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R.R. Employes' Companion from Ottawa, Kansas • 1

R.R. Employes' Companion from Ottawa, Kansas • 1

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A 5 i EMPLOYES' hi mim mm TOPE OTTAWA, CHANUTE, WELLINGTON, KAK iSAte, NOVEMBER 16, 1889. Sample Copies on Application. $1,50 PER YEAR. Series 2. No.

11. Series 2 Eiifls Jan. 1, 1889. "We believe that it is vital to the temper ANAECHIST CLEMENS. HOPEFUL SIGNS.

of the business will be turned over to other houses in this city, and ttra remainder will STATE NEWS. LATEST NEWS. ance reform that the principle of prohibiten be made the dominant issue in American polit ics. We th ere re pi ve our approval be looked alter by the parent nouses in tot, to that party only which declares its platform for prohibition in state and nation Louis and Chicago. PeterH.

Tiernan wi 1 sustain a loss approximating $5,000. Of this $25,000 is on the buildings and $40,000 on stock and plant. He bnd an insurance on the building of $19,000, and on the plant I opeka'a Orator at the Chicago Anarchists' Meeting; Where He Throws Hot Shot at Irishmen Who are Municipal Officers and Policemen. Business Continues to Improve Speculation Except in Trust Stock, Which. Meets MS ith a Back Set.

Condensed or theConvenlonca of Hurried Readers. and stands in action for its application to law. II! The minority report was brought in by and stock, He had his employ about fifty men and girls. There is no forty cents for inspection and forty cents for out inspection, a total of eighty cents per car against fifty before this law went into effect, this grain goes east, bearing the stamp of Missouri inspection. When the movement of corn begins the receipts will be greatly increased.

The Kansas producer should understand this, and Kansas should use every effort to induce and encourage capitalists to build elevators in Kansas City, Kansas, that the state may receive some benefit from this very large business. 1 i Mrs. Mat tie M. Bailey, of the Iowa delega doubt but that he will rebuild at once and tion, and reported as follows: "That the recent amendment contest demonstrates the put in a new plant. His business consisted largely of railroad printing, ruling and Excellent Trade in Progress in the Interior Fair Collections and Ample Supply of Money Cotton Oil Stockholders Caught.

No Other Race, He Says, Stand so low as to Accept Positions Which Oppress the Poor; and That They Will Obey the Pope. need of more persistent and more persua sive educational temperance work among binding, and was one of the largest estab lishments of the kind in the city. all classes of the results of these several contests having given us practical proof that success in the effort for the over- throwal of the liquor traffic can only be assured where the intelligent convictions of From Concordia by -wire The Concordia Hardware and Cornice company, one of the leading concerns of northwestern Kansas, has failed. Liabilities not known. Garden City Herald: The public schools of Garden City have an attendance of 620, and the schools of Finnev county, outside of Garden City, have an attendance of 634.

John Dillon has been playiDg in the principal cities of Kansas of late. Kansas towns are getting to be furnished with good opera houses to an extent that surprises old timers who look around the state. Liberal Leader: The Southwest Chronicle has made its appearance again with Miss Lisle Lane as editress and publisher. The paper looks well and is well edited. Judging from the Reception at the tholic Centennial.

Baltimobe, November A great reception was tendered to the visiting prelates and other distinguished persons at the hall STOCK AND FA the people are in favor of prohibition, and that defeat is certain where such convictions are lac kiv e. New Tokk, November 11. R. G. Dun Co.

'8 weekly review of trade says: The business outlook continues to improve. All the news this week is favorable for the public; even the decision adverse to the sugar trust and exposure and proposed reorganization in cotton oils are hopeful signs. The monetary situation has decidedly improved here and abroad, and while the Bank of England rate is still held Majority report wa? adopted by an almost unanimous vote. The Jowa delegates alone A report from Hunter's station, nix miles from the St. Louis National stock yards.

Bays that eighty cattle have died I hare th Texas fever. Berlin solialists have decided upon a general cessation of work on May 1 to make a demonstration in favor of eight hours work per day. The Paris exposition has been formally closed, but as there are many tickets outstanding the buildings will be kent open for several weeks. Warren G. Sayre, the Indianian who was last appointed on the Cherokee commission, has gone to Washington to receive his instructions.

Nothing has been heard at Washington to base the rumor upon which came from Mexico, that Minister Ryan would resign. Daniel Sully, the aclor. while at Kansas City, received news, from h.s attorneys, of the death of an uncle in Ireland, who leaves him an immense property. Mrs. Caroline Donovan, of Baltimore.

stood in favor of the minor. ty report, lhe Iowa delegation withdrew from the conven tion, the last session of the present conven tion. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the chairman of the delegation, arose and read a 1.

ng Marquette Tribune: D. N. Myers threshed about twenty acres of red Texas oats, the first of the week that averaged 72J bushels to the acre. Oklahoma City, Chief: A man on a claim near Guthrie has just gathered 125 bushels of beans from six acres of sod. He sold the beans at $2.50 per bushel in Guthrie, and has cleared about $300 from his little speculation.

Chicago, November 14. In the Chicago Tribune appears the following: "The police force of America is the standing army of the Pope of Home." G. C. Clemens, the anarchist lawyer from Topeka, Kansas, was addressing a joint meeting of the Albert K. Parsons assembly, the Arbeiter bund, and the Jewish section of Internationals at Waverly halL He overlooked no resource for inciting the hatred of his hearers, who were composed of Germans, Bohemians, Poles and Russians, against government, and used the words quoted with great effect in a tirade on the police system of the large American cities, stirr ng the race and free thinking prejudices of his hearers to the highest pitch.

"The policemen of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and in tact all of our large cities, he continued, "are almost protest, after which the fohd Iowa delega tion went out of the hall with Mrs. Foster Miss Willard announced that the outcome had been long expected; that the patience and forbearance of the convention bad first number, it is independent in poli tics. Osage City People: The Osage Car at 5 per money is quoted in open market at 2 per cent. Most of the increase in payments comes from legitimate business, for speculation is still restricted except in trust stock. These began a rally, but were met with the decision adverse to the sugar trust, and the disclosure that over a half a miliio 1 has been lost for cotton oil stockholders in attempts to sustain the market.

Other securities have been stronger since the election. The re equal in history. Harrison and Cleveland. The beans were dropped in a furrow jppe and the sod turned on. bon company loaded fifty cars of coal on the last day of October and nineteen on the first day of November.

If a sud aged 44 years, has given $100,030 to John Hopkins university to found a chair of English literature. occupied by the congj ess. The city is beautifully illuminated during the reception, particularly Cardinal Gibbons' residence and the homes ot Catholic laity in every quarter. The cathedral sepmed outside a blaze of e'ectric lights while the interior was radiant w.th fifty huge arc lamps. During the reception, while ex-Congressman Roberts, of Maryland, was delivering an address of welcome, two Indian chiefs, in their gayest attire, were seen making their way through the crinrson vestured prelates to where 6tood Cardinal Gibbons.

With solemn mein the Indians reached for the hand of the noted ecclesiastic and bending low, silently kiss the arch Ipiscopal ring, while the spectators stood in wonder, finally breaking into cheers. The Indians were Chief Joseph, of the Flatheadsof Montana, and Chief White Bird, of the Sioux, Dakota, both Catholics. They were given seats of honor beside the cardinal. Following the address of welcome came a reply on behalf of the prelates by Archbishop Elder. The most extraordinary scene of the evening came at the conclusion of the reception when the prelates, headed by the rdinal, made the circuit of the hall, shaking hands with the people right and left in the narrow passage cleared for them by stalwart arms.

The display of enthusiastic devot'on by the crowds was probab never equalled in this country, if indeed anywhere. IN CANADA, Washington, D. November 9. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland, after leaving the Bayard-Clymer wedding, drove over to the White house to pay their respects to President and Mrs.

Harrison. An usher Pawnee Bock Leader: Larned has been puffing up their fine -celery. We can down their best, "twelve bunches den cold snap comes, they will be prepared for it. The miners all have full i Alexander Sullivan, the Chicago lawyer, without- exception Catholic Irishmen, and whenever the pope decrees it they will rally ported agreement about western rates nave implicated in the Cronm murder, has been thirteen pounds," and not half try. time.

a good elf ect, but the tone is not enthusi opened the carriage dcor, and in reply to a around the papal banner aud march against re eased from bond, as the grand jury failed to indict liim- astic. Andy Galbreath brought us in one stalk Question Mr. (JJeveland. said that Mrs. Marion Record: The U.

S. Express the United States nag. which they now pro that weighed six unds and measured Speculation in wheat was temporarily stimulated by an unofficial publication by fess to serve. The country 1 atters itself All trains on the Denver Fort Worth Harrison was New York. Mrs.

Cleveland thereupon handled the usher her card, with company decided to accede to County Mr. Dodge, the government statistician, that it is no anger of such a decree. But there is. In his circular letter condemn Attorney King's demand for an inspec three feet in height, having over twenty stems on the stalk. Andy has a big lot the re uest that it be gn en to Mrs.

road were stopped by snow. Ral road cuts in parts of New Mexico and Colorado are blocked full of dead cattle and sheep. putting the probable yield at tion of their books, and so Agent Swift bushels. here the paper had lert his hands of it. ing the erection of a statue to truno, the pope ia x.ents the loss of the civil power in son on her return.

Mr. Cleveland inquired for the president, and upon being informed that he was in, alighted and was shown into was released from custody last week before the official returns indicating The St. Petersburg Svee siys that China larger yield was made up, no one seems to We take it that this is a concession that Italy, which Emanuel wres.ed lrom him, and exp esses the wish to regain it. He Emporia Bepublican: Hon. Wm.

is arming her troops on the Russian frontier with repeating rifles, and that the soldiers are being drilled by German officers. the law conferring judicial powers upon have asked. But the lowest est mate would leave the supply for export much beyond may some day wish civil power in America, Martindale and J. T. Acheson, of this city, have purchased and are shipping the green parlor where he was immediately joined by the president.

The president and Mr. Cleveland had a pleasant chat together, which it is understood that the former made a good natured reference to the recent elec and when he does his minions on the police county attorneys is sound. the largest foreign demand in recent years, The anarchist demonstration at Chicago. and yet the result for the week has been force will be ready to help him get it." Mr. Clemens then proceeded to tongue to the new Santa Fe stock yards at this place, to be fed in this vicinity during tions which Mr.

Cleveland answered in tna lash the Irish "copper" in a lively way. Macksville Telephone: The foot race between Herb Hansbro of this place and Ed Dunn, of Larned, was a at the anniversary of the hanging of tha Haymarket murderers, was i tame affair; after all the preliminary bluster. decline of cent, with sales of only bushels. Corn is stronger and oats but pork is 50 cents and lard cent "Why have the Irish taken possession of same spirit. HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, the winter, over head of cattle, thirty-eight car-loads having already the police force." he a ked.

"Because no Four square miles of the military reserva complete walk-away for Herb; in fact, lower. Oil has advanced 4 cents with mod-erate trading and coffee is unchanged. arrived. They are Colorado cattle, lhe merely nominal price or raw sugar Dr. Dunn didn't get "smell." Larned had been blowing about their foot racer for A Mysterious Individual Tells Where tion of Fort Hays, Kansas has been turned over by the war department to the interior department, and this becomes "public other race in this count, will stoop so low as I acc pt positions which require the holders to oppress the weak poor.

Only Irishmen who have fled from the oppiessicn of a British constabulary at home can be known as the triangle dot, or Dorsey has been made actual, the trust having en Cronin's Watch is to he Found. tercd the market as a buyer at 4 cents for lands." Muscovado and 5 cents tor degrees cen brand. KANSAS CHURCHES. Rtsox, November 14. The was found written on the wall at the trifugal, but refined shows a decline of Colonel A.

M. Swope was killed by Colo fo nd mean enough to undertake in this country the bus ness of oppression from which have tied." nel Cassius Goodloe, and Goodloe was Central hotel: It can only be reckoned a sign of impVov. ment. that wool has yielded about 1 cent fatally shot. The fight occurred in Lost Springs Courier: Fifteen H.

Cronm, M. His watch will be per pound sine the concession has induced Mr. Clemens' subject war anarchy. "What does anarchy mean;" he asked. the postoitice at Lexington, Ky.

Both aro Riley County's Missing Treasurer Heard From His Probable Short 'g Manhattan, November 13. It is ascertained by postmarks on letters addressed to Mrs. Fortner and to Fortner'3 attorneys that J. M. Fortner, the missing county treasurer, is in Toronto, Canada.

Fortner 's refusal to settle with the county commissioners, the mandamus proceedings brought in the supreme court, his refusal to open his safe, and later his mysterious disappearance have been chronic ed and have stirred up this county to a high pitch. An effort is being made to open the safe. Fortner's books show a shortage of be found at 371 South Clark street, third floor, considerable buying. Manuiacturers 1101a very prominent politicians. "It means the elevation of the entire popu that no advance is possible in heavy wools.

room 11, 113x610x40." young converts united with the Evan gelical church Sunday night. Sabetha Herald: Bev. and Mrs. A. lation to such a point of sell-respect and An important witness in the Cronin trial, and have bought little except at reduced humanity that no oaa can be found con- Drices.

some time, and came especially to get up a race. They got it, and went home poorer but wiser men. Topeka Journal: Major Hood, of Emporia has a colleclion of flowers and rare plants in his conservatory at Emporia that is attracting the attention of botanists and lovers of flowers in many parts of the state. Many curious plants and ferns from South America, Japan and the East Indies have been collected by him, and he never tires of hunting up something new to add to his floral curiosities. Inquiry by a Wisconsin reporter at Chicago elicited the fact that the Chicago ad temp lble enough to do the dirty work of pol cemen, constable and jailors.

When Mrs. Mandy Morgan, has been sand-bagged. She was unconscious for an hour, but recovered. Her life was saved by a big roll of hair on the back of her head. U.

riogbm attended the state associa The iron and steel business is remarkably strong, and the bar producers convention dress given is that of a Hebrew's pawn shop the people are brave enough to say: 'We in a squallid quarter. The rooms 01 the have advanced the price of XXXX 1.9 cents, tion of Congregationalists at Manhattan. The annual meeting will be held wi 1 not turn a widow cut of doors because building are urn shed and rented to tran but there is much evidence of a desire to Mrs. Henry Brunk, a Brown county, Kan she caunot pay her 'we will not lock sients. Boom 11 has been occupied by two innate the quotations and a boom up a man for thet wh ch the wrongs of so sas, farmer wife, has been killed by a Bohemian farm hand who worked on mysterious men of whom they know nothing.

in Hiawatha next year. Geuda Springs Herald: A commit The returns from all ir.terior points are decidedly encouraging, showirg an excellent trr.de in jrogrcse, iair collections and amp'e the farm a year and a half. He was drunk. Foraker Congratulates Campbell. tee of three appointed by presbytery.

He afterwards killed himself. sunply of money. Columbus, 0., November 9. To Hon representing the towns of Arkansas The business-failures during the last seven E. P.

Hanna, a Kansas man, who has long John Campbell, Hamilton, O. To the full The Southwest- Bloom Telegram days number for the United States 228 and been private secretary and clerk to the City, Winfield and Belle Plaine, will be here Tuesday evening to effect an or extent that a defeated candidate can do so for Canada 3i. For the corresponding week rn bugar company, of JUeade, nas 4 last vear the figures were 194 and 32. secretary of the interior, has been made chief erk of the judge advocate general, navy department. with propriety, allow me to offer my congratulations and assure you it ill give me tween and and it is thought, in view of his flight, that he left nothing in the safe.

His bondsmen are under bond and are good for that amount, so that the county will not lose anything in the long run. They are supposed to be Fecured by mort-gTges on valuable property which Fort 'er ha in Des Moines. Iowa. His bondsmen held a meeting to determine what course to take. Cable Car Accident.

Kansas Citt, November 12. The brake on a Fifth street cable car refused to work as the train wasdesoend ng the hill be ganization of the Presbyterian church ciety, and not his own nature, have com-jeiedhimto commit. We will not wear blue uniforms and stars to browbeat the wretched; th anarchy will prevail; not anarchy ia its literal seiise, but anarchy in the of the highest social freedom and equality. It is to ach ev this state that we wish to abolish government." William Holmes, president of the Albert R. Parsons assembly, presided over the meeting, Mrs.

Cucy Parsons, Mrs. Schwab, William Oliver, Mr. Barr, Mr. Khuer, and about 150 other rabid followers of the red f'ag were present. CHIEF MA1KS RAMPANT.

pleasure to extend you every courtesy I can A Sew Railway Scheme. at this place. Private services will be held at the residence of A. H. Buck- The Cherokee Council took up the propo show you connection ith your inaugura Chicago, November 12.

The Tribune says sition for the sale of the str.p and referrec tion and the commencement or your ad. waiter. Also public services will be that a plan formulated in New "York and in it to the committee on foreign relations, which is composed of three men who are held. tended to take the place of the Interstate ministration. SignedJ J.

B. Fobakeh. Omcial From Ohio. opposed to making the sale. Medicine Lodge Index: Bev.

C. W. Commerce Railway association has been submitted to the managers of the principal A drop of mercury to 32 occurred at Wich Owens, of Sun City, pastor of three tween Delaware and Alain streets. At the Columbus, November 14. The offi ita, and points south and west of tlice.

on Monday the 11th, with indications of bliz foot of the hill the runaway train collided Baptist churches in the western part western roads. Thj text as printed shows that the organization is to ba knwn as ''ihe Feoples transportation comiany," such cial returns from sixty counties received at with an Eighteenth street train on the loop. Both trains wi re wrecked, and the Fifth zard. They call it a blizzard at Arkansas City, where snow was falling. the secretary of state office and the other company to have control and management of all the traffic of such roads as may con twenty-eight on telegrams from the officials of the county, was married in this city, at the home of Mr.

Dorgan, to Miss Mary Bathbone, of Wirt county, West Virginia, Bev. Cain, of the Bap Governor Humphrey has issued an order of the counties, indicate that the plurality tract with it. of Lampson, republican, for lieutenant gov The stock of the company is to be distrib that, upon the call of a sheriff or a mayor ucon a company of the Kansas National street gripman, James Johnson, a-; seriously, perhaps fatally injured. The conductor on the Eighteenth street train was struck on the head and knocked unconscious. He was removed to the hospital and is in a precarious condition.

Four pas ernor, will be ldl. These figures will not uted among the roads in interest upon a vary much lrom the hnal result, lhe re tist church of this city, officiating. The lady arrived here with her brother guards, such company shall assemble at its armory and report to the governor for basis hereafter to I agreed upon and not subject to transfer. It is to be manage! by publicans elect all the state ticket except He Writes an Independent Letter to the Cherokee Commission. Tahxeqfah, I.

November 8. The following declaration of war was received by the Cherokee commission from Chief Mayes, who virtua.ly defies the act of congress, the attorney general and the secretary of the interior. The commission received the matter coolly. The following is the letter: Executive Department, Cm.KOKEK Nation, Tahxequah. Hon.

Lucins Fairdhild, Cnairman of Cherokee Commission. sengers were slightly injured. the day of the wedding. Bev. Owens governor.

Compromise Measure. The election of county treasurer, in Don had known the family for many years. Climbed HiRh. Citt of Mfx co, November 13. H.

Kern- iphan county, Kansas, turned upon throwing out the vote of one precinct, in which made arrangements with the American augar company to put in roasters in the various townships in Meade county. The mill already erected at Meade will be the center point, to which the simple syrup from the mills throughout the county will be shaped. This looks like sugar could be made from the Toasting process. A Fredonia dispatch: Walter Frean or, aged twenty-one, was accidentally shot here by his friend, Carly Blume, aged Ufteen years. The young men were hunting ducks in a boat, when Freanor called his friend to shoot some game that had just appeared.

Blume stood up in the boat to shoot, when be lost his balance and the gun was accidentally discharged, the entire load passing through Freanor's head, and he fell out of the boat into the pond, a corpse. Independence Tribune: The Choral Society, of which our city has been unusually proud for two seasons, has been re-organized. A. C. Stich was elected president, Mrs.

Nellie Millikan, vice-president, Bert Blosier, secretary, and Tom Calk, treasurer. We learn that they are now negotiating for a musical director, and a committee are selecting books. We hope they will go to work, and during the winter give entertainments, as they are very superor to traveling troups. Altoona Journal: The congregation Tahlequah, I. November 9.

The com a board ot directors composed or one officer from each road and three persons representing the new York banking interests from whom three practical railroad men and two bank representatives shall be chosen as an executive committee, with the full power of the board, but subject to review its action by the full board. The board is empowered to make all rates and divisions between the there were found to be nine more votes missioners haqe just foceived a telegram of the M. E. Church of the Altoona circuit are giving a series of concerts, ensen vvhitehouse, united states cnarge d'affairs, returned here after having climbed polled than there were voters on the poll list. from Secretary Noble, instructing them to say to the Cherokees that if they will sell at the extinct volcano ot lztaccihuatt, feet high.

The feat has never but once be Wichita street car men are on a strike. once to the government at l.z5 per acre ne (JSoble) will urge upon congress the abro connecting roads and to control all ad fore been accomplished. Mr. Whitehouse was obliged to cut over 2,000 steps in sol ice in order to ascend, and one night he vances: Drescnbms the character or the gation of the fifteetnh article. He advises the commission to circulate this intelligence Their pay is $1.25 a day of sixteen hours.

A squad of police has been detailed to assist the officials in moving the cara. Plenty of men are ready to take the place of the strik pervice and the convenience to be furnished camned in a cave at a height of feet. by means of private circulars. Pan-Americans at the public; the reports to be made, and the rules and regulations governing passenger and freight ers, it they were permitted to do so. With the party was the German minister, Baron Von Seedmitz.

The expedition was undertaken at the request of the Alpine club. The bodies of two cowboys have been 1 he contracting roans are to be allowed Pittsburg, November 9. -The inter brought into Trinidad, Colorado, who were one at each place where services are regularly held. Sunday one of the series was given at High Prairie, and was. successful beyond expectations.

Total receipts, $30.40. Tli3 next Sunday at Lyman chapel in north Chetopa township, and at the M. E. church in Altoona last. McPherson Bepublican: Bev.

H. D. Herr has gone to Kansas City. Kansas, where he has been called by the Congregational church of that city. Bev.

Herr is an eloquent and logical expounder of the gospel and Kansas City is to be congratulated on securing so to retain only a sufficient percentage of the sro33 earnines to Day the actual costs of national excursionists were ehown the won After the Squntters. Tahlequah, I. November 12. In ref Deak Sir: Yours of the 4th received, submitting a letter of Hon. J.

W. secretary of the interior, Washington, D. October 26, 1889, pretending to take the responsibility of removing certain cattle that are now grazing on land west of the Arkansas river, and have been grazing there for the last ten or twelve years by permission of the Cherokee nation, and lor which the Cheroiiees have been deriving a considerable revenue, and with which privilege the predecessor of the honorable secretary never preten ed to interfere. 1 will simply say to you that the Cherokees do not recognize the light of Secretary Noble to interfere with the sacred right that has belonged to the Cherokees since the purchase and ownership ot said land. The chief will continue to collect revenue for tnis grazing privilege until the secretary shall se fit to dispose of this revenue of the herokees by force, and even then the Cherokees will attempt to ders of the manufacturing of iron, the whole frozen in the late blizzard.

Four other men, belonging to the same party, are missing, and it is believed that they are dead. It is reported that twenty men are missing from doing the business, and it shall be the same for all contracting roads; the remainder or erence to the presence of white settlers on the Indian lands, Chief Mayes says in his he earnings to be pa over to the ireopie day being devoted to the inspection of the various mills, foundries, etc. Delegate Carnegie joined the party and took great this range, and it is feared many of them will never oe found. interest in showing the delegates his works. Transportation company.

No contract is to made with any railroad for a period less than ten years except by unanimous consent of the board of directors and the Telegrams were received from Washington message that the council had frequently asked the United States government to remove them, but instead of so doing the government had rather encouraged them to A Church Murder. approval of a majority of the stockholders remain. JHe reommendcd that tne council renew its request, and if the government Rilev ftearent: A. J. Johnson, livinsr at the National W.

C. T. at Chicago, both affirming and denying the statement which had been made by Miss Williard in her opening spsech, that Vice President Morton had permitted a bar to ba put in his new hotel building at Washington. A tempest Salt Lake City, November 9. George Hancock, Mormon high priest, has been arrested at Payson, charged with murder- talented a minister.

He will be sadly missed in McPherson and it will be a failed to respond, he advised that the In such company. Ihe Pottowatomie and Kickapoo Lands. Washington, D. November 13. What dians themselves remove the squatters by lntr Mrs.

Hatch and her son, George Jones, force of arms. 32 years of age. The victims were accused to do relative to the pending negotiations resulted in the meeting, but the matter was finally laid on the table. of incest when they were slain, but the gem protect their rights in the premises in a legitimate way. "I acknowledge the rece'pt through you of the opinion of Attorney General Shields, dated Washington, D.

October 31, l)-89, Kansas Patents. Washington, D. November 12. The Amon the decisions filed by the supreme tiles say it was a church murder. High School Defeated.

following patents have been granted: John Bender, Marion, car coupling: F. L. Butler, court is one upon the appeal of the Topeka Water Supply company in the case brought by that company asra nst the city of Potwin Plane, to enioin the construct on and use Smith Centee, November 9 Full Concordia, windmill; J. C. Fisher, Beloit, grain cleaning machine; Albert Jtieniey, returns from this county give Smith, for iudee.

SO majority. The entire republi bale tie machine; vv. u. Jiinds- for the Pottowatomie and Kickapoo reservations in Kansas is one of the questions at present puzzling the Indian bureau. Under an act of the last congress the sum of $5,000 was appropriated for the expenses of a commission to negotiate with these Indians for 9,000 acres of land situated in Brown and Jackson counties, Kansas.

In pursuance of this provision the president appointed Benjamin J. Horton, of Lawrence, A. D. Walker, of Horton, and H. J.

Aten of Hiawatha, as a commission to conduct the specified negotiations. The preliminary report, which was received from these coiijmis- i can ticket is e'ected with majorities ranging of a system of sewers which e-npty filth and excrement into the Kansas river above the wells of the company. The district court refused, upon a trial of the case several months a to grant the in unclion prohib ley; Huntsville, seeding machine; W. D. Lindsley, Huntsville, seed anter; I.

T. Price, Holton, sash fasterner; M. B. Smith, McPherson, device for administering an s- from 50 to 700. ine high school propose tion was defeated.

furnished Secretary Noble at your request, as whether the eale of the land of the Cherokees by the national council or legislature to the United States would be a violation of the herokee constitution. I have to say to you that as chief executive officer of this nation, have taken an oath that I will preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the Cherokee nation, and that my conscience and sense of duty will govern me in this matter, and not the opinion of the attorney general or the act of congress creating your commission, which has no connection whatever with the matter. Very respectfully, J. B. Mayes, Cherokee Nation." iting the construction and use of the sewer.

This judgment the supreme court now The Massachusetts Legislature. thetics; T. I. Witting, Lawrence, dispen. sing apparatus for soda water, etc.

Boston, November 9. The senate will be composed of 29 republicans and 11 demo The Deepest. liver Known. St. Louis, November 12.

Dispatches crats, as compared with 32 republicans and Better Than Oklahoma. 1.200 acres of the choicest land in the San. 8 democrats in 1888. There are 162 republi from the Texas panhandle say that the deep long time before the Congregational society will find a man his equal as 3 preacher. KANSAS KAILKOADS.

Valley Falls Begister: The new station on the Northwestern between here and Dennison is named North Cedar. A nice little depot has been built. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe has issued a circular announcing a general reduction in coal rates on authority from -the Trans-Missouri Association, from Missouri river points to Kansas, Indian Territory and Panhandle of Texas towns. The Santa Fe company has submitted a plan to the workmen in the Topeka shops, whereby they would work from 8 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock p. and on Saturdays, 1 until 3:30 o'clock p.

m. The workmen all refused to make the change. Pittsburg Smelter: Mr. McCormi of Parsons, says tht the other day he was talking to one of the officials of the Missouri Pacific, who said that it is the intention of the company to build the Nebraska, Dakota from Fort cans and 78 democrats returned to the lower Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under fence, water-righta secured and ditches ready for use. It will be sold as a whole or in Quantities to suit the purchaser, it is tho house, a republican loss of 18 representa-tives from last year.

Tlurin to Cleveland. est snow that has fallen in that region for twelve years is now on the ground. All trains on the Fort Worth Penver railroad are blocked, and there are nine engines in a snow drift at Field's station. The drifts are nine feet deep at Hartley and no trains have- finest land the valley, and is adapted to either farming or stock-raising. or noe, terms, address Henbt A.

Butters, Chicago, November 9. A special dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says: Allen W. Thur- reached there since Tuesday. The orm is Alamosa, Colorado. the worst that has ever visited the Manhandle.

one mile north of Fairview, broke his leg last f-pring, in consqeuence of which he was compelled to run in debt considerably, and was a'so 1 ehind with his work. About 40 of his Swedish friends gathered at his place Monday, and, entering his corn field, husked out and cribbed about fifty loads of corn for him. In addition to this, when Mr. Johnson went to' pay his doctor bill, amounting to about $60, he discovered that his friends had forestalled him and that the bill had been paid in full. Mr.

Johnson is to be congratulated on the possession of such neighbors. McPherson Bepublican Major Hen-dershot, of the "Drummer boy of Eap-pahanock" fame, was stopping over in this city between trains, found a poor family at the depot, with two children, a boy and a girl, that were barefoot. He by some means, known only to the few, soon had the children's confidence, they were such good friends that he asked the parents' consent to take them up town. They came up town, and the Major entered the store of an old army comrade and fitted the little ones out with a good pair of woolen stockings and a good pair of substantial shoes each, and returned to the depot in time to take the train for the east. Independence Reporter: Mrs.

Governor Humphrey, has sent to San Francisco an apron of her own manufacture, in response to an appeal from a Lutheran church there. The ladies of that church conceived the unique sqheme of having every governor's wife make an apron, for a fair that they were getting ap to raise funds to complete their auditorium, and we presume that all will respond. The apron contributed br Mrs. Humphrey has in one corner, man has sent the following: Columbus, O. Hon.

Grover Cleveland, GEiSEKAlj MARKETS. New York: Governor roraker has surren Kansas City, November 14. dered all the republican ags in Ohio. A Welcome 1. ise in Wages.

CA CTLE Shipping steer 3 (50 3 8u ltange steeis none ouereu HCXtS Good to choice 3 t5 8 87V4 SHEEP Good muttons 8 6 1 4 KO WHEAT No. 2 red oa dm Youngstown, November 9. Notices have been posted in all the furnaces in the Mahoning valley, granting all employee an increase wages of 10 per cent. The new JNo. 2 soft Cattle Men AVill Resist.

Tahlequah, I. November 9. The commissioners are very confident that the strip opening will be completed by spring. The Cherokee Live Stock association ill at once take the outlet into the courts, and they have asked the Cherokees to act jointly with them in securing the dec sion once for all as to whether the Cherokees have a fee simple title to the outlet and a right to lease gra ing lands to the as- oc: ation. Mr.

Ed Hewins, of Ceclarvale, will leave I- ansas for Washington in a few days, to secure counsel. It is thought that McDonald, Bright Fay will be retained, as they have heretofore attended to Cherokee interests before the senate committe. and are thorough familiar with matters connect! with the Cherokee lands. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees may also be retained if he can be prevailed upon th accept.

Miners Illegally Oppressed. effri son Citt, November 8. Lee Meriwether, commissioner of labor statistics and inspection, has gone to Rich Hill to investigate charges that the mining law has been violated. It is rumored that the of the miners at Rich Hill is little better than that prevailing at the Mendota mines, in Putnam county, where the miners were raid oft in checks due ten years Iowa Results. Des Moines, November 12.

Additional returns on the legislative ticket show that the republican majority on joint ballot will be 8, thus insuring the re-election of Senator Allison. Complete but unofficial returns from every county in the state show BoleV plurality for governor 7,100, which will, not be changed materially by the official count, After the Murderers. Atfred, I. November 12. Two men, supposed to be the murderers of C.

E. Smith, the telegraph operator at Wharton, are sur-surrounded in the timber by United f-tates marshals and a posse of men. In an old well at their cabin were found a napkin and a piece of flour sack, both of which had evi dently been used as masks. arrangement went into effect November 7, The increase was unsolicited. CORN No.

2 2 bid OATS No. 2 i8Jhjd RYE No. 2 85 '4 bid FLOUR Patents, per sack 180 185 HAY Baled 00 til 6 SC BUTTER Choice creamery 20 21 siouers a couple or months ago, showed that they had not been successful. Since that time they have renewed their efforts to conclude a satisfactory agreement with the Indians, but it is understood up to the present time nothing definite has been accomplished. The principal reason for the failure is probably the influence of a band of the citizen class of the Pottowatomies who live on the reservation.

Some years ago they took their land severalty, without restriction as to a.ienation and received their poiton of annuities, and tre now wi hout land or mon- living on the charity their friends. They have no rights on the reservation, but they have lived there for a number of ears, and their condition, example and persuas on, it i said, have influenced the Indians owning the reservation against parting with any of the ands. These 250 pauper quasi Indians, the commissioner dec. des, are entitled under existing laws to take a lotments on the Potco-wato le reservation in the Indiau terr tory, where the tribe to which they belong reside Comn issioner Morgan now recommends that these citizen Pottowaton ies sh be ren oved to the reser ation of their tribs within the Sac and Fox agency, east of Ok-lah ma, and be required to take al otments and work for self support. This removal may be necessary to secure the consent of Pottowatomie and Kickapoo Indians in Kansas to the Bile of their surplus lands, and it is probable that some steps in 1 hat direction may be attempted within a w.iort time.

Until that i3 one it is believed that nothing definite cm be accomplished by the commission appointed to purchase the Pottowatomie and Kickapoo lands. Printline inc Burned. Kansas City, November 12. A. N.

Kellogg company's auxiliary printing house and stereotype plate factory and P. H. Tier-nan'n railroad ruling and printing and binding house both burned Saturday night. CHEESE Full cream SS It EtxOJa Choice l'VS BACON Ham 11 POULTRY If ens 2 25 (fi! 2 50 IJifr Damages for Injuries. Providence, R.

November 9. In the supreme court Miss Carrie E. Barnes, a school teacher, was awarded $20,000 damages in her suit against the New York and New England road for $25,000. The action was begun for injuries received in 1886. Many Chinese Arriving-.

Koosters 1 Hprinff 1 75 2 50 Turkeys Vri POTATOES Home grown 10 15 CHICAGO. CATTIjE Steers 2 00 fi! 4 80 HOGS 8 70 8 5 SHEEP Natives 2 7A 5 25 FLOUR Winter wheat 8 IK) 4 65 Scott to Galena, Kansas, passing Pittsburg, and that all the bonus repaired from this city would be for right-of-way. General Freight Agent Atwood of the Bock Island, has issued the following circular: Live stock, except sheep, shipped from points on the Chicago. Bock 'Island Pacific railway, (west of Missouri river), dest'ned to Missouri river or beyond, may be stopped in transit, at any station in Kansas or Nebraska, to feed, for ten ($10) dollars per car higher than the through rate from point of ehipm nt to destination. Note on each way-bill full reference to way-bill upon which eh'pments were received from the west, showing amount collected at feeding point.

One car Mr! for an emblem, a sunflower, beautifully hence, and which coul only be sposed of outs de of the company gtore at 80 cents on the dollar. It set-ms that the mining law has been violated with impunity in nearly every minim? locality in the state, and up embroidered with arasene ribbon. It is City of Mexico, via Galveston, November 9. Chinese in great numbers are arriv ing at Mazatlan and are making their way to California and Arizona overland. Court House Defeated.

Conoobdia, November 9. A proposition to oppropriate $3,000 to complete the court house was overwhelmingly defeated lioniln Defeated. Atchison, November 9, The prop osition to vote oonds for a new market house was defeated. a handsome affair, and we have no --1 I i 3oubt will compare favorably with any Miss Wlllard Re-Elected. Chicago, November 13.

Miss Francis iu. Wi'lard was so-elected president of the National W. 0. T. U.

The vote was practically unanimous, since, on the informal ballot, but nine votes were cast for Mrs. Ellen Foster, of Iowa, who represents the non. partisan element in the convention. Washington Admitted. Washington, D.

November 13. Presi-dend Harrison has signed the proclamation declaring Washin ton territory to be a Btate in the union. Having fulfilled all the conditions imposed upon it by congress neces sary to its admission. Victory for th Strikers. London, November 12.

At a meeting of the master lightermen it was decided "to concede the demand made by the strikers th WHEAT No. 2 red 8u2 81 CORN-No. t. 8X OATS No. a 20(gi 20 RYE No.

2 45 BUTTER Choice creamery 25 EGGS Fresh 19 PORK 8 60 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Native steer 8 2.5 4 90 Fair to good 8 2 4 25 HOGS Packing 8B0 8 HO SHEEP Fair to 8 20 4 70 FLOUR Patents 4 25 tjl 4 85 WHEAT No. a red CORN No, 8 8t4 OATS No. 3 1 RYE No.

2 38 HAY Baled 6 00 9 00 BUTTER-Creamery 20 0 23 EGGS Fresh 19 PORK-ljbuj The A. H. Kellogg company estimates its will h. nllvnwl for each ear of the loas at between and It was out will be allowed ror eacn car or tne inBured or $25,000. The company employed caased fifty-five hands, and was engaged in a gen Same Bize I III, UUU uuy ruijuuo to a short me ago no attempt was ever made to enforce it.

Mr. Meriwether says at the mine owners who have been violating th'i law will be prosecuted regardless of consequences. The Iowa Delegation Withdraws. Chicago, November U. The event of the ession of the National W.

C. T. U. was the report of the committee on resolutions touching the non partisan question. The majority report says: from otner states.

Kansas City, Gazette: On the day that the Missouri grain inspection aw went into effect, November 1, one hundred and eighty-two car-loada of rrain were received at Kansas City. Of; this a ount, eleven car loads came Mm Nebraska; every grain of the bal-iir be came from Kansas. After a tax or by fattening must be charged at fulJ tariff rate from feeding point. Sheep, eral printing and electrotyping business. It furnished plates end patent insides for country newspapers.

Immediate arrangements will be made for taking care of the company's customers io they will not be inconvenienced by the conflagration. Part in single deck cars, may be taken on the Reno County. Hotchinson, November 9. A prop, osition to expend $15,000 for a county poor farm carried without opposition above basis, the charge for stopping 1 be six ($6) dollars per car..

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