The Western Economist du lieu suivant : La Crosse, Kansas • 1

Democrat VOLUME IV. LA CllOSSE. KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1890 NUMBER 22 The Crosse THEY SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE. TRAMPS BURN A TOWN. CREAM OF THB tiEVSi Judge Nathan Scarritt, one Of the oldest KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The salt industry at Kingman is looking Webb Wilder Abroad. The Chicago Herald in cbmmenting on Webb Wilder and his report, says: "Whatever philological idiosyncracies Mr. Wilder may have, when it comes to shutting Up tba office and wandering out across the Kansas prairies among the wildcats STANLEY DENOUNCED. Englishman Who Say tk9 Explorer i. Simply a Land Grabber.

There are Many ori This Side Who Think So Too. Invited all the ex-union and ex-confederate soldiers to be present A largo number of people attended and quite a number of ladies were out The crowd was composed of about an equal number of Kansas and Texas people, and good feeling After an eloquent and patriotic speech by a one-legged ex-t on federate, and another by Hon. Joseph Waters of Topeka, Theodora Botkin, judge of the Thirty -second judical circuit of Kansas then took tho floor and proceeded to make a speech. He began by saying that he was Informed that there were 400 ex -union soldiers in the city and not more than twenty of them had the nerve to join the Grand Army. Then with all the emphasis he could command he shouted" such people." He then proceeded with profane expressions interlarded in his speoch for several minutes, with astonishment, chagrin or disgust marked on every face.

Finally Botkin said: "Jeff Davis signed an order to have union soldiers starved to death, him." Disgust gave away to iadignation and in a moment John E. Ellis, editor of the Daily Times and a native of Mississippi, sprang to his feet and denounced Botkin as an infamous liar and slanderer. A scene of the wildest confusion ensue J. People began to leave white a crowd rushed around Botkin and bustled him. out of She It was plain to be seen that the Kansas judge was vory much nnJer th3 influence of liquor.

After he wjs out of the room the Kansas visitors made speeches deploring the shameful aff ur and denouncing the judge, Loans on Farm Lands. Wasiijxgtox, May 2U Senator Stanford introduced a bl.l for loans on lands and said that ho would hereafter address the senate on the subject. It provides for the establishment of a land loan bureau in the treasury departmaut The chief and dep-uty chief shall be appointed by the president, with salaries of and $3,000 respectively. The secretary of the treasury is authorized to prepare, ready for issue, United States circulating notes of the denominations of $10, JO, $100, 500 and $1,000, to the amounts as they become necessary, to te placed to the credit of the land loan bureau. These notes shall be full legal tender for public and private debts, except for interost on the public debt or for redemption of the national currency.

Any citizen of tho United States or any person who has declared his intention to become such, who owns unincumbered agricultural land, may apply to the land loan bureau for a loan, to be secured by lien on such land, the loan not to exceed half the assessed value of ths land. No loan shall be made upon land of less than foOO in value nor in sums less than nor for a longer time than twenty years. The loans shall bear interest at tho rate of 2 per cent per annum, payable annually, and may be paid at any time in sums of not less than 25 per cent of the whole amount In case of default of payment of interest or principal of tho loan the chief of the bureau may order a foreclosure of the lien in a United States circuit court Counsel fees in any cose shall be added to the judgment, but shall not exceed $500. Resubmission Meeting: at Topeka. Topeka, May 21 The resubmission convention that has been advertised for some weens met yesterd.

with some three hundred delegates present All the larger cities of the state were represented excect Kansas City. They were of all shades of politics. The meeting was called to order by president Allen, who has been the leader of the movement. In his address to the convention he. announced the, purpose of tho gathering to be to induce the governor to call a special session of the legislature to submit to the people a proposition to repeal the prohibitory constitutional amendment He declared that the resubmission republicans of the state have determined to call a halt, and will hereafter vote for no man or party committed to prohibition, A committee was appointed to escort Governor Humphrey to the halij but after" a half hour's waiting the committee returned and Marsh Murdock of Wichita reported that there seemed to be a the governor would meet them 3s individuals, but not as a committee.

He wculd receive a committee with a memorial end reply to it Another committee was then appointed, which soon returned and reported. The governor still declined to attend, but repeated that he would receive a memorial and give it attention. Luclen Baker, the prominent attorney of Leavenworth, said the time had come when the people must arise above party lines and organize a state central committee. A memorial Was read, and a Vote takori that it should not be presented to the governor. The memorial claims that prohibition does not prohibit, and declares that resubinisslonists In the republican party will no longer support any man br party committed to prohibition.

A series of resolutions was adoptel reciting the complaints oC the resubmissiou-ists at great length, and a motion was made to proceed to organize a party to carry out the purposes of the convention. This aroused opposition on the part of Mr. Doiiglassj whd said he was a repUbli-i can out and out, and nothing could drive him from the party. Any movement for organization must be strictly confined to the party. Murdock endorsed the declaration and Lucien Baker opposed it, but finally a committee of fifteen was appointed to define the purposes of the proposed organization.

Polygamy Crippled. Washington, May 20 The supreme court yesterday gave an opinion of vital interest to the Mormons of Utah. The case grows out of the passage of the Ed' munds' anti-polygamy law, by the Forty-ninth congress. This law, among other3j disolved the Mormon church corporation, and killed its charter; directed the appointment of a receiver to wind up its affairs and escheated to the United States all the real estate owned by the church in excess of 550,000, which WcS not oh the date of the passage of the act held for purposes of worship of burial. When the United States, under the term of this act, began proceedings to confiscate about 350,000 worth of property belonging to the church, the Mormons immediately entered suit to have the Edmunds law declared unconstitutional.

The supreme court sustained the lower courts, and the Mormons lost their property. Woman Suffrage Recognized. Washington, May 22. For the first time in the history of tho house judiciary committee a majority of the members to-day agreed to a favorable report upon a joint resolution (introduced by Representative Baker, of New York), providing for a con stitutional amendment to grant the "right of suffrage to women. Twice before a minority of the committee has reported favorably on similar propositions, and one of these reports was drawn by the present speaker, Mr.

Reed, Out a majority could not be induced to take favorable action. i. The Compromise of Two OppoilaJ rlora In a Louisiana Swamp. Adit-Gen. Mullen was in reminls cent mood yesterday, "I will tell you a little experience I had down in Louis iana in 1862," he said.

"I was a mem ber of the Thirtieth Connecticut Volun teers. The opposing armies had come into pretty close quarters, and Confederate out pickets, stragglers, and skirmishers were around us and doing considerable mischief. Three companies of our regiment were ordered out on skirmish duty. We marched down, five paces apart, according to regulations, into a perfect morass. The water was waist deep everywhere.

"I wasn't very tall, and 1 found 11 necessary to hold up my cartridge bell to keep it from getting saturated. The Confederates were scattered through this swamp, and we took number of prisoners without opening fire. I met with a misfortune. Mj foot caught between a couple of parallel branches beneath the water, and 1 was securely pinioned. My companions continued on their way, while I strugged hard to extricate myself from my unpleasant predicament, I finally pulled my foot out with a desperate effort, but my shoe was left behind.

1 could only secure it by plunging my head beneath the surface of slimy, noxious, muddy water, but it had to bV done. I had no sooner got the sho3 tied on again than a rebel came in sight from behind some bushes. Intuitively our muskets were simultaneously raised. thundered the rebel. I returned at the top of my lungs.

"Then we stood and eyed each other. iJach had his gun cocked and levelled at the other, but neither pulled a trig- fer. Why we hesitated is more than can explain. By delaying, you see, each was practically placing himself at the mercy of the other, or so it would seem. Suddenly the rebel's gun dropped and I brought mine down also.

"See here, he began, in much milder tone, 'if I should shoot you my side wouldn't gain much; and, again, if you should shoot me your side wouldn't gain much. Now, Tve got a wife and two babies over yonder, and if you dropped me they wouldn't have nobody to take care of 'em. Now, it' a mean man what won't split the difference. I'll let you go if you'll let me go, and we'll call the thing square. What do you "Well, what should I say? I walked over half way, and we met and shook hands and parted.

About a year after a letter came to our camp addressed to 'Little Yankee that split the I had told him my regiment, you see, but not my name. The letter was a cordial invitation to visit the fellow at his home ia Louisiana. He wanted me to see the wife and babies whose members had prompted him to propose to split the difference, and I hv nlwavs regretted that I was un able to accept the invitation. St. Pioneer-Press.

Paul ONE OF NATURE'S CURIOSITIES. A. Mysterious Bottomless take VWen Living Thing Can Survive. "Devil's Lale," in Calhoun County, Alabama, seventy miles east of Birmingham, ia one of the most remarkable natural curiosities to be found ia America. The lake i9 oval in shap and covers about four acres of ground.

No vegetation of any kind grows on its DanKs ana notning lives iu us wai. Even snakes and terrapins shun the waters of Devil's Lake, and fish placed in it die in a few hours. The water is clear limestone, with a peculiar taste. which makes it unpalatable to man or beast. Horses and cows will not drink it, no matter how thirsty they may be.

Deep down below the surface of tho lake may be seen what appears to be the charred and blackened trunks of large trees. They stand upright in the water, but have neither root nor branch and never rise to the surface or sink to the bottom. The lake has no outlet and the volume of water in it ia the same all the time. A strange fatality attaches to this lake. Once it was the favorite resort of the boys of tho neighborhood for bathing and swimming, but now they never go near it.

Fifteen boys have been drowned in its waters in twice as m.mv vears. A few of the bodies were recovered, but those who were drowned anv distance from the banks sunk the bottom and were never brought to the surface. The depth of the lake has never been ascertained. Soundings to a depth of 700 feet found no bottom, and the people in the vicinity say the lake has none. The Indian legend of the origin of the lake is that before the white man came to this country two tribes became involved in a war, and after a number of bloody battles the smaller tribe was almost exterminated.

Ihen the old men and chiefs of the weak tribe sued for peace and arranged for a council. While the pipe was being passed around a signal was given and the chiefs of the strong tribe suddenly sprang up with drawn tomahawks and murdered every one of the chiefs of the smaller tribe. Then the war was renewed and car ried on -until the weak tribe was exterminated. A few moons after the massacre of the chiefs a tire broke out in the pine forest where the massacre occurred. The tire burned in this spot for eight moons and the ground sunk down out of sight; the fire disappeared, and in its stead appeared a lake.

The Indians gave the lake a name which means "lake of death." Reis in Brazil. Hotels are few and ill-conductedx In Brazilian coast towns, but there are excellent French and German restaurants in Bahia and Pernambuco. When one has the bill to settle he finds that the score runs into the thousands. The basis of currency is an imaginary unit, the reis, 1,000 of which make a milreis, worth apart from exchange, about 50 cents. The lowest nickel coin is 100 reis, worth 5 cents.

Below these are copper coins, 20 reis, being equivalent to 1 cent. If one dines with a friend at a restaurant the score wiil amount to 7.500 reis a result startling to the uninitiated. When real-estate transactions are conducted the figures rise into the millions, and when trade statistics are computed billions and trillions are brought In. Reversing the process, one pays 2,000 reis to a boatman to go ashore from a steamer, 1,000 reis or a milreis for a bottle of beer and some cheese, 500 reis to a fuide for pilotage through a publio uilding, 200 reis for a ride on a streetcar, 100 reis for a turn on the lift from the upper to the lower turn, and another 100 reis for having his boot blacked. Philip Kick, who died recently near Mount Vernon, Ohio, was the father of nineteen children.

His widow and, WVtefitt of the Children furvlve. and wealthiest residents of Kansas City, is dead. Iman Gage of Chicago ha3 been selected! as permanent chairman of the worlds' fair committee. All the window glass factories of the United States are to be shut down for the summer June 24. The Russian language will shortly be made compulsory in ladies' schools id the Baltic provinces.

The president has ordered that the United States flag shall fly daily over the executive mansion. The widow of the famous British naturalist, Wood, has been granted a psnsion of $250 a year for life. Ex-President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland are to be invited to attend the Dallas, fair next October. Sixteen strikefs at Nufscnan, Germany, have been killed so far during labor riots.

Military assistance has been asked. The French army is alleged to be stronger than the German army by twenty-seven batalltons. And the French are happy. Ex-President Hayes will visit fie Cha-taqua meeting at Ottawa, and deliver an address on Grand Army day. John Clare, 'of Nebraska City died of hydrophobia after terrible suffering.

He was bitten by a mad dog some weeks ago. The Iowa Indians refused the proposition of the" Indian commission for the cession of their lands in Indian Territory Mrs. Sarah Rothschild of Chicago celebrated her 103d birthday last week. She is as strong and as spry as a woman of 40. Striking coal mifiefs tit Coked ale, near Livingstone, Mont, attacked a lot of pew men and prevented them from taking their places.

The Carmichael divorce case, growing out of the women's crusade at Lathrop, has been transferred to Livingstone county; The workmen at the national tube works at McKeespOrt, Pai, have edde hack to work, having compromised the wages dispute. The wheat prospect in Texas is reported to be very bad. Kansas and Missouri make the best showing for that crop of any of the states. John Thompson, a farmer of Duxbury, Vt, is accused of having foully dealt with William Cota, aged 21, an employe. Thomp son has fled.

Prince William of Saxe-Weimar, Ger many has been declared a bankrupt His debts, duo chiefly to gambling, amount to 24:1,000 marks. Tho striking miners along the Youghio-gheny river in Pennsylvania have agreed to accept 1 cent per ton less than the Columbus scale. Eizo Allen, confidential clerk for the Austin investment company of Kansas City, has skipped out with 30,000 the company's money. Two earthquake shocks in Billings, Mont, Friday morning wrecked two houses, broke up a dance anj ruined much glass and bric-a-brac. A cloud burst at Johnstown, last Sunday frightened the people severely.

but no other damage was done than fill the cellars with water. The Various orders of railroad loborers' organizations are moving to effect a foder tion in order to co-operate with each othef in the future movements. Frank Fish of Canandagua, N. has been sentenced to die by electricity in Auburn prison during the week of July 12. Ho murdered a man.

Kansas prohibitionists at Topeka have telegraphed the state delegation In congress to do all in their power to speedily pass the original package law. Congressman Wade of Missouri has in troduced a bill in the house to pay letter carriers in first class offices $1,200 per year arter three years' service: Father McCann, a Joplin priest, has been forbidden to speak again on the sub ject of tho public schools, having recently made a bitter attack upon them. It is expected that the Santa Fe railroad will now build connections with their new purchase so as to make a direct line between Kansas City and St Louis. The council of clergymen of the Baptist church has found Rev. Whitman, of Joliet, I1L, guilty of the charges against him which charges were of gross immorality.

The scene in the national bouse of repre sentatives on the day the tariff bill was passed is said to have bean the most exciting and tumultuous in the history of that body. An amendment to the sundry civil appro priation bill has been offered Which gives 250,000 to continue investigation as to means of irrigating the arid regions of tha West W. E. Baker, a well known newspaper man of Kansas City, died suddenly at a desk in tne Herald, omce at St Joseph where he has been working for several weeks. Evarts and Hiscock, New York's two senators are not of one mind on the origl nal package question.

Hiscock says there is danger that the brewery interests will 'bo crippled. A farmer named Tucker, with his two children, a girl and a boy, was rowing on a small lake near Stanton, when the boat overturned and the three were drowned. Several of ex-State Treasurer Noland's bondsmen refuse to pay their quota of the defalcation, and the Missouri courts will be called upon to sut the defaulter's actions to the bottom. A grand gathering of the principal iron mine owners and experts and iron and steel manufacturers of tho world will be held in New York, beginning in the latter of September. John L.

Bowden, a lazy fellow living at Chilicothe, put a pistol to his wife's head, fired, and then went out and put a bullet through his own worthless brain. The wife was not hurt While the guests were assembled at Kingston, N. awaiting the marriage of Jacob Dleffer to Mis Marion Post, the groom eloped and wedded Henrietta, the 14-year old sister of the intended bride. Near Fort Sill, a soldier named Snyder killed Thomas Canty, a comrade, with a knife, and seriously wounded J. M.

McCue, also a soldier. Snyder escaped. The attack was the outcome of an old grudge. John M. Naughton, secretary of the guarantee endowment association of San Francisco, CaL, who shot and killed James M.

Hern, the association's vice president. was acquitted Friday on the g. ound ot self defense. James Carr, father of President Robert Carr of the West Virginia senate is taking steps to begin suit as one of the heirs of the A. T.

Stewart estate. His grand mother, he claims, was a niece of A. T. Stewart A scheme to seize Lower California, and after forming a provisional government to turn it over to the United States, has been unearthed by a San Francisco newspaper. A rich eitizen of Minneapolis is president of the company.

E. B. Walker, editor of the Galveston Register, was beaten and kicked nearly to death by three deputy United States mar shals who did not like something that bad been printed in the Register about them. The ruffians were arrested. Judge Hlndman, of Nevada, Iowa, charged the grand jury of his court, that the state has the right to abate nuisances.

the supreme court of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding, and all places kept for selling liquor must be closed. James S. Parsell sunk up to his neck in quicksand while digging a well in Wood- side, L. Saturday afternoon. The end of a rubber tube was inserted in his month and air pumped to him while a party ot men tried to dig him out At the end of five hours, however, he died Of exhaustion.

Coolidge, New Mszicj, Destroyed by the Migratory Nuisances. Train Circles the World In Sixty-Seven Days. Conservative Congressmen Be; coming Somewhat Alarmed. A Mexican Town BnrneA. AlbPquerqve, N.

May 25. A disastrous fire set by tramps has destroyed every house in the city of Coolide, N. except the railroad eating houss and the oepot buildings yesterday. The tramps had been loitering around town for several days and were infuriated because citizens had made preparations to drive them out. For three days they had held control of the town.

Tribute was levied on the stores, the demands being emphasized by a show of weapons. Finally the rosHents were driven to wage war in self defense. Their resistance enraged the in retaliation, in-flameables were scattered among the buildings and set on ino Viefcro the ashes of the town were cool, a posse of citizens on horseback were in pursuit of the tramps, and lynchings are probable. Tho leader of the tramps is beleived to bo Black Kube, a half breed and hard character. Train Wins the Race.

Tacoma, May 25. George Francis Train stepped from a Union Pacific train at last evening, completing tho fastest trip ever made around tho world. He was gone sixty-seven days, thirteen hours and thrse minutes, but his actual traveling time was thirty -six hours better, he having stopped that length of time in Kew York. He was in a great rage because some one had robbed him at "Huntington, yesterday morning, of and because the Tacoma people did not furnish hlin with a special train, from New York to Tacoma, over tho Northern Pacific. Becoming Alarmed.

"Washington, May 25. Conservative members are beginning to feel a little uneasy about the way the appropriation bills ere piling up this season. Tho amount of appropriations on bills already passed and pending, point to an aggregate that will exceed goverment revenues by many millions during the coming fiscal year. Another Representative Tired. Kansas Citt, May 24.

A special dispatch to the Journal from Washington says that Congressman Morrill, of Kansas, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for re-election. He says he is tired of tho work. It is understood that since pension matters assumed such a shape as to puzzle the friends of legislation for tho soldiers. Mr. Morrill has been harrased from all sides and quarters by those having hobbies, strained and particular ideas on the subject, So much so, in fact, that congressional life has become a burden.

When it became known at the house that Major Morrill would close his congressional career with the present congress, members of all political parties, led by Con-pressman Dockery, thronged around his desk and earnestly entreated him to reconsider his determination. Major Morrill was affected to tears by this demonstration of the friendship and confidence of his colleagues, but he sorrowfully informed them that his decision irrevocable. Original Packages" Defined. Kansas Cjtt, May 51. General Devol, the internal revenue collector of this district, while discussing the interpretation to be placed upon tho words "original packages" of liquor, which, it.

is claimed under the recent decision of the United States supreme court may be freely sent into Kansas and sold there, said that a bottle of beer cannot be regarded as an original package within the meaning of tho law. Regarding the question from the internal revenue standpoint, General Devol said: "No beer stamp is provided for a less quantity of beer than an 'eighth barrel, and brewers cannot bottle beer except such as is drawn from the stamped kegs." He therefore concluded that aa eighth barrel of beer is the smallest quantity that may rightfully be termed an "original package." 1 he Santa Fe' Big Purchase. New Youk, May 30. The principal owners or the St Louis San Francisco stated this afternoon that the control of the company had been absolutely sold to the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Company. This deal adds 1,400 miles of road to the Atchison system besides giving it absolute control of the Atlantic Pacific railroad.

The acquisition of the Frisco will give the Santa Fo a St Louis line, and will put it in a position to fight the Missouri Pacific throughout its entire territory, cutting into its business by both the main lino and the Iron Mountain. This givos the Santa Fe the immense mileage of 8,927.2 miles in the states, besides its Mexican ro id, tho So-nora railway. The Atlantic Pa ific is owned by and operated for the Santa Fe and 'Frisco and the purchase will give the Santa Fe all three systems. A Fad Catastrophe. Fall Rivers, May 26.

At Watup-pa lake yesterday afternoon a party of twelve persons hired a boat and went rowing. There was a strong wind blowing End the water was rough. When the boat of pleasure seekers was within twenty feet of the shore one of the children rocked the boat The men cautioned the child to remain quiet, but it was unmindful of this advice and suddenly the boat capsized. Edwin Turner was the only one in the party who could swim well. He grasped John Buckley by the waist and although Buckley was a heavy man he succeeded in bringing him ashore.

Two others succeeded in reaching shore, but eight women and children were drowned. Gladstone Scored. Losnos, May 19. Several of the Liberal papers condemn Mr. Gladstone's comparison of the atrocities p2rpetrated by Russian officials upon the exile i in Siberia with the Mitchellstown, Ireland, affair.

The Standard says that it cannot find language to adequately express its disgust at the parallel drawn by Mr. Gladstono. What can be thought, it says, of a man who is trying to persuade his countrymen, that a confused street riot can be classed with deliberate flogging of naked women and kindred barbarities. It shocks one's moral sense to find that a party leader has reached a stage of rancor which has obliterated truth, decency and self-respect. Jro.etin(j the Flag.

Wasiiixotos, May 23. Congressman Thompson of Ohio yesterday reported Irom the house committee on judiciary a bill to protect the American flag from desecration by its use as an ad vertisiag banner. The committea declares that the flag is the symbol of our national existence, power and sovereignty, and that it should be honored and reverenced by every American who is a lover of his country. It should be held as a thing sacred, and to deface, disfigure or prostitute it to advertising purposes should be held to be a crime against the nation. The bill introduced imposes a fine of $50 and imprisonment of 30 days for thus using the flag.

A Dranken Judge. Kansas Citt, May An associated press dispatch from Paris, last night ays Judge Theodore Botkin, of Kansas made a disgusting exhibition of himself in tbat city on Monday evening. There were about 800 people there from Kansas as wit-Besses and defendants in the Cross murder case. Most of them are republicans and many are ex-union soldiers. The local post of the G.

A. R. gave them a public ftoepttos at the opera house )as( night fend np- 'The beer is here!" Shouts the Topeka Democrat iri Tumultuous dotes Of triumph. Hutchinson News: Tha state tiniber' in spector of Kansas should be called a timber expector. The new postmaster at Lsavenworth is president of Vie Yj M.

and is an ardent Methodist Mrs. Mettmas's ghost has appeared at Leavenworth caf'rying a leg in one hand and ad arm in the' other'. The Patriot claims that the churches oi Atchison are more generally attended than any othsr city in Kansas. After the Emporia News Democrat and Republican consolidated there were still 807 newspapers in Kansas. Web McNalL the congressional nominee in the Sixth district, is familiarly known in Kansas as the "cliff dweller." An old soldier and a tr.imp wera killed by the cars at Leavenworth on Mon ay.

The death of the soldier Is much regretted. There are twice as many daily passenger trains in and out of the Atchison Union depot than of any other city in Kansas. Web McNall says it was Turner who broke faith. Turner, he Says, agreed with him two years ago not to run for a third term. A small bouse built on low wheels and drawn by two yoke of cattle passed through Anthody the ether day on the way to Oklahoma.

The people of Kansas should tio'fc tat get that every child born in that state before June 14 counts in the national census. K. C. Star. In one column the Winfield Courier brags about the chutjhes in that city, and in another notes the contract for an addition to the jail.

Senator Quay says that Eugene Ware's "Admission of Hie Jones to the Paint creek bar" is the finest thing in rhyme ho ever read. The LaWrdnce Record laments the fact that the congressional standard in Kansas is deteriorating cut is supporting Fttnston just as hard. Among the creditors of George W. Crane, tne well known Kansas publisher, is the Topeka Cemetary association with a claim of $5,000. The Parsons papers announce the finishing in tho K.

T. shops of that city of the first engine built of its entirety in the shops there. A barber at Wellington, has put Out bis sign as follows: "We are hereto stay. No favoritism; clean towels used on every 1 Some people will think it was accidental that the State Medical society and the Kansas School of Embalmei-s met at Saline at the same time. The base ball team at Haskell institute has cleaned out everything it has tackled this season.

It took Kansas to find out what the Indians are good for. Marion's Fourth of July celebration will be held this year at ChingawAsa Springs. Tha first celebration in the county was held there tvanty- fire" years ago. The Topeka Capital says that "the snides who located in Western Kansas for the sake only of borrowing money have moved out" Good riddance to bad rubbish. The Topeka Journal sayj that, "Some tiea We read the Atchison Globe we think Atchison Is a town where they do nothing but snarl and drink bear." The Kansas state norm.il at Emporia will graduate a class of fifty-three in June.

It will ike at least three big freezers of ice cream for the alumni banquet this year, Hutchinson News: A Kansas City med ical student got into trouble by chocking a skeleton as baggage. The only safe place to carry a skeleton is inside one's own skin. One hundred and eight steers from Butler county Were recently shipped to Chicago. They averaged pounds each and brought $1.70 par cwt, or per head. Dr.

F. T. Ingalls, of Drury college, will sail for Europe in a fe weeks for the benefit of his health. There is nothing that pulls a Kansas man 'down like liviajr in Missouri. Bishop Foss of the M.

E. church said in a recent speech, spe iking of Kansas: "The people of Kansas are the most intelligent, cultural, moral and prosperous on the face of the earth." On the fourth anniversary of the founding of Kanopolis, the exercises consist Jd of music by the band, a pro -ession of citizens in carriages, publio speaking and the starting of a salt well. Abilene Reflector; 'Gend W7are's latest poem tells of something he did on "the eastern shores of Kansas hUf a million years ago." That settles it Ware is one of the "old crowd." Two Wyandotte county farmers are fighting over a $30 steer. They have already spent ten timss th9 value of the animal, and at tha advice of their attorneys are starting in again. It has been charged that the Kansas drug stores have no regard for tha prohi-tion law.

Yet it is doubtful if any one more sincerely regrets the original package decision than the Kansas druggist A buyer recently shipped out of Lyon county forty-thrae car loids of horses, and now they are going to put up a big carriage factory at Emporia so as to be able to supply the market with complete rigs. Persons who are intoxicated are not admitted to the bass bU games at Atchison. The temptation to brace up for a thing of that kind is very great, but it would hardly do to encourage such a dangerous habit. J. J.

Pomeroy of Atchison own 25,000 acres of land in Graham county, and will short start for Europe for the purpose of selling the same to emigrants. He expects to work tho Scandinavian countries. The Ottawa Republican proves by its old files that corn was only twelve cents a bushel in Franklin coun'y in 1873. The farmers all thought then that Kansas was going to the "demnition bow-wows," but it didn't The Newton Republican thinks the majority of divorces result from marrying for money. This theory seams to be sustained by tbe perpetual connubial sunshine which illuminates the home of every editor in Kansas.

The two colored men at Atchison who have been sentenced to two years and a half in the penitentiary ought to stand a chance of getting a new trail on the ground of cruel and unusual punishment Patriot Newton Ropubllcan: ''To be brief, Kansas is not heaven, but the honest, industrious citizen will find here as much of happiness and as little of worry and disappointment as has the most favored spot of earth. The Kansas penitentiary earned $9,500 during the month of April, and cost tho state $10,293. The expense' of boarding and clothing about fifty life prisoners, in for murder, can be lopped off if the governor would say so. A party of. fifty Swedes left Lindsborg this weak for Sweden under tha charge of the Rev.

C. A. Swenson. They will be gone until September, and wtten they come back they will be pretty certain to bring a lot more people with them. A Greenwood county farmer walked to Eureka, a distance of eight miles, because he thought his horses i eeded rest more than he did.

What a difference between that man and thi farmer who raises com as an excuse for riding a sulky plow. K. Star. A Harper County Hog. Colonel Bickford of Harper county sold a hog tho other div at itchita wuioh weighed 8-iO pounds aa ll brought $34.29.

The animal repre3entS.il eighty-two bushels of corn, which at twenty cents a bushel wo aid have brought mis item bristles witu, auiilcan.Qa to the intelligent fanner, and undergroundef 9, be is a whole cyclone and tornado) as to results. He undoubtedly says things that nobody else dares to say; but he got away iwlth a whole legislature last winter, and, while a man that can get away with a Kansas legislature may not be immortal, he has about all the evidences that a man needs to possess. And whatever may be the faults of Daniil Webster Wilder, it is an incontrovertible fact that be is, id all this country, the only officer charged with the supervision of insurance, who' has1 succeeded in wiping the frauds of his own state fr'oiri tha face of the earth, and nrotectinsr honest and decent insure ancsf companies in the transaction of their business in his state. It woull le Detter for insurance if there were more Wilders i University Boys. The first alumni catalogue ot the aCa-' demic departments of the state university has just been issued.

It was compiled by Prof. Wilson Sterling and gives tha occupation ahd present addresses of tha graduates of the institution. Tbe first class graduated in 1S73 and the alumni roll has reached tho number of 233, of whom 146 were men and S7 women. Six graduates have died, leaving 227, who are scattered in all parts of the United States and one resides in China. Sixty-four of the gentlemen have married and 43 of the women.

The alumni are classified according to their occupation, as follows Teachers, S3; engaged in domestic duties, 45; lawyers, 23; C'lfil engineers, 17; journalists, 10; ministers, 10; students, lb; physicians, mer chants. 6: farmers, druggists, bank ers. 3. and the rest are engaged in misce laneous pursuits. Thii catalogue does not include the graduates of the special department Tinkering Iawg.

The state senate committer appointed at the last session of tbe' legislature to revise and codify certain laWs, is hard at work. Senator Kimball of Parsons, one of the members, was interviewed the other day and he reported progress. He declared that the committee was only authorized to revise, codify and recommend necessary changes in the laws in relation to State officers, boards commissioners, their powers and duties and State institutions. The committee, according to tha senator, has not sought to make numerous changes or recommend any startling innovations. but in the main, to remedy such def 3 cts in existing statutes as experience has shown to exist, harmonize conflicting provisions of law.

repeal duplicate and obsolete pro visions, and in general to make the law in relation to these matters plainer and more easily understood; and to cut down expenses whenever that could be done. Frentls on Mortgages. There has been a big roar id Kansas about bonds and mortgages. That maa who borrowed money of our enterprising banker, Shylook, yesterday, says to-day that Shylock is an old thief who ought to be tarred and feathered ori tbe Kialto. The gentlemen who professedly eats the bread and water of affliction to-day, in the blessed hope of bo irding at the Copeland next winter, says people in Kansas are being evicted from their homes as they are in Ireland, but he is a llars of course.

J. he ordinary citizen, much as he talks aliout mortgages, cannot guess within thousands of how many mortgages are ot record in his Own county. He will know more about it after awhile. Kansas has voted more bonds and has piled up more mortgages than was exactly promotive of good health, out she is not sick abed yet; nor will she be scared sick by all the quacks in Christendom. Noble L.

Prentis. llny Kansas Bees. Mr. C. Wi Wells, Who lives three miles southeast of the town of Chase, in Rice county, received last fall a hive Of bees from Iowa.

A few days ago a swarm came off which Mr. W'ells hived successfully. The occurrence is noteworthy as being the first incident of the kind in that section. The country about Chase has not been regarded as favorable to bee culture on account of the winds and tbe scarcity of flowers, but it has been discovered that honey can be produced in western Kansas by the proper amount of hustling, and that is where the b2e always comes out strong. Artesian Wells In Kansas.

The evidence taken shows clearly that there is no part of the Kansas plains re gion in which water can not be obtained at a moderate depth below the surface. Artesian wells are found in counties south of the Arkansas river; also north and west of Garden City, and at different points of the valleys of the Arkansas and of the Smoky Hill. In the extreme northwest ern section the basin of the Republican Fork of the Arkansas, though much small er in area than the Arkansas, is also, it is evident, underlaid with a great body of sheet water. Kanxas Railroad Men. Lamed Eagle-Optic: "The total number of employes of railways in Kansas is 57 and the annual aggregate ot wages received by them is There are 365 general officers and their average daily pay is $7.76, The general omce clems are paid $1.67 per day.

There are 2,935 of them. The pay of shopmen averages $1.66 per day, and 7,710 men are employed in this department The average daily pay of day laborers is $1.77. Big Snake Story. Frank Hoffman of Arkansas City tells the Traveler of a warm attachment which has sprung up between a cat which belongs to him and a snake which has made its ap pearance upon his premises. When the cat was first seen playing with the reptile Mr.

Hoffman tried to kill the snake, but every time he approached it the cat would seize it with her mouth and run unaer me barn floor. Grazing on Wheat. A Cowley county farmer tells the Win-field Courier that he sowed eighty-two acres of winter wheat last fall, on twenty-two acres of whbh he has kept eighty-five head of hogs and nine cows, and that the wheat on which the stock run is in better condition than if it had not been used for grazing purposes, and that the pasturage more than repaid him for the entire amount planted. A Good Wlpe-lut. The other day a Harvey county farmer and stock raiser sold forty-ssven head of cattle for $3,763.

With this money he wiped out all of his indebtedness, leaving his farm free from mortgage an! stocked with sixty head of young cattle and 300 bogs. Among other things whloh have a good deal to do with the farmers of Kansas is the farmer himself. A Brleht Boy. Charles Carroll Carlton, the young fellow who climbs on Ingalls' shoulders for a climuse of fame, is the agent at Washing ton of the California associated press. He holds a minor position in the United States senate by the favor of Senator Voorhees.

whose ardent affections for Senator Ingalls is well understood in Kansas. K. C. News. In for Ked notion.

Emporia Republican: A considerable number of democratio editors of this and other congressional districts of Kansas held a secret convention in Emporia last SaturJav. Thev declined to Rive any in formation, but it is believed that a scheme was considered for reducing the republican majority in the state to 81,000. The l'risces of Wales. The Princess of Wales is as bald as a billiard ball, says a London letter. Hor wiffs are marvels of art.

The Drince93 i3 deaf, too. That, after all the misery which the gross brutality of her royal husband has brought upon her, thie lovely woman should main tain her amiability and cheerfulness la Bimrly reqiarkabl The Denver Bank Robber is Under Arrest at Last. Stanley Openly Denounced. London, May 26. Persons of a peaceable turn of mind, who have a weak spot in their hearts for arbitration, disarmament and other non-warlike schemes, have had much to grieve them lately; In the first place Mr.

Stauley who has been a sort Of pet of these gentry, has astounded them by sheering at them id public as old grannies and fools. Nothing could be more cynical, nor more eruel than the explorer's Sudden and candid declaration of contempt for the poa.e contingent Heretofore he has always allowed himself to be lauded to the skies, tha pioneer of civilization and Christianity, the opener up of commerce, the deliverer of the blacks from the bondage of ignorance; the friend of the missionary, but now he throws off the mask and stands reveal ed as the gigantic land grabber, pure and simple; the acquirer of territory by peaceable methods if possible, but if not, then by force) at least the religious societies and peace organizations such of them as have recovered their breath since Stanley's recent speech are now saying these thing3 about him. That Denver Bank Bobber. St. Louis, May 29.

Mansfield King, tho self-confessed murderer, horde theif and all-around criminal, In jail at Clayton, the county seat of St Louis county, has been identified as Vt ells, the Denver bank robber, who compelled Cashier Moffatt, of tho First National baflit of Denvers to hand over in Cash, in March, 1SS9, at the point of a revolver. King was arrested for horse stealing some some days ago by the sheriff of St Louis county and placed in jail at Clayton. After his arrest he was taken" very sick, became communicative, and confessed to be the author of several crimes, one of which was the robbery of Cashier Moffatt It will be remembered that he entered the president's private office and holding in his hand a bottle of some harmless stuff which he represented to bo dynamite, demanded the money or he would destroy the whole bank and all the lives, his own included. The banker went to the cashier and got tho money, which he gave to tho bold thief. Kemmler Must Die.

Washington, May 23. The supremo court of the United States to-day denied the application for a writ of error In the case of Kemmler, under sentence of death by electricity. The opinion was by Chief Justice Fuller. Tho legislature of the state of New York determined that it did not inflict cruel and unusual punishment and its courts have sustained that determination. This court cannot see that the prisoner has been deprived of due process of law.

In order to reverse the judgment this court should be compelled to hold that the court of appeals had committed an error so gross as to deprive the prisoner of his constitutional rights. The court has no hesitation in believing it cannot do this. A Toang Man Kills Himself. Olathe, May 23. Gustav9 Mali, son of Louis Mall, and a nephew of A.

E. Mall of this city, killed himself last evening at 6 o'clock at his home eight mnes northwest He went up stairs aDd took eft one shoe. He then took a shotgun and with the toes of his bare foot pulled the triger, discharging one chamber of the gun into his chin, the load coming out at tho top of bis head. He died instantly. The suicide was 19 years old, and no possible cause can be assigned for the deed, except that he had not fully recovered from an attack of la grippe, wuich came on last winter.

He had apparently been ia good spirits ever since, and attending to business. Dressed Beef Men Win. Washington, May 19. The supreme court to-day rendered an opinion, holding to be unconstitutional tho law of nne-sota requiring that all fresh meats sold in the state shall be cut from animals slaughtered within the state and inspected twenty-four hours before slaughter. The case is entitled "State of Minnesota against Henry D.

Bigger," and is of great interest to dressed beef mon, who win tho case. Kansas, Iowa and a number of other states made similar la ws at tho last session of their legislatures, all of which are overthrown by this decision. Oklahoma Organized. Guthrie, May 28 The "peoplo of Okalahoma gathered here to-day to welcome the first governor of the new territory, and the streets were crowded until walking was difficult and riding impossible, and yet with all this there was no disorder At the close of a speech the govern, or administered the oath of office to Judge Seay of Missouri and Judge Clark of Wisconsin. A grand reception was given in the evening and an opportunity was given to all to meet the now officers of state.

Protected Her Daughter. Nevada, May 22. This morning Mrs. Mary Klack, living in the eastern part of this city, fired five shots at a young man named William Forrest, two of which took effect in the left arm and shoulder. Forrest had been for some time past trying to entice her 14-year -old daughter away from home for immoral purposes, and she had repeatedly forbidden him to come on the premises.

It Was Full of Fran.l. Helena, Mont, May 21. The supreme court of Montana decided the contested election of the sheriff of Silverbow county, involving the validity of the vote in the famous precinct No. 84. The court unanimously held that the vote of that precinct was so irregular in all respects, and so saturated wita proven fraud that it should bo entirely rejected.

This elects the sheriff and all of the Republican officers in Silverbow county. Get Your Patent. Washington, May 23. There are a large number of patents in the archives of the general land office which have never been delivered to patentees. The local land office also holds a good many.

It is claimed that these patents have not been delivered because the patentees have never called for them and their whereabouts are unknown to the land office. The estimate places these undelivered patents at about 200,000. Denounced by Worklngmen. New York, May 19. A mass meeting of the labor organizations known as the associated trades, was held in the City Hall park Saturday.

Resolutions were adopted denouncing the McKinley tariff bill and calling upon the republicans in the different states to use their bonest endeavors to crush the bill as odious, mercenary and degrading to the masias of citizens of all classes of the republic. A Kansas City Defaulter. Kansas Citt, Mot, May 21 City Treasurer Peake was yesterday discovered to be a defaulter to the amount of and was suspended from office by the mayor. Peake says he cannot account for the shortage, and professed to be dumbfounded. He was elected to the office in April, 1889 to succeed Holmes, who is now mayor.

A Kew Tork Earthquake. Albant, N. May 23. A special from Cloversville, N. says that at 7 o'clock this morninir the city was visitei by a severe shock of earthquake.

Large buildings were shaken and people were thrown out of chairs and beds, nnd glass was shattered. The earthquake vvug preceded bv a load rumbling so'mi Original Package Legislation. WAsniNGTOx May 20. Tho Senate to-day took up tho bill referred from the judiciary committee, subjecting imported liquors to tho provisions of tue laws of tho several states. Senator Wilson, of Iowa, who had introduced the bill in the first Inst inco, and had afterward reported it back, addressed the senate in explanation and advocacy of it Senator Vest said congress could delegate a power vested in it by the constitution to any state or any number of st ites.

He believed that it could not To do so would be to destroy the interstate clause of the. constitution and all purposes for which it was enacted. So far from having any uuformity, there would be, in that case, diversity and hostility. Missouri would shut out one article of interstate commerce, Kansas another, Iowa another and South Carolina another, and so on until thero would be chaos from one end of tho Union to the other. A Terrific Storm.

Woosteb, May 19. A terrific cyclonic wave, rain and hail storm passed over parts of Congress, Chester, Milton and Chippewa townships, this county, doing. a tremendous amount of damage The storm swept a section three miles in width and eighteen in length. Serious damage was done in and neir the villages of Congress and Rowsburg. Entire orchards and strips of oak timber were blown down or twisted to the ground.

Many houses, barns and outbuildings were unroofed or blown down. The hail stones were so large and fell with such force as to be driven through roofs covered with oak shingles. At Rowsburg bail fell to the depth of eight to twelve inches on the level and drifted to the depth of thirty -two inches. Hundreds of sheep were killed by the hail. In Their Last Renting Place.

Cleveland, May 20. Early this morn ing when Lakeview cemetery was free from visitors, tho remains of President Garfield were removed from the public vault to the crypt in the monument This is to be their last resting place. The coffin in which the remains were finally placed has for four or five years been encased in a metallic casket of great weight, and eight workmen were required to carry it to the hearse and into the tomb. The remains of the president's mother were also removed to the monument, which is to be dedicated on Memo rial day. Topeka Women "Riled." Topeka, May 19.

Thaf longed-for saloon, not saloons, is still running in this city, with the promise that as soon as arrangements can be made, whisky will be added to the beer now on sale. There has been no interruption by the police authorities. This forenoon the rumors on the street were to the effect that a band of 500 women would assume the power that takes men from jail and hangs them to telegraph poles, and settle with the agent who has given such publicity to his business. Ex-Senator Jones in an Asyl um. Detroit, May 19.

Ex-Senator Charles W. Jones of Florida, was this morning adjudged insane and committed to St Joseph's retreat by Probate Judge Durfee. The unfortunate man left his seat in the senate some years ago and came to this city to be near a lady of whom he had become enamored, and who, he fancied, was also enamored of him. His action was but the result of a diseased brain, and he never returned to Washington, nor did he go home to Florida. His disease is softening of the brain.

Rivals of Jesse Pomeroy. Manchester, N. May 19. "Sadie" Danielson, a boy of 12, and Alexander Anderson, aged 17, were arrested last night on complaint of the mother of Charles B. Howe, a delicate 10-yoar-old lad, who charges them with acts rivaling those perpetrated by Jesse Pomeroy.

It is alleged that they took the Howe boy into an out-bouse and stuck pins into every part of his anatomy, poured boiling water upon him, burned his face with powder and left him insensible. When found he was still unconscious. A Good Shot. Chillicothe, May 31. J.

L.Sowen of this city, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife last night Being drunk, he imagined that he bad succeeded, and then walked out and put a ball through his own lead, killing himself instantly. When he shot at his wife be missed his aim, but the ball struck a neighbor, W. H. Raney, inflicting a bad wound in bis thigh. Mexico Urged to Farther Retaliate.

Citt of Mexico, May 20. The press of Piedras Negras complains of the effect of the United States law against importation of contract labor and demands that the Mexican government retaliate by compelling railroads Moxlco to employ pnly Mexicans, Lightning Strikes a School House. Reading, May 19. Yesterday afternoon, the Fairview school house, near Mohnsville, was struck by lightning. Ths bolt smashed through the chimney, ran down tho stove pipe, shattered the stove, and then made its exit along a row of benches at the open door.

Twelve of the school children were knocked senseless, and the twenty remaining were made numb in their arms and legs. Of those rendered senseless, four were badly burned in various parts of the body. The TarlfT Kill Passed. Washington, May 21. Tho house passed the tariff bill to-day, with very few amendments, by a very strict party vote.

Ben Butterworth of Ohio, said be regretted that it was impossible to get a concensus of opinion on his side of the house (the republican side) regarding the real merits of the biil. This remark was cheered by the democrats; but when it came to a vote Butter' worth recorded his vote with the party for the bill. Tho vote by which the bill was passed was 103 to 14 Wreck on the Alton. Kansas City, May 23. The Chicago and Alton limited train was wrecked just east of this city yesterday morning as It started out for Chicago.

The engine crashed into a freight train on the Missouri Pacific track. Three sleeping cars rolled down a ten foot ebmankment The eng'neer and fireman jumped just in time to save their lives, and strange to say not a soul on the train was killed, though some half a dozen passengers in the sleepers were more or less injured. Will Turn States Kvldence. Omaha, 22. Joe Shellcuberger, the second defendant in the case of the murder of Allen Jones and wife, was discharged this forenoon, and is believed to have promised to turn state's evidence.

Whipple Sherman, the third defendant, is to be tried soon, and the authorities will have a stronger case even against him, with their now witnesses, than they had against Ed Neal, who was convicted this morning of murder in the first degree. Onr Flimsy Postal Cards. Birmingham, May 20. No postal cards were made at Al Daggatt's factory in Shelton yesterday. Twenty-eight cases of paper that arrived Sunday were not accepted by the government agent, hence this delay.

H. T. Townsend, Daggatt's agent, is in Washington with new samples of Wilkinson's paper. If these are approved Daggett will be likely to retain his contract If not, the outlook Is dubious for him. Leavenworth Soldiers' Home.

Kansas Citt, May 21. The committee of the (jr. A. R. for the investigation of the charges against the management of the soldiers' home at Leavenworth have decided to make no investigation until authority is given for it by the board" of directors, as it might result in injustice to some of the inmates of the home who might be called upon to testify.

The present condition of the institution Is pronounced to be good. To Guarantee Census Purity. Washington, May 22. In the house, to day, Mr. Dunnell of Minnesota, from the committee on census reported a bill amend-tory of the census act It was passed.

The bill prescribes a penalty upon any su pervisor or enumerator who shall receive or person who shall pay any fee or other consideration in addition to the compensation of such supervisor or enumerator. Blgf Beer. I lgnres. Washinoton, May 21. The United States Brewers' Associatio began here today Its thirtieth annual convention.

There were present 200 delegates from all parts oi the united States, reoresentin approximately $195,000,000 in invested capital. Sentenced for Abduction. Lathrop, Ma, May 21. Special In the circuit court at Plattsburg. to-day, Judge Sandusky sentenced James Riggs to two years in the penitentiary fop abducting Ida Mabury, a 13-yoar old girl, from her home lor immorn Vi- 1 1 i 1 'I.