State Ledger

THE STATE LEDGER The only John Seaton recently gave his five children $1,000 each in cash. It is claimed that the drouth has killed off the loco weed in Western Kansas. The Santa Fe shop extensions will add about 12,000 to the population of Topeka. It is becoming frequent in Kansas banks to discover bills of national banks of Honolulu. Ida McClure, aged 19, a farmer's daughter of Cherokee county, took strychnine and died. Railroad men whose runs are in both states say that Nebraska corn is not as good as Kansas corn. Mr. Dold says that it will take eight months to fully complete the new packing plant in Wichita. Howard Black passed forged checks at Newton and when arrested he plead guilty. He is a youth. Attorney General Godard decides that the railroad commissioners have power to make and enforce rates. Kansas now has 333 rural free delivery mail routes and there are 393 applications for new routes pending. A mover's horse died in Independence and in 15 minutes enough money was raised to supply its place in front of the prairie schooner. J. J. Jordan, of Fort Scott, is negotiating the marketing of the 25,000 bushels of apples on his farm in the southern part of the state. Thirty-five butchers at the Cudahy packing house in Wichita struck and were out one day. The killing was done all right by men of other departments. J. A. Ward, an amateur photographer of Salina, won the prize offered by Secretary Coburn for the best picture of Kansas wheat fields. The picture will be used for advertising purposes. Sergeant Barnes, of Junction City, drew a claim in Oklahoma and proposed to sell out and go to the claim. Mrs. Barnes, failing to change his purpose, attempted suicide, but her life was saved. "When some of the men folks of this section are called to their fathers," says the Anthony Republican, "they are going to leave the best looking and best fixed, financialy, lot of widows in the state. John Q. Thompson, of Pratt, has been appointed as one of the assistants to United States Attorney General Knox. Mr. Thompson has practiced law throughout Southern Kansas for many years. Tom Leftwich, of Larned. is charged with sending the associated press a wild story about lightning striking the coffin in which a child was being taken for burial, tearing off the top of the coffin and bringing the child to life. Harry Shady, son of the city marshal of Larned, was caught in the belting of a threshing machine and his left arm was torn off at the elbow. The muscles were pulled out to the shoulder. It is doubtful if he will recover. The new tax law prepared by the legislative committee, has provision for letting the holding of state funds to two banks which will pay the highest interest on it; the banks to be anywhere in the state and to be heavily bonded. Coffey county claims ten bushels average yield of its corn crop which will make a million bushels. Farmers are looking for stock to feed. Dynamite exploded in a barn at Edna. It was kept there for use in blasting a well. It is believed that rats gnawed it. The barn was completely demolished. Some farmers of Miami county are buying back the cattle they sold when they were scared and are paying 50 cents a hundred advance over the price they received for them. The mayor of Parsons has at last turned over that $19,000 received for bonds, to the Katy company. The railroad buildings which were concerned in the transaction are to be completed within six months. William Kern of Baldwin was driving four horses to a disc harrow and was killed by lightning, with three of the horses. There was no rain. The new elevator being erected in Salina to replace the one recently burned will be one of the largesttt in the state; with a capacity of 70,000 bushels. Mrs. John Springer, of Brown county has won a fight she has been making for two years and has secured a pardon for her husband who was serving a term for statutory rape and bastardy. She never believed her husband guilty. Work is going on for the erection of the addition to the Ottawa university. John D. Rockefeller and the citizens of Ottawa and the Baptists of Kansas together contributed $60,000 for this work. The new building is to be of stone, 68 by 100 feet and modern in every way. Coffey and Franklin counties have decided to hold fairs. Contract has been let to build a new $15,000 jail for Bourbon county. Baker university is the oldest Kansas college, having been started in 1857. Kansas gained 1.6 per cent in population in the year ending March 1, 1901. Drillers struck a heavy vein of crude petroleum fifteen miles north of Fort Scott. It is proposed that the city of Fort Scott issue $10,000 in bonds to bore for gas. E G Framé, of Osage county, sold $350 worth of bluegrass seed from 25 acres. A Kansas City man paid a $25 fine for killing five prairie chickens in Ellis county. John Mead, of Leavenworth, was killed by lightning while crossing the fort reservation. A. Robins and his sons, of Auburn, Shawnee county, sold 282 bushels of flax seed, off of 45 acres, for $374.85. Kansas, according to the returns of the assessors, gained 23,100 in population during the year ending March 1, last. W. R. Haslet, of Sumner county, claims to have raised the best wheat in the world. It tested 65 pounds to the bushel. Eighty per cent of the divorces filed in Shawnee county are by women. Last year there were 118 divorces and 600 marriages. A Wellington milling firm received orders in one day for 200,000 pounds of flour, of a certain brand. There had been no soliciting. While drilling for gas at Erie oil was found at a depth of 400 feet. The oil is of good quality and promises from 25 to 50 barres a day. In Harper county, 53 of the 90 teachers passed. There are 90 teachers needed and where the lacking 37 are to come from is the problem. M. E. Phillips was re-elected chancellor of the Kansas Wesleyan university, he having declined the presidency of the New Orleans university. So far this season there have been 9 cars of bluegrass seed shipped from Gardner, Johnson county, which brought the farmers over $80,000. During the fiscal year ending June 30, the earnings of the penitentiary were $266,534.32 and the total expenses were $165,477.63, leaving a profit of $41,056.09. Ed. M. Wheeler, of Montgomery county, marketed from his farm this season 22,000 quarts of strawberries, the receipts reaching $1,100. He estimates his apple crop at 1,000 bushels. These are only side affairs of his farm business. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilder brought an exquisite statue from Rome and have installed it, as a present from them, in the Topeka free public library. They have also donated a splendid collection of china secured during their trip abroad. S. E. G. Holt, a pioneer of 1854 in Lyon county, has reared thirteen orphan children. One of them is now chief surgeon of the Santa Fe west of Albuquerque. Mr. Holt expresses his opinion that "money spent in sending missionaries to the heathen should be spent in rearing orphans here at home." Clarence Rose is in jail at Cottonwood Falls, charged with an attempt to blackmail the postmistress at Elmdale. She received a letter demanding that she place $350 in gold in a certain place or her house would be blown up and her child kidnapped. She went to the place at the appointed time and Rose followed and was apprehended. Jesse Rush who was being tried in Uniontown, Bourbon county, attacked he justice of the peace and broke his jaw. The Missouri Pacific is trying the experiment of running excursion trains at $2 for the round trip, from Atchison to Waconda Springs. The first one left Atchison on Saturday night reaching the springs in the morning and making the return trip Sunday night. "Great Spirit" spring is 200 miles from Atchison, in Mitchell county. Cresceus, the trotter, was sired by Robert McGregor, owned by R. I. Lee, of Topeka, from 1873 until 1890 and has many of his offspring in Kansas. Summer county this year has produced nearly two per cent of the wheat crop of the world. A failure in Sumner county would affect the wheat market of the world. A head-end collision on the Missouri Pacific occurred at Towanda. No one was injured, but the engine was demolished and a car or two of wheat spilled. It is believed that Sam Kimble of Manhattan, will be appointed Judge of the Twenty-first judicial district. T. A. Skates and A B. Reeves, Dodge City attorneys, defended two tramps on their trial for murder, having been appointed to do so by the court. They received no pay. The men were convicted, but these lawyers are so well convinced of their innocence that they offer a cash reward for information of the whereabouts of a certain witness whom they think could vindicate the prisoners. COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS Kansas City. CATTLE—Heavy. $ 4 80 @ 4 90 BOGS—No. 2 heavy. 5 80 @ 6 15 WHEAT—No. 2 hard. 65 @ 6 15 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 58 @ 58 HAY—Choice timothy. @ 15 51 BUTTER. coffee prairie. @ 19 EGGS. 12 @ 19 Chicago. WHEAT—No. 2 hard. $ 70 @ 70% CORN—No. 2. 57% @ 57% OATS—No. 2. 35% @ 26 St. Louis Live Stock. BEVERS. 4 10 @ 5 05 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 2 10 @ 4 00 SOUTHERN STEERS. 3 10 @ 4 25 Cotton. Uplands. Gull. LIVERPOOL. 8 11-161 NEW YORK. 8 15-160 GALVESTON. 8 15-160 Wichita Grain. Open High Low Close Today Close Yield. WHEAT Aug. 70 70% 69% 70 70 Sept. 70 70% 69% 70 70 Dec. 72% 73% 72 73 72 CORN Aug. 56% 57% 56% 57% 57% Dec. 58% 59% 58% 59% OATS Aug. 35 35% 34 35 35 Sept. 35 35% 34 35 35 Dec. 36 36% 36 36 36 Wichita Live Stock. HOGS. $ 5 30 @ 5 22% Chicago Live Stock. GOOD TO PRIME. $ 5 30 @ 6 30 GOWS & FEEDERS. 2 50 @ 5 10 STOCKERS & FEEDERS. 2 50 @ 5 10 TEXAS FED BEEVES. 4 00 @ 5 00 HOGS. 5 80 @ 6 05 THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. They have robberies of street car passengers at Melbourne, Australia. Edward VII paroled parliament with the customary speech; his first of the blind. Germany intends to establish a colonial army of volunteers, in the Orient. Damage to batteries at Fort Morgan, below Mobile, from the storm are very extensive. About 500 West Pointers are in camp at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo. The total disbursements for pensions from July 1, 1900, to June 30, 1901, was $2,763,350,033. An American syndicate is confident of obtaining a monopoly of the entire Swiss coal Market. The manuscript of a uniform course of study for Indian schools is now in the hands of the printer. The town of Chipley, Fla., has been destroyed by incendiary fires, supposed to have been set by negroes. Five people were killed and ten injured in Chicago by the collision of a trolley car and a passenger train. An explosion of ten tons of molten metal at Youngstown, Ohio, killed three men and injured eleven others. From 12,000 to 15,000 beeves will be shipped from Seattle and Vancouver to Dawson this fall for a winter supply. A ship load of resin has arrived at St. Petersburg from Pensacola, Florida, in spite of Russia's discriminating duty. Army rations have been sent to destitute people who were driven from their homes in the late Gulf coast storm. The town of Grand Bourg, island of Marie Galante, in the French Antilles, has been destroyed by fire. Its population is 15,000. General MacArthur has arrived in San Francisco. He left Manila July 4, and spent several weeks traveling in Japan, leaving Yokohama August 3. Over two-thirds of Frisco's underlying bonds have been converted into the new refunding 48. This has resulted in saving about $70,000 annually in fixed charges. The carriage factories of Cincinnati have announced that hereafter they will employ whom they please, fix their own wage scale settle the matter of apprentices and work piece work and contract system. Jamaica has an enormous crop of fruit and the cultivators of it are dissatisfied with prices offered. There is only one $10,000 United States note outstanding and the treasury department wants to know where it is. Vice President Roosevelt stopped at Hutchinson on his return trip from Colorado, long enough to talk to the veterans assembled there, together with thousands of citizens. He did not leave the train but spoke from the rear platform. The Russian ministry furnished a special car for Count Tolstoi's trip to Crimea. Tolstoi went there for the benefit of his health. The importance of this bit of news is in the fact that Count Tolstoi is always antagonistic to the government. A delegation of fullblood Creeks visited the interior department to protest against allotment. They were told that their treaties and the action of Congress governed all that; that the department had no authority to take any action. A thousand girls of the shirt waist makers' union in New York have struck for more pay. The union says that it is the first of many walkouts unless wages are raised. Boss Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Steel Workers, says that the men in the west who have not obeyed his strike order "are no longer union men," and Secretary M. S. Tigue has revoked their charters. Rural mail wagons are to carry weather signals of the day, commencing room Able to Supply Wheat Deficit in Europe Single Handed. NEED 664,000,000 BUSHELS. London, Aug. 21.—The Mark Lane authority, summing up the crop situation, says: The best authorities estimate the wheat crop of the United Kingdom at 56,000,000 bushels; that of France 300,000,000 bushels, and the crops of Belgium and Holland at 40,000,000 bushels; a total of 396,000,000 bushels for the great wheat importing area of Northwestern Europe; which needs 664,000,000 bushels. America, with home wants not exceeding 400,000,000 bushels, has 675,000,000 bushels, and is, therefore, able to deal with the deficit single-handed. The Russian, Roumanian Australian and Argentine surpluses are left to meet the wants of Italy and the newest buyers are Cape Colony, Greece, Switzerland, Scandinavia, China and probably Austro-Hungary, Spain and Portugal. Egypt and India will be self-supporting for the next twelve months, but Egypt has dropped from the list of exporting countries and India does not seem to be able to continue her exports. The government has assumed that there will be an exportable surplus of 5,000,000 quarters, but an Indian crop authority denies that the famine is over or that the 1901 crop is abundant. To Press Sult Against Colorado. Arkansas City, Kas., Aug. 22.—T. W. Eckert, president of the Arkansas Valley Protective association, has issued a call for a mass convention to be held at Wichita, September 12. The object of the convention is to procure evidence and statistics calculated to be of service to Attorney General Godard in the suit brought by him in the name of the state of Kansas against the state of Colorado to prevent the latter from diverting the waters of the Arkansas river. All counties in southwestern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma are requested to send delegates to the convention. Santa Fe and the Choctaw. New York, Aug. 22.—A report from Wall street says that the Santa Fe has been acquiring large interests in the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad. It is said that this is in line with the Santa Fe's policy to give as complete service to the rich agricultural lands in Oklahoma as the road now furnishes to Kansas. The Choctaw route would give the Santa Fe a first-class line into the newly opened Indian lands. Sixteen People Drowned. Paducah, Ky., Aug. 21.—The steamer City of Goleonda, plying between this city and Elizabethtown, Ill., was struck by a squall as she was enroute to Paducah and turned over in ten feet of water. Sixteen people are reported drowned. The wind struck the boat without any warning and there was no time to escape. The women were all in the cabin and could not be reached and none of the bodies were rescued. 112 of 219 Vote to Strike. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 20.—The Bayview men will strike. The vote on President Shaffer's order is said to have been unanimous, after a session of the lodge lasting five hours. The plant of the Illinois Steel company at Bayview will be shut down indefinitely, and about 1,400 men will be rendered idle. When the meeting was called to order it is said that 112 members of the lodge out of the total of 219 were present. A Remarkable Well. Cawker City, Kans., Aug. 19.—John Haseltine, living four miles south of here, has the most remarkable well in the country. He dug five wells in a line extending sixty-five feet and ranging from seven to seventeen feet in depth. The center one is the deepest. He then took out the intervening earth, making one well six by sixty-five feet, with five feet of water in it. The well is walled up and arched over, except in the center, where a pump and windmill is placed. Hobart After the Normal. Hobart, Aug. 22.—The interior department has set aside $500 of townsite money for the temporary quarters of the county officials. Governor Jenkins' committee to locate the Southwestern Normal came here and it is learned that the committee is unanimously in favor of this city providing the required forty acres of land and $5,000 are given for the purpose. Hobart bankers and business men stated that this money could be raised in thirty minutes, and the land has already been offered. The Fort Riley Victims. Ft. Riley, Kans., Aug. 22.—Private Mackey Sykes, one of the victims of the explosion of a gun cartridge, died of his injuries, making three dead in all. Recruit Lloyd's recovery is doubtful; his arm has been amputated and he is suffering from concussion of the brain. The fort surgeon removed one of Sergeant Dennis Mahoney's eyes. He will recover. The other injured are in good condition. The bodies of Watson, Sykes and King are held pending word from relatives. ALL ABOUT LAWTON. Building Going on Rapidly—Trouble About Brick Making Lawton, Aug. 22. —Lawton is peopled by men from all over the United States and a few from other countries, but only a few. Lawton is spreading. Any one coming in now and having been here during the first few days would say that another boom had busted, but the fact is that the conjested conditions that existed then do not exist now, for the business lots that have been purchased on the townsite are now being occupied. Large frame buildings are being erected on them and stock is being put into them. In many cases the buildings are only temporary, and waiting until brick can be made. The making of brick is delayed by the difficulty of securing the privilege of starting brick yards on claims. The homesteaders want first to know what effect this might have on their rights. Rock Island stations are congested with freight. Foodstuffs are the first to be put on wagons for their distribution and this management has kept down prices. It is remarkable that during all the rush of thousands no one has been killed or injured by or on Rock Island trains. The masses of people would crowd trains, not being particular about cars, and freight cars were satisfactory, yet no accident has occurred. One very dangerous thing in Lawton is the open wells, some of which are 35 to 40 feet in-depth, and five to six feet wide. GERMANY TAKES A HAND With no Intention of Violating Monroe Doctrine. Berlin, Aug. 20.—Newspapers discuss the South American trouble. The Post, referring to the steps contemplated by Germany, says: "The imperial government, of course has no intention of mixing itself up in American quarrels, for Germany has no special interest to defend. On the other hand, the important financial and business interests of German subjects demand adequate protection, which the government will give. "The Post does not believe that the newspapers of the United States will see in this a violation of the Monroe doctrine, since Germany's action is wholly non-political and merely protective of business interests. The papers also believe that Washington will find nothing objectionable in Germany's action." Official circles here admitted to the correspondent of the Associated Press that the Post's utterances on the subject of Germany's South American policy were inspired, emphasizing the fact that the authorities at Washington were fully informed as to Germany's intentions and were satisfied therewith. Mob Shoot Wildly Pierce City, Mo., Aug. 21.—A mob of 1,000 armed citizens hung a negro who was believed to be the guilty party in a rape and murder case. After the negro was strung up the mob began shooting at the body and a small boy was shot dead and several men wounded. There were two negroes hung during the night and the mob waited for a passenger train to capture a Pullman porter and hang him. Swiss Get American Work. London, Aug. 20.—A dispatch from Geneva says the electrical engineers of Zurich have obtained a contract to supply all the machinery for the new electric installation at Niagara Falls. It will consist of eleven turbines of 55., 000 horse power each. Mexico has also placed an order for an electric station of 100,000 horses power with the same firm. Thinks African War Ended. London, Aug. 20. The Sun says it hears that the concentration of General Botha's forces on the borders of Zululand does not foreshadow a fight with Botha, but his surrender in pursuance with an understanding reached between General Botha and Lord Kitchener. The government is so satisfied that the war is virtually over; that Lord Milner, now on his way back to South Africa has in his pocket the draft of a complete constitution and plans for the future government of the annexed territory. Trainload of Horses Arkansas City, Aug. 19.—A train load of horses passed through the city. There were twenty-three cars in the train and Yardmaster Reed says it is the longest train of horses he ever handled in the yards at this point. The horses were from Texas and New Mexico. They were bought by the government agents for use in the regular army. They were all good sized animals and there was not a white one in the bunch. Imminent Miners' Strike. Pittsburg, Kas., Aug. 22.—The situation in the affairs of the "Big Four" mining companies, looking to a settlement of difficulties between them and their employees is not at all encouraging. Some of the companies decline to come into the conference, while others refuse to agree to the basis of settlement proposed. National President Mitchell has been asked to come here and it looks as though an ugly strike, affecting the mines of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory will be called. Railway traveling in Great Britain is the safest in the world. In America, one passenger in every 2,400,000 is killed; in France, one in every 19,000,000; and in Great Britain, only one in every 28,000,000. World to End this Year This is the recent decision of one of the prominent societies of the world, but the exact day has not yet been fixed upon, and while there are very few people who believe this prediction, there are thousands of others who not only believe in the best medicine to cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, billlousness or liver and kidney troubles. A fair trial will certainly convince you of its value. The men who succeed are those who arrive promptly on time. 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