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The advocate., 1897-06-02
Kansas Gleanings.


ence July4.
There has been no change In Kansas
Senatorial districts.
Reno County old settlers held
meeting last Friday.
The Republican State League will
meet at Topeka June II.
There are fifty.eight cases Of measles
at the State Reform School.
Z. B. Merritt and w. A. Pratt are
now the editors Of the Lansing NetOS.
Ex.Warden Bruce Lynch is now
Western live stock agent of the Santa
Fe.
An 1876 curfew ordinance has been
revised and is being enforced at EN-
poris.
A Ksnsss newspaper which carries a
liquor advertisement ip It's columns is
not often found,
There are only seven States In the
Union which have more miners EN-.
ployed than Kansas has.
The GEst Republican county conVen
tion Of the year has been called for
June II In Marion County.
The commencement exercises at the
State Agricultural College at Manhst-
tan will be held June z to 13,
McNsspy, the HeringtOn broker, was
convicted Of forgery and sentenced to
nine years In the Penitentiary.
Executive Clerk Flehsrty objects to
being referred to as silver Repubh.
can. lie says that he is POpulist.
Two Kansas National banks gave
notice last week that they would vol
UNFAIRLY liquidate and go out of bust
ness.
Two officers of the defunct Bank of
Hutchinson have been arrested charged
with receiving deposits after the bank
was insolvent
Webb McNsll is furnishing the
papers with more Legitimate news mat
ter than any two of the other State
officers or appointees,
HI. e. Richter of Council Grove, who
was beaten for Lieutenant Governor
by A. M. Harvey, will.ssk the Repub-
licsns to let him try again.
A Miami County farmer shot and
killed neighbOr who was putting his
horse In the farmers stable. He
thought he was horse thief.
Owing to an informally in the plans,
the bids for asphalt walks for the
State House grounds have all been re-
jected and the plans ordered revised.
Topeka is to have canning factory.
It comes without the payment Of any
bonus, and it seems likely that it will
be conducted on business principles,
Pension Commissioners Evans rec
Ommends that the order providing for
consolidation of the Topeka and ST.
Louis Pension Agencies be rescinded.
The f. BarteIdes & Son seed house
of Lawrence Is entitled to the credit
for introducing Ksir corn In Kansas.
This house handled the seed as early as
1885.
Daniel Forker, formerly County
The advocate., 1897-06-02


In newspaper interview Saturday,
General Manager Frey of the Santa
Fe said: "I have never seen the State
of Kansas looking more beautiful than
she appears to-day. The whole State
is blooming like a garden and the
crops are growing as If they really IN
tended to break all records"
The lola Register indorses Superln-
tendent McNslPs fight on the Clarkson
fire insurance rate book. 1t says that
it is fact chat for several years one
man has absolutely fixed the rate on
every piece Of property In Kansas and
this power has been used arbitrarily
and without sense, justice or reason.
j. B. Case, one Of the leading
creamerymen of Kansas, says that the
butter making business is making more
clear money for Kansas people than
any other line. He says that farmers
are giving more attention than ever
before to the dairy and are raising
cattle with a view to their value for
dairy purposes.
The Medicine Lodge TndeU is glad
to have the city printing, but draws
the line when 1t is asked to revise Ordi-
nances after they have passed so that
they will be made to mean something.
The IndeU properly thinks that 1t is its
business to print legal notice exactly
like the copy which has been delivered
to 1t without any variation.
Dispatches state that the Mckinley
Administration will soon remove War
den French Of the Federal prison at
LeaVenworth, and that an Ohio man
will get his place. Warden French is
one Of the best prison officers in the
West, and If the Administration was
brOsd-minded enough to retain him 1t
would reflect credit on itself.
The next meeting of the State Re-
form Press Association will be held at
EmpOria in July. The date will prob
ably be July 10, although this has not
been fully agreed on. The date and
program will be announced later and
in sufficient time prior to the meeting
to give every Populist editor in the
State an opportunity to attend.
Republican papers try to make it sp-
pear that there have been for years
ten Populist professors at the Agri-
cultural College at Manhattan and that
the institution has been managed in a
non partisan manner. AS an answer,
the Manhattan Republic challenges
anyone to name two POpulist profess
ors who were ever employed there.
The LeavenwOrth Populist Central
Committee held q meeting Saturday,
and 1t would appear from newspaper
reports that it indorses the complaints
made against the Police Commission
appointed by Governor Leedy, 1t is
alleged that two members of the com
mission are unsatisfactory and should
be removed and representative Popu-
lists given their places.
A California insurance company
thought 1t would bluff Superintendent
McNall by intimating that if 1t were
not allowed to do as it pleased it would
withdraw from the State. McNall
A., -1snI 49, 40 A. .o..o.o.-.
The advocate., 1897-06-02

woman, and it is probable that he will
be satisfied with his lot now.
The city of LinWOod, which has just
been incorporated and which will have
to elect a set of officers at once, will be
the first to hold an election under the
revised Australian ballot law.
Mammoth telegraph poles are being
put In at Topeka by the Western
Union. They are cedsrs and come
from Idaho. 1t is stated that, set up
ready for use, they cost Sl25 each.
The action of the Shawnee Republi-
cans In excluding silver Republicans
from participation in the primaries has
intensified the already bitter feeling on
their part toward the party machine.
There are twenty-five candidates
who will be voted on at the Republi,
can primaries In Shawnee County to
ill seven places. There are six candi-
dates for Sheriff and eight for Register
of Deeds.
The boys at the Reform School have
too little actual work to do. The Ex-
ecutiVe Council conceived the Idea
that they could be utilized in imprOV.
ing the State House grounds, They
did excellent work.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company says it will ignore Superin,
tendent McNall's order excluding it
from doing business in the State, 1t
will cost that company less in the end
If 1t changes It's mind.
An examination for applicants for
the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis will be held at Phillips
burg June 81. There is one vacancy
to be filed by appointment by Con-
gresham Mccormick.
Governor Leedy says 1t is not often
that he agrees with John j, Ingalls,,
but he says that he fully Endorses the
late Senator's statement that the Ding
ley tariff bill is the greatest hold-up of
the nineteenth century.
Notwithstanding the fact that In
twenty six years Kansas has paid into
the hands of Eastern insurance com
panles $23, 100000 more than has been
received In losses, Eastern papers con-
tinue their abuse Of the State.
Mrs. A. G. Bond of Sslina has been
elected president Of the Women's
Home and Foreign Missionary Society
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
1t is a National body which held its
last meeting at Dayton, Ohio.
The Marion County Populist Central
Committee held a meeting last Satur-
day and adopted a resolution COM
mending Governor Leedy's veto of the
Senate railroad bill and his position on
the question of special session.
The Eighth District Christian Mis-
sionary Convention will meet at CHM
srTOn July 2 to 4, Excursion rates
have been given. An address will be
made by the State President. Milton
Brown, Garden City, will furnish ad-
ditiOnal information.
The Columbus Adoocate, an ardent
supporter Of the gold standard, an
nounCes that It will accept due bills on
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
MINE ON FIRE The Great Utica Property
 Ablaze Today. MINERS NARROWLY ESCAPE A Thousand Men Thrown Out of Employment. Great
 Loss to Angeles City.

ANGELES CAMP, Cal, Aug. 1.-The great UOics mine is on ire. Flames and smoke were discovered issuing from the S00-foot level, Station No. 4, st 4 o'clock this morning. Is was with diff culty that the shift made their escape |. Six men were cut of but made their way out through the south end of the new shaft.
 The fire is supposed to have originst- ed from a spontaneous combustion caused by lard and coal oil.
 Ie is impossible at present to estimate the extent of the loss, but it is safe to say that it will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not only are the mine owners affected, but the whole town of Angeles Camp, which has a population of 5000 inhabitants, who aI- most entirely are dependent upon the miners employed in the Utioa group. There are 1000 men employed and should the fire prove as serious as rs- ported thsee men will be left in desti- tute circumstances.
 Every effort Is being made to quench the fire es rapidly ns possible. but ges and smoke are in all the shafts, which ere being rapidly bulkhesded. While stopping up the Utica shaft the firsmen suffocate.
 The mine is being rapidly flooded with water and all the main pipes have been cut and about 5000 miners inches of water are pouring down the shaft. It will take at least four days to flood the mine, and it is estimated that 10 will take at least two months to pump out the water.
 The Utica mine is the largest gold producing property in California. The Utica is owned by Alvinzs Hayward, O. D. Lane and the Hobart estate. It Is said to produce s2O0,OOO worth of gold peH mouth.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
NO FREE SILVER Not to Fool Longer
 With the Question.
NEWSPAPER OPINION.
Japan and Russia Adopt the Gold Standard and the U. S. Com
 mission is Useless.

LONDON, Aug. 17.-The Westminster Gazette this afternoon has echoes edi- torielly of tbe London Times this morning in the bimetaiiiem message oabled to the Associated Press and says it sees no chance of she Indian hints being reopened to the coInsge Of silver, eddiug: "To fool any longer with President McKlniey'a commission is surely unnecessary. h declining to abide by tbs market valus of silver ss ] he standard of currency value, India has taken a step toward demonetiziDg silver. Japan snd Russia have adopted s gold standard and DO one vents to go back on it. Then why not say so, and not bs deterred by the possibility of Bryan victory, and dismiss the question finally"
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
..>11sz tBefOre the Sought For Gold Fields are
 Reached.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. I6. - Thoma as
 business man and careful observer, who
 accompanied his son to Dyes, writes to
 the Associated Press from that point to
 the effect that the ignorance displayed
 by the crowds fl Joking to She Klondyke fields Is lamensable. Or four hundred passengers who sailed with him on
 board She steamer George W. Elder, hslf of whom were from Ssn Francisco, not one in twenty had defnite informs- sion es to how to reach their destins tioD. While the routes wers well known the details and conditions to be met with were not considered, most of the ssarohers for wealth hoping to settle all doubts and uncertainti ties when they reached Juneau. Instead, however. further confusion is creased by the sp- pslling statement bhsb there were only two routes, each of which necessitsted to encounter apparently ineurmounta- ble difficulties. There were plenty of for both routes at Juneeu, but most of them were found to be by parties. The two starting points, Dyes and Stsaque, are separated by four miles Of salt water. The Dyee trial goes over Chilcoot Pase, which in- wolves climb of 35,OOO feet, while the other, which is not yet completed, has a 2,65O foot climb, over White Pass, and besides being six miles longer, is boggy ia places.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

"WHAT is every body's business is no-
 body's business" is eminently and pain fully apparent in the matter of the test
 crop of sugar beets raised ou numerous farms in the valley this season and which crops in probably a majority of instances has been permitted to dsseri- crate even to.rot without test epaly sis for sscharine matter. In only one in stance so far have we been able to learn that the beets were analysed and those were taken up while yet growing, considerable before maturity and test made with unsatisfactory reeults-in fact the result could not have been otherwise. There should be some or ganizstion and understanding in this mstteB and fair test made of our for beet culture. The Chamber of Commerce to be sure has bad little correspondence on shis mat ter but so far that appears to be sll that has been done. Iu fact the thing looks like 8 failure from pure ind fer ence and neglect.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

Gov. MoCoRD's letter to the Board of Equalization has awakened consider able discussion in various quarters on the matter of placing the Territory on a paying basis,"i i. @ in fnsncial con- dition to pay her way as she goes, a condition she has not been h for many years. This is the first great step to bs taken towards Statehood, and it is the first great step to be taken towards re- lievipg the citizens of Arizona of the financial burdens thet are gradually sc- cumulatlng, because the moment it ie known that Arizona is paying her way, that moment people ars more ready to come here to make their homes with ue, that moment unlimited capital IS ready to flow in to dig our canals, conserve our waters, build our railroads and open ouE mines on scale not heretofore thought of. IacreasIng indebtedness
 
 knows Arizona is burdened in that res- peot to the limit, new. Gov. McCo7d has touched upon she vital question concerning AFjzone's prosperity and it is to be hoped that be will paIsue t to 8 succesefni end early issue.
 THE New Mexico Territorial Fair As sociation bss issued Souvenir Pre- mium liss that is most creditsble to the association. It includes descriptions of she attractions and resources Of the Territory wish numerous fine iliustrs tions and finally the premium list Among other things that interest Ari- zone we note premium of S2OO for first best collection of Arizona or New Mexi- can ores and S1OO for second best. Also $25 and S15 for first and second Lest cabinet of ores from Arizona OF New Mexico; also BIO and $5 premiu ms for best exhibition of tin ores, fire brick, onyx, drain pipe, building stone, etc, from New Mexico or Arizona fine rsciug program Is also givsn with very liberal purses while the bose Tell purse runs $500 for first. s4OO for second. $500 for third and s2OO for fourthoash prizes, bicycles are also in it for numeFoue prizes from s15 to s45 for varioue events. the premium let is an allur- ing one and shonld and will attract many Arizonans especially from the northern end of the Territory and probabl from this oity. Albuquerque people have al ways been very kind to the people of Phoenix and their courtesy should be fully reciprocsted on our part.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
STARTED UP
After Four Years of likeness

LAcoN, IT, Aug. 16.-The Lscon Woolen Mills, employing POO hands, is running night and day and cannot fili it's orders. The Ziuc Works at Wenons, closed down or four years, will resume operations at once, employing 50 to 60 hands. Farmers are beginning to plant other than corn and 1 believe ths will help things out throughout this coun- try Everything in the country has an upward tendency.
 STERLING, Ill.,, Aug. 16.-The Key stone Manufacturing Co.,, menufsetur- CTS of agricultural implements, which usually runs very light at this time of the year, has been compelled to increase ite force instead of reducing it. 1t ex- pects to employ larger number of men this fall than at any time in She past three years. Other agricultural imple- ment factories report good business. Tae Lawrence Bros. Man ufsotuRing concern is msking large additioni to it's building to be occupied by en sddi- tionaI manutscturing establishments. The Cobb & Drew Rivet end Nail Fac tory have large increase in orders. There is an unusual activity in the building of residences in town.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE absolute and cheerful manner in
 which our Democratic morning cotem- porary endorses the Republican Terri torisl administration from top to bot tom Is sn evidence that there may be some hope 10, it's late mistaken political ideas, and it must breed constern ation iu the ranks of the Democracy of the county to see their only organ thus de- part from the ways of Democratic reoti- tude and consoEt with the enemy.
 There can now be no excuse that would recall the support that journal has vol unserily given Governor MoCerd and the Repu blican party in its assumption of the duties of the Territorial admipis
 trsbion of affairs, and 1t suggests that ing in Democratic per.y organization, nothing in Democratic principles iu the Territory. The stronger principles, the greater political usefulness and power iu the Republican party and it's officials in the Territory have simply attracted she Gdzette body and soul, into the Re publican ranks, and by no ordinary and honorable course can 1t now retEscs its position or go back on the Republican- iem of Arizona as 1t stands today. It endorses the Governor, the Secretary, sbe Superintendent of tbe Prison, the Board of Control, the Superintendent of tte Iosane Asylum, the Board of Equalization, in fact every individual of the Territorial dministratioD, without exception, ard at least one half the bench and is silent on the other half only on personal grounds, and it is waiting to endorse the new United States Attorney. A more complete eur- render than this Republicans cannot ask for.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

HON. BENJ. BUrTERwoRTH, Commis- toner of Patients, is living up to ex- pectfons iu the matter of raising the standard of practice before the Patent Office. His latest and most important move Is sn order providing that a register shall be kept of all persons en- titled to practice before thsb cff1oe, and establishing rules under which as- torneys may get their names upon tb ct register. In these rules Msjor But ter worth has gone to the extreme limit of authority given him by the present somewhat unsatisfactory laws. He has other reform ideas which will require the sanction of Congress- before they can be carried out.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
THE BIG STRIKE.
A Mining Boss Poisoned With
 Paris Green.
MANY STRIKERS SUFFERING
The Strikers Make an Effort to March But Are Stopped
 by Deputies.

P1TTsBURG, Aug. IA - Despite the orders of the officials the miners su- tempted to march to the mines again
 this morning at Sandy and Turtle
 creeks, but the deputies were alert and
 the marckers were forced to break
 ranks and return to camp. There was
 some show of resistance as made st
 Plum crack, only of milder order. At
 Plum creek the situ stien Is favorable to
 the company so far as operating the
 mine is concerned. There was no
 marching as the men decided to obey
 Doleu's order to discontinue until after
 the injunction proceedings of Monday
 The strikers attempted to visit the
 mine in groups of two and four bus the
 Sheriff would not permit them. In
 Moonrun district there is much suffer-
 ing and 300 families are said to be in
 sressed has bsen started.
 PITTsBURG, Ap-. 14.-Notwithsb band- ing the ipjuuctions served on the Buenola Goal Go. the strikers continue to march. This morning the deputies aF- rested eighteen and brought them to Pittsburg. They were plsced h jail on a ohsrge of disorderly conduct.
 The Injunction case against the Ruenols miners will be heard before Judge Collier, of the County court and deoision reserved The Judge said he wanted to do justice to both sides and before rendering 8 decision desired to carefully examine the testimony. Pend ing She decIsion,the preliminary ipjunc- tiou against the miners will be con- drmed.
 DUNBAR, Pa., Aug. 14-Thomas Jeff fries, night boss at the Ferguson min c, was poisoned today by drinking coffee in which had been placed Paris Green. He was taken violently Ill but is now believed to be out Of dagger. An ex- animation of his dinner bucket showed traces of poison. The Paris Green ~ss evidently put in the buckeb by some one in the mine. JeffFies incur- red the enmity of number of strikers n 1894 by acting es a deputy for the company. The Ferguson mine Is in she strike region but there is DO trouble there at present.
 PIrT3BURG, Pa, Aug. IT M arsial law to ell iDtents and purposes has been de- dared in Plum, Patton and Wilkins townships by Sheriff Lowry. Three hines of the New York and Cleveland as coal company h these townships md all roads leading to them will be oatrolled by deputies. Persons who ,ennob give 8 satisfactory account of will be ordered to leave the and upon refusal will be .rrested. The sheriff will nos attempt 10 break up the camp of the strikers lntil the court has passed on the ques- ion, but announced today that he is determined to stop the marching and | on eompany's property. | No one will be allowed on the con- ,sny's property who does not have ,ase signed by Sups. Ds Armitt.
 There are now nearly 800 men in the amp at Plum Ccesk. After the meet | It Sandy Creek yesterday the camp at hat point wss abandoned and the men venb to Plum Creek. In addition two hundred men arrived this morning from The increase in the num ,er in camp has caused a shortage of provisions and the men are hungry. They threatened to march during the morning but were induced nob to by hs deputies.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19

THE Chinese Minister at Washing ton must consider Americans remarkably coarse and impertinent people. The other day lady of social standing said to him: "Does that large jewel in She front of your cap mean anything?" He looked at her in sstonishment and silence a moment ard politely said: "Does that feather in your hat mean snything?" There are whole herds of Americans who might learn manners and gentility from the better classes of the "heashen Chinee."
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-19
BOARD OF EQUALIz ALTON
The Tax Rate Fixed and an Ad-
 Journmene Taken

The Tax Rate Fixed and an Ad- Journmens Taken
 The Territorial Board of Eqoslizs- tion at it's meeting yesterday fixed the following rate of taxation for the Ter, ritory:
 For she general fund.34 on each $l00; insane asylum interest fund, 10; Univer sity fund .O215; Normal school fund .O315; school fund .O3; Tedepsion insur- auce bonds, .O31k. The following levies provided by sGts of the laet legislature wsre fixed: Rapport of Normal sohools .03 on each S1O0; home for the insane. three tenth of mill on each dolSer; uDeintainauce of the University, obe- half mill; in teresb on Worlds fsiP bof6s one half mill. The total rate of taxa tion is 02 210 less thar it was yeesi ago. The total valuation, about S31.-~ GOO GOO, is so far in excess of the valua- tion of previous years that at this les sened rate she income of the Territory will be increased. The subjsct ot rs- ducipg the valuation of the A & s E railroad was disposed of by reducing the assessment fixed at the June meet ing, $5,350. 63 per mile, to $500 the valuation of last year.
 At the session today the Board re- viewed its work of the session and Is- sued a communication to the various Boards ot Supervisors of the Territory to send representative to Phoenix on January 24, 1898, to meet with the the Board and discuss the values of property and rate of texation with view of srenedying any discrepisnciss which may exist at the present and if possible devise ways and nj of placing the Territory an g basis.
 The Board then adjourned, January 24, 1898