The American Citizen

The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country THE AMERICAN V L 12, NO.50 The only D WHEN YOU C FOR SUPPORT OF NEGRO SCHOOL Washington, D. C., Feb. 14. Delegat Flynn of Oklahoma, introduced a bill (day which aims to validate an act of the territorial assembly. At the last meeting of the Oklahoma legislature a bill was passed appropriated $15,000 from the Morrill fund for the support of a no-go school. The secretary of the interior cided that the money could be used in this way without the consent of congress. Now Delegat Flynn wants congress to legalize the action of the legislature so that the negro brethren of the territory may get the money. REWARD OF $100,000 Louisville, Feb. 13 — An act creating and appointing a commission for the purpose of apprehending and bringing to justice the murderers of Wm. Goebel and appropriating $100,000 therefo: has been introduced in the legislature and passed. The commission is to be composed of Joseph H. Lewis, John K. Hendrick and B. V. Bradburn. The commissioners are to give a bond of $10,000 each and are to be reimbursed only for such amounts as they actually expend in their efforts, this to come out of the appropriation. It is not believed their expense will be more than nominal and the bulk of the money will go to the detectives and the person discovering the assassins and for the services of the lawyers who prosecute. Private persons have offered r.wards aggregating $10,000 for the capture and conviction of Goebel's assassin or assassins. This makes a total of $110,000 on the head of the guilty. This is probably the largest reward ever offered for the discovery of a murderer. C.I. T. C. Campbell, the distinguished criminal lawyer of New York, will take active charge of the case. Don't put off Registering? [From the New York Herald] Five genuine Filipinos—two women and three men—were introduced to society yesterday afternoon in the drawing room of Mrs. Wilber Bloodgood, No. 49 East Thirty-fourth street, Whatsoever society will "take them up" remains to be seen. The quintet goes under the name of Shiek Hadgi Tahar's Troupe of Filipino Dancers, the women apparently doing most of the dancing to an accompaniment of string instruments played by the men. The piece de resistance yesterday was a "bride dance," so called, the evolutions of which were easy and graceful. The dancer, who occupied a raised platform at one end of the room, wore a loose, flowing robe of silk confined at the waist with a jeweled girdle, a short white veil and sandals instead of slippers. The other woman of the troupe scored second honors by giving a Filipino fandango with considerable spirit and dexterity, introducing at intervals a twentieth century high kick or two, which bore a wonderful resemblance to those seen any night in the week as some of the near by music halls. After the Filipinos had finished their stunts Miss Margaret Scott, a colored singer, gave several specialities, and then tea was served in the dining room. The First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, (colored.) 18th. street, between Troost and Harrison. Preaching every Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. and 8 p. m., Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Payer meeting every Wednesday at 8 p. m. You are cordially invited to attend. KEV J. P. McDONALD. Pastor. Why don,t you Register? TOURIST CARS FOR WEST AND NORTHWEST. Now leave Kansas City, via Union Pacific every Thursday evening at 6.40 for Denver, Ogden Portland and San Francisco. Ticket office 1000 Main St, Telephone 1103. Every negro should register right at once. We need every negro vote this season. There is not a one to spare. Politics should be a matter of business with the colored brethren this season. In years gone by many of us have not taken the interest we should have taken and we suffered the consequence in the end ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Constable of the North Side City Court, subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries, Feb. 16, 1900. SQUIRE LEE. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Councilman of the Second Ward, subject to the Republican Primaries, Feb. 16, 1900. W. B. BAYMOND. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Councilman of the 2nd. Ward. subject to the decision of the Republican primaries, Friday, Feb. 16 h.. 1900. D. W. WHITB. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination for City Clerk, subject to the action of the Republican primaries, Friday, Feb. 16. Remember that there is no time for squabbling, let every colored man stand on his post, don't let the cold and snow keep you away from the Polls, get out earl tell you neighbor to do the same. Our Candidates. Mr. Squire Lee, the excellent candidate for constable who desires the votes of every citizen of the first district to-day is a man of unquestioned capabilities, deserving in the highest sense. A man who will if nominated and elected make a constable in whom all will be proud of Give him, an honest man, a vote. W. B. Raymond, the untertaker needs no introduction to the citizens of Kansas City, nor the voters of the second ward. He is known to be a man possessing most excellent qualities and as a friend to the negro he has always been We believe he will do the square thing by all elected Councilman of this ward. Mr. T. 8. Booker, who seeks the Republican nomination for councilman of the third ward is a man in whom the citizens of the ward can take just pride in casting a vote for. He will represent ably, nobly, and intelligently the who's head. He is the right man and is no experiment, men are wanted who know a thing or two about the city and its government. This afternoon let us all turn out and go to the polls—vo te first ourselves, then see that all our friends do the same. Have your mind made up before going to the polls. Remember that Tom Booker is a candidate for Counellman in the 3rd. Ward. Squire Lee, for Constable of the Northside District, comprising the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Wards. The women can vote for Thomas Booker, but only men for Lee. You don't have to register to vote in the primaries and the polls will be open from 2 o'clock till 7 p.m. It is the duty of all to go out early. "If anywhere on earth there is a people which follow the scriptural injunction and when smitten on one cheek turn the other, it is the Negro race. The American Negro has always been patient. He went into slavery with shackles on his hands, he came out of slavery with the ballot in his hands." Well has Booker T. Washington said the above. Now we don't want the negroes here, to turn to other cheek around to be snitten. We want them to stand up like men. Wm. McFadden, the man who is the present Constable of the 1st. District, and who seeks re-election, don't like a nigger no how and in his appointment of Deputy last year he completely ignored the negroes—now colored brethren, what are you going to do? Are not you all a part and pareel of Kansas City, Kansas? Don't you pay taxes? Don't you deserve something? Did McFadden treat you right? Are you going to be fools all the time? Wake up once and be men. There are some white Republicans who do not belong to the Lilly White organization that will vote for Lee—not for the intense love of a negro, but because in order for peace and harmony—the pie must be passed around. Don't tell a man in politics you are for him when know you are a liar. Remember God's Commandment—"Theus shalt not lie." VOTE VOTE For the men of your choice, but REMEMBER our Candidutess, not on.ly ours but the peoples. CUR WHITE FRIENDS. To the white Republicans that are men and are Republicans from principle who believe in applying the Golden Rule in political affairs of this country towards the negroes would respectfully ask you(being thankful for the favors in the past) to give us a vote to-day for Squire Lee, for constable of the north side district, and T. S. Booker for councilman of the third ward, We are not asking much. In the course of politics one good turn deserves another. We are not hoggish in this matter we only want a little bit of the pie. As citizens having one grand object in view the betterment of our city making it a fit place to live. We must all dwell here together, why not accord the negroes something they are with the party now, have helped it all along now why not treat them right. That which is right and just—men fri That which is right and just—men that have shown themselves your friends. WHY WHITE FOLKS UCCEED Because most of the white folks and all of the Negroes patronize them Exception to ruses. Because they are white and the "darky" loves him so intensely. Because he keeps books—knows his income and regulates his expenditures accordingly, Because there is such little competition by the Negro. Because he buys in large quantities at a discount, and sell cheaper than our merchants, who will not when they can Norfork Recorder. Mrs. J, W. Bell of Water street one of our prominent ladies is very ill at her home. Boo "Some people get the idea that the object of industrial education is to teach people to work in the old way. That is not my idea. I believe in teaching them to work in the new way—to make labor enjoyable and toil a pleasure. My object in industrial education is to give the Negro brains and skill so that he can compete with a white man in his work. A great deal of prejudice against the Negro exists in this country, but it stops when it comes to buying. Men buy the things they want wherever and of whomever they can get them cheapest and best. No question is asked about the skin of the man who produced the desired articles. I say to you that the only way to solve the Negrom problem is to mnake the Negro the most useful man RAYM RAYMOND THE most disgraceful mockery of justice that was ever perpetrated upon humanity anywhere in the world—(the South included) was recently shown in Kansas City, Mo. when a negro was sentenced to forty years in the pe nient iary for stealin a pocket book containing about one dollar and fifty cents. Not, but we believe foot pads should not be pun- Lee IN BUSINESS MEMBER our Candidutess, not on. TOPEKA NOTES. The St. John A. M. E. Sewing circle met with Mrs. Mary Bennett, west 8th, street Wednesday after-noon. Dr. Shaffer and family have moved to their new home between 5 and 6th, on Toulor st. Mrs. Ellen Huddleson is quite ill at her residence 214 Crane st. Owl Club entertained friends 618 Kansas ave, Grand March 8 30 p. m. The Golden Rod Club met with Miss Marry B. Jordan Friday afternoon. Mr' Nick Cailes is able to be out again. Presiding Elder Gillham of the M. E. church hold his last quarterly meeting of the Conference year Sunday. Rev. A. D. Jamison is in Olathe attending the board meeting of the N. W. Association. Revival Services are now in progress at Mt. Pleasant Church. that have shown themselves your ends. AS TO COLLEGE-BRED NEGROES Atlanta university, of Atlanta, Ga. has begun looking into the career of collegedressed negroes, so as to answer the many questions as to what college training does for the negro in himself and in relation to the community, Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, professor of economies in the university, has sent schedules of questions to negro college graduates, who number between 1200 and 1,500, and will report the result of his inquiries at the annual negro conference at the university in May. Don't forget the Grand Drill and entertainment at the Fifthstreet Opera House by the S. M. T.'s for the benefit of Dougass Hospita 1 Monday evening the 19 Admission 25 cents a couple and two potatoes. An excelent programm will be rendered. Single admission 15 cents and one potuto. in his community. Make him skillful. Make him a producer of the things his fellow men need and the solution is at hand. "You seldom see a black man begging, and I am not begging now. All I ask you to do is to give these people teachers they can learn to help themselves. The greatest injury slavery wrought us was when it deprived us of the exercise of self-reliance and executive ability. For two hundred years everything was furnished us by our masters. You cannot expect us to learn to provide for our selves in thirty-five years.—Washiugton Don't say I would like to see this paper succeed and never give one cent towards helping to make it succeed. ished—but the justice that sends one man because his face is black, to the pen for that period, and clears another man because he is white, is no justice at all. Hell is waiting for a good many people who make such woeful discrimination. There they will at least get justice. The Kansas City Star aptly puts the case in an editorial in their issue of Wednesday. ee PERSONALS. CITIZEN UNEVEN JUSTICE. "There is no, in this engagement, to footpad in the verdict of the Criminal court jury which huxed the penalty of Ed. Simms, the negro who held up a white woman on the light of January 20, at forty years in the penitentiary. It is not desirable that any leavency should be shown to this class of robbers, who have become quite troublesome in Kansas City. Bat it would appear that if a footpad is to be sent up for forty years it might be well to make a horizontal raise, so to speak, in the prison sentences of other law breakers. For instance, there is an absurd disparity between the punishment for willful and unprovoked murder by ten months in the county jail and forty years for stealing a purse. A footpad is certainly no worse than a tr. in robber, though Kennedy's term is only half no long as that of Simms. The lesson which the jury doubtless sought to impress upon footpads by its verdict against Simms loses much of its force by comparison with the mercy that has been shown again and again in the criminal court of Jackson county toward more desperate and dangerous criminals. There may be reason in the position of the juror who thought it was proper to keep Simms locked up for the remainder of his life because he had been in the penitentiary before, but this rule ought to apply to murders as a train robbers as well as to footpad. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of the 29th. Judicial District of the State of Kansas, Jacob Ricketts, Paintiff, vs. Jotham A. French and Thos. C. Foster, Defendants. To the above named defendants you and each of you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 2nd. day of March, 1900, the petition will be taken at true and judgment rendered thereon, the nature of which will be a decree foreclosing two certain mechanics liens heretofore fled upon let nineteen, in block one, in Morris and Early's addition to Wyandotte city, now a part of Kansas City. Wyandotte county, Kansas, and forever barring all right and title and equity of the said defendants in and to said premises, and ordering said premises sold at public sale according to law to satisfy said judgment and costs and ordering the Sheriff to make to the purchaser of said premises at such sale a good and sufficient deed for the same. JACOB RICKETTS, Plauti By L. F. B. B. A. B. A. B. IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT COAL and WOOD 7th. Broadway, Kansas City, Mo., will alwaysgive you a square deal. This is a firm composed of gentlemen. Give them your trade. WM. POSTLETHWAITE, 447 MINNESOTA AVENUE. GRANDPANTS MAKER. Special Sale of Good Line of WORSTED and Chevoits made up for $3.40. B. J. DUNNING, The Jeweler, DEALER IN Watches, Silverware, Wedding Presents, Club Prizes, Lodge Emblem, Etc. OF ALL KINDS. A first class line of Jewelry always displayCall and seasus. 544 Minnesota Ave., Blue Fron t KANSAS CITY KAN Don't tell people there is nothing in the Citizen then run all over creation to borrow a copy to see what it says. PR ETWO CINT Home of the Eck. From the Baltimore Sun: There are eels that are the most palatable of all fish that swim, and eels that are not fit to be eaten. The habitat of the eel makes the fish delicious or repulsive. Where it lives affects it more than its habitat does any other fish. The eels that are bred and lie in the mill ponds, or on the muddy bottoms of fresh water streams, or in "mudguts," are to be regarded as so much carrion, and are fit only for crab bait. It's the same way, though not to such a great extent, with catfish, and even the shad, the prince of table fishes, is unfit to be eaten when taken in the muddy waters and ooze of the up-streams. Eels that are caught in clear salt water, on the hard and sand bottom of the flats, well down the rivers, are delicious for table use. The Barrel Organ in Church. To attend a church where the music is supplied by a barrel organ must be very like stepping into a bygone century, but it is an experience which the parishioners of Trottiscliff—a Kentish village within twenty-five miles of London—can every week enjoy. Its adherence to old customs may be pardoned, for a church was standing at the time of the Domesday book, and the existing chancel is more than 800 years old. Its pulpit is one that stood in Westminster abbey until 1824. The musical capabilities of a barrel organ are limited, but the parishioners of Trottiscliff have a choice of sixty, there being six barrels, each supplying ten tunes—most of them very old fashioned—Notes and Queries. Trees and Tides. A very curious theory lately revived is that the sap of a living tree ebbs and flows in some way in sympathy with the tides of the ocean. This idea comes from Italy, where a grower of vines and other fruit trees, who is also a chemist, has been experimenting in this direction. He says that no tree should be topped or pruned except during the hours of ebb tide. He has taken fourteen years to come to this conclusion and now always acts upon it. The result is that his trees and vines have developed beautiful foliage, bear splendid crops and are quite free from the attacks of insects which devastate surrounding properties—The Sphinx. Sutro and the Llvery Owner. Kansas City/ Independent: The late millionaire, Alfred Sutro, upon one occasion was unable to hire a team in a country town because he "was not a responsible party." "How much do you want for your team?" asked Sutro, "Five hundred dollars," and I will buy it back at the same price when you return," was the reply. The money was paid over and the capitalist drove off. In a week he returned, had the rig examined, and received back his $500. "Hold on," said the proprietor, "you owe me $30 for the use of the team. "Never pay for the use of my own team," replied Sutro, as he walked away. Insuring Finland Editors. Something new in the insurance line is offered in Finland, where the newspapers have suffered so severely in circulation and receipts from censorship and suppression that a concern has been organized to secure them from loss for a fee of 5 per cent of their gross income. The insurance consists of a guaranteed indemnity not to exceed 60 per cent of the loss of gross income due to suspension. Paving Stones of Tar. Paving stones, with coal tar as one of the ingredients of their composition, must be regarded as a novelty. The Germans are making artificial paving stones by mixing coal tar and sulphur, adding chlorate of lime, and then breaking up the mass and adding broken glass. This is reduced to a powder and subjected to severe pressure, and the paving stone is ready for use. Fought It Out Mrs. Henry Dahmer and Mrs. Suters of Little Sandusky, Ohio, had a quarrel not long ago, and repaired to the town common, where they fought it out with their fists in the presence of the entire population of the town. Mrs. Dahmer, who is 68 years old, had to give in finally to her opponent, who was only 25. Building Activity General Latest reports from some forty cities and towns show that an era of almost unprecedented building activity has set in, despite the high and advancing prices of iron, steel, lumber, glass, paint and other material. Cost of the Russo-Turkish War. The last great war of the world, that between Russia and Turkey, cost altogether £190,000,000 and 180,000 lives, of which Russia paid £133,000,-000 and 110,000 lives. Female Explorers Taking Chances. An expedition consisting entirely of women has been formed in Australia to explore the Solomon islands, the home of the fiercest cannibals known- The American Citizen BILLION CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 325 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily delivered by carrier per week. 10c. Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans as second class matter. This paper or some Negro paper should be in every Negroes home to keep posted on what the race is doing. As this is the only Negro Daily in this part of the country it ought to receive hearty support. Everybody should subscribe for the AMERICAN CITIZEN, daily and weekly. The American Citizen. Dir. ctory. Of KANSAS CITY, KANSAS AND KANSAS CITY, MO. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCHES. African 3914 East 15th Street. Greenwood, 2005 Maderson Avenue. Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian ) Mission 216 East 21th Street. Missionary, 2005 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 N. E. Cor. Norton Ave. Mt. Gay, 2100 Wyoming Avenue. Mt. Moriah, 933 Bluf Street. Mt. Olive, Villa, S. E. cor. Garnett. Mt. Zion, 3rd, N. W. Cor. Gillis. Mt. Zion, 908 Hickory Avenue. Mt. Zion, Primitive, 2815 Garnett st. Pilgrim, 705 Charlott. street. Pilgrim, Charlott between 6th and 7th. Pleasant Green, East Forest. Round Top, Norton near 28th street. St James, 1411 East 18th street. St James Chapel, 518 High street. St. Marks, 1019 East 4th street. St. Pauls, 510 East 4th street. Second Baptist, Charlott, cor. 10th. Vine Street, 1825 Vine street. CHRISTIAN CHURCH 21st between Summit and Madison. * Augustine Mission, 1025 Troost ave METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Asbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street Burns, 11th S W, Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 819 S. W. Boulevard Westport W, Prospect Place Cor. 23rd. King Solomon Mission 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Douglass 27th N. E. Cor. N. Prospect Place. Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street, Lincoln School 11th N. W. Cor Campbell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st Page Rochester N.E. Cor. Prospect Avenue. Penn 4241 Shawne. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1616 W. 9th st. Chandler's Bathershop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S. L.Ceners Mgr 112 East 6th street. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th street. Birmingham Street Proprietor 1 5 First 6th rect. Palace Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield Proprietors 550 Grand Avenue. O' Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Bannon Proprietor 500 Shop W.A. McRay's Barber Shop Ben McRay Proprietor 819 Independence avenue. Largest' Barber Shop 718 East 8th st Walker's Barber Shop 806 east 12th s Cowden's Barber Shop 704 east 12th st. Restaurant J.W Gordon Prop. 554 Grand avenue. Restaurant H Powe Proprietor 572 Grand avenue. Restaurant Andrew Clark Proprietor 723 Independence ave. Saratega Cafe L. Mason I proprietor 805 Independence ave. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 Independence avenue. Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st Brown's Barber Shop 1329 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1432 E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 18th st. Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. L.J. Hollie 1112 Campbell st. Rising Suu J. F. Cole, Editor, L. W Wood. Manager 117 W. 6th st. Grocery, A. Webb, Prog 9th and Holmes. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Ente. prises. A.C.L. Co. Coal Co. Main Office 402 Minn. Ave. E.F. Henderson, Mgr. D. W. White Furniturestore, 420 Minn. Ave. J. W Jones Grocery 400. Oakland Ave. M. Gordon Department store 1605 N. 0th st. C. E. Cannon Butcher 1609 N. 10 st. Clark and Lee Junk Store, 1130 3rd st. Hotels The Empire House 335 Minnesota Ave. Dyson House 440 Minnesota Ave. Jamison House 417 Minnesota Ave. J. W. Johnson's 6th and State. Mrs. Holl 507 Minn. Ave. Mrs. Sarah Thurston 1414 5th st. Mc Gees 448 Minn. Ave. Mrs. R. P. Tyler 10 Joy st. E. Stoakes 1510 N. 3rd st. BARBERS J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 507 Minne- sota avenue. J. Gross, 412 Minnesota avenue. G. McClellan, 613 Minnesota ave. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota ave. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota ave. M. Partison, 1603 north 3rd. st. SHOEMAKERS. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave. D. W. Wynne, 369 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blanchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. HALLS. M & O., 1306 north 8.b. street. sons or Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. S. H. thompson, 1512 north 5th. st. Harvey, 440 Minnesota ave. G. H. Brown, 1010 Freeman ave. Jordan, 610 Minnesota ave. ARTISTS. O. J. Brooks, 70, New York Life Building. TEACHERS OF FRENCH AND ELOCUTION. Arthur A. Anderson, 541 State Ave. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. The Bellows Falls Savings Bank, Paint tiff, vs. Willie H. Consul, Effie Consul, Fred A. Miller & Company, New England Loan & Trust Company, Otto T Bannard, Receiver of the New England Loan & Trust Company, the Real Estate Trust Company, of Philadelphia, Penn. Trustee, the Quivira Investment Com- pany; John T. Parks and Eleanor T. Parks, Minors, Wm L. Priestly, Guardian of John T. Parks and Eleanor T. Parks, Minors. State of Kansas to Willie H. Consul, Effie Consul, Fred A. Miller & Co., New England Loan & Trust Company, Otto T. Bannard, Receiver of New England Loan and Trust Co., The Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, Penn., Trustee, John T. Parks and Eleanor o T. Parks, minors. You are hereby notified that the plaintiff above named has brought suit against you, and filed his petition against you together with other defendants in the above entitled court, and that you must answer the petition aforesaid filed against you, on or before the 16th d y of February, 1900, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment accordingly rendered against you as follows: First. A personal judgment against Willie H. Consal and Effie Consal upon the note and mortgage set out in plaintiff's petition, for $4,000 with interest at the rate of 6,per cent per annum from the first.day of August, 1896. Second—that the mortgage set out in plaintiff's petition be declared a lien upon the south half of the following described tract of land in Wyandotte County, Ks., to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of lot "A" is Irving Place, an addition to Wyandotte City, now Kansas City, Kansas, as shown by the record plat thereof, and running thence west one hundred and twenty (120) feet, thence north ninety seven (97) feet, thence cast one hundred and twenty feet, thence south ninety-seven feet to the place of beginning. The same being forty-eight and one half (45½) feet by one hundred and twenty (120) feet in the southeast corner of said lot "A." of Irving Place, for the amount of the aforesaid judgment, prior and superior to the lien or interest of any on the above named defendants, and that the mortgage set on in plaintiff's petition be foreclosed, and the aforesaid lands and tenements be sold without appraisement, according to law, and the proceeds of said sale be brought into court and applied, first, to the payment of the costs of said sale and this suit. Second, the paym ent title aforesaid judgment, together with interest thereon, and the residue, if any, be held subject to the further order of said Court in the premises, and that from and after said sale and the confirmation thereof, all the above named defendants and each of them, or any person or persons claiming under, by or through them, or any of them, be forever barred and foreclosed from any right, title or interest in or to the aforesaid premises, or any part thereof. JOHN C. HALL Attorney for Plaintiff. When wanting something to eat and a place to rest your weary bones call at the Empire House 835 Mm. Perfumes, Soaps, Stationary, Hot Sodas. Everything to be found in first class house. See our Holiday display. Northeast Corner Sixth St. and Minnesota Ave., elephone West 122. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRANK CARNIER Jewelery a 536 Minnesota Avenue. 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Secondly, as a man and citizen of the United States, I could not remain in Pretoria, sacrificing my own self-respect and that of the people of Pretoria while the government at home continued to leave me in the position of a British consul and not an American consul. I want to say right here that there was not one single request made of me through the department of state looking to the care of British interests in Pretoria, which I did not fulfill and report upon according to my orders. On the other hand, American interests in South Africa were in that condition which demanded that the department of state should be cognizant of them. "I issued the statement received from the department that Americans must remain neutral. In the face of this, Americans were continually going to the front and taking up arms in the cause of the Boers. I could not help but know that many of these were citizens of the United States. I also knew that many of them, in utter despair at the apparent attitude of our own government, were taking the oath of allegiance to the Transvaal republic. When affairs had reached that state that my vice consul, Mr. Ameringen, closed up his business, took the oath of allegiance to the republic and went to the front as a burgher. I thought the time had come when I should make a report of these conditions. "It was over four weeks from the time the war opened before I received a single mail dispatch from my government or a personal letter. The mail for the Transvaal had all been stopped at Cape Town by order of the high commissioner. When this mail was finally forwarded to me, after Colonel Stowe, the consul general at Cape Town, had secured its release, I had the humiliation, as the representative of the American government, of sitting in my office in Pretoria and looking upon envelopes bearing the official seal of the American government opened and officially sealed with a sticker, notifying me that the contents had been read by the censor at Durban. I looked up international law, but failed to find anywhere that one military power can use its own discretion as to forwarding the official dispatches of a neutral government to its representative in a besieged country. Mr. Macrum says he then came home to explain the state of affairs to the government, and supposed he was to continue as consul. He intimates that he was discharged by Secretary Hay through British influence. MALDEN, MO., BANK ROBBED. Three Masked Men Get Away With $5,000 in Cash. Dexter, Mo—The bank at Malden, a few miles south of here, was entered by three masked men who, by the use of drills and dynamite, succeeded in opening the safe and getting away with $5,000. A Tornado In Illinois St. Louis — The town of Collinsville, Ill., on the Vandalia railroad, suffered severely from a tornado Thursday. Nine persons were injured in the immediate vicinity of the village, some of them dangerously, and there was much damage to property. The miners who live upon the outskirts lost the most by the wind. Three fine residences standing on a hill were blown to splinters. Nothing Personal Intended. When Lady Blessington sent D'Orsay to complain of some delay on the part of her publishers, Otley & Saunders, he used very high language. A dignified man in a high, white neckcloth, who was listening to him, said: "Count D'Orsay, I would sooner lose Lady Blessington's patronage than submit to such personal abuse." "There was nothing personal," said the count; "if you are Otley, then damn Saunders; if you are Saunders, then damn Otley." Preserving Eggs in Stockings. The latest advice for keeping eggs comes from a farmer's wife. She takes long stockings, fills them with eggs, ties them shut and hangs them in the cellar and garret in a current of air. Every week or two she takes the stockings down and hangs them upside down. This is quite an important part of the method. Eggs have been kept sweet for a long time in this manner. Where Smoking Is a Crime. It is curious to find that there is a country in the world in which it is considered a crime to smoke. Abyssinia is the region, and the law forbidding tobacco dates from the year 1642. It was at first merely intended to prevent priests from smoking in the churches, but it was taken too literally and nowadays even foreigners have to smoke sub rosa as if they were still schoolboys. Good advice very of en tuins out to be impracticable. No .... 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Ubled Their Cultivated Lands and More Than Doubled Their Stock. The following letter, written by Mr. John Cummings of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, formerly of Washington, to a friend in the United States, is only one of a hundred similar cases, and what was done by Mr. Cummings can more easily be done today by any good, sober and industrious farmer who chooses to make his home in the dominion. Dear Sir: You want to know how I sit along since I came into Northern Alberta. I am happy to inform you that I am not ashamed to tell. We located five miles northeast of metaskiwin; left Farmington, Wash., on the 29th day of May, driving all the way. We had time to build our log house the first fall, and to make us comfortable for the family and stock. We then built four stables, 18x 20 inside, so that we could put everything inside them when the cold got down to the fifties, and worked hard setting up the stables, and got through rubbing on the 1st of December; but, to our surprise, we had no use for the stables only for the milk cow and two spans of horses. The balance of the horses lived on the prairie all winter, and took care of themselves. The doors I two stables were left open for them to go into in a cold time, but they would not do it, but stayed out on the prairie the coldest night we had and looked as spry as crickets. I can go ten rods back of my house and count ten residents. I know all of their circumstances. Every one of them have doubled their cultivated land, and doubled their animals, and great deal more. All of us are comparatively out of debt and an unusually big crop to thresh and prospects of a fair price, and I expect we are as well contented a lot of people as there is to be found from Florida to the Klondike. My son bought two pounds of twine the acre, and when we started to find some barley we found that instead of taking two pounds to the acre, it was taking nearly five pounds. Then you ought to have seen him hitch up a team and make for town for 100 pounds more. I cannot say how it will thresh. All I can say is that it is well-headed, and takes an enormous amount of wine. Good advice very often turns out to impracticable. The Health and Pleasure Resorts Of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and California are quickly and comfortably reached via the Southern Pacific Company's Sunset Route. Daily through service from New Orleans to San Francisco via Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Los Angeles. 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WIS If you take up your homes in Western Canada, the land of plenary Illustrated pamphlets, giving experiences of farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to J. S. Crawford, 214 West Nist St., Kansas City, Mo. THE ENEMY'S LAND LORD ROBERTS HAS INVADED THE FREE STATE. General French Turnt Boer Line and Crotten Modder River—Relief of Kimberley in Sight and the Way so Bloemfontein Made Approclably Easter—British Losses to Date. London—The British army, for the first time since war began, is inside the Boer frontier. Lord Roberts, with at least 40,000 infantry, 7,000 cavalry and 150 guns, has turned the Magerfontein lines, before which the British forces have been encamped for ten weeks, and, with half of his corps, he is already operating on Free State territory. A battle has not yet been fought, but large tactical advantages have been gained. The relief of Kimberley in within measurable reach, and the way to Bloemfontein is appreciably easier. The dispatches of Lord Roberts sketch three days' work. The forward movement began on Sunday, when Colonel Hannay set out with a brigade of mounted infantry for Ramah on the Reit, eight miles from Jacobsdale, one of the Boer supply bases. On Monday General French, with the cavalry division, seized the crossing of the Reit river, at D.Keil's drift, south of Jacobsdale and eighteen miles east of Honeynest kloof. He skirmished with the Boers and cleared the way for 20,000 infantry, who followed across. On Tuesday with his three cavalry brigades and the horse artillery General French rode to the Modder river, a distance of twenty-five miles, and took three fords, with high ground beyond the river and five Boer camps. He had a few casualties in brushes with the Boer horse. General French has now fixed himself on General Crunje's main line of communication with Bloemfontein, and 20,000 infantry, with seventy-two guns, are being pushed up to support him there. Lord Roberts' dispatches, wired from inside the Free State, and on the Riet river, left him Wednesday morning. His advance had not been opposed by the Boers in force. Their patrols melted away as the British moved forward. The Boer army is likely to be felt in a day or two, and a battle is consequently imminent. London.—A dispatch from Rensburg, dated Tuesday, says: "There has been hard fighting for two days near Colesberg, the Boers making strenuous efforts to outflank the British left. The enemy occupies strong positions from Achtertang, through Potfontein to a point five miles south of Jasfontein. "The fighting at the outpost camps has been very severe during the last few days. Yesterday the Boers attacked the position of the Worcesters, to the southeast of Colesberg. Fighting continued all day and after dark it was considered necessary to withdraw to Reusburg. Our losses are not yet known. "On the left the West Australians, Waltshires and Berkshires had hot fighting, but held their position against long odds. The Boer losses were considerable. "Owing to the growing difficulty experienced by convoys in reaching the camps, all of the latter were vacated and the troops withdrew to Kensburg. "The Boers are burning the farms of the loyalists, but the latter have contrived to get away with their stock." London.—A special dispatch from Springfield bridge, under date of Friday, February 9, gives a new explanation of General Buller's retirement. According to this dispatch a balloonist, on Wednesday, discovered the fact that the Boers had developed extraordinary and unexpected artillery strength on Doorn Kloof, to the British right, where they had managed to draw up a dozen heavy guns, some fitted with disappearing mountings, and all cunningly masked. These, but for the balloonist, would never have been discovered in time to save the British from falling into the deadly trap, as they commanded the road the British would have to take in order to reach Ladysmith. These guns rendered the actual positions of the British untenable and a further advance impossible, except at the cost of a terrible and useless loss of life. British Losses Up to Date. The total British casualty returns up to date are: Officers killed, 152, wounded, 380; missing, 112. Men killed, 477; wounded, 5,050; missing, 2,781; other fatalities reported, 563. Grand total, 10,515. Joplin Newspapers Consolidate The Joplin Evening News was bought by the Herald Printing company, publishers of the Joplin Evening Herald. The two papers will be consolidated. Big Land Sales to Ranchmen. Cattlemen in the Northwest and West are buying vast areas of grazing land. In January one railroad having headquarters in Omaha made eighty-one sales aggregating 207,583 acres. To Keep Corporations Out of Elections. Representative Vandiver of Missouri has introduced a bill prohibiting corporations, trusts, etc., from contributing to campaign funds or "from influencing or intimidating employees." ORPHANS' HOME BURNED. The Missouri Old Fellow's Home at Liberty in Abet Liberty, Mo.—The State Odd Fellows' home was destroyed by fire at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning. All of the fifty-one members of the home were rescued and no loss of life occurred. The building was constructed of wood and burned quickly. The fire started in the north wing at 7 o'clock from a torch which a plumber was using to thaw out a frozen water pipe. The building was three stories high and had 140 rooms. Kansas City and Liberty men built it in 1888 at a cost of $70,000 for a summer hotel, and it was called "The Winner," in honor of W. E. Winner, who caused much Eastern capital to be invested in Clay county lands. But the hotel did not pay and in 1894, when the Old Fellows of the state were seeking for a place for the home for orphan children and old members of the order without means of support, the citizens of Liberty offered the order inducements to locate the home here. The ground and buildings cost $30,000, but the Old Fellows had to pay, only $8,000, the citizens of Liberty and friends in Kansas City paying the balance. To Fight Trusts Chicago. At the close of the first day's proceedings of the anti-trust conference called by the National Anti-Trust League, good progress had been made with the set speeches, or which a dozen or more were delivered. A set of resolutions was formulated covering the following points: Government ownership of all railways and telegraph lines; the abolition of all special privileges by legislative enactment; placing on the free list all trust goods, and direct legislation by petition from the people. Arrested for Goebal's Murder. Frankfort, Ky.—Two men suspected of complicity in the murder of William Goebel were arrested in a boarding house Friday. They are Sila Jones of Whitley county and Gottschalk of Nelson county. The men are said to have slept in the executive building for a time and they will be kept in confinement until something more definite is known of their whereabouts at the time of the shooting. Both strongly deny any knowledge of the murder. Wolcott Speaks for Blmetallism Feb. 12.—The final week's discussion of the pending financial bill has begun in the Senate. The speakers were two Republicans, Mr. Elkins of West Virginia and Mr. Wolcott of Colorado, and one Populist, Mr. Butler of North Carolina. Mr. Elkins advocated the passage of the pending Senate measure in a brief but forceful argument. Mr. Wolcott, chairman of the international bimetallic commission of 1897, spoke for many Republicans who adhere to bimetallism. Eloped With His Stepmother Uniontown, Pa.—Ira Tressler, not quite 21 years old, is missing, with his new stepmother, who is 17. Daniel Tressler, who is 54 years old, married a second time, only a few months ago. Last Monday night his wife and son and $800 were gone. The neighbors saw young Tressler and his stepmother leave together. The elder Tressler has been looking for them without success. Parker's Bondsmen Must Pay. Nevada, Mo.—Executions against the bondsmen of ex-Treasurer F. A. Parker have been ordered issued by the prosecuting attorney, the object being to collect a judgment of $36,000 held against them by Vernon county, from which Parker stole $40,000, and is now serving a three and a half year sentence in the penitentiary. Favored the Fort Hays Bill Washington. — The Senate has passed the bill granting to the state of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays military reservation of 7,000 acres for the purpose of establishing Western branches of the Kansas Agricultural college and of the Kansas State Normal school thereon, and for a public park. Minera Blot in Martílique Fort de France, Martinique. — A mob of about 1,200 miners has, since Monday, been preventing the harvesting of sugar cane. An infantry post of twenty-five men was attacked and fired on its assailants, killing nine men and wounding fourteen. Robbad a Bank of $3,020 by Day Las Cruces, N. M.—Two men robbed the bank of B. C. Bowman of $3,000 Monday afternoon. With two revolvers at his head the cashier handed out the money. Eight Broke Jail at Hartville, Mo. Mansfield, Mo.--A complete jail delivery of eight occupants occurred Monday night at Hartville, the county seat of Wright county. Walawright Honored Commander Richard D. Wainwright of the auxiliary cruiser Gloucester has been made superintendent of the Annapolis naval academy. H. C. Frick to Sell His Stock Pittsburg, Pa.-H. C. Frick, expresident of the Carnegie Steel company, will ask a court to decide on the value of his holdings in the company. As a result of the quarrel between Mr. Frick and Mr. Carnegie, it is said, Mr. Frick will sell his stock England's New Alliance San Francisco. — The Portuguese Union of this city has received the following cabelgram: "Lisbon.—The king has signed a protocol of a secret offensive and defensive alliance with England." STEEL KINGS AT WAR. FRICK AND CARNEGIE GO INTO COURT. Frick Charges That Carnogle It Trying to Fr@zs Hm Out and Asks for a Receiver—Net Profits $21,000,930 in 1999—Estimated at Double for 1900. Pittsburg, Pa.—Henry Clay Frick has filed a bill in equity in the court of common pleas No 1 of Allegheny county against Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Steel company, limited, praying for a decree that the pretended transfer of his interests in the company was and is null and void, and that he is still the owner of all such interest and is entitled in every lawful way to represent and act for the same. Frick charges that Carnegie is trying to freeze him out, and asks for the appointment of a receiver. The plaintiff claims he is a victim of Mr. Carnegie's malice and that Carnegie is trying to force him to accept $6,000,000 for interests worth over $16,000,000. The net profits of the concern in 1899 were $21,000,000 and estimated profits for 1900 over $49,000,000. TO THE KENTUCKY COURTS. Federal Judge Holis That He Has No Jurisdiction In Election Contests. Cincinnati.-Holding that the federal court had no jurisdiction in the contests in Kentucky, Judge Taft of United States circuit court refused to grant the application for injunctions against the Kentucky state board of elections and the Democratic contestants for state offices other than governor and lieutenant governor. This decision is a victory for the Democrats, as it is admitted that the Kentucky courts will decide in favor of the Democratic contestants. Nine Killed in a Wreck Escanaba, Mich.—Chicago & Northwestern passenger train No. 21, known as the Feich mountain accommodation, which runs between this city and Metropolitan, was wrecked in a rear end collision at Ford river switch at 6:30 Thursday night. Nine persons were killed, three are reported missing, five seriously and four slightly injured. Fire broke out after the collision, and some of the bodies were burned beyond recognition before rescued. The collision was caused by a blinding snow storm which obscured the signal lights. Soldier Vote Counted Burlington, Kan.—The last of the contest cases in this county was settled when J. D. Frazier, Democrat, gave up the office of county attorney to S. D. Weaver, Republican. There was a compromises agreement under which Frazier gets the salary for last year and for half of the current quarter and pays the costs. Weaver takes the office at once. The principal point in the contest was the counting of the votes of the soldier boys in the Twentieth Kansas. The votes were counted. Earnings of the Federal Steel Company. New York.—The directors of the Federal Steel company have declared a dividend of 2 1/4 per cent on the common stock, payable March 20. This completes three quarterly dividends of 1 1/4 per cent each out of the earnings of 1899. Announcement of the dividend was followed by a statement by President Gary, showing that the net earning of the constituent companies for the year 1899 were $10,592,843. The capital of the company is $100,000,000. Was Truly Lined With Money Chicago.—Samuel Beswick, an old and well known character on the open board of trade, died Sunday afternoon, a charity patient at the Baptist hospital. After his death the hospital authorities found his old tattered clothing lined with gold and silver coins. After Beswick's clothing had been ripped to pieces in the hospital it was found that the old man was worth $5,000. Must Be Sound and Healthy Omaha, Neb.—The employees of the Union Pacific headquarters in this city, several hundred in number, are all workd up over a well authenticated report that all of them will be called upon to submit to a physical examination. This move is taken to mean that all who are not found to be in good physical condition will be let out and their places filled by others capable of performing a larger amount of labor. L. re Stock in the Country. The number of farm animals (swine excepted) on the farms of the United States January 1, 1900, and the increase or decrease in the past year,'as reported by more than 50,000 correspondents, to the statistician of the department of agriculture, are as follows: Horses ..... 13,537,524 decrease) 13,783 Mules ..... 2,965,027 decrease) 48,186 Milch cows ..... 16,929,363 decrease) 32,245 Other cattle ..... 27,610,044 decrease) 18,171 Sheep ..... 41,831,965 increase 2,768,012 Consul Hay Gets His Exequateur. Secretary Hay has received a cablegram from Adelbert Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, stating that he had received his exequateur Wednesday, and that matters were very satisfactory. Debates In Store for Kansas. The Republican state committee will accept the challenge of the Populist committee for a joint discussion of the three questions—currency, expansion and the trusts. TO FARMERS DIRECT. How the Kansas Prison Twine Will Be Sold. The officials of the Kansas penitentiary have decided to sell binding twine direct to the farmers, and they are now formulating plans to do so. This policy has been determined upon by the board of penitentiary directors. It was recommended for favorable consideration by Warden Tomlinson. Implement dealers from various parts of Kansas offered to purchase the entire output of the penitentiary twine plant, and it was thought at first that this would be the best way to dispose of the product. The prison officials soon learned that there was reason to believe that the binding twine trust was back of some of the dealers, and that an effort would be made to secure the output of the prison plant and thereby make farmers pay trust prices. The penitentiary twine plant was installed to be a plant that the trust could not control or manipulate. The penitentiary directors concluded the best way to avoid any possibility of trust control and furnish cheap twine at a reasonable profit to the state was to sell to farmers direct. Warden Tomlinson says that twine will be sold direct to farmers in 100 pound lots and over. In senting in an order a farmer will be asked to state the number of acres of wheat he has to cut, and there will be no objection to a couple of farmers joining in one order, especially where they have a small amount of wheat to harvest. The price has not been fixed yet, but it will be lower than the trust asks. There is more than 75,000 pounds of twine in stock at the prison warehouse and the officials will be ready to receive orders after March 20. IN FREE STATE TERRITORY. British Troops Push their Way Across the Orange River. London. — The following dispatch has been received at the War office from General Roberts: "Reit River, Tuesday, Feb. 13. — Colonel Hannay, in command of a brigade of mounted infantry, marching from Orange river to Ramah, had a slight engagement February 11, with the Boers holding the hills and threatening his right flank. With a detached part of his force Colonel Hannay detained the enemy while he pushed his baggage and main body through to Ramah. The object of the march was successfully carried out. Four men were killed, twenty-two were wounded and thirteen are missing." Ramah is in the Orange Free State, just across the river from Cape Colony and about seventy-five miles east of Kimberley. A dispatch to the Evening News from Rensburg says severe fighting occurred during the British retreat, the various outposts on both sides suffering heavy losses. The dispatch adds that it is doubtful if Rensburg can be held. The news of the day is the enforced retirement of the British from the Colesberg district, under heavy Boer pressure and probably after brisk firing. Thus, at a time when Lord Roberts is apparently able to push an army into the Free State, the Boers make a counter stroke in unknown but seemingly great force, not far from the vital line of railway connecting De Aar and Orange river. For Railway Ownership Chicago. After a heated debate, the resolutions committee of the anti-trust conference decided to report in favor of government ownership of railroads and for their seizure on payment of actual value and without payment for "watered stock or other fictitious values." The committee also unanimously favored direct popular legislation as a means of obtaining the result. Many startling statements were made before the committee, among them one by President M. L. Lockwood, in which he said that, before government ownership was finally secured, it would be necessary to impeach at least one justice of the federal supreme court. A Private Pension Rush. Nothing like the flood of private pension bills poured in on this Congress has ever been known before in American history. Within two months after the opening of the session as many bills have been introduced as are usually offered in a whole session, and the flood is increasing instead of diminishing. In this respect this Congress will break all records. Mormons to the Big Horn Basin Cheyenne, Wyo.—A committee of Mormons is selecting the 200,000 acres of land for which it has arranged with the state, in the Big Horn basin. The Mormons expect to send a colony there from Utah. The land will be irrigated. About 30,000 Mormons are expected to migrate there during the year. Against the Currency Bill The anti-trust conference in Chicago adopted resolutions denouncing the currency bill. It declared the bill would destroy the republic. It Proved a Costly Insult. Kansas City.—Mon Fung Young, a Chinese doctor, was awarded $3,037.50 by a jury in the circuit court in a verdict against the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad because a negro porter of the railroad company would not permit him to ride in the parlor car of the train. A British Loss of 850 Men A revised list of the British casualties at Potgieter's drift from February 5 to February 7 shows: Killed 26, wounded 319, missing 5, a total of 350. FEARS FOR CECIL RHODES. Boers Will Aka A Rason of $10,000- 000 Should They Capture Him. The friend of Cecil Rhodes, who is in Kimberley, are alarmed at his possible fate and have sent an emissary to see Dr. Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the Boers in Europe, in regard to the probable course the Boers would pursue in the event of his capture. Although it is popularly believed that the Boers will pay $50,000 for the millionaire's head, Dr. Leyds assured the intermediaries that the Boers did not intend to kill Mr. Rhodes; but, he added, they would certainly hold him as a hostage un if the indemnity for the Jameson raid was paid. In view of the developments since the raid, the Boers have also decided to double the amount of indemnity demanded, so Mr. Rhodes' friends will have to hand over $10,000,000 before he is released. It is also learned definitely that Dr. Jameson is still at Ladysmith, in spite of all the conflicting reports. OUT OF A HOTEL WINDOW. A Congressman. Foun1 Dead in - New York From a Fall. New York.— Congressman Charles A Chickering of Copenhagen, New York, was found dead outside the Grand Union hotel in this city Tuesday. He had either fallen or jumped from the fourth story window of the hotel. He was afflicted with melanoria that followed an attack of typhoid fever, and it is thought he committed suicide. From the Lawrence, Kan., Daily World, December 28, 1989. A movement is on foot to have Congress pass a law admitting parcels of merchandise to the mail at a very low rate of postage. Among the arguments used is the fact that in Great Britain the postage on parcels is six cents for the first pound and two cents for each additional pound up to eleven pounds, which is the limit, thus making the cost of sending an eleven-pound package thirty-six cents. The postal service of the United States has a deficit now of $9,000,000 a year for operating expenses, and that deficit would be two or three times larger if such a law was enacted, and the people would pay the shortage. It is a scheme of the big department stores of the larger cities to ruin the trade of the country merchants. Says Liquor Follows Flag. Washington. — Captain Frank M. Wells, chaplain of the First regiment of volunteers, who has just returned from the Philippine islands, spoke in Garfield Memorial church under the auspices of the W. C. T. U., on the liquor question in the Philippines. He declared that, since the Americans took Manila, 400 places where liquor is sold had sprung up in Manila, while before the Americans came to the islands Manila had only three saloons. The transport Indiana, on which he had returned to the United States, he characterized as a "whisky transport." Living on Horse Flesh: London. — Startling intelligence comes from Kimberley in the Cape newspapers just received by mail in London. It appears that, since January 8, the rations at Kimberley have been, for the most part, horse flesh, so repugnant to women and children that many refuse to eat. It also appears that the death rate has been heavy, and that the privations of the garrison have been increasing steadily. Insanity in Manila Troops San Francisco. — During the last three months nearly 250 demented soldiers have been sent across the continent, and it is said that 200 more will soon arrive here from Manila. In nearly all cases the men are violently insane, and the reputed cause of their trouble is the ceaseless vigilance required by outpost duty in the Philippines. Out of Jail at Coffeyville. Coffeyville, Kan.—Nine of the eleven prisoners confined in the Coffeyville jail escaped about midnight Monday night. They were not locked in cells, but had the freedom of the corridor. They pried a stone out of the wall with an iron bar and crawled out through the hole. Against a Government Cable The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce has decided by a vote of 8 to 5 to report a Pacific cable bill, along the lines of the Sherman bill, defeating by 5 to 8 the Corliss proposition for a government ownership. A $44,000 Fire in St. Paul, Kan. St. Paul, Kan.—One-third of the business houses in town burned early Monday morning. Eight buildings were burned, with a loss of $44,200. About $5,000 worth of goods were saved. The insurance amountr to about $29,000. We Get Two More Islands Manila.—It is reported that the United States gunboat Princeton visited the Tatanes and Calagan islands, which were omitted from the Paris treaty of peace, as north of 20 degrees of latitude, raised American flags and appointed native governors. For a Lincoln Statue in Washington Representative Lorimer of Illinois has introduced a bill for the erection in Washington of a status of Lincoln and appropriating $500,000 for that purpose One small disease germ carried by the blood through the system will convert a healthy human body to a condition of invalidism. Do not wait until you are bedridden. Keep your blood pure and life-giving all the time. Hood's Sarsaparilla accomplishes this as nothing else can. Hood's Sarsaparilla Never Disappoints AVOID DANGER. The Danger of Catarrh Ointments That Contains Mercury. This journal, although more particularly devoted to all that interests finance, commerce and manufacturing, is nevertheless always awake to the need and wants of its readers, let the subject be what it may. We were asked to investigate and report upon the merits of the various catarrh remedies on the market. The production of preparations of injurious composition cannot, unfortunately, be stopped or restricted at present, or until our state legislatures can be induced to pass such suitable and stringent laws as will effectually prevent their appearance on the market. In the meantime, the people must look out for themselves. In this matter, we have made a most careful and painstaking investigation, realizing the confidence that would be placed in our reply. Our medical staff employed to make such investigations were most favorably impressed with the preparation known as Hall's catarrh cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney C. of Toledo, Ohio, and agreed that this peerless remedy deserves our highest indorsement. Many of the catarrh remedies on the market contain mercury, which destroys the sense of smell and deranges the whole system when entering through the mucous surfaces. From analysis we found that Hall's catarrh cure contains no mercury. It is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. We have no interest whatever in this matter beyond faithfully serving our readers, and as our indorsement is extended without reward of any kind, and is wholly unsolicited by this company, and will be received with the full credence that all our statements have met with for the past eighteen years.—Southern Review of Commerce. Great French Disasters. Twenty-five thousand French prisoners were taken by the German troops at the battle of Sedan, in the Franco-German war, on the 31st of August, 1870, on on the following day, as the result of the German victory, other 82,000 French soldiers surrendered, together with 70 mitrailleuses, 400 field-pieces and 150 fortress guns. About 14,000 French wounded were found lying on the battlefield, and about 3,000 escaped into Belgium and laid down their arms. On the 27th of October, in the same year, Marshal Bazaine, after fighting and suffering several defeats in the neighborhood of Metz, surrendered with his army, including Marshals Canrobert and Le Boeuf, 66 generals, about 6,000 officers, and 173,000 men, including the Imperial Guard, 400 pieces of artillery, 100 mitrailleuses, and 53 eagles or standards. Sea Ports. The memory of man runneth not ack of the time when seaport towns and cities did not exist, thrive and surir. There is a new and promising one growing up down south which bids fair to soon enjoy great commerce. It is La Porte, at the head of Galveston Bay on the gulf coast of Texas. A magnificent natural land-locked harbor already exists and extensive docks, wharfs and terminals are being constructed. The government is to deepen Galveston Bay, affording a 26-foot channel into the splendid fresh water harbor bay of San Jacinto. As Newport News is to the Atlantic coast, and Duluth and Superior are to the inland seas, so La Porte is to be to south. Rittling the British Soldier. To guard against misfits the English army clothing stores make their uniforms in no less than thirty-six different sizes. The stores at present employ over 1,600 women making khaki uniforms. Khaki is a dyed cotton, but what it is dyed with the government officials themselves do not know. The firm that discovered it keeps the secret very much to itself. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Honey Stopped the Clock. A church clock in Harborne, near Birmingham, England, was found to have stopped on account of bees warming in it and filling the works with honey. It took two days to get the honey out. Another Yorkshire clock was stopped by a bird, which made a practice of roosting on one of the hands. Important to Mother Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children and see that it A New Siego Train. A xiege train is being specially constructed for the purpose of assisting troops in their attack on Pretoria. It is to be armed with sixteen new six-inch howitzers, each one capable of throwing a fifty- pound lyddite shell.