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THE FREE PRESS. HASH? TTJEEZS, Publisher, HAYS CITY,' KANSAS. KAKWS ITEMS OF I2JTEKEST. An early sorine' is looked for this year. Much improvement is still going1 on in Kansas." -"5? nsas State zaalitia is being '.' reorganized. ; - A number of poultry shows have "been held in Kansas. Kansas farmers are feeding lots of , hogs for the market. All the Kansas papers of the last . week are full of grip. There ajp now twenty-five inmates in the Mother liickerdyke home at To peka. Since Atchison got the division more than seventy families have moved to the town. A Pittsburg constable levied on the overcoat of a man who had been sued on a labor account. Seventy-one real estate transfers were recorded in Osborne county for, the month of December. The helpful hen is beginning to lay on schedule time again, and the mar ket reports have eggs on the toboggan slide. " State Auditor Cole has refused to pay warrants for salaries in the last special session, and will wait for an opinion. The World says that Missouri Pacific freight crews have been forbidden to eat in Hiawatha because the men waste too much time visiting their home folks. The three best Convention Hall prizes were drawn by Kansans. Can it be possible that more of these lot tery tickets were unloaded in Kansas than in Kansas City? In Republic county there were 29 more marriage licenses issued in 1897 than in 1893. The Scandia Journal accounts for this by saying that people were too busy during the past year thinking of the war to get married. The judgment of the gentleman who has been printing the Razoo, at Agra, a little village in Phillips county, has' been criticised considerably by some of his brethren of the press, but he is evidently all right. He has traded the outfit for a Mitchell county farm. The Ottawa Indians living in the northeastern part of the Cherokee na tion, have held a council and employed attorneys to look after their interests in Washington this winter. About 550,000 is due the tribe from the Unit ed States. An effort also will be made to have the Baldwins declared intru ders and removed from their holdings in the reservation. As forecasters of the weather bees never make a mistake. They .know what the weather for the day will be without consulting the direction of the wind or markings of the barome ter. If there is going to be a rain they will not go to work, no matter how fair the sun may shine in the morning and if the weather is going to be fair, the thickest clouds in the morning do not keep them at home. Excursions Kates via Santa Fe Route. On Jan. 17 and Feb. 7 and 21, Slarch 7 and 21, the Santa Fe will sell round trip tickets at the very cheap rate of one one fare plus $2.00 to all points in Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. These tickets will-bear going limit, with stop-over privileges - of fifteen days, final return limit 21 days from date of sale. Before purchasing tick ets, you will do well to call on some representative of the road that reaches all points f importance "The Great Santa Fe.' . W. J. Black, G. P. A., Topeka,. Kans. Good things are still coming Iola's way. Work commenced there this week on the biggest enterprise that has yet been inaugurated in the town a Portlend cement factory which will -give steady employment to 150 men, and which will turn out a train load of cament dailyV It will be branch o the Michigan Portland Ce ment company, a big concern which has all ki ads of capital back of it. It is expec ed that from two to three hundred men . will Jae employed all summer in erecting the buildings for the reciption of the plant. Natural gas, that great lodestone which has worker, such wonders for Allen county within the past two 3-ears, was the at traction that drew this new industry to Iolfu R. Jluehl, a former resident of Ells worth, was killed last month in an avalf.nche on the Chilkoot Pass. . Alfalfa hay is worth 17.00 per ton when fed with Kaffir corn to fatten ing hogs, according to the result of experiments now under way. To ob tain further information on Kaffir corn as pig food and ascertain to what ex tent alfalfa, hay could be used to bal ance up the ration of fattening hogs, quite extensive pig feeding .experi ments are tinder way at our experi ment station this winter. Beloit takes ' considerable pride in the fact that thirteen commercial men make their homes there. It is always a good Bign . when traveling men are seen flocking about town. Thieves stole .forty quarts of canned fruit from a house in 'Beattiel . "Just imagine how mad that made the' good . woman' who "sweat over the kitchen stove last summer while- putting it up. To steal a woman's canned fruit makes her madder than to cut down her clothes line while the week's wash is flying in the breeze. 1 ,A- , . . : ; . . Hope will build a town, hall on the7 Kansas City method. No criminal cases on the Ellsworth court docket this Jerm. A Junction City firm will put in the waterworks system for Wamego. Three" Clifton crap shooters turned S13 each into the city treasury the oth er day. the Morris a sala of ' j The superintendent of county poor farm draws S400 a year. The ice harvest in Kansas this sea- ' son is as satisfactory as the grain har vest of the past year. The net reduction of mortgage ueDteaness in juisworth county lor tne VPar 1SQS amntlntofl - J1CQ CifiJ. ' I An Ottawa man is the owner of a pin j of common size on the head of which j every letter of the alphabet is en- gravea. For fifteen years Miss Jennie Mar shall has taught the school in District No. 1, in Cloud county, a school in which she was once a pupil. The poor farm in Osborne county is j a moneymaker for the county. The ; humble hog is largely responsible for the showing on the right side of the ledger. There is considerable county print ing trouble in the air just at present. It will lash away for a few weeks and then die down until the time rolls around for the contracts to be let again. ' Barbers of Ellsworth have refused to work on Sunday. There is really no reason why a barber should be ex pected to work on this day which is to the great majority of the people a day of rest. The same rain that will swell up a tub will shrink a steer. A paper print ed out in the cattle district is authori ty for the statement that a big rain will sometimes cause a steer to lose 100 pounds. An exchange says: Deaths are men tioned in Kansas papers with remark able frequency of late. In the( first seven papers picked up of the issue of the present week there were seventeen death notices. In compliance with a request from the members of the Anti-Horse Thief association the commissioners of Sum ner county have raised . the reward of fered for the apprehension and convic tion of horse thieves from 25 to S50. Regent Dodge says that the big- Cross ranch in Mitchell county will not revert to the State Normal, as the back interest and taxes due have been paid up. The Cross ranch is the big gest thing out doors in Mitchell county- There was a time, and it wasn't very long ago, either, when a Kansas town with a. telephone system was consider ed a very hot thing. They are getting to be so common now that they are hardly considered worih bragging about. . A Kansas paper puts up a dolorous wall to the effect that many Kansas merchants are seriously considering the advisability of remaining in busi ness another year. This is a false note in the harmony of humping busi ness, which is in evidence the state and .nation over. Council Grove is a town that at the last enumeration was credited" with 2,506 inhabitants. At the close of bus iness on "December 31, there was on deposit in the two banks" of the town $365,348.42. Of this sum it is said that about fou-fifths belongs to the farm ers of Morris county. ' " Ex-Reeister of Deeds Newbold, of Sumner county, has brought suit against the county commissioners to recover something over 2,000 in fees which he turned over in 1895 and 1896. He bases his suit on the alleged dis covery that the law reducing fees of county officers was not properly pass ed. Orville Parker, one of the boys of the Twentieth Kansas, writing from Ma nila to his folks at Coffeyville, says that he pays five cents a. dozen for ban anas, gets six oranges for a nickel, fif teen or twenty cigarettes for two cents, while cigars are rated at a half a cent, or a cent apiece; and the cigars and cigarettes, he says, are made Out of real tobacco. x One of the Kansas Creamery patrons had two .heifer calves in succession from an old red cow, one by a Hoi- stein and the other by a Short-horn. In a seven days test th Holstein heifer with her third calf produced 2-. 3 pounds of butter per day, and for the same time the Short-horn with her calf produced 1.2 pounds of butter per day; the Holstein giving milk eleven months of the year and the Short-horn only five months. This speaks, very emphatically as to the value of a good sire in raising dairy cows. Clay Center's school board has em ployed a teacher of vocal music for the balance of the term. He will give two lessons a week to the schools and one to the teachers. . J. W. Kibly, one of the leading cat lemen of Butler county, was at the Agricultural college January 5th, to make arrangements for obtaining suf ficient vaccine to protect 300 calves from Blackleg. This vaccine is fur nished free by the Veterinary Depart ment to those farmers and stockmen of Kansas who request it. ,Humboldt.' people are very proud ofJ their new School building and have a good reason to be. It is probably the only school building in the state heat ed throughout by means of natural gas coming from its - own well on tL school grounds. , Once in a while a ray of light as big as a cheese flashes across the hard beaten" path of the toil-worn Kansas editor.1 One of these lit in the office of the Wilson County Citizen the- other day when a delinquent subscriber got to the' front with 513.70. Cold weather doesn't keep the Gay lord band from giving street concerts. Grocery peddlers are dividing the wealth o Marshall -county husband men. j " Take the state over and the register I of deeds is the county officer who is j making the money these days. ! The grip is now getting in its work n tne sounwes part of the state, Tc-'ta s having a particularly hard tussle with it. Time appears to be hanging heavily ; witn a great many ivansans just now, I as wolf drives are the order of the day. Once in a while they succeed in scar- I incr no a. wotf. The Independence Tribune claims that tTnT"f lc Q rrrw-vrf ira rl overseer in Montgomery county; so good that he ig now his eleventh rear in tbat r j. Just as soon as the building seasor. opens up work will be commenced in Kansas City, Kansas, on the 575,000 ! high school building for which bonds I were voted at a recent special election. Ottawa's new militia company was called out the other dav for the first time for the purpose of having meas ures taken for uniforms; and not a martial spirit failed to promptly heed the calL Congressman Broderick quiets the fears of Leavenworth people by telling them that he does not think there is any reason at all for worrying over the story that the post is to be removed from there. The chances are that the State poul try show will prove as secondary in terest beside the legislature, because Kansans are able to judge more intel ligently concerning the good qualities of a legislator than of a bird. W. H. "Haskell, the Gaylord cattle man, had a bunch of cattle m Kansas City the other day that topped the market, being bought for export. The cattle averged 1530 pounds and brought him nearly 76 a head. The Northern Pacific railroad is ex hibiting a car load of Northwest pro ducts at points in Kansas. Kansas is a poor state m which to do this kind of missionary work. Some tolerable good things in the exhibit line are raised right here in this state. The town of Thayer, half way be tween Cherryvale and Chanute, will vote on February 14th upon the propo sition to issue city bonds to the amount of three thousand dollars for the pur pose of installing a natural gas plant, which is to be owned and operated by the city. The grip has appeared in another form. This time it is attacking the horses, and while it is epidemic in Kentucky, it threatens to become so in Saline county. One of the emyloyes of the Clark ranch, near Kipp, says that the horses on the ranch had be come affected. The vitrified interests of Montgom ery county have been consolidated and will be known of the Coffeyville Vit trified Brick and Tile company. The capital stock is eighty thousand dol lars fully paid up. The plant at Inde pendence, the one at Coffeyville and the one at Cherryvale will be owned and operated by the same company. It has been asserted by parties who profess to speak from personal obser vation and experience that ripe mul berries will kill young chickens, and as a great many farmers have mulber ry trees growing where the chickens can have access to them, and the mul berries ripen and fall from the trees at the season of the year when young chickens are most plentiful, this be comes an interesting and important question. Cheap Excursions via Santa Fe Route. Annual convention Missouri and Kansas association of Lumber Dealers held at Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 24-28. one lowest standard first-class fare foi the round trip. Tickets on sale Jan. 21, 22 and 23, good to return until and including Jan. 28, 1899. Oklahoma Live Stock Association meeting held at Woodward, O. T., Feb. 14-15, one fare for the round trip. Ticksts on sale Feb. 12 and 13, good to return seven days from date of sale. W. J. Black, G. P. A., Topeka, Kans. When a farmer sells 500 worth oi hay, he sends away from his farm over 300 worth of fertilizers. When he sells 500 worth of wheat he disposes of 125 worth of fertilizers. But when he sells 500 worth of dairy products he parts with less than 50 worth of fertilizers. And when he sells 500 worth of fruit he loses less in fertil izers than with either of the others, because fruits are composed so largely of actual solids. This shows that the highest-priced products rob the farm the least, and is an argument in favor of diversified and intensified farming. A ra&n has been talking electric lights at Oskaloosa. Take good care of the work horses. They are expected to do a great deal of hard work and they need some thing more than regular rations of grain and hay. When brought from the field" or road and put in the stable if covered with sweat or mud or both the harness should be taken off and the horse-thoroughly rubbed until the sweat and mud are removed. Mud should"- never be allowed to dry on the legs of a horse or mule. And now a complaint comes from western Kansas that the roads are bad. When roads are bad in the western part of the state they are simply rotten in the eastern section. Jesse James is a bridge contractor on the Hutchinson Southern. It be came noised about that he was on the train the other night and that he was the son of tne outlaw. Several women gathered about him and tried to Hob- son him, but he wouldn't let them, i and explained that none of his folks ! ever robbd trains. ROBBlRJDEHTlFltD. "Jennings' and "Evans" Are the Old Outlaw Bill Ryan. BOUND OYER WITHOUT BAIL Mansfield, Mo., Jan. 13. ''Jen nings," the leader in the Memphis train robbery at Macomb; "Evans," the leader of the Leeds bandits at the time of the robbery of the Missouri Pacifie express car and Bill Ryan, who has planned more train robberies than he has fingers and toes, have been identified as ,the same individual. Whig Keshlear and George Bryant, Kansas City detectives, identified Jen nings as Ryan, and W. W. Lowe, the confessing participant in the Leeds robbery, is positive that he is "Evans." Engineer Jslocumb and Fireman Wes ton of the Missouri Pacific train, lobbed at Leeds, later identified the prisoner as the leader of the gang and further convincing evidence was se cured by stripping Ryan. In his con fession to the detectives in Kansas City, Lowe had stated that Jack Ken nedy had sent "Evans" to his house prior to the robbery and was told tha,t if he had any doubt as to his visitor being the right party to examine his 1 ;ft arm and breast for bullet wounds. When Ryan was stripped the telltale bullet wounds were there, and again the now impotent outlaw gritted his few remaining teeth in his rage and cursed Lowe. The preliminary hearing of Ryan and Joseph Shepard, alias Dutch Weber, resulted in their being bound over for the action of the grand jury without bail. They were taken at once to the Springfield jail. The court room was packed to suffocation, and thousands or people were unable to obtain admittance. The preliminary "hearing of John Kennedy, on a charge . of holding up the Memphis train at Macomb, on the night of January 3, was continued for ten days, Kennedy going to the Spring field jail without bond. C. E. Blair of Kansas City, attorney for Kennedy, together with Colonels Musick and Neider, associate counsel, could not get ready in time, and asked the con ti nuance. They have many witnesses to bring from Kansas , City and Texas, and they also have depositions to take. Jake Fagley was - arraigned at the same time, but waived the preliminary examination and was held for the ac tion of the grand jury, which convenes in March. Mansfield, Mo., Jan. 12. John Kennedy was positively identified here yesterday as the leader of the gang that held up the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis train near Macomb, Ma, January 3. Three men Elmer Byrum, Louis Nye and Oscar Ray have con fessed that they were in the holdup, and all three have identified Kennedy as their leader. Kennedy has been twice tried for robbing trains at Blue Cut, near Kan sas City, and suspected of every train robbery that has occurred in that vi cinity during the last three yeais, but has never been convicted. He is also under indictment for murdering a wo man. He is out on 10,000 bail on the murder charge. On the witness stand at the prelim inary hearing, Byrum, who is a farmer residing near Mansfield, told the en tire story of the robbery. He rode to the scene of tho robbery, he said, with "Jennings," who is now thought to be Bill Ryan, the noted outlaw, and Kennedy, who was going under the name of Wright, lveunedy, accord ing to his story, handled the engine, while Ryan held a revolver to the en trineer's head. It was Kennedy also who placed the dynamite on the safe he said.. . The money was taken to vacant house near by and divided, all the mutilated money going to the share of Byrum and Nye and all the rest of it going to Kennedy and Ryan, or "Jennings. lsyrum s story was absolutely substantiated by the find ing of the mutilated money just where he said it had been hidden. When "Jennings" was searched, 250, partly burned and mutilated, was found sewed into the lining of his clothes. It was the mutilated money that led to the detection of the robbers. Oscar Ray, who is also a farmer, gave a Nor wood storekeeper, a 5 bill scorched about the edges. As it was only a few days since the robbery, the merchant's suspicions were aroused. He showed the burnt bill to H. P. Ball, the county prosecutor. Ball set about to discover where the money came from. Devel opments followed rapidly. Mutilated money was also put into circulation by Mrs. Byrum, wife of Elmer Byrum and daughter of Loui3 Nye. When Constable Woodward, of Norwood, went to Louis Nye's house with warrants for the arrest, of Nye, Byrum and Ray, he found "Jennings" and Shepard there. Yesterday li E. Davis, a clerk in a hardware store, identified Kennedy as the party he sold dynamite to a day or so before the Macomb robbery. He was introduced by Byrum as Mr. Wright, and Byrum in his confession made the same statement. Ten days prior to the robbery a stranger calling himself "Davis" vis ited Ava, six miles from here, and represented himself to be a prospective real estate buyer. Citizens of Ava have identified Kennedy as "Davis. . - Searching for Fleas are Party. Pexsacola, Fla., Jan. 15. Dis patches received here from Chicago and Indianapolis indicate that great fear is felt for. the.naptha launch Panl Jones, hailing from Louisville, which left the mouth of the Mississippi river January 3 for this port with a party of ladies and gentlemen from Chicago and Indianapolis on board. Nothing has been heard here of the launch, and the E. E. Simpson, one of the fastest and best tugs belonging here, left to dav to make a thorough search on the ulf. Milk Causes a l - Topeka, Kan., Jan. 14. The State society of agriculture, now in session in Topeka, was startled by the asser tion, made by Dr. M. Stalker, that a large proportion of the people who die of consumption contracted the. disease from milk, from cows afflicted with tuberculosis. Dr. Stalker is a profes sor in the Iowa state agricultural col lege, and his statement was that the most of the ,125,000 death's annually could be traced directly to milk from tuberculosis cows. - AG0NC1LL0?S STATEMENT. Glvaa Ilia Baasaas Whr We Should Recognize riiilipplaa Government Washington, Jan. 16. Senor Felip Agoncillo, the representative of Gen- eral Asruinaldo in Washincton. has filed with the stats department a memorandum setting forth at length the reasons for his claim that the Phil ippine government should be recog nized by tha United States. Accompanying the memoranda is a letter, in which Senor Agoncillo states that he has received no reply to his communication of January 6, in which ae asks that a suitable time be ar ranged when he' could be presented to the President and heard upon his ciaiins. In view of the position in which the representatives of the Amer ican government and the representa tives of the Philippine government una themselves upon the islands at this time, he urges that the matter b given immediate attention. Senor Agoncillo asserts the Filipinos established and for seven months have maintained a form of trovernmect re- se mbling the American, in that it is based upon the right of the people to rule; that !pain, having at the time of the signinc of the treatv of oeace. possession of only one port and, the remainder of the Philippines, except M anila, being in possession of the Philippine republic, Spain could give no title to the United States for the islands, and that, having no title tc give, her claim cannot be rendered better by the ratification of the treaty of peace. CHINESE SOLD AS SLAVES Large Kamber Shipped From Hong Kohj to Tampico, Mex. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 16. Astcry of alleged Chinese slavery has come to light here since the arrival of the steamship Empress of Japan from the Orient. She brought from Hong Kong 406 Chinese, of which 191 were reported to be destined for Tampico, Mexico, to work on plantations. They were under the care of a Chi naman named. -Ma Choc wno stated that 1,300 more are to follow. While herding the Chinese from the dock to a special train a stampade ensued. In their frenzy a 'number rushed toward the edge of the dock. They would have fallen into the bay had it not been for a police officer who stopped the mad rush by knocking a score of thern down. When they were finally rounded up it was found that eight were missing. After several minor stampedes the Chinese were pers uaded to get on the train. The cause of the frenzy and stam pede was the arrival of a Chinaman from San Francisco who told them they had been sold as slaves by Hong Kong men and that they would never go back to China. Local Chinese here are helping the men still . in hiding in every possible way. as all are con vinced that they and the remainder of the 1,300 to follow are being sold into slavery. They are going to send word to the Chinese government about it. The city police are hunting down the missing Chinese for evading the 50 poll tax. The Canadian Pacific officials are also hunting them because they have contracted to take the party safely over their lines and are liable to a heavy customs penalty for every Chinaman landed in British Columbia who does not pay poll tax. SGHURMAN MAY GO TO MANILA Cornell's President Likely to lie Se lected to Treat With the Filipino. Washington, Jan. 16. The Presi dent has under consideration the name ef President Schurman, of Cornell university, - in connection with most important mission. The exact nature of the latter is not yet disclosed, but it is supposed that the President has it in mind to send a special commission to the Philippines to recommend a plan for the treatment' and disposition of the islands, something on the order of the Hawaiian , commission. President Schurman may be designated as member of such a body. It is alsc suortrested that he may be sent tc Spain, either as minister or on a special errand. TURKS FIGHT IN ARABIA Reported That About 6,000 Soldiers Arj Killed and Wounded. Constantinople, Jan. 13. A great battle has been fought in the Yamen division of Arabia between the Turkish troops and several rebellious desert tribes. The Turk ish troops-stormed and captured the insurgent position at Shanel Novem ber 30. About 4,000 insurgents and 2,000 Turks were killed or wounded. The Yomen division of Arabia is the southern part, of which Aden is the chief seaport.' Fight ing has be2a going on there for several months. A report in Dec ember, that the rebels had raised the British flag, has never been confirmed. CAN'T TRY HIM AGAIN. The Case of Cashier Colean of Ton Sott Is Outlawed. Fobt Scott, Kan., Jan. 13. Cashier J. JL Colean, who wrecked the State bank of this city by stealing $52,000 ol its cash, and whose sentence of five years in prison was commuted by Gov ernor Leedy jast before he retired front office, cannot be prosecuted on anothez count for the theft under the Kan sas law. Some of the stockholders were preparing to have an officer at the penitentiary door when Coiean's abbreviated sentence should expire in a few weeks, but the county attorney finds that on account of the lapse ol two years since the commission of the crime another warrant cannot be issued. Receiver Mitchell of the de funct bank has brought suit against several stockholders to collect 50 per cent of the amount of their stock on an assessment levied by him under the double liability act for the benefit of the depositors. The stockholders will test the constitutionalitv of the law. Now Hold SantlST Service. Chicago, Jan. 16. The Sinai (Jew ish) congregation, which was the first in this country to hold Sunday ser vices, yesterday celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of that movement. An elaborate program of music and speaking was given, eminent rabbis from all over the country making addresses. ATTACK Oil MILES. Commissary General Eagan Calls His Superior Officer a Liar. APPEARS BEFORE WAR BOARD. Washington, Jan. 13. Commissary General Charles P. Eagan yesterday reappeared before the war investiga tion commission to answer the charges General Nelson A. Miles concerning the commissary supplies furnished the army during the recent war. General Eagan's staiement furnished the sensa tion of the war commission's history. ar.d was regarded by old army officers as one of the most remarkable attacks ever madein the history of the service. Eagan read his testimony from a large written statement. lie denied numerous statements of General Miles: Charged that tha letter's testimonv constituted severe reflections upon the commanding peuerals of the expedi tions, lie referred to Miles as "this same commanding general. Nelson A. Miles," and said whoever called the beef furnished "embalmed beef' was a "liar." General Eagan referred to the fact that General Miles had refused to be sworn and commented on the fact that he was the only one of 500 witnesses who had so refused. General Eagan said he himself preferred to be sworn. General Eagan referred to the mys terious manner in which papers disap peared from the files of the War de partment. General Eagan's testimony regard ing the embalmed beef was as follows: "General Miles was asked by your committee how tinned fresh beef be came a part of the army ration. His answer is: 'You had better ask the secretary of war or the commissary general. I think they can tell you. I know it was sent to the army as pod and the pretense is that it was sent as an experiment.' "General Miles in saying that this food was sent to the army as 'a pre tense for an experiment' says that which implies corruption, which nine ty-nine out of every 100 people will understand to mean corruption, be cause it was a pretense of experi ment.' he says, not even giving credit to me for furnishing it as an experi ment, but that I furnished it under the 'pretense of an experiment. "This is a serious charge.and should not be made by acy man lightly nor without ample evidence to support it. Taking the statement in the sense it was probably intended, the sense that will be accepted by the country at large the sense that already the press almost wholly of the United States has accept ed it indeed some of that press be cause of it, called for my dismissal from the army and my court-martial I answer that is was not furnished un der the pretense of experiment, nor even as an experiment, and if when General Miles charges that it was fur nished as a 'pretense of experiment' he lies in his throat, he lies in his heart, he lies in every hair of his head and every pore of his body; he lies wil fully, deliberately, intentionally and maliciously. "If his statement is true that this was furnished under pretense of an experiment,' then I should be drummed out of the army and incarcerated in prison with ether libelers. "His statement is a scandalous libel, reflecting upon the honor of every offi cer in the department who has con tracted for or purchased this meat, and particularly on the commissary gen eral myself. ' "In denouncing General Miles as a liar when he makes this statement I wish to make it as emphatic and as coarse as the-statcment itself. I wish to force the lie back into his throat, covered with the contents of a camp latrine. "I wish to brand it as a falsehood of whole cloth, without a particle of; truth to sustain it, and unless he' can prove his statement he should be - driven out of ." the clubs, barred from the society of decent people and so ostracized that the street bootblack would not condescend to speak to him. for he has fouled his own nest, he has Espersed the honor of a brother officer with out a particle of evidence or fact to sustain in any degree his scandalous, libelous, malicious falsehoods viz., that thia beef or anything whatever was furnished the army under 'pre tense of experiment."' General Eagan made a vigorous at- tack on the inspector general's de- j partmcnt in connection with thisi investigation. He asked why were not those inspections made while the armies were in the fields. General Eagan referred to the re ports from officers, and submitted by General Miles, concerning beef fur nished, as irresponsible statements. Washington. Jan. li. The war in vestigating commission passed to-day a resolution of censure of General Eagan for the language he used yes terday, and returned to him the care fully prepared typewritten statement which he left with the commission after reading it to that body. With its return was sent a letter explaining the reason for this action and a copy of the resolution passed to-day. REBELS BLOCK A RIVER. y . Filipinos Sick Sock Ladea Lighters at . the Entrance. Manila, Jan. 13. The situation at Hoilo is unchanged. The Filipinos are unceasingly active, day and night. On Saturday they loaded some lighters with rock and sank them at ths en trance of the river, blocking the chan nel for all vessels with the exception of launches. The lights have been ex tinguished. On Sunday one of the Arizona's boats manned bv soldiers, was carried on by the ebb tide to Quimaraes island. and while attempting to land there armed natives assembled on the beach and compelled the Americans to retire. CarLUts at Work in Mexico. Washington, Jan. 15. It is reported from Mexico that secret commission ers from the Carlists have been operat ing there, especially among the Span ish residents. They have traveled ex tensively through the country, espec ially -visitinjr the lasrer cities and towns, and inducin? the fhaf ards to . aid in the cause of Don Carlos. . oct Coursing through the veins, feeds, nourishes and sustains all the organs, nerves, muscle and tissues of tbe body., Hood's Sarsspa rilla mates warm, rich, pure blood. It 13 the best medicine you can take la winier. It tones. Invigorates, strengthens and forti fies the whole body, preventing colds, fevers, pneumonia and the grip. Sarsa S parilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. Frfee JL. Prepared by C L Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass. Hood's PUIS cure Sick He&dacbe. 25c aisiii. Jan. 14. At the opening of the Sea ate session the chaplain paid a tribute to the late Nelson Dingley; Hoar of Massachusetts introduced a resolution declaring the Philippine islands free and that the people of the United States do not propose to interfere ; with thern, referred to foreign rela-r tions committee; Allen of Nebraska spoke on his resolution for a Senatorial investigation of the conduct, of ths war, and said ii was tims for a rigid anc impartial inquiry to ba made, and intimated that the troops of the West were sent to Chickamauga for the ben efit of the transportation companies; resalu tions on the death of Mr. D'mr ley were adopted and the Senate" ad journed. House Mr. lioutelle of Maine ofTerei anl the House adopted a series of resolution providing for' funeral ceremonies for the late Nelsoa Dingley in the hall of the House at noon Monday, and for a committee of nine members to accompany the re mains to Maine. Washington, Jan. 14. In the Senate Mr. McLaurin of South Carolina took strong ground in a carefully prepared speech against a policy of expan sion by this country. He citei as one of the principal reasons why the United States should not assume do minion over peoples who are widely dissimilar to the people of this coun try the oxperienco of the South with the negro race. lis advocated the adoption of the Vest resolution, de claring that this country could not maintain permanently as colonies such territory as the Philippines, and held that it would be in opposition to the spirit of American institutieas to do so. Mr. Sullivan of Mississippi and Mr. Pasco of Florida discussed the pending Nicaraguan canal bill, the former sup porting it and the latter opposing it. The Indian appropriation bill was taken up, but its consideration was not concluded before the hour of ad journment. Washington, Jan. 13. Mr. Foraker ' of Ohio yesterday addressed the Sen ate in opposition to the declaration the Vest resolution 'that the United States has no constitutional power to acquire foreign territory to be main tained as colonies. While much of his peech was devoted to a constitutional argument in support of the right of thij country as a nation to acquire and govern outlying territory, he gave particular attention to the utterances that have been made in contravention of that position, especially those of Mr. Vest and Mr. Hoar. -Mr. Foraker's strong assertion that the acquisition of the Philippines was temporary created a sensation in the chamber. Mr. Foraker reiterated it. We could not desert the people of the islands, he said, and subject them to the risks of disorder, anarchy, mis- rii'e and mob rule, while they might be still unfit for self-government, but our occupation was not to be perma nent. DEPEW TO BE SENATOR. Unanimously dominated by tba Repub lican Caocos at Albany. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 14. Chauncey M Depew was unanimously chosen as th; candidate of the Republican party, as represented in the senate and as sembly, for United States senator, at a joint caucus held in the assembly chamber last night. CHOATE MADE AMBASSADOR. The President dominates the Kw Torker for Ambassador to Great Ilrltala. Washington, Jan. 12 President McKinley yesterday sent to the Senate the nomination of Joseph II. Choate to be ambassador to Great Britain. S toad's War Against War. LiONDON, Jan. 10. William T. Stead's new paper, intended to be tho mouth piece of his disarmament crusade and entitled -War Against War," made its appearance to-day. It is not a very striking production, as its chief fea ture is communications from sympa thizers, including some American pub lic men. Mark Twain has written an article for the paper, opening with characteristic humor. He says: "The czar is in favor of disarmament and so am I. There ought to be no difficulty about tho rest of the world." NEWS IN BRIEF. General Wcod was before the inves tigating commission. He said that the beef so far as he knew was good. The House committee on naval af fairs announced that it would recom mend that the awards to the navy for prizes captured during the war be abolished. The peace treaty is considered cer tain of ratification. The argument that it is believed to be assuring its passage is that this action is necessary to end the war. Governor Koosevait of New York has written to General Miles announc ing that the beef supplied to the Rough Riders was generally inedible and nauseating. v The Choctaw nation has memorial ized Congress for financial help, owing to the fact, it is alleged, that federal legislation is responsible for the pres ent indebtedness of the tribe. An automatic . telephone exchange has been perfected. It will do away with the -hello'T.4firL The commissioners of the Paris ex position will ask Congress for an ap propriation of $1,200,000. S. L Hazeltine, who was elected to Congress on the Greenback platform, died at his home, near Springfield, Mo. - Charles H. Hambaugh, brother-in-law of Grant Gillett, has returned from Chihuahua, Mexico, and says Gillett will soon return to the United States.