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Monday from 10 to 11 a m. we sell a popular line of Indigo Blue
prints at 4 3-4 cents. Not more tlian twelve yards to a customer.
"We-intend malting our cloak department down stairs, to clean
out the goods we have no room for. "We will make a rediculous cut
on Newmarkets for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the north room Monday morning we open new ginghams,
prints, table linens, towels, etc.
Munson & MeNamara.
COLE .&. JONES!
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Hundreds of Keen Sharp Buyers taking ad-.
vantage of this great sacrifice sale.
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$5 overcoats going at $3 50.
$12 and $14 overcoats going at $8.
$15 overcoats going at $10.
$18 overcoats going at $12.
$20 Chinchilla overcoats going at $11.
$25 overcoats going at $17.
$30 overcoats going at $20.
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The above will give you a slight idea of the
immense cut we have made on our overcoats.
"We havaselected out a lot of fine imported
worsted suits, ranging in price from $18 to
30, and will give you choice of the lot for 15.
Also cassimere suits, worth from $18 to
$30, choice for $15.
These bargains are going fast, you will
have to come soon to get best selections.
COLE & JONES
The One Price Clothiers,
208, 210 and 212 DOUGLAS AVENUE. WICHITA, KANSAS.
ARCADE
Corsets : 95C : Corsets
"We offer you the only corset made today that you cannot brake
down, for 95 cents. If this corset ever breaks down we give your
money back and the corset for nothing.
Bemt. Frencii Sateens
"Fif ty remnants of genuine French Sateens, worth 35 cents, to be
closed out at 18 cents. Just half price.
Pure Linen Slieeting.
One piece Pure Irish Linen Sheeting, 11-4, worth SI 75 per yard.
"Will sell this piece at $1 10.
Gents' Linen Collars.
"We will offer this week 100 dozen genuine four ply collars at
only 10 cents each; cuffs 15 cents.
Big Special Bargain.
We have an elegant Axininster Carpet which we had made for a
certain party who could not pay the
loxio. x ou can nave it lor one-nair tne regular price,
P. S. We are here to sca-y through thick and thin.
THE "ARCADE.'
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SELF-DESTRUCTION GLADLY
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Six Deaths in the Mines of Kara
Caused by Official
Brutalities.
lour Associates of the Murdered Madame
Sibida Take Poison to Escape a
Like Pate.
Her Brother Dies Either of Grief or hy His
Own Hand History of the Unfor
tunate Prisoners, their Trivial
Crimes and Life of Constant
Suffering, Mental and
Physical.
(.Copyrighted 1890, by the Kew York Associated Press
Loxdon, Feb. 15. Proyided with a cable
dispatch of introduction from George
Kennan, the celebrated Siberian traveler,
the London agent of the Associated Press
called this morniug on Zergius Stepnial:,
the well known writer upon Russian
political and social conditions. Mr. Step
niak was asked whether he could give any
information in regard to the outrage in the
political prison at Kara in eastern Siberia,
rumors about which had recently renched
the public press by way of the Russian
colony in Paris, Mr. Stepniak replied that
tne reports already published gave only a
hint of the horrible tragedy enacted
at Kara. Perfectly trustworty
information, he said, had been received in
cypher letters that have succeeded in get
ting to Paris and London from exiles in
eastern Siberia. These letters, which are
nothing but meagre scraps of paper, tell
the story of the recent horror only its
main outlines. Rut ono who knows about
the Siberian prison life does not need a
circumstantial recital to understand the
crnelty of discipline and the agony of suf
fering of which ti3 horror was the cul
mination. Tl-.e full details of the dread
ful story cnj not be long now in reaching
the western world. Coming so soon after
publicity even to tho Yakutsk atrocity,
Mt Stepniak thinks it can hardly fail to
1 .eepen the sense of horror already felt
by the civilized world at Russia's treat
ment of political offenders.
ABSOLUTELY FLOGGED TO DEATH.
The facts so far received aro as follows:
Madame Sihida did not commit suicide, as
tho earliest reports stated; shodied from
tho effects of the cruel flogging to which
she w'is subjected. The flogging took
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pace on W ednesday, 2soveraber G. It was
continued till under the brutal blows the
unhappy victim lost consciousness and
lay as ono dead. The poor woman never
revived from the terrible shock, but con
tinued to grow weaker and weaker until
'Friday, when death came to her relief.
The news of hor shocking official mur
der produced wido spread dismay and
anguish among her fellow prisoners and
three of them, unable to longer
bear their wretched fate, committed
suicide by taking poison. How thoy ob
tained tho poison is not known, but
probably they had long had it in their
possession and were keeping it as a last
resort. The names of the women were
Marie Kaluzhnaya, Maria Paoloona
Karalefskaya, and Xadezhda Smirnits
kaya, and these facts are learned about
them:
stories of ran sthcides.
Mario Kaluzhnaya was arrested in 15S4,
being then a girl of 18, on a charge of dis
loyalty. Her father was a merchant of
Odessa. During her imprisonment every
means was tried in vain to extort from
her a confession implicating her friends.
At last Colonel Kalanski, a gendarme
officer, brought to her a fully forged state
ment purporting to be the confession of
bcrjfellow conspirators and promising im
munity if she also confessed.
Mario fell into tho trap, con
fessed and her confession was used
against her friends who were sentenced to
OCnal servitude. When she learned they
had made no confession but had been con
victed on her testimony alone she pro
cured a revolver and oh August 21 called
ou Colonel Kalanski and fired at him,
wounding him slightly in one car. For
this attempted assassination she was con
demned by court martial at Odessa on
September 10. 1SS4, and sentenced to
twenty years penal servitude.
Maria Paoloona Karalefskaya was a
young married lady about 35 3-ears of ace,
daughter of a well known landed pro
prietor in tha south of Russia, Paul
Voroutsof, and sister of Basil Voroutsof,
one of the best known political economists
in Russia. She joiued a secret circle
which was surprised and captured by the
police in February, 1S79, and sentenced to
thirteen years penal servitude with exile
to Siberia for life and deprivation of all
civil rights. Her husband, though not
present, was sent by administrative process
a thousand miles from the mines to which
she was sent. The separation drove her
insane and she was put in a straight jacket.
In 1SS1 she was allowed to join her hus
band in the hope of restoring her reason.
She recovered, but a new governor separ
ated them again and she was returned to
the Kara mines.
Nadezhda Smirnitskaya was 33 years
old and a student of a woman's college.
She was sentenced to the Kara mines for
fifteen years with penal servitude.
MALE rr.ISOXERS SEEK KELIEF.
Shortly after the suicide of the three
women a brother of Marie Kaluzhnaya,
also a political prisoner, died suddenly.
It is not definitely known as yet whether
he. too, died by poison or whether his
death was the result of overpowering
grief ou learning of the death of his sister.
uother exile named liobokov com-
muted suicide rather than submit to the i
cruel humiliation of suffering a flogging.
Bobokov was a university student and
took part in some public demonstration of
the students which" was displeasing to the
authorllie. He was thereupon ordered to
make his abode at Ridega, a small village
in the province of Archangel, the northern-
mosi. 01 r.uruie;iu iiuwin. i- rum mere lie 1
attempted to make,his escape and for this
offense he was exiled to the mines of
eastern Siberia.
ixogged qx OFF rriAL order.
Tho flogging of Madame Sihida occurred
under orders issued by Lieutenant-Gen-
cr.il BaronkoofT, the governor general of
the of the province of the Amour, in
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which the Kara prison is situated. These
orders directed that the secret edict of
March, 1SSS, signed by Galkinavraski,
director general of the prisons for the em
pire, should be unflinchingly enforced.
This edict was to the effect that the politi
cal convicts should be treated by prison
officials in precisely the same manner as
criminals condemned for common law
offenses. Political prisoners were thus
made liable to flogging for breaches
of prison discipline. In what
pitticular way Madame Sihida bad
transgressed the prison rules is not clearly
explained, but flogging a sensitive and
cultured woman to death for any lack of
conformity to prison regulations, Mr.
Stepniak thought, would impress the
western world with profound horror. The
political prisoners at Kara, 3Ir. Stepniak
said, had in some way learned that the
political exiles imprisoned at Saghalien
had also been subjected to cruel floggings.
They were constantly in dread of similar
torture to that inflicted upon Madame
Sihida.
THE GOVERNMENT COMPELLED TO ACT.
Mr. Stepniak was asked whether he
thought the czar, jn view of the
fact that these exceptional hor
rors at Kara had been made
public would interfere to mitigate the
severity of the prison discipline in the case
of political convicts. He replied that he
thought it not unlikely that tho publica
tion of the facts would force the superior
offlci"ls of Russia to take some notice of
the affair. But ho said the flogging and
all the otuer brutalities were entirely due
to the direct orders of the central govern
ment at St. Petersburg, namely the edict
of March, 188S. The ministery of tho in
terior was, therefore, directly responsible
for the renewal of corporal punishment of
political prisoners which had been sus
pended in 1877, after Trepoff ordered Bogo
luboff to be flogged.
ONLY f ABTIALLY BEVEALED.
Lecturer Kennan Hints at an Appalling
State of Affairs.
Chicago, LI., Feb. 15. George Kennan
was shown the dispatch from London con
cerning the Siberian outrages. "Such
news," he said, "Is enough to make a
man's blood boil. It has been reserved for
the close of the nineteenth century to wit
ness this crowning consummation of Rus
sian barbarity, the flogging of helpless, un
protected women.
"Madame Sihida, the principal victim in
this tragedy, I know little about. She
was sent to the mines after I left Russia
in 1SS6. It seems appalling to, think that
this poor creature was deliberately flogged
to death, though it would take
perhaps but a moderate infliction of
the terrible knout in the case of
a feeble and doubtless failing woman.
The man who committed this outrage
must have been an extraordinary brute,
even for Russian oflicials. 1 have seen
brutes in Siberia in n state of partial iu
toxicatiou, who might doit, ami it is pos
sible that this fellow may havesbeen under
the influence of liquor when he ordered
this torture inflicted. Previous reports
allude to the suicide of others besides the
three mentioned in the Associated Press
dispatch. It is possible that among these
may be Anna Pavlovua Korba, a school
teacher; Anna Yakimova Praskova, Ivan
Offstaya and Tatiana Lebedeva, also
school teachers, and all young
I iflllCLl ttiiu ncio U Will. until-)
0f K:irft wuen 1 visited them. It is highly
women wno were at tne mines
probable that these 'women, highly edu
cated and of a sensatiye temperament,
shocked beyond measure at the appalling
finale of tho brutal treatment to which
their sister convict has been sub
jected, have committed suicide.
In addition to the other two mentioned
in tho dispatch, Kalaviskaya and Madame
Smirinitzkaya, I see it is also reported that
the men at the Kara mines have revolted.
This statement confirms in my mind the
story, for whilst tho mines to which the
med aro seut are somewhat remote from
thoso where the female exiles are con
signed, yet it would ba impossible
to prevent the news of this
outrage from , reaching the men,
either by secret sympathizers among the
guards themselves, or directly and irnme
diatelv, as the news of a great event will
spread anywhere, let what efforts you like
be made to suppress it. The flogging of
Madame Sihida in itself would have been
enough to have aroused them to a condi
tion of frenzy, for it is tho first time with
in my knowledge such an atrocity has
been rommitted within the borders of the
empire, but the subsequent suicide of the
three unfortunato lemale companions of
tho victim of official barbarism, fol
lowed by the death of her
brother by taking poison, would have been
provocative of such a frenzy of indignation
and hate that they would have stopped at
uothiug. They were all desperate men.
senteuced for life or for long terms, and
tht-3' would no doubt have fenrlessly op
posed themselves to tne rifles of the soldiers
with their bare hands or with such rude
weapons as they could wrench from the
furnishing of their prison. It is this class
of men who head the periodical hunger
strikes in consequence of inhuman treat
ment. Prisoners have beeu brought
to think they would as soon
die as live and set about
deliberately to better their condition by
starving themselves to death, until their
demands are complied with, and brute as
he is a Russian will give in sooner than
see a man starve to death. So they have
generally beeu successful in this peculiar
method of bettering their condition.
"I don't think," said Mr. Kennan in
conclusion, "that we haye the whole of
this story by any means. It would not
surprise me, when the whole truth is
told, to learn that matters are far worse
than stated in the report. In Russia, un
der the administrative exile system, every
thing that is atrocious is not only possible
but .more than probable."
TOLIAMI1J EARNEST-
The Emperor Determined to Ameliorate the
"Workingman's Condition.
f Coprrishtcd 1. by tlieXew York Associated Press
Berlix, Feb. 15. The emperor's gener
ous and magnanimous purpose and his
earnestness and sincerity in the endeavor
to ameliorate the condition of the working
people and obtaining full recognition
raises a chorus of praise on every side, but
the doubts that were expressed regarding
tho practical value of his intentions as in
dicated in the rescriDts have been strength-
ene(1 b5" the speech he deliverea before the
council of state. In every part of this he
5bow3 an increased consciousness that the
utmost power of the sovereign is limited
by tho mere fiction that this is a constitu
tional government and tha; he
may not succeed in overcominc
the obstacles arising from the inherent
I'lmciimfts rn nil evra rworm i is
erroneous to suppose that tbeernperor has
plunged into all this in defiance of the
chancellor's opinion..Througbout the incep
tion ot 111s labor program tne emoeror has
constantly sought the opinion of tht; chan
cellor upon the main theme itself and upon
its various phases as they have presented
themselves to his mind.
Prince Bismarck stated in a very free
spirit, in a conversation held at the last
parliamentary dinner, the relations be
tween himself and the emperor and the po
sition in wnich he stood. He said: "Tfcel
emperor certainly likes me and as to many
things ha relies upon me, but he has a
stubborn will and when he has once
made up his mind even I can not
influence it, nor can any ether
man." Knowing the headstrong
character he hr.s to deal with and to guide,
if that is possible, the chancellor has to give
a loeso rem to the imperial male, coafiden
that experience will tame the impetuosity
cf the emperor's present yearning to con-
"i a"i reguuue evervtnii
After the session of tee ccuncil of
state
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wa3 ended there was held an interesting
and very animated reception at which
Prince Bismarck presented to the emperor
all the industrial and other non-military
members. Much was said in the course of
this reception upon the point that the
workingmen would not appreciate the In
terest that the emperor felt in their "wel
fare and that gross ingratitude from them
would be the only response to the effort to
ameliorate their condition. The emperor
responded: "To earn the gratitude
of the workingman is not my
motive. My motive is to see that
justice is done. If the souls of the work
ingmen are so hardened that they can not
properly respond to what we shall en
endeavor to do for them, that also must be
due to the degradation of misery and gives
more reason for coming to thir rescue."
It is thought that during the elections
for the reichstag ou Thursday, erery part
of the country will bo quiet. The meet
ings of the socialists everywhere are un
disturbed. Tho police have been ordered
to cease to interfere with them. Tne em
peror has especially warned the police bu
rean here to refrain from many practices
of doubtful propriety, end has plainly said
that he will not tolerate the system of
sending out officers in disguse to entrap
the unwary into committing crime.
BEFOETED FAVORABLY.
The New" House Bill to Organize Oklahoma
Territory Notes.
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TVAsnrXQTOX, Feb. 15. Representative
Struble, from the committee on territories,
today reported favorable the bill to organ
ize the territory of Oklahoma.
Representative Anderson, of Kensas, in
troduced a bill in the house appropriating
5250,000 for the purchase of a residence in
or near Washington for the president of
the United States.
The president today appointed Edward
B. Lyon to be postmaster at Dayton, O.,
vs. Lewis J. Judson, removed.
REMOVAL OF THE APACHES.
Washington; Feb. 15. Governor Lewis
Wolfley, of Arizona, and General Nelson
A. Miles appeared today before tho house
committee on Indian affairs, with regard
to the proposed removal of tho Apaches to
Fort Sill. Governor Wolfley presented a
large number of clippings from western
papers which he said showed that the sen
timent of the people was that these Indians
should not be returned to the west. Gen
eral Miles also gp resented a copy of his
leporton the surrender of the Indians,
which was sent through military channels
by way of San Francisco. There, he said,
it had been pigeon holed and was afterwards
taken out on an order from the war
department. This report, General Miles
said, had never bMn published. It was
dated Fort Bowie, A. "T., September 0,
18S0, and addressed to the assistant ad
jutant general, division of the Pacific, at
San Francisco, Cat It contains a brief
account of the surrender of Geronimo and
and his band and says: "They are wholly
submissive and can be controlled without
difficulty. They expect banishment from
this country and know that I am now
moving all those at Fort Apache. For
reasons of economy, safety and health I
still believe that Forts Riley and Leaven
worth would be suitable places of confine
ment and the worst of the men and
boy.- could he placed within the
prison walls of Fort Leavenworth military
prison, but unless I receive instructions
to the contrary I shall ship them and those
at Fort Apnche to Fort Marion, Fla."
General Miles said in conclusion that ho
thought the peoplo of Arizona and New
Mexico had great cause for apprehension
if the Indians were to be removed to Fort
Sill. '1 here never was such terror in Ari
zona as when tho Indians were there and
the people were never so happy as they are
now when the Indians are away.
PENALTIES FOR EVADING CENSUS
QUESTIONS.
Washington. Feb. 15. The journal of
yesterday's proceedings was approved
yeas 123, nays 1. The Republicans were
tho first to feel the effects of tho new rules,
some of them who were not present during
the roll call being refused permission to
record their votes thereafter.
Mr. Dunnell, of. Minnesota, from the
committee on tne eleventh census, report
ed back the senate bill providing for the
ascertaining of tho mortgage indebtedness
of the country.
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, offered an
amendment providing that sections 13 to
10 of the original census act shall apply to
the provisions of this act. He stated that
the bill was not an amendment to the
original act and consequently its effect lay
in the fact that it failed to provide any
pains or penalties for officers guilty of
malfeasance or any officers or others lef us
ing to answer questions. The amendment
was adopted 9S to 03, and the bill as
amended passsd yeas 183, nays 25.
Public business was then suspended and
the house proceeded to listen to appropri
ate eulogies to the memory of tho lion.
Richard W. Townsend, of Illinois, and in
memory of the deceased tho house ad
journed. WESTERN MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL
Washington, Feb. 13. Fourth-class
postmasters have been appointed as fol
lows in Kansas: Lay, Montgomery coun
ty, J. W. Miller, vice A. H. Sutton, re
signed; Myers Valley, Pottawatomie
county, J. Harvey, vice J. W. Smith, re
moved. Pensions granted to Kansans wero the
following: Original invalid John Y.
Morris. Robinsou. Increase J. Shockley.
Xorth Topeka; J. X. Shottim, La Crosse;
J. F. Bainum. TJdall; J. R. S. Douner,
Walnut; J. F. Herriott, Topeka; E A.
Grover; J. B. Duckworth, Topeka; J.
Kinsej-, Latham; Caines Vandover, Sylvan
Grove; C. Kiser. Tipton; D. E. lienedict,
Great Bend; John W. Mc Williams, Wes
catunga. Mexican survivors X, B. Bish
op, Horton.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB ASSOCIATION.
Washington, Feb. 15. The executive
committee of the national association of
Democratic clubs met at the Ebbit house
this afternoon, Mr. Chauncey F. Black
presiding. Encouraging reports were re
ceived from nil sections of the country
and a resolution was adopted to co-operate j
with the Democratic congressional com-'
mittec in its work in the coming cam
pHign. After a general discussion of
Democratic prospects the committee ad
journed to meet at the Ebbit house March
1 next.
T.HE MONTANA SENATORSHIPS.
Wjiirrvr.-rriV "PVIv 1i Th unitu rnm-
mittee en privileges and elections today j
began investigation of the credentials of
the several claimants for seats in the
senate from ilontana. Colonel II. Albert
Paine, counsel tor the Republican claim
ants, Mesirs. Saunders and Powers, made
the presentation of tne case in their be
half, hx-toiicitor General Jenks pre
sented the case for the Democratic claim
ants. TO PREVENT FUR
Baltwohe,MiL
Senator Hawley has written Mayor David
son that tha calamines resulting from the
burning of Secretary Tracy's house have
led him to start an Inquiry into the condi
tion of the fire department of Washington.
He aks the mayor to send bim a copy of
the last report of the fire department of
Baltimore aad says he specially desires
information, concerning deTicea and ap
paratus for saving life.
LARGE JUDGMENT ENTEP.ED.
Chicago, HL, Feb. 13. Percy W.
Palmer at 2 o'clocsc this afternccn entered
judgment againss the Union Hlds and
Leather comnsny for?IS1.0.
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STATE SDPRE3IE COURT COMIS
S10XEKS CHOSEN.
Judge Simpson Reappointed With
Hon. George S. Green and Judge
Strang New Members.
Samuel Parke, of Winfield, Commissioned
as a Member of the Board
of Pardons,
Several Hew Corporations Chartered A
Second Natural Gas Vein Tapped at
Cherryvale With Promising Re-
Eults The Story of Trouble
at Harper Platly Denied
"Western Gossip.
ToPETtA, Kan., Feb. 15. Governor
Humphrey today appointed Benjamin F.
Simpson of Topeka, J. C. Strang, of
Larned, and George S. Green of Man
hattan, supreme court commissioners.
The appointments will take effect March
1, and the terms of offices will cover a
period of three years.
Tho governor also appointed Samuel
Parke, of "Winfield, a member of the state
board of pardons.
RUNNYMEDE NOTES.
Special Correspondence to tho Dally Eagle.
RUNNTMEDE, Kan., Feb. 15. The county
surveyor is down here this week, survey
ing new lots and some eighty acres aro
being added to the town. Lately the Ruu-
nymede Real Estate company have been
closing a big trade in lots, eta. and al
ready many applicants are in for tho new
lots.
Mr. C. W. Sturgess left this week for
England where ho intends joining the
British army. We wish him good luck in
his new undertaking. Mr. Hopo liooper
journeyed with him as far as Chicago
whither he has gone to meet his wife who
is coming out from the old country to help
her husband manage the Runnymedo
hotel, which, bj the by, is an unqualified
success. Tho five new bed rooms will be
ready for visitors in a week's time.
Paddy Magill has started a stage coach
between Norwich and Harper, via Runny
mede. He has purchased a line coach and
drives four good horses and meets the
Norwich and Harper trains. Tho line is a
great advantage to traveling men, as they
can come direct from Wichita to Ruuny
mede and on to Harper.
Tho foot ball boj"s are greatly excited
over the coming match with Wichita to
be played on the 22d, and intent making
tho Wichita boys play up to beat them.
The now sidewalks have been started in
the town tbjs week. It is intended to
caary them all down the new streets which
will be a great advantage on muddy days.
Mr. F. T, S. Turner is away on a Hying
business trip to Kansas City.
The creamery company is now started
and it is expected to be in running order
by the 1st of May.
Next Friday tho 21st inst, is to bo a
great dav iu the annals of Runuyinede, as
on that day the Right Rev. Elislui Thomas,
bishop of Kansas," intends coming down
hero antl consecrating St. Patncka
church. The bishop will arrive here at V2
o'clock Friday and will immediately pro
ceed the consecrate the ground and build
ing, after which he will perform other
sacred and priestly duties. It is to Imj
hoped all friends in Wichita will make an
effort to coino down on this sacred oc
casion. ANTHONY HAPPENINGS.
Special dispatch to tho Dally Ea;le.
ANTHONY, Kan., Feb. 15. Anthony peo
Die are mourning tho death of Miss Pau
line Russell, youngest daughter of Mr. J.
M. Russell. She was a lovely young lady
of about 1G. Her death took place at 9:30
last Monday morninc. Sho was taken to
Urbana, O., for burial.
Rev. T. B. Greenlee and family left yes
terday for Council Bluffs, la., ho having
resigned as pastorof the First Presby
terian church here. Rev. G. T. Purvey, of
the Christian church, has also left, which
leaves three of our churches without a
pastor.
The circuit court adjourned without
doing very much ou the cnnannl docket.
The Barty murder trial waa continued to
next term, owing to the sickness ot one of
the jurors.
Lit grippe still has a few victims in this
place, but none very j-eriously ill.
Politics are qniet, although there is con
siderable speculation as to the judgeship.
Harper county is entitled to the judge and
intends to take what is coming to her.
One of Anthony's principal grocer. It.
F. Tattershall, has purchased a grocry In
Wichita, and is closing out his business
here preparatory to moviua to that city.
Society matters are qniet, there IHng
nothing to report except the organization
of a whist club lastVedaesday evening
at the home of Mrs. Join Clendennin.
The railroad bond election last week car
ried in all the townships, and vrc expect
soon to hear the whittle ot the O., II. &: G.
trains.
NEW CORPORATIONS.
ToPEKA, Kan., Feb. 11. The following
new corporations were granted charters by
the secretary of state:
The OsawAtomie Mercantile company;
capital stock. ?15.G90: value of good, chat
tels, etc., ?12.0; directors, J. C. Cbetnut,
A. II. Hume, 2i. C. Brown, Annie E.
Gardiner, Lucy A. Brown.
The Belle Plains CiydeMlale Hore com
pany; capital stock, .12,200; directors, U. M.
Maauire, J. W. Bowlts. J. Ic Gideon. It.
F. Burnett, Fred Warner, Norman Grhu.
The American Endowment association.
01 W icnila, an awsit-ment insurance com-
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jhrH?Hs,7 C Ln"Va' ' " Pti0a'
Carl K. Judd.
I The Snmmcrfield Library and Pleasure
I club; directors. R. G. Cunningham, W. A.
! Houston. Henry Maitland, C J. O'Xeii.
! Phillip Miller.
The Selcia Methodist Episcopal church.
Anderson county; t', 3L irria, chairman
board of trtttts.
Toe Chronicle Paumbing come-any, of
imams, of Kansas. City; L. 3L Holt, of
Topeka.
WORE GAS WELLS AT CHERRYVALE.
ClIEElirVALE, Kan., Feb. 13. This morn
ing at a depth of 555 feet another very
berry flow ot j;as was itmefc. Tha eoad
tie the sx, ooa here. This I, the j
tree Trenton r&c5t gas belt and there f
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isabnndince for all purposes. TM city 1 ley, cf Unfoa ('canty, O- and Aana 5114
inritts mancfactartrs to come acd drar J dleWJD. of IlHsoU, acd Jams MofSU, who
fuel from sainre' inrxhansti We reserrelr. J lir near tbisf tftj. An attorney stm
The ss from the first well i bls usd j leaves tor Loiadoa to lock after Jzosm
for fuel with gratifyias resells, I Mofstt'a claiei
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FILED HIS BOND IN CASH.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 15.-A dramatis
scene occurred in tho United State
court today during the hearing of the casa
of George H. Wescoc; and Samuel Hanson,
against Jacob Mulvace. Coffin & 'Stan
ton, of New York, and tho Atlantic Trust
company. A few days ago Judge Fostei
granted a temporary injunction againss
Mr. Mulvane, restraining him from sell
ing tho waterworks to the othbr defend
ants. The time in which the plaintiffs
could file their bond of $.o,000 was near
its close, and Mr. Mulvane had induced all
the banks in Topeka to decline to become
securities, and the defendant's counsel
moved that the injunction be dissolved oa
account of the plaintiff's failure to fill tha
bond. Mr. Smith, counsel for tho plain
tiffs, attempted to explain, but tho attor
neys for tho defendants refused to permit
him to proceed. Judge Fester finally ra
btored order and allowed Mr. Smith to
make his statement. It was given as
above. Then advancing' to tho bar he
placed a roll of bank notes containing
73,000 before the judge, who accepted
them in lieu of a bond.
TEOUBLE EXPECTED.
The Chickasaw Government Will Begin tha
Eemoyal of Intruders.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Feb. 15. Tho Chick
asaw legislature in secret session at Tish
ominego, L T., yesterday patted a resolu
tion appropriatingseveral thousAud dollars
with which to equip tho tribal militia.
The governor of the nation will uow im
mediately order the militia to eject all
non-citizons who refuse to pay the annual
permit tax Serious trouble Is anticipated,
lor the non-citizens have expressed their
intentions of resisting eviction with all the
force they can muster.
ALL A MYTH.
The Eeported Trouble at Harper Without
Foundation of Fact,
Kansas Citt, Mo., Feb. 15. The Asso
ciated Press this evening received a dis
patch from 1-. II. Hutchinsou. mayor of
Harper, as follows: "Tho dbtpatclu an
uouncing a riot at Harper is an absoluto
falsehood, and tho person that wroto it is
a liar of the first order. The election was
to vote $20,000 terminal bonds to O, II. &
G. railroad. Only nino opposition votes
were cast and there was no ballot box
stolen, no riot, no fighting, no general
quarrelling."
OEYTNG FOE PEACE, . .
Tho Missouri River Eoada Meet the Illinois
Central and arcWorstcd,
Chicago, IV.., Feb. 13. Tfio Missouri
river roads aro trying very hard to escape
the consequences of the reduction iu rates
between Chicago and St. Paul: Tho!C0
cent bcalc which the Illinois Central ha
adopted from Chicago to Sioux City has
not t'ouo into effect, a.sthc .vholeof today's
session of the Western Freight association
was consumed iu frantio elforU to induce
tho Illinois Central manager to reconsider
its action and allow the present tariff to
remain undisturbed. The western ronda
that have been encouraging tho demoral
ization in the northwest have changed '
their tuno and aro now crying out
against any reactionary movement that
is calculated to affect their own interest.
Tho Illinois Central, however, does not
appear anxious to hurrender its buhinosa
for the purpose of protecting tho revenue.!
of iho Omaha and Kansas City roads.
Heretofore, when northwestern rates bavu
gono to pieces, that raid ban conHldcrately
refrained ftom making any chniiKQ in
Missouri river rates and thereby prevented
a general collapse throughout the weAt.
It wns supposed tht it would pu ratio thu
Maine policy again, but this time tho con
ditions were ditferent. Tho Iowa Central
is determined to apply the 40 cent scale on
its entire line, which so ixiUcUt Iowa rati
that the Illinois Central it practically
forced to scale down ralcM to Sioux City,
notwithstanding that all Mbuourl rivet
rates must consequently bo reduced.
At today's meeting, on a motion to put
tho CO cent sciilo in effect to Sioux City,
Council Bluff nnd Ivuustui City, thcru
Here 11 vote In the aQlrmatlre, and Zi in
the negative. Then a roolutfon was of
fered providing for a reduction in Missouri
river rates, with tho undemanding that
thcyhhonld again bo advanced to thcii
present figure iik noon ah the rates to St.
Paul and Minneapolis nhould be restored.
The Chicago & Alton opposed thin, declar
ing that whatever reduction wai mndo by
that road betmen Chicago and Karisaii
City would be understood as permanent.
Unable to reach any conclusion tho meet
ing finally adjourned until 10 a. in.
Monday.
The Illinois Central hns not consented to
withdraw It rate, and It It, generally be
lieved that they will go into efTect Tues
day, whatever-may bo thu rcnult of tho
meeting on Monday.
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Bishop Fink VaraH Catholics 2fot to Join
the Order.
KAKSAS Crrr, Mo., Feb. 15. In a Ixnteti
pastoral letter to bo read in all thi
churches of the diocee of Leavenworth,
Kan.. Bishop Fink, of the Roman Citbollc
church, referring to the Knrmor.n' oilmnca
movements, caused by the agricultural de-
j predion, wtys:
"We say llist,rurrotinded by a bountiful
crop as we am, many of our peoplv aro
suffering and arc in mLcry, Uncer
tain what they ftbouid do in the
future. The complaint come not only
from thu laboring cIhrv iu oitie
who are without work, but especially from
the country district, from the fanuiug
population, which feel that UMtters
can not be as they ar for an Indefinite
number of yir, or they would Iov; thir
houses and bonaes. Owing to the prullar
tate of our jountry rrery 00 ntjflnt
whea in fanning population i In dif
trefcs. Thoughtful dtmjus nrr well war
that the prcent grievance of tn farmer
are but too true.
'"It seenu that lmoit erery Industry In
our country U vrou-.tuil in order to Htwut
riches is the bands of tee few, br which
the many will have tw Miffer. The only
cla" not proU-Gltxl are tuo-t who would
Kwra to need it mwl-trie laboring rntn
and the farming population."
The bishop rerirvrji the constitution ot
the Farmer' xhiattee and holds that o
Catholic can jfrin tbe order, beoso it in
(-ccrtt and because it rirttially has a re- -ligion
and a chaplain of Us own. Tub
latter point be ilUcu-- at Jeagtb and ila
ciare that if the .iUcce will drop lu n
iigious aspect Catholic can Join it and'
wort for the pxxi ot the farming cla&M.
HEIRS TO MILLIONS IN ENGLAND.
PWUcrKl. O.. Ytb. 15. Two citizens
of Kaaa, W. Kate and George lialdwio,
are two of elerim heirs to the- Mtffltt es
tate in Engiacii, valued at VA&H.Q Q. Tha
original heir n ere brothers and iter cf
Adam .MofStt. who asutsi tha mvTszout
fortune in shipping ad massfactarjag
tweniryear uince. Only two cf lby
heir arrivd, William 5fr22ti and Anaa
Baldwin, of l.'oioa coanJy, Tfc other
h'lrs aro Mrs. Kcjjm Powell, cf IHIoof.
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