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I Senator Hansbrough has introduced
n the Senate a bill to authorize con-
structlon of reservoirs for reclamation
of public lands, identical with the New-
lands bill in the House.
The House pensions committee favors
catting the pension of Mrs. General
. _ ton to, 0 monthly and giving Mrs
,~am~Wmlral Colhoon $40, Mrs. General
~q~.Yes $50 and M~s. General Stanton
The House committee on banking
~snad currency has tabled the bill repeal-
g the ten percent, tax on state bank
SUes, and the bill requiring national
nk depositories to pay interest to the
government on public deposits.
Among the President's recent visitors
~as General Otis, from Chicago, to
Present a young Filipino who has been
sent here to be educated. "Many Fill-
pines are coming to the Uflited States
for an education," said General Otis.
"In a few years every big educational
institution will have a number of
young Filipinos as students."
The House passed the Senate bill to
create a commission to adjudicate the
claims of United States citizens against
Spain, which the government of the
United States assumed by the treaty
of Paris, after having amended the bill
so as to refer the claims to the Court of
Claims i~stead of to a commission.
A resolution introduced by Senator
Berry requests the President to inform
the Senate whether the United States
minister to China has Joined the rep-
resentatives of the other powers at Pe-
kin in demanding the execution of
~uan, or other Chinese officials, and if
so by whom he was authorized to join
in making such demand.
The President has received from Ha-
Waii a souvenir of the recent political
campaign there in the form of a yel-
low ribbon bearing the motto, "Ua mau
ke ea o ka aina I ka pone," which
~aeans. "The life of the land is estab-
lished in righteousness." This was
Chosen as a campaign motto of the ad-
naluistratlon party during the last pres-
Idential campaign,
The bill for a pension Court of Ap-
Peals which has attracted considerable
attention as a G. A. R. measure met a
reverse in the House committee on in-
Valid pensions where, by a vote of 6 to
7, a motion to report it was defeated.
A sub-committee ~onsisttng of Repre-
.sentatlves Norton, Graft and Miner
Was then named to perfect the depart-
~ent bill providing for pension ap-
Peals.
Vice President-elect and Mrs. Roose-
Velt will go to Washington March 2d,
and during their stay there will be the
guests of Mrs. Roosevelt's brother-in-
law and sister, Commander and Mrs.
COwles` The evening of their arrival
they will be the guests of honor at a
dinner to be given by Senator Depew.
The vice president's family wilt not
take the house owned by Bellamy Stor-
er until autumn.
Representative Mondeli has Intro-
duced a bill providing that the provis-
ions of the Carey land act shall con-
tlnue in force until otherwise provided
by law, but that the land patented to
each state under the act simll not ex-
ceed 1.000,000 acres: that the contracts
I~rovided in the original act shall not
be required, but patents shall issue for
lands segregated in accordance with
existing htw and the act as amended•
The House passed Representative
.~Ondell'S resolution to print 6,000 cop.
lea of l~uiletin 86, of the Agricultural
I)epa~ent, Professor Mead's treatise
on the irrigation of arid lands, It is
thought that these documents Will
greatly assist representatives from the
arid and semi-arid regions in acquaint-
~ug members of Congress with what is
meant by arid land reclamation, and in
securing desired legislation on this sub-
Jest.
~ne Senate has passed bills setting
apart a tract of seven acres of dand
~ear Central City, Colorado, for a
.Cemetery for Odd Fellows; apprepriat-
~.g $50000 for the perpetuation of a
Site and the erection of a pedestal for
~statue of the late Major General
Serge B McClellan in Washington
City; authorizing ,the Arizona Water
ConlPany to construct a power plant
on the Plma Indian reservation in
a~arlcoPa county, Arizona. -
] Secretary Hitchcock has reversed the
|rlllh~gs Of Land Commissioner Herr-
[~la~nn by whlch,patents have b~en de-
|ltied to a~ number of Colorado owners
I~ mining lode claims. Patents were
|~eniecl under the commissioner's rul-
linga because the location lines of the
|yarious lodes encroached upon contig-
!us Patented claims. In line with his
~'~ion In the Hides Gold Mining case
secretary reversed these rulings
~d directs that patents be issued.
General"Leonard Wood lives to
a¢h'the rank of lieutenant-general he
~1 be in Command Of the army longer
aa a~y other man--fourteen years
v th0'natural course of "events all of
~1e generals who precede him in rank
11 have retired from aetive duty in
~10, but ,Wood is so young that he has
;t~.We~ty.;four years to serve before he
t~ne~ the age of retirement and
~ref0re" will remain on the active list
~-~it]l 1924 havih~, reached the rank of
le~tenant.genoral in 1910•
~far'as'can he ascertained, the ad-
nistratlon has not had any intima-
n of the coUnter-proposals the Lea-
on disPatch says will be made In the
~er of, ~e Nicaragua canal pro-
{~et. There is a feeling of regret that
[ae ]~rltish government has felt eon-
,s~t!ned to adopt such a course, as the
~oDe was entertained that amendments
~Othe Hay-Paundefote treaty might
~avte~ been accepted in the spirit in
meh they were made. One suggestion
~s:de to-night, as~ k peslsble counter-
~POSal of Gl~at..Britain was that in
'~U~n,~ rn for concessions made by her,
,: might desire an ,open port on the
~Skan coast as an entrance into her
~Old fields in ,the Kiondike.
i.~2re House committee on invalid pen-
~has.favorably reported the bill of
ts presentative Calderhead of Kansas
~Mfo, llows:,, All l~rsons who are eli-
. m~ for l~ensions at"the rate of $12
~er month under section 2 of the act of
disabled by total blindness or paralysis
or any total disability for manual labor,
not the result of their own vicious hab-
its. which disables them in such a de-
gree as to require the constant or fre-
quent and periodical attendance of an-.
other person, or who are or may be
wlthout an actual net income not to
exceed $100 per year exclusive of any
pension, shall be entitled to a pension
at the rate of $30 per month from the
date of application therefor after the
passage of this act."
An explanation of the report that Mr.
Wu, the Chinese minister, had been re-
called by the government at the time
the foreigners were ordered to leave
Pekin "was offered at the Chinese lega-
tion. where it was stated that Minister
Wu's term of office expired three
months ago. The term of the Chinese
minister at St. Petersburg expired
shortly before the Boxer outbreak, and
his successor was appointed, but he
has not yet reached his post. Mr. Wu's
successor would have been-designated
had it not been for the complications
in China• Mr. Wu will vlsit Chicago
in March to be one of the guests of
honor at the quarterly convocation of
the University of Chicago. He will de-
liver an address at the urgent solicita-
tion of President Harper•
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone, has been serving as a
special agent of the census bureau in
charge of the enumeration of the deaf,
dumb and blind population of the coun-
try, and is now preparing his report•
Mr. Bell is a millionaire several times
over, but is entitled to $6 a day from
the government while he is employed
in this work. It was through his in-
strumentality that an amendment was
added to the census law authorizing an
enumeration of the afflicted in whose
welfare he takes a profound interest•
In his early life he was an instructor in
a deaf and dumb asylum, and a large
part of his time is now spent in the
investigation of means for promoting
the education of deaf-mutes and sight~
less people. The number of deaf-mutes
in the United States is ~>ver 111.000; the
number of totally blind is 88,924,
Senator Teller offered a resolution
and spoke on it in the Senate calling
upon the secretary of war for informa-
tion concerning the reports of the de-
portation of George T. Rice, editor of
a Manila newspaper, to the United
States by the general in charge of the
American forces in the PhUlppifies`
He read the press reports concerning
Mr. Rice's case. saying he did not won-
der that he was defiant, knowing there
was no law Justifying his expulsion.
Mr. Teller said he did not know wheth-
er Rice's paper had been suppressed,
but he had been credibly informed that
four newspapers had been suppressed
in Luzon by the military authorities.
Mr. Teller spoke of the proceeding as
one of importance to all, for Mr. Rice
was a citizen of the United States, and
an offense against him was against ev-
ery citizen of: this country. Mr. Tel-
ler's resolution was agreed to.
Justice Harlan ereated a little sensa-
tion by a speech in response to a toast
at the regular monthly meeting of the
Loyal Legion. Several members of
Congress were present and Representa-
tive Moody of Massachusetts took
down his words. Among other things
he said: "The fathers never intend-
ed that this government should ever
exert any power or authority over any
part of the earth's surface free from
the letter and the spirit of the consti-
tution." This is construed to mean
that Justice Harlan believes that the
constitution follows the flag and to in-
dicate the probable decision of the Su-
preme Court on that question• Another
sentence in Justice Harlan's speech
was: "Our government was founded
upon the rlg~ts of man; founded'~ upon
the theory that man had right~ as a
man. If we enter into this world pow-
er business upon any other theory, we
enter it for evil ~and not for good."
Senator Warren has presented to the
Senate a memorial of the National Live
Stock Ass~elation adopted at the Salt
Lake City convention protesting
against the enactment of the Grout
oleomargarine bill. The memorial rep-
resents that the petitioners represent
126 live stock associations whose hold-
ings represent an investment of over
$6.000,000. They protest against the
bill as a species of class legislation of
the most iniquitous and dangerous
kind calculated to bulld up one indus-
try at the expense of another equally
important. They say that the passage
of the law would destroy the demand
for that product of the beef animal,
oleo oil. of which 24,000,000 pounds
was used during the year 1899 in the
manufacture of oleomargarine, and
would also injure the hog Industry by
a similar destruction of the demand
for 32.000,000 pounds of neutral lard
used in 18~9 in the manufacture of that
food product. The memorial protests
against the bill as one calculated to en-
tail an enormous loss on the live stock
producers, ruln a great industry and
deprive the working classes and others
of a cheap, wholesome, nutritious and
acceptable article of ~food.
The .secretary of the interior has
transmitted to the Senate committee on
public lands a favorable report upon
senator Warren s amendment to the
sundry civil service appropriation bill,
providing for extending ten years the
period in which lands may be segre-
gated and reclaimed under the Carey
arid land act. In his report Secrdtary
Hitcheock states, that the grant of land
to the states under the Carey act was
a departure from former legislation,
and in a measure experlmental. The
law has l~een attended with good re-
sults, but ~he work Involved'in Irriga.
tion and reclamation of large tracts of
land shows that the' act dld not allow
sufficient time for completion of many
enterprises undertaken under it. The
proposed amendment provides that the
period of ten years in which reclama-
tion shall be accompllshed shall com-
mence to rup from the date of segrega."
tion, instead of from ~he date of the
original act. If the amendment is
adopted• sack state, affected can from
time to time obtain segt~ega~ions of arid
lands under the grant until the full
amount of 1,000,000 acres is obtained,
,and In each segregation the full ten
years time may be taken for reclama,
tiom
Charles Boettcher. president of the
iNational Bank of Com.merce, yesterday
notified John E. Leet that he would
take the entire $300,000 of stock in the
new Denver sugar factory offered to
investors in this city. The other $200,-
000 of stock is taken by a firm of
bankers In New York city. Mr. Boett.
ehor is acting for himself, John F.
Ctampion, James J. Brown and J. R.
McKinuie. They are the same men
who built the sugar factory at Grand
Junction and who are now putting up
the big sugar plant at Loveland.
Work on the Loveland factory is be-
ing ~ushed so that it will be ready to
handle the crop of beets raised, this
year. It is occupying so much of the
energy of the gentlemen interested that
the Denver factory will not be built
for this year's business. It will be rea-
dy, however, for the beet crop of next
year• Farmers in the vicinity of Den-
ver would do well to begin planting
beets this year. as their crop can be
handled by the Loveland factory, with
the assistance of low rates on the Col-
orado & Southern•
The first big block Of eastern money
put ~to beet sugar factories in the
West was invested by Kuhn, Loeb &
Co., the same firm which lately sold
the balance of power in the Southern
Pacific railway to the Union l,~aclfic.
They invested heavily In the American
Beet Sugar Company, the company of
which Henry T. Oxnard is president
and which has constructed one of the
two big plants In Otero county.
The attention of the firm of bankers
I which is going into the Denver faetory
was attracted to the success of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co.'s investments and to the
state, where climate, soil and irrigation
unite to produce results that cannot be
obtained anywhere else. After the ap-
pearance of the New Year's News,
which contained an elaborate article
by John E. Lest on sugar beets, they
wrote to Thomas Keely, cashier of the
First National Bank of this city, pro-
posing to put in $200,0(O if local men
would invest $300,000 with them. Mr.
Keely placed the matter in the hands
of Mr. Lest, a meeting of the chamber
of commerce was called and public in-
terest was aroused. The entire sum
now has been subscribed without the
chamber of commerce or the general
public being called upon. Mr. Keely ls
not prepared to make known the names
of his New York correspondents until
the transaction has been formally
closed.
It may be said that the same banking
firm authorized Mr. Leet to offer to
take $200.000 to $500,000 of stock in
the new Loveland company, but Mr.
Boettcher, in behalf of the owners of
that factory, declined the offer with
thanks.
Beet sugar culture in Colorado was
pushed to the front by John F. Cam-
pion while he was president of the
chamber of commerce. With Messrs.
Brown, McKinnie and Boettcher he
later built the Grand Junction factory.
The operations of that factory led to
the construction of the two large
plants now in operation at Sugar City
and Rocky Ford. Next came the or-
ganization of the company putting up
the $1.000,000 factory at Loveland. and
now the same men are placing $300,-
000 in a factory at Denver, to which is
added $.'200,000 of eastern money.
ROOSEVELT TH[] LION SLAYER
HAS A DOZEN TO HIS CREDIT
Denver, Cole•. Feb. 12.--Theodore
Roosevelt has saved the lives of 600
deer this year, according to Game War-
den Johnson, who has just returned
from Meeker and is at the Windsor,
says the Denver Post.
Great luck is attending the expedi-
tion of the Rough Rider, and when
last heard from on Thursday he had
killed twelve lions. Now the game
warden has estimated during years of
frontier life that each full grown lion
kills on an average at least fifty deer
each year. Accordingly the twelve
lions shot by Roosevelt would have
slain during the coming year alone not
less than 600 deer. The game warden
makes this statement seriously and
says that all hunters agree that the
lions are the worst foes to the deer in
the mountains.
"He kills lions .in hand-to-hand com-
bats, too." said Mr. Johnson this morn-
ing. "There is no question about that.
I thought that it was all newspaper
talk when I first heard of it. but I
know now that the statements are true,
for I have it from reliable men. Wil-
son. a rancher down there at Keystone,
a man whom I know to be absolutely
reliable, told me the s~ory of what he
actually saw.
"He said that when the Vice Presi-
dent was at Keystone some days ago,
he went out to the mountains with
him. Wilson never saw such hunting
in his life. A lion had been treed by
the dogs and the hunters who did not
want to kill it there, threw clubs at it,
to make it Jump out. When it came
down the dogs tackled and there was
a fierce encounter.
for fear of hurting one of the dogs.
"He jumped right into the fight to
help the uogs. He made a lunge at the
lion, and it turned on him letting go
one of the dogs which it held. He
pushed the s~oek of his gun at it and
it bit at him knocking off part of the
stock. But that did not frighten Roose-
velt. He turned on the animal fiercer
than ever. He plunged his knife which
he held in his right hand into the lion's
throat. There was no more struggle;
the animal fell dead.
"Wilson said it was one of the brav-
est and most foolhardy acts he had
ever seen. He would not have done is
for thousands of dollars• 'Suppose that
the dogs which held the lion from be-
hind had let loose,' he asked, 'what
would have become of the hunter?
There would have been a vice president
wanting.'
"But he said that Roosevelt did not
seem to even realize the danger. He
went right in as a matter of course,
believing that he could kill the lion
with his knife•
"The other day when they were hunt-
ilk a lion was ruoted out and, in try.
ink to escape, he ran into a hole in the
ground, where he was secure. One of
the dogs, belonging to Goff, the guide,
part hound and part bull. with no s~ch
thing as fear in his make-up, went
down into the hole after him. Roose-
velt and hls aides waited for a time,
and waited longer for the dog to re-
appear.. But he never came back. He
Is there yat. That lion must have eaten
him.
"Wilson told me that Roosevelt would
remain hunting till about February
"Roosev.elt ran up with his gun in 15th, and that he would then return
his left hand. but he could not shoot East to prepare for his inauguration."
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Topeka Saloons Closed.
Topeka, Kas., Feb. 12.--As a result
of the meeting of the citizeng of To-
peka yesterday afternoon all the Joints
of the city were closed yesterday. The
citizens made the peremptpry order
that the saloons he closed by noon, and
as far as is known the order was re-
garded.
Early yesterday morning Chief of
Police Stahl, with some of hls officers,
made the rounds of the Joints and no-
tiffed the keepers, as far as they could
be found, that they would be expected
to close at once. They were in each
case presented with a printed copy of
the citizens' ultimatum, and command-
ed in the interest of law and good order
to close at once•
~rhe citizens' committee has made all
the necessary arrangements for the en-
forcement of their orders regarding the
Joints, and will insist that the order
be carried out to the letter and that
every drinking place be closed.
The condition of i~ublic sentiment In
Topeka is something remarkable.
There has never been anything here
approaching it. The vigilance commit-
tee is ready to move on very short no-
tice.
Asks England to Make Peace.
London. Feb. 12.--Sir Edward
Clarke, the former solicitor general, in
a letter to a friend Citing Lord Roberts'
rejection of the opportunity to propose
peace terms in June, 1890, when Gen-
eral Bullet had prepared the way by
conference with Christian Botha, says:
"This put an end to all negotiations.
The war has gone on. The losses since
have been 124 officers and 1,454 men
killed in action and died of wounds,
thirty-six officers and 3,620 men died of ]
disease and 959 officers and 22,635 men ]
invalided home. We have spent from
$60,000,000 to $70,000,000 devastating a [
country over which we desire to rum. I
We do not seem a day nearer 'uncondi-
tional surrender' than seven months
ago."
Sir Edward Clarke earnestly hopes
terms acceptable without dishonor will
be offered to the Boers.
G~eat Gl~ss Plant ]Burned.
Rochester, Pa., Feb• 12.--The town of"
Rochester, on the Ohio river, about
twenty-five miles from Pittsbnrg, yes-
terday suftered the greatest fire in its
history. The loss is estimated at $1,-
500.000. The first started Just "after
midnight in the cooper department of
the National Glass Company's plant,
the largest tumbler plant'tnthe world,
located outside the limits of Rochester.
Almost a Centenarian.
Boulder, Colo.. Feb. 12.--(Denver
News Special.)--Mrs. Amy Dartt, wife
of the late Josiah Dartt, died at her
home, corner of Ninth and Arapahos
avenues yesterda# morning. The lady
was ninety-six years and one month old
and her husband was over eighty. They
Were married in 1841 and came to
boulde2 in 1871, Mr. Dartt engaging in
the surveying business. She was the
mother of the late Mrs. James A. Max-
well and Mrs'. Hal Sayre of Denver,
Mrs` Nathan Thompson of Cheltenham,
Maryland; also grandmother of Mrs.
C. C. Brace, well-known in Denver.
The venerable lady had enjoyed excel-
leut health until Sunday, the 6th in-
stant, when she was attacked with the
grip, which caused her death.
Snow and ]Rain l~ Ari=onL
Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 12.~-Wet wea-
ther continues all over Arizona. Two
weeks of rain and snow makes the
most protracted wet period in se~eh
years. Snow is falling all over north.
era Arizona to greater depths than
was ever known before, and there has
been a gentle but steady rain over the
central and southern parts of the terri-
tory. All streams are swollen and con,
ditions are similar to those preceding
the great flood of ten years ago.
Chinese Emperor Will i~ttle.
Shanghai, Feb. ll.--It is reported
here that the Empress Dawager, yield-
ing to foreign pressure, has allowed
Emperor Kwang Su to assume the
reins of government.
A dispatch from Pekin asserts that
all the fortified passes beydnd the ter-
ritory held by the allies, are being gar-
risoned b~ the Chinese; and that Box-
ers are entering Pekin secretly,
Death of a Heroine.
Mrs` H. D, Fisher of Topeka, Kan-
sas, wife of the veteran Methodist
preacher of that name, died a few days
agM'rs. ~isher played a heroic part in
the Quantrell raid at Lawreflce: Her
husband was home in Lawrence on
sick leave when the raid took place.
The ruffians came to the house expect-
ink to find Mr. Fisher. Not suc-
ceeding, they fired the house. Mrs.
Fisher then obtained permission to re-
move the carpets from the house. She
dragged them out into the garden and
managed to secrete her husband under
them while dragging them out. As •.a
consequence Mr. Fisher was one of the
very feW men spared en the memorable
raid ..... : :
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DEATH OF COL. ALBERT D. SHAW
EX,COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, G. A. R.
Washington, Feb. ll.--Ropresenta. Washington and took'a hand in urging
tire Albert D. Shaw of Watertown,
New York, formerly commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, was found dead yesterday morn-
Ing in his room in the Riggs house. A
physician pronounced death due to
apoplexy, suffered probably about 2
o'clock im the morning.
Colonel Shaw had returned about 1:30
a. m. from a banquet at the EbbRt
house in honor of his successor, Gen-
eral Leo Bassieur. Before he left the
banquet hall he had responded elo-
quently to a toast and appeared in ex-
cellent health and spirits.
After his return to the hotel, he asked
for hot water, complaining of indiges-
tion. Tha~ was the last seen of him
alive.
Colonel Shaw's private secretary,
Charles E. Glynn, had an appointment
with him at 10 o'clock this morning,
and when he did no~ appear one of the
bell boys climbed through the transom.
The body was discovered lying face
downward an the floor. The features
were slightly bruised, showing he had
fallen suddenly and heavily.
Colonel Shaw was an active worker
in Congress and the picture of health,
of-commanding stature, strongly built
with square shoulders and erect fig-
• ure, which, with white hair and mous-
tache, made him a conspicuous figure
in the House. An active•worker dur-
ing his incumbency of the commauder-
in-chief's office, he frequently came to
legislation for the old soldiers before
the committees of Congress.
Albert Duane Shaw was born in the
town of Lyres, Jefferson county, New
York, December 27, 1841; was educat-
ed at Belleville Union Academy and
Canton UniverSity; enlisted as a prl-
vate in company A, Thirty-fifth New
York volunteers, in June, 1861, serving
out the term of enlistment; was ap-
pointed a special agent of "the War De-
partment in 1863, stationed at provost
marshal's headquarters at Watertown,
New York, thus serving until the close
of the great war in 1865. He was
ele~ed a member of t'Se State Assem-
bly in 1866, serving one term, and was
appointed colonel of the Thirty-s|xth
regiment, National Guard of New
York, in 1867. by Governor R. E. Fen-
ton. He resig~ned te accept the position
of United States consul to Toronto,
Canada, in 1868; was promoted to Man-
chester, England in 1878, and removed
by President Cleveland in 1885 for be-
ing "an offensive partisan." He was
elected department commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic of New
York in 1896; and unanimously elected
commander-in-chief of the national en-
campment in 1899. Colonel Shaw was
unanimously nominated by the Repub-
licans of the Twenty-fourth New York
district to fill the vacancy in the Fifty~
sixth Congress caused by the death o~
Hen. (3. A. Chickering, and was elect-
ed. He was elected to the Fifty-sev-
enth Congress last November.
MASS MEETING AT TOPEKA
SAYS ALL SALOONS MUST GO
Topeka, Kans., Feb. ll.--A, mass for years you have scorned all apl~e-~s
meeting of the male citizens of Topeka, and warnings that have been presented
yesterday afternoon, at which 3,000
were present, decided that the numer-
ous Joints of the city must go at once•
-Friday, February 15th, 12 o'clock noon,
is named as the time when the cleans-
inK of the city must he made complete.
If it Is not done by that time, an army
of a thousand men will immediately
move upon the joints and remove them
by force.
The meeting was remarkable in ev-
to you by the virtue-loving portion of
the community.
"Now we feel that the time has co~ne
when we must speak to you peremp-
tortly. We cease now to endeavor to
perstutde. We command. You must
stop this lawless and iniquitous busi-
ness and stou it at once.
ery respect. It was called by a eom-ttee of public order, which we to-day
mittce of the Law Enforcement League constitute, that all your tIliclt goods,
and was attended by nearly all the together with all the associated fix-'
preminent business men of the city• lures and furnishings of the places
q~h~ ,rely ~ " I,~v e *b,, m~, I where your unlawful business has been
~'~'- was a ~rarer off'~red b~ t~,~ w-.. I ca me~ on, snail nave been removed
, and shipped from the clty before 12
F. W. Dmerson, who is Mrs. Natlons~ , . . := ....
o CLOCK noon, l~'rlclay, ~enruary 15,
manager in her leeturing tour. After ,,~,
a few short, snappy addresses, which ~"
worked up the splendid body of men to "Upon the strict and literal observ-
a high degree of enthusiasm, an ulti-
matum was proposed and passed amid
the loudest cheering.
The Jelntists were warned in the fol-
lowing vigorous term,~ that Topeka did
not desire their presence any longer:
"To those illegally engaged in this
illicit business, whether wholesale or
retail/ we have to say that the long
controversy of the public with you
must now come to an end. You have
openly and persistently defied our law~;
you have made yourselves the agents
of even greater criminals outside of.
the state, who have supported you in
your unlawful traffic; you havegath-
ered about you a criminal element that
is a perpetual menace to 'the safety of
the community, and have maintained
places that engender and encourage all
vice; you have introduced the most cot-
ance of this command we shall insist;
and if it shall be d~sregarded, we will
take whatever measures are necessary
for its rigid enforcement.
"If a long-outraged public shall be
compelled to resort to the fundamental
right of self-vindication against crim-
inals and their abettors, the grave
consequence to evil-doers which may
result from such a return must res~
with the deters and nullifiers of our
laws, and the obstructors of our gov-
ernmental machinery. The Jointists.
the men who rent property ¢o Jointists,
and the men who have violated their
oaths in tolerating crime--these are
the disturbers of the peace, and not
the affronted and wronged public,
which, as sovereign, has both the
right and the duty to see that its will
and Judgment shall be respected."
There were a number of addresse~, in
rupting and demoralizing factors and which Mrs. Nation came in for her full
Influences into our local politics, and share of credlt.
HAZING DENOUNCED PLANS TO [STABLISH
BY THE C01~IMITTEE
Washington, Feb. 11.--The repo.~t of
the special congressional committee
which investigated the hazing of Cadet
Booz, which was the general subject of
investigation at West Point, was sub.
mitted to the House by the chairman,
Representative Dick, together with a
bill making strlngent regulations
against hazing, fighting and all brutal
practices.
The report is an exhaustive review
of the practice of hazing in all its
forms, and while moderate in tone is
nevertheless a stringent al~dgnment
of the many alleged brutal practices
enumerated. It specifies more than
100 distinct methods of annoying and
harassing fourth class men and de-
scribes them in detail. The report
ste~a that a system of fighting has
~grown up which is shocking in it~
character. The ~lghts are described
and the committee states that the
West Point cede is more vicious than
the Quceusbury code.
The committee held that fighting is
the wors~ form of hazing. The report
says that such fighting as that at West
Point is a felony according to the stat-
utes in many of~ the states, and the tim(~
has come when Congress must decide
whether fights, which are crimes else-
Where, shall e0nttnue at We~ Point.
'The committee finds that Cadets
MacArthur, Breth and Burton were
hazed into convulslon~, others were
h~tzed untti they fainted, while other~
ware hazed until they were sick.
~nglish ~ortu~'uese Aln~nee.
L~
It is expected the crowning of King
Edward will take place nextSeptember
instead of as previously, one year after
the proclam0tio~L The reason for this
ts to avoid mid-winter, which would
spoil the outdoor Jubilation.
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE
Washington, Feb. 10.--It is now aI~
parent to the officers of the adminis-
tration that It
for the. United States
wholly from the go~ernment of
under the most favorable
stances, before next fall, at the ear-~
liesk This is eoneedlng the possibility:
that the Cuban convention
a constitution
thisgovernment0n or
of April next:
It is recognized on :all, sides that it
will require several ~onths after the
adoption of the constitution to com.
plete the 0rganizatio;t of the (~uban
government and have it in sucessf~'
operation, -All the national ~rS
must be chosen, law~ enacted for the
collection of the revenues and the es-
tab)lisishment of a stable government a
police.force or constabulary organlzed
to ta~re the place of the Um~ted
States'military force for the preserva- ; "'
tion of peace and the maintenance of
order, and the municipal governments
must be organized.
In this country at least three months
notice is given of a general election,
and It k urged that, owing t~ttm con-
ldnitions_in Cuba, where all the prelim-
ary election machinery has yet to be
prepared, it~will take mor~ time to pre.
Pare for the election of tlm presMent
and other national officers, after which
the administrative office~ must be ap-
pointed and the necessary laws enact~
ed before the structure of government
can be properly established,
rate, of the
officers of
London. Feb. ll.--"A solemn reaffirn by a
ati0n of the Anglo-Portuguese ~liance] whb is thoroughly
is pending, I am informed," says a] situation. This gentleman salii
Lisbon correspondent, "and England] that
will request Portugat to land Portu-I successful
guess troops to guard certain points in l troops will be wlt;)drawn
South Africa in order ~o enable theI and. Such withdrawal, he said, We~
British employed a~t those points to'be made when the Cuban .government
Join the fighting columns." requested it and it was clearly ap0ar-
ent that the government was fully ca.
pable of maintaining ~Peace and ~{l
order. • ~ • ::~.
Me~tloO Cllngt Ira, 8nv,~le.
Mexico City, Feb. ~, I.--Bankers'~den~v
that there is any present probability
of the country adopting a gold-basts
[say no loan fro' that
Ohitt9 Har~o, or Crazy Snake, the
leader of the warring Creek Indians, telegram from
and seventeen of the minor leaders of Banker C:
that tribe, have been landed in the fed-
eral Ja~l at Muskogee; Indian Terri- dltton
tor~, Where they will be held pending ed,
trial for treason. ~ monetar~ s~ingency abating slowly.
