The Arcadia Record from Arcadia, Kansas • 1

3 W. J. VANE, Publisher Proprietor. ARCADIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1903. VOL.

I. NO. 23. WOULD DISFRANCHISE. the Churches.

GIVES THE NAMES OF SIX. CANNOT LONG DELAY. DEEP SNOW IN MINNESOTA. BONAPARTE CHOSEN, M. E.

Church (Arcadia Circuit). Preaching appointments: Arcadia, Garlnd, Mulberry, Pleasant Valley, Knglevale and Caldwell school house. Preaching as foi- lows: Arcadia and Garland every two 1 weeks, alternalioug morning and evening; on the same Sundays at Caldwell school house at 3 p. m. At ICnglevale every two weeks on Saturday night.

At Mulberry and Pleasant Valley every two weeks, alternating morn-ing and evening Epworth Leauge Services: At Arcadia, Galand and Mulberry every Sunday night. Junior League meetings at Arcadia and Mulberry every Sunday at 3 p.m. Christian Church. Sunday services Sunday School at 10 a. m.

Preaching each second and fourth Sunday morning and evening. Junior C. E. 3 Senior C. E.

7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. Preaching at Contrary Point School House each second Sunday afternoon and at Sheffield School House each fourth Sunday afternoon at the close of the Bible School, J.

R. CRANk, Church of God. Services at the opera house. V. E.

Turns, Pastor Catholic Church. Regular monthly services. B. J. McKernan Pastor MEAT MARKET.

In F. A. Smith's store. Choice meats always will be found here. W.

H. GABLE. FEED MILL, Custom Work a Specialty. Give me a trial. JOS.

LASURE, Prop. CITY BLACKSMITH. First-Class Horse Shoe- ing a specialty. N. B.

SWAIN, Prop. E.IIARRIGER, Blacksmith. Does all kinds of wagon work. 2T 25 years experience. A Jewell Co Dealers in Real Estate! Also Loan and Insurance Agt's Excellent Service to points in Missouri, ArKansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida And tko Southeast, and to Kansas, OKlahomo, Indian Territory, Texas Jind the Southwest.

Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, fumiihii upon application to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. CjuiicR and Pleasant United States District Attorney Beach Gives Out the List of Indictments Returned by Grand Jury Tuesday. Washington, Sept. 12. United States District Attorney Beach has announced that the six persons named in the seven indictments returned by the grand jury last Tuesday are: George W.

Beavers, former chief of the division of salaries and allowances, post office department; August W. Machen, former general superintendent of the free delivery; system, post office department; James W. Erin, former post office inspector with headquarters in San Francisco; George and Isaac A. McGiechan, both of New York city, owners of the Columbia Supply company, of that city; and Eugene D. Scheble, of Toledo, a dentist, and interested in the firm of Maybury Ellis, of Detroit, letter-box manufacturers.

Beavers, Machen and Er-win are named jointly in one indictment for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Another indictment is against McGiechan, Huntington and Machen for conspiracy to defraud the United States and still another la against the same three for conspiracy to commit bribery, both under section 5440 Revised Statutes; Schebel and Machen are indicted jointly for conspiracy against the United States and again for conspiracy to commit bribery. Another indictment is against McGiechan and Huntington for bribery and the last is against Machen singly for accepting bribes under section 5501 Revised Statutes. Beavers Under Bond of New York, Sept. 12.

George R. Beaver3, the former head of the department of salaries and allowances in the post office department was arraigned before United States Commissioner Hitchcock in the Federal building today on a bench warrant Issued in Washington charging him with conspiracy to defraud the government. Beavers furnished a bond of $5,000 for his appearance on September 15. MOTOR CAR FOR ARMY. United States Government Will Experiment with a Machine Carrying Equip-, men Is to Make Repairs.

New York, Sept. 12. Equipped with horseshoers', saddlers', carpenters' and blacksmiths' outfits complete for use in Uncle Sam's army, a motor car will leave this city for the war department at Washington in a few days. After in spection by the department officials it will be sent to Fort Leavenworth, for test in actual service. This motor car is the only one of its kind ever constructed, and, if it comes up to the expectations of its designers any necessary repairs to the equipment or arms of the artillery, cavalry or infantry branches of the service can be made on the spot, or even while the forces are on the march.

Joel I). Hubbard Arrested. Kansas City, Sept. 12. Joel D.

Hubbard, who defeated "Silver Dick" Bland in 1894 and represented the Eighth Missouri district in con gress from 1895 to 1897, was arrested at the Union depot last night about midnight, charged witU stealing a watch from Nora Okers, 910 Baltimore avenue. Mr. Hubbard says the watch must have been slipped in his pocket. He knew nothing of it until he saw the charm hanging from his pocket when he returned to the Midland, whore he was stopping with his wife and family. Miners Want Pay for "Biushin Kansas City, Sept.

12A. The striking coal miners at Novinger voted, in mass meeting yesterday afternoon, not to return to work in the mines until they receive assurances that they will be paid for "brushing." President Mitchell received a message to this effect about five o'clock from the committee which went to Novinger Thursday night to urge the men to resume work. Boys Confess to Wrecking a Train. Trinidad, Sept. 12 Paul Murphy and Ernest Smith, boys, of Raton, N.

have been arrested by SDecial Agent Rudd. of the Santa Fe ViQrcroH with wrpnklnir train. 1 UUU, Last Sunday evening No. 2 passenger train ran across a rail which had been placed across the track near Hillside, just below the Raton tunnel, derailing both engines. The boys have confessed that they placed the rail on the track.

Selection Postponed Until December 8. Milwaukee, Sept. 12. The board of trustees of natoinal homes closed its meeting here without selecting a governor for the Leavenworth home. It had been expected the board would 1 pick the successor at its Milwaukee I mcotlng, but the number of applicants for the place was so large that a de-! cision was postponed until December 3.

John A. Sterrett Removed. Washington, Sept. 12. Secretary Hitchcock has announced the removal of John A.

Sterrett, of Ohio, as town-site commissioner for the Cherokee Indian nation in Indian territory, and the appointment of Dwight Tuttle of Connecticut, as his successor. The removal i3 the result of charges against Sterrett's adrcinlstratloa ot bis office. Et-ultiern Concrcssuien Will Make an Effort to Withdraw from the Kcgro the Right to Vote. Memphis, Sept. 14.

The Com-nercial Appeal publishes an article on the race problem, of which the following is a part: "In the next congress United States Senator F. W. Carmack, of Tennessee, will introduce a bill In the senate for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution, the intent of which is that there shall be no discrimination against a citizen of the United States because of race, color or previous condition of servitude. In a word, Senator Carmack would contribute toward. a permanent solution of the vexing question as it is presented to the southern states, by eliminating the enfranchised negroes as a T.olitical factor.

This effort of the senator will be supported by every southern representative in congress and not a few members in other sections of the union." The senator favors the deportation of negroes. MAKING MARRIAGES EASY. Probate Judges In a Number of Kansas Counties Signing and Fixing Their Seals to Blank Licenses. Sept. 13.

Complaint has reached the attorney general's office to the effect that probate judges in a number of the Kansas counties have been in the habit of signing and affixing their seals to blank marriage licenses and giving them to ministers and notaries, who filled Ithem out and performed ceremonies. Inquiries have been directed to the attorney general to ascertain if this procedure is legal. Assistant Attorney "General Close ha3 answered these inquiries. He says that notaries public have no authority to perform marriages, but says that under a decision of the supreme court Buch marriages are binding. SHOWS STEADY GROWTH.

ftatlHfnrtory Increase In Customs Collections In Philippines in Each Successive Year of American Occupancy, Washington, Sept. 13 The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has prepared for publication a comparative statement showing the customs revenues in the Philippines archipelago for the first five months of 1003, as compared with the same period in previous years. For the five months ended May 31, JS)03, the customs revenues were $3,759,833. For the same period in 1902, they were $3,539,800. A steady increase in the customs collections is noted, and each successive year of American occupation has brought forth a corresponding growth of these revenues.

TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA. Considerable Damage In the Vicinity of Dloomlnffton Two Children Blown Across a Barb-Wire Fence. Guthrie, Sept. 14 A tornado struck the vicinity of Eloomington, in southwestern Oklahoma, Saturday, doing extensive damage. The residence of Mrs.

Sarah Carter was destroyed, the woman and her eldest daughter being injured. Two children were blown across a barb-wire fence into a pasture. Buildings on the farm of Frank Allen, John Bush and William Hern-don were also destroyed. A severe hailstorm followed the tornado and did great damage to crops. AVant to Boom Olney for President.

Boston, Sept. 14. There is a movement on foot to get the state to support Olney for the nomination for president. A general mass meeting is to be held on the "Boston commons" and he is to b9 indorsed, and this is the start of the Olney boom. This meeting is to be held in a few weeks, and an effort will be made to get all kinds of democrats and citizens to attend and join in the boom.

Ncvliiger Miners Must Go to Work. Kansas City, Sept. 14. The Novinger miners must resume work pending a discussion of the wage scale between the miners and the operators. A convention of district No.

25, held here yesterday, so decided and a committee of Novinger miners and scale men is now on the way to tell the miners thi3 fact. Cannot Use Battlefields. London, Sept. 13. Mr.

Carnegie, responding to an Inquiry concerning the report that he intended to purchase the battlefield at Bannockburn in order to keep it from being cut up into building lots, has telegraphed, saying that the story is absurd. He adds that he has no use for battlefields. No Insurance to His Wife. Lawrence, Sept. 13.

It has developed that Malcom Conn, proprietor of the Eldridge house, who committed suicide a week ago, did not make his wife the direct beneficiary of any of his life insurance. He carried about in insurance. Charfcd with Embeizlrment In Texas. Oilihoma City, Sept. 13 A.

A. Lower, a well-known attorney of this city, vva3 placed under arrest and taken to Cleburne, where he is wanted oa cliare of embezzlement. Much Grain In the Shock and Standing Is Hurled and the Loss Will Be Heavy. St. Paul, Sept 15.

Snow and rain has greatly damaged crops In the northwest the past week. Nearly all the grain in shock, estimated at 50 per and all the standing grain, much of it flax, is buried under snow and water. The rainfall has been 8 inches in 48 hours. Rain, sleet and snow prevails all over the northwest. Railroad tracks are washed out and trains are abandoned.

The trains from the Pacific coast have been pushing slowly through deep snow for two days and are from 10 to 20 hours late. Freezing to Death In Manitoba. Winnepes," Sept. 15. One of the earliest autumnal storms experienced in the northwest for years swept over the country Saturday and Sunday.

At Hartney, 12 horses died in the Canadian Pacific yards and in the vicinity other live stock is reported to have perished. Grain, which was still standing, is almost totally ruined. At Mlnot, N. Two Feet of Snow. Mlnot, N.

September 15. Two feet of snow covers the ground in this section and trains are greatly delayed. A special from Kenmar, N. says one foot of snow covers the ground with snow still falling. At Medicia, N.

the snow is ten inches deep. THE BOODLE SCANDAL. Attorney General Crow Pushing the Investigation Before the Cole County Grand Jury. Jefferson City, Sept. 15.

Thero was a plethora of witnesses before the Cole county grand jury yesterday to testify along the lines of the boodle probing now In charge of Attorney General Crow. The various witnesses present would indicate that there wero a half dozen leads being pushed by the state's attorney before the grand jury. Chief Clerk Joseph Tall went before the jury yesterday afternoon and it is generally believed that he was asked regarding a sum of reputed to have been used this year on the alum bill. Just how Mr. Tall is connected with the story is not clearly known.

Senator Zevely introduced an insurance bill hich Editor Page supported, but which failed to pass. It is supposed he was questioned as to Page's support of the bill, for which it is alleged he received from the insurance companies. JOINED WIFE IN DEATH. Robert Stockwell Hatcher, Ex-Bending Clerk of tfie House. Committed Suicide in a St Louis Hotel.

St. Louis, Sept. 15. Grieving over the death of his wife, the news of which reached him in telegrams three days after her demise, Robert Stock-well Hatcher, aged 40 years, of Lafayette, shot and killed himself in a room at the Planters' hotel here. Mr.

Hatcher was a clerk in the office of Walter B. Stevens, secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company. Five years ago he was reading clerk of the house of representatives in Washington, his wife's former home. Chickasaw Nation Rejoices at Rain. Oklahoma City, Sept.

15. A general rain was reported to have fallen in the Chickasaw nation yesterday, breaking the summer drought, which was proving disastrous to the cotton crop." Cotton has been suffering generally from lack of moisture. The rain will greatly improve conditions. Stock water ha3 been low and stockmen are now rejoicing. Government Printing Office Too Small.

Washington, Sept. 15. Taxed by the increasing demands made by the government departments for printing and binding, the department of commerce will request an appropriation from the next congress of nearly to double the capacity of Uncle Sam's printing establishment, which, even now, is the largest in the world. Favor Redaction of Probation. Muscatine, Sept.

13. Believing that thousands of souls would be saved and that the Methodist church would reap a consequent harvest in membership, the lay delegates to the annual meeting of the Iowa conference have adopted a resolution reducing the term of probation for members from six to three months. Advises Abandoning the Panama Route. New York, Sept. 15 Edward P.

Cra-gin, who recently returned from making a thorough examination of both the Panama and Nicaragua canal routes, has written a long letter to President Roosevelt in which he urges the abandonment of the Panama route and assures the president that the Nicaragua route is much better. Novlnger Miners Go to Work. Kansas City, Sept 15. Word was received yesterday evening by President Mitchell, of the miners, that the men in the Novinger field, at a mass meeting held yesterday, had agreed to go to work to-day and to continue, under the terms of the Chicago agreement, till the scale, now In controversy. Is settled.

Maryland Man Will Investigate Indian Territory Officials. Every Man Connected with the Interior Department Must Pans Scrutiny of a Most Searching Character Tying I'p Creek Washington, Sept. 15 Charles Joseph Bonaparte has been selected by Secretary Hitchcock to take charge of the investigation of affairs and officials in the Indian territory that come under the jurisdiction of the interior department. Bonaparte is a resident of Baltimore, and is one of the best-known lawyers in the east. He assisted Attorney General Knox in the prosecution of the suit against the Northern Securities company.

The scope of the investigation, it is said, will be sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all statements within the knowledge of the interior department, including all that have appeared in the public press, and all other matters that may, at any time, come to the notice of the investigating officials, which, in any respect, reflect upon the official character, conduct or acts of the Dawes commission, or any member thereof, and the inspector for the Indian territory. Attempting to Evade Law. Muskogee, I. Sept. 15.

The strenuous efforts of Secretary alleged to be for the protection of the Indian, in the restrictions of sale of Creek allotted lands, have resulted in the most picturesque muddle that has ever been witnessed. The muddle is a result of land companies attempting to evade the law by and with the consent of tho allottee3 and their hearty co-operation. It is estimated that fully seven-eighths of the allotted land in the Creek nation is tied up by fi ve-year leases which are for the most part held by corporations. PAID SILENT TRIBUTE. Second Anniversary of President MrKin" ley's Death.

Observed In Unostentatious Manner at Canton. O. Canton, Sept. 15. Monday, the second anniversary of the death of the late President McKinley, was not observed by any formal programme in Canton.

Flags were lowered on public buildings, there were'some short references made in the departments of the schools to the life and death of McKinley, and carnations were worn as a sflent tribute by numerous citizens. Mrs. McKinley made a special trip to the McKinley vault in West Lawn cemetery and placed floral tributes on the casket. Numerous floral pieces received from friends and strangers were also placed in the tomb. Mrs.

McKinley is in good health. McKinley Monument Unveiled at Toledo. Toledo, Sept. 15. Toledo was en fete Monday over the unveiling of the McKinley statue, the first memorial to the late president erected in Ohio.

Their Relatives Massnrrcd in Macedonia. Battle Creek, Sept. 15. Monday's mail brought sorrowful news to three employes of the Battle Creek iron works. Phillip Trifforn, night watchman, was notified that two brothers and their children had been murdered in Macedonia.

S. Forety was informed that both his sons were murdered, and M. Spcalazer that his two sons and an uncle were killed. The letter says 10,000 soldiers attacked a village of 2,000, murdering all but 100 and leaving only ten buildings standing. To Publish Names of Drunkard.

Chanute, Sept. 15. Police Judge Dryden has evolved a novel scheme "of decreasing drunkenness in thi3 place. Whenever a person is before him twice for drunkenness he will publish the fact in the newspaper.3 and on posters and will warn the druggists not to sell the drunkard any more liquor. As a starter he ha3 made up a list of 20 old offenders and ordered their names printed as habitual drunkards.

lOnelnnrt Alo Draws Color Line. London, Sept. 15. It has been the boast of England in the past that it never drew the color line, whites and blacks being treated alike at hotels, theaters, restaurants, saloons and other public places. Nevertheless, the color line is being drawn, and negroes are beginning to be discriminated against in public places, as in the United States.

The courts have just upheld such discrimination as legal. Cotton Picking In Indian Territory. Muskogee, I. Sept. 15.

The move- 1 ment of labor to cotton fields of the Indian territory has begun and there is a shortage in labor to do odd jobs about the territory towns. Cotton picking beginning now and the heavy crop offers inducements to negro men and women to earn some monpv nnrl pninv an nntinp- Tlmv ai-a I taking advantage of the opportunity. A Dos Enjoined from Barking. KnoxUlle, Sept. 15.

A dog belonging to R. II. Bell, a well knowu liveryman of this city, was yesterday enjoined from barking end disturbing the members of H. Tepsll's family, The Powers Must Find a Solution of the Balkan Peril. Turkish Troops Continue to Devastate with Sword and Torch and Excesses Among; Them Are Notorious and Revolting in the Extreme.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 14. The Albanian and Turkish troops collected in the vilayet of Adrianople appear to be pursuing their usual tactics of burning and plundering the villages and killing tne peasants instead of making an attempt to break up the insurgent bands. Very little news is filtering through from Monastir, but all reports agree that the position of the Christians is desperate. The Turks are making a clean sweep of the whole Bulgarian element.

The Albanian soldiers in the vilayet of Adrianople are stated to be entirely beyond control. At Kostursco the influential beys complained to the officers of the excesses committed by the troops. The officers resented the criticism and told the soldiers that the beys were friends of the revolutionaries, whereupon the soldiers burned the beys' farms. The Turks have burned the villages of Almagik and Orikler, in the district of Losengrad. They beheaded 21! Bulgarians at Almagik in the presence of their families.

A Solution Cannot Long Be Delayed. London, Sept. 14. Rumor from Vienna and elsewhere is very busy this morning regarding the Balkan crisis and, while it is impossible to confirm the more sensational statements, there is accumulation of evidence that some violent solution can not long be delayed. The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Telegraph sends under Sunday's date Another long dispatch warmly defending Bulgaria's patient and quixotic attitude of loyalty toward the porte and the powers and denouncing Europe's indifference to the wiping out of a large Christian community.

Says OO.OOO Persons Have Been Killed. Sofia, Sept. 13. The council of ministers is said to have decided to mobilize the first and second army divisions, whose headquarters are at Sofia and Philippopolis. Alarming rumors are current of further wholesale massacres of Bulgarians in the vilayet of Monastir.

One report says that G0.000 persons have been slaughtered in he district of Leren alone, which is purely Bulgarian. RAILROAD MAP OF KANSAS. It Shows That the State Has Lost a Large Number of Towns In the Last Year. Topeka, Sept. 14.

The official railroad map of Kansas for 1903, which was issued Saturday by the board of railway commissioners, shows that the state has lost a large number of towns in the last year. The loss of these towns i3 the result of the spread of the rural free mail delivery system, which has wiped out the little post offices. Then a number of the boom towns have gradually shrunken in size until thf railway commission refuses to take cognizance of longer. Nearly every county in the state has lost or gained towns in the year. The namo of one river in the state has been changed.

It is that of the Grasshopper, which is changed to Delaware. Soldiers Would Hinder Farm Work. Junction City, Sept. 13. A petition signed by more than 50 land owners of Milford township, Geary county, and Ogden township, Riley county, whose land lies north and northwest of the Fort Riley reservation, has been forwarded to the war department as a protest against the maneuver army going on land belonging to citizens in those two townships this fall, because of the hindrance the large army would be to them in their work.

Cannot Account for This. Rome, Sept. 14. Josephine Marti-nelli, of Ferrara, has just given birth to twin girls. One of them is white, with blond hair; the other J- completely' black, with all the div ctive signs of the negro race.

Tho and anthropologists are unable to account for this phenomenon. Convicts Made Bad Money. Philadelphia, Sept. 14. Following closely upon the exposure of gross irregularities in the cigar department of the eastern state penitentiary came the public announcement last night that the illegal coinage of minor silver pieces has been carried on by convicts in the big Institution.

Will Tight Freight Rates. Wichita, Sept. 14. A meeting of the cattlemen of southern Kansas has been called in this city for September 30, to form a permanent organization for fighting freight rates and for compelling the railroads to glye them better service in the shipment of cattle. Raided a Physician's Office.

Olathe, Sept. 14. The sheriff entered with a search and seizure warrant the office of Dr. S. B.

S. Wilson here and captured 40 gallons of whisky and other intoxicants. He was arrested on 13 counts Saturday for sell- ing llauor In violation of the law, 1.