ATCHI a liTCHISON, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1890. li VOLUME 33. NO. SON WEEKLY CHAMPION'" tance of 484 miles. This is ia addition WASHINGTON.
TERRIBLE DISASTER. THE ALLIANCE. Killed by a Landslide Troy, N. March 15. At 3 -o'clock sas be protected by not disturbing the conditions under which this industry has 01 rt Of tb )0l nf vil in las i frc he far rear ids' 1 UK It cor 1 lisl pe ill la rC.
Sta- ve rei usi tt Sti avii I by on sa ipei pen; Cii.Mrwr rn in )f tt i ha mi a i li wil (Hi- fir 1 nihil Doix pnrt i pro to hher agr sugg bro ns by om i ligh all ri oduc hat indii igresi 11 of mo 9 case be pi Cent, ilhlStl sabetb a by iew an by Ma SA3 Cl tho hat S9 is its a men ill ke while Irawit len." ilUGOIl whi by Kac i. this morning a landslide on the west side of Warrentville swept away thetwof ftory brick residence of Patrick Canfield and demolished the one-story frame dwelling of John Lurenson. Four families resided in the Canfield house. Mrs. Margaret Noonan and her daughter, Mrs.
Johanna Hogan, both widows, and Annie Burns, eleven years old, were killed. Mrs. John A. Hearn and infant, Thomas Lurenson and Mrs. Pat Canfield, were injured, but not seriously.
The fire department was called out and the bodies of the dead were taken lrom the ruins. A mass of clay and earth fifty feet deep slid down from ths hillside. The progress of the slide was stayed by a new brick house on the opposite side of Hav-erman's avenue and against which the slide swept the ruins of Canfield's house. Little Annie Burns, eleven years old, a granddaughter of Patrick Canfield, was taken out dead. John Ahem extricated himself and succeeded in getting out his wife and baby.
The body of Mrs. Noonan was taken out about 4 o'clock, and the body of her daughter, Mrs. Hogan, was found an hour or so later. lluHt Vacate. Washington, D.
March 15. The President this afternoon issued the following totlce: To Whom it May Concern: The lands lands known as the Cherokee Strip are not open to settlement. The bill pend-ine in Congress and intended to provide a civil government for the country known as Oklahoma does not provide for opening of the Cherokee Strip or outlet to settlement, and has not as yet received the vote of the two Houses of Congress or the approval of the President. The entrance of settlers upon these lands is unlawful and all persons are hereby warned against entering thereon. When these lands shall become open to settlement prompt public notice will be given of that fact, but in the meantime it is my duty to exclude all persons therefrom, and those who enter unlawfully will only involve themselves in unprofitable trouble, as they will be immediately removed.
Signed Benjamin Harkison. Adjutant General Kelton has telegraphed Gen. Merritt, at Fort Leavenworth, to use troops, if necessary, and with prudence, as heretofore, to enforce the proclamation issued to-day by the President relative to intruders upon the Cherokee Strip lands. This order is sent by direction of the Secretary of War. Damage Wheat.
Chicago, March 18. The Farmers' Review will publish the following: "The reports of our correspondents show that the recent cold waves severely damaged winter wheat in a great many localities Our Illinois reports, almost without ex-! ception, estimate the damage ranging from 10 to 50 per cent. The heaviest damage appears to have fallen upon the central portion of the State, more than a dozen correspondents in that section repotting a loss of from 20 to 50 per cent. Our Johnson county correspondent re-ports wheat nearly all dead. Three northern counties report heavy damage, viz: Mercer, 20 per cent; 20 percent; Kendall, 50 per A few southern counties report injury from wet weather.
Vj i In Indiana the wheat fields in the central and southern portions of Ah State appear to have been the greatest sufferers from the cold wave, the damage ranging from 10 to 30 per cent, save in Marion county, where the crop is said' to entirely destroyed. In many parts of Missouri wheat has been badly winter killed. Our correspondents in Warren, Shelby, Green and ilickory counties estimate the damage at 50 per cent. In fifteen other counties in the State the loss will range from 10 to 25 per cent. Kentucky makes the best record so far of any State in the winter wheat belt.
Some damage from the cold wave is reported ia Christian, Hardin and in Pulaski counties, but the general average condition of the State is high. Our reports indicate that Kansas wheat fields are in very fair condition, comparatively few of our correspondents report- Iing serious damage from freezing and other causes. The heaviest loss reported is in Montgomery county, where it is 6aid that the cold wave and Hessian fly have combined to injure the crop 50 per cent. Sleet storms have damaged wheat fields in a few counties. Prospects are not very bright for winter wheat in Michigan and Wisconsin at this wnting.
We summarize the reports of our correspondents relative to the condition as follows: Illinois, 90 per Indiana, 91: Ohio, 94; Missouri, 90; Kentucky 90; Kansas, 95; Wisconsin, 86; Michigan, 76. Around tli World. Port Townsknd, March 17. Regina Rothschild, daughter of the late Baron Rothschild, a pioneer merchant, leaves here 'to-night to race around the world against Geo. Francis Train.
Five thousand dollars have been con tribute by citizens for her expenses. She will go east to New York via the Canadian Pacific, take the French line to Havre, then by land to Brindisi, thence to Hong Kong by another steamer and from Yakohama by the regular Canadian boat. A tug will meet the steamer at Cape Flattery and bring the fair traveler to this place at a speed of twenty miles an hour. Miss Rothschild is just past her twentieth year. Penslan Measure Washington, March 17.
Senator Ingalh to-day introduced a bill providing that a soldier who has lost both eyes or one arm or leg may get married at any time he may so desire to get some woman to tnke care of him and at his death the soldier's widow shall receive $12 month, as long as she remains single. If the soldier's wife refuses to live with and care for him he may, after her absence of six months, procure a divorce from any county court upon the payment of $5. sprung up. We also earnestly petition for the establishment of such reciprocal relations with Mexico as admit our Products into that rauntr froa nf Antv and the Senators and Representatives in ijongreBs- irom the State of Kansas are urgently requested to advance the interest of their State as herein set forth." Bismarck's ltetlrement. Berlin, March 18.
It is stated to-day in well informed political circles that the present difference between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck is. irreconcilable. It arises from the Chancellor's refusal to accede to a request made by Dr. Wind- thorst, the leader of the Clerical party is Germany, to restore to the Duke of Cumberland, the claimant of the throne of Hanover, the larger portion of the oueipn The report is repeated today that the Emperor proposes to appoint General Von Caprivi, who is now Commander of the Tenth Army Corps, to the Chancellorship. 4u5u p.
m. The Emperor continues to withhold his formal acceptance of Prince Bismarck's resignation. His reason for. cot accepting it is that the constitution does not admit of an interregnum in the tenure of the Chancellorship, and as the choice of a successor to Prince Bis marck is beset with difficulties, his majesty defers his acceptance until he final ly decides who he shall appoint as Chan-, cellor. All the members of the Prussian Ministry resigned at the same time-Prince.
Bismarck tendered his resigna tion. 5 p. m. It is just announced that Prince Bismarck's resignation of the; Chancellorship was accepted by the Em-poror at noon to-day. The Emperor has called a meeting of the various army corps.
He had a con- ference with the Minister of War this afternoon. The Hteele Court llarttal. Caicago, March 18. The court martial for the trial of Lieut. Steele of the Eighth United States Cavalry assembled in Battery armory at noon, and after formally organizing proceeded to hear the testimony of Private Dell P.
Wild, the complaining witness. The corroborating witness was Corporal Hiram Spatt, Fifteenth United States Infantry. The story, as told by the witnesses, was to the effect that Lieut. Steele ordered Private Wild to assibthim in some work about a building for his (Steele's) privite use; that Wild refused to obey the order on the ground that he had not enlisted in the capacity of a private Servant; that Steele struck him and subsequently caused him to be court martialed and sentenced to a year'g imprisonment at hard labor. To the charge Lieut.
Steele pleaded not guilty. as his counsel, Lieut. Crowder, said, "because we deny the facto alleged, but in order to facilitate the fullest inquiry into this matter. Our defense will be that whatever was done was an act necessary for the maintenance of good discipline and the good of the service," The court was then adjourned until tomorrow morning, when the defense wiK present its arguments. The aicCalla Investigation.
New York, March 18. The investigation of the charges of cruelty against Commander McCalla, of the Enterprise, was resumed this morning at the Brooklyn navy yard. Jeremiah Shea, fireman, charged Lieut. Mulligan with great cruelty. At Cron-stadt witness said he was triced up with a single line at 1 o'clock in the morning because he did not toe the mark properly on quarter deck.
Michael Murphy, a coal heaver, corroborated this testimony. G. W. Betzer, fireman, charged Lieut. Ingersoll with ill-treating him.
The witness also charged Lieut. Mulligan with having him triced up to the "Jacob ladder." Withess told how Lieut. Ingersoll struck Seaman Fitzgerald and banged his head against the mast. In this statement the witness was corroborated by Wm. Murphy, a seaman.
Lieut. Mulligan was questioned on this point, but could not remember any such occurrence. Michael Keavey charged Lieut. Mulligan with having gagged him with a bayonet. The lieutenant admitted that he had not had orders to do this.
Eugene Kline said he saw Lieut. Ingersoll strike Keavey. Seaman A. C. Neal testified that at Cronstadt he was ironed and for several days compelled to clean bright work.
He had wanted to make a complaint and Lieut. Ingersoll would not permit him to do so, but picked up a belaying pin and held it over the head of witness and then threw it and hit him in the mouth. Witness was then placed in the brig and kept on bread and water for five days. Harry Sanford, E. P.
McDonald and Paul Iloenig corroborated Neat's statements. Jas. M. Hughes was the next complainant. He was chained to two other men by the waist and compelled to stand.
Arretted for Bribery. New York, March 18. Deputy Sheriff W. C. Conigle and ex Warden Keating were arrested to-day for bribery.
The bail is the same in both $10,000, and was given by each. By noon to-day there were two more arrests for bribery on warrants found by the grand jury. They were Deputy Sheriffs Chas. Lende-man and Joseph Young. Other arrests will soon follow.
eland Arrested. St. Louis, March 18. The Jefferson City correspondent of the Post-Dispatch telegraphs that paper that Prosecuting Attorney Davison, of Cole county, filed. an information with Justice Wagner this morning, charging ex-State Treasurer Ed.
T. Noland with, embezzling State funds. Mr. JSoland was present at the time, giving himself up and wasadmitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. Mrs.
Elizabeth Thompson Butler, the artist, will soon paint an eviction scene. She has gone to Ireland to study the sux- roundisga. Ten Firemen Killed by the Collapse of a Burning Building. Many Wounded, Several of Whom will Die. Northern Louisiana in Danger of Submersion by the Flood.
Indianaiolis, March 17. What at first seemed an insignificant fire in the Eowen-Mernll book store this afternoon resulted in a catastrophe in which least four men were killed and a dozen wounded, some of whom will die. The building occupied by the book company was a four story and basement marble front building facing Washington street, just west of Meridian. The fire started shortly before 3 o'clock near the furnace in the sub-basement. The fire department, when it arrived, seemed at a loss to locate the fire and began pouring water into the building at the front, when the seat of trouble was at the rear.
For two hours the fight had continued in this way until a majority of the spectators had left, under the impression that the fire was out. About 5:35, however, there was a terrible crash and the entire building, except the front wall, fell inward. At the time a number of firemen were on the roof of the building and were buried in the debris, which was piled forty feet high within the walls of the doomed building. Immediately the work of rescuing the living and extricat-' ing the dead was begun by at least 500 volunteers, who, in addition to the uninjured firemen and members of the police force, formed a strong corps of workers. At times their ears would be greeted by the groans of the wounded under the ruins and then the work would be pushed with renewed vigor.
For three hours the forces labored to rescue the wounded and recover the dead. At this hour, 11 o'clock, the work of excavating the ruins is still in progress. Bo far ten firemen are known to be dead. Their names are Geo. Faulkner, Ulysses Glazier, George Glenn, Al.
Hoffman, Samuel Neal, Richard Lowrie, Eph. Stormer, Charles Jenkins, Thos. Tallin-tyre, Andrew Cheery, superintendent fire alarm system. Wounded Anthony Voltz, pipeman; Lew Kafert, fireman; Thos. Barren, fire-, man; A.
G. Mercer, captain fire department; S. W. Neal, pipeman; Wm. Partes, i un TTanrvr WTnH mi tT nam a ei badly hurt; Kbeuezer pipeman, cut and bruised; Thos.Talentyre, foreman engine No.
2, fatally crushed; Chas. Jenkins, pipeman, badly bruised; Wm. Heinly, pipeman, badly hurt; John Burkbardt, pipeman, badly hurt about the head; Dick Lowrey, pipeman, is still the under hs is Walter Jones and it is supposed both are dead. At this hour the workmen are digging the mass of brick, iron and mortar, trying to extricate a man whose face, bloody and bruised, appears just above the debris. He is supposed to be Daniel Jones, a pipeman.
His feet are caught by a huge iron girder, and he is being liberally plied with stimulants to keep him ali 7e. Underneath him ia another man, who is supposed to be dead. The scenes at the tire department headquarters this evening have been only exceeded in pathetic interest by those at the homes of the dead firemen. OM men, fathers of the younger men who lost their liver, mothers and children of -the dead and living, have crowded into the room, seeking information of their loved ones, and getting noue, have rushed to the scene of the "fire and by their frantic appeals have made duubly arduous the work of those endeavoring to get at those imprisoned beneath the ruins. The first ambulances to leave the scene of the fire carried the remains of the frst four men taken from beneath the floors.
The cause of the loss of life is at yet not quite apparent. During the two hours and a half which the fire -was burning there had been scarcely a flame visible to tho spectators on the streets, though the volumes of smoke had been so dense as to utterly obstruct the vision. The crowds in the street began to disperse and everybody considered the fire practically extinguished when there was a 6udden crash and the whole building, except the Washington street front, fell in with a crash. Firemen were on each of the three floors and the roof and they were, of course, carried down in the collapse. It would seem that the building had been insufficiently united to those on either aide of it and that the flames ate a bole in the centre, letting the whole cave in.
A fund has already been started for the relief of the injured firemen and the families of those who are dead, which has already reached $2,000. Mayor Sullivan has issued a proclamation calling for subscriptions. The Coroner has been investigating and will hold an in- quest to morrow. Indianapolis, March 18. A great throng surrounded the ruins of the Bow-en-Merrill book concern this morning An army of workmen is busily engaged carting away the debris to exhume the bodies of the dead and injured buried there.
The voices of several persons in the ruins can be heard above the noise of the work of removing the piles of brick nd broken timbers. The list of dead as jar as known at this hour is as follows: Andrew O.Cherry, superintendent of the fire alarm telegraph; George Faulk, ner, engineer, still pinioned in the ruin; Espy Stormer, pipeman, still in the ruins; Ulysses G. Glazier, substitute: Henry D. Woodruff, pipeman; Geo.W. Glenn, pipe-man; Albert Hoffman, pipeman; Anthony Volz, driver; Thomas A.
Black, truck, xaaiu The injured number eighteen. The fire originated in the basement from'the furnance, but in what manner" Is: not known. Representative Kelly's Bill Governing the Election of Members oi Congress. Senator Ingalls' Measure for the Relief of Disabled Soldiers. Mr.
Dolph's "Leak" Investigation Results in a Dismal Failure. Election of Congressmen. Washington, D. March 17. Mr.
Kelly, of Kansas, introduced a bill in the House to-day to provide for the election of members of the House. It declares that no State law or constitution shall de prive a citizen once duly- authorized to vote for a member of the Legislature of his right to vote except upon conviction of felony. Congress is to fix the Congressional election districts each State upon the publication of the census returns and the determination of the basis of representation. The Windom Silver Bill. Washington, D.
March 17. Eleven members of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures were present to-day when the Windom silver bill was again under discussion. The amendment offered by Mr. Boutelle passed upon by the committee formally last Monday, when there was a smaller attendance, providing for free coinage when the price of silver reaches one dollar for 37.15 grains fine of pure silver, was voted upon and adopted by a majority vote. Mr.
Williams offered an amendment, which was adopted, striking out the section in the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend temporarily the receipt of silver bullion at any time when he is satisfied that through combination or speculative manipulation of the market the price of silver is arbitrary, nominal or fictitious. The bill then went over until next Monday. Fruitless of Result. Washington, D. March 17.
Mr. Dolph looked weary and discouraged this afternoon when his leak investigating committee closed its anxious but fruitless labors, vacated the room in which it had been meeting and sent back to the room of the Commtttee on Territories the borrowed Bible on which witnesses had been sworn. Service fenslon Bil. Washington, D. March 17.
Representative Morrill, of Kansas, to-day in troduced a bill providing for a service pension of $8 per month to certain soldiers of the late war and their widows. Its enactment into a law will place 400. 000 additional pensioners on the rolls at once acd about 52,000 each year there after. Pensions Allowed. Washington, D.
CL, March 18. The following Kansans have been granted pensions: Original invalid Andrew S. Mendenhall, Wichita; Chas. Brown.Catos; C. Jackson, Highland Station; John W.
Hile, Yal'ey Falls; Lorenzo Gorman; Highley; Thomas Bunn, Fort Scott; John Dickey, Grand Haven; Wm. C. Lewis, Litchfield; Eben E. Slade, Wichita; Jos. McGinnis, Erie; John Lee, Columbus; m.
uyter, wicnita. Restoration Thomas H. Meranda, Cora. Increase Francis M. Estes, Seward; Barnett Tenenick, Emerson; Wilson L.
Brown, Chetopa; Eli L. Evans, Colwick; Francis J. Grimm, Atchison; Sherman Kirk, Athol; John Johnston, Lorens; Desire Moncey, Aurora; John Scharhf, Dubuque; Philip R. Cookerie, Daniel Jack-eon, Watbena; William H. Gandy, Mound valley; Uishop A Snerer.
Restored Solon True, Morrtor; Fred erick G. Walker, Portis; Vincent Max well, Guard. Reissue Chas. A. Contey, Pelton.
Original widows, etc. Cynthia A. Bergen, former widow of Cornelius Decker, Wichita; Harriett widow of Charles Maxley. Mexican widows Minerva, widow of John H. Edwards, Kansas City.
Relief Fund. Washington, D. C. March 18. A subscription fund was to-day started here for the relief of the families of victims of the fire at Indianapolis yesterday.
President Harrison subscribed $200; At torney General Miller $100, and United States Treasurei Huston $50. Every member of the Indiana delegation in Congress is said to have subscribed. Kineald Indicted Washington, D. March 18. The grand jury to-day reported to Chief Justice Bingham an indictment against Chas.
iu. Kincaid for the muider of ex-Kepre tative Wm. P. Taulbee. Postal Telegraphy.
Washington, D. March 18. Mr. Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee and a practical telegrapher, was be fore the House Committee on Postoffices and Postroads to-day and made an argu ment in behalf of the establishment of postal telegraph. Money fur Levee Protection.
Washington, D. Dec. 18. Secretary Proctor to day authorized the Mississippi River Commission to expend $100,000 for the protection of levees along the Mississippi river in the Fourth District, which extends from Warrenton, to tne neaa or the ruses, a dis the $20,000 allowed to the Morranu levee. SerioaIy iniured.
Logak, March 16. rSpecial.l Leonard George, living a few miles west of town, is an excellent horseman and is proud of the fact. Thursday evening he was bantered by his herder and others to ride a three-year-old bull. He aereed to ao so, me animal was caught, so he could mount 'him. This was done and Georee stuck to him as he went threa times around the feed lot, but on the iourin round ne was thrown oS.
and the entire heard ran over him. StinnffPtn say, he lived through it all, but was quite ociiuusij lujureu, Having a uiMOCttieu shoulder to remind him that horses are better saddle animals than bulls. Boodlers Arrested. New Yokk, March 17. Deputy Com missioner of Public Works Bernard F.
Martin was arrested to-day in his office in Chambers street on an indictment found against him by the grand jury. He in wn-nA n. I I 1 I the Sheriff Yoffice when he was Order of Arrest Clerk under Sheriff Grant. He wa3 taken to the District Attorney's of fice. Other arrests will follow Martin was arraigned before Judge Martine in his private room and cave bail for $10.
000 to appear before Judge1 Fitzgerald monaay next. At hair past 1 clock Deputy Sheriff Patrick Fitzirerald was arrested. Captured Ills Men. March 17. Thurs day night John McCann, Charles Harris and Thomas Collaler, confined in the county jail, overpowered the sheriff when he came up to give them their eveninir meal and escaped.
The prisoners started up the Kio Grand river. Friday moraine Sheriff Hecker. with nosse. started in pursuit. Yesterday moraine at daylight their camp was discovered.
The fugitives were called upon to surrender, but instead of doing so they fired upon the posse. The sheriff returned the fire. shooting three times and killing his three men. JNone.ot the Sherinrs posse were injured. Horsethieves Killed.
San Angklo, March 17. Jerome Shields and C. L. Broom, of Ranger county, left here Friday night with war rants from El Paso to arrest a Mexican borsethief named Aterviso Daleneca. who was living with his brother at Cepi- ticcio, aoout twenty-nve miles west of here.
On reaching their house a fight ensued, which resulted in both Mexicans being killed and Broome receiving a serious wound in his left shoulder. Shields was also slighly shot in the left hand. vThe Cattlemen. Caldwell, March 18. The Cher-okee Strip Live Stock Association met here to-day in annual session.
About 200 were in attendance. The meeting was called to crder at two p. m. by Vice President Charles H. Eldred, of Medicine Lodge.
The board of directors of last year were re-elected by acclamation. The board afterward re-electe'd the old officers. The doings of the board of directors, who have been in session all afternoon and evening, are merely matters of guess work, except when some member of- the board inadvertently gave away something during a recess. From good authority it is learned that the cattlemen accept the inevitable with good grace and are preparing to move by October first. Proper officers have been instructed to pay the Cherokees rent from July 1 until October 1.
The fact of the many fires of late on the strip was discussed and it was decided to draw up a memorial to President Harrison asking for protection from a repetition of these acts. The meeting is very insignificant in comparison with former ones and numbers of those in attendance have ex pressed the thought that this would be the last meeting of the association. Hon. W. A.
Phillips, of Salina, agent for the Cherokee Indians at Washington, is present, mingling the stockmen. He is the only representative of the Cherokees present and no one seems to understand his business with the association. The meeting has been a very tame affair throughout, though it will probably be more interesting to-morrow. Members who have not paid their rentals will be excluded from to-morrow's meeting. A member of Gen.
Merritt's staff has been in the city to-day and this evening he telegraphed the General a recommendation to send feur companies of soldiers to keep settlers out of the strip. The Situation on the Strip. Guthrie, March 18. As yet no troops reached this city from either of the stations south or west of here. Most all of the people that invaded the coveted lands by railroad or otherwise, except the settler with his wagons, have already returned here or some other point on the Oklahoma line.
A great many availed themselves of the many advantages and returaed to Kansas towns. Dr. Joseph Pinquard of the Cherokee Settlers Association left here on a late stock train last night with the intention of piloting back to some od ground hear this point a party of nearly a hundred boomers that accompanied him by wagoo to the Strip. The fact that the sooners are having such a hard time of it here in Oklahoma has had a tendency to hasten the return of most all those who expect to locate homes. Kingfisher, I.
TV March 18. One troop of cavalry, under command of Capt. Woodson, arrived here to-day from Fort llayes. It will be stationed at Ponca. One troop, Capt.
Hayes commanding, left Fort Hayes at the same time and will arrive at Guthrie to-morrow. A tb ird troop of cavalry from Fort Sill will also arrive at Guthrie to morrow. The troops under the command of Capt. Woodson atd Capt. Hayes will drive from the central portion of the strip the boomers there located, and the third troop will probably perform the same service in the southern part.
It not thought any serious trouble will arise from the invasion of the soldiers. it is true that the Missouri 'Pacific The Great Organization of Farmers will Take a Hand in Politics. Legislators Given to Understand that the People will be Heard. Measures for the Protection of Home and Family Must be Provided. Kansas City, March 18.
The Farmers' Alliance in Kansas is growing so rapidly, both in cumbers and perfectness of organization, that they have become a decidedly disturbing factor in local and State, politics. State Organizer Jennings has just finished up a trip through the State where he has been establishing new alliances and extending the scope and organization of the old ones. Every in the whole State is organized, and pretty nearly every "farmer in each county is a member of the organization. The older Alliances have been reorganized on the plan of the new ones, by townships. Each county has a central organization at the county seat, and to this the township alliance are subordinate.
The county central organization receives instructions from the State headquarters, which are subordinate again to the National Alliance. This thorough organization has made the order exceptionally strong. In local politics where their immediate interests are at stake the Alliances have generally decided to support only those candidates who coincide with their views and adopt their principles. In State politics similar action has been decided upon, and it has even been proposed to run a 'reform" candidate for Governor, in the person of A. W.
Smith, better known as "Farmer" Smith, of McPher-ton. The organization has already got its fingers in the National political fire, and the President of the Kansas Alliance has addressed to the Kansas Senators and Representatives at Washington a letter informing them that it is the belief among farmers that the depression of agricultural interests is due to vicious legislation. The letter concludes thus: "Many of the questions that are ieceiv-ing the attention of Congress are far less urgent than those upon which the safety of the home and the welfare of the fam- I ily 'depend. The people believe the wnue citizens oi llamas nave some rights as well a the colored citizens of the South. I hey believe that fallen heroes, both white and black, in the past struggles for liberty and the perpetuity of our institutions can afford to wait for one moment until the rights of living heroes in the present struggle for Amer ican homes receive some recognition by the men who have been chosen.
to repre sent them in Congress. Behind these demands are more than 100,000 ballots in the State of Kaneas and the time is com ing, and is not far distant, when legisla tors will heed the voice of their constitu ents." These indications of the deter mination of the Alliance to enter politics ure troubling the politicians and they are becoming decidedly nervous. Under Arrest. Kansas City, March 18. The Star's Leavenworth, special says: "Gover nor Smith and Postmaster Halloway, of the Soldiers' Home, were arrested this morning on complsjnt of Comrade Batson, who charges them with purloin ing a letter addressed to him.
They were taken before a United States Coramis sioner and released on their own recog nizance. A preliminary hearing will be given the case to-morrow. Killed at a Dance. Anthony, March 18. While at tending a dance at the house of a Mr.
Robinson, four, miles north of here, Charles Heed and Ed. Devare decided to settle an old time feud. A general fight ensued, during which Heed was struck on the head by Devare with a club, from the effects of which he died this morning. Devare is under arrest awaiting a pre liminary hearing. Arrested for Criminal A sslt Suicide.
Minneapolis, March 18. E. T. Osborne, of Remmington, was arrested yesterday on a charge of attempting to criminally assault a six year old girl. He had a preliminary examination and was committed to jail to await the action of the District Court.
Joe Dillingham, who lives at Lamar, north of here, committed suicide Saturday evening by shooting himself in the head with a Despondency was the cause. Demand Free Ore. Kansas CAy, March 18. Resolutions requesting Congress to place no duty on ore, containing silver were adopted last night and to-day by the Board of Trade and Commercial Exchanges at Arkansas City, Wlnfield, Emporia, Topeka, and Kansas City, Kansas. The resolutions recite that the smelting and refining industry at Kansas City, Kansas, js the most "extensive manufacturing industry in the State; that until the time when the industry is firmly established ore containing silver has always been admitted free of duty.
Recent rulings by the Department of the applying a tariff tax to certain grades of silver ore has resulted in a retaliatory tax by Mexico upon meats and corn, the principal products of Kansas soil, and that the further imposition of a tariff tax on these ores will still further increase Mexico's ill-feeling against the United States. Proceeding, these resolutions state further: We urgently request that the capital invested in this industry in Kan will be compelled to fair and reputable Kansr betwe I'ORIA itiona ns of a have if' Itepublj; ed free ng ia I ugar. i Kans 7 into III constit care of rallrc i wvn mSHMWeWI r-rae and were to be rom AtChisOu nMMH ine popping Tevotvcrs, me-cnawcrtT nippers every reasonable rate con- under lf lta hooh, the yells and profanity would While of course, business exterior, liirarl nr oven trinlp nrivata life. facts were indisputable, MrnvmiTod fit a trlannn.
