The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-30

AHE cOmmlttce appOluCeo 10 per1ccC
. uniform classification list for breed
ers in all state fairs met at Chicago on
the Goth. Only routine business was
transacted. =.
The fires which have been raging in
the Okaw river bottom near Pana, Ill,
were reported under control on the
26th- Over 10000 acres had been burned
over and the loss will reach away up
in the thousands.
The annual report of Superintendent
Stump. of the immigration bureau, for
the fiscal year ended June 80 shows a
falling off in the number of immi-
grants. He estimates that since Octo-
Der, 1893, the exodus of foreigners from
the United States has been greater
than the number arriving. During the
last fiscal year 2s5,631 immigrants
landed in this country.
IMPORTANT steps are being taken by
the Chickasaws to repeal the law dis
franchising the inter-married citizens
or squaw men, and again enlistiug
them as citizens This must be done
in self-defense. The fact that the
freed men outnumber the tribe by
about 400, and would thus create polit-
ical havoc, is opening the eyes of poor
Lo.
THE house Subcommittee on judi
ciary, appointed to investigate the
charges of the Central Labor union
against United States Judge Kicks, of
Ohio, began its labors at Cleveland on
the Goth.
The assistant secretary of the in
terror has made his report on the work
of the board of pension appeals for the
fiscal year ended June 80 and from that
date up to November 1.
THE bids for the $4,000, 600 bond is
sue recently offered by Secretary Car
Isle were opened on the oath. The to-
tai number of separate bids was POT,
aggregating $154, $40, 900. The largest
and best bid was the syndicate bid OF
the United States Trust Co. and Others
at S117,O77 for the whole amount or
none.
SAMUEL C. SEELEY, a bookkeeper in
the National Shoe and Leather bank.
of New York, has disappeared and an
investigation disclosed a defalcation OF
1854, ZOO. Stockholders will at once
make good the amount.
THE Indian department has issued
orders to the Cheyennes and Arapa-
hoes that they must go upon their sew.
eral allotments and reside on them
hereafter. This will be very distaste-
full to the Indians, and will likely have
an effect of retarding the sale and al.
lotment of lauds in other reservations
Mrs. GALoBIE, of Sacred Heart, near
Guthrie, Ok, placed her 14-months-old
baby on a blanket near where she was
washing. She heard a scream and was
Mortified to find the child in the mouth
of hog. The mother after long
chase rescued the child, but it died
soon after from the injuries received.
In Pawnee county's ok district
court the votes of the Pawnee Indians
have been contested on the ground
interpreter was allowed to stamp their
ballots instead of the election inspect
or, as provided by law in cases where
voters could not read and also that In
dams are not citizens of the United
States and have no right to vote.
CAPT. LEVI F. BURNET, acting Indian
agent at Mescalero, n. NJ, in a report
to Commissioner Browning says that a
cause of much trouble on that reserva-
ton was the frequent marriages among
te,e Indians. 1t often happened that a
man would get tired of his wife and
then leave her. This might occur sew
eral times with the same persons, SO
that man might have three or four
wives and the women as many hus-
bands, all living. Polygamy was prac-
ticed to some extent and he did not see
how it could be prevented, as it was an
old custom.
The inquest over the body of Cor
nelius Riordan, the prize fighter. who
became unconscious while spaSring
hours later, was held at Syracuse n.
Y, on the ED. The jury, which was
composed of some of the representa-.
tive business men of the town, brought
in a verdict generating Fitzsimmons.
District Attorney Shove says that de-
spite the verdict he will present the
case to the grand jury of Onondaga
county.
The great Yale-Harvard football
game was played on the oath at Spring
field, Mass, Harvard being defeated.
The score was: Yale, IL; Harvard, 4.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES
THE director of the mint submitted
his annual report on the 27th, being
composed entirely of statistics.
The secretary of the navy, in his an
nual report, recommends that the en-
listed force be increased by 1000 men.
The estimates submitted for the mex,
year aggregate Sa7, ss5,914.
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