People's voice., 1900-10-25
Thursday, October Is, 1900.
There is said to be mild case Of
yellow fever in New York City.

One month and ten days nave
elapsed since the Galveston storm and
still the number Of dead bodies being
recovered daily does not decrease
Forty-two were recovered Thursday
This makes a record Of l07 for the
past four days. The total number OF
bodies reported tO have been recJver-
ed is 2,O97,
The Jwine plant at the Kansas state
penitentiary will resume operation
this week. IT. has been closed down
since last July. 1t is the intention 10
manufacture several hundred thOus.
and pounds of twine during the win
ter. The twine viii be sold through
retail and wholesale dealers next year
and no attempt will be made to deal
directly with the farmers.
Governor Sayers Of Texas has been
asked why the Texas legislature had
taken no relief action, wnen the latest
available reports show a financial
ability Of upward of 10 million dollars.
"The principal reason the governor
replied, sis because session OF the
legislature has not been called. The
legislature has not been in session
since the disaster. To have gotten
the members together would have
cost more than they probably would
have appropriated. However, the
legislature meets in two months and
it may be relied upon that Texas will
do the proper thing when the time
comes"
A habeas corpus suit TO release
Oberin NJ, Carter, ex-captain OF
engineers, from the federal peniten-
tiary at Fort LeavenwOrth, was filed
in the United States circuit court at
Leavenworth yesterday afternoon.
The suit was filed, with Stanton
Carter, a brother Of the prisoner, as
the petitioner, and was made out
returnable against Warden Nc
Claughry Of the federal penitentiary.
Frank P. Blair Of Chicago appeared as
the attorney for Carter. Judge Hook
set October 26 as the date for hearing
on the application and announced
that Judge Thayer of St. Louis would
probably sit with him.
The British postOff1ce is most
obliging Institution, forwarding
everything from letter to pot OF
jam, but one Of the most unique par
GELS ever transmitted was living and
breathing young woman. She was
a foreigner, stanger in London, who
desired to reach one Of the suburbs.
Being hOpelessly lost, and very sensi-
BILE person, she entered postal sub
station where she stated her wishes.
For the sum Of pence she was con
Quoted by special messenger to her
destination, the messenger delivering
her to her friends and receiving a
receipt for her. We are not told
whether she was transmitted under
parcel-pCst rules.
The enumeration work Of the
twelfth census is completed and the
enumerators are practically all paid.
There were 81, 900 enumeratOIS and 297
supervisors. The cost of the enumer.
alton will be about S4,2O0,00O. The
factory work also is about finished.
All Of the special field agents in the
manufacturing and industrial lines
will complete their work and be paid
of by November |. TIE cost OF this
work will be about $250,000. The
whole force Of the census bureau is
being concentrated Oh the work OF
tabulating the statistics already
gathered. The report Of the census
bureau when completed will occupy
eight volumes Of 1000 pages each. The
work for the present census is heavier
by several million inhabitants than
ever before, but Director Merriam
thinks it will be ready for the public
six weeks earlier than heretofore.
Quite an opposition to the new
rural delivery system has already
developed, and it comes chiefly,
strange as may seem, from these two
sources alone, viz: the district mail
contractor and the liquor dealer.
Other sources Of opposition are in
significant compared with these two.
The saloon keeper objects because
taking the farmers mail to his door
daily Obviates the necessity Of his
coming ~ town so often and hence, OF
course, enjoying the privilege" OF
visiting the booze dispensary as often
as he otherwise would have the
opportunity to do without going
especially for that purpose. This is
most unexpected source Of hostility,
and as the reports and protests are
going in to the headquarters OF the
liquor trade, the immense power and
influence, financial and political, Of
the organized traffic is being brought
to bear at least retard and limit the
movement, if it cannot las it cannot
be altogether abolished. OF course
this will enlist, on the other hand
the friends and supporters Of the
anti-liQuor traffic, and to their JOY
and satisfaction toe, for it simply
furnishes them another club Will
which to beat down the enemy.
The general grievance committee O
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
GERS, representing the engineers Of tht
Santa Fe road proper, finished it
annual session in Topeka YESTERDAY
aud adjourned. The executive com
mittee, representing the entire SAINTS
Fe system, aud composed Of the chair
men Of the committees of the differ
ent divisions Of the road, left fol
Chicago. Their visit to Chicago is t
lay several matters before President
Ripley which the officers Of the roaC
thought best should be carefully
considered before final action is,taken
The grievance committee has been il
session for the past two weeks. 1t il
their regular annual meeting with tht
Ulcers OF the road, at which time al