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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
FALL TRADE PROSPECTS.

Figures from r. g. Dun . %. which show
That Prosperous Times Are APPROACH
ing.
New YORK, Oct 5.-R. G. Dun Sc Co. =
Weekly Review of Trade says: Conn
mercial failures in the third quarter o.
1895 were ?. 1872, with liabilities of $32,-
lot, 100, averaging $1i,721 per firm,
against S1o,O2s last year, about Is per
cent more. The rate of commercial
mortality, = 81 failures in quarter
for every 1000 firms in business, is
lower than last year, and the pro-
portion of defau1ted liabilities to-
the solvent business represented
by payments through clearing houses
is but 2.4e per $1,000 against 3 - last
year. The defaulted liabilities per
firm in business average $26 90 against
S26. SO last year. The defaulted liabil-
tiles of the manufacturing class aver
age $50, s65 against SO, 763 in the same
quarter last year; in trading $S,577
against Sc, 443 last year; and the bank
ing failures, not included above, have
been 81, with average liabilities of
STA, 900 against $11O. o36 last year. In
the third quarter, when in failures the
average liza bilities in prosperous years
falls below S1o,0 600, the number below
two in !, 900 firms, the defaulted habil~
tiles were below So per s., 900 exchange,
and below SIS per firm in business.
Thus the analysis indicates a eondi-
ton approaching, but not yet reach
ing. one of general prosperity. Highly
important comparisons of prices this
week show. about September so, the
lowest range ever known for wholesale
prices of all commodities, notwith-
standing advances since March of
20 per cent. in cotton goods.
40 per cent. in boots and shoes
and So per cent. in iron and steel
products, while in wooden goods there
has been scarcely any advance, and in
all food products taken together a fall
of II per cent. Comparisons show q
fall in food products of 232 per cent.
in the five years since October, 1890, in
wooden goods %. 5 per cent, in iron
products 1874 per cent. and in cotton
goods IL. Sc per cent, while boots and
shoes are little higher and leather and
hides much higher than five years ago.
Failures in three days have been 207
In the United States, against 219 last
year, and Al in Canada, against 40 last
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
RIDDLED WITH BUCKsHoT.
Ex-State Senator Hughes Killed by GeOr e
Rockers at AntonitO, oil.

Ex-State Senator Hughes Killed by George
Rockers at AntOnitO, oil.
ANToNITo, Col, Oct. George Reek-
ers, saloonkeeper in Connejos, shot
and killed ex-State Senator John w.
Hughes yesterday. Hughes went into
Rockers saloon and got into an argu-
ment with the proprietor, who ordered
him out of the place. According to
Rockers story, he took shotgun load
ed with buckshot and ordered Hughes
out. Hughes, he says, cursed him, and
as Hughes opened the door to go out
he threw his hand back to his hip
pocket, to where he usually carried
his gun, and then Rockers fred, the
shot taking effect in the right side of
his abdomen. There was woman at
the bottom of the trouble.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
TO AID CUBA.
Great National Sympathetic Mass Meeting
at Chicago Proposed.


at Chicago Proposed
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-Every mayor of
every city, town and village through
out the United States will be advised
and requested by the executive COM
mittee of the Cuban sympathetic mass
meeting, held in Chicago last Monday
night, to confer with the most prom
inent and publie-spirited citizens to
arrange for a national mass meet
ing the night of Thursday, October
81, for the purpose of awakening
a kindly feeling toward the suf-
fering and patriotic Cubans, who
are struggling for liberty. The com
mittee will also call upon every prom.
inent organization in the country for
the cooperation of its branches in
every section. Churches of every de-
nomination and fraternal and benevA
client societies will also be called upon
for assistance in making the mass
meeting on October 81 a great wave of
public opinionand sy mpathy for the
Cuban cause from the Pacific to the
Atlantic and from British Columbi to
MeXiPO
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
CARRIER PIGEONS.
How the Messages Are Attached to the
Swift Birds.


Swift Birds.
De Witt G. Lockwood writes for St.
Nicholas an article describing the mail
service by carrier pigeons established
between Los Angeles and Santa Gaia.
lima, Cal. He says:
The message, when sent by the
Catalina carriers, is always written on
sheets of tissue paper four inches wide
and ten inches long. Four of these
slips will contain enough written mat
ter to fill a column or more of an ordi-
nary daily paper. by which it will be
seen that the birds can carry a very
considerable amount of correspondence.
It may be interesting to know that dur
ing the Franco-German war, when
large numbers of carrier-pigeons were
employed with great success, the mes
sages were printed by microphotog-
rapy on fine waterproof films, by which
method an almost incredible amount of
correspondence could be forwarded by
single bird. According to a French
newspaper, nearly two million dis
patches were earned by pigeons during
the siege. The birds were taken out OF
Paris in balloons.
There are various methods of at
taching the message. After folding
the written slips together lengthwise
in the middle, then over and over
three or four times, the whole may be
rolled up tightly into drum-shaped
pellet, secured with a bit of Irvine, and
then tied to the birds leg; or else the
narrow folded slips may be wound
round and round the leg, exactly as
you would apply bandage to sore
finger. Sometimes the message is at
tached to the wing or tail feathers, or
fastened about the body of the bird,
but not always with the best results.
The well-known figure. on certain
valentines. of a huge envelope with
''Love to Thee" inscribed thereon, the
| whole tied about the neck of dove
with yard or more, apparently, OF
pale blue ribbon. is undoubtedly re,
spcnsible for the prevailing belief
that this method is the one generally
| employed. It was no uncommon thing
to have man rush into the Office with
yellow envelope, duly sealed and ad-
dressed. almost as large as the pigeon
itself. expecting the bird TO carry it lin
his beak, probably across the channel.
After few experiences of this kind
| the boys were not at all surprised when
somebody wanted to know If he could
/ get bird to take over an umbrella fo.
| him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
LAND MATTERS.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office Makes a Report

Onfce Makes q Report.
WASHINGTON, Get. SIS. W. Lamo-
reaux, commissioner of the general
land Office, in his annual report to the
secretary of the interior. declares that
the decline of land office business noted
in>t the last report still continues. Com
pared with 1894 there has been a de-
crease in land entries of 1905, and of
6, O16, 6s5 acres entered upon, decrease
of final entries of 6,5S4 and $50, 059
acres entered upon, and decrease of
cash receipts of 1874, 370 The business
of the office for the fiscal year ended
June 80 was as follows; Cash sales,
AT, 373 acres; homestead entries, s.
0O9, 491 acres; state selections, GIG. 169
acres; railroad selections, 1,96Z.479
acres; swamp land patents, 244. TIA
acres; Indian allotments, IS. 455 acres;
Indian lands sold, 40, 54S aeres> total
cash receipts, 81, O33, 454; patented or
certified with the effect of patenting
to railroad companies, S,184 $50 acres;
surveys accepted by the land office, TO-
123, 653 acres.
The total area of vacant public land
In the United States is as follows: Sur
veyed 313, S37, 1888; unsurveyed, 2S5. 245, :
5O7. The land office has examined and
has in process of adjustment twenty
two land grants to railroads The in
terror department has approved the
findings of the land Office regarding
the land grant adjustments in eleven
cases, and ten other cases for final adj
justments have been submitted to the
danartment
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
BOB WHITE.

Bob White from the fence rail is calling,
The field for the harvest is brown.
Cool dews on the hedgerows are falling
As backward come from the town.
A year mid its din I've been working,
But now, at the border of night,
I pass where the deer-mice are lurking
And hear the shy call of Bob White
I pause by the wayside uncertain,
a lane branches of, and see
a light and a snowy chintz curtain,
Familiar as daybr to me:
And memories are rising unbidden.
OF ewes that were full of eight,
When by the hedgeroses hidden
Knocked gayly the call of Bob White.
And one in the doorway was listing,
A 'kerchief thrown over her head
Who came at the sound to our trysting.
Her cheeks as the roses were red,
Like gold of the harvest her treSses,
Her step as the thistledown light;
Sweet hour of loves vows and caresses
ForetoId by the call of Bob White.
The tears from my eyes overlooking,
Fall down on the wild roses bloom;
Ills manly to weep at the knowing
Lies blossom has lost its perfume.
A quarrel, cold words and we parted;
l noticed her cheek had grown white,
She left me alone broken hearted,
Alone in the lane with Bob White.
Just once for the sake of old pleasures,
Tonight L will play we forget,
And whistle the well-recalled measures
That farmers translate as More Wet"
The door is thrown open. wonder
II ghosts walk abroad in the night.
No, there is her face smiling under
The 'kerchief; she's coming, Bob White
But what was t he past to the present?
A year has but deepened our love;
From their hiding place partridge AM
pheasant
Peep out as we pass, and above
The robins are chlrping together.
Oh, everythings bonny and bright,
Our life shall be all pleasant weather;
Call on, from the fence rail, Bob White.
-Lalia Mitchell, in Good Housekeeping.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
DEADLY FIRE DAMP.
It Explodes with Terrible Results In q
PennSvIvania Mine.

It Explodes with Terrible Results In q
PennsyIvania Mine.
WILKsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 8.-Shortly
after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon a
terrific explosion of gas occurred in
the Dorence mine, operated by the
Lehigh Valley Coal Co., which is situ-
ated in the northern part of the city.
1t is not yet known how many men
were IN the mine The officials are very
reticent and it is almost impossible
to get any information from the lev
els of the earth where the rescuers are
at work. At o'clock five men, all
badly burned, were brought to the sur
face. They are: Robert blanchard,
aged 10; William Miller, aged 81;
Michael Moss, George Lafiy and Joseph
Murphy. The first two are members
of the engineer corps. Moss and
Lafy are laborers and Murphy
is a driver. Miller and Blanchard
are so badly burned that they
cannot live.
At midnis ht the rescuers had made
very lite progress in their efforts to
reach the scene of the explosion. Fire
damp made its appearance shortly
after o'clock, and it was necessary to
do considerable work, which proceeded
very slowly. There is a strong suspi-
cion also that the explosion caused a
heavy fall in the old workings, and that
this will further retard the work of
the rescuers. 1t is now admitted by
the mine officials that there is no hope
of finding the engineer corps alive.
They all persisted in the explosion,
and if they were not killed outright
they were suffocated by the fire damp.
The superintendent is of the opinion
that they were killed by the
force of the explosion, and
their bodies probably burned to
crisp. All but eight miners and
laborers have now been accounted for.
Whether these eight persisted with the
engineer will not be known until to-
day. Superintendent Chase thinks,
however, that the list of dead will not
number more than seven or eight.
Michael Moss, one of the injured
miners, died at the hospital at o'clock
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 5.-Neal
Smith, negro convict, who recently
assaulted a young white woman at
Cole City, Ga, after beating her into
insensibility, was last night taken
from the prison guards by mob from
Tennessee and Alabama and shot to
death. Great excitement exists and
even the guard who had charge of the
convict, allowing him to go about as a
trusty, was roughly handled. No
further trouble is expected.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
In Favor of Senator squire.

WATERFOWL. N. Y, Oct. 5.-Judge
Williams, of the supreme court, yester-
day delivered an opinion in the cele-
brated suit brought by Philo Osgood
and others against United States Sem
ator Watson c. Squire and others, in
volving the title to between 1000, 600
and So, 900. 900 worth of property in the
city of Seattle, Wash. The Judge de-
cides in favor of Senator Squire.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
HIS VICTIMS MOTHER GLAD.
Joy Expressed in Court Over the Sentencing
of a Husband to Death.

DECATUR, ILL.,, Oct. S.-Charles N.
Smith was sentenced to-day to be
hanged November 90. He murdered
his daughter, Louise Smith, and his
sister-in-law, Edna Buchert. nine days
ago and pleaded guilty before Judge
Vail. Smith heard the sentence un-
moved and quietly said: Thank you"
At the last word from the judge
there was an outbreak of applause and
shrek from the prisoners wife, the
mother of the murdered girl. ''Oh,
the slayer of my child has got what he
deserved" she cried. Thank God he
has got his dues, am SO glad, l am so
glad" The woman was taken from the
court room shrieking and sobbing.
Her father went around shaking hands
and saying, "That is all / wanted"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
Gold Cominp from Germany.

New YORK, Oct 5.-The steamship
Spree, which sailed from Bremen for
New York on October 1, carried $780,
600 in gold. and the steamship Fuerst
Bismarck, from Hamburg On October
3, carried $50, 600 in gold.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
Life Sentence for Seven Dollars.

GUTHRIE, o. r., Oct. 5.-Last winter
the legislature passed bill making
train and bank robbery punishable by
imprisonment for life. The first men
to be convicted under this law are
Tu1lis and Henry WEIGH, in the district
court at Tecumseh. They robbed an
old man named Ross in the Kickapoo
country last May, getting 81.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12

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De accompanied by the name of the author
not necessarily for publication, but as an
evidence of good faith on the part of the
writer. Write only on one side of the paper
BE particularly careful IN giving names and
oates TO nave the letIe-s ana figures plair
aud distiE1-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
Ate Poisonous Grapes.

BIRCH TREE, Mo-, Oct. s.-Walter
Burlington, the 5-year-old son of John
Burlington. of this place, has died from
eating poisonous grapes while visiting
his grandmother in the country. A
younger brother is also in precarious
condition from the same cause.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
FrIghtfnI Accident.

TACOMA, Wash, Oct. 5.-A frightfu1
accident occurred on the line of the
Tacoma Traction Co., near the city
limits, in which a dozen persons were
more or less dangerously hurt and two
will probably die from the injuries re-
ceived. The accident was a head-e end
collision. and was due to heavy fog
which enshrouded the track.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
THE TAYLORS STILL SAFE.
The Day Set by the Court for the Hangings
Passes Without Action.

CARRoLLToN, Mo, Oct. 5.-Yester-
day was the day set for the hanging OF
the Taylor brothers for the murder of
the Meeks family, but Judge Rucker
granted stay. pending an appeal to
the supreme court. The appeal will
not be heard before next April.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
yanderbilt weddInr Announced

NEW YORK, Oct. s.-The World to-
day says: The wedding Of the duke
of Marlborough and Miss Vanderbilt
is amour need for Thursday, Novem Der
IA, at st. Thomas church, Fifth ave-
nue. and Fifty-third street. Many de-
tails have still to be perfected.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
First Hanging since John Brown

CHARLEsTowN, w. Va, Oct An
drew j. Scott. colored, was hanged in
the Jail yard here to-day for the muir
der of his wife by poison. This is the
first hanging that has taken place here
since John Brown and his men paid
with their lives the penalty of their
thirty-six years ago
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
A Lumber Company,s Hard Luck.

GREEN BAY, Wis, Oct Sat the
docks of the Murphy Lumber
Co. 100000 logs were swept away
by fire caused by spark
to-day and out of 1000, 900 feet of
select lumber 2,OoO,O0 or 1900, 600
were destroyed together with the
docks and number of buildings The
loss is $1OO, 600. The company's mill
burned Septemb Der 90 with loss of
S75. OON
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
Wealth of the tionIds.

New YORK, Oct Surrogate Fitz-
gerald has returned to David Mcclure,
appraiser of the Jay Gould estate, his
reports on it's value in order that the
collateral Inheritance tax may be
levied The report values the personal
property of the estate at $50, 934, $50,
and the real estate at 5000, 900. The
residuary estate amounts to S73, 224, SAT.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
wisconsin Methodists for Women.

RACINE, Wis. Oct. 5.-The Wiscon-
sin conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. in session here to-day,
voted on the question of the admission
of women as delegates to the general
conference. The vote resulted: For
the women, 100; against. L; neutral, %.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-27

lost was sure to turn up again. Four kings parted this life in more rapid succession than English history had known since the Conquest; princes went by the dozen, lords by the score; still, after thirty years of bloodshed, a king who had no more right to the throne than you or have got it be- cause everybody was sick of fighting And what was the England he had to rule? An entirely new one, our mod ern England with scarcely trace of the old the nobility swept away, the hurghers all-important, everything re- generated, printing Invented, learning revived, the Western isles discovered; all that the magnificent feudal nobles of England had gained by putting out their entire strength to set one or an other Plantagenet on the throne had been the wiping out of nobles, feudal- ism and Plantagenets altogether; and the people were satisfied, and had let it all be done without murmur.
 Now your valiant campaign seems to me very like these, Every party gets defeated none wins permanently enormous majorities shift over; whole states change their "columns"; tons oi money mountains of pamphlets, Act naean craters of fire and breath, are exhausted; and nobody is killed but the iticians.-Atlantic.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-27
stnie Hirhmnr G mmlssion.

Hartford, Dec. 26.-The state highway
 commission has completed the appro- tionment of the appropriation for 1895 for the improvement of the public roads. Eighty 'boroughs have applied for am appordonm;nt, but only thirty-five of them have completed the work on their roads, and the comptroller will pay to these towns upon the certificates of the commission the apportionment agreed upon It is upon a basis of one half of one per cent of the grand list of the towns. No town is allowed to spend more than $S,000 annually The state appropriation is $75,000, and the state pays one third of the cost to the extent of the appropriation, sharing the expense with the county and town The total of the apportionments is $30,64S,25,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-27

through the great iron door which sep arates the part of the convent where the prisoners live from the rest of the building.
 Even here there is nothing gloomy or prlson-like about the place; and, be- yond the fact of the door being kept locked, nothing to indicate that they who live there are subject to any spec ial restraint. The beautiful old stone staircase was flooded with sunshine that morning, and there was a smile on the faces of half the women we passed there. The Superior led the way into a large, cheerful-looking room, in which some fifty women were sitting work ing Perhaps half a dozen of them were making match-hoxes or buttons; and the others were doing fine needle- work, beautiful embroidery, lace and wool work, under the guidance of sis- ter who looked for all the world as if she had stepped straight out of one of Fra Angelico's pictures, She passes her life going about among these Wo- men distributing to each in turn direc- tions, encouragement, or reproof, as LIlGs Ssl0G llltLy uC, olWetS NAlh eb SAAAAAN on her lips-one, though, in which there is more patient endurance than gladness. Another Sister woman with a strong, sphinX-lllle face, was sitting at the further end of the room on a raised platform. She is there to maintain discipline and guard against those outbursts of temper which, from time to time disturb the harmony of life in this convent As we entered the room all the women rose and greeted us, in the most cheery fashion, with what sounded like a couplet from on old chant They speedily took up their work again, however, at Q sign from the Superior.
 It would be hardyto find a more pros- perous-looking set of women than these convent prisoners; to see them one would never dream that they were sup posed to be undergoing punishment. They are perfect models of cleanliness and order, their hair is carefully dressed. their cotton gowns are quite spotless, and so are the bright-colored fichus they ali wear, Physically, they seem to be just about up to the aver age; but intellectually, so far as an outsider can judge, they are considera- bly, either above or below the great mass of their fellows. Some of the faces are almost idiotic in their stupid | ity; others are quite startlingly clever keen, sharp and sagacious. Al | though a few of thes prisoners looked depressed or sullen, the great majority seemed not only contented but happy happier by far than half the working women one comes across in the out side world. There Hlas touch oi something quite patheticdn the expres- sion of more than one who was there. it was as If they had at length found rest and peace after much sore tossing and were grateful-Cornhill.