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1 VOL. VI NORWICH, KINGMAN KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 189I, NO. 41 mm THE INDIAN COMMISSION. Kansas Citv, May 6. Kx-Gover-nor David Jl, Jerome, of Michigan, member ot tint commission appointed to treat with Indian of the territory (or the sale of their surplus lands, was in the city; yesterday, enroute to Fort Kuno, I.

T.i jSpeaklng of the progress of the worko( the commission, he Raid: "Our work of buying Indian lands andi making allotments to the Indiana theni-l (selves in progressing finely. We have; 'closed the trade for the Cherokee and have bought large tracts east,) THE SUB-TREASURY SCHEME. Jackson, May 4, In answer to a query from the Alliance, Governor Stone has written an open letter against the sub-treasury plan, Among other things, be says: ''The proper function of government, as II understand it, is to protect all in the full (enjoyment of their rkhts by administer lug equal and exact justice to all and im- Sosing as few burdens as possible, equally; istrihuted, aud then leaving every individual to his own efforts for success and happiness. The government has no wealth to bestow and when it undertakes to dispense favors It always has favorites and gives to them at the expense of those not favored. "It must be so from the very nature of things for it has to take from some to, give to others.

We of he south, chiefly; agricultural, have felt this evil with crushing force, for the high protective poncy RIOTS'lN BELGIUM. Brussels. May 2. In spite of the manifesto issued by the counsel of the Working-men's party urging the workingmen not to go out on a strike pending the decision of the chamber in regard to tho demands being made throughout Belgium for universal suffrage, HO.000 miners and 4,000 Iron workers in the Charleroi mining districts have struck work. At Liege numbers oi people who are out of work attempted today to march in procession through th streets but were prevented from doing so by the police.

T'je action of the polloe in stopping the processions resulted in several riots, during which the police used their batons freely and made many arrests. London, May 2. From the reports re. ceived here it is learned that the turbulence in the mining districts of France and Belgium is cauned by resentment for the. sentence of two years' imprisonment imposed on the Auarchist leaders for the riots which took place in Charlville and St.

Quentin, in France. This led to renewed scenes of disorder in that place today, while at Seraig and Liege, in Belgium, deteimined attempts were made by the strikers to prevent any of the men who refused to join their ranks from working. When the non-strikers TO MUCH DIME NOVEL. NEW York. May 4.

Everybody in Elisabeth, N. thouuht that William Palmer was a good boy. He went regularly to the Presbyterian Sunday school, and was the brightest boy in his class in Public School No. 3. He passed his 15th birthday last, week.

He is good looking lad, with eyes and dark curly hair. He was not satisfied with the quiet life in Elizabeth, nnd inspired by the tales of Dick Turpin, Jack. Shoppard and Blueskin, which he knows by heart, he Bought to bring about a new order of things. On January 1. Palmer, with Walter Robert Pence and William Wycoff, went to a deserted farm iu the outskirts of South Elizabeth and organized a band which is known as "The Faithful Ten." The boys were all schoolmates of Palmer, about the same age, and Presby-, terian Sunday school scholars.

Palmer was elected captain of he band, and Pence and Williams were the first and second lieutenants. The object of the organization was the robbery of the citizens of Elizabeth. Rules were adopted to regulate the band with a code of signals of recog' uitlonand danger, and pass-words and secret grips. They were bound by a terrible oath to stick to each other, and Palmer had a small bottle of sheep's blood, a few drops of which were daubed upon 1' "OLD HUTCH" ON A BENDEK. Boston.

May fl "Old Hutch" (celebrated hi return to Huston by going on a small-sized tear last night, and he was assisted in the sport by several brokers and other friends. Early in the even-ing he established himself in Young's hotel barroom, and it did not take the bartenders long to understand that hii drluks meant business. They provided, the refreshments with a lavish hand, nnd it was not long before his tongue was loose. He was well supplied with funds, hut knew enough not to bu drawu into a til in-flani game which one of his friends tried to put up on him. The old man's Jeeii eyes flashed as he "tumbled" to the plot, aud lie roared out: "No ye don't.

You can get me full, but I always know enough to look out for my money." Once wheu a reporter tried to "set 'em up" the old millionaire swept the scribe's moueyj away and said, patronizingly: "Not this' time. The reporters can r.ot afford to! treat. They don't get money enough to waste in that way." As the evening wore on and the number Of his friends multiplied the crafty speculator losf his reserve and entertained the' crowd vit quotations of one kind and another. 73 did not tire of repeating; Tom Palue's words, "The world is country, to do good is my religion." From that ho turned his attention to Scripture aud hen to politics. "Hen Butler is the! brainiest man this country has ever pro-; iluced," he said, "but.

he made a fool of himself In politics." He credited Ingalls with being the brainiest man who has sat iu the United States senate in recent years. "I'm talking of ill i in now as a senator and not as a business man," was the concluding remark. Boston bar rooms have to close at 11 o'clock, and this unusual performance caused the lively Chicagoan to kick like a steer, but be yielded with good grace after the lights were turned out and strode out into the night air, declaring with true platform eloquence, "The world is my couHry, to do good is my A. VALUABLE LIBRARY. BALTIMORE, May 6 There are 15,000) aud pamphlets aud hundreds of old books in the collection recently! 5 4 1 southeast nnd northwest oi UKianoma.

To give you an idea as to how much we have secured.for we do not know ourselves within thousands of acres, the tract north west of Oklahoma contains 3,500,000 'This Is only a third or fourth of all lauds; The strip itself contains (3,000,000 acres." i Governor Jerome was asked his opinion! in regard to the Allotment of lands to the; Indians, and said: "It is the only way to make them self supporting and civilize them. Sone of, 'courso are already civilized and are mak-iug money, and to these it is the best way ito give them an opportunity to do better.) The Indians are gelling about 160 acres ot land apiece, and they will soon be self supporting. "It is the business of he commission to secure all lands west of 00 degrees west 'longitude, and we expect to remain at work until it is completed. The allotment agents are busy now dividing up the In-'dian lands and when this is done aud all' 'titles perfected the country will be thrown 'open. It will, of course, be a part of Oklahoma ns already provided iu that territory's charter from the government.

"While people generally know better, continued Governor Jerome, "there has been an idea that the lands of the In-I klians were being taken away from them.j lu reality we are doing as much for them as for the government and even more. It is to the government's interest to look out; for them and give them fair value. President Harrison is disposed to treat them, iwell, and we iiiid hot r. themselves are beginning to see tin: iiiKtter in a true busi-j light. Aly leagues 'are exctUenti gentlemen.

Jude Warren is from indi-J inn and of course a friend of Harrison. Jodge Wilsou, of Arkansas, the necessary! dash of Democrat ic salt in the cominis-i sion is as true and eonscientioas a gentle: man as 1 ever saw." TIMBER CUTTING. Washington, May 9. Commissioner' iCarter, of the land office, today issued an limportant circular letter of instructions to, registers and receivers of land offices inj relation to the act of March 3, 1891, relat-jing to the cutting of timber from the pubi lie land. The sections apply only to, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and; Nevada, the territory of Utah andi district of Alaska.

The circular says "Settlers upon the public lands, miners, farmers and other bona fide residents who, have not a sufficient supply of timber itbeirown claim or lands for tire woe fencing or building purposes; necessary use in' developing the mineral, and other natural resources of the; lands owned or occupied by are permitted to procure timber from thei Sublic lands to be used for these ut not for sale or disposal, or use on other lands or by other persons. The law is construed not to give the right to cut timber on any appropriated or reserved public lands. The cutting or removing of jfrom public lands by or for any applicantl before authority has been officially granted1 by the secretary of the interior, will ren-i Jder the party so offending liable to prose-' cution for trespass and subject his application to rejection." "Sawmill owners, lumber dealers and. others who in any manner cause or pro-, cure timber to be cut or removed from any' public lands in violation of the law or the rules and regulations, whether directly by. men in their employ or indirectly through! contract or by purchase, are equally guilty! trespass with the individuals who actu-1 ally cut or remove such timber, and are 'liable to criminal prosecution.

The procurer or manufacturer of timber so cut, well as the purchaser of such timber or, jits products, is also liable in civil suit for, vr-luo thereof." ALASKAN EXPLORATIONS. PAN Francisco, May 6 The first letter to reach this city from J. Henry sub-assistant in the United States coast and geodetic service, since his departure! for Alaska in 1889, was received by Geo. Davidson Tuesday. Mr.

Turner was in charge of a party of ten which was to, co operate with a similar party under Sub-Assistant McGrath in determining the lo-1 cation of the 141st meridian, the boundary line between Alaska and British Colum-! bia. The letter is dated at St. September 20. 1890, and was intrusted to the i 'n of the Wells party, by whom iti was sent to this city. The discoveries of Mr.

Turner In the hitherto unexplored regions which he traversed are very interesting. His observations will cause a change in the maD of country between the Arctic ocean and the Porcupine river, in which he found rivers, lakes and mountain ranges where before was supposed to be only a vast plain. Incidentally, Turner refers to the experience of Wells, who was forced to 'eat his own dogs Turner's camp was located oti the Porcupine river, 100 miles from the Arctic ocean, and 1,000 miles from the mouth of the Yukon river. SAM SMALL RESIGNS. OGDEN, Utah, May 6.

President Samuel of Utah university of the M. has resigned. For several weeks' there have been active hostilities in pro-cress between the president and the board of directors over the management of the (financial interests of the institution. The! directors, with Rev. John Wesley Hill as spokesman, declare that the ex-J Georgia evangelist is extravagnnt in the -use of university moneys and does not hes-t itate to make himself a reveler in the uries of life at the expense of the funds.

They also claim that as a subscription' raiser he is a successful failure. No small umountof mud slinging has been indulged; by both sides. Kev. Small finally be? came disgusted and threw up his job. is in Philadelphia, aud savs he don't' (Care a continental what the Utah folks' him with, and the dwellers in thei laud of Mormon are equally independent? 'of the Republican party for the benefit of! the manufacturing; interests, mainly the north, has operated in a two-fold man ner to injure us by depressing the price our cotton, aud greatly increasing the; cost of the many articles we are compelled to buy with the proceeds.

"The cause of our depression is the tariff system, maintained for protection, and the enormous burdens of government, which fall heavily upon us while we get little to compensate us for the grievous' 'impositions. So far as the sub-treasury is iutended to supply an increase of money it promises notniug good to farmers, above all others, will be the victims of any inflation which will disturb values. They need for their welfare a currency as steady 'and stable as themselves. The traders and speculators, those looking out for deals and corners, can riot amid the ex-citenisnt of speculating values and fluctuations from disturbance of the circulating The farmer and laborer stand short of even chances in that condition of things. The promise of opportunity to obtain money at a low rate of interest by depositing cotton and getting an advance of 80 per cent of its value is, I thiuk, a delusion and stiare.

"Iamquite sure that the sub-treasury scheme would be a costly and disappoint-; ing experiment, nnd the only hope for our people is the success of the Democratic party in all the departments of the federal, government, to be promptly and surely, followed by a reduction of the burdens pressing so heavily and unequally, lupon us. Then, with continued industry: land free trade, and circulation quickened! activity by reason of it, our chief pro-i duct will bring a better price, and what we 'have to buy of manufactured articles will, greatly reduced in price, and by the result something will be left annually of the fruits of labor. Vain are all hopes of de-i riving relief from more and cheap jand delusive are all schemes to providel any substitute for Wlustry and economy, and for one's own efforts as the means of success and happiness." Politics over this question is becoming very much heated in Mississippi. Senator George is opposed to it, and Is making a canvass of the state for re-election on that1 'lue. Ex-Congressman one of its principal advocates, is a candidate for United States senator, and will stump the state in favor of the plan.

Fifteen county Alliances have already indorsed Barksdale, Walthall having declined to stand for reelection. This places several prominent candidates in the field for the succession: The Alliance will make a strong effort to capture both places, and many think it stands a good show to succeed. George is very strong in the state, however, and will be very hard to down. COLORED EXHIBITORS. Raleigh- N.

May 4.Not the least interesting work proposed to be accom plished through Iho southern exposition' to be opened here next October is that in relation to the colored people. It is proposed to have a colored department and, 25,000 feet of space have been allotted to! their exhibit. Those in control of the exposition are especially desirous that this feature shall prove a success. They feel it due to the colored people that the country and the world should know through this opening display of their skill and industry what the colored people hnve accomplished since they acquired their freedom. Such an exhibit is promised as will testify to their capacity aud refute the allegations their progress has been retarded br the hostility or opposition of the white people of the south.

The colored people themselves are anxious to give their emphatic testimony against this charge. Everywhere they are preparing for the exposition. Their agents are traversing North Carolina to secure needed funds to aid in the work, and the whites are liberal in their contributions. One of their writers in his appeal to his race says: "The white south offers this aid to the black south to come forward in this grand movement for the best interests of all classes, and we shall most glaringly blunder if we fail to exert ourselves to the utmost toward making the exposition a success. No politics enter with this question; it is a question of dollars and cents; a matter of vindication of our ability to prove ourselves worthy of our citizenship.

If we should lay claim to progress we must let the world know in what and how much we are progressing, aud in no other way can it be best shown than iu this exposition THE CHILIAN STRUGGLE, i PARIS, May 5. An official dispatch received here says that it is proposed that 'three members of the congressional or insurgent party and three members of he Balmaceda or presidential party should be appointed iu order to confer upon and some modus vivendl arrangement jwhich would bring peace to Chili. The foreign consuls, the dispatch adds, support this proposition as calculated to terminate the era of strife Bnd bloodshed which has so long prevailed in the Chilian republic. President Balmaceda solicited the good offices of Brazil, the United States and of France in an ellort to restore peace in Chili. San Francisco, May 5.

Dispatches from Iquique state that but few lives were jlost by the sinking of the Blanco Encalada, ins the congressional steamer Aconcagua picked up many of the men from the One hour and a half after the torpedo boat sunk the Blanco they were beateu off by the Aconcagua with a heavy Are from two breech-loading guns. attempted to commence woric tney were attacked by thjv ntrikurs, who assaulted them with a shojor of stones and other missiles. The gets ti'armes, who had been placed on duty at tie mines to protect the men who were willing to work, found that all their efforts to repreas the disturbances were useless, and they vyre finally compelled to invoke tho aid of the military. At the Yarloz colliery in St. Nicholas a rifle fire failed to awe the strikers, although several of them fell wounded.

The strikers very stubbornly resisted tho military, and withstoo la charge with swerds and only dispersed iu the face of a calry charge. About thirty of the rioters wre arrested. During the riot ou Friday at Bekes, Hungary, a number of enragjd peasants made a savage attack on the chief magistrate of the place for prohibiting the people from holding Mayday The magistrate was thrown to th ground and the peasants trampled upon and kicked his prostrate form, infl cting terrible injuries upon the unfortunate man. Upon the military coming to the rescue of the imperiled magistrate, a sharp affray took place between them aud the desperate peasants. The soldiers charged upon the crowd aud two of the rioters were pierced through the body by bayonet The rioters were finally forced to retreat, and twenty of them were capUred and are now under arrest.

The fighting caused the greatest excitement in Affairs assumed such a dangerous sljape that the authorities were compelled to declare the place in a state of seige. All the shops have been closed and the latest reports say that the people are still wildly, excited. News ot further rioting in Belgium has been received here. It is learned that a couflict took place in Mons tonight be-; tween the gend'armes and the miners, and that the officers opened fire upon the rioters, two of whom were seriously Wounded. THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.

San Francisco, May 2. A. long letter from Honolulu gives particulars of an interview with her majesty the queen of Hawaii upon matters (if moment to the United States and American interests. "Will your majesty tell," asked the correspondent' "what consequence will follow if the proposed new treaty with the United States be rejected by Secretary Blaine?" To this the queen replied: "The present commerce with the islands and the United States wil! gre itly diminish and the greater pfert of it will pass out of American control and into the hands of other nations. Iu proportion to its the commerce of our islandsjis byllong odds the most, profitable and most ex-J clusively American of any portion of the foreign commerce of the United Our trade is now highly prized in the; United States, and particularly in; California.

The greater portion of our provisions, machinery, lumber, hardware nnd numerous other commodities will be' rendered less profitable by the action of; the American people, and will practically ruin the permanent investments now owned, by many hundreds of American, citizens, who are temporary residents at least of our islands It will bankrupt some of those who have come hither and acquired valuable and promising interests in the islands' industries and commerce. These investments are very large and valuable, certainly exceeding $15,000,000 and largely increasing in value every. year." Her majesty intimated that Minister Carter, the Hawaiian representative at. Washington, would probably resign, owing to the fact that his interests were in sympathy with the Americans and not with the islands. She spoke as if the minister was opposed to the new treaty, which she was about to present for the consideration of Secretary Blaine.

BRIEFS. It is said that upon their return from their western trip, the president and Harrison will take up their residence at Cape May Point. Heavy rains have extinguished the New Jersey forest flres. A dispatch from Boone, says that the fruit crop was damaged yesterday morning by frost. Judge M.

II. Owsley, a distinguished' Kentucky lawyer and jurist, died at Lan-, caster, yesterday morning. i The treasnry department bought 323,000, ounces of silver yesterday, at prices rung-ing from $0,995 to $0,997. A telegram from London says that the archbishop of York, who is suffering from influenza, is dying. 1 Six hundred painters and 700 cornice-workers are on a strike in St, Louis for 35 cents an hour.

FOREST FIRES IN CANADA. Kingston, May 4. Bush flres are raging along the line of the Canadian; Pacific railway. Miles of forest between! Kaladar and Arden are ablaze. The peo-l pie of Mountain Grove are greatly alarmed and have moved their stuff to the opposite' side of the railway tracks.

the faces ot eacn meraoer iu uiaae me ngreemetit binding. Lots were drawn to determine who should commit robberies, and at the first trial it fell to Williams, lvnce anu way-coff. Palmer was out of it. The place selected was Robert Cleveland's toy store, on Broad street. About 11 o'clock nt night the three boys cdmbed over a fenco and got in the rear of the store.

They tried to pry open a window and broke i glass. This made so much noise that they gave up the window and went to the They had an old flat file, which had been ground to a sharp edge. This was put in the crack of the door near the lock and the door was sprung so that it could be pushed open. The burglars had a feast of candies and carried away three sets of games, worth $5. They had a box of candies, which was given to Palmer, who watched the store from the street, aud the games were on the following day given by each of the boys to his sweetheart in the school.

The burglars were made bold by success, nnd another meeting was held at the barn and William Yallerly, Theodore Luster, Edward Swain, Isaac Opie, Walter Williams and George Truttou were made members of the baud. Williams, the oldest boy, is 17 years old, and the others were 14. They all wore masks and were painted with sheep's blood, and sworn to secrecy. They gave up burglary for a while and paid strict attentiou to "standing up" small boys and girls in the street who were going io stores wim mouey. This was kept up for about two months and they got enounh money to keep up a supply of cigarettes and thrilling stories of criminal life.

AN ARMY OF CATERPILLARS. Charlotte, N. May 4 The CaroUy Central trainmen have been having 'a peculiar experience with caterpillars for four of five days past, aud it is something unheard of in the railroad history of this state. Just east of Lumberton is what is known as the big swamp, and the road goes through it on trestle work, broken here and there into solid portions of swamp by embankments of earth. Last Tuesday an army of caterpillars began moving out of the swamp, nnd when they reached the streams over which the trestle carries the rails they massed on the road and pro-1 ceeded to cross the trestle.

TheraiLand ties were covered inches deep with the moving mass, and the first train that encountered them was brought to a dead standstill, the driving wheels of the engine slipping around as if the rails had been oiled. The engineer exhausted the contents of the sand-box before he got through the swamp and reached a clear stretch of track. It was thought that the trip would be the end of he caterpillars' trouble, but the very next day a train encountered another army of caterpillars crossing the trestle and had the same difficulty. The Charlotte-bound passenger train had a similar! experience, and a passenger says the scene' was something truly wonderful. The rails and cross-ties were actually obscured from sight by masses of caterpillars, and the ground and swamps on each side of the track were littered with the fragments of millions of the caterpillars thrown from the wheels of pnssing trains, and from this mass an unendurable stench arose.

It is not known where the caterpillars came from. The farmers on this side of the Bwamp express no uneasiness for the Safety of their crops so long as the advancing army persists in using the trestle as its means of getting across the streams, for none of them have got more than half way across before a train would coma along and convert them into fertilizer. RUSSIAN STUDENTS DEFY POLICE. St. Petersburg, May 2.

The funoral of Schelgounow, the well known Russian political economist, was made the occasion of a great demonstration. The students of both sexes marched through thoroughfares in defiance of the police order prohibiting them from so doing, The latter had no suspicion that tho students would venture to disobey the orders issued, and were not out along the line of march in sufficient force to stop them. The police, however, afterwards arrested a large number of the students who had taken part in the demonstration and several of them were afterward. dismissed from their schools, and have been expelled from this city. Reports have been received here that, riotous find revolutionary meetings have been held at Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland.

MARKED BY THE MAFIA. St. Louis, May 4. Tony Pandolfln, an Italian, well educated and of good address, believes he is a marked man-marked for assassination by the deadly Mafia: While Pandolfln was standing in a saloon at Seventh and Elm streets yesterday afternoon, he was attacked by an unknown Italian and stabbed iu the left breast. Pandolfln attributed the attack to a remark he made to friends at the time of the New Orleans lynching to the effect that it served the dogs right." He believes the Mafia would kill him for the remark.

given the Johns Hopkins university by Thomas Scharff, the historian. A special! apartment like that occupied by the! Bluntschl library has been alloted for thei collection. Col. Scharff will have the col lection catalogued, aud it will take several, months to prepare it for thj use of the! students and historians. The quantity of material concerning southern history will afford much valuable information to the historical Prof.

Ely says that his students will prepare a number of -works relating to south-! ern financial history from data contained: in the Scharll collection. Among the works! to be undertaken are the financial histories; of all the southern states separately; similar treatise upon the finances of the; Confederacy, and a. history of Confederate: money. The collection contains specimens of all the certificates aud mouey ever is-', sued by the Confederacy. Only two other collections of southern! material in existence Hre equal to that in: the possession of the university.

One is iu the British museum, aud has been; gathered by agents who have devoted; their efforts especially to discover available material in the south. The other is owned by the Wisconsin Historical socio-; ty. Ten of the unpublished manuscripts were written in Kicbmoud before the Confederate archives nnd records were' destroyed. They are from the pen of James D. McCabe, who was employed in! the Confederate war department and for short time edited the Magnolia Weekly, file of which is in the Scharff McCabe wrote a history of the Confeder-! acy, covering the first two years of the war, and collected material for its complex tion.

The history embraces about twenty volumes of manuscript and scarce. any of Its sources cap now be reached. THE WESTERN TRAFFIC New York, May 6. The advisory board, of the Western Traffic association began, its session at the Windsor hotel this morn-; iing at 10 o'clock. All the lines were rep-! resented except the Southern Pacific.

Mr. Hughitt presided. Jay Gould was present, the Missouri Pacific. Mr. Marvin Hughitt, who presided at; the morning meeting, gave out this state-, me nt at the close: "The advisory board met this morning, all the roads but the Southern Pacific be-; ing represented.

At this session we only, considered changes in the rules nnd regu-j lations recommended by the The reason the Southern Pacific is not represented is that Mr. Huntington is too; far away to come. I knew that he would not be here." The great question as to what should be done with the Missouri Pacific traffic malinger Leeds and the cut rates, was bandied gingerly, and as far as the outside public was concerned, with the most discreet silence. Mr. Gould was penitential and said he was willing to abide by what-, ever decision the board might see fit to make, Mr.

Leeds had a long statement of thei circumstances, which led to the cut on; rates. He was called before the board to! read the statemeut. but (lid not. succeed inj finishing it before the adjournment of the meeting. He said harmony, seemed to be' he motto of every member, but it looked like peace that might easily assume a warlike aspect.

It was deemed prudent by the board to! withhold the publication of any part ofi Mr. Leed's explanation until it could be uiven out in complete form at the close of irhursday's session. A prominent member! of the board tonight expressed the opinion! that the meeting would close as it had be-! gun, in a spirit of harmony, and that, as a result, the association would be BRUTALITY AND ROBBERY. Arkansas City, May 4. Three' men entered the house of J.

A. miles east of here, last night while Mr. Wiqklino was at church, and demanded of his wife the money he had received for some cattle on Saturday. She refused to give it to them, and they beat her over the head with revolvers, kicked er and left her for dead. They secured $5 and made good their escape.

It is feared that Mrs. Wlckline is fatallr injured. Alargei posse of men are after the thieves, and if they are caught justice will probably be. dealt to them in a summary mauncr. i.