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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-22
A Secret Session of an Indian LegisIa 'ure.

GAINESVILLE, TEX, February BIT has
just been learned that by call of Governor
Byrd the Chickasaw legislature was con-
vened IN extra session some days ago. The
meetings have been extremely secret, and
the fact that the legislature was in session
at all became known only to-day. The OBJ
ject of the meeting is to reorganize the
Chickasaw mil tia in such a manner as to
insure the enforcement of the tribal laws
upon on-cItizens-those who occupy the
Chickasaw lands on payment of permit
or occupation tax. The fear that the United
States government would not otter the In
dams sufficient support in enforcing the
laws is the cause of this action.
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AnInportant Kansas Indu,try.

TOPEKA, KAN, February 14.-1he report
of the Kansas commissioner of abor con-
tains the following statements:
Two hundred and twenty-four mills with
a capital of Sc, 4O1 ,552 make reports. These
mills use 1881 sets of rolls and 261 pair of
buhrs in the manufacture of -four. Only
Is 80 per cent. of the pro 1uct was ground
by tie bu rs, and tn chiefly in the fo1m
of C IN meal The comm sssoner T CARDS
buhr our as a thing of the past, SO far as
Kansas IS concerned. From this report we
learn that Kan ;as has many first class THil S
fu ly e lui. p with a | the latest Inventors
IL tie way of mac inery, and more are IN
process of const uction. One mill reports
an invested capital OF $165, 900, eight range
from 100000 TO Sl50,0)O, nine from $751;
Coz to 100000. seven from $4,000 to $751;
900, fifiy-two from S25,00O to $4,000, and
the rest represent sma er amounts. The
business of tour making is increasing in
tn larger cit es of the state and Kansas
-four already has a we'll established Teputa-
ton in Europe. Near y 2,0O1,O0) barr Is
were produced during the year ending June
80, 1889. The avera- e cost of grain was
about y cents, and some 5000, go bushels
was ground.
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Somewhat More Favorable.

New YORK, February 17.-R. 6. Dun d
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
The business outlook is some hat more
favorable. While a larg amount of money
has gone into the treasury, rates here are
moderate and the market easy. All lnte-
rior mar cts are also cas- er, while Kansas
City is firm at the usual rates, the demand
there is moderate.
Funds have been received from New
York and at all other points the market Is
compa' at.vely easy. heports as to the CO.
lections are satisfactory with lew exceptions:
Milwaukee notes 'only moderately good,
collections, Kansas City rather gu ct, and
Detroit slow from country towns.
No relief appears in the coal business.
and the February tonnage has been reduced
to 1900, COO, the output IN January ha ing
cen $4,000 tons below that of last year.
The textile industries report more hope
full run. Cotton manu- 'acturers have IN
creased their taking of cotton largely.
There is better demand for woolen goods
also; manufacturers pursue conservative
course. The markets have not tended up
ward during the past " Eek. In wheat there
has been decline of - cents, and in corn
a decline of %, the current price even at
the seaboard being only 35ss cents. Oats
are also e cents lower, and pork products
unchanged, as is oil with small transac-
tlons.
The exports of wheat and -four have fallen
much below those of the same time last
year, while corn exports continue large.
For the past week the treasury has taken in
four million more cash than it has paid out,
and while its disbursements for pensions are
expected to be large, further purchases OF
bonds in large amount is not anticipated.
If no further supplies of money return from
the interior closer market will naturally
resu before April 1.
The business failures number 302 al COM
pared with total of 32l for last week. For
the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 289.
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the fire was under control places the total
damage at Sz75, 200. of which Mr.. Work
Loses 1926, 1000; Taylor Bros, $50, COO, and
Farwel d Co., on the building, 500, 900.
One life viii probably be lost, and several
William S; ] ander, while on a thirty-six
foot ladder on the south wall, was Knocked
from his footing and fell to the stone pave
ment below. He struck on his head, and
was picked up unconscious His skull was
fractured and he was internally injured.
John Meyers fell with the crushing in of
the third floor, and was dragged out more
dead than alive by his comrades. II is not
thought, however, that he is fatally hurt.
Three other men were cut about the face.
head and hands by flying glass.
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Republican Congressman do Not Agree on
the Tariff

WASHINGTON, D. c., February 1.-THE
majority of the ways and means committee
hope to get the tariff bill into the house by
the LIST of March. but it is probable that
they will not have it ready so soon. They
are finding some difficulty in fixing upon
any place where the reduction of duty can
be made. From present indications it
seems unlikely that there will be any reduc-
ton of customs duty except, perhaps. on
sugar, and that, on the contrary, in many
cases there may be increases. Where irreg-
ularltles and inconsistences exist it Is likely
that correction will Re made by increasing
duties on articles at present Disseminated
against. The only material reduction of
revenue that there seems to be any agree
ment upon is on tobacco, and whisky used
IN the arts. The sugar question Is giving
considerable trouble. The proposition to
take on a considerable per cent. of the duty
and make up the difference to the producers
oy bounty does not meet with the approval
OF the sugar men, and it is possible that
the clause will be stricken out of the bill in
the house, or that it may finally defeat the
whole measure. There are understood to
be ten republicans in the house who will
vote against any considerable reduction of
the sugar duties, and six of them declare
tnat they will vote against the entire bill If
that clause Is retained when the question
comes to be finally voted on in the house.
This opposition in their oEn party perplexe
the majority of the committee IN making
up their bill.
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RoADMAsrER PETERS KILLED.
Others Injured Severely-Tramps Fired 8
Small Bridge.

Others Injured SevereIy-Tramps Fired q
Small Bridge.
WICHITA, KAN, February ia frightful
railroad accident occurred to the south
bound passenger train on the Santa Fe at
Green station, five mi es south of here. One
man was ki lei and several perhaps fatally
injured. The bridge over ten foot culvert
was burned, it is believed by tramps, and
the engine broke through, three baggage
cars plllng on top OF 1t.
Roadmaster Peters, of Newton was on
the engine and with Engineer Nand and
Fireman Smith, jumped. Peters jumped
the wrong way and Was instantly killed; his
head and legs both bang severed from the
body. Engineer Nand was caught uader
the engine and his righs leg broAen; Smith
jumped free, but also suffers from a broken
leg. The express messenger was severely
and erhaps fatally injured internally.
Three passenger coaches, W I'll filed, were
smashed, tut none of them left the track.
About dozen persons were lutte severely
IN ured, but none fata l..
Mrs. Cane, of Udall. was thrown for
ward and had several rib; broken. A bog,
name unknown, had his Leg broken.
Peters has wife and eleven children and
has teen on the road twenty years
A posse of sherlffs and detectives are
securing the country looking for the tramps.
No arrests are yet II ade.
The suppo Is of the bridge through which
the train plunged had been burned away
during the night. presumably b. tramps.
LEAVING The road bel intact. Win the
crash came Roadmaster Peters, who was
on the engine, jumped but IN the wrong
direction, and was instantly killed. Engi-
neer Nand and Fireman : NTH jumped from
the opposite side and received injur.e s be-
fore mentioned. The baggage. car pied
up on top of the engine, aud the ex So
messenger, name unknown, was thrown
headlong and had both his arms broken.
Fortunately thu banks of the creek are not
high and the baggage car acted as buier
to the passenger coaches which remain
on the track. No fatalities are reported
mong the passengers. bat several had
limbs broken. Mrs. Cane, Udall. four ribs
fractured; Josiah Erickson, Topeka. broken
arm; Edward Whitney, st. Louis. collar
bone fractured. Others suffered from cuts
and Commissions. The doctors and officials
of the town, who went to the aid of those
injured. rendered ali assistance in their
Lower.
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Not to MARROW for Irisb Needs.

LONDON, February 14.-In the debate in
the house of commons upon the queens
speech, Mr.. Gladstone hoped for suitable
legislation upon various subjects. In re-
Spouse w. II. Smith, the conservative leader
in the house, assured Mr.. Gladstone that
the influence of the government would be
eXerted to secure justice for the Cretans
and Armenians. 1t was certain that Moussa
Bay would be tired again. The govern
ment still desired to introduce bills Great
ing district councils in Great Britain. and
would do so if the business of the house
permit The agreeIent of the powers in
the sugar cony ention was not complete
and until it was absolute the go eminent
cou' d not ask the house to flu Their legislate
in the matte. The Irish local bill was
drawn on the line of existing legislation in
England and Scotland, with a special adap-
ta'ion to the various conditions of Ireland.
(Hear, hear.) He was quite ure the bill
would not be found too narrow.
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The Dest,tutiou n the Oak ,tas.

GRAND FORKS, n. D., February 13.-Hon.
I. b. Helgeson, state commissioner of agri-
culture, has issued an address to the public
explaining the restitution N the drouth
stricken counties, at some length. and MAX
ing an appeal for assistance. He says the
suffering for want of provisions, clothing.
fuel and feed for stock in several counties
Is unprecedented and needs some authori-
tative explanation. He says the restitution
is almost entirely confined to the newer
portions of she state, where the settlements
date back only two, three and four years,
except Ramsey and Nelson counties, which
have been settled about six years.
The partial failure of the crop of 1888,
followed by the entire loss of that of 1882,
left many people in these North Dakota
counties entirely destitute. The area need
ing aid is about 60 by 100 miles.
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Negroes Coin b Thousands.

RALEIGH, n. C.. February 14.-R. A. Will
liams, who is chief of the labor agent at
work in North Carolina, reports that he
alone has sent 22,OOO negroes out of the
state. He says he has never yet put ne
gro on the train without hav nc home and
labor contract provided for him. The de-
mands for 5000 more negroes Monday and
Tuesday we're the heaviest the labor agents
have ever experienced. Trey say that notes
of warning are posted at several towns
against the work of taking away the negroes.
One man was driven away while he was en-
deavoring to get to a school house full of
negroes. There are two agents from the
far south still at work there securing ne
groes. The white people say they do not
propose to have the laborers taken away
Just when the crops are being put In. The
farmers in the Northeastern counties are
greatly stirred up and some agents have
been threatened with lynching.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-22
Severe Punishment,

NEWTON, Conn.,, February 1e.-John
Campbell, of this place, was flogged by
four masked men, and is suffering badly.
CAMPBELL has been in the habit of beating
his wife. an amiable young woman, and has
once been arrested and confined in Jail or
threshing her. On Sunday afternoon he
struck her on the head with blunt ins,ru.,
ment. making a dangerous wound. Mrs.
Campbell ed to a neighbor's house. Her
wounds were dressed and tie woman was
made comfortable. Late at night four cit
liens. masked. entered Campbels house
and dragged him to the street. Campbell's
night dress was torn off, and in a nude con-
dition he was dashed to telegraph pole.
The men ten whipped him with raw hides
until he became unconscious.
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Missing Links.

DENVER, COL, February 1.-THE police
has arrested Oscar Roberts and Arthur
Butcher on a charge of conspiracy to kid
$1,000 ransom.
WAsHINGToN.-There is a call out for
greenbackerS to gather and reorganize on
March <. the sixth anniversary of the deci-
sion of the supreme court that congress has
the sovereign and constitutional power to
emit bills of credit. provide currency for
the whole people and to make the notes of
the government (gre enbacks) q legal tender.
WAsH1NGToN.-The president has author
lied the expenditure of $1,000 for the relief
of the present urgent needs of the DEVILS
Lake Indians in North Dakota. A measure
IS pending in congress apprOprIating $685.
900 additional for the subsistence of these
Indians.
CHCAGC.-There seems to be little doubt
that the Omaha freight rates will be re-
duced, and if SO the Kansas City rates will
inc itably be pulled down. The Chicago d
Alton will insist upon as low rates to Kan
sas City as are made to Omaha All these
procee 1ings are in direct violation of the
association ru es. but the roads seem to
have thrown their agreements to the winds
for the purpose of getting even with one
another and contributing to the general de-
mobilization.
WASHINGTON Thirty Eine million dollars
is the sum VIII ch the army engineers esti-
mate will be needed for river and harbor
appropriations for the next fi-cal year.
CHAMBERLAIN, S. D.-Major Anderson,
with a strong detachment of mounted In
dian police, swooped down upon a crowd of
gamblers and cOnfsc tie all their para
phernalia. The gamb ers escaped In
future the agent says al persons running
games of chance or selling hluor on Indian
lands will be vigorously prosecuted.
WAsHINGroN.-The sub committee IF the
worlds fair committee made its report to
the fu committee, and the latter immedi-
ate'y reported the bill to the house. Two
bills were reported, one locating the fair at
Washington aud one at either New York, Chi
Gag or ST. Louis. The mod of procedure
recommended is that on the completion of
the debate on the bills, the clerk of the
house shall call the roll of members who
shall name the site they p efsr. If no Sc &C.
ton be made on first call. the roll is to be
called again and again until a site has been
selected.
LATHRoP, Mo.-The temperance crusaders
have formed regular organization, and
issued an address to the women of the coun-
try urging them to drive out the saloonist5
by force.
CaICAGo.-The government authorities
have decided on the new quarantine lire for
splenic, or Texas fever. The new line
places under the ban all Ct the Indian ter
ritory and all of Texas, except the Pam
handle portion lying north of the thirty
fourth parallel.
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FULLER AND HINES.
Wanted to Answer Criminal Charc

Wanted to Answer Criminal Charges.
TOPEKA, KAN, February 13.-Judge E.
Sutton mas filed in Justice Chesney's court
a sworn complaint charging F. P. Fuller,
secretary, and Richard Hines president. of
the defunct Topeka Insurance company,
with having made a false report TO the
superintendent of insurance by emitting
the $4,000 note due and payable to Mrs.
Lizzie Binford from the list of liabilities.
This offense is punishable by Imprisonment
in the penitentiary. The additional charge
of perjury also stands against Fuller. Hines
has not been arrested, though a warrant
has been out all day. He is now agent of
the Denver Fire Insurance company, rep
utable concern with 500 600 paid up capital.
John F. Carter, ex-city marshal, has re-
fused to serve longer as Fuller's bondsman,
and the man is in the custody of Constable
]. L. WintrOde. A bond of $1,C00 on both
charges is required.
Fuller and Wintrode slept together, and
are costant companions.
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thought it prudent to lay the cartrige care:
fully away, as there was possibility tnat IL
might be more destructive than an ordinary
cartridge. There was a slight fear that che
powder and shot might have been extracted
from the shell and replaced with some pow
erful explosive. The senator, however, was
of the opinion that it was a plain buckshot
cartridge, and reporter subsequently as
certained this to be the fact by prying open
the shell, revealing nine large buckshot and
a charge of powder. Even this, 1t was
thought, was not a particularly pleasant
present, and the joke may turn out to be
sorry one for the perpetrator, as it is NO
lation of the postal laws to send explosives
through the mails
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Current Crumbs of News.

DKADwooD, February 19.--The tin mines
of the Black Hills, probably among the
richest of the kind in the world, are being
developed as rapidly as possible, the gold
mines in that vicinity being neglected for
the present.
ST. Notwithstanding to the market re-
ports corn is lower than ever before in the
history of the city. The market has antici-
pated the reduction in rate to go in force
this week.
VICTORIA, B. C.-Justice Drake, of the
British Columbian supreme court. has rem
dered decision which declares that the
government of the United States has no
jurisdiction over Behring Sea outside of the
marine league limit.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The president has
issued a proclamation directing the removal
of all cattle from what is known as the
Cherokee outlet by the 1st day of October
next, unless negotiations now pending for
the cesslon of that territory to the United
States shall have been completed sooner,
then the cattle must be removed forthwith
upon notice.
TOPEKA, KAN.-Thomas A. Osborn says:
"My candidacy for governor is being man
aged entirely by newspaper correspondent
VINO has a vivid imagination. l have not
been candidate for that position, and was
not in Washington a candidate Tor any
position. Will there | was asked to be-
come a candidate for governor of Okla
homa, and told that | could have the place,
but l replied that did not desire it."
PARIs.-A fire in the Rue Scribe has de-
stroyed Osborne S library, valued at $780,
900, containing unique comments of the
Cromwell and Stuart periods in English
history ana concerning the history of Spain
and Italy.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secretary Proctor
says that the proposed proclamation grant
ing amnesty TO army deserters in certain
cases will not be issued until some neces-
sarY information from the authorities at
the military prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, tending to show the effect and ex-
tent of general pardon.
SPRINGFIELD, O.-Two citizens of Kansas,
W. Nate and Good Baldwin, are two of
eleven heirs to the Motif estate in England,
valued at CSC, 100000.
Columns are taken up with particulars of
prize fights every week now. Jake Kilrain
got whipped again, at New Orleans. The
only popular regret will be that this will
bring another champion" to the front
whose da ly life will be paraded before dis
gusted public.
The civilized world Is in stage of horror
over the brutal methods of the Russian gov
eminent in its TIRE atment of political pris-
oners in Siberia. Tn next stage of public
sent ment 10 Likely TO be of q character
which will prove exceedingly unpleasant
for the cZar
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Proclamation Will be Issued.

WASHINGTON, D. c., February 1.-THE
reorganization of the Cherokee commission
is foregone conclusion. 1t is already set
tied that General tairchil6's resignation
will be accepted. The probability is that
the other republican commissioner WI re-
sign. If he does, tie vacancy will undoubt-
ed lie off red to Major William Warner,
of Kansas City. Ex-Governor Charles Eos
ter, of Ohio, who was with Major Warner
on the Sioux commission, has ready been
asked to take the place on the Cherokee
commission vacated by General Fairchild::
He has the matter under consideration, and
if he can arrange personal business matters
he wiz accept. With Governor Foster and
Major Warner upon the Cherokee commits
sion something wou be accomplish or
the country would 5000 know the reason
why. Further criticism is made in the
senate upon the commission as at present
constituted. Senator Plumb explicitly
charged that the negotiations intrusted to
the commission had been mismanaged.
Secretary Noble has had several conferences
with the president about the proclamation
D be issued ordering cattle men out of the
Cherokee strip. There is no doubt the
proclamation will be issued. The question
Is, when shall the order take effect! 1t is
conceded to be only fair that the cattle men
be gi, en- time enough to get herds out OF
tn Indian Territory. Secretary Noble
thinks that june would be a reasonable
time. Senator Plumb would give the Gait g
men until October to close out their busl-
ness.
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Juror Bribers Plead Guilty.

CHICAGO, February 14.-When the case of
the men indicted for attempting to bride
the Cronin jury was called, before Judge
Wathen, the four remaining defendants
plead guilty. The co Irt cal ed them up
and told them hat they were liable to in
case he emf rec the full penalty of the law,
but that he would have to have evidence 30
determine hat IN tigating or aggray attn
circumst Inces there " ere. A panel of ven
iremen were accordingly cslled into the
box, and the work of selecting the jury be-
Gun Probably some interest in the case
has generally leSsened since the fight of
Graham, who is supposed to have been near
the head of he conspiracy to corrupt the
iurY,
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Noted Chicaro Firms Rurn.d out.

CHICAGO, February 15.-The large bnck
and stone building at the corner of Adams
and Market streets, owned as the dry goods
house of ]. Y. Farwell & Co., caught fire
and before the flames could be subdued the
southern half of it was Quilted. This por-
ton of the building was occupied by Taylor
Bros, dealers in hats and caps, and Work
Bros, dealers in clothing and uniforms A
middle of the structure, prevented the
spread of the flames to the northern half OF
the building, which Is filed with the heavy
Wholesale stock of dry goods of Messrs.
Farwell.
A careful estimste of the loss made after
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This Generat1on Never Saw Snow

LAREDO, Tax, February 14.-Sle Ching at
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, several hundred
miles south of this city, was INDUCED in By
American inhabItants of that city. A storm
the snow fell. 1t is the heaviest snow
storm which ever fell there, and the only
one for more than fifty years past. The
uat:ve inhabitants of the topical climate
for more than gene atom have never seen
snow before, and such thing as sleighing,
to them, was not known.
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REVISION. But no Disrup,ion.

NEW YORK, February 1S.-The general
tenor of advices to date makes it morally
certain that a majority of the Presbyterys
will favor a radical revision of the confess
sion of faith. 1t is equally certain that the
minority will accept the result and that all
the talk of split or schism is founded upon
anything but facts. Nothing can, of course,
be done unit the next meeting of the gen.
eral assembly, hut in the meantime tie
theologians of the church will put their
heads together and agree upon the main
points of the revision process.