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tl VOL I HOftTON, BROWN COUNTY, KANSAS, ERTD AY, MARCH 29, 1889 NO. 138 1 f9A mm fVOMEN NOT CO ir I III) TOPICS OF THE TIMES. The Proclamation. Washington, D. March 27.

The president to-day issued the following proclamation opening the Oklahoma lands: By the President of the Un5ted States of America: ing machines hi Portland, nine years ago, and to-day his wealth is estimated at between $4,000,000 and $0,000,000. Truth, of Scranton, has discovered that: There are beautiful drinks that were new drunk, And beautiful thoughts that were never thunk There are beautiful fight a that were never fought, And beautiful flights that were never nought. have seen their daughter and made themselves acquainted with the provisions for her future welfare. The hasty marriage ha? been a blow to both father and mother, the more so since there was a conditional agreement between them and Pauline that she would wait at least a year before marrying. Afraid of Fronted Wheat.

Minneapolis, March 28. The use of frosted grain for seed in that district of Dakota where the grain was considerably damaged by frost last fall, and which includes nearly all the whole of the territory north of the Northern Pacific, is causing a great deal of talk and not a little apprehension among grain dealers. Though experiments have shown that frosted wheat will grow, the grain firms which have elevators in the frosted districts and the railroads of that section are not willing to place all their hopes of a crop next fall on poor seed. A few days ago the roads asked the owners of elevators to furnish good seed to the farmers who could not afford to buy it. In accordance with the request owners of elevators in the frosted section are sending out a contract to their agents, in which they agree to furnish the necessary seed wheat and the farmers agree when the crop is harvested to return to the elevators the price of the "wheat and 10 per cent, on the money.

Indian Lands in Jackson County. Washington, D. March 28. The secretary of the interior expects shortly to arrange for the negotiation with the prairie band of Pottowatomies and Kickapoo Indians, of Kansas, for their lands in. the Kaw valley, sixteen miles north of Topeka, commoniv known as the "Pottowatomie Reserve." The tract embraces about 70,000 acres of fine Land, and the Indians are ready to accept their allotment in severalty under the act of 1887 and sell the surplus.

The Indian appropriation bill recently passed contains the following provision relative to the lands: "The sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable the president to negotiate with the prairie band of Pottowatomie and Kickapoo Indians, in Kansas, for the sale of all or a portion of their lands in Kansas and the allotment of the remainder injseveralty, such agreements as may be made to be submitted by the president to congress at the next session, said sum to be immediately available." It will be seen that only the negotiation can be accomplished at this time, it being left to congress to provide for final disposition of the lands. The secretary of the interior will select a commissioner or agent to conduct the negotiation and secure the necessary agreement. This will then be reported to the president, who will recpmmendjto congress the enactment of further legislation. The land cannot be opened to settlement or purchased by settlers till further action by congress. is strongly heated in a metal spoon.

If the sediment left after evaporation is small, and on being burned in a metal spoon gives rise only to such an odor as comes from burning vegetable matter, the water is not greatly contaminated with sewage. But if the sediment is in considerable quantity, dark in color and burns, giving off the peculiar odor of burning hair or other animal matter, then the water is foul." New York Graphic. A SLIGHTED ROMANCE. The young man had accepted a seat an hour or two before in a crowded train by the side of a young lady who had graciously made room for him. "You will pardon me," he was saying, "for being bold enough, Miss "Hopper," she prompted, softly.

"Miss Whopper. Thank you. My name is Cahokia. You will parden me," he went on, in a slightly tremulous tone, "for being bold enough to say on such short acquaintance that I sincerely hope this may not be the last time we shall meet. I have never seen a young lady for whom I felt I could entertain so deep a 1 "Dinner all ready in the dining-car announced a dark-complexioned official, thrusting his head in at the door of the car.

The young man from St. Louis sprang convulsivelv to his feet, seized his hat and overcoat with frantic energy, and, by the most desperate and 'reckless exertions, succeeded in being the first man in the car to respond to the invitation, and a budding romance ih the life of the susceptible maiden fro Southern Hlinois came to a melancholy and untimely end. Chicago Triiiine. Men Wlio Are Afraid to Ascend, the Washington Monument. "Do the passengers who ride up with you ever become frightened asked a reporter of the elevated conductor at the Washington Monument.

"Some do and some do not," was he reply, as the cable-puller turned to explain to a lady in the car that the trip upward occupied about nine minutes. "I'll tell you," he explained, turning to the reporter. "The first lady who became frightened in the monument came the other day. She was the first and only one. We had hardly started from the floor when she began to get nervous, and kept getting more and more so, and finally asked me to let her off.

Of course I could not go back, so I kept on to the first landing, two or three levels higher, and then I opened the door and let her out to the platform. She was very nervous. I did not want to leave her there alone, so I called to a nice looking young man who was walking down and asked him if he would not stay with her until I could get to the top and send a watchman down to help her. He said he would, and I went on. When the watchman went down he could not find them she had walked back with the young man." Here the conductor had, to interrupt himself to reassure a man huddled away back in the corner of the car that the same elevator had carried tons and tons of stone to the top of the monument and had been pronounced perfectly safe by all the authorities.

Then he resumed, lowering his voice somewhat as he said On the other hand I have had to stop at least twenty times for the benefit of men who would not go any higher. Why, I have seen great, big, strong men, who looked as though they weren't afraid of anything, get to trembling and finally ask me to let them' get off and walk. Particularly fat men, too," with a reminiscent chuckle. "Fat men are afraid of their weight, particularly if they are with a large crowd. I can't explain why this should he concluded, just as the 'car emerged from the semi-darkness of the shaft into the whiter, brighter light of the top landing, "but I must say that I've come to the conclusion that the women are not the cowards, after all, it's the men.

If the women are they don't show it here." Washington Star. 9 CULTURE HAS SPOILED HA SKA. Sam Chaska, whom Cora Belle Fellows married, is a changed Indian. He keeps himself well dressed, and his association with his former 'Indian friends i3 not as cordial as when he himself rejected the breech-cloth and dined on dog soup. IIri.

Chaska has indeed made a wonderful change in her husband since the day your correspondent visited her at Swift Bird's camp, one week after her marriage. The visit East, no doubt had a great deal of influence in bringing about this transformation. Sam was standing in front of the agency store, puffing a cigarette when he recognized the correspondent, and he gave him one of those. automatic hand-shakes drilled into him by the ten weeks' engagement in the dime museum. "How! how! glad to see you," he remarked, and politely tendered a cigarette out of a silyer holder.

Since the amalgamation with the redskin Mrs. Chaska has been snubbed by her former lady associates, and she is compelled to bask only in the rays of her husband's smiles and those of her relatives and friends, who squat about her domicile by the hour waiting patiently for a square meal. It is also rumored that the handsome sum the couple received for their starring engagement has dwindled down to nothing, this report growing out of the fact that the lady borrowed $500 from an agency employe, giving her note and a mortgage on her horses and carriages. It will be remembered that after fulfilling their engagement they visited all the important citie3 of the East, calling on President Cleveland and living in a luxurious style. "When they returned to Cheyenne Agency a handsome carriage with a spanking team purchased in the East followed them, while hundreds of dollars were squandered in the latest improved farming implements, all of which proved useless, as Sam was not built right to become a horny-handed son of toil.

Thus the couple again find themselves in need of funds, and as Chaska cannot even earn a living for himself his wife must now earn it for herself, her babe and her tawny lord and master. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. IMPURE WATER. The growing popular knowledge of invisible impurities and the deepening impression upon the minds of people; the necessity "of a pure water supply, have caused a demand for a simple and convenient test.

As yet there is no certain and reliable test by chemical analysis. The following tests are recommended "Fill a perfectly clean quart bottle half full of water, cork and shake it remove the cork and see if any odor can be detected at the mouth of the bottle. Cork the bottle again and put into a warm place for a few hours, or set into a pan of hot water for an hour. Shake, uncork, and again test by smell. If an unpleasant or faint or musty ordor is perceptible, the water requires more minute investigation.

The second simple test is to evaporate a quart of water to dryness in a new tin pan or cup, and note the character of id's residue. and what happens' when it A Clioice Selection of Inter esting Items. Princeton Coixege will send an expedition to Oregon next summer to hunt for fossil skeletons. The Eev. Thillips Brooks, of Boa-ton, recently delivered a sermon of 3,000 words in fifteen minutes.

It is said that church pews have averaged 10 per cent, higher this year all over the country in the re-renting. The United States are eating more oranges, lemons, bananas, figs and raisins than any other country on earth. Last year the income of Talmage's tabernacle from the rentals and all other sources amounted to $33,456. A hoese named "Bob Ingersoll" has been ruled off all the California racecourses. He didn't seem to believe in anything except bolting.

The Jews' free school at Spitalfields, England, is said to be the largest school in the world. It numbers 3,500 pupils 2,250 boys, and 1,250 girls. The Illustrated London News has asked for space in tho Champ de Mars on which to erect a reproduction of Shakspeare's hou3e at Stratford-on-Avon. "Year Newark, N. lives Henry Louisa Caroline Amelia Adelaide Theresa "Whitehead Thorpe "Wilkinson Kinsey Post, but her name extenu over into New York.

The man who made the first photograph ever produced in the United States, Franz Georgia Scheibner, is still in Philadelphia, hale and hearty, at the ago 80. Tr is proposed to remove the University of tho Pacific from San Jose, to San Francisco. President Hirst id vors the change, and says an endowment cf $500,000 is needed." An Ohio farmer mortgaged his farm to get his wife seme diamond ear-rings, and she lost one of them in the suds tho very first 'wash "day and 'attempted to bans herself in the barn. It is rumored among the natives of Corea that China will annex the country after the Emperor'3 marriage, and that tho preseat Coiean Emperor and all his family will be deposed. "When an insurance company can lose half a million dollars and let the robber quietly walk off in peace it looks to a man up a tree as if rates ought to comedown about fifty per Svivanus Cobb only wanted an hour to lay the plot of a story and place his characters.

It would have been harder for him to write a school composition than a serial to run for twenty weeks. The sales of leaf tobacco at auction at Danville, for December, were 1,201,101) pounds; -for twelve months just ended, manufactured tobacco sold during the year, pounds. Them: were 'a greater umber of lynching in this coantr during th last year than there been in any previous year s'nee 1880, except 1884, owing possibly to the bad blood of politics. Virginia also haegs for murder, and the sheriff of Randolph County will give $50 to any one who can prove that any man who has a hanging in that State has afterward committed murder. A Key "West fisherman rubs his body in kerosene oil and swims among the sharks in safety.

They don't want to get any nearer to him than you do to a man who has been eating last year's onions. The discovery has just been made that Daniel Boone was once a member of the Virginia Legislature. His many biographers never suspected it, and it was reserved for a newspaper man to bring it to light. Two witnesses in a case in Iowa who swore that they saw a man forty rods off draw a revolver were proved to be so near-sighted that they could not tell a revolver from a poodle dog fifteen rods awav. Peter Johnson, a colored resident cf Cairo, was going to swallow ten fishhooks in public on a wager of $3, but the law stepped in and prevented him.

It was decided that the fishing season had not yet begun. An Italian newspaper warns Italians against immigrating to this country, saying hat Americans have no respect for them. That is not true. An Italian laborer or hand organ grinder is respected for what there is in him. A.

M. Cannon, the Washington Territory milKonair -was peddlinar sew- A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, Pursuant to section 8 of the act of congress approved March 27, 1885, eutitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 18S6, and for other Certain articles of cession and agreement on tho nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, by and between the United States of America and the Muscogee or Creek nation of Indians, whereby the said Muscogee or Creek nation of Indians, for the consideration therein mentioned, ceded and granted to the United States -without reservation or condition, full and complete title to tho entire western half of the domain of the said Muscogee or Creek nation in ti Indian terrltjrr lying west of the division fine surveyed and estat -lished under the treaty with said nation dated the 11th day of June, 1866. and also granted and released to the United tatates all anil every claim, estate, right and interest of any and every description in and to any and all land and territory whatever, except so much of the former domain of eaid Muscogee or Creek nation as lies east of said line of division, surveyed and established as aforesaid, and used and occupied as the home of said nation; and which articles of cession and agreement were duly accepted, ratified and confirmed by eaid Muscogee or Creek nation of Indians, by act of its council, approved on the 31st day of January, 1889, and by the United States, by act of congress approved March 1st, IsStt; and Whereas, By section 12 of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department and for ulfLUing the treaty stipulations with tho various Indian tribes for the year ending, June 30, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes." Approved March 2, i889. A sum of money was appropriated to pay in lull, the Seminole nation of Indians for all the right, title, interest and claim which said nation of Indians might have in and to certain lands ceded by article 3 of the treaty between the United States and said nation of Indians, concluded June 14, and proclaimed August 16, l8tj, said appro- griation to become operative upon the execution, the duly appointed delegates of said nation, specially empowered to do so, of a lease and conveyance to the United States, all right, title, interest and claim of the nation of Indians, in and to said lands in manner and forms satisfactory to the president of the United States.

hereas, Said release and conveyance bearing date of the ltith of March, 188H, has been duly and fully executed, approved and delivered, and Whereas, Section 14. of the act last aforesaid, relating to said lands provides as follows: Section 13, that the land acquired by the United States under said agreement shall be a part of the public domain to lie disposed of only as herein, provided, and sections 16 and 36 of each township whether surveyed or unsurveyed are hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the public schools to be established within the limits of said land under such conditions and regulations as may be hereafter enacted by congress. That the lands acquired by conveyance from the Seminole Indians hereunder except the 16th and 36th sections shall be disposed of to actual settlers under the homestead laws, only except as herein otherwise provided (except that section two thousand three hundred and one of the revised statutes shall not apply.) Provided further, that any persenwho having attempted to, but for any reason failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing laws, or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead laws, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon said lands, and, provided further, that the rights of honorably discharged union soldiers and sailors in the late civil war as defined and described in sectionf 23,004 and 23,005 of the revised statutes shall not be abridged, and, provided farther, that each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable, and no person be permitted to enter more than one quarter section thereof, but until said lands are opened for settlement by proclamation of the president, no person shall be permitted to enter upon and to occupy the same and no person violating this provision shall ever be permitted to enter any of eaid lands or acquire any right thereto. The secretary of the interior may after said proclamation and not before, permit entry of said lands for town sites under sections twenty-three hundred and eighty-seven and twenty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the revised statutes, but no sucu t-ntiy tiliali embrace more than- one-half section of land; that all the foregoing provision with reference to lands to be acquired from the Seminole Indians, including the provisions pertaining to forfeiture shall apply to and regulate the disposal of the lands acquired from the Muskogee or Creek Indians by the treaty of cession and agreement made and concluded at the city of Washington on the ltth day of January, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. therefore, I.

Benjamin Harrison, president of the United States.by virtue of the power in me vested by said acts of congressl approved. March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, aforesaid, do hereby declare and make known that so much of the lands as aforesaid acquired from or conveyed by the Muskogee (or Creek) nation of Indians, and from or by the Seminole nation of Indians, respectively, as is contained within the following described boundary, viz: Beginning at the point where the degree of longiutde is 98 west from Greenwich, survey in the year 1858 and 1S71, intersects the Canadian river, thence along and with the said degree to a point where the same intersects the Cimarron river, thence up said river along the right bank thereof to a point where the said river is intersected by the south line of what is known as tho 'honnl-cu lnnrls lvins- wpst, nf ttiB Arkansas river. known as the "Cherokee outlet," said line bein the north line of the lands ceded by the Muskogee, or Creek nation of Indians, to the United Slates by the treaty of June 14, thence east along said line to a point where the same intersects the the west line of the lands set apart as a reserves tion for the the Pawnee Indians by act of congress approved April 10th, 1S76, being the range line between ranges four and five east of the Indian meridian, thence south on said line to a point where the same intersects the middle of the main channel of the Cimarron river, thence up said river along the middle of the high channel thereof to a point where the same interscts the range line between range one, east, and range one, west, (being the Indian meridian) which line forms the western boundary of the river lands set apart for the Iowa and Kickapoo Indians by executive orders dated respectively August 16, 1SS3; thence along said range line, or meridian, to a point where the same intersects the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian river: thence op said river along the right bank thereof to a point where the e-ame is intersected by the west line of reservation occupied by the citizen band of Pottowatomie and the absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart under the provisions of the treaty of February 27, 1H67, between the United States and the Pottowatomie tribe of Indians, and referred to in the act of congress approved May 23, 1872. Thence south along the 6aid west line of the aforesaid reservation to a ioint where the same intersect the middle of the main channel of the Canadian river; thence up the said river along the middle of the main channel thereof to a point opposite the place of beginning, and thence north to the place of beginning, saving and excepting "one acre of land in a square form in the northwest corner of section nine in township sixteen, north, range two, west, of the Indian meridian, in. Indian Territory, and also one acre of land in the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section fifteen, township sixteen, north, rarige seven, west of the Indian meridian inthe Indian Territory, which last described two acres are hereby reserved for government use and control, will at and after the hour of 12 o'clock, noon, on the 22nd day of April, next, and not before, be open for settlement under the terms of and subject to all conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in said act of congress, aprroved March 2nd.

189, and tha laws of the United States, applicable thereto, and it is hereby expressly declared and made known that no other parts or portions of the lands embraced within the Indian Territory than, those herein specifically described and declared to be opened to settlement at the time above named and fixed are to be considered as open to settlement under this proclamation or the act of March 2, 1S69, aforesaid, and warning is hereby, again expressly given that no person entering upon or occupying said lands before said hour of 12 o'clock noon on the 22d day of April A. 1). herein before fixed, will ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or to acquire any right, and that the officers of the United States will be required to strictly enforce the provisions of the act of congress to the above fact. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to ba affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and thirteenth.

By the President. SeaL Benjamin Haeeison. Jaames G. Blaine, Secretary. Sam Small for Congress.

Atlanta, March 28. The Rey. Sam Small seems destined to cut quite a figure) in Georgia politics. Indications now point to his candidacy for congress in the Atlanta district, and if he goes into the race he will make things lively. Of the eleven counties in this district nine are for prohibition, and in all of them Small is strong.

He is proba-hly the best political organizer and canvasser in the district. Sam has got on the right side of the prohibitionists of the district by offering prizes in each county for the best prohibition essays for boys. It is said that a gentleman is on hi3 way to this country who can stupefy all the people in a hotel in ten minutes and give him an opportunity to rob every person under the roof. Bet he Can't stupefy the night clerk in two hours. A tramp confined in an Illinois jail dug a hole in the wall, and could have passed out had he been willing to remove some of his clothes.

He had on four shirts and two suits, and, rather than part with them, he remained in the jug. The farmers and gardeners of Southern New Hampshire are of the opinion that the open winter weather, which caused the buds to start, will bring about a failure of the fruit crop the coming season. So they are quoted on the subject, at least. Dr. Schliemann, the noted Greek archaeologist and excavator, is master of fourteen languages.

In his youth he was a sailor before the mast on a German vessel. It is said that he gained a reading knowledge of English in six months of study. "Wanamaker, the great Philadelphia merchant, has increased his advertising 300 per cent, because of the dull season. He wisely argues that it is in the dull times the dealer should take special pains to let the public know the merits of his wares. In trying to cut a "pigeon-wing" on the ice on the Kennebec the other day Charles Johnson got a fall by which he broke an arm, a leg, two his skull and knocked out four teeth.

Those not satisfied with the performance had their money refunded. A man in Craig County, Virginia, has three children whose names are, respectively, Jailey Green Bird Mayflower Oregon Texa3 Geor-gianna Brickey, and Molina Truxilla Eutaw Sebilla Tootater Brickey. The names are declared to be so entered in the family Bible. The chair in which President Cleve land sat for four years is one that he had made to order and paid for himself. It is made of light oak to match the desk made from the timber of the Resolute and sent to the "White House by Queen Victoria.

It is a great, wide-spreading, revolving chair, with a seat and back of split cane and a heavy frame tastefully carved. Coi-. Fred Grant wants the Chinese mission, and makes no secret of the fact, but he says "I am not making any effort to secure the position, nor do I intend to do so. I would like to go to China, because I think I could do more good there than in any other place. My father, as you kr ow, was greatly liked by the Chinese Govern-rntnt.

Th appreciated his kindly policy toward them, and showed this when he visiied China in his around the world. "While, with there I made the acquaintance of many of the leading Macd.vrins, which I'm sure would be valuable to me and to our Government." Gladstone avers that at the opening of his Parliamentary career he felt that Daniel O'Connell was the greatest popular leader the world has ever Of all the Irishmen, he now thinks there are but two rivals of the great agitator and statesman these two are Burke and the Duke of "Wellington. Swift and Grattan he refers to as next among formidable competitors. He even goes back as far as Greek and Roman history, pronouncing neither Cleon nor Gracchus, nor later Itiehzi and Savonarola equals in power with O'Connell. Nbr will he allow a parallel with Kossuth and Mazzini, but is inclined to acknowledge that with Count Cavour a comparison may be drawn.

Representative Missouri, who died recently, came of a poor family, but as in boyhood he showed evidences of more than ordinary ability, his brothers clubbed together to send him to the Harvard law school. "When he returned great things were expected of him. His first case was the defense of a horse-thief, a perfectly hopeless case. His brothers and a great crowd gathered in the Court House. Burnes knew he had no chance and must lose this first case.

After allowing the trial to go on for awhile, Burnes resolved upon a desperate expedient. He asked leave to go with the prisoner to another room to consult, Once there the prisoner was told, to "git." Burnes chased him with great outcry, but just as he was about to catch him stumbled and fell and the man got away. A Great Year for the out ti. Baltimore, March 28. The Manufacturers' Record publishes its quarterly report of the south's industrial progress, giving the and character of business of 1,259 new industrial enterprises that have been organized since January 1.

The amount of capital and capital stock represented by this list of new enterprises and the enlargement of old plants during the last three months is 53,227,009, as compared with $38,668,000 in the same time in 1888. The Manufacturers' Record says the bare recapitulation of the important enterprises and industries outside of mines, railways, furnaces and factories undertaken or en- larged in the south during the past three months, is a task in itself, but what with the prospects that are forming, and the flattering outlook in almost every county and town, the record for the year promises to be the greatest in the south's history. Des Moines River. Washington, D. March 28.

The commissioner of the general land office recommended to the secretary of the interior that suit be instituted in the name of the United States to recover about 200,000 acres of land situated between the Raccon Fork of the Des Moines river, in Iowa, and the north boundary of the state, known as the Des Moines river lands. Uuder the authority of the land department a large number of settlers, between the years 1855 and 1860, made entry of these lands, but of which the Des Moines Valley Railroad company, acting under authority of the state courts has been for some time actively engaged in disposing of. A bill having for its object the restoration of these lands passed the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses, but it did not receive the approval of the president. Business Disposed Of. Washington, D.

March 28. The senate was in executive session an hour and a quarter, and in that time disposed of all the nominations reported from the committee, leaving only two on the calendar. The files of the executive calendar were also pretty generally sleared of pending conventions and treaties. Most of these were unimportant documents relating to postal conventions and copyright agreements, which were approve pro forma. The arrangement with Mexico relative to the appointment of a boundary commission was continued.

The extradition treaty with Russia was the subject of most discussion. It was championed by Senator Sherman and opposed by Senators Eustis and George. It is expected that the treaty will be approved practically in its present form. Thomas Ryan-Minister. Washington, D.

March 28. It is probable that the next important federal appointment for Kansas, after Judge George Chandler's name is sent in for assisiant secretary of the interior, will be that of Congressman Thomas Ryan to high diplomatic position. Mr. Ryan has been frequently mentioned as minister to Chili. He will, unless the indications fail, receive something better.

The president has about concluded that Mr. Ryan will make a most excellent minister to Mexico, and that is the position with which his name is now associated. Canada Excited. Ottaa'A, March 28. A sensation has been created here by the issue of President Harrison's proclamation declaring Behring Sea a closed sea.

The action of the American government proved a complete surprise to the members of the government who decline to be interviewed. It is stated here that the Cleveland administration and the British government had been negotiating for two years past in regard to the claim for compensation for the seizure of three British sealing vessels in the Behring Sea. Lawrence News. Eawhence, March 28. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Lawrence Driving Park association, the following officers were elected: President, Colonel O.

E. Learnard; vice-president, S. H. Carm secretary Dr. Levi Horner; treasurer, M.

Conn. Professor Bailey of the chemistry department of the university, has received a new polariscope which is to be used in sugai analysis. This instrument was imported from Germany at a cost of $303. The Santa Fe'i Fast Trains. Kansas Cm, March 28.

The Santa Fe' first fast train arrived on time. Last week 400 laborers were placed on the road between Kansas City and Fort Madison, who for the next six weeks will be engaged in ballasting the track. As soon as the track is in good repair it is the Santa Fe's intention to run fast trains between Kansas City and Chicago in twelve hours. The new engines now being built in Boston and capable of hauling a train 80 miles an hour have not yet beeD placed on the road. Selecting a Nary Yaid Site.

Mobile, March 28. The commission consisting of Commodore W. P. McCan, Captain Robert Commander W. H.

Bronson, and Lieutenant Duncan Kennedy, charged with selecting a site for a navy-yard on the Atlantic or Gulf coast, spent a day in receiving reports prepared by commercial bodies upon the suitability of Mount Vernon, on the Alabama river, for a navy-yard. The commission will visit Mount Vernon and New Orleans. The Rhode Island Senatorshlp. Providence, March 28. The two branches of the legislature cast their respective vote3 for United States senator to succeed Jonathan Chace, resigned.

The vote resulted in no election. After completing the further business of the hour, both branches adjourned to meet according to law in grand committee and proceed until an election is accomplished. Was a Jndge Under Jackson. Colcmbus, March 28. Judge Allen G.

Thurman, accompanied bv udge Patton of Defiance, visited the house of representatives and were most cordially received and made brief speeches of acknowledgement. Judge Patton is 80 years old and was territorial judge under Andrew Jackson. John Sherman Going to Europe. Washington, D. March 28.

Soon after the adjournment of the senate, Senator John Sherman and his family will make a trip to Europe. In the Interest of Good Service. Washington, D. March 28. The postmaster general, acting on the recommendation of General Superintendent Bell, of the mail service, appointed the following named division superintendents of the railway mail service: W.

H. Bigelow, first division, Boston, vice George E. Dame, resigned. K. C.

Jackson, second division, New York city, vice W. F. Doolittle, resigned. C. W.

Vicary, third division, Washington, D. vice Eugene Carrington, resigned. L. M. Pepper, ninth division, Cleveland, vice F.

D. Dodge, resigned. With the single exception of Mr. Pepper, the appointees named above were displaced during the last administration; Mr. Bigelow in 1885, Mr.

Jackson in 1888, Vickary in 1888, Mr. Terrell in 1886. Mr. Pepper is the clerk in charge of the New York and Chicago railway postomce. General Superintendent Bell, in speaking of these changes said that they were made solely in the interest of good service.

The men who are reinstated have been for many years closely identified with the railway mail service. The resignations of the outgoing superintendents were requested, with the assurance that there was nothing known to the department prejudicial to then- good name. Fighting Bill Hackney. Washington, D. March 28.

Hon. William P. Hackney, of Winfield, has arrived. He is accompanied by Hon. P.

A. Huffman, of Before leaving Kansas, Mr. Hackney, in a newspaper interview, read the riot act to the congressional delegation from that state, and intimated in vigorous English that they were not getting offices fast enough nor in sufficient numbers. He declared their influence was about as effective as "that of a base ball nine in a coutry town." Mr. Hackney has therefore come to Washington to inspire his fellow-statesmen and to show them just how to become influential, "What we need in Kansas," said Mr.

Hackney, "is more influence and officers." Colonel Hackney is not a candidate him-himself, but his friend Huffman to be receiver of one of the land offices in the Indian Territory. The astute colonel will insist upon a recognition of Mr. Huffman's claims, and if the Kansas delegation fails "to come to time" he will exert a little influence himself and show the congressmen just how things are run at home in Cowley county, and how they ought to be conducted in Washington. Mr. Hackney will favor the capital with his presence for several days.

Indian Lands in Kansas. Washington, D. March 28. The secretary of the interior expects shortly to arrange for negotiation with the prairie band of Pottawatcmies and Kickapoo Indians of Kansas for their lands in the Kaw river valley, near Topeka. The traet embraces about 30,000 acres of fine land and the Indians are ready to accept their allotment in severalty under the act of 1887 and sell the surplus.

The Indian appropriation bill recently passed contains the following provision relative to the lands: "The sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable the president to negotiate with the prairie band of Pottawatomies and Kickapoo Indians in Kansas for the sale of all or a portion of their lands in Kansas and the allotment of the remainder in severalty, such agreements as may be made to be submitted by the president to congress at the next session, and said suru to be immediately available." It will be seen that only the negotiation can be accomplished at this time, it being left to congress to provide for final disposition of the lands. The secretary of the interior will select a commissioner or agent to conduct the negotiation and secure the necessary agreement. This will then be reported to the president, who will recommend to congress the enactment of further legislation. The land can not be opened to settle-mrnt or purchased by settlers until further action by congress. The Oklahoma Land Offices.

Washington, D. March 28. The next step after the proclamation in regard to the Oklahoma lands will be an executive order. This order has already been blocked out. It consists of two parts.

The first part extends the operation of the land laws over the lands; the second part divides the lands into two districts and provides two land offices. The locations for these offices have been selected. One is to be near Oklahoma City on the Santa Fe railway in Oklahoma. The other will be on the line of the projected extension of the Rock Island railroad in the western part of the track to be opened to settlement. The latter is a rather indefinite location.

There is no settlement where the Western Oklahoma land office will be located, but the government will select an eligible site and reserve a few acres. The executive order will be issued in a few days. The names of the four officers, two registers and two receivers have been selected. There will be no time lost, for the president and Secretary Noble desire to have the office open and in running order when the rush of settlers occurs. There has been considerable competition for the registerships and recieversnips in Oklahoma.

Candidates recognize the fact that there will be a grand rush of business and that the fees will be considerable in the Oklahoma land offices for several years to come. It is understood that at least one of the four, places will go to a well-known Arkansas republican. Edwin Gould Vice-President. St. Louis, March 28.

In connection with the arrival here of Mr. Edwin Gould, it is reported in railroad circles that not only is that young man to succeed A. L. Hopkins, second vice-president of the Missouri Pacific system, but in the event of the resignation of W. H.

Newman, third vice-president, he will be given the executive branch of the very important duties of that office, and that a traffic manager will be appointed. Mr. Gould will meet General Manager Dod-drige of the St. Louis, Arkansas Texas, at Sherman, and together they will go over the entire road, spending two weeks in the inspection of the property. Will See the Children Fettled.

"Washington, D. March 28. Mrs. Fuller, wife of the chief justice, is going to Chicago to see her daughter and son-in-law. Despite her first inclination not to go, neither herself nor Mr.

Fuller can rest until they MOURNING COLORS Besides black, the following are used as a sign of grief for the desk Black and white striped to express sorrow and hope among the South Sea Islanders. Grayish brown, the color of the earth to which the dead return, in Ethiopia. Pale-brown, the color of withered leaves, is the mourning of Persia. Sky-blue to express the assured hope that the deceased has gone to Heaven. This is the mourning of Syria, Cappadocia, and Armenia.

Deep blue in Bokhara. Purple and violet to express "kings and queens to God." The color cf mourning, for cardinals and kingibf France. The color of mourning in Turkey is violet. White (emblem of hope) the color of mourning in China. Henry VIII.

wore white for Anne Boleyn. The ladies of ancient Eome-l Sparta wore white. It was the color of mourning in Spain till 1498. Yellow (the sear and yellow leaf), the color of mourning in Egypt and in Burmah. Anne Boleyn wore yellow mourning for Catharine oi Aragon.

Notes and Queries. RATHER A SMART DOG, AFTEJt ALL. In California a man borrowed a squirrel dog of a friend and went gunning. The dog led him in various directions until he was tired out and sat down to rest. He launched many anathemas at the animal as a brute that knew nothing about the business for which he was recommended.

The dog, however, frisked about all the same. Presently he began digging in the ground in a very enthusiastic manner. The disgusted hunter paid very little attention to this new dodge until he saw the dog poking some dark object about with his nose. Going to the spot the hunter found that the dog had unearthed an old leather purse. This looked like game at last.

Taking the purse from the dog the hunter found that it contained $300 in gold and $1 in silver. On counting out the find the hunter concluded that the dog was not such a "fool critter" after all. Neu York Telegram. LIVING ON MEAL AND WATER. "Dr.

T. R. Allinson," says the London Hospital, "has been trying the experiment of living on meal and water for a month. His daily allowance is one pound of whole meal, made into a cake with distilled water, and one quart of water. His account of his condition after a week is cheering.

In the first few days he felt hungry, but about the fourth day this disappeared, and he had no longer any craving for other food. His brain was clear, his lung capacity had increased five inches, and both- his sight and his hearing had improved. He had lost seven pounds weight, but seems to regard this as rather an advantage. Altogether he feels thoroughly satisfied with his experiment. It is a very economical one, the wheat for seven days having cost only eight pence.

he says, 'is living on almost a penny a day and enjoying MRS. POTTER. Mrs. Potter might have played Cleopatra by dwelling upon the womanly side of her character, without emphasizing, as she has gratuitously, its more wonton side. But the daring which began with 'Ostler Joe" has ended sympathetically by a display of the legs and bosom of Cleopatra.

The great promises of the benefits to accrue to the stage through the advent of the refined society woman to the ranks of its followers have been broken, and the society woman is a solemn failure in her self-appointed mission, in the very direction in which she was expected to work a reform. Sad to reflect, the only success that Mrs. Potter has achieved in the past is that ensuing upon the painful' exhibition she has made of Boston Gazette,.