The People's friend. [volume], September 14, 1894, Image 2

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The Peoples Friend.
WM. JELTZ, Editor and Proprietor. |
WICHITA, : : : KANXNSAS.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Gov. FLowEr.of New York, has advo- ;
cated a new legal holiday to be known |
as Harvest day. .l
ONE hundred and fifty-two Americag ‘
railways are now in the hands of re? |
ceivers, representing £2,500,000,000 cap- ',
ital. |
Tue monarchists in Brazil are stil)
chafing under the new form of govern
ment, and it is said they have not yet
abandoned the hope of re-establishing
the monarchy.
AMONG the recent turf inventions is
the pneumatic saddle, which promises
to cut as great figure in running races
as the pneumatic tire has in harness
and bicycle events.
Ix Denver the women took an active
part in the republican primaries which
elected delegates to the state conven
tion, working in connection with the
Business Men’s league.
Tae New York Constitutional con
vention has passed the amendment re
moving the statutory limit of $5,000 in
actions for recovery of damages for in
juries resulting in death.
SiR CHARLES TUPPER, minister ol
fisheries of Ontario, has received a mess
sage from Victoria, B. C., that at a
meeting of sealers the $425,000 offered
by the United States government in
settlement of claims of seizures was
unanimousiy accepted.
Tar new federal enlistment law pro
vides that all recruits shall read, write
and speak English, and Secretary La
mont will, it is expected, ask congress
to repeal the post schools law or make
less rigorous the regulations relatipg
to their attendance by soldiers.
A REMARKABLE change has taken
place of recent times in the egg indus
try through the introduction of cold
storage appliances, and it is now pos
sible to sell eggs almost as cheap in
December and January as in May. Eggs
put in cold storage will keep fresh for
from eight to ten or twelve months.
The old method of keeping eggs was to
pack them in lime, but this served to
deaden or flatten the flavor of the egg.
BREWERS are now busy with a fresh
plan to form a syndicate on a basis
that will escape the anti-trust law
and net them an average of 85,000,-
000 a year in increased profits on beer.
An association, which includes forty
large concerns, has the project in
hand. Leaders in the formation of
this trust, which will not be a trust
under the statute. hope to soon con
clude the arrangement, and force the
average price from $i a barrel to $6.
They were to meet again at Chicago.
%TACHMENTS from the Salvation
qi'rmy from all parts of London yas
embled at a railroad station there in
order to bid farewell to Gen. Booth,
who started for America. The general
was loudly cheered by the soldiers of
the army, who raised loud shouts of
“hallelujah, hallelujah” as the train
left the station for Glasgow. The gen
eral will embark on board the Allen
line steamer Carthagenian for o
Johns, N. F., and after making a tour
of Newféundland and Canada he will
reach New York October 20. Then he
will tour the United States.
A sESsATION has been caused at Bur
fington, la., bythe Christian Seientists’ \
organization, which has been growing
strongly of late, petitioning the city \
school board that their children be ex- |
cused attendance at school durinz the
hours that physiology is taught. The
petition recites that there is no mate
rial body, and they object to their chil
dren being tanght to believe that there
is anything as much in evidence as the
stomach and liver. The petition also
objects to geography, on the score that
it recognizes a material body. The
school board refused the request of the
petitioners.
AT the international medical con
gress at Buda Pesth Prof. Roux, of ‘
Paris, described the cure of Dr. Behren,
of Berlin. a disciple of Prof. Koch, for
diphtheria, and declared that by its
use in the Paris children’s hospital the
mortality had fallen from 60 to 15 per
cent. The cure iscalleda blood serum.
By successive and increased doses diph
theria virus was injected into animals
and they gradually acquired immunity
against the malady. This blood, in
jected into other animals, healed them
of diphtheria. Of this blood Dr. Behren
extracted the serum and has injected
it into human beings.
CoMMISSIONER LAMOREAUX is unable
to state when the Kickapoo Indian
reservation will be opened to settle
ment. The delay in making allotments
is the cause. The report of the allot
ment agent was made some weeks ago
and the Indian bureau is now verifying
it. This will take a long time, as such
things go, and there seems to be no dis
position to hurry matters. The secre
tary of the interior has received many
big petitions to open the reservationat
once. It is said he would prefer to
wait until the passage of the Mcßae
bill. which provides for the sale of pub
lic land to the highest bidder.
A LEADING paper recently said that
forest fires were a far greater evil in
this country than is generally known.
In the last census year 2.983 fires of
this kind were recorded, of which 1.369
were started by persons clearing land.
628 by hunters, 508 locomotives, 101 by
campfires or pipes and 262 by incendi
aries. That the loss of life and prop
= by forest fires is largely unneces:
mu“’n.:§ proved by the comparative im
the la¥v:mm them 1n Canada. where
a forest g © stringent against starting
Patrol ang . Canada maintains a fire
thorizeq to 5:1‘5 wardens, who are au
-1 for assistanc
istance.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned By Telegraph and Ma.il.“i
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A yovEMENT has been organized |
among the Kentucky turfmen at |
Latonia to go against Breckinridge for |
all they are worth. On the night of |
September 14 a special train will leave |
the Latonia race track to take the |
korsemen to their homes to vote |
against Breckinridge. It is said they |
have promised &25.000 to the campaign |
fand to beat Breckinridge, should he |
get the nomination.
A RrEceENT dispatch from Rome said
that the pope was preparing an en
cyclical letter addressed to the bishops
and people of the United States an
nouncing the absolute supremacy of
the apostolic delegate in church mat
ters in the United States, with the sim
ple right of appeal to the pope.
CoL. C. W. TALADEE, an inventor of
national reputation, died at Freeport,
IIL.. from the effect of an overdose of
morphine. He was 64 years old. Dur
ing his life he was granted over 200
patents. many of them very valuable,
among them the eclipse spring, used
extensively on buggies.
IT is reported that Cardinal Tascher
eau has resigned the archbishopric of
Quebec, Can., owing to failing health,
and that Mgr. Begin, coadjutor, will
assume the work. .
AT the election in Maine on the 10th
a licht vote was polled by the prohi
bitionists and populists. The repub
licans carried every county in the state
and it was estimated that the lezisla
ture would have a working repu.lican
majority of 125, which insures the elec
tion of Senator Frye. Thomas B.
Reed has been re-elected to congress
by a plurality estimated at 10,000.
Nelson Dingley, Seth H. Milligan and
H. Boutelle were also elected to con
gress by majorities ranging from 6,000
to 9.000. The total vote will probably
exceed 110,000.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, in a letter te
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, officially
decided that under the new tariff law
it would be unlawful to appoint weigh
ers and inspectors of sugar bounties
under the McKinley act. The letter
does mnot decide the main question,
whether the sugar bounty for this
year, earned up to the time the tariff
bill went into effect, will be paid.
Dox Pro Pico, the last Mexican gov
ernor of California, died at Los An
geles, Cal., on the 11th, aged 94.
Tue duke of San Carlos, gentleman
of the bedchamber of the king of Spain,
has committed suicide.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ForgsT fires of immense proportions
were reported raging around DBona,
near Algiers, Africa. The smoke was
so dense that the sky was obscured
over an area of 60 miles. The heat
from the burning forest was exqessive
and could be felt as far as Tunis, be-
tween 70 and 100 miles east. '
A Paracuutg, Col., dispatch said~
cattlemen swooped down upon three |
sheep camps on the mesa west of there,
shot and dangerously wounded a
herder named Carl Brown, drove off
the other herders, and ran the sheep
over the cliffs along Roan creek.
Tuae steamer Portia from Halifax,
which arrived at New York on the 11th
with the members of the shipwrecked
Cook Arctic expedition of scientists,
among whom was Prof. Dyche, of the
Kansas university, reported that she
ran into and sank the three-masted
schooner Dora M. French 3 miles from
- Cuddyhunk lighthouse, causing the
death of four of the five men compris
ing the schooner’s crew. The accident
occurred in a dense fog.
WHILE attempting to cross the track
ahead of the north-bound express
train at Putnam, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs.
Orson Higgins, of Benson, Wi, were
instantly killed, and a little girl, Mary
Manley, was fatally injured.
Tug Oklahoma supreme court has
declared that nocity or county had the
right to make contracts or issue serip
or bonds prior to the making of the
regular tax assessment. This makes
all the scrip issued by every city and
county in Oklahoma the first five or
six months of their existence illegal,
and will cause banks and speculators
who have bought up such serip to lose
% 225,000 or more.
At the G. A. R. encampment at Pitts
burgh, Pa., on the 10th the naval veter
ans paraded. They numbered 1,000 and
were led by Rear Adm. Osborn. Many
reunions were held during the day by
members of the different regiments.
A coLLisioN occurred late on the
night of the«Sth between two freight
trains in the Hoosac tunnel. near North
Adams, Mass. Both trains were badly
wrecked. Two men were killed out
right and three seriously injured.
It is reported that Judge Depew, ol
the Newark, N.J..cireunit court will
charge the grand jury to thoroughly
investigate the circumstances of the
six-round bout between Corbett and
Courtney in Edison’s laboratory at
Orange recently, and that he will in
struct the finding of an indictment
against principals and spectators i
published reports of the fight be true.
THE great camp of the Knights ol
the Maccabees will hold its annual
meeting at Lansing, Mich., commenc
ing the 10th. The delegates to the
great camp number 900. Action will
probably be taken to reduce this body
in the future by organizing forty dis
tricts. from which delegates to the
great camp will be elected.
Tue British warship Ringarooma.
eight guns, a twin screw cruiser of
2,575 tons and 4.000 horsepower, de
tailed for service in Australian waters,
was reported ashore on a reef off Mali
collo island, New Hebrides, on the 7th.
Tue death list by the terrible forest
fires in Minnesota has been increased
by at least twenty-three Chippewa In
dians, who perished between Pokege
ma and Homestead. They were out on
a hunting expedition.
Four lives were lost in a fire that
broke out in a house at Kamarouska,
Que., on the =th. The violence of the
wind ce-ried the Aames to the adjoin
_ing houses, three of which were com
' sumed.
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ABouT 40,000 veterans marched |
throuch the cities of Pittsburgh and |
Allegheny, Pa., on the 11th. The |
weather was perfect. It was hinted ‘
that the parade will probably be |
abandoned in the future owing to the |
advancing age of the veterans. The \
decorations of the two cities were most |
lavish. The army and navy chaplains, ,
the naval veteransand union ex-prison- |
ers of war met and elected officers for \
their organizations. Judge Long, of i
Michigan, formally withdrew from the “
race for commander-in-chief, leaving |
the contest between Walker, of In- \
diana. and Lawler, of Chicago.
TEN persons were killed and twenty i
injured in a wreck on the Paris & Co- |
logne railway near Brussels on the 9th. |
The list does not include any Ameri
cans. \
SECRETARY CARLISLE will issue ina
short time to the Cherokee nation bonds
to the amount of 600,000 to cover the |
indebtedness of the government to
these Indians.
SECRETARY CARLISLE made a ruling
on seetion 9 of the new tariff bill about
the dilution or mixture of distilled spir
its in bonded manufacturing houses.
He said such spirits could be intro
duced into the bonded warehouses but
not created therein.
Ax eastbound freight train collided
with a westbound work train on a
curve about 3 miles from Lock Haven,
Pa.. on the sth. Two men were killed
and eight more or less injured.
Tue annual report of the comptroller
of the currency was made public on the
10th.
Five hundred cloakmakers belong
ing to the United Order of Garment
Cutters of America quit work at
Newark, N. J., on the 10th and
twenty-two shops have been compelled
to close. The men asserted that they
were compelled to work eighteen hours
a day and the strike wns to secure a
reduction to ten hours. They intended
to fight against the sweating system
also, but the first effort will be l(l‘Hrected
to securing a reduction in the hours of
work.
Tue deputy sheriffs on duty at Chi
cagn during the late railroad strike
have presented to the county board a
‘ ¢laim for 6 a day. They claim the law
says their pay shall be $2 per day of
eight hours, and as they were constant
1y under the orders of the sheriff they
practically worked twenty-four hours
a day.
Tur supreme lodge, Knights of
‘Pythias, at Washington on the SBth
adopted the new code of statutes. A
plan to raise funds for the Pythian
university at Gallatin, Tenn., was
agreed to, and under it a subscription
of 25 cents will be requested from each
| knight. The new code of rules makes
| the supreme lodge and the uniform
| rank independent of each other.
. Mora., Minn.. was reported destroyed
by forest fires.
Dr. W. A. CONKLING, one of the prin
~ecipal physicians of Cassopolis, Mich.,
was enticed from his home to his office.
As he did not come home a man was
sent to the office and found everyvthing
in confusion, the furniture overturned
and broken and evidences of a fearfpl |
struggle. Stone lake, near by, hgs
been dragged. A brother say oy i
doctor is a leading witness in a m de
case in the eastern part of Midhigan®
and ascribes his disappearance td that
fact.
- A Frsmxe fleet near Finland was at
'sea when a terrible gale sprang up.
~Some of them reached harbors of
safety: others lost their bearings and
ran to some rocky islands where the
waves soon pounded the boats to pieces.
| Some of the fishermen got on the
‘ islands and were exposed to the cale
" for three days without food before
ll being taken off. Fifteen were drosvned.
| Jack EvEeRmArT, champion light
| weight of England, has aunthorized the
i issuance of a challenge to fight Jack
| McAuliffe at 133 pounds for 32,700 a
| side and the lichtweight championship
|of America. If McAuliffe refuses to
*1 meet him, Everhart says the challenge
| will apply to Horace Leeds, of Phila
| delphia, or any 133-pound man in the
| world.
] WARRANTS were issued on the 10th
| for the arrest of the governor, auditor
| and state treasurer of Mississippi.
% charging them with violation of United
; States law in issuing special warrants
in the likeness of United States cur
rency.
1 Tue whole plot of the lynching nf‘
| the six alleged negro incendiaries near |
- Millington, Tenn., on the night of |
August 31 has been laid bare and every |
man implicated, it was reported, would !
' soon be in jail. Robert MecGarver, son |
of the sheriff of Shelby county. told\
the whole story to the grand jury.
I~ the supreme lodge of the Knights
of Pythias at Washington on the 7th a |
movement was started to erect a mon- |
‘ument to Maj. Rathbone. the founder
of the order, who is buried at Utica, N.
' Y.. Washington lodges will endeavor
to raise a fund to purchase the hall
~which was the birthplace of the fra
| ternity.
‘ SECRETARY CARLISLE issued an official
‘icircular regarding the marking, ete.,
- of goods under section 5 of the new
3 tariff law. in regard to which much un
' certainty existed.
ll GAGNO's saw mill on the St. Maurice
' river opposite Three Rivers, Que., was
' blown to pieces by the explosion of the
\ boiler. Samuel Beaugert. the fireman,
g was blown 100 feet and killed. Nine
' others were badly scalded and other
| wise injured.
| SEVERAL of the prominent citizens of
| Portland, Ore.. have formed a corpora
‘ tion. with a capital stock of §1,000,000
for the purpose of building one or
] more beet sugar factories in Oregon.
i DirectUM, the great race stallion,
| owned by Orrin A. Hickok. has arrived
| at Charter Oak park, Hartford, Conn.
| The horse will be prepared there for
! the greatest race of his life on Septem
| ber 24 at Mystic park, Boston. with
| Arion. Kremlin. Nelson and Marquette.
‘ Tne triennial convention of the
| United Brothers of Friendship. the
| greatest negro organization in exist
l\ ence. met at Little Rock, Ark.. on the
\Slst. Five hundred delegates had ar
| rived and they were still pouring in
| from every part of the United States.
When the competitive drill takes place
on the 24th fully 4.000 colored visitors
\ are expected to be in the city.
PASSING AWAY.
Qificial Reports to the National Encamp
ment G. A. R.—The Old Veterans Rapidly
Being Mustered Out—Next Meeting at
]1 Louisville.
| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 13.—The na
| tional encampment of the Grand Army
| of the Republic opened yesterday in
‘ the new Grand opera house. Com
| mander-in-Chief Adams called the del
| egates to order after the speakers had
| withdrawn. The credentials of the
| delegates had been examined and the
“annual reports of the national officers
were taken up and read.
Commander-in-Chief Adams in his
address declared that one year ago
there were in good standing 397,223
members and that there had been
gained during the year. by muster in,
16,752; by transfer, 6,354: by reinstate
ment from delinquent reports, 2.519
a total gain of 39,661, making the ag
gregate 436,854, There had been lost
by death, 7.283: by honorable dis
charge, 1,756: by transfer, 7.132; by
suspension, 4,808: by dishonorable dis
charge, 154; by delinquent reports,
16.671; a total of 67,801 The
pumber remaining in good standing
June 30, 1804, was 369,08+ Of these
ficures he said: “These figures show
that the G. A. R. has reached the be
ginning of the end. and each succeed
ing year will show a gradual decrease
in our membership. The long contin
ued depression in business has caused
" many suspensions, and these we hope
to regain when prosperity returns, but
*‘ it will be impossible for us to recruit
~our ranks as fast as our members are
. mustered out by death. During the
“‘ vear the Grand Army has not forgotten
the great work of charity and has ex
" expended $203,780.10 for relief. While
1 it has lost in membership, the interest
| in the order has mnot abated, but has
grown stronger.”
The report of James F. Meech, adju
tant-general, shows a decrease of 46(
posts during the past year. For char
ity in the six months ended December
31, 1893, 8100,486.03 was expended, and
for the six months ended June 30, 1894,
€103,294.07, a total for the year of %203,-
780.10. -The adjutant-general points
out that the rules of the order should
be lived up to.and says that if this
were done there would be no delin
quent comrades, posts or departments.
The inspector-general says of the
postsorganized in Honolulu that nearly
every member is in the army of the re
public of Hawaii. The posts of the
order in America own property valued
at $1,618,797.59, besides which they
have a general fund aggregating 3653,
651.16 and relief funds aggregating
§449,045.58.
The chaplain chief quoted from the
reports of the twenty-seven depart
ments the following statisties: Nu mber
of soldiers’ and sailors’ graves decorated
by posts, 232.358: number of soldiers
and sailors buried during the year end
ed last Memorial day, 4.622; cemetery
lots owned by posts. 532: number of
soldiers and sailors buried in potters
fields, 752: unmarked by proper head
stones, 10,232; number of posts holding
Sunday memorial service, 2,225; num
ber of posts holding Memorial day
exercises, 2,232; nug}w_f‘m
who took part in thé exercises, 182,106/
} The following general financial state:
‘i ment is made by the quartermastei
~ general: Balances on hand September
8. 1803—general funds, £6,069.07: Grani
. manument fund, $8.578.62; flag fund.
| 8714.95; received from saloon supplies,
| g0,77R.88; per capita tax, $9,446.79; in
t} terest on United States bonds, $5901 in
\ terest on deposits, $101.68: interest on
" irant monument fund, $154.80; con
' tributions to flag fund, $1,012,02:
\ sontributions to Sherman monu
lment fund. £204.50: total to be ac
sounted for, 236.651.25. Expenditures
' —supplies, $7.387.27: traveling ex- |
| penses, £1.673.15: salaries, §3,838.76:
| postage and incidentals, $5.635.92; flag
g fund. £1.496.64; Grant monument fund,
| §3.000; total. $23.081.74 Balance on
hand, £13.569.51, to be credited as fol
\ lows: To general fund, $7.401.26:
\ Gran® monument fund, $5,733.42; flag
| fund, £230.32: Sherman monument fund,
| 8204.50.
The organization has 316,000 invested
in United States bonds, 4 per cent., due
1907. The condition of the flag fund
from which to furnish flags for union
oraves in southern cemeteries is as fol
lows: Balance from last report, 3714.95:
received from Mrs. Armilla A. Cheney,
national treasurer of the W. R G
8761.90: received from members and
posts of the G. A. R., $196.05; total, $l,-
726.97; expenditures during the year,
&1,406.64: cash balance on hand in addi
tion to 24,878 flags, $230.33.
Louisville, Ky., was selected as the
next place of meeting.
WOMEN’'S RELIEF CORPS FIGURES.
The Women's Relief corps held its
first session this morning. The na
tional president. Mrs. Sarah C. Mink,
in her report said the movement to ob
tain pensions for army nurses had been
pushed du:ing the year, and referred
to work in securing a general observ
ance of Memorial day. The report of
the national secretary. Mrs. Sarah E.
Phillips, shows: Number of corps,
9 3%: amount expended for relief dur
ing the year, $64,151.59: amount turned
over to posts, 830.181.71; amount
expended for Memorial day, $13,-
§27.37: amount expended for .
R. C. home, 5.824.81: distributed tc
army nurses not in the home. $450; ex
pended in pension work, 3259.68; ex
pended in relief from the national re
lief fund. &150; total cash expenditures,
8114.845.16: amount of relief other than
money, $535,739.10: total expenditures
during the year, $170,584.26; total
amount of relief since organization,
21.103.560.25. The national chaplain
reported 299.109 soldiersgraves decorat
ed May 30, 1894, at a cost of $12,654.72.
Made the Trip Safely.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 13.—The little
schooner Nina, with Capt. Freitsch the
only man on board. arrived here to-day
from New York. The Nina sailed from
New York Sunday, August 5. She thus
made the trip across the Atlantic in
thirty-eight days. remarkable time for
such a craft. and only ninedays behind
the time made by the yacht Valkyrie,
when she returned to England from
this port. She is a schooner rigged
harpie. 27 feet over all She was
brought here by Capt. Freitsch from
Milwaukee in June last. In shipping
circles considerable doubt was ex
pressed as to the ability of the Nina to
cross the oceng safely.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
‘ Land to Be Opened.
‘ The four years given by the govern
' ment for the Pottawatomie Indians to
' take their allotments of land in the
Pottawatomie reservation have ex
pired, and those who have failed to
make their own selections will, upon
the issnance of a proclamation by the
president, be assigned allotments by a
sommission appointed for that pur
pose. The reservation lies in Jackson
“eounty and comprises about 60,000
| acres. The tribe numbers about 250
' persons, who are entitled to 160 acres
each. The remainder of this tract,
about 20,000 acres. will be sold to set
tlers and the money distributed per
capita to the tribe.
Disappointed Young Men.
At Leavenworth a few days ago the
physical examination of seventeen non
commissioned officers for promotion to
lieutenants was held, and only four of
them were passed by the surgeons.
Thirteen of them were found deficient
in the chest measurement prescribed
by the regulations. Over half of the
class were sons of officers, who had en
listed with the view of promotion and
' had studied hard to attain the desired
- end.
Swindler Arrested.
A. L. Naples was recently arrested in
Crawford county and jailed at Fort
Scott by post office officials. He has
long been wanted for carrying onan
extensive green goods business on the
metropolitan order in Kansas and Mis
souri. He is charged with sending cir
cularsadvertising cheapmoney through
the mails. On his premises were found
thousands of dollars of confederate
money and bogus coining utensils.
All for Charity.
The treasurer of the state board ot l
charities drew from the treasury the
other day the following amounts for‘
the support of the state ¢haritable in
stitutions for the month of August:‘
Reform school, Topeka, #3,714.68; im
becile asylum, Winfield, $1,007.50; blind
asylum, Kansas City, $1,046.93: deafand
dumb asylum, Olathe, €1,705.40; or
phans’ home, Atchison, $1,756.57; in
dustrial school, Beloit, $1 072.98.
A Tough Youth.
Sidney Pickens, a youthful desper- |
ado who was found guilty of burglary
by a jury in the district court at To
peka the other day, threw a handful
of pepper into the eyes of the deputy
sheriff as he was being escorted from
the courthouse to the jail and made a
dash for liberty. A shot from the offi
cer’s pistol, however, took effect in the
prisoner’s leg and he surrendered.
Will Raise Wheat.
The Arkansas Valley Land & Irriga
tion Co.. of Larned is preparing ground
to sow 15.000 acres of wheat along the
Santa Fe road from Barton county
west to the Colorado line. The officers
of the company express unbounded
confidence in western Kansas and
claim that the indications are favor
able for a fine wheat season 1n 1895.
Miss Oébon Released.
The supreme court has ordered the
sedease of Miss Estella Osbon, of Hol
ton, \fiho had been in jail in Topeka
for seyeral weeks awaiting trial on the
charge of complicity in the murder of
Lawyer Charles Hamble, of Holton, on
June 14. A habeas corpus proceeding
was instituted by the young woman’s
attorneys.
The Fickle Missourk
Tue Atchison Bridge Co. recently put
a force of men to work digging a
trench or canal through an island
above the city for the purpose of chang
ing the channel of the Missouri river
from the Missouri side, where such
great damage has been done during the
past six months, to the Kansas side.
Sons of Veterans.
At the Baxter Springs interstate re
union of Sons of Veterans the follow
ing officers were elected: H. L.. Robin
son. of Weir City, president; W. A.
Williams, of Carthage. Mo., vice presi
dent: G. W. Burge, of Joplin, Mo.,
master; F. R. MecGregor, of Baxter
Springs, secretary and director.
Sam Brown. a mulatto student, who
had just graduated from the Fort
Scott high school, was arrested the
other day by the United States authori
ties charged with having sent vile let
ters through the mails, addressed toa
young white lady who was in his class
in school.
Receiver Appointed.
Newell Todd has been appointed re
ceiver for the Chicago & Atchison
Bridge Co., at Atchison. The recent
change in the river at that point and
stoppage of trains materially reduced
the receipts of the company causing
default in payment of interest on
bonds. e
Minor State News.
A. C. Colbert. of Kansas City, was re- \
cently killed by the cars at Sedgwick
City. |
Light frosts were reported in the l
northern partof the state on the morn
ing of the 11th. '
John Kelly, of Garnett, recently at
tempted suicide near Lawrence by cut
ting his throat.
Ira. the 13-year-old son of J. F.
Bottorff, was recently killed by light
ning near Columbus.
The World Publishing Co., of Hutch
inson. has file articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
S, S. Cartwright, a wealthy bachelor
of Topeka, is missing, and his friends
fear that he has been foully dealt
with.
Con Rairdon was instantly killed at
Donahey’s works, about 5 miles east of
Pittsburg, the other afternoon. He
was assisting in sinking a new shaft,
when a blast prematurely exploded.
Rairdon was about 34 years old and
leaves a wife.
Burke White. the 17-year-old son of
W. P. White a Kansas City, Kan.. wall
paper dealer. was recently found in the
weeds near Independence, Mo., with a
pistol ball in his head and died without
being able to tell how it happened.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist Protestant church of the state
met at Kansas City, Kan., last weels
with 200 members in attendance. }
A Bad Doy.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
frE Siorra Nevada range of moune
tains in California is nearly five hun
dred miles long, seventy wide and from
seven thousand to nearly fifteen thou
sand feet high.
QcIENCE tells us that the body of
every human being weighing one hun
dred and fifty pounds contains one
pound of salt. Also that every one of
us needs in a year about fifteen pounds
of salt.
THE aerial space within the limit of
our vision is calculated to have a di
ameter of 420,000,000 miles and & cir~
cumference of 1,329,742,000,000 miles.
And this is orly a fragment of the im
mensity of space.
TrE frequency of storms in Nebrasks
(s due to the fact that not only do
many originate there, but the storms
of Dakota move southeast, and those
of Kansas and Texas northeast, gener
ally passing through Nebraska on their
easterly course.
METEOROLOGISTS say that the heat of
the air is due to six sources: (1) That
from the interior of the earth; (2) that
from the stars; (3) that from the moon;}
(4) that from the friction of the winds
and tides; (5) that from the meteors;
(6) that from the sun.
Trae photographers of the Paris Ob
gervatory have just finished for the
Academy of Sciences the clearest view
ever secured of the moon. They have
photographed her surface in sections,
‘;which fit, making a great image five
" feet in diameter. The work is so per
' fee that towns, forests and rivers
' would be perceptible if they existed.
PEOPLE.
Miss ArLicE MOORE, of Cleveland, 0.,
ts one of the few women who have
made a century run on the bicycle. A
gentury run means to ride one hundred
miles a day.
JoHK BYRNES, of Boston. claims to be
the oldest street-car driver in the world.
He has been at it forty years and haa
traveled a distance equal to twenty-five
times around the world.
TaE late Chief Justice John W. Slay
ton, of Texas, whose death is deplored
in that state as a great loss to the judis
clary, served his apprenticeship in &
blacksmith shop in Kentucky and pur
sued his studies at night.
TEERE have been various claimanty
of the celebrity of being the *‘first woms
an writer for the press.” The latest
of them is Mrs. Lynn Linton, the now
elist, who says that when she waq
twenty-three years she was on the
staff of the London Morning Chronicle.
Mrs. Linton has produced forty novels
in the forty-six years of her literary
career.
Georce H. Wirriams, professor ot
{norganic geology of Johns Hopking
university, Baltimore, who died in
Utica, N. Y., recently, was thirty-eight
years of age. He was the author of
valuable pamphlets upon geological
researches and a text book on the
same subject. He was one of the judges
of the exhibit of precious stones ai
the wopisha fair last year, and was arec
ognizet o o Bority upon microscop;]
GREASE may be taken out of carpets
by covering the spot with powdered
French chalk, laying a soft brown pan
per over the chalk and covering with a
warm iron. This is an old-fashioned
method, but “just as good as new.”
Tue French levy a tax on coffee ta
the amount of $3OO a ton.
“Her religion is very much likeher dress"
she can put it on or off, just as she pleases.’
“Yes, and like her ball ércss. at that; there
isn’t very much of it.”’—Life's Calendar.
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