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Buried in n Slide.

Seattle, Wash, May 31.-Charles john
son, August Miller and John Olson, la
borers employed on the Great Northern
work train, were buried In a slide Sat
urday near Cascade tunnel, all sustain
ing more or less serious injuries. Olson
is perhaps fatally hurt The men were
brought to Seattle and placed in Provi-
dence hospital.
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SiIvertOn Camp.

Seattle has a genuine attack of mining
fever. Everywhere one sees specimens
Of ore and hear men talking mines. Chief
interest centers in the new camp OF Sill
verton and the Monte Crsto district. Sill
verton is 49 miles east of Everett, on the
Everett & Monte Cristo road. 1t has 500
people; 60 days ago it had not to exceed
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Berlin, May 27.-The local Anzger of AK
lie Chapelle publishes a dispatch from ST.
Petersburg saying q young artisan had
been arrested in the park of Tsarskoe
Selo, II miles south of St. Petersburg,
where the summer residence of the en-
peror is located, with a. dagger and re-
volver in his possession. The prisoner
said he wanted to murder the czar, be-
come famous and be hanged like other
'.herOeS.'
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-05

Chicago, May 27.-OZrow W. Clapp, once
a wealthy board of trade operator, and
his son, Dwight o. Clapp, have been ar
rested at the request of the New York po
lice, charged with being fugitives from
Justice. 1t is said they are wanted ir
New York to answer to the charge of lille.
gally transferring their property for the
purpose of defrauding creditors.
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Atlanta, Ca, June Mrs. 70. Godfrey,
40 years Of age, the handsome and
wealthy daughter of Hon. Benjamin Dug
ger. has been arrested for murder She
was indicted on the testimony of her
children. who sWore that six years ago
she strangled and buried her daughters
illegitimate child.
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Farmer and Two Sons Blown Up.
A q q

Duluth, Mln1l., May zI.-A terfIUIe aCCI=
dent has occurred today at HermantoWn,
seven miles from Duluth Frank Lucek,
farmer living there, was thawing out
dynamite to be used in clearing land OF
stumps. He was heating it over fire
when it exploded. tearing the house al
most to pieces and killing Lucek and two
young sons. His wife and another small
son escaped alive but are badly hurt
What remained of the house caught fire
and was DESTROYED
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Mad With .IealnuAY.

Montpelier, VT, May 31.-Miss Mildred
Brewster, daughter of a wealthy farmer
of Huntington, shot and probably fatally
wounded Miss Annie Wheeler. of whom
she is alleged to have been jealous. Miss
Brewster then turned the revolver on
herself, inflicting a possibly fatal wound.
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Mrs. KenS1er Convicted Again.

Boise, Idaho, May 31.-At Mountain
Home Mrs. Joseph e. Kensler has been
convicted second time of murder in
the second degree for the murder of hel
husband John kensler. October II last
she and Alfred Freel, a hired man, com
mitted the deed. Freel was convicted of
murder in the first degree and Mrs. Ken
sler of murder in the second degree.
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Christina Lake,

Cascade. r. c.. reports that more than
200 mineral locations have been made
about Christina lake in the past two
weeks and large amount of development
work is being done.
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Three-Year-OId Girl

Vancouver, Wash, June 1-Silas Tuck
er's 3-year-old girl fell from a scow into
Lake river, about six miles from here,
and was drowned before her parents, who
were near by. could rescue her, although
she was in the water only few minutes.
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OBSERVANCE AT WASHINGTON.
President Mckinley Participates in
the Exercises Mt ArlinstOn.

Washington. June 1.-Memorial day was
generally observed in Washington yester-
/ day. The senate adjourned over. The
! house held only a fifteen minute session.
All the departments and the business
houses We're closed and the day was Civ
en- up to patriotic observance and tributes
to the heroic dead.
The most imposing ceremonies were at
the National cemetery at Arlington on the
Virginia side of the Potomac. The eXer-
clseS We're made particularly memorial
by the presence of President Mckinley
They began at II o'clock with the nation
al salute of q guns from a light battery
The 18th artillery of the United States
army. led by the marine band. the G. A.
r. and other organizations marched to
the tomb of the unknown dead where the
band played a dirge while the massive
monument was being decorated. The
graves of all the vast army beneath the
trees received their tributes of flowers.
The organiza tions afterwards gathered
in the amphitheater.
Representative Dolliver of Iowa deliv-
cred the oration of the day. The poem
was read by DR.. Thomas Calver. Hon
Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the
Interior followed with an Grafton. The
exercises concluded with Beethovens
funeral march. the Dead Hero played by
the Marine band.
At Grants Tomb.
New York. June 1.-The weather was in
tensely hot at General Grants tomb, but
5000 persons assembled there to take part
in the exercises of L. S. Grant post No.
32l, G. A. R., of Brooklyn. Flowers were
deposited in the crypt on the sarcopha-
gus. TO the left was magnificent floral
contribution from the Chinese minister,
and to the right an immense wreath plac-
ed by the confederate camp of this city.
Mrs. Newman. the wife of Bishop New
man, descended into the crypt, accom-
panied by Dr. H. A. Perry of the North
western university of Chicago. and de-
posted a bunch of roses. When the
marching veterans appeared national
salute of q guns was fired by the United
States battleship Indiana which was an
chored in the river. Then a large flag
was raised on the flagstaff erected by the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
An address was made by Mayor Strong.
and Bishop Newman delivered an Grafton.
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Everett. WASH, June 1.-The 1O-year-
old son of John Harring slipped off a
boom stick into the bay and drowned.
His body was recovered.
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Sale of the Ontario.

The Ontario adjoining the Mannamead
on the North Fork of the Salmon, has
been sold for $4,000.
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In conclusion Senator Tillman reiterat

In conclusion Senator Tillman reiterat-
ed that if the senate is rotten to the
bottom it should be proved. If the
charges were false. then the lies should
be laid bare. If the charges We're tue,
then, he said, the guilty senators should
be turned out and the senate purged.
Aldrich Made Reply.
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Murdered by Indians.

Miles City, Mont, May 27.-John
Hoover, missing sheep herder from John
Barringer's ranch, was found dead about
two miles from his ranch with two bull
let holes through his body. His dog lay
by his side. Both were killed by Indians.
The Indians are making preparations for
trouble and the settlers are growing un-
easy.
Half a Million for Europe.
New York. May 27.-LaZard Freres have
taken $5OO,oOO gold for shipment today to
Europe OF this amount only $4,000 is
taken from the sub-treasury. The bal
ance comes from San Francisco.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-05

The Philadelphia garment workers have
followed the New York craftsmen and are
va1t on strike.
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San Francisco, May 2.-Frank Nc
Coppin, postmaster for the past five years,
a prominent democrat, died yesterday as
a result of an operation.
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Senator Aldrich Immediately took the
floor as Senator Tllman closed. 1t had
been charged or inferred. he said, that
the sugar trust dictated the sugar sched-
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CtSS UeIIIS dUdIIIIUIIGU.
The Tillnan Matter.

Senator Tillmans resolution quotes the
senate resolution of May II, 1894, author
izing the original inquiry, and then, after
reciting the proceedings in the Chapman
and Havemeyer trials proceeds:
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
THE POLICE INvEsTIG.r,o..

Ihe resolutions of Senator Lyons. of
jackson county, in regard to the stories
which have been afloat for some time re-
hecting on the official integrity of the DO
lice commissioners and members of the DO
lice force of this city, and calling for an in
vestgation by the senate, make SO MANY
serious charges that the senate could not
DO otherwise than look into the matter.
and the investigation has been ordered.
The commissioners have also asked for of
hcial action. The committee has been ap-
pointed and the work will be pushed, it is
said, TO a speedy conclusion.
Now that the ice is broken, the inyestiea-
ton should be thorough and the whole
matter probed to the bottom. If there is
any crookedness in the police department
Of Kansas City the people ought to know
it. If gambling and other offenses against
the law are openly permitted, as charged.
ana with the connivance of the members of
the department, the people have right
to know that, too, and the offenders should
be brought to the bar of justice and pun
ished.
The investigation, If it amounts to any,
thing, must be impartial and thorougbgo
ing. Paltry notions of economy ought not
to be permitted to stand in the way. The
people will cheerfully bear the expense If
the honest truth can be arrived at. The Of
ficials who have been mentioned in connec-
ton with the scandals promise to do what
they can to aid the committee in getting at
the facts. In justice to themselves and
their good name they cannot do less, pro-
vided the facts are not more hurtful to
them than inaction.
Undoubtedly there has been discrimina
ton and favoritism in dealing with gam
blers and other criminals by the police au-
thorities of this city. The fact is familiar
and notorious. The abuse has been kept
UP for years. 1t is high time the light was
being turned on and the guilty officials ex-
posed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
DIVORCE TOO EASY.

Appellate Court Judge A. W. Dennison,
of Kansas, is author of a bill to be intro
duced in the legislature which modifes the
present Kansas practice so that under GER
tain contingencies husbands and wives
may testify against each other in divorce
proceedings.
Without entering into details, it is sufff-
cient TO say that the proposed measure in
effect viii make divorces easier to get, and
therefore it condemns itself without fur
ther hearing. Divorces are already too
easily procured. and if any change is made
it should be in the direction of strength
ening the marriage tie.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that in one state at least it is prac>
tically impossible TO secure divorce. This
is South Carolina. Divorce is not absolute
ly forbidden, but the causes for it are so
few and the testimony must be so strong
that it is seldom the procedure is at
tempted. When a divorce is granted It
does not carry with it full freedom from
the marriage tie. The second marriage of
a divorced woman is not recognized as a
legal ceremony. and she acquires no dover
right to the property of her second hus-
band when he dies. Ministers are not for
hidden to marry people who have been di-
vorced, but most of them refuse to do it.
A case has just been decided by the
South Carolina supreme court which illus
trates the rigidity of the divorce laws
there 1t is recounted in a Charleston
paper as follows: Two wears ago a man
named Pepper courted Miss Sallie Shear
er. Pepper declined to marry the girl when
he was pressed to do so. About this time,
however, the brothers OF the young woman
took hand. They put several bullets in
Pepper, and would have put more into him
had he not agreed to marry the sister
The ceremony was duly performed by
legal officer. Immediately after the cere-
mony the two separated and never lived
together. Pepper remained in the state
and his wife went to Texas, where she now
lives. Pepper was not satisfied with the
way the marriage ceremony was brought
about, and sought legal remedies to re-
lease him from his bonds, claiming that he
never of his own free will and consent
married the woman. He further alleged
that the marriage was never legally con-
summated, because he had never lived with
his wife. The circuit judge decided against
Pepper and held that he had no iurisd;c-
ton in the case, Peppers wife being in
iexas and refusing to submit to the juris-
diction of South Carolina court. The su-
Prene court sustained the lower court"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
TIE sNuR TO ALTGELD.

The action of the Republican legislature
of Illinois in not permitting Governor Alt
seld to make the usual address on the
occasion of his retirement from office was
mistake. Governor AItgeld had been in
vited to make the address, in accordance
with the established custom which requires,
the retiring executive to deliver a brief
farewell, and in simple courtesy he should
have been permitted to speak. The fact
that it was feared Altgeld would make one
of his rabid and characteristic harangues
is not a sufficient excuse for such treat
ment by the legislature.
And even If he had talked intemperately
there was nothing to fear. Mr.. Altgeld's
sentiments were in great, measure re-
spopsible for his overwhelming defeat last
November. The more he airs them the
worse it is for him. If it had been ab-
solutely certain that the retiring governor
intended to laud socialism and anarchy to
the skies and denounce the Republicans
as plutocrats and oppressors of the toiling
masses it would have been good politics to
let him throw the foodgates of his ora
tory wide open. 1t was shabby treatment
OF the man who had been the chief execu-
tive of a great state and will create SYM
pathy for him when he deserves none.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
Stations, Bar. : T,R pm Pre-. rw'th'r
WHY WHEAT HAS BEEN CHEAP.

c. Wood Davis, the noted crop statisti-
clan. was in Wichita, Kas., day or two
since, where he furnished the local paper
some interesting figures upon the grain
yields of the world.
According to Mr.. Davis, the area of land
now devoted TO the production of bread
stuffs over the world is 100000 acres less
than in 1884, and while during this thirteen
year period the power TO produce bread
has thus diminished about 2 per cent, the
capacity for bread consumption has in
creased more than is per cent. 1t is OBJ
vious. then. that some other force must
have been at work to produce the low
prices which prevail besides the large acre
age cultivated. Mr.. Davis accounts for it
by showing that the yield per acre over the
world has been of late years vastly in
creased over the average. During the per-
Tod from 1882 TO 1895 there were ten crop
years which in total produced LES, ,0oO 600
bushels more than the average for twenty
five years would entitle them to.
so enormous has been the production of
all the food staples-grains and potatoes
in the last four years." says Mr.. Davis,
that the world has grown and consumed
100000 900 bushels more of wheat; 10000, 900
bushels more Of rye; 800 900 600 bushels more
of barley; 350. 900 bushels more of oats.
and quite $500 100000 bushels more of pota-
toes in the four years ending with 1885 than
It did in the four years ending with 1891, al
though in the earlier four years each and
all these products gave yields which, in
their aggregate. exceeded average harvests
from the acres employed.
$50 great has been the increase of popu-
lation and so meager the additions to the
worlds cultivated acreage since 1SS4-about
which time the United States ceased to add
largely to the worlds food bearing acres
that, as related TO population, the worlds
wheat and rye bearing lands are now def
cient by more than 100000 acres. and
should the next harvest-world harvested
wheat and rye be no better than that of
1896 the product would be less than world
requirements by quite 5OOOOO,O 900 bushels of
the two grains.
My Investigations lead me-" continued
Mr. Davis, ''as they have for years. to the
conclusion that wheat and all staple prod
uclS VI the sui aIe oOuIIu 10 orins hish
prices just as soon as the world has had
two crops of the breadmaking grains not
above the average in acre YIELD or one
crop thereof materially below the average
in acre yield. The world in 1896 harvested
crops of wheat and rye somewhat below
the average in acre yield, and the pros
poets are now more than equal that the
next crop will not exceed an average. If
It does not shall look for very high prices
for all the breadmaking grains, and if Ia
big I'D the remainders from former har-
vests are no greater than they now ap-
pear to be, a material advance is by no
means improbable before July l. 1897. Mark
you, this is not. a prediction. Only fools
and astrologers predict
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13

Some idea of the variety OF the products
and the fmmensity of the resources of
Missouri may be gathered from figures
given by the annual report of the state
board OF agriculture, of which advanced
sheets have been issued. In resources
Missouri is truly great commonwealth,
and the information given in this report
helps to sustain the claim that she is i'm
perial mistress of states, an empire with
in herself
In 1896 Missouri produced 200 900 bush
els OF corn, 1S,OOO, 900 bushels Of wheat. %. =
100000 bushels of oats. 5OOe0O bushels of
fiaxseed and 100000 bushels of potatoes.
There were harvested nearly 100000 tons
of hay, cotton was picked TO the amount of
100000 pounds. and 100000 pounds of
tobacco were raised. The value of the
fruit crop last year exceeded s12OOO.OOO, of
which there were S10,oOO,OO0 worth of ap-
pies.
In the dairy business of the state over
900 is invested. with a gross annual
return in products OF S1,5OO.OOO. In this in
dustry more than 10000 cows are employed,
and there are annually produced 100000
pounds Of butter, 6O0,OoO pounds of cheese
and 900 gallons OF milk. A third of a
million dollars is invested in dairy build
ings and it requires $4,000 acres of land TO
support the business.
The value of the live stock owned in Mis-
souri, is at least $3.50. 100000. Last year there
were shipped out of the state 10000 head
of cattle. 10000 head of hogs. ,o,OOO head
of horses. 10000 sheep and 100000 pounds
of wool, 100000 pounds of poultry and 25,-
Ooo0OO dozen eggs. quarter of n billion
feet of lumber 100000 railroad ties, 7OOO,-
900 pounds OF pickles. 100000 feet OF piling.
s5.OOOooO pounds of canned goods and 7,oOO,-
ooO pounds of hides.
In area the state embraces 44.oooOO
acres. 1t has the largest iron mountain in
the world. with an unlimited supply of
the metal in twenty counties. The coal
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
TrRin ROhhera.

From the Washington Post.
1t would undoubtedly be worth a great
deal of money to the state of Missouri TO
be rid of train robbing. In his annual
message to the legislature Governor Stone
declares that this crime surpasses all 9TH
crs in its detrimental effects on the COM
morwealth. When train robberies occur
with frequency. he says. an impression be-
comes widely prevalent that life and prop
erty are unsafe within the Jurisdiction
where they occur. The governor holds that
this crime should be absolutely extirpat-
ed" and he declares that this carnot be ac-
complished by penitentiary sentences. In
this connection he adds:
THE Thirty-elghth general assembly
alive to the Importance of this subject
made the crime n capital offense The in
Fiction of capital punishment, however
was left to the discretion of the jury, Sew
erai convictions have been had since the
enactment of the law referred to. but only
Penitentiary sentences were pronounced
In my opinion the men who perpetrate
these crimes should be hanged"
The man who wrecks or attempts TO
wreck train deserves death, and he is so
dangerous creature that society cannot
afford to let him live The enormity of the
crime of train-wrecking is so generally ap-
preciated that there is no danger of a fail
ure to enforce the death penalty by reason
of Sympathy in the jury box There is SUBJ
stantial unanimity in the belief that the
train-wrecker should be put out Of this life
by as speedy process as the law can pro-
vide for his trial, conviction and punish
ment
But the man who robs, or helps to rob. n
train, without wrecking or trying to wreck
1t, and without committing Il worse crime.
is quite different criminal from the
wrecker. Bad as his work is for the state.
it would be impossible to enforce a law
giving him the death penalty with no al
Tentative. The change suggested by Gov
ernor Stone would have no good effect.
Juries would disagree and. after repeated
and costly failures to convict, the robber
would 20 free.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
A Gift to the snItan.

From the New York Mail and Express
In return for several albums of pFoto-
graphs presented by the sultan to the
Smithsonian Institution, the authorize. of
that establishment have decided to send tn
the Turkish ruler a gift which shall be
distinctly original and American in chr
acter. They have constructed of wax, phs
ter and other needful ingredients a I'm
sized figure of a Sioux chief. and this won
derfully life-like production, duly togge,
out in blanket, buckskin. beads, war paint
and scalping knife, will presently he
shipped, prepaid. to Constantinople as n
token from the Smithsonian Institution TO
the monarch of the Ottoman empire.
There is a certain appropriateness in tbia
gift that is altogether admirable. 1t will
serve as souvenir of the extinct sayaperv
of America to the surviving sayagerv NJ
Turkey. 1t will typify to the cruel des.
pot OF the East vanishing race scarcely
less bloodthirsty than himself. and it win
symbolize the barbaric forces which rnust
be destroyed in Turkey as thew have al
ready been destroyed in America. by the
resistless advance of civilization.
The choice of such gift for the sultan
is highly cemmendable. He NAV not an
preciate II, but its fitness is clear to every,s
hody. The moral purpose of it is subtle! J!
but direct and simple. The average SiouI
indian is safest and loveliest when cast iii
wax and filed with sawdust. There arc
o'hers-barbarous and semi-barbarous-ef
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
WHOSE is THE PATRoyAcE,

The federal place hunters in Kansas are
just now puzzling over what to them is a
highly important question. They would
Ike to know who to control the patron
age of Kansas. particularly in those dis
tricts where a Populist congressman was
returned in place of a Republican. VIII
President Mckinley hearken to the pres
ent congressman who retire ON the 4th of
March, or will he recognize only recon-
mendations from, Senator Baker and such
of the Republican congressman as continue
to serve?
So far the president-elect has given no
hint of how he will dispose of the patron
age in districts which have no Republican
representation in congress- but If we NAV
believe a special telegram from Canton he
proposes to give the fullest latitude to con-
gressmen who are in service. It is related
that an old friend of Major Mckinley, to
whom he is under many obligations. went
TO him the other day with an application
on his own account for the postoffice in
his town. The major told him that he
would like TO give him the office, but could
not do so without the Endorsement of the
congressman from the district However.
he addressed note to the congressman
which read as follows:
81 have known Mr.. Blank for years and
am under many obligations to him. shall
be glad TO appoint him to the office he seeks
provided it meets with your appreciation.
The congressman replied that he had al
ready promised the position to another
man. but that If the president chose to
appoint his friend he would make no COM
plant. This Major Mckinley refused to
do, and informed his friend that he would
have to adjust the matter with the con-