The Delta independent., 1907-01-04
Joseph S. Kerns, who was captured

recently in an attempt to rob bank
at Great Bend. Kan. in daylight, has
pleaded guilty and was sentenced TO
the state penitentiary for term OF
from ten to twenty years.
Madame Gould, the former Countess
Boni De Castellane. has been victori-
GUS in the suits brought by creditors
of her husband to hold her response
BILE for the counts debts.
The state depa tment has been no
titled that the German cruisers Pan
ther and Bremen will visit this coun-
try in January and March.
Secretaries Hitchcock and Wilson
were severely criticised by special
senate committee recently for with
drawing from allotment nearly 4,o00.-
900 acres of land belonging to the five
civilized tribes in Indian territory.
The senators insisted that the order
be withdrawn.
The boilers of the steamer W. T.
Scoville. plying on the Mississippi
burg. or the so persons on board
about half are unaccounted for.
Seven persons were injured by the
derailing of a Rock Island train at
Hutchinson, Kan, recently. The in
jured were all in the Pullman, which
was the only car to turn over.
Charles Fremont Cochran. who rep
resented the Fourth district of Mis-
souri, in congress from 1895 to 1902,
is dead at his home in St. Joseph.
The annual report of the interstate
commerce commission has been sub
mitted to congress.
In reply to a resolution the presi-
dent has submitted to congress all the
papers concerning the discharge of
three companies of negro troops for
completely in the Brownsville. Tex,
affair of last August. NJ Roosevelt
stands on his constitutional rights
and declares that under the same cir
cumstances his action would be the
same II another case should arise.
Bishop Charles c. McCabe of the
Methodist church. died in New York
hospital recently as the result Of an
attack of apopleNy.
a hoisting cage containing six min
ers dropped 100 feet to the bottom of
Coal Mining company ten miles west
of Carlyle, nj. and all the men were
killed or fatally wounded.
A bulletin issued by the agricultural
department shows the total produc-
ton in bushels in 1906 of corn to be
1927 .i1C. .O9l: winter wheat. i92, $751;
coz. and spring wheat 2i2. .372 sos bush
els
Gov. Higgins. OF New York. has
commuted the sentence of Albert T.
Patrick. who has been under sentence
of death for the past five years for the
murder of William Marsh Rice, a Tex
as millionaire, to life imprisonment.
The NJ. X. & T. railway has an
nounced its intention to make con-
tracts for the coming year with news
papers for advertising to be paid for
In transportation.
Bartlett Richards. VIII G. Com
stock and c. C. jameson. millionaire
owners of the Spade" ranch in Ne
braska. have been convicted of land
fraud in the federal court at Omaha.
Tams BiNby, the commissioner OF
the five civilized tribes in Indian ter
ritory, has been ordered to Washing
ton.
The pope he's protested TO the pow
srs of Europe against the action OF
France in expelling the vatican repre-
sentative and searching the papal nun
ciature at Paris.
The report of the county boundaries
committee of the Oklahoma consti-
tutional convention. providing for as
counties in the new state. has been
adopted. The convention adjourned
to meet January ;. 1907.
Capt. Edgar B. Macklin of company
c. Twenty-fifth infantry, was shot and
seriously wounded recently by an un-
known negro at his quarters at Fort
Reno. Ok. Tie assailant was believed
to be one of the recently discharged
negro soldiers.
The hearing at New York Of the tes-
timony for the defense in the Missouri
custer case against the Standard oil
company was brought to sudden end
by the attorneys of the trust. The
final hearing will be held at st. Louis
on January {.
Washburn college Mt Topeka. Kan.
Is in receipt of cift of sS5,000 for the
gymnasium from an unknown source.
Farmers contiscated 100 tons of coal
to relieve the coal famine.
The state railroad commission of
Texas has issued an order reducing the
Pullman fare in that state 20 per cent.
An earthquake lasting three hours