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Lieut.. Laing, Two Other Officers and
Fifteen Men Killed, and Two OH
GERS and Twenty Men Wounded.
REPORT FROM KITCHENER
SMALL BODY OF TROOPS MET sU-
PERIOR FORCE NEAR LENDLEY.
Fight at NaauwpOOrt, I'm Which the
Beers Suffered-Afrixand Leaders
to Visit England.

LONDON, Jan. S-The news from Cape
Colony is still tinged with pessimism. The
residents Of Cape Town are still enlisting
as home guards and demanding reinforce
ments from Great Britain. General Kitch-
ener reports disaster to Knox's COM
mand, three officers and fifteen men being
killed and two officers and twenty men
wounded. General Kitchener's dispatch,
which is dated Jan. 6, follows:
Yesterday Babington engaged Delarey's
and Steenkamp's commanders at Naauw-
poort. The enemy was forced to retire to
the northwest. Our casualties have not
yet been received, but are reported slight.
Boer doctor admitted that twenty Beers
we're killed Or wounded. Commandant Du-
pres was taken prisoner.
1T appears from reports of the wounded
who have arrived at Hebron that de-
tachment. 40 strong, belonging to Knox's
command came in contact with a superior
force Lindley. 1 regret to say that
Lieutenant Laing, two other officers and
fifteen men were killed and two officers
and twenty men wounded. No details have
come from Knox of this action"
The Naauwpoort mentioned in General
Kitchener's dispatch must not be con-
founded with Naauwpoort Junction, Cape
Colony There are several Naauwpoorts.
Possibly the scene OF the fight Is the
Naauwpoort on the railroad between
Potchefstroom and Frederikstad. Trans
vaaI.
In response to the appeal of the Princess
of Wales for further contributions to the
fund for the families of the men at the
front, William Waldorf Astor has con-
tributed $4,000.
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First of the Volunteer Regiments to
Leave the Philippines Reviewed
by General MacArthur.
FiLIp1Nos TO BE DEPoRTED
DEL Pillar AND OTHER REBEL
LEADERS TO BE SENT TO GUAM.
VIII BE Kept There Until Peace Has
Been Observation-Disclosures Getting
a Taste of Liberty.

MANILA, Jan. T. General Macarthur,
accompanied by his staff, reviewed the
Thirty-sevea.h Regiment of volunteer in
fantry on the, Luneta field this afternoon.
All the companies were together almost
for the first time since the regiment was or
ganized After the review the regiment
was drawn up in close order and General
Macarthur, in a farewell address, con-
graduated the officers and men on their
bravery, discipline and judgment, conclud-
inc his remarks with a hearty God bless
YOU. comrades" The Thirty-seventh will
sail for home on the transport Sheridan
on Thursday. More than half the men and
many of the officers come from Tennessee.
General Macarthur has ordered the de-
portation of Generals Ricardo, Del Pillar.
Hizon. Llanera and Santos to the island
OF Guam. Nine regimental and -four sub
ordinate officers, with eight civilians, in
cluding Trias, Tecson and Mabini, notori-
Gus assistants of the insurrectionists, have
also been ordered to be deported. 1t Is
General MacArthur's Intention to hold most
of the active leaders of the rebels who
have been captured in Guam until the re-
sumption Of a condition of peace has been
declared.
The first municipal election was held
successfully at Baguio. province of Ben
yuet. on Saturday. The Igorrotes took
mart in the election.
The Filipinos in Manila have been en-
loving recently novel experience in the
holding of free, open political meetings.
Most of the addresses at these meetings
were made by former officers of the in
surgents. all of whom asserted that the
hest way of securing personal liberty is to
accent the liberties guaranteed by the Con-
stitution and government of the United
States. The audiences were greatly inter
ested and many of those attending the
meetings signed the Federal party declara-
ton.
The construction of rebel prison at
olongapo, IN addition to those at Manila,
will be begun shortly.
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Burnam was dismissed. He was on the
stand for over three hours.
THE BRETH CASE


The case of John Breth. of Altoona, Pa,
who died from an ailment which. it is al
legged, he received indirectly as result Of
hazing at West Point, was then taken up.
The first witness called was DR.. e. e. Good
man, OF Altoona, the Breth family physi-
clan. DR.. Goodman said Breth's physical
condition before entering the academy was
excellent. DR.. Goodman treated him two
weeks after he came home from West
Point for hemorrhoids. Last October he
again treated him for typhoid pneumonia,
told DR.. Goodman anything about hazing
at West Point All the information the
doctor had came to him from the boys
family. He became very nervous about
the year he returned from West Point and
the physicians often wondered what could
have caused it. 1t had been reported that
Breth was compelled to eat soap at West
Point. The doctor knew nothing about
that. but II the boy had eaten soap it would
have explained his physical condition on
his return home.
Samuel j. Breth, father Of Cadet Breth,
testified that his son was dismissed from
the academy because of his deficiency in
mathematics. Mr.. Breth said the members
of the family had received letters from the
son in regard to hardships at West Point.
The father and mother knew that the boys
at the academy were more or less hazed
and Cadet Breth and his brother Harry had
an understanding between them that If he
had anything to write about hardships
John would write to Harry only so that
the parents would not worry. He said
Harry and one of the daughters visited
John at the Academy in August, 1897, and
on their return home they said that John
had been severely hazed and had nervous
prostration. AT West Point John told
them he had been SO severely hazed that
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CAPE TOWN. Jan. 7-At a meeting OF
the Afrikander members of the Cape Par
lament to-day ii was resolved 10 send
Messrs. ]. X. Norman. former treasurer
of Cape Colony J. w. Sauer, former COM
missioner of public works. and j. III. Hof-
meyer. to England to represent the state
of affairs in South Africa to the govern
ment. Parliament and people of Great
Britain.
General Brsbant has arrived here 10 COM
plete the organization of the colonial forces.
1t is reported that 1.5oo Beers are near
ing the town Of Sutherland and that other
parties are close upon Richmond. The in
vaders have reached Calvinia and are ex-
pected at Clan William within a few days
Scouts report that the Boer commanders
under De Larey and Stinkamp. in the Buff
ferspoert district. number 5000.
Martial law has been proclaimed in the
district of Calvinia. Clan William Piquet-
burg. TuIbagn. Paari and Steelenbosch.
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and expected trouble in the islands for some


time.
SHARP sPARRING.
Mr.. Bacon inquired how long Mr.. Lodge
thought a large army might be needed in
the Philippines.
Mr.. Lodge believed that in very short
tine. comparatively. there would be great
er peace and order in the islands than they
had ever known.
After some sharp sparring, Mr.. Bacon
put this question to Mr.. Lodge: From
your knowledge, as chairman of the Philip
pine commission in the islands. will the
army of $1,000 be needed there for a short
time or for an indefinite timer
Mr.. Lodge-What is a short time?
Mr.. Bacon-weIl. say two years.
My judgment is,'' replied Mr.. Lodge
that at the end of two years we will be
able to reduce very largely the army In
the Philippines. That is my belief. Spain
had an army of 1900 men and kept very
bad order"
And occupied little territory" interjected
Mr. Bacon.
Yes. and occupied little territory" as
sented Mr.. Lodge. He maintained, how
ever, that with a force OF 25,0oo in the
Philippines the United States would keep
better order than had ever been known
there. With that force I'm the Philippines
there would be about $500 men left to
man the Notifications OF the country, q
force which, he believed, totally made
quate. In addition that force would be
called on to guard the Nicaraguan canal.
which IL was proposed soon TO begin TO
build. On that canal there would be en-
ployed $1,000 laborers. They would have
to be protected. When finished the canal
would have to be guarded. In his opinion
at the end of two years the force in the
Philippines could be reduced materially,
and at the end of four or FIVE years the
force could be reduced safely to 20.OO0
men.
Does not the senator from Massachu-
setts think" inquired Mr.. Foraker. that
the time for the reduction of the force
would be lessened materially If we could
have the support OF the other side OF this
chamber in passing this army bill and other
similar measures?"
Mr.. Lodge replied that Mr.. Foraker had
expressed his idea exactly. He vigorously
urged the passage OF the pending bill, be-
cause it would provide for the army an
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LEFT TO THE STATES.

their own citizens, but to operate upon the
national government alone.
LEFT TO THE STATES.
Protection TO life. liberty and property
rests primarily with the States as Chief
Justice Fuller said in re Kemler QSs U. s..
43S-4iS). THE Constitution makes no pro-
vision Tor protecting the citizens of the
respective States in their religious liberties
that is left to the State constitutions and
laws, says Mr.. Justice Catron in Permoli
VS.. First Municipality g How. 5S9-609). The
Constitution forbids the States to pass any
bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law
impairing the obligation of contracts, or to
grant any title of nobility. and the four
teenth amendment provides that no State
shall deprive any person OF life, liberty or
property without due process Of law, nor
deny TO any person within its Jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws but out
side the range of these limitations the peo-
pie of the State, Though its Constitution
and laws. are supreme. They can define
treason against the State as they see fit;
they can limit the freedom of speech and
of the press; they restrict the bearing
of arms; they can provide for the quarter
ing of troops; they can provide for the
trial Of capital or otherwise infamous
crimes upon Information and without in
dictment, and without jury, and they
have done so. They can do away with the
trial of civil suits by a jury. And they
may do many other things which I need
not enumerate.
"The right of the people of the States
to change their laws and system OF proceed
ure so as to make them conform to the
changed views of administration, or the
exigencies of their social life has been
sustained. If the constitutional guarantees
relating to indictment by grand jury
and trial by a petit jury are not fundamen-
tai in character, and, therefore, do not
tic the hands of the inhabitants of a terri
tory when organizing a State. why should
they tie the hands of the President and
Congress in preserving order and protect
ing life and property in our new posses
sions?
ut is al strange contention that as soon
as the treaty went into effect the power
of the President and Congress to preserve
order in the new possessions ceased. There
were no grand juries. no petit juries, no
machinery for Furnishing crime by the
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KID M'COY REMARKED.
Welded His Former Wife and Gave
Her . Certified Cheek for $4,000.

BOSTON, Jan. 7.-Norman Selby (Kid Nc
Coy) and his former wife Julia, We're re-
married at Gould's Hotel tonight by the
Rev. William T. McElven in the presence
of four personal friends. The bridegroom s
present to his wife is said to have been a
certified check for $4,000 and diamond
ring and pin worth s., SEQ.
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KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Macarthur Reports a List of Casual
ties i'm the Philippines.

WASHINGTON, JAM 7.-General MacAr-
thur to-day reported 10 the War Depart
ment the following additional casualties
among the troops in the Philippines:
Killed
Dec. 81: Ilagam. Luzon, Company I, For
tv-ninth Infantry. Corporal James w
Bum Dec. 80: Santo Tamas. Luzon. Troop
b. First Cavalry. Harvey l.. Bradley. Dec.
3l: Longos, Luzon. Fifteenth Infantry, un-
assigned recruit Andrew Bannon. Dec CO.:
Ouion. Luzon, Company A. battalion engi-
neers. George III. Rea. July 10: Murdered
by natives, Cabatuan. Panay. body recov-
cred Dec. 20, George o. HILL
Wounded
Dec 81: Longos. Luzon, Company l.. Fif-
teenth Infantry, Anthony kearney. neck.
moderate; Sergt. Patrick Philbin. shoulder.
moderate Dec. Il: Dingle. Panay. Com
pany X. Thirty-eighth Infantry. Charles r.
Johnson. arm. serious. Dec. s: Antique,
Panay, Company G. Thirty-eighth Infant
~. Henry b. Sweeney. face, slight. Dec
q: Mount Baombong. Panay, Company /.
Eighteenth Infantry. Musician James Van
Kirk. back. serious: Company x, Eight
eenth Infantry. Corporal Harrison Noble,
chest serious. Dec 25: Cabiao. Luzon.
Company M. Twenty-second Infantry. Mu-
sician William Quinn. head, slight. Dec "a:
Matnog. Luzon, Company d. Forty-seventh
Infantry. sergt Clarence r. punkle. head.
slight Dec. 81: San Nicolas, Luzon: Com
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Mother and Three Small Children
Overcome by Fire In Their Home.
BUFFALO. N Y. jan 1.-THE residence
OF Edward H. Taylor at Model City, nenr
Lewiston. burned to-day. Taylor his wife
and three small children perished IN the
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ments proposed and adopted at the same
time was not intended to limit the powers
OF the State governments in respect to
their own citizens. but to operate upon the
national government alone.
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-14

may be, and then when we get fall
rains thu pastures kept free from
stock now will furnish much more feed
and feed later in the season than If
tramped while dry.
Sorghum, Kaffir corn, COW peas and
alfalfa make pasture after cattle be-
come accustomed to them, but great
care must be used in starting stock
on such pastures. At the College we
fill the cattle with straw or hay in the
morning and then turn them on the
Sorghum or other green crops only nj
teen minutes the first day, the next
day thirty minutes, and then increase
the time fifteen minutes each day un-
til we reach an hour and half, when
it is safe to let them stay on all the
time and not give them other feed
Cattle turned on such pastures at first,
if hungry, will often eat few mouth
fuls and die in few minutes or hours.
Rape sown as late as September 1
will furnish pasture for hogs. Sow
Dwarf Essex rape, five pounds per acre
broadcast, or three pounds per acre
drilled. 1t will do to feed in six weeks
after seeding. An acre will pasture ten
to twenty hogs and as seed costs only
ten to fifteen cents per pound the cost
is light. Rape is fair pasture for cat
tie, but some dry feed must be given
with it to prevent securing. 1t takes
a heavy frost to kill rape, SO that it
furnishes late pasture, and Kansas
farmers should sow a large acreage to
this crop.
Turnips should also be sown largely
as the seed is cheap, and If a crop is
secured the turnips will save a great
deal of other feed needed for the cat
tie, young stock and hogs.
We have not had success with late
sown millet, but if the fall should be
damp and cool, millet would make a
fair crop.
Wheat, oats and rye will furnish a
large amount of pasture If the season
is favorable, and while these crops are
in good condition cattle will do well
on them without any other food than
straw. A farmer pastured his dairy
cows on oats and sold during the fall
$500 worth of milk for each acre OF
oats pastured, the cows having no 9TH
er feed.
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NOTED WOMAN suFFRAeIsT.

Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay's Daughter Has
Done Much for Her Sex In Kentucky.
Within the past twelve years Miss
Laura Clay, woman suffragist and
daughter of the famous old Whitehall
general. Cassius NJ. Clay, has revolu-
tionized the position of women in Ken
lucky. She is the president and found
er of the Equal Rights Association OF
Kentucky and under her Leadership
wonders have been accomplished. She
is mild-mannered, blue-eyed, round
faced little woman of pleasing address
but in pertinacity and vigorous intel
lect she is her noted fathers daughter
From girlhood she has been a stanch
advocate of the idea that commercial
ly. legally, professionally and po1iti-
cally, woman is and should be recog-
nized as the equal of man. In 1888 she
began the serious battle for this idea
She was chosen president of the State
Equal Rights Association in that year
and appeared in Frankfort with GER
tain bills which the association wished
to have passed At first politicians
laughed the matter away, but ere lone
they found occasion to review their
opinion of the equal rights propaganda
They passed some of the bills and
thought that ended the matter, but the
next session found the women lobby
ing as actively as ever. Bills were
passed going a step further, and now
the committee from the Equal Rights
Association is one of the fixtures al
Frankfort
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Scott Remington, Lenawee County,
Michigan: We have no pears and no
plums. Apples will be a light crop;
but peaches promise well.
H. r. Kelsay, Miller County, Indi-
ana: The outlook is for IS per cent of
crops of tree fruits. My own trees
promise good crops.
Geo. ]. Kellogg & Sons, Rock Coun-
ty, Wisconsin: In this section the pros
poets for fruit are very poor. What few
apples there were have mostly dropped
because of continued dry weather
There will be light crop of plums.
L. E. Hartwigs Benton County,
Missouri: In the spring We had splen-
did prospect for a big crop of fruit
But the long continued drought has
completely ruined the peach crop. 1t
has caused the apples to drop badly,
and on the south side they are sun
scalded. The hot sun and wind togeth-
er have caused a great many of the
young trees to die. A great many forest
trees have also perished. Should we
have an abundance of rain from now
on we would have enough fruit for
home use and perhaps some to sell.
c. P Haskins, Cuyahoga County,
Ohio: Apples will give 10 per cent OF
a crop; pears 25. Peaches will be
fair crop, but there are but few or
chards here, and there will not be
enough fruit for home consumption
C. M. johnson, Fulton County, Ili-
nois: The tree fruits in my locality will
not make one-half average crop, and
the quality will be very inferior.
L. G. Hubbard, Champaign County.
Illinois: Apples are very scarce, but are
smooth and fair. Peaches will be plenti-
full, but the dry weather is checking
their growth Only a few pears have
set and the trees are blighting badly.
Wild goose plum trees are loaded with
fruit; others are stung badly.
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Goats =. Leader. of sheep.


"On an averaged Mexican sheep foch
numbers about 1000, and there wez1
ten or more billygoats with every flock
1 saw on the range" said A. c. Grim
shaw. who recently returned to New
York after six months stay in Mex
leo and the West. 81 learned that the
goats are kept with the flock as lead
ers. Being venturesome and intelli-
gent, they will go anywhere the shep-
herd directs and the silly sheep, who
might otherwise balk or stampede at
some trif1ing obstacle OF alarm, follow
them unhesitatingly. The goats set the
pace for the flock, as they are brisk.
unt1rfng walkers, keep the sheep on the
move, saving the shepherd much trou-
bIe
THE Mexican shepherd also has his
dog, though not a true blue, clear-cut,
handsome animal like the Scotch col
l1e The dogs are mongrels, in all va
rletles and degrees, the only point OF
uniformity among them being their
extreme ugliness in appearance and in
disposition toward strangers. Some
are shaggy beasts with pointed muzzles
and might at a little distance be easily
mistaken for wolves. But ugly and
mean as they are, the Mexican shep-
herd has the art of tanning them so
that they are as serviceable as is the
collie to the shepherd of the Scottish
moorlands. The Mexican sheep dog is
loyal to his master and quick to under
stand. Many a Mexican shepherd owes
his life to his dog, who notified him
of the sneaking approach of hostile In
dians or of their ambush in his path
ahead.
Returning to the original subject.
a pair of goats once led a flock on a
long journey. A shepherd of Valencia
county, New Mexico, away from the
home camp, had the misfortune to lose
his dog through the attack of a noun
tain lion and to break his leg on the
same day. Had the dog been alive he
could have sent him to the home range
to summon assistance. AS it was, he
had to see the sheep wander away.
| while he dragged himself to the place
where his provisions were stored, and
waited for such help as chance might
bring him. Five days later the sheep
led by the corporal goats, appeared al
| the home ranch, eighty miles away
They had crossed two mountain ranges
by a path of their own finding, and out
of a flock of 1900 sheep only seven
were missing. There was, of course.
| much good luck in this, for dash OF
| timber wolves among them would not
only have meant the killing of many
| sheep on the spot but would have scat
tered the rest of the flock far and wide.
The marvel was the intelligence of the
goats in returning by an unfamiliar
path to the place where they had been
bred and the implicit faith of the sheep
in their leadership. OF course the ar
rival of the sheep at the home ranch
| led to the sending out of a searching
party for the. Shepherd. He was
brought in on a litter right between
two donkeys, and, although his injury
had become very painful through neg
lect, proper surgical treatment brought
| him around all right"
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Press Bulletin 50, of the Kansas Ex-
pertinent Station, says: Where tits
possible to keep the stock on dried-up
pastures and put them on sorghum or
other pasture. it should be done If
the stock are kept entirely on the
grass it will make a slight growth. no
matter how dry and hot the weather
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The acme of perfection would soon
be reached if people would only follow
the advice they give to others.
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Local showers in many parts of Utah
have greatly improved the ranges.
Louisiana reports state that pastures
have greatly improved and range stock
is generally in good condition
The protracted drought in New Mex
leo was broken the last week in July
and official weather and crop reports
state that the ranges show great i'm
provement and that all outside water
holes have been filed In some cases
the heavy rains have formed large
lakes on the plains of such magnitude
as to last many months Irrigation
water is plentiful in all districts and
the prospects for the later crops and
stock interests are extremely promis-
ing.