The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

THE KANSAS AS CITY STAR. VOL. 10. NO. 250.

KANSAS CITY. SATURDAY. JULY 5, 1890. PRICE TWO CENTS. SANTA FE GRAIN DEAL.

THE PEAVEY PARTNERSHIP NOT PROFITABLE IN EVERY RESPECT. Old Friends of the Road That Will Be Made Enemies- Another Big Grain Firm That Cause Trouble Later On. That the Santa Fe's deal with Peavey Co. may result profitably to the railroad company for awhile is generally admitted, but in the end, however, it is believed that it cannot fail to react disastrously. It is going to make every grain shipper in the West an enemy of the road.

The patrons of the Santa Fe in Kansas have always been most loyal to the company. They have felt that it was their friend. It was Western corporation, manned by Western men, always accommodating to patrons, and grain shippers as a rule have readily taken pains to turn their business over to it. When competing lines built into the Santa Fe's territory, they had hard work to get business. Everyone shipped over the Santa Fe almost without inquiring whether the new line could do better for them.

They took it for granted that Santa Fe was doing the best that could done for them. thee In return for the loyalty to the road, the Santa Fe has now gone squarely back on i its shippers. All of them are left to struggle at a disadvantage with a single firm with headquarters in the Northwest, which is given extraordinary advantages and will do all it can to shut out competition in the business of marketing the crops of Kansas. If the grain shippers along the Santa Fe are not driven out of business, or made salaried employees of Peavey it will be because there are cut rates from the Missouri river east which will over balance the advantage which the Santa Fe has given to Peavey Co. The Peavey deal was carried through by the railread officials who were brought down from the North to run the Santa Fe.

It would never have been entered into by the Western officials of the road. It is stated on good authority that these Western officials, even up to the general manager of the road, were opposed to the deal and even now consider it to be a very unwise thing. Mr. Goddard's resignation a short time ago was said to be due to "disagreements with the high officials regarding certain lines of been policy." The disagreement is now said to have on this mutter of the Peavey deal. Mr.

Goddard, it is saw that the deal would result in alienating all of the Western friends of the road. He knew that one of the Santa Fe's strong points was it popularity among Western shippers, and he knew that to make enemies of these shippers would result disastrously for the road. tie therefore chose to give up his position rather than to see the road run on a line of policy which would put all the old friends of the road at a disadvantage and in such a palpably unfair as to make them all as strongly enemies of the road as they had been friends. The Peavey deal will not only make enemies of the former friends of the Santa Fe in the West. It will result in such advantages being given by Eastern roads to Eastern shippers as will result in the bulk of the Kansas grain going east from the Missouri river over other roads.

Great as the Santa Fe is and close as its co-partnership with Peavey Co. may be, it cannot make as great a cut in Kansas rates to Chicago as Eastern shippers can get from the Missouri river to the seaboard. When the season of heavy grain movement comes, the Santa Fe will find that, as a result of the Peavey deal, it will have lost the haul east of the Missouri river on vast quantities of grain. that The Santa Fe never had reason to complain it did not do its share of business. It hauled a big proportion of the Kansas corn East this year for Hancock Co.

This firm is one of the greatest in the country. They can buy corn of Peavey Co. in Chicago and export it. They have done so lately. But the Santa Fe, in giving Peavey Co.

the monopoly of its lines for the shipment of grain, has shut off the advantages it formerly gave to Hancock Co. The railroad company turned its back on them just as it did on all its Kansas shippers. But' they are not the people to be driven out of business the withdrawal of privileges granted them by a railroad company. It is pretty safe to predict that they will be on hand before long to take corn from the Santa Feat the Missouri river and send it East over some other road. Sir.

Peavey Denies It, Of Course. MINNEAPOLIS, July Peavey, in an interview this morning denies that the Santa Fe railroad company has given him any advantage over his competitors in handling grain in Kansas. He says that his competitors on the Rock Island and- Wabash systems rave been paying as high as five-eighths of a cent a bushel more for grain than he can pay at present. do not see how they can do it," said he, "but I suppose they have found an outlet, just as we do at times, when we can pay more than they can. At present we are buying very little grain on the Santa Fe, but are buying a good deal on the Union Pacific and some on the Missouri Pacific.

We are finishing a million-bushel elevator at Kansas City, on the Union Pacitic, not Santa Fe, and we have bought a line of fifteen elevators on the Santa Fe. We are selling grain on close margin, but owing to the location of our elevator system we can sell more than formerly, and thus make as much money. The farmers of Kansas are getting a good price for their grain." GHOSTS LYING IN WAIT. Opportunities for Park. That Will Haunt Kansas City it Neglected.

"Kansas City has splendid opportunities to have good parks and boulevards," said a gentleman to-day. "I mean that its location and the topography of the surrounding country is most favorable. Everywhere about us within easy reach are bits of country that are picturesque and the country all about is beautiful. Then there are many stretches of rugged and timbered land, most valuable for park purposes and of no value for any other use. Such lands doubtless could be secured cheaply of the owners, and with a little labor judiciously bestowed on them, and wide boulevards connecting and running through them, more than the beginnings of a park system would be obtained- one would be fairly established.

All that is necessary is that this city should avail itself of the great advantages nature has lavishly spread out about it. "But setting aside the natural advantages that exist, do you know that plants, shrubs and trees grow more rapidly and thrive better here than in most other cities? It's a fact. Even if we had to take treeless stretehes of land for park purposes and devoted intelligence to their improvement, we could make them beautiful for far less money than would have to be expended on the same area elsewhere to achieve the same result." Lenient With Minor fenders. Judge Wheeler this morning discharged all those who were brought before him for intoxication and minor disturbances of the peace committed yesterday and last night. He fined those who committed aggravated offenses, and among them was the notorious William Adler, who was taxed $25 for beating Brennan yesterday.

Tramps Rob Picnic Lunch Baskets, Last night as a party of Kansas City picwere returning from south of Rosedale it wagon of the party which contained askets in which the lunches bad been med was stopped by tramps and what little remained of the eatables was taken, Best place to buy pianos and organs gas City Piano 1123 Main 0, If. Guttin, manager. R. H. CANNON DEAD.

Well.Known Real Estate Dealer -The Funeral To- Morrow Afternoon. Richard H. Cannon, the well-known real estate dealer, died of typhus fever at his home, 729 Troost avenue, last evening, after illness of less than a month. Cannon WAS born in Kentucky, near Georgetown, in 1842, and he came to Kansas City about twenty years ago and established himself in business. In 1879 he married Miss Clara Gregory, daughter of the late ex-Mayor WilGregory of this city.

They had no children. Mr. Cannon was a faithful attendant at the Walnut Street Methodist church, South, and the pastor, the Rev. Dr. W.

B. Palmore, was at his death bed. Mr. Cannon was one of the most successful real estate men in the city and conducted many of the largest transfers of property. The funeral services will be held afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Walnut -morrow Methodist church, the Rev.

Dr. W. B. Palmore. officiating.

The pallbearers will be Judge Jefferson Brumback, J. T. Thornton, L. R. Moore, S.

S. MeGibbons, A. J. McDonald, Joseph Plume, J. S.

Chick and E. S. Young. The carriers will be Edward Scarritt, Robert Cary, W. E.

Hall, Wood Thornton, B. T. Whipple, Lee Talbott, W. G. Baird and Major B.

F. Jones. The interment will be at Elmwood cemetery. The Real Estate Stock exchange, this morning, adopted resolutions of respect to Mr. Cannon's for many years been an influential member of the exchange and his advice and judgment in forming and shaping the business of the exchange were of great value.

The Funeral of the Hon. B. H. Hereford. The funeral of the Hon.

Benjamin It. Hereford, United States attorney for Tucson, A. circuit court district, was held yesterday in this city at the home of his brother, Dr. H. F.

Hereford, on Forest avenue. The interment was at Union cemetery. Judge Hereford came to this city to visit his brother about a month ago, and shortly after his arrival was taken ill with fever and never rose again. He was a prominent man in Arizona politics, a life long Democrat, and for thirteen years county judge. WILL PROBABLY NOT MEET.

The Council Not Yet Called to Meet To-Night in Special Session. There will probably be no session of the council to-night, the mayor having at noon failed to call a special session, or heed the written request of the upper house for one. The budget could just about be cleaned up with one more session this week, but only a few members of the upper house seem to desire a meeting. An alderman expressed dissatisfaction and disgust at the mayor's practice of invariably to calling a special session of the council for an evening to which simply a recess had been taken, necessitating an immediate adjournment when the councilmen assemble, and the immediate reassembling in special session, subject to the mayor's call. "There's no reason for the mayor issue a call when we simply take a recess from one evening to another.

If he has any communications to offer or business to submit, let him do so, but this formality of meeting and calling the roll one minute, adjourning and reconvening and going through the same rigmarole the next, is getting tiresome to me," spoke the alderman. TRYING IT AGAIN. Saloonkeepers Refused Licensa Make New Applications. The police commissioners are in session this afternoon. The principal business before them is that of considering applications for saloon licenses.

There are applications against which there are remonstrances. Among them are those of C. W. Purvis, road house keeper, and F. R.

Allen, 213 East Twelfth street. They were refused license a week ago, but have put in new applications. M. F. Ryan, 700 East Twelfth street, who was also refused a week ago, has an application in for a rehearing.

HIS BACK WAS BROKEN. The Fatal Fall of Michael Walsh, a Cable Line Laborer. Michael Walsh, a laborer employed the Tenth Street cable line, living at 811 Washington street, fell down a stairway at his home yesterday afternoon. His back was broken by the fall and he died this morning. Walsh was about 50 years of age and unmarried.

Judge Gates Somewhat Better. Judge George W. of Independence, who was seriously hurt in last Tuesday's runaway, is somewhat better this morning, but his extreme age and the warm weather are causing considerable anxiety among his many friends as the result. Though nearly 85 years of age, he possesses an unusually strong constitution, which it is hoped will master the shock his system received and lead to his recovery. Keeping Himself Before the Public.

W. R. Gregory, the locomotive engineer who was sentenced to four months imprisonment a week ago for passing worthless checks, escaped from the county works on the Blue early yesterday morning. Last night he was rearrested at Westport by Patrolman Willis, and turned. over to the county officials.

Gregory was the first to become exhausted from the heat in this city this summer. Alleged to Have Been Implicated. Tillie Allen, an inmate of Carrie Neal's disreputable resort on West Fourth street, was arrested this morning, charged with complicity in enticing Alice Bradshaw to the house. The ease will come up in the police court next week. The girl was sent to Kansas City by man known to her as Charles Allen, who said was the husband of the woman arrested this morning.

Entertained at Fountain Place. The young people of Fountain Place entertained their friends on the green in Fountain Place court last evening. The lawn was illuminated with oriental lanterns and canvas covered a portion of the court for the accommodation of those desiring to dance. Wood's orchestra furnished music for the occasion. There were about 100 present.

Approved by the Board. The board of public works to-day the petition ent property owners for cedar block pavement on Pennsylvania avenue from Sixteenth street to the Southwest boulevard, and the petition for sprinkling on Independence avenue from Tracy to Woodland avenues. A Boy's Bad Fall. Arthur Pascoe, aged 9 years, living at East Eighth street, fell off a twelve foot wall in the rear ef the circuit court building at Fifth and Delaware streets this afternoon. He was badly shocked and internally injured and is in a precarious condition.

No bones were broken. Suing the Alton for $5,000. Mary Chatterson has brought suit against the Chicago Alton railway for $5,000 damages on account of the death of her husband, Charles Chatterson, who was killed May 9, while switching in the Alton yards. To Decide Welch Case Monday. Judge Slover will render his decision in the Welch divorce case next Monday morning.

He has had the case under advisement for four or five weeks. The New England Safe Deposit and Trust company has declared a semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent. To the stockholders 3 per cent was paid and 1 per cent was added to the surplus fund, SHOULDN'T GO IT BLIND. CAUTION URGED IN MAKING NEW WATER WORKS ARRANGEMENTS. The Question of Whether It Would Be Best to Build, Buy or Make a New tract One That Should Be Given Considerable Attention.

"No man in this community," said tax-payer to-day, "is more interested than I am in securing an abundant supply of good and cheap water. Iam heartily in favor of the city owning its own system of water works if that is to the best interests of the people. But you can set down one thing as certain--if the proposition to build water works is put forward as a money-making job for private individuals I am against it. "I wonder why, merely as a safeguard, the power to make a contract with the water company is not conferred upon, say the board of public works, if it shall be found to be to the best interests of the city to do so. I don't think we ought carry all our eggs in one basket.

There should be full power either to build new works, buy the present works, or make a new contract-whichever it would be most profitable for the city to do. We don't want to get our heads in a noose. The law provides that our indebtedness shall not ceed 5 per cent of our assessed valuation. If we blindly issue bonds for the water works on the basis of the imperfect plans prepared by a discharged water works employee, I'm afraid the city will find itself with a half completed system of water works on hand-for 110 one pretends it can be thoroughly built for what is suggested -and no money with which to finish it, unless we issue more bonds and crowd our constitutional limit. I'm very much afraid there's a job in it somewhere, and that somebody is figuring on making two or three hundred thousand dollars out of the people of this city.

WHAT THE CITY WANTS. "What we want is pure water and lots of it at the lowest possible price to the consumer. If a city water works system will best accomplish this, I want the city own the water works, and don't care whether it builds or buys, unless it can buy cheaper it can build. Now, the city owns the water works system in St. Louis, for instance, and our board of public works ought to ascetain what water costs the consumer there, and then be in a position to turn around to these water works people, with the club of a proposed new system in hand, and say: don't have to make a new contract with you.

Now, what the lowest figure you will furnish water "Then, too, not relying on the ridiculous calculations made by and for interested persons, the board of public works should have a careful estimate made of the actual cost of a new system, and let me say right here the probable cost will be found to be double the rosy estitimates given us by the people who want to build the new works. Then with that estimate in hand, the board ought to ascertain for how much and on what terms the water company would sell. We would then be able to tell what course it would be best to pursue. It strikes me simply as a business proposition that we ought to get as much good water for little money as we can, and if a private company will furnish it more cheaply than we can furnish it ourselves, why not lodge power somewhere to make a contract, and avoid the risk of a job, which is great, and the increase of our indebtedness, which would lessen our ability to carry out other improvements? This city isn't half built yet; we'll need every dollar up to our 5 per cent limit to improve and beautify it. FAVORS THE BEST METHOD.

"Don't misquote me now: understand that I am heartily in favor of whatever method will secure us the largest supply of the best water at the least cost, whether that means the building or purchase of water works or a new contract on more advantageous terms. I think it is the duty of the council to examine into this matter with care and to submit the question to the people in such form as will enable them to vote intelligently and comprehensively on the different propositions. There couldn't be any job about this, as under the charter any new contract made would be subject to the approval of the people. The people ought to have a chance to vote on these methods whether they want to issue bonds to build new water works; whether they want to buy the present works for a fixed sum or whether they want to make a new contract on the basis of a stated schedule." BETTER FIRE ALARM SERVICE. It Is Needed and the Board of Public Works 1a Considering the Matter.

Some experiences of yesterday demonstrated the fact that a more extensive fire alarm service is required at once in Kansas City, and the board of publie works has under consideration a plan to extend the telephone alarm service. Heretofore, when extensions of the telephone alarm service have been necessary and ordered, the Missouri and Kansas telephone company has paid for the wire, but now they are inclined to refuse to furnish wire for further extensions, and the board is considering the advisability of constructing a complete fire and police alarm telegraph system to belong to the city. At present there are in use here the telephone alarm system, the Hale fire alarm, the Home Telegraph and Signal company alarm, and the Singer alarm. The telephone cOnpany, at its central office, has a special department for handling fire alarms, in charge of the chief operator, and there are 2581 telephones in service in Kansas City to-day. The Hale alarm is used in connection with the telephone, but has a separate circuit, so that communication with, every fire company may be had simultaneously, without the message passing through the central office.

The Hale is placed in buildings at the expense of the owners. The Home Telegraph and Signal company has abont 1,000 boxes throughout the city, and a fire alarm is transmitted to their central office and from there by direct telephonic connection to fire department headquarters. The expense of the Home boxes is paid by the owners of buildings where they are located. The Singer is an antomatie alarm placed at various places in big buildings, factories and warehouses where fire is liable to originate and is operated by the heat, it being set to go off at certain temperatures. Chief Hale is doing his utmost to give the city the best fire protection possible with the limited means at his disposal.

A tent has been pitched opposite the Hotel Bonaventur, on Independence avenue, and made the quarters of a company composed of colored men who have served in the supply department for at least three years and are as thoroughly trained in the service as the other firemen. This company will be known as No. 11, and it is using the first hose reel that was ever in the service of the department, No. 1. This company answered four calls yesterday and performed excellent service.

Chief Hale has sent recommendations to the board of public works for the establishment of houses at Twelfth street and Indiana avenue and on Thirty-third street and Broadway, near the Redemptorist Fathers' college. The chief has also recommended the purchase of two chemical engines, one to go to Sheflield and the other to Prospect avenue and Twenty. fifth street. The Burlesque Made a Hit. LONDON, July F.

C. Barnard's new book burlesqueing Mr. Stanley's "In Darkest Africa" has made an immense hit. Thousands of copies have already been sold and the demaud for the work is unabated. Cattle Killed by Drouth.

CITY OF MEXICO, July drouth at Ozuluama near Tampico has caused the death of 10,000 cattle, I TO THE FOUR HUNDRED. Elevator Inspector Mages, Wants an ant M. B. Mason, elevator inspector, in a communication to President Cannon of the board of public works, today, said: "I wish to call your attention. to the tor inspecting department.

Now it is fact that the department has never been self. sustaining for the past two years and I wish to call your attention to some figures in regard to it. There are about 400 elevators now in use in Kansas City that are listed and numbers that are not, which I find some every day. Of the 400, 135 are passenger and 265 freight." He goes on to say that the ordinance calls for the inspection of passenger elevators once a month and freight elevators once in every four months. The salary of the inspector is $125 a month, which the fees from the inspection of passenger elevators would more than pay, and with the fees from inspection of the freight elevators, would make 8 a good sum in the aggregate.

Mr. Mason says his predecessor never did inspect all the elevators, the records showing some that were not inspected for seven months, and some not at all. He claimed it was impossible for one man do the work. In conclusion Mr. Mason asks for an assistant, so that all the elevators may be inspected and a good revenue obtained from this source.

POINTED OUT BY "THE How the Special Delivery System Will Be Improved in Other Cities. Postmaster Nofsinger to-day received letter from the Postmaster General at Washington directing him to secure, if possible, 100 copies of THE STAR of June 16, pointing out the great utility of the special delivery system of this city. The efforts made by the postmaster at this point to increase the service have met the hearty approval of the department headquarters, and the intention of the Postmaster General to distribute copies of THE STAR, containing the article, to the postmasters of the leading cities of this country with a view to increasing the service everywhere. J. F.

Bates, superintendent of the free delivery system, informed Postmaster Nofsinger to-day that a special agent from Washington will arrive in the city next week for the purpose of investigating the request for fifteen more carriers to the present force. Postmaster Nofsinger thinks that six more carriers will afford considerable relief to the overworked force but that the whole number fifteen men will be badly needed this fall. He feels confident that the special agent will report favorably on the request. The demand for a force of ten additional clerks will probably be granted within a few weeks. WILL EXACT THE FORFEIT.

The Fourth Street Viadues Contractors Must Pay for Delays. piring to-night. CAN'T PREPARE MEDICINES. Why a Druggist Sues a Cable Line for $5,000 Damages. The board of public works held a long session to-day lasting from 8:30 to 1 o'clock.

Counselor Yeager and City Engineer Butts were present and a long discussion regarding the Fourth street viaduet ensued. It was ordered that the penalties be enforced for all time and delay for which the fourteen days' delay in holding over the ordicontractors have, been liable, excepting the nance, which is allowed as equitable, and also the time of delay caused by the prohibition of the railroad company as right, to be reported by the city engineer as soon as possible. In the matter of the grading of Agnes avenue, from the north line of Richmond place to the Chicago Alton railway, costing $23, 000, the public improvement committee was advised to readvertise for bids for the work. Comstock the lowest bidders, to whom the contract for doing this work was awarded, have failed to accept the award, the five days' time, within which work was to be done, ex- Napoleon B. Lasuer brought suit in the cirenit court to-day against the Kansas City Cable Railway company.

Lasaer relates in his petition that on March 14 he requested the conductor to stop the car at Fourteenth and Troost, but that official, he says, refused to stop and when Lasaer was about to from the car, which was in motion, at Fitstep teenth and Troost, the conductor suddenly assaulted and severely injured him. As a result of the assault Laser alleges that the thumb and fingers of his right hand are permanently disabled. He is a druggist, and, by reason of the loss of the use of his right fession of preparing prevented from following his prohand, he is prescriptions, etc. He asks for $5,000. Who Are the Unmarried? From the New York Evening Sun.

Who is the unmarried man or woman? "Why," you say, "the man or woman who has never been married." But a recent decision the English courts gives a new significance in law to the term. The counsel on one side maintained that the word "uumarried" means "never having been married," while the other side urged, and successfully, too, that the word "unmarried" is as properly applied to those persons who are the time without a busband or without a wife. Yet the etymology of the word neither of these conclusions exactly. There supports is a rare verb "to unmarry," active, and meaning to divorce, to disrupt the marriage bond by law. means nothing else.

It is evident, therefore, that the participle of this verb is limited strictly in application to those persons who have been actually set out of the marriage contract by law. An unmarried man or woman, then, is really not the celibate. The extension of the term to those is purely popular, and the extension of the term to these, to the exclusion of all others, is not only not grammatical, but not legal as well. Cap are Bold Thief. BOSTON, July 5-This forenoon a man entered the Lincoln National bank in the Equitable building, and proceeded to the cashier's window, smashed the glass in front of the desk with a brick, grabbed a pile of treasury notes, $350 in all and rushed into Devonshire street.

A citizen passing grabbed the thief and threw him. The cashier came up and assisted the citizen in arresting the man who gave his name as Thomas Coyle, aged 38, of Worcester. Grent Country for BELVIDERE, N. July -The village of Dunfield, Warren county, is a veritable harbor for poisonous reptiles and the inhabitants feel very insecure. It is no uncommon thing to kill rattlesnakes and pilots in the dooryards.

Two persons are reported to have been bitten by pilots this season. Hundreds of snakes are killed on the railroads that traverse the village. The snakes crawl on the tracks and are run over by the cars. Printing and Lithographing. The contract for printing and lithographing the bills, heads and stationery used in the city offices has been awarded to Gast Co.

of St. Louis, their bid being 30 per cent lower than that of any other company. The new letter heads will be handsomely lithographed and will bear a cut of the new city hail now in course of erection. The printing will cost several hundred dollars, Fifteen Thousand Collected. About 200 of the 5,000 city licenses that expired last night were renewed to-day, about $15,000 in fees being paid into the treasury.

Its Capital Stock Increased. The Gate City Electric company to-day filed articles to increase its capital stock from $10,000 to $30,000. The Citizens' National bank has declared a semi-annual cash dividend of 6 per cent, PLANNING THE RECOUNT. THE SPECIAL AGENT AND SUPERVISOR MILLER IN CONSULTATION. The Territory to Be Re- Re-Districted and an creased Force of Enumerators Put Work -The Second Count Expected to Be Completed in Ten Days great deal.

Boston's Population 437,249. The work of recounting the twenty-four districts of the city in which another taking of the census has been ordered, will begin Monday, and be finished as soon as possible. It will take about ten days, it is thought, to complete the work. Special Agent Oleutt, of the census bureau, arrived from Washington last night, and was closeted with Supervisor Miller all the morning. He will remain here until the count is completed and have personal supervision of it.

Nothing was done to-day in the work of organizing the force that will be put at work, Mr. Miller and Mr. Olcutt occupying the large part the day in arranging their redivision of the distriets and in mapping out the work. The districts will be cut down and a much larger force than canvassed the same territory for the first enumeration put to work. The new force will consist of about fifty men and will be composed principally of those who did the best work in the first enumeration.

The territory that is to be gone over, it is estimated, contains about 60,000, the average district being estimated to contain 2,400 that with a force of fifty men, if the population comes up to the estimate, each man would have about 1,200 names to enumerate. The districts to be gone over are the ones in which the enumerators had the most difficulty in obtaining information. In one of them where an enumerator announced his business at a boarding house twenty men eating at the table jumped through the windows to get away. They were foreigners and thought that if their names were taken they would be drafted into the army. The discussion of the subject and the work that has been done by the Commercial club committee has, however, done a great deal towards changing popular sentiment, and Mr.

Miller hopes that his men will be better received this time and that the people themselves will show an interest in getting every name on the list. If this is the case the recount will undoubtedly swell the total a very BOSTON, July Supervisor Wadlin gives as an official estimate of the population of Boston, 437, 242. The figures of the census 1880 were 362,369. ARBITRATION NECESSARY. Question as to the Boundary Line Between Alaska and Canada.

OTTAWA, Ontario, July report that United States surveyors have established the boundary line between Canada and Alaska, twenty-eight miles further east than it was supposed to be, is given no importance at the geological survey department here, as the fixing of the boundary is an international matter, to be determined to the satisfaction of both countries, or failing in that, by arbitration, has been under consideration by both countries. Against the conclusions of the United States survey, Canada has the observations of William Ogil vie, of the Canadian survey party which explored the Yukon district in 1888. Ogilvie spent some time in making astronomical observations for the purpose of ascertaining the position of the 141st degree of longitude, which he finally placed about ninety miles apart from the boundary line as run on United States maps. This is very important because the line passes through the best gold bearing districts yet discovered in the country. OUR YOUTHFUL NAVY.

The Squadron of Evolution on Its Way to New York, WASHINGTON, D. July telegram was received at the navy department to-day from Rear Admiral Walker saying that the squadron of evolution sailed from Rio de Janeiro to-day for New York. It will touch at Pernambuco and St. Thomas and is expected to reach New York about the first of August. The departure of the squadron leaves the Tallapoosa now at Boca alone at that station.

She will soon be joined, however, by the U. 9. S. Pensacola, Enterprise and Essex, now being fitted out at New York for service on that station. The U.S.

S. Alliance arrived today from Singapore. The Jassamine is at Fortress Monroe with Secretaries Noble and Windom on board. REPUBLICAN MEMBERS MEET. They Reach No Conclusion Regarding the Silver B11.

WASHINGTON, July Republican members of the conference committee on the silver bill were in session to-day. It was the intention to hold a regular conference, but Representative Bland of the house conferrees and Senator Harris of the senate conferrees, were both absent. The principal topics discussed it is understood, was in regard to the amount of silver to be purchased monthly--whether it shall be million ounces or million dollars' worth. The proposition to strike out the bullion redemption feature was also a subject of some discussion. No final decision on either point was arrived at when the meeting adjourned.

It is expected that conferrees will meet early next week. THEIR AMBITION THWARTED Children of White Man Can Not Be Choctaws. WASHINGTON, July -Assistant Attorney Shields of the Interior Department has rendered a decision in the case of Glenn, Tucker and other persons whose claims for citizenship in the Choctaw nation were rejected by the local Choctaw tribunal organized for the purpose. The children were those of a halfbreed Choctaw woman who married a white man. They based their claim to citizenship upon the fact of their having Indian blood and insisted that these claims were erly rejected.

The assistant attorney general says in his opinion among other things: "It would seem reasonable that the predominance of blood should determine race and the common law rule should prevail and the condition of the children follow that of the father." His opinion is that the claim should be rejected. The Condition of lowa Crops. DES MOISES, July week's bulletin of the Iowa weather crop reports the average temperature above normal and the rainfall deficient, except in few counties. Corn is making remarkable progress. All crops are doing well except in a few southern counties, where drouth has injured the oats, spring grain and grass.

Three-fourths of the state has sufficient moisture for present necessities. Death of an Ostilled Man, CONCORD, July Melvin, a war veteran, portions of whose body had become ossified within a few years and for whom a pension of $100 a month specially passed congress last month, died to-day. His inge for several years have been excruciating and his case attracted wide attention. Best place to buy pianos and organs Kansas City Piano 1123 Main St. 0.

H. Gufin, manager. RE- ENTRY OF CHINAMEN. They Must Prove That They Are Not Laborers. WASHINGTON, July Secretary Batcheller has issued the following instructions in regard to the re-entry into the United States of Chinese persons after a visit to China: 1.

Chinamen who are laborers are, under the exclusion act of October 1, 1888, abs0lutely debarred from landing in the United States unless it be for transit across United States territory under department regulations of July, September and December, 1889, 2. Chinamen who are not laborers and who may have heretofore resided in the United States are not prevented by existing law or treaty from returning to the United States after visiting China or elsewhere. No certificates or other papers, however, are issued either by the department or any of its subordinate officers, to show that they are entitled to land in the United States; but it is suggested that such persons should, before leaving the United States, provide themselves with such proofs of identity as may be deemed proper, showing that they have been residents of the United States and that they are not laborers, so that they can present the same to and be identified by the collector of customs at the port where they may return. 3. Chinese persons, not laborers, who may come to the United States for the first time are only entitled to land upon compliance with section 3 of the act of July 5, 1884, which prescribes that such persons' "shall obtain the permission of and be identified as so entitled by the Chinese government or of such other foreign government of which, at the time, such Chinese person shall be a subject, in such case to be evinced by a certificate issued by said government, and such certificate shall be in the English language and shall show such permission with the name of the benefitted person in his or her proper signature, ete.

DISASTROUS FIRE IN OLATHE. One of the Business Blocks of the Town Burned Out. OLATHE, July of the worst fires that ever occurred in this city broke out this morning at 2 o'clock in the Clemmons block. The cause is not known. The fire originated and was entirely confined to the second story.

Three large brick buildings, occupied on the first floor by A. J. Clemmous as hardware and implement store, and the second story for offices and tin shop, with postoffice on the south, comprise the block. The second story of all these except the postofice building, with the contents, was entirely consumed. Mr.

Clemmons's loss on building and stock will probably reach $5,000, fully insured. The most serious loss of all is the entire destruction of the valuable law library, private documents and briefs gathered in thirty years' practice by Judge Devenny; no insurance. S. D. Scott, attorney in the same office, lost his library and other property, with smail insurance.

Dr. Hastings lost his library and all office furniture; no insurance. J. L. Pettijohn Co.

and Hubbard Taylor, loan brokers, had considerable damage. The tents of the postoflice were removed and much loss is sustained by the removal. The barber shop of A. J. Williams, on the east side, suffered last.

The eflicient work of the fire department saved the consumption of the entire block. The loss is $25,000. LIGHTNING STRUCK THE IRES It Creates Consternation Among the People at Arbury Park. ASBURY PARK, N. July the storm last night lightning struck the telephone and electric light wires at Asbury avenue and Kingsley street.

One of the wires was sev. ered by the bolt and fell into the street, where it knocked down several women and children who stepped upon it. They screamed with terror. John Robbins of West Park was caught by the wire and dragged about 50. feet.

He was badly cut and bruised. De. Wildman of New York, who was sitting on the porch of the Oriental hotel, had his face ent by a lump of fire which spluttered from the wire in front of the hotel. A number of telephones were burned out by the heavy charge of electricity which ran into hotels and cottages over the wires. THE TORIES ARE TIRED.

Many of Them Do Not Intend to Seek a Re. Election. LONDON, July -The apathy displayed by the Tories in parliament is explained by the leaders of the party as due to the fact that nearly one-third of them have no intention of seeking re-election and are therefore indifferent to the needs of the party or the wishes of their constituents, This is particularly true of many of the younger members, who, now that the novelty of their In position has worn off, have become restive under the party lash and find it irksome to apply themselves to the dry routine of politics. DAVITTS NEW PAPER. Its First Number Will Contain Sensational Matter.

LONDON, July Michael Davitt's new paper, the Weekly Labor World, will shortly make its appearance. It is announced that the first number will contain extracts from the diary of the forger and perjurer Pigott, which were suppressed during the trial before Parnell commission, and fresh and startling revelations touching the methods of the Times in its pursuit of evidence against the Irish party. They Blew the Gas Out. NEWPORT, R. July morning D.

T. Ingall of Canada and his grandson, Edward Baker, the latter 13 years of age, of Fall River, were found in a room which they oecupied together last night at the Groves house on Bath road with the gas burners open. The boy was dead and at noon the condition of the man was precarions, although he had roused somewhat from his stupor. Will Collect Duty on Mised Coal. WASHINGTON, July Secretary Tichenor has instructed the collector of toms at San Francisco that where a cargo of anthracite and bituminous coal is mixed so as to render it impracticable to separate the free from the dutiable coal, the entire cargo is to be treated as bituminous and subject to the payment of the usual duty.

Smallpot on the Farategn, NEW YORK, July was received here last night that a ship with smallpox on board was coming into port. Inquiry elicited the fact that the vessel in question in the bark Saratoga, which sailed from Mar. seilles May 8. Two of her crew died of the disease on the passage out and were buried at sea. Treasnter Huston Has Recovered.

WASHINGTON, July Husto, who has been ill for some time, has recovered sufficiently to resume his duties. HAPPENINGS IN OTHER LANDS. The American man-of-war Saratoga has arrived at Plymouth, The Italian government asks for the cession of the Suakim to Italy. reply and declines to pay tribute. Bulgaria is not satisfied with the porte's The Egyptian government has paid to Captain Casati £20,000 in settlement of his claims.

The London Standard says: If we must bargain with France over Zanzibar, New Foundland ought to be Included in the contract The London Standard says that the goternment is justified in persevering la its course in regard to the suspension bills, but that the eney of it is doubtful, It says that the matter will probably be dropped. It is rumored that the radical will attend no further proceedings, SAD ENDING OF A PARTY, A WAGON LOAD OF, PEOPLE RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. After a Day of Pleasure Death Tales Three of the Morry-Makert-Many Others Badly Injured--An Uamanageable Tenm the Cause LOUISVILLE, July yesterday morning Mr. Frank Akin, who lives large farm two miles from the city limits on the Preston road, came into the city in his wagon for the purpose of taking out to his place a party of young people to spend the day. A merry party of young folks was 8000 collected.

These were Frank and Benjamin Pratt, Tillie, Lizzie, Phenie and Katie meyer, and their infant sister, 9 months old; Mary Gremm, Louis Heiber, Tillie Hagemach, William and Sadie Vance and Lulie Steule. They started out Mr. driven Noltemeyer's Mr. heavy furniture car, by Akin, and about o'clock they were joined by Mr. and Mrs.

Noltemeyer. The day was spent by the young people very happily, and about 7 o'clock they began preparations to return. All piled into the big furniture car, Frank and Ben Noltemeyer occupying the front seat, the latter driving. They were drawn by two frisky young mules, and to this fact, in all probability, is due the lamentable accident. The young people were laughing and chatting during the ride in, and none of the party had any suspicion of their terrible fate until it was upon them.

When within a few yards of the Louisville Southern railway crossing, however, the headlight of engine No. 415, of passenger train No. 4, was seen dancing down the track almost on the wagon. Louis Heibler was the only one, it seems, who saw the light, for he threw himself over the side of the furniture car, falling in the road. The trainmen say they blew for the crossing, but at all events the mules dashed furiously ahead, the children still laughing and singing merrily.

Just as the wagon was full upon the track. the train struck it squarely in the side, completely cutting it in two. The laughter and singing were changed in the instant to shrieks and screams of agony, and those in the train as they flew by saw bodies scattered in all direotions. The bodies of Frank and Ben Pratt, Mr. and Mrs.

Noltemeyer and William Foulks were thrown to the right. On the left side of the track William Vance and his sister Sadie were hurled thirty feet into a field while the girls were dashed in every direction. Mary Gremm was dragged some distance and then forced aside by the coweatcher, and the baby was evidently thrown under the wheels, for its little right foot was crushed to a shapeless mass. The train, which was running at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour, was brought to a stop so quickly that the last coach stood touching the fragments of the wagon which were leaning up against the side of the car. The wounded were lifted carefully into the rear conch and taken to St.

Marys and Elizabeth's hospital, a short distance beyond the scene of the accident on the line of the Southern. Here they were carefully cared for but at an early hour this morning, the two young men and brothers, Ben Pratt, 18 years of age, and Frank Pratt, aged 21 years, and the little child, Mary Noltemeyer, only 9 months of age, expired after terrible sufferings. The following were injured, but not fatally, and this morning were declared out of dan- ger: MANY VANCE, 15 years, slight scalp wound. SARAH VANCE, 16 years, slight scalp wound IDA FRENEY, 6 years, injured about the head, but not seriously. WILLIAN NOLTENEYER, 50 years, bruised about the back, WILLIAM VANCE, slightly hurt, LIZZIR NOLTENEYER, collar bone broke.

Lots HEIRLSR, injured slightly on the head. LULIE STEULE, sash on head, bruised slightly about the body. -WILLIAM FOULES, arm broken and serious cone cassion of the brain. Some of the parties who were in the furniture wagon declare that the engineer failed to whistle for the crossing, though he, as well as the conductor, denies a this. Both of the latter claim that a prolonged whistle was given.

THE LEADER WILL RETIRE. William Henry Smith Will Soon Be Knows as Lord Walton, LONDON, July retirement vi William Henry Smith from the government leadership in the house of commons and his elevation to the peerage are no longer matters of speculation and conjecture. It is nounced that the change will be made within a very short time, Mr. Smith assuming title of Lord Walton. The question of the succession to the leadership in the house is still debatable.

If Lord Salisbury can have his own way in the matter Mr. Balfour will be assigned to the responsible position, but there are others whose wishes must be consulted in the interest of harmony on the government benches, which is especmily desirable, not to say lutely essential, just now, and the distinction may fall upon other shoulders. THE MASON AT JEFFERSON CITE. A Large Crowd Greets It and Salute 10 Fired Francis Goes Aboard. JEFFERSON CITY, July Mason arrived here at 10 o'clock last night and left for Kansas City this morning.

It was greeted by an immense crowd salutes of artillery from the state authorities. Every one who saw the boat spoke in admiration of Gor. ernor Francis was not in the city, but Mrs. Francis and a party came and rode from the upper to the lower landing. A Missouri Man in Trouble.

NEW YORK, July Lang of Missouri and Gustaye Eisenman of this city, were caught this morning on the steamship Aller in an attempt. to smuggle five gold watches and chains. The goods were confiscated and placed in the seizure room at the eustom house. First Bale of New Cotton. ALBANY, July -The first bale of new cotton has been received here from colored tenants on a plantation in Baker county, Georgia.

NEWS NOTES. NEWS NOTES. The freight handlers' strike in Cincinnati for an increase of wages still continues. The fourth destructive storm of the week struck Parkersburg, W. yesterday.

The daniage was great. The water in the Salmon Falls river was drawn off yesterday and a search was made for the missing head of Sawtelle, but it could not be found. The ship Vigilant arrived in New York from Caleatta morning to a very dilapidated condition. She had been struck by lightning, but no one was injured. The Denver chemical paint works in West Denver, with 170 feet of the Larimer viaduct eity cable railway, burned last night.

Loss, 000: partly lusured. Michael Collier choked and beat Maggie Moore in Tompkins park last night and it is feared that abe will die. The woman's refusal to live with him was the cause. Collier was arrested. Joseph Shannon, a wealthy farmer of Beaver Falls, was yesterday by two men out of reward by for the the hoary capture old of card the trick.

thieves He offers Almus Wilcox, aged 20 years, was killed at South Danbury, N. yesterday by the premature discharge of a cannon. The gun rebounded, striking him in the face and tearing his head nearly off. Edward Foster, John Leonard, Bob Warner, the latter colored, all under 15 gears of age, Were fooling with toy cannon, at Waterbury, yerterday when it exploded. Leonard loses sight of both Foster's hands were terribly burned Warner was seriously burned about the face and bands O'CLOCK.

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