The Iola Daily Record from Iola, Kansas • 1

I THE IOLA DAILY RECORD. SIX PAGES. IOLA, KANSAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1904. OLUME VI. NUMBER in.

GRAIN SHIPPERS IN TOPEKA. TRIES 3 FAITHS; NOW NUN. PREDICTS A VICTORY BANDITS GET DEMAND, THE ALLEN HEARING 4 PITCHED BATTLE, 7 MORE SERIOUS TROUBLE NEAR VICTOR. v- MAJOR MUKOL SAYS JAPS CAN TAKE ARTHUR. SULTAN OF MOROCCO ACCEDES TO RAISULIA.

Jim Allen Charged With Shooting at Miarshal Crotchet on Trial Illinois Girl Enters Convent After Embracing Trio of Creeds. Mattoon, 111., June 9. After embracing three creeds, Methodist, Epis copal and Roman Catholic, Miss Mary Rice, daughter of U. T. S.

Rice, a prominent business man and superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school, today took the final vows at the Convent of the Visitation at St. Louis. Her parents and two sisters who objected to her step, returned today from St. Louis, where they pleaded with her to reconsider. Talien Wan Bay Cleaned of Russian Mines Other Items Concerning the Far East War.

This Will Probably Lead to a Speedy Release of Perdicaris and His Step- Son. Miners Wrecked the Office of the Victor Record Today Used Guns and Hammers. Contest on for Control of Farmers Co-Operative Association. Topeka, June 9. There is a spirited fight among the stockholders of the Farmers Co-Operative Shipping association who are meeting here today in annual convention.

The association is made up of farmers who market their grain through elevators owned by their association. The fight for the control of the organization is between James Butler of Kansas City, president of the association; C. B. Hoffman, of Enterprise, manager, and H. N.

Gaines, of Topeka, who prints the official paper for the association. Each of these officers has a following among the stockholders and each is trying to gain control of the association and drive the other two out. There are ninety stockholders in the association and nearly seventy-five are here to attend the annual meeting. The stockholders are farmers and grain men doing business in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. POSES AS HERO; IS UNMASKED London, June 9.

Major Mukol, formerly military instructor of the Japanese army, says the Japs can take Port Arthur when they think the right moment has amved. Tokio, June 9. The Japanese have taken 21 more mines from Talien Wan bay. While doing this they found the wreck of the Russian cruiser Boyarin. Washington, June 9- The Sultan of Morocco has acceded to the demands of Raisulia, the bandit king who holds Ion Perdicaris, an American citizen and his English step-son, prisoners.

It developes that the sensational story sent out yesterday by a press association that Admiral Chadwick landed marines yesterday to protect Belgian consulate had as its founda-tio nthe fact that two unarmed men were sent there because the Belgian consuls wife is an American. This news was cabled to the state department by Admiral Chadwick who says the Morocco minister of for eign affairs has given instructions to this effect. This foreshadows the release of the captives. It is believed the ransom demanded is $50,000. Railway Employe Confesses After Supposedly Saving Train.

Milwaukee, June 9. M. T. Rattiff, section foreman at Kenosha whose promotion has been ordered by the railroad company for his supposed heroic work in saving a passenger train from destruction, has confessed that his story was a fabrication and that he piled ties on the track himself in order to appear in the role of hero. The police today forced the confession.

Ratliff will be discharged. THE NEWS IN BRIEF, Victor, June 9. Eighty armed men wrecked the Victor Record plant today. They held guns on the I printers while they demolished, linotypes and presses. They ordered the editor, Walter Sweet, and two assist ants to leave town.

They have not yet done so. ll Victor, June 9- A pitched ibattle between the military and union miners was fought at Dunnsville, the new mining camp, thirteen miles out of Victor, shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon. John Carley, a union miner, was 'killed. The troops returned to Victor bring ing with them fourteen captives. It was reported before the special train left for Victor bearing the force 'under General Bell, that the miners in the hills about Dunnsville about 250 men, and that it was V'jheir intention to march into Victor in a body and that an attempt would be made to liberate by force the in- mates of the temporary bull pen in Victor.

DAYS TELEGRAPH REPORT BOILED DOWN. SERENADE KILLS BRIDE. LEVI LEITER DEAD. WSar in San Domingo Coburn Issues Kansas Crop Bulletin Other News. Notes.

The preliminary hearing of Jim Allen charged with shooting at Marshal Crotchet on the evening of May 24, was being tried before Judge Hough today. The hearing was not nearly completed when Uie Recard went to press. Marshal Crotchet told about the same story of the shooting as he did the next day and which was published at the time in the Record. He said that he was walking along on the north side going toward the and when directly in front of the stairway leading up stairs over Fryers grocery store and about 27 feet from the corner of North street, a shot was fired at him from behind the corner of the wall. When the first shot was fired he saw nothing more than the flash.

He cried here! or something like that. Before he could scarcely move another shot was fired. Then he started quickly to get into the stairway. Just after the second shot was fired Jim Allen stepped out from tlie corner and leveled the gun a third time at him. This time he saw Allen distinctly.

He recognized him. He had on the same clothes and the same hat that he was wearing in the court room today. Mr. Crotchet saw his face at the second shot but wasnt then so sure of him. But when he stepped out from behind the building he fe it sure who he was dealing with.

But before the third shot could he fired he had stepped into the hallway. Allen then started north running and that was the la-t Mr. Crotchet saw of him. He said that the whole transaction from the time of the first shot until Allen ran north occupied about five seconds as near as he could judge. He told of seeing the powder marks on the side of the brick building and the imprint of what appeared to have been where a bullet struck on.

the sidewalk. It was about 52 feet from the corner of the building. The gun was leveled about at the yoke of the vest, which would be something over four feet in height. The defense in their cross examination of him and of other witnesses who testified to seeing the imprint of the bullet indicated their line of defense in this Chicago Capitalist Passed Away at Age of 70. Bar Harbor, June 9.

Levi Leitcr, died here of heart failure today at the age of 70. His estate is estimated at $70,000,000. He was the father of Joe Leiter, of wheat corner fame, and Lady Curzon, vicere of India. Young Wife Dies of Brain Fever Caused by Charivari. LaCrosse, June 9.

Airs. William Asselin, a bride of four weeks, died today of brain fever brought on by an almost incessant charivari and serenade by persistent friends. Mrs. Asselin was Miss Mary I.apene of Durand, Wis. Asselin was popular, and a score of his overenthusiastic friends are blamed.

The matter was taken to the authorities and nearly got into the courts. CRONJE TO WED. A QUEER PREDICAMENT. School Boards Will Not Have the Figures to Make Levy With. The last legislature changed the time for the meeting of the school boards over the state from the last Thursday July to the last Thursday in June.

This change was made at the instance of the teachers who objected to the long wait before they could know the decision of the boards where they were applicants for places. If they missed out on one school the time was very short in which they could get another one. Boards usually hired their teachers very soon after the school meeting and by August nearly every school in the county had employed teachers for the year. But the legislature failed to take into account that it would be next to impossible to get the official figures of the valuation of the school district to the boards in time for their meeting so tiny could make the levy for school purposes. The board meets as a board of equalization right after the meeting in June and if they happened to have a iot of business to do they didnt le.r.e time for the clerk to get out the valuation for the school boards in time for their meeting.

This condition exists this year and as a result the boards will cither have to adjourn and meet again to fix the levy or they will have to make a levy based on la-t year's assessment and come as near to hitting it off as possible. As a matter of fact the valuation this year in spite of the lower basis of assessment is about the same as la year. They can not make a mistake in a majority of the cases by using the same valuation they had last year. ml that i- what they will probaby have to do. WOULD TEACH JIG IN SCHOOL 'I 'A MORMON BISHOP KILLED.

J. B. Ashcroft of Fruitland, N. Knocked From a Cliff by a Blast. Santa Fe, N.

June 9. J. B-Ashcroft of Fruitland, a bishop of the Mormon church, manager of the cooperative store in Fruitland, was killed accidentally while blasting rock in the construction of an irrigating ditch for the Navajo Indians near Fruitland. He was knocked from a cliff by falling rock. Boer General Takes Unto Himself Widow and Six Children.

St. Louis, June 9. General Piet Cronje, a Boer leader, aged 65, father of eight children, will in July, wed Mrs. Johanna Stretzel, aged 49. who has six children.

Washington, June 9. A cable from Rear Admiral Sigsbee to the navy department today says the war in San Domingo is over. The custom house at Monte Cristo resumed business today. Topeka, June 9. The report of Secretary Coburn, of the state board of agriculture issued today shows the Kansas wheat acreage as 4.940.000.

Condition 87 per cent. The corn acre age is 6,500.000, more than last years Condition 75 per cent. Oats acreage unchanged. Per cent 8q. Washington.

June 9. Charles McKenna, of Pittsburg, was today appointed United States district judge in Porto Rico. His endorsement was one of the la-t official acts of the late Senator Quay. OFFICER SUES FOR DIVORCE. OTTAWA CHAUTAUQUA OFF.

I Dancing Masters Advocate Unique Addition to Curriculum. Cleveland, June 9. Jig steps and the clog dance will be added to the course in the public schools if the International Association of Dancing Masters, in convention here, can bring it about. William Beaumont of Little Falls. N.

has offered a resolution advocating the teaching of the steps in the schools, on tile ground that they will insure a race of surefooted men and women. Fiend dances, or travesties on the two-step, are to be fought. Wooster, June 0. Major J. Taggart of the United States army, stationed in San Francisco, brought suit here today for divorce from Grace Viola Culvert Taggart, who was a society girl of Chicago.

He alleges desertion. Major Taggart was statined at Fort Leavenworth last year. He was a captain in the Sixth infantry at the time. Salina, June 9. Tremendous rainfall between Ellsworth and the Ci dorado line has caused annullment of the I'inon Pacific train-.

At Cheyenne halls nine inches of rain fed. AMERICANS IN TROUBLE. Couldnt Repair the Damage From Flood in Time for Assembly. Ottawa, June 9. The executive board of the Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly has decided to annul the arrangements for this years session on account of the damage to Fore-t park by the recent flood.

The damage to the buildings will reach several thousand dollars. The programme was scheduled to begin June 28, and tin- flood damage could not be repaired in time. A- far a- possible tb" attractions wnl be retained for next year. This was to have been the twenty -ixth annual of the Ottawa Chant. hiqun a- -1 ntb.y.

MRS. CALVIN BURNS DEAD. The Widow of the St. Joseph Millionaire Wes 66 Years Old. 8l.

Joseph. Tune Mrs. Kate Hughes Burn-, widow of Calvin F. Burns, died here this morning at her I suburban home. Mrs.

Burn- was horn in St. Louis in 1838 and was a daughter 01 James M. Hughes, a citizen of that place. She was married to Colonel Burns in 1859. They moved here in 1873.

She is survived by a daughter, Mary Burns. The funeral will be held at St. Patricks church Friday morning. The Women Fancied They Were Pursued and Are in a Vienna Hospital. Vienna, June 9 Three sister- named Bpndy, between 20 and 30 year- old, New York, are in a medical institution here.

They arc suffering from hysteria. Six months ago they left New A ork for Europe unattended for a trip to tile Mediterranean. Egypt and the Ho.y Land. A month ago they reached Constantinople. There they hired a reliable courier to escort them to Havre, where they proposed embarking on their return voyage.

They stori of an attempt to kidnap them near the Pyramids and of their having been pursued across Galilee by a bandit sheik. They evaded the courier when they arrived here and moved from hotel to hotel, declaring their lives were in danger. They ca.led tip-on the police for protection and were ttfrned over to the Uinted States consul. who is having them cared for pending the arrival of relatives. The real cause of the nervous breakdown is unknown.

WANTS THE PROPERTY DIVIDED Osro Burton Suing a Number of Oth er Heirs to Property. I Osro Ppirton by a petition mcil in the district court thi- morning ask-I for tile partition the west half of ho southeast quarter of the southwest 1 quarter of 23, 25. 17. I be suit is reek'll against Antilla Pininger, Mary Mice Schreck. Robert L.

Burton and Emma J. Burton. Abraham Burton died December 7 1880, intestate, leaving the property described. The widow, Lydia Ellen Burton, who has since twice married, asked the probate court for a division of her share 01 the property under the law and received seventy acres. The children, defendants and plaintiff in this suit, have since been tenants in common of the remainder.

He says he owns a one-sixth interest and he asks the court to so decree. MRS. PAGE GIVEN A DIVORCE, She Is Given Five Children and Husband Four Wife Gets $500. Judge Foust gave his decision is the Page div rce trial this ftcrn He ud- th tin plaintiff. Mrs Pa i- entitled to a divorce, the custody an dcontrol of Otto, George, Emma and Eelta, $500 cash the title to her separate real estate and -he is to pay one-half of the C1 sts of the case.

The husband is to have title to all his real e-tate when he pays the sum of $500 into court for the use of the wife, and he is given the custody of Fred Ray Earnest and William F. Page. The case attracted a great deal of attention in East lola where ail the parties are well known. There was a score of witnesses examined in the case on both sides. The children as a rule took the side of the mother.

The charge was extreme cruelty and the court found this to be true and based his decision on that phase of the case. During the reading of the decision Mrs. Page sat in the court room, her eyes filled with tears. As the reading progressed she could restrain herself no longer and sobbed audibly. During the entire trial she refrained from saying any more than was absolutely necessary in support of her petition.

Page is fairly well fixed and owns considerable land in Missouri. He cannot have a clear title to this until until he pays over the alimony. THREATEN BLIND MURDERER. SAID TO BE $8,000 SHORT. A.

P. Shour of Chillicothe, a Former Loan Company Official, in Jail. Chillicothe, June P-Shour, former secretary of the cr, Loan and Building association of this city, wa- arrested liccr last night. Shour is charged with embezzling $100. He gave bond in the sum of $1,000 and was released this morning but was immediately rearrested on a warrant charging him with embezzling $1,280 from the building association.

He is now in the county jail. The second arrest was for the purpose of increasing the amount of bond, which has not yet been furnished. Shotirs shortage is said to amount to more than $8,000. TO STUDY OUR ENGINES. German Government Officials Want Locomotives Fit for Wlar.

Berlin, June 9. Another German official, Herr Barbee, closely connected with the government, will join the already large number of Germans who intend to make a special study the United States of American locomotives during his stay at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. The kaiser I interested in locomotives especially fit for military purposes during war. DOWIE NOT SUCCESSFUL.

Sixtv-Two Converts Arrive From South Australia, Fair Visitors. Victoria, British Columbia, June 9 -The steamer Manuka, which arrived 418 passengers, including C. Dudley Cooper. Australian commissioner to St Louis, and many other visitors to the fair Sixty-two recently converted Zionists arrived on the Manuka from Australia bound for 7 mn City. The converts weer secured by John Alexander Dowie.

AN EXCELLENT BAND. Haskell Indians Are Good Musicians. The threatening weather last evening cut down the attendance at the concert given by the Haskell Indian band in Crouchs Electric Park and deporived many people of hearing a musical performance of real merit. The band was good to those who did venture to the park and carried out the programme as faithfully as though the park had been crowded. The band really has forty pieces as advertised and every one of the forty Indians are real musicians.

Dennison Wjheelock has brought the band up to high degree of perfection a tdni fection and it compares favorably with any of the great concert bands Last evening the players were as good humored as though they were playing to thousands and they seemed to have a very merry time among themselves. They will play each afternoon and evening during the week and if the weather behaves will draw good crowds. Washington avenue on See -treet ju-t after the firing Site -aw him come from the alley. She could not snv positively that -he man was lien but she knew he was a colored man and heavy set. Miss Butler who was with her testified to the same facts.

The man had crossed over to where a colored family named Finley lives and had then continued running on north toward the Missouri Pacific railroad. Mrs. Newton heard the shots and rushed to her door. She -aw a man mass their house going north on Washington on a run. She was within 12 feet of him but she couldnt tell whether he was a colored man or not.

Her son testified to the same facts. C. W. Burns saw the powder marks on the building tbe next morning He also saw tbe bullet Imprint. Bert Fryer saw them.

Chas. Fryer saw the powder marks on the wall but didnt know wbat hs made them 11c tried a match and it made the same sort of stain. He didn't see the bullet marks. Roy Conley saw Allen on the north side near Culbertson's about 8 o'clock. He was just stepping into McCarleys when the shots were fired.

eH had his back to them and didnt see them. Sounded just like they were at the corner of North street. It was about 10:30. Mr. Crotchet fixed the time as 10:25 and none of the witnesses disagree more than five minutes.

D. Montgomery was in his "place on West treet when the shots were fired. He walked to Shan non's corner and back again and when he returned Allen wa- in his place All were talking of the -hooting hut he didnt hear Allen -ay anything about it. TTe had been gone about 10 minutes he thought. RAN NEEDLE IN FOOT.

Little Daughter of Frank Moyer Met With a Painful Accident. The 8-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moyer living at 816 north Chestnut street, met with a very painful accident this morning. Some one had carelessly allowed a needle to fall to the floor and the little girl in passing, ran the needle through her right foot.

It entered the ball of the foot and the point extended just above the instep. The point was broken off but it is believed that it was broken off before the needle entered the foot as no trace of it could he found. Dr. Coffman was called and extracted the needle an dapplied proper relief and the litt'c one is getting on nicely. No fears of blood poisoning are felt.

An Illinois Mob Seeking to Lynch a Wold-Be Suicide. Maunie, 111., June 9 A mob surrounded the home of John Robinson here early today demanding his life. Sheriff Connery and thirty-six armed deputies were keeping back the crowd It was believed the mob would not succeed in its mission as the officers were determined to do their duty. Robinson, who killed his wife and brother-in-law and the attempted to take his own life Monday, has sufficiently recovered to discuss the crime. He shows no emotion and only says People dont kill one another for nothing.

He had invited Arterbury, his brother-in-law, home with him. They quarreled, and Robinson shot and killed him. His wife was then shot to death as she held her baby. Robinson then shot himself. When the mob learned be was not dead it formed and made an attack on the place where he is cared for.

He has lost both eyes and begs the sheriff to let the mob have its will. THE NICHOLS HOUSE SOLD. J. O. Harrison Purchases It From J.

C. Willey. A deal has been closed whereby J. Harrison comes into possession oi the Nochols House on North Jefferson avenue, having purchased the business from J. C.

Willey. Mr. Harrison will take possession next week. Mr. Harrison was formerly proprietor of the Tola House, which was suo.

ceeded by the Cataract hotel. He is an experienced hotel man. Mr. Willey has been conducting the Nichols House for three years. He is no connected with the north selter works.

He is purchasing a lot on Washington avenue and will build. The friends of Mrs. Elmer Tindall will regret to learn of her serious illness at her home in Gas City. This morning a report gained currency in Tola that she was dying but this proved to be a mistake. She was very ill but it is now hoped that all danger has passed.

Meeting At Rest Room. All Y's are requested to come out tomorrow, Friday, evening as there very important business to come before the union. Please come. J. Zoe Atchison, Prest..