The Saturday Review from South Hutchinson, Kansas • 2

-u-jn j. mum "ii'jmw is. F. Gr. I.

B. KANSAS KEWS. PROBABLY BOSH. SATDBDAY BKTffif. century.

He states further that they hold a patent to the lands, signed by Martin Van Buren when he was president, and that the Cherokees have always regarded this as a sacred document; that they have been taught, time after time, by the missionaries to look upon the great father at Washington with feelings of reverence, but that this feeling cannot remain if they are compelled to leave the homes which they have occupied for generations and S3ek new ones. He points out that they were, without their consent, removed from their former homes east of the Mississippi river, and that if they are again driven from their homes it will be the beginning of the end. A PecaiUr Ballot 15ox. Washington, D. March 5.

Up in the room of the house committee on elections stood a ballot box that will figure ia the debate on the Featherstone-Cate election case. The box is plainly and simply made of tin and Iooes like any ordinary cheap ballot boy. Bllt. t'-trf 1 TlOfillinrHo oKnnt it ley Ferguson has lost three head, and Geo. Hughan lost a valuable horse the other day.

Cedar Yale Commercial: Cedar Vale already has a cotton gin. It did good work last fall and will ready for the next year's crop. Do not be afraid to plant your cotton. Muscotah Eecord: Upon inquiry of several farmers in this community, we were informed that winter wheat is in splendid condition. They say that if the weather in March is not too severe there will be an immense yield of this cereal.

Eureka Herald: "When Sam Brook-over came to Kansas, some twenty years ago, he brought with him four brood mares. Of their increase, and another which he bought, for $17.50, he has sold 4,260 worth, and has 26 head remaining. Arkansas City Traveler: The order to remove the cattle from the strip FIFTY-FIEST CONGRESS. AKKVSSAS rOTJTTCS. Senator Chandler presented a petitioi from Union county, represent ing that at the last elate election a system atic reign of rror prevailed; that arme mobs paraded tha county day and night terrorizing whites, and fhaonng and whip ping black voteis: that ballot boxes wen carried off: and Rbkmg for the protectiot guaranteed by the constitution.

Tho troduction of this petition was the cause an extremely personal debate betweei Messr. Chandler, Harris and Berry. Th. petition, with several others from Arkansas was finally referred to tho ommittee or privileges and elections. TOrrKA's FEDERAL El 'ILtjISG.

1 he senate passed the bill appropriatinj $100,000 for enlargement of the publu building at Topeka, Kansas. CHEEOKZE Mr. Eutlcr oTered a resolution, which wa3 agreed to authorizing the select committee on the civilized tribes of Indians to investigate the status of the negotiation between the states government and the Cherokee tribo of Indians in relation to th3 Cherokee outlet, with power to $end foi persons and papers. A CONTEST CASE. The house spent a day discussing the contest case from the First district of West Virginia, without reaching a Tote.

MONTMKSTS. The sena'e passed a b'li which appropriates remove the naval monument from the circle on the west entrance of the capital to a new location, r.nd in its place to erect a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus. TKrSTS AND COMBINATIONS. The senate commenced the consideration of the bill to de. lare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production.

IVDTAX PEI'EEDATIOXS OF 18S5. Senator Moody, of South Takota, introduced a bill to Appropriate to enable the secretary of the treasury to pay tho claims investigated, approved and reported to co: gres by the secretary of the interior under the Indian depredat.ons act of 165. ANOTHER CONTEST SETTLED. In the contest case of Atkinson vs. Fen-dleton, from Virginia, Mr.

Atkinson was declared the rightful representative. In this case the democrats refrained from voting, tlieir object being to have the contestant seated by less than a quorum, so that the question of the right of the speaker to count a quorum may be taken before tho courts. The vote resulted: Yeas 162, nays none. (The speaker counting a quorum.) PLACE FOR TWO WOMEN, A bill ha3 appeared in the house to amend Ihe world's fair bill, 6o as to require at least two of the board ot control to be women. PROVISION FOR EDUCATION IN OKLAEOMA.

The house has a bill before it setting apart lands for p.n agricultural college and experimental station in Oklahoma. IN GALLS FRF.SIDISG. Senator Inga'ls was elected vice president pro. took his seat as presiding officer, and thanked the senate for the renewed expression of its confidence. THE AS3CCIATEO FT1FS 3.

Senator Blair renewed his complaints agairst tho newpapers for givinz place to dog fights and prize fights instead of publishing important action of and in congress. Senators Hawley and Hoar de-1 ended the Associated Press, TENSION MONEV. Tho Fenatc considered the bill repotted by the pension committee. Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on pensions, addressed the senate explanation of the bill. The annual exi ensa for invalid pensions under the pending bid he estimated at For in' i ease of i ensions, for widows of un ensio-cd soldiers dying annually.

for widows of pemion-rs dying annually. for widows whose laitns are now pending or have been rejecte for children or for children vender pending bills, Total, Senator Plumb offered a substitute for a clause in the bill which, he said, was intended so that under it every soldier would know from the mere fact of his examination what pension he was entitled to, and would not be subject to any unfriendly officials. DrFlClENCT APPROPRIATIONS. The house considered the general deficiency appropiiation bill, and passed it. It appropriates the largest item being f.n appropriation of for the payment of pensioners of the war of 1812 and the Mexican war.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JCDGE8. The senate passed the bill fixing the pay of United States district judges at 5,000 a year. SEVENTH DAT SABBATH. Mr. O'Donntll, of Michigan, at the request of the Seventh Day Adventists of the the United States, presented a petition in the house bearing names protesting against the passage of the ill in regaid to the observance of the Sabbath.

assistant secretary of war. The house passed the senate bill provid. ing for an assistant secretary of war. NOT READY FOR OKLAHOMA. Mr.

Perkins, of Kansas, asked asuspen-. sion of the rules to put ui on its passage the senate bill for the organization of the territory of Oklahoma. II is motion did not receive the necessary two-thirds vote. CONTEST FROM ARKANSAS. Consideration of the Arkansas contested election case of Featherstone vs.

Cat was resumed. Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, in supporting the claims of the contestant, said that in the election Winchester rifles, revolvers and knives had played an important part. This district, ho said, was ad-jo ning that in which Mr. Clayton, a man of national reputation, wh in the exercise of a which belonged to the humbles? American citizen, had been murdered in co'd blood at the very fcot of the altar of liberty.

Mr. Dalzell confined his remarks principally to the election methods in Critten county, charging intimidation and fraud. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, took up the evidence in the ca-e and argued that in its report the majority of ihe ommittee had not obeyed the law of fair play a law which was dear to the American people. To this Mr.

Morrill, of Kansas, replied: The gentleman from Georgia spoke of the-love of the American people for fair play. Did the 1C0 bandits, am ed w.th Winchester ntles, who exiled the officers and people of Crittenden county, under pain of death, belong to that class of American pople who love fair play? Did the member of that bandit banJ, who was attorney for the contestee Crittenden who stood by when he saw the contestant getting out of the county in order to save his life did he belong to that portion of the American people lovtd fair play?" He criticised the governor of Arkansas for allowing 1W armed men to expel from their positions-the legal officers of the county without rais ing his hand to vindicate the law. EYYS UUKVITIEi, 1 William Steinway, of New York, offers to take $10,000 stock in the Chicago world's fair. Kansas City has been in danger of a food, caused by an ice gorge up the Missouri river. JTew York and New Endand have been having quite a severe blizzard with snow in abundance.

The Epecial session of th3 West Virginia, legislature has ad.ourned sine die, being in session forty-three days. Th- ballot reform bill was killed by the repablicans in the-eenate. The great Ohio Cood began to recede on March 2: more so above than below the mouth of the Kentucky river. A killing frost Florida has done much damage to fruit, which was a momh earlier in advancement than usual at the season. The Louisiana lottery people are still figuring to get into Iorth Dakota, at tbe expiration of their present charter at New Orleans.

Senator Ingalls has accepted th3 invitation of the Grand Army post at Gettysburg, to deliver the memorial oration there on next Decoration day. An oil tank caught fire on a train at Mas-sillon, Ohio, and eight loaded cars were-burned. Two sections of tho train came together and three men were killed. Cock and Bull Story From Oklahoma That the White Sattlers Kesent the Reports of Proposed Jfefro Supremacy in the -New Territory. ne jp-o Whipped Negroes Said to ba Iieady to Fly to Kansas, as They Are Getting Alarmed and Arm Offering Their Claims Cheap, Gcthbik.

March 6. Press reports manating from Topeka concerninir the alleged scheme to colonize Oklahoma and make it a negro state, Lave aroused the set- tiers to a high pitch of excitement. Twenty iles wet of here, at Downs, a small sta tion on the Kingfisher and Guthrie stage route, the settlers have been especially aroused in the matter, and a secret organ ization there has decided to drive out the negroes there, and not allow more of that race to become settlers. Four miles northeast of Downs resides n. colored family named Hawkins, and near him another colored family, Burgess by oame.

Hawkins was suspected of firing prairie grass a short time ago on a neighbor's claim, and feeling against him was agiy. a masnea rarty ot ten men from Downs broiie intr Hawkins' aim from his bed, and severely whipped aim. JJurins the whipping Buck Hawkins. son. ran and aroused Burcress fami v.

abe Clarke and Samuel Bur-iess armed hemsplvf-B with chntfriina rattimaA with the younger li aw sins to the scene of the outran. Thev fire at the nartir fmm ambush. The masked party was literally peppered with shot, and Henry Chambers txram Kntllv Hurt ahnnf iha Kaq 1 The negroes were pursued, and before they loau mo wuoio parry was surrounded by the irate settlers, who held Winchesters on them. The negroes wers thoroughly frightened, and promised to kins arrived at Kingfisher and asked for protection. He claimed that the outrage was planned by Wood Davis, who is con- j.

i ii -escmff ms ciaim. ine lew ncro settlers greatly alarmed at the feeling against the jJBuy.e, tiuu are guiunj; ieaay to go to Kansas. Several of tnem offered to sell their claims for a mere pittance. The settler who was wounded during the melee near DownB, and who gave the name of FTfinrv Chambers. i onnnnaorl to Ho Wnn 1 XX' Davis, a storekeeper at Downs.

He is in precarious condition. Condition of Wheat in Several States. Chicago, March 6. The Farmers' Review iays: Th3 reports of our correspondents ntimate that the present cold 6uap dani- lged winter wheat in many counties in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and Michigan from 10 to 0 per cent. Wiscon-in, and a ortion of the counties in north-jrn Illinois, are protected at present by a blanket of snow.

Very lew reports of dam-ige by winter killing hav been received from Ohio and none from Kentucky. In Ohio valley, however, embracing por-iionsof Ohio, Indiana ani southern Illinois, excessive rain has swelled the streams and looded the bottom lands, greatly damaging rheat fields on low ground. With the ex-jeption of a few counties in Kansas and jentral Illinois, there are no complaints of lamage from the Hessian fry. The best all tround report comes from Kentucky. The nost discouraging report comes from Mich-gan, where wheat has suffered greatly from ihe alternate freezing and thawing experi-snced during the past month.

Moonshiners in To Man's Land. Clavtos, N. March 6. For some ime it has been rumored that moonshiners rere at work in Xo Man's Land, forty miles aorth of here. News has just been received the seizure of three large distilleries with I large amount of machinery and whisky ay United States officers.

The three distil-eries were doing an enormous buriness. lot only supplying the neutral strip and lorthern New Mexico with whisky, but also mipped hundreds of barrels into that of Kansas that surrounds No Man's Land. The tact that were doing such i large business is proven by the announcement that the parties running the plants, and who supposed they were safe from interference by the government, were making arrangements to enlarge their plants The material was already upon the ground. Place Assigned to Our State. Nashviixe, March 6.

In the organization of tha National Republican League convention Kansans were represented as follows: Resolutions, Eugene F. Ware. League work, Charles F. Scott. Place af next meeting, D.

O. McCray. Finance, C. F. Johnson.

Credentials, V. L. Kellogg. Order of business, D. A.

Kurd. Miscellaneous, G. N. Nichols. Tell W.

Walton was made vice president for Kansas, and J. G. Slonecker member of the executive committee. The committee on location selected Cin-linnati as the place of the next meeting. Democratic Victories in Iowa.

Chicago, March 6. Municipal elections were held in several Iowa cities and the lemocrats cleaned up everything in Eur-lington. In Cedar Kapids they elected the mayor and enough aldermen to make the council a tie. At Clinton the democratic sandidate for mayor defeated the republican's and citizen's candidates. The Clinton democrats have secured a majority of the council.

At Ottumwa the republicans have a majority of the aldermen. Fort Dodge elected the entire Democratic ticket. At Des Moines and Sioux City both parties zlaim the mayoralty. The oftkial count will be necessary to decide. The indications are that the republican candidates will be successful.

National Keptibliean Leajjue. Nashvillf, March 6. At the opening of the convention of national republican leagues Hon. A. J.

Watson, chairman of the local executive committee, called the assembly to order and male the address of welcome. There were nearly GOO delegates in the seats and at least luO more are expected before the convention adjourns. Hon. G. L.

Tilman, Captain William Eu-let, editor of the lnoxville and W. G. Wmstead, of Tennessee, followed with brief addresses, which President Thurston, of Xebra-ka, proceeded to ad Iress the convention. Editor of the Cleveland Leader Tead. Cleveland, March 6.

Mr. Edwin Cowles, editor of the Cleveland Leader, lied at his home at the age of 65 years. He had been confined to his house during the last three weeks, most of the time to his bed. He was suffering from the same heart and stomach troubles that have atliicted him during the past four years. Senator Allison Kemnied.

Des Moises, March 6. The house proceeded to ballot on the election of a Cnited States senator. The vote was Allison 50, Bestow 41, Larrabee 6. The Independents voted for Larrabee. This was in tbe forenoon.

In the senate in the afternoon the nomination of a United States senator was taken up. Senator Catch nominated William B. Allison, Bolter named S. L. Bestow, Engle nominated William Larrabee.

Thj vote resulted: Allison, l8; Bestow. 20; Larrabee, 2. Allison was declared elected on the part of the senate. So Allison was elected in both houses. York's Permanent Fair Proposition.

New Yobk, March G. The executive committee of the New York world's fair, will, et the instance of Mayor Grant, consider a tha the organization remain intact for the purpose of erecting peima-nent exposition buildings where expositions of arts and industries on a large scale can be held every year. Chauncey L'epew and Elihu Root are heartily in favor of the proposition, but some ether members of the committee are "agin" it. It is suggested also that the appropriation of voted by the legislature may be utilized for the erection of museums of art and natural histcry, the improvement of Morningside park, and the erection of a permanent building much after the 6tyle of the Crystal Palace at Sydeaham. Arkansas Qty Traveler: Cowley county wia father be the west end of a concessional district than the east end of a western district.

At Winfield the Grand Lodge, A. O. TT of Kansas has been in session. Grand Master A. P.

Kiddle and other prominent officers were in attendance. There were about 400 delegates in the city. A reception was held at the Grand opera house. McPherson He publican: Tb.6 suc cession of meeting at Hilton, Linds- borg, Freemont, Marquette, and Sharp's Ureek, certamiy DespeaKs a iiveiy interest in educational work on the part of 1 1 J. school patrons in these localities.

"We Mil 1 1. 1 A 1 also note tnat tne scnooi Doaras in tnese districts are working to promote the interests of the schools. Hays City Press: The biggest load of flour ever known to be shipped over the Union Pacific railroad was sent from the mill here by Mr. Tost to Kansas City, having been sold there by Mr. Sdhwaller, and contained 60,000 pounds of his celebrated "Hungarian High Patent" made from that pure and large wheat raised by oar Imssian farmers.

From Brookville: Mrs. Samantha Baker, a -widow lady, and her son 8 years old, were burned to a crisp in their stable on a farm three miles southwest of Brookville. From the indications found they had gone to the sta ble to feed the horses, with a lantern, from which the stable caught fire. Singularly, the horses had got out, but mother and son perished. From Belleville: A disastrous fire occurred at Narka, a town sixteen miles north of here this county.

The loss-es were as follows: H. C. Wheeler, store building and general merchandise, insurance. J. H.

Foveman, hotel, insurance, $750; J. C. Adams, residence and stock of drugs, $900, no insurance; W. Snip, store room, $1,000, no insurance; T. Mendnck, merchandise, c4UU; grain office and scales, $600, Origin of fire unknown.

Junction City Eepublican: John "Wolfe was accidentally shot by James Sullivan on the farm of William Brown, south of this city. "Wolfe and Sullivan left the house to kill a chicken, "Wolfe taking a shotgun with him. The fowl they were after ran under a corn crib and Wolfe gave the gun to Sullivan telling him to shoot the chicken if he could not get him any other way. Sullivan took the gun, not knowing it was cocked, and the supposition is that the hammer got caught in some way, discharging the load into the breast of "Wolfe, killing him instantly. A "Whiting special: The postoffice was broken into between 10 and 12 o' clock at night.

Boxes, packages and papers were overhauled and scattered about promiscuously. The mail key and books are intact. Money and stamps are not kept in the office at night, and it is believed that nothing of value was taken. They also went, through the dry goods and millinery store or bmcler te leming, but were discovered by Mr. Snider.

They made their escape, taking a few dollars in cash and some dry goods with them. By wire from Harper: A two story frame building on west Main street, the upstairs being used as sleeping apartments by college students and the first floor occupied by the college journal as a printing office was found to be on fire, which started in the upper floor the stovepipe passing through this floor and into a flue in the upper room, the fire spread rapidly between the floor and ceiling, and had it not been for the ex cellent system of water works and the excellent hre department a big conflagration would have been the result. The loss to the college journal in stock and machinery will be about $400; damage to building about $500. No insurance. At "Winfield a grand reception was given the delegates to the A.

O. U. state meeting by Winfield lodge, No. 18, at the Grand opera house. The house, which has a seating capacity of 1,200, was filled to overflowing.

The meeting was presided over by Master Workman S. E. Fink. Addresses were made by Grand Master A. P.

ltiddle. of Minneapolis; Hon. G. W. Eeed, of To- peka; Hon.

E. M. Forde, of Emporia; Hon. J. lliggs, of Lawrence; Hon R.

M. Emery, of. Seneca, and Hon. J. Miller, of Council Grove.

Reports of grand master workman, grand recorder, grand medical director, and su preme representative were received which show that 2,508 applications have been made for membership during the past grand lodge year. Of this number, 236 were reiected by the grand medical director. Ninety-three deaths occurred during the year, necessitating the payment of 180,000 from the ben eficiary fund of the order. Report of the grand recorder shows that the Kansas lodge contributed $061.70 to to the fund for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers. All reports showed tne order to be a healthy and grow ing condition.

Arkansas City Traveler: Several weeks ago a Traveler reporter received an intimation that a colony was being organized with headquarters in this city to move on the Cherokee strip just At a t-. soutn or tnis city. liut little was thought of it at the time for the reason that all former movements of the kind were inaugurated with great pomp and ceremony. It was since learned that such a colony is being organized and that it is far-reaching in its scope, and powerful in its composition, because of the respectability and general intelli gence of its advocates and followers. A gentleman who declined to give his name and residence, was met by a re porter, who said that he came here to join the colony, and that hundreds of others would arrive within the next few weeks.

He disclaimed being a "boomer," and said that all he and his associates in the organization want, is homes in the unoccupied lands of the United States, and they had assurances that they would not be disturbed by the government in the prosecution of their laudable ambition. These revelations, coupled with the fact that the city has been unusually full of strangers for several days, and that eight car loads of household good3 were received here in one day by one railroad, all inspire the people here with the belief that the exciting scenes enacted in Oklahoma will soon be repeated on a much larger scale. STOCK AXD FAKM. Valley Falls Register: The epizootic among horses is proving fatal. Fin- It Proposes to Have Xearly All trio Population of Oklahoma Rat Will Welcome Such Whites as Desire to Live There for Purposes of Trade.

Negroes Have 3ot Meddled With Cities of the Territory as Yet, as They Are WiUing to Have the Whites Build Their Towns. Topeka, March 4. A reporter has been interriewing E. P. AlcCabe, recently returned from Washington, and also other officers and head men of the "first Grand Independent Brotherhood," who are here, and gives cut the following as their expressed sentiments: "We did not mean to have our and aims given to the public so soon, but there has been no harm done.

"We propose to not only have a majority of the roters in Oklahoma, but wo propose also to have nearly the entire population. There are many now there who will not lire in a nigger' state. These we will help move ont. We will not want the mass of white people with us, but will elcome tho3e whites who have money and who are willing to come among us for purposes of trade. If they wish ta make their homes there, and will make our customs their customs, our people their people, -we will be glad to have them with us.

But -when the time comes we will welcome only those who will make themselves of us and for us. We have not yet invaded the new citie3, and you will find comparatively few negroes in Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Edmunds, and other towns. You will observe, however, that we never take a step backward, and only our own people know how many of our race there are there, but prefer to fill the country with farmers and encourage our people to go to the cities only as our needs demand, before the end of the year you will find ths work of the Brotherhood in the cities and towns to a marked degree, and will see our raoa behind the counters and at the desks and will rind that they are patronized. We are willing to have the whites build the towns for us, for we are not." as yet, builders. They are doing all that for us.

We do not propose to impose upon the whites nor abuse our power. We will simply stand by our own people, and there can be but one result, and that result will be a solid negro Btate, the grandest in the union." Hot From ihe (Tires. Nashviixe, March 5. The Cumberland river has risen to forty-eight feet eight inches and is still rising. The Tennessee river is on a boom, and has swept away thousands of dollars worth of timber and fencing.

Atchison, Kax. Three women of this city are applicants for appointment as census enumerators. The Kquai Suffrage association is backing them. Representative Morrill has written the census supervisor asking that they he appointed. Washington, D.

C. The supreme court has confirmed Ihe decision of the Mississippi courts that the statutes of that state requiring separate cars for colored passengers apply solely to commerce within the 6tate, and not a violatioa of the law regulating interstate commerce. Washington', D. The senate spent most cf one day's executive session discussing the appointment of Ex-Governor War-mouth to bo collector of the port of New Orleans. He was confirmed by a mixed vote of republican and democratic senators.

Gctheie, I. T. Great indignation is ex pressed here at the statement in the special tele.ramsent to the press from Tcpeka in regard to the alleged negro colonization of Oklahoma. The lands in Oklahoma are all taken up, and amocg the settler-? there is only a handful of negroes. It is difficult to understand how thousands of negroes are to be colonized on lands already occupied by legitimate claimants.

Washington. f. C. The house committee on public buildings reported favorably the senate bill, with an amendment reducing the amount from $150,003 to for the construction of a public building at Salina, Kansas. Washington, D.

Indian Agent Bennett, located in the Indian Territory, has reported to the Indian bureau that it has just come to a knowledge that an act was parsed by the legislative council of the Choctaw nation, about two months ago, in corporating the Chcctaw Lottery company. The agent rei resents that great secrecy was maintained concerning this act, and it was With the utmost difficulty that he succeeded securing a copy of it. IjFAvknwobth, Kan. It is annouced here that the headquarters of the department of the Missouri have been ordered removed to St. Louis, Mo.

The removal takes effect about May 1. Chicago. -At a meeting of socialists in this city a resolution was passed endorsing a call for an international labor convention, to meet in this city during th3 presence of the world's fair in 1892. St. Joseph, Mo.

Noyes, Norman wholesale boot and shoe house, lost by fire; fully covered by insurance. It is supposed that a sparfc from the stove in the packing department ignited some packing straw. Atchison, Kan. An Atchison lumber firm has completed a purchase of 10J.O0O acres of pine lands in Louisiana. Schfnf.ctadt, N.

Y. The residence of James H. Bradshaw. in this city, was discovered to be on fire, ana Mrs. Bradshaw was burned to death.

The prevailing opinion is that it was caused by electric light wires. Committee Work All About Done. Washington, D. March 5. The delegates to the International conference are beginning to talk about final adjournment, which will probably take place about April 1.

Nearly all of the committees have made their reports and several of them have been already adopted. Tha report of the committee on customs union, which considered reciprcoity treaties, is the hands of the printer. The three committees on cable communication on the At antic and Caribbean sea have their reports prepared and they are now being translated. 'Ihe reports of the committees on customs and regulations and the committee on port duties are both about ready to submit to the conference. The committee on extradition and banking will finish its labors within a few days.

The committee on arbitration has agiesd to report in favor ot tha adoption of that means of settling all international questions, but ha3 not agreed upon any plan yet. The committee for a monetary convention will make two reports. These reports are in the hands of the printer now, and will be submitted soon. The reports of the committee on railway communication, sanitary regulations and weights and measures have already been adopted by the conference, while the reports of the committee on patents and trade marks and international law are regular orders for the consideration of the conference. The Crsuline Nnns in Rebellion.

PrrrsBrBG, March 5. The Ursuline nuns are in open rebellion against his holiness the pope. The troubles of this sisterhood, which have covered several years, were supposed to have ended some months ago when, with the sanction of the authorities at Rome, it was arranged that the entire property owned by the nuns should bs turned over to Bishop Swiss upon payment of $60,000. Ex-Mother Alphonse, however, has now gon? back on this compromise and has placed the fourteen acres with the building in the hands of a real estate agent to be disposed of. She claims that herself and her associates organized the institution, secured the necessary funds, and hold the title, and that they do not regard the eccles'asticallaw as rising superior to the laws of Pennsylvania.

The fight, which will now proceel with increased bitterness on both sides, is of interest to the Catholic church throughout the world, as it is the first time that a sisterr-ooi has openly defied the authority of the Holy Pontiff. Chief Mayes Files a Protest. Vinita, March 4. Chief Mayes, of the Cherokees, has written a letter to the president regarding the recent proclamation ordering the cattle off the Cherokee 6trip, in which he protests strongly against the action of the government in thus depriving them of what he claims is theirs by every law of God and man. He states that the Cherokees have been taught that the land is theirs: that they have been taught so by administration after administration, and by treaty after treaty, for the last half ED.

M. MOORE. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. Wheat and flour on ocean passage for Europe 6how an increase of 80,000 bushels within a we 3k. The corn increase on the.

ocean is bushels. The secretary of the treasury has awarded the contract for the interior finish of the custom house building at Galveston, Texas, to V. E. Appleby, of Wichita, Kansas, for 544,385. It is said that Queen Victoria is about to issue a pardon to Mrs.

Maybrick, the relative v-f old Jetf Davis, who i imprisoned for killing her English husband. It is reported that Silcott, the absconding cashier of the sergeat-at-arms office of the bouse, at Washington, has been captured in Oregon under the disguise of a locomotive engineer. Secretary Windom has issued orders for the establishment of an emigrant landing aepot on reaioe isiana, isew iont uaroor, and arrangements will at once be made for he construction of the necessary buildings. The president, on February 27, nominated as D. J.

Brewer's successor Henry C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to be judge of the eighth circuit. Also, to be postmaster at Atchi-Bon, Samuel R. Washer, andatGreensburg, Preston S. Abbett.

A constitutional amendment is under consideration in South Dakota which requires a citizen to be able to read any article of the constitution or any section of the laws of the Btate before he becomes a legal voter. Emin Pasha, now at Cairo, is out, and takes long walks. Clinton, has two cases of murder in its courts, both of which were committed at charivaris. One of th3 victims was a bride. The United States senate is spending a great deal of time in trying to find out how the proceedings of that body, whilein secret session, are so promptly and regularly published in the next issue of th3 newspapers.

A parochial school in Lansingburg, N. YM lias declined to receive an American flag from the local Grand Army post, and there is a disposition i thi part of the people of Lansingburg to'n the whole parochial school question right thsre and now. Bishop Hennessy. of the diocese of Iowa, lias issued a pastoral letter to all the priests in his diocese ordering them to establish parochial schools and to compel Roman Catholic parent to send their children to the church schools instead of the fre3 public echDols. It is semi-officially 6tated that the result of the recent election for members of ths reichstag has caused Prince Bismarck to -delay his resignation from office.

It ia believed that he would undoubtedly have resigned had the election resulted in a victory for the cartel part e3. A cut in railroad fare between Chicago and Missouri river point? took effect March The greatest cut is on east bound tickets, the rate from Kansas City to Chicago being $8 for first class and $5 for second class. West bound fare is $2 more for first class and $3 for second class. Kansas City had cheap chicken the other day. A car load of poultry shipped from somewhere in Missouri, and consigned to California, were found to be freezing, and in a bad way generally; so they were stopped at Kansas City and p3dd ed out for very little money.

Dining cars are not profitable in themselves, and it is reported that the service on the Santa Fe system betwee Chicago and Kansas City is netting a loss to the company of $000 a month. It is rumored that a large depot hotel will be erected at Fort Madison and the dining cars be discontinued. The car shortage which was comp'ained of during the month of January is again being felt. The great grain blockade, which kept th9 cars tied up at the seaboard and in t.lifi jrrpnt. frrain ppnt.ers.

has nnrpf been fully raised, it, therefore, takes but a slight additional demand on the facilities of the roads to renew the shortage. State Treasurer Is ol and. of Missouri, has been suspended from office by Governor Francis, the resu of an investigation! of his office. The deficit in th8 treasury i3 thought to be large, $32,000 shortage having. bo far, been discovered.

Mr. Koland ia positive in stating his belief that a full in-Testigation will discover no deficit whatever. At Flagstaff, A. A. W.

Allen, night cperator and watchman for the Atlantic Pacific railroal, discovered a man stealins from a car of merchandise. Allen called to him to surrender, but he started to run. The operator fired, killing the thief in stantly. The coroner's jury exonerated Allen. The victim is unknown.

Ermerant camps in considerable num bers are increasing along the south line of Kansas, bordering on the Cherokee outlet. There is a prevailing belief among these people that the outlet will be opened for settlement about the 1st of June. Many of the campers have leased small tracts of Kansas land upon which to raise supplies lor nest winter. A man disguised as a farmer entered the bank of Ricks, Gephart fe at Valley Kansas, just; at the closing hour, while the cashiei was alone, ana was putting away cash, in the vau t. He cov ered Cashier Coen and compelled him to give up the cash; then locked him in the bank and left.

Pursuit was speedily organ ized and he was found next morning at a Hotel at JUenden. hiteen miles away. hav. ing taken a room in the nieht with orders to be called for the a. m.

train for Atchison. Two pursuers from Valley Fa'ls having their game holed awaited the time set for his Call, and when he came down to the hotel oihee he was met by two shot guns. Seeing the condition he dropped his gloves and reached for a pistol with each hand. hich were in his over coat pockets. This loosened up the shotguns, and the robber fell dead.

I pon his person was found S2. some of which still had bands about the bills which bore the signature of the robbed cashier. The cashier identified both man and money. The amount found in the robber's boots was somewhat more than the amount missed at the bank. A coro ner's jury decided that the killing wa3 jus tifiable.

Cetter Than Oklatiomi 1,200 acres of the choicest land in the San Xuis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under fence, water-rights secured and cutanea ready for use. It will be sold as a whole ot in quantities to suit the purchaser, it is the finest land the valley, ana 13 aciapted to either farming or stock-raising. or price, t.rins, address Henbx A. Buiikbs, -Alamosa, Colorado. GKNEilAL.

ilAUKETS. Kansas City, March 7. CATTLE Shipping 3 45 4 Kange eteeis none offered HOGS Good to choice 3 70 6 3 SHJEEP-iood muttons 3 35 4 CO WHEAT No. 2 red 6. i bid Ho.

'1 Boft. CORN No. 2 21 OATS No. 2 17 bid KYE No. 2 F6 bid JfTiOUR Patents, per sack 175 180 HAY Baled 4 50 5 00 BUTTER Choice creamery 21 i2 CHEESE Full cream .10 11 GGS Choice 10 IiALU.i nam 11 rUVLTRY Hens 2 25 2 50 Roosters 125 150 Spring 175 2 50 Turkeys 1 POTATOES Honie grown 15 20 CHICAGO.

CATTLE Steers HuttS-Mixed SHEEP Natives FLO UB Winter wheat WHEAT No. 2 red CORN-No. 2 OATH-No. 2 RYE No. 2 BUTTER Choice EGGS Fresh tOiiK 6T.

LOUI3. CATTLE Native steers D'airto good HOGS Packing -HKKP Fair to choice FLOUR Patents WHEAT No. 2 red CORN No. 2 2 tif-t iNo 2 HAY Baled UTTER Creamery EGGS Fresh 3 15 3 9 3 rO 4 CO 4 50 4 05 6 45 4 SO 17 284 23K 9 65 13 9 90 4 40 3 75 8 S) 4 0) 1 0) rfl oo 90 60 00 77 6 CO IS 22 10 12tf that appears only "pon close inspection. rl 'U i i ii, auo oriuee wnerein ine Dauots are placed IS dnnblo cn tViaf.

Vi 1 1 -f if 4 side slips into the box. but if placed into 1. 1 3 i t-n3 ubxjci: Biiuta uiiperijei eu. uuwa into a waste basket or upon the floor. The contestant (l eatherstone) asseits that twenty-one of these boxes were used in one county at the election in Arkansas, and as the republican ballots were marked in blue to distinguish them, it was an easy matter for the democratic election managers to see that they did not go into the the ballot boxes and get counted.

The double slip around the orifice can be readily tiken off, leaving the box absolutely honest in ap. pear. nee. University for in Oklahoma. Washin-gtos, D.

March 4. The negroes in Oklahoma have secured a section of land which is set apart for a university. Waldorf Astor hss promised to endow it with as soon as the buildings are up. and a present United States senator will give $50,000 towards the building as soon as the territorial government is established, which will probably be within two weeks, the president having urged congress to act epeecily. Donations will be secured to put up buildings within the year valued at $100,003, and there will be established the greatest negro university in the world.

It will be located not far from Kingfisher. This ia one of the fruits of the work done by the First Grand Independent Brother hood, which society is using every effort to bring the strongest and best men of that race into the territory in addition to the more ignorant, whom they propose to ele vate. Terrible Mortality Ainongj Soldiers. London, March 5. A dispatch from Calcutta gives sickening details cf the sufferings of the British troop3 engaged in the Chin Lusai expedition.

Notwithstanding the stringent orders telegraphed from the India offica respecting tanitary precautions the health of the troops show3 no improve ment. Of 1,000 1 unjaub coolies sens from Calcutta to reinforce the Chin column. 830 men were eithsr dead or the hospital be fore the Chin column had been forty-eight hours in the hills. It is charged that this mortality is cue to the cruel action of th3 military authorities at Calcutta, who sent these men to the front without tents or cov ering, leaving them xposed. to the heavy rains.

New York Plasterers Xew Schedule. New Yobk, March 4. On April 1 the eight hour day will go into effect throughout the city in lieu of the present day of nine hours in the plastering trade, and the union scale of now will be reduced to $1. This is the outcome of negotiations between the plasterers' union and the contractors. A similar arrangement has been effected by the plasterers in Brooklyn, whi the plumb ers and gaslitters of that city have decided to adhere to nine hours and present pay, the employers conceding them a hair noli day on Saturdays.

Ohio Kcdistrictnl for Congressmen. Coitjsibus, March 4. The redisrict ing bill passed by the house gives the dem ocrats fifteen out of twenty-one congres sional districts. As it now stands, Butterworth is placed in a big democratic district, while Kennedy, McKinley, Cooper and Williams are thrown districts with democratic majorities ranging from 1,500 to Congressmen Grcsvenor, Wickham and Thompson are left republican districts. Anniversary of the Death of John Wesley, London, March 4.

On March 1, 1891, the centennial anniversary of the death of John Wes'ey will be commemorated by a union of the United Methodists and the Methodist New Connection, two branches of the faith which have been at swords points for many years. The terms of the union have been asreed upon, and will be announced from the'pulpits of the churches of each branch throughout the United Kingdom, Made Crazr bv Faifh TVorlti-- Bloomington, Mrs. Mollie Smith and her two sisters, Miss Julia and Emma Earnes, three prominent and highly respected young ladies of Saybrook, are I fi 1 rcf in 4 Vi rim-infw -lail rf 1 1 a nitu V. have recently been attending me3tings held by the so-cailed "faith workers," and th lr minas nave given way enc reiy. xne gins are devoted Catholics aDd bright, amiable wuuiou.

Return From No Man's JLaml. Kansas City, March 4. Special Gov. eminent Agent 3. B.

McCoy arrived in the city on his return from a trip through the Cherokee strip anJ No Man's Land. He reports that he destroyed one moonshine still and found where two more were located. The people who operated the one destroyed expressed themselves as being well satisfied. having expected that they would sooner or later get a notice irom the government to quit the business. The Cameron Mine Firo.

Shamokin, March 5. The fire in the Cameron mine is beyond control. It will take a week to accomplish the work of bor ing from the level aoove the fire, walling up tne slopes ana flooding the mine, neces sary to extinguish the fire, and it is feared that meanwhile the t'ames may make their way into other chambers. More Kate Cutting. Dknvee, CoL, March 5.

The Hcnt Island has taken the first step in the war by announcing a rate from Denver to Chi cago of $2lU5. This is a reduction of J4.50 and went into effect on the 4th. The Mis souri Pacific and Alton have met the cut. ana it is presumes other lines will do so. An Anti-Anarchist Kill Only.

Berlin, March 5. It is anticipated as a result of the conference between the em. peror and Prince Bismarck trnt the gov. ernment will, at the coming session of the reichstag, cn anti-anarchi6t bill to take the place of the anti-socialist bill. which was by the last reichstag.

Town Partially IestroyeI. Cakthagf, March 5. This town wa3 partially destroyed by a cyclone, which unroofed several houses and wrecked them The family of P. Hrennan was caught and buried the Jir.s. The husband, w.fe and four children were all seriously bruised and one of the children has since died of its injuries.

The Virginia Meat Innpeetlon Lair, Richmond, March 4. The bill to prevent the selling of vnwholesome meat has gone into effect, although it is said that the Chicago packers against whom it is aimed, wul contest it constitutionality. It provides for the appointment of inspectors in every county, the fines for selling meats not previously inspected varying from $50 to $1UU. Two Hundred tives Lost. LosDoy, March 4.

The report of the los3 of the British steamer Quetla is confirmed at Lloyd's. The advices received there state that 200 lives were lost. The steamer struck a rock not shown on the chart, near Somerset, in the Torres Straits, at the northern extremity of Australia, and sank in three minutes. The French Government Will fquelch It. Paris, March 4.

The government has decided to institute proceedings against the paper Egalite, for adrising the German so-ciaiistB to ehoot Emperor William. October 1, will not affect the cattlemen who have pastures in the west end, because their ranges are well stocked. In the east end several" pastures are not stocked, and as the lesees have already paid their lease money and can bring in no more cattle, they will be losers to a considerable sum. Arkansas City Traveler: Three years ago there were very few valuable horses in Arkansas City. The Indian pony and the treacherous broncho were pressed into the service of the farmer, the liveryman and the teamster.

Now things have changed. The clean limbed roadster and the ponderous Clydesdale have pushed the stumpy pony, as the white man has poor Ijo, fartner west in the interest of a better civilization. It was said by a well-posted horseman that there are now in the city forty-eight horses, that can be sold for more than $48,000. The Phillipsburg Herald gives a re port of a county convention of farmers to consider the matter of constructing ponds or small lakes. Several addresses were made.

Among the speakers was Lee Scrivener, who stated that he had a successful pond on his farm. He made it in a draw in which there was no water in dry weather. He put 33 days' labor on it and found it to be a fine success. He would not take $500 for that pond. One of his neighbors has two successful ponds on his farm.

The meeting adopted a resolution offered by R. A. Dagne, editor of the Herald, recommending farmers to con struct ponds, and requesting the legis lature to exempt from taxation 40 acres to each farmer who "will properly construct and maintain a pond of not less than an acre on his farm. KANSAS RAILROADS. Troy Chief: There is no longer a St.

Joseph Grand Island road. It has been merged into the great Union Pacific road. A great rush of grain toward the sea-board is expected. The new emergency rate upon grain is the cause. The first cars under the new rate began to move on the 22nd, and the rush is expected to be the greatest ever known.

"Wichita Eagle: Superintendent Speer, of the M. says that the side tracks of his road from Lamed to Coffeyville are crowded with grain, with a block in the transfer at the latter point, one hundred and thirty-eight cars of grain being left over on the side tracks unmoved. Forty-eight car loads of corn left the Hawn elevator in this city for Texas points in one day. The Missouri, Kansas Texas officials are making preparations to ballast the road with stone from end to end. Stone crushers have been in use at the quarries of Limestone Gap, in the Indian territory, for some time, and another large crusher, with a capacity of twenty cars a day will soon be added.

This; together with the work of other quarries along the line, will furnish the company with the necessary ballasting material. A charter has been filed with the secretary of state for the Kearney, Hutchinson Gulf railway company, with headquarters at Kearney, and Beloit, Kan. This company proposes to construct and operate a standard guage line of railroad, with telegraph lines, across tbe state of Kansas. Its northern terminus will be Kearney Junction, on the Union Pacific main line. Its southern terminus will be Galveston, where the deep harbor on the gulf is to be constructed.

The line will be 800 miles. It will then, in conjunction with the Union Pacific, connect the great northwest with the gulf, and all the vast trade of that region will pass through Kansas on its way to the sea and the ports of Europe. There is no doubt that this is a Union Pacific enterprise. The road will pass through Smith, Jewell, Mitchell, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Rice. Reno, McPherson, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner, Kingman and Harper counties, in this state.

KANSAS CHURCHES. Osborne Farmer: The Congregational denomination of Mt. Ayr township has held divine worship for the past ten years in a sod church, and are now moving in the direction of erecting a commodious frame edifice. A subscription paper circulated in our city was quite generously signed by many of our citizens. Wichita Eagle: The special services at the Oak street Presbyterian church still continue with unabated interest.

About forty persons, most of whom are young people, confessed Christ. Over twenty have united with the church on profession of faith. Some five or six backsliders have been reclaimed. All the services are well attended and the interest is growing and spreading. A number of articles have been sent to the ladies in charge of the fair of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

Topeka, by prominent ladies all over the country. Perhaps the most remarkable is the crazy quilt, scraps in which have been furnished by Mrs. Governor Humphrey, Mrs. Governor Fifer, of Illinois, Mrs. D.

M. Harris, a poetess of Nashville, Miss Frances "Willard and others. Miss Belle Day, a professor in the Pennsylvania normal college, has presented a pin-cushion made by herself. Another oddity is a pin-cushion made of silk plush from a curtain in the governor's mansion in Illinois; another is a sofa pillow made entirely of scraps from the dresses of Miss Willard and fourth is a bed spread knit by a lady over 75 years old..