The Oskaloosa Independent from Oskaloosa, Kansas • Page 7

LABOR AND WAGES. CROPS IN KANSAS. KANSAS STATE NEWS. killing grasshoppers. TWO DARING GIRLS.

SEAUTY IS BLOOD DEEP. Mr. Asbnry Peppers. "Matrimony," said the sweet girl boarder is a holy rite." "Why, then." asked Anbury Pepper, with the air of a man cure of his ground, then, is it that so many who marry find they are wholly left?" -Cincinnati Enquirer. "How foolish," said the good old minister; "do you not realize that the chances are 99,999 to 1 against you?" "Of coarse I do," answered the young man, who had bought a lottery ticket; "and yet my hopes are not half as ridulous as those yon raised in the hearts of the Sunday school boys when yon told them that every one of them had a chance at the presidential chair." Indianapolis Journal.

To Get Away from Heme They Bide on tha Cowcatcher of an Engine. Omaha, July In order to get away from home, Grace Wilson and Jessie, Betts, two 17-year-old Nebraska City girls, sprang upon the cowcatcher of the engine pulling the Nebraska limited express at that place and rode gaily into Omaha. The quick work was necessary to avoid their parents, who were in pursuit, and the passengers were treated to the spectacle of the young girls making the daring leap as the wheels of the locomotive began to revolve. The train soon gained a high rate of speed, and, with their teeth set and long hair flying in the air. the girls clung to the stand irons of the pilot.

The engineer was not aware of the girls' perilous position until they made the next stop, 20 miles north. There they were put in one of the passenger coaches and brought to this city. MORE INDIAN TROUBLE. Fences Being Bnrned and Cattle Slangh- tered Kear Fort Hall. Washington.

July 1. Senator Heit-feld. of Idaho, received another dispatch from Gov. Stunenberg, dated at Boise, last night, as follows: "Com plaints continue to-day. i ences are being1 burned and cattle killed.

In dians come from Lemhi, Umatilla, Fort Hall and Duck Valley reservations. They must disperse or trouble will soon follow." This was soon communicated to the interior depart ment and Secretary Bliss immediately wired Agent Irwin, at Fort Hall, to expedite his telegraphic report of i the situation. Four troops of the garrison at Fort Robinson. are under orders to be in readiness to move at once for the Fort Hall Indian reservation country, in case of trouble with the Indians of that vicinity. AN UNKNOWN KILLED.

The Wabash Past Mail Runs Into Three Much Larger Area Planted in Wheat and Corn Than Last Year. auinuer ui Acres sown ID uatl tno FlM Seed Show a Falling Off Assessor' Report from Sixty-Two Counties. TorEKA, July 2. The wheat acreage harvested in Kansas this year will be about 3,000,000 acres, or 500,000 acres more than reported by the state board of agriculture. Assessors' returns from 62 counties, sent by county clerks, indicate this.

The wheat area reported in these counties amounts to ,186,000 acres, as compared with acres in the same counties the preceding1 year. These figures include both winter and spring wheat, and if the same proportion prevails in the counties which have not reported, the total winter and spring wheat area this year was close to 3,800,000 acres, including what was winter killed and plowed up. About 200,000 acres of the total are spring wheat. The state board of agriculture's estimate of wheat plowed up is 20 per which would leave over 2,600,000 acres of winter wheat to be harvested. It is safe to calculate, therefore, that the winter and spring wheat acreage amounts to over acres.

The average yield per acre, even if present conditions are no higher than those of April, when the last state report was made, will amount to over 17 bushels, so that Kansas has raised at least 50,000.000 bushels of wheat this year, and there is a possibility of its running as high as bushels. The great increases in area in Kansas are in the western counties. Sherman county, for example, on the extreme western end of the state, haa acres oi wneat tnis year, as compared with only 46,021 acres last year. Other important western coun ties showing increases are: Ellis, in crease Norton, increase increase Russell, increase Thomas, increase Trego, increase Decatur, increase Sheridan, increase, Rice, increase Rush, increase 11,000. The assessors' returns for the 63 counties wmcn nave reported snow a corn area of 5,221,791 acres, as com pared with 4,904.829 acres in the same counties last year.

If the same proportion is maintained throughout the counties not reporting, tne corn area in Kansas this year is about 8,500,000 acres, and will break all records for corn area in any state in the union. Iowa never had such an area of corn nor Illinois, nor any other state. The Kansas corn area last year was 7.897 000 acres. In 1S95 it was 8,395,000 acres. The oats area in the counties report ing is nearly a third less than last year, lnuicating.a little over l.uyu.uoo acres for the state, as compared with acres last year.

The flax area is about 25 per cent, less than last year, or about 175,000 acres, as compared with 231,000 acres in 1896. The broom corn area is just about the same as last year 40.000 acres, The areas in the important broom corn comities are as follows: Mcl'hersou 8,522 acres; Rice, 5.993 acres; Reno, acres; tneveune, .,48 acres; I'ra-tt, 1,971 acres; acres. SHOWS AN INCREASE. tenderly yet seriously down into her lus-Wellsviixe, trous eyep we ehajj make a stake in Pure, Healthy Blood. Means Beaatifnl Complexion Intestinal Microbes Poison the Blood When the Bowels Are Constipated.

Drive Them Out by Mnlttn jt the Liver Lively. 'Beauty is skin deep." That is wronar. Beauty is blood deep. A person constipated, with a lazv liver. bilious blood, dyspeptic stomach, has pirn- pies ana liver spots ana a sole leatner complexion.

No one with a furred tongue, a bad breath, a jaundiced eye, can be beautiful, no matter how perfect are form and features. lo be beautiful, to become beautuul, or remain beautiful, the blood must be kept pure and free from bile, microbes, disease- germs and otner impurities. Lascarets Candy Cathartic will do it for you quickly, surely, naturally. They never rrip nor cripe, but make the liver lively. prevent sour stomach, kill disease-germs, tone up the bowels, purify the blood, and make all things right, as they should be 1 hen beauty comes of itself and to stay.

Buy and try Cascarets to-dav. It's what they do, not what we say they do, that will please you. All druggists, 10c, 25c or 50c, or mailed for price. Send for booklet and free sample. Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago, Montreal, or New York.

The Shoe on the Other Foot. Miss Stroncmvnd Have one of my new brand of cigarettes I assure you they are delicious. Miss Bloomer Thanks, dear, but Ive stopped leu astonish me. 1 never dreamed that you would become a backslider' Uon think po hardly of me, dear; ve Ptoppea till 1m married, lou see, the trou'ile is. Cholly complains that the odor is disagreeable to him." Yellow Kid Magazine.

Sonnd Reasons for Approvnl. There are several cogent reasons why the medical profession recommend and the public prefer Hostetter's Stomach Bitters above the ordinary cathartics. It does not drench and weaken the bowels, but assists rather than forces nature to act; it is botanic and safe; its action is never preceded bv an internal earthquake like that produced by a drastic purgative. For forty- hve years past it has been a household remedy for liver, stomach and kidney trouble. Mistakes and Mistakes.

It was the eve of their bridal day. "Perhaps, after all." he faltered, gazing marrying. "How vou frighten me, Edwin," she ex claimed, with a shiver. "Come, let us re hearse again, and make assurance doubly sure." Detroit Journal. Husband (groaning) "The rheumatism mv leg is coming again.

wire (utn sympathy) "Oh, I am sorry, John! 1 wanted to do some shopping to-day, and that is a sure sign of rain." Tit-Bits. "Star As you chew tobacco for pleasure, tise Star. It is not only the best, but the most lasting, and therefore the cheapest. People are certainly as unfair with their neighbors as they are with prominent officials they happen to disiike. Atchison Globe.

THE GENERAL MARKETS. Kansas Citt. July 8. CATTLE Best beeves 4)l 2 95 2 50 3 2-'tf 4 80 4 00 3 75 3 27 Stoclsers Native cows HOGS Choice SHEEP 2 t0 6 3 25 WHEAT No. 2 red 61 52 02 2J-4 17 17 18J4 18 2 SKI 3 10 No.

2 hard CORN No. 2 mixed OATS No. 2 mixed RYE No. 2 FLOUR Patent, per sack Fancy 3 30 3 40 (i 8 50 7 50 HAY Choice timothy 8 M) Fancy prairie 7 Oi) BRAN (sacked) BUTTER Choice creamery S7 38 12 1214 CHEESE Full cream 101455 514 4" 11 EGGS Choice a co ST. LOUIS.

CATTLE Native and shipping 4 50 5 00 4 00 3 45 3 85 3 10 73 Texans. 2 85 HOGS Heavy 3 3J SHEEP Fair to 3 00 FLOUR Choice "WHEAT No. 2 red CORN No. 2 mixed OATS No. 2 mixed 3 00 71 21Hi 21 17! 1714 314 32 11 15 RYE No.

2. BUTTER Creamery LARD Western mess. 3 714 3 95 PORK. 7 55 800 CHICAGO. CATTLE Common to prime.

3 80 HOGS Packing and 3 10 5 15 3 45 3 85 4 40 SHEEP Fair to choice 1 75 FLOUR Winter wheat. 4 20 WHEAT No. 2 red. 73 3i '6 CORN No. 2 17 24 17K S4 1414 4 05 7 65 OATS No.

2. RYE 33 BUTTER-Creamery 12 LARD 4 00 PORK 7 00 NEW YORK. CATTLE Native steers HOGS Good to choice 4 25 3 SO 5 50 4 10 WHEAT No. 2 red. 74tf 74 283 21 22 11 15 50 8 00 CORN No.

2 OA'fS No. 2 BUTTER Creamery PORK Mess. SEE THAT THIS NAME IS STAMPED ON Every Pair OP SHOES YOU BUY. IT IS A POSITIVE GUARANTEE OF SUPERIORITY. Ladies Statistics Showing' the Average Barnlngs el Kansas Working: men.

TorEKA, July 3. Commissioner Johnson, of the bureau of labor sta tistics, has tabulated data for 1896, gathered by his predecessor, W. G. Bird, and issued the condensed infor mation to-day. The following is the average yearly wages paid to the classes of breadwinners named: Brakemen.

1731.66: printers. 8371.70: barbers, 1538.80; locomotive engineers. 1877; cigar-makers, 1393: city firemen. 1677.94; laborers, I1S.W; policemen. 162116: locomotive firemen, 1612.12; hotel waiters.

231B; butchers, S519.52: carpenters, I372.C4: railroad conductors, machinists, 535.6o; coal miners, 1280.33; paint ers, 1524.19; coopers 1293.22: retail clerks, MM: motormen, falO; street railway conductors. M0.61; stationary firemen. I33i The following additional facts rela tive to the men who toil will be of in terest: Average 34.3 Per cent, native born. 78.7 Per cent, parents native born. 50.6 Average hours worked per Cay.

10.4 Average yearly earnings 511.25 Percent, owning home 23.9 Average value of homes. ..11,214.04 Average incumbrance on home 263.25 Average-monthly rent for homes. 7.03 Average number in family 2.9 Average number in family working for wares. Average number of children attenfiin? public schools .8 Percent, in labor 66.1 Per cent, in beneliciary 53.7 Pen cent, having life insurance 43.4 Per cent, having accident 20.4 Percent, having firs insurance 15.1 Per cent, avorin? compulsory arbitra tion 56.1 Per cent, favoring restricting immigra tion 47.9 Per cent, decrease in 'wages over 14.1 KANSAS SCHOOLBOOKS. Text-Book Commission Issues a Schedule of Purchase and Exchange Kates.

Topeka, July 3. The state text-book commission has issued rules governing the sales and exchange of text-books adopted by it. The figures in the first column below are the selling prices for dealers and agents, while those in the second column are the exchange prices, or the prices at which old books will be accepted in exchange as part payment for new ones: Selling Exchange price. price. Speller.

li cents 5 cents First reader 11 cents 5 cents Second reader. 18 7-10 cents cents Third reader 2" 3-10 cents 11 cents Fourth reader. S3 Fifth Reader 44 Elementary grammar. 23 Complete grammar 37 4-10 Introductory geography S3 Grammar school geography mi Physical .88 Civil government .44 Mental arithmetic 2.J Elementary arithmetic Advanced arithmetic. Algebra.

55 History 55 Bookkeeping 44 Physics 55 Writing books 5V4 Physiology 55 Where the prices run cents cents cents C3HtS 15 20 10 18 cents cents cents cents cents 15 cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents into 40 20 10 cents cents cents cents 134 17 25 25 20 25 8K 25 the cents cents cents cents cents cents cents cents half add cent, the dealer is permitted to one-nail cent to eacn sale lor even change. Rooks to be exchanged must be such books as have been in use by the pupils in school the last school year bv the pupils desiring to make the exchange, and must contain covers and all printed leaves. their Condition of Kansas Miners. Topeka, July S. State Mine Inspector George T.

McGrath reports that the miners in Cherokee, Crawford and other coal-producing counties are in a distressful condition, having had little wor to co since tne summer season set in. Continuation of the light demand for coal will make mat ters worse during July than during June. The demand for goal will prob ably increase about August 1, but then the demand wm not be suibcient to assure work to the 15,000 miners in the state. Ate I.ye on Her Bread. Kansas Citt, July 3.

While mother was in an adjoining room, lit tle Zephra Long, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Long, of 2131 Jefferson street, found a can of lye in the kitchen. Getting a slice of bread the child spread the lye upon it and ate some of the bread. After much suffering, the child died, the deadly compound having caused the stomach to become terribly inflamed.

Jtride of Four Months Tries Suicide. Galkna, July 3. Mrs. John Gill, wife of a joint-keeper, attempted to kill herself by placing a revolver to her left breast and pulling the trigger. The ball passed through, coming out under the shoulder blade, but she will probably live.

She claims that her husband is lavishing his affections on another and she does not desire to live She has onlv been a wife for four months. Sew Professors Chosen. Manhattan, July 3. The board of regents of the state agricul tural college announced the following appointments in the faculty Prof. E.

E. Faville, of Nova Scotia, to be pro fessor of horticulture; Miss Mary Winston, of St. Joseph, to 11 the chair of mathematics; Frederick A. Metcalf, of the Emerson school of oratory, Bos ton, to be professor of oratory. Ir.

Pitcher Finally Appointed. infield, July 3. Dr. F. iioyt i ncner was appomtea superintendent of the imbecile and idiotic asvlum this citv at the meeting of the state board of charities last night.

Representative Ed Jaquins appeared before tne board ana tola of rumors charging Fileher with a vile crime. but the rumors were unsubstantiated by affidavits. Cooper Defeated Bald. kacine, Juiy $. in tne tional circuit races, under the auspices of the L.

A. here yesterday, Tom Cooper won the half mile open professional, Eddie Bald being but a foot Denina, Artnur uaraner coming third. The time was 1:00 4-5, Another American Set Free. Washington, July 3. United States Consul-General Lee reports to the state department by cable from Havana that the Spanish authorities have released Augustin Betancoust, an American citizen, on condition that, he leaves Cuba at once.

Pawnbrokinff as a Charity. New York, July 3. Pawnbroking is profitable, even when conducted as a charity. The Provident Loan so ciety, organized by New York millionaires to assist the worthy poor of the city, yesterday declared a semi-annual dividend of three per cent-World's Tandem Records Broken. Colorado Springs, CoL, July 3.

Mc- Eeynolds and Carruthers, the celebrat ed tandem pair, have again broken world's tandem records. They did the third of a mile in S4 4-5; half in 55 3-5, and two-thirds in 1:17 3-5. This per formance was on a third mile track. Small White Parasite Destroying tha Pest in South Dakota. Srorx City, July 1.

"Hopper-dozers," as the South Dakota call the contrivance used there in exterminating the grasshopper pest, are at a discount just now because a small, white parasite, which, has its birth and existence in the bodies of the hoppers, is doing more than the farmers can to wipe out the plague. The parasite has never before been seen in the northwest- The farmers are overjoyed at its appearance and hope it will become a permanent institution. Millions of the hoppers have been destroyed by it within a few days, and indications are that the pest, which threatened for a time to ruin this year's crops, will be rendered harmless through its' agency. DROP The Day IN BICYCLE PRICES. of the Hand red-Dollar Wheel Thought to Be Over.

New York, July 1. Excitement caused by the cornering of the wheat market will be mild in comparison with that which will be created, when it is generally known that there is a slump of 25 per cent- in the price of bicycles, led by the Pope Manufactur ing Co. This announcement was made yesterday and created a sensation in the trade. While some maintain that the cut comes too late in the season to create a serious disturbance, it was generally conceded by manufacturers and agents that the day of the 100 bicycle is over and that prices will be cut still more. No manufacturer will have the temerity to ask $100 for his 189S model.

GUILTY ON SIXTY COUNTS. A New Orleans Bank Wrecker Pretty Sure to Be Severely Pnnlshed. New Orlkans, July 1. Louis Gallot, who, with Individual Bookkeeper Col-omb, stole about $300,000 from the Union national bank, by juggling the balances so as to always show a credit to Gallot in the bank, was found guilty yesterday on about 60 counts in the indictment against mm. The discovery of the frauds led to the closing of the bank, and Colomb committed suicide before he could be arrested.

BIG STRIKE ON. Twenty Thousand Illinois Miners to Quit National huspennion a Certainty. Jomet, 111., July 1. W. D.

Ryan, state secretary of the Illinois Miners' association, issued a notice yesterday that all work on Illinois fields would be stopped at once and that a national suspension was a certainty. Under the present rate they claim that they can make but nine cents an hour. The strike will affect 20,000 Illinois miners. Heat Victims in Chicago. Chicago, July 1.

The excessive heat yesterday caused six deaths in this city, while a number of persons were The strong wind tem pered the sun's rays to a great extent and many felt the effects of high tem perature, sought shaded spots ana were resuscitated by the cool breezes that blew steadily from the southwest. Five persons seeking relief from the heat went swimming, and the excessive temperature of their bodies in duced cramps and all were drowned. Helen Keller Successful. Boston, July 1. Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind, has passed a prelim inary examination in advanced German for entrance into Radcliffe college, Harvard university.

If she shall con tinue to do equally well she may enter in two years, but Examiner Oilman prefers that she shall enter in three, that the study strain may be obviated. The examinations tax Mr. Oilman's ingenuity, but the results are satisfac tory. An Iowa ex-OfHcial Sued. Des Moixes, July 1.

Suit was begun in the district court yesterday against W. M. McFarland, ex-secretary of state, and his bondsmen, to recover 85,000, the amount of his bond, because of failure to discharge the duties of his office. The suit is brought in the name of the state. The secretary is accused of causing certain employes on the state census to return him a portion of the warrants they drew for salary A Woman for Associate Justice.

Lincoln, July 1. The state convention of the liberty (prohibition) party concluded yesterday. Overtures on the part of the regular prohibition ists for an indorsement of tneir candi dates were ignored and Mrs. Sarah Wilson, of Lincoln, was nominated for associate justice of the supreme court. and K.

C. Bentlev, of bheiton, for re gent of the state university. A Father's Terrible Crime. Sepallv, July 1. Sheriff Calla way, of Henry county, left yesterday for Montana with requisition papers for Elias Hughes, a former resident of Windsor, wTho is charged with having ruined his own daughter, and who had a child by him.

Hughes is 69 years old and the girl 19. Hughes is said to have been intimate with her ever since she was 15. Grain Dealers Elect Officers. Des Moines, July 1. The National Grain Dealers' association elected the following officers: President, WT.

T. McCray, Kentland. first vice president, J. M. SeTail, Hastings, second vice president, L.

Grubbs, Greenville, treasurer, E. I. Bowen, Des Moines; secretary, W. U. Chambers, Des Moines.

Won by Cornell. Poughkeepsie, N. July 1. Cornell won by three-quarters of a length; Columbia second, by one-third of a length over Pennsylvania. The official time: CornelL 9 minutes 21 1-5 seconds; Columbia, 9 minnes23 1-5 seconds.

The freshman boat race over the two-mile course here yesterday between three American crews, rowing with purely American methods, was one of the most remarkable in the annals of boat racing in this country. It was magnificent. The freshmen of Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania rowed with 'heir heads as well as with their bodies. Harvard and Tale Degrees Conferred. Cambridge, July 1.

The commencement exercises at Harvard occurred yesterday. Gov. Walcott and his staff were present. In the presentation of degrees there were 383 bachelors of arts, 2d bachelors of science, 11 masters of arts, 32 doctors of dentistry, 73 doctors of medicine, 73 bachelors of law. New York, July Nearly 700 young men received diplomas from Yale yesterday.

The approximate number from various departments follows: Academic, 200; scientific, 240; law, SO; divinity, 30; medical, 30. Chinch bogs were damaging oats and corn near Emporia. Ex-County Treasurer Doran, of Wich ita, is charged with a shortage of 000. The state executive council elected T. IL Lescher, of Topeka, state archi tect.

A pest called the web worm has come to plague farmers who have stands oi alfalfa. George Puckett, of Wellington, has started an anti-prohibition evening daily at Fort Scott. The state military board has ordered new militia companies musterea in Topeka, Atchison and Chanute. The new state board of health elected Dr. Hoover, of Halstead, president and Dr.

Gill, of Pittsburg, secretary. Superintendent McXall will appeal from Judge Foster's decision in the Metropolitan Life insurance suit. J. S. Parks, who succeeded Maj.

Hud son as state printer July 1, will use no type-setting machines in the office. Bank Commissioner Breidenthal closed the Salina state bank because its officers refused to report its condition. The new history for the public schools of the state will contain a 20-page his tory of Kansas, written by Noble L. Prentis, the well-known writer. Eugene F.

Ware, of Topeka, was elected president of the Western Association of Writers, at the society's recent annual meeting at Eagle Lake, Ind. Quite a sensation was caused at In dependence by the arrest of Mrs. Joel O. Mack for the murder of her husband near Muskogee, I. six months ago.

She was taken to Muskogee and placed in jail. The university of Denver, CoL, has conferred the degree of S. T. D. upon President Murlin, of Baker university, Baldwin.

Cornell college has simi larly honored him, having conferred upon him the degree of D. D. A bridge across a small stream Fort Scott collapsed the other day with a hack and the driver and team fell 20 feet into the water, but were not drowned. The collapse broke an eight-inch water main and shut off the electric lights for awhile. A.

L. Chaplin, ex-cashier of the sav ings bank of Pittsburg, and also of the Manufacturers' national bank, who was recently acquitted of forgery, has been re-arrested upon the charge of misappropriating funds and falsifying the books of the latter bank. A. K. Rodgers, of Topeka, has a scheme in aid of domestic happiness and he thinks it would in a great measure rid the courts of divorce cases.

lie proposes that the government shall reward all couples who live as husband and wife for a period of 50 years with a ns'on. If t.ie new law in regard to the taxa tion of private banks is rigidly enforced it will compel those institutions to seek shelter by incorporating under state or national charters. Under the new law private banks must much heavier taxes than either state or na tional banks. Judge Foster has appointed the fol lowing United States commissioners for Kansas, to serve four years: T. J.

AVhite, Kansas City; B. F. Stocks, Gar den City; W. II. Bond, Leavenworth; S.

P. Mosher, Fort Scott; C. W. Reed- er, nays citv; i. u.

liean, wicnita; G. W. Clark, Toneka. lhe state text-book commission re cently completed the purchase of schoolbooks by adopting readers, phy sioloarv and philosophy. 1 hev cost as follows: First reader.

10 cents; second. 17 cents: third, 23 cents; fourth, 40 cents; fifth, 50 cents; philosophy and physiology, 50 cents each. Sheriff Skinner, of Cowley county, is under arrest for refusing to recognize an order from the probate judge. The sheriff demands a trial by jury. The new law allows him a trial by jury, but makes no provision for procuring a jury.

The supreme court may have to settle the complication. There are 10,000 schoolhouses in Kan sas, valued, at over iney are all supposed to be insured, but it is as serted that the insurance is practically valueless, as there is in every policy a provision that whenever a building re mains unoccupied more than 80 consec utive days the policy is void. War on the liquor traffic has com menced at Emporia, The O. M. B.

club has been enjoined. Judge Kan dolph. on behalf of the Good Templars, issued an injunction against the mem bers of the club forbidding them to sell any intoxicants or to allow per sons to loiter around the premises. A case from Cherokee county has been filed in the supreme court to test the validity of the act of the last legis lature abolishing certain judicial dis tricts. Judges and lawyers are anxious that the court act speedily in the mat ter, as the iudsres in the districts affected by the act have adjourned their courts pending the decision.

In response to a request from Kaw valley potato growers for a remedy to stamp out the pest that is destroying so many potato vines, Chancellor Snow says the best artificial remedy or preventive is that, of burning the potato stalks when they begin to wilt and the worms are vet in them. It has been observed in Illinois that the pres ence of the helpful hen has been advantageous in keeping this pest from becoming dangerous. John Seaton, of Atchison, and Mike Tleery, of Topeka, have resigned as members of the state board of public works and Gov. Leedy will not appoint a new board. F.

L. Vandegrift, who has been the Topeka correspondent of the Kansas City Star for 4 years, has been promoted to a position in the editorial rooms in Kansas City. The board of managers of the soldiers home at Dodge City want to spend an accumulation of 526,000 in erecting new buildings. Attorney-General Boyle says they can't do it, and the matter will be taken into the courts. Mrs.

Phoebe J. Baer, of Baldwin, haa been appointed superintendent of the industrial school for girls at Beloit-This was the position coveted by Mrs. Annie L. Diggs. J.

B. Shane, a Lawrence photographer, is under arrest for an alleged assault upon a little girl who went to his gallery to have her pictures taken. Alex Heisinger, of Hartford, was Bent to jail SO days for whipping his wife. The sheriff of Bourbon county holds 52,000 worth of liquor which he seized from five alleged jointists, who are under arrest. TASTELESS rui LTU TO rn I 1 I IS JUST AS GOOD FOR ADULTS.

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clntr. fUtxiltalM tar Piartefw BtaplM frM. TH1 FAT IASUXA fcOOHSU 10., NOW Tjj USE JEFFERSOfc" CITY, MO. ARE QUICKLY MARRIED. and will do away with the tak- I CANDY CATHARTIC l3J 1H1D1SES Ha Secretary of Agriculture Coburtt Gives the I.atettt Oiihub of Kansas Farms.

Topeka, July 2. Secretary Coburn, of the state board of agriculture, has completed a compilation of the population of the cities of Kansas. The following are the 23 largest cities. The figures preceded by an asterisk s.how a decrease; the other figures in the column are an increase: Population. Inc.

Kansas City 42.150 37 Topeka 31. M2 230 Leavenworth 21.556 436 Wichita 2J.100 268 Fort Scott 1 2.319 3o4 Pittsburg 12.195 2.023 "Emporia f.2t3 413 8.324 152 Parsons t.4f4 531 Ottawa .0,15 473 Argentine .908 Hrkansas Citv 6.578 9.V Newton 5.272 70 Winticld 4.4V5 155 Galena 4,751 37 Chanute 4.153 -670 Eldorado 3.715 187 Osage City 2,776 Wellington 3.158 217 Hiawatha 3.383 70 Weir City 3.003 276 Abilene 3.331 46 Salina 5.056 2a0 Men Kear Wellsville, Mo. known men were struck bv the Wabash fast mail at that place about 12 o'clock Tuesday night. They were lying with their heads on the rail when the engineer saw them. He reversed his engine but did not stop in time to pre vent them from being struck.

One was killed and the other two injured. Some are inclined to the belief that they were clubbed and laid on the rail to prevent the crime from becoming known. The dead man had W. E. on his right arm and the only means by which he can be identined is a note found on his person bearing no address, but signed bv Edna White.

Ethel. requesting him to take her trunk from the depot. PLACE FOR GEN. CALDWELL. The Kansas Orator Named for the Consul ate at San Jose, Costa Rica.

Washington, July 1. The president has sent to the senate the following nominations: John Russell Young, of Pennsylvania, the noted editor, to be librarian of congress, to succeed Mr. Spofford; Francis B. Loomis, of Ohio, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentary to Venezuela; John C. Caldwell, of Kansas, to be consul at San Jose, Costa Iiica: Philip C.

Hanna, of Iowa, to be consul at Trini dad, West Indies; Louis Lange, of Illinois, to be consul at Bremen, Ger many; John R. Thomas, of Illinois, to be iudg-e of the United States court in the Indian territory. IRON MILLS CLOSE. Twenty-Five Thousand Men Are Thrown Out of Work Pendine Adjustment of Wages. Youngstown, July 1.

Every mill in the United States where wage scales are under the jurisdiction of the Amal gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, shut down last night. These mills altogether employ 25,000 members of the Amalgamated association besides those who are not mem bers. The general shutdown took place on account of the failure of the Amalgamated association scale committee and the manufacturers to agree at a puddling rate at the conference held here yesterday. A BATTLE EXPECTED. Weyler Expects to Meet Garcia Halve Fight.

in a De- Havana, July 1. Weyler expects to fight a great pitched battle upon the plains of Camacuey when he meets Gen. Garcia, the result of which mav be the turning point in the war. Should Weyler's legions meet with de feat Spain will be ready to listen to Mr. McKinley's offers of friendly in tervention.

If pain wins ana uarcia be routed, Weyler will assume a mag nanimous role, proclaim a new general amnesty and offer the Cubans complete autonomy and full personal and politi cal guarantee under the Spanish flag. KILLED IN A WRECK. Delegates to the Christian Endeavor Con vention the Victims. Chicago, July 1. A rear-end collision between two sections of a Chicago Northwestern endeavorers' special train, which left Chieaoro in nine sec tions, occurred at West Chicago.

SO miles out, early yesterday morning. Two women, Mrs. R. Shipman, of Ap- pleton. and Mrs.

John Gooding. of Austin. and a tramp named Rode, were killed, and 23 persons were injured. Nearly all of the injured are women, and all of them live in Wis consin, most of them in Appleton. RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES.

They Lead to a Serious Break In a Port- land, Family. Portland. July 1. Albert E. Northrup has been arrested on a war rant sworn to by his father, William Northrup, charging him with trespass in the home of his parents.

The accused, who is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church, refused to work in his father's barber shop on Satur day, that day being the Sabbath, of his church. The senior Northrup ordered him to leave and. upon his refusal, had him arrested. EUCHRED OUT OF $6,900. Butte, Mont Mining Han Baas Up Against a Chicago Faro Game.

Chicago, July 1. James Arnold, mining man of Butte, reported to the police that he had been victim ized out of 86,900 by Charles Dunn and William Metcalf, who. the police say, are noted gamblers and ex-con victs. lhe money was secured by means of a faro game, played in a house at Twentieth and Wabash avenue, where Arnold had been taken by the men, ostensibly to talk over the sale of a mine which lie TVitttkvtttw Mn Tnlv 1 Ttirp nn- July 1. lnreeun- Ask Your Dealer for Them.

"WELL BRED SOON WED." GIRLS WHO USE SOCIALISTS IN KANSAS. A Society to Ite Organized in the Southeastern Section. Fort Scott, July 2. The first attempt to formally organize a society of socialists in southeastern Kansas was made at the Huntington hotel in this city yesterday, when an apparently well-defined scheme to thoroughly organize the socialists of this part of the state and to make a vigorous effort to create socialistic sentiment was developed. From some source the society has received funds to push the work, and has subscribed for 1.000 copies of an official social organ, launched recently at Girard, the center of a field which it is proposed to develop.

It seems to be the belief that the thousands of miners in southeastern Kansas and. southwestern Missouri will sympathize with the movement A GOLD CONTRACT ATTACKED. PopullHt Pyle. of Kansas. Fighting a Mortgage Because It Excludes Silver.

Fort Scott, July 2. Samuel Webb Pyle, a local populist who was recently appointed a guard in the penitentiary by Gov. Leedy, mortgaged his farm in 1S92 to Mrs, Abbie II. Trask, through the Lombard Investment Co. of Kansas City.

The mortgage calls for payment in gold. Besides alleging that the "gold" were inserted by forgery during the campaign of 1S96, he maintains that the gold provision makes the mortgage invalid, because it excludes payment in silver, which is legal tender. Santa Fe Karnings TorEKA, July 2. June SO was the last day of the fiscal year of the Santa Fe road. The gross earnings for the 11 months, ended May 31, were 528,179,177, an increase of The operating expenses were an increase of $474,109.

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