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nwwmnt-! REGARDING PASSENGER RATES CLOTHING TRUST NEXT. KANSAS LEGISL AT DEE WORST OF THE SEASON KANSAS STATE NEWS. The Holton Recorder. K. M.

BECK fe SON, Publishers. HOLTON, KANSAS. Nothing intensifies selfishness faster than being sick. Jan. 18.

In the senate twenty hills were ntroduced. Many of them covered matters tor which bills had already been introduced. Speaker Street announcd followis standing committees: State Affairs E. Weilep. chairman; Messrs.

Palenske, Taylor, Walters. Werhle, Perry and Gates. Assessment and Taxation Isaac Conger, chairman; Messrs. Foley. Carr.

Stevens. Fulton. Rutledge, McCarthy, Finney and Vogelgesansr. Kailroads W. B.

Brown, chairman; Messrs. Keefer. Fairchild. Merrill. Roth-weiler.

Jamieson. Jaquins. Jones, Rusfell. Fulton. Ward.

BasgalL, Simmons, Burtis, Henley, Ury and Brooke. Agriculture William Lewis, chairman; Messrs. Crosby, Ixomis, Farrell, Carr. Johnson of Case, Brown ot Greeley, Bennett and Reed. 'chairman: Messrs.

Feighner. Marks. Bean. Johnson of Labetta, Hollenbeak and jSbouse. Manufacturing Isom Wright, chairman; Messrs.

Graves. Cassin. Muenzenmayer. Hac anTd Henley- Mineanl.a.mes TSS. rJ idiuicsun.

nailers. rcijuuw, Goodno, Hackbusch, Heminger. Botkin and Dewitt- Federal Relations J. W. Gray, chairman; Messrs.

Ingle, Singleton, Epperson, Fouts, Wilson and Jackson of Comanche. Militia F. T. Johnson, chairman; Messrs. Simmons, Davis, Dalton, Jaquins, Aker and Bacon.

Municipal Corporations H. Turner, chairman; Messrs. Rutledge. Stevens. Armstrong, Smith of Brown, Bradley and Heck-man.

Banks and Banking Paul Russell, chairman; Messrs. Gillespie, Palenske. Ward. Williams, Marty, Burkholder, Seaver and Giesler. Public Lands R.

J. Wallace, chairman; Messrs. Loomis, Gray, Doyle, Lewis, Grimes and Heckman. Public Buildings and Grounds Alfred chairman; Messrs. Keefer, Mott, Muenzenmayer, Metzler, Keddie and Hay wood.

Engrossed Bills Dr. F. IL Smith, man: Messrs. Outcalt. Gillespie, Wright, Kl ObIt Break.

He irocld not break his promi.seil word To teach the maid tc skate; He did not break the slender ice, Although he worked till late. The only break he made, in fact. That did him any harm. Wis when he tried to break her fall. And broke a leg and arm.

Town Top'cs. Pore Brandy. We call our readers attention to tha following testimonial from undoubted authority on the excellence and purity of Kiicvr'ti Cli mil Brandy. Mk. HI'Kkh: I congraifulate you on a rwent unsought at to the purity of your brandr.

Lady Duflus Har ly, of Ixmilon. Kniiland. an oi4 acquaintance of mine. on tailing from the houla ok brandy we brought from I j. akert ine to a like oiib for bt-r.

wuleu 1 did. The aristocracy, you know, male and female, are pretty good of brandy. 1 remain, Voura truly. l'RENTH MI LIHIUU, Editor (iraphio No Improvement. Family Friend I congratulate you, my dear sir, on the marriage of your daughter.

I see you are gradually getting all the girls oiT your hands." Old Goldbranch Off my hands yes; but the worst of it is, I have to keep all their husbands on their Boston Traveler. The It canon YThy. "Billy, do you see that knot In that boy constructor's tail?" "Yes; I guoss he put that there Ms-self so that he wouldn't forget to eat that 'ere rabbit. Didn't yer never pm a knot in yer hankercher to remember suthln'?" Truth. I'olntlng a floral.

"I don't know," remarked Senator Sorghum, "when I was more impressed with the fact that there is frequently a valuable lesson to be drawn from the most trivial circumstance than I was at dinner the other day. One of the children got the wish bone." "Oh, yes. One takes one end and another takes the opposite, and the one who gets the longest is supposed to get his wish." "Exactly. And I took occasion then and there to impress upon their youthful minds how much in this life depends on having a good pull." Washington Star. 81.00 FUIt 14 CENTS.

Millions now plant Salzer's seeds, hut millions more should; hence offer. 1 pkg. Bismarck Cucumber 15o 1 pkg. Round Globe Beet 10c 1 pkg. Earlrest Carrot 10c 1 pkg.

Kaiser Wilhelm Lettuce i5c 1 pkg. Earliest Melon lOo 1 pkg. Giant Yellow Onion 15o 1 pkg. 14-Day Radish 10c 3 pkgs. Brilliant Flower Seeds 15c Now all of above 10 packages, Including our mammoth plant and seeC catalogue, are mailed you free upoa receipt of only 14 cents' postage.

25 pkgs. Earliest Vegetable Seed. $1.00 21 Brilliant Blooming Plants fl.OG John A. Salzer Seed La Crosse, Wis. w.n Flowers should be placed in water as soon as possible after being picked; when wilted slightly a plunge Into hot water with a little sal volatile will accomplish wonders in the way of reviv ing them.

TO CURE A COLI IN (KNE DAV. Take Laxative Ilromo Quinine ThWo's. All Druggists refund the money il it fails Bathing is positively the best cosmetic in the world, and any physician will say so. Itegular hours for eatinji and abstinence from rich food is the next best, and regular hours for sleep ing come third. Jirer try a 10c, box of Coscarcta.

candy cathartic, the iinest liver and bowel reKaUtor made. If you're in the habit of biting olf the ends of your silk thread wile sewing and notice that the bitten end gives a sweet taste, stop the practice. Acetate of lead has been used to make the silk heavy, and you are getting some of it. Unfortunately for the human race, few of us feel that our particular sphere is worthy of our best energies. Milwaukee Journal.

and trne-ls the verdict of the people i rpRanV.n flood's Sarsaparilla. Catarrh. rof ula, rhej-matUm, dyspepsia, aervoua troubles yield to Sarsaparilla "ho Best In facMhneTrao Blood Pari flor. An.ta Oiltc cure nausoa, inditrefitlon, 'OUU Jrlllo Liliouaucsd. liSccuts.

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Waahiiurton, l. fn.ENS.0NS. PATENTS. WJ Pi W. I WJXKSTCI.

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Waif)ml im 10tt( Dfi Ksy's Liin Oslo ufd throadf1 W. N. U. Kansas City. No.

5. 1897. Beat tObttb foyrup. Gm. V.

3 i Z3 FfDOCoJ Garden City Herald: A smooth ongued, well appearing man, who gave his name as J. L. Dutton, was in town the latter part of last' week, and but for a little mistake in purchasing an indellible ink, would have reaped a large harvest of tender young suckers. He represented himself to be an implement and hardware company agent and claimed that his company was anxious to introduce a new lister, worth $55, which would be sold for 10 and 55.25 freight ia those who would contract to take the machine. Dutton tried to obliterate the word lister in the contract with the erasers he carried with him all the time, but they iimply changed its color, showing that tt had been tampered with.

He went to Quincy Adams in K. E. Gray's drug fctore, and asked for something which would accomplish his purpose. Adams referred him to A. B.

Pat ton as knowing more about such work. Dutton went to Patton, who informed him that he made the ink and it was chem ical proof. The experiments of the swindler becoming known, he lost his nerve and hastily left for the East Superintendent Stryker's text book bill provides for the following prices: Spelling books 10 cents, first reader 10 cents, second reader 15 cents, third reader 20 cents, fourth reader 30 cents, fth reader 35 cents, United States history 45 cents, third part arithmetic 35 cents, complete geography 45 cents. This cuts the present prices more than 50 per cent, and includes transportation to the various districts also. It is generally thought by the representatives that the bill will pass.

Most of the members from the west are enthusiastic in its support. The temperance people of Iola have a novel way of securing convictions of joint-keepers. When such a case is called all the temperance men and women crowd into the court room. The mission of the men is to get on the jury, and that of the women to shame the witnesses into telling the truth. The Register says that when fifty women fasten their accusing e3es upon a witness he blurts out the whole truth and makes his escape as soon as possible.

I. N. McDonald of Winfield has notified the bank commissioner that he will establish a bank, capital $5,000, at Baxter Springs, to take the place of the Warner bank, which failed a few weeks ago. A new bank of $5,000 capital is to be opened at Anthony. The State bank at Hollenberg, Washington county, and Stackpole fc Tobey, bankers at the town of Washington, have notified the bank commissioner that they will go into voluntary liquidation.

Clarence E. Nelson, alias Collins; William II. Shaw, alias Burke, alias Adams, and O. IL Blakesley, alias Fay, alias Everett, who were in jail at Syracuse for the robbery of the depot and hotel at Coolidge, induced the fcherifTs son and another young man to come to their cell to play a game of cards. Then the three overpowered the boys, gagged them, secured their firearms and locked them up.

The desperadoes then stole three horses and rode to the south. New Kansas state board of railroad commissioners consists of ex-Governor Lewelling of Wichita, three year term; William P. Dillard, Democrat, lawyer Of Fort Scott, two 3ear term, and William M. Campbell of Antrim for one year. R.

W. Turner is slated for secretary of the board. Campbell and Dillard replace Simpson and Howe at once but Lowe will hold on until April. Mrs. Finnigan, of Eden, Atchison county, will be 100 years old in a short time.

Mrs. Finnigan has several sons, one of whom.Michael Finnigan. lives in Atchison, and was a tidier with Sherman. She had only one daughter, who ilie'd while her husband was in the army. Mrs.

Finnigan was born in Ireland near the Killarney lakes, and in all her life has never called a doctor. Mrs. Elizabeth Marzolf was the name of an old French lady who died at Cawker City last week. She was years old, having been born on April 23, 1S02, the day the Louisiana purchase was formally ratified by Napoleon. She was the mother of nine children, the grandmother of twenty-six and the great-grandmother of fifty-nine.

Anderson Gray, recently released from the penitentiary, where he went for criminal hypnotism, it is said, will not go back to his second wife, but will hunt up his first spouse and remarry her, having long ago been divorced. It is understood that Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal will soon resign as chairman of the Populist state central eommittee. His term as bank commissioner will expire next month and he then will be reappointed or a term of four In case of his resignation as chairman of the committee, he probably will be succeeded by J. M.

Allen of Neosho county. Sterling Bulletin: The Sterling skimming station during the year 1896 handled 1,400,000 pounds of milk, which yielded 56,000 pounds of butter fat. This, at an average of 15 cents a pound, yielded our farmers $3,400. The station is now receiving milk three days each week and about 7,000 pounds each day. Senator Lucie Baker is a pretty good lawyer and a fair sort of a statesman, but he hasn't a lick of horse sense.

A few months ago he sold a jolt to O. M. Spencer of Kickapoo, for 8100, and the same animal, under the name of Captain Hanks, has just been sold to a New York man for 5,000. A Winfield man has just received a letter written to him thirty-three years ago by a cousin who was then with the Union army in Virginia. Where the letter has 'been all these years is a mystery.

The writer of the "letter was killed in battle soon after the letter was written. Jack rabbits weighing five pounds are bought in Western Kansas at 4 cents each. They are shipped to New York at a freight charge of 10 cents each, and there they sell at 15 cents a pound which would seem to offer a Vremendous profit. Leavenworth county is the home of both Senator Baker and the soon-to-be Senator Harris. The thirty-fourth and final vote in Populist caucus was Harris 57, Little 5, King 32, Madden 2, Breidenthal 5, Martin J.

D. Huston, a famous corn shucker of Farmington, has made a record this season of 4,000 bushels in forty-five days and he is prouder than the town banker with all his money. Representative Trueblood has fathered a bill to redistrict the state so as to give every Populist congressman-elect a district and throw Republican Congressmen Broderick and Curtis in one district. -The bill makes maiket' changes. Burn ham, Hanna, Munger Co.

of Kansas City, under a chattel mortgage of $3,771, took possession of the general merchandise stock of M. A. Co. of Fulton. James A.

Brady, principal of the St. John schools, died at his home in Great Bend of quick consumption. He was considered one of the leading- young educator i the western part of the state. Decision of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commlwio aers. In the matter of the communication of the secretary of the state grange of Illinois dated Jan.

1,1897, embodying a resolution of that body adopted at its December meeting, 1896, asking the board of railroad and warehouse commissioners to reduce the passenger rate from three (3) cents to two (2) cents per mile, the commission is of the opinion that to do so at this tie would be unwise and unwarranted and would be unjust to the railroad interest of the state. While some of the great trunk lines in Illinois might be able to stand such a reduction, yet the smaller 'roads, and those which do almost wholly a local business, and which are now and have been for the last two years struggling for existence, would be most seriously affected by it. Such action on our part would simr ply increase the heavy burdens under which they are staggering now. It is a fact to those who have taken the trouble to investigate the amount of passenger business done by the railroads in Illinois during the past two years that there has been a large decrease in- the number of. passengers carried.

This is due in our judgment not to the amount charged for such service but to the general depression in all lines of business, the low prices of farm products and the unsettled financial conditions which have had their effect on the passenger as well as the freight business. And it is also a fact, as shown by the sworn reports of the railroads of Illinois that the capital invested in such property has not paid even a fair interest to the stockholder. This question was before us when we revised the freight schedule in 1895, and the whole question was- thoroughly considered. We did not think then and neither do we feel now that in justice to both the public and the railroads, because each should stand on the same equality before the law, this reduction should be made at this time. If the country was prosperous our conclusions might be different.

The statistics in our office show that for the past three years, 1894, 1895 and 3896, the average amount charged by the railroads per passenger mile is a fraction above two cents, although the maximum allowed them was three cents. For the reasons above stated we do not feel that this reduction should be made at this time. We are also asked to recommend this reduction to the legislature. In view of our conclusion we do not feel that it Avould be consistent for us to do so; however, the legislature has the power to regulate the maximum rate which can be charged for passenger service and we leave the matter to their wisdom. (Signed) W.

S. CANTRELL, Chairman. THOS. GAHAN. Attest: J.

W. YANTIS. Secretary. Jan. 12, 1897.

Degenerate Names. Plain Mary Ann and Sarah Jane have been so regenerated that they scarcely know themselves. Take Mary for instance. It is a beautiful, sweet and musical name, but somebody shortened it to May. May became Mae and Maye and Mai.

It appears bizarre in its new dress, but it doesn't appear a bit better. Then Sarah got too prosaic, so it was transformed into Sara, Zara, Sairahe and goodness knows how many more outlandish forms. Edith is Edythe, Luella is Llewella, Jane is Gean, Esther is Es-thur, Alice is Alys, and so it goes indeterminately. While the new women are engaged so busily in organizing for various good and eharitable causes, why not organize a "society for the prevention of cruelty to names?" Possibly there are too many women in love with new spelling. It is a dreadful tax on young men to address a note to a young lady as Miss Catherine Page, for instance, only to ascertain that she spells it and is quite put out because he knows no better.

New York Telegram. Teaching Vanderbilt Pere a Lesion. Of the late William II. Vanderbilt his father, the commodore, had but a poor opinion of his business ability and told him he could live on a farm that he owned on Staten Island and that was all he would do toward his support. Some time after that the old gentleman inquired of the son how his farm was doing.

The bitter replied that the crop was not good and the farm seemed to need fertilizing. "Well' said the commodore, "there is a lot of horse refuse at my stable. I will give you a load only one," and he wrote out an order for the one load. The next day the commodore went to his place and was surprised to see the entiie collection had disappeared. "Where has that he asked of his stable hand.

"Why, William II. took "But he only had an Order for one load." "That's all he took." "Why, what did he have? "A flat-boat' A Great African Lake. The region of Lake Rudolf in the "Dark Continent'' will soon become well known to the geographers and colonizers of Africa. Two new explorers have supplemented Dr. Donaldson Smith's travels in that part of the world.

A brother Englishman, A. II. Neumann, has followed the track of the original explorers along the eastern shore of the lake, while an Captain Bottego, is now on his way to Mombasa. Lake Rudolph was discovered by Count Teleki in 188S. It hr.s no visible outlet.

The pressnt researches around this equatorial sea bid fair to aid considerably in the development of British East Africa. In France there is a law compelling physicians to write their prescriptions the language of their country. Ten Thousand Revolutions a Blinate- At least one large firm manufactur ing dyamos and motors is at work upon a motor that will run at a speed -it 10,000 revolutions a minute. This motor, if it can be successfully constructed, will be used by the United States government on men-of-war to itart the propelling machinery of Ho w-jll torpedoes just before they are fired from their tubes. This torpedo is propelled by the energy stored in a small fly wheel inside of it, made to revolve it a speed of 10,000 revolutions, and at present a steam turbine is the only inotor of simple form that is available to rotate the fly wheel at that speed.

Sunday Newspapers. We are apt to look upon the Sunday newspapers as a very modern enterprise; but on Sunday 27, 1797, "The Gazette of the United States and Philadelphia Advertiser" printed an edition which contained the following explanation: ''Having been favored by a gentleman who passenger in the stage of Satar-iay evening from New York, with the Sew Y'ork 'Daily Gazette of Saturday, 26th August, we have been induced to anticipate the publication of Monday's America employs 1,250,000 freight jars. Big Manufacturers of America Form a Combine for Mutnal Protection- New York, Jan. 23. After years of quiet but persistent effort the clothing manufacturers of the country have fully organized a combine, to be known as the National Clothiers' association.

It begins operations under a con-! solidation, having this preamble: "The purposes of this association shall be to foster and promote the clothing indus- try of the United States, to promote uniformity and certainty in its customs and usages, and harmony of action among those engaged therein; to reform abuses iu the trade and se-! cure freeodm from unjust exactions; to acquire, preserve and disseminate ac curate, reliable information relative to the clothing trade and to promote a more enlarged and friendly inter- course among those engaged therein." The officers elected are: President, Samnel Rosenthal of Baltimore; first vice president, Alfred Hockstader of New York; second vice president, Adolph Nathan of Chicago; treasurer, Jacob S. Cheur of Cincinnati. The firms pledged to the scheme have an annual output of 330,000,000. They assert with vehemence prices are not to be tampered with and that each manufacturer will be at liberty, as heretofore, to conduct his business as he pleases. LITTLE PETE KILLED.

San Francisco's Most Noted Chinaman Murdered by Highbinders. Sax Fraxcisco, Jan. 25. The murder of Little Pete, the boss of Chinatown, who was shot by Highbinders Saturday night, has created a sensation here. Little Pete was a power in San Francisco among both whites and Chinese.

The murdered i 1 LA lilu AJLtCbVl 4. OX1 CAVA 1 transaction in Chinatown. He owned gambling dens and brothels, and landed many Chinese illesrallv. He was a true gambler, and the game was not known that he could not beat. His brief but lucrative campaign at the race track.here surprised everybody.

I Two years ago Little Pete commenced to play the races. At first he bet legitimately, but found he could not win fast enough. He soon found means to work a sure thing, however. I Three of the best jockeys at the track were secretly in his employ, and the Chinese plunger commenced to win heavily. He is credited with having cleaned up $100,000 before his scheme was discovered, and he, with his jockeys, was ruled off the turf.

NOCORPORATION POLITICS A Stringent Bill Certain to Missouri House, Jefeebson City, Jan Pass the 23. The Special committee of the House appointed to investigate the efforte of the railroads and other corporations to influence elections has reported through Bohart of Clinton a substitute for the bills on that subject now pending before the House. The bill provides that all employes of corporations shall have four hours on election day without loss of wages. No corporation can, through its officers or employes, try to influence the votes of any person or distribute campaign literature of any kind. Corporations acting under charters of this state are to be punished by forfeit of their charter for any kind of coercion.

Foreign corporations are to be punished through their officers, who are to be subjected to a penitentiary sentence limited to five years for intimidation or bribery, threats of discharge or promises to employ. It is a misdemeanor punishable by fine for them to distribute literature. A PACIFIC AGREEMENT Attorney General Harmon Succeeds in Protecting the Government's Interests. Washington, Jan. 22.

The attorney general has entered into an agreement with the reorganization committee of the Union and Kansas Pacific railroads, by which the government is to join the committee in the foreclosure proceedings. The commit-1 tee guarantees to the government that at the foreclosure sale it shall receive a bid of at least the original amount of the bond, less payments made by the company to the government ith interest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum. The agreement has been signed and active steps will be taken in a few days. Duestrow's Money All Gone. St.

Louis, Jan. 21. The share of Murderer Arthur Duestrow in his father's estate has been about 15,000 a year, but he owes more to-day than I he could pay if he lived twenty years 1 and should not spend a cent. Not only is there no money for further trial purposes, but his leading counsel ex-Governor G. P.

Johnson, who received 56,000, has, according to his own testimony, paid out in Duestrowrs be half 3,500 of the 6,000. Spain lias Her Scheme Ready. Washixgtox, Jan. 23. The reform scheme for the island of Cuba has been perfected by the Spanish government, and its promulgation and application is now a matter of but a few days, unless some untoward happening disturbs the program.

It will not be announced to-day. however, as was anticipated in some quarters, from the faet that that day will be the young king's saint day. Urged to Support Dubois. Washixgtox, Jan. 25.

Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, to-day sent a telegram to Secretary Walsh, who is in Idaho, saying in the strongest terms that party expediency demanded that the Democrats in the Idaho Legislature vote for Dubois. Attorney Commits Suicide. Washittbtov. Jan. 25.

JosTh T. Peyton, a patent attorney, committed! spondency due to physical disorders, was, it is believed, the reason for the act. British Bark Burned. Lojtdox, Jan. 25.

The British bark John O'Gaunt has been burned and sunk at Tocopilla. The captain perished, but all the others on board were saved. Big Claims for Damages. Birmingham, Jan. 25.

The total amount of damages claimed of the Louisville and Nashville railroad cn account of the Cahaba river wreck, to date, is 365,000. Millionaire Fatally Hart. GrELPH, Ontario, Jan. 25. William Bell, the millionaire organ and piano manufacturer of Guelph, was probably fatally injured while returning from Toronto yesterday.

I was credited MERCURY FAR BELOW ZERO AT MANY PLACES. Falls Fifty Degrees at Milan, Mo. Cold lVave Extends Eastward to the Ohio Valley and Southward as Far as Texas Thirty-Two Below in North Dakota Washington, Jan. 25. The forecast of the weather bureau says: The severe cold wave now extends as far east as the Ohio valley and southward to Texas, where the temperature has fallen from 20 to 40 degrees in the past twenty-four hours.

It is below freezing in Tennessee and Central Texas. It is below zero in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, and 20 degrees below zero over the Dakotas and Minnesota. The indications are that the cold wave will extend eastward and southward over the Atlantic and gulf coasts Monday. The temperature will fall to near zero from Virginia northward, and freezing weather will extend southward to the gulf and South Atlantic coasts. Coldest in Twenty-Five Years.

Chicago, Jan. 25. According to the records of the weather bureau yesterday, was the coldest day in Chicago in twenty-five years. At no time since the Chicago station has been established has there been so low a maximum temperature recorded. The suffering among the poorer class is intense, and a number of cases of destitution were reported to the police.

liy middight the thermometer registered 17 below, having dropped 5 degrees since 8 o'clock, The cold is made more intense as it is accompanied by a biisk, sharp wind. Thirty-Two Below In North Dakota. ISismarck, N. Jan. 25.

A severe blizzard prevailed all day, with the mercury 33 below zero and a high wind blowing. Twenty-Five Below in Iowa. Waterloo, Iowa, Jan. 25. Yester day -was ths coldest of the season.

The mercury was 28 below in the morning and 15 below at noon. The railroads suffered from tha snow, and trains were late several hours on all roads. Fell Fifty Degrees In Missouri. MiLAV, Jan. 25.

The mercury fell 50 degrees here Saturday night, reaching 10 below zero, the coldest it has been here for years. It was accompanied by a great blizzard, doing great damage to stock. Cabthage, Jan. 25. The cold wave reached here yesterday, and is the severest touch of winter on record this season, A fall of 62 degrees was registered and snow fell early in the day.

A Woman Arrested for Murder. Atwood, Jan. 25. Mrs. Hannah E.

Gilmore was arrested Wednesday night on complaint sworn out by her husband, charging her with being an accomplice of her son-in-law, Reuben Kinker, who is now confined in the county jail awaiting trial at the March term of court for the shooting of Gilmore, December 22. At her preliminary hearing Saturday she was dismissed on account of an irregularity in the papers. She was immediately arrested on a warrant sworn out by the couuty attorney, and her preliminary hearing set for the 27th inst. Sensational developments are looked for at this trial and it is expeeted that more arrests will ollow. Negro and White Girl Elope.

Jan. 25. Jesse Gooding, a black negro, eloped from Schuyler county with Miss Annie Abbott, a white girl under age, and by false affidavits, secured a marriage licence here and they were married by the Rev. Mr. Page, colored.

Yesterday they were arrested by Detective Turner and taken back to Schuyler county. Chinese "Jumper" Lynched. Xei.son, B. Jan. 25.

Superintendent Hussy, of the provincial police, is endeavoring to locate the prime movers in a lynching that took place recently at Pavillion Point. A China-mamed Look Li, who had "jumped" a fellow Celestial's claim, was found hanging to the end of a rope. Receiver for a Bank. Excelsior Springs, Jan. 26.

The Merchants and Farmers' bank went into the hands of a receiver Saturday night. Judge J. M. Sandusky of Liberty is receiver. Nothing definite as to the condition of the bank can be learned, but it is said that it is entirely solvent and will pay out in full to every depositor.

Captain Kins In Charge. St. Loos, Jan. 25. Captain Ilenry King, chief editorial writer of the paper, has been appointed to succeed the late Joseph Ji.

McCullagh as editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Captain King has been in practical charge of the paper for the last two years. Died of Friendly Advice. New York, Jan.

25. Miss Lillian Templeton is dead, as a result of taking a prescription of a friend who meant no wrong. Miss Templeton had been suffering from a cold. A friend gave her a prescription which called for equal parts of spirits of camphor, peppermint, laudanum and balsam of fir. Earthquake Kills Many.

London, Jan. 25. A dispatch to the Times from Teheran, Persia, reports that 1,400 bodies have been recovered from the ruins which resulted from the recent earthquake on the island of Kisham in the Persian gulf, the inhabitants of which were estimated to number 5,000, mostly Arabs. The Santa Fe Ordered to Topeka, Jan. 2V United States District Judge Foster to-day granted a writ to compel the Santa Fe railway company to make its annual report to the interstate commerce commission.

The report was due last June. The President Widewateb, Jan. 25. President Cleveland arrived here early this morning on the lighthouse steamer Maple. The party put out for the ducking shore soon after daylight and spent tne morning the blinds.

General II. G. Thomas Dead. Oklahoma Crrr, Okla. Jan.

25. General H. G. Thomas of Portland, died here last night. He owned the Oklahoma City waterworks and other large investments in the territory.

Frozen to Death in a Field. nAMCLTOX, Jan. 25. Frozen stiff, -the body of P. K.

Starling, a negro coal miner was found on the prairie one mile east of town yesterday morning. A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. There are weeds enough in the world to furnish employment for all who dis-iiko them. The world has plenty of inhabitants who have been helped until they are practically helples3. There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people la general take to be happy.

Men who follow their impulses are generally as near right as when they think, and save themselves a vast amount of worry. Louis A. Peltier, an Indianapolis undertaker, has the unsurpassed record of having buried 13,000 persons. He has been in the business sixty years. A stock company recently organized In London offers 660,000 shares of stock to the public at a penny a share.

At that price any one may become a capitalist with invested funds. "His wisdom is a seal upon his lips," said Mentor of Ulysses, "which is never broken save for an important purpose." Happily for congruity, Grant instead of Bismarck was named in honor of this fine quality in the Greek hero. IHbiladelphia has been called upon to return the modern triumphal arch under which Gen. Washington passed at Trenton on his way to the presidential inauguration in 1789. It has been demanded by the owner and will be placed In one of the rooms in the Trenton Battle monument.

The arch was loaned to the city during the centennial, and was deposited in Independence Hall, subject to demand of the owner, Miss Mary Armstrong owned it then and was given a receipt for the arch from Col. Frank M. Etting, now deceased. Miss Armstrong died in 1882, and her legal heir, Elmer Ewing Green, has asked the return of the arch through Gen, S. Stryker.

The statistics of new railroad equipment built in this country in 1896 show that we have built more locomotives than in 1895 and very many more cars. Carrying comparisons back two years, the increases "both in locomotive output and in car building are very great. The figures presented by the Railroad Gazette show that we built this year 4S0 locomotives more than in 1894 and 74 more than last year. The actual number of engines built in 1896 was 1,175, and in 1895, 1,101 engines. An interesting feature which is brought out in this summary is the growing importance of export orders.

In 1896 309 engines were built in this country to export to foreign countries, the engines going chiefly to South America, but also to a considerable extent to Russia, Japan and South Africa. In 1894 only 80 engines were built for export, and in 1895 that number was exceeded, the number built in 1894 having been unusually small; but still the growth reported in 1896 is of especial interest. Locomotive builders in this country at present have orders on. their books for 70 engines for Japan, where most of the engines now in service are of English make. Tragedy may be associated with cheap domestic goods, and with "bargain counters." Articles are kept in stock, and sold by competing dry goods and other stores, the materials of which cost almost fully the price for which the goods may be bought.

The Reverend Doctor Parkhurst of New York had a word to say in a recent sermon about goods into which may have been sewed the struggle for life of many a half-starved, wretched woman. He said: "If a lady goes to a store and buys an article that she knowis is mar-valously cheap, and cannot understand how such a piece of hand-made work can be sold at so pitiable a price, she knows, if she knows anything about the industrial conditions of the world she lives in, that some poor girl, in some sickly back alley, has been half-paid for her work, and she the elegant lady gets the benefit of it. This city is full of this, and so is every other city. The purchaser does not kill the girl outright, but she helps to kill her by inches." The preacher's declaration mainly true. Few women, however, etop long enough to realize that in the purchase of such goods they are encouraging extortion; are taking from labor the just returns to which, by the law of God and of human brotherhood, it is entitled; and are a system of trade that, in its cruel effects, holds commerce with privation, and hunger, and vice, and death itself.

Purchasers should think of this whenthey are attracted by the pecuniary allurements of the "bargain counter." Elocution is in the saddle, and riding hard. Every entertainment of any sort, except funerals, is arranged of late so that the elocutionists will have a chance to do a turn. The Poor Food show, at Topeka, is the latest. A number of elucotionists are on the pro gramme, though just what connection there is between elocution and food, no ene knows. A late census of Massachusetts shows, contrary to the general understanding, that her population includes more unmarried men than unmarried women.

The Supreme Court of Idaho has decided a proposed amendment to the constitution of that state receives a majority of the vots on the proposition, whether or not it is a majority of all the votes cast at the --lection, it is carried. This decision establishes the validity of the woman suffrage' amendment voted on at the recent election. Idaho i3 thus the fourth state to give women full suffrage on the same terras as men. The unexpected generally disappoints more persons than it satisfies. ivicnarus.

bnouse ana uewut Judicial Apportionment W. Fairchild, chairman; Messrs. Marks, Ernst, McKeever, Simmons. Outcalt, Goodno, Davis, Harvey, Botkin. Russell, Walters, Doyie, Barkley, Farrell, Bradley, Turner, Merrill.

Jaquins, Wright, MartyC Johnson of Nemaha, Bas-gall, Armstrong, Lambert of Lincoln, Kavenscroft, Tapscott, Lobdell, Conger and Palenske. Cities of the Second Class M. T. Jones, chairman; Messrs. Muenzenmayer, Johnson of Labette, Brown of Cowley, Lambert of Lyon.

Bueil and Barker. Mileage J. S. Richards, chairman; Messrs. Gillespie, Wallace, Smith of Sherman, Dalton, Jackson of Harvey and Poison.

Live Stock E. Jacquins, chairman; Messrs. Conger, Ravenscraft, Singleton, Russell, Lambert of Lincoln, Johnson of and Irwin. Temperance H. W.

Dingus, chairman; Messrs. Barkley, Davis. Carr, Maxwell, Shouse and Poison. Roads and Highways D. Fulton, chairman; Messrs.

Fell, Wallace, Malin, Maxwell, Lftwis, Bacon, Bradlev and McKeever. Jan. 19. The Senate and House met in joint convention in Representative hall at noon and elected John S. Parks of Beloit to pe state printer for the term commencing July 1, 1897.

Parks received 74 votes trot the House and 29 from the Senate 103 in all. The Republicans complimented Major J. K. Hudson. He received 47 votes from the House and 10 from the Senate 57 in alL A number of bills were introduced la both houses.

Jan. 21. The Senate passed Mr. Young's bill for the reduction of fees to be charged by publishers of newspapers for legal notices. The bill makes a reduction of fifty per cent in the present rates charged for such notices.

Mr. Young introduced a bill for the reduction of sleeping car fares. The measure provides that no sleeping car company shall charge more than fifty cents for a double berth for any distance not exceeding 100 miles, nor more than half a cent a mile for any distance greater than 100 miles in the state of Kansas. The House held a brief session and adjourned in order to give committees a chance to work. Jan.

22. Senator Hauna of Clay introduced a bill putting all water, gas and electric light companies under municipal control, and providing that the municipalities granting franchises shall receive a portion of the proceeds as rental for the use and occupancy of the streets and alleys. The bill provides that, after the company has paid all of its rnnrting and contingent expenses, and enjoyed a 6 per cent proat on the sum actually invested, all else of the company's income shall be turned over to the city as rental for the franchise rights. A number of other bills were introduced. Murat Haiti tead briefly addressed both houses.

Speaker Street announced a number of committee appointments. The House session was brief and only a few bills were introduced. Jan. 23. The House devoted the forenoon to the correction of the journal and at noon adjourned until 4 p.

m. Monday. The Senate was not in session. Kansas Desperadoes Escape Easily. Garden City, Jan.

23. Clarence E. Nelson, alias Collins; William II. Shaw, alias liurk, alias Adams, and O. II.

Blakesley. alias Fay, alias Everett, who were in jail at Syracuse for the robbery of the depot and hotel at Coolidge, induced the sheriffs son and another young man to come to their cell to play a game of cards last night. Then the three overpowered the boys, gagged them, secured their firearms and locked them up. The desperadoes then stole three horses and rode to the south. Mr.

Gage Chicago, Jan. president of the of Chicago, will Would Accept. 23. Lyman J. Gage, First National Hank accept the treasury portfolio in Major McKinley's cabinet, if it is tendered to him.

Mr. Gage as much as intimated this to friends, indicating that he would consider it the crowning honor of a successful life. GofT for Attorney General. Caxtox, Ohio, Jan. 23.

It is generally believed that Judge Nathan Goff of West Virginia has been practicalH' determined upon for the attorney general of the next administration, although no direct authoritative statement to that effect has been made. Mayor of Havana Resign. IIavaxa, Jan. 25. Senor Quesada, mayor of.

Havana has resigned. The Diario de la Marina proposes that a military man shall be appointed in his place. The Plague Spreading. St. Petersburg, Jan.

23. Two cases of the plague, which is raging in Bombay, are reported from Karaman island, off the west cost of Arabia, in the Red sea. It is a British possession and one of the leading stations near to the city oi Mecca. A severe quaran- ne has been established by the Eus- Dixon Won In Six Bounds. New York, Jan.

25. George Dixon, champion featherweight pugilist of the world, defeated Australian Billy Murphy of Cincinnati in six rounds at the Broadway Athletic club. Banker McKnight Arrested. Louisville, Jan. 23.

J. M. McKnight, president of the German National bank, which was closed Monday morning, was arrested here yesterday charged with falsifying the bank's books. Mc Knight's parents live in Independence, Kan. A Spanish Defeat.

Kev West, Jan. 25. News was received in Havana yesterday from Cuban sources that a fight occurred at Pijua, Matanzas province, last week, in which the Spanish lost 100 killed and wounded..