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NUMBER 41.
18, 1893.
BEAVER, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY,
'III RSDAi
VOLl'ME 6.
hi " v r
OKLAHOMA NEwS
PADRONES.
pesky
CURRENT COMMENT
WEEK
NEWS
Tun city treasury of Pueblo, Col., 1
empty.
Am. twisted boring1 tools are of Amer-
ican invention.
Knou.and has five admirals who are
90 years old or over.
Gleaned By Telepraph and Mail
Thk president has firmly set himself
against the ring of Indian agents. The
ring consists of men of different pol-
itics.
The New York Socialistic Labor as-
sociation raised 910,000 for the social-
istic voters of (iermany at the election
to be held in that, country June 15.
Thk czarevitch will attend the au-
tumn maneuvers of the Austro-Hun-
gurian army, lie will meet Emperor
William and Emperor Franz Joseph in
Iluda Pestli.
A btka mkr from Ilergen, Norway, has
been making her way through the great
northern lakes, carrying a cargo of
herring to Chicago, to exchange for
dried beef for Norway.
Dkbtitttiok is decimating the popu-
lation of the rural districts in centra)
and southeastern Russia. Fevers, fam-
ine and the utmost suffering prevail in
the provinces of Saratoff, Samara and
Voronesh.
personal AMI political.
Thk emperor of tiernaany has ex-
pressed himself warmly against the
bishop of Met/, for s]ieaUing of the
pope as a prisoner at the Vatican, lie
said the bishop's language was an out-
rage.
Qukkh Victoria held a drawing room
at Buckingham palace and several
American ladies were received. Cos-
tumes were quite gorgeous.
uiimok has it that the duke of Vera-
gua will be the first ambassador from
Spain to the 1'nited States.
Com mishio.n kh Bujunt has been ap-
pointed minister to Hawaii, to succeed |
Mr. Stevens.
Conokkssmas Bv.MTMund many otliar
member* have expressed themselves as
in favor of having an extra session as
early as June.
Thk national league of republican
clubs met at Louisville, Ky., on the 10th.
Conorkshmax Si'HINokk has gone to
the lake country of Wisconsin to re-
cupenite.
Thk president has appointed Frank
H. Jones, of Springfield, 111., first as-
sistant postmaster-general vice H. Clay
Evans, resigned.
William C. Run mow was inaugu-
rated governor of Oklahoma on the
>f North Dakota I ioth. but he is not governor vet. for
President Cleveland lias declined to
Ths New York Central engine w9,
which made a r^tod of 100 miles an
hour, beat the record by doing a mile
in thirty-two seconds, which is equival-
ent to 112', miles sn hour.
Thk number of Chinamen oomplying
with the registration law was S.303—
about per cent.
Francis II. Wkkks, a New York law-
yer and defaulter, has fled. He owed
margins to brokers and lost trust fundi
in speculation.
Nkw York banks tnakea better show-
ing than for over a yenr.
Thk I'nited St"' cast survey
steamer was reported aground in the
St. Lawrence.
Thk liabilities of Robinson Jk Co., the
suspended bunkers of \\ iloiiugton, Del.,
i arc placed at OSi'ijDOO aud assets at W00,-
i ooo. The Knights of Pythias had a
'. lmond will obaarv Decoration Dsy in
a htiinx manner.
Chandler offer* a block of land on which
I" build a (louring mill.
Heaver City re|>orts a Iiall inch of loe en
last Monday morning.
Reports from sll points in the Indian
Territory «ay thst plenty of rain has
fallen.
Tecumseh ha* a combination for yenr
whiskers—a law office and barber shop
combined.
Robert Whitebead shot and killed him-
self because a hslf bree I gjlrl relused to
marry Uun.
Tho merchant* of Arkunaas City dona-
led a carload of goods U> the cyclonw *ufj
ferera ot Oklahoma. *
The eounty commissioner! of Cleveland
What Immliiraot l«spsBtof Conkling kim
Inearthed iii* k |iorl to the Oepert-
meut.
Washington. May It. Immigrant
Inspector Conkling, In an official report
nuide to the treasury department as to
the violation of the alien contract lsbor
law. among other strong statements
says:
' The padrone system is the most
damnable, outrageous and injurious to
Aiuericau working men of any system
that was ever practiced in the United
States, and there is no denying the fact
that it exists in almost every city of
this country where there is an Italian
colony." The report details how Ital-
ian lnlsirers are brought into this coun-
try, coached and instructed on the
journey over, so that when they arrive
NICARAGUA'S REVOLUTION.
Break In (lie >1 l««l .!|i|>l Itlvi-r and riants-
lious TlireaO-no'l Near Mrmphln.
Mkmimiih. Tcnn., Msy 13.—'The levee
broke yesterday morning on the Tensas
front at Lakeport, twelve miles below late
x Charge Tliat It Wan llrought Aboat by
New York Capitalist*.
Wahiiivoton. May IX—Senor Don
Horacio t!u/man. the Khftraguan m'n-
in Washington since Jnly, 1887,
Greenville, the next place below Sun- i and a man of unquestioned standing in
nyside landing. The crevasse was 300 the diplomatic corps, a and
teet wide when the first news came well and thoroughly posted on inter-
here from tireenville. Miss. The levee national affairs, declared last night
that has given way was constructed that the Ni.araguan revolution had
during the winter sens..,, and for the been principally instigated by residents
Thk supreme court
has affirmed the validity of the con
stitutional amendment which had lieen sign liiB commission until he can in-
attacked through a writ of habeas cor-
pus applied for on behalf of a Fargo
saloon keeper. •
Thk chambermaids employed by sev-
eral large New York hotels met and up-
pointed a committee to see the propri-
etors of the Waldorf, Savoy, Holland
and Plaza hotels and make a demand
for higher wages, better food and
shorter hours.
Dr. Willi \m Evkrktt. who has been
returned to congress from Henry Cabot
Lodge's old district, has for nearly fif-
teen years lieen head master of Adams
academy at Qulncy. Mass. He is the
vestigate certain charges against him.
Qckkm Victoria took part in the
opening of the Imperial institute at
London and it was semi-ofticially an-
nounced that it was her last public ap-
pearance.
Lorii William Paci.kt is dead. He
was a field marshal in the Hrltish army
and distinguished himself in the C'rhn-
eun war.
Gov. Hum has warned the Texas
legislature of its extravagances.
A RK.rort that the Russian treaty had
been finally ratified proved premature.
The treaty, however, is expected by
the next European mail, when the
large amount of the order - money in W)Unly have nullfletl tUerlff not to by false swearing they evade the In
the bank. pre** tax collection* from cyclone suffer- spectors.
Tax great sewing machine trust has er,_ Tb^v • eo~*"lonttous scruples
died in its incipicney. After the gen- u ^ |a|d ^ (;ouno||or Wrightsman . about perjuring themselves aud will
eral details had been arranged and the lo^t his pas* and pocktbook recsutly lu swear to anything neeexaary to uooom-
comblnatlon o* five companies had been Waahingtou, and that friends there mado plish their discharge in case they sre
believed assured the Domestic people ; a j)une B'nj „8nt him horn*. detained." said the report
suddenly auuounoed Uiat they did not W. I). Cornellu* of Kingfisher hs* been dr. < onkllng says the railroad tson-
building of which the supplies and ma-
terial required were ship|>ed from this
point. This levee breaking means the
flooding of the lower portion of Chicoto
county. Ark., in which county the cot-
ton pn>ductinn annually averages <6,000
bales. The Iwck portion of the county
of New York city who possessed large
capital and were financially interested
in affairs in Nicaragua. His declara-
tion lias excited wide attention, both in
diploimitic circles and elsewhere. The
interest is enhanced by his promise that
he would make the names of persons he
care to consolidate.
sppointed secretary ol
the oklahoma I tractor need not be so closely watched
At a meeting of the local directory *or|<|'t fa(r hoard, but has not yet decided in future in regard to the violation of
of the world's fair it was decided to whether he will aceeut It or not. , the alien contract labor law as the
open the
Mav 31.
world's fair on Sunday,
whether he will accept It or not.
The Kansas City Tinas s*ys thst the
academy at guney Mass tie ia tne ! president will probably sign it.
author os,for boys, two of Tirr. president has appointed J. 11 a in p-
which < hanging Muse, and Double ' y « ^ ^ ^ #t
xlge. of Virgin
Arnoy. China, vice Edward Redloe, of
Philadelphia, and John A. Michel, of
Texas, to lie collector of customs for
the district of lirazos de Santiago.
Tiik republican national league at
Loni'.villc. Ky.. "adapted resolutions
favoring woman suffrage, elected W.
W. Tracy, of Illinois, president, and
selected Denver as the next meeting
place.
Thk cause of the resignation of Dele-
gate Rawlins, of I'tah. was a personal
• In Antwerp two women have just disagreement with the president over
been appointed assistant clerks of the the patronage question
I'lay," have long been popular with
youthful readers.
Thf. will of the late Joseph S. Spin-
ney, who left an estate valued at •'!,-
000,000. was filed for probate recently
in Brooklyn. The will makes several
small bequests to relatives and friends
and then orders the estate to be divided
between his sister, the Wesleyan uni-
versity of Middletown. Conn., and the
Seamen's Friend society.
A tors a is) swept through Livingston
county. Mich., doing a great amount of
damage to farm properly.
Clearing house returns for the week
ended May 11 showed an average in 1
creuse of 10.0 compared with the corre-
sponding weels of last year. In New
York the increase was 13. i .
(jltitk a number of Imnk failures in
Indiana resulted from the suspension
of the Columbia National of Chicago.
Tnt whisky house of W. !1. Thomas
& Son. an extensive concern at Ixmis-
ville. Ky.. has failed. Liabilities over
$5(10,000: assets as much
Trochi.k with the Navajos has been
averted by the intervention of Chief
Black Horse, who has succeeded in get-
ting tile murderer* of UanchliMia
Welsh delivered up.
Two masked men hekl up a Mobil* &
Ob io train at Laketon, Ky.. but got very
little.
John Carlisle and Charles Luttrell
were hanged together at Sherman.
Tex., for the murder of W. T. Sharman,
April 38, 1S«3. They belonged to a
gang of which James Hrown was lead-
er. Brown was the turfman killed at
Garfield park, Chicago, last year.
Tin: Robinson bank at Wilmington,
Del., has failed.
AM. enlisted men will be required
this year to participate in target prac-
tice
1 grand and self-reliant spine of the people
of Oklahoma show* that they propose to
take care of their owu tornado sufferers.
Farmers of Lincoln oounty are complain-
ing that a new disease has appeared
among cattle In the neighborhood of Hor-
Forty or ttlty cow* have already
died.
The board of regents of the normal shanty costs him !00 or
' Italian bauker and padrone. The
| former, in partnership with the
padrone. furnishes the money,
aud newly urrived Italians are
supplied In hundreds to work on
American railroads to the exclusion of
American workmen. The padrone
usually makes a contract with Uie rail-
road contractor to feed the hands. A
a, and he
has already l>een flooded by the water "•fe're.l .public at a i.terday
out of the lower Arkansas paasing over The charge is of so serious a char-
the county and backing up from the aeter that coming from a diplomat of
Htntuling it wi1< not I* allowed tortwit.
The levee break msy .Is* fl^d the It. of course involves consider-*--- ->f
upper portion of Carroll parisl-Tmlsi- "" International character as affecting
ana, a rich cotton-producing region, ly- the obligations of Mcaw*n..held in
ing in the Tensas basin between the Europe and connected w ith the canal
Mississippi river and the Hnyou Macon. H«^tlm. and international guarantees.
The overflow of the land will not be!™* Nleanipuan minlsU-r was one of
relieved of water in time to make a cot- the earliest callers at ^ ^atrfcf-rt;
ton crop this yenr. Parties from als.ve h d n ,ntfT™.w "f
this citv interested in cotton plants- i Secretary «ires ham, the result of which
tions rt'port large areas under wuter n"4 <Hi«-_lo«ed.
up alsive Centennial Ulund and around
•chool at Edmond Iists selectetl Mrs.
Douglss, Professor Thatcher snd Su(>er
iutendent Unbolti ss teacher* lor the eu
suing year. i ue ukukci ««• ••*«
On the firatof June a mail Una will be
put on between Canadian and Cheyenne,
and It la asld that aeveral other new roatss
will be establi*hed west of the Hock liland
road In tha near future.
The sulphur springs near Wynnewood,
on the Rock Island road, are a drawing
card for that town, sa a large number of
people sre going there to teat the curatlva
property of their waters.
Ed. Newoomb, Jeaae Jackson and Scott
Hruner plead gnilty to robbing the Santa
Fetraiuat Wharton last November and
were aentence to two years each In the
penitentiary at Stillwater, Minn.
At Hardesty they have besides the com-
mon variety of grass widower a species
known as the buffalo grass widower.
1'be editor of the Heralrf assumes that the
latter species is caused by eating loco.
The attorney general of tha I'nited
.statea has written that five daya of each important one and will be tried in tha
month will be deducted from the time of
imprlaonment of the Oklahoma United
clears his orig inal investment from the
first month's receipts, the balance fur
many months being nearly all profit.
The banker thus gets the money he had
advanced to the padrone.
• These aliens," Inspector Conkling
Bays, "are of the very worst element,
vicious nnd hard to control: dangerous
to tho community iu which they reside
and are semi-brutish in their manners
and habits." They work for small
wages and live in a manner that Amer-
ican laborers regurd as barbarous,
and ns a consequent',' Mr. Conkling
finds they nre driving out labor-
ers of other nationalities in railroad
building. The report was culled forth
by instructions issued by Assistant Sec-
retary Spaulding lust March, to look
into the illegal landing of ten Italian
lal>orer* at F.llis island. As a result of
two months' lalsir, Inspector Conkling
has arrested Fillippe Latouea padrone,
on whose perjured affidavit the ten
Italians were landed. The case is an
court of civil cases, while in Sweden
and Denmark the masculine reporters '
In the press gallery of the national
legislature luive l een replaced by
women. The official stenographer of
the lower house of the Danish parlia-
ment is a Miss tirundtvig.
Government secret service officers are
taking vigorous measures to stop ad-
vertisers past ing paper stickers on coins.
Apvices received at Washington state
that the revolutionists in Nicaragua
have practically gained control of the
government.
E. O. Lynch, director of the mint, has
resigned.
Skckktarv Carlisle has received a
telegram from ex-Secretary Fairchild
declining to serve on the commission to
investigate the New York custom house.
Mr. Fairchild states that his businesf
In many instances it is necessary to engagements will not permit
soak the paper off before it would lie 1 rj.HK annuai budget, presented to the
possible to know that the coin had not Spu nish eortes, shows an actual surplus
been hollowed out and tilled with alloy. | ()j ••f.q p,-setns. Such a startling
The treasury has decided that the law
will permit the prosecution of any firm
using this mode of advertising.
Great effort is being made to inter-
est women in legal study, and at the '
New York university a course of free
lectures has be. uurnwiged, at the close
of which certiioates of proficiency will '
be awarded. Twenty scholarships have
been afforded to women and a two |
hundred dollar priw will he given by
the university and the Women's Legal
Education society to the student pass-
ing the highest examination.
Benjamin W. Hi chanan, ot years '
old, who committed suicide in New
York last week, was the oldest the- |
atrical doorkeeper in New York, any*
1 hinlop's Stage News. He wns first at
Itanium's museum in Ann street then
at Bryant's minstrels both at i7J llroad
way and on Twenty-third street and
after that at Tammany hall Bnd Mail
ison Square garden. Poor Ben was one
of the verv lest of the old timers: but
dropsy, dyspepsia aud finally Insomnia
made him think he would be better oil
dead than alive.
A bthtitcate has lieen formed at New
York with a capital of 14,000.000 for the
construction and equipment of a line
between Niagara Falls and Allmny, N
Y.. for the transmission of electric pow
er generated by the Niagara Falls
Power Co., with the waters of Niagara
river passing thrortffh wheel pit* In a
tunnel, which has just lieen eeuipletod.
The tunnel is K,000 feet in length and
twenty-four feet in diamet*«r. Tha
Niagara Fall* Power Co. has expended
nearly fll.ooo.oou In Its development at
the fall* and consumed nearly three
years la the work. It now seeks a mar-
The drought of the last few weeks
has caused a great loss of farm and stale* prisoner* in custody at Stillwater,
murket garden products in thAkrath of i Minn.
England. I train, vegetable and fruit judge Green was caught between Still-
crops are withering throughout wide Waier and Orlando In the storm last Fri-
strips of country. day night and was compelled to seek the
' S. T. K. Phimk. of crop report fame, shelter of a farm house, where he took
in an interview says the financial eon- the matter under sutvlsement until the lol-
dition of ti* farmers of the west and lowing day.
southwest is of the best Ex-Commissioner Stone has purchased a
Thk New York Herald charges th;it c)aiin near Oklahoma City and hat made
there ia a pool among the eight trunk „rr«ngementa to havaelghty acrea planted
lines.
Rcsskll Sao io has sued Henry S.
Ives, the "Napoleon of finance," for
$27.4-10 balance an a promissory note
for *100.000.
A SPKC1AI. says a colored woman cut
off the ears of another colored woman
in Newbury eounty, S. C., in a jealous
New York state courts thia month.
THE MAY CROP FIGURES.
a llerrtuiM of Two IVr t ent. In th« aver-
age Kaunas Lowest of Tlieui All
Wabhuwtox, May
Bradleya, twenty inilcs or more itUive
this city. It means no crop of cotton
for the lands Hoislcd, and nearly ull
subject to imiudntioii is now under
water up thnt way. The river is very
close to the 35-fou* mark on the gauge,
and is within seven or eight Inches of
the highest on record, which was at-
tained in March, ls,,u
A dispatch from tireenville received
at I o'clock yesterday afternoon says:
"The latest news is that the break in
the levee is now tiver :(>0 feet wide and
that a portion of Arkansas is under
water, which is flowing toward Louisi-
ana. It Is reported that Arkansas City
will lie under water by to-night, ns the
levees near that place cannot hold."
The outlook is not flattering for any
immediate relief, as the rise is expected
to continue for two or three days yet.
\Vell-|sisted oliservers believe it will
reach the level of extreme high water
mill H inny knak the Nmrt. \ slight
decline has act in at Cairo. The level
there is now three feet scaut below the
highest known record.
The lower Ohio river Is forty feet
deep, aud its decline will lie very slow
for some time to come. Meantime the
waters continue to flow across the up-
per portion of the Nt Francis basin and
is covering that fine country quite fast.
At Pittsburgh is reported on the
gauge, a rise of about four feet within
u week. The levees along the entire
Yaso front continue firm and will
doubtless hold against the water to
come uguinst it. The Arkansas aide,
however, ia in jeopardy and It is feared
Senor Hokan Mayorga, who wa* for-
merly secretary of the N i. aragnan lega-
tion, is in the city with his wife. He
lias received dispatches from a member
of his family setting forth the results
of the revolution practically the same
aa announced yestenlay Senor V ay or-
gs contradicted the statement of l)r.
Guzman that the revolution was in-
cited and supported by New York
capitalists, lie said that the canal
project was supported by the
revolutionists as well as by the govern-
ment that had been overthrown; that
all Nicarnguana of any prominence, no
■natter to what party they belonged,
reallacd that the completion of the in-
ternational I'liual was their life as a
people, and lie was greatly surprised at
the present attitude of the minister,
vapecially ns he had formerly been one
of the strongest supporters of the
canal. ___________
TO BE OPENED SUNDAYS.
turns of the department of agriculture much damage will result from the
on the condition of winter wheat shows " " - • ,x- *«"-«-•- •
a reduction of S.t point* from the April
novelty in national finances is the cause
of much jubilation.
Tur pn-sHeut's new rule burring out
office-seekers, accorltai? to Private Sec-
retary Thnrber. ia working like a charm.
PltKPARATlo.N* are Is ig miide by til*
tioultl family to erec* a tkurob in pell
ory of the late Jay tkuvid.
dispute
K viiTliql AKlis continue to ..cur ul
most daily in Sicily. Near Palermo
Trapani and the island of L'stioa, off house,
the Sicilian coast, were shaken violent-
ly. Many buildings were injured and
nre likely to fall should the shocks he
repeated
ADDITIONAL lilsl'A 1 CUES,
Nkvt Volt k, May 15-—Hon. Robert
T. Lincoln, ex minister of the Vnitod
States to the conrt or St. James, ar-
rived Saturday on the American liner,
New Yoik. Lie will immediately re-
sume the practice ot l*w lu Chicago.
Topeka, Kan., May 16.—Attorney
General Little is receiving many letters
in fruit tret*. Mr. Stone wa* assistsnt
commissioner of tha general land office
under President Harrison aud la one of
lowa'a ex-iiovernors.
Edmond Democrat: Tuesday evening
last, 1. N. Donnell and wifuof Deer Creek
were standing in front of their houae when
a sandstone ol oklahoma formation fell
Iroui above on the door-step. The atone
was covered with ice and was evidently
picked up and earned to Mr. Donnell's
■KCBLLUnm.
Lookoi't, < usliiug A Orth's fine ana
of Troulatlsmr. won tho KaltMkj
Derby at Louisville never being liea4<d
froiu start to fiuintl.
IIkmiy Villako la figuring on apla*
for a collateral trust lo in of $!;>.0M.0a9
for the Northern Pacltic.
Skvkkai. Oerraan oilicers will nssisl
at the maneuvers of the Italian mill
t:iry forces in northern Italy* fceur t lie
I ron tier of France.
Tur. prominent linn of llrueder 4
Wolff, manufacturers of carpets, VieM
na. has failed. The liabilities are 1||
000.two florUis.
Tiik Land & River Improvement Co$
of West Superior. Wis., has placed aa
attachment of *400,000 on the West Si*
potior Iron A Steel Co.. causing tha
steel works tn shut down.
TilR secretary of the navy has aj*
pointed Medical Inspector J. Rufna .
Tryon surgeon-general of the navy, to inenta, and It is expected that new
succeed lien. John Mills Brown, re- election* will have to be held in many
i'iUea, eaapociaiiy in the auiall ouea.
IIoats have succeeded iu reaching Dpranoo, Me*., May It.—A courier
Duluth. Minn., breaking the coal froni Mazatlun bringa newa of a dei-
, blockade. m perate affray between the workmen of
Tiik Pennsylvania houae has passed two camps of chamutl burnera in the
Sierra Madre mountains, iixty milea
It is surpriiing to note the track of the
rx'enl tornado la Cleveland county *ay
the Oklahoma City Oa/ett.. The grain Is
growing a* green and fresh lu U a* if the
malign force had never been. To ride
over the path of the ctorm its preaence
would not be gueaaed, natura haa so fully
obliterated Its devastation.
Congreaaman Flynn has been working
hard for aome time to get the aettlera along
Deep Fork In the Iowa and Sae and Fox
land*, who had only filed on fractions ol
qnartar aectlona, the rLlit to complete
their full quarters from the Kickapoo
from Mayor* Of aiti*uudOther offleiaia | when thay are thrown open. Aftci
inquiring about the provisions of the full Investigation, howevt r. the Interior
new election law which requires all department ha* writtau him a letter that
candidates to lile statements of election It 1* Impoaai tile under the law lor su-h
expenses T he letter* expreaa a desire peraona to get theae land.. This will he
ti. know If the writers can be ouated onpleaaaal newa lor the farmers along the
to known the writers uin ue ou tUelr
froiu office because or a failure to Die -
atateineuia Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral Allen say* that the law i* very
plain in its jirovlsloua, and Uiat any
candidate cuii be ouated for failing to
full I DO acres of laud.
Among the greatest curiostlos of the
atorm is the tree iu which a spade Is driv-
en. 1 hla waa on the farm of Mr. Mullinlx.
A new spade la stuck seven Inchea into a
average. Iielng 7.v:i against 77.4 last
month and 84 lu May, 1&9-.
The average* of the principal winter
wheat states are: Ohio, ss; Michigan,
71; Indiana. 7U; Illinois, <M; tyi**
souri, 7'-'; Kansas 91. The average
of these six slates Is «8.8, against 74.3
in Aprii, beintr a decline of :>.« points
since the first of last month. It is H8
in New Vorlc and Pennsylvania, against
87 and 80 respectively IhsI mouth; 1)7 in
Maryland and 85 in Virginia. In the
southern states the average* range
from 34 in Texas to flfl tn North Caro-
lina.
Winter rye. like wheat, has suffered
a decline in condition since last mouth,
it* average for May being M.7, against
8ft.7 for the same date In April.
The percentage of New York is U7:
Pennsylvania, Vi. Michigan. 80; Illi-
nois. i'-; Kansas, 50. Tlie conditions
have lieen favorable to germination
and growth tn the eastern states, but
have been the reverse in the western and
north western
The average condition of barley la
KK.fl against WJ.8 Inst year. In the state*
df principui production the average*
are: New York, 95; Ohio, 94. and Call-
1 fornla, ht. The lowest conditions are
in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska
and Colorado, lu Callforaia the crop
haa lieen damaged by overflow* and
wet weather.
The conditions have lieen favorable
to the growth and development of
wheat In the New Knglaud. Southern
nnd Pacific states, lu California the
i condition has advanced ten points.
Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION.
floods flow ill" over its tillable lands.
THE BEHRING ARBITBATION
sir Charles hiimm'ii i'reoente tha Itrttlah
slilr of tlir DUpuU
Paris, Muy 12. linn. Jamea U. Uustis,
American ambassador, was present at
the session of the Hehring sea tribunal
of arbitration. Kir Charles Kusse11 re-
sumed his argument, which was large
ly devoted to the technical feature*
of the controversy
A Scheme by Whleh I lie Difficulty Is Ov*r-
roM by the WorU'a Kale IMreelora.
t uiC'Aoo, May 13.—On and afU-r May
'it the world's fair grounds will be open
every Sunday.
Thia decision was reached at a meet-
ing of the directors of the exposition
In the Kand-McNally building yesterday
afternoon. President 11 iginbothsm had
called upon Edwin Walker, wholschalr-
inan of the committee on legislation, to
auhinit an opinion whether or not the
exposition cbu Is- opened oil the aeventh
day in spile of the restriction placed
upon this feature by congress when the
appropriation ofW,50U,000 waa granted.
Mr. Walker presented his official snd
legal interpretation lieforc the direct-
ors, which is to the effect that the law
passed by congress stipulating that the
exposition should be closed on Sunday
applies only to the buildings containing
exhibits.
Mr. Walker'a construction of the act
further says that the buildings erected
for other uses, the grounds, the Midway
plalsance. with its varied human pano-
rama and things pertaining thereto,
Kir ' Vharlee ma>' ^ thrown open to publte inspec-
tion.
After considerable discussion a reso-
lution was proposed to open the gate*
every Sunday on ami after May SI, and
to close the main building* containing
the exhibits.
The renol utinn was carried by a vote
ef to 7. Of the seven w ho voted nay,
aix were in favor of opening the fair in
every department and the seventh wa*
opposed to opening the gatee under
any conditions. Theories*of admission
on Sunday will lie reduced to 95 cents.
an anti-cigarette bill.
U*U t. \V. .VI. W U.1.IAM* is to lie oourt-
marflaled at fort Wayne. Mich fhr
falling to pay his debts.
Tiik Oklahoma ti. A. V. has been In
session at l'l Keno.
Tiik Italian grain crops are said to be
comply with them. Many ■ucces ful b|(Mjk Qli|| ^ lWffl (##t ,n d|am#t(T| wllh.
candidates lave failed to tue state- oul breaking the handle or bending the
iron. Verge Taylor brought the tree to
town and placed It ou the government
acre. In s tent to beexhlbited. The money
thu* taken In will goto the relief ot the
Mullinlx lainlly. The firm that ma u-
liictured tho spade hu offered V2D0 lor Uie
tree. They want It *s all exhibit of their
ware*. Tho body of tho tree i* about ten
feet long.
liazetle: People frequeatly ask why
Tb«
argued that it was impossible that
there oould be property in the seal*
In the Itehring sea. and be sup
ported his contention with quota-
tion* from American jurists, and in
partieular from Prof. W'oolsey's writ- |
Ings on international law. Sir Charie* I
dwelt on the far-reaching effects upon
international rights tlist would ensue
from conferring the power claimed by |
American counsel in behalf of the
I'nited States to seise foreign vessel*1
in time of peace. Hir Charles claimed I
that Oreat llritain represented, in this {
controversy, the rights of nations.
Sir Charles Russell in dilatlag upon j
the aetaarea of Canadian vessels by the 1 ^
Americans for seal caUhing in Hehring ,itViJtion 'shiiws decided improvement,
tlie receipts lieing larger than for la*t
year at this time, while the expemli-
THE TREASURY ALL RIGHT.
HatUfai tury Keport t f IU
a Margin of Kmc <ioM.
Wasminotow, May 18.—The
i, Insisted that the seizures hail
made on the high seas, without pre-
vious diplomatic expostulation. Mr tun.. th((UJfh lllr(r,. Kn| not ^
Bayard when secretary of state had ^ |tnticipftU.a. Moat ot the heavy
- ver tried to justify the aatsarea on .lisl.ursementa for the month have al-
ket for the eleetric power thus gener- | rw|n,.cl
ateil , l ai niiitUaferd remains of two man
' were found In a barrel at Kansas Cite,
Mo. Investitfation showed that uiedi-
Tur safe or treason room*of the
leading Tran*athiiHlc *teamers sre in- \
teresting structures. They sre so art- I
fully concealed and contrived and so ,
strongly built that, with a single ex-
ception. thnt Of a Pacific liner carrying
gold dust on a long voyage, we believe,
thev have never been robbed. In some
vessels these ssfe vaults are placed
amidships, in some aft. but they are al*
ways at the Imttom of the ship
pvervthing else, and praetloslly right
on the keel. The nsim Is generally I eafetolledOBthetlUi
some eight or ten feet square ami high,
nnd built of Iron plates three <W
Inches thick, and it Is furnished with
such a tormiilahlc array
mul tiers as to strike dismay to the
Jiearta of even the deftesl and mmX el-
|srlrm*d Imrglars
At I he uvmthly meeting of the New
York presbytery it *||" deckled lo ask
the genu I i s>i mblv formula!*) a
brief and -In,,.!, stat. nient of the d.^
trim s ef Uie chorrh, to he used f«* tl e
instruction of tin— desiring U Ucorne
fu*nmuui,<aiits.
from Uaxatlan. The affair wa* caused MPI
by a ipiarrci between two n emlera of ^ortil cBna,iittn river never overflow!,
the cum pa. Ten men were killed in the -|'|,# teMOn |* simple; It runs on a ridge
light and aeveral others badly injured. . nm| u„ trihutsriea. The bridge rail of
San FkANflauu May HI.—The Jury i tha Santa He at Urn «roa*liig near this diy
In the case of W Y Hlppey charged la I,HI feet aliove sea level Tlio water
.ltb .^.11 will, SUM to Mil JM«
H . Mackey, waa dm barged Saturday mni(t ln otlr pjiy |tmii on the north, ahow-
evening, Ueiug uuaUe U> agiew, 11 l|1|( uun,rm lie * a very much lower
atood six for conviction aa charged, ,,|im,(te nmn thia city. On the south the
four for guilty ef assftull With a deadly watershed Is about s mil* from the river
titd the raiufell flows lulu the Kittle river,
he North Csaadtau a alone among the
vestern rivers in thia peculiarity. It
tea In New Mexico and II* emlte length
is no tributary until it reaches tha Initio
.verlu the eastern part of the Indian
errtlery.
The sute of Kaiisa* has only aix citle*
more populous than Onthrle or Oklahoins
City. The state of Mlsaonrl lis* only
^^Bnnl broke 'the"Tlmr "m.wninM, . dynafiitte throwers has yet been mails , seven and Now Meilco and ArUoua none
j SS PU,M.b.u,nH U.h..^.Oh« to. | ■>tm• «
rsl students had ls«en pee|a-trating aa
old and horrible hoax.
TNK Capital National bank of Indians
spoils, lnd.. failed on the flth.
I'll* fifth annual congress of the
Scotch-Irish Society of America met at
Springfield. O.. with Pti sldent Koh.-rt
Itooner, of New York, In the ehair and
many dlstllftllsM men as delegates.
Tiik Columbia Nstkmsl Iwnk of <
levee at l.akeport, on tha
• i-apoti imd one for ii ijullltl ou the
ground of In* inity. The IMiul trial
will occur lu June
Mt'wattnk, Ia.. May IB-Bight
more Injunction* were granted against
*alooti keeper* In the district •ourthere
Saturday Thia makes a total of six-
teen saloons enjoined, and a* many
more will lie closed. No clue to the
(ItiodtBg purtlous •
holts < atssippi.
Kisr at Spring l.ake, Mtch . started
by s s| srk from a passing steamboat,
ronspirMo" wIII iN' caught. Tlie eg-1 aomp.riwu law would
ctleuHMil.. general | cnQ(1|(|on „ growing
Haaaloo HsM si lnillsss|Mill*
snd the New HHInri Named.
Iwnianaitii.is, lnd.. May 11. -The in
ternstionnl biennial c<invention of tin
Y. M. C. A. was called to order shortly
lie fore uoon In KebrrU Parkcharch
The retiring president, Mr. Thomrs S.
Mcl'heeters, of St. I.onis, acted v*
temporary chairman pending the elec-
tion of his successor.
After some addresses and prayer*
had been delivered aud tho uccesaary
routine work finished, the committee
on nominations made Its report They
had sgreed a* to the president an.I view
presidents, but as to tin other officers
the.v waked for inore time The re|*a*t
of the nominating committee was a*
follows: President. N. ti. Pierce, Hay-
ton, O,, ft rsl vioe president, t.. M. Psiclc*
*rd, Montreal; second vice prvsideat, II.
A. Orr, Pittsburgh Other vice presi-
dents were; Ire J. I'haae.ex-govwratWo<
Indians: l'rancls Itntehelor, Ikistoii: W.
W. Woods White, Atlaata; K t lifford,
I Orsml I'oeka, N. II : 0. V Orchard Ta.
coma. Wash. The report of tin-nouil-
outing committee was accepted uuau-
I iinously __________
RENFROW RtVISfiD-
\V a I sovos Mav II. President
Cleveland stated that the commission
of William Renfrow a* gmvermw of « U«
the ground that the Itnited State* had
S property right in the seals.
Here followed s nhsrp exchnnge of
contradictions between Senator Mor-
gan. American arbitrator, Hir Charie*
Knaaell and E. J. Phelps. Sir Charles
got excited and angry and declared the
Interruptions nneslled for. Sir Charie*
then pr«H.*eeded to review the diplomatic
Correspondence between Wrest Britain
and the I'nited States on the subject
of Hehring *es.
CELESTIAL CONTRABANDS.
A Nuiuh r K* fused
Ciisilni About Thr,
tared.
WashINOTos. Msy lit.-Collector L«> tk Certoe lu a lieadlork
tan, at l'ortlsnd, 111* . Ii*s telegraphed FeHeemrn Keeple* the Crowds oa lh«
Secretsry Carlisle that the Ilsnube hsd Wova.
clesred f<* China with 40fl < hlnese on MaDWO. May lA-Tha oortea has
Imard who had l^n refuse.1 s.1- J« t finished the fifty-fourth hoar ot
mission to thr United St*tea. It continuous idttlng. Member,aad min-
is presumed th.t the Danube will i ter« sre exhsu.ted. Many sleep hslf
carry the Chines.- back to China, the tiin« and sre aroused by their col-
but Uh'v muy dmpped off on llritiHh °°v
Wrrit4 ry. Thr Tu -orm U rxp«ct«H| TkU tJTWiIng the
to strive with 411 Chinese on laisrd, motion to give the goveru-
snd the utmost ere in the examination the
of their papers ha. lieen .-niolned bv ot municipal ele« U ns. KepubUeaua
ready Ijeeninade, lucluding98,000,000 for
is iisiousaodother heavy jiayuients thst
became due shout the first. This reduced
tlie net latlsnee to K'J.HM.OOO, but this
will from now on increase. The gold
ill the treasury to-day l*
against which there sre •I08,7*7,0l#
gold certificates outstanding, laeviug
the net gold, usually denominated the
"reaervc, fOffers for a
large amount from the went, which do
not up|s<ar on the laaik*, make the gold
reserve Intact and leave a margin of
free gold of IT-JA.OOO.
CRISIS IN SPAIN.
when a vote
is taken
continued
pape.
Secretary Csrllsle upon the government
officials in Portland.
Reports from thirty of the sixtv-three
and Carltsts display apparently un-
broken stublairucua; nevertlteleas It ia
I* llered shortly after midnight the iskv
- r— „ . , . , . . CAIIto, 111, May lo. ae t oat ef tB werii Imposed u|M n the goveru- h.homa would not he signed |wa.liikg
use«l s conllagratum whleh destroys® p,*i d to Ite the roldwrt who held ofeiakma* UeagrrM I" an amend- ■ • •l- —
hslf the town
Thk committee iuvestlgstlng the
inlaMMiduel ofTheoiton' Thomas.innate-
i |U director at the wotld's fail*, n,ooi >
mended that he be dismissed
' A era ir-v n i v and fnur member* "f a
drunken mob wer«> killed ia a eulHsioia
I Hurango, Mea.
tlie Mobile and tlhio train, were arnat;, mrat „i aiiasn wotda ia«ke<l natu another
etl at Haihley, Ky., and token tu I.alta. lodi presided vliat the goveruur should
ton Saturday lilghl The nam** l 41 leaeetheaeheol isint, *ad ihst all lease
identity of the nrlsoiii'i* haye not yet money show id he paid o*erto him. Ilia
been ascertained Tie. two man cap fgovernejHeet f^aWa la gl*abond, hut
lured will no! talk of tlivir uioveneula
i In the paat week
thi
iiln( tha next tom >*aiathu fund
n eed a quarter of a oul lion dollatf
sn tuvsatlgstlon int
of the man for U
Into some other tustters.
| The president sen I a |
1 st-nger with a no to tn an
i asking him to eall at th«
I f u a ismferaiHJS over matt*
I involved the commission ti
«iw*un«.itioqg
ml an ln<|ulry
Internal revenue districts giving the, tk-n will be passed. Ii this mm t ie
numlier of Chines.- who have regUtere.1' rorernment will probably pehlish a de-
have lieen reeeiewl at the treasury de-1 ln harmony with tl e proposetl bill,
partment I lie receipt* show thst postj owing the uiuaMpal elections « -
S,:mi:i Chinese have thus far complied i til Novwnhre. A ministerial or Uie it
with the taw. 'inmiueat.
The Vesevlea ISvunvd.
WAsmsoros May 14.—The Veawvlw*, T ia li id t)ia
hi apoaraatly ibsimed The aavy «le-1 ^T- laiuis, May lit. —TVn men held
IMirtment experts on ardnanee have °P the north Ismnd Mobile ,t Ohio
aboMtcusmlude.1 lo reoumiueud against passenger train about II o'cloek last
thr pneumatic guu ayatom ou ahi|v night slawaki Unkasaile from Lake-
b.«r.r Corn. Beaipann, the ohlcf of K.v •"«' ^"eatfned to fcluw
onlnanee. will aeon present hi* com | the express car with dy usmlte aajraw
nenta on the report of the buaisl. the d.s.r wes at once opened
whleh receutlv examined the guns <d Messenger liay, of tho s^aenso*
the cruiser si INirt Itoysl, and, while l'^"" ( " thwupon tlie d.sir
the comments of this officer will not and wus ,<overe.\ wlt>< revolvers, lie
Ik4«11v Condemn the system. It Is Uhely [ refased to op*" M s* however, ami
thst lie will dlaetiurage the continuance l>ef,
of thi* form of gun In the navy, iuueh
tfeera
Win d off.
'."n less the further iulr<aluction o ti*. It ha. been hame.1
| system lu the service j j uiced only als.ut ti,
■ so they
that the robbei
am In cash.
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