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WYA rmnn HERAED il JLJLH VOLUME XXX. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARtJH 21, 1901. NO. 17. nrviu NDO JL JL SHIFT BLAME TO CHINESE.

THE DUTY OF MOTHERS. KANSAS M. E. APPOINTMENTS. jTO EDUCATE NATIVES STARVED THEM OUT.

KANSAS NEWS OP EECENT DATE. I Ureat Britain and Russia Say Duplicat Concessions of Territory Caused the Tien Tsin Misunderstanding. London, March 20. Some of the afternoon papers say the Tien Tsin difficulty has been arranged. The mis understanding was due to the Chinese authorities granting the same con cessions to two nations.

The ar rangement enables Great Britain to proceed with the construction of the railroad siding, but if Russia's con cession proves to be earlier than that of Great Britain the' latter is to ac knowledge the claims of Russia. Individual Nations Too Greedy. Washington, March 20. It is feared here that the negotiations at Pekin respecting indemnities may fail, owing to the greed of individual nations. Mr.

Rockhill, our special commissioner, has nothing but discouraging reports to make of this important branch of the negotiations. It appears that the ministers cannot agree upon any uniform basis of indemnity, some of the powers demanding enormous sums. The Russian "Fire" Orders Tien Tsin, March 20. The excite ment and anxiety here as to the pos sible developments of the Anglo-Russian dispute do not abate. A company of British troops and a company of Russians soldiers remain encamped on either side of the trench, looking at each other.

The Russians have orders to fire on any one commencing work GEN. BOTHA SAYS NO. Boer Commander Rejects the Terms of Surrender Offered by Gen Kitchener Hamilton Destroys Grain. London, March 20. Joseph Cham berlain the colonial secretary, Tues day informed the house of commons that (Jen.

Botha had rejected the peace terms offered him. Gen. Botha, Mr. Chamberlain said, nad conveyed the information in a letter to Gen. Kitchener, in which he announced that he was not disposed to recommend the terms of peace Gen.

Kitchener was instructed to offer him to the earnest consideration of his government. Gen. Botha added that his government and its chief officers entirelj' agreed with his- view. Mr. Chamberlain added: "I propose to lay the papers connected with the negotiations on the table." Destroyed 30.000 liairs of Grain.

Mafeteng, Basutoland, March 20. Gen. Bruce Hamilton's force, which is sweeping over the southeast portion of Orange River colony, has reached Wepener, where the troops found heavy stocks of grain andcattle. They carried away as much as possible, but destroyed 30.000 bags of grain. The houses at Wepener were found to be intact.

CARLOS IS WITBFTHEM. Portuguese Citizens Who Want Church and State Separated Get Encouragement from Their King. Lisbon, March 20. King Carlos, replying to a committee from Oporto. which waited upon his majesty to demand a separation of religion and the state said: "Oporto can count upon me in these serious times.

The freedom of religion and the state must be safeguarded. I am a liberal by traditions, education nd the teaching of my father. I will recommend this subject to the government and will follow it up with especial attention. You can count on the government." UNCLE SAM'S FREE VACCINE. Secretary Wilson Says 86,000.000 WArth of Live Stcck Was Saved Last Year by His Blackleg Medicine.

Washington, March 20. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson estimates that over $6,000,000 worth of young spring live stock throughout the country was saved during 1900 by the prompt use of medicine for blackleg sent out by the department. Information he has just received show that over doses of the vaccine were distributed by the department during the year. Chicago's New Sl.000,000 Library. Chicago, March 20.

A site for the John Crerar library in Lake Front park, between Madison and Monroe streets, was granted to the city coun cil. The building is to cost $1,000,000. On the site is to be placed a colossal statue of Abraham Lincoln, for the erection and maintenance of which there is already $150,000 in the hands of the trustees of the estate of John Crerar. The Ballot for Senator in Nebraska. Lincoln, March 20.

In the re publican senatorial caucus last night David F. Thompson, of Lincoln, was nominated for the shot term vacancy on the seventh ballot, receiving 50 votes, five more than necessary under the rules of the caucus. Fifty-three or 54 attended outof a total republican membership of 71. Harrison Was His Ideal Statesman. Indianapolis.

March 20. When President McKinley was here attending the funeral of Gen. Harrison he said in conversation: "The way was never made open for me to state it before, but I say now that for many years Gen. Harrison has been my ideal of a statesman and a. citizen.

SherifTs Fosse and Desperadoes Fight. Guthrie, March 20. A special to the State Capital from Pawnee says: Sheriff Foster and posse of Noble dounty traced the Red Rock des peradoes to the home of a man named Cunningham. Deputy Sheriff Johnson walked up and knocked on the door. Ben Cravens, the leader, opened and fired on the deputy, inflicting a mortal wound.

In the melee Craven and his partner made a break and succeeded in reaching the timber on Black Bear creek. Their horses were secured by the. officers. They Were Announced Just Before Adjournment of Conference at Topeka, Yesterday. Topeka, March 19.

The Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church adjourned yesterday afternoon. Next year's meeting will be held in Washington. Following are the appointments: Kansas City district James W. Alderman, presiding elder, post office, Argentine, W. A.

Crawford; Baldwin circuit, B. E. Stover; Basehor and Glen wood, Samuel L. Buckner; Bonner Springs, John Kndicott; De Soto, S. E.

Vincent; Easton, S. A. Gardner; Eudora, Edward Hislop; Gardiner, J. Y. Anderson; Kansas City, Central, C.

E. Holcomb; Highland Park, C. M. Williams; London Heights, C. F.

Reisner; Mount Pleasant, D. A. Shutt; Taylor church and city missions, Willie C. Clark; Washington Avenue, C. B.

Dalton. Lawrence, -Centenary, J. W. R. Clardy; First church, Morris Bam ford.

Leavenworth, First church, E. C. Smith; Michigan Avenue and Lansing, Wilford H. Lay ton; Len-eza, C. S.

Freark; Lin wood and Jewett, O. U. McProud; McLouth, Howard A. Musser; Olathe, J. D.

M. Buckner; Oska-loosa, Thomas McConnell; Rosedale, H. H. Fowler; Spring Hill, C. J.

Harned; Tongar.oxie and Reno, Charles Taylor; Vinland, James Massey; Wellsville, A. P. Hamilton; Winchester, William B. Stevenson. Samuel E.

Betts waa reelected superintendent and financial secretary of Bethany hospital and a member of the Washington Avenue quarterly conference. Atchison district Presiding elder, W. H. Zimmerman; Birmingham, E. M.

Pudle-ford; Corning. R. J. Elliott; Goffs, A. G.

Bennett; Highland, Sid Gano; Hor-ton, T. J. Mayer; Morrill, J. B. Vernon; Nortonville, Powhattan, Robinson, W.

Hanson; Seneca, J. A. Swa-ney; Troy, P. P. Perry; Wetmore, T.

Campbell; Atchison, G. W. Grimes; Clr-cleville, F. H. Coole; Everest.

C. F. Teeter; Hiawatha, A. B. Buckner; Holton, Edwin Locke; Lancaster, Muscotah and Effingham, E.

F. Holland; Oneida, Graves; Reserve, S. C. Lamb; Sabetha, J. S.

Ford; Severance, J. E. Sawyer; Wa-thena, F. E. Johnston; Whiting, F.

B. Abell. Junction City district Presiding elder. Bright; Abilene, E. R.

Brown; Barnes, R. A. Maloney; Clifton, R. E. McBrlde; Clay Center, F.

P. Blakemore; Chapman, J. E. Thackery; Exeter, F. S.

Allman; Greenleaf, Jackson Brown; Haddam, W. A. Keene; Junction City, J. M. Mason; Marganvllle, J.

H. Zabriske; Talmage, A. L. Day; Wakefield and Wesley, C. K.

Corkhill; Milford, H. L. Sheldon; Wilsey, N. J. Adams; Alta Vista, Bushon, A.

Hancock; Cli'ton, Clay Center circuit, R. W. Estep; Council Grove, J. O. Foresman; Enterprise and Woodbine, Green, C.

G. Bear; Hope, W. J. Osborne; Herington, J. D.

Hitchcock; Leonardvllle, A. O. Lockwood; Washington, J. G. Henderson; Wesley, Sheldon; White City, W.

L. Morris. Topeka district Presiding elder, J. R. Mason; Auburn, W.

B. Fisher; Centrop-olis, George Marvel: Dunlvant, H. B. Hammond: Lyndon, D. M.

Bell; Michigan Valley, Overbrook, A. H. Boyd; Pomona, H. A. Pasely; Scranton, George Wilson; Tecumseh, D.

Moore; Topeka, Euclid Avenue, J. M. Jackson; Lowman Chapel, p. M. Bowman; Walnut Grove, J.

P. Allen; First church, J. T. McFar-land; Kansas Avenue, J. A.

Stravely; Oakland, F. J. Seamen; Parkdale, W. J. Mitchell; Valley Falls, G.

W. Braden; Admire, Purden; Burlingame, E. Gill; Clinton. G. K.

Marvel; Grantville, F. M. Jackson; Meriden, B. F. Dice; Osage City, E.

H. Parkinson; Perry, A. J. Coe; Richland, Anderson: Silverlake, Homor Ward; Wakarusa, F. F.

Otto. Manhattan district M. E. Goddard, presiding elder; Avoca, B. T.

Parlett; Beattie, D. A. Centralia, G. W. Browning Frankfort, C.

S. Warner; Havensville, I. L. Oakes; Irving, J. B.

Gibson; Marysville, D. D. Chaney; Ols-burg, N. H. Colvin; Rossville, C.

N. Rlg-gle; Soldier, J. W. Johnston; Vermillion, B. F.

Webb; Waterville. J. F. Dennis; Westmoreland. C.

B. Young; Alma, J. B. Gibson; Axtell, W. D.

Hamilton; Blue Rapids, J. C. Burnhardt; Eskridge, H. D. Rice; Harvey vllle, H.

T. Davis; Hollen-burg, S. E. Trueblood; Keats and Stock-dale, A. D.

Rice; Manhattan, J. K. Miller; Maple Hill, Thomas Scott; Oketo, Onaga. St. Marys, Joseph Bar-tin; Summerfleld, Wamego, J.

B. Holman; Waterville circuit. L. C. Biggs.

Kansas National Hanks. Washington, March 19. The abstract of the condition of the national banks of Kansas, at the close of business of February 5, as reported to the comptroller of the currency, shows the average reserve to have been 38.78 per against 37.83 per cent, on December 13. Loans and discounts decreased from $26,770,166 to gold coin from $1,228,452 to total specie from to lawful money reserve from to individual deposits increased from to $29,700,599. Conducted on a Faying Rasis.

Topeka, March 19. S. O. state oil inspector, has turned into the state treasury as the fees collected during February $1,148.30. This department has paid expenses during Spencer's administration and left a yearly balance in the treasury in the neighborhood.of $20,000.

Rain and Hail In Kansas. Wichita, March 19. A terrific rainstorm visited this city last night, bringing with it a heavy hail. The railroad offices report rain aid hail general throughout western Kansas and Oklahoma. The rain was badly needed, but the hail undoubtedly has done considerable damage.

Carnegie's Offer to Fort Scott. Fort Scott, March 19. Andrew Carnegie has offered this city $15,000 for a library on condition that $2,500 a year will be appropriated to maintain the same. The offer will be accepted. Kansas Vouth Killed in Camp.

Wichita, March 19. Robert Bissantz, aged 21, son of Jacob Bis-santz, a retired hardware merchant of this city, was accidentally shot and killed in a camp at Mortonville, where he has been hunting for several days. Farmers Grain Association In Kansas. Solomon, March 19. One hundred farmers of Saline, Ottawa and Dickinson counties met and organized a co-operative stock and grain buying association.

They will erect an elevator, build yards and may build a mill- Cotton Mills Closed D01 Fall River, March 19. The Chase, Robinson, Merchants, American Linen and Metacomet cotton mills, operating 350,000 spindles, were stopped yesterday in pursuance of the areeeu to curtail production What fuffering frequently results from a mother's ignorance or mora frequently from a mother's neglect to properly instruct her daughter 1 Tradition says "woman must suffer," and young women are so taught. There is a little truth and a great deal of exaggeration in this. If a young woman suffers severely she needs treatment, and her mother should see that she gets it. Many mothers hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examination but no mother need hesitate to write freely about her daughter or herself to Mrs.

Pinkham and secure the most efficient advice without charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address la Lynn, Mass. 1 I 1. Mrs.

August Pfalzgraf, of South Byron, mother of the young lady whose portrait we here publish, wrote Mrs. Pinkham in January, 1899, saying her daughter had suffered for two years with irregular menstruation had headache all the time, and pain in her side, feet swell, and was generally miserable. Mrs. Pinkham promptly replied with advice, and under date of March, 1899, the mother writes again that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her daughter of all pains and irregularity.

Nothing in the world equals Mrs. Pinkham's great medicine for regulating woman's peculiar monthly troubles. LITTLE ODDS AND ENDS. Some 70 different varieties of olives are grown in California. Manitoba, equal in area to Great Britain and Ireland, has only 210,000 inhabitants.

The Japanese residents of Tacoma, have organized to keep out cny disorderly characters from their country. Visitors to Mount Vernon, the home of the Father of His Country, havo the choice of two routes from Washington electric car or steamboat. Since 1850, according to an investigation made by George Boyd, the assistant in the document room of the United States senate, closure has been proposed 93 times in that body. The state government of Puebla, Mexico, has prohibited fairs, and local newspapers applaud its action. One of them says that the old jolly festas have degenerated into mere drinking and gambling sprees "a public reproach.

An Expensive Eaaltr Donnet. It is disclosed that the national present for Queen Wilhelmina, the nature of which has been kept a great secret, will be a new crown, and that $100,000 has been subscribed. Will it be ready, abks the Boston Globe, for the royal bride by Easter? Lost Sloney at Pari. The builders of the Swis3 village at the Paris exposition lost $600,000 by their enterprise. Allowance of Air.

Two thousand gallons of air are a grown-up person's allowance for 24 hour. MADAM BAVEAS TESTIFIES. A Dlstlnsfuisned Lady, After Traveling for Six Years In Search of Health, at Last Finds It In Oodd'fl Kidney Pill. Hot Springs, March 18 (Special). This popular resort numbers among its patrons many of the world'3 most distinguished men and women, but none more so than Madam Isabelle Ellen Baveas, Life Governor of the Free Masons Grand Lodge of England.

Madam Baveas, like most of the other visitors, came here in search of health. She was not disappointed, but her cure was not found in the virtue of the baths, but in a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, a remedy which she found on sale here, and which is being used and with wonderful success by a nvmber of the visitors to Ilot Springs. She says: "I travelled almost constantly for the past sixyears in the interests of my Society, and my health gradually became broken down, through the change of food, water, climate, doctors told me I had diabetes, and advised me to go to the Springs, as they could do nothing for me. While rhere my attention was called to Dodd's Kidney Pills by a fellow sufferer, who had been greatly benefited by using them. 'I profited by her experience and bought a box, and then another, and so on until I had used seven boxes.

It is with gratitude that I state that they cured me completely, and I am now able to take up the duties of life once more. I am very thankful for what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for me, and as a grateful woman shall never hesitate to recommend them to anyone with Diabetes." The very satisfactory experience of this distinguished woman, should be an encouragement to all similar sufferers. JJodd Kidney Pills are f0c. a box, si for $2.50. Buy them from yir local druggist if you can.

If he cr hnot supply you, send to the Dodd'a Medicine Buffalo, N. Y. ill il Yi Hi Pi i lit i I si 1 i i -1 1 Uncle Sam Will Establish School System in the Philippines. A. Thousand Teachers from th United States Will Be Secured, at Salaries of 875 to SlOO Per Month Superintendent to Get SG.OOO.

Washington, March 19. Quite a number of the acts of the Philippine commission as promulgated by the military authorities in the islands have been received at the war department. One of the most important that for establishing a department of public instruction in the islands already has been briefly reported by cable from Manila. It provides for a general department of public instruction with a central oihee at Manila under the direction of a general superintendent to be appointed by the commission at a salary of $6,000 per annum. Schools are to be established in every pueblo in the archipelago, where practicable, and those already established shall be reorganized where necessary.

According to the terms of the act the English language, as soon as practicable, shall be made the basis of all public instruction, and Soldiers may be detailed as instructors until replaced by trained teachers. Authority is given to the general superintendent to obtain from the United States 1,000 trained teachers at salaries of not less than $75 nor more than $100 per month, the exact salary to be fixed according to the efficiency of the teacher. The act provides that no teacher or other person "shall teach or criticise the doctrines of any church, religious sect or denomination, nor shall attempt to influence the -pupils for or against any church or religious sect in any public school." It is provided, however, that it may be lawful for the priest or minister the pueblo where the school is situated to teach religion for one-half hour, three times a week, in the school building, to pupils whose parents desire it. Among the other acts is one declaring all persons in arms against 4he authority of the United States in the Philippine islands and all persons aiding or abetting them on the 1st day of April, 1901, or thereafter, ineligible to hold any office of honor," trust or profit in the Philippine islands. Another act regulates the hours of labor.

It provides that the heads of departments and officers in the Philippine civil service shall require of all employes, of whatever grade or less than six hours of labor each day, not including the time for lunch and exclusive of Sundays and public holidays. FIRE IN ST. LOUIS. A Brewery Ice Storage Plant and Other Bnlldlnss Destroyed, Causing a Loss of Perhaps S3 OO.OOO. St.

Louis, March 19. Perhaps the most disastrous fire in the history of the South side yesterday afternoon burned the ice storage plant of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company; the repair shop of the American Car and Foundry company, together with a number of box cars; the factory of Stule pickle manufacturers; five rooming houses and a number of small sheds. The total damage is estimated at $200,000, partially insured. Two men, employes of the American Car and Foundry company, were injured, but not seriously. The burned district embraced two square blocks, bounded by Zepp, Utah, First and Kosciusko streets.

A TRAIN WRECK. Rock Island Pasenger Train Ditched Near Grand Junction, and a Score or So of Passengers are Injured. Grand Junction, March 19. A Chicago, Rock Island Pacific passenger train, northbound, was wrecked yesterday two miles from this place. The tender, the mail car and two passenger coaches went into the ditch, turning upon their sides, and are now lying in a shallow pool of water.

The locomotive remained upon the track. A score or more of the passengers were injured, several of them being seriously hurt. The train was running at full speed when the accident occurred. A loose rail is supposed to have caused the wreck. Asked for 825,000, Got SIOO.

Spokane, March 19. After being out three days the jury in Judge Prather's court returned a verdict yesterday awarding Miss Lizzie Schumacher $100 damages from Maj. B. C. Kingsbury, a wealthy minimf man, for breach of promise of marriage.

The plaintiff was a chambermaid in the Lindell block, where Maj. Kingsbury had apartments. She asked $25,000. Conld Not Survive the Disgrace. Berlin, March "19.

The wound in Emperor William's face is healing. The outrage has had a distressing sequel at Schneidemuhl, where Heinrich Weiland, 81 years old, grandfather of the emperor's assailant, shot himself. He had declared that he could not survive the disgrace of his grandson's act. Memphis, Suffers from a Fire. Seymour, March 19.

The entire village of Memphis, a place "of 500 residents, and located 35 miles south of here, was destroyed by fire yesterday and many of the people are without shelter or food. The property loss is over $150,000. New Taxation Laws In New York. Albany, N. March 19.

Gov. Odell has signed the billsvpassed by the legislature imposing a tax on insurance companies and savings banks of one per; cent, on surplus and uadi-ided earning. Warden Tomlinson Pats Down an Ugly Strike of Kansas Convicts. For Two Days 284 Desperate Men Were la the Prison Mine, Holding 15 Guards as Hostages Until Their Demands Were Granted. Lansing, March 20.

One man's iron will conquered and cowed nearly 300 desperate convicts late Tuesday night, and released, from, their confinement 14 guards, whom the convicts had prisoners in the mine from noon Monday till midnight Tuesday night. That man is J. -B. Tomlinson. To him Kansas owes it that her name is not disgraced today, and that a desperate plot has failed.

The convicts are, those who work the prison minesJ They struck at noon Monday and placed the 14 guards over them in the mule stables, under a guard of their own. Then they sent an ultimatum to the warden demanding that their task be lessened and their food be increased. If the demand were not complied with, they declared, they would do what they pleased with the guards and the mine. The threats even went to the extent of declaring that the 'niine would be destroyed, with all who were in it. Tomlinson not only prevented this, but he broke the strike entirely, released the guards and breught the strikers to his own terms.

He will punish them at his leisure. The story of the strike of the miners here will go down in Kansas history as a piece of superb nerve. Simply by means of his iron will, the warden took it well in hand, kept it a for twenty-four hours or more, refused all outside help, starved his men pretty well into submission and then, sending armed forces into the mine, brought out his guards and took the prisoners at his own will. And not a man was hurt in any way. A more daring bit of work it would be hard to find.

A- better managed conquering of the most desperate of men, who have almost all of them nothing to lose, would be hard to equal. The strike began at noon Monday, when the men refused to work longer, took the guards as prisoners and sent word to the surface that they would treat with the warden only through a committee, and in writing. They were answered in kind. Since then they have receded in their terms several times, till finally they sent word very abjectly that the.v would come out if their punishment would be overlooked and would waive all their demands. They were told that no terms would be made whatever; that it was a case of plain surrender.

The last message from the mine came when early Tuesday evening the miners sent up Guard McShane, who was not feeling well. This action was taken as a sure sign of a weakening, and when a miner clambered 400 of the 720 feet up the air shaft to the cage, and toldis stroy, how the men were out of light, and had no food, and only some water, blackish, that they had found and boiled, Tomlinson knew that the end of the fight was at hand. But he was in no hurry. Shortly after nightfall the warden and every available officer gathered around the mouth of the mine, each man heavily armed. Hunger had begun to tell upon the convicts and they appealed to the warden.

They sent him word that if he would promise not to inflict punishment for their ae-tion-they would surrender and come up. To this the warden would not consent, sending down word that the surrender must be unconditional, the question of punishment to be considered later. As the night wore on the warden held a consultation with his officers and it was decided to attempt a rescue of the guards and also to overawe the convicts and force their surrender. Selecting his men, the warden, with seven or eight guards, heavily armed, entered the hoist and were soon speeding downward. When near the bottom of the pit a heavy fusillade was opened, the shots being fired toward the top of the shaft.

This took the convicts by surprise and thinking that the shots were intended for them they hastily fled, leaving the guards, who were soon joined by their comrades, after which they were sent to the top. The armed guards then started after the convicts and soon had the ringleaders under arrest, when the others gave in and surrendered. The work of taking them to the surface began and before morning the convicts were again behind the bars of their cells. The work of hoisting the men from the mine lasted until nearly daylight, as there were 300 to bring up and the hoists could lift only a handful at a time. The men surrendered unconditionally, the warden having refused to them a single one of the de mands asked.

After being taken from the mines they were escorted to the mess hall in squads and given a solitary cup of coffee, after which they were locked up in their cell rooms. Most of the mutineers were negroes and among them some of the most desperate characters in the prison. Fleeing from Fourteen WItcs. Phoenix, March 20. Julio Cas- tcdanos is hurrying to get into Mexico, because it is charged against him that he has 14 wives.

He abandoned his first wife at El Paso, and since then has married wherever he happened to be working. Convention of Weather Officials Called. Washington, March -20. -Prof. Wil lis L.

Moore, chief of the weather bureau, under the authority of Secre tary Wilson has called the triennial convention of weather bureau officials at Milwaukee, August 27 to 9 next. Simons and Hook Disagree. At Uniontown R. E. Eckert, traveling salesman for the Louisville Supply company, of Kansas City, was arrested for soliciting orders for Jiquor.

He was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Application was made to Judge Simons, of the district court, for his release on a writ of habea corpus, on the ground that the. law under which he was convicted is unconstitutional, as Judge Hook, of the federal court, has held it to be. The state court held it good and refused to issue the writ. A Sallna Liquor House Raided.

The wholesale liquor house of J. C. Stevens at Salina was raided by Sheriff Swendenburg. Stevens received a rumor of the raid and he had a half dozen men with teams at work most of the night removing liquors and loading it in cars for shipment out of the city, so that when the sheriff searched" the building he found only four 50-gallon barrels of wine. Important Kansas Land Decision.

Judge Clark rendered a decision at Great Bend in the Cheyenne bottom land condemnation cases that knocks out everything so far done. This decision involves about 40,000 acres of land situated in the middle of the Cheyenne bottom, that was sought to be condemned for the purpose of a reservoir for irrigation and like general purposes. She Believed In Witches. Mrs. Agnes Koch, an aged woman of Paola, was acquitted by a jury on the charge of insanity.

All the prosecution could show was that Mrs. Koch believed her chimney to be inhabited by a witch, and that occasionally she would, go upon the roof and punch down the chimney with a pole in order to make the witch uncomfortable. Will Exchange Products. George E. Cole, auditor of state, and Henry J.

Allen, chairman'of the state board of charities, have planned an exchange of products among the state institutions. For instance, the pupils of the institute for the blind make brooms, the children of the institute for deaf and dumb make harness, and so on through the list. His "Luck" Finally Left Him. II. W.

Davis, conductor on the Kansas City Southern, who was killed at Howe, I. had served as conductor on the Missouri Pacific railroad, central branch, 14 years. He was known as "Lucky" Davis, because he had so few accidents. His home was in Atchison and his body was buried there. Cashier Stopped a Ran.

C. A. Johnson, missing cashier of the First national bank at Niles, is president of the Farmers bank at Arkansas City, and the closing of the Niles bank started a run on the latter institution, but Cashier Denton had provided $100,000 and met the excited depositors C00II3V Monument to Zebulun Pike. The state historical society will erect a monument over the grave of Zebulun M. Pike in Pike's Pawnee village, which was recently accepted by the state.

The monument will be on the spot where Pike first pulled the Spanish flag down and hoisted the stars and stripes. Will Nurse a Boom for Congress. J. B. Tomlinson, when he retires from the wardenship of the peniten-.

tiary, will resume the practice of law in Ottawa county. Mr. Tomlinson will also nurse a boom for congress, to succeed Congressman Calderhead? Left Her Alone with the Cat. In a divorce suit filed in Brown county the wife alleges that her husband went off to dances and other parties and had a hilarious old time, while she was compelled to keep company with the cat at home. Oil Found Near Cawker City.

While digging a well on H. B. Wood-berry's ranch, south of Cawker, oil was struck 20 feet from the surface. The oil burns readily and the farmers in the vicinity think they have a bonanza. A Shortage of 815,000.

The annual report of the Order of Select Friends shows that the order was deficient $15,000 in the payment of its obligations. That is the reason State Insurance Superintendent Church revoked its charter. This Probably Beats the Record. For the fourth time Mr. and Mrs.

Sherman McKinnis, of Republic county have become the parents of twins. All of the children are living and the eldest are not yet eight years old. Father of Twenty-Seven. James Stewart, the old colored man recently killed by a Santa Fe. train, near Sterling, was the father of 27 children.

Of the 27 only four have died. From Bank President to Jointkeeper. In few words the Independence Tribune gives the career of a well-known citizen of Cherry vale. He went up from a farmer boy to schoolteacher and bank president, and he came down to jointkeeper, drunkard and wife beater. The "Outward Manifestations." Sharpers with a new system of school charts disposed of 100 of them in Washington county alone at $30 a set.

Three thousand dollars in one Kansas county has all thj outward manifestations of ready money. Would Use "Moral Suasion. A new temperance organization has Just sprung up in Topeka. It is known as "The Twentieth Centuy Total Abstinence union," and its object is to promote temperance by the moral suasion or personal effort plan. It Is run by that class of temperance leaders mostly who believe that the xnost effective way to curb the run! traffic is to prevail upon the people quit consuming rum, not to drive the rum power out of existence through legislation.

The endless chain system of procuring temperance reform will be tried first. Diplomatic Relations Regained. Kansas has again resumed diplomatic relations with the British King Edward VII. has acknowledged his mistake, through Ambassador Choate, in sending the Kansas legislature a message expressing thanks for the "loyalty" of the Kansas people to the empire in response to the resolutions of sympathy passed by the legislature over the death of Queen Victoria. He lays the blame the blunder on a subordinate in his private secretary's office who mixed- things up.

Nothing Left of This Joint. The most thorough smashing of a joint which Kansas will have to record in this year's bTstory is that which resulted in the utter demolition of Joe Garvey's saloon at Connor station, next door to Wolcott, on the Kansas City-Lea venworth electric line. All that was left of the bar was a pile of kindling wood. This damage was done in half an hour by a few determined women of Wolcott and Connor station. A New Kansas Railroad.

The secretary of state granted a charter for the Hutchison Southeastern Railroad company. The object of the company is to construct a railroad from Hutchison, to Fort Smith, Ark. The Kansas counties it is proposed to traverse are Heno, Harvey, Sedgwick. Butler, Sumner, Cowley, Greenwood, Ellis, Chautauqua and Montgomery. Unique Wedding Ceremony.

Dr. Joseph Lutz and Miss Belle a prominent young couple of Smith Center, were married in the smallpox quarantine by Rev. Dr. Meredith, who used a megaphone at a safe distance to perform the ceremony. The couple stood in the doorway of the pesthouse, while the minister stood across the street and shouted the formula distiuctly.

It Had Been Overlooked. Gov. Stanley has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the persons who burned George Alexander, the negro, at the stake at Leavenworth recently. In some way the daily press had entirely overlooked the action of the governor in offering the reward. For Killing Ills Mother.

Thomas J. Ramsey was found guilty at Seneca of killing his aged mother by strangling her. It is said Ramsey was angry because he didn't receive as much property as he thought he should from his father's estate. Jessie Morrison Again Oat of Jail. Jessie Morrison, who murdered Clara Castle at Eldorado, furnished $5,000 bond signed by reputable business men for the continuance of her case.

The bond was accepted. The trial will be in June. Death of George T. Fairchild. George T.

Fairchild, who was president of the Kansas agricultural college for 18 years, died last week at Richmond, Ky. In 1897 Mr. Fairchild left Kansas to accept the presidency of Berea Entertained at Kansas City. The Kansas Grain Dealers' association held its annual meeting at Topeka last week, from there going by special train to Kansas City, where they were entertained by the board of trade. Will Hudson Edit It? It is said that a new afternoon daily paper will soon be started in Topeka and that "Fighting Joe" Hudson will be the editor and Del Keizer, Hudson's son-in-law, business manager.

Smith Will Not Believe It, "Farmer" A. W. Smith, of Mcpherson, still declines to believe that Cyrus Leland is to succeed himself as pension agent. Smith wants the place himself and is laying lines for it. Will Fight the Medical Bill.

The Kansas State Fhysio-Medical eociety, which fought the passage by the legislature of the medical bill, has employed G. C. Clemens to attack it in the courts. Half-Mast for 30 Days. Gov.

Stanley directed the flags upon the capitol at Topeka to be displayed at half-mast for 30 days out of respect to ex-President Harrison. Big Coal Strike at Mound City. Two veins of rich coal have been struck at Mound -City, which are claimed to be the largest finds in the Kansas field. One vein is five feet thick at a depth of 300 feet and another six feet thick at a depth of 520 feet. The strike has created quite a sensation there.

Kansas Couple's Diamond Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. T. Bid well, of Atchison; celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of tbjeir wedding day.

Although Mrs. Bidwell is nearly 90 years old, ehe does all her own work. 1.