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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-04
BLAND ON THE VETO.
The Silver Champion Will Now Intr
duce a Free Coinage Bill.

The Silver Champion Will Now Intro
duce a Free Coinage Bill.
WASHINGTON, March Represent
ative Bland. author of the Bland sill
yer seigniorage bill, authorizes the
following statement concerning the
veto and its effect upon the future of
silver:
"A president at all in sympathy
with the purposes of the bill would
have signed it. College professors
may criticise its language, but man
who sprang from the people. like
Abraham Lincoln, and representing q
not the money power, but the interests
of the masses, would have signed the
bill although college professors might
have stigmatiz9d him as a railsplitter. ="
Concerning the future of the silver
movement. Mr.. Bland said:
1T is evident that under the single
gold standard nothing can be done on
the currency question without con-
sulting the few people who own the
gold of the world.
The day is fast approaching when
the peoples president will sign coin
age bill. | intend TO do everything in
my power to present to the president
free coinage bill and let him eXer-
else his rules of Lindley Murray on
that"
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Moisture Increasing In Idaho.

A study OF the meteorological data
OF Idaho leads to the conclusion that
the humidity OF the atmosphere is in
creasing year by year Never since
the settlement OF Idaho has there been
such an immense crop all over the
state as during the past season.
The product of grass and grain has
been wonderful. Scientific estimates
attribute this result TO a change in
climate produced by the multiplica-
tion OF irrigating canals. which
moisten great extent of country and
create Il humid atmosphere. 1t has
been observed that frequent rains now
fall during the months of July and
August Nature is closing up the gap
between the wet and dry seasons and
equalizing the rainfall. Many believe
that the time is not far distant when
tho arid lands will become arabic
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FIVE DEAD. TWELVE INJURED.
n SandpiPe Bursts at Peoria. Causing
Destruction to Life and Pronerfy.

A Sandpipe Bursts at Peoria. Causing
Destruction to Life and Property.
PEORIA. H., March 3l.-Bourland
street. on the West bluff, was the
scene of horrible accident yesterday.
One of the immense sandpipcs of the
Peoria water company collapsed with
d deafcning crash, heard in all parts
of the city. The pipe has been leak
ing for - number of days, and five
men were sent to repair it. Without
a sign of warning the bottom sec
ton burst and the steel structure
immediately collapsed. There were
number of school children
playing close by, and many of
them. with some of the work
men, We're hurled distance by
the force of the water. Frank Hogan,
aged IA. was instantly killed and sev-
eral companions sustained injuries
which may result fatally. Three of
the worllmen were badly hurt. while
two others were missed and are pre-
sum:d to be under the ruins. The
houses were completely wrecked by
the force of the water. while a half
dozen others were blown from their
foundations and badly damaged.
Barns and other small structures were
smashed to kindlingwood. The best
obtainablc list of casualties footed up
five Gead and dozen injured
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GENERAL PRODUCE MARkEr.

KANSAS CITY Mo MIrch3I Price, quoted
below for country prodL:e are for wholesale
lots from first nands. On orders higher prices
are charged
f. :gS-Sc
Butter-Creamery, fancy separator. 2b5t9lc:
choice, &c: dairy fancy lfdi5: fair. l3c
solid packed, l0Ii2c common plckin. &c
choice packing Sc
Butterine- Creamery grades in - 10 s. Ia
tubs solid, lS5ac: dairy gr des in - TO g. III
tabs II. 12>s and BE; , III rolls an small solid
packed tubs, tsc higher than above quotations
lb prints, lc higher than solid packed
Poultry-Roosters, i5c hens &c sprin = a G:
broilers, l2}3GtI5c Turkeys gobblcrs, 5G55I &c
per 10 hens 7Ia0sc per Id Ducks Gsc per Id
Geese, fat, sc
Game-Frog legs medium. .01i 75c per doz
choice lar e, II y J. 80 Plover. II y per doZ
Snipe. 75c: iacksnipc. ~. Ducks, mixed. SI0
p; teal. II 25d l.50; mallarJ $3.50. Wild tur-
KEYS. 7d9c per lib.
Green Fruits-Lemons. s3Gt3 ~ Oran res.
Mexican e. 50G3 California ~ 2jG,, IS
navalS. $50 SS Florida. s: - t3 bright
e 1903 y Cranberries, Jersey <69i"5 Cape
Cod s6 per bbl.
observation-disclosures. 81 a56I - per cwt
Celery, Michigan small, 251I1c per bunch
fancy, 6OGs0c per bunch. Cauliflower small
iO950c; large. SI75a2 per doz Potatoes,
Northern, 62G65c; Colorado. 75c per bu Wis
consln seed, 65ll70c Ohio. S5c: sweet red 75c
per bu yellow. 15c per bu. Beans. Eastern
hand picked, II GA |. 65 per bu medium. 81 81
Gl6O per bu Dried peas, II - per bu Onions.
yellow. 81 75f'2 per bbI Spanish II per crate
Beets. SOC per doL lunches Tomatoes 50
choice, $50 fancy. n per six baskets Aspar
agus, 75c per doL punches. Lettuce II per bu.
Squash, - per bu box. Radshcs 2jc per doz
rhubarb 3Dc.
Veal-5d7c per III
Miscellaneous Grease, white ilsc yelIcs.
10 nall II
ga Ice Sheep l.elts, 25di)c; dry, f'e5c per -
Deer skins. sum ner, &c fall. 2jc winter. -.
Antelope %, l5GSI0c Feathers prime wh !,
35c: gray. zoe: Old, l51SJc
Hides-Nos ! and and butt branded
throuEh &c free OF brand, ol4n9sac. glue, lie
dry. &c
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River and Harbor APPROXIMATIONS,

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The river
and harbor committee of the house
has practically completed the river
and harbor bill for this congress,
though there may be some minor
changes. 1t makes a total appro-
priation approximating $4,000, 900.
The estimates before the COM
mittee amounted to S3s, ,17O,6I1.
In addition to this, the sundry civil
bill contains items aggregating IS, 30O,-
600 for contract work on rivers and
harbors. The total amount available
therefore the next fiscal year is nearly
S1s,000.O00. Among the appropria-
tions are: Improving Usage river, Mis-
souri,, SAG. 900: Missouri river between
foot of Great Falls, in Montana and
the lower limits of Sioux City, Iowa,
$50, 900.
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MISSOURI PoPuLlsTs.
They Name n State Ticket In Convention
at Kansas Civ

at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 29.-It
was nearly j p. m. yesterday before
permanent organization of the Mis-
souri, Populist state convention
was formed at Turner hall. O. ID.
Jones of Knox county was finally
elected permanent chairman ard Paul
Dixon, editor of the Missouri World at
Cnl!ncothe, was made secretary.
While the committee on resolutions
was at work General Paul Wander
WORT of Omaha, commander-in-chief
of the Indu strial Legion, addressed
the convention on the labor question.
The committee on resolutions then
made its report. The Omaha platform
was adopted and its principles reiter-
ated. The platform teemed with de-
nunclatlOns of the two old parties,
calling them twin engines of oppres-
sion. After considerable discussion
the platform was adopted.
Chairman Jones then called the con-
vention to order. Nominations for
railroad commissioner then began.
Ihe names of Thomas j. Hendrickson
or bates county and Paul Dickson of
Livingstone county were submitted.
Be1ore a vote was taken, however,
Mr.. Dickson withdrew from the race.
Mr.. Hendrickson was then nominated
unanimously.
Ihc convention then proceeded to
nominate candidates for next state
election to be held in November. Can
dldates were not numerous and the
contest was mild. o. ID. Jones of
Edna. chairman of the convention,
was nominated for supreme Judge.
and j. ID. Elliff of Anderson was given
the candidacy for superintendent of
public instruction
1t was nearly IL o'clock when the
convention adjourned
The Missouri Reform Press associa-
tion held short session after the
convention was over. j. Weller Long
of Kirksville presided as chairman.
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CRISP WON'T HAVE 1T.

Sense of Duty Impels Him to Refuse the
appointment as Senator.
WASHINGTON, March 81. - Speaker
Crisp has notified Governor Northen
of his declination of the appointment
of United States senator for the unex-
pired term of the late Senator Col
quit. In his telegram Speaker Crisp
says very large majority of the
Democratic members of the house
have united in the request that he
continue to serve as speaker for the
remainder of the session, and although
deeply grateful to the governor, and
although sacrificing cherished am
bition. sense of duty impels him to
decline the appointment.
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MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL l. 1894
MORE TROUBLE IN SAMOA.
Chief Justice Ide Degrades RebellIous
Chiefs and an Outbreak Results.


Chiefs and an Outbreak Results.
AUCKLAND. New Zealand, March 81
The steamship Alameda. from Samoa,
brings news of serious outbreak in
those islands, which would seem to
indicate that the United States,
GreTe Britain and Germany will
Likely be called upon to take
prompt action. The trouble was
caused by the action of Henry Ide. the
American chief justice. who fined and
compelled chiefs of rival factions to
work on roads like common convicts
for stirring up strife. The followers
of the chiefs prepared for resistance.
and when the chief Justice ordered
general disarmament the rebels killed
man IN the employ of the govern
ment.
King Malietoa at once sent a stron o
1crce OF warriors to attack the rebels.
Several sharp encounters folio wed
during which thirty men were killed
and about fifty wounded Through
out the fighting, up to the time the
steamship Alameda left Samoa, the
advantage was mostly on the govern
ment's side. the rebels being driven
from their camp and forced to retreat
into the inte nor of the island. wheie G
1T was difficult to pursue them.
King Malietoa's troops are charged
with having mutilated prisoner who
fell into their hands. with having
burned the houses of inoffensive ma
tives, with having outraged n number
of native women whose male relatives
had been in the rebellion, and with a
number of other atrocities. in which
the beheading of the dead is said to
have been common. In consequence
the natives are making all kinds of
threats against foreigners, and the
arrival of war ship of some nation is
anXiOnSlY awaited
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KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK.

KANSAS CITY March 80 Cattle Receipts
5,s73. calves, l0s shipped yesterday 1884
The general cattle market was active ant
about steady. opening strong and CLOSING
easy.
Cattle-Dressed beef ana export steers. s36,
10. cows AMI hefer, - l3 A. Texas and
Indian steers 1895 d3 stockers and feeders
s!UOa32j. mixed, 81 ls,
Hoss-Receipts, 12,3ii shipped yesterday,
2,32l The market opened &c 10 Ser aud about
gained the loss at the close. The top was
si571a and bulk of sales II 475.d45j. against
s46) for top and s45:i. "a 81 for bulk of sales
yesterday
Sheep-Receipts, 1911: no shipments The
market was active and strong to SC to I0e
hi-her
The following are representative sales:
No. VT Price No W.T. Price
SO 81 Col if 81 :, a. a.; ssI lambs lambs 50 se5
Horses Receipts, I5s, shipped yesterday
l5' The IN Irslet was active ami unch lnged
The ran e OF pr.ces for gool age
"ell broke and sound horses is about as
follows: Extra dra't. 100 pounds sIO0I3j
good DIR IT. i.@0] pounds. S6ru9J Extra driv.
ers, si0) t1fj good drivers TiJd9): saddle
sood 10 extra $750liJ, Southern mares an I
1eldln *, s25d1' Western ran &c. unbrokcn
GOa5) Western ponies. SI2 nal
CHICAGO, March 81 HOGS Receipts. OBJ
official Yesterday, ~ 80 shipments yesterday
l@"53 left over about i0l quality good mar
ket actite and prices steu iy Sales ranged al
81 61G4 50 for light - IS "a % for rou gh pack
ing; 4 go i s5 for mixed: - 6Iu 4 ~ for heavy
packing and shipping lots pigs "A a 81
Cattle-Receipts, 7.0D; official yesterday
II, 1ey shipments ye:teriay.4.f -: market slo "
cial yesterday, 1928. shipment, yesterday
li}: ma rf firm
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POINTS FRoMTHE PRESS.

The Sierra Nevada range of Cali
fornia is nearly 500 miles long, 20
wide and from 1000 To nearly Il. 900
feet high.
The system OF numbering the hours
of the day from one to twenty four
has been adopted by the Italian rail
roads, and is used for ali time
schedules.
The prisoners of the Maryland peni-
tentiary have contributed nearly $500
to the cause of charity The sums
contributed ranging from twenty-five
cents to s..
I'm the proportion to the numbers
engaged, Waterloo was the bloodiest
battle of modern times. Over thirty
five per cent of the men engaged were
killed or wounded.
Our nickel five-cent piece gives a
key to the intricacies of the metric
system, as it weighs exactly five
grammes, which is exactly two cent?
meters in diameter.
A cotton vest made from a piece of
cloth woven ia years ago is owned by
John B. Perry of Dawson. Ga. The
cotton was woven by Mr.. Perry's
great-graudmother.
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RAlNMAKING NOT A SUCCESS.
Secretary Morton Declares That the Bonn.
bardments Did Little Good.

bardments Did Little Good.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-Secretary
Morton, replying to a large number of
inquiries from all parts of the coun-
try as to the results of the depart
ments rainfall experiments and the
feasibility of controlling precipitation
by means of explosions, has sent out
the following circular:
Replying to your letter as TO rain
making experiments, have to inform
you that in no case did they pass the
merely experimental stage and that
prospect of ultimate success is not
such as TO Justify farmers or other
citizens in rainmaking experimental
ton. In this determination. iudg-
ment and opinion. | am supported by
the scientists and other experts in
meterology connected with the United
States weather bureau. The lombard
ment of the skys for water. as carried
on by this department. did not pro-
duce results calculated to inspire the
hope that any method of conclusion
can be made commercially success
full iii percipitating the moisture from
the clouds"
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From Kansas to Manitoba.

PALMER, Kan, March 3O.-Twenty-
one car loads of French settlers are
ready to leave here for Manitoba I'M
migration agents of that territory
have been in this section for some time
and last week party of twenty-five
Russians passed through here for the
North. The people most sought by
the immigration agents are the col
onies of foreigners which have been
formed in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska
and Western Missouri
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Executive Mansion. MARCH, 20. iSaI ',
Many Notices of Pension Reduction.

WASHINGTON, March oS.-A large
daily average of notices of reduction
OF pensions, sent out to veterans and
other pensioners, is kept up by the
pension bureau.
These arc in accordance with the
act OF December 81, 1893. and provide
Tor reduction unless additional evil
dencc is fled within thirty days. The
notices are sent after a final review
of the eases in the board of revisions.
and all having been forwarded BY
registered letters during the past
three weeks in order to record the
time et receipt Already 1000 have
been sent in this way.
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WINCHESTER, Ohio. March 31.-Miss
Sarah Billings and her sister Linda,
aged 35 and 40 years respectively,
were found dead in bed yesterday
morning. A note explained that death
was by poison, self-administered. be-
cause one was intending to get mar
ried and love for each other forbade
separation. Therefore, they chose
death The two were well-to-do.
They left no relatives
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Mr.. Million - Well, our daughter
graduated with the highest honors at
the Great American Female college, ]
see.
Mrs. MiIlion-Yes, and she must
now cross the Atlantic and finish her
education.
''Humph, At what school?"
''At no school She must marry
some foreign nobleman. and spend a
few years in European courts. BY
that time her husband will cast her OF,
and she will come back fully equipped
to take her place at the head of Amer
lean society. ~. Y. Weekly.
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Z:nc strike Near MansfieId. Mn

JOPLIN. Mo-, March 3l.-It is report
cd in mining circles that am important
strike of zine ore has been made near
Mansfield, in Wright county, Mo.
The ore is said to lie in n true fissure
vein, like the silver lodes of Colorado.
The vein has been traced for several
miles. Shafts have been sunk along
this vein and n depth of 1s4 feet has
been reached with the shaft still in
ore. On the surface the vein is twenty
inches wide, and gradually grows
wider as the depth increases
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CITIZENS SHOT DOWN.
Trouble Over the South Carolina Dispen-
sary Laws.

sary Laws.
ST. Louis, Mo, March 31.-A special
from Columbia. $. C., says: The pas
sions aroused by the dispcnsary law
and the SPY system had the long ex-
pected result in the fight at Darling
ton yesterday afternoon, in which at
least two spies and two citizens were
Shot to death and three other men
were badly wounded.
Thi. city is wild. All the sympathy
is with the citizens, and the air is
filed with fierce expressions against
the government. the dispensary law
and the spies. The fight occurred at
$3.50 p. m, at the depot. as body of
armed spies We're leaving the town
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IN MOSQUITO RESERVATION
Situation of Affairs at BIuefieIds Said to
BE Most Critical

COLON, March 31.-It is reported
here that the Nicaraguans threaten to
make Il second seizure of the Mosquito
reservation. An American citizen is
said to have been shot by the acting
governor, Rama.
The British warship Canada is wait
ing reasonable time at Bluefields in
anticipation of the arrival OF the
United States flag ship San Francisco
with Rear Admiral Benham on board.
The situation of affairs at Bluefields
is said to be most critical.
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Nine People Burned to Da,,h

CHARLESTON, W. Va, March 3l.-A
special from Hinton gives an account
of terrible accident that oc-
Cured at McKendree, in sum
mers county. yesterday. When W.
b. Witt of that place returned
home, after being out on watch all
night, he found his house in ashes.
and to his horror learned that his
eight children and the hired girl had
been consumed in the flames.
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Dynamfters I'm Rn,,.r ~

BUTLER, Mo-. March 31-An attempt
was made to blow up the court house
here last night. An iron bomb. six
inches in diameter, was found in the
center hallway, with four feet of
charred fuse attached. No reason is
known why anyone should attempt to
destroy the court house.
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Condition of Wheat

ATcHIsoN, Kan, March 31.-The SUI
perintendent of the Missouri Pacific
Railway at this point yesterday re-
ceived reports concerning the eondi-
ton of wheat from every station in
Western Kansas. 1t is believed the
wheat has not been injured. although
it is too early to tell definitely. In
Nebraska, however, the replies indi-
cate slight damage.
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New President of Central Paclflc.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3O.-At a
meeting of the board of directors of
the Central Pacific railroad company
held yesterday Isaac L. Requa was
elected to fill the position of presi-
dent, made vacant by the resignation
of II. +. Huntington.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-04
state to Manufacture Dvnamite

LONDON. March 3O.-A dispatch from
Berlin says that the rumors in regard
to the establishment of state monop-
oily of the manufacture and sale of
dynamite are merely the outcome of
the popular wish that such law be
adopted.
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CURTIS FIRST THE FIELD.
The Fourth Kansas Congressman Re
named by AccIamation.

named by AccIamation.
EMPoRIA. Kan, March 2s. The Re-
publican convention of the Fourth
congressional district met yesterday
afternoon with large delegations from
all parts of the state. The renomi-
nation of Congressman Curtis by ac-
clamation was a foregone conclusion
and the convention did not create as
much interest as did the energetic
political wire pulling of the various
candidates for places on the state
ticket and the discussion of the plans
of the coming campaign.
All the gubernational candidates
HOch, Morrill, and George Martin
were here. Among the delegates of
this district Hoch has the largest fol-
lowing while Morrill, has a number of
active and individual friends at work
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In the Field Against Heard.

COLUMBIA, Mo-. March 31.-Judge
James Cooney of Marshall and Senator
Sam Major of Fayette. who have been
looking over the political arena in
Boone and the adjoining counties,
have concluded to enter the race for
congress in this district against John
I. Heard, the present incumbent.
Both are stalwart Democrats.
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representative sales;

eep-Receipts, 1871: no shipments The
ket was active and strons to Sc to 100
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kEARsARGE BLOWN UP.
Natives of San Andreas Island Destroy
the Famous Old Ship

Natives Oh SAN AnOrSaS lslanu destroy
the Famous Old Ship.
BOsToN. Mass, March 29.-A dispatch
dated Havana, to president Winson of
the Boston towboat company, from
the captain of the steamer Orion says
the United States steamer Kearsarge
has been blown up and burned
by the natives. The Orion on
March Is was fitted out with every
appliance needed to float the wrecked
corvette off Roncador reef. The
steamer reached the reef on the 21st
and found matters as stated. The
remnants of the hull below the water
line were wrecked and broken and
showed the effect of the explosion.
Previous to the destruction of the
vessel the natives of San Andres island
had rifled the wreck of everything
movable
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To BE Ousted From the church.

LEXINGTON, KY, March 3O.-Colonel
Breckinridge's church membership
here is in serious danger. There will
be change in the pastorate shortly.
and a move, it is said, will then be
made to cast him out. Colonel Breck-
inridge has been a member of this
church for thirty years
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An Express Robber Canpht

Charles Ketchum, alias Charles Har-
din, the express messenger who
robbed the Wells-Fargo express of
S35. 200 between Cincinnati and Louis
vile nearly two years ago, was cap
tured yesterday at Alma, a small
town twelve miles from this city, and
SIC. 900 recovered.
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20 nishar nirnrce Inura-.

GUTHRIE, Ok, March e7.-Judge Dale
to-day appointed committee tofin d
out what lawyers were advertising
Oklahoma as the place to secure d.
yorces with instructions to bring the
facts fully before the court in order
that all attorneys implicated could be
diSharrad
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March a.
Mrs. Annie Ritter, - years of age.
was run over and instantly killed near
the Moreau by train on the Bagnell
branch. She was quite deaf and did
not hear the approaching train.