Abilene weekly reflector., 1897-12-09
OUR EXCISE TAXES.
The Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue Makes His Report
THREATENED WICHITA INVASION.
indian Commissioner Jones Says II ID All
"senaational Newspaper Talk"-Gov.
(iriggs Said to Have Been offered
the Attorney Gensrslship.

WASHINGTON, Dec. AIN his annual
report to the secretary OF the treasury,
Mr.. Forman, the commissioner OF in.
ternal revenue, es stimates that the re.
ceipts from all sources for the current
fiscal year will aggregate at least
S155, 100000 an increase over 1897 OF
about 81, 5000 A comparative state
ment OF the receipts during the last
fiscal year is given as follows: Spirits,
SS2, ,0OS, ,542; increase over 1895. $685.
AZ. Tobacco, $50, ITO, 297; decrease,
sl,1Sl. Fermented liquors, $ss, ,47a, 1872;
decrease, Sl,Si2,o7a 0leomargarine,
81, ,034, 129; decrease, S1S5,SO9 Filled
cheese, sls,o9s; increase, $ls,992.
Banks and bankers, SS5; decrease, 849
Miscellaneous, S375, 1888; decrease, $685.
729. Total receipts, sl4e,6l9, 593; de-
crease, Ss11, ,O22. The report includes
the following figures Of collections
made: Kansas, including Oklahoma,
$3.50, 39s. 39; Missouri, $,364, ,6S2.S6. Vio-
lations Of internal revenue laws are
noted as follows; Kansas, 10 cases;
settled during the year, Is; pending, 4.
Missouri, 9OS cases; settled, l15; pend
ing, 33.
The report shows that, Of the special
taxpayers in Kansas, there are 1890
retail liquor dealers, II wholesale deal
ers, 2 brewers 264 retail dealers in
malt liquors, 46 wholesale dealers in
malt liquors, manufacturers Of oleo.
margarine, 81 retail dealers Of oleo-
margarine; total special taxpayers, g.
654. In Missouri there are 7,645 retail
liquor dealers, i73 wholesale dealers,
81 brewers, 4l5 retail dealers In malt
liquors, 2S7 wholesale dealers in malt
liquors, 95 dealers in oleomargarine;
total special taxpayers S,719. In Ok
lahoma there were 80 violations Of the
revenue laws, IS Of which were settled
and IA still pending. In Oklahoma
there are 3lS retail liquor dealers, 4
wholesale, 35 retail dealers In malt
Liquor and ~ wholesale dealers in malt
liquors; total, 1856. The cost Of the
collection Of the revenue during the
last fiscal year was $3, s4S, 400.
During the year 2,24l Illicit stills
we're destroyed and 80 were removed;
500 persons were arrested. one killed
and three were wounded. OF the stills
seized and destroyed 22S were located
in Alabama. S4l in Georgia, 463 in
North Carolina 200 in South Carolina
and 245 in the Sixth Virginia district.
During the last ten years ten officers
have been killed and 10 wounded by
moonshiners The commissioner rec
ommends that the expense of storing
spirits in general bonded warehouses
be borne by the owners Of the spirits,
such charge to be levied by means Of q
stamp tax. This, he says, would
greatly lessen the objection to the use
of the warehouse by any class. Of
spirits.
THE THREATENED WICHITA INVASION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Commissioner
Of Indian Affairs W. A. Jones, who Is
In the west making tour Of inspec-
tion Of agencies, has made an investi-
cation that repudiates the reported
project Of men In Oklahoma, Kansas
and elsewhere to take possession Of
the Wichita Indian reservation In Ok.
lahoma, and thus force upon congress
the early opening Of those lands to
white settlement Commissioner Jones
the results OF his investiga-
tion in the following telegram, dated
at Anadarko, Ok, received by Secre-
tary Bliss yesterday afternoon: mo
foundation for rumor Of invasion Of
mountains. II is all sensa-
tional newspaper talk
GRlGGs MAY SUCCEED M'KENNA.
WASHINGTON, Dec 4.-From sources,
the authority Of which should not be
doubted, 1t Is learned that the position
Of attorney general to succeed Mr. Nc
Kenna, who will be nominated to the
United States supreme bench to sue
ceed Justice Field, has been offered to
Gov. Griggs, Of New Jersey, and that
he has consented to accept 1t is un-
derstood that his appointment was
urged by Vice President Hobart Ow-
Ing to the absence Of President Nc
Kinley, 1t is impossible to confirm this
statement absolutely.
MATTHEWS WON THE CONTEST. |
intercollegiate Orat0rical Prize
Goes to William Jewell's Representa-