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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-03
State Soldiers, Rome

TOPEKA, Decent Der 30.-The board of man
ayers for the state soldiers home at Dodge
City, through its president and secretary, Ira
F. Collins and Henry Booth, has made its
first biennial report. This report shows 123
inmates. The roster shows twenty four old
soldiers, twenty-six wives of old soldiers and
sixty seven children present, and four SOL
dlers wives and five children absent. There
are several applications for admission ap-
proved, the applicants not yet reporting.
The total expenditure up to December,
1880, amounted to SS,64561, leaving out of
the $4,000 appropriated for two years an
uneXpended balance of $1,351.39. This sum
must suffice until July 1, 1891, which will
cause deficiency. To cover this deficiency
the board asks for an appropriation of sc, 375,
to be divided: Subsistence, 5000: clothing,
$3.50; salary and pay of employees, $625.
A school has been kept up at the home,
the teacher being paid by the school district
in which the home is located. The state
thus receives about $500 year for which no
equivalent is rendered, The legislature will
be asked to appropriate $500 a year for
school purposes in order to correct this evil.
1.-THE sum of $91, 100 will be asked for the
two years ending June 30, 1892, and June 80,
1888, to cover subsistence, clothing, buildings
and repairs, furnishings, salaries and trans
portation of inmates. The estimates are based
upon 300 inmates" for the 1892 year, and
400 for the 1893 year.
Theihome is conducted on the family plan,
at cost of about Is ceuts per capita for sub
sistence. The general government pays one
half of this, so that each member of the
home costs the state X cents day for liv-
Ing. Tho clothing will not average over SIS
for each person. The coal comes from the
penitentiary shaft.
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Exports, Imports and Emigration.

WASHINGTON, D. c., December 30.-Secre-
tary Window, of the treasury, has received
the advance statement of imports and ex-
ports and of immigration into the United
States, for the month of November, 1880.
The exports for that month amounted to
$50, 11S, 419, while for the corresponding
period in 1889 they amounted to $93, IL, 1926.
The imports aggregated $50, $40, 843 in value,
and for the same month last year $50, 994, 7S4.
The expots of gold alone during the month
were $567, 152; the imports 81, 1926. 401. Ex-
ports of silver, s2,OS5, 226; imports, $685.
090.
The value of Kansas City imports was S34,-
eo7; st. Joseph, 1887, and st. Louis, 1885,
S39.
The immigrants coming from foreign
countries during November numbered
1858, or IL 600 more during November,
1889. OF these 6.565 were from Austria
Hungary; 8,627 from Germany; $50 from
Great Britain and Ireland; 6,077 from Italy;
Russia Except Poland), 4.017. The smallest
lot of these people arrived at the port of
New Orleans, ffty-four in number, the fall
ing of being due, no doubt, to the recent
troubles among the Italians in that city.
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Snanish Vessel Seizeh

NEW YORK, December 31.-A dispatch from
Key West, Fla. says that the A gelica. a
ship flying the Spanish flag, has Zen cap
tured off the west coast of Florida by the
United S. Gtes revenue ship McLane, and has
been brought into port by an armed prize
crew under the command of Lieutenant P.
Huberroth, of the McLane, and Is now in
the hands of the United States authorities at
Key West.
The capture of the Angelica was enected
in the vicinity of Sanibel Island, on the west
coast of Florida, the McLane carrying the
vessel by an armed boats crew armed with
Winchester rifles and cutlasses. The ship
was full of Spaniards, but none on board
showed any disposition to fight. The Span
iards gathered forward, Sowing at the
American sailors. Lieutenant HuDerroth
walked forward and secured the captain and
called to his men at the same time to be
ready with their pieces.
The Angelica's captain produced bill of
store provisions purchased on the Florida
coast, but this did not satisfy the boarding
officer, who at once directed part of his
force to search the ship. No contraband
stuff was found, but the character of the
vessel seemed so certain that Lieutenant
Huberroth. directed the spanish captain to
accompany MN to the McLane.
Captain Smith convened a court of admit
rally in the cabin and it was decided to seize
the Angelica and convey her to the nearest
American port. A prize crew was sent
aboard armed to the teeth.
Just as the McLane's men were running
the Angelica's anchor apeak the Spanish
captain called on his men to fight, and de-
clared that he would die before allowing his
ship to be carried off.
The Spaniard was seized, placed in a small
boat and sent aboard the McLane for safe
keeping. The crew of the Angelica were
quickly admonished not to attempt anything
rash on pain of death.
The Angelica now awaits adjudication and
will in all probability be offered fol- sale in
few days. The proceeds will go into the
treasury of the United States. The fact that
the Angelica was not provided with regis
ter was alone sufficient to cause proceedings
against her.
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A Mob Removes an Official.

WASHINGTON, D. c., December 31.-J. NJ
Matthews, of Mississippi. brother to J. 2
Matthews, the murdered postmaster of Car
rollton, that state, says:
John was murdered by a mob. haC
been notified by dozen men that mo!
was going to kill MIN that day. He saw the
men with their guns and he got a rife
When ne did this the sheriff placed him IN
der arrest. John pointed out three men tc
the sheriff and asked him to arrest them and
protect his life. The sheriff refused. 1t was
plot and all were in it. John told a young
man who was working for him that he
thought they would kill him before night.
He stayed at the postoffice until his second
dinner bell rang, when he said he would go
to dinner. They begged him not to, but he
said he would go. When he reached the hotel
steps Mcbride, who was still in his drug
store, shot him down with a shotgun, killing
him instantly"
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TRADE REVIEW.
The Volume Of Payments Into Banks Con-
tinuss LaIger-RailWay Earnings Show
an Increase of Per Cent.-ForsIgn
Trade Very Heavy.
The One Great Obstacle IL the Uncertainty
Of Monetary LsEisIatiOp, Yet This Is
Less DlsturbinE-BetterT Times With
the New Year,

NEW YoRK, December 29.-Business has
progressed as well as could be expected in a
week broken by the Christmas holidays and q
great snow storm. The holiday trade was
remarkably heavy here and at nearly all
other points good, which, however, il by no
means evidence that the stringency in the
money market springs from any general en-
barrassment of any business or industry.
The volume of payments into banks con-
tlnues larger, though but about per cent.
larger than year ago. Railway earnings
Tor the month show an increase of about per
cent. over the same week last year.
Foreign trade is very heavy. The uncer-
tainty of monetary legislation and its effects
are stih the great obstacle, but even this has
less disturbing influence than a week or
Two ago, as the prospects of unwise exports
seems more remote. and the money markets
nave grown easier than week ago, not only
at the east but at some of the western and
southern centers.
AT Boston wholesale trade is better. At
flttsourg iron is at the lowest prices of the
year. At points further west expectation of
improvement after January 1 is general.
Trade there is quiet, but fully up to last
ySol uioi hCO. AT hduSdS OlJy WHOleSdl0
trade is good, but cattle and hogs are light.
At Lincoln, Neb., business exceeds last year,
though fear of state legislation tends to in
crease the prevailing stringency. In the
northwest the monetary situation seems
rather better. Reports from the south indi-
cate some improvement.
The monetary situation grows more salts
factory because treasury disbursements con-
tinue and arrivals of gold continue, and the
enormous excess of exports over imports is
felt.
There has not been much activity in spec
ulation this week. Corn has fallen % cents,
wheat is q cents higher, coffee 4 cent and
oil 4 cents higher. The stock market has
been left to the professionals and trading has
been quiet. 1t is believed by all classes that
the monetary pressure will cease after Janu-
airy l, at least for time, and if no. adverse
legislation occurs trade may be expected to
revive with Hgor.
1t is good sign that instead of increasing
with the close of the year, failures have be-
come less frequent and important.
The business failures for the past week
were 1893, against 404 last week and 288 the
same week last year.
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Fire and Riot at DeadNood.

DEADwooD. S. D., December 30.-A gen
eral conhagration occurred here. A black
smith shop, grocery, livery stable, general
store and several residences we're burned.
The loss is $4,000. Later the Keystone
hotel caught fire and was destroyed, threat
enIng the whole city with destruction. The
first fire is thought to have been set by rail-
road graders who were spending the day
here getting drunk. The mayor ordered the
hose turned on them when they became riot
GUS, and they are supposed to have set the
town on fire in revenge. 1t is rumored that
they have determined to lay the town in
ashes before morning. Short work will be
made of any incendiary caught at his work.
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PROCLAMATION.
Inviting All the N-tinns of the World to
Take Part.

Inviting All the N.tinns of the World to
Take Part.
WASHINGTON, d. c., December 26.-The
following is the proclamation:
"WHEREAs, Satisfactory proof has been
presented to me that provision has been
made for adequate grounds and buildings
for the the use for the Worlds Columbian
exposition, and that a sum not less than
100000, to be used and expended for the
purposes of said exposition, has been pro-
yided, In accordance with the conditions and
requirements of section 10 of an act entitled
San act to provide for celebrating the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Co lumbus by hold
ing an international exposition of arts and
industries, manufactures and products of the
toll, mine, and sea, In the city of Chicago, in
she state of Illinois, approved April 25th,
eighteen hundred and ninety.
snow, therefore l, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States, by virtue of
the authority vested in me by said act, do
hereby declare and proclaim that such inter
national exhibition will be opened on the
first day of May in the year eighteen hun
dred and ninety three, in the city of CHI
cago, in the state of Illinois, and will not be
closed before the last Thursday in October
of the same year.
Sand in the name of the government and
of the people of the United States, do here
by invite all the nations of the earth to take
part In the commemoration of an event that
Is prominent in human history, and of last
ing interest to mankind, by appointing rep
resentatives thereto, and sending such ex-
hibits to the Worlds Columbian exposition
as will most fifty and fully illustrate their
resources, their industries and their progress
in civilization.
In testimony whereof, / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
"Dene at the city of Washington this twenty
fourth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety, and independence of the
United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
[Seal] BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president:
JAMES G. BLAINE, Sec. of State.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Enterprise.

OTTAWA, ONT, December N.-More than
ordinary interest isssmanifested by Canadian
politicians in the reciprocity agitation at
Washington, as between the United States
and the Hon. Robert Bond, representing
Newfoundland. From the characteristic en-
ergy of the people of the United States it is
fair to assume that capital and enterprise
would at once be devoted to the working of
the Newfoundland fisheries, both in-shore
and deep sea, with the result that the Amer
lean demand for Canadian fish might be
curtailed. Newfoundland purchases more
Canadian manufactured goods than any
other country, with the exception of Great
Britain and the United States; therefore,
there is prospect of Canada losing large
part of this trade IN event of Mr.. Bonds
mission being successful. Before reciproc-
ity treaty is consummated, if it ever reaches
that stage, the Canadian government Will
file an emphatic protest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-03
Local Lines Closed.

G1Asaow, December 27.-The North Brit
ish company has entirely closed its under
ground station here and will not reopen it
until the dispute with the strikers is ended.
Placsrds announcing the promotion and ad
vanced pay for those who remain loyal to
the company and setting forth an offer to
rsinstate the strikers in their old positions
are posted conspicuously. The strikers, how
ever, maintain a defiant attitude. The Leith
& Edinburg local line has been closed. Only
a fourth of the usual holiday week business
is beng done by the roads. and the loss to the
roads will be enormous. Various mass meet
ings of the strikers decided to stand firm. 1t
is estimated that 5000 persons are now out.
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A Pension Fraud CompslI.dEto DIssorre.

A Pension Fraud CompsIIsdEto Disgorge-
MILWAUKEE,, WIS, December 7.-In 1888.
Joseph Lalone, of Dodge county. who served
through the civil war, was granted pension,
with Sc, 278 back pay. Lalone was sufferer
from ague when he returned from the war in
1855, and few years later was stricken with
paralysis. After the pension was granted,
the government learned that before Lalone
was paralyzed he met with a severe accident.
Lalone transferred his pension money to
his wife, who invested it in bank in Beaver
Dam. About 81 500 was drawn out to pur-
chase farm. The government brought
suit against Lalone and mis- wife to recover
the money. Now, by a decision just an
nounced, the government is $500 and 6
Dodge county farm ahead.
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The Farmers of France.

PARIS, December Notwithstanding the
protests of Minister Robot, minister of for
eign affairs, and the minister of commerce,
against the augmentation of the tariff duties
proposed in the government bill, the COM
mittee continued until adjournment to raise
the duties to prohibihve pitch. The repre-
sentatives of the agricultural interests in the
committee have supported prohibitive duties
on manufactures in the hope of securing a
close market for agricultural products. The
agricultural element is stronger in the cham
Der and the senate than the industrial ele-
ment and will wreck the bill unless their de-
mauds are conceded
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Crooked Consuls Cnnrh..

WAsz1NGTos. d. c., December 30.-Frauds
which have robbed the government of over
$1Oo, 900 within the past twelve months have
just been brought to the knowledge of the
treasury officials and searching investiga-
ton Is in progress.
The frauds have been committed by the
consuls and consular agents of the United
States in Canada and by the exporters OF
Canadian goods to the United States.
Some twenty consuls out of about seventy,
the larger number stationed in the province
of Ontario, are implicated in the charges
which are under investigation.
The process of fraud has consisted in the
appropriation of illegal fees and the under
valuation of exports by exporters.
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Laborers in TronhIa.

PORTLAND, Ore, December 3o.-The stu
alton of the discharged laborers from the
Union Paci6c's Puget Sound extension is
growing more serious each day. There are
now 1000 of these men out, and the num-
bar is increasing rapidly, and most of them
are destitute and unable to get money on
their time checks, due December %.
large number are being cared for by the city.
j. B. Smith d Co., the contractors, have been
unable to get the money from the Union
Pacific company. The men are growing
desperate One of the firm said that the
Union Psci6c had promised them $500, 600
this week. If they obtained the money they
would be all right. If the Union Pacific did
not pay them, then they could not pay the
men, as they didn't have the ready cash.
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His Little Game Exploded.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA, December 27.-Some
time ago u. c. Covell, claiming to represent
Boston electric light company, opened an
establishment here. He said that electricity
could be gathered with chemicals, without
dynamos; that lights could be put in large
stores for 500 per a1num and that there
would then be $50 profit. He organized a
stock company, inducing number of CAPT.
talists to invest money in it.
He has been arrested. His batteries were
charged at the electric light station at Sioux
CITY. Iowa.
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The Secretary of Agriculture Rsciprocate.

The Secretary of Agriculture Rsciprocates.
WASHINGTON, D. c., December 3o-Ths
secretary of agriculture has made an order
closing all the ports except st. Albans in the
collection district of Vermont against the
importation of cattle, sheep and other rumi-
nants, and swine, and requiring that all such
animals imported through this collection
district must enter at the port of St. Adams,
where they must be inspected by a veterinary
inspector of the department of agriculture.
The secretary says this is done as a protec-
ton against the introduction into this coun-
try from Canada of any contagious disease
affecting this class of animals. This order
is also designed to secure the removal, If
possible, of prohibitory restrictions now
placed upon animals exported from this
country.
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Legislature Adjourned.

GUTHRIE, o. T.. December H.-Oklahoma's
first legislature has adjourned. They passed
complete code of laws, partly the Dakota,
Indiana, Nebraska and Illinois statutes.
While drawing from the many different au-
thorities, the code is rather mixed, still on
the whole, Oklahoma can claim as good laws
as other territories. The capital question
was uppermost in the minds of the legisla-
ture. Every other measure was secondary,
but when they found that Governor Steele
would not approve of a capital removal bill
they got down to work in earnest and did all
they could to adopt code of laws best suited
to the people of Oklahoma.
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A FIGHT.
Captain Wallace Killed and Lisntsnant
Garlinxton Hit-Fifteen Soldiers Killed
or Wounded-Two strikes Band Go-
ing to the bad Lands.
After Big Foot Surrendered an Attempts to
Disarm His Band Caused FIght-SchO-
FIELD Has Been Expecting TreacA-
ery-Revenge Wanted.

OMAHA, NKB., December 21.-Big Foot's
band, who surrendered. resisted an attempt
of the Seventh cavalry to disarm them, and
fight ensued. Captain George D. Wallace
was killed and Lieutenant Ernest CARING
ton was shot in the arm and several privates
were killed or wounded. great many In
dams were killed. The fight took place
about twenty miles east of Pine Ridge, on
PorcupiDe creek.
RAPID CITI, S. D.-Colonel Forsythe re-
ports that while dlssrming Big Foot's band
fight occurred. Captain Wallace and a
few soldiers were killed, Lieutenant Gar
lington and fifteen men wounded. This
again complexities the surrender of all the
Indians, which would have taken place in a
short time had not this occurred. Forsythe
had two battallIons and Hotchkiss guns.
Quite large number of young warriors
have been away from the camp that were 60
ing to the Bad Lands, also quite number of
Two Strikes band going toward Forsythe.
The troops are in close proximity.
MILES, Commanding.
General Brooke also reports that many of
the young warriors that were going out from
camp IN the Bad Lands to the agency have
gone toward Forsythe. All troops have been
notified. Colonel Forsythe had two batal-
lions, the Seventh cavalry and Hotchkiss
guns.
WAsHISGToN.-General Schofeld, though
deeply regretting the occurrence, was not
surprised when he learned of the treachery
OF the Indians. He had been expecting it.
1t was almost inevitable he said. So far as
he could see there was no serious danger of
further trouble except that to be feared from
the disarmament of the band of Indians that
are still out, though the excitement and fight
might possibly be the means of further
trouble. Secretary Proctor expresses much
regret at the occurrence. He had hoped for
the settlement of the trouble without further
bloodshed. He supposed that inasmuch as
Big Foot was connected with Sitting Bulls
band, it was a case where the Indians wanted
revenge for the killing of their friend.
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Refnge for Aged Christians.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December 27.-Dr. J..
]. Bayard, cousin of ex-Secretary of State
Bayard, and known as the ''Boerne hermit"
who died recently at the age of 88, left will
disposing oftwo acres of land, a small house,
lot of medicine made by himself, and a
cave in which he was buried, and the en-
trance of which was walled up. The will
stipulates that the property shall De ''strictly
and entirely for eyed persons who profess
true Christian faith and are determined to
live in peace and holiness-poor or rich, male
or female-under the absolute direction of
the holy Catholic church.
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A skIrmI.h Near battle Greek

CAMP NEAR BATTLE CREEK, S. D., Deem
Der 29.-The situation here remains practi-
cally unchanged. The weather is cold and
the rivers frozen solid. A company of Chey-
enne scouts is encamped at the mouth of
Battle creek.
Two attempts were made by the hostiles,
who number about eighty, to break into
their camp.
The first attack was made by only few of
the Indians. who were quickly repulsed with
q loss of two killed and several wounded.
Three Of the Cheyenne Indian scouts are
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Ordered to Withdraw and Keep Out

TOLEDO, O., December 31.-All the mem.
bers of the Order of Railroad Telegraphert
on the Lake Shore road have received from
William Kline, superintendent of telegraph
the following note:
/ understand that you belong to the o. R.
T. How is it? Unless you withdraw and
keep out of it and send we withdral card
you will not be permitted to work on the
line. Please do. so at once.
W. KLINE.
The operator who furnished the informa-
ton says that Kline has thus far received nc
withdrawal cards, and will receive none.
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Three Tramps Lynched.

WALLA WALLA, VASE, December a.
News has just reached here that three tramps
have been lynched near Huntington, Oregon,
on the Oregon Short Line, by railroad men.
Four tramps boarded a freight train near
Glen's Falls, Idaho. They were put off by
the brakeman, but afterwards got on the train
and oyerpowered the brakeman whom they
threw under the train, his legs being broken,
he dying soon after from from the injuries.
The report says the tramps we're canght near
Huntington and three of them were Iynched.
The fourth escaped.
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Fra. Land in Brazil.

WASHINGTON, D. c., December T.-The
bureau of American republics has received
information of the organization of COM
psny, the stockholders of which are Euro
pean and Brazil capitalists, to establish agri.
Brazil. The government gives the land free
and guarantees per cent. on third of the
capital, $1,000, 900. The company will settle
6.00o European families in thirty villages
and give each farm on credit, thus forming
3 nucleus for future immigration. All sorts
Of enterprises and manufactures will be es-
ablished in the various settlements,