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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
REFUGEES FLOCK TO JAPAN.
Niagasaki Already Overcrowded
With Fleeing Foreigners.

Victoria, B. c., July 21.-News via the,
steamship Empires sof India, says that
from all parts of China the refugees
are focking to the treaty ports, and
every ship is bearing them to Japan.
Nagasaki, the port at which they first
arrive, is already uncemfortably crowd
ed. and Kobe is beginning to fill up.
Many of them are in a destitute condi-
tion. and appeals for aid are filling the
papers. 1t is generally felt that while
these applications will be generously
needed here, it is incumbent upon the
foreign missionary board, upon whom
responsibility for the sad plight of their
missionaries rests. to cable unlimited
credits to meet the emergency.
In his report of the fighting at Tien
Tsin. the Japanese commander, under
date of June 25. says:
There is no food except rice, and un-
less communication with Taku is OPEN
ed in two weeks there will be great
restitution"
An edict published in the japanese
papers from the empress dowager tells
Of the burning of the imperial palace
by Boxers on June Is.
Native papers state that Boxer pla-
card, posted throughout Pekin, reads as
follows:
II, the commander in chief of heav-
ems troops, will march from Pekin to
Nankin with them shortly. Our prin-
cipal object is to burn and destroy the
churches and chapels, and then the tel
egraph and postoffices, telegraph sta
tions, colleges and schools. The people
need not be frightened when they see
our arrival here. We are going to drive
away the foreigners so as to keep the
empire in peace and comfort. Purchas-
ing provisions for providing us we will
give the market price, but sellers must
also charge moderately. We will not
destroy the yamens and customs; they
can levy duty as usual, If any people
disobey this order they will be be-
headed at once"
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NO MORE 60 FROM PHILIPPINES.
Government Has Sent All Soldiers
It Can Spare,

washington, d. C.-tSpeciat) )-"There
will be no further withdrawal of troops
from the Philippines for service in
China. That is the policy determined
upon and that will be adhered to-
A cabinet officer made this statement
and then added:
General MacArthurs dispatches on
the necessity of retaining there all the
troops save those already under orders
are clear. 1t would be unsafe to take
any more away
Then under no circumstances will
the forces in the Philippines be drawn
upon?" he was asked.
'I am not going to say any conclu-
sion reached is an absolute finality. but
this much is positive. No development
in the situation is apprehended, such
as will call for a change in this policy
as to our troops in the Philippines in
the present light of events.
I'VE do not anticipate any extra ses-
sion of congress" he said.
What if Minister Conger and the
other Americans are found to have
been murdered?" he was asked.
I'VE are proceeding at this present
moment on the assumption that our
people are murdered. do not see why
that should necessitate an extra ses-
sion. An extra session is hardly neces-
sary."
What IL their murder was by or
with the connivance Of the Chinese
government?
congress would necessarily follow"
What about the decision of the COM
manders of the international forces that
50, 900 troops are necessary for the cam
paign?"
THAT is an old story" was the reply.
admiral Kempff cabled that a week
or ten days ago, $4,000 men for the for
war dmove on the capital and 10000 to
protect Tien Tsin and communication
with Pekin.''
Asked as to the possible effect of the
Chinese attacks on the Russian trans
port and the Russian towns along the
Manchurian border, the reply was:
"This may complicate the situation.
cannot say whether or not it means war
between the Chinese government and
Russia. The matter is between those
two governments. We have nothing to
do with it. We do not know either
what the actual facts are in the case. !"
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REMARKABLE LAKE.

4 strange lake exists in the center
of Sulphur island, off New Zealand. 1t
is fifty acres in extent. about twelve
the level of the sea.
The most remarkable characteristic
of this lake is that the water contains
vast quantities of hydrochloric and sui
phuric acids, kissing and bubbiing at
a temperature of 11O degrees Fahren-
heit
The dark, green-colored water looks
particularly uninviting. Dense clouds
of sulphuric fumes constantly roll on
this boiling cauldron. and care has to
be exercised in approaching this like
to avoid the risk of suffocation. On
the opposite side of the lake may be
seen the tremendous blowholes, which,
when in full blast, present an awe-in-
spring sight. The roar of the steam
as it rushes forth into the air is deaf
ening and often huge powders and
stones are hurled out to height of
several hundred feet by the various In
terpal forces OF nature.
boat can be launched on the lake.
and IL proper care be observed the
very edges of the blowhoIes may be
safely explored.
Some idea of the strength of the acid
saturated water Of this lake may be
gathered from the fact that q boat
almost dropped to pieces after all the
passengers had been landed. as the riv.
cts had corroded under the influence OF
the acids.
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PHILIPPINES UNUSUALLY ACTIVE.
Aguinaldo Issues Proclamation At
lacking Taft Commission.

Washington, D. C-(Special. while
it is said that peace prevails in the
Philippines it is a fact that the situa-
tion continues to be decidedly feverish
and threatening. Rumors are constant
ly reaching Manila in regard to the
whereabouts and operations of Aguinal-
do, and a number of proclamations by
the Filipino chieftain have recently ap-
peared, melting the Tagals to continue
the struggle for independence and free
dom. Since the arrival of the Taft
commission the activity of the insur-
gents has apparently Increased and the
leaders are endeavoring to influence
public sentiment against the amnesty
proposition which would, if successful,
go far to undermine Aguinaldo's infiu-
ence, bring about cessation of HOSTILE
ties and unmistakable peace
LAST PROCLAMATION.
Letters received at the war depart
ment state that one of the latest proc
lamations of Aguinaldo is directed en-
tirely against the Taft commission. It
contains full explanation of how the
commission was made up by the presi-
dent, who the men are that constitute
it and what its errands and functions
are. Stress is laid upon the fact that
congress had nothing to do with the
commission, and that officially and le-
gally it does not represent the senti-
ment Of the people, but is simply the
personal instrument of the president of
the United States, who is committed to
the policy OF subjugation. The procla-
nation says that the Taft commission
is practically President Mckinley him.
self"
Secretary Root has received from
General Macarthur the order under
which his squadron of the Philippine
cavalry was organized at Manila for
service against the insurgents. Lieu
tenant Colonel w. E. Wilder, Forty
third infantry. commenced the organ
ization of four troops of native scouts,
with q maximum of 120 men to q troop,
and a squadron on-commissioned staff
OF one sergeant-major, one quartermas-
ter sergeant and one commissary SER
geant. The men were enlisted to serve
until June 80, 1901. The monthly pay
allowances of these scouts ranges from
$40 Mexican money monthly pay and So
Mexican money monthly clothing allow
ance for a sergeant major to $3.50 pay
and So per month clothing allowance
for private. The barracks at Caloo-
can are the rendezvous of the squadron.
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SMALLPOX At CAPE NOME.
The Disease Has Obtained Fright
full n old.

Seattle Wash, July 22.-Two vessels
arrived in port from Nome. the trans
bort Athenian and the steamship Sc
auoia. The Sequoia arrived early in
lhe mornig and the Athenian about II
IL o'clock. The Sequoia left Nome late
on the night of the Sd inst, bringing
much late news about the smallpox
epidemic which the Garonne and Ohio,
both leaving early on the same day,
overlooked.
The pest house at Nome is full and
everfiowing with patients afflicted with
smallpox and government officials are
erectin gtwo large structures. one pf
which will cover an acre of ground. The
disease has spread rapidly and lots OF
eases are quarantined in the tents in
which they were discovered. Every
government and city official in the
camp Is working night and day with the
disease. but It seems useless to try to
Btop 1t.
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is ONE VAST cHaaaEL HOUSE.
One Half of Indian Empire is a Hia
Boneyard,

New York. July 22.-Louis KlopscA,
who has been in India visiting the fam
inc stricken districts and inspecting the
work of relief. has returned to this city.
He said yesterday that the reports that
had reached this country of tie distress
OF millions of Inhabitants of India have
not been exaggerated, and that while
large sums of mo2ey an6 quantities of
grsin have been contributed there is
much yet to be done tcN prevent many
thousands more from starving.
DR.. Klopsch made two trips into tho
famine districts, going first 500 miles
into the interior, from Bombay. and
then an equal distance north, covering
more than 1900 miles. Speaking Of the
result of the observations and inquiries,
DR.. Klopsch said:
"One-half of India today is a great
charnel house. of which countless
thousands have already perished of
cholera, dysentery and starvation, and
as amny more are doomed to like fate.
Twenty thousand new cases of cholera
weekly, with 75 per cent mortality, rep
resenting $1,000 deaths every seven
days; plague on every hand, dysentery
moving down it's victims right and left
and starvation staring millions in the
face. reaping harvest unprecedented,
sums up the horrible story.
ION the day of our arrival in Bonn
bay the streets were literally crowded
with walking skeletons. Every step OF
the way we were besieged by men, wo-
men and children in the last stages cf
destitution, piteously begging for g mite
that they might eat and live. They
held out their hands with beseeching
look, hoping that we might drop coin
that would purchase at least enough
to satisfy their hunger for just an hour.
"Gaunt men, emaciated women with
bosoms wasted with nursing diminu-
tive, hollow-eyed, sickly babies; chill
dren with legs and arms like clothes
pins, and every rib plainly visible, all
ran after us, completely surrounding
the carriage and entreating us every
step of the way.
'Houseless and homeless these unfor-
tunates slept in the streets of Bombay
at night. They lie down just where
they happen to find themselves when
fatigue overtakes them, and it is no ex-
aggeration to say that 1 have seen as
many as 500 asleep on the sidewalk or
a single block
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
YERKEs THEIR ONLY HOPE.
Kentucky Republicans Denouce the
Goebei Election Law.

Louisville, KY, July 1.-THE repub-
lican state convention today nominated
for governor Hon. John w. Yerkes, of
DanvilIe. adopted a platform calling
the issue of the election to be the oGe-
bel election law. and adjourned within
three hours. There was no nomination
made by the convention except for gov
ernor, this years election in Kentucky
being an extraordinary one to fiji the
vacancy in the governorship caused by
the death OF William Goebel
The present governor. Beckham, will
hold this office only until his successor
is nomed. Hon. John w. Yerkes. nom
inee for governor. is a lawyer and one
Of the most prominent republicans in
Kentucky. He is at present a collector
Of Internal revenue.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
SEADY TO DECLARE WAR.
Russia Gives Chinese Minister HIS
Passports.

Russia Gives Chinese Minister HIS
Passports.
New York, July PA dispatch to the
says:
"The Chinese invasion of the Samur
province is equivalent to a declaration
of war against Russia, which, con-
structing it as such, has handed the
Chinese envoy at st. Petersburg his
passports and requested him to leave
the country, along with the members
of his mission.
THE choice of this Chinese declara-
ton of war against Russia en- account
of this bold invasion of Russian terri
tory, lies in the fact that as the mat
ter now stands it virtually releases the
car from his obligations to the foreign
powers to act in concert with them in
China. He is placed thereby in a posi-
ton to act independently and not only
with reference to the defense of his
country from Chinese invasion, but also
as regards the carrying of war into the
enemy's country and an eventual march
upon Pekin.
Should Russian army, proceeding
from Siberia, reach Pekin and capture
it before the allies could get to it from
the Pacific coast, the cfiar would be
able to dictate terms to China inde-
pendently of the other powers, and
without any regard to their wishes,
virtually establishing himself as master
of the country.
The British and German govern
ments alarmed at the idea of this
eventuality, have today decided to
abandon the policy which they have
pursued until now. and to declare war
upon the Chinese government, thus
placing themselves in line with Rus
sia, and France and the United States
are expected to follow suit immediate
lily. France has, indeed, already issued
decree forbidding the sale of arms
or of war material of any kind to the
Chinese. while Germany, which has al
ready prohibited the Chinese envoy at
Berlin from communicating with his
government. except through the Ger
man foreign Office, is preparing to give
him his passports.
..Here in London the Chinese min
fster has already packed al belongings.
removed his boys from the schools
which they have been attending. and
cancelled all his engagements. SO as TO
be ready for immediate departure.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
PRINCE TuAH's HUGE ARMY.
Peport That He Has Modified
Nearly 100000 Men.

Peport That He Has Modified
Nearly 100000 Men.
ST. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT dispatch
from Che Foo says:
prince Tuan has mobilized $50, 900
men, divided into different corps. The
northern corps has been ordered to ex-
pei foreigners from Amur. The Pekin
army, which is divided into four corps,
is the first to begin operations.
The Pekin army is divided into four
corps, the first of which is to operate
against Mukden and occupy the roads
between Pekin and Shan-Hai-Kuan, the
second is to concentrate at Tien Tsin,
and the third at Pekin, from which a
column numbering 10000 will be sent
to Wei-Hai-Wei and Tsin-Tau, while
the fourth corps will concentrate at
Nankin.
There are now $4,000 japanese SOL
| diers in China.
The Chinese fleet is concentrating, in
the China sea and hostilities are ex-
pected.
A dispatch from Nankin announces
| that Prince Tuan has ordered a great
| military movement, owing to the ap-
pearance of the japanese in China.
| The viceroy of Nankin has informed
the foreign consuls there he cannot be
answerable for events in Chao-Sin
Ning-Po and Chu-Chau. The foreign
ers are fleeing to Shanghai. The posi-
tion is alarming. Sixteen foreigners
have arrived at Nankin from Ning-Po
| where the houses of foreigners have
been burned and missionaries horribly
maltreated.
The rebellion has take nhold of South
China. The foreigners at Chu- -Chau and
in-Chau have been attacked and are
fleeing, panic-stricken.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Though poetry Is in such a bad way
in England. 1t is pleasure to learn that
it fiourishes In one country at least
Japan. In Japan poets abound. The
emperor holds competition every year.
when he and the empress and ali the
court perpetrate poems on given SUBJ
ject. Brevity is fortunately insisted on,
the number of syiIabIes permitted be-
ing thirty-one. This. 1t fs said, often
makes the poems obscure. These pietic
diversions are not, however, confined to
the court circles. but are common to all
classes. For instance, a notorious Jap
anese criminal. who had committed end
less murders and burglarics, and who
was condemned to death. composed an
appropriate fiye-line verseIet. and recit-'
ed 1t while the executioner was waiting.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
POUNDlne AWAY At ROBERTS.
Attack of Beers Repulsed, but Fly
teen Hundred Break Through.

London.-(Special.)- 1.-The war Office
from Lord Roberts:
Pretoria, July 21-Yesterday the en-
emy made determined attack on the
left of Pole Carew's position and along
our left flank, commanded by Hutton.
The posts held by the Irish fusileers
and Canadian mounted infantry, under
Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, were most
gallantly defended. The enemy made
repeated attempts to assault the posi-
tion, and calling on the fusileers to sur
render. The enemy suffered severely.
They had fifteen killed and fifty wound
ed and four were taken prisoners. The
British casualties were seven killed Gn-
Guiding the Canadian lieutenants, Bor-
den and Birch), thirty wounded and
twenty-one missing.
Ian Hamiltons column advanced to
Waterfall unopposed and proceeded 10
Haman's kraai.
Fifteen hundred Beers. With five
guns, maEaged to break through the
Gordon formed by Hunters and Run
dies divisions, between Bethlehem and
Ficksburg. They were making toward
Lindley, being closely followed by Pat
gets and Broadwood's brigades."
In a dispatch Lord Roberts pays
tribute to Lieutenant Borden and Birch,
whom, in his dispatch given above, he
reported killed. Lord Roberts says:
"They were willed while gallantly
leading their men in counter attack
on the enemy's flank at a critical juno
ture of their assault on one position.
Borden was twice before brought to my
notice in dispatches for gallant and in
trepid conduct"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
TO IHTIMIDATE LEGISLATURE.
Caleb Powers Tells Why Mob O
Mountaineers Was Taken to
Frankfort,

Georgetown, Ky.-(speciaI)T )The trial
OF Caleb Powers in the Goebel assassi-
nation case was resumed, and John A.
Black of Barbourville, a banker of that
place and republican of prominence.
was the first witness called. Witness
said Powers told him in January he was
organizing an armed mob to go to
Frankfort. Witness discouraged the
project, but Powers insisted that the
mob would be formed, saying it would
intimidate the legislature
Black, continuing, said: st saw Mr..
Powers later and again demonstrated
against the formation of the mob which
was going to Frankfort Powers told
me it was being formed with the ap-
proval of Governor Taylor, Charles
Finley and other republican leaders at
Frankfort. Charles Finley also came to
me and endeavored to get me to CO..
operate with them. / protested bitter.
ly. Powers became very angry with
me on account of the position / took.
tried to persuade them to send good
citizens, people of influence, If any
crowd was to be sent
A check from Charles Finley to the
Louisville and Nashville railroad for
$1,000 for transportation of men to
Frankfort was produced by Black in
response to a question from the prose
cution.
On cross-examination Black said that
Finley claimed the mountaineers were
being taken to Frankfort to Influence
the Legislature Powers said the pur-
pose was to s.intimidatet' the body.
Continuing, the witness said he never
heard Powers make any threats except
in general way" He referred to the
crowd he was getting US as a "mob.''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

The readers of this paper can safely
turn n deaf ear to what our damnable
contemporaries say of U.S. Colonel
Jeitz declares. 1.-THE matter on its face
is easily explained when we say they
are made up of small and otherwise
petty jealousies."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

The editor of the Howard Courant
bulletins the world that IL was not he
who lost his eye while playing patriot
on the Fourth, but his youthful and
cayorting foreman
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Jesse Peck, a 16-year-old farmer boy
of Burden, was run over and killed
while jumping on and off trains.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Cresco, Ia.-Thomas Bridges, an Eng
Iishman. committed suicide. He was .
clerk in the strother hotel for twenty
years. He was 20 years old.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Topeka has promised 100000 to get
the Kansas exposition in 1904, but, OF
course, that is four years ahead.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Hawatfla World: In their review OF
July fiction the critics should not over.
look the stuff written about Kansas
City by the eastern correspondents.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

A Tennessee man has written to a
CoTeyville lawyer offering 500 fee
to secure him a divorce from his wife
and an Usage heiress for bride.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

rubber at the automobiles of the wheat
kings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

The Kansas harvest hands are now
arranging their summer trips abroad.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Wichita has arranged the show bills
for it's fall carnival. One of the events
is called an electrical pageant"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Stephen Booth was found dead In his
bed at Larned when his wife called him
fer breakfast. His death is supposed
to have been caused by heart failure.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

One of the appropriate things in Kan
sas was the location of a windmill fac
tory at Topeka.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

a Rice county farmer who started to
bore for water is having his farmyard
all mussed up by a gushcr oil well.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

I'm His Steps is still travelling about
in the kansas weeklies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

a hold up woman, gang Of horse
thieves and Mexican money changer
are doing their best to reduce the sur
plus at Galena.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Girard is sowing the seed for an early
crop of regrets by fight on the county
high school.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

1t is proposed to send 500 barrels of
Kansas apples to the Paris exposition.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

The taxable wealth of Kansas has IN
creased 5,ooo, 600 in the last year.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Mrs. Maria Hopkins. aged 80 years. a
resident of Solomon. Kan, for thirty
years, is dead.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

The green corn dance of the Potta-
watomes is now being celebrated. The
concentrated corn is supplied by Hor-
ton.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

The water works plant of lola has ad-
vanced as far as the blue prints.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

settlers will be held in Haskell county
in August.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

A Parsons lumber dealer advertise
his yard as boarding house"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Green KafTir corn is charged with a
large mortality at Montrose.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

Democrats OF Georgia's. Seventh dis
trict nominated Hon. ]. w. Maddox for
congress. s-i4f1l
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If you want to hear q hard-Iuck
story just ask man for money he
owes you.