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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
A SLAYER OF TIGERS.
Reputation en- Englishman Eas
Made in Annoy, China.
Why Frank Leyburn's Name Is Famed In
All Parts of the Celestial Empire
How lie Extormiaated y
Big Beast.

Frank Leyburn is the hero of China
that is, he is one of the heroes, though
only tea buyer for the firm of Jardine
& Co., in Annoy, for he IS famous as a
slayer of tigers and as such is talked
of in all that part of the great empire
The tiger of China, he thinks, is not So
dangerous as that of India, but il is
fierce enough. Mr.. Leyburn recently
arrived in San Francisco on his way To
London and gave some interesting de-
tails.
with US" he said, ''tiger hunting is
a mere sport, just like deer stalking is
in America, but when tiger gets Il
taste of human blood he at once be-
comes ferociouS and IS never satisfied
with any other diet. They become
transformed into what are known as
man eaters. Such one makes his lair
near a village and waits his opportun-
ity to seize victim. Moonlight nights
suit him best. At such q time he is ex-
tremely vigilant. He prowls about IN
til he sees some belated straggler in
the streets This is an opportunity for
which he has waited for hours, perhaps
for days. There is the flash of a heavy
body in the moonlight, a cry of terror.
a brief struggle. and the man eater IS
off for his lair in the jungle bearing the
helpless body of "A human being in his
massive jaws. Months later, II may be,
the whitened bones are found in the
dense underground.
''One day two natives came TO me at
our place in Amboy. stating that
man had been carried off the night be-
fore from a neighboring village. This
was just the opportunity l had been
waiting for. Taking ont heavy ex-
press rife which | had brought from
London, | took the two natives to act
as guides and started out. had al
ready learned something about the
habits of the man eater and knew Just
how to 20 about it. From inquiry
among the natives asccrtaiucd the
exact location of the lair OF the tiger,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
MISSOURI CROPS.

COLUMBIA, Mo, April 1S-The weekly
crop bulletin of the Missouri state board
of agriculture says:
The past week has been decidedly
detrimental TO the advancement of the
agricultural interests, especially early
gardens and fruits. 1t opened with gen
eral rain storm and heavy electrical dis
plays. and wound up with frost on the
morning of the 18th that did considerable
damage to fruit on low ground and early
garden truck. The rain changed to hail,
sieet and snow, and ice formed in many
places one fourth of an inch thick. Accom-
panyng the precipitation was the most
disastrous wind storm that has visited
this state for years. Fruit trees were
badly whipped, fences demolished.
chimneys blown down and many lives
lost. The temperature deficiency ranged
from degrees in the northern to de-
grses in the southern part OF the state.
There was marked deficiency in sun
shine, and rainfall was generally so con-
tinuous as 10 cause ii suspension of farm
work, and doing considerable damage by
washing crops alEeady started and max
ing the earth too cold for the germina
tion of seeds.
1.-The damage resulting from the general
conditions that have prevailed would be
HaI3 10 eStiihdIe HuaHciaII9, DuI Noutu
aggregate an enormous sum.
'W heat has made little advance this
week, and probably the acreage 10 be
plowed up, etc, stands ut about the same
figure as last week The only marked
feature seems to be that lowland wheat
has much better prospects than upland,
while last year at this time the conditions
were directly the opposite. Meadows and
pasture lands have made good advance,
and within a few days the fields will be
ready for stock permanently. OAt sowing
was we'll along, and, though suspended
for a few days, viii be finished during the
coming week, with the prospects OF an
acreage above the average. Much of the
early sown crop is up, but looks poorly as
yet, due to the lack of sunshine and
warmth. Corn planting has fairly begun
in all sections. with bright outlook Tor a
large and timely planted acreage"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
CAFgOkEE ALLOTMENTS.

| TAELEoUAH, / T, April 1S.-The origi.
nal seventy Cherokecs named in the Indian
| bill OF the last congress, as being entitled
! to eighty acres each before the strip is
! opened 20 settlement, have commenced to
| file their claims with the secretary OF the
| interior.
The act above referred to provides that
any citizen of the Cherokee nation who
| prior to the 1st day of November, 1881,
was a bona fide resident, and had for
| farming purposes made permanent and
valuable improvements upon any part OF
the strip, and who had not disposed of the
sane but desires to occupy the particular
land so improved as homestead and for
farming purposes, shall have the right to
select eighty acres such selection 10 en-
brace as far as will admit such improve
ments.
The wife and children OF any such citi-
zen shall have the same right that Is gwen
to the citizen and they shall have prefer
ence in the making selection to take any
land improved by the husband and father
that be cannot take, until all his improved
land shall be taken.
The further provision is made that any
citizen of the Cherokee nation not resi-
dent of the strip who has made like vatua-
BILE improvements within the said prescrlb-
ed time shall be entitled to the said eighty
acres The only exception to this rule
arises in the case of ex-Chief Bushyhead,
who is awarded 100 acres in such locality
as he may select, outside of the family OF
John w Jordan, Wallace Ross and half Il
dozen others
1t is safe to say that if the provisions of
the act are carried out to tue letter, not Il
single Cherokee will get claim IN the
- =, !, ItIId q It
the Jordan and Ross party nobody has
made valuable or permanent improve
ments in the strip, either before or since
1891. Notwithstanding the fact that the
limit was placed at seventy persons as De-
ing entitled to share in the special prlyI-
lege, over one hundred applications have
already gone into the office of the secretary
of the interior. Lawyers Of the territory
and elsewhere are soliciting power OF at
torney from anybody aud everybody who
may have had in years gone by some Kind
of lease in the strip, with the hope that
the secretary of the interior VIII grant
their additional claims upon the plea OF
equity. Prospective settlers are setting
up great howl over this late scheme OF
the Indians, and il any of them obtain ad-
ditIonal and special privileges through the
decision OF the secretaLy OF the interior
there will be no end to the indignation
arising therefrom. Settlers were much
worked up over congress allowing even
seventy permits, but made no kick from
the simple fact that any objection at that
time would have prevented the opening OF
the strip. The original seventy Indians
have already picked out the best lands IN
the strip and if the full quota Is allowed
to take allotments it will be ali the settlers
can stand to say nothing of the additional
fifty or more who are trying to come IL Oh
the plea OF equity.
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and for small compensation 7 sue
eceded in securing the services Of a
cOolic % guide me 10 The place.
Il had brought with me bull's-eve
lantern. Before night had set in fully
/ got e7ervthiug IN readiness and
waited until j. grew pitch dark Having
IN the meantime located tie exact posi-
ton of the lair, left Lay guide who by
this tl-ae was almost terror stricken.
behind me, a8d on ny hands and
knees crcpt through the jungle. }y
the cautions use of nT lantern found
the lai-. Turning Oh the light, was
startled - discoTer the huge beast
ct1-led up and sound asleep. His head
was resting or his paws and seuareiy
facing zne. As prepared 80 leve, my
riff - hin he stirred uaeasify. Turn
iar tae light fu'! uroa him, De- raised
bis head. F1t before he was thorough r
aroused 7 sen. . baU from uT rife
crashing t--c1gh his brain ~ good
{1rture he'd struck Aizn sqgare,y be-
tween thr eyes
Ts.z-e was 8 feast Il rej1i1in~ iu 80
vil5e- r-hea 7 returned with the szsa
'.Jrt aet7-e left China ou r8= pres
e1t tip s:-1c.c = rraa eater r=l,1 sszs
an cd sell5T AID bad g record q i5~sr1.
twenty vuz baa ui.a re a Dot
b.e-as-r1-14 ~.[e - .z--s @a11er
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TWISTED BY THE WIND.
Two People Killed and a Large Numbsg
Injured at Usage City.

KANSAS CITY, April lS.-A dispatch
from Osnge City, Kan, says that cyclone
passed over that city this evening. -Four
people are reported killed and several in
jured. 1t is also reported that the storm
worked destruction to life and property at
Iydon and at two towns near the latter
point.
Topeka, Kan, April 1S.-The Capitals
Usage City special tonight says: About
o'clock this afternoon the worst wind
storm, accompanied by rain and hail,
ever experienced in this county
passed over Usage City. In the
space of two or three minutes it destroyed
about forty buildings of the average value
of $500 each Many others were more or
less damaged, being unroofed. moved
from their foundations, windows broken,
etc Nearly all the buildings in the busi
ness part of the town suffered IN some
way. Only two persons as yet have died
from injuries received-Mr. and Mrs An
drew Waggoner-but many others are
badly hurt. Among the injured may be
mentioned the following:
Joseph Bacon (colored), ribs broken.
Two children Of Eli Corners, head and
arm severely injured.
d. l.. Williams, back hurt.
Mr. j. II. Hickard, hip hurt.
Mrs Hickard, arm broken.
Miss Hickard. head hurt.
Mrs. Mime Mahey, arm broken.
Mrs a. Gardner. bruised.
4 child OF Nell Nelson.
A Child of n r. Larson, badly scalded.
Evan Morgan, Nels Nelson. Emile
Georgia and Mrs Simeon, injured.
4 child of John Swenson, scalp wound.
A child Of John Johnson, hurt III head.
A citizens meeting has been called for Q
o'clock il the morning, when steps will
be taken TO extend to the sufferers and
the needy all the help in the power Of our
Deopleu -
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found no difficulty in tracing him 20 his
lair. but he gave me narrow call be-
fore succeeded IN finishing him. The
trouble was that when found him he
was awake and ferocious. apparently
from the effects OF hunger. had shot
so many that I thought nothing OF il
and gave my tiger one barrel out Of
my gun. Most unaccountablv missed
him clean, and his eyes fairly blazct
'Lashing the ground with his tail, he
sprang toward me like flash. As hs
was in the air let GO with the other
barrel and struck him in the left shoul-
der, the heavy ball penetrating 70 his
heart He fell at my feet, and 50 cleso
was he that before lie died / could feel
his hot breath upon me. II was tha
most narrow escape that / ever had.
When measured, the tiger was found to
be almost i feet in length. and his
claws We're IL. inches in length. had
the latter mounted and distributed
among my friends"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
A Western errI.. Idea.

A very clever young western girl,
who came % New York with the desire
To work and make money, and who has
heretofore failed in that attempt. has
sent out cards 10 wealthy houseleepers
To the effect that she win make con-
tracts t. sweep, dust and clean their
apartments SO many times a week for
SO much. In the advent of a sudders
loss OF servants she believes she VIII ae
able to take up u great many orders.
''lt IS "A genuine fact, says she. THAI
the general run of servants in New
York are too saucy, ignorant and slov-
cnly to know how % set room tn
rights neatly and artistically AS we'll
They are always breaking pre- ions
bric-a-brac, tearing exquisite silken
picture scarfs and Tides. or scr1bhing
the dust and CRIME into elegant por-
there's. ! believe some women ought u
make profession of honse-clcauing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
TIE cHOcTAw DELEGATION.

WASHINGTON. April 1S.-The Choctaw
delegation, consisting Of Messrs. McCur-
tain, Everldge, Ninsen, Right and their
attorney, j. ". Owesley of Paris, Tex,
called at the interior yesterday and made
arran gements for an interview with the
secretary tomorrow. They had Intended
to submit to the secretary a written state
ment from Governor Jones aud explain
the situation from 4 Joues standpoint 10
the secretary, verbally. On looking over
the situation here they have conclude 10
take the written statement back with
them aud simply make verbal statemen
TO the secretary.
1t is claimed tnas Agent Leo Z Benn ets,
who has submitted report on the ca &C.
taw matter. will be here to defend his
report, which IS against jones. After
hearing the Jones delegation the secretary
will have a conference with the agent, and
by that tine be able to decide what 10 do
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Ell RENO ETCHINGS.

Ell RENO, o. T., April 1S.-[Speciall i
The title question is practically forever
settled here. Yesterday the patent, signed
by Grover Cleveland, from the govern
meut to the Thompson and Jensen tracts
was received by the townsite board. The
board commenced today issuing deeds to
parties entitled thereto, and will have
passed title TO at least 90 per cent OF all
the lots and blocks embraced in these
tracts ere the dawn Of another week. Al!
Of these cases, arising out OF lot contro-
verses in the Foreman part Of this city,
have been heard and disposed Of, and there
will be from now on a hearty co operation
towards the building of city, whose
growth, it is predicted, will be nnprece-
dented in this territory.
The FL Reno mill will begin this week
20 turn out 100 barrels Of -four per day.
This institution, taken together with its
elevator with u capacity OF 10000 bushels,
only adds to the list OF this hourshing
city's enterprises Both the mill and ele,
vator are to be lit by forty incandesent
electric lights. the company having its
own dynamo
Another elevator capable Of holding 49,
900 bushels is to be erected III a short time,
along the tracks of the Rock Island rail-
way. There is still room for another.
Parties are here from Fort Worth iigur-
ing en- securing a franchise from the city
council to put in electric lights
The streets are being graded, crossings
put i'll at ever corner, sidewalks laid and
shade trees planted-iu fact, all that goes
TO make up IA thorough, substantial, push
ing city is found here.
Tomorrow, the 10Th, will be the first an
niversary of the opening of the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe country. One needs only TO
drive Il few miles west Of FL Reno into that
fertile and productive section of Oklahoma
i'll order TO witness the phenomenal growth
and Advancement had there. On every
hand vast fields of wheat greet the eye,
with here aud there garden spots adorning
mother earth. Farmers are jubilant, not
only at their wise selection but also over
the unmistakable and flatter;ng prospects.
On Sunday last, at 12:3O p. m., Mrs ;. Il.
Sharpe, mother of the treasurer OF Cauad-
ian county and of Rev. G. VI. Sharpe, pas
tor of the Christian church, passed away
after prolonged illness. She was
the wife of \. J. Sharpe, our former
county treasurer, who was in the Mexican
war, and who died less than six months
ago.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
OR6N6FMFN ARMlNS.

LONDON, April lS.-Colonel c. p. Daw-
nay, who was member of the late parlia
ment from Thirsk and Nation, Yorkshire,
but was not a candidate for the present
parliament, is taking an intensely hostile
stand on the subject Of Irish home rule.
The colonel belongs to the noted Anglo
Irish family of Dawnay, being brother OF
Fiscount Dawnay, who is also baronet
of England. Colonel Dawnay is about 46
years OF age and was for twelve years in the
ColGstream Guards. In the late paria-
ment he was for suppressing the National
League in Ireland. He now announces the
formation of a corps of gentlemen voluu-
.teers in Yorkshire with the Intention of
joining the Ulster Unionists in armed op-
position To Irish home rule. Other news
of Il military character in relation TO Irish
home rule comes from Scotland The
newspapers of Glasgow report that the
Orange leaders in that city are storing
rifles and bayonets, with the intention, it is
presumed, of aiding the Orangemen of
Ulster 20 battle against Irish home rule.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
THE HOME RULE DEBATE.

LONDON, April 1S-In the house of COM
mons today the debate on the second read
ing of the home rule bill was resumed.
Lord Randolph CHURCHILL started the de-
bate by declaring that the crucial test OF
the bill was the provision for the unim-
paired supremacy of the imperial rarlia-
ment. Ostensibly such supremacy was
preserved, as every subject that would
come before the Irish parliament remained
within the cogniZance OF the imperial
parliament; but really the supremacy OF
The imperial parliament was rendered i'm
potent by its being deprived of all control
of the Irish executive and control OF the
vote of supply for raising taxes. The
creation of separate fiscal systems would
reduce the British government to posl-
tiou of great instability. Then, the Irish
members when present III the imperial
parliament, might decide in favor OF one
policy and the house Of commons in their
absence might decide IN favor Oh an en-
tirely different policy.
Lord Randolph then proceeded to con-
slider the functions of the Irish legislature
10 be created by the home rule Dill. He
said that the restrictions upon the legis-
latlon of the proposed with parliament
were so extraordinary that 30 per cent. OF
the irish laws might be declared invalid.
MIR. Morley replied to Lord Randolph
Churchill The opposition had answered
the arguments for the home rule bill, be
said, almost exclusively Irish prophesies.
To all these predictions of evil there was
one adequate reply: II DO not believe
you" No safeguards within the compass
Of human ingenuity would suffice to re-
strain the evils which the imagination of
the opposition bad conjured up. Much
had been said about the sanguine Liberal
hopes. IOnly those who hoped not
those who feared-saw into the future of
civilized communities.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
A CAGED MARLIN.

New YORK. April 1S-WiIiiam George
Robert, earl of Craven, and Miss Cornelia
Bradiey-Martlu, only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradley-N8rtin of New York. were
married ut / o'clock this afternoon by
Bishop Potter and Rev. DIR. William
Huntington, at Grace church, in the pres
ence o! over 2,0O0 of the elite Of New York
and English society, with all the pomp
suggested by the nobility of the bride
groom, and with all the magnificeuce al
lowed by the wealth CT the bride The
bridegroom, besides his nobility. is the
possessor OF a fortune that brings him an
annual income OF 100000 He i - wears
old. In appearance he Is youthful, tall
and fair His bride Is barely Il. The
bride looked extremely youthful, even for
her tender age. She wore a white satiu
creation of Worth's and strictly tabooed
jewelry. The bridesmaids were attired
IN pink silk and crepe They wore big
G2insborouSh bats. The groom was at
tended by his brother, the Hon. Robert
Cecil Craven, formerly of the royal navy.
Rev. DIR. Huntington read the wedding
ceremony according TO the ritual Of the
Church OF England and Bishop Potter
pronounced the benediction. The earl and
countess were driven to the family man
sion on West Twentieth street, where a
reception was held.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
FAILURES,

New YORK, April 1S.-The announce
ment of the failure of Thomas VI. Barr &;
Co, of 107 Front street, coffee brokers,
was made On the coffee exchange shortly
after noon today Upon the announce
ment prices weat off considerably. Barr
81 Co. acted as brokers for George katten-
ZACH, the big European plunger, whose
corner in coffee collapsed few days ago.
The liabilities are between 5000 aud
$500. 900
LANSING, Mich, April 18th Lansing
Lumber company and the Lansing Iron
and Engine works have given mortgages
to o. NJ Barnes on all their property. 10
secure him as indo:ser upon most of their
outstanding paper. This action is the re-
sult of a conference of all the creditors.
The assets are stated at about 81, 500, 600.
with liabilities at about 81 600 900.
A run commenced on the Central
Michigan Savings bank this afternoon as
n result of the embarrassment of the
lumber company an! the iron works aud
the feverish excitement attendant. After
S65. 600 had been paid out Banking Com
missioner Sherwood took possession an d
closed the doors for the protection OF he
depOsitors.
o. NJ. Barnes, the mortgagee. announced
that, with his private fortune in addition
to the property transferred to him, he Will
have s. for each Il of liabilities.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
THE ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS.

CoNsTANTINOPLE, April lS.-H. r. New
berry, secretary of the United States lega-
ton in this city, who returned last week
from Cesarea and Marsovan, where he in
vestigated the recent reports of the perse
cution of Christians by Mohammedans,
and of the burning Of the Marsoyan col
lege conducted by DIR. Horrick, has made d
statement in an interview in regard to the
origin of the disturbances. Mr.. Newberry
appears to consider the action of the
Turkish authorities as in part at least
justifiable. He says that the disturbances
had their beginning in Turkish or Armen-
ian conSpirators melting the popuiace TO
revolt by seditious placards. which were
stuck Oh the doors of the American school.
These placards were baudwrltten in the
Turkish language. They were of very
lnfiammatory and reasonable character,
and declared that it was necessary for the
people TO shake off the yoke of slavery
laid on them by the tyrannical sultan. Mr..
Newberry also found that bombs charged
with dynamite had been seized by the
authorities AS there were oubtless many
innocent persons among the 800 who were
arrested on the charge of having been con-
Cerned in the conspiracy, Mr.. Newberry
induced the grand ViZler TO grant amnesty
10 600 of the prisoners, who were released,
nnd the remaining prisoners are to be
brought to trial in court at Angora, in
Asiatic Turkey.
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AN EPlNENlN OE CPlME

ST. LOUIS, April lS-Suicides aud other
crimes seemed to be in the air here for a
short time today. Judging from the mum.
Der of them that occurred.
+. +. Hargraves blew his brains out
with revolver, AT his boarding house,
S2l2 olive street, leaving as an explapa-
tion of the act a letter, in which some
mysterious trouble was referred 10.
Charles Heitzberg hung himself to a
raiter IN a slaughter house during tx os
despondencv cansed by heavy drinking.
William o Brien an engineer. commit
ted suicide by eating box of rough on
rats, The cause j. unknown.
The above suicides all occurred at near.
~ the same time in different parts of tie
city. About the same hour. during a
quarrel. Stella Gray WIS fatally stabbed
by Clara Gray. in a house OF i'll repa;e. ANA
Charles Hamilton (coloredi WAS fatally
shot by some unknown pelsoa near the
corner OF Eleventh and Spruce streets.