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Kexiean Jnstioa.

ST. LOUIS, May pa dispatch from
Durango, Mexico, referring to the kill
ing of VIM. Muller, wealthy land and
cattle owner, at his hacienda by rob
bers, says: Soon after the killing a lot
of soldiers and police were on the
ground. Several of the robbers were
known and soon seven were in the
hands of the authorities and the party
started for judge of town of juris-
diction, probably San Miguel Delmez-
qu:tal, but as ordinary trials are long,
cost money and are not always either
profitable or satisfactory, these seven
prisoners were given short way to
justice by ''ley de fuego.'' That is,
they were allowed to try TO escape. and
in their effort for freedom were all shot
dead. In Mexico, when any prisoner
tries to escape, an officer has the right
to kill him on the spot. Officers and
soldiers we're In full pursuit of the 9TH
ers engaged in this robbery and muir
der and it is expected that they all will
be captured and killed.
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JUSTICE TEMPERED With BIRTHSTONE.
A swindler Fined $4,000 and Gets One Year
Behind the Bars.

swindler Fined 1000 and Gets One Year
Behind the Bars.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21.-A heavy
sentence has been imposed on Simon
Hameberg for swindling man out of
$4,000 last November. Hameberg and
an accomplice sold to a man named
Parker, an Oregon farmer, certain real
estate in this CITY. to which they had
no title. Parker did not examine the
title, but gave them So 900 in cash and
his farm in Oregon, worth So, 500.
When recently the title to the city
property was found to be defective,
Hameberg entered plea that he sold
under the belief that the title was
perfect, but he would not refund the
money. Later his accOmplice confessed
that Hamberg had deliberately planned
to rob Parker of his money and the
jury found Hameber guilty and the
court in sentencing him to prison re-
GREETED that the crime of which he was
guilty was only a misdemeanor in Cali
fOrnia. The judge then sentenced
him to imprisonment in the county
Jail for one year and that he pay a fine
equal to double the amount of money
he fraudently obtained from Parker
namely fine of SIS, 600 and that in
default of payment of the fine he be
further imprisoned at the rate of one
day for each dollar. If the fine is not
paid Hameber will therefore have to
serve altogether fifty-three years and
twenty days.
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The Races.

GRAvEsEND, May 22.-First race,
three-fourths mile-Laredo won, Lady
Primrose, second, Fitzgray, third;
time, 1:14t.
Second race. one and One-sixteenth
miles-Bordelaise won, Cyclone, sec
ond, Lottery, third; time, 1:494.
Third race, one and one-fourth
miles-Emperor Norfolk won, Sir
Dixon, second, Prince Royal, third;
time, 2:0Sa.
Fourth race, one and one-eighth
miles-Ordway won, Favor, second,
Richmond third; time 1855.
Fifth race, five-eighth mile-Blazon
won, Harrisburg, second, Jay T. Dee.
third; time 1:03t.
Sixth race, seven-eighth mile-BOn-
nerbearer won, Lackawanna, second,
Battery, third; time, 1870.
LOUISVILLE, May 22.-First race.
one mi,e-Persimmons won, InsOlance,
second, Glen Hall, third; time ZAP.
Second race, one and One-half miles
Temporary won, Los Angeles, second,
Quindaro Bell, third; time 2:42.
Third race, seven-eighth miles
Windslow won. Elgin, second, Parish,
third; time, 1901.
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60 AS YOU PLEASE.
The Chicago Board Of Trade AbOlishes
the Rule Prohibiting Corners.
The United States Supreme Court AT
firms Maxwslrs Sentence.
Rochester Steet Car Drivers Strik,
for Ten Hours Work.
Willard to Assume the Presidency o.
the Oregon Transeontinental.

CHICAGO, May 22.-The board of
trade adopted an amendment yester-
day abOlishing the rule prohibiting
corners by large majority. A local
paper says of this: The action is sig
nificant, for the reason that corner in
May corn has been among the POSSIBLE
tiles, while q corner in July wheat
might also occur without surprising
anybody. The rule was passed when
corners on the board in one thing or
another were frequent. The amend
ment, however, is the result of the long
and unpopular reign by the big short
sellers, who have depressed prices con-
tinually and gobbled the carrying
charges each month. A majority of the
board now plainly want to see some
body get the better of these old-time
bears, and this revocation of the cor
ner rule is to remove all obstacles in
the way of their success.
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Henry Villard,s Project

NEW YORK, May 22.-Annual meet
ing of the Oregon & Transcontinental
company will be held on June 18th. 1t
is not understood that there will be
any opposition to the present manage
ment although Henry Willard will be-
come an official as well as the real Lead
of the company. The following ad-
dress to share holders was issued in
the name of Henry Willard. 1t was
endorsed by Sidney Dillon, Charles M.
Colby, William L. Bull. Col. Galehoyt
and Brayton Ives. Last August l was
enabled through the confidence of my
German business friends to render to
your company financial aid to the eX-
tent of 81, 1000 900 at a critical period
in its affairs. The result of this
intervention was that l was re-
quested at that time by your
directors and by many of the largest
individual stockholders to become
again president of your company. l
declined to accept the suggestion then
because was expected to assist finan-
cially some of the corporations in
which our company holds large stock
interests. This assistance having now
being rendered to those corporations
l felt called upon as the founder of
your company and from a sense of
duty to you to aid 70 the full extent
my power in securing more satisfac-
tory results in the future for you as
stockholders. am authorized to state
that for this purpose 1 have obtained
the cooperation of foreign capital
which I represent and my friends in
evidence of their intention to infuse
new life into YOUR company have al.
ready acquired a large interest in you
stock. In behalf therefore of them
and all my friends who are interested
| in your stock and Of myself personally
1 respectively request your cooper
alton in our proposed efforts for {
rehabilitation of the Oregon s. Trans
continental company and the placing o
its securities upon a substantial per
| manent foundation
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Maxwell MIST Hang.

ST. LOUIS, May 22.-The Missouri
supreme court yesterday received a
mandate of the United States supreme
court in the case of Hugh NJ. Brooks
Victed af the sensational Southern ho-
tel murder. The court adjourned with
out fixing date for the execution. 1t
will not convene again until June 4,
when the date for the execution will be
named and the mandate forwarded to
the sheriff of this city. Maxwell was
much affected when he was informed
that the court would in a few days
dispose of his case forever. His trans
Atlantic friends are working hard on
Secretary Bayard, Minister Phelps,
Minister West and Governor More
house. Half a dozen different petit
lions are in circulation in this city, but
signatures are few
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ALASKA Cnrresnnndennn.

DOUGLAS CITY, Alaska Ter, April Ia.
VIII you be so kind as to give me
space in your paper for a few items,
as many of our friends wish to know
something about our journey to this
land of midnight sun. Wife and l
started from Emporia to visit few
weeks with friends in Cherokee county,
Kansas, then to Lawrence, Kansas,
where we met +. w. WeeSner, wife
and son, whom we joined and proceed
ed on our journey. We started on the
Goth of March, taking an emigrant car.
After four days of wearisome travel
we arrived in Portland, Oregon, the
same evening. We then took the N.
p. railroad to Tacoma, w. T., then
bearded the steamer Alaska for Port
Townsend, at which place we changed
to the steamship Idaho, bound for
Alaska. We were eight days on this
ship, she being of slow speed, but safe.
We had some rough sea and weather,
and little sea sickness among a few
on Prince Friedrich Sound. On the
fourth of April we arrived at the
wharf on Douglas Island about mid
night. Next day we rented house of
five rooms in which we can live and
room for our school. After a few
days rest and cleaning up we COM
menced school on the 10Th with thirty
scholars, my wife being teacher. The
work begin. Z. w. Weesner
and | expect to commence
erecting some buildings to live in and
hope by the middle of the summer 70
have school house of our own.
4 tribe of Indians moved to an is
land near TougaS, Alaska. They gave
it as their reason for moving into Alas
ka, that they could not endure the bad
treatment they received from the
Canadian Government. and they were
compelled to leave British soil. They
have just crossed over the line and are
now under the American flag. Talk
| ing with one Of their young men, he
states that there is now near 20 on
| Douglas Island seeking work in the
mines, or, whatever they can find to do
to make an honest living. They are a
portion of the tribe that left British
| Columbia last year and settled on an
Island in Alaska, under the leadership
of w. Duncan. The Alaskans are
very superior race, intellectually, as
compared with the people known as
the North American Indians, and are,
| as rule, industrious, provident. and
wholly self sustaining. They yield
readily to civiliZing influence, as
shown by the fact that wherever the
christian missionaries have gained
foothold, there you will find them liv-
| ing in neat, comfortable houses of their
| own construction. As fast as they can
they obtain employment from the white
| man at reasonable wages land the
most ignorant of them know the value
of their Iabor.) Very few of them
speak the English language. They are
anxious to educate their children in
| white mans ways. Many things could
be said in regard TO this country and
| its surrounding but time and space
/ will not permit. SILAS X. MOON. =
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AZ Chicago.

CHICAGO, H., May q, 1883.
HoGs-Receipts, 1900 head; market mod
erately active, prices about Sc lower: light,
e5.40G5.60; rough packing, s. 4015.55: mixed,
s5.5sl15.70; heavy packing ana shipping, $50
e55.s5.
was steady for good TO choice beevee, at e4l50
Gt1D0: poor to fair, weaker at s36Jd4.5g; COWS
and mixed, eI6G053.6o; stockers and feeders,
e T5eIA.10.
sHEEP-Receipts, 5000 head; market slow:
good TO choice. shorn, s4-5095.00; inferior 70
medium, e4.0ofLS5 20.
WHEAT-Easier; No. 2 red, cash, s41c;
June, s4zSc; July, 85 1I-16c.
e, Sohss steady; cash. 66Ee; June. 55.c:
o1Ts-Firm; cash, a51zc; June. azSc; July.
33HLc.
RYE-65Hc.
BARLEY-NOminal
PRIME TIAoTHY-S2-20.
FEAx-SI.40.
WHISKY-Sl19.
July, s14.45.
L.aRD-steady; cash and June, sss5;July.
SHORT RIBs-e7.52% July
BUTTER-Weak and uuchaneed. creamery
19dz5c; dairy, I90z1c.
EGGs-FfrTn; fresh. PIC
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Obserranoe Of the sabbath.

WASHINGTON, May 2I.-The bill
introduced by Senator Blair to-day
for the observance of the Lords day
provides that no person or corporation
shall perform or authorize to be per-
formed any secular work. labor or
business to the disturbance OF others,
works of necessity, mercy and human
ity excepted; nor shall any person en-
gage in any play. games, amusement
or recreation to the disturbance of
others on the first day of the week,
commonly known as Lords day, in
any place subject to the exclusive juris
dictiOn of the United States. 1t is
made unlawful for any person or cor
poration to receive pay for labor SER
vice rendered in violation of this pro-
vision.
Section ?, reads: No mails shall here
after be transported in time of peace
over any land, postal route. nor shall
any oil be collected, assorted, handled
or delivered during the first day of
week; Provided that whenever any
letter shall relate to word of necessi-
ty or mercy, or shall concern the
health or desease of any person and fact
shall be plainly stated, upon the fact of
the envelope. The postmaster general
shall provide for transportation of
such letter in package separate from
other mail matter, and shall make reg
ulations for delivery thereof, and the
same having been received at the place
of destination before the first day of
the week, and during such limited
portions of the day as shall best suit
the public convenience and least inter-
fere with the due observance of the
day as one of worship and rest; and
provided further, that when there shall
have been interruption in the due and
regular transmission of the mail, it
shall be lawful to so far examine the
same when delivered as to ascertain if
there be such matter therein for law
full delivery on the first day OF the
week.
Section 8. Declares it to be unlaw-
full for the prosecution of commerce be-
tween states and Indian tribes on Sun
day and provides that all persons viO-
| lating the provision shall be liable to
| a fine of from 80 to 800.
Section 4. Prohibits all military and
navy drills and parades in times of
peace, except assemblies for religious
vice of the United States on the Lord s
| day.
An additional section provides that
| labor service rendered on the first day
of the week in consequence of accident,
disaster OF unavoidable delays on max
| ing regular communication upon post
al and transportation routes or pres
| eryation of perishable and exposed
property and the regular and neces-
sary transportation and delivery of ar
| ticles of food in condition for healty
use and such transportation for short
distances from one state into another
as by local laws shall be declared to be
necessary for the public good, shall not
be deemed a violation of the act, but
shall be construed so far as possible tC
secure the whole people rest from toll
during the first day of the week.
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StnnR By Rees.

XENIA, Ohio. May 23.-George Ham
i'll, a young farmer residing two miles
north of this town, was attempting to
hive a swarm of bees yesterday, when
they settled on his head, face and neck.
He Immediately began to fight them,
and then they began to sting him. In
writhing in terrible agony, and when
his wife and mother came to his aid
with broomS he was nearly dead. AS
it was, he became unconscious and re
manned in that state for some time, his
head and hands swelling up so as to
make him unrecogniZable. He is in a
serious condition.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 22.-Paul
Grottkau, a somewhat noted anarchist
agitator, has been released from the
house of correction after serving but
six weeks as his sentence of one years
Imprisonment on account of technic-
atty which is that when the legisla-
ture enacted that sentence for felOnies
that it should not begin to run until
the prisoner was actually locked up it
forgot TO mention the misdemeanOr,
and that consequently the time spent
by Gottkau on bail pending an appeal
to the supreme court was counted on
his original sentence. The district at
torney will take the case to the su-
nrame court.
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CITY OF MEXICO, May 22.-The Pa
beIlon Nacconale, newspaper, has
been exposing the i'll treatment to
which agricultural laborers on hacien-
das in the remote parts of the country
are subjected. 1t says that in some
districts of the state of Chiapas the ma
tives use their natural dress, that is to
to say, what nature gave them and
nothing more. Thus they are found on
the roads; thus they serve On the haci-
endaS, and thus they show. themselves
in the towns. 1t appears that they are
ignorant of the exiStance of hats, since
they never cover the head. These
wretched poems hire themselves out as
beasts OF burden to whomsoever de
sires to lease them. Their wages are
s. per month The obligation of the
Indian draught animal is to fetch and
carry on his back the load committed to
him whatever may be the distance.
Still more, they are sub-rented without
| the right of receiving any excess OF
payment. AS the poor Indian
is never able to discharge the
debt which he has incurred. Through
the amount of $25, usually advanced u
him. he is always serf. II he die:
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into two strips and the names
of two candidates were written on each
slip in the same handwriting. The
other seemingly fraudulent ballot con-
sisted of two pieces of paper with the
corners turned down so that the two
could be cast at once and then become
separated in the hat. The two pieces
of paper were Identical in size, had the
same corner turned down and
contained the same candidates
names and were in the same hand
writing. A resolution commencing the
action of the tellers in throwing out
the suspicious ballots was passed. DR..
Edward tried to explain how the sus
picious ballots might have been cast,
but the conference would not hear
him. The majority of the delegates
seemed to think fraud had been at
fpmOfed
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long as we had it the surplus should be
so used, but it was not sound policy to
continue TO raise revenue to buy
bonds at premium. In one month
the secretary had purchased 5000, 600
bonds for which he paid So ,536 900
above the principal and accrued in
terest. This unjust process must go
on, indefinitely, unless congress came
to the relief and reduced taxation. He
did not mean that every interest should
not be considered in a friendly spirit,
but he insisted that the interests of
the many should not be subordinated
to the interests of the few. (Applause.)
Taxation should be distributed among
all of the people, according to their
ability to pay. and until that was done
we should always be embarrassed in
the effort to increase or reduce taxes.
If the present measure should fail and
disaster come upon our industries by
reason of Over-taxation, tine present
vicious system would be responsible
for it.
He then called attention to the effect
of past legislation upon the tariff.
The gentlemen from New England pre-
dfcted is 1916, that the duties fixed by
the law of that date, would ruin their
trade industries. In 1857 all of the
New England members voted for a
still further reduction of 20 per cent.
from what they had called the ruinous-
ly low tariff of 1916. In the fall trade
period as the republicans called the de-
cade from 1850 to 1880, the wool manu-
featured product increased 46 per cent.
and wages 81 per cent. (Applause).
The increased product in New En-
gland was 81 per cent. in hosiery, and
the product increase 42l per cent. In
cotton the product of New England
increased II per cent; in boots and
shoes upon which the duty had been
reduced Is per cent. the increase in
New England was IS per cent. The
product in 1860 in New England was
more than the entire product of the
union in 1850. This was what the re-
publicans from New England had seen
under low tariff and eleven years
after the passage of this bill the people
of New England would vote for still
further reduction, OF if they did not
the people would send only those here
who would. (Applause.) They had
seen material progress, but they hadn't
seen the trusts that tbrottled the peo-
pie; they have not seen the thousands
of Workingmen marching the streets
demanding work or bread. These
things had grown out of our high tariff.
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The BlalOok Gang at the Psnitentiary.

LEAVENWORTII, KAS., May 2l.-The
famous Blalock gang of murderers and
thieves, who made their headquarters
at Columbus, Kansas, and terrorized
that section for over year, arrived at
the penitentiary. They were in charge
of Sheriff J. G. Babb, of Columbus, and
four guards who were heavily
armed. All the prisoners were hand
cuffed, except Ellen Blalock, the aged
mother of the gang. She walked 81
lently at the side of a guard. Two of
the old lady's SONS, William and Jona-
than. were Joined by the bracelets. and
walked in front of their mother.
Each was given a life sentence for the
foul murder of Deputy Sheriff Gordon.
while he was watching the rendezvous
of the gang. The old lady was sent up
for three years for receiving stolen
goods and harboring the criminals.
She is little woman, about so ye ars
old, and her features are much enact
ated. She had little to say during the
trip from Columbus. and when spoken
to by the guards she would answer in
monosylIables. Her husband and the
father of the boys is now in jail at
Columbus, awaiting trial for
the gang en- route to the penitentiary
were: Grant ALLEY, who will serve
term of five years for burglary, and the
three Fry boys and their father,
Aaron Fry, who received a five years
sentence. Dan Fry received sixteen
years. sentence, Alex one year less,
and Ped Fry will serve the state for
eight years. All were convicted Of
burglary and receiving stolen goods.
The worst looking one of the gang
was Jonathan Blalock. He has pair
of eyes that look murder or any other
would be taken for an uncouth young
man from the rural precincts. In
striking contrast to the two Blalocks
is the appearance of the Fry boys.
| Dan Fry has a frank face. When he
stepped from the train he held cigar
cite between his lips and a cowboy s
broad brimmed hat sat jauntily on the
side of his head.
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| EmpOrIa RepubIicen.
Thoae Confederate c. A. 3. Men.


Those Confederate C. A. 3. Men.
The following letter by Charles Har
ris, Of the News, to the Kansas City
Star, explains itself:
Sir:-In your issue of the 18th inst,
appeared communication signed Sid
ney Brigham, and dated Joplin, Mo-,
in which it was claimed that in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, ex-confederates and
members of Forests guerilIas are
admitted and are members of the
G.. A. r. From the above assertion
it is very evident, that Mr.. Brigham is
utterly ignorant of the subject on
which he attempted to write. as the
very first requisite in an application for
membership in the g. A. r. is an
assertion that the applicant has never
borne arms against the government,
every blank application having at its
head the quotation: mo person shall
be eiigable to membership who has
at any time borne arms against the
United States If, therefore. ex-reb-
els have become members at Chatta-
nooga-which is almost impossible Iii
has been done only by perjuring them
selves. CHARLIE HARRIS.
A. @. 81. G.. Dept. of Kas. G.. A. r
| Emporia Kas.. MAY Ia, 1888.
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his children must work out his obliga-
ton. Many haciendas of tobacco are
sub-renters of these Indians. The Pa
hellion Hacienale suggests as a remedy
for this shocking state of affairs that
there he passed severe laws. which
must depend for their application on
the federal authorities, and place work
ing men in cooperation with the local
authorities. 1t is sanguine that when
that the law is protecting them they
will place themselves under it and
make known the abuses which they
suffer