Stone,
the 17-year-old daughter of R. O. Stone,
at Ricoes Bluff, Fla. The girl's screams
brought in her brother and father and
the negro attempted to jump through
a window, but a shotgun stopped him.
Soon after a mob took the negro to the
river, and threw him in, after binding
him securely.
Commercial travelers in the terri
tory west of Chicago are likely to soon
secure a long-fought-for concession
from the western roads in the form oi
a 1,000-mile interchangeable ticket
good over 28 different railroad systems.
Some miscreant threw a switch oi
the Texas & Pacific at Dallas, Tex.,
and the entire westbound "cannon
ball" train, except the sleeper, was
thrown from the track, the fireman be
ing, severely injured. The eastbound
6:30 traiu on the same road met with
an accident because of a misplaced
switch between Dallas and Forney and
the fireman was badly injured.
On account of the low price of silver
many operators will stop mining for
silver in Colorado and will turn their
attention to the working of gold-bearing
lodes.
' An explosion of fire damp in a coal
mine near Farmington, I1L, on the
16th resulted in the killing of one
miner, Thomas Martin, and the serious
injury of two others.
A crisis was reported on the 18th in
the government affairs of Portugal
and it was thought that Dom Carlos,
the king, would be obliged to abdicate
and leave the country.
Arrangements have been closed for
the colonization of the beet lands in
Monterey county, Cal., by the German
Colonization association and Claus
Speckels has contracted to take all the
beets that may be raised at the- rate of
S4. new trvn.
At St. Louis on the 20th No. 2 red
wheat sold for SI & bushel.
Michel , Angiolillo, the anarchist
who shot and killed Premier Canovas
del Castillo at the baths of Santa
Agueda, Spain, August 8, was put to
death by the gar rote on the 20th.
John L. Sullivan will run as an in
dependent candidate for major of Bos
ton in the fall, with the avowed inten
tion, if not elected, of defeating Mayor
Josiah Quincy, who will be the regular
democratic candidate for re-election.
The body of a man on whose coat
was a tag on which was the name "E.
W. Kirton, Wisner, Neb.." has been
found near the summit of Pike's peak.
1 Col., with a bullet hole in the back of
his head. All his valuables were gone
aud it was thought he was murdered
for his money.
A call has been issued by the na
tion executive board of the United
Mine Workers for a conference of the
representatives of organized labor to
meet in St. Louis on August 30. At the
meeting all labor organizations will be
asked to join issues with the miners
and stop work, so as to effectively cut
off the supply of coal and bring the
mining strike to a crisis.
The coal operators, at a meeting
held at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 20th,
issued a statement to the public in
which they accused President Ratch
ford, of the miners' union, of trying
to dodge the issue and of being insin
cere in his efforts to settle the miners'
strike.
. An unknown tramp entered the
house of Mrs. Pauline Fenske, wife of
a German farmer in Schiller park, a
suburb of Chicago, and seeing only her
and the children round, struck her
over the head with a revolver and at
tempted to assault her. The children
ran screaming out of the house and
gave an -alarm and a posse, with Mr.
Fenske, chased the rascal through the
cornfields and woods, both sides ex
changing shots. Finally the man fell
and his pursuers then literally riddled
him with bullets.
It was positively announced that
Mrs. Margaret Ferris, widow of the
builder of the Chicago wheel, had
been married at Pittsburgh, Pa., on
the 18th to Francis Schlatter, the ''di
vine healer" of Canton, O.
At the second day's session of the
American bankers' convention at De
troit, Mich., the principal address was
made by Comptroller of the Currency
Eckels. He declared that in the end
we would be possessed of a banking
iDii currency system so strong as to
make impregnable the country's credit,
but its coming might be attained at a
terrible loss to capital and injury to
labor.
It was said on the 19th that the offi
cers of the United Mine Workers pro
posed to call a conference of all feder
ated unions to secure their co-operation
in a plan to tie up traffic on rail
roads, so that the supply of coal would
be cut off and the operators be forced
to negotiate for a settlement of the
coal strike.
Police raided the pool rooms at St.
Louis on the 18th and arrested about
800 men and boys.
The republicans of Iowa nominated
L. M. Shaw, of Crawford county, for
governor at the state convention at
Cedar Rapids on the 18th. J. C. Milli-
man, of Harrison county, was selected
for lieutenant-governor; Judge Water
man, of Sioux county, for supreme
judge; C. L. Davidson, of Sioux county,
for railroad comptroller, and H. H.
Barrett for superintendent of instruc
tion. '
The Utica mine at Angels' camp, the
largest gold-producing property in
California, was on fire on the 18th,"sup
posed to be from spontaneous combus
tion. It produced $200,000 worth of
gold a month.
At Chad's gap, near Pineville, Ky.,
James Felt, Caleb Hatfielcfand Joe
Mallard camped out all night, drink
ing and playing cards. Before morn
ing Hatfield and Mallard had won all
of Felt's money. When they arose to
cross the mountains Mallard threw
some liquor in Felt's face when he
drew his pistol and killed both Mal
lard and Hatfield.
Miss Mary Sheridan, of Louisville,
Ky., has been officially informed of the
death of the supreme president of the
Catholic Knights of America, John Me
Goff. Miss Sheridan was vice president
of the order and now assumes the duty
of supreme president.
The American Bankers' association
convened at Detroit, Mich., on the
17th. Gov. Pingree made a brief speech
and suggested that to increase the
world's coined gold a tax might be put
on manufactured gold in the shape of
jewelry, etc President Lowry after
wards gave his annual address.
Near Barton, Ark., a negro made an
assault on a colored woman, and after
wards on a colored girl. As soon as the
news was known a possjs got after him,
overtook him and, on his refusal to
surrender, another negro shot and
killed him. The negro who did the
shooting surrendered to a magistrate,
was examined and acquitted.
Six hundred striking miners, eight
abreast, marched into Coffeen, I1L, on
the 17th, despite the amazed deputies.
The guards were ordered not to shoot,
but they began to make arrests as fast
as possible. The invasion was for the
purpose of inducing the men at work
in the mines there to join the strikers.
About 200 bicycle riders who took a
spin into the country from Milwaukee
the other day for seven or eight miles
had to walk back to the city owing to
punctures. Some one had buried a
plank full of spikes in the road and
succeeded in disabling the 200 wheels.
Another plank of the same kind was
also discovered near the city.
Suicide and grief caused the death
of husband"and wif e in Danville, 111.,
the other night. Henry Hammett, an
aged and respected citizen, died from
the effects of an opiate, and his wife,
E rostrated with woe, expired three
ours later. Ill health was the cause
assigned for the suicide.
The fact that hog cholera is curable
has again been demonstrated on the
farm of the Dubuque Fruit A Produce
Co., near Dubuque, la., where 54 out of
62 sick hogs were treated, and saved.
Dr. J. M. Bleyer, a New York phy
sician, announced that he had discov
ered a new cure for consumption by
electricity.
TEAMPS POISONED
Three Wanderers-Drink Wood Alcohol
and Die Soon Afterwards.
A MOSQUITO'S FATAL BITE.
Tbe Love of Whisky Cbum the Downfall
f a Onc-Respected Man A
Cashier Shot and m Buk
Cooted.
Jefferson, la., Aug. 22. Tramps
purchased a pint of alcohol at a drug
store here, saying it was to make lini
ment for a lame horse. The druggist
gave them wood alcohol, warning
them twice that it was poisonous.
They went to the woods and mixed it
with water. Three of the party of ye
drank it and died the following morn
ing. The two Cramps who declined to
drink journeyed on east. The dead
men were named Emerson, Rogan and
Montague.
A Mosquito's ratal Bite.
New York, Aug. 22. The 18-months-old
child of Otto Miller, who lives in
Weehawken, was bitten on the cheek
by a mosquito. No attention was paid
to the bite until the cheek began to
swell and an abscess formed. This
.was followed by spinal meningitis,
which terminated in convulsions. The
baby died after two weeks of terrible
suffering.
A O nee-Respected Blan Goes Wrong.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 22. R. .M.
Dickerson, who a few years ago was
agent of the Fidelity Insurance Co. at
a salary of 810,000 per annum, is locked
up here for forging a check on J. A.
Zeller, a ticket broker. Dickerson was
recently agent of the Massachusetts
Insurance Co. at Wichita, but secured
81,200 by forgery and fled. Whisky
caused his downfall.
Cashier Shot and Bank Looted.
Shepherd, Mich.,' Aug. 22. Elmer E.
Struble, cashier of the Farmers' bank,
was shot this morning- by robbers and
cannot live. He was getting ready to
go "to Mount Pleasant about four
o'clock and was in the vault when the
shots were fired. All the cash in the
bank was taken, but the amount, is not
known.
A DOLLAR FOR WHEAT.
The Dream of the Farmer a Realized Fact
at All Wentern Markets.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 22. Wheat
sold at $1 and at 1.01 in the Kansas
City market Saturday. The Chicago
September price reached 1, and dol
lar wheat is now a realized dream in
all the western markets. The dollar
price was paid here for the soft variety.
There was demand for all that was of
fered at that price. The No. 2 Kansas
hard wheat, which makes up the great
bulk of Kansas City's supply, sold at 95
cents. The receipts were large and all
classes of buyers wanted wheat. Some
fortunate buyers made their purchases
at 94 cents, before the final advance
occurred. The excitement in the wheat
market leaped over into corn and oats
Saturday. Corn in Chicago advanced
nearly three cents, September selling
at 32 cents, against 31 cents at the
close Friday. Prices of oats advanced
nearly two cents.
BOYLE'S SECOND STEP.
The Kansas Attorney-General I? ring's Pro
ceedings Against the New York Mutual.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. Attorney
General Boyle filed Saturday his
threatened quo warranto proceedings
against the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
of New York. This is the second step
in his defiance of United States District
Judge Williams, but whether it will
result in contempt proceedings is at
least an open question. The petition
says the company is a mutual com
pany incorporated in New York and
has not a paid up capital of $100,000 or
any other sum; that, without having
procured from the state of Kansas a
certificate of authority or license so to
do, it has ever since March 1, 1897, in
the exercise of powers not conferred
on it by law, transacted and has claimed
the right to transact within Kansas
tbe business of life insurance.
CURTIS OUT OF IT.
The Kansas Congressman Will Ask No
More Post Offices or tbe PreslJent.
Emporia, Kan., Aug. 22. The last
act in the Emporia post office contest
came yesterday in the shape of a first
hand declaration from Senator Baker
confirming the rumor that Ewing will
be appointed. This downs Congress
man Curtis. Curtis told a reporter
that he had served notice on the presi
dent that if the Emporia post office
should be decided against him, he
would not recommend another office in
the Fourth district. He also said he
would not try to interfere with patron
age in the First district, but would
concede it to Broderick.
Teachers Jmt Beginning Are Barred.
Abilene, Kan., Aug. 22. The board
of county examiners has announced
through - the county superintendent
that after the first of next January
there will be no third-grade certificates
granted in the county until after the
normal institute, although the law
says that examinations shall be held
in January and April. The institute
is not held. until June or July, and the
object is to force the teachers to at
tend it. -
Senator Quay Is Modest.
Harrisburo, Pa., Aug. 22. Before
leaving for Florida Senator Quay re
quested his friends not to permit the
introduction of a resolution in the re
publican state convention indorsing
him for re-election to the United States
senate. He will be satisfied with an
indorsement of his course and that of
Senator Penrose on the Dingley tariff
bill. .
August Frost In Michigan.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 22. All the
cold weather records in the state were
broken by the frosts of the past 24
hours. At Niles there was a frost, and
the "mercury registered 46 degrees.
Jackson county farmers fear that the
buckwheat and beans on the low lands
have leen.in jured. : -
T. I. Nicolay, agent for the badgei
Lumber Co. at Anthony, Kan., is an
embezzler and a fugitive.
FARMERS BAPIXU RICHLY.
Bradstreets Says Complete Reports Only
Emphasise Growing Prosperity.
New York, Aug. 22. Bradstrcet'se
commercial report says:
Special telegrams from trade centers through
out tbe country emphasize the growing pros
perity of tbe farmer, due to higher prices for
almost all agricultural produce still in bis
bands, and point to a continuation of tbe de
mand which has been conspicuous within tbe
past few weeks. Tbe volume of trade continues
to increase, and prices are hardening. No such
volume of business, large in anticipation of re
quirements, has been reported sines 189i
Larger transactions have been in dry goods,
clothing and shoss. and south and west
in wagons and farm implements. Another
very favorable bank clearings report is found
in the total. H, 140.000.000, this week, which,
.while it is one per cent, less than last week, is
40 per cent, larger than in the third week of
August, 1890.
Prices for staples continus the favorable
movement for tbe past few weeks, with ad
vances for wheat, wbeatflour. new pork, but
ter, eggs, cheese, corn and oats. Hides are also
firmer and higher. Ginghams have advanced
H cent, while the cotton mills are starting up.
and jobbers in woolen goods are getting higher
prices for spring delivery. There have been a
large number of resumptions among iron and
steel concerns this week. Bessemer pig is 25
cents higher, and the outlook is for improve
ment. Sugar, cotton, nrint. cloths, wool and
petroleum, are firm and unchanged, while cof
fee is lower than last week.
There are 211 business failures reported
throughout the United States thts week,
against 214 last week, 264 a year ago. 192 two
years ago. 251 three years ago. and as contrast
ed with 456 in tbe third week of August, 189a
GEORGIA CONVICT CAMPS.
Special Commissioner Byrd Issues a Star
tling Report on the ALaaei Which Pre
vail. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22. Special Com
missioner Phil C. Byrd, who was ap
pointed by Gov. Atkinson" last spring
to investigate the condition of the
county misdemeanor convict camps of
the state, yesterday filed his report at
the governor's office. The report
names the following abuses which
prevail:
Robbing convicts of their time allowance far
good behavior.
Forcing convicts to work from 14 to 20 hours
a day.
Providing them no clothes, no shoes, no bed,
no heat in winter, no ventilation in single
rooms in summer, in which three score of con
victs sleep in chains.
Giving them rotten food.
Allowing them to die when sick for lack of
medical attendance.
Outraging the women.
Beating to death old men too feeble to work.
Cheating the state.
The report gives names and date&
and places, and is the truthful account
of his trip to the camps. Twenty-five
camps inspected contain 1,167 convicts,
of which three are white women, 101
are white males, 75 are colored female?
and 938 are colored males.
IN A COLLISION.
A Heavily-Loaded Excursion Train Smashes
into a Freight.
Lima, O., Aug. 22. A- terrible smash
ap occurred here last night about 10:30
o'clock at the junction of the Lima
Northern and Lake Erie & Western
railways, in the eastern portion of the
city. A Lake Erie freight crashed into
a Lima Northern passenger. train, car
rying a large number of excursionists
on their return from Toledo. The
Lake Erie engine was knocked off the
track and badly demolished and two
coaches of the Lima Northern over
turned, badly injuring a large number
of Lima's prominent citizens. Relief
trajns hurried in the injured, all phy
sicians being pressed into service.
TO KLONDIKE BY RAIL.
Surveying Party Already in the Field
Locating a Line.
San Francisco, Aug. 22. A special
correspondent, writing from Juneau,
Alaska, says that railroad communica
tion between Juneau and Dawson will
be one of the things of the near future.
Next spring 5,000 men will be at work
and the road will probably be complet
ed before next fall. The proposed
road is from the head of steamboat
navigation in Taku river to Lake Tes
lin. Light draught steamboats will
be operated from each end of the new
road, and it will take four days to
make the journey from Juneau to Daw
son.
TEACHERS MUST IMPROVE.
In Kansas They Can Get hot Two Third,
tirade Certificates.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. An opinion
was rendered by the attorney-general
yesterday, in which it was held that no
teacher who has held two third-grade
certificates and taught under them can
get another third-grade certificate. If
such a teacher can't pass a second-grade
examination he is barred altogether
from teaching school. Attorney-General
Boyle also decided that district
ownership of school books must be
adopted at the regular annual meeting
of the district.
To Feed a Half Million Sheen.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. J. W. Itob
ison, of Butler county, says Swift &
Co., of Kansas City, will feed 50C KX)
sheep in Kansas this falL He says
that company is now gathering up tV e
sheep from Colorado, Oregon, Wyoming
and New Mexico and driving them
Kansasward. Over 50,000 of the sheep
will be fed in Butler county.
Aeronaut Flanges to His Death.
Chicago, Aug. 22. Aeronaut Walter
Allerd fell 300 feet from his balloon to
the earth at Electric park last night.
The balloonist became entangled in a
guy-rope, was dragged from the para
chute trapeze and fell to his death in
the presence of several hundred per
sons. Every bone in his body was
broken. -
Vertical Writing Compulsory.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 22. Attorney
General Boyle rendered an opinion
yesterday that the vertical writing
system adopted by the state text-book
commission must be taught in all state
institutions as well as the public
schools, no matter whether copybook?
are used or not.
Partell Victorious In England
London, Aug. 22. Last night at the
Olympic Athletic club, Birmingham,
Paddy Purtell, the American boxer,
met Lachie Thompson in a contest for
20 rounds. Purtell wan easily in six
rounds. It was his first battle since he
-came to this country.
Solly Smith Wins a Battle.
San Francisco, Aug. 22. Last, night
Solly Smith, of Los Angeles, repeated
his performance at Roby four years
ago by knocking out Johnny Griffin, of
Boston, in the serenth round.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Everybody lias Heard of It.
A prominent Topeka lawyer says the
II ill m on insurance case has been so
thoroughly discussed that it will be
impossible to again get a jury in Kan
sas to try it. He says Mrs. Hillmon
should accept the proposition of the
insurance companies to submit the s
case to a jury of federal judges for
final settlement.
Alfafa's Rapid Growth.
In 1S91 there were but 34,SS4 acres
of alfalfa in Kansas. This year's re
turns to Secretary Coburn, of the state
board of agriculture, show 171,334
acres, an increase of SS8 per cent, in
six years, Finney county, as in IS91,
ranking first in acreage. Alfalfa is
reported this year in all bat threa
counties.
Farmers Are Pleased with It.
The post office department will con
tinue the rural free delivery of mailto
farmers in Delaware and Wyandotte-
townships in Wyandotte county. At
one time the farmers did not take
kindly to the scheme, but now they
are enthusiastic in its praise. ;
To Test an Indian Treaty.
Three suits in ejectment have been
filed in the federal court agaiifst
parties in Wyandotte and Johnson
counties, involving property valued at
$31,000. The suits are to test the -validity
of the government treaty with
the Shawnee Indians.
Felts Is from Kansas.
W. B. Felts, the man who was to
jump from Pike's peak, but didn't, was
discovered recently in Logan county,
this state, where he formerly lived.
He is said to be a great fakir, and
takes periodical turns at working
"suckers." .
An Old Lodge of Masons
Wyandotte lodge No. 3, A. F. fc A
M., celebrated the 43d anniversary of
its founding on the 11th. The lodge 0
first worked under a dispensation from
the grand lodge of Missouri and its
first officers were Wyandotte Indians.
A Former Official In Trouble.
J. M. Limbocker, until recently a
prominent lawyer and county orTicial
at Fort Scott, was brought back from
Texas to answer -to embezzling money
from the estate of Mrs. Paulson, an in
sane woman of Fort Scott.
Speakers for the G. A. R. Reanloii.
Among the big speakers who will at- o
tend tbe state G. A. R. reunion at
Leavenworth are Gen. R. A. Alger,
Senator J. B. Foraker, Pension Cpm
missioner Henry Clay Evans and Gen.
John B. Gordon. .
New Grade or Kansas Wheat.
State Grain Inspector Culver has es
tablished a new grade of Kansas
wheat, to be known as No. I Kansas
hard, weight 60 pounds. Hereafter
No. 2 hard will weigh 58 and Nc3 hard
56 pounds.
Wheat Ground Plowed Early. .
Farmers were unusually early this
year in plowing wheat ground. They
have learned the importance of get
ting ground ready early, though the
work is harder.
Tb Populist Manifesto. "-
The populist manifesto declaring an
tagonism to federal courts and calling
for a national conference of populists
and socialists will be issued in a few
days. 9
Minor State News.
Grasshoppers caused C W. Kellogg,
a Russell county ranchman, a loss of
51,000.
The Swift 'Packing Co., of Kansas
City, will feed 500,000 head of sheep in
Kansas.
Maj. George Ridge, who served wnder
Quantrell in his raids, died at Arcadia
recently.
At Hutchinson but 25 of the 149
teachers were able to pass the county
examination.
Thrashing machine owners in Brown
county have formed a combination to
keep prices up. .
Gov. Leedy has issued a proclama
tion designating Monday, September
6, as Labor day.
Lenora Pearce aged eight, of Otta
wa, accidentally swallowed a cork and
choked to death. .
Tbe grade of wheat in northwestern
Kansas has been materially injured by
recent heavy rains.
Dr. Robert Brown, who conducted
the first drug store in Kansas, died at
Leavenworth recently.
Reese and Downey, who own" a 135
acre apple orchard near Atchison,, sold
their entire crop for SI 4, 000.
Hungarians of New York are talking
of establishing a colony . of several
thousand persons in Kansas.
Dwight Fowler, a Newton bby en-
route to Klondike, was drowned while
trying to cross a river on a log near
Dyea, Alaska. .
Farmers near Solomon have lost hun
dreds of hogs from swine fever, which
was brought into the community by
hogs from Texas. o
Ex-Judge McCue, of Independence,
and James McKisstry, of Hutchinson,
will form a law partnership and live
in Kansas City, Mo. -
An incendiary fire destroyed every
business house in Milford, Geary coun
ty, save one. It was thought some re
ligious fanatics set the fire.
Rev. W. A. Quayle, of Kansas City,
formerly of Baker university, will next
March become pastor of the First
Methodist church at Evans ton, 111.
Henry Martin died at Lawrence re
cently. He came to Kansas with his
bride in 1857, endured frontier hard
ships and survived the Quantrell raid. .
The broom corn harvest in Kansas
this year will be unusually light be
cause of dry weather at a critical time,
which destroyed thousands of acres.
Ex-Gov. Morrill is credited with the
belief that the republican nominee for
governor next year will be either Sam
Benedict, John E. Hessin or E. R. Moses.
An Atchison telegram says John J.
In galls will run for state senator this
fall, a position he filled at the begin
nigh of his political career 85 years ago.
The attorney-general has decided
that the legislative act allowing court
stenographers ?5 per day is invalid.
This leaves the law providing for a
salary cf 750 a year in force.