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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-10
APPEAL TO kANsANs.
State Temperance Union Issues q Manifesto
Want Good Men Nominated.

State Temperance Union Issues q Manifesto
Want Good Men Nominated
TOPEKA, Kan, July 6.-The execu-
tive committee of the State Temper
ance union yesterday issued the fol-
lowing manifesto:
To all Friends Of Good Citizenship. The
officers and the executive committee Of the
State Temperance union would respectfully
be given everywhere throughout the state at
the coming primaries to the nomination Of the
very best men for the county officers and espe-
c1ally for sheriff candidates declaration,
taken by itself is not sufficient If his record
as a citizen, public officer in case
he has held ONCE, is not good. he
the suffrage and support of good
citizens The man who has betrayed public
confidence once is likely to do it again Prom
fses are easily made, but they are easily
broken. See to it that the man who receives
your support has record worthy your support
Surely Kansas has had enough of recreancy to
public trust Is it not time that good citizens OF
all parties give more attention at the primaries
and at the polls to the character OF the man who
asks their suffrage? Can we hope for any ma
terial or permanent Improvement in the en-
forcement of the law until majority OF the
voters feel stronger sense of responsibility at
the primaries and act accordingly?
We believe that of late. in almost every part
OF the state, more interest is being shown In
good municipal government than formerly In
many localities the citizens are moving in a
united and determined effort against law
lcSSueSS- "A JOINT or a drug STORE DdrrOOiii Ids
not one whit more right to exist than open
saloon None of these is a necessary evil, and
any one of them is enemy of the home. u foe
to society, and menace to good govern
ment- Any sane man must know that to
license any evil OF this kind is, in the end
an expensive luxury. The moral sense of the
community is thereby degraded. Crime and
pauperism thrive under license system, and
taxation is increased The barroom, whether
the openly licensed saloon or the illegally fined
joint. is the recruiting station of vice and po-
Iitical corruption.
The summer temperance rallies which have
thus far been held have had good local results
Let these be continued in every county in the
state and let there be greatly increased dill
gence and activity along all lines of temperance
and good citizenship.
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MINERS STRIKE ON.

The Struggle for Higher Wages in Five
States Begun.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 6.-The great
wage struggle of the coal miners was
inaugurated throughout the Pitts
burgh district yesterday. 1t was a
day of mass meetings By a precon-
certed arrangement of the district ex-
ecutive board of the United Mine
Workers, meetings were held in nearly
every mining settlement that was rep
resented at Saturdays convention in
this city, and the miners were in
structed not to fa1ter in the great
struggle that has begun.
The success of the whole movement
seems to devolve upon the men in the
Pittsburgh district, and judging from
the latest advices received from the
field the miners there propose to do
their part. So far as can be learned
the operators in both the Pittsburgh
and Ohio districts do not intend to put
forth any effort to start their mines,
but have concluded to quietly close
down and await developments. At
least it will require several days for
operators to determine upon what
course to pursue.
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PEOPLES PARTY.
A National Conference Held at Nashville,
Tenn, About 400 Delegates Being Pres

A National Conference Held at Nashville.
Tenn, About 400 Delegates Being Pres
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 6.-The ma
tional conference of the peoples party
met esterday in the hall of the house
of representatives The conference
was called to order by Milton Parks,
OF Texas, who said this was a confer
ence of men who believed in the prin-
ciples enunciated at Omaha and ST.
Louis-in populism straight J. 8.
Bradley, of Texas, was elected tenn
porary chairman by reclamation. j.
A Parker, of Kentucky, was chosen
temporary secretary by reclamation.
The conference took recess of 80
minutes, and meetings of the state
delegates were held all over the hall
to select members of the committee on
credentials
When the conference was again
called to order, there were about 400
delegates present. The committee on
credentials was announced, and their
report afterwards showed that 355 dele
gates with proper credentials were
present The temporary organization
was made permanent and a committee
on resolutions was appointed. One of
the resolutions offered was to the
effect that hereafter any populist who
advocated fusion should be forever
elected from the ranks Another de
clares that if a man sells his vote he
should be deprived of the right of suf-
frage now and forever. If Butler ever
attempts to call a convention after the
other parties have held their conven-
tions, he shall be decapitated, was the
sum and substance of a third resolu-
ton.
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Fatal HOT WEATHER.

Twelve People Die from tho Heat at Chr
cinnati and Many Others Frustrated.
CINCINNATI, July 6.-There were II
fatalities yesterday from the heat and
IS other prostrations of which official
notice was taken by the police patrol
wagons conveying the victims to
homes or hospitals, and fully as many
minor cases in which the victims were
able to go to their homes without
help. These bring the total to 81
fatalities in three days from the heat
HEAT REGISTRATIONS IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 6.-Yesterday was
cooler, but the pavements and build
ings had stored up sufficient heat to
make things very uncomfortable.
There were nine deaths and % prostra-
tions, three of them probably fatal
The total number of deaths in the last
four days, attributable to the heat,
was 81, and there were 15S prostrations,
some of which may prove fatal
REGISTRATIONS AT FORT WAYNE.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, July 6.-Yester-
day was another hot day here. The
Thermometer was above 90 degrees
nearly all day. Those who succumbed
were: Mrs. Amelia Miller, Mrs. Eliza
A. Ewing, Frank Huxley. Mrs. Will
liam Miller, Frustrated Sunday, died
yesterday. Mrs William Pollock was
Frustrated while in cherry tree and
fell to the ground. Both legs were
broken.
THREE CLEVELAND FATALITIES.
CLEVELAND, O., July 5.-The heat
here yesterday was most intense, the
temperature reaching the highest
point for the season. Two fatalities
occurred Sunday and one Saturday
night, and the were several other pros
tratiOnS.
T A A
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 5.-There were
many cases of prostration from the
heat Sunday, five of the resulting
fatally.
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OIL WELL FIRED.
"A Careless Man and Lighted Cigar Starts
an Expensive Blaze.

A Careless Man and Lighted Cigar Starts
an Expensive Blaze.
ANDERSON, Ind, July Ga stranger
with a lighted cigar gave Madison
county probably the most extensive
Fourth of July display in history yes
terday. The Trenton Oil Co., drilling
north of this city, had just opened a
mammoth reservoir, when he appeared
with his lighted cigar. The gas ignited.
The flames shot 40 feet into the air and
could be heard for miles. The derrick
was burned down in a minute. There
were no valves on the casing and there
is no way to shut off the gas. All
methods known, except the cannon
snuffing, have been tried, but the pres
sure is too strong. The cannon will
be used to-day. A ball will be fired
across the casing. It will blow it out
instantly. This is only used in ex-
treme cases. The outfit is gone and
much adjacent property is damaged
The loss will be several thousand dol
lars Great crowds visited the well
yesterday. It is the first one that has
got loose for years.
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CAUGHT IN THE ROPES.
Horrible Death of Small Boy San
Francisco.

Death OF a Small Boy at San
Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6--Bertram
Hill, the six-year-old son of Chauncey
Hill, an architect, was the victim of a
sensational balloon accident yesterday.
In company with Miss Olney, daughter
of his guardian, he went to Blair's
park, near Oakland, to witness hot
air balloon ascension by Charles Con-
Ian, of the Acme A h1etic club. When
the balloon shot up into the air the
child chung to one of the guy ropes,
and was carried aloft. The aeronaut
heard the shouts of the people not to
cut loose his parachute, and obeyed,
not knowing the reason When 1000
or more feet in the air he heard the
boys cries, and saw a cap come hutter-
ing down. He called on his unseen
companion to hold on, and made every
effort to save him, but in vain, for
soon the child's body shot by him and
was crushed out of shape when it
struck the earth.
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DOES FARMING PAY3

Seventy-O One Nebraskans Say "NO,' and
Only Twenty-Five Say ayes"
LINCOLN, Neb., July 6.-The commits
sioner of labor has received 100 replies
to the questions: stDoes farming pay?"
and ''What. legislation do you think
necessary to relieve the condition of
the farmer?" Seventy-one farmers are
of the opinion that farming does not
pay; 81 say it does, but many of these
say it is only when stock raising is
carried on in connection with grain
farming that a profit is secured; four
say it pays as well as ANYTHING else
and the remaining four are unable to
say whether it pays or not Sugges-
tions as to legislation are for antitrust
laws, bimetalism, lower freight rates,
government ownership of railroads, an
income tax and a duty on farm prod
uctS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-10
DANA VERY ILL.

Veteran New York Editor Ordered to the
Mountains by His Physician.
NEW YORK, July 6.-The condition of
Charles A. Dana, the venerable editor
of the New York Sun, who is confined
to his bed at Glencove with catarrh of
the stomach, is unchanged Paul
Dana said that his fathers con-
dition was serious and that his ply
sician had ordered complete rest and
had advised that the patient be taken
be done as soon as the removal could
safely take place.
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KANSAS CROP FIGURES.
Area in Wheat and Corn Much Larger
Than Last Year.
4 Great Falling ON In the Number of Acres
Planted in Oats and Flax Seed
Assessors' Report from sixty
Two Counties.

TOPEKA, Kan. July 2.-The wheat
acreage harvested in Kansas this year
will be about 8, ZOO, 900 acres, or 500, 900
acres more than reported by the state
board of agriculture. Assessors re-
turns from 81 counties, sent by county
clerks, indicate this. The wheat area
reported in these counties amounts to
2,Is6, 900 acres, as compared with ], $780,
900 acres in the same counties the
preceding year. These figures include
both winter and spring wheat, and if
the same proportion prevails in the
counties which have not reported, the
total winter and spring wheat area
this year was close to $500, 600 acres,
including what was winter killed
and plowed up. About 200, 900
acres of the total spring
wheat. The state board of agri-
cultures estimate of wheat plowed up
is 20 per cent, which would leave over
1850, 600 acres of winter wheat to be
harvested. 1t is safe to calculate,
therefore, that the winter and spring
wheat acreage amounts to over 3, 000,
600 acres. The average yield per acre,
even if present conditions are no high
er than those of April, when the last
state report was made, will amount to
over II bushels, so that Kansas has
raised at least SO, 900, 900 bushels of
wheat this year, and there is a posi-
bility of it's running as high as 60, OOO,-
900 bushels.
The great increases in area in Kan
sas are in the western counties. Sher-
man county, for example, on the ex-
treme western end of the state, has
126, $50 acres of wheat this year, as
compared with only 46,Oe1 acres last
year. Other important western coun-
ties showing increases are: Ellis, in
crease 10000; Norton, increase 1000,
Phillips, increase 1000; Russell, in
crease 5000; Thomas. increase 5000;
Trego, increase 2, 900; Decatur, increase
ID, 600; Sheridan. increase 5000; Rice,
increase TO- 900; Rush, increase ILL., 900.
The assessors returns for the 81
counties which have reported show a
corn area of 1921, 791 acres, as COM
pared with 4, 1904 S29 acres in the same
counties last year. If the same pro-
portion is maintained throughout the
counties not reporting, the corn area
in Kansas this year is about $500, 900
acres, and will break all records for
corn area in any state in the union.
Iowa never had such an area of corn
nor Illinois, nor any other state. The
Kansas corn area last year was 1897
600 acres. In 1895 it was 1896, 900
acres.
The oats area in the counties report
ing is nearly a third less than last year,
indicating little over 1000, 900 acres
for the state, compared with 1, 49,
900 acres last year.
The fax area is about 25 per cent.
less than last year, or about It's, 900
acres, as compared with 231, 900 acres
in 1885,
The broom corn area is just about
ha loo
The areas in the impor tant broom corn
counties are as follows: Mcpherson.
1922 acres; Rice, 5,993 acres; Reno,
5.215 acres; Cheyenne, 3,45s acres;
Pratt, 1871 acres; Sheridan, LOIS
acres
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SOCIALISTS KANSAS.
A Society to Be Organized in the South
eastern Section.

A Society to Be Organized in the South
eastern Section.
Fort SCOTT, Kan, July 2.-The first
attempt to formally organize society
of socialists in southeastern Kansas
was made at the Huntington hotel in
this city yesterday, when an apparent
ly well-defned scheme to thoroughly
organize the socialists of this part of
the state and to make vigorous eff
fort to create socialistic sentiment was
developed. From some source the soci-
city has received funds to push the work.
and has subscribed for 1, 900 copies of an
official social organ, launched recently
at Girard, Kan, the center of field
which it is proposed to develop. It
seems to be the belief that the thou
sands of miners in southeastern Kan
sas and southwestern Missouri will
sYmpathize with the movement
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BOAT WAS ovERLADEN.
A Party of Seven Capsized and Four Peo-
pie Drowned.

Party of Seven Capsized and Four Peo-
pie Drowned.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, July 6.-By the
capsizing of a boat in Superior bay
yesterday four persons lost their lives.
Daniel, Christie and May Mcdonald,
Of Itasca, and Burton McCurry, of
Omaha, an electrician, were drowned,
the other three members of the party
being saved. The boat was overladen
and shipped water over her gunwales-
Some of the party climbed out of the
boat, which was in some way over
turned. Lewis Sprague, A Ingraham
and Agnes Mcdonald were rescued by
John Bardon. whose yacht happened
to be near at hand.
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TOPEKA. Kan, July 3.-State Mine
Inspector George L. McGrath reports
that the miners in Cherokee, Crawford
and other coal-producing counties are
in a distressful condition, having had
little work to do since the summer
season set in. Continuation of the
light demand for coal will make mat
tiers worse during July than during
June. The demand for coal will prob
ably increase about August L, but then
the demand will not be sufficient to
assure work to the Is, 600 miners in the
state.
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FOUR PERSONS DROWNED.
The Boat of a Pleasure Party Run Down by
a Steamer.

a Steamer.
LITTLE Rock. Ark, July 6.-An acct
dent occurred on the river last night
which resulted in the drowning of four
people. The drowned are: Miss Josie
Saunders, aged Is, of Little Rock;
Miss Mary Arber, aged 10, of Little
Rock; Jake Dante, of Pine Bluff: Joe
Dante, of Pine Bluff. Miss Arber was
the daughter of Mrs. c. Arber, and was
prominent in Jewish society circles in
this city. Miss Saunders was beauti-
full young lady of this city. Miss
Saunders, Miss Arber and the Dante
brothers were in skiff on the river,
where they had gone to view the fire
works being set off from the center of
the new bridge. When the pyrotech-
nic display was over, the pleasure
steamer, q. K. Riggs, started on an
excursion up the river and ran down
the skiff, throwing all the occupants
into the water.
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CoIored Free Silverites.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 6.-The Colored
Free Silver league. of Kansas, at its
annual meeting in this city yesterday
adopted resolutions indorsing the state
administration and elected the follow
ing officers for the year: President,
J. r. Lyle, Topeka; vice president, R.
w. Lescher, Galena; secretary, J. B.
Gibbs, Kansas City, Kan; correspond
ing secretary, p. c. Thomas, Kansas
City, Kan; treasurer, E. b. Cabbel, COT
feyville; chairman executive commit
tee. ]. w. Anderson. Topeka.
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
independence, Kan, Lad Dead and His
Brother VIII Probably Die.

Brother VIII Probably Die
INDEPENDENCE, Kan, July Ga good
rain fell here Sunday night 1t was
accompanied by severe electric storm
which did considerable damage to
property. as we'll as destroying lives.
Lightning struck the house of Milton
Gregory, in this city; it ran down a
wire clothes line towards the ground
and then darted across the floor, in
stantly killing Sam Gregory, aged 10
years, and rendering Jade Gregory, a
younger lad, unconscious He has not
yet recovered consciousness and prob
ably cannot live. The boys were
sleeping on the floor, and their father,
who was also on the floor, was severely
shocked
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MAY GO TO MEXICO.
Reported That Maj. Hudson VIII Become
Editor-in-C Chief of the Mexican Herald.

Reported That MAY HUDSON VIII Become
Editor-in- Chief of the Mexican Herald.
TOPEKA. Kan, July 6.-Although
Maj. J. K. Hudson disclaims any inten-
ton of giving up his residence in Kan
sas, it is reported upon reliable au-
thority that he will soon acquire an
interest in the Mexican Herald, an
English paper in the City of Mexico.
He will leave in a few days for Alaska,
and will then drift south to Mexico.
Mrs. Hudson leaves for Mexico the lat
ter part of the week. Maj. Hudson's
son. Paul Hudson, is now the business
manager of the Mexico Herald and, in
the event the ma or becomes inter
ested, it is said he will be the editor
in-chief
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Ate I've on Her Bread.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-. July 3. While
mother was in an adjoining room, lit
tie Zephra Long, the fve-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Long,
of 2i31 jefferson street, found a can of
I've in the kitchen. Getting a slice of
bread the child spread the I've upon it
and ate some of the bread. After much
suffering, the child died, the deadly
compound having caused the stomach
to become terribly inf1amed.
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KANSAS TAX ARREARS.

State Auditor Morris Notifies the Delin-
quent Counties To Pay Up.
TOPEKA, Kan, July Estate Auditor
Morris sent notices to the treasurerS
of the various counties in arrears to
the state for taxes, with a demand
that they pay up at once. The follow
ing will show the amount each county
is delinuuent in it's state taxes:
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Bride OF Four Months TRIES Suicide.

GALENA, Kan, July 3.-Mrs- John
Gill, wife of a joint-keeper, attempted
to kill herself by placing a revolver to
her left breast and pulling the trigger.
The ball passed through, coming out
under the shoulder blade, but she will
probably live. She claims that her
husband is lavishing his affections on
another and she does not desire to live.
She has only been a wife for four
months
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KANSAS SCHOOLBOOKS.

Textbook Com omission Issues Schedule
of Purchase and Exchange Rates.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 3.-The state
textbook commission has issued rules
governing the sales and exchange of
textbooks adopted by it. The figures
in the first column below are the sell
ing prices for dealers and agents,
while those in the second column are
the exchange prices, or the prices at
which old books will be accepted in
exchange as part payment for new
ones:
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DE-. Pitcher Finally Appointed.

WINFIELD, Kan, July 3--Dr. F.
Hoyt Pitcher was appointed superin-
tendent of the imbeci1e and idiotic
asylum in this city at the meeting of
the state board of charities last night.
Representative Ed Jaquins appeared
before the board and told OF rumors
charging Pitcher with a vile crime,
but the rumors were unsubstantiated
by afiidav1ts.
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MANHATTAN, Kan, July 3.-The
board of regents of the state agricul-
tural college announced the following
appointments in the faculty: Prof E.
E. Faville, of Nova Scotia, to be pro-
fessor of horticulture; Miss Mary f.
Winston, of ST. Joseph, to fill the chair
of mathematics; Frederick A. Metcalf,
of the Emerson school of oratory, Bos-
ton, to be professor of oratory.
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Prices
cent, the dealer is permitted to add
one-half cent to each sale for even
change. Books to be exchanged must
DE such books as have been in use by
the pupils in school the last school
year by the pupils desiring to make
the exchange, and must contain their
covers and all printed leaves.
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SHOWS AN INCREASE.
Secretary of Agriculture Coburn Gives the
Latest Census of Kansas Farms.

Latest Census of Kansas Farms.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 2.-Secretary
Coburn, of the state board of agricul-
ture, has completed a compilation of
the population of the cities of Kansas
The following are the % largest cities.
The figures preceded by an asterisk
show a decrease; the other figures in
the column are an increase:
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Kansas Miners vim Not Strike.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 6--Assistant
Commissioner of Labor Statistics Hol-
comb said yesterday that there would
be no strike among the coal miners of
Kansas.
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LABOR AND WAGES.

Kansas Workingmen-
TOPEKA, Kan, July 3.-Commissioner
johnson, of the bureau of labor sta
tistics, has tabulated data for 1896,
gathered by his predecessor, w. G.
Bird, and issued the condensed infor-
nation to-day. The following is the
average yearly wages paid to the
classes of 5readwinners named:
Brakemen, 1871 Sc; printers. 1871. 20; BARRIERS,
1888 S0 locomotive engineers 1877; cigar
makers, 1898; city fremen. s67L94; laborers,
80; policemen. 1925 1s: locomotive f1remen,
S612. H. hotel walters s25o63; butchers. S519.52;
carpenters, 1872 o. railroad conductors, $3.50. g.
machinists s535 IS; coal miners, $3.50. 80; paint
ers. s5s4-19; coopers s295.22: retail clerks.
1884; motormen, 1910; street railway conductors,
s47O-61; stationary firemen. 1892.
The following additional facts rela-
tive to the men who toll will be of in
Daily camera., 1897-11-19
GunOo.

81 suppose / am a kind of gumbo.
a New Orleans man said to me, as II
enjoying the joke on himself. II am
French and German on my mothers
side, and English on my fathers; my
wife is mixture of French and Ger
man: we talk French to our children,
but we have given them English names,
and we are bringing them up to be
thorough Americans Atthis juncture
a tribute to "gumbo," the dish par ex-
cellence, seems appropriate. Okra, val
ued as homogeneous article'of diet in
Egypt and Syria for centuries, becomes
a general mixer of meats and vegetables
in Louisiana; "okra gumbo" has a
universal succulence and adaptability
to the tables Of the rich and the poor
There are gumbos also of oysters, crabs
or shrimps, according to taste, and the
Creoles have their "gumbo 6le."-Lip-
pincott's.