VOL. XVI. NO. 52. One t)ollar Year.
LAWRENCE, DECEMBER 28, 1901. pressed a desire to have the county clerks indorse the bill. The matter was referred LI CHASE 1 Philadelphia at Cincin- onck natt This "total fcr these four cities -alone of $214,00,000. The January interest njaturfoij on a large portion of the national debt hss been anticipated, but only about half of that amount due has as to a committee which is to report. There are thirty counties represented at the meeting.
DeWet Attacked the English in a TWPKIAA. 3IILLKU9 WORRIED. An Indian Territory Liquor Seller at Last Surrenders to the Officers. They Cannot Buy Enough Wheat to yet been paid. Manner That Overwhelmed the Troops.
A BONDSMAN HAD FOLLOWED. BOERS WERE SUCCESSFUL. Man Had Attempted to Escape from Trial of Case, Keep feheir Hills. Topeka, Dec 27. Topeka millers are worried on account of the shortage in the receipts of wheat at the local market and some express the fear that the mills here will have to close down.
Prices have advanced 12 cents a bushel within the past six weeks and yet the supply is not equal to the demand. This condition is amazing to the millions in face the fact that Kansa3 this year raised the largest wheat crop in the history of the state. Kitchener Reports Two Troops Now in Pursuit of Boers. FAVORED BY ROOSEVELT. The Presideot Takes a Personal Interest in Coming Olympic Games.
Paris, Dec. 27. karoo Coubertin, president of the Olympic games, has received a personal letter from President Roosevelt in reply to an invitation asking him to become president of the Olympic games to ba held in Chicago during the year 1904. Mr Roosevelt says he will lay the whole matter before tho cabinet, and that so far as he himself is concerned, be takes the keenest interest in the undertaking, and will do his utmost to make the meeting at Chicago as successful as the last one held at Athens. BONDSMAN WANTED REVENGE, ENGLISH LOSS WAS HEAVY.
London, Dec. 27 The British have sustained a severe reverse in South Africa FEW PEACHES NEXT YEAR. Chicago, Deo 27. Angelo Scalfia.close-1? pursued by Antonio Segnio, rushed into the arms of two detectives and bsgged for protection, It was a sensational termination of a 4,000 mile man hunt in which Scalfia had been followed for three months and had visited the principal cities of the eastern states. Both men were taken to the Harrison street station where Segnio told a remark able story.
Three months ago he said Scalfia was arrested in the Indian Territory on the charge of illegally selling whiskey. After spending a month in jail, he appealed to Segnio, a friend and business man of South McAlester, and upon assurances by Scalfia that the firm which Kansas Hortcnlturlsts Report the Recent Cold Knap Killed Them, Topeka, Dec. 27. Kansas will be short on peaches next year. At least that is what Holman, the big fruit grower of Leavenworth county, says.
In an address before the State Horticultural society yesterday be declared that the recent cold weather killed almost all the psach buds. The annual meeting of the horticultural society opened. The attendance is large. A business session was held last night. Fred Wellhouse, the apple king, and Col Little delivered addresses on horticulture.
New Rural ltontes in Kansas. Washington. Dec. 27. Rural free delivery service will be established on February 1, as follows, in Kansas: Augusta, Butler county, with three carriers, length of routes, seventy-seven and a half miles; population served, carriers, Ayres, Beck and McPherson; posteffices at Indianola and Bodarc will oe discontinued.
Simpson, Mitchell county (tri-weekly service), with one carrier; he represented would protect him, Segnio CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT. An Assistant Book-Keeper of an East St Lonls Bank Arrested. St Louis, Dec. -Theodore Dud-dleston, formerly assistant boak-keeper for the Stock Yards' bank of East St Louis 111 was arrested today on a warrant sworn to by Charles Jones manager of tba National Stock Yards, charging him with embezzlement. The amount named in the warrant as embezz'ed is $11,854.
Duddleston resigned, and inform 9d the bank officials ot the shortage, on Novem-ber 27. He declared that speculation in stocks and grain was the cause of the trouble. The Fidelity Casualty company of New York, was on Duddleston's bond to the amount of $10,000. Since his resignation, Dnddleston, it is said, has insisted in investigating tVe books. NOT ALLOWED TO TALK.
mortgaged all his property and furnished $4,000 bonds to secure the release of his friend. Upon being released Scalfia immediately disappeared. Chase began and Scalfia was followed from place to place, until finally tiring of the strain, he appealed to il 1 9 TTi we unicago aeiecuves. wnen taken in Segnio held a revolver in his hand, and at the hands of their redoubtable enemy, DeWet, On Christmas eve, Col. Firman's camp at Zeefontein, in the northeast of the Orange river colony, was successfully rushed by a considerable force of Boers, under the leadership of that famous guerrilla general.
Only meager particulars are vet known, but Lord Kitchener in bis official dispatch suggests that the British loss was heavy. Col Firman's column consisted of four battalions of yeomanry, which were guarding the blockhouse line from Harri-smith to Bethlehem, They bad two guns with them, and these, apparently, the Boers got safely away with. Although two battalions of Imperial light horse have been sent in pursuit, Lord a Kitchener does not bold out any hope that DaWet will be overtaken. Following so quickly on the news of Col Damon's defeat at Tafelkop, Orange river colony, and Major Bridgford's defeat at Beginderlyn in the Transvaal, tho reports of the suceessful move on the part of Dewet has caused a renewal of the uneasiness here with regard to the military situation in South Africa. Gen DeWet has taken revenge for the recent successes of the British in rushing the laagers at night.
The scene of the reverse is within one of the areas of the Boers' main resistance, where Gen DeWet has frequently fooled the British commanders. London, Dec 27 The following dispatch has 1 received frbnf "Lord Kitchener, dated rr'sburg: "General Rundle reports that on the night of December 24 Colonel Fideman's company at Zefontein, consisting of three companies of yeomanry and two guns, was successfully rushed by a strong commando under DeWcl. It is feared that the casualties were heavy. Two regiments of light horse are pursuing the Boers," BIO JANUARY DIVIDENDS. notwithstanding the fact that if Scalfia is returned to the Indian territory within five days his bond will be saved, Segnio length cf, route, fifty-three miles; population served, 630; carrier, George Rath-bun.
GOVERNOR LEART DEAD. aeciarea nis real oojeot in pursuing Scalfia was revenge. "I start ed to kill bim, followed him for thousands of miles, and then at the last moment be escaped" be said. "It is rresiaea uver if csunies 01 unam lor a bard, I would not have it so." Scalfia admits his identity and appears Y. Period of Months.
Washington, Dec 27. The navy depart anxious to be surrendered to the United ment this morning received the following States authorities to escape a worse fate. telegram from the Boston navy yard, dated today: KAN SAM COUNTY CLERKS 9IEET. "Captain Richard Leary, of the United States navy, died this morning at the marine hospital at Chelsea." Lary was the first governor of Guam, Mrs Nation Made Her Appearance at Slate Teachers' Meeting. Topeka, Kan, Dec 27 The largest crowd cf trie meeting was in attendance at today 's session of tho State Teachers' as sociation, The principal paper read at the morning session was by Wm A White, editor of tbe Emporia Gazette.
His subject was, "The Country Editor and the Country School." White's paper was well received. Carrie Nation, tbe joint smasher, ab tempted to address tbe teachers. Going to the speaker's stand, Mrs Nation tald President Sinclair that she had been requested to speak by a large number of teachers. The president informed her that he bad beard nothing of such a request, but without waiting for an introduction Mrs Nation advanced to tha front of the platform and began to address the teachers in her usual style. She was removed jbefore she had fairly got started.
Heavy Loss to Shipping, Vancouver, Dao 27 The worst storm in several years struck Vancouver at midnight Wednesday and continued all day Thursday. Great damage was done, especially to the small shipping. after that island came into the possession of the United States. Captain Leary was relieved of the com mand of the receiving ship Richmond last Ooober on account of heart trouble and Senator Smith Trying to Induce Them to Indorse the Tax B1J. Hutchinson, Kan, Dec 27.
The county clerks of Kansas are in session here. Tba chief question before the association is the consideration of the new tax bill, which has been drafted by the Kaasaj slate tax commission created by 1 be Kansas legislature in 1931. The bill is to ba pre j-. sented to the next legislature, and as it contemplates a radical chacge in the syi tern of taxation; the county clerks are all nteretted, and are ma ting a stuiy of tho proposed measure. Senator Damon Smith, a member ol the tax commission, was present and addressed the clerks on' the new bill, Ha explained the measure at length and ex- granted a leave of absence.
Details Made Public. i oston, Dec 27 The details of the plan for the reorganization of the Erie Telegraph Telephone company, with a Payments to Bp Made in Eastern Centers. New York, Deo. 27. The January disbursem*nts on account of intsrest and dividends will be on an enormous scale.
The payments at New York, it was estimated In Wall street today, will amount to $150,00,000. at Boston to at cspital of $32,000,000, involving the trans fer of control to the American Telephone Telegraph company, was made public in a circular today,.
