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GRANTS MONEY VIEWS.

The Dead Generals Son Makes an Interest
ing Statement Regarding His Fathers
Position.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. lin re-
ply to letter from Attorney-General
ketcham, of Indiana, Fred ID. Grant
has written as follows, under date of
New York, August ::
My Dear Sir: Acknowledging receipt OF
your communication of August 4, in which you
ask to the truth of statement which
to the effect that my father, Gen Grant,
at one time said that he did not
know when he signed the coinage
act of 1873, that the silver dollar was dropped
from the coinage, and that if he had known che
fact. he would have vetoed the bill, 1 hasten in
reply to say that frequently talked with my
father upon the question of standards of
rency and that never heard him intimate any
such sentiment is credited to him above
I am in receipt almost daily of letters
similar to yours inquirfng as to whether
my father made the statement attributed
him in the little book entitled .'Coin -
can only say that he never intimated such
a statement to me- In all his conversations
with me he seemed to take the ground
that 1T was n great misfortune for any
country to have the basis for their cir
culat1ng medium any metal that had the least
element of uncertainty about it and that the
workmen, when he collected his stipend at the
end of the week. should be absolutely certain
that there would be no question to the value
of the currency which he had to supply his
needs
From the time that he was inaugurated
president until the resumption of the specie
payment act was passed, all his public an
nouncements and. far I know, all his
private statements were aimed to secure
stable currency to the people of the United
States.
The coinage act of 1878 does not eliminate
the silver dollar from free coinage In fact,
the United States has coined since then
more silver dollars than had been coined
during the entire period of our national ex-
istence before, and most of these coins
were made during his lifetime 1t is. there
fore, not probable that Gen. Grant ever said
that he would have vetoed the act OF 1878 if ne
had known that the silver dollar would be
dropped from the coinage, and would not be-
lieve anyone who said that he heard my father
make such a remark
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IN THE RACE AGAIN.

Senator PETER Asks the Voters of Kansas
to Give Him Another Term.
Topeka, Kan, Aug. 6--Senator PEI
fer announced formally to-day his can
didacy for reelection to the United
States senate He says that, while he
lays no claim to the office and can urge
but single qualification not posses sed
by any one of SOC other popuIists that
might be named in the state-six years
eXperience-andw while he has not, up
to this time, felt called upon to say Ing
thing about it, if on the record he has
made in the senate. the people return
him to that body, he would regard it
as added honor and would accept their
SURFACES, greatly assuring them of his
best service. He would feel himself
under renewed obligations and he says
would enter upon his second term vast
ly better equipped for work in the pub
lie interest than he was when his first
term BEGAN
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LEAvENWORTH MILLERS.

They Complain That They Are Discrimt-
mated Against in Freight Charges.
LEAvENwoRTII, Kan, Aug. S.-MayOr
Hook, on behalf of Leavenworth man
facturers and business men. has pre-
pared a petition, which will be sent at
once to the board of state rai'road COM
missioners, requesting them to come
here and investigate the charges of
discrimination in freight rates against
Leavenworth. The local business men
say that the Union Pacific, Burlingto
Missouri Pacific Rock Island and Santa
Fe are treatin.r Leavenworth in an I'M
fair manner. The principal complain
ants are the Rush Milling Co. and the
Kelly & Isle Milling Co. These mill
ing firms allege that they have to pay
a higher rate for shipping in the grain
and sending out flour than their COM
petitors in other cities.
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crops OF KANSAS.
Wheat Product of the State Is Barely 3oe
100000 Bushels-Other Crops.

Wheat Product of the State Is Barely So.
100000 Bushels-Other Crops
TOPEKA, Kan. Aug. THE Kansas
board of agriculture has issued re-
port on the condition of the growing
crops July 81, together with estimates
by correspondents in practically every
township on yields of wheat, rye, oats,
barley, fax and hay. applied to acre
age of each as returned by township
assessors The figures on yields are
consensus of those made by farmers,
millers and threshermen, each one es-
pecially counseled to make none but
safe estimates The effort to ascer-
tain the facts as to wheat has been even
more than usually painstal1ing SO early
in the season, and it is believed the re-
suits obtained will very closely cor
respond with those developed later,
when most of the threshing has been
done and the final revision made.
The yield of winter wheat for the state ag-
gregates 29.2as,4i9 bushels, average of g.
bushels per acre on the g. 1888 acres shown
the range being from practically nothing in
five six soutI western counties to % - and
p bushels in Brown, Nemaha and Washington
counties respectively. a fraction less than 40
per cent of the total product, 2i .892, 403
bushels. has been grown in SO counties, in each
of which the average is ten bushels or more
per acre The quantity of wheat on hand in
March. as found by assessors. was 1,973.95s
bushels One year before it was 3,672,033
bushels.
The land in spring wheat is returned 1914
or and its yield LAS, I04 bushels an
average of seven bushels per acre The quail
ity. like that of winter wheat, is not high, and
from the same causes. The area of rye is no.
PSI acres: yield. 10 1851 bushels: quality,
medium: largest acreage and product in Dick
inson and Saline counties
With few exceptions, both the yield and
quality of oats are reported poor, rust having
been the cause. The acreage is 1.4f0,u97. and
the yield 19.762.647 bushels. but 1888 bushels
per The largest acreage and total prod
uct. 903. 632 bushels. was in Washington county,
and the highest yields per acre in Wyandotte
and Atchison
In the corn belt of the state, and in fact gem
orally, the range of condition is unusually high,
the average being 81 for the entire acreage,
and 10 counties report it at from 100 to 1I6
The of barley is 1900. acres yield,
| s5I ,059 bushels The largest product. 6S,205
| bushels, is in Rawlings county. Graham and
| Ness have more than 6O.00i each.
The average yield of timothy hay is l.7J tons
per acre: clover, 100 tons: prairie hay, 10
| tons
The condition of other crops is follows:
| timothy, 81: alfalfa. sS pastures, 95: sor-
ghum 81: Irish potatoes 90: sweet potatoes,
80: millet, SO: Kaffir corn, 90. mile maize. rice
corn or Jerusalem corn. 81; apples, So: grapes,
| 10; peaches. 10
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-15
FUSION IN IOWA.

Electors Divided and Democrats Get All
State Omces.
OrrUMwA, Ia, Aug 12--The demo-
cratic state convention promises to be
lightly attended. A conference yes
terday of democrats, populists aud free
silver republicans completed scheme
for fusion including the cleo toral, state
and congressional tickets. As to elect
ors the democrats have nine, the popu-
lists two, and the silver repu bllcans one
All state officers go to the democrats
except anditor, which goes to the
silver republicans BY the agree ment,
A Van Wagner. of Sioux City, will be
temporary chairman; j. j. Shea, of
Council Bluffs, permanent chairman,
and Horace Boxes and Gen Weaver
will be elec tors-at-large.
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MANY HEAT VICTIMS.

The Death List in New York, Chicago and
st. Louis Reaches an Appalling Figure.
New YORK, Aug, 1.-THE numb of
deaths caused by the Eeat in Greater
New York is 1sS, and additional vic
Tins are being reported hourly. The
prostrations are almost innumerable
and no accurate statement of them can
be made Ambulances and patrol
wagons have been running about all
day, the sound of their gong becoming
a familiar sound Street car horses
have dropped in their tracks by scores.
Out of door work has been largely sus-
pended and many factories are tempo
rarily closed
THE DEATHS AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Aug. lit began to grow
uncomfortably warm here yesterday
at early dawn, and as the blazing sun
pushed its way over Lake Michigan the
intensity of the heat was increased
hour by hour at the rate of geometrical
progression The city am balances and
patrol wagons from the police stations
had been kept on the run all night
long, bearing victims of the heat to
the hospitals Yesterday morning men
walked through the streets without
coat or vest and painted and sweltered
for want of fresh, cooling air Pros
trations from heat began to be report
ed early as eight o'clock. Animals
overcome by the heat lay dead in al
most every ward in town. They were
so numerous that the garbage men
could not keep the streets clear of
them. The latest reports show that
the total list of victims of heat pros
trations Sunday numbered g. OF
these % are dead, ten expected to die
and three driven insane by the heat.
OF the three driven insane by the heat
one ended his existence with poison
and another attempted to slash his
throat with a razor
EIGHTY-FIvE DEATHS AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 1.-THE deaths in this
city due directly to heat since August 1.
mum bered So. Saturday last was the
worst day yet, % deaths from that
cause having occurred. A singular
fact is noted that fully four-ffths OF
these deaths have been adults, but
very few of them women. Most of the
heat victims have been among the Ia
boring classes and at least two-thirds
of the fatalities have been among those
addicted to drink.
SIXTEEN DEATHS AT OWENSBORO.
GREENSBORO, KY. Aug. 1L-Sixteen
deaths from various causes, all super
induced by excessive heat, occurred
here in the last three DAYS.
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BLAND AND M'kINLEY.

The Missouri Free Coinage Advocate Calls
the Republican Presidential Nomi-
CANTON, O., Aug. 11.-Distinguished
callers yesterday on Maj Mckinley
were the Hon. R. P. and Mrs Bland.
They came here with a committee
from Pittsburgh which made the trip
from the Iron City to meet the Bryan
party here. Mr. and Mrs. Bland had
gone to Alliance, a city 90 miles east of
here ahead of the Bryan party, it
was part of the programme to have a
speech of some length at that place by
Mr.. Bryan. While here Mr.. Bland was
told that an address would be made
here, and he was prevailed upon by the
Pittsburgh committee to return to Can
ton The time spent at the Mckinley
home by Mr.. and Mrs Bland was APP
parent3y very agreeable to both the
honOred callers and Maj and Mrs Nc
kinley.
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Riot Produced by the Introduction of
Electric Propulsion.

Riot Produced by the Introduction of
Electric Propulsion.
Il was in Naples last summer when
the first electric street ear was put in
operation and was stoned by the popu-
lace: said DIR. w. o. Terry, of Sacra-
mento, Cal. DIR. Terry has been in Eu-
rope for two years, mostly in Germany,
pursuing surgical course, and is now
going home to practice his profession.
1.-The new style of street cars ne
continued, gave great offense to The
Neapolitans, simply because they We're
an innovation. The people over there
resent everything that is new, regard
less of merit Naples is one of the
toughest places in Christendom, any
way. 1t is rare thing in that town to
meet with anyone who seems to recog-
nize the bath as an institution of ciTili-
zation- Men, women and children revel
in particularly the latter. Boys
and girls of ten years are often seen in
public without a single garment to hide
their nudity. The ordinary refresh
ments of life, as practiced in America,
are unknown there. The public convey
ances are crowded with passengers so
redolent of garlic that it is often prefer
able to get out and walk Doubtless
everybody eats garlic IN order to keep
from being overcome with its odoriter-
Gus scent, as a matter Of protection.
But worst OF all in Italy is the ter
rible drain of taxation and the corrup-
ton on the part of NC n in high official
position. The railroads. for instance,
which ought to bring IN large revenues
to the government, are a source of eN-
perse- The explanation is that every
body connected with their operation is
engaged in stealing. The charge is
made openly, and I never once heard it
disputed .''-Washington Post.
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Liquor Licenses sweIled Receipts.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Aug. 6.-The
internal revenue collections for the
district comprising Kansas. Oklahoma
and the Indian territory for the month
of July amounted TO S4S. 343. SO. This is
an increase of nearly $1,000 over July,
1895. The increase is due to big de-
mand for government retail liquor
dealers licenses All the little towns
in Kansas have sent in for one or more
licenses but there has teen a slight
falling off in the numbe taken out in
a few of the largest cities
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RrD,cuLE THE TEST OF TRUTH.
One Would Rather Appear Vicious Than
Ridiculous.

One Would Rather Appear Vicious Than
Ridiculous
1t is said that ridicule is the test of
truth. And there is true sense in The
saying. The Platonic irony-which is
really the feigning of ignorance in order
to get man to make fool of himself
may illustrate this. And, to look at
the matter from another point of view.
it may he seriously maintained that we
never really believe thing until we
are able to treat it sportively. The
more profound our wisdom, the more
likely we shall wear it. 1t is n tradition
of the Catholic church, in her colleges
and seminaries, that all ethical ques-
tons should be dealt with humorously.
The professor of moral philosophy in
those institutions is der LuStige," as
the Germans would say-the man who
does the comic business.
Carlyle, in one of his early letters,
speaks Of sense of the ridiculous as
''brotherly sympathy with the down
ward side" 1t is most pregnant say
ing. ''Twenty-seven millions, mostly
fools" Well, better to view them as
fools than as knaves- For the emotion
raised by folly is rather pity and truth
than anger. Then, again. the ludicrous,
and especially the variety of it which
we cali SATIRE, is an ineStlmaDle ms. ru-
ment of moral police. I do not say of
moral reformation. What moral
reformation really means is the CONVEX
sion of the will from bad to good.
And / dc not think satire, as a rule,
likely to affect that But it is certainly
a most effective deterrent. Goethe
makes Werther, as the supposed author
of the Letters from Switzerland say:
Zone would ALWAYS rather appear
vicious than ridiculous to anyone else"
And / suppose this is true of the vast
| ma ority of people. Hence it was that
| Pope was lead to magnify his office:
Yes, 1 proud, must be proud, to see
Men not afraid of God, afraid of me;
| Safe from the bar, the pulpit and the
throne,
But touched and scared by ridicule
alone
-Fortniphtly Review,
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PERRY, Ok, Aug. THE final decree
has been promulgated from Oxmulgee,
the capital of the Creek nation, as it
had been handed down by Judge
Adams, chief justice of the supreme
court of the nation, in the citizenship
case 1t strikes from the rolls of citi-
zenship of the nation the names of over
I, 100 negroes The decision held that
the action of the Indian council,
after the PASSAGE of the emancipa ton
act by the United States in admitting
the negroes to tribal relations, was un-
constitute ual and therefore at this
time invalid.
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Young Mr.. CuII,auphcr, who has one
of the cunningest little cream-cOlored
ruustaches in the world, so faint AID
modest that he has to color it in order
to establish its identity, called ga: N last
evening. 1--WE just been dying to see
you, Maud" he gushed, soon as ne got
his cane through the parlnr door. Maud
locked him over with critically unfa-
vorable eye. ''It see you have" she said,
coldly: there's lot of it come off on
your chin" And young hIr. Cumau-
phen was so abashed that he 'iidJ't
know what to say. But that wasn't
anything urusual.-N. " 1i"coI der.
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An Extra Session Sure

WASHINGTON, Aug 1L-No matter
which way the election goes, an extra
session of congress early in the spring
now seems inevitable If Mckinley is
elected there will be an extra session
to provide for an increase in the rev.
enae- If Bryan should be elected an
extra session would be called toenforce
the free silvery theory
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O'Meara Acting Governor.

JEFFERSON CRY. Mo. Aug. IA
Lieut. -Gov. John T. O'Meara is expect
ed here to-day to take charge of the
executive office while Cos. Stone is in
the east The governor expects to re-
main in New York and vicinity ten or
twelve DAYS, and may also go to Maine
with the Bryan party to visit Sewall.
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Omcers of walters CoIIere.

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Aug. Cat a
meeting of directors OF the new Afro
American industrial college held here
yesterday John L. Waller was chosen
president, George j. A French secre-
tary and james H. Guy, of Topeka,
treasurer 1t is now pro posed to es-
tablish the college at Cedar Vale, Cow
ley county, and the purchase of the
site was consummated
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WILL NOT ATTEND.

Mai. Nc KinIey Unable to Participate in the
Reunion at Topeka.
CANTON, o.. Aug. S--Maj. Mckinley
said in reference to the report in many
newspapers that he would be pres t
at the soldiers reunion at Topeka,
Kan, the last week in September, that
it would be impossible for him to go to
Topeka and that he had no expectation
of so doing
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After Elevator Men

CHICAGO. Aug. 12.-Anti-elevator
ren and railroad men who were af-
fected by the evidence produced before
the interstate commerce commission
last week are demanding the return of
that body in order to investigate the
elevator mems connection with cut
rates in grain.
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WARSAW, Ind, Aug. 1I--At four
O'Clock yesterday a tornado struck
Winona park near here Trees and
tents were blown down The amphi-
theater is a mass of ruins Two peo-
pie were injured and the assem- bly,
grounds were desolated- The money
loss will reach $4,000.
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Killed by a Boiler HxpIoston-

kNMUNDY. Ill, Aug. If.-Ten miles
east of here. in what is known az
Scutchfield prairie, a steam thresher
boiler belonging to William Godfrey
exploded. killing Engineer Moss and
seriously inlnriDg Wiley Judsou.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-15
Best OF An

To cleanse the system in . gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the Spring time
comes, use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup of Figs One bottle will answer for
all the family and costs only SO cents; the
tured by the California Fig Syrup Company
only, and for sale by all druggists.
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u.-r,son TO q ,en the camp.srn

New YORK. Aug 12--ES-President
Harrison has prom ised to open the
campaign for the re uublicans in this
city by a speech to be delivered OF the
evening of August Is.
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JouNNY-ssMay I wake the baby. man.
ma2" Mamma-sWhy do you want to
wake the baby2r Johnny-ssSo's lean play
on my drum Patriot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-15

THAT child cried for an hour this after
noon" "Why didn't you give it to HIM
asked the absent-minded father.-Detroi
Free Press.
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FITS stopped rree and permanently curet
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline
Great Nerve ResIo rer. Free g trial bott
& treatise. DR. KLINE. 933 Arch st. Phila p,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-15

FLANNEL next to the skin often produces a
rash, removable with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 80 cents
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NoN-CoMsITTTAI. = Possible Suitor-'iAre
you musical, misS2'' Elderly Maiden thesi-
tatingly)-"Would that be agreeable to
your'-FIegende Blaetter.
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'sTHEY say Barrows has writer's cramp.'
literature he feeds on.''-Harper's Bazaar
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''WITH all thy faults, love thee still,'' q
the husband said to his scolding wife,
ID. F. w.
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DR.. JALAP-stLet me see your tongue,
please Patient-sO. doctor, no tongue
can tell how bad 1 feel.''-Boston Tran
scrint
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STREET-CARS IN NAPLES.

-Fortnightly Review.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-26
WILL GO TO CHINA.
\ Montana MiIIman to Run n Plant
for LII Hung Chang.

4 Montana MiIIman to Run n Plant
for LII Hung Chang.
Herman Thofehrn, formerly manager
of the Anaconda refinery, says the
Butte Inter-Mountain, returned 10
Butte today after an absence of sew
eral months. during which he visited
Europe. Mr.. Thofehrn is a personal
friend Of Ii Hung Chang and met
that distinguished and inquisitive Chi
nese statesman in New York during
his tour of the world. An arrangement
was entered into at that meeting by
which Mr.. Thofehrn will become the
manager of a mammoth copper con-
Germ in the Chinese empire, the stock
of which will be held exclusively by
Ii and other members of the Chinese
government. Mr.. Thofehrn is now
awaiting the signing of the final pa
pers before proceeding TO China.
There are some very large deposits
of copper in China" said Mr.. Thofehrn
today. You can find almost any va
riety Of the mineral from carbonate
to the chalco-pyrites so familiar to
the Butte district. The mineral will
average from is to 20 per cent copper,
20 ounces in silver and from 1-10th
to 1-100th of an ounce in gold.
a DOQy Ol OIS VI lIldl
would mean a fortune to a man in
America. Think how much more it
means in China. where labor is had
for 10 cents a day and where fuel, fiux
and everything else that is needed can
be purchased for almost nothing. Three
dollars a month viii buy all the I'M
skilled labor you need in China and
the laborers are willing to take part of
their pay in rice. In some of the min
ing districts of China the laborers
work in the mines nine months of the
wear and in the rice fields the other
three months.
I'll ne milne inspector in China is the
boss of the works. The government de-
rives an income of about per cent of
the gross product of the mines and
the mine inspector is on hand to see
that everything is done according to
law and that the government is not
cheated out of its just revenue