The Mena star., 1898-03-30

Kansas City friends of James Dono. hue, for long time general passenoas and freight agent of the Pittsburg Gulf, are urging his appointment ., general passenger agent Of the 'Frisco road
 When President Mckinley issued b;s appeal to the people of the United States for contri buttons for the bepa fit of the starving Cubans he started list with subscription of S5, Ooo one. tenth of hls salary.
 Word from Klondike party from Missouri of over 100 in numbe sav, that the native dogs they took, nearly a carload, are no good ip Alaska, and that the Canadian government charges S25 duty on each canine.
 Nine former republican officeholders of Brooklyn. many of them partv leaders for years and some of them known as reformers, were indicted last week for boodling, and are held in bonds of from s4,00o to siO,oOO each
 Ex-Commander-in-Chief Ciarkson of the Grand Army of the Republic, has sent letter to Governor Holeomb of Nebraska, in which he says he win raise regiment and place himself at his country's service at a moments notice should troops for war purposes be needed.
 Mrs Jane Winchester, widow of the founder and proprietor of Winchester Repeating Arms Company, is dead. She was 91 years of age. Her estate is estimated at $40 100, 00o, Under the new inheritance tax law about si, 000,. 900 will come to the state by the transfer of her property to her heirs
 George Mouser and Isaac c Steele, former United States deputy marshals under Marshal Nagle are under indict ment at Guthrie. 0. T., charged with making false returns while serving as deputies. A special agent of the de. partment of justice caused the arrests, and others are expected to follow.
 Yousouf, "the terrible Turk" who, after conquering all the wrestlers Of his own country. came to America ID search of further glory, lost his first contest in this country to Ernest Roe her, at New York Saturday by foul. The Turk became angry at the tactics of his opponent and ellberately pushed him from the platform.
 At the Grand American shoot held at Elkwoood Park, N. J., last week, E. D. Fulford. of Utica N Y. won the American cham pionship The shoot was one of 25 birds and nine men killed the g straight. The shoot off was a miss and-out, and Fulfcrd won by 2s straight kills. This is the greatest trap shooting event held in the United States.
 Between 300 and 400 employees of the | Beckman woolen mills at Cleveland, O., who went on a strike some days ago for an advance in wages, have nearly all returned to work without gaining the increase demanded. The company had promised a general ad vance May 1. The employees, however demanded that it go into effect al once. and being refused. struck. Ths company now declares that no advance will be made during the present year
 A mining company consisting O Captain F. o. Bartlett, Al Baker, E. Y Wilson, of Joplin, Mo, and Thomas J Morgan and A. l.. Johnson of Munlce Ind, have leases on l,600 acres of lan' along the line of the Kansas City Pittsburg x Gulf railroad near Gilham Ark. One of their shafts at the deptl of 100 feet shows an immense body 0 ore Two carloads of dirt shippe and cleaned made 1315 per cent or and an assay of the ore shows it to D a very high grade. running CO.'S pc cent. This company is planning 10 an extensive plant to be erected soon
 To Test the Rock.