The Arkansas Valley Times from Sterling, Kansas • 1

Vis TI ARKANSAS VALLEY VOLUME I STERLING, KICK COUNTY, KANSAS, TIIUH8DA JANUARY 10, 1868. NO, A Destructive Mores. Prevention of Tattle PIifum, TtAVAOES OF THE STOllM. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. DOMESTIC.

STATE NEWS. riRR itEconn. St. Faot Hum, January 13. Tu storm was without toepUon, ami oonaidering the extent, the wont that iuia aver been experienced in the northwest.

The tuow to tua depth of two feet on the level and from live to fifteen feet in ouU, waa sufficient to almost suspend the ronnlns of trains, but aided to this, the high wind which blew In some parte and the blizzard which raged ia others, it baa suspended railway business entirely. Freight train ware bung np early yesterday, not wheel moving after noon- day. The passenger tratna on by one fol lowed suit, and by 8 o'clock last night there was no attempt at running train at any point west of St Pul Eastern lines, how- over worked bard to keep their line open, but without mooes. At fi o'clock this morn ing the report were very discouraging. Branch line train wsrs all abandoned at junctional ooiuU last ntirbt.

and it is uncer tain when they wilt or ti-jd. It is thought mat roine or them win be oiueed six ween. The wiud i blowins hard on almost all the iVimOTo, D. January 12. The senate committee on agricultural gave a hearing this morning on beuutor 1'almer'i bill to extirpate contagious pleuro pneumonia, foot and mouth diseases, rinderpest among enme, ur.

ajoi Anuts or Uiuongo. ti, Wilaon and O. P. Johnson, of the Illinois board of Live block commliwkmera. and Couirraiutman Monhaue.

of Nebraiska. and Ueleirate Carev. of Wy. oming, apiarea in support or the bill. Vr.

Allies iiotea as sKikaman, In the absence of major lowers, or Kansas Citv. nrealduntor the Consolidated Cattle Orowern' association. Dr. Ames said the bill differed in but one alight respect from the bill Daaeed the aenata liuta session, and which was recommended for passage tlia lefflslutnra in eleven atalea and by as many board of trade. He said the movement bureau of animal industry bad been in operation three years and the opinion of thosa moat interested had nroven inadequate for Uie emergency.

The march of the disease had been suos that the secretary of the treasury bad intersected the imoortation of cattle from Hcotland, whence much of the disease comes. In this country, east of the Allegbenies, a nnmberof uter of the dhwSe and west of the Allegheniea, while there are no new centers of disease, it ia be lieved there tenons danger of its breaking out afresh. The fear was expressed that the disoaaa rniuht reach th rauiros where it would be iinnoasibla to eraaicaie lb it waa estimated tlmt pleuro pneumonia tmosg cattle had already caused a loss OI twentv to Uilrtv nullum dollars, besides a loss ot $10 to 1S on aoa neaa or cams exported to ureat Britain. w. wi r.iJvi VI I Will 4-1(1 14.111.

On the constitutional features of the bin a new point was urged, th speaker maintained that as six of seven states were quarantined against eacn otner on account of the die-euse, it constituted snoh a hinderanee to the interstate commerce as to warrant aonsrea- sional action. WAsnrNOToa. D. C. January 12.

Th liu? 7' eBU V- "Ted "a b' Pped ont. Thestormlhim in mow, but himself. Whan fonnd thov half mile gossip of the hotels to-night is the prize ALBUQCEnqnc, N. January 18. A tight in high life, the contestant beinr the heavy snow fall between Flagwtaff and Wilson of Senator Jones, of Arkansas and the bams, Arizonia, on the Atlantio Paoifio son of Attorney General Garland.

Both of railroad ha suspended business onjthat road. inene young men are Araausann, sou uuta no trains nave leit Alouquerqne ovtr tin prominent iu society, having recently ofli- I line for the patt forty-eight hours. Arointed at a wedding in Washington. A th I rangemeut have been made with th Bt. l'iur, January 11 Lom of Ufa by the great blizzard of Thoraday is shown to bav been very great.

By far the largest number of casualties are reported from Dakota. iiaiuiuitn. eatiunry xuure- day forenoon just before the biizxard struck. a party of aevun farmers liviuu twenty-Ova miios nortnweai sturiea lor ineir name. The renort come that the bodiee of four of them have been found dead, beurchlug par-tie are lookiuir for the otliera.

Tht school at In wood waa dismissed In the midst of the blinding biizxard and two it.gruld oblldron wore loet in the storm. Other were likely to have periabed. Two farmer started from Bridge witter to Marion dunotion and perished on the way. xusTHBsiraa omdai-tim. Hdbom.

Junnsrv 14. Ilrslilve Tlinm. Oilkenson, Kmil Uilumn, Hubert Cham ber, and an nuknown man were reiiorted dead up to last night, Thomas and illiain Nelson were found frozen to death tins morning. They live nine in ties wt of town. Joseph r.

wit sou, living in the same neighborhood, is aiao musing. were a from the house, and a large St. Bernard dog was with them. Th boy ear the dosr barked all night and hi father called for help; that hi father did not die till an boar before th rescuing party reached them. The boy i only slightly frozen.

A party of fonr that started for Lake Byron an boar befor the storm ha not been heard from. THI nLIZZABD AT LIXOOIJC. Ltncolm. January 14 The weather to-aay na been the oaldust or the season, the thermometer going down to 18 below. and it ha not been above 18 below for the bar" of fatali.

ties from hursday storm ia still ooming in. Mrs. P. 8. Marsh was frozen to death while returning home from a neighbors at oodlawn.

ohn sparks. an ex-mem ber of the legislature was found frozen stiff and died within a quarter of a mile of his home, nine miles from Beatrice. Euiill Oroasman, of Peru, a farm luborer, was found dead with in twenty rods of his house. A child named Bodine is reported missing from bis home near Nebraska City. Railroad travel is again badly interrupted.

TBI BT.IZ7.ABP AT CIUOAOO. Chicago. January 14. Last nisht the thermometer registered nearly 12 degrees below zero. The weather is now moderating rapidly, bnt the signal service officer says another blizzard is on the way.

'Ah tem perature at various points in Minnesota and xjftKout rageu lasi nigui irom as- greet below zero. Till XfOST SCHOOL OHTbDBKK. Gabbison, January 14. Three child ren of John Dent Inzer, who attempted to go home from school during the storm of yes terday, lost their way and remained out all night. When they were found this morning one was frozen to death, The other two may recover.

TEN BELOW AI WELLINGTON. Wellington. January 14. A bliz zard reached this city at midnight; ther mometer iu degrees bolow zero at 1U a. m.

wind blowing thirty miles an hoar; cold in creasing. Convention of the Wool Interests, Washington, D. C. January 14. The oon- ferenoe of representatives of the various branches of wool intorost has adopted the following resolutions: 't he representatives of the national asso ciation of wool manufacturers and of th wool growers' association, speaking as they believe for all the persons engaged in both tw nnnitinn.

in the States with nmnlRim only individual exceptions, proclaim anew their deep conviction that the protection by tariff of the production of wool and of the manufacture of wool is demanded Dy tne best interests of all the American people. The increase in the clip of American wool from 60.264.913 in 1R59 to 802.. 000,000 pounds in 1885 while the imports of foreign wool advanced only from 20,282,935 pounds to pounds within the same period, demonstrates the effect of protective duties in promoting sheep husbandry in this country, and in thus adding to national prosperity and wealth. The faot that the reduction of the tariff on wool in 1883 was immediately followed by a decrease in the number of sheep in the country from 50,626,626 in 1884 to in 1887 gives warning that the abolition of the duties on wool would seriously cripple the raising of sheep in this country, which is the third pro- dnoer in Quantity among the nations, and Tuesday. muu'ia.

Wasuinuto-i, U. 0., Jiuumry senate couiuiiitoe on eluctiou made a int. jority and minority report on the matter of inn couuriiinuou or air. Ijiniur. The re- uioinlitirn In the majority rort roi'oinuuiud that the nouiina- uon be li -t continued, wliiltt the Uuuiooriilio luuiiibeM recommended that lie no continued, 'i be atpoiutiueut of a lent committee ou roHtal telcurauh wa luduu.

nite'y potoued. Mr. Cliaudler introduced loaoiutiuu lUHiructuig the judiciary com. mittoe to inquire into the suppression of the colored vote lu Mississippi, Tu re. o'uuun wan tabled.

toi nousa. ttABUiMorow, D. 0., January 10. The nous oomiuittoe on bankinir and currency ordered favorable report ou Mr. Wilklus' out 10 nx we circulation or national bank I note at par'valii of the bonds deposited in the tn axnry.

lieurMeutativo l'helun. of Tenneiuee. In- irouuoeu iu me nouse to-usy a Joiut resolution nropoxing an amendment to the tution, authorizing congress to graut aid to tne puuuo schools or the several states to an amount not to exceed kl0.GOU.uuo aimnnllv. Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, introduced bill fur tue erection or a puuuo imililing a.

Atchison. Delouate Cuiu. of Clan. tireunUiil constitution oi the proposed state or ut a with a memorial ankiug for admission into union, also a bill for that purpose, all of nuii-ii was ruiorreu. Wednesday, TBJt SXJUTS.

WasniNaTon D. 0. January II. Very little business was transacted in the senate. Mr.

Hole delivered a speech criticizing the civil service reform ss conducted by the present administration. Mr. Alandcraon introduced a bill to increase all invalid pensions to Fs per month. A statement acoomnauing the bill ears that it will in crease the uenaion of 1K3M veraous now carried on the rolls, ai will increase the annual pension payments by TBI BOOTH. WAsirrHOTOJi.

D. January 1L Mr. Mills ottered a resolution referring the pres ident's message to the oommittee ou ways and means. I he resolution waa agreed to. The house then went into a committee of the whole on the "Little deficiency bill" A long debate ensned.

end during its pro- cress the aneution as to where the responsl. unity for tne detent or tne aonciency out at the last session rested, was folly discussed. The custom of holding baok appropriation bills received nousiderable attontion. The bill was passed. Thursday- THE SENATE.

Washington, D. January 13. A reao. lution was passed instructing the committee on judiciary to inquire into the suppres sion oi negro votes at daokson, at a recent municipal election in mat city, and also as to the part taken in the same by the federal auth orities. The resolution waa passed by a vote of za to 2.

TUE H017BB. Washuioton. D. C. January 12.

On motion of Mr. Rodgers, of Arkansas, a bill was passed to punish robbery, burglary and larceny in the Indian territory. It fixes the maximnm punishment for these offenses at $1,000 line and fifteen years imprisonment. Mr. Wilkins, of Ohio, under instruciions tromtne committee on hanking and currency, called up for present con sideration a bill providing for the issue of circulating notes to national banking associations.

Mr. Wilkins stated that under this measure national banks, if they saw fit. might increase their circula tion to the extent of 10 per cent. There was in the treasury security for the circulation of Unit States bonds to the extent of If this bill should become a law.tbe circulation of the national banks would be largely increased. Friday.

TBS SENATE. Washington. D. January IS. Mr.

Vance, of North Carolina, addressed the senate on the report of abolishing the internal revenue tax being in favor of the same. The Blair euuoauonai oui was taaen nil and Mr. Gray severely criticised the same, and especially that portion which re- auire'8 Bchool books to be tiled with the sec- rotary of the interior. Mr. George ad- dressed the senate favoring the bill.

Hena- tor merman offered an amendment to the deficiency bill bv Drovidicg that all claim ants entitled to money under the provisions of the bill shall be allowed 6 per cent interest from the time when the deficiency bill of the last congress failed of passage. THE HOUSE. Washington, D. 0., Janunry 13. Mr.

Hatoh, of Missouri, from the oommittee on agriculture, reported the bill making appropriations to carry into efleot the provisions of the act to establish experimental agricultural stations, to committee of the whole. He reDorted a bill making appropriations to carry on and to effect the provisions of the act to establish experimental agricultural stations. Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, from the committee on Indian af- fmrs. renorted a bill for the sale of certain New York Indianlands in Mr.

Morrow, of California, from the com mittee on foreign affairs, reported a joint resolution appropriating to ename the covernment to partioipato in the inter national exhibition to be held in Melbourne in Apitil, 1888, Monday. THE SENATE. Washington, D. January 16. Mr.

Lamar was confirmed by the senate in secret session as a judge of the supreme court, by a vote or Si to z. Messrs. Vilas and Dickinson were also conllrmed. Among the petitions presented in the senate to-day was one asking tor a change in the postal laws so that "paper-bnok novels, blood and thunder pieces," shall not be sent through the mails as second-class matter, paying one cent per pound) while school. law, scientific and religious books have to pay eignt cents per potma.

THE HOUSE. Wasatngton, January 16. The following bills were introduced: By Mr. M. Outwaitte, Ohio Amending the Pacific railroad acts and to secure to the United States the payment of all indebtedness of certain companies therein named.

Mr. Landes, of Illinois To reduce the treasury surplus and to grant bounties to wheat growers. By Mr. Anderson, of Kansas To prevent the contraction of the currency by the withdrawal of national bank notes from circulation; also to provide for the issue of fractional currency. Mr.

Anderson, of Kansas, offered a resolution directing the committee on commerce investigate the extent, cause and effeot the interstate commerce, of the continued failure by the Beading Railroad company to transport such interstate tramo, and report to the house by bill or otherwise. Mangled by a Train. Atchison, January 16. William Calhoun was struck by a Santa Fe train this afternoon near Potter Station, this county. He was brought to this city and under the supposition that he was dead, the coroner wa) notified.

It was found that while he was frightfully mangled, life was not yet extinct. Both bones of right leg were broken, the left leg was terribly lacerated, and he was severely cut and bruised about the head. It is believed also that he is injured internally. He was walking along the track closely muffled, and account of the wind he did not hear the whintle of the train approaching him from behind. He is a farmer and ha a family, i a i the the of Tbe Kansa City "Star" Office Baru Kansas Citt.

January 10. Th office the Kansas City Evening Star, on Hint street, between Delaware and Wyandot! took nr this afterboon about and in two hour waa alinoet completely stroyed. The fir started in the sub-bssd. meut and the flame spread so rapidly tin the rtiiorter and printer had to flo for Tti. 1-.

im I a. II .11 salnnaled at JO, Out), th damage being presses, machinery, type, etc They are in aured to the extent of C17.UUO. lt iron Smith, owners of the baildins.estiinate thei loss at kSJ.UJO. with an insurance of tTfi.OuO. Uther minor loaae make the total foot up between ana A Heroic Chicago Mercilmat, CmoAno.

January 16. At the residauoe of Joseph Horner, th well kuowu No, lKitli Miohigan avenue, shortly after midnight, th woodwork over the heated furnace caught -tire. Mr. Horner swose with a stilling sensation and aroused her husband, and he. matching no the little girl, rushed into the hallway.

The flames and uok wr sweeping ap th stairway with ins inerrnomaier is degrees below zero. 1 he exDoaur meant almost certain death. Approaching this he returned to th front room, (sized a couple of wraps and by this tims the stairway wa on tire and escape seemed cut off, but with his wife and child, Mr. Horner staggered down the stairs to the street. Horner then started baok into his house to save the two servants asleep on the top floor.

Th flames at the toot of the stairs scorched his face and singed his hair, but undaunt ed he made hia way to tl servant' room. Both were partly suffocated, The flame had eaten their way through the stairs by this time, but the courageous inau feuding both servants got safely through th stair. As he stepped upon them they teemed to drop rrom under him, and when he reached the street the niirht dresses of ths servants were on fire. The alarm was then given and tbe flames extinguished. JJOSS (lU.UW.

A Variety Antress Burned to tfeath, StkubenviiiLb, Ohio. January 1(5. Caln'i variety thaatre burned at 6 this evening. I he flames communicated to Cain a hotel aoross the street and caused a lively scram. ble among the guests.

Anna Devoe, an actress from Pittsburg, who was asleep in her room on the third floor, was burned to death, all the others escaped. The loss on the theatre cannot be ascertained, though it will be quite heavy. All tbe performers Jom their wardrobes. 1 he principal dam age to tne hotel as by water. Dr.

Mnmford's Denial. Kansas Citt, January 1C Sensa tional stories of suffering in Kansas have been telegraphed over the country lately, whiob, grossly misrepresenting the facts, are an injustice to that state. When these ru mors were first set afloat the Times sent special correspondents to different districts, which were said to be suffering. They ia' vestigated th situation thoroughly and I am therefore enabled to tell just what the fact are. The weather in Kansas bas not been unusually severe this winter.

A few weeks ago there was a scarcity of oosl in some quarto rs.owing to the inability of the railroads to furnish oars, but happily an r' nndanoe of fuel was provided before the cold weather came, as to the general sunering in Kan sas. it has existed only in the minds of irre sponsible correspondents. There has been a JKr immigration ouring vne pas year ana large immigration during the past year and naturally there are sporadio cases of i destitu- tion which have been promptly cared for in the communities where they have occurred. All things considered, Kansas ia having a satisfactory winter with fine prospects for big crops. It is in very much better condi tion than any other newly settled territory.

(Signed) mobbison muiieobd, Editor Kansas City Times, A Bad Wreck, Lashed. January 16. At 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning a wreck occurred near this city as the mixed eaBt-bound train was coming in over the Chicago, Kansas ft Western railroad from Jetmore. The large new engine No. fi2u, just put on this road last night, was entirely demolished, the boiler only remaining intact.

Tbe engineer and fireman both jumped and sustained little or no injuries. Over Pawnee river, half a mile from the Santa Fe depot, the switch the entire train was thrown from the tracks and before it could be stopped the engine was in the midst of the river sus- pended between the two bridges by the points of the oow-oatcher and the hubs of the drive wheels. Assistance arrived from Niokseron at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and the wreck is being cleared away. The west bound passenger train on the Santa Fe, which arrived here at 1 o'clock, will probably not leave till luiuuittuu. Speaker Carlisle Sick.

Washington. D. C. January 16. Sneak- er Carlisle has not been well for several days.

This evening, while at dinner at tbe Kiggs honse, he was taken suddenly and seriously ill and reached his room with the utmost difficulty. Dr. Sowers was called in. who pronounced the attack a chill of the congestive order and administered the proper treatment and advised the speaker to keep quiet for several days. as he was in great need of rest and his nervous system greatly impaired.

The illness of Mr. Carlisle will doubtless prevent bim from presiding over the house for the next few days. At 1 a. m. the speaker wsb somewhat 1m- nroved and tne man lever mat ne nan eariv 1 1 in i i 1 uui huuiiliv hukuij.

A Good Showing For Kansas. Abilene, January 16. Speoials to Daily Gazette from Brookville, Wallace, Scott City, rjalina, Solomon, Enterprise, 5 rw.n; riknnm-r. uuumuuiiii iuhuiuumui) vdviuiu, uopuiou, Junotion City, Clay Center, Hope, Hering- ton and other towns reports little or no suffering from lack of food or fuel. Cattle are also reported in good condition.

The few cases of suffering among poor people have been attended, and they have been relieved, either by neighbors or the municipality in which they live. Coal i reported a little scarce in Salina, but no other place. Only three families in Abilene are receiving help from the oity. Wingard Gives Cp the Fight. Wichita.

January 16. Win card. who has been showing fight for the ofllce of coroner against Percy, the demoorat lately elected to that poition, this evening met the attorney for Percy and handed him the keys for the office, saying that the fight was over and he would not attempt to meet the suit filed by Percy yesterday. Ex -President Grevy Stricken Down. Pabis, January 16.

Ex-President Grevy snffered a stroke of apoplexy last Monday night, and has since been confined to his bed. His condition was kept a secret as long as possible. This is the second apoplectic attaok he has had. A. Resolution Bj Mr Anderson of Kansas.

Washington. D. C. January 16. Mr.

An derson, of Ksnsas, offered in the honse this afternoon a resolution directing thecommit-tee on commerce to investigate the extent, cause and effect on the inter-state commerce, of the continued failure by the Read ing liuilroad company to transport such inter-state traffic, and report to the house by bill or otherwise. It was referred to tbe committee on commerce. I Th msrt young reporter la Washington who sent kIihiu wfmiiol luuolilu tu CJiiol Justice Wait so Hint lis ouultl writs up tin tory nil noil it to the newspaper wa 'Thursday lined $1UU fur attempting to obtain money by fuUe preteuses. i Jndg HMvns, of th Uulted Stutss dlitrlot at Uubuuue, Iowa, titu rendered a decision ngaint what are known a fie ktliditHii lii.rli.wir patents, under which Uio iWaslihurn-Moen oontpauy hu meted viuit iroyaliie from manufacturers mid laid heavy taxes upou farmers UHinir barb-wire fences. (The defendants in the suit proved that ths toriginal barb-wir fence wua invented as long ago a lou, or fifteen year prior to jthe jstu of the Glidden putsnta.

3 be case fwill be apponled to Uit luitod Slate supreme icooru I Senator Deck hai been renominated bv 41)6 demooratio caucus in lb Kentucky (legislature, and will be elected next Wedno- hie tliird oounooatiTe term. James Harriett, an American engineer of the Mexican Ueutral railroad, wan released from more than year' nujuat conflneuient in a loathsome Chihuahua jail, Monday. Mr, Burnett waa all thin time awaiting trial, which, when at lust given, found him not guilty. Mexican justice ia very tardy, and natives, wnen arretted, do not expect a trial for a year or to. The Americana in Mexico are general in the opiuion thnt there ought a treaty atipuintion lor speedier trials in Mexican courts of Americana arretted for aooidenta on railroad.

It ia believed Hint in lingiueer Hurl ytt's cane there are far better grouuda for a demand for a heavy indemnity than in the ense of Cutting, and it ii understood thnt he is making arrangement for bringing hia case and just claims before the state department at aahington. The Andrew Jackson league, a new political organization recently formed in Chicago, gave its ltrt nuiilio meeting aion day night at Control Munio halL The cliiuf event of the evening was the erieech by lion, W. 0. Coudy, a prominent lawyer of thnt city. The mot striking fonture ot the rptcea was the advocacy of tlio opinion that ench cewdpaper editor, reporter or contributor should sign his name to every artiole he writes.

That no newnpaper should publish a line that! wna not reliably oridited. Mr. Condy stated that he beleived the press to be the greatest power in the conntry to-dny, greater many times than all others put together, and the public should know the authority and writes of every line that ap peared the newspapers. A runaway train at St. Elmo, Colorado, Thursday, killed the engineer and the fire, man, who remained at their posts, hoping to get the train nnaer control.

A New York dispatch of Thursday, state that the New York harbor longshoremen may strike. A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch gives an account of the remarkable endurance and lonirevitv of Dfrnntv Sheriff McCl09key. whose neck was broken by accidontal shoot ing. MoCloskey lived three days alter he was shot, notwithstanding he had received an injury which ordinarily produces instant death. A prisoner was brought to Nevada, Mis souri, Thursday, who wns sentenced in Ue- dar county, Missouri, to a uue nna su nays imprisonment tor stealing a on cent um brella.

A new York dispatch stntes thnt Boston's twelve oas com climes are lu procoBS of con solidation into a gigantic trnst organization, covering property to the value of $14,000,000. orgtunusation of-thareal estate men of that part of Kansas along the line of the Rock Island road, beginning at Manhattan and ending at Pillipsbnrg was perfected at Clay Center, I nursday. u. M. razier, ol Clay Center, was elected president; K.

A. Hallowell, Belleville, vice president; E. K. Elliott, of Manhattan, secretary, and B. 8.

Granger, of Phillipsburg, treasurer. A very full attendance vu had and a good meeting held. A complete organization was formed and a plan lor the spring worn lormuiated. A resolution was passed Thursday by both houses of the Mississippi legislature com mending Mr. Lamar to the American people.

The Louisville Courier Journal printers struck, Thursday. The trouble arose about type machines, fourteen of which are now used in the Courier Journal office. The company announces that it will put more of them in the office. The Texas wool growers association met in Fort McKavitt, Texas, Wednesday, and pased resolutions viewing with alarm the position taken by the president, and aPPar- ently endorsed by the majority or the house, avonng the abolition of the tariff on wool, and stating that it is impossible to compete with foreign countries in the growth of the wool product and gave the figures to prove it An effort is being made at Arkansas City to get a pardon for "Hank" Mowry, now confined to the state penitentiary under sen tence of death for the murder ot J. Smith on August 21st, 1885.

A counter petition has also been circulated aiad signed i i Dy several uuuuieu uuiiuiib ijiulob.iuk ncrainet his cordon. This remonstrance will tin forwarded to Governor Martin by a spe cial messenger. Howry's murder of Smith was coldblooded in the extreme, and the general opinion about Arkansas City seems to be to increase his punishment rather than to pardon him. Mowry is of an influential and wealthy family. Smith, whom Mowry murdered, was attempting at the time to nrevent Mowry from shooting another man, against whom he waa incensed.

The Blizzard and Oklahoma. Gbtjda Spbinqs, January 14. The heaviest blizzard of the season struck this section last night with a high wind and a light snow from the north. The thermometer this morning was seven degrees below zero. Trains not delayed.

Dr. Holland and brother, of this city, have just returned from the Oklahoma county. The doctor reports cattle in fine condition in the territory, and says cattle men all say they expect the territory soon to be opened to settlement. Wichita's Small Pox. HnTOirmsoN, January 11.

The News to-day sent a special reporter to Wichita to make a careful investigation of the smallpox scars. He reports eight cases np to date, two of which got well and another died; the remaining five at are at the pest honse, and are getting well. The matter has been greatly exaggerated, and all kinds of startling stories have been sent abroad. There is nothing in the situation to warrant the great alarm Kansas State Republican Club. Lawrence, January 10.

Efforts are being made for a state organization of the republican clubs of Kansas. The leading clubs favor the plan. Vice President J. W. Hamilton, of this state writes to the club of Liawrence thnt a state convention will probably be called to meet in Topeka about January 26.

Violating the Internal Revenue taws, Spbinofield, 111., January 10. Eleven citizens of Paxton were brought, hi re to-dny on indictments for violating the iLtarLal revenue laws through the machinery of tue private club for drinking purposes. Three of them, John Bruyn, Tliomat Grayson und John Oorbett, pleaded guilty and were fined. The rest are at liberty on their own recognizance. It is understood that indictments have been found against forty-two others of the same club who have not yet been brought in.

Safe Blowers at berby. Wichita, January 10. Last night the safe in the depot at Derby, a town south of here, was blown open and all the money and valuables carried away. The trunk of the station master was also broken open and a quantity of clothing and a number ot valuable papers stolen. There i nooiot, the burglars.

of By to on the on Lsnti has opened ft thirl department ot ito schools. Artesian City ia the name of a new town iu Meads oonutv. Clark county claims a fine pmnptot for big crops this year. Dodgn is booming an add'tion on the south side ot tbe river. Asliliind bos a drr.matio company that visits neighboring towns.

Ford oonnty baa tamed over SI 00, 000 in bonds to the Book Island. The Johnson City State bank has been opened with aopitaI stook ot 8oott has a circulating library assooia tion ot forty-one members and on ton dred volumes by standard authors. To a sn.it over a pair ot old halters. rained at about 75 cents, in Santa Fe, the orate aroonuted to over SCO. The Leavenworth agent of the Louifli- ana lot for run ont of tickets last week, having $110 cash offered bim tor ticket whioh be was unable to supply.

Jonathan G. Lang, tbe hero ot Sena tor Ingall's famous artiole on "Catfish Aristoarany," died at his home at Unrulier, Atohison county, last week. A large number ot range cattle were taken up in Hamilton and Morton counties and held for damages. Most ot the owners paid up and took away the animals; b'lt there are some who declare rhey will have their stock and let the farmers whistle for damages. Work on the Syracuse artesian well han been stopped at a depth of between 800 and 900 feet.

The contractor undertook the job for 81,200, none of whioh was to be raid until tua completion or the well. He has gone broke on it, and au attempt ia being made to raise money so he can proceed with the work. Leavenworth Times: Is is said that a company will be organized to bore for ool at 'Huron, Atchison oonnty. The indications for a heavy vein are good, because there are now several small veins being worked along creek banks which give an excellent quality of ooaL General D. W.

Wilder, state superin tendent of insurance, has figured it out that the railroads of Kansas, if laid side by side, would cross the state twenty times. The state is fonr hundred miles long and there are eight thousand miles of railroads within its borders. fit- John Canitnl: We are reliable informed that William Blake, a young man who is now teaching school iu Hayes township was arrested Wednesday, for flogging an 18 year old lady, a young widow, who was attending school. We were unable to learn the name of the young widow. Young Blake is only 21 years of age.

Kansas will be entitled to eighteen delegates to the next national republican convention, which meets iu Chicago in June two from each congressional dis trict, to be chosen by district conven- tionp, and four to be chosen by a state convention to be held in Topeka, May 1st. Newton Republican: Four thousand pounds of buffalo meat have been brought into Garden Citv, aud contracts have been made for a regular supply ot it during the winter. And yet it was reported years ago that 0. J. Jones bad condncted the last buffalo hunt in the southwest.

Garden City Sentinel: It is reported that every settler who has proved up on two claims in this land district will be visited by a special agent, who will in spect the land to see if the law has been complied with strictly. It is also hinted that 160 aores in addition to a tree claim is all that most of them will be allowed to hold. Cherokee Sentinel: Our citizens were shocked and suprised last Saturday morning by the report that J. F. Price, ot Blue Front fame, and one of our oldest citizens and merchants, had failed.

He had mortgaged his stock to some of bis creditors to the amount of about $5,600, and they had taken oharge; he oontinu to close out the stook as their agent. Fort Scott Monitor Mr. S. B. De- Lauo has had the natural gas, at the well on his farm, burning both day and night for about two weeks now, and finds that the flow is steadily increasing in volume.

Indeed, so satisfactory is the evidence to Mr. DeLano that the gas is simply inexhaustible that he is going to work at once to put in jets and beaters at his residence, and will shortly utilize his disoovery for domestio purposes generally. Guard Press: The four-year old son ot J. E. Thorn, of this oity, burned himself with powder last Thursday.

A small flask of powder was left so that he onuld get it, and before his parents knew what he was doing the boy threw it in the open stove. An exploetion followe 1, and the boy was badly burned about the face and head. The stove was blown to pieces. We learn that he is recovering, though he is suffering considerably. Hoxie Demoorat: On last Monday, an event took place in Hoxie whioh may never occur again, viz: The final proof of three brothers who were all the same Bgp, being triplette, aged 26 yeara William, Wallace, and Walter Teppy, born at the same time, made entry and fettlercent on their land and made proof the same day, and all made loans of th br me firm.

Jewell County outer: A druggist at Burr Oak, named Borum, is resisting a foreclosure of chattel mortgage in a novel but effective way. He posted a notice upon Lis door "Don't break and below he drew a oomn, then he locked himself in the room and armed with a couple cf revolvers he has succeeded in holding the fort. An attempt was made to smoke bim out, but was unsuccessful, sides that another storm, or a continuation of the present one is expected to strike Minnesota Sunday, in which cause there is no in uww f.UK w- telling what the result will be. It is raging in Idaho to-day with the ther mometer at various point along th North ern JVaoiQo as low as degrees below zero. Manitoba rerxrts.

from the northwest, in dicate a cold wave with high winds ooming tha' rection. In fact tilings look so dubious to-day that railway men will not venture an opinion when tramo will again be resumed. Kaon line is ontting forth every effort to keep their Chicago line open but even that ia almost an impossibility. At noon to-day not a train came in, th Omaha limited being reported nearer than any oth er one. TBI (TOMt IS THI SOUTRWBST, Southern whereby regelar Atlaiilio ft Pacific passenger trains will ias over that una until the blockade is opened.

AT WICHITA. WienrrA. January IS At mMnluht the thermometer shows zdeirrees below zero and all trains on time. No suffering from sold na Deen reported. A Question of Law In Whisky Cases.

Wichita. January 18. The trial of the whisky cases assumed a new bhase to day, when Judge Sluss moved to quash an indictment found by the grand jury against one of his clients, on the grounds that Assistant Attorney General Uallowell has no power to sign an indictment as osaistant attorney general. The counsel argued that the assistant attorney general is not a sworn ofUoer, and has never executed a bond; also that the title of the act under wluch bis client was indicted is an act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, which does not specify that the act prescribes penalties and creates the office of assistant attorney general, and counsel argued that the title should specify exactly what is intended in the measure, and for these reasons claims the act to be unconstitutional. The ludse of the district court hat taken the mutter under advisement.

Woman ttaffJraglaU mlt JLanr. Madison, January IS. The supreme court room was crowded to-day bv ladies desirous of hearing the anrnments in the woman suffrage case. At a late hour this evening the judge took ths matter under advisement, tne arguments baying lasted uninterruptedly from 10 o'ciooJC this morn ing, ibis case came up on an appeal of mrs. inruia rt uiie-xrowa.

oi AsciiK. wno tried to vote for municipal officers nnder the law permitting women to vote on school questions. Mother of ths I.ate President Garfield. Cleveland, January 13. "Grandma Garfield," as President Garfield's mother is called by those who know her, ia ill at the old homestead at Mentor.

She wants to see "Jimmy." as she terms ber dead son. end olthoug not very sick, it is tnougni inat ber end 1 drawing near, at sue is very agea. 17-Year-Old Suicide. WiimviiO. January 12.

Elmer Har- 1 J-ci 1 1 1 roid, tne n-year-om euu ui lawwn wniium. living five miles southeast of Dexter, Bhot himself in the head last night night. No reason is assigned for the suioide. MAIlKETKEPOim Kansa City Grain and Produce Market Kansas Citt. January 17.

1888. ThA Tlnffv TnrifnAfrip rannrta! WHEAT Keoeipts at regular elevators sinoe last report 82t bushels; withdrawals, 1,838 busa-els, leaving stook in store, as reported to the board of trade to-day, bushels. COKN Keeeipte at regular elevators since last report, 1,828 bushels, and withdrawals buih- els, leaving stock in store, ss reported to toe Board or trade to-oay, uu.ttti Dusneia. 1 O--1. 1 JIUm January, no bids, 46c asked; February, no bids, UHo asked; May, 47 Xo bid, 43 aelced.

OATM Nn. 'a eiuh. no hidt 2Bvto asked: Jan- nary, 28o bid, 29Ko asked: February, no bids nor offrings; Hay, 82Wo bid, 82o aeked. On track by ample No. 2 oats, mixed oath, Slo: No.

2 oats, white, cash, S2o. RITE No. 2, oah, no bid, no offerings; Janu- ary, wo ma, no offerings. ii i it 1 1 1 wiArirAr. finn nm nrm.

OnnhiHniM are fnr Alitjihliahiid brands in lota, per half barrel in sacks, ss follows: XX, Wo: XXX, 9W1 00; family, $1 15gl 25; choice, 11 SO fcl liO; fancy, $1 BS1 70; patent, S3 053B2 10; rye, 4uwi dv. rrnm viiy mum uiguu. miLiAi BA'utJr eieaav. 1 ruUng Quotanons tor car low mm fnl I Com meaj gran, Q2i4o: kiln dried, 07Wo; corn chop, yellow, per 100 lbi, BOo bnlk; 8S0 saoked. Hhipstaff, per 100 lbs, bulk Slo; sacked, 800; bran strong; consignments from first hands, bulk not wanted, sacked O80: 150-lbsao77Xoi on orders ur nnniu nhftronH.

HAY Keeeipte 1 cars. Btrlotly fancy is firm at $9.50 for smull baled; largs baled tO.CO; wire bound, one less; medium sna poor bcook bictujj. OIL CAKE Per 100 lbs. saoked. SI 26; til IX) per 1,000 lbs; 00 per ton.

Car lot 19 00 per ton. BDTrEE Reoeiots'of rolllare.marketstedy. Wa nnntn- frf-emerr. fanov. 27m aood.

22A250: fine dairy in single paokage lots, lr)20n; store paoked in single package lot, choice MwlHcs poor and low grade, roll, gooa to onoioe, ISfillSR. CtiEEBE quote: FuL cream, twins, Uo; full cream. Young America, 13Vio. EflG8 Receipts light and market firm at 19o fnr strictly fresh, lamed and preserved not wanted VfllTLTRY Chickens, firm: larsre at ti 250 2 40 per dozen; small, 2 00; old hens and roosters, large, tl 50eU 75 tnrkeys, fat, at l)87o per pound: ducks, 12 tOtga US per doi- geese, 3 du4 do per dozen; areeeeu oniei- wis. In ligbt receipt and nrm.

drawn not warned. Chickens, fresh arrivals in good demand at 7 8c per turk 8, 8o per lb dnoks, fat, Do per geeBe, poor, 8o per fat, Oo per pound. PltOVISIONS We anote: Round lots, sugar eared hams.llc per fb. breakfast per dried beef. salt shonlders.

S5 75; long oletr, S7 OU; clear, 7 1U; snort clear, 7 ekS 8 shortokarr.8 70. Kansas City JLlve Stock Market. Kansas Cm, January 17, 1S88. The Live Stock Indicator reports: lit. 1,2110 used: shipment 239 head.

Shinning and dri-sseil beef steers steady; choice cuws and butchers firm, common weak. Good to choice, corn-fed, $1 25S4 common to medium, 204 20; stookers, SI 8082 50; f.riers, 2110 25; cows, $1 253 00; grasssra, xi mas uo. HOQS -Ueceinta 4500 hstdi shlnmoDU. 1 500 head, Market weak; 5o lowor for choice ana sm 10c lower for common. Good to choice, t5 V0i 50; common to medium, Si 7t5 25; mi, i An Bkiosand SHztsr- Heoel pis, neaa; supmnnw.

i Market wa Bteviy. Good to choice, (4 00i common to medium, 12 uug9 li. would thns increase the price of wool I Santa Fe and the Chicago, Kansas West-all over the world, while the oon- era tracks are only eight feet apart, and seauent destruction of sheep would near this is a switch. In passing over the story goes the two youth became involved in adixpute over a game of billiards, and the quarrel which followed led to a challenge, Marquis of Cueensberry rules were agreed upon, and the yonng men retired to a barn in tne subnro of Washington to nghtit out. Ed Donnelly, the chamnion middle-weight of Washington, was cboeen referee and the pugustio scion of the house of doae ana Uarland stripped for the fray.

Young liar- land, who is index clerk for private claim in the bouse of representatives. is a light-weight, who tips the beam at about 115 pounds. He is slender and dudish in appearance, in which resDeot he resembles his antagonist. Young Jones is also a light weight, whose avoirdupois possibly exceeds that of Garland bv a few Dounds. Atths barn a ring of the regulation size was pitched and the tight opened.

The first round ended in a knock down for Garland, and when time was oalled both were much winded. The second, third and fourth rounds were uneventful, eaob lasting about four minutes. In the fifth round Jones cot in a right hander on Garland's neck nnder the jaw, and the descendant and heir of the Attorney general went to sleep under the ropes. This ended the fight, and the referee gave the fight to Jones. Young Garlnud went home in a haca.

The friends of the two youths are inclined to treat the affair as a social bout with stoves, but the referee and specta tors declare that it was a mill worthy of more pretentious pugilists. A Southern Paeiflo Disaster. San Francisco. January 12. A ter rible railway disaster, which will probably be attended with much loss of life, occurred about midnight last night near Sumner, on the Southern Paciho railway.

The north bound Los Angeles expreiw had passed aoross part or the uojave desert, and had just passed nuer, when the roar oar, filled with emigrants, became detached in some way, and began to run down the heavy grade. There was no brakeman on the car. and no one on the rest of the train was aware of the accident. On sped the oar filled with its sleeping passengers, and when it reached steep curve it suddenly plunged over an eighty-foot embankment. At the car reached the foot of th embankment flames burst forth, and several or the unfortunate pas sengers injured by the fall were unable to be removed belore they were fatally burned.

The details are extremely meager, but it is known that many were severely burned and that several will die. All the injured were removed to the neighboring stations. The accidentia the worst that has happened on this road since the Tehachapal disaster sev eral years age Bent Murdock't Condition. Washington, D. 0., January 13.

Colo nel Marsh Murdook. editor of the Wiohita Eagle, is in the oity, accompanied by Bent Murdook. his brother, who was recently editor of the 1 Dorado (Kan.) Kepublicun. Rent Murdook. who is one of the most prominent politicians and editors in the state, and vigorous in both mind and body.

was a few weeks ago suddenly strioken blind, and now croDes hi way darkness. For mnnv vears the sinht of one of his eyes was defeotiv owing to injuries received at Chattanooga during tbe war, but th total darkness which now enshrouds his vision came uDon him suddenly and without warn ing. The two brothers nave been in isew York and Philadelphia the past few days, where exnert oculists have examined Bent Murdock's eyes. They universally express no hope for the restoration of sight, although they admit there may be such a pos sibility. A Shrewd Ticket Swindler Captured.

Nsw Yobe, January 13. After eroding the detectives for a year the man who, repre- senting nimsen as a brother or Marcus B. Mayer, so successfully swindled the resi- dents of the City of Mexico out of nearly $30,000 by a spurious advance sale of tick- et for a series of concerts bv Mme, PattL ba been arrested aod is now locked up at police headquarters. He is, and has been suspoatuu, Charles Bourton, of New York, a rennnman nooui years of aire. The swindle in the Oity of Mexico is not the only crime for which be is wanted.

He was one of the most successful and darcerous confi dence men, and has operated suciMatfully ail over Europe. A Strike In Henry Watterson' Offloe. Louisville, Janunry 13. Over one hundred printers, a third of all union print-ers here, have been on the Courier-Journal pay rolls. To-night, all these, except six, are on strike, The strike against the job offices in progress several weeks was largely supported by these men by a ten per cent, assessment.

They will now need to be supported, and another assessment of printers throughout the oountry must be made. Already applications from twice the number necessary to fill the oases have been received. W. N. Haldeman.

pres ident of the Courier-Journal company, said this afternoon: I will give to any good men who want to come baok a chance. But we canuotbrin. ZZ hr fTtWlnts me? ere and sive them only temporary employment. After 10 o'clock to-morrow morning the men will be at their cases to stay. If any of old men wish to return they must do bo before that hour.

From this time this is a non-union office, snd men who come back will come independent of the union. "Me Too" Piatt Ousted. Albany. N. Jannarv 13.

The iurv in case of the state against Thomas O. Piatt, to oust him from the position of quarantine commissioner of the city of New York on the around that he is not a resident that oity, this morning return a against Piatt, 5 materially affect the supply and the price of wool and to a considerable extent of I all oroductions. and inasmuch as the man- nfitotnran furnished in 1880. 81.9 rer cent. of woolen goods consumed in the United States, although in I860, only 62.8 per cent.

of such goods were produced mis coon try. no reauotion in ins tarm can do neces- sary to afford the American people a lull snpply and abundant competition in fabrics i .1 I Wulun eilier UIW use IU OV 01 miuuf nun 1IA I whioh th price for like qualities compare favorably with those in foreign countries. Union Printers Will Stay Oat. Louisville, January 14. In response to the offer of W.

N. Haldeman, president of the Courier-Journal company, to take back such of the striking printers as should return by 10 a. m. to-day, none returned. The offer was accompanied by the statement that at the hour named their plaoei won Id ba permanently lined and they were.

An hour afterward President Amison, of the International Typograpical union sought a conference with Mr. Haldeman. He was told that the hour had passed and th new men had been put on the oases stay. JNotmng could ba dona There are a hundred annlications for placet from printers different parts of tbe conn. -j a iry sou uy ouuuuy ujgu.

unpaiHiinii of the Courier-Journal Company's printing establishment will be manned by competent 1 men. New operators will be at work on tlu Linotypes. The Kansas City limes Sued. Kansas Citt, January 14. On Friday nicht, HvAiicelint Snm Small Drenched a sermon in which he referred to Henry Dixey the aotor, as a "blackleg gambler who had lost $1,500 at dice in Son Francisco and then squealed." M.r.

JJixey, upon seeing tne above expression the Times this morning, at once made endeavors to have Mr. Hmnll nAlled to account learallv. for what Mr. Dixey terms a lie. gotten up by a San Francisco reporter.

Finding that Mr. Small could not be well reached nnder the laws of Missouri, Mr. Dixey filed affidavits charging the Kansas uity limes witn enm-inal libel Papers were served on Dr. Morrison Mumford. the editor, this evening, and he was released on his own recognizance to appear Monday morning, Mr.

Small has I been subpoened as a witness. Judge Crosier' Decision, TiuivvuwonTH. January 14. Judge Crozier deoided to-day that the appointment of an assistant attorney generoi Dy tne attorney general to enforce the liquor law is constitutional. He also practically decided that civil suits may be brought against the keepers of tfaoaer.

liquor, are sold, to join them from carrying on the traffic or knniiinu them at resorts for drinking. The thermometer shows to-night that the mercury is from 10 to 16 degrees below zero. A Whole District Suspended. rirwrauNATi. January J4.uowara Douglass, supreme chanoetlor of the world, Knights of Pythias, has suspended the en-tire jurisdiction of the grand lodge of th state of Pennsylvania for disobedience of orders.

The disobedience consists in retus- ing to amend the constitution in certain particulars as had Deen previously requireu. (ihancellnr Dnnslass will cite tbe officers of tne grand lodge to appear oeiore mui uiii- ary 21, to show cause why the charter should not be arreted. i i.