Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-22

pension committee has presented a repor
to the house in which he sustains the veto
He says the effect of the bill would be that
the claimant would get SO per month more
than the sum allowed by the general law,
and that it is not alleged that the widow
needed an increase, and that the committee
has barely tolerated the increase OF pensions
of widows Of officers. 1t is also true that
the claimants demand for legal rate of
pensions has been allowed by the pension
office. A minority report, signed by the re-
publican members of the COMMITTEES re-
quests the passage of the bill over the veto,
holding that it has been the invariable p-ac-
tice to pension at $50 per month, widows Of
officers of rank similar TO that held by Gen.
Hunter, and the president has signed a
number of such bills during this session, and
that there is no reason for making an ex-
ception in this case.
Charles A. Cleveland, of AnadarkO, Indian
Territory, Indian trader, was examined by
the senate committee investigating appoint
ments to Indian trader ships. He stated I'M
der oath that S. NJ. jackson, a brother of
Judge (then senatOr) jackson, notified wit
ness that Jackson had been licensed to trade
there and proposed a partnership into which
Jackson was to put his license while Cleve-
land was to furnish the capital, experience
and good will in addition to doing all the
ed. Witness was told if he did not acquiesce
in the arrangement his right to ade. would
be taken away, jackson claiming to have
sufficient influence at Washington to bring
this about witness declined to enter into the
arrangement, and in the course of time was
notified by a committee through the agent
at Anadarko, that his license would not be
extended beyond date then few weeks
distant. Witness came to Washington and
laid the matter before Commissioner At
klns, but did not succeed in getting the or
der of removal revoked. Witness closed his
store on the date fixed and began the re-
moval of his goods. He could not tell what
his loss would prove to be, but thought
about $4,000.
The trial of the seventeen Bohem an boy
cotters of Mrs. Landgraft, the baker, was
continued. After the examination of a
number of witnesses, Judge Barrett said
the man who called the first time and asked
the bakers to quit work, had not committed
any crime, and there were other defendants
who had not been identified as taking part
in either intimidation or the distribution of
circulars. These men Judge Barrett said he
would discharge. The men we're released
and disappeared out of court very quickly.
The counsel for the defense then moved for
the discharge of the other defendants on
various grounds, but this was denied by the
court. The prosecution elected to drop the
other courts and try the remaining prison
ers on the ground of conspiracy. The boy
cotters were pat on the stand in their own
defence, and it was evident that they were
an Ignorant set with no very clear concep-
ton of the wrongs which they were infict-
The jury brought in verdict of guilty
against six of them. Vultanck, Meyer and
Bredalfosky, who simply distributed circu-
lars in front of tho bakery, were sentenced
to ten days each. Oprarig and Keriska, who
spat in the face of the bakers, received thir-
ty days, and Lindhard, who threatened to
kill one of the bakers, received thirty days
Much surprise was expressed st the light
ness of the sentences.