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, 1889-04-20
MormonS-Driven Ont of Alabama

ST. LOUIS. April 10 Information
comes from DALI county, Alabama, that
five Mormon missionaries were severely
whipped and driven from the county last
Monday night. These men had been
holding meetings among the ignorant
class, \ in the county. and had formed a
cnlony to ~ to Utah. Monday night
some forty citizens Of the northern part
of tn county, without the slightest at
tempt at disguise. surrounded the house
of Gid Irons, a recent convert, who was
entertaining the five missionaries. With
out delay they were brought out, stripped
to the waist, and tied in a row Then
each Of the regulators with a long switch
struck each prisoner n sound blow. BY
he time the last blow was given two OF
the men had tainted and the others were
wet with blood. After the whipping the
mems legs were given n thick coating of
tar and feathers and they were warned to
leave instantly or suffer death.
, 1889-04-20
Gen. Merritt,s instructions.

WASHINGTON, April l9. -Orders signed
by Asst. Adit. Gen. Kelton, supposed 10
have resulted from a cabinet meeting this
afternoon, have been sent to the com
manding general division of the Missouri,
at Chicago. By direction of Mai. Ger.
Schofield the following is communicated {:
The president directs Gen. Merritt to
act in conjunction with marshals of United
States courts having jurisdiction in the
country opened to settlement under the
presidents recent proclamation, TO pre-
serve the peace, and he will upon the
requisition of such marshal or their duly
authorized deputies order the troops I'M
der his command to aid them in executing
warrants, making arrests and quelling any
riots or breaches of peace that may occur;
he will use his influence to promote peace
and good order. and will take every proper
measure to avoid any conflict of arms be-
tween or with settlers; he will also see
that the laws relating to the introduction
of ardent spirits into the Indian country
are enforced. Careful enforcement of
these provisions will aid very much to
promote good order.
, 1889-04-20
Drowned While Crossing a Stream.

WELLINGTON, Mo-. April ia spe-
cial to the Standard. brought by courier
TO South Haven, and from there tcle-
phoned to this city, says: Pawnee Bills
colony, consisting of 300 wagons, left
Hannewell yesterday, and is Low water
bound at the Salt Fork of the Arkansas,
twenty miles south Of hat city. While
attempting TO ford the swollen and turbu-
lent stream a man named F.either and
his horses were drowned, in full view of
the frightened colonists, who were unable
to render him any assistance: but the
accident demonstrated that fording was
out of the question, and the whole colony
is now engaged in the construction OF a
huge raft. Upon which they expect to
float over to the other side with their
teams and outfits. This afternoon a train
OF 4S5 vehicles, containing colonists bound
for Oklahoma, from Salt Lake valley,
Utah, and points in Colorado, passed six
miles west.
, 1889-04-20

Secretary NobI Renders a Decision.
WASHINGTON, April I9.-Secretary
Noble to-day rendered the following de-
cision relative to town sites in Oklahoma:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIoH-To
The Commissioner Of the General Land
Office: L am in receipt of vour
ication of the 18th inst relative to the
application of the Capitol Townsite and
Improvement Company, asking permits
sion to locate and enter certain lands in
the Guthrie and Kingfisher land districts
for own sites in Indian Territory, said
application having been referred by the
department to your office. [ concur in
the views expressed by you in your sand
comm lnication. There is no authority to
grant the application OF the Oklahoma
Capitol City Townsite and Improvement
Company to enter lands as now presented,
and | am also of the opinicn that the
provisions of the act of March 4, 1889.
providing for entries of lands for town
sites under sections 237S and 1888. re-
vised statutes, does not apply to corpora
tions of this character. Although the
president might have the power to re-
serve lands for TOWNSHIP purposes, under
section $50 revised statutes such rcserva-
ton could not be made for the benefit of
a corporation of this character, but would
be disposed Of in a manner now provided
by law.
, 1889-04-20
A Reign of LawIessness.

CALDWELL, Kan, April l9.-Word
was brought here last night from Purcell
by a man who was there yesterday. He
says a great deal OF lawlessness exists
along the southern boundary of Okla
homa. A man was held up in the streets
of Purcell in broad daylight and robbed of
800. Boomers defy the law. They
have purchased or hired every available
horse in the neighbOrhood and will mount
and wade through the Canadian river.
Just before noon, Monday, when the sig.
nal flag drops at moor sharp, there will be
a desperate land race on the opposite
bank. Gamblers and toughs declare they
will let no one pass a certain distance who
is not one of them. A cowboy who arrived
late last night SAYS the Cimarron river is
very high, and that up to the time he left
eighteen persons had been drowned trying
to ford the stream. No definite intorma-
ton can be learned of the drowned
, 1889-04-20
The Advance Upon Oklahoma.

CALDWELL, Kas.. April I9.-Two
thousand camp fires glimmered along the
old Reno trail last night from Caldwell to
Pond creek. To-day a thousand canvas
covered wagons are slowly moving along
the trail. The day was favorable, and
notwithstanding the late heavy rains the
trail was in very good condition. The
most popular outfit is a strong, canvas
covered wagon, drawn by two large, stout
horses, and the horses Of the boomers are
all looking in good condition. Some
parties are mounted on ponies and carry
a whole camp outfit behind their saddles,
Some are crossing the strip in buggies.
One odd turnout is a large, high, old
fashioned buggy, drawn by two shaggy
yellow horses, with a colt hitched by its
mother. and a black COW tied behind.
The driver is a woman. and she drove
with one hand, while the other supported
a little child; a shock headed youngster of
10 followed behind. The woman was a
Kansas widow seeking a home in the
Promised Land"
All stories to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, 1t does not seem there can be any
trouble among those who are driving over
the trail to-day. They are as fine a body
OF men as ever went into u new country.
Most OF them are Kansas and Nebraska
farmers. and although a gun is in every
wagon and across every saddle. the owners
are men who will use them to keep the
peace and not make trouble. Most OF
the wagon boomers got out of Caldwell
yesterday and this morning. There were
about 1000 OF them. Many of them
have little or no money, but almost all are
well equipped for camp life. Salt Fork,
Pond creek and all other streams in the
strip, it is thought, can be forded. al
though every one is very high. All are
in doubt about the chances of fording the
Cimarron, and a wagon lett Caldwell last
night bearing a large boat with which the
owners expect to start a ferry.
, 1889-04-20
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Tx Postmaster Pearson, of New Yor
is seriously i'll and not expected to live.

Tx Postmaster Pearson, of New York,
is seriously ill and not expected to live.
Yesterdays temperature: New York
So, Chicago CO., St. Paul Az, Winnipeg
$50. New Orleans &C..
The commercial exchanges OF New
York and Chicago were closed yesterday
on account Of Good Friday.
Pittsburg reports the hottest day, of the
season, the mercury reaching 80 degrees.
Two men were overcome by the heat.
j. A. Edwardson, recently appointed
minister TO Denmark. is lying i. in Chi
cago from an attack of bleeding at the
lungs.
Ex Congressman Frank W. Palmer of
Illinois, formerly of the Inter Ocean, has
now the lead in the race for the position
of public printer.
A hurricane passed through Pinkney,
ILL.,, last night. unroofing many buildings
aud uprooting trees in a path of about
100 feet wide. No one was severely in
iured.
Manager Spalding and his two teams of
base ball players have returned to Chicago
from their trip around the world. The
event was celebrated by a street parade
and a banquet.
The steamer Everett, raft boat belong
ing to the Burlington Lumber company,
sunk in a gale last night in the Mississippi
river. Five of the sixteen persons on
board were drowned.
Bernard Kolin of New York, blew his
brains out early Yesterday morning in
Front street Bonifaces Catholic church,
with a revolver which he had picked up
on the battlefield of Antietam.
The superintendent OF the b. & o.
railroad in Chicago states that the trouble
between the company and its employees.
growing out of the insurance plan, has
been amicably adjusted. No employe
will be required to sign unless SO inclined.
, 1889-04-20
Knowledge without Books.

The personal friends of William X.
Grace say that he never opens a book to
read it, and only skins over the daily
newspapers, and yet is II of the best
informed men on general subjects in the
city. Reading bores him. He despises
the flowers of rhetoric, and has no pa
tience with unimportant details. Life is
too short for these. He wants his infor-
nation IS results from the mouths of
those who have studied and know.
Hence he keeps n few smart, well in
formed men around him, and has cult
waited the friendship of specialists in
every sort of learning and affairs. He
is never ashamed to confess ignorance
on any subject, and as soon as anything
is presented which he does not under
stand, seeks at ace some one who does.
Then he gets Immediately to the point of
the subject, which he has n genius for
striking on the head in half a dozen terse
questions.
He always remembers what is told
him, and puts his pieces of rapidly OBJ
tanned knowledge together with a logic
which makes a stranger think he is n
finely read man. When the person is
not at hand to enlighten Mr.. Grace on
some point he wishes to clear up, he does
not forget it, but if n month afterward
he meets the man who knows, he pops
the question 1T him abruptly. Not only
business, governmental and historical
affairs and current happenings are thus
handled by him, but questions of art,
science and philosophy.-New York Sun.
, 1889-04-20
Deserved HIS Fate.

VINCENNEs, Ind. April l9.--Sylvester
Grub was hanged at II o'clock for the
murder Of his sweetheart, Gertrude Dow
ney, at Princeton, Ind, last September.
in full view of several thousand people.
The girl refused to have anything to do
with him and he shot her three times.
Then he tried to kill himself, but the Dis
tol failed to 20 off. He came near being
lynched. He escaped a few weeks ago,
but was recaptured. On the scafold he
said he had much to say, but declined to
talk because reporters were present.
, 1889-04-20
They Meet Texas Cattle En- Route.

ARKANSAS CITY, April I9.-This
morning at Chillicoco station 500 Texas
cattle were let loose on the prairie. A
train OF boomers passing at the time, the
cattle stampeded the stock hitched to the
wagons, aud the latter were mixed with
the Texas cattle and lost to their owners.
A man named Watson, from Sterling,
Neb, in trying to preserve his outfit from
the enraged herd, was tramplcd under
foot and badly injured.
Cattlemen are making no attempt to
protect their fences in the strip, and
boomers are cutting them. Hundreds OF
miles of fences will be broken to pieces.
, 1889-04-20
The Cost Of . Coast Defender.

WASHINGTON, April 10 The board of
bureau officers which has been consider
ing proposals received Tor building an
armored coast defense vessel has COM
pleted its work and reported to the secre-
tarS OF the navy. It is understood that
the board finds that it is not possible to
build a vessel under the lowest bid of
sI,6l4.OOO to comply with the terms of
the act of congress which likes the total
cost of naval rams, batteries and other
naval structures 10 be built under its
authorization at 81, 00O, 900, Out of this
total must come the armor for a coast
defense vessel, which is not to be furnished
by the contractor, and which will cost
1850, 900; anchors, boats, etc. and a sub
marine boat for which proposals were re-
ceived some months ago Altogether
here. would be a deficit of about 800, 900
if the lowest bid foi building this power
full vessel was accepted. The nest move
of the department, if the report is &C
cepted by Secretary Tracy, will be to re
advertise for proposals, aud if that fails to
secure a reduction then to appeal to ON
Gress for an increase of 'he limits of the
total cost.
, 1889-04-20

Is one which is guaranteed to bring you
satisfactory results, or in case of failure a
return of purchase price. On this safe
plan you can buy from orr advertised
druggist a bottle of DR.. King's New Dis
coVery for consumption. 1t is guaranteed
to bring reliet in any case, when used for
any affection OF throat, lungs or chest,
such as consumption, Inflammation of
lungs, bronchitis. asthma. whooping
cough, etc, etc. 1t is pleasant and agree
ways be depended p Trial bottles
free at DIR. W. N. Hunts drug store.
, 1889-04-20
Another Account of the Accident on
the d.. n Il. e..

DENvER. April ia Montrose spe
cial says a fatal accident occurred on the
Rio Grande road at ! O'Clock this morn
ing. While tine Salt Lake express was
running through Black canyon IA huge
landslide came tearing down the side of
the canyon, several immense boulders
striking the engine, throwing it from the
track and hurting it down a thirty foot
~embankment into the Gunnison river
The engine in the descent turned over
several time., crushing Fireman William
North to death. Engineer Ryan was
caught underneath u portion of the ma
chinery and pirioncd in the bed OF the
river, being nearly drowned before res
cued. He is also seriously bruised inter
nally. None Of the coaches were thrown
from the track, and on ccoun of the
roaring waters it was some minutes before
The passengers and crew knew of the acct
dent. The train was ascending the can
yon at the usual speed. and it is supposed
the jar of the train started some loose
rocks from the ton III the canyon, several
hundred feet above, and these rolling
down started Others and increased in size
until when they struck the unfortunate
engine they had become a tremendous
slide OF huge boulders and rocks
, 1889-04-20
A BIG FIRE
Consumes New York Property
Worth Over $4,000, 600.
Reign of Lawlessness on the
Border of Oklahoma.
u. S. Marshals Are Victorious
in the First Engagement.

New YORK, April l9.-At $50 this
afternoon three alarms of fire and q call
for ambulances created a sensation at
Fifty-ninth street and Ninth avenue. The
fire was In Wilcox & Co.'S lard refinery.
At 7 p. IN. the Vanderbilt elevator a,
which is near by, was burned, and eleva-
tor B IS in flames. The damage is now
estimated at 81, 500. 900. Some people
are killed or badly injured.
At IL O'Clock to night, when the fire
was gotten under control, the half mile of
ruins sent out a furnace heat. The estl
mated losses are as follows The Rossi-
ter stores contents, 1900, 900; the Wilcox
company sstocks, $3.50, coo; elevator "A"
$500. 900; elevator B." $3.50. 900; dock
d." contents, 5000. O00. dock "A"
S35. COO; the Wilcox buildings, 1920, 900;
total, 50. 465. 900. The loss to the prop
erty of the New York Central company is
covered by insurar ce. The Wilcox com.
pany's stock was insured for 800, 0O0.
AT a late hour to night it is stated that
four men were in the ruins of the Wilcox
company's building.
, 1889-04-20

Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which ia the
fountain OF health, by using DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery, and good digestion, q
fair skin, buoyant spirits, and bodily health
and vigor will be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors,
from the common pimple, blotch, or eruption,
TO the worst Sorofuia, or b~!ood-poison. Rs
pecially has 1t proven its efficacy in curing
Salt -rheum or letter. Eczema, ErysipelRs,
Fever = sores, Hip Iuint Disease, ScrofulouG
Sores and Swellings, Enlarged Glands. Col
tire or Thick Mock, and Eating Sores or
Ulcers.
Golden Medical Discovery cures C~onsump-
ton (which is S~crofula OF the Lungsl, by It's
wonderful blood : purifying, inyiEorating,
For Weak Lungs. Splitting OF Blood, Short
ness of Breath. Catarrh in the Head. Bron-
chitis. Severe Coughs. Asthma, and kindred
affections, it is a sovereign remedy, IL
promptly cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver, Biliousness. or Liver
Complaint" Dyspepsia. and indigestion, it is
an u~nequaled remedy. Sold by druRgists.
Price sl.0o. or six bottles for $500.
, 1889-04-20
Furnishing Election Frauds.

LITTLE Rock, April l9.-The federal
court for the eastern district of Arkansas
has been in session two weeks Investigat
ing charges OF fraud and intimidation in
the election held last November. To-dsy
Reuben w. Darden OF Union county was
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
for driving a negro away from the polls
and refusing to allow him to cast his bal
lot. Thos. w. Dansley of Cleveland
county was fined $500 for interfering with
an election supervisor in Cleveland coun-
ty The trial of the three judges of escc
ton at Plummerville, where the ballot
box was stolen, will not be concluded un-
til to morrow.
, 1889-04-20
Ell Paso's Municipal Fight.

FL PAso, Tex. April 19.-The ex
citement here over the city government
trouble is running high, and an indiscreet
word or more may lead to regular slaugh
ter. Krakaner, the Republican usurper,
who took charge OF the city hall yesterday
evening with an armed mob, and who
was ordered by Judge Falvey of the dis
trict court to surrender all city property
and disperse his mob, was arrested this
morning for contempt of court, in refus-
ing to disclose the combination of the
city safe, in which the city records and
seal are kept, and the combination OF
which he changed while in possession of
the hall last night. At II O'Clock to
night his trial is in progress. and
the court house is crowded with
hundreds of excited men. If he is sent
ia Jail a row is anticipated. 1t is posi-
lively learned this evening that Krakaner
has been rendered the services of soc Mex
leans.
, 1889-04-20
Discovery of IA NihiIrstic Plot.

ST PETERSBURG, April IO.-The po-
lice have discovered the existence of a
nihilist plot to assassinate the czar with
dynamite, while attending the funeral of
Gen. Pancker. minister of roads. The
car was Immediately warned not to at
tend the funeral. A number of persons
were arrested
, 1889-04-20
Particulars of the Great Fire in New
York.

New YORK, April I9.-The largest
and ~iercest fire witnessed here for years
swept the east bank Of North river to-
day from Fifty-ninth street to what would
be Sixty-fith street if that street ran to
the river. 1t destroyed more than 81 800.
600 of property belonging to the New
York Central Railroad company and at
least $500, 600 worth of lard, -four and
the like belonging to other persons, nota-
bly, II. N. Fairbank, the great Chicago
lard merchant. The flames DESTROYED two
big elevators of the Vanderbilt system,
a big brick building stretching from Fifty.
ninth to Sixtieth streets and occupied
jointly by the Fairbank lard refinery and
the Rossiter stores, and wiped out dock
property OF the New York Central rail.
road from Fifty ninth to past Sixty fifth
streets. Henry Benning, a workman in
the FairbaDk refinery, was killed by a
jump from a third story window. Many
Others were injured by jumping, but in
the great confusion attending the conia-
grafton names and the extent of injuries Of
but very few were obtained. Rumors
we're gife all the evening that a number
of wOrkmen had been caught and burned
in the refinery, but it has been impossible
TO verify them.
, 1889-04-20
Bribery INVESTIGATIONS.

ST. PAUL, April l9.-At various times
during the present session of the legisla-
lure there have been rumors of bribery.
An investigation committee was appointed
by each house but the proceedings did not
develop anything especially sensational
To-day the statement is made that war.
rants will soon be issued for thirteen per.
sons, the names of whom are withheld,
Tor bribery and corruption. These are not
all members
, 1889-04-20
Presidential Appointments.

WASHINGTON, April l9.-The prcsi
dent made the following appointments to-
dav: Scion w. Stocking, New York,
examiner in chief in the patent office;
Harrison Kelley, Jacksonville, Ore, re-
ceiver of public monies at Drewsey. Ore. ;
James r. Hayden. Olympia, w. r.,
receiver of public monies at Seattle, W.
T.; Jay b. Huntington of Oregon. regis
ter of the land Office at Drewsey, Ore.
, 1889-04-20

Louisville, KY, April ia pas
senger train on the Short line from Gin
cinnati was run into by n local freight
near Glencoe this morning. The engine
of the passenger train met with an acct
dent and stopped for repairs, and was
lust starting up when a freight dashed
around a curve and crashed int the
sleeper. Eight persons were hurt. none
dangerously
, 1889-04-20
Engagement Between MarshaIs and


WICHITA, Kan. April l9.-The daily
Eagles special from Purcell says: The
chief deputy marshal at that place with a
posse has all the afternoon been engaged
in hunting boomers in Oklahoma D
site that city. They returned this after
noon with one party and have now cor
rallied in the woods and ravines 4 party of
three hundred. Intelligence has also been
received there that an engagement took
place been a party of boomers and depu-
ties, in which several persons were
wounded. The boomers, who were most.
" Texans, it is said. were attacked in a
barricade of logs and stones by deputies
and commenced firing. The volleys were
returned with spirit Tor some time. but
the boomers surrendered alter some had
been wounded.
Later news from the scene gives the re.
suit OF the fight as follows:
Seven boomers severely wounded, one
deputy slightly hurt, and thirty prisoners
who were taken to prison, FIVE miles south
of Purcell.
, 1889-04-20
The only Chance for Their safety.

NEW York, April I9.-All steamers
which could have been in the neiphbor.
hood Of the wrecked steamer Daumarck
have arrived but no udings of those on
board received. The only hope is that
they were picked up by a sailing vessel
and taken probably to the Azores.
, 1889-04-20
Land Officers Ready for Business.

Caldwell, Kan, April leland
Register DIllie returned last night from
Guthrie. He says the roof is on his land
Office and it will be ready for occupation
to-night. The land officers, both at King
Fisher and at Guthrie, held a consultation
last night and gave out official notice as to
the ann in which application for claims
should be filed. Two hundred land filings
per day will be the limit of each Office.
, 1889-04-20

CHICAGO, April I9.-George w. Kidd,
wholesale liquor dealer of New York, and
many times n millionaire, has started in
10 down the whisky trust. He has Just
let a contract for 5000 barrels to a distil
lery at LaSalle, Ill, as a beginning.
, 1889-04-20
ADVICE TO

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums. allays
the pain. cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrhea. Twenty-Five cents
a bottle.
, 1889-04-20

CHIoAGo, April Observation-Disclosures
steadler; receipts. 1000; beeves, 81. 25(9
4, IS; steers, SO. 25(64. 10; stockers and
feeders, 50. 4O(@3. 60; Texas steers, So. 90
(63.SO
Sheep-Receipts. 6,0O0; market
steady; natives, SO. 40; Western
corn fed, "a 00(@5.25; Texans, 81 SOFA
4 90.
, 1889-04-20
A HUGE LANDSLIDE
Hurls a D. & R. G. Engine to
the Bottom of Black
Canyon.
Millionaire Kidd's Attempt to
Down the Whisky Trust.
One More Chance for the Pas
sengers of the Inflated
Danmark.
Locomotive struck by a Landslide.

MoNTRosE, Col, April l9.-The en-.
CINE of the Salt Lake express while pass
lug through Black canyon last night, at IL
o'clock. was struck by a landslide and
thrown down u thirty foot embankment
into the river. Engineer Ryan was seri-
ousIy injured and Fireman North killed.
No others are injured.
, 1889-04-20

job Printing neatly executed at the
Leader Job Printing Rooms.
, 1889-04-20

Fresh Strawberry Shortcake every day
at the Saddle Rock.
, 1889-04-20

Fresh Strawberries received daily at the
Saddle Rock.
, 1889-04-20

AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville 5, Kansas City 7.
AT BALTIMORE.
First game-Baltimore IS, Columbus S.
Second game-Baltimore IL. Columbus O.
AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati 3. st. Louis 4.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Athletics s. Brooklyn 9.