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salvation Army Captain Horsewhtppe

LODI, June Mrs. Cordway. the di-
vorced wife of prominent farmer here,
horsewhipped Salvation Army Captain
named Thompson. for having slandered
her to her ex-husband. The parties to
the row will not talk about it
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SONOMA COUNTY'S WILD MAN.
Buckley Sent to the Insane Asylum at
Ukfah.

SANTA Rosa, June Ben Buckley,
the famous Sonoma County "wild man."
is new in the Ukiah Insane Asylum.
For the past twenty years Buckley has
been living in an open pen, on the Cum
ningham ranch, in Blucher Valley. He
refused to leave the place even in the
worst part of the rainy season, and was
content to lie in a hole in the ground
during the hardest transforms. When
The water got too deep to suit him he
would bail 1t out with his old hat. He
imagined himself to be the President of
the United States, and said he had been
President since the time of Washington.
The cause of his hallucination was a blow
received on the head twenty wears ago
while on his way home one night. He
was assaulted by robbers and badly
beaten.
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Income Tax Claims.

WASHINGTON, June 7.-Blanks are
prepared at the Treasury Department
for the use OF persons who have claims
against the Government for the refund
of the income tax. The refund will be
made under Section 2220 of the Revised
Statutes. which authorizes the Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue. on appeal, to
refund all taxes enormously or illegally
collected. Few claims as yet have been
filed, probably because the claimants
have been waiting for official informa-
ton on the subject Every dollar of the
income tax already collected will be paid
to the persons from whom the coliections
We're made
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SAN FRANCISCO, June THE prelimi-
nary examination of o. w. Winthrop,
Secretary of q local lodge Of Chosen
Friends, accused of the murder of Mrs.
Jennie Mathews, was commenced to-day.
Six-year-old Matte Mathews to-day de-
MED that she had ever said that Winthrop
bad given her mother pill before she
became i'll in the cemetery. She said he
did not give her mother anything. The
cbild's former testimony was the only
foundation the prosecution had. It has
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-08

WASHINGTON, June 6.-The WAY De-
partment has granted medal of honor TO
Captain Clinton A. Cilly of the Second
Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, now a
resident of Hickory. n. G. On Septem-
ber 20, 1868, on the field Of Chickamauga,
Captain Cilly saw a regiment. not his
own, leaving the line of battle. He
dashed after it, seized the colors and rode
back into the battle. followed by the regi-
ment, which afterwards did effective
work
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CHIna' ET1perOT SohuS GrGet1nE.
WASHINGTON, juno THE Chinese
Minister here, in company with Acting
Secretary Uhl, accompanied by his Sec
retary, Of Legation and Interpreter,
waited in person on the President this
afternoon and presented to him a letter
from the Emperor of China thanking
him in graceful terms for the kindly Off
ces exercised by the United States in be-
half Of the restoration of peace between
China and Japan. The Imperial COM
munication was in the Chinese language,
handsomely encased in royal yellow silk.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
Too Much for Hill.

There was a commotion near the
middle of the car. All the women
jumped up and ran for the doors like
two brave exceptions followed. As the
crowd parted it could be seen that a
man was lying on the floor kicking and
squirming and another was bending
over him rubbing his wrists whats
the matter?" breathlessly asked q
woman who had not been able to get
out of speaking distance Nothing
serious, ma'am, nothing serious re
piled the friend of the PROSTATE man,
looking up. ''He saw a fire in the car
stove, and it gave him such shook
that he went into At. That's ALL
Buffalo Express.
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heard to remark IN the cardroom that
he could appreciate the high breeding
and education of the Russian nobility,
that he had great respect for the mag
nifcent natural resources of that great
country, that he admired her army and
regarded her navy with wonder; but
that he could neither sympathize with
nor admire the Russian political plan
or police system. The friendship be-
tween the two men ripened rapidly
even for a shipboard affair. By the
time the voyage had approached
within one day of its end they were
continually in each others com
pany In the cardroom, and the prince
drank heavily.
When the passengers landed several
remarked the absence from the deck of
the Russian prince and his friend.
There was nothing especially notable
in the fact that he was not to be seen,
however, and no search was made for
him.
Four or five weeks later, the cable
brought news from st. Petersburg Of
the life sentence to Siberia of this
same prince. Then it was that story
gained circulation in the Office of the
steamship company that the Russian
prince had never landed; that his ship
board friend was member of the secret
political police; that one glass of that last
days wine had been drugged and that
the unconscious uobleman had been
locked in his cabin from the time the
steamer landed until she sailed away
again. Color was given to this suppo-
sition by the fact that the captain of
the ship, known to be poor man, had
resigned and retired, soon after this
voyage, in comfortable circumstances.
But the Russian detective does not
always deal with princes. Sometimes
he travels in the steerage to watch mere
peasants and moujilzs. No game IS
too small for the car to shoot at.
Cases are described in the big colony Of
exiled Russians in New York where
man or woman coming to this country
from Russia has been Swallowed and
watched for weeks after landing. One
of these resulted unhappily for the Rus
sian policeman in Buffalo. He had
persistently pursued a poor Polish Jew,
who to this day swears that he had
never done anything to offend the Rus
sian government, until the suspect
moved from New York to Buffalo in
order to be rid of him.
But even that did not shake him off.
In fact it was in Buffalo that he took
his most active step. One day, while
the. suspect was walking quietly
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none other than q prince of the bluest
Russian blood. He travelled alone with
valet, but he travelled magniicently.
So far as anyone knew he was In the
very highest standing In st. Petersburg,
and it was even whispered among the
passengers that his object in visiting
America was to, by means Of fine false
promises and other palavering. induce
certain of the Russian nobility then so
journing in the United States to return
TO the land of the white bear, there to
meet such fates ss the car might have
planned for them.
He played high in the cardroon,
and he drank freely of champagne.
Early in the voyage he became &C
qua.nted with handsome man q dis
tinguished appearance The two
seemed to conceive a great and sud
den liking for each other. The stranger
was particularly frank and out
spoken, apparently he was anything
but mysterious, although no one
seemed to know anything about him
His nationality WIS indefinite, al
though he helped along speculation
concerning il by declaring that be had
visited every country In Europe except
Russia. and could speak every language
Il Ezzane axneat Russian. 6s1was
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with the political disturbances of that
extraordinary country. After every up
heaval there has been an influx of inn
migrants who are not wanted in Russia
to Auhsrica, and with this food of sus-
poets has come invariably squad Of
secret police. The Russian detective
has come to America In all kinds of
ways. Sometimes, when some noble
has been mixed up with plots against
the car, he has travelled like prince
in the first cabin of the best steamer.
In this connection story has been told
for several years about the offices of
one of the great steamship companies.
This may be mere tradition or it may
be true. 1t is good story anyway.
One day, when the big steamer
sailed from Liverpool, she had on board
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16

ONE OF THE CELLS OF THE ST. PETERS
BURG SECRET POLICE DEPARTMENT.
ngure, covered with a tarpaulin or
sheet. The officer alighted from his
perch and demanded the immediate
presence of the village elder. In the
meantime a curious crowd of t-em-
bling moujiks had gathered around the
sleigh with its mysterious burden. The
elder was pushed to the front through
the throng.
The officer gave him to understand
that the mutilated body, which he ex-
posed by pulling off the covering, had
been found in the immediate neighbor-
hood of the village, and indicated that
an inspector must be called and an n
quest held Immediately. To the elder
himself it was only too apparent what
the meaning of all this was. ALI pres
ent seemed ''to catch on" in vulgar
parlance, at the same moment.
It was not a question of inquest at
all, but as to how much money would
be required to persuade that particular
police officer to move on with that par
ticular dead body to the next village.
And after many hot tears and lamentar
tions and piteous bargainings the least
possible sum which would be received
was contributed by the bystanders,
and the sleigh with its corpse freight
moved on.
The person who tells this story indi-
Gates that as long as the cold weather
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SEEKING FOR PREY
Many of the Secret Police Of Rus.
sia In America.
ytories of Their Plots-A Prince Drugged
and Struggled Back TO Sc. Petersburg
Fair Women Who Ensnare Po-
Lice Activity Abroad.
loopYRreHr. 1881

Russia's secret police have been al
most all recalled from America. There
are two reasons for this-one the fact
that America has little use for them,
the other that, the new car has made
up his mind to follow the example set
in New York by Gof-to relieve the
people to some extent of police oppres-
sion. The cars job was even bigger
than Goff's. His predecessors have
built up body more brutal, more cor
rupt, more detestable In every way, than
lTammany could ever create. What
they amount to in Russia will be told
further on. What they amount to IN
America is every whit as interesting.
1t is somewhat absurd that they
should amount to anything in America.
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aa1ieta daily gaa aaedsesay aornne january 1885

acquired Dy rnls rural police III :xtorf;-
ing money from the poor moujik. And
although many of these stories have a
certain inherent resemblance, and look
as if the same dramatic persons were
constantly reappearing on the stage in
different clothes, one or two of them
may be quoted with considerable ap-
propriateness-
One American traveller, who got into
"a canoe and padded all the way down
Q Russian river to the sea, reports an
instance when he was stopping at some
village or other on the banks of the
stream and was sitting, perhaps, on a
bench in front of the village tavern.
A sleigh was driven up with police
officer In the box seat, which contained
as its only other occupant what looked
very much Ike q recumbent human
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along the street The detective stopped
him and, whipping out great parlia-
ment document with a big red seal
danglingfrom 1t by string, informed
the frightened Jew that he would have
to go back to Russia to stand trial for
"conspiring against the car" Such is
the terror and submissiveness inspired
In the breasts of these poor people by
the police that the man would probably
have yielded up his liberty quietly had
not an American police officer, who
witnessed the affair, interposed in his
behalf. The Buffalo newspapers had
good deal TO say about the matter at
the time, and / believe that the police
officer was forced to leave Buffalo.
But more romantic stories than these
are told of the Russian secret police
here. Their object Is less likely to be
the apprehension of people who have
escaped to America-the car is gen.
orally glad to cry good riddance"-
than the discovery of plots laid here to
be executed In Russia The St. Pc
tersburg police have very exact knowl-
edge of the number and dispositions of
the nihilists now IN America, and it is
their belief tina they devote good part
of their time to developing murderous
plans against the car. 1t is also be-
heved that high explosives are manu-
featured here, to be later srnuggled
into Russia, and that, altogether, the
American nihilists are serious men
ace to the safety of the car. For that
reason not only are detectives sent
here, but big sums are said 10 have
been paid to actual nihilists as brides
to betray their friends. No instance
is recorded, however. where these
brides have been effective.
Sometimes the detective is pretty
woman who receives the suspected ex-
lies at her house, and tries, by playing
sweet with the women and fascinating
the men, to gain their confidence and
induce them to lay bare tier plans
A woman of this sort lived ia New
York lass than two years ago. She was
very beautiful creature and posed as
French woman. Poetic justice was
melted out 10 her when she fell in lore
7;th and married one OF the very men
she had been endeavoring TO ensnare-
There are in America at least five
hundred men and women who are in
the pay Of the car as spies If Mich
olas withdraws than as part OF his
general bid for public fa-or, he viii
have done something very pleasing TO
Americans Is IS not In the Yankee
blood TO admire a spy
In Russia itself the genera! police
sre simply unbearabIe.
The salaries trey receive arr simply
6fty 20 hundred dol
lars year for private. and frons two
to three hu1li-ed dollars year for
chief Of q district L. goes without say-
ing that they are expected TO make up
their income by bribery ard CORFU tion.
and il IS unnecessary to state that they
Fene-sliv e-tr--s,yF i, ssir- tlfe 20 ner-
rectfo1- Russian travellers eel very
anu=isS stories Of the great proficiency
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
HUNTING THE SLY muskRAT.
The Fur IL Valuable, and There Are Many
Ways OF Catching Him.

The Fur IL Valuable, and There Are Many
Ways OF Catching Bim-
The number of skins OF very small
and common animals In demand In tho
fur business nowadays is surprising.
The increasing scarcity OF handsome
fur-besring animals has compelled q
multitude Of ingenious limitations from
the fur OF more ordinary creatures
Domestic dogs, cats and rabbits arc
skinned By hundreds every day. and
after being subjected 20 various pro-
cesses the fur energies as otter. mink
or beaver, whichever il most nearly re-
sembles as least likely TO be detected
But the fayorite pelt now Is that 81
the muslzrat II has thick, we'll
rooted hair, and. IL killed at any time
between September and May, Is very
durable It's natural color Is pretty
and glossy, but il also takes ali dyes
better than any other known skin
Though. Of course, . large part Of the
supply Is from the north country above
the Great Lakes. ret thousands OF bales
OF rat skins are collected and shipped
from al the northern states. The itfa-
Grant dealers who traSei through the
small settlements and collect from the
individual hunters ard trappers usual
Il pay about quarter apiece for the
pelts. and when they haze sorted them
into bales according 20 size and quality
they snip them TO some wholesaler II q
round profit
Throughout thes farming districts
every bog and man does more Or less
trapping dnrsng the fal. and winter
months OF course. the biz OF wealthy
farmeEs co not botEes with srsh .basl-.
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ness, but their hired hands do. IA
New England it is brisk work. and
the rats are being rapidly thinned out
About this season the trapping begins
in earnest. The musl1rats ara setting
about building their houses for the
cold season, what the 0jibway trappers
of Ontario call the winter lodge OF
the musquash." At such time they
are very active, passing about among
the dry weeds on the marshes, and in
dustriously pushing great floating
masses of grass and leaves, materials
for building, ahead of them, as they
paddle up or down streauh with only a
nose tip in sight Because they stir
about so much the trapping is less re-
stricted, and the snares are set in all
conceivable places. on the bank by the
new dwelling, in the jungle of dead
cattails, where the rats are harvesting,
and in the entrances to their deserted
summer homes. Among the old-fash-
toned or economical trappers, the
''twitch-up," ''dead-fall," figures"
and pinch" traps are still largely
used, but the progressive chaps all use
the steel traps distinguished from the
others by them as ''boughten" or ''store
traps"
When the rat has been caught ii is
useless to leave the trap in the same
spot, for no other will touch the bait
1t must be moved and set in some new
nook. II it was in little hollow be-
fore, it must be shifted TO a ridge; il at
the waters edge at first, it must be
changed to bog some rods back from
the creek. A new bait, too, must be
substituted for the old. Fish is the
usual bait, and favorite one with the
rats; but the most tempting is tho
Trash rra Ter clam N Y Srn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-16
~ A LESSON IN COURTESY.
It Was Given to Railway Hog and Every
/ One Smiled

| b One Smiled
Going down town in 4 crowded ele-
waited car was a man who had lolled
| over couple of seats, though there
were many standing up. He was so
big and cross and boorish that nobody
felt justified in requesting q seat next
to him. He had window wide open
and rested his arm upon the sill, calm
" disregarding the sensitive shrinking
of lady on the other seat. He seemed
to be one of those human hogs one oc-
casionally meets, and he was distinctly
marked by every passenger in his vicin-
itY. Everybody who came in or out
had to step carefully around pair of
muddy shoes or carry with them the
results of contact After awhile the
man began to nod drowsily, then calm
" laid his head upon his arm and went
to sleep. His new hat went out of the
window, but still he slept on, 20 the IN
tense interest of the other passengers
The general look of malicious satisfac-
ton that went around was pardonable
Nobody said word TO the man. yet
everybody was curious to see what he
would do when lie awoke. j really be-
lieve some were willingly carried by
their destination for the pleasure Of
witnessing the discontinue Of the hui
man hog. / was Intending 20 get Off
at Thirty-fourth. but concluded /
would go on to Twenty-second street
I was almost Immediately rewarded by
seeing the hog start up and demand:
where's my hat?' He looked ferce-
" around as If some one was suspected
of stealing it. Nobody said word, bat
he saw at once nobody was mourning.
He looked under the seat. on the seat,
and down the aisle, and repeated with
out addressing any individual particu-
lar1y:
Where's my hatF-
D''I think you'll find II somewhere
along between Fifty-ninth and Fiftieth
streets, If remember rightly. sweet
" remarked the young lady who had
been shrinking from the draught for
the last two miles And IL yon'lI get
right of and ran back maybe they'll
wait for you. Chicago Times
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The idea that the Russian autocrat
should be able to extend his autocracy
in ever 30 small measure into Uncle
Sans free domain is unpleasant. But
that at least one branch of the Russian
police systematic political been
represented here with good deal Of
strength has not been denied by any
one who knows. Curiously enough it is
one of the things about which Superin-
tendent Byrnes will say absolutely
nothing. That Of itself is significant.
The superintendent has way of talk
ing freely about things which are not
important.
The strength Of the Russian secret
police In America has ebbed and flowed
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Ordinance No. 1883.

| published Jan Is, 1881
An ordinance regulating the con-
| struction, maintenance and repair OF
sidewalks in the city OF Wichita, and
repeating ordinance No. 11s9 OF the city
OF Wichita. entitled: "An ordinances
amending section OF ordinance No.
| $50, published Sept. 10. 1855, entitled:
An ordinance regulating the constr1lc-
4 ton. maintenance and repair Of side
walks" and saving all rights which
| have heretofore accrued 10 the city OF
| Wichita under said ordinance N. 1859.
Be 1t ordained by the mayor and
councilmen OF the city OF Wichita:
Section !. That upon all OF the
streets or portions OF streets within the
city OF Wichita, IN the state OF Kansas,
included within the following bound
aries, towit; Beginning at the south
west corner OF the intersection OF Wa
ter street and North Morris street IN
said city OF Wichita, running thence
north on the west side OF Water street
to the north line OF Central avenue
thence east on the north line OF Central
avenue 10 the west line Of Main street.
thnce north on the west line OF
Main street 10 the north line
the north lin OF Oak street 90
the east line OF Fourh avenue. thence
south on the east line OF Fourth ave-
nue. to the south line Of Williams street.
thence west on the south Lire Of Will
Hams street 20 the East line OF Emporin
avenue. thence south on the east line
Of Emporia avenue 10 the south line Of
North Morris street. thence west on the
south line OF North Morris street 10 the
place Of beginning: the sidewalks shall
be constructed OF natural naKstone or
Portland cement. or Trinidad asphalt,
or of brick or stone OF such width "a
the mayor and council may direct.
Section ?. That ordinance No. 1889,
entitled: An ordinance amending sec
ton No. Of ordinance No. 5s5, pub
lished Sept. u. 1855. entitled. "An ordl-
nance regulating the construction.
maintenance and repair OF sidewaika.'
is hereby repealed, bat all rights. which
have heretofore accrued 70 the city OF
Wichita, in the state OF Kansas. By
virtue OF said ordinances or any 81 its
provisions, are herby expressly saved
and preserved 20 the city Of Wichita,
Kan.
Section g. This ordinances shall take
effect and be IN force from and after
It's puiicatiOu In the wichita Daily
Eagle.
Approved. Jan. -. 1895.
l. NJ cox. Mayor.
Attest. C. 81 SMITH civ CLARK
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published January 10. iS9Sl
An ordinance amending Section No.
is of ordinance No. 62f OF the city OF
Wichita. Kansas. entitled: "An orvIi-
nance amending section one OF ordin-
ance No. Sos entitled: IAN ordinance
amending section six of ordinance No.
SOL. entitled: '.an ordinance to levy and
collect a license tax upon ccTtaia
tades, professions and occupations and
to regulate the same
Be it ordained by the mayor and coun-
cilmen OF the city OF Wichita, Kansas:
Section /. That section No Is OF or
dinance No. ga OF the city OF Wichita.
entitled: AN ordinance amending sec
ton one Of ordinance number
COS. entitled "An ordinance amend
ing section six of ordinance num-
Der 55T entitled: IAN ordinance to levy
and collect a license tax upon certain
trades. professions. and occupations,
and TO regulate the same" approved
February 25th, 1889. and published
February 9th. 1889, be and the same
is hereby amended so as To read as fol-
lows: For each and every person who
shall engage in business as a real es-
tate agent or in the employment OF
such agent as a drummer or solicitor
five dollars.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take
effect and be In force from and after
its publication in the Wichita Daily
Eagle.
Approved. january 18th. 1895.
L. NJ. cox. Mayor
Attest: G. S. SMITH, City Clerk.