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BOLD BANK KOBBKUS.
GET AWAY WITH $5,000 AT
N1CKEHSON, KAN.
Vaalta Blown Open—Citizen Aronted by
Explosion M Menaced I17 Wlnchnler*
tnd Kept From Giving the Alarm —
Loaa Covered by Burglar Iiianrnnoe.
Hutchinson, Kan.. March 21.—Bank
robbers took charge of Nickorson yes-
lerday morning ami, with a guard on
the outside to take care of citizens,
cracked tho vault and safes and se-
cured over 8A.0OO in cash from the
State bank of that city. It was bold
work, and the four men who were in
the gang were evidently old
hands. They were from 3 until
r, c'*'" k finishing the job, and a
guard of two men on the outside
held off those who discovered the af-
fair. Some of tho mouey was badiy
mutilated in tho blowing of the safe,
and was left upon the Boor. Presi-
dent L. C. Brown states that some-
thing over 8-1.000 was secured—31,500
in gold, 8500 in silver, and the remain-
der in paper. Those who saw the men
at work were terrified by Winchesters
and did not give the alarm until the
gang was out of town. The bank hnd
burglar insurance upon the money,
and the loss falls upon the insurance
companies. No trace of the gang has
been discovered since they left Nick-
orson al daybreak.
Inatroctloni to Cai
fleers.
Washington, March 21.—The de-
partment of state is informed by the
United States consul general at
Ottawa, Ontario, that the same duties
aro imposed on goods destined for the
Klondike region as are imposed on
goods imported into any other part of
Canada The instructions to the Can-
adian customs oflicers touching on
this matter are as follows:
"Wearing apparel, articles of per-
sonal adornment, toilet articles and
similar personal effects of persons ar-
riving in Canada may be passed free,
MURDERED BY A MOB.
SENATOR PROCTOR TELLS
SENATE WHAT HE SAW.
BUrratlon and IHnenne F.i.
People — Autonomy an O
Span tub Hold Only Win
Blta I'poii.
ormlnatlr-K n
ter Failure—
; Their Army
Wabiiington, March 18.—Senator
Proctor yesterday afternoon, in the
Senate, made a statement concerning
his Cuban tripi
Senator Proctor began by saying
J that more importance had been at-
without entry at customs tariff, but taclied to his visit than necessary, but
this provision shall only include such 1 h„ thought a public statement would
tides as actually accompany and i>0 beneficial. The only thing, he
arc in the use of and as aro necessary I that he had said about the mat-
and appropriate for the wear and use ter to the President was that ho was
of such persons for the immediate j going. On usking if there was any
purpose of the journey and present objection to it he was told that there
comfort and convenience and shall not waa noue. lie had letters from As-
be held to apply to merchandise or gistant Secretary Day and business
articles Intended for other persons or men of the United States. lie said
for sale." General Lee and other United States
In tho absence of rulings by the ' officials in Cuba afforded him oppor-
board of customs as to articles In- 1 tunity to secure information.
eluded in the foregoing regulation. He denied that he had made the
customs oflicers at the port of entry | statement that the Maine was olown
to decide the class and quantity of up from the inside, but said that it
ing apparel and like articles
in use entitled to be passed free, un-
der tho above provision, having due
regard to the length of the journey
and to the reasonable requirements
)f tho traveler for his comfort and
convenience on the journey.
Articles of |>crsonal adornment,
however, may be held to include one
watch and tho jewelry ordinarily in
use by the traveler.
For a traveler to the Klondike re-
gion a pair of blankets and a fur robe
and changes of apparel for use on the
journey may be passed free.
Miners' gold pans are free under
tariff item No. 555 as separators
WARLIKE IN FAR EAST.
Hnglnnd Mini
Ilorrlblo Crime In the Indian Territory
— Woman and Two Men Killed.
Muskogee, Ind. Ter., March '
The town of Wybark, five miles north
of here, is all excitement over a crime
which was committed near there last
night, by which a woman and two
men lost th« ir lives, and which bids
fair to rival any of tho horrible crimes
which are now on the criminal calen
dar of the Indian Territory. E<
Chalmers, a negro, who recently mar-
ried a white woman named lleadly,
was visited by a mob o
white men and botli Chalmci
his wife were shot and killed
by the mob. Chalmers lived until
this morning, ami before
died he gave the names of some of the
men he recognized in the mob.
seem* that the nix men had planned
to kill Chalmers and his wife outright
and leavo no one to tell the tale, but
during the fight which took place be-
tween Chalmers and the mob, one of .
their number was shot, it is thought, ! necessar-N-
accidentally, by one of the inob, and
the body of ono Matthews, an nged
white man, who resided at Gibson Sta-
tion, a town near Wybark, was found
near tho railroad, not far from
Chalmers* house, pierced with a
bullet Matthews answered the de
scription of one of the men described
by Chalmers before he died. The floor
of the house in which Chalmers and
his Wife resided was covered with
blood and gave evidence of a desper-
ate struggle. It was also found that
Matthews had been carried from Chal-
mers' house by his pals to the place
where his body was found, and that
they had laid guns by his side to leave
the impression that he had committed
the crime. United States Marshal
Bennett's deputies have, been investi-
gating tho matter and some startling
developments are expected.
irfnt Kqnadro
the sentiment in Cuba. Outside
of Havana there was desolation and
misery. Peoplo were surrounded by
trochas and controlled by forts of
blockhouses.
His observations, he said, were
the four western provinces.
Outside
>ar Admiral Blcard Baya Court of In-
quiry Contlnuea Tlile Week.
Key West, Kla, March <1.—The
court of Inquiry, according to Hear
Admiral Sieard, will continue its work
through the coming week as it is not
yet ready to make a report on tho
Maine disaster. It is impossible to
say definitely whether any synopsis of
the findings of tho court, up to date,
has been sent to Washington. The
notion prevails here that this has Wen
done, but no official confirmation is
obtainable.
DID NOT ATTEND CHURCH.
Frealdent Spent Several Houra In Con-
sultation With Membara of Cabinet
Washington, March 2L— President
McKinley did not attend church yes-
terday as is his custom, but instead,
spent two hours and more iu confer-
ence with several members of the cab-
inet Assistant Secretary Day called
about 10:30 o'clock and remained until
nearly 1. Secretary Long and Secre-
tary lUlss were the other members
present They remained less than an
hour. Commander Clover, in com-
pany with Mr. Flint, who has been
acting for the government in the ne-
gotiations for the purchase of ships,
alrto called and were shown Into the
President's private office. The mem-
bers of the cabinet on leaving the
White house, said that there was nc
special significance in the meeting.
Tacoma. Wash., March 21.—Oflicers
of tho Northern Pacific steamship
Victoria, which arrived last night
from China and Japan, report that the
British government is massing a very
powerful fleet of wurships in Chi-
nese waters, and that the Brit-
ish are buying all the coal coming
to those waters for their men-of-
war: and so anxious are they to get
it that they send vessels to sea
and there hail the coalers and bargain
for their cargoes, paying gilt-edged
Purser McDonald
says there aro now thirtv or forty
British warships on the Chinn station,
and the fleet has Won considerably
augnmonted dnring the last few
weeks. Among tho latest arrivals
was the big marine fighter Powerful,
ono of the most destructive vessels
afloat
NO HOPE FOR GLADSTONE
GOVERNOR LEEDY'S VIEW.
The War, Scare I'aed to Create an Army
to Buppre* I.abor.
Toper a, Kan., March 10.—Governor
Leedy in an interview this morning,
declared that in his opinion the ad-
ministration at Washington is taking
advantage of the present troubles to
increase tho army, not for the purpose
of fighting Spain, but to have a stand-
ing army to keep down the strikes anil
internal troubles at home.
"If they call for volunteers Kansas
will furnish thein," he said, "but they
won't call for them unless I am badly
mistaken. I don't expect to see war
with Spain, but this crisis is just what
the corporations havo been looking
for to givo an excuso for a big stand-
ing army to keep down labor troubles.
I have no confidencc in tho govern-
ment's intentions."
mud No Keller at llournemouth and
Will Keturn to llawarden.
Bournemouth, March 21.—The fol-
lowing bulletin has been issued with
spect to Mr. Gladstone:
"In thenbsenceof any improvement
in Mr. Gladstone's condition, it has
been settled in consultation that he
should return to Hawarden next
week."
Tho bulletin is regarded as having
only one meaning. It is understood
the grievous facial pains have re-
turned and will no longer yield to the
usual remedies.
SPANISH MINE HORROR.
WANTS DIVORCE.
After Twenty-Five Voara Mra. Burnett
Flnda Marriage a Failure
Washington, March 21.—Mrs. Fran-
ces Hodgson Burnett, tho well known
novelist, to-day instituted suit for
divorce from Dr. Swan M. Burnett.
The papers in the case are withheld
from publication.
Dr. Burnett is an occulist of some
local reputation. He married Miss
Hodgson twenty-five years ago, before
she had become known as a writer.
Their sail Lionel died three years
ago. Vivian, the original of "Little
Lord Fauntleroy," is a student at Har-
vard. Mrs. Burnett is 40 years old.
Fellow Berrant Law Teat.
Macon, Mo., March 21.—An action
to test tho fellow screant law was
filed in the circuit court hsre by attor-
neys for William K. Mitchell, who
sues the Atchison, Topeka «fc Santa Fe
railroad for 84.00U on two causes of
action. Mitchell was a section baud
in the employ of tho defendant on the
8th of September last. He was one of
four men who was lifting a handcar
on tho track. The man holdinir the
car opposite to him was old and un-
able to keep up his end. Tho plain-
tiff alleges that the car fell, jerking
and throwing him down, inflicting
serious and permanent injuries.
Kxploalon at Helmes Keiitilta In the
Death of Seventy-Ave Men.
Madrid, March 21. — A terrible ex-
plosion took place yesterday in tho
Santa Isabel mine at Bel me z, province
of Cordovia. Seventy corpses have
already been recovered and many men
are as yet unaccounted for. Five of
the rescued have succumbad to their
Injuries.
A Millionaire"# Daughter a I'auper.
Watebbciiy, Conn., March 21.—Miss
Harriet Ethel Wilson, daupMer of the
late A. 11. Wilson, the millionaire sew-
inir machine manufacturer, has ap-
plied for admission as a pauper at the
Waterbury almshouse. Wilson was
known wherever sewing machines
wore used, through his partnership in
the Wheeler & Wilson company. He
amassed an immense fortune und
built a beautiful residenco on the
crown of a bluff overlooking Water-
bury. Ho was very eccentric in his
ways and his fortune gradually
slipped away. At his death it was
found that it was all gone.
trochas and forts there
were no habitations or people
living. The Spaniards, he said, held
in the four provinces only what
their army sits on. Senator Proctor
described at some length tho condition
of the rcconcentrados, saying that
one-half of them had died, owing to
the manner in which they had been
kept in the small houses and bad san-
itation. It was no wonder one-half
had died, he added.
He went to Cuba thinking the con-
dition of tho people had been over-
drawn, but found their situation ter-
rible. What ho saw he could not tell
so others could see.
In one place, in Havana, the sen-
ator said, he saw 4"0 emaciated people
with little clothing, lying on stone
floors. Tho children had no clothing.
American people may be assured, he
continued, that their bounty will
reach the destitute and, he added, the
condition of the reconccntrados will
not be changed until peace shall
come. No beueficial results hail fol-
lowed General Blanco's order of No-
vember 13, le07. For this he doe- not
blame General Blanco, as Blanco
looked at the matter from a military
point of view.
As to the military situation, he sak'.
there wore about 60,000 Spanish
troops. He thought they would fight
well. There was no artillery. The
troops live in barracks The cavalry
is mounted mostly on ponies.
He said the Cubans had about 30,000
men in the field and were very activ.
The Cubans were well armed, but
poorly supplied witn ammunition
About one-third of the Cubau arm\
are negroes. The cavalrymen found
their own horse
The dividing lines between the par-
ties is sharp. It is Cuba
Spaniards. The autonomists, he did
not consider, as they were inconside
able in number. The Spaniards did
not want perfect uutonomy, as
meant government by the Cubans.
He inquired as to autonomy of
of wealth, business and professional
men. Without exception their reply
was that it was too late for autonomy.
It was, they said, too late for peace
under Spanish rule. Some favored
annexation by tho United States.
Senator Proctor said he was not in
favor of annexation. The conditions
for self-government in Cuba were fa-
vorable and not much danger of revo-
lutions. Be thought tho matter
might be safely left to an American
President and American people. With
these words he closed.
FOR FAMISHED CUBA.
Belief Train of Twenty-one Car* I.ea t>
■Sanaa* City.
Kansas City, Mo., March 21.—Per-
haps not before has there been such a
scene in the West as when, yesterday
afternoon at 1 o'clock, there left the
Grand avenue depot a train of twenty-
one cars, bound for the starving Cu-
bans, the result of an appeal made by
the Kansas City Star to tho generous
peoplo of the West Many of the cars
bore banners proclaiming where they
were from. Those from McPherson,
Mar on, Abilene and Hutchinson, Kan-
s, all had legends.
At least 7,Oe3 people were present to
witness the departure. Dr. Iliner, di-
rector of the Third Regiment band,
present with musicians from the
Musicians' Union. "Dixie," "The Star
Spangled Banner" and "America"
j the overtures played by the
bandsmen and cheered by the thous-
ands.
TO REORGANIZE THE ARMY
A Hill
the
id 1'rovldlnK
"Three Battalion" Byatem.
Washington, March i —Represen-
tative Hull of Iowa, chairman of the
House committee on military affairs,
introduced a bill yesterday reorganiz-
ing the line of the army. It is
a sweeping measure, making many
changes in the existing system
The bill places the war footing of
Hie army at 104,000 men. The inten-
tion is to utilize the State guard, al
Within thirty days Chicago will have
fifty electric cabs in use.
Joe Choynslil. the pugilist, Is seri-
ously ill from blood poisoning.
Joplin is now shipping lead to the
Omaliii smelter for treating silver ore.
Padgett &■ Dew aid are to start a
new freo silver paper at Junction
City, Kan
Congressman Bailey of Texas is
planning for the speakership of tho
next house if the Democrats win.
The Fort Scott police board muddle
has been compromised. William Mon-
ahan is now chief of police.
The international chess match be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States was won by the Britishers.
A bill providing that war material
be admitted freo of duty passed the
Bouse.
A rusl^to the Big Salmon and Little
Salmon rivers, In Alaska, is reported
by Northern advices.
General Cnssius M. Clay says that he
will tako a third wife if he succeed*
in divorcing Dora.
Expert cracksmen took 8*,0001 ir.
gold from the Franklin, 111., bank and
escaped.
W. D. Colyer, editor of the Durant.
I. T., Times, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
The Jasper county, Mo., silver forces
have agreed upou a triple fusion for
the county offices
The Western Union Telegraph com-
pany reports the total value of its
Kansas property to be #480,250.80.
Congressman Broderick carried the
Jefferson county, Kan., Republican
primaries.
I^ew Reach, a prominent farmer
near La Plata, Ma, committed suicide
by shooting.
The Douglas county, Kan., Repub-
lican congressional delegation is In-
structed for Bowersock for Congress.
During the last seven years $9,511,•
191 was legally paid to pension attor-
neys for prosecuting claims before tho
pension bureau
Tho Missouri Pacifio has been
awarded tho contract for supplying
soft coal to the Missouri penitentiary
for one year at 81.89 per ton.
A Spanish army officer has been
making large purchases recently of
horses, mules and other live stock in
St Louis.
The act requiring vestibules to be
placed on electric street cars, has been
declared unconstitutional by Judge
Culver at St Joseph, Mo.
Theodore Schauseil of Dallas. Texas,
has offered to take Senator Jason's
place aud fight tho Spaniard who
challenged tho Illinois statesman.
Joaquin Miller writes from the
Klondike that everyone seeking to
enter this spring without a year's
supplies will ba turned back.
Officials of the Rrunswick govern-
ment have asked the Bundesrath to
issue a decree prohibiting tho iinpor-
tTtion of American meat
The business portion of Boonboro,
Mo , was destroyed by a fire set by
BRIEF BITS OF GENERAL NEWS
FROM THE TERRITORIES.
Oklahoma and the ladlau Territory with
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TKHBITOBY
Colonel Freeman of the Osage agency
na* resigned and his successor may be
appointed soon.
Souvenir hunters have already car-
ried away the tree around which those
two Indians were burned.
A new calaboose is being erected at
Duncan. Such a building has b
vanted there for some time.
A number of grain dealers of the ter-
ritory met in Oklahoma last week for
purpose of organising a grain dealers'
tssociation.
The Hutchinson Southern, it is said.
U interested actively having the
county seat of Grant, county changed
to Medford.
A colony of Russian arrived in Okla-
homa last week and after taking out
their first naturalisation papers, will
take claims in Washita county.
Tecumseh and Shawnee hove decided
uthrie
Paying
Kight cross section crew
worn on the Sapulpa line.
There were 008 head of cattle killed I More than the
on the Oklahoma division of the Santa ifested in Oklab
Fe last year.
A number of Okahoma county men The average i
who invested in Stroud town lota as a City for seven
speculation have sold to good advant- | inches.
age.
Governor Barnes is considering a pe-
tition for the pardon of Bert Brown
and Jesse Bringle, sent from Pawnee
to Lansing for burglary.
Wolverton has establ
dinance in Dunci
The Frisco is under contract to operate
the Sapulpa line for thirty years.
I interest is man-
farming this s««a-
nfa 11 at Oklahoma
irs has been 30.51
(Governor Barnes officially estimates
the population of Oklahoma at over
300,000.
Young stock is selling at a fancy
price in Oklahoma this year as well a*
enbaum prompted the egg as- olsewhi
If R<
suit, he should be
ourt inartialed.
It is not the
Oklalio
i had a ti
r sto
i one day
action which is det ]as| week but the flukes melted as fast
rimentol to the militn, but the egg-
sample set.
While a Kay county man was at-
tending a meeting of the anti-horse
thief association some one slipped up
on the outside where his ma
and stole her.
The people who a
burning those Indian
a remorseless pun
i tied !
as they fell.
Temple Houston iH delivering a lec-
ture in Oklahoma called "Anitiquitiea
of America."
Most of the better settled portion of
I the territory is between 800 and 1,400
i feet above the sea level.
have been disposed of
Over 800
-rap
the
lint v
n at least the war with Spain
will be forgotten with speedily.
Miss I ma II ell popper has asked an
Oklahoma court to change her name.
She has waited too long for the mar-
riage-making authorities to do it.
Bird Smith, who shot and killed Bill
Stovall. in Pottawatomie county last
week, was bound over without bail on
the charge of murder in the first de-
gree. The Rogers woman is being held
as a witness.
If there Is war Major Woodsoi
Darlington will give up his job t
to battle. There will be hits of politi-
cians. however, who will be willing t.
serve the Cheyenne Indians while th-
brave Major is doing service forth'
readv organized, for filling out'tho | burglars who robbed the postoffico.
skeleton regiments, thus putting the I Walter Sanger Pullman, sou of th
army on a war footing at once. The late Georgo M Pullman, an<
bill has been carefully gone over by j Louise Lander West were married in
the War department, and Chair-nan San Francisco.
Hull will urge it vigorously. The city council of Lincoln. Neb.
Tho basis of the bill will be tho well
known three battalion organizations.
That is the ideal peaca status of tho
army, but provision is made for tho
count r
The
ngagement
nnding office
Sill, and Mil
daughter of Maj
ruincnt i
• tu
They have
in the
ourt at Ard-
Hnanciul aid.
lere is a pair of shears in th
shops at Shawnee which will cut
a piece of steel eight inches wide and
and a half inches thick as easily
if it were calico.
ic of the best indications of the
fact that Harry Thompson is making a
marshal is that he doesn't have
his deputies and friends rushing to the
i rs eternally with the report that
he ia.
he flow of petroleum at the new
er tent, well, i" Guthrie, continues.
nd it
day.
said a
Sample
Stillwutc
best fixed people til
Ml. T
of Colonel Pear
of Fort Reno and
< Maude Gskridge,
r Eskridge, is an-
arriage will probably
me time in the month
last yt
ising I
vher
ml flatte
Id this v
on take hit
of May.
Every farmer in Oklahon
stock up his farm lightly and let it
grow into money. With the numerous
pastures and grazing lands, the Okla-
homa farmer has the advantage of
many of the farmers and stoek raisers
in the older states. There is good pro-
fits in raising stock if properly man-
aged and cared for.
Farm work is rapidly being pushed
forward in Oklahoma and the Indian
territory this spring
Major Cro
rted all the Indians i
unity, will now set oi
y his hand on the J
port that he will tigh
froi
•eks ahead thi
years in the hit
school lands b.
barged
finding what | ,„
general gov j |mm, jn ^u, .)a8^ four months.
appealed for i
All fear of carpet baggers in Okluho«
1 ma is gone. The judges will all be
< >klahoma men. And that is all right.
On April 7th the colored Normal
school at Langston will have its first
ceremony. <l'he corner stone will be
laid.
Rosenbaum has asked for a l>oard of
inquiry. The public will now have to
wait while divers are examining Colo-
nel Stiles.
An Oklahoma journalist thinks that
if our navy can kill Spaniards as ef«
it has time, the war will
nts to three barrels not last long.
of oil have been sent The ministers of Guthrie are going on
slumming tours to ferret out evidence.
They haven't found anything very
shocking yet.
Tt is said to he the purpose of tho
Rock Island railroad sooner or later to
build to the coal fields in eastern In-
dian territory.
Oklahoma's militia should quit fool-
ing. The first thing to do is to fire the
rapidly disappearing egg-throwers
f Cushing having con- from its ranks.
ght to ( hris- ^ man in Woods county received his
mmission for postmaster on Febru-
y 14th and he calls it his valentine
• un Uncle Sain.
The average Oklahoman is busy just
w sowing oats and getting ready to
j plant corn. Nearly all of the plowing
of the terri- i |U1M been finished.
oratory for exam-
farmers are the
nancially in okla-
oncy to burn from
p and a very prom-
prospect for a big-
The Grant county
fello
and was in?
will defeat t
ions to a bett
and
Spaniard
March 17th in the go
id ordered thatanappi
ide of the Kickapoo in
n-
ities. and that ai
lutie of all schoo
* und east of rangi
exercise by the President of full
power to incrcasa each
isting compan"
Grahan
failed to impeach Mayt
lacking two votes.
City Auditor John S. Fear of Bur-
lington, Iowa, left town leaving a
statement showing a shortage of
ae of the ex- 1 $2,000.
75 men, tho Tho association of chambers of com-
I)ei
oyed.
PI a
B'l In Jail.
Fight on Sn«ar Trust.
New York, March SI.—Tho an-
nouncement of the revolt of W. K.
Hoyt «fc Co., wholesale grocers, against
the sugar trust caused surprise in
Wull street, and it was taken as an
indication of a general revolt against
the Havemeyer concern by tho whole-
sale grocers throughout the country.
It means, Wall street men think, that
great things are expected from the
tight which tho Arbuckle and Doschor
refineries now building in Brooklyn
will give the trust
HIr racking H
San Antonio, Texas, March 21.—A
letter was received here from the City
of Mexico announcing the complete
destruction by fire of tho immense
meat packing concern of Ramires and
Repeda, in that city. This large
plant was constructed only a short
time ago by Morris & Butts, of Kan-
sas City. Mo.. at a cost of 81,500.000.
It is a total loss, as not a dollar of in-
surance was carried.
Fdlth Muthew* In Jail.
Skpaua, Ma, March 2i. —Edith
Mathews, the stepdaughter of Marion
Ashell, the wrestler, who is now serv-
ing a life sentence in the Kansas pen-
itentiary at Lansing for the murder
of Edith's mother, was sentenced by
Judge Farnham to thirty days' im-
prisonment in the county jail for con-
sorting with John Gloomer, a negro
porter.
Armor Plate Plant Work« Bnnday.
Bethlehem. Pa . March SI.—The
Bethlehem Iron company's ordnance
works were working yesterday for the
first Sunday in the company's history.
Work on guns, carriages and arinor
for the government was under way.
The plant is running day and night
and over 2,000 hands are busy.
present strength, to 250 men.
HIr Dealt In Cavalry Horata.
FoitT IlKAD, s. D, March 21.—The
Black Hills ranges are being scoured
by tho United States agents for cav-
alry horses A contract has been
made with one large horse company
near here to furnish 2,000 horses as
soon as they can be brought in from
tho range. Negotiations aro also
being made by the government agent
at this post for several hundred horses
from other ranches Fort Meade
army officers think these horses are tc
be shipped south.
Kxpelleri Student May 8oe.
Columbia, Ma, March 19.—Tho ex-
pulsion of five students of Missouri
university for disorderly conduct at
the recent class riot may involve the
institution in a remarkable lawsuit
C. S, Price of Platte City, Mo., one of cattle so high at Havana that it is
the students expelled, has consulted likely shipments from Mobile will be
General Odon Guitar, a Columbia at* stopped.
torney, with a view to bringing suit A dispatch from Kiel says Japan
against the university for 810,000. He has purchased a torpedo corvette,
claims his character was damaged to which was being built there by the
that extent by his expulsion, which Krupps for Brazil.
he will endeavor to prove was unjust- The Paris Aurore says that France
ifiable. is making preparations to support
Russia by a naval demonstration in
Hundredi to Leave Dawion ^ j..Rr Kftgt
Tacoma, Wash., March 21.—IL C. !
Pettit of Snohomish, who returned
merce of the United Kingdom adopted
a resolution favoring the adoption of
the metric system.
Drury Lane theater, London, was
packed to overflowing when the en
tertaininent for the benefit of Nellie
Far re n was given. The sale of seats
netted 125,000.
Friends of Hawaii havo abandoned
the annexation troaty, and will try to
accomplish their purpose by joint res-
olution.
Tho Senate confirmed the nomina
tion of T. V. Powderly to bo commis-
sioner of Immigration.
Tho territorial home rule bill was
killed by the House committee on ter-
ritories by a party vote.
Mayor Frank A. Graham and Har-
vey B. Vail of Lincoln. Neb , have
been indicted on charges of bribery.
Spain has raised the import duty on
being put out
acra this spring.
happiness and
uer's home than
me-grown fruit.
Milan, Mo., March 21. — Deputy
United States Marshal Sain L. Potts
of Kansns City left here at 2 30 yes-
terday afternoon for St. Joseph with
Kincaid, the counterfeiter. His broth-
er, I). L Kincaid. the preacher, was
arrested and placed in jail on the
charge of attempting to circulate a
fraudulent aud counterfeit bank note,
purporting to have been issued by the
National Bank of KirksviUe.
Spain Hnya an KiiRllth Yacht
Nick, March 21.—It is rumored here
that Spain has purchased the steam
yacht Giralda, belonging to Hugh
McCalniont, M P The Giralda is 280
Dynamite for a Kama* Hank
Topkka, Kan , March 21 —Burglars
tried to blow open the safe of the
State bank of Mcriden with dynamite
last night They tunneled through
the brick walls of the building and
with a large charge of dynamite shat-
tered the doors of the vault but an
inside door remained unharmed and
after the explosion tho burglars fled.
They got only 310, according to a re-
port received here at noon. No one
hearil the explosion ami tho bank
officers knew nothing of it until they
went to the bank late this morning.
Work of Defense In Pensacola
Pensacola, Fla., March 21.—Pow-
der, shot and shell continue to arrive
here in large quantities for the forts
and batteries defending tho harbor.
Three of the eight big mortars for the
new battery on Santa Rosa island
have also arrived and they will be
mounted as quickly as possiblo.
f.*-c (i n |{re « in a n Dies Insane.
Chicago, March 21.— Ex-i ongreas
man Charles W. Woodman died yes-
terday in the Elgin Insane asylu
Since last Oct a be
W1„W . ho has suffered
feet long, has 35 1 feet beam and is lb I froin paretis brought on by the rup-
feet deep. i ture of a blood vessel in the brain.
HrlRht Comet Discovered.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., March 21.—A tel-
egram has been received at the Har-
vard college observatory from Profes-
sor Schaeberle at Lick observatory,
Uating that Professor Perrino has just
discovered a bright comet. The comet
is 2m in diameter, of tho seventh mag-
nitude, has strong central condensa-
tion and a tail one degrco long.
from Alaska on the City of Seattle,
brings news to the effect that next
June and .July will witness a stampede
from Dawson that will be equaled
only by the present rush of goldseek-
ers to the Klondike. Practically every
one of the 1,500 anxious to get out
early will bring gold,
amounts.
New presidential postmasters for
Missouri: T. J. G Flagg, Louisiana;
W.
tory of Oklahoma. The late rains hav
put the ground in the best of shapt
and the wheat fields bespeak an en
cournging outlook.
Many fruit trr
by the Oklahomi
Nothing brings
contentment to a farim
plenty of lucious, honi
Every farmer in Oklahoma should set
to it that enough trees and small fuit
are put out on his homestead to mor
than supply his own demand.
The Ponca City Courier says: Th
old system of pro rating the annuitie
of the Osage Indians has been abolish-
ed ut last. For many years it has been
the custom of traders to locate a little
house on wheels just in front of the
agent's office at Pawhuska and as the
Indians were given their checks they
were taken possession of and run be-
fore the traders, where their cheek was
taken and they were given a few dol-
lars and turned loose. Now the traders
wateh the Indians but they have to
catch them on the streets. The old
pro ruting system has been abolished.
The payment now about completed is
the first where the traders have not
had everything their own way.
A delegation of 23 Indians of the
Kiowa, Comanche. Apache, Wichita
and Caddo nations left the agency last
week for Washington to lay their
troubles before the 'Great White
Father." They will appear before
Comissloner of Indians Affairs Jones
to protest against the ratification of
the treaty of 1882. When this treaty
waa signed by the Five Tribes the
lands filed on by h<
lain
tin
last
ti creased s<
year that
•hool land
ing land i
SO rapidly
only a
Montreal In Dancer
Montkkal, March 31.—To-day Mon-
treal stands in imminent danger of a
repetition of the disastrous flood of
]08rt, when hundreds of thousands of
dollars' damuge was dono For some
days past the water in the St Law-
rence river has been rising steadily,
until it has touched the record point
Harlal of Mrs. John M. Thurston
Omaha. Neb, March 31—The body
of the late Mra. John M. Thurston
was followed to the grave by a tre-
mendous concourse of people yester-
day afternoon. All Omaha was out
and mauy from Nebraska and other
states were in atteiidan .
Too Slow With tha Handcuff*. |
Clakkmohk, lnd. Ter.. March 10 —
A shooting affair hero last night re-
sulted in the killing of "Bill" Arnold,
a deputy United States marshal, and
a man named Johnson. Deputies Bus*
sey and Arnold had arrested Johnson
for disorderly conduct and were just
placing the handcuffs on him when he
drew his revolver and shot Arnold
dead. Bussey then shot Johnson
twice, killing him instantly.
Mor 111 Hit' Avenging Angels
El. Paso, Texas, March 21.—Tho
Black Jack gang of American outlaw#
and train robb?rs of nine members
has been wiped out in Mexico by
avenging angels of a Mormon colony.
The United States authorities sent
two expeditions after the gang into
Mexico, but were unable to locate
them.
>evanteen HortM Hamad Up
Hutciiinso!*, Kan, March 21.—
Lightning struck the barn on Harvey
Eisininger's farm, just west of the
city, last night and tired the building.
Seventeen head of horses perished.
The fire spread to the granaries and
cribs, burning 4.o<)0 bushels of corn
und over fl.mo \orth of farm ma-
chinery The con pie tu loss is about
Sri Q()0.
G F. Robertson, Jefferson City
L. Sillman, Clarksville.
B F. Burwell of Oklahoma has been
appointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme bench of that Territory.
George W. Fisher has been nomi-
auy hi large nated to be Register of the Land Office
• at Topeka, Kan.
Fred Bronstine is in jail at Kahoka,
Ma, held on a charge of killing his
thickly
ities is unoccupied. In
f Noble, Garfield and
ool land hus been leas-
icoln county has only three
sections undisposed of; Cleve-
nty. three; Oklahoma county,
ight; Kingfisher county, seven. Grant
ounty, five; Wichita county, two.
is still much vacant school land
•erne western Oklahoma.
populated <
the countie
Kay all the
ed. Linco
quarte
The
ivnrd Allen the former who escaped
the Stillwater jail, has been eap-
This Is almost the only case on
record. They usually get away.
| A Logan county farmer was arrested
! last week for permitting dend animnls
' to remain unburled on his farm to such
.0 i an extent as to endanger the health of
jor, the community. On his promise to
,,f bury the dead, he was released frorfl
custody.
((1 I A man living near Cushing has corns
.j* into possession of $00,000 by tfie death
of his mother-in-law. One man will
cherish his mother-in-law's memory
and hope she is in heaven walking the
golden streets while he is blowing in
her savings on earth.
With another go«>d wheat crop and
good prices next fall, the Oklahoma
Th«
rd of
ors,
consisting of l
tary Jenkins
met in the oft!
assessed the value
in the Territory f<
Bari
and Auditor Hopkins,
e of the Governor and
lue of railroad property
me purposes
the
Kio
i' to the
onclu
i that thi
sen ted t«
""Sir. Wolfo Joel, trustee of th
estate of the late Barney llernato, was
assassinated iu his office at Capetown.
General W. S. Rosecrans, the last of
tho great commanders of the war, died
at his homo in Los Angeles, Cel., of
old age.
King Oscar of Norway and Sweden
will accept the offer of Walter Well-
man, the American journalist, to seek
Andree, the missing balloonist
The proposition to construct models
of the McKinley and Bryan home-
steads on the Omaha exposition
grounds has been accepted.
Four persons were drowned in the
White river flood
Ark.
A Sedalia man advises Missourian*
to keep away from the Klondike.
It is reported from Madrid that
Spain will let the United States strike
the first blow.
A Spaniard, fired by Senator Ma-
son's pro-Cuban speeches, has chal-
lenged that atatesman to mortal com-
bat
Tho Standard Oil company and J.
Plerpont Morgan are said to bo be-
hind Leiter in Ills biltl
ie in the valuatioi
r 1807 except oi
and improvements or
which the board incr
Telegraph lines, whe
per mile for the first
mile for each additlo
The Indians who v
Mexico would do we
There is no sentimer
Indians there were
ed; the warriors wei
to change
ssessed fo
e right-«
Ml pe,
■and 810
re. Pulln
the
•nt d«
and
terms of it had been misrep
them and asked that it h
and proper changes made The mat-
ter was held in abeyance und the agree
ment han never been ratified. These
Indians own lands south of the Wash
ita river from which they derive a
lurge revenue by leasing them for graz-
ing purposes.
Oklahoma ie recognised as one of the
best fruit-producing countries on the
continent. Although yet in its infan-
l cy, it is being compared by old and ex-
perienced fruit-growers to the great
fruit producing regions of California.
Peaches, pears, apricots, apples, and
iwft kinds of small fruits, have been
successfully grown in Oklahoma.
Will Kelly, who was arrested last
I week on the charge of writing obscene
and indecent language on a school
house near Cushing, has been found
not guilty r.nd released.
Fayetteville, ^ Logan ••ounty man wants the gnv-
| erimnnt to issue a button which will
cost 9\ apiece, the proceeds from the
j sale to he used in building wsrships.
■ A sample of dress good* or of wall
I paper pasted in an ad in a newspaper
is a very catchy scheme and a number
i of papers hav tnken it up.
i rifcht as long as the department does
not catch on but the third assistant
jmstmaster says thai samples of wall
paper or other merchandise pasted to
second class publications subjects them
to fourth class postage wbeo wailed."
thr mines: the
were distributed among fa
consequence is, that the India
assimilated with the Mexican*
citizens. These poens are n
but their condition is known,
other hand. Uncle Sam has n
wards the richest people on ei
capita, ami their condition i
perior to white citizens of th
States. Some tribes have an
of 115,000 per capita and land
lies.
or kill-
wn into
children
The
town the world over
as one of the wealthiest classes of far-
mers in the United States. And with
the present flattering wheat prospect,
together with the Spain war develop-
ments, wo see no reason why the far-
mers will not enjoy another season
like the one just pust.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has agreed on the bill to submit
to the court of claims the questions m
to the status und rights of the Dela-
ware Indians in tho Cherokee nation,
the Mississippi Choctaws in the Choc-
taw nation, the Chickasaw Freedmeo
in the Chickasaw nation, and the in-
ter-married persons in all three of thi
The Oklahoma Agricultural cxperi
ment station at Stillwater has issued a
valuable bulletin describing Oklaho-
ma weather and crops for the yoai
1807. Tho facts were compiled bj
Prof. Morrow, director of the station,
Prospective settlers can obtain Iron
the bulletin a good general idea of th«
advantages and obstacles that are to
The peach and apricot trees that
ore planted by the early settlers in
'klahoma proper, are now bearing all
in the ] ' he fruit that the young trees can
le his ! stand under, especially the peach trees.
The vineyards that were put out in ths
•arly days are also bearing well, and
nore thun supply the home consump-
ion of this product. The farmers in
<trip arc putting out inuny vineyards
rth, per
far sj-
United !
ith Armour.
whethei
ng to th
diss out fro
lile of the g
strung along the < li
und
the Pittsburg and 'i
amount of work on i'
.ed that
xpee
•stat
points
Oklahoma, with her thoussnds of
aeros so evenly carpeted with green, ia
a perfect paradise.
Every farmer in Oklahoma should
put out a grove of some kind. Besides
affording shade und shelter for stock,
it adds much enhancement und beauty
to a farm Maple groves are the pret-
tiest, but the cottonwood have ths
most rapid growth. Any kind of trees
the will answer for a grove, but it is al-
ith ways advisable to put out the onoa
oat 'hat make the best shade and the most
1 rapid growth.
im A great deal of speculation is in*
dulsed in at Tecumseh as to why no
iliiinge has been made in the postofflce
the-.-, the present postmsster's time
having expired February 12th.
The farmers near Hennessey who did
not pi. k their cotton say they couldn't
afford to pay pickers seventy-five
cents per hundred and their board as
Oklahoma during the coming summer.
It is already being talked up by the
projectors.
The new era of railroad building in
the territory is the greatest possible
factor conducive to its development
Everv new road built will add millions
of lioll.rs In th - vain.- of the .djaeent that would We them only about At.
farms and town, alon* it Hue ami cenU per hundred for hauling th. eot-
will In a remarkably ahort time double ton to market and they can .... th.l.
the preM-ut population of the territory 'imo to Utter advantage at a„meth>n«
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