The Shawnee Independent du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 2

I STOCK AND FARM. KANSAS STATE NEWS. LATEST NEV.r& The Sliawneo Independent. Although it is widely known aaj one of the most corruptly governed cities in the country, New Orleans, affords an example of uncompromising justice in the administration of the criminal law. It stood its Common Council until its patience was exhausted, and now it is indicting and convicting boodle Aldermen with noble energy.

One, of the rascals was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, and many others are awaiting trial. It is not, often we look Fouth for example, but hero is a case that impels us to sit at, the feet of the Crescent City. Till us, oh. Mistress of the Gulf, how is it done? IIow do you land em? Condensed for Convenience of Hurried Readers. Governor Wnito ntul Mrs.

Waite, his wife, aro now both opposed to woman suffrage. Tho trustees of tho David Swing church in Chiongo are unanimously in favor of inviting Dr. Washington Gladden, of Columbus, Ohio, to come to Chicago and bo their pastor. Tho Nebraska institute for the. deaf and dumb in Omaha has been turned into a hospital.

Thirty of the inmates are ufilicted with typhoid fever and others aro threatened. Tho tin plate factories nt Pittsburg, and nt East Liverpool, Ohio, have coin-menced work, employing free workmen. The locked out union men are, as yet, quiet. Senator leffer figures that his party vote in Kansas was 105, 000 in 1800; 113.000 in 1892 and from 120,003 to 125.000 in 1894. He belioves that tho total vote in the nation this year will nearly reach 2,000.000.

I Sonator Cameron denies that feature of a Denver story which states that ho hus corresponded with tho projectors of the new silver party about to be launched and is in henrty sympathy with the movement. Export Little has finished his report on the financial condition of the Santa Fe Railroad company. He Jays most tho troubles to operating and maintaining unproductive lins, like the Atlantic and Pacific, Frisco, et al. Additional returns of Missouri reduce Dr. Hubbard's supposed plurality of GOD over Congressman Bland to ten, a number so small that it will require the official vote to determine whether Mr.

Bland is ai'ually defeated. Soar'et fever and diphtheria have suddenly out in Montreal. Seventeen cases of scarlet lever arid dipththeria aro known to exist in the Protestant Infants home and twelve in the Foundling home. There have been five deaths. It is reported at Panama that a sem i-official newspaper intimated that Guatemala has been assured of the friendly intervention of the United States, to prevent, if necessary, Mexicos threatened encroachment upon Central American territory.

The remains of Alexander III arrived at St. Peteisburg November 14. The procession from Ihe railroad station to the fortress, five miles away, was four and a half hours in passing. Twenty thousand people and 10,030 troops formed the escort. A struggle is going on in Kansas City, which is likely to result in numerous additions to tho population of the penitentiary of the state, from the election fraud gang.

St. Louis is at the same iod work. It is a non-partisan movement to punish crime. The official vote of New York city for mayor is as follows: William Strong, republican. 153.043; Hugh J.

Grant, Tammany, 108,775: Lucien Sanial, socialist, James McCullom, people's, 298; George Gettlen, prohibition, 83(3. Plurality. A party of (ramps camping on the edge of the town of Boone, Iowa, had a row and one of their number, a marble cutter named Hendricks, was beaten to death with a coupling pin and his body thrown into the fire. The police have caplurcd six of the gang. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says he thinks the populists will be able to exercise a more potent influence by keeping entirely aloof from entering into entangling alliances with either of the old parties, and it is his opinion that this is tha policy which will be pursued by tho third party in the senate.

Further reports from the south and east of England report enormous losses to property. A number of villages are inundated and the inhabitants of all the low lying parts of these places are being removed in boats to places of safety. The wrecking of several small vessels is reported front along the east and south coasts. Tho United States imports goods worth $25,000,000 from Jnpau annually and exports to that country goods amounting to It is believed by those interested that trade can be evened up. Two immense contracts have just been entered into whereby Chicago firms supply canned meats and cast iron pipe to Japan.

Mrs. D. Moody, a Chicago woman, is preparing to lay claim to a inodes fortune of $10,000,003 in Streator, property. Mrs. Moody claims to have documentary proof that a tract in the heart of Streator was granted to her relatives by the government over sixty years ago, and that the property was never legally transferred.

In the present congresu republicans hold only six of the 127 sats of the olid south. Democrats hold the remainder. There are no acknowledged populists ninong them. In the same states the repuplicans appear to have elected at least twenty-four members and the populists at least four members, to whom certificates will not be denied. Then there are a great many contest.

CiENEKAL. Wheat never was in better condition throughout the central portion ot the state that it is just now. Thousands of tons of timothy hay are shipped every year from Crawford county to Macon, Georgia, and Memphis, Tennessee. The receipts of hogs ot the Kansas City, stockyards last week were 41,773 against 19,120 for tho corresponding week last year. D.

W. Bevef ot Codar Vale, Chautauqua county, has a fiold of Kaffir corn which he declares will yield 150 bushels of seed to the acre. The Schwarzschild Sulzberger packing plant at Kansas City, is to be increased in extent until its capacity will be 1,000 cattle per day. At present it is killing but 400. This company is the one that inaugurated last spring the practice of exporting carcassos direct from Kansas City to Europe.

It kills high grade cattle almost exclusively. Arkansas City Trayolor: The farmers of Cowley county are having to pasture their wheat in order to keep it from growing too rank and jointing. The wheat was never in a more advanced growth in the history of the county, and unless it is pastured heavily or cold weather sets in, it will joint and the crop will be ruined. It is free from fly or bug, but fine weather is making it grow very rank. The acreage is the largest sown in years, notwithstanding the low price.

England, Commercial Circular: Two years ago the flour manufactured from Kansas wheat was not known on the London market. A few consigned lots arrived, but these went to the English millers to be mixed with their own product, and the value of Kansas flour was unknown to our bakers. The low price of Russian, Argentine and Ameri Ban wheat has enabled our millers to do Without foreign flour; so, to find a market for parcels arriving on consignment, our factors had to offer the flour to bakers. The result is that wherever the brands of Kansas hard wheat flour went bakers asked for more, and now Kansas flour is found in most of the principal bakeries London. Go to what bake house you like and you will see the now well known brands of My Queen, White Lily, Seal of Kansas, Red, Senate, Royal Lily, Argyle, etc.

Hearing of the demand for this flour, we spoke to some of our baking friends as to their opinion of it. Every one of them spoke of its superior quality, and said that it was the Hour to suit the London trade. It is easy to work, and not requiring so long a sponge as Minnesota flour, it produces as much bread to the sack as any flour in use. while the bread has a lovely soft goldon hue, and the flavor is sweet and nutty, recalling the flavor of the bread made from that prince of flours Hungarian in fact, one of our friends in the Ldgeware road who bakes 100 sacks a week, said he would prefer it to Hungarian, meaning, we presume, that, the flour and its cost suited his trade best. Kansas hard wheat flour is now finding its way into all our large bakeries and bread com-panies, and the demand for this flour is taxing the millers in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and other states where this wheat is grown.

KANSAS RAILROADING. The Santa Fe is having a hard time to fill its orders for coal cars. The train men are not kicking, however, so long as they are kept busy. The Rock Island is enjoying a particularly heavy California business at present. The west bound train that went through Topeka on Sunday was in two sections to handle it.

Holliday rates have been announced by the railroads at a fare and a third for all points within 200 miles. Tickets will be placed on sale December 24 good returning January 2, 1895. The Santa Fes big stock business from the southwest still continues. Lots of the cattle that is bothering the roads to take care of come from Mexico. Since the tariff on cattle has been removed by the Wilson bill the shippers there have been pushing cattle to the states as fast r.s possible.

The Memphis depot in Parsons was entered by burglars and an unsuccessful attempt made to blow open the safe in the office. The robbers drilled a hole through the door of the safe until the chilled steel lining on the inside was struck. They then placed a stick of dynamite ia the opening and touchod it off. The front lining, together with the knob and combination lock were blown off, but the safe was not otherwise disfigured. Topeka Capital; A movement is on foot to build a railroad from Winfield, southwest into the territory, passing the towns of Gueda Springs, Black-well and Pond Creek, to connect with tho Southern Kansas railway at Keystone, Ok.

This would make a road over 200 miles in length and crossing the best part of the strip. It will be built by private parties and possibly passed into the hands of one of the lines that center in Winfield. A meeting of the citizens will be called in a few days, and the surveyors are expected to begin their work at once and have the line established by January 1, 1895. The passenger and freight sections and shops will be located either iu Winfield or at Kevstoua. The manufacture of sugar nt the Medicine Lodge factory ia ended for the year.

Molasses will be made until tho cane is all worked up. The state grain inspector in Kansas City, inspected 702 car loads of wheat, 212 of corn, 116 cf rye during Ootober. Mail Agent Beard, on the Emporia express arriving at Ottawa at 8 :55 a.m. displayed a trophy in the form of a gory nutnan finger. Who owned the finger is Uncertain, but Mr.

Beard thinks it belonged to a postmaster at one of the way stations. Early in the morning a door in the mail car was observed to be open, and when Beard attempted to close it he found the finger in the jam of the door. He then recalled that a fiost master at one of the stations had umbled about the door after throwing in the mail sack, but a3 no outcry was made he paid no attention to him. He thinks the finger must have beeu his. The number of students now in- attendance at Kansas University is 200 greater than at the corresponding time last year, there being 801 resident students, distributed as follows: School of arte, 388; school of law, 40 seniors and 45 juniors; school of pharmacy, 16seniors and 37 juniors, and 11 specials; engineering department, 80s school of fine arts, 175.

This last includes music, painting and elocution. The increase in the number of young ladies in attendance is most gratifying. They now comprise fully two-fifths of all the students. From Logan: The store of John T. Schulze wras entered between 12 and 2 oclock a.

m. and merchandise to the amount of about $300 taken. Suspicion was at once directed to William Johnson, who lived near, and foot pirints increased the suspicion. A search warrant was issued and enough goods found to warrant an arrest. Johnson when arrrested, implicated his father-in-law, Martin Dye, who was arrested later in the day.

Search was continued and nearly all the stolen goods recovered in the afternoon. The prisoners had a preliminary examination before H. S. Brown, and both plead guilty to tho complaint. In default of $600 bail each they were committed to the county jail atPhiliipsburg.

The Oklahoma territorial council is composed of thirteen members and candidates for twelve of those positions are former Kansans. The house is composed of twenty-six members and there are eighteen candidates for tho House who went from Kansas. The list will be of interest. Those from Kansas making the race for council are as follows B. J.

Claridv, of Pottawatomie county; John S. Allen, of Douglas counry, A. C. Scott of Iola: John H. Pitzerof Stevens county; Dr.

Gillett of Pittsburg; Dr. J. M. Wood of Manhattan; O. It.

Fegan of Topeka; C. F. Prouty of Larnea George W. Coulson of Harper who represented Harper county in the last legislature; H. D.

Baker of Salina; George D. Orner of Garden City; Jack Jones of Medicine Lodge; J. R. Clark of Winfield; D. S.

Rose of Wellington. For the members of the House W. A. Scott of Iola C. C.

St. John of Garden City (a son of ex-Governor St. John) James Brown of Lamed; E. S. Simpson of Lyon county; W.

T. Little of Abilene William Myer of Washington; P. McCoy of King-man county; T. J. Palmer of Meade; George W.

Vickers of Coldwater; E. B. Baine of Kingman; C. G. Elliott of Jei-ferson county M.

W. Smith of Caldwell W. S. Denton of Medicine Lodge: George Steine of KiDgtnan George W. Bradfield of Harper; H.

A. Lamherson of Butler county; Frank A. Hunt of Sumner county W. A Knipe of Manhattan. Topeka Capital: J.

S. Collins of this city has sold the Swinburne ranch, the' price paid being $165,548.25, an average price of $13per acre. The ranchcon-tained about 12,710 acres. It was sold to eoventeen different men, the smallest purchaser taking 160 acres and the largest purchaser 1837 acres, each taking a deed direct from the owners for his purchase, thus dividing the land at this time among the respective purchasers, some of whom will subdivide their purchases into still smaller tracts. This is the most important sale ever made in this section of the state, as it will at once add at least 20 tax payers to both Shawnee and Jackson counties.

Judge M. L. Hayward of Nebraska City vias the largest rmrehaser and in addition to him the larger purchasers were Frank P. Bradley, U. S.

marshal of Iowa, the Hon. Thomas Bowman, ex-Congressman of Iowa, now postmaster at Council Bluffs, his nephew, E. B. Bowman, Geo. W.

Cable of Davenport, Iowa, Anthony Burdick, president of the Davenport Savings bank, Clinton Orcutt, capitalist, Oliver A. Kimmel, O. N. Nelson and eight others. The Swinburne ranch was owned by Dr.

John Swinburne of Albany, who died some five vears ago and left it to his wife, who also died, leaving it to eight heirs some three years ago. The ranch is well known not only in this part of Kansas but ia the east as one of the finest tracts of land in one body in the entire west. It is a very desirable purchase at $13' an acre, but a good Bale for the present depressed times, whon the large sum required to purchase it in one body is considered. Scms parts of the ranch are worth $30 or $40 an acre, but a very large part of it ia unbroken land. The sale indicates that among capitalists who understand what Kansas can do there is faith in Kansas real estate.

I. IF. Pack TOPEKA, KANSAS. Advices from Cuba arc to the "effect that the banana crop has slipped UD. California can grow richer than Croesus from its fruit crops.

They are of uncountabiy more value to it than all the gold mines between Mount Shasta and San Diego. A Philadelphia paper wisely in-forms its readers that the world annually uses 19,500,000 bishels of wheat and 25,000,000 bushels of corn. Philadelphia has the reputation for being very slow, but this beats all records. It has been several centuries si nee. the total amount consumed in the world was as stated.

An Indiana farmer claims that he realizes more than $1 a bushel on all his wheat by feeding it to hogs. An Ohio farmer 'found by actual weight that he made $1.17 per bushel on the wheat he fed his hogs. As both these incidents are well authenticated, farmers will find it profitable to utilize their wheat for feeding instead of realizing one-half or less in marketing it. The members of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture seem to be taking quite an interest in making a personal canvass for information in regard to the abandoned or partially abandoned farms in their districts, and much desired information is being obtained. It is not expected that the list will be greatly increased by their labors, as many such farms have been sold or leoccupied since the publication of the first edition of the catalogue, either through its influence or through other agencies.

If the press would only relegate all bullies, pugilists, prize fighters, trainers, champions, to their deserved obscurity, it would he a great relief to along-suffering public. It is hardly worth while to give hundreds of columns of valuable space to a set of humbugs, who brag, bet, get drunk, quarrel and challenge for months, only to sell a fight or get knocked silly whenever the momentous occasion is really Let the heithen rage if they want to, but for heavens sake let the daily press leave them to mouth and vapor by themselves, among the class to which they belong, and give its attention to somebody or something more manly, noble, honest, and courageous than the pugilist of the present day. The fall of Breckinridge illustrates the power of woman in politics, when she chooses to exercise it fully and earnestly. It demonstrates one other thing, which not every think- ing woman, 'perhaps, would be prepared to admit; and tliatis herpower is just as great now, if she brings it into play boldly and with decision, as it would be if she had the vote. It was the women of Kentucky, bless them, who laid ihe old unrepentant sinner low.

Had he claimed solely the forgiveness of society, it might have been accorded, in time. But he stood out with almost unparalleled audacity for a verdict against his partner in the scandal, and for his own triumphant reinstatement, which would have been equivalent to 1 espousing his side of the nauseous controvesy. This was too much. It was the act of an obstinate man, who knew that he was in the wrong, but who had not the moral courage to say so. Miss Anna Goulds exploits in Europe are sufficiently crowned by Queen Victorias peremptory refusal to permit Prince Francis of Batten-burg to continue his campaign for the millions.

The Gould family, having raced the Prince of Wales and been snubbed by him, and having flirted with the Iattenterg and been flouted by the queerf, have had enou acquaintance with the rebuff royal to entitle them to a coat of arms a cuff (crowned) surmounting a nose (tweaked). As for the prince, he seems to be as well suite! as can be imagined with the arrangement, ne has been living from hand to mouth, with enough to eat, of course, but hardly enough to gamble decently, and the episode, if it will not loosen the efueens pursestrings, at least has forced the frugal lady to promise him a suitable bride, competent to support him iff the way he was brought up to live. And so they were not married and they lived happily ever after. Ir was perhaps a natural desire on the part of the girl who wanted to be a beauty. But when she went to a beauty-maker and had her face buttered with cocaine and her system stirred up with electricity till one or the other killed her, she evidently made a mistake.

That is not the way to be a beauty. There is one way, however, and it is a good safe way, and we re ommend it to all the girjs. For every girl there is a fellow somewhere. This fellow, if she can find him, will fall in love with her, and once he is in love with her she will be, in his eyes, such a perfect beauty that Venus herself will not be in it. And if a girl is a perfect beauty in the eyes of the man, what more does she want? Therefore let the girls all find the right man and never 'mind the beauty-maker; for it is a plain and eternal truth that a man does not love a woman because she is a beauty, but he believes she is a beauty because he loves her.

Ohio has struck a blow at patent eggs, and the hen is to be given another chance. The Buckeye State Food Commissioner has seized a shipment of desiccated eggs and declared them unfit for food. The desiccated article is obtained from the eggs of fish-eating seabirds, which are secured by the million in the lowlands along the Atlantic coast. It is said to be used by hotels and bakeries because it is much cheaper than the natural hen fruit. It is clear to anyone that the hen would have no chance against competition of this kind.

Threatened by a patent egg which machinery can turn out by the million, she would simply have to retire from business and quit laying eggs. The discovery of the Buckeye commissioner that the patent article is Unfit for for gives the hen hope for better times. If State boards of health everywhere take advantage of this knowledge the joyous cackle, erstwhile subdued by the cunning invention of man, may again be heard in the barnyard. A weekly newspaper in the East comments on the fact that the European tide has turned. The number of immigrants has fallen off sharply, while there is a steady flow of emigrants toward the old countries.

The number of returning foreigners is reckoned at about half that of the immigrants of last year. This writer takes a most optimistic view of the situation. He affects to believe, that a large portion of the emigrant horde is composed of foreigners who have made their pile in this country and are going back on visits of pleasure and emigrants who prefer to spend their winters in Europe because they can live cheaply there. All this is plainly disingenuous. It would not explain a tithe of the' emigration.

The real cause ot the turning of the flood is the dis-lieartenment of immigrants by the bad conditions that prevailed last winter. Without work or hope work they were glad enough to seize an opportunity to return cheaply to the places of their birth, where they would te among friends. Emigration probably will be found to have' decreased in the last four months and we predict that before the new year enters, the reviving prosperity of the country will have checked it within its customary bounds. At the same time we must admit that there is force in the suggestion that now is the time to enact and more stringent immigration laws. Before the reflow begins we should have statutes that will effectually block our ports to all but the most desirable immigrants.

In some respects the present situation is valuable, for, while a few of the best ol recently arrived foreigners are emigrating, most of the emigrants art not adapted to American life, anc flooding Europe with these cast-offs, who return from the land of milk and honey disgusted and is bound to give a long pause to immigration. In the ihean-time tne country can prepare for the inevitable recurrence of the menace, 4.