The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily Newa.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THOMAS JEFFERsON's birthday ami
sersary will be celebrated on April 1s
by the National Association of Demo.
cratic clubs with a subscription din
ner in Washington. Mr.. Bryan will
be the principal speaker and it is an
ticipated that every state in the union
will be well represented at the dinner.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
RYAN recently sent a communication
TO congress in regard to the education
of children of white and colored resi-
dents of the Indian territory. He said
that no provision for the education of
white and colored youths exists. The
white and colored residents are there
by sufferance only, having no voice in
the government under which they live,
Or ownership of the soil on which they
reside.
THE resolutions which were adopted
at the session of the National Woman
Suffrage association at Washington on
the 18th demand for women citizens
equality with males in the exercise OF
the elective franchise, ask for 10th
amendment to the constitution to
equal custody and control of their
minor children and for wives and wild
ows an equal use and inheritance of
property, and ask for woman repre-
sentation on boards of education, pub
lie schools, etc.
SECRETARY BLISS is in receipt of a re-
cent letter from Gov Brady. of Alaska,
descriptive of the lawless condition of
affairs at Skaguay and Dyea. 1t was
considered sufficient justification for
the immediate dispatch of the addi-
tional military force already author
lied to be sent to Alaskan territory.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has consented
to deliver an address at Iowa college,
Grinnell, Ia, in June, on the occasion
of the semi-centennial of the institu.
ton.
SECRETARY LONG, of the navy depart
ment, made q statement on the 18th
denying the warlike rumors floating
round and stating that the disaster to
the battleship Maine would probably
be found to be an accident. Prepare.
tions have been made for a court of
inquiry and it will convene at Key
West, Fla, and later on perhaps go to
Havana. Kieut. Blandin denies the
story that q sailor saw a torpedo APP
preaching the vessel, but the explosion
took place before he could give the
alarm.
The post Office department at Wash
ington has been informed that after
March 1 samples of liquids, greases.
powders and glass will be admitted to
the mails of Great Britain.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul-
tural department, will probably have
dipping stations for cattle established
at St. Louis and Kansas City.
THE annual meeting of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
opened at Washington on the 2ist. A
hot fight was in prospect over the office
of president general.
The official order for a retiring board
to pass upon Col. William A. Elderkin,
Missouri, was issued. Col. Elderkin
resists retirement, although he is in
bad health, in order not to cut his wife
out of pension after his death.
THE naval court of inquiry into the
Maine disaster sailed for Havana on
\the Goth. Capt. Sigsbee telegraphed to
Washington from Havana that he had
not expressed any opinion on the cause
of the disaster. Secretary Long, of
the navy department., said that there
was nothing new to communicate about
the wreck. A report from Key West,
Fla, said that the Maine wounded
were doing we'll.
THE ships of the, American navy
went out of mourning for the victims
of the Maine disaster at sunset on the
10th. The official funeral having taken
place at Havana, the government at
Washington considered that the log
ical end of the mourning period and
gave orders to that effect.
THE state department at Washing.
medal to William McField, British
seaman, for heroic services in rescuing
an American citizen OH the Nicaraguan
schooner Dolphin on the coast of Mex
leo
THE United States military and ma
val authorities are actively engaged in
making legitimate arrangements for
emergencies. The present available
supply of powder is considerable. the
Frank fort arsenal at Philadelphia is
turning out about 20, 600 cartridges per
day and can double the output when
necessary, and the ordnance factories
are making encouraging progress on
guns and carriages for seacoast and
field artillery.
THE Cuban insurgents, a Washing
ton dispatch stated, will gladly accept
the proposition for a suspension OF
hOStilitieS and media by the Unite n