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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON. April &5.-Ex-Governor
| William Stone, Of Iowa, has been appoint
ed assistant commissioner of the general
land Office.
Frank NJ. Smith, of Maryland, for years
transfer clerk at the Baltimore postoffice,
has been appointed superintendent OF
mails at the same Office, vice John Y.
Glegner resigned.
S. G. Sullivan, of Ohio, for twenty years
an employe of the postal service. and for
of the mails at Cincinnati. has been rein
stated, vice w. H. knight, resigned.
Mr.. Smith and Mr. Sullivan were re-
moved during the last administration.
John A. Chapman. of Illinois, has been
appointed chief of the division of in-pec-
ton in the Office of the second assistant
postmaster general, vice a. w. Gibson, re-
signed.
Edward G. Carlin. of Pennsylvania, has
been appointed assistant superintendent of
railway mail service.
l. L. Terry was today appointed
superintendent of mails at Nashville,
Tenn.
W. B. Cooley, of Pennsylvania. for a
number OF years chief clerk :. in the money
order bureau postofice depart
clerk of the postoffice de-
partment, vice Joseph Roy, resigned. Mr..
Cooley was educated at Lafayette COL
lege, Pennsylvania, and served for num-
Der of years as assistant postmaster at
Easton, Ha. He is regarded as one of the
most efficient clerks in the posuoffice de-
partmeut.
The president today appointed Willis
Sweet, OF Idaho territory to be attorney
of the United States for the territory Of
Idaho.
James II. Wardle, of New York, has
been appointed chief OF division to the
census office Mr.. Wardle occupied a su-
coordinate position under Census Commits
siouer Walker
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| lions that lack of shelter, water and food
Impose upon them. To these distresses
are added the Inisfortunes of incorporate
heat and the absence Of the means of
! flight.
When the writer reached Willow Springs
! from Diamond Bar ranch he learned that
| neither the north nor the south bound pas
sanger trains had been heard from.
An hour of waiting passed, wnen
train of twenty cattle cars
came. up from the south. The cars
were locked but upon the roofs, the buffers
and the coal on the tender, on the pilot
and gangways of the locomotive and
packed N and upon the caboose was a
crowd OF men. The train from Guthrie
had started with its strange load at 6 in
the evening 1t was useless to attempt to
| travel: The people were fleeing practi-
caliy for their lives. They had added to
long periods of privation their suffering of
seventeen hours without food or protection
from the cold. No train had passed them
and none was in sight behind. They had
left a bowling mob in Guthrie baffled in It's
efforts to Join in the flight.
Ihe uSeieSsness of proceeding to Guthrie
was apparent, and the writer secured
footing for one foot and returned to
this point with the laggard train.
Since dark other freight trains have made
the elghty-hye miles from Guthrie IN from
six to fourteen hours. The cars are crowd
ed with fugitives and Arkansas City is as
crowded as it was before the descent
A terrible storm last night raised the
mlserles OF Guthrie to almost horror.
The wind came up as the sun sank and
hlled the air with a sitting, red alkali
dust that strews the plain. A deluge OF
rain followed and throughout the night
beat upon the thousands Of shelterless.
The railroad is unable to supply the de-
mand in the emergency, and is delivering
baggage and express too slow to be of use
to the unprotected
The people shout with JOY rs they alight
here and rush to the hydrants and eating
houses. Curses are heaped upon
the region and the government.
Marshals Needles and Jones are exc
Grated without stint for the theft of the
land and the railroad is denounced for
its feeble services Guthrie is without
form. The original streets have disap-
peared and new sections are being planned
every hour. Values have fallen to practi-
cally nothing, and those. who are not going
home, announce their intentions of moving
upon the Cherokee strip and report that
hundreds OF boomers IN wagons have al
ready done so. Scores of men surrendered
their claims in Guthrie without an effort
to preserve or dispose of them. The south
bound passenger arrived after a time
crowded with pilgrims for Guthrie. 1t is
impossible to predict what the next few
days will develope in Guthrie.
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NORTHERN PACIFIC MATTERS.

NEW YORK, April 25.-At the spec. al
meeting Of the Northern Pacific directors
today the resolution agreeing to the arDi-
tration contract for the control ana bar
monious operation OF the roads in he Pa
ciic Northwest was reScIIded. Tins ends
the scheme TO obtain a guarantee OF divi-
dend on Oregon Navigation stock from The
Northern Pacific Jointly with the Union
Pacific and throws the burden Oil the
Union Pacific.
The proposition to operate the NI,cOu-
stu Central on pc centags Of earDia@'
was discussed and three forms Of proposed
contracts were presented. Only one WIS
read. however, after which the board adj
journed TO meet again next Thursday
After adjournment Il was announced
that Braytou Ives. VINO is Que OF the most
active members of the Northern Pacific
board. had resigned bis Office q vice pre>i-
dent Of the Oregon TrauscoatineEtAi COM
pany TO take effect May /. This IS und r
stood 70 indicate that the relations Of the
old Northern Pacific directors with VII
lard have been severed and t D. expected
that the representatives Of the Oregon
transcOutineutal in the Northern Pacific
will be Withdrawn from the Northern Pa
cihc directory.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.

SIGNAL OFFICE. WICHITA. Kan, April
25.-The highest temperature was $50.
the lowest $50. and the mean GO. with
gentle east to fresh south winds; warmer,
generally clear weather; falling harome-
ter.
Maximum velocity of the wind: South,
16 miles per hour at D. m.
Reduced barometer at z a. m. ~ IA
inches; at D. M % Ss5 inches
Mean relative humidity AZ per cent.
Last year on April 25 the temperature
was: At Ia. m. So, at p. m. 20, mean
60: 4 degrees cooler than this year.
FRED l.. JOHNSON. Observer.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
April 25.-The indications for twenty-four
hours, commencing Friday. April 26
at a. m.
For Kansas and Missouri-Fair, fol-
lowed by local rains, lower temperature,
westerly winds.
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THE FIRST DEATH.
ALL MOVING NICELY

Special Correspondence to the Daily Eagle.
GUTHRIE, Ok, April 24-The light rain
last night caused considerable i>conven-
fence to the many homeless inha bitants of
the metropolis of Oklahoma. But that
disadvantage is more than counterbal-
anced by the cooling of the atmosphere
and the laying OF the dust. A large num-
Der Of people left yesterday A part of
them were sight-seers but majority were
parties who were disappointed in securing
corner lots in the business center of the
city. The influx is considerably greater
than the outgo, however, and the popula-
ton of the city is increasing. One hun
dred andininety-twoa acres have been desig-
mated by citizens meeting as town
site and nearly all the lots on this tract
have been claimed and their improvement
begun. Some are taken merely for specu-
lative purposes, but proportion who are
permanent Improvements are unusually
large for government town site.
The throng is hourly increased by the
addition of homesteaders who have come
to the land Office. Many wrapped them
selves in blankets and lay in front of the
land office all night III order to claim their
turn.
At II today over 200 are in line. At the
present rate of receiving filings not more
than fifty can be accommodated in the
next twenty -four hours. But there is
look of determination on tho faces of all
which indicates the march which moves
at the rate of one step every ten minutes,
until they reach the registers desk, The
line which moves on the land office to file
is however, the only thing that moves
slowly. An organization of city
government is rapidly assuming
shape. Several citizens meetings have
been held, of which Mr.. Conetantine, for
merly of Springfield, O.. has been the efli-
cient chairman. At one of these meetings
committee of fifteen was appointed to
organize provisional government and at
tend to plating the lots and blocks. This
committee elected S. Anderson, of Bona
parte, a., city marshal, and e. NJ. Clarke,
of McPherso Kan, police judge. Their
action has been endorsed without a dis
senting voice. Good nature prevails every
where. Disputes arising over disputes for
lots are amicably settled or await adjudi-
cation by law. The prophecies that the
rapid settlement of Oklahoma would re-
suit in conflicts and disorder seem to be
entirely at Iault.
a party has come here to file on land
north of Oklahoma, in the Cherokee strip.
He says many are located further north
than he is.
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AN OPTIONAL REhE BILL

LANSING, Mich. April 25-The beef in
spection bill as passed by the house today
provides that the council Of any city or
village may appoint an Inspector. No
beef is to be exported for sale
that has not been inspected In Michigan
within fOrty-eight hours from the time IL
was slaughtered aud certified as healthy.
The penalty for violation is from s25 To
500 or Imprisonment thirty days. II Is
practically beef local option bill aud To-
calties desiring Chicago dressed beef can
have it. Should the bill become lav 10
viii furnish the basis for innumerab.e
municipal contests
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FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
The New York World of February 9th

| The New York World or teDruary 9TH,
says;
| 'sThe question as to how much of what
| they pretend to know doctors really know
| is very interesting one.
| ''They possess exec ptionally great facili-
ties for humbugging, and the presump-
! ton is that they are not proof in most
cases, at all times at least, against tempta-
| tion to make use of them. Their pofes-
sion comes as near being an esoteric one as
| any that is acknowledged TO be respecta-
BILE. But the revelation as TO their views
| in the Robinson arsenlcal poisoning cases
| in Boston is startling.
There were five deaths from the
| drug, and the doctors in their
certificates attributed them re-
specially to pneumonia typhoid
| fever, meningitis, bowel disease and Bright S
disease of the kidneys. The truth would
| never have been known but for suspicious
with which the doctors had nothing TO do.
There is food here for refection-and for
| doctors"
by the startling ignorance shown by the
attending physicians IN the Somerville
Cases.
1t can be aotly said that human life is
| too often sacrificed to the ignorance and
blgotry of the profession.
100 often IL happens that fatal results
| follow an improper course of treatment
| the physical treats the patient for con-
sumption, general debility or for nervous
disorders, whilst the real disease, which is
slowly destroying the kidneys and filing
the system with poison quite as deadly
| as ar.enic, is altogether overlooked or does
not attract attention until too late.
Physicians too often treat the symptoms
of disease Instead of the disease itself
1t Is well established that four-fifths of
the ordinary ills which beset humanity
are the results of disease in the kidneys
which will yield to the curative properties
of Warmers Safe Cnre if timely used, and
to it alone. What is apparently disease
In the other organs is mere ofttimes a
mere symptom of kidney disease, which
should be quickly eradicated by Warmers
Safe Cure before it secures too firm hold
on those organs.
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It Still Goes On and Everything Goes
GREAT REDUCTION SALE
OF Boots. Shoes Slippers
LEWIS & Co.,
IN. A. LEWIS, Manager, 10 N. Main Street.
A SUICIDE CLUB.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, April 24.-The
Bridgeport Farmer in its issue of today
emphatically states that John Kienzy,
who committed suicide in this city on
Monday, was member of the Suicide
club which was organized in Bridgeport
about three years ago. There were five
asserting individuals present at the time
the proposition to form such peculiar
band was preached, aud the membership
never increased. The members agreed,
half jokingly and half earnestly, that
some one of them should commit sui
clue on each succeeding year until all were
gone. The members further agreed that
the club should hold meetings annually
and at these meetings they should decide
by ballot, individual inclination or other
wise, which member was next 20 shuttle
off the mortal coil. Friends of these evi-
IDENTIFY insane men say that at the time the
Suicide club was organized the members
were not intoxicated and none of them had
shown any sign of being unbalanced. Il
is known that the club held several meet
ings since it was organized but the mem
bers always refuse to diyulge what bust
ness was transacted at their conclave.
Henry Jansen, the president of the
Suicide club. who hept "A saloon on Gold
street. was the first member TO make way
with himself. He put himself out of the
world by his own hands about two years
ago.
The next member to commit suicide was
William Nickel, the sign painter. who cut
his throat. Whether he did this of his
own impulse or because his death had
been decreed in council, the other mem
bers refused to say.
At this juncture the friends of the sur
viving members began to look upon the
matter as something very serious, and
urged them to give up their mad scheme.
Their pleadings were received cOldly, how
ever. by two of the surviving mem bers, but
third a well known German resident Of
West Stratford, acceded to the wishes OF
his friends and rendered his resi- gnatlon to
the society. The other two mem bers ctlIc2
him coward, and that he resigned be
cause he felt conf lent that he would be
the next membcr ste ted TO die. " hen
the club WAS organized John kienZy, who
committed suicide Monday. was elected
vice president, and upon President Jensen :
death klenZy assumed the presidency Of
club and neld it until the time of his death.
There is left only one member of the orig
inal combination outside Of the one who "a
signed, and he is in business in Bridge
port Friends Of John Kienzy say that sui
cidal incliuations have been apparent from
from hiss talk and actions for the past two
years. and that on numerous occasions bee
had threatened 70 Kill both his wife ana
himself. Mrs. Kienzy, however, instead Of
becoming alarmed and deserving him, bu-
mored his whim in every instance and
thus probably delayed the commission Of
the act.
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CHURCH CIRCLES SURPRISED.
Charges Of Shop-Lifting Preferred Agains
Rev Kirkham's Wife, Chicago.

CHICAGO, April pa sensation was
caused in church circles in this city this
morning by the publication Of the fact
that minister's wife had been arrested
on a charge of shop lifting. The case came
I'D in the armory police court this morn
ing. The accused is Mrs. Jennie kirkham,
the wife of the Rev. f. VI Kirkham, editor
Of the Christian Oracle and pastor Of the
Christian church At Twenty-seveuth and
Indiana avenue. Rev. Mr.. Kirkham is a
well known Iowa divine who came 10 CHI
cago only few months ago Mrs. Kirk
ham is sister of Gen. Drake OF Des Moines
the founder of the Drake UNIVERSITY
The manager Of the store, In which she
was arrested, stated 70 the magistrate that
himself and another person had seen the
woman stealing articles IL the store: that
when she was arrested and
searched, articles 10 the Fal1e
OF SIS or so were found con
cealed about her person, that she admitted
her guilt to the policeman who arrested
her: that she offered 20 pay sum more
than the goods were worth to get oat
o. il.
Mrs Kirkhan's attorney stated that the
things were put into Mrs kirkhau1s
pockets by a domestic whom she had
hired. and that she supposed that il was
all right, although the things were passed
10 her without having been wraDt up.
The employes Of the store declare that
there was no girl with her.
After the hearing had been postponed 8
female prisoner in the srraory who occu-
oi ed the same cell with Mrs hfrkham
stated that the latter e8deavcred 10 bTs oe
her 20 say that she had stolen the things
and bad given them 10 Mrs. hirkhag1.
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CHARGED WITH ENLIGHTENMENT.

Special dispatch TO the daily Eagle.
KIowA, Kan, April 81. NJ. Spencer,
dealer IN buggies and farm implements
was arrested here yesterday at the instance
of Parlin & Orendorff Co. of st. Joseph
Mo-, on a charge of embezzlement. This
morning while endeavoring to fill his bond
he gave Deputy Sheriff Harry Stevens the
slip and rode into the territory. Officers
are in pursuit. Spencer was lately closed
under attachments.
The Oklahoma pilgrims are beginning to
return, satisfied to remain with the fertile
lands of Barber county. Other disappointed
boomers will find Kiowa the best point on
the border at which to wait for the opening
of the Cherokee strip.
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LIE STRIKE UNCHANGED

ST. PAUL, April 2j-Today the strike
situation in this city is unchanged. The
street ears ars run on schedule time with
policeman on the rear platform of each
The one evidence of the strike is the APP
pearance Of the opposition line Of buses
under the management % the strikers
which are very literally patronized. New
IN the employ Of the company are being
paid more than the men whose places they
took
he eX-employes Of the Minnea polls
street Hallway company are organizing "A
system 10 compete with strikers
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wow.N's FoREles MISSIONARIES.

PHILADELPHIA. April Z5.-At the nine-
tenth annual assembly q :As Woman :
Foreign Missionary society Of the PrsbS-
terrain church this morning p paper was
rad hy Mss c. c. Psykias, az tssis city. CT
''MarTIage AID Mission 8ofk-" She sssd
thar Arguments oouId - broaxat forward
OF bo.a sides as % whether N woufd -
letter for fnlss5ossr5ss 70 20 GOT rnxxrssss
u unmarried.
osEcers wers nominated. the ssectson 70
take place Nay :. sGG ltAshsngtoD. D. c.
was selected s. gtbs place q rsesfsag u.
April. i@e
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KANSAS MATTERS AT THE CAPITA

NANSaS MA ! Ems Al f7E CGPl Al.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The following
changes in fourth-class postmasters We're
made in Kansas:
Brooks, Wilson county, Oxley johnson,
vice J. Brown, not commissioned; Colony,
Anderson county, w. w. Wilson. vice NJ
S. Suringley, resigned; Cummings, Atch-
ison county, Robert kennish, vice J. N
Cline, removed; Elk City. Montgomery
county, J. p. Swartzell, vice I. w. Dough-
erty. removed; Manteuo. Ness county,
Walter Stull, vice +. j. FraSier, removed:
Marena, Hodgeman county, Andrew
Shook, vice A. Heimer. removed; Newport,
Chautauqua county, w. a. Wilson. vice
q. W. Swark, not commissioned; Redfield,
Bourbon county, l.. B. Welch, vice 5. A.
Taggart, resigned; Robinson, Brown
county, Mrs. Lizzie Campbell. vice 7. J.
Pomeroy, resigned.
The secretary of the interior has reversed
the decision of the commissioner of the
general land office rejecting the applica-
ton of Edwin Edwards to change his
homestead entry at the kirwin Kan land
district and the change is allowed The
secretary has approved the decision of the
commissioner in the case of J. y. Eve
against A. Z. Slower, on appeal by the lat
ter from the ruling rejecting his applica-
ton to make homestead entry for certain
lands at the Wakeeny (kan.) land dis
trict.
Pensions were granted as follows today:
In kansas-To James Hess, Jesse VIII
son. Samuel r. Worrick, John Anderson.
Michael c. Stoner, William VI. Love, Da
vid c. MCGEE, Leads Michaels, Alvin p.
Batty, John Float, Shep Richardson and
George HOPKINS
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CHAOS AND PENURIA.
Wonderfully Constructed Tales Of Dire
Neoessity at Guthrie.

ARKANSAS CITY, April 25.-Chaos reigns
not only in Oklahoma but in the entire
tributary country. The railroad is pros
trated. Communications are entirely cut
of. The Western Uuion, with its rush of
train dispatching, would not touch a mes
sage OF any other character in the terri
tory, though the earth swallowed town
site. Guthrie's back seems broken and
there IS furious stampede to get out
People there are wild from the Gepriya-
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3 MolNEs RlVEa LAao TRoUelEs

WATEsLOo. Ia, Aprg 5.-Tbs Des
Noines river lard troubles have ssso med $
Few phase. Is hen tie settlers TiEstAa The
lasds from which tasY ssrs svlctea and
put IA he croDs yrocestinEs 1srs con-
nsencea aga.ua: them fo< coztrups of
court They were arrested, sssYesi exam
iuatlon sud gave bga1s 3hsy thea con-
isBueG the work - putting Ia crofzs. un-
rniUdfzi q the ccuTfs. -a.ts have no-~
h>zen t@sgn against fissfa Tor xlllful tres
pazs, add warrants sssass for william
>paink8Esl sho WAS tue leader ia ;he
crop-p!aatiug fsovsrusnt, and Tor several
o;teTs Adv3ces from " st<ssr countY o.
day state t8at al he FecaIe.zrzut sitter.
VIII - ssTyrd = . similar rzAaaer.
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MhpRIrn

BALTIMORE. April 25.-Lieutenant Giles
b. Harbor. United States navy, wa mar
ried to Miss Jean Netfie Thurxton Man
ming at O'Clock this evening az the resi-
cence OF the brides mother. The groom.
who H. "A son ct Joseph Is. Harder. Of
youngstown, . j. at present stationed At
Annapolis. lie was member % the
jeanette relief expedition. The bride IS a
daughter Of D. late Charles T. Manning,
probably the most prominent engineer Of
LIS time
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MADE CHAIRMAN OF THE TRANS
MISSOURI

DENVER, April 25.-William Ureson Fin
ley general freight agent of the Denver
Trinidad & Galveston road, has been ap-
pointed and accepted the Craftsmanship OF
the new Trans-Missour1 Railway associa-
ton. Mr.. Finley leaves for Kansas City.
the headquarters of the association. on
Saturday and VIII enter upon his new du-
ties Nav l.
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METZKER AND CURTIS.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 25-The Republi-
can primaries to elect delegates to the
congressional convention were held today
There were four tickets in the field, but
the contest was between Charles Curtis
and d. c. Metzker. The city gave Metzker
three wards and Curtis two, and the
county so far as heard from gives each
thirty-three delegates. There VIII proba-
bly, be a close contest in the convention.
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a DISTINGUISHED GATHERING

NEW YORK, April 2a.-In his new resi-
dence on Fifty-fourth street, Hon. Chaun-
cey VI. Depew tonight dined Hon. White
law Reid, minister 10 France. Besides the
guest of honor there were present Charles
\. Dana, General w. T. Sherman, j J.
Aston, ID. o. Mills, w. NJ. Evarts, Vice
President Morton. Frank Hiscock, lie
c. Platt, Elliott f. Shepard, Major J. NJ
BundS, Stephen b. Elkins, Clarence a.
Steward Ward McAllister. c. y. Bliss.
Colonel > V. Il. Cruger, w. w. Astor,
Sidney Webster, Allen Thorndyke Rice,
John y. Cockerill. W. J. Arkell, Charles
\, Lanier and Russell Harrison.
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AGAINST THE UNION PACIFIC.

ABILENE, Kan, April 25,-The final de-
cision on a hearing by the state board of
railroad commissioners compelling the
Union Pacific to switch from elevators and
mills on its lines to the Santa Fe track at
this place, is received with satisfaction by
business men. The cause has been twice
appealed, and bitterly fought by the I'm
ion Pacific, which loses considerable traf-
fic here. The connecting switch put down
by the boards order months ago will now
be used