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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-06-28

til to-day, when the ticket will b.
completed and the platform adopted
The committee on resolutions ha,
completed its work and the platform
is now in the hands of Mayor Carter
IL. Harrison, chairman of the commit
tee. II reatlirms in its entirety the
Chicago platform of 1896, strongl,
condemns trusts, upholds the Monroe
doctrine, denounces the Coward,
acts OF President Mckinley" in deal
ing with the Philippines, denounces
the Porto Rican tariff bill, expresses
sympathy with the Beers in their
struggle for liberty, indorses the ad.
ministration of Mayor Harrison, OF
Chicago, and his attitude on the
street car question and instructs the
delegates to the national convention
to vote for Bryan for president. The
platform makes no specific allusion to
l6 to /. This subject was debated at
length in the subcommittee of seven,
which, by vote of five to two, de-
cided to reafiirm the Chicago plat.
form.
Uree. the Nomination ~ TOwne.
Lincoln, Neb,, June 27.--Vice Chair.
man Edminsten, of the populist ma
tional committee, last night gave out
the text of n letter he is sending to
delegates to the democratic national
convention. He strongly urges the
nomination of Charles A. Towne for
vice president at Kansas City and de-
clares his selection essential to COM
plete harmony among the three par
ties. The letter says in part: IF Mr..
Towne is named by the democratic
convention as their candidate for the
vice presidency it will be the selection
OF one of the strongest citizens this
nation has, and that act would fur
nish the positive assurance OF the
support of the peoples party and
the silver republican party for the
ticket for Bryan and Towne. Failure
to do this is taking a course the re.
suit of which we do not know"
Illluois Prob tion Ticset.
Chicago, June 27.--The prohibition
state convention met here yesterday
and nominated the following ticket:
Governor, Judge V. V. Barnes; leu
tenant governor, John A. Henderson;
secretary of state, B. J. Radford;
auditor, James A. Stone; treasurer,
II. c. Tunison; attorney general, +,
$. Regain. The platform as adopted
touches upon but two issues, prohi.
bition and woman suffrage. The
woman suffrage plank was adopted
after a long and at times acrimonious
debate.
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&C. Suky and double Bottom Gangs,
both perfect in action, light in draft
and with every good point that plow should
have.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-06-28
THE Beers ACTIVE.
Small Parties OF The Enemy Harass
Large Columns Of the British.
SCOUTS CUT OFF, PICKE1S SHIPPED.


London, June 27.-The Boer COM
mandoes in the eastern part of the
Orange River colony appear to have
been broken up by their leaders for
the time into small parties that
harass large columns of the British,
necessarily cutting off scouts, snip
ing pickets, making a show of force
here and there and bewildering the
slow moving bodies. Commandment
Christian DeWet, Gen. Steyn's prin-
cipal commander, is the genius of
these guerrilla operations. He is the
hero of the Boer side in these last
days of hostilities. Lord Roberts
columns are steadily contracting the
circle of their advance.
Transvaal officials who were inter
viewed yesterday at Machadodorp
by correspondent Of the Daily Ex-
press asserted an intention to hold
out to the last. President Kruger
will probably retire to Waterfall
onder, or Mel spruit. His physician
thinks his condition Of health will not
allow him to 60 to the high veldt.
The British prisoners at Nooit
Godacht are now more comfortable.
Large quantities of food and blankets
have been forwarded to them, and
their enclosure is lighted by electric
ity.
Pretoria kilograms say that sup
plies of warm clothing are reaching
Lord Roberts infantry who had been
ragged and had suffered from the
cold.
Commandant General Botha is I'M
commonly active east Of Pretoria.
The Canadians are doing splendid
outpost work.
Dispatch from Lord Roberta
London, June 27.-The war Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts at Pretoria, dated
the Goth: 'Sir Charles Warren re-
ports that the rebellion in Cape Col
ony, north of the Orange river, is
now over. The last formidable body,
under Commandant De villiers, sur
rendered on June 20, consisting of
about 2s0 men, $50 horses, IS wagons,
26O rifles and 100000 rounds Of ammu-
milton. Gen. Baden-Powell reports
that pacifcation is going on salts
factorily in the Rustenburg district"
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Dr.. c. B. AVERY.

the foreign troops be kept out of the
country. Secretary Hay laid the
formal request of the viceroys before
the cabinet meeting, but there was no
disposition to vary from his present
determination already made known
by Secretary Hay to the Chinese min
lister to send our forces to such
points as were menaced and where
our official citizens were in danger.
While the viceroys spoke for the prov
inces, they could not speak for Pekin
and it is to Pekin the officials most
anxiously look. Minister Conger Is
still silent, and the latest advices have
shown that little reliance can be
placed on the dispatches from Shang-
hal, saying that the ministers and
legations at Pekin were safe. For
this reason the orders to Gen.
Chaffee to proceed to Pekin took on
an added meaning.
How Tlen Tsin Was Entered.
Che Foo, June 27.-The Americans
and British entered Tien Using, first
silencing the guns Of the arsenal and
breaking through the Chinese lines.
The foreigners were close behind.
The Russians lost four killed and 30
wounded. The losses Of the other ma
tionalities were small. Admiral Sey-
mour's force is about ten miles from
Tien Tsin. 1t is surrounded by Chi
nese troops and Boxers and hampered
by the presence of sick and wounded.
1t is reported that all foreigners were
sent from Pekin with weak guard
of Chinese, and it is assumed that
they are with Admiral Seymour.
~ - ..--'T-s--,
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D. L. PISLE.

lily, shot and mortaIly wounded his
wife and killed himself in their home
at ten o'clock last night. The trag-
edy was the elimination of nights
quarrel over domestic affairs. After
shooting his wife Stumfmaier lighted
a match and stopped over her pros
trate form to assure himself that she
was dead. Enraged by the sight of
his 12-year-old son sobbing upon the
neck of his dying mother, Stumfmaier
kicked the boy off the porch and out
into the street, and then going into
the house shot himself through the
left eye, dying instantly. The wom-
an was taken to St. Joseph's hospital
in dying condition.
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New York, June 27.-The American
Forestry association concluded its
meeting yesterday. A paper by J. b.
Brown, secretary of the Indiana For
estry association, was read on Forest
Conditions in Kansas" Il predict for
Kansas" he said. "a future in for
estry beyond that Of all our eastern
and middle states, and II Is not at all
improbable that our great manufac-
tories Of wood will in the future be
located on these hitherto prairies OF
the west"
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.


Kansas City, June 26.-Cattle-Market
generally steady; shipping and dressed
beef steers, A.5Q5.6O; western steers,
E.6566.lO; native cows, $3.10d440; native
feeders, M106475; native stockers, $3.7O@
475. Hogs-Market ~ to lOc lower at
Si0OG5.17ls. Sheep-Market weak to $50
lower; sheep, s3.O0Q5.0O; lambs, s0OGS.50.
Chicago, June B.-Cattle-Good to prime
steers, s5.oO@5.7o; stockers and feeders,
s3.OO@4.75; cows, H.9O646O; heifers, $40
@525; Texas steers. A.3Od5l5. Hogs
Mixed and butchers, s5.1O@6.3O; good to
choice, heavy, &2OG53O. sheep--Good to
choice wethers, A,15G49O; western sheep,
A15@470; native lambs, $5.0OM6lO.
st. Louis, June 26-Cattle-Native
steers, AOOa5.65; stockers and feeders,
50. 45Q4SO; Texas and Indian steers, $3.50
also. Hogs-Packers, $5.O5G5l5; BUTCH
ers, %15@5.25. sheep-Native muttons,
81 0OGl475; lambs, A5OQ660
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Chicago Broksr Robbed Of $4,000.

Chicago, June 27,-H. K. Dufield, a
board of trade broker, was robbed Of
sSS,oOo yesterday while riding on a
Cottage Grove avenue cable car. Mr..
Duffield could give the police no clew.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-06-28

Judge John S. Robinson was renom.
mated for congress yesterday by the
democrats and populists Of the Third
Nebraska district at Norfolk yester.
day.
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A DsusssIe Tragedy.

Omaha, Neb., June 27.--John Stunt.
maier. a German carpenter. living in
the extreme southern part Of the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-06-28

Rural free delivery service will be
established in Atchison and Meriden,
Kan, on July Q.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-03
TO RELIEVE THE FAMINE.


The fresh meat famine in Dawson will
soon be relieved. T.. G. and Conrad Nc
Manner. OF Forest Grove. Or. left last
night on the Farallon, which sailed for
Lynn canal, with q consignment of seven
tons Of fresh beef, mutton and pork. They
will deliver the shipment at Dawson as
quickly as possible. From Skagway It
will be transferred by the White Pass e.
Yukon railroad to Bennett and thence by
sled oyer the Yukon ice and snow to the
capital of the Klondike.
The trip will at best require thirty
days and It may take two months to
complete the journey. by which time Daw-
son will certainly be hungry for fresh
meat.
On December one Of the leading BUTCH
ers Of the town wrote to a friend In this
city that Dawson then had less than a
thirty day supply Of fresh beef. which he
also stated was being readily retailed at
81 per pound.
If his statements are correct and no
beef has since been shipped the Nc
Manners will be In a position to demand
almost any price.
BY the same steamer Fred p. Freeman
took a four-ton delioacy consignment.
From Bennett he will undertake to haul
his goods over the ice on sleds drawn by
horses, four in number.
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FROM THE PEOPLE.
continued From Paxe -Four.


or the beginning OF the twentieth. MY
opinion IL that we are now closing up
the nineteenth century. MY reasons Tor
SO believing are,
First-If ! owe man 800 ana count
out to him In payment OF the same w,
! am still indebted to him u, NOW,
then, we have just finished the payment
OF 80 years out OF the 100 years necessary
to complete tho century, and have be-
gun to liquidHte the last year to I'LL the
100
Second--A person born on January ],
A. ID. ], while he has entered into his
first birth year Immediately on the mo-
ment he was born, is not one year OF
age until he has passed the twelfth
monthly milestone and arrived at the
milestone January !, A. d. 2. And when
the person has reached 100 A. ID. he has
Just finished his 99th year, and must OF
necessity. II he wishes TO live out his full
100 years, live on until his next birth
year, A. D. 10l. If the above line OF rea-
son be correct, which ! am forced to
believe II to be, then we are at present
living in the Tooth year necessary to COM
plete the century, or the last year OF the
nineteenth century, and then the twenti-
eth century will not begin until January
!, A. d. 1901.
Third-There IL another View OF the
matter, which, II correct, would show
that We entered the new, or twentieth,
century at ~ o'clock Sabbath evening, Of
January l. 1900 This calculation will make
us begin with the century number first,
as counting 1900 the first year OF the nine-
teenth century. Then. as a logical
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RICH CAPE NOME GRAVEL.


The sudden departure OF James r. Ward
ner,. the veteran mining man, for New
York, ostensibly to close big sale OF
creek claims In the Cape Nome district, Is
said, Ia reality. TO have been caused by
sensational disclosures regarding some
Cape Nome beach gravels with which he
was experimenting.
The story IL that Wardner and several
OF his friends brought down, as an idle
experiment. large quantity of a peculiar
kind OF gravel, cast aside as worthless by
the men working the famous beaches. 1t
Is coarse gravel. the rounded pebbles
averaging the size Of buokshot, being OF
q grayish white color and said to contain
lime.
AT all events wardner, with the instinct
OF q trained proepector, had tests made OF
the gravel discovering. 1t Is claimed. q
value OF $4,000 per ton. This statement
as to tho returns, obtained from strange
beach gravel, Wardner Is said to have
made to one Of his friends just prior to his
departure for New York,
Naturally Mr.. Wardner was elated over
the matter, for al he said, there were tons
OF the stun by the hundred thousand lying
around loose on the Cape Nome beach"
1t Is known that Wardner's trip East
contemplates the organization of COM
pany for the development of great min
eral deposit. which is said to carry gold
values In excess of 500 per ton, discov-
cred about eight miles back Of Nome City.
The supply Of this mineral Is said to be
almost inexhaustible. But four claims
were staked In the district, however. AND
these. were bonded by Wardner and his
friends
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WATER 'FRONT.' NOTES.

The Idxumi MarlI. of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
line, sailed for Yokohama and Kobe yesterday.
United States Marine Inspectors Bryant and
Cherry inspected the little steamer wildwood yes
terday.
Tug Wanderer towed the bark Levi @. Burgess
to Tacoma for coal, and the tug Lorne took the
ship America to Nanaimo for a similar cargo.
Bark Theobald. recently purchased by tho La
Conner Trading & Transportation Company. will
sail Friday from Oyster bay with cargo Of coal
for San Francisco. She will take on LOCO TONS
United States revenue cutters Corwin and Grant
have gone to Port Townsend, where their crews
will be paid of. The Corwin will return to this
port while the Grant will probably remain at
Townsend.
Tug Tacoma arrived yesterday from Cape F1attery,
having in tow the barks Harry Morse and Tidal
Wave The former will take coal In this city for
San Francisco, while the Tidal Wave goes to Ia
coma for San Pedro lumber cargo.
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Thirty-hve Thousand People
Went and Came in 1899.
r.N MILLION IN MERCHANDISE.
vessel Movements Numbered Five
Hundred ana Eighty Arrivals md
Departures Of 100000 Tons Net
Register--Prospect for Increased
TraveI This Year and That Three
Years, Trade VIII Nc sao,o0o,ooO.

The 1899 trade between Seattle ana
Alaska assumed such mammoth proper
lions that II this year is to be sim greater
ordinary figures are almost at loss 70
express It. The total entrance ana clear
ance OF $50 steamers and sailing vessels.
with an axrrexate net register OF $4,000
tons, which took and brought S5.0W people.
ana $1,000 tons Of merchandise valued at
nearly 10000 ,00O II what this commerce
with the Northern land OF gold amounted
70 last year: and yet 1898 was probably a
greater year, though no accurate ngures
ere available, and 1900 will be stiil greater
IL the prospects for the rush to Nome ana
other parts Of the Kotxebue peninsula this
spring are borne out by the movement.
Thus, in these three years the value OF
Alas4an gold discoveries to Seattle, leav-
Ing ont Of consideration the thousands OF
dollars expended by the travellers during
their stay here before departure and after
arrival for outfits and at hotels ana osner
places, and also emitting the money ex-
pended for repairs to vessels, for fuel ana
In wages to men to operate them, VIII
amount to not far from $40,000,0o0. This
sum represents the value of the merchant
disc carried north to supply the people
there win provisions, lumber for their
habitations, machinery for their mining
and other products, excluding gold and
other minerals. brought to port from the
canneries and ports Of Alaska.
The movement Of 5000 people In one
year from city of only little more than
double that population IL In itself consd-
cradle of an undertaking. and probably
never happens outside Of port like New
York, which Is the headquarters for ex-
tensive travel to some foreign country: but
II has been accomplished in Seattle al
most without general interest, except
when some Of the craft returned laden
with unusual values Of gold. 1t Ii slow
but steady trade that counts in the amas-
sing Of large commercial interests In other
places. and in this northern business It
has been vsssels arriving and leaving at
the rate of less than one and one-sixth
q day, but each, however, carrying sixty
passengers and s1s.Sso worth Of goods, rep
resented in cargoes of 1855 tons. The total
number Of passengers moved in this trade
was A,9e2, and the freight amounted to
SO ,116 tons, of value Of - 506.950.
Total Vessel Movements.
The number Of vessels making this port
from Alaska during the year was 285, OF
10000 tons net register, while 295 OF 1877, 900
tons sailed. A statement Of vessel move
ments by months for all the year of 1899
Is given, as follows:
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WASHINGTON ORES FoR PARIS.



Joseph g. Woodruff. special agent OF the
department of mining and metallurgy for
the United States commissioner general
of the Paris exposition arrived at the Hotel
Seattle yesterday His visit Is for the pur-
pose of securing collection of Washing
ton ores, to be exhibited at the Paris expo
sition. Today he Will go to Spokane for
Mr.. woodruff is a well known Chicago
capitalist and is putting forth every effort
to make big showing from the mines Of
this state.
IT am special agent of my department
for the entire Northwest" he said in an In
terview. II have already visited Oregon
and expect to get good collection there.
In Seattle have appointed Gen. Mcintyre,
manager Of the mining bureau and A. Cor
coran. president Of the Seattle stock ex-
change, as my representatives They will
collect specimens and ship them to Chi
ing sent. They must be in Chicago by jan
uary Is, SO all who intend to exhibit ore
must leave 1t at the mining bureau not
later than January. 10.
what 1 want Is e. collection of ores
typical of the mines OF this state and
would like as much free milling ore, show
Ing the gold, as possible. There are sew
eral public and private collections here
that 1 am anxious to secure. To all who
will permit their use the government will
give bond for the safety of collections
and will carry insurance on them
~ Is especially desirable to make a
and much good will result. The specimens
I have seen here are splendid and there
Is no reason why this state should not
ore is here.
EAT the exposition we will have ample
space to show OFF the exhibit. On each
specimen of ore will be placed a card tell
ing where 1t came from, it's assay value.
also who owns the property and his adj
dress.
"There Is but little time to accomplish
what should be done and l hope the CO.
operation of the mining men of this section
will be given my representatives"
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FARALLON SAILS FOR NORTH.
Takes Passengers and u Cargo o.
Merchandise and Lumber.

Steamer Farallon, Capt. Dodge. sailed
for Lynn canal ports last night with a
fair passenger list and about $50 tons of
freight, including 100000 feet OF lumber,
which she took on at Everett for the
White Pass & Yukon railroad.
Capt. John Roberts, SO long master of
the vessel, Is taking vacation, which he
will spend on trip to the Atlantic sea-
board.
The Farallons passengers are: John A.
Erickson, c.. johnson. Master Lopp, Mrs.
WaItarS Mrs la1 Iepp d M h MaTtIn 4
Glasor, S. Douleti, Fred p. Freeman, II.
L. Henrick, T. G: McNamer, Max Knoner,
J. Bolson, J. Willis Luoma, A. Glosson, M.
J. X. Hendricks, o. M. Olson, Charles
Salmenen, s. Glosson, John Kosky Mrs.
Wheeler, M. l.. Schwartz, Mr.. Wheeler, A.
]. Keene, j. Fleming.
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Bering Sea Business.

The correct statement showing the
travel from here to Boring sea ports In
GLIDING St. Michael and Nome, during the
year will be disappointing to those who
look for large figures. As compared with
only thirty-six vessels leaving here for
that part of the territory, which carried
only 925 persons. 1t must. however, be
remembered that a great percentage of
early fell went from Dawson and other
places In the interior down the Yukon,
reports indicating that hundreds travelled
veyances they could secure. Compared
with the Lynn canal trade 1t Is, however
noticeable that freight shipped to Nome
and the lower Yukon was relatively
greater.
The traffic to Boring sea points during
the only four months OF the year when
there was any is shown in detail as fol-
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MARINE NEWS.

PORT ANGELES-sailed Jan. !. stmr Mineola,
for Nauaimo
PORT TOWNSEND-Arriyed Jan 2, Blk vidette
from Redondo.
ASTORIA-sailed Jan !. Br blk Principally. for
Queenstown.
HULL-Arrired Dec. q. Br sh Gaigouar. from
Tacoma
Queenstown.-Auiyed Jan. !. Br sh Rothwell, from
Portland.
MANILA-sailed Dec. %. stmr Pennsylvania, for
Portland.
YOKOHAMA-Sailed Dec. 80, Br stsnr Empress
of Japan for Vancouver. Arrived Dec. 81, Br stmr
Breconshire, from Victoria
SYDNEY-sailed Jan. 2. Br stmr Miowera, for
Vancouver
SAN FRANCIsCo-Arriyed Jan 2, stmr Geo w.
Elder from Astoria; stmr Mattewsn, from Ia
coma; stmr Australia, from Honolulu.
H0QUIAM-Sailed Jan. 2 schr Glen, from Aber-
deem for San Pedro schr Emma Utter, from Aber.
deem for San Francisco, Arrived, schr Laura MAY
from San Francisco for Aberdeen. Sailed Dec 81
stmr Coauilie River. for San Francisco stmr Rival
for San Francisco
.NANAIMo-Arrived Jan. 2. schr Tellus, from San
Erancisco for oystsr bay.
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PIONEER MINER DEAD.
John Mcclure, for Many Years q
Resident of Durham, Passes Away.

Northwest, but who for several years has
been a saloonkeeper at Durham, this
county. died yesterday in Providence hos
pital of heart failure. Mcguire was "a
years Of age.
The Caribou mining excitement in 1871
brought Mcclure. then young man, from
his home in Iowa to British Columbia
After residing there for few years he
removed to this state, and had worked In
all the coal mines in King county since
that time. Many years ago he made his
homo at Durham.
Mcclure had been married, but his wife
died several years ago. An effort is being
made to communicate with his relatives
in Iowa. He was member of a Masonic
lodge at Renton.
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THOMAS j. FULLERs FUNERAL.
High school Classmates Attend in a
Dody-FloraI Offerings.

The funeral OF Thomas r. Fuller, tr,
who was accidentally killed while hunt
ing on Lake Washington Sunday morning,
took place yesterday from the family res
idence, $40 Thirty-first avenue south Rev
Donald B. Ross and Rev. w. III. Selleck
OBLIGATED. The interment was in Lake
View cemetery.
The funeral was largely attended by the
friends of the unfortunate young man,
his classmates of the Seattle high school
being present In body. The casket was
offerings was a piece representing the
'Gates Atar," from high school pupils.