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So. tttave GREAT BEND BUNE VOLUME XXIII. GREAT BEND, KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1898. NUMBER 11. T-RX should confine his accusations thereto SANSAS STATE NEWS.

A FAMILY ONLY A BUMMER. NEWS OF THE WEEK a little more along the line of abso i lute facts." CURRENT COMMENT. Thirty ice companies have recently consolidated in Chicago with a capita) of $7,000,000. Fopallet State BMa Regard Pa bile OBm Thus it appears that Ralph Botkin. Wanted to See Hta Spirit rrleade.

Loren Baker, a single man aged So, was found hanging to a tree on the Davles farm near Auburn, Shawnee nice uov. Ledr. was nothing more A terrific rainstorm swept over the northern part of Japan, causing the Ishigari and Shilotsuga rivers to overflow their embankments, washing away whole villages. Nearly 5.00C houses were washed away or wrecked and 26,000 others were inundated. The loss of rice and other crops was enormous.

Seventy thousand persons were Facts as to Ralph Botkin's Army Service Come Out aaap far RotaUves They Otwm Pat Plates to Tfceaa. Notwithstanding a declaration in the than a camp follower, and "bummed" his subsistence off the volunteers. Gleaned By Telegraph and Mail PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Miss Viola Kathbtn Clemons, tht actress, was married at New York on the 12th to Howard Oould, a son of the county where he bad a week before committed suicide. Spiritualism was The Formal Opening Exercises of the Celebration at the Abilene platform against nepotis-n.

the populist state officials go right CONVICTS DO THE WORK. Be Never Was a Soldier How Bis Father Tub number of passengers killed on the railways of Great Britain last year 9wai only 18. England is building at this time no less than 60 warships, with a total displacement of 228,000 tons. along working on the theory that pub Auditorium. the cave of Baker's suicide.

He was a spiritualistic fanatic, and it had been noticed that for some time his mind late Jay Gould. The Poeallst Caupalge Maaagers Tea the lic office is a family snap. There are several thousand populist worker Used Bias to Perpetrate a Fraud Meld aim Up as an Example of th Basalt of "AlgerUm." The emperor and empress of Ger Convicts at the Penitentiary as Dte-trlbators of Uteratnre, receiving government relief. The British ship BlengfelL from New York for London, was destroyed by a sudden fire at Margate, on the 17th. Nine of her crew, including the captain and a pilot, perished.

The PEACE THE THEME OF THE SPEAKERS. many started at nine o'clock on the 12th from Berlin on their journey to the appeared to be unbalanced. He had expressed a desire to visit his spirit friends.at their place of abode, and it is thought that he decided to hang scattered about over the state whoc whooped it np unceasingly for the ticket during the campaign and who felt that they were entitled to a share Holy Land. They go direct to Con stantinople and from thence to Pales The coffin-makers have formed a trust with a capital of 820,000,000, and the New York Tribune says it will now cost more to die than formerly and coffins will deteriorate. Mr.

Feck, Formerly of Kansas, Addresses captain's wife and children were also lost tine. of the pastry, but they have been un Gov. Lord appointed a committee of ceremoniously elbowed out of the way Representatives of railways enter while the relatives of the state officials the Meeting Archbishop Ireland, Samuel Gompers and Others Follow The Fat) Schools Profusely Decorated A Jubilee Ball Given at Muht. ing Omaha, have jointly agreed five well-known citizens of Portland, to collect funds for the purchase have been given places at the public to reduce fares for exposition travel Nominal headquarters of the populist -state central committeee Is at Topeka, but the work of the campaign is mostly done at Lansing within the walls of the state penitentiary, by unpaid convicts who are supported by the taxpayers of the state without regard to political affiliations. In the face of the declaration of the Abilene platform against putting convict labor in competition with free labor, populists who would like a job of a sword to be presented to Capt table.

Gov. Leedy found places for three of his relatites; a neic tn his Clark, of the battleship Oregon. La Lvciia, one of the most prominent daily newspapers in Havana, admitted a few days ago that since 1895, when the last revolt began, 60 per cent of the native Cubans have died. himself, to accomplish this result. Fatal Aecldent at Butcbluson.

Dr. A. H. Robinson, one of Hutchinson's prominent dentists, fell down a flight of stairs the other night and died from the effects of the falL When fonnd his body was lying at the foot of the stairway of his office. He was taken to his home and doctors summoned, but he never rallied except to stat? that he fell.

It is supposed, from the symptoms of his suffering, that in the fall a blood vessel in the to one-half cent a mile within a radius of 200 miles, beginning October 26 and continuing to the 31st Chicago, Oct 19. Eight thousand office, a nephew on the police force of Gen. Julio A. Roca has been inaugu people packed in the Auditorium yes rated president of Argentina. The town of Flagstaff, was Topeka, Oct 14.

Second only to Dr. Wetmore's expose of the Topeka insane asylum scandal is the senation created in political circles here to-day by a written statement made by a volunteer army officer showing up the record of Ralph Botkin, son of Congress-man-at-Large Botkin. Ralph Botkin returned to Leavenworth with the Twenty-second Kansas regiment from Washington recently. He wore a soldiers' uniform. He gained 15 pounds at Camp Alger, so his father said the day he returned.

A few days later Ralph came to Topeka to visit relatives. While here he became sick. He was taken to his home at Win field, where his condition became worse, and where for several days be hovered between life and death. He is now improving. While Mrs.

shermax, wife of former Secre- Kansas City, another nephew on the police department at Leavenworth; the two latter lost their Jobs though. visited by a destructive fire the other terday witnessed the formal opening exercises of the national peace jubilee. All that had preceeded the great morning. The entire block west of even at small wages during the cam retary of State John Sherman, suffered a stroke of paralysis on the IStb at her street home in Washington and was when the pop state convention forced the Bank hotel was destroyed. It is Leedy to abolish the metropolitan po supposed to be the work of firebugs.

meeting was merely preliminary in its nature and most of it in honor of the president personally. Yesterday, how paign are made to stand aside while unpaid convicts do the work of the state central committeee. The lead lice. A movkmknt for the consolidation of all the furniture factories in Wisconsin and the northwest is said to be contemplated. The scheme is to place them under one general head, by which the output can be controlled and expenses decreased.

The losses will foot up 820,000, partial head was ruptured. He was one of in a very critical condition. The stroke affected her entire right side and in brief periods of conscionsness Chief Justice Doster, the high priest the early settlers of Hutchinson. ever, the actual jubilee began. The ers of the reform movement in Kan of populism, worked all the able-bodied ly insured.

Forest nres were also reported raging 13 miles west of Flagstaff, a district two miles square and she was unable to speak. male relatives he had about into office. sas have never been accused of being 6hort of cheek, but this thing of using Woman's Relief Corps Entertainment. The Woman's Relief Corps and Ue got Taylor Riddle, his brother-in- heavily timbered having been burned Gen. Siiafter was accorded a general welcome at the exposition at Oma weather was cold, damp, with lowering skies, and a raw wind blowing off the lake compelled people to seek warm corners, but the crowd was closely packed around the building Ladies' Aid society at Solomon held a the enforced and unpaid labor of crim In response to the suggestion of law, in as a member of the lire stock over.

ha, on the 14th. His address was David Christie Murray, the British inais to conduct a partisan campaign Tee horse show opens at St Louis Ralph was sick, his father. Rev. Mr. reception in honor of the Twenty-second Kansas volunteers before they returned to Leavenworth.

The guests is an exhibition of gall that is well a discussion of the Cuban campaign in sanitary commission. He made bis nephew, Humbert Riddle, who Is a son of Taylor Riddle, a ethnographer. on the 31st novelist and playwright, that a statue to Washington should be erected in nigh sublime- A statement issued by the Atlantic which he declared that the fall of El Caney practically ended the campaign. numbered over 300. An interesting Having heard that the work of the His old law partner, Henry McClaln, fully an hour before the doors were open.

The exercises opened with a short address by Chairman Charles Truax, of the jubilee committee, at Transport company on the 16th re London by public subscription, Dr. Arthur Con an Doyle, the novelist offered the first subscription. garding the fate of those on board the state central committee was being done at Lansing a reporter for the programme, consisting of music and recitations, was given, after which there was a banquet He extolled the virtues of the volunteers as well as the regulars, asserting that all did their whole duty. a son-in-law, assistant supreme court reporter, and wound up by getting bis son. Chase Doster, appointed a major Mohegan, which was wrecked on the 14th off the Lizard on the south coast Leavenworth Times started out to A national association of indoor in the Kansas volunteers.

the conclusion of which he intruduced the presiding officer, George R. Peck, formerly of Kansas. Mr. Peck's address was as follows: of England, indicated that 51 were make a quiet investigation. Before he reached the penitentiary be noticed baseball clubs is in process of forma President McK inlet was the guest of St Louis on the 14th.

From the time of bis arrival he left the Breach of Promise Solt. Marie A. Enns, a stenographer, Judge Allen, of the supreme court rescued and 108 persons perished. tion, according to a recent Chicago dis a convict dressed In a "good man suit Jerry Botkin, congressman-at-large and pop nominee for re-election, spent considerable of his time making campaign speeches. In all of them Mr.

Botkin took occasion to play on the emotions of his hearers by winding in a pathetic story of his son's fate in the army. He told what a good soldier Ralph was, how it took an order from the president for him to get into the army, what a strong physical system he bad when he went in, and how he now lay at home, probably on bis deathbed, as a result of Algerism. People paid considerable attention to the story until brought suit in the court of common While crossing the railroad track We have heard and all the world has heard did not fare so welL He only succeeded in getting bis son In as a clerk for patch. The main object is to knit the on his way to tho Lansing post office pleas at Kansas City recently, through various clubs in the country under a at Irondale, Frank Sass and Wil liam Schoct were killed. how Dewey saluted the morning in the tar 08 orient and lighted up the hazy waters of Ma city he was accorded an almost continuous ovation.

He reviewed the parade and addressed a large crowd at with a sack of papers on bis shoulder. the supreme court reporter. uniform set of rules, so that the game her attorneys. Hale, Craig He. to recover 815,000 damages from Oliver M.

This was campaign literature, sent out John Martin, clerk of the supreme Three steamers collided at Port nila with such a sunrise as they had never seen before. We have known a Fourth of July may gain in prestige and become more from the penitentiary for the purpose court, appointed his daughter, Carrie the Merchants' exchange and drove through the city. At night he spoke made more glorious by the tidings that came. widespread. Huron, and one was sunk and another was badly in jured.

The third Martin, a copy clerk in bis office. telling us how Sampson and Schley and Clark Schee for breach of promise. The defendant is one of the wealthiest and best known farmers of Wyandotte county. at the Coliseum and left afterwards of instructing the people of Kansas to vote the populist ticket It was afterward learned that this trusty had been State Superintendent tryker gave passed on and her injuries were not New York's projected snake show on for Terre Haute, Ind. his wife a job when he first known.

November 12 bids fair to be a rattler. and Evans and Philip and Wainwrieht and the brave sailors behind the guns and on the decks and down where the furnace fires were fiercely burning, fell upon the leviathans of The police at Alexandria, Egypt, AN epidemic of typhoid fever is Live snakes from every clime will be employed for weeks in packing campaign documents from the office of the chief clerk of the penitentiary to the went in, but the pops raised such a row about It that Altbea Briggs resigned and the place was given to a Wells In Parhdale Polluted. Councilman A. Benson, of the Sec the Journal printed an interview which Botkin gave shortly after his son came raging at Whipple Barracks, Ariz. shown, and extra large, rare or beauti arrested nine Italian anarchists who had plotted to assassinate the emperor Spain and sent them to their doom almost In the twinkling of an eye.

The army and the A railway mail robbery occurred ful serpents will receive certificates. of Germany on his way to Jerusalem. post office, although he is supposed to nephew, Delbert btryker. navy, two arms or that mighty giant, the on the night of the 15th near Alliance, A military plot against the French be laboring for the state and not for Lieut Gov. Harvey, now a major la ond ward in Topeka, complained to the health officers that there was tar in all the wells in Parkdale, a suburb of Topeka.

How it came there he Neb. The amount secured was not Scientists from all over the country are going to it, and they will bring reptiles of every variety under the sua American nation, have in equal measure struck unceasingly for the honor of their country and the cause ot a common humanity any political party. known, but was said to be considera government was discovered in Paris on the 14th. The Matin said the plot the army, appointed bis bride as his chief clerk. Offlrer Draw Pay While They Casaralfa.

which, in its highest sense, means universal ble. Two letter pouches were cut open was only for the purpose of changing justice. Six months ago we welcomed war in Capt Morris, state auditor, bad his and all the registered matter and val On reaching the office the reporter made inquiry for Warden Landis and found that he was out in the southern does not explain, but more than 100 wells were reported to be so polluted that water from them was unfit to drink. uable packages were taken. some of the government officials with out touching the president of the re son in his office for several months at a good salary.

the thoughtful, solemn spirit which bents an appeal to the sword To-day we welcome peace and all its blessings. We have given good lives for it. and every life makes it more The grand jury at Kansas City, Mo. back, and before he fell sick, telling bow well Ralph fared in the army. Then they began to doubt bis sincerity, but he kept up the wail in his speeches.

Finally, he got to writing interviews for populist papers on that theme. Story after story was printed about bow Algerism was brought close to the borne of Congressman Botkin. In those interviews Botkin held Alger up to the gaze of the public as a fiend incarnate. He heaped all kinds of vituperation on the head of the secretary of war daily. Other speakers took it up and are still working it public part of the state making stump Senator Greely Jumper, chairman of has voted to indict Jesse James, Jr.

It was reported at Havana that Gen speeches. It was also found that William W. Lowe, Andy Ryan, Charles Was In a Runaway Eepada. Ethel Brewster, a 16-year-old Topeka precious. Victory has come to us In fullest measure.

We have won ships and cannon and Maximo Gomez, the insurgent com T. Tipton, the chief clerk of the penl the state board of charities, had his sister-in-law as his clerk during the legislature and now has his father-in- Tiik New Zealand assembly has passed an oid-uge pension bilL All persons over 05 years will be entitled to its benefits, provided they have not an income of 95 a week coming in or are possessed of property worth more than 2,700. There are certain other qualifications, among them 20 years' residence in the colonv and ten years' exemplary conduct. This shuts off all vagrants, drunkards and so on. Polk, Caleb Stone and the mysterious mander-in-chief, has been elected forts and arsenals Cities have opened their cirl.

took morphine with suicidal in tentiary, was at Topeka putting in bis "Evans" for the robbery of the Mis president of the Cuban government, entire time as secretary of the popu gates and islands in both hemispheres have welcomed the arms and the institutions of souri Pacific train near Kansas City on list state central committee. Both tent, but the prompt arrival of a physician and a stomach pump saved her. The girl was mixed up in a runaway but the fact will not be made public for some time. He had previously de the night of September 23. Auditor Morris at Washington has freedom But the greatest prize we have won, in its consequences to us as a people, is the supreme victory which north and south have won over each other.

Verily, this Is the year clined the nomination, but it was ex these gentlemen had been away for weeks, but each one bad been drawing his salary with regularity, the warden escapade about a week ago, ana it is carefully considered the arguments ol But the whole story was effectually pected he would now accept it. thought that remorse over this anair of jubilee Swedish journals which recently caused her to attempt her own life. at the rate of 12,500 a year and the After Mr. Peck had terminated his arrived at Chicago stated that they the claimants to prize money for the destruction of Cervera's fleet but has decided that he cannot and will not settle any of the claims until they chief clerk at the rate of fL-JOO. It address he introduced Mayor Harri- had positive evidence that Walter might be mentioned here that when son.

of Chicago, who delivered the Wellman, an American explorer, had guara wno a raws a salary ol 150 a have been adjudicated by the courts formal address of welcome to Presi- law, a patent medicine vender, in the medical department of the Oaawato-tnie aaylum. Jumper Is the individual who introduced a bill at the last aea-sion of the legislature prohibiting nepotism. Pat Dolan, treatnrcr of the state board of charities, has a son on the pay roll of the Topeka insane asylum. S. Wheeler, secretary of the state board of charities, got his sister a fat job at the Topeka insane asylum, but she was fired for some reason a short time ago.

W. L. Brown, formerly chairman of the state board of charities, but now a major in the volunteers, bad landed two relatives in positions at the state month is sick for even a day, or loses a of the United States. found traces of Andree, who started for the north pole in a balloon, in dent McKinley and the strangers who few hours from any cause, be is docked. At Graphic, a trading point IS miles had come to Chicago to witness the Fashion's latest freak is the employment of poultry feathers on women's hats and bonnets, and plumes of domestic fowls are displayed in large numbers in the newest feminine headgear for autumn.

This is a result of the Spread of the movement for the pro-lection of wild birds from destruction for milliners' purposes, in which cru-tade the sympathies of thousands of persons of the gentler sex have been enlisted. Franz Joseph Land. Christian Church Denomination. The state convention of the Christian church denomination at Washington last week, elected W. Chenault, of Fort Scott, president, and Mrs.

Ora McPherson, of Topeka, secretary. Rev. O. L. Smith, of Wellington, was elected superintendent of Christian Endeavor work.

Status of the Twentieth Kansas. but when the chief officials are away north of Van Buren, Ark. P. P. Cra- ceremonies of jubilee week.

Thepresl The Twentieth Kansas at San Fran ham was held up at the point of two for weeks at a time, neglecting their duties, they draw full pay. This cir dent who received a most enthusias cisco has been ordered to get ready to six-shooters in the hands of as many punctured to-day by an army officer, Lieut A. F. Williams, a regimental recruiting officer of the Twenty-second Kansas. He not only punctures it, but tells a story that dumbfounds populist officials and politicians here.

lie Bays that Ralph Botkin was never in the army; that he was nothing more than a camp follower; that he "bummed" bis rations and clothes from volunteers, and worked the government out of transportation from Camp Alger to Middletown, and from there to Fort Leavenworth. Lieut Williams tells the story over his signature. Here it is: "Below is a conglae statement of the facts concerning the army record o' go to Manila. cumstance shows the extreme partial tic welcome as he entered the build' ing, made no formal reply to the ad masked men and was relieved of near Rev. Stephen Kaminski, bishop of ity the party ox reform bas for the ly $1,000 in cash and checks.

Graham dresses of welcome, notwithstanding the Independent Polish Catholic church poor laboring man and humble guard. was a cattle buyer and was known to the large calls that were made upon jf Buffalo, N. has been excominu In the office of the chief clerk of the have received the money. him for a speech. Following the ad aicated from the Roman Catholic penitentiray was a big pile cf nam nstitutions, but both were discharged Numerous requests have been re dress of Mayor Harrison came Arch by the pope.

for incompetency. ceived at the war department from Theodore Cox, a member of the New bishop Ireland, of St. Paul. Archbishop Ireland, who spoke for the Frank Shane, another member of the municipal authorities and enterprising York stock exchange, offered to bet The entrance into Constantinople of the German emperor on his way to Jerusalem will be unique and imposing. He will ride on a pure-bred Arab stallion, the gift of the sultan.

The metal part of the harness will be of pure gold and silver. He will be accompa citizens for a share in the captured board, succeeded in getting one rela Francisco telegram said the Twentieth Kansas might be the first of the troops to embark for Manila. By sickness, death and discharges the Kansas regiment has been reduced from its full strength of 1,267 men and 47 officers to 1,121 men and 43 officers. Dr. Wetmore'e Successor Chosen.

Dr. L. D. McKinley, of Topeka, was ihosen superintendent of the Topeka north, said in part: 10,000 even money that Roosevelt tive on the pay rolL Six months ago the congress of the United would be elected governor of New Warden Landis, of the penitentiary. States declared war should be waged in order to give to the island of Cuba a stable and inde Spanish cannon, but as they are the property of the United States they cannot be disposed of except by act of congress.

York. The news reached the demo Ralph W. Botkin. son of J. D.

Botkin, congressman at large. This statment I make from the fact that I have seen comments in newspapers and have phlets, bundles of literature and other campaign material, partof it addressed and ready for the "trusty" to maiL A number of prisoners were at work addressing and stamping Warden Landis' report which contains an alleged official write-up of the workings of the prison, but which should be called a populist stump speech instead of a warden's report It contains a political argument in favor of Landis' management and, incidentally, the has a brother and one other relative on the pay roll of the penitentiary. cratic headquarters and in a short pendent government. Magnificent patriotism nied by more than 100 retainers of high and low degree. The crusaders of America! The people of the United States time the bet was taken by the demo Dr.

Ilioton, superintendent of the at once arose in their miht. They argued not. crats and the preliminaries settled insane asylum to succeea ur. u. are expected to leave the Turkish capital October 23 and enter the Holy City they hesitated not: America had spoken; theirs Osawatomie asylum, bas given his son a soft snap at that institution.

ind the money put up. AVetmore, resigned. Dr. McKinley is on the 21) th. The Mount of Olives will 1 he national peace jubilee was in democrat and has been physician at Railroad Commissioner Lewelling was not to judge, but to obey.

Ore it had been whispered that we had a north and a south; when America spoke, we knew we were but one people, that all were Americans. It had been be visited on the 'JOth, and the crown augurated at Chicago on the night of the asylum for several months. ing ceremony will be the dedication had his nice, Viola Bishop, as bis clerk during the legislature, and then the 4.6th with a union thanksgiving whispered that social and economic lines were of the Church of the Redeemer on the service at the Auditorium. President A Young Heiress Cheated. After a search of two weeks detect hopelessly dividing the American peo anded her in a position at the peol- list McKinley attended and listened to ad tentiarv.

ives located Miss Mamie Norton, for dresses by a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic ple, and that the patriotism was retreating before the growth ot class interests and class prejudices. But when Cot Hank Lindaey, of the Kansas Tnr records of the patent office show. The dead body of James Prall, a farmer, living near Middlebury, was found at his home with a bullet hole through his temple. His wife was alive, although four bullets were in her body. The inference was that Prall shot his wife and then killed himself.

John Grace, a North Christian (Ky.) planter, harnessed a mule and was riding it to a field to sow some wheat when the animal ran off, throwing him. As he fell one foot caught in a trace and he was 'dragged nearly a mile over a rocky road, receiving fatal injuries. A dispatch from Dominion City, stated that a Galician man and priest, a Presbyterian clergyman and America spoke, there was no one in the land the Cleveland Leader says, that Amer volunteers, got Leedy to appoint his brother as quartermaster of the colored orator. The applause for the whom $15,000 in property was waiting at Centralia, Kan. Miss Norton was employed as stenographer in a Denver commission house.

who was not an American. America can never ican investors are more active than oresident was terrific and he had to heard many re marks derogatory to the action of Secretary Alger in relation to the treatment of young Botkin. As regimental recruiting officer of the Twenty-second Kansas volunteers, I am in a position to state the facts in regard to the same. "Ralph Botkin applied to me for enlistment about the middle part of June, 1898, at Camp Alger, Va. He presented himself on the day I designated for a physical examination and after a very fair examination was rejected.

I told him he could under no circumstances get into our regiment, as he was not physically fit for military service, lie was only 16 years old, but be filed a written consent of his father with bis application. "After his rejection, which was, as the physician stated, on account of a cataract on the left eye, slight phy ever. Last year broke all previous doubt the united loyalty of the whole population, nor the power which such united loyalty puts into her hand. I look forward to an epoch espond to the frantic cheering, al Three populist district judges made records for applications made, and the jhough the services were of a religious 8tate Equal Suffrage Association. The annual meeting of the Kansas populist party.

Of course the state is paying the postage on this document which is scattered broadcast over the state at the taxpayers expense. Some of the campaign literature is prepared and printed by the editor of the Lansing News. While he is preparing literature for the populist committee he is drawing a salary as "extra guard." Among the documents that the convicts are now sending out for the purpose of instructing the people of Kansas, are the speech of Altgeld, of Illinois, and pamphlets treating on such familiar populistic phrases as "cause and cure for panics," "real money and standards," "the golden vampire," "the silver cornucopia," character. when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle international differences, instead of the court a family affair by appointing relatives as court stenographers. W.

number of patents issued was enormous. The range of work of inventors Mrs. John Sherman was reported Equal Suffrage association will be keeping large standing armies, as they do in was greater than ever before, and nuch better on the 10th. A. Randolph, of Emporia, has his wife as his official stenographer, besides bis brother is a member of the state board held at Paola October 21-22.

Among the speakers will be Miss Susan B. activity in new fields by no means Europe. Some weeks ago the czar of the Russian said the maintenance of general peace and the possible reduction of the excessive At Chicago on the 17th the inclem caused a lack of improvements in int weather caused the postponement Antony and Mrs. Carrie Chapman-Catt his four children were found dead in a of pardons. machines, tools, implements and de the bicycle parade.

President Me Judge W. Sbinn named his daugh vices of all kinds which seemed to house. The man's head was nearly severed from his body by an ax and Kinley was escorted to the University armaments which weiKh upon all nations present themselves in the existing conditions of the whole world as an ideal toward which th? endeavors of all governments should be directed: and, in accordance with those views, he invited all nations to send ter as stenographer and Judge McKay have been well perfected. The oppor of Chicago by cadets from the Culver the four children were more or less Minor State News. Natural gas was discovered on the H.

Rayner farm near Wichita. Frof. Edwards, an aeronaut, fell named his brother. tunities for invention seem to increase mutilated. The wife of the man was military academy and the degree of LL.

D. was conferred upon him. Be Judge B. F. Milton, judge of the ap with all the advances made from year sique and under height added to which representatives to an international peace missing and was thought to have com mitted the crime.

2,000 feet from a balloon at Grenols to year. ''what must we do to be saved?" "the long hidden secret brought to light; pellate court, appointed bis wife as his court stenographer. congress, in which the question of reducing the and was killed. fore the ceremonies took place Mr. McKinley mounted a stand with an umbrella and reviewed a long line of stu Tiik annual report of Commissioner The barge Churchill, loaded with ore from Duluth, sank in the rough Just to show that nepotism is con- Maggie Fletcher, a young Wichita armaments of the several countries of the world and otherwise preparing some plan for the prevention of wars might be discussed.

The militarism of Europe is a curse second why bankers oppose a sound and sufficient currency made clear at last" How Populists Make Employes Pat Co. Hermann, of the general land office, girl, was permanently blinded by a dents. An informal reception was tageous among the popuiista, the record of the populists in the legislature estimates that over 11,000,000,000 feet water off Waukegan, 111., and the cap-tain and a deck hand were drowned. given afterwards at the armory. horse splashing water in her face.

of public timber have been destroyed niie tne warden is out campaign is given. Senators rorney. King and An appeal to Cubans for aid to needy only to the terror of the battlefields But something may be done; and that is worthy contending for. The proposal for a universal While attempting to cross a bridge The Atlantic Transport company's ing and also drawing his salary, while by fire in the past 35 years, represent Householder named their daughters in the Missouri Pacific yards at Fort insurgents has been made by Gen. ing In value many millions of dollars.

peace congress is an advent, however small. as their clerics, senators Hart and Scott J. K. Dye, a wealthy stockman towards what must ever te for the friends of steamer Mohegan was driven ashore off the Lizard on the south coast of England, and out of 200 persons on board only 31 were said to have been Many of our western forests are re- Helm had no daughters so they named humanity, tor the discipies of reason and re was my objection, alone sufficient to reject under age he left camp. "Botkin went to Washington, about 18 miles, and procured an order from the secretary of war, indorsed by President McKinley, which was obtained by his father's influence, being a congressman, requesting his enlistment I took him to division headquarters, and consulted my superior in the recruiting and mustering service, and showed him the papers, and he refused to muster young Botkin, the same as I did.

In order to settle the affair I went to Washington and presented the whole matter in to to and was sustained in every point While at the the convicts are employed in distributing campaign literature among the people, the warden's office is left in charge of his stenographer. This young lady, in answer to an inquiry of Metz, fell and was instantly killed. ported to be peculiarly liable to fires, H1SCKIXANKOL-S. Snow fell on the in Missouri, their sons as clerks. Reprehcntative Cassin, Gray, Johnson, Hibuer and the inflammable character of the high saved.

ligion, the ultimate goal of their holiest ambition. Judge Speer, of followed At the annual meeting of Kansas Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. ly resinous trees in certain portions of Patten got their daughters in a clerk Two boilers in the state asylum for 9 9 IS Commander Ballington Booth, of Friends at Lawrence steps were taken to centralize the work of their uni of committees. Representatives True- Archbishop Ireland. He spoke for the the dangerous and criminally insane from the reporter, gave a little interesting information in regard to popu the west and the hot, dry climate of those regions combining to make fires the Volunteers of America, announced versity at Wichita and to push an en blood and Ingalls had their sons on the pay roll as committee clerks.

at Ionia. burst the other day, killing Harry Hanley, of Saginaw, and list campaign methods. She said: frequent and destructive. The mat dowment. it Cleveland, that he has about perfected plans for a new organization, to be known as the Federation of south, but his remarks pertained principally to the history of Spain in America from the discovery by Columbus to the blowing up of the Maine, "There is not much doing now.

I have ter, he says, is clearly one demanding measures proportionate to the issues fatally wounding Jack Hogan, both inmates. Two others, inmates, were Over 200 delegates attended the an It is evident from this record first, that campaign pledges do not weih been busy writing and working for Christian Workers, which will be cotn- nual meeting at Atchison of the Cen the state committee, and finally just involved. also hurt heavily on the populist official, and josed of branches organized all over adjutant general's office, after con refused to do it any longer for noth Executive business occupied the tral Protective association, an organization to run horsethieves to earth. The Milwaukee police have found country. The members are to be and the Spaniard's loss of his last foothold in this hemisphere.

Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor also spoke in part ing." closing day's session of the grand en christian workers in the churches, who an alleged polygamist who, they say. All the old officers were re-elected. second, the average populist official takes the modified Scriptural view that the man who doesn't get jobs for bis own relatives is worve than an infidel. "Did they make yon work for noth campment Knights Templar at Pitts has married from 12 to 2D women. His ire to be banded together and their The Fort Scott Memphis railroad ing?" was asked.

as follows: burgh, on the 14th. An amendment to the constitution was adopted name is Frederick William Doesing, especial talents for doing some kind of bad two freight wrecks in one day last "Yes they did. The committee takes $2.50 of my wages every month and All honor to the brave and valiant soldiers who, by their tact, judgment and heroism planned and executed the war and brought vic providing for a reduction in the per eligious work developed. The United States military eimmiv but he has many aliases. The police allege that Doesing has been in the then wanted me to work for nothing." capita tax from five to three cents.

ion at Havana recommended that "Do they assess you every month? The new grand othcers were installed sulting with President McKinley's private secretary, from whom I now hold a letter stating that the president had referred the matter to the adjutant general, an order was sent to CoL Lindsay, in command of the regiment by the war department saying no enlistment could be made of Ralph W. Botkin into the volunteer service, but that he might enter the regular service as a buglar. "Orders were issued to Capt Parker, of company Twenty-second Kansas volunteers, into whose com tory to our arms in a surprisingly brief period. None can py too glowing tributes to the splendid manifestations and ideal heroism as dis marrying business for profit for 13 years and say there is no telling what is the limit of the list of his deceived with impressive ceremonies. "Yes, every month since January Jnited States troops be not sent there jefore December, because they would The United States Leather company They take five per cent a month off week one near LaCygne and one neat Garland.

About 15 cars were derailed and several cars of merchandise were destroyed. The annual meeting of the Southern Kansas G. A. R. Reunion association was held in Griswold park, Wichita.

There were nearly '00 tents pitched in the park, and liberal representation; played by Hobson and Wainwright, Miles and Shatter, Wheeler and and the redoubtable victims. II is plan was to advertise, in direct contact witn yellow the wages of every employe here and Whe Bleaaares: Played Coasts. The following is a story on Bismarck for which an aged Swedish lady Is the authority. Nearly 60 years ago, when a girl, she went to Berlin, where she expected to meet a cousin, then studying at the university there. The cousin appeared, and proved to be a fascinating youth.

For several days be was a constant escort and a charming companion. It was only when she it was rumored at flew xoric, win endeavor to lower the price of hides Dewey. And. while cot detracting one iota stating that he was wealthy and de- ever. with me it amounts to i 50.

We from the meed of praise bestowed upon, and The wind and rain at Chicago on aired to ioin hands with a woman of wouldn't mind it for just one month to which these gallant men are entitled, yet refined tastes and some means. In each and advance that of leather by closing many, if not all, its tanneries and dependent industries, because the con but when it keeps np for a year it none the less deserving of the encomiums of the 17th played havoc with the peace jubilee arches and decorations, six of the former being blown down and case he is said to have fled after secur praise and honor are the men who carried the different I with this old politics was over. We are all tired of paying and guns and the men behind the guns. ing what money his newly-acquired ditions of the leather trade are unfavorable all over the world. pany Botkin desired to be placed, stating that Botkin could not be enlisted We do not oppose the development of our in wife possessed.

street car traffic blocked for hours by the debris. working for nothing. was on the eve of departure that he dustry, the expansion of our commerce, nor the Officials in the service of the made the explanation, "loo ace, my power and influence which the United States may exert upon the destinies of the nations ot In anticipation of a rush for pensions AN express train going a mile a United States weather bureau, representing nearly every slate and terri at the conclusion of the Spanish war, dear cousin, I am not your cousin. My friend, your cousin, is so very busy minute came into collision with a freight train that was switching at Eufeale'a Kellea. The home of the Empress Eugenie at Farnsborough is fitted np with all the relics she could gather to recall the war department authorities issued the earth.

On the contrary, we realize that the higher intelligence and standard of life of the American workers will largely contribute Barnet Junction, 11 miles north of instructions to the regimental sur preparing for an examination that be bas asked me to take his place. Mr tory in the union, held a meeting at Omaha, on the 13th, Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the bureau, being the presiding officer. toward attaining the highest pinnacle of In London, and there was a bad wreck.

geons to take a complete health record dustrial and commercial greatness; and these of every man entering the service for name is Otto von Bismarck." In 11, when the lady made her next visit to achievements in the paths of peace will glorify of veterans from every county in south ern Kansas. The grand lodge O. O. F. met it Topeka the past week.

The order now has a total membership of 20,909 ir, Kansas, an increase of 685 over last year. Bart Hunley. a farmer near Larned, was charged with an unnamable crime against his own daughter and his twe stepdaughters. Officers went to arrest biin but he had fled. The charge against J.

J. Kunkel, th Lawrence tailor, charged with poison ing his wife, continues the sole topit of conversation at Lawrence. The defense will allege that Mrs. Kunkel was insane and that she killed hei daughter and then took her own life. Nine dead and 13 persons seriously injured were recovered and there were The candy and cracker factory of future reference.

The purpose In or the institutions of our republic. and that he had no authority to remain in camp. Botkin, however, stayed around camp, and, I believe, Capt Parker drew some clothes for him, but Parker paid for them out of his own pocket The government never furnished Botkin with a thing. "Botkin never was a member of the regiment and was not a soldier of the United States army. "He never drew one cent of pay from the government and was not on any muster rolL "The time be stayed around camp he did so at his own risk, and was no the Winn-Johnson company and paint We have many problems confronting us at others under the debris.

dering these records kept was to fur Berlin, she called on the chancellor, who remarked: I have to thank yon that I once succeeded in seeing the home without attempting to divert our people nish the pension bureau with proper store of T. Burke, at Macon, were burned. Loss, $125,000. Miss Pearl Vogan died at Sharon, of typhoid fever, contracted to foreign complications of any character. protection against fraudulent claims.

Statesmanship can 'apply its art to the remedy Snow fell in Chicago on the night of the by-gone days of ber happiness and splendor. The apartments of the imperial had been newly arranged at Cbiselhurst just before bis departure for Zululand. All the souvenirs of the first and second empires that she could obtain had been used in adorning these rooms. In addition, the set of apartments now finished at Farnsborough contain a glass cabinet in which the mother has placed every article the young prince possessed from his earliest infancy and the relics which CoL of grievous ills from which our people suffer. It is too early yet lor the pension com through eating ice cream at a church festival.

Twenty others who partook missioner to put any estimate upon It is worse than folly, aye, it is crime to lull ourselves into the fancy that we shall escape of the delicacy were also ill. the 13th. It was the first this season and the earliest in 26 years. A gale accompanied the snowfall, making navigation on Lake Michigan the amount which will be required to rav these nansions. but he thinks it the duties which we owe to our people by be coming a nation of conquerors, disregarding An explosion of gas started a bad fire in the coal company's shaft at will be large, owing to the assiduity the lessons of nearly a ctnlury and a quarter more a soldier, nor was the government any more responsible for him, Pan a.

111. ot our national existence as an Independent, of pension attorneys. Hotel Fire at Tacoma. Tacoma, Oct 13. The Tour Fred, the young son of H.

E. Sheyer, president of the Indestructible Post company, at Brazil, while riding Villiers brought back from south Commissioner Hermann has called attention to the fact not generally ist hotel, under construction by the Africa, the accoutrements of his horse, his uniform and all personal effects. his wheel collided with a team and Northern Pacific Land company, was known that there is on file in the general land office an original deed burned last night There had been was badly Injured. When he recovered conscionsness it was discovered that The small camp bed is always covered with flowers and near it Is the gilded Berlin museums. I have never seen them again." Pittsburgh Dispatch.

La pa Irks tie stad Eemtosalcat. "I see yon have taken down your flag. Wimsby." "Yes. I took it down as soon as the protocol was signed. I intended to keep it np until the actual declaration of peace and wonld do so yet if it were not for the meanness of that ma? Chad son across the war." "What has he to do with it?" "He didn't run np any flag when the war broke out, but he used to come to his front door everyday and glance up at mine.

I took some satisfaction in that until I fonnd out he merely wanted to find out which way the wind blew. He hadn't patriotism enough, dsrn him, to put up a flag of bis own and used mine for a weathercock!" Chicago Tribune. expended on the structure np to date executed jointly by Gen. Lafayette and another and" acknowledged before be was totally blind. $600,000, upon which there is no insur cradle which Paris presented as its gift to the Imperial heir and In which United States Consul Isaac Cox Barnet ance.

The fire was of incendiary Citizens of Onaga raised a purse ol $51 to enable a young lady of that town to go to New York, where shi has a brother sick in a hospital. Miss Emma, daughter of ex-Senatoi H. B. Kelly, of Lawrence, is on hei way home from the Klondike, when she went a year ago. In his forthcoming report Laboi Commissioner Johnson will advocatt that all state work be done by day la.

bor instead of by contract B. Jordan, near McCnne, bas 50 met at work picking apples from his fine 160-acre orchard. He bas already sols' 600 barrels at 53 per barrel. The National league baseball season closed on the 15th, Bt.ston winning progressive, humane and peaoe-lovin? nation. We cannot with safetv to ourselves or justice to others keep the workers and the lovers of reform and simple justice divided, or divert their attention and thus render thra powerless to expose abuses and remedy existing injustice.

During the afternoon five meetings were held in different parts of the city. At the Columbia theater Gen. Miles, Gen. Henry M. DutSeld, of Detroit, and Booker T.

Washington addressed an audience limited only by the size of the theater. The public schools, all profusely decorated, devoted the day to jubilee exercises and to bearing addresses by leading educators and than the ordinary camp follower that hung around the regiment "He never marched with the regiment in their trip to Thoroughfare Gap, but stayed behind, and when the camp equipment was shipped to Middletown, he went with it "Personally I wonld have taken him into the service bad he been physically serviceable, but the responsibility of taking such men wonld fall upon the physician and mustering officer, and we did not desire such blame. "Congressman Botkin has no one to criticise In the matter of his son's experience except himself, and the boy origin. at Paris, October 2, 1813, transferring a nortlon of the land embraced in the the oennant with Baltimore second we prince, wno would never be a poteutate, lay when state officials and church dignitaries passed reverently and Cincinnati third. first grant The signature of the gen Hlasourl Grange Meets.

Liberty, Ma, Oct IS. The twenty. President Gompers. of the Ameri eral to this patent is simply "La before him. Detroit Free Press.

seven th annual meeting of the Mis can Federation of Labor, issued a call favette." written as one word and with souri State Grange was called to order The sanrt Bachelor. at Washington for the eighteenth an "Where ignorance is bliss," said the here yesterday by Grand Master V. N. a small which would 6eem to settle the discussion as to whether the nna.1 convention of the federation to Thompson, of Butler. The meeting savage bachelor, "'tis folly to go and held at Kansas City.

on De name should be written as two words closed to-night get married." Indianapolis Journal. cember 12. and with capital or not.