Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-11-20

the eastern counties. II is said that Graves
once murdered q man in Indiana and his
reputation is not good.
DR.. George teasy, the botan,st OF the az
ricultural department. in Washington, VINO
has recently rpent several weeks in the
"arid regions" in q report to the commls.
sioner of agriculture, expresses the belief
that large portion of the area 90 deeig-
mated may be made vastly more productive
by the cultivation of some prolific species
Of grass and forage plants than thA gramma
and buffalo grssses upon which cattle nov
sub-ist. It is, however. he says, matter 70
be determined by experiment, and to this
end he recommends the utilization OF the
Fort Wallace, N. NJ. reservation as an expe-
rimental station.
A special says William Stubblefeld Will
son, the wife murderer, was hanged al
Jonesbore, Ill. The execution was private
Wilson's crime was committed on the 9TH
of last January. Coming home on that day
after one of his customary absences. he
found several young men of the nelghbor-
hood cutting wood for his neglected family.
His wife, of whom all spoke well, the mother
of his seven children and an unborn child,
the victim of his alternate abuse and neg
lect for twenty years, kindly asked him IN.
He seemed enraged, went into the house
and soon after pistol shot was heard and
his lond suffering wife staggered out and
fell dead.
The war in Perry county, Kentucky, be-
tween the French and Eversole factions has
broken out afresh. Almost every citizen of
the county has taken sides with one or the
other of these mountain merchant princes,
a. they are called. Both factions seem to
have come to the conclusion that there can
be no settlement except by determination
Both factions are armed, and the first shot
will bring about general war. The fend
between French and Eversols dates back
oral years They are rivals in business
and control the entire trade of several
mountain counties. The report that they
| we're killed some time ago was no. tue.
IAN attempt to suppress the buckst shops
il Chicago, and restore speculative trading
TO its former channels is being agitated by
h number of members of the board oftrade.
EThe idea is to abolish the market reporting
department of the board of trade, at least
temporarily. Without official quotations
received over the tickers it is claimed that
the bucket shops cannot secure enough
patronage to pay expenses. The claim Is
that by cutting off all official quotations
the agent who sends his order to the large
city bucket shops will be obliged to recon
meet himself with the regular brokers. By
the proposed plan the ticker service here
would be dispensed with In grain and pro-
vision speculation, and the present system
of market reports from this city discontin-
ned.
A decision has been rendered in the United
States supreme court in the case of the
Choctaw Nation against the United States.
Suit was brought in order to obtain judi
cial settlement of all existing claims of the
Choctaw Nation against the United States
government. This court In a long and care
fully prepared opinion by Justice Matthews,
holds that the Choctaw Nation Is entitled to
Judgment against the United States for the
to deduction of $3.50, 900, paid under act
of 1868; second, for unpaid annuties, $685.
449; third, for lands taken in fixing the
boundary between the state of Arkansas and
the Choctaw Nation $78, 1O2. The judgment
of the court of claims was therefore reversed
and the cese rendered to that court, with in
structions to enter Judgement of conformity
with this opinion.
The first step looking to an Investigation
of the alleged tally sheet frauds in Indian
arolis county, Indiana, has been taken.
The United States district attorney stated in
court that the business of the court was in
ton of the grand jury to the matter until
next week, and by mutual agreement of the
parties interested all the talley sheets and
other papers relating to the late election in
Marion county were Transferred to the GUS
tody of the clerk of the United States court,
so as to preclude the possibility of tamper-
ing With them. The papers were photo
graphed and inventoried, and locked in a
vault TO which are two doors. Mr.. Noble G.
Butler, clerk of the federal court, (republi-
CAM carries one key and combination, and
District Attorney Turpie (democrat) the
other, and neither can enter the vault with
out the help of the other.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November 12.-Jim Cum
mings, the Adams express robber, seems to
feel SO absolutely assured of his own safety,
that he dares to have little amusement
with the express company. He has written
several letters heretofore, and the detectives
have all agreed that they were written by the
now imprisoned messenger Fotheringham,
before the robbery was committed: as a
measure of safety should he be suspected,
and an alleged expert penman testified be-
fore the grand jury that the handwriting
vas the same as the messengers. But the
Republican is in receipt of q letter dated at
Topeka, Kan, which it prints this morning,
in the same handwriting as the others, and
signed "Jim Cummings" which goes to
show that Fotheringham could not have
written it or either of the others. In the
letter he states that he regrets that suspicion
should rest upon Fotheringham, and asserts
that the messenger did all in his power to
protect the compsny's property.
1t is confidently stated today that the
officials of the express company and the de-
tectives in their employ have discovered
the identity of the two men recently indict-
ed by the grand jury for grand larceny un-
der the names of Jim Cummings and Rich
ard Roe," but they do not as yet see fit to
make their real names public. It has been
ascertained that waitress in a Pine street
restaurant was Cummings mistress, and
from her description, which tallies exactly
with that given by Fotheringham, was OBJ
tanned. The shops at st. Charles, Mo-,
where the camp outfit, guns, ETC., referred
to by Cummings in a former letter, were
purchased, has been visited by the detec-
tives, and from one of the proprietors it was
learned that one of the purchasers was the
waitress paramour, and doubtless one of
the robbers. It is asserted that both these
men will soon be arrested.
WENT UP In SMOKE.
The Beautiful Pittsburg Catholic Cathe-
dral Destroyed by Fire.
P1TTsBURa, November 13.AThe cathedral
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