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for Senator Blackburn for president,
but also for the unit rule, so the two
anti-silver delegates from the Louis
vile district will have no voice what
ever at Chicago. The free silver men
have the four delegates-at-large and
ell the other delegates except the two
from the Fifth district. The more rad
ical ones wanted the credentials com.
mittee to seat enough delegates in the
Fifth district TO change the selections
made, but with the unit rule as
adopted this was unnecessary. The
delegation stands twenty.four to two,
and under It's instructions for Black
burn and the unit rule, 1t Ia the same
as solid. When some gold men pro-
tested against the iron.clad instruc-
tons they were cited to the case In
New York when 80 delegates from
that state we're against Cleveland In
1884, and nnder the unit rule the whole
vote WAS cast for Cleveland, and again
at the last democratic national conven.
tion 1t was cast - unit for Hill
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Advcrse to the Anti. Bond Hi.

WASHINGTON, June 5-The house
committee on ways and means by a
vote of l3 10 ? decided to-day to report
adversely the senate anti-bond bill.
There was little discussion Of the reso-
luton, the republicans speaking OF 1t
rs populist measure. Mr.. Grosvenor
made the motion for an adverse report
which was carried after Mr. Wheeler's
motion for favorable report had been
voted down. Chairman Dingley has
prepared the majority report and Mr.
Wheeler will make one for the minor
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SENATOR DANIEL. cheered and the
gold men Kissed at this. The senator
predicted that the silver men wonld
control the national convention and
elect the president. Congressman
Tucker followed. lie said; "There is
in the white house big man Cheers
and hisses); a great big man (more
cheers and hissas). While | do not
agree with all Mr.. Cleveland has done,
tell you he is an honest man and a
marriott"
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FOR LOWER GRAIN RATES.
business Men and Farmers Making I
Strong light In nnnsas.

KANSAS Cry, Mo-, June 4.-Grain
men and Others who are interested in
having the rates on grain and grain
products from points in the state OF
Kansas to this locality placed at
figure that will insure the moving of
the crops through here, are making an
effort to bring the railroads to time.
Members OF the board of trade Of this
city and the transportation bureau are
conducting the warfare from this end
and the board Of trade OF Kansas City,
Kan, is looking after the move
ment in the state Of Kansas. 1t is
understood that the railroad commits
sioners will take the question up at
Topeka to-day and If they do they GER
tainly will not be lonesome during
their session, for the farmers all over
the state are interested In this ques-
ton, which is Of vital Importance to
them, as we'll as to the grain men of
this CITY
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MANHATTAN. Kan, June 4--The re-
publican senatorial convention of the
Twenty-First district met here yester'
day. There were 20 delegates in at
tendance from the three counties
which comprise the district John E.
Hessin, Of this city, was unanimously
nominated for state senator, there be.
ing no opposition.
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bland Hoomsrs Invading Kansas.

TOPEKA, Kan, June 4.-Among the
visitors in the democratic state conven.
ton yesterday were Roland Hughes
and W. f. Lyons, president and secre-
tary of the jackson County, Mo-, Silver
league, Gen. Byron Sherry and Thomas
George. They were here in the in
terest Of Richard P. BANDS presi-
dental boom, and said that they re-
ceived great deal Of encouragement
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Robbed the Fourth Time,

GAIT, Mo-, june 5.-Last night the
depot Of the Quincy, Omaha 4 Kansas
City railway at this place was entered
by burglars, the safe broken open and
500 worth of railroad tickets taken.
This Is the fourth OF series Of annual
robberies Of this depot, in one of which
q very considerable amount Of money
and jewelry was secured by the rob-
hars
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Republ,cans Claim Oregon.

PORTLAND, 0re., June 6.--An error Of
l46 votes, as disclosed by the official
count in Linn county, wipes out the
plurality Of vanderburg (pop.) for con.
gress In the First district and gives
Tingue (rep.)a plurality Of 1903. The
republican state central committee
also claims the election Of Ellis over
Quinn (pop) by 100 votes.
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..n VINO RODE Ullfrord, the rav0rite,
helped to give the victory to the son Of
Midlothian and La Silla, amid a roar
OF applause rarely heard nowadays
upon race track. Twenty thousand
enthusiasts witnessed the grand race
and the excitement was at fever heat
when Sir Walter came under the wire
only nose ahead OF Clifford.
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WASHINGTON, June 5.-The informa-
ton comes direct from Canton that Mr..
Mckinley will make no answer to the
query sent him by the Catholic clubs,
asking whether he will in the event
Of his election to the presidency dis
criminate against Catholics on account
OF their religious belief"
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Prof. BENTON Goes to Raker.

BALDWIN, Kan, June g. The trustees
of Baker university have elected Prof.
Guy P. Benton, Of Fort Scott, to the
chair Of English, the position vacated
by the removal Of Prof. Martin. Prot
Benton was assistant state superin-
tendent the first year Of E Stanley's
term.
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Heed VIII Not Accept Be00ad fIh0A
WARRINGTON, June 8. senator Lodge
went to Speaker Reed yesterday and
brosehed 70 him the subject Of Mr..
Reeds accepting the vice presidential
nomination. There has been great
deal Of talk Of this kind, and the
foundation Of II has been the express
sion by Gen. Grosvenor Of his desire TO
sec Mr.. Reeds name on the ticket
Speaker Reed informed Senator Lodge
that he had given no countenance to
the use Of his name In this connection,
and that under no circumstances
would he accept the honor
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NEVADA, NO., June 81. NJ McClain
was found guilty in the circuit court
here and sentenced to * years in the
penitentiary for assaulting his ward,
l5-year-old Flora Coggin. The case
was brought here by change Of venue
t,om Barton county.
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Buchan Would he Senator.

KANSAS CITY, Kan, June SIT is
given out from reliable sources that
W. ]. Buchan is a conditional candi-
date for state senator from Wyandotte
county, the office that he held for 10
years. In 1892 he was defeated for
senator by Edwin Taylor, the fusion
lists candidate, by 1900 James +. Getty
and j. K Cubbison are the two avowed
candidates for the nomination for sem
ptor
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ALL ONE WAY.
Kentuchy Frps silver Democrats rind the
Delegates tO the Unit Eule.

Kentuchy Frps silver Democrats rind the
Delegates 70 the Unit Enle.
LEXINGTON, KY. June s. The dem.
ocratic state convention to-day elected
the following delegates.at-large TO the
Chicago conventions: ]. c n Black
burn. P. W. Hardin. John s Rhes. w.
T. Ellis. MISUNDERSTANDING Robert
W. Nelson, J. Morton Rothwell, Theo-
dore F IIallam and John D. Carroll.
Electors-at-large-J. P. Tsrvin and W.
B. Smith The democratic state con-
vention closed yesterday after the free
silver men had secured everything
in the organization as we'll as in
the platform. The resolutions not
only instruct the Kentucky delegation
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SIR WALTER VICTORIOUS.

Tho Brooklyn Handicap Won by Mid
lothian's Son Over clifford, the Favor
lite.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Three times has
che gallant Sir Walter tried to win the
Brooklyn handicap and at last he has
been successful. Twice before he was
third, beaten out by q fraction at the
end, but yesterday Taral was on his
hack, and his skill, combined with Q
lack Of Judgment on the part Of Clay.
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Wednesdays Baseball Games.

Western league-Kansas City 0, De-
troit 0; Indianapolis s, Minneapolis
game called on account of darkness;
Grand Rapids 3, Milwaukee 0; Column
bus 0, ST. Paul s
National league-Boston IA, Louis
vile B; Cleveland 8, Washington s.
ten innings; Brooklyn Q, St. Louis q
Chicago IA, New York s; Philadelphia
7, Cincinnati 5; Baltimore s, Pittsburgh
4
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OHIO PLATFORM.
Talk About Adopting It at st. Louis
to Placate Silverites
SENATOR TELLER FOR PRESIDENT.
Senator Jones Says the South VIII 10 Solid
for Him II No Il Nominated--0ow
Hastings for second pIace-
Tho National Party.

Of the election In Oregon has fright
ened the ultra gold men In the repub-
lean party and straddle upon the
financial plank In the platform at St
Louis Is almost certain TO result, Their
logic Is that by adopting the Ohio
platform or even one little more pla-
estory toward silver, though really
asaninQ gold, they will not only hold
those silver republicans who really
want to stand with the party, but will
mako II impossible for the delegates
from Montana, Idaho, Nevada. Colo.
eado and Utah TO bolt, while on the
Dthcr hand the gold standard men will
have TO DO satisfied, since there will b
- place for them to 20 All this ID
prsdicted principally upon the belief
that the Chicago convention Is certain
'7oAeclsre for free silver at sixteen to
one.
An evening paper In this city, indie.
pendent as to politics, published last
night this paragraph. "rhe opinion 10
held in very high quarters that even
President Cleveland and members OF
his cabinet will not support the dem.
ocratic ticket Il q silver man is nomi'
mated, but will vote with the rcpub-
licans II they adopt gold standard
platform at St. Louis. One OF the
closest friends Of the president limited
this. lie said that the gold men II
they bolted would not nominate IN In.
dependent ticket II there was already
. gold ticket In the field, "because
they would not be willing to divide the
gold vote"
SENATOR TELLER FOR PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-There was
something Of commotion created by
the interview with A. J. Warner, pres-
dent Of the Bimetallic league, sent out
by the Associated press from Column
bus, in which prominent democratic
senators were represented as favoring
the nomination of Henry NJ. Teller for
president, Senator Jones, OF Arkan-
sas, who was mentioned by Warner as
favorng the nomination of Teller,
stated to correspondent that he was
not certain about the Teller move
ment. He had always understood
that Teller was republican, but"
he said, ut he is nominated, he
will get the full vote Of tho
silver democrats. | do know one
thing, and that is no southern man
will be nominated, and | also know
that silver will have 600 votes in the
Chicago convention. A western man
will be nominated at Chicago and the
south will 90 solidly for him, no matter
what his past political affiliations. II
Teller is nominated he would get the
solid support Of the south and am
told that he would 70 very popular in
the west" Mr.. Jones would not say
he favored Teller, but II Is believed he
does and the ndications are Teller will
have very strong following at Chica-
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GOV. HASTINGS FOR SECOND PLACE.
WASHINGTON June B. Gov. Hastings,
Auditor-General Mylin and State
Treasurer Haywood, of Pennsylvania,
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gates by the unit
rule. The vote was
1879 to o7l. The
resolutions declare
Nor Senator Daniel
JOS one Of the nomi-
)nees on the presi.
Dental ticket. Seua'
tor Thomas M. Mar
tin made an ad'
dress, in which he
1,alled Cleveland a
J wrecker of his par
ty. The silver men
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OTTAWA, Ont, June 4-P. NJ. Arthur
was reelected chief Of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers yesterday by
vote of 326 to SO for Haberstick, Of
Wisconsin
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RIVER GYPSIES.
Many Denizons OF the Households
Around St Louis Drowned
A FATHER IS SlOT BY HIS SONS.


ST. LOUIS, June 4.-Although II Is
one week since the disastrous tornado
struck st. Louis and the east side, IL
was not noticed until yesterday that
Nil the house boats on the river had dis.
appeared. Between the chain OF rocks
mud Chouteau avenue last Wednesday
there were 81 OF these floating shanties.
Not one was left by the fury of the
tornado But few OF them were safe
even In calm weather, and three
fourths Of them were totally destroyed.
An old river man said: 1.-THE
denizens OF the households are real
nomads. They drift, or are towed
wherever their fancy directs. They
are the gypsies of the great
rivers. They know bnt few people in
the cities, and are known by few. l
was figuring last Sunday week on how
many OF them were in this harbor for
the June rise, and, figuring five to each
boat, there were over 300 here last
Wednesday. ! believe most Of them
were drowned, because ! know that 1t
Is both tradition and instinct with
them to stick to their floating homes
till the last Not one Of these house
boats is left. have been patrolling
the river now for five days, since the
tornado, and ! am sure that over 300
Of these people, including women and
children, are lost The lower river
will give up this summer over 100 dead
that have not Us yet been counted
among the victims Of Wednesdays
tornado"
A FATHER SHOT BY HIS SONS
CLAY CENTER, Kan. June "A
shooting ARRAY occurred four miles
east Of here yesterday, In which John
Mccoy was shot by his two sons, Angus
and Robert The feud Is Of long stand.
ing and eliminated In dispute over .
horse, which the father had taken.
Yesterday the boys took the animal
from McCoy's barn. He heard OF II
and pursued them. When they met
shooting WAS opened by the boys one
shot taking effect In the fathers sbdo-
men. The boys came TO Clay Center
and gave Themselves up The elder
Mccoy IL expected To die.
A MURDERER sENTENoED 10 HANG.
Ava, Mo, June 4--One week ago
last Saturday the dead bodies Of the
Sawyer family were discovered in their
humble home one mile east Of here
Yesterday ono Of the murderers, Ed
Perry, was sentenced TO be hanged
July 81 This breaks the record in the
state Of Missouri for speedy justice.
The discovery Of the crime, the arrest,
trial and conviction Of one Of the MUIR
derers only consuming ten days time
gives Douglas county the palm.
A oLEw TO A MURDER
CARRoLLToN, NO., June 4.-Charles
Huffman and Bill Griffith were arrested
at Dewitt yesterday for the murder of
Henry Miles on Monday night The
only evidence against them is that
she'll from No. IL breech-loading
Springfield shotgun was found near
where Miles was murdered, and these
two are the only ones in or near De-
Witt that own this kind of gun.
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FAVOR SENATOR DANIEL.

Virginia Democrats Want Him on the No
tlonal Iicket-Frce silver Favored.
SrAUNroN, Va, June 5.-The demo-
cratic state convention adopted free
silver platform and bound the dele
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vincennes, ina, william Drum
mond, formerly a conductor, received
damages Of s3,55O against the Evans
Vile & Terre Hsuts railroad for being
blaeklisted-
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loser to receive $4,000, the fight TO-
take place at the National Sporting
club, London, America or South
Africa. Bill Brady, it appears, &C.
cepted the offer on Corbetts BEHALF
but Jackson refused, giving no reason
for SO doing. Hildebrant then offered
to match Denver Ed Smith against
Jackson for $4,000 This Jackson also
refused.
LITTLE GIRL KILLED.
LANCASTER Wis, June 6 - Jack
Webb and j. W. Shiffman engaged in q
quarrel at British Hollow, Grant coun-
ty, when the former fired four shots
at his antagonist Shiffman was struck
twice, once in the hip and once in the
hand. The fourth shot struck ten
year-old daughter of Peter Bandit,
merchant, in the head, inflicting .
wound from which she died within an
hour. Webb is in jail.
CHICAGO VICTIMS OF HEAT.
CHICAGO, June 6.-Two men died
from the effects of the heat yesterday.
One was Christ Anderson, a saloon
keeper, and the other was Polish
dock laborer. The mercury did not 60
above So, but the humidity was very
great, and made the heat terrible.
Ernest Berkman was also overcome by
the heat last evening and will die.
WATSON REEDS BOND APPROVED
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, June 6-Di-
vision No. Of the supreme court yes
terday approved the bond Of Watson
Reed. of Clinton county, who is under
q 30 years. sentence in the peniten-
tiary for killing Newt VIM in Platte
City while civil suit was being tried
in the circuit court. An appeal in tho
case has been taken to the supreme
court
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-22
FLOORS FOR STABLES.

In the Long Run Cement Is More Eco
nomica1 Than Wood.
In the western prairie states wood
is perhaps the most extensively used
material for flooring stables for stock.
It is largely used on account of its con-
venience and general adaptability,
though there is a growing feeling that
it is OH the whole quite satisfactory.
The plank floor is short lived; it is
made water-tight with difficulty, and
above all it is Objectionable for horses
that are confined much to the stall.
For cattle and hogs the same objec-
lions prevail to considerable degree.
Cement floors are gaining in favor and
are quite acceptable though rather ex-
pensive. They should also be covered
With plank for horses. The cement
floors in the new station barn have
been in use over year now and have
given good satisfaction. When well
bedded they are very satisfactory for
cattle, hogs and sheep. The station
floors were made by laying three
inches of concrete composed of five
parts of clean, sharp sand to one of
Portland cement, well mixed and
packed we'll on a foundation of sand
and gravel, and the surface was then
finished with three-quarter inch COW
ering of cement and sand in proportion
of four of cement to seven of sand and
troweled smooth and level except as
otherwise provided. These floors have
worn well even where horses wearing
shoes have walked on it. Such floor
is cold in winter, however, unless used
inside of warm building and bedding
used freely. This kind of floor may
be made at cost of ten cents a square
foot.-C. F. Curtiss, in Rural Life.
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are seen, and at the base OF the leaves,
those of the female or pistillate flowers.
At the right, near the top of the fig
ure, is staminate. flower enlarged; at
the left of the base of the main stem is
q head of pistillate flowers, showing the
hur-lil<e covering with it's hooked
Prickles, and at the top, the protruding
styles; at the left is shown the same
when older, and at the right the same
when cut through lengthwise. Each
bur, when mature, incloses two seeds,
one of which may terminate the first
year, and the other may lie dormant
until a later tine.
It has been said that the plant IS
poisonous to cattle, but this is probably
mistake. It is at least known that
cattle sometimes eat sparingly of it
without serious results.
The cocklebur is common to barn
yards, along roadsides, in waste places
and cultivated grounds. There are sew
eral other species all of which are less
troublesome to the farmer than the X.
strumarium.
How Best Destroyed the root of
the cocklebur is not creeping, and does
not live in the ground over winteS, clean
culture with some hoed crop, OF seed
| ing to clover or meadow grass, with
| frequent moving, will keep it under
subsection. It should be carefully pre-
vented from seeding, not only in Guilt
waited grounds, but in waste places as
we'll, and this is the only means that
will prevent it's becoming troublesome.
1t is often necessary to go through corn
and stubble fields in August or Septem-
Le1 for this purpose. Fortunately, ma
ture helps us to curb this noxious weed
by making it the host plant for several
parasitic fungi Wisconsin Expert
nlent Station Bulletin.
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NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS.

Thick. we'll refined honey will not
granulate SO rapidly as that which is
thin.
1t is impossible to secure good crop
of honey where most of the bees IN hives
are old.
Worker bees never attain great age.
Those raised in the fall may live eight or
nine months.
A large number of extra combs are
necessary when extracted honey is the
plan to be followed.
Bees are profitable because they
gather up and store away that which
would otherwise be lost.
Bees serve as active agents in the
fertilization of plants and are not de-
structive in the smallest degree.
No trash of any kind should be left
on the bottom boards, as this will fur
nish good nest for the moth miller.
Hives may be placed anywhere, high
or low, wherever it is most convenient
ference to the bees.
Bookkeeping, when combined with
fruit growing, enables one to procure
| a double crop from the same land with
out additional fertilizing.
Do not pull up covers that the bees
have closely sealed down. They want
their houses air-tight at the top to pre-
vent ventilation or cold draughts.
One of the best places to locate hives
is in the orchard, as usually there the
| bees will be less free from annoyances
and will be less liable to annoy any
thing else.-St. Louis Republic.
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THE MATCHING PROCESS.

How to Tell Perfectly Fresh Eggs from
Unfertile Ones.
1t is common practice for those buy,
ing eggs to hold them up to the light
and such as have had any experience
can in this way easily tell whether an
egg is fresh or stale. A perfectly fresh
egg will have a comparatively clear
look, with the air space of only moder-
ate size; whereas a stale egg will not
have such q clear look, and the air space
will be larger, according to the age of
the egg. In addition to this there are
other Indications, such as the appear
ance of the shell, which, in the old egg,
loses that bloom so striking in new
ones. Unfertile eggs are always clear
no matter how long they have been sat
upon. There are those who say that
the sex and fertility of the egg can be
told before they are set. All sorts of
plans have been put forth and declared
to be sure and infalliblc tests as to the
sex of chickens, such as the shape of the
egg, the time of day it is laid, etc., but
1iiese have been found, when tested, to
he unreliable, or at any rate not suf-
ficiently reliable to be accepted. That
the fertility of the egg may be proved
before it is set, we are not prepared to
deny, as we have known persons to pick
out fertile eggs by breathing on the
broad end, and must acknowledge that
they have proved to be correct in a
large number of cases. We have never
been able to disprove this test, and
have often found it to be correct, but
bot sufficiently so as to rely entirely
and unreservedly upon it. When work
ing an incubator there is no need for it,
for we have always been able to dis
cover 60 hours after they have been put
into the machine whether the eggs were
fertile or not; and as the quality of
barren eggs is then unaffected in any
way, it is not worth running any risk
with the other tests.-Prairie Farmer.