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CONTINUED DROUTH
BROKEN BY HEAVY SHOWERS
July 28 To day's era Arizona and southmn Utah, and on
~ther advices from the corn belt
, Rlo~:~re the most encouraging that have
el be~e
il to hand for the past forty days,
er Oc-~wBag, in the opinion of the fore-
~ter~ that the great drouth has been
.~y has ~oken by a general visitation of show-
ice of~in many portions of that section,
i'ueblo ~d with a prospect of their continua-
siness~n to-morrow. Coincident with the
:::~o~ of rain has come reduced tempera-
vi~n.~l'es. ~Vtth row exceptions the tern-
are not abnormally
of 100 degrees be-
12 reported. West of the Mississippi
they were generally in the neigh-
of ninety. The forecasters,
r: not making any specific predic-
~ as to the effect of the rain on the
z ~xpress the opinion that all those
that have not been irreparably
be benefited by the break-
' of the.drouth. The late crops nat-
: will be helped the most. The
T show that during the past
0 hours ehowers were quite
in the corn belt, and were
h over much of tho state of Iowa,
t over part of the corn belt not vis-
14 by rains including western Nebras-
L southern Missouri and Oklahoma.
"~ there will be showers through-
the corn belt region except in its
t( western portion, and southern
and southern Ohio and they
the west gulf coast.
T(>peka, Kan., July 28.--Copious raims
have again fallen throughout Kansas
to-day. All along the line of the San-
ta Fe far out to the web, tern part of
the state there were generous supplie~
of moisture. In Topeka nearly two
inches of rain fell to-day, commencing
early this morning and continuing un-
til after noon. This makes four iuche.~
In the past three days. To-morrow the
farmers of the state will l~gin replan{:
ins tlmir vegetables and will plant im-
mense quantities of turnips, Kaffir ecru
and sorghum for foi,nge. The ground
is in excellent condition for these pro-
ducts now and plenty c.f rough feed
for the coating winter is assured.
Kansas City, July 28.--Rain fell here
almost constantly to-day, tim downfall
amonnting to over an inch.
Dubuque, Iowa, July 28.--The drouth
has been broken by a rainfall of 1.8~i
inches, and reports from points in west
and north Iowa show the ~torm was
general.
Bedford, Iowa, July 28.--The drouth
In this section is broken. About three
inches of rain fell this morning and It
is still raining. This means an eighty-
per-cent, corn crop in this locality.
Lincalp, Nob., July 28.--Reports
from over the state show ttmt the rains
that visited Nebraska last ntgllt and
this morning have left the corn in many
d continue generally on Tuesday in I localities in better condition than was
"t Ohio and middle Mississippi val- at first thought` This, while not of
P , • " ] much help to the hay croft), will make
I~ere also have been showers and l good fodder in all corn fields and in
P erstorms in the northern tier off ninny places will make from one-thlrd
~ from New England to the Da- ~ to a full crop of corn. In some local-
L( In northern New Mexico, nm'th- t ttles, however, there will be no corn.
Denver, July 29.--In an exhaustive
k which showed thorough re-
~" and long study of the issues in-
*( County Judge Ben B. Lindsay,
8 the ease of the city of Denver
against Dan Cronln last Saturday
fi contrary to the decision of Judge
recently given authorizing the
e -Selling of liquors to women in wine
a rooms. Judge Lindsay presents the
tq ease clearly and effectively and backs
~p his decision with rulings from the
California courts which were quoted
by Judge Palmer and from the Su-
Court of the United States.
e. fine of $50 imposed on Cronln in
~v-_~. the police Court is doubled and the
o~f~ ruling of the eourt upheld Attorney
av-[ Milton Smith for the defendant took
an appeal and was given sixty days
In which to file a bill of exeeptions.
In his decision Judge Lindsay claims
that the county court is the proper tri-
bunal for the trial of such cases. Lie
says:
"It is undoubtedly the law, lu my
opinion, that this court, and not the
district court, is the forum, and the
only forum, this side of the appellate
courts that in CJhe ordinary and
Proper course of procedm~ has any
right, authority or Jurisdiction to in-
terpret the ordinances of the city of
Denver. Vlolatlors of the city m'din-
nnces are prosecuted in the police
e~urt, t~.he right of appeal is to this
court only, and: thence to the Supreme
Court; thus the accused who may be
charged with their violation is af-
forded a speedy, plain, and to my mind
Sufficient and adequate remedy at law.
as the defendant will be afforded in
this case.
"'The ordinances are not void. They
do not constitute the slightest in-
fringement upon the constitutional
rights of women as those rights are
lawfully tested and properly under-
~tood."
"It may be a discrimination against
a woman to 1)reclude her from the sa-
loon, but it is a l)erfeetly legal, wise
and Just discrimination, sanctioned by
all the courts, and In no way conflicts
with the rightful exercise of any of her
constitutional righte as such are prop-
erly used and understood. It is no
of an illegal discrimination than
those wholesale regulations barring
and drunkards from saloons,
legality of which has never been
qu~tioned, yet their constitutional
rights are Jtmt as sacred an. others.
"'It being then a prerogative of the
courts to detezTnine whether the act is
really in the interest of morality as
claimed by the legislative power, a few
observations in this respect become
pertinent. Keeping in view these prin.
ciples as governing the relation of the
Judieial and legislative departments
of the government, ie it possible to per-
ceive any ground for the judiciary to
declare that the ordinances in question
have no substantial relations to the
preservation of public morals or public
safety or were not fairly adapted to
the end of protecting the community
against evils which confessedly result
from the intermingling of the sexes in
consuming ardent spirits in saloons,
wine rooms or dance halls? I think
not.
"With all due respect to the learned
district Judge, to my mind there ia not
the slightest Justification for a eon-
tPary holding on the ground that the
legislative department of the govern-
ment, under the guise merely of police
regulation, is by the ordinance in ques-
tion aiming to deprive a class of citi-
zens of their constitutional rights, A
thousand times rather by such regula-
tions do they preserve to the people the
very rights claimed to be invaded.
Who would dare maintain that the
intermingling of opposite sexes under
such circumstances would not lead to
lmmm'al recmlts and the desecration of
those decent relations that should ex-
ist between them? Could a more de-
basing custom be well imagined in a
civilized and Christian community?
"It may ~ well to reeall what his-
tory su.bstanr~ates, that the shoe, king
debauchery and corruption that accom-
panied the periods of decay of uations
that have perished were largely the re-
sult of drunken revels of opposite
sexes in the public wine places of their
great cities. It may be safely ash,'ted
that every large city in this country
has at least had the decency to recog-
nize immoi'al consequences of the con-
ditions referred to as to discourage and
prevent it by similar wholesome regu.
lation. Such enactments have always
been upheld by the courts when called
upon and this court shall not depart
from the table.
"The ordinances shouhl be enforced
with an unsparing hand by those in
authority, and to that end every proper
aid should be afforded by all the pow-
er of the Judiciary. Any other course
eannox but be fraught with the most
pOrilous consequences to the morals,
health aud happiness of the people."
CHINESE SET!LEMEN cereals, but it is understood that com-
pensation will in that case be asked
NEARLY COmPLEtED for. probably the financial partl~ipa-
Washington. July 29.--Confirmation
of the amplest kind of the encourag-
ing news that has come to ,.the press
from Pekin relative to the /~ettlement
of the financial problems that have
engrossed the attention of the minis-
ters there for many months has Just
come to hand fl'om Special Commis-
sioner IO~ekhlll. N i
Moreover, he adds to the general
items already reported the n~ws that
the ministers will be ready to sign a
protocol within two weeks that will
result in the speedy withdrawal from
China of all foreign troops except the
legation guards and th~se who will
occnt~y the certain strategic points to
be held under the treaty to safeguard
the road between Pekin and the sea.
The advice IS in substance as follows:
.The Russian government has slgnl-
fled its intention of not further press-
ing the question at present of the
eventual lno~ease of the Import eus-
Corns dutle# beyond five per eent. (the
present figure). It is agreed that In
ease 2he revenues of China are not
sufficient for the payment of interest
and principal the powers are to ex-
amine the reveuues nnd determine
what changes are necessary in order
to m]pply the deficiency. The imperial
marRime customs are to be included
' tlon of China in improving the water
approaches of Shanghai and Tien
• Tsin. A:i the other principal points
of the negotiations are now settled and
it Is expected that the results will be
summarized in the final protocol
within two ~weeks and Chat all the
powers will become signatories.
in this arrangement.
The Brltieh minister is satisfied with
¢~is arrangement and the whole ques-
tion of financial measures is ther~lore
~tlod. The ~tS0,000,000 taels consti-
tuting the indemnity are to be con-
verted into gold a¢ the equivalent of
the ta~l value on the first of last
I~ ease the Import duties are
luently increased the free lh~t
W~O hsF,e to be abolt~hed except for
Tragedy Near Trinidad,
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I' inldad, Colo., July 28.~(Denver
News Special.)~Thi~ morning about S
o'clock Phil MeWilllams a ranchman
living a few miles below town, shot
and killed Salvador Pareee and his
son. Charles Parece. In the fight that
occurred at least a dozen or more shots
were exchanged, the Pareces shooting
McWllllams horse from under him be.
fore he shot them. The shooting is the
outcome of an old fend that has long
existed between the two parties.
This morning McWilliams saw a coy-
ote across the prate about a quarter
of a mile from his house, and. taking
his gun, he mounted his horse and
started after it. When about half a
mile from his house he was met by
the Pareces, who opened fire upon him,
shooting his horse, but not wounding
him. He returned the fire, killing both
of them,
Trotting RecordAgaln ]Broken.
Cleveland, Ohlo, ~uly 27.--Amid the
enthusiastic cheers of nearly 10,000
p~ople, Cresceus, world's champion
~rottlng stallion, again demonstrated
that he is the peer of all trotters by
troCtlng a mile4 Yesterday afternoon
over the Glenvitie track,in 2:02~, Thi~
establishes a new world s trotting rec-
ord for b~th sexes, displacing th~ for-
mer world's record of 2fl)2~, held by
The Abbott.
WA!:INGTON. ~ GOSSIP.
The Pr sident has granted a ?)ardon
to John F. Johnson,-former pr~siuent,-~
of the State Natioual bauk of Logans-
port, Indiana, convicted of misappro-
priating funds of the bank and other
violations of the national banking
act and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary. He had served five yeat*z.
Mr. Russell. the United States
charge of legation at Caracas, cables
the State Department that the status
of the asphalt cases is practiclly un-
changed. IIo says a strcng move was
made by a local jtulge to put the War-
ner-Quinlan cl,'limants in possession of
the asphalt lake, but this Judge was
supcrs-ded and the Bermudez com-
pany remains in possession.
:['he crate DeparHnent l~s reec~ved
a note from the Italian embassy at
Washington inclosing a letter from
the mayor of Turin to President Mc-
Kinley Cxl)ressing the hope that artists
and manufacturers from the United
States will take part in the interna-
tional exposition of modern decorative
art, to be held in Turin in 1902 under
the patronage of the King of Italy.
Whatever else may be said of the
American army, it must be admitted
that this government treats its soldiers
better than any nation in the world.
It expends more for their food, more
for their clothing, and more for their
medical attendance and other necessi-
ties and comforts than any one of the
powers of Europe. An interesting
statement bringing out this fact was
recently published in a report of the
War Department, showing the effect-
iveness, cost per year, and cos~, of
one solide), per year in the armies of
the leadifig powers of the world. The
army of the United States, though the
smalles~ In numbers, was proportion-
ately the most costly of all, and its
aggregate cost was well np to that
of armies of Germa~ty, France and
Russia, which were from elgllt to ten
times as large. The cost of one sol-
dier for a year in the several corot-
tries is as follows: I~ly $192.').3;
Austria, $194.53; Germany, $201.30;
France. $197.65; Russia, $155.75;
United Statt-s. $1.014.66.
Delay as to ]Forest I~eserv~,
In a letter to the secretary of the in.
terior, the commissioner of the gen~ral
land office states that he will recom-
mend the creation of no more forest
reservatlous until the law governing
lieu land selections has been materially
ameuded, so as to provide that lauds
taken in lieu of tracts within reserves
shall not only be surveyed and opan
to entry, but the tracts so selected shall
be o~ the sqme area and approximately
of the same value as the relinquished
tracts.
The ~ecretary ' entertains similar
views on thls general proposition.
~Phere is therefore little probability that
any more reserves will be created until
Congress acts. This means that no
action is to be taken with regard to the
proposed Medicine Bow reserve in Col-
orado nnd Wyoming. This attitude of
the secrctary and commissi(mer ex-
plains the long silence with regard to
this proposition and is the real cause
for inaction.
The secretary has endorsed the action
of the commissioner, saying applica-
tions were pending for the creation of
reserves a~greg~tlng 40,000,000 acres in
August, which under the present law
he would not undertake.
To Stop Land Frauds.
Tim general land office is deterntined.
as far as possible, to stamp our the
fraudulent acquisition of public lands
under the timber and stone act. an
abuse which is growing rapidly of late
and which has been brought to public
attention in Montana and Idaho. where
legal l)roceedings ate being taken
against a la~:ge aural)or of parties.
The practice has been for rich indi-
viduals aml co:~oratlons to hire cer.
rain individuals to make entxies under
the timber and stone act, of rich tim-
ber lands, ntaklng the entry of course
in their own name. The law requires
that such entries shall be made by a
l~rsan, who must declare his intention
to use the same for his own personal
benefits and who is sworn to have no
intention of selling his rights when
once finally acquired.
The local land officers have not al-
ways been altogether fair in their deal-
ings with such individuals or prospec-
tive settlers, that is. faic to the govern.
meat. Some have been delinquent
fl'om oversight, (~thers from design.
The matter was carried on to such an
extent, however, that the dopartment
was forced to take c~gnlzanee of the
abuses, and as a result instructions
have been prepared and are being sent
to all local land officers intended to pre.
vent further abuses of the timber act.
The local officers have been instructed
to carefully and thoroughly examine all
claimants and witnesses under the
timber and stone acts. The department
believes that a large number of entries
which have been made In many states
under these acts were not made in
good faith for the exclusive use of the
enttTman, but in the interest of spec.
ntators, who procured the entries when
completed.
The department is now anxious ¢o
)ut a stop to these practices, if possi-
ble. and punish the protno~ers of such
'raudulent entries. Each entryman
who swears he Is making an efltry in
his ow~ interest and tarns about sell.
ins his entry to auother, perjures him.
self. and is liable to convictkm.
Local officers have been directed to
issue no final certificate in any case
unless the proof submitted is positively
satisfactory in every partiq~lar and
they are convinced beyond a reasons.
ble doubt that the (,nut is made in ab-
solute good faith for the exclusive ben.
efit of the entryman, and the re(luire~
meats of*the law have been actually
and fully compl!cd with. In every
~ase where the local otltce~s are not
~onvlnced by evidence or through act-
ual knowledge that the claimant is
aeting in good faith, or where they
have presumptive evideuce, reliable in-
formatiom or good reason to believe
that the entry is fraudulent, collusive
or Illegal, they are to receive proof, but'
.~uspend action thereon and transmit
the same to the general land office with
their opinion in thb case. The genera]
land office will not be sati,~fied with
any evidence taken in a perfunctory
way. The law requires that all road
cross examinations wlll be made by an
attesting officer ro further test th~
g_ood faith of claimants and witnesses.
No entry is to be allowed on the testi-
mony of the entryman alone.
Jenklns--I rowed down the river to take our tent down, but when I got to
¢#mp I found a grizzly bear standing there.
Jerkins--Did you pull up the stakes? ...
Jenklns~No; I pulled up the river,
Spite o' the sorrow from East unt~
West,
Let us hope for the best!
Even when the red thorns are keen at'
the breast,
And sleep brings no solace--no dreams
and no rest,
Let us hope for the best!
~Atlanta Constltutloxa
The woman was standing in the
doorway, shading her eyes with her
hand. She called across the garden:
"You, Innocence Williams Come in,
honey, outen that hot. sun. You'll bur~
yer little cheeks az brown ez a berry.
Come in, Innocence!'*
One would have expected to see a
fairy-like creature rise, as from th~
heart of a flower, and drift dreamily
over the vio~.et beds. But instead, a
gaunt, tall figure, with face browned
and bonneted, shambled towax'd the
house, dragging a dead rattlesnake by
its rattles.
It was Innocence Williams. "~h~l*~
mammy!" sloe explained, tossing th~
snake over the palllngs. "That make~
ten I've kilt senee the fust o' Jtm~l"
ffust tho Thin~,
~I am going to spend a week in
camp with a party of congenial spir-
its," said the fat man in the linen suit,
as he entered the bookstore, "and I
want a good book to take along~aome-
thing appropriate, you know."
"Yes, sir," replied the kuowing clerk,
"we have Just what you want in a re-
vised edition of 'How to Mix Drinks.' ""
Mlnnlck--"I thought you said Scrib-
bel was a good-hearted fellow,"
Sinnick--"Well ?"
Minnick--"Well, I hinted pretty
strongly that I'd like to have a copy
of his latest book, but he studiously
ignored the request."
~innlck~"That's where he proved
his kindly nature." ~ Philadelphia
Press.
The man who goes to a money shark
to raise the wind pays dearly for his
whistle.
GOULRN'T LEAVE,
Mr. Moth--You must hate this ter rible fly-paper.
Mr. Fly--I do; but I had an uncle who was dead stuck on It.
NOT FIT TO EtT YET, ~o ~,~ ,. ,~o ~'h.r,,.
"I don't like this climate. It's t~
hot," the stranger said. "You ought
to come up to Minneapolis and live.
We have it cold there in the w~-nter,
but it's so dry you' don't notice it."
"Dry?" gasped the sufferer. "I won-
der if it ever gets as dry in Minne-
apolis as I am at this moment."~Chl-
cage Tribune.
Flnnigan~"Oi hear yes hov ,a girral
baby at your house. McManus. Phwa~
Is it yes are afther callin' th' infant?"
McManus~"Shure an' It do he Caro-
line th' owld woman tells me, but O1
call her Carrie for short, O1. dunno."
Finnigan~"Carrie, is it, McManua?
Faith. an' thor's a good name for a
faymale missinger boy, O'im
"~ thinkin'."
f--
Borem (eonsultlng his watch)~"Isn't
~,.-r~q your clock a little slow. Miss Cttt--
tins?"
Hostess--How do you like this cheese? Miss Cutting (suppressing a yawn}'
Guest~It'a not half bad. ~'No, I think not; but there are times
Hostess---Then .I'd better put it away for a few months, when it does seem so."
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STRAH6E DUT TRUE,
~ho|o~ o~ PoMt|on,
~k well-known Sunday school teacher
was late In arriving at one of the cit-
ies at which he was to appear and had
hut half an hour to reach the hall
where he was to give his entertain-
ment. He needed a shave almost as
much as he did his dinner, but he de-
cided to cut out the latter. The forme~
he was obliged to have. Going to his
room he rang for a barber. A bright-
looking boy came in and announced
that he was the barber. The lecturer
sat down on a chair sad told him to
go ahead.
"1 heg your pardon, sir, but would
you mind lylng down on the couch."
"Why?" asked the astonished lec-
turer.
"Well, sir, you see, I am generally
se~t to shave the corpses, and I can
shave a man better when he is l~ing
down."
One Kind.
"Paw," said Tommy, who was look-
ing at the "Household Hints" in the
weekly paper, "What la s 'society
sandwich?' "
"A society sandwich," replied Mr.
Tucker, not at all certain of hie
ground, but unwilling to exhibit his
!gnorance~ before the youthful seeker
after knowledge, "is a helples~ young
man sitting between two lively girls
a:t a swell party."--Chlcago Tribune.
The opinion of a man who blows
hls own horn Is apt to be souud.
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Jack--Mr. Carnegie seems to be very much interested in d~trlhu~.
libraries.
Jill~Yes, even the smoke comes from his factories in volum~
"O~ell Worth the ~o~tt,
"If I were Uncle Sam," said the
thoughtful man, "I would end this
Sampson-Schley controversy mighty
quick?"
"How would you do it?" asked the
dreamy one.
"I would give the partisans of each
a battleship and compel them to fight
it nut."
"It would be well worth th~ cost,"
admitted the dreamy o~e.--Chicago
Post.
Vsluable Men ~trsy,
"~ say," said the business man to
the detective, "some fellow has been
representing himself as a collector of
~urs. He has been taking In more
money~ than any two of the men we
have, and I want him collared as
quickly as you can."
"All right: I'll have him in Jail in
l~se than a week."
"Great Scott, mama! I don~t want to
put him in Jail; I want to engage
I him."
Ibl a D~ngerons :Pl~et|o~
"Poor fellow!" commented tl~
friend. "He was sunstruck. I undo'-
stand. How did It happen?"
"It was all due to a lack of ~d~
meat on his part," was the reply.
"Lack of Judgment!"
"Y~; he ought tO have known bet-
ter. You see, he went out with a pic-
nic excursion party to cool off. and
before he could g~t back to the city
whore there wae a !ittle shade the ~t~,
ha~ do' t~ !t~ work. '
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