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WICHITA, KANSAS, SATUBDAT MORNIRG- FJEBEUAEY 22, 1S90.
WHOLE XO. 1794.
123 to 127 N.
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Today at 2 o'clock -we sell
two towels to a customer.
Munson &
7
COLE&. TONES
ARE:
SHATTERING PRICES
WITH GREAT EFFECT!
The Slaughter is beyond the Power of a Detailed Description.
Thousands of Dollars worth of Mens', Boys' and Chil
dren's Clothing must be Sold before March 15.
The Bargaing offered are Seized with "Wolf Like Voracity by all
Classes of Humanity. You never saw so many Great In
ducements. Come and see the Goods.
Ill Children's Overcoats at One-Half Foner. Price!
$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.
The above will give you a slight idea of the
immense cut we have made on our overcoats.
We are now in the Midst of the
GREATEST SUIT SALE
Ever inaugurated on this continet, having
selected out a desirable lot of Worsted, Cas
simere and Cheviot Suits, worth all the way
from $20 to $30, have placed them on a sep
arate "cable and will give you choice for $15.
Dispatch is the Soul of Business. Do not
Linger! Do not Tarry! Be Quick! Buv Now!
Bargains Await; You!
COLE &
The One Price Clothiers,
20Sr210 and 212 DOUG-LAS AVENUE, WICHITA, KANSAS.
FREE!
NO CHARGE FOR
Ml
Madame Uussell at the
ARCADE.
Buy your dross coeds at the
; Arcade" and Madame Sussell
will Dlalt your dress pattern free
or charge.
NEW
BRILLIANTINE!
Double Width and all the
New Colors.
ONLY 48 CENTS.
ARCADE.
NB. A New Asminster Carpet
for sale at half price.
Main Street
DAY!
25-dozen towels at 5 cents each,
Only
MeNamara.
JONES,
QUEBEC'S LATEST SCHEME.
Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 21. The bill of
the Quebec legislature to grant 100 acres
of laud to farmers havinc twelve living
children is creating considerable comment
throughout tho province. The effect upon
the community, the government contends,
will be not only to encourage domestic
happiness but to engender and cement a
feeling of paternal regard between the two
noble races ot which the population is
composed. Several applications have
already been made, one in particular
which shows what can be done" by per
sistent effort and intelligent iudustry.
Mr. Leon Pbenisese, of Sc Isidore, was
the applicant, lie is only 3S years old and
has twelve children. He started without
capital aud has now a farm worth o,GQi.
SECOND TOURNAMENT GAME.
NEW Yohk, Feb. 2L The second game
of the billiard tournament; at Chickering
hall was played this afternoon between
Colton, of Chicago, and lyes, and resulted
in a victory for Ives. The tame was 500
S-iuch bilk line, no handicap. The score
was: Ives 500, Coltou 330. Average: Ives
20. Colton 13. Best runs: Ives 9S, GO; Col
ton C5, 53.
Tho third game was played before nearly
1,500 ladies and gentlemen in dickering
hall tonight, between George F. Slossou,
playing 14-inch balk line against Maurice
Daly, playing Jvinch balk hue. The score
was Slos'son 500, D.ilv 417. Averages
Daly 10 7-40. i?loson "12 20-40. Highest
runs: Daly G4, 45, Slossou fcG, 5S.
LEPROSY IN NEW CALEDONIA.
London, Feb. 2L Three thousand abor
igines aud many convicts in New Caledo
nia have been attacked with leprosy. The
disease is spreading at an alarming rate.
Louise Michel talks of going to their suc
cor. Cholera is spreading in Mesopotamia.
BISHOP DUBS GUILTY.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 2L The jury in
Bishop Dubs' case returned a verdict at
noon today. He was fouud guilty ami
suspended from office until the meeting of
general conference in September, 1891,
when the caEe will be reopened.
GL0RI0SS0 SILKS,
At 49c.
Tuesday, Feb. 25th.
100 Pieces New Dress Goods.
Ginghams 6 1-2 cents.
Prints 5 cents.
FOX & SON.
STOP IN AND SEK IT.
Fresh roasted and crashed cofteo a specialty
Mall and telephone onliTs attonued to. State ajent
wante O. I. FULLEIt, fl Douglas Ave., Wichita
Kansas.
THE VETEEAtf LEGIOK
That Body and the Ladies' Auxilliary
Elect Officers
NE-WA1JK, O., Feb. 21. At the fourth an
nual encampment of the Union Veteran
legion hero today the" following officers
were elected after a spirited contest: Com
mander, Dr. J. S. Reed, of St. Louis; sen
ior vice commander, A. C. Bond, of New
York City; junior vice commander, Jame3
It. Smyhte, of Williamsport, Pa.; quar
termaster, Frank L. Blair, Allegheny City,
Pa. ; surgeon general. II. B. Piper; chaplain-in-chief,
Rev. John Banks, Allegheny
City, Pa.; judge advocate genera), W. B.
Chapman. Bradford, Pa.
The officers elected were duly installed
by Post Commander A. R. Pearson, of
Pittsburg. The body adjourned "to visit
tho old fort. The encampment closed to
night with a banquet. ,
The ladies met in Maishn Blandy's hall,
east side, and organized the first National
nuxillinry. The officers chosen were:
President, Mrs. Emma J. Barker, of
Allegheny, Pa.; vice president, Airs.
Al. P. Bragel, of Altoona, Pa.;
second vice president, Mrs. Eliza
beth Shellert, of Steubenville. 0.;
chaplaiu, Mrs. A. Gumble, of Allegheny
City. Pa.: treasurer, Airs. Anna Home,
Allegheny City, Pa.'; secretary. Mrs. Hen
rietta Wheeler, of Allegheny Ciry, Pa.;
conductor, Mrs. Sarah J. Hastoo, Newark,
O.: guard, Mrs. Lulu Stephens, Steuben
ville, O.; color bearer, Airs. Cynthia Cam
pan, ot Bradford, Pa. The next encamp
ment of Union Veteran legion will be held
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
TO MINISTER TO LEPERS.
Kansas Citt, Mo.. Feb. 2L Amy C.
Fowler was at the union depot this morn
ing, on her way to Honolulu. She is tho
young English woman who surrendered
wealth and position to minister to the
lepers at Molokai, which is one of tho
group of Sandwich islands, set apart for
lepers. The islaud in Houoluu set apart
for the victims of leprosy is known as
Kalawai and to that region of disease and
death Miss Fowler is going. She will be
known as Sister Rose Gertrude, having
taken the veil.
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
LONDON, Feb. 21. The steamer Bayfisher
arrived at Port Talbot, Wales, toaay and
landed Captain Putnam and eight of the
crew of the Bnt.sh ship Sovereign, from
Cardiff for Montevideo, which was run
iuto by tho steamer Highgate otf Luncy
island on Tuesday. Twelve of the Sover
eign's crow have now reached land in
safety, but the fate of tho remainder is
unknown. It bus been ascertained the
Sovereign sank after she had been aban
doned by her crew.
THE NEW BLOCKADE BROKEN.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 21. Lato yes
terday the snow plow succeeded in break
ing the new blockade on the California
Pacific line over the Sierra Nevada mount
ains. One of the east hound trains that
had been on the road live dajs succeeded
in reaching the e istern base of the Sierras
at Truckee. Probably a day or two will
be spent in fianying the rails, but unless
the snowfall is very heavy the trains will
be soon runniuir.
AUSTRIAN FINANCIAL MEASURES.
Vienna, Feb. 21. The minister ot
finauce today submitted to the lower house
of tho reichstrath biils to regulate the I
taxes on food aud to extend the radius of
the territory m which octroi duties are
levied.
BROUGHT SUIT AGAINST CRAWFORD.
Kansas Crrv, Mo., Feb. 2L C. W. Hen
ry, of Chicago, who recently purchaed the
Warder Grand theater and hotel, was iii
the city today. In interviews he said he
had only come to lookifter a little affair
connected wih the business of a lumber
company in which he is interested. To
night he brought ejectment proceedings
against L M. Crawionl, lessee of the thea
ter, from, whom the purchaser has been
unable to gain possession of his newly ac
quired property Tacked on the ejectment
proceedings is a suit lor $100,000 damages.
KILLED IN A COLLISION.
Snssow CaL. Feb. 21. While a train nf !
eight locomotives was running from the
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scene ot the blockade early this morning. ;
the middle coupling broke four miles '
north of this place, causiutr a collision be-
tween the rear engines and tho forward '
ones. A large number of laborers ridinir
(On the engines were injured, three seri
ously, one ot whom will die. Two of the
encines were badly damaged and the tracJC
is blocked.
SANTA FE DECEMBER STATEMENT.
BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 2L Atchison, To
peka 5: Santa Fe December statement
shows: Gross earning $2,GSS,7$3, increase
136,452. Net earnings $!,CH9,43S, inciease
$23Lf,ca For twelve months to December j
31, gross $2G,13G.-!oS. Increase $1,067,100,
net $$,163,350, increase 51,03,554. 1
E&RIlEll
SENTENCE fflffll.
A GROSS BREACH OF JUSTICE IX
THE ARM.
The President Disapproves the De
cree of Court Partial in Pri
vate Wild's Case.
Brought to Trial Before the Very Officer
Who Had Caused His Un
just Arrest.
dishonorably Discharged With. Imprison
ment for Refusing to do Menial Labor
The Houso Argues the "World's
Jair Bill3 Oklahoma Town
Sites Before the Senate
Capital Items,
Washington, Feb. 21. Tho following
order of the secretary, of war was today
transmitted by Adjutant General Helton
to General Ruger, at St. Paul:
February 21, 1690 General S. H. Ruger,
commanding the department of Dakota,
St. Paul The following are the orders of
tho secretary of war: Bv direction of the
president, the unexecuted portion of the
sentence in the case of Dell P. Wild, late
private troop F, 'Eighth cavalry, is remit
ted, in recognition of the fact that the
punishment adjudged was oxcessive in a
very marked degree. The prisoner was
ordered by the second lieutenant of his
troop, M. F. Steele, to assist him in placing
a canvass upon a shed. He refused to do
so upon the ground that he did not enlist
to do such work. He was cursed and
struck by the officar, soon thereafter placed
in confinement and brought before
a court martial, of which Lieuten
ant Steele was the judgo advo
cate. He was convicted of disobedience
of orders and sentenced to dishonorable
discharge with forfeiture of all pay and
allowance and confinement in the military
prison at Fort Snelling for one year. No
action appears to have been taken against
Lieutenant Steele, whose breach of disci
pline was of an aggravated nature. It is
also grossly improper that Lieutenant
Steele should have been retained as judge
advocate of the court. The president'does
not approve the sentence in this case to be
nor does he think it just to the army that
ic should appear to be a fair illustration
of the administration of military justice.
fSlgnedJ Redfielw Puoctok,
Secretary of War.
J. C, KELTON, Adjutant General.
THE DEBATE CLOSED.
Opponents and Supporters of the World's
Fair Bills Talk.
Washington, Feb. 27. After the trans
action of the usual routine business Mr.
Hooker, of Mississippi, proceeded to ad
dress the house upon the'woSd's fair bilL
He spoke in favor of Washington.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, followed in a speech
in which he favored St. Louis as tho proper
site.
Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, spoke
against the bill and said ho should vote
against it.
Mr. Peters, of Kansas, said it was an
almost hopeless task to try to stem the
tide of patriotic feeling. But beforecon
gress committed itself to a fair it should
see if the government could afford it. Our
enthusiasm and our inspiration should not
conceal the real situation. Congress
should see if there was a sufficient surplus
befoie it entered into this lame expendi
ture of money. The regular estimated ap
propriations for tho next fiscal year were
406,000,000. The miscellaneous appropri
ations made during the short session
wero $10,l)00,0'J0 and during tho long
session the amount would not
be less. In addition there were
at least $25,000,000 of deficiencies.
making a grand aggregate of appropria
tions of $142,000,000. These might bo
chilling figures, but it was better to face
them now than when it was too late.
There were only $450,000,000 of estimated
revenue with which to pay them. But
where, ho asked, were the friends of the
river and harbor bill, for these figures did
not take that measure into consideration?
Were those interested in tho improvement
of our riyeis wifling to lay aside this bill
in order that the government might ex
pend a large amount on a world's fair?
Were those who wanted money to erect
buildings in their little town willing to
lay them a:de?
Mr. Mason, of Illinois I will. Laugh
ter. Then, continued Mr. Peters, there are
the friends ot tho Blair educational bill.
Laughter aud applause on the Democratic
side J
Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, did not
want any fair.
Mr. Blauchnrd, of Louisiana, wanted a
fair, but did not jpeak for any one lo
culitv. Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, and Mr. Gib
son, of Maryland, favored Washington.
Mr. Houk. of Tennessee, and Mr. Wil
son, of West Virginia, favored the fair but
no one city.
Mr. Vaudever. of California, favored St.
Louis.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, said the ex
position should le held at tiie center of the
country. St. Louis was nearest and Chi
cago next. He would vote first for St
Louis and next for Chicago. He opposed the
appropriation of $1,500,000. If a state
wanted the f.iir its neople had to only in
corporate themselves and hold it. So he
was opposeu to the bills reported and
would vote for them only after they had
been amended to meet his views.
fct, Louis fouud lots of champions,
anions them being Messrs. Kinsey, Hitch
and Wilton of Missouri, O'Neal! of In
diana, Form-iti of Illinois.
Mr. Outh.vaite, of Ohio, followed in a
strong plea for Chicago.
Mr. Masoo, of Illinois, said that when
he thought of tne many things ho had to
say about Chicago and the few
minutes he had to say it in,
he felt like the boy who sat
in the middle of a sugar barrel
and exclaimed, "Ob, for a thonsniid
tongues to do this thing justic"
Laughter He presented Chicago's
claims aud continuing said that the hold
ing of the fair in tho north would do awav
J with sectional strife and sectional hatred.
Addressing himself to the south he said
JS.'H'Vj foulder,to bo?tT ns
march to a better understanding. Come
aud ;et lhe ufalte . fieIds of the ,,
meet our ureat train fields of the north.
Come and warm yonr hearts at the forges
oi tbe nrtb while we mult out the ore of
the south and with the hammer and anvil
of personal contact 1 us beat out a better
friendship. Come, bring down the looses
from New England and weave for all
to see the cotton raised on our soil and the
fast dying shuttle will weave into its web
and woof a new nnd better song of a new
and better union. Come and 1S?2 will b
a milestone in our rxisteocs famous for
its march of civilization, f moua for its
advancement in agriculture and commerw,
famous for its growth in she arts and
sciences, famous for il ooetrv, xentimcat
and frong, bu grander and better than all,
famous for tsorics dowa the walls staad-
ing between us, and drinking: from the
same fountain of patriotism ire will not be
confined to the old couplet:
"Fourteen hundred and ninety-two
Columbus crossed the ocean blue,"
But with poorer rhyme and better senti
ment we will say
"In eighteen hundred and ninety-two
i a will "ntn?f tr"Vi( vmv onfl tklivn '
Applause.
iw nm loumw " ft j uwt wtuw.
Tl
hen followed a string of Chicago's ad
herents, among them being Messrs. .Kerr,
of Iowa, and Springer, of Illinois. Then
New York's turn came and Messrs. Fitch,
Dnnphy. Lansing. Spinola, Wallace,
Raines, Turner, McCarthy aud Farqubar
spoke for that city.
Mr. Candler, of Massachusetts, closed
the debate in a few words, saying the
country could safely trust the house to
discharge its full dnty, and he hoped for a
favorable conclusion upon the question
next Monday.
Tho house then took a recess until S
o'clock, the evening session to be for the
consideration of private pension bills.
OKLAHOMA TOWN SITES.
Again Discussed in the Senate Kansas
Public Building Bills.
Washsngton, Feb. 2L The conference
report on the bill to increase the pensions
of totally disabled pensioners was pre
sented by Mr. Dayis and was agreed to af
ter an explanation to the effect that under
the act of 1SS0 it had been provided that
totally disabled pensioners then drawing
$50 a month should receive 67-', that the
increase did not apply to those who were
pensioned thereafter. ,
The senate then on motion of Mr. Plumb
proceeded to the consideration of the
house bill to provide for town site entries
of lauds in Oklahoma.
Just, after taking up the Oklahoma bill,
Mr. Plumb moved Co substitute tho senate
bill on the same subject for the house bill.
Mr. Berry opposed the substitute. The
senate oil! proposed that notwithstanding
that the parties entered tbo territory in
violation of the law and the president's
proclamation, certificates issued by the
town authorities should be prima facie
evidence, and where there was no contest
should be absolute, even as to title.
Ho thought this an injustice, a
wronjr, a fraud, on the law
abiding citizens who had gone there
in honesty and good faith. In support of
his statement he sent to the clerk's desk
and had read the report of Messrs. Pickler
and McBride (sent there as officials of the
interior department) showing the manner
in which the law and proclamation had
been disregarded by men who had been
appointed deputy marshals and under that
pretense had gone into the territory in ad
vance of the time and had made entries of
soino 1,100 acres of land in and around the
town of Guthrie. This had been done by
the connivance of Land Receiver Barnes
and of Marshal Needles. Among
the names of deputies who had acted
thus ho montioned that of William Clay
ton, of Arkansas, and said that Mr. Clay
ton bad since that time been nominated as
district attorney and that his nomination
was now pending before the senate.
Mr. Plumb said that'no one would take
exception to tho statement made by the
senator from Arkansas in condemnation of
those who had entered the territory in
violation of tho law but the senate amend
ment, ho said, conferred' no right
on such persons in any form.
On the contrary, by a very carefully
guarded proviso prepared by ;the senator
from Arkansas himself, every question
ofthatkiud was remitted to tho decisiou
of tho proper authorities the court, the
secretary of the interior and the laud of
fice. The calendar was then taken up.
Public buildings bills were passed for
Atchison, Kan., $100,000; Salina, $150,000;
EmDona, 8100,000.
After an executive session the senate ad
journed.
WESTERN MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL
Washington, Feb. 21. Tho president
today sent to the senate the following
nominations:
Postmasters Kansas: William C.
Charles, Kiowa; Thomas E. Hurley, Min
neanolis. The senate in executive session has con
firmed tho following nominations:
Supervisors of census Indian territory:
Harry P. Clark, for tho district of Okla
homa. Kansas: Littleton S. Crumb,
First district; Samuel R. Borch, Second;
William F. Case, Third.
Postmasters Kansas: George Huioke,
Ellsworth; John II. Ball, Caldwell; Anna
M. Moore, Diirhton; John M. Simpson,
McPherson. Missouri: Cash W. Pelsue,
Centralia; Charles F. Ernst, St. Joseph.
L. I. Pond, of Wisconsin, to be pension
agent at Milwaukee.
J. Goorge Wright to lie Indian acent at
Rosebud agency. South Dakota.
Pensions erauted to Kansans were
original Invalid: W. L. Walkers, Oak Val
ley; S. F. Pendiay, Westphalia; II. W.
Glidemeister, Council Grove; P. J. Dean,
Ellsworth; Sara Bradley, Manchester; N.
M. Miller, Taloga; C. L. Wells, Osborne;
A. L. Gray, Jetmore: Chancellor L. Rich
ardson, national military home; A. J.
Johnson, Neodesha; J. J. Tucker, Salina;
William Anderson, Leavenworth; H. C.
O'Hara, Partridae; Isaac W. Newland,
Andover; T. B. Spurrier, Wichita; Isaac
Griffith, Cora: W. T. Heed, Carlton; S. G.
Brattou, Burlingame, J. S. Quince, na
tional military home; C. B. Woodford,
Oswego; H. F. Calkins, Wichita; William
Morgan. Milan; C. H. Tuthill, Atchison;
Charles Skaggs, Newport; Warren Taylor,
Atchison; D. R. Steele, Peabody: Lewis
Staubus Wellington; M. J. Barr, Sterling;
I'atrick Coyne. Florence; William Flood,
Mineola; William Dunn, Elm City. Re
issue: A. K. Lewis, Independence.
BIDS FOR SEALING PRIVILEGES.
Washington, Feb. 2L Bids were open
ed at the treasury department at noon to
day for the exclusive right to take fur
seals upon the islands of St, Paul and St.
George, Alaska, for tho term of twenty
years from May 1, 1?90. They were opened
publicly in the presence of Secretary Win
dom aud Assistant Secretary Tichenor by a
cnmmitt-e specially appointed for that
purpose, of which First Comptroller Mat
thews is chairman.
PACIFIC COAST DEFENSES.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2L The senate com
mittee on coast defenses heard General
Miles today, who concluded his statement
as to the necessity for providing suitable
defenses for the Pacific coast. After he
had retired the committee ordered Chair
man Dolph to report favorably his bill to
provide for fortifications and other sea
coast defenses. The bill carries an appro
priation of StSJ.OOO.OOO.
PARTY RATE TICKETS ILLEGAL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2L The Interstate
commerce commission ha? decided that
party (or theatrical; rate tickets are
illegal.
REFUSED TO ACCEPT SHIPMENTS.
KANSAS CITT, Mo. Feb. 2L The Kansas
City, Wyandotte Sc Northwestern railway
in a local rate war with the larger lines re
cently cnt the rates on coal so far bslow
the usual tariff that the Leavenworth
mines found that they coald ship coal to
Beatrice, Neb., and pay the local rate
thence to the point of destination and un
dersell all coal dealers who shipped by
other lint. The Bnrlingtoa is ML
soari river railroad refused to
accept this co.il at Beatrice, it
belnc rival of the Kanvu? City, Wyan
dotte & Northwestern In the rate war.
Newman Erb, manager of the latter road
and xnanaster of the coal companies, made
complaint of this refusal to the interstate
commerce commission and the Nebraska
state commissioners. The cse will come
up before both bedits ia a day or two.
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WHEAT LITTLE INJURED
THE COLD SPELL.
BY
Reports Show an Excellent Con
dition of tho Cereal "With
Few Exceptions.
A General Snowfall Throughout the State
Deputy Revenue Collectors Ap
pointed for Kansas.!
Builders in Oklahoma "So Longer Waiting
for Congress to Settle tho Titles
Testimony in the Cross Murder
ers' Habea3 Corpus Cases
All in State and Ter
ritorial Gossip.
Kansas Citt, Mo., Feb. 2L Reports to
the Associated Press from all partM of
Kansas indicate that tho recent cold
weather has had no serious effect upon
the winter wheat. Most of the reports
state that no damage whatever has been
done. In the vicinity of Atchison the
weather was cold enough to freeze the
roots of the. wheat, but only in isolated
localities. The report from Abilene ex
presses fear that damage may have been
done in the uplands, but not enough to
have any appreciable effect upon the prom
ised full yield. Reports from other points
say that no damage has occurred and that
the crop is in excellent condition. A good
fall of snow occurred today throughout
the state, covering the wheat and shielding
it from future cold weather.
QUIT WAITING ON CONGRESS.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Enclo.
KiNGFlSHEtt, Ok., Feb. 21. The build
ing wnirl has commenced in earnest in
the city of Kingfisher. There are a num
ber of people that don't believe in waiting
a life time on the actions of congress and
have concluded to go right to work and
put up good substantial homes and busi
ness hou:-es. Mr. J. C. Post, tho banker,
is preparing to build an elegant brick resi
dence just on the hill in the south part of
tho city. Mr. Post is a thorough Okla
homan. and says that the Eaglk will al
ways be tho most popular paper in the
town of Kingfisher. Mr. D. K. Cunning
ham, a brother of Mr. P. D. Cunningham,
of Medicine Lodge, is erecting a fine frame
residence. Messrs. Hudson & BInnding,
a prominent Imw firm, are building a large
two story business houo on their lot
opposite the postoflice. The upner story
will bo partitioned off for law offices, etc
Major Wiggins aud his daughtor May
are down hero on a short visit to see friends
and look after his business down in this
section.
Hon. J. V. Admire has built an elegant
little residence, aud many others are gc
iug to follow his example.
Mr. Wiggins has jilsG completed the
finest map of Oklahoma ever made, giving
tlie name of every person living on tho
different quarter sections in Oklahoma.
HENNESSEY'S BUSINESS LIVELY
Speclnl CorreiKinilencu to the Dally Haclc.
Hennessey-, Ok., Feb. 21. Eveiybody
that visits this bustling town is impressed
with the amount of business done here.
Last Saturday at 1 o'clock your corres
pondent sent out a young man to count
the teams in town nnd they footed up 121
two-horse teams nnd wenty-two boraes
with saddles. Our streets had the appear
ance of a county seat m Missouri on circus
dav.
The wheat fields adjacent to town nre
showing up finely. G. S. Iluges, Ab
RhnH..H ..n,l Willifim Hrnwn ,-nr.h liavn
Brown
forty acres in sight of town that will av
erace three inches bijjb.
Parties from Winfield lately spent sev
eral (Jays hero investigating the outlook
for a flouring mill nnd pronounced our
wheat prospect the finest they had seen
any where.
One of the Wichita lumber firmi has
mnde arrangements to start n branch yard
here and at EI Reno. We are glad to have
Wichita people become interested in our
town.
Our salt company has a proposition from
Kansas parties to put a hole down 1,000
t-et for SOJO, aud the contract will prob
ably be closed at that figure.
Several new firms hayo made arrange
ments to go into business hen.
Home rule for Oklahoma seems to be
popular in this vicinity.
POLITICAL AND BUSINESS GOSSIP.
Special dispatch to the Dally Ea-rfo.
Kingkisheh, Ok., Feb. 21. Kingfisher
is having a building boom. Several largo
buildings are in course of construction,
two churches aud one $3,000 residence by
D. K. Cunningham on his claim which ad
joins the city on the south
The excellent biographical sketch of the
Hon. J. V. Admire which appeared in the
last isoue of the New World U attracting
considerable attention both at homo and
abroad. Every one hers 'flrmiy believe
Jake will be the first governor of Okla
homa. If he receives- ihe appointment Lis
place as receiver would be Mccptably filled
bv bis able assistant, Colonel G. A. Cotton,
an old time wheel horse in the ranks of
the Republican p.irty, an earnest worker
for the party here and the president of the
Kingfisher Bennblicaa club.
T. F McMechan, a joung lawyer of
Wichita, is meeting with splendid success
here nnd is hnviug a largo practice. Mc
hr.sa wondirful reputation at the br here
as being very sharp in cro-A-exummatiotj.
Every day car loads of household good
nre bein;; unloaded here and people mov
ing en their claims.
A GRAND ENTERTAINMENT.
Ep-jctil Dtpyb w Uhj DJly Eazte.
Lyons Kan., Feb. iL Last nigh; tba
Knights ot Vj thja3 boys gave a bH at
Botler'js opera boose, la this city, which
was unanimously vod the greatest tnc
cess of the -eon. When it comes to en
tertainments the Knights of Pythias boy
are among the licM. The lodge here ! in
a most nourishing condition, and is Mil!
forgins;abed. It jrfres proroiw: now of
ftocn becoming the moat prominent order
In the city.
Both oar barber hnp were burglarized
a couple of night .since, and Mjnie fifty
razor and many otusr articles of torture
were carried away.
INVESTIGATING THE WATTS FAMILY.
TAnLEtWAH, I. T., Feb. 2L fcpedai
Agent George W. Parker, of the interior
department, who was ordered here to in
vtstScate the celebrated Watt family of
intruders, arrival in the city today and
win z once entrr cpoa the duuwi in;cc?l
upon him. The cvlilguc in the cajys i
very voiuminoa, asd It i more tJan
probable that a decisloa will cot he
I reacted before next wesk.
A PECULIAR DIVORCE CASE.
Kaxsas Car, Ma, Feb. 2L On, Febru
ary 16 last a divorce wasjgranted in Judge
Gibson's court to Sarah Allen from her
husband, Moses B. Allen. On February 8
the divorced wife was married to F. E.
Ricketts, a shoemaker of this place. To
day Moses Allen returned from Colorado
where be has been visiting for some time,
and after hunting all day for his wife
finally found her at her new house. To
night he appeared before Judge Gibson, in
chambers, and asked to have tha divorce
set aside.
The c:tsc is peculiar. Moses B. Alien
was a dairy farmer of Ossawotomie coun
ty, Kansas. Some years ago his
ou's illness necessitated the remov
al of the family to this city,
where the boy could receive proper med
ical treatment. Soon afterwards the doc
tors advised him to take his son to Colo
rado, where the "climate might effect a
cure. The father did so, leviug his
affairs here in his wife's charge. Smcu
that time he ha-, been in Colorado, lie
wrote ouen to his wife but received no
satisfactory response Becommjj uneasy
he returned, as relatd above, and found
that his wife had procured a divorce from
him, disposed of all his property aud mar
ried another mart.
A JOINTIST'S SURPRISING-TESTIMONY
Lawkenck, Kan., Feb. 2L In the dis
trict court this afternoon A. Gnffel, a Ger
man urrested for violating the prohibitory
law, testifield that for the past eighteen
mouths ho had been paying R. A. French,
ex-county attorney, $10 per month for pro
tection. He stated that tho money paid
was to be distributed to tho officers niul
that he was to Ins allowed to sell unmolest
ed. The question now agitating the pub
lic mind i what became of tho money col
lected by French. R. A. Freuch served
the county in the capacity of couutv at
torney for two terms preceding Mr. Ncvt
son's term. Gnffel plead guilty to ouo'
count, but has not yet been sentenced.
BOOMERS ON THE STRIP.
TaIILEQCAM, L T., Feb. 2L Tho rerult
of the president's order to the Cherokee
Strip Cattle compauy to vacate the strip
on or before October 1, 1S00, has begun to
attract boomers into tho strip. J. It.
Blair, secretary of tho cattle-com puny, has
informed Chief Mayes that a number ot
boomers have settled on Bear crwsk and
are preparing to take up permanent red
dened there. Thu chief has ordered tlm
Cherokef police to eject them from the
strip. Other portions of the atrip are at
tracting anxious settlers.
DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTORS.
Toteka, Kan., Feb. 21. The following
appointments as deputy United States
revenue collectors woro made publio to
day: ThonuiM F. Dosan. of Council Grove,
with office at Topeka; A. 31. HalloweH. of
Washington; Mujor K. J. Peck of Fort
Scott; Dr. Thom;u- Blakewly. or Neodesha;
R. McCatise, of Kinsley, with olliot at
Newton; Albert SchiUihtf, of Leaven noii1k
U. A. Sears, of Guthrie; 11. Fngan, cMef
oilicc deputy. Mr. Fauan has tilled Ihb
position eighteen ycnn.
THE CROSS MURDER CASES.
PAKIS, Tex., Feb. 21. Commissioner
Kirkpatrick today finished taking testi
mony in thu habeas corpus trial of O. J.
Cook, J. B. Chamberlain aud Ed Bowdeu,
charged with the murder of Sheriff .Cioss
and posse. The hearing ban been lu un-,
gress for just two weeks aad only about
ono-half of tho witnesses who are to twtti
ly in the trial of the case were placed on
the stand. It is not probable that bail
will be granted Cook aud Chamberlain.
OFFICIALS UNDER ARREST
Paris, Tex. Feb. 21. Deputy Marnhal
Kirkpatrick arrived here touny from IJau
ver City, No-Man'a-L.ind. with United
States Commissioner Jumet Brcckenridge,
chanted with receiving a. bribe. The post
master of Bt-avor City was recently brought
herr for murder, and at the amo time a
deputy mart.hal was brought lu for ths
J same offense.
CHARGED WITH ROBBING THE MAILS.
Aln.UNK, Kan.. Feb. 21. O. Buchnnau,
son of ex-Poitnmster A. G. Buchanan,
who served the Cleveland ndminiettraliou
a delivery clerk in his fathcr'a otJIce. v. as
arrested today by United States Mandial
-urown aim uikcu 10 .nincuon uy lor in
Brown and t.tkett to
vt'stigation ou a chargo of lobbing tho
United butts mails while ou his route.
GENERAL CRAMER DEAD
OKLAHOMA CtTV, Ok., Feb 21. General
F. L. Cramer, a Mason of high degree and
one of tho most prominent men in the In
dian territory, died very suddenly in tlt
city tonlu'lit at 10.JW o'clock. H wiw
United States commission tor the dbtrkrt
of Kansas'!
THE WEEE73 TSADR
Less Confidunce, Although Somo Signs of
Improvemcct are hotL
CcN
Whii.,
hurt.
New Yoitx. Feb. 21 -R. G. Dun
Weekly Review of Trade eays:
the prevailing impression lu
niS circles Ik rather lens confident than it
wan a wee(k ngo, there nre several igis tt
improvement. Cool weather bus caused a
little more activity In some lines of trad.
Wheat in a little fctroiiger and without u
clearly defined reason there ia n firm to-hi
in the cattteru Iron murkelti, while the re
duction in thu bank, of Kai-lmid
rate from 0 to 5 per cent with lit
large gain of $t.!!5,COQ gold during
the past wc'k, dlmUbcs the chance of in-
convenient demand from nbtoad. On tlo
other Land i;ej rl trade is not incruintog
in volum" or in profit, while It otiutJ
u is indicated by the occtirrencv
fewr failure tbn mutt? rxprcttsj.
Whent -jC.ort arMlli much mlor lt
year's and the price has riwu ye with re
ports of Injury to tin? itnrtviiiy crop. Corn
rxport largely exc-d Iut y-r' and ahw
pnc is Jic low-r, with cwi
lower. Porz pnxiaci r teuty
aud muvmg outw.rd fairly, M
oil after d-crfaiag a :n'lfn in
value of exports tu January hn dHo'tl
I;cc for the erfc. fcprCtJalo lo 0JI' fe
strotigf r :! :ftc b-t rur jjm not clinHZr't.
1 ne local mwoy market - Uxn - nz
nch;:cd rnl" nivhongh tl tretirf
has tuken hi Moce lt raiurriajr 2,VSiSjil
mre than it ho jmhI out ana lutt-'ior eK
cbangex with MKac cilhe r dverse.
The baMms fniiiirts occurring tbroogl
oat the country during tb pt reji dy
nnra bur 271 . For tJ xiis wck of ?at
year the figurre vrre 27tt
DERAILED AND WRECKED.
SACHAMKSTo, Gat, Feb. 21. Wsdacvlaj
niirht at Cape point mill a plow -agin
nod four other Ioeomoti wrf defH-i
by a brofcen raiL The pUtw engine aal
two ace-djnc Iocoo4th w? re carries!
down a ho. fifty fe-st. Tb two nr ett -gines
wr drgd frm Ue ratio. Brakr
maa J Willras and Fl reOMO Krzin wer
o raadly vjaidrd that they dji !n tw
boar. EocIbt WiiHara DrUnd ami
hi flr-nwn, Bt3, ver? mora or l-
braif- T6r were bruxiget bra to t
ralirotd brr pftal.
THE SOCIALISTS SEEKING TP.OUBLE.
IJEIILW, Feb. 2L -A ?rioa riot ccnrrl
In the iretu here Ittst nigh:. A punul of
ocilUt. 1-at on crJrbrueg tbeir p!B
dld victory, collided wltb body of pofJot.
A taoanurd officer wm drasgl frto feU
nor ad itmWy L!ea. Jl ltz$ wcrt
broken. Ijj wm crrid Jstotfc pllc
tilon in tbo Illumm atr??. walca wan
ubqacQUr dessoliihed by the sob.
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