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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
A Million Involved.

CHICAGO, November CIT is now said
that the amount involved in the alleged
fraudulent transactions of Fredericksen &
Co., in connection with which their cashier
Bidgood, was arrested, will re- ch $1,OOO,-
600.
The charge is based on alleged crooked
transactions in giving mortgages on land to
which the Fredericksens had no title. These
mortgages are SAID to have been pledged as
security for loans.
Fredericksen d Co. have been doing q
large business in western railroad lands,
selling for the most part small tracts of
forty or fifty acres on the installmeut plan,
poor people who wished to invest their earn
inRs in farms. After certain number of
payments had been made Frederlcksen gave
q deed, a mortgage on the land being taken
for the unpaid ortion of the purchase
money. These mortgages, it is alleged,
we're given as collateral for loans or sold
outright throughout the west.
T. 6. Cowie represents the Interests here
of Ex-Governor Price, of Wisconsin. who
was victimized to the extent of $4,000.
''The charge me make" said Mr.. Cowie, rs
that Fredericksen, Bidgood and D. G. NJ.
Fredericksen were all concerned in the con-
spiracy. They got up fraudulent mort
cages, went out on the street and gave men
talists with the mortgages and raised mt ney
Mime sofa, Dakota and other parts of the
northwest. There are hundreds of working
people in Chicago who paid in their ear
nings to the Fredericksens, thinking they
were buying land, and now find their deeds
worthless.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
STOCK AND FARM.

Jewell City Republican: B. b. North
of this county marketed at Chicago
this month 290 head of cattle which
brought him $4,000 in cash.
Jewell City Republican: Will Dun
ham has lost three head of horses by
running in the stalks. Nearly every
body is losing cattle that run in the
fields.
Topeka Journal: w. w. Porter
shipped trotting FLY to J. W. Steck-
els, of New York, for which he was
paid $4,000. The mare is very fast and
promises to give Axtel lively chase.
Holton Signal: George Pope, of
Circleville, has the misfortune to be
losing his hogs with the cholera. He
has lost over forty in less than two
weeks, and they are still dying. This
looks discouraging.
Newton Journal: r. w. Crandall is
very enthusiastic fish culturist and
has spent great deal Of time and
money in experimenting with German
carp Al Ills ponu Oh Ills ldrn nortH ol
the city. He is well pleased with his
efforts, and now has upwards of $4,000
small fish, besides great number of
large ones from two to three years old,
which average three and four pounds
each.
Wilson Echo: It is impossible to tell
when the farmers of this country will
get through with their work, as yet
there is but comparatively little corn
husked, and great amount of thresh-
ing is still undone. The present out
look is that the working classes of this
country will have all to do they can
get through with until spring work
should be commenced.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
Naval Affairs,

WASHINGTON, D. c., December 4.-Secre-
tary Tracy, in his report, makes it perfectly
clear that the nation cannot afford to cease
naval construction until the United States
is on a footing for ocean protection and
warfare equal to any other country on the
globe. We can afford to limit our land
forces to the smallest peace basis, but we
cannot neglect the defense of our great sea
coast cities. Neither should the nation fail
to be prepared for aggressive movements in
case Ct foreign complications.
The intimate relations that are being es-
tablished between the United States and
tee South American countries is not un-
likely to cause considerable friction in our
relations with European powers. If we are
in position to maintain our proper POSI-
ton on the seas we need have little fear of
war. If, on the contrary, it Is known that
our cities can be bombarded with lmpunlty.
an incentive will exist to impose humiliat-
ing conditions in case of differences In re-
gard to any International matter.
Secretary Tracy seems to have q very
comprehensive grasp of the situation in his
department of government. The great
length OF department reports makes It i'm
possible for the newspapers to handle re-
ports with any degree of satisfaction. The
secretary of the interior devotes 1877 pages
to his report. In ten pages he could give
the public all the salient points connected
with his department.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
KANSAS RAILROADS,

Great Bend Democrat: The Mo. p.
R. R. Co., paid over $4,000, the first
half of the Barton county taxes, this
week.
The Santa Fe will carry mineral pro-
ducts for exhibition in the mineral pal
ace at Pueblo, in lots of 100 pounds or
less, from points west of the Missouri
river to Pueblo free of charge. This
includes stone, granite, marble and coal.
Arkansas City Dispatch: A very
disastrous freight train wreck occurred
near the south line of Oklahoma on the
Santa Fe, delaying the north bound
express some five hours. A number of
box cars were smashed into kindling
wood in the wreck, but fortunately no
one was seriously injured.
Nickerson Argosy: Saturday, the
round house men were put on nine
hours work per day. They have been
working only eight hours per day for
some time, and they hail with delight
the extra hour, as it increases their pay
that much more per month. There is
probability that they will get another
hour soon and that the force will be in
creased.
Anthony Republican: Graders be-
gan work on the Omaha, Hutchinson
& Gulf line, between this CITY and
Harper. Every mile of the entire dis
lance was covered by contractor with
men and teams, and the work Is now
being pushed vigorously forward. All
arrangements for the immediate con-
struction of the line from Kingman to
the state line south of Anthony have
been made and the work must be done
to the latter point by the fifteenth of
January next. The distance from
Kingman to the state line is thirty
seven miles, so it will take sharp work
to earn the bonds voted in aid to the
road. But those connected with the
company state that the entire grade
from Kingman to Anthony will be done
the last of this month.
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The U. p. Goes to the Gulf.

BosToN, November 30.-The negotiations
between President Adams of the Union Pa
citc and the Denver, Texas, d Fort Worth
people, have resulted in agreements yet to
De IN the mat Of
Pacific, Denver d Gulf railway. which will
absorb the Fort Worth road and the Colo
RADIO lines of the Union Pacific except the
old South Park road. now known as the
Denver, Leadville, & Gunnison. The basis
of the new company will be on the same
Gnnsoi;da sn5Se oomnany TRs In 3o foc;fe
will put IN the Colorado Central, Denver,
Marshall d Boulder, Cheyenne & Northern,
ETC., but will issue no new securities and
assume no new obligations. The new COM
pany will operate about 1, 400 miles from
Cheyenne and Denver to the Gulf of Mex
leo.
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Boycottine Charity.

CHICAGO, December 2.-Henry d. Lloyd,
formerly on the editorial staff of the Chi
cago Tribune, furnished the following to
the Associated Press:
II have just received the following from
Spring Valley:
The Spring Valley Coal company, to pre-
pare people here to celebrate THANKSGIVING,
have refused employment upon re-opening
their mines to miners who, during the lock-
out just ended, took q leading part in the
distribution of food, clothing. and medicine
10 the sick and starving. This relief forced
the company to make terms twice a. good
As those first offered. although it did not
save the men from severe, r, duction. The
company has also decl ned to re-employ
officers of labor unions. As there il NO 9th
Ok industry in Spring Valley except that of
this coal company, this refusal to employ
banishes the members of the relief commit
tee and the leaders of the union from Spring
Valley. They are pennies. This action of
the company has 60 Intimldated miners that
they decline to receive relief for those who
are still in need. They are afraid that if
they are found distributing relief they will
also be told to leave. Relief will be needed,
but the union has been broken up and the
miner. do not dare form another relief
cOmmittee0
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sion. We have known Bradley for me-
teen years, and have been familiar With
John Martins pranks on the circuit for
twenty-eight years. The fracas makes
us laugh, and tempts US to go into
"reminiscences. Somebody ought to
write up the days in rthe early COS,
when John Martin, Aschie Williams,
lib Case, old Huggin A. NJ. Burns,
G. K. Gilchrist, Col E. II. Sanford, and
score of others used to tramp the
prairie grass up and down the Ksw val
ley, following courts. In those days
the people enjoyed circus every SIX
months. We had occasion to skin the
crowd once for their hoodlumism in
court. Years after, we were in search
of some historical data, and, going into
John Martins Office, we inquired, "John,
what was the first libel suit in Kansas? p
Il don't know" he replied, "but I can
tell you what ought to have BEEN"
swell, what?'' "John Martin vs. the
Junction City Union" he responded.
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WINDOWS Estimates.

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 4.-Secre-
tary Window transmitted to congress the
estimates for appropriations for the fiscal'
year ending June 80, Is I. He estimates
that the sum of $341, 42S, 81 will be needed
The estimates for 1880 were $323, 467, 1891
The appropriations for the present fiscal
year " -e 1923. 1886.
The estimates show an increase as COM,
pared With the appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year as follows:
Legislative, 81, $40: executive proper,
$16,S80; war departments, SS,443,447: navy
department. $2,096, 500; interior department..
81 269, 6O2; postoffice department., $685.
9O2; department. of agriculture, Sis, 392S
department of labor, $14, 10.
The estimates are less than the appropr1>
atoms in the following departments: De.
partment of state, 1886, PSI; treasury de-
partment, $3.50, 379; department of justice;
S15.3O2
The principal increase in the estimates is
for pensions and public works, the former
exceeding the appropriations for the pres
ent year by $500, 1916. and the latter ex1
ceeding the appropriations by 81, az.
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FIVE TO TEN MILLIONS
Boston Loses II Blocks and Many
Fine Buildings.

Boston Loses II Blocks and Many
Fine Buildings.
Boston, November 3O.-On the morning
of Thanksgiving day, the greatest fire Bos-
ton has experienced since 1872 started in the
same block that fire did, and the first alarm
was sent in from the same alarm box that
told of the starting of the 1872 fire. As near
as could be ascertalned now, eleven blocks
of buildings have been destroyed.
Help was asked for and came speedily
from all towns within fifty miles. All
branches of business suffered, but the shoe
and leather trade were the heaviest losers,
there being thirty-eight firms in lines con-
uected with the business who have been
burned.
Among the buildings destroyed are at
least twenty of the finest buildings in Bos-
ton.
No lives are known to have been lost,
though there are apprehensions.
The seyenty-nine insurance companies
Known to be interested carry an aggregate
insurance of $1,000, 600 on the burned prop
erty.
The burned district begins at Columbia
westward along Bedford street to Chauncey
street on the west. On the south side of
Bedford street the fire consumed the entire
block bounded by Bedford, Kingston. Fs-
sex, and Columbia streets; westward of this
the entire block bounded by Bedford, King
ston, and Chauncey street and Rowe place.
and westward of this the bulldogs on
Chauncey street from Bedford to Exeter
place. North of Bedford street it consumed
the buildings on both the north and east
and northwest corners of Bedford and
Kingston streets and damaged the block at
the corner of Bedford and Chauncey. Sew
eral iremen and some others were seriously
injured.
The origin of the fire is not definitely
known, but it is generally attributed to the
electric wires.
The most conservative estimate of the
loss at this hour is S., COG, 600.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 30.-The
international American congress conference
is beginning to feel the effects of the miscon-
struction placed by the governors of several
states upon the law authorizing the appoint
ment of delegates to the conference to repre-
sent the United States. Under the law the
president nominated and the senate con-
firmed the ten delegates authorized to be
appointed. 1t appears, however, that the
governors of several states were under the
impression that they we're empowered to
select delegates. Some time ago the state
department became aware of this misappre-
hension through the receipt of letters from
the persons who had been duly accredited as
delegates by the state authorities. asking
when the conference would meet, what their
duties were to be. and generally for Instruc-
tions. To such of these persons as addressed
the department in this way, reply was made
informing them of the lack of authority for
their appointment and acquainting them
with the true state of affairs. The depart
ment, however, evidently failed to reach all
of the persons interested, for from day to
day since the conference began it's session,
gentlemen have been calling at the head
quarters and presenting credentials and let
u6TS VI appointment uldut Oub Dy uuC gov.
errors of states. The chief executive of the
state of South Dakota made haste to appoint
a delegate who got here in advance of sew
eral others from older states in the Union.
When the conference was in session Mon
day, an old gentleman walked into the
room, seated himself at the conference
table, and for three hours sat listening in
tently to the mixture of Spanish and Eng
lish which fell from the lips of the delegates
who were discussing the rules. When he
from a western state, and evidently expected
to be present at the next session, as he was
careful to inquire when that would take
place.
The last conner dropped into the head
quarters yesterday, and. as he was deaf, the
officer in charge was at some trouble to sat-
isfy HIM that he was not, as he supposed, an
authorized delegate to the conference.
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Natural Gas Explosion.

DAYTON, O., November 29.-Great crowds
of people surrounded the ruins of the resi-
dence of Mr.. Hawthorne that was wrecked
BY natural gas explosion. The cause of
the catastrophe may never be known: if it
was a leak, whether it was in the house or
in the street, as the street mains were
smashed and tipped up ana blown in all
localities over the property. There were
eight people in the hous., w. S. Hawthorne.
and mother. All were sutfocated and
bruised. Willie, aged 10, was thrown fifty
feet away and was picked up lifeless. The
eighteen months old baby revived soon
after it was rescued. The others are all In
a precarious condition, with the chances
against w. S. Hawthorne's recovery.
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The Canadian Flag.

OTTAWA, ONT. December Am idea Of
how strongly pubic feeling is running IN
the direction of Canadian Independence In
the maratime prov noes of the Dominion
may be gathered from the following c-ltl-
cism of the Eastman Chronicle, an influen-
tial newspaper pu lished in Nova Scotia. ON
the proposal to hoist the Canadian flag on
all public buildings IN Canada. The Chron-
ice says:
What good is the Canadian flag? 1t is
not recognized by any nation on earth. 1t
has no place among the flags of the nations
of the world, and would be no more protec-
ton to man than one of printed cotton.
Why, then. should our children he taught to
place confidence in a flag that can give
them no protectian when they leave their
homes? If Canada is am titious of having
a flag worth a bau ne, let her strike out for
herself among the nations of the world,
Until she has courag, to do so. for goodi
ness sake let up on the flag business"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
Safe Robbery,

Fort WORTH, TEX, December lit has
been made public here that last Monday
mig someone having key to the door ard
the combination of the safe in the office OF
the Paci C Express company, at the Union
depot. entered the Office, opened the safes
took therefrom So, 800. and departed without
moi estation.
The mater is as mu of mystery as the
recent bank burglary here, when St, 600 was
taken, and there is no more clue to this than
the other deed.
Only three persons were supposed to know,
the combination of the safe, and they arc
all trusted employees of the company.
The negro watchman states that some;
time dur .ng the night he thought he heard,
someone CD n the do )r and enter the Office,
and that he made a search and could find
no one in the office. ext morning the
money was missing, and that is all that
seems to be known a; out the affair.
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Sc9A banks from los on accounS Of circu-
iaocn II the present premium on United
States bonds u maintained.
In submitting this recommendation the
comptroller states that he has been largely
mnuenced By the increased accessions to
the system from western and southern states
ana the evidence daily accumulating that 1t
Ii not only adapted to the wants of the vast
area n0w inadequately supplied with bank
ing facilities. but that its adoption has be-
come more fully appreciated, it being of
that the abundant capital of the older states
be utilized, and through no other agency
can this be 90 effectively Accomplished.
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Dun's Weekly Report.
NEW YORK, December 2.-R. G. Dun Il

NEW YORK, December 2.-R. G. Dun d
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Two heavy fires, with aggregate losses es-
timated at s15, 90 900 or more, may have an
influence upon several branches of trade
which cannot yet be estimated. IL other
respects, the situation is quite encouraging,
as 1t has been for some weeks past. ~ he
volume OF business is unsurpassed, and the
pressure In money markets, though not
ended here, has seme1 to be abating else
where. The reports from other cities are
without exception favorable. on the whole:
Trade at Boston. prior to Thursday had
been improving. Money was tight, but with
bright prospects of ease after ten days.
Western cities without exception find their
traae good. though grain is moving very
slowly at Milwaukee and mud weather af-
fects sales of winter clothing.
Money is fairly active, but nowhere strin-
gent, western points reporting, and the ac-
counts regarding collections are better than
usual. Stock receipts at Kansas City are
lighter, but shipments of live hogs to Mex
leo, lately stopped by b gh tariff, are re-
sumed.
Speculative markets have not been very
active.
Wheat has declined nearly 1 cent and
corn about cent. Cotton is unchanged.
Coffee has not novel, Iut oil has dropped
nearly cents. Pork products ar, little
lower and sugar is stronger in tone.
"A great Dom in iron abroad, with spec
ulative excitement rarely witness d, causes
some apprehension, because experience
teaches US that such rare and excited move
ments are usually followed by ugly reac-
tions.
The treasury has paid out during last
week 81, zoe, 0o0 more than it has taken in.
The business failures number 249, as
comrared with total of 227 last week and
265 the week previous. For the correspond
ing week of last year the figures wer, 232.
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KANSAS CHURCHES.

Belleville Press: The new Christian
church is rapidly nearing completion,
and before Christmas that society will
have an elegant and commodious place
of worship.
Stockton News: Last Sunday was
communion day at the Congregational
church, and twelve persons were taken
into membership, about half of whom
united by letter.
Ness City Sentinel: The business
men of the city have agreed to close
their business houses at p. m. during
the remainder of the revival meetings
which are now in progress in the city.
Washington Republican: The re-
vival meeting at the NJ. E. church is
progressing finely. Meetings are be-
ing held in the afternoon and evening.
Rev. Hoopingarner, who is assisting
the pastor, is quite young man, but
has had very much success in evangel-
istic work.
Ho1ie Sentinel: The religious meet
ings which have been IN progress at
the church building for the past two or
three weeks under the charge of Rev.
Aura Smith, of Shelbina, Missouri, un-
der the auspices of the Methodist church
Society, have been very successful SC
far and continue to grow in Interest
with each meeting. Mr.. Smith is a
hard and earnest worker, and his effote
have been the means of accomplishing
much good. Quite large number Of
persons have sought religion.
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National Banks.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. November a.-In the
opinion of the comptroller. the laws govern
ing national banks should be amended a.
to produce the following notifications:
First-The minimum deposit of bonds to
secure circulation should be fixed at 10 PEI
cent of capital in respect to associations
having q capital of 500, 900 or less, and for
all banks having greater capital mini
mum deposit of $4,000 in bonds should be
required.
Second-Circulation should be issued to
the par value of the bonds deposited.
Third-Semi-annual duty ON circulation
should be 90 regulated as to equal one
fourth on per cent. per annum.
It is held that these changes in the Law
would do little mere than to save tho NJ
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A Pitiful Sight.

LYNN, MASS, November 29.-In proper
ton to its area and population this city suf-
fered a greater loss by fire than any other
city in Massachusetts during the present
century. In extent of territory the burnt
district in Lynn is about the same as that
of Boston in 1872 and the loss was relatively
the same. It was a pitiful sight here to
witness the breaking up of homes and the
frantic efforts of occupants to save bouse-
hold treasures and other effects, most of
which were doomed to destruction because
in many instances it was impossible to Sc
cure teams to remove them.
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Train Robbers CAPTURED.

GAINESVILLE, Tex, December 4.-Ci.y
Marshal Honeycutt, who for the past few
days, IN company with Deputy Heck
Thomas and other United States marshals,
has been operating in the Indian Territory
in search of the Santa Fe train robbers, re-
turned to the city and relates the capture of
three more of the outlaws in Oklahoma
City. The marshal received information to
the effect that portion of the gang had
taken up temporary headquarters in Okla,
homa City, and they raided the town and
arrested Bob Donnell, c. M. Lee and the
'Iron Called Kid"