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VOL. 1. DS FORTHE SBLUIERS nerican . Commanders Enforce Teetotalism in Havana, . IVATES THINKIT A HARDSHIP Nof Even the Sale of Deer to Enlisted Ren in Canteen or Cafe, Is Permitted y Proprietors Fined and Their Places Closed. fAvaza, March 2.--The American iitary authorities in “üba are try e to make the American soidiers re teetotalers by stopping the sale beer at post exchanges and closing he bars in Havana and Marianao for blling beer or wine to privates or n-commissioned oflicers. The pro- rietors of such places are fined $5OO, are allowed to re-open after three on giving bonds, e private soldiers, especiaily the iteers, think it a hardship that may not buy beer when the offi [>f their regiments are unvestrict ipecilly as the volunteer oflicers gmPacdcship for their men and b flasks for them. 5 rs stand now the American g mnot gat a drink, not ¢ven '? lout breaking the law or ,‘- ome one else to break it, ’ fess, all regulations to the @ notwithstanding, they will lnd the present regulations so ' that they can get only the brands of rum and brandy sur tiously brought into camp. 4 Sunday night seven cafes were sed in Havana inciuding., as already bled, the Aibisu andthe Tacon. The ormer was closed for keeping open after hours, the latter because its pro prietor, a Spaniard named Gonzales, was said to have sold lignor to a ser cgeant. AFTER THE STOCK YARDS. The Missouri House Tried to Rasih the Rates Bill JERFERSON City, Mo., Marech 2.—The house committee on agriculsure sub mitted its majority and minority re port on the Prather bill this morning to fix rates for feading and yardagc of tock in public stock yards. The mi ity report, favorable to the pass he bill, ¢hme up first on a sybstifute the minority kj ebiialEs o THE WICHITA TRIBUNE. HANNA TO RETAIN HIS SEAT senate Commiiiee on Electlons Makes a Report—Minority KEanter 2. Protest. WasnixéroNn, March 2.—Senator Chandler, from the committee on priv ileges and elections, presented to the Senate a report of that committee on the charges of bribery in the election to the Senate of Hon. M. A. Hanna, as made by the Ohio senate: The re port sets out that no direet remon strance setting out that M:. Hanna was not clected or ought to be expell ed by the Senate has been received by the Senate. He also shows that no one has appeared before the committee and that no papers has becn received beyond the formal report of tee action of the state senate. Notwithstanding these failures the commiitee has inves tigated the charges. [t finds that “there is no prcof sub mitted either that (1) Mr. Ilanna was elected Senator through bribery, or (2) that he had any agents engaged in carrying on his canvass for the Sen ate who were directly or impliedly authorized by him to resort to cor rupt methods or to any form of wrong doing: or (3) that he had any personal knowledge of the facts of this case. It may be said that there is no evidence which fairly tends to prove either of the foregoing propositions.” In view of these facts the committee on privileges and elections have reached the conclusion that ‘‘the United States Senate is not called upon to take any action in the prem ises. A minority report signed by Sena tors Turley. Pettus and Caffery was presented by Senrator Turley. This report tales the position that a furth er investigation should be made and enters quite fully into the statement of the case presented by the Ohio senate. The minority contend that the attempt on the part of Boyce to buy Otis’ votce for Hanna is clearly proven by Mr. Hanna. - ‘‘Seventeen hundred ahd tifiy dollars,” the report continues, ‘“‘was paid in cash by Doyce to Campbell as attorney for Oti s Bovce agreed to pay $1.750 more when Otis reached Columbus and a balance of $6,500 if Harna was elected. MARYLAND'S GIFT TO SCHLEY. Admiral Presented With a Magnificent Diamond Meda® BarTivore, Md., Mareh 2. Rear Admiral! Winfield Scott Schley re ceived yesterday from the people of this, his native, state a superb testi monial of the esteem in which he is heid by the people of Maryland. The testimonial proper took the form of a magnificent gaedal of gold and dia- WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, MARCII 4, 1899. ALL OF THEM TURNED LAOSE Cases Against Alleged Kansas City Train Robbers Dismissed. THE PROSECUTOR DESPAIRS, Gives Up Hope of Convicting Ryan, Polk and Others After Failure to Win in the Jesse James Case, Which Was the Strongest the State Had. KRAXNSASCITY, Mo., March 2.—This morning Prosecutor James A. Reed dismissed all the train robbery cases on the crimingl court docket and at 10 o'clock W. W. Lowe, Andy Ryvan and Charles Polk left the jail free men. The cases dismissed were against W, W. Lowe, Andy Ryan, Caleb Stone, Charles Polk, Jack Kennedy, James Flynn. George C. Bowlinand **Evans,” so that, in spite of the many train robberies that have been committed in this county in the last vear or two, there is not a train robber under ar rest or indictment in the county. Before the criminal ecourt opened this morninz W. W. Lowe, the self confessed train robber, sat in the of fice of I'rosecutor Reed in charge of Officer Kennedy. Assistant Prose cutor Thomas Mastin was there, taking from the safe the revolvers used by the robbers in the Leeds hold up. Lowe handled them and talked about them. When an old fashioned revolver was brought out that was found by the police beneath the mat tresses of the bed of Caleb Stone l.owe took it and said: ““That’s the gun [ held down on the express messenger, this way.” He leaned the pistol across his fore arm and showed how it was done. A moment later Prosccutor Reed went into court and said to Judge Wofford: ‘“Your Honor. I wish to dismiss all the train robbery cases on the docket. My reason is that the strongest case we had was against Jesse James, so far as evidence is concerned. As he has been acquitted by a jury. I think it is a useless expensc to put the state to the trial of others indicted on the same charge.” “The clerk will enter dismissals,” said Judge Wofford. W. W. Lowe put on his hat and walked out. He was asked what he intended to do. “I really can’'t say,” he said. *“I di%)'t expect thjs. But I'll go to wotk somewheri and ljve straight. Nolmore train roj fer me.” Ak o= Pollc were HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO DWEL LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER, The Weeks Review of Personal and Gems aral News Condensed to Paragraphs. KHANSAS I'ITEMS OF INTYRIIST. This has been such a long, eold win ter that spring would be awfully wel come. Nothing in Kansar is going up any more rapidly than the price of broom ~orn. It is rumored that Superintendent Stryker will go in‘o the newspaper business. None of the superintendents ap pointed to the state institutions ever touch liquor. The press agent of the company which claimed to have discovered gold out in Trego county ix negleeting his duty. There are more medicine @ompanies and traveling doctors making Kansas now than the state ever known before &t this season. It is almost time for the barefooted kids to make contracts to drive the town cows to and from pasture daring the summer months, Although the bargain sales of judg ments for taxes were well advertised in Kansas they wera not marked by any great degree of suceess According to the papers in the east ern part of the state the thermometer one night last week went as low as 5 degrees below zero. But the ground hog saw his shadow in that arctic re gi()[l. \ It was recently announced that the peach buds in Kansas were all killed, A later bulletin, however. says that some of themm weathered the storm all right. This is good news to the aver- age Kansan The Alma Enterprise announces that | this spring it will publish a list of all | the persons in Wabaunsee county who | pay personai taxes, Logether with the | amonnt on which they pav. It will, ! indeed, make a bit of very interesting reading. | There was but one jury trialfat the recent sestion of th: distriet geourt in | Lincoln county, which was fhe short- | est one held there jor yvegls. Short | sessions appear to jhe vegk-common ‘ = v R KANSAS LEGISLATIVE PROCLEEDINGS Topeka, Feb. 21.-- The senate, in commitiee of the whole, recemmended for passage the fol- | lowing bils: : - A bill to fix the terms of court of ihe Hth and 87th judicial distriets. | A bill regulating the fees of Labette county offieials. | - Regnlating fees and salaries of efficials in | ‘i McPherson county. ; An act compensating the official stenographer of the second judicial district. : Relating to elections in Eureka. : Detining certain school districts in €Green wood county. _Relating o schoel districes in Hodgeman and IPinney eounties. | Vacating 4 bloclt in Clinton, Douglas coun ty. " Disorgenizing school dlstrict Ne. 27 in Grant - county. . ‘ [.ezalizing the acts of the superintendents of publie instruction in Greeawood and Elk eoun ties in disorganizing joint school disteict 37, ' - Relating to a county high school in Bourbon . county. f Disorganizing school distriet 91 in Linn coun ty. | Topeka. I'eb. 22.—Governor Stanley today signed the bill through which the state legtsla ture aims to relieve Kansas farmers of the ex actions of the binding twine trus., . The house did nothing but consider bills un der general order in coramittee of the whole to day. The right of the forenoon sessionn was upon a bill formally abeolishing the board of pardons and giving the governor power at his own discretion to appoint a clas<ifying clerk who shall have charge of all applications for pardon. B 7 About all the house was for abolishing the board and upon a vote for adoptdn only four men voted to retain the present system. When the house was called to order this merning Gregory of Osage made a motion to adjourn. He said that not a legislature in the nation had the brazen disregard for the mem ory of the revolutionary struggle and itsmen to oon an work on this national holiday. 'T'he peopte, he said, would not respect the legisla ture for continuing its work on the birthday of George Washington. The motion was voted down. : The house adjourned after transacting con=- siderable business. Topeka, Feb. 20— The senate ways and means committee has recommended for passage the foliowing pension bills: Appropriating #l.OOO to Mrs, Mary Usher, of Topeka, whose husband was killed while as sisting in moving a boiler from the Moeser company’s factories to the state house. Paying C. E. Shaffer $23) for injuries incurred by being stabbed by an ‘inmate of the insane asvium. N Paying Mrs, Sarah E. Ash ssoo—formerly matron of the reform school -for injuries re ceived by the fall of a step-ladder upon which she was at work. The senate ways and means committee has decided uvon one feature of the miscellaneous appropriation bill. which will contain an ap propriation of $23,000 to reimburse the railroads and private indiwviduals who subscribed the funds for the Kansas exbibit at the Omaha ex position. Two vears ago the legislature declined to make appropriations for the exhibit, but public spirited citizens came to the rescue and Kansas was represented. Topeka, Feb 2t --(Governor Stanley today signed the following house bills: J An act to authorize and require the county cemmissioners of Shawnee county to issue bonds to refund certain indebtedness of the county. An act to change the names of certain »av- SOns. 8 it gy ! 5 An uet to disorganize school district nunkber 79 in Graham county and attach it to di.\'jl‘l(?[ No. si. An 2et to take pert of school district No. r'} in Riley courty and attach it to district NoJd)3 in (lay county. L All consideration of senate bills in the%cnate, except messages from the house, and jpll con sideration of house bills in the housey except messages from the senate, and excepting in both instances appropriating bils, will 1001 Wednesday. No business will t acted by either house, except the ('nt‘l~4 of messages from the Governor, afty e R .10 i Fort Seott is fecling good over the . discovery of an eleven fool vein of jack - ore near that town. , An effort is beinge made to have an - assistant attorney general appointed for Montgomery county. . Karsas is to be spared Bob Bur 'dette in the future. He will marry wenithy widow, at Pasadena, Califor nia. A let of the brandy destroyed in the ~burning of the Brenner wine ware! . house at Dohiphan was close to ten vears old. ' The Methodist church people of : Atchison give “"lap suppers.” Those participating are not supposed to act kittenish. . An exchange says that Kansas farm - ers place great reliance on the weather | predictiong of lHicks. They do when they turn out true. ; Speaking of that binding twine fac tory at the state penitentiary. the edi “tor of the Lincoln Republican rises to ‘remark that “a little freer use of ' hemp might be good for that institu : tion and for the state at large.” i It was in Atchison that a clab of voung ludies asked for a dispensation from the church ailowing them to in dulge in card playing through Lent in order that they might be enabled to finish their series of whist. whieh was in progress. No eclass of people in the state feel greater interest in the preservation and care of the reecords and relies in charge of the State Ilistorical Society than the newspaper men. By their effort the Society was created. and it is large!y owing to the interest they have talken in the matter that it has grown to such proportions. The society people of Goffs and Wet more who enjoy dancing are determin ed to never again attend a mask ball in Goffs. The young men thoroughly advertised one. and it was attended with a crowded house of people from the towns and country all around. One of the costliest and most unique masks was worn by a young ecolored girl, but the young men and ladies didn't know it until the masks were removed. and the dance ended, Ixeursion ates via Santa Fe Route. ! On Jan. 17 and Feb. 7 and 2?1, March ' 7 and 21, the Santa Fe will sell round »I trip tickets at the very cheap rate of !one fare plus $2.00 to all points in | Arkansas, Arizona, indian Territory, .Lhinn_mm_&fla\foma aonid Texas t ase at » tratis {eration . ) “ Durability is Better Than Show.”’ The wealth of the multi millionaires is not equal to good health., Riches without health are a curse, and yet the rich, the middle classes and the poor alike have, in Hood's Sarsaparilla, a valuable as sistant in getting and main taining perfect health. It never disappoints. ** Scrofula- Three years ago our son, now cleven, had a serious ease of scrofuls and erysipelas with dreadful sores, discharg ing and itching constantly. He could not walk., Several physicians did not help for sixteen months, Three months’ treatment with Hood's Sarsaparilla made him per fectly well. We are glad to tell others of it.” MRrs. Davio Lamrp, Ottawa, Kansas. Nausea - * Vomiting <pelis, dizziness and prostration troubied me for years. Had nenralgia, egrew weak and could not sleep. My age was against me, but Hood's Sarsaparilla cured e thoroughiy. My weight increasedfrom 125 to 143 pounds. [ am the mother of nine children., Never felt so well and strong since | was married as T do now.” Mns. M. A. Warenrs, 1520 334 St., Washineton, D, ¢, Eczcma-—" We had to tie the hands ot our two year old son on account of eczema on face and limbs, No medicine even helped until we used Hood's Sarsaparilla, which soon cured.)” Mns. A. Vax Wyek, 123 Montzomery Street, Paterson, N, J. Jfi)@ S a/cda/m% {q LTS Hnnd‘s_ Pills cure liver ills; non-irritating ard the only cathartic to take with Hood’s Sarsapuarilla. His Pitecws Lament. Leslie Keith, the Scoich litterateur, who was visiting Ireland in the fifties, saw the most squalid-looking beggzar he had ever gncountered sitting with his back to the wall. 1/nlike his com=- patriots, this man was strangely sl lent, so Keitk asked if he were beg ging. “Of course it’s begging I am,” the man replied. *“Bnut sou do not ut ter a word,” said Keith, *‘Arrah, is it jokin’ yer honner is wid me?” said the beggar. “lL.ook here,” and he held up the tattered remnant of what had once been a coat; “don’'t vez see how the skin is spakin’ through the holes in me clothes, and the bones eryin’ ont through me skin? T.ock at me sunken cheeks and the famine that's stari in me eyves! Man alive, isn't gin’ I am with a hnadred N()o ;))70