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Treasurer Grimes has completed his THE QUEEN IS DEAD. THE SEVERYITE. million dollar bond. be Died at 0:45 ok Toeaday Evening, G. fl.

R. MEmfTCLEVtllD. Council Of Administration Decides The State Temperance Union meets Auiong liar Children. in Topeka January 27-21). Cowes.

Isle of Wight, Jan. 83. The Mra Carrie nation Is to be tried in Queen died at 6:45 last evening, Lon KANSAS 6EVERY, probate court for Insanity. That Way, don time. The State Editorial Association The queen is said to have bade fare meets in Topeka January 30-31.

OVER DENVER'S PROTESTS. KANSAS 1TJCMI OF INTEIIE8T. well, in a feeble monosyllable, to ber familv assembled at her bedside at The State Society of Labor and In dustry meets in Topeka February 4-6, Neodesha Presbyterians are prepar mid-day. She first recognized the St Louis, Jan. S3.

Cleveland is se The number of lodges of Elks in ing to build parsonage. Prince of Wales, to whom she spoke a few words of great moment; then Em locted by the council of administration of the Grand Army of the Republio for the next annual encampment, to be Burglars have been working at their Kansas has increased twenty in year. peror William and the others present profession in Hutchison of late. Mrs. Nation has commenced her lec filed past and heard a whispered good The town of Olasco has purchased a held the week of September 0, 1901.

As a result of this action represents' bye. block for the purpose of a public park. ture tour and will continue it indefl nitely. With the members of the royal fam Uvea of Denver Indicated that they Aiouna Uty baa a colored woman, Trouble between the United States ily gathered at the queen's bedside, Mrs. Carrie rooks, who Is known to and the little Central American state of The Missouri and Kansas association of lumber dealers meet in Kansas City the Bishop of Winchester and the Venezuela is possible as the result of be 113 years old.

Rector of Whippingham read prayers this week. a quarrel between rival asphalt com intended to take up the matter with the various state departments and would also hold an encampment the seoond week of September. Tho meeting of the council was the result of the failure of Denver to satisfy the council A quilt with President McKinley's for those in extremis. Happily the panles, who have conflicting claims One Rice county thresher ran out oi autograph is to be raffled off at a Mont nueen wss able to recognize those his machine 103.000 bushels of wheat to the great Bermudez asphalt lake lo cated on the shores of the Orinoco riv goniery county church. around her.

during the season. Naturally the family, while recogniz Representative Z. L. Wise, of Reno county, who died In Topeka, had life at its December meeting of the city ability to meet the requirements of a er. Both of the asphalt concerns are United States corporations, one of them ing the claim for publio information John Emmeluth, late of Atchison, has been elected a member of the first being the National Asphalt company, Insist that the details of the events nsurance amounting 87,500.

one-cent per mile railroads-ate. legislature of Hawaii. The Cleveland delegation offered the Thererenpt enough lawjoraiu the Venezuela may bo gathered from th statement that the Central American, country, which has an area five times as large as that of the state of Michigan, has a total population of only 2.320,000, somewhat less than that ot Michigan, of which number nearly one-fourth are uncivilized Indians. The regular army of Venezuela consists ot 3.600 men, with a militia which In tlrao of civil war has put as many as 60.000 men into the field. So far as a navy la concerned, Venezuela has only three small steamers and two sailing vessels, with three or four small rivec gunboats.

Furthermore, It has been only four years since the United States Intervened on behalf of Venezuela ltf its dispute over the question ot boundary with Great Britain and secured the appointment of an arbitration com- mission, by the decision of which sev- commonly known as the asphalt trust It is even charged that the trust has around the deathbed shall be sacred for the present and imposed the strict The house jndiciary committee killed Kansas house of representatives to fill written pledge of the chairman of the Central Passenger association of one had a band in encouraging the rebel est secrecy on the whole household. up the two judiciary committees. the bill to enable nine jurors to return a-verdict in civil cases. lion in Venezuela which is now in cent per mile to the encampment; Lord Clarendon, the lord will have charge of the arrange The lodge of Elks at Concordia, which has has 108 members, claims to have promised to raise the necessary money ments for the succession to the throne. progress.

The leader of the rebellion Is Celestlno Peraza; who until recently was the secretary of the' present pres Mrs. Lease's petition for a divorce was filed-on January 21 in the district the finest lodge room in the west. to meet the expenses of the encampment, offered free quarters in 100 Valuable Almanao Free. court of Sedgwick county. ident of the republic, General Castro, We have received a copy of the new The new railroad bill before the legislature provides for a commission of General Castro himself came into The colored men of Seattle have power as the" result of a successful school houses for the old soldiers; to arrange the line of march to suit, and produced written pledges.

almanac for 1901 published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. It is an artistic and useful book and will be of three appointed by the governor. offered a $50 reward for the burners of Alexander at Leavenworth. rebellion which resulted In the over throw of the government headed by The Denver committee at the end of cattlemen or tinney county are Interest to housekeepers. A note Mrs.

Elizabeth Greer died in Topeka President And rade. Since Castro took holding their stock for advanced prices; the other day in the house in which a half hour's deliberation the following statement was prepared: worthy feature of the almanac Is a prediction of the weather for every day and so are the Jbroom corn raisers. eral hundred square miles of valuable1 territory, including some rich gold; mines and the country to the south of the mouth of the Orinoco river, were control of the government In the latter part of 1899 he has successfully sup she had lived forty-one years. of the year, by Prof. DeVoe, who cor The banks of Marshall county hold The national encampment of the A.

R. at Chicago last year voted Congressman Long has been invited rectly prophesied the great Galveston pressed at least two rebellions, so that be knows what he has to deal with. saved to the smaller state. deposits to the amount of $40 for every to address the American Protective cyclone and other Important meteoro unanimously to hold the encampment man, woman and child In the county, logical events. We are authorized to league in New York in February.

tjhe Hone of Contention. The asnhalt lake, for the possession Denver this year, provided the rail Leader of the ISrouble. Celestino Peraze. the leader of the say that any woman reader of this pa A rural mail carrier has a route out John M. Fanning was convicted last roads leading thereto granted a rate of per can secure a copy without cost by week at Ottawa, of assault and attempt of Lyndon, which, he figures, will make 8,364 miles travel for him in a of which the rival American companies are fighting, lies between a range of mountains and the shore of one of the sending a request to the company, at present rebellion, began his outbreak in the country along the Orinoco river in the last days of December, 1900.

A to kill Sheriff Costigan last summer. 100 William New York. year. Representative Ridgeley voted for the Appointment In Advance. force of 2,500 men was immediately sent against him by President Castro, re apportionment bill which would outlets of the northern delta or the, Orinoco river, near the bay of ParlaJ The lake is a mile and a half in by a mile in width and comprises more-' Topeka, Jan.

23. Governor Stanley There is a report of suffering of the growing wheat crop in parts of Pawnee and Stafford counties, for want of have given Kansas only seven members. will likely make a large number of Dr. E. H.

Creditor, of Wichita, is vice appointmentsin advance of the time moisture. one cent a mile. The Denver committee has filed with the commander-in-chief and the executive committee official notice by Chairman McLeod, of the Western Passenger association, promulgating the one cent per mile rate on the shortest mileage of all the principal railroads leading to Denver from St Louis, Chicago, St. Paul and all Missoijai river points. "The different state departments will probably take up this matter and decide whether they will still adhere president of a company formed in Chi than 1,000 acres of 6wampy land.

Most of the surface of the so-called lake ia covered with a rank growth of grasses of the commissions taking effect in order to secure confirmation1 by the cago to exploit oil fields in California. Judge Skidmore dissolved the brought against Cherryvale to and several small n-gagements have taken" place between tho rival forces. "Now it appears the The union revival services in Topeka prevent the building of a city water up to January 19, resulted in the ad and shrubs rising to a height of eight or ten feet and Interspersed with talL palm, trees. The pitch or asphaltum: does not lie In an unbroken surface, as works plant. dition of 1,000 to the Christians of that senate.

Probably half of the positions at the governor's command expire after the legislature adjourns. The question arose as to whether the governor' could appoint and have the A reward is offered for the arrest of city. on the Trinidad lakes, but bubbles up. parties who destroy the posters of the recruiting station in Wichita. It is a Senator Tapp's bill requiring owners to their unanimous action at Chicago senate confirm in advance.

Assistant of stores and shops to provide seats for in favor of Denver for the encamp penitentiary offense. their female clerks was killed in com' ment, September, next" Attorney General West looked up the question and found that the decisions mittee. 'The best endeavors to win over the rebels are running low on powder and munl-1 1 of war In general. As a result they are said to Mayor Hunter of Hiawatha resigned because the councilmen would go to a revival meeing instead of attending a were all one way; that the governor various departments east of the The city of Howard claims to be en who had an office to dispose of in the tirely free from the colored element, Mississippi river will be commenced at at once, so the Denver committee the future could name a man for it in not having a single inhabitant of that Glimpse of an Asphalt Lake. meeting of the council.

Charles Gormally, late chief musl advance and that confirmation could kind of skin. stated." cian in the Twentieth Kansas, is be about to seize the arms and other be made by the senate. The term of the textbook commissioners all expire as if from springs. The pitch, how- ever, underlies most of the surface Included in the lake and has a depth? varying from two to ten feet. In the center of the lake is a patch -of about! seven acres which Is free from vegetation and in whlchthe pitch is so soft -that it cannot be walked on.

The whole, surface of the lake is so low that dur-j ing the spring floods It is entirely cov-i ered by water. The pitch is dug out1 of the lake by native labor and carted1, to a convenient place near a seaport, where it is refined. The raw asphalt 1 is put into huge kettles and slowly, heated from above until 'the whogj mass is brought to a liquid The process of heating drives off the water and gas with which the raw. Postmaster John Guthrie, of Topeka, property belonging to the New York To Amend ary Law. bringing a Filipino band from Manila, has been appointed as one of the mem' and will tour the country.

bers of the executive committee of the Topeka, Jan. 22. Under the present law if a person has any scruples about in April next. Fighting Doctor' Trait. and Bermudez Asphalt company at the Bermudez pitch lake, while the regular government, under President The demand for arms by both blacks National Postmasters' association.

inflicting the death penalty which is and whites, including women, soon 1 Topeka, Jan. 21. A bitter tight is on Castro, has seized a couple of steamers Lewis Bubb, of the Effingham never applied in murder cases, he is exhausted the supply in Leavenworth in the legislature here over the consid belonging to a steamboat company high school in Atchison county, was after the burning tragedy. eration of the medical bill introduced hazed by having a part of his head owned in the United States. In order to protect the property of citizens of this country from being confiscated in into the bouse by Dr.

Mains of Wash ington county. The bill is particularly shaved and painted red. Bubb's par ents threaten to arrest the hazers. A Beloit man recently invested $5,000 in Missouri Pacific stock at 34 and is now figuring how much he is ahead Ineligible to sit on a jury. Senator McMillan has introduced a bill to amend the law knocking out that feature.

His amendment also provides that a person who is enlightened and reads the newspapers, can also sit on murder cases. this way the United States warship aimed at Christian scientists and S. M. Scott, a former candidate for Osteopathists, and representatives of with the stock quoted at 84. Scorpion has been ordered to leave the harbor of La Guayra and run up the congress from the Fourth Kansas district, says he owns 325 acres next to The school atCorbin, Sumner county, Orinoco river, and it is reported that the government at Washington stands has been closed on account of small the great oil well at Beaumont, Texas, these two classes are exerting themselves to prevent the passage of the bill.

Mm. Nation Vlalta Wichita Again. Wichita, Jan. 22. Mrs.

Carrie Na ready to send the north Atlantic pox. Another school near Corbin has for which he could get $1,000 an acre been closed because of the itch. equadron with a force of marines down from Pensacola, to Venezuela if 1 be chairmen of the committees on The Wittman bouse at Salina was tion, accompanied by three Wichita judiciary of both houses of the legisla the situation does not improve. quarantined and the victims first en women, wrecked two saloons on Doug ture expect their committees to report Tapp'i Demurrage Bill. Topeka, Jan.

18. Senator Tapp of Sedgwick county is preparing a bill providing that where a person orders a car and its arrival is delayed more than forty-eight hours, the same demurrage charge shall be assessed against the company as the company taxes against the person who fails to unload joyed the novelty of imprisonment, but Venezuela's Chief Seaport. La Guayra is the chief seaport of favorably upon the measure to provide a death penalty for premeditated mur coon got weary of being cooped las avenue late last evening, and as a result Mrs. Nation and two of the women now occupy cells in the connty iail while a warrant is out for the Venezuela and the gateway to Caracas, der. 235- the capital of the republic.

At La State Printer W. Morgan is elected for a second term by a strict party The oldest volunteer soldier, Thomas Guayra the mountains overhang the water, rising to a height of 8,000 feet. vote; Grant Harrington, of Hiawatha, a cav within the same period oi time. E. Sauls, aged 91, died recently in Webb City, Mo.

He served in the Sem receiving the votes of the minority. arrest of the third party, upon the charge of malicious destruction of property. To Repeal Mortgage Law. Orient Conceealon. Chicago, Jan.

21. A special to the inole war, in the Mexican war and in 1862 enlisted in the Sixth Kansas and Rev. Frank H. Allen, who acted as substitute in Rev. Charles M.

Sheldon's pulpit in Topeka during his absence of Chronicle from El Paso, says: Topeka, Jan. 21. Mr. Remington served three years in the civil war. A VENEZUELAN MAN-OF-WAR.

pitch is filled, while the heavy impurities sink to the bottom of the kettle. The pure asphaltum can then poured off. introduced a bill in the house repeal They are visible at sea seventy miles away. Caracas Is distant only ten miles, but it is reached by one of the most tortuous, pieces of railroad building in the world. The Journey by rail from the seaport to the capital covers a distance of seventy miles.

The climate of Caracas is mild and pleasant, which explains why large cities of tropical America are usually situated Superintendent Nelson is showing eight months, has received offers from ing the present mortgage law, passed Kansas, Utah, Wisconsin, Iowa and the legislature that a compulsory attendance law is needed by reciting fig in 1893, which gave a mortgagor eight from Boston. He accepted an offer Governor Miguel Ahumada of Chihuahua, Mexico, who is attending the midwinter carnival here, has signed a concession for a. railway across his state to A. E. Stilwell of Kansas City, the promoter of the Kansas City, Mex ures on school attendance.

Of the from a Boston church until September, een months in which to redeem property sold under mortgage sale; and to during the absence of its regular Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Fitzgerald ot Danville, have deeded their place on the north bank of the Dan river, worth the Danville Orphanage as a permanent home.

354 children of school age in the state, but 389,682 are enrolled in the schools. restore the law which was in force from 1868 to 1893. ico and Orient railway. some distance from the coast. Caracas is 3,000 feet above the sea level, and the temperature averages 71 degrees above zero all the year round.

The four new justices will sit in the Morton Albaugh has been appointed and confirmed as state bank commis supreme court for the first time at the Choate an Arbitrator. London, Jan. 19. Official announce February term. sioner.

Look LiKfi Absurd Prospect. The- late Chief Justice Falrcloth of North Carolina bequeathed $20,000 toj the Baptist Female University of Ra-x leigh. The report of the state grain in Some idea of the absurdity of a seri There is likely to be a bill before the legislature to let the state printing by spector for December shows a profit to ous war between the United States and ment is made of the formal appoint ment of United States Ambassador Choate as arbitrator' between the British and Chinese governments in the case of the British ship Kow Chiog, the state of $500. contract. There appears to have been a mu Oaih.r Under Control.

Beaumont, Texas, Jan. 19. The owners of Lucas oil geyser, which has been shooting oil fifty feet high, have succeeded in controlling the well. A valve was placed on the mouth of the well and Captain Lucas thinks that he is now master of the geyser. It is estimated that 150,000 barrels of oil have already flown from the welL Prospectors and spectators continue to arrive.

J. M. Frost, who was pardoned out of the pen by Governor Morrill, has been sentenced to another term of five which was chartered to carry Chinese years, by Judge Simons of Fort Scott. tually arranged change of telegraph operators between the Santa Fe and some other roads since the strike. The Santa Fe officials are certainly pleased when they hear of one of their old employes getting a good place troops at the opening of the China-Japanese war and was sunk by a Japanese warship just before hostilities had been declared.

Mr. Choate was suggested by the Chinese government as arbitrator last summer. His wife and daughter were also sentenced, the first for five years and the latter for one year. What crime they Ten machines worked all the season The Weyler Policy Adopted. Pretoria, Jan.

19. Boer families and threshing the wheat crop about Glasco, averaging about 50,000 bushels each. their stock are being brought into George W. Hoskins, of Reno county, besides having large farming interests, is interested in stock raising and or convenient centers from all over the country. Those who surrender voluntarily are supplied with full rations, chard products.

He has 1,200 bearing and those whose husbands are still in apple trees which, in 1900, produced For a New Constitution. Topeka, Jan. 22. Senator John C. Carpenter has introduced a concurrent resolution providing for a constitutional convention.

If made a party measure it will win, as the Republicans have a two-thirds vote in each house. But the Democratic members of both houses would likely support the measure believing that it would furnish a means of knocking out the prohibitory amendment to the present constitution. For this same reason some of the Republican members, ardent temperance men, might oppose the adoption of the resolution. Ad Ere Opener. Washington, Jan.

23. The friends the field are provided for on a reduced scale, which is raised when the hus $1,500 worth of fruit, with a reserve stock left. From Jan. 1 to Jan. 18 there were 31 bands surrender, to a full allowance.

Prominent burghers who have surren accepted at the recruiting men station in Wichita, The men are sent dered are allowed to visit the camps to ascertain the facts as to the A VIEW OF THE HARBOR OF LA GUAYRA forward to San Francisco in squads. committed is not stated. The A. O. U.

Vi. started the year 1899 with 31,7.14 members in Kansas and at the end of the year had 33,444, an incresae of 4,710. There are many cases of smallpox in southern Osborne and northern Russell counties. Schools and all public gatherings are closed and the country is quarantined. The is a.demaud on the legislature for more pay to county and city officers.

Several special bills are already in, which may be consolidated into a general bill. Chief Justice Frank Doster will retain his position until the end of the term for which he was elected, when Justice Johnston will become chief justice under the constitutional amendment. The coroner's jury in the case af the burning of the negvo, Alexander, returned a verdict of "burned by a party or parties unknown." Waldo, on the Lincoln branch of the Union Pacific, has given cases of smallpox and is quarantined. No passenger are left or taken at the station. The congressional committee on post Isphalt in History.

Empreea Frederick la Dying Also. London, Jan. 23. The Morning roads decided to retain, the fast mail service between Kansas City and cf Governor Barnes, of Oklahoma, are Chronicle says: It is with sincere regret that we announce that the having petitions sent to Washington The police judge of Iola sentences while the crude asphalt was being hauled from the deposits where it was dug. Pieces of the asphalt dropped from the carts and were eraduallv Empress Frederick's condition has be tramps to 30 days' work on the streets If protesting against the appointment by the sscretary of the interior of county officers for the Kiowa and Comanche come materially worse.

mere has and gives them half an hour to get their tools. That closes the deal. been a serious development of the dis country. Delegate Flynn said that the ease from which she is suffering and Asphalt has been known from prehistoric times. Some forms of it were used as building material in ancient Babylon, and others were used in the preparation of mummies.

During the middle ages it dropped almost from sight. In 1712 a Swiss physician discovered large beds of it in the Alps and succeeded in reviving the use of It as building material. It is said that the value of asphalt for paving purposes was discovvered by accident Lyon county has two probate courts. her physical pain is intense. The old judge contests the election of reservation would not open until August, and added, "Governor Barnes 'All idea of any journey in pursuit ground into the roadbed by the feet of, the men and horses.

It was noticed! that such roads soon presented a hardj and resisting surface, and the idea using asphalt on other roads was veloped. It was not largely, used, how- ever, until 1832, and within the last 25 4 years it has made its greatest progress, 3 the newly-elected judge and refuses to give possession. The board of commis will not then be governor of Oklahoma, hence it should not worry him or his of health has been definitely abandoned, and it is id the highest degree improbable that he will ever leave Gronberg." sioners procured a room for the new judge and ordered a seal for him. friends how and by whom the appointments are made.".