Greeley County Journal from Tribune, Kansas • 2

COUNTY JOURNAL. TRIBUNE, KANSAS. The Bulgarian government has inade 8 contract with the Krupp works for large supof war with which to strengthen the Bulgarian defenses. The famous St. Bernard, Alton, has died in Washington, D.

C. from pneumonia. He wAS the enampion dog of this country until the recent arrival of Sir Bedivere. He cost $4,500, The heavy rains has raised the water to dangerous heighta in St. Mary's reservoir, and the town of Celina, with 4,000 inhabitants, is in immediate danger of being swept out of existence.

Latest advices from the Argentine Republie announce that the agents of Baron Hirsch have purchased 400,000 acres of land near' Santiago del Estero, Argentine Republie, upon which to place colonies of Jews. A watch is being kept upon letter carriers who are suspicioned of taken ear tickets and then walking, and for making charges for overtime when their work could be done in regulation hours. Mr. Romero, the Mexican ministor at Washington, says that the Uuited States department of state and the Mexican government were in correspondence on the subject of a treaty of reciprocity between the two countries. While a freight train on the Philadelphin Reading railway was ascending the grade from Locust Summit the locomotive jumped the track near Barry station and rolled down the embankment, carrying with it sixty-two freight cars.

New England has had sixty miles an hour wind storm, which did much damage. Flying rumors of various nature have recall prevailed since the announcement of the of the Italian minister from Washington; among them is the rumor that eighteen American citizens have been imprisoned in Italy, as hostages. Frederick Choteau has just died in Westport, Mo. He, with two brothers, were Indian traders at Council Grove, Kansas, as early as 1828, and until 1855; and later at Shawnee Mission, in Johnson county. He leaves many descendants.

There are 97,000,000 silver dollars in circulation, and silver certificates outstanding representing $300,000,000 more. There is $24,000,000 held by the treasury without certificates, so that the gotal outstanding silver dollars is 397,000,000. Rev, Father Lambing, of the Scotdale, Catholic church, who is greatly beloved and respected, and has strong influence over the strikers, issued an appeal to the region, counseling calm reflection and moderation, and discouraging all violence. Italian quarrymen at Kingston, N. held a meeting to denounce the conduct of the citizens of New Orleans.

They then hoisted an American flag on a high polo and riddled it with bullets. The quarry owners hearing this, instantly discharged the men. Thomas Garfield, of Grand Rapids, the only brother of the late president, is slowly dying. He has an attack of acute rheumatism, from which his physicians say he cannot recover. He is 68 years of age and has lived the life of a hard working farmer.

Warner Miller's party was wrecked on Rouckado reef. All of the party are reported safe. Rouckado island 18 a small coral formation about 100 miles to the north of Greytown, the eastern terminus of the Nicaraguan canal, the point for which Senator Miller's party was bound. The tide of Irish emigration is unabated. During the past week six steamers took from the Emerald isle 1,246 emigrants.

All steamers to leave in the near future have full lists of passengers engaged. Fully two-thirds of the cost of the passages of these people is paid by relatives in America. Jerry Simpson says: "Well I went to Springfield and I am not sorry that Mr. Palmer is elected senator. Why should I not want to see him elected senator? We want to hold the balance of power in the senate and house, and naturally I did not wish to see a republican elected." Rioting is in progress among the coke fields of western Pensylvania.

Strikers are throwing bombs; driving off workers; destroying property and persons have been The injured. The strikers are Hungarians. governor refused a request for permission to use arms belonging to the militia. Italian banks are closing their doors. Manufactures, sugar refineries and other great industries, in Leghora, Genoa, and other centers of industry, have shut down and are bankrupt.

The idle populace is desperate and starving. America is the star of hope, and to reach there is the purpose of thousands. General Albert Pike, the noted Masonic writer and poet, died at Washington, D. April 2. He was 81 years old and had never before been sick, when rheumatic gout attacked him.

He was born in Boston, but since the of 22 has lived most of the time in Arkanage sas. He was an intimate friend of Webster, Clay and Calhoun. General Herbert, the new commissioner of. Canadian militia, is believed to have brought instructions from the English war office to strengthen the defenses of Canada the and field. prepare for putting a large force in The entire force of 45,000 will be drilled by June.

Never before has the number of drilled men exceeded 20,000. Two attempts to wreck the fast express on the Baltimore Ohio were detected in time to prevent loss of life. A large depot on the Baltimore Ohio at Constitution, was blown up with dynamite, completely wrecking the building and causing great loss. All these crimes are charged to Italians in the neighborhood where they happened. Governor Hill declined to attend a free trade meeting in New York, called to hear Jerry Simpson talk.

Hill's letter reads: "As to a democrat I must respectfully decline support any movement, no matter having by for whom its purpose the adoption of such suicidal policy instigated or championed, as is sought to be promoted by the meeting to which you have invited me." Under the theory of our government the national authorities have no right to interfere in the don est ic affairs of Louisiana. The people of New Orleans may violate international obligations as much as they please must and the United States government stand by as an humble protestant and apoloThis is one view. Opposed to this is gist. the declaration of the constitution that treaties with other nations are the supreme law of the land. As such, surely the federal government must have power to maintain their terms.

GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS CITY. April 7. CATTLE- -Shipping 4 10 6 15 Cows and 2 00 4 60 Stockers 2 75 8 15 Good to choice 3 75 90 1 95 SHEEP- Good HOGS WHEAT 2 96 No 3 hard 87 CORN-No. 2....

OATS -No. 2... RYE- -No. 2.... 76 2.20 HAY FLOUR-Patents.

-Fancy prairie. per 12 14 00 BUTTER- -Fancy creamery 29 CHEESE -Full 14 EGGS- Strictly BACON-Ham. POULTRY- 00 POTATOES--Home Spring Roosters 3 60008 3 CHICAGO. CATTLE 5 81 HOGS 25 SHEEP -Natives. 6 FLOUR- Vinter wheat, per bel 5 7 00 WHEAT No.

2 1 027 CORN-No. 2.. OATS -No. 2.... RYEBUTTER -Fancy creamery.

23 17 23 EGGS PORK- 12 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Native steers. 4 00 5 10 HOGS SHEEP-Fair FLOUR--Patents Stockers to 3 4 90 00 00 5 75 5 00 WHEAT -No. 2 1 03 CORN 2....

OATS -No. 2.... RYE HAY No. 13 07 16 00 BUTTER- -Creamery 25 EGGS 12-00 KANSAS BACON. It Has Found an Outlet to Brazil.

The Steamship Finance Took on More of It in Making Up its Cargo of American Farm ProductsOther States Represented. WASHINGTON, D. April 6. -The Brazilian mail steamship Finance, Bound from New York to Brazilian ports, which was re1 ferred to a few days ago as exhibiting a manifest showing extraordinary shipments, has taken on $50,000 worth of American farm products at Newport News. The shippers' manifest of this part of the cargo exhibited to-day, discloses the fact that the following states shipped the followIng articles; Maryland, 1,770 kegs and 300 cases of lard, and 11 cases of bacon; Kansas 391 barrels and 47 kegs of bacon, and 950 kegs of lard; Illinois 105 barrels and 10 kegs of bacon, and 1,705 kegs of lard; Ohio, barrels of flour and 50 kegs of lard; Virginia, 4,000 barrels of flour, and Missouri, 600 barrela of flour.

Business Up. NEW YORK, April Round, Dun weekly review of trade says: The actual condition of business does not improve, however hopeful the opinions warranted. The interest of property in many forms are for the time affected and mean, while the usual demand for money in April settlements has made markets rather closer, although a speedy relaxation is expected. Nearly all the interior money markets are quiet and comparatively dull. The collections are quite generally slow and unsatisfactory, improvement being noted hardly anywhere, but the state of roads is usually recognized as a prominent cause.

The failures for the first quarter of 1891 have been 8,545 in number, against 3,282 last year; the liabilities were $42,167.681, against $37,858,968 in the United States, but more than the entire increase, both in numbers and liabilities appears in the southern states alone. The eastern and middle states report fewer failures and smaller liabilities than last year, that the western states report nearly as much increase. In Canada the number of failures has been 575, against 636 last year, but the liabilities $6,048,234, against $5,520,440 last year. Chicago notes an increase over last year in receipts of grain and cheese and 50 per cent. in wool; no change in cured meats and hides and a decrease in flour, lard, butter and 50 per cent.

in dressed beef. Merchandise moves more slowly than a few weeks ago an account of bad roads. Woolen manufacture is doing fairly, but reports from the west are that growers look for high prices in the new clip of wool, which the present market for goods do not warrant. The boot and shoe trade is dull. Speculating in breadstuffs does not abate, and with sales of 33,000,000 bushels here, wheat is 1 cent higher than a weeek ago.

Corn is a shade lower and oats unchanged, but pork is 50 cents a barrel higher and a cent per pound. Cotton has not changed and trading is light; coffee is an eighth stronger and oil with small sales. The average of all prices is a shade lower than a week ago. The Atlantic exports of wheat, flour and corn Are much smaller than last year, but the domestic trade of the country, represented by bank exchanges, continues surprisingly close to that of last year, because of the large advance in prices of important farm products. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 243, as compared with a total of 256 last week.

For the corresponding week last year the figures were 265. Willing to Take Canada's Productions, WASHINGTON, D. April Charles flying visit to Washington." Italian Hot Blood Cooled. Tupper, the Canadian envoy, and Secretary Blaine have had several conferences in regard to reciprocity, but matters have not yet reached a definite conclusion. Secretary Blaine is ready to offer Canada unrestricted reciprocity -to let into the United States free of duty everything produced in the dominion, on condition that everything produced in the United States be let into Canada duty free.

He will not consider any scheme which has for its object merely using this country as a packhorse between Great Britain and the United States. Reports from Ottawa indicate a belief there that Sir John MacDonaid will make no sincere effort to secure reciprocity with this country. One dispatch says: "It is now patent, even to those most unwilling to believe, that the government has no intention of even making a decent effort to obtain reciprocal trade with the United States. The pretense of doing something begins and ends with Sir Charles Tupper's ROME, April authority quotes the Marquis Di Rudini as saying that he had no intention of pushing his demands, and was content with having taken one positive step as a protest against what he was led to believe at the time was a neglect on the part of the United States government to protect the lives of Italian citizens in America, under the provisions of the treaty. He expressed himself as aware that to do anything more at this juncture would be a grave error on his part, as he has perfect confidence in the sincerity and justice of the United States government.

Finally he said: "No, I shall simply wait for further details of the New Orleans affair, of the characters of the slain men, of the action of the Louisiana authorities and the intentions of the United States government; but whatever these may be, I am quite sure that a settlement thoroughly satisfactory to both parties will be found, and that the friendship which binds the two nations will unalterable and secure." Every Statement Untrue. INDIANAPOLIS, April great deal of feeling is exhibited here among the exfederal soldiers over an article in the April number of the Century, claiming that confederate prisoners of war were almost starved and ate rats and dogs, and were furnished with insufficient clothing, and cruelly treated while confined in Camp Morton, at this place, during the war. W. R. Holloway, who was private secretary of Governor Morton during the war and who made daily visits to the camp, pronounces every material statement in the article untrue, which he proposes to prove from official sources, in an early number of the Century.

Rhode Island's Election. PROVIDENCE, R. March returns available make it certain that there has been no choice by the people for any office upon the general ticket. The republicans have carried a sufficient number of towns to give then the fifty-five votes necessary on a joint ballot. The total vote for governor stands: Burton, nationalist, 884; Davis, democrat, Ladd, republican, Larry, prohibitionist, 1,829.

The next general assembly stands: Senate, 21 republicans, 9 democrats and 6 to be chosen; house, 34 republicans, 23 democrats and 19 to be chosen. A Democratic Federation. LONDON, April creation of the commonwealth of Australia by the federation convention, now in session at Sidney, 18 barely noticed in the morning papers, which fail to recognize its importance. By the action of this convention Australia will be a democratic federation practically a republic with a monarchical veneer. A delicate task devolves upon the queen of appointing a governor general, as Australia will not accept a titled nonentity.

A mistake in the choice would endanger the connection between the mother country and the new federation, where everything is ripe for 8 resident. Jay Gould In Washington. WASHINGTON, D. April Gould and party, consisting of his son, George Gould, and others, called first on the postmaster general and had a long talk with him. Telegraph matters was the principal theme of the talk.

Next June will be two years since Mr. Wanamaker fixed the schedule of rates which the government should pay the Western Union for telegraph service. The Western refused to accept these rates but continued to perform the service. The consequence is that the government had paid nothing for the use of the telegraph since that time and the amount now due the company has reached large proportions. Mr.

Gould talked the matter over with Mr. Wanamaker, but no definite conclusion WAS reached. Jay Gould and his son subsequently called on the president, Secretary Foster and Secretary Tracy, and spent a short time in the society of each. Sherman's Burial Chamber. Sr.

Louie, April his death General Sherman gave directions as to his last resting place, and it is in order that the wishes may be complied with that the remains will be temporarily, transferred from the Sherman plot in Calvary to the receiving vault of the cemetery. It was the wish of the general that his remiana should not be interred in an ordinary grave in the earth, but that they be placed in an appartment under ground, which should be built of stone and concrete and covered over with heavy marble slabs. The sepulchre will be built large enough to receive the remains of the general his wife and two children, that now rest beside hun in Calvary cemetery. Fire With Effect. April given General Wiley, in command of the militia, direct him to see "that the troops are moved only in compact bodies and that no firing is permitted except by order of the officer in command.

All other means of quieting the riot and restoring order having first been exhausted, the officer commanding the troops shall notify the rioters that they will be fired upon unless they promptly disperse, and should they not disperse the order to fire shall be deliberately given. Every soldier will be expected to fire with effect and the Airing will be continued until the inob die Happy Canadians. OTTAWA, April Charles Tupper sent a dispatch from Washington. Directly on his arrival a meeting of the cabinet was held, lasting two had a half hours, after which Sir Charles Tupper, Sir John Thompson, minister of justice, and Hon. G.

T. Foster, minister of finance, left by the 2 o'clock train for New York. There is great rejoicing in official circles over the success of Sir Charles Tupper's mission to Washington. It is learned that the Canadian government, at the conference to be he held at Washington, will submit a proposition which, it 19 hoped, will be satisfactory to Mr. Blaine.

Titles to U. P. Lands Confirmed. WASHINGTON, D. April secretary of the interior has approved lists number 28, 30 and 31 of the Union Pacific railway.

Lists No. 28 and 30 contain respectively 91,388 and 78,801 acres and cover lands within Salina, Kansas, land district. List 31 contains 160 acres of land located in the North Platte and Bloomington land district in Nebraska. These lands have long since been sold by the railroad company to private parties and the effect of these approvals will be to confirm the right of the settlers and to bring the land within the jurisdiction of the states in which they are located. Indians Not Enlisting WASHINGTON, D.

April news received at the war department as to the result of the efforts being made by the western army officers to carry out the provisions of the army appropriation bill, authorizing the enlistment into the regular army of 2,000 Indian recruits, is very discouraging. The Indians do not care to enlist in the infantry, as they abhor walking. They will not enlist in the cavalry, except as scouts, because they do not care to bind themselves to five years' service nor to be subject to removal to distant parts of the country. Cohn Co. Go Under.

KANSAS CITY, April Cohn wholesale clothiers at 147 and 149 Delaware street, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities of the firm are $200,000, with assets in excess of that amount by about $50,000. The firm was a heavy endorser for Seligman, May of New York, who failed a year ago, and the obligations thus incurred are given as the cause of the Cohn failure. The firm expecta to pay all claims and resume business shortly. A Quiet Funeral.

HARRISBURG, April Pattison is in receipt of the following telegram from the coke region: MOUNT PLEASANT. -Have just returned from Scottdale. Funerals passed off quietly. Disposition of troops same as at last message. Weather cold and disagreeable.

WILLIAM McCLELLAN, Adjutant General. A Navy In Six Months. LONDON, April the talk of war, the Spectator ridicules the notion of Italy declaring war against one of the greatest powers in the world. "A power capable within six months of buying and building a fleet that would block every port in Italy. American ingenuity would be so stimulated to outdo itself that it would turn ever steamer that could float into an improvised ironclad." Proctor Interviewed.

Los ANGELES, April of War Proctor, in an interview, said "That he did not think the present flurry would result in anything 'serious with He thought "that it would have the effect of working up congress to the necessity of better coast defence and a larger navy." He now regards New York pretty well protected on account of our efficient torpedo service. Killed by Fire Damp. LONDON, April disastrous explosion took place in a coal mine at Pedale, Staffordshire. Ten persons were killed outright and several others were seriously injured. The cause of explosion is supposed the mine and the foolhardiness of one of have been from the presence of fire damp PatE men after the presence of the gas had been discovered.

Editorial Responsibility, ST. PAUL, April bill intended to compel Minnesota editors and publishers to put at the end of each article the name of the writer, went through the senate with such rapidity that the editors of the state are excited to a high pitch, and a large number of them will Bachar at the capital to prevent the bill going through the hot More Trade Dickering. OTTAWA, April John Thompson, minister of justice, and G. P. Foster, finance minister, have gone to Washington to discuss with Mr.

Blaine the trade relations of the two countries. It is understood that Mr. Blaine has indicated his readiness to discuss the matters between them. Railroad Bill Vetoed. LINCOLN, April Boyd returned the Newberry maximum rate bill to the legislature without his approval, on the ground that it was unconstitutional.

The bill passed house over his veto, but it is believed that the veto will be sustained by the senate. Is That So! ST. JOSEPH, April William S. Leach, of St. Joseph, one of the American citizens held in Italy uly the Italian government.

His family received dispatches from him, which was the first knowledge they had tha' he was in Italy. Over a Hundred Died. CARSON CITY, April employed in the Holmes mine, near Candelaria, have suffered terribly from the ravages of the grippe. Out of 600 men more than 400 have been prostrated and over 100 have died. Diseased Paupers.

New YORK, April of Immigration Weber has ordered that twenty Italian immigrants shall be returned. Pauperism and loathesome diseases are the cause of their return. Mediation Offered. LONDON, April report prevailed in political clubs that Lord Salisbary, at the instigation of Marquis Di Rudini, would offer to mediate for the adjustment of differences between Italy and the United States. Against the Combine.

MINNEAPOLIS, April mills, with a daily output of nearly 20,000 barrels, have formed a combination against the great Pittsburg- Washburn English syndicate. KANSAS STATE NEWS. Hutchinson's total registration is 2,308. Leavenworth sent a large delegation of Y. M.

C. delegates to attend the annual conference which convened at Holton. The Maryaville News says at lenst $100,000 will be paid out in that city during the coming summer for building purposes. Hutchinson, W. C.

Beard, ex-register of the Wa-Keeney land office, and prominent democratic politician and editor, died in this city of the effects of la grippe. Seranton Gazette: The finest pack of greyhounds in the county is said to belong to J. W. McCollen, living near Fountain. He caught a large grey wolf with them.

Ottawa letter: pupil was sent from school a few days since, having broken out with measles. Since then others have been taken with the disease and it will seriously affect the schools. The city of Baxter has at last got ita dam business arranged and the city now owns all the water privileges, They paid Stone Gove $4,000 for the title and now are ready to bid for manufactories to come to that place. Manhattan Nationalist: Dr. Scheidtweiler, the gentleman who came here to net with the experiment station in beet culture for sugar, went on a roaring drunk about the first thing; the second thing he was bounced.

Mulvane Record: Brittain and Ruckers have sold half of their corn at 53 cents per bushel. Twenty-five cars of it will be sent to Texas as soon as it can be shelled. This is the Egypt where people come for their bread and feed. Norwich News: Quite a number of options have been taken on farms in this vicinity for the purpose of trying to effect sales to English farmers. Ned Turnley is the prime mover in the project and will use them while in EngJand.

At Marysville Perry Hutchinson has 150,000 bushels of corn cribbed, for which he paid an average of 17 cents bushel. In the past few days he has been offered 50 cents, but he won't sell until he is satisfied the market has reached the top notch. severe storm, accompanied by a high wind with cyclonic tendencies, swept over north Dickinson Easter morning. Reports tell of the destruction of a dozen wind-mills, many barns, and the partial demolition of two houses. The storm was accompanied by hail, which did slight damage except to window lights.

Weir Journal: While a trip was being made the underground cable at Hamilton's on, shaft the engineer fell asleep and pulled the cars into the drum, breaking that part of the machinery to an extent that required the shutting down of the mine two days for repairs. The engineer undertook to work two shifts and could not stand the loss of sleep. Fort Scott letter: Mrs. Mary A. Hepler, who enjoys the distinction of being the first past worthy grand matron of the order of the Eastern Star of the state of Kansas, was the recipient of many congratulations upon the action of the grand lodge at its recent session at Salina, whereat it was unanimously voted that Mrs.

Hepler's expenses be paid ty and from the grand lodge during her natural life. Wichita. -A mass meeting of farmers was held here to consider the sugar beet industry. They were addressed by Dr. Scheitwiler, from Germany, and others.

About 100 farmers agreed to plant beets this season. The seed will be furnished them from Germany. Twenty tons per acre is an average crop, for which they will receive $4 per ton. It the industry succeeds a German syndicate will put in a $500,000 sugar factory here. -The annual Y.

M. O. A. conference of the Fifth district will be held at Manhattan, April 10-12. The opening session will be on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Those who take part in the programme will be State Secretary Fisher; Fred B. Shipp, secretary state committee; Rev. A. J. Nathan, the converted Jew; A.

E. Bishop, chairman etate executive committee; the general secretaries of the district, and a number of other prominent workere. Medicine Lodge Index: It is now definitely settled that the government station for the manufacture of sugar by the alcohol process will be located at Medicine Lodge. e. For a long while was very doubtful where the station would be located, and C.

I. Hinman has been using every effort to secure it for our city, and now has the satisfaction of seeing his effort crowned with success. We predict that all sugar mills in Kansas will run on the alcohol process next year. Lyons. A horrible accident happened at one of the salt mines in this city.

Four men were on the point descending into the shaft 500 feet deep, in a bucket. Above the bucket was traveler, a heavy oak beam weighing over 600 pounds. Just as the bucket began to descend the traveler 1 became loosened and the bucket shot down the shaft like an arrow, followed closely by the traveler. At the bottom the men were crushed into a shapeless mass: the heavy beams. The Glen Elder Sentinel pictures most beautifully the famous valley the Limestone, commencing at Glen Elder, and continuing north to the Nebraska border.

The Limestone, with its numerous tributaries, whose banks are fringed with timber, its green fields pt wheat and waving corn, and countJess herds of cattle and swine, making more beautiful picture than was ever painted on canvas. The valley is about forty miles long and from six to twelve miles wide, and furnishes more produce for shipment than any other section the same area in the state. Concordia Empire: James Burton, of Jamestown, spent the day in taking out of his cellar, where he had wintered them, his thirty stands of bees. found I twenty-six of the colonies strong and in excellent condition, and moved the entire lot to a small enclosed garden on the land recently purchased his wife, which makes a very snug and convenient apiary. Bee culture seems to be very fascinating and profitable employment to those who engage in it, and the constantly increasing acreage of alfalfa, which is said to produce honey of fine appearance and excellent flavor, is making this locality a honey district.

Garfield park will be opened this season. Mr. Paramore has men at work in the park clearing up and erecting a new building, and he has sent off for more boats to use on Soldier creek. Cherokee Sentinel: 'The I. 0.

F. of this and Cherokee counties are making to hold their annual celebration at Weir, April 27th. L. P. VanCamp, J.

W. Shawgo, W. H. Cogs. ball and Robt.

Bolick went to Girard, Tuesday, to confer with committees from other lodges in arranging for special trains, program, etc. A successful celebration is anticipated, Topeka Journal: Hon. J. B. MeAfee, assignee of the John D.

Knox Banking company, announces that a careful accounting of the assets and liabilities of the company show liabilities $226.686 and assets aggregating $475.000, of which $250,000 are the assets of the bank and $225,000 are the individual asseta of John D. Knox. Much of this is in real estate, but he is quite certain that more than enough will be realized out of it to pay all liabilities. An effort is being made to secure an English loan, and if the loan is secured all liabilities will be paid and John D. Knox will re-engage in the loan and investment business, but will not again engage in banking.

STOCK AND FARM. Ellis letter: It is now thought that the loss of stock will not be so heavy as feared, though feed is very scarce in this county. Humboldt Herald: Farmers pay particular attention to, potatoes, this year. Merchants claim account of scarcity of cash there will be a small crop planted. Hoxie Democrat: T.

M. Walker, of Osborne county, will plant upwards of 1,000 acres of broom corn in the vicinity of Hoxie, he having great faith in the raising of that crop in Sheridan county. Sharon Springs Republican: A good many farmers in this part of the county have successfully grown broom corn the past three or four years and this season will greatly increase the acreage over that of last year. Arkansas City Traveler: A. J.

Kimmell, who resides half way between this city and Geuda, is one of our best farmers. He has a beautiful farm, well improved, and has a fine wheat prospect. His peach crop is also good and safe. Osborne News: George and Frank Smith, of Osborne county, have 330 acres of the finest-looking wheat they have ever seen, and they have farmed in Kansas several years. Reports of like nature are received by us every day from all parts of the county.

Manhattan Nationalist: S. M. Newton, of Ogden, will soon go to Mexico to purchase 40,000 head of sheep. He will drive to the north slowly, and will have them at Ogden in time for next winter's feeding. Mr.

Newton has made the handling of sheep a success. The importation of this large number will be a good thing for the corn raisers about Ogden. Hoisington Dispatch: Quite a number of farmers have engaged their hands for the coming harvest. From present indications it will be hard to obtain help to garner in the golden grain. Last year the farmers from the western part of state came in and assisted during the harvest season; this year they will have a large harvest of their own.

Kansas Agricultural College Industrialist: The college farm is increased this year by nearly thirty acres leased from the Williston place and adjoining the north line of the farm. This addition to the tillable land is made necessary by the extensive experiments in progress. Last year there were thirtysix hundred plots under observation. This year there will be even more. Abilene.

-Reports from South Dickinson tell of serious damages by hog diseases, which have spread with alarmrapidity among the swine. Many farmers are losing heavily, and owing to the scarcity of proper feed and the late starting of the pastures the disease is proving destructive. The animal's throats swell up, causing death in a few hours. George Channon, living near Lost Spring, reports the death of fifty out of a herd of 100 in the past week. Kansas City Gazette: A lot of fortynine head of shorthorn Kansas steers, dehorned, and averaging 1,392 pounds in weight each, brought on the Kansas City, the market $6.05 a hundred.

This highest price paid for fat cattle since 1882 and 1883, with the exception of about two weeks in the spring of 1888. The bunch of cattle that sold at $6.05 yesterday was an exceptionally fine lot of beeves. It was learned that they were taken for export purposes. Sterling Gazette: John E. Holmes, an old soldier and member of Meade post, who lives three miles north of Plevna, Reno county, came to Kansas nine years ago, and when he bought bread for his last supper before reaching the house of his brother William, near which John now lives, he had ten cents left, with three horses and an old wagon.

He now owns a balf section of land, well. improved, five acres wired hog tight, sixty acres of pasture fenced, eighty acres of wheat in the ground, looking -very well, and 350 bushels of old corn in the crib. He has sixteen head of horses, twelve head of cattle, and seventy head of hogs. He has just paid off a mortgage of $800 and has $300 in his pocket and owes no man. KANSAS RAILROADS.

General Manager Snmmerfield, of the Kansas C.ty, Wyandotte Northwestern, has gone to New York to look after the interests of the Leavenworth Rapid Transit line, which is being operated by the company. Receiver Erb's permanent residence has been transferred from Kansas City to New York. During the recent snow blockade the Santa Fe management issued orders to the eating houses at Hutchinson, Kinsley, Dodge City and La Junta to feed every blockaded passenger free of charge, no matter whether traveling in a smoker or in a vestibule Pullman. As a result, there was a heavy patronage of the wayside inns that taxed them to their utmost. WASHINGTON CLAIM AGENTS, The San Francisco "Examiner" Establish.

es a Claim Agency in Washington, The San Francisco Examiner is frequently in receipt of complaints from its subscribers in all parts of the Coast States and Territories that legitimate claims against the Government for Indian depredations, and land, postal and pension claims intrusted to the care of various attorneys and claim agents have not been properly prosecuted, or if so, that the charges of the agents or attorneys for fees and alleged expenses have been 80 great as to leave little or nothing for the claimants, We have been frequently urged to make war upon these rapacious attorneys, but for many reasons it 18 almost impossible to do so in such a manner as to benetit our subscribers. We might speedily succeed in driving a dishonest or over- greedy attorney out of the field, but his place would be immediately taken by another, and the fight would be endless and practically useless. We have therefore decide, as the best means of curing the evil, to establish in Washington a Bureau of claims, which will take care of all such matters and push them to a speedy and, in all cases where it is possible, successful issue. Mr. John Wedderburn, our Washington correspondent, and up to the time of his death Secretary to the late Senator Hearst, in which position he has had much experience in presenting and pushing such claims, will have charge of this bureau and will employ all necessary legal and clerical assistance of the first grade, making only such charge for their services IL8 will cover the actual cost and pay him a reasonable price for the time devoted to the work.

Mr. Wedderburn is known to every member of the Pacific Coast congressional delegation, to whom inquiries as to his standing and reliability can be addressed. The necessity for the establishment of such a bureau is well shown by the following petition, which has been extensively circulated in northern California: To the Hon. the Senate of the United States, in Congress Assembled- The undersigned petitioners would most respectfully represent that we are claimants against the government for losses sustained by Indian depredations committed in Humboldt county, California, at different times since 1850; that we were induced to employ an attorney here to properly prepare said claims, and another at Washington by power of attorney to prosecute them there: that we have paid our attorneys here for making out all, papers in said claims, besides being at considerable expense in attending with witnesses the Government commission here that examined our claims: that now our attorneys at Washington (Mesers. are asking us to sign a contract giving them' one-third of whatever may be recovered from the Government as their fee, besides requiring us to pay all accruing costs tor prosecuting said claims.

This we consider an extravagant an unreasonable charge. Therefore we pray your honorable body to so amend the bill now pending before you for settling these claims that it will embody 8 clause allowing attorneys such fees and commissions for attending to said claims as shall be deemed just and equitable, and your petitioners will ever be most thankful. Parties having claims of any kind against the Government, will address all letters to the Examiner Bureau of Claims, 79 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. where Mr. Wedderburn may also be consulted in per- 6011.

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