Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 25, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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The State Capital.
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SATURDAY, SEPT.
One of the most interesting coming
events is—winter.
The biscuit trust evidently intends
to make it hot for the people.
Kakmkhk not only ride in the band
wagon now but in a family carriage.
Hour rule in Oklahoma has an n-
pleasant habit of not being the rule.
Ik Parkin* more able to build a
bridge over the Cimarron that Guth-
rie?
There is a fever in Guthrie, but not
yellow fever. It is the fever of
anxiety.
The Klondyke trust is frozen out.
People will not take so much stock in
it this winter.
Tom Watson's mouth must have run
into an open switch; it can't be that it
is simply side tracked.
The president of Mexico is a chilly
mark. The blows of an assassin make
no impression on him.
The meaning of Antzifirowskoye
the place where Andree's baloon was
seen, is Iknownotwhere.
Tiikisk will be something else be-
sides trouble brewing in the marriage
of Mr. I'abst to Miss Lemd.
lohtoaht is said to be tired and
sick. So are the people at the expob
ore of that sausage vat of his.
Thf.uk is a strained condition in the
war talk that went on so amicably a
short time ago in the newspapers.
ICthkkoma.nia is prevelent in France
but the victims are not preparing them
selves to go in search of I'rof. Andree
The Gulf storme has annihalated
differences between Port Arthur and
Sabine Pass, but neither is any hap
pier.
Buvkkai. Oklahoma politicians had
positive evidence yesterday that Presi
dent McKinley has returned to Wash
ington.
The Sultan s occupation of Thesscly
has ceased to occupy the public mind
but is a matter of high interest to
tHreece.
UovEitNMUNT by suggestion iB efcarg
cd up by the employes of a Kentucke
editor to be worse than governmen
by injunction,
"Populists are all in a row" says
Kansas exchahge. That's their nor-
mal condition. Populists are safest
when not heard from.
THE PROFIT OF THE CORN CROP.
llecause the price of corn has not
raised proportionately as high as that
of wheat it has not been given credit
for its full value of profit to the farm-
er. The year's yield of corn is not as
great as at first thought out the low-
st estimate puts it at 1,750,000,000
bushels. The general belief has been
that it cost about 20 cents a bushel to
raise corn. The editor of the Amer,-
an Agriculturist says that the aver-
ge cost of growing corn is but 0
cents a bushel. A great deal of talk
as been heard during the past three
years of the farmer being compelled
to sell this magnificent grain below
the cost of production, and as statisti-
ians have never given it the attention
bestowed upon more showy products
many otherwise well informed people
have had a notion that the more corn
was raised the poorer the farmer
grew. Mr. Snow takes crops on
which records of cost have been
closely kept. The important item
of labor includes the cost of
preparing the land, plowing,
planting, cultivating, gathering and
ribbing. The labor cost for the dif-
ferent states is given as follows: On
40 acres in Kentucky the total cost
was 895.94; on 120 acreB in Otiio, 8110.97;
301 acres in Indiana, 8279.92; on
487 acres in Illinois, 8374.74; on 284
acres in Iowa, 8180.28; on 200 acres in
Missouri, 8108.81; on 351 acres in Kan-
sas, 8107.81; on 743 acres in Nebraska,
8352.74. The total acreage mentioned
above is 2,032, and the total cost of
labor 81,617.25. The average rate of
yield on these crops was forty-three
bushclB to the acre, which is much
above the average. The yield in these
same states for the 1890 crop was esti-
mated by The Agriculturist at 33 1
bushels to the acre, on which basis
the cost would be 7.8 cents a bushel
It has been customary to assume
that the cost of production was a lit-
tle under 20 cents," says the editor,
but such estimates have erred in un
derrating the accomplishment of a
day's labor, and assuming the pay
ment of the highest wage rate by the
day. This last fault has been the
grievous error, as nearly all hiring is
done by the month. The result of
this investigation, however, so far as
the exact record is concerned, is not
open to question, and the allowance
for the two estimated items has been
liberal indeed."
On this basis corn is a much more
profitable crop even at present prices
than has been estimated.
I Nil ALLS' ESTIMATE OF BRYAN
There have been few if any orators
greater than John J. iDgalls in Amerj
ica. If he were nat that, there is no
man now living in America who knows
better what constitutes an orator.
He is unequaled in language and is an
unsurpassed word artist. His erudi-
tion and his knowledge of public men
gives greater weight to his judgment
of public men than any other man.
From this standpoint his estimate of I
Bryan is interesting. He lately saw
liryan at Atchison and heard him
speak for the purpose of reporting his
speech for the New York Journal.
Afterwards he wrote an analysis of
the man as an orator. This is his
opinion;
"Mr. liryan has a strong, sturdy
ruling presence, and his manner on
the platform here ivas easy, offhand
and colloquial without much energy
and no attempt at what is commonly
called eloquence. He let oft' no tire-
works, nor any sky-scrapers, lie had
no studied sentences, nor any flights
iior phrases that had been composed.
His few gestures were monotonous
and mechanical like the motions of a
laborer at the bench or the forge.
There was neither peroration nor ex-
ordium nor climax in his address, no
coherence in his thoughts nor grace in
their delivery. It was a typical stump
speech, t ie rolling prairie of oratory
without height or hollow or visible
horizon. From a less interesting per-
son than Mr. Bryan it would have
seemed ordinary and commonplace,
and been like the seed which fell by
the wayside.
•'Hut Mr. Bryan is not to be cata-
logued as an uninteresting person.
"He was the star actor in one of the
great dramas rf our time. He was
one of the chief figures in. the most
important political campaign since
the close of the civil war.
"Against tremendous odds, without
combination, experience or fortune,
he won the most signal personal tri-
umph of our history at an age when
So Governor Leedy's private secre-
tary has been trying to introduce some
of his Kansas medicine, in the strip
with jut a licerne This makes us sick.
The conditions of the country would
continue to support the argument of
Senator Foraker should he debate with
liryan, even if the populists wouldn t.
It was not the diflierence of others
estimate of them that made Senator
Foraker of Ohio talk just for his ex-
penses at the Sadalia, Mo., fair and
Uryan for #500.
A cask of yellow fever wandered to
Kansas City from Mississippi, but not
to fulfill an appointment with the
Klondyke wave that arrived the same
day from Alaska.
WHO ARE RESPONSIRLEf
The irresponsible populist leaders
and popocralic papers have much to
say regarding curtailing the rights of
persons by court injunctions, but the
recent incendiary utterances of the
Chicago anarchists necessitates
closer interpretation of the rights of
speech, even tc Bay nothing of the
freedom of action, or another Hay-
market lesson may be the result. Such
resolutions as were passed by the so-
cial democracy of Chicago would lose
the responsible parties their head< in
any other government butours. "The
blood of an idle and useless aristocracy
is the most convenient medium for
nourishing the tree of liberty," de-
clares one. "I will not carry a mus-
ket; I will carry a torch and a knife,
and I will carry both as far as I can,"
says another. Leroy M. Goodwin, E.
V. Debs' right hand man and a direc-
tor of the national board of the soeial
democracy, said*. "I would attack
property with the torch; I would de-
stroy their tine palaces."
The responsibility for these utter-
ances rests with men in high places.
When men of intelligence will pander
to the lowest elements for political
success they cannot hope for patrio-
tism and decency from the vicious.
TitE foreign curreucy commission
has ceased to amuse the popocrats as
much as formerly. Tne bank of Eng-
land has taken the silvery ring out of
that laugh.
PRAISED RY I7S TRADUCE RS.
The Kansas populists have recently
changed their tactics from vilification
to praise of their state. The unpre-
cedented prosperity of the state leaves
no room for the old campaign thund. r
and there is nothing else left. His
pockets filled with money, the Kansas
political leaders generally are in the
cradle or the kindergarten. Through
the contest for the presidency, he dis-
played courage, enduranee and versa-
tility that have not been surpassed,
and' he accepted defeat with dignity
and composure.
"So we do not need to look far to
discover the causes of Bryan's popu-
larity. People like pluck and nerve
in friend or foe, and Bryan is young,
poor, sandy and weBtern born, which
is a strong prescription, even with
those who reject his ideas and methods.
"Nothing Mr. Bryan has done so
far entitles him to be classified among
the intellectually great. He has dis-
closed no creative nor constructive
power, lie exhibits no reserve force.
Apparently he is not a student. He
shows no marks of growth or develop
ment from the activity through which
he has passed. His nature is neither
deep nor profound. He does not go
down to the roots of things. He is an
opportunist, and his conduct ie for the
emergency.
"His speech at Atchison Friday
morning brought out is strong relief
his characteristic traits.
"It was an adroit, plausible, good
natured, effective presentation of ven-
erable platitudes. He put himself on
terms with his audience and did not
fire over their heads, but the most re-
markable part of his speech was that
which he omitted. He was silent
about free and unlimited coinage
about the per capita and about the
indissoluble companionship between
silver and wheat.
"Nothing gives Mr. Bryan less con
cern than facts. If facts collide with
his theories so much the worse for the
facts. Facts may change, but the
ories are immovable. Mr. Bryan was
confronted at Atchison by a condition
that confounded all his theories: by
facts that demolished all his predie
tions, but he was in no wise discon
eerned by detection. Likr the trapeze
performer, who, hanging head down
ward in mid air, simultaneously with
the bang of the drum, swings through
space and grasps the distantbar while
the spectators applaud the abilitv
which has conquered the law of gravi
tat,ion, so Bryan, in the presence of
dollar wheat, general prosperity and
an inundation of money, jumped from
the Chicago p atform, and with the
bang of the drum, landed with both
feet on bimetallism and the law of de-
mand and supply.
"I.ast fall his indispensable recipe
for good times was an increase of the
per capita by the immediate free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1. Silver and wheat were the
Siamese twins of his debate. Low
silver, low wheat. High silver, high
wheat. Hut something has cut the
ligament. The twins are separated.
The teter board illustration works the
wrong way. Silver is lower than ever
before. Wheat is higher than in many
years. No republican claims that the
McKinley administration an:l the
revolutionary movement he repre-
sents."
Ii is understood that in his speech
at the state fair in Guthrie next
month Mr. Ingalls will answer some
of the arguments of Bryan. He has
recently drawn as great crowds as Mr. j
Bryan himself by his speeches on pub-
lic matters and the falacies of Bryan
The above opinion indicates the stand-
point from which he makes his argu-
ment. Those who have seen and
heard Mr. Bryan agree in the above
analysis of him and also agree that
no mancould have given a better pic-
ture of him than Ingalls.
OKLAHOMA'S GREAT MEN.
The agitation in Kansas over who
are two of its greatest state heroes of
all who have departed naturally sug-
gests the speculation when Oklahoma
shall be a few years older who will be
its greatest heroes.
Every state is priviledged to p'ace
the statues of fwo of its greatest men
in the rotunda of the national capitol.
The choice of these men will be deter-
mined in Kansas by the state legisla-
ture next winter and the papers are
agitating the people to indicate
their choice by a vote on the question.
It seems Kansas is almost the last
state to comply with the provision, all
other slates having made their choice.
The priviledge of placing two heroes
at the national capitol does not apply
to the territories and this knocks Ok-
lahoma out. But the question arrises
whom would the people honor so far if
the priviledge were given, and the
question also arises whom among her
present men will be so honored when
death has closed their usefulness to
the people whom they love and who
love them. The men to whom this
honor is liable to fall are per-
haps all living. With the except-
ion of Payne, the boomer hero
there is no deai man connected
with Oklahoma history who would be
liable to receive the honor. It is also
hardly possible that the men are not
yet born on whom it will be conferred
These things are certain.
But what is not certain is what
deeds for the good of the public has
any man in Oklahoma done so far to
entitle him to beiag immortalized in
marble. Which one of the many
statesmen has so endeared himself in
the hearts of the people of Oklahoma
as to become a hero. It can be said
with almost a certainty that no such
public acts have so far been per-
formed.
How many statesmen of Oklahoma
are conducting themselves in accord-
ance with that lofty ideal of public
duty to entitle them to a nich in
fame? It is a matter that should not
be lightly considered by the great
of the territory. The deed is yet to
be performed which will secure to
some this iaural of aftertime.
A Lite Saved.
A FOND DAUGHTER WAS NIGH TO DEATH,
Freak B. Trout Tells a Reporter of How His Daughter's
Life Was Saved. All Parents Should be Inter-
ested in This Narrative.
From the Evening Kewa, Detroit, Micfu
brighter.
Every one noticed
Usins an * nneleu for 111. investigation Ji kid ....^ ...... more 1)11J1(.S
the ruinor that the life of the daughter of the ^iJiange, aim s
"r When she hail taken two boxes she was
I omce, ' wrong enouiih to leave her bed, ami in I.
showed than six months was soMiething kehers ,1.
1 — j8 entirely cured, and^is a kij,,
Frank B. Trout, well known in Hetroit,
Mich., real estate ciivlea, had been saved, a
reporter called on Mr. Trout at In. ollnv, strong enough to a
103 Griswold Avenue. Mr. Trout
some
publii
stances
People,'hut* not' until tiie whole medical | thongh I •JW".
profession had exhausted their skill. JVt ;-ly wi * • j , t few to another
the aife of fourteen we had to take our oar in the
daughter from school owing to her health. >P'"V. Prl , | t|tr (lad not Hr. Wil-
Before this she had been in the best of .lnioii. '- ') ' ,,'y daughter's lile.
health, happy and in the best of spirit^ She , liam^ ^ „nm,,m| ,|.em to any one. I
inswoiu avvuhc. - .lav slip is entirely cured, and is a <
hesitauey in giving his opin on tor To-day weighing 130 pouixU,
ra abj* Sis
il me to try Dr. Williams Fink 1 ills h r . keeD them in the hoii. •
i) ...i.. !.•>« in.til tho whole medical though I alwti)s k j . i ,i ..
mimended them !o
began to fall away and became paie anu i t Vv \ln ili Viml more than is claimed
languid. She was so weak that she would k no w .1•'> ^'* 'a(["^eomraend then,
fall down in a faint every time she tried to for them,.in I R 1)r williams> pink
walk unsupported. The best of physinans to th . ^ daughter'1
attended her, hut she .continued, to crow lis for Ie. P
weaker aud teemed to be gradually faditi,
"""l\vhen she was fifteen she weighed only
ninety pounds, and the doctors said it was
amentia. Several physicians said she might
outgrow it, but that it would no doubt ter-
minate in consumption. No doctor we had
could help her, and we concluded ourselves,
we must lose our child, as she was growing
\7«aker every day.
44 We had tried all the well-known reme-
dies, and tin ally about a year aco I bought
a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People and took them home. That day I
had read of a case about the same as my
daughter's, and decided to give them a
trial, though 1 must confess I did not [nevrrmIT mavbe' 'had of all dru*
have much faith. Before she had taken all M*1*™ f°T.' by mail from Pr. William*
of the first box we noticed a change tor the c sts, or dimt by'ma ^ u y.
better. She, however, trained strength daily 1 Medicine Company,
life, aud that is enough for imy" ^ Troot
Stihseriljed and sworn to before me thil
fourth day of March, 1897.
ROBERT E. HUM., JR., notary M '?,
Wayne Cot 1111y, M ich 1 ga n.
Pr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peoplf
contain, in a condensed fnrm. all the He-
incuts necessary to give new life and n h-
ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves
Thev arc also a specific for troubles peculiai
to females, such as suppressions lrregultirr
tics and all forms of weakness. In men the,
effect a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork or excesses of what
ever nature. Pink Pills are sold in box«
(never in loose bulk) at .V) cents a box or six
IKAllK KKIOKT.
BHlnnn Tlirnnclinut the I'ountry Has In-
crea.eil More Than A nt Ic I pit t eit.
New Yobk, Sept. 19.—llradstreet's
report says:
Notwithstanding unseasonably warm weather
and the appearance of yellow fever in several
(rulf states, cbeekintr locally the distribution
of merchandise, business throughout the coun-
fry has increased more than anticipated. The
renter of improvement is Chicago, which fur-
nished the most favorable trade report within
live years. Advices from Kansas City. Omaha,
Paul and Su Louis also reflect a wood
elinR.
Wheat exports are very large, and with one
exception (that of the second week of Septem-
ber. 1S91.) are the h -jviest on record. Corn
oxports an' 1,00 i.O'HJ bushels smaller lhan lust
week, aggregate :l,u.il.i oo bushels, and compare
with 2.31)4,000 bushels last year. There are 1®
business failures reported throughout the
United States this week, compared with 175
last week, 813 in the week a year ago. 218 two I
vi ars ugo. and a like nuiaber three vears ago;
us compared witu 34t> tu tne second ween
September, lhlll
SA VES EIGHTEEN HUNDRED,
It looks primarily right that the city
should have the money resulting from
the sale of isnelaimed lots. The decis-
ion of the secretary in the ease of the
townsite board vs. the cit}r in which
the city gets $1,800 will meet with the
approval of everybody. The townsite
board claimed that the money had
been paid out upon the orde>* of the
former secretary and that it could not
reimburse the fund out of other money
received by the board. The secretary
has decided that they can do so legally
and the city gets the money. The
city attorney has done good
work in the case. The mat-
ter may prove a little inconven-
ient to the townsite board. It will cut
short the salary fund for the present,
but i is right. The board has held in
reserve the amount of mouev await-
ing the final decision of the secretary
and its accounts are in every way cor-
rect. The question was simply as to
the proper disbursment of it. The
money will now be paid the city.
. ,[ ninglev bill are the sole causes of dollar
farmer even laughs at the sereedes of w[,eat aD(j the well-being of the farm
Thk Hebrews of
more anxious to go to an earthly para-
dise than the other. They are not
inclined to enthusiasm for the scheme
of reclaiming Jerusalem.
Thk Russian newspaper fakers are
smarter even than the American. In
telling the world that Andree's baloon
had been sighted they sent the dis-
patch from a town that can't be found
on the map.
Tuk populists must not take the
failure of Mr. liryan to talk at the
tJuthrie fair as an insult. It is really
a compliment to their intelligence that
he thinks they don't need him under
the present circumstances.
Kaiser William has shown a desire
to see his grandmother, Queen Vic-
toria. These owners of empires have
a hard time of it. Of course in the
light of dignity it wouldn't look right
for V.ctoria to take her grandchild on
he' knee and pet his cheeks; but the
law of maternity would warrant it.
^government by injunction.'' In con-
trast to this the past compliments paid
the state by the populist leaders are
in great contrast Senator I'effer stood
America arc no j up in tj,e United States senate and
said: "If Kansas were placed upon
the auction block and sold at sheriff 's
sale it would not bring enough to pay
its debts."
About the same time Jerry Simpson
said in congress: "The men in my
district are selling their honor, the
women their virtue and the children
are begging for bread."
In the same year, during a speech in
Kansas City, ex Governor Lewelllng is
reported to have said: "Of every ten
women seeking employment in Kan-
sas only one finds it, and the other
nine seek relief with her whose ways
lay hild on hell."
The free traders are laughing at the
revenue defieieiley under the Dingley
bill. If it were not for the fact that
large quantities of goods were im-
ported ibefore the tariff took effect,
the lack of its revenue production
would destroy one of the democratic
objections against it, that of being a
robber tariff.
er. All that we insist is that these are
a refutation of the sophistries of 1896.
"Hut Mr. Hryan at Atchison gaily
and airly ignored the discrepancy be-
tween his prophecies and the market
quotations, never alluded to 16 to 1
nor the connection between dollars
and prices but inquired with much
severity if Dingley caused the short-
age in Europe and if McKinley was
the author of the famine in India.
After the aDplause which followed
this pleasantry had subsided, he q iot-
d Blaine, Sherman, and Carlisle on
the evils of the contraction of the cur-
rency by the demonetization of silver,
unmindful of the fact that we have
the largest amount of full legal tender
silver money possessed by any nation.
"Many cross-road students of poli-
tical economy are beginning to per-
ceive that the price of commodities de-
pends more on the number of people
that want them, than on the number
of dollars that have been coined, and
that if a man these dajs has a thous-
and bushels of number one wheat he
will have no practical trouble about
his per capita.
"Bryan's strength with the silver
democracy, the silver republicans and
the populists appears to be unimpaired.
There is no rival in sight. He is, per-
haps, more formidable than a stronger
man would be, because he will excite
less antagonisms among competitors.
We shall do well not to disparage him
nor to underrate the power of the
A .IVS l COMPLAINT.
The farmers north of the Cimarron
river are again complaining the lack
of a bridge across the river. Those
coming to the city today statu that the
river is high again and not crossible
They want to know how they are
going to bring their cotton to the city
When farmers complain about not
being able to came to town it is time
the businessmen took interest to see
that they can do so. It seems nothing
has been done towards building. The
bridge is needed right now. Even
when the river is fordableit is difficult
to haul heavy loads. The county c m.
missioners should hurry this matter.
Matrimonial matters are still worse
in Vienna than in Boston. A gambler
there borrowed money and pledged to
either marry rich or commit suicide to
secure the debt. Of the two he chose
to commit suicide.
Without consulting the populists
Uncle Sam is about to go into the own-
ership of private corporations. The
government is about to spend $3,000,-
000 for an armor plate plant.
kansas cattle dying.
Texas Fever Plague Crops Out in Jackson
( oout v, with Serious Renults.
Topek.a* Kan., Sept. 19. - Texas fever
has broken out in .Jackson county, and
is spreading rapidly among cattle
shipped at various times since Febru-
ary from the Kansas City stock yards.
The state Live stock sanitary c.ominis-
sioners were notified and yesterday
they quarantined all the farms upon
which these cattle are held. Neigh-
boring farms are also quarantined.
The farmers about llolten are very
much excited. There are a great many
valuable herds in .Jackson county, and
if the disease spreads, and there is some
fear of itr the loss will be disastrous to
many owners of cattJe.
A BIG DEFICIENCY.
Congrea* Will Be A*k«d for #5.000.000 to
m ke Up Old Pension CImIoih.
Washington, Sept. 19..—Commission-
er Evans, of the pension bureau, said
yesterday that it would be necessary
this year to ask cougress for a defi-
ciency appropriation on account of
pensions. He estimates that the total
payments for the year will not exceed
$147^00,000, and the appropriation for
the year is 8141,203,.880. The increased
pension puyments,. he said, would be
due chiefly to the fact that there are
about 200,000 old claims pending which
the bureau will adjudicate as rapidly
as possible. The claims allowed prob-
ably would call for so me tiling like
$0,000,000.
Ex-Gov. Cameron a Democrat.
Richmond, Va.r Sept. 19. t.x-(*ov.
William E. Cameron, Mahone's gov-
3rnor of this state and. until recently,
a republican and one of the most bril-
liant political leaders in Virginia, has
some out for the democratic state
ticket. Uejrnrding the election re-
forms in Virginia, the ex-governor
says that if they come they must come
through the democrats.
The 25th anniversary of the acces-
sion of King Oscar 11. to the throne
jvas celebrated throughout Sweden on
the 18th.
Only Wants F« ur Month*.
Madrid, Sept 10.—Capt.-Gen. Wey-
ler cables to the government that he is
perfectly confident of being able to
pacify Cuba in four months.
1)1)1 BL1 LYNCHING I I MINKNT.
Inriy Stills' Young Wire Now Believed to
Have Been Murdered.
WARRENsnuRO, Mo., Sept. 10.—The
outrage committed on the young wife
FKEMONTEKS IN CONVENTION.
Original Republleans Meet at PlttibMlb
John Speer There from Kai «a .
Pittsburgh, l*a., Sept. 19. 'live first
annual convention of the Fremonters,
the original members of the republican
party who voted for John 0. k re-
mont, convened yesterday, with a large
attendance, representing many states.
A national organization was formed
which will be called the National
Freuionter's Association of the I. nited
States. J. Fletcher liudd, of Philadel-
phia, was elected president, aud M&j.
11. H. Long, of this city, presided.
Vice presidents will be named for each
state in the union. John Speer will be
the vice president for Kansas.
M'NALL'S INSURANCE REPORT.
Han Collected 854,000 In Eight Months—
What Companies Ought to Pay.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 19.—In his re-
port for the eight months of 1807 end-
ed August 30, Superintendent of In-
surance McNall shows collections of
$54,000 on an estimated total, based on
proportions of 881,000 for the year, as
against $42,000 collected for the entire
year of 1800. Mr. McNall says that
the insurance companies doing busi-
ness in Kansas, when they are proper-
ly brought under control, and that
time is rapidly approaching, ought to
contribute $150,000 annually to the
treasury of Kansas.
FIVE CHILDREN BURNED.
They Were Locked Up In the House Alone
with the CHual HeMUlt.
Littiji Rock. Ark., Sept. 19.—Mariah
llillingsly, of Richmond, Little River
county, went to prayer meeting Thurs-
day night, leaving her five children
locked up at home. The eldest was a
^irl of 11 years. On returning home
about ten o'clock she was horrified at
finding the house in ashes and all five
of her children cremated. The bodies
of the youngest children were entirely
consumed, while only the charred
bones of the two eldest remained.
Mrs. Billingsly was a widow.
MiHHouri .Man 'lakes Hat Poison.
Denver, Col., Sept. 19.—A man 20
years of age was found dead near
Niwot, Col., yesterday. He had com-
mitted suicide, with rat poison. A
piece of paper was found in his pocket
upon which was written: "My name is
Elmer M. Kaugh. My home is in Mis-
souri. 1 am 20 years of age, and have
trouble that no one knows about; so 1
am better off dead. My father's ad-
dress is Newland post ollice, l'ettis
county, Missouri."
Postmaster Compelled to Disgorge.
Chadron, Neb., Sept. 19.— Three
masked highwaymen entered the post
office at Relmont, this county, yester-
day and, by the liberal display of six-
shooters, compelled the postmaster to
deliver up some 8400 of post otliee
funds. They made their escape, but
two were apprehended in Crawford
after lively fighting, in which one of
the robbers was mortally wounded by
Marshal 1'carman, of Crawford,
r.iu- Mills to
Allentown, Pil, Sept. 19.—The Cor-
onet Steel Co. of New Jersey, which is
said to control a process for the manu-
facture of steel without flaws or blow-
holes, is about to close negotiations for
the purchase of two large mills at Ful*
lerton, Lehigh county, from creditors
of the defunct Catasauqua Manufac-
Df Andy Stills in this county Monday | turing Co. The mills will be rebuilt
nen. Hull, and enlarged and will give employ-
England is sending out distress no-
tices that India ha6 had copious rains
and will have wheat to export in a
few months.
Thk Indiana tree on which the five
men were hung cannot be SBid to have
born the fruits of its own heads.
night by the three young mt'
lackson and McKeehon, has aroused
the citizens to a high pitch of anger.
Jackson has not yet been found, and is
supposed to have left the country. Ilis
accomplices are out on bail. The
whereabouts of the woman is still a
mystery, and it is thought she has
been murdered. From reports of citi-
zens along the highway the boys took
when driving away with their victim,
a terrible struggle must have been
made by Mrs. Stills to escape with
her life and honor, as they claim
ment to 2*500 hands.
Miroe*HfuH Fair and Carnival.
Des Moinks, la., Sept. 19.—The state
fair and carnival closed yesterday,
with the record of being the most suc-
cessful in six years, and one of the best
in the history of the association. The
attendance was the largest since 1891,
and the receipts will put the associa-
tion out of debt for the lirst time in
five years.
The People's Common Sense Medical
to have heard her screams and efforts Advispr by R. V. Pierce, M. L)., Chiet
to escape. The mutterings of farmers Consulting Phy*ician to the In* a ids'
who came from that section to this Hotel and Surgical Institute, a oook
city are ominous, and intimations of a ' ' *^08 pages, over 300 illustrations,
lynching are frequently heard and sorae of thtm in colors, bound in
even advised. If Mrs. Stills is not soon 8 rontf paper covers will be sent to
found alive aud well and Hull and Me- an3T°ne sending 21 cents in one-cent
Keehon do not escape, there is great ^_m"!Lt?„c5>ver
permitted to stand trial,
family Djetor Rook already sold
jdo-h oinuing at regular price of 81.50
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