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Ctflumte Iwrmil v- ' I?. VOLUME XXIV NUMBER 24. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27? 1893. WHOLE NUMBER 1,220. Cb I 2 k :l a . " -:' T ... THE OLD RELIA74Q Colnmbus - Stafc Baak J Pays Inters 03 mm AJTD "Males Loans on Real Estate JSRfcS BIGHT DRAFTS CI &, Cfcioago. Now York and alj Foroiga Couatriea. tELIS ! STEAMSHIP TICKETS, BUYS GOOD NOTES Lz& Helps Its Customers whsa tktyNeed Hb OIWCEES AXD DllCTOEIl LEANDER GEBRARD. TU B.H.HENTY.VieePrei't. J,OHN 8TA.UFFEB. CuMa. LBHUGF -or- COLUMBUS, NEB., If AS AN Authorized Capital of - $500,000 Paid io Capital, - 90,000 OFFICERS. C. H. SHELDON. Pres't. I II. P. II. OEllLIUCH. Vice Tres. j CLAUK GRAY, C.isbler. DANinLSCHKAM.Ass'tOash j DIKECTORS. n. M. WlNSLOW. r. II. Sheldon, 3 ox as 'Welch. 11. T. II. OnnLRiCH, w. a. mcall13te, Carl Ricnke. STOCKUOI-DEItS. S C. r.nT. J. HrxnY WraDrsiAw. V i:illl AIID Loseke, 1 1 cxav Losese. Ki..nK tin ay. Ueo W. Gallct, ANIEL SCHKAM, A. F. II. OEHLMCB, fjlXSK ROItEIl. .1. P. Ueckeb Esxate, Rebecca Heckek. Rank of deposit: Interest nllowod on tlmo tlepoilts; buy and sell exchange on Urltfl States and Kurope. and buy and sell avail able securities. We ilmll bo pleased to re relvo your business. Wo solicit your pat ronage. -THE- First National Bank COXiKraCBUS. If KB. OFFICEBS. A. ANDERSON. J. H. GALLET, President. Vict Tret't. O. T. ROEN. Cashier. DIRECTORS. 0. ASffiE&SO!?, p. AW&tMolt. JACOB QREISEN, M SESBI tkQkTZ, JAME3 dTjUBDa. Statement or tho Condition at tbe Close or Business July 12, 1803. BESOCnCES. Loan and Discounts ...S24I.4C7! Real i state Kurulturo and Fix- 16.74 M 13,200 0J ! 59.743 63 ; i U. S. Itonds Duo Xrom other banks f37.S76 31 Cash on Hand 21.SG7 56 -A- J I'll . .$333,190 36 LIABILITIES. fapltal Stock paid in. Surplus Fund Undivided profits Circulation Deposits ...S 60.000 00 ... 30.000 0) ... 4.376 00 ... 13.500 00 ... 223,119 87 ...1333,190 36 LOUIS SCHREIBER, All kinds of Repairing done 01 Short Notice. Baggies, Wa "o 10. ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A, Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. Shop on Olive Street, ColumbuB, Neb., four doors south of Borowiak'a. HENRY GASS, Coffins : and : Metallic : Cases ! v Repairing of all kinds of UpJiol ttery Goods. B-tf COLT7MBU8. NEBRASKA. -OOME3 TO- The Journal for Job Work G. W. HULBT. i iilLli; BffiSiMWilflMta NEBRASKA. NEWS. Thcrc is nql- &, vacant house 111 Wake- field. Tno Xn-JAhal ban',: of Ashland has I Ves-iimcS business. Thotnas Carroll has been appointed n'nj " bur.ncd to the ground, to iblmaster at Fremont. r " l11 n,ine hc:d of hsJt? jpos j The Ithica mill has started up again j after being closed for a month. I Some fields of corn in Kurt county will go sixty bushels to the acre. German Day, October 7th, will be cclebnited in Omaha and South Omaha. In some portions of Douglas county corn and potatoes will be a light crop. J.cv. .1. T. Waiker, an evangelist, is holding camp mooting in tents near Lyons. The Western Travelers' association will be held at Grand ber ?,0. Inland Septein- Mrs. ,lano Jones of Lancaster county lias been pronounced insane and taken to -be asylum. The bridge across Loup river near Monroe, Neb., will be completed in about two weeks. The Elsinger blacksmith shop was totally destroyed by lire Friday morn- 1U ill, UUdl 1 I'S.ll. Arthur Wood, a 12-year-old boy o Table Rock, has been bound over 6n a charge of burglary. The North wca'Am Nebraska, collier- ence of tho Methadi-t church will be ! held at vllianc, uoginning September 2SUu A five in Lo.lge Pole inflicted consid erable loss, the Express newspapc office being among othe" propertj burned. Ueil Cloud lii have a new bank, to be opened October :.', with a capital of Sl.",u:0. It will be kxown as the Peo ple's bank. Ilev. Mr. I'nderwood, for two yea in charge of the Methodist Episcopal church at S-jringiichlJias been returned to his charge. !oh n Johnson, five miles east of Hayes Centre, had fifty acres of Tur key red wheat that yielded over twenty bushels to the acre. A wrestling contest occurred at the opera house at Shelton, in which John Murphy of Aurora was worsted by A. P. ISills, ;i local champion, best two out of three falls, twenty-live minutes. in one hour and Joseph Kellman, a wealthy and influ - ential larmer living near Nebraska Citv, died last week after a Iinerin"- illness of dropsey. He was iW years old. and came to Otoe county about thirty years ago. ile served during the war in an low a regiment. The Hubbcli Driving Park associa tion has decided to hold its temi-annual j meeting October 4, r, and G. The pre ' miums offered a ro Si, 000 and no labor t will be sjiared to make this the most , .successful meeting since the orguiiiza ' t.on of the societv. Fire destroyed o bai ncontainingeiuht head of work horses belon-in"- to .. C i Mowell. jr., proprietorVif the Cheonon- da ranch, at his farm four miles south ! of Cedar Kapids. The cause of the lire t is not known and the loss is about 1,- uu, wan no insurance. A little 7-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs. So'omon Zcaring, living two miVs west of Springfield, while looking at n s-jw and pigs, was set upon bv the sow and badly injured. The child's cloth ing was torn to shreds and her flesh lorn in a number of placs. Thomas McCartv, proprietor rf the Saratoga hotel at Milford. died last i week from injuries received by falling i from a ladder while going oil to the roof of the hotel. His collar bone was , orokenand left shoulder badlvshatter ( ed. besides severe internal injuries. The dining hall on the Waterloo pic 1 lnc grounds was burned last week. It j is supposed ito have been the work of ' Some tramps who lmvn bi.on l ;,.;.,,. j there for some time past. After the fire jsime twenty citizens patrolcd the , trcets all night but could find no trace I of them. "mi1" M:,nl' Jr-' ys the Sclmvler 1 ; yuill, has ilcmonstratcd that winter j wheat can he MiflppKofnlivmicui !.,.... klj'l ... M f . . i. &a,,c lit. t W. "- i Luniy-iour acresot 'Inrkey in the treasury. This we are very red winter vt heat this past season and proud of, as Iowa with SS,."(00 appro last week threshed out 1,L'0() bushels I priation, Kansas with 5-'.".,)), Illinois an average yield of fifty bushels per with SI 1,000, have all gone in debt ere, machine measure. Cuy Mitchell, the vounir son nf V..U- tor K. 15. Mitchell of Waverly, swal lowed the metal ton of n rw.rflir. t.t , tie. Prompt measures removed the ob j struction, which would have choked (the child to death in a few seconds j more. The throat was much lacerated, out iiu win prooaoly recover. Dunbar was vibited bv nno nf tb ; worst dnst storms known for years. I and and dust were blown in clouds, j and ail business was suspended, lhc j storm was so severe that some few farmers who were hauling cereals to ' town were compelled to abandon their , loads.as the grain was blown out of the wagons. j I.. I.. Hobbins was found dead at his j boarding house in Central City. Death , was the result of heart fciilnnv A!,- j Kobbins became editor of the Nonpa- ' reil in ISSii. In ISitO a partnership was , lunucu viin .ur. noicott, which con tinued until last May, when Mr. ol ! eott became sole proprietor. Mr. Hob . bins continuing as foreman of the pa I per. -Mrs. it. H. lirittltli of South Omaha narrowly escaped death bv nnlwimnir ' he was not feelinir well and wmt Tn ! the cupboard and got what she sup- I 1 osed was a solution of iron. She too'; 1 ;i large tiose only to discover to her horror that she had taken aconite. Dr. Mabough was called and after admin istering antidotes pronounced her out of danger. The Hastings Nebraska n contains a notice that on October application will be made to Governor Crounse for the pardon of Anna II. Mason, who i.s serving a four year's sentence for the murder of D. S. Cola Numerous net:- i - uumuimmr Hundreds s 01 sn'nn- . . tures, numbering the best neonlo f Hastings and Adams countv will hi l,r?sntml in nnnm.i nf o, '1- .- ' i-ri..scnieu in support of the application , The Xchms-l", Aiti,i;-, , ' Aneeorasua .Metnodist conferemc ! concluded at lleatrice last week. The ! next conference will be held at Kails ! ity. A full list of conference nnnmn. I iannomi- ... 4 , r... ... f iiicnis ncre inaac. J ue lollowinj-are the presiding elders appointed: Keat-! 1 ice district, II. IJ. Davi,: Hastings, dis trht. II. G. Adams; Lincoln district. AbaSieelh: Nebraska Citv district, I.. !'. liritt: York district, " A. C. Cross wait e. The executive committee of theinter tcholastic foot ball league of Nebraska proposes to do all in its power to elevate the standard of the game. At the com mittee meeting in Lincoln this rule was -dopted: "It shall be required that all nlayers in the league abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks during the foot ball season and that no profane anguage be allowed during the pro gress of the game. xl .Tohnson, a Nebraska City wheel man, was riding through the eountry near that city, and as he passed a far mer s. team one of the horses kicked him. The blow struck him on the arm mil breast, throwing him some distance and injuring him severely. He is un der a physician's care. Uirei ye&rs pastor of tio oniteufPrcs Interian chrrc-h In that city, has ac- ur j ccPt"- a charge in Lawrence, Kansas. A barn owned by James llotaling, ' located at Grand Bapids, twenty miles norm ot btuart, was struck by light- i uai ul-m ,uiu suine nay. uim nuum SfOO, insured for about $'.'00. Mr. Ho tnling is proprietor of the stage line running from there to Butte, Boyd county. ine horses burnn-i were a j part of those used on Use stage. A omit thirty- citiens of Fremont went to Logan township today, says the Tribune, to assist i a proper cele bration of tbt golden wedding anni versary of the aged parents of Nils and -v.oiis .lolis-son. This venerable couple who have traveled life's pathway to gether fifty years, have lived twenty Jive years in Logan township, where newsboys' friend," and president of the boys" and Girls' National Home and Fm ploy mcit association, Who Was some months elected .cmp'flrnriVy io till , me irj.Miion oi agem. ot :iw Neoiasjia j division, made 'vdciint bv the re.-igna- v.. . iii j -,-n x t .., tiuf U. iiartin, arrived in lleatrice ' -n"- week with a couple bov.s from lhc ---.'seiie Home at Omaha - - '. t i , & s.Ks. a.L a iiiiiiu, .. inniii, ?i: ind in less than two hours the bovs were taken to raise bv two of the best j farmers in Cag c-iiiiit-v i "'!: Unr at Ual-ry Wehlncring ol . Un;aia, who had Veen employed at the county fair at Fremont, was found on j the railroad horribly mutilated. At the , coroner's inquest Lewis Wcesensteiner I testified that he and two companions, , including the dead man. wc'e f tealing I a ride on a through frclghi that passed ! Fremont n'oll .1 a. in., and while the ! tr&ii't was running at a rapid rate they I were pat off by the brakeman. He I recognizis the clothes of the dead man j as being worn by the dead man of the ' stolen ride, i ( harles McClurc, the Omaha train robber, who was sent to the pctiiten- liary a few months ago under a sen j tencc of fifteen years, es-aped last i week. McCIure turned state's evidence at his trial, but d.d not gain anything ( thereby, the judge giving him the full extent, of the law. The escaped con ' Viet occupied the third 'iei of cells, and ' l"c;il'e1 y saving oil four bar and ' l!ll'n '""i? through the ventilator, ' I''oui thereof he lowered himself to the 'Jron y means of a ladder composed of sticks and strings. The man Mc!uire, arrested bv Con- . stable Case last Thursday, says the J Syracuse .Journal, havimj sixteen , watches in his possession, was taken in charge by .1. Uarton of Wither, the 1 sheriJf of Saline county on Saturday t hiot, A jewelry store belonging to I John F. Karly of Wither was burglar- J ized on Tuesday night of lastweek,and ' the watches found in the poscssion of Mcthiire were identified ns KaHy's property. It is believed that MeOuire is wanted in a number of plaics for ! similar offenses. There arc two anxious women in j Ih-own park, looking for news from , the Cherok'ce strip with very painful longing, says a South Omaha corre ! spondent. Not long ago Frank Klenk, , w ho has a family' of a wife and four 1 children, and Frank Itatay, who has a j family of eight children, took it into j thi'h' heads to go the Cherokee strip and get homes. They started a few days ago hopeful that they might ro , turn with homes for their families. IJut , now it looks as if they never would re i turn. It is rumored that they were ; both killed in the mad rush for homes ! in the Strip The board of agriculture lias nearly , completed its labors in connection with , the late fair. It is of the opinion that this was the grandest fair it lias evei held. The exhibits were fuller, the j races were better, the county collect i ive exhibits more numerous and the horses and cattle the finest ever seen in this stitc. In speaking of the busi ness affairs Secretary Furnas said: "We have paid every dollar of indebtedness incurred this year and still have money this year, while we with SA11" have paid in in full. paid in in full. Iowa has gone back over ?!,00(. There are some developments in the case of llarrett Scott, the defaulting and absconding treasurer of Holt coun ty, which will make interesting read ing for the people. Scott disappeared some two months ago leaving behind him several very disconsolate bonds men and a few thousand angry taxpay ers, lie had not been gone two weeks, however, until the authorities heard he had taken refuge in Mexico. Extradi tion papers were at once applied for and a few daj's ago President Cleveland issued his warrant upon the Mexican government. Scott is now under ar rest at Paso del Xorte, but whether he returns to lloltcounty is another story. -cott is a defaulter to the extent of ibotit S94.0UO, according to the examin ation of his books. The state banking board has promul gated a new set of rules with which all parties organizing private or state , banks in Nebraska must complv before i thev can receive the permission of the iney can receive me permission oi me board to commence business. Hereto-, fore in the history of banking in Ne- braslta a great deal of trouble has been experienced with the character of the ommercial paper held as part of the I iiiim itu"jii. i iic sunu n;i.- uul'ii irue with real estate, furniture and fixtures. I he new rules prescribe that not less. . than oO per cent of the capital stock shall consist of cash. The banks will not be permitted to hold more than l'j-'.J per cent of the capital stoirk in com ' tacrciai paper and such paper must be I inp'oved by the board. Again, not 1 more than .'53: per cent .shall be in real .'slate, and even this must be limited to t 1. 1....1.1. -. .w .m... ... r 1. .. tl... T... 1 ., lilt: iiiiuuiu-' u' 1:111,1c, I ijt 1 hit u:iiiif :i7ifi . ." .... " tlie Sround upon v.-incn it stands. Nebraska State Teacher- Association. ,ri . , , x. , , ... . Hie teachers of Nebraska will nave ., , ., . . the Pnvi,eSe llt the 1,oxt meeting of l'u" i't:,te Association in Lincoln, De- scniber JG. ,' and , of an address- trom Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark L'ni-' verslt3" Worcester. ZVlass. Dr. Hall is recognized both in Amer ica and Lurope as one of the soundest and most advanced educators of the ' times, and Nebraska teachers are for tunate in this opportunity to hear him. lie was among one of the most sought after speakers at the Educational Con gress just closed in t hicago. ' Dr. Hall recently traveled extensively in Kurope. studying educational condi t'ons and methods there. The teachers should be present two thousand strong to hear him. There are few of the teachers who cannot, if they wish, attend the meet ing. The expense i.s not great, and a' little planning, if necessary, will bring . it about, gl. 00 for membership fee. -'.40 for hotel bill, (not more tlianS.".0;i if the best hotel in the city is palron i.ed, with railway fare, (probably 1 1 . fare for the round trip, will cover, ail necessary expenses. The thing i.sj to decide now that you will go, and ar- j 1 a nge accordingly. Br-V O. S. Afot'rnw- rif Linenl- j r,lligll TOiieeuai l0 ...'L" yeaterdav in showing the disparity acquaintances ami neighbors, and arc tweei; . helr meinl)e. and tHlose Jf ! respectively acd bcveiity-three and Oppositioil as ,vas done llV the ii . .,.. 4 i r13 . Jcjr- votes taken, and the country bIi o-otiet Alexander Hotreland. "the acre Repeal Men Hopeful. Washington, Sept 23. The arrange ment announced by Senator Voorhees at the close of yesterday's session that, beginning on Monday next, the daily sessions of the senate shall begin at It a. m. and close at G p. m.,' was engin eered by Senator Jones of Arkansas and Senator Faulkner, and was con--sented to by Mr. Voorhees when con vinced lhat the agreement would be satisfactory to both sides of the cham ber, and when assured, as he was, that ' unless an arrangement of this charac ter was made the silver men would consume the time after a reasonable adjournment hour by dilatory motions, and not with speeches, or that the friends of the bill would be compelled to do the talking. Mr. Voorhees feels that tl'c friends of the bill henieved a signal triumph be the two ould pt this as an assurance of the. sue1 cess of the measure when a vote 6hall be reached arc that no advantage can be gained by a futile attempt to pro ! long the working hours into the night The repeal men are still hopeful of reaching a votoat a comparatively early day and none of them plnCe the limt beyond the llrst week in October. l will bo observed that, this will be in time to get the hill out of the way of the federal elections bill, if that bill should come from the house on the 9th of October, as it probably will. They say. however, that even in case the fed eral elections bill should reach' the sen ate before the financial bill in out of thfl way there would be Jto danger nf dis placing the latter measure with Mic former, and they make this assertion with such assurance as to srivo color to () ,.,,.( ii... , .. .....,....,- n( ti, cnot.. , , l , ., . , i ., has been made upon the point, and the result has proven satisfactory to the re peal leaders. The silver senators spent the greater part of the day in conferences among themselves, looking to the closing up of their line? and preparing themselves for any sudden assault like that or yes terday. They do not propose to be taken by surprise again and will be prepared for any emergency. They be lieve that the agreement reached today wit mule io their benefit and are very much pleased. They have determined to hold on until it can be ascertained wlietlier the elections bill can be taken up in the senate to the displacement of the silver bill. They say they can talk for a reasonable length of time, each day until that bill can be brought in, and that they will find other ways of putting in the tinr until then if forced to sit beyond the ordinary adjournment hour, which they do not consider at all probable under the agreement entered into today. It is understood that this agreement is for only one week, but it is presumed that if necessary it will he renewed at the expiration rif that time. A Trrriblo i::iilrnii Accident. La for. ik Ind., Sept. ja. The shadow of death hangs heavily over the little village of Kingsbury. Twelve bodies, frightfully crushed and maimed, many of them mangled almost bcj'ond sem blance to human beings, are ranged side 1)3 side in one of the village stores. Men, women and children were sacri ficed in a wreck which is wittiout par allel in the history of northern Indiana. Twelve lives were crushed out without a moment's warning. Death came un heralded by any messenger. A brakeman's blunder is responsible for the death or serious injury of a large number of people. "A Wabash train is wrecked," was the cry that v.oke the people from peaceful slumber shortly before .1 o'clock this morning. The villagers were not slow to respond, and theen tire populace gathered about the wreck. Str':iks nf ilnivn liml inct ...,..-,...i .... the horizon when the second section of vt abash train .No. ".whirled thrnmri, the village and passing through the main track to the siding crashed with frightful velocity into the freight train, the crew of which had been ordered to go ahead. Under the belief that the tra -k was clear the switch had been turned, and down the track to certain destruction rushed the train of five coaches, in which were over 1.".0 pas sengers, unconscious of what a minute would bring forth. There was a crash, and the noise of escaping steam. Then arose the cries of the dying and wounded. Through windows ami doors crawled those who were fortunate enough to escape with their lives. When the coaches had been emptied, willing hands at once went to the xes cue of the imprisoned in the forward cai. The most graphic pen would fail injjn attempt to picture the scene of ehae. 'he forward end of the pas senger engine had pierced the iron armament of the freight locomotive. The smoking car, immediatelv back, was completely demolished. The roof and sides of the coach lav a mass of wreckage. Next came the day coach, wliKh mid shared a similar fate. The work of rescue was carried bravely forward, and deeds of heroism were performed by the passengers and villagers. On improvised stretchers the dead bodies wen rarriml n ti... dcpot w, t, ran-ed side bv biJQ t, nltfor, ranCU SlfXc b? The Situation it Kio Janerio Decidedly Critical. L .on-do.v, bept. .. A private teleo-mm sent from Kio .lanero yesterday, which reached London at noon, fcays'the gov- ' ernment troops still hold possession of ! the city. Ine vessels of the rebel licet ) m mi naroor cleared their deck's for action and the drum, beat to quarters 1 early this morning, bt the bombard-' nicnthad not beeiienewed up to the , tune the dispateluwas sent. Ihe tele- ! gram adds that an enormous number I of messages are passing from L'razil to I r.urope. All outward dispatches arc closely s.-aiincd in order to prevent the I use of anv code. I SEWS NOTES. There is great excitement at Hot .Springs, Ark., over the mysterious shooting of .lames Kearny by an un known assassin. 11. H. Latham, printers supplies, ol .:;;;;..;.?;..,:';:;-.;;.. uu j-usmcnisi l-hierio-n n-nc -i tn..li...l nn i..j .i j;i.iiiiiK -..,uuu. ; .Uidjre Uifrhlon rnr-nn nf no,t..i Ins boon mn;ni,i u i (.., I troopsat ihe opening of the Si rip and call las ueen nominated by the South Da-) lug on t he stvretary of w.-.r to know by what nuia i-iiiuucans iorsuiireme iiidue 1 It has been decided that the state board of agriculture of Illinois can per manently locate state fairs, and pur chase property for that purpose. There is danger of much trouble in the I 'as de Calais coal district of France. The authorities have become alarmed and have telegraphed for reinforce ment of troops. 'I he state department! is still without further information from Brazil. Icin Le. a Sacramento Chinaman, ha . 1 ecu ordered deported. The Dulvof Cannaughtand the kinij of Saxon.- have left Vienna for the he-no of ihe. Hungarian army manoeti-vera- - s -- TALKING ON REPEAL. BUT There's no start EARLY VOTE. OF AN A Week or Ten Days Will Probably b6 Consumed Vol itefnre tiic blBniJicii and Slow lining Senato Will be Hearty to Give a I'lnal Opinion The OUlii liomu Delegate Creates a Mild Sensa tion in the House An Amendment to the Kepeal Dili by Mr. Stewart or Ne vada The Elections Kill In the House Miscellaneous Matters In Consres. CONGHESS IX EXTKA SESSION. , Ili the sNnitc Hn thti Ifitii Mf. PcfTet of" ferei :i resolution, wliicli went over, ln struclin the committee on interstate con i nicrcu to inquire whether any. and If i wliat, leibl:ition is necessary io prevent In terruption of railway state traflio by law less poisons anil to punish persons guilty of robbery and murder commuted on Inter state tritiitp. Tliersolittliidftrre bv ?!r. Matiiltrsoh 1 of Nebraska yesterday callini; for informa I tlon as to wlietlier land oillces in Nebraska ' had been abolished or consolidated was I taken up, and after amendment, te include I nil of the laud offices, the resolution was i agreed to. The repeal hill was then taken up and Mr. I Voorhees asked the senatf 10 UKre;1 tcln-e , debate tipdit the hill on the" Alth hist., and I that theainendnients lie debated until th" I ? th mlde.r tltoljve liili'iit" a'.c, wh?.ii n 'd1; 5h"iild hi taken upon all amendments and i upon the bill. , .Mr Teller of Colorado responded for the opponents of repeal. As Mr. Allison, who was entitled to the. noor. was auious io proceed, he would simply say that mere uau been no delay in this debate. The senate had not reached a point where it was fair to talk about lixlin: a time tor a therefore obj'''ied to lhc lOipiest. Mr. Vc'rhecsdicdailncd that he had made any r-cM(::tiof, nr ,lia'l hvfi nstd th word "delay." but lie desired to sK -nine In dication of the purpose of those on theother sidoof the()uestIou wheu dUcui-iiou might ' be roiu'Iuded I Mr. Teller did not think it fair to take the I time of the senator from Iowa, baler on if tin; senator from Indiana wanted thconiu- Ion of those who opposed icpeal they would. She it to him. 'All rilit," replied Mr. Voorhees. Mr. Allison of Iowa then addressed the senate. Tho law of l!). he said, wih a tern-' porary and experimental law. He should vote for It with irrat hesitation. He did . not believe in the iiUcy of nllbift tip bul lion in ihe treasury and Imldlifcit tll-TO lilj used. lib favored the cniniii of eery doi 1 lar of the silver in the tieasiiry. He fa 1 vored its roinaire as soon as practicable. !! favored the use f ::0,mU0 0 ef .sciiriior ! ase now in the treasury to iu:tiiiai tiff I parity between t lie two metals. He held that the ;roeriinient could not confine she ' purchase of silver without seriously injur ing the standard established in ls7t and lmnjiini: till-nation with all i:s opportuni , ties of wealth, labor and pioducl'ou to the silver standaid. HOUSE. In the house on the hil. Kenresemttive Pa-'lisli of New .ItTsfv !!ifed fot the iiiim.- iliate consideration of a ir-o!.itioii which, after reciting the frequency of late with which trains had been ro bed by bandits, thereby endanjierini; the transmission of the I'nited States mails, provided for an inves tigation by the committee on commerce and a report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Kil-rore of Teas objected, ami the fil llbuster airaiiist the Tuck-r elections bill, led by Mr. i!urriivsif Michijran, was iinme d lately nsnijed. Tlnjun'ile't'if theu'.'t pre vious days were followed. Mr. Ilurrows foiccd the house to a yea and nav mi e by a motion to desp use wish tho call of the committee. The republicans, to gether with Ceneral Tracy and his small baud of democrats, declined to vote and a'aiu succeed in breaking a iiorum. The ote resulted: Veas, 2: nays, U7, showinsr a gain of one over yesterday. .Mr. Tucker and his colleagues had no iiiea that there would be a quorum present today and simply allowed matters to uo to nu. , Mr. T ticker then said. ".Mr. "speaker, it is j apparent that there is no quorum of demo crat . present, and it is equally apparent that the republicans intend to piir.s;ie tiieir I policy of lillilnisterinir. and I, therefoie I move that the house adjourn." Mr. Tucker placed a signiticnnt emphasis j on the word "democrats" a thrust at t!en ' era I Tracey and his followers. Then at I2:4."i p. in. the house adiourned until l:tp. in. I snN.vrr.. . In the senate on the Isth Stewai t of Neva da introduced an amendment to the repeal bill authoriziii!; tlic president to Invite the I fiovernincnts of Mexico, Central and South j America, Hayti anil sail Poniiimoto join the United Mates in a conference In Wtisllins ton four months af:rthe passage otth ! net, to secure the adoption of ;i coininou sil 1 ver dollar of not less than av.i.'.li grains nor more than :.s:i.l t r.tinsof pure silver, to be j issued by each roverninent and to be a letral J tender in all commercial transaction-, bc i tween all the citiens of tin Ameiican 1 states; tiiat ih" findin" of the delegates shall he biiKlinjon tiiu piverniiieiits which rol.V-1 . Ml Vim -.'A -I on an agreement bein-r reached the governments represented shall open their mints to the unlimited coinage of 1 silver for lie- benefit of depositors 1 After a l)rief executive session thesenate j took up the resolution offered by Mr. I'effer on aturdav. Instructing the committee on interstate commerce to ascertain whether anj-legislation Is necessary to picieitt the interruption of interstate trallic by lawless persons and to formulaic legislation, if any lie necessary, to punish robbery and murder committed on interstate railway trains. Mr. I'efTer spoke in favor of its adoption. I:e said lie was sorry that in earlier times rewinds had not been offered by slate legis lators, for the scalpsof train rolibersas there had been for tlioe of wolves. Mr. 4'ullom, icpuhlicau. of Illinois appre ciated tin jiratitv of tin question, bin as the facts were well known and the only mat ter to lie considered was the character of t lie legislation nece.sary to reach the evil, he moved that tho committee on judici try bo instructed tocoiisidt r the matter, with a view to reporting a bill to reined v the ' ii. The subject was not disposed of at. I:.V . in., when 1 he senate left lhc chamber to participate in t lie ceremonies commemora tive of the 100th anniversary of tliu l.iyins of the corner .stone of the capltol. SEN'ATr- 111 thesenate on t lie 19th, In discussing the n peal hill. Mills took the lloor. lie began by sayiuir that it seemed.singular that in a country blessed with all the forms of wealth as ours, the l.tboiiu; people should In- in such distress as they now weie. and that vvhilu the f-eiiate was discussing the lluaii cial question in theory the laboring p"op!e were discussing theiiie-.tion of subsistence. Tor this st ate of affairs many causes were assigned. The pre-ideiu's me.sage a'tii Ijute I it, in a large nieasiiie. to the opera tions of t lie Sherman law. and in this opin ion a large percentage of the ln:sine-s men of the country concurred. It was tin gen eral opinion that the 1 iw was unwise and ought to le repealed. The democratic sen ators had said it was not a pioper measine which they reTtised to vote for its enact ment, and tie republicans who vot d for it agreed practically that it had outlived its usefulness and should be remove. i fiom the statute hooks. Mr. Mills quoted at length the clause of the democratic platform of 1 !l , declaring for the repeal of the act and fori he preser vation of theilouhle standaid. showing that in demanding the repeal of the law and in sisting upon an international agreement he V!,ril, no me president were acting 111 ported ac- with the reoiiireuieiits of the iilat form. lie declared that in doing what lie had done the president had shown that he stood squarely upon the platform with both feet. Keplymg to the plea that if siler wr;s to be lecognii d as money at all it would have to lie done before the Sherman bivv was ic pealed, he said he did not agiee witli the suggestion that the president would do nothing ir this law were out of the waj, and said he would agiee to do nothing which would cast siisp cion on the inesident, as would a proposition to substitute another law for ihe repeal, lie said the president wanted binietalisin, i.ot iiiononietallsin of silver. norsR. In the house on the irth at the opening of the session Mr. I-'lynn, the delegate from Ok lahoma. , reatcd a mild sensation by asking for t lie immediate consideration of a rcsoln tion healing on the outrages said to have been committed by the 1'niteil States troops at t lie Cherokee trip last Saturday. ue 1 he resolution recited tin' the press of tiiecom,tryhadfor several days contained ng vegetation and the :u counts of hum! killing of homesteaders by the I'nited States 'umoniy tne tioops n.id acted ... ; lowed to make -J -. Mil II IIII-llS I l. VII. r. Hvnn was ai- Iior: siatc-1'cnt. lie sent 10 the clerk's de alleged dcnroi; ;and had read accounts of t ions of the troops, and then In a passionate v. av he declared that all tin regulations under which the Strip had b en opened were 11 disgrace to modern civ!li-i-tion. '"Tin capstone of the wiioie infamous business." h.. h i-.Ht.-ri. 'ca-newhen settler wlio had stoo i f 1 1 hours on the line famish ing for water v.--u health -sly shot down by the militia." Colonel Dale, uf Alabama objected to the present 1 oiisider.it ion of the resolution, and 1 thereupon ihe s-riiggle to prevent the re- j port .! the Tn ker bill. icp..iling llie feder- I alelecti 11 laws was 11-siimed. ! lot lln.e bonis .lie tiliiliiisleiing, under the lead. 1 ship of Mr I'.m ivs. -oiitiinn 1!. j Mr. I'lickei. Mr. 1'ili-lis heutenaiit. having viebled ihe ,i'Nii,.;.:d of I he demociati- forces to his sopeiior. I.'oi; .all followed I roll call, until it b. .aiiieappaient thai the I democrats could not mils er a uorum of I their own. It was then decided to hold a caucu.'-s and apply the party lash. When they hoisted the l!:g and announced the necessity of a c-iiicus to whip members into line, t lie republicans signalized their victory by cheering wlldy. The house then ad journed mid the caucus followed. fcK.vvrc In the senate 011 thl' 20 M llml body rO1 mainediiicontiiiuoussessiouslv noni's and 'inlf, Its longest session since the repeal bill Iv.'is taken up. Mr. Morgan of A labama pre sented a petition of cltieiis 1 f ids state in favor f thf reeeal of tin shcrman net. Mo said it was olio of the pelitif-tis ceiitotil by Jie- York bankers and lie coiisIditr'd it it mandate, from them, not fiom the people o? A hilmmh Mr. Voorhees itiuTrt! tt thl epV.l bill be taken up. After a sharp pnss.lgt bMwj "ii him and Mr. Piatt of New oik. who wished to make a motion for an amendment of the rules providing for cloture, the in-ter yielded to Mr. George of Mississippi, who addressed tho senate in opposition to the bill. Mr. George read his lemarks to a slim ttniieitcn. a ud several limes the roll was called to drvelop the presence of a quorum. The ''upy items f repeal from the silver tuUs iefil- ed !' smii" instances; to answer w lien their nann s wi ro c.tlled. Mr. oorhees then roscaudsaid tliori were but two circumstances under which com pulsion could be used in tho senate one to compel the attendance of absentees and the other to maintain order on the lloor of the senate, lie moved that tin sergoant-at-nrms bo directed to enforce the presence of absent senators Mr. Dnlphof Oiegon suggested that the sergeant-at-arnis be directed to 'requtst" instead of enforce"' the attendance of sen atois. Mr. Cockrell, democrat, of Missouri, sug gested that the roll of the absentees be call ed. The vice president -o diiected. Mr. (iray, democrat, of Delaware, spoke in advocacy of tin repeal bill When he had Concluded "!r. Voorhees said tile senate had lone ;i fiir 'l.iy's work, an! lie moved an ex ecutive session, altin'iigh tomorrow- lie would ask the senate to continue in session later in the evening. After a short executive session the senate adjourned. HOfSK. In the lious'Mui the iuh as soon as the journal wasiead l.oud of California asked unanimous consent f trt he consideration of a losolution asking the secretary of the treasury how many ounces of silver had 'a (lUicliiise.d li July and August, the Umoiiii! off led ail if ih" government had not ptuciiascd tliiai2iul:t r'iiii'd by law under waat authority Hi setotay hud acted. I-itch objected and the struggle began. Burrows moved to spspeud the call of the committees for reports, ditchings, from the committee on rules, presented a report prov iding that no other luisine-s be in order until reports of com mittees was not in order, . s it had originat ed with the committee. Aft."r ! .sharp tilt wltii iSuriovvs and Kced o!i oilo -lib nid tlii speaker 1.11 theotiiertlie meaket overruled tho point of order, hold ing that the committee 011 rul'-s could orig inate as oider of business j list asUellaf, the cj mniittccouapp op: 1:1 1 ions could originate an appropriation (I.tnid 'lemocrmi ap plause. ISiu-iov.- rpp.s;ileil from the decision of the ehaiK Pitch of New York u.cr'.d to lay the ap peal on tbe table. Hiutows inov ell that the house take a re-ce-s of an hour. Catehingsmado a point of order that the report of the committee on nilcswas the onlv tiling in order. Tin speaker Instructed tho clerk to read the report of th" oi:rittc l.'e( 11 I'ei'.'t i vhement piotest against the action of the spi-::,ei unit 'iwlaiwl tiiat the clerk had no lihtto read the nnil 'le claring, amid democratic clieeis, iliatllie action of tie speaker v as the most siirpris i 11 It in legislative history. After siimt. furl her sti' -tiiM-s on thecha'r, he concluded: "If Herod istol.e out-ller-odeii. Ilerod intends to wilne-stlic tiau -action." Thit uri.Mi.'- to the struggles again-) ids own riilij:g"iclted a burst of ap plause from ix.'ih stih-s of i:e hoit--. The speaker then went i.ii.-f'iltv ";-ribn pailiai.ieutarv status and con.duded bysus tainiii" the jioiut of oide- made by General Calciiiiiis against Mr Ilurrows motion in lake a iccess. The luling was gree.ed with democratic cheers. si:n tf In tlie senate on tlieilst Mr. IVffer intro duced a bill creating a bureau of loan--, sim ilar to his bill of Ki2. Mr. I'hut Isit.iodiired Ids amemlneMit to the rules providing for c'lOtili" end addres sed t lie senate in favor of adopt ion. II s amendment. Mr. Piatt s : id. was offered in good faith, beiiev i:ig it was the piactii al and p ssibly. llu mily a:ij ii which a voir could benea.-iied on llie icpeal bill. If the senate did not ch:iu-e Its ratings to some reasonable time to which debate could in fixed it would soon incur the contempt of tin people. Mr. liitiiiiig,,, ii-pib!!i-a:i of . . iiainp-shii-e. gav o no' ice of an aijieicl.'iieiil. v. liich lie intemied to press. o the leiaal bi'I (which liad been fikeii 11:1 oil motion of Mr. Voorhe"-'. 1 1 mov nis for a coipniissiiiii of 1 -lee liuaiicial erp-rts in piivate Iif, thn e senators and tiliee meinti-rs of the tioiis. to toinves'tlgate all matter-. relating to lln.'.uc anil cm rency. .Mr. Ilillotfeied an amendment to the nil. that when any bill 01 resolution bad been deb-ited thirty days it shall be the order for a senator to move for fixing a day for tasieg a vote, and such motion shall not be amend able or debatable. If passed by a ui.i'.or'i v the vote on lite bill, with all a'r.cmlti-.cuts which may be p'-ieiing. shall be iiiu'.ediat' ly tal-en wit lout futlhei- aii.eudmei!, ex cept by universal const nt. Mr. Itutlerof south Caiolina moved an ex ecutive .se-sc'ii, Mr. .loins having with draw 11 hisinoliou to adjourn. Mr. Voorhees rose to a 1 ai-iiamentary in iuqiiiry, whether before the que inn was put 011 Mr. I'utlei'.s motion he was not en titled to Iiave'l -.ot' 011 tiissmtii-ti tn'av llie pending amendaient on lite table. Aft r iiav nig t he rule re-ad. t lie v ice president de cided Mr. (Sutler's motion was in oruer. Mr. Voorhees expressed the hope the mo tion would be voted down. Mr. Teller suggested the absence of a quo rum. Tlie chair said that fact would de velop 011 the motion toproct-td to the con sideration of executive business. Mr. Toller insiste I that the suggestion by him of the lack of a ijuori m made 11 obli gatory on t lie chair to have tin roil caHcd. The roll was called and trty-uve -ciatois responded. Mr. Wolcott then moved that thesenate adjourn. On this motion ihe yc.isaud ua,s were taken, :.nd the senate icfused to ad join ii. norsr. In the house on the 22d the committee -Ii rules in the morning decided toteport an older for a two weeks debate on ihe federal elections law repeal bill and I lien vole. The republicans wanted to postpone the time of beginning and ending the debute. Oiilhe assembling of tin house the order was re ported and the previous question de manded. Mr. IJeed demanded the determine whether the vims and nays in (ieluocrats had a quorum. Ity a good deal of effort the demociats ha 1 el v succeeded in mustering a quorum and the previous question v. as ord red by a von-of 17 to li Pnder the rules thirty minutes were al lowed for debi'te. Instead of devoting this time to a discus sion of the oruer of tin measine it peri allied to, e.x-speaker I"e-d opened tin debate on the correctness of Sneaker Crisp's ruling yesterday, lie said his motive in letiriug the In, use had been i'npu:gcd and misun derstood, lie declared be was actuated by a desire to establish :-n horest sstemo'f parliamentary pr.o-iet. .'referring to the error in tliis morning's ourual. lie said that there would soon be before the hooe a prop osition to expunge from the journal a ruling (erroneously leported by tl e journal elerki which lie belli veil should siand. "I know now," si. I-e, "tiiat lie demo cratic party lias no desire to establish a one man power but the piopo-itiou e-lablished bv the speaker's ruling jes'erday giv ingthe committee on rub-s po.ver loorigu.ate legis lation and malt" ii uuamomhthic by the house, has no parallel except under the flisi consulate in I ran e. Hi.:! gave Ihe consul light to oihrinati legislati-.n which the leg islative body was bound to accept or return unaltered." General Catchings, hi a strong reoly. pointed out ti.a: Mr. l.'eei! misunderstood the meaning and intent of the 1 ulcsadoptcd by the house. While lie was -upporting tie rulings of yesterday the sj,eal--r had read a rule made by ll.e l.ite speaker Uanoall, which lie said was identical uth Ids own. The vote was then taken on the adoption of the report and it wa adopted. Yeas, K'.': nays, ;. Cheyenne Ilrute Arrested. Ciikyknne, Wyo.. Sept ,-.'. This afternoon at 5 o'clock E. K. Breckstcad. , .. .....!.., j v.: ..:, ....! ,l -.---.-- t "w.-, v.i.v. .ls ..uini on the charge of indecent exposure anil I using obscene language in the presence , of .Mrs. Florence Lindsay and her 11-year-old dauglitcr Xcttle. The story told by the mother is a frightful one. Beckstead, she said, oll'ercd to take her child in lieu of her paying for a sewing machine. At t"i being repulsed he con tinued his overtures, way'-iyiug the girl upon the street, until ;n self de- , fense .Mrs, Lindsay was cninp.-lied to invoke the aid of the j-oli i depart ment. Feeliny is x- -ry st: ,ng in tiie ' city as Mrs. Linsiy 1:. a poo- woman whose husband w.s tiu-.uvn out of work as a miner at Lartb.iti, Co!., a short time ay and ha-. - iie-e iiei-n look ing for employment. Bei kstad is well-to-do, niiii n tar an. I feather party is even now talked of stioagly on the streets. BRYAN HAS A BILL. A HELP FOR DEPOSITORS OF BROKEN BANKS. A Bill Frovhllns for Tar Upon National ItankDcposltH The Iowa 5ornorand HI Staff at the World's Fair Tlie Chief Executive of tho State Meets n Great Many of Ills Fellow Citizen In tlm White City Dinntrous Repulse of a Hob Jt Konnoke, Va. A Number of Citizens Killed. ISill to Tax National Itank Ileposlts. Washington, Sept. '21. Representa tive Bryan introduced in the house yesterday a bill providing for a tax upon national bnnk deposits for the purpose of raising a fund with which to secure depositors against loss iir case" of failure of such banks. The bill provides that national banks shall pay a sum equal to one-fourth 01 1 per cent upon its deposts, to be as certained by its average deposits for the three months preceding the lsi day of January in each year. Any haul, failing to report its deposits for tax pur poses shall forfeit its charter. When ever the I'nited States treasurer shall have on hand in the special fund raised by such tax the sum of S10,000,000 the comptroller of the currency shall sus pend the tax until the" amount in the special fund falls below the sum of $10, 000,000: whenever he comptroller is advised of the failure of any national bank he shall immediately ascertain the amount due deposl'ors and credit ors of. the bank, not including stock holders and directors, and from this" special fund shall pay the amounts due incin. The assets Oi such failing banks .shall be turned into cash a, now provided, and the amount shall be used first to satisfy the claims of depositors, and the remainder shall be paid into the spec!. I fund provided by this act. The bill provides also that noti.irg contained in this measure shall be constru. J1 ex empt stockholders from the liability of lOOper cent of their stock in addition to their stock, and no stockholder shall receive any payment on his stock from the assets of such failing bank until all debts due from the bank have been JJtud. The oil further provides thai the United States shall asaiitne no liability of depositors of national banks, except as trustee, and directs the secre-.iry of the treasury to issue and pay out for the general expenses of the govern--nent grennbacks, as authorized by the lei of February r, L'-.', equal to the amount held in the special fund pro vided for by the contemplated tax up"oli deposits. Iowa's (invrrnor 11 1 the Fair. WoKMi's F.i!t l.i-orNps, Chicago. Li., Sept. 31. Horace Boies, the gov ernor of Iowa, iiuM? hit ollicial bow yesterday to his const ituei'- and thousands of other exposition visitors. He came ill democratic .state accompa nied by twenty-sow..: members, of his j general stall" in military uniiorrr, head ed by Adjutant General Ureen. In th-ofiiCi-l party were also the members of the state exposition council as follows: William ZMcFarlan, scCetary of state: C. (J. McCarthy, state auditor: !.;on A. Beason, treasurer of state: .1. B. Ivnoe pler, superintendent of public instruc tions: Kailroad Commissioner .lohn W. Luke, Peter A. l)ey and George W. 1'erkins. In other carriages were Chief Justice Hi fiord of the supreme court and Associate Judges Charles T. tlran- j ger, Josiah Given, James II. Bothrock ' ami Ij. (1. Kinn. The smart looking cadets of the sat? agricultural college, under command of .1 Bn-h Lin oln. ' anil the crack company from LDn, , la., known as the Colonel C. Boot Drill ' corps, inarched as an escort to the gov ernor. The ollicial party was brought over from the hotel by tlm following members of ihe bvva commission: Pres ident James O. Crosby, Secretary ?. Ih Mallory, S. B. l'.-vkard. H. W. Seaman, J Henry Stivers. Charles Ashton, J. W. Jarnagin and A. C. Boberts. When the I governor reported at the corn and wheat bedecked home of Iowa, he came in contact 'vitli an immense multitude , of fellow citizens who were not deterred from joining in the celebration by the clouded sky and light . intermittens rains. The people were admitted only 1 to the pavilion, where they passed in to register and walked f"t again. The building was kept closed on account of an invitation reception held by thegov ernor and particularly for the benefit of the foreign commissioners and other guests from abroad. The Iowans and others were entertained after the ar- , rival of the state party by an exhibi tion drill in front of thebuildingby the agrioultural college cadets, aspeardrill by a.briilge of young women from the college, later with a fancy drill by Col onel Boots corps. By the governor's side at the reception stood Miss Jessie Boise, his daughter, the governor be ing a widower. At a I'earful SScrUice. Roaxokk, Va., Sept. 21. One of the most dastardly crimes in the history 01 the city occurred about 10 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Henry S. Bishop, aged about .10 years, from Clovcrdale, eight miles from this city, was enticed by a negro named Thomas Smith from the market, where she; had come to sL.ii produce, into an empty saloon base ment, beaten insensible and robbed of her pocket book, containing less than s-.. The fiend was captured and lodgod in jail. A crowd gathered around the jail and kept increasing as night ap proached. At ." o'clock tlie Boanoke Light infantry marched to the jail by orders of Mayor Trout. Guards were posted and the streets in the immediate vicinity cleared. A bout dark the crowd increased by a hundred men from the vicinity of the woman's home, headed oy r-rs. Bishop's son, a fireman on the Norfolk ,v Western road. At S o'clock portions of the mob bat tered in a side door of the jail, where the military and Mayor Trout had re treat eil. Shooting was commenced by the mob, and the mayor shot in the foot. The military was then ordered to return the fire, and a volley from about twenty-five rilles was poured into the mob. It was thought that about five men were killed by this fire and as many more wounded, some of them fataTly. During the excitement caused by the volley the negro was taken from the jail by an officer anil secreted. The dead and wounded were removed to a drug store and to the otlices of nearby physicians. The mob then dispersed and left the scene as quietly as pos sible. laid for His Hurts. Washing ion, Sept. tj.l. Another pay incut of the S-"',000 imh-muity fund given by the Chilian government as satisfaction for the assault on the sail ors of the I'nited States ship Baltimore was ordered made ny the secretary ot the navy yesterday. This was toa sea man by the name of Frees'?, and his share was SI, -00. Ori trt the Iro:ni.id I.svnd. Ar.i.AXsisU-.-. Seo4- in. Five min utes before noo:l iA Saturday T.'.OOO men an I women gatiien',1 ,;x tho north and south boundaries of the Cherokee Mrip awaiting breathlessly the signal which should announce the arrival oC the hour wh-Mi possession of the land of that modern Kldorad-j should pass from th- ownership of the government into that of It individual citiens. Somo were mounted i.-p shoioughtrelT.icers, some on less ho.t but. sinv-footed cow ponies, some on bicTiles. .iltiers iu bug gies and wagons." The throng was. made up of all classes, from the shrewd Snaiei-r and real estate speculator td the sturdy you n if farmer bent on secur ing a houieste'-t f.r himself and family. As the minutes decrease.! So- seconds the reins were tightened, the girths cinched, the stirrup straps looked ,-fter and every one s muscles were tensely quivering wiMi excitement, when exact ly at high noon, at a signal from th Commanding officer, the revolvers o Fncle Stnfs representatives rang out the signal Kr the start. Bell mell.heltcr skelter, hurry skurry' the great speculative army rushed ac.o1. the lines ami raced for home aud fortune. shouting men. cracking whips, rattling- Micels.ehattering hoofs and explosions of fire arms combined tf make a confusion of sourd in keeping' with the general disorder of the start, and to render the scene one of inde scribable pandemonium. The serried ranks were soon broken and the rush ing boomers spread out over the strip, with shove best mounted in the lead. There were collisions and mishaps here and. there: breakdowns of vehicles, 'lashing' not only the bocmers out. but their hopes to the ground. Horses re fusing to cross deep gunk's;, and "the riders abandoning thm. continuing the race on foot, or making long detours to avoid bad ground. It Was a neck and neck race I-etwecu the norsemeti who had chosen the Mmc tjwn lot or quarter section of farmtmr. land. Mumbling over ro-ks. wading streams, climbing precipitous, banks, on Miev go. The clilralry which rclln qiiisi.rd place inthe line for women all disappeared in the scramble for actual results. The wc.-ven had to take their chances with the mefl in the race and it is to their creilit that some of them made as good a showin- in the strug gle as the alleged lords Oi creation, reaching, the goal in time t pre-e."'ipt the desired bit of mother eat th. hnongh people made the run to fur-i.is-h each of the JT.Wio homesteads with c.eeupaii- and gives every townsite 1..VIO inhabitants, r.vcr .."..lion certifi cates were issued, but as a large num ber took both homt stead and townsite certilicates, the number of cCTsiticates docs not represent the number of boomeis. It is estimated that .'.r..'!s r.ccd from Arkansas city. l.".,i!t)0 from taidwcil. Il.ooo from Orlando, i'.oon from Honne.scy. .""0 from Stillwater. .5.t 0) from Kiowa. V"l from liunne-we-U. "1.0 ' to ;-.! f.-nt'i other points; 111 all. nearly double the number which r.ved to Oklahoma. The weather was all thai mid be desired. The sky was clear, with a roo! north wind. The greatest rush . as in the eastern part rt the strip, which coiltains the most fertile bind in the entire reservation. Dissost .-jr.,1 !i-.i-:itrnt. Am-AN-AsCtr.. Ka.. Sept. IP. The (K.":ipo:nted boomers who gut neither claims ia town lots ar, returning. The trails thru:;b th- I herokeo Strii are covered with tin. in. and they form a reg'ilar proce-sion on the road run ning beside the Santa Fe tracl-a. Here and there on tlie prairie are tlieT7ick of vehicles wiiich .-started in the ra'e wagons and buggies with their wheels oil" aid the eanvan top, of biomer wag ons ragged and tiapinug in the wind. I '1 ad hotsC3 nre found every few miles v. her. their owner- have left them f tra'iin on to further disappointment. There were at leist ten mei: to every claim on the Strip. As a consequence then: will be contests without number, and there are reports of several mur ders committed on aeeoiuit ol them. De.ithsh-, prairie tires arc reported 10 b-: numerous. The Strip was swept ag 11 by hot winds today. The wind here reached r velocity of thirty-six miles an hour. J t was laden with intense heut and sand and made life a burden. It caused the rapid spread of prairie fires and the reports of loss of life in the Haines are expected to be numerous. N-arly every town site in the Strip has a rival, hniil. one of tin oi.ieiai county seats on the Bock Island rail way, has a rival with the same name two miles south of it Tin government refused to locate the site at the Bock Island's station because an Indian al lotment had been taken adjoining it Now the Bock Island refuses to stop trains at the government site and i domv all it can to aid the rival town. The same condition of affairs exists on the Bock Island at Bond Creek. The government town of Berry isalso being ignored by the Santa Fe. Trains are stopped at barton, two miles north, anil rt the private town site of Berry, two miles south, but not at the gov ernment site. The Santa Fe is already equipped with stations and sidetracks at the former two stations. It is be lieved the government site will be de pontdatcd sbortjy, for the reason that it was occupied principally by "soon ers." and titles will be hadly mixed for some years to corac. Settlers Flee for Their Lives. Li:ad, S. D., Sept- 22. The fierce timber fire which for several days has been burning west of the city, was brought directly toward the city yes terday afternoon by a strong wind. At t o'clock it looked as though a large trart of the place was doomed, but at the present time indications arc better, and unless the wind rises no serious damage is anticipated. z 3 o'elock the wind shifted and at 7 p. m. the fire was thought to be under control. Many families, however, have moved out their household goods and the poplc arc in a great state of ex citement. The lire has spread to the Bald mountain country, doing much damage. Many trestles arc burning r.m. traffic between this city and Elk Creek is stopped. Wires are also down and i. is impossible to get an estimate of the damage. Two troops from Fort Meade are on their way here and will be I eld until the fire is over. On Centennial prairie a number of resiliences were destroyed and several people burnt d one woman so badly f.at she may die The fire near this ity i under control, owing to change f wind, and no further damage is ap prehended. 1 At 11:10 the wind was blowing the T fire away from the city and the firemen seemed to have the conllagration under control. The ilaim s are still raging fiercely north and eas 01 the city, and the lo-ses to small holder-, arc reported very great. Main people ha. e been .-eriously burned and several will die. The loss at lead and lentennia! will I rea-h ahoiit spi.s.iiuo. and to outsideex- posed property it will be JHMHju to u. 000 more. T"-- S, J C. ' - ttflWti