The Cunningham Chronicle from Cunningham, Kansas • 1

i' PI a if iff -1 UixViJ JJJ'g I II Ml 1 CUNNINGHAM, KINGMAN COUNTY. KANSAS THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20? 1890. vol. rv.

NO. 48. GAG" LA WILL NOT DO. MORE CROOKED WORK; CATHOIilCS CANNOT JOIN THE SUNFLOWER STATE. mOTTl IHDUSTSY.

EVIDENTLY CONTAGIOUS. TERRITORIAL TOPICS. There Are The House Will Discuss the Proposed New Kules. Dishonest People Even In Kansas. Kansas Farmers Can Fat on Their Thinking Caps.

Glaring Discriminations in the Pig-Iron Hate. Such Are the Symptoms of the Missouri Crusade. Fatal Result of a Texas Sparring Match. The Missouri Temperance Crusade. Cattlemen Must Move On.

Chickasaw Militia to be Armed Of Interest to the Farmers. Items From Washington and Elsewhere. The New York Herald says that Kansas is the paradise of women. Sumner county has had seven sets of triplets born within its borders since 188a. By an improved Kansas process sixty head of cattle can be dehorned in an hour.

The Atchison school board has elected a woman clerk from among eight candn dates. The next house of representatives of Kansas legislature will contain many more farmers than the last. postoffioe has been established at In- galls. Downs is to have a Congregational church. EI Reno's prize fight Will not come off until March.

There is a union labor organization at Oklahoma City. Nearly every family in Stillwater has planted garden. A new church and school house is being built at Highland. Topeka, Feb. 13 The fraudulent sugar bonds have again come to the surface in a new deal, this time to Stanton county.

Last December, just before the "roasting process" expose, one of the townships in the county voted $16,000 in bonds to the American Sugar company. When the expose of the fraudulent sugar making was made, the township officers did not issue the bonds, nor "were they called for. It was believed that was the end. The labor of breaking prairie land in To-day, however. Nelson H.

Spencer, Oklahoma now costs $2 per acre. Kansas City, Feb. 17. In a Lenten pastoral letter to be read in all the churches of the diocese, of Leavenworth, Bishop Fink, of the Roman Cafho-lie church, referring to the Farmers' Alliance movements, caused by the agricultural depression, says: "We say that, surrounded by a bounti-. ful crop, as Ave are, many of our people are suffering and are in misery, uncertain what they should do in the future.

The complaints come not only from the laboring classes in cities who are without work, but especially from the country districts, from the farming population, which feels that matters cannot be as they are for an indefinite number of years, or they would lose their houses and homes. Owing to the peculiar state of our coup-try every one suffers when the farming population Is in distress. Thoughtful persons are well aware that the present grievances of the farmers are but too true. 1 "It seems that almost every industry in our country is protected in order to amass riches in the hands of the few, by which the many will have to suffer. The only Norman will probably be designated as county attorney of Stanton county, came down and had a consultation with the attorney general and the auditor of state.

a money order office on and after April 1, 1890. Almost a Bow, Wichita, Feb. 15. A wordy war, which nearly culminated in blows, occurred in this city this morning. A leading foundryman and prominent railroad official were discussing freight rates when the former asserted that the discrimination against Wichita on iron was sufficient to paralyze the business.

This statement, the railroader vigorously denied, when a tariff list was drawn on him which went into effect to-day. This shows a rate on pig-iron per ton from Birmingham, to Atchison, of to Emporia, Ft. Scott, Lawrence, Topeka, $7.36 and to Wichita $9.18., In addition, the manufacturer said: "Let me call your attention," also, to the rate to St. Paul, which is only $6.18 from Birmingham, just $3.00 less than to this city for that long haul. How The wild geese are flying north, but the ground-hog went back in his hole.

There is an error somewhere. Kansas produced $175,000,000 worth of stuff last year, but the trouble is she has the greater part of the stuff still left. A few weeks ago a Shawnee county man gathered several bushels of apples from trees that bloomed late in the fall. The gypsum works at Medicine It seems that an agent oi the sugar company had recently gone to the township officers and induced them to issue script Kingfisher has a dance house which is obnoxious and the citizens have decided to move it. to the amount of $16,000, and issue and Stillwater, Guthrie.

Lisbon. Edmond On Their Mnscle. SriCKAitDviiXE, Feb. 17. The-temperance crusade in this section of the state is spreading.

It reached here early last week and the temperance forces have been fomenting' ever since. Last Thursday a number of women met and resolved to close up a club house run by Drury Davis in defiance of the liquor laws. The ladies met at 5 o'clock Saturday evening to carry out their designs. Armed with rocks, hatchets and axes they proceeded to the saloon, accompanied by the usual complement of small boys and curious men. With the rocks' the women smashed in all the windows and with the axes- chopped down the door.

Having gained entrance to the saloon, the women possessed themselves of the bottles and kegs of beer and barrels of whisky, and carrying them into the streets, their contents were emptied into the gutter. Returning to the saloon the fixtures were demolished and the crusaders' work was done. Hamilton Brady, the owner of the building, says he will prosecute the women for destroying his property. Drury Davis, the man who ran the saloon, has nothing to say. sigh: bonds to an equal amount, refusing this scrip.

The sugar men secured possession of the bonds and immediately disappeared. Mr. Spencer came down to prevent the registration by the auditor of the and Norman are the towns in Oklahoma free of contest. just completed, have a capacity of forty tons of cement and plaster of Paris per The latest gentleman mentioned as gov ernor of Oklahoma is ex-Governor Os- born, of Kansas. day.

It is hardly safe to take a pleasure trip bonds, which have not yet been presented, claiming that the transaction was fraudulent. Mr. McCarthy will not register them, so they will be worthless in the market. do you explain that discrimination?" out from Atchison. One is liable to be The Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians will be visited by the Cherokee commis sioners next month.

accused of attempting to defraud his creditors. The Emporia maidens are sighing over the scarcity of beaus. The girls have to Washington, Feb. 12. In the house yesterday Mr.

Cannon, of Illinois, endeavored to choke off the- debate on the adoption of the new rules by moving that it close at 1 o'clock to-day, and that the previous question be ordered at 4 o'clock. The Democrats, under the lead of Mr. Springer, protested vigorously against stopping the discussion in so abrupt a manner and in this they were joined by many Republicans, the test vote being 149 to 58. The Democrats were jubilant over their victory and as Mr. Springer rose to make a motion he was greeted by many of his colleagues as being in charge of the proposed new code.

Mr. Springer then offered a resolution providing that general debate shall proceed until adjournment to-day, after which the code shall be considered under the five minute rule until 5 o'clock Friday, when the previous question shall be considered as ordered. This resolution was adopted without objection, and, Mr. Cannon good naturedly crossed over to the Democratic side and congratulated hi3 colleague upon his success. Mr.

Hatch, of Missouri, said that he would not attempt to argue in detail the radical and violent changes in the rules. He made war on the report as an entirety. He was opposed to the report in toto because it was a partisan question, because it came from the Republican side of the house, representing the Republican party. He deprecated any harsh language addressed to the speaker of the house that did not include in their strictures the entire Republican party. The speaker of the house bad as he was was no worse than his party.

Gentlemen on the other side said that the rights of the minority were to discuss and amend; but as far as the Democratic minority was concerned, one of their rights was to protect the treasury. Mr. Funston, of Kansas, suggested that the Democratic minority should have protected the treasury from a Democratic sergeant-at-arms. Mr. Hatch replied that he had been one of the victims, but that if the gentleman from Kansas did not know any better than to assert by direction or insinuation that any man on the Democratic side of the chamber was responsible for the bad action of a subordinate in the sergeant-at-arms' office, he had better go back to Kansas and stay the rest of his natural life.

Pending further action, the house took a recess until 11 o'clock. A pension board has been established at Kingfisher, consisting of Drs. Over-street, Shive and Holmes. attend entertainments in squads on this The railroader finally had to admit the truth of all that was charged but insolently added in the words of Boss Tweed: 'What are you going to do about it?" Hot words followed but a mutual friend interfered, and the parting shot to the representative of monopoly was: "We propose to elect a legislature next time that will pass laws preventing such infamous robbery. That's what we will do about it." classes not protected are those who would seem to need it most the laboring men and the farming population." The bishop reviews the constitution of the Farmers' Alliance and holds.that no Catholic can join the order, because it is secret and because it virtually has a religion and a chapalin of its own.

This latter point he discusses at length and declares that if the Alliance will drop its xeligions aspect Catholics can join it and work for the "rood of the farming classes. account. A few Kansas papers have apprehen lhe Key. Bernard Kelley, pension sions that Oklahoma will be a rival of Kansas in county seat wars. agent at Topeka, says that his office is- burses more money than any other in the Lots of people would like to know just umieu oiates.

where the new bridge across the Arkansas in the territory is going to be. A woman in Topeka has become insane inrough Drooding over her illegal con Several settlers and numerous horses sorting for years with a man to whom were drowned in the South Canadian during the high water of the past few weeks. she was not married. The Immigration Committee. Wichita, Feb.

17. The following circular of information has been trans- At Washington. Washington, Feb.13. Secretary Blaine resumed his official duties at the state department for the first time since liis recent bereavements, and one of his first acts was the appointment of Mr. S.

A. Brown, of Washington, as chief clerk of the department, vice Mr. J. F. Lee, nominated as secretary of legation at Rio de Janeiro.

The house committee on territories decided to report favorably Mr. Carr's bill for the admission of the territory of Wyoming as a state. The president sent to the senate the following nomination: Emory C. Humphrey to be surveyor-general of Colorado. The president has appointed Littleton S.

Crum supervisor of the first, Samuel R. Burch of the second and W. E. Chase of the third census districts. C.

Sadler has been appointed postmaster at South Haven, Sumner county, Kansas, vice F. A. Hunt, resigned. Adam Brenner, who died at Doninhan The text of the first sermon preached the other day, owned the largest orchard -mitted to the several county organiza in Oklahoma was "In the name of God we will raise up our banners." Psalm in Kansas, and annually manufactured tions: 80,000 gallons of wine. XX-O.

Kaxsas Immigration Bureau, 3 A daily bulletin should be established A number of farmers will plant pota Executive Office, Wichita. Feb. 17. 1880 to chronicle the new farmers' alliances. toes next week, and the Frisco Herald To the directors of the Kansas Immigration Bu There are now 1,500 in Kansas, an in wants to know how this sounds to the crease af 700 over the last report.

cold-pinched northerners. The estimated gross earnings of the The Oklahoma City Journal wants it understood that some sixty or seventy Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad for January 1890, were $648,000, an increase thousand ot us are getting mighty weary over the same month last year of of this everlasting "statu quo." ooo. Guthrie Capital: While recognizing that The commissioners of Crawford county recently allowed $136 for crow scalps. A Deadly Blow. Dallas, Feb.

15. Jake Kilrain and his sparring troop exhibited at the opera house Thursday night. After some uneventful sparring Tom James, of Dallas, encountered Bansra, the combination champion light weight, for $25, conditioned that James should stay four rounds. Bansra had it his own way from the first. In the fourth round Bansra struck James in the neck, knocking him limp on the stage.

The show continued, no one supposing that James was hurt seriously. When the entertainment had about concluded Muldoon announced that James was unconscious and called for a physician. Bansra was searched for by officers, but had fled. James died at 12:30 this morning. Kilrain cried like a child.

The entire combination is held for murder. It is supposed James' neck was broken. "One doctor says it was paralysis of the heart. Bansra returned yesterday morning and surrendered himself to the officers. Jaine? was a well-built, muscular young man of 22.

Muldoon has paid the doctor's bill, $30, and contributed $100 to defray the funeral expenses. The remains of James will be shipped to Denver for interment. The deceased leaves a young wife, to whom Kilrain says Thursday night's receipts will be given. Kilrain and party, except Bansra, left for New Orleans at 8 o'clock. "We go straight to New Orleans," said Cleary, "but we expect to come back to Texas." Oklahoma is in need of laws, thinks that there is such a thing as crowding congress with too many petitions of petty purposes.

Over were killed. It is said that men and boys brought them in by the Blatters at the Capital. Washington, Feb. 17. Gov.

Lewis Wolf ey, of Arizona, and Gen. Nelson A. Miles appeared before the home committee on Indian affairs, with regard to the proposed removal of the Apaches to Fort Sill. Gov. Wolfley presented a large number of clippings from western' papers which he said showed that the sentiment of the people was that these Indians should not be returned to the west.

Gen. Miles said that he thought the people of Arizona and New Mexico had great cause for apprehension if the Indians were to be removed to Fort Sill. There never was such terror in Arizona as when the Indians were there and the people were never so happy as they are now when the Indians are away. Representative Struble, from the committee on territories, ha3 reported favorable the bill to organize the territory of Oklahoma. Representative Anderson, of Kansas, introduced a bill in the house appropriating $250,000 for the purchase of a residence in or near Washington for the president of the United States.

Fourth-class postmasters have been appointed as follows in Kansas: Lay, Montgomery county, J. W. Miller, vice A. H. Sutton, resigned; Myers Valley, Pottawatomie county, J.

Harvey, vice J. W. Smith, removed. The executive committee of the national association of Democratic clubs met at the Ebbitt house Saturday afternoon, Mr. Chauncey F.

Black presiding. Encouraging reports were received from all sections of the country and a resolution was adopted to co-operate with the Democratic congressional committee in its work in the coming campaign. The senate committee on -privilges and elections has begun the investigation of the credentials of the several claimants for seats in the senate from Montana. sack luff. It is said that a late ruling of the secre Will Get There in Time.

Washington, Feb. 13. The house committee on territories has decided to report favorably, without amendments, the bill introduced yesterday by Representative Perkins, of Kansas, to organize the territory of Oklahoma, and to establish courts in the Indian territory. The bill, as introduced -by Representative Perkins, contained various amendments which the Judge Parker, the United States dis tary of the interior classes the Kaw Indi trict judge of Arkansas, who is spoken of as the probable successor of Judge Brewer, ans with the five civilized tribes. In this event the Kaws will elect officers and place the legislative machinery in working order.

has sentenced during his time eighty men to be hanged. Morgan and Dorchester. Washington, Feb. 12. For an hour and a half this afternoon the senate in executive session listened to speeches in opposition to the confirmation of the nominations of Thomas J.

Morgan, to be commissioner of Indian affairs, and of Daniel Dorchester, to be superintendent of Indian schools. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, was the first speaker! He devoted him Kingfisher county farmers have sold "The New York Sun," says a western enough bones and cordwood this winter Kansas exchange, "may De a good newspaper, but it doesn't know much about committee had decided upon when it had different Oklahoma bills under consideration. It was thought that action upon the bill would be facilitated by having it introduced regularly in the house by some member and then adopted by the committee instead of reporting it as an original measure with the committee. spelling. It spells three places." to enable them to have plenty to eat and to build comfortable houses on their claims.

The market price of bones has been $9 a ton and at least twenty-five car loads have been shipped from there with-three months. self largely to a review of General Mor The Kansas weekly papers are unusually bright and newsy of late. There is les3 gan's military career, which he. declared to be of such a nature that it should prevent his confirmation. Senator Vest fol grumbling and fewer slaps at delinquent subscribers and contentment shines out of Oklahoma City Journal: The colored nearly all the editorials.

reau: We report to you the result of the meeting held at Omaha, February 11, 1890. There were present 105 delegates, representing the entire state of Kansas. A carefully prepared memorial was presented to the railroad association, asking for assistance in our immigration movement, especially for a half fare rate to explorers and immigrants coming to Kansas. The a.sociation heartily endorsed our request and are perfecting plans for these rates. Our convention, after conference with the railroads, in order to be ready for business at once, determined to publish a book, to consist of 120 or 130 pages, with a good state map.

The first twenty-five pages shall be devoted to matter describing the natural resources, climate and general excellencies of the state. In addition to this each county shall be accorded a page upon the following conditions: First To consist of not over 750 words, and not to occupy more than one page, and to be statements that are true concerning the county. Second Copy for the same must be printed and at the central office by February 25. Third To be accompanied by the payment of the county's proportion of the money necessary for publication. Fourth Also to be accompanied by the money of the former assessment, unless it has been already paid, which was $1 for every 1,000 population in a county, and for the purpose of the actual expenses of the central office, and not to apply on the pulication of the book.

One hundred thousand books were ordered printed. The estimated cost is 4 cents a copy, but the contract is to be let to the lowest responsible bidder in the state. A careful estimate has been made of the number of counties that will participate in the first edition, which is seventy-five, thus placing the ratio at one book for every ten of population in a county; thus a county of ten thousand will be required to take one thousand books. The counties will be arranged in the book in alphabetical order. All estimates of population are made from the sixth biennial report of the state board of agriculture.

The Immigration Bureau has alreadv settlers in the black jacks north of the Cimarron have sold the Rock Island road 5,000 ties and 500 cords of wood. Add to this several thousand fence posts and as many thousand cords of wood that they Gov. JLarrabee Has "Views. An old soldier at Leavenworth became intoxicated and jumped into the Missouri river. He was rescued from the river, but the latest reports showed that the Des Moines, Feb.

15. Governor 'Lar-rabee's message is a very lengthy docu lowed. He discussed Dr. Dorchester's policy of graded schools for the Indians and criticized it as wholly impracticable owing to the. nature of the Indians.

While declaring hiniself to be anything but a catholic in sentiment, coming as he did from old Scotch Preybyterian stock, he felt that the senate should not consent to the confirmation of officials who were so obnoxious to a large body of citizens. whisky still had the grip on him. ment. It touches upon almost every sub' ject of interest to the state. The gover have sold taeir private neighbors, both north and south of them, and the reports of starvation in the black, jacks get a black eye.

Bad People Over There. London, Feb. 13. Elizabeth Vincent, a young and attractive remanded at Richmond on the charge of attempting to murder Lewis Henry Isaacs, member of parliament for Newington, Walmouth, in October last. Mr.

Isaacs seduced Miss Vincent when she was only 15 years of age and has since allowed her 400 a year. The prisoner inveigled Isaacs into her house and then ordered him to sign a number of checks. He refused, whereupon she shot him in the arm. The bullet was npt removed and in consequence of the wound Mr. Isaacs' fingers nor dwells at considerable length on the But four states in this nation publish more papers than Kansas.

They are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio" and Illinois. question of prohibition. He does not be Guthrie Capital: Messrs. Perkins and Ueve that a high license policy or one Kansas' list includes 52 dailies, 3 semi- which he says will leave only the "re Plumb have both introduced bills one in the house and one in the senate either of weeklies 710 weeklies, 3 semi-monthlies, 27 monthlies, 2 bi-monthlies a total of spectable" saloon in existence, will ever which would meet our immediate de be sanctioned by the people of Iowa 797. mands.

Both bills are good and would "The gilded saloon," he considers more dangerous than the "squalid, outlawed, K. C. Star: The city clerk at Abilene, are paralyzed. UDOn the advice of Attorney-General Kel 'V logg, refused to allow two Chinamen, whisky dive." The governor then enters into a long argument against the licens A lively female Horse Thief. Joliet, Feb.

17. Sheriff Silver, of Rock Island, landed at the prison Saturday morning, accompanied by a lovely young lady, who might have been taken for his dauther. but she was a female horse-thief, named Lowie Sherden, and only 18 years old. She had engaged in the business of horse-stealing in Rock Island County, and was convicted, but on account of her youth was let off with a year in prison. In addition to her fondness for fast horses Lowie had also a prediction for fast men, and they caused her downfall.

who had been naturalized, to register for be acceptable to our people. Of course there is quite a diversity of opinion as to the relative merits of the two bills, and while some argue that Perkin's bill is the more suitable, others advance the opinion that the Plumb bill would be better for all purposes. the municipal election. Isn't it a trifle latA in thfi rlav for Kansas to be e-oinsr ing of saloons in any form. Where the law has not been enforced the blame, he thinks, lies with the executive officers.

A recommendation is made that the law be amended so as to prevent undue search of back on the long-haired men? A Tahlequal special says: In answer George Madison Tracey and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anni private houses. Will Take Off the Veneering. Paris, Feb. 13. The Duke of Orleans, son of the Count and Countess of Paris, who came to Paris last week with the avowed intention cf enlisting in the French army and who was arrested on the charge of violating the law exiling from France all pretenders to the French throne was again arraigned before the tribunal of the Seine.

He was adjudged guilty of violating the law and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. versary at Atchison Thursday. They were married in Fayette, ebruary to Chief Mayes' letter to President Harrison, asking to have all intruders removed from the Cherokee nation, the interior department at Washington has sent a special agent to investigate the matter. The agent, Geo. V.

Parker, ar The New Crusade. 6, 1840, have had eleven children, only two of whom are living, and they have Kansas City, Feb. 15. A special lived at Atchison for thirty-six years. from Lathrop, says: The temper rived in the city to-day and will at once A Kansan by the name of Gillock, near Hutchinson, three years ago ance crusaders met to-day at the residence of Mrs.

J. S. Stucky and formed a regular commence his work. Some startling de The Old Man Was In Earnest. Decatur, Feb.

12. It is not often that a father arranges for the marriage of a child without the hitter's knowledge, but that is what Justice A. J. this city, did on Sunday evening for his daughter Dollie. The justice had detected on Saturday that the girl's associations with her lover, Fred Mills, had not been entirely platonic, and promptly secured for them a marriage license.

When Mill3 called yesterday evening to escort the girl to church a Methodist preacher was present and Justice Hill ordered that the couple stand and be pronounced husband aud wife. Mills understood that the old gentleman was master of the situation, and obeyed without a muruier. The bride is a school girl, 15 years old, and the groom is about 21. Both are of excellent family connections, and the event has produced a "great sensation. They Die nard.

Salt Lake City, Feb. 12. The average Gentile majority is about 800 and the Mormons are claiming that gigantic frauds were perpetrated. The Deseret News "The municipal election of this city was carried by- the Liberals (Gentiles) yesterday by a majority of 800. The processes by which this result was attained are not fair.

The successful whose the Edmunds law, was the entire manipulation of the election business, ran special trains over the Rio Grande western railway and registered gangs of men clear to the Colorado iinf who had not "the Qualifications of made a fish pond covering an acre of velopments are looked for, and it is expected that serious differences between organization by electing Mrs. C. A. Kin met with unparalelled success which com ground and stocked it with German carp. ney leader of the crusade.

It was deter Somewhat of Liar. Kansas City, Feb. 17. The Associated Press' has received a dispatch from L. II.

Hutchinson, mayor of Harper as follows: "The dispatch announcing a riot at narper is an absolute falsehood, and the person that wrote it is a liar of the first order. The election was to vote $20,000 terminal bonds to O. II. G. railroad.

Only nine opposition votes were cast and there was no ballot box stolen, no riot, no fighting, no general quarreling." the United btates and the nation will He is now selling about 400 pounds of mined hereafter to enforce the law governing the sales of liquor in a manner arise. mands the admiration or adjoining states. Let us move forward with diligence. We shall succeed. Hale Cowley.

Quicker that the Rope Route. Albany, N. Feb. 13. The commis-, sion appointed to test the electrical execution apparatus in state prisons after experiments in the institutions at Sing Sing, Auburn and Dannemor find that each fish per month at four to eight cents per pound.

He estimates the product of his The Yorkville, (S. Enquire thus similar to that employed a week ago, when the stocks of several saloonists were de' fish pond at about 3,000 pounds, worth describes one of the schemes to induce the colored race to start for Oklahoma: The Secretary Kansas Immigratian Bureau. stroyed. An address to the women of the $350. one of the apparatuses can be used suc manner in which the immigration agents induce the negroes to leave their Caro The Atchison Globe says that the A 3flht With Desperadoes.

woodman lives upon chops; the surveyor, steaks: abusive editors, roasts: the sultan, Paris, Feb. 17. Deputy Marshal cessfully, and that death by electricity can be accomplished within four seconds. There is, in their opinion, no cause for imagining that there will ever be any failure of results. country was drawn up, urging them to drive out the saloonists by force.

Saloonkeeper Ward, one of the sufferers by the crusaders' raid, has not sworn out the warrants for the arrest of the women as he threatened to do. It is believed he will not go to law over the matter at all. turkey; the barber, hare; the shoemaker, W. H. Carr, who arrived here with R.

lina homes is through the medinni of highly colored circulars. The first picture represents a negro with his family leaving a broken down cabin home in the old field. Each member of the family is Everheart and Ben Cornelius, charged soles; the orator, tongue; the switchman, frogs: the policeman, beets; the jeweler, carrots; the writer, cereals; the under laden with the simple household effects. taker, berries; the botonist, flour; the The second picture is taken five years af compositor, pie. Better Than a Bond.

Topeka, Feb. 17. The litigation over the water-works here developed quite a sensational incident Saturday. It was charged that local influences had prevented the Topeka banks from assisting in making the bond for Coffin Stanton and the Atlantic Trust New York, and their attorney laid down the amount, $75,000, in greenbacks upon the clerk's desk. The security was accepted by Judge Foster.

terward and represents the negro in his new western home. lie is standing, hoe in hand, in his lot, surrounded by frisky A letter is published from Senator Plumb to a Kansas farmer, in which he says: "I know hard times have been with arson, reports that on Monday, while himself and posse were trying to arrest Jim Horbolt, who is charged with murder, and Wilman Brummett, about seventy-five miles west of Ardmore, on Wild Horse Creek, a running fight ensued, in which Brummett was wounded in the back. He ran a mile into the woods, where he dismounted, gave his horse to Horbolt and secreted himself. Horbolt outran his pursuers and escaped, and Brummett could not be found, so the officers were forced to abandon the chase. It is believed that Brummett Is either dead or will die.

with our farmers, first without crops, May Be Gobbled by Gould. Kansas City, Feb. 13. The rumoi was current some days ago that Jay Gould was about to purchase the Kansas City, Wyandotte Northern railway, extending from this city to Beatrice. Color of truth is given to the rumor as S.

H. H. Clark, Gould's lieutenant, has started on a tour of inspection of the road. The Northwestern, people do not deny that Mr. Gould has made overtures for the purchase of the road.

and then when there is a good crop the prices are so low as to be wholy unre- mules, fat hogs ana nne chickens. The is that of a comfortable two-story dwelling with a beautiful lawn in front, on which a young darkey is cutting the grass with a patent rolling machine. At the gate a horse attached to a fine buggy is hitched. On the front porch, seated munerative. I know that a portion, at least, of the difficulty grows out of an inadequate supply of the currency, and The Cattle Quarantine.

Chicago, Feb. 15. The Drovers' Journal learns from Calvin Pierson, of the bureau of animal industry, representative now at the stock yards, that the government authorities have decided on the new quarantine line for splenic or Texas fever. The new line starts at the southeast corner of Kansas, running due west along the southern boundary to No Man's land, then directly south to Cotle county, Texas. In other words, the new quarantine line places under the ban all of the Indian Territory aud all of Texas except the Panhandle portion lying north of the thirty-fourth parallel.

this part congress can and ought to rem in a large and comiorraDie rocKing chair, edy." can be seen the pompous looking colored man, supposed to be the same "poor nig J. Graham, of Emporia, formerly a newspaper man of that city, has been ger" who lelt his JNortn uaronna home a Reconstructed. Topeka, Feb. 15. Governor Humphrey has appointed Benjamin F.

Simpson, of Topeka, J. C. Strang, of Lamed, and George S. Green, or Manhattan, supreme court commissioners. The appointment will take effect March 1, and the terms of offices will cover a period of three years.

He also appointed Samuel Parke, of WinQeld, a member of the state board of pardons. few years before. The pictures hit them studying the reason why so much Kansas farming is unprofitable, and finds it in the electors, being non-residents." The Nickle in the Slot. Kansas City, Feb. 12.

A special to the Star from St. Joe says the entire force in the employ of the People's Street Railway company has struck. The strikers number thirty-two and were all conductors. The cause of their grievance was that the company instructed them to use a new cash fare register shaped like a coffee pot and so designated by them. The company gave orders for the men to present the muzzle of this peculiar contrivance to the passenger, who would drop his nickle in the slot.

This the men resented. No disturbance has occured. The strikers' places have been filled with new men who use the new register. The Red -Eyed law. Topeka, 12.

George E. Sutton kind of crops planted. The value of win ter wheat averaged $4 per acre; corn $6.10 After Allison's ealp. Makshalltown, Feb. 13.

In the State assembly, Knights of Labor, yesterday a long debate was precipitated by a report from the committee on resolutions denouncing Senator William B. Allison as a monopolist and demanding his defeat by the legislature. A member gave notice he would offer a substitute. A number of strong Allison men in the assembly will make a fight for him. per acre; broom corn $1.28 per acre; tobac co $66 per acre; cotton $22.14 per acre.

Becoming Belligerent. Gainesville, Feb. 17. The Chickasaw legislature in secret session at Tishominego, I. on Saturday passed a resolution appropriating several thousand dollars with which to equip the tribal militia.

The governor of the nation will now immediately order the militia to eject all non-citizens who refuse to pay the annual permit tax. Serious trouble is anticipated, for the non-citizens have expressed their intention of resisting eviction with all the force they can muster. Mr. Graham thinks that the farmers of the southern tier of Kansas counties ought to devote their land entirely to cotton. Elmira Gazette: That corn sells for 13 cents per bushel and coal costs 20 cents per bushel may seem to justif the burn They Must Get Out.

Washington, Feb. 17. It is stated on fairly good authority that it is President Harrison's intention to issue a proclamation during the present month ordering the Cherokee Land and Cattle company to vacate the Cherokee strip. It is believed that the president intends to give the cattle company until Sept. 1st next to get ont of the territory, bag and baggage.

The World's Fair. Washington, 15. As predicted the sub-committee of the world's fair committee made a report to the full committee to-day, and the latter immediately reported the bill to the house. Two bills were reported, one locating the fair at Washington and one at either New York, Chicago or St. Louis.

The method of procedure recommended is that on the completion of debate on bills the clerk of the house shall call the roll of members who shall name the site they prefer. If no selection be made on the first call the roll is to be called again and again until a site has been selected. ing of corn for coal in Missouri and Kan has filed in Justice Chesony's court a L. T71 1 1 sas. But it does also seem as if there is Will Invest in Xou3 iana.

N. Feb. 13. The great lottery scheme suddenly collapsed yesterday without a single note of warning. The friends of the bill in the house moved its indefinite postponement and carried the motion.

They then advised the senate of the death of the measure. something wrong in the conditions wThich sworn compia.nt against x. jr. uner, secretary, and Richard Hines, president tha rinfnnot Toneka Insurance com permit empty coal bins in Missouri and Kansas and empty meal bags in Penn Alleged Murderer Arrested. Kansas Cm, Feb.

17. A special from St. Joseph says: Sheriff Towne, of nolt county, passed through the city this morning on his way home from the Ozark mountains, having In charge Thomas Fee, whom he captured three days since. Fee is charged with the killing of William sylvania, while farmers in the former are square between the eyes, and pretty soon there is a general exodus. Oklahoma City Journal: Farmers are like all other classes in respect to dropping into ruts.

If a cotton raiser of Texas should emigrate to the north pole the first thing he would do would be to prepare the ground for a crop of cotton, and so the Esquimaux would probably be found endeavoring to propagate a crop of lichens under the equator. There is no kind of ground the coming season but sod, and it is well known to farmers that not once in ten years may they reasonably expect to raise a crop of corn on such ground. When we say sod ground, we mean sod ground. It is not turf that has been pastured so closely that most of it is killed out, but the toughest kind of sod that cannot be cultivated until the grass roots have had time to rot. Broom corn does well in such ground without any cultivation.

Four acres will yield a ton of straw which at its lowest will bring $50. There is a great deal of hard work attending the harvesting of the crop, but by planting at intervals a small family can easily take care of fifteen acres or more, and yet have ample time besides to do all the oilu-r work on a farm. A cash outlay of dollars will secure all the machiin-ry necessary. There is not a fortune in broom corn, but there Is ready money in it when no other crop will yield a dollar. burning coal for fuel and miners in the latter are idle.

What is the matter with the theory of exchange? The Sparrer Set Free. Dallas, Feb. 17. Brazina, the light weight pugilist who killed Tom James in a sparring match Friday night, has been discharged on the ground that there is no law to indict a man for killing another in a licensed exhibit. The counties of Sedgwick, Sumner, Thorp, whose body was discovered some Oregon.

months since in the woods near Cowley and Butler, the "Big Four," pro Thirteen Cent Corn Did It. Sauna, Feb. 13. John L. Geb-hart, a Pennsylvania German, was found dead in his house to-day.

He had blown the entire top of his head off with a shotgun, the muzzle having been placed in his mouth. Despondency is supposed to have been the cause. duced last Tear 29.114.iJ02 bushels of corn and 4,765,250 bushels of wheat enough pany, charging them with having made false reports to the superintendent of insurance by omitting the $4,300 note due and payable to Mrs. Lizzie Binford, from the list of liabilities. The additional charge of perjury also stands against Fuller.

ttl from Aberdeen. Washington, Feb. 12. Henry J. Fanz, the victim of the recent Aberdeen, mob, arrived in Washington yesterday in company with a post-office inspector.

Chief Rathbone was requested some time ago by the department of justice to find Fans and bring him to Washington. Fanz had a long conference with Attorney General Uiller to-day. to load 86,698 cars. These same counties have 50,311 horses, 8,188 mules, 193,759 cattle, including milch cows, 149,908 hogs Pension Legislation. Washington, Feb.

15. Two pension bills of importance have passed the senate. The first repeals the sections of the revised statutes which require that a claim for pension by a state militiaman for disability incurred whilclemporarily on duty must be filed before July, 1874. The other provides that -the oath required in pension or bounty eases may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes. ana sheep.

Butler leads the state The law Sustained. Denveb, Feb. 17. Tfie state supreme court has rendered an opinion in the Heinsen liquor case affirming the decision of the lower court that the state has jurisdiction over saloons in this city. The case has been bitterly contested and the decision may result in the closing of all saloons next Sunday.

Behind the Bars. Wichita, Feb. 17. The United States marshal has placed in jail here Ed. Bel--den and Mr.

and" Mrs. Charles Hawley, charged with the murder of Chas. Grant on his claim near Edmond, Ok. The evidence against them is very strong. Entered for the Race.

Topeka, Feb. 13. Captain Henry Booth, chairman of the Republican state central committee, has announced himself as a candidate for congress from the Eleventh district. in sheep by more than double, having 34,245, Cowley county second with 16,000. We doubt whether there is another locality of equal area on the continent, if in the world, that can excel this..