The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10
OUR EXCISE TAXES.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue Makes His Report.
THREATENED WICHITA INVASION.
Indian Commissioned Jones Says 1t Is All
Sensational Newspaper TaIk"-GoV.
Griggs Said to Have Been offered
the Attorney GeneraIship.

/ report 10 the secretary OF the treasury,
Mr.. Forman, the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, es Inmates that the re-
ceipts from all sources for the current
fiscal year will aggregate at least
S155, 00O,0 900, an increase over 1897 of
about SIS, SOC, 900. A comparative state
ment of the receipts during the last
fiscal year is given as follows: Spirits.
| $50, 00S, 542; increase over 1896. 81, 1885,
472. Tobacco, $50, 71O, 297; decrease,
Sl,13i. Fermented liquors, $50, Az, 1862;
decrease, Sl,Si2,0T3 Oleomargarine,
81, 034, 1919; decrease, SIS, 300. Filled
cheese, S1s,999; increase, SIS, 992
Banks and bankers, SIS; decrease, $40
Miscellaneous, 1915, 1888; decrease, S69,-
729 Total receipts, STAG, 619, 593; de-
crease, S211, 092. The report includes
the following figures of collections
made: Kansas, including Oklahoma,
$3.50, 1913. 80; Missouri, 81. S64, $50. 50. Vio-
latiOns of internal revenue laws are
noted as follows: Kansas, 10 cases;
settled during the year, Is; pending, 4.
| Missouri, EOS cases; settled, lis; pend
| ing, S3.
The report shows that, of the special
| taxpayers in Kansas, there are 1899
retail liquor dealers, ~ wholesale deal
ers, ? brewers, 264 retail dealers in
malt liquors, 46 wholesale dealers in
malt liquors, 2 manufacturers of oleo-
margarine, 81 retail dealers of oleo-
margarine; total special taxpayers, p
654. In Missouri there are 1915 retail
liquor dealers, 173 wholesale dealers,
80 brewers, AS retail dealers in malt
liquors, 237 wholesale dealers in malt
liquors, 95 dealers in oleomargarine;
total special taxpayers, SID In Ok
lahoma there were 80 violations of the
revenue laws, Is of which were settled
and IA still pending. In Oklahoma
there are 31S retail liquor dealers,
wholesale, 35 retail dealers in malt
Liquor and 81 wholesale dealers in malt
liquors; total, 3S5. The cost of the
collection of the revenue during the
last fiscal year was S3,S4S, 400.
During the year 2,241 Illicit stills
were destroyed and 81 were removed;
500 persons were arrested, one killed
and three were wounded. OF the stills
seized and destroyed 22S were located
in Alabama, S41 in Georgia, 1853 in
North Carolina, 300 in South Carolina
and 245 in the Sixth Virginia district
During the last ten years ten Cf,iccrs
have been killed and IS 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 a
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-
ton 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
reported the results of his investiga-
ton in the following telegram, dated
at Anadarko, Ok, received by Secre-
tary Bliss yesterday afternoon: No
foundation for rumor of invasion of
Wichita mountains. 1t is all sensa-
tional newspaper talk"
GRIGGs NAY SUCCEED M'KENNA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-From sources.
the authority of which should not be
doubted, it 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
coed Justice Field, has been offered to
Gov. Griggs, of New Jersey, and that
he has consented to accept. 1t is I'M
derstood that his appointment was
urged by Vice President Hobart. Ow-
ing to the absence of President Me-
Kinley. it is impossible to confirm this
statement absolutely.
A CHALLENGE TO sPIRITUALIsTs.
TOLEDO, o., Dec. 4. president Beck
er, of the National Anti-Spiritualist
association. at Adrian, Mich, has just
issued an invitation to the National
Spiritualist association to join in APP
pointing a committee to meet a sim
liar one from the Anti-Spiritualist as
ISOLATION, to investigate thoroughly
the phenomena Of modern spiritualism.
Full opportunity is to be given to spir-
itualists to state their belief and show
phenomena and equal opportunity for
full investigation of the phenomena.
Correspondence Is to be addressed to
Secretary J. d. Hagaman. Adrian,
Mich.
TO FIGHT ARINE.
LANSING, Mich, Dec. Gov. Pin
gree has determined to lend his peg
sonal efforts to the rigid enforcement
of the state law against the manufae-
ture and sale of oleomargarine. State
Dairy Commissioner Grosvenor has
met much opposition in his efforts to
carry out the provisions of the law,
which was passed by the legislature
last winter, and yesterday prevailed
upon the governor to enter the fight
with him Attorney General Maynard
will also assume command of the state
foroaS apd nroSaoutionS of the most