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France has decided that all the
troops in the colonies shall henceforth
be armed with weapoms similar to
those of the home army.
The number of marine disasters dur-
Ing the year Just closed is smaller
probably than ever before. An official
of the New York Maritime Exchange
thinks ~hls Is due to the fact that
sailing vessels are disappearing, steam
craft being better ~ble to take care of
themselves when in peril.
Perhaps the oddest suit of furnttur~
|n the world is owned by a certain
botelkeeper. For many years he hat
made it his 'business to collect match
boxes, of ~hich ~ae has now a collec-
tion of 4,000. He ordered a skilled cab-
lnetmaker to equip a room with fur-
nlture made of these boxes. The ouz.
fit consists of a writing table with
Brooking apparatus, a fire screen, a
cabinet, a chair, and other smaller ar-
Uales.
According to the census, the popu-
lation of the farming country shows a
falling off in New England and New.
York, ~nd only a slight increase In
Ohio and indiana, but Its growth is
healthy in the states farther west. It
is evident that the old states must look
to their cities and larger towns for
increase in population. In the newer
agricultural regions the growth ot
population seems to be spread over
both city and country.
A recent notable dinner of the Har-
vard club of Japan calls attention both
to the spread of western learning in
the east, and to the wide Influence of
a great university. The dinner was
given to celebrate the return of bin-
later Komura from St. Petersburg, en
route to his new post in China,°th~
presence of Minister Kurino from
Paris, and the appointment 'of Baron
Kaneko as minister of justice. All
these eminent Japanese statesmen
were educated at Harvard.
The recent celebratlon of the one
hundredth anniversary of the found-
Ing at Washington of the national cap-
ital recalls the description af its lo-
tatton given in an early newspaper
letter, which is now preserved in t~e
library of congress. "This metropo-
lis," the writer says, "situated upon
the great pest-road, exactly equidis-
tant from the northern and the south-
era ex._vmities of the Union, and near-
ly so from the Atlantic to Fort Pitt
is by far the most eligi, ble situation
for the residence of congress." Sinc~
he could not foresee the improvement~
Jn transportation ~and means of com-
manieation, perhaps it is fortunate
that he did not know of the coming
extension of our domains seu~thward
a~d westward.
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College ~otball, during the seasov
recently c2osed had no worthier repro~
8entative~ than the students of th.~
Carlisle Indian School, in' the essen.
tlals of manliness and sportsmanllke
conduct generally. The games in whlcb
they engaged were as many and as
fiercely contested as those of any othe~
college team, and the epootators, i~
some instances, were neither so con-
stderate nor so sym,pathetlc as they i
might have been. Yet their game~
~vere exhibitions of clean, straight foot-
ball--such as all true lovers of th~
spol~t like to ~see. The umpire's de-
cisions were never once queetloned
and their defeats were accepted wl~h
the spirit of men who hs~l done their
best, and who had,therefore, neithm
exouses nor explanations to offer
Thdy have won a place for themselve~
in the regard of many who would re-
|oic~ In their success in other field~
where thC ~ewards are less fieettn~
than those of football.
~host stories, for some myrteriou~
reason, have been revived of late in
Washington. It is tOld again how the
face of an old woman was depicted
clearly on one of the white house pil-
lars the day the president received
word that his mother was dead. Capi-
tol employee entertain their friends
with the story of the shadow of a gen-
eral' looking like Washington between
pillars in statuary hall at the capitol.
A former senate page, now grown te
man's size and employed at the white
house, says that when lightning strike~
the copper statue of Freedom on the
capitol dome it rings loudly and clear-
ly like the famous bell at Philadelphia
in the days of the declaration of in-
dependence. At night, when the eapl-
tore great marble halls and rotundas
are deserted, strange sounds tire fre-
quently heard and, old employee are
confident that they are made by the
souls of dead pa~trlots and statesmen
come back to haunt the halls where
they won fame. It Is said that on
certain nights ghosts are so numerous
in statuary hall that a man bidding
and trembling behind a pillar can
hardly tell" whether it is the spirits
of the statues that are movLug about.
Prices of bogus money, as discovered
by Chief Wllkle's men, are quoted as
follows: For coin to a face value of
11~q~, price $10; coin to face value of
$60, price $20; hills, 35 per cent to 65
~er cent face value. Mr. Wilkis nays
that no lai~ger amount than $50 In eOlu
Is o~ered tO mac enstomer. The green-
goods men who do not intend to de-
liver the goods offer $1,000 i~ bills for
I400; $2,000 for $500 and ~lO~O0 for $1,-
000. Then they chgnge the satohels
and the victim after feasting his eyes
ma bills in the first grip get~ sawd~mt
th.e second.
SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF
THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE
: Representative Hammond has Intro-
duced a bill to establish a state board
of horticulture.
Representative Millets has introduc-
ed a bill to create a commission to se-
leet text books for schools and to se-
cure uniformity.
The Bucklin bill to abolish poll
taxes repeals a dead law. it does not
affect the state military poll tax and
only does away with city and county
poll taxes.
Up to January 20th there have been
186 bills introduced in the Senate and
180 in the House, but there is yet con-
slderable time to introduce bills within
the thirty days limit.
A bill Introduced by ~nator Ammous
provides that In school districts where
there are no high schools the to,heel
boards may pay out of the special
funds the tuition of pupils who attend
high schools in other districts.
A bill is to be introduced making an
appropriation for the decoration of the
House chamber above the line of the
galleries. It will also provide for the
decoration of the main halls and corri-
dors of the building.
Among the bills that have passed
first reading In the house, is H. B. No.
170, by Mr. Meredith, to improve the
Normal institutes by providing a fee
of $1 for a teacher's examlnatlon, and
that the money be placed in the Nor-
real school fund.
Appropriations will be held tn abey-
ance until the matter of revenue is set-
tied. This is the disposition, at least,
of the Senate finance committee. In
other w~)rds no appropriations will be
made until it is seen where tbe money
is to come from to pay them.
Senator Moore's bill in relation to
hours of employment for railroad em-
ployes~was agreed to in the Senate. It
provides that when a railroad man has
been on a shift of sixteen hours' dura-
tion he cannot be ordered to work
again until after a rest of at least ten
hours.
State" Senator S. V. Newell of the
Twenty-sixth district has announced
his intention to return to the Republi-
can party. This. he will do as soon as
the present session of the Legislature
ends. He says he feels It his duty to
his constituents to act as a fusionist
for that time.
• The Senate~ommlttee on constitution.
al amendments reported favorably four
constitutional amendments, one for the
introduction of the Australian land tax
and uniform taxation; another for the
consolidation of Denver and Arapahoe
county; another for the three-fourths
Jury law in civil cases, and "still an-
other for the eight-hour day.
Ex-Governor Baxter of Wyoming,
now a member of the Colorado State
Board of Capitol Managers, is in Cali-
fornia. Otto bears is in Washington,
Charles J. Hughes, Jr., is ill. This
leaves only two members of the board
in Denver--Governor 0rman and Mr,
Thatcher. No board meeting can be
held, as there is no quorum.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections reported in favor of the
passage of S. B. 20 (Phllp), an act
granting to voters of election precincts
of the city of Denver the right to de-
termine by ballot at an election wheth-
er or not llceusee to sell or give away
intoxicating liquors in such precincts
may be granted, issued or renewed.
Senator Hill's bill to place country
liquor sellers on the same footing as
city and town saloon keepers passed
secend reading in the Senate. Under
the present law the country dealer
may sell liquor in quantities of one gal-
lon or more without any license at all.
Senator Hill's bill makes it necessary
to secure a license from the county
commisslQners.
In the Senate committee of the whole
S~nator Hill's bill, S. B. No. 66, was
killed by striking out the enacting
clause. 'Phe measure was to limit the
fees and pay of receivers to a maxl.
mum of not more than $250 a month.
Senator Parks fought the measure be-
cause he said the fees as now regulated
were proper and that for the handling
of some tremendous enterprise by a
receiver $250 a month was not enough.
Mr. 'S~ubbs has gone to the relief of
John W. Springer, who has been ar-
rested; charged with bringing into the
state a horse with a docked tall, by
presenting a bill repealing the act
which per~it~ the docking of horses'
tails. The present law is very explicit
and wide-reaching in its provisions, as
i~ prohlbts the importation of horses
with docked tails, and under its provis.
ions they may not be brought into the
state even for exhibition purposes.
Explaining his motion to make rove.
nue bills special orders, taking prece-
dence of all appropriations except for
pay of state officers, Mr. Hammond
said: "The revenue bills are import-
ant as ~he state finances must be im-
proved. This Is of first importance.
Another reason is we ought to know
how much we need for state institu-
tions and the amount of revenue ws
shall have ~o meet that need before we
make appropriations for other pur-
poses, These Institutions ~hould not
suffer because of excessive appropria-
tions."
Senator Evans secured the adoption
by the Senate of a line of procedure by
which financial measures will take pre-
cedence over all constitutional amend-
ments. The reason assigned for this
action Is that the state Is more in need
of re*onus laws than of anything else,
Appropriations proposed in bills now
before the Legislature aggregate nearly
twice the anticipated income of the
state, unless there is some revenue re-
form. The effect of the stand taken by
~&e Senate will be to delay action fo~
perhaps a month on the constitutional
amend~pents now before the Senate.
The Rush bill to prevent further par-
ty sqUabbles, such as the Maloney.
Thomas trouble in Arapahos county,
was taken up In the Senate and amend.
ed by the insertion of this clause:
"Within ten days after the adjourn.
ment of the state conventiOn of any
political party at which a state central
committee is selected, the secretary
and chairman of said committee shall,
under oath, file with the secretary of
state, a full and complete rOll of the
membership of the state central com-
mittee." The bill allows state commit-
tees to decide as to the regularity of
local organizations. It passed second
reading and is now on its final passage.
The 186 Senate bills now before that
body are well sprinkled with approprt-
a~ons, the total proposed approprJatlons
in the Senate to date being $1,598,550.
In the House many of the 180 bills if
passed will necessitate expenditure on
the part ogthe state, the appropriations
proposed so far in the house amounting
~x> $654,950. This makes a total of $2,-
253,500. But in some instances there
are duplications as to state institutions
in particular. After a careful sifting
of the bills in both houses it is found
that such duplications in proposed ap-
propriations foot up to $427,000. T"nis
leaves proposed and undupllcated ap-
i~ropriations before the two houses to
the amount of $1,826,000. ' '
The totals of proposed appropriations
in the Senate, so far as introduced, are:
For roads ................... $ 74,500
For bridges ................ 21,000
General and special ........ 1,502,550
Total ................... $1,5,98,550
The totals of proposed appropriations
so far introduced in the lower house
are:
For roads ................... $ 77,150
For wells .................... 20,000
For bridges and viaducts ...... 105,500
For reservoirs ............... 22,000
General and special appropria- ,
lions ...................... 430,300
Total .................... $6".)4,950
A bill introduced by Senator A. T.
Stewart establishes so far as Colorado
is concerned a new class of criminals
to be known as habitual criminals.
These are to be considered degenerates
under the bill. The measure is Senate
bill 18 and provides that whoever has
Been twice convicted of a crime and
sentenced and committed to prison in
this or any other state or once in this
and once at least in any other state for
terms of three years or more shall be
deemed an habitual criminal when
again convicted and shall be
punished by imprisonment for
twenty-five years. 'The bill makes
the proviso that if a convict bas
been pardoned that particular ease
shall not be counted against him. The
bill empowers the governor to parole an
habitual criminal. If an habitual crim-
Inal violates his parole he must serve
his entire original term. The measure
is urged by many of the reform ele-
ments in the state and by the state
board of charities and correction.
One of the anti-trust bills before the
Legislature Is S. B. 76 by Senator (3. T.
Philp. It provides that all arrange-
ments, trusts or combinations between
persons or corporations made with a
view to restrict full and free competi-
tion in the manufacture, importation,
tranaspertation or sale of any articles
of commerce or consumption shah be
unlawful. Any agreement to enter into
any such arrangement is also declared
unlawful. Further sections of the bill
propose that"any corporation charter-
ed under the laws of this state, which
shah violate any of the provisions of. this
act, shall thereby forfeit its charter and
its franchise, and its corporate exis-
tence shall thereupon cease. Every for-
sign corporation which shall violate
any of the provisions of this act, is
hereby denied the right to do business
In this state. It is made the duty of the
attorney general of the state to enforce
this provision. It shall be the duty of
the district attorneys of Colorado to
prosecute any violators of this act
within the Judicial districts for which
they shall be elected. Fines may be
imposed for such conspiracies and dam-
aged collected by those Injured by
them.
Mr. McLean bas in his hands a bill.to
provide for a uniform system of text
books th~'oughout the state on much the
same lines as that Introduced by him
two years ago. In the Twelfth Assem.
bly it was stated and proved, that no
uniform system of text books could be
provided for in the state unless a con.
stltutional amendment were passed.
To provide for this contingency a con-
stitutional amendment will be propos-
ed at the same time that the other bill
is Introduced. The school book bill
provides for a state dommlsslon of four
members, chosen with reference to
their knowledge of the Colorado school
system and also with reference to their
business and literary q~alifications.
The state superintendent of public in-
struction is to be a member ex-officio
and president of the commission. The
term of office of the commissioners is
to be five years. The branches of study
included are-c~art, reading, spelling,
English grammar, arithmetic, geo-
graet~y, history, civil government.
physiology, bookkeeping, penmanship,
natural philosophy, elementary algebra
and all in the English language. ~The
commission must perform its first duty
by a session of not more than thirty
days, during w~|eb time It will draw
$5 a day for each'ihember, and is enti-
tled to a clerk at $3 a day. Vacancies
In the commission may be filled by the~
governor, wh9 ale9 has the original ap-
pointments. The act does n~t apply to
school districts that have a P0~Ulatlon
of 100,000, or those that fur~ni~' text
books free to scholars. The contractors
who are successful must state the
prices, both by contract and by mail,
for all the books. The blll differs from
all others introduced on the same sub.
Jeer, as it makes a maximum price for
all books, over which the colnmtesi0n-
ere may not make any contracts to
pay. The schedule is: Spelling books,
12 cents; first readers, 12; second read-
er, ~0; third reader, 25; fourth reader,
35; fifth reader, 45; mental arithmetic,
23; Intermediate arithmetic, 28; com-
plete atqthmetie, 40; elementary gee,
graphy, 35; complete geography, 7~;~
elementary English grammar, 23; com~.
plete grammar. 40; physiology and ~iy-
glens, 55; primary history, 40; advanc-
ed United States history, 65; elements
of natural philosophy, 55; physical geo-
graphy, 90; elementary algebra, 60;
bookkeeping, 45; writing books, 5 cents.
The bill designs to appropriate $4,000
for the expenses of the board. One ad- i
vantage Mr. McLean had in drawingi
up hts bill is that he has sold school
books for a good many years and is
acquainted with the prices paid and
demanded.
COLORADO NOTES.
The Odd Fellows of Lyons are pre-
paring to build a large hall.
It is reported that Colonel Roosevelt
killed a mountain lion soon after lear.
lug Mocker.
The Denver Y. M. C. A. paid all its
bills last year, amounting to $15,020.-
49, and had $7.27 left in the treasury.
The O'hautauqua assembly at Boul-
der will open July 4th and close Aug-
ust 9th, being five weeks in duration.
Manufacturers of automobile street
sweepeers will place them on exhibi-
tion tn Denver and try to sell them to
the city.
Great success is reported In the man-
ufacture of pressed brick at Boulder,
much of the product being shipped
'long distanc~s.
The Loveland FAectric Light and
Power Company has been organized
and proposes to build an electric light
plant at Loveland.
The Denver park com missionens will
receive bids tip to February 4th for the
privilege of selling refreshments, etc.,
in City and Lincoln parks.
The fifth annual poultry show of the
Southern Colorado Poultry Association'
opened at Pueblo on the 15th instant,
with" over 1,000 exhibits of fowls.
William J. Curtiee, first superintend-
ent of public instruction in Colorado,
died in Denver on the 13th instant, in
the seventy-sixth year of his age.
The Denver Cremation Society has
secured $2,000 of the $3,000 necessary
to meet the offer of the Fairmount
Cemetery Assoclatiou to build a cre-
matory.
Governor 0rman has granted a requi-
sition for the return of Fred Sandbern
from Sterling, Colorado, to Omaha,
where he is wanted on a charge of
grand larceny.
A pair of mountain lions reached
Denvea. a few days ago from the Meek-
er country. They will be mounted and
sent to the St. Louis fair. They were
shot by John Campbell of Meeker.
The latest report of the comptroller
of the currency gives the total deposits
of Colorado national banks at $24,028c
359; loans and discounts $12,956,562;
average reserve held, 42.43 per cent.
Rabbi Friedman of Denver has con-
eluded to take a post graduate course
in the department of psychology at the
State University at Boulder for the
purpose of procuring his Ph. D. degree.
Professor Guy E. Stockton, for three
years in charge of the public schools
at Erie, has resigned to accept a posl.
lion in the Greeley Hign School and
will be succeeded at Erie by Professor
A. B. Cook of Sedalia.
The Colorado State Grange of the
Patrons of Husbandry held its twen-
ty-seventh annual s~esslon in Denver on
the 8th, 9th and 10th of January.
There was a good attendance and the
delegates listened to many interesting
speeches and papers.
A meeting has been called at Idaho
Springs, February 5th, to organize a
local league for the protection of fish
and game. It is claimed that in the
past the lakes have been dynamited to
such an extent that the spawn has
been killed.
At an auction sale of sheep belong-
ing to W. S. Hansen of Colllnston~,
Utah, J. G. Massey of Fort Logan,
Colorado, paid $550 for a Ramboulete
ram. Mr. Massey also purchased ,two
Rambouletes from F. H. Hardlrig of
Waukesha, Wisconsin,. for $175 each.
Some very rich samples of telluride
of gold in white quartz formation have
been donated from the Camp Bird mine
to the state eolledtlon. Some of the
samples rtun as high as 2,000 ounces to
the ton and all are heavily streaked
with free gold.
Dr. H. O. Dodge of Boulder, the
Colorado member of the National Coun-
cil of Administration of the Grand
Army of the Republic, has resigned on
account of ill-health, and Colonel
George W. Cook has been named to
fill the vacancy.
The fifth annual show of the South-
~rn Colorado Poultry Association, held
st Pueblo, was successful in every way
and was by far the largest yet held.
Phere were exhibits from all the towns
~.n southern Colorado. and the Belgian
hare show held In connection was a
great success.
The annual meeting of the Loveland
Fruit Growers' Association was held
on the 18th inst. The report of the
agent showed a total amount of 10,183
crates of small fruit shipped last sea-
son, at an average price of $1.11 per
crate, with a valuation of $11,300.21, of
these 9,232 crates were raspberries,
Which brought the handsome sum of
I~,748.24. It Is estimated that shlp-
meats by others than members of the
association would bring the total up to
$15,000.
The National Beet Sugar Company's
factory at Sugar City closed January
18th, after a very su~eessful and satin.
factory season's run. Su~er produced
during the season amounted to atmut
3,000,000 pounds; average per cent. of
sweetness in bcets, 18; average per
cent. of purity, 86; average number of
tons of beets to the acre, 15. The am~
age of beets the coming season will
be three times the one Just past. There
ls much talk of the erection of another
factory near the site of the present one~
at Sugar City. If the new factory is
built its capacity will be double the
~yesent one, or 1,000 tons of beets per
A telegram was sent" to the Kirby
Manufacturing Company of Cleveland
by Charles Beettcher of Denver, an-
nouncing the award to that firm of the
contract for the various buildings of
the Loveland beet sugar plant. The
office of the beet sugar company has
been opened in Loveland in charge of
A. V. Officer. The company already
has contracts for 7,000 acres of beets,
and the management expects to have
contracts for 10,000 acres signed before
spring. Six or eight deparate build.
lngs will be necessary. The list em-
braces the sugar building, the lime
house, the boiler building, the seed
house, the warehouse, tool house, lab-
oratories and office. The main buUding
Is to be 300 feet long -nd 100 wide, five
stories high and supplied with the
most improved machinery, receiving
the beets as they are delivered from the
field and transmuting the raw preset
into white crysta~ The outlay will ~e
a million dollam or more.
COLORADO LOSES THE ft. A. R.
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT
St. Louis, Jan. 22.--Cleveland win,
yesterday selected by the council of ad-
ministration of th,~ Grand Army of the
Republic for the next annual encamp-
ment, to be held the week of Septem-
ber 9, 1901.
As a result of this action representa-
tives of Denver indicated that they in-
tended to take up the matter with the
various state departments, and would
also hold an enca~nement the second
week of September.
The meeting of the council held yes-
terday was the resutt of the failure of
Denv¢r to satisfy the council at its
December meeting of the city's ability
to meet the requirements of a one-cent:
per mild railroad rate. Cleveland,
Pi'ttsburg and Denver sent delegatlons i
to yesterday's meeting to plead for the
sending of the encampment to their
cities. 2~ne Cleveland delegation offer-
ed the written pledge of tbe chairman
of the Central Passenger Association
of one ~ent per mile to the encamp-
meat; promised to raise the necessary
money to meet the expenses of the en-
campment, offered free quarters in 100
school houses for the old soldiers, to
arrange the llne of march ¢o suit and
produced written pledges.
The d~egation representing Pitts-
burg, too, pledged a one-cent a mile
rate, hotel accomulodations, subscrip-
tions and met the other requirements
of the encampment. Denver's appli-
cants for encampment honors produced
letters from Chairman McLeod of the
Westera Passenger Association, prom-
ising the one-cent fare on six railroads.
In adiditon they m~de the necessary
.promises as to accommodations and en-
tertainment. The written pledge of
Chairman McLeod, they claimed, met
all the requirements of the resolutions
regarding rates adopted in Chicago at
the thirty-fourth annual encampment.
Half an hour's discussion resulted in
tim selection of Cleveland, the vote be-
ing five for Cleveland, two for Denver
aud one for Pittsburg. The Denver
committee at once held a secret meet-
ing.
That they were disappointed and
angry over the outcome of their efforts
to secure the encampment for Denver
was plainly expressed. At the end of
a half hour's deliberation the following
statement was prepared:
"The national encampment of the G.
A. R., at Chicago last year voted unan-
imously to hold the encampment in
Denver this year provided the rail-
roads leading thereto granted a rate of
one cent a mlle. The ~enver commit.
tee filed to-day with the commanuer-in-
ebief and the executive committee offi-
cial notice by Chairman McLeod of the
Western Passenger Association, pro-
mulgating ~he one cent per mile rate
on the shortest mileage of all the prin-
cipal railroads leading to Denver from
St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul and all
Missouri river points. This rate has
been promulgated for the Denver G. A.
R. encampment by railroads and con-
necting lines covering more than 50,000
miles of lines leading to Denver.
"The procuring of the one-cent-a-mile
O n or
much earlier than ever before, and]
in territory where tbe rate has neve~
before been made. The Denver corn-|
mittee feel that they have fully com,
plied with the regulations of the na-
tional encampment at Chicago, and are
entitled to the meeting this year, and
they are well advised that the senti-
ment of the grand encampment
throughout the conutry Is favorable to,
Denver.
"The different state departments wil~
probably take up this matter and de-
cide whether they will still adhere ton
their unanimous action at Chicago in,
favor of Denver for the encampment:
September next."
The work of endeavoring to win
over the various departments east of!
the Mississippi river will be com-
menced at once, so the Denver com-
mittee stated last night.
Comnmnder-in-chief Rasuieur was~
handed a copy of the statement issued:
by the Denver committee. Before
reading it he called the committee ¢o-•
!gerber, explained tlmt the statement~
was in existence and then read it.
i dTheuc~l contents of the document pro-
some little feeling of momentary
character, which .resulted in the coun-
cil considering the document behind
closed doors. Ten minutes later the
following was given out by Command-
er Rassleur, speaking for and with the
sanction of the council:
"1 have Just read what you inforn~
me emanates from the comrades rep-
resenting Denver. It is hard to be-
lieve that such a statement emanates
from a good Grand Army comrade.
Assuming that it does, I desire simp-
ly to semite that the executive commit-
tee, with the light before it and after
having given Denver two hearings and
weighing everything presented by it.
decided that the next encampment o~
'she Grand Army should be held at.
Cleveland, Ohio, September 9, 1901.
"At that encampment this commit-
tee will report the faf~ts which led.
them to the action taken, and every'
Grand Army comrade will doubtless
heartily approve of that action. We
have endeavored to do what is best
for the Grand Army, and in compli-
ance with the action of the thirty-
~ourth national encampment, not-
wltbstanding the statement made
which it is said emanates from the
Denver comrades."
It Is said that individual" members of
the council were unwilling to discuss
the "manifesto" as they termed the~
document issued by Denver. They de-
clared the Denver people were mis-
taken when they thought they had:
the promise of the Pennsylvania and
New York departments to go to Den-
ver, and were certain that none of the
departments would~ refuse to attend
the encampment at Cleveland.
"It's certain that if they do have am
encampment it will no~ be the nation-
al encampment of the G. A. R.," was
the manner in which one dismissed
the subject.
w aKS The constant stream of curious peo-
• ___ I p e going through the wrecked saloon~
TWO MORE SALOONS show~ no abatement. Society Is no
,exception, and It is estimated that 1,-
~h~+o,~ Kans. Jan. 22.--Mrs. Car-I 000 women have seen the inside of a
• -~,,"N~"tio°'n came back to Wichita yes-Isaloon for the first time in their lives.
.... I-I
+~,,~-,~ *~ ~r-n~e her~ recent incarcer- I utchin~on, Kans., Jan. 21.--Mrs.
.,~ ...... ,~, ~ ~n~ - n antine and C rrie Nation, the Wichita saloon
,,,,,, ~ ..... ~ ..... ,.ox ~uar " ~v~ecker was lecturin 1
the net result of ten minutes of her , g ast night to an
work this afternoon are two wrecked audience that filled the largest churclt
saloons, the pieces .of which are' being
sold to-night for souvenirs. Mrs. Na-
tion was assisted by Mrs. Julian Ev-
ans, Mrs. Lucy Wilhoit and Mrs. Lydia
Muntz, all of the local W. C. T. U. or-
ganization.
With hatchet~ concealed under their
cloaks they entered the saloon of
James Burnes on Douglas avenue, and
did not leave a complete piece of glass
or a working slot machine In the place.
All show cases, both for liquors and
cigars, as well as the plate glass win-
dows and doors, were broken Into
smithereens.
With lightn~ng speed they ran to
John Herrlg's saloon, and had every-
thing in the front of the room, includ-
ing the plate glass windows, broken
when he appeared with a revolver,
placed it at Mrs. Nation's head and
said that he would blow out her
brains if she did not desist.
After some trouble with three police-
men, the officers overpowered Mrs. No.
tion and her friends aud took them to
the city prison, followed by 2,000 peo-
ple. Mrs. Evans' little daughter push-
ed her. way through the crowd,
screaming, and begged for the release
of her mother, but Officer Fox was
deaf to her entreaties.
Chief of Police Cubbon discharged
the prisoners after they reached the
Jail. They made him a promise not to
wreck any more ealoous before noon
next day.
Mrs. Evans' hand was badly cut by
broken glass, and her husband, who is
a physician, sewed it up.
After leaving the city building* Mrs.
Nation, in the co~lest manner, began
a street lecture to the immense crowd
that had surrounded the city building,
saying she expected to begin saloon
wrecking again at noon to~day, when
her truce with the chief of police ex-
pires.
Shaking her fist at the crowd, she
said:
"Men of Wichita, this is the right
arm of God, and is destined to wreck
every saloon In your city."
The women procured a wagon and
rode through the streets in it singing
"Nearer My God to Thee" and kindred
hymns. They halted in front of the
saloons they had smashed and held
prayer meetings.
The damage done by the three wo-
men is estimated at between $1,500
and $2,000.
In the morning Sheriff Simmons had
a lively set-to with Mrs. Nation, who
slapped him violently in the face, but
with l~lice aid he succeeded in arrest-
ing her, and placing her in the county
Jail. Mrs. Wtlholt was also arrested,
but Mrs. Muntz was not found.
It is said that a complaint for insan-
ity will be lodged against Mrs. Nation
in the morning and if that falls, the
men holding insurance on the plate
glass doors and windows will prose-
cute her.
in Hutchin,son, and said:
"You'll hear from me again before
long, and it won't be from a lecture
platform, either. GOd intends that
keep up what I have already begun iv.
Wichita, and I'll do it. Wichita isn't
the only town in Kansas that ha~
rocks and brickbatsJ'
This sentiment was applauded vig-
orottsly, and Mrs~ Nation, who had saic~
she was inspired by God, coutinued:
"I will gladly give up my life, if
need be, while destroying these awful
places.".
Mr. Nation, who accompanied his
wife, said he would immediately begin
suit against Sedgewick county for
false imprisonment.
o "While my wife was lu Jail," said he~
"they offered to let her go If she would
sign an agreement not to sue for dam-
ages."
Great Eleetrlelan Dead.
Newton, Mass., Jan. 22.--Prof. Elish~
Gray of Chicago, who was associated
with Arthur J. Mundy in the perfectlo~
of a sy, stem of marine signaling, die4
suddenly at Newtonvllle last night.
Pro. Gray was associated with Prof.
Alex Graham Bell In the perfection of
the telephone and had been east about
a year and a half in connection ,with
the invention of submarine signalling.
He was stricken while on the street.
Neuralgia of the heart Is assigned as
the cause of death.
Elisha Gray was one of the best
known of the electrical .inventors of.
the day. He was born in Ohio in 1835
and learned blaeksmithing, carpenter.
ing and boat building. He then pur-
sued special studies in physical science
at O~rIin college.
In 1870 he began his series of inven-
tions with a self-adjusting telegraph
relay and ~wo years'later he establish.
ed a manufactory'of electrical appara-
tus at Cleveland. He perfected the
typpewrlting telegraph, the telegraph
repeater, the telegraphic switch and
annunciator, and other devices. In 1872
he organized the Western Eleetriea~
Manufacturing Company. He invented
his speaking telephone in 1876 and the
telautograph in 1893.
Will Aeeep~ the Treaty.
London, Jan. 22.--The Washington
correspondent of the Mall says he un-
derstands it is practically certain that
Great Britain will aceel~t the amend-
ments of the United States Senate'to
the Hay-Pauneefote treaty.
United Mine Worker~' Convention.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22.~The
U~i~ed Mine Workers of America are
met here in annual convention, 1,000.
delegates being present. The leading
delegatlous are from Pennsylvania, I1-
linois, Ohio and Indiana in the order
named. Illinois and other states wilt
fight to reduce the wide dlfferentiaL
