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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

Cabinet making is progressing and
the selections thus far seem excellent
Sherman VIII bring great experience
to the head of his department as sec
retary of state. Nearly fifty years in
the political service fits him for any
position in public life, but his service
for several years as chairman of the
foreign affairs committee of the q. S.
Senate especially qualities him for the
position of secretary of state. LYMAN
j. Gage, who has been announced as
the next secretary of the treasury, is
man who has worked up from pOv-
erty through his own efforts until he
has become the bead of the largest
bank west of New York. His busi-
ness experience and ability are every
where recognized. He is not a politi-
clan, but level-headed, careful, sue
ceSSful business man, which makes
his appointment all the more satiS-
factory to the general public. He is
reported to have supported Cleveland
in 1884, but, like many others, saw
his mistake and returned to the prin-
cipleS of protection to American in
dustrieS when he saw how Il touch of
democracy worked. Gen. Russell a.
Alger, the next secretary of war, is
alss man of considerable experience
in public affairs. He is not SO able
or well known as either of the other
selections thus far made, but as the
United States is wholly unlikely to
have much business for it's war de-
partment to do it is not necessary to
have so much ability at the head OF
that department..
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06
Glass Legislation.

| State Senator Lewelling is trying to
push bill which will. if it tecomes a
| law, exempt 81 500 worth of property
from taxation. This would, of CT urse,
/ pile two-thirds of the taxes of the
state on the one-third of the people
who have been active. shrewd ard
thrifty enough to get ahead over 81 500
worth of property. and it would re-
lieve from taxation the doiess,' .
worthless and shiftless people who
have failed under exactly the same
economic conditions that their neigl :
bors succeeded under This law would
be class legislation. 1t would drive
every home-Seeker who hoped to even
tually be worth over 81 800 away from
Kansas i t would place Kansas where
all that has been said of the desire to
elevate the lazy. greasy fzzie would
be proven true
Yet you can't find Fopulisf who
doesn't dcnounce the Repu i ans I II
saying that the Popultsis desi.e to
put premium uron idle iess- The
PopuliSts desire to handicap the
thrifty by taxing his end .avors to
death and they wouid exempt the
taxes of the man who hasn't enough
energy to make a success in lifc--
Empo-ia Gazetts-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

The action of the Populist sena-
torial caucus will be viewed with some
surprise by the Immediate friends of
Senator PETER. We were contiden-
TALLY informed only few hours be-
fore the caucus of Tuesday night by
the old mans managers that the people
were behind him, and were given to
understand that his boat was riding
the crest of the wave. while the favor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

Aooub the silliest thing yet sprung
at Topeka is the creation of a board
OF barber examiners. The bill. as in
troducei, provides for board of
three members who shall be allowed
mileage and five dollars day for the
time employed in the pursuit of their
work OF examination. Kill the bill.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

sixteen years ago because of a differ
ence of opinion with Garfield, then
president, has been elected to succeed
David B. Hill, democrat, from the
EmDirc state
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

Ewing Herbert, editor of the Brown
County World, and w. A. White, edi-
tor of the Emporia Gazette, have had
the degree of NJ. 4. conferred on them
recently by the college of Emporia, a
Presbyterian institution which each
of the gentlemen attended for short
time. L that eminent Methodist,
VIM. Mckinley, will enable each of
the gentlemen to write p. NJ. after
his name for from four to eight years,
we suspect that the emolumentS de-
rived therefrom VIII be fully as satis-
factory as is the honor derived from
having dabbled little in the mys-
teries of Calyinism and the shorter
catechiSm
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

Pop cam paign promises: Less offices,
lower salaries, fewer jooS. Pop full
tillneut: More Offices, more clerks,
bigger salaries, more jooS.-Abilene
Reflector.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

Cutt.n1 down the appropriations of
the educi.t tionaI institutions of the
state is poor economy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

kans;iS Day was celebrated by tn,
leg gisiative soionS at Topeka last Fri
day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

fne '4eXJw ousileSS is taking an
other COON, Kansas City and Louis
vile Deias, tIe latest towns to under
so inVcstIs tions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

Superintendent Stryker's text book
bill WIS sent galley west.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

hiding back and forth on railroad
pass must make anti-pass legislation
up l.I.l WORK Tor the Kansas statesmen
at IUpe.>;i assem- oled.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06

The senatorial elections this winter
have brought several strange results.
The Chicago machine was busted
when VIM. K. Mason was chosen to
succeed John NJ. Palmer, over the
ring candidate; Dubois, of Idaho, one
of the republican boilers at the ST.
Louis convention. was beaten by an
unknown and unlearned Pop; John J..
Ingalls,, who could skin rebels to per-
lection. has the strange sensation of
seeing his former seat filled by an ex-
rebel soldiH. Dan Voorhees,. whom
ingalls, u@1d to drub in the senate for
his copperleadism, will be succeeded
by Fairbanks. a republican Thomas
c. Platt, who with Roscoe Conklin,
resigned the New York senatorship
The record-union., 1897-10-02
MUNICIPAL POLITICS.
Ex-President Harrison Talks on
City Government.

NEW YORK, Oct. Former Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison is quoted in an
interview on municipal politics in the
World" as saying:
'Of special Importance are the safe
guards to be thrown about the grant
ing of franchises to the promoters of
great schemes for the public service.
In this respect there are valued les
sons to be learned from late foreign
experiments. Some of the principal
cities of Scotland have assumed each
the control of it's street railway sys-
TENS and it's lighting plants, as we'll as
its waterworks. The results of this
public ownership of great public en-
terprses have been exceedingly salts
factory and instructive.
L am inclined TO consider municipal
ownership as the best means to secure
to the people the cheapest and best SER
vice. OF course, the effects of compe-
tition between private enterprises are
not to be lost sight of as far as they in
crease quality and lower prices. But
the usual methods Of selling franchises
outright or in receiving for them
royalty seldom give to the people more
than tithe of what the people them
selves later return. The bigger the
price, the larger the royalty-the great
er the cost of a ride or a gas jet. 1t
is a species of tax"
The record-union., 1897-10-02
NAVAL VESSELS ON THE LAKES.
A Canadian Journal Protests Ac-
tion of the United States.

TORONTO (Ont.), Oct. 1.-The Mail
and Empire" in an editorial article,
says:
In 1917 the United States proposed to
Great Britain that the naval force to be
maintained on the lakes by each Gov
ernment should be confined to the fol-
lowing vessels: On Lake Ontario one
vessel not exceeding hundred tons
burden, and armed with one 1S-pourfd
cannon; on the upper lakes, two such
vessels, similarly armed; on Lake
Champlain, one vessel.
1T was further proposed that all
other armed vessels should be dis
mantled and that no further vessels of
war should be built or armed on the
lakes. To all this her majesty's Gov
ernnent agreed. Now the United States
is sending to the upper lakes the war
ship Yantic Of 900 tons as a training
vessel. She IS not to be armed when
she passes through the canals as that
would violate the agreement but a
rapid-fring battery is to be placed on
board of her at Erie. Pa. The attention
of the Government at Ottawa is direct
ed to these facts. We have no war yes
sells on the lakes and do not want
them. Why should the international
agreement be broken by the United
States"
The record-union., 1897-10-02
FALL OF THE SPANISH CABINET
Names Mentioned in Connection
With the New Ministry.

MADRID, Oct 1.-The Liberals are
preparing to give an ovation to Senior
Sagasta, their leader upon his arrival
here 1t is taken for granted that he
will form a Cabinet, of which, prob
ably, Senor Gamazo will be Minister
for Foreign Affai z; Senior Moreley
Prendergast, Minist j. for the Colonies,
and General Correa, Iinister for War,
although Senior Moreley Prendergast
has been mentioned for appointment as
Spanish Minister at Washington, to
succeed Senior Dupuy de LONE. It is
now expected that the crisis will be
ended in less that a week.
Marshal Martinez Campos was in
conference with the Queen Regent to-
day for an hour and a half. He ex-
pressed the opinion that change of
policy was possible with the present
Cham Der, If the majority supported the
new Cabinet, economic measures and
friendly attitude toward the colonies.
Her majesty to-day expressed a de-
sire to retain, if possible, the present
Chamber believing that general cleo
ton would have disturbing effect For
this, however, a Conservative Cabinet
would be necessary.
The record-union., 1897-10-02
Mrs. jenkins Discharged.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. Mrs. Matte
Jenkins. who was charged with obtain
ing by false pretenses and misrepresen-
tations $500 from DR.. Belt Ellis, was
discharged to-day by Justice Young.
Mrs. Jenkins was arrested in San Fran
cisco upon complaint of DR.. Ellis, who
charged that she secured his indorse-
ment to notes for $500, which amount
she claimed was to be used in the pur-
chase of an interest in a millinery es-
tablishment in Los Angeles. This she
failed to do. but the court held that no
fraud was shown.
The record-union., 1897-10-02
MEETING OF THE CABINET.
Foreign Affairs the Principal Topic
of Discussion.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The first
meeting of the Cabinet since the re-
turn of the President from MaSSachu
setts was held to-day, and was attend
ed by every member except Secretary
Gage who is not in Washington. For
eign affairs occupied the greater por
ton of the time given up to discus
sion though prosecution of the Gov
ernment's case against the Union Pa
cif1c Railway Company also came in
for a good deal of consideration. In
deed, it is said the only action in the
Cabinet to-day was in the interest of
closing the issue, and it can be stated
that the details of the plan of the
Government have been arranged at
last
The Spanish crisis attracted much at
tention, and was discussed at some
length. For some reason Minister
Woodford has still left his Government
officially unadvised of the recent hap
penings in Madrid, and nothing has
been heard from him since his inter
view with the Duke of Tetuan, the
Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs
in the last Cabinet. This fact COM
PEELED a reliance upon the newspaper
reports Of the recent important events
in Spain.
The conditions of Hawaii, as revealed
by Admiral Beardslee, were talked of,
and with evident satisfaction the Cabi-
net received the Adrniral's statement
that in all his stay in Hawaiian waters
his relations with the Japanese officials,
on shore and on the cruiser Naniwa,
were of the most pleasant nature. In
no case had there been the slightest
exhibition of a purpose on the part of
the Japanese commander to attempt
any coup, and there were constant ex-
changes of visits between the officers
of the Naniwa and of the United States
WarSliDS
The record-union., 1897-10-02
INHALED GAS.
C. X. Royce Finally Succeeds in
Ending His Life.


NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-C. K. Royce,
55 years of age, who registered at the
Grand Union Hotel from San Francis
CO on Tuesday night, was found dead
to-day in his room. He had committed
suicide by inhaling gas.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-Clark E. K.
Royce, who committed suicide to-day
at the Grand Union Hotel in New York,
was well known here on account of his
previous attempts to take his life in
this city.
He was formerly Secretary and
Treasurer of the California Veterans
Home Association, but a shortage of
over $1,000 being discovered in his ac-
counts, he was discharged and indicted
by the Grand Jury for felony and en-
bezzlement While the investigation
was pending Royce registered at the
Burlington Hotel here under an as
sumed name, and tried to commit sui
eide by shooting himself in the head.
He recovered, however, and stood trial
for his defalcation but was acquitted
upon a technicality. Some months
later he again attempted suicide by in
haling gas in room at the Grand HO
tel, but was again unsuccessful. He
then disappeared, and had not since
been heard of until to-day.
The record-union., 1897-10-02

ANGELS CAMP (Cal), Oct. 1.-Great
excitment prevails in this locality over
the stage robberies of yesterday. Sher-
if Thorn and a number OF his deputies,
as well as numerous Constables and
organized posses Of men, are out scour-
ing the hills and ravines in search of
the highwaymen who held up the stages
on the Angels and Milton road. Thus
far there has been no clew found. The
robbers mad their feet wrapped with
gunny sacks, and there is no telling
how far they Travelled through the
woods before removing them, hence to
track the highwaymen is an impossible
ity. The amount of money secured
from the passengers viii not exceed
SO in all.
A lady on one of the stages had S165
on her person, but the robbers, in their
hasty efforts to search the passengers
failed TO find the lady's wallet. Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S box did not contain any
money, and the United States mail bags
" Were not molested.
The man who was shot in the wrist
had his wound dressed in Stockton, and
c. NJ. Ackerson, who was shot in the
back, was also taken to Stockton for
medical treatment. At last accounts
he was lying in a critical condition, with
little hopes of recovery. AS there are
so many suspicious looking characters
in this locality at present, it is doubt
ful If the highwaymen who engaged in
the triple hoId-up of yesterday viii
ever be apprehended.
MILTON (Cal.), Oct. IA teamster
from Angels reached this place last
evening, and reports that at a point
about four miles east of the scenes of
yesterdays stage robbery he saw two
men some distance away, and in the
act of examining something under a
tree by the roadside. Upon seeing the
teamster they hastily rolled up the
things being examined, and 3ne of the-n
mounted a horse which was standing
near by and taking the roll, plunged in
a thicket near by. The other man struck
up the road afOot.
After driving a short distance the
teamster looked back, and saw the man
on horseback reappear in the road and
join his companion, dismount and walk
up the hill toward the scene of the
robbery, apparently engaged in earnest
conversation with the other man.
The suspicious actions of the men
and their proximity to the scene of the
crime at that time of the day, which
was about two hours before the hold
up, have caused the Sheriff's office to
take an active interest in these men,
and a description has been sent to Of
ficers in search of the perpetrators of
the crime.
The record-union., 1897-10-02
PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE.
An Aged Negro Charged With As
sauIting a White Girl.

SANTA CRUZ, Oct Jeremiah
Knight, an aged negro, arrested here
to-day for an alleged assault upon a
girl at Natividad, Monterey County,
protests his innocence. He says that
for years efforts have been made to
force him to leave Natlvidad, princi
pally because his neighnors were jeai-
Gus of pension h received for war
services.
knight claims that on the day of the
alleged assault he was in sight of
twenty men working ia the field, when
the girl rode up to receive a gun he
had promised her. He states that in
gratitude for the gun she threw her
arms around his neck, and that from
this occurrence the story was Matched
up to frighten him away. When ar
rested to-day knight gave his name
as Brown and his residence as San
Diego. Sheriff Matthews will take him
to Salinas tomorrow
The record-union., 1897-10-02
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
A Man Jumps From the Second
Story of a New York Hotel.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Dr Robert T.
Flags, about 80 years Of age, of Yon-
kers, who was married there last night,
attempted suicide to-day by jumping
from the second-story window of the
Murray Hill Hotel. His bride was in
the room at the time and she went to
the hospital with him in the ambu-
lance.
DR.. and Mrs. Flagg reached the hotel
about midnight, and were assigned to
rooms. Both appeared to be in good
spirits. They breakfasted about :
o'clock this morning. They chatted
with each other, and seemed not to
have care. After breakfast they re-
turned to their rooms, and were only
there about fifteen minutes when Mrs.
Flagg rushed screaming down the stairs
to the lobby of the hotel. Her husband
had jumped out of the window.
Mr.. Flagg was picked up. His skull
had been fractured, his leg broken, and
he had received severe bruises of the
body. He was carried into the hotel.
where his wife met him calmly. The
ambulance surgeon said the man was
dying.
Mrs. Flagg, who was a Mrs. Turner
of this city, is about 36 years of age,
and decidedly good looking. She said
at the hospital that in conversation
with her husband the latter had become
greatly excited, and rushed to the win
dow and jumped out. She tried to re-
strain him, but he thrust her aside and
jumped.
AT DR.. Flagg's residence in Yonkers
it was said that when he left home yes
terday he was in a very nervous condi-
ton.
The record-union., 1897-10-02
A TIE-UP MAY YET OCCUR.
Chicago Street Car Employees May
Go on a Strike

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-The danger of a
tie-up Of the City Street Railway Com
pany is not passed yet. A meeting of
street car employees was held early to-
day and resolutions were unanimously
adopted indorsing the organization of a
local branch of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street Car Employees of
America.
The most important action taken,
however, was the giving, by secret bal
lot, of the power to the Executive Com
mittee of the organization to order a
strike without notice to the company.
The plan of the Executive Committee
to resent any further dismissal of en-
ployes was thus ratified, and future ac-
tion was referred to that committee. 1t
was decided to notify Superintendent
Bowen of the Chicago City Railway
Company that the cars of the company
on the South Side are now run by union
men, and that an injury to ons is the
concern of all.
1t is stated that Of the 4 900 employees
of the City Railway not more than 800
have SO far affiuliated themselves with
the union.
denied that a strike Sunday was decid-
ed upon or that strike under present
circumstances was contemplated At
the suggestion of E. V. Debbs, the aid
of court fnjunctions will probably be
invoked by the union. The President of
the Social Democracy declares the first
opportunity has come to labor to use
the restraining order, which has been
the weapon of capital in the past. In
reference with the formation and
maintenance of a union of employees is
forbidden by the Illinois statutes, and it
is proposed to make a legal test with
the street car company.
The record-union., 1897-10-02
HANGED HERSELF.
A Bride of Three Months Commits
Suicide at ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. Mrs Lena Rip
ley Waters, bride of three months,
committed suicide to-day by hanging
herself at the home of her sister. She
left note reading:
May heaven forgive me, as I never
meant to do wrong. Good-by to you.
brothers and sisters. My watch to Lou.
LENA"
Not word, however, was left for
the husband.
Lena Ripley was married to Edward
Waters the latter part of last June.
The bride had a number of relatives
and friends in st. Louis. and the we'd
ding was large one. The brides fam
lily say that Waters was a recent ar
rival here from Kansas City. They add
that the couple have not lived together
since their marriage. Further than
this, no reason is known for the deed.
The record-union., 1897-10-02
Rifle the Mail Pouches and Rob All the
Male Passengers.
Use Dynamite to Blow Open the
Through Express Safe, but Fail
to Accomplish Their Object
Shoob the Ear Off One of tho
Passengers Who Refused to
Throw Up His Hands.

Ell RENO q. T), Oct. Bandits
robbed the southbound Rock Island pas
senger train and all it's passengers at
IL o'clock this forenoon at siding No.
l. about five miles south of Minco, in
the Indian Territory.
The place is uninhabited and the
only persons in the vicinity at the time
were four section men. These section
men tagged the train, the five masked
robbers having compelled them to do
so. The bandits were hidden at the
time in a brush pile. and jumped out
as soon as the passenger train had
taken the siding.
Under the pressure of Winchesters
and six-shooters, the trainmen, express
messenger and all OF the score or more
passengers were made to climb down
from the train and stand in a line,
hands up, on the prairie along the"rail-
way. While three of the robbers Gov
cred the badly frightened crowd with
their guns, the other two coolly and
carefully robbed them, passing from
one male passenger to another down
the line The bandits secured about
$500 in cash and such other valuables in
the way of watches, pins and jeWelry
as were in sight.
The few women passengers were nou
compelled to give up their valuables-
Jim Wright of Minco showed a dis
position to resist when the bandits
ordered "hands up" They shot one of
his ears off to prove to his satisfaction
that his bravery was ill-advised.
Wright's hands then went up. No one
else was injured.
The robbers turned their attention to
the express and mail coaches. The reg
istered mail pouches We're quickly rified,
but the through safe in the express
car resisted all the force and ingenuity
of the road agents, although battered
by dynamite.
Having taken forcible possession Of
everything that they could carry away,
the bandits mounted their horses and
rode off toward the west.
The train proceeded to Chickasaw,
where posse of citizens was hurriedly
formed 1t is hardly possible that the
bandits can be overtaken in the prairie
country, and they will probably be
able to reach the Wichita Mountains,
to the west of the scene of the hold-up.
officers here believe the gang to be
the same one that held up Santa Fe
trains at Edmunds twice during last
month.
MARSHAI4S AFTER THE BANDITS.
ARDMORE 0. To, Oct. 1.-Ten Dep
uty United Marshals under Chief Stowe
left here tonight with the hope of cap
turing the bandits who held up Rock
Island passenger train this morning
just north Of Chickasaw. They are re-
lying on the confession of man Jailed
here last week for supposed completely
in a recent Santa F'e robbery. He is
said to have revealed to the officers the
plans, as arranged in advance, for to-
days robbery on the Rock Island road.
He states that the band intended riding
east from the scene of to-day's robbery
to Paoli, in the Chickasaw country,
where they intended to hold up and
rob the southbound passenger train on
the Santa Fe road, due there early to-
morrow morning. The officers expect to
board the threatened train at Purcell.