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VOL. VII—NO. 294. ORAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1893.

SOME ONE'S BLUNDER

It Causes a Frightful Railway Disaster Near Ohloago.

HEAVILY L&DEN TRAINS COLLIDE.

Eleven Pas*enger* Ar« Killed Outright and Lar|« Number of Other* Injured—A Carelew Train Dispatcher to Blame.

LIVES CRUSHED OUT.

CHICAGO, Sept. 8. The outbound world's fair special on the Pan-Handle and the inbound Valparaiso accommodation on the Pennsylvania road collided with terrible fatality near Colehour Thursday morning at 8:40 o'clock. In the collision eleven were killed, six were seriously injured and several wero slightly injured. The killed and seriously injured were on the Pan-Handle train. The slightly Injured were on the Valparaiso accommodation. The great loss of life on the Pan-Handle train was caused by the telescoping of the first coach of the train with the baggage car that preceded it. The accident is the worst of the kind that ever happened near Chicago. The list of dead and Injured is as follows:

The Dead.

A. 8. Temple, manager Schiller theater, Chloago. Chester E. Coffln, Carthage, Ind.

E. M. Rlgney, general traveling freight agent Wisconsin Central railroad. J. D. Adams, Fairfield, 111.

T. M. Bomard, Terrs Haute. F. D. Fleming, Fairfield, 111. W. D. Richardson, mi State street, Chicago. Albert Helns, Vlncennos, Ind. William Shornlnger, IH years old, clerk New Albany, Ind.

Unknown tramp at Murphy's morgue, South Chicago. Michael Voll, 1623 Jackson street, Louisville, Ky.

The Seriously Woanded.

William Rlohter, Edwardsport, Knox county, Ind., head hurt and Internal injuries: William Brewer, baggage master Louisville train, left leg amputated, Internal Injuries: Joseph Voll, *23 Lamplaln street, Louisville, Ky., head cut Claude Durber, train newsboy, right foot hurt Herman Hlchter, Freelandsville, Ind, head out: Harry Klein, Vlnoennes, Ind., Internal Injuries W. A. 11111, Conboge, Ind., skull fraotured, may die: Henry Hagemever, Sanborn, Knox county, Ind., head cut, foot mushed, Internal Injuries Joh-? Brlsoo, 705 Rose street, Logansport, Ind., head cut and back hurt: W. A. Turner, colored, Chicago, head cut, Internal Injuries Casper Meyer, Vlncennes, Ind., lower Jaw broken: William Bllllngsley, Clyde, O., head cut, loft leg crushed Joseph Echenbom, Camdan, O,, chest hurt Max Godenratb, assistant manager Sohillor theater, Chicago, head out and generally bruised William Hill, Carthage, Ind, spine hurt and whole body bruised Charles Llehle, farmer, Knox county, Ind., Jaws hurt and back" wounded.

Caused by a Blunder.

The awful catastrophe was caused by blunder. The long list of dead and dying and wounded is the result of a mistake. The world's fair special should have been signaled to stop for orders at Colehour. The block signal showed a clear track and the train dashed past the station and down the sweeping curve. A moment later, and out from behind the clump of trees that stood In the bend of the track, rushed the Valparaiso accommodation. Both trains were running at full speed.

It Wis Too Late.

Net 800 yards apart the two engines loomed up face to face. Death was in their roar and rumble and It was too late to avert It The men at the throttles threw their engines back and turned on the air. A tremor ran through the trains as the air-brakes elamped the wheels. It was a warning, sufficient only to send a shudder through the hearts of doomed men, and then came the crash of death. As if breaking from the feeble restraint the engines dashed Into eaoh other. The shook orushed In boiler heads and eowcatohers like pieces of fragile wood, and rebounding the force of the oollision sent the baggage oar back and through the smoking car of the world's fair special. The dead of the wreck were killed In the 111-fated smoker.

Killed in the Smoking Car. The baggage car was lifted from its truoks. Its floor was raised above the platform of the smoker and driven back from front to rear of the car. Walls, seats and men were crushed to a shapeless mass by the awful ram. Then there were screaming, crying, moaning and shrieking of the dying, the crushed, the mangled. Those who were able to move about and the uninjured rushed hither and thither, dated and frantic after the shock. Friends and relatives of the dead and hurt added to the confusion by the heartrendering cries of lamentation. It was the piteous calls of the pinioned and injured that brought them to their senses, and then the herolo work of rescue began. It was a complete and actual telescoping of the two cars. There were but two man in the baggage car, both of whom were terribly injured. The smoking oar was crowded. Not a man was in it but was either hurt or killed. There was not room in that car when the baggage car was rammed through it for a human form to have avoided being struok.

The two baggage cars of the Valparaiso accommodation were derailed and broken to fragments. On the right side of the track they were rolled Into a broken mass. Baggageman Miller and his assistant, T. Conrad, jumped. No loss of life occurred on that train. The two rear cars on that train, day •oaches, remained on the track.

Smashed Into Bits.

When the trains met with tho terrible force"due to the high rate of speed the Pan-Handle engine was mashed beyond all semblance of machinery. The heavy coaches in the rear were orowded and pushed the smoker forward against the great barrier made by the two iron monsters that lay in front. The baggage car that lay between was orushed to splinters. Nothing remained except the heavy flooring and timbers, that had pushed through the oar just above the tops of the seats and plowed all before them. Every man in the forward part of the oar was killed. Nothing remained of the seata, and they with the crushed and dying men were all forced back in

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a solid mass in the rear half of the car. Just in the center of the smoker the death harvest was greatest. Eight dead were there in one spot not larger than is occupied by four seats. In the rear of the car two more dead were lying, and with them two who were among the most severely injured. In other places in the car were the injured wedged in among the seats and broken ti mbers.

Told br the Trainmen.

Both engineer and fireman of tho Valparaiso train escaped unhurt by jumping from the eab. They remained at the soene of the accident, aiding in rescuing the injured. Fireman Kecler described the escape "As we rounded the curve," said he, "I saw the PanQandle train ahead of us. A collision seemed unavoidable. 1 called to Engineer Hart to put on tho brakes and open the sand box. He threw over the lever and the train jumped up and down under the attempt at checking the speed. We had too much headway to avoid a collision, and as we neared the passenger train Hart and I jumped. We escaped without injury." Engineer Maurice Hart said: "I have my orders in my pocket and I am all right. We had the right of way. I didn't see the PanHandle train until It was too late."

Conductor J. W. Earley, of the Fort Wayne train, said that his train was running on schedule time. "When we passed Colehour," he said, "the white signal was displayed and we went on. The white signal meant that the track was clear."

O'Connor Charged with a Blonder. F. B. O'Connor, train dispatcher for the Pennsylvania road at Fort Wayne, is charged with a fatal blunder. He sent what is known as a "time order" to Conductor Studor and Engineer Hart, of the north-bound ."milk train" or Valparaiso accommodation due at Colehour at 8:45 a. m. By the orderthe train was expeoted to reach Colehour and sidetrack "for the world's fair special on the Pan-Handle due to leave there at 8:40. The train dispatcher should have sent also an order to the engineer and conductorof the Pan-Han-dle train to meet and pass the milk train at Colehour. This he forgot to do, and as a result the heavy train sped outward at the rate of SS miles per hour. East-bound trains have the right of track and stop only at regular stations or when signaled to stop for orders. At all the signal-towers a white signal was shown which indicated to the trainmen that the track was clear.

Some Frightful Scenes.

The first men taken out were four in number. They lay in the rear end of the smoking car where all the deaths occurred. Two of tbe men were dead. Many heads were so orushed as to make Identification difficult, and most of the dead were identified by papers and clothing. There was cot. the slightest delay in caring for the dead or injured.

Anson Temple, manager of the Schiller theater, Chicago, was "found under the mass of broke* seats and other debris in the center of the car. Beside him was his hunting ease, containing a fine breecn-loadlng gun, fishing tackle and other paraphernalia which were intended to be used in the hunting trip on which he had started. Mr. Temple was breathing his last when Mr. Harrington chopped away some of the timbers and wreckage that bound the dying man. The body was pulled through a small hole cut in the side of the oar. His back was broken and his face slightly cut.

Near him was a large man whose life was fast ebbing away. Be called feebly once or twice for help and then his voice grew weak. He motioned with one hand, which was free, and tried to attract the attention of some one who could assist him. The motion of the arm gradually ceased, and with a long drawn sigh he passed away. Several men had crawled to his side and examined the manner in which he was pinioned to the floor of the ear. They saw that the ease was hopeless and the man died where he lay. To move him would have only increased Ms agony.

One man seized an ax and struck a few blows on the west side of the car beneath the row of windows. When the ax blade broke its way through the wood and the ax was withdrawn a mass of dark blood rushed through and down the side of the car. The man saw the blood, dropped his ax and staggered back, unable to work longer. The blood continued to run down and drop In gi^at clots on tne ties beneath. The portion of the car where the blood came from was filled with crushed and mangled forms.

Found No Asaeti.

AUROKA, 111., Sept. 8.—There is a new development in the Oswego bank failure case. Several weeks ago L. N. Hall, the banker, closed his bank and announced that his business would be suspended until he could realize on his assets. For the last week the creditors have guarded the big safe day and'night Wednesday the big safe was opened for the first time and was found to contain less than 1X00 in money and leas than tl,000 in securities. The creditors are now wondering where the assets are. The banker recently attempted to commit suicide.

Soldier* May Be Repaid.

WASHINGTON, Sept 8.—The Illinois soldiers who clothed and equipped themselves at the outbreak of the civil war may have their expenses of those days returned to them. A bill applying to the Iowa qpldiers has been introduced by Senator Allison and the movement is generally to have similar bills applying to soldiers of other states. Senator Palmer says that the Illinois soldiers bought their own clo'hes prior to being mustered into the United States service. These were subsequently disoarded for the regulation blue.

Coming te the World's Fair. PARIS, Sept 8.—Thirty-five tradeBunlonists associated with the Paris labor exchange have been delegated to visit the Chicago fair and gather materials for a report oa its industrial fea (ures. They will start on Saturday.

HE IS GONE.

Hamilton Fish, a Noted Figure In American History, Dead.

HIS DEMISE ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED.

Healthy Up to Within a Few Hours of llii Death, He Falls a Victim to Heart Failure—Ills Services to the

Htato and the Nation.

DEATH OF A FAMOUS KTATK8.M AN. NKW YoitK, Sept. 8.— Hamilton Fish, secretary of state in the cabinet of Gen. Grant, died at his country home at Garrison's, N. Y.

Mr. Fish died of heart failure. His death was a shock to every one, as until a few hours of the sad event he was in his usual health and in the best of spirits. At the time of his death, there were with him his two sons, Hamilton Fish Jr., and Stuyvesant Fish, of this city, and his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Benjamin. "Mr. Fish had his city residence at 231 East Seventeenth street, but had spent the entire season at Glen Clyffe, and ha^ intended to return to New York the latter part of this month. The funeral services will be held at Glen Clyffe on next Sunday.

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acter of the nation as did Hamilton Fish. He was Grant's most trusted friend. With Jefferson, Marcy and Blaine he shares the distinction of place in the quartet of truly great diplomatists and statesmen whe have held the portfolio of secretary of state. He has passed away full of years, bearing the laurels of what was in many respect an unmatched caroer.

Biographical Sketch.

Hamilton Fish was born in New York city, August 3, 1808, the son of Col Nlch* olas Fish, a distinguished officer of tbe revolutionary army, whose wife, Miss Stuyvesant, was a descendant of the Dutoh Colonial Governor of New Amsterdam. Col Fish had been In military life and politics tbe associate and Intimate friend of Alexander Hamilton, whose brilliant career was ended by the duel with Aaron Burr in 1604 and the name of Hamilton Fish was bestowed as a,personal tribute.

During the years from 1806 to 1817, Colonel Flab was an alderman of New York City, and among Its moat autive and influential men and the son graduating at Columbia college In 1827, and entering upon tbe practice of law In 1890, was most fortunate In all his surroundings of family and friends. The traditions Inherited from his father were those of a federalist In politics, such as Alexander Hamilton was: and Hamilton Fish therefore naturally found himself In the whig ranks with the earliest formation of that party.

His Career In Politics.

In ISM he was a candidate for the state assembly, and in 1842 was elected to congress in a olty district, serving one term in the house, lb 1846 he was the whig candidate, for lieutenant governor, and In 1848 was elected governor of New York by a large plurality, John A. Dixand Reuben H. Walworth, dividing the democratic vote In tbe memorable split of that year. In IBM be was elected United States senator for a term of six years, as the associate of William H. Be ward (elected In 1849), and before hia term expired he found himself with fteward abd others in the newly organized republican ranks. During his term in the senate Mr. Fish opposed the repeal of the Missouri compromise: and after his senatorial term expired, in 1857 he went to Europe with his family, and remained abroad until shortly before the beginning of tho civil war.

As Secretary of Btate.

In 1868 Gov. Fish took an active part in the election of Gen. Grant, was appointed sccrc tary of state by him In March, 1899, and was reappointed for Grant's second term, thus serving In the state department from March 11,1860, to March 12,1877. He introduced a system of examinations of applicants foncon&ulates, to test their knowledge of subjects connected with their duties. On February 9, 1871, the president appointed him one of the commissioners on tho part of the United Slates-to negotiate tbe treaty of Washington which was signed by bim on May 8 of that year. He effected a settlement of the long-standing*northwestern boundary dispute, giving the Island of San Juan to the United States, and successfully resisted an effort by Great llritaln to change the terms of the extradition treaty by municipal legislation. In the settlement of the Alabama question he procured the acceptance of a doctrine by the Geneva tribunal securing the United States against claims for indirect damage arising out of Fenian raids or Cuban filibustering expeditions. In November, 1873, ht negotiated with Admiral Polo, Spanish minister at Washington, the settlement of the "Virginlus" question.

Governor Fish was for somo years president of the New York Historical society, and was president general of tho New York Society of the Cincinnati. Of tjie members of his family his son. Nicholas Fish, has filled high appoint* ments in the diplomatic service of the United States, and another son, Stuyvesant Fish, is president of tbe Illinois Central railroad.

Swept br Forest Fires.

TACOMA, Wash. Sept. 8.—The most destructive forest fire ever know in Washington is raging ia the Dezewalipa valley, west of Hood's canal, an arm of Puget sound, in the northwestern part af the state. Ranchcrs are fleeing down the valley to the bcach. A half dozen ranchers left a few days ago to prospect for gold in. the Olympic mountains and the fire has cut them off and their wives and children are in distress. Already 5,000 acres have been burned over.

Halolde of Bank Cashier.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8.—Cashier M. J. Bofferding, of the Bank of Minneapolis, committed suicide at Thursday by shooting. It is supposed that he took Ti is own life because of sensitiveness over the absconding of Paying Teller Phillip M. Scheig, Saturday, with $15,000 of the bank's money. President Kirby of the bank declared Bofferding's accounts are perfectly straight.

Baseball*

National league games on Thursday" At Chicago—Philadelphia, 7 Chicago, 8. At Brooklyn Brooklyn, 6 St Louis, 3. At Cleveland—Cleveland, 11 Washington, 5. At New York—Cincinnati. 6 New York, 4.

VETERANS GO HOME.

the National G. A. R. Encampment .Has Adjourned.

Pension Committee's Report. The report of the pension committee said: "Lincoln declared It the duty of the nation to curs (or those that had borne the battle and (or their wives and orphans. After his death a grateful nation met und rocelvod the veterans and showored upon them the plaudits and honors tbey had so well and hardly earned With profound sorrow and regret we have to report that all provision for the veterans has been changed. Thousands of pensions have been slopped without notice and thousands of pensioners dropped from the roils. It has boon cluimoJ that an adjudication of a pension settled nothing, that th* secretary of the lntorior and commissioner of pensions were Invested by law wltk absolute power over th* pension roll, and that It Is within their legal authority to reopen and re vise pensions allowed by their prodecessors under regulations adopted by them, whenever they see fit to change the rules of evidence and the seal* of ratings, and this In

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law, where from the Infancy of the government the United States by its organic law le In terms denied the right to deprive any person of prop erty without due process of law. '•Wo dony that the secretary of the Interior and the commissioner of pensions have any such power therefore the Grand Army of tbe Republic, In national encampment assembled, •peaking for the grand army of beloved comrades, many of them too poor, too unused, too broken to understand the strong arm of the government when administered with an unfriendly hand, scouts and denies the Indiscriminate ^barges of universal fraud because somo unworthy survivors may be found that discredit may be cast upon tho entire all, and this great body of brave and patriotic citizons stand disgraced before the country. "We demand that there shall be no backward step In pension legislation or administration, and that the sacred trust of those that bore the burden of the battle shall be sacrec'ly observed and sacredly administered."

The report concluded with a series of resolutions declaring that the grand army looked with solicitude and alarm upon the aotlon of the administration In arbitrarily depriving the veterans of an opportunity to be heard In defense of the rights solemnly adjudged and confirmed to them that it declared against the presumption of fraud until sharges had been proven and until each pensioner had full notice and full and eomplete opportunity l? be heard. An additional resolution declared that as the commissioner of pensions by his retent withdrawal ot the obnoxious rulings, whloh bad been geaerously condemned, had virtually acknowledged the Incorrectness of such rulings, It was deemed his further duty to at once restore to the rolls the thousands of pensioners now standing illegally suspended

Secretary Smith denounced. When Col. Walker had reached that part of the report relating to th* action of the interior department in suspending pensions under the disability act of 1890, which provided for granting gratuities to a list of 300,000 veterans, the voice of the speaker was entirely drowned in the shouting execration of delegates on "the head of Secretary Dolce Smith. Members yelling like mad climbed on chairs, shook their fists in the air and shouted their rage at the treatment the old soldiers had received. For a time the convention assumed the aspect of a mob of Infuriated citizens bent on wreaking summary vengeance. The closing sentence of the report (We deem it his further duty to at once restore to the rolls the thousands of pensioners now standing illegally suspended) was followed by an outburst of cheers. The report was unanimously adopted. Many wanted to make the language even stronger, and Past Commander in Chief Rea, of Minneapolis, had a resolution demanding immediate reinstatement, but it was considered advisable by the more politic not to have it Introduced. Past Commander in Chief John Palmer, of New York, introduced th* only resolution that went through outside of the committee's report, It provided that Commander in Chief Adams at once see. that action shall be taken in the United States supreme court to test the validity of Secretary Smith's order.

The W. R. C.

The seventh annual convention of the leaders of the W. R. C. met Wednesday. Mrs. Carrie V. Sheriff, of Allegheny, Pa., presided. The report shows that there is a gain of two departments, fifty-two circles, and an increase of 8,880 in membership. The total membership is over 18,000, with 1,500 honorary members. The totdl relief granted during the year is 18,787, with a surplus of over (15,000 in the treasuries of the various departments. Twenty-eight states and thirteen departments are represented, every on* of which is in excellent condition. The treasurer reported as follows: Total receipts, $4,103.34 total expenses, (2,470.37 balance on hand, (1,020.87.

The Women Choose Officer*. The Woman's Relief Corps eleoted the following officers president,

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DOINGS OF THE CLOSING SESSION.

Secretary Hoke Smith's Policy Regarding Pensions Strongly Denounced-Rein-statement of Tlio^e Dropped from ,• tho Holla Uomnmlett.

THEY BREAK RANKS.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 8.—After nearly seven hours continuous session Thursday the twenty-seventh national encampment of the Grand Army adjourned at 4 o'clock p. m. The pension question furnished the sensation of tho day. Col. Ivan N. Walker, of this city, the newly elected senior vice commander and chairman of the committee having the subject lu charge, read the result of the work of his committee, which he said embodied the sentiment of forty resolutions presented by the best posted men of the G. A. 11.

Sarah C. Mink, New York senior vicepresident, Jennie S. Myerhuff, Indianapolis junior vice-president, Amanda T. Newcombe, Vermont chaplain, Harriet K. Bodge, Connecticut treasurer, Armilla A. Cheney, Detroit.

The ladies of th* Grand Army of the Republic elected the following ofllcers: President, Mrs. Amanda J. Withern, Minnesota senior vice president, Mrs. Taylor, Ohio junior vice president,' Mrs. E. P. Anderson, California treasurer, Mrs. Gordon, Kansas counselor, Mrs. Carrie V. Sherriff, Pennsylvania council of administration, Mrs. Joeiu Blicker, Pennsylvania Mrs. Emma1 Dalton, Kansas Mrs. Etta Tobey, Inliana.

OYER THE STATE.

Telegraphies News from Varloua Towns in Indiana. Died Fighting Fire In a Meadow.

PKTKRSBUIIO, Ind., Sept. 8. News has just been reached here of the death of Jake Pressy, a fanner living 4 miles north of here in Knox comity. By some means Pressy's meadow hay caught on Are and lu: luft the houBe to fight tho llames. Not returning within a reasonable time, soaroll was made for him by members of his family. In one corner of the fiolil the body was found. He had been burned to death.

It Injures Evansvllle Duslness. EVANSVII.LK, Ind., Kept. 8.—The appointment of a receiver for the Evausville & Terre llaute railroad is regarded as a serious blow to the business interests of this city. It is openly charged that Capt. (1 rammer iH in collusion with William II. Chowder, of the Sullivan bank, and tho Porter syndicate of the Chicago

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Nanry Hanks Trots lu 8:04 8-4. INDIANApons, Ind., Sept. 8.—Nancy Hanks came within three-quarters of a second of equalling the world's record here Thursday by trotting a mile without a skip in 2:04Ji. The races resulted as follows: 2 :21 trot, purse 11,000—Prima Donna first, J. H. I. second best time, 2:08 !*, 2:10V 2:82 trot, purse 91,000—Allorlta first, Have* Wllkessecond best time, *:16X,

Street Car Employes Strike. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept 8. Tli* motormen and conductors on the College avenue line of the Indianapolis Street Railroad company struok Thursday. The cause of the trouble was the discharge of two conductors for alleged offenses. The prospect is that a compromise will be effected.

Saudbagged to Death.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, Sept. 8.—Charles Peterson, a painter from Cincinnati, 0., was found dead on a sidewalk at 3 o'clock Thursday morning. There were marks of violence on his body, and the theory of the police is that he was sandbagged by footpads and died of the resultant shock.

Smallpox at ludlHBupolls.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 8.—A virulent case of smallpox has been reported to the board of health from l'hipps street The person affected is an 11-year-old girl named Tliornburgh. She caught the disease in Muncie, where she has been visiting.

Wants Receiver's Honda Itodtirod. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept H.—Gov. Matthews says he does not believe thu published reports that the Columbian Athletic club property is owned now by an individual. He will ask that the bond of the receiver, which was placed at $50,000, be reduced.

Book Store Closed.

WAPVSH, Ind, Sept 8.—The book store of A1 Smith, at Nortn Manchester, has been closed on judgment obtained by the Lawrence bank of that place and Brown, Eager & Hull, of Toledo, whose claims aggregate about (5,000.

Arranged a 1'ight.

MCNCIB, Ind., Sept 8.—Articles have been signed for a fight between Charley Mitchell (colored) and Charley Smith for 1300 a side. They fight at Hartford Citv September 17.

Barns Burned by Tramps.

PEHU, Ind., Sept 8.—The barns of Dr. McDowell and James Russell were burned at 3 o'clock Thursday night by tramps. Loss, (3,000 no insurance.

How lSest to llelp Ireland. WASHINGTON, Sept 8.—Mrs. Ernst Hart, the manager of one of the Irish villages at the world's fair, is to appear before the ways and means committee on Saturday to make argument in favor of a reduction of the duty on Irish linen and other productions of the Green Isle, which she says will not interfere with production in America. It is her belief that this is a better way of doing the Irish a good turn than by raising subscriptions for them.

Northwestern Farmers Swindled. %. PAUL, Minn., Sept 8.—Fanners throughout the northwest have en swindled by the Northwestern Seed company, with headquarters at Taeoina, Wash., by means of detachable notes. Seeds and cash prlr.es cro given away to farmers returning an agreement whloh was really a promissory note. There are many victims in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, ami other states. The swindlers have fled.

A number of live* are said to have been lost by soldiers firing the grass of Cherokee strip to drive out "sootiern."