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... ~ * "• w" THE LORD £ A TALE OF THE OLD WEST Cj^HADRY LEON WILSON C^!" "r cary/ivavr *aos arlowtoJ0 *>uet- *J**VG camwy I -- Pr:;. -• . , , j' "> CHAPTER XVI*---Continued. v'^'Q* the women, too, the quick attack had been almost instantly successful. ^ The first great volume of mad shrieks MV ' had quickly died low as if the victims If ffit^iwere being smothered; and now could , : . be heard only the single scream of - some woman caught in flight,--short, - ^ despairing screams, and others that seemed to be cut short--strangled at > their height. ji Joel Rae found himself on the line after the first volley, drawn by some - jV dread power he could not resist. Yet y.r- one look had been enough. He shut his eyes to the writhing forms, the * jets of flame spitting through the fog of smoke, and turned to flee; Then in an instant--how It had . come about he never knew--he was y struggling with a man who shouted it'?J, !his name and cursed him,--a dark man with blood streaming from a wound in his throat. He defended - 'himself easily, feeling* his assailant's ^ strength already waning. Time after / J itime the man called him by name and I, cursed him, now in low tones, as they j8waye<*- Then the Saint whose al- lotted victim this man had been, hav- | j ing reloaded his pistol, ran up, held it ; close to his head, fired, and ran back -" to the line. He felt the man's grasp of hisshoul- % ders relax, and his body grow sudden- ly limp, as if boneless. He let it down |p? to the ground, looking at last full |^w|,upon the face. At first glance it told psftfi* 'him nothing. Then a faint sense of t ' , 'its familiarity pushed up through - „ many old memories. Sometime, some- , where, he had known the face. The dying man opened his eyes I'*-*,'\ wide, not seeing, but convulsively, and (then he felt himself enlightened by something in their dark color,--some­ thing in the line of the brow under Ithe black hair;--a face was brought iback to him, the handsome face of the jjaunty militia captain at Nauvoo, the man who had helped expel his people, who had patronized them with his airs of protector,--the man who had-- It did not come to him until that In- r Stknt--this man -Was Girnway. In the •• ^flash of awful comprehension . he ^•^"Idropped, a sickened and "nerveless heap, beside the dead man, turning :his head on the ground, and feeling 'for any sign of life at his heart. Forward there, where the yells of . the'Indians had all but replaced the V screams of frantic women--butchered '• already perhaps, subjected to he knew not what infamy at the hands of sav­ age or Saint--was the yellow-haired, pink-faced girl he had loved and kept ' so long imaged in his heart; yet she might have escaped, she might still live--she might even not have been in the party. He sprang up and* found himself lacing a white-haired boy, who held ia little prying girl by a tight grasp of . her arm, and who eyed him aggres­ sively. "What did you hurt Prudence's father, for? He-was a good man. Did you shoot him?" J " •; "*"* He seized the boy roughly by the shoulder. »• X «. -j "• "Prudeiic#^:^^oaij|p^ where U v^|;- ghe?" . "Here." :?r • He looked down at the little girl, • who still cried. Even-In that glance C he saw her mother's' prettiness, her i ,pink and white daintiness, and the ' iyellow shine of her hair. i "Her mother, then,--quick!" I The boy pointed ahead. ! "Up there--she told me to take care of Prudence, and when the Indians came out she made me run back here jto look for him." He pointed to the still figure on the ground before them. iAnd then, making a brave effort to «ikeep back the tea^rs: j ) "If I had a gun I'd shoot some In­ dians;--I'd shoot you, too--you killed j him. When I grow up to be a man, ' I'll have a gun and come here--" UHe had the child in his arms, and lied to the boy: j "Come, fast now! Go as near as you can to where you left her." j They ran forwfcrd through the gray [smoke, stepping over and around \ »I bodies as they went. When they ^ 4 [reached the first of the women he | ;f, would have stopped to search, but the ' * tboy lead him on, pointing. And then. X " ihalf-way up the line, a little to the fright of the road, at the edge of the cedars, his eye caught the glimpse of pi great mass of yellow hair on the * ,ground. She seemed to have been only wounded, for, as he looked, she ' was up on her knees striving to stand, "s <*? ' He ran faster, leaving the' boy be- hind now, but while he was still far off, he saw an Indian, knife In hand, run to her and strike her down. Then before he had divined the intent, the Ravage had gathered the long hair jinto his left hand, made a swift cir­ cling of the knife with his right,--and the thing was done before his eyes. He screamed in terror as he ran, and inow he was near enough to be heard. The Indian at his cry arose and for one long second shook, almost in his face as he came running up, the long, shining, yellow hair with the gory patch at the end. Before his storing eyes, the hair was twisting, writhing, and undulating,--like a golden flame licking the bronzed arm that held it And then, as he reached the spot, the Indian, with a long yell of delight and a final flourish of his trophy, ran off to other prizes. He stood a moment, breathless and faint, looking with fearful eyes down •at the little, limp, still figure at his feet. One slender, bare arm was flung out as if she had grasped at the whole Us earth in her last agony. The spell of fear was broken by the boy, who came trotting up. He had given way to his tears now, and was crying loudly from fright. Joel made ffeim take the little girl and sit under a cedar out of sight of the spot. He was never able to recall the events of that day, or of the months following, in anything like their prop­ er sequence. The effort to do so brought a pain shooting through his head. Up to the moment when the yellow hair had waved in his face, everything had kept a ghastly dis­ tinctness. He remembered each in­ stant and each emotion. After that all was dark confusion, with only here and there a detached, inconsequent memory of appalling vividness. He could remember that he had buried her on the other side of the hill where a gnarled cedar grew at the foot of a ledge of sandstone, using a spadq that an Indian had brought him from a deserted camp. By her side he had found the scattered con­ tents of the little bundle she had car­ ried,--a small Bible, a locket, a worn gold bracelet, and a picture of herself as he had known her, a half-faded daguerreotype set in a gilt oval, in a square rubber case that shut with a snap. The little limp-backed Bible had lain flung open on the ground in the midst of the other trinkets. He remembered picking these things up and retying them in the blue silk handkerchief, and then he had twice driven away an Indian who, finding no other life, came up to kill the two children huddled at the foot of the cedar. Some of the men had camped on the spot Others had gone to Hamb- tains through which an army would have to pass. On the east aide men were put to building stone ramparts as a protection for riflemen. On the west, where the side was sloping, they dug pits for the same purpose. They also built dams to throw large bodies of water along the west side of the canyon so that an army would be, forced to the east side; and here at the top of the cliff, great quantities of boulders were placed so that a slight leverage would suffice to hail them down upon the army as it marched below. When word came that the invaders had crossed the Utah line, Brigham sent forward a copy of his proclama­ tion. and a friendly note of warning to the officer in command. In this he directed that officer to retire from the Territory by the same route he had entered it; adding, however, "should you deem this impracticable and prefer to remain until spring in the vicinity of your present position at Black's fork or Green river, you can do so In peace and unmolested on condition that you deposit your arms and ammunition with Lewis Robinson, quartermaster general of the Terri­ tory, and leave as soon in the spring as the roads will permit you to march. And should you fall short of provi­ sions they will be furnished you upon making the proper application." The officer who received this note had re­ plied somewhat curtly that the forces he commanded were in Utah by or­ der of the President of the United States and that their future move­ ments would depend wholly upon or­ ders issued by competent military authority. Thus the issue was forced. In addition to the defense of Echo canyon, certain agressive moves were made. To Joel Rae was allotted com­ mand of one of these. His orders promised all he could wish of action. He read them and felt something like his old truculent enthusiasm* "You will proceed with all possible dis­ patch, without injuring your animals, to the Oregon road near the bend of Bear river, north by east of this place. When you approach the road, send scouts ahead to ascertain if the invading troopa have passed that way. Should they have passed, take a concealed route and get ahead of them. On ascertaining the locality of the troops, proceed at once to He Defended Himself Easily^ Feel lin's ranch, near the Meadows, whece the children were taken. He had Bent the boy there with them, and he could recall distinctly the struggle he had with the little fellow; for the boy had wished not to be taken from the girl, and had fought valiantly with fists and feet and his sharp little teeth. The little girl with her mother's bun­ dle he had taken to another ranch farther south in the Pine mountains. He told the woman the child was his own, and that she was to be kept until he -eame again. CHAPTER Strength Already Waning. * The Meat of Israel Goes Forth to Battle. He went north in answfer to the call for soldiers. He went gladly- "It promised activity--and company. The day he reached Salt Lake City, Joel Rae was made major of militia. The following day, he attended the meeting at the tabernacle. He need­ ed, for reasons he did not fully ex­ plain to himself, to receive fresh as­ surance of Brigham's infallibility, of his tpuch with the Holy Ghost of his goodness as well as his might; to be caught once more by the compelling magnetism of his presence, the flash of his eye, and the inciting tones of his voice. All this he found. Joel Rae was again under the sway of his old warlike feelings. Brigham had revived his fainting faith. He went out into the noise and hurry of war preparations in a sort of intoxica­ tion. Underneath he never ceased to be conscious of the dreadful specter that would not be gone--that stood impassive and immovable as one of the mountains about him, waiting for him to come to it and face it and live his day of reckoning,--the day of his own judgment upon himself. But he drank thirstily of the martial draught and lived the time in a fever of tumultuous drunkenness to the awful truth. Forces were sent Into Echo canyon, the narrow defile between the moun- annoy them In every possible way. Use every exertion to stampede their animals and set Are to their trains. Burn the whole country before them and on their flanks. Keep them from sleeping, by night surprises; blockade the road by felling trees, or destroying river fords where you can. Watch for opportunities to set lire to the grass on their wind­ ward, so as to envelop their trains if possible. Leave no grass before them that can be burned. Keep your men concealed as much as possible, and guard against surprise. God bless you and give you success. ••YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST." Forty-four men were placed under his command to perform this Work, and all of them were soon impressed, even to alarm, by the very evident re­ liance of their leader upon the God of Israel rather than upon any merely human wisdom of his own. , The first capture was not di&cult. After an all-night ride they came up with a supply-train of 25 wagons drawn by oxen. The captain of this train was ordered to "go the other way" until he reached the states. He started; but as he retraced his steps as often as they moved away, they at length burned his train and left him. And so the campaign went forward. As the winter came on colder, the scouts brought in moving tales of the enemy's discomfiture. Colonel Alex­ ander of the Federal forces, deciding that the canyons could be defended by the Saints, planned to approach Salt Lake City over a roundabout route to the north. He started in heavy snow, cutting a road through the greasewood and sage brush. Often his men made but three miles a day. and his supply-train was so long that sometimes half of it would be camped for the night before the rear wagons had moved. As there was no cavalry in the force the hosts of Israel ha­ rassed them sorely on this march, on one day consecrating 800 head of their oxen and driving them to Salt Lake. Albert Sidney Johnston, command­ ing the expedition, had also suffered greatly with his forces. The early snows deprived his stock of forage, and the unusual cold froze many oxen and mules. Lieut. CoL Cooke of the (Second Dragoons, with whom traveled the newly appointed governor, was an­ other to suffer. At Fort Laramie so many of his animals had dropped out that numbers of his men were dis­ mounted, and the ambulances used to carry grain. Night after night they huddled at the base of cliffs in the fearful eddies of the snow, and heard above the blast fte piteous cries of their famished and freezing stock. Day after day they pushed against the keen blades Of the wind, toiling through frozen clouds and stinging ice blasts. The last 35 miles to Fort Brldger had required 15 days, and at one camp on Black's fork, which they called the "camp of Death," 500 ani­ mals perished in a night Nor did the hardships of the troops end when they had all reached what was to be their winter quarters. Still a hundred and fifteen miles from the City of the Saints, they were poorly housed against the bitter cold, poorly fed, and insufficiently clothed, for the burning of the trains by the Lord's hosts had reduced all supplies. Reports of this distress were duly carried to Brigham and published to the Saints. Their soldiers had made good their resolve to prevent the Fed­ eral army from passing the Wasatch mountains. Aggressive operations ceased for the winter, and the greater part of the militia returned to their homes. A small outpost of 50 men under the command of Major Joel Rae --who had earnestly requested this assignment--was left to guard the narrows of Echo canyon and to keep watch over the enemy during the win­ ter. This officer was now persuaded that the Lord's hand was with them. For the enemy had been wasted away even by the elements from the time he had crossed the forbidden line. In Salt Lake City that winter, the same opinion prevailed. They were henceforth to be the free and inde­ pendent State of Deseret "Do you want to know," asked Brigham, in the tabernacle, "what is to be done with the enemy now on our borders? As soon as they start to come into our settlements, let sleep depart from their eyes until they sleep in death! Men shall be secreted along the route and shall waste them away in tfi'e name of the God of Bat­ tles. The United States will have to • make peace with us. Never again nhnll -am make peace with them." »5 CHAPTER XVIII. How Ilia Lion of the Lord Roared 8oft. But with the coming of spring some fever that had burned in the blood of the Saints from high to low was felt to be losing its heat. They had held the Gentije army at bay during the winter--with the winter's help. But spring was now" melting the snows. Reports from Washington, moreover, indicated that a perverse generation in the states had declined to accept the decrees of Israel's God without further proofs of their authenticity. With a view to determining this is­ sue, Congress had voted more money for troops. Three thousand men were to march to the reinforcement of the army of Johnston on Black s fork; forty-five hundred wagons were to transport their supplies; and 50,000 oxen and 4,000 mules were to pull these wagons. War, in short, was to be waged upon this Israel hidden in the chamber of the mountains. To Major Rae, watching on the outposts of Zion from behind the icy ramparts of Echo canyon, the news was wel­ come, even enlivening. The more glory there would be in that ultimate triumph which the Lord was about to secure for them. t In Brigham and the other leaders, however, this report induced deep thought. And finally, on a day, they let it be known that there could no longer be any thougnt of actual war with the armies of the Gentile. When he heard that the new gover­ nor, who had been in the snow with Johnston's army all winter, was to en­ ter Salt Lake City and take his office --a Gentile officer to sit on the throne of Brigham--he felt that the Ark of the Covenant had been thrown down. "Let us not," he implored Brigham in a letter sent him from Echo canyon, "be dragooned into servile obedience to any one less than the Christ of God!" But Brigham's reply was an order to pass the new governor through Echo canyon. According to the terms of this order he was escorted through at night, in a manner to convince him that he was passing between the lines of a mighty and far-flung host. Fires were kindled along the heights and the small force attending him was cunningly distributed and duplicated, a few of its numbers going ahead from time to time, halting the rest of the party and demanding the counter­ sign. (TO BE CONTINUED.) EXPECT HOT FIGHT ILLINOIS STATESMEN TO DEBATE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL. LABOR WANTS MEASURE Trades Union Representatives Have flhMn Working Hard for Its Sue- j." cess--Committees to Be j Kept Busy. Option Bill Defeated. Defeat by a vote of 70 to 75 met the efforts of friends of the house judiciary committee's compro­ mise local option bill. The vote was taken on motion to table the Browne substitute, described In a fiery speech by Representative N. L. Johnson, the Prohibitionist member from Batavia, as resembling real local option about as much as the shattered Maine re­ sembled a first-class battleship after the explosion in Havana harbor. Lee O'Neill Browne offered the subt stitute bill, which he explained to be a "simon pure local option bill." Be­ ing questioned, Browne admitted that under the bill residence districts may NEWS OF ILLINOIS. Sf " HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST tftOftl f •jA&L OVER THE 8TATJ6. SEEK TO DESTROY HOiSl 8$ringfield.--The employers; liabil­ ity bill is sure to be productive of a I . . , ^ . , T brisk parliamentary fight. Mr. Lantz ™te out s,aloon8 ^ 1)6001116 other words, wards and precincts may not vote separately for or against saloons. The bill means that if any district of Chicago, for instance, wants local option the question must be put to vote of the whole city. Browne's; bill applies to all the state alike. Chicago might go dry under it. The measure does not give relief to large cities, but applies to all alike; there are no local option dis­ tricts smaller than the city, town or village. College for Working' Women Worthy Scheme for Higher Education * That la Unique. In London there is a college for working women, the aim of which is to supply women occupied during the day with a higher education than is generally within their reach. The whole of the teaching staff is unpaid, and the college, which has existed for 32 years, owes its being and its pres­ ent success to Miss Frances Martin, who is its honorary secretary, and has devoted a lifetime to its interests. Ia connection with th» college there "ifcl. . i: . J? * "L - "KfesVi-! is a benefit club, a penny bank and the rooms in the college for reading and refreshment practically make It a delightful clubhouse for girls who are engaged during the day. There are several social clubs, and during the winter monthly dances and Dorcas meetings are held, says the Chicago Daily News. The special classes in ambulance and dressmaking are ex­ ceedingly popular with the members and in the former subject at the last examination every one of the candi­ dates succeeded ^ taking carter flcatfe ' i * ' X . 'j -v&S" * y ' - •»¥< % of Cook and others are determined to defeat the measure if possible and the debate and action of the house over this bill will be watched with great interest by the representatives of organized labor, who have been working hard for its success. Many of the more Important commit­ tees have their work cut out for them this week. The committee on license will give a hearing to the op­ ponents of Mr. ApMadoc's bill prohib­ iting the sale of liquor within a mile and an eighth of Fbrt Sheridan, or the proposed naval training station at Lake Bluff, and may take definite ac­ tion on the measure. Last week the committee went Into execu­ tive session on the bill, and if this action is again taken this week for final action on the bill, the details of the work of the committee and of its members will be made an object of active search by those organizations seeking to destroy the brothels at Hlghwood. • .mar % < y y .< - -- ̂ > ' * " * ' " . . State Prison Labor Law. The present prison labor law ^pro­ vides that the labor of the convicts shall first be directed to manufactur­ ing goods for the state institutions, and second to the manufacture of goods to be sold in the open market; providing, however, that not to exceed 40 per cent of the convicts shall be employed in manufacturing goods for the open market. Under the law it has been found possible to give em­ ployment to all the convicts, and a decided betterment in the health of the convicts has resulted. Due atten­ tion, it is asserted, has been paid to the diversifying of the industries so That competition with free labor should be reduced to a minimum. The goods manufactured by the convicts in Illinois under the law as passed by the last legislature, have yielded to, the state a revenue of nearly $1,000,- 000, which is applied toward the main­ tenance of the penal institutions of this state, thus reducing the taxes that much. House bill No. 5, intro­ duced by Hon. B. M. Chipperfield, of Canton, proposes a reenactment of the old law which proved impossible of enforcement The passage of the bill, it Is claimed, would put an end to the good work accomplished under the present convict labor law in Illinois, which has attracted the favorable at­ tention of prison officials all over the country. Sentiment among the mem­ bers of the legislature does not seem to have been crystalized. Represen­ tatives of organized labor have been heard by the penal and reformatory committee, and the prison officials are still to be heard. Local Option Men Will Fight Local option's defeat in the house will not be accepted as final. That is the declaration made by Superintend­ ent J. K. Shields, of the Anti-Saloon league and Chairman Sheldon of the house judiciary committee, who had charge of the local option forces in the losing battle. Speaker Shurtleff also declared for a reopening of the fight. Closer scanning of the bill has con­ vinced Speaker Shurtleff that Chair­ man Sheldon was correct when he as­ serted it would be possible for saloons to take out licenses good for one year before an election is Held, at which any village, city br other locality votes dry. Such a provision would practically nullify the law. Repre­ sentative Browne, the supposed au­ thor of the victorious substitute bill, also conceded Chairman Sheldon's cor­ rectness in asserting that the bill fails to apply to districts outside incorpor­ ated villages in counties having no township organizations. There are 18 such counties in the state. Railroad Revenues Fall (Off. The fact of a decrease of |2,241,- 492 in passenger revenue on Illinois railroads is shown in the annual re^ port of the railroad and warehouse commission to Gov. Deneen. This fact Is given in a statement by the commis­ sion advising that no hasty action be taken in the reduction of passenger rates. The commission accounts for the decrease in passenger earnings by the large increase in electric interur- ban roads which parallel the existing steam lines. The total mileage of steam railroads In the state on June 30, 1906, when the report was due, was 21,731. According to the latest avail­ able reports, this represents a greater mileage t&w any other to the unioru' t"-;' - Blow for State Architect. A well-defined effort to abolish the office held by State Architect Zimmer­ man developed when Speaker Shurt­ leff in the house referred a bill to this effect to the committee on labor and industrial affairs. The passage of the bill would brkig about free competi­ tion among architects for plans for state buildings. There is a story afloat here that the bill is part ef a plan to seek revenge on the state ar­ chitect for declaring the Elgtj|. Iiwjfeie asylum to be a firetrap. ^ ^ State Building for Chicago. The state building in Chicago for the accomlnodation of the appellate court, the factory Inspection depart­ ment and other state bureaus and commissions that have offices in the city, Is to be built, if plans of the financiers of the legislature go through. John Oglesby Introduced a bill appropriating $60,000 for the erec­ tion of such a structure. Favorable action Is looked for from the appro­ priations committee. . lands In Chicago ^ New Pure Food Bill In. If the new pure food bill introduced in the senate by Senator Glackin, of Chicago, becomes a law it will abol­ ish the office of state pure food com­ missioner and place inspection tof food in the hands of local authorities. In Chicago the city board of health will be supreme In enforcing the pro­ visions of the bill, which is patterned after the federal food act In coun­ ties outside of Cook a county pure food commissioner is provided and the appointment is to be made by the county judge, the salary in counties of the first and second class ranging from $900 to $1,500 a year. Retail dealers are protected in the Glackin bill and it is understood they are be­ hind the measure, as they are op­ posed to the house bill on this sub­ ject. The house bill holds the retail­ er liable. In the senate bill It Is pro­ vided that the retail dealer shall be immune from prosecution when he is able to produce a guarantee tm writ­ ing from the manufacturer. " ,3 ¥i For Second Time Within Year Dya»- mite Is Thrown at Abode of Frank Lindley, Prominent < Man of Danville. v "jt'l vrfi, -'3k 3 Danville.--For a second time within a year the home of Frank Lindley, a prominent Republican politician, was dynamited. The force of the explo­ sion tore a hole in one side of the house and shattered window glass IA homes for several blocks about. Lindley was sleeping but a few feet from the point where the dynamite was placed. Miss Frances Gregg, formerly of Chicago, was In the bath­ room directly above the place where the dynamite was exploded. The board of-supervisors offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the ' culprits, and the city council added 'r ; - another $500. Lindley will also offer a reward. The work is supposed to be that of a demented man. The explosion was similar to the one last May, except that gunpowder was used at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Lindley had heeu tntr* « eling in Mexico recently and had Jot returned home. Boost for the Two-Cent BtfL The house flat two-cent fare bill received courteous considera­ tion at the hands of the senators when it was reported to the upper branch. Mr. Berry, who is handling on the floor the railroad legislation proposed, moved that the bill be ad­ vanced to the order of second read­ ing without reference to committee. There was not a dissenting vote and the house bill took Its place on the calendar with the senate rate bill pro­ viding for classification of railroads for the purpose of fixing the rate of fare at two cents for railroads in class A, at 2% cents for class B and three cents for class C railroads. This action on the part of the senate is tak­ en by some to mean that the senate will eventually accept cent fare measure. I'-'*; -A-'.* Last Day for New Bills. ( Besides being the official field day for fighting to a finish the local option controversy in the lower house, March 14 was notable as the last day on which new bills can be introduced in that body except by universal con­ sent. The grist of bills by representa­ tives this year far exceeded previous records. The members of the house, too, have proved themsCTWs far more prolific in the production of curious and unique bills than - the senators, who have introduced less than 500 bills, while the first bin presented in the house March 14 was numbered 736. Railway Bills In Senatfc. The house two-cent fai#'1ttlH^Hfi&e senate rate classification measure, which are both on second reading, re­ main the two most important bills on the calendar of the senate. With the exception of the advancement of the house maximum fare bill to second reading, railroad legislation in the senate was not touched last week. The members of the upper branch in the meantime have had an opportun­ ity to study both bills, and It is stated they will be called up this week. Abolishes "Third dall" .• If two bills brought before the house by Representative Landmesser are enacted the overhead trolley will have to be abolished to give place to underground power and elevated roads will have to abandon the third rail. The anti-third rail bill would compel the Chicago elevated roads and the Aurora surface road to change their systems, and the trolleys bill would make all Chicago street car$ use., the underground system. To Bury 8oldiers' Widows. At a meeting of the house commit­ tee on soldiers and sailors' home, house bill 534 was favorably acted upon. It provides for the burial of the wife, widow or mother of volun­ teer soldiers or sailors at publio ex­ pense not to exceed $35. Prods &oard of Agriculture. Senator Chafee is going gunning for the state board of agriculture and has asked the state auditor to prepare him a statement of the expenditure of this board, of which A. D. Barber is president and W. C. Garrard is sec­ retary. Mr. Chafee wants to know what they have done with their money. He desires to know what is done with the gate receipts and how, in general, they manage to get away with the funds wWc& their disposal. . f Bill for Uniform Accounting. A bill of special importance to phi- cago passed by the senate was tile Brundage measure, providing for a uniform system of accounting in the fee offices of Cook county. The meas­ ure is intended to make impossible a repetition of the fee scandals which stirred Chicago recently as a result of exposures by the press of the eitjk It provides for auditing the books by the county board and requires that semi-annual reports be made by fee offices to th« county commlssla&ara. . -\r: ' . ̂ ̂ ' . ' POURED LIQUOR INTO STREET. Converted Litchfield Saloonkeeper D*- c stroya His Stock. , , ' y: ̂it j LlteWteld.--Nearly $1,000 W' f 7 whisky, wine and high-grade intoxi- ) eating beverages oi ail kinds waa ^ poured out on the streets in this city in the presence erf thousands of spe©- '|,^K^1 tators as a result of the conversion of /' J. E. Teaay, proprietor of The Chief, one of the most prominent saloons of this city. The barrels and bottles " C < were smashed from a large dray, and the ex-saloonkeeper conducted the smashing. All the' Protestant minis- £?, tars of the city took a stand on the dray, aud after all the liquor had been destroyed the vast crowd joined ia singing "America/* Evangelist E- E. ^ Violett made a stirring address de» fV'j nouncing the liquor traffic and insist-^ ing that the saloons be voted out of J Litchfield iq> the approaching munici­ pal election. f Teany'a- conversion was brought > about by the revival meeting conduct­ ed by Evangelist E.E. Violett, of Shei- f byvllle, Tenn., at the Christian church, . VS' which has thoroughly stirred the city. "•(4 - *• 1-r ' •$' rSi and resulted largely from the efforts < of his'llttle daughter. The saloonkeepr ^ J ^ er at once renounced the liquor traAo n and declared his belief that it be a sin for him to sell any mora. Yielding to his convictions, he detess?1 mined to destroy the liquor he had »; ^ •>" on hand, despite efforts to thwart his : W purpose^ ' * Electric Road Is Sold. •* ? Llncolh.--The loag-delayed transfer v of the Lincoln Street Railway com- '. pany property took place when the _ t contract of sale was signed by the / local owners in favor of William H. Schott, of Chicago, who purchased the property for himself and associates. was was The consideration for the sale not made public, although it stated the sum was several thousands of dollars In excess of any offer here- ; tofore made for the property. The new owners will take possession April 1. They expect to improve the > r '•>--* system materially and may add heating plant. .... " -r*' i .-'I: Sets Dates for Holidays, Springfield.--Gov. Deneen issued a proclamation designating Monday, ^ 4%. May 13, the date of the first settle- ment of the English in this country^ |a||| at Jamestown, Va., as Jamestown day, «• and requesting every school in the >, ^ state to commemorate the event. He • -p V also issued a proclamation designat- ing Friday, April 26». mm "Bled; and * f Arbor day." * ^ Student Burglar Out on Bair. Waukegan.--After a week of hard ; work the father of Richard Hoopes, the Lake Forest student burglar, suc­ ceeded tn securing bail and freeing him from jail. The bail was original- 1 r/J ly $2,000, but the justice cut it to $t»- -•« v. OOfr. This sum fn cash was placed, ' wftb a local bank, whose president | signed the bond. Canton Cottege Wins in Debate. f : f' Eureka.--In the third annual debate between the Christian university of, . Canton, Mow. and Eureka college, the Canton team won, taking the negative ; side of the. subject, "Resolved, That ^ Cuba should be annexed to the United ^ States, with the right and prtvOegea of a state." Train Plunges Into Creek. Decatur.--Two cars and a on a west-bound Cincinnati, Hamilton v r; & Dayton freight train plunged; \v,^ through a bridge at Long Creek, east - of Decatur, injuring two men. one per- haps fatally, the accident Spreading rails caused * ... Jit, . ••v&j.: Loami Bank OryanWtof. \ Springfield.--The state auditor is- ; j i, t. sued permits for the organization two banks, one at Bolton, 111., and the r other at Loami, 111. The permit for the Bolton State bank was issued to Ernest Balgeman, Benjamin F. Straus and James E. McGrath and the capital stock was fixed at $25,000." The permit to organize the Fanners* State bank of Loami was Issued to William G. Miller and Arthur Wash- burn. The capital of the bank will be ^ > ; $25,000 and its duration is fixed at 5® -;«f 'ye*"1.1.1- - Wtfk McDonald' Held Chicago.--Mrs. Dora McDonald, wife * • ; of the former "gambling king," Mikft f McDonald, was held to the grand jury;|,|. for the murder of Webster S. Querin, < ^ manager pt the Harrison Art com­ pany. Missing-Man Found Dead htHMwte Belleville.--The body of Joseph Green, aged 50, was found at the bot- 4 torn of the Tlrre coal shaft at .* " burg. He had be^n missing SNM days. He leaves a wits aad ||| chlldraa. - k. HtrJ V " V .. v,?