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YRAUNAL I JOINORHO LEAVEN LEAVENWORTH WORTH CHRONICLE. 9. LEAVENWORTH NEWSPAPER COUNTY FOR AND THE GRASS" COUNTRY The Legislature Will Look After Western Kansas. THE SHORT GRASS They Say They Propose to Force Beneficial Legislation. ARE INFLUENTIAL MEMBERS.

Some Measures Which Western Kansas Wants Passed. FIGHT AGAINST PRAIRIE DOGS The Pest is Becoming Quite Serious--Some Proposed Irrigation Legislation tern Kansas People Want Sessions Supreme Court Held There. Scripps-McRae Telegram. TOPEKA, Jan. 11-The portion of Kansas, known as the "short country, or that third of the state lying west of Great Bend, will come in for a good share of the attention of the present legislature.

There are a number of important subjects in which this part of the state is greatly interested and upon which the residents want legislation. For years the "short grass' residents of Kansas have devoted their energies to developing politicians to the detriment of their agricultural and other business interests. The politicans have kept something going on politically in that part of the state for years, but it has always been something which did not benefit the country to any great extent other than some of the residents good seats at the Crusade Against Prairie Dogs. The existing conditions in the western part of the state have greatly changed within the past two years. That section sent men to the present legislature who know what their constituents want and they are determined to get it.

There are two subjects upon which all of the legislators from that part of the state are interested. They are prairie dogs and irrigation. While the former subject may seem of little consequence to those unacquainted with western Kansas, the legislators from there know that their constituents are vitally interested in the matter, While the grass" region has been busy turning out politicians, the prairie dogs have been steadily encroaching on civilization in this region until the stock and agricultural interests have commenced to suffer. Prairie dogs increase more rapidly than rabbits and every yearling prairie dog who sets up in business for himself must have a home and he is not particular whether he digs it in the farmer's pasture or corn field. This burrowing habit of the prairie has made them a pest which the farmers and stockmen are determined to be rid of if legislative machinery can help them.

Prairie Dog Statesman. The leader in the battle the prairie dogs against the people, is "Prairie Steve Cave, as he has come to be known. Mr. Cave who represents Haskell county in the lower house, lis proud nickname he will be justly entitled to it before says the session closes. Representative Cave's hatred of the prairie dog an 1 his determination to rid western Kansas of the pest 's shared in by every legislator from that part of the state.

Cave's remedy for driving out the pest is a liberal use of gasoline. He says that a burrow of dogs can be killed by pouring a little gasoline in the hole and then closing the entrance. The gas which the oil generates kills the inmates of the burrow. Mr. Cave holds that the office of prairie dog exterminator" is considerably more important than many of, the offices and commissions already in existence.

Irrigation Matters. The western Kansas legislators are also very anxious to have the present legislature solve the irrigation question for them. Heretofore, legislatures have succeeded in satisfying western construction Kansas of residents a number by viding for the ponds and reservoirs in that part of the state, bmt the people are demanding something better this year. They want the state to either dig artesian wells or to construct reservoirs and establish state irrigation stations in the arid region. Want Session Supreme Court.

Another matter in which the attorneys representing western counties are interested is a bill which will be introduced during the present session on, authorizing the sucourt to hold three four sessions preme a year in some western town. Now that the courts of appeal have been abolished, there will be a great deal more work for the supreme court to perform and large part of this work will be cases from a the western part of the state. A session of the supreme court in some town easy of acto western attorneys would save cess them and clients a great deal of expense. WILL TELL OF TRAVELS. The Rev.

Father Kinsella Will Talk of Europe and the Passion Play Next Week. At the request of the ladies of the Catholic Literary society, the Rev. T. Kinsella, chaplain of the Soldiers' Home, has consented to give a description of his journeythrough Europe last summer and illusings trate the narrative with numerous stereopticon views of Ireland and the Passion play. The talk will begin in the Art League rooms on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

The members. of the Art League have been invited. LEAVENWORTH STATE OF CITY, KANSAS. OUR NEW STORY. The Interesting Novel, "Jennie Baxter, Journellst" to Begin Next Monday.

The opening chapters of the CHRONICLE'S new serial story, "Jennie Baxter, will be published in next Monday evening's edition and will be run in serial form until concluded. "Jennie Baxter, Journalist," was written by Robert Barr and is one of the most interesting stories ever written by him. It is founded upon the experiences of a clever woman employed as a newspaper reporter. She had all kinds of experiences and some remarkable detective work. The story is full of interest and holds the reader in intense interest from beginning to end.

It deals with the work in modern newspaper offices and is complete in every detail. The concluding chapters of "My Captive," the serial CHRONICLE, story will which be is published now being Saturday night. The new story will begin Monday night land every one who wishes to have a chance to read one of the latest novels, and at the same time be provided with all the local and telegraphic news, should not fail to subscribe for the CHRONICLE at once and begin with the opening chapters of Baxter, Journalist." CLERKS AND JANITORS. Chief Clerk Lobdell and Sergeant-at-Arms Stover Hand I in Lists. Scripps-McRae Telegram.

TOPEKA, Jan. Clerk Lobdell and Sergeant-at-Arms Stover, of the house, yesterday announced the appointment of their subordinates and the lists were confirmed by the house. They follow: Lobdell's force: Assistant chief clerk, W. P. Mason, of Neosho; journal clerk, F.

W. Knapp, of Wichita; bookkeeper, Nellie G. Armentrout, of Wyandotte; assistant docket clerk, John C. Foley, of Kingman; printing clerk, Roy T. Osborn, of Salina; stenographers, R.

W. Graham, of Ellis; E. C. Shiner, of Pottawatomie; T. B.

Landon, of Washington; page, temporary appointment, J. Boulware, Wyandotte; doorkeeper, Clyde Hallett, of Rush; document clerk, M. P. Jacoby, of Allen; copyist, J. A.

Myers, of Greeley; janitor C. O. Smith, of Shawnee. Stover's force: Assistant sergeant-atArms--Ed. B.

Jones, Jackson; Walter Depew, Woodson; E. B. Sewell, Phillips; John Clark, Riley; T. H. Reynolds, Neosho; J.

A. Evans, Gray; J. W. Nining, Norton; J. B.

J. T. James, Orage; W. S. Fairchild, Jefferson; J.

H. Franktin, Pratt. Janitors--Frank Beach, Shawnee; Charles Anderson, Jefferson; Jerry Hare, Miami: J. A. Simpson, (Bourbon; Joseph Brooks, Wyandotte; Albert Roan, Montgomery; John Allen, Shawnee; Syl Morrow, Shawnee; Logan Spaulding, Shawnee; J.

H. B. Taylor, Shawnee; W. F. Banks, Leavenworth; W.

A. Bettis, Sedgwick; Abe Corneal, Brown. Messenger, Phil S. Stover, Allen; guard in cloak room, S. Garland, of Osborne; and Lawrence Work, assistant.

BOERS IN CAPE COLONY. Pushing Forward Practically Unchecked by British Forces. THREE BIG COMMANDOES. Seven Hundred Men Under Herzog Have Crossed Roygeveld Mountains- Cape Dutch Joining the Invaders. Scripps-McRae Telegram.

CAPETOWN, Jan. 11-Invading Boers on the shifting through Cape Colony, practically unchecked by the British forces. The main body of Boers, consisting seven hundred men and two guns under Herzog, has crossed Roygeveld Mountains and is approachir Ceres and Worcester. Further to the eastward and well into the interior, Colonel Kritzerger's commando of nine hundred approaching Richmond. The western body of the Boers, supposed to number five thousand men, is proceeding southward unopposed.

In several cases the Cape Dutch have joined the invaders. THREE BADLY BURNED. Alvin Arnold, Aged Two Years, Nearly Loses His Life in a Bonfire of Leaves. Alvin Arnold, the 2-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Arnold, is swathed 1 in bandages at the home of his parents, in Reiger's Garden, corner Eleventh and Cherokee streets, as the result of what nearly proved a fatal fire. Mrs. Arnold's hands were so badly burned in saving her son from being burned to death, that the skin fell from her fingers and other portions of the hands. Floyd, the 6-year-old brother of Alvin, was also badly burned about the hands while assisting his mother. The children had raked together a pile of dead leaves in the grove, and lighting them were enjoying a bonfire, when Alvin fell into the blaze.

His screams attracted his mother's attention, but before she could extinguish the fire the little fellow's dress was burned off and his right side, arm, leg and right side of his face were frightfully burned. It required close attention on the part of Dr. Everhardy to bring him through, and unless blood poisoning sets in, there is considerable hope for his recovery. Win. Arnold, the boy's father, is a driver for Sid K.

VanTrump. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, PASSENGERS RESCUED All Aboard Steamer Russie Brought Ashore Today. LIFE SAVERS REWARDED. Reached the Stranded Vessels at DayBreak Today. BEEN AT WORK FOUR DAYS.

All Women And Children Were Brought Ashore First. FRENCH OFFICIALS ABOARD. Business at Marseilles Practically Suspended -Cheering Crowds Greeted the Res. cued Passengers -Captain of Russie Hero of the Hour. Scripps-McRae Telegram.

MARSEILLES, Jan. passengers and crew of the steamer Russie, which stranded near Faraman Monday, have been rescued. The heroic efforts 'of the life savers, who struggled for four days to get a line to the vessel, were rewarded at daybreak today when the sea having moderated slightly, the breeches buoy apparatus was attached to the wrecked steamship. The children were first to be sent ashore, then the women and finally all of 102 pas sengers and crew were landed on the beach. Hundreds of spectators cheered the rescue and swarmed about sufferers, eager to administer to their wants, Most of passengers were French officials from Algiers or soldiel None are injured or ill.

Business has been practically suspended and the population has given itself over to the celebration of the rescue of the Russie's passengers and crew. The captain of wrecked steamer lives here and he is the hero of the hour. Cheering crowds surround his home. HIS HARDEST BATTLE. Detective Murphy was Up Against His Hardest Fight Yesterday Afternoon.

E. C. Murphy has been on the city detective force for many years and has had many bouts with hard men, but the hardest fight of his experience was yesterday afternoon with John Gannon, who is commonly known as Gannon occupies a cot in the city jail with twelve or fifteen wounds on his head, mostly in the scalp, where Murphy's pistol was used for a "billy" after a leather club had been rendered useless. Murphy has a small wound in the inside of the right hand where Gannon bit him. The fingers of this left hand are bruised where Gannon tried to break them and there are several places on Murphy's legs showing the imprints of Gannon's teeth.

Gannon was creating a rough house at Charley Wuerth's place at the black bridge and when Detective Murphy was sent there from headquarters, Gannon and another man were fighting. The other man was sent away. Murphy's version is that Gannon after using some bad language, attacked him at once. "I backed away from him," said the detective, "but finally had to hit him. My leather club burst open throwing the shot on the floor.

We scuffled and rolled about him on top sometimes and me sometimes. "I got my joistol out and said, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you." "Shoot and de d- to he yelled, and made for me harder than I did not want to kill him but I did think once I'd wing him or shoot him in the leg. However, I hit him and knocked him down. I knocked -him down three times with the gun before he laid still." While being hauled to the city jail Gannon revived and struggled hard to, renew the fight, Drs. Vaughn and, Miller found several of the arteries of the scalp had been cut causing a great flow of blood, but the skull was not fractured.

Gannon was not able to appear in police court this morning. ROTHSCHILD NEWS. Rothschild's started a sale on all winter goods to make room for spring purchases. This sale will be a money saver to every purchaser. Look in the windows call in the store.

This sale includes shoes, clothing, furnishing, furs, etc. MRS. MARY E. HOWARD DEAD Mrs. Mary E.

Howard died at her home on the Santa Fe farm near Lansing late yesterday afternoon of pneumonia. The deceased was 50 years old and an old resident of this county. Her husband J. H. Howard and several children survive her.

The remains were sent to Winchester this afternoon for interment. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Scanlan will take place at 9.30 o'clock tomorrow from the cathedral. Interment will be made in Mt. Calvary, Death of Mrs Vogel.

Mrs. Maria H. Vogel, widow, died at 9:15 o'clock this morning at the home of her son, John C. Vogel, of 118 North Broadway. The deceased was 67 years old and death resulted from old age and general debility.

She leaves three sons: John C. Vogel, Fred H. Vogel and W. F. Vogel.

The funeral will be private, and will be conducted from the residence Sunday. afternoon at 2 o'clock. FRIDAY, JAN. 11, 1901. NEW JUDGES NAMED.

Stanley Has Announced Appointment of New Supreme Judges. scripps-McRae Telegram. TOPEKA, Jan. Stanley last night announced the appointment of the four new supreme court judges provided for by the constitutional amendment adopted at the recent election. They are: J.

C. Pollock, of Winfield; A. L. Green. of Newton; A.

H. Ellis, of Beloit, and E. W. Cunningham, of Emporia. The first three named were settled upon some time ago, but there has been a hot fight raging for the fourth -place between Cunningham and Judge McFarland, of Topeka WANTS STATUTES REVISED.

Senator Hayden of Nemaha, Will Introduce a Bill to That Effect. Special to the CHRONICLE. TOPEKA, Hayden of Nemaha will introduce a bill next next week providing for the appointment of committee to revise the Kansas statutes. His idea is that the commission should be employed to do the work during the next two years and then submit it to the legislature of 1003. It bas been several years since the state codified its laws and the lawyers are clamoring for it to be done.

COMMITTEE HAS NO BILL. Chairman Carpenter, of Railroad Committee, Says He Has No Measure Prepared. Telegram. TOPEKA, Jan. 11-Senator John Carpenter, chairman of the railroad committee, stated yesterday that he had no railroad measure prepared.

He had heard that several of the members had bills in their pockets, but the committee had no bill of its own and probably would not have one. Out of the many that will be presented, it will try to formulate one that will be fair to the people and the roads. FUSION MEMBERS TO MEET. Will Caucus Next Monday Night to Settle Senatorial Question. Seripps-McRae Telegram.

TOPEKA, Jan. 11--The fusion members of the legislature will caucus next Monday They will settle the question at that time of whether they will nominate a candidate for United States senator or go into the joint session without a candidate. Both plans have advocates. TO DEPOSIT GUARANTY BOND. Allen Wants Beneficiary Societies and Insurance Associations to File Bonds.

Scripps-McRae Telegram. TOPEKA, Jan. of the good bills of the session will be introduced by Senator Allen, of Doniphan. It will compel all fraternal beneficiary societies, mutual insurance associations, fire, life, hail and cyclone companies, to deposit a guaranty bond with the state treasurer as proof of their solvency. BIG TRUST TO BE FORMED Six Big Steel Companies Will Combine Their Interests.

DEAL PRACTICALLY ASSURED. The Negotiations Have Been Carried on Recently in London -The Decision Was Reached Last Evening. Scripps-McRae Telegram. CLEVELAND, Jan. looking toward the formation of another American iron and steel combination, which have been carried on recently in London, reached a point last evening where the culmination became practically assured.

The companies intending to amalgamate are the Canadian Steel Company, the Lake Superior Power Company, the American Sheet Steel Company, the Otis Steel Company, the Pittsburg Steel Company and the Wellman Seaver Company. Combined with these, if the deal is completed, will be several English firms, who will take part in the enterprise both financially and commercially. LEE MACE INJURED. Son of Ex-Policeman T. D.

Mace Falls From a Locomotive With Serious Results. Miss Bell Kilgrove was summoned to Pittsburg, Wednesday to attend the bedside of her sister's husband, Lee Mace. He was probably fatally injured by falling from the tender of a Memphis road locomotive on which he was a fireman. The train engine was running at a good rate of speed when Mace in some way slipped and fell to the ground breaking one leg and receiving severe injuries in the back. Mace is a son of Tracy D.

Mace, formerly a member of the police force in this city. Artificlai Eyes. Artificial eras are supplied to all the world from Thuringia. Germany. Nearly all the grown inhabitants of some of the villages are engaged in their manufacture.

Four men usually sit at a table, each with a gas jet in front of him, the eyes are blown from gas plates and molded into shape by band. The colors are then traced in with small needles, no set rule being observed in the coloring, and as every man uses his own fancy no two artificial eyes there, fore are exactly alike. THE MOST COMPLETE LOCAL AND NEWS OF ANY PAPER PUBLISHED W. J. BRYAN'S COMMONER He Will Begin the Publication in a Few Days.

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body Should Join the Club. W. J. Bryan will in a few days begin the publication of his weekly paper, "THE Coz It will no doubt attract more widespread attention and comment and be more widely read than any other publication ever published in the United States. The CHRONICLE is the authorized agent of THE COMMONER in this city and county.

It is authorized by Mr. Bryan to receive subscriptions for his paper, and it will take great pleasure in doing so. The subscription price of THE COMMONER is $1 per year, payable in advance. Clubbing Rates With Chronicle, The CHRONICLE has made clubbing rates with THE COMMONER and both papers will be furnished on the following terms: The WEEKLY CHRONICLE and THE COMMONER, $1.25 per year; the DAILY CHRONICLE six months and THE COMMONER for one year, the DAILY CHRONICLE for one year and THE COMMONER for one year, $3.75. On the basis of the terms above quoted, cash in advance will be required in all cases.

In the event some of our daily readers prefer to take advantage of the first mentioned proposition, they can have the weekly edition of the CHRONICLE sent to the address of some friend without extra charge. A Rare Opportunity, It is hardly necessary to say to our readers that this is a rare opportunity. No well posted man or woman can well afford to be without Mr. Bryan's paper. It will be more talked about and discussed, both in public and private, than any other one thing.

Mr. Bryan is a national character. His vigorous mind, sincerity of purpose, loftiness of motive, purity of life, and unwavering determination, all tend to make him a leader of men as well as of party. CHis editorial writings will largely determine the policy of the Democratic party for the next four years. For this and other reasons which might be mentioned, THE CHRONICLE will be almost indespensable in every household.

Attracting National Attention. The public interest which has been attracted by the Commoner in advance of its publication has been without a parallel in the history of newspaperdom. The advance subscription on list already reaches into the hundreds of thousands, and subscriptions are pouring into the Commoner office at the rate of several thousand each day. The office already has a force of over twenty clerks to receive the subscription money and tabulate the names and, besides this, it requires twelve stenographers to handle the great volume of correspondence which is necessary to dispatch each day. PRETTY ROUGH SPORT.

Cruel Game Played In the Camps of Canadian Lumbermen. So full of peril is the lumberman's life that even his sports and games must be spiced with danger or they will pall upon his taste. On the long winter nights a cruel game called "Jack, where be ye?" is frequently played. The middle of the largest room in the camp is cleared. Two men are securely blindfolded and, having previously drawn lots for the first whack, they kneel on the floor.

In his right hand each man holds a stout leather strap, in his left another leather strap, or a rope is held by the either close to the floor or, in some camps, actually on it. The latter strap, being kept taut by the combatants, guarantees uniform distance between them. They are quite near enough to hurt each other severely, which not infrequently happens. Now, the man who has been lucky enough to draw the first call shouts, "Jack, where be ye?" to which his opponent must immediately answer, "Here I be." Then the first man strikes at the place where he imagines his adversary to be with the heavy leather strap. If he hits his man, he is entitled to another blow- may call out again, "Jack, where be ye?" and the other must answer, "Here I be." This is continued till the first man misses, when he must take his turn at being struck.

The others form a ring around the two combatants, bets are made, and each faction encourages and applauds its chosen man. There are regular rounds, and the game is usually kept up until one or the other has had enough or perhaps till one is carried off the scene wounded. Hard heads can stand hard knocks, and volunteers for the sport are numerous. At the beginning there is generally no malice. A hard blow is struck--it is expectedit is, the game.

But it, occasionally happens that the game develops into a ferce IN TELEGRAPHIC LEAVENWORTH NO. 18 NOT MANY CLERKS THIS TIME Republicans Cut Down Clercial Force In Both Senate and House. Scripps-McRae Telegram. TOPEKA, Jan. Republicans will not employ as many clerks around the legislature this year as the Pops employed in the past.

The number of employes in the senate alone will be about twenty less this time than there were two years ago. The same rule will apply in the house. The old habit of employing relatives, however, still continues. The following is a list of the clerks appointed yesterday in the senate: Insurance, W. C.

Weaver; railroads, L. S. Stanley, clerk; B. F. Carter, stenographer; ways and means, L.

Beal, clerk; H. M. Harris, stenographer; roads and bridges, W. W. Stewart; judicial apportionment, Tobias Larson; military affairs, Everett Anderson assessment and taxation, John Brown; state affairs, Lynne Codding; federal relations, J.

M. Mickey; elections, Parke Read; corporations, Endsley Jones; municipal indebtedness, David in; printing, Emera Wilson; educational institutions, Myrtle Leidy; cities, second and third class, Hattie Maudlin; legislative apportionment, C. W. Dubendorff; judiciary, W. N.

Beezley; temperance, Emma Hurrell; Public bui ngs, Ed. R. Smith; charitatle Lastitutions, Nelson J. Ward; fees and salaries, R. W.

White. MRS. NATION AS A CLERK. Friends Would Have Her on Temperance Committee in Legislature. Special to the CHRONICLE.

TOPEKA, Jan. is understood that the friends of Mrs. Clara Nation, the Wichita joint smasher, as a vindication for her, will ask Senator Hurrel, chairman of the temperance committee, to name her as his clerk. One of the state officers also suggested yesterday that Mrs. Nation be employed after the quarantine is lifted to come to Topeka and smash the paintings of women in the dome of the capitol building.

never saw that picture which she smashed in the Wichita joint," said he, I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that it is no more indecent than the pictures of the women in the dome of the state RICHTER IS TO COME NEXT. Lieutenant Governor to Succeed StanleyBurton Will Support Him. Scripps-McRae Telegram. TOPEKA, Jan. political friends of Lieutenant Governor H.

E. Richter say that he will be a candidate for governor to succeed Governor Stanley. It is claimed for him that he has the iriendship of the Burton faction of his party. Some of the lieutenant governor's friends say that J. R.

Burton promised to support him for governor in two years in return for his work in the senatorial fight this year. This story is borne out by the fact that Burton men in the senate were made chairmen of the most important committees. WILY JAPS DID IT. Smashed President McKinley's Plan In Chinese Negotiations. WERE SOLELY INSTRUMENTAL Actuated by Fear of Losing influence Over China if Transfer was Made From Pekin to Washington.

Scripps-McRae Telegram. LONDON, Jan. 11-It was learned here today that Japan was almost soiely instrumental in smashing President McKinley's plan for the transferance of the Chinese negotiations from Pekin to Washington. Japan was actuated- by the fear that she would lose her influence over China, if scene of negotiations was removed from the Orient. GOLF PLAYERS RESTING.

The Leavenworth Golf club just now is in a state of "'enoculous desuetude," due to the unfriendlycondition of the weather, Golf enthusiasts do not enjoy this inactivity, for they are all pushers and delight in driving things. Since the grass has turned pale, under the rigors of winter, the few venturesmoe spirits who defy the elements and still play at the game, have adopted red bails in place of the ordinary white ones, the latter 1 being too nearly the color of the fields to be found easily after a long drive. Before using the red balls the golfers take care to banish all cattle from the field, especially the variety which has a strong aversion to red. The less venturesome golfers, who do not visit the links, are restless during these unpropitious months and are devising every known means of amusing themselves with their clubs, which they cannot think of allowing to remain idle. As a consequence they reak vengence upon the cat that ventures to be naughty or the dog that runs the neighbor's chickens and the golf enthusiast is almost sure to exercise his prerogative on the unfortunate animal and him with all the animation that he would exercise on the little round ball in the field.

Dr. Cockrill has challenged Dr. Lane to a long drive contest over the ground between the golf grounds and the Grant monument at Ft. Leavenworth, As the ground between the two points is very rough it will make an interesting course for a.