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Topeka, Kan, March G
HIDES-No. I G.. S. hides, 10c; No. q
G. S. hides, &c; side brands &c flat:
glue hides. SC fiat; No 9. S. bull hides.
SC: No. G. S. bul hides. Sc: Deacons. $50
to 35c: slunks. 15c 10 &c: No. / horse
hides. $3.50: No. 2 horse hides. s150; No !
horse hides. T5c: dry flint butcher, heavies
14c: dry flint fallen. 13c: dry flint lights.
12c: dry salts. lie: dry culls. 10c. TalIow
No. /. Sc: No. 2 &c.
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Toneka Market.

Furnished by the Chas woln Packing
Co.. yards close at noon Saturday. We
cannot use pigs. thin sows or hogs
weighing less than 170 lbs. Do not mar
ket hogs unless same are well finished,
as we cannot use half fat stuff. We give
below prices effective at once until fur
ther notice.1
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Cotton Market.

New York, March 6.-CoTTON-Spot
closed quiet: middlirg uplands, 1875; mid
ding gulf, $10.10.
Galveston Tex, March 6-CoTTON-
Market steady. 8 9-16c.
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New York SUGAR and CofFee NfarIset.

| New York March 6.-SUGAR-Raw.
| firm, fair refining. $3.50; Centrifugal. s6
test, So, 50; molasses sugar, $3:O5. Refined.
steady; crushed, $5.35; powdered, SAB;
COFFEE Market quiet. No. Rio, SIC;
No SantoS
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Ne,y yorlx Produce Narket

New York March 6.-BUTTER-Fancy
fresh creamery, steady; other grades. dull;
process common to special. 1S124c.
CHEESE+FirstS. state full cream spec
ials 15G161zc; state small colored or white
fancy, 15c; state colored or white fancy,
large 15c: state good to prime. 14szc.
EGGS-Market easy.
POULTRY = Dressed firm; western
fowls -14156Di6c: turkeys. 16G23c.
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, March 6.-CATTLE-Receip
estimated at 300. Market steady. Beeves,
81 465GD725: Texas steers. 81. 40G5.50; western
steers. 81. .1O@560; stockers and feeders.
So 1905. so; cows and heifers, 50. 2.00d5.S0;
calves Sc. .25@9.6O
HOGS-Receipts estimated at 1900 Mar
mixed, s615@6.60; heavy, Sc. .25d66O; rough,
SC. 25Q6: IS; good to choice heavy, $6 35Q6. 60;
pigs, So 25@6.O0; bulk of sales, Sc. 10000.
SHEEP-Receipts estimated at 2,0o0.
Market steady Native. g 30G5. Is western,
So. 50a5. so; yearIingS. $6 O0QS7. 10; lambs, ma
tive, S.. .75@7.S5; western, S.. 1901. so.
DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE.
WHEAT-Receipts, $4,000 bushels; ship
ments, SO, 200 bushels.
CORN-Receipts. 512,5O0 bushels; ship
ments, 229 500 bushels
of contract grade; corn, 800 cars, with IA
of contract grade; oats. 1S9 cars Total re-
ceipts of wheat at Chicago. Minneapolis
and Duluth today were 435 cars, compared
with 291 cars last week and 2S5 cars the
corresponding day year ago
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Kansas city Produce Market.

Cash: Market unchanged. No. hard.
81 -09a1. .1511; No. 3, s10S@113; No. 2 red.
81. .2661. 81; No. 3, $1.24d1 80.
CORN-Market unchanged to Ac lower
No. mixed, 63Ac; No. 8. 69063Ac; No. ?
white, 641zc; No. 3, 6414G64Ac.
OATS-Market unchanged. No. , white.
54@56c: No. 2 mixed, 51@52c.
RYE-No. ,, !9c.
HAY-Market steady. Choice timothy,
SO. .75@1O.OO; choice prairie IS. .50dS. rs.
BUTTER-Crean1ery &c; firsts, 261sc;
seconds, 241sc; packing stock. 15c.
Tic; seconds and dirties, 121ac
WHEAT-Receipts. III cars.
CLOSE: WHEAT-May, $1.06sz July
$3.50; September. 91s4c
CORN-May. Csc: July, 645se; septem-
ber 611sc.
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Grain and Hay Market.


FURNISHED by ]. B. Billiard. corner Kaa-
sas Ave. and Curtis St.l
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Among the mass of local bills passed
Friday night are the following:
By Louderback authorizing the
county commissioners to pay a month
ly pension to certain disabled persons
BY Morrison, providing that gas and
oil leases shall be assessed in the
township in which they are situated
BY Edwards, to protect the Ameri-
can bald eagle
By committee on cities first class,
giving the county commissioners ad-
ditional powers in the creation OF
drainage districts and the construction
of dikes
BY Lehman, changing the name of
the Parsons State hospital to hospital
for epileptics.
By Stone of Shawnee, vesting the
title to extinct Baptist church prop
erty in the Kansas missionary con-
vention.
BY Lambertson, appropriating s24o
for a bronze memorial tablet for the
late Senator E. G. Ross.
By Davis of Kiowa, empowering
county commissioners to establish
public highways on section lines.
By Guilbert, to provide for the
determination of prairie dogs.
By Cunningham, authorizing the
secretary of the State Historical So
ciety to appoint two additional library
assistants.
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supreme Court Decisions.
BY JOHNSTON, C. ].

List of opinions handed down by the
1reme court, Saturday, March s,
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Chicaeo Produce Nrarkct.

Chica go. March 6-BUTTER-Market
steady. Creameries, 22d2sc; dairies, 2Oq
25c.
EGGS-Market steady at mark. cases
included. 1sc; first.~ 1912c; prime firsts,
CHEEsE-Market firm Daisies. $50
151k twins 141z@15c Young Americas
16di61kc Long Horns, 1914 G161sc.
POTATOES-Market steady. Choice to
fancy, S7GSSc; fair to good, s56S6c.
POULTRY-Market steady. Turkeys,
17c; chickens, 131z; springs, 15c.
VEAL-Market steady 50 to 60 lb.
WITS. 614G7c; 60 to IS ID. WITS, sdec; s5 to
10 lb. WITS, 9q101zc.
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wHEAT-No. ?. 9Scdsi.OO; No s. sSasso:
No 4. ST091c.
CORN-62c.
OATS484S0c-
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MILL CRINDS ON.
House Has Passed Over Two
Hundred Bills.
As Many More Are Still ON the
Calendar.
CHANGE OF FRONT.
After Killing District Text Book
Bill 1t is Adopted.
Provides That district Boards
May Buy School Books.

The following is the record of work
done by the house up to Friday night,
March 8, with only two more days
work left on the schedule:
Bills introduced, 994. Resolutions.
35. Concurrent resolutions, "a. Joint
resolutions, 6. Petitions. SO. Mem
orials, 2.
Bills passed the house, 25S. Concur
rent resolutions, 20. Joint resolutions,
two.
There are still about 200 bills on the
calendar under general orders.
BY the provisions of the resolution
passed by both the house and senate
Friday both branches will stop consid-
Grafton of all but appropriation bills
tonight at midnight. All business will
be suspended Monday night at mid
night Only a few members will re-
main in session until Saturday, March
II. in order to receive messages from
the governor. The real adjournment
will be taken March 8. and formal
adjournment March IL.
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Hide Market.

IODeka F1Iuo NIAFket.
fluctuations furnished by James c. Smith
& Co.. 10S East Third st.l
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Friday morning the house killed
the bill by Cron providing that school
districts or cities may by vote de-
eide to buy school books and furnish
them free to the schools of their city
or district, and then in the afternoon
resurrected the corpse and passed the
bill. This was one of the most i'm
portant bills considered Friday, as it
in a measure provides for free school
books where the people of the district
so desire. This opening wedge may
result in a state printing of text books
two years from now, or 1t may kill
that issue, depending entirely on how
the Cron plan works. OF course the
senate may kill the Cron bill.
The bill by the committee on live
stock creating the office of dairy COM
missioner is an important measure
1t prescribes rules and regulations for
the education of Kansas dairymen and
producers of dairy products and
regulates the production, sale and
shipment of milk, cream, butter and
cheese, provides for the inspection of
creameries, dairy barns and utensils,
and generally requires cleanliness and
sanitation in the handling of all dairy
products in the interest of the good
health of the consumers.
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Among other bills finally passed by
the senate were the following:
s. B. No. 604, by Hamilton; re-
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stand Friday night and went through
the ST local bills on the calendar like
an X-ray. All OF these bills were
cleaned up and ten others taken from
general orders and placed in the omni-
bus and carried on one roll call. These
added to the 25 bills passed during the
day gave the house record of pass
ing nearly one hundred bills in one
day.
There was plenty of excitement at
the night session. Hutchinson of
Wyandotte caught a bill on the fly as
it was passing through and hurled it
back to the scrap heap. Hutchinson
was dramatic about 1t, too.
The bill by Case of Dickinson pro-
viding for a registration fee of soc on
each 800 on mortgages of real prop
erty and for their exemption from tax
alton after being recorded was passed
by the house after the hottest kind of
a fight. Speaker DolIey led the bill
through the wilderness and his old
enemy of the utilities bill fight, Davis
of Kiowa, ably seconded him, also
White of Ottawa. Carpenter of Lyon,
Buckman, Cunningham, Ryan and
others opposed the bill.
1t was a beautiful fight along en-
tirely new lines, as the friends of the
past three weeks of legislative battle
were divided while old enemies were
fighting side by side. Ryan of Brown
was hoarse and this temporary loss of
speech prevented the old timer from
Brown from making the effort of his
life. He paced the aisles and used
his arms in gestures in lieu of speech.
The question of such wide differ
ences of opinion on this bill seemed
to lie in the fact that the opponents of
the bill believed that it was drawn in
the interests of the rich money lend
ers while its friends declared that it
was solely in the interest OF that i'm
portant parsonage, the Kansas farmer.
A call of the house was necessary
to pass the bill The same bill had
passed the senate, SO the house sub
stituted the senate bill Only the gov
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One of the important bills passed by
the senate late Friday afternoon was
S. B. No. 537, by the committee on cor
porations, the principal new feature of
which is to permit the organization of
corporations for the purpose of buying,
selling and holding real estate.
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jumped to the conclusion that the time for my knOutng

think my father would have bolted?" I
asked.
He pursed his lips and frowned. Us
she so much to your
"She is the one woman in the world
to me-"
He appeared to expect the answer and
yet to regret it. Then, of course, you'll
stay. You see what it means?''
"I don't care what it means"
i've got you out of this mess, but
if you give Bremenhof another chance
against you, you'll have to shift for
yourself. l shall be powerless to help
you. I can't tell you official secrets, but
1 may warn you that we are face to
face with events the results of which
no man can fOresee. 1t may spell revo-
luton and bloodshed; and TO be even a
suspect then will be full of hazard and
! peril"
1.-THE more reason for me to stop"
'Bremenhof has already great power,
and if a crisis comes, he will have a
| free hand. He hates you-not only for
what you have done to him, but for an
other reason. VOlna Drakona is be
| trothed to him."
ITO that brutal bully? I can't be-
! iieve it,"
''I know what l say. If he gets half
Take my advice and 60" He was very
! earnest.
Not for fifty Internal Bremenhofs, %
1 cried passionately.
He flung the end of his cigar away
and rose That's your last word? 1t
may prove a serious mistake for the
girls sake"
MY last WOrd-absolutely
A half quizzical smile relieved the
! earnestness of his look for a moment.
Il believe you'll make an awful mess
of things, Bob; but it's glorious to be
young. If I can help you, l will; but
a shrug of the shoulders and a toss of
| the hands finished the sentence, as he
turned away to his desk
I babe him goodnight a few minutes
| later and thanked him again for his
| help.
"Sleep over il all; perhaps it viii look
different in the morning, and you may
be able TO see how your staying can
| help the girl. I can't" Then with the
same kindly, half-quizzical smile he
added But then I'm only thin-bloOd-
ed old cynic and you're pulseful young
| fellow in love. A tremendous differ
ence, Bob. Eth? Tremendous"
Sleep over it did not. at least for
some hours: but worry over it 1 did
/ certainty. lDSEllE anu ISSliCoSlg
until near the dawn; striving to under
stand this new complication of Volna' s
| betrothal to BremenhOf.
| If he knew or suspected that / had
helped her at Bratinsk, | could under
stand his treatment of me. A beast
| by nature and a bully by official Oppor-
! tunity, if his jealousy had been reused
it was quite likely to render him the
brute he had shown himself to me.
II would explain his having brought
| her to my cell. He had probably wished
to confirm or dissipate his suspicion that
Volna had been my companion in the
| fight. Yet he could have done that in
a moment by confronting her with either
of the police agents. Why had he done
/ that2
Puzzling over this question 1 stumbled
on what might possibly be the key. He
might wish for private reasons to con.
vince himself and yet be unwilling tc
do this officially. If the police agents
recognized her. he might be unable t
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CHAPTER XVII.
"Do You Love Volna Drakona?"

The next day 1 did nothing except fit
myself out with some new clothes, and
speculate about my future course.
1 could not decide anything until |
saw the general: and before I rose he
had gone out and had left word for me
to wait in the house for him.
After the harassing uncertainty of
my spell in prison. the scene with Bre-
menhof on the previous day, and the
disturbing ordeal of the crisis il had
produced. the mere rest and sense of
security were indescribably welcome.
] had plenty to think about, of course
but it was more like 1oundering specu-
lation than consecutive thought. How
Volna had returned to Warsaw? What
was behind her visit to the prison
What the connection was between her
and Colonel BremenhOf? What his mo-
tive could be in bringing her to the
prison? Whether she had fallen under
suspicion? How l was to set about as
certaining the truth? How to find means
of seeing her again? With no facts to
guide me. I could not answer the puz-
zling questions which suggested them
selves thus readily.
Il have settled your matter" said the
general when we were eIoseted together
In the evening. Here are your paprs
passport. and the letter of credit; and
/ have succeeded in making Colonel
Bremenhof understand that the attain
with him had better be regarded as q
personal quarrel. I have pledged my
word for you-that you are no more
a revolutionary than am: that in any
thing you may have done, you were Just
a tool in others hands,"
That's rather rough on the Others, p
I protested.
There will be an opportunity giver
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If you go to his house under the cir
cumstances, it will be looked upon as
suspicious; today of all days in the year.
I warn you"
why today?"
Il forgot you had been in prison for
nearly a week and don't know the news.
Every eye in Russia today is waiting
on events in Petersburg. The strikers
are going to the Winter Palace to pc
titiOn the car, and if blOodshed follows,
as seems inevitable, il may spread Overe
the whole empire"
What has that to do with seeing my
friend?"
You are playing with words, boy. q"
he answered, steTnly. He is a leader
Of this movement; you are half suspect
now; and if the trouble we fear comes,
you will give Bremenhof the chance he
seeks against you"
I am not afraid of Colonel Bremen
hof. I have some questions to ask La
dislas that cannot wait"
IT can only warn you, of course, but
II you were my son, I declare to God
I'd put you under lock and key 10 stop
this busine S." he burst out almost
fiercely.
His vehemence seemed to me quite
unwarranted and all out of perspective.
Slldll cutie u no SIT.
You don't see what you are doing,
boy 1t is understanding short of
it. Remember my warning when the
trouble comes as it certainly WILL"
and he turned away.
Il am sorry to anger you, sir; but
fear / haven'tsmade you understand all
this means to me. / value your friend
ship and believe me / would take your
advice now if I could. But all I care
about in the world is concerned in this,
and I must find out the truth"
He turned, paused, appeared t. hest
tate, and then shook his head. "No. 7
will be no party to foolishness of this
kind. 1 must not. You are taking a
risk you don't or won't understand; -
and he left me.
I knew that real solicItu0e for me
was at the bottom of my nd friends
anger and 1 was genuinely sorry for
the misunderstanding which had arisen:
but I could not listen to his counsel
Find out the truth about Nolna's be-
trothal 1 must and would: and short
of going to Volna herself for it-an on
viously impossible course-r0 see La
dtslas was the only thing to do.
As l FASTENED to his house I perceived
one thing, however. I could no longer
remain under the generals roof. Thst
might compromise him; and I resolved
TO write him from Ladislas' house that
| should not return.
1 found my friend in a condition of
excitement unusual even with him He
was always impulsive and slave to
the mood of the moment. and [ had
long ceased to be surprised by his neu-
rotic impetuosity and feverish unrest.
1t was this very se1f-regardless i'm
petuosity indeed. which had led him
to offer his life for mine when he had
dashed to my rescue in the mountain
eering incident which had bound us
together in bonds of close and affec-
tiOnate friendship.
Il had no idea you were in Warsaw
Ladislas," I said, as I gripped his
hand. Il can't tell you how glad 1 an
to see you"
He held my hand and wheeled me
round to the light as he stared into
my eyes Let me look at you. Do yoJ
come as a friend2"
! / should have smiled, but Tor his care
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worn, harassed, eager expression as he
put the strange question. I hope 1
shall never come to you as anything
but a friend
His black eyes shone for the second
he continued TO stare at me. Then he
dropped my hand, and exclaimed: My
God, I hope so. My God, 1 hope so.
But there are things which turn even
friends into enemies And he sighed
as he thrust his fingers through his
hair-he had the head of poet or musi-
clan and wore his fair hair quite long
and began to pace up and down the
room. 1t was difficult for him to keep
still at any time; and in moments of
unusual excitement he was as vOla-
I tile as quicksilver.
TT will have to be something seri-
Gus to turn us into enemies, Ladislas, +"
| 1 replied. But tell me what it is you
/ think might do it. 1 shan't shirk a
| test 1 promise you"
"Ah. you know there is something,
| then, Robert" he cried, wheeling round
abruptly and with quite suggestion
| of fierceness. He was the only init
mate 1 had who refused to call be Bob.
He considered it undignified, he had
once said.
81 only know that you sent for me-
my dear fellow, and 1 can see for my
/ self that you are upset. Tell me-"
| He started on his walk again and
/ in the pause l lighted a cigar. Five OF
six times he crossed and reerossed the
| room, his hands in his hair, in his
pockets and Juggling at the lapels OF
his coat in turn. Then he came and
stood over me and fixed his great eyes
! on mine.
DO YOU love Volna DrakOna? An
swer me; on your solemn word of honor
for the love of God"
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CHAPTER XVIII.
For Friendships Sake.

My friends question came like a clap
of thunder in the clear blue of a sum-
mer sky, so absolutely startling was its
surprise.
In the seconds pause before 1 re-
piled. many of the cOmplicating posi-
bilities involved in 1t flashed upon me
! as his burning, almost passionate gaze
was bent upon me.
1 pushed my chair back, arose and
gripped his hand. 1--WE must talk this
over, Ladislas, as friends
Answer me. Answer me- he cried
trying to release his hand. I must
know before we talk Of friendship"
Il will answer you. / give you my
honor you shall have nothing but the
truth from me; but I must first know
all that lies behind the question and
all that depends upon it. Come man,
speak out. Don't try to drag your
hand away. We are men as well as
dear friends, and whatever has TO be
said or done must not and shall not
break our friendship" 1 placed my
other hand on his shoulder. Cant you
agree to this?''
mot if you have come between me
and her"
You are unbalanced in your excite
ment, or you would never say that to
me. Understand what I say. Nothing
mark, nothing-shall ever make me
other than your friend"
/ felt him trembling under my hand
and again he tried to free himself.
mo, Ladislas; I do not let you go
until you agree in that. You saved
my life once. DO you think I forget?
1 told you then that if the day ever
came for me to pay the debt, I should
be glad. Now what is this girl to
your"
More than my life. My God, much
more. More than even my honor, be
lieve. Cod help me"
I steadied myself and spoke firmly.
What is it you ask of me?"
His large expressive eyes lighted with
eagerness. can you do this for me?
Can you give her to me2'
I clenched my hands until the nails
dug into the palms with the intensity
of my effort for cOmpOsuTe. 1t was the
crisis of my life.
My God, you cannot, You viii not!
And you pledged your oath. I saved
your life, and you are false to your
word" He said this rapidly. vehe-
mently, fiercely. Then with a sudden
change he flung himself into a chair
and covered his face with his hands,
crying: God. God. what a coward
ami
| 1 resumed my seat. and as 1 faced the
sacrifice that was now demanded Of
me the old scene flashed wildly into my
thoughts.
On a treacherous slope of crumbling
rubble not thirty feet from the edge of
an Alpine abyss, dropping thousand
feet sheer to the rocks below, a young
/ fellow lay on his back, sweat-stained
and staring. heels and hands dug des-
I 49, s.xE1 al 60 &c
| he measured the inches and reckoned
| the moments between him and the
death yawnirg just below him. Slip.
slip. slip, an inch or two at a time, he
| slid. clutch as he would with his
bleeding fingers and strain as he did,
! he could not prevent himself from
being carried down, down. down with
slow but misunderstanding certainty.
Death seemed inevitable; and as ii
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THE SALT LAKE cY UTAH SUNDAY OCTOBER

shield her from the consequences Of her
act.
This gave me another idea. If he was
afraid to have VOlna publicly and OFF,
cially identified, saw how to bluff him.
I could demand 10 have my examina-
ton a strictly official one; and so out
play him.
His object was now to brighten me
away from Warsaw by threatening to
have me examined as to my part; but if
l could convince him that meant that
examination to end in the public iden-
tification of Volna, he would be as loath
to hold it as I was to face II.
But 1 must first satisfy myself of the
/ facts behind this betrothal. I recalled
her reference to an ENHANCEMENT; but
/ 1 laughed at the notion that she cared
/ for him. Yet how could 1 get at the
| truth?
This question was still unsettled when
I rose the next morning; and then for
/ tune did me a good turn and put the
| answer in my reach.
| The general looked a little troubled
when he met me. Il have had tele-
| phone message about you, Bob. From
| Count Ladislas Tulesk."
| I beamed. He was the very man to
| tell me all 1 wished to know. Hes
, one of my best friends, General. He
saved my life a couple of years ago in
the Alps at the risk of his own. It's
a stroke of luck he's in the city"
There are two kinds of luck, so that
may be true. He had heard you were
here and he wants TO see you"
mot half so badly as 1 want TO see
| him.
You know he is one of the Fraternity
| leaders,"
He's the gentlest soul in the world
! and wouldn't hurt a fly"