A. S. Foster was recently mar
ried at Corsicana, Tex., to Mrs.
Clara Smith, his divorced wife’s
mother.
Leaders of the minority party in
the senate have agreed that it is
impossible to defeat the Panama
canal treaty.
Senator Quay has introduced a
bill in congress providing for the
admission of Oklahoma and Indian
Territory as one state.
The I nion Pacific will build
shops at Kansas City, which will be
the largest in the world, and it is
estimated will cost $500,000.
The city council of Chicago has
refused to permit the opening of a
large number of theaters until they
are remodeled and made safe in case
of fire. This action on the part
ol the authorities means that such
places of amusement that have been
condemned will remain closed un
til next season.
The [ nitod States supreme court
has reaffirmed the ruling made some
time ago in the case of Carter vs.
The State of Texas to the effect that
the exclusion, of negroes from grand
juries in eases involving criminal
charges against, member.- of their
race is in violation of the constitu
tion, and is therefore not permissi
ble.
Homer N. Hayes of Kansas City,
Mo., died in Colorado Springs from
the efleets of a pin swallowed a
>ear ago. He suffered no pain un- 1
til recently, when the symptoms :
were mistaken for those of appendi
citis. In the operation that follow
ed the pin was found. It was rusty,
the stomach was inflamed and bore
evidence of having been punctured
mi variout- places. The pin was re
moved.
‘‘King Cotton” made his greatest
record in f!je export figures of the
calendar year 1'.>03. From 1883
to 1303 cotton exports averaged a
little more than $150,000 a dav. In
1003 they averaged more than $1.
000,000 value per day: in the last I
three months of 1003 they averaged | 1
more than $2,000,000 per dav. and 1
in the closing month of the year
nearly $2,500,000 per dav. Ex- <
ports of cotton in December, 1003. ,
show a greater value than in any j
preceding month in the history of
cotton exportation, the total being
over $12,000,000. and thus averag
ing $2,500,000 for every dav of the e
month.
Den. Joe Wheeler declares his be
lief that Russia, in expressing a
great desire for a peaceable settle
ment of the Far Eastern troubles,
js merely playing for time in which
1o rush troops into Manchuria and
prepare for the* fray. Just how
many are in that province now no
body except th»* Russian officials
know, and they will take particular
pains not to tell. The number of
arrivals in the past throe months,
or since the war tension began, is
likewise beyond the world’s knowl
edge. In regard to all of Rusia’s
methods and designs in Manchuria
the world is in the most profound
darkness. Rut it is safe to sav that
the work of preparation for the ir
repressible conflict is uot being in
terrupted in Japan.
Dostmasters who retire from of
fice during 1903 are indebted to
the government a total sum of $23,
515.(13. The sums range from 2
cents to $300.
The Eastern Illinois Railroad
Company, now part of the Frisco,
is having thirty-four new coaches
built, which, it is claimed, can not
be telescoped, and which will with
stand almost any shock occasioned
by a wreck without being splinter
ed into kindling wood.
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The city of Porto Plata, San Do
mingo, has boon recaptured from
the insurgents by government
troops.
During the trial of A. W. Machen
and others at Washington, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment, the prosecution offered ev
idence that certain mail pouch fas
teners. sold to the government bv
Groff Pros., cost six times their ac
tual value. Machem is alleged to
have got thousands as a rake-off
from that contract.
The federal grand jury at St.
Louis has returned an indictment
against United States Senator Bur
ton of Kansas, charging him in nine
counts of accepting five checks for
$500 each from a grain brokerage
firm for alleged services in interced
ing with the post office department
to gain permission for the grain
company to use the mails.
Thieves entered an express car on
the Southern Pacific near San Fran
cisco and succeeded in throwing the
safe from the car while the train
was in motion. The messenger had
* topped into another car, and the
robbers gained an entrance by priz
ing open an end door. The safe was
down open with dynamite and the
robbers secured a large sum of
money.
At a banquet tendered him upon
iis return home at Lincoln, Hon.
i\. .T. Bryan made the declaration
hat the coming national democratic
convention should reiterate the Kan
;as City platform with additional
danks covering recent questions
hat have arisen. He declares the
lonr.nee must be a man in hearty
iccord with the party's declarations
n the last two campaigns.
'fhe Hepburn pure food bill,
vhieh has been before congress for
everal sessions, passed the house by
i vote of 201 to 68. The bill fixes
he standards of foods and drugs,
is to their purity, strength and char
ioter, and defines what shall be con
idered adulterations or niisbrand
ng of goods and drugs. It also pro
libits interstate commerce, importa
ion and exportation of such mis
•randed or adulterated articles.
The Shdbv seel tube plant s'
vhelby, Ohio, a branch of the United
Tate- Steel corporation, sustained a
oss of $.'5,000,000 by lire on the
light of the 20th inst. The lire
tarted in one of the smaller rooms
rom a defective electric wire and
pread to the larger stock rooms,
ompletely destroying all of them,
’he product of the entire plant for
he past six months was destroyed
•ithin one hour, consisting of 800,
'<•<) tons, making in all 25,000,000
eet of finished product.
A resolution offered at the con
eution of United Mine Workers,
ii session at Indianapolis, seeking
i commit the organization to the
rinciples of the socialist party, was
efeated. President Mitchell op
osed the resolution and urged the
rganization to confine itself to
rude unionism. lie said under it
he miners were getting higher
•ages than ever before. He al
•wed every man his political opiu
ms and tire privilege of voting
tern, hut the organization should
ave nothing to do with political
'•nets.
Senator Bailey of Texas declares
e will not obey the demands of his
mstituents to vote for the Panama
inal treaty.
Miss Lena Schaefer, a school
welier, was assaulted and murdered
v some unknown person at Bedford,
ml. The girl had been dead about
vonty-four hours when her mutil
ted body was found by a citizen in
is barn. She was evidently knocked
own as she was passing an alley
ud dragged to tire barn.
Saloon Keeper Indicted.
Tho Pulaski county grand jury,
in its iinal report after a session of
forty-seven days, referred to the ef
fort of the officers to suppress gam
bling as follows:
Wo commend with pleasure, and
in the highest terms, the vigorous
action of this honorable court in
causing the sheriff of Pulaski county
to seize the gambling devices of cer
tain gambling houses in this city in
June, and again in October, 1903.
These seizure's and subsequent burn
ings by the sheriff, we believe, have
resulted temporarily, and we hope
permanently, in breaking up public
gambling in Little Rock. We made
examination of the gambling cases
called to our attention, but got little
information on the subject of actual
participation in gambling. We had
before us the city and county of
ficers, whose duty it is to ferret out
and suppress crimes of this sort, but
discovered that they were the same
innocent and artless witnesses which
other grand juries have found them.
1 n a general way, they had a vague
impression that public gambling
was going on, but had never been
able to secure any definite informa
tion on the subject. \\ o have re
turned five indictments against as
many different parties, believed to
be guilty of conducting public gam
bling houses, as evidenced by the
seizures of the sheriff, heretofore re
ferred to. We call the attention of
the court to the fact that in all these
cases, the gambling houses were run
in the same building and in connec
tion with a saloon, thus constituting
a double offense. There does not
seem to be any necessary connection
between the saloon business and
crime, and if a saloon is run in vio
lation of law, it must be for the rea
son that the proprietor wishes to
have it so. The privilege of run
ning a saloon must be obtained by
public consent, and the saloonkeep
er is required to pay a special tax
therefor. This being true, does not
the granting of a saloon license car
ry with it an implied mutual agree
ment that such saloon shall be con
ducted in harmony with the laws
governing such matters? These
laws prohibit gambling in same
buildings with saloons, the sale of
liquor on Sunday, and to minors at
all times. If an investigation dis
close.' tin1 fact, as we are sure it will,
that any of the parties indicted have
been running their saloons in viola
tion of these laws constant Iv for
several years, will not this court be
warranted in canceling the licenses
of such inveterate and chronic of
fenders against law and good
morals ?
Schliartiolz Dismissed.
The secretary of the interior has
suspended from ottice Charles A. M.
Schlierholz. a special agent of the
general land office, on charges in
volving the integrity of his investi
gation of depredations on govern
ment lands in Ijouisiana. It will he
remembered that several vears ago
Schlierholz was active in this state
in cases in which allegations of tim
ber cutting were made, lie was also
assiduous in eases of alleged fraud
in soldiers additional horyestead en
tries. It was stated several weeks
ago in an Associated Press telegram
from Washington that charge's of
bribery in connection with his duties
in Arkansas and elsewhere had been
preferred against Schlierholz. It
was added that the charges had been
investigated by the interior depart
ment and that the report was ad
verse to Schlierholz. Later the re
port was circulated that friends-of
the accused had received advices of
his exoneration and of his assign
ment to an important mission in the
West. United States officials who
were associated with Schlierholz in
this state, who were asked their
opinion, praised him as an efficient
and honest official.
Will Not Be Built.
C. K. llatcliff, president of the
Arkansas Central railroad. Fort
Smith, writes the Manufacturers’
Record denying the report that an
extension will be made soon from
Paris, via Russellville and lleber,
to Bald Knob.
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