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Meade County News.
JOHN D. WEHBLE, Fab.
MEADE,
KAN&
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There were six robberies at Arling
ton, Reno county, in one week.
. Richard Hensley, a negro- of Salina,
is dead, leaving an estate of about 515,
000. The Santa Fe round house at Cool
dge is being torn down for removal to
Syracuse.
The Lanyons have their Neodesha
smelter about one-half up. It covers
six acres of ground.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
consented to address the Beloit Chau
tauqua society on July 28.
A Kansas merry-go-round factory
shipped the other day a car load of the
whirling machines to Virginia.
Stolen silk dress patterns were found
under the steps of a Fort Scott church.
They came from a Girard store.
John Chromster, who has resided on
his original claim in Dickinson county
for thirty-one years, died on April 14.
, A Salina junk dealer employs regu
larly in his yards 23 men and four
teams and keeps several men on the
road buying junk.
E. M. Chilcott, editor of the Times at
Wamcgo, was assaulted on the street
by a gang of saloon people for opposing
them at the city election.
Peter McKechnie has sold his inter
est in the Osborne Farmer to Charles
Ilillebrnndt, who will continue the
publication. McKechnie returns to
Bcloit.
Sherman Harvey, who was a captain
in the 23rd Kansas, and Captain Haw
kins, both lawyers, have started to go
to Manila to practice law and go into
the tobacco business.
The Topeka colored men who started
to organize a co-operative company to
establish a brick plant are now selling
stock to raise a first payment for the
required machinery.
E. B. Burnett, who published the
Solomon Sentinel for so many years,
ha planted a new paper at Hoyt, Jack
son county, which he has also given
the name of Sentinel.
A. T. Sharpe, the traveling salesman
who was stabbed and killed at Mem
phis, was the son of the late Amasa T.
Sharpe, for many years editor of the
Ottawa, Kansas, Daily Republican.
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, of Lamed,
one of the best known newspaper wri
ters of Washington, has been called
borne by the serious illness of her
mother, Mrs. James Purcell Worrell.
The Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas
City electric railway company has taken
an Oklahoma charter; capital stock
32,000,000. The incorporators are two
men of Independence, Kansas, and two
of Oklahoma City.
The Missouri Pacific has put on a
day train from the southwest to Kan
sas City. It leaves Kiowa at 6 a. in.,
reaches Wichita at 8:30 and arrives at
Kansas City at 5 p. m. Returning, the
train reaches Wichita at 6 p. m.
The head of the famous Sunny Slope
bull, "Wild Tom," is being mounted
by an Emporia taxidermist, and will
ornament the home of the present
owner of Sunny Slope, C. A. Stannard.
He had refused 825,000 for the bull.
The Katy has purchased the new line
from Moran to Iola. The object of
building the line was to tap the gas
belt around Iola. Heretofore the Mis
souri Pacific has had no competition
and it got all the business. The Katy
connects with the new line at Moran.
An automobile factory at Topeka has
contract to build 25 autos for the use
of the traveling salesmen of a Topeka
wholesale grocery house.
The Cudahy Packing Company is
paying in Wichita the same prices for
cattle and sheep as is paid in Kansas
City with the exception of extra heavy
export steers.
The Continental Creamery Company,
a Kansas institution, has been awarded
the contract for. furnishing 200,000
pounds of butter to the navy at 26
cents a pound.
Four prisoners were pardoned out of
the penitentiary in the past year to
die, and four others died in the prison.
There is one prisoner at Lansing serv
ing his third term nnder assumed
names. His parents live not far away
from the prison and yet they do not
know that he ever was in prison.
Chas. Severs, a young resident of
Geary county, died from the explosion
of a gasoline lamp. He was regulating
the air pressure and the explosion
threw gasoline all over him. He leaves
a young family.
Auditor Cole reports expenditures
for the month of March as follows:
Boys' Industrial school, S.I, 342; Topeka
asylum, 80,487; Osawatomie asylum,
013,110; Girls' Industrial school, SI, 815;
Soldiers' Orphans' home, 81,927; Idiotic
asylum, S2;906; Blind school '81,563;
Deaf and Dumb School, 4,201; Indus
trial reformatory, 88,208; penitentiary,
69,513.
D. Ballard, of Washington county,
has added another half section to his
Meade county holdings. He recently
bought 6,000 acres in that county.
Wild Tom, the famous Sunny Slope
Hereford bull died recently at Sunny
Slope farm near Emporia. The animal
has won first prizes in cattle shows all
over the United States and Canada.
An offer of 825,000 was refused for him
by the late C. S. Cross.
Mrs. A. D. Anderson, wife of a di
ning car conductor, was blown off the
pla'form of the car between Haviland
and Pratt and was not immediately
missed. The train was backed up two
miles before meeting Mrs. Anderson,
who was walking along the track.
Near Elmont, on the Rock Island
road, between Topeka and Holton, a
100-foot bridge waa burned the other
day preventing the passage of trains
between Topeka and St. Joseph. : Ar
rangements to transfer passengers
were soon made.
Beginning Snnday, April 13, the
Rock Island inaugurated a new train
- service between El Paso, Texas, and
Chicago. :The new train will give
through service between Wichita and
Chicago, .besides cutting nine hours off
the present schedule.
Winfield is to have a new - depot of
the Frisco lino.
The Emporia commercial club is rais
ing money to prospect for coal.
Mayor Glover, of Bluff City, has en
tered upon his thirteenth consecutive
term.
Another big smelter is to be located
at Galena, owned by Galena men ex
clusively. It is proposed at Beloit to take in its
populated suburbs, which will give the
city 3,500 people.
J. S. Watson and Wax. Morton, of
Vliets, have gone to the Philippines to
engage in business.
Over 600 ministers attended the an
nual conference at Topeka of the Sev
enth Day Adventists.
Six sons of Sarah Brown Morgan, of
Brown couuty, acted as pall bearers at
their mother's funeral.
Wm. Smith, who recently sold the
Manhattan Republic, has bought an in
terest in the Lawrence Jeffersonian.
The president has nominated Burton
J. Mitchell, of Kansas, to be second
lieutenant in the Twenty-second in
fantry. James H. McCarthy, who drew a pen
sion for 30 years under his brother's
name, is sentenced to two years in
prison.
An accident at the new Santa Fe
shops at Topeka, the falling of a scaf
fold, injured E. W. Bowers and L. G.
Brandon.
Iola has erected three school houses
in three years and has let the contract
for another one. They are all fine
buildings.
J. S. Kirkpatrick, the Jewell county
attorney, has bought an alfalfa farm
near Iloxie, Sheridan county, and will
remove to Hoxie.
The state oil inspector's report for
March shows fees collected 81,644; paid
out for help 8310, Reaving a balance for
the state of 81,034.
W. G. Montgomery, for 12 years agent
at Emporia for the American Express
company, died from a stroke of apo
plexy on April 16.
The Co-operative or Grange store at
Hackney. Cowley county has been sold,
the stockholders realizing 175 per cent
in trade for their stock.
The recent murder trial at Ottawa
brought out a continuous crowd of
loafers; the majority of them wearing
skirts and Easter bonnets.
The Santa Fe railroad paid the To
peka city treasurer 83,500 for paving
tax on East Fourth street, which runs
alongside the railroad yards.
Three of the convicts who escaped
from the federal prison at Leavenworth
are still at large. All of the eight have
been indicted on the charge of murder
by the federal grand jury.
Burt Hughbanks, while riding over
the range in Harper county, roped an
eagle with his lariat. The bird rose in
front of his pony and the lariat caught
him while 15 feet in the air.
Jos. Connors, of Pennsylvania, and
a graduate of the New York state nor
mal, had both of his feet cut off by the
cars at Manhattan. He was enroute
to Denver to teach in a local school.
State Grain inspector Northrup has
decreased the working force of his de
partment. He has placed several in
spectors on half time and let out some
of his office help. This results from
the light shipments of grain.
At the annual debate between the
universities of Kansas and Missouri,
held at Lawrence, Kansas was declared
defeated by the judges, who were Eu
gene F. Ware, Topeka; Silas Porter,
Kansas City, and S. A. Riggs, Law
rence. The debate was on the subject
of municipal ownership.
The state board of railroad assessors
and their wives are out on their mission
on a special train; beginning on the
Liberal branch of the Rock Island.
Herman Johnson, who made a lot of
lead 5 cent pieces and played them in
Topeka slot machines, was convicted
in the federal court of counterfeiting.
He will be sentenced later. In in
structing the jury Judge Hook said it
did not matter if slot machines were
unlawful; that if a person played coun
terfeit money in them he was guilty of
a crime.
Bank stock of one of the banks of
Salina has reached a selling value of
almost double par value.
Lyon county is proud of her financial
situation. There is more money in the
banks than has been for years. In the
last term of the district court there
were 140 cases on the docket, and there
was not a single judgment foreclosing
a mortgage of any kind. There are
now nearly 26,000 people in the county
and more have come in within the last
four months than at any time for the
last nine years.
Miss Lida Beck, of Everest, Kansas,
has been appointed a teacher at the
Green Bay, Wis., Indian school and
Miss Maggie Neff, of Emporia, Kas.,
appointed a teacher at Seneca Indian
school, Wyandotte, I. T.
At Osborne the other day W. W. Fer
ris reeeixed a letter addressed to his
mother from the pension department
at Washington. It contained a check
for 81,108, the sum due her in back
pension from 1890, when she made her
application. Mrs. Ferris has been dead
1 Kimp tlmi
The Cowley County Grain Growers'
association decides to join the state as
sociation for the protection of their in
terests. They will ship their grain
through the state association. There
are about 100 members and they will
control a large part of the product of
the county.
W. H. Crane, the actor, says that he
and the late Senator Plumb were good
friends and often smoked and chatted
together. The Eldorado Republican
advises Crane to back up. Plumb
never smoked in his life.
Meriden, the first town out of Topeka
on the railroad to Atchison, has had a
serious fire, which destroyed its prin
cipal stores and one dwelling.
The old convict cemetery at the Lan
sing penitentiary, is now under 50 feet
of slate and dirt dumped from the coal
mine. A new cemetery has been
opened.
The penitentiary earned in March
817,921 supplying prison coal to the
state at the market price, and received
81,679 in cash for convict labor in the
prison factories.
LOVE AND A GHOST
By ELIZABETH CHERRY WALTZ.
(Copyright. l0t. by Pally Story Pub- Co.)
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It was Cousin Susan's idea that the
house in which she had been born and
reared was haunted by the ghost of
her father who had died of yellow
fever somewhere in the early part of
the nineteenth century. So she not only
refused to live at "The Maples" her
self, but also refused to allow others
ot her kith and kin who had not a
comfortable habitation to dwell there.
As Miss Susan Pennyfeather was rich
and could dwell in Egypt or the Phil
ippines if she so willed, it was all very
well for her to leave the roomy old
house to the ghost of her progenitor.
It seemed very hard to the family of
Peter Crosley, her cousin, who had no
place to lay their heads save as Mr.
Crosley sold a poem or a song or a
piece of fiction by the error of some
publisher and rented them a place. In
other and more frequent intervals the
family scattered to relatives and stored
their few bits of furnishings.
"But It has all got to stop," declared
Arabelle, the oldest girl, one summer
day. "I shall go and live at 'The Ma
ples and when Cousin Susan returns
from India and finds it out she can
eject me."
"But the ghost?" protested Peter, the
father. "Cousin Susan says It is there
and walks about the house as in life."
"That is highly probable," returned
Arabelle, impudently winking her left
eye, "but the ghost must expect the
friendly visit of relatives. How original
It all is! First cousin to a ghost!
Why, is it not delicious? Anyhow, I'm
going. If Cousin Susan had not wanted
me to do something desperate, she
should have traveled me, taken me
with her, and thus added to the long
list of international marriages."
"We certainly must do something."
said Mrs. Peter, "and that quickly. We
have no money."
"I shall move to 'The Maples' and
invite you all for a long visit," said
Arabelle decidedly. "Is there enough
In hand to buy me a railroad ticket,
or must I sacrifice that hideous idol
Cousin Susan just sent me to show me
that there was a crying need of mis
sionaries to Whangpur or some such
province?"
"I wonder what Lionel Till say?" put
in Sophronla, the second girl.
Arabelle swept her a mocking cour
tesy. "As a young Englishman he will re
joice In ancestral ghosts. As a dis
carded second son trying to live on
nothing but work In America, he may
say. "Oh, what rot!'"
Peter Crosley looked up from a bun
dle of papers fretfully.
"I don't see why Mr. Lionel Carr's
name is brought in at all. Arabelle
has promised me to give him no en
couragement." Arabelle's rosy mouth quivered.
"Me encourage Lionel? Far be the
thought from me. Why, papa, I have
told you a thousand times that he
doesn't need or get any encourage
ment from me. There, are you satis
fied? Now, I shall sell my Idol and go
to 'The Maples.' I will prepare the
way and you will pack up and follow at
once. Don't mind parting with a few
airy nothings in order to get there.
Because, once there, we are housed, at
least."
She sallied forth, light of heart, gay
of speech and smile. No one ever
knew whether Arabelle Crosley felt all
she acted or not, but she was the life
preserver that held up the whole fam
ily in their dark hours.
The idol was rather a cumbersome
fellow and Arabelle looked strange
enough carrying the awkward bundle,
head first, to the elevated road.
"I hope he will sell well," she was
thinking. "He's a very holy Idol,
Cousin Susan wrote. I know that he
Is unearthly ugly and that his green
eyes make me shudder. I wish I had
a half dollar to take a cab."
But she had not the half dollar and
struggled up the steps bravely. She
was a shrewd bargainer and was going
to the best curio store in the city. She
was sure she might get as much as
ten dollars for the thing, maybe more.
She would go down to "The Maples,"
scare out the ghost and take posses
sion. In her heart she did not believe
in the ghost. The adventure had zest,
however.
But Arabelle proposed and could not
dispose. As she stepped from the steps
of the train station onto the pavement
a hurrying man jostled her and she
staggered with her burden. There was
a sharp crack against the nearest post
and Cousin Susan's idol lay in several
fragments. A crowd at once gathered
The idol was rather a cumbersome
fellow.
and there was much laughter at the
rolling head with its horrible green
glass eyes.
Suddenly a hand grasped it, a long
brown hand that drew it away. Ara
belle sprang forward. ' '
"That is mine! Give it to me."
She was clinging to a sinewy arm
that tried in vain to shake her off.
"You shall not have it. It is mine!"
she panted.
Suddenly a strong blow threw the
man backwards. Arabelle sprang for
the idol's head and saved it a further
humiliation. A voice said:
"Arabelle! You?"
"Yes," she gasped, "and Cousin Su
san's idol. Isn't it a shame?"
The tall, fair Englishman was horri
fied.
"Here, boys, pick up the parts. Ara
belle, we may be able to piece it to
gether. But what were you doing with
it out on the street V
Ere he replied a stout gentleman
with gold spectacles pushed forward.
"I was going to sell it," pouted Ara
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belle at the Englishman. "It's a horrid
old thing."
"Perhaps," said the stout gentleman,
"the young lady will sell even the
pieces or the bead. I will buy the
head as it is."
Lionel Carr looked at the man and
then at the hideous face of the idol.
He looked from the one to the other
and a light came on to his counte
nance, the light of knowledge.
"Keep the head, Arabelle," he said
coldly and to the man; 'we will not
sell."
Arabelle saw him gather up the
pieces, then he called a cab.
"Let ns go home," he said tersely.
This was Lionel in a new phase, but
Arabelle loved cabs and she jumped in
gayly. Lionel placed the head in her
lap.
'Now explain," he said, "and I shall
have several things to tell you after
that."
Arabelle related her project of the
ghost hunt with gusto. Lionel was re
lieved. 'That is a great lark," he said kind
ly, "but I must go with you. You can
not go alone."
But Arabelle was never foolish.
The Idol lay In several fragments.
"You know that is Impossible," she
said, coldly.
"Oh, no, not if we just quietly slip
away this afternoon and are married.
It has to be you say things are at a
crisis. Now consent and I'll tell you
two large and uloomlng reasons why
after you have said yes."
Her curiosity got the better of her
in half an hour. Anyhow she had al
ways meant to marry Lionel. He suit
ed her. It was a half-hour more ere
he allowed her to question him.
"But the two things, Lionel?"
"One is that I am called home to
England. My uncle has left me some
money."
"Oh oh! And the other?"
"The other? Well, little girl, you
do not have to go ghost-hunting or
worry over your trousseau money. The
eyes of that blamed old idol are about
the finest emeralds I ever saw and are
worth a pretty penny. But wo will
not inquire about that until after this
other little matter is attended to and
then we'll invade 'The Maples as a
very lively place in which to spend a
honeymoon."
TOO TICKLISH TO BE MEASURED.
Affliction That Compelled ma Irishman
to Wear Old Clothes.
The Rev. 'Dr. Joseph Twlchell told
a story at the dinner of the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick, which won him
the hearty applause of the four hun
dred Irishmen present.
"I was making my first trip about
Dublin," said Dr. Twlchell, "and I had
engaged a jaunting car. While I went
into a store my 'jarvie' fell into a con
versation with another carter, who
was the most tattered specimen of
humanity I ever saw. When we start
ed driving again I asked my 'jarvie'
if the other carter was a friend of
his.
" 'Shure, an' he is, yer honor; he3
my best friend,' was the answer.
" 'Isn't he a bit ragged?' I asked.
" 'Shure, an' he ain't nawthin' else."
" 'Is it because he's so poor?'
" Naw, yer honor, he's plenty of
money.'
'Why, doesn't he buy some decent
clothes, then?'
" 'Why, yer honor, I'll tell yer, he's
that ticklish there ain't a tailor in
Dublin that can measure him, so he
has to wear what he has on." "-'-New
York Tribune.
A Gladstone Escapade.
It is very hard for any of us to
realize that the world's great men
were once boys, and often mischievous
and fun-loving boys at that Child
ren are always delighted to hear of
some frolic indulged in by some great
man when he was a boy, and so they
will surely appreciate the following:
Next door to Mr. Gladstone's home
when he was a little boy lived a lady
who gave large evening receptions,
and during the evening there would
be many coachmen and footmen wait
ing outside. Gladstone and his
brother would go on the top floor of
their house, armed with squirt guns,
with which they squirted the coach
men and footmen waiting in the street
below. Henry Chaplin said the way
In which the venerable statesman
chuckled at the recollection of these
youthful escapades was most amus
ing. He said that Mr. Gladstone be
came quite convulsed when he pro
ceeded to tell him how delightful he
and his brother were to hear the ser
vants expressing their wonder as to
whese the rain came from.
Taeclnation Teas.
Vanity Fair thus describes a London
function:
One of the most "fetching" social
shows of last week was the "vaccina
tion tea" given by a renowned hostess.
In one drawing-room the lady received
her guests, comprising notable beau
ties, party leaders and favorite mem
bers of the household brigade. In oth
er rooms four leading stars of the
medical profession waited to vaccinate
the fair "companions In arms," the
sterner sex being operated on In yet
another dainty bondoir. Some of the
women displayed the greatest ingenu
ity In the arrangement of their sleeves.
having had them divided at the top,
then .reunited with ribbons, which,
when untied, revealed enough of the
"marble arm" to enable the vaccinator
to set his seal thereon.
God's visits if gratefully received
will be graciously repeated.
J- Co
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Trust Forming to Control all Food
Supplies by Storage, -CLEARED
MILLIONS ON EGGS.
Washington, April 21. Evidence is
accumulating to show that the forma
tion of a colossal food combine is the
ultimate object of the beef trust. In
Philadelphia and other Eastern cities
the trust has already become a power
to be feared in the butter, egg and
poultry line, and it has now begun to
turn its attention to the cornering of
the vegetable and fruit market.
The trust is well equipped to extend
its control to nearly every branch of
the food industry. The combined
storage capacity of the big Western
houses in the pact is far greater than
is needed for storing meat. For two
years past the big packing firms have
been expecting the formation of a
trust. Naturally every packing con
cern wanted to have the highest possi
ble valuation placed on its property,
and for this reason every packer has
been improving his plant as much as
possible. New storage houses have
been erected all over the country, and
the result has been that the storage
room has been far in excess of the
actual needs.
With all this space at its disposal,
the trust has been in a position to buy
up all the provisions of any kind it
wanted and hold them in cold storage
until a corner was effected, and then
unload at a big profit. This policy was
followed in cornering the egg market
last winter, when the combine cleared
millions by selling its purchases at a
profit of from 20 to 30 cents a dozen.
It is said that the same system is now
being adopted to corner the potato
market, but the work of unloading has
not yet begun. Independent whole
salers in the meat business say that
the combine had all its plans laid to
incorporate a packers' trust on the
lines of the steel trust this spring, but
that the exposure of its methods in the
press compelled a temporary abandon
ment of the scheme.
Australia Has Fro-IIoers.
Victoria, B. C, April 19. News of a
pro-Boer sensation iu the Australian
house was received by the steamer
Moana. Senator Higgs made a pro
Boer speech, arguing that there was no
justification of the sending of contin
gents to South Africa by Australia to
aid in enterminating the brave people
and he argued for general amnesty for
the Boers, his speech being drowned ia
the uproar it created.
Rook Island In Texas.
Guthrie, O. T., April 16. C. H.
Thompson returned from Fort Worth,
Texas, where as a stockholder, he at
tended a meeting of the Chieago, Rock
Island & Texas railroad company.
He says they organized to construct
596 miles of track between Fort Worth
and Galveston.
Chinamen Dying Rapidly.
Washington, April 19. United States
Consul McWade at Canton has cabled
the state department as follows:
' 'Whole villages on the banks of North
river in the vicinity of Shickwanf, are
devastated by smallpox and typhoid.
Fatshan is suffering from cholera and
the plague."
National Home for Klks.
Roanoke, Va.. April IS. It is an
nounced that the Benevolent Protec
tive Order of Elks has purchased the
Hotel Bedford, at Bedford City, and
will convert the building into a Na
tional Elks' home. The price is said
to have been 81 1,000.
Cable to Hawaii this Season.
San Francisco, April 15. San Fran
cisco has been chosen as the landing
plaee of the Pacific cable. This de
cision was made by George G. Ward,
vice president of the Commercial Pa
cific Cable company. The cable will
start from the north side of Golden
Gate Park, and will be carried under
ground about seven miles through the
streets. It is expected to have the first
link in the cable, from this city to
Honolulu, completed before next
Thanksgiving.
Revolution In China.
Hong Kong, April 18. A courier ar
rived at Canton and reported that
more than 2,000 imperialist soldiers sent
by Marshal Su against the rebels, were
ambushed in a narrow defile. All were
killed or captured.
The situation in the rebellious dis
tricts of Southern China is increasingly
alarming. The viceroy of Canton has
telegraphed to Pekin urging imme
diate reinforcements. This is not a
boxer outbreak but an uprising against
the present dynasty.
Lion Whipped by Bull.
El Paso, Tex., April IT. The battle
between a Numidian lion and a wild
Salamanca bull was witnessed by
thousands of people from all over the
southwest and Mexico. One-fourth of
the spectators in the ampitheater sur
rounding the bull ring were American
women. The battle continued fiercely
for an hour. The bull was not fatally
hurt, but the lion was gored fully
twenty-five times and will undoubtedly
die. His leg was broken and he was
completely vanquished.
To Return Henry's Visit.
Washington, D. C, April 19. Prince
Henry's visit to America is to be re
turned by a trio of distinguished Amer
ican army officers. When he leaves
Berlin for the great autnmn maneuvers
of the German army next September
Emperor William is to have as his com
panions and guests three representa
tives of the American army Major
Generals Corbin and Young and Brig
adier general Wood, although the lat
ter may be major general , by that
time.
Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage Dead.
Washington, April 15. Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, the noted Presbyterian
clergyman, is dead at his residence in
this city. It had been evident for some
days that there was no hope of recov
ery, and the attending physicians so
informed the family. The patient
gradually grew weaker, until life
passed away so quietly that even the
members of the family all of whom
were watching at the bedside, hardly
knew that he had gone. Inflammation
of the brain waa the) cause.
PLEAD FOR GEN. MILES.
The General Sends Promises to Keep Ab
. solute!? Silent.
Washington, D. C, April 21. Four
Republican senators went to the White
House and urged the president to per
mit General Miles to remain undis
turbed at the head of the army.
President Roosevelt, in reply, ex
plained some of the reasons why he
believed General Miles had destroyed
his usefulness and why the good of the
service demands his retirement. The
president explained that he had no
personal animosity toward General
Miles, but that he could not reconcile
with his duty any insubordination on
the part of officers of any rank. He
said that while violations of the ar
ticles of war by a few of our coldiers
in the Philippines was bad enough and
should be rigorously punished, it was a
small matter compared with subver
sion of discipline at the very head of
the army itself. The president brought
to the attention of his callers the charge
which has been made that General
Miles has acted with members of the
Philippine committee in trying to dis
credit the army, and asked if that sort
of tqing was to be tolerated.
The senators told the president that
they were authorized by friends of
General Miles to say theat the general
had agreed to say and do nothing in
the future; that he was willing to keep
absolutely silent, and that he would
do his best to so conduct himself as to
meet with the president's approval.
Upon hearing this President Roose
velt promised to take no action "at
present" and there the matter rests.
German Flying; Machine Fraud.
Berlin, April 21. Hermann Gans
windt, whose bo-eared flying machine
has attracted wide attention here and
abroad, is arrested for protracted de
ception, forgery and gnlliug the public
into subscribing for shares of an
aeroptane company. He obtained
money in small sums from hundreds of
persons. Ganswindt recently flooded
the papers here with immense adver
tisement of flying machines containing
the endorsements of clerg3'men and
other persons inexperienced in business
from all parts of Germany. It trans
pires that seme of the names were
forged.
Bishop of Western Kansas.
Cincinnati. April 17. Over sixty
bishops signified their intention to be
present in this city this week at the
session of the house of bishops of the
Episcopal church, when bishops of
Salina (Western Kansas), of Honolulu
and of Porto Rico and perhaps of Mex
ico, are to be selected. Arrangements
were made for public meetings and
banquets in the evenings, but the busi
ness sessions will all be executive.
Dwej Invited to Funston Banquet.
Denver, Colo., April 21. Admiral
Dewey has been iuvited to come to
Denver and be a . guest of honor at a
banquet which the First regiment.
Colorado National Guard, will give to
General Frederick Funston, com
mander of the Department of Colorado,
at the Windsor hotel on May 1, the
anniversary of the battle of Manila
bay.
German Socialists Sent! Funds.
Berlin, April 21. The socialist ex
ecutive committee has sent 10,000 marks
to assist the Belgian socialist movement
and has published a call to the German
socialists, asking them to make indi
vidual contributions for the same pur
pose.
Carnegie Gives to Union College.
Schenectady, X. Y., April 18. Presi
dent Raymond announces that Andrew
Carnegie had given 540,000 to Union
college. The entire sum will be de
voted to the orapletion of Nott memo
rial hall.
Thomas May Not Accept.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 21. Rev.
Thomas, who was elected Bishop of
Salina, says: "I want to know whether
I was unanimously selected or just got
through witli a bare vote. Then, I
want to know whether the people of
Kansas want me. Then I must con
sider where I can do the best work for
the church. I have just been elected
to the chair of parochial activities of
the Kpiscop.il Divinity school, in West
Philadelphia, and I think I should not
leave this work unless I am to enter a
Geld inHvhich I shall be more useful."
More Texas Cattle to Pasture.
Edmond, Ok., April 16. A thousand
car loads of cattle have gone through
Edmond on the Santa Fe the past week
bound for White Eagle and Elgin.
Three thousand car loads of cattle will
come out of Texas to go on to the pas
tures in the Osage country. If the
Reason is favorable the cattle will go
from the Osage pastures to market. If
it is dry, they will again be wintered
in Texas. It takes the pasture in the
territories to put on the flesh and pre
pare the cattle for market.
Bituminous Miners.
Dubois, Pa.. April 17. General Man
ager Robinson of the Rochester &
Pittsburg Coal and Iron company met
President Mitchell and the district
officers of the United Mine Workers,
together with delegates from the dif
ferent mines in this region, at Punxu
waney, in a conference lasting five
hours. As a result of the conference
it is generally felt that within a few
days the strike of the bituminous
miners will be declared off; both sides
having made concessions.
Probably by Oil and Gas.
Vancouver, B. C, April 19. Advices
from Australia state that on March
10th the New Hebrides islands were
shaken by an earthquake. The shocks
were renewed throughout the week.
Six hours after the first trembling the
city became a blaze of light, and
Albriin, Lopevi and Tingoa volcanoes
burst forth into action, the last named
blowing out a new throat into the sea
and sending a great waterspout over
the land. The devastation caused by
the earthquake was widespread.
Gov. Dole to Continue in Offlee.
Washington, April 16. The presi
dent, after most careful investigation
and hearing as many men as possible,
and hearing from others, has come to
the conclusion that Governor - Dole's
course has been such as to warrant bis
oonainuance as governor of Hawaii and
entitle him to the respect and hearty
support of the administration. The
governor was a caller at the White
House and said that he would go to
Boston for a short visit and in about
two weeks would sail for home.
Lieutenant General Miles To Be
Retired. -
CALL IT POLITICAL MISTAKE.
Washington, April 17. Within a very
short time the president will issue the
order removing General Miles from
the active list of the army, notwith
standing the fact that virtually every
member of his cabinet and a majority
of the Republican senators are opposed
to this action.
As a rule the opposition is not on the
ground of any injustice to General
Miles, but is based solely on a fear that
it will prove a political mistake.
Ten days ago the president promised
two prominent republican senators
that he would permit the case to rest
for a month or so unless some new
offense on General Miles' part should
make it necessary for him to act earlier.
It is understood in administration
circles that General Miles is accused of
some new indiscretion or of doing
something which the president regards
as an indiscretion. The president has
been advised that resolutions will
quickly be passed in one or both
Houses asking for a statement of the
reasons for the action. These reasons,
it is understood, the president will be
prepared to give when they arc asked
for, and it is further said that they
will embrace a fairly complete review
of General Miles' relations to the War
department and the commander in
chief since he rose to the rank of senior
general officer commanding the army,
inclusive of several incidents which
have not as yet been commented upon
in the newspapers.
Political and army circles in Wash
ington are very much divided on the
Miles retirement question.
400,000 Acres to be Opened.
Omaha, Neb., April 21. Definite in
formation of the extent and location of
that portion of the Rosebud Indian
reservation to be opened for-settlement
the coming summer, was received by
General Passenger Agent Buchanan, of
the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley railroad. There are about
400,000 acres in the part being opened,
located in the southwest corner of the
reservation, and in Gregory county, S.
D. It is oblong in shape, and its long
est dimensions, north and south, are
thirty-six miles, and from east to west,
twenty-six miles. The terminus of the
Elkhorn road, which is building a line
into Gregory from the south, will
probably be at Bonesteel, but the road
will later be constructed to a point
several miles within the reservation.
The proclamation of the president,
fixing a date for the opening, is ex
pected in a short timer
Arkansas Women Still Firm.
Fort Smith, Ark., April 21. The
Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs,
in annual session here, adopted a reso
lution opposing any compromise meas
ure "which shall leave a loophole by
which colored women may be intro
duced into the General Federation of
Women's Clubs," and providing for the
withdrawal of the Arkansas organiza
tion from the national federation if
colored clubs shall be admitted.
Will Push Statehood Bill.
Washington, April 21. The friends
of statehood for the three territories
are getting ready to fight for recogni
tion if the speaker docs not fix an early
date when the house will consider the
measure. They now insist that action
be taken next week and hope that the
speaker will be on their side, but if not
it is their plan to call up the bill and
depend on their numerical strength to
carry it through.
Hot Springs Water Not Curative
Washington, April 21. In a report
made to the secretary of the interior.
Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the agricul
tural department, in substance says
that the result of an analysis of thirty
nine samples of the water from Hot
Springs, Ark., shows the waters to
to possess no greater curative proper
ties than so much Potomac river water.
He ascribes the cures effected to the
benefits derivable from systematic
bathing, change of scenery and, regu
lar diet and the u niforra temperature
of the water.
To Force out Cattlemen.
Omaha, April 16. Fifty thousand
acres of grazing land has been pur
chased by a party of sheep men of
western Wyoming. The land lies along
the Union Pacific railroad and ia grant
land. These 'sales are said to be the
first of a large number to be con
summated in the near future The
buying of the land, said one of the
purchasers, is part of a plan of the
sheep raisers to force the cattle men
out of the district over which there is so
much strife. .
Delay Favors Trust. .
Washington, April 21. The secretary
of war sent to the senate a communica
tion from General Wood, again assert
ing that the planters and Cuban sugar
dealers hold the bulk of Cuban sugar.
The amounts held, is so great, he says,
that they must unload very soon. He
says this large amount when thrown
on the market, will greatly reduce the
price and that delay of action toward
reduction of the duty on sugar in the
United States is paying directly into
hands of the sugar trust.
Meddling and Offlelous.
Topeka, April 17. The friends of
Eugene Ware, recently appointed to
the office of pension commissioner, do
not ascribe any importance to the
charges about to be filed against him
in Washington. . Mr. Ware is under
stood as having liberal views on relig
ious matters. The ministerial union of
Topeka is considering working to
oppose his confirmation on the ground
that he is an agnostic. As yet there
has been no formal action taken by the
union.
Rash of Stock to Pasture.
Arkansas City, Kas., April IS. The
stock rush on the Santa Fe is heavier
this year than for years. In one day
over 150 cars were brought to Arkansas
City and then taken out to the quaran
tine pens at Davidson and Elgin to be
unloaded and driven into the territory.
The Texas stock looks well and is in
the best of condition. The grass in
the territory has taken a big start. The
rains of the last two months have made
it grow very fast. The rush will last
for twenty days more.
IMPURE BAKING POWDER SEIZED
The Xew York Board of Health Find It
Contains Alum and Rock, Declare It
Dangerous to Health and Dump
It Into the River.
The New York papers report that
the Health Department of that city
has seized as dangerous to health
nearly two tons of cheap mixtures sold
for baking powder and dumped them
into the offal scow to be destroyed.
More of the powder was found In a
Sixth ave. department store. The re-.
port of the analysis of the Health .
Department stated that it was "an
alum baking powder" containing alum
and pulverized rock. '
The different Health Authorities
seem to have different ways of re
pressing the -sale of bad baking pow-'
ders. In England they have prosecut
ed the grocers under the general law -and
broken up the traffic. In Missouri
the sale of alum baking powder is
actually prohibited by law. In New "
York they seize the unwholesome stuff
and cast It into the river without any.
discussion. The latter way is certain
ly effective.
The alum baking powders are usu
ally offered at a low price, ten to
twenty cents a pound, or with some
prize, as a temptation to the house
wife. Consumers can protect themselves
by buying only high-grade baking
powder of established name and
reputation. Do not be tempted by the
grocer to take something else as "just
as good" or "our own brand," for the
trials show that the grocer himself is
often deceived by unscrupulous mak
ers, and is selling an alum powder
without knowing It.
There are several good powders on
the market; let the housekeeper insist
on having what she knows is right,
and not be induced to risk the life o!
the family for an Imaginary saving ot
a few cents.
Bread from Bananas.
Banana bread is now on sale In
some places. It is made of bananas
dried and ground down into flour, and
is considered twenty-five times as nu
tritive as ordinary white bread made
of wheat.
Hopelessly Stock.
Lord Ribblesdale gave a recent de
bate in the Lords a touch of humor
in attempting to quote "From Green
land's icy mountains." He steered
safely through the first line, mangled
the second and failed altogether at
the third. But he is not the first great
man whom the hymn has tripped up.
One famous personage fell over the
first line: "From Iceland's greasy
mountains," be began, and got no
further.
Clever Damage Coaxcr.
An ingenious method of obtaining
pocket money is in vogue in London.
Its originator travels oni suburban
lines. When the collector demands
his ticket, he explains at some length
that, having paid for it. it is his
property. After much time has been
wasted, the collector usually waxes
impatient, and snatches the ticket out
of the passenger's hand, who promptly
summons the company for assault, and
obtains damages. ,
Andrew Carnegie Remembered.
Robert Storey of Irwin, Pa., has re
ceived a letter from Andrew Carnegie
informing him that he had placed on
the pension list of the old railroad
ers who were employed on the Penn
sylvania railroad under Mr. Carnegie.
Mr. Storey was a freight conductor in
the early 69's. Two men. unknown to
him, boarded the tender of his train,
and when Storey discovered them he
ordered them off. Afterward Storey
learned that one of tne men wa3 An
drew Carnegie.
Street Railway Stop Signs.
Beginning on Wednesday next the
"white pole" stop-signs arrangement
on the Boston & Northern street rail
way will go into effect. The poles are
placed very near together. At first it
was proposed to have them 600 feet
apart, but constant clamors for poles
at this place and that place have re
duced the distances in some cases to
less than 200 feet apart. It Is ex
pected that the system will gradually
be Introduced on other lines. Boston
Globe.
Pain Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Vae the
last on the first, and you will neither
have one nor the other.
You can't bo happy unless you try to
make others happy.
PtJTMAM FADELESS DYES are fast
to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold
by druggists, 10c per package.
The cipher is an example of some
thing for nothing.
Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance Starch
is taking the place of all others.
Love and a good dinner are great
workers in the field of charity.
Good enough
for anybody!
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