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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

Chauncey NJ. Depew on the Worlds
Fair: "This exposition Is 10000 uni
versity extensions and Chautauquas
concentrated in It's educational advan-
tages. No man or woman can visit 1t,
go through 1t, stay in it or stay with 1t
without becoming bigger and broader
for the rest OF his or her life. Its
effects will be seen through our africans
aud manufacturers, through our farm
ers and agriculture, through our art
lists In their sphere, and through our
educators in the schools. 1t is at once
n kindergarten, a common school, a
chronological and manual training and
a university
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

There is general suspicion that
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is one
of the bank examiners who don't
examine. lie admits that the bank Of
Burr Oak was reported unsound several
months ago and Its closing was recon-
mended yet nothing was done and the
oank robbed the,people Of Jewell county
out OF $4,000. What does Kansas
have bank commissioners for2 To ride
on passes, look wise and give out glow
ing interviews TO the effect that the
banks Of the State are all sound2 That
seems 10 be Credentials idea Of 1t.
IL is disgrace 10 the State that such
slipshod methods should be allowed. 1t
makes the administration TO degree
guilty Of robbing trusting depositors.
IL is the bank commissioners duty 10
look after the banks under his charge
and especially when he knows there is
suspicion Of unsoundness. In the
Burr Oak case there was absolutely no
excuse for not closing the bank months
ago. The institutions reports were
irregular and the commissioner knew
what to expect. Breidenthal should
explain his theory Of bank commission
ership.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
EUROPEAN CROPS.
nelIef That They WIN Not Be So Deficient
AS Expected.

As Ehpeeteds
LONDON, June 2l.-As vet no official
estimates of the European yield of cere-
ais this year is obtainable. Bells Mes
senger. one of the leading British agri-
cultural papers, says that the recent
estimate of the French wheat crop,
which placed the yield at 1913, 900 quar-
tiers, understated the quantity that
would be produced. Bells Messenger
bases its statement on the fact that the
promise of fine yield in Brittany
and the eastern and northern depart
ments more than offsets the difference
in the southern part of France.
The harvest in Spain is now under
full Roadway and there are fine yields
of wheat, barley and oats, A good
crop of winter barley and rye will be
secured.
Reports from Italy show that the
yield of wheat will be good, bat that
straw will be scarce
In England hundred days OF drought
has wrought havoc with all crops ex-
ccpt wheat, which is not now largely
grown. The hay crop is absolutely
ruined The vegetable and fruit crops
are the worst known In many years.
Over wide areas potatoes and peas viii
be II total loss
The Dublin Farmers Gazette says
the crop prospects in Ireland are more
favorable than they are In England.
The oat crop is good, the condition Of
potatoes is far above the average and
wheat promises we'll An excellent
general harvest is in view. The only
complaint sof drought are from the
north of Ireland
According TO Dornbusch's Trade Cir
cular only half crops OF oats and barley
are expected In France. In southern
Russia the yield of hay is hardly ~
much us usual, but the rates Of freight
demanded prohibits its export
In Belgium wheat, rye and oats are
suffering from drought
panubian provinces wheat,
In the --Huing well.
barley and corn are ~. go ~
In Egypt the quantity and quan,y
the wheat will be excellent There
will be quantity of barley but the
quality will be only medium.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
OFFICIALS DISMISSED.

The Government Believed They Connived
at the Smuggling In of Cinnamon and
Opium.
WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The official
heads Of Patrick II. Winston, United
States attorney; Thomas r. Brown,
United States marshal; Andrew Was
son, United States collector at Port
Townsend; c. J. Mulley, United States
special agent, and six special inspectors
OF customs in the Puget Sound district,
all in the state Of Washington, have
fallen into the official hopper as the
result of reports made TO Secretary Car
Isle by Special Treasury Agents Wood
and Lewis. These are numerous and
circumstantial as to details and tell the
story of one of the most extensive and
successful conspiracies ever formed to
smuggle Chinese and opium into the
United States across the far northwest
ern boundary.
There has been hardly day for the
past two months that reports have not
been received at the treasury depart
ment from Wood and Lewis and on
these reports officials OF the treasury
department have been summarily dis
missed. The first dismissals OF customs
inspectors were made Saturday, but
Secretary Carlisle thinks the ends of jus
tice may be defeated by making public
their names They, IL is charged by
the reports received, had been doing a
wholesale business in connection with
private parties in Victoria, B. c., in
smuggling in Chinese by means of
H.. l..1n To-.
ting opium smuggling either by con-
nivance or otherwise.
Scandals for the past decade have at
tached more or less to the officials in
Puget Sound district and more than
two months ago Agents Wood and
Lewis, new men from the east, were
detailed TO secretly investigate these
alleged frauds. Uniniluenced by local
surroundings or affiliations, they went
TO work and uncarthed what is re.
gardcd here as one of the greatest con-
spiracies in which government officials
were ever implicated.
Not defeat. the continuance of the
investigation, all the prominent gov.
eminent officials named were removed
by the president and their successors
appointed without the usual announce.
ments being made. The purpose was Ia
keep the public in ignorance that other
implicated persons might not become
suspicious. Those appointed were James
Saunders, collector at Port Townsendi
James f.. Drake, Udited States mar
shal John Is. Brinker, United States
attorney.
The matter in due course of time will
nnd its Nynv into the conrts
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

Some fault has been found that
sheriffs riding on passes should still
draw mileage from the.State or county,
but In an opinion of the attorney gen.
eral 1t is held that they have a right to
their mileage, a. that is their compen,
sa'ion for duty and they can draw it
Just the same, whether they ride on Il
pass or pay fare. or course We all
thought that when the great moral
reform party got in power 1t would
stop all such practices, but we are wiser
than we were.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
Water Squeezed Out.

The New York Herald made a great
display of pretended financial wisdom
a few days ago by claiming that the
securities listed on the New York ex.
change by the Republican financial pol
Icy had deprecated in value 800, 000,-
900 or ten per cent. The X. C.,Journal
offers some pertinent remarks thereon
as follows. Securitiesl What are these
"securitiesY" Cordage, sugar trust,
whisky trust, lead trust, oil trust,
starch trust, coal combine and fifty
other swindling trusts that have been
"noated" upon agullible and credulous
public. Railroad stocks, mining stocks
and stocks without end, two thirds Of
which on an average are pure water.
There are some honest stocks listed on
exchange but the great bulk Of these
stocks, as everyone knows, are either
out and out frauds or are inflated in
amount several times the real value
ana cost of the properties they repre-
sent. Aud they call this trash "secur-
itiesl" And when these windbags
burst from their own tension, as they
have lately been doing, the defenders
Of these swindles, such as the New
York Herald, seek to divert attention
by charging their collapse to the Sher-
man act. II they have declined only
10 per cent, as the Herald says, they
have yet a long road to travel before
they reach the bedrock of their real
value.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
THE BOMB AGAIN.
All Madrid Shaken by an Explosion
at Canovas' House.
DYNANITER KILLED BY 1T.
Another Terribly Wounded and n Third
Escapes-Bad Doings in Bohemia
Strikers Shot Down by
Police.

MADRID, June 2l.-A large dynamite
bomb was exploded at midnight few
feet from the house of Canovas del Cas-
rillo, ex-premier. The explosion was
heard throughout the city. The imme-
diate district was shaken as II by an
earthquake. Three policemen ran TO
the spot They found the dismembered
body Of man in the street and caught
a man crawling down the street on his
hands and knees.
When arrested the man refused TO
say what he knew Of the explosion, but
complained that he was severely
wounded. One OF his legs was broken.
his scalp was torn and his face was COW
cred with blood. He was taken TO n
police station and was there identified
by servant employed in a house oppo-
site the ex-premier's as one of three
men whom she had seen standing on
the other side Of the street just before
the explosion.
After the explosion, she said she
heard man run away. A surgeon
was called and the prisoners wounds
were dressed. Many houses in the
neighborhood where the explosion 90
Cured were badly damaged. Windows
were shattered and walls were sprung,
but none OF the occupants were injured.
While the police were looking over
the ground just after the explosion
Canovas opened the door and began
questioning them. He ordered out all
his servants TO help search for the
limbs of the man blown to pieces by
the bomb. One leg, the head and a
hand were found seventy feet from the
place where the bomb was set News
OF the explosion was spread throughout
the city before o'clock. All the cab
met ministers and conspicuous deputies
called upon Canovas at once to con-
graduate him on his escape.
SHOT DOWN ny THE POLICE.
VIENNA, June 21.-One thousand
miners struck near Dux, bohemia, and
held n meeting on the outskirts of tho
city TO decide upon their future course
Of action. A company of police tried
to break up the meeting. The miners
repulsed them and the police then be-
gan firing. After several strikers had
fallen, severely wounded, the strikers
dispersed.
Later in the afternoon they surround
ed the carriage Of Count Won Thun,
governor of the district, and tried TO
drag to the ground the count and Herr
Gattner, chief mining commissioner In
the Teplitz district. Police fred upon
the crowd. One man fell dead; another
! was mortally wounded. The rioters
did not yield, however, until company
of soldiers, who had been summoned,
charged with fixed bayonets.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

When anything good appears in the
Junction City Tribune all the Pop
papers in the district hasten to credit
1t to John Davis, Congressman Davis.
When the paper deliberately falsiGes,
aud In the instance in mind 1t has not
yet entered a disclaimer, these same
papers hasten to ascribe the RESPONSE.
bility for the Tribune to a nonentity by
the name OF g. s. Davis. That plan
has Its advantages. truly.-[Clay Cen.
ter Times.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
The Past Week Most Favorable In All Parts
of the Union.

The Past Week Most Favorable In All Parts
of the Union.
WASHINGTON, June 2l-The reports
indicate that the west portion of the
cotton region, extending from Alabama
to Texas has been favored with fine
weather, and crops in this region have
been improved, although in east
ern Texas cotton has been injured
by wet weather. Sugar and rice
plantations in some portions of east
ern Louisiana are being flooded, ow-
ing to recent breaks in levees. Gener-
ally the weather has been more favor
able through the south, where crop
conditions have improved. The har.
vesting Of wheat is progressing Rs far
north AS central Illinois, Indiana, Kan.
sas and Ohio, and the recent warm
weather has produced normal seasonal
conditions throughout the central val
leys, but the season isretarded by from
ten to twenty days in the northwest
and ON the Pacific coast, Special tele-
graph reports say;
Texas Cotton injured by wet weather and
grass over parts OF east Texas; worms are
reported from some sections, but have dam.
aged crops very little; corn good wheat
thrcshod is turning out very we'll
Arkansas-GOrn and cotton generally clean
and growing nicely; cotton blooming In south;
ern part wheat harvesting and hay making
full under way; good crop OF wheat and Data
Tennessee Wheat harvest progress sing favor
ably lariAeTs well up with their work; corn,
tobacco and cottnn improving and growing
niceiy; peach crop large, some already on
-~arkeI hay good; stock healthy.
--rvthiDg pro?iiious and outlook
Mlssouri-I., -'-s@v harvest has
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
Two Postmasters.

The action Of Postmaster Thomas OF
Topeka In sumInsrily discharging u
mail carriers for no other reason ex
cept that they were Republicans is in
unrefreshing contrast with the history
Of the Abilene postcilice. Postmaster
Gorden, Republican, found the office
force consisting almost entirely of
Democrats four years ago, The office
IL not under civil service rules yet he
has retained every Democratic en-
a,. 70 the present excepting one
-, -, '-"nth ago to be an en-
f'o' - do DO to the
"eNA'o' "hu VIII P'opao'1 -ivil
end of his term. Mr.. Thomas in "a,
service office, under civil service reform
president, within three weeks Of TAX
ing office prefers lying charges against
faithful employees and has them dis
charged. Which is civil service
reformy Which of the two methods il
most honorable, most mauly and most
conducive to good government Which
Is the more praiseworthy postmasterY
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

In making up the congressional
directory requests are sent out to con.
gressmen elect for autobiographies and
to the credit Of men elected to congress
these sketches are gen erally brief and
modest. OF the Kansas members OF
the house and senate of the Fifty ''hird
congress the only one who distributes
taiIy to himself is John Davis of the
Fifth district, who speaks of himself
as liable and fearless. "-[Topeka Capt.
tai,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

We have suspicion that the real
cause Of Burton's Jeff. Davis speech
has not yet been given to the public.
lie knew that large number of Re
publican papers had been saying sweet
things OF him so long that they were
tired Off and would like change
SO he gave 1t to them, this being an off
year, and let them pound him awhile.
1t really seems to be greatly enjoyed
by the papers and up to date Burton
has not shown signs Of worrying any.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

The only appropriations which made
the last legislature an extravagant one
were those made necessary by Populist
disregard for law and constitution.
With the exception Of the "war' ex.
pense'-the penalty paid by the State
for taste of "the first Peoples party
government on earth"-we do not be.
lieye that any of the appropriations
were unusual or unnecessary. All the
corruption was on the Populist side.
Not a single Republican has been
shown to have either given or received
bride, while at least two Populist
members confessed under oath they
both received brides ana paid them 10
other PopulIsis. Lay the responsible.
ity for the extravagance and corruption
at the proper door.--[Iola Register,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
This Years Election.

A number OF the Demo. Pop papers
of the State have already selected the
Republican State ticket for 1894. This
Of course Is to be expected. The
average Dcmo.Pop 10 u politician by
nature. He knows nothing but
politics: he does nothing but work at
politics. But the people Of Kansas are
not now worrying as to who will be the
candidates on this or that ticket In
1894. So far as they are studying the
political situation they are casting
about for the best ticket to support for
county officers In 1893. While 1t Is
true that the offices to be filled this
year are local, the result will have n
material effect upon the future wei.
fare Of the State as whole. IL will
probably show whether the people Of
Kansas are ready to endorse the high.
handed outrage, attempted and par
TALLY accomplished by the Popuist
administration at Topeka last winter
The acts Of Governor LewellinR and
lila follow ers have cast a shadow over
=" good name OF Kansas, which eau
only be Wted by tho prompt aud
effectual repu1ia,' "n OF Vne party 10
which they belong. The "un'c'p".
elections In April offered the people a..
the cities the first opportunity to give
expression to their indignation at the
Outrage. Almost every city in the
State spoke with no uncertain sound.
and the result was that the infamy was
condemned by the utter defeat OF the
Populist tickets, all over the State.
The election in November will afford
the people at large their first Oppor
tunity 70 say whether or not they
too condemn lawlessness and siniquity
In high places, and whether they ap
prove or disapprove Of an administra
ton which will undertake by force and
fraud to defeat the will VI the people.
We believe that tho Lewelling gang of
politicians will receive still more
emphatic reOnke from the people of
the State in November than they did
In the municipal elections In April. II
so, 1t will 30 far toward restoring the
good name of Kansas, which has been
80 sadly smirched through their at
tempted political chicauery.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
Don't Get Confused.

The Republican papers Of the State,
some Of them, are still roasting j. II.
Burton over his JEFF Davis eulogy" in
this city on Decoration day. Without
intending to apologize or defend Mr..
Burton-if he isn't able to defend
himself he will have to take his medi.
cine, ~ far rs the Eagle is concerned
% we would ask il some of the
brethren aren't little confused In
their Interpretation Of Mr.. Burlon's
angnageY lie not only did not say
that Jen Davis and his coadjutors
we're right, but distinctly declared that
the principles for which they commended
we're wrong, eternally wrong. What
he said was that they were honest and
conscientious in their opinions and
acts. History, sacred and profanc,
abonnds in incidents of like import.
The great apostle to the gentiles de
clared that he believed he was doing
Gods service while no was persecut
lng ealy Omissions tn the death, but
nobody accuses him 1T willfui wrong
dolng. 49, Wichita Eagle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
Means County high Schools.

One must 90 good ways from home
to learn the news. The Kansas CITY
Star gives the following valuable in.
formation on night thighY) schools,
when the law was enacted some years
ago In Kansas authorizing counties to
siablish and maintain night schools.
1t was believed that the result would
be the immediate establishment of this
extension Of the common school system
all over the State. So far but two
counties, Atchison and Dickinson.
have established such schools, and a
vote on such establishment ia to be
taken in u third county, Cloud. The
advantages Of education are eyen-
where admi ted. but 1t is noticed that
all changes In the educational methods
Ut q country, even where such changes
are evidently beneficial, are made with
y deliberation amounting 70 slowness,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

Those alleged newspapers Of the
county that are worrying about circula
ton should remember that the RE
FLEcToR is too busy giving the best
biggest, newsiest nnd most progressiv,
moral and political illnminntor in cen.
trail Kansas for the largest aud most
prosperous constituency enjoyed by
any paper In the same territory to Civ,
attention 70 every irresponsible hand
bill scattered broadcast TO Tom, Dick
and Harry without hope or exIecta.
tion Of payment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

The defunct Arkansas City bank
had deposits Of nearly half million.
Reckless loans and bad management
caused the failure. No Kansas bank
fails when rightly managed. 1t is
when outside speculation and unrea-
sonable loans TO Tom, Dick and
Harry are carried that trouble ensues.
When the pinch comes and money Is
needed It cannot be secured. Legiti.
mate banking is oil right.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

The ABILENE REFLECTOR Is be.
lever in Friday as an unlucky day. 1t
says it has boon demonstrated that a
little over li.2s per ceut OF the bad
luck happens On that day. As this
leaves about the snme amount for each
of the other days thu REFLEcroR
evidently thinks every day is an un.
lucky day,-[Leavenwotth Times,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

We want men elected next fall to
county office whose standing will show
that Kansas prefers brains to bigotry
aud ability to chicanery. There is a
chance for Kansas to speak in no un-
certain tones regarding It's endorse
ment Of law and order. 1t will do II
and do 1t in the right spirit.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

Rev. Lyman Abbott Of Plymouth
church said in his sermon last Sunday
"If the Christianity Of the church ia
that man can come to God only through
one narrow door, | do not wsRt any OF
1t. 1t is not NY religion. The Bible is
not the word Of God. challenge any
man to find that phrase in the Bible.
You will find the phrase The Word
is God,'n
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

THE will of the late James H. Hev-
erin, the eminent criminal lawyer of
Philadelphia, was written on half
sheet of note paper with lead pencil,
and reads; This is my last will.
leave all my property to my wife, and
make her my executrix," II was dated
and signed, but not witnessed. The
will is valid according to Pennsylvania
law. Mr.. Heverins estate is valued at
twenty thousand dollars.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

THE statement Of the ABILENE
REFLECTOR that tie Kansas fountain
at the Worlds FAIR rem aims dry ia an
error; a refreshing stream, that INJURIES
no one, issues from IT," says the X. c.
Journal The managers probably
noted our criticism an the water has
been turned on siucr The REFLECTOR s
item was published.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

WAsnuNGroN, June 2l.-The president
has made the following appointments;
Paul u rramme, Of Georgia, TO be collector
OF internal revenue for the district OF Georgia
Felix g. Rudolph, OF Kentucky 10 he sur.
yeyor OF customs for the port OF Paducah, Ky
Andrew Fuller Fox OF Mississippi, to be at.
tornoy OF the United States for the nor lhern
district OF Mississippi
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

ONE HUNDRED miles back from the
border line of the United States, in
Canada, little or no civilization is
found, and there Is scarcely family
in the country whose sons have not
come across the line to the United
States TO improve their fortunes. A
Canadian visitor, whose opinion is
worthy of attention, recently said that
one-hnlf of the people of Canada would
move to the United States II they could
dispose of their property ut a reason
able figure. Many favor annexation TO
this country.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22

A PIECE of petrifed wood weighing
si4 pounds is reported to have been re-
Gently unearthed near ElIton, o, Ac-
eording TO biologists who examined
the petrifcation its formation is be-
lieyed to date back three thousand five
hundred years by the most conserva.
tive calculation.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
sunsCRIpTIoN RATEs.
THURSDAY, JUNE 90, 1893.

The News has never In all its exist.
ence had a good word or even fair
word to say for one of Abilene's most
distinguished townsmen, J, Il. Burton,
until Mr.. Burton praised a craven
rebel and enemy Of the nation. 1t is
easy to see where the News sym
naihv Ia