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THE GliEATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST NUMBER. VOLUME II. VIRGIL, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY SO, 1890 NUMBER 29 VIRGIL REVIEW. ELECTRIC SPARKS. nesses and defendants in the Cross murder SINGLE TAX PLATFORM.

STANLEY DENOUNCED. ANOTHER SILVER IDEA. Resubmission Meeting: at Topeka. Topeka, May 24. The resubmission convention that has been advertised for some weeKs met yesterday, with some three hundred delegates present All the larger cities of the state were represented except Kansas City.

They were of all shades of politics. The meeting was called to order by president Allen, who has been the leader of the movement. In his address to the convention he announced the having power to shift it upon anyono else; how it adds to the price of nearly everything he has to buy, without adding to the p.iice of what he has to uoll-how it compels him to contribute to tho support of government in far greater proportion to what ho possesses than it does thoso who are much richer, and ho will see by tho substitution of direct for indirect taxation ho would bo largely the gainer. Let him consider further and he will see that ho would bo still more largely the gainer if direct taxation were confined to tho value of land. The land of tho working farmer is improved land, and usually the value of the improvements and of tho stock used in cultivating it boar a very high proportion to tho value of tho baro land.

Now, as all valuable land is not improved as is that of the working farmer, as there is much more of valuable land than of improved land, to substitute for the taxation now levied upon improvements and stock, a tax upon the naked value of land, irrespective of improvements, would bo manifestly to tho advantage to tho owners of improved land, and especially tho small owners, the value of whose improvements boars a much greater ratio to tho valuo of their land than is the case with larger owners; and who, as one of tho effects of treating improvements as a proper subject of taxation, aro taxed far more heavily, even upon tho value of their land, than are larger owners. Tho working farmer has only to look about him to realizo this. Near by his farm of eighty or one hundred and sixty acres he will find tracts of live hundred or a thousand, or, in some places, tons of thousands of acres, of equally valuable land, on which the improvements, stock, tools and household effects aro much less in proportion than on his own small farm, or which may be totally unimproved and unused. In the villages ho will find acre, half-acre and quarter-rcro lots unimproved, or slightly improved, which are moro valuable than his whole farm. If he looks further ho will see tracts of mineral land, or land with other superior natural advantages having immense value, yet on which the taxable improvements amount to little or nothing; whilo, when ho looks to tho groat cities ho will find vacant lots twonty-fivo by ono hundred foot, worth more than a whole section of agricultural land such as his; and as ho goes toward their centers ho will find most magnificent buildings less valuablo than the ground on which they stand, and block after block where tho land would sell for moro per foot than his whole farm.

Manifestly, to put all taxes on the valuo of land would be to lessen relatively and absolutely tho taxes the working farmer has to pay. case. Most of them are republicans and many are ex-union soldiers. The local post of the G. A.

R. gave them a public reception at the opera house last- night and invited all the ex-union and ex-con federate soldiers to be present. A largo number of people attended and quite a number of ladies were out. The crowd was composed of about an equal number of Kansas and Texas people, and good feeling prevailed. After an eloquent and patriotic speech by a one-legged ex- on federate, and another by Hon.

Joseph Waters of Topeka, Theodore Botkin, judge of the Thirty-second judical circuit of Kansas then took tho floor and proceeded to make a speech. He began by saying that he was informed that there were 400 ex-union soldiers in the city and not more than twenty of them had the nerve to join tho Grand Army. Then with all tho emphasis he could command he shouted" such people." He then proceeded with profane expressions interlarded in his speech for s.veral minutes, with astonishment, chagrin or disgust marked on every face. Finally Botkin said: "Jeff Davis signed an order to have 75,000 union soldiers starved to death, him." Disgust gave away to indignation an! in a moment John E. Ellis, editor of the Daily Times and a native of Mississippi, sprang to his feet and denounced Botkin as an infamous liar and slanderer.

A scene of the wildest confusion ensueJ. People began to leave while a crowd rushed around Botkin and hustled him out of tho house. It was plain to be seen that the Kansas judge was very much under the influence of liquor. After he was out of the room the Kansas visitors made speeches deploring the shameful affair and denouncing the judge. Loans on Farm Lands.

Washington, May 21. Senator Stanford introduced a bill for loans on lands and said that he would hereafter address the senate on the subject. It provides for the establishment of a land loan bureau in the treasury department. The chief and deputy chief shall be appointed by the presi dent, with salaries of and $5,000 respectively. The secretary of the treasury is authorized to prepare, ready for issue, United States circulating notes of the denominations of $3, $10, $30, S30, $100, $500 and $1,000, to the amounts as they become necessary, to be placed to the credit of the land loan bureau.

These notes shall be full legal tender for public and private debts, except for interest on the public debt or for redemption of the national currency. Any citizen of the United States or any person who has declared his intention to become such, who owns unincumbered agricultural land, may apply to tho land loan bureau for a loan, to be secured by lien on such land, the loan not to exceed half the assessed value of tha land. No loan shall be made upon land of less than $500 in value nor in sums less than $250 nor for a longer timo than twenty years. The loans shall bear interest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum, payable annually, and may be paid at any time in sums of not less than 2o per cent of the whole amount. In case of default of payment of interest or prin cipal of the loan the chief of the bureau may order a foreclosure of the lien in United States circuit court.

Counsel fees in any case shall be added to the judgment, but shall not exceed $500. Another Representative Tired. Kansas City, May 24. A special dis patch to the Journal from Washington says that Congressman Morrill, of Kansas, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for re-election. He says he is tired of the work.

It is understood that since pension matters assumed such a shape as to puzzle the friends of legislation for tho soldiers. Mr. Morrill has been harrased from all sides and quarters by those having hobbies, strained and particular ideas on tho sub ject, so much so, in fact, that congressional life has become a burden. When it became known at the house that Major Morrill would close his congression-al career with the present congress, members of all political parties, led by Con gressman Dockery, thronged around his desk and earnestly entreated him to reconsider his determination. Major Morrill was affected to tears by this demonstration of the friendship and confidence of his colleagues, but he sor rowfully informed them that his decision was irrevocable.

'Original Packages' Defined. Kansas Citt, May 21. General Devol, the internal revenue collector of this district, wrhile discussing the interpreta tion to be placed upon the words "original packages" of liquor, which, it is claimed under the recent decision of the United States supreme court may be freely sent into Kansas and sold there, said that a bottle of beer cannot bo regarded as an original package within the meaning of tho law. Regarding the question from the internal revenue standpoint. General Devol said: "No beer stamp is provided for a less quantity of beer than an eighth barrel, and brewers cannot bottle beer except such as is drawn from the" stamped kegs." He therefore concluded that an eighth barrel of beer is the smallest quantity that may rightfully be termed an "original package." The Santa Fe's Big Furchase.

New York, May 20. The principal own ers of the St. Louis San Francisco rail road stated this afternoon that the control of the company had been absolutely sold to the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Company. This deal adds 1,400 miles of road to the Atchison sj'stem besides giving it absolute control of the Atlantic Pacific railroad. The acquisition of the Frisco will give the Santa Fe a St.

Loui3 line, and will put in a position to fight the Missouri Pacific throughout its entire territory, cutting into its business by both the main line and the Iron Mountain. This gives the Santa Fe the immense mileage of 8,927.2 miles in the states, besides its Mexican ro id, the So-nora railway. The Atlantic Pacific is owned by and operated for the Santa Fe and 'Frisco and the purchase will give the Santa Fe all three systems. Protecting the Flag. Washington, May 23.

Congressman Thompson of Ohio yesterday reported Jrom the house committee on judiciary a bill to protect the American flagfrom des ecration by its ue as an ad vertising banner. The committee declares that the flag is the symbol of our national existence, power and sovereignty, and that it should be honored and reverenced by every American who is a lover of his country. It should be held as a thing sacred, and to deface, disfigure or prostitute it to adver tising purposes should be held to be a crime against the nation. The bill infro- duced imposes a fine of 4 -and imprison ment of 30 days for thus using the flag. Will Turn States Evidence.

Omaha, 23. Joe Shellenberger, the second defendant in the case of the murder of Allen Jones and wife, was dis charged this forenoon, and is believed to have promised to turn state's evidence Whipple Sherman, the third defendant, is to be tried soon, and the authorities will have a stronger case even against him, with their new witnesses, than they had against Ed NeaL who was convicted this morning ol murder in the Judge Nathan Scarritt, one of tho oiaes and wealthiest residents of Kansas City, is dead. Iman Gage of Chicago has been selected as permanent chairman of the worlds' fair committee. All the window glass factories of the United States are to be shut down for the summer June 24. The Russian language will shortly be made compulsory in ladies' schools in the Baltic provinces.

The president has ordered that the United States flag shall fly daily over the executive mansion. The widow of the famous British naturalist, Wood, has been granted apansionof $250 a year for life. Sixteen strikers at Nurschan, Germany, have been killed so far during labor riots. Military assistance has been asked. The French army is alleged to be strong.

er than the German army by twenty-seven batallions. And the French are happy. The Iowa Indians refused the proposi tion of the Indian commission for the cession of their lands in Indian Territory. Mrs. Sarah Rothschild of Chicago celebrated her 103d birthday last week.

She is as strong and as spry as a woman of 40. Wr. R. Smith of Atchison, has announced himself as a candidate for Congressman Morrill's seat from the First Kansas dis trict The workmen at the national tube works at McKeesport, have gone back to work, havinsr compromised the wages dispute. The wheat prospect in Texas is reported to be very bad.

Kansas and Missouri make the best showing for that crop of any of tho states. John Thompson, a farmer of Duxbury, Vt, is accused of having foully dealt with William Cota. aged 21, an employe. Thomp son has fled. Prince William of Saxe-Weimar, Ger many has been declared a bankrupt.

His debts, due chiefly to gambline-, amount to 243,000 marks. Governor Thayer of Nebraska is some what nervous over the criticisms he is receiving for calling an extra session of the legislature. The striking miners along the Youghio- gheny river in Pennsylvania have agreed to accept 1 cent per ton less than the Columbus scalo. The power house of the Electric Street railway at Laredo, was blown d-wn and four men were buried in the ruins and three were killed. Eizo Allen, confidential clerk for the Austin investment company of Kansas City, has skipped out with 10, 000 of the company's money.

Two earthquake shocks in Billings, Mont, Friday morning wrecked two houses, broke up a dance and ruined much glass and bric-a-brac. A cloud-burst at Johnstown, last Sunday frightened the people severely. but no other damage was done than fill the cellars with water. The various orders of railroad loborers' organizations are moving to effect a federa tion in order to co-operate with each other in the future movements. Frank Fish of Canandagua, N.

has been sentenced to die by electricity in Auburn prison during the week of July 12. He murdered a man. Kansas prohibitionists at Topeka have telegraphed the state delegation in congress to do all in their power to speedily pass the original package law. Congressman Wade of Missouri has in troduced a bill in the house to pay letter carriers in first class offices $1,200 per year after three years' service. Father McCann, a Joplln priest, has been forbidden to speak again on the sub ject of the public schools, having recently made a bitter attack upon them.

It is expected that the Santa Fe railroad will now build connections with their new purchase so as to make a direct line between Kansas City and St Louis. Tho council of clergymen of the Baptist church has found Rev. Whitman, of Joliet 111., guilty of the charges against him which charges were of gross immorality. An uncompleted span of the big Union rrilroad bridge at heeling, W. was swept away by high water.

The loss, which is immense, falls upon the contrac tors. The scene in the national house of repre sentatives on the day tne tarin Dili was passed is said to have been tha most exciting and tumultuous in the history of that body. An amendment to the sundry civil appro priation bill has been offered which gives $250,000 to continue investigation as to means of irrigating the arid regions of the West. Evarts and Hiscock, New York's two senators are not of one mind on the origi nal package question. Hiscock says there is danger that the brewery interests will be crippled.

A grand gathering of tho principal iron mine owners ana experts ana iron and steel manufacturers of the world will be held in New York, beginning in the latter of September-. John L. Bowden, a lazy fellow living at Chilicothe, put a pistol to his wife's head, fired, and then went out and put a bullet through his own worthless brain. The wife was not hurt John M. Naughton, secretary of the guarantee endowment association of San Francisco, who shot and killed James M.

Hern, the association's vice president, was acquitted Friday on the ground of self defense. The informal ocean race between the steamers City of Rome, Aurauia and Alaska was ended in the City of Rome winning in 7 days, 5 hours and 4 minutes, beating the Aurania's time by less than one hour. A scheme to seize Lower California, and after forming a provisional government to turn it over to the United States, has been unearthed by a San Francisco newspaper. A rich citizen of Minneapolis is president of the company. The monument of Vice President Hen dricks on the state house grounds at Indianapolis will be unveiled July 1.

Sen ator Turpie will make an address, and the President, Vice President and many other distinguished men will be present. Judge Hindman, of Nevada, Iowa, charged the grand jury of his court that the state has the right to abate nuisances, the supremo court of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding, and all places kept for selling liquor must be closed. The Rev. Mr. Martin, a Methodist minis ter, who was formerly a priest, who disappeared from Montreal three weeks ago, has reappeared.

He started to ra-embrace the Catholic faith and enter a but changed his mind upon finding his fam ily ties too strong. The Danish ship Thingvalla collided with an iceburg on her last trip across the At- antic. She was going full speed in the fog but the sh struck a part of the great ice which projected outward above the water thus the damage to the ship was not of a dangerous cUayftotfr, The single tax contemplates the abolition of all taxes upon labor or the products of labor that is to say, the abolition of all taxes save one tax levied on the value of land, irrespective of improvements. Since in all our States we now levy some tax on the value of land, the single tax can be instituted by the simple and easy way of abolishing, one after another, all other taxes now levied, and commensurately increasing the tax on land values, until we draw upon that one source ior all expenses ol govern ment; the revenuo being divided be tween local governments. State governments, and the general government, as the revenue from direct taxes is now divided between the local and State governments, or a direct assessment being made by the general government upon the States and paid by them from revenues collected in this manner.

The single tax is not a tax on land, ana therefore wouia not tail on the use of land and become a tax on labor. It is a tax, not on land, but on the value of land. Thus it would not fall on all land, but only on valuable land, and on that not in proportion to the use made of it, but in proportion to its value the medium which tho user of land must pay to tho owner, either in pur chase money or in rent, for permission to use valuable land. It would thus bo a tax, not on tho use or improvement of land, but on the ownership of land, taking what would otherwise go to the owner as owner, and not as user. In assessments under the single tax all values created by individual use or improvement would be excluded, and the only value taken into consideration would bo the value attaching to the bare land by reason of neighborhood, etc.

jluus tne iarmer wouia nave no more taxes to pay than the speculator who held a similar piece of land idle, and the man who on a city lot erected a valuable building would be taxed no more than the man who held a similar lot vacant. The single tax, in short, would call upon men to contribute to the public revenues not in proportion to what they produco or accumulate, but in propor tion to the value of the natural oppor tunities they hold. It would compel them to pay just as much for holding land idle as for putting it to its fullest use. The single trx, therefore, would 1. Take the weight of taxation off of the agricultural districts where land has little or no value irrespective of im provements, and put it on towns and cities where baro land rises to a value of millions of dollars per acre.

2. Dispense with a multiplicity of taxes and a horde of taxgatherers, simplify government and greatly reduce its cost. 3. Do away with the fraud, corruption and gross inequality inseparable from our present methods of taxation, which allow the rich to escape whilo they grind the poor. Land cannot bo hid or carried off, and its value can be ascertained with greater ease and certainty than any other.

4. Give us with all feet freedom of trade tween the States of enabling our people the world as per-as now exists be-our Union, thus to share through free exchanges in all the advantages which nature has given to other countries, or which the peculiar skill of other peoples has enabled them to attain. It would destroy the trusts, monopolies, and corruptions which are the outgrowths of the tariff. It would do away wiih the fines and penalties now levied on anyone who improves a farm, erects a house, builds a machine, or in any way adds to the general stock of wealth. It would leave everyone free to apply labor or expend capital in pro duction or exchange without fine or restriction, and would leave to each the full product of his exertion.

5. It would, on the other hand, by taking for public uses that value which attaches to land by reason of the growth and improvement of the community, make the holding of land unprofitable to the mere owner and profitable only to the user. It would thus make it impossible for speculators and monopolists to hold natural opportunities unused or only half used, and would throw open to labor the illimitable field of employ ment which the earth offers to man. It would thus solve the labor problem, do away with involuntary poverty, raise wages in all occupations to the full earnings of labor, make overproduction impossible until all human wants are satisfied, render labor-saving inventions a blessing to all, and cause such an enormous production and such an equitable distribution of wealth as would give to all comfort, leisure and participation in the advantages of an advancing civilization. The ethical principles on which the single tax is based are: 1.

Each man is entitled to all that his labor produces. Therefore no tax should be levied on the products of labor. 2. All men are equally entitled to what God has created and to what is gained by the general growth and improvement of the community of which they are a part. Therefore, no one should be permitted to hold natural opportunities without a fair return to all for any special privilege thus accorded.to him, and that value which the growth and improvement of the community attaches to land should be taken for the use of the community.

Who Would Gain By It? It requirf '3 no grasp of abstractions for the working farmer to see that to abolish all taxation, save upon the value of land, would be really to his interest. now matter how it misrht affect larg'e andholders. Let tho working farmer consider how the weia-ht of indirect taxation, fall upon hjim. without LU Englishmen Who Say tha Explorer Simply a Land Grabber. is There are Many on This Side Who Think So Too.

The Denver Bank Robber Is Under Arrest at Last. Stanley Openly Denounced. London, May 28. Persons of a peace able turn of mind, who have a weak spot in their hearts for arbitration, disarma ment and other non-warlike schemes, have had mucti to grieve them lately. In the first place Mr.

Stanley, who has been a sort of pet of these gentry, has astounded them by sneering at them in public as old grannies and fools. Nothing could be more cynical, nor more cruel than the explorer's sudden and candid declara tion of contempt for the peace contingent. Heretofore he has always allowed him self to be lauded to the skies, the pioneer of civilization and Christianity, the opener up of commerce, the deliverer of the blacks from the bondage of ignorance; the friend of the missionary, but now he throws off the mask and stands reveal ed as the gigantic land grabber, pure and simple: the acquirer of territory by peace able methods if possible, but if not, then by force, at least tho religious societies and peace organizations such of them as have recovered their breath since Stanley's recent speech are now saying these things about him. That Denver Rank Robber. St.

Louis, May 26. Mansfield King, the self-confessed murderer, horse theif and all-around criminal, in jail at Clayton, the county seat of St. Louis county, has been identified as Wells, the Denver bank rob bsr, who compelled Cashier Moffatt, of the First National bank of Denver, to hand over $21,000 in cash, in March, 1889, at the point of a revolver. King was arrested for horse stealing some some days ago by the sheriff of St. Louis county and placed In jail at Clayton.

After his arrest he was taken very sick, became communicative, and confessed to be the author of several crimes, one of which was the robbery of Cashier Moffatt. It will be remembered that he entered tho president's private office and holding in his hand a bottle of some harmless stuff which he representel to be dynamite, demanded the money or he would destroy the whole bank and all tho lives, his own included. The banker went to the cashier and got the money, which he gave to tho bold thief. Kemmler Must Die. Washington, May 23.

The supreme court of tha United States to-day denied the application for a writ of error in the case of Kemmler, under sentence of death by electricity. The opinion was by Chief Justice Fuller. The legislature of the state of New York determined that it did not inflict cruel and unusual punishment and its courts have sustained that determination. This court cannot see that the prisoner has been deprived.of due process of law. Xn order to reverso the judgment this court should be compelled to hold that tho court of appeals had committed an error so gross as to deprive the prisoner of his constitutional rights.

The court has no hesitation in believing it cannot do this. Train Wins the Race. Tacoma, May 25. George Francis Train stepped from a Union Pacific train at (5:45 last evening, completing tho fastest trip ever made around the world. He was gone sixty -seven days, thirteen hours and three minutes, but his actual traveling time was thirty-six hours better, he having stopped that length of time in New York.

He was in a great rage because some one had robbed him at Huntington, yesterday morning, of and because the Tacoma people did not furnish him with a special train, from New York to Tacoma, over the Northern Pacific. Crime of a Crank. Ssdat.ia, May 27. Thomas Williamson, a Salvation army officer, was yesterday arrested for the murder of a farmer named Jefferson Moore and his son Charlie. Williamson had been living with the Moores, who live about four miles from the city.

The body of the farmer was found in the cellar and that of Charlie was found uried in a field. Both had their heads cr ushed. The murderer when arrested was suffering from a dose of pois on which he had purposely taiien. lie con fessed the murder, and claimed that he was hired to commit the deed. Woman Suffrage Recognized.

Washington, May 22. For the first time in the history of the house judiciary committee a majority of the members to-day agreed to a favorable report upon a joint resolution (introduced by Representative Baker, of New York), providing for a con stitutional amendment to grant the right of suffrage to women. Twice before a minority, of the committee has reported favorably on similar propositions, and one of these reports was drawn by the present speaker, Mr. Reed, but a majority could not be induced to take favorable action. Imitating Moonshiners.

Nebraska City, May 27. Deputy United States Marshal Mercer and Mr. McLane, whisky trust representatives, went to the distillery yesterday afternoon and proceeded to remove the machinery. Several pieces were uncoupled, when a crowd of fully 100 citizens swoopsd down on the building and drove them out. Much excitement prevailed.

An Innocent Man Pardoned. Jefferson City, May 27. Governor Francis granted a pardou yesterday to S. G. Hawes, of Ozark county, who was con victed at the April term ot the supreme court of forgery and sentenced to the peni tentiary for two years.

The pardon was granted on the presentation of evidence to the govenor that Hawes was convicted oi a crime he did not commit. Forcing the Order. Washington, D. May 23. Tho presi dent having received information that the cattlemen are invading the Cherokee strip in violation of his recent proclamation he has instructed Brigadier General Merritt, commanding at St.

Louis, to rigidly enforce the provision of his proclamation against all persons violating the same. A Fatal Jump. Amsterdam, N. May 26. Michael Sheehan, aged 21 years, attempted to imitate Steve Brodie by jumping from th- Mohawk river bridge yesterday afternoon The distance was over thirty feet Shee han jumped head first and after striking the water did not rise again.

His body has not yet been recovered. Chinamen Drowned. San Francisco, May 26. Captain Ander son or the snip uneiaa arrived here last night on the schooner Mary Kimball. He reports that his 3'hip was wrecked April 26, on Hennine's rock, Laack island, in Bearing sea, and seventy-seven Chmamea lost of What "Wall Straet Would Lika in the Way of Silver Legislation.

An Iowa Senator's Idea Regarding Original Packages. Judge KTcCrary Dying: of Cancer of the Stomach. A Xew Sliver Bill. Washington', May 27 The silver bill prepared by Banker St. Johns, of New York, and introduced by Senator Plumb directs tho secretary of th3 treasury to purchaso monthly silver bullion to tho aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces of lino silver at tho market price, but not exceeding $1 for 3iil 2-V-100 grains of pura silver, and to issuo United State notes in payment thereof.

ILes notes shall bo lepal tender tor all purposes unless otherwise specified in any special contract. The secretary shall coin a portion of tho silver purchased, not less, however than $2,000,000 monthly at he may deem neces-secary to provide for the redemption of the United States notes. After two years tho minimum coinage requirement shall be reduced to $1,000,000 per month. Senator AVilson's Idea. Washington, May 27.

Senator Wilson, of Iowa, from committee on judiciary, reported tho following bill as a substitute for the original package liquor bill now under consideration in the senate: "That when any intoxicating liquors shall be transported from one stats or territory to another, or from any foreign country such liquors shall, when the actual and continuous transportation of tho same shall have terminated bo considered to have ceased to be the subjects of interstate commerce and be a part of the common mass of property within the state or territory and subject to the respective powers of the state or territory in respect of all police regulations of prohibition, regulations or taxations." McCrary Very 111. St. JosEpn, May 27. Judge V. McCrary, of Kansas City, who gerously ill at the residence of his George is dan- daugh- ter, Mrs.

Boteler, with tumor of the stom ach, is to-day resting somewhat easier, but the members of his family seem to realizo that he is a very sick man, and while he may, from the fact of his superb constitu tion, grow better, they do not feel that he can bo cured. A Xew nTexioan To wii Hurned. Alhuquekqve, N. May 25. A disas trous fire set by tramps has destroyed every house in the city of Coolidie, N.

except the railroad eating house and the depot buildings yesterday. The tramps had been loitering around town for several days and were infuriated because citizens had made preparations to drive them out. For three days they had held control of the town. Tribute was levied on the stores, the demands being emphasized by a show of weapons. I inally the residents were driven to wage war in self defense.

Their resistance enraged tne tramps and in retaliation, in flatneables were scattered among the buildings and set on lire. Before the ashes of the town were cool, a posso of citizens on horseback were in pursuit of tho tramps, nnd lynchings are probable. Tho leader of the tramps is boleived to bo Black Kube, a half breed and hard char acter. A Sad Catastrophe. Fam, Rivers, May 2(5.

At Watup-pa lake yesterday afternoon a party of twelve persons hired a boat and went rowing. There was a strong wind blowing and the water was rough. When the boat of pleasure seekers was within twenty feet of the shore one of tho children rocked tho boat. The men cautioned the child to re main quiet, but it was unmindful of this advice and suddenly the boat capsized. Edwin Turner was the only one in the party who could swim well.

He grasped John Buckley by the waist and although Buckley was a heavy man he succeeded in bringing him ashore. Two others succeeded in reaching shore, but eight women and children were drowned. In a Russian Trison. New York, May Herman Kempinski arrived here yesterday from Russia, where, although ho is a ituralizcd American citizen, ho was imprisoned for thirteen months on the charge of evading military duty. He returned to; Russia to visit his parents and was arrested.

He was finally liberated on a telegram from Secretary Blaine being laid before the czar, instructing Consul YVurtz to leave the country unless the the prisoner was released at once. Kempinski was compelled to pay out $1,000 to prison officials to obtain the common comforts of life while he was a prisoner and he will visit Secretary Blaine to see if steps cannot be taken looking to his reimbursement. A Younjr Man Kills nimself. Olatiie, May 23. Gustave Mall, son of Louis Mall, and a nephew of A.

E. Mall of this city, killed himself last evening at (5 o'clock at his home eight miles northwest. He went up stairs and took off one shoe. He then took a shotgun and with the toes of his bare foot pulled the triger, discharging one chamber of the gun into his chin, the load coming out a the top of his head. He died instantly.

The suicide was 19 years old, and ro possible cause can be assigned for the deed, except that he had not fully recovered from an attack of la grippe, woich came on last winter. He had apparently been in good spirits ever since, and attending to business. Tore Down the Flajs. Adrian, May 2(5. United Brethren at Ogden, near here, are bitterly opposed to secret societies in every form.

A few of the more liberal gave the local Grand Army post permission to hold exercises in their house both morning and evening. A mob surrounded the house, entered the church, tore down the flag's and threw flowers and vases out of the windows. A Kanias City Defaulter. Kansas Citt, May 21. City Treasurer Peake was yesterday discovered to be a defaulter to the amount of $23,206.16, and was suspended from office by the mayor.

Peake says he cannot account for the shortage, and professed to be dumbfounded. He was elected to tha office in April, 1889 to succeed Holmes, who is now mayor. IJig: Ueer Figures. Washington, May 21. The United States Brewers' Association, began here to day its thirtieth, annual convention.

There were present 200 delegates from all parts of the United States, representing approximately $195,000,000 in invested capital. A Drunken Judge. Kansas Citt, May 22. An associated press dispatch from Paris, last night Bays Judge Theodore Botkin, of Kansas made a disgU3tln2 exhibition of himself in that city on Monday evening. There were about people froai Kaasaj wife purpose of the gathering to be to induce the governor to call a special session the legislature to submit to the people of proposition to repeal the prohibitory con stitutional amendment He declarea that the resubmission republicans of the state have determined to call a halt, and will hereafter vote for no man or party commit ted to prohibition.

A committee was appointed to escort Governor HumDhrey to the hall, but after a half hour's waiting the committee re turned and Marsh Murdock of Wichita re ported that there seemed to be a misappre- hension; the governor would meet tnem as individuals, but not as a committee. He wculd receive a committee with a memorial and reply to it Another committee was then appointed, which soon returned and reported. The governor still declined attend, but repeated that ho would receive a memorial and srive it attention. Lucien Baker, tha prominent attorney of Leaven worth, said the time had come when the peoDle must arise above party lines and organize a state central committee. A memorial was read, and a vote taken that it should not be prasented to the gov ernor.

The memorial claims that prohibi tion does not prohibit, and declares that resubmissionists in the republican party will no longer support any man or party committed to prohibition. A series of resolutions was adopted citing the complaints of the resubmission ists at great length, and a motion was made to proceed to organize a party to carry out the purposes of the convention This aroused opposition on the part of Mr. Douglass, who said he was a republi can out and out, and nothing could drive him from the party. Any movement for organization must be strictly confined to the party. Murdock endorsed tho decla ration and Lucien Baker opposed it, but finally a committee of fifteen was appointed to define the purposes of the proposed organization.

Original Package Legislation. Washington May 20. Tne Senate to-day took up tho bill referred from the judiciary committee, subjecting imported liquors to the provisions of tno laws of the several states. Senator Wilson, of Iowa, who had introduced the bill in the first instanco, nd had afterward reported it back, addressed the senate in tion and advocacy of it Senator Vest said congress could delegate a power vested in it by the constitution to any state or any number of states. He believed that it could not.

To do so would be to destroy the interstate clause of the constitution and all purposes for which it was enacted. So far from having any unformity, there would be, in that case, diversity and hos tility. Missouri would shut out one articlo of interstate commerce, Kansas another, Iowa another and South Carolina another, and so on until there would be chaos from one end of the Union to the other. In Their Lust Resting Place. Cleveland, May 20.

Karly this morn ing when iakeview cemetery was tree from visitors, the remains of President Garfield were removed from tho public vault to the crypt in the monument, This is to be their last resting Tho coffin in which the remains place, were finally placed has for four or five years been encased in a metallic casket of great weight, and eight workmen were required to carry it to the hearse and into the tomb. The remains of the president's mother were also removed to the monument, which is to be dedicated on Memo rial day. Oklahoma Organized. GuTnKiE. May 23 The people of Okalahoma gathered here to-day to wel come the first governor of tho new terri tory, and the streets were crowded until walking was difficult and riding impossi ble, and yet with all this there was no dis order At the close of a speech tho govern or administered the oath of office to Judge Seay of Missouri and Judge Clark of Wis consin.

A grand reception was given in the evening and an opportunity was given to all to meet the new officers of state. The Tariff Bill Passed. Washington, May 21. The house passed the tariff bill to-day, with very few amend ments, by a very strict pirty vote. Ben Butterworth of Ohio, said he regretted that it was impossible to get a concensus of opinion on his side of the house (the repub lican sido) regarding the real merits of the bill.

This remark was cheered by tho dem ocrats; but when it came to a vote Butter worth recorded his vota with the party for the bill. Tho vote by which the bill was passed was 163 to 14 Wreck on the Alton. Kansas City, May 23. The Chicago and Alton limited train was wrecked just east of this city yesterday morning as it start ed out for Chicago. The engine crashed into a freight train on the Missouri Pacific track.

Three sleeping cars rolled down a ten foot ebmankment. The engineer and fireman jumped just in time to save their lives, and strange to say not a soul on the train was killed, though some half a dozen passengers in the sleepers were more or less injured. The Indian Messiah. El Reno, I. May 23.

Five thousand or more Indians congregated near Fort Reno, yesterday, to celebrate the event that Christ is upon the earth, and is now ia Dakota and that he will very soon destroy their enemies and resurrect their dead, "and give tnem ponies and replenish the forests and plains with Buffalo, which are already emerging from the north. This is cele brated by a song and dance interrupted by occasional wailng for the dead. Protected Her Daughter. Nevada, May 22. This morning Mrs.

Mary Klack, living in the eastern part of this city, fired five shots at a young man named William Forrest, two of which took effect in the left arm and shoulder. Forrest had been for some time past trying to entice her 14-year-old daughter away from home for immoral purposes, and she had repeatedly forbidden him to come on the premises. A Good Shot. CniLLicoTDE, May 21. J.

L. Bowen of this city, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill tiis wife last night. Being drunk, he imagined that he had succeeded, and then walked out and put a ball through his own bead, killing himself instantly. When he shot at his wife he missed his aim, but the ball struck a neighbor, W. H.

Raney, inflicting a bad wound in his thigh. Mexico tlrged to Further Retaliate. City of Mexico, May 20. The press of Piedras Negras complains of the effect of the United States law against importation of contract labor and demands that the Mexican government retaliate by compelling railroads la Moxicq to eiPP'Oy only Tear Away this Bar to Happiness. Lying athwart tho pathway of our nineteenth century civilization is a groat menance to the liberty of tho people.

This menace is tho monopoly of land tho monopoly of natural opportunities to gain a living on which and through which every other monopoly depends for its existence. It is because of tho monopoly of land that great armies of men and women are tramping the country unable to find employment. It is because of the monoply of land that in the centers of commercial activity poo-plo are huddled together like boasts, breeding diseases and raising to a fearful rate the death roll. It is because of the monopoly of land that industry and enterprise are put at a disadvantage with idleness and fraud. Land monopoly in the creator of a set of base-born children whoso hideousness is acknowledged by all, but whose parentage is not so clearly perceived.

Tho monopoly of land is today the great cause of ignorance and poverty; it is the adamantine wall that forms for the civilized communities of the world their unfavorable environment. To tear away this bar to happiness and good living in its truest sense is the object of the intelligent social reformer. He alone of the vast army of benevolent people who are interested in ameliorat ing the condition of the unfortunate and downtrodden sees the correct way of reaching the disease. And so he throws aside the plasters and palliatives pre scribed by prison reform associations, soup house societies and poor committees, aud applies the knife of the sur geon to the very root of these the monopoly of the opportunity of self-employ ment. If et roit JSews.

The Single Tax Encourages Improvements. Saginaw, Mich. A and own adjoin ing tracts of land of equal value and productiveness. At the end of ten years the improvements that each has mado in the shape of buildings, fences are equal in value; but A has worked very hard, early and late, and by means of thorough cultivation has brought his land to the highest state of productiveness, while li has been content to cultivate his land in a slipshod manner, and as a result his land is no moro productive than in the beginning. Now it is obvious that A's land has a greater rental value than IVs, not by reason of improvements on A's land, but by reason of improvements in his land, tho direct result of the exertion of his labor.

How are you going to avoid taxing A on one of tho products of his labor. W. P. lioi.ANP. Whenever it appears that labor in any form would bo put at a disadvantage under the single tax you may bo suro there is something wrong in your idea of the operation of the single tax.

Its great object is to relieve labor from artificial burdens and to make it free. The single tax does not fall upon improvements whether they aro on tho land or in the land. It would tax improved land for precisely what it would tax the same land if it had not bcea improved. In the cases you mention, both tracts having been of equal value and the productions of the one having been increased by labor and that of the other remaining as it was in the bo-ginning, both A and would bo taxed alike. And the taxes of neither would be any more than when they took up their tracts, unless ITs land roso In Yftlus despite slipaosi 'Uej i m-1 US.