State Line Register from Lamborn, Kansas • 2

OEMcltAL, Municipal elections occurred extent! A tornado struck the southeastern part of Bridgeton, N. on ths evening of tbe TIIE STATE III REGISTER. KANSAS STATE NEWS. The Governor has appointed D. R.

An. thony (Republican candidate for mayor), Judge Backer (Democratic candidate) and OKLAHOMA LANDS. How and When the Umrt-Offlces Will Il Oponetl Important lustruetloiia Issued. Washington, April 2. Tho land officers appointed for th two Oklahoma land districts have received personal instruction from the Comralggioner of the General Land-office, but will return here for further consultation with the Commissioner.

Two inspectors of the General Land -office will be sent to Oklahoma one for each district to assist the new register and receiver in opening their offices, tor the transaction of business. It Is not known whether suitable buildings can be. obtained at Guthrie and Kingfisher station, but if not the department will make, some provision for the accommodation of the officials so that business may com--mence April The Commissioner of the General Land-office, with the approval of Secretary Noble, has issued to the registers and receivers of the newly established land-offices In Oklahoma a letter of instructions, which is of special interest to persons desiring to settle in that Territory. The most important features are the following: You will observe that the statute reserves, ecctions It! and 80 in every township for school purposes, and the proclamation reserves for Government uso and control the following: One-acre of land in square form in the northwest corner of section 8, in township. north, runge 2 west of the Indian me ridian In Indian Territory and ulso one acre of land In the southeast corner of tho northwest quarter of Boction 15, township 14.

north, range 7 west of the Indian meridian in the Indian Territory. The remainder ol the- lands are made Bubjoct to entry by actual settlers under the general Homestead laws with certain modifications. Your at tention Is directed to tho general circular issued by this office January 1, 18S9, containing the Homestead laws and official reg ulations thereunder. These laws and regulations will control your actions, but modified by the special provisions of the said act of March 2, 188s, in the following particular, viz. First The rule stated on tho seventeenth page of said circular under title: "Only tbe one homestead privilege to the samo person.

is sc. modified as to admit of a homestead being made by any one who prior to tbe passage of said sot had made a homestead entry but failed from any cause toseoure a title in fee to the land embraced therein, or who having te ured such title did so by what is known as the commutation of his homestead entry. With regard to persons making homestead entries and failing to acquire title thereunder, or commuting them after the passage ot said act of M.u-ch 1889, the rule as to second homesteads is operative ly on the 21, resulting varlounly. Democrats carried Chicago and Su Louis. Re.

publicans carried Kansai City, and Kansas City, Kan. At Leavenworth D. R. Anthony, th Republican-Prohibition candidate, was defeated, Fort Seott went Democratlo and Cottonwool FalU, elected an entire female government. At Wichita it was thought Harris, the Liberal candidate, was elected.

Republicans elected their ticket in St. Josoph, Mo. At hprlngtleld, 111., the Democrats elected their entire ticket Tba election In Arkansas for Supreme Couj-t Judges was carried by the Democrats with the usual majorities, Many Nihilists have beon arrested at Vilna in Russia. It is learned that the bombs discovered at Zurich were Intended to be used during the Czar's visit to Ber lln. Thirteen more arrest have been made in Zurich in connection with tha discovery of secret bomb manufacturing tnere.

Carpenters at St. Louis and also at Buffalo, N. struck-oii the 1st The Prince of Wales has accepted an in vitation to dine with Mrs. Mackey, wife of the California bonanza king. An extensive Nihilist printing estab lishrnent has been discovered at Warsaw, Russia, and many arrests have been made.

The Parliament of Holland has agreed to the establishment of a regency, and until aitHgont shall be appointed the royal power will bo vested in the State Council. The South Pacific storm which caused the disasters at Samoa extended to Tahiti. At Tonga great havoc Was created. Many persons were drowned by islands being submerged. General Boclanoeo, after fleeing from Paris, issued a manifesto from Brussels, in which he said that ha would not face a trial before the French Senate, but was ready to plead before a judge and jury.

A sensation was created in railroad circles by the removal of all passenger conductors on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh divisions of the Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburgh railroad. The sweep was a thorough one. Emil Treitel, one of the largest grain dealers in Berlin, has suspended. His liabilities amount to 6,000,000 marks. Tho failure affects the corn exchanges of Vienna, Pesth, Amsterdam, Paris and New York.

It is reported that King John of Abys sinia has been defeated and slain in battle. The British man-of-war Calliope has arrived at Sydney, N. S. all safe from Samoa. She reports the floating of the Nipsic, which was not greatly damaged.

Ihe temperance cause in Canada re ceived a severe blow on tbe 4th. Twelve counties and two cities in Ontario and Nova Scotia voted on the question whether the Scott Prohibition law should continue in force or not. Every county and town that voted declared that the act should be withdrawn by majorities of from 200 to 3,000. News has bean received of H. M.

Stan ley and Emin Pasha up to last February, They were then on their way to Zanzibar, accompanied by many hundreds of men, women and children. One hundred and forty Alsatians have been fined (iOO marks each for failing to re port for service in the German army. A bailiff was shot dead at Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland, recently. Tho murdered man had charge of a farm from which the tenant had been evicted. The President has issued a proclama tion for a National holiday on April 30, the centenary of Washington's inaugura tion.

It is thought that troops will bo needed to suppress the settlers threatening dis orders on the Des Moines river lands. Major Armks, who pulled Governor Boaver's nose recently at Washington, it is thought, will be court-martialed. Allard Sons, One art importers of Now York and Paris, are accused of ex- ensive smuggling operations. A dis charged employe of the linn divulged tho crime and the New York manager was placed under arrest and evidences of smuggling discovered, The funeral of ex-Sub-Treasurer ot the United States, Alexander McCue, of New ork, took place in Brooklyn, N. on the 5th, from St.

Peter's Roman Catholic Church. Secretary of tha Navy Tracy was one of the pallbearers. Isaac Rich extensive fish deal ers of Boston, have failed. Liabilities, nominal assets, $225,000. A nephew of ex-President Guzman Blanco, ot Venezuela, has bonn arrested while trying to escape to the Uuited States on a charge of forgeries, by which he secured $23,000.

Maggie Mitchell, the actress, has obtained a divorce from her husband, Henry T. Paddock. The main charge was adultery. Senator Plumb and Representative Peters called on the President on the 5th in behalf of two Kansas men, named Miller and Woods, convicted of having committed murder in the Indian Territory and sentenced to be hanged. The President has appointed Joel B.

Erhardt to be collector of customs and Cornelius Van Cott to be postmaster at New York. A storm which demolished many houses and started several Ores raged throughout Southorn Hungary on the 5th. The River Nilo was reported rapidly falling and the outlook for Egypt was serious. It is positively denied at Albuquerque, N. that there is any truth in the report of a deadly tight botweon officers aud train robbers in Arizona.

The officers never even struck the trail of the outlaws. The cruiser Atiauta, now at Aspinwall, has been ordered by telegraph to New York. It is the intention to send the Yorktown to New York April 20, so that the latest efforts at naval construction may be seen at the centennial celebration. Business failures (Dun's report) forth seven days ended April 5 uu inhered 222. compared with 210 the previous week and 22" the corresponding wtok of last year.

Pihlo Remington died atSilverSprings, on tbe 5th. His death was due to bilious fever. He was the eldest son of E. Remington, the founder of the great armory works at llion, N. Y.

The death of King John of Abyssinia has been confirmed. 81. The completo vote of Rhode Island for Governor given Ladd Davis 21,350 Richardson 1 .611, lliace 3,4.15, Davis lacks 548 of an election but has a plurality cf 1,398. The Senate stands Itopublicans 21, Democrat 11, with four to be elocted. while the House standi Republicans 28, Democrats 37, twelve yet to be elected.

Tub change In the offices of Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer In New York will necessitate a count of all tha moneys and securities In both offices. Rev. Charles Sidney Hurd, lately of the Palmerston Unitarian Chapel, Boston, committed suicide in London, England, on tbe 4th. Ho loft America March 15 last and In a latter montionod bis difficulties as the reason for taking bis life. THE WEST.

Two hundred union painters of Denver, struck recontly for a nine hours' day. The men were confident The Gleucoe Iron works at Youngstown, were destroyed by fire recently. Brown, Bonnet! works were dam aged. Loss, $80,000. A sensation was made at the meeting of the board of managers of the Ohio pen itentiary at Columbus tbe other morning when Prison Physician Clemmer filed a report charging Deputy Warden Cherrlng ton with outrageously punishing an in sane prisoner named Goorge Batei in the duckingtub.

A legislative luvestigation will probubly result. Custom house officers at Ban Francisco tbe other morning seized five-tael boxes of opium, valued at $15,508, which bad beon smuggled. Tbe drug was found concealed under a pile of fat in a soap and candle factory conducted by Richard Ahlf and II. Gachdez, saloon-keepers. A hevekic windstorm was reported from Jackson and other places in Minnesota, on the 2d.

Tho wind blew up the prairie fires, and much destruction resulted, one life at least being lost. A section of a freight train broke loose from the engino near Centerville, the other day and ran back on the second section, wrecking the socond locomotive and nine cars and killing two tramps. I ire destroyed tho live-story brick building, 38 to 44 Canal street, Chicago, recently. Loss about $150,030, fairly insured. Later reports of the destructive prairie fires in Dakota show that several lives were lost.

The farm properly destroyed was immense. A wind storm accelerated the flames which proved so destructive. The Golden Eagle dry goods store caught fire at Denver, the other night, partly destroying the stock through water. Later returns showed the election of R. Cofran, Democrat, for mayor of To-peka, instead of Metsker, Ropublican, as first reported, by 204 majority.

A Demo cratic councilman was also elected. In a fight a few days since, near Flag- stair, between a sheriff's posse and robbers, who held up the Atlantic Pacific express about two weoks ago, Edward St. Clair and S. Wilcox, deputy slier ill's, were killed. The town of Leola was almost entirely destroyed by tho recant prairie fires in Dakota.

The posse engaged In the evictions on the Des Moines river lands in Iowa were fired on by concealed parties with Winchesters as a warning. No one was hurt. Gknkral Jacob Sharp has resigned as governor of the Boldiers' Home at Milwaukee, and General Kilburn Knox has boon elocted his succossor. Ill health was tho cause. Forest llres have been raging around Courlenay, Dak.

One hundred families were deprived of absolutely every thing. Tho loss reached fully $150,000. Two froight trains collided the other morning near Reno, Nov. Harry Wilson, a brakemnn, and J. H.

Mysogarder, farmer, were killod and fourteon cars were wrecked Ex-Govkunor Crosby, of Montana, recently threatoned to sue Russell B. Harrison, son of the Proddsnt and in 1887 president of the Montana Live Stock Journal Company, for libel. Harrison promised to retract the charges. Swift's packing house, Chicago, took fire on the morning of tho 5th, resulting in a loss of $110,000. TUB SOUTH.

JonN C. Calhoun, a tinuer of Dayton, tried to kill his family the other day. He attacked his wife with a hatchet and hit her threo times, cut off his invalid daughter's ear and then cut hU own throat with a knife and swallowed a big dose of muriatic acid. A tornado struck the house of Thomas Doloff, two miles northwest of Hamilton, recently. The building was demolished and Mrs.

Doloff and two children were killed outright and Thomas Doloff fatally injured. A freight train on the Baltimore Ohio went through a burning bridge at Hart's creek, near Wheeling, W. tho other moruing. Two tramps stealing a ride were killed and fourteen cars were wrecked, Federal Marshal Gross recently started with a party to Hindman, to arrest tho murderers of Deputy Marshal Russell Wireman. His posse numbered about thirty, heavily armed.

The moonshiners who murdered Wireman were reported to be under arms and ready to make a desperate resistance By a fierce wind storm nt Chipley, the other evening, the Methodist Church and other buildings were destroyed and much other damage done. The British steamer Falshaw reports at Pensacola, having met the United States man-of-war Brooklyn in a disabled condition In latitude north, longitude 03.37 west. Tho Brooklyn was short of provisions and was proceeding under sail. The Falshaw left a supply and steamed away, receiving the cheers of the Brooklyn's crow, who were nil well. Mrs, Mary P.

Tfrhy, of Jefferson, has begun suit nt Gainesville, to recover $100,000 worth of property at that place sold by her husband without her authority thirty years ao. A collision between freight trains occurred recently at Brown's Cross Road, on tho Nashville Decatur railroad. Both engines and sixteen cars wore totally wrecked and Ernest C. Green and M. L.

Eby, brakemen, were killed and Albert Finch, firernau, wti severely hurt ,0. Prank LONGANECKER, Proprietor. CHAS. A. FITCH, Editor.

KAATORAT0. KANSAS. TIIE WOULD AT LAKGE. Summary of tho Dail News. IK EXECUTIVE RKSSIOX.

Amen an exciting contoHt the Senate on tbe 8th finally rejected tho nomination of Murat IJalstead to be Minister to Ciermany, by Tote of 86 to 10. Tbe confirmation were; John Hick, Minister to Peru; George II. Lor ing, to Portugal; Robert T. Lincoln, to Great Hrltaln; Allon Thorndyke Klce, to Russia; Thouia Ryan, to Mexico; Patrick Euan, to Chill; Robert Adams, to Brazil; Lansing U. Mlzner, to Central America; W.

L. Scruggs, to Venezuela; Yv. O. Uradley, to Corea; Can- ius M. Barnes, receiver, and John I.

Dille, register of tbe land-olllco at Outhrlo, I. T. J. V. Admire, rocelver, and J.

C. Roborts, register of the land-offlce at Kingfisher, I. George C. Chandler, Assistant Keere- tary of the Interior, and a number of other appointment. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: John T.

Abbott, of New Hampshire, to be Mltilster to the Republic of Colombia; Edwin II. Terrill, of Texas, to be Mlnlstor to Belgium, and to bo delegates to the conference b-tween tho United States and Mexico. Central and South America, Ilaytl, San Domingo and Hra.il to meet in Washington in John U. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius N. Ullss, of New York; William I'lnkhoy White, of Maryland: Clement Btudobakor, of Indiana T.

J. Coolldgo, of Massachusetts; Wm. II. Trcscott, of South Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John R. G.

I'ltktn, of Louisiana; M. M. Estee, of California, and J. II. Hanson, of Georgia, besides a long list of postmasters.

In the Henate on April 1 Mr. Teller offered a resolution that hereafter all nominations le considered in open session, and made a short speech giving his reasons for so doing. Tho resolution was referred. Soveral committees were authorized to sit during recess. The Senate confirmed Louis Wolfloy, Governor of Arizona; E.

H. Terrill, Minister to Holglum; J. L. Abbott, Minister to Colombia, and a number of other nominations. The President sent in the following among other nominations: William F.

Wharton, of Massachusetts, to bo Assistant Soerotary of State; James N. Huston, of Indiana, TreaBurerof tho United States; Ceorgo 11. Shields, of Missouri, Assistant Attorney-General; L. Bradford 1'rlnco, to be Governor of New Mexico; James T. Kelley, to be receivor of the land oflloe at Blooming ton, Neb.

Two memorials were presented to tho Senate on the ad, one in favor of special privileges rogard to public office for honorably discharged Union soldiers and tho other against traffic in intoxicating liquors. Sonator Stewart's resolution in regard to tho death of John Bright was laid before tho Senate, which after quite a debate was referred. Tho Vico-Presi-lont announced that bo would icate the chair during tho remainder of the sosslon and Senator Ingalls was chosen President pro tern. In executive sossiou the Senate confirmed all pending nominations and adjourned slno die. WASHINGTON NOTES.

TllE public debt statement for April 1 hows the total public debt to be Cash avnilablo for the reduction of debt and cash In treasury, making the net debt 002.57, being a reduction since March ljf SlS.GOo.OM 65. The surplus In tho treasury, exclusive of minor coin, was Notice has boon sont by the Inter-Stute Commerce Commission to the. Kansas City packers to file answers to the charges of discrimination in hog and pork product rates made by the Chicago Board of Trade against WeHtorn roads. On the rotui of the Postmaster-General from the Cabinet meeting on the 2d it was Announced that he had removed Postal Agent Dimniick at New York for loaving jhis work to attend to political duties at Port Jarvis. Nearly 4,000 citizens of Utah have pe-Itioned President Harrison to reappoiut Charles S.

Zane, Chief Justice of Utah. Keckktart llLAtNit has received a telo-'gram from Consul Allen at Kingston, Jamaica, announcing the sale by the Colonial Government of that island to an American syndicate of the entire Jamaica railway system. TnK will of the late Justico Stanley Mat-iliews, made on tho day of his last mar-Tinge, loaves all his property to his wife and children. The following department appointments liave beon made; James A. Vose, of JIaino, clerk in the Post-offlce Department; C.

E. Clarkson, Iowa, private to Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson; Hamilton Reeves, New York, assistant chief clerk of the Pension Oliice. I The State Department at Washington Is officially notified by Chill of her acceptance of an invitation to attend tho confer-once of American States at Washington in October. Robert T. Lincoln called upon tho President and Socretary Blaine on the 4th and formally accepted the English mission.

Ha will sail for England about May 15. Wanamakeb has bought ex-Secretary Whitney's late residenco in Washington. Over fifty employes of the Government printing office at Washington have been Jaid oil because of tho adjournment of Congress. I THE EAST, i Billy Birch, the once fumou minstrel, died at his home at Melrose, Westchoster County, N. recently.

Thieves broke into the old State House at New Haven, the other night and arried away the sword of Admiral Jouett, held by the Historical Society lis a relic It was a presentation sword, studded with jewels and precious stones and valued at Henry T. Hklmbold, tho formerly well inown patent medicine man, has been eent to Bellevue Hospital from a New York police court to bo examined as to his sanity upon complaint of his wife and son that he wan so violent that they were afraid of him. The election in Rhode Island on tho 8d was very close. Doiuoerats at first claimed the Governorship for thoir candidate, Davis, but later figures showed he lacked COO of a majority. The Legislature was undecided as election" was reported in several districts.

Edwin Booth, the actor, received a stroke of paralysis while performing at the Lyceum Theater, Rochester, N. on the 3d. Colonel Abornathy police commissioners oi lioavenwortu. In a late decision the Railroad Commissioners bold that when a car is loaded with two or more kinds of live-stock the highest rate may be charged on tbe mixed load. The decision further states that as there is no law on tbe statute books or rule of the railroad companies fixing the weight of a carload of stock there can bs no excesi charged.

A vein of the best kind of bituminous coal was recently discovered in the shaft of the New Home mine at Leavenworth. It is free from sulphur and other impurities and when tested proved to be suited to blacksmithlng and cooking purposes. It is said to be the most valuable coal field in that part of the country and of great importance to tbe city. Kansas postmasters appointed on the 27th: Belpre, Edward County, James M. Nurvell, vice John Kennedy, resigned; Pomona, Franklin County, B.

G. Glenn, viceJoslah D. Flora, removed; Prescott, Linn County, William T. Fisher, vice John L. Brown, removed; Central City, Anderson County, Everett Marsh, vice John W.

Farrris, resigned; Glenloch, Anderson County, Adam R. Foster, vice G. F. Watt, resigned; Luden, Rawlins County, R. 1L Chase, vice John II.

Constable, removed; Muscotah, Atchison County, George Poa-body, vice Henry H. removed; Selma, Anderson County, Francis M. Irwin, vice William W. Sharpies, resigned. The Board of Railroad Commissioners recently rendered a decision In the case brought before them the Wichita Board of Trade.

The Commissioners grants tho demand for the Bame rates given to Mis souri river jobbers and makes Wichita a terminal point with jobbing rates into and out of thut city for a distance of seventy-five miles north, south, east and west The railroads are directed by the Board to revise their tariffs accordingly. While Chailns Quayle was walking on the Union Pacific tracks at Armstrong the other day he mot with a probably fatal accident As a west-bound engino was approaching him on the main line he stepped from the track just in time to be struck by a switch engine going in the opposite direction. He was tossed back and forth between tho two engines until he sustained serious injuries. Ho stated that his parents lived at Patoka, Marion County, III. The post-office at Herington has been raised to the fourth class or Presidential grade.

W. IL Southard, principal of the Man- kato high school, recently suicided by shooting himself in the head. Tbe cause was temporary insanity brought on by ill health. Topeka is said to have four candidates for Congressman Ryan's place. Tint women of Wellsville put up ac Anti-Pool Hall ticket at the late eloctiou, and worked hard for it, but thoir candi date was defeated by 20 votes.

The other day Cornelius McGuire and Morris Keating, young men of Topeka, went out hunting, taking along a supply Pf the fluid that stimulates. They fell iu with a party who were playing ball, and who also had a keg of beer. Keating and McGuire took several glasses of beer an during their hilarity Koating's gun was discharged and the contents lodged in McGuire's neck causing almost instant death. The coroner's jury held the shooting to be accidental, but he was subse- uentlj arrested upon complaint of the county attorney. Fort Scott claimed the pennant for the largest registration of woraon voters of any town in the State, the number being 33 per cent, of the entire registration.

An Atchison man over sixty years of age was recently divorced from his wife, twenty years old. General H. K. McConnell, a prominent lawyer of Osage City, committed suicide in his room at tha Fifth Avenuo Hotel in Topska tha other morning by shooting himself in tbe head. Several months since McConnell was shot and severely wounded by a contractor at Osage City, who cams suddenly upon him in a compromising situation at his (tha contractor's) house.

He had fully recovered, however, and gone to Topeka on legal business. Since the Osage City affair, it is said, Mrs. McConnell has been prostrated, and the suicide is attributed to this cause. The deceased was a Brigadier General in the army of thePotomac. Tub spring elections on the 2J resulted iu the defeat of Colonel D.

R. Anthony for mayor of Leavenworth and the election of Judge Hacker, Democrat and citizens candidate by a large majority. The woman vote was large. Kansas City (Kan.) elected W. A Coy mayor, together with the entire Republican ticket The Democratic ticket was successful at Fort Scott Bailey P.

Waggoner, Democrat, was elected mayor of Atchison. The Independent Republican ticket was successful at Emporia. Motzker, Bepublican, was re-elected mayor of Topeka by a majority estimated at 250 and the Republicans were successful at Wellington. The ladies lost the day at Independence by only thirty-two votes. F.

H. Anthony, an ex-polico officer, recently complained at police headquarters in Lsaveuworth that he had been waylaid the previous night by fifteen men and boys, while going home from the temperance meetings in Stiiling's addition, and badly beaten with stones and cut about the legs. He said he had done nothing to excite their wrath and didn't know what made them do it He had a severe cut iu the left thigh, reaching to the bono, and the flesh below the knee was badly lacerated. He received several bruises about the head and chest O. K.

Skuviss, chief of police of Kansas City, has been appointed postmaster of that city to succeed V. J. Lane, editor of the Herald, whose commission had expired. The Stata Board of Railroad Commissioners, on the application of tho Union Pacific, has ordered a rehearing in the Abilene case, which involves tbe right of one road to require another road, at a common point, to accept its cars and place them at the mills and elevators to be loaded and transported on a couipoting line. and will be enforced in relation to these lands as well as others.

Second The statute provides for the disposal of these lauds "to actual settlers under the Homestead laws only," and while providing that "tbe rights of honorably discharged Unioq soldiers and sailors in the late civil war as defined and described in seotions Wi and S305 of the revised statutes shall not be abridged." makes no mention of seotions a00d and 8307 thereof, under which soldiers or their widows, and orphans are permitted with regard to the public lauds generally to make additional entries in certain cases freo from the requirements of actual settlement on the entered tract It is, therefore, held that soldiers' or sailors' additional entries can nott. made on those lands under said soctions 230(1 and 237 unless the party claiming will, in addition to the proof required, make affidavit that, the entry is made for actual settlement and' cultivation. according to section as modified by sections 2304 and 2-J05 of the revised statutes and the prescribed proof of compliance therewith will be required to be produced before the issue of final certificate. Third It is provided in tbe statute that section of tho revised statutes shall not apply to these lands. Therefore entries made thereon will not be subject to commutation under that section.

Any person applying to enter or tile for a homestead will be required first to make affidavit in addition to other requirements-that he did not violate ihe law by entering upon and occupying any portion of the lands described in the President's proclamation dated March 23, 1880, prior to twelve o'clock noon, Aonl 22, 1880 the affidavit to accompany your returns for the entry allowed. Fourth The statute provides that town site-entries may be allowed under sections and-388 under United States revised statutes, but limits any such entry to one half section, or 820, acres as the maximum, whatever the numbei of inhabitants. Should application for town-site entries or filings ba presented! by parties in interest in tho absence ol officers properly qualified to maho entry in trust for tho inhabitants, under tlw applications of said section 2387, you will note the provisions on your records, forward a report thereof to this office and wait instructions before allowing any entry of tho land. No-rights under the town site laws can bo acquired to any of the lands described in the said proclamation prior to the time therein prescribed for the same to become open to entry and occupancy as aforesaid, viz twelve o'clock noon ot tbe Jd of April, 18 :9. It appears that by the President's order ol December 2o, W85, a reservation was established for military purposes of the foliowing, subdivisions of land within the boundaries described in said proclamation of March 23, 18s9, and which reservation still continues, viz.

i Southwest quarter of section 15, south half of section lti, south half of sectioa 17. southeast, quarter of section 18, easthalf of section 19. all of." section 20, all of sectioa 81, west half of section! 22, west half of section 37, all of section U8, alL of section 29, the east half of section 30. northeast quarter of section 31, north half of section i2, north half of section 33 aud northwest quarter of section 34, all in township ia. north, range 4 west of the Indian vieriaian.

These tracts in view of their reservations under the President's order of December 26, ia-5, arc? not subject to settlement or entry under the net of March 2, aforesaid, and the laws of the-United States applicable thereto see 2.58,2289 U. S. R. S. and you will permit nci entry or filing for any portion thereof.

HOLINESS HORROR. An Awful Story of Religious Fanaticism From Southeast Missouri. St. Louis, April 2. A terrible ta'o of religious fanaticism comes from Missouri.

Monroe Lasseter and wife, ignorant pair living in Wayne township, Bollinger County, a wild and remote part of the southeast section, have been la boring under the peculiar form of religious excitement of the sect, A few days ago they claimed to receive a direct communication from God to kill their eigbteen-months-old girl baby, for their own redemption and that ot the world. After some benighted ceremonies the old man told his wife to art as crucifler. She took the child in her arnu and pressed her to death, after which they nailed her to a tree. They were arrested Saturday and jailed at Marbie llall. They had their examination yesterday and were held for murder without bail.

Their incoherent statements kt many to believe that the guilty were insa.